11/19/17

Endrite (GM): What's up?

Shauncat (GM): Hello

Just opening the tab early so I don't space out and forget

I'm on the Eastern Earn page so I shouldn't see anything I'm not supposed ot

Endrite (GM): Oh no, then you'll see that the inn gets blown up and ruin the surprise!

Shauncat (GM): Too late

Giraldo of Milan: hey

i wanted to see tiber trouble or star crossed louers but im sure shadow senate will be just as bloody

well, i hope so anyway

endrites really been pulling his punches

Hypatia of Athens: I'll be Hypatia since I've already made too many magi in too short of time

Giraldo of Milan: im giraldo because i like giraldo

greetings

Hypatia of Athens: Hail and well met

Endrite (GM): You should feel free to play your magi whenever you want.

Also please rejoin as a player instead of a GM because I'm using a TACTICAL BATTLE MAP today.

devil's fav demon: way ahead of you.

Giraldo of Milan: holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hypatia of Athens: I'm in player mode now

dys: im, er, a player

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If I go by who I want to play I'll be Fiorella

Giraldo of Milan: you should always play who you want to play

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I also like the strategic choice of picking a character based on the risk of the adventure

Giraldo of Milan: in a perfect world, all adventures are risky

Hafl T.: which season is it?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I think in personality terms, Fiorella is more likely to revel in the danger of an adventure

Giraldo of Milan: i wish i got in on pendragon way earlier because it seems like it was ludicrously lethal before everyone just walked around in full plate from chargen

Hafl T.: the battle went way better than usual

Giraldo of Milan: welcome back hafl

Hafl T.: normally, the second half of battle is fighting against two enemies a lot

c'thinker (GM): salv

Hafl T.: and army intensity around 30

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Buon pomeriggio

Giraldo of Milan: i got a new chair and keep struggling to adjust the lumbar support to something comfortable

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have a bunch of pads and cushions in mine

Hafl T.: i've never liked any chair better than my current non-moving and cushionless one

Giraldo of Milan: it sits a lot higher than my old one even at its minimum height

so everthing feels different too

Endrite (GM): Ok is this everyone?

c'thinker: what about johns

Giraldo of Milan: rip to johns

he is kill

Endrite (GM): Yeah, rip.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: johns was in Discord moments ago

Hafl T.: i'll decide who i want to play while doing my advances

Archibald of Guernicus: He's in sweden, I don't know if he's playing.

Don't think so

Beatrice ex Merinita: But I'll be Beatrice for now.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm waiting until the end of the year to do my advances so I can open my lab in the two adventure seasons

devil's fav demon: he should communicate this stuff.

Giraldo of Milan: is johns really in sweden

what the hell

i guess he wants to finish what boner machine could not

Beatrice ex Merinita: he came to personally appeal for finishing the LP

Endrite (GM): Ok I just need to check what month it is and we're good to go.

Giraldo of Milan: last was spring

Endrite (GM): Looks like it's September.

Archibald of Guernicus: THe 10th of September. Lavinia sees something horrifying in the sortes. Can the magi stop it in time?

Endrite (GM): Fewer pilgrims visit the Eastern Ear Inn during the beginning of the Harvest season, but you never stop seeing travelers all together.

Pilgrim: For example, this fellow.

He warms himself with a drink before asking Ildebrando if he knows an "Archibald of Guernicus."

Naturally, Ildebrando knows better than to betray your confidence, so while the pilgrim is drinking, he discreetly slips down to the covenant proper to inform you of your guest.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll send a grog to go fetch Archibald

Giraldo of Milan: is zita dead yet

Archibald of Guernicus: "Someone we know?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Knew enough to ask for you by house."

Ildebrando: "No, I have never seen him before, master."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll head up to see the man

Giraldo of Milan: i go to make sure the rapidly aging scotsman isnt killed

Celeste: "That's all it takes to get Archibald out of his lab?"

Pilgrim: The man is wearing a typical travelling ensemble. He peers at you suspiciously.

"Where'd you come from, then?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I leave my lab all the bloody time. Ahem."

"Ye asked for me by name."

Pilgrim: "Are you Archibald of Guernicus? It figures this wouldn't be pleasant."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I am, aye."

Pilgrim: "Some bird asked me to tell you to go to the shrine outside."

Archibald of Guernicus: "A bird?" I peer at the man suspiciously

Giraldo of Milan: presumabl he means woman

Pilgrim: He glares at you.

Archibald of Guernicus: Rolling Folk Ken against him, in case there's something shifty going on

Giraldo of Milan: ill also roll folk ken

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+4

(

2

)

+3+4

=

9

Pilgrim: "I wasn't paid to tell you anything different."

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d20+11

(

11

)

+11

=

22

ooops

rolling 1d10+11

(

6

)

+11

=

17

Pilgrim: Subtract Blatant Gift penalty from that roll Archibald.

Giraldo of Milan: i was used to pendragon

Pilgrim:

rolling 1d100+111

(

55

)

+111

=

166

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, right, I forgot Gift applied to folk ken

Pilgrim: Dang looks like you lost.

Archibald of Guernicus: Christ. Well, you tried your best Giraldo.

Giraldo of Milan: ah well

such is life

Archibald of Guernicus: "Celeste, Giraldo, can ye come outside. Might be some funny business."

Giraldo of Milan: "Sure."

Celeste: "No problem."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Folk Ken + Per - Gift is a very funny roll to me

Giraldo of Milan: kenper

kender

Archibald of Guernicus: Celeste has a bow so she can hang back, Giraldo can come up closer to run in if anything big happens.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So much for padfoot perceptiveness

Archibald of Guernicus: Though my guess is its a magic owl that can't get past the aegis. Owned by hermetic theory.

I head out to the shrine

Pilgrim: An owl?

Archibald of Guernicus: Birb

Giraldo of Milan: my guess is that its a woman

Beatrice ex Merinita: what woman would want to see archibald?

Pilgrim: Why would an owl want to talk to you?

Giraldo of Milan: my guess is that its consoltarda

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go take a look outside too

Archibald of Guernicus: My familiar is an owl!

He talks to me

Pilgrim: Well, is your familiar accounted for?

Archibald of Guernicus: Not sure what you mean, they're just sitting in my lab right now I guess

Pilgrim: Wow you don't even have a gender for it?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not sure how good an idea taking your familiar everywhere is since they could be killed

I just said 'he'...

Giraldo of Milan: you could also be killed

i think the familiar would prefer to die with you than have you die and leave it behind

Beatrice ex Merinita: make your familiar invisible, warded against animals, and have constant shriek of impeding shafts

Archibald of Guernicus: Good idea

Giraldo of Milan: while your sodales shoo it out of your lab to make room for  checks your post history  a tremere

Pilgrim: Ok anyway.

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, if you die it dies too

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Familiars die when you are killed

Beatrice ex Merinita: unless you have a fake fairy familiar who only works as a familiar on contractual basis

Pilgrim: Though the sun is warm, there is a chill in the air that foretells the season to come. The streets are packed with travelers, which is why it comes as a surprise when a bird perches on your shoulder.

Archibald of Guernicus: I look up slightly at the bird

Thaddeus: "Still haven't found a barber, eh?"

It's Thaddeus, Severin's familiar.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Thaddeus."

Giraldo of Milan: there he is

Celeste: Long time no see.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Buon giorno."

Thaddeus: "Let me into your covenant already, I have an important message for your Ur King or whatever you call him."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I greet the bird warmly

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, sure. Had tae improve the aegis, been getting all sorts of nonsense lately." I give him a casting token to come in

Beatrice ex Merinita: Our inn is very warmful.

Thaddeus: "Mmmph mmph," he says while holding onto the token.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go up to my lab and get appropriate bird food for Thaddeus.

Giraldo of Milan: dumb bird should just hold it in his talons

Beatrice ex Merinita: biscuit casting tokens to prevent animals and gluttons from ever entering the aegis

Thaddeus: He likes beetles, if you have any.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmm

Thaddeus: Thaddeus perches on top of the big skull in the center of the room.

Who treats with this regal figure?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: As an animal and bird specialist, I'll say it's a safe bet I have beetles as a lab ingredient.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+28)/2 CrAn a bug for Diam

(

(

1

)

+28)/2

=

14.5

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

lol

excellent

Thaddeus: Astounding.

What a start.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Thusands of beetles

Giraldo of Milan: congratulations on your warping beatrice

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's in friendly aura, so it should be just 1 point

Giraldo of Milan: how does beatrices botch work out, gm

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Her hands turn into beetles

Thaddeus: You somehow gain a warping point and a multitude of beetles start crawling over your skin.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Ewww

Thaddeus: This is astoundingly awful.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Can some bird around help me?"

Thaddeus: You need to roll a Concentration roll to perform any action besides picking the beetles off.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go summon some crows to pick the beetles off of our Archon

Archibald of Guernicus: ill give my familiar a token, switching to GM a sec

Beatrice ex Merinita: what difficulty?

Thaddeus: It depends on the action.

Beatrice ex Merinita: just talking

Thaddeus: 6.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+5

(

3

)

+5

=

8

Thaddeus: Nice work.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can participate in the conversation

Thaddeus: "Trouble with magic, eh?"

"Maybe you should practice more!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll give Thaddeus a bowl of mundane beetles.

"Archon, need any help with that?"

Thaddeus: Thaddeus thanks you.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "If you would be so kind."

Thaddeus: He helps himself to one, saving the rest for later.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I last botched in 1336, so my record is not that bad.

before this, I mean

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll put the lid with holes on it back on the beetle jar so they don't all crawl away.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Are ye alright."

Giraldo of Milan: you botched and got badly burned by your own flames

and then later turned those flames against your kin

Beatrice ex Merinita: That was in 1336

Thaddeus: As I recall, your hair caught on fire.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll go get my familiar so the birds can hang out together

Thaddeus: That was very funny to me.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I could try summoning the crows to gobble them up, or try to spontaneously control the beetles."

Roy: This is him

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Let's try more spontaneous magic. That will be great."

Thaddeus: "Is this a circus or a covenant?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I am Simple Minded and don't quite grasp the sarcasm.

Thaddeus: "I have an important message for you knuckleheads."

Beatrice ex Merinita: was it sarcasm?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Go ahead."

"We can deal with the Archon's skin condition later."

Thaddeus: Simple Minded seems like a terrible flaw for a maga.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I would rather you dealt with it sooner."

Giraldo of Milan: its a good flaw for shaun

Beatrice ex Merinita: It's Simple Minded only because Bird Brained is not a real flaw.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Simple Minded is Personality

And independent of your Intelligence score

Archibald of Guernicus: "Accidents happen, Thaddeus. We're still here tae recieve it, don't mind the archon."

Beatrice ex Merinita: in that case why isn't it bird-brained?

Giraldo of Milan: because bird-brained is a spell

Thaddeus: Yeah but I don't know how a magus would be able to perform anything as complicated as study or invention with that flaw.

Well whatever, it's your character.

Giraldo of Milan: they can only focus on one thing a ta time

so they can just be completely oblivious to anything

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I didn't get that takeway from the flaw description

Beatrice ex Merinita: what's the concentration roll to spellcast with bugs?

Thaddeus: "Oh, is she the one in charge?" He squawks with laughter at the thought of it.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Just that I'm not prone to great cunning

Giraldo of Milan: id say a fitting thing for it as far as that goes though would be automatically rolling on the experimental results table

due to lack of attention to anything else

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Yes."

Thaddeus: "Well, fair Beetleskin, my master, Severin of Tytalus, Praeco of the Roman Tribunal and all around magnificent magus I've got a message for you."

Beatrice ex Merinita: are personality rolls always stressed?

rolling 1d10!+2 vain

(

7

)

+2

=

9

I feel insulted.

Thaddeus: "He sent me to tell you that he'd like it if you found out what happened to his old foes, the Shadow Senate and he sent me to show you the way to their old tomb."

"I've seen it before, you see. You could say I had a real bird's eye view of the action."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Very droll."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yes, we get it."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Who are the Shadow Senate? Are they actual ghost Romans?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I thought Severin was still at war with them when he was trapped. Did he find the tomb recently?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Simple Minded doesn't debuff lab totals int he same way Ambitious doesn't buff them

Giraldo of Milan: it should

Thaddeus: "We fought them all the time, but we were never able to penetrate their sanctum, but if they're all dead now even you should be able to handle it, your Beetle-ship."

Giraldo of Milan: also the flaw should be single minded

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Should but it don't

Were that it were true

Thaddeus: "Do you need to have a vote or something? What's the hold up?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "You haven't told us where the tomb is."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, ye could say where it is."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Are the bugs so distracting for you? You can have some, you know."

Thaddeus: "That's because you have to follow me."

Celeste: "What do we get out of it? The joy of a life of service?"

Thaddeus: "You see, part of your adventure is that I get to follow along, to make sure you don't get up to anything."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Then give us some timr to gather everyone and prepare."

Thaddeus: "Well, if you're so owl-hearted that you won't go on an adventure for the sake of it, then let me sweeten the deal: you get to keep any treasure we find and let me tell you, they had a lot of treasure."

Archibald of Guernicus: Trying to remember what magi actually went along on the Save Severin quest. Me and Beatrice, Aristocrtius (rip)

Beatrice ex Merinita: I didn't, actually.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I like treasure."

I say in a manner befitting my personality traits

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo is a simple grog

and cannot make these decisions

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: the other magi should however hurry up

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, Kifaaya was there

Thaddeus: Severin has met most of the magi of Vardian's Tomb.

Archibald of Guernicus: Rip

Yeah, just trying to think who was there for his rescue

Beatrice ex Merinita: He never met Beatrice, iirc.

Thaddeus: He talked to you all at the last Tribunal.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Jorn was my PC then

Beatrice ex Merinita: Beatrice attended last tribunal only at the last moment.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: RIP

Giraldo of Milan: jorb

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Jorn died on the way back to his home faerie regio

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should prepare the grogs, aye."

Thaddeus: "Take your time, wouldn't want you to get into any more accidents."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I think two minutes have passed so Beatrice's beetles are probably gone

Beatrice ex Merinita: hmm, if i kill this bird, its master won't survive to complain

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll go knock on doors and mention this great adventure to the other magi, who presumably all grumble, make excuses about being too busy, etc

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hypatia's busy with artist or redcap stuff

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus stands poised to drop the hottest potion of 1340

Beatrice ex Merinita: Artemisia has had trouble with her Gift all year, so she's busy with that.

Unless she can make easy but important contribution for easy Adventure xp.

Giraldo of Milan: oh cumthinkers gone again

damn

Thaddeus: Is he on the secret TTRPG discord?

Giraldo of Milan: hes awau

aaway

Beatrice ex Merinita: I finally made use of my Spell Timing virtue to make a Level 20 CrCo spell to give +15 to wound recovery rolls.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Nice

Archibald of Guernicus: Cumthinker the Betrayer

So we have 3 magi, 2 companions, and a bunch of grogs it seems

Thaddeus: Sounds fair enough to me.

Gimmie those tokens.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmm, I'm not sure Fiorella should be blonde

I'll worry about it later

Thaddeus: If it helps I can't tell what color hair she has.

Beatrice ex Merinita: dumb blonde is a traditional character

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm not sure why her token woulnd't show up for others

Beatrice ex Merinita: her token shows

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmm I guess Mariu wouldn't do a very good job of leading the battle sisters

Beatrice ex Merinita: he would do an excellent job

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If you say so

Beatrice ex Merinita: he will order them always forward and forward while he stays behind

Thaddeus: Alright this everybody?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's put Napoliono in charge of the melee grogs instead of someone who will have them break formation

Archibald of Guernicus: No Tunde since her horse won't fit in the tomb

Thaddeus: As far as YOU know.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Fiorella can make the horse smaller, but Gulielmus is not around to make Tunde smaller.

Celeste: afk for like a half hour. r.i.p.

(From Celeste): AFK

Thaddeus: Ok let's get to it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's prebuff first

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Anyone have Leadership so we don't have to roll attacks for all the grogs?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Doublet and Sidestep for Everyone

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm. if only we had a high leadership welshman here to lead the grogs.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah, if only

Archibald of Guernicus: where could we ever get such a thing

Did you make a touch-range sidestep?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll Shriek myself and turn into a bird with a human tongue.

Beatrice ex Merinita: You have it

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah

Giraldo of Milan: brb

Beatrice ex Merinita: I made sight range attack spell

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah thought you meant you gave it out, I give it out to everyone important

Beatrice ex Merinita: to go with my 500 pace teleport

Thaddeus: "Follow me, I know just where we need to go."

