4/30/17

Entanglement: Aristocritus, the tongue has been pitted and dissolved by the magically created water.

If that was a real tongue, it would be pretty painful!

Timotheos: I I do the raise the roof tauren dance

Entanglement: The earth the tower stands on hasn't been dissolved though.

Severin of Tytalus: Severin of Tytalus casts a spell.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "What's this staff made of?"

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 2

(

3

)

+2

=

5

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "We could bring the whole tower down with enough water, but if it wouldn't survive the collapse, then..."

Severin of Tytalus: "Wood, of course. What else would you make a staff out of?"

He points to the third floor, "My staff is there.

"We must ascend the tower, for my magic is not enough to tear it apart."

"I doubt my staff could survive the collapse of the entire tower."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The mouth is rather ominous, either way."

I cast Wizard's Sidestep on myself, and any ally who wishes it

Tanolfi: Me, please./

Severin of Tytalus: "Nonsense, who has ever heard of a carnivorous house?" He laughs.

Archibald of Guernicus: I give Tanolfi the ol' sidestep

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "We could fly to the third floor and make a hole in the wall."

sidestep please

"But then we'd be in a bad spot if we needed to back out."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. I can open a door in the stone wall up there, if ye have any rego corpus to get me up."

"Hm, true, but we don't know what awaits us on each floor. Bypassing traps entirely would be a good idea."

Severin of Tytalus: It might be.

AFK a sec.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "If it's just some packs of entanglements, they may come up to meet us, though."

Archibald of Guernicus: "In a pinch, I can destroy 10 of them at once. This would remove their precious vis, however!"

"To lose out on easily obtained vis would be a horrible mistake."

Aristocritus Bonisagi waits for endrite to come back, so he can hear what his intuition has to say

Archibald of Guernicus: "Nevertheless, we are in no danger from those awful things."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: each one is a pawn, right

Tanolfi: keep in mind it's faerie vis

less useful than magic vis

Aristocritus Bonisagi: doesn't it just do weird stuff on a botch

Tanolfi: its riskier to handle afiak

Severin of Tytalus: So what's the plan?

Tanolfi: let's bowl a skull in and see if it sets off a bunch of arrow traps

Timotheos: If it's vim vis, Kifaaya could use that to get her penetration bonus from her glove

Severin of Tytalus: So far, Entanglements have vis related to their core element, like a button, a coin, a shoe, or whatever.

This pretty much rules out Vim vis.

Tanolfi: Unless someone's thought of a good way to skip to the top floor then I'd like to just look inside the mouth and see what's on the first floor

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we have a great way, we can just fly up there and pour water on the wall

Archibald of Guernicus: Sounds good.

Severin of Tytalus: You stick your head in and see something FAIRLY horrible.

Timotheos: I'll move quietly as a hulking iminotaur can move (which is fairly quietly if the Maze Beast's stats are to be believed), and poke the tongue with a stick.

Tanolfi: I see [name] 's posts. haha

Archibald of Guernicus: The minotaur can be a good distraction downstairs while we attack the upper floor

Severin of Tytalus: The interior of the tower is circular, with just a ramp spiraling up around the walls.

The walls are apparently made of leathery faces, their mouths open in a grotesque scream.

Just faces, no teeth or eyeballs.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Severin, can I borrow that waterskin?"

Severin of Tytalus: There's also four mirrors on plinths on the first floor.

Each of these has an object resting on it which an entanglement is growing around.

Tanolfi: We've found it.

Infinite vis engine.

Severin of Tytalus: Possibly.

Archibald of Guernicus rubs hands hermetically

Aristocritus Bonisagi: who needs an infinite vis engine when you can just force hedge wizards to extract vis for you

Severin of Tytalus: Anyway, Severin does allow you to borrow his waterskin, Aristocritus.

Timotheos: "Think they got a larder in there?"

Severin of Tytalus: Timotheos, the tongue does not react to being poked.

Tanolfi: this is basically how meng hao became infinitely powerful

we just need to put stuff on the mirrors to grow entanglements of the vis we want

Severin of Tytalus: If it didn't react to being dissolved then probably poking it won't do anything.

Timotheos: Okay

"I'm gonna see if they have any food."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we just need to find some dead french wizards and we can grow Sum vis

well, one specific dead french wizard

Tanolfi: aelous..

Severin of Tytalus: RIP

Tanolfi: let's aim the mirrors at the moon and get lunar vis

Aristocritus Bonisagi: I pour some water out on the tongue and the external wall, to test it.

Timotheos: "I'm so hungry I could eat a trojan horse."

"Or at least, the contents."

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, the water running down the wall dissolves it, partially.

It'd take a while with just one water skin.

Timotheos: I'm going in

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Timotheos: I'd rather get killed by the traps than starve to death

Severin of Tytalus: The mouth fails to slam shut and chew you to death.

Timotheos: GG

Oh wait, fails

Severin of Tytalus: Owned.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm gonna do it anyway

Tanolfi: I follow

Severin of Tytalus: Do what?

Archibald of Guernicus: I also read that as 'falls to slam shut' at first

Aristocritus Bonisagi: fly up

Tanolfi: How are the mirrors attached or affixed or whatever

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10 botch check (rise of the feathery body)

(

7

)

=

7

Severin of Tytalus: They're attached to plinths.

The object rests on the surface of the mirror.

Timotheos looks for food first, and cool loot for his hole second.

Severin of Tytalus: The mirror is facing the ceiling.

Tanolfi: Anything on the ceiling of interest?

Severin of Tytalus: There's 5 things here you can eat, Timotheos.

