9/24/17

johns (GM): Animo time

rolling 1d10!+3+21+7+4+3 vs 20

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9

)

+3+21+7+4+3

=

47

Success.

rolling 1d10!-3 aging 1337

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8

)

-3

=

5

rolling 1d10!-7 aging 1338

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4

)

-7

=

-3

Beardbeard (GM):

rolling 1d10!+10

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8

)

+10

=

18

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d2 boy | girl

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2

)

=

2

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

Shauncat (GM): Hello

devil's fav demon (GM): Someone else is picking up my stepsister from the airport and driving her home, I have learned today, so I won't be late. Mystical greetings.

Endrite (GM): Owned.

Should have figured that out before you lost your GMing slot!

devil's fav demon (GM): If only.

dys: Tremere Hole

Shauncat (GM): :stringini:

Endrite: It's true.

dys: Let's continuously add sound effects until the entire process of GMing can be done through it

Endrite: Let us.

Hafl T.: i'm making a backup character: https://i.imgur.com/UYp9bOk.png

Shauncat (GM): Cool

Hafl T.: but now that i found out about magian lineage, the character has to be Persian

dys: Fast-casting dual-casted lightning bolts at mundanes who scream at the sight of you, unable to spont at all

devil's fav demon: lol

Hafl T.: yes

dys: What book is Magian Lineage in

Hafl T.: cradle and the crescent

minor version gives bonus to aging, and against diseases

dys: ah. its not even in the master list.

Hafl T.: it is

i found it there

dys: well

ive got an outdated master list then, good to know

Hafl T.: https://i.imgur.com/F8J6EnY.png

it's a general virtue which is important

Endrite: Magian Lineage is making e upset.

Hafl T.: why?

dys: https://i.imgur.com/p3IfSck.png

Endrite: It seems PRETTY abusable.

Hafl T.: it's for a character that won't be played unless beatrice dies and i'm doing the best i can to avoid it

Endrite: I'll defer to the experts, of course.

dys: In terms of free xp it seems fairly benign for a major

Hafl T.: the extra xp is not much for 2 extra virtue point

and the bonus to aging and disease is less than Strong Faerie Blood

dys: flawless magic is, by raw, 5xp for free per spell you know + all the xp you save from it doubling. elementalism is 3 free xp, which is more comparable to this, and better.

Hafl T.: elementalism also helps with requisites

Endrite: I also hate Flawless Magic.

Hafl T.: flawless magic is useless for most spells unless you pair it with cautious sorcerer

being able to get a mastery bonus of aura of ennobled presence makes no difference

Endrite: Having spell mastery is good for every spell in the game, are you high?

dys: I don't think any major should give Free XP, minors I don't mind as much since you can fit them in around other virtues more easily and feel less like you're gimped for skipping them

Hafl T.: yeah

but unless you spend xp on it, it's just +1 to casting total and -1 botch dice for free for your formulaic spells

which is great

nad that's in RAW

unless you invest heaviy into mastery or have cautious sorcerer, you'll still roll botch dice for most of your spells in dominion and infernal auras

Beardbeard (GM): arse! bad game

dys: hm. i was gonna say that spell mastery isnt as useful for defensive spells but fast-cast sidestep is actually really good

Hafl T.: Faerie-raised magic is a major hermetic virtue so bad it includes a minor virtue and even then it's still not really worth it

dys: being attacked? fast-cast sidestep, automatically dodge

Hafl T.: yeah

Shauncat (GM): Time to run historical fantasy using Ars fluff and Champions rules

dys: is fairy-raised distinct from the merinita virtua

Hafl T.: it's time for fantasy HERO

devil's fav demon: no! noo!!!

Hafl T.: it's a major hermetic that let's you buy spells that copy supernatural powers you witnessed with adventure xp

dys: the merinita one is pretty great, a whole bunch of targets/ranges and you treat a second aura as magic.

ah. lmfao.

Hafl T.: the issue is that level 5 spell costs 5xp

Aristide of Tremere: its time for pathfinder

Hafl T.: and it's +1 xp per magnitude after that

Aristide of Tremere: dfd run your wrestling campaign but its in the magical land of golarion

dys: I know the virtue now, that's a real mess

Hafl T.: it includes spell improvisation which is ok

it adds familiar spell bonus to your sponted spells

and does it after you divide

dys: ooh, thats a good effect

Shauncat (GM): People don't bicker when wizards are better than fighters in Pathfinder since that's what they signed up for

devil's fav demon: i need to actually write a system for that before i run a wrestling game again because that game just proved to me that there arent any good wrestling games

Hafl T.: that's a minor

dys: Spell Improvisation + Diedne Magic

Hafl T.: yeah

that's what i thought about

Aristide of Tremere: just run it in pathfinder

lets run ars in pathfinder

devil's fav demon: WWWRPG spends more time trying to ref all the sick insider slang in wrestling than actually write rules that work for the setting

dys: I want to propose a houserule for diedne magic, actually. I'm not taking it but it irks me that this is how it works.

The Dark Secret it gives you should count as a flaw you bought

Hafl T.: it should

Shauncat (GM): I don't really know how I'd run a wrestling system that was in-depth

dys: instead of giving you 13 points of flaws for no discernible reason other than to punish you

Aristide of Tremere: it should treat sponts as formulaic

dys: restricting you to a specific story flaw is bad enough

devil's fav demon: none of that shit actually works together and the wrestling matches are still played out like the wrestlers can influence the winners and decisions more often than they really can, and all the rules are about wrestling matches, which is the least important part of wrestling

Aristide of Tremere: with all the rules that it entails

Shauncat (GM): I know how I'd make Zangief in HERO or w/e but not really a streamlined wrestling thing

Aristide of Tremere: thatd make it really good but if people found out youd bne killed

Hafl T.: at least HERO has reasonably simple grappling rules

devil's fav demon: there arent even any rules for being on the road and traveling and doing stuff backstage outside of one insanely shitty 11 page supplement

dys: Is it not a system about "what if wrestling was completely, 100% real"

thatd be a fun concept

devil's fav demon: no!

that's every fucking wrestling game, they're just shitty pvp combat games

dys: Vince McMahon's daughter has been kidnapped by the undertaker

why would it be pvp combat systems, i mean youd need a fun combat engine for it but its a very narrative thing

devil's fav demon: a wrestling game needs to be about getting addicted to drugs and destroying all of your personal and family relationships and getting injured and still working and then injuring yourself more

and not actually wrestling matches for 4 hours

Shauncat (GM): FATE might be good

For that, I mean

devil's fav demon: maybe. I need to really sit down and try to write out what i want out of a system and then put it together sometime soon.

Shauncat (GM): Write a short story about four PCs doing something

It doesn't have to be a good story you want to show others

Just conceptualize how a session looks like

devil's fav demon: the thing about gaining Audience and Heat in WWWRPG was sort of interesting but i'm not a fan of how it worked out in practice and tied to direct stat advancement or how injuries were tracked.

That's a good idea.

like i'd want to track aging, since thats important in wrestling

your character's raw athleticism is at its peak in their early-mid 20s but as they age past that it rapidly deteriorates even as their skill and ability to manipulate crowds and npcs increases and they'd become more injury prone etc

ok i'll cut out this talk in the ars room. my bad.

dys: [tunes back in] uh huh

c'thinker (GM): its 1339, dude. diedne magic is mainstream

dys: i can see what you mean but that doesnt really appeal to me in a game, id rather play out some fantastical story about ancient magic reviving a sealed wrestler with arcane powers

devil's fav demon: that would be cool too but there are games/other settings to play that out in already

johns (GM): oh shit, it's game time

i thought endrite was going to make an announcement

c'thinker (GM): im going to eat a sandwich or something

Endrite: Oh that.

I just wanted to say that I'd like to use the Cavalry Shock rules.

johns (GM): plz explain that

c'thinker (GM): we're going to be killed by knights

Shauncat: Everyone start learning ReAn spells to frighten horses, please

Endrite: Basically if you get hit by an opponent charging on horseback you have a chance to be knocked down, based on this formula.

Resist Charge While on Foot:

Str + Size + Combat Ability +

stress die vs. Damage Total (before

Soak) + Size of attacker’s horse

Shauncat: There's one in Magi of Hermes

Endrite: If you're mounted you use this one:

johns (GM): 1st issue of the day

Endrite: Resist Charge While Mounted:

Dexterity + Ride + saddle modifier +

stress die vs. Damage Total (before

Soak) + Size of attacker’s horse

johns (GM): there's a written offer on the table for Allumiere

https://badgame.net/index.php?topic=47117.msg12033712#msg12033712

Hafl T.: i'm fine with that because if i get hit by a charge, i'm dead anyway

johns (GM): i haven't seen anyone express an opinion for or against it yet

Shauncat: https://puu.sh/xHTI1/1d6cd861d9.png

Beatrice Orsini : I'm for it on the assumption that it can be renegotiated later in exchange for a longevity ritual, for example.

Shauncat: I think I should probably get killed by a charge, yeah

c'thinker: i think i must get killed by a charge

Proclus of Rome: I hate that deal because I don't like or respect the Silver Lady.

johns (GM): The council of Vardian's Tomb is convened

johns (GM) bangs gavel

Proclus of Rome: A charge is just +5 to attack.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I don't either, but that's just a general annoyance I have towards faeries.

Hypatia of Athens returns from an adventure in the parts of the Levant with poor Mercere portal coverage.

Proclus of Rome: Well that isn't TOTALLY true.

It's +5 or your Ride Ability, whichever is lower.

johns (GM): The charge is +5 on top of the existing bonus one gets for mounted combat, correct?

Hypatia of Athens: Let's buy a glove from Kifaaya that turns a group of horses into human infants.

Proclus of Rome: Doesn't look like it.

Archibald of Guernicus: As a tomb, we're taking the deal, I believe.

Proclus of Rome: The main benefit of charging on horseback without Cavalry Shock is you can run down people who are far away.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah I think me and Proclus are in the minority on just wanting to brutally murder the both of them.

Archibald of Guernicus: Killing the silver lady is  definitely  fae molestation and will not benefit us at all besides getting some vis from her corpse.

Proclus of Rome: I, personally, hate the deal immensely and it's probably a violation of the code.

c'thinker: Getting vis from her corpse would be excellent.

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn has abstained from the vote because he believes sympathy for Prudenzio's situation might compromise him acting in the Tomb's best interests

johns (GM): If the majority of your covenant agrees to it, will you bind to their decision

Proclus of Rome: The Silver Lady is already molested since she's being controlled by Prudenzio.

Beatrice Orsini : Prudenzuo is not part of the deal, really.

Archibald of Guernicus: Prudenzio is outside it, yeah. He's not been cut in, if he becomes an actual problem we'll deal with him.

Hypatia of Athens: Well, also Jorn might be unwilling to take justifiable action against the Silver Lady

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to go along with the covenant's decision because I'm all about harmony. But I'm pretty into the idea of just killing them since it seems like the simplest thing to do.

Beatrice Orsini : And as for vis, we still have the Sword of Endless Viking Fae Summoning hidden inside an aegis.

Hypatia of Athens: So his presence would bog this meeting down with bickering

Proclus of Rome: The Silver Lady is also hugely dangerous as a fairy.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Probably allowing the Silver Lady to be granted a title while being manipulated by Prudenzio is a bad idea.

Proclus of Rome: Remember that she attacked us first.

Beatrice Orsini : She won't get a titled according to the deal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could make a case in favor of murdering faeries

johns (GM): That is a lie, actually

Proclus

Hypatia of Athens: We shot first IIRC

Proclus of Rome: It's MOSTLY true.

Hypatia of Athens: Kifaaya tried to turn her into a pig

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

johns (GM): You trespassed on her lands

Proclus of Rome: Pssh.

She doesn't have any lands.

Archibald of Guernicus: In fact Proclus was the one who started the fight, even

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea bites into an apple

Hypatia of Athens: If she doesn't belong on the lands then the lands should stop giving her vitality

Archibald of Guernicus: I put forward the motion that Proclus is 'salty' that he talked shit and got hit, and should be ignored. We take the deal and leave the fae unmolested.

Both our merinita say the silver lady shouldnt be a problem, I'll listen to their expertise

Beatrice Orsini : The concern about the deal being against the Code is valid, so we should ask a Code Expert first.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Hmm, both our people who love fae more than people say it's fine. I'll defer to them.

Hypatia of Athens: Fae and humans have compatible DNA

Proclus of Rome: Leaving the Sllver Lady alone is merely affirming the right of Prudenzio to molest fairies!

Beatrice Orsini : Prudenzio is not part of the deal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: DNA isn't real.

johns (GM): the unwritte part of the deal is you're going to get prudenzio to back off

Bialas of Bjornaer: Jorn should explain what Cognizance means in this context IC since I have no idea what the hell faerie intelligence is like.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he should.

Proclus of Rome: Nobody does.

Hypatia of Athens: You heard his explanation at the tower

Beatrice Orsini : Cognizance is the degree to which faeries realize they need humans.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas wasn't there.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus tries to explain cognizance to Bialas with his newly-learned Faerie Lore.

rolling 1d10!+2+1

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4

)

+2+1

=

7

Bialas of Bjornaer: The way he put it, Prudenzio is just kind of steering around a retard and making it do what he wants.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: He isn't doing a very good job.

Proclus of Rome: If you want to communicate it I assume you would add Communication and not Intelligence.

johns (GM): lavinia has a really cool idea to deal with prudenzio but i can't suggest solutions to my own GM created problems, alas.

Proclus of Rome: Alack.

Archibald of Guernicus: To my knowledge, and I know a good deal about the code, none of the deal is actually illegal. Though it's without precedent in parts so a ruling may happen if one of our enemies tries to push us on it, legally.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could.

let's ask lavinia, the npc, what she thinks.

Beatrice Orsini : Couldn't we just all declare Wizard's War on Prudenzio?

Archibald of Guernicus: The point of mundane interference laws is that you arent meant to side with and assist mundane lords, or swear fealty to them

Rome is densely populated. Deals like this to exist peacefully are normal.

Beatrice Orsini : The deal is not swearing fealty to them, it's a business deal.

Aristide of Tremere: this is nice music

Jorn of Merinita: "Faerie, at their essence, do not have the human spirit, but a set of rules. A faerie without cognizance can never change their rules, and so can never attain the self-deterministic qualities of a human."

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Proclus of Rome: I think we should declare Wizard War on Prudenzio AND kill the Silver Lady.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah!

johns (GM): i just have a huge mix of random medieval music now instead of looping one song over and over

Archibald of Guernicus: The deal is all valid by the code, is the main point that I let everyone know

Jorn of Merinita: "They are unchanging, like Hammurabi's pillar."

johns (GM): i just threw in a bunch of mount & blade stuff too

Proclus of Rome: Pretty convenient that a deal that enriches you is legal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hammurabi's pillar won't be rediscovered until 1901.

Beatrice Orsini : It's the Verditius and Jerbiton influence that makes it possible.

Jorn of Merinita: "A cognizant faerie can change and grow and attain something like free will. Like the Code of Hermes, subject to local tribunal amendment."

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus, staring at Archibald eating lunch: 'lol, pretty convenient that you gain sustenance from this and its also not illegal. what a coincedence'

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh sure. but gulielmus isn't allowed to eat ANY human flesh

Beatrice Orsini : If God didn't want us to make deals, there would be no deals to make.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Is the silver lady actually cognizant, Jorn?"

Proclus of Rome: "How does it matter if she is?"

Jorn of Merinita: "She didn't particularly give me that impression, but Merinita hasn't deeply explored the subject."

"At least, to the degree that an Intellego effect could tell me for certain, or a way to empirically determine cognizance"

Archibald of Guernicus: "There was discussion earlier about her changing, just wondering if the lass actually can or not."

Beatrice Orsini : "It's easier to make deals with a faerie than with a mundane lord or Prudenzio."

"What they value and what we value can be vastly different."

Proclus of Rome: "There is already an excellent candidate for fairy stewardship of Allumiere: the winter spirits."

"One that, I should remind you, is not primarily interested in poisoning people."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, remember that time we went and won vis at the fairy games? Bloody Klybutes tricked us with that one."

Then I sigh when I remember everyone who went with me then is now dead

Lavinia of Jerbiton slips a note to Beatrice

(To Beatrice Orsini ): If you put the matter up to a vote now, you have my vote in favor of making the deal and not harming the Silver Lady.

Proclus of Rome: RIP everyone from back then.

Beatrice Orsini : "If you just want to replace one faerie with another, Proclus, that shows you're just interested in pursuing petty vengeance and not thinking about the good of the covenant."

"Does anyone else have anything to say?"

"Aristide?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I sit down, now upset at what the cruelties of time has done

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Either way, the land's blighted."

Proclus of Rome: "I'm interested in what is best for the people of Allumiere."

Jorn of Merinita returns to the workshop.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Let's kill all the faeries."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i just had a sinister thought, what if the tremere got wind of Cierella's court and started changing it until her games were just certamen

Proclus of Rome: "You have never been so you don't understand how blighted it has been."

Can fairies pretend to do Certamen?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sure

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Damn your logic."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: then we would have to kill the tremeres

Beatrice Orsini : faeries can pretend to be wizards

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's the arsenic under the soil, might start tae improve when we begin removing it."

Aristide of Tremere: "Hm? Prudenzio's a thieving rat and should be punished."

"That's my input."

Hypatia of Athens: THey need pretend breakthroughs to do pretend certamen, probably

Aristide of Tremere: "He should strive to be more honorable like certain magi."

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Beatrice Orsini : "Thank you Aristide."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, Lavinia's our expert on medical matters, she might know how best tae deal with that."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Bialas is right. If you're going to kill one set of faeries, why not also get rid of the other one?"

Proclus of Rome: "If we allow the Silver Lady to live we are condemning those people to a lifetime of lead poisoning."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: theres a chapter in Antagonists about a faerie queen who just harasses the player PCs over and over again to see them cast magic just so she can develop a glamour version of hermetic magic

Beatrice Orsini : "nice

Bialas of Bjornaer: Smart.

Hypatia of Athens: "Smart

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i didnt want to use it because it involves 10 adventures, each based around a particular hermetic form

Proclus of Rome: "Some magi are convinced that a fairy steward of Allumiere is necessary, though I do not totally agree."

Aristide of Tremere: "There's money to be made in that land, isn't there? Removing all faerie threats seems like a find idea."

fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Beatrice Orsini : "There's more money to be made if the faeries of the land agree with you."

Archibald of Guernicus: "She's no a threat, is the thing. We met her and she was perfectly cordial, downright harmless. She was the first time too, before Proclus picked a fight with her."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can invent a level 12 spell to coat myself in acid

Wizard's Self-Destruct

Proclus of Rome: "She has been poisoning the village of Allumiere for decades, I would hardly call that harmless."

Hypatia of Athens: Is this still Fall?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sure

Archibald of Guernicus: "She's dangerous when provoked, but why provoke her? And the land itself is poisoned."

Proclus of Rome: There's a Flambeau spell that sets them on fire.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, we're dealing with the remaining issues

Hypatia of Athens: Okay Hypatia is still on a boat then

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i'm on a boat.

Jorn of Merinita is here I GUESS

Beatrice Orsini : "If we're just going to repeat arguments at each other, we can move on to the vote. We're cleary not changing each other's mind."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Endless winter is a better choice than a poison blight, but not by much.

Beatrice Orsini : you can make money off poison blight

Proclus of Rome: "I don't know why you'd assume it would be an endless winter"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I believe our archon's position is clear, regardless. We used tae overturn them with a majority vote, if the majority of my sodales are dead set on killing her then we'll explore that idea, otherwise I think our choice is clear."

Proclus of Rome: "Winter is, naturally, a cyclical force."

johns (GM): someone needs to fire a truth bullet to end the Endless Argument phase

Archibald of Guernicus: I just fired one

johns (GM): nice

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hmm."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: heres one: magic sucks

Beatrice Orsini : let's vote

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what precisely are we voting for/against

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Well, animals and plants can survive a harsh winter more than poison veins running through the earth. You've convinced me."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Proclus, Aristide and Bialas vote to molest the fae and start a fight. Beatrice and I say we leave her alone."

Beatrice Orsini : Taking the deal or going along with proclus' plan to kill the faeries.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Anyone else wish tae weigh in?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Mineral speculation is a trade for richer men than me. I just build the mines they commission."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I vote Deal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I abstain.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Gulielmus, Lavinia?"

"I can guess at Jorn's decision, though I won't be presumptious for this covenant vote."

Proclus of Rome: Wait we need a voting box to put our tokens in.

Jorn of Merinita: "If the Queen is a problem for the miners, I can sell the solution to it when it happens.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: crap

there's no room on this page..

Archibald of Guernicus: theres a small bit of room, hang on

Aristide of Tremere: dont say tokens proclus

you are dooming your side if you d

o

Archibald of Guernicus: ah shit

ah fuck

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It's time for Disputatio.

Flex those social abilities.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is Jorn abstaining

Aristide of Tremere: theres gordo

Proclus of Rome: There he is.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm. Zita fought hard for the deal in the first place. However, she left and went to get a ritual done so she's unable to vote, by coincedence.

Aristide of Tremere: did plutonis quit

Proclus of Rome: Not to my knowledge.

Archibald of Guernicus: We're tied, it's all on Jorn

Jorn of Merinita: "Prudenzio is the problem here. The Conte needs him in check. I have nothing for or against the Silver Queen, she is a force of narrative."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: join us jorn

and by us i mean me, i guess.

Aristide of Tremere: join us jorn

Jorn of Merinita: Let me see

Bialas of Bjornaer: Jorn seems against murdering the faerie.

Aristide of Tremere: take a look at the people on each side

see which ones are your friends

youve got proclus the noble

bialas the bold

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "This deal will protect the Faerie from those who want to do her harm, even those in this covenant."

Aristide of Tremere: aristide the tremere

no!

Archibald of Guernicus: "We're at an impasse here. Jorn, I should point out that we already have a deal to do mining at Allumiere."

Jorn of Merinita: My allies seem to be in this box

Bialas of Bjornaer: Gasp.

Proclus of Rome: That is your right.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A choice between taking this deal or killing a fairy that's no threat tae us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: We'll get em next time Gordo.

Beatrice Orsini : Proclus the Murder-Lover, Bialas the Brainwasher, and Aristide the Tremere.

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Jorn of Merinita: I need Beatrice's help in building a better Merinita inner society.

Archibald of Guernicus: Two people voting yes on fae murder constantly call for every fairy to be slaughtered, and the third is Aristide

So this seems clearcut

johns (GM): Good shit.

Jorn of Merinita: Best to start fostering my political alliance with Beatrice now

Bialas of Bjornaer:  slams fist on table  "KILL EVERY FILTHY FAERIE"

I'm sorry. Don't know what came over me.

Archibald of Guernicus: "As for Prudenzio, he was invited here, aye?"

johns (GM): Now, you've summoned Prudenzio, do you want to plan anything before he shows up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Kill some faeries.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, planning for prudenzio is important

Aristide of Tremere: summoning prudenzio with infernal magics

Beatrice Orsini : I'm against murdering him while we're under aegis and he wasn't here to cast it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's put the evil flaming skull by the entrance wards to greet him

Beatrice Orsini : But a fair fight is fair.

