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Black December

A terrorist organization with a diverse and multi-talented background and orchestrate bombings and hostage takings. Its agents attempt to infiltrate most of the major espionage networks. Their primary goal is CIA which was infiltrated by double agent Stormbringer.

Their main objective is the destabilization of western governments and the shifting of geopolitical power to 3rd World countries. They managed to attack US targets.

Frank McBain and Mason Powers investigated Black December. McBain was based on Scorpio's knowledge and Rachel Akure.

BD hired Etienne Fontaine to kill Powers in case he discovered information on the Stormbringer and Thunderbolt.
Pablito Esmith

Pablito Esmith is a man from Rochester, New York, the owner of a 3 month-old Labrador Retriever. For years he was trying to lose weight.

One night where he drank much tequila, he passed out on his living room sofa and is dog cewed his leg completely off. He realized it when he tried to stand up the next morning.

The loss of the leg reduced his weight to 195 pounds. The story was reported in the Bay City Mirror.
Rick Logan

Rick Logan was an actor. He wished to perform his own stunts.

After Alexis Alexander moved from Chantall Vargas' apartment, she met Rick while they were filming Ozark Mutants vs. The Red Planet Mangler for Galactic Pictures. At first Logan was indifferent but then inexplicably showed interest and the two became inseparable: Thomas Dangerfield used him to seduce Alexa and trick her into stealing the Oracle Stone from her father, in order to return it to a "legitimate heir".

He built his home somewhere in the Central American Jungle where he retreated with his pet iguana Skanky.

When Alexa stole the stone from her father, he sent her to Mars where she was staying in Jane's waiting for him. However Logan double-crossed both Dangerfield and her; he notified Alexa that he changed his mind and he and Johnny Fedora would rather sell it to the highest bidder among Big Dick Castro, Lowell Percival and Deacon Hawke. This made Alexa angry and left for her brother, Brad.

For that, Dangerfield came to his hut and hanged him in his bathtub where he was found by Tex Murphy.
Rick Hagarty

***Countdown***
*This article or section refers to elements in the game Countdown, which is created by Access Software, but not part of the Tex Murphy universe.*

Jackal is a field agent of the Company without morals or scruples which made him an excellent assassin. Others consider him a psychopath who loves to talk about the killings he performs. He calls himself Angel of Death. He worked with Scorpio before he was killed.

After his retirement he joined Black December and was in charge of the Thunderbolt operation. He was board the Orient Express in Belgrade and deliver a second detonation device for the operation to Gina at Paris. In the process he killed Father Flanigan and was disguised as a priest.
Genetic Research Systems

GRS is a company owned by the Brotherhood of Purity. The office complex is located in the heart of New San Francisco. They did genetic research such as mutations and viruses and hired only the best young scientists although some noted there was always something mysterious and secretive. Some of the people were members of the Crusade for Genetic Purity.

When the project neared completion, many employees who knew too much and did not belong to the Cult, were eliminated, while others evacuated to the Moon Child. The company was eventually disbanded, and the building was kept in the custody of lethal security probes.

## Genetic Disease Control

Genetic Disease Control was led by Marcus Tucker, located on the 4rth subterranean level. The project's objective was the developing a specific artificial viral strain, for the treatment of respiratory ailments (bronchitis, asthma etc.). Their real objective was the development of a lethal airborne virus that would bring the Great Alluvion. 30 people were working in that project

Marcus Tucker's office had a big safe that opens by a voice-activated access panel, and DNA scanner. There he hid a VCR with DuBois' execution, a message he received from the Brotherhood, and a buddha statue confiscated from Schanzee.

The Project Supervisor's Office was the office of Eva Schanzee, Camden Leander and Thaniel Murray. Eva had a spare access card to her computer. The office contained a High Security Area where Eva's confiscated log mini-disc was kept.

The Conference Room contained a large conference table and a big video screen, operated by a VCR equipment. The walls were adorned with portraits of company officials.

The R&D Office contained the personal area of Paul DuBois with his terminal, operated with an access card.

## Novelisation

According to the Dun & Bradstreet reference book, Genetic Research Systems was located in Sacramento. It was one of six subsidiary companies belonging to Western States Pharmaceuticals. The reference book was not clear as to what the company's purpose. Lowell Percival was listed as a donator to the corporation.

It was made up of six smaller groups.
Frank McBain

***Countdown***
*This article or section refers to elements in the game Countdown, which is created by Access Software, but not part of the Tex Murphy universe.*

Frank McBain was the head of security and control officer of the Middle East division of the Company. A loner, but a first class operations man. He was working with Rachel Akure of Mossad exchanging information on terrorist organizations, especially Black December. As in the past 16 months the American targets of Black December became incredibly successful, he suspected the existence of a mole inside the Company dubbed Stormbringer, who also was working to make the terrorists appear stronger than they really are.

He didn't share information as anybody could be Stormbringer but trusted Mason Powers. However they knew that he was getting close to find out the Stormbringer's identity and arranged for someone to take care of him. He had told to Lisa Loomis that he hoped to take a break. On the night he was waiting for Scorpio he was murdered and Powers was sent to the Sanctuary.
Buzz Brezhnev

***Countdown***
*This article or section refers to elements in the game Countdown, which is created by Access Software, but not part of the Tex Murphy universe.*

A master Soviet agent of the KGB. His appearance was characteristic of a Russian superman, with a jovial face, large eyes and toobrush eyebrows. He maintained a friendship with Scorpio and helped him staging his execution in Beirut and disappearance.

