China, Gray Dragon Island: 04:41 AM: There is damage and carnage within the cave entrance as the party rushes in. Cultists come rushing out. Joe fires his BAR and takes one out but there are more and they are close. Brady fires too. Unfortunately he hits Joe for one point of damage. Irma finishes him…
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24: Gray Dragon Island Continued
Gray Dragon Island, China: 04:16 AM: There is another junk moored nearby. Who could it be?? It is dark and difficult to see anything with any certainty but we don’t think it is Ho Fong’s boat. Simon hears someone coming up the stairs… Talking Chinese… Greg knocks over a pan (!!!!) and alerts the guard!…
23: Planning for Gray Dragon Island
Shanghai, China: 17:00 PM: We retrieve as much of our stuff as we can. Hotel gunfight headline news. Someone is dragged into the building. A spy? They have a gun to his head. Brady: “He’s a spy and we have to kill him.” Gaidar: “No he’s our friend.” Captain Taro: “I am Captain Taro Isoge…
22: Shanghai Notes 2
Shanghai, China: 18:45 PM: Somewhere in Nevada, 1938: INTERVIEWER AGENT SMITH: “Mr., ahem – I mean, sorry, – Professor – Fock, I would now like to ask you about what happened on the evening in Shanghai following the poisoning incident at the hotel. What do you recall?” FOCK: “I remember many things that happened in…
21: Shanghai Notes 1
Shanghai, China: 09:00 AM: WE HAVE TO MAKE THREE ROLLS… The missing Choi Mei-Ling (flower girl): where is she? We decide to split into 2 groups to work through the list of experts. GROUP 1: Trent, Joe, Irma, Wesley: Seaman’s Lodge GROUP 2: Gupta, Simon, Gaidar, Trixie: The Monks of the Purple Lotus We hire…
20: Welcome to Shanghai
Shanghai, China 11:44 AM: We arrived in Shanghai on Saturday 11th April 1925. Sure New York has a busy waterfront, but this place is chaos. Vast crowds of people gathered everywhere. Coolies, Soldiers, officials, junks, rafts, and tiny row boats swarm all over and around our freighter. The officials grab our crates; crowbar them, before…
19: Planning & Preparation
London, England: 08:00 AM: Despite all our careful packaging, disguising as machine parts and telescopic equipment the dismantled weaponry is mostly found. Only with a huge bribe are we able to bring it into the USA. The dismantled machines guns and the flamethrower were hard to spot and got through but the Trench Guns, B.A.Rs…
18: Meanwhile, Back in New York City…
London, England 08:00 AM While the others were away in Lesser Edale, Greg, Wes, Natalja and Simon remained at the rented mews house in London studying all the books and scrolls they had found. We determined the following: The Egyptian scroll is spell instructions for Summon Bind Byakhee – it requires a special whistle. The…
17: Our Trip to The English Countryside
Lesser Edale, England: 08:30 AM: I’m not totally sure what this is all about. We know that poor Jackson was intrigued by the article about the beast which was featured in the Scoop (see end of Masks XVI) but let’s face it, the man had cracked up by then so his judgement was seriously impaired….
16: Assault on Misr House – Continued
Kent, England: 03:00 AM: The cultist Wesley shot falls dead from the upper floor to land on the lawn in front of Simon. He briefly checks the body then moves to the front door. Trixie signals not to open it. They need to be cautious as it may be booby-trapped. Wes remains hidden in the…
15: Making Ready For Misr House
Lesser Edale, England: 04:00 AM: We left Tommy at the Spice of Life with a certain level of trepidation. For those of us that had been in The Forest in 1918 it was like we were going over the top again. Joseph, the professional soldier, gave nothing away; he merely cleaned his guns, packed his…
14: Leaving The Spice Shop
London, England: 04:30 AM: Leaving Tewfik’s Spice Shop: There is nothing more to be done tonight so we head back to the Mews House Greg thoughtfully rented for us. All our stuff is there. We have left only a few token spare belongings back at the Savoy. At a call box we leave a message…
13: The Intrepid Aviators Arrive
London, England: 15:00 PM: Trixie, Simon and Gupta arrive to considerable fanfare. Air travel is still very rare, air travel across the Atlantic exceedingly so. There are some complications with customs but we are eventually allowed to unload all our cargo providing it all remains as items of transit. They send a telegram to their…
12: The Clive Expedition
London, England: 07:00 PM: Back at the hotel we remember that Gupta’s researches in New York showed that the Penhew Foundation is funding a current expedition to Memphis (Egypt not Tennessee). The Clive expedition has been in Memphis for 3 months. Led by Dr Henry Clive, 58 a renowned archaeologist and Egyptologist with over 35…
11: Our Trip to London
New York City, U.S.A: 09:30 AM: So it is agreed that the plane will leave on Wednesday 28th January 1925. Trixie is the pilot, with Simon and Curtiss as navigators and Gupta as gunner. Greg insisted on mounting the Maxim on the front of the plane. He thoughtfully provided a box of tracer ammunition too….