((Plot A))
In the Middle East Wing of the British Museum, a young lady collie named Jeanine is overseeing the massive renovations for the new exhibits, laid out like a re-constructed tomb of a king yet to be named, but in art seeming to pre-date even the oldest of civilizations of the time. As much as she was devoted to her late teacher's work, something about the exhibit seemed to keep the fur on the back of her neck standing on edge. Yet she flipped through her "Infinite Longbook" to reassess her findings from the expedition in order to prepare for her full presentation to the scientific world...
At the center of the room, towered a stone-carved sarcophagus much larger than that of ordinary people, but none have yet opened the tomb to truly measure the size of the deceased within, and that was currently forbidden for the threat of destruction of the contents within due to exposure. Jeanine looked at the coffin and a shiver ran down her spine.
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Walking from a hotel near the docks where he disembarked the day before, a young Italian man ventured into the hustling and bustling of the English metropolis...
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((Plot C))
Near the airship docking spires north of Bombay, lay a small "town" of warehouses and maintenance docks for repairs and construction of local, commercial, and a few mercenary airships. One such ship bay housed an aero sail ship undergoing restorations from earlier excursions, one of which resulted in a mid-air gun fight with a more heavily armed airship.
The ship's captain, a female human mercenary named Melanie Smith, or Captain Smith to her crew, was looking over the modifications when one of her crew ran to her from outside, gripping a wad of paper in her hand.
"Hey Capt'!" the dingo crewman shouted. "I found another job for us!"
Melanie rolled her eyes and grabbed the paper from the dingo, and had to straighten it out to read what it said. "Now hiring. An able team and aeronautical vehicle for private expedition. Well paid. See Doctor Arnold Schultz, Tibetan Archaeology..." She paused to contemplate...