The Archaeologists are aboard Lord Randolph's prototype Gasbag Airship, but the Red Tong of Professor Chou are aboard as stowaways. As the airship travels the Tong break out from boxes in the cargo hold. They attack the gondola and cut holes in the envelope hoping to bring the Airship down and recover the Jade Monkey.
SCENARIO SET UP
This scenario takes place at 10,000 feet. White cotton wool clouds surround the vessel.
Terrain
The Airship Gondola contains a forward section that has the (first-class) cabin. The forward area has the steering wheel for the ship. A hatch leads up to the gantry just below the gas bag. The rear compartment holds an engine room and also a limited quantity of cargo. To the rear of this compartment is the propeller.
Firing guns near the gas bag is a bad idea...
Place figures
The Royal Society members occupy the first class area, whilst the Tong are secreted among the cargo boxes.
Turn Limit
On turn one the Tong will emerge from their hiding places and attempt to swarm the forward compartment. They will also send men up and along the gantry.
Special Rules
Figures on the gantry may well fall or be pushed off the airship. Even though this is a pulp game this would result in a swift and plummeting end for a character.
Victory
The Tong will seek to bring the airship down. If they achieve this the airship will fall onto the slopes of the Himalayas.
Defeating the Tong will gain the Armed Archaeologists 5 Renown points.
Defeating the Archaeologists will gain the Tong 5 Renown points.
Even if the Tong lose the Archaeologist's pilot will discover that the airship is losing altitude. The crash into the Himalayas was inevitable it seems...
Building the Airship
I am the scourge of the local coffee shops, and regularly take an extra wooden stirrer... or two! These were the basis for the gondola. The gantry is a cut down bamboo place mat. I had no intention of sculpting a 3d gas bag so the shape of the dirigible itself is a 2d card cutout.
The Game
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| The Royal Society's Gasbag Airship moves among the clouds, high over the Himalayas |
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| Lord Randolph Farthingdale,(Wealthy Patron) Dr Howard Parker,(Archaeologist) Mr Rick O`Girk(Grad Student), Clarence Wiggamore (Valet) and Lady Amelia Keen (Archivist and swordswoman) |
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| Emerging from the baggage car... the Tong! |
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| O'Girk faces three Tong on the Gantry... did anyone tell him not to fire those revolvers? |
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| Lady Keen and Mr Wiggamore begin throwing Tong overboard as one launches himself from the steam apparatus onto his Lordship's sword stick! No gunfire used! |
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| O`Girk blazes away and knocks down a Tong. I roll a d6, Rick's shots fail to ignite the gasbag! |
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| Lady Keen is deadly. Cambridge Lady's sword champion 1880 |
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| Up on the Gantry Clarence is over-matched. Dr P lights his pipe! Once again the Gasbag fails to ignite! |
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| A serious duel as a halberd wielding Martial Arts guy battles her Ladyship. |
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| O`Girk is knocked out. The Tong jump into the gondola below... |
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| The tong drop among the Royal Society from above, as Her ladyship throws the martial Arts dude from the gondola |
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| Dr P is knocked out. His Lordship battles a Tong at the ship's wheel |
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| Professor Chou flees as Her Ladyship gives chase. He is the last surviving Tong |
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| He makes it to the gantry and is cornered. |
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| But his last desperate act is to throw a (patent pending) Amazing Professor Chou Firework! I have a bad feeling that the gasbag is doomed! |
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| His Lordship pilots the gasbag as it falls onto the mountains below... a But it's Pulp game and the Royal Society will return in... The Deadly Raft Trip To The Thuggee Temple |
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