4/8/18

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!-9 Lavinia aging 1344

(

3

)

-9

=

-6

rolling 1d10!-9 lavinia aging 1345

(

8

)

-9

=

-1

Endrite (GM): Mystical Greetings.

dys (GM): is the game in half an hour, or an hour and a half?

devil's fav demon (GM): Good question.

Endrite (GM): I don't know.

I guess the game is in an hour.

Shauncat (GM): Very well

Endrite (GM): I gotta say, the start time change hasn't been one of the great successes of Ars Magica.

Unless this is everybody?

Who even still plays this game?

johns (GM): no one

the game is dead.

Endrite (GM): Time to run Traveller twice a week.

johns (GM): johns

Shaun

Endrite

Dys

Cumthinker

Devil's Favorite Demon

johns (GM): beardbeard

dys starts laughing really hard at cumthinker being included in that list

Shauncat (GM): Guest Starring cumthinker

johns (GM): endrite u should post in the thread that the game is at 3pm then

devil's fav demon: Featuring: Cumthinker!

dys: sir not playing his character this week either

johns (GM): time to watch some ds9

Shauncat (GM): I think I'll go over the shield grogs later and make a spreadsheet of who has the best attack, defense, and leadership for picking leader and vanguard, and who to rotate in as they take injuries.

Endrite (GM): We rarely bring shield grogs anywhere.

Shauncat (GM): Might as well

We pay for them

Also my companion can buff groups with Learned Magician charms

devil's fav demon: nice

Shauncat (GM): Is learning Arabic worth academic rep?

johns (GM): its an academic skill right

Shauncat (GM): I don't know but I can find out

First I need to copy Hazm's new charms to his sheet

johns (GM): both bb and cthinker say they'll be here at 3pm. cheers

devil's fav demon: :blessed:

johns (GM): i wish we could get one more player though

bring us back up to a solid 8

devil's fav demon: cmon moe!

Shauncat (GM): Eight, the most magical number

Okay, Academic Rep from ability gains is only from Artes Liberales, Philosophy, Theology, or Civil&Canon Law

Endrite (GM): Ok we can probably start straight away in five minutes.

johns: I'm hype

Endrite (GM): Alright!

devil's fav demon: Nice.

Endrite (GM): Everyone leave GM mode except for me.

johns: Done.

devil's fav demon: Way ahead of you.

johns: I am looking at a picture of George Costanza on his side.

Celeste: rip.

Shauncat: Sad news everyone, I'm currently using the Legacy version of Roll20 Video and Voice WebRTC chat.

Endrite (GM): In addition to the main adventure today, there is also a side adventure to explore the King Arthur regio that will preclude you from going on the adventure.

Celeste: Sick.

Endrite (GM): So if you have a character that would want to do that, please don't bring them on today's adventure.

c'thinker: sounds like a job for derfel

Celeste: I don't think either of my characters would really care too much about that.

johns: bolad will go to the regio and kill King Arthur

Endrite (GM): Smart.

johns: well

Celeste: celeste will explore the king arthur regio if you make her and rosario will go there if you tell him there are fae creatures to slay.

johns: he'll let king arthur have a chance to swear fealty to the immortal khanate first

Shauncat: Get the external vis scabbard that gives Greater Immunity (losing)

dys: archibald will go to the regio

ill play a grog on the main adventure

Endrite (GM): The Great Plague has made itself felt even in the great cities of Europe. Food is especially scarce this year and the mood on the street is decidedly unsettled.

c'thinker: same

re playing a grog, not being decidedly unsettled

johns: I look for an apple to chomp and weep as there are none

c'thinker throws the door open and bites into a rat

Fiorella of Jerbiton bites into a magically grown chicken

Endrite (GM): In particular, there are regular penitent marches. The ones you notice the most involve chanting and wailing, but the more worldly among you are aware that the Great Herbam Blight has created many different cells of the devoted.

Celeste: "It's not very virtuous of all the abbeys to raise prices on their beer in this blight. Where's the generosity?"

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Endrite (GM): The reason why even the most labbound magi in the covenant are aware of the penitents is because there is currently a procession of them outside your door.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Have any of our covenfolk been swayed by this nonsense

Endrite (GM): That's a great question.

rolling 17d10

(

5

+

7

+

10

+

2

+

10

+

2

+

8

+

2

+

9

+

9

+

4

+

4

+

10

+

5

+

4

+

10

+

2

)

=

103

Father Hazm: I'll put up my Charm buffs, Gift of Venus and Tongue of Orpheus

Napolino: Today I will play as Napolino, who is weeping over the loss of food

Endrite (GM): Looks like Silvano, Pugnalo, Napolino, and Violante are nowhere to be found.

Oh my bad I made a counting error.

Celeste: Wow.

Endrite (GM): It should be Nevio and not Napolino.

Celeste: Okay.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whew

Father Hazm: Phew

c'thinker: who made ilbrago

Father Hazm: "Celeste, do you feel we should placate this crowd?"

Guy of Bonisagus: i think i did cumthinker

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what sort of folk are in these processions

Father Hazm: Violante doesn't have much to do with Gulielmus MIA anyway

c'thinker: nice.

Endrite (GM): That's a good question, Lavinia.

c'thinker: i will play ilbrago

Endrite (GM): Roll Area Lore: Rome.

c'thinker: who is weeping over the loss of wine

Lavinia of Jerbiton: everyone cowardly chosing to play a grog when endrite is gming smh

Napolino: I'm going to throw rocks at you irl

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hm, turns out I dont have rome area lore.

Napolino: Ah, me neither.

Endrite (GM): I believe it can be used untrained.

Napolino: JC Denton; This is a shame

Endrite (GM): Please at least bring a companion.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Endrite (GM): Grogs can't really do anything.

Napolino: I dont have a companion because they're dead.

(To Endrite): should we be on a screen other than the garden of henrisson right now

Celeste: I'm not playing as a grog.

Endrite (GM): Whoops.

Celeste: I don't want this character to die.

Father Hazm: I can take Hazm along while playing Morgana in combat scenes

Napolino: Sorry but I have one PC and I'd rather send them to the regio.

Celeste: oh, hold on.

Father Hazm: Use Hazm for the buffs

Celeste: I actually have area lore rome.

Guy of Bonisagus: ill be guy because giraldos going to the regio

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+1

(

5

)

+2+1

=

8

Nice.

Endrite (GM): Alright extra scene setting: you are actually in Vardian's Tomb for this adventure and NOT in the magical garden.

c'thinker: exploring a faerie regio is derfels thing

but, i can have him pass on that

Endrite (GM): I mean, hasn't Gulielmus been repatriated yet?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he is if cumthinker is ready to play him again

(From Endrite (GM)): The penitents are always pretty scruffy, but they all wear purple hoods so there must be some rich people in them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "These penitents have some fancy purple hoods in them. They can't all be beggars and wastrels."

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus comes home and says, boy, could really go for an apple, then looks at his garden

then looks at his alchemy lab

then looks at his spell list

c'thinker: lol

it's time to invent iatrochemistry.

Guy of Bonisagus: dys is gay

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hi Dys.

Endrite (GM): Damn.

Anyway, what do you do with this information?

Celeste: "Yeah, I see those hoods making a big show of dropping money in the offertory every week."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Are they disrupting us in any way yet?

Guy of Bonisagus: "What an interesting parade. Hopefully they'll pass by soon."

Father Hazm: We need to start putting cauldrons of boiling pitch on a swivel we can dump on people who mob outside the Eastern Ear

Endrite (GM): Well, they're technically pilgrims but they don't buy anything.

Father Hazm: This is the third time it's happened this decade IIRC

Endrite (GM): Also you hear someone preaching something.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Their kind bring disease, despair, and defeatism.

