Episode 1: July 1st, 1889

Major Joseph Arbuthnot-Stout, a British army officer, is asked to escort a group of eighteen Anglican missionaries led by the Rev. Chumley to Dolki Kraag, the home of a savage tribe of High Martians. To assist the major in this are Mr. Rodney Sullivan, a hunter and guide; Viscount Holderness, a brave nobleman; and the viscount’s companion Miss Mellisande Baker-Smythe. Upon arriving at the kraag, the implacable hostility of the chieftain, N'dilli, and the priests of some Martian cult make it clear that the 'escort' will need to remain to prevent a massacre. A High Martian warrior, by the name of Goompley, is given to Arbuthnot-Stout’s service by the chieftain.

Episode 2: July 3rd, 1889

After the tensions between the 'Red Men' and the Martians reach a boiling point, Major Arbuthnot-Stout engages the chieftain of Dolki Kraag in a duel -- which he wins! This unexpected victory makes Arbuthnot-Stout the new Chieftain of Dolki Kraag, and heir to all the prior chieftain’s appurtenances, rights, harems, and other perquisites. Some of the warriors are unfazed by this, but the priests of the Worm Cult are most wroth. The missionaries are also somewhat wrothed by Chieftain Arbuthnot-Stout's easy assumption of the uncivilized, not to mention pagan, ways of the kraag.

Episode 3: July 5th, 1889

Mr. Sullivan attempts to supplant the Worm Priest in a similar fashion to Arbuthnot-Stout's accession to the kraag throne; alas this fails, and the party must perforce prevent the Worm Priests from putting Irishmen on the Worm’s menu. In a strange turn of events, with the death of the Worm Priest our Mr. Sullivan begins having odd dreams -- dreams perhaps sent by the Worm itself! Subsequently, Arbuthnot-Stout plans to cement his hold on the loyalty of his warriors by leading an attack upon another High Martian kraag, Barrovar.

on to ... Episode 54 (we haven't transcribed a lot of the early adventures)