Session 4 – Meet Gabriel

We continue on into the nearby cave, but before we enter we see that the floor has teeth protruding from each stone. The Doctor uses his gauntlet to telekinetically manipulate one of the stones and it causes spears to come out of the walls. He notices that when the stones with crocodile teeth are pressed, the spears do not come out. Maiura volunteers to jump from stone to stone to try and get through. She does, and notices a switch that turns off the spear device to allow the others through. Going through the cavern we find a room with several cots in it, which seems to be empty. The next corridor takes us to a room with a pool of water in it and a cage in the corner. A large man is trapped in the cage. The doc cuts him out; apparently he was a prisoner of the cult.

After letting him out, he tells us that the leader of the cult became a crocodile at night and stayed in the pool. It seems shallow — Maiura checks it out and sees there is an opening underwater that leads to another cavern. Gabriel (the man we rescued) swims through and comes out in a much larger pool, on the other side of which is large treasure; along with a gold cross. He also sees a huge crocodile with one yellow eye. It grunts at him and blinks. He yanks on the rope and the others pull him through. He is whimpering about a huge crocodile and a lot of treasure.

We try to “activate” the red eye gem but it only agitates him. We decide that the gem does not control him, but all other crocs, and we should try and attack him without the red eye. We all swim through, taking our guns and hoping they still work. We manage to kill the croc before it can attack us. The gold is about three wheelbarrows full, so we need to make another trip. We take as much as we can and go back to the ship. On our way back we don’t run into additional threats.

We ask the chieftan if he will help us by letting us borrow boats to travel back and get the rest of the gold. Maiura makes it through the spear traps again and we get access to the gold, and take it back to the ship. Jose asks for a cut of the gold; we give him a small bag. We make it back to the airport and to Chicago without difficulty.

The group returns to the Field Museum, where we show him the gold cross and the huge jewels. He says that the museum will pay us back for the finds. He says that his associate, Prof. Heinrich von Keller, will have to examine the cross and the jewels. They pay us over $137,000 for the gold, the cross and the two jewels. We each take $1000 to do with what we wish and we pool the rest to pay for the group’s vehicles, etc.

The group then prepares to head to Germany where we can meet Prof. von Keller and possibly to buy a zepplin.