After each Gencon, I'll post updates to the stories. Trying to do it during the convention would be silly! The format I'm using here will be based on the title of the book that Paddy wrote but the synopsis would be what actually happened in game, not what Paddy wrote.
Book 1 - A
Colossal Return
An antique stolen from
Jacqueline's exhibit at the British Museum is followed to Greece
where a giant walking statue is delivered to Turkey and set loose
upon the innocent citizens. The group works together to stop the
statue and retrieve the artifact. The artifact is a controlling gear
for the original Colossus of Rhodes which was rebuilt in order to
conquer Turkey.
Book 2 - Her
Majesty's Iron Soldiers
Body parts kept turning
up in the turgid Thames. The odd part is that the parts were
surgically removed. The other odd part is that the parts were all
appendages. Clues and opportunistic shadowing led to an
out-of-the-way place in the country where soldiers were turned into
half-soldier, half-machine. The building was destroyed along with all
of the soldiers, equipment, scientists. Somehow Magus Amassis was
able to walk away from the explosion without damage.
Book 3 - Death
from the Skies
News came to Brother
Vladimir that people in his village were dying mysteriously. Word
then came to him that the Russian government was sending an airship
to drop death from the skies. Jacqueline was able to rent an airship
to intercept them. A night battle in the skies in which the bags of
disease was dumped into the English Channel, never to bother Man
again.
Book 4 - A
Turkey Dinner
Reports of the Turks
conquering Greece using giant war machines got the group to venture
to Greece. They split up into two groups. Jacqueline's group were
able to convince him (mind control him) to turn over financial
control of Turkey over to her and to recall the 6 war machines back
to Turkey. The other group was able to destroy the war machine plant
and take the plans for building them.
Book 5 - Zombie
Apocalypse
Reports of bodies being
stolen from battle sites all around the world got the group to
investigate. They were able to discover that a necromancer was using
them to build a zombie army to protect him as he was killing the
Houses of Parliament in order to zombify them and turn the British
government over to him. They were able to stop him before he had
killed the Members of Parliament. Paddy showed he can turn invisible.
Book 6 - Voyage
To The Bottom Of The Ocean
Jacqueline received an
invitation to join an expedition to explore the bottom of the ocean
to find Atlantis. The group found a glowing underwater city inhabited
by fishpeople, but they were not able to visit due to lack of air in
city. They did find out about history of ancient war of gods that
sank the city. They were also able to arrange an agreement of an
exchange of information.
Book 7 - Into
The Deepest, Darkest Jungle
Jacqueline has come
across a legend of a hidden treasure from an ancient civilization in
South America. The group found their way to the site and made their
way through it. They discovered that the traps became more advanced
the deeper they went. So advanced that not even Montague could
understand how they were made. Once finding the treasure room, they
found a cube that,when touched, displayed a ghostly image of an
insectoid-type creature chittering away. When the group left the
treasure room, they encountered former Sultan Hasan bin Mustafa with
a group of his own. He had also somehow recovered his mind control
gem. The group defeated the Sultan's group and re-recovered the gem.
Book 8 - Space:
The Next Frontier
The group was invited to
attend the launch of Britain's first orbital space ship. The group
was able to successfully prevent two different assassination attempts
on the attending diplomats, ambassadors, etc. They also prevented a
German Colossus from stopping the launch. The launch was successful
however, the landing back at the launch site created a new problem.
When the capsule door opened, a creature very much like the one in
the cube stepped out. Before anyone can do anything, the British army
shot and killed it and then took the body.
Book 9 - Chrononaut
The group was invited to
attend a demonstration of a “time machine” in Britain. The
inventor turned out to be have been the original inventor of the time
travel system in the 28th Century but due to an accident, he was shot
back to the 19th Century where he had to recreate time travel with
19th century materials. An alternate timeline was created from this
accident and duplicates of the group tried to prevent the inventor
from returning and resetting the timeline.
The group was able to
allow the inventor to return and the duplicates disappeared. Montague
didn't say much more but it is obvious that he is more deeply
involved with the time travelers than he let on.
Book 10 - Message
Received, We Await Your Reply
The group listened to
the box found in story 7. After a while the image of the insectoid
was able to translate to English the following message:
“Please! Please!
Whatever you do, do not bring your war to our planet. Our xxxxxxxx
drives are down and we are running on our --------- drive. We are
trying to get home as fast as we can”
After a few more
minutes, it then said:
“We are returning. End
transmission.”
Through various
investigations they found out the following:
The asteroid field was a
planet inhabited by the insectoids and apparently destroyed by humans
in the past. The insectoids are now claiming Earth as their own.
However, it will be several years before they arrive.
The astronaut from the
first rocket who didn't come back is in an alien spaceship in orbit
above the Earth.
The group concluded that
the ancestors of the Atlanteans were the ones involved in the war
that destroyed the aliens' planet.
The group was able to
steal the alien body and gather information from it before it was
destroyed by the aliens from remote control.
The group has started
testing the equipment found in the South American pyramid. The are
working on plans to power them up from the Niagara Fall hydroelectric
dam.
Book 11 - Think
Tank
Jacqueline and Oscar
Wilde, along with a significant number of other notables had
disappeared. They were traced back to an underground cavern in Norway
where the team discovered a secret lair with rows of brains in jars.
