Off to Egypt!

Raw Dump

• John Murray fell off island and No One Could Have Survived That
• Lady Gladys Edeso and Miss Elizabeth Imrie dead near island's original location
• Prince of Bosso-Kuni somewhere in Africa
• Reverend James Park -- China
• Mr. John Gray -- Egypt
• Victor Keyhoe -- NYC
• Edward Wodehouse -- China
• Jacoby Weiss -- NYC

Three beams of light from the crystal pointed to Egypt, China, and New York, but not to wherever the Prince of Boss-Kuni is.

Did I get a chance to introduce you?

You may have made a few gestures.

So, no, not really.

Gregory, did I have the opportunity to introduce you to Miss Wilkinson?

You may have made a couple of gestures.

New Aspect: They're All In Cahoots

Pleased to meet you, Gregory. I... feel like I know you already.

Oh, you see I heard Madam Psychosis, and people call her all sorts of things back home...

So apparently the word exists to be misunderstood, which is awesome

I like Madam Psychosis

I thought that was your mother

Especially if they don't know that anything went wrong

Do you know, I think they noticed.

It's not like we noticed when Alice fell off the island

You didn't.

We were distracted

Well _I_ noticed

Weren't you unconscious?

Not for all of it.

Someone other that you or me or me pretending to be you -- do you think she'd even go for that -- of course she would --

I am quite sure the mw has NOT thot of this

That is actually of the hairbrained schemes that have been hatched, one of the better ones

It is still a terrible idea

Victor and Angelina explore the nooks and crannies. Of the island.

V and A are looking for monster poop on their date

Of course they are. You guys are really cute

What are we doing with our floating island while we are asking questions of the locals?

Parking it in the river.

But it isn't the right time for the river to flood. Can't we just leave it floating?

Well... we don't have to take the flying island _all_ the way to Alexandria. We could just park it at the peak of an inaccessible mountain.

Out of curiosity, do we know how to start it again once we part it?

Well, we have the whole flight to Egypt to figure out how to park it.

How did we park it before?

But, Egyptian fashions!

No, that's true. Egyptian fashions are important!

Hollingsworth and Deosa

Arrove -- that is the best past participle of arriving that I have heard.

He went a rovoing and then he arrove

I thot the congo and egypt were on dif sides of africa

We have a floating island

I gotta get me one of those

Moves at the speed of Plot +1

I could be her bookish companion

Then who am I?

My other bookish companion

Do we even know that they had two sexes -- did they have two sexes?

Oh, quite.

Oh.

There were several different kinds of martian weddings. There were contracts, often in a political marriage where people wd agre to get maried for a specfic amount of time, usually until a child was born. There were old style weddings, ill thought of, and not legal, but the law treated them with some respect, esp iff the parents agreed.

Possibly the people who were there bfore us

Oh, so there are old old maritans. are ther enew new maritans? And will we like them any better?

Let me tell you a little secret. England's like this.

What do you think the next people will be? Will they be peopel like talos and me?

If we're not careful, they will be maritans.

And those were the only two kinds of marriage?

Certainly not!

The marriage by capture

Does it work both ways?

Victor is following a mumified ghul

Reginald is going to talk to John Gray

Alice is going to follow Victor as back up

Sophronia is going to do a scoop of the camp for other ghuls

Leaving Angelina and Mace in their separate tents, unless they do something

Story Games Thread

In Kerberos Fate, our heroes need to take their floating island somewhere (they picked Egypt) to deal with a Martian invasion, but first, Reginald (PC) had to deal with the man he's been impersonating, Gregory, the Pennsington Heir, who'd much rather stay in the Congo, with his native wife, who's pregnant, than go back to England. Reginald doesn't really want to stay the Pennsington Heir, as his girlfriend, Sophronia (PC), would really rather not be Lady Pennsington.

Reginald: Did I get a chance to introduce you to Gregory?

Sophronia: You may have made a few gestures.

Reginald: So, no, not really.

Later:

Reginald: Gregory, did I have the opportunity to introduce you to Miss Wilkinson?

Gregory: You may have made a couple of gestures.

Alden, who plays Reginald: I want a New Aspect: They're All In Cahoots!

Sophronia: Pleased to meet you, Gregory. I... feel like I know you already.

The three of them talked about Alice (PC) who was a Martian in a previous life. Gregory used the term "metempsychosis", which was completely misheard.

