Thunder-Struck!
Today we preview another pulp adventure sidequest:
The PCs race against an expedition funded by the ailing Thomas Edison to find the 4th and final piece of the Parthian Battery, a source of almost limitless electricity.
Getting the PCs involved:
- The PCs are hired by a local museum that wants to safeguard the battery.
- The PCs uncover information about the battery, only to have Edison steal it!
Possible Events:
- A corrupt bureaucrat accepts a payoff to deny the PCs travel visas to Persia, and must be outmaneuvered.
- The PCs arrive at their destination, and are ambushed by a gang of local toughs sent to slow them down.
- Competing Iraqi politicians offer to support the PCs in exchange for a claim to the battery; a 3rd politician is in Edison’s pocket and tries to stymie the other two.
- The PCs must decipher their info to find the tomb of the battery’s true inventor, where the last piece is buried.
- Edison’s men are already excavating the location; the PCs must avoid them and sneak into the tomb.
- The PCs reach the battery, but this sets off a power surge that draws Edison’s goons for a fight!
Follow-up Adventure Ideas:
- Having acquired the part, the PCs are asked to find scientists able to assemble and test it.
- Edison, impressed by the PCs, wants to hire them, and won’t take no for an answer.