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* '''Part 1 - Prelude in Paris''' <br> Our story begins with action as [[Doctor Bermuda]], [[Brendan Lewis Cook]], [[Charles "Charlie" Desgrange]] and the [[Rabbit]] race to the top of the [[Jog Falls]] in India, their prize, the [[Naga Crown]] in their hands and [[The Marut Cult]] hot on their heels. Narrowly escaping the fanatical cultists, our heroes make their way to Paris and [[The Lazarus Trust]] where their section chief, [[S. Wilson Rosepere]] soon sends them off again, this time by train, to investigate strange happenings in Vienna. <br> Aboard the [[Orient Express]], our heroes meet an array of travellers, including Turkish merchant [[Adem Sengul]], Italian opera diva [[Amelita Galli-Curci]] and Romanian rocket scientist [[Henri Coanda]]. Dr. Bermuda strikes up an easy friendship with his fellow scientist while Charlie finds he shares a common interest with the Turk - cars. As the week-long journey hits its last night, however, the relative quiet it shattered by the piercing shriek of Sig.ra Galli-Curci. Despite the train's speed, a large bat had made its way inside and was flapping its way around the lady's hair. Thanks to the quick thinking of Cook and Dr. Coanda's daughter, [[Bethany Coanda|Bethany]], the bat is soon flushed out into the night air. The mystery, however, remained. | * '''Part 1 - Prelude in Paris''' <br> Our story begins with action as [[Doctor Bermuda]], [[Brendan Lewis Cook]], [[Charles "Charlie" Desgrange]] and the [[Rabbit]] race to the top of the [[Jog Falls]] in India, their prize, the [[Naga Crown]] in their hands and [[The Marut Cult]] hot on their heels. Narrowly escaping the fanatical cultists, our heroes make their way to Paris and [[The Lazarus Trust]] where their section chief, [[S. Wilson Rosepere]] soon sends them off again, this time by train, to investigate strange happenings in Vienna. <br> Aboard the [[Orient Express]], our heroes meet an array of travellers, including Turkish merchant [[Adem Sengul]], Italian opera diva [[Amelita Galli-Curci]] and Romanian rocket scientist [[Henri Coanda]]. Dr. Bermuda strikes up an easy friendship with his fellow scientist while Charlie finds he shares a common interest with the Turk - cars. As the week-long journey hits its last night, however, the relative quiet it shattered by the piercing shriek of Sig.ra Galli-Curci. Despite the train's speed, a large bat had made its way inside and was flapping its way around the lady's hair. Thanks to the quick thinking of Cook and Dr. Coanda's daughter, [[Bethany Coanda|Bethany]], the bat is soon flushed out into the night air. The mystery, however, remained. | ||
| β | * '''Part 2 - The Viennese Expedition''' <br> Arriving in Vienna, our [[Intrepid Explorers]] say their goodbyes to their new friends and hello an old one, [[Wendell Harper]]. Although Cook is the only one of the team to have met him before Harper is, like they, an agent of the Lazarus Trust. As head of the Viennese chapter house, Harper guides them around the Austrian countryside as they conduct their investigation. Charlie and Cook interview [[ | + | * '''Part 2 - The Viennese Expedition''' <br> Arriving in Vienna, our [[Intrepid Explorers]] say their goodbyes to their new friends and hello an old one, [[Wendell Harper]]. Although Cook is the only one of the team to have met him before Harper is, like they, an agent of the Lazarus Trust. As head of the Viennese chapter house, Harper guides them around the Austrian countryside as they conduct their investigation. Charlie and Cook interview [[Stephan Schlegel]], a man committed to the Krugel asylum ever since he ran down from the black forest near the Alps, claiming that the trees spoke to him; meanwhile, Dr. Bermuda and the Rabbit interview [[Otto Rudolphe|Otto and ]][[Anna Rudolphe|Anna Rudolphe]], two local farmers who found a strange skeleton on the ground near their farm one morning. <br> The group is together again by the time they speak to [[Fritz Gehrber]], a banker in the nearby village of Heitzing who claims something was following him during a hunting expedition the month before. In Heitzing they also discover that local burgher, botanist and former baron, [[Joseph Dippel|Doctor Joseph Dippel]], is throwing a dinner party. When Charlie finds that Dippel also has soldiers on hand, the group contrives to attend his party. |
