8/19/18

devil's fav demon: hey that's a really cool map!

moe: test

this map is indeed cool but makes me extremely worried there'll be combat

and combat that could damage livelihoods as well as take lives

Beardbeard: what the fuck

johns: oops this forgot the bathhouse

Beardbeard: cant wait to finish the adventure about dys's vision without dys

johns (GM): fixed

moe: back in 2, gotta hang up laundry

Beardbeard: whos ready for my next adventure where some rabble youths deface all of lavinias statues

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/304177683175047168/480791877600149524/209bag6ga2h11.jpg?width=646&height=646

c'thinker (GM): hello

johns: salve

c'thinker (GM): nice map

johns: ty, do ppl see anything out of place or missing or want changes before its locked in

Beardbeard: wheres the shrine of saint proclus?

c'thinker (GM): is the aviary still combined with the stargazing tower

johns: thats what i assumed

moe: sure

i should probably scrounge up funds eventually and have a tower built

Beardbeard: wheres the well of bonisagus

johns: learn Conjuring the Mythic Tower

some distance from the inn

moe: that's like what, level 35

johns: like eastwards

Beardbeard: one of the cows is dead

johns: he sleep

c'thinker (GM): build the astrology tower one story taller than the aviary and get in a funding arms race with fiorella

Beardbeard: get in a race war

moe: i will be the one who is murdered once the contest escalates

johns: build the Tower of Babel from hermetic projects

moe: i absolutely would

c'thinker (GM): the only thing more wizardly than competing to see who has the tallest tower is having your opponent hire mundane thugs to murder you when your tower is taller

moe: "breaking: criamon builds tower of babel. 'I just wanted this in lieu of translating some arabic texts' says madman"

devil's fav demon: sorry all, i was engrossed in REmake and didnt notice everyone showing up.

johns: building a tower that reaches past the heavens seem pretty criamon

Endrite (GM): I like the Hermetic Tower because, as far as I can see, it doesn't do anything.

It's just really big.

c'thinker (GM): lol

johns: who needs enigmatic wisdom. escape the circle of time just by going really high up

c'thinker (GM): that is good.

moe: no no

c'thinker (GM): is shaun coming

moe: i would make it higher than heaven solely to be able to make more accurate star charts / horoscopes

entirely utilitarian

c'thinker (GM): climbing to the top of the tower with a broom to push the moon out of the way and interfere with your enemies' horoscopes

Endrite: UHHHHH WHAT ARE THESE TILES???

johns: hexes

Endrite: You mother FUCKER.

devil's fav demon: hwahahaha

Beardbeard: how many hexes are in your traveller maps endrite

moe: seems i'm not the only one worried for my hitpoints here

GM: The number SIX, or the  hexad, is a fortunate number, and it derives its merit from the first sculptors having divided the face into six portions;

but, according to the Chaldeans, the reason is, because God created the world in six days.

johns: also bees build in hexes

Endrite: Hmmm.

c'thinker (GM): there you have it folks.

hmm

but on the other hand FOUR, or the  tetrad, as the first mathematical power, is also one of the chief elements; it represents the generating virtue, whence come all combinations.

devil's fav demon: hmmm.

c'thinker (GM): It is the most perfect of numbers, it is the root of all things. It is holy by nature, since it constitutes the Divine essence, by recalling His unity, His power, His goodness, and His wisdom, the four perfections which especially characterize God.

Consequently, Pythagoricians swear by the quaternary number, which gives the human soul its eternal nature.

johns: but three is the number of the trinity and the number of the theological virtues

devil's fav demon: sounds like you need some kind of alternating hex and square grid.

moe: none of these sound like they'd be able to prevent the carnage i can almost taste already

c'thinker (GM): welcome

one sec

Beardbeard: sounds like all numbers have power

if only we had a magus who used the power of numbers to smite his foes and lead a holy life...

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I am here!

The most important numbers are 1 and 200,000.

That's the number of Mortises and the age that I will live to be respectively.

c'thinker (GM): only the numbers 1 through 10 have power.

pretty big oversight on the part of pythagoras

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Obviously he didn't know about me.

johns: im seeing double

4 horse rapers on this map

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

c'thinker (GM): no!

ok ive gotten myself situated

Shauncat: It's horse raper hooooorse raper!

johns: no

c'thinker (GM): good lord

johns: i just watched the movie version of the decameron and one of the stories is about a priest who claims to have a magic spell to turn his mistress into a horse

Celeste: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Resquiat in Pace.

johns: however it turns out its just part of an elaborate con to screw the miller's wife

Celeste: good con

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Works every time.

c'thinker (GM): is everyone in player mode

Bolad: aye

c'thinker (GM): nice

Dušan of Criamon: ready to roll

Celeste: I am now that I trolled everyone with the horsefucker bio.

c'thinker (GM): ok, to recap:

Beardbeard: giraldos constant duty of killing the horse raper whenever he shows up

c'thinker (GM): we have come to this village, which seems untouched by the blight, in search of a magic sword

before my power went out there were two promising lines of investigation: the village priest is arguing with an unknown knight in his home, and fiorella has scouted out some kind of permanent encampment in the woods

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I believe it resembled that map we saw earlier

Bolad: iirc we were all agreeing with bolad's plan of Kill them all and let the Gods sort them out ?

c'thinker (GM): archibald had a highly-relevant vision

which dusan kindly interpreted for the party

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Kill them all and let the Magi sort out the good loot

Celeste: I think we were all going to stand around cheering for the Pope some more.

c'thinker (GM): oh, and celeste's love of the pope and the art of dance has won the hearts and minds of the villagers.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's just like Footloose.

Dušan of Criamon: We all cheer Celeste, and the pope

c'thinker (GM): Hurrah, the pope!

Guy of Bonisagus: pope ahead but hurray for pope

Celeste: maybe the tree is the church and the snake is the evil knight man

Bolad: the pope is so great, the only thing that could be better than pope is 2 popes

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We did it.

Bolad: Fiorella is the seniormost Maga here

What say she

Dušan of Criamon: OK, so the knight and the priest are arguing, and we don't know what about because i don't have the audio surveillance spell

c'thinker (GM): fiorella proposes installing a 3rd pope

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe I do

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Fly down the chimney and listen in.

Celeste: What if I just go inside?

Is the door locked?

c'thinker (GM): Probably not.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can't fly in g a narrow shaft, you'd stall.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: But then they'd see you and stop talking.

Celeste: Dusan can tell me when their backs are turned and I can roll Stealth to slip in using the cover system.

c'thinker (GM): a chimney is probably an anachronism anyway

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If only we had a transformer who's specialty was spiders

Celeste: Or I could just go in and say hey whats with this knight.

RIP.....

c'thinker (GM): hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: I could support Celestes action

c'thinker (GM): there is a chimney right there on the drawing

so its canon

Guy of Bonisagus: chimneys were fine and were clearly present in the new official canon map of the eastern ear inn and its surroundings

Dušan of Criamon: but i also watched a defcon video on social engineering so celestes alternate "hey what's up" variant is an option also

Celeste: lol

Dušan of Criamon: alright

barring other contesting plans, i could do the visual surveillance

i saw the room previously, is there room to slip in through?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well I can go to the top of the chimney and see if their voices are carrying thorugh it

c'thinker (GM): further points i didnt mention in the recap: the priest made some strange vocabulary choices about magic, the peasants refuse to talk about magic, there are bandits in the woods

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Going IN a chimney is suicide thought

Bolad: im too stupid to suss out higher meaning in this stuff unfortunately

Dušan of Criamon: everyone's really happy, not at all like a horror movie small town enthralled by a great evil

Celeste: maybe there are powerful mentem effects on everyone in town.

Bolad: powerful mentem effect to make the townsfolk forget they gave their children to the N.A.Z.I.s

Dušan of Criamon: maybe they are God's chosen people

Fiorella the Raven: Alright, I transform and do that

Dušan of Criamon: i do some more video surveillance

Celeste: If Fiorellla can't pick up anything I'm going in.

c'thinker (GM): dusan, you couldn't really enter without going through the door or a window (shuttered)

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's shut with Venetian blinds.

Fiorella the Raven: I suggest getting Rise of the Feathery Body for a cheap way to get onto roofs. Well I suggest it after the blight

Dušan of Criamon: i think regardless of all other actions, I'll resume surveillance

Celeste: good idea.

Dušan of Criamon: who knows, maybe one of them will kill the other

Celeste: that way you can warn fiorella if they're about to light a fire in the chimney.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I suggest we end the blight.

Celeste: that would be cool

Dušan of Criamon: strong words from the man who enjoys having corpses around

Fiorella the Raven: I don't go in the chimney, as I said before

Just seing if I can hear voices coming out of it

Celeste: dusan, are they just talking?

like has th ere been any exchange of goods

Dušan of Criamon: good question

i do my spell by leaning on one of the buildings walls and incospicuously casting with subtle+silent

i'm hoping this is not stressed

but i will enjoy twilighting myself if it is

c'thinker (GM): they're just talkin'

Guy of Bonisagus: iti s a town with a dominion aura

c'thinker (GM): gesturing wildly as italians do

Guy of Bonisagus: god is piling on the stress

Dušan of Criamon: it's InIm level 5 and I have +19

i think God should give me a break

Guy of Bonisagus: is it sunday, gm?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, we'll see.

Yes.

We only have games on Sunday.

Guy of Bonisagus: gah

Fiorella the Raven: I have a plan, my scarf is a talisman, which means I'm touching anything the scarf is touching for the sake of casting spells

Which means I can touch the interior of where they are at with, say, in InIm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Celeste: you have to also be touching the scarf at the same time.

or do you mean you'll lower it into the chimney

Fiorella the Raven: Lower it

Dušan of Criamon: that sounds goofy and cool

i hope nobody objects to a woman with witch clothes sitting on someone's chimney during the day

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They probably will but I have an escape plan

Dušan of Criamon: i should absolutely make a chimney sweep grog this week

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Prying Eyes with sound is level 5

Guy of Bonisagus: chimney sweep that also rapes horses

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What's the aura mod?

Priest: lemme check

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Oh, I got it.

Singing Chimney Sweep from jolly old London Town.

Priest: -6

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, that can be confed to a success on anything but a botch

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Fingers crossed you don't botch.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: roll floor(6+d10!)/2

rolling floor(6+d10!)/2

floor(6+

(

7

)

)/2

=

6.5

Success

Prying Ear activate ta the bottom of the chimney

Priest: nice

well, you can hear them much more clearly now.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Alright, I already got the relevant part sin GM whisper so I'll look over them now

Priest: how's your uhh folk ken

Fiorella of Jerbiton: +1, spec in nobles

Bolad: boak ken

Priest: folk ken plus perception.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't know if gift stink applies when they're not in my presence

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Knights are nobles.

Priest: in this case i'll say no, and also take the +1

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+1+1

(

8

)

+1+1

=

10

Priest: nice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Need to get my talisman enchanted up to where I can cast as a bird, raven has +3 perception

The spell for giving yourself human speech has a Corpus req

Celeste: rip

Fiorella the Raven: I retract the scarf since its a necessary part of turning into a bird, and return to my sodales

Celeste: I raise my wineskin to the returning bird.

"Hope it's some good gossip."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "What did you find out?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The knight is here on clandestine purposes. The priest is sworn to secrecy about his purpose here."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Interesting."

Dušan of Criamon: "Did he admit what that purpose entails?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Did you accidentally break the seal of confession?"

Bolad: the queal of confession

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "No juicy crimes were confessed to my sorcery."

Celeste: "Aww!"

Bolad: Is the Knight wearing Heraldry, GM

Priest: hmm

Yes.

Bolad: id like to apply some lores

Priest: or, well.

if he isn't he probably has a shield lying in the room somewhere

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+2 Rome Lore

(

3

)

+2

=

5

rolling 1d10+3 Central Italy Lore

(

6

)

+3

=

9

rolling 1d10+1 France Lore

(

9

)

+1

=

10

Dušan of Criamon: i'll convey any pertinent information

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+2 Church Lore

(

1

)

+2

=

3

Celeste: lol

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+4 OoH Lore

(

2

)

+4

=

6

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The priest, for his part, was encouraging him to leave, but he'd have little of it. I'm supposing his orders keep him here."