Endrite (GM): Doesn't seem very hospitable.

Celeste: Is it theologically sound?

Whatever I'm hearing being preached, I mean.

Father Hazm: I also may be able to glean said insight

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you're going out to listen, see if you can round up the lost covenfolk."

Endrite (GM): You'll have to do the unthinkable: go outside.

Father Hazm: Okay

Celeste: I'll do that.

"I'll see if I can't ask them nicely to get off the property."

"Or at least come in for a drink."

Father Hazm: "I can perform services for them if they would like to come in in an orderly fashion."

Paul the Demagogue: "... And so I tell you, that their greed has damned them and brought the wrath of God upon us. Only by casting them out will we begin to purify ourselves in the eyes of the Lord!"

You don't see Paul, but you hear his voice from somewhere nearby.

Napolino: "And that's what happened to the food?"

Celeste: "Napolino!"

Napolino: "I'm wasting away here, Celeste!"

Paul the Demagogue: The penitents you do see are weeping or scourging themselves. You know, penitent stuff.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gross.

Father Hazm: Mmhm

Paul the Demagogue: However, they don't seem to take much notice of you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do they go for treatment afterwards or just bleed out on the street

Ilbrago: "What, you'll let this rabble in to drink the last of the wine?"

"And not even a drop for poor old Ilbrago."

Paul the Demagogue: In addition to the penitents, there's a crowd of looky-loos in the cul-de-sac.

They rub dirt into their wounds.

Father Hazm: "End this false liturgy at once."

Celeste: "Fasting is important for the soul, Napolino. God will give us a bounty soon enough."

Guy of Bonisagus: I turn the page in the fine book I'm reading. "Sure are a noisy group."

Celeste: "How's hitting yourself with a whip going to put food in your belly?"

Paul the Demagogue: Are you talking to the nearest penitents, Father Hazm and Celeste?

Napolino: "It could be a good distraction."

Celeste: I was talking to Napolino but I assume the penitents are right there.

Father Hazm: "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."

Celeste: "That's not the exact line, but, uh, good spirit."

actually ignore me.

Paul the Demagogue: The penitent doesn't take heed of your words and continues to weep.

Celeste: I said that ooc without checking.

Paul the Demagogue: Huh?

Celeste: there's a VERY similar line about praying.

Hazm was quoting the bible.

Paul the Demagogue: Ok.

Feel free to roll Theology to figure out if what Paul is saying has biblical merit.

Father Hazm: Let's go over to the looky loos, Celeste

Paul the Demagogue: Wait, are you a Catholic or Orthodox?

Father Hazm: Maronite, so Orthodox IIRC

Paul the Demagogue: Ok, roll away.

Celeste: Sure. I'll roll it.

rolling 1d10+5+1 int

(

4

)

+5+1

=

10

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+2 Int

(

2

)

+2+2

=

6

Napolino:

rolling 1d10-1

(

3

)

-1

=

2

Guy of Bonisagus: rolling awareness to admire the fine illumination in this manuscript

rolling 1d10+1

(

10

)

+1

=

11

Father Hazm: Oh, Catholic

Guy of Bonisagus: ah

beautiful

Ilbrago: The Orthodox Church is Catholic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What manuscript have you got there, Guy"

Celeste: "This Paul doesn't really know what he's talking about."

Father Hazm: The Maronite Church (Arabic: الكنيسة المارونية‎) is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the Pope and the Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

Paul the Demagogue: Anyone want to try to actually talk to Paul or anything???

Father Hazm: Seduce him, Celeste

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, it's a translation of an old work that I recently got a hold of. It's about these fellows who would quite like to sail the ocean, but they're missing some things."

Paul the Demagogue: Or just let them keep on keeping on?

Father Hazm: Let's go Celeste

Lavinia of Jerbiton: grab an arcane connection to him.

Napolino: He can't be interrupted or attacked while reciting this, sadly

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ask him for some hair to keep as a relic.

Celeste: I'll call him a tool of the devil trying to tempt the masses away from God.

Paul the Demagogue: Ok you want to shout that out?

Guy of Bonisagus: if hes talked to he will ignore or insult us, if we attack him we will be killed while hes unharmed

Celeste: Sure.

Father Hazm: If he kills us all we'll just have to play Traveler instead

Paul the Demagogue: Alright.

Unfortunately that is not the case, as half of the PCs are doing some magical stuff right now and aren't here.

This accusation is definitely enough to get the crowds attention.

Invective is hurled at you by the assembled penitents, denouncing you as a heretic, heathen, fool, sinner, tempter, and so forth.

The bystanders are also interested, though they're still mostly just jeering at the penitents.

Celeste: "This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will venture out and talk to the bystanders and ask them whats up with these wierdos

Celeste: I'm pelted with trash or whatever.

Father Hazm: I'll also go over to the bystanders.

Paul the Demagogue: "Hold brethren, should we not follow the example of Jesus Christ, who is the Prince of Peace?"

Father Hazm: Let's invite the civil among them in for drinks.

Ilbrago: "Oh, hang on to that trash."

"We can give it to Napolino."

Paul the Demagogue: At the mention of the name our Lord, many of the penitents hurl themselves violently to the ground.

(To Endrite): brb

(From Paul the Demagogue): Farewell.

Celeste: I'll cross myself and take a knee for a second just to be polite.

Napolino: "Any of it edible?"

"I'm dying over here!"

Father Hazm: "Celeste, you know as well as I they pervert the gospel and preach a false liturgy."

Paul the Demagogue: "We should resist the temptation to eradicate dissent as the French church does. Please, allow our accuser to speak their piece and, in so doing, expose the lackey of the Knights Hospitaller for what she is."

Celeste: "Maybe they just act out of desperation. We're all very hungry."

Paul the Demagogue: The remaining upright penitents part, allowing you to enter the procession and confront Paul on the street, if you wish.

Celeste: "Hey, lackey of who?"

Father Hazm: "I'm sure FIorella will have more chickens grown by sunrise."

Celeste: "I'm only a lackey of the Lord. And technically Vardian's Tomb."

Paul the Demagogue: As you leave the cul-de-sac you see that the great bulk of the penitent procession is surrounding not the covenant, but your neighbors at the Priory of St. Ubaldesca. Paul himself is standing in front of the gates, which have been shut.

Roll awareness.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+4

(

7

)

+2+4

=

13

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+d10

2+

(

7

)

=

9

Celeste: per+aware

Guy of Bonisagus: is that so

cool, lets let them burn down the knights hospitalier or something

Ilbrago:

rolling 1d10!+0+1

(

3

)

+0+1

=

4

Celeste: "Looks like the priory have guards posted and ready for this crowd."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Ask them if they need any help, as we are their good neighbors."

Father Hazm: "Would they unbar their doors in these circumstances, even for a man of the cloth?"

Napolino: I bite into an imaginary apple, and shed a few tears

Paul the Demagogue: "You see? Even those who would speak against the will of God," wailing and abasement, "are merely confused about His true message."

Who is the "They" here, Lavinia?

The Knights?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes.

we love helping the knights.

Father Hazm: The peasants ARE revolting, it seems

Lavinia of Jerbiton: especially if they're killing rabble.

Paul the Demagogue: Well, the gates are shut due to the classic Roman mob outside of the priory.

You'd have to get past them if you wanted to talk to Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne or anyone.

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Ilbrago: "I'm on it, boss."

Ilbrago surveys the situation.

Ilbrago: "The gate's closed, boss."

Paul the Demagogue: Take 9 XP for that insight, Ilbrago.