Beatrice ex Merinita: Also, my Creo hit 18

Thaddeus: Congratulations.

Also, great news, the beetles are gone.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If Thaddeus is flying okay indoors I'll pre-summon a murder of crows and put them on standby

Thaddeus: "Someone bring that bowl of beetles, I might want a snack later."

Beatrice ex Merinita: if botches could lead to permanently creating something, they would be the greatest hermetic loophole

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll have one of the grogs bring the beetle jar

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's take a non-combat grog with us to carry the beetles

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I put Violante on beetle duty

She's also responsible for filling more empty jars with corpse beetles

Thaddeus: Botches are for permanently creating Warping Points.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You could get a twilight scar that creates beetles as vermin, as if you were a corpse

Thaddeus: Thaddeus bristles at being followed by a bunch of lowlife crows, but he leads you to your destination with no trouble at all.

It's a perfectly ordinary villa, as might be owned by a prosperous merchant.

"Huh, last time I was here this was a big tomb."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm the Jerbiton, I'll determine the nobility of birds, thank you

Beatrice ex Merinita: say that IC

Thaddeus: "Things move fast in the city, huh?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: the bird insulted my vanity and that can't stand

Thaddeus: Your destination is here: Simon's House.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Are you sure this is the right place?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "How long ago did ye see a tomb here."

Thaddeus: "I'm a woodpecker, Beetleskin, I never get lost."

"Oh, it couldn't have been more than 400 years ago, maybe 500."

Giraldo of Milan: rolling philosophy to confirm his claim

Thaddeus: "I was a stone statue for a lot of it."

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+14

(

9

)

+14

=

23

Archibald of Guernicus: I sigh for an excessively long time

Beatrice ex Merinita: The bird is unlucky that he has no real face, so my poor memory for faces does not apply on him.

Archibald of Guernicus: Poor memory for feathers

cumthinker - Today at 9:07 PM

helo

my mother is in the emergency room

is why i had to cut out before taking even a single action

Thaddeus: Uh oh.

Beatrice ex Merinita: understandable

Giraldo of Milan: good luck mumthinker

Archibald of Guernicus: I wanted to say that, but thought it was in poor taste. Thank god someone had the guts to.

Giraldo of Milan: i dont see why its in poor taste

Thaddeus: "Maybe they updated the look of the old crypt, you know, to keep in style with the times."

Giraldo of Milan: im wishing him and his mother well

Archibald of Guernicus: Me neither now, honestly

Giraldo of Milan: "That's possible."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I think" I say, pinching the bridge of my nose "Someone built over it. In the last 500 years."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I wouldn't want to be buried somewhere unfashionable, so I can understand that."

Giraldo of Milan: would any skill other than order of hermes lore give any insight into the shadow senate

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Who ever heard of living in a tomb in the 14th century."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Wasn't Rome smashed tae piecs by marauders at some point in the last few centuries?"

* pieces

Thaddeus: Yes, Area Lore: Rome seems like it would work.

Giraldo of Milan: ok, rolling

rolling 1d10+1

(

2

)

+1

=

3

Thaddeus: "Hey, I'm just a bird, how should I know?"

"Maybe you could try knocking."

Giraldo of Milan: I knock.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Don't sell yourself short, birds can learn a great many things."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Do we have anyone here who is suitable for dealing with mundanes?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Does anyone else have area lore: rome, at perhaps a higher level. So we can see whose house this is

Giraldo of Milan: "I've got a sword."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Same."

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's have violante do it

Giraldo of Milan: i already knocked

Archibald of Guernicus: She doesn't even have a sword

Beatrice ex Merinita: the sad time where grogs have to do mundane interaction

Archibald of Guernicus: Giraldo doesnt have gift stink or regular stink

he'll be fine

Beatrice ex Merinita: but he's giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: he does have red eyes and look like a wild man though

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's have the most qualified among us do the mundane iinteracttion

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have Etiquette, and Charm specialized in compensating for gift

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's your time to shine, celeste

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh

Fiorella can do it

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have charm, +3 presence and aura

Steward: A man comes to the door and almost slams it shut as soon as he sees you. How do you get a foot in the door?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh wait I'm a bird

(From Celeste): Back

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But I probably cancel it when I see we're not going into a tomb just yet

Giraldo of Milan: I stick my foot in the door.

"Wait."

Celeste: Good move.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can't risk switching auras in dominion, so i'd have to go with charm

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I didn't think to pre-Aura, RIP

Steward: "Get out of here, I don't remember my master inviting any gutter trash."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have charm aura in my standard prebuffs

Giraldo of Milan: "We're philosophers."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Aura and Sidestep seems a bad combo

Steward: "Then philosophize somewhere else."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Since you can't make proper eye contact

Beatrice ex Merinita: stand-up philosophers

Giraldo of Milan: "We've got some objects of great curiosity."

Beatrice ex Merinita: like a sword

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Settle down. The Zeno family are NOT trash."

Giraldo of Milan: I fish in my pockets and pull out a hellhound eye from nearly a decade ago.

Steward: "Get the hell out of here or there is going to be trouble.

Archibald of Guernicus: I turn to Celeste "Is the diplomacy working?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Don't mind him, my good man. We're to see your master about an important matter concerning his estate."

Celeste: I'm no diplomat. We can turn this around, I think.

Beatrice ex Merinita smiles at the Steward.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "He's hiding something. Typical stewards don't go around calling Zenos gutter trash."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll try charm.

rolling 1d10+3+6-5+5

(

8

)

+3+6-5+5

=

17

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Reniero Zeno was the Doge of Venice."

Steward: "What do you want?"

"I don't have time to deal with every traveling circus looking for a handout."

Thaddeus squawks with amusement.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We're not looking for a handout."

"This building sits on the site of an important Roman site which interests us greatly."

Steward: "What kind of site? This is Rome, everything is built on something else."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It has to do with the Senate, not the Roman Senate proper, but archives, writings, that sort of thing."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I'm sure some sort of compensation can be arranged for access."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Yes, we can actually pay for access. Pay you personally, if your master would feel insulted by offering him money."

Giraldo of Milan: "You never know what kind of creatures are lurking in ancient catacombs."

"Salamanders. Unliving bodies. Cathars."

Steward: "Hmm, alright, I'll call my master, he can meet you in the foyer," He looks at your scruffy companions, Beatrice, "Just you."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Very well."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Uh

Beatrice ex Merinita shakes any leftover bugs out of her clothes while the Steward is away.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well I guess a Roman might find a Venetian noble scruffy

That's their right

Steward: Fortunately, the beetles all vanished.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Fiorella, could you keep an eye from the window."

Giraldo of Milan: what is the Existence Quality of the beetles

Beatrice ex Merinita: Maybe a real one got mixed in at some point.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Alright

Since I'm not invited I'll go bird mode and find a window to look through

Giraldo of Milan: I ask the bird, "Is there anything particular they had at the entrance to their tomb?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Get ready to rush in, if there's trouble."

Giraldo of Milan: the good bird

not the bird bird

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Yes, any information would be good."

Archibald of Guernicus: Neutral Bird

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I know I'm not the one who would be able to answer that question

Giraldo of Milan: chaotic bird

Thaddeus: "Yeah, there was a big tomb with a stone eagle on it."

Giraldo of Milan: true bird

hm

would dowsing be able to find a statue of an eagle using an eagle

Thaddeus: No.

Maybe if you had a statue of an eagle.

Beatrice ex Merinita: If only we had a stonemason.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If only we had a stonemason

Jinxed again

Beatrice ex Merinita: Wait, Fiorella has eagles and Archibald has Terram.

Giraldo of Milan: "Can someone get me a rock that resembles an eagle?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: We can make a statue of an eagle.

Thaddeus: Anyway, after some time, the steward returns to usher Beatrice into the world beyond this door.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm ready to fastcast a teleport at the first sign of danger.

Giraldo of Milan: it wouldnt work

youd just walk very fast into a door

and hurt your head

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Please let the master know I'm of the Zeno family of Venice and not a scruffy

Beatrice ex Merinita: Being on the other side of the room from the person trying to kill me is good enough.

Steward: Sure.

Anyway, do you go with him?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Teleport with Muto requisite to make me fit through cracks.

I go with him.

Steward: Ok, you're peeking through windows or something, everyone else?

Archibald of Guernicus: I go find a quiet place where the aura's neutral and start sponting Creo Terram

Giraldo of Milan: you can do it archie

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Statue of an eagle has no Animal requisite

Beatrice ex Merinita: We need you close, not back in the inn.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There are neutral pockets in cities

Beatrice ex Merinita: Yeah, but they're hard to find.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Societtaes mentiosn them in the Jerbiton chapeter

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+30)/2

(

(

8

)

+30)/2

=

19

Base 3 to make stone, +1 touch, +2 sun, +1 complexity

Beatrice ex Merinita: finding lacunae would be a good area lore specialization

Archibald of Guernicus: An eagle is made

I hand it to Giraldo

Steward: The closest place nearby is Dominion 1.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah. Well that still reaches 15

Steward: Phew!

Giraldo of Milan: I pull out my dowsing rod, also not used in nearly a decade.

And begin dowsing for stone eagles.

Steward: Ok.

Roll it, and I'll talk to Beatrice.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+10

(

9

)

+10

=

19

Steward: Hello?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm typing.

Steward: Well, ok, your dowsing turns up nothing.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Wow

Steward: What else would you like to try?

Giraldo of Milan: hm

"No stone eagles in the area."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Probably removed when they made a house over it."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It could be that Dowsing doesn't find forms, only solids of the same composition

Giraldo of Milan: "Seems likely."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: In which case there's stone everywhere

Giraldo of Milan: you can find specific things with dowsing

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

Giraldo of Milan: one of the examples given is water from a specific river

er

a specific river, using bottled water from it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Seems like there's arcane sympathy in the case of the river

Steward: Seems possible.

It could even have been quarried.

Giraldo of Milan: lets shrink vardians tomb down small enough for giraldo to carry

then we i can dowse for tombs

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: :weebey:

Does Archibald have Miner's Keen Eye? He put it on glasses after all

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, should be able to see if there's stone chambers below the house

Steward: The Miner's Keen Eye would only allow you to see one type of mineral.

Giraldo of Milan: look for Stone Eaglium

Steward: So if it was stone, you wouldn't be able to see through the street.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The spell would say if you had to choose at the time of invention

Oh

Archibald of Guernicus: Well

Steward: You can see any one type of mineral

(gold, diamond, sand), specified at the time of

casting, through up to 3 paces of intervening

material. You have a good idea of how much is

there and how pure it is, if appropriate

Archibald of Guernicus: I could look for gold, if the tomb is right below us it might show something

Giraldo of Milan: You could try.

seems worth checking

Archibald of Guernicus: I can cast it formulaicly without any trouble whatsoever in this aura

So I do so, and look for gold in the area under us

Steward: Are you going to cast it on the street or scuttle off somewhere?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll return to the group.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can cast without gestures, and quiet casting is -5, so I'm just muttering to myself at worst. Shouldn't be an issue when we're off on our own

Giraldo of Milan: well presumably hes going to cast it on hismelf

then look at the street

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's concentration

He can move around

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean, I can cast it on the street without issue anyway

rolling 1d10+18

(

1

)

+18

=

19

Or not, I take a short-term fatigue

Steward: You did it.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's with quiet casting and the dominion aura factored in. Dominion was -5 per aura right?

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The master of the house claims that when he bought the house, he also bought any pagan relics and similar underneath it. He's willing to accept payment for letting us look for it, but he also wants payment for anything we carry out."

-3

Steward: -3.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, it casts without problem

Beatrice ex Merinita: "More worryingly, he wants to accompany us when we find what we look for to determine how much he wants for what we find."

Giraldo of Milan: we c ould give him our word then break it

Thaddeus: "Sounds like a real problem."

Giraldo of Milan: we could kill him

Archibald of Guernicus: "So nae treasure, either."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "That's fine. We simply destroy anything that's not worth paying him for."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He probably has no idea of what magical items are worth."

"And I can disguise things with illusions."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Clever."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He calls himself Simon of Venice, so Fiorella's connections might help, but I didn't try using them, just to be sure."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why's he left the tomb untouched so long?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Well I don't get recognized often in Rome. The Steward certainly didn't."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He probably never found it."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Yes, if he had the rights to the relics he could have gathered them himself."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I told him it's a tomb of pagan Senator from the time of Nero who was buried with records of early Christian martyrs."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Things of historical importance but little Hermetic value can be offered as part of his compensation."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Yes. And we still have enough corpus vis to sell off to provide payment from our 'patrons'."

"I'm more worried about his request to accompany us."

There's no university in Scotland Archibald can claim belonging to yet, so we'll say he's creepy because he's English.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: University of Haggis

Thaddeus: Smart.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's famous

Thaddeus: Ok, so are you gonna go for it?

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Does everyone agree to his terms?"

"And what should we offer for the initial fee? We don't want him to think we're too rich."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It's odd that he wants to follow us, but if he's willing to share in the danger that makes his price a bit less extreme."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I didn't tell him about any danger."

Thaddeus: "There's gonna be plenty of danger."

"Unless they're all dead, I mean."

"Or more dead."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It'll be a heap of trouble if he dies in there."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He can choose to run at the first opportunity."

"But yes, if he dies, there will be a lot of trouble."

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's offer him a 10 year old hellhound eye as the initial fee

Thaddeus: Ok, so you're all ready to go here?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah.

Thaddeus: Let's try to keep things moving here, if we can.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: How about whatever an Animal vis is worth in Italian currency

Beatrice ex Merinita: We can be honest and say that it might be dangerous due to old brickwork, etc. and offer a large sum for all we find in advance.

Giraldo of Milan: fiorella has already compulsively claimed the eye due to its age

Beatrice ex Merinita: We could sell two pawns of Fae Corpus and offer 30 mythic pounds for the lot.

Thaddeus: Ok, you talk to the steward and he grudgingly allows you back in, Beatrice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok

Smiling Simon: "I go with you or there's no deal."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll quiet cast Aura

Beatrice ex Merinita: "In that case, we'll determine the worth of what we find when we find it. Is that fair?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: 15 minus 10, level 5, so it works

Smiling Simon: "Deal."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And I have Subtle Magic

So I can cast it gestureless too

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I have to warn you about one of my companions. Master Archibald is English and as you know, they're prone to eccentricities in appearance and behavior, though his scholarship is impeccable."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh wait -3 from aura

rolling 2+d10

2+

(

9

)

=

11

No fatigue

Archibald of Guernicus: I feel a sudden rising ire

Beatrice ex Merinita: I just said being English is just like Blatant Gift.

Archibald of Guernicus: The blatant gift just means its extra-strong

Smiling Simon: "As long as your money is good we won't have any trouble."

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait a minute

Smiling Simon.... S.S.... Shadow Senate

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The SS lives on

Smiling Simon: "Federico, let the rest of them in, but make sure they have an escort."

Archibald of Guernicus: Now I'm prepared for when he betrays us in the name of the shadow senate

Smiling Simon: The steward nods and rings a large bell near the entrance. Some hired goons seep into the foyer from around the house.

Beatrice ex Merinita: It would be SS even in Latin, so it works.

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I'll go with cityname like Proclus

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice. Let's use the goons to disable traps.

Smiling Simon: Ok, everyone who is going inside put your tokens in the room with Beatrice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: did archibald invent a Part target attack spell he can FFM to individual or group as needed?

Giraldo of Milan: nice big house. im sure we wont be fighting here

Archibald of Guernicus: Not yet, no

We're taking our grogs inside too, I assume

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: "Always nice to meet a fellow Venetian."

Beatrice ex Merinita: subtly question him on details of venice to catch any inconsistencies

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I don't have any Venice Lore

Archibald of Guernicus: Zach and Napolino can shield grog for beatrice and fiorella

Giraldo of Milan: as we walk through his home i look around with second sight

rolling 1d10+13

(

4

)

+13

=

17

+14 i mean

so 18

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I was sent to Valnastium at an early age, but my family connectoins allowed me to have a comfortable apprenticeship with Jerbiton despite no Gentle Gift instead of being used as a Bonisagus lab monkey

Smiling Simon: Ok, I'll keep that number in mind.

The foyer is tastefully decorated and has a few chairs to allow travelers to kick up their feet or for an impromptu confab.

