7/28/18

moe: Salve

Shauncat (GM): Hail and well met

Dušan of Criamon: just got done with my seasons

Beardbeard: salve

i didnt do giraldos seasons again

devil's fav demon (GM): mystical salve

Beardbeard: time for more guy

devil's fav demon (GM): nice

Dušan of Criamon: i only now read that adventure xp should go towards things actually used in the adventure but i think i picked appropriate things

EW is always appropriate

devil's fav demon (GM): yeah

you can also put xp into things that you definitely used offscreen during the adventure

Shauncat: Cast a spell of every form every time youa dventure

And every technique

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

Shauncat: Also think up various trivia for every lore that exists

c'thinker (GM): mill

Dušan of Criamon: instead of "count the rocks" while traveling on horseback to the swamp we all did a pop quiz on eccelesial history

devil's fav demon (GM): welcome.

johns: Ciao

Dannato Capra: dys is gay

dys is gay

Guy of Bonisagus: oops

dys is gay

dys is gay

Bruno, Jerbiton Apprentice: dys is gay

devil's fav demon (GM): beardbeard is the real horsefucker all along.

Last time, on Ars Magica:

The magi of Vardian's Tomb got a message tied to a dead dog asking them to come save Vulcanal (again)

Dušan of Criamon: classic Vulcanal

devil's fav demon (GM): The note was written by the parish clerk, so they have a parish now.

here's the text again, for reference

Magi of the Roman tombs -

Mt. Etna is active and smoking. Earthquakes, while minor, are becoming more frequent. I am afraid the volcano may erupt at any moment. We pray daily for our salvation, but as the great Sophocles wrote: "heaven ne’er helps the men who will not act". The guards who protect the wizard here tell me he is too busy to assist, that he is curing the plague and must have silence and solitude, but that he has close friends with awesome power across the Tyrrhenian Sea. So I write to you, wizards, and beg humbly that you help us quiet the earth.

May God bless you all,

- Vulcanal Parish Clerk

Archibald of Guernicus: "Quite a lot tae ask, isn't it?"

Dušan of Criamon: "A few demons we can handle, but a volcano?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Given how often they're in need of saving by us, perhaps they should be our Clients instead of an independent covenant."

"Pfft, Virgil tamed Volcanos with ease in his day."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps they should have more than one magus."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, it seems like without real fresh blood, their time is short in this tribunal. As soon as things get more organised, there'll be motions tae have them fall under someone else's control. Perhaps even wizard wars tae force the issue."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I see what you're saying and agree completely, let's pre-empt everyone else and get Vulcanal under our thumb first."

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Naturally it will do us no good for our prospective client to be buried under a foot of molten lava."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If they owe the covenant's entire survival tae us..."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I hope you don't plan to extort them."

Endrite (GM): Ah, that's why there wasn't anyone in the game.

I was play Traveller instead of Ars.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

devil's fav demon (GM): That'll do it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Tis merely the practical application of the philosophy of Tytalus at work, Guy."

Guy of Bonisagus: "It's the path to sin."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If they truly owe their existence to us, it would be unreasonable for them tae offer no reward in return for it."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Maybe he's the one causing the all the trouble."

Dušan of Criamon: "Better a good friend than a bad vassal, I say. If someone wants to touch them, they have to go through us anyway, so the question is one of semantics."

Mortis ex Verditus: "It wouldn't be the first time that an experiment has gotten away from someone."

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+1 Theology

(

10

)

+2+1

=

13

"Did not Peter say... hmm... "Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.""

Guy of Bonisagus: "Magi are our brothers and sisters, not our servants or masters."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Our equals!"

"There's no phrase more horrifying than 'the practical application of the philosophy of Tytalus.'"

Archibald of Guernicus: My dinners ready, so brb.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A political fiction, easily dispelled with a look at the Feudalism of the Norman tribunal, the Autocracy of the Tremere, the relation between parens and apprentice, the Gilds of the Rhine, the treatment of 'Hedge Wizards' ...."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What's wrong with the Gilds?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is NOT in line with the theoretical application of the philosophy of tytalus

Guy of Bonisagus: "You have been reading too much of the Greek works, Lavinia. Cynicism is such a miserable view."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The Rhine tribunal is a fundamentally broken place where an oligarchy of the few commands the voting sigils of many."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Let us not point out the flaws of others to justify our own shortcomings."

GM: All the more reason to slaughter all living Rhine wizards, especially the Bjornaers.

Dušan of Criamon: can't argue with the facts

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Politics exists to protect us from the masses, not hand them more and more power until chaos reigns."

Mortis ex Verditus: "How does this help us solve the apocalyptic death of all magic?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Friends! Sodales! This is not an issue of politics, this is an issue of helping our friends in Sicily. It is also an issue of a nice vacation in Sicily."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Only by understanding each other as the equals we are can we solve the crisis, Mortis."

Dušan of Criamon: "Please, let us keep the temperate climate of Sicily in mind here."

Camilla picks the rest of the dog corpse off the ground and finishes eating it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Anything can be an issue of politics Dusan but I agree with your general sentiment."

Guy of Bonisagus: "It is, perhaps, the naked pride of so many in the Order which brought this upon us to begin with."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You can always use another Bonisagus if you wish to solve a problem, Mortis."

Mortis ex Verditus: "I think the problem would be more easily solved by identifying the cause and then eliminating the problem."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hey don't look at me, I'm not a member of one of those Houses with a rigid hierarchy."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Uplifting the smaller covenants of the Roman Tribunal ensures we don't become the smallest covenant in the pecking order."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Be that as it may."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I for one would be delighted to join this excursion."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'd rather not meet whoever owned that dog, but I'll come along to collect a suitable AC for teleportation to Sicily."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Hmm, on the other hand, the heart of a volcano might contain some kind of portal to the Magic Realm."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I would like to make use of our stockpile of enchanted items.

Dušan of Criamon: might i humbly remind everyone of the portal at the bottom of the hot underground lake

GM: You do have an AC to Vulcanal. I can't think of the date offhand but you were allowed to take one very early on, I think when Tasso was still alive.

Of course, there is a Corpus blight.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how long does it take to get there by Whale Travel

Dušan of Criamon: I keep hearing about this "glass whale"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: My teleportation uses teh Animal form

Archibald's is in his talisman

My talisman turns me into a bird

GM: i think you honestly might be able to do it in a day or less.

with the whale.

how fast does it move, again?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Nice

idk it's a whale

GM: lol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where do we keep the whale

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It hangs out in the waters just off the coast of Ostia until it is signalled

Mortis ex Verditus: Looks like about 10 to 30 miles an hour.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: actually let's say it makes patrols between here and Ponza regularly

Father Hazm: Hazm is interested to see the progress of the parish

Mortis ex Verditus: The Corpus blight probably killed everyone on the island.

Dušan of Criamon: No!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it couldn't be helped.

Father Hazm: Nah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, one of our teleporters could have spent a day there with the ring

Lavinia of Jerbiton: id like to equip the following items not already in my inventory: the Amulet of Fire Protection, the Shoe of Swift Flight, the Diadem of Winter Princess, the Innocuous Blade, and Nunzio's Brass Gauntlet

Dušan of Criamon: if anything a lone island sequestered from the world should be safe!

Father Hazm: Fiorella goes to Ponza regularly, she'd be able to clear out miasma

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and id like to equip our Almogavar Grog with the Sword of the Cloven Hoofed Monk

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice try.

We don't USE swords in THIS covenant.

GM: its like 200 miles in a straight line so yeah the trip will only take you about a day by whale counting travel to and from the coasts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the miasma on ponza is free to blow away

GM: Lavinia of Jerbiton: id like to equip the following items not already in my inventory: the Amulet of Fire Protection, the Shoe of Swift Flight, the Diadem of Winter Princess, the Innocuous Blade, and Nunzio's Brass Gauntlet

lol

go for it

Mortis ex Verditus: It's also right next to a huge magic aura and the island is not that large.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you just have to save the people who are caught in it when it spawns.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the shoe & blade were zita's originally so Idk if anyone else had preferential claim to them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: house mercere

zita's corpse

Father Hazm: Hazm and Fiorella would both be kept abreast of events on Ponza and would probably react in time to mitigate miasma problems

GM: Nice.

Father Hazm: Fiorella's apprentice built a secret lab there, that's where Flora fixed the AC to Galafre

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

A secret lab?

Nobody tell the Tribunal!

Father Hazm: It doesn't have pickpockets constantly putting messages on you or stealing ACs like VT

Guy of Bonisagus: lets go to vulcanus

Father Hazm: ok

Let's go

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's.

GM: sounds good

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will bring Sir Oak and Jabier as a Grog

Father Hazm: I'll bring Tunde

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I like the upgraded map

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll bring my magic wand and my magic shovel.

Guy of Bonisagus: ill bring gulielmus

GM: please put tokens of people present on the map

location isnt important i just wanna know whos here

Father Hazm: I'll bring my silver cross infused with ashes from St Maron

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: derfel is too busy drinking heavily to attend

GM: RIP

Father Hazm: I cast combat buffs on all the grogs

Dušan of Criamon: I cast Wizard's Sidestep

GM: You arrive at Vulcanal to see that some development has happened since you've last been here. A small chapel sits on the mountainside, surrounded by peasant huts.

Father Hazm: Nice

GM: There are some plague-ridden peasants by the chapel, milling around a building alongside it, but more healthy people than you'd expect considering the state of things.

Mortis ex Verditus: How did they not get killed by the miasma?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: How's the vineyard looking

Dušan of Criamon: I'm happy to see the huts, and I don't mind the chapel either

Father Hazm: Very carefully

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

I'm suspicious.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh i will also bring the ring.

be careful, mortis. i suspect there is a powerful magus lurking inside this mountain

Mortis ex Verditus: Did he also learn a spell to manipulate miasma?

It doesn't seem like him.

GM: The vineyards are partially cleared and the healthier peasants are harvesting vegetables at the moment. The large faerie aura seems to be a benefit.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: maybe he sealed the church airtight and everyone waited it out in dominion

Dušan of Criamon: Should we visit the covenant?

Father Hazm: I'll avoid the faerie aura

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let us find an important looking covenfolk to introduce ourselves to

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, at least there are going to be plenty of corpses.

Archibald of Guernicus: I teleport in

GM: The faerie aura is present on every area of the covenant grounds that isn't the doorway to Vulcanal at the mountain peak.

Archibald just wasting all of our Corpus vis to show off.

Archibald of Guernicus: Vis? I have it invested into my talisman

GM: Ohhhhhh

Sick.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sounds like a waste of vis to me.

Father Hazm: I'll visit the chapel and swap to Fiorella then

Archibald of Guernicus: After we saw the corpus blight coming, I knew which spell I had to preserve most

Fiorella of Jerbiton appear.

Dušan of Criamon: If we're splitting up, I'm going to the shacks and eavesdrop a little

if not i don't

Fiorella the Raven: "I just flew in from Rome and boy are my arms tired."

Guy of Bonisagus: ill go to the shacks/chapel area too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will inspect the vineyard

GM: Anyone who's been here before spots familiar faces. The twin guards are by the chapel, speaking with some religious types.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: brb

Fedele Grassi: "Here, here, get him to a bed. Thank you, thank you."

Father Hazm: I guess everyone's headed to the chapel anyway

Hazm's the one who's met these people anyway

Fedele Grassi: Fedele is helping his brother onto a bed. His brother appears to be rotting and covered in boils.

Archibald of Guernicus: "These two again." I groan

Fedele Grassi: brb.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2+2

(

9

)

+2+2

=

13

Guy of Bonisagus: "Goodness."

Father Hazm: "Ave."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so that a magus can define the perfect

gift to give to a particular magus, or

know that the item they are holding is

the perfect gift for a particular magus,

if such a magus is active in Hermetic

society."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that was supposed to be in a whisper sorry.

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh no!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Do you have a Doctor to tend your sick here?"

Mortis ex Verditus: We've got her now, boys.

Father Hazm: "Or a crafter of ligatures to aid in recovery?"

Dušan of Criamon: back

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Or a magic healing ring?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Or, indeed, any other grogs at all?"

Dušan of Criamon: Secret Santa Lavinia

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "Ah, a doctor? If only we did. I've had some training but I can't keep up with the sick."

"This was a bustling village for about a year, but then we've lost so much."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My condolences."

Father Hazm: Hmm, if Dusan is better at astrology than me, maybe I can use his horoscopes for chartae

Dušan of Criamon: I would love to provide a horoscope

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Will you permit me to assist? I am a licensed Doctor of the School of Salerno and familiar with this disease."

Dušan of Criamon: in fact i upped my art lib just now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and you have the chorus spell!

Dušan of Criamon: I am your man

what rolls do you awnt from me

Father Hazm: We don't need it yet

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "Ah! You are a saint! Please!"

Father Hazm: However I can craft a chartae for someone to give them a bonus to Recovery rolls later on if need be

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe we should forge that into an item, for hazm.

Father Hazm: The chorus spell is for artists I thought

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can apply the bonus to an astrology roll

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The GM suggests a rare book is a good gift for Anson. I suggest we give him our Infernally Corrupted copy of On Isometric Figures, a real rarity!

