Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

***--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.


Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

Girathon is next.

Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.

***Event: In order to stem the tide of the alchemical Hydras developed by the Cult of Dagon, the Sorcerers Institute construct a 500 foot tall gold clockwork golem powered by a new type of unstable firestone. Almost the entirety of the Institute's membership is killed and their knowledge lost when, upon activation, it inexplicably breaks its mystical bonds and incinerates everything in a 10 mile radius.

Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

Gargantua is next.

Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.

Event: In order to stem the tide of the alchemical Hydras developed by the Cult of Dagon, the Sorcerers Institute construct a 500 foot tall gold clockwork golem powered by a new type of unstable firestone. Almost the entirety of the Institute's membership is killed and their knowledge lost when, upon activation, it inexplicably breaks its mystical bonds and incinerates everything in a 10 mile radius.

Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

***--Event: Determined not to be outdone by his rivals at Simmons, MIT Professor Ivan Gurgieff works sleeplessly for weeks completing his own flying machine, the Bronze Dragon, using clockwork and aerodynamic principles to duplicate animal flight, rather than relying on lighter-than-air dirigible technology. Initial trials prove the machine to heavy too fly for more than very short distances. In desperation Gurgieff turns to other, less orthodox methods.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

***--Event: After the second clue is deciphered, a new inductee I'm the Sorcerers Institute, 17-year-old Anthony Hughes, sells the story of LeBlanc's fortune to the New York Times. Seemingly overnight, people all over the country find out about it, thus sparking a race to the location of the third clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.

--Event: In order to stem the tide of the alchemical Hydras developed by the Cult of Dagon, the Sorcerers Institute construct a 500 foot tall gold clockwork golem powered by a new type of unstable firestone. Almost the entirety of the Institute's membership is killed and their knowledge lost when, upon activation, it inexplicably breaks its mystical bonds and incinerates everything in a 10 mile radius.

Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

--Event: Determined not to be outdone by his rivals at Simmons, MIT Professor Ivan Gurgieff works sleeplessly for weeks completing his own flying machine, the Bronze Dragon, using clockwork and aerodynamic principles to duplicate animal flight, rather than relying on lighter-than-air dirigible technology. Initial trials prove the machine to heavy too fly for more than very short distances. In desperation Gurgieff turns to other, less orthodox methods.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

Char-Vell is next.

Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

--Event: After the second clue is deciphered, a new inductee I'm the Sorcerers Institute, 17-year-old Anthony Hughes, sells the story of LeBlanc's fortune to the New York Times. Seemingly overnight, people all over the country find out about it, thus sparking a race to the location of the third clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

***Event: Recurring instances of the coordinates 47°9′S 126°43′W in documents associated with Georges Leblanc leads speculative parties to mount expeditions to the area, expecting to find further clues to the location of his treasure , or , more optimistically, the treasure itself.

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.

--Event: In order to stem the tide of the alchemical Hydras developed by the Cult of Dagon, the Sorcerers Institute construct a 500 foot tall gold clockwork golem powered by a new type of unstable firestone. Almost the entirety of the Institute's membership is killed and their knowledge lost when, upon activation, it inexplicably breaks its mystical bonds and incinerates everything in a 10 mile radius.

Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

--Event: Determined not to be outdone by his rivals at Simmons, MIT Professor Ivan Gurgieff works sleeplessly for weeks completing his own flying machine, the Bronze Dragon, using clockwork and aerodynamic principles to duplicate animal flight, rather than relying on lighter-than-air dirigible technology. Initial trials prove the machine to heavy too fly for more than very short distances. In desperation Gurgieff turns to other, less orthodox methods.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

Jawapimp is next, and since he was skipped last turn, we'll give him two entries this time around.

Sadly, Jawapimp has had to bow out. I've messages some past players about being replacements, but for now it's Kalel21's turn.

Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

--Event: After the second clue is deciphered, a new inductee I'm the Sorcerers Institute, 17-year-old Anthony Hughes, sells the story of LeBlanc's fortune to the New York Times. Seemingly overnight, people all over the country find out about it, thus sparking a race to the location of the third clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

--Event: Recurring instances of the coordinates 47°9′S 126°43′W in documents associated with Georges Leblanc leads speculative parties to mount expeditions to the area, expecting to find further clues to the location of his treasure , or , more optimistically, the treasure itself.

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

***--Event: Upon opening the package found on the dead visitor, Frances Belvedere activates a supernatural booby-trap. She is possessed by the spirit of centuries-dead Agara, High Priestess of of the Cult of Dagon. Agara immediately begins using Belvedere's identity and wealth to reform the cult and produce an army of alchemical Hydras.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.

