Also known as “Black Claws”

1922 September 26th to end December – London to Tanganyika, East Africa then home via Alexandria, Egypt then Athens, Greece and then to Paris, France via the Orient Express.

Characters

Player Characters	Non-Player Characters
Yasmini, Aletta – (me)	Harper, John Wesley – American, studied in England, Doctor of Anthropology
Smirnoff, Nickoli – Ukrainian Cossack who has performed in an American circus for years (Mike), involved with Aletta at the time	Mandiville, Maggie – English, pilot and adventuress, married to Viscomte Roland D’Amberville
Pemberton, Amelia – piano teacher (Dianne)	Wild, Lord Vincent
van Hasalt, David – businessman and dilettante (Steve)
Allison, Jason – American, ex-Foreign Legionnaire (Neil)

Involvement

Aletta was hired by Lord Vincent Wild who was aware of her skills.

Highlights

The group was hired to find a party of archaeologists missing from a dig site not far from Kigoma on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Following the murder of a London professor associated with the project and the theft of parcels destined for the professor from the London docks, the party became actively involved.

As retribution for their interference Maggie was kidnapped and taken to East Africa. The party followed and rescued her from cat cultists at the Kigoma dig site, but not before she had momentarily become a big cat.