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→The Fortress in the Mountain
The fortress is empty but there's a terrible stench of death.
Dead Assassins everywherein the entrance. They seemed to have fought each others. They walk through a weirdly decorated room that smells very strongly of Hashish. Lots of dead Assassins and dead slave girls. One of them is barely alive. "The King, the mad king. They couldn't stop him. He is upstairs." Apparently some Assassins weren't killed, they committed suicide in the most gruesome way, one piereced his own eyes with daggers, one set fire to himself. As they walk through the dining hall they see lots of dead Assassins hooked to the ceiling. They climb up the tower and arrive at the throne room. The Old Man in the mountains is waiting for them there. And there's a dead hooded figure with a crown on his head, he was pierced by lots of scimitars. The Old Man in the mountains talks to them and proposes some tea and tries to calm them down. He explains that he knew rumours of the scroll of the mad king and couldn't let it stay in the hands of the Christians. He wanted it for himself, but quickly madness spread in his ranks so he destroyed it, and it cost him dearly, they are too late. His goal is to try to negotiate that the players just leave them be and forget about the book. Of course the tea is poisoned using an “assasin’s teapot” meaning that when he pours some in his glass it's not poisoned, when he pours it in theirs, it is poisonned. Action : The first player who drinks the tea become Drowsy due to the poison. They easily kill him and in this Assassin’s hideout, they find the burned pages and the scroll box. Now that they have more time to identify the seal, they realise that it’s the Seal of Barral 1er des Baux, so they decided to ask for his help, since Roncelin know him.
=Part 2 of Guelfes and Gibelins=