Sophronia: Oh, you see I heard Madam Psychosis, and people call her all sorts of things back home...

Alice's player, Josh, said he'd also heard it as "Madam Psychosis". I explained that I'd learned the word from James Joyce's Ulysses, where Molly mishears it as "met him pike hosis".

Josh: So apparently the word exists to be misunderstood, which is awesome.

Nunzio, who plays Victor: I like Madam Psychosis.

GM: I thought that was your mother.

(Victor's mother was the head of an Evil Conspiracy, her end goal being to erase everyone's memory of the scandal that she felt deprived her of her rightful social position.)

Meanwhile, Victor and his fiance, Angelina, explored the various nooks and crannies -- of the floating island. They were also interested in some monsters from last session, Victor wondering about whether they excreted, and if so, how.

GM: So, Victor and Angelina are looking for monster poop on their date.

Sophronia: Of course they are. You guys are really cute

Eventually, folks reached Egypt.

Sophronia: What are we doing with our floating island while we are asking questions of the locals?

Reginald: Parking it in the river.

Sophronia: But it isn't the right time for the river to flood. Can't we just leave it floating?

Reginald: Well... we don't have to take the flying island _all_ the way to Alexandria. We could just park it at the peak of an inaccessible mountain.

Sophronia: Out of curiosity, do we know how to start it again once we part it?

Reginald: Well, we have the whole flight to Egypt to figure out how to park it.

Sophronia: How did we park it before?

Well, they'd just left someone on board to steer it in circles. I think they eventually figured out how to park it more elegantly. They decided to leave Deosa, an African woman they'd rescued who'd decided she wanted to see the world, and a male doctor on the island. Folks thought about leaving a chaperone, as they had one with him, a woman who was up on the latest fashions, as well as on the unspoken rules of when to pretend not to see something.

GM: But, Egyptian fashions!

Alice: No, that's true. Egyptian fashions are important!

So, the pair are unchaperoned. The doctor's shown himself as fairly moral, so the group figures the biggest danger is the woman seduces him. I think that if she wants to get into trouble, she's more likely to leave the island and go exploring on her own, but I'm not sure either will add anything to the upcoming session.

And, our heroes arrove!

Sophronia: Arrove -- that is the best past participle of arriving that I have heard.

Someone: He went arrovoing and then he arrove.

Nunzio's roommate (coming in to overhear some of this): I thought the Congo and Egypt were on different sides of Africa.

Nunzio: We have a floating island.

Roommate: I gotta get me one of those.

Someone: It moves at the speed of Plot +1.

GM: At the speed of Plot.

Someone: +1.

(repeat those last two lines a few times)

The PCs decided that Alice and her finace would pose as a ditzy English couple (not a very far stretch).

Angelina: I could be her bookish companion.

Sophronia: Then who am I?

Alice: My other bookish companion.

Write Up Attempt

• John Murray fell off island and No One Could Have Survived That
• Lady Gladys Edeso and Miss Elizabeth Imrie dead near island's original location
• Prince of Bosso-Kuni somewhere in Africa
• Reverend James Park -- China
• Mr. John Gray -- Egypt
• Victor Keyhoe -- NYC
• Edward Wodehouse -- China
• Jacoby Weiss -- NYC

Three beams of light from the crystal pointed to Egypt, China, and New York, but not to wherever the Prince of Boss-Kuni is.

Our heroes needed to take their floating island somewhere (they picked Egypt) to deal with a Martian invasion, but first, Reginald had to deal with the man he's been impersonating, Gregory, the Pennsington Heir, who'd much rather stay in the Congo, with his native wife, who's pregnant, than go back to England. Reginald doesn't really want to stay the Pennsington Heir, as his girlfriend, Sophronia, would really rather not be Lady Pennsington.

Reginald: Did I get a chance to introduce you to Gregory?

Sophronia: You may have made a few gestures.

Reginald: So, no, not really.

Later:

Reginald: Gregory, did I have the opportunity to introduce you to Miss Wilkinson?

Gregory: You may have made a couple of gestures.

Alden, who plays Reginald: I want a New Aspect: They're All In Cahoots!

Sophronia: Pleased to meet you, Gregory. I... feel like I know you already.

The three of them talked about Alice, who was a Martian in a previous life. Gregory used the term "metempsychosis", which was completely misheard.

Sophronia: Oh, you see I heard Madam Psychosis, and people call her all sorts of things back home...