Bolad: what crummy rolls.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You know, maybe Lore should just be a threshold skill instead of being something you roll.

Bolad: probably!

Celeste: It should be both.

depending on the situation.

Priest: yeah.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If the heraldry is venetian I have Venice Lore

Bolad: I can also attempt Golden Horde Lore, Faerie Lore, Roman Empire Lore, Divine Lore, and Infernal Lore if I have had no successes so far.

Celeste: i cant think of a good situation offhand that would require a roll or a stress roll over a threshold though.

Dušan of Criamon: Bolad, the scholar

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: OBVIOUSLY this guy is a keshik.

Bolad: he could be Marco Polo.

Priest: i will consult with a fellow gm

Bolad: whjo was a Keshik.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The so-called "knight."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Wake up in the morning feeling like P Boni 7

* 8

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Well, does anyone have a better idea who this knight might be?

Guy of Bonisagus: Experience points.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Vatican agent, relic acquisition dept

GM, did the priest ever call the knight by name?

Celeste: I will go into the church and try to be quiet about it.

Bolad: "He is a Ghibelline. Are not the Mancinis too?"

Priest: oh that's a good call.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+4+2 dex stealth.

(

5

)

+4+2

=

11

Priest: i will say yes, he did

Bolad: quick everyone pretend we all love (checks notes) Emperor Louis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I will inform the others his name is Don Bartolo then.

Celeste: Ah

Priest: he's Italian, honest

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: An honest Italian?

Now I've seen everything!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Seeing as he was in a town he didn't want to be in, I'm guessing he's a Donatello and not THE Don

Bolad: does that allow me to update my Lores

Priest: don as in like don quijote

Guy of Bonisagus: is he an assassin or a templar

Bolad: lol

Priest: he is a Ghibelline.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Don Quixote won't be out for 250 years

Celeste: If they don't spot me I'm going to take a spot, start praying, and actually start praying.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmmmmmmm.

Priest: well, don as in "sir", a term used in spain and southern italy.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Who's got their preorders in now?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, I think it's time to go beat up some peasants in the woods.

Ilbrago: 50% chance he's a paisano then

Dušan of Criamon: misclick

Bolad: "He is a knight in service to the Mancinis."

"Surely he is a coward to not have fallen in battle alongside his lord."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "It makes him smart. There's no reason to fight for a lost cause."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He's a ronin

Priest: he came here to test his blade

Fiorella of Jerbiton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RlSgnpLbro

Priest: what will you do with your newfound knowledge

Dušan of Criamon: murder, but more informed

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, I'm much more confident that we aren't being tricked into slaughtering a bunch of woodsmen for a magic sword.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "There's still a dangerous supernatural blade in the hands of a mundane."

Guy of Bonisagus: knowledge is power

Bolad: right

lets get killing

Guy of Bonisagus: theyre in a forest right

Dušan of Criamon: ... and the other half is violence

Guy of Bonisagus: if theres too many we can just hurl pilums at the trees

Julius Trianoma rubs his hands and cackles.

Guy of Bonisagus: from all sides

Julius Trianoma: Finally, I'll be rid of those meddlesome peasants.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It's possible the knight is here to claim the sword as well. If so, taking the initiative is of the essence."

Guy of Bonisagus: rabble has gotten away with it for too long

Celeste: lets interrogate the knight.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "If one knight could beat all these peasants, then maybe we should just wait for him to get the sword and then take the sword from him."

GM: half of criamon's cycle is violence and destruction

makes you think

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Hmm."

Bolad: "Good plan"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We don't know he has such power yet, or even if his purpose is the sword."

Dušan of Criamon: like the great italian philosopher said: every time i try to get out... they PULL ME BACK IN

Guy of Bonisagus: "That sounds like theft."

"It seems to me that we would also make an enemy of the knight's lord."

Bolad: i thought he was dead

Celeste: "What if the knight is a wizard, like Rosario?"

Guy of Bonisagus: he could have a new lord

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It doesn't sound like the bandits are going to be taking the sword to distant lands though, so we have time to continue investigating the knight."

Dušan of Criamon: "But in the pursuit of getting a hermetic artefact out of mundane hands, which is virtuous and apt!"

Guy of Bonisagus: or get a new lord

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We could just bribe him.

Guy of Bonisagus: we could also just kill the mundane bandits with pilums made of fire

GM: you could kill the priest with pilums of fire as well

Celeste: Oh wait, I went inside.

GM: lots of options

Fiorella of Jerbiton: As Consul I will approve Mortis to spend covenant funds bribing the knight

GM: oh

did you go inside

Celeste: I snuck inside and rolled an 11.

But then just went to pray if they didn't notice me.

GM: ok.

are you going in through the front door, or climbing in a window

Celeste: i'm just quietly walking in the front door.

GM: not a lot of options for sneaking here sadly

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Uh.

That doesn't sound very sneaky.

Dušan of Criamon: it is however VERY christian

Celeste: Well, it's more that I don't want to bother the people inside but I want to go pray.

So I'm trying to be quiet.

GM: this is just the priest's house,

Celeste: Ohhhh I thought they were inside of the church.

GM: my bad

Celeste: Ha ha.

In that case, no, I don't sneak inside.

I have no reason to break into a priest's house, I'm sorry.

GM: there is a little church in the village though

Bolad: lets burn the church down

Celeste: I will go there and pray while everyone else spies on this priest.

GM: Very well.

Bolad: lets burn the forest too and let graceful roaming prairieland reclaim this area

GM: who will kick down the door and confront the dastardly priest

Bolad: zzz

GM sobs

Bolad: hey man

im just a covenfolk

Celeste: while in the church

i roll theology to inspect if everything is on the up and up

rolling 1d10+2+5+1 per + theology + heresy spec

(

3

)

+2+5+1

=

11

basically, is the altar correct, no heretical symbols, etc

Dušan of Criamon: besides the theological analysis i guess we'll wait for the knight to finish talking and ambush him on the way

Celeste: did we do this already?

i forget.

Bolad: if none of the magi are going to nut up and stick to a plan then im going off on my own to scout the bandit camp

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We already scouted the bandit camp.

Bolad: really? when

Celeste: hes going to "scout" the bandit camp

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Fiorella did it.

GM: fiorella conjured some birds and had them fly around

Dušan of Criamon: it's called force recon

Bolad: I see. then what the hell are we waiting around for

Guy of Bonisagus: lets go throw pila at the bandits

Bolad: ok im with guy

Celeste: i get back from praying and inspecting the church

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We need to discover the secret of this guy by watching him continuously for the next month.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I will go drop a shitload of birds on the bandits

Bolad: lets split the party so all the guys who want to futz around with this priest dont slow the rest of us down

Celeste: "Seems like the priest is a real priest, or at least the church and altar are real."

Dušan of Criamon: then in a powerful GM twist the observation crew ends up in a combat encounter while the combat have to parley with the bandits

Celeste: "Weird thing, everyone seems to be happy and healthy and productive but the church's supplies are nothing fancy."

"You'd think they'd get more tithes."

Guy of Bonisagus: "The bandits might be stealing the tithes."

Celeste: "Especially since they all love the Pope so much."

Guy of Bonisagus: guy and bolad head off to slay

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cast Wizar'd Sidestep if we're going into the forest

GM: yeah, the village's prosperity is entirely relative to the rest of the world being devastated by plague and crop failure

Bolad: i channel tengri

GM: they're poor but they're just keepin' on.

Dušan of Criamon: I will stay on the knight's trail

Celeste: "Oh, are you guys going to fight people? I'll be right there."

I go to protect my employers.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+5+7+1 pre+ML

(

1

)

+5+7+1

=

14

grah!!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's take the grogs to the forest

GM: what's the magic lore roll for

oh, to channel tengri

Bolad: what's the dominion aura here

ill just assume i take an aura penalty

GM: 2

Bolad:

rolling 3d10 botch

(

5

+

1

+

2

)

=

8

GM: yikes

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Uh oh.

Bolad: On

a botch, the character loses all current Confidence

points.

GM: Cranked.

Bolad: it doesnt say but I also assume it means I dont get any poewrs

well whatever

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That seems likely.

GM: do you need confidence to channel tengri again

Celeste: why would you assume that

Bolad: yes.

Celeste: oh you botched botched. hey.

rip.

Bolad: Tengri is merely challenging me, and I accept the challenge.

GM: On a botch, your total for the roll is always zero, in addition to any other consequences.

Celeste: so you have 13 might points thats plenty

unless they mean

with the additions

ha ha.

rip.

you're good at bows you'll be fine

GM: yeah the whole thing is set to 0

Bolad: i think we established last session the woods are thin enough that I can ride a horse into it?

GM: instead of tengri we just have bolad, the mongolian superspy, expert marksman, military mastermind,

Dušan of Criamon: scholar

Celeste: i should get a horse

GM: hmmm

Celeste: bolad like canonically has one all the time but i should probably also get one considering my bow spec is in mounted archery.

Bolad: he has a virtue slot devoted to having a Magical Horse

GM: i will say yes, sure, it's not great terrain but you can ride off the path if you want

Celeste: Nice.

GM: also there is a path

Bolad: alright i wont plan to go at a Canter or Gallop

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I get behind Morgana and the other grogs

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I need a skeleton horse.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I also summon a horse for Celeste

Celeste: ty

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I summon one for Tunde I think too since she has Ride

Bolad: yeah

Celeste: I Animal Handle and Ride the heck out of the magical horse.

Bolad: can we pull up the scouting map fiorella made

GM: do we have one

oh, do you mean the Untitled page

Bolad: sure

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I draw a crude map so I can put an XP into Profession: Cartographer after this adventure

Celeste: lol

Bolad: how many peoples did you scout

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Or Profession: Illuminator (Cartography) if cartographers are just glorified illuminators

GM: here it is

i started doodling a map and then like a quarter of the way through i just went and got an appropriate photo for the scene

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't know how well crows can count but I probably didn't get a specific headcount for their number of troops

So I suggest some sort of ruse before attack

Bolad: Let's conjure up a giant wooden horse.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: RIP

Bolad: actually

Guy of Bonisagus: lets conjure up a pilum of flame

Bolad: How many horses can you magically conjure up?

GM: there were a lot of guys.

Celeste: Let's go ask them how much they love the Pope.

Bolad: I have a plan

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We just tell them to surrender.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well if a spell takes around 6 seconds, I can make time until sunset divided by 6 seconds horses

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We're mighty wizards.

Bolad: a) Conjure horses b) Tie a bunch of leaves and sticks to horses c) Set fire to horses d) Aim horses at enemy camp and let them loose

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That works

10 horses/minute

Celeste: "That sounds horrible."

"I guess they're not real horses, though."

Bolad: "It is a great plan. How do I know this? Because it is one the Great Khan himself once used."

Celeste: "I don't know how this stuff works, really."

GM: Horses don't have feelings.

Guy of Bonisagus: enchanted wooden horse that fires pila of flame

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "There would be no happy life for a horse you cannot afford to feed anyway."

Celeste: "What if we could just talk to the bandits?"

Bolad: "If they slew the lord and his knights, why would they listen to you?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "How do you suggest we get them to parley when they outnumber us?"

GM: does bolad still plan on scouting ahead

Bolad: no, I will trust Fiorella's report for now

I don't have good stealth

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Just use magic."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Never bargain from a position of weakness. We can talk to the bandits when they've surrendered."

Guy of Bonisagus: "And after a score of their wicked souls have been sent for judgement."

Bolad: can anyone here summon rain

Celeste: That would be a good Latent Magical Ability to suddenly manifest.

Bolad: since we're going to start a bunch of fires it might be good if we can actually put them out afterwards

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cannot

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What season is it?

Spring?

GM: spring

Bolad: cloudy or no?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yeah that's probably good enough for the entire forest to not catch fire.

