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=Intro= | =Intro= | ||
*Link to the musics : All Playlists https://app.box.com/s/slbcnytj3qhkv6pjy5docwmiazgefehs | *Link to the musics : All Playlists https://app.box.com/s/slbcnytj3qhkv6pjy5docwmiazgefehs | ||
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==>[[:Category:Feats]] and [[+1 Feat]] explains the mechanics. | ==>[[:Category:Feats]] and [[+1 Feat]] explains the mechanics. | ||
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− | + | Father Arnaud "The Abbot" with a bone diptych. His contract is to kill three Dukes and ship two fingers of their left hand. | |
+ | Once his deed is done, he is to sacrifice all the monks and burn his abbey, he does that using the candles from Eugène Clavicule. | ||
Friedrich II von Habsburg died in the Neuberg Abbey the 11 December 1344 at the age of 17. | Friedrich II von Habsburg died in the Neuberg Abbey the 11 December 1344 at the age of 17. | ||
− | His death is very suspicious because he was the last member of this branch of the House of Habsburg. | + | His death is very suspicious because he was the last member of this branch of the House of Habsburg. Also his left hand is missing. |
The Pope wants the inquisition to investigate, because it is the third member of this family to die within few years in this abbey. | The Pope wants the inquisition to investigate, because it is the third member of this family to die within few years in this abbey. | ||
Otto der Fröhliche in 1339 then Leopold II von Habsburg in August 1344 and now Friedrich II in December. | Otto der Fröhliche in 1339 then Leopold II von Habsburg in August 1344 and now Friedrich II in December. | ||
+ | Another very troubling fact his middle finger and ring fingers are missing. | ||
Their rival Rudolf IV made it very clear to the pope, that he doesn't want any noise. The pope can investigate, but no conclusions can be made public. Officially, they died of illness and that's it. | Their rival Rudolf IV made it very clear to the pope, that he doesn't want any noise. The pope can investigate, but no conclusions can be made public. Officially, they died of illness and that's it. | ||
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This abbey is also the place where the archives of the Societas Templois are kept. | This abbey is also the place where the archives of the Societas Templois are kept. | ||
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Presentation of the library: '''Music Edward Cisorhand''' | Presentation of the library: '''Music Edward Cisorhand''' | ||
− | It is a large | + | It is a large monastery dedicated to theology. The greatest of sciences. |
− | + | 4 levels of library. | |
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− | Description of the monsatery: Great towers, yellow stone. Path difficult to access need to go through a rope | + | Description of the monsatery: Great towers, yellow stone. Path difficult to access need to go through a rope. |
Beautiful view in the mountains. | Beautiful view in the mountains. | ||
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The actual time on the atmosphere track is flexible. No problem to delay a bit or go a bit faster on the indicative times. | The actual time on the atmosphere track is flexible. No problem to delay a bit or go a bit faster on the indicative times. | ||
− | + | =Day 1= | |
− | + | *'''Normal music (when nothing is happening) :''' Playlist Normal Latharne la silencieuse | |
+ | *'''When seeing the dead:''' Edward Cisorhand | ||
− | + | First week, there is a suicide that looks like a murder. Father Etienne (illuminator ) is found dead, fallen from a tower naked. Players find an unreadable letter in the mouth of the dead. | |
− | + | Finding the letter in the dead man's mouth: '''Music Danse Macabre''' | |
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{{Ambiance Track | {{Ambiance Track | ||
− | | 5min = | + | | 5min = ??? |
− | | 15min = Everyone stops to go to pray | + | | 15min = Everyone stops to go to pray |
− | | 30min = | + | | 30min = All Axes are gone. |
| 45min = Dead animal before their door | | 45min = Dead animal before their door | ||
− | | 60min = Sinister sound, like a sinister laugh, actually it's a squeaky door | + | | 60min = Sinister sound, like a sinister laugh, actually it's a squeaky door |
− | | 75min | + | | 75min = Someone locks players in a room by knocking down a piece of furniture, broken piece of furniture. When they go out, the bridges are sabotaged |
− | + | | 90min = ??? | |
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Purpose: To determine if it is suicide, murder or heresy. In order to call reinforcements. Soldiers came with them and for lack of evidence will return. | Purpose: To determine if it is suicide, murder or heresy. In order to call reinforcements. Soldiers came with them and for lack of evidence will return. | ||
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− | + | They can see father Etienne's body. There's a weird letter in his mouth. '''Music Danse Macabre''' | |
− | ' | + | The letter looks like a part of Father Etienne's illumination, but no book has any missing illumination (because it comes from a book that Father Arnaud was restoring, but there are other copies of this book.) |
