- 1 - After a rough sea voyage to St. Agnes, dodging sea mines and a short underwater dive, you excavated the tombs of Tristan and Iseult. A gold amulet, which stood out from the Bronze Age treasures, triggered a vision of ancient Lyonesse. Monsieur Dubois introduced himself and you killed female Egyptian sniper.
- 2 - All she had to identify her is a Ring of Ammit. You took the body to the local vicar and reported the body to the police. You return and sell the treasures to the British Museum. You are invited tea by Lady Thorsen, where you are asked to investigate a Norse mystery. The Professor’s house is broken into.
- 3 - Spencer investigates, has a fight and determines Monsieur Dubois had a hand in it. The Countess deals with her bankers. Graham starts the long road for justice with the MP for Epping (Mr W. Churchill). Nick heads off a nasty little newspaper article covering the group’s activities on St. Agnes by publishing a worse article detailing a romance between Captain Spencer and The Countess. This earns him the enmity of Spencer’s father. You get more information about the Norse mystery from an old friend of the Professors, a Greek shipping magnate Dmitris. You head off to Iceland in an airship, during which the Countess entertains Major Dominic Ashford. You end up in a hot-pool with Professor Elgsson
- 4 - Conversations with the Professor are fruitful. You journey on a ship, the Narwal, to the to and you head off to Kverkfjöll. Along the way you are attacked by a longship full of Vikings, beserkers frothing at the mouth with an odd blue tinge. Searching the bodies reveals weekend Vikings with discount wolf-skins. You land and cross the Icelandic landscape, surviving falls over icy rock falls. Enter the cave, to eggy smells. Spencer triggers a trip wire.
- 5 - Costel and the Countess rejoin the group after a short plane ride. The rest of you survive the bomb blast, with the Professor pointing out dynamite is not contemporary to Norse culture. Three crewman, from the Narwhal, attack Costel and the Countess from behind. It is a fatal mistake. You cross a river of lava, with Nick’s daring antics. Spencer touches the runestone and has a bloody vision of Vikings killing priests. You meet Gunnar and his undead viking crew.
- 6A - After a conversation, Costel fights Gunnar, ending his life, laying a sword in his hand, and sending him to Valhalla. The rest of you hold of Draugr. The volcano begins to erupt, and with the cave collapsing, you flee with a map and the axe. You all take a moment to consider what has just happened.
- 6B - After a break you race down to Brighton to investigate a call from Gabby, an old friend of Nicks. You investigate his room, find his body, and get some clues that point to a bomb on the Empress of Britain, the Earl of Kinbane and Uncle Bob. Dutch summons a rozzer with a tin can. Costel intimidates the concierge.
- 7 - We all head to Southampton to save the Empress. We get on board with the help of Spencer’s old naval friend Colin Smythe. We search the ship, Nick discovers the bomber, Pepe Boccone, planting a device. There is a fight. Colin is killed. The bomb is disabled. We ambush Bob on his private train. It falls apart. We crash. We question Bob. We attend funerals and return.
- 8 - The group is invited to a private exhibition and champagne white tie gala of the Treasures of Lyonesse. The Professor ends up declaring a new exhibition to Zimbabwe and punches a journalist. The Countess and Spencer end up fighting Das Erbe agents in the kitchens. Graham and Costel follow Dubois to a rendezvous with an actress. There is a fire at the Museum.
- 9 - The group breaks into the British Museum to use the key they copied to find what the Director is hiding. The Countess reconnects with an old flame. The Professor is knocked out by Costel. The group springs a trap laid by Major Dominic Ashford and men, meant for Das Erbe. They return to the Greene Hotel with a fake box, to lay their own trap for Das Erbe.
- 10 - Nick’s sister, Meredith is taken hostage by Das Erbe. The group rushes to her rescue with Issledr in hand. There is a gun fight, where Nick saves his sister from gunfire, Costel goes full Viking, Graham goes full stealth mode, The Countess shoots Katherina, Spencer drives like a true playboy and the Professor takes his time.
The Story So Far
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Session 1 - Finding The Kingdom of Lyonesse
[8 Feb 2025]
Scene 1 - Divine Tempest
11 May 1930
Graham and Spencer are top-side sea-sick. The Countess is sipping a martini on the bridge. Costel takes in the sea air. The Professor is in the galley pouring over his expedition notes. Nick is on the deck.
Nick spots a WWI sea mine in the water drifting towards the ship. Captain Hendrik Verhoeven mentions that when he was in the war they shot mines, although he does admit this was in calm seas. Costel rushes downstairs for hunting rifles. Graham spots two other mines. The Countess sets up her firing position on top of the bridge.
The Professor moves from the galley up to the bridge but stumbles on the stairs gaining a mild concussion. Nick heads down to gather his gear and supplies. Costel returns with the guns. The countess expertly dispatches all three mines with three shots.
The last one caused the windows on the ship’s bridge to blow in and hurled the captain from the helm. He knocked his head and fell unconscious bleeding onto the floor.
Costel rescues the captain, he wakes to see Costel peering over him and is gripped by fear!
Nick went back for his gear and slipped on Professor Wither’s glass eye.
The professor went upstairs and took control of the helm, steering the ship into the safety of the rocks off the island.
Spencer, seeing the danger ahead, leapt into action. He raced up to the bridge, pushed the professor aside and steered the ship to safety.
Scene 2 - Unwelcome Guests
12 May 1930
Early morning. Inn. Turk’s Head. Settle down for the night.
The countess smooths things over.
Breakfast and they review plans.
The group’s copious equipment, covering every eventuality, is unloaded on the docks, gathering a large crowd of onlookers. Including a large Renault 6 wheeler that is used to transport them and the equipment.
They see and engage in banter with a travelling frenchman, “Dubois”.
There are four options. A sunken ship off the coast, buried under a church, buried at a hendge, or in the safe keeping of Tristan and Iseult tombs reputed to be buried in a small island off St.Agnes only accessible during the lowest of tides. The party decides to explore the tombs first.
Scene 3 - Treasure Hunt
They drive, along a dirt track more suited to horse and cart, to the dig site.
The rocky causeway to the small island looks slippery and uneasy to cross safely.
Graham and Nick cross, marking the safest route.
Everyone crosses and starts to search to the small island. The island and causeway look like the remains and rubble of very large stone building that collapsed a long time ago.
Graham discovers a small hole in the rubble just by the water line.
Spencer and Nick swim into the tunnel, which goes completely underwater quickly. They swim through without incident laying a rope for others to follow. They find themselves in a small chamber with a sloping floor and two tombs.
On hearing that the tombs of the king and queen have been found, the professor leaps into action. He strips off and dives into the tunnel. He gets turned around, following an old piece of rope, and only just manages to return to the entrance before running out of air. He goes again, helped by Spencer, and makes it without incident.
Nick, Spencer and the Professor break out the crowbars. With a huge effort, they lever off the tomb lid, revealing the king’s bones inside. Alongside the bones, are bronze age treasures and a golden amulet. As the waters rise, the professor carefully wraps the bones and treasures in water-tight containers.
Professor has vision of a girl and marriage. Nick and Spencer see the professor pause and they knock the amulet out of his hands, breaking the vision.
Costel and the countess watch out over the causeway and Graham watches over the underwater entrance. A shot rings out, narrowly missing Graham. Costel and the countess leap into action. Costel providing flushing fire and when the sniper moves, the countess takes a crack shot and hits the shooter.
With the waters rising and making the chamber inaccessible for the rest of the day. The group decides to make camp on the beach and discuss the next steps.
Scene 1 - Divine Tempest
11 May 1930
Graham and Spencer are top-side sea-sick. The Countess is sipping a martini on the bridge. Costel takes in the sea air. The Professor is in the galley pouring over his expedition notes. Nick is on the deck.
Nick spots a WWI sea mine in the water drifting towards the ship. Captain Hendrik Verhoeven mentions that when he was in the war they shot mines, although he does admit this was in calm seas. Costel rushes downstairs for hunting rifles. Graham spots two other mines. The Countess sets up her firing position on top of the bridge.
The Professor moves from the galley up to the bridge but stumbles on the stairs gaining a mild concussion. Nick heads down to gather his gear and supplies. Costel returns with the guns. The countess expertly dispatches all three mines with three shots.
The last one caused the windows on the ship’s bridge to blow in and hurled the captain from the helm. He knocked his head and fell unconscious bleeding onto the floor.
Costel rescues the captain, he wakes to see Costel peering over him and is gripped by fear!
Nick went back for his gear and slipped on Professor Wither’s glass eye.
The professor went upstairs and took control of the helm, steering the ship into the safety of the rocks off the island.
Spencer, seeing the danger ahead, leapt into action. He raced up to the bridge, pushed the professor aside and steered the ship to safety.
Scene 2 - Unwelcome Guests
12 May 1930
Early morning. Inn. Turk’s Head. Settle down for the night.
The countess smooths things over.
Breakfast and they review plans.
The group’s copious equipment, covering every eventuality, is unloaded on the docks, gathering a large crowd of onlookers. Including a large Renault 6 wheeler that is used to transport them and the equipment.
They see and engage in banter with a travelling frenchman, “Dubois”.
There are four options. A sunken ship off the coast, buried under a church, buried at a hendge, or in the safe keeping of Tristan and Iseult tombs reputed to be buried in a small island off St.Agnes only accessible during the lowest of tides. The party decides to explore the tombs first.
Scene 3 - Treasure Hunt
They drive, along a dirt track more suited to horse and cart, to the dig site.
The rocky causeway to the small island looks slippery and uneasy to cross safely.
Graham and Nick cross, marking the safest route.
Everyone crosses and starts to search to the small island. The island and causeway look like the remains and rubble of very large stone building that collapsed a long time ago.
Graham discovers a small hole in the rubble just by the water line.
Spencer and Nick swim into the tunnel, which goes completely underwater quickly. They swim through without incident laying a rope for others to follow. They find themselves in a small chamber with a sloping floor and two tombs.
On hearing that the tombs of the king and queen have been found, the professor leaps into action. He strips off and dives into the tunnel. He gets turned around, following an old piece of rope, and only just manages to return to the entrance before running out of air. He goes again, helped by Spencer, and makes it without incident.
Nick, Spencer and the Professor break out the crowbars. With a huge effort, they lever off the tomb lid, revealing the king’s bones inside. Alongside the bones, are bronze age treasures and a golden amulet. As the waters rise, the professor carefully wraps the bones and treasures in water-tight containers.
Professor has vision of a girl and marriage. Nick and Spencer see the professor pause and they knock the amulet out of his hands, breaking the vision.
Costel and the countess watch out over the causeway and Graham watches over the underwater entrance. A shot rings out, narrowly missing Graham. Costel and the countess leap into action. Costel providing flushing fire and when the sniper moves, the countess takes a crack shot and hits the shooter.
With the waters rising and making the chamber inaccessible for the rest of the day. The group decides to make camp on the beach and discuss the next steps.
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Session 2 - Looting The Kingdom of Lyonesse
[15 Mar 2025]
Scene 4 - Investigating the Body
The body is dressed in appropriate British clothes. No papers. Some jewellery. Some piercings. Does the countess know her? No. Costel is respectful of the body. Brings body back to camp. Nick takes photos.
Is this the first person the Countess has killed? No. Not even the first woman she has killed. There is backstory here, but not to be revealed yet. First woman she has shot, but not killed!
How does everyone feel about the body? Costel comforts Countess equal to equal. Professor. WWI. Worried the authorities will stop everything. Nick has photographed dead bodies before.
Wrap the body, complete the dig, then report the body tomorrow.