Proclus of Rome: Certainly that would be wrong.

I don't think we should murder him here at all.

Beatrice Orsini : wrong but probably easy.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll climb up onto something high, and then you can get him to stand under it and I'll jump on him.

Proclus of Rome: Since we invited him.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Aristide of Tremere: it would be his fault for coming

Bialas of Bjornaer: Ah, good point.

Beatrice Orsini : Any murder has to wait until after he departs.

Jorn of Merinita: We could hand him a formal declaration of war and let him leave unharmed

Aristide of Tremere: nothing we could do if lavinias pentagrams turned him into ap illar of salt

Archibald of Guernicus: "Wizard's War is a good option, should the man prove to be a danger here. But, he might see sense and realise he can do just fine without antagonising us. I've not forgiven his theft, but that's a matter fer tribunal."

Beatrice Orsini : "We only have suspicions he's guilty of crimes."

Proclus of Rome: HOWEVER, I do think that it is very (((convenient))) that the Sllver Lady's only ally is coming to the covenant and will be leaving her unprotected.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, he did steal from us."

Jorn of Merinita: We should get an AC to him surreptitiously

Beatrice Orsini : "It's not a crime that warrants death."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Three pawns, right?"

Beatrice Orsini : Someone stole his purse, we have an AC.

Jorn of Merinita: Cool

Archibald of Guernicus: "Wizard's War needs no justification. Legally speaking, of course."

Proclus of Rome: "I would love to see Prudenzio leave this Tribunal forever."

Beatrice Orsini : "Yes. We do not have proof he's guilty of high crimes."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It can be a tool to threaten, too. We need not necessarily kill the man even if we do it."

Beatrice Orsini : "And leaving his possible crimes for the tribunal is risky."

Celeste: "I've been feeling very guilty about it, but it was justified. Been spending all season reciting prayers in penance."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Venator used this tactic before, if ye recall, when we went tae normandy."

johns (GM): ooh

exile and threats... nice

now you're thinking like Romans

Beatrice Orsini : "We already have trouble with what happened with Renard. If we add Prudenzio to it, it will look like Vardian's Tomb can't handle its own members."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should firmly distance him from the covenant, aye."

"It's not as if it's the first time we've had to."

Proclus of Rome: "Sometimes doing the right thing is difficult."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The threat of wizard's war, then."

"If he tries something, well, it can go beyond threats."

Beatrice Orsini : "There's nothing illegal about multiple wizards declaring war on one wizard at the same time, correct?"

johns (GM): correct

Archibald of Guernicus: "Whoever actually wars him can be legally slain by him, just remember that."

"No, Beatrice."

Beatrice Orsini : "It might be in bad taste, but I believe Vardian's Tomb is justified here."

Proclus of Rome: "We should simply declare our intent to Wizard War him. It doesn't require us to actually do anything."

Beatrice Orsini : "If we're making threats, we should be prepared to go through with them."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Let's see him try."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I would recommend that only people who are willing to shoulder that risk should actually war him, should we do it."

Jorn of Merinita: "I have enough enemies as it is, but I can be part of the  threat ."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Those who do not wish to, shouldn't feel they must."

"I have good faith in my parma, and my lab is safe from more mundane trickery."

Beatrice Orsini : "I'd like to know who is willing to go to war with Prudenzio if he isn't dissuaded by threats."

Aristide of Tremere: I grab a parchment and begin writing..

Then roll it up and seal it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm willing."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if I don't join in the declaration, but provide enchantments for those who do?"

Beatrice Orsini : "I'm willing too. As the archon, it's my duty to the covenant."

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm raedy."

Proclus of Rome: "Of course I am willing to aid the covenant."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'll fight anybody."

Archibald of Guernicus: This is a heartwarming moment

johns (GM): A parchment eh

Jorn of Merinita: "I will go to war with him on the condition that my sodales will also help deal with Galafre."

(From Aristide of Tremere): The parchment is inscribed with a depiction of the fig, but no declaration of war.

Proclus of Rome: "However, I may be unavoidably detained when Prudenzio arrives."

Archibald of Guernicus: Everyone coming together, united in murderlust

(To Aristide of Tremere): So noted

Beatrice Orsini : "Someone has to keep watch at the covenant."

johns (GM): Your chamberlain timidly approaches! "Master Prudenzio of House Flambeau has arrived."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I fear my Parma isn't quite as strong as the rest of our merry hoplites."

Jorn of Merinita: "If I'm to be a target of both Prudenzio and Galafre, then Galafre should also be a target of everyone here."

"Or all who compel me to go to war, at any rate."

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's quite alright, Gulielmus. Perhaps we should try to purchase a better summae on the parma."

Beatrice Orsini : "If Galafre declares Wizard's War on you, you have my support, Jorn."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'll be happy to support you, Jorn."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, I'll stand by ye, Jorn."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do we have any surviving shield grogs

Proclus of Rome: Sure.

Jorn of Merinita: "He won't use a legal mechanism, I don' tthink."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yeah cthinker they're on the top of this page

Proclus of Rome: We have a grip of them.

Artemisia is also willing to murder Galafre.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whoa nevio is still alive?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: 9 shield grogs and 9 covenant npcs

Archibald of Guernicus: "If he tries something untoward, I'll assist in any way I can."

Proclus of Rome: Sure is.

Jorn of Merinita: "Mundane saboteurs and strongmen and thieves through the aegis is more his style."

Proclus of Rome: "I'll always stand by my sodales against any wrongful attacks."

Beatrice Orsini : We need a bookbinder and illuminator to make better books.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Ariam is an illuminator.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Prudenzio swaggers into your council chamber, taking a bit from an apple. "Sodales, I have denied you the glory of my presence too long!"

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Proclus of Rome: Of course there's a 50/50 chance that I'll be the person playing Galafre when he tries to kill you.

Beatrice Orsini : it can't be helped

Jorn of Merinita: That's the risk

Beatrice Orsini : "Ah, Prudenzio. We haven't seen each other in a while."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Finally, I meet the man everyone's been talking about."

Aristide of Tremere: "Hail."

Proclus of Rome: "Prudenzio, we have important business to discuss."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve, Prudenzio."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Funny thing, I got this letter from you the other day. It reads like you were summoning me, even though this covenant is legally my covenant too, last I checked."

Beatrice Orsini : "You haven't been in residence for a number of years."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sounds like a bit of a technicality, to be honest."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Officially those matters are handled by Venator, who's only recently returned."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I had never even heard of you until we went to Allumiere!"

Proclus of Rome: "Unofficially, we have all come to a decision."

Jorn of Merinita nods to Gulielmus

Prudenzio of Flambeau munches apple

Bialas of Bjornaer bites the head off a dried fish

Proclus of Rome: Apple Muncher 1338

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "So what's so important you have to drag me from my lovely wife?"

Proclus of Rome: "You're the Archon, Beatrice, you tell him."

Bialas of Bjornaer stares at Prudenzio with his Piercing Gaze

Prudenzio of Flambeau sniffs the air disdainfully as he notices Bialas' stink

Beatrice Orsini : "Your actions have put the covenant in danger and you taking off with some of the covenant's vis without telling anyone about it can be classified as theft. If you don't cease your activities at Allumiere, we'll be forced to take actions against you as a danger to the Covenant and potential violator of the Code of Hermes."

"The covenant is in agreement to go through with Wizard's War against you if necessary."

Prudenzio of Flambeau laughs

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "But seriously... Why did you summon me?"

Beatrice Orsini : "I am being serious."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Knock it off."

Proclus of Rome: "You heard her, pig pussy."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I... what?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Jesus."

Beatrice Orsini : wow

Archibald of Guernicus: Chrits

Jorn of Merinita: "I'm learning more Italian every day!"

Proclus of Rome: It's more lyrical in my native Italian.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: holy shit.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait, did Proclus get replaced with a might 21 creature and we didnt notice

Jorn of Merinita: "You're right, it is a beautiful language, Proclus."

Beatrice Orsini : It's good to know that even with our different stance on fae murder, Proclus has my back when it counts.

Proclus of Rome: I don't think you can have a Might 21 creature.

Beatrice Orsini : You can.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he mastered the secret of Becoming

spells and creatures can be any level

Prudenzio of Flambeau clenches his fist and glares

Aristide of Tremere: "Interesting phrase."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "The Silver Lady is my wife, and I was the one making the deals with the Capocci. You've no right to interfere."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: just, usually multiples of 5.

Jorn of Merinita: Pity it lacks the cross-compatibility of a Germanic language. Archibald actually understands a bit of my Norse.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Whatever happened to sodalitas?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Your deals involve crimes against the Code of Hermes and if you claim residence in this covenant, it is our business."

Proclus of Rome: "We have every right to oppose your malignant plotting, you reprobate."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Archibald, you're going to stand there and let them talk to me like this? After all we've been through?"

devil's fav demon: i like prudenzio's theme because it's playful and also extremely irritating

Prudenzio of Flambeau: much like...

Jorn of Merinita: "I have a faerie family to think of to, and right now you stand against their interests."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, we went through a few things. Which is why I said we should speak with ye, and offer peaceful terms if ye're reasonable."

Jorn of Merinita: too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like aristide, yeah.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Reasonable?"

"I'm the only reasonable man here it seems." He glares at Proclus.

Aristide of Tremere: "What about me?"

Jorn of Merinita: We're on Proclus's side of the fence

Archibald of Guernicus: "I've long taken the stance that disputes like this, within the covenant, should be handled within the covenant, no involving tribunals and so on. The theft, well, ye were with us when ye did it. It's a covenant matter, and this is how we're handling it."

Proclus of Rome: "I've had more than my fill of self-serving excuses from evil men."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You steal vis, break certamen, and keep a private sanctum away from the covenant."

Jorn of Merinita: So we can't be reasonable even if we're as calm as a still lake

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do ye remember Bonfilia at all? Might have been a wee bit before ye first showed up, Proclus and I remember her well though."

Aristide of Tremere: I juggle some apples.

Proclus of Rome: That's a Thrown Weapon check, as I recall.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Bread lady? Kinda ugly, bout yea high?"

Aristide of Tremere: wouldnt it be finesse

Bialas of Bjornaer: finesse is for spellcasting only.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: finesse is for fine control of magic

it's also for use of magic items!

Jorn of Merinita: Spont a ReHe to juggle apples iwth Finesse

Bialas of Bjornaer: aha.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, that's the one. She's in Normandy last I heard. She kept pushing it, and pushing it, and she was asked tae leave."

Jorn of Merinita: That's like Unseen Arm, you can manage the spont

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "If you're  asking  me to leave, I've a right to share of this partnership."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye stole from us, interfered in Allumiere, who knows what else ye've been up tae. Ye obviously have little regard for the code or the wellbeing of the covenant."

Beatrice Orsini : "Your share can be the vis you've taken."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "The vis I... "

Aristide of Tremere: "I've got your share here, if you're so insistent."

Proclus of Rome: "You voluntarily gave up that right when you allied yourself with an evil fairy."

Aristide of Tremere: I hold up my sealed document.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I stood side by side with you all, through thick and thin! I was here when this covenant was nothing!"

Prudenzio takes the document.

He opens the seal.

He frowns.

He curses you all in Italian.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Rude."

Archibald of Guernicus: "And ye ran away! Ye stole from us and fled tae go involve yerself with a fairy, mess around with nobles."

Proclus of Rome: I give him the fig.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: aristide beat you to it proclus lol

Jorn of Merinita: "This covenant is centuries old, I thought."

Archibald of Guernicus: Did he draw a giant middle finger

Prudenzio of Flambeau: the fig combo.... power overwhelming

Beatrice Orsini : thank you, aristide

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Beautiful

Aristide of Tremere: i drew the fig archibald

Bialas of Bjornaer: hahaha

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Aristide of Tremere: the original plan was to hand it to him after people handed him wizards war declarations

Archibald of Guernicus wipes tear from eye

Jorn of Merinita: "As I take it, you age faster than normal. I don't think you were here before Venator."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Mark my words. I won't go quietly. The world will hear what a load of swindlers and cheats you lot are!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Prudenzio, oi, Before ye go running out with damn stupid ideas like that, listen here."

Prudenzio of Flambeau seethes but listens to Archibald

Proclus of Rome: "It is your right to spread you malicious lies as you please, though I doubt any reputable magus will listen."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The point of all this was tae give ye an honest chance tae let this go. That we'd forget yer transgressions, as it were, and ye'd leave us in peace as well. Ye sever yer connections here and go elsewhere, make a fresh start, not keep up some petty grudge."

"The threats of wizards war are real. If ye make this a grudge, and try to drag us all down, ye'll regret it."

Jorn of Merinita makes a stone idol as we chat.

Prudenzio of Flambeau scans the room

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "All of you are in on this threat?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's what I'm doing out of respect for a former sodales."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I support my sodales and will crush your skull under my paw if I must."

Beatrice Orsini : "I believe I said we're all in agreement."

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh, I'm not."

Beatrice Orsini : "Except Aristide."

Jorn of Merinita: "I stand by my family and their protectors."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Then... I accept."

Prudenzio of Flambeau bows magnanimously

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "There will be no acrimony past this point! On this, you have my word."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yer word is of debatable value, but I sincerely hope ye mean it."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: He's a real stand-up guy.

Proclus of Rome: "Your word has no value, so give it as freely as you wish."

Bialas of Bjornaer: quick, someone cast a bargain duration spell on him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'm convinced.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay now Proclus and Archibald are talking in sync, this adventure has really gone places

Beatrice Orsini : bargain spell lasts at best a year

Prudenzio of Flambeau: With that, Prudenzio departs into the world of dangling story hooks.

Jorn of Merinita: Bargain is a second duration on top of the spell's duratoin

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He really does come across like a nice guy."

Archibald of Guernicus: He'll bother us again one day, probably, but now if I kill him I can do it with a completely clear conscience.

Beatrice Orsini : but it can enforce a bargain for at most a year

Jorn of Merinita: Ah

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well."

"Glad that's over with."

johns (GM): Frankly him being a potential future enemy is the best outcome

Aristide of Tremere: "He was a refined soul, if nothing else. It's a shame we had to lose him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I don't see how that could possibly come to pass.

johns (GM): And with that I think my role here is done and I can turn it over to GM Endrite

Jorn of Merinita: Oh hey, could Archibald PeVi a bargain spell I have unwittingly cast on me?

Archibald of Guernicus: "He was always a fast talker, ye find yerself forgiving a man's flaws more easily when he's pleasant tae converse with."

Jorn of Merinita: And find out if one exists?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Would've been nice if we could have gotten some kind of explanation out of him."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Till Allumiere he'd been quite pleasant, but I suppose going alone no matter the cost was his real nature."

Jorn of Merinita: It'd probably be a mentem spell

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Til Allumiere he was just a stand-up, all around nice guy rapist

Archibald of Guernicus: He was pleasant to talk to

devil's fav demon: he was really good with kids.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Jorn of Merinita: Rape isn't illegal in the CoH

Beatrice Orsini : Look at how Celeste turned out.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, other people's kids.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Frankly what soured me the most was his wife. The poor woman doted on him even in death."

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lass didnae deserve that."

Proclus of Rome: At some point, I would like to organize an expedition to go kill the Silver Lady in secret.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea frowns.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That is disturbing."

Proclus of Rome: Please everyone be aware of my secret plan but not in character.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Proclus of Rome wants to explore shipwrecks.

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's a good plan.

Beatrice Orsini : I have secret plans with the Silver Lady as well.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think it's a bad plan because you will either die or provoke pvp if you are successful

also it makes you an oathbreaker

Bialas of Bjornaer: That's why I think it's a good plan.

Archibald of Guernicus: We need a Proclus theme

I suggest the Kira theme

Proclus of Rome: Anyway, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

Aristide of Tremere: whats the aristide theme

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus was told that beatrice would wizards war him if he did it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if he did it he is guilty of several hermetic crimes

Beatrice Orsini : I wouldn't be able to if the covenant decided otherwise.

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristide's theme is https://fanburst.com/dysrexia/mmpr-soundtrack-bulk-and-skull-theme

Lavinia of Jerbiton: molesting the fae, deprivation of resources, interferance with the mundanes to the detriment of sodales

Endrite (GM): That's why it would be secret.

Duh!

Anyway, on to the future!

Aristide of Tremere: its fucked up, but in the eyes of modern quaesitors, those are considered crimes

Archibald of Guernicus: The bulk and skull theme getting gradually louder as Aristide's actions in a scene grow increasingly insane

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well it would be hard for someone not to notice the powerful faery is suddenly dead

Endrite (GM): No evidence, except all those sigils.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do we get to spend winter

Endrite (GM): Anyway, it's Spring 1339.

Yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i already spent 1338

i cleaned the water and made it taste like honey

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice is strong now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus spends the winter chatting with galerius and learning ex misc lore

Archibald of Guernicus: I spent the rest of autumn making something to improve my lab quality, then spent winter hunting for a familiar

Endrite (GM): There are currently two outstanding situations facing the covenant.

Aristide of Tremere: i think i just read books on both pcs

or made stuff

Endrite (GM): 1) A shipment of lab equipment has failed to arrive.

2) Napolino, Tunde, and Nevio are missing after they left to collect the Cesena vis.

Oh.

And....

Aristide of Tremere: napolinos missing?

we have to save him

Endrite (GM): 3) The vis from the Pantheon didn't show up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah

Bialas of Bjornaer: Uh oh.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's help our good friend Napolino

Lavinia of Jerbiton: How do we normally get the Pantheon vis

Aristide of Tremere: ok i have a plan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sounds bad.

Aristide of Tremere: lets split into 3 groups

Beatrice Orsini : let's save napolino and the vis

Endrite (GM): This is a great plan, Aristide.

Aristide of Tremere: it will be much harder for endrite to focus on killing us if he has to run 3 different groups at once

Bialas of Bjornaer: People need to stop stealing our damn vis.

Hypatia of Athens: I will be on the team with the most members that isn't Aristide's team

Endrite (GM): Oh, by the by, is Grosso dead?

Archibald of Guernicus: The pantheon was St. Simon the Zealot, right?

Bialas of Bjornaer: I thought he was just retarded.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he's mindless but not dead

Endrite (GM): Yes. it was.

Aristide of Tremere: st simony

Lavinia of Jerbiton: assuming I treated his disease correctly

Beatrice Orsini : I'll start working on helping him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Lavinia was treating him, and Beatrice wanted to use him as a guinea pig in her mentem experiments

Beatrice Orsini : but i had 1338 spent

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus helped natch.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll cure him, i won't experiment

Hypatia of Athens: We can do mentem experiments on him to see how much behavior is determined by teh soul.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uh huh.

Aristide of Tremere: id say a lot

Endrite (GM): We can handle that later, I guess.

Aristide of Tremere: anyway lets go rescue napolino

Endrite (GM): It isn't really relevant at the moment.

Archibald of Guernicus: For the reference of everyone who joined later, St. Simon is a fairy who takes chuch services, we've dealt with him a few times before

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh that pantheon

Hypatia of Athens: Divine, aligned faerie, like YHWH

Endrite (GM): Specifically, he's a sacrifice cult fairy.

Archibald of Guernicus: We were attacked by a demon disguised as an angel, and it nailed me to the floor. It was not fun.

Endrite (GM): It was funny.

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald has not gone into a church since then

Bialas of Bjornaer: That sounds like it would be an unpleasant experience.

Glad I've never been nailed to a floor.

Archibald of Guernicus: It was, in fact, so painful that he could not take any actions besides scream in pain

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the Cesena vis is the new sources we got from the 2 vicars' lands, correct?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all you had to do was repent cj

Archibald of Guernicus: Ironically, it was our infernal baker that disposed of him

Guess the infernal wins again

Endrite (GM): Correct Lavinia.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The archon also threw a chalice at the angel's head.

Endrite (GM): So that's 5 pawns.

+1 from the Pantheon.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think St. Simon is a problem we can sort out at our own pace, but grogs going missing with 5 pawns demands immediate attention

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

even if it takes longer than it should

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia is interested in dealing with charlatans

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well st. simon was summoning demons

Archibald of Guernicus: Lab equipment could just be an unfortunate coincedence, that's more for our redcaps to deal with.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: could be bad news.

Archibald of Guernicus: Is this at the very start of spring? How far into spring does this all happen

Endrite (GM): The lab equipment in question was purchased from your old pal Benedetti.

Aristide of Tremere: all on the same day

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If I have access to one of the grogs' personal affects I can try to divine their location.

Endrite (GM): It's May 19th.

Coincidentally, my birthday.

Beatrice Orsini : lavinia divining should help

Aristide of Tremere: napolinos fork

Endrite (GM): Happy birthday to me!

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is truly a dark day."

Aristide of Tremere: updated my journal

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Happy birthday endrite!!!!!!

Beatrice Orsini : and i think it's justified if they're in danger

Bialas of Bjornaer: happy birthday.

Beatrice Orsini : happy birthday in few centuries' time

Bialas of Bjornaer: may 19th has powerful significance to me as well.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Napolino's fork... A tool of immense power. I shall consult the fates."

rolling 1d10!+16+2+3 vs 20

(

3

)

+16+2+3

=

24

Hypatia of Athens: 1st of May is the most powerful Bjornaer holiday

Bialas of Bjornaer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRYGc7ifnbU

Archibald of Guernicus: In that case, since its later into the year than I thought, Zita can help with one of these tasks

Bialas of Bjornaer: may 19th was part of an extremely retarded Kane storyline.

Endrite (GM): Napolino is right here:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: That's not very far at all.

Endrite (GM): It really isn't.

Hypatia of Athens: Hell he's oveweight

He might've gotten tired on the way

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can you ping that again plz

interesting.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: santa ubaldesca

Endrite (GM): The Santa Udalbesca del Priorato.

Or Priory of St. Udalbesca.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Sodales, I believe Napolino is nearby. I have a good feeling about the Priory of St. Udalbesca."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Good food there?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye don't think someone might have waylaid him, do ye?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "No idea, but it is hardly a matter to walk over and see for ourselves."

hardly an ordeal

Endrite (GM): The Priory of Saint Ubaldesca is a Knights Hospitaller hospital, though it was owned by the Knights Templar until the Pope dissolved their order in 1315.

Beatrice Orsini : it's full of satanists then

Archibald of Guernicus: Masini...

Endrite (GM): The Knights Hospitaller, as anyone knows unless they are extremely out of touch, are Crusaders who have recently taken the island of Rhodes.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm extremely out of touch, so thank you.

Aristide of Tremere: congratulations on taking rhode island, knights hospitaller

Endrite (GM): They are also renowned for their "hospitals" where they care for the ill in luxury unimaginable to most medievals.

Hypatia of Athens: Sister Aurelia inherited her shield from one.

Archibald of Guernicus: I just remembered Archibald started with a little magic amulet that made him not stand out in a crowd, that he needs to even get around Rome, so that should help when we show up to kill these guys.