Golden Desire told him that Mason Powers broke into her room and he expected him.

He gave Powers some capsules containing ambobarbital that will put Scorpio in a comatose state. He also arranged for him a meeting with Scorpio.
Jocques Sparrow

Jocques Sparrow is a French photographer. Slim and tanned, he looks like Errol Flynn as Captain Blood. He had made some work for Galactic Pictures.

He lives in a three story white stucco and glass building at 1820 Gateway Drive, San Mateo. One of his associates was Chantall Vargas through whom he met Alexis Alexander.

Marshall Alexander gave Tex Murphy his name. Sparrow found Tex having lockpicked his office and threatened to call the cops. Tex said that he's show them the underage models in Sparrow's files to make him cooperate.

Jocques also gave Tex some film in exchange of some cash.
Leroy Kettler

Leroy Kettler was a criminal known as the Black Arrow. He sent notes to his victims before murdering them.

He killed 2 people in Arizona which were found the summer of 2041, but the local police kept them off the wires. 3 other victims were found the following March and 2 more in Nevada before the police caught up with him.

The FBI moved in and media coverage stopped. Some inmates saw him visited by two men in suits. That same night he was found dead in his cell hanged by shoelaces, although he didn't have any.

As Lucia Pernell learned, he signed a confession before his "suicide", but later the confession was lost.
Mutant Coalition

An organisation of mutants. Their Grand Poobah is Leppo Davis. They petitioned Mayor Lender to designate April 2 2043 as Mutant Pride Day which would be celebrated regardless of its officiality.

Events for that day include

* pie-eating contest
* three-legged race (with at least 2 participants)
* performance by local musical groups (Brains and Eggs, Meat Whistle, Buchanans famous for *We're so right, we're left*)
Mars

Mars is the planet who is near Earth. It was inhabited by an ancient civilization but 80 million years ago an astronomical disaster ripped away the atmosphere causing the extinction of the Martians. Their legacy was the Oracle Stone as a gift to future races that may exist on the planet.

Interest to terraform Mars already begun in 1989. By 2015 a group of Mutants led by Robert Bloodworth established the first colony on the ruins in Valles Marinaris and discovered the Stone. However when the Stanton Expedition came for archeological exploration and learned about the existence of the Stone, they massacred the colonists.

The following years the TerraForm Corp was founded to oversee the terraforming process and exploit the natural silicon deposits of the planet. TMS is the only commercial way to visit Mars with routes every six weeks.

Early constructions on the planet were grey, drab and massive, constructed mostly of titanium and pieces of the cargo ships that brought the materials to the planet.

A cult led by Deacon Hawke admired the superior ancient civilization; having occupied the Martian Temple they opposed human activities on Mars and advocated that humans should learn from them.

A mutant faction led by Cooper Bradbury believed that since the first colonists of Mars were mutants, the planet belongs to mutants, and wished to get hold and nationalize all enterprises on Mars and drive the Norms back to earth.

## Locations

* Valles Marinaris
* Marinaris City
* Tharses bulge
Larry Hammond

**Larry Hammond** is a grey skinned mutant marked with a few scars.

Hammond anonymously contacted Tex Murphy revealing that University of San Fransisco professor Val Davis who was working on the STG project alongside Carl Linsky, died last week. He tells Tex to “Look for the chess move” at the lab and to get there within the next hour or the doors will lock.

Tex receives another videocall from the mutant informant asking if he got the chess move, which Tex confirms. He also states that he will meet up with him when it is safe to do and to find out about Greg Call and his secret base of operations.

At the lab Larry shows up and reveals to be another member of the project. He explains that none of the project members knew each others names and were designated to working on their specific area of the design independently. He gives him the passcard STG-B ad two notes sent to him from Greg inside a envelope labelled WARD.

His business card is found in Carlos Maldonado's office in 2050.

## Mean Streets continuity

In Mean Streets Larry Hammond (Freak Town, NC4935) is a freak with two heads (his brother is called Darrell) and is a computer expert with an IQ over 300. He is friend of Ron Meat and Wanda Peck. He did some computer work for J. Saint Gideon at MTC although he didn't like freaks. A year ago, Tom Griffith hired him to design the Nexus network, a computer and 8 terminals for the Overlord project. His colleague, Cal Davis told him what this was about.

When he heard about Davis' death, he went into hiding in an old warehouse. He had a grey passcard and his password was "King" but it was stolen by Law and Order.

He told Tex Murphy about the Overlord project and gave him leads to Jerome Milbourne, Ed Bradley and Arnold Dweeb, accounting people at Gideon Enterprises.

The following years he moved to Mars and had some business with Lowell Percival. He also worked for Thomas Dangerfield on a magnetic field generation system for his nuclear powered reactor.

Time was not kind to him and his brother. At one point he requested Dr. Lawrence Barkley to remove the "growth" from his shoulder but he declined.

Tex met him again next to Big Dick's Casino. Larry gave him an amulet that would allow him access to the Martian Temple and the address of Nathan Bloodworth.
Golden Gate Hotel

The Golden Gate Hotel was once known as the "Waldorf of the Pacific", located at the end of Chandler Avenue. Nobody used to live inside but Ardo Newpop worked the front desk.