Father Hazm: Oh I see

Dušan of Criamon: not just artists, any lunatic

Fedele Grassi jolts alert and seems to suddenly realize who you are.

Mortis ex Verditus: We should probably keep that book.

Fedele Grassi: "Oh, magi! You came!"

he embraces the parish clerk and begins to cry.

Dušan of Criamon: Aww

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hello."

Archibald of Guernicus: Lavinia advocates spreading infernalism huh

Lavinia of Jerbiton: How about one of our Solomonic Magic books that is no use to us

Archibald of Guernicus: As a bonisagus, he'd love that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i didn't know we had any

Father Hazm: "Salve, my good children of Vulcanus."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ashab Al-Nahir, Followers of the Circle, a Summa on Solomonic Travel, which none of us can use without the virtue

Archibald of Guernicus: [getting louder] Yes, let's give away that rare book on cool arab magic before Gulielmus can read it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Remember, making a good impression here increases our chances of making Anson our client magus

Mortis ex Verditus: We could just push him into the volcano.

Guy of Bonisagus: plus when he dies we can take it back

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ^

Felice Grassi makes horrible groans and moans

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if he carries the book into final twilight

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I will pretend I didn't hear that troubling remark about saints and get to work, Father."

Dušan of Criamon: We embrace him as our brother in christ and help him defeat evil spirits trying to cause doom on his covenant

Lavinia of Jerbiton dons plague mask and other trappings of avoiding diseased humors

Father Hazm: An item that buffs my astrology rolls would be good, with a good enough bonus I cna pretty much guarantee the roll for horoscopes as relates to amulets and chartae

Mortis ex Verditus: I look at you like you just ate a live bat, Duasn.

Felice Grassi: Disease Recovery Roll:

Stamina + Medicine + (Corpus/5) + Wound Penalty + Recovery Modifiers (A&A, page 47) + stress die

Father Hazm: If he allows me to know his birthday, I'll craft him a recovery chartae

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +8 from Lavinia's medicine and +6 from Gulielmus' item

Felice Grassi: im currently rereading the disease rolls to make sure im not fucking it up

thank you lavinia.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dont forget -3 from not having an apothecary, and then +3 from having an apothecary

Felice Grassi: Fedele will also tell you his brother's birthday for a chartae.

It's actually just next week, September 28.

Father Hazm: Ok

Fedele Grassi: "I only pray he'll make it!"

Father Hazm: Chartae is half lab total so

Guy of Bonisagus: I will read him a story to make him feel better.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: his odds are approaching 40% already!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If Fedele is praying then the GM should make a roll to invoke a Miracle or Saintly Intervention, imho

Guy of Bonisagus: i will also cast chamber of spring breezes to freshen his quarters

Father Hazm: Level 5: Provide a bonus of +3 to all Luck-related rolls.

Mortis ex Verditus: Is this a luck related roll?

Father Hazm: Surviving a disease is pretty lucky

Guy of Bonisagus: all rolls are luck related

you roll a 1d10

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +3 to all rolls

Mortis ex Verditus: That seems a bit expansive.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Immunity to Not Losing Dice Rolls

Father Hazm: I think it doesn't

There's no black box factor

So I have to use the guidelines for buffing Stamina I suppose

Fedele Grassi: that sounds fair.

Stamina is directly applicable.

Father Hazm: Roll without my help first since this'll take some time to figure out

Fedele Grassi: Okay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: use powerful mentem magic to give him a confidence score and confidence points

Fedele Grassi:

rolling 1d10!+2-1-5+8+6>18

(

5

)

+2-1-5+8+6

=

15

oh i guess that didnt calculate over/under

Guy of Bonisagus: i can use call to slumber if he has trouble sleeping in his current condition

Fedele Grassi: Felice's Crisis is improved to a Major disease.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Victory

Fedele Grassi:

rolling 1d10!+2-1-5+8+6

(

6

)

+2-1-5+8+6

=

16

but he still has it.

Father Hazm: I'm seeing if there are any general virtues that apply to recovery rolls

Fedele Grassi: He has made the Stable EF twice but has not improved his condition beyond removing the Critical condition.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Mission Complete. time to head home

Fedele Grassi: lol.

Father Hazm: For some reason Enduring Constitution doesn't affect disease but Frail Constitution does

Dušan of Criamon: ggwp

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I tell the priestly fellow that we're from Vardian's Tomb and ask if he wrote the letter.

Father Hazm: Oh here we go, Rapid Convalescence

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "Yes, doctor, uh..."

"Your name, ma'am?"

"Bless you for helping this poor soul recover."

Father Hazm: Okay Dusa, can you manage an Artes Liberales roll of 9 to cast a horoscope?

Mortis ex Verditus: Doesn't it take a while to cast a horoscope?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Dr. Celestina Zoboli, resident  medica  of Vardian's Tomb."

Dušan of Criamon: "Can I?"

Fantino, Parish Clerk: The earth shakes.

Father Hazm: One day

Felice Grassi:

rolling 1d10!+1-5

(

7

)

+1-5

=

3

Felice falls out of bed.

"Oof!"

Fedele Grassi: "Dear lord!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Sir Oak, please help him back into bed."

Father Hazm: But we have that time anyway potentially

Archibald of Guernicus: "This really is growing dire, isn't it."

Guy of Bonisagus: I will diagnose the Natural Philosophical Reason behind the shaking earth

rolling 1d10!+7

(

9

)

+7

=

16

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "Fantino, the clerk of this parish under Curate Piu. You see this is a difficult situation, but our faith remains."

Father Hazm: It takes an hour for a local horoscope

Dušan of Criamon: I'll do Silent CHorus first

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i theorize the presence of the Dominion is irritating the Demons or Titans imprisoned in the bottom of the volcano

Mortis ex Verditus: It's certainly possible.

Dušan of Criamon: 1d10!+19+2

Mortis ex Verditus: We should definitely kill the titan so we can use its vis.

Dušan of Criamon: I cast it outside dominion

rolling 1d10!+19+2

(

8

)

+19+2

=

29

Fantino, Parish Clerk: guy, it seems to be an earthquake. your natural philosophical reasoning directs you to the weak plume of smoke rising from the mountain peak.

Mortis ex Verditus: Titans probably have, like, 30 pawns of vis.

Fantino, Parish Clerk: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: now vs 12 art lib and int

rolling 1d10!+4

(

7

)

+4

=

11

close but no cigar

so I make only the horoscope

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did you add the chorus bonus

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Has Anson of Bonisagus been working on the problem?"

Dušan of Criamon: oh this was just the spell and interpreting the effect

now for the horoscope without the bonus

that's just int and art lib right?

rolling 1d10!+2+3

(

10

+

10

+

10

+

9

)

+2+3

=

44

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bazinga

Fantino, Parish Clerk: lmfao.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Father Hazm: Damn

Dušan of Criamon: i knock it out hte park with that horoscope

Father Hazm: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: The moon starts moving into place for Dusan

Dušan of Criamon: and I move into place for the Moon

and all is well

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm not sure it should even be a stressed roll.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: a criamon influencing the moon... i don't like this

Dušan of Criamon: everything is a stressed roll during an earthquake

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "I must admit I have yet to speak with the man. The twins go up the mountain to speak with him. He's very busy, it seems."

Father Hazm:

rolling (10+5+14+4+1+2)/2

(10+5+14+4+1+2)/2

=

18

I can give him Rapid Convalesence for Sun, which is +3 to the recovery roll he made

Guy of Bonisagus: "Let's go turn the volcano off."

Dušan of Criamon: Let's!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, let us.2

"

Dušan of Criamon: We should go out and get lost in the vineyards imo

Fedele Grassi: Nice.

Father Hazm: Moon, if there's at least a +2 bonus to magic from the faerie aura

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's split the party 5 ways and each one finds something to do unrelated to the main quest

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Fedele Grassi: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok

Mortis ex Verditus: I will look around the village.

Specifically, the graveyard.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Guy, should we talk to Anson first for his insight?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "If he'll see us, yes."

"He might not even be aware."

Dušan of Criamon: "If I remember right he's in seclusion, no?"

Fedele Grassi: The village graveyard is small and humble. Small crosses are marked in the earth with stones.

Mortis ex Verditus: How long can one even stay in seclusion?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A magus who spends all his time cooped up in a lab is.. aesthetically wrong."

I point to the non-sick brother. "Will you please take us to Anson? He should want to see us, and we've brought a gift for him."

Fedele Grassi: "Of course, of course, uhh."

"Right now?"

"Follow me."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right now."

Lavinia of Jerbiton follows

Dušan of Criamon: Good good

Fedele Grassi:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2+3

(

10

+

7

)

+2+3

=

22

Mortis ex Verditus: This is going to be an easy adventure, I can feel it.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10-1 Susceptible to Faerie Power check

(

6

)

-1

=

5

I should be okay

Archibald of Guernicus: There's only one magus left. Do they still have an Aegis?

And if they do, does it somehow have more than 40 penetration? Because that's what it needs to affect me.

Fedele Grassi: It wasn't that strong last time.

Archibald of Guernicus: plink, then

Fedele Grassi: Aegis of 20 iirc.

Dušan of Criamon: Oh btw tell me if we get into an infernal aura

susceptible here

Guy of Bonisagus: i have a corpus resist of 23

Fedele Grassi: As you approach the entrance to the covenant, you feel the tingle of an Aegis.

Guy of Bonisagus: or was it vim

vim is only 18

Father Hazm: Is the faerie aura extended over the chapel?

Archibald of Guernicus: That's something I do need to do, though. Publish a proper communion text so other magi can learn the aegis ritual and communion, and participate in it.

Father Hazm: If so, I'd like to perform a Dominion rite on it

Archibald of Guernicus: It's just vim, Guy, for the aegis

Fedele Grassi: The chapel is a pocket of Dominion inside of the wider Fae aura. There's a dome of Dominion aura over the chapel with a stronger divine aura inside.

Archibald of Guernicus: I've got good parma and lots of vim

Father Hazm: Alright

Lavinia of Jerbiton: When she finds a moment, Lavinia hangs back for a moment to whisper something to Archibald.

Father Hazm: Sounds properly consecrated then

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait a fairy aura?

Oh right, in the vineyard.

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod

Fedele Grassi: The vast majority of the Vulcanal covenant grounds is covered by a faerie aura yeah. The Magic aura is only at the mouth of the covenant entrance at the peak and inside.

Also everyone who approaches the entrance who doesn't have MR must make a Disease Avoidance Roll to avoid the Corpus blight miasma rolling out of the magic aura.

Father Hazm: Speaking of which, let Hazm know if you ever want to get rid of an Infernal aura somewhere you're not trying to preserve a magic aura

Fedele Grassi:

rolling 1d10!+2-1-5+8+6 assuming guli and lavinia are there to help Fedele

(

9

)

+2-1-5+8+6

=

19

He does not get sick.

moe: Ralph Wiggum voice: I have MR!

Father Hazm grips his relic of St Maron to avoid getting sick

Jabier:

rolling 1d10!+2+4+8+6

(

5

)

+2+4+8+6

=

25

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hopefully he minds our intrusion less than he minds the earthquakes."

Jabier: 2 sta, 4 from Rome's health bonuses, 8 from lavinia, 6 from gulielmus, forget if anything else needs to be included

Dušan of Criamon: "He would be wise to, from a strategic point of view."

Fedele Grassi: i wouldnt count the rome health bonuses because you're currently in sicily but even so, you pass

Father Hazm: Bless of Virgil Caster

Fedele Grassi: idk if it works for the following year or just while you're present in the location actually. sorry.

either way Jabier is safe.

Mortis ex Verditus: Phew.

Fedele Grassi: "So, uh, we can go inside, if you want. I'll knock on Anson's door and try to get him to say hello, but, um, no promises. You know how he is, ha ha."

Guy of Bonisagus: i wonder if ansons dead

or dying

Dušan of Criamon: ganbatte, fedele

Guy of Bonisagus: im gonna ken this folk

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: please secretly roll my +2 gm

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have Carina knock on the door.

Fedele Grassi:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Father Hazm: +3 Folk Ken +2 Per

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "So how is he, er, Fedele I think it was?"

Fedele Grassi:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+3+2

(

2

)

+3+2

=

7

Father Hazm: "Has he been eating well?"

Fedele Grassi: Carina knocks repeatedly, to no response

"Yeah, he didn't answer for me, either. I guess he's really in those books."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: "Do I... intrude on his privacy?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "When is the last time you actually spoke to him?"

"Are you sure he's actually in there?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's get Fedele out of here so I can commit a hermetic crime.

Archibald of Guernicus: I consult my store of legal knowledge with regards to what you should do if a magus is suspected of entering twilight or dying in their sanctum, and you want to check on them

Father Hazm: "Does he not emerge for the day of rest even with a chapel nearby now? How awful."