Endrite (GM): The sick are even given feather beds!

Wow!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whoa

Aristide of Tremere: THUSANDS of feathers

Hypatia of Athens: fethers

Endrite (GM): Area Lore: Rome or Theology rolls to learn more. +Int of course.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "There could be many mundanes at this Priory, sodales. Those afflicted with a more blatant gift may not want to pay a visit."

Hypatia of Athens: (reference to Ultima Online, where they were a crafting mat you needed for ammo. Not the poster, fethers)

Endrite (GM): If you have any Holy Land lores or Byzantine Empire lores feel free to roll those too.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fethers

Archibald of Guernicus: "I do worry for our grogs here, but I understand."

Celeste: I guess I'll go on this adventure while Bialas stays and naps again since it's religious themed.

I'll roll Theology.

Hypatia of Athens: Does Lavinia have Byzantine Lore?

Archibald of Guernicus: "I won't set foot in that horrible, horrible church of St. Simon's either."

Endrite (GM): DOES she?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no

none of my lores are relevant here

Archibald of Guernicus: "If ye discover anything that requires a less diplomatic approach, I'll do anything tae help."

Hypatia of Athens: Jerbies wuld be teh most likely candidate

Endrite (GM): Roll Theology then, big shot.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+1+9 int + theo

(

5

)

+1+9

=

15

Zita of Mercere: Rolling area lore rome

Hypatia of Athens: My theology is +7 so I'll defer to Celeste

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+14

(

1

)

+14

=

15

Celeste: Nice.

Aristide of Tremere: ways of the clown

Celeste: well yeah if ways of the town applies it's 20.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Zita of Mercere: I already added ways of the town

Hypatia of Athens: Ways of the Circus is pretty powerful, since they're full of hazardous terrain and con artists

Zita of Mercere: I have negative int

Celeste: Nice.

Aristide of Tremere: same irl

Hypatia of Athens joins in the chorus, Spartacus style

Hypatia of Athens: Okay I'll see if I roll better than Celeste on THeology

rolling d10+3+7

(

1

)

+3+7

=

11

Nice

Celeste: Good job, sodales.

a 20 total isn't bad.

Zita of Mercere: 15 area lore is good, itll tell me a good amount

Aristide of Tremere: endrite smirks as he moves the ef up

Hypatia of Athens: "If Napolino is there, perhaps he's been taken in for injuries."

Aristide of Tremere: Endrite's eyes sparkled with killing intent as the players looked on in horror. His actions were shameless, but what could they do? This was the power of his dao!

Endrite (GM): Oh also, the current leaders of the Priory are Prior Fulk of Tyre, responsible for spiritual matters, and Prior Constable Hermann of Cologne.

Aristide of Tremere: fulk

Celeste: "I like this Prior Fulk. He believes men and women are equal before God. The prioress, Sister Toscana, seems a wonderful woman. From what I know, they're quite heavily guarded. Scores of knights, and possibly mercenaries on top of that. Nothing for us to worry about, as devout Christians and law-abiding citizens, of course."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fred fulks

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, the hospitaliers are known to be looking for money, we should be prepared for them to try and extort us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we've dealt with fulk haven't we

Hypatia of Athens: "If he was waylaid on the street, and a passerby identified them as the closest chirurgeons available."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the name is familiar

Endrite (GM): Nope!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: alas

Zita of Mercere: "Above all, we should avoid giving away the real value of the missing vis."

Endrite (GM): If you have this is a different Fulk.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe i saw it in the token list or something

Hypatia of Athens: I nod to Zita

Zita of Mercere: "If they get one hint of it, we might find ourselves buying our own vis back."

Aristide of Tremere: "Perhaps we should take their money for ourselves."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its a common medieval name that comes up cthinker

Celeste: "Stealing from a priory? What an awful suggestion!"

Beatrice Orsini : "You could probably sneak in and take the vis if it comes to that, Zita."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fulk pulcher

Endrite (GM): The Knights Hospitaller were crusaders, so they do have some familiarity with the Order of Hermes. Also, they're your neighbors and see all the crazy shit that goes down on a bi-monthly basis.

Oh one more thing.

Zita of Mercere: "Probably, but they'd guess it was us responsible, so it's better if we avoid all that."

Beatrice Orsini : "It's an extreme measure."

Hypatia of Athens: "Perhaps me and Zita can negotiate a fair compensation for chirurgery rendered through Mercere."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am a little concerned that they may be aware of the ... less than Christian nature of some of our sodales."

Zita of Mercere: "I'd hoped we'd kept that a secret from public gossiping."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I could offer my services, tending to the wounded."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks concerned for a moment.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Perhaps I should have been doing that already."

Zita of Mercere: "It could work. Your gift is almost unnoticeable, they should listen if you offer."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Among us are many healers and Christians. Also among us are people of a different bent. We should be careful not to let those people be how the Church views us.."

Beatrice Orsini : "I could help as well eventually. I am not experienced with practical medicine, but I could invent magical means."

Hypatia of Athens: "I can also help the wounded, should God find them worthy of the healing song. But I believe it is money that the priory needs."

Zita of Mercere: "Lavinia is correct."

Aristide of Tremere: "I could bring an object of value as a donation."

Zita of Mercere: "Well, not every christian is the best face for our covenant, but it certainly should not be one of our pagans."

"While some are good people in their own right, it would be dangerous to have us get a reputation for it."

Hypatia of Athens: "They need fungible wealth, to be precise, as they fill the war chests of foreign endeavors." So money and indulgences."

Aristide of Tremere: "They need works of art."

Beatrice Orsini : "I believe we could use some indulgences."

Aristide of Tremere: I grab a large piece of wood from our storage room and cast Kingly Facade on it.

Hypatia of Athens: What's the AQ of the wood

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's go on a heist adventure at the priory

Celeste: "I'm not sure how relevant this is, but there's another priory of the Hospitallers to the west, also not far. San Giovanni de Campo Turricano. Quite near the Capoccis, actually."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Everyone down on the floor. We're philosophers. Nobody try to be a hero.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I note it on our map now

Hypatia of Athens: "We could see if the other grog is at the other priory."

Zita of Mercere: "They may object when the artwork fades at the next new moon, Aristide."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Who's doing to Ubaldesca today

Zita of Mercere: I'll go

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll go

Celeste: Me! Ooh, me!

Beatrice Orsini : I'll go

I'm gifted but christian.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: which stinky pagan is going to come along and ruin everything

Zita of Mercere: Two Orsinis, we'll go over great with them

Celeste: I want to go see how these people run a priory where women and men are equal. Maybe I CAN get magically transformed into a woman and still retain a role in the church. That's exciting.

Beatrice Orsini : oh, thanks for reminding me, zita

Beatrice ex Merinita: I need to stop angering the Orsini on purpose now that I'm the archon.

Hypatia of Athens: "No habit today, Sister. This will only be worse if they see an uncloistered former nun working for us."

I'm still working on Savelli giving her special permission to be attached here.

Aristide of Tremere: "They may, Zita. They may."

"But perhaps they'll sell it quickly."

Endrite (GM): Drag yourself on the map if you're going.

Beatrice ex Merinita: big head mode

Endrite (GM): Whoops, forgot to re-enable that script.

Hypatia of Athens: That's a huge bitch

Endrite (GM): Oh well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i looked for my magus at the top of the list

aristocritus...

Zita of Mercere: Incredibly Small Gulielmus

nnO

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic aristidee

Endrite (GM): Anyway, you ready to walk a block to the scene of the adventure?

Aristide of Tremere: we should make sure were well stocked

hows our rations

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll buff in safe condition

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm hyped!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hang on. which characteristic do we have to roll to avoid long term fatigue

Zita of Mercere: I walk the walk

Endrite (GM): You have 2 weeks iron rations.

Beatrice ex Merinita: doublet of impenetrable silk and aura of ennobled presence

Aristide of Tremere: hm

we might need more

napolinos gonna be hungry

Zita of Mercere: I'll take a doublet if you're, wait, hmm. My clothes have an enchantment on them would doublet mess with that?

Hypatia of Athens: My laurels already cast Aura of Ennobled Presence on me at sunrise

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't know

what does the enchantment do?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll take a doublet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I can give everyone The Appropriate Attire

Zita of Mercere: It's a MuIm effect I can use to completely change how I look

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you're wearing leather, wool, or silk.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Doublet shouldn't mess with that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I am wearing a cloak that gives a bonus to first impressions to those who are impressed by nice cloaks.

Beatrice ex Merinita: It doesn't change how you look.

Celeste: I'm wearing chain mail, usually.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have a cloak in my inventory but i don't know if i should.

Zita of Mercere: Cool. I'll take an aura too, with ways of the town and good COM i should be able to stomp socially even if its some obscure nonsense like etiquette.

Aristide of Tremere: ive got my own aura of ennobled presence thank you very much

Zita of Mercere: Some completely made-up social ability

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll take an aura if someone's offering

Beatrice ex Merinita: If I'm casting in calm surroundings, I can do it as many times as necessary.

Hypatia of Athens: I have +16 Bargain including bonus from Aura of Ennobled Presence

Zita of Mercere: brb 1 minute, getting a drink

Endrite (GM): Excuse me this is a city, not a town.

Celeste: hwahaha

Beatrice ex Merinita: So everyone can have an Aura and Doublet.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: kik

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone can also have the appropriate attire

Zita of Mercere: You're excused. Now, let's see. Aura is +5, right?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll take it

Hypatia of Athens: Sure, give me an outfit

Endrite (GM): Aura is +3.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seriously though are there enough cloaks to go around or is it just the surviving og wizards who have one

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I thought they had to be made special to their wearer

Hypatia of Athens: +3 is the old bonus

Zita of Mercere: Aura is +3 but bonuses like that become +5 under the abilities as arts system

Beatrice ex Merinita: aura should give +4 now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if only someone could update giacopo...

Beatrice ex Merinita: +5, i mean

Hypatia of Athens: 5/3 of 3 is 5

Aristide of Tremere: :weebey:

Endrite (GM): Oh I thought you meant the Magic aura.

Hypatia of Athens: Ah okay

Endrite (GM): Obviously yes, +5 to your "social" rolls.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this music makes me want to kill raiders

Hypatia of Athens: It's pretty important, as Artist Bargain rolls have objective EFs

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll also give myself Ward Against Rain.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so that's +5 from aura, and +1 from attire

Endrite (GM): Good idea, you never know.

Beatrice ex Merinita: sadly,. it's personal range

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll make myself immune to arrows, just in case.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i do not plan to fight the Knights of St. John

Celeste: I'm going to do nothing to prep.

Beatrice ex Merinita: you're only immune if they're fired from a certain distance

Lavinia of Jerbiton: frankly it seems a bad idea

Endrite (GM): Does it work on bolts too?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm not going to fight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have to assume yes.

Beatrice ex Merinita: any projectile that's majority wooden

Hypatia of Athens: Bolts are wood, right?

Endrite (GM): Ok cool.

Ok, you set out for the Priory of Udalbesca.

It is a hard journey taking you many seconds, but after what seems like minutes, you arrive at your destination.

Aristide of Tremere: an enemy with asymmetrical metal bolts

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Rectum. lol

Aristide of Tremere: privy

Hypatia of Athens: Rectum full of pew

Endrite (GM): Funny story, this is a real Knights Hospitaller priory but it is located exactly where our Covenant is located.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay, but

Lavinia of Jerbiton cracks knuckles

Beatrice ex Merinita: so they have a reason to hold a grudge

Lavinia of Jerbiton: What's the Aesthetic Quality of this priory

Endrite (GM): The gates of the priory are wide open, though the gates are guarded by two knights, armored though not a-horse.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Hardly knew 'ory.

Beatrice ex Merinita: what's the aesthetic quality of the rectum

Endrite (GM): The AQ is 5.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that's miserable

Zita of Mercere: Let's not content ourselves with something so general. We need to know about the gates first, then each room,

Endrite (GM): It's average.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I thought these guys were supposed to be rich.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I wonder, are they hurting for funds

Beatrice ex Merinita: they're semi-monks, i guess

Zita of Mercere: "I've seen better tables than this."

Endrite (GM): The other one is much nicer.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if only the archon were here, we could know when this was built.

sorry. the prior archon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Plenty of monks life large, Beatrice

Zita of Mercere: "Alright, sodales, let's be on our best behaviour."

Endrite (GM): This one has the benefit of a dock.

Not mentioned in the legend.

But you can see it there on the south side.

Celeste: "Always."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Basically, every hundred years there is a new Christian order that preaches a return to simplecy and discarding the trappings of wealth. They get very popular and then very rich, and then along comes the next iteration decrying THAT order, etc

Brother Knight: "Halt, who goes there?"

Zita of Mercere: "Perhaps if Lavinia informs them about her statue that cleans the Tiber, it will endear us to them."

Brother Knight: "Oh, 'tis you."

Hypatia of Athens: A good guideline for AQ is, if it was made in the normal time it takes to make something, it's less than 10, if it took twice as long to make, its 10 or so, three times as long, its 20 or so, a true masterpiece of legend is 30, the highest an AQ can be, the artist becoming a daimon, faerie saint, or demon shortly after making it

Brother Knight: "What do you 'philosophers' want here?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve, brother."

Aristide of Tremere: "I've come bearing a donation."

I hold up the painting.

Zita of Mercere: "We do not mean to impose, but we fear that some of our grogs have been injured, they may be being treated here."

Hypatia of Athens: Aurelia might be from the cloister here

Brother Knight: "We have no need of terrible art, jester."

Hypatia of Athens: "Perhaps you should wait behind, Aurelia."

Aristide of Tremere: "Terrible?"

I gaze at my painting.

"It's the most beautiful thing in the world!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it has an Aesthetic Quality of 0.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Please ignore him -- our business here is actually very serious."

Brother Knight: "The Hospitallers treat all who are sick or injured, it may well be that your 'grogs' are here."

Hypatia of Athens: If you have insane FInesse you can make things with AQ with magic

Generally even then its not incredible

Zita of Mercere: "May we enter? Several of us are quite skilled in medicine, why we even have a doctor from Salerno. I'm sure we could lend a hand, to make up for imposing on you like this."

Hypatia of Athens: The rules are in Jerbiton

Brother Knight: "You would ordinarily be free to visit them, but there has been an outbreak of garotillo and the hospital is under quarantine."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Napolino is a very large man, you'll know who I'm talking about, I'm sure."

Brother Knight: The picture on the painting is an accurate likeness, right?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Finesse could still improve it.

Brother Knight: I'm just asking.

Zita of Mercere: "I understand your concern, then."

Beatrice ex Merinita: But if the spell's specifically for that, it's accurate.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Is our servant Napolino among them? A rotund man, affable temperment, hard to miss."

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's a good guy."

Hypatia of Athens: Knights should have at least some appreciation for beautiful things from looting the Saracen lands, where many beautiful things have been made.

Aristide of Tremere: it is yes

Brother Knight: "I do not know, I have been busy with other duties. You may enter, but keep yourself to the grounds, rectory, and the hospital. Though be warned: you are forbidden from entering any of the patients' chambers."

Celeste: "Even with all our doctors, we can't break quarantine? We could help."

Brother Knight: That means just the room with the "7" on it, none of the others.

If it's an accurate likeness, then it is considered to be very lousy art.

Zita of Mercere: "Thank you."

I'll enter

Brother Knight: Realistic depictions are not popular or beautiful according to medieval art critics.

He'll let you all in.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is all in italian, right

Brother Knight: It is.

Hypatia of Athens: Si

I can translate to Latin

As can Zita

Aristide of Tremere: lets kill some medieval art critics

Hypatia of Athens: He's not wrong

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is napolino in the area that's offlimits?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have both languages too.

Brother Knight: The grounds are busy with activity, brother knights, nuns, servants, and a myriad others are all going about their business.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Aside, to Lavinia: "Garrotillo? Isn't that what Grosso came down with?"

Hypatia of Athens: I can affirm the painting is AQ0

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The same."

Brother Knight: Napolino is.

Zita of Mercere: When we have some privacy from the guard, I say to my sodales "The lineage of Mercere I'm from is notably safe from illness. If they refuse to ever let us in, I could inspect the patients area myself."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what is a typical cause of Garotillo, GM?

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's spread by a human immunodeficiency virus

Hypatia of Athens: "I too, am warded against illness, though I lack the hero's blood."

Zita of Mercere: It's horrible to think that it'll be centuries until anyone can laugh at AIDS

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I should be careful here."

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm far too handsome for demons of disease to approach."

(From Brother Knight): It is caused by an inflammation of choler, typically, thought not exclusively, caused by excessive exercise

Hypatia of Athens: "Zita is, perhaps, more discreet in her movements, however., so i defer to her."

Celeste: "I wouldn't go that far."

Zita of Mercere: "That being said, I can enter without their knowledge, which may be the key here. I merely wanted to assure my sodales I would be unharmed by the spread of illness in it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: an inflammation of choler and excessive exercise

Celeste: "You're not even the most handsome magus in the covenant."

Aristide of Tremere: i have blessing of venus

Celeste: Oh, well in that case you might be.

Beatrice ex Merinita: you can be ugly and have blessing of venus

Celeste: I have curse of venus, let's hook up.

Zita of Mercere: Doesnt Celeste have curse of venus. Lets have her

yeah

ruin aristide's life

Hypatia of Athens: I have Envied Beauty so I am objectively good looking but in a detrimental way

That's NOT Curse of Venus

Beatrice ex Merinita: she'll improve aristide's life and he'll ruin hers

Zita of Mercere: Who do we meet inside

Brother Knight: This is INCREDIBLY useful information here in a priory filled with exceptionally chaste men and women.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's aristide's Presence

Brother Knight: Anyway...

Aristide of Tremere: 2

Hypatia of Athens: I have Vow (Celibacy), Aurora's gonna be pissed when she finds out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mine is also 2, making me equally handsome

Aristide of Tremere: excellent

lets start a gentlemens club

Zita of Mercere: I'm just looking to have Aristide's life ruined, but I'll stop the tangent.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ladies.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have +3 so you're both too ugly for me

Hypatia of Athens: Wow yes, so chase  accidentally kicks open mass baby graveyard near the nunnery

Celeste: lmao

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I ask a servant where Napolino is.

Brother Knight: The only room in the hospital that is currently not off limits is the obstetrics ward.

Beatrice ex Merinita: objective: hide in the mass baby grave

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52EuoBP7_I

Brother Knight: There are a handful of screens behind which the sounds of labor can be heard.

There is also a physician here, resting.

Hypatia of Athens: Chat up the doc, Lavinia

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I greet the Physician.

Physician: "Good day to you, my dear."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Dr. Celestina Zoboli, how do you do?"

Physician: "Ah, a doctor? I was unaware that Prior Fulk had hired another, though I am glad of the help."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I have not been hired, but I heard there was an outbreak and wished to be of help."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: capicola fazool, M.D.

Physician: "Yes, quite terrible, we are treating more than 60 patients with garotillo alone, not to mention the usual cases and the wounded men brought in last week."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The wounded, you say? What happened?"

Aristide of Tremere: "Any women with afflictions of the heart? That is my specialty."

Physician: "I believe this sickness to be caused by some poison in the river. Have you noticed that odd clearness of late?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice job, lavinia

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I had, as a matter of fact. How does that relate to poison?"

Hypatia of Athens: Dental infections account for approximately 80% of cases of Ludwig's angina.[5] Mixed infections, due to both aerobes and anaerobes, are of the cellulitis associated with Ludwig's angina.

Physician: "They were brought here as prisoners of the brother knights. I do not concern myself with military matters, I am only a paid physician."

Hypatia of Athens: He might be right

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What the hell is an aerobe or an anaerobe.

Celeste: I hypothesize this water is too healthy, and is making people sick.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Get outta here Hypatia.

Hypatia of Athens: a microorganism that grows in the presence of air or requires oxygen for growth.

Physician: "Clearly some sort of poison to inflame the choler. These poor people must have come into contact with river water or with someone who had."

Aristide of Tremere: give me your cleanest water

Beatrice ex Merinita: what's oxygen?

Aristide of Tremere:  dying in a priory  noooo

Hypatia of Athens: Auram

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Why do you believe it comes from the river, then?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you have a spare bed for hypatia

she has an inflammation of the brain

Hypatia of Athens: Air humors are borne in the blood

Physician: "What else has changed that could have caused what is almost an epidemic?"

Aristide of Tremere: her chronism humors are shockingly low

Physician: "It may well be unrelated, but it does not seem likely."

Aristide of Tremere: "He raises a point, Dr. Zoboli."

Hypatia of Athens: All I'm saying is he might not be wrong about the water

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Respectfully, I don't follow your logic at all."

Celeste: afk for one second.

Physician: He is, probably.

Aristide of Tremere: "Now, back to my question, are any of your female patients suffering from afflictions of the heart?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Apart from water, there is also shifts in miasma, diet, influx of pilgrims, changes in the celestial spheres..."

Physician: "Would you like to examine the patients? I believe their symptoms should make my argument with more clarity than I ever could."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "So the river is full of choler?"

Physician: "Not that I am aware, my good jester."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Little bit gruesome honestly."

Aristide of Tremere: "A shame."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: good thing i retroactively unlearned the spell to examine a patient

Zita of Mercere: "Seeing the patients could be a good idea."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I believe we should examine the patients, friend doctor. It is our charitable duty to help where we can."

Physician: You could spont it, Gulielmus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: please, Physician, show some tact.

Physician: "Excellent, but do take care not to disturb the brother knight's prisoners, they are dangerous bandits, as I understand it."

Who wants to go with Lavinia and catch a disease?

Hypatia of Athens: Make a potion that makes you magically competent at making diagnosis during the duration.

Celeste: I won't.

Aristide of Tremere: napolino is one of the prisoners

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Certainly. Which Knight was that by the way, was it Brother Fitzwald?"

Hypatia of Athens: I'm immune

Aristide of Tremere: i will go with lavinia, confident in myself

Zita of Mercere: I'll go see where they're holding our boys

Our brave boys

Celeste: Nice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think i'm ill irl, so i'll go to bed. sorry

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll go

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice retreats to her lab

Zita of Mercere: rip

Physician: "Fitzwald? Do you mean Brother Hermann, the Priory Constable?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip hafl.

Hypatia of Athens: Get well soon Hafl

Zita of Mercere: Good night gamer

Physician: Farewell.

Celeste: bye

Beatrice ex Merinita: good night

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll take over as replacement archon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Ah, that must be it-- I must have misheard. Thank you."

cheers hafl

Celeste: now that the archon is gone, let's all slay innocents and steal babies

Hypatia of Athens: As the closest relative to Beatrice, Aristide becomes temporary Archon

Physician: There are 3 babies here to steal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's go kill the Silver Lady.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: not content with slaying player characters, endrite steps up to giving the players themselves disease

lets go into the sick room.

Physician: Ok.

