Session Summary

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S1- Character Intro: Interview for the Starkweather-Moore Expedition. “Word of advice: Starkweather may ask the questions but its Moore you need to impress.”

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S2- Stop the Presses; We got a Story…Juicy!: Spy reporter watches Pier 74B and the SS Gabrielle. Three other expeditions are planned around the same timeframe. Potential sabotage. Now a 4th expedition… headed by a woman who obviously rattles Starkweather’s demeanor! “Advance the schedule; we leave on the 9th. And get me a woman!”

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S3- I Don’t Believe in Coincidences: background info about Starkweather’s and Acacia Lexington’s tiff. And the murder of our captain Douglas! Now threatening notes trying to get us not to sail.

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S4- I Drink and I Know Things: Sabotage at the docks! As the SS Tallahassee pulls away from its own blazing dock. At least Dr. Oskar Orendorf captured the saboteur! News about a manuscript meant for Moore stolen by Germans!

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S5- “Ship on the Line. Stand Ready for Boarding.” Last minute inspections and inventory. What else could go wrong?! Days behind Acacia’s Tallahassee as we sail towards the Panama canals. Then onward into the Pacific Ocean where the crew holds ceremony for crossing the equator. King Neptune aboard! Laughter turned sour by a sabotaged refrigerator and loss of food supplies!

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S6- “Damn Starkers”: left with eating the pemmican meant for arctic survival. Tracking the on-board saboteur. Poisoning of sled dogs and a bomb found aboard!! Resupply in Melbourne.

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S7- “Cowboys and Enguns”: Ordered resupplies not ready or incorrect order delays departure. Finally weigh anchor and set sail into the teeth of the southern winds and rising seas. More sabotage as heavy equipment breaks loose in the storm tossed seas. Chance upon a relic stuck in the ice: the old whaler Wallaroo now an abandoned derelict. Frightful scene aboard its decks!

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S8- “Mayday, mayday!”: 28-days since leaving Melbourne and they FINALLY saw their destination. Mt. Erebus low on the horizon to the west which meant Ross Island dead ahead. More days to actually lay anchor and unload. Cursed as fissures open and threaten to swallow the stacked gear! But we are not the only to suffer as the radio crackles, “Mayday, mayday. This is the Tallahassee reporting. Lexington camp under attack.”

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S9- “This must be it! One of Lake’s find.” Aiding the Lexington camp leads to a unified effort as exemplified with a joined (Nov 24th) Thanksgiving feast. Then onward flight to the last known report of Lake’s camp. Once found, they began exploration of the site to determine what happened over a year ago. Tents uncovered revealed unexpected discoveries. Another party discovers the reported bore cave. What’s with these vertical shafts topped with 5-pointed stone? Horror awaits!

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S10- Uncovering the Cots and Plots: Horrific discoveries as they unearth Lake’s camp and perform their own autopsy on one of the unearthed lifeforms. All while battling nature and the ever-present threat of frostbite and hyperthermia and the ever distasteful pemmican. More of Lake’s tents unearthed from their snow and ice cairn. The sight of blood most concerning: work of a madman?

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S11- A Call for Help? Dr. Cope examines the barrel-bodied creature and offers his plate tectonics theory of why such diverse fossils found inside the fabled cave of Lake’s lore. But also more discoveries and theories as to what happened to Lake’s team! Troublesome sleep, disturbed by the arrival of planes from the Barsm Falken Expedition, “Acacia called for our help.”

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S12- Crazy American: Confronting the Germans and taking notes with an air of distrust of both them and Acacia’s team. Surprise? Not really, that the German’s seem to know more than we. And came better equipped with chainsaws and an electric ‘ice-knife’. Which quickly revealed another burial cairn… of almost 3-dozen sled dogs! Stacked like cordwood but evidence they were violently slain, butchered, flayed and skinned down to bone and tendons. Just like when the German leader, Dr. Meyer, called us to witness the grotesque scene inside Lake’s frozen airplane hanger! The Germans acting as if they already knew, which boiled Sampson’s frayed nerves as he confronted them!

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S12a- The Dyer Manuscript: A revealing discovery of what Professor Dyer secretly recorded about their failed 1931 expedition!

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S13- “My God, this is the greatest discovery ever!” Dyer’s transcripts: Horror yet curious and compelling to the scientific eye. A planned flight to the reported city on the other side of the mountain range. Two planes: Acacia and the Germans versus Starkweather/Moore’s team. What could go wrong? It’s a joint effort, right? Such as poisoned oxygen bottles needed for the high altitude destination? But once airborne and in sight, it WAS breathtaking! Dyer’s notes didn’t do it justice.

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S14- Like a Coon-dog sniffing everything: They land on the 20,000ft plateau with no sight of Acacia’s plane. Starkweather voices concern for her yet settles for his own efforts to be the first in discoveries. They struck off in different directions to explore the strange city of the elder gods. One team to explore underground of a collapsed central tower, on edge per Dyer’s mention of ‘shoggoth’ things. Frightful discoveries to include Gedney’s tomb. Starkweather returned with a backpack full of his own discoveries. They searched the city and its strange labyrinth layout. Puzzled at the murals depicting the history of the elder gods and their language of dots. They slowly worked their way thru the city before they stood near the base of towering colossal headless sentinels that straddled a now frozen river.

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S15- Rescue Party: Plans to recover Gedney’s body led them back inside the tower. Thoughts of Dyer’s words about 6ft tall penguins, ‘Tekeli-li’, and Shoggoth unsettled their nerves yet onward they trekked. More exploration to discover recent etchings that documented Dyer and Danforth’s escape! Elders still live?! Then they heard for themselves ‘Tekeli-li’ that prompted their retreat. Only to climb topside and hear a gunshot near their camp. And see a fellow member collapse dead as an unknown figure jumped from the Enderby just before it burst into flames! Discovery of the true saboteur! And the appearance of an elder god that grabbed Starkweather and flew off!

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S16- To the Tower and its Hypnotic Eye: With members of Acacia’s flight joined, they fly after the elder carrying Starkweather beyond the edge of the city to a distant tower with a ray-like beacon that sweeps the sky. After landing, they trek to the tower and begin to climb. Inside, the air breathable and warm as if it was a temperate southern climate. With parkas discarded, they climbed higher and higher where the walls were covered in more murals that document the passage of elder time through the eons. While they rose, their sanity collapsed. Voices in his head? Wilbur raised his rifle and shot his perceived threat.

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S17- For the Good of Humanity! They find Starkweather… and wish they hadn’t! No wonder Dyer was so determined to keep humanity from the elder doorsteps.


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