The Lady in Question

"When the Queen Says, 'Go and Die,'..": The Lady in Question "You are surrounded by beauty, by intrigue, by danger, what more can a man want?" – Aramis

The sister of a Musketeer is missing! She must be found! The love of a lady has been spurned! She must be avenged! A lady and a Musketeer are in love! They must be wed! A lady has captured the attention of all of Paris! She must be wooed!

Romance! Revenge! Redecorating of taverns!

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Information found at | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fazzari/Amber/Cons/AC2008quotes.html

"When the Queen Says, 'Go and Die...': The Lady in Question" by Kit Kindred

"You are surrounded by beauty, by intrigue, by danger, what more can a man want?" - Aramis

The sister of a Musketeer is missing! She must be found! The love of a lady has been spurned! She must be avenged! A lady and a Musketeer are in love! They must be wed! A new lady has captured the heart of all Paris! She must be wooed!

Romance! Revenge! Redecorating of taverns!

Cast of Characters

• J.P. Brannan: Alexis Vigaroux, Musketeer, Duke of Averoigne
• Anne Delekta: Sylvie/Sylvan, female Musketeer disguised (badly) as a man
• Linda Duncan: Charles Detoit, female Musketeer disguised as a man
• Kris Fazzari: Marcel Delmar, female Musketeer disguised as a man
• Bill Gulstad: Lupin le Fou, Musketeer
• Ray Laura: Jean-Luc Evrard, rookie Musketeer
• Sean McCabe: Will deSpy, Musketeer, former spy
• David R. McCreless: Antoine Lave Le-bagh, rookie Musketeer

Quotes

"Sylvan is the best cross-dressing Musketeer ever." -- Anne Delekta

"If by 'best' you mean 'most covered in lace'." -- Kris Fazzari

"I'm not paranoid, I know people are out to get me." -- Will to the group

"And (Jean-Luc's) sentenceses may be short, but they are coherent." -- Ray Laura

"Except for that one." -- the group

"Are you wearing your stealth tabard?" -- GM to Will, after he shows up dressed in black

"'I'm not the worst!' That's usually my cheer." -- Will to the group

"We have new recruits, so it's tradition that we must destroy a tavern." -- Charles to the group

"I had no idea we needed a tradition to destroy a tavern." -- Marcel

"To the tavern!" -- Charles to the Musketeers

"The rallying cry of the Musketeers." -- Kris Fazzari

"You have two new recruits, you should haze them." -- GM

"We'll just make the newbies fetch Lupin's food for the evening." -- Will

"I think Will should get to read the notes (between J.P. and the GM)." -- Sean McCabe

"Because he's a spy?" -- Kris Fazzari

"Yes." -- Sean McCabe

"He gets to read them, he just doesn't tell you." -- J.P. Brannan

"He is good at keeping secrets." -- Sean McCabe

"Alexis wishes to observe at some point." -- J.P. Brannan

"In France, we call that a voyeur." -- GM

"We always suspected you liked to watch." -- Bill Gulstad

"It's not a wedding without a stabbing." -- Will to the group

"Cardinal Richelieu crying into his sacrificial wine...." -- GM

"Don't you mean sacramental wine?" -- J.P. Brannan

"If you're Cardinal Richelieu, it's sacrificial wine." -- GM

"Yum, blood of the innocents." -- Kris Fazzari

"Tastes great, less filling." -- GM

"You could have used the carnivorous goats to clean your apartment." -- GM to Marcel

"They have their standards." -- J.P. Brannan

"I don't think you can confuse (Antoine du Marais dressed as) Widow Twanky with Marcel in drag." -- Kris Fazzari

"They're only separated by several decades, a hundred pounds, and a beard." -- J.P. Brannan

"If you like their dresses, they'd be happy to take them off so you can wear them." -- Lupin to Sylvan, referring to the prostitutes he has with him

"So that's how the great fire started in England." -- Sean McCabe

"Random showed up?" -- David R. McCreless

"(Sylvan) is first ranked in lace." -- Sean McCabe to the group

"At some point Lupin had a lady-in-waiting, but he seems to have replaced her with Peaches (the prostitute)." -- GM to Will

"Are you coming in before the strippers, or after the strippers?" -- GM to Jean-Luc

"I have a bachelor party to go to." -- Alexis, as the Musketeers crash the party he's at

"Fortunately, the bachelor party has come to you." -- Lupin

"And this was done in some cool, stylish kind of way?" -- GM to David R. McCreless and Ray Laura

"They think so." -- J.P. Brannan

"The smart (men in black) bring guns to knife fights." -- Will to the group

"That's odd, I don't think you have a whistle (command for your horse) for charging into battle." -- GM to Antoine

"It's an implied whistle." -- Kris Fazzari

"There can only be one (Lupin). France can't feed another." -- Kris Fazzari

"That's why it's getting colonies." -- GM

"Terribly sorry about (landing my horse on your table). Hope you didn't spill your drink." -- Antoine

"You must be new." -- Man in Black

"Musketeers don't usually apologize." -- Kris Fazzari

"The groom is not supposed to have bigger breasts than the bride." -- Kris Fazzari

"They're not bigger, they're just nicer." -- GM

"There was much lifting and separating involved." -- Bill Gulstad

"Antoine is going to end up so gender-confused." -- GM

"Welcome to the Musketeers!" -- Kris Fazzari

"Lady Gabrielle ran off with my horse!" -- Antoine to the group

"Now I'm going to have to rearrange the seating arrangements. (Marcel's ex-girlfriend) shouldn't be sitting next to him if she's trying to kill him." -- Sylvan to the group

"The three weapons of the Musketeers are drama, angst, and cross-dressing." -- GM to the group

"Please let my wedding not involve horse laxatives." -- Sylvan to the group

Checklist for any Musketeers game

1. Destroy a tavern
2. Run into the Man in Black
3. Have something run into the Man in Black
4. Embarrass the Cardinal's Guards
5. Embarrass Alexis
6. Break into the decoy wine cellar
7. Have anyone named Antoine ride a horse into a building
8. Have at least one Musketeer cross-dress