Steam London
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Revision as of 21:14, 29 October 2008
(Just to warn you this game is big and complicated. My summery is just a quick and dirty thing that needs to be updated.)
Contents |
Overview
The Steam London game plot began as a mix of characters and their actions within London, which could get confusing. As time passed, a single cohesive plot emerged.
The current plotline deals with the adventures of the young inventor Emmaline Lighton and her aethereal partner, Professor George Lewestine. The pair had been forced to work for the insidious Capt.Hieronymus Black, before escaping to the ship APF Bohème. Black however, will not give her up so easily and has pursued the Boheme across the world. To make matters worse, the mysterious mission the captain of the Boheme is on has attracted the unwanted attention of the Russian Military, and a member of the Boheme's crew is wanted by the stubborn British Secret Service.
Yet there is hope for Emma and the Boheme. The crew of the Boheme is a brave and diverse cast, who would lay down their lives for Emma or each other. As well, the Boheme has managed to make alliances with some of the most reknowed air privateers of the age. The forces against them have no easy task.
Across the world, from London and heading back, the Boheme is entangled in this storm of plots and intrigue. New dangers or discoveries hide behind every turn. The outcome is clouded, but the journey is destined to be fastpaced and unpredictable. Who knows what villianous or heroic characters will show up next and how they will alter the course of the Boheme and history?
Pre-Boheme Plot
Bracer roams the roofs of London while Demetri Rousselle gets very lost and falls a sleep on a bench. Horatio runs from a fire and tries to wake Demetri but it doesn't work. Ajax Callaghan fresh from a bad business meeting demands to know what caused the blaze. Hiram plays cards and sets up a meeting with Chen-yu.
Geirulf spears apples and Van Ottens watches the fire from above. Demetri wakes shakily as Ajax desides to enter the fire and Scott Coolige tries to drunkenly investigate. Horatio and Demetri try to stop him as Ajax rushes in to the the blaze. Hiram sends the fire brigade and the local boss is replaced.
Ajax grabs his dead partners love notes to his sweetheart in Liverpool and tools. He makes it out and collapses. Hiram and Chen Yu make a deal for influence and power. Ajax is revived by the power of whiskey and they deside to go to a bar. Horatio leads them to Bucer's Quill. Hiram's boys ham fisted-ly try to find out what caused the fire and almost cause a riot in the bar but after some tenseness they back off.
Horatio is on a mission to find a certain text. He mentions Moriarty and gets a lesson in how London really works. A Member of Parliament is found dead. Wyatt tries to stir up a revolution. Ajax and Demitri leave to go get what Ajax saved from the fire. Scotland Yard performs an autopsy. Hiram goes for a walk and kills a hired killer.
Horatio says he is looking for a study of true resurrection undertaken some 2000 years before Christ achieved the same feat. Two time travelers argue and time goes funny for a bit(I think). Demetri knows of Horatio's book and it may be in his own university. Horatio, Scott and Demetri are thrown out of the bar by it's fearful owner. Russians were behind the hired killer and they are old foes of Hiram's. Horatio decides to go to the university for himself. Edward the manager of Bucer's Quill and Demetri fight. Agrippa looks for his lost student and Demetri and Scott go to find Horatio.
Underwood looks for work. Von Watt chases some one and causes time hiccups. Demetri is suddenly home later he sends out a interesting extract from a diary.
The Bohème leaving London
APF Bohème, having nothing to do was looking for adventure and employment. After a brief stay in the local pub Ben Hudson gathered a small crew. Consisting of Leonard Fulmineus an accomplished inventor on the run from an evil brother, Jessica Butcher a conspiracy theorist and very good pilot and Mr. Oliver Newton-Chance a rather tall albino who has a miniature analytical engine that can connect to the global aetheric web.
They were were contacted by the enigmatic and dangerous Hiram, who sent us on an errand - to pick up a small parcel from a shady associate in China. In return, he promised us a Maxwell's Demon Program for an analytical engine, which would allow us to create a contraption of huge efficiency. While they were deciding weather or not to take on the job a large, darkly clad man with a muffler wound over the lower half of his face dropped off an unconscious redhead and insisted she go with them.
The route was planed with five stops in Gibraltar, Cairo, Kabul, Lucknow and Mandalay before reaching our goal in Shenjing but before they could get out of dock they were fired on by Russians. Apparently they don't like us working for Hiram. Lilli woke up and gave security hell while Leonard was frustrated by the sudden additional armerments taking up space. Lucky the damage was repaired quickly and soon the Bohème was in the air and on its way to Gibraltar.
