The plot summary and characters from RCX have been uploaded to the website. You probably want to start on the page. I have some other website tweaks to make such as making the character sheets from each year available.

The year is 1953 and something is coming... the Dihomar. The most advanced power in known space, the Bootians, are worried. They ask their earth operative A. A. Milne to find the only defense -- a defense lost in the annals of time. The only one who might be able to find it is Phrixus, a Lysithian, the sworn enemy of the Bootian Empire. The problem is that Phrixus vanished in 1950, and no one knows where he went -- except, perhaps, his sister, the Scarlet Lion.

In RileyCon X, teams from all parts of the Sol Alliance join to find the Scarlet Lion and extract her from her exile in the time stream. The very question of bringing her back provokes a heated debate amongst the world powers -- would it be madness to bring back a woman who nearly conquered both Zebulon and Earth?

To retrieve her, they need to defeat the anti-technology satellites that keep Earth in an Age of Steampunk. They also need to find a rare metal to power the device that retrieves her, and that metal can only be found on the plane of the Elder Gods.

The details

Earth History Recap

Dreamin' in the Food Court
Punk's obsession with the Grail became pathological in the early 50's. Coupled with the pressures of his new job as Supreme Commander of Zebulon Space Forces, he developed insomnia and irritability. One day, while passed out after a drinking spree in the Colonel's Food Court, he had an unusually surreal dream in which the Grail appeared as a Blue Poodle. Freud explained that the Grail represented everything against which Punk must struggle to become balanced. The dream then transformed into a "sending" from A. A. Milne. With radio communications inhibited by the Earth's anti-technology shield, Milne used Punk's dream to effect a conference call in Winnie the Punk's head. Team members were called together for the purpose of recovering the Scarlet Lion and finding Phrixus.

The ANT-SATTS
One team gathered at Primate City, Luna, the other at Silvergate Spaceport on Zebulon. The teams received briefings from Myomita Off-World Operations Director Rumi Fujizawa and Prime Minister Hamms of Zebulon, respectively.

Ants in PANTS
The two teams brought used UNMASK probes to identify the two low-earth orbiting (LEO) anti-technology satellites. Docking with the satellites was complicated by local technology-nulling field around the satellites. Once aboard, the teams learned that the Planetary Advancement Neutralization Transmitter Satellites were run by giant zombie ants. The rotation of the station was accomplished by teams of ants running on a treadmill. The interior of the station was a giant ant farm with dangerous army ants, and many drones going about their business. Near the queen, at the end of the station pointed towards Earth, they found an emitter crystal, which they disabled. This activated the station's self-destruct mechanism, giving the teams little time to evacuate the station. In their haste, the teams ripped out part of the airlock mechanism and had a bumpy re-entry. The two ships crashed not far from each other in Grover Mills, New Jersey.

UNCOVER Briefing
Everyone is picked up by a garbage truck and brought to a junk yard. Below the junk yard office, the Martian Corporate Training Center has been refurbished as the secret UNCOVER base. They are greated by Christopher Robin...

Spoon!
Two train loads of adventurers traveled to the sleepy and creepy New England town of Arkham and travel around town collecting clues. Putting these clues together, they realized that two opposing cults planned to summon their Elder gods that evening. They crashed the ceremony and retrieved a spoon of practically pure sigurdschist metal from each cult's altar.

The Big MacGuffin
With the spoons in hand, the decision now fell to the United Nations Security Council -- should the device be used? The Scarlet Lion nearly conquered Zebulon seven thousand years ago, and she was well on her way to conquering Earth in the 19th Century.

While scientists analyzed the device at UN Headquarters in New York, this grave question was debated by heads of the world's superpowers -- Emperor Cornelius of Monkeydom, President Sanders of United America, Count Lazlo of the Leonine Republic, and Rumi Fujizawa of the Myomita Corporation. The discussion soon turned to the division of land. Count Lazlo traded the land of the Leonine Republic for agreement of the Council to use the device. The decision was formalized in UN Security Council Resolution 1953.

By the time the UN Security Council came to its decision, scientists had already activated the device, and the Scarlet Lion was standing in the United Nations General Assembly chamber.

So far, she is behaving well...

Primate City was constructed by the former crew of Babylon Base and the lunar Space Monkey Mafia after the reawakening of Katallakh. Primate City has maintained its independence from Earth, and is a member of the Sol Alliance.

Anti-technology satellites inhibit electric and electronic technologies on a planet by creating an antitechnology field delimited by the planet's ionosphere.

The Scarlet Lion deployed a pair of AT-satts when she arrived on Earth in 1890. Her goal was to prevent science from rivaling magic. She built them to last about fifty years, as she didn't anticipate being trapped in a time stream. Sometime after the Battle of Paris, the Fuehrer contracted with Malfeaso to build the MacGuffatron Plot Reintegrator to yank her out of the time stream. This pair of satellites was destroyed by teams from Earth and Zebulon in 1953.

The Scarlet Lion was driven into the temporal stream at the Battle of Paris in 1890, shortly after establishing the Leonine Hegemony. Her henchman, the Archlich Mylo, contracted with Malfeaso to construct a device to retrieve her from the stream. No one knows what happened to the MacGuffatron Plot Reintegrator, Mark I. Accidents were common in the Leonine Hegemony, and it is widely supposed that one of the earth-shaking explosions to rock Siberia during that time was a test run of the device. Perhaps they made the mistake of trying to operate the device while the Earth's anti-technology shield was in place.

MASK and UNMASK technology were developed by the Bootian Empire, but derivative technologies have become common in military application. MASK changes the appearance of an item across the EM spectrum, and can be used to cloak objects from primitive societies. UNMASK technology reveals the true appearance of an item. MASK technology is power-intensive. UNMASKing does not require large amounts of energy, but the technology is inherently shortrange.

Level 10 - Evil Lawyer

There are people who think releasing the Scarlet Lion from temporal exile is a good idea? Are they insane? Have they forgotten two global wars fought to contain her empire of evil zombies (--any zombie that the Colonel doesn’t control is an evil one, by definition)?

Being the iron-fisted dictator of the Americas is hard enough without the Scarlet Lion’s interference. She’s power hungry and untrustworthy -- traits which you admire in yourself, but detest in others. You are concerned that her return might bolster the failing Leonine Republic, a fertile territory for American Manifest Destiny.

The Volderic Priests of the Order of Phrixus built the crystalline Church of the Fortunate Apocalypse per the writings of the founder of their order. Phrixus had written that one day something would come crashing down from the sky and land, burning, in the Church. And sure enough, that happened. Three spaceships fell from the sky to the planet Zebulon, crashing through its crystalline spires and lighting the entire structure on fire.

Not long after, the Church was purchased by Colonel Harland Sanders the Senior, and converted into a foo

Punks DreamPunk had been obsessing about the Grail more and more, not only in his dreams at night, but during distracting day dreams as well. He developed a case of insomnia that had him jittery and on a hair trigger. When A.A. Milne needed to contact WTP and those chosen to assist him, the only way to get the message through was via dream-magic.

In this dream, WTP was dreaming about the Grail battle. It was vaguely reminiscent of his experience with Elvis's 8-track holosimulator system, but more surreal. Instead of the muppets and Punk's gang facing each other, however, everyone in the dream seemed like a blend of other people.

Emperor Cornelius of the Franco-British-Leonine Empire (also known as Monkeydom) was married to Professor Simia MacGuffin of Luna on April 23, 1953 at UN Headquarters in New York City, United America. Count Lazlo, Iron Willed Enforcer of the Empire presided over the civil ceremony which was witnessed by UN Secretary General Erlich von Struedel.