Night Train to Lisbon
Summary
Adventure: Night Train to Lisbon
GM: Jim Arona
Season: Winter 818 wk (game time), physically played in Spring (Sep-Dec 2018).
Night: Tuesday
Location: New Windsor
Level: Low to Medium
- Party
- Tsayoi - Truncated Giant Magma Mage - Chris
- Rahne - (f) Human Spellblade - Stephen
- Mario - Human Lothario - Dean
- Aloysious - Human Air Mage - Nick
- Anooke - 'Human child' Ice sculptor - Michael H.
- Penni - (f) Exotic Governess (Elven Healer-Namer) - Lisa
- Raseri Human Dark Celestial - Ciaran
- Employer
Henry the Toymaker
Henry, The Toy-Maker seeks a group of adventurers to travel to Prague on Reich to acquire a collection of qabalistic parchments. - from where it is being held in a private Library
Insertion will be into Varna, and then by train to Prag in Neue Sudetenland. Papers of quality will be provided, but morphously other adventurers are expected to bring their own methods of concealment, since accidentally turning into a bear, tree, raging fire etc on a train is likely to compromise the secrecy of the mission.
The documents should be delivered to Itzhak ben Abraham, owner of the Loja de Pergaminhos on Rua de Livreiros (Street of Booksellers) in the Alfama of Lisbon.
Care should be taken not to allow the documents fall into the hands of the Gestapo. Well, anyone really, but particularly not the Gestapo.
- Scroll is written in Angel Blood in an Angelic language. Part of the Alchemical Marriage of Hermes, making of a Silver Golem associated with travel.
- To be translated by a short Rune Mage of our acquaintance, an ally of the Widow Click.
- Once it leaves the library in Prague, the scroll will be detectable by all interested in such things. Once translated it will become a bright un-missable beacon to them. On high holidays it will be more detectable. Once translated it is not to be taken to the house of any ally, suggested hiding places:
- Library of Alexandria
- Library of Leng - access from Antarctica, Ord Wingate may know of another entrance.
- Temple of Solomon
- Crystal Cave (Wessex, England) - British Museum may have leads in occupied London.
- Payment
- 500 truesilver guineas per adventurer on top of any salvage.
Scribe Notes
N1 - Seagate to Cairo
We meet with Henry at the guild and discuss his needs and how we can help him. We agree and then head off to Blackshore and other locations for a couple of days to equip ourselves. We depart Blackshore into the Astral/Abyss on the 4th and start our travel across the unforgiving lands that are the abyss which we exit on the 14th on the plane of Reich at Varna.
- One thing of note in the abyss was that the scar in the heavens there was larger than before and we know from Full Metal Breastplate (see Stamps - W'ansday 8th-9th Heat) that "Mithras, his eye is Aldebaran, beyond which lurks Hastur" - This isn't a good thing.
We arrive at Varna and are met by the Widow Click, who is a Dark Elf (Moriquendi) and a follower of Aulë. She is an ally of sorts and we rest, talk and plan our next movements towards our goal. Raseri and her get on fabulously and spend the night going hard over all sorts of things. We depart the next day by Zeppelin to Egypt via Athens and Cyprus.
We arrive in Cairo on Frysday the 18th where we stay at the Grand Hotel.
We have a drink at the bar where we find amongst the customer a German Archeologist named Franz?, a Gestapo agent in his usual heavy leather uniform and a local woman/houri (DA'd as a Naga, College of Secrets) who seems to be hitting him up for information. Rahne pumps the archeologist for information in her own way while we keep our heads down. It's decided that the agent has to die as he's an unpleasant woman abuser. Later that night when he's alone (once the houri had departed) he kills himself shaving and then gets robbed of all his possessions too!
- Astrology - Where to find the entrance to The Library of Alexandria
- Tall narrow structure (like a giant dark obelisk) in a white desert. - ? west of Qatar, about 350 miles across
- Festering dark clouds to the north
- Stairs on the south side
- Beneath an orange star - 'later associated with Hastur.