Aristide of Tremere: endrite has uploaded his consciousness to the ac units of all players, and is releasing aids particles

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if the babies have the gentle gift

Hypatia of Athens: In a shocking development, we've all caught a disease and we're immune to the cure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should borrow them. just in case

Physician: This room is quite crowded, though the comfort of the patients themselves has not been compromised.

Celeste: I'm not getting any diseases, because I'm following the rules and not going into the quarantine zone.

Physician: There are probably 30 patient beds in this room alone.

Hypatia of Athens: Celeste has a point

Only Lavinia was invited in

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Nerd.

Physician: Physicians and their assistants move through the room, protected only by their masks.

Hypatia of Athens: Unless I can be of help there's no point showing off my immunity

Aristide of Tremere: thats true

i guess im not in there

Lavinia of Jerbiton: zita and hypatia are my assistances ofc

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the chad wizard ignores the rules.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they are invited if im invited

Hypatia of Athens: Time to be a grog

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about your trusty apothecary, whatshisname the hedgie

Physician: At the far end of the room, you recognize Napolino, Tunde, and Nevio.

Aristide of Tremere: wow, theyre not prisoners

Physician: They've clearly been badly wounded and are swathed in bandages.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh my."

Physician: Even better, they aren't conscious.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does the recovery roll bonus spell help with disease

Celeste: Nevio must really be embarassed, being a talented physician himself and obsessed with his own health.

oh, well he's unconscious, so it's fine.

Hypatia of Athens: You have to clear the disease before making recovery rolls, IIRC

Lavinia of Jerbiton: are they being watched by a guard (ie are they the "bandits")

Physician: No, but they've been shackled to their beds.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm

Hypatia of Athens: If the disease doesn't go away by itself, you use theriacs or bloodletting to get the humors to the correct levels

Physician: Not too much, just one shackle each on an uninjured limb

Zita of Mercere: Shackles are locks, right

Physician: Yes.

Zita of Mercere: Not sure how ye olde shackles work

Ah, good. I have insane legerdemain

Physician: You hammer a spike through them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I inspect the health of the grogs.

Physician: Ok, roll Medicine + Int.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This doesn't look good."

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2+17

(

4

)

+2+17

=

23

Zita of Mercere: "Lavinia, I should be able to unshackle them if we need to resort to such measures." I say very quietly

Lavinia of Jerbiton nods

(From Physician): Heavy Wounds all, though blessedly they don't appear to have contracted any disease.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: don't you need a smith to break the shackles

Aristide of Tremere: you do

Zita of Mercere: If it's a lock, Legerdemain covers opening it, that's what the ability description is

Aristide of Tremere: if only we had a perdo terram specialist here

Zita of Mercere: It's for pickpocketing and lockpicking

Even if its a high EF, I can clear EF 3

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I whisper to Zita and Hypatia, "Heavily wounded, but do not seem diseased."

Zita of Mercere: 30 rather

Hypatia of Athens: I nod

Physician: You may be able to unshackle them.

Well, probably.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Do they have any bundles or possessions near their bed that could be the vis

Physician: No, they don't have any possessions near them.

Zita of Mercere: "We should try to find out what happened here to them, then."

Physician: No room!

Hypatia of Athens: Garotillo: This disease is contracted through excessive exercise

Napolino is immune

Zita of Mercere: I approach the physician "Were these men fighting with the knights here?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I look around to see if all the other patients are sick with disease.

Physician: Ok, that'll take a while.

But your first few inspections do turn up garotillo cases.

Zita of Mercere: I use my enchanted bracelet and ask him the silent mental question "Where is the man who brought them in?"

Does he answer my mundane question?

Physician: "That is what I was told, but I do not involve myself with their martial affairs. Speak to the Priory Constable, he is likely to know. The brother knights who did battle with the bandits may also know, though they might not be willing to tell you all they know without permission from their commander."

Zita of Mercere: "Thank you."

Hypatia of Athens: I could sing a low level song to help some of the patients recover

Lavinia of Jerbiton: before we start magicing and robbing these guys we should see if we can get the grogs released to our care on bond

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: id like to meet the constable

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus also inspects the wounded grogs, when Lavinia is done.

Physician: How?

Zita of Mercere: "Doctor Zoboli, Gulielmus, do you wish to come along to the constable as well?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he just, you know, looks at em.

its not like i have any medicine skill here.

Physician: Roll Medicine + Int.

Ok,

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, one minute, sodales."

Physician: They look sick!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: stick your unwashed hands into their open wounds imo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Interesting.

Physician: Lavinia, do you want to examine all the patients or just the ones in this room?

Zita of Mercere: Gulielmus gets out his potion brewing kit. Just gimme a few hours, guys!

Hypatia of Athens: I think Medicine is a good candidate for Rusticani magic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's uhh a very bad one

Hypatia of Athens: Under A&A it's consdiered a Craft or Profession for the purpose of generating Labor

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Just the ones in here

Physician: Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The other room, you mean the obstretics?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: not to worry, it says very clearly on gulielmus's character sheet that he always carries crafted versions of his formulaic spells with him

Physician: There are three other rooms that you haven't been to, and a surgery that is currently empty.

Hypatia of Athens: Apothecary provides ingredients, doctors and philosophers make medicines from the ingredients

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats not what i read

Physician: AFK a sec, but consider how you want to get a meeting with the Priory Constable, as he is an important man.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we can tell him we're the masters of those shackled servants

Aristide of Tremere: I'll leave a Kingly Facade on the patient room to help cheer them up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i feel liek he would think that important

Hypatia of Athens: The truth works

Celeste: The ol' Proclus of Rome.

What if we just directly state our goals?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll give Aristide Free Expression so his illusion at least has AQ2

3

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Risky.. but it just might pay off

Hypatia of Athens: Well 2 I think

Celeste: I'll pray for the poor sick people from outside of the room during all that examination.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: while everyone else is doing whatever, gulielmus takes a quick look around to make sure nobody's watching

and then pulls some potions out of his satchel and pours them onto the grogs' wounds

Lavinia of Jerbiton: a theriac designed to cure garotillo specifically is a L15 theriac

hrm

what the

Hypatia of Athens: I can sing to the grogs

Physician: Ok I'm back.

Ok, roll Legerdemain to sneakily pour potions on the wounds.

Hypatia of Athens: It would be a bad idea here as it might appear as witchcraft to those utnrained in applied miracles.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: legerdemain and dexterity?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll leave Gulielmus to it

Physician: Yeah.

Zita of Mercere: Here is my plan. Let's meet with the knights who fought them and I'll read their minds to find out what happened.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10-2

(

10

)

-2

=

8

Physician: The EF is probably not that high since everyone is so busy.

Wow!

Ok, what do these potions do?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Incredible!

Hypatia of Athens: That might've been stressed too

Zita of Mercere: Classic Gulielmus

It was definitley stressed

Physician: It is.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

Zita of Mercere: Holy shit

Hypatia of Athens: Woah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

Celeste: wow.

Physician:

(To GM) rolling 1d10! +3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

Celeste: nice.

Hypatia of Athens: Gulielmus is sneaky as heck

Zita of Mercere: 19

Celeste: He's so stealthy.

Physician: Great work, gamer.

What do these potions do?

Zita of Mercere: Metal Gulielmus Solid

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rusticani can make crafted items that contain spells, which is distinct from crafting charged items

Physician: Ok but what do they do????

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so these would be the crafted versions of Bind Wounds and Asclepius's Aid.

the spells can't fail but they can botch:

rolling 6d10

(

9

+

3

+

7

+

9

+

7

+

7

)

=

42

Physician: The aura here is Dominion3.

Celeste: rip

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he crafts them in the magic aura and brings them here

Hypatia of Athens: They're charged items, so the aura they were made in is probably the important factor

Physician: Wait my bad, 4.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think they can ignore that, as a charged item would

Physician: Ok good.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they would just have very low penetration.

Hypatia of Athens: The grogs probably lower their corpus parma

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Anyway copious amounts of bubbles start to pour out of their wounds.

Physician: Keep in mind that they can't improve while under the effect of Bind Wounds.

Hypatia of Athens: Bringing their corpus MR from 0 to 0

Physician: What does Asclepius' Aid do?

Their MR is much worse than 0.

They don't have any!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: +6 to recovery rolls, for Moon duration

Physician: Cool.

Cool beans.

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: have people in our covenant been drinking river water

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

We all want to live longer

Physician: You told them about the animo, right?

Celeste: Yeah.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah

Physician: They've been drinking it with gusto.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and im thinking none of us have been poisoned

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they've had a long time to adjust

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Eat SHIT, Physician. You've just been logic'd.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to the idea of the tiber not being an open sewer

Hypatia of Athens: Another incredible diagnosis

looks like these guys actually have Lupus

Zita of Mercere: When the bubble wizardry is over, I suggest we try and speak with the knights who attacked our grogs. I have a couple more uses of the mind-reading to blow, so we can find out information without them catching on. Maybe use it to get a meeting with the constable.

Physician: If you want to tell him you enchanted the water and everyone is fine then you can.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont see a drawback to mentioning straight up they work for us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: These guys are foaming pretty vigorously.

Zita of Mercere: Sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'm sure it'll be fine though.

Physician: What's the penetration on your mind-reading item?

Zita of Mercere: We can mention that, I'll be mind-reading them to find out what happened exactly though, because I don't trust these guys.

Its 0

Physician: Ok.

Zita of Mercere: If someone has any MR it bounces off

Thus it can never scry a wizard

Physician: Well I'll tell you if and when such an event occurs.

Ok, so Lavinia wants to stay and investigate all the patients in this room, which'll take a couple hours.

You can all wait for her or do something else.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sorry. My scholarly nature compels it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Looks like my work here is done.

Celeste: Let's go to the chapel and pray for several hours.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll assist Lavinia

As a servant, that is

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No offense meant

Physician: Ok, the chapel is open and you can pray in it.

A few brothers and some sisters are already in there.

Zita of Mercere: She wanted to come along, though I'll speak with the knights first and arrange a meeting with the constable for her to join us in when she's done

Hypatia of Athens: Hmm

Zita of Mercere: At least, try to arrange one

Physician: It is a large, but simple chapel.

Hypatia of Athens: Maybe I should go help Celeste pray

Zita of Mercere: good luck God Crew

This leaves me with, well, Gulielmus is also helping out

so that means I have

Aristide

Celeste: Seems above board and non-heretical, I hope.

Physician: The ultimate team up.

Zita of Mercere: as my sole accomplice in this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, i already poured the potions on the grogs

nothing else for me to do here really.

Zita of Mercere: At least we have zero gift stink, even if guli comes along

Alright

Let's go

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the good boys of vardians tomb

Hypatia of Athens: I love to pray and sing holy music

Physician: Alright, do you want to accost servants, priests, knights, mercenaries, or nuns walking the grounds or do you want to ask guards in specific places?

Every building besides the hospital and chapel is guarded.

Wait, drop your tokens on the map to tell me where you're at.

Lavinia of Jerbiton notes the secret passage drawn on this map

Zita of Mercere: I'll ask the physician where the guards that he mentioned might be, or at least what they look like so I can find them

Physician: The Keep is the likely place the Priory Constable is in.

Hypatia of Athens: I join team femgreek

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whys everyone else have a gigantic token

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Why not

Physician: I forgot to turn the automatic token resizing script back on after I disabled it to import this map.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if zita is searching for the constable after I finish checking patients i will join her

Physician: So do you want to talk to the brother knight guards, Zita?

Zita of Mercere: Yes

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "Who goes there?" the keep guard asks.

Zita of Mercere: "Hello. We're scholars who live nearby, we have something important to discuss with your constable."

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "Scholars? Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne is too busy to speak to scholars."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We're the wizards from across the street."

Zita of Mercere: "I realise that he is a very busy man, but something has come up that needs to be sorted out."

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "What shall I tell him is the issue?"

Zita of Mercere: "The three men manacled to their beds in the hospital."

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "Ah, the bandits."

"Well, you'll be pleased to know they won't be troubling anyone for along time."

I'm sorry, I meant "a long time."

Zita of Mercere: "I am not sure whatever has happened, but we sent them out on a very normal and lawful errand. They work for us, you see."

Celeste: in the chapel, I'll take the pulpit and attempt to lead all present in a prayer for the speedy recovery of all afflicted by garotillo.

Zita of Mercere: I read his mind and ask "What did the 'bandits' do?'

Hypatia of Athens: I'll sing to give Celeste Inspirational virtue for Sun

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Roll an ability to see if anyone listens to you.

"Work for you?"

"I'll notify the Priory Constable right away."

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+26 vs Miracle Level 10 on Celeste

(

6

)

+26

=

32

Zita of Mercere: "We had sent them out on a routine task, I can assure you we did nothing untoward."

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: He opens the large, thick doors to the keep and walks into the keep.

Zita of Mercere: What did reading his mind tell me

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Oh I'm sorry I missed that.

Celeste: What's that virtue do?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What could have happened?"

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: What was the question?

Zita of Mercere: "What did the 'bandits' do?"

Hypatia of Athens: Until the sun passes through the heavens, you are inspired with the creative essence of the Divine. You essentially have the Inspirational Virtue for the duration of the effect.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms:

(To GM) rolling 1d4

(

1

)

=

1

Celeste: lemme look it up. also brb.

Hypatia of Athens: It causes people to add +3 to Personality rolls

It's pretty non-invasive

You just have an Inspirational presence

Celeste: Oh, nice.

Hypatia of Athens: You are a stirring speaker or a heroic figure, and can urge people to great efforts. You give targets a +3 bonus to rolls for appropriatePersonality Traits.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Nice.

Zita of Mercere: "Apparently they were pagans, engaged in looting."

"Napolino attends church, doesn't he?"

Celeste: my personality traits are Rude, Sensitive, and negative Self-Preservation, so I'll be rude about it I guess.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: You manage to go through your rambling sermon without anyone detaining you, which is pretty good because you're a woman and shouldn't be doing anything at the pulpit.

Hypatia of Athens: That was voice range so it was level 20, still made it

Zita of Mercere: brb 1 minute

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I dont think any of those3 are pagans

correct me if im wrong

Celeste: Whew.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: As far as I know they're all Christians.

Hypatia of Athens: Violante is our only pagan grog AFAIK

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Alright, the guard doesn't come back for a long time.

Lavinia, you finish your examinations.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's rude to keep a wizard waiting.

(From Brother Sergeant-At-Arms): They've all got garotillo, alright.

Hypatia of Athens: Celeste can give them +3 Doesn't Accost Christian Women For Preaching

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I confirm that it's lupus

and join zita's party

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: most people probably have that personality trait at, say, -10

Hypatia of Athens: It's never lupus

Zita of Mercere: I'll pass along what I learned to Lavinia, then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All three of them were on good terms with God, as far as I know."

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think personality traits go lower than -3 on ordinary humans

Zita of Mercere: You can't have a personality trait higher than 3 normally. Zita has one at 4.

Aristide of Tremere: im sure its a nice one

Celeste: "Well, that's all I can do for the poor souls. Bless them and may they recover with speed."

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: You all wait in the courtyard for the guard to return, except for the people praying, of course.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah it take ssome special mojo for a -10 personality, which is a +10 personality in reverse

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if you have a major flaw the correpsonding personality trait is +6 or -6

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Zita of Mercere: Really? Huh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twjINA8dc4o

Aristide of Tremere: oh

Hypatia of Athens: Oh yeah, Inspirational also means your sermon was at least AQ3

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 14 14 14 14

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rvb6Kd2X8I

Zita of Mercere: The Heroic Personality flaw says it gives you personality traits up to +5 which is beyond whats normal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gold please.

Zita of Mercere: So I dont think thats true, about the +6 from majors

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Wood please

Zita of Mercere: Also I stop my sodales to say something important

Hypatia of Athens: Put some of those AoE clips in the SFX folder

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, sodales."

Aristide of Tremere: rogan?

rogan?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Monk! I need a monk!

Hypatia of Athens: Wololo

Zita of Mercere: "This is unrelated to our work here but, you see the stable boy over there?"

"He's Gifted. I'm certain of it."

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: You see him.

He's a 13 year old novice with a mop of brown hair and hang dog eyes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Married and still checking out the stable hands? Shameful, Zita..."

Hypatia of Athens: lol

Zita of Mercere: "Actually, I was repulsed by the sight of him, that's why I'm telling you this, Lavinia."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe he's just repulsive.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: You find him to be an ordinary, sad looking boy.

Aristide of Tremere: I approach the stable hand.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll help teach the gifted kid and make him a holy magi

Zita of Mercere: "You're free from the effects the Gift has, but we aren't all that lucky. Even amongst our sodales some conversations can be... difficult. I'm happy that at least you and Gulielmus are blessed with a gentler gift."

Aristide of Tremere: is it the parma that protects you from the gift stink

Zita of Mercere: Yes

and only the parma. MR alone does nothing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Apologies, sometimes I take it for granted."

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Probably.

Aristide of Tremere: i suppress my parma for a moment when i get near him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I cast magic missile on aristide once he lowers his parma

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: finally

Hypatia of Athens: The gift also causes effects in the environment, akin to non-warping botches

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: The effects of MR on the Gift reaction penalty are not well studied.

Hypatia of Athens: By botches I mean they're arbitrary events

Aristide of Tremere: do i sense the gift stink

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Ok, Aristide you take 5d4 + 5 damage from the magic missiles.

Zita of Mercere: "It is alright, Lavinia. I'm sorry, I've just been on edge regarding the Gift as of late. My daughter very clearly has it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Whoa. He gets a Fort save check

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Aristide, you don't really know what it feels like, but he does kind of look like an asshole.

Zita of Mercere: Fort save??? For magic missile?

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: You might just be projecting.

Aristide of Tremere: well shouldnt i?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: look, i haven't played d&D in like 10 years

Hypatia of Athens: Lowering Parma to detect giftstink is Concentration probably

Aristide of Tremere: i was an apprentice after all

at one point in my life

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This could be your big chance to carry on the Virgilian tradition."

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: It's been a while since then.

Hypatia of Athens: Or you can use Concentration if you're paranoid at least

Zita of Mercere: Lowering the parma to detect Gift Stink seems reasonable

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Still, Zita may be right.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That' a blessing, Zita. Your House's lineage is the lifeblood of the Order itself,"

Aristide of Tremere: I approach closer. "Ah, what's a child with so bright a future doing over here with so sad a task?"

Zita of Mercere: "Speaking of Mercere, perhaps we should get Hypatia before we go in for this meeting."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I go get Hypatia.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll come

Henry the Novice: "Excuse me, my lord, but I don't know who you are."

Celeste: I'll go along as well, since I'm done praying.

If you don't mind.

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm a man who's noticed the potential in you, boy."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Henry the Novice, how do you feel about a grueling 15 year apprenticeship and a lifetime of service in House Tremere

Celeste: Henry, how do you feel about sodomy?

Henry the Novice: "Excuse me, but I have work to do."

Hypatia of Athens: How do you feel about a secular education?

Aristide of Tremere: "You certainly do boy. Work as an apprentice."

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, I don't want it to be secular, but I've yet to be ordained as a tertiary.

Henry the Novice: "Esquire Daniels is expecting the chargers to be brushed before this evening."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You should impress him by sponting some magic

Hypatia of Athens: Do I detect the giftstink as well?

Henry the Novice: Yes.

Hypatia of Athens: Interesting

Celeste: Jeez, nobody trusts Zita.

Aristide of Tremere: "What would you say if I told you that you, too, could perform such feats as this?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I take this time to give a quick primer on etiquette to my sodales

Aristide of Tremere: I create a kingly facade on the stable wall.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+9 etiquette

(

3

)

+2+9

=

14

Hypatia of Athens: Is that communication?

I'll help

Henry the Novice: Does that involve a lot of words and gesturing?

Aristide of Tremere: it would

i guess im screaming and shouting too

Zita of Mercere: Aristide has the Gentle Gift, so maybe the kid wont run away screaming

Aristide of Tremere: to make sure the dominion aura doesnt kill me

Celeste: hah

Henry the Novice: Ok, roll it.

Dominion Aura 3.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "When meeting a Prior Constable, it is proper etiquette to do one's gesturing with the left hand, and to never invoke pagan terminology"

Aristide of Tremere: -3 per aura yeah?

Henry the Novice: -3 per point.

So -9.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+5+3 Communication Etiquette

(

8

)

+5+3

=

16

Aristide of Tremere: screaming and shouting is +2 right

Zita of Mercere: "What would they define as pagan terminology? I supppose we should abstain from mentioning vis or the like."

Yes

Henry the Novice: It is.

Hypatia of Athens: I approach the kid with decorum

Henry the Novice: It is also QUITE rude.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It's dramatic and impressive, you mean.

Henry the Novice: Sure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: That's the spirit, Henry.

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10!+9

(

8

)

+9

=

17

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I suggest we say that the vis are items of natural origin of interest to natural philosophers for their unique properties, but not say they are magical."

Henry the Novice: Great work.

Aristide of Tremere: i do it

Henry the Novice: Which wall do you want to enface?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I, ah, may have mentioned we're wizards."

Zita of Mercere: "He did."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We're plenty of things."

Aristide of Tremere: the one most obfuscated from view of the rest of the place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But, you know,"

Aristide of Tremere: so only my friend here can see

Henry the Novice: The south keep wall?

Aristide of Tremere: sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea tips his head toward the gigantic portrait of Aristide on the wall."

Henry the Novice: There isn't a place where only he can see it.

Aristide of Tremere: well

so the fewest people will notice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He'll figure it out."

Henry the Novice: It's a busy place.

Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It's just probably not a good idea to divulge the true value of the vis. If there's a good opportunity we can politely mention that we have lawful rights to it from the Lords of Cesena."

Henry the Novice: Henry looks pretty impressed!

Zita of Mercere: "Wizard is just a term for philosopher or scholar, that is what we must stress. Many scholars have been men of God."

"Yes, above all else, do not let slip the value of vis."

"If they had any inkling what it's worth, they'll extort us, I'm sure of it."

Henry the Novice: Everyone else is less impressed and some of them look a little unhappy that you put your face on the wall.

Aristide of Tremere: ok

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You think the Constable is that kind of man?"

Aristide of Tremere: who wants to open this kids arts BUT also let me take him as an apprentice

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "What do you think you're doing, huh?"

Celeste: Our jester is out of control.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "Don't you know how much work it takes to paint these walls?"

Hypatia of Athens: I'll teach him Latin and Artes Liberales if it gets me a season off Redcap work

Zita of Mercere: "I don't know if he is, but we should be prepared, just in case. If he isn't that kind of man, does it matter what value vis has?"

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "It will take the novices days to paint over that!"

Aristide of Tremere: "Apologies my friend, it will fade with the moon."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I think historically the Order has preferred that mundanes not know its value.. It makes it much easier for Magi to obtain it without causing a ruckus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristide... apologizing?

Aristide of Tremere: im also technically lying

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tremere took more than part of his finger

Aristide of Tremere: but technically being truthful

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "Why did you do that? The priory is no place for your tricks!"

Aristide of Tremere: "I thought the boy might like to see them. He seemed a bit sad."

