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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"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
- Destroy a tavern
- Run into the Man in Black
- Have something run into the Man in Black
- Embarrass the Cardinal's Guards
- Embarrass Alexis
- Break into the decoy wine cellar
- Have anyone named Antoine ride a horse into a building
- Have at least one Musketeer cross-dress