The Museum of Antiquities

Welcome Gothamites,

This is a preview of the next chapter of the Gotham by GASLIGHT game to be played in the Lion's Den.

In the last chapter you recall the incident at the Museum of antiquities in which Julie (Batman's fiancee) and her father Dr. Madison were kidnapped by two separate gangs.  The museum was bombed with a dynamite explosion that leveled the attendees at the opening reception for The Treasures of Cathala.

The interior of the museum has become a den of evil and seethes with the corpse smell of death.  Evil creatures of nameless form and description - most with bat like wings of leathery foulness slither and flit through the wreckage of the once proud display area.  Dala, the partner in death with the foul vampire Cathala  controls the key to the sarcophagus!  Will she be able to assemble the key and unlock Cathala!

The explorer and archaeologist Dr. Madison, gathered the pieces of the key and unwittingly brought them into proximity of the sarcophagus and cast into motion the awakening that would bring into the realm of the living the undead soul of the ancient vampire Cathala.

Cathala, from the land of the Mysterious Mountains beyond the River Dess ruled an unholy collection of subjects that only can be described in modern terms as monsters.  He is defended by the massive and powerful werewolf as seen above.  He has scores of Imps that flit and bite to annoy and infect the living.  He has blood servants that are a bit stronger and will cause certain death if encountered.

The department of Gotham Homeland Security and Secret Service have sent a team of crack agents to the scene to investigate the para normal activities that have been reported.

Bop Gun Jackson, and the Penguin have teamed up to unleash the vampire.  They currently have the closed sarcophagus with the vampire contained.  They need the key of eternity to unlock and unleash the monster on Gotham.

Inside the museum the unholy ritual has begun.  Dala has the main key that will assemble the others.  Like a siren call the worms crawl to the source of the amethyst stone piece of the key.

To Serve and Protect.  The Gotham GCPD with detective "Lockjaw", will try and support the Secret Service and also to try and avenge the loss of citizen and department life in the original encounter with this evil.

If worms could scream, and if you could survive hearing this worm scream, your sanity would be sorely tested.  This Key worm is part of the puzzle that will unlock Cathala the Vampire.

The museum main gallery is a writhe with the bat like creatures din of unholy high pitched skreeeeeeee-ing!

Dala wants her master.  The Secret Service want to lock all this down for study. GCPD wants revenge.  Bop-gun and the Penguin want the key.  What do you want?

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Next Chapter:

Ransom, Ransom

Missing Mummy

The night of the Missing Mummy

Gotham by GASLIGHT

From clockwise, the Penguin and Bop-Gun Gang, the Gotham City Police Department with military attachment, The Museum of Antiquities with Bruce Wayne, Julie and Professor Martin., the Concrete Kowalski gang and the infamous copper Tucker Torpedo.

Again, from clockwise, Batman makes his story arch debut and is embarrassed by the 20 sided die.  The Batman would roll three failures of 20 during his first four encounters for the evening. That's Batman tripping on his cape as he entered the museum back door.  He was attempting to arrest Vinny the mad bomber.  Vinny had just thrown a bundle of TNT into the middle of the museum crowd.  Next image with the Penguin is the moments just after the bomb went off.  Oswald Cobblepot could be seen ducking under an armored umbrella and living through the explosion.  Bop-gun was shredded by the explosion and only regained consciousness after the scenario.  The crowd was litterally shredded into clouds of red mist.  This triggered an otherworldly encounter as the rafters of the museum disgorged an unholy flock of impish batlike blood sucking horrors. Next image, GCPD respond to the explosion.  Last image we can just make out Bop-gun blown out of the main hall of the museum into the breezeway between galleries.

The Batman and his horrible rolls.  Batman witnessed the kidnapping of his girlfriend Julie and her father by two separate gangs.  Seems the Polish mafia made off with Julie and killed almost all of the gallery visitors while the Penguin and Bop-gun kidnapped the professor (Julie's dad.)  Which way will the Batman go?

Nine civilian casualties from TNT.  The Batman makes it into the open passage between galleries only in time to watch the kidnappers take the professor out of the museum and into waiting vehicles.

Blood Imps are feasting on the carnage and eating the dead gallery visitors!

Scene right we can see a women and some bloodsuckers forming up to wreak havoc on the balance of the museum visitors.  Who is this mysterious woman?

The Museum of Antiquities.  the scene of a gallery opening featuring a collection of ancient artifacts from  Cathala Province in the Dess Mountains of the old world.  Also the scene of a double kidnapping and bombing.

Man did the Batman disappoint!

One of the neat things for this campaign is that the players all have a comic book to track character progress and story-line development.

In another part of the city the police and military component of the game were fighting it out in a Gotham side street.  The Kowalski gang t-boned the police car to keep them from getting to the museum to stop the kidnapping.  Unbeknownst to them the mummy/vampire? was not there and had been previous episode stolen by the Bop-gun Gang.

Next episode:

Ransom, Ransom, Boom

Something's Gotta Give

The Secondhand Lions convened for a Chapter of the Gotham by GASLIGHT this last Thursday.

This is the city layout for the dockyard scenario called, "Something's Gotta Give."

The gang war that has been raging in Gotham has been decided to have a major throw down here at Gotham's shipping center.  This night the S.S. Gotham City, ex-WWI supply steamer, would be unloading mothballed munitions from the war.  Talk about a powder keg!

The local garrison troops and dock workers can be seen loading a box of Thompson sub-machine guns into the back of that panel truck.  In the center distance we see the Tucker Tornado of the infamous crime boss Louis "Concrete" Kowalski.

The steamer, S.S. Gotham City, is being unloaded.  The cargo should have been just munitions, but something strange was secreted aboard the ship under an old canvas tarpaulin.

Gotham proper.  The shipyard.

Two crime bosses sharing a toast to the evenings combat.

The east side gang under the direction of "Bop Gun" Jackson open the night once again with the first act of villainy against the population of Gotham.

The harbor.

Squealing around the corner is the Tornado preparing for a drive by shooting?!

One block west the gang is thumping a police cruiser.  This vehicle would get carjacked.

Soldiers dutifully loading the cargo to transport to the armory.

Pulling into the harbor is an unidentified tug.  No real threat right?

Shots are exchanged and the troops defend the ship and cargo.

Wide view of the city.

Don't go near the playground or park.  

There are some mean girls there that don't mess around.

Views like this make projects like this all the more fun.  I get drawn in...

The gunfight at the ship yard.

"Bop Gun's" gang try some schmoozing shenanigans and try to bluff there way onto the ship!  It worked.

The gunfight rages on.  Who is that coming up from below decks on the tug?!

The millionaire thug, Oswald Cobblepot!  This must be his gang that is threatening the military munitions and perhaps the unknown long iron box.

Cobblepot's thugs attack the ship.

Bodies are floating in the water.

Using his deadly umbrella gun to good effect!

The soldiers break open a case of grenades and use one on the tug!  

KA-BLAMMO!!!

Multiple casualties as expected and more bodies are a floatin'

We all know you saw this Nick!

It is discovered through great trepidation that a vampiric sarcophagus was stowed away on board in the bow of the ship.

"Concrete" Kowalski's gang comes down on the transport truck like a ton of bricks.  They capture the first third of the items unloaded by the soldiers.

The "thing".

The steamer cuts lines and begins to fire the boiler to leave port.  The soldiers do not want to risk the loss of further munitions.

Tune in next time to see Chapter Three: The Missing Mummy!