Ned's Greatest Expedition ?

Ned (left front of the column) and his improved expedition

With my enthusiasm for Jimland at a high and Ned surviving his last venture into the wilds of Jimland with great success (for Ned at least), it was the next day, in real time,  (about a month or so ago) that I made up another expedition with Ned still as leader.
So how would it turn out  ?
Read on...












Once more then,
From the Journal of Frederick Cartington
"Edward came good and with his newly found enthusiasm our column set off for the North-westward route around the lake to the North of Jim's Landing with a sizable column consisting of Ned (as leader of course); Bert, the Doc.; myself as Hunter; Ebor our scout and Horatio our interpreter. We were afforded the luxury of being accompanied by five Askari and a dozen  bearers,, all laden down with food loads  - enough to keep the expedition going for about a fortnight."
"By day two we were in uncharted territory and were immediately ambushed by natives, several of whom were armed with old decrepit rifles"

Four natives with hand to hand weapons on the left, three rifles on the right

The three native rifles, more a pest  than anything else

Four hand to hand natives hidden from view in the top left

One native rifleman moves into cover, the other two shoot to little effect.

The melee armed natives using cover to close to the column

All the column personnel head for cover...

 "Everyone that was armed decided to make a stand in a small group of trees, whilst our bearers fled away from danger, but for some reason unknown, Ned headed off alone to face the four natives bearing down upon us through the jungle"

...whilst the bearers do the same - away from the threat!

Ned has a save roll of 18/20. What could possibly go wrong ?

One down three to go!

Ned falls victim to a native axe! (notice too the large frog in the background)

"Our shooting managed to fell one of their riflemen and whilst we could hear some creature in the woods where Ned had disappeared into and the screams of the Natives. It all seemed too much for the native chaps who quickly fled the skirmish"
Upon investigation I found Ned lying in the jungle and called upon Doc to care for him"

So, the doc raced over over I rolled to see if Ned would survive, Doc's ability is 7/20, so a 35% chance of survival, I rolled the D20, with trepidation and I'll tell you the result next week. 

In other news my wife is getting well fast, probably due to my never-ending indenture servitude slavery - tender loving care and attention.

But that's all I've got for this week and so it's back to reality; thanks for taking the time to visit and as always your comments are both welcomed and appreciated.