Now that you enter the tower, you can see that the ramp just circles the tower until it reaches a platform near the top.

But no there's nothing interesting that you can see on the ceiling.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is there a roof to alight on

Severin of Tytalus: Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll step inside to take a cursory look around as well

Severin of Tytalus: There are alcoves up the ramp that hold more of these mirrors.

Timotheos: Eating magi tends to get me pelted iwth crystal darts, it's annoying

Not that I really have a choice in what Malachi pushes down my hole

Aristocritus Bonisagi: brb, but aristocritus scrambles onto the roof and starts pouring out water

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Timotheos: If we're gonna melt this tower over the course of a century, I'm going to go hunt for deer while we wait.

Severin of Tytalus: The water runs along the roof until it creates a deep enough scar, then pools in the scar until more water flows out, overflowing the scar and causing more corrosion as the water flows freely once again.

What's your Hunt score?

Timotheos: +12

Severin of Tytalus: Great job.

Hunting takes a while, but then again so does this attempt to dissolve the roof.

Roll Hunt + Per.

Timotheos:

rolling 12+d10

12+

(

5

)

=

17

Severin of Tytalus: Aristocritus, after a couple of hours the roof has corroded enough that you can see through it.

Giraldo of Milan: sorry. im back now

Severin of Tytalus: The platform at the top of the tower has a clawed stand holding a staff on it.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: same

Severin of Tytalus: It's probably Severin's staff!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is everyone just hanging out on the ground level

Timotheos: I'm hunting, it looks like

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah. We're going to do an assault from both sides when the minotaur gets back to head up first

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Hello down there!"

Severin of Tytalus: It's a simple, solid wooden staff, as opposed to the bizarrely crooked stand.

Timotheos catches a deer or something.

Delicious.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Mystical greetings, archon. We'll be heading up momentarily, when you're able to get in."

Timotheos: I'll walk back in a few hours later picking my teeth with an antler. "Still trying to melt this thing?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Why dont you just transmute the stone roof into water, aristocritus

Timotheos: "Guess I'll go up and see the view."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the stone roof would be a Part

Timotheos goes up the ramp

Severin of Tytalus: It's big enough that I'd call it Part +1 at least.

Timotheos: "Cool staff."

Severin of Tytalus: How did you go to the top of the tower, Timotheos?

Can you fly?

Timotheos: Oh

Aristocritus Bonisagi: up the ramp

Severin of Tytalus: Well that's a totally different kettle of fish, if you want to try that.

Timotheos: I think the magi were waiting for me to try it

That's why they've been standing around a few hours

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well, i'll keep pouring until there's a hole big enough to fit through

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: also, from my vantage point:

Severin of Tytalus: As you might expect from corrosion, the speed of destruction increases exponentially.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10+3+1 awareness+perception, to try and see if anything along the ramp looks particularly dangerous

(

3

)

+3+1

=

7

not doin so great on the awareness today

Timotheos: If it's exponential destruction, probably the destruction is dangerous

Severin of Tytalus: Within a single hour there's a hole large enough to fit through. Water flows through the hole onto the platform below and down the ramp.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yikes

Archibald of Guernicus: Down the ramp

Uh oh

Giraldo of Milan: good

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ok time for the greatest trick of all

Timotheos: I'll stop climbing the ramp when I see the water

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Couple more entanglements up here!"

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

The water rolls down the ramp fairly quickly, so it stops you at ground level.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: I cast The Unseen Porter on the staff.

Timotheos: Good spell

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Keep in mind it can't lift stuff more than 6 feet off the ground.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10+15+0+1 (herbam req, level 10)

(

1

)

+15+0+1

=

17

oh no

i didn't stress it though.

Severin of Tytalus: No botch here.

Archibald of Guernicus: Formulaic, right? It wasnt even stresed

Aristocritus Bonisagi: a botch would make these several hours of waiting more interesting though

Severin of Tytalus: Anyway, since you can fly it shouldn't be too much trouble to grab the staff from your Unseen Porter.

Archibald of Guernicus: Are the entanglements visible from down here?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh, I was going to just walk it down the ramp

Severin of Tytalus: No.

Oh ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: and then float down

Severin of Tytalus: The Entanglements grab the staff as it floats past them.

It's time for a Strength roll!

There are three Entanglements, so I'm giving them a bonus to this roll.

Archibald of Guernicus: Good luck, friend

Severin of Tytalus: Roll your Strength against mine, Aristocritus.

Or rather, your Unseen Porter's.

Stressed.

rolling 1d10! + 3

(

9

)

+3

=

12

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Argh!"

rolling 1d10!+5

(

10

+

2

)

+5

=

17

Severin of Tytalus: Nice.

Giraldo of Milan: damn

Timotheos: Nice roll

Severin of Tytalus: Alright, you manage to drag the Entanglements along for the ride until the ever growing river forces them to let go.

Archibald of Guernicus: "How's it going up there?"

Severin of Tytalus: It makes it to the bottom without further incident.

Aristocritus Bonisagi remains silent, trying to concentrate on the spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: The staff is here then? I'll pick it up and hand it to Severin

Giraldo of Milan: "Oh, there it is."

Severin of Tytalus: "Ah, thank you my friends."

"A mere trinket, yet I find myself comforted by this fragment of my past."

"As you know, we magi put something of ourselves in our talismans. It is good to feel whole again."

Outside the tower, Peripeteia appears in a cloud of sparkly blue smoke.