* '''Part 3 - The Strange Events of Doctor Dippel's Party''' <br> As Dippel welcomes his many guests and invites them to take their seats, our heroes strike up conversations to lead them on in their investigation. Charlie discovers that one of the soldiers he encountered the night before is working as one of Dippel's waiters and Dr. Bermuda once again meets Dr. Coanda, who's present to provide the evening's end's entertainment. Cook, meanwhile, finds another ally of the Lazarus Trust, [[Lord John Stevens]], who Dippel invited in an attempt to gain funding for his research. <br> These aren't the only people attending the party, though, and as Dr.s Bermuda and Coanda work on designs for a rocket plane Charlie has a brief exchange with his old enemy, German air ace [[Rheinholdt Dietrich]]. The Rabbit, meanwhile, is approached by [[Ruthven Vaneko]], a Romanian noble convinced that Dippel is trying to have him assassinated. He offers Rabbit information on Dippel in exchange for protection. Dippel comes over before the discussion can go much further, though, and Vaneko says they'll continue later. <br> Dinner at an end, Dippel invites his guests outside to see Dr. Coanda's fireworks. The explorers, however, have other plans. Rabbit follows, but soon loses, Vaneko; Cook follows Dietrich to an underground hanger where the German quickly leaves in a biplane; and John Stevens speaks with the castle's rats in an attempt to uncover Dippel's secrets. <br> Soon the group gathers together again in Dippel's secret laboratory only to find themselves pinned down by gunfire from the doctor's soldiers. Taking a quick moment to grab Dippel's notes and journal from the lab table, our heroes plot their escape when a nine-foot tall monstrosity trundles out of an adjacent room, hurls a vat of acid at our heroes and bellows out in an inhuman voice - "grey and grizzly!" It's Dippel's creation! | * '''Part 3 - The Strange Events of Doctor Dippel's Party''' <br> As Dippel welcomes his many guests and invites them to take their seats, our heroes strike up conversations to lead them on in their investigation. Charlie discovers that one of the soldiers he encountered the night before is working as one of Dippel's waiters and Dr. Bermuda once again meets Dr. Coanda, who's present to provide the evening's end's entertainment. Cook, meanwhile, finds another ally of the Lazarus Trust, [[Lord John Stevens]], who Dippel invited in an attempt to gain funding for his research. <br> These aren't the only people attending the party, though, and as Dr.s Bermuda and Coanda work on designs for a rocket plane Charlie has a brief exchange with his old enemy, German air ace [[Rheinholdt Dietrich]]. The Rabbit, meanwhile, is approached by [[Ruthven Vaneko]], a Romanian noble convinced that Dippel is trying to have him assassinated. He offers Rabbit information on Dippel in exchange for protection. Dippel comes over before the discussion can go much further, though, and Vaneko says they'll continue later. <br> Dinner at an end, Dippel invites his guests outside to see Dr. Coanda's fireworks. The explorers, however, have other plans. Rabbit follows, but soon loses, Vaneko; Cook follows Dietrich to an underground hanger where the German quickly leaves in a biplane; and John Stevens speaks with the castle's rats in an attempt to uncover Dippel's secrets. <br> Soon the group gathers together again in Dippel's secret laboratory only to find themselves pinned down by gunfire from the doctor's soldiers. Taking a quick moment to grab Dippel's notes and journal from the lab table, our heroes plot their escape when a nine-foot tall monstrosity trundles out of an adjacent room, hurls a vat of acid at our heroes and bellows out in an inhuman voice - "grey and grizzly!" It's Dippel's creation! | ||
