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By Outlaw Effects
Whitechapel is an authentic "aged" reproduction of the Cable Street Pawnbrokers Shop log. It is an end of the year compilation volume of all the patrons and the items they pawned. The year is 1953.
The book is very small, roughly 4 1/2 inches deep and 3 1/2 inches wide. It is spiral wire bound down the side.
Each entry contains the name of the customer, their address, the item pawned, the lender number and the amount lent, and whether or not the item was redeemed.
The Streets and boroughs are all authentic U.K.
For those of you that have never been down on your luck, a pawnbroker lends money to customers in exchange for personel items of value. The customer then has a certain period of time to come back to the pawnshop, pay off the loan (with interest), and get their item back. If they do not pay off the loan in time (usually four months) they forfeit the item.
Whitechapel is a sometimes sentimental, sometimes frightening look into the lives of some of the more "colorful" residents of London's East End.
Each customer of The Cable Street Pawnshop has a story; some were poor, some were rich and some killed to get the item they pawned.
You will be able to describe the customer, the item pawned , the amount of money lent on the item, the lender and ticket number whether they ever redeemed the item, and the story behind the item.
There are over 50 pages and 350 customers in the 1953 volume.
You do not need to peek a page, you do not have to know a page number, you do not look at the book.
As well as an independent stand alone effect, Whitechapel has been designed as a force book for all the female murder victims in Homicide U.K. (Also available here)
All of the female patrons of the Cable Street Pawnbroker Shoppe (circa 1953) are murder victims in the Homicide U.K. book (circa 1955)
They have been re-arranged on the pages of Whitechapel so that none of the female patrons of the Pawn shoppe book appear together on the same pages in the Homicide U.K. book.
This means that every female patron is an automatic "force" murder victim.
IMPORTANT: All the female customers in Whitechapel are murder victims in Homicide U.K., but not all the the Homicide U.K. female victims are in Whitechapel.
This means you must start with Whitechapel if you are going to combine the effects and do the murder revelation and bring in the Homicide U.S. book. This is the strongest presentation, and the method that is intended to be used if you are going to combine the books.
Briefly, as you are describing a patron of the pawnbrokers shop you suddenly stop and say " I've seen her before in another old book I have. I'm sure I have. She was murdered. She's in an old case book I have.
(Now you go ahead and completely describe the murder scenario.)
Remember, they havn't told you the name of the person or anything else, yet now you're not only able to disclose the pawnshop information, you can now take it much further and start describe the murder scene that occured years later!
It allows for the perfect segueway into the murder book!
Without ever asking the "patrons" name you can hand them Homicide U.K. and tell them "I believe she is in this book" and of course she is!
Remember the females in Whitechapel are not on the same pages as they are in the Homicide U.K. book so when they look at either book none of the names will coincide with each other. The result is the spec will have the impression both books contain completely different names.
To add to the fairness of the book, the male patrons ARE ALL DIFFERENT from the males in the Homicide U.K. book.
Homicide U.K. and Whitechapel are stand alone independent effects.
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