There's a large rug covering the center of the room.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I don't step on the rug.

Giraldo of Milan: I do.

Smiling Simon: "Now, where is this tomb you're talking about?"

"Oh fuck! It's you!" he says when he sees Archibald.

Giraldo of Milan: man

i wish i brought malach

Smiling Simon: "What the fuck do you want? I already cancelled Marco's debt? Did he send you for another shakedown?"

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: "A friend of Vardian's Tomb?" I ask Beatrice

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I don't think so."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Marco has passed away."

Smiling Simon: "What a tragedy," he says.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's just get on with finding this tomb."

Smiling Simon: "Then why did you follow me all the way from Venice?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I live here."

"In Rome."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "You know each other?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's a long story."

Smiling Simon: "Pig pussy, what terrible luck!"

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: "If he can be so easily intimidated by a Redcap, perhaps we need to renegotiate the deal."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well more of a mediuim one. It disnae matter right now."

"No that's not quite what happened."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I don't think it would be fair to change a deal."

Smiling Simon: "Let me tell you, I'm not going to be such a push over this time, if anything happens to me, there are going to be consequences."

"I've got an organization behind me and you don't want to fuck with them."

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: "Do tell."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We're here on perfectly legitimate business."

Beatrice ex Merinita: He's not going to betray us to the Shadow Senate, it's going to be an escort mission instead as the more lethal option.

Archibald of Guernicus: Lethality: Monstrous

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: "I would like to hear about this organization."

Smiling Simon: "It's the Bank of Venice. Don't tell me you haven't heard of it."

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: "Of course."

"The Zenos do plenty of business with them."

* The Zen

"I'm sure compensation can be arranged if some misfortune befalls one of their agents here during this expedition."

Smiling Simon: "Yeah, like your teeth."

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: "I doubt that."

Smiling Simon: "Let's get this over with."

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I smile Privileged UPbringingly

Smiling Simon: "Please, take a look around my humble home."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Did the house come with any eagle statues?"

Smiling Simon: "Eagles?"

"I've never seen any."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "An old roman symbol."

Giraldo of Milan: I look under his big rug.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The tomb we're looking for is most likely to be under the house. Do you have any cellars?"

Smiling Simon: You see a lovely tiled floor, Giraldo.

"Cellars? I haven't been interested in that since your friend remodeled my house in Venice."

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's none whatsoever? No lower floor?"

Smiling Simon: "The store rooms are a little lower than the rest of the house, if that's what you mean."

"Keeps everything cool, see?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's a place tae start, then."

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: Let's start poking aorund

Archibald of Guernicus: Store room is a good start

Just to check, this house isnt connected to anything else, is it?

Smiling Simon: The two rooms to the south are the storerooms.

The house next door is almost cheek to jowl with this one.

Oh wait.

Giraldo of Milan: I will examine the storerooms.

Archibald of Guernicus: Same

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I will also poke around the storerooms, using any mundane abilities that apply

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll check the storerooms too

Archibald of Guernicus: I was thinking maybe Fiorella could go take a birds eye view of the place, then we compare it to the rooms we explore, to see if theres a room-sized area that's inaccessible

Might be hidden stairs

Smiling Simon: Might be.

How are you going to search the house?

Just mundanely?

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: Let's see if Giraldo finds anything first, anything bird-related is a bit complicated

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can wordlessly cast prying eyes on the floor.

Giraldo of Milan: ill roll second sight again i guess

Celeste: i keep having to leave for 15-20 minutes at a time so I'm just going to go. thank you for running endrite.

Archibald of Guernicus: Same, actually

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+14

(

2

)

+14

=

16

Smiling Simon: Roll awareness + per.

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: What level is Prying Eyes?

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+11

(

5

)

+11

=

16

Beatrice ex Merinita: 5 InIm

Giraldo of Milan: for awareness

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I'll just roll Awareness since we hvae two people casting it

Smiling Simon: AFK a sec, keep thinking about how to search.

Fiorella Zeno of Venice:

rolling d10+3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

Beatrice ex Merinita: What's the aura inside?

Archibald of Guernicus: When I pass by walls, I check them with Prying Eyes, without gestures, silently. If there's a room on the other side, I can see it. I can see in the dark too.

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I doubt I fnid anything

Archibald of Guernicus: I know prying eyes as formulaic and Intellego is my highest technique so I should be fine to do that

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have 5 casting total exactly with no gestures/voice for prying eyes.

so it depends on the aura

Archibald of Guernicus: I have +7, so +4 in dominion 1, so its non-fatiguing

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: Behold! I am one of low Intellego

Archibald of Guernicus: Imaginem is my only art under 5, really should fix that

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: Get an apprentice

Giraldo of Milan: yeah - by lowering all non-terram forms to 0

Archibald of Guernicus: And commit a low crime?

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I mean, once you fix it

Beatrice ex Merinita: i should fix my animal, aquam, auram, herbam, and terram to give them at least 5

Archibald of Guernicus: I think if Malach opened an apprentices arts he'd be slain on the spot

1 deficient art is a low crime, 2 was a high crime iirc

Beatrice ex Merinita: malach's continued existence is a low crime

Archibald of Guernicus: 14 is probably the most criminal act ever performed

Giraldo of Milan: whats wrong with malach

hes just a cool guy who likes to kill people

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: Archibald could just keep casting Unwelcome Entrance until he finds empty space

Archibald of Guernicus: Unwelcome Entrance is obvious

I'm going to wait until I find a hidden room

then we can use that to access it

without breaking his house

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: Okay

Giraldo of Milan: i wanna take an apprentice on malach and open his arts just to see what happens

Beatrice ex Merinita: Archibald is forced to slay Malach while crying

Archibald of Guernicus: You create someone with 14 minor flaws, which breaks the system entirely and the apprentice explodes, killing you

Giraldo of Milan: theyre just minor flaws. whats the big deal. the order of hermes needs to calm down

Archibald of Guernicus: 14 of them

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: That's 4 mystery initiations

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, no

Beatrice ex Merinita: what's the best thign about 14 minor flaws?

Archibald of Guernicus: he has 5 techniques at 5 or more, i think

Beatrice ex Merinita: boo

Archibald of Guernicus: 9 minor flaws is STILL impossible though

So the apprentice explodes for

rolling 1d10!+69

(

4

)

+69

=

73

Beatrice ex Merinita: 9 minor flaws is impossible you say? are you sure? says a passing mystery cultist

Beatrice is at 6 right now.

Fiorella Zeno of Venice: I want an apprentice ocne I get a 5 in everything so I can make more Jeribtons

Beatrice ex Merinita: i need teaching and leadership so i can take two apprentices at once and teach them both in a single season to powergame

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Is dual apprentice drifting legal?

Beatrice ex Merinita: the only requirement is teaching an apprentice personally one season a year

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll talk tto Simon about Venice in the meantime

Maybe he'll calm down

Beatrice ex Merinita: cool, distract him

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+4+2+5-3 Charm + specialty + Aura - Gift

(

4

)

+4+2+5-3

=

12

Giraldo of Milan: i dont think hell calm down because of what happened to him in venice

with archibald in his house, who is one half of what happened to him

Beatrice ex Merinita: think of all the nice high places in venice

Smiling Simon: Ok, I'm back.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't expect to accomplish anything so dela with Beatrice and Archibald casting Prying Eye

Beatrice ex Merinita: what's the aura in the house?

Smiling Simon: Ok so you're going to magyckly peer through walls?

Archibald of Guernicus: gift is -5 in abilities as arts

Beatrice ex Merinita: through floor

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh yeah

That's a 10 then

Same EF

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm checking walls, Beatrice is checking floors, I believe

Smiling Simon: Ok.

Archibald, you find a SECRET PASSAGE leading down in the southern storeroom, well after Giraldo has found it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Thanks Giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: its me

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's a secret passage here."

Endrite (GM): See that "X"?

That's the secret door.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'll open it up. Don't worry, it won't damage yer house."

Giraldo of Milan: I take a look inside.

Endrite (GM): It was covered with a wooden beam.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance on the wall here to open it up

Beatrice ex Merinita: clever

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Time for adventure

Endrite (GM): It's a stone door with a carved eagle in the center.

Archibald of Guernicus: this adventure is for the birds

Beatrice ex Merinita: hmm

nice

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I make note of the eagle's AQ

Archibald of Guernicus: Does the stone door have any obvious way of opening it?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Did you poke the eagle with a rod yet?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll try prying eyes to see what's past it. i see in the dark.

Giraldo of Milan: I open the door.

Endrite (GM): How???

Giraldo of Milan: I touch it.

Endrite (GM): It doesn't open.

Shocking.

Giraldo of Milan: hm

Beatrice ex Merinita: "There's a staircase down behind the door."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have Napoliono poke the eagle with a ten foot pole

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Unwelcome Entrance. IT does.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I had to touch it to cast Prying eyes.

Giraldo of Milan: alright

i walk through archibalds door

Endrite (GM): Alright, that works Fiorella.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hooray

Endrite (GM): Smiling Simon whispers something to one of his men and he ambles off.

Beatrice ex Merinita: If only someone here had Sharp Ears!

Can I get the goon he talked to look me in the eyes?

Endrite (GM): Uh, the man does not Smiling Simon.

Violante the Herbwife: Use Charm

Endrite (GM): No, he's leaving.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, right

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Say "turn around" in a seductive voice to the man walking off

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm not good enough to make that work

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: RIP

Endrite (GM): Ah well.

Ok, he scuttles off, ne'er to return.

Beatrice ex Merinita: alone

Endrite (GM): Ok, who is going down the corridor?

Yes.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I will

Beatrice ex Merinita: I will, but with some grogs ahead and behind the group

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll shield myself with the melee grogs

Endrite (GM): Ok, assemble the grogs as you wish.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We have enough melee grogs to shield every magi

Giraldo can lead them, probably

Let's have Napoliono take point

Endrite (GM): Ok, please place them in the corridor in the order you wish.

At the end of the corridor is another stone door.

It's dark in the corridor, though.

Do you guys have any light?

Archibald of Guernicus: If only we had someone who had a magic torch

Beatrice ex Merinita: I see in the dark.

Giraldo of Milan: me too

i open the X

Beatrice ex Merinita: What's the aura?

Endrite (GM): It's... INFERNAL 2!

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn

that prevents me from sponting palm of flame

Giraldo of Milan: why does it?

you were perfectly happy to cast spells in infernal 2 before

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't want to spont with fatigue

Archibald of Guernicus: It's fine, when we get near the shadow senate their magic aura should be able to over-ride the natural infernal aura exuded by the bank of venice

Beatrice ex Merinita: and i'm at 24 CrIg with it

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast it formulaicly

Beatrice ex Merinita: showoff

Archibald of Guernicus: I put a dozen goofy utility spells I rarely use on my sheet at chargen

Let me have this moment

Beatrice ex Merinita: maybe i should raise my ignem higher than 5

Archibald of Guernicus: Why yes, I  do  have subtle iron and rigid rope

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have self-invented spells of level lower than 5 i made with spare lab total

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Subtle Iron and Loud Rope

Endrite (GM): Ok, no whirling blades decapitate everyone in the corridor.

Do you want to open the next door Giraldo?

Giraldo of Milan: yes

yes!

yes!!!!

Endrite (GM): Ok!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Giraldo is a man of action and we all love him for it

Archibald of Guernicus: THe first two doors are untrapped to make the third, trapped, door that much funnier.

Endrite (GM): The room beyond is lit only by the trickle of light from the store room above, and Archibald's palm of flame.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Use Miner's Keen Eye to find the whirling decapitation blades

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Who wants to go into this room first?

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo is leading

hes got the best awareness and second sight so hes a natural for it

Endrite (GM): Ok, Giraldo, you see a room with a bunch of empty biers.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I am Overconfident but not to the point of stealing the spotlight from Giraldo's boldness

Giraldo of Milan: whats a bier

Beatrice ex Merinita: german for beer

Endrite (GM): It's like a plinth for corpses.

Giraldo of Milan: ah

"Hm. Biers without bodies. That's not good."

is simon with us

Endrite (GM): Yep.

Smiling Simon: "What the fuck is all this?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Not excited tae bump into a load of walking corpses."

Giraldo of Milan: "Either someone beat us here or we'll be having company."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I think the second."

Smiling Simon: Thaddeus is perched on one of the biers.

Roll Bird Ken to figure out how he's feeling.

Beatrice ex Merinita: smug

i don't even need to roll

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+13

(

10

)

+13

=

23

Archibald of Guernicus: I think one of the shield grogs has a shield. Sponting Creo Ignem to make a torch so our grogs can fight if need be

infernal was -1 per aura right?

Smiling Simon: Bird Ken can't be used untrained.

Yes.

Giraldo of Milan: wouldnt it just be animal ken

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+22)/2

(

(

1

)

+22)/2

=

11.5

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have Animal Handling and Inoffensive to Animals

Smiling Simon: No, Animal Ken is for talking to animals.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, of course.

Smiling Simon: And Thaddeus can talk to you just fine.

rolling 3d10

(

8

+

4

+

3

)

=

15

Giraldo of Milan: it should cover determining their mood from their body language too

like folk ken

Smiling Simon: However, it does not.

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 10 so

Smiling Simon: Phew!

Giraldo of Milan: damn

Smiling Simon: Safe!

Giraldo of Milan: what is thaddeus's bird quality

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Thaddeus, however, can speak Italian, so

Archibald of Guernicus: hm, thats good enough

base 3 to make torchlight

+1 touch, +2 sun

A grog now has a torch

Smiling Simon: You can ask him.

Ok, which grog?

Giraldo of Milan: I carefully check around the room

Smiling Simon: Alright.

Because you're careful, you manage to avoid stepping on a skeleton lying in pieces on the floor.

Archibald of Guernicus: Zachois the Stiff does

Smiling Simon: Ok.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Spooky."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Find somethin?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm looking at the skeleton Giraldo found, to be clear

Giraldo of Milan: "Skeleton. Doesn't seem like the moving kind."

Smiling Simon: Ok.

Want to take a closer look?

Giraldo of Milan: sure

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Do they often move around a lot in real life, or just in illuminations?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Depends. This seems like a good place to find them moving."

"Whoever this was, he was dressed for fighting."

Archibald of Guernicus: I peer at the skeleton

Smiling Simon: Alright, as Zachaois moves around the room, he finds a few more skeletons.

Archibald of Guernicus: "They move around a lot when there's necromancy involved."

Smiling Simon: "What are you people into?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Necromancy, devilry, faerie work. There's many things that can cause the dead to become restless."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Could you remove the skeletons, Archibald?"

"If they're destroyed. they can't move."

Giraldo of Milan: "You shouldn't touch them, just in case."

Beatrice ex Merinita: dust to dust at voice range

Archibald of Guernicus: "I could, aye, it'd mean we can't inspect them though."

"So I'd take a look now if ye intend to."

Giraldo of Milan: I look at the other ones. Similarly equipped?

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Which one seems to have been the most important based on what equipment is left?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Rego Corpus I know could make one get up and do some labwork, don't know about the dancing ones that illuminators seem to like, though."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We can leave that one."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll use Dust To Dust on the skeletons one by one then

Smiling Simon: Ok.

Goodbye skeletons.

Alright, what now?

Archibald of Guernicus: Apart from whichever looked the most important, so people can check it. When they're done I dust that one too.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Pity, they could have been useful lab assistance. Still, precaution is our watchword."

Smiling Simon: The floor is rough and slightly damp.

Ask Giraldo.

Archibald of Guernicus: I pre-buff with Break The Oncoming Wave, just in case

Giraldo of Milan: i guess theyre all just dressed the same

Smiling Simon: Similarly.

Giraldo of Milan: I take a good look at the southern portion of the room.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's check out that suspicious, enticing X

Smiling Simon: There are seven biers and another door on the eastern wall.

Giraldo of Milan: I get on the railroad tracks.

And open the next X.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: X gon give it to ya

Beatrice ex Merinita: brb

Smiling Simon: Ok sorry I'm gonna be away for like a minute.

Beatrice ex Merinita: back

Smiling Simon: Alright sorry.

Giraldo of Milan: its fine

Smiling Simon: Ok, the door opens in the usual manner.

It opens onto an unusual hallway.

Unusual because of the shape and what it contains.

Giraldo of Milan: does it contain a combat encounter

Smiling Simon: No.

Giraldo of Milan: the lethality is mounting

careful sodales

Smiling Simon: It has a bridge made out of vines growing from the doorway the the wall there.

