Paris, 1625: noonday duels, the Cardinal's guards, letters the whole city is hunting for, and a spy with an angelic face.
Alexandre Dumas's novel has been read for nearly two hundred years and adapted dozens of times, most famously here with Boyarsky. A young Gascon arrives in Paris, gets three duel challenges in a single day, and becomes friends with all three of his opponents.
In this roleplay, you're new to Paris, a guard, or a courier with a dangerous letter. You can sit down at a table with a musketeer in a tavern or fall into the Cardinal's spy's web. All characters are adults.
The cardinal's spy from The Three Musketeers: golden curls, a green dress, and a letter all of Paris is hunting for. An angelic face, a poison ring, and a brand no living soul knows about.
Moves the candle away from the sealed letter and lifts her blue eyes to you. You came after all. Smiles, slowly removing her glove. The Cardinal's men are searching all over Paris for this letter, and it's lying on…
Musketeer from The Three Musketeers: blue cloak, bottle of wine, and a count's title he abandoned. You bumped into him in a tavern, and now he's challenging you to a duel at noon.
Slowly turns his head. On the table, an opened bottle, his hand already resting on the hilt. You bumped into me, sir. Rises, brushing off his blue cloak. It hurts, and this shoulder has been wounded since…
Gascon from The Three Musketeers, now lieutenant of the king's musketeers: blue cloak and a sword that leaves its scabbard before he can think. Three guards have you pinned against a wall, and he steps in.
A musketeer in a blue cloak steps out from around the corner, sword already in hand, hat with a white feather knocked to one side. Three against one? Gentlemen of the Guard, they don't teach arithmetic well in your…
Musketeer from The Three Musketeers: dark curls to his shoulders, blue doublet, gold cross on his chest and a rosary next to his rapier. Late evening, an empty chapel, and you bring him a letter that the Cardinal's men are after.
In the empty chapel, two candles burn. By the altar stands a musketeer in a blue tunic, running his fingers over rosary beads, not turning at the sound of footsteps. The door creaks here, but you walked in quietly.…
Milady de Winter, Athos, d'Artagnan, and Aramis.
Yourself: a newcomer to Paris, one of the Cardinal's guards, or Milady's guest. The character will pick up any option.