Fedele Grassi: "He's, uh, healthy. Mostly stays out of the way. We see him a lot less now that Fantino's here to do the clerical stuff."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

2

)

+2+3

=

7

hm

conf that

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+3+3 folk ken last statement

(

10

+

1

)

+3+3

=

17

Guy of Bonisagus: i think its probably fine to open the door

as long as you dont go in

Father Hazm: . o O ( I should get some Code of Hermes )

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm checking just now, if it is

Fedele Grassi: i need to look that up, 1 sec

Father Hazm: "I am not strictly speaking covenfolk. Perhaps it is legal for me to enter."

"Though my relic might not be enough to guarantee my safety against traps."

Mortis ex Verditus: This would be a lot easier if we just did a little crime.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Fedele don't you know how silly it is to lie in front of Magi? Their arcane magics let them pierce your falsehoods with ease."

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, what could it possibly hurt?

Dušan of Criamon: I suggest the following action flowchart

first we open the door, mundanely

then we commit hermetic crimes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Im just going to cast high powered Intelligo magic in this direction and if your lab gets in my way that's your fault

Fedele Grassi: "Lying?"

Dušan of Criamon: and actually do it

Archibald of Guernicus: "When was the last time ye saw him?"

Fedele Grassi: "I, uh... Yeah. My brother can do it, but uh. Shit."

Father Hazm: Open the door get on the floor everybody declare wizard war

Fedele Grassi: "A little while after you left, the last time you visited."

"I wasn't lying, he really did say he was busy and we shouldn't bother him, and that he was going to work on the plague."

"I just, uh, nobody's talked to him since then. It's been almost a year."

"And the earthquakes started, and people started dying, and"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: our last visit was 1347 iirc?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who is going to cast prying eyes on this room

Fedele Grassi: I thought it was later than that. Whoops.

Dušan of Criamon: I love to cast prying eyees

Archibald of Guernicus: "How has he been getting food?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Goodness, the man could be dead for all you know."

Guy of Bonisagus: whos going to cast knock, and open the door

Dušan of Criamon: we already knocked

i shall do it

i open the door, mundanely

Fedele Grassi: "He's gone for months without us bringing him food before. I figured he could just magic some food up."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Dusan, wait."

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh, I wouldn't touch that door if I were you.

Dušan of Criamon: I stop dead in my tracks

Archibald of Guernicus: "Please, stand back, sodales."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gm cackles and rubs hands as watching ward is triggered

Fedele Grassi: AFK for a second. I'm sorry.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I will try the door, to see inside and nothing more."

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Dušan of Criamon: I stand back and prepare for Archibaldpocalypse

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Good luck."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: obv question to ask fedele when gm is back: who cast the agis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how much pen does the aegis have

Dušan of Criamon: aegis lasts a year

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lavinia travels less than I, and her tradition does not provide the same magic resistance, at least tae my knowledge. Besides her, I am the eldest magus here, and have developed my parma accordingly. If there is any manner of magical trap on this door, I am the most likely tae resist it. Thus I should take the risk, and not ye all."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: "It is an honor to act beside you, or after you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ".. If someone is authorized to grant us an Aegis token we could use Intelligo to be sure, but if you want to show off your Parma, be my guest.."

Guy of Bonisagus: whats the penalty for casting in an aegis

Fedele Grassi: Back.

Archibald: The door is locked.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah

if only we had a magus who could spont a level 2 spell

Archibald of Guernicus: I cough "Well, I do know the prying eyes. Forgive me, Anson, if ye are alive and well."

I'll use the prying eyes here

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the casting penalty is half the strength of the Aegis so -10 for a 20 aegis

Archibald of Guernicus: 41 MR, I think it just bounces off me

44 actually in this aura

Fedele Grassi: "What's an aegis?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe anson can cast it with 50 pen

you never know

Archibald of Guernicus: If he did, then I take the penalty, still cast just fine

Guy of Bonisagus: oh right aura

so my vim mr is 21

ok

"Wait, Archibald. I want to be sure of something first."

I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed.

rolling 1d10+12

(

8

)

+12

=

20

Guy of Bonisagus: Am I being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

Fedele Grassi: Guy, you are not being scried on.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Go ahead."

Mortis ex Verditus: What if Archibald is being scryed on?

Guy of Bonisagus: thats unfortunate for him

maybe he should have his own spell

Archibald of Guernicus: If he is, then he'd know about it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's all cast prying eyes, together.

Fedele Grassi: sorry. I have finished typing.

Archibald has Pried.

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

Ok, let's all get Archibald marched.

Nothing to be done, it can't be helped.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: march into the hall of heroes.

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald continues expanding his reputation for making bad choices and shortsighted plans

Dušan of Criamon: Archibald pried so I didn't have to, so I stand with him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: march into the hall of heroes to be devoured by the monster consuming the magic realm.

Father Hazm: A lot of things can be helped, really, Ars is a robust system

Archibald of Guernicus: "Anson!" I try and shoulder the door open through the lock

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibalds Criminal reputation has leveled up to 10

Fedele Grassi: lmao

Guy of Bonisagus: new career path available: bad cop

Dušan of Criamon: it would be apt to break down the door now

Mortis ex Verditus: Port of Call: Regular Orleans

Dušan of Criamon: We are, after all, playing a tabletop rpg

Father Hazm: Fiorella did crimes on Galafre and then said she'd declare war on him if he attempted to file charges

Guy of Bonisagus: its been too long since we had a good old fashioned door bashing

i will direct derfel to help archibald

Fedele Grassi: give me your brawl + str

and i will add that number to the city and guild damaging objects stress check roll

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes... Hahaha .... Yes!!

"Fedele, do you have a key?"

Father Hazm: Hermetic law is not an absolute

Fedele Grassi: "I'm sorry, I don't."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2+2

(

6

)

+2+2

=

10

Guy of Bonisagus: the council of judges begins panting and dabbing at the eager sweat drenching their brow as the evidence gets closer to the socially acceptable threshold for them to declare a march

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bring an axe or something, he's in need of help!"

Fedele Grassi:

rolling 1d10!-2-2

(

10

+

6

)

-2-2

=

12

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'll help."

I throw a pilum at the door.

Archibald of Guernicus: ... We're in a volcano. The whole place will be warded against fires.

Fedele Grassi: archibald tackles the door and crunches into the wood. The door loses one Damage Level.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d20+22

(

7

)

+22

=

29

oops

Father Hazm: Is there an aegis?

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+22

(

2

)

+22

=

24

Dušan of Criamon: We should get an axe

Guy of Bonisagus: ok it casts

rolling 1d10!+15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Fedele Grassi: lol

Father Hazm: Tunde has a poleaxe

Fedele Grassi: The door is about half broken just from Archibald ramming into it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I will stand bakc.

back.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A bit... excessive, Guy." I remark, then storm in first over to where I saw Anson

Fedele Grassi: Guy blasts the door apart in an impressive display.

The rest of the crew see what is revealed.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Open Sesame

Fedele Grassi: Anson's body is pinned beneath a fallen bookshelf. His lab is a fucking mess.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Fedele Grassi: "Boss!"

Dušan of Criamon: Oh no!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this puts a damper on my political plans here

Mortis ex Verditus: Missed opportunity to declare wizard war.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I wait a moment to see if Archibald triggers any traps

Dušan of Criamon: when the lord closes a door, he opens a window

Fedele Grassi: Hah

Mortis ex Verditus: I order Carina to lift the boofshelf off of Anson's body.

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll go over to try and lift the bookcase off.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll move in first, if there's any traps they'll go off on me

Fedele Grassi: He does not. Anson wasn't a paranoid guy.

Somehow.

Even after his best friend got murdered.

Dušan of Criamon: He was too good for this world.

Archibald of Guernicus: Then, I'll start lifting the bookshelf along with Guy

Dušan of Criamon: "Lavinia, how is he?"

Guy of Bonisagus: huh. this man trusted his friends in the order, and now hes dead

lessons to be learned

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I enter and conduct a thorough medical examination.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Is he alive? Can anything be done for him?" I grunt with exertion, moving the bookcase aside

Father Hazm: We know dfd properly traps Bonisagus labs if they should be trapped too, Fiorella triggered several in Strabo's place.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+8 Per+Medicine

(

8

)

+2+8

=

18

"He's dead, Jim."

"Has been for a while."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Who?"

Father Hazm says a prayer

Dušan of Criamon: deep exhale

Archibald of Guernicus: "Poor man. What a fate..."

Fedele Grassi: Anson's body is more of a set of robes wrapped around a pile of blighted rot at this point.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh

Well, I think all I could see was his feet poking out from under it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This must be the work of the spider."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He does not seem to have had magic resistance at the time of his death."

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+1+2

(

8

)

+1+2

=

11

Mortis ex Verditus: "That's quite unusual."

Father Hazm: "Did he not have the protection of your wizard's bulwark or whatever it's called?"

Fedele Grassi: well, if you have mr, die, and the miasma is still present, your body will then rot

Mortis ex Verditus: "If the bookshelf had fallen on him, then he wouldn't have been able to erect the Parma Magica."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oh!

Then scratch that presumption.

Father Hazm: "I see."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Of course."

Dušan of Criamon: "Is there any reason to assume foul play was involved?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Already a hermit, his grogs wouldn't be able tae help him. What a fate."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Does it look like he was climbing the shelf or reaching some place high up w hen it fell on him?

Father Hazm: Folk Kenning Hazm might reveal he's faking it when he says stuff like wizard's bulwark

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: now that i think about it

Guy of Bonisagus: "A truly tragic end."

alright, fess up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyone who accepts a buff inside a miasma should be plagued

Guy of Bonisagus: whos already rolling stealth to loot his equipment and books

Dušan of Criamon: I'm having the worst idea: doing and EW circle walk meditation and Sherlocking it up

Archibald of Guernicus:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+3+2

(

2

)

+3+2

=

7

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "How long have the tremors been going on? Long enough to have caused the shelf to tip over?" I ask Fedele.

Mortis ex Verditus: I think it's fairly clear that we need to nail all our bookshelves to the wall.

Safety is job one.

Guy of Bonisagus: is it you mortis

Archibald of Guernicus: Is someone ALREADY looting him

Guy of Bonisagus: are you already looting the lab

Fedele Grassi: lmao

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 12 vs. Bluff

(

4

)

+12

=

16

I don't have Stealth.

Fedele Grassi: "How long was it since you saved my brother from the goat women?"

Father Hazm: I'll go inform the local priest there's property to claim.

Mortis ex Verditus: So what all else is in this lab besides a corpse and a bookshelf?

Fedele Grassi: "They started a few months after that, and they've been getting stronger."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That was 1347, so 4 years."

Fedele Grassi: "They were real mild at first."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Ah.. a pity we did not know sooner. We could have saved the man and devised an ingenious lab solution to all your troubles."

Archibald of Guernicus: "A few months since he was last seen or heard, perhaps that was when he..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Were Anson's hands pinned under the bookshelf? (Was he able to cast spells?)

Father Hazm: "This is why solitude is no life for a man not meditating on the word of God."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Fedele, there are no other Magi at this covenant -- correct?"

Fedele Grassi: Anson's lab is very cluttered and contains the usual hermetic lab stuff. His notes are in shorthand, as expected.

Mortis ex Verditus: What if there's an invisibility specialized magus and nobody knows about him?

Hmm.

Fedele Grassi: Anson was face down, as best as you can tell, so the bookshelf appears to have pinned down his upper body from behind.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: or maybe a Magi is posing as one of the covenfolk. Someone had to cast the Aegis here

Mortis ex Verditus: So there's no fiery doorway to the heart of the volcano?

Fedele Grassi: "No, it was just Anson and Tasso, then just Anson."

Dušan of Criamon: I don't know what ability applies, but I would like to play detective and find out as much as possible about the last minutes of Ansons life

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. its time to find Tytalus the Founder's disguise

Archibald of Guernicus: I take a deep breath, surveying the area "There are legal proceedings for a dead magus' possessions, sodales, before any of ye get sticky fingers in here."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmmm.

Any Intelligo Vis around?

devil's fav demon (GM): to back up archibald, i didnt plan for everyone to immediately figure out anson was dead so i dont have his lab loot written up. if you DO want to steal stuff I'll wing it and figure it out later.

Fedele Grassi: lmao.

Dušan of Criamon: cool

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll steal his treatise on Canaanite Necromancy.

Fedele Grassi: lmao.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It behooves us to study his works, Archibald, for clues to our current mysteries. I am certain Anson's final wish was for the safety of his covenant."

Father Hazm: I steal his copy of the Ars Notoria

Mortis ex Verditus: "What covenant?"

"All the magi are dead."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If they are, who cast the Aegis?"

Guy of Bonisagus: it cant be helped. i will pore over his copy of ars goetia

Archibald of Guernicus: "The fate of the covenant is certainly in the air now."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Perhaps it was a demon, sent to mislead us."

Father Hazm: It's the False Aegis!

Fedele Grassi: "...What's an Aegis again?"

Mortis ex Verditus: So how many covenfolk are actually in the covenant?

Guy of Bonisagus: "I believe it's a few paces below us, actually."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll look over his Q60 tractii on vim and all the techniques

Guy of Bonisagus: "Soon to be up in the air."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Powerful ritual magic that shields the area from danger. The ritual to cast it typically involves a walking procession around the area to be protected. Does this sound familiar?"