Giraldo of Milan: whats this music from, its familiar

is the brown the bridge?

Smiling Simon: It continues on to the opening at the end here.

There's a doorway all the way on the other side and some unlit braziers next to it.

The part of the bridge that isn't filled in is, sadly, decayed to the point of uselessness.

Role awareness.

+ Per

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+3

(

4

)

+3

=

7

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+11

(

4

)

+11

=

15

Smiling Simon: Only anyone what can see in the dark.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, disregard my roll that was pathetic anyway

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+6

(

6

)

+3+6

=

15

(From Giraldo of Milan): so theres just a tile floor right under this bridge?

Smiling Simon: There's a tiled floor under the bridge.

Forgot to mention that.

Sorry.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Somoene who can see the floor, throw a rock on it

(From Giraldo of Milan): i dont really understand. is the brown the usable part of the bridge?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: See if spikes shoot out or something

(From Giraldo of Milan): you already said everything not filled in is rotted

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lot of dead plants. What a terrible idea for a bridge."

(From Giraldo of Milan): i guess i dont get what my awareness roll got me

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Plants are more easily fixed than stone."

Giraldo of Milan: I scratch my head.

"I don't think the floor is safe."

I carefully step on to the bridge.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "That makes sense."

Smiling Simon: Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita: does the door on the other side look like it could be opened by a bird?

Smiling Simon: The bridge supports your weight, even though it's made of ancient vines.

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont think I could spont high enough to creo a bridge here, any other ideas sodales

Smiling Simon: It's the same type of door as you've been seeing.

Giraldo of Milan: throw fiorella at the door when shes a bird

Beatrice ex Merinita: Could Fiorella turn into a bird and open it?

Smiling Simon: So yes.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Then I could teleport past the door.

Smiling Simon: You coulds't.

Beatrice ex Merinita: why?

if it's opened?

Smiling Simon: I just said you could!

s't.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, right

does archibald have any teleport?

to FFM and get everyone across?

Archibald of Guernicus: Sadly not yet

Been meaning to. Alas.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Can you eyes of the cat me?

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, sure

Giraldo of Milan: i inspect this wall

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually I should have done this before. I give the grogs and Fiorella eyes of the cat

They can see in low light but not total darkness, but we have a torch, so its all good

Smiling Simon: Giraldo, the vines grew into a wall sconce.

"Hey, what's going on up there?

Thaddeus flies over and perches on a brazier near the door.

Giraldo of Milan: "Someone pass me a torch."

is there a torch in the sconce now

Smiling Simon: I mean sure, if you'd like to put one there.

Zachois gives you his.

Giraldo of Milan: i meant

was there already one in it

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll whisper to Archibald.

Smiling Simon: I mean Zachaois.

Giraldo of Milan: if not ill set one in it to see if anything happens

Beatrice ex Merinita: "If the floor is unsafe, I could get us rid of Simon."

Giraldo of Milan: if there is one then ill light it

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Just a simple illusion."

Archibald of Guernicus: I tap my nose

Well first we need a way across ourselves

Giraldo of Milan: i guess nothing happens

Smiling Simon: Nope.

Giraldo of Milan: "Fiorella, can you carry a torch while you're in your bird form?"

Smiling Simon: The room is lit a little.

Beatrice ex Merinita: If there wasn't infernal aura around, I could just CrHe vines on the entire floor.

Smiling Simon: Wait, did someone throw a rock on the floor?

Giraldo of Milan: the vines would die

Archibald of Guernicus: So just to confirm, theres still vines going across, theyre just too weak to support us?

Giraldo of Milan: from touching the floor

no theyre dead on the floor

Smiling Simon: Yes, Archibald.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I suggested throwing a rock on the floor

No one did it

Archibald of Guernicus: Base 4 ReCo lets you move over surfaces that cant support your weight

Smiling Simon: The vines are sort of twisted together to form a bridge and the second half of the bridge has too few vines.

Archibald of Guernicus: +1 touch, +1 conc, +2 group, if somoene can manage a level 20 ReCo spont

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I didn't throw the rock myself as I would be unable to observe the results

Giraldo of Milan: im sure the awareness roll i passed (?) is helpful somehow but im still trying to figure out its point

can fiorella carry a torch while a bird

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmm

I can cast Unseen Arm while a bird

Giraldo of Milan: alright

Archibald of Guernicus: Alternatively we could just send a small few across

Giraldo of Milan: try using the torch to light the braziers on the other side

Beatrice ex Merinita: what's the base individual for processed plant products?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

Beatrice ex Merinita: I could maybe CrHe a plank big enough to reach from one end of the room to the other

Giraldo of Milan: that wouldnt really be safe i dont think

Beatrice ex Merinita: 1 pace is three feet, right?

Giraldo of Milan: itd probably break once we got to the center of it

Smiling Simon: That's right.

Also, one square is one pace here.

I think that might make the house dimensions a little screwy.

But please bear with me.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Did you want to not cast obvious spells in front of Simon?

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrHe 3 Make a wooden bridge

Giraldo of Milan: i mean i dont even KNOW that the floor is unsafe but my awareness roll told me that dead plants from the bridge are laying on it

Beatrice ex Merinita: +1 Touch (4)

Giraldo of Milan: so im just guessing

how far down is the floor?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I mean you went through al lthe effort not to in front of Simon earlier

Archibald of Guernicus: Well

Beatrice ex Merinita: let me spont CrHe and see what I can do with it

Archibald of Guernicus: Simon has uh, seen us cast obvious spells

Beatrice ex Merinita: Simon knows Archibald is a wizard

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: When me and Malach dropped his guards into pits

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Cloak of Black feathers

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+23)/2 CrHe

(

(

7

)

+23)/2

=

15

Giraldo of Milan: while im waiting for fiorella to take the torch and light the braziers i throw a rock at the floor

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, that gives me a lot

Smiling Simon: How much?

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrHe 3 + 2 Sun (5) + 1 Touch (10) + 1 Size (15)

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+30-2 Cloak of Black Feathers SL30

(

2

)

+30-2

=

30

No fatigue

Beatrice ex Merinita: To make a wooden bridge.

Smiling Simon: How big is it?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Base individual is 1 pace across in all sizes, the size magnitude would make it 10 cubic paces then.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+23-5-2 Voice of the Bjornaer Magus, quiet casting SL15

(

9

)

+23-5-2

=

25

Beatrice ex Merinita: 12 x 1 x 0.5

Giraldo of Milan: that doesnt get us to the other side

i think the braziers are just sitting on pillars

Beatrice ex Merinita: 12m from one side to the other

1 side for width

half pace for thickness

Giraldo of Milan: youre relying on the vines to hold a bridge's weight?

Beatrice ex Merinita: 6 cubic paces

no,

it's from the door

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Archibald of Guernicus: when fiorella opens the door we can just prop the bridge on the floor of the next room

Giraldo of Milan: did the rock do anything to the floor

or vice versa

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling 14+d10-2 Unseen Porter to carry the torch over to the brazier on the other side and light it

14+

(

7

)

-2

=

19

Smiling Simon: Nope.

Archibald of Guernicus: brb a minute or two

Giraldo of Milan: well one last thing before we do the bridge i guess

second sight

rolling 1d10+14

(

5

)

+14

=

19

Smiling Simon: Ok, you hover the torch over to the brazier Thaddeus isn't standing on, I assume.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Smiling Simon: Despite the damp, it catches almost immediately, producing a dim flame.

Giraldo of Milan: if you light the other brazier it might make a zelda noise and raise a bridge for us

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: *kill sus

After making the Zelda noise

Giraldo of Milan: the lethality shifted up to audible during this room

lets be careful

i guess you could peck the door handle to open it

and we can have our bridge

that was already rolled for

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm not sure my beak is strong enough but I can just mash an object against it with Unseen Porter

Smiling Simon: Your beak is not strong enough.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There you go

Giraldo of Milan: well we need to get it open to get the bridge down

shoo thaddeus away and light the other brazier

Archibald of Guernicus: back, has the bird managed to open the door

If not, I can open it, just remembered

Unwelcome Entrance, FFM to voice range. I open the door.

Giraldo of Milan: fantastic

ok put the bridge down

lets go

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, i already rolled for it, so we can go

Giraldo of Milan: ill take the torch back and help simon across

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's sun duration, so it should be good enough for when we want to go back

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can open it with Unseen Porter anyway

Smiling Simon: Well, what are we doing here?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's move on

Smiling Simon: Pick a plan and go for it.

Giraldo of Milan: crossing a bridge

the bridge is down

go next room

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: gogogo

Smiling Simon: Draw the bridge in, please.

Archibald of Guernicus: I opened the door, and Beatrice made a bridge

So we're good to go, I think

Smiling Simon: Ok, looks good to me.

Please indicate the order in which you are crossing the bridge.

Giraldo of Milan: im helping simon along behind me

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll perch on Beatrice's shoulder when she arrives

Smiling Simon: Alright, as you all reach your positions, the doors slam shut.

Giraldo of Milan: even archibalds unwelcome entrance?

Smiling Simon: No, not that part, but I didn't see a spell casting roll.

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont need to, since I can cast it on a 1 and its formulaic

Smiling Simon: Feel free to do it retroactively.

Archibald of Guernicus: And it's calm conditions

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There's -2 for the aura so a chance of fatigue

Archibald of Guernicus: There isnt, its FFMed to 20 and my casting score is 24, even with the aura

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There you go

Giraldo of Milan:  rubs chin while considering that infernal auras are less imposing on magic than divine

Smiling Simon: Makes you think.

Just roll it!

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+24

(

8

)

+24

=

32

There we go

Smiling Simon: THANK you.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If the conditions are not calm, please mention why

Archibald of Guernicus: For WHAT purpose was a roll

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Things that are uncalm are worth noting

Smiling Simon: Huh, that's weird.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i thought infernal aura was always uncalm

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I mean

You can think that

Smiling Simon: These tokens are semi-transparent.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But the rules don't say that

Smiling Simon: Maybe that's a new feature.

Archibald of Guernicus: isnt transparent stuff just on the GM layer

Smiling Simon: Anyway, you get attacked by ghosts.

Giraldo of Milan: adolf

Smiling Simon: Ah, there.

That was the other part of the bridge.

It must not have popped up.

Anyway you get attacked by ancient roman ghosts.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Who can attack a ghost other than Arhicbald with PeVi?

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrIg with mentem casting requisite should work

Archibald of Guernicus: Depends if they're corporeal or not, I suppose

Or that

thats a LOT of ghost

Giraldo of Milan: did i not see these with my second sight

Smiling Simon: No, I'll describe it in a minute here.

Giraldo of Milan: heres my plan

Smiling Simon: Everyone roll initiative.

Giraldo of Milan: run into the next room and close the door

Giraldo of Milan Initiative: 5

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I spend every turn flying somewhere that ghosts are not until this is done

Beatrice ex Merinita: Beatrice ex Merinita Initiative: 52

Smiling Simon: Smiling Simon Initiative: 33

selected|character_name Initiative: 89

Weird.

Well anyway.

The ghosts float up through the floor.

Until they're standing on it.

Archibald of Guernicus: HEre's the plan

We run into the next room.

Smiling Simon: They're wearing old time armor and carry with them short swords and round shields.

Also they carry javelins.

Giraldo of Milan: wait

so is the floor just right under us

its not even a drop

Smiling Simon: Yes.

Giraldo of Milan: its just vines laying on a floor

Smiling Simon: You bet.

Giraldo of Milan: what the fuck

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait, what

WE made a bridge across this.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i assumed that was the case, but thought that touching the floor was dangerous

Giraldo of Milan: i did too

i mean i assumed

Smiling Simon: Yeah I thought you all figured that.

Giraldo of Milan: but i also thought there was a drop

and thats what the vines were for

were these vines just decoration?

Smiling Simon: No.

Giraldo of Milan: im going to kill the shadow senators

Smiling Simon: The vines go up to the wall.

It's like in, uh, Lost Izalith where the vine climbs up to the middle of the wall.

From the floor.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If they're solid, we should fight them some place were the shield grog rules aren't bypassed

Giraldo of Milan: we should move into the next room

then have archibald end his spell

Archibald of Guernicus: We should

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Move out everyone

Beatrice ex Merinita: we see into the next room, right?

what's in there?

Giraldo of Milan: oh no a ghost is right next to thaddeus

rest in peace mad thaddeus

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Come one, fellow birdman

Smiling Simon: Tanolfi Initiative: 26

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Get on a shoulder and charge ahead

Smiling Simon: Please do initiative for your own characters.

You can move 5 grid squares a turn.

If you're stuck walking, I mean.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton Initiative: 79

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll fast cast a teleport into the next room.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We can move all the grogs on Tanoff's turn

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 10

Beatrice ex Merinita: since archibald is keeping the doors open

Archibald of Guernicus: Napolino Initiative: 72

Zachaois the Stiff Initiative: 8

Smiling Simon: Eh they don't really need initiative.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Smiling Simon: I guess it helps me keep track.

Archibald of Guernicus: sorry

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: keep the grogs grouped

Smiling Simon: Guzeppina Initiative: 59

Aurelia Initiative: 70

Giraldo of Milan: ric thaddeus

Smiling Simon: Ok, the ghosts have popped out of the ground.

Thaddeus is going to fly into the next room.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I also do that

devil's fav demon: Jeez, nice map.

Smiling Simon: Thank you.

Hmm.

Let's say you can move 8 squares if you're flying.

Archibald of Guernicus: Napolino moves up 5 squares with the rest of us, I imagine

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+21+3+2-2-10 vs 15 teleport

(

1

)

+21+3+2-2-10

=

15

Smiling Simon: So around there, please.

Beatrice ex Merinita: 5 botch dice

Smiling Simon:

rolling 3d10

(

5

+

2

+

8

)

=

15

rolling 2d10

(

7

+

7

)

=

14

Archibald of Guernicus: Lucky

Beatrice ex Merinita: still casts

Smiling Simon: Smiling Simon runs after you all.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the +3 botch dice from fast casting is brutal

Smiling Simon: Oh then shouldn't it be 6 botch dice?

Archibald of Guernicus: -1 from mastery

Beatrice ex Merinita: mastery offsets it

Smiling Simon: Oh.

Archibald of Guernicus: to fast-cast at all

Smiling Simon: Ok that's fine.

Let's see here.

Archibald of Guernicus: Everyone moves up, Zachois is shield-grogging for Archibald. Is that all Simon and Tanolfi can reach?

Giraldo of Milan: ganbatte simon and taneolfi

taneorbi

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Wait

Smiling Simon: Two of the ghosts attack Napolino, gaining a +3 adjacency bonus.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I positioned myself on Beatrice when i assumed she could cross the room safely

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't teleport with you

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So I'm in the next room

Beatrice ex Merinita: i only teleport myself

but you can fly

Smiling Simon:

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

7

)

+9+3

=

19

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: She was too far back when combat were declared

Smiling Simon:

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

5

)

+9+3

=

17

Alright, defend Napolino.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gah, no-one wrote his numbers

Got to work them out, gimme a sec

Celeste: smh.

Smiling Simon: Gweh heh heh.

Archibald of Guernicus: It turns out Napolino's defence is dogshit and he's terrible at everything, if I'm reading this right

rolling 1d10!+3

(

2

)

+3

=

5

rolling 1d10!+3

(

1

)

+3

=

4

INnnncredible

Smiling Simon: Uh.

Well that's just too bad.

Archibald of Guernicus: Sorry, +4

Hell, let's not sell this great man short

Smiling Simon:

rolling 2d10

(

3

+

7

)

=

10

What's his soak?

Beatrice ex Merinita: you thought the fan favorite grog would be someone competent?

Archibald of Guernicus: 6

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Is Napoliono really that much worse than the battle sisters

Archibald of Guernicus: yes

Smiling Simon: Ok, he takes 16 then 14.

Archibald of Guernicus: he's utterly useless, he has 6 great weapon and thats it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Thank you rope kid

Giraldo of Milan: holy shit. this fat man that eats everything available sucks at fighting. what hte hell?

Archibald of Guernicus: Bialas has more than that to hit!!!!

devil's fav demon: hes a really good guy though.

Smiling Simon: That renders him incapacitated.

Beatrice ex Merinita: rip

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We did it, we finally got rope kid's grog killed

Smiling Simon: Two ghosts attack Tanolfi.