GM: that would be cool though.

It is partly cloudly.

cloudy.

Bolad: if it is cloudy then fiorella could spont rain at touch range, Base 2 +2 touch +1 diam is CrAu L5

Celeste: Nice.

GM: ooh.

Bolad: +1 touch +2 sun sorry

Dušan of Criamon: powerful

Bolad: anyway that can wait until after everyone's dead

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can probably do that

Bolad: "Wise Maga. Did your scouts see any sign of the fallen lord or his knights? Dead or prisoner."

GM: it feels like compelling a cloud to rain should be rego

Bolad: Create a normal weather phenomenon: a cloud, wind, fog, rain from a

cloud that already exists.

GM: yeah

does the accumulated rain disappear when the spell ends then

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I could only get second hand information, but they had quite a few wooden structures in their settlement. Enough to keep a lord and a few other VIPs in relative comfort."

Bolad: i dont think so

Celeste: creo isnt just creating, you also improve things or cause them to produce things or whatever.

Bolad: afk 1m

GM: thats true

Celeste: like making a plant bear fruit early is creo

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's sorta arbitrary how quickly Auram phenomena fades after the duration.

A rainstorm in the desert would fade quickly as it goes against the desert's essential nature

But yeah, Creo can have permanent effects without vis if you use it on something that exists, like a chicken egg.

I suggest we do some more scouting, get a better idea of their numbers and whether they have prisoners

Then we go ahead with the horse plan if it seems the best course

If we see nobles we can evacuate, we make a new plan

Celeste: sounds good

Bolad: you should scout + any magi who can turn invisible

GM: moe's stakeout is bearing fruit but i don't know if he's here

Dušan of Criamon: i'm here

Guy of Bonisagus: uits uyhh bearing johgns?? lol

Bolad: wtf

you are banned from my pathfinder game fucker

Celeste: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Roasted.

Guy of Bonisagus: actually run the pathjfinder game

coward

i need a pathfinder game to play in

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Everyone can play my Mutants & Masterminds game

Celeste: give me the pathfinder books and ill think about it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Guy can be SUperman

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Subparman.

GM: join brad's myfarog saga

are you sending out the birds

or the zards

Guy of Bonisagus: : http://snip.li/PFTrove here you go dfd

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cna do both

devil's fav demon: i would genuinely love to play m&m or myfarog.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Send out a murder of crows, then go do some scoping for myself

Fiorella the Raven: Caw

devil's fav demon: ty beardbeard.

Fiorella the Raven: I don't think we have any invisible wizards

Celeste: I will fall behind our group and attempt to cover our tracks as we move into position.

rolling 1d10+2+2+1 per+hunt+covering tracks spec.

(

5

)

+2+2+1

=

10

Fiorella the Raven: I'll look for telltale signs of hostages like heavily guarded buildings with runners taking food or supplies to them

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm going to be on the lookout for spots that have dramatic lighting.

Fiorella the Raven: That seems like it could be a legit faerie imitation intellego power

Building that lights up orange on your HUD

Dušan of Criamon: oh shit

GM: sorry im juggling a couple things and also dealing with the party split

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

GM: in whispers

Fiorella the Raven: I'll stop talking and get coffee

Celeste: whispers are the bane of the gm rip

GM: i should just do it in the open anyway.

its cooler that way

Dušan of Criamon: do i do a recap of my surveillance

GM: go for it

Dušan of Criamon: they spotted me I think and I'm about to get it

time to exfil

Celeste: rip

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: There's nothing to be done, you'll just have to exterminate the entire village.

GM: it's too late. the entire village must be purged

Bolad: have you lost your MIND arthas

GM: you can roll stealth if you would like, dusan

Dušan of Criamon: furiously looking up what combat spells i have

Celeste: time to find a way to signal to your archers

Dušan of Criamon: stealth

rolling 1d10+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Guy of Bonisagus: wheres the bandits gold mine

Dušan of Criamon: dex 0 qui +2

Fiorella the Raven: I'm sorry Dusan, I can't watch you cull Stratholme

GM: all right. Dusan slinks away from the priest's house.

Celeste: lol

Bolad: where is their gold mine. wheres the stone mine. is their lumber camp up against the tree line? how are their farms placed

Dušan of Criamon: God is with me

GM: dusan spots a number of enemy towers being constructed near the town hall

Guy of Bonisagus: there are no stone mines in warcraft 3, the best rts

Dušan of Criamon: As soon as time permits I cast wiz sidestep and trackless steps

GM: Excellent.

Dušan of Criamon: i just hope they don't convert their villagers to the shitty militia last ditch combat unit

GM: i'll cut back to the birds for a second

Fiorella the Raven: ok

GM: They don't report any of the behavior that Fiorella asks about, but there does seem to be some kind of activity going on at the camp.

packs are being loaded, etc.

It sounds like they're about to set out.

Fiorella the Raven: Alright, I'll take this information and tell the others when I can

GM: did you send your familiar too

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: They're about to set out alright.

TO THEIR GRAVE!

Bolad: boom

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ambushing a convoy is easier than raiding a well-defended settlement, yes."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "We should attack them immediately, before they have a chance to try any trickery."

GM:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

10

+

6

)

+4

=

20

dusan has been spotted

Celeste: oh no

Guy of Bonisagus: by 20 bandits

Celeste: ENEMY SPOTTED

Guy of Bonisagus: the roll was for bandit magnitude

Dušan of Criamon: classic

GM: A villager approaches Dusan's image and offers him a local delicacy.

Dušan of Criamon: hmm

does the illusion actually work as a substitute or is it a dummy good for nothing besides taking hits

GM: it's a dummy

Dušan of Criamon: when in doubt, Christ it out

"Ah, thank you but I am fasting."

GM: with fiorella's birds it should be trivial to intercept or avoid the bandit expedition, if you would like to adjust the arson plan

or hit them while they're busy

Peasant: "Ah, come on, they're delicious!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think we should attack them while they're busy.

Peasant: "Old Elisabetta makes them. A little preserved fruit, some wine..."

Dušan of Criamon: "I couldn't, not before Wednesday. The wine is as tempting as it is forbidden to me."

Guy of Bonisagus: we should throw pila of flame at the bandits

Bolad: im falling asleep so lets do my epic plan and attack now

Peasant: very well.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hold on now, I want to hear more about this wine.

Guy of Bonisagus: you cannot fall asleep at 4 pm johns

Bolad: watch me

Peasant: i was envisioning like a fruit tart but didnt make that clear

Guy of Bonisagus: its inspiring that you are still avoiding the bonds of wagery after like half a year

maybe more

Peasant leans in.

Peasant: "These ones even have some sugar."

Bolad: im unemployable

Celeste: same

Peasant: lucky

Guy of Bonisagus: lucky

Dušan of Criamon: best times of my life were neeting

cherish it

Peasant: so you're setting some horses on fire and running them into the camp

Bolad: yes.

Guy of Bonisagus: chaos reigns

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

I do my part for this plan

Peasant: how many horses are we talkin

Dušan of Criamon: my dummy begins to sweat and turns rapidly away from the peasant and begins a calm, but determined stride away from the sin of pastry

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Were's setting faggots on fire that are attached to the horses, to be specific

Celeste: lol

dont touch me with the pastry!

Bolad: beardbeard is on the horse

Guy of Bonisagus: NOP

Celeste: it is really weird that he's just offering him a sugary tart./

Guy of Bonisagus: NO

NO

NO!!!

Peasant: "Ah, come on, I insist."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: DOn't look at me like that, that's what you call a bundle of twigs

Dušan of Criamon: Peasant: attractive strippers

Dusan: smithers, covering his eyes, unable to escape

Peasant: The peasant tries to force the pastry into Dusan's illusory hands.

Dušan of Criamon: Does that activate the ninjutsu poof and recreate the illusion in another place? I think it does

Peasant: it does

i got some horses on the map

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Celeste: What's dusan's sigil?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well since they're on fire they should probably run around willy-nilly.

Peasant: The peasant screams and drops the tart.

"A ghost!"

i'll leave the chaos aside for now

Dušan of Criamon: merciful

Peasant: and cut to the plan to set the forest on fire

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We did it.

Peasant: are the faggots also conjured

Dušan of Criamon: to save the forest we had to burn the forest down

Bolad: let's Creo some Herbam.... yeah right

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hold up

Peasant: time to generate some labor points

Fiorella of Jerbiton: There's the convoy going out we haven't addressed yet

Peasant: and cut these bad boys down

Bolad: they arent going anywhere they're packing up!

Peasant: bad boys meaning trees

Bolad: and we're attacking while they are packing up

Peasant: yeah currently the plan is to catch them off guard

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We could let them divide up their defenses first

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You don't really defend against flaming horses.

You just get out of the way!

Bolad: okay smart guy which one of us served the empire the conquered half the world?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can kill the horses before they do much damage

Peasant: oh did i mention the most prominent house has a second story

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think so

Peasant: may be relevant

Bolad: once the horses start setting fires that's when the rest of us run in screaming

everyones going to be out of place because theyre packing stuff up then trying to put out the fire and they'll have NO CLUE whats going on. it'll be awesome

Celeste: lol.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Alright if you want them to still have all their fighting men once the fires are put out that's up to you.

Packing up supplies for a voyage is peon work so I don't know how distracted their fighting men are going to be

Celeste: I'm not sure if they're going to be very prepared to fight.

Yeah.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: They're bandits.

Bandits are just peasants that don't pay taxes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

I said my thoughts I'll make the horses now

Peasant: you'll have to gather the wood in a hurry, if you want to catch them while they're still busy

Bolad: we are in a forest

there should be wood everywhere

Peasant: it's pretty dry, too

Bolad: and its hot too

Peasant: what a happy coincidence

Peasant looks for an appropriate song on the jukebox

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Collect vood.

Bolad: zug zug

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll have Carina pick up some wood, no problem.

Peasant: the thumbs up emoji

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll summon some crows to gather sticks

They have the instinct for it, they're nest builders

Peasant: nice.

a bunch of crows could probably work together to hoist a branch

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I imagine so

They've also been observed to be capable of using tools

Peasant: crows ftw

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Or at least able to employ the lateral thinking necessary for it

Dušan of Criamon: final battle: crows vs octopus in a jar

Celeste: I will stand by and apologize to the horses for what we're doing.

Thug: Grogs, birds, and bodyguards set about gathering wood and strapping it to the horses.

Guy of Bonisagus: the horses are wooden

im not sure they care

Thug: they're made of meat

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

iu thought we were making wood horses

Celeste: the horses are real conjured horses

Thug: they're carrying a bunch of wood

Guy of Bonisagus: oh well, cant make an omelet etc

Thug: i assume you're still keeping an eye on things?

Dušan of Criamon: if there's one thing this covenant loves, it's intel

Bolad: and murder

and vis

Dušan of Criamon: a balanced breakfast

Guy of Bonisagus: and blasphemy

and hedge magic

Thug: smoke me a red herring, i'll be back in time for breakfast

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: But how well does our plan work?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You could put wood panels on a real horse

Thug: put some chrome on that horse

The last branch is secured to the last horse.

Celeste: did dusan make it back yet or did we cut away

Thug: he hasn't returned yet

Celeste: gl

Dušan of Criamon: i'll arrive when the GM deems it humorous enough

"you guys won't BELIEVE what I-" burning horses rampaging through a bandit camp and probably like an eldritch monster in the sky

Celeste: lol

i just want to hear about the pastries in character so i can go try to get some pastries.

Thug: Any guards the bandits have posted are busy bossing the lesser bandits around, so you can get your horses pretty close to the camp.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Noice.