The Bohème in Gibraltar
In Gibraltar we picked up Dr. Lakshmi Marleybone-Smythe who needed to go to Calcutta. The captain got a really neat weapon from Hiram, Lilli went shopping and Miss Butcher got zapped in the middle of the night. Lilli, Oliver and Leonard subdued the miscreant that attacked Miss Butcher. He turned out to be Russian but vanished when they tried to get information out of him.
In the air over North Africa Lakshmi figured out what Lilli was drugged when she came aboard and found something odd about the hair the Russian had left behind. They landed in Cairo Aeroport, dealt with a very scary lift and spread out in to the city.
The Bohème in Cairo
Oliver and Lilli went to the newsstand. Lilli found out some distressing news from home. While she was taking about going to Austrian consulate they were drugged and taken away to the private museum of Dr. Habib. At the museum they were questioned about the Orb of Nuut, The Obelisk of the Portal and the Casket of Opening of witch they know nothing. With some very quick thinking Oliver with the help of one of Hiram's local agents known has Mr. Umbrella and Henri Rousselle they manage to escape.
Lakshmi goes to do some shopping in the souk and gets tackled by the tiny inventor Emmaline Lighton and her invisible partner Professor George Lewistine. Emma and George are on the run from a Capitan Hieronymus of the Eastern Star who wanted to do dastardly things with their technology. Lakshmi KOs the man that was following them and gets their whole unbelievable story. She learns that George was disembodied, forced in to the realm of aether in a lab accident and he and Emma have formed a kind of symbiotic relationship. Lilli and the others show up and tell of their adventures. George knows about Orb of Nuut to the surprise of everyone but him. When the rest of the crew leaves Emma goes with them back to the ship while Lakshmi goes to meet the captain.
Back in London a vampire named Underwood is given the task of steeling the Black Prince's ruby from the State crown in the Tower of London the by Lamont a Changeling in the service of Hiram.
Captian Hudson is led on wild goose chase and then goes to meet Lakshmi for tea. The Dr. revels Lilli's connection to the Thugee cult and that the hair from the Russian miscreant was artificial. With more questions than they started out with they head back to the ship to find Oliver burned by a spontaneously combusting hair and Emma, Mr. Umbrella and Henri Rousselle all on board.
Captain Hudson explains they are running behind and will have to miss out on stopping in Lucknow and Mandalay. Emma and Mr. Rousselle join the crew, Mr. Umbrella bullies Lilli around then leaves and her father is reviled to be one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's top intelligence officials. Lakshmi sets up courier and reminds the captain that they are headed for the tallest, wildest and most pirate-infested mountains in the world. Emma plans engine upgrades and swaps cabins with Lilli who was upset at Mr. Umbrella. Lakshmi has lots of pretty guns, is aristocrat and may be able to call in a favor from some one named Rahmat Saleh.
George makes a connection between the flaming hair and warehouse arson, Lilli makes shopping lists and Miss Butcher is sure a vast conspiracy is behind it. Emma brings the captain a dead bird with a note, George says something stupid and Mr. Umbrella reappears and is yelled at. Lilli helps a crying Emma and Miss Butcher reveals a pirate attack. We all have fun repelling borders and Leonard is shot but Lakshmi patches him up. Cairo goes to pirate-ey hell around us and we look for a way out.
The docking arms are removed with lost of care, steam and yelling. They fly out of the airport but Lakshmi's harness fails and she is plucked from the sky by Ben. They all pile back inside and discus what to do when they reach Kabul. Lakshmi gives Emma something to change her hair color so she can hide from Captain Black.
The Bohème in Kabul
They land very early in the morning when most of the crew is still asleep. Emma landed the ship while Ben spoke to an old friend. Emma landed the ship, made breakfast and handed off a very volatile shopping list to Ben and Lakshmi. While they explore the market Patrick O'Landery gets invited aboard after Emma mistakes him for one of her employer's men. They are both passionate engineers so they get along well, but Emma keeps George a secret afraid Patrick would think her mad. While they are getting acquainted Lilli gets in a fight with one of the real employer's men and uses a ring to vanish back to her ancestral home. Emma is mightily confused by this, but takes Patrick to the engines where they happily work the day away. Meanwhile, the real supply runner shows up and Emma sends him off after scolding him.