Beatrice ex Merinita: not yet

Smiling Simon:

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

7

)

+9+3

=

19

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

2

)

+9+3

=

14

Archibald of Guernicus: You mean Zachois?

Smiling Simon: Yes, Zachaois.

Archibald of Guernicus: One up front is Zach, Tanolfi's an archer

Smiling Simon: Sorry I was looking at Tanolfi while I was typing.

Giraldo of Milan: i think i made zachaois decent

Archibald of Guernicus: You did

rolling 1d10!+16

(

1

)

+16

=

17

Giraldo of Milan: lol

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+16

(

5

)

+16

=

21

Innnncredible

Smiling Simon:

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

1

)

=

2

Mama mia.

Giraldo of Milan: lol

Smiling Simon: What's his soak?

Archibald of Guernicus: The only competent grog gets incapped

+6

Beatrice ex Merinita: we need to hire more nuns

Smiling Simon: Ok, he takes 20 damage.

Giraldo of Milan: shoulda brought ilbrago or pepus

or both

Archibald of Guernicus: That's a heavy wound in our system, he's still going at least

Smiling Simon: Which is one heavy wound.

If you click on their tokens can you see their health bubbles?

Beatrice ex Merinita: no

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: need to make bars visible in token settings

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, one more thing for little zachy

rolling 1d10+2

(

10

)

+2

=

12

Amazing

He goes berserk

devil's fav demon: lol.

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: Virtues: Strong-Willed, Berserk

devil's fav demon: grogs are great.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i see it now

Smiling Simon: Shouldn't he get the Strong Willed bonus to his Berserk roll here?

Giraldo of Milan: i mean, berserk is just rolling over 9

so hes berserk

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

12-3 is still 9

So

Smiling Simon: Still, something to consider.

Archibald of Guernicus: He still berserks

He can roll each round to calm down though

Smiling Simon: Two ghosts attack Giraldo.

Giraldo of Milan: what the

but tanolfi is rihgt htere!

Archibald of Guernicus: Giraldo has sidestep and doublet

Smiling Simon:

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

10

+

3

)

+9+3

=

25

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

8

)

+9+3

=

20

Fortunate!

Giraldo of Milan: so that monster roll misses

the second one lets see

Archibald of Guernicus: I think both miss in our system, with how sidestep works

who knows

Smiling Simon: I think that's fair enough.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

7

)

+17

=

24

Archibald of Guernicus: it gives +5 defence anyway

so yeah, youre fine

Giraldo of Milan: oh +5 defense on top of that

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh yeah I can specialize my Brawl in dodge

Since I use magic to attack

Smiling Simon: That's definitely an option.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i should bring beatrice's brawl to 6, since she already has 20xp in it

Smiling Simon: Two of them attack Tanolfi.

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

5

)

+9+3

=

17

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

3

)

+9+3

=

15

Giraldo of Milan: sure hope tanolfi has a defense of some sort

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, he has a defence roll

Smiling Simon: Fingers crossed.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

3

)

+11

=

14

rolling 1d10!+11

(

5

)

+11

=

16

One misses at least

3 soak

Smiling Simon: Ok.

That's 7 damage.

Archibald of Guernicus: A light wound to Tanolfi

Smiling Simon: Two of them throw javelins at you, Archibald.

I think Zachaois defends for you here.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Do they have metal spearheads?

Smiling Simon: Since he's shield grogging it up.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What's Archibald's Terram soak?

Smiling Simon: Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have sidestep up so I think they miss, shield grog or no

Smiling Simon: Ok, sounds fine.

Two throw a javelin at Smiling Simon.

I mean, they each throw one, they don't both throw one big one.

Giraldo of Milan: wow. rip smiling simon

Smiling Simon:

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

1

)

+8

=

9

rolling 2d10

(

7

+

8

)

=

15

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't know why this guy dismissed his personal army

Smiling Simon: Alright, he defends with DODGE

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

9

)

+10

=

19

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's see Simon's defence roll

Smiling Simon:

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

Ouch!

Archibald of Guernicus: It's higher than our trained shield grogs defence r

Giraldo of Milan: its higher than napolinos

good god

Smiling Simon: He takes 8 damage.

"Hey, what's going on? This doesn't look like no tomb I've ever seen."

Thaddeus: Shaun you can only fly 8 squares a turn.

I mean, I think 8 is fair.

I'm open to changing that number.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I brought this up earlier

Thaddeus: Oh I must have missed it.

I'm sorry.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I was only positioned near Beatrice on the assumtion that she was approaching

Giraldo of Milan: i think 8 is fair

theyre small birds

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If she was all the way over there I would've been near the door

I'm not contesting the number of 8

Thaddeus: She teleported.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: No

I mean when you had me way over at the entrance

Thaddeus: Ah.

Well, ok.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I flew over near the door to light the brazier

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah she was sat at the braziers before

Thaddeus: Ok.

Anyway, the room you're in is pretty large.

Beatrice, you've teleported yourself on top of a large table.

Giraldo of Milan: please show the room and the combat encounter inside it

Thaddeus: Large enough to seat the six corpses and seven seats around it.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's make sure Simon is shield grogged now

Once combat time ends

Thaddeus: Another corpse lies off to the side.

None of them are filled with an unearthly green glow and lurch to attack you.

So that's good.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You never know

Thaddeus: Thaddeus flies over to the guy at the head of the table and tries to grab his necklace.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "At least wait until we're not fighting."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Anything particular about that necklace?"

Archibald of Guernicus: IF thaddeus starts a combat encounter we should leave his corpse here

Giraldo of Milan: we should draw the borders of the new room

Thaddeus: "I hhnk 'ou 'an 'anguh i'" he says with his mouth full.

Translated that's "I think you can handle it."

Beatrice ex Merinita: Only my sense of target priority makes me not throw a pilum at him.

Giraldo of Milan: were killing the bird then were killing severin

Beatrice ex Merinita: two birds with one stone

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Well we have to compensate our friend Simon for anything we take, probably moreso now that he's been hurt. I was wondering fi there was anything particular about it that interested you to take the initiative on the matter."

devil's fav demon: two pigeons with one fava bean.

Thaddeus: Ok, Fiorella, your turn.

Oh right, one more thing.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I go over here

Thaddeus: As much as we all love our friend Napolino, he does have one flaw.

He's Obese.

Therefore, moving past his body will require an Acrobatics roll if he isn't dragged out of the way.

Giraldo of Milan: lol

devil's fav demon: lol,

Beatrice ex Merinita: the nuns can do it

Thaddeus: Actually moving him is going to be a Strength roll.

Archibald of Guernicus: rolling zachs Calm roll

rolling 1d10+3

(

10

)

+3

=

13

He calms down

Thaddeus: Phew!

Ok, Napolino lies unconscious from the brutal ghost blows.

Archibald of Guernicus: Can the nun grogs try and shift napolino while Zach gets into this room

He's got a heavy wound so he's unable to pull off shifting the big fat man

Thaddeus: They can.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think shaun plays them in combat, I can if he's not here, lets see

Thaddeus: Either one of them can try or they both can, adding both their Strength bonuses to the roll.

Beatrice ex Merinita: move a body slowly is level 4 ReCo

so 10 at voice range

Archibald of Guernicus: Are you going to cast that?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can do that if i don't botch

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Anyone can control them

They're grogs

Beatrice ex Merinita: unless the aura is different in the room i'm in

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The less I have to think about this combat, the better

Thaddeus: It might be.

You'd have to cast a spell to find out.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, they'll try and shift him, combining their strength together. Beatrice may or may not be helping

rolling 1d10!+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

Thaddeus:

rolling 2d10

(

10

+

4

)

=

14

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm helping, since i brought it up

Archibald of Guernicus: They fail to move his notable corpulence

Thaddeus: Ease Factor 5 here.

Beatrice ex Merinita: and i'm compassionate, so saving a grog takes priority

Thaddeus: Well, you want to go for it?

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+21)/2 ReCo

(

(

1

)

+21)/2

=

11

argh

roll aura

Thaddeus: My my.

Beatrice ex Merinita: botches, i mean

Thaddeus: Right.

rolling 4d10

(

10

+

6

+

8

+

3

)

=

27

Pew.

h

Beatrice ex Merinita: infernal 3

that means it's not cast

oh

level 5 is enough

Move a target slowly in one direction, as long as the surface can support

its weight.

Beatrice ex Merinita: this is ReCo 3

+2 voice for 5

Thaddeus: Ok.

What's the Duration?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i move him closer to me

Momentary

it should just drag him a bit closer

Thaddeus: Ok, how slowly is slowly?

Beatrice ex Merinita: no idea

half normal movement, i'd assume

Thaddeus: Let's say two tiles.

Ok, he gets moved at the end of the turn.

Smiling Simon sticks close to Tanolfi

Archibald of Guernicus: Zach tries to move in, does he still need to roll athletics?

Thaddeus: Yes.

There's two ease factors here.

One is climbing over his body and the other is touching the floor and climbing over his body.

Keep in mind that this will also provoke an Attack of Opportunity from the ghosts.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, I mean, he's fucked if he stays here anyway

Thaddeus: Ok, that seems pretty reckless.

But feel free.

Archibald of Guernicus: He's going to be eating 2 attacks anyway. no matter what

theres nothing he can do to prevent this

4 actually

Thaddeus: Well, maybe.

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually I dont think he can get out of here alive in any way

If he's taking multiple attacks

no matter what

Giraldo of Milan: i think fighting is probably the better choice at this point

the ghosts dont seem very strong

Thaddeus: Wait a minute, shouldn't you be organized as a group?

Doesn't anyone have Leadership?

Giraldo of Milan: only a +9 to hit with flanking bonuses

Beatrice ex Merinita: giraldo does, i believe

Giraldo of Milan: i do not have leadership

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I mentioned several times we should have the grogs acting as a group under a leader

But the combat wouldn't start until we gave everyone initiative

Thaddeus: I didn't see anyone actually step up.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cant lead grogs, derfel and celeste can but neither ar ehere

oh, hypatia can

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Giraldo's been taking point the entire adventure

Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: Celeste is in this room but also not in this room

Thaddeus: Celeste stayed back to talk to the hunky thugs.

Well, more like chunky.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I didn't take Hypatia because she wouldn't been flailing uselessly at any problem that wasn't her static leadership score

Archibald of Guernicus: Well. Without Celeste, or half our grogs, or 2 out of 3 magi, I don't think we're winning any fight in this room. Zach can shield grog for me as I clamber over Napolino to not die in this hell room.

Giraldo of Milan: do you get a defense penalty from attacks of opportunity

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll fly around until sundown and I turn back into a person and get filled with javelins\

Archibald of Guernicus: Not that I know of

Giraldo of Milan: ok

im just running then

out of the way

Thaddeus: Sheesh.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: RAW doesn't have attacks of oopportunity, it has rules to disengage

Thaddeus: Right.

Giraldo of Milan: is acrobatics a seperate skill from athletics

or did you mean athletics

Thaddeus: Disengaging from melee provokes a free attack from every able-bodied enemy in reach of you

Yes, Athletics.

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Thaddeus: Acrobatics is an Athletics specialty.

Ok, so is EVERYONE making a run for it?

Archibald of Guernicus: Well

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I am

Giraldo of Milan: if everyone else is i will

i think giraldo can fight here but

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not sure what else we can do in this setup, right now

Besides have half of us just die in this room

Thaddeus: I mean, it seems like you did make a pretty risky decision to have everyone run in the first round.

Giraldo of Milan: ive got 11 soak and +21 to defense right now

probably more than 11 soak with doublet

Archibald of Guernicus: It made sense when we were being jumped by a billion ghosts

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: From now on the sisters act as an exentsion of Giraldo's leadership

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo doesnt have leadership!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh

Archibald of Guernicus: It would have been fine if rope kid hadnt made a grog that dies if ever attacked, and zach hadnt botched

Thaddeus: There is one more ghost than there are members of Vardian's Tomb here.

Giraldo of Milan: the ghosts only have +6 to attack

and 7 damage

Thaddeus: +9.

Giraldo of Milan: the +9 is with flanking

Thaddeus: No, it's + 9 +3.

Giraldo of Milan: oh

still, thats not too terrifying

Thaddeus: Sheesh I rolled it enough!

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, we didnt know that when everyone fled into the room that's about to close up, so in this current situation, there's nothing to do but flee.

Giraldo of Milan: but beatrice and the nuns are alrady on the other side

and napolinos down

so im running i guess

Thaddeus: I think the main problem is that most of the magi are tremendous cowards.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh no, i'm a tremendous coward in houserules that are written to kill me

fuck you

Giraldo of Milan: lets just do the turn

Thaddeus: Ok, you get attacked twice.

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Thaddeus:

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

2

)

+9+3

=

14

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

6

)

+9+3

=

18

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

7

)

+22

=

29

rolling 1d10!+22

(

1

)

+22

=

23

Thaddeus: Then roll Atheltics + dex.

Giraldo of Milan: oops

Thaddeus:

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

3

)

=

5

Giraldo of Milan: how many botch dice

ok

Thaddeus: Phew.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+6

(

10

+

10

+

4

)

+6

=

30

lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

Thaddeus: You do a cool witcher flip over Napolino.

Archibald of Guernicus: I also make a run for it

Thaddeus: Ok, roll Atheletics + Dex.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

What was the EF

Thaddeus: It was 9.

Archibald of Guernicus: Conf

Thaddeus: Due to the narrowness of the bridge.

Alright, gimmie.

What about Tanolfi?

Archibald of Guernicus: Well he's an archer so he tries to get out of the room that'll kill him. He should have been further up, someone moved him back I think

had 5 paces to travel, he was right behind me before

so he should be free to make it out by now

Beatrice ex Merinita: i moved him one pace back in marching order, so that beatrice wouldn't be last, but that's all

Thaddeus: No, he was behind Beatrice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: and that was before fight started

Archibald of Guernicus: thats still enough

thats

between the nuns

if he was 2 behind archibald before

Thaddeus: Ok, he'll get attacked twice then.

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 3

(

5

)

+9+3

=

17

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

3

)

+9+3

=

15

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

5

)

+11

=

16

rolling 1d10!+11

(

8

)

+11

=

19

First hits, 3 soak

Oh, sorry, -2 to both

he had a light wound

Thaddeus: That's gonna be 7 damage then.

Archibald of Guernicus: Another light

Thaddeus: There's got to be a better way to track wounds!

Sheesh!

Ok, Zachaois.

Archibald of Guernicus: Zach uh. He's got a heavy wound so I guess he tries his best here

trying to get out with us

Thaddeus: Tanolfi also needs to make an Athletics roll.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

10

+

2

)

+5

=

17

He makes it

Thaddeus: Ok, Zachaois, we all believe in you!

Archibald of Guernicus: He tries

Thaddeus:

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

7

)

+9+3

=

19

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

5

)

+9+3

=

17

Only two of the ghosts attack him, as the other two are pulling back this turn.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+16-6

(

7

)

+16-6

=

17

rolling 1d10!+16-6

(

5

)

+16-6

=

15

6 soak

Thaddeus: Ok that's 3 damage both times.

Archibald of Guernicus: A fatigue then, he's still going. He tries to get past the fat man

rolling 1d10!

(

9

)

=

9

Thaddeus: Good enough!

Archibald of Guernicus: Amazing. Mission complete, and how.

Giraldo of Milan: what about our good pal simon

Thaddeus: Smiling Simon begs the ghosts to let him surrender.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "pal"

Archibald of Guernicus: [audience laughs]

Thaddeus: Ok, you also get attacked by the ghosts this round.

Beatrice ex Merinita: he was warned that it might be dangerous

Thaddeus: Giraldo is attacked twice.

Archibald of Guernicus: If he'd brought his goons in here we'd have been fine

Thaddeus:

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

6

)

+9+3

=

18

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

2

)

+22

=

24

Thaddeus:

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

6

)

+9+3

=

18

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

10

+

7

)

+22

=

39

Thaddeus: Zachaois is attacked twice.

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

3

)

+9+3

=

15

rolling 1d10! +9 + 3

(

6

)

+9+3

=

18

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+16-6

(

4

)

+16-6

=

14

rolling 1d10!+16-6

(

5

)

+16-6

=

15

Thaddeus: Ok thank you.

Archibald of Guernicus: If that's 2 more fatigue he's knocked out, I think

Thaddeus: That's gonna be 2 and then 4 damage.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, he collapses when he gets in

Thaddeus: Archibald you have 6 javelins thrown at you.

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

9

)

+8

=

17

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Wait I mean 4.