Guy of Bonisagus: lesser bandit, bandit, greater bandit, bugbanditr

hobbandit

Thug: fel bandit

Guy of Bonisagus: dire bandit

Dušan of Criamon: 5 recolors

Celeste: Deep Bandit

Bolad: Legendary Bandit

Guy of Bonisagus: owlbandit

Thug: a Bandit (lv 25) bossing around A Bandit (lv 10)

Celeste: Bandit King

Steel Bandit

Dušan of Criamon: Dark Bandit

Thug: magma bandit

Bolad: ah its one of those L40 Peasants from The Witcher. dangerous

Celeste: lol

Thug: all right

all you have to do is light the wood and send the horses in

well. probably they go in on their own

Guy of Bonisagus: dangerous bandit

Thug: bandit elite

Celeste: Punished "Venom" Bandit

Thug: do we have like

a background shouting loop

Bolad: there's an "SFX" folder

Thug: lol

Bolad: awesome.

Celeste: LUL

Guy of Bonisagus: there we go

perfect

Celeste: great.

Morgana: If there's going to be a combat I'll play Morgana since she can function as several grogs at once

Morgana leading and Tunde vanguarding

Thug clears throat

Thug: all you have to do is light the wood and send the horses in

Morgana: Fiorella can be summoning birds onto other bandits offscreen

Bolad: do the magi have any last minute buffing they want to do

Guy of Bonisagus: all we have to do is light the wood

Thug: you have to burn the rope

Guy of Bonisagus: i will cast cloak of ducks feathers on myself

to protect myself from the water which might be getting splashed around

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I guess I can cast a spell...

Morgana: Archibald came with us, he cna put sidestep on everyone

Guy of Bonisagus: i will ALSO cast the invisible eye revealed

Dušan of Criamon: it would be poetic if you ended up on fire, then unable to become wet

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll cast Wizard's Brief Sidestep on myself.

Guy of Bonisagus: am i being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

Thug: archibald is trapped in conversation with a villager and his blatant gift penalty means he cannot summon the Etiquette total required to escape

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling 1d10! + 17 -5 -7

(

2

)

+17-5-7

=

7

Thug: You are not presently being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Phew.

That did it.

Thug: the aura out here is neutral

Bolad: i set the horses on fire and whap them with a flail to get them moving

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I have Poor Formulaic Magic and I'm wearing armor.

Thug: ah.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I guess it wasn't stressed.

Morgana: You can make armor weightless with a spell

Thug: this isnt nearly disastrous enough

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I don't have that spell.

Morgana: You might have it in you rpower to get it

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's pretty high level too.

Level 35.

Morgana: Ah right

That'd be tough with poor formulaic magic

Horse: The horses go in.

Morgana: For a Verditius armorsmith you might be able to access it eventually though

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll probably just pay someone to make it.

Guy of Bonisagus: roll 1d8 6 times for each horse to determine which squares they move into

Thug: "Listen here, you son of a bitch, I'll cut your throat if you-"

"Huh?"

Horse: The flaming horses charge through the clearing, scattering all of the assorted varieties of bandit.

Bolad: i follow and start shooting

Guy of Bonisagus: i will stand a safe distance away and hurl pila

Morgana: I move ahead of Guy and any other wizard without personal bodyguards like Mortis

Celeste: I do not start shooting until they start attacking us.

Horse: all right.

the panicked bandits are too busy screaming and running around to defend themselves

Celeste: Nice.

Horse: gimme uhhhh quickness + bows

Celeste: "Seems like the horse plan worked."

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+1+8

(

3

)

+1+8

=

12

epicly shitty rolls today

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Le epico.

Celeste: bolad arent you on a horse and get + your ride skill to that roll

Horse: have a conf token for setting the bandit camp on fire

does he. lmao

Bolad: there are different attack values for being on horse yes

do you want me to make a regular attack roll?

Celeste: if you're mounted you get up to +3 your ride to attack and defense rolls.

Horse: hmm

Celeste: and wuickness + bows is a defense roll i assumed

Bolad: you also can get higher defense if the horse is moving faster

Horse: i'm just seeing how quick he is with a bow.

Celeste: ohh

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cast crows on people who are downed to make sure they don't get up.

Horse:  Four  of Bolad's arrows find their marks in the nearest rabble.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wow!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Moving behind the grog vanguard. Wizard's Sidestep up on myself

Horse: guy is throwing a pilum, too, i guess

Bolad: sic semper rabble

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Bolad: sic semper rabble

Celeste: "It's easy if they don't shoot back, huh?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: They should be just about ready to surrender.

You know if they weren't all on fire.

Horse: The Greater Bandits are retreating.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Makes you think

Do we chase them?

Horse: the rabble on the other hand are mostly just screaming and suffering cinematic deaths

Bolad: definitely

kill em all

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: A cinematic takedown is always the most silent takedown.

Guy of Bonisagus: rip the rabble

thats unfortunate

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Activate Mongol Vision Arrow Time

Celeste calmly pats her bow, knowing that it has never taken an innocent life

Dušan of Criamon: your k/d is going down the shitter sorry to say

Horse: oh, guy was piluming another member of the rabble

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Smart.

Excellent use of that spell.

Guy of Bonisagus: hey

i said i pilum the bandits

Horse: unless he would like to target a greater bandit

the rabble are also bandits!

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

i will target the bandits with more levels then

Horse: uhhh for these guys actually roll damage

Celeste: lol

Horse: i don't want to drag this out into a 5 hour combat but we must respect the formalities

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It is your right.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Alright

We rolling initiative?

Horse: after this pilum

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

7

)

+15

=

22

Celeste: Pilum Boy: I want some Pilums!

Horse:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

2

)

+4

=

6

thats uhhh

a heavy wound!

Celeste: That's a lot of fire!

Horse: all right.

now its time to roll initiative, i suppose

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!-1 Initiative

(

7

)

-1

=

6

Rabble:

rolling 1d10!-1

(

4

)

-1

=

3

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10

(

6

)

=

6

Rabble: uhhh fuck

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

I mean 1d10!

Rabble: how do i use the initiative table

Tünde:

rolling d10+4

(

10

)

+4

=

14

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!-2

(

8

)

-2

=

6

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2-2

(

1

)

+2-2

=

1

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ku ku ku.

Guy of Bonisagus: click the initiative table button

Celeste: Nice.

Tünde:

rolling d10+14

(

2

)

+14

=

16

Rabble: i found it

Bolad: you'll have to right click the tokens of ppl and select "Add turn" on the menu

then if you mouseover the number in the Init list, you can click it and replace it with whatever people have rolled

Tünde: How many grogs did we bring?

Not including Celeste

Carina:

rolling 1d10!

(

2

)

=

2

Bolad: if you click back to the village screen it should have all the grogs we brought

Tünde: Tunde, Morgana, Illebrago, anyone else?

Horse:

rolling 1d10!+3

(

2

)

+3

=

5

Tünde: It tells me how many attacks Tunde performs

We're fighting as a battlegroup

Horse: we have uhh

Dušan of Criamon: brb

Horse: tunde plus five

Tünde: Okay

Bolad: if you click in the options for the Initiative List you can make it sort everyone in descending init order now

Tünde: Morgana can lead up to a group of 5

So 5 hits

Thug:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Bolad: The rider of an untrained mount does

not gain the situational bonus for mounted

combat because the horse doesn’t know how

to respond to important signals and commands.

An untrained horse automatically panics

whenever it is engaged in melee. See

Bolad: Controlling a Panicked Horse, later in this

chapter.

Thug: is the jukebox broken

Bolad: TIL

Tünde: Alright, Tunde will dismount then

Silhouette:

rolling 2d10!+3

(

3

+

5

)

+3

=

11

Tünde: I didn't know that

We should buy her a horse

She's a good fighter regardless

Possibly the best candidate for vanguard

Alright

Celeste: probably

Silhouette: is that everyone

Celeste: Celeste is actually a terrible vanguard because she has no Leadership score.

Bolad: tunde has her own non-magical horse though

she's a magyar thats her whole gimmick

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yeah.

Tünde: Okay

She'll take mounted bonus then

Anyway, we delay action this round, as we're guardng the wizards, so charging ahead would spoil that

Celeste: I won't be able to add my ride bonus but I can still take my mounted archery bows spec.

afaik.

Silhouette: attacking 5 times in a turn with a 3xleadership bonus seems strong

Tünde: Well it's divided up among enemy battle groups typically

Silhouette: ye

feel free to position your tokens

instead of all hiding behind the burning hut

Tünde: The bonus is actually nerfed over RAW IIRC

Dušan of Criamon: back

Celeste: just in time for combat

Silhouette: dusan will appear in a bit

(spoilers)

oh, was that tunde's turn

i'll just move the wizards over behind the front

Tünde: Tunde can't charge forward if it means abandoning Guy

Who probably has drawn the attention of elite units with his pillum

Celeste: We're in Alert mode and the armor lords spawned

Silhouette: oh, yeah

everyone was already screaming, but they are screaming even more now that guy is throwing fireballs around

Tünde: So yeah, end turn unless we have a chance to attack later on this round

Without charging forward ahead of the iwzards

Silhouette: One of the thugs enters the large stone building, and the others hastily form a line.

These guys pass their turns.

Bolad: what are the thugs armed with?

ranged or melee?

Silhouette: Hatchets.

Guy of Bonisagus: careful. hatchets can be thrown

Silhouette: this is true.

Guy of Bonisagus: dangerous at any range

Silhouette: unsafe at any speed

state-of-the-art hatchet bandoliers

Bolad: I shoot from stationary horseback at the line of thugs.

rolling 1d10!+14 Horse bow

(

3

)

+14

=

17

Silhouette: these guys are not a trained group, so you can pick a target

Bolad: The one who is already wounded, then

Tünde: Smart

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Very smart.

Silhouette:

rolling 1d10!+1+6-6 defense

(

10

+

6

)

+1+6-6

=

17

cranked.

Bolad: pbbt.

Silhouette: well uhh

thats your turn i guess?

Bolad: correct.

Silhouette:  fiorella the raven  is up

Tünde: I think the group is moving forward at the rate of whichever wizard is slowest

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm human atm,

For a definition of human that includes magi

Silhouette: yeah i just dragged the first fiorella token i saw onto the field

fiorella the human  is up

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Mundane aura?

Silhouette: ye

Celeste: stop trying to crash the roll20 client

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I drop a 2 minute murder of crows on the wounded bandit

rolling d10!+56

(

5

)

+56

=

61

Silhouette: eyy im executing a space-filling algorith over here

Fiorella of Jerbiton: One thusand penetration

Dušan of Criamon: gruesome

Silhouette: the spell penetrates!

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+15 damage

(

3

)

+15

=

18

He gets a soak roll

Silhouette:

rolling 1d10!+4-6

(

1

)

+4-6

=

-1

that's uhhh

Celeste: brutal.

those crows were sure hungry.

Silhouette:

rolling 2d10

(

10

+

8

)

=

18

a heavy wound.

Guy of Bonisagus: pilum

rolling 1d10!+19

(

5

)

+19

=

24

rolling 1d10!+15

(

7

)

+15

=

22

Silhouette: same guy?

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

Silhouette:

rolling 1d10!+4-12

(

4

)

+4-12

=

-4

Celeste: rip

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 25 breakpoint

RIP

Silhouette: that man died

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: RIP.

Guy of Bonisagus: good work on killing the magus in disguise, everyone

see you all at the trial

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mortis did it

Guy of Bonisagus: he did, damn him

Fiorella of Jerbiton: As he'll tell everyone, he does all teh work aroun dhere

Bolad: it wasn't guy. it was the magus on the grassy knoll

Silhouette: i blame Horse

Rabble: The rabble panics even more.

horse's turn.

Horse: The horses continue on their way through the clearing.

Mortis's turn.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, these guys all have hatchets, right?

Horse: yeah.

and some crappy leather armor

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, I'll use the Magnificent Wand of Alacrity on one of them.

This causes their wooden handled weapon to thrash wildly in their hands for +4 damage.

rolling 1d10! + 4

(

2

)

+4

=

6

Classic.

Horse: is the weapon's damage added to that, or anything

rolling 1d10!+4

(

5

)

+4

=

9

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: No.

Horse: The target bandit is startled, but prevents his weapon from hurting anyone.

Rabble: rabble's turn

The rabble scream and sob and shout prayers to God.

Fiorella's birds pick at the bodies of the fallen.

