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Send to the players before the game :
30th of May April 1348 (Isle of Man, Kingdom of Man)
Sisters, sisters, rejoice !
Tonight we shall dance and sing and feast.
⚜️⚜️⚜️💀💀💀
30 Mai Avril 1348 (Ile de Man, Royaume de Man)
Mes sœurs, mes sœurs, réjouissez-vous !
Ce soir, nous allons danser, chanter et festoyer.
At this period the papal trial between Thomas Holland and William Montagu just started and no conclusion was taken yet.
The Red Knight chose this location because this island is not part of the English kingdom and elects its own bishop. It is very far from English and Catholic eyes and has a total population of 1000 people. It has a long history of Paganism and is currently controlled by a heretic witch : “The Hermit”.(who has the [[Bone Sickle]])
Since William’s father’s passing, the Isle is completely independent and he didn’t even visit yet.
Then they will try to frame them.
During her abduction, she Joan of Kent sent messages to her lover to come rescue her. Being the chivalric knight that he is, Thomas Holland made the trip in person to try to sneak her out of the island. He cannot be accompanied by armed soldiers because rescuing her is illegal and he risks losing the trial.
He is quickly caught by “the Hermit”.
The witch will then try to frame the Inquisitors for the execution of Thomas Holland. If they did have him executed, it would disastrous for them and mark the end of their career as he is one of the favourites of King Eward Edward III.
To do that, they dressed him in the red armor of the Red Knight (which doesn’t fit well) and kept him drugged so he cannot defend properly in the Trial.
*Exorcism
*Possession
*Black dog of Peel Castle (Moddey Dhoo)*White Lady of Castle Rushen
*Joan of Kent
*William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
*Mermaid
*Fairies
*Tehi Tegi
*Fomorians
*Glashtyn
*Lhiannan Shee
=Intro=
'''Music : Vampire Dark Waltz Music'''
'''Warn players that in this scenario most characters don't speak "usual" langueges, so the Polyglot Feat is required for social skills'''
The King of England indicated to the pope that the Red Knight that fought on his side was a mercenary hired by one of his best knights, William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury.
They are surprised by the youth of the lord. He is 20 and seems surpassed by the responsibilities that fell upon him. He is the king’s ward, meaning that he doesn’t even administer his own lands (except the Isle of Man)
Describe his coat of arms (no Isle of Man Triskell at this point, it is like the coat of arms of his father but with an eagle on top of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Montagu,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury#/media/File:MontaguArms_Unquartered.png ) and the fact that there’s an eagle on his coat of arm means that his family is highly respected by the king.
He is very cooperative and tell the players everything he know, which is not much because this mercenary Captain and his company “the Red Crowns” have been hired by his father before him, who died 4 years ago.
| 30min = They see a little altart with the carving of the face of an old man, below it is written “the King”. In front of it, lots of offerings of grass “green rushes”. And there’s a prayer in a little scroll “Manannan Mac y Leirr Little Manannan son of the Sea who blessed our island, bless us and our boat going out well, coming in better with living and dead in our boat”
One of the offerings is a weird little pendant that looks like dozens or tiny teeth put as a pendant a “Crosh bollan”
| 45min = There’s a horse walking towards them. On his side is written in French “Run away now ! Leave the island now !”. There’s a bunch of decapitated rabbit corpses attached to the horse looking almost like a saddle.XXXX Better sign of Paganism ??? Ask the Wicca lady what were the signs of paganisms in the ilse of man that different from the rest of Christendom ? XXXX
| 60min = In Peel Castle, they find a guard completely terrified. (he saw the Moddey Dhoo) he is unable to speak and completely shocked.
Unfortunately, their boat has only one sail so they can’t just cut it.
===Mermaids===
In the distance they see a fire, that could be a lighthouse and hear some singing. (no lighthouse at the period in the Isle of Man, but they don’t know that) so they approach carefully and hit a rock sinking the ship.
The lighthouse was in fact a trap.
As their crew starts to swim and climb on a nearby rock, he is killed by mermaids with red hats who were waiting for them there with tridents (actually those are witches part of the coven disguised as mermaids)
===Before the Trial===
'''Music Normal : Normal Z_Normal-Département Nécrologique'''
When they finally land, they are greeted by the local Bishop.
He lies and say that they caught the Red Knight.
He brings them to Peel Castle, under the cathedral where he is kept because he is prisoner of the Manx church (there’s two tribunals at this period, witch trial belong to the church tribunal and happen on Peel Island)
The cathedral itself is very small for a cathedral and has clear pagan symbols. For example the cross has a strange circle on it and there are Wreaths (couronnes de fleures et de guy) in lots of places, also the triskell of man is everywhere.
They have one night only before the trial.
Before the trial the “House of Keys” from the Tynwald (Tynwald = House of Keys plus Governor plus the council), the equivalent of Manx parliament will protest saying that this should be tried in their court not in the church court.
Few weeks later, my sheeps started withering
And I am not the only one who suffered. Lots of peasants are in the same situation and refuse to talk, but I won’t be silenced ! I demand that he is burned at the stake !
and in the local language he says something completely different.
