LOL, well I jumped on the application wagon a long long while back, but I know that it's a application and that if Evil hat wants to target certain groups/area's then it may be awhile before they get around to other applicants if at all.  So I wait, may reapply but I'd be happy with the release of the actual game too and the powers that be that choose playtesters may want to keep the input at a low level of chaos, I know I'd hate to sort through 100's of emails pointing out possibly the same thing in the beta phase of game developement. 

Oh and you guys haven't seen me for awhile, glad to be back work is no fun for gaming/reading.

What type of cliff are they hanging over.   We're taking a pause summer is kicking our tail with cookouts and other events but have serveral idea's in the works.  If you guys can find it check out the hallmark movie "curse of king tut's tomb" set in 1921 or 1922 worth the watch and very pulpy

We played monday and well after finding out what happened at Va Tech living in VA I followed that story for the last couple of days anyone connected with a student or family there I offer my deepest sympathy.

 Ok about the game

I ran the typical mummy's curse type story.

The players were asked by Howard Carter though the Century Club to escort some items to london, he wanted it done descreetly since he feared members of the Egyptian Government may want to claim the treasures for Egypt.  The actual Tomb of Tut has not been opened, these are items found in a chamber before the descovery of the hidden Tomb.

The train station, the items are taken from downtown cairo to the docks via train, Ray Gun and Dirk Cloak are told my a nervous little man named Jake Ringfold, not to approach the items on the train but to take the breifcase with the invoices and tickets for the train and the tickets on the steam ship to england, he didn't want the name of the contact in england to be descovered so he tells them he wants to write it down for fear someone is listening, he Gets D writen before his eye's widen and he falls to the ground dead with a dagger in his back.  The two hero's search the crowded train station and Dirk rolls very  well and see's the assasin trying to escape he pursues and a battle breaks out, dirk is struck with a poison dagger, and "feels the burn" he manages to wound the assasin and the assasine flee's Ray gets a shot off but the thickness of the crowd causes him to miss.  The poison is what I call Egyptian Curry a mild acidic mixture and is easily treated will cause for a endurance roll till the dagger is removed and the wound is cleaned.

The docks while boarding the ship, a talk with the captain reveals to our hero's that the captain hadn't a clue to the value of his cargo and that with a slip of the tounge by Ray he may not be one to trust.  One of his crew members seems very thrilled there may be a valueable cargo on board.  While walking on the ship they hear a conversation by two passengers on a deck bellow on the outside about a translation saying a bone dagger being the key to controlling him and they must find it and they need to report to the hellfire council.  The Players try to sneak into the cargo to find it is now gaurded by a big crew member, so they wait for night fall and sneak in through the cargo hatch finding the night watch man asleep, they find the body of the previously mentioned crew member sealed in a crate with a statue of large dog headed man, it's anubis but he's a red herring kinda.  Well they find the bone dagger not wanting to touch it I compelled Dirks flashes of evil and he grabs the dagger and keeps it with him, they use one of rays gadgets to escape the cargo hold and return to there rooms, they wake up to a storm a dead crew with locust spewing out of them and intranced passengers chanting ANORGLA, who cause one of the two mystery people to fall to his death and the other they rip her apart, they jump down to the next deck below and lock the door leading up to the upper level, they retreive the bone dagger and find when  they draw it out the storm stops after returning to the cargo hold and fighting mummy minions, so they leave it out and go back on deck to find confused passengers and a royal navy ship coming to aid the now crewless ship.

In England they Meet Dr, Sinclair, D for doctor or not he he he, who manages to get the port athourties to release the cargo and it gets loaded onto two trucks, Because of space our hero's ride in the back with the large crate with anubis in it, minus the dead crew member who Sinclair left on the ship.  A hissing noise is heard and again endurance rolls are made.  Dirk manages to roll very much spin on trying to open the lock from the inside of the truck and has about ten shifts so he more or less takes the door apart, following the truck is a car with "Danny Fremont" coming to the rescue, D is for Danny.  After both hero's jump from the moving truck they are then faced with a gauntlet of machine gun fire as the trucks one minus it's back tires move away.  Guess Ray Gun never figured why I gave him a fate point before they got on the truck, he has a smells like a trap aspect. 

Ok the rest of the adventure they fight five more mummy minions at the truck with the flat tires that was left behind with some crates. 

When I run a game occasionally  i like to have something to physicly look at in the real world, I actually have a dagger with a skeleton hand holding a skull as the hilt, and the shieve is a column with skeletons at the base.  I had hidden a peice of paper with heiroglythics on it inside the base where the blade goes, the drawing of the blade didn't stop what was happening on the ship but the exposure of the paper inside to air did lol, i let both players examine the knife and not once all evening did they turn it upside down with the blade out, which NPC Danny fremont did and you should have seen the faces on the two players.  The translation was be cast from this world back to your own.  which destroys anorgla the god who was summoned at the museum just as the players arrive.

Resources I used

Hallmark, curse of king tut's tomb, I got Dr Sinclair, Danny Fremont, and the hellfire council from this movie
several english to heiroglythic translators.

Even though this is lengthy I did leave some things out so if you want to run something like this with your players contact me and i'll give you the spects on NPC aspects and how i had some things work.

We're playing again monday I'll be running this one and will lay out the details of the adventure since I made it up but would be nice to hear from some other games anybody got anything to share.

martinsville, right next to danville, I avoid saying martinsville cause most time people bring up nascar ew

Ok i'm on the border of VA and NC slap in the middle, so anyone near by give me a  yell we'll work something out.   Looking to start a game club soon anyway

Just got back from out first SOC session, and it went very well, still had to get adjusted to the new style of play but after we got going it went smooth.  The initiative rule took some getting use to compared to other games, although we didn't do the optional rotating positions.  also a mistake I made and some of you may avoid is don't use a fate point if you have rolled exceptionaly well it may be over kill and you'll miss the fate point later.   And as a friend relized you need to broading your aspect so the GM can call upon them and you gain fate points during the session.   To much of a good thing i guess.   Still gonna list my aspects and explain how they came into play later but maybe the GM will chime in and explain the adventure a bit.