Bolad: you have to roll to see if their prayers are answered using the rules in Rop: the divine.

Celeste: "Duck and pray on the ground!" I yell at them.

Rabble: A badly burned member of the rabble moans at you.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: They won't be because you need to pray to a saint.

Punked.

Rabble: lol.

you can pray directly to god if you have enough faith

Tünde: I prepare to defend the magi from burning rabble

And burning rubble

Rabble: They mostly just spend their turn suffering and crawling around.

All right.

Good work Rabble.

Celeste: I will fire at a Thug.

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

(

8

)

+4+4+8+2+1

=

27

Rabble:

rolling 1d10!+7

(

6

)

+7

=

13

Celeste:

rolling 27-13+11

27-13+11

=

25

25 damage.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Big DPS.

Celeste: Celeste picks the man off with a single shot.

Rabble: yikes

thats an incap

all right

Celeste: "We have bowmen! Please stay on the ground if you don't want to get shot!"

Rabble: "Why, God? Why?"

It's Tunde's turn.

Bolad: your god is a weakling before the might of tengri.

Tünde: Okay

Rabble: the evidence is pretty conclusive honestly

Tünde: We seem to be donig well fighting front a distance so we continue to maintain vigil on the wizards

Fighting from a distance also means we don't have to look up movement rates

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That's smart thinking.

Thug: yeah the map here isnt really to any kind of scale

The remaining thugs break and run.

The guy inside peeks out the door and slams it shut.

lemme see here

An arrow flies at Celeste from the second story of the stone building.

rolling 1d10!+4+8+3+1

(

7

)

+4+8+3+1

=

23

Celeste: oh shit

Thug: hes not fuckin around

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ouch!

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+1+8+2+1

(

9

)

+2+1+8+2+1

=

23

Ayyyyy

Thug: powerful.

Celeste: Celeste shoots the incoming arrow out of the air.

It's an amazing display.

Silvio Zenzare: "Merda!"

Salvatore Tafano: seriously is the jukebox broken

its stuck on this one song on my end

Bolad: did you set the song to loop

Dušan of Criamon: it bugs out for GMs sometimes i am told

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmmm.

Salvatore Tafano: no i just clicked the playlist

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well don't worry, I can just use my wand on this guy.

Tünde: It does force me to reload sometimes

It just changed

Salvatore Tafano: there we go.

i reset it

Celeste: nice

Guy of Bonisagus: salvatore bofano

bofana

Salvatore Tafano: A second voice comes from the building.

"So you think you can come in here and set my camp on fire, huh!?"

Bolad: yes, obviously

Celeste: ^^^

Salvatore Tafano: "Shoot my men with arrows! Huh!"

"Well!"

"Come in here and face me like a man!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Hmph."

Celeste: "I wonder if he's the guy with the magic sword."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It's probable."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Fuck you! I'm a wizard!"

Celeste: lmfao

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Just surrender!"

Bolad: I would like to  Gallop  towards the building and shoot a  Flaming Arrow  into the open window.

Celeste: EXCELLENT point

Salvatore Tafano: "You think I'm afraid of a wizard!? Fuck you!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "While I would not put it so churlishly, Mortis has a point. Your honor is meaningless to us wizards."

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+12-1 Attk

(

10

+

8

)

+12-1

=

29

Celeste: hell yeah.

Bolad: Ok, cool.

Celeste: the second-best bowman in mythic europe strikes again

Bolad: that's already factoring in the attack penalty for firing while at max horse speed.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It is social currency for a society that rejects us. So we're just going to kill you."

Salvatore Tafano: are you trying to hit the presumed archer, or just shooting into the window

Bolad: and the -1 penalty for using a flaming arrow.

is the archer visible?

Salvatore Tafano: i'll say yes.

Bolad: Sure, I'll aim at him.

Salvatore Tafano: hmm.

Silvio Zenzare:

rolling 1d10!+8+2+4

(

7

)

+8+2+4

=

21

Bolad: A flaming arrow does +9 damage. also its fiery if that matters.

Guy of Bonisagus: everyone, lets go

Silvio Zenzare: should it matter, if it's hitting the guy instead of sailing through into the room

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 3 2 1 let's jam

Bolad: Nah.

Unless he's wearing paper armor

Guy of Bonisagus: silvio zenare

Silvio Zenzare: he'sn't

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It would be a good idea though.

Silvio Zenzare: all right.

you have dealt a Medium Wound to the mysterious archer

Bolad: Kewl.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Your head will be a nice gift for the family of the lord you killed."

Celeste: I should go fight that guy in single combat and just take my armor off first.

Guy of Bonisagus: your head would like good on the end of a spear

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It would

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: 'twould.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He takes a penalty for being in awe of Celeste's toned feminine pecs

Silvio Zenzare: "Merda!"

Salvatore Tafano: "Silvio!"

Dušan of Criamon: inching ever closer to the fabled "short session"

Celeste: salvatore: "y-you're a boy?!" blush

Salvatore Tafano: fiorella the human is up

ah whoops

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Can I see the archer?

Salvatore Tafano: i xed that guy out by accident

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If I can see him I drop a flock of birds o nhim

Salvatore Tafano: ye

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+56

(

3

)

+56

=

59

Unless he has Parma that probably hits

Salvatore Tafano: yes

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Molto bene.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+15 damage

(

6

)

+15

=

21

Using the two minute duration again

Salvatore Tafano: do the birds just pop up next to the guy

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

It's a voice range spell

Silvio Zenzare:

rolling 1d10!+2-4

(

9

)

+2-4

=

7

"Augh! Fuck!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: My sigil is that stuff gets drawn into reality

Silvio Zenzare: "What the hell?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Like it was being sketched on a map

Celeste: ff6 ftw

Salvatore Tafano: "God damn door! Open up!"

Bolad: door stuck

Guy of Bonisagus: my turn

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So is this guy dead or what?

Guy of Bonisagus: i hit salvatore with a pilum

rolling 1d10!+19

(

5

)

+19

=

24

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: How can he not be dead???

Salvatore Tafano: salvatore isn't visible

Celeste: "Guy, don't kill him!"

Guy of Bonisagus: pilum is voice range

Bolad: he's Audible though

Salvatore Tafano: christ

Bolad: he just gave away his position by shouting

Salvatore Tafano: does that count for awareness

Guy of Bonisagus: "Why, isn't he their leader?"

Bolad: I'm pretty sure it does

Salvatore Tafano: sick

Celeste: i think guy would get some kind of a penalty. you need to be able to exactly locate the target of your spell.

Proclus' entire mystery cult was about being able to target people by using geometry to locate them behind walls or whatever iirc.

Salvatore Tafano: well, before the spell goes off, you see a flash of blue light through the windows

Celeste: So you're definitely not supposed to just be able to do it normally.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It depends on the range.

Salvatore Tafano: i know there's something about this in the book

Bolad: he Salvatore attempting a fast cast interrupt

he better roll finesse!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think you should need a Finesse spell for shooting around corners

Spells need something to lock into I feel

Under normal circumstances

Bolad: Arcane Connections allow a maga to cast

a spell on something she is not currently  sensing,

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Does Guy have an AC to this guy?

Bolad: no but I mean it always refers to sensing a target

not seeing

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: AFK a sec.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The Tremere spell I adapted my crow spell from has another spell that lets him target anyone who's not carrying a token or something with his summoned locusts

I should look into it

Guy of Bonisagus: i can hear him so i can sense him so the pilum can manifest in his forehead or do something that looks like a funny source mod physics glitch to get through to him

Salvatore Tafano: The advantage of Line Range is that it extends as far as Sight but does not require that the magus can see the target. However, he must be able to sense it in some other fashion: Hermetic magic cannot in general affect an unsensed target. For instance, the magus may hear someone talking on the other side of a wall.

Celeste: you know, i think im wrong

voice range carries to any target your voice reaches. they dont need to hear it, and you don't appear to need to see it.

Salvatore Tafano: hmm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You could probably fast cast to have the spell go off while he's talking

Maybe

Celeste: The range of a spell is the distance to the

nearest part of the target of the spell. Thus, if

the caster is touching the external wall of a

room, he can cast a Target: Room Corpus spell

on the people within at Touch Range, even

though he is not touching any of those people,

Celeste: and indeed cannot see them. The target of the

spell is the room, and thus the spell does not

violate the Limit of Arcane Connections.

The range is based on the distance that the

caster’s voice carries, not on whether the target

can hear it. Deaf targets, stones, targets in a noisy

Celeste: environment, and targets under the influence of

PeIm spells that stop sounds from reaching them

can all be affected at the normal range.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If he's talking you're sensing him

Salvatore Tafano: it's cool so i'll allow it i guess.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+!5

(

5

)

=

5

oops

Celeste: sorry for the delay all.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Salvatore Tafano:

rolling 1d10!+2+4

(

1

)

+2+4

=

7

rolling 2d10

(

9

+

8

)

=

17

"Augh!"

Guy of Bonisagus: is he afraid of wizards yet

Salvatore Tafano: probably!

Horse: The horses depart the scene.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Goodbye horses

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Does he have unlimited health or something?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm flying over you

Horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVAUnKK1DdQ

Bolad: he's a boss so he has a 3x long health bar

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Sheesh.

Rabble: The rabble continue to do their thing.

what's your familiar up to actually

Dušan of Criamon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DVS_303kQ

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Whatever it wants

Guy of Bonisagus: we need to incapacitate the spirit manifesting itself to protect him, then him, then their fused form

Fiorella of Jerbiton: She

Rabble: "Please! Spare us!"

Camilla: Wow. These seeds are great.

Celeste: i will ride my horse up to the front door and dismount.

Bolad: lets set the rabble on fire and make them stampede into the building

Camilla: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Camilla is big enough to eat a dog apparently so I don't worry about her having some freedom to go where she wants

Celeste: camilla is size 0 iirc so she's about the size of a small person.

Camilla: i actually forgot about camilla because she was relevant a couple turns ago

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That's big enough to eat a dog

Celeste: is that celeste's turn

yes

uh whoops

camilla is size -1, sorry

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Celeste: so she's the same size as celeste

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "There's someone fleeing from behind the building."

GM: TO clarify half of those celeste messages are me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "My familiar spotted him."

Celeste: Oh.

Bolad can get him, I'm going inside the house on my next turn

To try and convince these guys to surrender.

GM: Tunde's turn, then.

Tünde: We'll go and try to head the guy off, Bolad can go around the building the opposite direction as us.

That puts the grogs to use without having to get specific about movement I think.

GM: it's pretty far

Tünde: True

I could just send Tunde

GM: is she on a horse

Tünde: She has a horse

GM: excellent

Tünde: The rest of the grogs guard teh wizards

GM: i put a silhouette token down for the grogs.

Tünde: Cool

GM: Tunde has discovered a new location (Elf weed plantation) and gains 1,500 XP.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: oh hell yes

Tünde: I put Tunde near the vegetable garden

Celeste: sick.

GM: The Thugs flee.

they're having a hard time, since everything is on fire.

Bolad: let us make a mental note to chase them down and beat them up and turn them over to the villagers for brutal medieval execution later.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Agreed.

GM: good plan.

There's a thug making his way through the vegetable garden.

Bolad: its baron bonghits and he's making a mess

Dušan of Criamon: his faete is sealed

Tünde: Hmm

GM: it's just the guy who ran in earlier, though, not one of the named bandits.

you do have the exits covered now, though

Tünde: Okay

I can roll an attack on him if you want

Otherwise I'll just keep the exit covered

GM: you can find him later probably

Silvio does not reappear at the window.

Celeste: i'm knocking on the door if it doesnt take an action

"Hey! I'm coming in soon!"

GM: No response.

Bolad: Anyone visible in the windows?

GM: n

Bolad: Ok, I will canter about 10 paces west and shoot one of the fleeing thugs in the back.

rolling 1d10!+15

(

4

)

+15

=

19

GM: i can't find a good screenshot of the xcom HIDDEN MOVEMENT screen

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: RIP.

