Pre Game Startup Chat

[Mr. Handy]

"Maybe I'd be interested," says Michael Finn, rubbing his chin. "Will you be doing a lot of traveling in your line of work?"

[Dave Syrinx]

While the interested parties accompany Rawson in the private compartment, he looks up from the mission brief.

The Epigraphic Survey based at Chicago House in Luxor, Egypt, is directed by W. Raymond Johnson, PhD, Research Associate (Associate Professor) NELC and Oriental Institute.
The mission of the Survey since its founding in 1924 has been to produce photographs and precise line drawings of the inscriptions and relief scenes on major temples and tombs at Luxor for publication.

In September 1924 the Egyptian army rioted at the Atbara barracks, with widespread looting and pillaging. On 19 November 1924 the Governor General of the Sudan, Sir Lee Stack, was assassinated by Egyptian nationalists in Cairo, just outside the British Residency near the Garden City. At his funeral, Allenby reprimanded the Egyptian government, and shortly afterwards Zaghlul resigned as Prime Minister.
All Egyptian military units were ordered out of the Sudan by the British in retaliation. The new (appointed) Prime Minister was Ahmed Pasha Ziwar.

New elections were held in the spring of 1925, and Zaghlul was re-elected Prime Minister by a substantial majority. Ziwar called for King Fuad to dissolve the parliament and to investigate corruption in the election. Ziwar then left for a holiday in Europe. Lord Allenby ended his term in mid-1925 and was replaced by Lord Lloyd in October of that year. By November 1925 there was still no parliament or true Prime Minister, although Ziwar was still the acting PM.
In 1925, the anthropologist Henry Field, accompanied by Breasted, visited the tomb and recalled the kindness and friendliness of Carter. He also reported how a paperweight given to Carter's friend Sir Bruce Ingham was composed of a mummified hand with its wrist adorned with a scarab bracelet marked with, "Cursed be he who moves my body. To him shall come fire, water and pestilence." Soon after receiving the gift, Ingram's house burned down, followed by a flood when it was rebuilt

New elections are held in 1926. Zaghlul announced that he would not accept the leadership, but when his party, the Wafd (Al- Wafd Al-Misri, 'The Egyptian Delegation"), won by a landslide he rapidly changed his mind.
Howard Carter was entirely skeptical of such curses. He did report in his diary a "strange" account that in May 1926 he saw jackals of the same type as Anubis, the guardian of the dead, for the first time in over thirty-five years of working in the desert
8 July 1926 Rose Bollancher sends a letter to the friends of the society. Rose mentions the Luxor digs and Aaron´s obsession with them. Professor Jamieson is mentoned as a close friend.
21 July 1926 a telegram was sent from Prof Aaron Bollancher at Chicago House to friends of the society. A new crypt at Medinet Habu, second tomb in the valley of idols. The defeat of the sea people.
August 1926 , Rawson & Co unlimited is founded by Herbert Rawson to assist Chicago House employee Bollancher. Both as a help to Rose to calm Aaron down and to see if there´s any money in the project.

He stands up putting down the paper and begs Isopel Gelert to take a seat. "You are most welcome to the position, Miss. I take it you got a letter from Bollancher´s wife as well?" He offers her wine. "I thought it best if we took a look at the new site and let her know the old chap is just excited. And we might get some money out of the footage, hence the business endeavor. If it´s worth covering, we might make some winnings on it."

In reply to Finn´s doorway question, Herbert laughs friendly. "You devil you! Get over here! You´ll be as snug as a bug in a rug on this job, old fellow. We´re not tourists, right? They expect to return. We are travelers. We move from site to site. Are you considering joining up again?" He hugs the old acquaintance and offers him wine as well.