Silver Bayonet

Found a blog post where a game called Madame et Monsieur asks players to come up with a name that when pronounced slightly differently comes up with a silly phrase or switches meaning. So Alain D’ISSOIR (Read “À lundi soir“—“See you Monday night”)

Seeing as pre Covid Monday night was my gaming night this suited just fine.

Backstory….

Alain is pretty laid back for a grenadier. A typical grenadier has pushed himself to be the best in his regiment and assigned to the grenadier company. The trouble with Alain is that he is such a natural good shot, taking barely any practice, and so strong and brutally effective in a fight because he’s naturally big and strong that he winds up people around him. Some people through jealousy, some just by the condescending look on Alain’s face when he sees someone struggling with something that he finds easy to do. The only reason he finds himself in this occult fighting special unit is because he heard the pay was better after a chance meeting with a vampire. His encounter with the vampire and despatching of it was just a fluke. He was on picket duty and saw a shadowy figure standing over the body of a fellow picket in a farmyard they were billeted in. He should have just raised the alarm, he could have just shot the stranger, but maybe just to see if he had the strength to do it or maybe just to tick off one of a macabre list of ways to kill a British soldier he had conjured in his twisted head over time… He snapped a broom handle over his knee and smashed the makeshift stake through the vampire’s heart from the back and from the chest. The vampire collapsed and his face contorted into an inhuman grimace and Alain was horrified that it wasn’t just a murdering rostbif British scout. He hid his shock and fear when he raised the alarm and his superiors notified the supernatural recruiters that they had another candidate for their new elite unit.