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: get salvatore talking again so i can continue targeting him

GM: i'll zero out his defense, since he is fleeing.

how much damage

Dušan of Criamon: Sal is probably in bleedout on the floor

Bolad: +8

GM: A second Thug is incapped.

Bolad: boom.

Celeste: if sal is bleeding out i'm going to try to use chirurgy on him.

lol.

Tünde: A second mongol just hit the north tower

Dušan of Criamon: lol

GM: johns has provided a hidden movement image

Dušan of Criamon: folks, i rooted hard for our team this massacre, but i'm getting microsleeps

GM: rip

Dušan of Criamon: i spent about 8 hours in the sun today too so my body thinks it deserves rest

i'll smell y'all later

GM: adieu

Bolad: cheers moe

GM: oh it's fiorella's turn

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm

GM: if there's even any point in following turns now

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't think so

GM: those guys are stilli n there

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's march the wizards into the building under protection of grogs

Celeste: ok i open the door

Bolad: one of them is still being pecked to death out of sight

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh yes

GM: oh yeah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: he takes the damage every turn for two minutes

GM: roll damage on that guy

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

9

)

=

24

GM: he's probably dead

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: RIP, again.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If he doesn't reduce that below 20 he probalby is

GM:

rolling 1d10!+2-8

(

4

)

+2-8

=

-2

Bolad: oof

GM: He has been slain.

not that you can see that, from outside.

anyone want to take an action before celeste opens the door

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nah

Guy of Bonisagus: lets throw pila at celeste

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Have Celeste go on, we can have the wizards arrive when you say we do

Guy shoots fire at the available target

GM: all right.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets get our loot

Celeste: "Please surrender!"

I am brandishing my holy mace at them.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We got 'em.

Celeste: oh

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Uh oh.

GM: so.

there's another room, in the back

presumably where our boy is hiding

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Your magic sword is nothing compared to the power of bofa. Don't make us unveil bofa.

Celeste: Uh oh.

GM: and a second story in the main room, accessible by ladder.

Celeste: Who the fuck are these ladies.

Bolad: guy casts ligma of flame

GM: (possibly also where our boy is hiding.)

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's beat up these Neil Gaiman rejects and get our sword.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll use unseen porter to open a door

Celeste: "Who are you? Are you prisoners?"

GM: sorry

they are dead

Celeste: Oh.

RIP

"RIP."

GM: it's pretty gruesome.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The knight may have been looking for them."

Celeste: "This is horrible!"

Guy of Bonisagus: its an incredible shame that the bandit leader killed those ladies

Celeste: I start smashing the ladder into pieces.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I really should make an item that can speak to the dead.

Celeste: "Well, you're gonna stay up there, now!"

GM: one of the ladies is a man!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Having an item for Whispers would be great

Celeste: "Assholes!"

GM: i thought mortis did have that item

Guy of Bonisagus: an item for whispermusic

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I don't.

GM: whoops

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'll see to it that their bodies are brought to the church."

""You guys make sure their leader tastes justice."

GM: it's a pretty dismal scene.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

GM: the air reeks of stale blood and burnt flesh, and most of the things in this room have been smashed.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll animate these corpses with my shovel so I can take them back to the lab.

Bolad: Nothing we could do.

GM: gah.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't let Mortis do that

Celeste: "What the heck were they doing in here?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Just the ladies though

He cna have all the the dead bandits

GM: the bodies are of a handsome, muscular young man, a middle-aged woman, and a younger man dressed in red

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Yeah, I'll take the noble bodies back

GM: i guess the first man isn't that young.

Celeste: "Oh jeez."

who is the weird potato person by the back of the room

GM: The ladder up has been destroyed, by Celeste.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: There's plenty of bandit bodies for Mortis

Guy of Bonisagus: I look for our magic sword.

GM: it's a real windfall of corpses

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Huzzah.

Guy of Bonisagus: i mean, really, its hardly even an artifact

Bolad: wait, before mortis finishes off the bandits we should drag the incapped ones to the village and hope for a reward.

Guy of Bonisagus: they probably bought this off of enki

Celeste: it sounds like a guernicus thing.

GM: i didnt describe the door yet.

Bolad: and if they don't give us a reward, we can kill everyone in the village and mortis can take their corpses too.

Guy of Bonisagus: guernicii dont sell to mundanes

GM: Near the back of the room, you see a ruined bookcase next to a strange door.

Celeste: Huh.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mortis can sell the sword

GM: There's a groove in front of the door, obviously the bookcase is supposed to slide back and forth to hide it.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A runed bookcase

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What's the situation with the fire?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll conjure horses to transport noble corpses and prisoenrs

And get the grogs to help me rig them up with ropes

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll look for good books in the bookcase after we find enkis sword

Celeste: I will go through the fancy door.

Bolad: are we forgetting about the scary bad guy up in the attic

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We can just animate all the corpses and then sort through them later.

Celeste: "Why don't you jump down, asshole?"

GM: To completely bury the lede on the door: it's sealed shut by roots or vines that have grown into the wall surrounding it, and it has a strange eye pattern that seems to follow you as you move through the room.

Celeste: "Sorry, God."

uh

GM: i should have said that first probably but there are a lot of things going on here!

Celeste: True.

Guy of Bonisagus: I hurl a pilum at the door.

rolling 1d10!+!5

(

5

)

=

5

rolling 1d10!+15

(

5

)

+15

=

20

Celeste: My character didn't notice the door until now.

GM: natch.

Tünde: I chop at some roots with my poleaxe

Door: how much mr you got

Guy of Bonisagus: vs what

Door: corpus, for celeste and tunde

Tünde: 0

Door: nice.

There's a flash of blue light as your poleaxe bounces off the roots.

Celeste: 20

Bolad: grog death time  licks lips

Guy of Bonisagus: enki sold them a sword that can cut anything* and a door that cant be opened

Door: magus death time

i don't know where the rules for damaging objects are

Guy of Bonisagus: i threw 20 damage at it and its a wooden door

Door: the door is probably singed by the pilum

cripes

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Why not just go through the wall?

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald isnt here

Bolad: Did somebody mention Rules for Damaging Objects?

Tünde: I don't think the rules for damaging objects are very complex, by design

Usually it's hard to stop a wizard from destroying something if he wants to destroy it

Bolad: Stress Check: stress die + modifiers

vs. Ease Factor 15

Tünde: Becuase he can set it on fire or perdo it

Bolad: Shoddy Quality –1

Excellent Quality +3

Superior Quality +1

Hermetically

Wondrous Item +5

+ magnitude

Bolad: Enchanted Item

of the total

of instilled

spell effects

Guy of Bonisagus: if the door doesnt break i throw pila until it does

Bolad: Items have a number of damage

levels based on their quality. Size is

also a contributing factor. Most items

are Size –1, but some can be considerable

larger. For example, most single

weapons are Size –1, great weapons

Bolad: are Size 0, a house is Size +5, a ship

could be up to Size +8, and a castle

Size +10 or larger.

Referring to the

tables below, multiply the number of

base damage levels (derived from the

Bolad: item’s quality) by the modifier corresponding

to its Size to determine the

number of damage levels an item can

sustain before breaking.

Item

Quality

Bolad: Base Damage

Levels

Shoddy 1

Standard 2

Superior 3

Excellent 4

Bolad: Supernatural 5

Item Size Damage Level

Modifier

–5 to +1 1

+2 to +5 2

+5 to +8 3

Bolad: +9 and larger 4

Door: if you destroy the door the pawn of muto vis inside it is lost

Celeste: i cant wiat until someone kills guy

Bolad: If the stress check fails, the item

loses one of its damage levels. If

the stress check botches, the item

loses one damage level plus an additional

damage level for every botch.

Damaged items continue to function

Bolad: as normal until they lose all their

damage levels, at which point they

are broken. Superior and excellent

quality items retain their bonuses

even when damaged.

Tünde: Wait there's an eye

Guy can cast invisible eye revealed

Door: It's a weird door.

Bolad: Have you tried talking to the Door?

Guy of Bonisagus: holy shit!

I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed.

Am I being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

Door: You are not.

Guy of Bonisagus: crying angry wojak

Tünde: Wow, a levle 25 effect taht lets the eye follow you

Bolad: Okay, here's my idea: I shoot the eye with an arrow.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'lll go put out the fires now

Door: that's a good idea.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: johns said it was level 5 CrAu

Door: putting out the fires

Guy of Bonisagus: the zelda tactic

Celeste: Smart.

Door: celeste is opening the door, right

theres a lot going on at once.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll do that once the noble corpses are secured to conjured horses and away from Mortis's horde pile

Door:

rolling 1d10! item damage?

(

8

)

=

8

Bolad: Let's split the party again to give the GM a panic attack

Door: i think the door is broken

Celeste: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10!+17)/2 CrAu spont

(

(

4

)

+17)/2

=

10.5

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

Door: good work Guy.

Guy of Bonisagus: i go through it and find the magic sword

excuse me

bolad fired the killing blow

Celeste: lets murder guy.

Door: that was just for your pilum

Guy of Bonisagus: ah

Bolad: I will add "Magic Door" to guy's bodycount on the tracker

Door: thank you

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh, there's a problem,

Celeste: lets frame guy for anson's death and have him marched

Guy of Bonisagus: why does celeste hate guy now

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Weather phenomena are normally created at Sight range. This is because most weather phenomena (clouds, rain, storms, and so on) naturally begin in the upper air, and so spells to create weather must have enough Range to reach this area.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Scared of fireballs, is my guess.

Door: the plan was for you to fly up and cast at touch range, i think

Bolad: yeah but you can fly up and touch the clouds

Door: Guy has ruined the cool door.

Celeste: im just ranting ooc because i hate when players try to destroy plot objects or loot.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can't cast while a bird

Celeste: it comes across as really spiteful.

Bolad: you can't???

Door: it's just an obstacle to get past really.

Celeste: It's fine tho RIP door.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I mentioned it before

Voice of the Bjornaer Magus has a corpus req

Door: you can roll ml/mt to figure out what its deal is

Bolad: can't you cast silently?

Celeste: It'll be in your talisman eventually.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: -10 is pretty killer for a spont

Guy of Bonisagus: its not like we were going to loot the door

Bolad: Ok.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, levle 2, +3 sight, +1 diameter rain from a cloud that already exists

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We could try looting the door.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I make it rain above the settlement for 2 minutes

Guy of Bonisagus: actually maybe we should have since it seemed to have a herbam effect

oh well

Celeste: its no big deal and im sorry to be mean.

Door: On opening what remains of the door, you find a large iron nail stuck in its other side.

Celeste: Weird.

No one's got magic lore?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I do

Bolad does too I think

Bolad: I have 7 magic lore, is that useful

Door: the head of the nail has a hermetic Rego symbol on it

Guy of Bonisagus: nice

Bolad:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+7 Magic Lore though I doubt it will do anything

(

6

)

+7

=

13

Guy of Bonisagus: lets take that

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Aww yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus: "They must have a rich sponsor, to buy all of these Verditius items."

Bolad: "This door has undergone heavy warping. Is the nail the cause?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "it's possible

Door: Behind the door is a narrow stone staircase, leading down.

Bolad: the door was probably a sentient awakened Magic Thing before Guy murdered it, alas.

Door: the stone is perfectly smooth.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: RIP

Door: oh, hang on

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We could have given the door to Faustus as a friend

Guy of Bonisagus: it shouldnt have been working with the bandits if it wanted to live, imo

Door: heres the forest hut picture i picked out and then didn't use

Bolad: nice place

Guy of Bonisagus: i cast palm of flame to light the way as we head down the stairs

bolad can take point

with orders to fire at will

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I referesh my wizard's sidestep just in case it already mitigated an arrow or something

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's have Carina take the point.