Zita of Mercere: "What's that disturbance over th- what did Aristide do"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It may be prudent that, if it comes up, we say Aristide is our jester."

Zita of Mercere: "Jester, yes."

Celeste: "Isn't he?"

Zita of Mercere: "Lavinia, let's explain this to the guard before he gets us all thrown out."

Hypatia of Athens: "It's like an indulege, yes? Except fungible only in wizard hands."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "An orphan.. No, scratch that, an outcast of his family, with no where else to go, so we take him along with us out of kindness."

Celeste: "I thought so, with the hat."

Hypatia of Athens: indulgence

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Alright"

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "The boy is in training to become a crusader, I should hope he becomes a serious man."

"No more of this foolishness out of you, jester."

Zita of Mercere: I wander over to the disturbance to help bail our simple friend out

Aristide of Tremere: I whisper directions to the Eastern Ear Inn to the boy if he wants to learn more.

I bow. "Of course, noble knight."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:  it's across the street, kid

Zita of Mercere: lol

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: You are prevented from molesting the child by the Brother Sergeant-at-Arms.

Aristide of Tremere: does he get my directions at least

Hypatia of Athens: He could be a good Flambeau

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: No.

Zita of Mercere: "Good knight, I apologise for our associate, here." I say as we approach

Celeste: You'll have to paste your face all over the inn in hopes he recognizes it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hey, ahng on a minute here.

I think the player has a right to roll out whether or not he is prevented from molesting the child.

Aristide of Tremere: "As an apology, allow me to buy you your choice of food or drink at the Eastern Ear Inn." I start by looking towards the guard, but look towards the boy and say the inn's name a bit louder.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Ok, good point.

Roll opposed Braw.

Hypatia of Athens: Profession: Pedophile

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: l

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10-1

(

9

)

-1

=

8

Celeste: lol

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: + Dex.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Aristide can't brawl, he's a non-combatant

Aristide of Tremere: 10 then

if i cant whisper ill just say the message

i think the boy can get the idea

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms:

rolling 1d10! + 9

(

8

)

+9

=

17

Aristide of Tremere: im sure hes a clever lad

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: It isn't a fight, just a little pushing.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Aristide gains +1 reputation as Child Molester (Rome)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if your apprentice turns out to have -3 int

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Anyway he successfully pushes you away.

Zita of Mercere: "Our jester means well, I assure you."

Aristide of Tremere: well he cant be my apprentice because i have some arts at 4

im just helping out my sodales who might want one

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sounds like he's lavinia's apprentice

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: "I am certain he does, though he should know that I am unable to take him up on his hospitality, due to my vows."

Aristide of Tremere: in any case hes got the message and can now choose whether he wants to show up

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Henry the Novice winks broadly at you, Aristide.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or, venator could do it

Hypatia of Athens: Durenmar steals him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont know if I want an apprentice who stinks of the gift

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: I don't think Venator is taking apprentices.

Celeste: Bialas will train him wrong, as a joke.

Zita of Mercere: "Aristide, we're meeting with the constable. Please, please, please do not make him hate us."

Hypatia of Athens: He's gifted so I can't train him to be a redcap, sadly

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont think you can adopt a non-bloodline mercere without a rep hit anyway

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Alright, Henry returns to the stables.

Zita of Mercere: "You have been blessed, some would say, with the gentle gift. The power to speak and be treated as a normal man would. I urge you to take advantage of this blessing." I say, staring at the jester hat

Aristide of Tremere: well im sure theres a magus in our covenant that wouldnt mind an apprentice

perhaps archibald

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Everyone goes about their business and the Brother Sergeant-At-Arms goes off to find a novice to repaint the keep wall.

Aristide of Tremere: "I was simply rescuing a boy from a boring fate."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's sell him for vis

Zita of Mercere: We'll figure out who gets the apprentice later, anyway

Aristide of Tremere: maybe even gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's give him to gordito

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: A little while later, the guard from earlier returns with a message for you.

"The Priory Constable will see you in the keep, though you must, naturally, relinquish all your weaponry," he eyes Sir Oak.

"Please remove any masks or helmets that might conceal your identity, as well."

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My companion has a face that is difficult to look upon. Sir Oak, would you please wait outside the Priory for me?"

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Sir Oak does as he's told.

Celeste: I'm torn. I don't want to leave a valuable holy relic outside of my possession.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Do the rest of you?

Aristide of Tremere: i have no weapons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hang on to my staff, would you?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea offers his staff to Sir Oak.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does he take it

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Do you really think the Knights Hospitaller would steal from you, Celeste?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sure

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: He do.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

brb

Celeste: If they don't recognize my legitimacy as a holy and devout individual, maybe.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): AFK

Zita of Mercere: What would a roll to conceal a dagger be, legerdemain?

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Yeah.

Zita of Mercere: Alright

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im going to eat some food.

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, none here." I make sure it's very well-hidden before we go in

Dex, right?

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Yeah.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+24

(

9

)

+24

=

33

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Wow!

(To GM): AFK

(To GM): Back

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: So what'll it be Celeste?

Celeste: Will Sir Oak also hold my mace? I don't mind leaving my bow with the knights but I'm very protective of the relic of st. urban.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright

Celeste: Sure.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: The Brother Sergeant-At-Arms guarding the keep doesn't search you after you hand over your weapons.

Celeste: of course, now Sir Oak has gone missing. Oh no!

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Oh no!

You're let into the keep.

The main hall is dominated by a large map of the Mediterranean.

There's a large dagger sticking out of the island of Rhodes.

The rest of the hall is quite fine as well.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm glad no one searches me

And sees the vines growing all over my body.

Brother Sergeant-At-Arms: Gold plates and tapestries hang from the walls, there are also racks of crossbows at the walls.

Locked, unfortunately.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This must be where they shoot themselves with small crossbow bolts to build up an immunity

Hypatia of Athens: I admire the tapestries

Zita of Mercere: "Thank you for taking the time to speak with us, constable."

I make sure I don't stare too long at these incredibly valuable plates

Celeste: Hoarding wealth isn't very Christlike of them.

Well, we've all got our irregularities.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "God be with you! It is good that we finally get to meet our neighbors!"

The Priory Constable is wearing the typical monk habit emblazoned with the white 8 pointed cross.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow! this limeware platter is worth 600 septims

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whats a septim

I greet him with proper etiquette

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: A priest wearing similar is near by.

Zita of Mercere: "It is a true shame we haven't met before now. I am Zita, these are my sodales Lavinia, Gulielmus, Aristide and Hypatia."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ach

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: There are also 10 unarmored brother-knights in attendance.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dont use my magic name

Zita of Mercere: Oh

Celeste: And Celeste.

Zita of Mercere: Celestina is what I meant to say

My character would say the right thing, I'm just stupid

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Zita, perhaps you can tell me why you have employed pagan servants?" He says, a little loudly.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Dr. Celestina Lavinia Zoboli, she means. An honor to be in your presence, Brother Prior Constable."

Zita of Mercere: "I was not aware we hired any pagan servants at all. Napolino attends church every week, as do the others."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "The Knights Hospitaller would never attack Christians, perhaps you have been tricked by dishonest subordinates?"

Aristide of Tremere: what does the vis they were collecting take the form of

Zita of Mercere: Sidestepping the accusation, I ask "What let you to believe that they were pagans?"

Hypatia of Athens: "Only one being can claim to be infallible, beyond mistake, and you are most likely not Him."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I have directed patrols to act against pagans in the area near Rome as it has come to my attention that the veneration of pagan gods has sprung up in the hinterlands."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Heavens!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton gasps

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Why, I have heard rumors of a Silver Lady being worshiped in the north! Such things cannot be allowed to continue."

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Zita of Mercere: I begin internally cursing Proclus

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "These patrols are also excellent for keeping the brothers in condition."

Aristide of Tremere: "Well, what were those servants doing? To my knowledge I had sent them out to gather some curios for my collection."

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Most respectfully Prior Constable, I still do not understand, what could lead your men to mistake our servants for pagans."

Zita of Mercere: "First it would be best to establish the events that occurred, yes. Perhaps a misunderstanding has occurred."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I must confess I do not know. I do not personally supervise every patrol myself. That is the duty of the Master Sergeant, Brother Gilbert of Vitry."

Aristide of Tremere: we should investigate this field of blue that the complex is bordering

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: It's the Tiber.

See the boat and the fish?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Aristide should investigate it closely

can aristide swim?

Aristide of Tremere: yikes. we should tell them that their building is going to sink

Hypatia of Athens: If Aristide floats, he's a wtich

Aristide of Tremere: "Can you direct us to him? It would be good to clear this up, the fat one does my massages."

Zita of Mercere: "Is the master sergeant around? More than anything we'd like to find out what happened. These men are almost certainly not pagans."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "The Master Sergeant? Hmm..."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Went to visit that merchant fellow, Brother," Prior Fulk says, rather loudly.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Ah yes, Benedetti! He has been of great help to us of late."

"Why, he has directed us to an unusual cult within these very walls."

"It seems they were worshiping some kind of old Roman ghosts in the Pantheon, if you can believe it."

Celeste: "Shameful!"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I ordered them dispersed immediately, of course, and the ghosts exorcised."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Your pro-activeness is admirable, Prior Constable."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I would have never imagined there would be this many heathens here, in the heart of Christendom."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Until the Sargeant returns, may I bring up a pressing issue? I'm concerned that our servants are being kept within a sick ward that is polluted with garotillo. In their weakened state, they are in peril if they catch the disease themselves."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "This disease is truly alarming. The speed with which it spreads throughout the body... it is truly frightening."

"By all means, remove your servants to your care. As soon as they recover, we can begin their trial and punishment."

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I nod. "What punishment do you seek, Brother? In the very slight chance our servants have deceived us and harbor pagan loyalties, would it not suffice for them renounce their beliefs and be welcomed into the bosom of the Church once more?"

Celeste: "I still don't see how you decided they were pagans. You can see the innocence of babes on Napolino's face."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i feel pretty confident we could get Napolino aquitted just by compurgation because he's a famous well known guy in rome

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "If they are pagans, they will be forced to renounce their false gods and embrace Jesus Christ, Our Lord."

Zita of Mercere: I look over at the man with him here, and ask the mental question "Where are items taken from pagans held?"

(To Zita of Mercere): Is it okay if I ask that mundanely too

(From Zita of Mercere): Sure, you dont know I'm asking it

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "They are stored here in the keep, like these golden plates taken from the Pantheon Cult."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Any goods we have confiscated recently have been stored in the basement treasury, until such time as we can ship them out of Rome."

Zita of Mercere: I, er, asked that with my bracelet but Lavinia asked it mundanely anyway. Everything works out.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Oh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am no expert in law, blessed Brothers, so forgive my ignorance if I ask, by what right do you claim the property taken from our servants?"

Hypatia of Athens: I whisper to Lavinia, "I was able to the see the stain of worship of false idols on that.priest. We can confirm it with our grogs, though such visions won't satisfy the Hospitaliers."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: when you say that priest, do you mean Fulk?

Hypatia of Athens: I mean the one from the wedding daventure

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "If they are pagans, then it is plunder for the crusade."

"Naturally, if they are Christians, then we shall return the goods at once, for theft is a terrible sin."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I.. was not aware that there is a crusade in this city."

Hypatia of Athens: I have to sing to be granted visions, it's not discreet or a passive sense.

Zita of Mercere: "The property held by them may not be their property, if they were carrying it in our service."

"We do send them on errands, and we are of course good christians."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Perhaps."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I must insist. The servants were carrying our lawful property, as granted by the vicars of Cesena."

(From Hypatia of Athens): Meditation + Intervention miracles

(From Hypatia of Athens): I'm talking about stuff from the wedding adventure.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "We shall see what Brother Gilbert has to say before we release the plundered goods."

(From Hypatia of Athens): the guy who was unconscious in the tent

Plutonis: (Here)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That's an odd choice of words, Brother.. Plundered by whom?"

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Back

(From Hypatia of Athens): I was giving it as an example that I had the capability

devil's fav demon: howdy.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: plutonis you missed your chance to vote for epic faerie murder :(

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Brother Gilbert, of course."

Celeste: Can't wait for Brother Gilbert to be the most obviously evil infernalist we've yet to meet.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: imo we should pay benedetti a visit next

hes the one who was going to send us goods that never arrived rigith?

Zita of Mercere: "Do you know when he'll be returning?"

Aristide of Tremere: what if his name was milbert

Hypatia of Athens: Sorry for the confusion, I meant someone unrelated to this adventure

Zita of Mercere: What if his name was Milhouse

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "It should not be long, the trader Benedetti lives in Rome, after all."

Aristide of Tremere: thrillber

oh no i guess it would be thrillbe

fuck

Zita of Mercere: I'm not sure what else to ask here, hmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We should not take your time too long unnecessarily. Our apologies that we had to meet under these circumstances.. My acquaintances and I are talented healers, and I notice many sick in your hospital. May we be of assistance?"

Hypatia of Athens: I just mean I can do a test on the grogs to see if they are pagans.

Aristide of Tremere: hint: i dont think theyre pagans

Hypatia of Athens: It's not an incredibly useful power in this case

Aristide of Tremere: one or all of the people in the priory are infernalists that we need to kill

Lavinia of Jerbiton: possibly.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets dispatch our holy redcap to convince the pope to dissolve the knights hospitalier

Prior Fulk of Tyre: They're thinking.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets make sure we figure out which ones are the real infernalists first

Aristide of Tremere: we could just kill them all and let god sort it out

Hypatia of Athens: But I've got the opposite of whatever compulsion Aristide has that makes him put faces everywhere, I'm loathe to sing unless it does something.

Aristide of Tremere: i have no compulsion

Hypatia of Athens: I don't meant he Flaw, Compulsoins

Just a general impulse or drive

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "If you are interested in a charitable donation of funds to allow us to hire more physicians, we can accept that. However, we prefer to only deal with trusted physicians. I am sure you understand."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Pray tell, what have I done to earn your mistrust?"

Hypatia of Athens: Not be an NPC

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Ah, it is not that, it is just that you have never been on a crusade."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no one's been on a crusade in like 100 years dingbat!!!!!

Prior Fulk of Tyre: They just crusaded for Rhodes.

And they won!

Huzzah!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: meh

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Things are looking good for the Knights Hospitaller!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am certain those suffering your Hospital do not mind whether their physicians have been on the battlefield or not."

Hypatia of Athens: Salerno education just doesn't mean what it used to ever since it became co-ed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: *in your hospital

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "True, if you would be willing to open a hospital of your own, our physicians could offer some advice and render assistance."

Zita of Mercere: "My associate is a doctor of notable skill. For the sake of the patients, suffering in their illness, would it be truly just to deny her help?" rolling Charm to try and convince them here

Hypatia of Athens: Let's start our own hospital, with blackjack and hookers

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My clinic is mere minutes down the road Brother Prior, and open to those in need."

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+18

(

10

)

+18

=

28

I'm not sure if that's stressed or not, actually

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "But, if you insist, then we shall have to content ourselves with a monetary donation to your cause."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Excellent, I am sure you do good work."

Zita of Mercere: Think social rolls are stressed?

Not sure

Doesnt matter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

29! incredible

Aristide of Tremere: thanks gulielmus

for whatever that was

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Perhaps we could transfer a few of our patients to you, if we could be assured that they would receive all due consideration as the person of Christ Himself."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This sounds abnormal to me but I dont have any lore to back up that suspicion

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Roll Theology or Church Lore.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i got neither sadly

Celeste: Of course they will. Vardian's Tomb is the most devout covenant in the Order.

Zita of Mercere: Celeste, Hypatia, do us proud

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's eat of the flesh of the patients

Hypatia of Athens: Intelligence?

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Yes.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+1+9 theo + int

(

5

)

+1+9

=

15

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling 3+7+d10

3+7+

(

6

)

=

16

Celeste: Nice job, Hypatia.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: of Christ Himself and is due veneration as such. The

sick and poor who come to the hospitals and priories of

the Hospitallers receive not just good treatment, but the

Hospitallers even travel through cities to search for poor

very best, most luxurious care possible. Servants of the

Oh great.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: and sick Christians who are too weak to admit themselves

to the hospital.

At a time when only the grandest lords (and of course,

Hermetic magi) have beds to themselves, the patients of

the Hospitallers are furnished with separate beds with

feather mattresses. Every care and luxury is lavished upon

Prior Fulk of Tyre: the sick, from nutritious food to weekly barbers and almonds

at Easter.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it seems a really weird term

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Here's the first part:

This is totally normal. To the Hospitallers, a poor person represents the person

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright

were the people we saw earlier in feather beds

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Sorry to my lore friends for not giving you secret knowledge.

You better believe it.

Celeste: It's fine.

Hypatia of Athens: I don't mind

Aristide of Tremere: nice. lets rob them

Hypatia of Athens: I share my knowledge openly

Aristide of Tremere: zita, steal the beds

adn the barbers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bird leaf mattress

Aristide of Tremere: and the almonds

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how feasible is it for us to give such luxurious case

Prior Fulk of Tyre: It would be expensive.

Basically it would require you to upkeep each patient as a mage.

Celeste: Let's just throw them in Bonisagus' well.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hm, no thanks

Aristide of Tremere: hahaha

hahaha

lets just rob them blind

Prior Fulk of Tyre: They don't live quite as well but they have medical costs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: use imaginem magic to make the beds look and feel like feather beds

Aristide of Tremere: and to make sticks look and taste like almonds

and to make gulielmus look like a barber

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I dare not consider myself worthy enough for such a high honor, and could not come close to the care your Order offers so gracefully without depriving my current patients. My apologies."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "It is understandable, I forgive you."

Hypatia of Athens: I probably volunteer to scour the city for the poor myself when I have the time

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "This is why the care for the poor is such a holy mission, because it is so difficult that many Christians recoil from it."

Hypatia of Athens nods.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Ok, anything else you want to ask these fine people about?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i got nothin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whats the recap

Zita of Mercere: "Then, we should take our leave." I say unless someone's got something

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who are we killin

Prior Fulk of Tyre: As you can see there, there are stairs leading p and down.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: these guys are infernalists and we have to kill them cthinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: natch

Prior Fulk of Tyre: The keep is the only two story building in the priory.

Hypatia of Athens: "Would you happen to know of a leper colony in the area I could take a friend to, that upholds such a standard?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also they wiped out our vim vis source

Celeste: Zita should go steal our stuff back along with some of those plates.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Yes, there is a leper colony to the south east of Rome, no more than an afternoon's journey."

He marks your ol' pal Klybutes' sanctum on your map.

Hypatia of Athens: "Thank you, I shall see him there when he is able to make the journey."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: send him to the priory

Zita of Mercere: When we have some peace and privacy from the hospitaliers, I address my sodales "We should pay our merchant friend a visit."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "With your leave Prior, we shall take our servants into our care, and return at a later time with our donations and hope to speak with the Sargeant."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Very well, I will instruct Brother Andreas to assist you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i thought klybutes lived at luctatio

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Brother Andreas nods and grabs a mallet from one of the storerooms, to open your grog's shackles.

Celeste: rip

Prior Fulk of Tyre: He's a member of the covenant but his sanctum is in a Leper Colony near Roe.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: huh.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: DESPITE what some jokers may have you believe, Sir Oak is perfectly fine and is able to return Celeste's mace.

Celeste: Whew!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god. my staff is gone.

Celeste pats Sir Oak on the back.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Your weapon is returned by the Brother-Sergeant-At-Arms.

Aristide of Tremere: man. thats a relief

Celeste: Thanks, buddy.

Hypatia of Athens: Good job Oak

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea slams hands on table

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Lavinia, does Sir Oak return Celeste's mace?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Of course

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why did the brother sergeant at arms take my staff from sir oak

Prior Fulk of Tyre: Thoughtful.

He didn't.

You gave your staff to the Brother-Sergeant-At-Arms when he asked you to.

Zita of Mercere: "Something is most certainly suspicious here. These knights are meddling in too many of our affairs at once for mere coincedence."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This is gaslighting, and

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "They said Benedetti has informed them about the Pantheon"

Zita of Mercere: "The prior fulk had resistance to magic, I should note too."

Hypatia of Athens: "They seemed like honest men of God who were fed bad intelligence."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We need to find out what else he told them, and why he's betraying our confidence."

"Not surprising for a Prior"

Zita of Mercere: "Not overly, no, but worth remembering."

Celeste: "Prior Fulk, as a fine and devout man who respects women, probably has True Faith."

Hypatia of Athens nods to Celeste

Lavinia of Jerbiton: For benedetti: good cop or bad cop

Endrite (GM): Respecting women is definitely suspicious, you're right.

Aristide of Tremere: "Perhaps you should kill him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Look at Celeste over here with Dominion Lore.

Zita of Mercere: Woman Respecter

Celeste: this is a good time to ask, divine and dominion lore are the same thing right?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably

Celeste: Cool.

Aristide of Tremere: Dominions 4 Lore

Endrite (GM): It's just two different words.

Celeste: Then yeah I have pretty good Dominion lore.

Hypatia of Athens: "True faith, devotion, and a guardian angel, all things a Hspitallier might possess, will guard them against scrying."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: your dominions 4 lore is obsolete

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have an arcane connection to Benedetti if anyone wants to cast spells on him remotely

Endrite (GM): "Dominion" is used by people who are less piously-minded.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: obtained frm the medical service I've been giving him for the past 30 years

Aristide of Tremere: i do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. i kill him remotely

Hypatia of Athens: *True faith, holy relics, and a guardian angel

Endrite (GM): And pagans, obviously.

Celeste: Good thing it's listed as Divine on my sheet.

Whew.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: *25

Hypatia of Athens: I'll make it Divine Lore on my sheet then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cant believe lavinia is old now

Aristide of Tremere: i want to cast The Call to Slumber on him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: :(

Zita of Mercere: That Feel When YOu Age, huh [munches apple loudly]

Hypatia of Athens: What' the apple about

I missed out on the origins of the apple meme

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. you cast call to slumber, then i'll draw the circle to bind his ghost and zita can handle the knife

Aristide of Tremere: its dys being rude

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i love the apple meme

Aristide of Tremere: same

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Zita of Mercere: I can't think of much an arcane connection does for us here, unless he tries to skip town

In which case we can inexorable him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i'll join the party visiting him

Endrite (GM): You can bypass his enormous Parma.

Celeste: Incredible.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: who knows, maybe he got a relic

Endrite (GM): Wow.

Zita of Mercere: We find him completely decked out in relics, multiple body parts of jesus christ, etc

Lavinia of Jerbiton: maybe at some point in the last 20 years he was replaced by a faerie and has a might score

Hypatia of Athens: Hello Proclus

Endrite (GM): Not even that may of these people are dead.

Zita of Mercere: Malach too, christ

Celeste: I don't know anything about the apple meme, just that rope kid's character used to do it all the time.

That guy loved apples.

Endrite (GM): The servants at Benedetti's home recognize you immediately, Lavinia, and announce you and your coterie to the household.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is the guy with the window, right

Endrite (GM): Ah, excuse me.

