Introduction The atmosphere was thick with tension, and the aroma that can only be produced by 25 sweaty wargamers packed too close together in a stuffy room. An all star cast of Pulp heroes (The Phantom, Biggles, The Shadow, Indiana Jones, Sam Spade, etc.) and their sidekicks were at the top of a large Mayan Pyramid where they had confronted Fu Manchu and thwarted his plans to unlock the secrets of Atlantis. There was no time for celebration, however. Indy (or maybe it was someone else) had carelessly dropped a lit stick of dynamite down a grate in the floor, and the whole pyramid was about to blow up. "You have thirty seconds to tell me how you get out alive," Howard Whitehouse (see photo: background, standing in tan outfit and glasses) declared. There was a pause, and then the ideas came pouring out. "I slip out the back door!" "I run really fast." "I jump out a window and climb down the wall with suction cups." "I grab a dead Nazi and use his body to surf down the stairs." Everyone had a plan except for the Gestapo officer, and nobody would mourn his passing. The heroes fled the pyramid as it exploded, sending rubble flying in all directions. A large rock landed, conveniently, on the head of a Tyrannosaurus Rex that was lurking outside the pyramid (we can't have any loose ends). As the dust settled director Erich von Schnitzel poked his head out of the rubble and called to his cameraman. "Did you get that? Good. That's a wrap!" More Crystal Skulls of Atlantis Filmed on Location at Historicon 2003 Introduction Ideas for the Game Quiet on the Set...Action! Some Choice Quotes (Real and Imaginary) Back to Table of Contents -- Junior General Report #3 Back to Junior General Report List of Issues Back to MagWeb.com Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by Matt Fritz. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles covering military history and related topics are available at http://www.magweb.com