[Nyarlathotep] [Fwd: The City Beneath the Sand]

[andrewdaborn]

Photos? Might be interested in the furniture.  Sorry you can't make it.


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From: Jens Adler Nielsen <jens.adler.nielsen at gmail.com>
Date:30/06/2015  15:52  (GMT+10:00)
To: Nyarlathotep <nyarlathotep at rpgreview.net>
Subject: Re: [Nyarlathotep] [Fwd: The City Beneath the Sand]

I forgot to mention my two sofas....
On 30/06/2015 7:26 am, "Jens Adler Nielsen" <jens.adler.nielsen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Damn! I cannot make it. I have a buyer for much of my stuff and he can
> only buy it this Thursday night.
>
> Btw any of you guys interested borderline free stuff? I have a car (not
> road worthy), a good fridge, a good desk, and a so-so dinning table left.
>
> Cheers,
> /Jens
> On 30/06/2015 5:48 am, "Lev Lafayette" <lev at rpgreview.net> wrote:
>
>> Reminder that we are on this Thursday...
>>
>> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
>> Subject: The City Beneath the Sand
>> From:    "Lev Lafayette" <lev at rpgreview.net>
>> Date:    Wed, June 17, 2015 10:01 pm
>> To:      "Nyarlathotep" <nyarlathotep at rpgreview.net>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The chapater started as the Investigators engaged in a mighty battle at a
>> campsite with a group of Koori cultists armed with firearms. Jack Brady
>> and Jabari made a remarkable and brave attack by engaging them
>> hand-to-hand, whilst Eva and Stephan preferred a long-range exchange of
>> lead. Eventually the cultists were defeated and the Investigators located
>> an entrance to a passageway below the sands, illuminated by a thin strand
>> of lights. Choosing to rest for a while, they were beset by a great
>> whirlwind, which proved to be one of the great elder race of yore, a
>> Flying Polyp.
>>
>> "[The flying polyps were a] horrible elder race of half polypous, utterly
>> alien entities... They were only partly material and had the power of
>> aerial motion, despite the absence of wings... [They exhibited] a
>> monstrous plasticity and ... temporary lapses of visibility... [S]ingular
>> whistling noises and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe
>> marks seemed also to be associated with them."
>>
>> Inside there were even more cultists is dirty lodgings. Whilst the
>> Investigators did defeat a significant number of these, it was not without
>> loss; both Eva and Jabari were sufficiently wounded that they had to be
>> 'stored' in one of these chambers. A couple of cultists also seemed to
>> carry extraordinary weapons that fired bolts of electricity for a short
>> range. What manner of alien technology was this?
>>
>> As the party of two continued down the passageways beneath the Great Sandy
>> Desert, far from civilization, half-dead and half-mad, the last chance of
>> humanity against monsters of which few placid people on earth even knew
>> existed, they encountered a tall, emaciated being, so thin that it became
>> invisible when turned sideways. It beckoned the pair through a slit in the
>> rocks and offered to help them, if they helped defeat not only the flying
>> polyp that was outside, but four others.
>>
>> As the remaining party wondered what they could possibly do under such
>> circumstances, a different problem arose for Jabari and Eva, who awoke in
>> a room of cages of which the were interred along with many other,
>> primarily Koori people. They were obviously long suffering and weak,
>> moaning piteously of their condition. One cage held only pregnant women...
>>
>> - - - -
>>
>> Tomorrow night we discover whether the Investigators will someone overcome
>> these horrific odds and defeat the cult and discover the meaning of this
>> great old city.
>>
>>
>> --
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