Your krewe.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: posse

yeah his window produces intelligo vis

Zita of Mercere: Vardian's Niggas

Let's teach this guy a lesson

Endrite (GM): Specifically, the reflection of light from his window.

Celeste: Time to get drunk and fall out his window.

Endrite (GM): Benedetti enters the main hall a while later, after you've waited a bit.

He is still in good condition, though he is much older than he was the last time most of you saw him. He is still sharp as a tack, however.

"Hello, how does this day find my good friends from Vardian's Tomb?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice pentagram hat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It symbolizes the five wounds of Christ.

Endrite (GM): Pentagrams, as you all know, are typical magical symbols and aren't at all suspicious.

Zita of Mercere: this is the origin of the apple meme, shaun

http://www.tehposts.com/fiction/just-had-sex.html

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I wish I could say it finds us well, Benedetti."

Zita of Mercere: "It finds us in some distress, for various reasons."

Endrite (GM): In the 50s and before, fatsos were often portrayed as munching on apples all the time.

Celeste: that website should be DDoSed repeatedly and its owner beaten with rods.

Aristide of Tremere: its cool that the top tag is dinosaur jerk

Endrite (GM): "Oh, whatever could the problem be?"

Benedetti: Benedetti says.

Zita of Mercere: "There was a shipment of equipment ordered from you that didn't arrive."

Benedetti: "That is strange, can you tell me which shipment it was?"

You can.

Zita of Mercere: I do so

Benedetti: "Ah, how unusual."

"I'll put my best men on it at once. After all, you have been such good customers for so long."

Zita of Mercere: "Before you do so, we have other concerns, Benedetti. I will let one of my more learned friends explain."

Lavinia of Jerbiton looks around for anyone who is learned

Benedetti: He waits with rapt attention.

Ruthless burn.

Aristide of Tremere: ill set a timer on this and have aristide move up if no one else does

Zita of Mercere: The vim vis we got from the pantheon is beyond my understanding

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Some of our servants were recently roughed up by members of the Knights Hospitaller. While we were speaking to them, they told us that they have been dealing with you..."

"... and in their dealings, you directed them to a source of magical energy at the Pantheon."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "They really did a number on those guys."

Benedetti: "Ah, do you mean Brother Gilbert of Vitry?"

"Yes, I directed him to those nasty penitents at the Pantheon."

"Those people are dangerous, you know."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Have you spoken to the Knights about our covenant and the business you do with us?"

Benedetti: "Oh no, I can't imagine how it would have come up."

Zita of Mercere: I ask him the same question, mentally, with my magic item and not out loud. Hopefully his parma is down

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "They seem to know a good deal about us, even though we've had no direct dealings with them."

"Do you know of anyone who spreads rumors about us?"

Benedetti: "Well, you are quite famous."

"Remember that business with the houses? A great many people were rendered homeless after that."

"Perhaps it is one of them?"

Zita of Mercere: "Or perhaps you're a liar, Benedetti."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gasp!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: classic columbo move

Benedetti: "How dare you accuse me of such a thing? I've been nothing but forthright in our dealings together!"

Celeste: Zita is about to leave, but turns around. Ahh, one more thing.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I look at Zita, also wanting to know why she makes such an accusation. I look shocked.

Zita of Mercere: "You've been forthright in passing along everything you knew to the knights hospitalier."

"Destroying a valuable resource we drew on. You never even sent the equipment, did you?"

Benedetti: "You know me, I am the very personage of discretion."

"Of course I sent the equipment, how long do you think I would last if I robbed my own customers?"

Zita of Mercere: I ask a  mental  question, "Were you responsible for our grogs being mistaken for pagans?"

Benedetti: "Here, take a look at the shipping manifest!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+6+2 per+folk ken

(

9

)

+6+2

=

17

Aristide of Tremere: I cast Rising Ire on him to make him angry at the Knights Hospitaller.

Screaming and shouting.

Benedetti: He heads to a cabinet and begins digging around.

Celeste: lmfao

Zita of Mercere: Classic Aristide

Celeste: Aristide, what would we do without you?

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10!+13

(

5

)

+13

=

18

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristide no

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wtf

Aristide of Tremere: thats after aura adjustments

it works

there we go

Lavinia of Jerbiton: are you casting it out loud

Aristide of Tremere: now hes mad at them

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ah

okay

Zita of Mercere: Amazing. I can't possibly think of a single reason.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he shouted and screamed

Benedetti: Everyone here also knows you cast a spell.

Celeste: Aristide is wildly flailing and screaming, just normal jester things.

Benedetti: INCLUDING Benedetti.

Aristide of Tremere: yes, but hes really mad at the Knights right now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can anyone fast cast to stop him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Quiet, fool!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god. we cant

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no one here can spont

Celeste: Can I hit him over the head?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone tackle aristide

Zita of Mercere: Earlier today: prudenzio, you're a danger to this covenant, so we have to be tough

Aristide: durrr

Benedetti: Anyway, he finally produces a large account book.

Zita of Mercere: Uh

Can I spont hitting him over the back of the head

Celeste: lmao

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Grapple him to gag him

Benedetti: "Here, look at this!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's aristide's sigil

Zita of Mercere: I grapple Aristide to clamp a hand over his mouth

Aristide of Tremere: hot air

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We should have an enchanted item that Aristide has to wear at all times that anyone can activate to make him stop doing whatever he's about to do

Hypatia of Athens: Looks like someone should have rolled Deft Mentem and taken Eye on their spells

Benedetti: He opens the book and shows Zita something incredibly strange that she cannot understand.

Zita of Mercere: Enchanted Dog Collar

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Did I get any insight from Folk Kenning him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's make an enchanted crown for aristide that tightens when we recite a sutra

Zita of Mercere: What language is it in, Endrite

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Adamic.

(From Benedetti): He's definitely hiding something.

Benedetti: Can you read?

Aristide of Tremere: fine. i wont cast on benedetti

Zita of Mercere: Yes

Aristide of Tremere: rude people

Benedetti: Oh well then.

Zita of Mercere: I learned to read last year

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea jingles

Benedetti: You rolled my man.

The deal is sealed.

Aristide of Tremere: good

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can attempt to interrupt it

Benedetti: It's an account book.

Zita of Mercere: I roll to clamp a god damn hand over his mouth. He was shouting and screaming.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Benedetti, we've known each other for a long time. I hate to believe it but.. I think you're definitely hiding something."

Benedetti: Looks like Benedetti paid some money to some people.

"Get out of here, I don't have to listen to these accusations."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Are you being threatened by someone?"

Benedetti: "I have some business to attend to!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Whose business is more important than your clients of the last 25 years?"

Benedetti: "Those Knights Hospitaller think they can just push people around. Well, I'm going to show them just what happens when a man of the people is pushed too far!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I try to say that in a nice way.

"I think I understand, now."

Benedetti: How long does your spell last, Aristide?

Celeste: "Please, don't be rash. With passion like that, who knows what kind of sinning you might do!"

Aristide of Tremere: let me see

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "How are they pushing you around? We've helped you in the past, we can do it again."

Aristide of Tremere: sun

Benedetti: Ok.

"No, thank you my friend but this fight is mine alone."

Aristide of Tremere: he has to make a stress roll of 9+ with an appropriate trait, like calm, to resist the anger

Benedetti:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!

(

9

)

=

9

Benedetti: Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hypatia do you have anything that can calm him down

Hypatia of Athens: "They took some of our fighting men prisoner, it's our trouble now too."

Benedetti: They were released into your care earlier.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the man needs some opium

Hypatia of Athens: Sure, but the act still happened

Let me see

Benedetti: Fair enough.

"Do not worry, my dear, I will avenge your loss."

Aristide of Tremere: "Yes, friend, this is everyone's fight. Shouldn't we all join in to take them down a peg?"

Zita of Mercere: Let's work out how to kill the Knights Hospitalier

Hypatia of Athens: I don't THINK I can dispel Aristide's anger with a miracle art

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is that before or after we kill aristide

Hypatia of Athens: That I possess

Zita of Mercere: "Aristide you are going to get us all killed." I whisper angrily into his ear

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can you make benedetti very sleepy

Aristide of Tremere: i can do that

Celeste: The knights are probably fine, aside from a few bad apples.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You can't take on the entire Hospitalier order by yourself."

Hypatia of Athens: He's immune to Call to Slumber now that he's angry

Aristide of Tremere: oh

hm

oh well

Benedetti: "No, thank you for the offer, but I do not wish to get my best clients involved with such a dangerous affair."

No he isn't.

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Hypatia of Athens: Well maybe he is

Or he isn't

Benedetti: He's worked up, but he could still fall asleep.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay, have at him Aristide

Benedetti: He isn't attacking them right now or anything.

Aristide of Tremere: dont worry, ill take care of this rogue magic

if anyone wants me to

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: unfortunately as a kind-hearted healer i can only impale him with a wooden spear

Celeste: Aristide is a menace.

But what a cute guy!

Aristide of Tremere: does anyone want me to call to clumber him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm

otoh if he gets benedetti killed we have a good cause for kicking aristide out of the covenant

Aristide of Tremere: on the other hand who would ever want to kick out aristide

Hypatia of Athens: Level 25: Cause a sign of God’s will regarding the target to manifest; this might be subtle, such as a dove ﬂying overhead, or overt, such as an angel that commands that a task be performed. (Meditation)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Benedetti, you will overtax yourself if you go out right now. Let us have a look at you first."

Hypatia of Athens: Good to know I can do that

Benedetti: Wow, is that any way to treat your humble jester?

Celeste: Just what we need, Aristide running over to Prudenzio and being best friends.

Hypatia of Athens: But it's not helpful right now

Zita of Mercere: Let's inflict an incapacitating wound on Aristide, but let's actually inflict one

Benedetti: "Bah, I haven't the time."

"Come back later, when I've finished my business."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cast the anger spell again to make one of the knights mad at God

Zita of Mercere: "Someone please help me stop him getting himself killed."

Aristide of Tremere: "Huh, I thought his anger would make him more helpful to us."

Zita of Mercere: "Celeste. Noble Sir Oak."

Celeste: "What do you want me to do, hit him over the head?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont want to be part of harming him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 'Please consider your, uh, humours."

Zita of Mercere: "Block his exit, I mean."

Benedetti: "Believe me when I tell you, there is no medicine that can make me feel as well as what I plan to do."

Zita of Mercere: "Aristide, do you have some way of undoing this?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he can probably spont a pevi

Aristide of Tremere: "I could put him to sleep."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: failing that i have a plan that will make benedetti very mad.

Benedetti: If you want to beat him up you should consider there are witnesses.

Celeste: "He just offered to cast a sleeping spell on the man."

Zita of Mercere: "Please do so."

Aristide of Tremere: I scream and shout.

rolling 1d10!+11

(

1

)

+11

=

12

uh oh

Benedetti:

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

8

)

=

9

Aristide of Tremere: uh oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lmfao

Zita of Mercere: OH my god

Celeste: lmao.

god bless aristide.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: isn't it 3 botch die

Zita of Mercere: Wait, isnt it 3 botch dice?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 1 + 2 per aura

Benedetti: Oh, thanks.

Hypatia of Athens: This is the one thing we didn't want to happen

Benedetti:

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nuts

Zita of Mercere: Dang

Aristide of Tremere: arent we in dominion 2 aura

Benedetti: Aristide falls fast asleep.

Celeste: 2 per aura makes it 5 botch die.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's dominion 2

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its a botch but not twilight

Aristide of Tremere: yeah thatd be 5 title

total

if its 2 per aura

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats a lot

Benedetti:

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

8

)

=

10

Celeste: nice.

Zita of Mercere: We tried our best, all

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is he headed out the door

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Benedetti, Aristide has fainted! Help us!"

Benedetti: No.

Aristide of Tremere: thats a perdo corpus botch i believe

what are the effects gm

Benedetti: I told you.

Celeste: You fell asleep.

Zita of Mercere: It's Rego Mentem

Benedetti: You fell asleep.

Aristide of Tremere: oh

its rego mentem

i see

Hypatia of Athens: Aristide gives himself garotillo

Aristide of Tremere: damn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristide manages to control his own mind for the first time in his life

Zita of Mercere: lol

Celeste: I'll try to grapple Benedetti if it comes to it.

Benedetti: Aristide's brain explodes, everyone takes 1d10 + 3 damage from his exploding brain fragments.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+3

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+3

(

10

)

+3

=

13

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fuck

Zita of Mercere: Classic Gulielmus

Benedetti: Benedetti instructs his servants to carry Aristide out.

What are these rolls for?

Aristide of Tremere: im at 2 poitns of warping now

good work aristide

Celeste: They're sarcastically rolling damage.

Benedetti: Oh good.

That should be stressed, of course.

Zita of Mercere: Damage rolls are stressed, btw, cumthinker

Yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

Celeste: lol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Benedetti: lmao

Aristide of Tremere: what are you rolling for

Zita of Mercere: CLASSIC Gulielmus

Aristide of Tremere: whos being damaged

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well, rip

Zita of Mercere: 31 damage

Benedetti: Gulielmus dies from being impaled by Aristide's exploded brain.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, that's 31 damage

wait!

i have 3 soak

Zita of Mercere: In-fucking-credible

Benedetti: You still die.

Zita of Mercere: Actually, its slightly more soak, from Doublet. Note: yo ustill insanely die

Benedetti: Ok, but anyway for real here, Aristide is carried out of the hall by two of Benedetti's servants.

Hypatia of Athens: Me and Celeste resist the 0 pen brain fragments

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I stop one of the servants

Benedetti: They look at you, servantly.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Your master has come down with a fit and is about to hurt himself"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea whispers to Zita and Celeste.

Guardsman: "Was it not your friend here who caused it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I have a plan, follow him and be ready to grab him if he leaves to take on the Knights."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am not certain, but I believe our fool has been playing with dangerous arcane forces."

Zita of Mercere: "You think we should grab him in broad daylight?"

Guardsman: "I believe you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Friend Benedetti, what are you planning to do?"

Celeste: "We can tail him and pull him into an alley if it comes to it, sure."

Benedetti: "It is of little concern to you. The less you know, the better."

Celeste: to Benedetti: "Would you like a guard? I've been employed all over Rome, I would be happy to protect you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you are going to do something violent I do need to know now, to prepare treating you in advance."

Benedetti: "I have guards enough, madam."

"Please, leave my home. I have preparations to make and I have tarried with you for too long already."

Hypatia of Athens: "Does anyone have anything symbolic of the Hospitaliers?"

"If so, perhaps I can provide some divine guidance."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im out of ideas

well, no, I have one idea

let's drop aristide off in front of the colonna tower

Zita of Mercere: I think we should kill Benedetti

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my plan is to shrink him to the size of a baby and then grab him.

Zita of Mercere: Yes. PErfect.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I do not see what we gain by doing that

Celeste: Hahahaha.

Aristide of Tremere: gulielmus just wants to grab babies

Zita of Mercere: We can finally get rid of this rep of being dangerous pagans

Zita of Mercere screams

Aristide of Tremere: no one appreciates the intent behind aristides casting

Hypatia of Athens: I could ask for a sign from God on Benediti

Maybe we should stop him, or let him go

Lavinia of Jerbiton: seriously. it's not a crime if we drop him off in front of the capocci tower. anyone with code of hermes want to contradict that?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's seal him inside the vault

Celeste: Oh, let him go. I doubt he'll be killed.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Interesting. A peripheral code ruling in the 1342 Roman Tribunal states that it's legal to beat Aristide to death with metal rods."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway

"Let us depart, sodales."

Zita of Mercere: "There's little else we can do."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sir Oak will carry Aristide.

Zita of Mercere: "Maybe we can delay Benedetti till this effect wears off."

Benedetti: "Thank you, I hope to see you again."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what time is it

Hypatia of Athens: I'll sing a song at Beneditti to call forth a sign regarding him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: doesn't it last until next sunrise

Hypatia of Athens: Level 35 for Voice

Benedetti: Sunrise to sunset or sunset to sunrise.

So until sunset.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how long til then

Benedetti: Which is a few hours away.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10!+30

(

9

)

+30

=

39

Benedetti: I figure you got started with the adventure on monday.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets race back to the covenant and have archibald cast spells on benedetti at a/c range

Hypatia of Athens: Level 25: Cause a sign of God’s will regarding the target to manifest; this might be subtle, such as a dove ﬂying overhead, or overt, such as an angel that commands that a task be performed. (Meditation)

Benedetti: I mean in the morning.

Hypatia of Athens: +2 Voice

Benedetti: Alright.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: would it be a crime to shrink aristide, for ease of transport

Zita of Mercere: Let's delay benedetti then go meet with this Gilbert

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We have to hurry if we'll make it in time. We have no choice but to drop Aristide somewhere in the streets."

Zita of Mercere: It would not be a crime to slowly compress Aristide down into a small 1x1x1 cube

Hypatia of Athens: An angel commands us to lynch Aristide

Aristide of Tremere: i had a good plan which did not work out

and this is the thanks i get

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this is a lie.

Hypatia of Athens: I point out a number of oily footsteps to my sodales, behind bendetti

Benedetti: I have no idea what the plan was.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ???? wha???

Aristide of Tremere: to make him angry at the knights so hed cooperate

Lavinia of Jerbiton: footsteps?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Those are just Italian tracks.

Hypatia of Athens: They fade after a moment

Celeste: Gasp.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whose sigil is that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: god's

Hypatia of Athens: God's

Zita of Mercere: oil have some o dat

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont know what the sign means

can you interpret it

Zita of Mercere: It means we need to kill Aristide

(From Hypatia of Athens): AFK

Zita of Mercere: God has spoken

Benedetti: Anyone can roll Theology to interpret it.

Celeste: Oh, well, sure.

rolling 1d10+1+9

(

8

)

+1+9

=

18

Lavinia of Jerbiton whispers to Zita

Celeste: Getting a lot of Theology practice this adventure.

Benedetti: You are.

(To Zita of Mercere): "If you grab a connection to Benedetti and race back to the covenant, I can try to slow him down using invisibility."

(To Zita of Mercere): "Let Archibald handle the rest."

Zita of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+24

(

6

)

+24

=

30

Zita of Mercere: I nod to Lavinia, walk on ahead to catch up with Benedetti brieftly, then start running back to the covenant

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is something happening

(From Hypatia of Athens): Back

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay

Celeste: It is.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im assuming we're all heading out

(From Zita of Mercere): What did you want Archibald to do with the hair exactly

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sir oak is going to take aristide back home

Celeste: I need to relate it to my sodales.

(To Zita of Mercere): Dispel any active effects

Hypatia of Athens: Sorry about that

Dad needed help carrying something

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I am going to slip on an invisibility ring and follow Benedetti and try to trip him up to slow him down

Benedetti: Ok.

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Celeste: "His feet appear as if they had been washed in oil. He deserves forgiveness and humility."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is benedetti leaving

Benedetti: A few minutes after you "leave" a messenger leaves the premises.

Hypatia of Athens: Looks like Celeste is on the case though so I'll go with her interpretation

Zita of Mercere: When I arrive back at the covenant, I cross the streams and explain the basics of what has happened to Archibald for him to assist with this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am still prepared to turn him into a baby

Archibald of Guernicus: Sponting PeVi

Shouting AND screaming

Celeste: Gulielmus: Our next target will become babies.

Benedetti: What for, Archibald?

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+31)/2

(

(

4

)

+31)/2

=

17.5

A spell at arcane connection range to dispel an active effect

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: isn't Arc like 4 magnitudes on its own

Hypatia of Athens: Looks like this is a good adventure to claim some Holy Music experience

Archibald of Guernicus: Which is spell level + 4 magnitudes maximum, and ac range is +4

So

its a level 15 spell I can dispel at most

Benedetti: Alright, about 10 minutes after the messenger leaves, Benedetti leaves his home with three guards.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah'

Archibald of Guernicus: meaning I can dispel this rising ire spell

Benedetti: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: which is 15, iirc

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic archibald

Benedetti: Is that correct, Aristide?

Archibald of Guernicus: Adventure solved from the lab

Aristide of Tremere: yes

its 15

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice. let's check out the church and get murdered by the knights when benedetti tips them off

Benedetti: Ok.

Aristide of Tremere: good work archibald

Archibald of Guernicus: Perdo Vim wins again

Benedetti: Spell dispelled.

Aristide of Tremere: dispel the sleeping spell on your sodales now

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No you're safer this way

Celeste: Archibald, what a hunk...

Benedetti: You're following Benedetti, right Lavinia?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: I can't, as that would be casting on a fellow member of the order.

Hypatia of Athens: Invested into Evergrowing Laurus: Conjure the Sturdy Vine	5	0	1	"CrHe

As per the spell of the same name. "

I conjure a vine to tie up the sleeping wizard with

Endrite (GM): He keeps on rolling towards the Priory of St. Ubaldesca.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cool

umm

hmm.

Endrite (GM): How closely are you following?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: like 10 feet away

invisibly

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how close are we to the priory now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why does hypatia have a vine monster parasite onw

Hypatia of Athens: Mercere made it for me

Benedetti: If you want to stop him before you get there you can.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: good guy mercury

Benedetti: His guards are pretty close, though.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont want to get into a fight sorry

ill get ahead of them and try knocking over a barrel or something in their path

Hypatia of Athens: I have noncombatant

I also don't want to attack him

Benedetti: Two of the guards push the barrel away and their pace then quickens.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm./

hmm.

sorry, out of ideas.

I just follow them until they reach the priory itself to confirm if he goes inside.

Benedetti: Ok.

Hypatia of Athens: My laurels have a constnat vine growth effect to make sure my item can't be stolen in my sleep

Benedetti: Once they reach the priory, Benedetti talks to the brother knight guarding the main gate.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i'll pray none of them have second sight and try to listen in

Benedetti: "I am here to seek refuge from the sorcerers of Vardian's Tomb, I trust my messenger arrived with my warning?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol, welp.

Benedetti: The guard nods and allows Benedetti inside, then closes the gate behind him.

He doesn't appear to have seen you, so you can follow if you like, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No thanks

I head back to the covenant ASAP

Benedetti: Ok.

Celeste: hypatia, tentacles_under_clothes, plant_monster

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I report to Archibald

Endrite (GM): The Archicon.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did Sir Oak make it back with Aristide

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Aristide of Tremere: huh. maybe my spell didnt work

Endrite (GM): No one is going to accost the famous Sir Oak.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is Aristide still asleep?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

You could try waking him up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No, not yet

Archibald of Guernicus: With Beatrice feeling under the weather, and Proclus too busy killing fairies, we're the only senior regulars of vardians tomb left

Endrite (GM): A wise decision, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Archibald, Aristide has twice damned us by turning Benedetti against us and sending him to slander us against the Knights Hospitaller."

Celeste: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "He what?"

(To Endrite): In my dealings with Benedetti, has he come to see me as a sorceror along with the others

Archibald of Guernicus: I stare at the sleeping idiot

(From Endrite (GM)): Not to your knowledge.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He visibly cast a powerful spell on Benedetti, in full view of everyone. Benedetti then sped to the priory where is asking for refuge from the "sorcerers of Vardian's tomb.""