Après les avoir fait sortir, l'un d'eux dit: Sauve-toi, pour ta vie; ne regarde pas derrière toi, et ne t'arrête pas dans toute la plaine; sauve-toi vers la montagne, de peur que tu ne périsses.
And he does it again :
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, **flee** to Laban my brother in Haran,
Maintenant, mon fils, écoute ma voix! Lève-toi, fuis chez Laban, mon frère, à Charan;
“
Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run (he emphasize on this word and looks them straight in the eyes) that you may obtain it.
Ne savez-vous pas que ceux qui courent dans le stade courent tous, mais qu'un seul remporte le prix? Courez de manière à le remporter.
”
If they succeeded the trial in any way, the soldiers don’t dare to attack them and they have time to flee.
If not, fight against two waves of soldiers, two ‘’’Combat '''Combat (skirmishes)’’’ ''' at the same time.
===The Moddey Dhoo===
Unless someone decide to guard the others sleeping they need to have Instinct or someone gets sting by the poison.
The poison kills instantly.(unless Faith or Immune (poison) or a roll with Immune (disease))
- '''Normal : Blood Religion then Z_Baston-Fire Pit Fiends'''
His claws have clearly been sharpened and poisoned.
Now they have a sample of the poison and can cure him.
=Part 2 The Banshee of Castle Rushen=
===Introducing Thomas Holland===
'''Music : Chant of the Templars - Da Pacem Domine (Ensemble Organum) then back to the normal music'''
Once they are in a safe place. He try to convince them to help him, at first he tried to hide his name and the name of the princess that he swore to free.
‘’By Boat ?’’ If they do that, they are attacked by soldiers.
’’Cut through the forrest’’ Thomas Holland is very uneasy and say that it’s dangerous because of the red eyes deer (Knowledgable characters know that there are no deers in the isle of man) If they go anyway, they are attacked by a swarm of beesget lost and finally go through the countryside.
’’Cut through the countryside’’ The soldiers are against them, but the population is not. So they cut through the countryside, hoping that the population won’t rat on them.
They do see some signs of witchaft on their field.
'''Music : Alone in the Dark Mysteries'''
The hooves of the cattles are extremly clean, meaning that someone took the paring of the hooves (one way witches would steal the tarra (e.g. productiveness) of a cattle) there appears to be some kind of salt on all of them as well. (analysis, yes it is some poison)
Any meaninful way to track him. Or they go to his usual spot where he would hand out with her.
'''Music : Chant_Entrapment-8'''
At the end of the trail, they find a statue of his son. (An attempt of ”the Hermit” to intimidate “Trygg”)
The soldier at the door recognises the players, he tells “Trygg” that he likes him but can’t let him in.
===The Tower Courtyard===
'''Music : The Trail Witcher 3 then Z_Batson-Brigands !'''
As they approach the main Tower, some Guard say “Stop or I’ll shoot” ! Through the arrowslit that is a the entrance of the gate.
He seems terrified.
An army is coming from the outside to intercept them.
The porticulus control is not accessible, so they have to find a way to convince the guard in the guard tower to close it.
If they don’t find any good ideas, they can fight the guards and lock themselves in the tower.
They notice that no guards follow them in the main tower, they are too scared.
'''From this point on, the Normal music is : Z_Normal-Kin Amar'''
As they enter the tower, they hear a scream and a servant commits suicide by jumping in the courtyard.
Men behave like sheeps. Women behave like birds and jump out the windows.
Frogs, Pigs, everything. And they all create problems for the players.
In the opposite windows they see a white lady walking, followed by a black lady.
It’s the legend of the white lady and black lady of Castle Rushen.
-Staircase, an animal throws things at them
- '''Music : Ave Satanas (at the end of the music, the effect of the poison dissipates)'''
The room is full of incense, it’s hard to see. The incense is poisonous anyone breathing it without precautions will start attacking the other players. All players rool, anyone who rolled a '''1''' starts attacking the others unless he has Immune (poison) or succeeds and Immune (disease) roll.
===Exorcism===
They quickly catch her, but her strength is superhuman.
'''Music : Gravity The Void (loop three timestwice) then Z_Flippant - Non euclidien (minus the first song 01-NeNormaldsesprPistadeaudio)’’’
Adapt her insane possessed reactions to the music.
She screams in a language they don’t understand. (she’s actually speaking backwards)
It’s Green, Everything is Green → Neerg si gnityevegnihtyreve, neerg sti
Du vert, partout du vert → Trev ud tuotrap, trev ud
Other thing she does : Her muscles are strong as steel, she has ungodly strength and breaks almost any bonds put on her. She spits. She makes weird faces. He eyes roll. She screams as if she was hurt. She speaks in very rare languaes, Aramea, Greek, Arabic, Chinese. She has clear cuts on her body. She knows things that she cannot possibly know (find something to say about the players past or something). Avertion to holy symbols.
=Part 3 The Night of the Witch=
| 30min =
They see a lot of weird midgets covered in moss and barks picking lettuces in the fields at night. Those are Fenodyree, fairies that help people do their chores.
| 45min =
They see hundreds of tiny houses in the forest. The forest is full of them.