Regency Escort Services had a Love Suite penthouse complete with a password-locked security panel, jacuzzi room and a Larsen Grand Piano. Sal Lucido used to go out with go girls and play twister with them. Tex Murphy got past Ardo and found evidence for his cheating in order to get some information from Francesca Lucido.

Around February '43 the hotel was closed down, as it was a fire trap, and the owners planned to fix it up. Behind and around the building there is an alley where Crazy Gary would give his sermons.

By 2050, the hotel had been reopened, and Holly Graham worked there as a receptionist.
Frank Schimming

## Mean Streets

A ruthless egomaniac and Executive Vice President of Gideon Enterprises, he tossed J. Saint Gideon through some vicious internal politics and became President and Chairman of the Board.

Gideon noted that Schimming view the Corporation as a company and not an institution. He wanted to pay him back.

Several characters describes him as an arrogant son of a bitch. A rumor has it that he once put a live bunny in the paper shredder.

## Overseer

In a similar way, Frank Schimming pulled a coup on J. Saint Gideon. His direct line number is 015-4483.
Franco Franco

Franco Franco is an underground collector of stolen and illegal merchantise. One can reach him at the Alhambra Theatre, 808 Paloma Lane. Presumably he had acquired the theatre to watch old movies all alone, with his thugs.

Always interested in jade artifacts, he had put a request in the Jewelry Weekly. Tex Murphy heard about him from Mac Malden and contacted him for his advertisement. He met him in the theatre as he watched a Buster Keaton flick. In exchange of a piece of jade which Tex found in Mick Flemm's posessions, Franco told him the statuette he was looking for. He told Tex that the statuette was in the vault of Eddie Ching.

After their meeting, he sent Tex a fax. He had a crudge with Ching and would be happy to help Tex. He wrote to him that he lives in Knickerbocker, a high-security apartment building where several powerful underworld figures live.
Brody

**Brody** is a large blond man with a buzz cut, affiliated with the Brotherhood of Purity.

He and two other men were told by Karl Voorman to come to the lunar penal colony where he transported Tex Murphy and Eddie Ching. The three men trapped Ching and her men and left them to die.

They didn't find Tex but later in Voorman's shuttle-cruiser Brody attempted to enter the lavatory and discovered that Tex was hiding there. After a failed attempt to grab his rifle, Tex was put to sit on the passenger seat where Brody was to shoot him, but Voorman forbid him. Brody then hit Tex until they reached the Moon Child.
Poisoned Pawn

*Poisoned Pawn* is a upcoming fan remake of Tex Murphy: Overseer, with official support from Big Finish Games. Unlike the other adventures of Tex Murphy, Overseer has more compatibility problems on newer systems. It also is less known than the previous titles in the series. The name comes from the working title of Overseer.

See also: Production Diary
Etienne Fontaine

***Countdown***
*This article or section refers to elements in the game Countdown, which is created by Access Software, but not part of the Tex Murphy universe.*

Fontaine is an independent contractor who had worked for CIA, Mossad and the KGB at various times.

He was hired by the Black December at their secret facility near Athens as they feared that Frank McBain and Mason Powers has discovered information on the Stormbringer and Thunderbolt.

He promised Farouk Hashish 5000 dollars to take care of Mason Powers.

However he was confronted by Powers in Cairo and tranquilised by a dart with truth serum. Fontaine led him to the terrorist's facility in Athens.
LaDonna

LaDonna is the waitress at the Post-Nuclear Café in Brownsville.

She wore a huge mass of orange hair, so rich that it measured a third of her total weight Her legs were shapely with her gams as her most attractive feature. Her torso however was like that of a linebacker.

She served Tex Murphy when he visited the dinner after the job at Ching's apartment.
Collier Stanton

A brilliant scientist who led the Stanton Expedition to explore the ruins on Mars. When Thomas Dangerfield informed him that the mutant colonists possessed the Oracle Stone lust grew in him. He asked for it, but when Robert Bloodworth denied, he tricked him by saying he would only study it experimentally. Bloodworth allowed him in the colony and then his team massacred the mutants. They reported to Earth that they found the colony destroyed.

However the truth was soon revealed. Stanton was put in prison but he escaped in the D-Day attack.
Lavercan Kimbell

**Lavercan Kimbell** of Kimbell, Kimbell & Schwartz, is an investment broker (Tex Murphy would emphasise on *broker*). His brother is Lemmer Kimbell.

Back when Tex had a little extra cash, he saught Kimbell's help to guide him through investments of the stock market, which in the process were dried up.

Murphy remembered Kimbell when he was needing a lead on Genetic Research Systems. He was unavailable at the moment (making Tex wonder if his old friend fled the country enjoying the money he fleeced from his clients) and Tex was helped by his brother.
Earhardt Fleischer

Friend, advisor and assistant of Jack Quinn. He used to work at the Pentagon. Assigned as deputy security officer for company operations in the Middle East. He believed that Mason Powers was the Stormbringer.

