Only few mysteries are unsolved at the end of the scenario :
-Why did Eugène buy corpses ? To ship where ? For what reason ?
-How did the templar die so suddenly ? How did he blackmail him ?
-Is Eugène a person or an organisation ?
=Part 1 The obituary department=
*'''Normal: Normal Département Nécrologique'''
Corpses disappear, players must find where before it's too late.
The university has a funeral home (place where the dead are put right after the death)
In this funeral home are transferred all the dead on the public highway, to check for new epidemies
Then a necropsy is done without opening the corpse
Then is made a mortuary toilet, called thanatopraxis before casketing
Screenwriting frame==Atmosphere track==*10min-Some students pass in all the rooms to spread smoke. It's called fulmigation. The point is to try to disinfect.*30min-Teachers are found studying an open corpse. Players can choose to prosecute them or not.*45min-There is a currency that only serves during the fair. The penny of the Vale. The currency is minted by the Templars of the area. It's a privilege given to the city, as to avoid currency problems during the fair.At this point, their contact informs them that Eugène Clavicule has reserved a booth for the fair.*60min-A medical monster moves on the streets. He is heavily deformed. He was invited by professors to be examined.*75min-A person wakes up during his necropsy and dies right after. Explain that, in the middle age, it was very hard to know if someone was dead or not.*100min-At the end of the atmosphere track, if the players still haven't found the cave. Their contact understands that the doctor Shuplice gave counterfeit coins each time he paid for funerals. They have to start investigate that immediately. Penalty if they reach the end of the atmosphere track : They won't get reinforcements. ==Scenario track==
Their goal is to find out what's going on in this obituary department.
If they discover the origin, they have reinforcements.
A beer (Their contact, Dr. Pierre Therici found a coffin) falls and breaks, it is filled with earth. And only landNo corpse inside. The corpse has disappearedThat's very suspicious.Anonymous coffin It is a This coffind belongs to an anonymous, he was found dead person found on public roads, an anonymous personand nothing could identify him. Very likely just vagabond.
Action -> See the doctor who did the necropsy.
Dr. Ambroise Prasé is the doctor who did the necropsy (autopsy without opening of the corpse)
Necropsy revealed nothing. It is not unusual in the middle age.He had no relatives so normally had to be buried in a mass grave. But a generous donor paid for the beer.Dr. Theobald Shuplice
The coffin was traded with But a generous donor paid for the funeral in an individual coffin full .Dr. Theobald Shuplice is the name of earththe donor.
Many unknown people still had If they ask : indeed he pays for a casketlot of anonymous to be buried. If they open those graves, all corpses are missing.Corpses well removedAll those coffins were traded with coffins full of earth.
Theobald Shuplice come every week. He will be back soon.
Action: Follow him discreetly or fall on his faceattack him.
If follow him discreetly. They find his office. Here is And his account accounting book, where they can find the address of a cave he rents.Lots of documents in his office, but they are all encrypted. The writing matches that of Eugène Clavicule (found in the previous scenario)
If he fall on her face. He will not tell them anything. He does not feel the pain. He discreetly throws a letter when they catch him.
Otherwise If they attack him or torture him. He will not tell them anything. On himself they can find a player goes into a coffinletter. He's about to resign. He works in the university's administrative department. Then they can find his office and his accounting book.
Another way to solve this is if a player hides inside a coffin. He will then be transported to the cave.
ALTERNATIVE: ITS ACCOUNT BOOK is easy Once they open the door to decrypt, they find the name of a person paid weeklycave. The smell is crushing. It's the cellar They all vomit unless they renthave a quality to prevent that.
He has a purse on him with 6 silver arbours and 66 copper wheels.The silver coins have a very dark hue. Copper too.Once they open the door : '''Gaunter O Dim Witcher 3'''
He has a letter on behalf of someone from the University of Medicine. The letter requests his resignation (Moi Théobald Supplice etc cellar is filled with about fifty corpses ready to be shipped.But all documents are encrypted.No way to know where they should be shipped and why.)
Through this they find his office and therefore account bookThere are also money chests full of silver coins. A huge fortune in fact in silver pennies of the Vale. Very suspicious.
There is a letter for each supplier. Without coding or other tracesWhy buying corpses ? Where to ship them ? This scenario doesn't answer this mystery.
ActionReward for completing the scenario track successfully : See that there are two regular payment. Every week 6 arbours of silver 66 copper wheels.The silver coins are dirty.This is the price of a membership in a private club of noble students in the area.where they play and have prostitutes. All in the necropolisreinforcements, one soldier per person.
Players only have to look at who has not paid their subscription this week.
It is an owner who lent his cellar.
As soon as the players come to see him, he tries to commit suicide then fled to the morgue and hear the sound of a hatch slamming.
