Danse Macabre Part 9 - Revision history

Taiko at 18:01, 7 March 2026

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Taiko at 16:36, 7 March 2026

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37.170.223.159: /* Explanations - The Mad King */

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‎Explanations - The Mad King

88.183.141.86 at 22:41, 21 December 2024

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88.183.141.86 at 21:28, 21 December 2024

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88.183.141.86: /* The Secretum Templi */

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‎The Secretum Templi

88.183.141.86: /* The Fortress in the Mountain */

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‎The Fortress in the Mountain

88.183.141.86: /* The Fortress in the Mountain */

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‎The Fortress in the Mountain

88.183.141.86: /* Iram of the Pillars */

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‎Iram of the Pillars

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 The cursed knowledge eventually reached '''Shaddad bin Aad''', the king of the legendary city '''Iram of the Pillars'''. Using secrets from the '''Apocryphon of Jannes''', including the '''Emerald Tablet'''—a section detailing the creation of the '''Philosopher's Stone'''—he created the stone and adorned his city with gold-covered pillars. This act of hubris angered God, who destroyed Iram, burying it under the sands. The king was entombed within a statue in the ruins.
-Centuries later, a Templar from the family of '''Barral des Baux''' discovered the lost city of Iram. He made carbon copies of the inscriptions on the golden pillars onto a scroll. These inscriptions were in '''Hieratic''', with translations in '''Nabataean Aramaic''', a language still understood in the Middle Ages. He also took the skeletal left hand of the king from the statue.
+Centuries later, a Templar '''Bertrand de la Roche''' discovered the lost city of Iram. He made carbon copies of the inscriptions on the golden pillars onto a scroll. These inscriptions were in '''Hieratic''', with translations in '''Nabataean Aramaic''', a language still understood in the Middle Ages. He also took the skeletal left hand of the king from the statue.
 The scroll contained the '''Emerald Tablet''' portion of the '''Apocryphon of Jannes'''. Exposure to this forbidden knowledge drove the Templar insane.

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 At the center of the village the pillagers throw dead corpses into the oasis to contaminate it.
 '''Detail (Plague of egypt 2/10) : It is followed very thoroughly by a lot of toads. An army of small toad eyes. Very strange that there would be so many toads here. The Templar chaplain (Matthieu de Saint-Aubert) is very surprised that there would be toads here.'''
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 After the battle some of them manage to run away, and the scroll is GONE ! It was all a diversion to steal it.
 They still have the clay hand though.
-'''Music (the scroll is gone) : Gravity The Void'''
+'''Music (the scroll is gone) : Gravity The Void (just once) then back to normal'''
 '''Detail (Plague of egypt 3/10) : the chaplain (Matthieu de Saint-Aubert) examines the corpse of the Assassin and he is disgusted that he is covered in Lices (poux et puces)'''
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 They go to the small fortified farm that Bertrand de la Roche was holding with a small vineyard and some cattle.
 '''Details (Plague of egypt 5/10) : When they approach the estate they realise that all the cattle is dead !
 The chaplain (Matthieu de Saint-Aubert) part of the group figures it out and says to Roncelin that he should stop, the lord is angry.'''
 '''Exodus 9:3-6'''
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 He says : "The excommunicated are my friends, and those who seek absolution are my enemies." / "Les excommuniés sont mes amis et ceux qui cherchent l'absolution sont mes ennemis"
 '''Detail (Plague of egypt 6/10) : When they return from the battle after the excommunication sentence is pronouced, the next day their soldiers are covered in Boils and can’t fight anymore.'''
 That’s when the chaplain (Matthieu de Saint-Aubert) starts to be terrified, he says :
 '''Exodus 9:8-10'''
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 '''Day 21 : Everyone roll a desert dice.''' (Expedition members left : 7)
 They find the Oasis, but it there are several floating corpses in the water.
 '''Details (Plague of egypt 8/10) : And the Oasis is overridden by locusts'''

