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* Initial situation :
Previously, the players have found an invitation for a Masquerade (Bal Masqué).
There was a date, but no address on it.
On the invitation, there is a drawing of the Saint Victor Abbaye in the background. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_Saint-Victor_de_Marseille
This is a hint that the ball will happen in Marseille.
And indeed, a ball is organised there, near the docks.
The players find where the maskerade was supposed to happen. It was supposed to happen in Marseille. In the cathedral.
They arrive few weeks before to try to investigate.
Every year, a Masquerade (Bal Masqué) is organised in Marseille by the church. It happens in the cathedral : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_Saint-Victor_de_Marseille
The actual point of this masquerade is to gather all the representatives of the different Bone objects. The ball is organised by "Crosier". During the ball, he will give them instructions on how to meet them for the final ritual : The burning of the tower. Cathedral is a living place, lots of beggars and orphans. People sick and poor. But balls are organised there too. The players go to the cathedral early. To prepare.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 ("Crosier") is corrupted as well.
* Explanations :
"L" has been preparing a ritual for a very long time.
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 "Crosier" 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.
All these corpses where shipped to him to marseille encased in bricks made of flamable materials.
The point is to make a spire with all the corpses and burn it.
If successful, this ritual will multiply the virality of the plague and let it spread through europe.
* Unsolved mysteries :
Why triggering trigger the Black Plague ?Who organises and controls all of this is "L" ? (Where does those "bookBone" objects come from ? someone else ?)
* Historical themes :
Bal des Ardents : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_des_ardents tragic even where a charivari ended in a fire
Cour des miracles
Orphans
Aumone
Hospital
Cathedral
=Part 1 Cour des Miracles=
==Ambiance track==
Cour des Miracles, Bandits, Beggars etc... Interaction with all the kind of people you cna find in an hospice.
Plotical tension in Marseille, some rebellions. https://journals.openedition.org/rives/4155
