Comidore Manly Fellowcraft: Tenaciously Lost

Comidore Manly Fellowcraft is an expert on the ancient Nabataneans and his voyage to the ruins of Al Zoftar in the Sahara was the fruit of 15 years of research. Unfortunately a last moment gamble for prestige may have soured the mission. Wanting to impress his fellow explorers he expounded that he would make the voyage by balloon! In spite of the extensive planning for the trip to Al Zoftar, chancing his luck to the wind, Fellowcraft soon found himself soaring above the mighty amazon rainforests of Brazil. No worries though, a man of adventure is always at the ready, and Manly is just such a man. The expedition will continue as planned, though in a new continent, the Comidore has decreed.

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Welcome to Compass-Saavy, the internet portal for the Explorers Club of Olde Bucks.
Share in the expeditions as correspondence from our intrepid teams makes its way back to civilization.

The Explorers Club of Olde Bucks is a proud arm of the Saturnalian Society. All funding for these expeditions is the humble pleasure of the Saturnalians and similarly all remarkable feats engaged by the Explorers club expeditions are assumed to be the honor of the Saturnalians.

Six Epic Expeditions

On November 22nd 2007 six senior members of the Explorers Club of Olde Bucks, all of them good Saturnalians, set out for parts unknown with hearts full of fullheartyness. Six separate expeditions dispersed from Bucks County with glory on every horizon.

Moses Suspenderberg, the four time recipient of the Saturnalian Cup for eternal glory, lead an envoy to make contact with the Giant Pygmies of Karu Baru.

Lord Bently Kruggerand steers his rugged brig, The Rutherford B. Hayes, into the icy antarctic Straight of Hubris.

Quentin Z. Beardmonger spirited his mule train two months through Himalayans to the basecamp at Mount Infinitude, his sherpas set for the first ever assent of its sheer peaks.

Comidore Manly Fellowcraft floats his personally designed air balloon across the Sahara to the Nabatanean ruins at Al Zoftar.

Colonel Xap Ashmeade, preeminate researcher in field of the old occidental orient at the Tweed Academy, sinks deep into the bat-thick Cambodian caverns.

And Augustus Brunton tests his cartographic mastery in the labrynthian wiles of South Philadelphia.

Lord Bently Kruggerand: "Prince of Harpoons"

"Its amazing how often one needs his pike up here, and its no bloody good if its rusty!" Says Veteran seaman Lord Bently of his trusty harpoon in a recent transmission from the Straight of Hubris, Antarctica. He is of the rare mind that good old hand chucked barb is best means of spearing; no modern alternative will do. Kruggerand has piloted his brig, the Rutherford B. Hayes into icy channels previously too daunting for science. Tales of a sunken pirate vessel on the frigid basement of the Ross sea was what piqued Bently's adventurous temperament.

After a month in Cape horn gathering supplies and able men, the Hayes set sail for Antarctica where it was harbored for another month at McMurdo Sound to acquire abler men then the previous crew. Finally in February, 2008 the mission proper was ready to go, but it would be another two months before Lord Bently's preferred brand of pipe tobacco arrived from Halifax and they could take to the Ross sea. Towards the end of May the Rutherford B. Hayes docked at Camp Michigan such that Kruggerand could see the publication of his paper "Debonair at Will: a Study aboard the Rutherford B. Hayes" in time for the Royal Maritime Academic Initiative's yearly conference. Another crew needed to be assembled at this point to replace the disillusioned former. Full speed ahead in time for the Antarctic winter the crusader pulled anchor and it was off to the Straight of Hubris.