# Campaign session prep

## Adventure title

The villain's understudy wants the night off

## The opening situation

A nervous stage manager offers a cape, a smoke pot and a script annotated with three different endings\. Outside, the hero is already giving a speech\.

## People with conflicting wants

Pip, the understudy\: Visit a sick friend without losing the job that pays the theatre company\.

Captain Leda\: Expose the staged battles without humiliating the neighborhood children who believe in her victories\.

## Meaningful choices

Turn the confrontation into an honest performance that gives the neighborhood something worth cheering\.

Investigate who profits from the fake emergencies before deciding what to reveal in public\.

## Clues the party can find

\- The emergency repair fund pays the same invoice after every staged battle\.
\- The supposed hostage wrote the funniest lines and wants a credit\.
\- One prop has been replaced with a real device nobody in the company ordered\.

## What changes if nobody acts?

The real device begins working while both sides argue over the script\. The audience needs protection before anybody needs a verdict\.

## Tonight’s scope and table agreements

One evening\: rehearsal room, square and accounts booth\. Allow sincere choices to interrupt the farce\.

Original campaign seeds and a session-prep guide: https://www.inkwell.software/resources/dnd-campaign-ideas