Ilbrago: are there any other ways in

Father Hazm: Thank you Ilbrago

Paul the Demagogue: Yes, the priory has a semi-hidden dock on the Tiber.

Ilbrago: nice, i was going to say

ilbrago has swim 3

Paul the Demagogue: It isn't secret, but it can't be seen from the street.

Father Hazm: Let's hire a gondola to take us there

Celeste: Neat.

Ilbrago: gah

thus always to swimtards

Celeste: Must be nice being extremely materially wealthy.

Paul the Demagogue: Magic could be useful here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i coudl just fly in

using magic

Celeste: I could try using Stealth.

Ilbrago:  sorcery

Paul the Demagogue:  Makes the Darklands face.

Father Hazm: I could try giving a gondola owner some money to bring me to the dock.

Celeste: And Stealthily go get some booze.

Paul the Demagogue: This isn't Venice, there isn't a taxi service.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'll fly in invisible then take off my invisibility ring.

Paul the Demagogue: River travel is usually for freight.

Ok.

You have no trouble at all.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Salvate, Honorable Knights."

Father Hazm: I'll give a cargo vessel owner a somewhat larger payment to take me there then

Paul the Demagogue: The knights inside the priory walls are surprised to see a woman appear out of thin air, but they recover quickly.

The courtyard is busy, with knights and novices preparing to defend their walls. Special care is given to protecting the hospital and the main keep.

Celeste: I'll swim over there with my mighty Swim 1.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I saw the commotion and worried for our neighbors, may we be of help?"

Hospitaller Knight: "Are you one of those wizards? I'll need to escort you to the Priory Constable."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes, you can tell him I am of Vardian's Tomb."

Father Hazm: Lavinia's got this and I haven't found a boat willing to carry a priest so I'll just go home

I'll go check out what Guy is reading.

Hospitaller Knight: He wrangles a spare novice to collect Priory Constable Hermann, who emerges from the keep a few minutes later.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "What is a representative of Vardian's Tomb doing here? Are you as concerned about these misguided heretics as we are?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Naturally, we fear for the souls of our members."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Have some of your servants fallen in with this rabble?"

Father Hazm: Our souls are doing better now that I provide a place for people to confess without having to talk about the weird shit that happens to VT to a muggle.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I can't be sure, since they wear those hoods. But some haven't reported to work lately."

Guy of Bonisagus: dont say muggle or youll summon archibald

Ilbrago: I listen to the true message of Paul the Demagogue.

Celeste: "The purple hooded people, they're rich enough, also. Someone's money is behind it."

I'm dripping water everywhere.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Troubling. But, as you can see, there are more immediate concerns."

"I doubt these deluded townsfolk have it in them to conduct a siege, but, of course, we will accept any aid rendered in good faith."

Celeste: "Who would be funding a siege against you?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "A riotous mob is no siege. This may not be the fortress at Tyre, but its gates will hold against the harsh words wielded by this 'Paul'."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does paul look any older than when we first met him like 30 years ago

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "He is merely repeating the same slanderous lies that our order faces across Europe. The very idea that we would hoard treasure like a coiled dragon is ridiculous."

He looks about 30 years older, though the years have been kind to him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I look around at all the silver and gold plate the Knights hoard.

Father Hazm: Our people have maintained their faith in the Papacy despite centuries of being faced down by the Mamluk hordes. These people are ready to schism after one year of growling tummies. Screw them.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Wow.

"This famine has them spooked, a few more meals in them will see them back at work and off the streets."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Do you have food to spare to them?"

Ilbrago: why isnt the river Tiber providing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thats a cool idea

make it spit up fish

Ilbrago: healthiest waters in europe

Father Hazm: Good idea

Celeste: "If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday, as the good book says."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Alas, we send most of what we have to our brethren in Rhodes."

Celeste: "We should do all we can to aid them, of course."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "The rest is needed to nurse the sick back to health."

"Brother Gilbert is in charge of provisioning, but I can tell you that times have been lean of late."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I see. We might be able to help, is it alright for us to come and go through the river entrance?"

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: "Of course, though for your health I would recommend you don't attempt to swim to it," he says, noting the sopping wet Celeste.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Have you a boat we can borrow?"

Ilbrago: the tiber is pure and clean!!

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Being wet is dangerous!

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah but youll get a cold if you walk around wet

Ilbrago: blimey

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: You'll catch your death of cold!

Celeste: "I'll have to drink extra wine."

"Thank you, father."

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Anyway, he provides you with a rowboat and explains that their barges are all in service at the moment.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: before i return to the covenant id like to ask the Tiber if it can provide fish

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Do you have the wand and know how to use it?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fine i'll ask archibald to lend me the wand

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Well that's up to Archibald.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: or ask archibald to stop investigating faeiry land for a minute

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: I think it's fair for you to have asked about it prior to the adventure.

No pun intended.

Father Hazm: Archibald was locked up in Azkaban for killing that dude

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: So what say you Archibald?

Hello?

Napolino: Hello? Just ask it, why do you need the PC there for that.

Celeste: Oh, I thought a whole active thing was going on in whispers.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: I don't know how you want to control access to the wand.

Father Hazm: He can just do the thing on the river

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: It seems like a fair question.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have a spell to break into archibald's lab and let me take it thankfully.

Napolino: Lavinia can just ask the river, why does that need the staff

Ilbrago: a spell to allow a grog to break into archibald's lab

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Aren't you using it on the river daily to prevent it from doing anything you don't like?

Napolino: I dont know. I didnt like that nonsense and I just made a staff so we wouldnt be killed by an angry mob

Lavinia can use it for the day, who cares

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Ok great.

Napolino: its a plot device to not be killed, please dont make me come up with the exact specifics of how and when its used every day

Guy of Bonisagus: ward against the shitty adventure

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: It is my considered opinion that you should be aware of how you use your magical resources, but in any case you're good to go Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I find an isolated stretch of riverbank to talk to the river.

Father Hazm: I'll go buy us a rowboat

Lavinia of Jerbiton: make archibald make the whal

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Yes the Tiber can provide a bounty of fish.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: e.

Napolino: i dont have any free time ot even bother with that, bialas was meant to make the whale creation ritual and didnt

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay, I go back to the covenant and ask my sodales if they think we should get involved. We could Give Food to the Knights, Give Food to the Penitants, or do nothing

Celeste: We have a rowboat!

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: However it is limited by the amount of fish currently in the river and fishing has become a popular way to feed your family during the Herbam blight.

Celeste: They just gave us one.

Oh, for you.

Ilbrago: lets apply a steadily increasing number of minor wounds to archibald until dys makes flavor text for the river controlling staff

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Why do you want to give food to the Knights Hospitaller?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they said they were under seige and didnt have much

Celeste: Bialas was busy diving into a hole and dying in a rebalance patch

Napolino: instead of writing flavour text ill change my seasons so i never invented the staff and we all die, cumthinker.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Well the "siege" has lasted from mid-morning to the afternoon.

Ilbrago: . o O ( if this happens gulielmus will get a free season )

Father Hazm: Fiorella is busy growing chickens for people she cares about

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: So I think they're good.

Napolino: Good news for his arabic studies

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay we'll bring fish to the penitants and tell them its courtesy of vardian's tomb

Celeste: They said they weren't under siege, and said that the penitents were an annoyance but not enough of a problem that they needed help.

I thought.

Well, he wouldnt turn down help.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Alright, sounds like it could work, Lavinia.

Celeste: Tell them that God brought us the fish.

That's important.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Lemme figure out how much fish you can get.

Ilbrago:

rolling 1d1000000

(

977592

)

=

977592

Celeste: lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: God grants this bounty to all who believe in the Holy Roman Emperor and shun the fake pope of avignon

Napolino: good roll

Ilbrago: thank you

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Ok this is going to take a little bit of research, so please bear with me for a few minutes.