Celeste: I will follow behind, I guess.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Bolad: wait

are we just turning out back on the people in the attic

Door: this is somewhat out of left field because i was counting on mortis using an item to interrogate the corpses.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's follow behind the disposable bodyguard

Door: i'll re sketch the house at the bottom

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Someone destroyed the ladder

We can't do much abou tthem right now

Bolad: I throw a burning torch into the attic

Celeste: "None of you can fly? You're wizards."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The grogs will make sure no one excapes the burning attic

Celeste: "Oh wait. That magic thing. The plague. Yeah."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can fly. I'm not suicidal though."

Guy of Bonisagus: the people in the attic are dead i think

we smashed their ladder down anyway

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Let them burn."

Door: you have grogs posted at the front and back entrance

probably you can just leave more by the ex-ladder and the door to the unknown room

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sure.

Let's finish looting the basement

Door: all right.

The staircase goes down for quite a ways, but a pale light is coming up from the bottom.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

What color?

Door: white

what you find at the bottom shocks yoU!

* you!

Bolad: a Pentagram ward that shoots a lightning bolt

Guy of Bonisagus: This shocks you! This shocks you! [MORE]

Door: Roll  magic theory  to make sense of what you are seeing.

Guy of Bonisagus cracks knuckles.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+3+6

(

1

)

+3+6

=

10

Door: jesus

Fiorella of Jerbiton: grat rolls guys

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling 1d10 + 7

(

10

)

+7

=

17

Bolad: spicey rolls tonight.

Door:

rolling 2d10

(

6

+

7

)

=

13

rolling 2d10

(

8

+

10

)

=

18

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Plus int?

Door: int or perception

your choice really.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So 19.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What would happen if we botched exactly?

This is an info check

Door: you would fail to recognize that you are standing in a hermetic magus's lab.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Door: Your Parma tingles.

Celeste: uh oh

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: An illegal lab huh?

Bolad: it's not a Crime to be here, because this isn't a registered covenant and IIRC archibald's proposal to amend the code never came up

Door: unless you are MRless, in which case you suddenly feel the urge to turn around and walk upstairs

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Illegal? Where the sanctum marker?"

Bolad does a 180 and leaves

Door: Farewell.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Is there an aegis?

Door: nope

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, then I summon birds and have them poke the lootboxes to check for traps

Guy of Bonisagus: "So those bandits were being lead by a magus. Let's find the cur."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Just make Carina open all the doors.

That's what I'm doing.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Or perhaps this is an old lab and they broke in."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It's possible

"Without the protection of a covenant, bandits are a real threat."

Door: The lab can't have been disused for more than a season.

Guy of Bonisagus: what if julius hired us to assassinate someone

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "And it's hard to establish one in Rome."

Door: you may wish to revisit dusan's wisdom

Bolad: they could have just asked us. we seem to have infinite space for labs

Guy of Bonisagus: I call into the room, "Who calls this lab home?"

maybe its gulielmus's wife and we can kill her

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So what kind of lab is this?

Any notable specialty?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We have tight space, exactly enough labs for the # of PCs

+1 for Venator

Door: ive filled in the sketch

the lab is small, but very organized.

Celeste: Cool.

Door: i actually didn't consider lab customizations but i can flip through covenants and find one that matches the magus

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I am EXCEPTIONALLY CONFUSED by what I am seeing here.

Are those books?

Guy of Bonisagus: these were supposed to be books

Door: we got uhhh

a scroll rack

a shelf containing some mysterious bottles

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What a coincidence, all his books are onces we already have in our library and get no value from looting

Door: a writing desk, and a work bench suitable for most hermetic purposes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He doesn't even hoave Something About Vim With A Vengeance

Door: Nothing About Vim, the Q0 vim tract

Guy of Bonisagus cackles book learnerishly

Door: There is also a bookcase.

Bolad: search the bookcase for a secret passage

Guy of Bonisagus: I search the bookcase for a sword with a PeTe effect.

And also shove all the books into a grog's pack.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What color is the book case?

Door: Brown.

the bookcase slides to the side.

Celeste: Ohhhh

Door: but there doesn't seem to be anything behind it?

Celeste: weird!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Normal.

Celeste: i guess the guys upstairs have the sword

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: How does it slide?

On wheels?

Bolad: its a fake wall behind it! a powerful CrIm illusion

run into the wall at full speed to dispel it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's go upstairs and kill the guys in the attic for the sword

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Just throw something at it.

Like a walking corpse!

Door: you have to push it pretty hard to move it.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I have Carina walk into the wall.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I use unseen porter to move it

Door: carina bumps into the wall

Guy of Bonisagus: damn. a powerful rego corpus effect, too

Door: the bookcase is moved.

Bolad: I, Bolad, upstairs look for things to stack until I can jump to the attic

Guy of Bonisagus: we might be dealing with an archmagus

Door: and then carina bups into the wall.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh its a wooden bookcase, never mind

Door: cripes

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Alright I will tell her to stop.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If there's no sliding wall of terram material I do not cast unseen porter

Door: Up above, Bolad begins stacking debris.

Celeste: Good job, Bolad.

Door: the bookcase is pretty bare anyway.

Celeste: I will take some of the bottles, hoping that they're alcohol.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Put the bookcase on a stone slab then use unseen porter on the slab

And then climb the bookcase to get into the attic

Door: :weebey:

it would be really hard to get the bookcase up the stairs

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: RIP

I use Unseen Porter on anything terram to help BOlad build the ramp

Door: all right.

All of these bottles you're grabbing bear a strange symbol.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

What symbol?

Celeste: I ask the nearest magus what symbol this is.

Guy of Bonisagus: rusticani magic

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What do I roll to tell her?

Celeste: "Is this magic wine or something?"

Door: It's a Y in a circle.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Could be poison. Don't drink it if you don't know."

Bolad: this is the lair of JEanne D'Ys, who is not a demon

Door: like so.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: This is the real Half-Life 3.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't know it OOCly

Door: it would be terrible if jeanne d'ys were a demon

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Terribly sexy

Door: hmm

roll MT plus int

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling 1d10 + 7 + 2

(

2

)

+7+2

=

11

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+9

(

6

)

+9

=

15

Guy of Bonisagus: Ys Cola

rolling 1d10+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Door: you have shamed house bonisagus

It might be a wizard's sigil.

Celeste: Hmm.

Door: Door passes a note to a player.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The marks can interact with spell targets."

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+4 Order of Hermes Lore

(

3

)

+4

=

7

guh

Door: actually

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It may be possible to enchant a house such that it fills every marked bottle with wine at sunrise and sunset, for example."

Door: doesn't fiorella have a spell to summon birds that ignore or specifically target marked people

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Not yet

Door: i know one of the sample necromancy spells does that but i don't think mortis has it

also, recall that your parma is tingling.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: God did it when he cursed Lot's wife.

Bolad: whats going on in the ATtic

Celeste: I really want to do this.

I have compulsion drinking as a flaw.

So I uncork it and take a sip.

Door: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh yeah

The birds could be ordered to attack everyone withotu a speicfic mark

Door: well. there you go

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Creates a swarm of a hundred poisonous scorpions. The Rego requisite allows the magus to command them to attack speciﬁc targets. If used in combination with spells like “To Mark With Umbrage”, the magus can command his scorpions to kill anyone on the battleﬁeld not bearing his sigil. It is important for magi with weak Parmae Magicae to ensure they bear the mark.

Silvio Zenzare: Bolad hoists himself up into the attic, where he finds the dead archer being pecked at by some birds.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Molto bene.

Silvio Zenzare: His arrow is there, waiting to be recovered.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: To Mark With Umbrage is level 40 though, it's really not something most people would have

Bolad: The other guy has used Hermetic Magic to teleport away, I presume

What a waste of Corpus vis

Silvio Zenzare: the hermetic process of hermetic elimination would place him in the other room, if he has not teleported away.

Bolad: oh there's another room?

is there a door? I'll knock on it

Silvio Zenzare: no answer!

Bolad: I ask the grogs to line up in battle formation, then try to dramatically kick open the door.

Celeste: nice

Silvio Zenzare: Celeste is in luck - the bottle she has chosen contains pure aqua vitae.

Fiorella the Raven shift

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Uh oh.

Silvio Zenzare: just hanging out in the middle of a forest fire, drinking some everclear

Bolad: it would have been funny if it were aqua regia. imo.

Celeste: It would have been.

"Praise God!"

Fiorella the Raven: The grogs do as instructed

Silvio Zenzare: oh, yeah

the (entirely mundane) door is kicked down

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Silvio Zenzare: You see...

Silvio Zenzare looks something up

Bolad: 2d4 kobolds

Fiorella the Raven: Silvio takes off his jacket and cracks his knuckle as a Heat aura appears on Bolad

Celeste: lol

Silvio Zenzare: a kitchen!

Bolad: man but that yakuza 0 music gets me pumped

Silvio Zenzare: Bolad immediately recognizes it as a witch's kitchen, thanks to his Magic Lore.

Bolad: I make a cursory check to see if anyone else is in here but don't want to disturb all the magic stuffs lying around.

Silvio Zenzare: are you entering the kitchen

Bolad: Yes.

Fiorella the Raven: Morgana can throw javelins, if Bolad accepts being the vanguard of a group

Silvio Zenzare: hmm

gimme an awareness roll

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+4 Awareness

(

4

)

+4

=

8

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Awareness to see if you notice your head being chopped off.

Silvio Zenzare:

rolling 1d10!+8-6

(

1

)

+8-6

=

3

rolling 3d10

(

7

+

1

+

7

)

=

15

Celeste: rip

Silvio Zenzare: You see

Fiorella the Raven: Bolad sidesteps sneak attack and then Yakuza 0 music starts plaing

Salvatore Tafano: Salvatore Tafano, who is doing a very poor job of hiding in the corner.

He lunges at you, sword in hand.

"Die, wizard!"

Bolad: bring it

Guy of Bonisagus: bolad the wizard

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I turn human behind the grogs

Salvatore Tafano:

rolling 1d10!+3+8+3+1-6

(

9

)

+3+8+3+1-6

=

18

Celeste: I continue getting extremely drunk.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I just didn't want to climb a makeshift stairway

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+7 Flail Defense

(

1

)

+7

=

8

Hmm...

Celeste: Fuck.

Salvatore Tafano: lol

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Celeste: Bolad dies.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Everyone welcome Bolad's brother, Colad.

Bolad: I have 11 soak.

What's the prognosis

Salvatore Tafano: you take a fatigue

Bolad: lol what

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What a shitty flail

Salvatore Tafano: don't you?

Bolad: what's the damage on his sword

Celeste: dont you have to confirm bolad's botch

Salvatore Tafano: 10 overflow, 5 damage from a short sword

Celeste: oh you did.

Bolad: Ah ok

Celeste: i thought that was damage

Salvatore Tafano: oh i forgot his str

Celeste: more like shit sword.

Salvatore Tafano: actually that should be a long sword

you have taken a light wound

Bolad: Alright

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can still win

Should we roll init now?

Salvatore Tafano: honestly

you have the entire grog corps there

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

I'm going to the restroom IRL then

Bolad: out of curiosity what would he roll for defense

Salvatore Tafano:

rolling 1d10!+3+8+1-6

(

9

)

+3+8+1-6

=

15

you can still try to crush his skull

Bolad: he seems good at fighting

rolling 1d10!+10 attack

(

7

)

+10

=

17

oh but -2 from injury so nothing would happen

Salvatore Tafano: rip.

Bolad: in a 1v1 melee he'd probably kill me. good thing I brought grogs

Salvatore Tafano: tactical decision

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Classic of gmae.

Bolad: anyway its late so, what happens next

Salvatore Tafano: do we not have "great job, boss, that's why you're the best" as a sound effect

all that's left is the mysterious lab

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Loot & scoot the lab

Salvatore Tafano: don bartolo was going to show up, but there's a forest fire

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Smart.

Vardian's Tomb gets to keep the entire thing.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can make more rain once I recover my fatigue from the last rainstorm

Salvatore Tafano: so uhh

you have reached the end without answering any of the questions raised along the way, i guess.

Celeste: That's classic Vardian's Tomb.

where is the sword?

Who knows?

Salvatore Tafano: You do have the sword.