Her daughter is older now, she appears to be an adolescent.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hopefully that's the end of this meddling for you then, eh?" I say to Severin before we greet the fairy

Aristocritus Bonisagi: talk about molesting the fae

Peripeteia: "Heroes, you have done it!"

"Severin has defeated the Cruciator once and for all and he has retrieved his staff!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye."

Aristocritus Bonisagi begins the slow process of levitating down from the top of the tower.

Peripeteia: "Congratulations!"

Roll Faerie Lore + Int.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

Timotheos: "Excelsior."

rolling d10-3

(

6

)

-3

=

3

Tanolfi:

rolling 0+0

0+0

=

0

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 0

0

=

0

Peripeteia: Fairy Lore is an Arcane Ability, so you can only roll it if you have points in it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah

Aristocritus Bonisagi: cripes

Peripeteia: OR if you're a Jack of All Trades.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 0

0

=

0

Timotheos: I could just refuse to roll but that's not as fun as getting a negative number.

Tanolfi: jackoff of all trades

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 0 / 0

0/0

=

null

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling -1d10

-1

=

-1

nice

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+6

(

7

)

+6

=

13

Peripeteia: Does anyone actually have Fairy Lore?

Giraldo of Milan: hey im here

Peripeteia: Ok nice.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: thats why we pay giraldo

PERSONALLY my speculation is that peripeteia is going to become the new cruciator

Peripeteia: Anything is possible, I suppose.

Timotheos: Congratulations, Perpeteia

Tanolfi: Let's kill her while she' sweak and harvest hte vis

Giraldo of Milan: I smirk at Severin again.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: (from far above) THIS

Giraldo of Milan: "I hope you plan to stick around for a bit, Severin."

Timotheos: I'll go bully some grogs into carrying my skulls for me

Time to take this loot home

Severin of Tytalus: "What are you talking about?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: those skulls are an excellent source of calcium for a growing cow

Severin of Tytalus: The only grogs here are you, Giraldo, and Tanolfi.

Giraldo of Milan: wjats calcium

Tanolfi: I say "no" to the hulking 9 foot tall minotaur with an axe bigger than me

Giraldo of Milan: i also do not take the skulls.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: go bully prudenzio into conjuring up some undead slaves to carry the skulls

Tanolfi: grumble grumble skull duty again

Giraldo of Milan: "Don't you know anything about faeries, Severin?"

Timotheos: No NPC servants? these are some wack magi

Fine, I'll carry the skulls myself.

Severin of Tytalus: "Only what I had to learn while fighting for my life for seven months in a deadly game of cat and mouse."

Archibald of Guernicus: "More trouble than they're worth, that's all I need to know."

Aristocritus Bonisagi lands.

Tanolfi: i take some skulls

i was joking

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "What an adventure!"

Timotheos: If I'm a grog then according to the Magic Might scale, I'm a Legendary Grog, which might be fitting.

Tanolfi: i do not want to be smote by a magical beast

Giraldo of Milan: "You should read more faerie stories. The hero gets his magic weapon at the beginning of the adventure."

Severin of Tytalus: In the Order of Hermes there's no such thing as "Companions", they're merely exceptional Grogs.

Tanolfi: "I got my weapon from the bowyer wit' no teeth"

Timotheos: I see

Severin of Tytalus: "What?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Apart from Zita, of course, who is a member of the order proper.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "I always get fresh swords out of the armory."

and orsu

Giraldo of Milan: "You're going to be seeing a lot more of these faeries."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: and lavinia.

Severin of Tytalus: "Is this true, fairy? Am I fated to be toyed with for the rest of my life?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what are you implying you schismatic greek boy rapist

Aristocritus Bonisagi: are you even allowed to learn the parma

Peripeteia: "Oh my dear Severin, you have only begun your rise. You must regain the great stature you held before the dark and evil Cruciator so cruelly tore you from your home."

Giraldo of Milan: "Not such a bad deal."

Timotheos: If I'm a companion, mechanically, then I'll have to spend some seasons sprucing up my hole

Severin of Tytalus: "'Great stature?' I have never been a magus of any fame!"

"I was interested in fighting my foes and protecting my friends, not performing legendary deeds!"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "You're the head magus of your covenant now."

Severin of Tytalus: "Is there no end to this fairy foolishness?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton starts planning Aristocritus' untimely demise

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "starts"

Archibald of Guernicus: Hm. The archon was killed by some sort of... wooden man?

Timotheos: Hehehe

Giraldo of Milan: "If I had to guess, that young fairy that looks like you could be gauging your story's progress."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: herbam, my only weakness except for animal and mentem and imaginem

Giraldo of Milan: "When she dies, you'll be free. No worries."

Peripeteia: "Nevertheless, sweet Severin, you are destined for greatness and I shall be with you every step of the way."

Severin looks furious.

Peripeteia's daughter looks bored.

Archibald of Guernicus: I put a hand on his shoulder "Perdo Vim is a very useful tool, ye know. We have some excellent books on Vim at Vardian's Tomb if ye're open to trade and discussion."

Severin of Tytalus: "I'm no Vim Specialist, Guernicus."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, I'm saying it might be useful ye damn Tytalan."

Timotheos: "Could always do with a wife being shoved into my hole. Even Asterion got THAT courtesy."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: mmm haha

Severin of Tytalus: "Do you know how much trouble it is to destroy a creature of decent might with Vim?"

"A spell powerful enough to destroy her would also need to penetrate her magic resistance."

"Such a feat would be almost impossible to accomplish."

Archibald of Guernicus: I shrug "Well, enjoy yer story then."