Ilbrago: fish are spontaneously generated, i think, so this shouldnt cause any lasting damage

Ilbrago stares at GMs

Celeste: lol.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: Fish (pisces) have their name, as do cattle (pecus), from feeding (pascendo). Some fish are amphibious, able to swim and to walk on land. Beasts and birds were named first, because they are easily seen; when fish were named, the names were often related to similar land animals, by shape or color or habit. According to David the Psalmist, the sea contains fish without number.

Celeste: fuck yeah.

God is Great.

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: You can definitely scare up about 70 pounds of eel today on short notice.

Celeste: Write that down.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "eel" have some of that

Priory Constable Hermann of Cologne: 70 pounds of eel.

Done.

Father Hazm: I'll go make sure everyone knows this bounty is given to them by God, certified by me, an ordained priest.

Celeste: Roast eel. Eel soup. Eel pasta. Eel dumplings. Boiled eel. Eel and oil.

Aglio e eelio.

Ilbrago: roast eel?

what do you think these people are, nobles?

they'll boil their eel and they'll hate it

Father Hazm: Risotto al Eelio

Paul the Demagogue: "Thank you for the meal, Father. It is good to see that the French church still counts the faithful among its numbers."

Father Hazm: "There is one Church, French or otherwise, my child."

Paul the Demagogue: "Will you stand with us here today to denounce the greed that has condemned this city to damnation?"

Father Hazm: "Well, Greed is of course a sin, but what name did you care to put to it?"

Celeste: "A greedy man stirs up strife."

Paul the Demagogue: "Why, you can see it all around you! The rich in Rome hide their wealth away behind walls and guards instead of sharing it with the meek, as Jesus Christ," wailing and abasement, " would have done."

"The Knights Hospitaller are no different, sending the riches of Europe to their mercenary cohorts in the Mediterranean."

Father Hazm: "Perhaps you have a point. There is too much hoarding, and too few alms."

I can deliver a short speech to that effect.

Paul the Demagogue: You're more than welcome to.

Feel free to roll theology here.

To find out if this is actual doctrine or not.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2+2 Int Theology

(

9

)

+2+2

=

13

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+1+5+1 int + theo + heresy spec

(

3

)

+1+5+1

=

10

Paul the Demagogue: You should really bump that Theology score up.

Celeste: nice roll.

Paul the Demagogue: Anyway.

Celeste: Great job Celeste!

Father Hazm: I will

This adventure has given a lot of exposure to it.

"Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes."

Paul the Demagogue: Alright whispers done.

Every time you say "Lord" it's accompanied by whipping noises as the penitents scourge themselves.

Man if they have enough money for doctors you could really clean up here, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Jesus Christ be praised.

Father Hazm: Let's hire a Jew who can give them loans for medical bills

Celeste: "Paul, are you sure they don't share?"

Paul the Demagogue: The Jews in Rome are pretty poor.

Father Hazm: I mean, we let the Jew loan our money, who has permission to speculate

Paul the Demagogue: "I ask you, do you ever see a nobleman going hungry? Has a man wearing the finest silk ever tasted the ashes of starvation?"

Celeste: "Well, that's what happens when you're extremely in accordance with God.

"

"After all, I'm almost 40 years old! Look at me!"

I start doing exercises.

Paul the Demagogue: "Would you be willing to share your bounty with the poor and embrace poverty as the Lord Jesus Christ," chanting, whipping, and so forth, "would?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: poverty is for poorfags

Paul the Demagogue: "Poverty is not limited to monastic orders, we must all embrace it to care for the meek in these, the final days."

Celeste: "We all have our roles to serve."

Paul the Demagogue: The final nights.

Boom, World of Darkness crossover.

Ilbrago: warhammer fantasy crossover

the man has a point

Paul the Demagogue: "Let us now pray for deliverance from sin, that we may be spared the coming apocalypse." He motions for one of his acolytes, who opens a box and lifts it high above his head. The box has another, smaller box wrapped in embroidered silk inside of it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's steal their relic and use it for our own purposes.

Paul the Demagogue: Every penitent falls to their knees in terrified supplication and even a few of the bystanders cross themselves.

Paul also begins praying.

Celeste: Relic Boy: "I need more relics!"

Father Hazm: Interasting

Paul the Demagogue: Roll Theology or Divine Lore or talk to a penitent to find out what this relic is.

Or don't, that's also fine.

Celeste: I'll do that.

Paul the Demagogue: Ok.

Which one?

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+2 Divine Lore Int

(

10

)

+2+2

=

14

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+5+1 per + divine lore + relic spec

(

9

)

+2+5+1

=

17

if per is not ok its 16

for int.

"What the H are they doing with that relic?"

Ilbrago takes a step back.

Father Hazm: "Perhaps we should discuss this with the masters of Varidan's Tomb."

Paul the Demagogue: Oh, St. Raphael is the patron saint of healing illness.

Celeste: A bunch of manga panel cut-ins of Celeste reading books, going to church, and going on pilgrimages come in.

"That's a vial of water from the well of Bethesda, a relic touched by the angel St. Raphael!"

I'm trying not to say it too loud.

Father Hazm: "They are no mere hungry rabble, that is certain," I remark quietly to Celeste, seeing she recognizes this stuff quite well for a mere mercenary

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the well of bethseda, making of the good fallout fames

Paul the Demagogue: Some penitents with wracking coughs are allowed to touch the relic or have the relic brought to them.

Standard relic stuff.

Everyone seems very impressed by the presentation of a genuine relic.

Celeste: "Very generous of them to let people touch the relic like that."

Father Hazm nods.

Celeste: I've never really looked into it, what can you do with relics?

Father Hazm: Historically these types are only going to get worse with the coming plague, so there's likely little we can nip in the bud here.

Celeste: Other than gain MR from holding them

Father Hazm: Best we move on.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you can sacrifice them on an altar to moloch and gain sick powers

Paul the Demagogue: It should go without saying, but everyone with even a passing familiarity with the power of saints realizes that they are hoping their piety will cure their diseases.

Father Hazm: You can establish a church or shrine with them

Celeste: Ooh.

Ilbrago: and then desecrate the church for infernal power

Paul the Demagogue: So, in game terms that means that some relics can use Saint Powers at a cost to their Might Points, which regenerate at dawn every day.

Father Hazm: We still got a faerie regio to visit and I don't think anyone's going to try to murder Paul

Paul the Demagogue: The powers available to a relic are based on the powers the saint has, so a relic of St. Raphael is unlikely to have Fireball.

Celeste: Neat. I have a relic of St Urban of Langres, the patron of Langres; Dijon; vine-growers, vine-dressers, gardeners, vintners, and coopers; invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness wikipedia

in my mace.

Paul the Demagogue: The Fairy Regio is for next week.

Father Hazm: Ah

Paul the Demagogue: Not every relic can be used to invoke saint powers.

Celeste: This one is mostly for MR and hitting demons.

Paul the Demagogue: For example, the ones you can get at character creation lack this ability.

Anyway, anyone want to touch the relic?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Celeste does.

Ilbrago: I do.

Celeste: I'm feeling healthy, so I don't want to take any relic juice away from people.

Do I?

I will if you want, boss.

Father Hazm: I'll entreat the divine powers and then take a look at the relic with Second Sight

What's the aura here?

Celeste: Also a good idea.

Ilbrago: Ilbrago glances around and tries to slip into the crowd.

Paul the Demagogue: The aura is Divine 1.

Just like any street during the day.

