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=Intro=Teaser==Send to the players before the game :
There's a little water stream in the town
A vast shipment of poison was sent to this tiny town. Players rushed as fast as they could on scene.
When they arrive, they see a gallow with a peasant ready to be hanged.
The peasant has his feets on a small stool.
Music : '''(fast start) Light of the Seven (EP 10 Trial scene)'''
-Any nocturnal visits to the necropolis of Coy Any and all offender will be hanged by the Señorial guard." After '''00:39 (music time)''' the person who is about to hang start twitching. He manages to free his hands and he starts smiling. Then he start dancing on the stool. Everyone is shocked. And after a while he falls from the stool and hangs. As he is hanging, he continues dancing for a long long time. A time way too long, peasants start screming : "It's the curse !" "La Dama de blanco will take us all !" He should be dead already, until the soldiers stab him with a spear and he slowly dies. When the other peasants see that, they say. It's the skeletal minstrel"curse"When asked about it, they say the curse brings lots of misery. The crops are rotting, hethe harvest isn'll damn us allt good.They say there have been sights of a skeletal minstrel A '''"Dama de blanco"''' appears every weeks between friday and saturday near the cemeterynecropolis (below the ruins of teh islamic castle).A '''skeletal violinist''' is spotted sometimes in the ruins of the castle.(explain that in this period violins don't existe yet, so it's actually a ministrel and his instrument is a Kemenche, an islamic violin)The ladies are ugly.Some children disappear and lots of unborn childs.
* Explanations :
'''Oldaric LefolHernando Locura''' was in love with '''EvelyneBeatriz''', but his father '''Juan Madraso''' wanted to marry her to the Bourgmestre insetadinstead.
So he drowned him and the burried him with him instrument.
But he pretended to drown and survived. He then left his grave to get his revenge.
* Unsolved mysteries :
* Historical themes :
Peasant life
Famine
Dancing Plagues
Ergot fungus poisoning
Peasant revolts
Language of Flowers
War between Castille and Aragon
Recnoquista
=Part 1 Midnight Dance=
The players will try to hunt down this skeletal ministrel and kill it.
(a peasant have been poisoned with ergot de seigle.)
They visit the hut :
The hut is made of clay and straws, no windows.
Inside the hut, a third of the area is penned off for the animals, which live in the hut with the family. A fire burn in a hearth in the centre of the hut, so the air is permanently eye-wateringly smoky. Furniture is a couple of stools(tabourets), a bed of straw, and a few cooking pots made of clay.They are cooking leaves and mushrooms as well as rotten grain, there's a board skull. The peasants beg the players not to report. That they didn't hunt the animal, it was carcass, hunting is forbidden for peasants.
The penn is almost empty, only one very thin sheep remains.
There's a small carper for muslim prayers folded in a corner.The sick peasan peasant see the players then scream "You will dance No ! No Dancing ! You will dance No Dancing ! We will all dance No Dancing !" '''Music : Chant_Entrapment-8'''*When asked what happended, the family doesn't know, he was sick since few days, a fine tissue handkerchief was found on him when he went mad. He had skipped a dinner on that day.| 45min A crazy peasant come = Some peasants are eating a rotten carcass of a boar. It is not legal for peasants to hunt, in this time only lords have the players right to hunt. But they swear it was a dead carcass they found and tries to strangle they didn’t hunt it.
Another peasant comes towards them. "You will dance with a knife he looks at very angry « No ! No Dancing ! You will dance No Dancing ! We will all dance No Dancing !" » '''Music : Chant_Entrapment-8'''He is caught very quickly.
If the players search him, he have a tissue handkerchief with bread crumbs on it.*| 60min = There's a child lost in the woods. His parents tried to get rid of him. But he came back. They see he has a toy of "Pedro El Cruel" ridiculised. *| 75min = A Priest gathered lots of people in a large hut. They all start laughing incontrolably and say "You will dance No Dancing ! You will dance ! We will all dance No Dancing ! All of us No Dancing !" '''Music : Chant_Entrapment-8'''*100min They all come from one home. If the players search their home, there are several tissue handkerchiefs with white bread in it.| 90min = At the end of the atmosphere track, they are attacked by a bunch of peasants who want to eat their meat. Either they have the Combat (skirmish) ability, or one of them is Wounded.}} They go to the spot where the skeletal ministrel is supposed to have appeared, in the night between friday and saturday.