He is locked in a compartment for a corpse. Which ?=Part 2 Black Silver=
His tracks of blood stop fast enough '''Normal (he took a bandagebefore arriving at the Templars): Normal Departement Nécrologique''''''Normal (once arrived at the Knights Templar): Normal Commanderie Templière'''
He destroyed After leaving the registerscene, they realise that those silver pennies have a strange black hue. He must be found before he dies by losing his bloodThey suspect it's a counterfeit and will have to try and understand who is responsible for their creation.
Action: Only one compartment starts to bleed. He's there.==Ambiance track==
*15min-A person comes to buy his pennies of the Vale at a Templar desk. The templar inspects each coins he is given one by one to see which ones have been slimmed down by filing them on the edges (to steal some gold out of them). He will say everything right awayaccepts some of them and refuses some of them. He's very muscular.He then gives a deposit slip. It's an encrypted document with a seal. Later on, this document can be used to withdraw pennies of the Vale.*30min-They see Templars training by fighting each others. Their fight is very brutal. At the end of the fight a prayer the bells ring. With they bleeding faces, they put their robes on and go to pray.This scene illustrates how Templars are both harmless monks and deadly warriors.*45min-Templar Ceremony. They hear a hammer that strikes three times.Launch the music '''Watchmen(OST 2009) - Pruit Igoe and Prophecies'''All the templars are drawn to a room where they have their annual meeting.Players are not allowed in.The players have until the music reached 3:30 to do anything they want in the templar buildings. Because the building is completely empty.
And players can find Once the cellar with music reaches 3:30, they see all the corpsestemplars leaving their ceremony.After the ceremony, many people come out. Many religious people, powerful people.Professors. Merchants. But also Nobles. Towards the end of the procession there are four people wearing masks and surrounded by soldiers. Those people are too powerful to be recognised.
ODOR UNLEASHABLE This scene is used to illustrate the power of the templars, all power people are part of their organisation.*60min- '''Music : Lacrimosa'''Players are locked in a room. Behind there is a man with a mask. It's the Jean de la Maison de Dieu, but they can't recognise him.He tells them to leave him alone. He tries to convince them to stop the prosecution. He begs them even.*75min-Players are shot at by a crossbow. Explain that in the cellarmiddle age, crossbows are prohibited weapons against other Christians.Bolts should feel very impressive and powerful, destroying furnitures and all.Either the players find a good way out or one of them is injured.
Discovering Penalty if they reach the wineryend of the track : Gaunter O Dim Witcher 3Jean de la Maison de Dieu pass near them and seems very panicked. He then runs away. Players runs after him. He dies mysteriously and his corpse is cold. There's no witnesses to this scene, so players are accused of killing this Templar, and they must keep a low profile for the rest of the scenario because templars are searching for them.After the end of the scenario they will have to explain themselves to the inquisition
The cellar is filled with about fifty corpses ready to be shipped.
There are also money chests.==Scenario track==
The players have reinforcements: one soldier per person.
There is a real fortune in pieces of money piled up in a chest. Only pieces of black silver. Counterfeit coins of the upcoming fair.
Their goal is to discover who made them.
Atmosphere frameThose coins are minted every year by the local Templar commandery. It's a privilege given by the king to the city.10min-They pass through all The goal is to avoid currency change problems during the rooms with smokefair, they fulminate to purifyso everything is bough and sold in this neutral currency.
30min-Teachers studying a corpse45min - There is a currency that only serves during the fair. The currency of the confraternity of the Templars of the area. Because it's the guild that organizes. The denier of the Val-> Their contact informs them that Eugène Clavicule has reserved a booth counterfeits are good except for the fair.60min-A medical monster moves on the streets75min-A person wakes up during his necropsy and dies right after60min-At the end of the atmospheremetal, the players realize that the silver coins were not dirty, but black. A merchant refuses them.Players do not have reinforcementwhich is a bit dark.
The metal is a mix of little bit of silver and a lot of another metal, hard to identify it.
Part 2 Black gold
Normal (before arriving at If one of the player has Eye of the Detail or if they ask an expert, they can see that the Templars): Normal Necrological Departmentcounterfeits' artworks are perfect.Normal To a point where they think that the "Punch" (once arrived at the Knights Templarpiece of the minting machine that holds the artwork): Normal Commandery Templarhas been used for those fake coins.
All corpses have their hands closed.Fifty. Some of which really decomposed.Action: Players can get to visit the local templar commandery
All ready to be shipped.There Change music once they are also chests filled with silver. An incredible fortunein the templar buildings.It's not real money. It's a counterfeit.It was the person who brought the corpses who did this by superstition
There Everyone is a real fortune in pieces of money piled up brown coats, some in white coats (the nobles ones).All have a red cross on their clothes.It is a chestlarge fortified building. Only pieces of black silverThe decoration is military but rich. It's counterfeit pieces of the upcoming fair
We must discover the reserve of moneyWhat is strange with this place is how immensely wealthy they are, but they are still monks, so they try to hide their riches.This results in incredibly clean clothes and rooms. Also glass windows in some rooms. Great quality candles etc. A powerful organization must be complicit.It must be discovered before the fair begins.
