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* Unsolved mysteries :
=Part 1 Midnight Dance=A week pasted after the attack. The population is starving. If the Soldiers won. As the Bourgmestre is in jail, he cries about his daughter. He says without him she'll dance again. If the Peasants won. The bourgmestre come to the players and confess his problem. A yong lady, called '''Evelyne Toffea''', the Bougmestre's '''Guillaume Toffea''' young bride wakes up every saturday morning t go dance in the woods until sunrise. She dances every week in the woods. With withered red tulips in her hairs. She had a bucket of withered red tulips in her chamber.They hear a very faint music. But too distant to trace. Then she goes back home. She is sleepwalking, so if the players wake her up, she wakes up, no problem. 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 Lefol''' was burried just after his murder. She have a strange reaction if the players mention him. If the players dig enough, they learn that '''Oldaric Lefol''' was a ministrel in love with Evelyne. But he was found dead with his instrument broken in the woods near the cemetry. (Evelyne's father killed him, because the local Bourgmestre was also in love with Evelyne and he wanted her to marry the Bourgmestre) And they broke his Psaltery (Psaltérion en français) Actually Evelyne's father did this. And then burried him right here and then, with his instrument. Action : If the players dig the grave of the lover, they only find the broken instrument inside.-> He was burried with his instrument. He was ministrel for the local Castellan, he used to play Psaltery (Psaltérion en français) Once the father learns that the grave is empty. He is angry and go to the woods with a bunch of peasants with torches to go kill the ministrel.He see a ministrel in the woods and chase him. At some point, they are attacked by a flock of wolfs. Either one of the players have Combat (Skirmish) or one of the players is wonded.At the end of the skirmishe, Evelyne's father is found killed, hammered by a large stick. (the same way he killed oldaric)There are clear footsteps, but impossible to follow.So '''Oldaric''' isn't dead !!! That's the last time Evelyne wakes up at night. Because now '''Oldaric''' is angry at the whole village he'll poison them with poisonous bread. Wanderers are looking for seasonal jobsSaisons des vandanges. There's a monastery where the vagadons are welcome. The players can go there. They'll see that several vagabons are delirious and numb (egort de seigle does that). The players discover that, the vagabons eat much less recently. In fact, '''Oldaric''''s servant ( a guy piad by Oldaric) comes every night and distributes "the devil's bread". The players need to discover that and ambush the guy. He leads them to an abandoned house in the forest where the bread is stored.The players burn it. Now '''Oldaric''' is really angry. Ambiance :The village is starving, something to illustrate thatSome crazy wanderers threaten people that they will dance (can happen only after the angrry peasant mob)Some wandereres become crazyActually '''Oldaric Lefol''' gives them some bread. Since everyone is starving, they always accept. Actully it's poisoned with ergot de seigle. So they get crazy.ILLUSTRATE MORE THE LIFE OF PEASANTS IN THE MIDDLE AGE =Part 2 Peasant revolt=
The population is starving and refuses to pay the tax, the "Champart" (tax of 1/6 of the harvest)
They beat the taxman "champarter" ("champarteur" in French) nearly to death and kick him out.
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.
Everyone dances, except '''Evelyne'''
They read through inquisition regsitry, it seems to have happened before. Long time ago in a not related setting. It's a disease for the soul, nothing magical.
Action : Search oldaric's home.The place have been trashed by Evelyne's father, as a way to make him run away.Nobody lives there.They see a lot of withered flowers. LOTS of them, so many varieties.Barils even.Anything of value was stolen.Empty drawers, empty coffers. Action : Ask someone who knew Oldaric, why so many flowers ? Because he was very found of the language of flowers. That was the way to send him secret messages with evelyne. After a certain time, if they don't find a solution. They see all dancers have white flowers.
Action : Spy to see who puts them
Cyprès : "grieving" , "ethernal friendship"
Nemophile : "Forgiveness"
Achillée : "War"
Rhododendron : "Danger"
(check that all those flowers grow in france)
(IF EVELYNE IS KILLED, THIS STARTS at the end of this track)
Once they do that, the little water streams starts to be filled with withered
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoris_(plante)
Also he droppped some flowers on the ground by mistake at this spot.
It comes from a house. Bourgmestre's house.
The table is set in fine silver cutlery.
On the table there's a withered flower Anagallis means "appointment"
On the table, there'''Evelyne''' goes first. She keep murmuring '''Oldaric'''.s a pitcher of hypocras (spiked with mandragora)
Some scream and moan like zombies.
they fall when they are tired but keep dancing on the ground.
One of them is wonded, he dances and damage his wound.
Babies cries as their mother went dacing and left them alone.
The remaining villageers are angry and hang '''Evelyne''' for revenge.
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.
=Part 4 ????=The appointmentThe players go to Oldaricthe Bourgmestre's old house, where the table is set. Wine is served. A mix of Hippocras mixed with Mandragora. To meet him, they have to drink.They fall asleep.
They're now drunk and start hallucinating.