Nathaniel Browne's Secrets

Nathaniel's friend, Jean-Paul Etienne, is a user and supplier of certain mind-expanding substances (including opium). Nathaniel has partaken of these on occassion.

Additionally, Nathaniel does not, as he appears to, live off any inheritance. In fact his parents left him very little. Instead he writes gossip columns for a London paper under a pseudonym (John Parker). He sends his stories to the newspaper's editor, George Baker, and receives payments via a post-office box.

After the sucess of Nathaniel's 'Tatters of the King' anthology, he has given up writing the columns. Unfortunately, his increasing use of halucinogenic drugs to substitute for the inspiration brought on by last years events threatens to drive Nathaniel back to poverty...