By Laura Boylan, Ash Turza, Stephanie Paige, and Dennis "Phaeton" Perepelitsa

The HMS Dauntless, pinnacle of a new line of steam driven luxury airships, is set to fly from London to Paris on December 31, 1888. The ship is stocked with colorful rockets from the Orient, and they say that at the turning of the new year, fireworks will fly unlike ever before! Politicians, debutantes, international superstars, and other colorful characters stock the maiden voyage of this Victorian-era steampunk airship for an evening of romance, sabotage, revenge and deceit.