Celeste: Mission Accomplished then.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We take the corpess of the innocent to the church, who presumably might be able to identify someo f them

Guy of Bonisagus: ah was that salvatores

nice

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And if Don was here ot rescue any of them that might answer some questions too

Celeste: We should do that, because we also should get the nobles Christian burials.

Unless you want to like, go get some Corpus vis and spend it on interrogating them.

Bolad: does a more thorough and time consuming search of the labs reveal the secrets of the mystery we blatantly ignored in our bloodlust

Guy of Bonisagus: we should have talked to the awakened door instead of murdering it

oh well. i forgive everyone in their haste

Salvatore Tafano: yes, i didn't really go over the contents of the lab in much detail

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We could have talked to the door but didn't. Look forward, not back.

Bolad: a bit unfortunate that dys wasn't here since he tends to rein in our less civilized impulses

Salvatore Tafano: the door does contain one pawn of Muto vis.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We did it

Celeste: Lets go back to the village and ask about who we murdered.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That's a smart plan.

Bolad: some of them were only incapped

we can interrogate them too?

Celeste: true

Guy of Bonisagus: dys could have opened the wall instead of the door

lets blame him for everything

Celeste: brb, sorry. if the game ends while im gone so be it

Salvatore Tafano: the inhabitant did keep a journal, which i should have drawn more attention to

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ahhh.

What does it say?

I ask it what it says.

Bismaximus's Notes: It's the journal of Bismaximus of Mercere.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maximus of Mercere

Bismaximus's Notes: It's pretty long, and contains a lot of pondering on the nature of life on the edges of Hermetic society.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Bismaximus?

Bismaximus's Notes: it's a pretty arrogant name

Guy of Bonisagus: wheres his final entry, which trails off with a scrawl or has blood on the page

Bolad: Was he or she gifted? If we murdered a gifted Mercere that's like murdering a unicorn

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Unlike Maximus of Mercere which is an awesome name

Guy of Bonisagus: we dont know if we killed bismaximus

could have been the bandit

Bismaximus's Notes: it's only one away from termaximus

Bolad: Let us search the two Named Bandits for any interesting belongings

Bismaximus's Notes: the bandits are carrying a level-appropriate amount of GP, and a magic sword.

Bolad: no red hats eh

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: AFK a sec.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's look through his journal for dirt on Aurora

Bismaximus's Notes: the young man up above had a red hat

thats on me since i said he was just wearing red

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The final boss of Ars Italia

Bolad: Oops

fiorella as birds peck a red capped person to death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya2xifdO_l0

Bismaximus's Notes: to be clear he was already dead

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

I remember the description of the young man in red in the corpse room

That's why I wasn't afraid I killed a magus with birds

Bismaximus's Notes: Skipping to the back, you find several coded illusions to some unknown groups -- one hasn't been heard from since the blight, which is something of a relief, but on the other hand now he can't collect on what they owe him.

Bolad: oh ok

Bismaximus's Notes: allusions, i mean.

Bolad: can you post all this stuff in the thread plz cumthinker

Bismaximus's Notes: yeah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think we have enough to wrap up now

Bismaximus's Notes: did you want to visit the village on your way out

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok I'm back.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We could drop the non-bandit corpses off at the church to be given a Christian burial

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wait you mean "coded allusions," right?

Bismaximus's Notes: yes

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok.

I'll have all the other dead bandits hang themselves on trees by the road.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Smart

Bismaximus's Notes: oh yeah, there's a bunch of rabble up above

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Since corpses often get peckat by crows they don't look particualry weird on that account either

Bismaximus's Notes: what do you guys want to do with them

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We should do the same, make them look like they were hung

I mean, hanged until dead

Rabble: pretty ruthless

Guy of Bonisagus: no, no, lets make them look hung

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I will not do that.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, Guy puts some rocks in their pants I guess

A potato would be better but those don't exist yet IIRC

Rabble: "Spare us, my lady!"

"I never even wanted to be a bandit!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Oh?"

"Do go on."

"What prompted this ill-fated career chagne?"

Guy of Bonisagus: i do not actually do that

i was joking

I'll go up too.

Rabble: "It was that Tafano and his gang. They kidnapped us!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What happened to the people that lived here?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Tafano?

Guy of Bonisagus: that was the bandit boss

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Right, but I'm just surprised he'd be such a jerk.

Rabble: "'You come with me or I'll kill your family!' That's what he said to me."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmmm.

Rabble: "Salvatore the Horsefly and his boys."

johns: is it really that easy to get slaves?

just empty threats?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: MAKES YOU THINK.

Rabble: wee bey

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Well, you're free now."

Rabble looks around at the ashes and corpses.

Rabble: "I, uh, thanks."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Come with us to the village so you might confess your sins before God."

"If you truly believe yourself the victim of circumstances."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye, you are welcome."

Celeste: I just got back and I have to say I'm actually stunned you didn't murder all the innocent people.

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald needs to fall asleep more often so guy bolad and fiorella can get murderous

Rabble: But are they all innocent?

Guy of Bonisagus: sorry

uhh

something to do with slaying but with an ous

ah

righteous

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We took part in a battle

That's not a voilation of the commandments

Rabble: what if you're dooming your soul by setting these violent killers free

johns: someone has to live to spread the word about how heroic we are

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm not setting them fre

I'm ordering them to accompany us back to the village

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I am also a violent killer.

Rabble: the man you were talking to hesitates for a second, then runs off to gather the shell-shocked survivors

did celeste leave the marked bottles behind

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If the knight believes they have acted against the law of man he can deal with that.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think we should take the bottles.

Rabble: this is your right

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sounds good

Rabble: do you take any precautions

Celeste: I took most of them.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mortis has an army of people who cna carry the bottles for him

Celeste: If they were alcohol.

Rabble: oh, well

uhhh

Are you sure about that.

i have to look something up.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll leave the bottles to Mortis and Celeste to figure out

Celeste: I mean, okay.

I don't know how many.

If there are 5 or so in the lab, I took most of them. I took like, three.

Guy of Bonisagus: the alcohol vapor makes a trail to the forest fire and celeste blows up

Celeste: I wasn't clear how many, I thought it was just a handful of bottles total.

Rabble: ah

johns: scrutinize the witche's kitchen for cool witch potions

Rabble: there are quite a lot of bottles, of several different types

Celeste: oh, then i take the bottle of alcohol i grabbed at first, and one to two others that look the same, and that's all.

Rabble: ok

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok I've got to go.

Rabble: are you being sneaky about it and waiting for everyone to leave, or just walking out during the general looting

Celeste: goodnight

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Sorry, but it's pretty late.

Rabble: gnite

johns: dont see a reason to wait

on account of rabble

Celeste: I am just walking out with the rest of the magi. They know I have a problem with alcohol.

Rabble: ok.

johns: if don whatshis name has a problem he can register his complaint at Vardians Tomb in Rome

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Don Faglioni

Rabble: the bottles explode as you approach the staircase.

Celeste: lmfao

nice

johns: lets make dys clean up this shit with PeVi

Fiorella of Jerbiton: How much damage toes Celeste take from the shrapnel?

Rabble:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Fiorella of Jerbiton: RIP

Rabble: not too bad really

Celeste: is that flat soak or rolled soak

i have 8 total.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Rolled soak for magic

You could probably avoid any damage whatsoever

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+8

(

10

+

10

+

5

)

+8

=

33

lmfao.

Rabble: nice

Fiorella of Jerbiton: lol

Celeste: the Aegis of God protects me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That could even include a penalty for being drunk

Rabble: i feel like i should roll again since you had multiple bottles

Celeste: you should.

Rabble: very well.

rolling 1d10!+10

(

7

)

+10

=

17

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+8

(

1

)

+8

=

9

nice.

Rabble:

rolling 3d10

(

7

+

8

+

1

)

=

16

Celeste: lmfao.

Rabble: cranked.

Celeste: ouch.

johns: perfect time for celeste latent magical Greater Immunity to Glass to emerge

Fiorella of Jerbiton: grog death if you count Celeste as a grog

Rabble: that's probably only a heavy wound unless celeste is tiny

Celeste: I have Small Frame.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I guess MR doesn't help if its mundane glass shrapnel doing the damage

Rabble: yikes

johns: do you have armor

Celeste: and am size -1.

I do.

Rabble: botched soak

Celeste: I have 8 soak but botched the roll.

johns: oh

sucks to be you

Celeste: Yep.

johns: hm

Celeste: Isn't that just Incapacitating though?

johns: 17+ is death

Rabble: we have a different wound table

johns: ergo this is when the latent magical ability should show up

oh right

Guy of Bonisagus: celeste is fucking dead

holy shit

Celeste: lmao.

Guy of Bonisagus: nice work cumthinker

Rabble: i think that is an incap

Celeste: I'll be ok.

Guy of Bonisagus: didnt know you had it in you

johns: 1-4 fatigue 5-9 light wound 10-14 medium wound 15-19 heavy wound 20-24 incap

Celeste: I have +3 to recover from Wounds!

johns: I think?

Rabble: i don't know how it's houseruled

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We haev a skilled doctor and Hazm can buff recovery rolls

johns: that's just using the Combat Rules scale of injuries but in increments of 4 since celeste is size -1

5-8 light 9-12 medium 13-16 heavy 17-20 incap

sorry I think that's what it should be

Rabble: ye

Celeste: yeah

Rabble: ok.

Celeste: i definitely get blown the fuck up.

Rabble: Now, who is standing next to Celeste

Celeste: lmfao.

Rabble: how many priceless hermetic scrolls are they carrying

johns: Gulielmus.

Rabble: gah

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus is, yes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I for one am on the record for saying I don't care about bottles

Mortis's player is not here

That just leaves Guy as the remaining potential bottle looter

Rabble: the other bottles contain naphtha and greek fire respectively.

johns: lmao

do they blow up too

Rabble: they probably should but i will refrain from doing that

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Pussy

johns: I will juggle those bottles.

Domenica the Witch: domenica the witch was supposed to warn you about it if you talked to her corpse

Guy of Bonisagus: ive already established taht guy was having grogs carry the loot for him

Domenica the Witch: but, you know.

johns: our covenant's necromancer is a disgrace

Celeste: Thank you for engaging one of my character's flaws by having one of Celeste's "harmless" sins literally blow up in her face btw

Domenica the Witch: everyone has learned a valuable lesson

ok does anyone want to chat with the priest or should i just type up a report

johns: oh bolad has a reasonable excuse not to be touching bottles, the lab has that effect that makes him turn around and go back up the stairs

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Just do a report

I don't have much to gain from talking to the priest

Domenica the Witch: there is definitely a lot of hermetic evidence here to follow up on / ship away to houses guernicus and trianoma so they can follow up on it

johns: nooo

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Archibald should handle the fact that we found an unsanctioned lab later

johns: it should become property of the Tribunal, not some stupid house up in the Rhine

Guy of Bonisagus: bolad does not have a reasonable excuse as he is also serving as a pack mule

ghaha

johns: I shoot guy with an arrow killing him instantly

Celeste: lol

Domenica the Witch: works of literature are summae in the language they're written in right?

Guy of Bonisagus: ive got the staff of parrying

you cant hurt me

Domenica the Witch: i was gonna make bismaximus's musings a source of latin xp

Bolad: one of the regional splatbooks has rules about literature but i dont remember and im too tired to look it up. sorry

probably Provence

Domenica the Witch: i think we have a bunch of poetry books that are good for french xp

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A summae on playing to win by Sirlin of Tremere

Domenica the Witch: lol

all right. that's it then

gg

Guy of Bonisagus: gg all

Fiorella of Jerbiton: gg

Guy of Bonisagus: good looting

johns (GM): timestamp

dys (GM): aging roll for 1351

rolling 1d10!-16

(

7

)

-16

=

-9

no visible aging

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+5-7-3

(

2

)

+5-7-3

=

-3

rolling 1d10!+6-7-3

(

9

)

+6-7-3

=

5

rolling 1d10!+6-7-3

(

2

)

+6-7-3

=

-2