#RPGaDay2025 - Day 24 - Reveal

Day 24 of #RPGaDay and "Reveal" is the magic word.  

I've had plenty of reveals in my game, but no reveal was more underwhelming, yet dreadful, than the appearance of Jack Brady in Shanghai. 

Total Spoilers pertaining to one of the greatest RPG campaigns of all time, obviously.  

The Investigators were fourteen sessions into Masks of Nylarathotep, and had been conducting research in Shanghai for almost two weeks, when a rough and tumble individual wandered into breakfast at the hotel, picked up some toast off of elderly big game hunter and adventurer, RJ Cunnighame, and took a bite.  

"I understand you fellows are looking for me.  I'm Jack Brady."

Art for the Jack Brady miniature from RAFM (RIP) 

Brady had been part of the Carlyle Expedition and assumed dead like the rest.  In reality he had rescued/kidnapped Roger Carlysle and safely placed him in a sanitarium 

He sat there, picking off of everyone's plates, filling in the dots of the investigators own research, while setting up for the big finale that included the big bad human evil guy, magical texts, and way too much research on the Japanese Imperial Navy as well as Radium bombs. 

For everyone else at the table, except for RJ Cunnighame who declared, "We're Having a Jolly Right Time in Shanghai!"  most had a sense of relief that Brady was alive and here, but acknowledged their personal dooms were probably sealed in the next few days.