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In reply to Jennifer Smallwood (msg # 2):

Hey, I've given up waiting for access to a properly formatted character sheet from Heaven resources, and just quickly drawn up a rough sheet based on the sheet in the Rulebook. I haven't filled in the details from the pre-gen characters yet, but will try to asap.

Greetings 🙂

Hello, all!  Everyone ready for the deep, dark jungle full of incomprehensible dangers?  :D

Can't be worse than Hampshire in winter!

In reply to Keeper (msg # 3):

OK thanks! So I assume all points are allocated then. Do we still get to buy equipment, or is it also pre-set?

Greetings. Herr Doktor Professor Johan Braun here, your linguist. if you need someone who can speak Quechua or Spanish, or just in case, read cuneiform, I'm your man.

Hey, all!

If you have any friends who you think would be interested in this game, feel free to send the link to them, as we still have 6 character-spots.

Otherwise, I may wait the 4 days or so, before bumping the Looking for Players ad.

It's not like we need all the characters to be filled necessarily, but it would probably be worthwhile to at least wait for a few more before we actually begin.

Thanks,
Keeper

In reply to Jennifer Smallwood (msg # 7):

Regarding equipment, the character sheets don't have any equipment aside from each character being given some particular "treasured possession". I'm actually thinking that considering this campaign will actually end up being "globe-trotting" style and each of your characters are heading from around the globe to Lima, I'm personally not worried about being strict about finances within reason.

If you don't have access to the rulebook, I could provide a rough equipment list from which you could select items. Essentially, you've got clothing according to your particular style, the doctor would have medical equipment (which we could discuss in PM for specifics). Other characters (such as Archibald the Engineer) could have relevant tools. Of course, each of you could likely have some basic form of weaponry, like handguns? In terms of lodging/residences and vehicles, we could probably just negotiate in PM too.

Any other thoughts on equipment, feel free to either post here so we can all converse, or otherwise feel free to PM me personally.

In reply to Keeper (msg # 10):

Are there plans to continue the game to masks or is it just for peru chapter?

In reply to Dr. Arthur Dibden (msg # 11):

I am hoping if things go well with Peru to continue on to the Masks campaign.

Bruan would have, subject to the GM's permission, one full dress suit in case he is asked to deliver a guest lecture at the National University of San Marcos or other distinguished Peruvian institution, or attend a dinner at the American or the German embassy. Beyond that, he would probably have several sets of informal sturdy clothing, boots, perhaps a pith helmet.

For weapons, he would carry a Lugar P08 handgun, and a Nahkampfmesser (trench knife) both issued him during the Great War. He engaged in schlager-fencing (Mensur)at his university, and has the facial scars to prove it, but does not carry a schlager sword under normal conditions on an expedition.

Although he can read and speak Spanish,and has studied Quechua (with little opportunity to speak it), he would probably carry dictionaries of both languages.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:24, Fri 22 Apr 2022.

Jennifer has been on an extended tour of the USA, so (GM willing) she has been travelling with five or six travel trunks filled with the latest flapper fashions, ideal for frequenting elegant soirees in New York and then California. She heard about Larkin's expedition when she was there, so I'm assuming she's taken the first steamboat for the port of Callao and is now lodging in the most luxurious hotel she could find in Lima. As January is the southern hemisphere summer, she's been stocking up on lighter, breezier clothes for the expedition.

Probably also a few items bought in preparation for the expedition? Like a camera to take pictures, stuff like that.

She's not usually one to carry weapons, but I'm thinking she got one as a present from a California cattle baron that tried to wow her back in San Francisco. It's Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless, a 380 ACP compact semi-automatic with engraved gold plates and pearl grips - a fancy piece, dainty enough to fit in her handbag. She has been known to shoot it at empty bottles as a late-night party trick.

Another thing:


I'd like to know my skills, please, to decide if it's worth having kit I won't be able to use properly :)

Having been to Peru (my sister-in-law is from there), it is indeed very warm all year round, and very dry in Lima.  That's actually in a strip of desert along the coastline.  But we were there in February, and my sister-in-law apologized profusely for how cold it was one evening when the temperature dipped down into the mid-70's (about 23 Celsius).

In reply to Jennifer Smallwood (msg # 14):

Did the cattle baron try to wow her or woo her, or both?

In reply to Prof. Eleanor Butler (msg # 16):

I think you must become our expert on genuine local conditions.

In reply to Prof. Eleanor Butler (msg # 16):

Does the weather become cooler up in the Andes? That was my impression from geography class.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:34, Fri 22 Apr 2022.