Timotheos: "Well, some say there were food, not wives. Asterion never struck me as that sort of wasteful type, though."

Giraldo of Milan: "You could just get a bow or a sword."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "It should be easy to find a few good bandits to set up camp in your ruins."

Peripeteia: Peripeteia seems unconcerned that you are plotting to kill her.

You know right in front of her face.

Timotheos: They plot to kill me too, it's no biggie

Tanolfi: "Ye could reject the story and this sassy dame"

Timotheos: Minotaur feeding is expensive

Peripeteia: "Oh, a hero so often refuses the call to adventure."

"Overcoming this reluctance is what defines a true hero."

Tanolfi: "What if a new hero steps up instead"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: unfortunately faeries are immune to anachronism damage

Archibald of Guernicus: It's really tempting to leave this guy to his fate and come back in 10 years where he's running around on progressively stupider adventures.

Peripeteia: "Only one hero is chosen by fate for their destiny."

"Stealing someone else's destiny? What a ridiculous proposition," She laughs musically.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i don't really see any reason not to leave this guy to his wacky adventures

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, if ye need any help in your continued addventures, hero, we can perhaps help ye out." I laugh

Tanolfi: "Sounds like a crime of the ages"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "The stuff of legends!"

Tanolfi: "They'll sing songs of the Fate Thief"

Timotheos: He got his stick back. Everything's right in the world.

Peripeteia: "Those who would fight against fate are often destroyed by it, magi of Vardian's Tomb."

Tanolfi: Fate is a crutch for bad writers

like Greg Stafford

Severin of Tytalus: "The greatest boon you could give me is to leave me alone!"

"Damnable fairies, why am I cursed with their attention?"

"Should I have gone to church more?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "All that heroism in ye, of course."

Giraldo of Milan: "It's just bad luck. They bother me sometimes too."

"You get used to it."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm glad I didn't take Zita along here because she is actually cursed with heroic blood and this fairy might have latched onto her.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "If it ever gets particularly bad, you know where to find us."

Severin of Tytalus: Potentially.

Tanolfi: Good meeting you, have fun in faerie hell forever

Peripeteia: Peripeteia and her daughter vanish in a puff of sparkly blue smoke.

Timotheos: Thank you for the escort outside so I could get a deer.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, we're always open to trades and such. Lending a hand to an ally, ye know."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Welcome back to the land of the living, Tytalus."

Tanolfi: also, let's take him to court for destroying our property, cavorting with diedne, and molesting the fae

Severin of Tytalus: "Thank you, my friends."

Giraldo of Milan: "Being boring might get her to leave you alone, or it might get her to kill you."

Severin of Tytalus: "Still, even though I labor under this curse, you have saved my life thrice over."

"I owe you a reward."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: swift death

Timotheos: Swift death? Should've brought Kifaaya

Severin of Tytalus: "Will you accept two vis sources? I will not be able to collect all of them without any grogs."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hachi machi

Severin of Tytalus: "I can also give you three of my spells."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's much appreciated, Severin."

Archibald of Guernicus stuffs this herbam nonsense into a drawer where it lies forgotten until vardians tomb is destroyed

Tanolfi: what's in this deal for lavinia

Severin of Tytalus: He rattles off a few vis sites, but the first three he mentions you already use: the Perdo vis bat cave, the Auram vis bird's nest, and the Vim vis Pantheon.

Timotheos: Kifaaya might need some Herbam eventually, for cotton tailoring

Archibald of Guernicus: "Er, about those sources."

Severin of Tytalus: The first two he gives you that you don't already have are a Vim vis source (crystals) in a strange, ancient cave between Rome and Lycelleus and a tree split by a lightning bolt that smolders eternally, producing Ignem vis ash.

Archibald of Guernicus: Vim vis, sweet.

Always good to get vim vis

Aristocritus Bonisagi: weem

Severin of Tytalus: Here's a list of his spells, you can pick three for him to write down and give.

Ward Against the Beasts of Legend (ReAn 30/+21) ArM5,

page 120

Ward Against Rain (ReAu 10/+21), ArM5, page 128

Bridge of Wood (CrHe 20 /+24) ArM5, page 135

Wall of Thorns (CrHe 20/+24) ArM5, page 135.

Severin of Tytalus: Intuition of the Forest (InHe 10/+16) ArM5, page 136

Interrogate Object (InHe 25/+16) This is Converse With Plant

and Tree (ArM5, page 136), but renamed during the war

and generally used to talk with human-made objects.

Functionally the spells are identical.

Thaumaturgical Transformation of Plants to Iron (MuHe(Te)

Severin of Tytalus: 20/+15)

Plant’s Withering Bane (PeHe 20/+22) ArM5, page 137

The Great Rot (PeHe 25/+21) ArM5, page 138

Acorns For Amusement (ReHe 5/+40), Mastery 4 (Multiple

Casting, Penetration, Quiet Casting, Still Casting)

Rickety Stack (ReHe 5/+36)

Severin of Tytalus: Enemies All Aquiver (ReHe 10/+36)

Repel the Wooden Shafts (ReHe10/+36)

Rough-Hewn Servant (ReHe 10/+36)

Tangle of Wood and Thorns (ReHe 15/+36)

Carved Assassin (ReHe 20/+36)

Penetration, Silent Casting, Still Casting)

Severin of Tytalus: Tomb of Kaineus (ReHe 20/+40) Mastery 4 (Multiple Casting,

Ward Against the Faeries of the Wood (ReHe 20/+36) ArM5,

page 138

The Treacherous Spear (ReHe 25/+36)

Carnivorous House (ReHe 35/+36)

Free The Striding Tree (ReHe 35/+36) Level is raised for

Severin of Tytalus: Sun duration.

