==Teaser==Send to the players before the game :  2nd of August 1345, Coy (Kingdom of Murcia, Crown of Castille) With faded tulips in her hair she dances every week. Her soul was the prize for her immortal love. How many will be the victims of her selfish heart ? ⚜️⚜️⚜️💀💀💀  2 Août 1345, Coy (Royaume de Murcie, Couronne de Castille) Avec des tulipes fanées dans les cheveux elle danse toutes les semaines. Son âme fut le prix pour son amour immortel. Mais nombreux seront les victimes de son coeur égoïste ⚜️⚜️⚜️💀💀💀 =Intro- The Skeleton Violinist=

County Music : '''(Comptéfast start) : "Champagne"Viscounty Light of the Seven (VicomtéEP 10 Trial scene) ''' "By decree of Sancho Manuel de Villena Señor Consort of Coy and warden of Lorca, the follow crimes will now be punishable by death :  -Any suspition of cedition against the crown of Castille -Any refusal to pay taxes -Any practice of islamic rites -Any nocturnal visits to the necropolis of Coy Any and all offender will be hanged by the Señorial guard."Valfranc"Castellany After '''00:39 (Châtelleniemusic 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 : "VilmaisonIt's the curse !" local Castelain (Chêtellein) : "Chevalier La Dama de Vilmaisonblanco will take us all !"Town : 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 "Souspenellescurse"THEREWhen asked about it, they say the curse brings lots of misery. The crops are rotting, the harvest isn't good.A '''"Dama de blanco"''' appears every weeks between friday and saturday near the necropolis (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 little water stream in the townministrel and his instrument is a Kemenche, an islamic violin)The ladies are ugly.Some children disappear and lots of unborn childs.

=Part 1 Midnight Dance=* Historical themes :A week pasted after the attack.Peasant life Famine

She is sleepwalking, so if the The players wake her up, she wakes up, no problemwill try to hunt down this skeletal ministrel and kill it.

Action {{Ambiance Track| 15min = It's been a long summer with heavy rain, they see crops rotting. Some peasants still trying to collect some, they search through the crop for non rotten grains.1/3 of the crop is left fallow (jachère) 2/3 have been planted, but not reaped.| 30min = They hear screaming from inside a hut(a peasant have been poisoned with ergot de seigle.)They visit the hut : Where The hut is made of clay and straws, no windows.Inside the flowers come from ? Nobody wants 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.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 peasant see the players then scream "No ! No Dancing ! No Dancing ! 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 = 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 right to respondhunt. But eventually they know that swear it was a dead carcass they found and they didn’t hunt it . 
Another peasant comes towards them with a knife he looks at very angry « No ! No Dancing ! No Dancing ! 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 "No Dancing ! No Dancing ! No Dancing !" '''Music : Chant_Entrapment-8'''They all come from an old lover 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 diedwant to eat their meat. Either they have the Combat (skirmish) ability, or one of them is Wounded.}}

Action : Ask if she dances always on the same spotThey see a white women dancing. YesLike a ghost.

Actually she She dances where '''Oldaric Lefol''' was burried just after his murdernext to the Necropolis and the ruins of a muslim castle.

If They approach and see that it's actually aliving lady.Called '''Beatriz de la Fuente''', the players dig enough, they learn that Bougmestre's '''Oldaric LefolFernando de la Fuente''' was a ministrel young bride wakes up every saturday morning t go dance in love with Evelynethe woods until sunrise.

But he was found dead with his instrument broken She dances every week in the woods near the cemetry. (Evelyne's father killed him, because the local Bourgmestre was also With withered red tulips in her hairs she wears a wonderfull white dress. She had a bucket of withered red tulips in love with Evelyne and he wanted her to marry the Bourgmestre) And they broke his Psaltery (Psaltérion en français)chamber.

Actually Evelyne's father did this. And then burried him right here and then, with his instrumentThen she goes back home.

Action : If She is pretending to be sleepwalking, so if the players dig the grave of 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, they only find the broken instrument inside.-> He was burried with his instrumentBut of course she can’t say that because he’s supposed to be dead.

