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5: Flight To Bourbony.

Posted by GM StarMasterFor group 0
GM StarMaster
GM, 224 posts
Mon 20 Apr 2015
at 23:48
  • msg #1

Flight To Bourbony

The Falcon has been restocked, courtesy of Princess Yetive as well as Remi's, Viktor's and Matthew's efforts. So once everyone was aboard, Remi had the lines cast off by the ground crew. The ship began its slow majestic rise into the skies over Graustark.

Within a few minutes, it had sufficient altitude to clear the mountains to the south, and Remi set a course over them.

It was easy enough to follow the landmarks below... out past the Grecian islands, down the Greek peninsula and out over the Isle of Crete. By then, Turkey was visible off to the east and even coast of Egypt could be discerned ahead.

Airship travel was still new enough and sporadic enough that the upper wind currents had yet to be fully documented. On the other hand, water travel across the width and breadth of the Mediterranean Sea had been going on for several thousand years. The Meltemi winds off the Balkans and down from the Black Sea were offset by the hot dry Siroccos from off the Sahara Desert.

Finding a tailwind at this time of year would be near impossible.

While the ship could easily have followed the Nile River down the continent, it was decided to use the Red Sea as a guide to catch updrafts from the shore in the day time and updrafts from the sea at night.

It was going to take about 50 hours to reach Eritrea.
Grimsby Baskerville
player, 242 posts
A Colonial agent
and wandering scholar
Tue 21 Apr 2015
at 01:50
  • msg #2

Re: Flight To Bourbony

In reply to GM StarMaster (msg # 1):

Grimsby occupied himself with tea, bartitsu exercises, and maintaining watch for the possible appearance of the Black Zeppelin or any other threat. He also took normal opportunities to rest.
Connor Holmes
player, 89 posts
Felinoid
Tue 21 Apr 2015
at 03:22
  • msg #3

Re: Flight To Bourbony


Connor was hard at work in one corner of the galley making a loaf of bread and a pot of potato soup for his lunch, finding cooking to be conducive to thinking about things, and one got a meal at the end of all of it, so it killed two birds with one stone in his book. Right now, the felinoid was thinking about the Vrill devices, and their adversaries in general, as he put the bread in one of the ovens to bake and put the last few touches on his soup before letting it simmer and reduce down to completion.

The Falcon's kitchen was certainly a far cry from the campfires he was used to cooking on when out on the road, or his modest kitchen back in his humble cottage in Ireland, but Connor found it a nice place to work all the same..
Denholm Hawkesbury
player, 160 posts
"Right. Let's deal."
"All Sales Final"
Tue 21 Apr 2015
at 11:34
  • msg #4

Re: Flight To Bourbony

In reply to Connor Holmes (msg # 3):

Eritrea.

Not being familiar with that part of the world, Dash consults the shipboard copy of Baedeker's Travel Guide.


OOC: heh-heh-heh...
This message was last edited by the player at 11:35, Tue 21 Apr 2015.
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