As Patrick and Emma are working, Fabrice Grecko (A well trained assassin posing as a pilot) and Jack Dervish (her target looking to get to India and save a friend) come to The Bohème to look for a job and passage respectively. At first Patrick is suspicious, but Emma is friendly and invites them inside. They sit and get to know each other when the supplies show up. Disgruntled by his earlier treatment the runner decides to muddle the supplies. Packing the crates like this - oranges, a pair of pants, a large block of soap, engine degreaser, two small containers of volatile chemicals (dangerously close to being knocked over, or crushed), a small barrel of drinking water and a random assortment of bolts and nuts in the bottom, rather than following any normal separations. Seeing that this is going to be a big job she sends Patrick and Miss Grecko on to finish the engine work while she and Mr. Dervish work on cleaning the shipping disaster. While they are separated, Emma and Patrick both ask about the blood stains on their clothes from an earlier run in with a sniper after Jack. Mr.Dervish's answer helps cement his place in Emma's good graces.
Patrick finishes his work and is very hungry, so Fabrice and Emma make dinner and the secret of George comes out. At first Emma is sure her new friends are going to think she is mad as she tells her story but then she thinks of a way to prove it. Emma rummaged in the pouches of her make shift tool belt finally pulling a small sealed glass tube filled with unknown chemicals and encased in brass bands. It was slightly smaller then her thumb but she treated it like it might explode at any moment. She closed her eyes and pulled a pin. There was a piercing white light that faded in to a cool blue as the reaction stabilized then she removed one of her aetherphones and snapped it in to place near the top of the tube and the other near the bottom. Emma tunes it in to George, unsure if the others can hear him. To her shock and joy they can and for the first time in a very long time she is able to talk to George in public without people looking at her funny. George uses his new found way to communicate to antagonize Patrick and his nickname of "Monkey" is born.
Ben and Lakshmi finish shopping and go to visit his friend Saeed's family. They get there just in time to delver a baby and have tea.(Not in that order though) They leave for another meeting, but this one isn't nearly as pleasant. Rahmat Saleh controlled most of the criminal element of Kabul and Lakshmi warns Ben that their safety won't be assured during the meeting. They pose as a married couple and sit down to a rather tense negotiation. Through flattery and threats, in equal measures, they get ammunition and a promise of help thought the mountains. As they walk back to the ship Lakshmi reveals her family's criminal roots and Ben speaks of his feelings for the open sky.
As the crew of the Bohème is waiting for the captain to come back they receive a frantic call from Capitan Linkletter of the Æthercutter. He is on a crash course with their docked ship and he has no way of steering. Emma launches the ship to save them all, but feels very guilty because she is technically stealing the ship. Thankfully they are able to bring both ships in safely, even if they do get yelled at by some very angry people at the port authority. Emma is able to talk them out of fines, but they still aren't happy.
Captain Hudson and Lakshmi arrive back just as dinner is being served. Emma falls all over herself trying to apologize for her actions, but the captain forgives her straight away. As they meet the new crew, Mr. Dyke & Kabuki, who had been mentioned in a letter sent by carrier pigeon back in Cairo, come stand at the bottom of the gangplank. After a whirlwind of introductions George tells the Captain of their visitors. The doctor accompanies him to listen to Dyke & Kabuki's accusations of a traitor aboard the ship. Once inside they revealed themselves to be something other than the gentleman they seamed. They first insinuated that Lakshmi was the traitor and then held her at gunpoint. They want the Bohème to abandon it's mission to china.
While the Captain is dealing with the visitors Emma is confronted by a bit of her past. Aether generator build 12 was supposed to bring George back from his exile in the aether but has a hidden devious purpose of creasing a way for people to enter the aether to spy undetectably anywhere in the world. Emma is faced with a hard choice, take away George's best hope to keep the world safe or keep them to help George despite the risks. In the end she gives half of the plans to Patrick trusting him to keep them safe.
Alerted to the trouble from the visitors Emma and Patrick arm themselves and head for the locked lounge door. With a bit of chemistry they brake down the door and free Lakshmi. Dyke & Kabuki are tied up and seem to be calm but still unwilling to answer questions. Patrick's long studies in the ways of pirate interrogations become obvious as he slips in to a persona and threatens them. Emma with her own attempts at acting joins him in the questioning.
