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The actual point of this masquerade is to gather all the representatives of the different Bone objects.
The ball is organised by "CrosierBishop".
During the ball, he will give them instructions on how to meet them for the final ritual : The burning of the tower.
The maskerade is organised every year it's not connected to "L".
"L" uses this venue as a way to secretly give instructions on the actual meeting place and time. The meeting will happen in the cathedral where they will do the final ritual of the bones.
The deacon of the cathedral ("CrosierBishop") is corrupted as well.
The danse macabre masquerade
For his ritual to succeed, he needed lots of skeletons of people killed in a certain way.
That's why he recruited the Merchant "Coin", the Ministrel "Violin", the deacon "CrosierBishop" etc...
They had the task to kill X people in a very specific way. "Coin" had to buy corpses or sell goods that would kill, "Violin" had to dance them to death, etc....
As a compensation, they got gold, support and a "Bone" item.
The evil cult will pay some poor to take part of their rituals, part of the ritual is to wound them in the shoulder. The wound is the shape of a hare foot, it's the sign of the devil.
The Deacon has a crosier (crosse épiscopale) made of boneswith a relic inside. A little chesspiece representing a skeleton Bishop.
He greets the players and they talk about the Masquerade that will happen.
As they meet him, he is playing chess against a canon.
The players can make one move.
The game pieces have their specific moves, which are also used for Byzantine (round) chess:
The King moves one square in any direction.
The Counsellor/Queen moves only one square diagonally.
The Elephant/Bishop moves exactly 2 spaces diagonally. It can jump over other game pieces. This means that its movement is restricted to only 8 places on the board.
The Knight moves like the modern chess knight: two spaces forward/backward or sideways plus one space at a right angle (an L-shape). The knight jumps over other pieces.
The Rook moves like the modern one: unlimited movement forward, backward or sideways until it has reached another piece. It cannot jump.
The Pawn moves one square forward when not capturing. Capturing occurs one step diagonally. Unlike modern chess, the pawn does not have the two-square step as the initial move. When pawns reach the other end of the board they are promoted to a counsellor.
He is very cooperative (he's a Trickster).
Action : Either they steal the guy's bag discreetely or take the letter from an artifact bearer who is drunk.
The letter is a name and date in the past and a time. It's the name of a person who died. Raymond II des Baux 1237, he was the lord of Marseille a century ago.
Action : Tonight they should go to the grave of the person with the given name. It's a small crypt.
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They enter the des Baux crypt, there is a secret passage that lead to the cathedral. There hear people talking and it resonates a lot.
The secret passage arrives in a strange building. (it's a forgotten part of the crypt of the cathedral)
It is locked.
Action : Put the dagger in the heart One of the deacon with statues is perfectly identical to the CrosierBone Chesspiece. It hides a if they pull it down, it reveals the keyhole. Then either lockpick or use the key.
===Undercrypt===
THe room is an ancient crypt with statues, all of which where mutilated. INstead of their heads there is an awful clay figure sqhowing horrible scenes (rodin gates of hell style)
There are 8 statues (Lucifer is missing) they represent the 9 archdevils of hell. [http://prima.wiki/images/1/15/3_Archdevils.png] [http://prima.wiki/images/7/7e/6_Secondary_Archdevils.png]
There are lots or alchemical equipments and a very strong stench of chemicals mixed with blood.
All the artifacts holders keep chanting, they are at the top of the cathedral.From times to time some people doing the ritual fall.
The players try to stop the ritual but to do so they have to climb the cathedral and "CrosierBishop" is there to attack them.
As the tower burns, it reveals all the corpses bound in a spiral.
Phase after phase the fire become more unnatural and stronger. Start to burn more and more of the cathedral.
BOSS fight against the deacon "CrosierBishop".
When they enter the cathedral, "CrosierBishop" happens to be there.
If they have any remo way to attacking him, they skip one step.
There's a very narrow stair. "CrosierBishop" ask a cultist to hold it with a spear. The "cultist" is a poor from before with a mark on his shoulder. He is clearly not himself.
Combat skills can work or any other way to kill him. Otherwise they are wounded.
They climb the stairs, "CrosierBishop" raises a dead cultist poor man corpse. His eyes burns. One of the players clearly see that it is only a big cultist with a skeleton mask. He has a Shield and a mace.
Action : Combat duel can work. Attacking the roof can work. Otherwise one player has to stay and let the others pass. He is wounded or killed.
If they reach this point fast enough, they can leave indemn. Or they are hurt.
if they manage to kill him they can keep the "Crosier"[[Bone Chesspiece]].
Either way, they are separated from the rest of the cultists who run away.