Chirurgeon’s Healing Touch (CrCo20/+18), Mastery 3 (Fast

Casting, Still Casting, Quiet Casting, ArM5, page 129

Purification of the Festering Wounds (CrCo20/+15) ArM5,

page 129

The Earth Split Asunder (ReTe 30/+29) ArM5, page 156.

Severin of Tytalus: Circular Ward Against Demons (ReVi 25/+21) ArM5,

page 162

Watching Ward (ReVi25/+21) ArM5, page 162

Appearance: Severin looks like a man who

Aristocritus Bonisagi: he looka like a man

Severin of Tytalus: He does.

If you don't know what a spell does, just ask.

Archibald of Guernicus: Watching Ward?

Timotheos: Chirurgeon’s Healing Touch is good

Kifaaya managed to spont enough for it at one point

Lucky explosion, but still

Aristocritus Bonisagi: earth split asunder sounds good

what's purification of the festering wounds do

Severin of Tytalus: Watching Ward allows you to put a spell into a ward that is triggered by a simple condition.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i guess i can look that up

Archibald of Guernicus: Huh, Archibald is 33. Have the older covenant members started on longevity rituals then

Tanolfi: ask him to make an enchanted item for lavinia. tia.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i have not aged aristocritus at all.

Archibald of Guernicus: That sounds very good, I'll take Watching Ward.

Severin of Tytalus: Purification of the Festering Wounds gives you +9 to recovery rolls.

Timotheos: Kifaaya isn't here to vote so Ill stop commenting

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristocritus should be 36 or 37, at least, shouldnt he

Aristocritus Bonisagi: probably

Severin of Tytalus: He'll be giving you these spells over the next few months so feel free to vote, Shaun.

It takes time to translate them from lab notes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Has anyone at the covenant besides Venator actually bothered with a longevity ritual

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what are the aging bonuses and penalties we have

Endrite (GM): Proclus wants to have children.

Timotheos: Either of the CrCo healing spells are fine additions to our library, I think

Well, recovery, not healing, but still

Archibald of Guernicus: Still useful in our adventures

Aristocritus Bonisagi: earth split asunder would be good since we have uhh three? people who are good at rete

Proclus of Rome: We should take Carnivorous House, sodales.

Timotheos: Kifaaya might want to have children, but will potentially make rituals for others, having a good amoutn of Corpus and ambitions regarding Creo

Tanolfi: living conditions are +1 for magi, +1 for the rat repelling animo, +2 for anyone the doctor's physical regiment iirc?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: but -1 from our labs?

Endrite (GM): The Earth Split Asunder is this one:

Creates a 5-foot-wide, 60-foot-long, 10-

foot-deep crack in the ground. It opens on one

round, stays open for another round, and closes

at the start of a third round, crushing all within it

for +25 damage. You must maintain concentration

Endrite (GM): for all three rounds, or the pit slowly closes,

over an hour’s time, rather than shutting quickly

and violently. To avoid the pit, those in its vicinity

other than the caster must make a Quickness

stress roll of 9+. Falling in incurs +10 damage. To

escape, another such roll is made. Unless outside

Endrite (GM): chance to escape.

help is provided, people in the pit only get one

-1 from being Underground -2 from being in a city.

Archibald of Guernicus: Carnivorous house is great, but who amongst us can cast it?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: soooo -1 total unless i'm on the special diet

Tanolfi: wait

i thought it was only -2 to commoners/covenfolk

Endrite (GM): It involves blood letting, as well.

Timotheos: Hmmm

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what does Acorns for Amusement do

Endrite (GM): Covenfolk don't get the +2 that magi get from their superior provisions.

Timotheos: Kifaaya could attempt a Breakthrough on the infertility aspect of longevity rituals

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, fellow magus. Let some blood out for others to collect.

Timotheos: Once she starts doing CrCo experiments

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the most important breakthroug of all: letting magi fuck

Endrite (GM): Acorns for Amusement allows you to throw wooden objects around.

Doing +1 for small acorns to +10 for logs a pace across.

Tanolfi: okay the base aging modifiers are on page 170

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't make aging rolls until 50 so I'll wait for all my aging and dying sodales to come up with all the great bonuses for aging rolls they can, then swoop in when I finally need them.

Tanolfi: "Typical Spring or Winter Covenant (magus) +1"

Endrite (GM): You could, for example, throw murderous wooden dolls around with it.

Tanolfi: "Poor, or unhealthy location; typical town -2"

Timotheos: Once you're out of books to read, is the best way to grind an Art to eat vis?

Endrite (GM): Oh I thought it was +2 for maguses.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yes

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Tanolfi: Also, your health is modified by  half  of your lab's health score

Timotheos: Okay, I'll have to do that to get Rego to 5

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do we not have rego books

Timotheos: One tract

No summae

Archibald of Guernicus: We should fix gaps in our library, imo.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: really

Tanolfi: Which is -1 for underground, +2 for having no rats?

Archibald of Guernicus: The lack of a good rego summa is a huge problem.

Endrite (GM): He can't provide you with any Arts books.

Yeah probably Johns.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i guess i just got huge rego from dumping all my adventure and lab xp into it

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, not from him, I meant we should reach out to covenants we're friendly with and try to negotiate an exchange.

