Great Adventures in the Age of Steam

These links are to Great Adventures set in the world of Castle Falkenstein, and are only intended to be seen by Hosts.
Dramatic Characters should read no further.

Warning - These pages are heavily illustrated with some large images.

• The Tomb of the Forgotten Pharaoh
  Setekh Khareem plans to revive the long-dead corpse of the Dark Lord Amun through his sorcerous machinations, in the belief that the evil entity will make him ruler over all New Europa. A team of archaeologists working on a dig in the Egyptian desert, seeking the lost tomb of the Forgotten Pharaoh Akhenaton, have unknowingly aided him in his cause. Now, they alone can stop the archfiend and his plans for world domination!
  Click here to download the entire scenario as a zip file to a local disk drive. The download is 2,589k in size, and expands to 2.84M.
  In due course, I shall be posting it as a downloadable PDF as well, when I get more web space.
   
• Arabesquepades
  To occupy themselves while awaiting transport to take them down the Nile to an archaeological dig site, the characters agreed to search for a missing girl in Cairo. They had not expected the legion of white slavers, drug-crazed assassins, flying carpets, secret agents, criminal masterminds with their infernal devices and plans for world domination, an evil sorcerer from the Cult of the Knife with his legions of flesh-eating ghûls, and an enslaved Djinn that they would meet as they explored the darker side of Araby.
  Written as a sideplot for Tomb of the Forgotten Pharaoh, while TotFP is a dark horror story, Arabesquepades is much lighter in theme and with more action and derring-do, drawing heavily on themes and ideas from The Arabian Nights.
  Click here to download the entire scenario as a zipped Adobe pdf file. The download is 4,036k in size, and expands to 4.28M.
  
   
• Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong
  Hong Kong is little more than a staging post for the transit of opium to China and silks, spices and jade back to Great Britain; but (with the backing of the Steam Lords and the Unseelie) the governor has a vision for the colony's growth in wealth and importance.... at the expense of the Dragon Emperor.
  Now posted for viewing online, this scenario will be available as a downloadable 8MB zip in PDF format when I get some additional web space.
   
• Death in Zanzibar
  
  I intend to run this scenario at GenCon UK 2001: it will not be posted here until after then.
   
• The Ghosts of Guestling Grange
  
  This adventure is currently a work in progress.
   
• A Chinese Ghost Story
  Ghost Month in Hong Kong, and the hungry spirits walk the streets of the colony. At the festival of Yue Lan, the local people offer gifts of food and money but sorcerous skullduggery is afoot and the dead are not appeased. Can a small party of intrepid dramatic characters fathom the secret of 'The Garden of Fragrant Consciousness' before the island sinks beneath the weight of dead souls?
  This adventure is currently a work in progress.
   
• The Satsuma Rebellion
  The Japans, 1877. Since the abolition of the Shogunate nine years before, the Unseelie have guided the Meiji Emperor and his closest advisors through a period of modernisation, industrialisation and militarisation. But with few natural resources in the islands, the nation looks to conquest as a way of acquiring what it lacks. China and Russia are both threatened and mobilise their armies. The spectre of full scale war casts a dark shadow over the Far East.
  A diplomatic mission is sent to the Land of the Rising Sun to contact those who oppose the Unseelie and the Japanese Steam Lords, inviting them to join the Second Compact Alliance. What will happen when New Europan honour joins forces with the Code of Bushido?
  This adventure is currently a work in progress.