Perilous Island - Chapter 1: Tonkin Troubles

And so started the intro to the players for our Pulp Alley campaign. This was many moons ago and certainly BCE (Before the Covid Era) but I thought I would set out something of an account now - of course I don’t doubt each of the players will have their own vivid, and no doubt entirely contradictory, recollections of the games!

We had a variety of famous and infamous characters bringing their own ‘leagues’ to pursue the search for the relics of the Enocheans.  These included Biggles and friends; Tarzan, Dick O’Donnell (any resemblance to a character from the Mummy movies is entirely co-incidental) and comrades; the sinister Doctor Koo and the Wing Tong; and finally, General Zorn with his Zeppelintruppen.

Our adventure started with the various leagues stumbling across information about Lord Darrow’s daughter, who might have information regarding her father, undertaking an archeological dig somewhere in the jungles of Tonkin.  Our heroes set off to find her and protect her from the attentions of our less principled leagues.

Lady Darrow’s dig was finally located but things immediately got interesting: