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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 4018501" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Adventure #10: The Drunk Dutchman</span></p><p></p><p>The next day the investigators hop a tram to Giza. They have not been to the pyramids yet and want to see firsthand where the mummy (possibly Nitcrosis) was stolen from the Clive Expedition. </p><p></p><p>Find the mummy, and they might find the next clue to the Carlyle Expedition. </p><p></p><p>They reach Giza and are <a href="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/sfx/Seeing%20the%20Pyramids.mp3" target="_blank">awed by its sweeping majesty</a>. The leonine Sphinx looms over them as if ready to pounce, and the great pyramids stoically rest behind it, etched upon the horizon like sleeping giants. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/sphinx.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/giza-6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/giza-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The investigators inspect the Menhaura pyramid (the smallest one), asking the guards about the mummy found by the Clive expedition. The guards claim to have heard screams that night, and other guards near the chamber disappeared without a trace. The current sentries are pretty unnerved by that, but insist that there is no way such a huge sarcophagus could vanish! The investigators conduct their own search and find a discolored stone in the tomb but no apparent means to move it. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/discolored%20block.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>There are other tourists here and the investigators finally leave, having hit a dead end. </p><p></p><p>They return to Cairo and talk to Ali Kafour. His sources haven’t heard anything out of the ordinary, but he suggests Janwillen Vanheuven again. Maybe the Dutchman can tell the investigators more about the Clive Expedition, who can in turn inform them about the stolen mummy. It is a long shot, but a chance nonetheless. </p><p></p><p>Finding the man proves problematic though and requires some door knocking at the local embassies and paying off a few citizens. But within two days, they hear that a Dutch fellow lives in a very, very poor part of town in Old Cairo on the Street of Moths. It is difficult to find, and requires another lengthy trip through the sprawling city.</p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/old%20cairo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>When they arrive, an old Egyptian man is shooing cats out the front door of a tailor shop. Neville politely asks if he has seen a man named Janwillen Vanheuven, and the tailor tentatively points inside. He looks the group up and down, and then turns a “Closed” sign on the door and shuffles down the street, throwing back worried glances. </p><p></p><p>The investigators enter the shop and can smell Vanheuven before they see him. </p><p></p><p>Janwillen is passed out in a small, squalid bedroom. Well, not so much a bedroom than a converted closet. His “door” is a tattered cloth. There is a stained wireframe cot, a bedside table cluttered with paper, pens and books, a chair, and dirty clothes strewn in the corner. And seven empty bottles of liquor. And body odor so potent it is nearly tangible. </p><p></p><p>“Ahem. Mr. Vanheuven?” asks Morty in English, covering his nose. Janwillen mumbles and rolls over. “Mr. Vanheuven? Are you awake? We would like to speak with you.”</p><p></p><p>A cat jumps to the windowsill in the anteroom, licking its paws. </p><p></p><p>Janwillen doesn’t answer, and on a whim, Chang squats to his hands and knees and searches under the bed, spotting a mound on the dirt floor as if something is shoddily buried there. </p><p></p><p>Interesting. They note this discovery, and then jostle Janwillen awake. They need to talk to him. The Dutchman fumbles with his spectacles and blinks at the strangers. They’re Europeans! He seems glad to see them, and unsteadily shakes their hands. He is obviously suffering from a wretched hangover.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/janwillen.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The investigators question him about the Clive Expedition and what happened to his employment there, and after some initial disgruntled reactions, Janwillen tells them his story. </p><p></p><p>“Oh, yah, how I miss them…the good Doctor Clive and Doctor Gardner…”</p><p></p><p>The Clive Expedition, he says, had found a secret chamber at Giza several months ago, and within were remarkably well-preserved scrolls indicating that the mummy could, perhaps, be Nitcrosis. </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/mummy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>He wasn’t sure about that, and soon afterwards was fired by Dr. Clive, and then the whole expedition uprooted to MEMPHIS. Janwillen barely got to inspect the scrolls personally.</p><p></p><p>Neville jots the new location down. Memphis is a hundred miles south of the original dig site at Giza.</p><p></p><p>“Why were you fired?”</p><p></p><p>He jerks his head to the bottles strewn around the room. “My hobby,” he answers sullenly. “And…more. Perhaps. I…I do not know for sure.”