The Queen's Gambit

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"When the Queen Says, 'Go and Die...': The Queen's Gambit" by Kit Kindred

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

Paris is in flames! Her Majesty has been kidnapped! The Cardinal's Guards are to blame! The Musketeers will avenge the Queen! Will France endure?

Cast of Characters

• J.P. Brannan: Alexis Vigaroux, Duke of Averoigne, Musketeer
• Lee Bynum: Olaf, rookie Musketeer, former Cardinal's Guard
• Anne Delekta: Sylvie/Sylvan, female Musketeer disguised (badly) as a man
• Linda Duncan: Charles Detoit, female Musketeer disguised as a man, alleged heretic
• Kris Fazzari: Marcel Delmar, female Musketeer disguised as a man
• Ben Fogt: Frederick, wine merchant, former merchandizing apprentice to Chester, a murdered wealthy merchant
• Bill Gulstad: Lupin le Fou, Musketeer
• Michael Kucharski: Leonardo de Como, Count of Pliniana, Italian foreign noble, rookie Musketeer
• Ray Laura: Jean-Luc Evrard, rookie Musketeer
• Sean McCabe: Will deSpy, Musketeer, former spy

Quotes

"It's always a good idea to have a defrocked priest speaking for you." -- J.P. Brannan

"At a heresy trial?" -- Kris Fazzari

"These scars I have acquired were obtained in the service of a lady." -- Charles

"Yes, by breaking into her house." -- several players

"We'll have to have a lack of wits contest between Olaf and Lupin." -- ?

"That's called the game." -- Ray Laura

"What do you call it when a cross-dressing Musketeer uncross-dresses when pretending to cross-dress?" -- Kris Fazzari

"Confusing." -- Ben Fogt

"I'm just glad that I'm mostly the man in this (marriage), so that means that (my wife) gets to do the baby thing...right?" -- Sylvie to the group

"Musketeers don't get maternity leave." -- Lee Bynum to the group

"I swish! I can swish with the best of them!" -- Olaf

"No one swishes better than Sylvan." -- Marcel

"(Alexis) doesn't actually live in this house. This is a decoy house." -- Lupin to the group, after getting trapped in the decoy decoy wine cellar

"Do you have a wandering monster table for the wine cellar?" -- GM to Alexis

"Gentlemen...and Lupin." -- Will to Lupin and Olaf

"Sylvan has the best legs of all the Musketeers." -- Ray Laura to the group

"That's something that we never did in this game before." -- GM

"Take a bath?" -- Bill Gulstad

"When the Queen says, 'Go and Bathe.'" -- Linda Duncan

"Sourd took (Lupin and Olaf) to the 'best tailor in town.'" -- Will to Marcel, making air quotes

"Why do you keep doing that?" -- Olaf

"It's to add emphasis." -- Will

"You can't trust those foreigners." -- Olaf the Swede to the group

"We were on our way to look for the true culprits." -- Alexis

"I thought we were looking for the Queen?" -- Sylvan

"Those are the people who kidnapped the Queen." -- Alexis

"Yeah, we have to go through Spain to get to Poland. It will be fine." -- Charles to Lupin

"When I say storm, I mean sneak up and then burst in." -- Alexis to the group

"Why are you here?" -- Slyvan

"The Queen was kidnapped." -- The Man in Black

"By who?" -- Sylvan

"The kidnappers." -- The Man in Black