Danse Macabre Part 3

Intro

• Initial situation :

• Explanations :

• Unsolved mysteries :

Part 1

The Mad wanderers Wanderers are looking for seasonal jobs Saisons des vandanges.

Some wandereres become crazy Actually 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.

Part 1

The population is starving.

A yong lady, called Evelyne Toffea wakes up every nights to go dance in the woods.

She's the wife of the Bourgmestre Martin Toffea

She dances every night in the woods. They hear a very faint music. But too distant to trace.

Just before goign home, in the morning. She stop dancing and then murmurs Oldaric is that you ?

Then she goes back home.

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 lord of another city not too far, he used to play Psaltery (Psaltérion en français)

Once the father learns that the grave is empty. He is angry and start an angry mob of peasants the next night. They see a ministrel in the woods and chase him.

That's the last time Evelyne wakes up at night. She suicides ? Now Oldaric is angry at the whole village.

Ils mangent à l'oberge et quelqu'un devient fou, il les menance de danser. Intoxication à l'ergot dfe seigle. Quelqu'un est venu lui offrir du pain du diable

Straving village something to illustrate that.

Manie dansante https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manie_dansante