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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 4215527" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Adventure #26: Onward to Australia!</span></p><p></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Part 1: Goodbyes & Hello…</strong></p><p></p><p>July 11, 1925.</p><p></p><p>Two months have passed since the destruction of the Spawn, and the investigators are finally ready to begin the next stage of their journey. Old Bundari has successfully treated Lester's and Chang's sickness, the Black Fever that rolled down the mountainside, and the two men feel fit enough to travel. Old Bundari and Okumo offer the group their blessings, and see them off to the Uguanda Railway. Once there, several other individuals are waiting for them to depart:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/colonel.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/joe.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Colonel Endicott, the raucous Englishman whose hunting lodge was burned down by fire vampires; his assistant Silent Joe, who put the investigators in touch with Old Bundari the shaman; and the only crying person in the bunch, tearful Mrs. Natalie Smyth-Forbes.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/natalie.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>"Oh, Lester Cobblebottom, you're just not the man i knew! You...you...have such sudden bouts of uncommon bravado! I think we must end this torrid relationship!" <span style="color: Red">(GM Note: which may or may not have ever been consummated; probably not – only Jeff knows)</span></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/lester2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>And thus, Lester's mental condition [the one that exhibits uncommon bravado at unexpected times] has wrecked the only love life he's ever known. Oh well. Silent Joe nods curtly, but Colonel Endicott is especially thankful for their assistance, and for saving his life, even though his Hunting Lodge did burn to the ground. In gratitude, he offers them something very dear to him: "Mrs. Caruthers!” he trumpets. “Named after a good woman, blokes, but she's an even better gun!" (+1 masterwork). Chad Slambody accepts the gift [and immediately renames it "MR. Caruthers.”]</p><p></p><p>Along with Gi-Gi, the crippled wheelchair psychic, and the little Egyptian servant boy Ma'Moud who has dutifully followed them since Cairo, Chad, Chang and Lester hop onto the train and head to Mombasa, where they have booked passage to Port Hedland, Australia, following a trail of meager clues that will hopefully lead them to the next stage of Nyarlathotep's grand plan for world extinction.</p><p></p><p>So they can blow it up.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/nuke.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Dr. Ali Kafour from the Cairo Museum wires them $5000 to assist with fees, and the investigators have personally met the two men who will aid them in the next stage: Dr. David Dodge from Sydney, and Professor Anthony Cowles. Ali Kafour vouches for both of them, so the PCs do not suspect them as being cultist plants.</p><p></p><p>Both men have long left for their homeland, and Cowles and Dodge possess evidence that a great city lies buried beneath the sand in Western Australia, hidden deep in the outback, a city originally discovered five years ago by a man named ARTHUR MacWHIRR. </p><p></p><p>MacWhirr is now dead (from influenza, nothing supernatural oddly enough), and the only other person who knows the exact coordinates of the city is his friend and confidante, Dr. Hans Hazzenbaum (Bridgett's new character, replacing a different NPC from the campaign book), a German anthropologist living in Port Hedland and studying ancient Aboriginal society. Dodge and Cowles have returned to Sydney to organize funding for the expedition, and are waiting to hear back from the investigators once they arrive in Port Hedland.</p><p></p><p>So, two weeks since leaving Mombasa, after a long, chugging steamship journey across a vast ocean, the party finally limps into port on the flattest continent on Earth.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/aus.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/out2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>In their downtime, both the two month interval since Lester and Chang's sickness and the two week boat journey, the group has had ample time to study their collected clues, and have found several links and discoveries:</p><p></p><p>A) Ledgers from warehouses in London, Mombasa and Nairobi link items that have been sent to Shanghai, New York, Australia and Africa. Some of the items are clearly labeled as suspicious cult-related items. One such warehouse is actually in Port Hedland: </p><p></p><p>Randolph Shipping Co.</p><p></p><p>B) A recent telegraph from Port Hedland to Tandoor Singh in Nairobi (the Tea Seller who had been summoning the fire vampires, and ultimately burned up in a jail cell) places a man named "Huston" in Port Hedland. Quite possibly the same "Huston" of the Carlyle Expedition.</p><p></p><p>C) Dr. Anthony Cowles, the Australian archaeologist, is a master of Aboriginal and Koori history, and he is aware of an ancient religious sect that has recently arisen: The Cult of the SAND BAT. (This was hinted at in the Mountain of the Black Wind)</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/sandbaT.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>After talking extensively with Ali Kafour in Cairo, Dodge and Cowles are convinced that a new cult of Nyarlathotep has risen in the desert, and they have probably begun human sacrifices in earnest. This doesn’t so much scare the archaeologists as fascinate them. </p><p></p><p>D) The map photographed in the Bent Pyramid (by Morty, Jeff's dead and devoured character) depicts a triangle of important locales in Kenya, Australia and China. The Mountain of the Black Wind was one such important site they believe, and the investigators have disrupted whatever atrocities planned there and killed the Son of the Dark One. The next important site is in Western Australia, very likely the same location that Arthur MacWhirr found, the same location where Dr. Hans Hazzenbaum knows the coordinates, and the very same place that Cowles and Dodge would like to mount an official expedition to root out the secrets of a lost city beneath the sands.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/ruinedcity.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>E) Poring over their collected Mythos tomes, Lester and Chang finding themselves reading De Vermiis Mysteriis and Africa's Black Sects (Sex! Heh, heh, that never gets old), respectively. Lester is shocked and horrified by the book, but he learns many secrets about the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods, and he learns two blasphemous spells. Chang learns how to place a black opal in the mouth of the recently dead, and bind a black spirit to animate the corpse. Hideous of course, but he keeps the ritual imprinted, just in case. [GM Note: I don’t know if these spells ever get used; I don’t think so. Magic in this campaign was very low-key aside from the dedicated magician Lucifer Lardlover]</p><p></p><p>This was all some necessary bookkeeping to keep the players up to speed about what was happening, and to refresh their memories regarding the clues in Australia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 4215527, member: 31465"] [SIZE=4]Adventure #26: Onward to Australia![/SIZE] [B] Part 1: Goodbyes & Hello…[/B] July 11, 1925. Two months have passed since the destruction of the Spawn, and the investigators are finally ready to begin the next stage of their journey. Old Bundari has successfully treated Lester's and Chang's sickness, the Black Fever that rolled down the mountainside, and the two men feel fit enough to travel. Old Bundari and Okumo offer the group their blessings, and see them off to the Uguanda Railway. Once there, several other individuals are waiting for them to depart: [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/colonel.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/joe.jpg[/img] Colonel Endicott, the raucous Englishman whose hunting lodge was burned down by fire vampires; his assistant Silent Joe, who put the investigators in touch with Old Bundari the shaman; and the only crying person in the bunch, tearful Mrs. Natalie Smyth-Forbes. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/natalie.jpg[/img] "Oh, Lester Cobblebottom, you're just not the man i knew! You...you...have such sudden bouts of uncommon bravado! I think we must end this torrid relationship!" [COLOR=Red](GM Note: which may or may not have ever been consummated; probably not – only Jeff knows)[/COLOR] [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/lester2.jpg[/img] And thus, Lester's mental condition [the one that exhibits uncommon bravado at unexpected times] has wrecked the only love life he's ever known. Oh well. Silent Joe nods curtly, but Colonel Endicott is especially thankful for their assistance, and for saving his life, even though his Hunting Lodge did burn to the ground. In gratitude, he offers them something very dear to him: "Mrs. Caruthers!” he trumpets. “Named after a good woman, blokes, but she's an even better gun!" (+1 masterwork). Chad Slambody accepts the gift [and immediately renames it "MR. Caruthers.”] Along with Gi-Gi, the crippled wheelchair psychic, and the little Egyptian servant boy Ma'Moud who has dutifully followed them since Cairo, Chad, Chang and Lester hop onto the train and head to Mombasa, where they have booked passage to Port Hedland, Australia, following a trail of meager clues that will hopefully lead them to the next stage of Nyarlathotep's grand plan for world extinction. So they can blow it up. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/nuke.jpg[/img] Dr. Ali Kafour from the Cairo Museum wires them $5000 to assist with fees, and the investigators have personally met the two men who will aid them in the next stage: Dr. David Dodge from Sydney, and Professor Anthony Cowles. Ali Kafour vouches for both of them, so the PCs do not suspect them as being cultist plants. Both men have long left for their homeland, and Cowles and Dodge possess evidence that a great city lies buried beneath the sand in Western Australia, hidden deep in the outback, a city originally discovered five years ago by a man named ARTHUR MacWHIRR. MacWhirr is now dead (from influenza, nothing supernatural oddly enough), and the only other person who knows the exact coordinates of the city is his friend and confidante, Dr. Hans Hazzenbaum (Bridgett's new character, replacing a different NPC from the campaign book), a German anthropologist living in Port Hedland and studying ancient Aboriginal society. Dodge and Cowles have returned to Sydney to organize funding for the expedition, and are waiting to hear back from the investigators once they arrive in Port Hedland. So, two weeks since leaving Mombasa, after a long, chugging steamship journey across a vast ocean, the party finally limps into port on the flattest continent on Earth. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/aus.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/out2.jpg[/img] In their downtime, both the two month interval since Lester and Chang's sickness and the two week boat journey, the group has had ample time to study their collected clues, and have found several links and discoveries: A) Ledgers from warehouses in London, Mombasa and Nairobi link items that have been sent to Shanghai, New York, Australia and Africa. Some of the items are clearly labeled as suspicious cult-related items. One such warehouse is actually in Port Hedland: Randolph Shipping Co. B) A recent telegraph from Port Hedland to Tandoor Singh in Nairobi (the Tea Seller who had been summoning the fire vampires, and ultimately burned up in a jail cell) places a man named "Huston" in Port Hedland. Quite possibly the same "Huston" of the Carlyle Expedition. C) Dr. Anthony Cowles, the Australian archaeologist, is a master of Aboriginal and Koori history, and he is aware of an ancient religious sect that has recently arisen: The Cult of the SAND BAT. (This was hinted at in the Mountain of the Black Wind) [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/sandbaT.jpg[/img] After talking extensively with Ali Kafour in Cairo, Dodge and Cowles are convinced that a new cult of Nyarlathotep has risen in the desert, and they have probably begun human sacrifices in earnest. This doesn’t so much scare the archaeologists as fascinate them. D) The map photographed in the Bent Pyramid (by Morty, Jeff's dead and devoured character) depicts a triangle of important locales in Kenya, Australia and China. The Mountain of the Black Wind was one such important site they believe, and the investigators have disrupted whatever atrocities planned there and killed the Son of the Dark One. The next important site is in Western Australia, very likely the same location that Arthur MacWhirr found, the same location where Dr. Hans Hazzenbaum knows the coordinates, and the very same place that Cowles and Dodge would like to mount an official expedition to root out the secrets of a lost city beneath the sands. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/Masks/ruinedcity.jpg[/img] E) Poring over their collected Mythos tomes, Lester and Chang finding themselves reading De Vermiis Mysteriis and Africa's Black Sects (Sex! Heh, heh, that never gets old), respectively. Lester is shocked and horrified by the book, but he learns many secrets about the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods, and he learns two blasphemous spells. Chang learns how to place a black opal in the mouth of the recently dead, and bind a black spirit to animate the corpse. Hideous of course, but he keeps the ritual imprinted, just in case. [GM Note: I don’t know if these spells ever get used; I don’t think so. Magic in this campaign was very low-key aside from the dedicated magician Lucifer Lardlover] This was all some necessary bookkeeping to keep the players up to speed about what was happening, and to refresh their memories regarding the clues in Australia. [/QUOTE]
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