It's a little weird right here because of the Magic aura and priory aura, but it's Divine 1.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+2+1 Presence + Divine Lore (entreatment)

(

8

)

+2+2+1

=

13

Paul the Demagogue: Anyway, roll Second Sight.

Father Hazm: Had to check that first

Paul the Demagogue: What's Entreatment?

Ilbrago: i want that blessing

Father Hazm: No penalty from the aura to magic-based Second Sight

Celeste: Fuck. Faerie Second Sight, rip

Paul the Demagogue: Gah.

Ilbrago: gahahaha.

Father Hazm:

rolling 5+2+d10! Second SIght

5+2+

(

8

)

=

15

Paul the Demagogue: Anyway, while you're doing that Ilbrago touches the relic and is instantly incinerated!

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+3-4 per + sec sig + faerie power in divine aura

(

1

)

+2+3-4

=

2

lmfao.

Paul the Demagogue: Just kidding, he just touches it.

The silk is soft but there's a solid box inside it, which must contain the water or a vial of the water or something.

Ilbrago: Wow!

Father Hazm: Entreat the Powers is an ability of learned magicians to mitigate penalties to magic abilities using the Lore of that realm

Ilbrago: I'm the luckiest grog in the world right now.

Father Hazm: Hazm learned it during his time studying at Bologna

Celeste: Noice.

Learned Magicians seem pretty smart. Heh heh.

Father Hazm: I have been informed that it is not a demon tainted object in disguise

Paul the Demagogue: AFK a sec, what do you want to do about these penitents in the long term?

Oh, Second Sight can't determine that.

You'd need Sense Holiness and Unholiness.

Celeste: Aaahhh.

Father Hazm: Mm

Paul the Demagogue: Anyway AFK.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let us ensure our grogs are well fed and ministered by father hazm so they dont defect

Father Hazm: I'll have to initiate mysel finto that

Celeste: let's inflate the prices of the inn while they're here.

Father Hazm: Anyway, there's no demons nearby or anything, which isn't quite as good to know. I'm not diseased so I don't need to touch it though.

Ilbrago: You should though.

It's great.

Celeste: I'll touch it, since Lavinia asked a while ago.

Father Hazm: Fine

Celeste: If they're offering, hey, everybody's a sinner who could use some healing, right?

Father Hazm: I got death prophecy, I can stand to touch the infernal relic

Celeste: So, about the penitents, though, aside from charging them extra at the inn to exploit this situation, what should we do?

Napolino bites into a chicken leg

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont see it as a problem really

Father Hazm: Yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they seem stupid and easily bribed

Father Hazm: Penitents are only going to get worse during the 14th century anyway, the magical famine is just fanning the lfames

Celeste: someone with more than -3 communication should tell them to go on pilgrimage

Ilbrago: lets invite them inside to see our talking skull relic

Father Hazm: I have 2 Comm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: L;et's genocide them all.

and let Guy do all the fighting.

Father Hazm: I was going to ask if my Charm spec in Italian women worked on Celeste, but then I realized she's Greek

Ilbrago: slaughter the Franks

Father Hazm: And we really do slaughter them

Celeste: Greeks ftw.

I should learn more of the language in-game.

Father Hazm: I can teach you

Well, I'll write a summa on Greek instead

Celeste: Hafl is missing out.

Father Hazm: Well we know the Hopsitaliers are fine, are the Cappocis suitably guarded?

Celeste: Hey, screw those guys.

Excuse my French.

Father Hazm: Well okay then

Celeste: I mean, they're probably very well equipped.

Father Hazm: I suggest we create an alms house in the name of the Church of Ponza

Celeste: The penitents aren't poor!

They're just hungry and sick for some reason. Maybe we took all the fish.

Paul the Demagogue: Sorry I had some cereal today and I think it's disagreeing with me.

Father Hazm: Well we steal the zeitgeist from under them if they're not poor

Celeste: Happens to us all.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets create a powerful mentem item that makes people not realize they're hungry

Endrite (GM): Just use Virgillian magic to do that.

Gahahaha.

Father Hazm: Fiorella hasn't had time to work on her mentem

Ilbrago: but is hunger an emotion or a state of mind

Father Hazm: It's a memory

Or an estimation

Endrite (GM): The poverty that Paul espouses is similar to monastic poverty in that you're expected to give away your material possessions but are maintained to a reasonable standard.

Celeste: It's only faiir.

fair.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do we look rich

are we in danger of being mugged

Celeste: See if Anson will sell you that vineyard in the Faerie 2 aura so you can grow crops.

Ilbrago: are you wearing your exquisite claok

cloak

Napolino: I'm famous for being a good guy, so no-one's going to mug me.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: shit.

i am.

Celeste: hah

Endrite (GM): Nobody in Rome would be dumb enough to mug someone from Vardian's Tomb.

However, anti-wealth sentiment could definitely be a problem going forward.

Ilbrago: just dont tell the rabble that we have 250 pounds worth of pirate plunder

Endrite (GM): Yoho.

Anyway, is that the current plan?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: works 4 me

Ilbrago: building an alms house?

Endrite (GM): Just trying to keep any covenfolk from defecting?

Father Hazm: VT's books are consistently in the red so I don't think we're particularly opulent.

Ilbrago: I don't even get full pay.

Endrite (GM): I certainly have never thought so.

Ilbrago: let's kill the magi.

Endrite (GM):  Glowing mundane brain

Celeste: If you go to the Garden of Herisson and magically create food with CrHe for Moon duration and take it out, does it then rot and produce miasma

Ilbrago: we'll kill the magi, and sell the annual vis harvest to the redcaps for gold

Celeste: t his is ooc because i dont have enough magic theory to ask this question.

Endrite (GM): I have no idea.

You'd need to ask Johns.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it does not.

Endrite (GM): Alright.

So, as predicted, the penitent march eventually leaves the Priory with no serious harm done to anyone.

Father Hazm: They seem well connected but we can explore that later

Endrite (GM): A few days later, a desperate young man turns up on your doorstep.

The covenanters who went to explore the Fairy regio have (returned and are too busy/all died/gone missing/been replaced by fairies and spend all their time dancing).

Father Hazm: RIP Fiorella

Nico of Capocci: "Please help me, this is a matter of life and death!"

Napolino bites into another chicken leg

Father Hazm: Let's allow this representative of the esteemed Capocci family inside.

I instruct a grog to bring him inside and announce our guest.

Nico of Capocci: "My louer has fallen ill and I have heard that a master of medicine lives here."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Ave."

What's a louer

Celeste: lover.

Nico of Capocci: Lover but before "u" was invented.

I mean "v".

Ilbrago: it's the louercase version of LOUER

Nico of Capocci: "Please, you must promise to help me."

Celeste: it's the louuercase.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am sworn by the oath of Hippocrates. What seems to be the trouble?"

Guy of Bonisagus turns the page.

Father Hazm: "I'll return to my work if you are seeing to this, Doctor Zoboli."

Nico of Capocci: "It is my lover, she has taken ill and fallen into a deep slumber."

Celeste: "How tragic."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Very well, I'll go see him."

"Her."

Nico of Capocci: "Ah," he holds his hand to his face in (rather theatrical) grief, "therein lies the rub, for she is held in bondage by her cruel father, the Count Annibaldi."

Father Hazm: "Perhaps I can compose a chartae, to aid in her recovery, doctor, if you can get me her birthday."

Nico of Capocci: You might find his behavior unusual but please remember, he's a teen.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "How do you know of her condition if she's held captive?"

Celeste: "Maybe he lets the boy visit on weekends."

Nico of Capocci: "She has not been to our rendezvous in the hills. Her absence cuts me more cruelly than the most fiendish weapons ever devised by the hands of man."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Oh. This sounds like a problem for a Knight and not a Doctor, then."