The local bank is a Templar commandery.A powerful local Templar is actually a living dead person. That's why he funds Eugene clavicle. To stay alive. He finances it by helping counterfeitinghead of minting will do his best to help them.
The goal of "Punches" are still in place on the players is to find who finances the skeleton merchantminting machines. (Counterfeiting comes at night.)
Scenario frameAccess to the room is strictly controlled. No entry or exit without being controlled.There's very tight accounting of how much silver gets in and how many comes gets out.
Action analyzes the pieces: It's a counterfeit, a little bit of money There is a lot of another metal impossible to identify.These are locally minted coins used at hatch hidden on the fairground.But the pattern is perfectUnder a box. So someone had to steal the COIN.The goal Eye of the sequence is to find all the accomplicesdetail doesn't spot it, unless players specifically search for a hidden door.
Action: Players can get to visit the local commandery Everyone This is where counterfeiters come in brown coats, some in white coats.It is a large fortified building. The decoration is military but rich. The print masters are still in place. (Counterfeiting comes at night.) Access to the room is strictly controlled. No entry or exit without being controlledout.
The workshop contains It's a certain amount of money and a number of coins come out. No gap possibletunnel that lead to the outside.
Action: There is a hatch hidden on They find iron bars inside the ground. Under a boxtunnel also.
This is where Basically, the counterfeiters come added some iron in or outvery small proportions to all the genuine coins, and used this way to steal some real silver. Then they mixed a bit of silver and a lot of iron to make fake ones.
They then find metal But those bars to counterfeit as well as counterfeit parts.On the bars there is the name of iron couldn't get in the metaltemplars building without being noticed. FIND A NAME
And all the pieces produced contain a little less money. With this metal instead.Who bought them ? Why ?
Action: This metal is good for something, where to buy it?
It is used to circle the wheel of the tanks.
The commanderie is Those templars are one of the very first organization to circle the their wheels of its tankswith metal.(an important innovation in the middle age)
He inquire. Indeed, That's what the strapping of the wheels is actually finer than it metal is supposed to be in the plansserve for.
So it's someone from But the Commandery who organizes this counterfeittemplar Jean de la Maison de Dieu increases the amount of iron being ordered and stores the surplus in the storage.
The metal enters legally. Then Once they come to talk to him, it is dispatcher between the stock and the forge.John of the House of God is in charge of the stockraining, thathe's where he makes iron disappearat a balcony.
Action: they have to find a way to trap himIt is raining, it is very cold.
John of the House of GodAt the moment of jamming. They As soon as he sees that they are outsidecoming to him, it is very very coldhe panics.He resigns himself refuses to his fate and jumps and dieslet them approach. (it was a UD)
Players can do high profile. They He shouts at them to stay in the distance and implores them, lots of templars are not accused of murder so they do not have to hidelooking.
At the moment He tells them he falls: Gaunter O Dim Witcher 3had no choice and zero hope to survive if he didn't cooperate.
He then suddenly dies and falls from the balcony. '''Music Gaunter O Dim Witcher 3'''
Atmosphere frameInsist on how strange his death is.
He is alive, then he just dies and fall on himself like a puppet who lots his ropes. He then falls from the balcony, but the height didn't kill him, he was dead before.
15min-A person comes to buy his money from the valley. And the person looks at each piece one by one to see which ones are being filed. A person comes to give a deposit slipHis corpse is already cold. It(but it's an encrypted document with a seal. It is recognized as a counterfeit and the document is destroyedThe banker is a very muscular Templar raining and he throws the guy out30min-They see Templars fighting to fight. they put themselves on the mouth. At the end the bells ring. they greet each other and go to praycold outside, some have the skull in blood.so it's strange but plausible)
45min-Templar Ceremony. They hear a hammer that strikes three times.A music is played. Watchmen debutThen they talkPlayers are not allowed to enter.After 3:30 when the music goes crazy. The ceremony is over and people come outAfter the ceremonyIn his office, many people go out. Many religious toolots of letters written by Eugène Clavicule, powerful peoplebut encrypted.Professors. Sellers. But also Nobles. Towards the end of the procession there are four people wearing masks It's a proof he was a tool and surrounded by soldiersaccomplice.
60min-Players are locked in a room. Behind there is a man with a mask.He tells them. Leave me alone. He tries to convince them to stop the prosecution.Lacrimosa75min-Players are shot at the crossbow. It is a prohibited weapon.They are in a room and the tiles are destroying the wooden windows.It is a forbidden and powerful weapon.Either the players find a good way out or are injuredHow did he die ? This scenario doesn't solve this mystery.
At Reward for completing the end scenario track : Lots of the atmosphere, the Templar misses people are witness to him jumping. So the players and looks really panicked. Then panicked he runs away.Players are not accused of killing this Templar, and they must keep a low profile for the rest of the scenariohis murder. At the end of the scenario they will have to explain themselves to the inquisition
=Part 3 The Valfranc trade fair=
Normal: Gwent Full Mix Witcher 3 then Normal Templar Commandery