Using George to scope out the two men Emma finds Russian tattoos and a bomb hidden in plane sight. After dealing with the bomb Emma confronts them about their employers. Instead of talking they evaporate like ice in hot water. Stunned by the inhuman nature of their captives everyone is rightfully confused when twins of the melted men show up along with some heavily armed porters. A brief gunfight ensues where Emma fires a weapon for the first time. They have been set up has Russian invaders.
They meet the "Real" Dyke & Kabuki who state that they were only trying to warn the crew about Lilli but are too late. At first Emma with her new red hair is mistaken for her but Kabuki states that she can't be the same woman in a rather offensive way. Emma sends them off rather angrily and the Boheme takes off before it can get in any more trouble.
Meanwhile in London
Nathanial Walker, owner of Walker's books, on Tinkers Row, is troubled. Life was simple before, business was steady, friends were plentiful and he had all he wanted. When Miss Lighton came to inquire about his add in the paper for the office above his shop he thought she was odd, but nice and rented it to her on the spot. Things were going well until she left one evening and never came back. Now it looks like that opened a large can of worms because he caught someone braking into her empty office whom vanished into thin air. Nathanial asks every scientist and detective he could find for answers but none of them could help him. Finally, he decides to go to a Mr. Thomas Taylor for help with the problem of the vanishing man.
After telling his story to Mr. Taylor they both go back to the scene if the crime to investigate. After answering Trip's questions he discovered the folly of trusting strangers. Thomas William Taylor the Third (Trip) turned out to be the thief himself. He left Nathanial paralyzed and bleeding on the floor as he stole Miss Lighton's designs for an aether generator. When he finally regained use of his body he unleashes the mad fury of Tinkers row on Taylor and runs him out of town.
Weeks later, when Nate is healing from his wounds and seeing Trip's fading face in his nightmares, a Charles Tayle appears like a demon summoned by his bloody dreams and offers the chance to chase Trip. Nate accepts and they ready his airship the Coraline for launch. Nate provides the best weaponry Tinkers row has to offer and Charles teaches him how to fly the ship.
Nate and Charles are not a good fit and argue often but their biggest argument ends in Nate drugging Charles and stealing his ship. Leaving Charles stranded, Nate goes after Trip with blood on his mind. With only revenge to guide him Nate starts slipping out of touch with realty. Soon he eats little, sleeps less and thinks only of killing Trip. Madness makes him strong and relentless; he only stops briefly in Kabul to take on a crew and then presses on.
Meanwhile Trip safe aboard his sisters ship is trying to make use of the plans he stole but they are explosively flawed. After a pile of attempts he realizes that the only way he his ever going to get the thing to work is to find the inventor herself and get her to divulge how to make a working model. In her notes he finds her picture and decides to charm the answers out of her the problem is that she has vanished off the face of the earth. His sisters ship is bound for china so he will start his search there.
The Bohème in the Hindu Kush
(Sorry I am being so slow. I am working on it I swear)
As the Bohème flew in to the calm twilight mountains Emma and Patrick settle down for a quiet evening while Lakshmi and Ben wander off to look at the supplies Rahmat Saleh provided them with. Emma tells bittersweet stories of of her past aboard The Star and finds that Patrick had worked under Captain Black as well. As they talk Emma realizes that she has a lot to learn about weapons and protecting herself. As she and Patrick are disguising making a raygun that can disrupt communications over a distance. George came in with devastating news. Black had found them and his ship was closing in.Emma knowing that her bad eyesight would make her more of a liability than an asset in the coming battle decides to let George take possession of her body.
After a rather tense conversion George and Patrick open fire on The Star. Captain Black has pulled his ship along side the Bohème and is trying to disable it and then send baskets full of borders to overwhelm the defenders. George and Patrick stop most of the heavy chain shot before it can reach the ship but the battery powering George's possession sputters distracting him at the worst possible moment. Three shots hit the side of the ship one bounces off the hull, another crashes in to the room were the Captain and the Doctor are arming themselves and the final one crashes in to the engine room completely destroying one of the aether stacks and cutting power to the ship.
Seeing the lights flicker off Black changes from chain shot to boarding harpoons. George and Patrick using some of Emma's inventions for purposes they were never meant for manage to hold them off long enough for Lakshmi to outfit herself with an extra set of clockwork limbs. They take over defense of the ship while Patrick and George rush off to do emergency repairs. Ben is left with Patrick's overpowered aether cannon which he has no idea how to use while Black takes advantage of the brake in fire to send over three baskets of borders. They blast one but the other two make it to the ship and bust their way inside.