Father Hazm: It's an infernal aura that makes you think your lowered casting total is coming from the aegis rather than an infernal penalty

Fedele Grassi: You know of four named individuals and there are some unnamed villagers milling around who moved here from the eel-fishing settlement by the river.

Dušan of Criamon: going to read his tract on immunity to bad rolls except when i want them to do twilight

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

HMMMMMMMMMM.

Father Hazm: Wow, a Q20 summa on Enigmatic Wisdom written by Criamon himself! What a find

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I accidentally spill ink all over his summa of The Cause of the Blight and How to Cure it

Fedele Grassi: lmao.

Mortis ex Verditus: Anyone who isn't sick should automatically be a suspect for our mystery magus.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oooh

Archibald of Guernicus: Good thinking

Fedele Grassi: Fedele almost got sick on his way up here.

Father Hazm: Yeah

Fedele Grassi: He had to roll to avoid disease.

Mortis ex Verditus: I read that in the Cause of the Blight and How to Cure It (Volume 2).

Fedele Grassi: And his brother is currently sick.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Fedele, among the covenfolk, who has not been sick at all since the plague?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, how would we know he almost got sick?

Fedele Grassi: Good point Mortis.

Mortis ex Verditus: You can't see a disease roll, after all.

Guy of Bonisagus: you can with second sight

Fedele Grassi: "Um... The priests haven't gotten sick yet."

Mortis ex Verditus: No you can't!

Fedele Grassi: "As far as I know."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Fantino and the Curate both?"

Mortis ex Verditus: You could only see it if it was a disease-causing demon!

Fedele Grassi: "Yeah."

Dušan of Criamon: GM: can I go detective using EW

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I think we should hold off on alerting the priests of Anson's poor fate for a time, sodales."

Fedele Grassi: Hmm.

Mortis ex Verditus: Agreed.

Dušan of Criamon: the mechanical question I'm asking is if his fate and possible foul play qualifies as a conundrum

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, of course. One moment, sodales."

Fedele Grassi: This is certainly a mystery.

Mortis ex Verditus: Where is the vis vault in this covenant?

Fedele Grassi: There's the real question.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast... Archibald's Unveiling the Sigil!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "And while we confirm a hunch we should make sure no one else disturbs Anson's lab -- Jabier may stand guard."

Archibald of Guernicus: To try and find the aegis effect  and the sigil of the magus who cast it

Guy of Bonisagus: Mortis ex Verditus: You could only see it if it was a disease-causing demon!

the miasma is visible with second sight

Fedele Grassi: Ooh, good call.

Father Hazm: Wait a minute, I'm not a sodalis

Dušan of Criamon: Having nothing better to do, Dušan enters a circling meditation

Father Hazm: Time to go talk to the priests

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah

Archibald of Guernicus: johns reminded me to try, i didnt consider it

Dušan of Criamon: pondering Anson's fate

Mortis ex Verditus: You can see the miasma but not whether or not it causes a disease.

Archibald of Guernicus: But... but we know it causes a disease

Guy of Bonisagus: having nothing better to do, dusan enters twilight

the miasma is being resisted by people with mr

so it just bounces off them

Mortis ex Verditus: It only causes a disease in people without MR.

But it already bounces off people without MR.

Guy of Bonisagus: if it doesnt bounce off of someone then it has a chance to be affecting them

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a vapor so it can't go through them.

Father Hazm: Someone reminds Hazm that he enjoys the benefits of stuff like the whale and magical protections for the parish of Ponza against the blight from the Order and he decides not to inform the local priests.

Mortis ex Verditus: What?

Fedele Grassi: afk one second i need to check a rule thing

Father Hazm: Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he enjoys our library, our inn, and the company of our delightful and personable magi such as

Father Hazm: Gulielmus

Mortis ex Verditus: What would you inform the local priests about?

They already know there's a covenant of wizards.

We aren't exactly secret or anything.

Father Hazm: Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I think we should hold off on alerting the priests of Anson's poor fate for a time, sodales."

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Archibald, this diadem has a wide range effect with no penetration. Is it fair to use this to test if the priests have Magic Resistance?"

"-- knowing that MR is not always an indication of a Magus, but at least a hint of it."

Father Hazm: As long as noncombat is not turnbased I'm going to be a bit slow by nature of being literally mentally disabled.

Guy of Bonisagus: im a bit slow because im stupid

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe the priests just have true faith.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, so long as the effect isnae harmful, but that's a moral matter more than a legal one. Redcaps are allowed quite dangerous items so long as they carry no penetration, for instance."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A redcap couldn't cast the Aegis."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im being very slow because i'm reaming out some vegetables.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea makes the eye of god face

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, I mean that so a redcap couldnae use them against a real magus."

Father Hazm: True Faith is pretty rare since it never corresponds 100% to non-heretical liturgy

Mortis ex Verditus: So where's the vis vault?

Fedele Grassi: It's a mystery.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i feel like i probably don't even know about it in character without dominion lore

Fedele Grassi: You could interrogate Anson's ghost, I guess.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We can't crack it while Officer Archibald is watching mortis

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we could clear all this up by just asking Anson's ghost what's going on.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Most importantly for now sodales, I have found the sigil of the aegis caster."

"The sound of a grinding mill, familiar tae anyone?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Nope."

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+2 OoH Lore

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, that sound brings me back."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Strange, I thought that WAS Anson's sigil."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Normandy, 1320."

Archibald of Guernicus: What date is it, GM?

Fedele Grassi: 1351, Autumn.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+8 per+medicine

(

7

)

+2+8

=

17

Lavinia of Jerbiton inspects corpse again

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, it simply confirms what was a possibility here. He died a few months ago."

Father Hazm: Mill Deck of Flambeau, famous for his Vim techniques for locking you out of all of your good spells over the course of a duel

Archibald of Guernicus: "If he cast it at the start of the new year, it all makes sense."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, what if you try talking to the bookcase?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He has been dead for over a year."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It would know."

Mortis ex Verditus: Good idea.

Anyone have any Herbam vis?

Father Hazm: "Weren't you magi having trouble with things made of wood?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Or, at least, the man on the floor here has been dead for over a year."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah.

we have, i think, 1 pawn of intellego

Archibald of Guernicus: "What?"

"You mean this isn't Anson?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Or is it?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If he  were  Anson it would contradict your observation."

Guy of Bonisagus: Good to know that we're on the right path, everyone. Gotta say DFD, this is a real good mystery adventure you've set up for us. A fake corpse - that's a great clue.

Fedele Grassi: Or would it?

Father Hazm: A magi did get attacked by an Archibald doppelganger

Archibald of Guernicus: "On my word, that sigil is as I described it."

Father Hazm: We thought it aws a plant person but we made that idea up

Dušan of Criamon: alright, I'm about ready to make my EW roll

if nothing else, I want to find out if foul play was involved

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Unless this body's decomposition has been magically altered, on my word as a Salerno doctor, he has been dead for over a year."

Father Hazm: I mean, it turned out to be a wild idea that had nothing to due with what actually happened

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+4+2+2

(

1

)

+4+2+2

=

9

hahaa!

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

GM: hell yes dusan

Mortis ex Verditus: And us in a secret Infernal aura!

Dušan of Criamon: Unfortunately this was not a spell

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I totally missed something DFD said, though I'm not sure if that's possible

Uh

Dušan of Criamon: so no twilight as far as I can tell

Archibald of Guernicus: Apparently the aegis is moon/structure, and not a ritual

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what the

Mortis ex Verditus: Enigmatic Wisdom wouldn't check for twilight anyway.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think that requires an extensive breakthrough though

Well now I feel a bit silly not mentioning it

Dušan of Criamon: "Well, I'm out of ideas."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: I check the aegis again with my spell

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "So the effect could have been bound to a magic item?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales. I didnae even notice the first time."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is a breakthrough in the aegis, a structure targetted, moon-duration aegis. In other words, free of rituals altogether! Yes, an item would make it maintainable indefinitely!"

Mortis ex Verditus: I steal the Hermetic Breakthrough text.

Dušan of Criamon: Gasp!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have +2 in Magic Theory. I know the limits of Hermetic Magic.

Dušan of Criamon: "If only Anson were here to see this!"

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

GM: gah, i forgot dusan's botch rolls

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Why, that's big news, isn't it?"

Father Hazm: I think Fiorella went to visit one of her merchant cousins in port near the whale.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Almost as big as the steady death of all magic."

GM:

rolling 3d10 i think it's 3 right

(

1

+

9

+

4

)

=

14

Dušan of Criamon: GM: it was just an ability roll thouguh

GM: oh.

rip.

i got confused, im sorry.

Dušan of Criamon: no worries

i'm the most disappointed here

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If this artifact is here it is vital Vardian's Tomb claims it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Such an item, such notes, these must be recovered, preserved, this changes so much about the applications of hermetic theory. Think about our own struggles in setting up smaller Aegis' tae protect people! This could mean so much during the blight!"

Dušan of Criamon: triple exploding horoscope and a botched EW roll

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We are, to be frank, the only people I can trust to handle such a breakthrough responsibly. Imagine if those filthy Bjoarner got their hands on it or -- God Forbid -- the Tremere."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmmmmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The Bjornaer would use it tae blackmail the order, the Tremere doubly so, and even less honestly."

Dušan of Criamon: "Frankly, it might be safest in the care of the moral bulwark that is Vardians Tomb."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gahaha

Mortis ex Verditus: "It would be."

GM: Now here's the problem. Who has it, and how do you steal it?

Mortis ex Verditus: "Allowing the secret to get out could doom the Order of Hermes."

GM: Oh, also the volcano is still quaking and erupting, that's a separate issue.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Whatever we do, it must be kept away from House Tytalus."

Mortis ex Verditus: There's a lot going on right now.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps the matter of the volcano is more pressing, yes?"

Dušan of Criamon: We should split the party

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We Should.

Mortis ex Verditus: So what rooms are there in this covenant?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Archibald, this volcano threatens Anson's lab. Perhaps it is prudent to move all his materials somewhere safer? For the duration of the crisis, I mean."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Think on it, sodales. Say a third blight comes - we must accept this as possible - what dangers await us? An aurum blight, where we cannot even breathe? An ignem blight that plunges us intae eternal winter. Or even a mentem blight, the death of man as a thinking creature..." I shudder

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is the body too rotted for Whispers Beyond the Gate

GM: Anson's room, then uhh, some stuff i haven't mapped out. Some empty cave rooms, Tasso's old lab (now empty)

some vents belching fumes

Mortis ex Verditus: Like what kind of vents?

I can cast Whispers Beyond the Black Gate, natch, but without vis it simply can't be done.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think this is worth spending Vis on

Dušan of Criamon: I agree

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if he has a clue to help us identify and/or find the artifact, and/or stop the volcano

Mortis ex Verditus: Did anyone think to bring vis?

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should work in pairs, in case any dangers befall us here. I would like time tae look through his possessions. I can give my word as quaesitor that what we secure here is done for the order, not for simple looting."

GM: cracks in the earth that volcanic gases emerge from, not crafted vents.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

I'll be the first to say it, this place seems like a dump.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Vis? I believe we have some intellego still. Yes, this is worth the effort. I will return tae the covenant, and fetch it. Lavinia, in my stead, please keep close watch on the notes here."

I'll depart briefly, teleport home, and then teleport back with... how much vis to cast a level 20 spell? 2 or 4 pawns?

Guy of Bonisagus: the imaginem blight is gonna be sick

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

GM: 4 iirc?

and you still get the +2 to casting total per pawn.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 1 pawn / mag

Archibald of Guernicus: 4 then

4 pawns of Intellego Vis, I return with them to the gamers

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we dont have that many pawns

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh

Do we have any corpus left?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: stockpile is 2 intelligo, 5 corpus

2 Infernal corpus >:D

Anson of Bonisagus: :blessed:

Archibald of Guernicus: 2 of each, then

Intellego will replenish itself, corpus will not

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Before mortis uses the vis are you sure you can cast in this aegis

Guy of Bonisagus: infernal corpus [said like inferno cop]

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also I am dread to point this out but, even as a formulaic spell, if you use corpus vis the spell will be cast Stresed

Archibald of Guernicus: We could move the body outside the structure. The aegis is smaller than normal, after all. It wont cover the aura.

Anson of Bonisagus: lol guy

Dušan of Criamon: A little desecration of remains

all in a day's work

Mortis ex Verditus: You don't roll stressed when using vis unless it would otherwise be stressed.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You do if it's Corpus or Herbam vis

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: That's the first effect of the blight

Mortis ex Verditus: Well then let's take it outside the aegis, just to be safe.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait

If he uses the infernal vis... ah n/m

Anson of Bonisagus: rofl.

i dont know what happens but lmk what to do if he uses it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have another idea

"Fedele, are you or any of the other covenfolk here assigned to collecting Vis?"

Fedele Grassi: "Me and Felice would trade off doing it, yeah."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Can you tell us where you stored it? We're not here to steal from the dead I assure you -- we merely need to borrow and will repay shortly."

Mortis ex Verditus: We are here to steal from the dead.

