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Characters :
*Abbot Albrecht, a writer
*Father Superior AldredOldaric, the book binder (the evil one)
*Father Superior Arnaud (French), the illuminator he is on a trip to Avignon
*Brother Galeazzo (Lombard), the doctor
*Explanations
Father Aldred "The Abbot" Oldaric with a bone triptych. His contract is to kill three Dukes and ship their hearts plus take 100 monks hearts. He poisons the Dukes then remove their hearts after their death. For the monks he uses poisoned candles to make them crazy so it’s easier to kill them.
=Day 1=
For this scene '''Music: Behelith'''
Father Aldred Oldaric tries to assassinate a player in the night. Dense smoke in his room. Father Aldred Oldaric walks between them slowly asking an insistent question, but impossible to answer: I never wanted to kill you. My lord didn’t order me to. Instead I will offer you a secret. I will offer you. Knowledge.
Do you want that ? (The player cannot answer)
Do you want that ? (The player cannot answer)
If no Courage of Faith, the player gets « Insane (temporary) »
Players know it's Father superior Aldred Oldaric (mad book binder).
Players must stop Father Aldred Oldaric and have him executed.
And discover what happened in the monastery.
| 5min = They find bloody books all over the hallways. A drop of blood below each books, they stick to the floor.
| 15min = Father Eudes is in the corridor exploded under a piece of furniture that fell. He was running away from something. Another player realises that he has a bloody book in his hand. But no voices and he can throw it away.
| 30min = 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: "Aldred Oldaric devil »
| 45min = Father Conrad (mad scribe) (crazy) wants to burn the monastery.
He tries to convince the players to help him. One of the players hear Father Aldred’s Oldaric’s voice « Talk to me. I have a secret for you.» he looks behind : Nobody.
| 60min = Some bloody goat footsteps on the floor. If they follow them, it leads to the dining room full of monks who hanged themselves. In the room, one of the players see a man with the head of a goat. He invites him to enter, he has a secret for him. Other players have to stop him or he loses faith.
| 75min = All the monks start to walk towards the dining room. In the middle, here is a huge circle of booksa living goat is attached in the middle. All the alive monks are shouting at each other in an unknown language. The players have the impression that the hanged people are chanting too. They feel something terrible is going to happen.
Action, Go see Brother Galeazzo: (If Father Galeazzo (doctor) alive and if not burned the books) Father Galeazzo (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 AldredOldaric's cell: Father Aldred Oldaric (mad binder) (crazy) covered his cell with candles. He is afraid of the dark. But of course he's not there.
When they arrive at the bottom of the archives '''Music Gaunter o Dim'''
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 Aldred Oldaric (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 tower is covered with candles. Players do not feel well.
Father Aldred Oldaric reads the book aloud. It disturbs the players even more.
At every step, they have to roll high or go crazy.
He is in a reading cage in the middle of the room with the book.
Up to them to find a way to kill father AldredOldaric.
*Bashing the grid does not work.
*Pick through the grid is too difficult.
*Possible to simply flee.
Once they turn off all the lights, it scares father Aldred Oldaric and he fall on his own book.
Turn off the light in real life when this happens.
Then play the music '''Music:Behelit'''
In the cage, Father Aldred Oldaric had kept some letters he received.
Nothing unusual in his letters, except that the writing becomes more and more confused.