--Event: In order to stem the tide of the alchemical Hydras developed by the Cult of Dagon, the Sorcerers Institute construct a 500 foot tall gold clockwork golem powered by a new type of unstable firestone. Almost the entirety of the Institute's membership is killed and their knowledge lost when, upon activation, it inexplicably breaks its mystical bonds and incinerates everything in a 10 mile radius.

Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

--Event: Determined not to be outdone by his rivals at Simmons, MIT Professor Ivan Gurgieff works sleeplessly for weeks completing his own flying machine, the Bronze Dragon, using clockwork and aerodynamic principles to duplicate animal flight, rather than relying on lighter-than-air dirigible technology. Initial trials prove the machine to heavy too fly for more than very short distances. In desperation Gurgieff turns to other, less orthodox methods.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

Girathon is next.

Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

--Event: After the second clue is deciphered, a new inductee I'm the Sorcerers Institute, 17-year-old Anthony Hughes, sells the story of LeBlanc's fortune to the New York Times. Seemingly overnight, people all over the country find out about it, thus sparking a race to the location of the third clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

--Event: Recurring instances of the coordinates 47°9′S 126°43′W in documents associated with Georges Leblanc leads speculative parties to mount expeditions to the area, expecting to find further clues to the location of his treasure , or , more optimistically, the treasure itself.

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

--Event: Upon opening the package found on the dead visitor, Frances Belvedere activates a supernatural booby-trap. She is possessed by the spirit of centuries-dead Agara, High Priestess of of the Cult of Dagon. Agara immediately begins using Belvedere's identity and wealth to reform the cult and produce an army of alchemical Hydras.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.

--Event: In order to stem the tide of the alchemical Hydras developed by the Cult of Dagon, the Sorcerers Institute construct a 500 foot tall gold clockwork golem powered by a new type of unstable firestone. Almost the entirety of the Institute's membership is killed and their knowledge lost when, upon activation, it inexplicably breaks its mystical bonds and incinerates everything in a 10 mile radius.

Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

--Event: Determined not to be outdone by his rivals at Simmons, MIT Professor Ivan Gurgieff works sleeplessly for weeks completing his own flying machine, the Bronze Dragon, using clockwork and aerodynamic principles to duplicate animal flight, rather than relying on lighter-than-air dirigible technology. Initial trials prove the machine to heavy too fly for more than very short distances. In desperation Gurgieff turns to other, less orthodox methods.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

***--Event: The catastrophic crash of the Tesla into the center of Boston ironically uncovers the treasure everyone has been searching for all this time: a huge underground portal leading to the nexus of realities.

Gargantua is next.

Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

--Event: After the second clue is deciphered, a new inductee I'm the Sorcerers Institute, 17-year-old Anthony Hughes, sells the story of LeBlanc's fortune to the New York Times. Seemingly overnight, people all over the country find out about it, thus sparking a race to the location of the third clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

--Event: Recurring instances of the coordinates 47°9′S 126°43′W in documents associated with Georges Leblanc leads speculative parties to mount expeditions to the area, expecting to find further clues to the location of his treasure , or , more optimistically, the treasure itself.

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

--Event: Upon opening the package found on the dead visitor, Frances Belvedere activates a supernatural booby-trap. She is possessed by the spirit of centuries-dead Agara, High Priestess of of the Cult of Dagon. Agara immediately begins using Belvedere's identity and wealth to reform the cult and produce an army of alchemical Hydras.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.

--Event: In order to stem the tide of the alchemical Hydras developed by the Cult of Dagon, the Sorcerers Institute construct a 500 foot tall gold clockwork golem powered by a new type of unstable firestone. Almost the entirety of the Institute's membership is killed and their knowledge lost when, upon activation, it inexplicably breaks its mystical bonds and incinerates everything in a 10 mile radius.

Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

***--Event: Inventor Grover Lapham, running tests on a prototype time machine, discovers that his machine has apparently pulled something from the future: The head of an Asian man, preserved in a tank of liquid. He nearly drops and breaks the tank when the head begins to talk to him. Giving his name as Harada Matsui, the head immediately begins to direct Lapham in constructing a robotic body to allow him to have mobility.

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

--Event: Determined not to be outdone by his rivals at Simmons, MIT Professor Ivan Gurgieff works sleeplessly for weeks completing his own flying machine, the Bronze Dragon, using clockwork and aerodynamic principles to duplicate animal flight, rather than relying on lighter-than-air dirigible technology. Initial trials prove the machine to heavy too fly for more than very short distances. In desperation Gurgieff turns to other, less orthodox methods.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

--Event: The catastrophic crash of the Tesla into the center of Boston ironically uncovers the treasure everyone has been searching for all this time: a huge underground portal leading to the nexus of realities.

