<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">;-)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">see you tomorrow<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-20 21:24 GMT+10:00 Lev Lafayette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lev@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">lev@rpgreview.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Tomorrow night the intrepid investigators against the many masks of<br>
Nyarlathotep will journey further into Australia..<br>
<br>
In the last session the party made their way initially to Darwin, a small<br>
and sleepy town of wide streets and verandahs, but with a notable<br>
indigenous and Chinsese population.<br>
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<a href="http://aso.gov.au/titles/historical/darwin-c1926/clip3/" target="_blank">http://aso.gov.au/titles/historical/darwin-c1926/clip3/</a><br>
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Whilst setting themselves they received a message from Erica Carlyle of an<br>
extraordinary lecture that had been held in New York concerning a cult<br>
operating in northern Australia by Professor Anthony Cowles which followed<br>
The Father of All Bats. Whilst the cult was believed to be extinct, there<br>
was also a set of glass slides from one Arthur MacWhirr from Port Hedland<br>
which showed (a) enormous blocks of worked stone and (b) deaths from<br>
indigenous attacks which indicated practises similar to the extinct cult.<br>
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Listening to a few tall tales and true at the local drinking<br>
establishment, re-affirmed rumour that the bat cult was operating again.<br>
One tale spoke of a city in the middle of the Great Sandy Desert,<br>
attributed to a koori worker at the Randolph Shipping Company.<br>
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Visiting the Shipping Company, the party engaged with the foul-mouth yob<br>
who owned the place. They also noticed a box addressed to the Penhew<br>
Foundation. Putting aside any legal qualms in the quest to prevent the<br>
rise of a terrible alien, the investigators returned to the company and,<br>
by a combination of inebriation, stealth, and pure good luck, escaped with<br>
the contents of the box. A strange alien artifact! Putting discretion<br>
befor valor, they left for Port Hedland in their yacht.<br>
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In the even smaller town of Port Hedland they made inquiries for Arthur<br>
MacWhirr which led them to the home of Robert Mackenzie who informed them<br>
of Arthur's demise, but with the memory of the location of the strange<br>
city planted firmly in his mind.<br>
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<a href="http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=port+hedland&filter[]=pi%3Anla.pic*&type=all" target="_blank">http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=port+hedland&filter[]=pi%3Anla.pic*&type=all</a><br>
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About as isolated as one can get, really..<br>
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<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?oe=UTF8&ie=UTF8&msa=0&hl=en&mid=zCjC1Xm99eI4.kSiwzfpCAtdk" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?oe=UTF8&ie=UTF8&msa=0&hl=en&mid=zCjC1Xm99eI4.kSiwzfpCAtdk</a><br>
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MacKenzie's recommendation was that the party travel to Cuncudgerie by<br>
train and from their make their way to the site by vehicle. Reaching this<br>
boom town, in a manner of speaking, the investigators once again found a<br>
rich source of rumours at the local drinking establishment. This time it<br>
spoke of covered up mining disasters, attacks by bears(!) on cattle, the<br>
need to avoid the Slattery's of Dingo Falls, a mining expedition led by<br>
John Carver, a sighting of a ghost near Dingo's Falls, the sighting of<br>
giant birds, weird tall emaciated Kooris, and.. of course, the story of<br>
Arthur McWhirr.<br>
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Not much there these days either :)<br>
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--<br>
Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech<br>
Mngmnt) (Chifley)<br>
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