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==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 ?
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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
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=Intro - The Skeleton Violinist=
* Initial situation :
**Date : 2nd of August 1346
**Location : Coy is a small town near the Castle of Lorca, Kingdom of Murcia, Crown of Castille.
 
 
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)'''
 
"By decree of Sancho Manuel de Villena Señor Consort of Coy and warden of Lorca, the follow crimes will now be punishable by death :
Year : 1346-Any suspition of cedition against the crown of Castille
Geography :-Any refusal to pay taxes
Country : "Kingdom -Any practice of France"islamic rites
County (Compté) : "Champagne" (MOVE IT TO STRASSBOURG ??)-Any nocturnal visits to the necropolis of Coy
Viscounty (Vicomté) : "ValfrancAny and all offender will be hanged by the Señorial guard."
Castellany (Châtellenie) After '''00: "Vilmaison" local Castelain 39 (Chêtelleinmusic time) : "Chevalier de Vilmaison"''' the person who is about to hang start twitching.
Town : "Souspenelles"He manages to free his hands and he starts smiling.
There's a little water stream in Then he start dancing on the townstool.
Music : '''(fast start) Light of the Seven (EP 10 Trial scene)'''The Corpses from Valfranc were to be shipped to a little town called "Souspenelles".When the players arrive there, they quickly find a warehouse, quite isolated from the rest of the town that smells really strong.When they arrive, a guy locks the warehouse and starts to burn itEveryone is shocked.
After '''00:39 (music time)''' they manage to bash And after a while he falls from the doorsstool and hangs.
The guy screams : "Oh Dark Lords, I have served you well ! Invite me, for I have accomplished my duty !" / "Oh Seigneur noir, je t'ai bien servi ! Invite moi à rejoindre ton royaume car j'ai accompli ton oeuvre !"Then suicides by As he is hanging himself among the other corpses. If the players manage to save him, he doesn't speak anyway.The warehouse used to store about a hundred dead bodies. But now it's empty. Except continues dancing for a dozen villages hanged. The trail ends therelong long time.
After '''03A time way too long, peasants start screming :40 (music time)''"It' s the fire stars spreading to the forest with an incredible power.curse !" "La Dama de blanco will take us all !"
All He should be dead already, until the village come to try to stop the fire. They throw water soldiers stab him with a spear and earth at it until it stopshe slowly dies.
When the other peasants see that, they say. It's the "curse"
When asked about it, they say the curse brings lots of misery.
 
The crops are rotting, the harvest isn't good.
A '''"White LadyDama 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 cemeteryruins of the castle.(explain that in this period violins don't existe yet, so it's actually a ministrel and his instrument is a psalteryKemenche, 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 '''Jerome DuboisJuan Madraso''' wanted to marry her to the Bourgmestre instead.
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.
When Oldaric Hernando was at his worst, an individual approached him and explained him about dancing plagues.
Told him that if he did what he had to, he would get his revenge.
The plan was the following : he would teach Oldaric Hernando how to trigger a dancing plague.
Dancing plagues are a phenomenom of mass hysteria that actually happened several times in european history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
The individual did the following :
He would offer Oldaric Hernando the Skeletal Psaltery.
He would also give him a chest full of devil's bread. A very pure, very tasty white bread laced with "ergot de seigle" a poisons that makes people delirious.
He would also make sure a battle is triggered between the peasants and the soldiers so Oldaric Hernando has an opportunity to destroy the food reserves, steal food for himself and to bribe people. It's also a good opportunity to lace some food reserves with mandragora.
He also told him to bribe some persons to pretend their body is forced to dance.
The point is to first enfeeble people, by starvation and by poisoning (mandragora and "ergot de seigle").
Once they are very enfebled, pretend a dancing plague is starting (with bribed actors) a hence triggering a collective hysteria.
He also explains him a way for him to see '''EvelyneBeatriz''', she would have to pretend sleepwalking.
Obviously Oldaric Hernando did not imagine this plan, but the individual asked him to do it anyway to get his revenge.When Oldaric Hernando sees that the inquisition is involved, he doesn't know what to do. And try to scare them away, and if possible make them dance for long enough so he can get his revenge without harming them. (harming the inquisition would mean running for the rest of his life)
That's why he tries to drug them with mandragora and put them in a situation where it's almost impossible to resist the mass hysteria.
Whether he succeeds or not, his goal is not to kill them.
* Unsolved mysteries :
Why corpses where shipped in this town ? What happened to them ?
Who is the individual that gave him the Psaltery, the bread and imagined the plan ?
Why giving him a Skeletal Psaltery at all ?
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.
=={{Ambiance trackTrack| 15min ==*10min 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 :
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 hunt. But they 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 ! No Dancing ! No Dancing ! No Dancing ! »  » '''Music 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 one home. If the players search their home, there are several tissue handkerchiefs with white bread in it.
*100min | 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.}}
==Scenario Track==They go to the spot where the skeletal ministrel is supposed to have appeared, in the night between friday and saturday.
They go to the spot where the skeletal ministrel is supposed to have appeared, in the night between friday and saturdaysee a white women dancing. Like a ghost.
They see She dances next to the Necropolis and the ruins of a white woman dancing. Like a ghostmuslim castle.
While she dances '''Prince of Darkness - Fire Emblem'''
They approach and see that it's actually aliving lady.
Called '''Evelyne ToffeaBeatriz de la Fuente''', the Bougmestre's '''Guillaume ToffeaFernando de la Fuente''' 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 wears a wonderfull white dress. She had a bucket of withered red tulips in her chamber.
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 Oldaric 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 '''Jerome DuboisJuan 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 nothing of interest in his home, but if they open his grave, the peasants start a search for a place where he might live and they find 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 '''
But that's where they pay the taxes (for using the mill) so they refuse to do that.
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 !"
Obviously, there'll be a fight the next day.
The soldiers come to the players first and ask them for help.
The head of the guards : Captain Beaudryde Villena, the step brother of the 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 illegal 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 plus 3 Knight in armor (the Castellan, the Captain and an a cousin of the Catellan) vs 350 peasants, 50 bows
The peasants fight in a non-cohesive way and loose.
If the players where on this side, the Captain Beaudry de Villena wants to help them. If they know about '''OldaricHernando''' he introduces them to his cousin who lives in the castle.If they don't know about OldaricHernando, he owes them a [[Favour]].
Peasants win :
=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'''
==Ambience {{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 OldaricHernando. 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 '''EvelyneBeatriz''' for revenge. Trigger the flower in the lake event.*100min | 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.
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==Scenario Track==The goal is to find '''OldaricHernando's''' hideout (or oldaric’s 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 all of them.
Everyone dances, except '''EvelyneBeatriz'''
They read through inquisition registry, it seems to have happened before. Long time ago in a not related setting. It's a disease for the soul, nothing magical.
He is not at his home, because that's where they found the devil bread.
'''Action : They ask people who knew oldaric Hernando if he had a special place to meet '''EvelyneBeatriz''''''
Yes, there was an old broken house in the forest where they used to meet.
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 In this house they see some traces that someone who knew Oldaricwas here but moved his stuff.He took almost everything out. You do see a rough bed, why so many flowers ? Because he was some unfinished poems.And there's a very found of the language rich islamic vase full of withered flowers. That was the way to send him secret messages with evelyneAnagallis.
There are also lots of flowers being hung to wither.
Not long after learning that'''Action : inspect the vase closely.'''THere's the name of a dead islmaic lords. Or if they never learn that, after 30 min it happens anywayFrom 100 years ago. They see a bucket of white flowers in the center of the town, where people dancedon't know which one.
'''Action : Spy to see Ask someone who puts themAt nightknew Hernando, someone put white why so many flowers ?''' Because he was very found of the language of flowers on them. That was the way to send him secret messages with Beatriz.Anagalis means appointment.
They catch the guy, he was a cousin and friend of '''Oldaric'''his name is '''Blondel Lefol'''
 
