{"id":908,"date":"2020-08-20T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T10:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/?page_id=908"},"modified":"2020-08-20T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T10:12:39","slug":"orient-express","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/introduction\/campaigns\/modern\/orient-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Orient Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece (one week in Vienna, Austria) to London, England.<\/p>\n<h1>Characters<\/h1>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<h2>Player Characters<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<h2>Non-Player Characters<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><i> Boker, Nan<\/i> &#8211; partner of Annie Powers\u00a0(Neil)<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><i>van Buren, Charles<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><i> Petherick, Col. Gary<\/i> &#8211; Army Colonel in the Engineers, archetypal British Army Colonel (Mike)<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><i> van Buren, Sarah Ann<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><i>Powers, Melanie &#8220;Annie&#8221;<\/i> &#8211; American, writer, novelist, partner of Nan Boker &#8211; (Jenny)<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><i> <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/introduction\/characters\/alexandria-mary-macdonald\/\">MacDonald, Alexandria Mary<\/a><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><i> Rycroft, Scotty &#8211; <\/i>(George)<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h1>Involvement<\/h1>\n<p>Sarah and Charles were returning from Egypt to London via the Orient Express. Alex was a passenger on the same train.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-915\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-915\" src=\"http:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cc_charles_by_blue_fence.jpeg\" alt=\"cc_charles_by_blue_fence\" width=\"364\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cc_charles_by_blue_fence.jpeg 364w, https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cc_charles_by_blue_fence-221x300.jpeg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles van Buren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Highlights<\/h1>\n<p>The famed Orient Express. Boarded a Greek train in Athens, attached to the Express at Nis (Yugoslavia) through to Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Here the party stayed a week and boarded another Orient Express and continued to Boulogne, where the ferry was waiting to make the connection with the English part of the train at Folkestone. Continued to London.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah and Charles were pursued by an Arab cultist who poisoned their food with a deadly hallucinogenic drug. Sarah dreamt of another encounter with Narlethotep. They were saved by an antidote found in the Arab\u2019s cabin.<\/p>\n<h1>Injuries<\/h1>\n<p>Near-fatal poisoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece (one week in Vienna, Austria) to London, England. Characters Player Characters Non-Player Characters Boker, Nan &#8211; partner of Annie Powers\u00a0(Neil) van Buren, Charles Petherick, Col. Gary &#8211; Army Colonel in the Engineers, archetypal British Army Colonel (Mike) van Buren, Sarah Ann Powers, Melanie &#8220;Annie&#8221; &#8211; American, writer, novelist, partner of Nan Boker &#8211; (Jenny) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/introduction\/campaigns\/modern\/orient-express\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orient Express&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-908","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/908\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alifeinfantasyroleplaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}