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When Oldaric was at his worst, an individual approached him and explaiend him about dancing plagues.
Told him that if he did what he had to, he would get his revenge.
The plan was the following: he would teach Oldaric how to trigger a dancing plague. Dancing plagues are a phenomenom of mass hysteria that actually happened several times in european history.It is a phenomenom of mass hypnosis, where people believe a dancing plague is hapenning so they are hypnotised and become part of the dancing plague.During a dancing plague, people start dancing irresistibly and can't stop for days and days.It usually happen during terrible famines. The individual did the following : He would offer Oldaric the Skeletal Psaltery.
He would also give him a chest full of devil's bread. A very pure, very tasty white bread laced with "ergot de seigle" a poisons that makes people delirious.
He would also make sure a battle is triggered between the peasants and the soldiers so he Oldaric has an opportunity to destroy the food reserves, steal food for himself and to bribe people. It's also a good opportunity to lace some food reserves with mandragora.
He also told him to bribe some persons to pretend their body is forced to dance.
The point is to first enfeeble people, by starvation (because there's a famine)and by poisoning(mandragora and "ergot de seigle"). Once they are very enfebled, pretend a dacing plague is starting (with bribed actors) a hence trigger triggering a collective hysteria. Obviously Oldaric did not imagine this plan, but the individual asked him to do it anuyway anyway to get his revenge.
When Oldaric sees that the inquisition is involved, he doesn't know what to do. And try to scare them away, and if possible make them dance for long enough so he can get his revenge without harming them. (harming the inquisition would mean running for the rest of his life)
That's why he tries to drug them with mandragora and put them in a situation where it's almost impossible to resist the mass hysteria.
Wether he succeeds or not, his goal is not to kill them.
* Unsolved mysteries :
Why corpses where shipped in this town ? What happened to them ?
Who is the individual that gave him the Psaltery, the bread and imagined the plan.?Why giving him a Skeletal Psaltery at all ?
=Part 1 Midnight Dance=