While she dances '''Prince of Darkness - Fire Emblem'''
She dances every week in the woods. With withered red tulips in her hairs she wears a wonderfull white dress. She had a bucket of withered red tulips in her chamber.If they have the right feats or roll high, they hear a very faint music. But too distant to trace.
Then she goes back home.
She is pretending to be sleepwalking, so if the players wake her up, she wakes up, no problem.She pretends to be sleep walking because the truth is, every weeks, she goes to see her lover. But of course she can’t say that because he’s supposed to be dead. Action : Where does this white dress come from ? It is the same quality as the handkerchiefs, it was offered by Hernando as a gift after he died. But she'll always refuse to admit it and say it was a gift from him from before he died
Action : Where the flowers come from ? Nobody wants to respond. But eventually they know that it comes from an old lover who died.
Action : Ask if she dances always on the same spot. Yes.
Actually she dances where '''Oldaric LefolHernando Locura''' was burried just after his murder. The rationale is. They have to meet on this spot. If she’s not followed, then she meets him and they go to a more beautiful place. If she’s followed, she starts dancing and pretend she's possesed or something. To make it look like a ghost story so nobody wants to get involved and stop her.
She have a strange reaction if the players mention him.
If the players dig enough, they learn that '''Oldaric LefolHernando Locura''' was a ministrel in love with EvelyneBeatriz.
But he was drowned in the woods near the cemetry necropolis (close to the ruins of the muslim castle) then burried in the woods. (EvelyneBeatriz's father killed him, because the local Bourgmestre was also in love with Evelyne Beatriz and he wanted her to marry the Bourgmestre) And they broke his Psaltery (Psaltérion en français)
Actually EvelyneBeatriz's father '''Juan Madraso''' did this. And then burried him right here and then, with his instrument.
-> He was burried with his instrument.
Action : If the players search OldaricHernando's old broken home. They see is a stock of devil's bread(it's pure white bread). That's the end of ergot de seigle poisonning.Alternatively(if they search his home too early), there's there’s nothing of interest in his home, but if they open his grave, Evelyne speaks of the peasants start a search for a secret hideout. That's place where he might live and they find the his hideout and a chest full of devil’s bread.
=Part 2 Peasant revolt (optional)=
*'''Normal (before the start of step 1 of the battle) : Commanderie Templière '''
The peasants have made their own mill (Optional :moulin)fourty people turn it.The soldiers come and say that it's illegal, they have to go to the watermill of the local Priory.
They beat the taxman nearly to death and kick him out.
They cry "Death to Pedro el Cruel !"
Obviously, there'll be a fight the next day.
The population is starving and refuses to pay head of the taxguards : Captain de Villena, the "Champart" (tax of 1/6 step brother of the harvest)They beat the taxman "champarter" ("champarteur" in French) nearly to death and kick him out.They cry "Champarteur, chapardeur, champarteur, chapardeur"Obviously, there'll be a fight the next day.Castellan
The Captain tells them : Regardless of what they want to do, the local castelan doesn't want any troubles with the inquisition.
If they refuse. The peasants do the same.
The head of the peasants, the Bourgmestre : Guillaume ToffeaFernando de la Fuente
The peasants want to defend the local grain storage unitillegal mill.They explain that Murca recently taken by Castille crown, but it has been part or Aragon and it was part of the kalifate of Granada before that.
The soldiers will attack the next day.
At each step, they need to find a good idea to win. If they win more than 3 phases, their side wins.
If one of the players have the Combat (Battle) ability, give him the answers to each phasetwo phases of his choice.
70 soldiers, 30 Bows, 1 Cavaliers (the captain) plus 1 3 Knight in armor (the Castellan, the Captain and an a cousin of the Catellan) vs 350 peasants, 50 bows
==Step 1 : Preparations==
Ambiance : Some peasants leave with their goods. They take refuge in nearby villages.
==Step 2 : The two armies are facing each others, constant flux or arrows==
Ambiance : One soldier/peasant seems terrified, you can hear him pee on himself. There's dreadful silence but you can hear some people praying.
The Castellan has a dark armour with a salamander on the helmet.The other knights have a normal armour.
==Step 3 : Charge of the soldiers==
Timer : 15 min
'''Music : Z_Epique-Babel'''
The peasants start to drive the soldiers back. They regroup next to the Siege weapon that was concealed in a nearby forest. So the soldiers decide to destroy the store hours mill to punish them or lead them to yield.A small trebuchet (Couillard) starts shooting around the grain housemill. Trying to aim at it.
It break a house in one shot.