Scene 5 - Dinner Around the Campfire
Has Spencer ever seen a dead body? Yes. Dead pirates. Never seen war action. Africa station.
Conversation about “the vision”. What happened?
The professor has theories about Kingdom of Lyonesse being earlier, not Celtic. Pre-Christian. Mediterranean. The vision was nothing more than academic contemplation.
How did they know she was Egyptian? Ring with Egyptian making / marking. A symbol. Ammit.
Annia-Maria had a long two person conversation with the professor.
Scene 6 - Burying the Body
But Costel wants to take the body to the church in the middle of the night!
Costel wakes. In tent with Graham who wakes (he is a light sleeper), but Cotel convinces him there is nothing to see here.
Costel gets horse, equipment and body. At the point he gets the body, Graham intervenes. More suspicious burying without getting the priest involved. Agrees she needs a proper burial, but that involves the priest. Costel stalks off, leaving the body and horse to the care of Graham.
Scene 7 - Recovering the Treasures
13 May 1930
Professor, Nick, Countess, Spencer - recover the treasures.
Costel and Graham - head off with body to the local church.
Talk with Vicar. Off to town. Radio to mainland. They will send someone tomorrow.
They leave names and addresses. The party provides all names and the “hotel” that Graham /Profs own address.
Met Dubois at the church.
Scene 8 - Back in Blighty
They use The Professor’s family hotel as a base of operations and put the amulet in a safety deposit box.
They sell Bronze Age items back to British Museum, where they have a good conversation with the Head of the British Museum and meet his daughter Kathleen. An even price. The countess holds off the debtors for a small period of time.
Costel engages in trouble and turns up cuts and bruises
Countess goes to a Catholic church regularly.
Spencer racing. Nick freelancing with him.
Graham travelling England. Spending time in wilds. Maybe teaching people about wilderness. Helping open Whipsnade zoo (1931).
Professor returns to his house “Old Mill House”. Pouring over texts and investigating the Amulet.
Scene 9 - A Viking Mystery
Thorsen Derbyshire. Call to afternoon tea. All very formal. Countess gets suits and shoes made for Costel, Graham and Nick (whose American day suit was awful!).
Charm offensive with old lady. Nick takes photos.
Journals are in Icelandic. Viking runes.
Countess offering to be a companion.
Scene 10 - Breaking and Entering
When the professor returns home, he discovers that his study and house has been trashed while is wife was out. The did a thorough job indicating that they did not find what they were looking for.
Discarded in a hedge is a matchbook for the “The Midland Grand Hotel” in London, with the number 52 written on it.
Scene 4 - Investigating the Body
The body is dressed in appropriate British clothes. No papers. Some jewellery. Some piercings. Does the countess know her? No. Costel is respectful of the body. Brings body back to camp. Nick takes photos.
Is this the first person the Countess has killed? No. Not even the first woman she has killed. There is backstory here, but not to be revealed yet. First woman she has shot, but not killed!
How does everyone feel about the body? Costel comforts Countess equal to equal. Professor. WWI. Worried the authorities will stop everything. Nick has photographed dead bodies before.
Wrap the body, complete the dig, then report the body tomorrow.
Scene 5 - Dinner Around the Campfire
Has Spencer ever seen a dead body? Yes. Dead pirates. Never seen war action. Africa station.
Conversation about “the vision”. What happened?
The professor has theories about Kingdom of Lyonesse being earlier, not Celtic. Pre-Christian. Mediterranean. The vision was nothing more than academic contemplation.
How did they know she was Egyptian? Ring with Egyptian making / marking. A symbol. Ammit.
Annia-Maria had a long two person conversation with the professor.
Scene 6 - Burying the Body
But Costel wants to take the body to the church in the middle of the night!
Costel wakes. In tent with Graham who wakes (he is a light sleeper), but Cotel convinces him there is nothing to see here.
Costel gets horse, equipment and body. At the point he gets the body, Graham intervenes. More suspicious burying without getting the priest involved. Agrees she needs a proper burial, but that involves the priest. Costel stalks off, leaving the body and horse to the care of Graham.
Scene 7 - Recovering the Treasures
13 May 1930
Professor, Nick, Countess, Spencer - recover the treasures.
Costel and Graham - head off with body to the local church.
Talk with Vicar. Off to town. Radio to mainland. They will send someone tomorrow.
They leave names and addresses. The party provides all names and the “hotel” that Graham /Profs own address.
Met Dubois at the church.
Scene 8 - Back in Blighty
They use The Professor’s family hotel as a base of operations and put the amulet in a safety deposit box.
They sell Bronze Age items back to British Museum, where they have a good conversation with the Head of the British Museum and meet his daughter Kathleen. An even price. The countess holds off the debtors for a small period of time.
Costel engages in trouble and turns up cuts and bruises
Countess goes to a Catholic church regularly.
Spencer racing. Nick freelancing with him.
Graham travelling England. Spending time in wilds. Maybe teaching people about wilderness. Helping open Whipsnade zoo (1931).
Professor returns to his house “Old Mill House”. Pouring over texts and investigating the Amulet.
Scene 9 - A Viking Mystery
Thorsen Derbyshire. Call to afternoon tea. All very formal. Countess gets suits and shoes made for Costel, Graham and Nick (whose American day suit was awful!).
Charm offensive with old lady. Nick takes photos.
Journals are in Icelandic. Viking runes.
Countess offering to be a companion.
Scene 10 - Breaking and Entering
When the professor returns home, he discovers that his study and house has been trashed while is wife was out. The did a thorough job indicating that they did not find what they were looking for.
Discarded in a hedge is a matchbook for the “The Midland Grand Hotel” in London, with the number 52 written on it.
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Session 3 - Some Time in England
[12 Apr 2025]
Scene 11 - So It Was Mr. Dubois
Tue 20 May 1930
Spencer investigates “The Midland Grande Hotel #52” clue by heading the hotel in London. He discusses the matter with the hotel front desk, by posing as someone who was looking for lost papers a friend had left while staying in room 52. The clerk looked in lost property and could not find anything. While he was doing this, Captain Montgomery looks at the hand-written guest list and discovers that Pierre Dubois is staying in room 52, he checked in 3 weeks ago and has not checked out. He left his address as “Villa Belle Époque, Promenade des Fleurs, Nice, France”.
Spencer gives false name and address and settles in at the hotel to see what he can see.
Scene 12 - A Debt Must Be Repaid
The Countess has an awkward telegram asking for a meeting with one of her bankers. He is nervous asking her about progress towards paying off her debts. He is embarrassed to say that his bank cannot lend her any more money, citing the shareholders.
She leans on him, citing all the important people she has met who want to use his bank, and a new expedition which is sure to bring in money.
Progress Clock “The Countess’s Debts Are Called” is at 5/8.
Scene 13 - Winston Churchill, I Presume
Graham wants to talk about the massacre of his parents and the general state of affairs of South Africa. He makes enquirers with his former military colleagues and they arrange a meeting with an MP for Epping, A Mr. Winston Churchill.
It is clear from the outset he wants more British involvement in SA not less. Graham sees a need for the natives to be protected although he is not clear what that might look like.
Mr Churchill asks him to testify in front of the select committee.
Scene 14 - Read All About It
Nick meets up with an old friend George Ward Price (a famous writer for The Daily Mail newspaper). He asks Nick if he has seen the story in the “The Cornwall Standard” by James Buckingham (who lives in Truro). He says not. The story is a jazzed up version of events, casting the party in a poor light, highlighting a romance between Spencer and the Countess. As well as the shocking death of an Egyptian.
George is planning on publishing the story in the daily mail. Nick asks him to wait so he can provide him with a true account.
Scene 15 - Did You Burn the Body!?
Costel and Nick find themselves consulting the same person about the Ring of Ammit quite by accident. Costel is not impressed. Henry Reginald Holland Hall, Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum.
Costel shows him the ring. He knows nothing, but can take him to Karim, an Egyptian curator in the archives.
The amulet is more Assyrian. But all the talk of ruining photos and the like is voodoo rubbish. Costel and Dr. Hall are unimpressed by Nick’s insistence there is something spiritual about it.
Dr Hall shows Costel and Nick to Karim in the archives. As soon as he sees the ring he recoils in fear and tells them to take it away. It is cursed. Did they burn the body? All he knows is the ring points to a group called the Scales of Ma’at. That is all he knows. If they want to know more go to the “The Bazaar of Wonders, 12 Al-Muizz Street, Khan El-Khalili, Cairo, Egypt"!
Scene 16 - Spencer Shows His Quality
3 guys accost Spencer in the hotel and take him outside. A fight ensues and he sees them off (spent 2 Fortune) with a black eye to show for it.
He questions the leader before running him off. What is Dubois’s business? Smuggler import business. Tell Dubois to piss off and get out of their business.
Scene 17 - Everyone Gathers
The entire party meets. They talk about the ruined photos (by the amulet), news articles about them and the fight with Mr Dubois.
Scene 18 - My Big Fat Greek Thai Wedding
The Professor has a friend, Dmitris Dmitrou, a blond Greek with Viking past in his blood. He is an expert on the Vikings. He made his money in shipping and owns a restaurant in the docks. Been a while since they met (pre-WWI) but kept in touch.
They meet up at his restaurant and are followed by men from Dubois.
Turns out Dmitris has recently married a Thai lady!
The chat reveals some of the story. Gunnar’s journey. The story of freeing his brother. There might be a hoard including a magical axe.
Scene 19 - Nick Writes a Newspaper Article
Nick writes a counter story that steers the record away from the topics they don’t want revealed (treasures found and dead bodies), and deflects with a cover story of a tryst between The Captain and The Countess.
A good article that earns the enmity of Captain Spencer’s father. The Captain gets a stern talking to by letter from his father.
In unrelated news, the body of the Egyptian girl has gone missing from authorities who are perplexed.
Scene 20 - The R100 to Rekjavik
The party decide to travel to Iceland and get in contact with an Icelandic Norse expert Professor Eiríkur Elgsson.
They travel by R100 Imperial Airship Scheme to Rekjavik. A British airship being trialled by the British army. It takes 20-30 hours to travel there.
While on the airship, Nick invents the graphical novel, “The Treasure Hunters” which may get published in the Daily Mail.
The Countess has a nice chat with Major Dominic Ashford, an army major evaluating the airship, but there are indications he is attached to SIS. She gives away that in the war, her servants were killed in the fields and she found the bodies. She might hate remnants of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
The Professor draws reconstruction of Lyonesse, with peat rooves and a bit saucy.
Scene 21 - Hot Tub Viking Action
Wed 28 May 1930
The party check into the surprising modern art deco hotel and make contact with the Icelandic Professor. He has gone to the Myvatn geothermal pools to write a paper, a few hours ride from Reykjavik.
Once there The Professor gets into the pool with him and talks about Gunnar.
Scene 11 - So It Was Mr. Dubois
Tue 20 May 1930
Spencer investigates “The Midland Grande Hotel #52” clue by heading the hotel in London. He discusses the matter with the hotel front desk, by posing as someone who was looking for lost papers a friend had left while staying in room 52. The clerk looked in lost property and could not find anything. While he was doing this, Captain Montgomery looks at the hand-written guest list and discovers that Pierre Dubois is staying in room 52, he checked in 3 weeks ago and has not checked out. He left his address as “Villa Belle Époque, Promenade des Fleurs, Nice, France”.
Spencer gives false name and address and settles in at the hotel to see what he can see.