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

10

+

2

)

+8

=

20

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Thaddeus: The other two are thrown at Smiling Simon.

Archibald of Guernicus: Which ones threw at me, the ones at the back?

How did they throw past Giraldo, their allies, etc. That's an insane target to take

Thaddeus: The two in front and then the two in back who aren't closest to the back.

Each square is 3 paces, it isn't so tough.

Beatrice ex Merinita: you said before each square is one pace

Thaddeus: Except for the plank, which is skinny.

Oh right.

3 feet.

My mistake.

Archibald of Guernicus: Simon is like 2 paces away from them, you'd think they'd just walk up and hit him instead rather than make me check for 4 defence roll botches to kill my PC.

rolling 1d10!+16

(

6

)

+16

=

22

rolling 1d10!+16

(

8

)

+16

=

24

rolling 1d10!+16

(

3

)

+16

=

19

rolling 1d10!+16

(

3

)

+16

=

19

Thaddeus: They threw 2 javelins at him, don't be grumpy.

Archibald of Guernicus: One hits, I have 12 soak against terram, suck it ghosts.

Thaddeus: These two.

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

5

)

+8

=

13

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

5

)

+8

=

13

Archibald of Guernicus: There's 4 ghosts next to him so I'd assume all 4 would go for him.

Thaddeus:

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

9

)

+10

=

19

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

2 of them attack Tanolfi in melee.

This was a little more confusing than I'd hoped since I wasn't expecting you to all run.

Alright anyway, next round.

Archibald of Guernicus: We were stuck in an indefensible line with ghosts that we dont know how strong they are, and an exit that's about to close. It seemed more sensible to try and run for the exit.

Also the 2 magi with the best offensive spells are in a room that will close any moment now

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah the room is designed to bypass the shield grog system so we shouldn't stay inside it

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

just fight them in a non-retarded place

Thaddeus: Ok, so are you closing the door or what?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah.

Giraldo of Milan: i guess so

rip simon

Thaddeus: Ok, the door closes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Now Simon can go report to his shadow senate masters, presumably

Thaddeus: It's possible.

Giraldo of Milan: i think hes going to report to hell, actually

Archibald of Guernicus: Or die horribly in a small and stupid room. Owned, merchant. This is your punishment for leaving every guard 2 rooms back.

You had like 10 of the fuckers and didnt take one. Your own fault.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: This is what he gets for not recognizing the Zen name

Thaddeus: Alright, here you are, in this room.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Archibald should give himself and Giraldo sidestep.

Thaddeus: There's another door on the opposite wall, and two adjoining rooms to the north and south.

Archibald of Guernicus: Sidestep is still up

we both have it on

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, right

Giraldo of Milan: i found some buttons

Beatrice ex Merinita: it'll negate a hit in new combat

(From Giraldo of Milan): AFK

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

(From Giraldo of Milan): Back

(From Giraldo of Milan): AFK

Thaddeus: Thanks.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Archibald, could you make a much smaller hole in that door?"

Thaddeus: Alright, so in case you forgot, this room is dominated by a large table with 7 seats.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Say, enough to poke a beak through but not bigger?"

Thaddeus: All of the seats are occupied except one.

Beatrice ex Merinita: napolino is pretty much done for, so i'll take some time to rest and spont bind wounds on zachaois

Archibald of Guernicus: "I could, aye." (FFM to part)

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+28)/2

(

(

2

)

+28)/2

=

15

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually Napolino has Rapid Convalescence

Beatrice ex Merinita: some rest again

Archibald of Guernicus: he might make it yet

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I could fill that sealed room with crows if so."

Thaddeus: The corpses themselves are wearing robes with hoods and sashes.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+28)/2

(

(

1

)

+28)/2

=

14.5

another botch

Thaddeus: From what you can tell, the sashes are brown or red.

rolling 4d10

(

3

+

6

+

8

+

7

)

=

24

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, tanolfi is bound too

napolino is not in state to aggravate his wounds

Archibald of Guernicus: He might be when we move him out of here, but that's for later

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well, when we need to go back through that room, lets fill it with crows instead of another combat

Giraldo of Milan: "We should keep moving."

didnt thaddeus say we could have all the treasure

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's secure our escape route first

Giraldo of Milan: i think he did

im taking the necklace from him

Archibald of Guernicus: He did

He promised us, even

Thaddeus: He flies away.

Giraldo of Milan: "Drop that necklace, bird."

devil's fav demon: Someone should kill that bird.

Thaddeus: "Hold it, buster."

Archibald of Guernicus: MAYBE CELESTE COULD

Beatrice ex Merinita: only the fact that he's a familiar is preventing me

devil's fav demon: It's a shame I had to leave earleir.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "You said the treasure was our compensation for this venture."

Thaddeus: "You can have all the treasure you want."

"Just not this one."

"It doesn't belong to you."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Explain."

Beatrice ex Merinita: also, archibald should dust to dust the corpses, i guess

Thaddeus: "It belongs to Lycelleus."

Giraldo of Milan: "Alright. Let's move on. Archibald, open a hole and close it behind us so the bird is stuck here with his necklace."

Thaddeus: "That's murder!"

"If I die, Severin will blame you!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Won't Severin die if you die?"

Thaddeus: "I bet it's Hermetic Debirding or something!"

Giraldo of Milan: "We're the ones doing the work here. Give us the necklace, bird."

Archibald of Guernicus: Rolling magic theory to figure out if killing a familiar kills the magus too

Thaddeus: I don't think so.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+13

(

10

)

+2+13

=

25

Giraldo of Milan: i doubt it considering killing the familiar is a punishment

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Code of hermes could have told me that too, even

Thaddeus: Sure.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Nah, killing a familiar disnae kill the magus."

Thaddeus: You didn't need to roll it.

It seems like common knowledge.

Giraldo of Milan: "Great. We'll say the bird died to a stray javelin."

Thaddeus: Well, for magi.

Giraldo of Milan: "Real unfortunate."

Thaddeus: "You think Severin will believe that?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "We aren't killing Thaddeus, calm down."

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, it was this passage: Your familiar ages along with you, generally

dying a few days before or several weeks

after you. The sudden death of your familiar is

a warning of immediate danger

Thaddeus: "He'll probably think you're in league with these bags of bones!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Considering you are altering the deal, and how much this entire venture has only been a cascade of misery, you could explain at least about this Lycelleus."

Thaddeus: "That's our covenant, dummy."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Great."

"What is the necklace and why is it here, then?"

Thaddeus: "That's a secret. I won't ever tell you unless Severin tells me to, which he won't, because it's so secret."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Then as far as this dummy knows, this necklace is inconsequential."

"And compensation for throwing our men at this problem."

Thaddeus: "It isn't my fault everyone died."

"Severin thought you were capable magi, but I guess he was wrong!"

Giraldo of Milan: "Alright, let's leave the bird here."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "As much as I'd like to, I can't let you do that."

Thaddeus: "If you do, you'll be in a lot of trouble!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If Seerin has a way to handle being surrounded by spearmen who were invisible to Second Sight, then perhaps he should write it down as one of the spells he owes us.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why couldn't he have approached this, seeing how competent he is?"

"Ye didn't even know this place had a house on it!"

Thaddeus: They weren't invisible, they were hiding under the ground.

devil's fav demon: That

lmao. That's a good trick.

Thaddeus: "He was soooo busy with important stuff!"

"You wouldn't even believe how important this stuff was. He's got to whip this whole Tribunal back into shape single handed!"

Giraldo of Milan: I open the door.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Well it doesn't matter who claims the necklace if we don't find a way out."

Thaddeus: The Eastern one?

Giraldo of Milan: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: "The role of praeco is largely unimportant outside of Tribunal, which is once every 7 years."

Thaddeus: "Shows what you know, furball."

Beatrice ex Merinita: What about Fiorella's plan to fill the western room with crows? That was a good plan.

Archibald of Guernicus: I dust to dust every skeleton in here for good measure

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Maybe, maybe not

Thaddeus: "Wait hold it!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Crows can't do anything if they hide in the stone again.

Thaddeus: "Severin is gonna want to see those!"

"I bet he's going to have a big reward for you if you drag 'em out!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Sorry, we signed an oath to prevent necromancy on Hermetic dead."

Thaddeus: "Those are the Shadow Senators!"

Giraldo of Milan: I stomp the skeletons.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We really did."

Giraldo of Milan: I crush each and every senator skull under my boots.

Thaddeus: "Hermetic dead? They aren't Hermetic Magi."

"Don't you clods know anything?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Augustan dead are just as good." I say while Lavinia smiles in the clouds.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Everyone is so damn rude

Thaddeus: "They're Republicans from before the time of Christ!"

Giraldo of Milan: "All the skeletons are taken care of."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Well, maybe you should have explained your hundreds of years old grudges."

Archibald of Guernicus: The bird being insanely rude just makes me want him to fail miserably at anything he set out for here.

Thaddeus: "They aren't even real wizards, they sold their souls to the Devil."

Archibald of Guernicus: I wonder if we can steal the necklace just to throw it down a well

Beatrice ex Merinita: "That explains the infernal aura, but in that case, it's our duty to douse the bodies in holy water."

Giraldo of Milan: how big are these doors?

Thaddeus: "Water? That's fine."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Alright, if we take the corpses out, then Severin owes Simon whatever compensation he demands for the use of his house, and for his injuries."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Anyway, you're not getting out of here unless you give us the necklace. If Severin wants it and has claim to it, he can explain himself better."

Thaddeus: Big enough for two men to fit through or 1 Napolino and half another man.

Giraldo of Milan: you can take the corpses out but theyve all had their skulls smashed

how high?

Thaddeus: 9 feet.

Giraldo of Milan: cripes

Thaddeus: They're fancy.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Same demand even if they're smashed

Giraldo of Milan: i open the door

Archibald of Guernicus: "We found them here and found how many there are. Leaving corpses around when the dead are already attacking - the corpses of a group of undead, I should specify - is stupid."

Thaddeus: "Ok, whatever sounds great.

"

"Well, they're even deader now, huh?"

Giraldo of Milan: I look at Thaddeus with my second sight.

rolling 1d10!+14

(

7

)

+14

=

21

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If Simon dies we can also send the Venice Banker's bill over to Severin.

Thaddeus: "Severin is probably just going to want to count them to make sure it's all seven of 'em."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "There's six."

Thaddeus: There are seven.

6 seated and one collapsed on the floor.

(From Giraldo of Milan): im trying to determine if this is even the real thaddeus or if were being hoodwinked

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

Beatrice ex Merinita: i thought it was important when you were so insistent that one chair is empty

Thaddeus: Did you open the eastern doors?

I mean door.

Giraldo of Milan: yes!

Thaddeus: Oh sorry.

It is important.

Archibald of Guernicus: 7 shadow senator ghosts begin to rise from the floor

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I get as far away from the floor and the corpses as I can as the door opens

devil's fav demon: You just opened a shortcut.

Thaddeus: In this room there are a lot of smashed urns surrounding a blood-stained altar.

Giraldo of Milan: "What is this crap?"

Thaddeus: Now when I say blood stained altar, it sounds like there's a lot of blood, but it's really a very modest amount.

Just a few streaks.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "looks like a lot of smashed urns surrounding a blood-stained altar."

Thaddeus: You hear a knock on the western door.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll cast prying eyes on them.

who is it?

Giraldo of Milan: "Don't let him in."

"I don't care who it is."

I go look around at the altar room.

Roman Ghost: Go for it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's calm conditions and formulaic

Giraldo of Milan: rolling infernal lore to see if i can figure anything out from this scene

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Just roll a d10 anyway

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

(

6

)

+8

=

14

Roman Ghost: "Hey, we have your friend hostage," the ghost says in ancient Latin.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+15

(

1

)

+15

=

16

good thing it's calm conditions

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He's not our friend, I say in modern Latin."

I say all of that IC.

Giraldo of Milan: I look through the urns for any that still hold something.

Roman Ghost: "Eh? You brought him down here and you don't even care?"

"Look, just leave and we'll let your friend go, ok?"

Ok, roll Awareness + Per, Giraldo.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "They can talk?

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We told him it was unsafe down here and he insisted that he had to come."

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+11

(

4

)

+11

=

15

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Apparently they can."

"What are you doing in here anyway?"

"Except for guarding."

Archibald of Guernicus: "They didnae say a fucking word when they attacked us."

Roman Ghost: "You Carthaginians have some cold hearts."

"Hey, you don't tell us your orders and we won't tell you ours."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Carthage has been ruins for over thousand years."

Roman Ghost: "Yeah, that's a good one. Next you'll tell me that the Roman Republic is gone."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It actually is gone."

"And Roman Empire has split in two and neither Emperor lives in Rome."

Roman Ghost: You hear some ghost laughs.

(From Giraldo of Milan): I pocket it. Anything else of note here, or just urns and an altar?

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Christianity is the dominant religion of Europe."

Roman Ghost: "What's that now?"

(From Giraldo of Milan): then i carry the vase out

Beatrice ex Merinita: "An eastern sun cult."

Giraldo of Milan: "There's nothing in that room except a vase of salt."

Archibald of Guernicus screams

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Great, we can use the salt to bribe the ghosts."

Giraldo of Milan: I check the northern wall.

Roman Ghost: "Sounds stupid."

Giraldo of Milan: Anything here?

Any doors?

Roman Ghost: There's a door to the western room.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It can give you eternal life, but you apparently don't need it."

Roman Ghost: That one.

Giraldo of Milan: i go back in the altar room

second sight

rolling 1d10+14

(

7

)

+14

=

21

is there anything at all

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If they're Magic Ghosts, they'd suffer acclimatization here."

"They're probably demonic."

(From Giraldo of Milan): I read it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's likely."

Archibald of Guernicus: "So they can't be trusted at all."

"Well, that was bloody obvious."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "But they're still in the room."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If all they wanted was us to leave, they wouldnae seal the exit."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "So let's go with Fiorella's plan."

Giraldo of Milan: "Okay, there was some writing on the altar."

"Seven senators must pay the wages to the last Maniple."

Roman Ghost: "Hey, you sealed the exit."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Well, they have the ability to hide completely inside of stone."

Giraldo of Milan: "Does that mean anything to anyone?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Note: The roman ghosts sealed the exit

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I wouldn't rely on birds to get rid of them."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "If they're inside the stone and the room is full of birds, we can get through."

Thaddeus: "It's probably referring to these boneheads."

"I mean, the skeletons."

"Not you boneheads."

Giraldo of Milan: "Probably. I meant the Maniple part."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's some sort of military thing."

Thaddeus: Roll Area Lore: Rome.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+1

(

5

)

+1

=

6

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have a good idea ooc

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Giraldo of Milan: so do i

we tell the ghosts well agree to leave but they have to kill the bird

they can keep the necklace

Beatrice ex Merinita: of the solution to this, not just what maniple is

Archibald of Guernicus: we have to sacrifice thaddeus on the altar

Giraldo of Milan: genius

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Someone with Rome Lore cna have the idea

Giraldo of Milan: tanolfi bring him down

Thaddeus: A Maniple is a unit of Roman soldiery during the Republic, before the Marian reforms.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: After Hafl says it OOCly

Beatrice ex Merinita: and they're paid wages in salt

Giraldo of Milan: so what do we do

Beatrice ex Merinita: And it's pretty small unit, so the last Maniple is probably the ghosts.

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Hey, are you guys the last Maniple?"

Giraldo of Milan: lets give the ghosts some salt

Beatrice ex Merinita: I ask the ghosts.

Thaddeus: "You bet, the last one raised to fight you."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "And when was the last time Senate paid your wages?"

Thaddeus: "Right before we got these orders. Is this some kind of propaganda?"

Roman Ghost: Sorry, the ghosts were saying this.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "And your orders are to not let anyone inside the room we're in?"

Roman Ghost: I mean, the one ghost.

"Yeah, get out of there."

"Oh, you got me!"

"Those are our orders."

Giraldo of Milan: I hand beatrice the wages of the last maniple

Roman Ghost: "Still, you'd better do it before our reinforcements arrive."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "But you're the last Maniple. There won't be reinforcements."

Roman Ghost: "Can't you count?"

"There's only ten of us here. A Maniple is 120 men!"

Giraldo of Milan: "Just give them the damn salt."

Roman Ghost: "Ha ha ha, these guys aren't ever going to make it over the Alps."