Meanwhile Patrick and George get the engines up and running but the aether stacks are in sorry shape. The best they can to is rig one to run at 70%. The lights come back up but they are dim and flickering, shadowing more than they reveal. Patrick takes pride routing out a border that was lurking in the dark but George's time is running out. As he is forced from Emma's body he makes Patrick promise to take care of her. It is the first time he ever referred to Patrick by anything other than Monkey. Emma's body collapses as George is pushed out of it but some rather foul fluid called aethric bitters and Emma is back, if a bit wobbley. They decide to go and make a stand with Ben and Lakshmi but as they go to leave the room heavy footsteps from outside stop them in their tracks. The door is flung open to reveal a rather menacing man with metal claws for hands. As Patrick readies his gun unsure if he can beat him he steps aside to reveal an even more dangerous opponent Capt.Hieronymus Black himself.
Emma tried to stand up for Patrick as the man with the metal claws advances on them. At first she is able to make him step back but then Black tries to charm her knowing that she loved him once and for a moment it looks like it could work but life on the run from him has made her grow up a little. She tells him she won't go back. He stepped forward and struck quick as a cobra pulling the gun from her inexperienced hands, tossing it aside and griping one of her wrists. He threatened all aboard with death if she would not come back with him but while he was ranting The ship Trip was on found the Bohème in the middle of a battle. It turned out that Capt. Lilly had unfinished business with The Star and it's captain. She opened wire with the sonic cannon giving Emma the distraction she needed to free her hand from Black's grip and go for the discarded weapon.
She got hit for her efforts and Black advanced on her sword drawn to rain down brutal punishment fort her defiance. Patrick brought his own sword in to block the blow nearly faltering at first but then he remembers how George asked him to protect her and gaining resolve from his promise. They fight swords glittering in the darkness as Emma hovers near tears feeling betrayed and useless trying to find some way to help Patrick. Emma finds her aetheric batteries as she is backed in to a corner by the man with the metal claws. Using their first blast of harsh white light she blinds the attackers making it possible for Patrick to shoot the man with the claws and wound Black bad enough to force him to retreat. The room fills with pirates and Patrick is bleeding badly. Emma using a slapped together aetheric sword manged to make the pirates flee fearing for their lives.
Patrick collapses from blood loss and Emma runs off in a panic to find Lakshmi fearing she may already be to late.
Patrick and Emma were working on fixing the aether stacks when Trip came to offer help. Emma went off with him and George riled up Patrick to pull a prank on him. While looking for some notes Emma and Trip talk ending in what is most likely her second kiss. While this is going on Nathanial and Charles are fighting. Nate ditches Charles, steels his airship and charges off to get Trip.
George was not happy at all about the kiss and Emma came to apologize for leaving Patrick to do the repairs but she was so embarrassed it took a while for her get the words out. A truce between Patrick and Trip led to some teasing and all three of them going out to patch the skin tougher. As they dangle over the side Nate catches up to them sees Emma with Trip and Patrick and suspects the worst. In London Charles gets a second ship to chase Trip and Nate.
Nate hails The Boheme, saying he is looking for a criminal and Emma lets him aboard. That turned out to be a very bad idea as Nate grabs her convinced he is saving her from kidnappers. Emma tries to reason with him but it don't work and she can't get loose. Trip sticks to his story of a stranger with his face and frees Emma from the mad, ranting Nate. While they subdue him George comes back with bad news. They are flying into a Russian led ambush.
They tossed the ranting Nate in to The Boheme's brig and took up weapons. Everyone ran to man the cannons as the first ships approached. Twenty smaller lighter ships were being led by five big strong slow ones. Three of the little ones attacked us and Patrick managed to shoot one of them down while almost being knocked off the ship. Trip picked him up and noticed an absolutely terrifying sight - air krakens had come to investigate.
Nate's ship was distroyed by the kracken and The Boheme had to avoid them and the pirates. Patrick gets Emma to make some very powerful shells to take out the larger ships with, but while she is working on them The Boheme is boarded by pirates. She finishes them and they get passed off to Trip as the first boarding party attacks. The fight is going well when a booming voice from a kracken ship hybrid stops everyone in their tracks.
(From here on is work in progress)
-During the fight, many passenger airships tavelling through the pass are damaged or destroyed. Two of these ships, the Dublin Owl and the Parthena Tremaine manage to drop a member of their crew onto the Boheme - the Irish healer Jennifer Sheenan and the Canadian privateer Elisha Kettell. Sheenan is knocked unconcious, while Elisha helps the crew fight off the pirates
-While this happens, Nate escapes and Trip is required to subdue him.