## CAD file

Name
Earhardt Fleischer
Sex
M
Height
5'11"
Weight
165
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Brown
Nationality
U.S.
Security clearance
Omega
Service Date
8-86
Position
Security Officer-Middle East division
Last evaluation
Excellent
Current Status
Active
Assigned as deputy security officer for company operations in the Middle East. Suvpervisor - Jack Quinn.
Kate Donahue

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Kate Donahue works at the North Hill Clinic. Tex Murphy visits her when investigating his memory loss. She is a friend of Taylor LaMintz(who introduces Tex to her)and meets Tex on two occasions first to examine him regarding his memory loss ,taking a blood sample and a second time where she explains the process of trance inducing and how getting the trance interuptor serum and a trance key will reverse the effects.
Lou

**Lou** is with Felipe one of Eddie Ching's thugs.

They broke into Tex Murphy's office in the Ritz Hotel and then interrogated him. Lou was the one who'd smacked Tex around.

When Tex and Eddie became allies, Lou and Felipe came with her to the New San Francisco Interplanetary Spaceport and boarded Karl Voorman's shuttle-cruiser for the moon.

As Tex knew Lou better, he discovered him to be a talker with many malapropisms, mixed metaphors, and creative profanity. During the flight, Lou had yet to master Go Fish so Tex passed his time with Felipe. Lou was reading a Robert E. Howard paperback (turning a page every 8 minutes) while eating pork rinds. Every few seconds, he'd silently sound out a word, then shake his head.
Dulce Vida

An apartment building in Mexico City. It was relatively luxurious, for people who liked the idea of living in Mexico City, but preferred to avoid its true harsh life. Because of high crime rate, the building was a fortress of security for its rich clientele. The entrances to the residential areas were sealed off to outsiders and each apartment had its own personalized security system with a keypad on each apartment door, with optional individual laser grids and LCD alarm glass for the windows.

Eddie Chang lives in the 18th floor.
Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead is a rock band led by Geraldo Rodriguez. They are currently in their third incarnation.

After a layoff of a week and a half after a world tour, by Thursday they were all getting a little antsy and planned a new "Resurrection Tour" beginning in Sacramento, CA and after three years and 1093 shows, end up in Lazarus, PA.

Other plans include a new album, amovie filmed on tour and a benefit concert with the Roling Stones
Arthur Murphy

Arthur Murphy was the grandfather of Audie Murphy. He flourished during the early 20th century. He owned a dance school although he had no formal training, and made it through the depression by teaching Cha-Cha to rich older women. When the authorities found out his activities he already had made thousands.

He was also the great-great-grandfather of Tex Murphy
Chandler Avenue

An avenue in Old San Francisco. It extends near the base of the Coit Tower and leads to some radioactive ruins.

Most of the buildings there are mainly small business and warehouses and it has two competing hotels; The Ritz and Golden Gate Hotel. Also present on the Avenue were several alleys and a sewer system that could be accessed from behind Rooks Pawn Shop and in front of the ACME warehouse.

Located in Old San Francisco, the avenue is the home of many mutants and friends of Tex Murphy, such as Louie LaMintz, Chelsee Bando, Sal and Francesca Lucido, Rook Garner and others. Some norms also have passed from the area such as Margaret Leonard, Zack Williams, Chelsee Bando and Tex Murphy.

There is also an Auto-Postbox

## Buildings:

The buildings on Chandler Avenue
are:

* Ritz Hotel
* Chelsee Bando's Newsstand
* Rusty's Funhouse
* Acme Warehouse
* Golden Gate Hotel
* Bijou Cinema
* Fuchsia Flamingo
* Rook's Pawn Shop
* Slice O'Heaven Pizza Parlor
* Electronics Shop (2042)
* Electronics Shop (2043)
* Inspector Burns BBQ
* Louie's Brew & Stew
* Three Cards To Midnight
* Llama Club
* Maldonado's office

## Trivia

The name is a tribute to legendary PI fiction author Raymond Chandler.
Amazon timeline

1519
Aztec King Montezuma gives the Eyes of the Jaguar to Hernando Cortez
c. 1925
The river steamship *Amazon Queen* is built
c. 1927
Kodak Kodascope is manufactured
1927
Hans Stroheim starts exploring the Amazon jungle.
1937
Elberto Fuentes starts working at the Green Monkey
1940
Monogram Pictures release *Wild Women of Wongo*.
Ford 7 window coupe
1952
Allen Roberts wins stock car trophies
1953
Chevrolet Bel Air
1956

August 10
Allister Research camp is raided in the Amazon.
1957

January
Ashdown is arrested by the FBI
February
Events of the game
Broken Skull

The **Broken Skull** is a space saloon, part of the primary Waystation. It is crowded with space jockeys, penal rejects and other people who wait for the shuttle to the corporate space stations, or the mining colonies of the moon and Mars.

It seems to have been operated by the Brotherhood of Purity, and members of the Cult passed through on their way to the Moon Child. The Broken Skull Bartender required a token, a rare silver dollar, and then directed them to Ferrel Pus who would arrange the transportation.
L.J. Leeland

General Leeland runs for President of the USA. According to the The American Eagle (European Edition) he criticized the current President Thomas Carroll for allowing terrorists such as Black December to rampage the country.

Scorpio considers him a scary hardliner who doesn't have any trouble using forces at will. He's got the public believing that Black December is going to destroy the country.
Gus Leach

**Gus Leach** (played by Chris Conners) is the owner of the Fuchsia Flamingo nightclub, which moved into the old Bijou Theater building on Chandler Avenue. Gus is fiercely protective of his singer, Emily Sue Patterson. Anyone caught messing with her gets either kicked out the door, or a taste of Gus' fist.After saving Emily's life Gus gives Tex a free bourbon,thanking him and tells him that he left the brown paper covering the puzzle box in a bin out the back of the club.He also mentions that Malloy said some things that indicated that the NSA were after him.
Hamm Underwood

Hamm Underwood was a fatty and very cross-eyed mutant, specializing in security systems. He had installed one in Alcatraz for J. Saint Gideon, and Eddie Ching's apartment in Knickerbocker. By some strange coincidence, Tex Murphy had broken all of them.