Scene 12 - A Debt Must Be Repaid
The Countess has an awkward telegram asking for a meeting with one of her bankers. He is nervous asking her about progress towards paying off her debts. He is embarrassed to say that his bank cannot lend her any more money, citing the shareholders.
She leans on him, citing all the important people she has met who want to use his bank, and a new expedition which is sure to bring in money.
Progress Clock “The Countess’s Debts Are Called” is at 5/8.
Scene 13 - Winston Churchill, I Presume
Graham wants to talk about the massacre of his parents and the general state of affairs of South Africa. He makes enquirers with his former military colleagues and they arrange a meeting with an MP for Epping, A Mr. Winston Churchill.
It is clear from the outset he wants more British involvement in SA not less. Graham sees a need for the natives to be protected although he is not clear what that might look like.
Mr Churchill asks him to testify in front of the select committee.
Scene 14 - Read All About It
Nick meets up with an old friend George Ward Price (a famous writer for The Daily Mail newspaper). He asks Nick if he has seen the story in the “The Cornwall Standard” by James Buckingham (who lives in Truro). He says not. The story is a jazzed up version of events, casting the party in a poor light, highlighting a romance between Spencer and the Countess. As well as the shocking death of an Egyptian.
George is planning on publishing the story in the daily mail. Nick asks him to wait so he can provide him with a true account.
Scene 15 - Did You Burn the Body!?
Costel and Nick find themselves consulting the same person about the Ring of Ammit quite by accident. Costel is not impressed. Henry Reginald Holland Hall, Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum.
Costel shows him the ring. He knows nothing, but can take him to Karim, an Egyptian curator in the archives.
The amulet is more Assyrian. But all the talk of ruining photos and the like is voodoo rubbish. Costel and Dr. Hall are unimpressed by Nick’s insistence there is something spiritual about it.
Dr Hall shows Costel and Nick to Karim in the archives. As soon as he sees the ring he recoils in fear and tells them to take it away. It is cursed. Did they burn the body? All he knows is the ring points to a group called the Scales of Ma’at. That is all he knows. If they want to know more go to the “The Bazaar of Wonders, 12 Al-Muizz Street, Khan El-Khalili, Cairo, Egypt"!
Scene 16 - Spencer Shows His Quality
3 guys accost Spencer in the hotel and take him outside. A fight ensues and he sees them off (spent 2 Fortune) with a black eye to show for it.
He questions the leader before running him off. What is Dubois’s business? Smuggler import business. Tell Dubois to piss off and get out of their business.
Scene 17 - Everyone Gathers
The entire party meets. They talk about the ruined photos (by the amulet), news articles about them and the fight with Mr Dubois.
Scene 18 - My Big Fat Greek Thai Wedding
The Professor has a friend, Dmitris Dmitrou, a blond Greek with Viking past in his blood. He is an expert on the Vikings. He made his money in shipping and owns a restaurant in the docks. Been a while since they met (pre-WWI) but kept in touch.
They meet up at his restaurant and are followed by men from Dubois.
Turns out Dmitris has recently married a Thai lady!
The chat reveals some of the story. Gunnar’s journey. The story of freeing his brother. There might be a hoard including a magical axe.
Scene 19 - Nick Writes a Newspaper Article
Nick writes a counter story that steers the record away from the topics they don’t want revealed (treasures found and dead bodies), and deflects with a cover story of a tryst between The Captain and The Countess.
A good article that earns the enmity of Captain Spencer’s father. The Captain gets a stern talking to by letter from his father.
In unrelated news, the body of the Egyptian girl has gone missing from authorities who are perplexed.
Scene 20 - The R100 to Rekjavik
The party decide to travel to Iceland and get in contact with an Icelandic Norse expert Professor Eiríkur Elgsson.
They travel by R100 Imperial Airship Scheme to Rekjavik. A British airship being trialled by the British army. It takes 20-30 hours to travel there.
While on the airship, Nick invents the graphical novel, “The Treasure Hunters” which may get published in the Daily Mail.
The Countess has a nice chat with Major Dominic Ashford, an army major evaluating the airship, but there are indications he is attached to SIS. She gives away that in the war, her servants were killed in the fields and she found the bodies. She might hate remnants of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
The Professor draws reconstruction of Lyonesse, with peat rooves and a bit saucy.
Scene 21 - Hot Tub Viking Action
Wed 28 May 1930
The party check into the surprising modern art deco hotel and make contact with the Icelandic Professor. He has gone to the Myvatn geothermal pools to write a paper, a few hours ride from Reykjavik.
Once there The Professor gets into the pool with him and talks about Gunnar.
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Session 4 - Sons of Rurik
[Sat 14 Jun 2025. Sarah and Ross are absent.]
Scene 22 - Hot Tub Viking Action Part II
Wed 28 May 1930
The Professor is in the hot lake with Professor Elgsson discussing the final details of the journey ahead. Elgsson offers The Professor Brennivín (Black Death) to lighten the mood. Elgsson warns the group that the journey to the glacier and cave will be hard. Others have tried and not returned in the past.
As they are speaking, a local journalist turns up, maybe doing a piece on the expedition. Lars Jónsson works for the Þjóðólfur (a national interest and cultural heritage newspaper). Nothing comes of it, yet.
Everyone realises they will need a guide, and Professor Elgsson recommends his only son Einar. The group decides to book travel on a supply ship around the southern tip of Iceland and complete the remainder of the journey on foot with Iceland ponies as pack animals.
Scene 23 - A Boat Ride
They book passage on a medium sized supply ship, The Narwhal, striped black and white, coal fired and with a crew of 20. On the ship, Nick notices one of the crew seems to be acting suspiciously.
The Professor offers course on his anti-diluvian theories to pass the time on the voyage, but the uptake is limited.
Scene 24 - Viking Berserker Attack!
In the middle of the night, Graham is taking in the midnight air and The Professor is smoking a cheroot. A mist descends on the ship. From the mist emerges a fearsome dragon’s head! The silence is broken by fearsome battle cries of Viking berserkers, who leap over the railings and attack with swords and axes. They are dressed in chainmail armour, wolfskin cloaks and have blue froth around their lips. Graham and The Professor are immediately beset.
Graham wrestles with several and manages to throw two overboard. Burdened by their heavy chainmail they quickly sink to the bottom of the sea. He disarms another and takes a wound to the scalp which bleeds profusely.
The Professor, startled, takes a bow hook and knocks one to ground. He gets tangled in some coiled rope and takes a bad knock to his knee.
Spencer arrives on the scene and after initial surprise proceeds to deliver several punches an attacker. He takes a blow to the hip and his pocket watch!
Nick follows from deep within the ship to help, taking an embarrassing photo of a startled Spencer, and distracts a Viking by throwing something at him, and took a light wound in the process.
The fight is short and brutal with several Vikings thrown overboard and a couple knocked unconscious. They gather information, discovering that the longship is a fishing boat with a carved wooden head bolted to the front, and that the Viking dress is hand-made or store bought. The Professor quickly concludes this is a cult of personality, potentially based around Gunnar.
They decide to hand over the captives to the ship captain so he can turn them over to the police when they next land in Reykjavik.
Scene 25 - A Scenic Walk
Fri 30 May 1930
The group land in a secluded bay and disembark with supplies and Icelandic ponies for pack horses. As they travel across the sparse landscape, they are beset by millions of blood thirsty midges. Their journey is halted by a fast flowing glacier melt river, with small chunks of ice floating by. They decide to attempt a crossing at a small waterfall where rocks have built up on the lip.
Spencer and Nick cross first. Spencer slips and falls into the waterfall flow, but is held firm by a rope attacked to Nick. In the process he suffers a dislocated shoulder. With some effort Nick gradually pulls him up and out of harm’s way.
The group sets camp to warm up and reset Nick’s shoulder. They set out the next day travelling across the glacier to the cave.
Scene 26 - Into Hell
Sat 31 May 1930
The group arrives at the entrance to Kverkfjöll cave. Warm steam and egg smell come from the entrance. They enter a round cave with water in a di in the middle. The group picket the horses inside and set camp.
Sun 1 June 1930
They break out canaries, proceed into the cold water, laying rope as they go. Nick is startled by a body in the ice. A viking entombed in the ice. There are signs that people have been here maybe a month ago. Spencer triggers a trip wire.
Scene 22 - Hot Tub Viking Action Part II
Wed 28 May 1930
The Professor is in the hot lake with Professor Elgsson discussing the final details of the journey ahead. Elgsson offers The Professor Brennivín (Black Death) to lighten the mood. Elgsson warns the group that the journey to the glacier and cave will be hard. Others have tried and not returned in the past.
As they are speaking, a local journalist turns up, maybe doing a piece on the expedition. Lars Jónsson works for the Þjóðólfur (a national interest and cultural heritage newspaper). Nothing comes of it, yet.
Everyone realises they will need a guide, and Professor Elgsson recommends his only son Einar. The group decides to book travel on a supply ship around the southern tip of Iceland and complete the remainder of the journey on foot with Iceland ponies as pack animals.
Scene 23 - A Boat Ride
They book passage on a medium sized supply ship, The Narwhal, striped black and white, coal fired and with a crew of 20. On the ship, Nick notices one of the crew seems to be acting suspiciously.
The Professor offers course on his anti-diluvian theories to pass the time on the voyage, but the uptake is limited.
Scene 24 - Viking Berserker Attack!
In the middle of the night, Graham is taking in the midnight air and The Professor is smoking a cheroot. A mist descends on the ship. From the mist emerges a fearsome dragon’s head! The silence is broken by fearsome battle cries of Viking berserkers, who leap over the railings and attack with swords and axes. They are dressed in chainmail armour, wolfskin cloaks and have blue froth around their lips. Graham and The Professor are immediately beset.
Graham wrestles with several and manages to throw two overboard. Burdened by their heavy chainmail they quickly sink to the bottom of the sea. He disarms another and takes a wound to the scalp which bleeds profusely.
The Professor, startled, takes a bow hook and knocks one to ground. He gets tangled in some coiled rope and takes a bad knock to his knee.
Spencer arrives on the scene and after initial surprise proceeds to deliver several punches an attacker. He takes a blow to the hip and his pocket watch!
Nick follows from deep within the ship to help, taking an embarrassing photo of a startled Spencer, and distracts a Viking by throwing something at him, and took a light wound in the process.
The fight is short and brutal with several Vikings thrown overboard and a couple knocked unconscious. They gather information, discovering that the longship is a fishing boat with a carved wooden head bolted to the front, and that the Viking dress is hand-made or store bought. The Professor quickly concludes this is a cult of personality, potentially based around Gunnar.
They decide to hand over the captives to the ship captain so he can turn them over to the police when they next land in Reykjavik.
Scene 25 - A Scenic Walk
Fri 30 May 1930
The group land in a secluded bay and disembark with supplies and Icelandic ponies for pack horses. As they travel across the sparse landscape, they are beset by millions of blood thirsty midges. Their journey is halted by a fast flowing glacier melt river, with small chunks of ice floating by. They decide to attempt a crossing at a small waterfall where rocks have built up on the lip.
Spencer and Nick cross first. Spencer slips and falls into the waterfall flow, but is held firm by a rope attacked to Nick. In the process he suffers a dislocated shoulder. With some effort Nick gradually pulls him up and out of harm’s way.
The group sets camp to warm up and reset Nick’s shoulder. They set out the next day travelling across the glacier to the cave.
Scene 26 - Into Hell
Sat 31 May 1930
The group arrives at the entrance to Kverkfjöll cave. Warm steam and egg smell come from the entrance. They enter a round cave with water in a di in the middle. The group picket the horses inside and set camp.