Celeste: "He's a real firecracker."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs.

Celeste: what did i just say? those don't exist.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "At the very least we have lost the source of vis that was at

Benedetti's house, and at worse, we face reprisal from armed churchmen."

Archibald of Guernicus: "First Bonfilia, then Prudenzio, now Aristide. I wonder if we're being bloody toyed with sometimes."

Celeste: "He meant well, I think he's just an idiot."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He's a dangerous idiot."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Finally, I've been bumped off Archibald's list of worries."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The armed reprisal, is there any chance of stopping it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't know the details but.."

Celeste: "A dangerous idiot, but so cute!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If Benedetti only believes Aristide was the sorceror -- which may be reasonable -- we could offer Aristide up to justice to the Knights."

Hypatia of Athens: Makes the target furious at someone or

something of your choice.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye're at least well-meaning, Gulielmus, ye made a mistake and panicked. I'll defend ye at tribunal, I've already gave my word on that."

Hypatia of Athens: I mean it was reckless but I don't think we were the thing Aristide would want to be the subject of the ire

I mean, I can't say for sure

Of course, once Archibald cancelled the effect he could just be mad we cast a spell on him

Archibald of Guernicus: "That would be betraying a member of the order to outside forces." I think on it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He's asleep now because he botched the second of the spells he was trying to cast on Benedetti -- again, in full view of everyone."

"He has already betrayed us."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, I see that."

"These knights, they're an important order? A powerful church force?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I'm no expert in the code, but what is there that says we have to hinder mundane justice?"

Aristide of Tremere: you told me to cast that spell!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Powerful, well armed, very wealthy, and spread across Europe."

Celeste: "They're quite legitimate."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Maybe it was just a ruse, and right now Benedetti is murdering the Hospitalier leaders."

Archibald of Guernicus: "What matters most s protecting us from reprisal."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "After being ensorcelled by Aristide in public, of course."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I dispelled whatever stupid enchantment was on him, the redcap came by with some of his hair."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs.

Hypatia of Athens: "Whatever Bendetti does, he deserves forgiveness."

Archibald of Guernicus: "No you lass" I say to Hypatia "Other one."

Hypatia of Athens: "That's all I know."

Endrite (GM): Doesn't everyone, Hypatia?

Celeste: Good point. Let's forgive Aristide.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't hold any grudge against him. I don't think he has any reason to trust us now."

Hypatia of Athens: "Ariistide? That's for you to figure out, Guernicus."

"What a magus does by his sodales is judged by his sodales."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We cannot pretend that we are entirely above the laws of man if we plan to live in their cities."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I think we should renounce Aristide's membership at the covenant. If they come knocking, he finds no shelter here. I'm not risking them burning down the bloody tomb looking for him."

Endrite (GM): Good point, let's all become pirates and go live on Ponza.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's.

Archibald of Guernicus: "This has happened too many times, we cannae get ourselves killed for his sake."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "And when they come here and we tell them Aristide has fled -- as he may very well do -- do you expect them to believe us?"

Hypatia of Athens: "I did restrain him, did I knot?" I point to the vines holding his arms and ankles together.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to avoid anyone selling us out to the church, we'll all have to swear a pagan oath

Hypatia of Athens: No pun intended

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do we have a trusted party? Someone they'd believe?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton thinks. Who doesn't hate us.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A bunch of ye aided Fabius, maybe the bishop savelli."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "From my conversation with the Knights today, they don't trust any of us, myself included."

"Hm.."

Celeste: "I can't believe you'd exile him for this, while you still work alongside Proclus, that heretic."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Suppose we take Aristide to Savelli's estate and ask Savelli (or his seal bearer) to notarize that we are ejecting Aristide?"

Celeste pouts

Hypatia of Athens: "I was unsuccessful in helping Fabius, who knows if Savelli would remember my deeds."

Endrite (GM): You can do that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well, no one knows if you were successful or not with fabius

Hypatia of Athens: "Proclus knows him better."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you were trying to get him to disappear and disappear he did

Hypatia of Athens: We didn't stop Renard

Endrite (GM): Bishop Savelli has never really liked you guys.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oh yeah.

Endrite (GM): But he'll notarize a document.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We did sorta sentence his buddy to death.

Alright

Archibald of Guernicus: Oops!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: haha. woopsy.

Archibald of Guernicus: :P

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Then.. it's official? We are ejecting another member of the covenant today?"

Aristide of Tremere: we should keep aristide around

hes a good man

who means well

Celeste: At least wake him up and let him defend his actions.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's hear what his plan was

and then eject him

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do ye think I make that suggestion lightly? We should gather the others, this isnae for the two of us tae decide."

Hypatia of Athens: "I am a Redcap. I don't vote unless pressed to."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's go to the Covenant page and cast some votes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZl1KZW4z_U

everyone play this music while we vote.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I shall.

Archibald of Guernicus: "At tribunal, aye, but ye have rights here. The history of the redcap abstained vote is interesting, it pertains mostly tae the dispoportionate numbers of house mercere, ye see..." I talk a bit at length about why our 2 redcaps voting is actually fine in covenant matters

Aristide of Tremere: roll concentration to listen

Endrite (GM): Heh.

Bialas of Bjornaer:  yawn  "What are we voting for? We just did this."

Archibald of Guernicus: We probably should not make this vote without the archon, his cousin, here

"The last vote was in Autumn 1338, Bialas."

Endrite (GM): Aristide is asleep and cannot vote.

Hypatia of Athens: We just voted on whether to wizard war prudensio if it came to it

Endrite (GM): In this kangaroo court.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Gosh, where does the time go?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Someone should wake him up.

Hypatia of Athens: But I guess that was a few months ago

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmfao

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Endrite (GM): Thank you stop that.

Archibald of Guernicus: Classic Aristide. Anyway I move my vote to yes, by coincedence

Endrite (GM): Do we want to wait for next week so Hafl can not be dead?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have a legal question, maybe hypatia or celeste or our stolen parish register can answer-- what bishop is in charge of the diocese that VT is in? if the knights come a knockin' do they have any legal right to inspect our covenant

Archibald of Guernicus: We could handle it in the thread

Aristide of Tremere: thank you aristocritus

Archibald of Guernicus: The vote and arguments for or against, I mean

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thats what we said last week and nothing happened

Archibald of Guernicus: This time we handle things in the thread

This time... we do it right

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+3+5 Church Lore

(

9

)

+3+5

=

17

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Get rid of Aristide? But he's so funny."

Archibald of Guernicus: Nothing happened with Prudenzio because we all agreed to play it out, iirc

Hypatia of Athens: I tell Lavinia what Diocese VT is in

Archibald of Guernicus: "He's destroyed vis source we rely on, brought the wrath of the church on us, and that's just today!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: Reckless with Mentem? Easily forgiven.

lol

"Vis? That's no good."

Endrite (GM): Ok I've got it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Causing trouble with Potestas, spreading chaos everywhere he goes, that  incessant  jester hat jingling."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's see faustus galerius superbus's vote

Hypatia of Athens: He's property

He has no sigil

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does proclus want to weigh in

Endrite (GM): No, he's off somewhere.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so is a redcap

Endrite (GM): Doing some kind of this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean uhh

Endrite (GM): I mean things.

Hypatia of Athens: Reading Another Helping of Something About Vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Son of Something About Vis

Archibald of Guernicus: Re: Re: Re: Commentary on Something About Vim

Endrite (GM): Calcified Vis for the Soul.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: *vim

Hypatia of Athens: Something About Vis II: The New Btach

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Come on. We should wake him up and hear his reasoning before we exile him."

Endrite (GM): Someone do something.

Hypatia of Athens: "If it pleases my sodales, we can ask for another sign from God."

"Ask for judgement on him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nudges the sleeping Aristide with his foot.

Endrite (GM): You'll need more than that to wake him up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: but.. but.. we have the tremere hole already to throw him in

Gulielmus, make him drink something

Hypatia of Athens: "Within the magical aura, there is a greater risk that I will be stricken for hubris, for thinking that this matter is worthy of His attention."

Bialas of Bjornaer smacks Aristide in the nuts

Endrite (GM): That gets him up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I summon a scribe to note the proceedings of this meeting, beginning with noting that Bialas battered Aristide in the nuts

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, what a restful sleep."

"Ow, what a terrible pain."

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You'll be fine."

Endrite (GM): Does anyone want to tell Aristide what's going on?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Benedetti has gone to the Knights, claiming refuge from your magical attacks."

"He attributes your actions to the "sorcerors of Vardian's Tomb," his words."

Aristide of Tremere: "What? The spell seemed to work just fine."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You've cost us a long-time ally and a source of vis in a single day."

Aristide of Tremere: "Perhaps he resisted it, or some malevolent force dispelled it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I dispelled it, ye cast it in broad daylight, in front of his guards, who do ye think they'll blame when he attacks them?"

Aristide of Tremere: "Well, attacking them wasn't the intention."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's decided then. we'll wizard war archibald

Aristide of Tremere: "He seemed a reasonable man, I thought he could control his anger and cooperate with us."

"In any case, I hardly see how that would be an ally or vis lost due to my deeds. He was clearly betraying us."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You cast a spell on him, blatantly. You made no attempt to hide it."

Zita of Mercere: "He may have been threatened into doing so"

"I was pressuring him to get him to admit his actions and find out what lead to all this."

Endrite (GM): I've got to say, this is not a wrinkle I was expecting.

Zita of Mercere: "Before you blundered in and turned him against us entirely!"

Hypatia of Athens: "Celeste, how do you deal with it? Everything they do worsens us in the eyes of the Church."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What's more, you've turned a powerful, armed Christian order against us."

Hypatia of Athens: "I will never become a tertiary at this rate."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "And Benedetti will speak to others, I'm sure. How long until half the city regards us as a danger?"

Celeste: "The truly devout must endure countless trials and overcome endless obstacles. It is a part of having faith in the Lord."

Archibald of Guernicus: "At the worst, we may have to move the bloody covenant."

Hypatia of Athens: "Well yes, but my devotion is to God, not to Hermes."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We're in the middle of Rome, ye cannae go around pissing off the church!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "After the mountains of time and vis I have invested into this spot?"

Endrite (GM): Actually at worse the Knights Hospitaller declare war on the Order of Hermes and you all get marched.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

Archibald of Guernicus: "What if these knights storm the building? Even if we defend it, they'll declare war on the Order, we'll be marched for it all."

Endrite (GM): So I guess that amounts to moving the covenant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I've changed my mind Archibald, I'm not content with another exile. The man has to face justice at the hands of the Knights. It is the only way our covenant won't be doomed."

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not staying here

Not if we're hated by the Church

I'll roll a new companion

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: see you all in Ars Badgame IV

Endrite (GM): Whoops.

Archibald of Guernicus: "..." I furrow my brow "If we make it clear he was solely responsible for his own actions, that we arenae the same."

Endrite (GM): Sorry, moved that by mistake.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You have let the man slide from justice too many times already."

Archibald of Guernicus: "What do these knights do to people handed over tae them?"

Celeste: "Forgive them?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Aristide is guilty of assault, as I see it. I believe it would actually be a mundane court that has the right to hear the issue."

Hypatia of Athens: "They treated our grogs well even suspecting them of being pagans."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If thinks look drastic, we could ask the Podesto Flavio a favor. He has authority in urban cases."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I've let his actions slide on the condition he stopped this foolish shit."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Podesta.

Hypatia of Athens: *shite

Archibald of Guernicus: "To protect Aristide, or us?"

we say both actually

dpeends on context

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't think he would stick his neck out for us. His cats only support us because they think we can protect  them ."

Celeste: "Aristide, I think you should go to confession, repent your sins, and vow service to God. Perhaps then you may be forgiven."

Aristide of Tremere: "We should all take a moment to let clear heads prevail. Intentions are what matter after all, yes?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea thinks.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "no."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Aristide is the son of nobility too. He'll get a slap on the wrist, perhaps a fine. But it will placate the mundanes to think they can regulate us when we endanger them."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Doesn't his family hate him?"

Aristide of Tremere: "They do, yes."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Blood is blood."

"His is blue, regardless of how his family wishes it wasn't."

Celeste: "All men may fall to temptation and sin, it is what they do in response that shows their true measure."

Aristide of Tremere: "Perhaps you've a point."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The last time this happened, Aristide, that ye brought danger on our covenant, ye went and accepted the consequences."

"Will ye do so here"

Aristide of Tremere: "Well, the alternative seems to be you forcibly throwing me to these church dogs."

"So yes."

Archibald of Guernicus: I say quietly to Lavinia "make sure he's got people watching him to make sure he doesnt run for it"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What are you going to do, write a letter of apology for controlling his mind?"

Celeste: "If you truly repent, in your soul, I'm willing to forgive you."

Celeste makes doe eyes at Aristide

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Then you should set out to the Priory right now, Aristide."

Aristide of Tremere: "I suppose I'll just walk over there."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Sir Oak will accompany you."

Aristide of Tremere: I cast Aura of Ennobled Presence.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "To the gates, at least."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The knights are our damn neighbours. He can go there, under escort, and accept responsibility for his actions."

Aristide of Tremere: I use Disguise of the New Visage to make my features just a bit more noble.

Endrite (GM): I don't think you can do that with that spell.

(To Endrite): I slip on the invis ring and follow him.

Aristide of Tremere: you can

itd be no mechanical benefit

at all

(From Endrite (GM)): Ok.

Zita of Mercere: "Should we inform his cousin? She is Archon, after all."

Aristide of Tremere: but theres no reason you couldnt make minor reformations on your face

Hypatia of Athens: Stopping you from doing stuff for the flavor is an important GM duty

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Aristide of Tremere: i travel to the priory

Hypatia of Athens: A priori

Aristide of Tremere: I pen a document before I go.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Bialas of Bjornaer snores, having fallen back asleep during the discussion

Zita of Mercere: "Should I go with him? I'm worried about what kind of things he'll tell them, but I don't want to be locked up along with him."

Celeste: "What are you writing?"

Hypatia of Athens: "You're the most discreet among us."

Celeste: "A confession?"

Hypatia of Athens: "So do it, Zita."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ideally, a will

Aristide of Tremere: "Of course."

Zita of Mercere: "Getting into their building will be awkward, but I'll try my best."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Maybe you could borrow Lavinia's ring."

Celeste: and so, Aristide spends the next year cleaning out the Knights' stables and molesting the young boy.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where did that ring come from anyway

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i bought it

and im not sharing it

Zita of Mercere: "Invisibility has ways around it, and relying on it is dangerous."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let me share the item that once you put it on there's no way I can find you again. hmm.

Zita of Mercere: "If I wanted one, I'd have asked the House for one, they're a common item among redcaps."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why should anyone trust lavinia if she doesn't trust anyone else.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gulielmus doesn't have a choice because of his naive trait

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah!

Zita of Mercere: I'd hope Lavinia could trust me with this, since she trusts me to handle all our vis dealing anyway.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fine fine

a redcap can be trusted

Zita of Mercere: I'm not asking for it. It's just the principle of the thing.

Endrite (GM): Ok, so are you going to try and sneak into the priory after Aristide, Zita?

Zita of Mercere: Anyway, I use my redcap item that lets me change my appearance completely, to an unassuming man in his 30s, then go to the knights hospitalier area. Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh

also she can't use it because lavinia is using it to make sure aristide actually goes into the priory. lol

Zita of Mercere: lol

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's legit. A quaesitor authorized me to do it.

Endrite (GM): The priory gates are closed until Aristide rolls up.

Sir Oak wordlessly deposits him at the gate.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go meditate, this experience has been trying.

Celeste: You mean pray?

Brother Knight: "You there, hold fast and attempt no spellcasting!"

Hypatia of Athens: Yes

Maybe

Celeste: Jesus, am I the only truly devout one here?

Aristide of Tremere: "Worry not, friend. I, Aristide Orsini, have simply come to clear up a bit of confusion."

Hypatia of Athens: I have True Faith

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Brother Knight: "Silence, you are not to speak."

Aristide of Tremere: I make a threading motion over my mouth and nod.

Brother Knight: He plants one on you.

rolling 1d10! + 1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Aristide of Tremere: is he punching me

Brother Knight: Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: uhhh lol

Celeste: lol

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

9

)

+1

=

10

i dodge

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i hope we didnt just turn aristide over to a den of infernalists. haha

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gahaha. haha.

Brother Knight: Oh, no that was the damage roll.

Aristide of Tremere: oh

Brother Knight: I assumed you wouldn't try to dodge.

Celeste: hahaha.

Aristide of Tremere: well hes punching me

i dont mind going with him but hes punching me

Hypatia of Athens: Me and Aurelia sing songs of devotion to commune with the Divine. It's pretty devout.

Brother Knight: Ok.

Here's his Brawl roll.

Aristide of Tremere: aristide is a noncombatant because hes afraid of getting hurt

Celeste: That's basically praying, sure.

Brother Knight:

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

Aristide of Tremere: damn

Brother Knight: He hits you.

For 10 damage.

- soak.

Hypatia of Athens: It's also supernatural in my case, so you're free to misinterpret it as sorcery

Aristide of Tremere: only 9 damage then

this guy isnt so tough

Hypatia of Athens: Even though its Divine-typed effect

Brother Knight: He claps a set of manacles on you.

Then gags you with a cloth.

The gates open to allow you both through.

Who sneaks in through the now open gate?

Aristide of Tremere: the knights hospitaller are revealed to be infernalists, along with benedetti. aristide was a hero

Zita of Mercere: I do! I sneak in!

Celeste: I probably have enough Divine lore to know that your singing is totally legitimate.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+27

(

2

)

+27

=

29

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I return to VT to report.

Brother Knight: Ok, you manage to find your way over a wall or something equally plausible.

You both find the priory on alert.

The brothers are guarding both the keep and the hospital.

About 10 outside each building, with another 10 Brother Sergeant-At-Arms patrolling the courtyard.

Zita of Mercere: Where are they taking our boy Aristide

Brother Knight: The brother knight takes Aristide into the keep.

All the brothers are fully armed and armored at this point.

The priests, servants, physicians, and mercenaries aren't outside.

Aristide you find yourself in the keep.

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Brother Knight: This is pretty much all on Aristide so I'll be taking this to PMs.

Celeste: But it's much funnier to do it openly.

Brother Knight: Zita feel free to explore more or whatever.

Aristide of Tremere: ifap me on the rhizzone and lets figure this out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Brother Knight: This is pretty much all on Aristide so I'll be taking this to PMs.

the thumbs down emoji

Zita of Mercere: I wanted to observe Aristide, was the idea, or at least get near enough to eavesdrop. If theres just locked doors and guards everywhere and it's impossible I'll rethink things

Brother Knight: Oh ok.

Zita of Mercere: If it's at all possible to get near enough to listen in, I do

Brother Knight: You can eavesdrop through a window.

Zita of Mercere: Cool

Lavinia of Jerbiton: awww

hey back at the covenant I suggest again that we formally kick aristide out of vardian's tomb so he's no longer our problem

Benedetti: "There he is Brother Gilbert, that's the one I was telling you about."

"Watch out! Hermetic Magi can hex you with only their eyes, blindfold him quickly!"

Aristide of Tremere: "Mmf."

Brother Gilbert of Vitry: "How long have the magi of Vardian's Tomb been running wild?"

Benedetti: "Almost two decades now, but they have become much more dangerous recently."

"They made entire buildings shake and battle in the streets for their own twisted ends! I could no longer stand idly by while they continued to destroy this city for the pleasure of their own twisted gods."

Aristide of Tremere jingles.

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Their representatives visited us today, they did not seem particularly devilish. Indeed, two of them were quite pious and spent most of their time praying in our chapel, while the others were mostly interested in determining the source of the garotillo outbreak."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I do not believe that it is just to condemn a man without giving him leave to defend himself. Brother Vitelmus, remove the prisoner's gag, but should he try to cast a spell, do not hesitate to end his life."

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh, thank you. As I was telling your very safety conscious doorman, I, Aristide Orsini, have come here to clear up some earlier confusion."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cast a spell silently

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He can, of course, try.

Hypatia of Athens: Initiate yourself into Deft Mentem

Aristide of Tremere: silent casting? in  this  aura?

Hypatia of Athens: And reinvent Call to Slumber and Rising Ire with Eye range

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Speak then, how do you answer these charges?"

Aristide of Tremere: "We were meeting with the good merchant there to figure out what happened to a regular shipment he delivers to us. I am, unfortunately, prone to fits which can cause intention emotions in others."

"I had one such fit and the poor merchant was struck with a great fury. I attempted to calm him, and exhausted myself into unconsciousness from the effort."

Brother Gilbert of Vitry: "Ah, I can answer that question for you."

"We have seized your shipment of goods, they rest safely in the treasury, in the basement."

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, that's good. I thought some rough men had gotten hold of them."

Hypatia of Athens: Someone tell Jorn

Jorn of Merinita: Dwarf, dwarf, digging a hole

Aristide of Tremere: "Anyway, I was only recently roused to consciousness, and immediately came here to explain."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "This is all well and good, but how do you answer the serious charges of paganism and witchcraft?"

Aristide of Tremere: "It is a gift from God that I have trouble controlling."

"Sometimes it inspires joy and piety. Sometimes it inspires anger."

Benedetti: "More deflection, they commit unspeakable ceremonies in the catacombs where they speak to the ghosts of ancient pagans."

Aristide of Tremere: "We simply pray that the spirits of those long gone have found peace."

"I apologize, Benedetti, for my unrefined gifts."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: faustus...

Aristide of Tremere: "I hope that through becoming closer to God I might be able to use them for His intended purpose."

Benedetti: "I know for a fact that they have colluded with heretical priests under the thumb of Bishop Savelli."

"To what end I cannot say, though my spies can tell me very little about this subject."

Aristide of Tremere: "I am sorry that poor Bishop Savelli's name is also being dragged through the mud. I offer a defense for him."

devil's fav demon: this motherfucker....

Aristide of Tremere: "Similarly gifted men have come to Rome seeking to lend their powers in service to God. Those particular men of which you speak have an affinity for exorcism and warding against demons."

"Why, just recently, we worked with them to remove the great number of disease demons plaguing the Tiber."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "What happened to them? My Brothers recently exorcised a spirit from the Pantheon, one which had haunted it for some time. If they were such gifted exorcists, why did they let such a dangerous spirit stalk one of the most important churches in Rome?"

"Further, the hospital is filled with plague victims and I fear that we may soon run out of space to care for them."

Aristide of Tremere: "We had been lead to believe that the spirit of which you speak was a manifestation of God's will by some of his followers. Regretfully, we were not as vigilant as we should have been and did not look further into it. I am glad you were able to make up for our failings."

"We are looking into the plague victims, and our current investigation seems to suggest the demonic spirit's followers were not completely destroyed."