Ilbrago shouts from across the tavern.

Ilbrago: "Yeah, they're right across the street!"

Nico of Capocci: "Her faithful servants have spirited word of her condition away from her prison and to my ears."

"I can pay you any price to save the picture of God's perfect grace here on Earth."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hm, do you have any magical artifacts or vis?"

"Texts on the arcane or occult?"

Nico of Capocci: He looks confused.

He pulls out his purse, heavy with coin.

"Is this what you mean?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Use it to hire some mercenaries, we're not thugs for sale."

Ilbrago: https://i.imgur.com/lnJW7YT.png

Celeste: lol

Nico of Capocci: "Then you would condemn my beloved Gavriella to death," he sinks to his knees.

Celeste: "Are you leaving anything out?"

Napolino: I have a headache so I'm just going to bed. Napolino becomes an NPC grog again. Farewell.

Celeste: "Perhaps some detail that will spark her interest."

rip.

goodnight

Nico of Capocci: Farewell.

"Gavriella's voice is like the song of a songbird."

"Her hair is a more brilliant gold than all the treasuries of Europe."

Celeste: "Oh, please."

Nico of Capocci: "Her skin is as smooth as a pool of milk."

He continues on in this fashion for some time.

Ilbrago: farewell dys.

Nico of Capocci: Heedless of your lack of romantic spirit.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Is your father Hugo di Capoci?"

Nico of Capocci: "Yes, what of the tyrant?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A tyrant?"

"I was going to ask if he had magical resources to spare for your task."

Nico of Capocci: "In his wickedness, he has forbade me from seeing Gavriella ever again, but mere walls are no barrier to true love."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Well, then your true love should be able to get you through the walls without our help. Good luck."

Nico of Capocci: "His magicians refuse to aid me, proving them to be mere charlatans."

He draws himself off the floor. "Then if you will not help me, it falls to me to rescue my beloved with my own two hands, armed with nothing but the flames of our passion."

Ilbrago: "Those magicians are nothing compared to our magicians!"

Nico of Capocci: If you don't stop him, he leaves the Eastern Ear Inn with this declaration.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I do not stop him.

Nico of Capocci: Alright, farewell.

Ilbrago downs a glass.

Father Hazm: It sounds like a violation of the CoH to help him

Ilbrago: "God, I wish this wasn't just water."

Endrite (GM): Eh, maybe.

Anyway, apart from whatever disruption the Fairy Regio adventure causes, life returns to normal. Well, I mean, there's still an apocalyptic catastrophe going on, but you know what I mean.

Lavinia, how many patients do you see outside of Vardian's Tomb?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: like 4 maybe

Endrite (GM): Who are they?

Ilbrago: is she still helping the knights

Lavinia of Jerbiton: some rich people i guess idk

Endrite (GM): Alright, you notice their households falling ill at a surprising rate.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: good shit.

Endrite (GM): Furthermore, you hear rumors that House Annibaldi has succumbed almost entirely to some disease.

There have been a few recoveries, but much of the household is deathly ill.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im sure theres no connection

Endrite (GM): Possibly.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well if they want to pay me i can take on a few more patients

Ilbrago: it can't be helped

Endrite (GM): One of the last healthy retainers does, indeed, request your services.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok I will add to their disease recovery roll.

Endrite (GM): He is circumspect about the number of patients, but he requests that you come to their villa at once.

Bringing as many assistants as you feel necessary, of course.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'll ask Father Hazm to come with

Father Hazm: Okay

Endrite (GM): Anyone else or has everyone fallen asleep/started watching wrestlemania?

Celeste: I guess, if you need an armed guard.

I can come.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sure why not

its a party

Endrite (GM): Huzzah!

Ilbrago: i can come.

or you could run into gulielmus on the road. who knows

Endrite (GM): That'd be ok.

Ilbrago: wheres beardbeard

Endrite (GM): You got me.

Celeste: good q

Father Hazm: I believe he has checked out

Celeste: rip.

Ilbrago: hes a coward

Endrite (GM): Anyway, the Annibaldi villa is lightly guarded. The guards on guard hurriedly let you inside, but quickly close the doors behind you.

Celeste: "It's a good thing I'm here to guard you from all these guards."

Ilbrago: "Who's going to guard us from the disease?"

Endrite (GM): Let me try him on Steam.

Father Hazm: "Well I'm glad you're here, what with all this 'French Church' talk."

Endrite (GM): It says he's online but he isn't responding.

Let's forge ahead without him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont think he was having fun.

Father Hazm: Yeah

Endrite (GM): Sheesh.

Celeste: Nothing he could do.

Endrite (GM): Well, should we call it here and pick it up again next week when everyone is feeling better or do you want to wrap this up?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets wrap it up

What mysterious illness plagues the Annibaldis

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Celeste: Yeah.

Ilbrago: rip.

let's run combat against the entire annibaldi household

Celeste: ^^^

Endrite (GM): The many rooms of the Annibaldi villa resemble the hospital of the Priory of St. Ubaldesca, with the remaining healthy servants tending to the needs of the ailing family.

To preempt your question, many of the servants have also fallen ill.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I attempt to diagnose the illness.

Endrite (GM): Alright, you certainly don't lack for evidence.

Roll Medicine.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+7

(

3

)

+7

=

10

Endrite (GM): + Int.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +2

== 12

Endrite (GM): Ok.

(From Endrite (GM)): It's Garotillo!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Tis Garotillo"

I was supposed to make a cure for that a few years ago but forgot. Oh well!

Endrite (GM): Whoops.

What the heck?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Where do they get their drinking water from?"

Endrite (GM): A serving maid tells you they get their water from a well. The Count hasn't trusted the Tiber ever since it started to clear up.

Now where'd Shaun go?

Don't tell me Shaun and Beardbeard are the same person.

Celeste: Nope.

But I don't know where Shaun went either.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: shaun says he had a poewr outage

Celeste: What the heck.

Oh.

Endrite (GM): Gah!

Ilbrago: cranked

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let us inspect the well.

Beardbeard: hmm. me too

Endrite (GM): Well, it can't be helped.

Ilbrago: I'll look in the well.

Celeste: Well, well, well.

Endrite (GM): It's a large well, located inside the fortified villa.

Ilbrago:

rolling 1d10!+1 Perception

(

4

)

+1

=

5

Endrite (GM): It's dark inside the well.

Ilbrago: "It's dark, boss."

Endrite (GM): To skip ahead a little, the water doesn't seem tainted to a visual inspection, but it does smell a little strange.

Celeste: "Good work, Ilbrago."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I use my big brain to deduce the solution to this enigma.

Someone peed in the well.

Endrite (GM): Is Asparagus a medieval vegetable?

Celeste: My god... The celestials.

Ilbrago: yes

Endrite (GM): Well there's your answer!

But seriously, is it possible for any of you to perform an investigation on water?

Ilbrago: "My expert reckoning is... there's a demon in the well."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will collect samples of well water, sick people blood, sick people urine, and also ask if the Annibaldis have a library.

surely Guy can cast Intelligo Aquam.

Ilbrago: increasingly nervous maga

Guy of Bonisagus: lets see

i cannot

Endrite (GM): They have a library, but it is hardly extensive.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Guy you don't have any Intelligo Aquam?

Endrite (GM): Mostly just a few Bibles and some letters.

Ilbrago: he has one of the no sponting flaws i think

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol.

Celeste: I don't have any Intellego Aquam either.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: haha.

tfw all the wizards are useless.

Celeste: Also, my wizard who isn't here, he has deficient intellego.

Ilbrago: DO you know who had a formulaic spell to talk to investigate water

Endrite (GM): Collecting the urine is easy enough and those afflicted are hardly in any condition to stop you from taking their blood.

