As far as I could tell, Mage Torvin was not a conspirator.
He would die at the instrument table when the eruption arrived, and he had died at the instrument table in every loop I had been able to track him to the end of.
He was a researcher who had been brought on the expedition to study the pyramid, and he had no idea that the expedition had been built around something other than what he had been told it was about.
Why was an Adept like him killed so easily in every loop by minor demons? Someone must have made sure they were targeted; could it be the pyramid, poison, or a spell?
That was the second thing.
The conspiracy was not the camp; it was a small set of people inside the camp, and most of the people in the camp were as unaware as I had been.
Many of them were senior mages. They would die fighting demons because they did not know that the demons were the means by which their own deaths had been arranged, and before then, they were all weakened.
