Episode 204: Marion Ravenwood and the Lost Archaeologist of Imhotep

It wasn't planned as a two-parter but following a cliff-hanger ending last episode (and some encouragement in the excellent Perilous Tales Facebook group), the Director decided to make a sequel to find out the fate of Indiana Jones.

The board was set up as before but with Indy tied up in the sarcophagus on the temple plinth.  So for this episode, a different character took top billing:

"Following the abduction of Indiana Jones by the Mummy of Imhotep, the surviving members of the expedition took the unconscious Marion back to Cairo where a second cousin of Sallah was able to supply an antidote that brought her fully back to life.  Marion recruited Indy’s seaplane pilot, Jock Lindsay, to the gang and then led them back to the temple to try to rescue Indy, find the fourth and final canopic jar, and deal with the Mummy once and for all time."

The game objectives were Rescue the Prisoner, Find the Precious and Kill the Master.

Marion began the episode by revealing the High Priest, who wounded her but not before he took a fair few bullet wounds from Sallah and Jock who had their Eyes Peeled.

In the second turn, Marion finished him off but a further two cultists appeared and ambushed Marion (again) and Marcus.

The following turn, Sallah and Marion ganged up on the Cultist whilst Marcus and Jock did the same on the other, and luckily both were despatched.

Marion healed some of her wounds whilst Henry scarpered away, having failed a Horror Check.  Then Sallah unsuccessfully attempted to use his Handy trait to discover the remaining canopic jar.  Marion boldly rushed towards the plinth to rescue Indiana, prompting the reveal of two threat markers - the Mummy and Bugs! (an enduring peril in place over a wide area unfortunately including the plinth).

Marion took a lot of wounds from the two threats but then, learning a lesson from the ...ahem... technical rehearsal of the episode, decided that attempting to retreat from combat and allow her colleagues to all shoot the Mummy, made more sense than trying to fight hand-to-hand.

Of course this couldn't last long, as the Mummy's reaction on being shot was Step Forward, so he quickly closed the gap on the firing squad.  Meanwhile, Sallah failed another couple of times to dig up the jar but Henry stepped forward and found it straight away.

The Mummy then inflicted 8 wounds on Jock which would have taken him out of action completely.  The Director used the Last Ditch ability to rewind the tape, reset positions and let the Mummy roll again, causing just two wounds and keeping Jock in the game.

The Mummy had taken a lot of wounds by this point and, appropriately enough, Marion was the one to finish him off whilst Sallah and Henry moved to the plinth to rescue Indy.

In the next threat check, Sallah and Marion failed their Horror Checks and retreated, whilst Henry was ambushed by another cultist and a sandstorm blew up.

The Cultist took a couple of bullets and then inflicted 6 wounds on Henry.  Before Henry could respond, he had to endure biting bugs as he activated within 6" of the peril and sadly they took him out of action.  The small silver lining was that with the Cultist no longer engaged in hand-to-hand, Marcus could take revenge for Henry by shooting him dead.

Sallah took 4 wounds from the Bugs (they were vicious) as he moved back to the plinth and began to help Indy.  Jock joined in and together they freed Indiana from the sarcophagus.

At this point, the objectives were all accomplished but the only end game condition (threat level 10) hadn't yet been reached.  The Director decided the team should attempt to escape the bugs, and with a few more snaps at their heels, that's what they did.

Although they had lost Henry, they had recovered Indiana (3 points) and in addition found the fourth canopic jar (3) and killed the Mummy (3).  With the leader Marion surviving the adventure for another 1 point, the final score was 10, graded A for "a truly heroic performance".

The survivors' photo with the corpse of the Mummy and his four canopic jars: