The Pharaoh &

                        The Scorpion

Operational Log: 13:00 GMT Friday, June 27th 1941

Local Time Egypt: 15:00

in Zero Point Achtung Cthulhu

Act One: The Scorpion

 OPERATION: Scorpion

BACKGROUND

August 8^th 1940: German forces complete the occupation of the UK after Operation Sealion.

November 12 to 14^th: AXIS-Soviet Leningrad Talks, ends indecisively. Both sides agree to continue to settle their grievances peacefully and to resume talks in about 6 months.

January 15th: German, Spanish and BUF forces invade Gibraltar. They are meet with only token resistance.

 March 2nd to 14th: German and Italian invasion of Malta.

May 1st to June 24^th: 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 20^th 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.

Operation Brevity (May 15-16) The Australian government demanded the withdrawal of the Australian 9^th 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 2^nd Division to Tobruk to replace them.

Operation Battle Axe (June 15-17) The Free British evacuation of the Australian 9^th Division, the Polish Carpathian Brigade, and the Chez 11^th 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.

Special Agent Nathan Chance of the United States Government

 investigation team  “Delta Green” assists the Free British agents of Section M as they

 convalesce and search for information on the various volumes of the Books of

 Shadow. The old crusader viva/castle is just outside of the  Alexandria city limits.

The team has been recuperating from their Tobruk  mission in May.

They see a Rolls Royce driving up their long dry driveway with

Free British Common Wealth flags flying on the fenders. It looks like their Leave is about to end.

N explains the Arthur Towton, the Head of Section M (Their SIS Section) was lost when his Wellington Bmer Transport was shot down flying into Cairo. He gives them a new mission :

Investigate Tanis, the Nazis are back and the are up to something. Also they need to leave Northern Egypt soon anyway, Rommel and the DAK are now advancing on Cairo.

Alexandria is in total Chaos. The Agents of Section M grab a train for Cairo with the Help of their contact Al-Din Ghadames, an Egyptian business man. The train is full of Australian solders being sent to Jerusalem Palestine. The Free British Commonwealth forces are falling back due to lack of supplies.

The team finds the missing Captain Arthur Waugh, the one that purchased two volumes of the "Book of Shadows" on the train, too bad hes been murdered.

The Team spends the next 6 hours on the train ride to Cairo convincing the other British officers of their innocence. The books are not with the dead man.

More Chaos in Cairo. The Agents of Section M grab a Harbor Defense Motor Launch; the ML1139 Black Swan  with the Help of 100 unit-less Commonwealth troops. Following a lead from Al-Din Ghadames they sail down the Nile for the Aswan dam.

The Agents  Following a lead from Al-Din Ghadames, inspect a Temple of Sebek, which was built into the side of the 1902 dam. The temple can only be reached at low tide.

They are betrayed by Al-Din Ghadames who unleashes over 100 mummified crocodile creatures on them. The team escapes, but the Black Swan is sunk  and 82 of their Commonwealth troops are eaten in the river by crocodiles. Al-Din Ghadames also escapes and disapears into the town.

The team regroups and buys 25 camels, provision and hires a guide to take them to Tanis. They ride out west into the desert.

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.