Sun 1 June 1930
They break out canaries, proceed into the cold water, laying rope as they go. Nick is startled by a body in the ice. A viking entombed in the ice. There are signs that people have been here maybe a month ago. Spencer triggers a trip wire.
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Bigby
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Session 5 - The Road to Hel
[Sat 30 Aug 2025]
Scene 27 - Costel and the Countess Depart
(Flashback to Fri 30 May 1930)
Costel and the Countess have returned from their secondment away from the group. There are signs of fighting and tension in their faces. They board a Fokker F plane with skiis attached. Lars Jónsson, the journalist at the hot springs, asks if he can join them. The Countess politely refuses and promises an interview on her return.
Scene 28 - The Bomb and The Ambush
Costel and The Countess enter the ice cave and greet Einar who is singing and whittling a bowl from wood while he tends the camp and Icelandic ponies. Suddenly he looks up in surprise and fear.
Spencer examines the booby trap to see if he can defuse it. The Professor, somewhat unhelpfully, comments that the dynamite is not contemporary. Graham tackles everyone to the ground to rescue Spencer from bomb. However, he is roped to Nick, and is strong enough to pull him into the blast!
Three crewmen desperately rush Costel. They are armed with crude melee weapons. Costel puts his pistol away, seeing they are being pushed to attack even though not competent. He punches the first. Throws the second against the wall and unintentionally breaks back. The third reaches for his pistol and they wrestle for it. In the process Costel takes glancing blow to the shoulder.
The Countess calmly sets up her rifle and shoots third man in knee, grazing Costel in the process.
The explosion goes off, but everyone escapes harm. As Costel is tying up the captives, they hear the explosion in the distance, and decide to leave the prisoners to Einar and rejoin the group.
Scene 29 - Crossing a River of Lava
The group is confronted by a wide river of lava cutting a channel through the glacier. As chunks of ice fall into the lava causing super-hot steam to boil off the lava.
They decide to send Nick up with dynamite to blow the ceiling to cool the lava long enough for them to cross over. Nick climbs, wedges the dynamite into a ledge, lights it and climbs back down.
Misfortune strikes (Neil throws a Fortune point to Jill) and he falls! Swings down on his safety rope and Costel braces to take the weight. He cannot hold the rope and Nick goes deeper over the lava. The heat from the lava causes his lighter to explode and his trousers to catch fire.
Then the dynamite goes off, a chunk of ice hits the lava and cools it in an explosion of steam. In the distance, there are rumblings signalling the volcano may be becoming active.
Scene 30 - Becoming Gunnar
The group travels down the tunnel. It opens to a small cavern with a stone gateway built over the tunnel mouth and a broken runestone to the right, with its top left corner broken off.
Spencer takes a rubbing of the runestone, and as he touches it, has a vision. He is a viking, standing on a ship with dead bodies lined up in front of him. He is covered in sweat, smoke and blood. He has a sword in his hand and a priest kneels in front of him, calmly praying.
A viking to one side sounds at Spencer to kill the man so they can get on with the looting and raping. Spencer is confused. He decides to spare his life and turn him into a bondsman.
The vision ends and Spender has picked up a new key of picks up key of Divine Mercy.
The volcano’s actively picks up a notch and small tremors rumble the tunnel. This causes a crack in the gateway, giving the group access to the chamber beyond.
Scene 31 - Meeting Gunnar
The party enters a large cave. There is a small viking house and pagan altar to the right. A figure kneels unmoving at the altar. There are bodies on the ground to the left. There is an exit at the end of the cave.
As they approach the kneeling man, he slowly rises. It is Gunnar in the flesh! He is angry at being disturbed, he speaks Norse then Latin. After some conversation they establish that he wants, above all else, to free his brother, but he cannot leave this place. The map to his brother’s island prison is in the house. He wants to die with a sword in his hand so and join him in Valhalla.
Costel speaks Koine Greek and quotes scripture. Which seems to anger Gunnar even more. He tells the group to that he disregarded the priest and his god.
Gunnar tosses Costel a sword and hefts the axe Isseldr himself. An epic fight ensues.
Graham and Nick head to exit. As they do the bodies to the left rise. They are viking revenants, called Draugr. Graham puts 3 shots into the Draugr to no effect.
Professor hobbles into house, grabs the map and emerges to see the Draugr turn towards him.
Scene 27 - Costel and the Countess Depart
(Flashback to Fri 30 May 1930)
Costel and the Countess have returned from their secondment away from the group. There are signs of fighting and tension in their faces. They board a Fokker F plane with skiis attached. Lars Jónsson, the journalist at the hot springs, asks if he can join them. The Countess politely refuses and promises an interview on her return.
Scene 28 - The Bomb and The Ambush
Costel and The Countess enter the ice cave and greet Einar who is singing and whittling a bowl from wood while he tends the camp and Icelandic ponies. Suddenly he looks up in surprise and fear.
Spencer examines the booby trap to see if he can defuse it. The Professor, somewhat unhelpfully, comments that the dynamite is not contemporary. Graham tackles everyone to the ground to rescue Spencer from bomb. However, he is roped to Nick, and is strong enough to pull him into the blast!
Three crewmen desperately rush Costel. They are armed with crude melee weapons. Costel puts his pistol away, seeing they are being pushed to attack even though not competent. He punches the first. Throws the second against the wall and unintentionally breaks back. The third reaches for his pistol and they wrestle for it. In the process Costel takes glancing blow to the shoulder.
The Countess calmly sets up her rifle and shoots third man in knee, grazing Costel in the process.
The explosion goes off, but everyone escapes harm. As Costel is tying up the captives, they hear the explosion in the distance, and decide to leave the prisoners to Einar and rejoin the group.
Scene 29 - Crossing a River of Lava
The group is confronted by a wide river of lava cutting a channel through the glacier. As chunks of ice fall into the lava causing super-hot steam to boil off the lava.
They decide to send Nick up with dynamite to blow the ceiling to cool the lava long enough for them to cross over. Nick climbs, wedges the dynamite into a ledge, lights it and climbs back down.
Misfortune strikes (Neil throws a Fortune point to Jill) and he falls! Swings down on his safety rope and Costel braces to take the weight. He cannot hold the rope and Nick goes deeper over the lava. The heat from the lava causes his lighter to explode and his trousers to catch fire.
Then the dynamite goes off, a chunk of ice hits the lava and cools it in an explosion of steam. In the distance, there are rumblings signalling the volcano may be becoming active.
Scene 30 - Becoming Gunnar
The group travels down the tunnel. It opens to a small cavern with a stone gateway built over the tunnel mouth and a broken runestone to the right, with its top left corner broken off.
Spencer takes a rubbing of the runestone, and as he touches it, has a vision. He is a viking, standing on a ship with dead bodies lined up in front of him. He is covered in sweat, smoke and blood. He has a sword in his hand and a priest kneels in front of him, calmly praying.
A viking to one side sounds at Spencer to kill the man so they can get on with the looting and raping. Spencer is confused. He decides to spare his life and turn him into a bondsman.
The vision ends and Spender has picked up a new key of picks up key of Divine Mercy.
The volcano’s actively picks up a notch and small tremors rumble the tunnel. This causes a crack in the gateway, giving the group access to the chamber beyond.
Scene 31 - Meeting Gunnar
The party enters a large cave. There is a small viking house and pagan altar to the right. A figure kneels unmoving at the altar. There are bodies on the ground to the left. There is an exit at the end of the cave.
As they approach the kneeling man, he slowly rises. It is Gunnar in the flesh! He is angry at being disturbed, he speaks Norse then Latin. After some conversation they establish that he wants, above all else, to free his brother, but he cannot leave this place. The map to his brother’s island prison is in the house. He wants to die with a sword in his hand so and join him in Valhalla.
Costel speaks Koine Greek and quotes scripture. Which seems to anger Gunnar even more. He tells the group to that he disregarded the priest and his god.
Gunnar tosses Costel a sword and hefts the axe Isseldr himself. An epic fight ensues.
Graham and Nick head to exit. As they do the bodies to the left rise. They are viking revenants, called Draugr. Graham puts 3 shots into the Draugr to no effect.
Professor hobbles into house, grabs the map and emerges to see the Draugr turn towards him.
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Session 6A - Escape from Hel
[Sat 20 Sep 2025]
Scene 32 - We Are Leaving!
Spencer shoots the Draugr to no effect. He is horrified by the undead and backs away.
The Countess shoots the ceiling and buries a Draugr in rubble. She hears gold spilling onto the floor in the house behind her. She dives in to grab it taking a severe wound [5].
Nick checks for an exit and the Volcano goes off. This creates an ideal exit. No amount of nicotine can calm his nerves!
Costel finishes off Gunnar and kills a Dragur with the axe. He gives Gunnar the sword so that he goes to Valhalla and wishes him well. Axe cuts through metal and not much else.
Graham sets 2 Draugr on fire! He is also horrified.
[Neil spends a fortune to say that] the gateway falls and a spirit wind flows through the caern. The remaining Draugr falls. The volcano erupts and the cavern begins to fall.
Scene 33 - Fleeing to Safety
The countess is knocked unconscious by falling rocks.
The Captain rushes back to help the Countess and her gold. But she is struck by a rock and he changes this to carry her out and leaves the gold behind.
Nick prepares an escape route through the crack in the wall.
Costel sinks the axe into the chest and then picks up the chest of gold. [GM’s Note -- Yet another awesome roll means he exits with no wounds!]
The group flees through the crack in the wall, rocks tumbling around them. There is a split in the ceiling, leading through the ice. A difficult climb with ice tumbling and the volcano going off. But Nick and the Captain guide the group out onto the ice.
Scene 34 - Journey Home
A cutscene shows Mr Dubois looking at the volcano with German engineers. The German airship flees the area.
The crew arrive at the coast where they have agreed to be picked up by the Icelandic trailer. The group returns to Rejavik with the axe. They have this over to Professor Elgsson. His son returns safely with the ponies. Professor Withers spends some time researching the axe with professor Elgsson.
The group returns to England and have different thoughts on their adventures.
The Professor drinks a lot of coffee and muses “we don’t have the science to explain this”. So he modifies his antediluvian theory to include this!
Graham has been told the stories by the native African tribes. They are not just stories, some of it is true and useful. What does this mean about his faith? He is missing the wilderness.
Spencer is outwardly, a natural born Englishmen, inwardly churning it over and denial. There will be elements of PTSD and flashbacks.
Countess talks it over with Costel in Moldovan. Going back to the faith of her childhood.
Costel seems certain with a quiet stillness. This has answered questions rather than opened them up! Sets up an area of faith.
Nick is introspective and questioning himself. He is having a crisis of confidence. He is supposed to be a journalist and detached.
Scene 32 - We Are Leaving!
Spencer shoots the Draugr to no effect. He is horrified by the undead and backs away.
The Countess shoots the ceiling and buries a Draugr in rubble. She hears gold spilling onto the floor in the house behind her. She dives in to grab it taking a severe wound [5].
Nick checks for an exit and the Volcano goes off. This creates an ideal exit. No amount of nicotine can calm his nerves!
Costel finishes off Gunnar and kills a Dragur with the axe. He gives Gunnar the sword so that he goes to Valhalla and wishes him well. Axe cuts through metal and not much else.
Graham sets 2 Draugr on fire! He is also horrified.
[Neil spends a fortune to say that] the gateway falls and a spirit wind flows through the caern. The remaining Draugr falls. The volcano erupts and the cavern begins to fall.
Scene 33 - Fleeing to Safety
The countess is knocked unconscious by falling rocks.
