Editing Marcello (section)

====The Jester, the Travelers, and the Monster====
Marcello spent a few years as the Templar Captain watching [[Angelo]] and being under the watch of [[Abbot Francisco]]. The abbey is soon visited by a jester, [[Dhoulmagus]] with an eerie aura. The jester did not stay for long, leaving before night had even come. After this visit, Marcello tightened the guard so strangers would have limited access to the Abbey. A few days later, a group of travelers came to the Abbey. An ex-bandit named [[Yangus]], an aristocrat girl named {{Jessica}}, and the {{Hero 8}}. Two Templars guarding the door that led them to the sleeping quarters threaten them to leave when Marcello intervenes from a large window just above them. He reprimanded the guards for being rude and sullying the reputation of the Templars.

The guards kneel and apologize to Marcello. Marcello, in turn, apologizes for his guards' behavior saying they have had a problem with strangers as of late, but also saying that that was none of their matters. He asked them to leave and warned them that his men were ill at ease and might not be able to stop them again. The party then left and headed to [[Simpleton]], meeting [[Angelo]] while they were there.

When [[Angelo]] returns from [[Simpleton]], having gotten into a bar fight for cheating at poker, Marcello took him down to the Interrogation Room to lecture him. Marcello asked him how much more shame he intended to bring to the Abbey and saying he was like a curse, and that if he hadn't been born it would have spared everyone a lot of misery. After he was done insulting him, Marcello sentenced him to a term of penitence stripping him of his right to leave the Abbey, and threatened to expel him from the Order if he crossed him again. Ending the conversation, Marcello sent him back to the quarters.

Meanwhile, the party of travelers had heard the whole conversation and were later asked by Angelo to take a secret passage through the [[Ruined Abbey]] to check if the Abbot was alright. Angelo stated that he felt a sinister presence in the air. So the {{Party 8}} did and came up under a trapdoor gravestone behind the Abbot's residence. They enter the building to see many unconscious guards and go to the Abbot's room where he is sleeping. [[Dhoulmagus]] was there, but he disappeared when he saw them.

Marcello and the Templars arrive to encounter the {{Party 8}} and a confused Abbot. Marcello knelt next to the Abbot's bed as Francisco asked him what was going on. Marcello told him that there had been a breech of security and that some of the guards had been seriously wounded. Marcello said that he had come immediately fearing that he was in trouble, and caught the {{Party 8}}. The Abbot protested stating that they were no criminals. Marcello argued that they were caught red-handed, but Francisco simply told him to look into their eyes and see that that were guilty of nothing. Marcello finally consented, but said that they must find out why they were lurking in his residence for so late at night. the Abbot told Marcello that he could question them, and Marcello thanked him.

Marcello was still not convinced, however, that they were not the attackers. He took them down to the Interrogation Room, which was connected to the Torture Room. In the room, the party insisted they had done nothing wrong, telling him that Angelo had told them to check up on the Abbot. Marcello told them that he was not as forgiving as the Abbot and would let them off the hook without any evidence. [[Angelo]] then entered the room, being called upon by Marcello. Marcello asked him if he had permitted them inside the Abbey, presenting [[Angelo]]'s ring which he had found with the {{Party 8}}. Unexpectedly, [[Angelo]] chuckled, taking the ring and stating, relieved, that it had finally turned up. He told Marcello that someone had stolen it from him at the pub, and that they were finally going to learn that crime doesn't pay. [[Angelo]] then left, saying that he could be found in his chambers. Marcello tried to stop him, but [[Angelo]] didn't listen. Marcello, saying that he would deal with him later, turned his attention back to the {{Party 8}}.

Angered that so much of his time had been wasted, Marcello told the {{Party 8}} to confess. Once again they claimed they didn't do anything. Then another Templar appeared, with a little green monster in his possession, King [[Trode]]. The monster then turned to the party calling their names and asking them what they were doing there. Marcello laughed, picking up [[Trode]] by the cloak, and berated the {{Party 8}} for being friends with a monster. He presented his theory that the monster had ordered them to kill the Abbot so people would question their faith and send them into a confusion. Then they would move in and take control.
 
He then ordered the Templars to take them into a cell, so that he could torture them in the morning.