Darwin, Australia: 11:14 AM: David Dodge is looking after Cowles house and is willing to help us when we arrive in Sydney. Cowles not due back for a few months yet. Australia is a confederation and a dominion of the British Empire but not a colony. A lot of gold has been recently found. How…
Author: Joseph Donelly
26: Gray Dragon Island’s Secrets
China, Gray Dragon Island: 05:13 AM: Penhew’s lab. Gaidar and Wes in the room. Wesley ascertains that there is a shell plus explosive device with warhead that he can’t quite work out how it works but it is extraordinarily dangerous. Right now. The rocket is armed and it is collapsing into the magma….! Joe and…
25: Monsters of Gray Dragon Island
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…
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…