Dušan of Criamon: *borrow

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Should I make a Guile roll then

Father Hazm: Hermetic property is redistributed, not stolen

Fedele Grassi: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Look into your own heart for the answer.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+2 OoH Lore to think if Anson has any next of kin

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

Fedele Grassi: if you're actually going to steal it then yeah, guile roll

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I've already stolen something so

rolling 1d10!+2+3 Comm+Guile

(

4

)

+2+3

=

9

hmm

I'll conf

Guy of Bonisagus: sasuga augustan

Fedele Grassi:

rolling 1d10!+1+2 per folk ken

(

9

)

+1+2

=

12

lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah

Erm

I have a Ring of Authority

and a Fancy Cloak +3.

Fedele Grassi: "Uh, who are you going to repay it to? He's dead. We can't use that stuff."

oh.

lol

i forgot about your item loadout.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the ring is Aura of Ennobled Presence, +3 on rolls to lead/influence others

Fedele Grassi: lavinia EDC

Guy of Bonisagus: [arms full of pilfered texts taken mere minutes after finding out a fellow magus is dead] my tradition is unfairly maligned

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lead/influence or CONVINCE. whew.

Fedele Grassi: "Oh, well, if it's important, here."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "His next of kin, naturally."

Dušan of Criamon: "Well, the covenant as a legal entity remains until dissolved." [lie]

Mortis ex Verditus: Lucked out there.

Lavinia of Jerbiton thinks who she can contract to forge a will

Father Hazm: "What about the value of the location itself?"

Guy of Bonisagus flips through multiple pages of House Bonisagus register and finds that Guy is right after Anson.

Fedele Grassi: He leads Lavinia through some tunnels and gestures to the vis stockpile. There is no Corpus vis, but enough Intellego for you to take two pawns and make no significant dent.

Father Hazm: Hazm can buff the CIvil & Canon Law of however you're having forge the will

Lavinia of Jerbiton: according to my OoH Lore roll he doesn't have a next of kin and the stuff might revert back to house bonisagus

and look! we have a boinsagus right here. its serendipity

Archibald of Guernicus: Guy, begin claiming it all

Mortis ex Verditus: Lucky us.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: good, if Mortis uses 4 pawns of Intelligo he doesn't risk any botching

Fedele Grassi: honestly i have no idea how bonisagus lore sharing/house acclaim/stuff like this works and as far as i know guy might have a legal right to his shit just by being the physically closest bonisagus

unless it goes to the other Eremites.

Archibald of Guernicus: Guy should start hoovering up vis

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 2 from our supply and 2 from Anson's

i have updated the vis ledger

Mortis ex Verditus: We should still do it outside, I don't have, NOR WILL I EVER HAVE, any Penetration ability.

Fedele Grassi: lol

good idea.

Archibald of Guernicus: "His next of kin would be any fillia he has."

oh

Guy of Bonisagus: bon filia

Archibald of Guernicus: wait, thats waht lavinia rolled for

Fedele Grassi: his corpse is a slimy pile of rot soaked into his robes and a few crumbling bones

but you can gather it up and take it outside.

Dušan of Criamon: "Well, we'd be carrying him out for the burial sooner or later."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, then I can't cast Whispers Beyond the Black Gate on it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Failing that." I think on it "It would go to his parens, but Anson was quite old, do you know if his parens is even still around?"

Fedele Grassi: Oh yeah, good point.

Dušan of Criamon: I guess I get something and collect his bones to carry him out

Fedele Grassi: It is beyond skeletal, yes.

Mortis ex Verditus: It needs to be, you know, human shaped.

Fedele Grassi: Being that it's been sitting in corpus miasma for a year plus.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah

that's what I asked like 20 minutes ago lol

Fedele Grassi: I'm sorry, I just now read the spell text. I'm an idiot irl.

Father Hazm: This music is cool

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hmm. If I had the Ars Goetia I could summon his Spirit. But, alas.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's throw bricks at the GM until he dies.

Fedele Grassi: That would be cool.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Here's my next idea: I invent Canaanite Necromancy and then summon Anson's spirit.

GM: Well, the most likely thing is that one of the covenfolk has the item.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No one has Second Sighted a ghost of Anson floating about, I suppose?

GM: Sadly, I don't think so.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I will split the party.

Dušan of Criamon: Perhaps he is with God.

GM: Anson was an Eremite and devout Christian so he may just be resting in Heaven right now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to go check out the cave with the regio entrance

GM: Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I would like to talk to the Priests.

Dušan of Criamon: I go with Guillaume

GM: I will do the regio first for a change of pace and then come back.

Who's coming with Dusan and Guillaume?

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm going to keep poking around the lab for any hidden doors.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can't do much without preparation except take a look around

so i expect itll only be a few minutes

Guy of Bonisagus: ill go

Dušan of Criamon: So the water is warm, yeah

GM: The hot springs regio is still and silent. The water no longer boils or emits sulfurous gases.

Worrying. Is the water cool?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Strange."

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh no, the salutary effects have been destroyed!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Wouldn't you expect the springs to be more active, with the volcano acting up?"

GM: The water is still pleasantly warm to the touch.

Archibald of Guernicus: I've never explored the regio before, but for the moment I'll focus on ensuring the security of his resources, lab notes, etc so that if he has anything on this aegis effect, it is safely preserved.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think all we know is that the entrance is at the bottom of a deep pool

GM: A couple of the oath-making tablets lie on a rock to the side.

Guy of Bonisagus: alright gulielmus, make the potion of air so we can breathe underwater

GM: They are blank.

Dušan of Criamon: Oh no

GM: And yeah, the door at the bottom of the water is still visible, a large marble door flanked by two greek statues

Dušan of Criamon: The door is closed?

GM: It is.

Father Hazm: I don't have any magical skills for underwater exploratoin so I'll say behind

Lavinia of Jerbiton: door stuck, door stuck

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea gazes into the pool.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you suppose Sir Oak floats?"

GM: Archibald, that's a good plan.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sir Oak doesn't float because he wears chainmail.

GM: oh my god lmao i just noticed theres a fucking guy in a modern outfit in this image. rip my integrity as GM

Guy of Bonisagus: alright gulielmus, make the potion that destroys water

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

let's send sir oak down there to pry open the door, draining the water

GM: nice plan

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Dušan of Criamon: Hmmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: tfw your ars art has anachronisms

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sir oak is with us right? i think he was mentioned earlier

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sure that's fine

he can't go into an Aegis tho

Dušan of Criamon: Assuming I can hold my breath long enough, I could swim down there, suffer deleterious circ's and try and spy on what's behind the door

GM: Luckily this is just a faerie regio and not an aegis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bring him back in one piece or else.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: got them.

it's really deep, i think.

we didn't even attempt diving to it last time

Guy of Bonisagus: dive sir oak

Dušan of Criamon: Alright, let the homonculus do it

Guy of Bonisagus: open the door and drain the water and make the zelda music play

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Go on, Sir Oak."

"You can do it!"

GM: You could probably do the dive if you didn't want to use Oak, though. It's very deep but I think no one had any Swim skill last time.

Father Hazm: . o O ( I will make a buff that gives Rapid Convalescence after this adventure. )

GM: But Oak can go down there easily.

Dušan of Criamon: I love to swim

but i shall relinquish the spotlight to Sir Oak

Guy of Bonisagus: heres the question

can oak come back up

GM: You could ride on Oak's back so you can cast Prying Eyes.

johns: put a rope on him

Father Hazm: Get a rope

Dušan of Criamon: the real issue is air supply

GM: And not make swim checks AND deprivation checks.

yeah

Okay. Oak tied to a rope goes down there.

whats oak's str

johns: +3

Dušan of Criamon: powerful

GM: score

Sir Oak cracks the door open with his powerful virgilian might.

The water begins to rush into the crack, flinging the door open the rest of the way.

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Father Hazm: Get a rope

Mortis ex Verditus: How could you open a door under a lake and let all the water out?

Dušan of Criamon: oh god

Guy of Bonisagus: ok i have to go now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this animo was made in york city

Guy of Bonisagus: good luck with the mystery gamers

Mortis ex Verditus: See ya.

Dušan of Criamon: mystical farewells

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cya

way to go, sir oak.

Sir Oak:

rolling 1d10!+0

(

8

)

+0

=

8

Dušan of Criamon: i hope he is not sucked in

Sir Oak: wait what is oak's encumbrance

is he encumbered?

Mortis ex Verditus: Is +3 strength enough to defeat the water pressure?

johns: he's got a great sword and full chain

gimme 1 sec to calc

Dušan of Criamon: the man IS armor

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats like 2 at most

johns: 0 encumbrance

8 burden but +3 str = 0 enc

Sir Oak: also i was rolling quick+encumbrance but actually str seems more appropriate.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah

Sir Oak: so he beats the 10 ef and is not sucked into the hole.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there are actually a bunch of different examples of when you would roll against which attribute in the core book

Sir Oak: Steam billows from the open door. The water level has lowered enough to allow access.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but they dont set it all out in a single location, which is insane, since it would be very simple to do.

rolling them as defenses, i mean

johns: the ars editors are malovelent fae

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm going to summon Archimedes' ghost.

Sir Oak: I will go back to the priest conversation now and you can decide to explore further or come get everyone else.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: every single book feels like a textbook and leaves you wondering where the teacher's edition is

Dušan of Criamon: Do we go down safely or do we need to do some rope bullshit

Father Hazm: I'll go with whoever's talking to a priest

GM: You can walk down the gently sloping stone until you reach the door.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hell yeah.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think we should be honest and straightforward with the priests, any objections

Dušan of Criamon: It's as if it was made for us! (said in naive, oblivious voice)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to write more flavor text for my blighted corpus spells

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "I see you've come back down the mountain. Did the other wizard see you, or is he as reclusive as ever?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It is with heavy heart I must inform you that Anson of Bonisagus has passed on."

Mortis ex Verditus: RIP

Archibald of Guernicus: f

Father Hazm: "God rest his soul."

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "I thought he was well! Mother of Jesus!"

"When did it happen? Just now?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Over a year ago. An accident in his laboratory."

Fantino, Parish Clerk sits down and puts his head in his hands

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Please be strong, Fantino. You and Piu need to grant this covenant strength in the trying days to come."

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "That long? And we hadn't even noticed... I could have given the man services."

"True, true... Thank you. It's hard to speak to these people through their paganism, but we've gotten many to come around."

he gestures around to the peasants.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "As a Wizard, I believe Anson would want his covenant and his life's work not to go to waste by his untimely passing."

"It is my belief that before he died, he was working on something that could ward against the plague -- a boon to all humankind."

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "He was a good man, by all stories. I'd never met him face to face, but the curate and the guards vouch for his goodness and love of Christ."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Did he entrust any artifacts with you or the Curate?"

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "To hear you confirm he was working to help us, it soothes my heart."

"No, not that I know of."

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+3 folk ken

(

6

)

+2+3

=

11

Father Hazm: "I can vouch for Lavinia and her fellow scholars. They've been of immense help getting the parish of Ponza going strong. Please, if you do hear of anything, let us know."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you find that someone else knows of it -- perhaps the Curate -- please heed my advice: There are powerful wizards out there who would covet such an artifact. Their aims may not be good."

"For the safety of the covenant and everything that Anson has worked for, I beg you to tread carefully."

Felice Grassi stirs and groans from the sickbed at the talk of Anson's death

Felice Grassi: "B-boss..."

He falls back into unconsciousness.

Father Hazm: "Rest easy, Felice. The time to grieve is later."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if no other q's i bid the clerk good luck then move around the corner and turn invisible to follow him for awhile

Mortis ex Verditus: Smart.

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "If I see anything out of the ordinary, I will put it aside for you."

"Um, how should I contact you again? We used our best dog."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: rip doggie

Father Hazm: "I'm afraid the dog had an unfortunate encounter with an, ahem, wild hawk."

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a minute, sorry.

Father Hazm: "We can bring you some messenger pigeons from Ponza or Rome. They'll know how to fly their way back."

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "Oh, wonderful! Thank you."

Father Hazm: "It's cheaper to keep redundant pigeons than redundant dogs. A coop is a good investment."

Dušan of Criamon: brb, food

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i got a great idea guys

let's weekend at bernie's anson for our own benefit

Fantino, Parish Clerk: "I should be getting back to business. Please, stay as long as you need to figure this volcano problem out."

Fiorella of Jerbiton suddenly feels as though she made the wise decision staying offscreen.

Fantino, Parish Clerk: oh, you mean pretend that he's still alive to the rest of the tribunal

lmao

Dušan of Criamon: that sounds like an elaborate way to fake a will

doing a whole goofy adventure propping up a corpse instead of having someone roll forgery

Fantino, Parish Clerk: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: it would be a great adventure except - ah right, the gm removed Corpus from our list of tools

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what if Anson -- notorious recluse he is -- decides he is going to entrust Vulcanal's voting sigil to one of his friends, at Vardian's Tomb

a voting sigil that is active as long as he is alive, which he definitely is

Fantino, Parish Clerk: what if, indeed?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: should we go back to regio crew

Fantino, Parish Clerk: sure, yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so far lavinia has learned nothing except that the curate is a drunk

Fantino, Parish Clerk: it happens.

