The Pharaoh &
The Scarab
Operational Log: 20:00 GMT Sunday, July 20th 1941
Sunday, July 20th 1941
Local Time Egypt: 22:00 (10pm)
in Zero Point Achtung Cthulhu
Act Two, Part One : The Scarab
BACKGROUND
August 8th 1940: German forces complete the occupation of the UK after Operation Sealion.
May 1st to June 24th: AXIS-Soviet Moscow Talks, ends indecisively. Both sides agree to continue to settle their grievances peacefully and to resume talks in about 5 months in London.
Operation Mercury: AXIS Forces invaded Crete May 20th to June 1st
Operation Rheinubung: The HMS Hood is sunk on May 24th by the KMS Bismarck while defending a convoy from Halifax Canada to Suez Egypt by way of South Africa (because the Italian Navy now has control of 80% of the the Mediterranean Sea). The convoy was supposed to re-supply the Free British Commonwealth troops in Egypt but over 90% of the convoy was lost to Surface Raiders and U-Boats. The British have no choice but to abandon Egypt.
Operation Brevity (May 15-16) The Australian government demanded the withdrawal of the Australian 9th Division. Blamey, commander of Australian commonwealth forces in the Middle East believed that Tobruk was un-defendable and pressed for an evacuation of his men. The Free British Commonwealth leaders in Montreal caved to pressure and sent in the fresh South African 2nd Division to Tobruk to replace them.
Operation Battle Axe (June 15-17) The Free British evacuation of the Australian 9th Division, the Polish Carpathian Brigade, and the Chez 11th Battalion from Tobruk to Alexandria Egypt.
Operation Scorpion (June 18-21): AXIS forces Launch another assault on Tobruk. While the Australians had held out for 3 months, the South Africans, newly arrived, green and inexperienced when left on their own surrendered in 3 days.
Operation Aida (June 27- July 21): AXIS forces invade Egypt.
Scene : The Hills overing Tanis and the Pyramid of Nyarlathotep
Sunday, July 20th 1941
Local Time Egypt: 22:00 (7pm)
The team reaches Tanis and finds the Nazis of the SS NacheWolf Division busy digging the ancient city up. They seem to be single mindedly destroying parts of the city for something. Aspen and Scout kill two of the guards and take their place to find out that the Nazis are digging up vaults of blue crystals.
Using the guards uniforms they move through Tanis, they go to the other side of the ancient city to find the Pyramid of Nyarlathotep. While hiding in the hills between the lost city and the pyramid the two agents are visited by a ghostly apparition shortly after sun set.