Tanolfi: because boy R. is a big jerk and nerfed the hell out of my cool invention

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hes not watching just change it back

Tanolfi: so your base aging roll is +1 for being a rich magus and +2 if you let lavinia drink your blood

Aristocritus Bonisagi: everyone except lodewig gets huge aging bonuses

definitely not letting lavinia drink my blood

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont think giving your blood to Lavinia will help you lead a longer, happier life.

Endrite (GM): I thought it was +3 total if you took Lavinia's regimen.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'll give you 5 pawns of vis in exchange for access to your collection of fixed arcane connections

Giraldo of Milan: how much blood does lavinia drink

Archibald of Guernicus: Enough to fix an arcane connection to store for rainy days.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: a jerbiton woman would never deign to answer that question

Tanolfi: it's +2

I could give +3 if I had only a single client

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what if you kill all of your clients except me

Giraldo of Milan: she can drink giraldos blood in a couple decades when he actualoly makes aging rolls

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah it's fine for non-magi. Mostly.

Endrite (GM): I'll post the spell list in the thread.

Archibald of Guernicus: In that an arcane connection isn't as horrifying a threat.

Endrite (GM): I thought you only had one.

Giraldo of Milan: its just as much of a threat to mundanes as it is to magi

Endrite (GM): KIND of.

Mundanes don't have any magic resistance in the first place.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yeah but who cares enough to kill a mundane instantly at extreme range

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah. The threat of arcane connections is the penetration multiplier more than anything else.

A magi can already just kill a mundane, fairly easily

Don't need an AC for that

Endrite (GM): Anyway, Severin says his goodbyes.

Tanolfi: what a gyp

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Goodbye Severin.

Endrite (GM): If you have anything urgent you want to say to him you should say it now.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ask him where his sanctum will be so we can press charges later

Endrite (GM): His sanctum is in Lycelleus covenant.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm going to write a secret trianoma report about the ancient magus who has pro-diedne sympathies but is fortunately busy dealing with faeries

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Allah light your way, magus."

Kifaaya of Verditius invokes the faerie demigod, Allah, to torment him too

Giraldo of Milan: moon god

Endrite (GM): Severin wishes you luck, then grabs his staff and falls over, disappearing.

Giraldo of Milan: is the session over

Endrite (GM): Pretty much.

Kifaaya of Verditius: GG

Giraldo of Milan: g

Archibald of Guernicus: Will Allah, the moon god, be destroyed when Criamon destroys the moon.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is that normal for severin

falling over and disappearing

Endrite (GM): 7 XP. Also Aristocritus you get a Confidence Point for coming up with a clever solution to the Tower of Downcast Faces.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yeah!

Endrite (GM): One that is, unfortunately, in the book.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: no!

Endrite (GM): To answer your question, he hasn't done it before, but maybe that's how his talisman works.

Anyway, what do you plan to do with Severin going forward?

Press charges?

Kifaaya of Verditius: He's suffered enough as far as I'm concerned

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i plot with him against my sodales

Kifaaya of Verditius: I have a few years worth of reading to do

Aristocritus Bonisagi: can we have him put the houses back

Endrite (GM): The houses were essentially ruined by the effort of attacking your covenant.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Those peasants deserved it

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well, they can just fix them up and live in a new neighborhood

Archibald of Guernicus: He claimed that Tremere are lying psychopaths who manipulated the order into the false destruction of Diedne. So he's either an infernalist, or stupid, or right.

We should look into his old covenant in case it's the former.

Kifaaya of Verditius: It could be more than one of those

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well house trianoma is aware of him now

write something up for house guernicus and both the wizard FBI and the wizard CIA can be on his case

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll mention him to them and ask if there's records on his covenant, specifically on the Diedne that lived there.

Endrite (GM): When is the next Tribunal?

1335?

Archibald of Guernicus: Woah, pretty soon

Endrite (GM): Well I don't really know.

Johns knows.

ALLEGEDLY.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: aristocritus, mailing his 1000th secret trianoma letter: hope someone writes back this time

Endrite (GM): To whomst are you writing?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i forget the title but there's a boss trianoma in charge of the tribunal and a couple others

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i met him at tribunal

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Julius Trianoma

Anyway let's decide what we want to do next week, I have a few possibilities

Endrite (GM): Wow a guy who loves to take vacations.

Archibald of Guernicus: You recieve a missive, delivered to you in secret. It reads: To whom this may concern, this is a McDonald's drivethrough

Endrite (GM): Surely a master of intrigue.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: first of all there's nay of these things here

http://ars-badgame-ii.wikia.com/wiki/Hooks_/_Rumors

if nothing in particular stands out then we're going to a ruined magical battlefield

Endrite (GM): Ah, Vardian's Tomb.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm interested in the neomecurians, since they concern the house of my companion character.

There's also the island. You wrote up details on the glass whale, right?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm interested in the neomercurians because htye have they coolest cult benefits

Archibald of Guernicus: I could see about providing the Terram end of things to get it started for you to animate

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah but the spell to shrink/resize it is pretty high level so we might not be able to pull it off yet

Archibald of Guernicus: MuTe surely, how high was it?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: did we ever get our lead mine

or whatever

Lavinia of Jerbiton: http://badgame.net/index.php?topic=26550.msg11442331#msg11442331

the lead mine is the ruined battlefield place

which btw we're running low on money

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh

Lavinia of Jerbiton: unless we either get a new income source or sell some vis

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ok. showdown with the neomercurians at the combination lead mine / glass whale foundry

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whalepunk

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Adronicus of Literatus has informed you that the Baron Torquato di Conti has a spy in your covenant.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay I figured out how to get some more soak on the minotaur without raising his Might, give him a power along the lines of Doublet of Impenetrable Silk

