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| - This time the PCs were escorting the main protagonist of the expedition: Mrs Annabel Godbehere, a psychic archaeologist. Huge strides have been made in the field of psychic archaeology. Lord Beresford thought that the newly-discovered ruins of Great Zimbabwe must have had connections with other great civilisations of Africa, and the talented Mrs Godbehere, if placed on the ground, could follow the mystic trail to find the Kingdom of Sheba, and artifacts of its Queen, or whatever other cultures lay out there. At the very least, she could find the gold mines that were the source of Great Zimbabwe’s wealth.
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| - This time the PCs were escorting the main protagonist of the expedition: Mrs Annabel Godbehere, a psychic archaeologist. Huge strides have been made in the field of psychic archaeology. Lord Beresford thought that the newly-discovered ruins of Great Zimbabwe must have had connections with other great civilisations of Africa, and the talented Mrs Godbehere, if placed on the ground, could follow the mystic trail to find the Kingdom of Sheba, and artifacts of its Queen, or whatever other cultures lay out there. At the very least, she could find the gold mines that were the source of Great Zimbabwe’s wealth. Unfortunately, Mrs Godbehere was a sheltered nineteen-year-old at the start of the expedition, who needed chaperoning if she was to travel with this uncouth band of adventurers. So along with her came her husband, mother, and brother. Mr Gerald Godbehere, her husband, was much older man, a henpecked nonentity but nevertheless a rich and influential chap back home, heir to the large family ropemaking business. Annabel’s mother Mrs Lanchester was a very strict, prudish and upright woman with strong (and loud) opinions on just about everything. Completely dominating the household, she had no faith in Mr Godbehere’s ability to protect her daughter, so she left her husband and other children at home in order to provide that necessary guardianship. (When I was playing their characters, Mrs Lanchester was based on Joan Sims’ roles in the Carry On films, Mr Godbehere on Kenneth Connor, and Annabel on Barbara Windsor.) Annabel’s brother James Lanchester came on a special dispensation to take a year out between school and university. It was instead of going off on a Grand Tour of Europe, and initially he resented it because his ‘special time’ was going to be overseen by his mother, sister, and eight boring older ‘guides’, and on a continent where he was very unlikely to come into contact with white women who would provide the other ‘education’ young men on a Grand Tour normally receive. They also brought along Mrs. Lanchester’s long-suffering maid Henrietta. The group was by now a small army: seven player-characters, the NPC magical healer, three Traveller drivers and three engineers, the Sergeant who ran the Traveller personnel and organised the camp (all seven of these were NPCs but each played by a player as a secondary PC), four Lanchesters & Godbeheres, one ladies’ maid, and the hired woodcutters and haulers to fuel the three 20’ walking machines.
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