Atlantis campaign begins...

[Cadet13]

Also in the south of Atlantis, the British Expeditionary Force has made landfall and has established cordial diplomatic relations with the Atlanteans of the major port city of Cardamon. However, the expedition's commander, the aging, slightly senile but well meaning Major General Paddington Blakeney, OBE, has yet to arrive, having refused to skip his holiday of bird watching in Essex. Upon his arrival, the Tommies will move inland against what scouts have reported as being 'green creatures' posessing powerful weaponry; the locals have assured the acting Garrison Commander Colonel Cummerbund that they are not native to Atlantis, or even to the planet Earth for that matter.

Also in Cardamon are delegations from France, Germany and the United States. France seems content with keeping its garrison and flying the tricolor over its embassy in Cardamon. The Americans, while not outwardly agressive, have been planning on building up its forces in the area, but when those reinforcements will arrive is anyone at the American Embassy's guess. The Germans, too, have been growing in numbers, but they are the most aggressive of any of the other European powers, with troop numbers in Cardamon steadily increasing, soon to include General von Sturm himself.

So, once the Spring Fever subsides amongst the men and the Major General arrives, the British Expeditionary Force of Atlantis will sally forth from the gates of Cardamon and push inland against the other worldy invaders, while the motivations of the other powers are still anyone's guess.

[MajorTalon]

I'm sorry to bother, but is there a map of this campaign's Atlantis? Also, is it too late to join, as I would like to run a RPG campaign among my friends.

[Red Orc]

Hi there MajorTalon, to be honest the Atlantis campaign ran out of steam a while ago. A couple of people, notably Froggy the Great and Cadet13, have tried to sustain it over this last year, but most people have moved on. However, there is absolutely no reason you can't use it for an RPG campaign - most of it originally came from one of my old fantasy campaigns anyway, with other bits liberally ripped from fantasy novels. These were then stiched together to produce an ancient-type setting, that was then just catapulted into the late 19th century - of course, a VSF one with aetheric engines, aeronefs, Martians and whatnot.

There have been a couple of maps of the whole of Atlantis, supposedly by adventurers who have explored it, but neither of them is particularly 'accurate' in terms of what has actually been discovered. The idea was that I would provide maps of different areas to be explored. Unfortunately I found out fairly rapidly that transfering my old D&D campaign maps (at a variety of scales) into similarly-scaled maps to be uploaded was much more complicated than I thought it would be.





There are keys for both of these, to explain what the numbers relate to - they're all native settlements, but I can't at the moment find that info sorry... I'll try to get back to you with that soon.

There is a campaign report thread, with some issues of the sensationalist journal the 'Jumbuck Times', which published excerpts from a traveller's diary of Atlantis, I'll hunt down that link too.

Anything else you want to know, feel free to send me a PM.

[MajorTalon]

Thanks a lot man . If I need anymore material, I'll drop you a PM.

[Red Orc]

I trawled the threads to find a links to the further info - if you peruse this thread and follow the links, you can access further info.

I'll put up the info about city-names and whatnot as soon as I can find it.

[Froggy the Great]

I wonder if it might be time to declare the long-dead Venus setting compatible with Atlantis.  Lord Delabrough et al could take a trip back in time or so and cross the ether...

[Red Orc]

I definitely think they're compatible. In my mind, the Atlantis, Venus and indeed Mars campaign that seems to have some people excited are all running more or less concurrently. I like to imagine that units that were running around (or bogged down) in Atlantis 18 months ago have now been reassigned to Mars or Venus...

[Red Orc]

Full text from the London Evening Messenger, 20th December 1891


Secret Conference in Swiss Alps?

Extraordinary rumours are circulating in Switzerland, our Geneva correspondent reports. The small Alpine town of Reichenbach, a sleepy place where an escaped goat is usually the biggest story of the month, has been playing host to a conference of minor European royalty and the representatives of various foreign potentates.

The castle of Reichenbach, one-time summer residence of the Bishops of Frühvögel-über-Würm, is a well-appointed and secluded palace in the hills near Thun, and famous for its spectacular waterfall. But events this week are likely to cause it to be famous for another reason.

It seems that, among others, Grand Duke Michael Romanov of Russia (this Grand Duke being neither the brother of the current Tsar, Alexander III, not the young grandson of the Tsar, but instead a nephew); Archduke Leopold of Habsburg (a grandson of the Emperor Franz-Joseph); and a certain member of Her Imperial Majesty’s Government by the name of Mycroft Holmes, along with ambassadors from France, the German Empire, and many other states, have been gathering in secret to hammer out a deal for world peace.

Meanwhile, writes our Paris correspondent, in an unexpected and barely explained move, the Paris-based revolutionary socialist – or, as we should perhaps call it now ‘anarchist’ – journal ‘The People’s Truth’ has issued a statement distancing itself from any attacks on the peace conference, claiming that “agents of the oppressing classes, cloaking themselves as friends of the working masses, have infiltrated the revolutionary socialist movement and, acting as agents provocateurs, stirred the anger of sections of the movement to rash acts that can only benefit the ruling classes in their drive to a world war. The workers of all countries are opposed to all wars for profit and we appeal to our class brothers to turn aside and take stock of their actions and ask who benefits from them”.

It appears this is a reference to a split in the anarchist movement in France and that some of the revolutionaries are attempting to disrupt the secret conference. We can only speculate at this point but it seems that some among the revolutionary socialists are moving towards opposing the recent bombings as a threat to world peace, while others believe that the campaign is winning results.

Meanwhile, the main causes of tension among the Great Powers are still in place: the question of the Ruritanian Succession, the disputed status of the Confederate States of America and the Caliphate of Khosind, events on Mars and Venus and the continuing conflict in Atlantis are sure to be high among the concerns of all the delegates at the Castle of Reichenbach, whatever the anarchists may do.

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Is the 'Messenger' correct? Will the end of hostilities in Atlantis be debated at the secret Reichenbach conference? Or will the Anarchists manage to disrupt it after all?

[Malamute]

Hmm,sounds to me like Mycroft will have it all in hand especially with the help of "Shirley". 
Been to the cinema recently have we

[Red Orc]

 

Might have been...

I thought it might be a nice way to draw a line under the campaign - if, behind the scenes, a peace deal over Atlantis is hatched, it might allow the forces there to be withdrawn to deploy to other theatres. The fact that the film has a secret peace conference taking place in 1891 is a very handy excuse, I think.

[Malamute]

Yep, great idea.

What did you think of the film?

[Red Orc]

I thought it was a jolly romp. Had moments that genuinely made me laugh, thought a lot of it looked good, and I'm warming to Jude Law (I've never really been a fan); on the other hand, I thought it dragged a bit about 3/4 of the way through. But I didn't come out of the cinema going 'there's two hours I won't get back' so that's a result I think.

I mean, "I thought the Cinematographic Moving Newspaper of events in Europe was terribly exciting and important". 

[Malamute]

Yep, pretty much sums up how I felt about it.
 I went in with very high expectations as I really enjoyed the first film and whilst not as good I still enjoyed it.