Aristocritus Bonisagi: probably not a big deal

Archibald of Guernicus: Money, is good.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: as i recall last time you investigated the spy you wound up uncovering the magic cats

Archibald of Guernicus: That effect is pretty high it seems, 39, oof

Lavinia of Jerbiton: which shit I should add that, we can go tomb robbing old pagan tombs they point out

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we should read up on the ruined monastery before going back to ponza

Lavinia of Jerbiton: shaun/beardbeard/endrite, what do you want to do

Endrite (GM): I'm interested in a lead mine.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so 1 vote for lead mine, 1 vote for neomercurians, 1 vote for ruined monastery

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lead mine sounds good if our resident necromancer can be there

Endrite (GM): Hmm, the NeoMercurians could also be cool.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: otherwise neomercurians. ponza can stay on the back burner

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay I'll ask dfd when he's around

Endrite (GM): Cool, cool.

Cool.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i mean its not mandatory but it would be cooler

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah agreed

and

I guess I should make a new thread soon

what should be in the OP besides a link to the rules pdf?

Endrite (GM): A link to the wiki.

Archibald of Guernicus: A rundown on the current magi, companions, and some of the things we're currently involved in?

Endrite (GM): Speaking of the wiki, I think we should put spells on their own page.

Away from the Library.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how about a bean with shoes saying "you got beaned"

Endrite (GM): Even though I guess they're stored in the library.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright

i only put em there out of habit

Aristocritus Bonisagi: did anyone ever put our magic artifacts in the library

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no i dont think we've been tracking those well

Aristocritus Bonisagi: they should definitely go there or on their own page

Endrite (GM): All the magic items are in the loot deck.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay I'll try to remember to write em up later then

Archibald of Guernicus: For spellmaking, molten glass would be terram with an ignem requisite?

Endrite (GM): Just terram, probably.

Why do you want to make molten glass?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: whale

Archibald of Guernicus: I had an idea for a spell that turns the dirt below someone into molten glass

Endrite (GM): If you want to make a glass whale with magic you use Rego craft magic.

That would probably be MuTe(Ig) then.

You could just make liquid glass with MuTe.

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 3 base to turn dirt to glass, interesting

Endrite (GM): That turns it to solid glass.

It would be base 4 for liquid glass.

Then +1 or something if you want it to be hot.

It depends on how hot you want it to be.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: you could just have it be liquid glass but without any heat

Archibald of Guernicus: Changing dirt into a liquid is also level 3, anyhow.

Ah, and +1 from dirt to glass, nvm

Endrite (GM): What do you want to do with the spell?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: then for the heat probably look to crig for how much damage you want it to do

Archibald of Guernicus: I was thinking that I didnt have anything to deal with a group of creatures trying to kill me and my sodales

So it seemed like an interesting way of going about it

Aristocritus Bonisagi: since "molten glass, but it's room temperature and doesn't solidify" is just a valid thing to create with hermetic magic

Endrite (GM): Well do you want it to burn people to death or do you want to trap the in a pit or what?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: become an elementalist and turn the ground to flaming oil for a second, then have it turn back to earth to trap them after they've been burned

Archibald of Guernicus: Burning to death in molten glass sounded fun, but we still lack a good ignem book, so trapping them in liquid glass is probably better

If it's conc duration I could let them fall in, then encase them in dirt, perhaps

Endrite (GM): How would they get trapped in liquid glass?

Archibald of Guernicus: From falling into it, when the ground beneath them becomes liquid glass

Endrite (GM): But how viscous would the liquid glass be?

Archibald of Guernicus: I was making this with the assumption that its not so viscous that you can't fall in

If liquid glass it out of the question it could just be mud, easier to make but I thought glass would be cooler

Endrite (GM): Since you're magically making the glass a liquid it can be as viscous as you want.

But liquid glass wouldn't be any tougher to get out of than liquid dirt.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hm

If it was instant duration and not viscous at all, someone would fall in, then it immediately turns back, right

Endrite (GM): Maybe.

Archibald of Guernicus: The idea with conc duration is to do it, let someone fall in, and then stop concetrating so the effect ends.

Endrite (GM): I don't think that would work.

A similar spell is in Rego Terram and ending concentration just slowly closes the hole.

Over like an hour.

Archibald of Guernicus: Damn

Endrite (GM): You could ask Malachiasz for some of his pit spells.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm certain I swapped lab texts with him before, actually, just never sat and spent a season learning the spell

Giving him a copy of Unwelcome Entrance

Endrite (GM): Well you'd have to ask him about that.

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean that he owes me a lab text anyway so that's a good idea

A spell to make someones organs fly out of their body is just a base 4 ReCo effect with a part target, isnt it

Endrite (GM): No, since you can't see organs.

I guess you could rip someone's eyes out that way.

Archibald of Guernicus: I was about to say the eyes, actually

Since they are visible

Hm

That seems very good for dealing with a threat

Endrite (GM): It seems like it could be defeated by someone closing their eyelids, though.

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah, seems that way in fact. oh well.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Would a bonus to Soak be a valid Essential Virtue

Essential Toughness

Endrite (GM): Ask Johns.

He's on Steam.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Regio Network could work as a labyrinth themed ability

With the intelligence penalty he has its not so good though

CrTe to resize armor would do more than MuCo to buff Soak

Endrite (GM): Regio network?

You could just buy big armor.

Kifaaya of Verditius: True

I think i will do so, or at least scheme to do so

Timotheos: Minotaurs don't have a lot of money

Endrite (GM): I think the covenant would be willing to shell out some cash for it.