Back in the regio, the open door beckons.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Here's my plan, go convince the townfolk that priests are actually really cool hip dudes so they attend church.

Father Hazm: I will do that, Fiorella has giftstink

Fantino, Parish Clerk: lol

Father Hazm: Bless of Learned Caster for +1 Charm

and Blessing of Venus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bless of magic caster

Fantino, Parish Clerk: lol

Father Hazm: that's the ref

Sir Oak looks up at the magi to see who is brave enough to go in first

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus grasps his staff and boldly steps through the door.

He is mechanically forbidden from swinging the staff in combat btw.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back.

Dušan of Criamon: I also enter

Rabble: The rabble talk with Hazm about how they used to go to the hot springs with the nymphs but nobody's seen any nymphs in a few years, so they might as well go to church, sure.

Gulielmus enters the door.

this map is large.

btw.

johns: sorry those nymphs are now part of Voda's prostitution ring

nice music

Dušan of Criamon: I think I've read that douj

Rabble: you're at the bottom of it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: faerie 7

Mortis ex Verditus: Yikes!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats a confirmed yikes

Dušan of Criamon: alright

devil's fav demon (GM): the view is obstructed due to steam and darkness but a glow is visible in the distance, down this tunnel.

Giant in Bondage: The earth rumbles.

Father Hazm: "If you attend Church properly, you'll have many more nymphs in Heaven."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Uh, you remain chaste in heaven.

Father Hazm: Please

I'm the priest here

Enough of your heresy

Dušan of Criamon: lmao

Giant in Bondage: "Has Athena come to finish me off?" a massive voice booms from the red glow beyond the steam.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hello?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Here's my recommendation: blunder around for a while and then agree to anything anyone asks you to do.

Dušan of Criamon: "I'm afraid it's just us!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "No Athenas here. I'm Guillaume."

Father Hazm: I'm a Maronite, some of us aren't even chaste on Earth

johns: did no one here see the end of ghostbusters

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i didnt.

Giant in Bondage: "I know no gods by the name Guillaume."

Archibald of Guernicus: I think my plan of "I'll check through the notes if you want to take a look at the hot springs" has gone in unexpected directions

Mortis ex Verditus: I hate women.

So I didn't.

Giant in Bondage: "Graaaagh!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will cast my unnamed level 3 crig spell to glow like the moon for Sun (base 1 glow like the moon +0 personal +0 individual +2 Sun)

johns: pretend you're the god of potions, quick

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in the hopes that it makes it easier to see through the fog

"Are you all right in there?"

"Hang on. I'm a trained apothecary."

is sir oak in here

johns: sure.

Giant in Bondage: Yeah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok

"Come, Sir Oak."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea advances into the fog.

Giant in Bondage: i'll just reveal the rest, since it's glowing fairly bright as you get deeper in there.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am also glowing like the moon though

Mortis ex Verditus: Wouldn't that be immediately visible while the intervening space would be too dark to see?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Giant in Bondage: there was a thick steam obscuring the view.

johns: somethings glitching i can't pull oak's token off his sheet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: have to say this one looks dangerous

i put oak on the field

i cant put dusan on though

Giant in Bondage: Guli follows the water up a stone slope. A stone platform sits in the center of the room. The stone is surrounded by boiling lava.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there he is

Dušan of Criamon: I shirk no duty

Giant in Bondage: In the center of the stone platform, a massive two-headed giant is chained to an iron altar.

Dušan of Criamon: I think a frontal assault would be less than desirable

Mortis ex Verditus: Why assault him at all?

Dušan of Criamon: exactly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's set him free

johns: ^^

Giant in Bondage: lol

Dušan of Criamon: that also seems risky

Mortis ex Verditus: Also it would probably be pretty easy because he's chained to the chair.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shouts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ave, up there."

Giant in Bondage: SSMA.

rolling 1d10+3

(

9

)

+3

=

12

johns: i have a hunch this could be a titan and the aura is caused by Faerie fetters

Giant in Bondage: The giant squints and cranes its massive neck to the side

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: could be

johns: idk which titans athena dealt with tho

Giant in Bondage: "Who? A little small for a god."

"Ave, worm."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well, Archibald, we've certainly taken the most important job here."

I flip through some lab texts.

Dušan of Criamon: elevator music in the covenant

Mortis ex Verditus: Lo-Fi Hip Hop Beats to Study To

Giant in Bondage: lol

Dušan of Criamon: to the Giant: "You seem to be in quite the predilection yourself!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Every man carries a little bit of God within him, I'm sure."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea ponders this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I never was much of a theologian, though."

Mortis ex Verditus: It MAKES you think.

johns: hey DFD were there pagans living in this area before Vulcanal covenant set up shop

the clerk mentioned something about them

Giant in Bondage: yes, there were

the locals who come from the nearby eel-fishing village are pagans who used to worship at the hot springs regio and interact with the nymphs

johns: theory: the church converting pagans has lessened the fairy glamour holding this titan in captivity and the volcano is caused by him pressing against his loosened fetters.

Mortis ex Verditus: Delicious pagan eels.

johns: or us stealing the nymphs did it too

Giant in Bondage: both things are solid possibilities.

Mortis ex Verditus: I think probably this was caused by magical experimentation and the giant is a hoax or illusion.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Anyway...."

Giant in Bondage: also possible, Mortis.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you think you could stop yelling so much? It's causing trouble up above."

johns: We have the hypothesis and now to test. The best way to test my hypothesis is to free this thing and see what it does.

Giant in Bondage: "I'm starving!"

Dušan of Criamon: "What do you desire to feed on?"

Father Hazm: Pumpkin god: give me the vis

johns: lol

Giant in Bondage: "Wouldn't you yell, if you hadn't eaten in years?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I would die."

Giant in Bondage: "You're probably weak."

Mortis ex Verditus: He's got you there.

Father Hazm: Those with magic lore might be aware most magical creatures don't starve

Dušan of Criamon: Going to write a tractatus on sick owns

johns: oh so this is a fairy? or a demon or w/e

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: looks like my magic lore is N/A

Mortis ex Verditus: Who knows???

Giant in Bondage: It's PROBABLY a faerie considering the faerie 7 aura and series of faerie regios leading to it.

johns: I don't know but it's fun to conjecture while Gulielmus is talking.

Father Hazm: Faeries eat food but don't have metabolisms as we know them

Giant in Bondage: but you never know.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All men are."

johns: Hmm... The GM makes a good point, but it is the GM, so it's probably a red herring

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: magic beings probably desire vis

Father Hazm: Faerie lore might tell you about vitality and tribute and such

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since they can use it

johns: cumthinker read the whole fairy book back to back so he can tell us.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess i should roll faerie lore since i have it

rolling 1d10!+2+0 int + lore

(

9

)

+2+0

=

11

Giant in Bondage: oh, well

that works.

Dušan of Criamon: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 1 xp paying off

Giant in Bondage: whisper whisper.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shouts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Would you like some bread?"

"I think I have some in my satchel."

Mortis ex Verditus: I think if you wanted to trap a Titan, then putting it in a Fairie Regio would be a good idea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems sensible

Dušan of Criamon: On the list of things I expect the titan to want to eat

johns: the bonds on titans are fae powers afiak so yeah

Dušan of Criamon: bread is low on the list

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea whispers to Dusan.

Giant in Bondage: "Give me the bread."

johns: giant bread boy

Giant in Bondage: The giant opens the mouth on its right-side head and lets its tongue loll out.

Dušan of Criamon: gotta have my carbs

devil's fav demon (GM): bread contains human vitality

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus approaches the giant, bread in hand.

It's a pretty small piece of bread.

devil's fav demon (GM): along with beer, cheese, wine, milk, etc

im not sure which foods do, exactly, but this is a good offering to make to a starving fae

johns:  hypothetically  what happens if you trick a fae into eating the consecrated host

Giant in Bondage: that's an EXTREMELY good question.

Dušan of Criamon: glowing eyes, weird font: mortal, i have ascended

Mortis ex Verditus: It explodes in heavenly light and you get 150 XP points.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone in SIght range is compelled to make the wee bey face

johns: God appears in a beatific visage and gives you the thumbs up

Dušan of Criamon: Here's a cooler question: how do we secure this to be a permanent thing now that all the pagans upstairs are goody-two-shoes christians

Giant in Bondage: the giant savors the bread.

Father Hazm: Faeries can become divine

Giant in Bondage: "Glow-worm, can you bring me more?"

Father Hazm: That's how saints who never actually existed get real power

Dušan of Criamon: my proposal is to keep the covenant propped up and use it to "tax" the peasants for bread

Giant in Bondage: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "More bread? Of course."

Mortis ex Verditus: What if we just killed the giant and then stole its vis?

johns: mortis makes a good point

Giant in Bondage: "Then you have safe passage out and may return. With more bread."

Dušan of Criamon: Mortis has a point but I don't like an unfair fight (he's strapped to a chair) and i don't like a fair fight that i lose

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Then it sounds like we have a deal."

Giant in Bondage: its a very good point because the giant is both extremely large and corpus aligned.

Father Hazm: Hazm might know something about this guy

Giant in Bondage: so that would be good vis to have.

Father Hazm: He has spells named after titans

Gift of Prometheus, Gift of Themis, Gift of Metis

Dušan of Criamon: I'm sure there's still more to the regio

Giant in Bondage: hazm ftw

johns: did feeding it bread resolve the immediate volcano problem

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it wasn't much bread

if we advance to level 8 of the regio we can find the real titan the faerie is impersonating

Giant in Bondage: no, feeding it bread made it think gulielmus is its new attendant so its asking him to get it more bread. its still really hungry but now it won't attack him if he tries to leave.

Father Hazm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHPbsiPjOw

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will make for the exit

Dušan of Criamon: I'll join

Giant in Bondage: Alrighty, back outside.

johns: Feed me seymour

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hopefully the giant doesn't slay dusan and sir oak.

GM: Oh, they're with you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is bad timing but i'm going to eat some food, so i will leave the task of recounting the tale to moe

Dušan of Criamon: I shall take up the mantle

Mortis ex Verditus: Blessings of Hermes upon you.

GM: the giant is size +7, for future reference and yes the map and giant and grid are to scale.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did gulielmus learn the Nature of the Beast in his whispers

Dušan of Criamon: "Salve. I do not know how far he delved into understanding, but we did meet a beast alright."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how high was the cavern above the Giant

Dušan of Criamon: "Conveniently, it seems placated by simple foodstuffs. Unfortunately, the size of it indicates it might need a great amount of food, periodically."

GM: good question, i didnt consider the third dimension.

Mortis ex Verditus: The perils of 2Dcon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: just thinking what happens if you collapse the roof o nits head

Mortis ex Verditus: That's your answer to every boss fight.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i mean if its a proper boss the whole place will self-destruct when it dies anyway

GM: it would probably take however much damage a roof causes and then go "Graaahhh i have wound range increments of 12 eat shiiit"

>_>

Dušan of Criamon: It would suck if the roof was like, the ground beneath peasants

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

well since cumthinker left ill try fairy lore myself to see if I recognize the thing

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

3

)

+2+3

=

8

GM: im pretty sure you can beat the giant in direct combat if everyone goes all out.

Dušan of Criamon: Hmmm

I can't speak for others, who might be able to

but as for myself, I think I need a few more seasons of good perdo study

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we've got 4 fighting grogs, sir oak, jabier, tunde, and carina

archibald has good PeVi

do Anson's notes make any mention of the giant?

GM: if Dusan mentioned that the giant said Athena's name you can narrow the faerie narrative down to the Gigantomachia. Virgil places the giant Enceladus under Mt. Etna. Faerie stories don't have to be fully accurate, so the narrative was likely blended with local pagan traditions over the years.

That was meant to be a PM but whatever.

Father Hazm: My magic lore is specced in Greek pantheon

Does it apply here?

Dušan of Criamon: I'm sure Guillaume mentioned it, as he is smart

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmmm quoth the virgil

Enceladus, his body lightning-scarred,

lies prisoned under all, so runs the tale:

o'er him gigantic Aetna breathes in fire

from crack and seam; and if he haply turn

to change his wearied side, Trinacria's isle

Lavinia of Jerbiton: trembles and moans, and thick fumes mantle heaven.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

GM: I think it could, yeah Hazm. Faerie and Magic lore can have some crossover in mythological/pagan areas iirc

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, that does certainly seem like feeding him will stop the volcano from erupting.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+1+1

(

4

)

+2+1+1

=

8

Archibald of Guernicus: Was he being fed before now?

GM: same number so rip

Father Hazm: RIP

GM: he was being fed by the vitality the goat nymphs were gathering from the local pagans.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well according to Virgil this guy has been tossing and turning since the war of the gods and the volcano bursting is just his normal effect

Dušan of Criamon: presumably someone fed him up to a point

Father Hazm: I just know the famous titans like Prometheus then

Mortis ex Verditus: What if we plugged up the volcano with a big rock?