Ilbrago: uh

Endrite (GM): Aristocritus...

Ilbrago: well i fucked up that sentence. but regardless, do you know which wizard had that

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah i cant spont

Ilbrago: yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I don't know Ilbrago.

Whoms't've?

Ilbrago: aristocritus of trianoma, the archon beneath the mountain

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does guy's inability to spont mean he can't ceremonially cast either

I weep a single bitter tear at the memory of our dead greek friend, then I will try using the Sortes.

Endrite (GM): Does Medicine or Apothecary or whatever have any method to investigate water?

Guy of Bonisagus: idk

Celeste: how about Survival?

Guy of Bonisagus: i just know i cant spont

Endrite (GM): Let me see.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ease Factor 12: " Learn a natural property of a liquid."

Endrite (GM): Doesn't look like it, Celeste.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+8+2+6

(

3

)

+8+2+6

=

19

Celeste: rip.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: boom.

Celeste: Nice.,

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I discern what causes the funky odor.

Ilbrago: you could second sight the well.

to see hte demon

Endrite (GM): Sadly it's up to the greatest wizard on life to save the day.

(From Endrite (GM)): It's been poisoned with a poison that causes Garotillo!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The well has been poisoned."

In darts invenom'd and in poison skill'd.

Then Clytius fell beneath his fatal spear,

Celeste: Is there a demon?

Ilbrago: who knows.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't know. I wish Gulielmus were here with a spell to talk to wells so we could ask who poisoned it."

Ilbrago: afk

Celeste: "I miss him."

(From Endrite (GM)): The poison is a mixture of beef blood, honey, and some herbs that are beyond the ability of the Sortes to detect, due to the minute quantities present and also because I don't want to give you free XP In the form of a potion recipe.

Endrite (GM): Apart from the water, there are other ways to investigate this mystery.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We can ask the servants if Nico Capocci was spotted nearby the well.

Endrite (GM): Criminey we have too many NPCs.

Celeste: Not enough.

Old Woman: "Who is that, m'lady? If it's a Capocci you seek, you would not find him here. The Count is feuding with them on account of he suspects them of witching up the river." She taps her nose knowingly.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Who else could have poisoned your well?"

Old Woman: "Poor old Gavriella was the last one to hold any faith with that rotten family, but she passed away..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "By the way, the well is poisoned, don't drink from it."

Old Woman: Good tip.

Celeste: I'm actually going to have to go for like, fifteen minutes. I'm sorry.

Old Woman: "The Count has many enemies. Those Capoccis are well known for trafficking in poisons and other witchcraft."

I hope to have this sesh wrapped in an hour.

"But it could be anyone! Those Knights Hospitaller have always eyed m'lord's holdings like a starving wolf."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You know what? It was probably them."

Old Woman: "Or those maniacs who whip themselves in the street! They're filthy!"

"If you ask me, we're safer inside these walls even with this foul sickness than the rest of the poor folk in Rome."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Dr. Zoboli is right, those knights must be behind this."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "They have access to foul poisons from far off Araby."

"Motive, means, opportunity..  Cui bono, Cicero used to say."

Old Woman: "It is good if the truth comes to light, but m'lord's guards can scarce protect our home, let alone fight a band of mercenaries grown fat off plunder."

"If you know this poison, can you concoct a cure?"

Ilbrago: im back.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I could, given enough time and resources. My meager little clinic is hard pressed to compete with all the foul apothecaries of the Knights but it is my duty as a Christian to do what I can."

Old Woman: "Bless you, doctor, bless you." she clasps your hands with her old, wrinkled mitts.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Today I did something good for my community.

Old Woman: Alright, do you want to investigate this further, table it, or give them a fake cure and steal all their money?

Celeste: "You're a wonderful woman, Lavinia."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i can make a real cure given a season

i cant think of another way to investigate without an actual Sponting wizard here

Ilbrago: diedne's revenge

Endrite (GM): You could follow up on Gavriella's death.

Or try to find Nico, if you believe him to be responsible.

Ilbrago: shaun's character is also a sponting wizard.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I didn't think to secure an A/C to Nico.

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'll ask how Gavriella did.

Died.

Was it from Posion? I bet its from poison

Ilbrago: "Say, did that Capocci kid ever come around here and cause trouble?"

Old Woman: As she said, she never saw him.

Ilbrago: oh, i missed that part

Old Woman: But he did claim to have some confederates.

No problemo.

"She was the first to fall ill and the first to die."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "She was given a Christian burial, I hope?"

Celeste: "Oh, it's rude to even ask that, I bet."

Old Woman: "We couldn't even have a proper funeral for her."

"She was just buried with only a few mourners, since the rest of the house had taken ill at the time."

"I snuck her favorite veil into her dress before they took her away, so she won't be afraid."

The old maid starts to tear up at this memory.

Roll Area Lore: Rome or Church Lore.

Ilbrago: sounds reasonable

Celeste: "Yeah... That is very sad."

rolling 1d10+1+2 int + church lore

(

6

)

+1+2

=

9

Ilbrago: grogs should really get some free area lore.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2 having neither

(

3

)

+2

=

5

(From Old Woman): Sounds sad!

Ilbrago:

rolling 1d10!-1 same

(

10

+

8

)

-1

=

17

lol

Old Woman: Wow!

But I didn't ask for a stress roll.

Ilbrago: it's also illegal to roll area lore without any xp

Old Woman: It seems reasonable since you live here.

Also you all managed to remember that rich families often pay mourners to cry at funerals.

Celeste: "It's pretty common for people to bury their loved ones with their favorite things to avoid their spirits coming back to haunt people."

Endrite (GM): In game terms, that probably counts as an Arcane Connection, if you want to go grave robbing.

Ilbrago: i will follow up on this lead

"They didn't even pay anyone?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey I have a Graverobber agent

Old Woman: Let's introduce this unused system into play at once!

johns: I call upon a favor of my graverobber agent, earning Agent XP.

Old Woman: "No, only a few of the other servants were able to attend, but I don't count myself among them. It's been a busy time..." she trails off.

Ok, the grave robber will have to wait until nightfall to do his dirty deed.

What do you have to roll to make him do his thing?

I barely even remember that the agent system exists, let alone how it works, to be honest.

Celeste: Same here.

This is exciting.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Comm + Charm, Intrigue, or LEadership + Bond Strength - Gift Penalty + STress vs

vs East Factor

Old Woman: Alright, let's roll it.

Let's say Ease Factor 9 here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Perform an Easy task

(Ease Factor 6)

3 Persuade a merchant to give pas-

sage to a magus with The Blatant

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Gift

Perform a Hard task (Ease

Factor 12)

6 Steal a ring from a lady’s finger

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

Perform an Impressive

task (Ease Factor 18)

9 Arrange a fatal accident for the

prince

Old Woman: It's his profession, after all.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Within a few weeks +0

Within a few days +1

Within a day +3

No risk to self (simple die) +0 Deliver a package to a

merchant

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

Risk of embarrassment or reputation

(attempt requires a stress die, 1 botch die)

+1 Deliver a prostitute to a

merchant

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

Risk of injury or imprisonment (attempt

requires a stress die, 3 botch dice)

+3 Deliver a threat to a rich

merchant

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

Risk of death (attempt requires a stress die,

5 botch dice)

+6 Deliver a threat to the

bishop, in his own palace

Old Woman: Thank you.

Graze, amici.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2+2+1 Comm+Intrigue+Bond

(

7

)

+2+2+1

=

12

Old Woman: Alright that's good enough to get him to do it within a day.

Ilbrago: we also used to have a magus with a formulaic spell to speak to the dead.

