Setting: Cairo

• Amberley, transported by Mr White in his Sopwith Camel, seeks to buy a new boat
• Kitty looks for a lead in a bar regarding Jack and encounters a hot Italian
• Amberley and Mr White take care of the Italian's bodyguards while he makes a break for it
• Capturing him, Kitty questions him about Jack the reporter. Apparently he was got rid of before he found out too much
• Finnegan, passports investigation plain clothes division, looks into strange happenings
• Alec, partying with actors, sees a face in the stars and tracks down Amberley and Mr White at the Hotel to ask about the woman's face.
• Ravikiran, disturbed by what he reads after the change of the horoscope authorship from Buford Harrington (aka "Doctor Starlight") to Madame Astara, investigates the newspaper
• Bumping into Kitty, a meeting is set up with Finnegan, Alec and Madame Astara
• The face Alec saw is Astara's
• Ravikiran scares the bejesus out of Astara and finds out plans

Setting: The Nile

• Jack Archer's sacrifice is to take place at a party on board a paddlesteamer on the Nile
• Kitty and Finnegan get guests invitations to the party
  • Aspects: Secret Benefactor and Greased Wheels
• Ravikiran and Mr White infiltrate as servants
  • Aspects: Hired Help and Unnoticed
• Amberley sneaks onboard as backup from her clunker of a boat and starts looting
• An Austrian nobleman (possibly a duke or a prince) monopolises Kitty on the dance floor with tales of woe, gambling loses and the loss of his machine.
• A mysterious sheik wanders the top deck looking for people.
• A lascivious, fat, fez wearing head servant is bribed by Finnegan to show him and Kitty the suprise event ahead of time.
• Party objectives are seen as
  1. Stop sacrifice and rescue Jack Archer
  2. Thwart the plans of The Order of the Scarab
  3. Don't burn down the boat
• Kitty, Finnegan and Benni see Marconi's Cadaverous Prototype under a sheet in a meeting room, before hiding after hearing someone approaching (the mysterious shiek and the hot Italian)
• A drunk American woman wins the “Anubis prize” in a wheel of fortune spin in a gambling area rife with prophetic trappings. Ravikiran follows the woman, suspecting foul play while Mr White stays in the room.
• A servant attempts to stop Ravikiran from reaching the meeting room and is punched through the door
• The woman is rescued, Ravikiran, Kitty and Finnegan flee the guards by going outside the ship. Mr White lowers them some bunting to climb up
• Mr White hides the Marconi device in a silver salver and wanders the ship with it, keeping it away from the search parties.
• Two servants attempt to throw the Austrian nobleman overboard, Ravikiran and Mr White take them out
• Kitty enters the cultists's meeting room and sees a tied up and injured Jack Archer
• Ravikiran and Amberley set fire to the boat
• Diverse Alarums
• In the ensuing combat with all characters, Jack is struck by the Dagger of Norn
• In the confusion of the combat, the dagger is lost, but the Marconi device is kept
• Everyone evacuates to Amberley's backup boat
• The head servant is last seen charging passengers to get on the life boat.

• GM: For choosing an aspect, decide what you want to accomplish at the party
  PC: “Flammable Boat”
• Benni : “I noticed your friend is… female. That's my kind of woman.”
• Mr White, in the cupboard, with the silver salver

• Jack Archer was stabbed by The Dagger of Norn
• The group is now in possession of Marconi's Cadaverous Prototype - a radio attached to a mummified head that can allegedly communicate with the other side

Setting: Cairo

• Finnegan believes he has Marconi's prototype working. He, Kitty and Ravikiran take it to the bridge where Buford Harrington (aka "Doctor Starlight") died.
• The radio contacts the Other Side, where a clamour of ghosts vie for attention. One claims to be Starlight, and asks Kitty for a kiss.
• Following the spirit's advice - without payment - the party heads to the Souk to confront Swami Mokti about Starlight's death.
• Mokti takes Finnegan to the Other Side to look for himself - but has no intention of returning him to the land of the living. Instead, he introduces his friend, the Dark Spirit.
• Meanwhile, Ravi and Kitty are threatened by Mokti's thugs. They escape with the bodies into the alleyways of the Souk.
• Finnegan confronts the Dark Spirit, and fools it into chasing a simulcrum of himself. He converses with the ghost of Starlight, who offers some insight into the plans of The Order of the Scarab and tells of a journal that he sent to Archer.
• Kitty wins over the locals, and Ravi intimidates Mokti into revealing his plans.

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