GM Notes: The Master Plan

Spoilers, secrets, and the threads that connect Part I to the climax.

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The Substituted Script

The play the troupe believes they will perform in Wati is The Pharaoh's Final Hour, a melodrama. The script that arrives in their possession on the road to Wati is something else entirely — a ritual text disguised as a play, with cues that map to the components of a binding-undoing.

When they perform it on the night of the new moon in the necropolis amphitheater (an "atmospheric venue" the cult helpfully suggested), the binding breaks.

Long Threads

1. Menes the Magnificent begins as a peer. By Part III, he is being courted by the cult. By Part V, he leads them.
2. The Threshold of Heaven's Descent — first encountered in the introductory adventure as a curious dungeon — is revisited at high level, and what was a quiet ruin reveals what it actually is.
3. The Eyes Beneath the Sand are watching the troupe from the moment they cross into Osirion. Whether they are allies, antagonists, or something more complicated depends on choices made in Part II.

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