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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 chess piece representing a skeleton Bishop.
He greets the players and they talk about the Masquerade that will happen.
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"Chess Piece.
Either way, they are separated from the rest of the cultists who run away.