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Arabesquepades
Sir Sebastian Thomas, English gentleman of leisure, invites you to embark
on a Great Steam Age Adventure set in the world of Castle Falkenstein.
Arabesquepades
"They mocked me at university, the fools! But soon they won’t be laughing. Jules Verne at
the Lycée de Paris, that foolish English aristocrat Lord Kelvin, even crazy Tesla in Russia:
all of them scoffed at my work. But soon they shall see that my talent is greater than any
of theirs as I bring their petty empires crashing down about them. Soon all the world will
recognise my genius."
"The governments of New Europa have not paid the ransom that I demanded of them, so it
is time to reveal that my threat is no bluff. Within the hour the greatest battleship that the
world has ever known will come steaming down the Canal bound for Bombay. But this
symbol of the power and might of the British Empire will never reach India. With my
Prismatic Light Device™ (pat. pending) I shall sink the ship in the narrowest straits of the
canal, blocking all trade between New Europa and the Orient. Then they will be forced to
acquiesce to my demands: but it is no longer simply money that I want, they will be forced
to declare me the ultimate ruler of all New Europa."
"Perhaps I should take the ladies here to join my harem — willing or not — to rule beside
me in my hour of triumph. But no! I have been warned against such foolishness by my
friend Fu Manchu of China. Even within my bedchamber you would seek to thwart me,
and I cannot allow a moment of weakness to thwart my carefully laid plans. When I am
the acknowledged ruler of all New Europa, I shall have any women that I desire."
ÎÓ
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.
© 2000 Mark Baker.
Castle Falkenstein
®,
Steam Age
TM
and
New Europa
TM
are trademarks of R. Talsorian Games,
Inc. Castle Falkenstein is © Mike Pondsmith, 1994.
Arabesquepades
Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................1
Preamble for Hosts ...........................................................................................................3
Setup ................................................................................................................................................. 3
Pacing ................................................................................................................................................ 3
Language............................................................................................................................................ 3
Equipment ......................................................................................................................................... 4
Dramatis Personae............................................................................................................5
What Has Gone Before ......................................................................................................9
Round 1 — The Fortress of Light ....................................................................................11
A Plea for Help.................................................................................................................................. 11
In which the French Vice-Consul visits the characters in their hotel and requests their
assistance with a rather delicate matter concerning a missing girl.
Armand, Compte de Vandôme .......................................................................................................... 11
In which the heroic party visit the Compte at the Hôtel de Paris where he is staying, and hear
the sad story of how he has spent his fortune searching for his missing daughter, and how his
last hope of buying her freedom has been dashed.
The Police Report, and Other Sources ............................................................................................... 12
In which the group speak to the police and the editor of the Cairo Times about the robbery
and Jacqueline’s disappearance and discover that Ahmed Hamil does not exist, but is the
alias used by a known dealer in stolen goods called Mustafa Zahir.
Visit to a Carpet Seller ...................................................................................................................... 13
In which the characters visit the carpet merchant Ahmed Hamil, and thwart an attempt by a
group of assassins to take his life; and in which they learn the true nature of his shop and
rescue a young girl being held there.
The Temple of Isis............................................................................................................................. 14
In which the sorcerous mother of the rescued girl rewards the characters, providing a means
of transport that will carry them to the Fountain of Moses before the slave auction takes
place.
Midnight at the Oasis ....................................................................................................................... 15
In which the party arrives are forced to set down at an oasis for the night where they meet an
illustrious group of secret agents, and in which they learn of a foul plot to blackmail the
Governments of New Europa.
The Castle of Light............................................................................................................................ 16
In which our heroes are captured by anarchists and held in peril of their lives while the evil
criminal mastermind, Dr. Reginald Fforbes-Hunter plans to bring his diabolic scheme for the
economic destabilisation of all New Europa to fruition.
Round 2 — Women for Sale.............................................................................................19
Hassan and his Boat ........................................................................................................................ 19
In which the party hires the services of a fisherman and his boat in Suez to take them down
the Red Sea to the Fountain of Moses.
Waylaid in the Red Sea ..................................................................................................................... 19
In which the characters find passage down the Red Sea coast to the Fountain of Moses in a
fishing boat; and in which they are waylaid by flesh-eating
ghûl
pirates.
The
Djinn
Palace ............................................................................................................................... 20
In which the party follow the pirates back to their lair, a complex of caves hidden on the rocky
shore where they serve the evil sorcerer Saleem; and in which they rescue the
Djinn
Ibrahim
from his servitude.
The Fountain of Moses...................................................................................................................... 23
In which the party arrives at the village where the auction is to take place, and learn from a
wandering
dervish
of the terror that the
ghûls
instil in its people; and receive the spiritual
blessing of the
dervish
Abdullah.
Attack on the Slave Caravan............................................................................................................. 24
In which the party ambush the slave caravan before it reaches the Fountain of Moses to
release those imprisoned by the slavers.
Freeing the Captives ......................................................................................................................... 25
In which the characters finally rescue Jacqueline de Vandôme from her abductors, and return
to her father for a happy reunion.
Appendices .....................................................................................................................27
Pre-Generated Characters................................................................................................................. 27
Contessa Consuela Hernandez .........................................................................................................................29
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