It was a complicated session (or a couple of sessions, but we had to cut one of them short). Mostly, however, Jean-Pierre was doing his
thing/any woman he could, while the doctor and the noblewoman were looking for
clues about the murder.
That is, JP and Catherine both had standing orders by the Cardinal to
investigate. He tried, but got distracted by, well, worldy temptations!
The other PCs had discovered the murdered guy had gone somewhere earlier
in the night, and then someone returned with his horse. Someone small, maybe an
woman. And he was part of an occultist circle, with the other members being,
well, 4 noblemen and noblewomen*. Or at least, we knew about those, because a
secret passage lead to their villas.
One of them was our good friend, Mme La Marquise.
Another was the king’s mistress.
Yet another was the guy with a collection of exotic beasts, former owner
of an exotic snake whose poison had been used in the murder (the snake had
died, but the poison has been preserved). Bad news, that: all of them had
received samples. And while the poison was kept in a simple vial with only text
to distinguish it, all of this guy’s servants could read. Yes, he was paying
for that, just as he had amassed a bunch of people, all from different
countries. Catherine was amazed at the useless expenses.
We also learned that the servant who’s been accused of murdering the man
– one who had claimed he’s been good to the simple servants – was in fact his
bastard daughter. One Mme La Marquise had sheltered without knowing who the
mother was. I suspect her identity is the reason he didn’t acknowledge her
openly.
And last, but not least, we found out the dead guy has been working on
the elixir of youth. And so was our employer, but the dead guy has been ahead
of the rest of them (no idea how THAT has been known, and by that time, I didn’t
bother asking the King’s mistress, being distracted). Either way, I suspected
immediately that Richelieu also wanted his
notes.
And with that, the last session had ended, with the PCs interrogating
well-educated servants.
The latest worldly temptations of JP had taken the form of a noblewoman –
and the King’s mistress – who had been involved in devil-worshipping along with
the dead guy. Well, you can’t judge the dead, especially if they’ve got
influential relatives.
But you can threaten the living with spoiling their good name. And that’s
how he basically intimidated his way under her corset, and in her bed (a man of
the cloth discovering you’re an occultist was bad news back then, they say…).
Yes, JP’s now screwing the King’s mistress. More importantly,.he had
proved she can be influenced, and asked for a meeting with the Cardinal to
report the progress made… in uncovering the King’s plans. Murder? Who cares, when you can blackmail someone who's got at least part of the King's confidence?
On the investigative side, she gave me the names of the other
participants in the circle. The doctor I had helped getting married is one of
them? WTF?
Ah well, enough is to each day its own evil, and so forth. Meaning I was
planning to do something about it later. And probably get to know his new fiancée
better, if possible…
*(Our GM admits she prefers roleplaying female NPCs whenever possible.
As I said, she’s learning, but for now, it means we get lots of noblewomen that
are acting behind the scenes).
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