He was put as the manager of the Electronics Shop in Chandler Avenue. He enjoyed the brains and eggs plate of Brew & Stew.

He was silenced because he talked too much. Zack Williams took his place.
Crime Link

Crime Link is a computer model. Crime Link is a division of the compu-cop network, a subsidiary of the Larsen corporation.

By entering personal information a detective could access a suspects' personal files.

Tex Murphy owns a Crime Link 99A which serves the Greater San Francisco area and uses Suspect Identification and location system version 12.19a. However he did not own the software; it was pirated from someone Alberto Smith.

He used that computer to locate Mick Flemm.
Lowell Percival Enterprises

The Lowell Percival Enterprises is a company owned by Lowell Percival. It was affiliated with Western States Pharmaceuticals. The building was located in downtown New San Francisco, sticking out composed primarily of steel and tinted glass. As the premier example of the neo-anarchic school of architecture, it avoided using right angles.

The entrance were irregularly shaped revolving doors leading to a militarized lobby; security check included even proctological examination. A set of four elevators lead to Lowell's office on the 51st floor.

The building was bombed moments after Tex Murphy's visit to Percival, taking out most of the surrounding block. Mac Malden was at the scene. Casualties included Percival and his secretary, Alaynah Moore.
Clement's

Clement's is one of the most opulent and expensive restaurants on the West Coast, a stunning example of 5-star elegance with cherrywood Queen Anne dining tables, four leaded glass chandeliers sterling silver tableware and rare imported wines.

Tex Murphy dated Rhonda Foxworth there and later had a good time in a suite of Plaza Hotel
Farouk Hashish

***Countdown***
*This article or section refers to elements in the game Countdown, which is created by Access Software, but not part of the Tex Murphy universe.*

An alcoholic Turkish doctor who got his diploma from the Istanbul Correspondence School of Psychiatry. He used to be a succesful surgeon but his drinking grew the mortality rates.

He lost his licence and the Company employed him as the chief medical officer of the Sanctuary, although sometimes he doubted his own sanity.

He is the only one of the 'employees' who is not living in the facility. He drives a 1983 Ford Thunderbird.

He tended Mason Powers when Jack Quinn brought him there with orders to keep him there until further notice.

Independent contractor Fontain offered Hashish 5000 dollars to take him out of the way and report that he died in surgery implications. He was going to meet him in Cairo.

Powers threatened Hashish with a scalpel and got Fontaine's name.
Playbub

*Playbub* is an adult magazine, a clearly parody of Playboy.

The December '42 issue featured "The Girls of the CalTech Mathematics Department" and was found in the Golden Gate Hotel penthouse. Another copy was found in the Conference Room on the GRS 4rth subterranean level.

In 2050 Emily Sue Patterson appeared as playgirl of the month.
Pug

Pug is a shifty, homeless opportunist who lives around Chandler Avenue. He is said to smell terrible as he sleeps in a box next to the Snow White Warehouse. He was paid by Colonel Dobbs to keep an eye on Tex Murphy and report to him to what persons he talks to, especially when he sees him with a bird statue.

As he stalks Tex, he sees Tex rendered unconscious by The Chameleon and finds the oportunity to take his wallet at the end of Day 2. Sal Lucido told Fran to not say anything to Tex, however she reveals this to Tex when he does her a favor. With help from Beek Nariz, Tex finds Pug on Day 3, who hands his wallet back, and explains that Colonel Dobbs had paid him to keep an eye on him.

On Day 4 he is killed by The Chameleon, who stuffs his severed head into the water cooler in Tex's office. The cops are uninterested in finding his killer and so dont bother investigating it due to Pug being a mutant.

His head is seen in the morgue in The Pandora Directive.
Access Software

Access Software was a Salt Lake City, Utah based video game developer founded in 1982 by Bruce Carver and Chris Jones amongst others and was famous for the Tex Murphy game series in the 90s. The company was acquired by Microsoft in 1999, became part of Microsoft Game Studios and was renamed to Salt Lake Games Studio. In 2003 it was renamed again to Indie Games.

In October 2004, Microsoft sold the development studio to Take-Two Interactive and it took on the name Indie Built. They became part of T2's 2K Games/2K Sports brand until its dissolution in 2006.

In 2007, Chris Jones and Aaron Conners founded Big Finish Games, which is staffed primarily by veterans of Access/Indie Built. In 2012, they commenced development on a new Tex Murphy game.

## External links

* *Big Finish Games Official Website*
* *Big Finish Games Youtube Channel*
List of question topics in Tesla Effect

This is a list of topics that Tex can ask characters about in Tesla Effect.