Dušan of Criamon: What if we took Vulcanal

and put it somewhere else

Father Hazm: Hmmm

I could check my Learned Magician spellbook to see if there's anything that invokes him

GM: iirc youve suggested the following plans

1. strengthen the dominion and actively convert the peasants to christianity

2. turn vulcanal into a bakery dedicated to giving bread to the giant

GM: 3. kill the giant and steal its vis

Mortis ex Verditus: Killing him might work, but I'd like to see if Anson knew anything about him.

Dušan of Criamon: 2 and 3 can work in sequence

GM: Hmm.

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't want Athena coming after me, after all.

GM: I don't think Anson does have anything on the giant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i like 3

Father Hazm: Is the volcano within the boundary affected by the church?

GM: The volcano is not currently within the boundary, but it's a weak dominion aura.

And a small church.

Father Hazm: I'm not entirely sure dominion spreads like zerg creep

Mortis ex Verditus: Do not post small church.

Dušan of Criamon: lmao

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have an insane theory just based off what ive seen of the curate so far

is he a fairy

GM: Tasso would have more of the faerie-related research and his paperwork is no longer at the covenant. Anson gave it all to the Bjornaers after he passed.

Mortis ex Verditus: What DOES Anson have about?

Dušan of Criamon: pop down some praying pools

GM: Anson has some stuff about the blight and the aegis that I haven't written up yet.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

GM: Because I assumed everyone was going to jump into giant combat and not instantly discover Anson was dead. lol.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well I think we can conclusively say that the Vulcani covenant was a huge failure.

GM: Yep.

Father Hazm: Realms of Power Divine has some rules for how dominion spreads and land gets consecrated

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im back

Father Hazm: Works sort of like a Boundary spell

GM: welcome.

oh neat. i wasn't sure how it worked exactly, I was looking at The Church splatbook for some of this

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

GM: the fact that this is a village and not a town with a charter and that there's not a full cathedral and the divine presence is just a single chapel with sickroom brings down the dominion's reach pretty significantly iirc

Mortis ex Verditus: We should explore the vents.

Archibald of Guernicus: I vote for feeding the giant bread until we can clean everything out of the covenant, then evacuate the covenfolk here, and then let nature happen

Father Hazm: RoP Divine: Successfully performed Dominion rites may do one of two things: consecrate an area, or allow the Dominion to enter a place.

Dušan of Criamon: I heard Vardian's Tomb has a storied history with pits

Mortis ex Verditus: If we kill the giant then the volcano will probably stop erupting.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if we feed the giant bread we might be able to get some vis out of the deal

Dušan of Criamon: For the record: I support giving the Giant bread

Father Hazm: Following a second successful Dominion rite, a Dominion aura with a rating of 3 is created at the end of the ser- vice and will radiate as far as the congre- gation’s prayers can be heard, or the con- secrated ground be seen. The Dominion will endure for as long as the congrega- tion meets and continues to worship, in general at least once per week.

Dušan of Criamon: also cheese or whatever

GM: Get Bonfilia back so she can give the giant bread, to kill it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or if it's really strong maybe it can grant virtues and powers.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's use the Bottle of Arsenic and the BRead.

Father Hazm: Ask the giant what virtues it gives so I can name a spell after it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bargaining with pagan gods ftw

Mortis ex Verditus: Would arsenic even kill the giant?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Really only one way to find out

Mortis ex Verditus: Here's the real question: what do we get out of feeding the giant?

It would continue to cause eruptions whenever it feels like it.

Dušan of Criamon: Time

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can gather a VERY large bottle of arsenic, and then bake a VERY large bread

Father Hazm: Gift of Prometheus gives Good Teacher, Gift of Metis gives Clear Thinker, Gift of Themis gives Puissant Civil and Canon Law

Dušan of Criamon: Time to find a better solution, and up our killing skills

Archibald of Guernicus:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+34 vs 30, give or take what the aura is, +5 from penetration ability

(

2

)

+34

=

36

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could get all kinds of things out of feeding the giant.

Dušan of Criamon: Look, we can still try to bumrush it later

Father Hazm: I don't think you can poison a faerie

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if it's a faerie then it's probably interested in bargaining and deals

and it seemed at least semi-cognizant

Mortis ex Verditus: But it's also a prisoner of the goddess Athena.

Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's a good point.

Mortis ex Verditus: So it has limited ability to deal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, maybe

Mortis ex Verditus: What if we summoned Athena?

Then killed her for her vis?

Sorry I got a bit distracted thinking about vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets summon demons and bind them to find vis for us

Father Hazm: Let's

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume half of the order is doing that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'd like to find a nice secluded spot in a fairy aura to try the sortes, I want to determine if the Curate is a being of Might

Mortis ex Verditus: Person of Might

Lavinia of Jerbiton: actually it needs to be magic aura if I have a shot of this, is there any part of the aura that isn't in the aegis?

GM: Nope.

The aura is limited to inside the structure of the covenant at the mountain peak.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's smash the priceless artifact

Mortis ex Verditus: Which one?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: created by a mind equalling bonisagus's

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my insane theory was that the drunk curate is actually Silenus, a drunken faeiry creature who has boasted of slaying the giant before.

GM: lmao thats a cool theory

Mortis ex Verditus:  GM frantically rewrites the rest of the adventure.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

GM: mortis im tempted, that would be pretty cool if i had thought of it

Father Hazm: All artifacts have a price: the number of seasons and vis it took to make them

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok I do have one other investigative lead

whether the chains that bind the fae are part of the fae itself, or actual chains

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well this one's price also includes the seasons and vis behind the top-tier breakthrough

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im just worried that if we fight the giant it will suddenly burst out of containment

GM: Now there's a good question.

Father Hazm: Other artifacts can be priced using virtues they grant or flaws they inflict, like the flaw you take to get a dvergar item

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: striking a bread bargain would be cooler

Father Hazm: Or a faerie's external vis granting you a minor virtue

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if an artifact grants you a virtue that exists nowhere else

Mortis ex Verditus: If the chains are part of the faerie then it wouldn't break them, because they are part of the role it is playing.

Archibald of Guernicus: theres two possibilities

Father Hazm: Just because it's unique now doesn't mean its unique forever, with regard to virtues granted

Archibald of Guernicus: it might be a fae caused by people saying a titan is trapped under mt etna

or it might be a titan imprisoned by the fae long ago

Mortis ex Verditus: At least until Phase 2 when it breaks the chains and starts spawning Dark Flame patches.

Archibald of Guernicus: and a creature of Magic

GM: lol.

mortis went into gm mode and read my notes on this fight. smh.

Father Hazm: Any virtue can start existing via a mystery, a breakthrough, a pilgrimage, a dvergar craft, a new faerie coming into being, etc

Mortis ex Verditus: What if we tipped the chair over?

Dušan of Criamon: powerful

GM: The chair is like 20 paces across and made of iron.

Mortis ex Verditus: So you're saying its possible.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's strike it with Lightning.

GM: It is.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: notes on the fight: the titan causes the volcano to erupt, dealing 200 damage to everything insid ethe regio

Father Hazm: Do we have a good aoe healer?

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh yeah, my guess is that freeing the giant would also stop the volcano from erupting.

Since the giant causes the eruptions.

Dušan of Criamon: Ad "freeing" variant: where would he go

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't know.

Dušan of Criamon: can we... can we trick him like the goats

Lavinia of Jerbiton: in that aura, Lavinia could draw a ward to strike the chain with lightning with penetration ~50

Dušan of Criamon: and tell him we have a much bigger volcano in rome

Mortis ex Verditus: What did he do before he was imprisoned?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's tell him there's a great volcano on Rugen Island

GM: lol

The giant didn't seem very smart or particularly Cognizant of its situation, for what that's worth

Guy of Bonisagus: damn i missed a giant

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Gulielmus what's your verdict: Fae or Magic?"

Guy of Bonisagus: i couldve thrown a pilum at a giant

GM: lol guy

the giant's still around, you can go back and try to do it later.

Guy of Bonisagus: nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I think we need to establish whether its fae or magic, then we should take a vote on what to do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Would a magic spirit care about bread?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+3 Magic Lore

(

4

)

+2+3

=

9

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+1+1

(

7

)

+2+1+1

=

11

Same EF as Lavinia

GM: Magic beings are for the most part removed from the necessity of food, water, or rest. In some cases they can be susceptible to deprivation but it's rare.

Mortis ex Verditus: What if it's actually a bread spirit?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: then we must kill it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I vote Kill.

Father Hazm: "If it were a being of Magic, it may be starved in a Faerie aura."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: however, if it is a faerie, then we must establish a town dedicated entirely to producing huge amounts of bread and throwing it ina volcano

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Remember the first commandment, sodales."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Never do an honest day's work?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do no harm?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That's the first commandment of Montenegro."

"That's the first commandment of the Pacific Magi."

Dušan of Criamon: "And blessed they be."

Father Hazm: "Ahem. The first commandment refers to divine honor and idolization."

"It does not say you cannot give alms to a titan."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If it's a faerie it's not even real, right?"

Father Hazm: We need a tiebreaker from Guy

Guy of Bonisagus opens the door, hitting Fiorella's familiar, and takes a bite of apple.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where does archibald stand

Guy of Bonisagus: "What's going on in here? Sounds heretical."

Father Hazm: Archibald is sleepy, probably

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Gulielmus wishes to make the covenfolk here devote their labors to feeding an ancient pagan giant."

GM: when you put it that way.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Mortis and I believe the world best be rid of it entirely."

Mortis ex Verditus: It's just the smart move.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I agree."

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, but you can always kill it later."

Archibald of Guernicus: I said that killing it could carry all sorts of problems. Think about it, there weren't any whatsoever until we interfered, why should we assume greater interference will make things work out

"What if killing the giant causes something even worse than the tremors?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if we can't kill it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The giant causes the tremors, this is known."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if we can't kill it *and it sets out for revenge?"

the last half is supposed to be italicized there.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's known  now . When it wasn't known, we interfered and removed the nymphs who were keeping the tremors away."

Father Hazm: Fiorella votes we let the volcano explode and then the Zeno family loots Sicily

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't we have enough troubles? Why must we seek out even more, for what, the sake of some fairy vis?"

Guy of Bonisagus: I will tell Fiorella to attend church if she voices this opinion.

Mortis ex Verditus: If the volcano explodes then Sicily will be covered in magma, which is notoriously difficult to loot.

GM: Hey, it's fairy CORPUS vis. Possibly.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fairy corpus vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I believe the people of this village deserve to live without fear of a false God."

Father Hazm: Fiorella is offscreen

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if fiorella votes then lavinia will suggest we bring in rosario's vote and we all know how he'll go

Guy of Bonisagus: I verify I haven't stepped into some sort of truly Hellish faerie regio before saying, "Lavinia is right."

Archibald of Guernicus: I almost say 'then why did you get rid of the nymphs to make them attend church' but hold my tongue

Father Hazm: Spending time with family members hearing about the cool court wizard they hired

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's summon Mercury and have him fight the titan

Mortis ex Verditus: "Also slaying the fairy would protect Vulcani covenant and allow us to return the magical possessions to their rightful owners."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I wasn't there for the nymphs so don't blame me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We would be denying the future residents their magical resources."

Mortis ex Verditus: "What future residents? The covenant is dead."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Gulielmus raises a good point. If we wait to act, then some other Magus may claim this site, at which point it  would  be a crime to slay the false God.  Ergo  it would be best to act as soon as possible."

Dušan of Criamon: "To be perfectly honest, the climate is truly astounding. I might want a small place here for the off-season"

Archibald of Guernicus: "There is a potential that destroying this trapped titan could do anything to this place. We should secure everything within it, particularly the research into this aegis effect."

Father Hazm: My plan is to pray for God to deliver us from the angry volcano

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Are you so sure you're up to killing a false god?"

Father Hazm: And get the formerly nymph-worshiping townfolk to do the same

Archibald of Guernicus: "When everything is secured, then we can talk about slaying the titan for vis."

Mortis ex Verditus: What good fortune, your prayers have been answered in the form of a cadre of wizards.

Father Hazm: Hooray it worked

GM: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: "We might not have time if the giant makes the volcano erupt."

Father Hazm: Good luck wizards

Archibald of Guernicus: "Not if it's fed bread in the interim."

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, but why would he, if he's satiated again?"

"Bite the hand that feeds?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Faeries are stupid and arbitrary."

Mortis ex Verditus: "He was imprisoned by Athena for a reason, after all."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We can calm the tremors, why risk the entire covenant site, all its resources, lab notes, everything?"

GM: That seems like a sound plan, tbh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: off screen, gulielmus initiates himself into the bread cult

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You risk it just as much by feeding it, having no knowledge of how much bread is needed to sate that monster."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We have no idea if feeding it would even stop the eruptions. What if the volcano erupts when the giant breaks wind?"

Dušan of Criamon: "No way to find out but to try!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why, just why, I ask you, is the risk that following plans that make sense and approaching this methodically may have some ridiculous catch so great, but the risk of permanently and massively changing the entire nature of this volcano so little?"

Father Hazm: "There's a number of contradictory theories here. Can any be confirmed?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Clearly it would not change the site, because a fairy could never produce a Magical aura."

Archibald of Guernicus: "No, I posit that it is pure greed, pushing for rash decision-making."