The group found out that the mechanical brain had been collecting
brains for thousands of years to try to understand why humanity rises
then falls. It is trying to stop that. Eventually the group was able
to shutdown the intelligence and restore the people to their
respective bodies. But before that happened, the intelligence
predicted that civilization will fall again and soon.
Book 12 - Uncle
Sam Wants You. NOW!
Jacqueline's “husband”
shows up and tries to begin to go over the finances but it turned out
that he was a shapeshifter. The group captured him and relocated him
to an empty warehouse for “interrogation”. They didn't get too
much information and ended his usefulness. Shortly after that, they
were attacked by another group of supers. It took a little while but
the group was able to defeat them. They relocated to yet another
empty warehouse to “interrogate” the survivors. They were able to
learn about a “Department of Paranormal Control” apparently run
by a Colonel Masters. After some investigation, the group was able to
get Col. Masters in a secluded area and convince him that the group
is not a threat and to establish a detente.
Book 13 - The Theory of Evilution
Brother
Zachariah was a traveling faith healer preaching the gospel and
ranting against “witches”, i.e. people of extraordinary ability.
But a short time after he would leave, hate groups would start up and
begin terrorizing people who they believed are supers. He was gaining
popularity to the point where he could hold a revival in Madison
Square Garden. The group tried to intercept him before he could make
his appearance but were thwarted by subterfuge. Once Brother
Zachariah started calling out members of the congregation for their
sins, he pointed to Broyan and called him a sodomite and denounced
him for it. He also called out to Vladimir as a brother in Christ,
told of his dark side and claimed to be able to heal him of it.
Vladimir went up on stage to confront him on it. After a short fight
involving several of the group, Zachariah was rendering deeply
unconscious. After finding a safe place in which to interrogate him,
he was revived. The group finally convinced Zachariah to undo what he
did.
Book 14 - Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
The
attorney for the estate of Jacqueline's “in-laws” showed up to
deliver the news that Jacqueline's widowed “mother-in-law”
recently died. As her husband's legal representative, she was
requested to attend the reading of the will at the estate in upstate
New York. Upon arriving, you were greeted by the same attorney and
were introduced to the other relatives. After some snooping around,
the group deduced that there is a cult in the family worshiping the
“Ancients”, beings of great power. Later in the night, a secret
door was found and everyone went down. A little exploration took you
to a ceremony in which someone was being sacrificed. You were too
late to stop it but not too late to get caught. You were surrounded
by a being that you couldn't understand and were taken into the realm
of the 4th dimension. It took all of you to get yourselves
back. Once back, you arranged to have the remaining cultists arrested
and imprisoned.
Book 15 - A Stone's Throw Away
On
their way back from an adventure and dropping off members,
Jacqueline decided to visit Stonehenge before dropping off
Montague. As they were hovering above in the airship, they
noticed that one of the lentil stones was hovering over the
monument. And then they noticed a young man seeming to manipulate
the stone. He also had a book with him similar to the others that
Jacqueline has stashed away. After trying to resolve the poor
fellow's pining away for his “sweet sixteen” (and failing),
they reached an agreement that the poor fellow would translate
the book he had and also translate the titles of the books
Jacqueline has for passage to where he wanted to go. The
group just met a young Edward Leedskalnin before he builds his
Coral Castle in Florida.
Book 16 - Parts Is Parts
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Dr.
Solvig was suffering from organ failure and was going to die
unless she got treatment very soon. Jacqueline put the word out
to find someone that can help. She received word that there was a
“Doctor” Adam Newman who was helping poor people with
seemingly miraculous cures. The group was able to track him down
and arranged to have Solvig's failing organ replaced. During
their time with him, they realized that this “doctor” was the
original Frankenstein's monster and he was helping the poor and
those he couldn't help, he harvested their organs. They also
found out that he was creating his own “army” of reanimated
people, many of whom he taught his secrets of reanimation that he
got from Dr. Frankenstein. As it turned out, that book was
actually another ancient tome and Jacqueline was able to acquire
it amicably. The group concluded that as long as the “monster”
did not provide a threat to the group, they'll leave him and his
“army” alone.
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Book 17 - Look At What We Dug Up
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One
of Jacqueline's research expeditions turned up an interesting find in
China. Upon arrival, they found a vast army of clay buried beneath
the ground. Further research turned up the original tomb of first
Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang. What they didn't know was that someone
else had sneaked inside and found the Emperor's armor and put it on.
That armor controlled the clay army and soon the group was under
attack by them. They were able to eventually defeat the person in the
armor, only to find out that it was Ling Song, Jacqueline's Chinese
cleaning woman! Further research showed that she was in league with
former sheikh Hasan bin Mustafa and had been for a LONG time.
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Book 18 - Terror In The Skies
Jacqueline
had had enough of the airship pirate and as no one else was doing
anything about it, her group would. When they found it and caught up
with it, the found out it was no ordinary airship. Instead of being
covered in a cloth-like material, it was covered in some sort of
ceramic! And very smooth! The group, being the group, was able to
easily overcome any resistance and take over the airship. It is not
like any airship ever seen! The inside and outside seems to defy
gravity in a way the group can't figure out. It has been taken back
to Jacqueline's airfield for further study.
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