Archibald of Guernicus: The salt transforms them into their true form

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We found some salt that the Senate apparently still owes you for your services."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Perfect Chaos

Roman Ghost: "We were already paid by the Senators IN PERSON."

"They gave us our salary and everything, then they told us to guard that room."

"If you don't leave we'll look bad."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "And you failed. We got in."

"If it helps, the Senators are dead."

Roman Ghost: "If you just leave without telling anyone we'll let you live."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "We have our own orders to escort the senators out."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "That sounds like something a proper Roman soldier would never do."

"Are you sure you aren't from Naples?"

Giraldo of Milan: I rub my brow.

Roman Ghost: "Oh come on now, why wouldn't they just walk out?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Tell them we'll pay them this salt to kill the bird."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I don't think that would be fair to Severin."

"But I'll consider it, if he doesn't give us the necklace."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "They might kill the wrong bird."

Giraldo of Milan: "That damn necklace was the only thing in this place."

Roman Ghost: "Too owl to try it yourself?"

Oops, that was Thaddeus.

Archibald of Guernicus: I was wondering

Roman Ghost: There's two rooms you haven't looked in.

Giraldo of Milan: I pull a javelin out of Napolino.

Beatrice ex Merinita: they don't have doors

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's look in the other rooms

Roman Ghost: Those two.

Giraldo of Milan: And take aim at the bird.

Roman Ghost: It's ghost javelin.

Giraldo of Milan: goddamnit

fine

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Bird, I killed my own beloved cousin because he was a danger to our covenant."

Giraldo of Milan: whats in here

Roman Ghost: Alright, that room STINKS.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll shield Thaddeus with Shriek fo the INcoming Shaft on me

Giraldo of Milan: incredible

is there anything in here

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Do you think I won't kill you for being an even larger threat?"

Roman Ghost: There's rotten meat in there.

Giraldo of Milan: fucking

Beatrice ex Merinita: looks like we found the ghosts' bodies

Roman Ghost: Tough to tell what it might have been.

Doesn't look like human corpses.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Look, if Severin compensates Simon for this misadventure, that's probably worth the necklace."

Thaddeus: "Hey, what do you want me to do about it?"

Giraldo of Milan: how about this room

Archibald of Guernicus: We break even and only almost died.

Thaddeus: That rooms a little better.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

We also get adventure XP

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Give us the necklace and if Severin wants it, he xplains himself properly."

Thaddeus: There are a bunch of smashed urns.

Giraldo of Milan: no

NO

Thaddeus: Only one of them contains some small bronze coins.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh hey

Giraldo of Milan: I pick up the coins and walk back out.

I go over to Archibald.

I show Archibald the coins.

"This is our treasure."

Archibald of Guernicus: "This expedition was his idea, if he wants anything fae it, he can sort out- that's really it."

"What a great expedition."

devil's fav demon: Maybe the rotting meat is vis.

Giraldo of Milan: fine

ill do magic sensitivity in both rooms

Beatrice ex Merinita: that's possible

Thaddeus: There's a two headed bust on one side of the coins and a galley on the other.

Giraldo of Milan: top room

Beatrice ex Merinita: the meat's been here for centuries

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

(

8

)

+8

=

16

bottom room

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Look, Thaddeus isn't going to tell us what the necklace does, and if we took it ourselves, we'd have to compensate Simon for it

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

(

1

)

+8

=

9

altar room

rolling 1d10+8

(

2

)

+8

=

10

Thaddeus: The altar room has some Magic in it.

Specifically the Altar.

Giraldo of Milan: well that makes sense

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh yeah, Giraldo's Second Sight is Infernal-aligned

Thaddeus: I don't know why I capitalized it.

Well anyway.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So he'd be able to tell the difference between Magic and Infernal in a way Intellego can't

Giraldo of Milan: i doubt it

and that was magic sensitivity

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh

Thaddeus: "What's with that altar, weirdo?"

Giraldo of Milan: "It looks like a fitting place for you."

Thaddeus: "Avian sacrifice? That's sick, you're a sicko."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It's just a joke, don't be such an owl."

Giraldo of Milan: I grab an armful of broken urn pieces.

I throw one at Thaddeus.

rolling 1d10+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Thaddeus:

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

5

)

+15

=

20

He birds out of the way.

"Why don't you try whatever these old bags of bones did to make the altar work?"

Giraldo of Milan: "It looks like they sacrificed animals on it."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Or humans."

Giraldo of Milan: "So that's what I'm trying."

"Too little blood to be human."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I'm not going to perform Infernal rituals."

Thaddeus: "You aren't sacrificing ME, you jerk."

Giraldo of Milan: I throw another urn piece.

rolling 1d10!+2

(

6

)

+2

=

8

Thaddeus: "What about his owl?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "We all sacrificed our time and dignity already."

I left it back home because I realised an owl would be useless but would risk getting it killed here

Thaddeus: "What about all that meat in that meat locker?"

Giraldo of Milan: "What kind of sacrifice is rotten meat?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll start taking it on adventures when I get invested powers for it

Giraldo of Milan: rolling infernal lore to see if i can figure out anything regarding that

Thaddeus: It would be pretty funny to have a bunch of birds in here.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

(

4

)

+8

=

12

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Look, if any of us knew how to do an Infernal ritual, they wouldn't make it obvious they did."

Thaddeus: "How would they know, they're dead?"

"These guys weren't wizards or anything. I bet that altar is easy enough to use."

Giraldo of Milan: "Fine, let's see what happens."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Infernal rituals are frowned upon i the Order of Hermes. Severin of Tytalus can tell you about that."

Giraldo of Milan: I hand archibald the salt vase.

Thaddeus:

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Giraldo of Milan: I grab some rotten meat.

Beatrice ex Merinita: you gave the vase to me, actually

a while before

Giraldo of Milan: oh right

anyway

I try to perform a ritual on this altar

what do you want, infernal lore again?

Thaddeus: Go for it.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

(

8

)

+8

=

16

do we get anything to happen

is the treasure revealed

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm pretending very hard I don't see this.

Thaddeus: Something DOES happen.

As soon as you put the meat on the altar, it sticks.

You can't pry it off even with a couple "Fuck Jesus"es.

Giraldo of Milan: "Incredible."

devil's fav demon: Take an hour or two and attach all the meat to the altar.

Giraldo of Milan: "I've discovered a ritual that makes meat stick to stone, everyone."

"This knowledge is the real treasure."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The real treasure will be getting out of here and never coming back."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Archibald, killing a familiar is depriving someone of magical might, correct?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Correct."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If it actually achieves anything, I can Creo Animal us some more meat."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "What are the usual penalties for that?"

Giraldo of Milan: I take the rest of the meat and slam it down on the altar.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If it doesn't, it's not worth the risk in this aura."

(From Giraldo of Milan): oh nice

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+11

(

2

)

+11

=

13

Archibald of Guernicus: "Depends on severity of the action, ultimately. Death of a familiar is probably marching, it's a horrible thing tae inflict on someone."

Thaddeus: "Hey, I'm being as helpful as can be!"

(From Giraldo of Milan): magic lore then

(From Giraldo of Milan): to maybe give myself some better direction to what im doing here

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's been magi who've chosen death over loss of their familiar, in fact."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The bird is making a good case for taking marching over his company."

(From Giraldo of Milan): not just more meat?

Giraldo of Milan: "Everyone, I have some good news."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye?"

Giraldo of Milan: "The altar isn't infernal in the least."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Incredible."

Giraldo of Milan: "Let me see those coins and that salt."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll hand it to him.

Thaddeus: "You're just mad because you can't figure a way out of here and you're taking it out on a poor, defenseless, handsome bird."

Giraldo of Milan: I stick a coin on the meat pile.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The salt first, the coins are all we've got out of this dump."

Giraldo of Milan: oh

ok

I put a pinch of salt on the meat pile

Thaddeus: Ok, it sticks to the meat.

Mmm.

Now you've got a stew going.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Lodewig talked about eating my pet birds once. Be glad he didn't come with us."

Giraldo of Milan: I touch a coin to it.

Thaddeus: Really, because this meat is kind of runny.

Giraldo of Milan: Does it stick?

Thaddeus: Yes.

Giraldo of Milan: alright, ill only use one coin

Beatrice ex Merinita: excellent, you invented glue

Giraldo of Milan: what else can we do

I take a smashed up senator skull and stick the pieces on

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll take a coin and stick it as well

Thaddeus: "What if you all tried it?"

Giraldo of Milan: ive got all the coins

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I don't need your advice."

Thaddeus: "These Shadow Senators always worked together on everything."

Giraldo of Milan: unless you mean ones that arent the old bronze ones

Beatrice ex Merinita: since i made my move before

Archibald of Guernicus: Good, bad, I'm the man with the coins

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll join the ritual

Thaddeus: "They just didn't trust each other, is my guess."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm taking it from giraldo

Archibald of Guernicus: "Seven of us, then."

Giraldo of Milan: what the

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can pick up small objects and put them on the altar

Giraldo of Milan: I give everyone a pinch of salt.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: AFK for a moment, but I wil lhelp do the ritual

Giraldo of Milan: Let's gather round the altar.

Thaddeus: Alright.

Archibald of Guernicus: "So us 4, Tanolfi, and Hypatia's grogs."

Giraldo of Milan: did the skull pieces stick?

Thaddeus: Which seven of you?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I trust everyone here is united in our Hatred for Thaddeus.

Archibald of Guernicus: We're all channeling a ritual to kill Thaddeus

Beatrice ex Merinita: Giraldo, Beatrice, Archibald, Fiorella, Nun 1, Nun 2, Tanolfi

the badly wounded people can rest

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Thaddeus: Ok.

Giraldo of Milan: everyone puts their pinch of salt on the rotting meat boy altar

what do we get

Thaddeus: Alright, all the stuff is there!

It looks like this ritual is ready to go!

Archibald of Guernicus: Now all we have to do is sacrifice Thaddeus

Thaddeus: "Have you tried saying the magic words?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Kill Thaddeus."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Kill Thaddeus."

devil's fav demon: lol.

Tanolfi: "Kill Thaddeus."

Thaddeus: "Wow, how rude."

Nothing happens.

Aurelia: "Kill Thaddeus."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Kill Thaddeus."

only 2 more

Thaddeus: Nothing continues to happen.

Beatrice ex Merinita: there are still people who haven¨t said it

Giraldo of Milan: I'll repeat the words I saw on the altar then.

after the last 2 go

Guzeppina: "Kill Thaddeus."

Archibald of Guernicus: Fiorella, we need you

Beatrice ex Merinita: shaun's not here, but we can assume Fiorella joins in with our ritual

Giraldo of Milan: that seems a fair assumption

Thaddeus: Alright, she says it!

Nothing happens.

Giraldo of Milan: then i say the words i saw on the altar

Thaddeus: "Hey idiots, these guys don't speak Italian."

"They're Romans, they only speak Latin. Did you know that?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Back, sorry

Giraldo of Milan: I say "Kill Thaddeus." in Latin.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I talked to them in Latin."

Giraldo of Milan: i mean

Thaddeus: "And you forgot already? Shocking."

Giraldo of Milan: i assume we were saying it in latin

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I said I'd help with the ritual

Giraldo of Milan: since everyone here speaks latin

well

Thaddeus: Tanolfi can't speak Latin.

Giraldo of Milan: tanolfi might not

but he can follow along

just repeating our sounds

Thaddeus: But Thaddeus can.

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont think the nuns can either

Giraldo of Milan: he just has to repeat after us

it should be simple enough

theyre not stupid

Thaddeus: It seems like they should be able to.

I mean, they are ex-nuns.

Giraldo of Milan: especially since the only latin theyre saying is kill

since thaddeus is going to be the same

Archibald of Guernicus: Romanes Eunt Domus

Giraldo of Milan: fine, lets try the words on the altar

Archibald of Guernicus: "Say the words in latin."

Giraldo of Milan: which are presumably in latin

since kill thaddeus in latin isnt working

Thaddeus: You gonna do that?

Giraldo of Milan: so does everyone doing the words on the altar work

yes

Thaddeus: Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Ceterum autem censeo Thaddeum esse delendus."

i probably fucked up some conjugation

Thaddeus: After you all say the words on the altar, a ghostly spirit arises out of it!

That's ok, I don't speak any Latin.

Giraldo of Milan: "Kill Thaddeus." I tell it in Latin.

Roman Ghost: "Ah consuls, to what do I owe the honor?" he gives a slight bow.

Well, a serious bow.

Giraldo of Milan: "We have a great foe that needs to be destroyed."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll be Giraldo's co-consul.

Giraldo of Milan: "He's in the next room. He's a woodpecker named Thaddeus."

Roman Ghost: Are you sure you want to commit this heinous High Crime?

Giraldo of Milan: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: Hang on

Beatrice ex Merinita: i withdraw my co-consulship then

Roman Ghost: "A woodpecker? Do woodpeckers even have names?"

"Well, you'd know best."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hang on. Stop."

Giraldo of Milan: thaddeus walked us through the ritual

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't help commit this high crime

Roman Ghost: "Do you all agree to this?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I only do rituals that assist us in leaving

Beatrice ex Merinita: "No."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "No."

Giraldo of Milan: everyone was all united in saying kill thaddeus before

Roman Ghost: "Ok, what do you want my men to do, then?"

Giraldo of Milan: and now that its happening theyre backing out

cowards

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The woodpecker has stolen a valuable necklace from us. Have your men bring it back, but keep the woodpecker alive."

Giraldo of Milan: "That works too."

"Bring us the necklace."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "We would also like to safely leave with the senators in our custody."

Roman Ghost: "Ok if you're sure that's what you want."

"What do you mean, you are senators."

Giraldo of Milan: "The old senators. Their bodies somehow ended up here."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right. So we'll safely leave, and take these unimportant skeletons with us."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Yes."

Archibald of Guernicus: I elbow Giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: "We must deliver them to where they belong."

Roman Ghost: "What old senators?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The Senate will be not using these premises anymore. The guards can stand down."

not be

Roman Ghost: "Well, you're certainly free to do as you please where skeletons are concerned, I think."

Giraldo of Milan: "Sorry. I have a habit of honoring my soldiers. I meant to say we must deliver these soldiers who gave everything to a fitting place."

Roman Ghost: "I mean, I assume you cleared it with the gods and all that. Wouldn't want Jupiter to stick a lightning bolt up your ass, right?"

"Anyway, you want us to catch that bird?"

"Without hurting it?

"

Giraldo of Milan: "Yes, and get the necklace from it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, we consulted them, of course."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Jupiter agrees while Diana and Mercury will watch over your errand."

Roman Ghost: "Do all seven of you assent to this order?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't kill it, but do grab it and take the necklace off it."

"We do."

Giraldo of Milan: "Yes."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I do."

Archibald of Guernicus: We get the grogs to say yes

So it's all on you, Fiorella

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Yes."

Roman Ghost: "Alright, I'll have my men do it at once."

The door to the council room opens and the ghosts march in.

Thaddeus: Thaddeus glares at you as they reach for him.

"Betrayal is it? Well, you won't catch me!"

He flies around the room, out of reach of the ghostly soldiers.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If you wish to leave without your master's precious senate, then we can send the bill to him without them

Giraldo of Milan: how high is the ceiling

also the soldiers can float

Thaddeus: "Why do you want to kill me? I've been nothing but helpful?"

Giraldo of Milan: since they floated out of the floor

Archibald of Guernicus: "We don't, they're trying tae take the necklace off of ye."

Thaddeus: That's true, they floated through the floor.

"Oh, is that it?"

"Well, you won't get it from me!"

He swallows the necklace.

Giraldo of Milan: I climb on the table and jump at Thaddeus with a greatsword strike.

Thaddeus: I mean he woodpeckers it.

Then he turns sort of hazy and flies through the wall.

Archibald of Guernicus: ...

he could have

Giraldo of Milan: do i not get to do what i said ido

before he does that

Archibald of Guernicus: he could have come in here any time he wanted to

and

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I cast Unseen Porter on the necklace

Thaddeus: He was flying away from the table.

Giraldo of Milan: i can jump

and the tables in the center of the room

Thaddeus: It's a pretty big room.

Giraldo of Milan: you just said he was flying around the room

Thaddeus: Well ok, I'll let you try and murder this familiar.

Giraldo of Milan: good

Thaddeus: Roll it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can't fast cast well enough to stop Giraldo.

Thaddeus: Who gets marched if Hermetic property does the crime?