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 | 45min = They pass by a strange lady covered in jewels making sound when she walks, her hands are covered in hand paintings, but also her face. Her face is covered in strange letters in a language they cannot udnerstand, for sure not arabic. Her lips are concealed behind a piece of fabric. She is eating her lunch, sundried dates with a mint tea and lots of exotic looking cakes. They notice her left hand is so covered in markings that it's almost fully black. Then a beggar come to them and proposes to sell some relics (they are fake). A bunch of street cats a heard fighting in the distance. When they look back, she is gone.
-| 60min = There's a weird person in rags looking at the players and laughing very slowly in a deep voice. one of his left hand is twitching with spasms. As they get closer, they see that it's just a drunk. (alcohol is forbidden but not that forbidden)
+| 60min = There's a weird person in rags looking at the players and whispers very slowly. one of his left hand is twitching with spasms. As they get closer, they see that it's just a drunk. (alcohol is forbidden but not that forbidden) the whispers "And within itself is the power of the highest and of the lowest, within it is the light of lights, therefore darkness flees from it." / "En lui se trouve le pouvoir du plus haut et du plus bas, en elle se trouve la lumière des lumières, c'est pourquoi les ténèbres fuient devant elle."
 | 75min = Next time one of the players wake up, he will see a dagger stuck on his pillow. The dagger is piercing a single crusader coin. The threat is very clear. Some of his servants are assasins, but whom ? Crusader coins where coins made of gold and minted by crusaders (the count of tripoli) but in Arabic so locals could understand it.
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 His left hand is completely black and with claws. His left land is clutching the scroll.
-He seems to laugh in a very deep and very slow voice.
+He seems to whisper in very slow voice. Yet they hear him very clearly.
 He says : "I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled!" / "Je suis venu jeter un feu sur la terre, et qu'ai-je à désirer, s'il est déjà allumé?" — Luke 12:49
 and he sets his templar sword in Flames.
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 Every pillar is covered in gold, or made of gold ?
-They are greeted by an dark giant in rags with a crown under his rags, his hand is black with claws. His seems to laugh with a very deep voice and very slowly.
+They are greeted by an dark giant in rags with a crown under his rags, his hand is black with claws. He whispers in Aramaic and very slowly.
 Action : Knowledge (heresy) : They recognise إرَم ذات العماد Iram ḏāt al-ʿimād / Iram cité des piliers  / Iram of the Pillars and the king would be Shaddād bin ʽĀd. Explain that this king was mad and defied god, which is why his city was destroyed by wind and flames.
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 As they climb the mountain, one of the Templar sergents who accompanied them was actually an assasin trickster and he pushes one of the players to his death (chose a player who still has faith if possible)
-And starts to laugh slowly in a very deep voice, then pushed the player.
+And starts to whisper slowly, then pushed the player.
 (The sargeants were recruited from the local historical Christians (from before the crusades) Syriaques)
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 '''Music (as long as the fire burns) : (fast start) Light of the Seven (EP 10 Trial scene) then loop Z_Baston-Le diable est dans la boite'''
-The farm then starts burning. The noise of the fire sounds like a very low pitched slow laughter.
+The farm then starts burning. The noise of the fire sounds like a very slow whisper.
 Action : Any meaningful way to get past the gate as quickly as possible.
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 Action : Knowledge (heresy or cryptography) or Polyglot : It is written in Nabataean Aramaic the name "Shaddad bin Aad" it's the name of the king of Iram of the Pillars
-As they are reading they hear a very deep laugh. It's acutally a crow is looking and yelling at them. Barral explains that he hates crows and he swings his sword trying to kill it but it runs away.
+As they are reading they hear slow whispers. It's acutally a crow is looking and yelling at them. Barral explains that he hates crows and he swings his sword trying to kill it but it runs away.
 It is really too risky to go that deep into Ayyubid territorry now, but if they agree to help Barral, he will use his political sway to get them safe conduit that deep inside enemy territorry.
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 Action : Either pass by night when the visibility is poor, or climb other side of the mountain but then they can't have siege weapons or heavy equipments.
-If they pass by night, a little cloud of crows follow them and make a lot of noise which still launches the alarm. Barral is pesting against them. In the distance they hear a laughter in slow motion.
+If they pass by night, a little cloud of crows follow them and make a lot of noise which still launches the alarm. Barral is pesting against them. In the distance they hear slow whispers.
 '''Music when the battle start : In the Dawn of the AI then Z_Baston-Kin Amar'''
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 Action : Tent and water are the priority. Even more than food or anything else. In particular no weapons or armors. (if they can't resolve this, roll one '''Desert dice''')
-A long unending wind rises. It seems like a long slow laughter in the distance.
+A long unending wind rises. It seems like a long slow whisper in the distance.
 How to protect their eyes from the wind ?
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 The wind is now a storm.
-After a long walk, Roncelin collapses on the floor. He is dead of thirst. The laugh of the wind seems to become stronger.
+After a long walk, Roncelin collapses on the floor. He is dead of thirst. The whispers of the wind seems to become stronger.
 Action : Kowledge (medicine) he isn't completely dead but there's really nothing they can do for him.
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 They are now compeltely lost, although their instict pushes them to walk forward, due to the constant storm they have lost all sense of direction. How to know they are on the right track ?
-Action : Anything meaningful or just go to the source of the wind's long laugh.
+Action : Anything meaningful or just go to the source of the wind's long whispers.
 In the distance they seem to see a black hooded figure with a crown following them. But no matter how much they never manage to catch him. (it's actually Mad Roncelin)
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 The king start whispering in they ears, louder and louder.
 Everyone now has a whispers of madness timer of 5 minutes (and stop their current timer), if they fall into madness, they become a shadow themselves.

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 Action : They have to assassinate him discretely and make it look like an accident. Or Voice of the Abyss. Or any other meaningful Feat. (now they are 27)
 That’s how the Secretum Templi is created.
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   il y en a un esprit sombre qui est notre Père, Maître, Rédempteur et Consolateur, Lui, et Son Esprit rend témoignage à notre esprit que nous sommes ses enfants.
-As they do that, when the document is signed and the full drawing of the Abraxas with then horns is visible, some Templar make a cross sign and quotes the bible :
+As they do that, when the document is signed and the full drawing of the Abraxas with then horns is visible, some Templar make a cross sign and quotes the bible (unless the Avignon commander already said it):
 "rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against it? " "je vis monter de la mer une bête qui avait dix cornes et sept têtes, et sur ses cornes dix diadèmes, et sur ses têtes des noms de blasphème. Qui est semblable à la bête, et qui peut combattre contre elle ? "

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 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.

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 Then they walk through the dining hall they see lots of dead Assassins hooked to the ceiling.
+They start climbing the tower and one of the wall leads to a secret passage that is currently opened :
 They walk through a weirdly decorated room that smells very strongly of Hashish.
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-They climb up higher in the tower and arrive at the throne room.
+They climb up higher in the tower ignoring the secret passage and arrive at the throne room.

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-   Before me stood Iram's ancient columns, inscribed with the Apocryphon of Jannes. Among the ruins, I found traces of the Philosopher’s Stone, the Materia Prima.
+   Before me stood Iram's ancient columns, inscribed with the Apocryphon of Jannes. Among the ruins, I found traces of the Philosopher’s Stone, the Materia Prima. Using the king's bones, I crafted a cover fitting for a book of such power. So it begins.
+/
-   Devant moi se dressaient enfin les colonnes d'Iram, gravées de l'Apocryphe de Jannès. Dans ces ruines, j'ai retourvé des traces de la Pierre Philosophale, la Materia Prima.
+   Devant moi se dressaient enfin les colonnes d'Iram, gravées de l'Apocryphe de Jannès. Dans ces ruines, j'ai retourvé des traces de la Pierre Philosophale, la Materia Prima. Avec les os du roi, j'ai façonné une couverture digne d'un livre d'un tel pouvoir. C'est ainsi que tout commence.
 =Epilogue=

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 *Exodus 10:12-15
-  "Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again. They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt." / "Elles s’abattirent sur toute l’Egypte et se posèrent sur tout le territoire en si grand nombre que jamais on n’avait vu et jamais on ne reverra pareil fléau. Elles recouvrirent tout le pays. La terre fut obscurcie. Elles dévorèrent toute la végétation, tous les fruits des arbres qui subsistaient après la grêle, de sorte qu’il ne resta aucun brin de verdure ni aux arbres ni dans les champs de toute l’Egypte."
+  "Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again." / "Elles s’abattirent sur toute l’Egypte et se posèrent sur tout le territoire en si grand nombre que jamais on n’avait vu et jamais on ne reverra pareil fléau."
 How to still drink the water although it's contaminated clearly ?
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 '''Exodus 10:21-23'''
-  "So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. No one could see anyone else or move about for three days." / "Moïse étendit sa main vers le ciel; et il y eut d'épaisses ténèbres dans tout le pays d'Égypte, pendant trois jours. On ne se voyait pas les uns les autres, et personne ne se leva de sa place pendant trois jours."
+  "So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days." / "Moïse étendit sa main vers le ciel; et il y eut d'épaisses ténèbres dans tout le pays d'Égypte, pendant trois jours."
 As the sun completely disappears, so does the storm. (the 06 of October 1241 there was a total solar eclypse on this exact spot : https://eclipsewise.com/solar/SEprime/1201-1300/SE1241Oct06Tprime.html )
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 And the book finishes on this text.
-   At last, my search has borne fruit. Before me stand the ancient columns of Iram, inscribed with the Apocryphon of Jannes, Pharaoh’s sorcerer from the old scriptures. The wisdom of the ancients, bound in alchemical riddles, now lies bare to my eyes. Amidst the ruins, I uncovered remnants of the Philosopher’s Stone itself—a substance worthy of its legend, the true Materia Prima.
-  I gathered the bones of the long-dead king, and over the next days, I labored, crafting a cover worthy of the knowledge I have unearthed. A book of power, encased in the remains of royalty. So it begins.
+  Devant moi se dressaient enfin les colonnes d'Iram, gravées de l'Apocryphe de Jannès. Dans ces ruines, j'ai retourvé des traces de la Pierre Philosophale, la Materia Prima.
 =Epilogue=