The Captain rushes back to help the Countess and her gold. But she is struck by a rock and he changes this to carry her out and leaves the gold behind.
Nick prepares an escape route through the crack in the wall.
Costel sinks the axe into the chest and then picks up the chest of gold. [GM’s Note -- Yet another awesome roll means he exits with no wounds!]
The group flees through the crack in the wall, rocks tumbling around them. There is a split in the ceiling, leading through the ice. A difficult climb with ice tumbling and the volcano going off. But Nick and the Captain guide the group out onto the ice.
Scene 34 - Journey Home
A cutscene shows Mr Dubois looking at the volcano with German engineers. The German airship flees the area.
The crew arrive at the coast where they have agreed to be picked up by the Icelandic trailer. The group returns to Rejavik with the axe. They have this over to Professor Elgsson. His son returns safely with the ponies. Professor Withers spends some time researching the axe with professor Elgsson.
The group returns to England and have different thoughts on their adventures.
The Professor drinks a lot of coffee and muses “we don’t have the science to explain this”. So he modifies his antediluvian theory to include this!
Graham has been told the stories by the native African tribes. They are not just stories, some of it is true and useful. What does this mean about his faith? He is missing the wilderness.
Spencer is outwardly, a natural born Englishmen, inwardly churning it over and denial. There will be elements of PTSD and flashbacks.
Countess talks it over with Costel in Moldovan. Going back to the faith of her childhood.
Costel seems certain with a quiet stillness. This has answered questions rather than opened them up! Sets up an area of faith.
Nick is introspective and questioning himself. He is having a crisis of confidence. He is supposed to be a journalist and detached.
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Session 6B - Summer in Brighton
[Bruce playing “Dutch”]
Scene 35 - London to Brighton on Campagne
Asaleigh Doorman, an American journalist (specialising in comics and occasional forgeries), produced a story about Graham in Time magazine. This is how Dutch discovered the group and started to hero worship Graham.
Nick gets a call from an old buddy in Brighton, Gabby Dega (American, male, speaks Polish). Seems high on the call. He says, “they are going to blow up Johnson”.
It is “factory fortnight” in the last two weeks of July. We join the London to Brighton car rally. At this time Brighton is run by criminals. It has slums. We have champagne and bacon sandwiches on the way.
Scene 36 - Discovering Gabby
We make our way up to Gabby’s room. There is the small of acetone. Graham leans on door and we force ourselves in. Graham opens window to remove the smell of acetone. We search the room and find Gabby’s body in the wardrobe. He was tortured. The acetone was used to cover up the smell of the body. Graham asks Dutch to get policemen. So he throws a tin mug at Bobby through the open window. Which works. Maybe a little too well!
Meanwhile in the hotel lobby, the Countess is beset by suitors in the lobby of the hotel. In particular Nathan Betham-Boyd, owner of Drake motor company!
And Costel notices that the concierge immediately makes a phone call as soon as we leave to go upstairs to Gabby’s room.
Scene 37 - Finding Clues
Graham, Nick, Spencer and Dutch explore Gabby’s room and find a comic of the Earl of Kinbane. He is a big hitter, with stakes in De Beers (diamonds), San Paolo Train Company and the White Star Liner group.
We discover there was a fight on rug.
We also find a brochure for Empress of Britain (owned by Canadian Pacific). This new ship is trialling an experimental “Johnson” boiler (oil engine). This is circled. Canadian Pacific has recently taken 50% of transatlantic mail run from White Star and with the Express threatens taking a large portion of luxury trans-Atlantic travel as well.
Finally, there is an invitation to play cricket at Stanton club. In past week. Which would be odd for an American.
Scene 38 - The Police Seem Uninterested
The policeman, that Dutch hit, enters the hotel. Costel lurks in case he is needed. Dutch shouts encouragement “too slow rozzer”. Costel indicates he should leave them alone. Policeman does not seem interested in taking notes. Costel’s assertions this was gang related means he is not taking notes or interest.
Scene 39 - The Concierge
Costel returns downstairs and takes concierge into back room. He politely asks about the call he made after Nick left to go upstairs. Did as Uncle Bob asked. Phone when someone shows up. Send the cleaner.
We all reconvene outside to discuss. There is the roar of engines from all of the cars arriving from the rally. So we make our way to the Grand to catch up.
Gabby was known, as an artist, by Nick, to forge documents on occasion. Could only be dead because concierge was listening to calls and heard him tell Nick that they were going to blow up Johnson?
Scene 40 - Detective Dutch
Dutch goes looking up information about Uncle Bob from the underworld of Brighton.
“Uncle” Bob Corusso is an underworld boss. He runs the only gang in town and in the whole of the south. Brighton gangs are known for straight razor attacks. Dutch is roughed up Spivs at the pier for poking his nose where it was not wanted. He dodges the attacks by using chips and seagulls as a decoy.
He found out three pieces of information.
1. Uncle Bob has a private carriage on Southern Rail. We have his schedule.
2. He runs his business out of Brighton racetrack.
3. In London he is known for hiring Sicilians to whack people. Guns, bombs and knifings. If you wanted to blow someone up…
Scene 35 - London to Brighton on Campagne
Asaleigh Doorman, an American journalist (specialising in comics and occasional forgeries), produced a story about Graham in Time magazine. This is how Dutch discovered the group and started to hero worship Graham.
Nick gets a call from an old buddy in Brighton, Gabby Dega (American, male, speaks Polish). Seems high on the call. He says, “they are going to blow up Johnson”.
It is “factory fortnight” in the last two weeks of July. We join the London to Brighton car rally. At this time Brighton is run by criminals. It has slums. We have champagne and bacon sandwiches on the way.
Scene 36 - Discovering Gabby
We make our way up to Gabby’s room. There is the small of acetone. Graham leans on door and we force ourselves in. Graham opens window to remove the smell of acetone. We search the room and find Gabby’s body in the wardrobe. He was tortured. The acetone was used to cover up the smell of the body. Graham asks Dutch to get policemen. So he throws a tin mug at Bobby through the open window. Which works. Maybe a little too well!
Meanwhile in the hotel lobby, the Countess is beset by suitors in the lobby of the hotel. In particular Nathan Betham-Boyd, owner of Drake motor company!
And Costel notices that the concierge immediately makes a phone call as soon as we leave to go upstairs to Gabby’s room.
Scene 37 - Finding Clues
Graham, Nick, Spencer and Dutch explore Gabby’s room and find a comic of the Earl of Kinbane. He is a big hitter, with stakes in De Beers (diamonds), San Paolo Train Company and the White Star Liner group.
We discover there was a fight on rug.
We also find a brochure for Empress of Britain (owned by Canadian Pacific). This new ship is trialling an experimental “Johnson” boiler (oil engine). This is circled. Canadian Pacific has recently taken 50% of transatlantic mail run from White Star and with the Express threatens taking a large portion of luxury trans-Atlantic travel as well.
Finally, there is an invitation to play cricket at Stanton club. In past week. Which would be odd for an American.
Scene 38 - The Police Seem Uninterested
The policeman, that Dutch hit, enters the hotel. Costel lurks in case he is needed. Dutch shouts encouragement “too slow rozzer”. Costel indicates he should leave them alone. Policeman does not seem interested in taking notes. Costel’s assertions this was gang related means he is not taking notes or interest.
Scene 39 - The Concierge
Costel returns downstairs and takes concierge into back room. He politely asks about the call he made after Nick left to go upstairs. Did as Uncle Bob asked. Phone when someone shows up. Send the cleaner.
We all reconvene outside to discuss. There is the roar of engines from all of the cars arriving from the rally. So we make our way to the Grand to catch up.
Gabby was known, as an artist, by Nick, to forge documents on occasion. Could only be dead because concierge was listening to calls and heard him tell Nick that they were going to blow up Johnson?
Scene 40 - Detective Dutch
Dutch goes looking up information about Uncle Bob from the underworld of Brighton.
“Uncle” Bob Corusso is an underworld boss. He runs the only gang in town and in the whole of the south. Brighton gangs are known for straight razor attacks. Dutch is roughed up Spivs at the pier for poking his nose where it was not wanted. He dodges the attacks by using chips and seagulls as a decoy.
He found out three pieces of information.
1. Uncle Bob has a private carriage on Southern Rail. We have his schedule.
2. He runs his business out of Brighton racetrack.
3. In London he is known for hiring Sicilians to whack people. Guns, bombs and knifings. If you wanted to blow someone up…
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Session 7 - Trains, Ships and Automobiles!
[21 Feb 2026, Neil running]
Scene 41 - Pothole Slalom
Dutch gets replacement chips. This is important.
The group discusses the plans at breakfast the next day. The Emperess of Brighton is sailing from Southampton. We decide to drive (Vauxhall 7-38 Wensum), rather than take the train. The roads are awful.
The Captain is driving, recklessly. It is a heatwave. There are potholes everywhere. He hits one, shreds a tyre and we have to replace it.
Nick drifts off and he hears Gabby’s voice. A hot night in New York, about a year ago. Watching the Harlem Globetrotters. As they leave, they both look at a new comic, Buck Rogers! Some guys insult the black players, Gabby intervenes, fight, cops, running away.
Scene 42 - An Eggsalant Way onto the Ship
We arrive at Southampton. There is an egg truck broken down blocking the way. The captain knows the 1st officer, Colin "The Caterpillar" Conroy Smythe, who is organising the egg delivery line with the crew. We assign ourselves to help and get onto the ship!
Once on-board, during the tour of the indoor swimming pool (1st of its kind), we reveal that there is sabotage! He seems reluctant to believe us. We get a tour to the engineering area.
Everyone does their thing. Nick explores the nooks and crannies. Spencer talks to the 1st officer and crew. Graham looks for the most likely places. Dutch engages with the crew and figures out where it could be.
Nick discovers a man planting a bomb! He spots Nick. He is armed with a silenced Biretta and has a work order tucked into his back pocket.
Scene 43 - The Saboteur is Revealed
Nick grabs a bucket of oil at hurls it at the man. The man draws his gun and shoots Nick. The bullet ricochets and hits him on the neck [“neck wound 2”]. The man is blinded. Nick shouts out a warning.
Captain Spencer throws a wrench at the man to take him out. Colin gets shot in the belly! The man knocks into Spencer and they fall over a console onto a lower floor [“split eyebrow 3”]. Spencer cushions the blow to keep him alive, but takes a worse wound.
Graham leaps to help Colin [but fails his roll], and dies in his arms. He says, “tell my fiancée I love her.”.
Nick disables the bomb and takes it to the captain to determine what he wants to do with it.
Scene 44 - The Clean Up
The work order is signed by the director, Lyle Somarled Gillspie, aka Earl of Kinbane!
We take the captive to the brig. The man is called Pepe Boccone. He is Sicilian (speaks poor English). We question the man, with a priest present. He is reluctant to talk. We threaten him with telling Uncle Bob that he took money to not set the bomb.
He cracks. He was paid by Uncle Bob a significant amount of money and given the explosives. He has a crew. They killed Gabby. Confirms the carriage details about Uncle Bob.
If the bomb fails there will be another “accident”. A smaller ship crashing into the liner. We warn the captain that once we leave, there might be another accident with a ship crashing into this ship. His hands are tied, the ship must go on. The harbour is hugely busy and will not be shutdown. What else can we do?
Bob will have 2 men with him, Angelo and Tubby.
Dutch has 2 sticks of dynamite (he might use one to take revenge on the seagulls). The plan is to decouple Uncle Bob’s carriage so we can deal with him/it without risking the other passengers.