</p><p></p><p>And then without provocation, Janwillen offers his personal opinions of the Clive principals: </p><p></p><p>Dr. Henry Clive (English, a brilliant man and scholar); Johann Sprech (an unlikable German fellow); Agatha Broadmoor (a dotty old woman); James Gardner (his favorite by far); and Martin Winfield (another British archaeologist). </p><p><span style="color: red"></span></p><p><span style="color: red">[GM Note: by now the PC’s are getting cramped fingers from writing clues down] </span></p><p></p><p>He respects each of them as professionals. “I do not take it personally,” he says, although from his misty eyes the investigators think he might. But soon enough, he segues into a story about an AMAZING FIND he has recently made. </p><p></p><p>“Yah! I’ll be much famous,” he murmurs, his eyes dancing. “Da international recognition I deserve!”</p><p></p><p>You see, he says, Gardner had given him some information, probably because Gardener felt bad about Janwillen getting fired and all. And Gardener probably thought it was a useless red herring. Well, if only he knew what he had given up! Following Gardner’s hint, Janwillen ventured all alone into a dark, secret catacomb beneath the city streets, and he finally found a shrine. A special shrine. A shrine filled with small cubby holes in the walls, and the strong stink of urine. A statue was there, and in a secret compartment in the base of the statue he miraculously discovered some delicate scrolls. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/bast01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Oh yes, Janwillen claims that as soon as his new discovery is translated from Coptic to Dutch he will be rich and famous, even more so than Dr. Clive, and he won’t need their stupid mummy to gain fame and for—</p><p></p><p>“Aaagh!”</p><p></p><p>Janwillen is interrupted by a cat slinking into the room. It maliciously hisses at him, and Chang damn near pulls out his pistol and shoots it. He hates cats anyway. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/angry%20cat.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>“DEMON!” Janwillen screams and throws a shoe at it. “Damned cats have been following me everywhere,” he mumbles. “You’d think I was a tunafish.”</p><p></p><p>The investigators wonder about that. </p><p></p><p>Regardless, the party wants to talk to Janwillen in more detail about both his secret project and the Clive Expedition, so they offer him brunch and booze. Unable to refuse, Janwillen throws a hat on, pulls on some pants, and stumbles outside.</p><p></p><p>When halfway to the snack shop, Chang runs back, digs under the bed, and uncovers several ancient papyrus scrolls in a leather pouch. He glances over them, beaming at his treasure. Poorly concealed fortunes never stay concealed for long, and Chang stuffs the scrolls down his pants before rejoining his friends. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/rites.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>On the corner, three cats are slyly watching him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 4018501, member: 31465"] [SIZE=3]Adventure #10: The Drunk Dutchman[/SIZE] The next day the investigators hop a tram to Giza. They have not been to the pyramids yet and want to see firsthand where the mummy (possibly Nitcrosis) was stolen from the Clive Expedition. Find the mummy, and they might find the next clue to the Carlyle Expedition. They reach Giza and are [URL="http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/sfx/Seeing%20the%20Pyramids.mp3"]awed by its sweeping majesty[/URL]. The leonine Sphinx looms over them as if ready to pounce, and the great pyramids stoically rest behind it, etched upon the horizon like sleeping giants. [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/sphinx.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/giza-6.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/giza-2.jpg[/IMG] The investigators inspect the Menhaura pyramid (the smallest one), asking the guards about the mummy found by the Clive expedition. The guards claim to have heard screams that night, and other guards near the chamber disappeared without a trace. The current sentries are pretty unnerved by that, but insist that there is no way such a huge sarcophagus could vanish! The investigators conduct their own search and find a discolored stone in the tomb but no apparent means to move it. [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/discolored%20block.jpg[/IMG] There are other tourists here and the investigators finally leave, having hit a dead end. They return to Cairo and talk to Ali Kafour. His sources haven’t heard anything out of the ordinary, but he suggests Janwillen Vanheuven again. Maybe the Dutchman can tell the investigators more about the Clive Expedition, who can in turn inform them about the stolen mummy. It is a long shot, but a chance nonetheless. Finding the man proves problematic though and requires some door knocking at the local embassies and paying off a few citizens. But within two days, they hear that a Dutch fellow lives in a very, very poor part of town in Old Cairo on the Street of Moths. It is difficult to find, and requires another lengthy trip through the sprawling city. [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/old%20cairo.jpg[/IMG] When they