He was ministrel for Action : Where the local Castellan, he used flowers come from ? Nobody wants to play Psaltery (Psaltérion en français)respond. But eventually they know that it comes from an old lover who died.

Once Action : Ask if she dances always on the father learns that the grave is emptysame spot. 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 himYes.

At some pointThe rationale is. They have to meet on this spot. If she’s not followed, then she meets him and they are attacked by go to a flock of wolfs. Either one of the players have Combat (Skirmish) or one of the players is wondedmore beautiful place.At the end of the skirmisheIf she’s followed, Evelyneshe starts dancing and pretend she's father is found killed, hammered by possesed or something. To make it look like a large stick. (the same way he killed oldaric)There are clear footsteps, but impossible ghost story so nobody wants to followget involved and stop her.So '''Oldaric''' isn't dead !!!

That's If the last time Evelyne wakes up at night. Because now players dig enough, they learn that '''OldaricHernando Locura''' is angry at the whole village he'll poison them was a ministrel in love with poisonous breadBeatriz.

Wanderers are looking for seasonal jobsSaisons des vandangesBut he was drowned in the woods near the necropolis (close to the ruins of the muslim castle) then burried in the woods.(Beatriz's father killed him, because the local Bourgmestre was also in love with Beatriz and he wanted her to marry the Bourgmestre) And they broke his Psaltery (Psaltérion en français)

ThereActually Beatriz's a monastery where the vagadons are welcome. The players can go therefather '''Juan Madraso''' did this. They'll see that several vagabons are delirious And then burried him right here and numb (egort de seigle does that). The players discover thatthen, the vagabons eat much less recentlywith his instrument.

The players need to discover that and ambush He was ministrel for the guy. He leads them local Castellan, he used to an abandoned house in the forest where the bread is stored.The players burn it.play Psaltery (Psaltérion en français)

Now '''Oldaric''' is really angryAction : If the players dig the grave of the lover, they only find the broken instrument inside.-> He was burried with his instrument.

Ambiance :The village is starving, something to illustrate thatSome crazy wanderers threaten people that they will dance peasants have made their own mill (can happen only after the angrry peasant mobmoulin)fourty people turn it.Some wandereres become crazyActually '''Oldaric Lefol''' gives them some bread. Since everyone is starving, they always accept. Actully The soldiers come and say that it's poisoned with ergot de seigle. So illegal, they get crazyhave to go to the watermill of the local Priory.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.They cry "Champarteur, chapardeur, champarteur, chapardeurDeath to Pedro el Cruel !"

 The head of the guards : Captain Beaudryde Villena, the step brother of the Castellan 

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.

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, ==Timer : 15 min'''Music : Latharne la Silencieuse'''

Some Lots of peasants mock them and stone them cry when they leave because they are serf, they belong to the plot of land where they are. With no right to leave.

 *==Step 2 : The two armies are facing each others, constant flux or arrows ==Timer : 15 min'''Music : Z_Baston-Le diable est dans la boite'''

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_Baston-Tourmaline Brule'''

*==Step 4 : Siege weapon attack==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.

Prepare a burning projectile instead of a rock one, the fire spreads to the storehousemill.

The Bourgmestre is taken captive and he yields or . Alternatively, the storehouse mill is destroyed.

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]].

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.

*'''OldaricNormal : Z_Normal-Bruit-Noir''''''Hernando''' will trigger a dancing mania in the city : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_maniaYour goal is to find Hernando*'''The First dancer : Prince of Darkness - Fire Emblem''' {{Ambiance Track| 15min = They see one person leave her home and dance at the center of the city '''Music : Prince of Darkness - Fire Emblem'''His family follows him and try to cover him for the rain. They seem desperate to help him.They try to stop him, to wake him up.In reality this one and the few first ones are actors paid by Hernando. The point being to trigger an actual Dancing mania.| 30min = There's about five people dancing. People are closing their doors and isolating themselves. '''Music : Prince of Darkness - Fire Emblem''' Some people try to catch one of them to feed him. A lot of them start coughing, they are completely wet.| 45min = There's 30 people dancing, they moan, some scream like zombies, one of them is wonded, and he damagnes his wound as he dances. '''Music : Eros''' A lot of people pray for them.| 60min = They are about a hundred one quarter of the village is dancing One person falls to the ground '''Music : Eros''' he keeps crawling. And says "Help me. We will dance. We will all dance."People stop caring. They lock themselves in to survive.| 75min = The remaining villageers are angry and hang '''Beatriz''' for revenge. Trigger the flower in the lake event.| 90min = '''Music : Eros'''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)

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 : Search oldaric's He is not at his home.The place have been trashed by Evelyne, because that'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 cofferswhere they found the devil bread.