− | + | At the moment when they say that to the senior father, someone was listening to the door. They hear someone running away | |
+ | A little later, a book is found burned in the library (it was the book from which came the illumination) | ||
− | + | The remains of the book are illegible. The title, everything burned. On the other hand, the book has an extremely particular format. Finding another copy, they can find the illumination. | |
− | The | + | => So it's a murder! A soldier will remain in reinforcement. |
− | + | Study and topologies of known heresies (title of the book) | |
− | + | The book lists various known heresies. | |
+ | Ex: The church that burned 25 times | ||
− | + | Ex: The chewing vampire | |
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− | + | The page in question speaks of a person, initially considered a saint, who heard the voice of God. Saint Thibaut of Velène | |
+ | He had a cohort of followers. | ||
− | + | He was finally tried as a heretic, the day the voice of gods gave him the order to have his whole village executed and he began to erect a monument with the bones. | |
− | + | Illumination is supposed to represent the monument being erected. | |
− | + | In the monastery, there are candles to an old statue of Saint Thibault de Velene. Even if his face was destroyed. => So it's a heresy. Two more guards remain. | |
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Other books are a little illegible too | Other books are a little illegible too | ||
− | + | father alberic was upset at Father Etienne's wuality of work. | |
− | - | + | - Father Alberic (superior father) the superior father who worked the garden and found the body. |
− | + | He heard a single howl, then heard him land. | |
− | + | -Father Roland (scribe mad) the scribe who copied books on the floor below (crazy) | |
+ | He heard insults profusely, then punched "nooo" and jumped. (no marks of fists on the wall or on the body) | ||
− | - | + | -Father Eudes (cook), the cook who met him last at meal (but silent) |
+ | During his last meal he was very agitated, he spoke to himself. | ||
− | + | Rooms are brothel for many people. | |
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+ | Father Etienne's work deteriorated to the point of becoming abstract. | ||
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+ | Choice: players must entrust the note to one of his people or to anyone. | ||
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+ | If they leave it to a sane person or a specialist, he will tell them that it is gibberish. | ||
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+ | If they entrust her to the madman. He will tell them it's a code. It means traitor. He will remain friends with them and tell them not to show this to anyone. | ||
=Day 2= | =Day 2= | ||
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+ | *'''Normal : Normal Horreur Cérulée''' | ||
+ | *'''Creepy Music (when something creepy happens) : Flippant le diable est dans la boite''' (when a player is poisoned) | ||
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+ | The library is accessible only by a mountain path with a passage through a rope. Especially with the perpetual torrential rain falling. It has been cut. The players are stuck here. | ||
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{{Ambiance Track | {{Ambiance Track | ||
− | | 5min = | + | | 5min = ??? |
| 15min = Laud bell. The pigeon loft is emptied. Weak signal (something they can discover): Toxic mushrooms are gone | | 15min = Laud bell. The pigeon loft is emptied. Weak signal (something they can discover): Toxic mushrooms are gone | ||
| 30min = Tierce bell. The box that contained their sceals has disappeared. | | 30min = Tierce bell. The box that contained their sceals has disappeared. | ||
− | | 45min = Sext bell. | + | | 45min = Sext bell. A player receives poison in one glass. He has one action. He need to decide to vomit. Otherwise stay feverish in bed. |
− | | 60min | + | | 60min = Vespers bell. The food, clothing and old candle storage building burned. In the rubble there is a burnt monk with a metal torch. |
− | + | | 75min = Compline bell. Players' door is nailed and the room is smoked | |
− | | | + | | 90min = ??? |
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There is a high rate of abstention from prayers. 5% +1 index | There is a high rate of abstention from prayers. 5% +1 index | ||
− | Many people no longer | + | Many people no longer put their room 10-20%. +1 index |
Some scribes write completely unintelligible. 5%. +1 index | Some scribes write completely unintelligible. 5%. +1 index | ||
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From 5 clues, they can call the cavalry. Who in any case will come after the facts. | From 5 clues, they can call the cavalry. Who in any case will come after the facts. | ||
− | ''' | + | =Day 3= |
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+ | *'''Normal : Kin Amar''' | ||
+ | *'''Creepy : Ligeti''' | ||
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+ | For each bell, there will be a kill. The players have to find a way to stop this. | ||
− | + | Morning Bell 4:00 AM Matins bell: A person found with an ax in the skull. No clues. | |
{{Ambiance Track | {{Ambiance Track | ||
