Wrap-up

And so the SPace 1889 campaign caomes to a triumphant halt - for a while anyway.

As I explained to the players, though I am enbtranced still by the setting and by the Savage Worlds method of gaming inside it, I am now having trouble finding challenges for these uber-rich, legendary characters who really should have been retired long ago in order to concentrate on making massive changes in the world using their vast wealth and fame.

So the Space 1889 game is on indefinite hiatus as of the last session. We very well may come back to the setting, either as a Savage Worlds game or possibly using the wonderful Clockwork publications using the Ubiquity system.

To be honest I feel we never really "got into" what makes Space 1889 so special. No-one was really interested in inventing stuff (other than Wilhelm and his Weird Science devices that would have been possible in many other Savage Worlds settings) and the whole Fin-de-Siecle didn't really "take" with the players. Should we restart the game I will need to have figured out what I was doing wrong in the presentation of that aspect of the setting.

Anyway, it was fun while it lasted.

I recommend the milieu to one and all.

The End of All Songs

Note: This entry is higly summarized as the notes for the session were inadvertently lost and the session is being reconstructed from memory.

The heroes made ready to "welcome" the vile Tereshkova and laid ambush for him.

Tereshkova had rigged the caverns with explosives, turning the stalactites into lethal weapons, but fortunately did not manage to actually inflict any harm on either the party or the Selenites that had universally rebelled against Tereshkova's tyranny.

Tereshkova fled deeper into the system of caves, hotly pursued by the heroes, then crossed the rope bridge tghe team had spotted when first decending the gorge.

On the other side they found a "gate" that opened into some sort of alternative universe, albeit one whose caverns were very much circumcscribed compared to the Luna the team had landed upon so many days before.

Inside that space they found the body of Forsyth's brother, along with a letter of farewell. He had succombed to hunger and thirst some weeks before it seemed.

Re-entering the original cavern system the heroes confronted Tereshkova and his terrible Freeze Ray, and after much struggle were victorious, killing the mad Russian despot.

Returning to their craft Grant was able to effect repairs and the team were able to return to Earth.