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County (Compté) : "Champagne"
Viscounty (Vicomté) : "Valfranc"
Castellany (Châtellenie) : "Vilmaison" local Castelain (Chêtellein) : "Chevalier de Vilmaison"
Town : "Souspenelles"
There's a little water stream in the town
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 townthat smells really strong.When they arrive, a guy locks the warehouse and starts to burn it. After '''00:39 (music time)''' they manage to bash the doors. The guy screams : "Sweet Satan, invite me, for I have accomplished my duty !"Then suicides by hanging himself among the other corpses.
The warehouse used to store about a hundred dead bodies. But now it's empty. Except for a dozen villages hanged. The trail ends there.
After '''03:40 (music time)''' the fire stars spreading to the forest with an incredible power. All the village come to try to stop the fire. They throw water and earth at it until it stops. The villages say that it's all because of the When the players arriveother peasants see that, they say. It's the peasants are revolting because they refuse to pay skeletal minstrel, he'll damn us all.They say there have been sights of a skeletal minstrel every weeks, near the taxcemetery.
* Explanations :
'''Oldaric Lefol''' was in love with '''Evelyne''', but his father wanted to marry her to the Bourgmestre insetad.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.He paid some people to pretend a dancing plague, and it worked. He also poisoned the food reserves with ergot de seigle, so they have to throw their reserve and starve.
* Unsolved mysteries :
Why corpses where shipped there ? What happened to them ?
Who gave him this Psaltery ?
=Part 1 Midnight Dance=
* '''Normal : Departement Necrologique'''
* While they see her dancing
The players will try to hunt down this skeletal ministrel and kill it.
==Ambiance track==
*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.
*30min They hear screaming from inside a hut "You will dance, you will all dance!"
(a peasant have been poisoned with ergot de seigle.)
They visit the hut :
The hut is made of clay and straws, no windows.
Inside the 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, a bed of straw, and a few cooking pots made of clay.
They are cooking leaves and mushrooms as well as rotten grain, there's a board skull. The peasants beg the players not to report. That they didn't hunt the animal, it was carcass, hunting is forbidden for peasants.
The penn is almost empty, only one very thin sheep remains.
*45min A crazy peasant come to the players and attack them with a mace. "You will dance ! You will dance ! We will all dance !"
*60min There's a child lost in the woods. His parents tried to get rid of him. But he came back.
*75min A Priest gathered lots of people in a large hut. They all start laughing incontrolably and say "We will dance, all of us !"
*100min
The village is starving, something to illustrate that
Some crazy wanderers threaten people that they will dance (can happen only after the angrry peasant mob)
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.
ILLUSTRATE MORE THE LIFE OF PEASANTS IN THE MIDDLE AGE
==Scenario Track==
While she dances '''L'autre bout du monde''' ? '''Eros''' ?
Some Local Peasants see the players open the warehouse and say : It's all because of the Bourgmestre's daughter. Sheand her damned skeletal lover, she'll damn us all.
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 drowned in the woods near the cemetrythen burried in the woods. (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.
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 killeddrowned, hammered by a large stick. (the same way he killed oldaric)
There are clear footsteps, but impossible to follow.
So '''Oldaric''' isn't dead !!!
=Part 2 Peasant revolt=
They can hear clearly someone playing Psaltery.
Effect of the music : Step 1 Get the "Stupid" quality. Step 2 Dance Action : They either have to have great willpower or cover their ears in any way. Otherwise, they start dancinghaving effects of the music.
They are drunk, really hard to find their way in the streets of the village.
Action : Either one of them can focus, or they will spend a lot of time to find and of them will go insanethey roll two insanity rolls.
One way, is to wait until someone starts dancing and follow him.
But some strangers are here and he doesn't want or need to harm the strangers. So please stranger. Go away.
There's a black rain, and they feel very cold. Their qualities are deactivated one by oneneed to roll or loose their mind.
Action : One of the dancers mimics a violin. When they kill him, Oldaric appears in his true form.
A skeleton wiht a Psaltery, he walks out of the small river.
Now they can see Oldaric 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.