The first problem, of course, is that all the villains are right freakin' there, watching us die. Doc tries to get Count Volokoff monologuing, which works.
Then Heinrich says the Grimnoir have another Traveler besides Claire, We should go search for him at once!
Everyone leaves except two SS vampire guards and the skeleton of Dr. Dippel, still slowly making his way to his operating theater on two canes.
Now George and Claire can shift their positions, making the seesaw sag to the right. This slackens the wire around Dex' neck.
The SS guards see this and react! One runs off to summon help, and one aims his gun at Doc.
Claire teleports him into her place and jumps out again. The gun goes off, spraying a blast of bullets. Because the tube is made of Cog-devised transparent aluminum, it does not shatter. Each bullet bounces around until it hits something, making the captive vampire considerably less of a threat, although if possible even more frightening.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Fortress Frankenstein
After the events of BLOODY BERLIN, Franks wants to go to Castle Frankenstein, where he was made, and find whoever has restarted Dr. Dippel’s work. And kill them.
Dex flies ahead and gets in a dogfight with two biplanes and two enormous winged vampires. The vampires are evaded, but one of the biplanes fights Dex to a draw. Eventually he helps the pilot land his damaged plane, and he agrees to help Dex against the vampire Count Volokoff.
Inside the castle the Grimnoir face off with Grimnoir from Paris who have been enthralled by vampires. One by one, each hero is stabbed with a needle in the back of the neck and falls unconscious.
When they awaken …
George and Claire are in a balanced glass tube. Melody is in a chamber filling with sharp icicles; only by heating them can she prevent being punctured. Francis is in a chamber full of mustard gas, keeping it away from his head by exerting his Mover power. Doc is holding up Dex’s full armor, except for the helmet, which is attached to Dex’s neck by a taut, razor-sharp wire. Another such wire attaches his neck to Claire’s tube.
Count Volokoff explains:
“Should Miss Claire teleport away, George’s end of the tube will fall, into the flames created by Miss Melody. Also, her end of the tube will rise, cutting off Mr. Dex’s head. But presently, either Dr. Caliban’s arms will tire, or the ice upon which Mr. Dex’s helmet rests will melt. Either will precipitate the same calamity as your Traveler’s absence.”
Also present are their old comrade Heinrich, who does not look happy; Victoria the Brute, who is seriously bruised; Pevnost the Traveller, with one arm in a sling; and Franks’ left hand, on a surgical table, not attached to any other Franks.
A skeleton wearing spectacles totters in on a cane. His bones are held together with wire.
“And since you have never met, may I introduce, before you meet your end, Herr Doktor Johann Dippel?”
Dippel is, of course, the fellow who made Franks 150 years ago.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Friday, February 5, 2016
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Secret In The Sky: May 1933
Howard Stark and UBF have been tricked into manufacturing flying saucers for aliens! Fortunately, the Continentals have located an alien base above America. They blew it up, but saucers fled to another base over Britain!
Here we see the Excalibur (in red and orange) pursuing two UFOs toward an Alien Base. But three other, different saucers have launched from the base!
The Excalibur crew use Crackler and Torch guns to disable the UFOs, and move past them. But the other saucers fly colored flags and commence firing ... with machine guns!
Doc identifies the signal flags as Royal Navy. Are we fighting space Brits?
The British ships swing wide as a fleet of rockets labelled CCCP come rocketing in. This is, of course, the symbol of the Soviet Union.
Dr. Van Cortlandt clouds men's minds to hide the Excalibur. Excalibur docks with the alien base, while an enormous Soviet rocket heaves into view! The British turn around to the Excalibur's last known position, firing into the Soviet rocket formation.
Claire and Ham jump to the alien base. Ham finds the leader, commands him to obey, and orders all the ships to go to Jupiter. That should get them out of our hair!
Francis uses his Mover power to pull off important tubes on the outside of the giant Soviet rocket. It skids sideways. A man in a leaky rubber space suit climbs out on a rope (yes, a rope) and tries to fix the damage with a hammer. Ah, Soviet engineering.
The human ships are emptied by Claire, although all their crew are still controlled by the Wire. Unfortunately, all the other saucers in the area arrive and start blasting away at the Excalibur! Dex' shields work pretty well until the fuel runs out. George gives a huge heave of electricity and propels the ship back toward Earth, but the incoming saucer fleet opens fire! Only five saucers survive the Excalibur's counterfire, but that's enough to blow holes in the Excalibur from stem to stern! IS ALL LOST?
