The usual cabal gathers at Chris' (Michael Sangaree) since Bruce (Arthur Michael Vincent Pulfrey-Downs) decided to spend time with his brother rather than his layabout friends. Chris, Chuck, Paul (Kumar Singh) and Mike (Jack Smith) gather for lunch. Chris expresses some confusion over Tim's attendance. It turns out that Tim disses us for lunch but arrives later. The original lunch plan was for Schlotzky's but masking tape and marker reveals that they are now closed on Sundays. Chuck suggests Rudy's and we grab BBQ.
The curtain rises with the characters still in Cairo. Much to the bemusement of the others, Arthur Michael Vincent Pulfrey-Downs is missing. After a brief discussion, they decide to fly to London and make sure he hasn't given the gems to the Mole Men or worse. Once there they discover the gems are safe but decide that they would be safer in the characters' hands. Serpentine talks to the curator and convinces him that Pulfrey-Downs requires the stones for further research. The curator gives back the "magic rocks" and grumbles about having to buy new paperweights.
The characters plan their next move. They realize that there is one gem in the South Pacific and one more in the Amazon. Serpentine decides to go look for Pulfrey-Downs while Tim sleeps off his hang over. Michael Sangaree suggests the South Pacific because the native women are more attractive. The rest of the party agrees.
En route, Jack Smith decides to wire Phelina O'Rourke for any information on the Enoch Islands. He discovers that is a Portuguese possession and the reason the no one has taken from them is that there is nothing there worth taking. What little info she sends is from the few missionaries and anthropologists who survived the natives, who have acquired a taste for the "other white meat".
The party circles the island to get a better view. All they notice is a village, some fishing boats and a large smoking volcano. They ride the bucket down to the island and let the crew handle the dirigible. The group sneaks through jungle without incident except for Michael Sangaree who almost mistakes a poisonous snake for a random vine.
They sneak up to the up to the village. Kumar Singh takes the lead and listens in on the villagers. They are very excited about "the gray flying whale" circling their island. The villagers decide they must consult the shaman and a group of them head off into the jungle.
The party follows quietly behind, to an old hut in the middle of the jungle. They wait again while Kumar sneaks up and eavesdrops. He hears a little ceremony and the aged voice of the shaman declaring that he must consult the oracles. The party waits for a couple of hours for the villagers leave the hut.
The brave adventurers storm the hut to find a frightened old native man who screams and begins chanting. They search the hut and find leftovers from the last missionary to visit the island and a tunnel in the floor of the hut.
The party proceeds down the tunnel with the shaman in tow. The tunnel ends in a cave. In the center is a boiling pit of volcanic mud. On a stone pillar in the middle of the pit is the gem. The party gasps at its beauty. The shaman chants. Sangaree looks up and sees a tentacled horror drop from the ceiling on him.
Violence ensues.
More tentacled horrors drop from the ceiling. Jack Smith boldly wrestles with a creature and tosses it in the mud pit. It snakes out a tentacle but doesn't realize that it is getting into a tug of war with the strongest man to leave the Foreign Legion. The creature boils in the mud. Another falls on Jack Smith. Repeat.
Sangaree gets bushwhacked and injured. Kumar saves the day and slices and dices the creature.
When all looks dark, Serpentine springs forth and announces "Mycroft kidnapped Pulfrey Downs!" And gasps at the tentacled horror before him. More slicing and dicing. Sangaree gets tired of the shaman's chanting and shoots him.
The characters look at the boiling mud pit and the gem. Serpentine whips out the Claw of Justice and snaps the gem into his hand. And grins "So what's the problem?"
The group heads back up in the tunnel. Two natives armed with spears are waiting for them. Only one of them remembers to let go of his spear as Jack Smith pulls them down into the tunnel. In the distance, the characters hear machine gun fire. In the foreground, the characters hear the sound of crunching bones as Smith deals with the spearmen.
As the characters climb back into the hut a disheveled Pulfrey-Downs storms in. He rather breathlessly tells the characters, "Mycroft kidnapped me!" He follows this with a tale of horror: Mycroft had acquired a pet raven and lined its cage with Pulfrey Downs' research papers. The bird is mysteriously stricken with constipation.
The session ends with the characters surrounded by cannibalistic natives and a healthy supply of Mycroft's goons. Each character (except Pulfrey-Downs, of course) gains three experience points.