He's more bestial than stupid, in any case.

Timotheos: True

Endrite (GM): -2 isn't even THAT stupid.

Timotheos: Pussiant Area Lore (Temple of Mercury) could net a +1 on that

Endrite (GM): It could but that is probably not a very useful area lore.

Since it's only the Temple of Mercury regio.

Timotheos: It needs to be modified

Endrite (GM): Why?

Timotheos: Good question

Just trying to figure out if https://puu.sh/vIXnt/8eec1b9d83.png could be made useful for a dweller of subterranean networks

Endrite (GM): It definitely could be but you'd have to clear that power with Johns, since I don't think there are any other mazes or maze regios in Italy.

Timotheos: That's a good reason not to take it

Endrite (GM): Anyway, see you next week.

Timotheos: Later, thanks for running

dys (GM): Mundane greetings

Endrite (GM): Whats up?

dys (GM): Nothing much. Can't think of what videogame to play.

Shauncat (GM): Is it okay to just find someone to initiate you into cult virtues in a season action post if the script is published in an Ars splat, the script doesn't require you to fight anything, and you already have the stuff you need to sacrifice?

And you're already a member of the cult

Endrite (GM): I dunno, who do you want?

Shauncat (GM): A Verditius with a script for Items of Virtue

Endrite (GM): Then no.

Generally magi are too important to just claim as allies for no reason.

Shauncat (GM): Understood

I'll ask johns for a sidequest when he wakes up perhaps

Endrite (GM): All the Verditus we know of are in the Verdi covenant.

Shauncat (GM): I'll hand a letter off to Zita to them, my parens at least should be known to them if not myself.

dys (GM): yeah, you can just assume its easy enough to contact anyone since Zita spends 2 seasons a year on redcap work already

Endrite (GM): Just make it up.

Shauncat (GM): I'll put some thought into how to earn a more powerful Verdi's favor

Endrite (GM): Make a thoughtful gift.

dys (GM): That bodice, but a codpiece instead.

Shauncat (GM): It will need to be fairly thoughtful as it's a season of the time of someone with enough cult lore to pass the threshold

Endrite (GM): It would probably need to be multiple seasons.

Verditus magi have a keen eye for quality, usually.

Shauncat (GM): That's an idea, I can cultivate my mundane crafting ability until its suitably impressive

I think that'll be my goal, get good enough at tailoring to write a summae on it

Endrite (GM): Almost nobody writes books on craft subjects.

It's part of the Artes Mechanicae and it's considered to be sordid and vulgar.

Not worth the time of men of letters.

But magi are weirdos so who knows???

dys (GM): It could see circulation in Verdi, as they are scholars and craftsmen.

Nowhere else, but who cares about anywhere else

Shauncat (GM): Yeah

Typical tradesmen use guilds and oral tradition rather than scholarly approaches, but we're not typical and the guilds usually dislike us.

A verdi could use a craft summae to get lab bonuses from craft skills, or train an apprentice faster

Well, not faster, but get them more crafting skill by the time they're gauntleted

Endrite (GM): Rolling aging for 1332.

rolling 1d10! -3

(

5

)

-3

=

2

No Apparent Aging.

dys (GM): The two adventures a year system means we might never see any magi die of old age, as the longevity ritual nerf intended.

Endrite (GM): It's possible.

Shauncat (GM): It's better to burn out than to fade away

dys (GM): well, yeah it does increase the chances of horrible magus death

so far only one but im sure we can do better

Shauncat (GM): I could always copy a script and then grind my Verditius Cult Lore until I can initiate myself. That'd still require a gift, but not a magi's time.

johns (GM): a&a says artists can study works of art like they were tracts so craftsfolk should be able to do the same

Shauncat (GM): Being an artist with mechanics for it sounds like a fun companion

dys (GM): is the xp based on the EF of making the work of art

johns (GM): i forget

i did an artist companion last game and ofund that as written the rules for being a legendary artist get really stupid once you hit a certain rep

like at rep 6 if my character wanted to advance he had to spend 3 seasons a year grinding, and would have died already if a magi hadnt given him longevity potion

Lavinia of Jerbiton: aging time

rolling 1d10!-2 1329: turns 41

(

8

)

-2

=

6

rolling 1d10!-2 1330: turns 42

(

9

)

-2

=

7

dys (GM): Lavinia is old, woah

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!-2 1331: turns 43

(

7

)

-2

=

5

she started old cause she already spend ~7 years in school

Shauncat (GM): I think I'll spend Summer 1333 translating lab notes and trade some of them for a copy of the Items of VIrtue script, which shouldn't take much time to copy

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!-2 1332: turns 44

(

2

)

-2

=

0

nice

dys (GM): started old and was around from the start

does she have a ritual up

Shauncat (GM): I'll trade the notes for my items since I don't think anyone in this covenant will make them

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes I got oen from bonfilia before she disappeared

-4

dys (GM): damn, are the only remaining original magi of vardians tomb lavinia and proclus now

Lavinia of Jerbiton: rip

dys (GM): oh

aristocritus maybe

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yeah who would forget our archon?

Shauncat (GM): But Curse of Circe and such might be a good addition to our library so I'll keep stuff like that

dys (GM): he fades in and out of existence, presumably through the powerful magic influence he exerts

his Dao is too strong for weaker minds to even recall him at times

johns (GM): he plays dota2

dys (GM): many greek heroes had fatal flaws that ruined them

I will be slightly late for actual session start, I need to eat dinner with my family. Mystical apologies.