The Boston Tunnel Affair - The Adventures Begin

Part 1
The Boston Tunnel Affair: Beneath the City, the Tunnels are Alive!

 

Bridgette’s Dairy
Tuesday, 6 January 1925

It has been an exciting few days! I would never have dreamed when I first joined the Millennium Society that they would one day be sending me off on an adventure for them, but here I am, on my way to America doing just that. The Millennium Society has sent a fellow member and I off to the Colonies. All I know so far is that several folks have disappeared from a hotel in the city of Boston. We are meeting up with some American members to investigate the cause of those disappearances. Phillip has assured me that our Society contact in America should know more about the case. (I guess I can call it a case. Next thing you know, I’ll be striding around in a deer stalker peering through a magnifying lens.)

Needless to say, I’m a little excited by the prospect but there are also nerves involved. I mean, I’m an archaeologist for goodness sakes. Yes, I do have skills I no longer use which may prove helpful in our investigation, but people are disappearing and no one really knows why. Hopefully I’m up to the task placed before me.

 I will also have a companion on the trip over. I shall meet Miss. Keira O’Reilly at the port just before we depart. Apparently she is a midwife from Ireland, not that her profession has any bearing on our being chosen for this trip. It is our occult knowledge for which we are assistance is necessary.

I am wondering what specific talents my travelling companion possesses on top of her occult skills. It seems a safe assumption that she is also “inspired” with supernatural abilities. Perhaps I may be wrong, but it seems that most members of the Millennium Society possess such talents.

 I suspect my prior background in forensic science was also in the Society’s minds when they asked me to take this trip. I hope I’m up to it, since I’ve practiced so little medicine since the end of the war. The thought leaves me nauseous.

However, let us not dwell on the unpleasant past. I am excited about the crossing. I’ve never been to America before. Hopefully we shall be able to take in the sights some before having to return home. If I recall correctly, Boston Harbor has historical significance between our two nations. It shall be interesting to stroll through areas so important to our past. Seeing my first really bustling American city shall be exhilarating. I’ve also heard they have delicious seafood along their eastern seaboard. Playing tourist shall be a grand adventure for this gal. I spend far too much time in the field, poking around old fields and lithic monuments.

Well, I’ve spent far too much time chattering away here when I should have been packing. I must catch the 4:15 train to the coast unless I wish to make the trip ridiculously early in the morning. Our steamer departs for Boston at 9:55 in the am.

Let us hope that the winter crossing is not too tumultuous and that the weather holds. I have heard some horror stories.

 

Getting the Party Started

 



Beginning early tomorrow, I'm going to start posting what I've got written of our earliest adventures. I'm excited to do this, since the game lends itself well to a storytelling medium. And to be honest, we've had a doozy of a time. The hardest part has been trying to decide how to tell the stories. This November I settled on a diary format told from the point of view of my character, Bridgette. There are also some character sketches tossed in here and there.



The game system we've been playing in is called Adventure! Tales from the Aeon Society, which was published by White Wolf and follows a Storytelling format. Unfortunately, the game is now out of print and physical copies go for a pretty penny online. The premise is that of 30s and 40s pulps. There are "super" humans in the world - all people who have been affected by some sort of energy from an explosion during the Hammersmith Experiment. These fun abilites, or knacks, take many forms and fall into three broad categories. My character is a Dynamic and can do things like heal quickly. She also has extremely heightened senses, which she is able to filter through, allowing her to focus on, and seek out, one thing in particular. She is also a doctor, scientist, and a scholar. As well as a veteran of the Great War.



Our setting is usually Chicago in the mid-1920s, although, as you'll see from the first story, we tend to wander far afield from there. We actually started in Boston. And Dr. Bridgette McCleary is from Great Britain.

These stories were mainly written as a gift for my gaming companions, but I hope the rest of you following along enjoy them as well. And if you'd like more information on the 1920s, check out the sidebar to the right. I've posted a series of links that we've found useful for getting into character in the time period.