Call of Cthulhu, Achtung Cthulhu, A Look to the Past, Episode 1

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A Look to the Past; Episode 1
Cast:
Kurt as "Sly" (Petty Officer Murphy) a US Navy policeman (aka Shore Patrol)
Kathy as LT Phillipa "Phil" Richmond, USN Nurse
Nick as Professor Estoban, Spanish Archeology Professor
Colton as Maeria, Spanish Grad Student with a secret past
John as Vargas, Peruvian Lumberjack/Guide
NPCs 
Party: LT Michael Everhart, Navy MD
Germans: Fraulein Falk, Aviatrix; Feldwebl Voss, adventurer; Vinzenz Fromm, Explorer; Faramund Armbruster, Antiquarian

Late August, 1939

The session begins with Sly, Phil, Maeria, and Vargas sitting around a bonfire in a camp. Beyond the light, they hear a drum beating and chanting in what might be German, and see shadows moving beyond. At the height of the chanting they see a large figure just beyond the light raise a silver dagger, at its feet a kneeling figure. At the sudden end of the chanting, the dagger flashes down and maddened spear wielding figures attack from the darkness. Sly is able to fight some off, and Phil drops one with a well aimed kick to the groin but takes a spear in the gut from another. Sly stands over Phil's body even as Maeria and Vargas face six of the savages back-to-back..
"May I refill your drink ma'am?" a young local waiter offers Lieutenant Phillipa Richmond. Looking up startled, the nurse nods and looks over her fellow "rescuers". A strange mix, a couple fellow sailors from the USS Seabird, a couple Spanish expats, and a local...guide? Soon they are shuffled back to a dinning room...and while Phil cannot shake the weird daydream she had, she also notes the odd expressions on the folks sitting near her. For a moment she suspects they had the same vision? No..its just the grape brandy. What was it called peso sour? Need to avoid that one, she thinks.
 In the dining room, they all introduce themselves formally and meet the Germans, especially the driven woman, Frau Falk. A pilot or "aviatrix". She tells the group of the need to find this lost German expedition and that these are experienced men - no amateurs. Phil suspects that if her medical skills are not needed then it will be a sad day for archeology.
The Germans are a mixed group themselves, a couple of archeologists, one young, one old, and a ex-French Foreign Legionnaire. Well, he'll be handy if we get to a desert, Phil muses.
The next day, the group sets out on the Seabird for Chiclayo. For Phil and her boss LT Everhart it is business as usual, but the others seem to be amazed at a modern US frigate. There is a weird encounter at breakfast the next morning with what later is described as a ghost ship...Phill didn't race to the deck like a newbie schoolgirl, but some of the others on the expedition said it looked like a ship out of the 1850s. Landlubbers.
That night the Captain set in to the port town of Chombote, as the winter (August is winter in the southern hemisphere) fog makes pushing on the next six hours to Chiclayo a little too dangerous. The Captain orders noone to deboard, but the rescue party violates these to hit the bars in a classic bonding event...a bar fight. Sure enough, the rough town of Chombote delivers and a massive bar fight ensues...and while Vinzenz is given a lesson in humility, the party (Germans, Americans, Spanish, and Peruvian) learn they can fight successfully as a team.  Fraulein Falk seems to walk away pleased. 


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