arrive, an old Egyptian man is shooing cats out the front door of a tailor shop. Neville politely asks if he has seen a man named Janwillen Vanheuven, and the tailor tentatively points inside. He looks the group up and down, and then turns a “Closed” sign on the door and shuffles down the street, throwing back worried glances. The investigators enter the shop and can smell Vanheuven before they see him. Janwillen is passed out in a small, squalid bedroom. Well, not so much a bedroom than a converted closet. His “door” is a tattered cloth. There is a stained wireframe cot, a bedside table cluttered with paper, pens and books, a chair, and dirty clothes strewn in the corner. And seven empty bottles of liquor. And body odor so potent it is nearly tangible. “Ahem. Mr. Vanheuven?” asks Morty in English, covering his nose. Janwillen mumbles and rolls over. “Mr. Vanheuven? Are you awake? We would like to speak with you.” A cat jumps to the windowsill in the anteroom, licking its paws. Janwillen doesn’t answer, and on a whim, Chang squats to his hands and knees and searches under the bed, spotting a mound on the dirt floor as if something is shoddily buried there. Interesting. They note this discovery, and then jostle Janwillen awake. They need to talk to him. The Dutchman fumbles with his spectacles and blinks at the strangers. They’re Europeans! He seems glad to see them, and unsteadily shakes their hands. He is obviously suffering from a wretched hangover. [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/janwillen.jpg[/IMG] The investigators question him about the Clive Expedition and what happened to his employment there, and after some initial disgruntled reactions, Janwillen tells them his story. “Oh, yah, how I miss them…the good Doctor Clive and Doctor Gardner…” The Clive Expedition, he says, had found a secret chamber at Giza several months ago, and within were remarkably well-preserved scrolls indicating that the mummy could, perhaps, be Nitcrosis. [CENTER][IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/mummy.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] He wasn’t sure about that, and soon afterwards was fired by Dr. Clive, and then the whole expedition uprooted to MEMPHIS. Janwillen barely got to inspect the scrolls personally. Neville jots the new location down. Memphis is a hundred miles south of the original dig site at Giza. “Why were you fired?” He jerks his head to the bottles strewn around the room. “My hobby,” he answers sullenly. “And…more. Perhaps. I…I do not know for sure.” And then without provocation, Janwillen offers his personal opinions of the Clive principals: Dr. Henry Clive (English, a brilliant man and scholar); Johann Sprech (an unlikable German fellow); Agatha Broadmoor (a dotty old woman); James Gardner (his favorite by far); and Martin Winfield (another British archaeologist). [COLOR=red] [GM Note: by now the PC’s are getting cramped fingers from writing clues down] [/COLOR] He respects each of them as professionals. “I do not take it personally,” he says, although from his misty eyes the investigators think he might. But soon enough, he segues into a story about an AMAZING FIND he has recently made. “Yah! I’ll be much famous,” he murmurs, his eyes dancing. “Da international recognition I deserve!” You see, he says, Gardner had given him some information, probably because Gardener felt bad about Janwillen getting fired and all. And Gardener probably thought it was a useless red herring. Well, if only he knew what he had given up! Following Gardner’s hint, Janwillen ventured all alone into a dark, secret catacomb beneath the city streets, and he finally found a shrine. A special shrine. A shrine filled with small cubby holes in the walls, and the strong stink of urine. A statue was there, and in a secret compartment in the base of the statue he miraculously discovered some delicate scrolls. [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/bast01.jpg[/IMG] Oh yes, Janwillen claims that as soon as his new discovery is translated from Coptic to Dutch he will be rich and famous, even more so than Dr. Clive, and he won’t need their stupid mummy to gain fame and for— “Aaagh!” Janwillen is interrupted by a cat slinking into the room. It maliciously hisses at him, and Chang damn near pulls out his pistol and shoots it. He hates cats anyway. [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/angry%20cat.jpg[/IMG] “DEMON!” Janwillen screams and throws a shoe at it. “Damned cats have been following me everywhere,” he mumbles. “You’d think I was a tunafish.” The investigators wonder about that. Regardless, the party wants to talk to Janwillen in more detail about both his secret project and the Clive Expedition, so they offer him brunch and booze. Unable to refuse, Janwillen throws a hat on, pulls on some pants, and stumbles outside. When halfway to the snack shop, Chang runs back, digs under the bed, and uncovers several ancient papyrus scrolls in a leather pouch. He glances over them, beaming at his treasure. Poorly concealed fortunes never stay concealed for long, and Chang stuffs the scrolls down his pants before rejoining his friends. [IMG]http://www.med.unc.edu/%7Esaasha/Masks/rites.jpg[/IMG] On the corner, three cats are slyly watching him. [/QUOTE]
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