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Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Whilst exploring some ruins, looking for traces of an expedition that went missing some months ago, we encounter an ageing witch doctor tailing us. We confront him, and he turns out to be mostly friendly. He tells us that the expedition had indeed come this way, and left. That's a starting point. After buying a […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
'You're all in Peru.' 'Ah, I had intended to do some research on the area.' 'It's in South America.' 'Yep, that's about all I know.' 'It's in north-west South America.' '...which is it?' 'Definitely not East America.'
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
The artefact we find in the dream world returns with us when we awake. Good, the second one is ours. As we return to Cairo by train, Tobias takes some time to analyse the artefact. Tobias looks like he understands what the artefact is, and manages to activate it. Unfortunately, doing so causes a small, […]
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Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Drinking some strange concoction some strange man gave us, we find ourselves in some kind of dream world, one that is familiar to our investigations. We follow the path before us and eventually come before Apep, a massive worm that we have to defeat. We know from our research what we need to do, and […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
We manage to sneak somewhere we're not supposed to be. Good work, fellow investigators! Now we just need to get past a guard, to continue our investigations. But how? Maso has an idea. 'Why don't we fill the basement full of tear gas, and...' 'Because we're in the basement', I say. 'Without gas masks', adds […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
'Oh yeah! I crush the Sneak skill check! I move like the wind! ...what was the other check?' 'Listen.' 'I fail.' 'You don't say.'
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
'You walk in to the hospital. It is a normal, relatively busy hospital, and as you noticed from the outside it has three floors; the ground floor, and two floors above that.' 'Yes, I am familiar with how buildings work.'
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
We discuss plans for getting in to the dig site. Naturally, the question gets asked: what would Indiana Jones do? 'He'd maybe fill Rome with man-eating ants.' 'But who would play the ridiculous monkey king?' '...why do you do this to yourself?'
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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
There is a shady character who we find was following the man who has since been recently killed in somewhat suspicious circumstances. We arrange to bump in to him, and imply that we have the same goals, so that maybe we can get some information from him. The man suggests we meet later, after dark, […]
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Thursday, April 14th, 2016
An old flame comes to Vienna and asks to meet to catch up. She's only in Vienna for a short time, because her new fiancé, Botha, died recently. She's come to collect his belongings. 'Ah, already a Botha has died to bring us this adventure. This is already promising!'
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