Alice's player, Josh, said he'd also heard it as "Madam Psychosis". I explained that I'd learned the word from James Joyce's Ulysses, where Molly mishears it as "met him pike hosis".

Josh: So apparently the word exists to be misunderstood, which is awesome.

Nunzio, who plays Victor: I like Madam Psychosis.

GM: I thought that was your mother.

(Victor's mother was the head of an Evil Conspiracy, her end goal being to erase everyone's memory of the scandal that she felt deprived her of her rightful social position.)

I forget the context of this:

Someone: Especially if they don't know that anything went wrong.

Sophronia: Do you know, I think they noticed.

Reginald: It's not like we noticed when Alice fell off the island.

Alice: You didn't.

Reginald: We were distracted.

Alice: Well _I_ noticed.

Victor: Weren't you unconscious?

Alice: Not for all of it.

We came to the inevitable mental conflict between Gregory and Reginald, where the two were perfectly matched, as I'd modeled Gregory's stats on Reginald's. Reginald tried to get Gregory to agree to come home, to agree to send his children home, to do anything that would let Reginald take up his own identity again.

Gregory would have none of it. He didn't want to give his family, particularly his mother, a chance to get her hooks into him or his future children. Eventually, Reginald came up with a reasonable enough plan for visiting that did all that could humanly be done to guarantee that Gregory's children could return home as soon as they wanted to. I had Gregory give at that point, because it was so reasonable, and because the two were just too perfectly matched for a battle of wits to end any time soon.

I don't recall the context of these lines:

Gregory: Someone other that you or me or me pretending to be you -- do you think she'd even go for that -- of course she would --

Someone: I am quite sure the [illegible] has NOT thought of this.

Reginald: That is actually, of the hairbrained schemes that have been hatched, one of the better ones.

Gregory (or perhaps Victor): It is still a terrible idea.

Meanwhile, Victor and his fiance, Angelina, explored the various nooks and crannies -- of the floating island. They were also interested in some monsters from last session, Victor wondering about whether they excreted, and if so, how.

GM: So, Victor and Angelina are looking for monster poop on their date.

Sophronia: Of course they are. You guys are really cute

Eventually, folks reached Egypt.

Sophronia: What are we doing with our floating island while we are asking questions of the locals?

Reginald: Parking it in the river.

Sophronia: But it isn't the right time for the river to flood. Can't we just leave it floating?

Reginald: Well... we don't have to take the flying island _all_ the way to Alexandria. We could just park it at the peak of an inaccessible mountain.

Sophronia: Out of curiosity, do we know how to start it again once we part it?

Reginald: Well, we have the whole flight to Egypt to figure out how to park it.

Sophronia: How did we park it before?

Well, they'd just left someone on board to steer it in circles. I think they eventually figured out how to park it more elegantly. They decided to leave Deosa, an African woman they'd rescued who'd decided she wanted to see the world, and a male doctor on the island. Folks thought about leaving a chaperone, as they had one with him, a woman who was up on the latest fashions, as well as on the unspoken rules of when to pretend not to see something.

GM: But, Egyptian fashions!

Alice: No, that's true. Egyptian fashions are important!

So, the pair are unchaperoned. The doctor's shown himself as fairly moral, so the group figures the biggest danger is the woman seduces him. I think that if she wants to get into trouble, she's more likely to leave the island and go exploring on her own, but I'm not sure either will add anything to the upcoming session.

And, our heroes arrove!

Sophronia: Arrove -- that is the best past participle of arriving that I have heard.

Someone: He went arrovoing and then he arrove.

Nunzio's roommate (coming in to overhear some of this): I thought the Congo and Egypt were on different sides of Africa.

Nunzio: We have a floating island.

Roommate: I gotta get me one of those.

Someone: It moves at the speed of Plot +1.

GM: At the speed of Plot.

Someone: +1.

(repeat those last two lines a few times)

The PCs decided that Alice and her finace would pose as a ditzy English couple (not a very far stretch).

Angelina: I could be her bookish companion.

Sophronia: Then who am I?

Alice: My other bookish companion.

Reginald shapeshifted to become a native guide, while Victor posed, very badly, as a servant. They tracked down the British Martian cultist John Gray to an Egyptian dig, and I gave scatterbrained infodumps, as I had not expected folks to go to Egypt. I knew which scenario to use, but I wasn't fully prepped. So we broke, and I made what corrections were needed for next time.