- NB Sir Andrew Witherspoon - has Great Horses (speak a language, have some magic): Coursers, War Horses, Heavy War Horses
- NB in The Coils of Spring we learned that "Himmler has retired to Egypt and resides there in a museum"
N2 - Cairo to
N3 - xxx
Buffs & Mil Sci
Long Term (assumed always on)
| Magic (caster) | Rk | Effects | Duration | Al | An | Rs | Ma | Pe | Ra | Ts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strength of Stone (Ts) | 15 | +15 to PS or EN | 15/25 hrs | EN | EN | EN | EN | EN | EN | EN |
| Greater Ench. (Ra) | 20 | +21% to Res, Mag, Com, and S&S. | 3 days | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Witchsight (Ra) | 10 | 5.5/11.5 hrs | Y | |||||||
| Ench Armour (Ra) | 14 | +30% Def +1 AP 8 DR vs Phnt/Nmare. | 7.5/13 hrs | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | N | |
| Fire Armour (Ts) | 11 | 48pts ablative armour vs Fire | 12 hours | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Resist Cold (An) | 12 | +4 Gauges, -4 Cold Dmg | 13 hours | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Heroic Aura (Ma) | 14 | Mario:+15SC,+2Dmg,+15vsFear; Allies:+4SC,+1Dmg,+7vsFear;Both +4Def,+1DR | 450 mins | |||||||
| Self Only | ||||||||||
| Mind Shield | +10+2/rk% vs M.Att. | 1+2/rk hrs | 8 | 7 | ||||||
| Sense Danger | 61% | 56% | ||||||||
Enhance Enchantment (Ra) rank 11: 70 seconds
Short Term
| Magic (caster) | Rk | Effects | Dur | Al | An | Rs | Ma | Pe | Ra | Ts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enchant Weapon (Ra) | 11 | +12 BC%, +4 Dam. +4 vs Phn/Nm | 16 min | |||||||
| Weapon of Flames (Ts) | 14 | +15% SC and +8DM (+15DM vs undead) | 19 min | |||||||
| Strength of Darkness (Rs) | 11 | +7 PS | 2 Hrs |
Watch Order
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aloysious | Penni | Raseri | Aloysious | ||||||||
| Tsayoi | Anooke | Mario | |||||||||
| Rahne | |||||||||||
Marching Order
| Skirmish Formations (Front) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Default
Mario Rahne |
Double File
Mario Rahne |
Single File
Mario |
Spell Racks
Standard contents of spell racks:
- Mario
- Mind Shield - Chaos Ward (rack and cast as buff)
- Force Shield - Shield of Law (rack and cast as buff)
- Control Person - Dominate Will (racked, -2FT)
- Mental Attack - Multi Target (racked, -3FT)
- Hypnotism - Forget (racked, -2FT)
Astrology
| Aloysious | Anooke | Raseri | Mario | Penni | Rahne | Tsayoi |
| 63 | 89 | 62 | 04, 42 | 88 | 87 |
| Aloysious | |
| Anooke | 915: Sun, Rodent, Light 153: Air, Snake, Order 052: Mana, Snake, Body |
| Raseri | 067: Mana, Horse, Life 543: Wood, Dragon, Order 913: Sun, Rodent, Order |
| Mario | 264: Earth, Horse, Chaos 400: Water, Boar, Mundane 915: Sun, Rodent, Light |
| Penni | 964: Sun, Horse, Chaos 983: Sun, Monkey, Order 690: Metal, Wolf, Mundane |
| Rahne | 634: Metal, Tiger, Chaos 075: Mana, Sheep, Light 601: Metal, Boar, Spirit |
| Tsayoi | 012: Mana, Rodent, Body 502: Wood, Boar, Body 971: Sun, Sheep, Spirit |
Supplies
- Purchased items/goods
- Guild Healing Potions
- Restoratives
- Waters of Strength
- Waters of Healing
- Restore Reason
- Black Lotus
- Peaceful Herbs
- 3 x Plover Stones (Henry)
- 4 x Pentecost Potions (Henry)
- 6 x Black Faberge Eggs (from Widow Click)
Awards
Experience
Treasure
- Session # 1 - We met a Gestapo agent in Alexandria. He had a fatal accident that night due to his predilection for hurting women. We recovered his clothing, papers (inc orders), cash, weapon (.50cal pistol - desert eagle?), uniform (inc hat, jackboots, spectacles and leather trench-coat) etc.
Individual Awards: Aloysious, Anooke, Cronose, Mario, Penni, Rahne, Tsayoi.
Calendar
| Winter: Frost 818 (7) | ||||||||||||||
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Samhain | 1 | Guild Meeting Seagate, Blackshore | 2 | Blackshore | 3 | Blackshore | 4 | Astral, Abyss.. | |||||
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7 | ..Abyss to Varna, Reich.. | ||||||||||||
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14 | ..Astral, Varna | 15 | Varna | 16 | Airship to Athens | 17 | .. Cyprus.. | 18 | .. Cairo | 19 | 20 | ||
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5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Rites of Thunor | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||||
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