19/11/2017 - Missed the Coach (1)

Sunday, 09 April 1702

Arrival in Frankfurt

Leon, Gert, Johanna and Bart are taking the coach to Bonn. They arrive today in Frankfurt and hope to catch the 6pm coach to Bonn, but their coach has been delayed. When they arrive in Frankfurt at the Coach and Horses Inn, they are too late and the coach for Bonn has left.

They are forced to get rooms at the inn, where landlord Gustav welcomes them and brings them drink and food.

Also travelling on the coach is the well-dressed Lady von Struddeldorf with her entourage, a butch woman body guard and a tiny hand-maiden, as well as a young man who is studying a book.

Card Game

While they pass the evening in the bar at the inn, a well-dressed man, Phillipe Descartes, asks if they want to take part in a game of cards. One of the coachmen in the Inn pipes up, asking if this obviously French person is a spy or a Catholic. Phillipe indignantly replies that he is a Huguenot and he left his country because they do not appreciate his religion.

They get down to a game of cards. Phillipe loses the first few games, but then begins to win money off the Adventurers. Bart cottons on that Phillipe is cheating and makes it clear he knows what the Frenchman is doing, without alerting anyone else. Phillipe begins to allow Bart to win as well and the two of them take money off the others, who soon stop playing.

End of Episode One.