Might I suggest Nightmare of Scarecrows --- New Corridor in the Great Pyramid

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Don't all great horror tales begin like this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64825526

"We're going to continue our scanning so we will see what we can do... to figure out what we can find out beneath it, or just by the end of this corridor," said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

The Great Pyramid, which is 146m high, was built on the Giza plateau during the fourth dynasty by the pharaoh Khufu, or Cheops, who reigned from around 2609BC to 2584BC.

Friends, friends, we have found a new corridor into the heart of the Great Pyramid. The mystery of Cheops may soon be known.

Of course the paperwork to enter the tomb is miserable to complete. The only way to get inside is to sneak in through the dead of night or through deception during the day.


(1) Hartu: When you manage to descend down the corridor and into the low passages, you find great secrets and an elaborate tomb complex. This is amazing your researchers exclaim and when you try to backtrack to the entrance, it's almost as if the Pyramid blocks have slowly moved to seal the inner complex. Loose the Hartu, a horror beyond words. The ancient kings need blood and despair to fuel their long sleep.

(2) A Builder's Mistake: You repel down the corridor after examining the structure. The rocks seem cut differently than the rest of the stones for the pyramid. The mathematician (or Rubic's Cube expert) in the party examines stones with tape and rods. It's almost as if these stones were cut differently than the rest. An angle here, a few inches there and when the whole is assembled an unexpected inner passage is created. The ingenious planning has created another entrance.

Though the masters know more than they reveal. If the tunnel of deception was detected, additional traps would lie in wait to welcome the robbers.

But, a clever thief would know that and perhaps make a second deception? Or a third?

(3) Journey to the Stars: The notice of the newly discovered passage is just tourist tripe to you, a serious scholar. The pyramid is just a pile of rocks and you have greater mysteries. The Star Men of Klathh are among the cities of man shaping our destiny. Wars, disease, industry ... what is their foul purpose?

But then, late at night in the New York Historical Library, your eye catches the inscription on a stone tablet borrowed from the museum in Warsaw. In the moon light, an additional inscription is revealed that indicates the Pyramid is a great sky gate and the passage will be revealed. To enter the passage to the World of the Star Men, use the ..... the message ends.

It is August 25th, 1939. The other portion of the stone is in Warsaw. It is probably in some sleepy Museum ... nothing every happens in Poland ... in 1939.

Queue the adventure music.

(4) What matters now in the fullness of time?: You are a simple man. The Yanghees come to your fair town and ask you to show them the treasures of the ancient world. Yes sir. Watch your step madam. It is humble work. But, the pay is fabulous and you live like a King when you are not performing. Why do we praise Chaplin and Olivier for playing a role but not poor Babu? Your children will be the educated elite and will laugh at them all.

The new corridor has been known for decades. Tidbits like that are revealed from time to time to bring the tourists in to see the face of Cheops. Experience the treasures of the ancient kings. Buy trinkets made in your Chinese sweat shops. Ahh, capitalism. Wait til they hear of the Yakari pools below the Eastern edge.

Then, Professor Harkness comes to town with the lapis luzuli enrcrusted rod. He says it is the Forever Key and is certain it will open the Maw of Khufu. The maw will allow a man to stand at the dawn of the Pharaoh and sleep in the shadow of the end of night.

Not only may you be rich; you may also soon be immortal.

(5) Zin: Some say you are crazed but you know what the common man has no clue. Cheops is a ruse, a deception, a false tomb. Napoleon discovered the real Cheops known simply as Zin and sought to hide it for himself. Within the structure of Zin is a portal to eternal paradise. Zin is in the depths of the cruel desert away from the cities of men.

Napoleon at the Battle of Embabeh was substituted with a doppelganger who ravaged Europe and the World while the real Napoleon set out to conceal Zin and create in it's place Cheops. The stones are too new. They are cut with modern German tools. It is absurd. Yet, none see it.

While this false structure holds nothing ... the great joke ... the real Zin would also have this unknown passage. Even a crazed man would enjoy eternal paradise. A chance to prove them all wrong. And, as chance would have it, in the Diary of Raza Roustam, the location of Zin is revealed to your eyes.

Now, to take your pills from the keepers and demonstrate the madness is all gone.

(6) Nine: Not much happens in Miller Town, Nebraska. Just a few honky tonks and a bar or three. Oh, and that one covert military base. Mom told me not to waste my time on all that Pyramid nonsense. See the face of the boy king. Man, people will believe anything. If you lay on the floor and look up at the mask from the boy king, you'll see "Made in Hong Kong" on the underside.

The truth is even more insane and even Mr. Spock himself would have trouble explaining it. The thing is we invented the Fay-rows ... well that's how they spelled it at first ... then they brought in some word scientists and fixed it all up.

When it was discovered that the structure was a big ancient communication device along with a few other oddities, it made sense to hide it all. At first, it didn't make sense but they brought in some smart cipher guys ... uh people ... Turning, Babbage, Lovelace, Feynman, Wildmoon, ... a bunch of egg heads --- all the big names. And the Germans too. Smart bastards.

And, they figured out the pyramid was a communication device. Stuff moves around and forms a three dimensional tensor --- a tesseract . A hunk of metal there... a few stones shift. It gets cold here and hot there. Damn complex but it's like a bar code. All you need a few big computers in Nebraska to tell you what it means. It's like a cosmic Twitter. We call it 0.0.0.9 ... the IP address for the device ... or simply Nine.

The best we can figure is the people at the other end of this thing have a sense of humor and give us useful advice. We call them the Green Dudes since they never really told us who they are. Aliens. If people only knew.

Remember that planet killer asteroid from a few years back? Yea, me neither because we were warned and took care of it. Remember that deadly plague that happened a few years back which could only be prevented by feeding people glutton? Why would anyone eat glutton?

Any case, we don't have time for that now. The message that's comes when you open a big void like that in Nine is BOHECA ... Bend Over. Here it Comes Again. Well or something like that. We don't know for sure ... but it's bad.

We got to get some Marines and numbers people in there to request more details.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/374205/Nightmares-of-Scarecrows

May your journey be fruitful.

Yours,