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Episode 2: Theatre of Terror
The party is contacted by their old friend Hans because his employer Christina Fairchild was not working at the Paris Opera House and was being threatened by a mysterious Phantom. The players stake out the opera house and along the way run into Dr. Mystery who is also on the case. The Phantom ruins the opera for the night and mass panic ensues. Eventually Jenny La Duque is asked to take on Christina's roll when she refuses to go on anymore.

Episode 3: Sewers of the Phantom
Our heroes bravely descend beneath the opera house into sewers, catacombs, and strange secret passages. There they face grave robbers, rats the size of pick up trucks and finally a mysterious phantom nearby an underground lake. The phantom is eventually disbelieved for the programmed illusion that it was. After cobbling together a make shift boat, the party sails across the lake to a large underground Victorian House.

Episode 4: Final Act of the Phantom
The intrepid heroes bravely entered the Phantom's mansion and faced off against the manaical villain. He attempted to escape and led the characters on a merry chase into his basement and to an escape tunnel into the sewers. However, this was a carefully designed trap and as the image of the Phantom disappeared from the sewers, the real Phantom locked the party in the sewers allowing them to face the onslaught of a pack of pick-up sized rats. After escaping from his mansion, the party chased him back across his lake to the Opera where during the performance they confronted the Phantom and after much running through the Opera, eventually captured him.

Meanwhile across the continent, Matumba and Johnathan Harker remained trapped in Dracula's Castle, as Vinnie Dilucci rode a carriage up the cliffside. At this point it was also obvious that Doctor Mystery was having mental problems as he was seeing witches everywhere. It was also discovered that Jenny La Duque was training under the Phantom.

Leaving Paris

Episode 5 - 7: Homecoming

Episode 5: Two of a Kind
Our players return home to London after being gone for two months. Upon arriving they are met by a man with a letter for Lance and a cryptic saying for Basil, "Go Peacefully". The party fearing their arrival at Finsbury square, instead first goes to the Diogenes club where Lance meets with Mycroft Holmes who invites him to be a member. Then it's off to Scotland Yard to turn themselves in for crimes they don't even realize they've done. Upon arriving at Scotland Yard, the characters turn themselves over to Abberline and Basil, Sam, and Lance are all arrested. Basil is mistaken for Oregano. While in jail he is visitied by both Oregano and Vinson Waggoner. Waggoner is worried about the increased doppelganger pressence within the ZDL.

Meanwhile the other players go off to speak to Sherlock Holmes and sadly only catch Dr. Watson. Then they actually stop by Finsbury Square where Percy runs across a presumed dead Julian Ashton still working at the cafe. Percy then allows an on-the-run Robin La Bue and her daughter to stay at his place while he and the rest of the party go off to stay at the Ritz. Several groups of Zombies march on different areas of town. One group raids Finsbury Square and chaces off Robin and Jamie La Bue. During the battle, the Women's clothing store, the Cafe, Percy's Place, and Basil's Place are all destroyed. Basil's Regina suffers serious damage and is thrown off the second story office. Meanwhile Two Face Jenkins raids Scotland Yard intent upon killing Basil.

This episode re-introduced hoards of old characters from La Bue who politely and with a smile threatened to eviserate Percy if he didn't let her stay at his place to Vinson Waggoner who had a delightfully evil conversation with Basil about alternate realities. Other side notes, although the zombie captains in the final combat didn't have names, they were listed in the closing credits as Asstastic and Craptacular.

Newspaper for 2/25/1890

Episode 6: Doppelganger Double Take
With Scotland Yard way understaffed out dealing with the hoard of zombies outside Finsbury Square, Two Face Jenkins enters the prison to kill Basil. Meanwhile at the Ritz, hoards of zombies led by a wight invade the hotel. As Percy, Father Roberto, Kay, and Ian Parker are pushed back into their room, Father Roberto is finally able to get in contact with God and destroy the remainder of the zombie hoard.

The four rush off to Scotland Yard to find the place in dis-array, apparently a jailbreak and several explosions having occurred. Several investigators and bobbies are dead, as are numerous prisoners. Basil, Lance, and Sam have been taken off to the hospital. Apparently during the battle, Jenkins did massive amounts of damage to the prison, but was eventually chased off by Sam and Julian. Sam suffered massive injury from several bullet wounds. At Scotland Yard, the four heard that an attack was occuring on Baker Street and also overheard Abberline wondering where Commissioner Anderson and Inspector Falquard were. The four headed off to the hospital where they were able to save Sam and company and get them out of the doctors' care. They then rushed to Baker Street to find it on fire and several dead doppelgangers outside. The players eventually got in contact with Sherlock Holmes who was hiding out at the Red Rat.

Open warfare in the streets occurred in this episode. Doppelgangers, Maria and Vincent Pracett finally were killed by several zombies and a wight. Jenkins had a wonderful cinematic scene where in the middle of his taunting of Basil, Basil went unconscious. This really ticked off Jenkins, but then he found another target for his anger, Julian, who hid behind a desk that was blown away by several shots from Jenkins as he ran across the desk filled room of Scotland Yard, his coat whipping along behind him.

Episode 7: Duality
Our heroes contemplated with Sherlock Holmes the nature of the grand conspiracy occuring around them. Eventually they received a letter from Vinson Waggoner asking them to meet. Lance was sent on ahead to check out the hotel, where after bumping into a black zombie several times, he ran across the dreadful Pierre working at the front desk of the hotel.

