Another page in France

Here's another page of GM notes from my old Continuum campaign...

Adventure in Verseilles - Piscean - La Tour Jetee. Playlist: 7th Sea Courtly

Fun things to do in Verseilles and Paris:
1. Formal masked ball this evening. There’s just enough time to get ready without spanning.
2. Tomorrow daytime performance at Moliere’s Illustre Theatre in Paris. This one is optional, since your lack of lingual skills may adversely impact your enjoyment. The Puritans closed all theaters in England last year, so the Illustre is the finest drama house in all of Europe.
3. Hunting. That is the level point of the lodge, after all. You could go foxing or hare-ing.

The Dangers:
Each player must make a roll to not stand out during the festivities.
Roll of acting, disguise, etiquette, stealth, swindle, anthropology. - each PCs choice.
Roll for each activity they take part in:
Masked ball - difficulty is Novice due to the costumes.
Theatre - difficulty is Novice due to going as just a PC group
Hunting - difficulty is Journeyman due to NPCs leading and coordinating the hunt.
Other miscellaneous - difficulty Apprentice to Master depending on level of interaction with NPCs.

If anyone fails a roll, Izzy has to intervene to get them out of a minor social entanglement. If a man botches a roll, he is challenged to a duel.

Anyone who fails a roll ends up marked by Count St. Germaine. Regardless of what activity they fail at, he approaches them at the masked ball. A 40 year old man with dark hair and a devil mask. He’s wearing opulent clothing and bejeweled rings.

“I noticed you at the" (EVENT) "tomorrow. How rude of La Pucelle to fail to introduce us, hm? It’s as though she fears me. I often get the impression that there must be something horrible in my yet, the way everyone tiptoes about me. They’re forcing my idle hands to the very devilry they so dread.
If they’d just tell me what they see my future self do, perhaps I could figure out a way to be a double agent and not a true traitor. But they won’t give me that chance, will they?
You’ll talk to them on my behalf, won’t you? Tell them that Count St. Germaine is not such a bad man, he merely wears the mask of one.”

If there’s a lot of failed rolls, make comments about how there’s several men wearing identical costumes at the party. Then run the scene with more than one of them.

Should a duel with a random person commence from a botch, use these stats:
Body:4 Mind:2 Quick:3 (n/y/n/y/n)
Melee Weapon (Rapier): Apprentice:5 (so it's auto hit if target has no combat skills, but his graces fail) Dmg:1/3/4/6

Should a duel with St Germaine commence from uppity PCs, use stats on page 185 [of the Continuum RPG main book].

Before you leave: Jeanne provides you with a chest of clothing from a simpler era and a lower social caste.

My players know things got a bit out of hand during this. I'll post more sometime in the near future.