Tiny houses with tiny furnitures. And they have the feeling that thousands of tiny eyes are looking at them.
| 45min 60min =
On top of a hill, they see the ocean from far away and under the water the lights of a huge city (it's a reflection of the starts). Joan of Kent explains that it's the city of Mannanan and it can only be seen on may eve.
He disturbs the water and they realised that it was all just the reflection of the stars. Or was it ?
| 60min 75min =
They see nearby in the forest a very beautiful white lady caressing a handsome peasant man.
It's a Lhiannan Shee
| 75min 90min = XX The army of the peasants finally catches up to them and they are all '''''caught'''''. Three of them are Wounded in the process.
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- '''Music Normal (starts after the first attack) : Z_Flippant - Quake '''
As soon as they leave the tower, they discover that a huge mob is against them with pagan masks.
They fall into a pagan hell as they are surrounded and attacked.
In this phase, the players will get '''''caught ''''' one by one. And then they meet at then end when they are all caught.
===How to leave the tower ?===
The minute they leave the tower, '''Music : When It All Falls Down'''
The tower is surrounded by a huge mob of peasants wearing animal masks, and they start to storm the castle.
They run to the nearby forest.
Joan of Kent says they need to go to the top of the Snaefell mountain because locals don't dare to go there, it's the throne of Mannanan, it's their only hope of surviving the night.
'''from this point on Music Normal : Z_Flippant - Quake '''
===How to move without getting immediately caught ?===
Around the Buggane there's an army or midgets covered in moss and bark (the little people), some have weird masks, some are crawling or hunchback. They seem to dance in rithm with the buggane (the buggane is actually a gigantic puppet and they are activating it. The goal being to terrify the local population).
The mod of peasants is walking towards starts catching up to them, they have to run in move quietly to the nearby swamp.
===The Swamp Horrors===
'''Action : Combat (monster) or ask the "prisoner" to hide his eyes then it's just Combat (duel)'''
When he catches someone he just puts him on his back and he is then glued. He catches people with several arms (there are several people making this monster) He will try to run away and the person is '''''caught''''' ===The Wicker Man=== '''Music : Stranger Things - Rats (loop)''' As they walk deeper and deeper in the swamp they see the mob of peasants with animal masks looking at them.
And they see a huge Wicker Man (a huge man made of wood and straws filled with animals and people to be sacrificed).
Their friends who were captured are inside, as well as Trygg's son, the bishop and the governor.
The peasan't mob is around it quietly looking at them.
=Epilogue=
Epilogue musics :
*'''Epique entre-scenart gagant 12-Pista de audio 12.mp3'''*'''Epique entre-scenart gagant 12-Pista de audio 12.mp3''' (put it twice)*'''Fin epique glorieuse 06-FinalFirelink Shrine 1h + Fire sound'''
*Then loop this Playlist '''Normal-Prima'''
As soon as he lands in England, Thomas Hollands meets with Montagu and threatens to reveal everything to the King. Montagu accepts to yield and lets his wife testify against him to the pope, thus losing his marriage a year later.
==Post Game Bonus==
In 1348 only a few thousand people lived in the island of man, in 700 farms, they live in Norse rectangular houses and speak Gaelic and Norse
Oie Voaldyn / May Eve / Walpurgis Night is still a thing in the Isle of Man and the villagers still protect themselves from evil fairies and witches [http://asmanxasthehills.com/april-30-oie-voaldyn-may-day-eve/](http://asmanxasthehills.com/april-30-oie-voaldyn-may-day-eve/) https://www.spookyisles.com/isle-of-man-haunted/
Only existing film of an actual exorcism: https://www.20min.ch/fr/video/exorcisme-filme-pour-la-rts-779604688096
The garter of Joan of Kent supposedly fell to the ground and was picked up by the king. And when people laughed, the king said “Honi soit qui mal y pense” and decided to create a knightly order of the garter. But actually most historians dispute that, so I’ve only included this as an anectode.
Excellent movie on the theme of paganism [, really really worth watching !! https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(film,_1973)]( The Black dog of Peel Castle, the Moddey Dhoo is indeed a local legend : https://fren.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_Moddey_DhooAnd there's indeed a lady ghost in Castle Rushen (filmsometimes in black,_1973sometimes in white): https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/castle-rushen/ In the Isle of Man, cats indeed don't have tails : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_cat There are really 10 meters long sharks around the Isle of Man ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basking_shark Manx Fairy tail about : The Buggane (the giant): https://www.archive.org/download/manx_fairy_tales_1810_librivox/manx_36_morrison_128kb.mp3 The Tehi Tegi (the lady in white on the horse) : https://ia902809.us.archive.org/32/items/manx_fairy_tales_1810_librivox/manx_31_morrison_128kb.mp3 Manannan's Prayer https://ia802809.us.archive.org/32/items/manx_fairy_tales_1810_librivox/manx_38_morrison_128kb.mp3 Manannan's island that can only be seen during may eve : https://www.archive.org/download/manx_fairy_tales_1810_librivox/manx_27_morrison_128kb.mp3 More about the Fomorians, the evil sea people : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomorians
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