− | | 5min = | + | | 5min = They see a guy go down the halls with a wagon and say he's going to plant cereals and fruits. He distribute books on the floor |
− | | 15min = Bell of 5:00 Lauds bell: A person found | + | | 15min = Bell of 5:00 Lauds bell: A person found with an ax in the skull. No clues. |
− | | 30min = | + | | 30min = Attack: As players take a flight of stairs, someone pushes a cabinet up the stairs. The cabinet will soon fall and they have little time to react. It's up to them to find a way to block it. For example, plant something on the stairs. |
Very difficult to go down the stairs quickly enough, the nearest door is closed. But possibility of stalling something in the corner to block. | Very difficult to go down the stairs quickly enough, the nearest door is closed. But possibility of stalling something in the corner to block. | ||
Great chance that a player will be seriously injured and stay to bed. | Great chance that a player will be seriously injured and stay to bed. | ||
− | + | They can catch the guy who did that, he takes them for demons and is insane. | |
− | | 45min = 7h00 Prime bell: | + | | 45min = 7h00 Prime bell: Father Roland says "It's the Books" and wants to burn all the books. The players have the choice to let him burn the books or not. |
− | + | | 60min = 9h00 Terce bell: Death Ambience: Father Bernard has visions and starts to be insane | |
− | | 75min = 12h00 Sext Bell: | + | | 75min = 12h00 Sext Bell: Death Players hear voices calling them. They start to go insane themselves |
− | | 90min = 15h00 None bell: Death | + | | 90min = 15h00 None bell: Death Death of Father Bernard. From this point on, everyone is insane, nobody responds or help them |
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Main actions: | Main actions: | ||
− | + | Father Superior offers several plans to catch the culprit. He proposes the first two plans, then the two second ones if that fails: | |
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-Close the work rooms | -Close the work rooms | ||
− | -Close everyone in their rooms and do some rounds | + | -Close everyone in their rooms and do some rounds |
It does not stop the dead | It does not stop the dead | ||
− | -Put everyone in the yard | + | -Put everyone in the yard and watch each other |
After an hour the rain turns into snowy fog. The clouds are coming down. There is a dead person and this creates panic. There remain the other options. | After an hour the rain turns into snowy fog. The clouds are coming down. There is a dead person and this creates panic. There remain the other options. | ||
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Jumps to the intro of the next sessions | Jumps to the intro of the next sessions | ||
− | =Day 4 | + | Other actions: |
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+ | -If players do research, it takes at least 4 hours. They find several hidden axes at different places, but there are probably others left. | ||
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+ | =Day 4= | ||
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+ | *'''Normal and Creepy : Quake''' | ||
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The players spend the night in the library with all the other monks, all candles are light in the room. | The players spend the night in the library with all the other monks, all candles are light in the room. | ||
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For this scene '''Music: Behelith''' | For this scene '''Music: Behelith''' | ||
− | Father | + | Father Arnaud tries to assassinate a player in the night. Dense smoke in his room. Father Arnaud walks between them slowly asking an insistent question, but impossible to answer: You eat our food. You kill our brothers. You steal our books. You cut our bridges. Do you have any politeness? What do you have to say for your defense? I'm listening to you. Answer. Then stab him. |
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− | Players know it's Father | + | Players know it's Father Arnaud (mad book binder). |
− | Players must stop Father | + | Players must stop Father Arnaud and have him executed. |
And discover what happened in the monastery. | And discover what happened in the monastery. | ||
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{{Ambiance Track | {{Ambiance Track | ||
− | | 5min = They find bloody books all over the hallways. | + | | 5min = They find bloody books all over the hallways. With a piece of flesh in it. Then they find the same guy that was planting books. But now he's "feeding" them. |
− | | | + | | 15min = Father Roland (mad scribe) (crazy) wants to burn the monastery. |
− | | | + | He tries to convince the players to help him. Madness 1 players start to Hear voices. |
− | | | + | | 30min = Father Raymond (crazy gardener) (crazy) is in the corridor exploded under a piece of furniture that fell. He was running away from something. Madness 2: Hear voices, tremble. |
− | + | | 45min = Fruits! A bunch of monks took all the food, all the spices, all the salt, all the chemicals of the pharamceuticals and piled them in a big basin of water and it is put to the food to die of it. Two of them are dead. The food is inedible. More food than for 48h by rationing , the monks continue to eat. | |
