SD 6-30-01 "I Want My Mummy!" #5 - NARRATIVE - The broken Anubis statue belches a thick black smoke, which alarms the High Priest who grabs two crewwomen and flees, ordering everyone else to do so as well. The smoke breaks up and condenses ino seven shapes that turn into mummies - and attack. The crew occupies them while the High Priest opens a door to a tunnel to the surface. As they flee, Shorte Phiuse lights a stick of dynamite, uses it on the mummies, and he and the others get into the tunnel before it closes and the explosion stops the mummies.
The crew gets to a chamber just before reaching the surface, and face one more mummy - who talks to them, and attacks. Zaboo slows it down with a surprise jump on the back, and the rest of the crew hack away at the mummy with persistant attacks. Finally it collapses, dead and staying dead. Then it vanishes with a flash of light and "Q" appears, congratulating them, and revealing the High Priest as Commander Lee under his spell. Crew and captian are then teleported back to the ship, still with their clothes from their Egyptian adventure.
This has definately been one of my stranger adventures.
One minute, I'm on the ship when "Q" suddenly appears. The next, I wake up on a dusty stone floor in some pyramid, wearing some Egyptian priest's clothes, and surrounded by my teammates, both familiar and new recruits, with "Q" also in the room, grinning. Talking to Caine, it seems "Q" used me as an instrument for one of his games, looking and thinking like some half-mummified Egyptian High Priest. I find it hard to believe, but everyone else is dressed oddly, R'Merr in another priest's outfit (wonder what the ancient Egyptians would have thought of him). It would seem our new recruits found themselves a very strange begining.
And knowing the way things run here, they'll find it's only just the begining.