It is the evening of The Scarlet Ball, an annual high-society event, where wine and blood flow freely as the finest of the fine indulge in its chief theme: polite murder. You are Countess Karolina Baumgartner. You are here to bring the yearly event to an indelicate, permanent end by killing its host, Lady Elaine Smythe. To say nothing of what stands in your way.

It is the evening of The Scarlet Ball, an annual high-society event, where wine and blood flow freely as the finest of the fine indulge in its chief theme: polite murder. You are Countess Karolina Baumgartner. You are here to bring the yearly event to an indelicate, permanent end by killing its host, Lady Elaine Smythe. To say nothing of what stands in your way.