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| At intervals there are dark statues with torches in sconces, spitting light in the rain. Each statue seems more horrible than the last. At the top, there is a cave entrance into the volcano. Great idols of foul beasts apt to warm the hearts of any insane cultists frame the entrance. Gloria notes she sort of likes them. From the entrance, stairs lead down into the cone. Lee leads the way, with the others behind, with Jack brining up the rear behind his people. What they see is a sight out of one of the penny pulps. | At intervals there are dark statues with torches in sconces, spitting light in the rain. Each statue seems more horrible than the last. At the top, there is a cave entrance into the volcano. Great idols of foul beasts apt to warm the hearts of any insane cultists frame the entrance. Gloria notes she sort of likes them. From the entrance, stairs lead down into the cone. Lee leads the way, with the others behind, with Jack brining up the rear behind his people. What they see is a sight out of one of the penny pulps. | ||
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| There stands a tall gantry, suspended over a lava pit at the heart of the mountain. Four strong supports hold it over this molten furnace, with four white hot rods penetrating into the lava. The gantry itself has a silver shaped bullet, pointed skyward. Lee recognizes this as the rocket from the blueprints he found back in England. There are various openings and workers moving about. The metal is unknown to them, looking like silver but covered in slimy oil, like tainted water. Speaking of oil, on one side of the rocket is a clear pool, most likely to the outside, while on the other is a pool of a black substance. Workers are scooping it and dumping it into the magma chamber, increasing its intensity. | There stands a tall gantry, suspended over a lava pit at the heart of the mountain. Four strong supports hold it over this molten furnace, with four white hot rods penetrating into the lava. The gantry itself has a silver shaped bullet, pointed skyward. Lee recognizes this as the rocket from the blueprints he found back in England. There are various openings and workers moving about. The metal is unknown to them, looking like silver but covered in slimy oil, like tainted water. Speaking of oil, on one side of the rocket is a clear pool, most likely to the outside, while on the other is a pool of a black substance. Workers are scooping it and dumping it into the magma chamber, increasing its intensity. | ||
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| Seeing a monster, Iris, Gloria and the Professor pull out their lightening guns. Iris unleashed a blast into the center mass of the amorphous thing, causing what is clearly major damage. Now she has its attention. Gloria fired, but hits the gantry, causing it to lean over. The Professor changes his aim to drop the gantry and the fueled missile upon the creature. The Professor, like anyone in then 20’s has no modern idea of how much power is contained in a rocket. However, what amounts to a bomb is now on top of the monster. The Shogoth starts to tear the missile apart. Iris and Gloria have better shots now, and takes aim. Gloria hits this time, and wounds the creature. As luck would have it, Iris’s shot strikes perfectly into the rocket itself, starting an internal fire. The Professor might not know about rockets, but he is an expert on explosives. Seeing what is about to happen he yells for everyone to get out as each strong hand grabs one of the women. As the fire ruptures the rocket, Professor Hunter Jackson Oswald //(pushing a failed brawl roll into a hard success) //tosses them into the room on top of John and Silver and leaps in after them. | Seeing a monster, Iris, Gloria and the Professor pull out their lightening guns. Iris unleashed a blast into the center mass of the amorphous thing, causing what is clearly major damage. Now she has its attention. Gloria fired, but hits the gantry, causing it to lean over. The Professor changes his aim to drop the gantry and the fueled missile upon the creature. The Professor, like anyone in then 20’s has no modern idea of how much power is contained in a rocket. However, what amounts to a bomb is now on top of the monster. The Shogoth starts to tear the missile apart. Iris and Gloria have better shots now, and takes aim. Gloria hits this time, and wounds the creature. As luck would have it, Iris’s shot strikes perfectly into the rocket itself, starting an internal fire. The Professor might not know about rockets, but he is an expert on explosives. Seeing what is about to happen he yells for everyone to get out as each strong hand grabs one of the women. As the fire ruptures the rocket, Professor Hunter Jackson Oswald //(pushing a failed brawl roll into a hard success) //tosses them into the room on top of John and Silver and leaps in after them. | ||
| The explosion sends shrapnel and heat into their room. Everyone is temporally deafened. When they stand, Silver is back to normal (mostly) and asks what happened. They look at the caldera and there is no more monster, rocket, or much of anything. Jack is leading his mean up the stairs out of the volcano. Looking into Penhew’s room, there are dozens of artifacts and items the Professor is willing to wage are worth over $1,000,000. Gloria takes several pictures as they collect them quickly, but the Professor was worried about his look into the volcano. Poking his head back out, his sharp mind and knowledge of geology tells him they need to leave. There is a control mechanism for the rocket that Lee grabs for future study. They leave the obvious warheads. The group exits the caves in time for the first explosion of lava to erupt behind them, sealing the entrance. | The explosion sends shrapnel and heat into their room. Everyone is temporally deafened. When they stand, Silver is back to normal (mostly) and asks what happened. They look at the caldera and there is no more monster, rocket, or much of anything. Jack is leading his mean up the stairs out of the volcano. Looking into Penhew’s room, there are dozens of artifacts and items the Professor is willing to wage are worth over $1,000,000. Gloria takes several pictures as they collect them quickly, but the Professor was worried about his look into the volcano. Poking his head back out, his sharp mind and knowledge of geology tells him they need to leave. There is a control mechanism for the rocket that Lee grabs for future study. They leave the obvious warheads. The group exits the caves in time for the first explosion of lava to erupt behind them, sealing the entrance. | ||
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| The storm is breaking up overhead. The 22 survivors of Jack’s group follow Silver to the docks, where they seize a ship that Silver gets into operation. The storm is starting to break up over them as they motor out of the harbor. The volcano erupts further, sending clouds of smoke and ash into the sky while lava pours from its mouth. Silver radios for Willowby to pick then up. Lee tells Jack to get back to the // | The storm is breaking up overhead. The 22 survivors of Jack’s group follow Silver to the docks, where they seize a ship that Silver gets into operation. The storm is starting to break up over them as they motor out of the harbor. The volcano erupts further, sending clouds of smoke and ash into the sky while lava pours from its mouth. Silver radios for Willowby to pick then up. Lee tells Jack to get back to the // | ||
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| Lee is startled by that statement, but does think he cannot imagine being married to someone who does not at least know how to fight. He smiles and nods. | Lee is startled by that statement, but does think he cannot imagine being married to someone who does not at least know how to fight. He smiles and nods. | ||
| - | The party breaks up and as Gloria, Iris and the Professor head out, a telegram arrives, addressed to all of them. | + | The party breaks up and as Gloria, Iris and the Professor head out, a telegram arrives, addressed to all of them: |
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| - | ****Telegram Image Here***** | + | The End? |
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