When the Queen Says Go and Die... 2007
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"When the Queen Says, 'Go and Die...'" by Kit Kindred
"You are surrounded by beauty, by intrigue, by danger, what more can a man want?" -- Aramis
The Musketeers must once again defend France from evil villains, nefarious plots, beautiful women, and darkest sobriety.
Cast of Characters
Matt Andrews: Xavier Philipe de la Vin Rouge, Musketeer
J.P. Brannan: Alexis Vigaroux, Musketeer, Duke of Averoigne
Tammie Bush: Jesus AKA Esperanza, servant of Xavier
John Czarnota: Bugger, servant of Charles
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
Ben Fogt: Frederick, merchant
William Gulstad: Lupin le Fou, Musketeer
Tymen VanDyk: Armande Berenger de la Valencoeur, Musketeer
Quotes
"Armande is a tragic hero!" -- Tymen VanDyk
"Well, he's tragic...." -- Kris Fazzari
"What plans?" -- Marcel
"The secret plans to France's navy." -- Armande
"You didn't mention that part." -- Marcel
"My witty plan is to find Alexis." -- Marcel to the group
"We got a tip that the (secret) plans were at the bottom of a bottle, so we had to drink everything to find it." -- Sylvan to the group, explaining why the Musketeers protected Alexis' wine cellar rather than going on the mission
"I will cunningly hide this cask of ale by carrying it under my arm." -- Bugger to the group
"Thank God for the shawl of cross-dressing!" -- GM to the group, after hearing that half the musketeers are disguising themselves as women.
"I think the best show tonight is not the one happening on stage." -- Frederick to GM, after hearing the rest of the group's plans
"There's nothing like being a Musketeer." -- Marcel
"And what I'm doing is nothing like being a Musketeer." -- Bugger
"Yes, (the traitor) can have a fair trial...posthumously." -- Lupin to the group
"Maria de Maria de Maria...we suspect that it's a false name." -- GM to the group
"He's got balls of steel! Well, close." -- Matt to the group, after Charles stuffs "his" codpiece with marbles
"I resist the urge to wap (the prissy women) with my purse full of marbles." -- Sylvie to the GM
"Backed up by Bugger. Now there's a phrase that you don't hear very often." -- Kris Fazzari to the group
"Do any of the (women) look like Cardinal's Guards?" -- Xavier
"No, they look decidedly feminine." -- GM
"So they look like Musketeers!" -- several people
"There's the (exit) you came in through with the sleeping guard." -- GM to Armande, referring to the guard Sylvie knocked out earlier and then Bugger tried to wake up
"Shaken, not stirred." -- Bugger
"The Musketeers - where a man is a man...sometimes." -- Sean McCabe to the group
"But what about Maria de Maria de Maria?" -- GM, after Xavier and Jesus swing down from the balcony
"She's guarding our seats. They're good seats!" -- Xavier
"I'll do my best to guide the chandelier to the aisles." -- Xavier to GM
"You mean where the people are fleeing as they try to escape the theater?" -- Kris Fazzari
"How do you exit the theater?" -- GM
"The same way I exited the Countessa's house." -- Charles
"Missing an arm?" -- Kris Fazzari
"Bleeding, mortally wounded, and carrying a dead dog." -- GM
"It doesn't have to be to the death, it can be to first blood." -- Armade
"Oh, I hate the sight of blood." -- Sylvan
"Then win the duel!" -- GM
"Sylvan can't go on a date with the Man in Black." -- GM
"He can if the Man in Black wears a dress!" -- Matt Andrews
"Are you doing anything crazy before the ball?" -- GM
"I brush up on my courtly manners." -- Armande
"I learn to write poetry." -- Sylvan
"I wish I was dead." -- Marcel
"And you know (Lupin's date) is respectable because she's dressed in the costume of the most respectable profession that Lupin is aware of...she's dressed as a nun." -- Lupin to GM