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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4755963" data-attributes="member: 54707">D&D/Fantasy Adventure - Terra-Ghantik (Terra): White Elephant (White Elephant Part One) - (This mission involves the Hoshi, a party of Oriental Heroes operating on our world) Before leaving for the West by land the Hoshi Party is asked by the Chief Minister at the imperial Court of China to go to Java and escort from there, by ship, safely to the Imperial City a fabulous African White Elephant. Traveling by sea to Java the party boards the ship that carries the elephant and it’s imperial Guard. While aboard ship the Hoshi learns that the Elephant is a gift from the Chief of a Swahili tribe who wishes to court trade and arms favors with the Emperor of China. Supposedly the Elephant is part of a famous African prophecy and is also said to be an omen of great prosperity and propriety. As the trip progresses it becomes apparent to the Hoshi that some of the African delegation are not as they appear and that even some of the African servants may be possessed of a double nature. Worse still the Hoshi stumbles across evidence that a conspiracy may be afoot, one involving the elephant, and one which may reach even into the bedrooms and bureaucracies of the Imperial Court itself. Approaching China strange events begin to transpire aboard ship, many of which seem to flow in and around the Elephant. Hoshi party members begin to dream of the elephant and in some of the dreams the elephant even speaks to them, describing events that seem all too real. The party awakes one morning to discover that several members of the African delegation have been assassinated at night, as they slept, along with three members of the Emperor's diplomatic delegation. The Hoshi is thereafter contacted by an imperial Oracle, who is aboard ships in disguise, and who has been assigned to watch the elephant. The oracle also knows why the Hoshi is aboard and tells the party members that he believes the Elephant can actually speak to the minds of men, and that it is not what it appears to be, that it may not even be an elephant at all. The elephant has led the oracle to a number of strange trigrams and hexagrams in the I Ching, and interpreting the readings the oracle believes that someone aboard plans to steal the elephant, and that someone may even intend to assassinate the Emperor. Before the ship lands the Hoshi must try to determine exactly what is going on and what they can do about it before escorting the elephant to the Imperial Court. (HC/OC/KHC)</blockquote>

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