(https://i.imgur.com/EHfIEW0.png)<br/><br/><em>Cellar<br/>Danae, Margaret, Michelle, Zoe</em><br/><br/>A master key afforded its wielder great power to clear the way for those women in isolation, but could not remove their individual bondage. Once Danae's light and authority had moved on, from one row of cells to the next, the murmuring began.<br/><br/>"You have, you have something in you," was one maniac's mantra in darkness, soft but resolute. "I am a chirurgeon, you have something in you. Listen to me, I am a, a chirurgeon, you must, you have something in you."<br/><br/>Her madness gave the others permission to voice their own.<br/><br/>"The light is a pearl, let me hold it," one whispered.<br/><br/>"Why does she have the key," another hissed in such diabolic anger her body trembled. "Tell me truly if you have loved the Red Woman."<br/><br/>The prisoner in bloodied bandage was more cooperative, though weak. Michelle and Zoe steadied her to leave the cell and prevent her fainting. Her skin, now, was pale, and her muscles starved of the nutrients in blood.<br/><br/>The one in leather brace identified herself as surely Emma La Berche even through the mask.<br/><br/>"I know you," Emma said, and the mask turned every which direction to study Danae through slit eyes, changing expressions with the way the lantern light graced its graven features. "From the saloon. But you must have died, how are you here now?"<br/><br/>"These butchers take away women to be brainwashed. Tell me something only the genuine article would know."<br/><br/>Those six inmates who remained unidentified showed no interest in cooperating with Danae's escape plan. At first opportunity, each was ready to bolt and sow chaos into the attempt.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Danae may make an Intimidate check</div><div class="spoiler_body">Since Danae has experience as a solider, she can make this check with Advantage, rolling twice and taking the better result.<br/><br/>If the result is a 10-14, Danae is able to take command of two of the unidentified maniacs, and the remaining four scatter.<br/><br/>If the result is 15 or greater, Danae is able to herd all of the unidentified maniacs at once.<br/></div></div><br/><br/><hr/><br/><em>The Parlor<br/>Aloisa, Doctor Blanche</em><br/><br/>"Aloisa, Eloise, both with knives out," mused Doctor Blanche.<br/><br/>"I don't much care for the type of music where dance is prescribed and orderly. If your feet veer sinister, let them play, I say. This music is meant to awaken something within you deeper and older than discomfiture. Listen."<br/><br/>Firm nails plucked the strings as a twinkling prelude, and Doctor Blanche's bow sawed in a tight, compact rhythm, following the metronome of a beating heart. Round and round the appealing melody wrapped until its communication with the heart, the breath was lock step, and when the tune proceeded to dip, to soar, a compelled heart could not but oblige. Faster, faster, an endless ocean of meandering variation. In oatmeal socks her feet danced in light steps, in twirls, threatening to draw Aloisa's heart in tighter control the very flame illuminating them.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Aloisa must make a Wisdom save, DC 13</div><div class="spoiler_body">On a success, Aloisa is able to enjoy the performance with a clear head.<br/><br/>On a failure, Aloisa is instead charmed for as long as Doctor Blanche plays.</div></div><br/><br/><em>♫ "Aloisa, Aloisa,<br/>Comes stepping along<br/>She don't make a sound<br/>Where she has gone<br/><br/>She goes out in the evening<br/>When the bats are on the wing<br/>And she'll kill some young maiden<br/>Before the birds sing."</em><br/><br/>It was around this time that Danae had opportunity to return to the parlor, with the spoils of her venture.