Scene 45 - Assaulting the Train
A cutscene shows Bob in boating shorts thinking. Angelo is a good looking man. Tubby is anything but. Well built. Preparing a cool Pimm’s. Has a shoulder holster and pistol. They sense something is wrong.
Cut-up dynamite is thrown in as concussive charges. Then the windows explode, as Nick and Spencer crash in. The back door is picked and then Graham wades in. Dutch throws in fake dynamite to give them pause [+3].
Graham opens fire at Tubby and he returns fire. Tubby goes down, but Graham is wounded [“shot in the arm 3”].
Spencer shoots Angelo (“pretty boy”) with the purloined Beretta [massive 11 successes!] and blows him away with no ill effects and frightens Bob [3 frighteners].
Nick attacks Bob with a tyre iron (he is an American that does not like guns) and knocks him cold.
The train derails and carves through an embankment into a farmer’s cow field.
[Group picks up a “person’s of interest 2” by the police]
Scene 46 - Justice for Bob
We pay a farmer to take us to a barn with Bob and truss him up. We recovered blueprints for the Johnson boiler and the radio frequency used to contact the Sicilians. We want to know the name of the ship that will crash into the liner and who he is working for.
He comes round. “Who the fuck are you!? You’re dead. You’re all dead.”. We threaten him. He gives in. The boat is called “Bothack”. “You are fucking with ‘The House’”. What does he mean by “The House”? The establishment, a secret society or something else?
“You knock on the Earl of Kinbane’s door and see what happens”. He then clams up, realising that he might be in more trouble as he failed to deliver on his job.
We phone in to the captain via a red phone booth and warn him about the ship.
We muse over what this all means. Graham suggests that he needs to be killed. He is too dangerous (a predator) to be left alive to hunt us down.
Scene 47 - Story Wrap
The Empress steams safely and the fishing boat Bothack is boarded by longboats. The two Sicilians are arrested on-board with fishing crew tied up. They would have died if the ship had successful been driven into the Empress.
The group finds a pub and toasts Gabby and Colin.
We all go to the funeral. Graham takes his pins and puts together a eulogy for his fiancée with the help of Spencer. Spencer ensures she receives a pension from White Star. Spencer turns up in full dress uniform. Nick ensures he features in the comic strip.
Scene 41 - Pothole Slalom
Dutch gets replacement chips. This is important.
The group discusses the plans at breakfast the next day. The Emperess of Brighton is sailing from Southampton. We decide to drive (Vauxhall 7-38 Wensum), rather than take the train. The roads are awful.
The Captain is driving, recklessly. It is a heatwave. There are potholes everywhere. He hits one, shreds a tyre and we have to replace it.
Nick drifts off and he hears Gabby’s voice. A hot night in New York, about a year ago. Watching the Harlem Globetrotters. As they leave, they both look at a new comic, Buck Rogers! Some guys insult the black players, Gabby intervenes, fight, cops, running away.
Scene 42 - An Eggsalant Way onto the Ship
We arrive at Southampton. There is an egg truck broken down blocking the way. The captain knows the 1st officer, Colin "The Caterpillar" Conroy Smythe, who is organising the egg delivery line with the crew. We assign ourselves to help and get onto the ship!
Once on-board, during the tour of the indoor swimming pool (1st of its kind), we reveal that there is sabotage! He seems reluctant to believe us. We get a tour to the engineering area.
Everyone does their thing. Nick explores the nooks and crannies. Spencer talks to the 1st officer and crew. Graham looks for the most likely places. Dutch engages with the crew and figures out where it could be.
Nick discovers a man planting a bomb! He spots Nick. He is armed with a silenced Biretta and has a work order tucked into his back pocket.
Scene 43 - The Saboteur is Revealed
Nick grabs a bucket of oil at hurls it at the man. The man draws his gun and shoots Nick. The bullet ricochets and hits him on the neck [“neck wound 2”]. The man is blinded. Nick shouts out a warning.
Captain Spencer throws a wrench at the man to take him out. Colin gets shot in the belly! The man knocks into Spencer and they fall over a console onto a lower floor [“split eyebrow 3”]. Spencer cushions the blow to keep him alive, but takes a worse wound.
Graham leaps to help Colin [but fails his roll], and dies in his arms. He says, “tell my fiancée I love her.”.
Nick disables the bomb and takes it to the captain to determine what he wants to do with it.
Scene 44 - The Clean Up
The work order is signed by the director, Lyle Somarled Gillspie, aka Earl of Kinbane!
We take the captive to the brig. The man is called Pepe Boccone. He is Sicilian (speaks poor English). We question the man, with a priest present. He is reluctant to talk. We threaten him with telling Uncle Bob that he took money to not set the bomb.
He cracks. He was paid by Uncle Bob a significant amount of money and given the explosives. He has a crew. They killed Gabby. Confirms the carriage details about Uncle Bob.
If the bomb fails there will be another “accident”. A smaller ship crashing into the liner. We warn the captain that once we leave, there might be another accident with a ship crashing into this ship. His hands are tied, the ship must go on. The harbour is hugely busy and will not be shutdown. What else can we do?
Bob will have 2 men with him, Angelo and Tubby.
Dutch has 2 sticks of dynamite (he might use one to take revenge on the seagulls). The plan is to decouple Uncle Bob’s carriage so we can deal with him/it without risking the other passengers.
Scene 45 - Assaulting the Train
A cutscene shows Bob in boating shorts thinking. Angelo is a good looking man. Tubby is anything but. Well built. Preparing a cool Pimm’s. Has a shoulder holster and pistol. They sense something is wrong.
Cut-up dynamite is thrown in as concussive charges. Then the windows explode, as Nick and Spencer crash in. The back door is picked and then Graham wades in. Dutch throws in fake dynamite to give them pause [+3].
Graham opens fire at Tubby and he returns fire. Tubby goes down, but Graham is wounded [“shot in the arm 3”].
Spencer shoots Angelo (“pretty boy”) with the purloined Beretta [massive 11 successes!] and blows him away with no ill effects and frightens Bob [3 frighteners].
Nick attacks Bob with a tyre iron (he is an American that does not like guns) and knocks him cold.
The train derails and carves through an embankment into a farmer’s cow field.
[Group picks up a “person’s of interest 2” by the police]
Scene 46 - Justice for Bob
We pay a farmer to take us to a barn with Bob and truss him up. We recovered blueprints for the Johnson boiler and the radio frequency used to contact the Sicilians. We want to know the name of the ship that will crash into the liner and who he is working for.
He comes round. “Who the fuck are you!? You’re dead. You’re all dead.”. We threaten him. He gives in. The boat is called “Bothack”. “You are fucking with ‘The House’”. What does he mean by “The House”? The establishment, a secret society or something else?
“You knock on the Earl of Kinbane’s door and see what happens”. He then clams up, realising that he might be in more trouble as he failed to deliver on his job.
We phone in to the captain via a red phone booth and warn him about the ship.
We muse over what this all means. Graham suggests that he needs to be killed. He is too dangerous (a predator) to be left alive to hunt us down.
Scene 47 - Story Wrap
The Empress steams safely and the fishing boat Bothack is boarded by longboats. The two Sicilians are arrested on-board with fishing crew tied up. They would have died if the ship had successful been driven into the Empress.
The group finds a pub and toasts Gabby and Colin.
We all go to the funeral. Graham takes his pins and puts together a eulogy for his fiancée with the help of Spencer. Spencer ensures she receives a pension from White Star. Spencer turns up in full dress uniform. Nick ensures he features in the comic strip.
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Session 8 - Champagne Gala
[21 Mar 2026]
Scene 48 - An Opulent Gala
30 Jul 2026
The group has been invited to a private exhibition of the Treasures of Lyonesse, which includes a white tie champagne gala.
Professor Withers brings his wife Connie and a diorama he has created depicting Lyonesse in its full Professor glory.
Spencer has a scandal involving a club and 2 woman which follows him to the gala. But he smoothly ignores it and is glides into the gala with debonaire style befitting his playboy millionaire lifestyle. He is escorting the Countess.
Nick brings his sister Meredith who is in port from the US navy. [GM’s Note -- I should have done more with this!]. He is not quite as smoothly prepared as the others.
Graham plans ahead by getting to know the British Museum staff. He is dressed in a fine suit.
The Countess is dressed at her most gorgeous and ready to take advantage of the stage provided.
Costel brushes up on his humanities and is dressed in his finest suit and white tie. However there is only so much you can do to contain his frame.
Agatha Christie and her husband Max Malowen (an archaeologist) are also in attendance.
Scene 49 - Champagne Reception
The Countess and Kathleen discuss what it is like lead such an independent lifestyle. They agree to meet for dinner to discuss further.
Spencer and Nathan [GM’s Note -- As played by Neil] meet and he presses to understand the relationship between Spencer and the Countess. It’s a tense moment that fizzles out without much resolution.
Graham spots that Monsieur Dubois accepting a letter. He manoeuvres himself into a position to steal the note from his pocket. [GM’s Note -- Did they return the note?] The note reads Dorothy Marsh will see you at 9:30pm at The Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus. She is starring in Journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff.
The Professor and Leonard Woolley meet. They talk, maybe a little light sparring. Woolley recommends his radio series and offers a guest spot, but the professor claims to not have a wireless set. So Wolley kindly says he will gift him one. Woolley also warns his about Herr Wirth and the danger associating with him might be.
Costel scares a young lady as she catches his reflection in the polished glass of a display cabinet. Startled she screams and drops her champagne flute. Costel, maybe without thinking, catches the glass without spilling a drop. He apologises for starling her and provides some erudite insights into the display. She is impressed at his knowledge and they spend the rest of the reception touring the room.
Kathleeen speaks with Nick on all topics of photography. She is more interested in the photography angle than the archaeology (to be honest). She is young, naïve and genuinely interested in what Nick has to say. She does question why there are no photos of Iseult in the tomb, and Nick passes this off as failed photos, for unknown reasons.
Spencer is accosted by his father who mentions that he needs Spencer to help with the family businesses. They should meet later to talk further. They agree he should come to dinner at the family house.
The Professor and Herr Wirth discuss his theories. Herr Wirth is a true fan of his work and would love a chance to discuss more with him.
Scene 50 - Four Course Dinner with Wine
The Professor believes that he is seated with the Director. However it runs out that the Kennedy is his daughter. The Director and Woolley charm wealthy donors at a separate table.
Nathan has managed to wangle seat next to the Countess. They spar across courses. In the end Nathan offers to design an Ana-Maria edition of his car. He has carte-blanche with the colours and materials.
The dinner goes well and many of the patrons are well lubricated by the time dinner ends with coffee and liqueurs.
The Director announced that dinner is over and the lecture will start in a few moments. He ensures that the Professor and Nick are lead off first to get ready.
Monsieur Dubois makes his apologies to the Director and softens the blow with an envelop (presumably containing a generous donation).
The Countess notices a servant bumping into the Director as he is greeting everyone into the lecture hall, palming a key. She follows, and puts Nathan, who is constantly at her side, by saying she must powder her nose. Spencer notices and follows.
Graham and Costel decide to avoid the lecture and follow Dubois to theatre.
Scene 51 - The Main Lecture Event
[GM’s Note -- We now have three separate and simultaneous scenes (A,B,C)]
[A] The Professor starts his lecture strongly and on track, with Nick showing slides of his photos of the excavation. [GM’s Note -- It would have been funnier to have Nick abandon the Professor as well]
Countess follows the servant into the kitchen, and thinking fast on her feet, she states to everyone present that she wants to compliment the chef. Spencer follows and takes advantage of another servant spilling food to get closer to the man with the key.
