Sir Russel Pasha contacts you back and informs you that he is assembling a small task force to raid the tunnels and apprehend the ‘hashish smugglers’ you told him were hiding there. Cedric decides to leave you at the hospital and join them.
Later the next day, you are informed that Cedric and many other police officers were wounded while fighting smugglers in the sands outside the largest pyramid. A large number of smugglers and a handful of officers were killed.
When you visit the hospital where Cedric is recovering, he is pale and his hair has turned white as snow. With a shaking voice, he tells you that he managed to disguise himself as a cultist and attend the ceremony. This is what he describes;
Present at the ritual were 12 priests, including Omar al-Shakti and Dr. Henry Clive, and around 200 lesser cultists, including 20 children of the Sphinx. The rest of the Clive Expedition were also in attendance: as sacrifices. Nitocris’ body was removed from the sarcophagus and placed directly onto the sacrificial block in readiness for her resurrection. The sarcophagus itself rested to one side.
James Gardner and Agatha Broadmoor were dragged through the chamber to the altar and made to kneel behind the sacrificial block. The gathered throng began to chant and wail, led by al-Shakti. Agatha Broadmoor was forced to use her powers to contact the spirit of Nitocris, while the cultists hurled victims to the leeches in the pit, who animated the fresh corpses so they could join the celebrations. The various priests linked hands, while Clive and al-Shakti sliced open the throats of Gardner and Broadmoor. As their blood drained into the withered mummy on the sacrificial block, its dried flesh begins to rejuvenate, swelling and glowing with life until, at last, the Queen Nitocris rose in all her deadly beauty.
The braziers beside the throne were lit, and Nitocris stepped lightly over the corpses to take her place. A child of the Sphinx brought Nitocris a goblet of fresh blood to enjoy while she gave the command to bring forth the Black Sphinx. Omar al-Shakti, Clive, and the other priests summoned the creature, which emerged from the enormous hole and was unleashed upon the screaming cultists, children of the Sphinx, and remaining sacrificial victims.
Once the Black Sphinx was sated, Nitocris dismissed it, then cast a spell to summon Nyarlathotep in the form of the Black Pharaoh, who coalesced from the blood and gristle scattered by the Black Sphinx’s feeding. He ascended to the double throne and took a seat beside Nitocris, confirming her as his earthly consort. After the leech chorus finished singing Nyarlathotep’s praises, they dissolved back into the pit and the Black Pharaoh vanished. The remaining cultists staggered into the placid Egyptian night, where they were met with gunfire from the police task force.
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