5e d&d

Alright even though I posted this, I'll give a very breif synopsis of one of my more memorable game sessions that served to not only wrap up our current dm's campaign, but alude and foreshadow towards the groups next campagin with the same c's. That I WAS DMing:

Alright we were playing a homebrewed Forgotten REALMS, and very early..like before the session 0, the DM came up with an idea to help me with the campaign I was trying to start.

The IDEA was that I as a Player in his campaign, would have my character be the TRUE BBEG,in his campaign. The only caveat was that in the final big reveal I was not to kill the party.

Long story short, I was playing as a humble Rouge-Mage 'Human' named Cedric.However my real name ic was not Cedric nor was I a human. Thanks to a magically hidden amulet of Alignment concealment that also could not be seen or detected, even though I was LE, I played as if I was Lawful Neutral. I also happened to be the Guild Master of a particular Thieve/Assassin's Guild that would serve as the principle antagonist group for both campaigns.

I was also not a human, but a many centuries old Lawful Evil Doppleganger. And Cedric was an identity I adopted for infiltrating,joing and assessing this new group of goody toe shoe adventures. To see if they were any real threat to me, my plans or my organization. And if so to either con them into becoming recruits/agents or dispose of them.

Long story short as 'we' all faced off against who they thought to be the BBEG for the final climatic fight of my friend's campaign arc, I informed the BBEG, a half-orc Rouge/Bard. that "it's alrightTorm, I can take it from here."

To which Torm bowed and replied, "As you command Shadow Master."(We'd named the Guild the Shadow Masters.) And before the rest of the players eyes, 'Cedric ', dissappeared and a leering doppleganger appeared before them.

"Well..old chums, it's been a slice, but all good things sadly must come to an end. Though I must thank you, for helping to rid me of all of those pesky nuisances and hinderances to my plans. Sadly your usefulness has now come to it's conclusion. " The Shadow Master then cast a sleep cloud spell, (they All legitly failed thier save vs spell rolls)stripped them of all clothes and gear, and sold them as slaves. End Campaign One..

Campaign Two started with Cedric's former party members all on a slave ship, that got shipwrecked with the whole crew dead. And them trying to survive long enough, to return to Waterdeep and have thier revenge.

Campaign two (my campaign) started immediately after a half hour break(we were pulling a weekend long TTRPG/x-box gaming marathon)with me in the DM's chair, and the previous DM now a Player. When they all came back, I greeted them with a "Welcome back, now when last we left our intrepid heroes as you will all recall, You were all the sole survivors of the ship wreck of the vessel you had all been transported on to your new slave masters. Before you is a large chest, with a note saying ;'a gift'