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"You call this archaeology?!!"
Having just finished our run of swashbuckling games (and as I’m not ready to run my S&S Tyre game) I’ve got to come up with something fast for Sunday. How about visiting an old friend?
It was a hot afternoon in 1937 Havana when Zé Zé Bastide met Dr. Dudley Chalk and heard his unorthodox theory.
“But the City of Tietzian is a myth! As are the Xalpe – there has never been a trace found of the city or the Xalpe culture.”
The sloppy Englishman with food stains on his shirt and tie smiled and leaned forward in his chair. “That’s because people have been looking in the wrong place!”
Zé Zé leaned back in her chair. Dr.Chalk’s breath stank.
“My sometime colleague, Professor Garnett Elliot, wrote what little there is published on the Xalpe and Tietzian, but he got the location wrong! No surprise – University of Arizona – really, what do you expect!”
The Englishman sniffed derisively. It sounded…liquid. Jack Rodman, Zé Zé’s business partner, visibly shuddered.
“Please keep your voice down, Dr. Chalk,” said the small Cuban man seated next to him. Dudley Chalk dropped his voice to a conspiratorial whisper. Regretfully, Zé Zé leaned forward, lighting a cigarette in defence.
“I have identified the site of the city, and its riches are just waiting to be discovered!”
The young American man in the immaculate suit sipped his drink and grinned at Jack. “And the beauty is Jack the city is less than a day away from a river you can land your Grumman Goose on. And your friend Miss Bastide, so Senor Fernández has told me, has the experience and contacts to make the most from our finds. Come on, pal, it’ll be fun!”
After the meeting broke up, Zé Zé and Jack had a drink in her room.
“Jack, this is a great opportunity. We could be there at the discovery of a lost culture!”
“Are you thinking of that, or the money?”
Zé Zé smiled and lit another cigarette, saying nothing.
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Re: "You call this archaeology?!!"
That sounds like a pretty cool setting.
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Re: "You call this archaeology?!!"
It is!
Here is a short bio of Alison's PC, Miss Bastide:
Zéphyrine (Zé Zé) Bastide is the daughter of a Parisian burglar that was sentenced to Devil’s Island, or rather the French penal colony that operated in French Guiana. As her father’s sentence was ten years, after serving his time he was forced to stay in French Guiana for the rest of his life as a colonist (he was provided with land to settle on). So Zéphyrine’s mother went to join her husband, taking her little girl Zé Zé with her. While Zé Zé has fond memories of Paris, these days she considers herself South American.
Both her parents died when she was a teenager, so to support herself she became a servant to an elderly Frenchman in the colony. He was a scholar, who studied the history and civilisations of pre-colonial South America. He took a shine to the young Zé Zé and she learnt a lot from him. When he died she inherited some money from the old man – enough to set herself up in business as a ‘recoverer of artefacts’.
She speaks French (her mother tongue), Spanish with a Venezuelan accent (she can pass as Venezuelan), Portuguese with a Spanish accent, and English (the first foreign language she learnt) with a French accent.
(Zé Zé is more mercenary than Dr Jones, and perhaps shares some of the traits of his rival, Belloq – although she would never work for Nazis, or shoot people who didn’t deserve it! She has the Greed flaw – well, the girl grew up dirt poor after all.)
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