Soldiers side :
Help the Couillard aim right, if one of the players has a related capacity.
Prepare a burning projectile instead of a rock one, the fire spreads to the storehousemill.
Ambiance : Some people are trying to hold their house together.
==Aftermath==
Result. If the players have 3 win out of 4. Their side wins. If not, the other side wins.
Soldiers win :
The Bourgmestre is taken captive and he yields. Alternatively, the storehouse mill is destroyed.
The peasants fight in a non-cohesive way and loose.
If the players where on this side, the Captain Beaudry owe de Villena wants to help them a favor. And grants If they know about '''Hernando''' he introduces them to his cousin who lives in the castle.If they don't know about Hernando, he owes them one soldier per persona [[Favour]].
Peasants win :
The Captain fall off his horse. He's quickly surronded and yields.
If the players where on this side, the Bourgmestre owe them a favor[[Favour]]. They can collect anytimebefore the end of the scenario.The feats associated with the Favour are at your discretion.
Ambiance : Some people from the losers are moaning on the ground and some peasants come to collect their weapons and clothes. Stabbing some of them. Very few dead in the end.
The food store was pillaged and burned. Everyone cries and start accusing each others.
=Part 3 Dancing Plague=
*'''Normal : Z_Normal-Bruit-Noir'''
'''OldaricHernando''' will trigger a dancing mania in the city : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_maniaYour goal is to find OldaricHernando
*'''The First dancer : Prince of Darkness - Fire Emblem'''
The next day, the village is empty, everyone dances. All playres roll, the one with the lowest result dances also (that's the punishment for not ending the track). In the meantime he can play the Bourgmestre, who helps the players.
}}
The goal is to find '''Hernando's''' hideout (or Hernando’s new hideout if they already found it the first time)
One by one, people will start to go on the village center and dance.
This is a revenge from OldaricHernando, he wants to starve them, trigger a dancing plague and eventually kill everyone in the village then raise all of them.
Everyone dances, except '''EvelyneBeatriz'''
They read through inquisition regsitryregistry, it seems to have happened before. Long time ago in a not related setting. It's a disease for the soul, nothing magical.
'''Action : Ask someone They ask people who knew OldaricHernando if he had a special place to meet '''Beatriz''''''Yes, why so many flowers ? Because he was very found of the language of flowers. That there was an old broken house in the way forest where they used to send him secret messages with evelynemeet.
In this house they see some traces that someone was here but moved his stuff.
He took almost everything out. You do see a rough bed, some unfinished poems.
And there's a very rich islamic vase full of withered flowers Anagallis.
'''Action : Spy to see who puts theminspect the vase closely.'''At night, someone put white flowers on themTHere's the name of a dead islmaic lords. From 100 years ago. They don't know which one.
He says : let's put a lot of flowers in the middle of the town, to push him to meet.
Several choices :
Corbeille d'Argent / evergreen candytuft : "calm down" "reconciliation"
Anagallis : "appointment"
Cyprès / cypress : "grieving" , "ethernal friendship"
Nemophile : "Forgiveness"
Red Tulip : "eternal love"
Achillée / yarrows : "War"
Rhododendron : "Danger"
(check that all those flowers grow in francespain)
'''Action : Use some flowers to setup an appointment. or if Beatriz is threatened or if they walk towers the castle'''(IF EVELYNE IS KILLEDIf Beatriz is killed or if they threaten her life, THIS STARTS at the end of this trackstarts right away)
Once they do that, the little water streams starts to be filled with withered
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoris_(plante)
'''Eros Necropsique - La voix'''
'''Actions : Some flowers got caught in the sides of the water stream, so they can go upstream and see where he dropped them.'''
Also he droppped some flowers on the ground by mistake at this spot.
'''Action : (This is a possible shortcut if they think about it.) Search the old forteress. They see one wall which has Anagalis growing.''' It comes from the fortress. They open, it is an islamic treasure. With lots of skeletons in all corners. It was a house. Bourgmestre's housefeast room apparently.
The table is set in fine silver cutlery.
On the table there's a withered flower Anagallis means "appointment"
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The sky players go to the Bourgmestre's house, where the table is set. Wine is completely darkserved. Not even a star on sightA mix of Hippocras mixed with Mandragora. And light is much less bright than usualTo meet him, less and less brightthey have to drink. Within hours, their torches light won't light anything''Candles on the table''' (important to mention it)They fall asleep.