− | + | | 60min = There are monks crying in a corner. He discovers his face, he has no lips, no cheeks and no tongue and bleeds abundantly. When asked who did this he wrote: "Arnaud devil" | |
− | + | | 75min = Players discover that they all have blood on their hands. They do not know where. Madness 3: Hear voices. Tremble. People talk to them in permissance. -1 has all your rolls. | |
− | | 90min = | + | | 90min = ??? |
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Other actions: | Other actions: | ||
− | Action, Go see | + | Action, Go see Father Bernard: (If Father Bernard (doctor) alive and if not burned the books) Father Bernard (doctor) is found hanged at home. On his table he has an open book on the page of an inhaling poison that drives people crazy. He has a broken candle he was analysing. It's a way to tell the players where the problem come from. |
− | Action visit Father | + | Action visit Father Arnaud's cell: Father Arnaud (mad binder) (crazy) covered his cell with candles. He is afraid of the dark. But of course he's not there. |
Main actions: | Main actions: | ||
− | If they try to go to the | + | If they try to go to the level 4 of the library, there's a grid preventing them from going up. It's closed. They need to find Father Alberic to open it. |
Behind the gate they can hear a voice chanting. | Behind the gate they can hear a voice chanting. | ||
− | Father | + | Father Alberic has disappeared. How to find the father albéric? |
It's his garden time. Players must find his usual schedule. And they will find it in the garden. He may also see that he is missing his gardener outfit in his room. | It's his garden time. Players must find his usual schedule. And they will find it in the garden. He may also see that he is missing his gardener outfit in his room. | ||
− | + | When they arrive at the top of the tower '''Music Gaunter o Dim''' | |
− | When they arrive at the | ||
− | Go to the top of the library in his workstation behind the grid of the most secret books. There is a huge volume with jaws, Father | + | Go to the top of the library in his workstation behind the grid of the most secret books. There is a huge volume with jaws, Father Arnaud (mad binder) worked there for a long time and attached knives and bones to this big book. |
The big book is readable, but it drives crazy if a player reads it. | The big book is readable, but it drives crazy if a player reads it. | ||
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The tower is covered with candles. Players do not feel well. | The tower is covered with candles. Players do not feel well. | ||
− | Father | + | Father Arnaud reads the book aloud. It disturbs the players even more. |
At every step, they have to roll high or go crazy. | At every step, they have to roll high or go crazy. | ||
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He is in a reading cage in the middle of the room with the book. | He is in a reading cage in the middle of the room with the book. | ||
− | + | To them to find a way to kill the arnaud father. | |
− | + | -Drawing the grid does not work. | |
− | + | -Pick through the grid is too difficult. | |
− | + | -To turn off all lights is the right solution. | |
− | + | -Possible to simply flee. | |
− | Once they turn off all the lights, it scares father | + | Once they turn off all the lights, it scares father arnaud and he fall on his own book. |
Turn off the light in real life when this happens. | Turn off the light in real life when this happens. | ||
− | Then play the music | + | Then play the music "Behelit" |
He is dead. | He is dead. | ||
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− | In the cage, Father | + | In the cage, Father Arnaud had kept some letters he received. |
Nothing unusual in his letters, except that the writing becomes more and more confused. | Nothing unusual in his letters, except that the writing becomes more and more confused. | ||
They find one letter though that is very unsual | They find one letter though that is very unsual | ||
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When reading the letter '''Music Danse Macabre''' | When reading the letter '''Music Danse Macabre''' | ||
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Sir, | Sir, | ||
− | It is with | + | It is with satisfaction that I learn your taste for our candles. |
I am delighted with your new order. | I am delighted with your new order. | ||
− | Know that my institution | + | Know that my institution knows how to treat its good customers generously, you will no doubt appreciate my new merchandise. |
Your devoted | Your devoted | ||
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Eugène Clavicle, the skeleton merchant | Eugène Clavicle, the skeleton merchant | ||
− | PS: You will be pleased to learn that I will hold a booth at the | + | PS: You will be pleased to learn that I will hold a booth at the Valfranc fair this year. Feel free to visit me on that occasion. |
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They have Three main choices : | They have Three main choices : | ||
− | *Keep | + | *Keep Alberic as the head of university yes or no |
*Keep the Library open, yes or no | *Keep the Library open, yes or no | ||
*Burn the forbidden book, yes or no | *Burn the forbidden book, yes or no | ||
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[[Category:Scenario]] | [[Category:Scenario]] |