-The pirates are beat off and Jennifer awakens. Patrick is immediately smitten with her and her with him. Elisha and Jennifer introduce themselves to the crew and captain. Before going to bed Elisha sends a message to his ship.
The Bohème in China
-As soon as the Boheme lands in China, Emma is arrested by the local police. The rest of the crew formulate plans to rescue her.
-During this, Ben goes to meet his Chinese contact.
-Trip attempts to sneak into the jail while Elisha and Patrick attempt a direct approach. They are both captured.
-Charles Tayle makes it to China and rescues Emma. Trip follows her aboard his ship.
-Jen sends a message to her Italian contacts. They plan a jailbreak.
-Black arrives and decides to torture Patrick to draw out Emma. The warden of the prison remove's Elisha's metal limbs for his own use. Before Patrick can be tortured, the Italians blow open the wall of the jail and rescue Patrick and Elisha.
-In the middle of the town, with Charles' airship overhead, Black catches up to everybody. He shoots Emma and takes her onto his flying machine. He then begins firing onto the street below in an attempt to kill Patrick. He only succeeds in killing the warden of the jail. Patrick manages to down the flying machine and then steal it, using it to get Emma away from Black.
-The Russians arrive in a huge digging machine and confront Black. He reveals where the Boheme is and the Russian machine smashes through the town to reach it. The Italians take Elisha back to the Boheme.
-The Boheme begins to take off to escape the Russian machine, but Ben is still running towards it. Patrick uses the flying machine to rescue Ben in the nick of time, but destroys it in the process. The Boheme just barely manages to escape the Russians and leaves the town.
-Later they rendevous with Charles and Trip. They dock the ships together for the night. Trip and Emma help Elisha reattach his limbs. In the morning, Charles is gone, having drugged them all and having arrested Trip. Charles sets off to London with Trip, who attempts to escape multiple times but is always foiled by Charles.
-The Boheme tries to follow, but is is revealed that Charles sabotaged the engine. While the Boheme is immobilized, Black takes this as the opportunity to attack. However, his assault is foiled by the intervention of the privateer ship Angelus and it's Captain Adriana. The fight ends when Emma sabotages the Eastern Star, sending it speeding backwards.
-The Angelus helps repair the Boheme. Both ships head out for London, but must stop for fuel in Rome.
The Bohème in Rome
-The Boheme makes a short stop in Rome.
-Emma and Jen are nearly immediatly arrested again - it is revealed Charles has agents in most major cities.
-Elisha goes to stage a jailbreak and runs into a crew member of his ship. It is revealed his ship is actually in London.
-Emma manages to escape by herself - the Boheme leaves Rome before more trouble can occour.
The Bohème in York
-Patrick contacts his old ship, the Hattori Hanzo. Elisha contacts his ship, the Steel Breeze. The Boheme, Angelus, Hattori Hanzo and Steel Breeze plan to meet in York.
-When they arrive in York, Charles has an army of police waiting.
-Also waiting is a Dr. Cross, who seems to want the organs of a crew member of the Angelus.
-The military and police hesitate to destroy the ships, the head officer, Upjohn, not trusting Charles. Charles orders the Secret Service Black Ships to do the job and travels to York to deal with the problem personally.
-The Angelus, Boheme, Hattori Hanzo and Steel Breeze fight and defeat the Black Ships. Upjohn knocks Charles out and handcuffs him to a chair. (Charles later escapes and returns to London)
-The Black Ships self destruct while Trip manages to escape and make his way onboard the Hattori Hanzo.
-During the fight, Patrick is wounded and Jen has to use some of her life to save him.
Persons of Importance to the Current Plot
The Crew of APF Bohème
Captain Ben Hudson
Thomas William Taylor the Third
Allies of The Bohème
Captain Adriana and the Crew of the Angelus
The Crew of the Hattori Hanzo
First Mate Elisha Kettell, Captain Ned Canning and the rest of the Crew of the Steel Breeze
The Villians
Capt.Hieronymus Black and the Crew of the Eastern Star
Charles Tayle and the British Secret Service
An insane Nathanial Walker
Various Russian Agents
Other Persons Involved in the Affair
Officer Upjohn
Crew of HMAS York
" Hiram "
Dr. Oliver Cross