Abduction on Chandler
Archie Ellis
Bauers' Trance Key
Carlos Maldonado
Charles Johansson
Chelsee Bando
Chelsee's death
Clint
Count St. Germaine
Edgar Cayce
Encrypted memory stick
Freeze gun
Holes in Tex's apartment
Holly Graham
Inspector Burns BBQ
J.T. Donnelly
Ladder
Laser Blade
Louie LaMintz
Maldonado's surveillance video
Margaret Leonard
Margaret Leonard photo
Mason Bauers
Photo of woman
Ritz Hotel
Rook Garner
Snow White Warehouse
Suspicious speeder
Taylor LaMintz
Tesla Cache
Tesla Legacy Society
Tex Murphy
Tex's dreams
Tex's memory loss
Tex's trance key
Three Cards To Midnight
Trance interrupter serum
Zack Williams
Hernando Cortez

Hernando Cortez explored the Amazon. Aztec king Montezuma believed he was the bearded god foretold and in 1519 gave him the eight huge perfect emeralds the Eyes of the Jaguar.

However one of his generals Diaz Valesquez stole them. He was pursued to the Amazon Basin but his party and the emeralds were lost.
Bosworth Clark

## Mean Streets

Bosworth Clark is an eccentric scientist who works with satellites. He has several insurance policies from Peter Dull.

He called Frank Schimming saying he had something very important to talk about but Schimming dismissed him.

Big Jim Slade went to his laboratory and strangled him for $5000. Tex Murphy came later and found him dead but found a lead to Big Surf Hotel.

## Overseer

Bosworth Clark shares a similar background where he works with satellites and were employed at AT&T. He started a swing band called "The Consultants of Swing" in 2022.

His murder is documented on a security tape where he is forced to play Russian roulette by Big Jim Slade.
Guy Callabero

**Guy Callabero**, a former circus sideshow performer, is the owner of the now-defunct Galactic Pictures B-movie studio. Alexis Alexander acted in some of Galactic's movies, along with her boyfriend, Rick Logan, before the company's closure (and getting paid).

Rhonda Foxworth gave Tex Murphy Callabero's address. He provided his film about the Angello S. Andretti case to Tex, aiding the work of the Police. He also told him that Logan has a place somewhere in the jungle, and that he had a friend named Johnny Fedora.
El Loco

El Loco is a gigantic, more than 7' tall crazy bully of Rio Blanco. After a burro kicked him on the head he started to see visions; he claimed the old hotel was a holy place and threw everyone out. He stayed to guard it waiting for a divine message, as the hotel was the only place with a telephone.

Jason Roberts fed him with cayenne peppers (1000 times stronger than the jalapeno) which made him run to the plaza well. Thinking that the servant boy was responsible, he started beating him, but Jason, to save him, cause the hotel sign to fall on El Loco's head, neutralizing him.
Nora Desmond Alexander

A successful movie actress who became the second wife of Marshall Alexander. Her stepdaughter is Alexis Alexander with whom they didn't get along. Her final role was Joan Collins's grandmother in Dynasty 2000. She stopped her career but she resented this decision and started to hate her family.

She lives on Benedict Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills.

When Alexis was disappeared, she would inherit Terraform Corp.

Lowell Percival courted her.
MTC

MTC Corp (Management Training Center or Management Through Control) is a subsidiary of Gideon Enterprises. New employees who show potential are sent to this small facility to acquire corporate decision making abilities being provided with training seminars.

Its Vice President and General Manager is Tom Griffith.

In 2032 MTC started being involved in development as well and started hiring scientists, and most employees were not aware about this. The scientists worked on the Overlord secret project.

The secret laboratory with the Mind Control Device was located on Alcatraz (NC4550)

People associated with MTC are:
Carl Linsky, Ron Morgan, Jorge Valdez, Brenda Perry, Greg Call, Cal Davis, Big Jim Slade, Tom Griffith, John Klaus, Bosworth Clark, Sandra Larsen, Della Lang, Sam Jones, Larry Hammond
Beek Nariz

**Beek Nariz** is one of the mutants who live on or near Chandler Avenue, and acts as a paid informant to anyone who can pay him good money. His mutation is a nose similar to the trunk of elephants for which he is actually quite proud and vain of it even taking good care of it hoping to attract attention from women.

He knew that Mick Flemm had a partnership with Rusty the Clown running a racket importing and selling illegal novelty goods from Hong Kong. After Rusty's disappearance, Flemm had become bozo-phobic and had nightmares about seeing Rusty. When he was drunk Flemm disclosed his nightmares to Beek.

The Crime Link system had Beek Nariz's name associated with Flemm, and Chelsee Bando told Tex that he could find him near Coit Tower. On Day 1 Tex Murphy brought him a gift certificate of a free cosmetic job in *The Real You* Surgical Clinic, and Beek agreed to help Tex telling him that Flemm was to be found in the Acme Warehouse. He also told Tex that he suspects Flemm is responsible for Rusty's disappearance.

When looking for Pug ,Beek was happy with his nose job, and eager to help Tex again. Asked about Pug's whereabouts, Beek told him that he lives in a box near the warehouse.

In 2047 Beek began supplying information about the now hardened Tex Murphy and in August that year he was hospilitised after been badly beaten but refused to identify the suspect. His file from New San Francisco Police Department last updated August 2047 states:

*Beaten and hospitalized after providing information about Tex Murphy. Nariz refuses to identify his assailant, no charges ever filed.*

Danwicz suspects that Tex himself was the assailant.
Cal Davis

Cal Davis (Santa Barbara, NC 3720) was an investigational psychologist noted scientist. He was a professor at the University of California at Davis. He wrote the book *Control of Primate behavior through Microchip Technology*. He was paid by MTC to work for the Overlord project.