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+20

(

1

)

+20

=

21

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+9-2 Unseen porter

(

5

)

+9-2

=

12

No fatigue

Thaddeus: I bet it's Venator.

Giraldo of Milan: ok i can still hit

Thaddeus:

rolling 2d10

(

5

+

8

)

=

13

Giraldo of Milan: there we go

now roll low you little shit bird

Thaddeus:

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

2

)

+15

=

17

Yikes!

Giraldo of Milan: 15 damage

total

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: A bird can't put up enough resistance to prevent Unseen Porter from working

Thaddeus: You can't unseen porter it because he swallowed it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh

Thaddeus: I mean woodpeckered it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's sad, but it appears we'll have to hand Giraldo over to the tribunal authorities." I say to Archibald.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What act your describing with "woodpeckered"

Giraldo of Milan: hes making a joke

a swallow is a bird

Thaddeus: Well, I don't want you to confuse him with a swallow.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

They have very small throats

Thaddeus: Alright, anyway, your sword slips out of your hand as soon as it hits Thaddeus.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the bird chokes on the necklace as Giraldo hits it.

damn

Giraldo of Milan: incredible

Beatrice ex Merinita: Is it time for Wizard War?

Thaddeus: Look he's not just some bird, he's a familiar.

Giraldo of Milan: hes a piece of shit

Archibald of Guernicus: Greater Invisibility. Immunity to Not Winning. Ethereal Body.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's wizard war the praeco of the tribunal because his familiar is annoying

Giraldo of Milan: that cheated us out of the only treasure in this dungeon

lets do it

Thaddeus: Anyway he zooms through the wall.

Giraldo of Milan: "Bah."

I pick up my blade and sheathe it.

Thaddeus: The ghostly legionaries chase after him.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Alright I'll take teh fatigue to Fast cast and interrupt the necklace swallowing with Unseen Porter

Archibald of Guernicus: "He could have just fucking came in here through the wall, from outside."

Thaddeus: Woodpeckering is faster than fast casting.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm done. Don't attack a bloody familiar, Giraldo."

"I'm going home."

Thaddeus: Don't forget, you also have a magic altar.

Giraldo of Milan: a magic altar that makes meat ghosts

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's actually a long and convluted process to ge ta necklace down a woodpecker's tiny throat

Thaddeus: That summons a ghostly legion.

Giraldo of Milan: why didnt you just unseen porter the necklace from him before

Beatrice ex Merinita: Let's summon the ghostly legion to hunt the familiar forever.ů

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Alright

Giraldo of Milan: the bird said we could have it

and then took it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's take teh altar and the corpses out

Thaddeus: I mean currently the legion is hunting him.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Archibald, how many Scottish profanities do you know?"

"I need to pen a letter to Severin."

Thaddeus: Alright, how do you want to leave?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Be sure to call Thaddeus a cunt, then."

Giraldo of Milan: I open the west door.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I tried everything I could to get the necklace and I don't particularly care about it enough to try harder

The door's already opened

Beatrice ex Merinita: I told the summoned ghost that the guards can stand down.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The ghosts opened it

Thaddeus: Ok, be careful carrying that altar over that board.

Giraldo of Milan: oh ok

Thaddeus: They left to chase after Thaddeus.

Beatrice ex Merinita: It's not a board, it's a proper bridge

Thaddeus: How much weight can it hold?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll Unseen Porter the altar

Thaddeus: Anyway, great news: Smiling Simon is still alive.

Giraldo of Milan: Is Simon in this room?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: It could hold all of us in full gear.

Giraldo of Milan: minus the "

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+9-2

(

4

)

+9-2

=

11

Beatrice ex Merinita: INcluding Napolino

Smiling Simon: "Oh, was that you?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I take no fatigue haulign the latar out

Smiling Simon: "Did you get rid of those damn ghosts?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Yes."

Smiling Simon: "Wow, thanks."

"What's that thing floating behind you?"

You'll need a little more oomph to carry the altar, but the grogs can easily provide it.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

I give up trying to porter it

Or I lower it so the grogs can help

Giraldo of Milan: "An old table."

Smiling Simon: No, it's really helpful to Unseen Porter it.

It means the grogs can move it at all.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll maintain the spell then

Smiling Simon: "Well, I'm glad you found something down here besides skeletons."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, a pittance."

Smiling Simon: "That's a pretty nice table, I can let it go for 15 Mythic Pounds."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "The skeletons are worth a fine price to the woodpecker's owner."

Archibald of Guernicus: Does anyone have bargain or triple chain-cast pillum to incinerate him on the spot

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "He's our boss, by the way, goes by teh name of Severin." He'll be compensating you for the use of your house and your injuries sustained."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Here's where he currently resides."

I'll give him direction to Lycellus.

Smiling Simon: "There's anything out there?"

"Well, after what I've seen today, I'm prepared to believe anything.

"

"Thank you for getting the ghosts out of my new basement."

"Do you want these old pottery shards or should I just throw them out?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We'll take them."

Smiling Simon: "Alright, I'll give my bill to your boss."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Fair enough>"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I'll write him to expect it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Pleasure doing business with ye."

Smiling Simon: "And with you."

Archibald of Guernicus: I go home and seal myself in my lab again

Smiling Simon: Alright, the trip out of Simon's house is totally uneventful.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Let's ask Lavinia to ward the entirety of Rome again woodpeckers.

Endrite (GM): Some time later you receive a letter from Severin.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't read it

Giraldo of Milan: me neither since im not a magus

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll read it.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's probably for the archon, yes

Endrite (GM): It reads, "Vardian's Tomb, thank you for your help in this matter. I must confess that the fate of my old foes had been weighing on me for some time and it is a great relief that you have confirmed their final, true death. Is it possible for you to send their corpses to me, I would like to perform an autopsy to determine their cause of death, for I can't believe that they died of natural causes. I would also like to thank you for allowing Thaddeus to retrieve my old friend Milarius of Diedne's necklace. Though it only contained a minor enchantment, he was quite fond of it and having it with me is like touching my lost past. Thaddeus also wanted me to ask you 'if there are any more beetles.' He said you'd know what that means. I hope to see you all at the Tribunal."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh that's nice

Endrite (GM): It's addressed to Vardian's Tomb.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll have the scribe write a reply, but I'll submit it to Fiorella's and Archbald's approval before sending it.

Archibald of Guernicus: thats a lot better than expected

wait a minute

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malachiasz, who was not present for the tomb dive, is in full favor of sending him those corpses

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I will give Zita a jar of live beetles to deliver to Lycellus, along with pictoral feeding instructions

Archibald of Guernicus: ALLOWING thaddeus

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Dear Severin. No problem. Vardian's Tomb. P.S. Your familiar's a cunt."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

I'll still give him the beetles though

Beatrice ex Merinita: is that ok with Fiorella and Archibald?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's send it then

and let's send the ruined corpses as well

Endrite (GM): Alright, nice message.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could give Hypatia the beetles to deliver but it's less fair to use your own PC to help another of your PCs

Beatrice ex Merinita: Beatrice is going to IC hate Artemisia from the next year, so they'll never cooperate.

Endrite (GM): I mean, it doesn't really matter here since delivering the mail isn't very difficult.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Sure

But giving them to Zita gives dys the chance to do something funny

Endrite (GM): Anyway, a few weeks later another letter arrives from Severin.

It's a bill detailing the monies paid to Smiling Simon. He doesn't mind the temporary loan, but Severin would appreciate it if you paid him back as soon as possible.

devil's fav demon: ha ha ha

Archibald of Guernicus: Ha ha ha.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Alright, open up the infernal vis, boys

We've got a bill to pay

Endrite (GM): He would prefer currency here, but of course vis is fine too.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's pay him in infernal vis, which - as a demon - he'd love

Endrite (GM): Where do you put the ghost altar?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets give it to venator

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: He didn't demand the altar as compensation so a vis payment is fine

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont think anyone else cares about it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: the magic item storage shed we've been keeping a reliquary and a tiny demon tower in

Malachiasz of Tytalus: venator would probably really appreciate it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Venator might destory it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets not pay severin at all

because hes a fag

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Since it does necromancy

Archibald of Guernicus: one day im going to have enough InVi to investigate that insane level 85 effect

Malachiasz of Tytalus: venator is a necromancer

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

And many necromancers don't like having colleagues

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and this is a non-hermetic necromancy altar

hes teaching people necromancy

i think hell like the altar

Archibald of Guernicus: it doesnt break the terms of our societas though

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh okay

Alright cool

Archibald of Guernicus: it only compels them to do what they did in life

Beatrice ex Merinita: It doesn't break the terms, yeah.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: He can store it

Archibald of Guernicus: which is fine

Endrite (GM): Are you SURE that you want to give away the altar that gives you control of a ghostly Manipular Legion?

Beatrice ex Merinita: no

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: No

Archibald of Guernicus: we do not give it away lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: We put it in storage.

Endrite (GM): Uh you're giving it to Venator.

Archibald of Guernicus: we arent

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well we can put it in a public area then

and tell venator about it

Archibald of Guernicus: malach said that and he wasnt there

he has no say in this

Endrite (GM): I mean, are those the rules?

I don't think they are.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the wizards who were actually there say no

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i was just suggesting

we could just have it in a public area for everyone to use if they want

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's replace our grogs with roman ghosts

Archibald of Guernicus: i mean we could also just not tell malach what it does. its something 3 of us know about, our choice what to do with it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll give our wounded grogs +15 to recovery rolls while they're lying down.

once they're in sickbed

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean, i dont see a point in actively hiding its effects from the covenant

it takes 7 people to use

Beatrice ex Merinita: you weren't there, you wouldn't understand

Archibald of Guernicus: its our altar to do with as we please

endrite, this is a published adventure isnt it?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If we compensate Severin for the altar its basically ours

Let's just put it in the loot vault

Malachiasz of Tytalus: why do we need to compensate him

he stole our necklace

Beatrice ex Merinita: that was his familiar

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and his familiar is a part of him

Endrite (GM): Nope.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We have a billion vis

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean, if malach gets to read the letter hed be disappointed if no one compensated severin

Endrite (GM): This was an adventure made up 100% by me.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: IDC

He can have some vis for the bill

Beatrice ex Merinita: some fae corpus would work

Endrite (GM): The total comes to 22 Mythic Pounds.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. I'm going to scream at you then. He can't swallow the necklace faster than fast-casting without a roll.

Endrite (GM): Yeah he can.

Archibald of Guernicus: There's rules for fast-casting to interrupt actions

Endrite (GM): It takes almost no time to swallow something in your mouth.

Archibald of Guernicus: it takes almost no time to fast-cast, that's what it s for

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it does for a bird

a small woodpecker

Archibald of Guernicus: and that, too

devil's fav demon: who is doing multiple actions in a round.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the bird

Archibald of Guernicus: he has to flick his head back, get it in his mouth, then swallow. thats enough time that, at bare minimum, he has to contest a fast-cast.

since thats the point of fast-casting

devil's fav demon: sorry dude you cant use fast casting to interrupt someone moving, taking a mundane action, and turning incorporeal all int he same round

Endrite (GM): He definitely had swallowing the necklace prepared AND turning incorporeal was a different round.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's fine

Archibald of Guernicus: its a stress die + quickness + finesse vs his stress die + quickness, though.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If I wanted the necklace I could have grabbed it a long time ago

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i just think the whole things real gay

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's not fine

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we probably wouldve given severin the necklace anyway

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I only attempted to Porter it after it was clear we'd never get it otherwise

Archibald of Guernicus: we would have

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if it turned out to just be some minor trinket

Archibald of Guernicus: well

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

all i wanted was an explanation

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its the choice being taken away thats gay

and the familiar acting like a faggot

Archibald of Guernicus: with how much was done to block it, its probably an ancient demon artifact causing the entire infernal aura

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I just want some adventure XP. If I get some player agency out of the deal, that's a cherry on the top.

Endrite (GM): Well, it isn't up to me how much you like or dislike a character.

Archibald of Guernicus: i have one thing i wanna know though. why didnt he phase through the walls and grab it himself?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think the fast cast should be able to go off though

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, a guy you can't kill without essentially losing your character being an asshole to you and you're not allowed to do something about it is incredibly gay

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we should have at least the slightest chance to get the damn thiong

Archibald of Guernicus: the fast-cast definitely should go off

well, its an opposed roll

since thats what a fast-cast is

Endrite (GM): He wasn't going to go in there alone.

He was afraid the Shadow Senators were still alive.

Anyway, I guess you're right.

We can roll it.

Ok, stress roll Finesse + Quickness, Fiorella.

Oh he left.

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont think shaun cares but I care, its important that you can actually potentially interrupt people with magic. You take a big penalty for doing it and its a lot riskier, and you either have to spont or have spell mastery, so its not a free and easy option.

+2 botch dice in that aura is nasty

beatrice got lucky and still had 5? iir

Beatrice ex Merinita: +3 botch dice

Archibald of Guernicus: yikes

Beatrice ex Merinita: 1 base + 3 fast +2 aura -1 mastery

Archibald of Guernicus: wait, book says +2

did we houserule it

Beatrice ex Merinita: i always thought it's +3

Archibald of Guernicus: https://animegirlsare.sexy/IDRR0

Beatrice ex Merinita: you're right

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10 Qik + Finesse

(

7

)

=

7

There

Endrite (GM): Uh, you need numbers for Quick and Finesse.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling 7+0+0

7+0+0

=

7

Endrite (GM): Ah.

Archibald of Guernicus: you have 0 finesse?

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 5

(

5

)

+5

=

10

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: ALright, that's settled

Endrite (GM): Thaddeus gets away with it.

Alright, thank you for bearing with me.

Archibald of Guernicus: alright, there we have it

Endrite (GM): I see that I was wrong with my interpretation of the rules in this case.

Anyway, for risking life and limb in the TOMB OF THE SHADOW SENATE you get 8 XP.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Thank you for running

devil's fav demon: cant wait until severin fully wipes every magus in vt several years from now

sorry i couldnt play. it was a cool scenario.

Endrite (GM): He's an Herbam mage, what's he gonna do?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it wasnt cool

Endrite (GM): Tree you to death?

Come on.

Beatrice ex Merinita: there's a lot a herbam mage can do

Archibald of Guernicus: whats he gonna do, animate houses?

Beatrice ex Merinita: make a door that grows a huge spike to impale you when you try to open it?

Archibald of Guernicus: just drop a tree on you

Endrite (GM): Ok, see you all next week.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10!+8+5+3 Bargain vs EF 15

(

2

)

+8+5+3

=

18

Boy R. (GM):

rolling d10!+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

rolling d10!+5

(

8

)

+5

=

13

oops -7 living conditions

Beardbeard (GM):

rolling 1d10!+6

(

8

)

+6

=

14

Endrite (GM): I guess I was wrong.

I wouldn't be seeing you next week after all...

Beardbeard (GM): ?

rolling 1d10!+6

(

3

)

+6

=

9

rolling 1d10!+6

(

3

)

+6

=

9

Endrite (GM): At the end of the last session I said "Ok, see you all next week," but that was two weeks ago.

Beardbeard (GM):

rolling 1d10!+6

(

4

)

+6

=

10

Endrite (GM): What are all these rolls?

Beardbeard (GM): im eating wis

Endrite (GM): We need to keep better track of who is using vis.

Beardbeard (GM): im putting my total in the seasons

Endrite (GM): That was a euphemism for "We need to lock all our vis in a vault and never let it out."

dys: I need to do my seasons, too. Think I'll play Zita today, since the next adventure's probably the Empress and will involve Archibald.

just need spring 1340's adventure xp from johns and im golden

Shauncat (GM): Spring 1340 was 8

Beardbeard (GM): whoops i forgot about adventures

i just read books and ate vis every time cheers

Shauncat (GM): I just read books on my bad forms every season I didn't adventure

dys: do you do your first aging roll when you turn 35, or the year after

Endrite (GM): When you turn 35.

Beardbeard (GM): malachiasz is now 34

exciting times ahead

Shauncat (GM): I'll be Hypatia this year so I can get my reading done faster

dys: Zita takes the health regime from Lavinia, which I assume is available, so

rolling 1d10!-7

(

4

)

-7

=

-3

Beardbeard (GM): giraldo is 40 so hes 10 years off his aging rolls

dys: i think archibald is about the same

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+3-10

(

10

)

+3-10

=

3

Damn

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+3-10

(

9

)

+3-10

=

2

Only Fiorella gains apparent age

Endrite (GM): We should purchase more londes.