Attack of the Quarks
By Chris Lynch
Hobo Kostinen’s discovery of a strange, boxy robot hidden in a cupboard in an arcade in Porthcawl, leads him and Lucy Wilson into a series of encounters involving the deadly Quarks!
In these three linked short adventures, Lucy and Hobo have to face a marauding Quark following old battle instructions.
Then, in London, Lucy finds a virtual reality trap which is a bit too real, and shows that even a part of a Quark can be dangerous.
And finally, Lucy has to help a lost Quark face the dilemma of no longer knowing who, or what, it really is.
The Lucy Wilson Mysteries is a Lethbridge-Stewart spin-off adventure inspired by characters created for Doctor Who by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln.
The key to identifying a great arcade was not the lights, Hobo knew. People always thought about the lights, but it wasn’t the lights. It wasn’t even the sounds. The key to identifying a great arcade was the smell.
Ozone from overheating electrics, warm plastic, old sweat, and chips. A great arcade, a truly great arcade, acquired all of those smells over a period of time. They would embed themselves in the walls, the ceiling, the sticky carpeted floors. They became part of the place, even more so than the bricks and mortar, a second skin. They clung like a mist, so that when someone walked in it felt like they were passing from one world into another, that they were walking through a fog into a new reality.
And, if it was a truly great arcade… then that was true.
