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→Part 1 Of Templars and Assassins
They arrive in the ruins of a City with very high pillars carved inside a mountain.
Action : Knowledge (heresy) : They are greeted recognise إرَم ذات العماد Iram ḏāt al-ʿimād / Iram cité des piliers / Iram of the Pillars and the king would be Shaddād bin ʽĀd. Explain that this king was mad and defied god, which is why his city was destroyed by an dark giant in rags with a crown under his rags. His seems to laugh with a very deep voice wind and very slowlyflames.
He points in a certain direction.
Add it to their charcter sheets and give them few minutes to read the effect.
Then they all start the Insanity Timer. Explain them the rule to be sure they all understood.
===The attack===
'''Music : (loop) Chant of the Templars - Da Pacem Domine (Ensemble Organum)'''
The next day, a meeting is called by Roncelin de Fos to talk to all the templar of the commanderie of Tortosa.
He seems obsessed with the scroll and can't stop reading it.
Each Templars enter one by on the Temple. Only the players which are actual Templars (not sergents) can be part of this scene, there others are outside.
if none are Templars, then none are present.
The Templar Guardian of the Threshold hold his blade on his chest asking for the password.
"Give me the first word and I will give you the second" says the guardian of the Threshold.
Each persons says "Basileus"
Then the Guardian says "Philosophorum"
Then they reply "Metallicorum"
And one by one they enter this way.
One by one they are called by the Grand Master and they have to sign by getting up then placing their right hand on their left shoulder "Present, Grand Master"
(Actually call the players one by one)
"My brothers, since we form the circle and the number, I declare open the council of the Temple of Tortosa."
Roncelin opens his hood and knocks the table three times with his index and middle finger.
"Brothers, I wish to speak."
The Grandmaster allows it.
He then explains about the scroll they found and the weird dream they apparently shared.
Pick one of the players : They think they heard and slow voice like laughter in the distance.
That's when the Assassins attack.
'''Music Battle : TODO which music during the fight'''
Some servants enter the room by force and scream : “Nothing is true, everything is permitted !”
Explain that this is the rallying cry of the Assassins and that since they are in Syria they had lots of problems with them.
'''Combat (skirmish)'''
One of the Assassins has a black mask with a crown, he scratches himself like crazy. His skin is clearly covered with red spots, he has been deouvred by Lices and periodically he scratches himself like crazy.
His blade is clearly covered in poison, how to fight him ?
Action : Either something meaningful, or '''Combat (duel)''' or wait that he scratches himself to kill him.
After the battle some of them manage to run away, and the scroll is GONE ! It was all a diversion to steal it.
'''Detail : the chaplain examines the corpse of the Assassin and he is disgusted that he is covered in Lices (poux et puces)'''
Impossible to capture any of them, they either fled, died or suicided.
=Part 2 of Guelfes and Gibelins=