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10 janvier Janvier 1348, Avignon (États pontificauxPontificaux)
Très Saint Père, toute votre vie vous avez servi notre seigneur.
Ainsi, c’est sans méfiance que vous avez suivi la mort quand elle est venu vous chercher.
Qui pourra à présent vous délivrer de ce piège satanique ?
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=Intro - Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Avenionensium=
He forbids the players from approaching the pope, he meet them in front of his chambers and they talk through a door. With perfume being burned in the whole room.
Guy de Chauliac explains the relation between the current outbreak and the Justinian Plague.
He ask thousands of questions to the players because they are witnesses to the outbreak and he is very interested.He insist that the players will meet the pope, so they should prepare and put on their very best clothes. Ask the players what they will wear for the occasion.
He opens the door and has a letter in his hand.
They have to find a way, any way to obtain this information. For example they can ask his valet Tancrède le Bon , he doesn't want to talk to them and he will lie, saying that indeed he was in Marseille, but his lies are not convincing, so they understand that he indeed wasn't in Marseille.
'''Action : If the timer is very short and the players beg the cardinal, he tells them to contact his scribe (so they get the proof to be innocent)'''
Tancrède le Bon is "the cardinal" of course he won't carry the ring on his hand most of the time, but he isn't a Trickster, so players will see that he lies and hides stuff, but they do'nt have the power to kill or imprison him (because he is protected by his cardinal)
==The dead pope==
A card with a skeleton pope on it and one sentence : Remember Carcassonne . [http://prima.wiki/images/8/8b/Remember_Carcassonne.png Remember Carcassonne] (Jean XXII was part of a big inquisition trial against Fraticelli in Carcasonne and he knew things about Élie de Nabinal that he use as blackmail. Elie de Nabinal was promoted by John XII because of his fight against Fraticelli)
The valet Tancrède le Bon doesn't know what this means and try to avoid the discussion.
Any player with '''Knowledge (heresy) ''' will know what it means.
Otherwise they have to search the past of Elie de Nabinal where they see that Jean XXII gave him the title of "Master" in 1331 because of his fight against Fraticelli in Carcasonne.
'''Action : If they ask to check the records from that trial. ''' They are told that the records disappeared ! Some documents disappeared ! This is unacceptable !
==Assasination attempt==
The same night two assasins unlock and open their door. They use a skeleton key that belonged to John XXII.
Unless the players have [[Instinct]] or stay awake or anything that could help them wakeup, they have to spend one [[Faith]] to be awaken. Because the assasins are quite stealthy. The assasins are wearing worn crusaders armours, they don't .Once of the players (of your choice) recognise the heraldry, except that one of them because he knew him for a previous crusade : Aimeric de Cros, . It is a knight who fought alongside John XXIIbut who is now long dead.(if they manage to kill him, on further examination of the body it's not super clear if that's him or not)
One has a flail and shield, the other has a crusader longsword and a shield. All those equipments have been stolen from dead nobles burried in Avignon
It seems that they do'nt feel any pain when struck by players.
Two players need to have '''Combat (duel)''' to defeat both of them.
Élie de Nabinal is assassinated on that night 12th of January. He dies of the plague. (The players can’t prove he was assassinated)
His vallet Tancrède le Bon disappeared.
=Part 2 Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Avenionensium=
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*They receive a letter for Guy de Chaulliac, he is critically ill and begs them to leave.
*If didn't solve the plague issue : Total 6 Bishop coughin, 1 Dead. (In the room where the person died, the cross is upside down.That's the symbol of the pope)
*7 Alchemy books disappeared. If they ask the titles : Liber de compositione alchimiae, De investigatione perfectionis (Geber), De mineralibus (Albart Magnus), Opus maius (Roger Bacon), The book of Abraham the Jew. And most importantly L’élixir des philosophes and L'art transmutatoire. Nobody knew those books were here ! Except the pope himself and the librarian. '''Knowledge (heresy)''' : The rumours says that it was John XXII who wrote "L’élixir des philosophes" and "L'art transmutatoire". The librarian explains that for some reason, the pope seemed passionate about alchemy, and at some point in his life he made a bull to ban alchemy ! Very strange.
