Chapter 7 - Calcutta

#### Calcutta, Fit The First

* The episode re-opens mid-chase of the goons, as Ares and Hubert run through a local restaurant
* Ares salutes a group of local soldiers, Hubert is smashing his way through the the serpent people
* Minnie flips the person at the window out of the window as she comes out of the closet. The serpent person falls all the way down to the street below
* Meanwhile an antiquarian with a gun has shown up in the restaurant and fired at Ares. The phrase "Bend it like Ares" is well suited to the football shenanigans that follow.
* The antiquarian then runs off heading down an alleyway.
* Minnie finds a cushioned headwear box that could be used to hold the crown, along with a very rough sketch of the crown.
* In a coat pocket Minnie finds two calling cards. One for Musala Kuntakar, a Curator at the museum of India, and the other for Reginald Askwith, a Curator at the British Museum.
* At this point Dr Sam arrives with the news that Ms Needham is downstairs. They head on out on the fire escape to overhear anything that might occur.
* Ares continues the chase by going over the rooftops, the target clearly heading for the Grand Hotel
* By now Hubert has reached the restaurant where he starts to barge his way through the amassed tables to eventually take out yet another goon
* Minnie reveals herself to one of Ms Needham's goons, and she gets dragged back into the room.
* Being ever stealthful, Ares Han Solo's the goon in hte hotel.
* Hubert disentangles himself from the melee and leaves the restaurant, picking up tracks (likely Ghi) of the chase
* Ms Needham starts to interrogate Minnie, asking about where Soulefein is, as to her they are still working for him.
* Minnie keeps up the pretense that the group is scattered around the globe, but Ms Needham is not buying it.
* Minnie pulls out her gun and puts a bullet straight into Ms Needham's chest. She then runs for her escape, followed by Ms Needham
* Ares has a conversation with the antiquarian, and finds out that the information about the whereabouts of the crown is for sale to the highest bidder
* Ares cuts to the chase and shows the antiquarian that his real trouble is the people he's dealing with, not getting the most for the information.
* Ares also offers to deal with the other bidders so that they don't go looking for revenge.
* Ares arranges for Hubert to bankroll the purchase from the antiquarian, part of the deal being that the Antiquarian is locked away for the next 24 hours. Literally.
* The Antiquarian has traced the Crown to a temple in the river delta, where it's being worshipped by a local cult.
* In the race are the two curators, Ms Needham, and a really creepy old person with mottled skin who showed up one day
* As they are settling in, Mr Needham is making his way into the hotel with his entourage.
* Ares disappears into the crowd, whilst Minnie sneaks off and gooses the nearest Mrs Haversham in order to cause a distraction, enabling Hubert to become swallowed by the crowd
* Ares attempts to get close to Mr Needham in order to listen in on where they're staying. Mr Needham is talking in the accent of an upper class Englishman who has spent some time on the sub-contient. He's also fluent in Hindi.
* Ares is then discovered by Mr Needham and is walked into the elevator where the other guests are thrown out.
* Discussion about missing the checkin from Iceland.Mr Needham wants to know where the others are. Ares prevaricates.
* Mr Meedham ends up stopping the elevator between floors and ordering Canning to kill Ares.

#### Calcutta, Fit The Second

* The start of the episode is somewhat varied due to .... timezones
* Ares shoots the elevator glass wall, and puts a couple of bullets into Canning who merely picks them up by the throat and throws Ares out of hte elevator
* Canning jumps out of the elevator and goes after Ares
* Dr Sam tries to sends the elevator up to the top whilst Minnie provides stealth cover
* As the elevator passes his floor, Hubert jumps into the elevator attempting to grab Mr Meedham as he passes by but Mr Meedham slides out of his grasp
* Ares puts another 3 shots into Canning, dispatching him
* Mr Meedham heads down the corridor, with Hubert following behind
* Ares, Minnie, and Dr Sam takes over a taxicab to head on down to the Temple where the Crown is supposed to be
* Hubert catches up with Mr Meedham.
* Mr Meedham reveals himself as a full snake person and attempts to attack with a sword cane and his claws but looses the sword cane to Hubert's mass
* Hubert escapes by jumping out of the building from the second floor as he is straked by Mr Meedham's claws, landing on top of the cab that the other three have taken over
* With the help of Ares' intimidation, the group escape the area in a vehicle, running into the merciless Calcutta traffic
* They arrive at the Temple to the Snake Goddess. Some of the statuatory show the Cobra Crown
* They enter in, and hear various noisss from both the inside and the rear
* Hubert and Sam go down into the lower level where they see about a dozen figures surrounding a statue that is clearly missing the Crown. At least 1/3 of the figures are dead, the rest are bleeding from their eyeballs, have blackened and blistered skin.
* The two of them are confronted by the remains of a man that is literally drifting away on the breeze.
* Meanwhile Ares and Minnie see Tyrannish in her true snake people form emploring her followers to come forth and share in her victory. Above her is a large thrumming crack in space itself. The crowd around them push forwards.
* Hubert goes deep into his Snakebert persona, imprinting on the surrounding crowd
* The throng of the crowd starts to literally merge as Tyrannish continues to open the gate
* Dr Sam creates a mixture of all sorts of things that when thrown into the melding crowd starts to disassociate it.
* This is at the same time as 5 18-foot guardians of Mu appear through the gate and start to enfold the throng of ex-humanity.
* Hubert wrestles one of the five immaterial guardians out from the crowd
* As Tyrranish heads for the gate, Minnie rushes up and tears the embedded Cobra Crown from Tyrranish's forehead before throwing it over the crowd
* Ares starts shooting Tyrannish, but the bullets bounce against her armour enchantment
* Dr Sam grabs the Crown from his Falcon (which had picked it out of the air) and puts it on his head, thereby denying it from all the others nearby as its spikes burrow into his head
* Hubert grabs one of the immaterial guardians and moves it in Tyrranish's direction
* Minnie fully frees Atos at Tyrannish
* Tyrannish calls upon the Fist of Yog-Sothoth to free her from the guardian but underestimates its mass
* Dr Sam sends the guardians back through the portal, unwillingly
* Ares shoots Tyrannish yet again, almost bringing her down
* Hubert, still riding one of the retreating guardians, attempts to slice at Tyrannish but misses and is drawn through the portal
* Meanwhile Tyrannish takes control of Ares and sends them through the portal
* Minnie is looking frantically for a way up to the portal whilst Dr Sam is concentrating on sending back the guardians as Tyrannish leaps up into the portal, just as Rose Meedham and her two goons break through the temple doors at the rear of the courtyard.

### Trivia

* The level of sufficient luck is clearly dependent on player (Jim vs Art being the outliers).
* We may never know why Jackson had those 6 nails ready and to hand to enact the Crown entering his skull