They are drunkhad a blackout, really hard they completely forgot the way to go to find their way in the streets town center. Unless one of them have Total Memory.Also, the villagelight is really too dim, they barely see a thing.
Action : Either one of them can focus, Follow the biggest road or they will spend a lot of time to find and follow the sound of they roll two insanity rollsthe river.One way, is to wait until someone starts dancing and follow himOr anything else that makes sense.
Finally they find the town center.
Lots of light, like it's a party.
Most people are crawling on the floor trying to dance.
Some are still walking.
They speak one by one telling a poem(Le Vampire by Charles baudelaire) (English Version) Our form in the sun follows us, walks, stops, Imitates our gestures and our steps, Looks without seeing, listens and does not hear, And must still crawl when we lift our heads. Man is here below But a bit of living night, a restless form Who sees without penetrating, without inventing repeats, And whispers to Fate: "I follow thee where thou goest. " (French Version) Notre forme au soleil nous suit, marche, s'arrête, Imite gauchement nos gestes et nos pas, Regarde sans rien voir, écoute et n'entend pas, Et doit ramper toujours quand nous levons la tête. L'homme n'est ici-bas Qu'un peu de nuit vivante, une forme inquiète Qui voit sans pénétrer, sans inventer répète, Et murmure au Destin : « Je te suis où tu vas. »
Action : One of the dancers mimics a violin. When they kill him, Oldaric Hernando appears in his true form.
A skeleton wiht a Psaltery, he walks out of the small river.
Now they can see Oldaric Hernando as a squeleton and fight him.
Action : Either the players have a quality Combat (Duel) or They need to find a smart way to kill him.
His shadow doesn't move though. They should strike where his shadow is.
'''If they got stuck for too long, their shadows start attacking them. Don't let them stuck on this ennigma'''
If they defeated him :
He says :
"Vous qui vivez: il est certain,"
"Quoique cela tarde, que vous danserez."
"Réfléchissez à ce que vous ferez alors."
"Ye that live: it is certain,"
"Though it tarry, you will dance."
"Consider what you will do then."
'''Music : (fast start) Light of the Seven (EP 10 Trial scene)'''
All the dancers start to scream and cover their ears. Some start scarting their face with their nails.
They peel their faces off until all that's left is a bloody skull then they attack the players and dismember them.
Then it all turns black.
'''Danse Macabre'''
When hey wake up, they have some vomit at the mouth and they're in the town center. Hernando is dead. but he's an actual guy, not a skeleton. His skin is soaked though. He has a well decorated psaltery and a cloack clasp in the shape of a harp : the [[Bone Harp]]. It is very clear that it is extremely precious.
(part of the village may have burned, if they reached the black rain part, Beatriz may be alive or dead.)
A large portion of the villagers are dead. But not everyone.
If they all dance :
'''Music : (fast start) Light of the Seven (EP 10 Trial scene)'''
They dance, they dance for what seems an eternity. Then the dancers starts going toward them and pull them apart. Then it's all black.
'''Danse Macabre'''
When they wake up, they are in a monastery. They have been dancing for a week, but the inquisition found them. The town is wiped out. They don't gain the Psaltery.
==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-Final'''
*Then loop this Playlist '''Normal-Prima'''
They take more time to comb the woods and they find Hernando's actual hideoout, they find real food, clothes etc...
Villages start to talk. Some of them where actually paid to pretend a dancing mania. The point was to trigger an actual dancing mania, and it worked.
They find a contract signed in blood between Hernando and a certain "L" that details all he has to do to get his revenge.
Some people also knew about Beatriz meeting with him and her way of pretending she was posessed.
As well as poems written by him.
A solid proof that he was alive this whole time.
Beatriz and Hernando's accomplices ran away just after the event.
Among his stuff, they find an invitation to a bal masqué called the "Danse macabre"
The masquerade is supposed to happen in November 1347 in Marseille.
==Post Game Bonus==
Send those to the players as a post game bonus :
As a bonus, here is more infos about the dancing plague in Strasbourg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
[http://prima.wiki/images/5/5b/2621608463305_.pic.jpg]
Here is a map of Spain during the Castille Civil War, in green the Grenada sultanate, below the orange arrow : The Castle or Lorca
In blue : Aragon, In yellow : Castille [http://prima.wiki/images/c/cc/Spain_map.jpg]
The flag of Sancho Manuel de Vilena [http://prima.wiki/images/5/58/Sancho_manuel_de_vilena.jpg]
The Castle of Lorca [http://prima.wiki/images/a/a1/Lorca_castle.jpg]