[C]
Scene 52 - Thing’s Go Downhill
[A] A little way through the lecture the lights dim and flicker, but don’t quite go out. The Professor is not deterred. The professor’s lecture goes downhill as he expands beyond the bronze age treasures to include his theories of a wider trading alliance and advanced civilisation.
The Countess entertains the chefs and serving staff giving Spencer a distraction. He bowls an apple at the servant and knocks him into a door at the back of the kitchen. Spencer drags the body through the door to question him. But 2 men at the end of the corridor see him, draw weapons and shoot him in the arm! [wounded arm 2]
The Countess hearing gunfire, throws over a table with help of the staff and draws a weapon ready to shoot any enemy coming through the door. [GM’s Note -- I should have given the Countess a cover bonus later on for this!]
[C] Monsieur Dubois arrives at the theatre. His chauffeur gets out and opens the door. His bodyguards get out with tailored suits, and one has a ponytail. Monsieur Dubois gets out and enters the theatre through the backdoor. [GM’s Note -- We should have worked harder to get Graham and Costel into the room with Dubois and Molly. I was tired at this point and flagging. This is what Fortune is for.]
Scene 53 - Action is Taken
[A] At the end of the lecture Woolley challenges the professor to provide proof. The Professor stands tall and declares a new expedition to Zimbabwe. Woolley accepts the challenge and agree, even though he has not been invited himself, to co-lead the expedition.
Spencer drags the servant through the door, takes cover behind the table and holds up a saucepan to distract them. As the two men, dressed as serving staff, come barrelling through the door, the Countess opens fire with her Walther PPK. Two shots and they are both dead. But not before they are able to fire off their own weapons. Nathan, tired of waiting for the Countess, follows her into the kitchen. The Countess, Spencer, Nathan are hit, and several pans of oil are sent flying, bursting into flames.
The agent by Spencer’s side begins to waken and starts to struggle so Spencer attempts to choke him. But the Countess is taking no chances and shoots him. As he dies, he gasps “Das Erbe forever”.
The Countess and Spencer clear the kitchens, taking the key from dead body of the Das Erbe agent.
[C] After about 20 mins Monsieur Dubois concludes his business inside the theatre, gets back into the car and leaves. Graham and Costel return.
Scene 54 - Fire Evacuation
When they get outside with the other guests Spencer hands the key back to the Director. He lies, saying the key is not valuable, it opens up the kitchens.
As the party leaves, George Price of The Daily Mail, asks the Professor how he feels about Woolley’s Zimbabwe expedition. The professor hits him and then continues to walk to his waiting car.
Scene 48 - An Opulent Gala
30 Jul 2026
The group has been invited to a private exhibition of the Treasures of Lyonesse, which includes a white tie champagne gala.
Professor Withers brings his wife Connie and a diorama he has created depicting Lyonesse in its full Professor glory.
Spencer has a scandal involving a club and 2 woman which follows him to the gala. But he smoothly ignores it and is glides into the gala with debonaire style befitting his playboy millionaire lifestyle. He is escorting the Countess.
Nick brings his sister Meredith who is in port from the US navy. [GM’s Note -- I should have done more with this!]. He is not quite as smoothly prepared as the others.
Graham plans ahead by getting to know the British Museum staff. He is dressed in a fine suit.
The Countess is dressed at her most gorgeous and ready to take advantage of the stage provided.
Costel brushes up on his humanities and is dressed in his finest suit and white tie. However there is only so much you can do to contain his frame.
Agatha Christie and her husband Max Malowen (an archaeologist) are also in attendance.
Scene 49 - Champagne Reception
The Countess and Kathleen discuss what it is like lead such an independent lifestyle. They agree to meet for dinner to discuss further.
Spencer and Nathan [GM’s Note -- As played by Neil] meet and he presses to understand the relationship between Spencer and the Countess. It’s a tense moment that fizzles out without much resolution.
Graham spots that Monsieur Dubois accepting a letter. He manoeuvres himself into a position to steal the note from his pocket. [GM’s Note -- Did they return the note?] The note reads Dorothy Marsh will see you at 9:30pm at The Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus. She is starring in Journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff.
The Professor and Leonard Woolley meet. They talk, maybe a little light sparring. Woolley recommends his radio series and offers a guest spot, but the professor claims to not have a wireless set. So Wolley kindly says he will gift him one. Woolley also warns his about Herr Wirth and the danger associating with him might be.
Costel scares a young lady as she catches his reflection in the polished glass of a display cabinet. Startled she screams and drops her champagne flute. Costel, maybe without thinking, catches the glass without spilling a drop. He apologises for starling her and provides some erudite insights into the display. She is impressed at his knowledge and they spend the rest of the reception touring the room.
Kathleeen speaks with Nick on all topics of photography. She is more interested in the photography angle than the archaeology (to be honest). She is young, naïve and genuinely interested in what Nick has to say. She does question why there are no photos of Iseult in the tomb, and Nick passes this off as failed photos, for unknown reasons.
Spencer is accosted by his father who mentions that he needs Spencer to help with the family businesses. They should meet later to talk further. They agree he should come to dinner at the family house.
The Professor and Herr Wirth discuss his theories. Herr Wirth is a true fan of his work and would love a chance to discuss more with him.
Scene 50 - Four Course Dinner with Wine
The Professor believes that he is seated with the Director. However it runs out that the Kennedy is his daughter. The Director and Woolley charm wealthy donors at a separate table.
Nathan has managed to wangle seat next to the Countess. They spar across courses. In the end Nathan offers to design an Ana-Maria edition of his car. He has carte-blanche with the colours and materials.
The dinner goes well and many of the patrons are well lubricated by the time dinner ends with coffee and liqueurs.
The Director announced that dinner is over and the lecture will start in a few moments. He ensures that the Professor and Nick are lead off first to get ready.
Monsieur Dubois makes his apologies to the Director and softens the blow with an envelop (presumably containing a generous donation).
The Countess notices a servant bumping into the Director as he is greeting everyone into the lecture hall, palming a key. She follows, and puts Nathan, who is constantly at her side, by saying she must powder her nose. Spencer notices and follows.
Graham and Costel decide to avoid the lecture and follow Dubois to theatre.
Scene 51 - The Main Lecture Event
[GM’s Note -- We now have three separate and simultaneous scenes (A,B,C)]
[A] The Professor starts his lecture strongly and on track, with Nick showing slides of his photos of the excavation. [GM’s Note -- It would have been funnier to have Nick abandon the Professor as well]
Countess follows the servant into the kitchen, and thinking fast on her feet, she states to everyone present that she wants to compliment the chef. Spencer follows and takes advantage of another servant spilling food to get closer to the man with the key.
[C]
Scene 52 - Thing’s Go Downhill
[A] A little way through the lecture the lights dim and flicker, but don’t quite go out. The Professor is not deterred. The professor’s lecture goes downhill as he expands beyond the bronze age treasures to include his theories of a wider trading alliance and advanced civilisation.
The Countess entertains the chefs and serving staff giving Spencer a distraction. He bowls an apple at the servant and knocks him into a door at the back of the kitchen. Spencer drags the body through the door to question him. But 2 men at the end of the corridor see him, draw weapons and shoot him in the arm! [wounded arm 2]
The Countess hearing gunfire, throws over a table with help of the staff and draws a weapon ready to shoot any enemy coming through the door. [GM’s Note -- I should have given the Countess a cover bonus later on for this!]
[C] Monsieur Dubois arrives at the theatre. His chauffeur gets out and opens the door. His bodyguards get out with tailored suits, and one has a ponytail. Monsieur Dubois gets out and enters the theatre through the backdoor. [GM’s Note -- We should have worked harder to get Graham and Costel into the room with Dubois and Molly. I was tired at this point and flagging. This is what Fortune is for.]
Scene 53 - Action is Taken
[A] At the end of the lecture Woolley challenges the professor to provide proof. The Professor stands tall and declares a new expedition to Zimbabwe. Woolley accepts the challenge and agree, even though he has not been invited himself, to co-lead the expedition.
Spencer drags the servant through the door, takes cover behind the table and holds up a saucepan to distract them. As the two men, dressed as serving staff, come barrelling through the door, the Countess opens fire with her Walther PPK. Two shots and they are both dead. But not before they are able to fire off their own weapons. Nathan, tired of waiting for the Countess, follows her into the kitchen. The Countess, Spencer, Nathan are hit, and several pans of oil are sent flying, bursting into flames.
The agent by Spencer’s side begins to waken and starts to struggle so Spencer attempts to choke him. But the Countess is taking no chances and shoots him. As he dies, he gasps “Das Erbe forever”.
The Countess and Spencer clear the kitchens, taking the key from dead body of the Das Erbe agent.
[C] After about 20 mins Monsieur Dubois concludes his business inside the theatre, gets back into the car and leaves. Graham and Costel return.
Scene 54 - Fire Evacuation
When they get outside with the other guests Spencer hands the key back to the Director. He lies, saying the key is not valuable, it opens up the kitchens.
As the party leaves, George Price of The Daily Mail, asks the Professor how he feels about Woolley’s Zimbabwe expedition. The professor hits him and then continues to walk to his waiting car.
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Bigby
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Session 9 (18 Apr 2026) - Breaking into the British Museum
Scene 55 - Investigations
31 Jul 1930
Nathan is alive! The medical expenses are costly.
The group decide to determine what is the Director was hiding and where the key leads. Nick investigates Dorothy. Spencer heals. The Countess has lunch with Kathleen. Costel and Graham prep for a heist. Professor working on exhibition in the museum. They determine money is tight for the museum, Dorothy is a moderately successful actress and her husband is serving time for assaulting a journalist who insulted her. Graham gets a copy of the key made somewhere in the backstreets of London. He has a sense that he is being followed.
Scene 56 - Blow Darts for the Professor
The group (sans Countess) breaks into the museum. Outer security is lax. There is only one area that could be of interest. A stone cellar where bulky and valuable items are kept. The Professor and Spencer are “working” late. He has already tried to get into the area, but the guards turned him away. One the guards is called Mr. Wright. [GM’s Note -- I should have allowed the professor to try a persuade roll rather than just a blanket no]
The Countess has dinner close by with Richardo from Milan, an old flame and diplomat for the fascist Italian government. He has an eye for the ladies and the boys.
Costel turns off the lights sequentially in the corridor to the guards at the entrance. Blinded and silhouetted, Graham and Costel blow dart the guards. They drag the bodies into their broom cupboard, take their keys and cover them in whiskey.
Scene 57 - The Sound of Silence
The group (sans Countess) find the corridor ends at a large metal door with a wheel handle and lock for the key. The key fits and works. The door opens, with some noise. They proceed down some steps to a normal door. They get a sense of cold air and a dark larger room beyond. Graham pauses, sensing people and the smell of gun oil. They have sensed the group as well. The Professor exclaims "This is ridiculous!" in a loud once. Costel, patience running thin, blow darts him. He slumps quietly to the ground.
Scene 58 - The Art of Springing a Trap
A plan is hatched. Graham uses Nick’s camera to take a flash photo while turning on lights to the large room. This acts as a flash grenade and stuns the men inside. Turns out there are 8 armed squaddies with berets and sub-machine guns, and one Major Dominic Ashford! Who is none-too-pleased by the group triggering their ambush they laid for Das Erbe!
The Countess and Richardo spar. He asks her if she has any information for him, maybe about recent meetings with MP Churchill and his views of South Africa. She promises much and delivers little.