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* An entire wing full of servants is condemenedisolated, because all servants there are ill. They put some food then nail guard the door24/7.
* If didn't solve the plague issue : Total 58 Bishop coughin, 28 Dead ('''Music : Hail This Nightmare - BloodBorne''' One bishop died and his body is chewed by a lot of rats.)
* 1 Heresy and Death books disappeared. If they ask the title Liber Juratus Honorii (Sworn Book of Honorius) a Necromancy Grimoire, lots of letters about the Beatific vision. All those books are about summoning the devil or summoning death herself. '''Knowledge (heresy)''' : Pope XXII in his late life had a very strange theory about Death, for which he was criticez as being a heretic. In his point of view, people don't go to heaven just after death. First they are just in the embrace of death. He was called the heretic pope several times.
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* The door to the wing that was nail broke, they They see some servants running around. Most guards left.
* If didn't solve the plague issue : Total 88 Bishop coughin, 58 Dead. (All the remaining bishops run away Avignon is mostly empty.)
* Books about Gold, the Fratichelli and the antichrist. If they ask the titles : All documents about the Fratichelli trials disappeared. '''Knowledge (heresy)''' : The pope was in favour of the church being rich which opposed him to the Franciscan Fratichelli, and he was called overtly as being the antichrist. And for some reason he became insanely rich, much richer than a pope should be at some point in his life.
They notice that their rooms are super cold and there's ice on the floor. They didn't notice it before, because : Before isolating them in their room, they would aerate their rooms during the day, now they can't.
(In particular it's "the cardinal's" goal to weaken the papacy as much as he possibly can, so he sneaks in he rooms of the people he wants to kill and talks to them Disguised at John XXII, scare them, make sure they are terrified. He choses on purpose only Bishops who new him in lifeso they will recognise his voice and face)
The players must understand that "the cardinal" enters through the window.
'''Knowledge (heresy)''' he speaks in Aramaic. A lost language used in the bible.
| 45min = They smell very strong incense. Everyone rolls for poison. Anyone who fails has to speak in tongue until the end of the game (or a language that nobody in the group understands, that's ok too). Explain them that they can't stay silent, they have to try to talk all the time. And they tell you their actions by sending or showing you written messages.| 60min = There's the corpse of a librarian. His belly was clawed openedlike by a bear. With his blood, it drew a reversed cross of blood with the claws. There's no way a human could have done that.
| 75min = They smell very strong incense. Everyone rolls for poison. Anyone who fails has to speak in tongue until the end of the game (or a language that nobody in the group understands, that's ok too)
From this point on, they see lots of reversed crucifix along the floor is made of an insanely expensive red carpet (they didn't put it here, it was way. And there all along), very clean except some are bloody but confident footsteps of a goat footsteps. There are very clean green torches regularly spaced.
| 90min = They finally catchup with the Pope. But a random player is stabbed in the heart by the Pagan demon, instant death.
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At this point, all the servants who got sick loose their mind and obey to the "cardinal".
They tear their clothes and draw runes on their body.
==Death==
'''Action : Lockpicking or some strength feats'''
==Heretics==
==Templars==
The book shelfs get closer and closer and there's an army of hands with chainmail, and (because most are guards who lost their minds) but looking from this point they look like skeleton templars (he Disguised people some of them as skeleton templars)
'''Action : Some smart way to pass through for each players or they get Wounded'''
==Witchcraft==
As they progress through the secret section, they see Pope John XXII in the distance waiving who finished signing a scroll.
A huge demon appears before them, with fiery wings and a fiery sword and the burning skull of deer.
'''Action : unless Combat (monster) need some smart way to take him down'''
'''Action : If they manage to destroy the contract, a Combat (duel) is enough to defeat him'''
==Death==
"You who live: it is certain,
By cross referencing with other books, they reaslie that the passage in question in the book was about the Opus Magnum and the Albedo (Oeuvre au Blanc) which is the second step of the realisation of the philosopher's stone, after the Nigredo (oeuvre au noir)
On him he has the [[Bone Ring]]
More infos about the Book of the Acts of Solomon who is a biblical lost text : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Solomon
=Fun Facts=Post Game Bonus== Send those to the players as a post game bonus :
The vatican secret archives are indeed 85km long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Apostolic_Archive