Zita of Mercere: If I wasn't remaining quiet I'd be screaming by this point

Aristide of Tremere: its fine

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so

all in favor of kicking aristide out of the covenant

Aristide of Tremere: ill keep lying until i win

Zita of Mercere: I already voted to throw him into a wall at high speed, repeatedly

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Bishop Savelli's magicians must not be very capable if they could not discover with their divinations what a few untutored knights were able to discern almost immediately."

Zita of Mercere: I'd say it cant get any worse but we know thats not the case

Aristide of Tremere: "All men are prone to failure, Constable. We hope to learn from our mistakes, and are glad to have you as an ally while we do."

"Perhaps you were sent here specifically to help us fulfill His purpose."

Celeste: lmao

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "What are your ties to the the magicians in Count Hugo di Cappocci's court?"

Fortunately, you are unable to see their expressions at this point.

Aristide of Tremere: "To the magicians? None, currently. The count himself frequently requests our service, though we rarely provide it due to his strange motives."

Benedetti: "More half-truths, a spy in Count Cappocci's court has revealed to me that Vardian's Tomb has been intimately involved with his recent conquest of Allumiere, as well as with a powerful magician residing there who commands the spirits of the earth and sky."

Aristide of Tremere: "Intimately involved is not wrong. The man of which you speak was once one of our number, though he left due to promises of power from the count. We found out that he was promoting paganism, and ordered him to leave this area and never return."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "Then you do not deny your involvement with pagan sorcerers?"

Aristide of Tremere: "When he was involved with us, he was a man of God. Or so he seemed."

Prior Fulk of Tyre: "I recommend we conduct an immediate investigation of Vardian's Tomb. Benedetti can provide us with details of their magical defenses and we should be able to force them to surrender without a fight."

Aristide of Tremere: "May I explain to them the reason first, that they won't wrongly assume you wish them harm?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: why didnt zita uncover benedetti's spies when she queried the covenfolk

Aristide of Tremere: "I can assure you, this pagan magician was disowned long ago."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "I'm all ears."

Jorn of Merinita: Alright, time to collapse this Priory into the foundation

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Benedetti didn't say he had any spies in Vardian's Tomb.

Zita of Mercere: he said in the counts court, yeah

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Which is good, because it would haven been a lie.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's see if they can be dropped into the rat regio

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh ok

then how does he know about our magical resources

Aristide of Tremere: he probably doesnt

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the count's court has spies in vardian's tomb

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: He knows about his own and the kerfluffle at the Pantheon is pretty common knowledge at this point.

Aristide of Tremere: or that magus who was spying on us told him

Zita of Mercere: Diarmuid probably doesnt tell anyone anything

As hes an insane necromancer who lives in Max Max: Hermetic Edition

Lavinia of Jerbiton: which rules honestly

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "It is reassuring that you saw fit to exile him, but how can you be sure that no more pagans remain in Vardian's Tomb?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. i vote we all pack up the library and sail for ponza

i guess venator will be pissed, but not for long

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Aristide of Tremere: "How can anyone be sure, Constable? These are troubling times. We can only pray that God's purpose sees them driven to repent before they can cause any harm."

Zita of Mercere: Bolad, it's time to earn your paycheck

You get a mythic pound for every knight hospitalier

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Am I to take this as an agreement that the Knights Hospitaller should investigate your fellows?"

Jorn of Merinita: Let's murder some zealots

Aristide of Tremere: "We have nothing to hide, Constable, but I do repeat my request that I be allowed to inform them of the reasoning for the investigation so they know that this is not a purge."

"And so that we can have the information you seek ready."

Zita of Mercere: I start climbing onto the roof. I'm going to teleport from here to outside Vardian's tomb, with my aerial vantage point, and warn everyone.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cool, let's kick aristide out right now and prepare to meet the guests diplomatically

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Very well, you will be allowed to accompany us, but you will remain shackled and blindfolded so that you are not capable of betraying our trust."

Jorn of Merinita: "These milk drinkers can kiss off."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Brother Fulk, send word to the Priory of Saint John of what we have learned so far. If we are repulsed or hexed, I pray that they will be able to spread the word of the perfidy of Vardian's Tomb."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea paces.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't know what you mean by that epithet, but if these men come in force they will destroy everything we've built up."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Ok, that seems like a good place to stop for tonight.

Zita of Mercere: I throw open the inn door and run downstairs "He's bringing the fucking knights here. Whatever we do, we don't have much time to prepare."

Endrite (GM): I didn't expect things to take such a dark turn but here we are.

Jorn of Merinita: "Bunch of zealots want to invade my home, then I'll drag us both to Valhalla."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Archibald can wizard's march aristide right now.

Archibald of Guernicus: "In extreme cases, when the Order is threatened by an individual clearly and immediately, a quaesitor may march him on the spot."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That won't stop the knights."

Jorn of Merinita: "If he invited a bunch of choir boys into my workshop then I see no problem with a march."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Perhaps, but at the very least it will make clear that Aristide doesn't speak for us."

Giraldo of Milan: "What, is some local mercenary band attacking us?"

Endrite (GM): I was NOT expecting Aristide to lie so much.

And to then sell everyone out.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He has betrayed us for the ... well, I've lost count at this point."

Archibald of Guernicus: "No, it won't, and fighting them will bring further ruin on us. We should handle them diplomatically."

Giraldo of Milan: i wasnt trying to sell them out but the man seemed intent on marching into the covenant

so i tried to bargain for time to warn everyone

Endrite (GM): Well, you got it.

Sort of.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: actually you sold them out

Giraldo of Milan: i tried to put the blame on the count and his pagan wizards!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you were told to go there and confess

instead you just lied a bunch and made it worse as always

that's even worse

Archibald of Guernicus: "My Gift is too harsh tae speak with them. Get Aristide away from them, this is a dark day for Vardian's Tomb. I'll be down here."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Put it in writing that the man is marched and condemned."

"I and the others with the Gentle Gift will speak to the Knights.. Are you with me, Gulielmus?"

Archibald of Guernicus: We  probably  should not finish this until Beatrice can contribute, since she's both our archon and his biggest advocate. The last thing we need is more in-fighting.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs.

Jorn of Merinita: "Say what you like to them. But they aren't gonna like the workshop or the burgeoning dwarftown below it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Agreed

then ill post my thoughts in the thread about what we do right now

Jorn of Merinita: "I'm going down to prepare."

Endrite (GM): You guys have a week to decide on everything even though it takes about 5 minutes for the Knights to wrangle together an assault force to your doorstep.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's all go live in Arcadia

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Of course. Archibald, can you hide Faustus in your lab?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: endrite, what did celeste learn about what church official actually had authority over us? because i don't think the knights have a legal right to barge in

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll put it in writing, though my latin isn't good enough to write a book it'll be fine for writing a letter.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can jorn cover up some of the lab entrances convincingly in 5 minutes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ah good plan

Endrite (GM): It's Bishop somethingsomethingsomething.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: doesn't archibald have that spell for hiding his own lab too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald's lab is actually a solid brick wall

Archibald of Guernicus: His lab is just covered up already, it's completely walled up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the entrance i mean

Endrite (GM): The Knights are a sovereign military order, however.

Faustus Galerius: I can cast Instant Ring Fort but the damage will be permanent

Jorn of Merinita: Whoops

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, he enters it with a spell

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there's no crusade active

afiak

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably not helpful.

Endrite (GM): There isn't.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: All right let's call on all the Roman citizens we've befriended, to take a stand against this sovereign military order acting against the city of Rome

like, for example,

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fine then we have to conceal the most dangerous stuff and let them search the place

Giraldo of Milan: i think walling over all the sanctum doors has a good chance of success

Jorn of Merinita: I have a gorgeous lab entrance that I built myself, aside from the sanctum marker it's not uninviting.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus's lab should be fine to examine

Lavinia of Jerbiton: all the infernal lore items in the library should be hidden, the talking skull should be hidden, bolad should be hidden

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, all those potions, benign and non-pagan

The infernal lore book is sealed away

I said that before

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the dwarves need to be hidden

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, compared to anyone else's

Giraldo of Milan: they could be explained away as medicinal

Archibald of Guernicus: Medicinal infernal lore book

Giraldo of Milan: they need at least some labs to see as well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the one that absolutely needs to be covered up if possible is venator's

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lavinia's is fine

Endrite (GM): Looks like the next one is the Alexandrian Crusade.

Giraldo of Milan: so if its any then gulielmus's would be fine

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i guess sir oak should be hidden

Giraldo of Milan: lavinia is a doctor and gulielmus is an apothecary, simple enough defense

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont want have to explain that

wait

Jorn of Merinita: I can seal up the passages to my lab

Giraldo of Milan: put uhhh holy symbols on our big meeting chamber using imaginem

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i'll just have him take off his armor and pretend to be a statue

Jorn of Merinita: I won't damage the lab itself though

Endrite (GM): Please collate all the heresy defenses in the thread.

Giraldo of Milan: actually giraldo should probably hide too

as he has bright red eyes

Endrite (GM): Also, Johns needs to tell me what, if anything Venator does about this.

Archibald of Guernicus: We shouldn't let them in, is my opinion.

If we can keep the bastards out we should

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if he's here? he probably kicks everyone out of the covenant

so id rather say he's out

Bialas of Bjornaer: I like that idea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we definitely need to keep them out of his lab though.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont want the campaign to end just because beardbeard felt like being stupid

Archibald of Guernicus: Everyone? It was just Aristide, even Venator doesn't like him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's a necromancer, and it's full of deadly wards

Bialas of Bjornaer: Hey, I never did anything to offend Venator. It can be me and him, hanging out forever.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: venator doesnt want his lab searched

Endrite (GM): Better come up with some way of defending it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: jorn is going to brick it up

Archibald of Guernicus: Well. If they come in, they will search it, and it'll be obvious it was searched

Endrite (GM): Could work.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he should brick himself in

to be safe.

jorn the pagan.

Giraldo of Milan: im sorry for being really retarded

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hey at least its interesting

Jorn of Merinita: Instant Ring Fort will slam a wall down wherever you want

Well, two walls

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristide can't stay here any longer, though.

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's really funny how Aristide is just the worst Tremere in history.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's 3 damn people we've had to kick out, in increasingly more elaborate ways

Giraldo of Milan: ill just make a mute magus so its harder to be extremely fucking stupid

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait

Bialas of Bjornaer: that still lets you cast spells on NPCs without telling anyone what you're doing.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there was bonfilia, aristide, aristide again,

Endrite (GM): If anything, it makes it easier.

Ok, see you all next week!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh are you counting fabius

Bialas of Bjornaer: Prudenzio,

Archibald of Guernicus: Bonfilia, Prudenzio, Aristide

we kicked out prudenzio today!

at this VERY session

Giraldo of Milan: im very sorry for being a stupid retard

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah prudenzio.

TO be fair the deck is stacked against us pretty heavily already.

Giraldo of Milan: yeah but i fucked up hard

hell its stacked because i fucked up

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, this is going to make next week's adventure hook more awkward.

"Hey guys, I have these rumors of a Magic 6 regio we could all escape into. That's worked well for my House before."

anyway, nite

devil's fav demon (GM): rolling aging

rolling 1d10!-3

(

2

)

-3

=

-1

rolling aging celeste

rolling 1d10!-6

(

5

)

-6

=

-1

dys (GM): i thought celeste had strong fairy blood. is that just aging rolls to keep her young?

Hafl T.: and insane health bonuses, i think

why wouldn'T you want to stay young if you have huge bonuses to livign conditions

dys (GM): i asked about it and endrite was rude about it.

but the corebook says you can so go hog wild

im not rolling it on archibald so he can look 50 years old at 50

with 0 aging

he'll hit his natural age of 50 and stay there for half a century

devil's fav demon (GM): yeah im just rolling aging for celeste for apparent aging

Hafl T.: beatrice has vain personality, so i have to roll

but let's plot how to prevent endrite from murdering us all and also how to prevent endrite from saving aristide's life

dys (GM): well he cant save aristide's life

we have an arcane connection to him for several years.

he cant attack us, either, as he has the Non-combatant flaw.

Hafl T.: i want instant gratification of murder, not zita delivering the arcane connection to aurora and letting her take care of that

dys (GM): we can do it ourselves

Hafl T.: does anyone have opening the intangible tunnel?

dys (GM): archibald can just invent some touch-range PeCo this season and thatll be enough to kill aristide with intangible tunnel and aristide's notable terrible MR

archibald has it

iirc he got it shortly after aristide joined

thats why you prepare ahead

Hafl T.: just let beatrice cast a pilum through the tunnel

dys (GM): can other people cast through your tunnel? i think so.

you need to be able to detect the tunnel with InVi iirc

aristide can hit back through it but:

he cant tell its been opened

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

dys (GM): he'd need to know abotu the spell already

to even look for it specifically

so he'd need to spont InVi while being horribly murdered

and then he wont even beat archibalds parma anyway

Hafl T.: while being hit with 20 pen pilum of flame

devil's fav demon (GM): lol.

Hafl T.: oh, too bad. only the caster can do it, looks like

dys (GM): ill need to check hermetic projects for how you co-operate on the tunnel, though, hmm. actually, one problem. the tunnel has a spell level limit

so pillum wouldnt even work

i need to check what level of tunnel i invented

Hafl T.: i have flame dart for similar penetration

18 pen on flame dart before roll

i didn't get penetration mastery on that one

dys (GM): yeah, archibalds intangible tunnel is capped at level 10 spells

Hafl T.: damn

fine, beatrice will just invent a diam duration intangible tunnel in one season for level 15 spells

i could do level 20 with experimentation, but it's not a sure thing

dys (GM): Autumn: Using 32 ReVi lab total, invents 2 spells: Opening The Intangible Tunnel (level 10) and The Minute Of Reckoning (level 5)

i should have just made a level 15 one

Hafl T.: yes

dys (GM): maybe i should fix that actually, ive never used either spell anyway

devil's fav demon (GM): retconning..... smh.....

Hafl T.: the minute of retconning

dys (GM): a level 15 minute of reckoning makes more sense there, i have FFM to make it sun if i choose

Hafl T.: FFM it to conc

dys (GM): not sure if you can make diam into conc

isnt conc worse since you need to roll to maintain the spell each time you cast? the upside is just that you can close it instantly

Hafl T.: yeah

dys (GM): ideally you pick sun duration and kill them a few hours before dawn.

PeIm to destroy all sound around them so they cant get help, ReCo to freeze them in place, then PeCo until they die

Hafl T.: apparently FFM doesn't let you mvoe the range duration and target sideways

dys (GM): then PeCo to destroy the corpse

it doesnt let you, iirc

Hafl T.: i checked and it doesn't

dys (GM): heres something interesting

the mAster’s messAge

ReVi Gen

R: Touch, D: Moon, T: Individual

This spell opens a tunnel between the

magus and a character that he touches.

dys (GM): Once it is cast, the tunnel remains in

place, even if the characters break contact.

The purpose of this spell is to enable the

magus to open a tunnel between himself

and a grog. The grog can then depart on

a mission, and the magus is able to monitor his progress and cast spells through the

dys (GM): tunnel as required

Hafl T.: i wanted to have this one for the future

when beatrice just sends glamours on an adventure instead of going herself

dys (GM): MuIm to make a grog look like you, transmit your voice, etc

thatd be really great for a lab monkey actually. damn. you could sit in your lab and go on an adventure.

youd have to tell the grog where to go

but otherwise

Hafl T.: aristide brazenly returns to vardian's tomb, but he's warned that something's up when tremere is crossed out on the we don't judge sign

dys (GM): transmitting your spells and words through a grog trained for combat, buffing them up so they're able to survive dangers, etc would be good

downside: no MR on the poor thing

Shauncat (GM): Alright this should make it easy to track grogs in Frisiagame https://puu.sh/xNyf7/c9ea38495f.png

Hafl T.: that's why you do it through glamours

good language specialization

i found out that vis source is an actual lab virtue, so i'm probably installing that as soon as possible

Shauncat (GM): If they survive 3-5 years they can have a career package from Grogs added on and it'll automatically update the relevant stats

devil's fav demon (GM): 50 Words for Swamps

Shauncat (GM): 50 Shades of Swamp

Hafl T.: do we use the slow language exposure houserules where you gain 1xp in local language for free for each season you live in the area? i'm not pushing that just because i made a character who doesn't know any useful languages except latin

Shauncat (GM): Yeah, I added a handout for it

Hafl T.: nice

able to speak friesian after just 12 years of living there

Shauncat (GM): Does Dankmar really speak a unique language with no Germanic words in it?

Hafl T.: it's in covenant upbringing

Shauncat (GM): Oh, I should read that flaw closer I guess

Hafl T.: https://i.imgur.com/bQhssQS.png

Shauncat (GM): I thought it just made you a bit socially retarded

Hafl T.: i guess it doesn't prevent me from knowing german at chargen

Shauncat (GM): Yeah

Hafl T.: but since dankmar is enchanted so that mundanes can't find their way there and all their grogs are brainwashed to be morons, it's appropriate

Shauncat (GM): But it means you can have a language no other PC knows

Hafl T.: yes

that's very useful

Shauncat (GM): And you can write in it

Hafl T.: yes

it's worth being a social retard

well, since it's closely related it's probably -1 or -2 to understand it if you have Latin

dys (GM): i just made someone from abroad, think only me and grafe made foreign magi

Shauncat (GM): I'm worse than a social retard, I'm a carnie

Hafl T.: lol

Shauncat (GM): Half-carnie, half-Mercere

Hafl T.: oh, dys, you can make a constant effect item to freeze a lake and then throw it into the water

dys (GM): yep

youd have to chip through all the ice to reach it and pull it out

Hafl T.: yeah

make one as soon as possible

you can use it to provide ice to the covenant to keep food fresh

Shauncat (GM): Germany is an important destination for a troupe person since it's where the stage play got resurrected after the Church banned it during the dark ages

Hafl T.: and increase health mod

dys (GM): i had an idea for the Verditius contest where i show up with an item that can freeze the entire atlantic ocean

Hafl T.: only the surface through

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

dys (GM): sure, but still!

imagine showing that off

Hafl T.: i like my item that's enchanted with hearing the silent chorus and a linked effect to move the trees

Shauncat (GM): Freeze the Bering strait and start a covenant in Mythic Alaska

dys (GM): pros: will definitely make me stand out as a one-of-a-kind craftsman

cons: will probably be marched for using it

Hafl T.: worth it

Shauncat (GM): Good luck marching me, I'm the whole of the Alaska Tribunal

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

dys (GM): im definitely showing up with an ice statue for the contest, anyway. its my specialty

Hafl T.: let's move the covenant to zipangu

Shauncat (GM): Aleut hedge mages are probably col

cool

devil's fav demon (GM): lets go to sansarron and colonize them

and just keep the same grog hired to send to the roman tribunal so they think nothings wrong

dys (GM): an ice statue enchanted item thats made as an artistic statement, as after the war on it expires, the statue will melt and be destroyed

Hafl T.: good idea

dys (GM): *ward

Hafl T.: vanya invents modern art

Shauncat (GM): Let's march whoever invents modern art

Hafl T.: new schism war to replace jerbiton with diedne

can you add multiple virtues and flaws to a lab in a single season?

devil's fav demon (GM): lets establish House Venatoris and break off from our individual houses to become badass necromancers

Shauncat (GM): Let's start a new schism when Maitreya of Criamon is born

dys (GM): house diedne did nothing wrong

Hafl T.: they didn't

dys (GM): honestly thatd be an interesting plotline

you uncover evidence that tremere framed diedne

and they were innocent

what do you do with it?

Hafl T.: also, i don't know if it's ars magica devs being smart and showing that quendalon is a retard or ars magica devs being retards

Shauncat (GM): Good plot for Transylvania game

Hafl T.: but why did they build irencilla in the untouched wilderness near a major trade route?

that was alreaady there when irencilla started

Shauncat (GM): Roads are powerful

dys (GM): well itd be terrible there since its not like showing this would do anything, house tremere owns transylvania

Hafl T.: flavia, laurontius and romulus go on a quest for the seventy seventh island in the black sea

dys (GM): if archibald uncovered solid evidence that diedne was innocent all along and tremere framed them as a political powergrab he'd start gathering more evidence to present a full case at grand tribunal, lol

Hafl T.: Wasn't Achilles Gay and Buried Somewhere Else?

Shauncat (GM): The Podetas would finally go to jail

dys (GM): hell we could do that in this game even, Severin knew a diedne and he said the schism war stuff sounded like lunacy

Hafl T.: that's the second best sidebar after the one in ancient magic that explains away a possible contradiction between the bible and the rules for canaanite necromancy

devil's fav demon (GM): Oh yeah, all Severin's weird hooks.

Hafl T.: house merinita was possibly in league with the diedne in the schism war

dys (GM): they were

devil's fav demon (GM): yeah.

Hafl T.: never officially though

dys (GM): all the mystery cults helped out diedne lol

merinita sheltered them, bjornaer collectively refused to participate and hunt them down

criamon sheltered them

verditius sold magic items to both sides

devil's fav demon (GM): quendalons followers fled to bjornaer and then they all hid in their domus magna for the entire war.

Shauncat (GM): Rustic craft magic and rotes are kind of Diedne when you think about it

Hafl T.: some merinita directly fought on the side of fiedne

diedne

Shauncat (GM) eyes Proclus and Gulielmus

dys (GM): hmmm. and who has rotes at the covenant huh? i rest my

devil's fav demon (GM): :O

Hafl T.: proclus is diedne and therefore a satanist

Shauncat (GM): Oh, Rustics check for botches

They're clear

Hafl T.: diedne check for botches too

Shauncat (GM): I thought they don't have to botch check on non-fatiguings

johns (GM): Lavinia will join your quest to exonerate House Diedne and bring it back as the 13th house if you also support her quest to build the 14th house

Hafl T.: they don't take fatigue when dividing by 2, but they still check for botches

johns (GM): where the heck is endrite. i raced home breaking all speed limits and traffic laws and he's not even here

Hafl T.: we were talking about destroying house jerbiton for inventing modern art. would replacing it with augustans work?

Shauncat (GM): He posted game in 30 so I assume he's showing up

dys (GM): zita was going to help out with House Augustus since her daughter will be joining it. if we go with that plan.

thats still a few years away but i assume lavinia is ready to take an apprentice by then

Hafl T.: beatrice might join house diedne to get away from fairy furries in house merinita

she's only a fairy fucker

johns: house jerbiton will invent the renaissance in 100 years

Shauncat (GM): Wizards aren't allowed to be wagecucks I discovered, so Jorn's LP tracking will solely be to see if he's done enough commissions lately.

Hafl T.: we don't have much time then

Shauncat (GM): For the sake of providing covenant income

Hafl T.: just take a dark secret (exchanges labor for money)

Shauncat (GM): You can live a long laborious life in Ars without ever touching coins.

Hafl T.: that does not make it right

Shauncat (GM): Jorn mostly trades services for services with his fellow dwarves

Hafl T.: that's ok as long as he's not molesting the fae

Shauncat (GM): But getting at the arsenic gives us something fungible at least

Is cultivating the fae molesting them?

Hafl T.: probably not