The party eventually changed the location of the meeting to the Tower Bridge. Waggoner showed up and began talking to them, when a disturbance began at one end of the bridge. The party attacked Waggoner in cold blood with a sniper shot from Sam atop the overhead walkways. Waggoner ran inside one of the towers. The wight with Waggoner, Zibooya, turned out to be an incredible knife thrower and took on the party almost single handedly. At this point they realized that Robin La Bue had shown up and was dangling a small black child over the railings of one of the bridges.

Scotland Yard soon showed up with Oregano in Regina in tow as well as several doppelgangers. The Zombie Rights Activistis stormed the bridge as the party, Oregano, Regina, Jenkins, and Julian all raced up the stairs to the top of the Tower. Waggoner, Father Roberto, Zibooya, and the rest of the party proceeded up the several floors to the top as well, but not before Sam had tried to jumpe Waggoner, who cast Slay Living on him, killing him instantly. As the key players began to congregate at the top floor of the tower, Lance followed Oregano and Regina to the top, only to be struck down with a burst of bullets from Regina's arm as he turned the corner on a staircase. Lance rolled down some of the stairs, dead.

While Roberto, Waggoner, and La Bue discussed what to do with Waggoner's daughter, Parker took pop shots at several of the doppelgangers down below. A large battle took place inside one of the towers and in the end Jenkins lied dead, first being beaten to unconsciousness by Basil and then shot point blank by Julian. Despite his best efforts Father Roberto was unable to save him. Oregano was shot by Parker trying to escape and plummeted off the bridge and into the river. Regina fired from the bridge with such ferocity that it snapped and plunged her into the river as well. Waggoner and Zibooya left the bridge with Waggoner's daughter, while Robin did a swan dive into the Thames. Down below the Zombie Rights Activists tore through the remaining bobbies and doppelgangers. The party limped back home.

Harvey Jenkins finally died in this episode. After being beaten sensless by Basil, Julian shot him dead, although Father Roberto tried to save him. This episode also had Asstastic and Craptacular re-appear. It also showed that Vinson Waggoner's daughter was black. Oregano and Regina both fell into the Thames and it is un-clear if the both survived. Sam and Lance were both Raised by Father Roberto. Lance afterwards opted to retire and joined the Diogenes club full time.

Afterwards, the party continued to put their affairs in order, Basil and Percy rebuilding their apartments. Father Roberto being re-assigned to a church in London. The party burrying Jenkins. As Percy moved back in, Robin and Jamie once again appeared on his door-step and re-moved back in though.

HomeComing Conclusion

Episode 8 - 10: Treasure Island

Episode 8: Treasure Maps
Robert Louis Stevenson returns to London with a treasure map of a strange nature. The party begins investigating the background of the map and discovers that it is a lost treasure map for pirate gold burried by the pirate Flynt. The party meets a drunk named Billy Bones and is immediately set upon by pirates in old 1700s clothing. The pirates seemed unnaturally tough, and eventually the inn where Billy was staying is burnt to the ground. The party manages to obtain Billy's key, one of four needed to get through the doors on Treasure Island.

The party began experiencing time changes in this episode as their clothes, equipment and world around them would occasionally shift into the past.

Episode 9: The High Seas
The party recruits Squire Trelawny, the young half-wit son of a shipping merchant. He hires on a crew consisting of Long John Silver, a cook with one leg and a female captain named Terry Smollet. The ship sets sail with a criminal crew hired on by Long John. The tail of Flynt and a dreadful curse is relayed to the party by Long John. Eventually the ship is set upon by the Reaper, Flynt's ghost ship that sails the seas to this day. As the party and the crew repel the fearsome pirates after Long John obtains Flynt's key, Long John turns on the party.

Episode 10: Treasure Island
The party escapes from Long John's ship, originally theirs, now old and outfitted with sails and a skeleton crew. They arrive on the island where they follow their copy of the map past several undead and an evil tree to the front door of the place where the treasure is burried. They realize that they could end up embroiled in a four way war between Flynt, Long John, Billy Bones, and Benjamina Gunn, a fearsome ghost. Instead they trick all four factions into the cave where the treasure is burried and lock the door on them, sealing them in, perhaps forever.

Ian Parker leaves the series at the end of this episode in order to salavage the wreckage of the Reaper which sunk off of Treasure Island. An enormouse octopus was living in it when the players left the location. Robert Louis Stevenson plans to write a book about the adventure and share fifty percent of the profits with the party. Flynt was some sort of fire spectre, Long John ended up being a Jolly Roger, Benjamina was a ghost, Billy was a strange repeating manifestation. All were cursed with greed.

Episode 11: Hush
Vincent, a professor at a nearby college comes to Percy with a strange nursery rhyme that he heard in his dream. As the players are researching it, they all wake up in the morning without their voices. Father Roberto and Percy eventually realize that the cause of their lost voices is a strange form of boogymen called the Gentlemen. Sam tracks the Gentlemen to Big Ben where the players mount a silent assault against the indestructible Gentlemen. Upon getting to the top of the clock tower, the players smashed the box containing their missing voices and Jamie La Bue screamed. Her scream killed the Gentlemen.

This episode marked the first appearance of Vincent played by Matt Staley. It also marked the first appearance of a strange lamp given to Sam by Wolfgang Arturus to announce the opening of Sam's Saloon. Also during this episode, George Ferguson was apparently captured by James Moriarty, tortured, and killed. Finally, the episode kept flashing back and forth to the doomed ship Demeter, where its entire crew fell victim to a mysterious being aboard.

Season VII

Episode 1: Hyde and Angelique