Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe

Nikola Tesla is the patron saint of the Digital Circus.  Their techies are able to make contact through Tesla’s Cosmic Coil.  And/Or (of the Digital Circus), and Ruby, have a spirited talk with long dead Nikola Tesla.

Ruby, a Galactic Detective, is given a coin that when flipped into the air, she may see other dimensions.  She is told, this is one of four Moon Coins.  Sonto Lore is a mythical 4th moon of Summa Nulla, a moon no one has ever seen.

The whole gang gathers together at the Digital Circus. It appears everyone is there – Ruby, Teru, Kapoor, And/Or, Man Ray, Father Mojo, Inanna, the Inky, Roger Robot, Mother Kapoor, Junior, and even Doctor Laser & Doctor Duck! The Android Sisters give a final performance.

Back in the Astral Bar & Grill, Inanna meets her father, who is a Time Lord. He tells her to take the next step, return to the Underworld and kill the ruler of Erishkigal, the Maharini - who is Inanna’s sister. Her father insists, “It is your duty!” But she is no match for the dark powers of the Maharini.

Rodant Kapoor, having learned a couple tricks from the Master Illusionist, Mister Majestic, uses his “thought forms” to distract the wrathful two-faced god, as the wise Mustapha, Ruby’s aircar, arrives to assist their escape from Zumzam’s evil city.

Professor T.J. Teru finally has his hands on the missing piece to the Ultimate Game, it’s Roger Robot. With the techie And/Or’s assistance, the wily robot is fitted into the machine, enabling Teru to make contact with the ancient, long-extinct, Nullians. But Professor Teru’s questions, and the Nullian’s answers, don’t fit well together.

Ruby discovers her ex-lover, Monet, is a Twilight Master – someone who dwells in the dark and the light. And back in the City of Zumzammim, Kapoor encounters Zumzam’s secret police, the frightening flappy-eared, pig-nosed creatures they call, “The Snouts!”

The mob boss, Mister Concertina, has a meeting with Zumzammim, the two-faced god, while Ruby, hiding behind the walls, easedrops on their nefarious plans. Meanwhile,Teru has gathered together all the parts from his dreams, to put-together the “Ultimate Game.” But one piece is missing, and that piece has the shape of Roger Robot.

T.J. Teru travels to the “City of the Electronic Dead” where he reunites with his old flame, his significant-other-android, Angel Lips. He finds her leaning against a lamp post, looking lost and forlorn. He recalls the day she was delivered, “My hands were shaking as I uncrated you, I tore off the layers and layers of packing until there you stood like a goddess, like a plastic Venus rising out of a sea of foam … styrofoam!”

Rodant Kapoor joins a carnival that is really a con game. He becomes an assistant to the grand illusionist, “Mister Majestic, Master of a Million Mental Hooks” (he used to run an advertising agency). As Kapoor learns from the Master, the agents of Zumzam come searching for the slippery novice.