Adventurers Chapter 1: Egypt

## Plot

Thousands of years ago, Anubis grants the Egyptian society the Re-Gou Ruby, which is unbreakable and can grant wishes. After descending through generations of pharaohs, it is stolen by Hotep, who uses it to kill his rivals and take over, until two of his guards assassinated him. Anubis cursed his soul to guard the Re-Gou Ruby, before the Ruby and his soul disappeared.

On a British ship, Stephen Boot doesn't believe the story of the Re-Gou Ruby that his friend, Gordon Thunder, is reading from his journal. The admiral calls the troops into his room and tells them that one of them is a German spy who stole Britain's plans. That night, Gordon awakens and finds Stephen selling the plans to a spy, who is killed by Gordon. Gordon manages to subdue Stephen, but not before Stephen fatally shoots the admiral. The next day, the ship is attacked by the thief Baron von Sinister with a turret. During the attack, Stephen escapes and one of the British guards finds Gordon's body, having been presumably killed in the attack. The guard tells his wife, Marianne, and brother, Dr. Kilroy, about the death and the fact that his journal disappeared. They decide to tell Gordon'sB son, Johnny, that he was lost at sea.

18 years later, Johnny discovers the truth and vows to find and kill Sinister. At Sinister's manor, he meets Sly Boots, who decides to aid him in the hunt for the Re-Gou Ruby. Boots tells Sinister that they will start looking in Egypt, not knowing that they are overheard by a woman outside their window. Later, Kilroy is attacked by two of Sinister's men, but escapes. Kilroy and Johnny decide to go to Egypt to find the Ruby, and hire freelance pilot Harry Cane to fly them there. At Boots' campsite, one of his diggers finds a map. Sinister and Boots discover Pippin Reed, a reporter, and get ready to kill her, but she is saved by Johnny and Kilroy in a stolen vehicle after stealing the map. The digger finds a second map and hands it to Boots.

Kilroy translates the map and Johnny and him head to the oasis. The find Hotep's corpse and the next clue, but they are ambushed by Boots, before Reed knocks him out. Sinister shoots at them from his plane, before Cane chases him away. Boots shoots down Cane's plane and steals the map, injuring Cane. That evening, Cane tells them the story of why his pilot license was taken away. After not listening to one of the men who served under him, Joseph Cromwell, about not drinking, Cane almost died until Joseph sacrificed himself to let Cane live. Sinister brags to Boots about killing Gordon, and Boots leaves to find the next clue. He is ambushed by Johnny and Kilroy, who snuck away from the group, but they both are chased away by Hotep's reanimated corpse.

The two groups head for the Sphinx, where the Re-Gou Ruby should be, and Johnny begins to take out Sinister's cars, before Sinister cuts his wheel with his hook hand, causing Johnny to crash. The rest of the group is captured, and while Johnny manages to kill Pippin's guard, he is captured as well. Kilroy is forced to read the writings on the Sphinx, and they are attacked by Hotep, who kills some of Sinister and Boots' men. They head down a passageway in the Sphinx along with Kilroy and Harry, followed by Pippin and Johnny, who find out that other people made it to this point but died. They discover the Re-Gou Ruby, and Johnny and Pippin knock out Sinister's guards.

Boots reveals that he is actually Stephen Boot, and was the one who shot and killed Gordon back at the ship. Boots takes the Ruby and becomes a giant creature, before killing Sinister's guards. Boots attacks Johnny and Cane, but they knock him down, allowing Reed to fatally stab him with a shovel. The Re-Gou Ruby lands at the feet of Sinister, who takes it, only to be killed by Hotep. A week later, the Ruby is in display at Kilroy's museum, and the group makes a plan to continue looking for treasures.

## List of Deaths

1. Unnamed Egyptian Rival - Shot in the face by Hotep with a laser from the Re-Gou Ruby.
2. Pharaoh Hotep - Stabbed in the neck off-screen by two of his guards with spears.
3. Unnamed German Spy - Shot in the chest by Gordon, causing him to fall from a boat.
4. Unnamed Admiral - Shot in the chest by Stephen.
5. Gordon Thunder - Shot in the chest by Stephen.
6. Joseph Cromwell - Sacrificed himself to allow Cane to live by flying his plane into a windmill off-screen, mentioned by Cane.
7. Unnamed Man - Shot by Johnny.
8. Unnamed Man - Crushed by a stone pillar that fell into the back of his head.
9. Unnamed Man - Neck crushed until his head squeezed off by Hotep with his hand.
10. Unknown Person - Died of an unknown cause, presumably killed by Hotep off-screen, body seen.
11. Unnamed Man - Face crushed by Boots.
12. Unnamed Man - Back of his head smashed against a wall by Boots.
13. Stephen Boot/Sly Boots - Stabbed in the wrists by Johnny and Cane with knives and stabbed in the chest by Reed with a shovel.
14. Baron von Sinister - Killed by Hotep off-screen.