The Dozen board the Peregrine, but are quickly subdued by the crew.
There is a meeting between Peter, The Professor, and The Man in White. TMiW declares that he has kidnapped (name goes here), a tavern-wench sweetheart of Peter’s to ensure that the Peregrine delivers a shipment of Unobtanium to TMiW.
Peter squeezes Pepe for information, and is told that the girl was indeed kidnapped and taken away in a car matching the description of the one owned by TMiW.
There is a cut scene in which it is revealed that The Marlin Institute, founded by the Professor, decides to hunt him down in the past and reaquire the Gyroscopic X-Ring for an exhibit honoring him in the future. The exibit will be great for fundraising for The Institute.
The Professor is seduced by Sophie Moreau, and she ties him up in his salon, then steals the Gyroscopic X-Ring. But why does she spare his life?
Next week…
…a cat fight between Summer and Sophie, Peter is impaled (once again) with a harpoon, and crosshairs aimed at the green-haired head of Helen De Winter.
This is an amplification of some of the stuff that happened in tonight’s gaming session in the STorms of Time (April 25). Transcript, I’m sure, will be made available, so if you don’t know what’s going on, you need to read the transcript first.
However, Will and I were fleshing out some ideas about what happened.
First of all, The Golden Dragon.
I was thinking that the mobsters in the Golden Dragon know something, and they are funding Marlin’s research. Marlin is continuously is entangling himself further in with these folks. The mobsters know something about the future? Or Xanadu? Or something? They know that the Gyroscopic X-Ring is important and that we must have it.
The Zombie Pit:
I’m thinking that one of the people in charge of the supply of White Fairy likes to make sure that pilots play ball (They may be the Golden Dragon folks, too). There’s a place that is legendary to pilots, a scary place. It is the place where they store the white fairy. When the keepers of the white fairy wish to punish someone, they put them within sight of the stuff and let them jones into zombie-hood. They become zombies while staring at the thing that could stop the process. They guard the stuff with the zombies that result from this practice. Pilots know this place exist and are wary of it.
The Mysterious File
When I invented the file, well, I’m thinking that this may be something to do with navigating the storm, but I’ll wait and hopefully learn to narrate it into play.
The deal with Jessie:
Will and I were trying to figure out exactly what our characters were like, because Will felt that he had a shade too much Sean Connery. We felt that maybe if he was more like Thufir Hawat (Spelling?) from the 1986 Dune film, it might be a little better (perhaps he could be a little younger, though, really). We determined that my character, Rullar, is a bit like the cop character in Sin City who protects and loves that girl (character’s name eludes me). He’s not quite figured out that he may not be able to get her, even though he loves her.
I also had another idea as to why the harpoon through the side did not kill Rullar. Perhaps, as a result of the first encounter with a harpoon, Rullar has some cybernetic parts. That is why it didn’t hurt him nearly as much to get hit with the harpoon this time.
Remember, Brennen, to retroactive whatever was said by the Man in White. We might also create the owner of the Golden Dragon.
Just some thoughts we had.
Plotspider