Dušan of Criamon: "Greed is the smaller of vices at play here."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My interests are solely what I believe best for the covenant as a whole."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Don't get tricked into placing the needs of a fairy giant over the needs of the people of Sicily."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Who else has come tae check? Anson lay there a year, ye won't even entertain a few more months tae return with a proper plan, evacuate the people here in case of danger, and secure everything in the site."

Mortis ex Verditus: How many people live on Sicily?

Dušan of Criamon: This is going nowhere fast

if you wish to charge blindly, I suspect I know the outcome

GM: Palermo was a pretty busy city but the plague fucked most of Europe.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "As we do not know the outcome of either option, we should, regardless, take the safe route of moving the covenfolk away, and securing all labwork and vis."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. This was my suggestion here."

Dušan of Criamon: "At least a compromise."

Mortis ex Verditus: Evacuating all of Sicily doesn't sound like an option unless you have some magical means of spiriting everyone away.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this isn't a supervolcano endrite

Father Hazm: Can the Sortes tell us anything about the future of this volcano?

Mortis ex Verditus: It might be.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What we do not know, however, is what manner of Might this titan has. Charging at it and stabbing its toes will do little, and something so grand may be as powerful as the tiber is. Ye understand?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its probably erupted every century before this

Mortis ex Verditus: This could be the big one.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Powerful enough that we cannae harm it at all, as its magical resistance is too great."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm. that gives me a great idea

let's command the tiber spirit to jump in the volcano.

two birds, one stone.

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: We'd just need to get the Tiber river to flow to Sicily.

It just might work.

Father Hazm: "If it's a faerie, then it feeds off idolatry and ignorance."

GM: iirc etna has been fairly dormant for the current historical period and hasnt erupted since uh

Father Hazm: "It should be fed less, not more."

GM: In 1169, an earthquake just prior to an eruption killed 15,000 people on Sicily.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Cool. When another 15,000 die we can blame Archibald

Mortis ex Verditus: Did 15,000 really die?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: add it to his kill tracker

okay one last thing im thinking of. the aegis had to be cast on the inside of the covenant recently right?

GM: Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and felice is sick

GM: Within the last Moon.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so when he wakes up lets ask him about it

Mortis ex Verditus: OR we could kill him and ask his corpse.

AFK a sec.

Felice Grassi: Felice is in the sick room and currently unattended as the parish clerk is somewhere else.

Father Hazm: InMe to talk to a sleeping person instead of killing them to InCo

Felice Grassi: Feel free to visit and examine/question him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hello Felice. Did Anson entrust you with the item to ward the caves?"

Felice Grassi: "Gyeh"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

I'll take that as a gyes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Felice Grassi: he struggles to lift an arm and indicate his gear, in a pile at the foot of the cot.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: > examine gear

Mortis ex Verditus: What's in the pile?

Felice Grassi: you root through his soiled linens, arms and armor, and find a small horseshoe on a chain among the mundane goods.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Felice Grassi: Felice gives the thumbs up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "May I borrow this? It could save a lot of lives. It will do the caves no good now, I'm afraid."

Mortis ex Verditus: What if we used the item on the volcanic cave?

Felice Grassi nods, then closes his eyes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Thank you."

Mortis ex Verditus: Farewell, sweet twin.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i immediately teleport to the nearest augustan safehouse and betray this crucial artifact.

Felice Grassi: lmao.

Mortis ex Verditus: We did it!

Campaign complete!

Guy of Bonisagus: gahaha

Archibald of Guernicus: Teleport? Good one

Felice Grassi: thats why you're the best, boss.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have a teleport shoe.

Remember?

Archibald of Guernicus: I begrudgingly do

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well anyway I bring it out to my sodales as proof of how smart and big brained I am.

Mortis ex Verditus: I made this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the big brained scholastics are here to snark about the false gods again

GM: Wow, I can't believe Lavinia discovered such an amazing Hermetic Breakthrough all on her own.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, good find. I'll investigate it when we return, from there we'll have tae see his notes tae figure out how to invent the spell itself."

Mortis ex Verditus: Congratulations, Lavinia!

Father Hazm: Let's negotiate an alliance with the remaining Augustans and the Mathemateci vs the Order

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a Pentagram aegis would be cool though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i wonder, does this thing work on the whale

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

It's possible that Anson was killed over this.

Archibald of Guernicus: Lavinia awakens the 3 remaining Augustans encased in stone under Italy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's boundary target isn't it

Archibald of Guernicus: structure

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Structure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

hmm.

that is a good question

Mortis ex Verditus: Since it would completely destroy the Order of Hermes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Sodales"

"We should swear to secrecy this item until we as a group have decided what to do with it."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Sounds fair to me."

Dušan of Criamon: "No objections"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Of course, the penalty for revealing this secret should be death."

GM: that

is as fair as anything could be

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that's how a tytalan cabal works afiak

Mortis ex Verditus: It's SO fair.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also it needs a really pretentious name unrelated to the goal

Mortis ex Verditus: Perhaps it is TOO fair?

The Brotherhood of the Grail

Lavinia of Jerbiton: like "The Hermetic Syndicate of Archimedes"

that's fair endrite

Archibald of Guernicus: "Very well, so long as all agree. A harsh punishment, but this item could be disaster in the wrong hands."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We should swear on the ring of the ring of the Custos of Cyprian."

"I assume we're all members."

GM: lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: btw felice passed out but i'll leave a note that no one should go into the caves without a relic or they'll get sick

"Never heard of it."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah i doubled my the ring of there

Mortis ex Verditus: "Sounds stupid."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

bites apple  what secret society are we joining today? sounds gay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: be it resolved that the custos of cyprian are going to kick mortis's ass

Dušan of Criamon: "I know not of this ring you speak of, but I give my word."

Mortis ex Verditus: I am personally in favor of basically everything the Custos of Cyprian is opposed to, so there is that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it can't be helped

"Well, in that case we should make a new set of rings."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Secret signet rings would betray the knowledge that we have even sworn to secrecy."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "They're fun though."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The Tytalans are fond of secret phrases and handshakes, too. It's all good."

Mortis ex Verditus: What was your plan to kill the giant anyway, Lavinia?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lure it into a lightning circle

Mortis ex Verditus: I was just going to get a bunch of zombies to punch him to death.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i was going to lie to it that I was going to free it

Archibald of Guernicus: An incredible plan, with just a few minor drawbacks.

Mortis ex Verditus: Excuse me, I mean Zombies.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: draw a giant lightning ward around it set to trigger when I turn invisible

Curate Piu: lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then let the rest of you work from there

Guy of Bonisagus: cool plans but what if we kill the giant

Mortis ex Verditus: That's the name I innovented for the walking dead.

Archibald of Guernicus: The first is that the zombies will deal nowhere near enough damage to break through his soak. The second is that even when they do, his size is so large as to render that kind of damage totally worthless.

GM: how do you even know how much soak he has

Mortis ex Verditus: That's where the lightning trap comes in.

Archibald of Guernicus: I assume the insanely fucking huge giant has a large soak value, considering shit like size 0 demons have had in the realm of 18+

so does sir oak in fact, iirc

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if you remember the giant spiderbeast who came up a few sessions ago, he was might ~20 and size +5 but since he was unarmed he had pathetic soak regardless

sir oak has huge soak because he's made of solid wood

Mortis ex Verditus: Giants don't necessarily have any soak.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the thing about Demons having insanely high physical stats is limited to Demons and Angels and not relevant to fae/magic afiak

Mortis ex Verditus: It would probably just be whatever his Stamina is.

Plus a couple extra points for Tough Skin or what have you.

Father Hazm: Let's just "you can try :)" whatever MOrtis's plan is

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alternatively, instead of attacking it directly, we assemble some mangonels inside the giant chamber and let the undead operate those

GM: the giant has some interesting properties and abilities but i didnt try to be unfair. its very strong and large.

Mortis ex Verditus: Mangonels eh?

GM: you can try whatever plan you want, you've had a few good ones

Mortis ex Verditus: Where would we get any?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton hastily writes up a Siege Engineer Grog

Mortis ex Verditus: I think the lightning trap could work since he isn't immediately hostile and also he's stupid.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i was also hoping archibald is strong enough to Might Nuke it

which does lower a magical creature's stats afiak

GM: you should also consider what kind of ACs and sympathetic connections you can scrape together.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oooh

Guy of Bonisagus: the giants favorite bread

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait a minute, isn't Joanna of Naples trying to conquer Sicily?

There might be some mercenaries we could hire who have siege weapons.

Dušan of Criamon: the plot thickens

Lavinia of Jerbiton: funny idea: use a Sun duration spell to shrink a giant boulder to the size of a pebble, put it in the bread, let giant eat it, spell wears off, ..

GM: lmao.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's go to cairo and buy a crate of incendiary bombs

Archibald of Guernicus: The issue is we dont know how high its Might is at all. For the spell to do -5 fairy might, the aura was fairy 7, so I'll let you see the penetration on it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: her conquest isn't for a few years

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to launch at the giant

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: funny story. the ruler in Sicily she is opposing is named "Frederick the Simple" and may be legitimately retarded.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+35

(

2

)

+35

=

37

37 penetration

GM: That's really cool Lavinia.

Archibald of Guernicus: so 40 on a decent roll

GM: Sicily seems like a great place.

Archibald of Guernicus: the tiber had 50

Mortis ex Verditus: We could just use magic that doesn't need to penetrate.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Drop the giant into a pit.

Archibald of Guernicus: well lavinia was specifically asking me to lower its might, im saying this could be impossible to achieve

Mortis ex Verditus:  Best Cry Ever 12 Hours

GM: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: without wasting a season on a wand to do it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cumthinker what comprises an arcane connection to a fairy?

Guy of Bonisagus: if you fuck it you have an ac while fucking it

Mortis ex Verditus: But finding Sympathetic and Arcane connections could be fairly easy.

GM:  lifts myself to full height, voice booms like thunder  You Could Try

Guy of Bonisagus: it looks like its going to be up to the magus with the biggest size bonus to save the day

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhh lemme check

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i feel pretty optimistic that with enough planning we could Kill it but I wager it's too late today to start a combat

Archibald of Guernicus: i dont think we have any size+1 magi anymore

GM: yeah we could start next week with a big fight if you want. it is getting kind of late.

Archibald of Guernicus: we lost both our giants

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i know some of the special faerie ACs are actually one-way where the faerie gets a connection to you but not vice versa

Mortis ex Verditus: We could do it next week.

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald is a giant!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: archibald says we're going with plan bread for now

Archibald of Guernicus: no hes not

Guy of Bonisagus: what the fuck

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes just big

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we'll come back and kill it once plan bread epicly fails.

GM: any piece of a faerie's glamour is a +3 Body Part AC.

Archibald of Guernicus: hes just tall, hes not 7ft tall for the Large virtue

GM: Sympathetic connections work as normal.

Archibald of Guernicus: or 8ft for the Giant one

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he has some kind of fae blood.

some sympathetic connections aren't valid for faeries i think.

Archibald of Guernicus: Padfoot blood

GM: You have at least two SCs because you've seen the giant identified with Enceladus as well as the Palici twin deities.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if this Fae is really stupid and willing to let Lavinia set up a bunch of pentagrams around it, I could invent a rite that launches boulders and just queue up 30 of those before the battle begins

GM: as "Nicknames".

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sympathetic connections don't have value without an arcane connection tho

GM: True, but you do have them just in case you find an AC.

Also speaking to a faerie creates a two way +2 AC for the duration of the conversation.

Mortis ex Verditus: Can you use Arcane or Sympathetic connections to juice up the penetration on your hedge magic wards?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no, sadly

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: but pentagrams already get an absurd penetration bonus

Mortis ex Verditus: How much?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +5 penetration multiplier, so 25 with lavinia's pen score

Mortis ex Verditus: Breddy gud.

Hmm, what else we got?

What about doing something to the chair?

GM: Hasn't really been proposed outside of you suggesting they tip it over.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm close to falling asleep so I'll step out now

Mortis ex Verditus: Well anyway should we just wait for next week to continue this discussion?

Archibald of Guernicus: sure

Dušan of Criamon: shit was good tonight, until the part where Mortis and Lavinia theorycraft how they're going to get stepped on by a giant

nevertheless, good luck

smell you all tomorrow

Guy of Bonisagus: i wish lavinia the best of luck in getting stomped to death by a giant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't, as she is wearing 1000 pawns worth of magic items

GM: We could do that. I'll write up the item and stuff you found in Anson's lab soon and do the fight and XP next week.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Father Hazm: The minionmancers want to attack the high might being while the bad boys of direct damage don't

GM: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Makes you think.

GM: good game. thanks for playing everyone. hope it was fun.

Mortis ex Verditus: I had fun.

johns: i had a blast!

Father Hazm: What if we just collapse the cave on him?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gg

Father Hazm: Drop a Titan on it

gg

ez stalemate for me

GM: thats a possibility. feel free to theorycraft itt, this is a fight that could benefit from planning

Guy of Bonisagus: cant wait to kill a titan

Mortis ex Verditus: We did it everyone.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+8+2+5 sortes in Ponza aura

(

5

)

+8+2+5

=

20

c'thinker (GM): .