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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)
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.
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 opened like by a bear. With his blood, it drew a reversed cross of blood. 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)
'''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==
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