Post by dandare on Feb 3, 2023 19:53:06 GMT
Adair swings the Zep round, and they fly towards the fort. They spot a who's who of Oriental criminals on the tower- Hi Ho, Li Chi, Madame Poontang , in concert with Ivana Tumbelova and the Chines Warlord Lo Fat Duk. A burst of machine gun fire sends them in from the balcony.
Adair revs the engines up, and aims for the tower- ground fire is sporadic, but as they come to a hover over the balcony, two things happen:
1. Guard 1 Fumbles badly, scatters the contents of his rifle magazine onto the ground, then bolts
2. Guard 2 rolls 01, and puts a bullet through the floor of the gondola, hitting Wei Mei in the left arm for 18 points of damage- so , fate point time.....
Jakey shoots the guard...
They then abseil down to the tower, and search for the Eye of Khali- but then they hear engines starting up below, and a convoy of trucks and cars leaves the fort. After a struggle, the party manage to get the zeppelin back(it had strayed on it's anchor rope. Luckily it didn't break. Visions of Wei Mei, minus left arm, waking up in a zeppelin drifting over the Himalayas, on his own) (PS I knew they would not have gone after him...). The convoy of baddies splits up in the town, and they elect to follow what appears to be Tumbelova's Staff car and 2 lorries of Bolos. Eventually they catch up, and Von W manages to shred the back tyre of the staff car, which veers off the road. Ivana and Lo Fat Duk make a run for it, but are mown down by very accurate machine gun fire, as are some of the bolo troops- the rest leg it. The ruby is recovered from what is left of Lo Fat Duk, the zep is refuelled, and they fly back to Shanghai to report to Captain Watkins that the communist insurrection has been quelled for now.
And so, back to Blighty, and the delights of Mount St. Better paint out the Blue dragons on the side of their Zeppelin.....
I daresay that the Adair crew will be back to trouble the 192?s in the future, but for now, I'm off to have a lie down!
Adair revs the engines up, and aims for the tower- ground fire is sporadic, but as they come to a hover over the balcony, two things happen:
1. Guard 1 Fumbles badly, scatters the contents of his rifle magazine onto the ground, then bolts
2. Guard 2 rolls 01, and puts a bullet through the floor of the gondola, hitting Wei Mei in the left arm for 18 points of damage- so , fate point time.....
Jakey shoots the guard...
They then abseil down to the tower, and search for the Eye of Khali- but then they hear engines starting up below, and a convoy of trucks and cars leaves the fort. After a struggle, the party manage to get the zeppelin back(it had strayed on it's anchor rope. Luckily it didn't break. Visions of Wei Mei, minus left arm, waking up in a zeppelin drifting over the Himalayas, on his own) (PS I knew they would not have gone after him...). The convoy of baddies splits up in the town, and they elect to follow what appears to be Tumbelova's Staff car and 2 lorries of Bolos. Eventually they catch up, and Von W manages to shred the back tyre of the staff car, which veers off the road. Ivana and Lo Fat Duk make a run for it, but are mown down by very accurate machine gun fire, as are some of the bolo troops- the rest leg it. The ruby is recovered from what is left of Lo Fat Duk, the zep is refuelled, and they fly back to Shanghai to report to Captain Watkins that the communist insurrection has been quelled for now.
And so, back to Blighty, and the delights of Mount St. Better paint out the Blue dragons on the side of their Zeppelin.....
I daresay that the Adair crew will be back to trouble the 192?s in the future, but for now, I'm off to have a lie down!