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Mr. Phillips (John) - Engineer (retired) Max Webber (Wyatt) - Spy Siomon Gallach (Nick) - Diplomat Ontario Johnson (Alex) - Desert Explorer Sgt Cecil Atwood (Mike) - Constable and introducing Nora St, Dennis (Kathy) - Adventuress NPCs Clifton and Flight CaptainTom DeWitt This episode was less Pulp, more Cthulhu...well...until the end at least. The survivors from the hunt for the Sun of Aten were debriefed by British Intelligence in Cairo, then sent to England to a secret base (in a country mansion) for more debriefing and research on what all of their adventures to date meant. The funny thing to Colonel Norwood ("N") was they knew about the Black Sun Nazi Cultists, but these Nachtwolf people were new to him, as was the Tibetan Blue Robed monk (that Siomon had killed).  The time in England was also spend planning, training, and researching at the unknamed mansion's extensive library.  After much analysis, Colonel N tasked the team with travelling to India and seeing if the...

Cast: ​John as Badger II the boy Wizard, and Amar the  Killer  Cynidicean  ​Wyatt as Avery, Accidental Destroyer of Worlds, Cletus the Tranie Space Cowboy/Wonder Woman, and Ederik the Dog Kathy as Katilia the Dwarf, Kilcia the Cleric of Madarua, and Kiya the Halfling  Jason as Bilbarg the Thief and Hillsong Goatbeard (Wizard) The party ended last session at a metal ladder leading to the fifth level of the ziggurat. They already knew that there was a "city" below, but not too sure how far away (as the party members who were citizens of the city were also 'shroom junkies. Going down the ladder left them in a 10x10 room with nothing of interest. Gathering their wits, they soon found a secret door and passed through into what looked like a bedroom. Badger was attracted to a white cloak which had a spirit try to possess him, Badger (experienced Chaotic wizard and born on the plane of Law) resisted, but bargained with the spirit. In exchange for some powers, Badger...

Cairo, the Nile, and Dendera, Egypt  11 - 19 September 1939 Cast: Alex as Ontario Johnson, Explorer John as Mr. Phillips, Retired Engineer Wyatt as Max Webber, Spy Nick as Siomon, British Consulate "Fixer" Kathy as Dr. Victoria Adley, European Archaeology, Folklore and the Occult Mike as Sgt. Cecil Atwood, Egyptian Constabulary The prevous session had Mr. Phillips, Max, Siomon and Ontario investigating the Black Stone at the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo while Victoria "took the waters" (ie recovered sanity and health) in Alexandria. Although Siomon was more interested in meeting up with  the lovely blonde Museum Assistant, Mandmoiselle Miechelle, the rest were able to find a with the "Sun Heresy" which lead with a Major Alyoisus Bayden...and his best bud Sheik Janin, who them on a weird quest for lotuses and talked about glowing shields followed by a vision quest in a well... Anyway, the party now figured they needed to get to the Temple of Hathor by Den...

The group began the session holed up in the ex-zombie room. After some healing (and a little more disapproval) they all felt ready to continue. Exiting, they ran into three drugged out members of the Three-Face Cult. After a brief, disconnected conversation the party agreed to grow by three more, as one claimed to be a thief (which this group of delvers surely lacked). {Damn, I forgot to tell Jason his guys were albino's with infravision and serious negatives if they ever get to see the sun!} The next room they tried held a TPK monster - eight attacks with paralyzing tentacles! It froze half the party in the first turn, but then revealed its weakness - it couldn't take a punch.  While trying to un-paralyze half of the party, a buzzing sound and four Cynidiceans (albino drug addicts) showed up belonging to the Bumble Bee Cult. Yes, Cynidiceans continue to show they are the weirdest humans eveh. Anyway, the Bee people offered sips of healing honey, which woke up the paralyze...

Ran Friday night for the Rising Sun High crowd - using scratch off character sheets. We made it through the Winter Wolves and explored two caves. Really only just starting. One hero didn't survive the first encounter and failed her roll-over. After the appearance of the Jotan (Chaos Ice Giant) with a second pack of wolves, the amnesiac characters were totally dodging any confrontation and hiding in the caves more than exploring. As soon as they found a place to rest they did...and woke up with 2/3s the party older, the other third younger - and suddenly realizing that there was something other than  ice monsters attacking! I was pretty liberal with letting the players risk (in a combat turn) a DC check to scratch off a attribute - but NONE of them would risk the DC15 or DC20 checks! {Despite my coaxing} As a result, they knew what class some of their characters were (Dwarven Blacksmith and Halfling Tailor made guessing pretty simple) BUT refused to try for either Character clas...

Cast: ​John as Badger II, the boy Wizard and Amar the Cynidicean ​Wyatt as Avery, Accidental Destroyer of Worlds, Cletus the Space Cowboy and Ederik the Dog Kathy as Katilia the Dwarf, Kilcia the Cleric of Madarua, and Kiya the Halfling  The group started at the secret door they had found at the end of last episode and started down the vast hallway they found beyond. First item of interest was a trapdoor that opened to a ladder leading down. Second item of interest was a couple primitive rock baboons charging them with murderous intent! The baboons were quickly dispatched and the group began an evening of exploring rooms.  ​ ​In the first room they found, the door had a 2' chewe d hole near the bottom, Entering they found a coffin, now nest for a trio of giant shrews. One shrew was killed another fled, but the last shrew...haha...dodged a fumble by Cletus the Space Cowboy - in which his new-found black magical sword  Not Stormbringer  shattered against the flagstones...

Cairo, Egypt   10 September 1939 Cast: ​Alex as Ontario Johnson, Explorer ​John as Mr. Phillips, Retired Engineer ​Wyatt as Max Webber, Spy ​Nick as Siomon, British Consulate "Fixer" ​ ​The team from Italy was redirected in their stolen plane by radio to Egypt. Apparently, N, the team's handler in the SIS (MI6) had heard about Erlichmann's journal and decided that the team needed to get on the ground to find out more about this Black Stone.  ​ ​Clifton, the pilot needed a long rest in a mental sanitarium after the harrowing flight (and the last twenty miles gliding in to Alexandria). Victoria went on a Nile cruise, "taking the airs", leaving Phillips and Max to brief the local consulate. After their debrief, Siomon, an up and comer in the Consulate and Ontario Johnson proposed heading to the Museum of Antiquities to look for hints of this Black Stone. Johnson may have been sincere, but Siomon seemed more interested in the lovely blonde Museum Assistant, M...