'''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.

After a certain time, if they don't find a solution. They see all dancers have white There are also lots of flowersbeing hung to wither.

'''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.

They catch the guy, he was a cousin and friend of '''Oldaric'''his name is '''Blondel LefolAction : Ask someone who knew Hernando, why so many flowers ?'''Because he was very found of the language of flowers. That was the way to send him secret messages with Beatriz.Anagalis means appointment.

Corbeille d'Argent / evergreen candytuft : "calm down" "reconciliation"

Cyprès / cypress : "grieving" , "ethernal friendship"

Achillée / yarrows : "War"

(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)

'''Actions : Some flowers got caught in the sides of the water stream, so they can go upstream and see where he dropped them.'''

'''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.

On As soon as they sit on the table, therethe door is shut behind them and the room fills with smoke. =Part 4 The appointment= ==Ambiance Track=====Before they drink the wine===*'''Music : Z_Normal-Bruit-Noir''' ===In the streets===*'''Music : Z_Flippan-Dark World''' *15min - '''Resist song : One roll''' There's a pitcher flash of hypocras light, and they see a skeleton with a dark hood hugging the player who has the squeletal coin.*30min - '''Resist song : One roll''' Some withered flower petals fall. Flower that means death. They can hear clearly someone playing Psaltery. '''Overlay music (on top of other music) : Prince of Darkness'''*45min - '''Resist song : Two rolls''' If they haven't found the central place yet. '''Overlay music (spiked on top of other music) : Behelith''' They see the a skeletal women dancing with mandragorawithered flowers in her hairs. It's '''Beatriz'''. They can follow her to the central place. Beatriz dies if she didn't die previously. ===Central Place===*'''Music : Z_Baston-Skeleton Dance'''*5min - '''Resist song : One roll''' A black rain starts pouring.*10min - '''Resist song : One roll''' Some dancers crawl to them and grab their feets.*15min - '''Resist song : Two rolls''' the town starts burning black flames. (the town burns IRL also)*20min - '''Resist song : Two rolls''' the sun is rising, but it's an eclipse sun. They feel it's rays are painful.*25min - All the players dance.

Ambiance :More or more people go dance, then the entire village.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 '''EvelyneResist Song : Rule''' for revenge.The next day, Except those with the village is empty, everyone dancesCourage feat. All playres roll, the one with the lowest result dances also (thatThey have to do something like cover their ears or anything relevant or it's the punishment for not ending the track)an auto fail.Roll die 6. In 1 = FailFirst fail : Get the meantime he can play the Bourgmestre, who helps the players.Drowsy featSecond fail : They lose control and dance

=Part 4 The appointmentThe players go to the Bourgmestre's house, where the table is set. Wine is served. A mix of Hippocras mixed with Mandragora. To meet him, they have to drink.'''Candles on the table''' (important to mention it)

It's completely dark, they don't see a thing.  Action : There are candles on the table. They should remember that. There's a firestriker next to the fireplace. They should find it. The candle light is very dim. Extremely dim. And the flame dances like someone's breathing.Also, the light seems to diminish slowly. They had a blackout, they completely forgot the way to go to the town center. Unless one of them have Total Memory.Also, the light is really too dim, they barely see a thing. Action: Follow the biggest road or follow the sound of the river. Or 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. »  The music is very intense here, they have to do much more rolls. But they can't see him. Action : One of the dancers mimics a violin. When they kill him, Hernando appears. 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.he dodges all their attacks.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 LorcaIn 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] Coy is still a small 500 person village in Spain and it's river is even a tourist attraction now [http://prima.wiki/images/5/56/Coy.jpg]