To the self deluded as an actor d'Applaud

[huillaume]

Claud d’Applaud (as you don’t deserve to be told monsieur)

I tried to be patient with you, ignoring your slandering rumor spreading, but I could not allow you to insult my friends, though I tried my answer to be proportional and advising you about how to read a history, so you could sometime reach your dream of being an actor.

You answered with direct insults, not only to me, but to the Baroness, something I cannot accept in any way, less so from such a knave that, unable to success at his goals, is only able to try to make others as miserable as himself. I will not be surprised if the search for Mmlle. Cote (that I really expect to be successful and she’s fine) ends up by finding she’s just hiding from you.

You want quarrel, so you’ll have. I’m afraid I must leave Paris now, but, despite me not being a defender of duels, I expect you to give me a satisfaction at my return, with rapiers and at first blood, as I don’t want your family, already as unfortunate as counting you among them, to experience the grief my own one is feeling now, and that you were unable to respect.

Baron Lagarde

OOC: Huillaume is challenging Claud at the beginning of January to a duel with rapiers, at first blood.

[huillaume]

Brigadier d'Avranches.

as you were also insulted by this self deluded as actor, I will be honored if you second me in this duel, should he has what it takes to attend it

Baron Huillaume Lagarde.

[Valerie Valanon]

Dear Baron Lagarde,

as I am new to Paris and it´s manners and customs, I have not been sure what to make of the allegation of this Monsieur d´Applaud. I am what someone might call a 'country oaf', since my only time to Paris up to now was to rent a small room and to enlist with the Picardy Musketeers, before I had left the city to catch up with the regiment being at the Spanish frontier at that time.

Where I come from, such an offense would have been sorted out by some very direct means. I realize now, that it seems to be a little different here in Paris. The formality surprises me, but I am pleased that it is to be settled seemingly in the only way, such a subject like this Monsieur d´Applaud understands.

Of course I will second you in this duel. It will be my pleasure and my honour to do so.

Yours faithfully
Guy d´Avranches


P.S.: I wouldn´t be surprised, if he does not appear at the proper time and place.

[Monique Adelina De'Ath]

To Lagarde and d'Avranches,

You slimy pair of toads, I'll accept the duel and only wish I'd challenged you first! In fact as d'Avranches has so far failed to do so then I challenge him and look forward to dispatching the pair of you!

Expect no quarter from me you dungballs and I intend to kill you both, painfully and with much relish. That'll teach you to mess with me and when you are both dead I will cut your heads off and send them to your women who I will then proceed to bed before killing them too.

You think you can oppose me, Claud D'Applaud, Paris's Premier Actor, a man destined for glory. Pah, I spit in your faces and you will live - actually come to think of it you wont, actually - to regret crossing me.

OOC Claud accepts Lagarde's challenge and challenges d'Avranches

[Valerie Valanon]

To Paris´ best known small-scale actor

As I am tempted to refuse your challenge, which was made by the way without a proper cause, out of pity, I think about accepting it, mainly due to two reasons.
First, since the challenge from Baron Lagarde will be fought firstly and following your wish to death, you will not survive this duel.
Second, it seems to me, that you are out of your mind, subject d´Applaud. And being so, it would be improper to accept a challenge given by someone, frothing at the mouth and mentally absent. Since I have absolutely no idea, why you chose to insult me, I have to guess, that you lost your self-control. And after remembering a similar case not far from my hometown - maybe a close relative to yours? - it came to me, that you may be possessed by the devil or some other demon. Therefore I will ask with all due modest humility the holy inquisition to examine you for being possessed by the devil. If they find you not being possessed, I will gladly accept your challenge. If you survive that long.

Guy d´Avranches

[Monique Adelina De'Ath]

Out of my mind......ha ha ha ha ha....no sir, it is you who is mad, quite mad for who else would oppose an Emperor!

I laugh at your Inquisition and the lunacy of your words, such a shame as you are shortly to be meeting your own death and so I would have thought it more beneficial to spend the brief time you have left in being lucid rather than concocting ridiculous messages to people.

Emperor Claudius
Emperor of Imperial Rome