I'll probably make the player characters myself, handing the players their sheets and everything else they might need. I'm planning on using an English journalist, a Parisian law enforcer guy (a soldier), a young pickpocket (Artful Dodger style) and a professor at the Sorbonne University (a metaphysician) for player characters.
At the beginning of the campaign the journalist is at a top floor of the Eiffel Tower when a man picks up his baby boy, starts rambling, sweating and talking in tongues. The man climbs over the fence of the Eiffel Tower and threatens to jump down.
The pickpocket has just stolen the professor's watch. The Gendarme is trying to solve this case, while the suicidal man appears.
Hopefully the journalist character tries to calm the man down, saves his life and becomes the hero of the day. When they come down on the ground again, he is congratulated by everyone around.
The strange actings of the suicidal man are quickly forgotten.
When during the next week there is a wave of suicides with striking similarities in the city, the Gendarme character calls together some people that were near the Eiffel Tower at the time. Since it was a working day, the Exhibition was almost over and the day was also nearing it's end, there were not as many people as on the busy days. The Professor, the Journalist and the Pickpocket are all there at the Gendarmerie.
They are questioned etcetera etcetera.. They decide to find out what the cause of these suicides is.
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I chose Paris because I think there are many interesting sites to visit during the adventure. I'm mostly looking forward to doing scenes in the Louvre museum, in the Notre-Dame cathedral, on the Champs-Elysées (where I'm going to have the best fashion designer NPC ever)
What I need is of course a reason for this wave of suicides. I was thinking along the lines of maybe a consequence of the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.
This is the first time I'm trying Masque of the Red Death, so any help would be appreciated. I'm really new to this.
Thanks in advance.
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