Scene 59 - A Trap is Laid
As the group leaves the museum, they fake carrying a crate to draw Das Erbe to them. The Countess rejoins them and the group heads to the Greene’s Hotel for the evening. They lay a trap in a suite, hoping Das Erbe will take the bait.
31 Jul 1930
Nathan is alive! The medical expenses are costly.
The group decide to determine what is the Director was hiding and where the key leads. Nick investigates Dorothy. Spencer heals. The Countess has lunch with Kathleen. Costel and Graham prep for a heist. Professor working on exhibition in the museum. They determine money is tight for the museum, Dorothy is a moderately successful actress and her husband is serving time for assaulting a journalist who insulted her. Graham gets a copy of the key made somewhere in the backstreets of London. He has a sense that he is being followed.
Scene 56 - Blow Darts for the Professor
The group (sans Countess) breaks into the museum. Outer security is lax. There is only one area that could be of interest. A stone cellar where bulky and valuable items are kept. The Professor and Spencer are “working” late. He has already tried to get into the area, but the guards turned him away. One the guards is called Mr. Wright. [GM’s Note -- I should have allowed the professor to try a persuade roll rather than just a blanket no]
The Countess has dinner close by with Richardo from Milan, an old flame and diplomat for the fascist Italian government. He has an eye for the ladies and the boys.
Costel turns off the lights sequentially in the corridor to the guards at the entrance. Blinded and silhouetted, Graham and Costel blow dart the guards. They drag the bodies into their broom cupboard, take their keys and cover them in whiskey.
Scene 57 - The Sound of Silence
The group (sans Countess) find the corridor ends at a large metal door with a wheel handle and lock for the key. The key fits and works. The door opens, with some noise. They proceed down some steps to a normal door. They get a sense of cold air and a dark larger room beyond. Graham pauses, sensing people and the smell of gun oil. They have sensed the group as well. The Professor exclaims "This is ridiculous!" in a loud once. Costel, patience running thin, blow darts him. He slumps quietly to the ground.
Scene 58 - The Art of Springing a Trap
A plan is hatched. Graham uses Nick’s camera to take a flash photo while turning on lights to the large room. This acts as a flash grenade and stuns the men inside. Turns out there are 8 armed squaddies with berets and sub-machine guns, and one Major Dominic Ashford! Who is none-too-pleased by the group triggering their ambush they laid for Das Erbe!
The Countess and Richardo spar. He asks her if she has any information for him, maybe about recent meetings with MP Churchill and his views of South Africa. She promises much and delivers little.
Scene 59 - A Trap is Laid
As the group leaves the museum, they fake carrying a crate to draw Das Erbe to them. The Countess rejoins them and the group heads to the Greene’s Hotel for the evening. They lay a trap in a suite, hoping Das Erbe will take the bait.
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Bigby
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Session 10 (16 May 2026) - Ambush at the Highgate Cemetery
Scene 60 - A Message is Delivered
31 Jul 1930
The group is at Greene’s Hotel recovering and waiting for Das Erbe. At 2:30am the night concierge delivers a message written on high quality Das Erbe stationery, and blooded dog tags. They have taken Nick’s sister, Meredith, hostage! They want Isseldr in exchange at Highgate Cemetery in 30 mins.
The group springs into action. Costel and Spencer jump into Spencer’s car and race to museum to ask Major Ashford for help. The Countess, Graham, and Nick jump into a cab to Highgate Cemetery, and the Professor follows in his car.
Scene 61 - Calling on The Cavalry
Costel and Spencer arrive at the British Museum in record time. They rush in the back, and confront the new guards, that now London Irish squaddies in poorly fitting uniforms. He threatens and looms and demands to speak to Major Ashford. He agrees but only if he can come, with a squaddie, and the rest will follow in a truck.
Costel takes the axe. Costel, Spencer, Ashford and a squaddie race towards the cemetery in Spencer’s car.
Scene 62 - Confronting Das Erbe
The Countess, Graham, and Nick head to Highgate Cemetery in the cab. Graham gets out early, to enter stealthily. They tell the cabbie to wait. There is a car by the gate and Das Erbe agent. The agent uses a lamp to signal their arrival to people at the top of the hill.
Graham sneaks up to the gate, disables the Das Erbe car, and climbs over the wall. He works his way through the overgrown paths.
The Countess and Nick make their way up to the top of the hill, with an empty box on a trolley. They find Herr Wirth, an unknown lady, and 2 agents holding a bound Meredith. One of the Das Erbe agents has a black eye and broken nose.
The discussion gets heated immediately and Herr Wirth worth instructs “Katherina” to slap Meredith to demonstrate the seriousness of the situation. Nick, without thinking, slaps Katherina.
Graham finds a Das Erbe agent hiding in the lush vegetation. There is a brief tussle as he takes him out silently.
Scene 63 - Captain Spencer to the Rescue!
Spencer drives through the gates at full speed! The flying iron takes out the agent there. The car beaches on a stone tomb. Costel leaps out, with Isseldr and using a car door as a shield.
Herr Wirth intervenes and demands the axe. Nick heads back to the Countess. Using Nick as cover, The Countess shoots Katherina! 2 Das Erbe agents stand up from ambush positions and open fire. Nick is wounded in the leg. They both dive behind the cover of the stone terraces.
Scene 64 - Shoot Out at Highgate Cemetery
Graham spots a sniper on the roof of the domed building at the top of the hill and discovers a pair of amorous teenagers in the bushes. He uses the Das Erbe agent’s gun to shoot the sniper and pushes teenagers out of harm’s the way.
Spencer advancing shoots on of the Das Erbe agents who was taking aim on The Countess. Spencer and the Countess take minor wounds.
Meredith frees herself and runs towards Nick. The two Das Erbe agents guarding her draw weapons and open fire. Nick leaps out of cover and dives on her taking her behind the stone terraces.
Costel is in full Viking mode with dry lightning behind him. He flushes out the Das Erbe agent on the right, while the Major shoots from behind.
Countess stands up, shoots at both Das Erbe agents that were holding Meredith and kills them. The process her gun is shot out of her hand and she is wounded.
Scene 65 - The Cover Up
As the gun fight was going on, Herr Wirth drags Katherina into cover and they disappear. Graham pursues them, but they get away, probably in a second car waiting on the other side of the cemetery.
Costel returns Isseldr to the Major, reluctantly, mentioning he will need it again in the future (to free Eirik). The squaddies in the army truck and the professor in his car arrive. The squaddies help load Spencer’s sports car into the truck.
Scene 66 - Domestic Affairs
Spencer and the Countess have a meal with his family. His father tells Spencer that the family business is not doing well and he needs Spencer to take over.
Nick publishes “The Adventures of the Sensational Six” comic in the Daily Mail. It covers their adventures and insults their enemies, i.e. Dubois is a Belgian dressed in pink.
Scene 67 - Discussions and A Phone Call
Everyone meets to discuss the group’s next steps. They agree to work with Major Ashford, who they can now contact via phone using the code name Gertrude Jamieson.
They are interrupted by a phone call from Drummond’s Bank. An Egyptian female voice informs the Countess that someone is withdrawing the contents of her safety deposit box. She demands they stop the withdrawl and rush to the bank in a cab and the Professor’s car.
As they arrive at the bank, they see Dubois and someone who looks like the Countess leaving the front doors.
31 Jul 1930
The group is at Greene’s Hotel recovering and waiting for Das Erbe. At 2:30am the night concierge delivers a message written on high quality Das Erbe stationery, and blooded dog tags. They have taken Nick’s sister, Meredith, hostage! They want Isseldr in exchange at Highgate Cemetery in 30 mins.
The group springs into action. Costel and Spencer jump into Spencer’s car and race to museum to ask Major Ashford for help. The Countess, Graham, and Nick jump into a cab to Highgate Cemetery, and the Professor follows in his car.
Scene 61 - Calling on The Cavalry
Costel and Spencer arrive at the British Museum in record time. They rush in the back, and confront the new guards, that now London Irish squaddies in poorly fitting uniforms. He threatens and looms and demands to speak to Major Ashford. He agrees but only if he can come, with a squaddie, and the rest will follow in a truck.
Costel takes the axe. Costel, Spencer, Ashford and a squaddie race towards the cemetery in Spencer’s car.
Scene 62 - Confronting Das Erbe
The Countess, Graham, and Nick head to Highgate Cemetery in the cab. Graham gets out early, to enter stealthily. They tell the cabbie to wait. There is a car by the gate and Das Erbe agent. The agent uses a lamp to signal their arrival to people at the top of the hill.
Graham sneaks up to the gate, disables the Das Erbe car, and climbs over the wall. He works his way through the overgrown paths.
The Countess and Nick make their way up to the top of the hill, with an empty box on a trolley. They find Herr Wirth, an unknown lady, and 2 agents holding a bound Meredith. One of the Das Erbe agents has a black eye and broken nose.
The discussion gets heated immediately and Herr Wirth worth instructs “Katherina” to slap Meredith to demonstrate the seriousness of the situation. Nick, without thinking, slaps Katherina.
Graham finds a Das Erbe agent hiding in the lush vegetation. There is a brief tussle as he takes him out silently.
Scene 63 - Captain Spencer to the Rescue!
Spencer drives through the gates at full speed! The flying iron takes out the agent there. The car beaches on a stone tomb. Costel leaps out, with Isseldr and using a car door as a shield.
Herr Wirth intervenes and demands the axe. Nick heads back to the Countess. Using Nick as cover, The Countess shoots Katherina! 2 Das Erbe agents stand up from ambush positions and open fire. Nick is wounded in the leg. They both dive behind the cover of the stone terraces.
Scene 64 - Shoot Out at Highgate Cemetery
Graham spots a sniper on the roof of the domed building at the top of the hill and discovers a pair of amorous teenagers in the bushes. He uses the Das Erbe agent’s gun to shoot the sniper and pushes teenagers out of harm’s the way.
Spencer advancing shoots on of the Das Erbe agents who was taking aim on The Countess. Spencer and the Countess take minor wounds.
Meredith frees herself and runs towards Nick. The two Das Erbe agents guarding her draw weapons and open fire. Nick leaps out of cover and dives on her taking her behind the stone terraces.
Costel is in full Viking mode with dry lightning behind him. He flushes out the Das Erbe agent on the right, while the Major shoots from behind.
Countess stands up, shoots at both Das Erbe agents that were holding Meredith and kills them. The process her gun is shot out of her hand and she is wounded.
Scene 65 - The Cover Up
As the gun fight was going on, Herr Wirth drags Katherina into cover and they disappear. Graham pursues them, but they get away, probably in a second car waiting on the other side of the cemetery.
Costel returns Isseldr to the Major, reluctantly, mentioning he will need it again in the future (to free Eirik). The squaddies in the army truck and the professor in his car arrive. The squaddies help load Spencer’s sports car into the truck.
Scene 66 - Domestic Affairs
Spencer and the Countess have a meal with his family. His father tells Spencer that the family business is not doing well and he needs Spencer to take over.
Nick publishes “The Adventures of the Sensational Six” comic in the Daily Mail. It covers their adventures and insults their enemies, i.e. Dubois is a Belgian dressed in pink.
Scene 67 - Discussions and A Phone Call
Everyone meets to discuss the group’s next steps. They agree to work with Major Ashford, who they can now contact via phone using the code name Gertrude Jamieson.
They are interrupted by a phone call from Drummond’s Bank. An Egyptian female voice informs the Countess that someone is withdrawing the contents of her safety deposit box. She demands they stop the withdrawl and rush to the bank in a cab and the Professor’s car.
As they arrive at the bank, they see Dubois and someone who looks like the Countess leaving the front doors.