When her only son marched off to fight the king's enemies in Africa, Mama Vinadio was quite proud. When he returned in a box two years later, she was still proud. All she could say as they laid him to rest was "He's sleeping with the angels."
The cemetery north of Savigliano is small, walled, and laid out in sensible straight rows. On the surface it appears peaceful and orderly, but madness and chaos lies right below the surface... clawing for the relic!
After her last dream, Dolores "El Dobbie" Gato compiled her trusted friends and associates and traveled to a Manor House in Scotland to unsuccessfully obtain an artifact. The night before they departed back to America, Dolores had another dream, cancelled the tickets, and after some research, she and her party were heading to Italy.
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| Savigliano Cemetary |
Dolores "El Dobbie" Gato was already on her third career. Disgraced nobility, turn rooftop cat burgler, turned South American explorer, she only really trusted her right hand gal, Diana "Dibby" Boyle, a former nightclub singer known to go toe-to-toe with famous boxers who got a bit too frisky after the performance. "Mango" Tangier was a seaplane pilot who needed to ditch his last plane (and very illegal cargo) into the Carribean, and Aurelio was a former reporter who fell in love with the concept of treasure hunting and adventure, but... just wasn't very good at it.
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| "Mango" Tangier, Dolores "El Dobbie" Gato (Wild Card) Diana "Dibby" Boyle (Wild Card) , and Aurelio Farmer |
Of, the agents of evil knew their every move, and came in force.
Objective: Legend had it that the artifact could be found beneath the pedestal of the Wailing Statue. As the group quickly discovered, the statue was a cursed spirit who moved from pedestal. The heroes would need to pass two tests in the same turn to capture the statue. Destroying the other pedestals would limit places the statue could teleport to (it could always stay in the same spot.)
And all in six turns.
Turn One: While Mango and Dibby snuck through a hole in the wall and dashed to pedestals, El Dobbie and Aurelio quickly hop the wall.
Dibby swallowed hard and moved to the statue in the center of the cemetery (passed horror check), prepped to seize the entity... and the statue had the audacity to move toward El Dobbie and Aurelio!
Turn Two: El Dobbie was the target of the Serpent Priest's, but pushed the the troubling thoughts with ease, firing at and killing, one of the cultists.... but unable to focus on the statue.
Aurelio tried to play hero, but was quickly reminded he was just a goon/thug/minion. The terror of the entity was too much, forcing him to flee, but not so much that he couldn't take a shot at the cultist sneaking around towards Dibby.
Mango and Dibby quietly pushed over two of the pedestals, but of course, at the of the turn, the statue moved to the farthest pedestal.
Turn Three: Another cultist killed, another exchange with Dobbie and the Priest. The statue moves again, still out of touch.
Turn Four: El Dobbie rushed to the Wailing Statue, in hopes that the others would push over at least one of the remaining pedestals. They did not, instead getting locked in hand-to-hand combat. As she looked up from the base of the pedestal she was at, she saw the Wailing Statue disappear, and reform exactly where she had just been at!
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| Sonnuva! |
Turn Five: The rest of the group's stalemate with the cultists seemed to be taking a drastic turn for the worst with the flame-haired Dibby taking a point blank shotgun blast. With the familiar feeling of the ground rumbling beneath them, El Dobbie knew she needed the Wailing Statue to teleport back the previous pedestal if they had any chance.
At the end of turn five... The Statue satisfied the her hopes...
In dreams that night, El Dobbie confirmed what they all already knew.
Next destination: Egypt.
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