I guess all is sort of lost. How do you feel about owing the Chairman? Because the battleship YAMATO, reported sunk in Tokyo Bay some weeks ago, is actually now a space battleship. And it blows away the saucers, allowing Excalibur to crash-land in the South Atlantic. She can be repaired, probably -- and this time with more fuel capacity!
Epilogue: There is still an alien base above Russia, manufacturing UFOs. Oh, and our captive alien leader, Semdahl, has plenty to say about the alien invaders.
For one thing, they aren't Martians! They rule the Jupiter system, which has six inhabited moons and a couple of barbaric moons. The invaders themselves are from Io.
They serve Kharg, the Maximum Leader, who in turn serves Volens, their god. Seems every planet has a being which gives magic to its people, and harvests it in return. Ours is known as the Power; Jupiter's is Volens. And Mars, Mercury and Venus each has its own alien caretaker.
Kharg wants to kill the Power, but his ships are swatted out of the sky when they get close; So he wants humans to crew his ships, because although the Power could probably kill them just as easily, it won't, humans being its crop. Therefore Kharg has taken over top Earth minds and is building space ships through the governments of America, Britain and Russia. The other three leading Earth powers, which Semdahl knows as Frawnce, Deutschland, and Osterreich-Ungarn, are controlled by vampires, who cannot survive space travel.
George tries to get Semdahl to switch sides. Once Doc replicates Semdahl's breathing gas, Semdahl seems willing to go along. But ... DARE WE TRUST HIM?
Here we see the Excalibur (in red and orange) pursuing two UFOs toward an Alien Base. But three other, different saucers have launched from the base!
The Excalibur crew use Crackler and Torch guns to disable the UFOs, and move past them. But the other saucers fly colored flags and commence firing ... with machine guns!
Doc identifies the signal flags as Royal Navy. Are we fighting space Brits?
The British ships swing wide as a fleet of rockets labelled CCCP come rocketing in. This is, of course, the symbol of the Soviet Union.
Dr. Van Cortlandt clouds men's minds to hide the Excalibur. Excalibur docks with the alien base, while an enormous Soviet rocket heaves into view! The British turn around to the Excalibur's last known position, firing into the Soviet rocket formation.
Claire and Ham jump to the alien base. Ham finds the leader, commands him to obey, and orders all the ships to go to Jupiter. That should get them out of our hair!
Francis uses his Mover power to pull off important tubes on the outside of the giant Soviet rocket. It skids sideways. A man in a leaky rubber space suit climbs out on a rope (yes, a rope) and tries to fix the damage with a hammer. Ah, Soviet engineering.
The human ships are emptied by Claire, although all their crew are still controlled by the Wire. Unfortunately, all the other saucers in the area arrive and start blasting away at the Excalibur! Dex' shields work pretty well until the fuel runs out. George gives a huge heave of electricity and propels the ship back toward Earth, but the incoming saucer fleet opens fire! Only five saucers survive the Excalibur's counterfire, but that's enough to blow holes in the Excalibur from stem to stern! IS ALL LOST?
I guess all is sort of lost. How do you feel about owing the Chairman? Because the battleship YAMATO, reported sunk in Tokyo Bay some weeks ago, is actually now a space battleship. And it blows away the saucers, allowing Excalibur to crash-land in the South Atlantic. She can be repaired, probably -- and this time with more fuel capacity!
Epilogue: There is still an alien base above Russia, manufacturing UFOs. Oh, and our captive alien leader, Semdahl, has plenty to say about the alien invaders.
For one thing, they aren't Martians! They rule the Jupiter system, which has six inhabited moons and a couple of barbaric moons. The invaders themselves are from Io.
They serve Kharg, the Maximum Leader, who in turn serves Volens, their god. Seems every planet has a being which gives magic to its people, and harvests it in return. Ours is known as the Power; Jupiter's is Volens. And Mars, Mercury and Venus each has its own alien caretaker.
Kharg wants to kill the Power, but his ships are swatted out of the sky when they get close; So he wants humans to crew his ships, because although the Power could probably kill them just as easily, it won't, humans being its crop. Therefore Kharg has taken over top Earth minds and is building space ships through the governments of America, Britain and Russia. The other three leading Earth powers, which Semdahl knows as Frawnce, Deutschland, and Osterreich-Ungarn, are controlled by vampires, who cannot survive space travel.
George tries to get Semdahl to switch sides. Once Doc replicates Semdahl's breathing gas, Semdahl seems willing to go along. But ... DARE WE TRUST HIM?
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