Premise: In the year 1902, rumors of a treasure hidden somewhere in the United States sparks a race across America, with factions powered by steam and sorcery vying for the prize.

First Period: The Wizard's Map is Found

---Event: Phinneus Winthrop, explorer/inventor/dabbler in the mystic arts, whilst exploring the caves of Southern Idaho, discovers what appears to be a map. The map contains many diagrams, all of the what appears to be, the Earth. However, it is written in a language that does not appear to be of any language to have ever existed.

--Event: Winthrop travels to Arkham, Mass and brings the map to Professor Artemis Fowler, the world's foremost expert on dead languages. Fowler is without sleep for four days while he obsessively works to translate the map. He is found on the fifth morning screeching with insane laughter. But his notes show that the map reveals the first clue--located in a hidden valley in Newfoundland--of the lost treasure of diabolical 17th Century pirate Georges Leblanc. The clue in the valley would--if properly interpreted--lead to the location of the next clue.

***--Event: Further research on the map reveals the mystical signature of Commodore Sir Andrew Fletcher, a member of the Royal Navy who spent years tracking Captain LeBlanc and his mystical flying boat, the Poisson Volant. Fletcher believed that after LeBlanc's death, his ship (believed to be carrying the Captain's fortune and a map to his "greatest treasure") continued to fly around the world, and thus the Commodore left clues across America so that future trackers could predict its next location.

--Event: After the second clue is deciphered, a new inductee I'm the Sorcerers Institute, 17-year-old Anthony Hughes, sells the story of LeBlanc's fortune to the New York Times. Seemingly overnight, people all over the country find out about it, thus sparking a race to the location of the third clue.

Period: The R'lyeh Rally

--Event: Recurring instances of the coordinates 47°9′S 126°43′W in documents associated with Georges Leblanc leads speculative parties to mount expeditions to the area, expecting to find further clues to the location of his treasure , or , more optimistically, the treasure itself.

--Event: Frances Belvedere, noted medium and author of several books on spiritualism receives a late night visitor in her Savannah mansion. A man in Middle-Eastern garb appears unannounced in her study, hands her a silk-wrapped package, and falls down dead. Her servants assure her that all the doors had been locked and that none of them had let the man in.

--Event: Upon opening the package found on the dead visitor, Frances Belvedere activates a supernatural booby-trap. She is possessed by the spirit of centuries-dead Agara, High Priestess of of the Cult of Dagon. Agara immediately begins using Belvedere's identity and wealth to reform the cult and produce an army of alchemical Hydras.

--Event: Professor Dexter Van Galder launches his "Triphibian" in San Francisco. The successful test of the land/sea/air vehicle along with Van Galder's announcement of his intention to use it to locate "The Treasure" sends other inventor/adventurers into a frenzy of activity.

--Event: In order to stem the tide of the alchemical Hydras developed by the Cult of Dagon, the Sorcerers Institute construct a 500 foot tall gold clockwork golem powered by a new type of unstable firestone. Almost the entirety of the Institute's membership is killed and their knowledge lost when, upon activation, it inexplicably breaks its mystical bonds and incinerates everything in a 10 mile radius.

Period: The Rampage of the Clockwork Colossus

--Event: Inventor Grover Lapham, running tests on a prototype time machine, discovers that his machine has apparently pulled something from the future: The head of an Asian man, preserved in a tank of liquid. He nearly drops and breaks the tank when the head begins to talk to him. Giving his name as Harada Matsui, the head immediately begins to direct Lapham in constructing a robotic body to allow him to have mobility.

Period: The Launching of the Tesla, the world's largest dirigible.

--Event: At the launch ceremony for the Tesla at the Simmons Engineering Company in Providence, there is an attack by the aerial armada of Cecily McCuil, the Pirate Queen of New England. Captain McCuil claims the Tesla as her own, hoping to use its advanced instruments, rumored to be designed by the Sorcerers Institute, to find Georges LeBlanc's fortune.

--Event: Determined not to be outdone by his rivals at Simmons, MIT Professor Ivan Gurgieff works sleeplessly for weeks completing his own flying machine, the Bronze Dragon, using clockwork and aerodynamic principles to duplicate animal flight, rather than relying on lighter-than-air dirigible technology. Initial trials prove the machine to heavy too fly for more than very short distances. In desperation Gurgieff turns to other, less orthodox methods.

Ending Period: The Battle Above Boston

--Event: The catastrophic crash of the Tesla into the center of Boston ironically uncovers the treasure everyone has been searching for all this time: a huge underground portal leading to the nexus of realities.

Char-Vell is next.