He says he's doing that to appease '''Oldaric''' because he knew the language of flowers very well and those flowers means "calm down" "reconciliation" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbeille_d%27argent
 
Action : Ask him how could we contact/find '''Oldaric''' ?
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 Beatriz is killed or if they threaten her life, this starts 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"
On As soon as they sit on the table, there's a pitcher of hypocras (laced with mandragora) and '''Candles on the table''' (important to mention it) The players have to drink it. They then fall asleep. If they refuse to drink it. After some time, they will go to bed door is shut behind them and see the next sequence in their dreams anywayroom fills with smoke.
=Part 4 The appointment=
*15min - '''Resist song : One roll''' There's a flash of 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 (on top of other music) : Behelith''' They see the a skeletal women dancing with withered flowers in her hairs. It's '''EvelyneBeatriz'''. They can follow her to the central place. Evelyne Beatriz dies if she didn't die previously.
===Central Place===
Some are still walking.
They speak one by one telling a poem.(Le Vampire by Charles baudelaire)
"Talent (English Version) Our form in the sun follows us, walks, stops, Imitates our gestures and our steps, Looks without seeing, listens and lov'does not hear, was his will And must still crawl when we lift our heads.""Heart bleeding he begged the moon" "He who sups with the devil" Man is here below"should have had But a bit of living night, a longer spoon."restless form Who sees without penetrating, without inventing repeats, And whispers to Fate: "Dance with us nowI follow thee where thou goest.""You will be spared (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.""Dance with us now." "Dance with us now." L'homme n'est ici-bas"Dance with us now." Qu'un peu de nuit vivante, une forme inquiète"Dance with us now." Qui voit sans pénétrer, sans inventer répète,"Dance with us now 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, Oldaric 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.
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 :
"He who sups with the devilVous qui vivez: il est certain," "should have had a longer spoonQuoique 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)'''
'''Danse Macabre'''
When hey wake up, they have some vomit at the mouth and they're in the town center. Oldaric Hernando is dead. but he's an actual guy, not a skeleton. His skin is soaked though. And he He has a skeletal well decorated psalteryand 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, evelyne Beatriz may be alive or dead.)
A large portion of the villagers are dead. But not everyone.
*Then loop this Playlist '''Normal-Prima'''
They take more time to comb the woods and they find OldaricHernando'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 Oldaric Hernando and a certain "L" that details all he has to do to get his revenge.
Some people also knew about Evelyne 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.
Evelyne Beatriz and OldaricHernando'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]
 
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]
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