Series The Secret of the Golden Gear

The characters and events in this story are entirely fictitious. They do not resemble anyone, and any resemblance to any region or real-life persons is purely coincidental. Episode 1: The Jammed Machine Chief Engineer Silas Kane examines the metropolitan clock…

Episode 2: Ticking Time Without the tower’s regulating impulse, the city’s automated telegraph switching network begins slipping out of synchronization, causing widespread communication blackouts. Telegraph tickers across the financial district began clattering erratically, printing gibberish codes and failing to transmit…

Episode 3: Sabotage in Brass Investigating the dropped jeweler’s tools and metal shavings left beneath the counterweight well, Silas traced the physical evidence back to a local foundry. Silas finds metal shavings and specialized jeweler’s pliers dropped beneath the counterweight…

Episode 4: Turning the Cogs A rival industrial magnate seeks to create railway chaos to force a hostile buyout of the transit system, using the stolen cipher codes to manipulate freight schedules. Silas reviewed the financial records of the municipal…

Episode 5: Fixing the Clock Engaging in a rooftop confrontation above the city square, Silas recovers the authentic golden component from the saboteur’s chief enforcer who tried to intercept him on the way back. Silas scrambled up the exterior scaffolding…