He had a chimp to whom he installed a control microchip to his temporal lobe and control his aggressive tendencies through electrical stimuli and eventually install one in hippocampus and manipulate behavior and movements. At the optical cortex he manages to control visual images to the brain, pleasure and pain, but one of his subject dies of seizure and aneurism. By July his experiments resulted in total brain control, death or permanent brain damage.

Then he was instructed to test the procedure on a human and he denied to have any part. Then Big Jim Slade came to execute him.

He was discovered by his friend, Aaron Sternwood, who came to go out with him. He found him with hands on his neck shouting "checkmate". According to Police Det Smiley Monroe he mistook Cyanide 631 for Diet Coke sitting next to it.

Vanessa finds a newspaper article stating:

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Juan Carlos del Obregon Ramirez

***Countdown***
*This article or section refers to elements in the game Countdown, which is created by Access Software, but not part of the Tex Murphy universe.*

Carlos Ramirez was a sophisticated and elegant agent of the Company and loved wines. He is considered to be a loose cannon, but clean, integral and thorough, and makes no mistakes.

He was the control agent of Scorpio and Jackal while they were working together.

He accepts to talk to Mason Powers when he gives him an old bottle of wine from the Sanctuary. He tells Powers about Golden Desire to know more about Scorpio.
Los Angeles

**Los Angeles**, California is a city along the West Coast.

In 2038, 20 viewers were fried by Joltovision technology, and Galactic Pictures had some legal problems.

Law and Order had their secret headquarters there (NC5037)

Sonny Fletcher was living in the room 307 of a run down hotel (NC5170) converted into apartments.

## Novelization

In the Under a Killing Moon novelization, CAPRICORN is said to have its headquarters in Los Angeles.
Fuchsia Flamingo

Fuchsia Flamingo is a dance show hall which opened at 165 Chandler Avenue where the closed Bijou Cinema was. The owner is Gus Leach. Luci Luv sings there.

Knowing that Luci knew about Thomas Malloy, Tex Murphy went out with Chelsee Bando there, who got a membership there last week in two paths. Chelsee was uneasy with Tex staring Luci, and when he explained that they went there to help his investigation, it only made things worse .In the most evil path Tex enters Luci's dressing room drunk.In the Good Tex path Tex goes there alone and like the other paths talks to Luci.He later returns there to save Luci's life.By 2050 both Gus and Luci have left Chandler Avenue and the nightclub is shut down.

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Law and Order

A quasi-fascist political organization which started as a small band of trouble makers in San Francisco. Since 2032 their president was Robert Knott who built this very powerful organization through strong political connections such as Legislature, Mayor's Office and Police Force.

They are dedicated to control the government and drive the freaks out of town. They moved somewhere in southern California, but their main headquarters are unknown (Los Angeles, NC5037).

They got many followers throughout government and business. MTC invited them for a joint program to get rid of the mutants. They started working for the Overlord program against the enemies of the country and planned to use it to gain complete control of the world by unsuspectingly tagging everyone allow them to track and control the populace

## Members

* Robert Knott (President)
* Bazil Mallory (VP and Security Chief)
* Melba Wiedbush (Secretary)
* Stanford Demille (Attorney)
Crazy Gary

Crazy Gary is a sermoner who rants vehemently against the consumption of meat. He is seen usually around Chandler Avenue, as in the alley behind the Golden Gate Hotel, "like a space-age Moses strung out on Demerol and bad scotch". He started a war against businesses like Brew & Stew but Louie Lamintz knew nobody takes him seriously.

Tex Murphy got close to him, when they found out they both love the consumption of vegetables and grains, "especially fermented ones". Of the blessed potations Gary prefers a single-malt scotch. Tex brought him a bottle of first-rate stash, imported illegally by Sal Lucido.

After helping getting Clint out of his chocolate addiction (but did pass on his scotch addiction) he passed away by 2050.

## Quotations

Lo, in thy folly, thou shalt turn to antacids and bismuth and every variety of laxative. Ye shall cry out, 'We should have had the salad!' but thy belly is stained with A-1 and there is cholesterol in thy arteries.
Lunar penal colony

A **lunar penal colony** was built on the moon. It was manned by a crew of about a dozen people. Each area is color-coded as as minimum, medium, and maximum security. There were at least ten Maximum Security Zones, prisoner caps with dozens of cameras. MSZ 1 had 418 occupants.

The complex consists of domes, connected with transport tubes. Around the dome perimeters there are interior corridors, with doors that lead to the interior rooms of the domes. Monorail compartments traverse the tubes connecting the domes. The compartments have two rows of facing seats and windows all around.

The op-center is an empty room with computer consoles, stations and monitors displaying layouts, camera views, records, inventories and other data. There are four exits that leads to the tubes and other domes. A typical room has a high transparent wall of Plexiglass from the interior of a garden biosphere.

Tex Murphy and Eddie Ching learned from Eva Schanzee's data, that the Brotherhood of Purity would move to the colony as preparation of the Great Alluvion. They decided to join forces and confront the cult themselves. In reality, the Brotherhood tested a virus developed by the GRS using the prisoners as test subjects, before dispensing it ino the atmosphere by satellites. The prisoners as well as the crew were killed, and GRS research scientists were executed, as they were no longer needed.

Ching arranged for some connections to get them a passage to the colony without clearance. They gathered at the New San Francisco Interplanetary Spaceport and met Karl Voorman who transported them Tex, Ching, Lou and Felipe, to the moon in a shuttle-cruiser.

The complex seemed deserted and the shuttle had to land outside, and the team used space suits to break into the op-center. They found it abandoned and explored the 3 unlabelled areas. Wearing a rebreather, Tex reached a shut-down section. Through a broken door he saw whole families of dead prisoners, and GRS employees that were shot. There he found about the Brotherhood's plans to eradicate the population of Earth with a virus, and assumed that the destruction would originate from the Moon Child.

Meanwhile, Voorman revealed his double role and called cultists to intercept the team. They found Ching and her men, but she managed to warn Tex with her communicator. Tex exited through an emergency exit along the dome's outer corridor. He attempted to jump over the exterior of the tube to the shuttle and escape, losing his gun in the process. He was caught up by 4 thugs, who trapped Ching and her men inside to die. Tex hid in the toilet where he was discovered by Brody. Thus he was taken to the Moon Child as a prisoner.

## Behind the scenes

The lunar adventure and Ching's fate don't appear in the game. Tex goes to the Waystation instead.
Interpol

International Criminal Police Organization had come into existence in the 1920s, as a records clearing house, so that the police of one country could communicate information with another and had steadily grown in power.

Since the nineties, it rode the wave of the World Wide Web and became the international enforcer of Internet law. When almost everything was run through online networks in almost every modernized country, Interpol statutes were considered the final word.

Interpol also had priority with old-fashioned criminals who crossed borders. Only when it suited them, they'd allow local authorities to handle matters.

Interpol was looking into Roy O'Brien's murder in the NSPD and went through the police report.
No-man's-land

A northern part of San Francisco which was devastated by the World War III. It had never been cleaned up afterwards and people feared it was inhabited by nocturnal man-eating orc-like creatures. Tall buildings are still standing but are empty without electricity.

Agents McCovey and Andrews brought Tex Murphy there for questioning.
Count St. Germaine

Count St. Germaine stays at the Golden Gate Hotel in 2050. He asks Rook about the Tesla Cache and has had a deep interest not only in Tesla but also about the concepts of reincarnation to which believes Tex to the current incarnation of J.T. Donnelly. He claims to offer Tex memory regression therapy in order to remember his past lives. Shortly before meeting Tex he had been in contact with Margaret Leonard where he traded notes and information on Nikola Tesla. Although he is not a member of any groups per se, he has knowledge on the Tesla Legacy Society and the White Guard of whom he is linked via Ariel. He seeks the Tesla Egg mainly to observe it and of course stop the construction of the Immortal Coil.

## In the novels

His name is spelt *Germain* in Tex Murphy and the Tesla Effect. His role is very similar as in the video game. But he also bails a million dollars for Mantus in a plot not appearing in the game.
Chantall Vargas

Vargas lives in Apt 970 of Hitchcock Building. A striking brunette with deep hungry eyes, she looks tired from hard and fast living. She was one of the top models on the West Coast and was hired by Jocques Sparrow, until she started taking rush and her career was ruined.

She met Alexis Alexander in Wiener World and became roommates.

Tex Murphy used to see her dancing through his camera lens from his apartment. When he approached her to investigate Alexa's disappearance, she threatened to call the cops. Tex however blackmailed her with photos of her buying rush. She then agreed to answer his questions and told him about Rick Logan.
Ema Nymton

"Ema Nymton" is the moniker used by Mick Flemm's associate. The name actually means "not my name" backwards. Her real name is unknown.

"Ema" would visit pawn shops and pawn a bracelet which she presented as a family heirloom, is loaned some money and then Flemm breaks into the shop and steals it.

She visited Rook's Pawnshop and told Rook that she would reclaim it in a month. Rook loaned her $8000, 1/10 of its worth. Rook was another victim of Flemm.
North Hill Clinic

The *North Hill Clinic* is medical facility established in 2002. It specializes in care of publicity-shy celebrities. The director is Arnold Sternwood.
Carl Linsky worked in this clinic for 26 years, and in his will he states that his assets will be divided between his daughter and the clinic.

Tex Murphy goes to the North Hill Clinic when investigating his memory loss. He is treated by Dr. Donahue.
John Klaus

## Mean Streets continuity

John Klaus (Reno, NC7012) is a scientist who was hired for the Manegement Training Center of Gideon Enterprises. He was set to work on the Overlord project. He soon discovered that MTC had nothing to do with management training, and was threatened when asking questions. Since he felt his life was in danger he went undercover.

Klaus had been friends with Carl Linsky for a long time. But when his girlfriend, Delores Lightbody, fell for Carl, Klaus swore that he would never work with him again and avoided any contact.

His name was in a list of Linsky when he tried to discover colleagues.

## Overseer

He was hired by MTC for the Overlord project but he grew suspicious and realized that its objective was not to enhance the intelligence of the executives. When he

    started questioning he was threatened. He disappeared into hiding in Nevada and nobody knew where except Delores. He also worked at the North Hill Clinic and performed surgery on Carl Linsky to remove a brain tumor and replace it with an implant that would drive Linsky to suicide.

After Linsky's death, he took over the persona of "The Posioned Pawn" and lured Tex to the San Tomas Mission wearing a cowboy outfit and holding Sylvia Linsky hostage. He is eventually killed by his compatriot Big Jim Slade who twists his neck.