Old Woman: The risk is low, since the family graveyard isn't being guarded at the moment. The Annibaldi's figure that no one is going to be crazy enough to try to rob plague victims' graves.

Celeste: Who would?

Old Woman: You have one now but Mortis is too busy.

His mom is yelling at him to find a good job for his brother.

More people should learn that spell!

Anyway...

Endrite (GM): It wouldn't be useful in this situation, because the grave is empty!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Zuhhh

Endrite (GM): You only find a veil lying at the bottom of the casket.

(They're rich enough they don't buy coffins.)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: guhh

is the grave already disturbed

Celeste: No corpse, huh?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did the skeleton get animated and claw its way out

Endrite (GM): Yes, in your grave robber's expert opinion someone has already robbed this grave.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: uhhh thats weird

Ilbrago: yikes

Celeste: Holy shit.

Endrite (GM): However, he notes, there is no evidence that the person inside the casket was ever dead!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i thought we were the only sickos in town.

Celeste: Holy shit!

Ilbrago: after decades of fighting necromancers and demons from hell weve finally come up against an opponent as depraved as vardians tomb

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok there's hopefully an easy way to get to the bottom of this, use the veil as an AC to trace down its owner

Endrite (GM): There's none of the corruption you usually see in these situations. He offers to let you smell the casket as proof.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will smell the casket, sure

Endrite (GM): It smells earthy, but not like death.

As a doctor and occasional murderer you are familiar with that smell.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Occasional"????

it happened ONCE

Celeste: That's occasional.

Endrite (GM): What an occasion it was, too.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Very well, let us consult the sortes using this arcane connection, as to the location of its owner.

Endrite (GM): Sounds good.

Celeste: Virgil ftw.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wont even go to the mercury regio this time

rolling 1d10!+8+2+3 vs 12

(

9

)

+8+2+3

=

22

Ilbrago watches Lavinia open her book with bated breath.

Endrite (GM): Lemme check something.

Alright cool.

You find this veil's owner, Gavriella!

Celeste: :O

Endrite (GM): She's at the Port of Ostia!

The Sortes helpfully updates your minimap with her precise location.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Celeste, will you please round up the usual band of toughs to deal with this?"

Ilbrago: We'll never catch her in time.

wheres the vergil quote johns

Celeste: "Of course, if they're not caught up whipping their own backs with the penitents."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Within a long recess there lies a bay:

An island shades it from the rolling sea,

And forms a port secure for ships to ride;

Ilbrago: ty

Endrite (GM): MAKES you think.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The tiber river feeds to Ostia right?

Endrite (GM): Anyway, you travel to Ostia and have many exciting adventures along the way.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whee

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Do you have an idea?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no just curious

Endrite (GM): Alright.

You find your way to a dockside tavern, where your Sortes minimap directs you to the room in which Gavriella may be found.

How do you want to handle this?

Celeste: "Should I knock, or do we just go in?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I trust your judgement when it comes to matters of violent interrogation"

Ilbrago: "Hey, you're the, you know."

"In between the boss and me."

Endrite (GM): Underboss.

Celeste: That sounds sinful.

Ilbrago: bosslet

Endrite (GM): Consigliere.

Celeste: "Can anyone do that thing where you like, touch the wall and then say what's on the other side?"

Ilbrago: "Yeah but the owner won't like it."

Guy of Bonisagus: i thought i could but i cant

Ilbrago grabs the haft of his weapon, which is...

Celeste: "Nothing I could do."

Ilbrago: a 2-handed battleaxe

Celeste: I use my mace and hit the door alongside Ilbrago.

Endrite (GM): Alright.

It takes a few whacks but eventually you break through the barred door.

You discover Gavreilla, lying dead on the floor with Nico dead on top of her, locked in an eternal embrace.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cute.

Ilbrago: "Ahh hell."

Celeste: "Oh, Jesus Christ!"

Endrite (GM): Or until you move them, I guess.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i guess they did the romeo and juilet.

Endrite (GM): Could be.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i inspect the bodies.

Endrite (GM): You find a glass vial that rolled between Gavriella's legs.

Both bodies are still warm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Does Nico still have his purse of coin

Endrite (GM): Do you want to perform any other investigation?

He still has his purse but it is much more empty than it was.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: What's the cause of death

Ilbrago: i'll keep a lookout.

"You do whatever it is wizards do with bodies."

Endrite (GM): It's a Medicine roll to do an autopsy.

+ INT

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+7

(

6

)

+2+7

=

15

(From Endrite (GM)): They both died of cyanide poisoning.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Cyanide."

"Well, it's suicide, so they're going to hell. No Christian burial for them."

"I will let Mortis know, he would have good use for them."

Celeste: "What idiots."

(From Endrite (GM)): Interestingly, Gaverilla was still sick and, even more astonishingly, in the early stages of Variola instead of the late stages of Garotillo.

Ilbrago: "That's a damn shame, it is."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: What is Variola?

devil's fav demon: smallpox

Endrite (GM): More commonly it's known as smallpox.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I see.

Endrite (GM): smol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let us bring Mortis here to interrogate the dead, as it is beyond me.

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: was Nico sick

Endrite (GM): Not that you can tell.

But if he came into contact with Gavriella he probably caught smallpox from her.

Speaking of, you have also come into contact with a smallpox victim.

Celeste: Awesome.

Endrite (GM): You can probably avoid catching it though.

Disease Avoidance roll:

Stamina + Living Conditions Modifier +

(Corpus/5) + Wound Penalty + stress die

Ilbrago: cripes

i don't know my living conditions modifier

Endrite (GM): Vs. the Stable factor for the disease, which is 9 in this case.

Celeste: Isn't the living conditions modifier 8

Ilbrago: for grogs?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is my modifer the bonuses from bath, animo, and longevity rituals

Endrite (GM): -2 for living in the city + 10 for all the magic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i see.

Ilbrago:

rolling 1d10!+8+3

(

6

)

+8+3

=

17

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+8-1

(

9

)

+8-1

=

16

Endrite (GM): Everyone here gets to roll this by the way.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+8

(

10

+

4

)

+2+8

=

24

Endrite (GM): Phew!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sheesh and this stuff killed the indians?

Ilbrago: guy may or may not be here

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gay.

Guy of Bonisagus: whats our living conditions right now

Ilbrago: since hes half here, his total should be halved

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 10 + 2

(

9

)

+10+2

=

21

Endrite (GM): Mortis gives you an earful for interrupting his work, but he agrees to summon up these ghosts.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Endrite (GM): Which one would you like to speak to first?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the dead girl

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hey stupid. You're dead.

Endrite (GM): The room smells like oranges and you hear a ghostly voice call out.

Gavriella of Annibaldi: "Nico... my beloved Nico... where are you..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Nico's right here." I point to the corpse.

Gavriella of Annibaldi: "Where is he... it's so dark..."

Celeste: "You killed yourselves like idiots."

Ilbrago: "Rookie move."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Did you fake your death only to die here?"

Gavriella of Annibaldi: "I'm dead? That can't be... Nico isn't here..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Nico will be with you shortly. Just tell me what happened."

Gavriella of Annibaldi: "I was sick... and Nico came... to save me..."

"He gave me.... a potion..."

"We were reunited..."

Celeste: "Wow, Nico was a little psycho."

Gavriella of Annibaldi: "Then we came here... to start our new lives... across the sea..."

"What happened... where is Nico..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hold that thought."

"Mortis, summon Nico please."

Endrite (GM): He grumbles and does so.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hi Nico. Where did you get the potion?"

Endrite (GM): Fortunately this just works and I don't have to screw around with concentration rolls.

Ilbrago: Updated my precedent journal.

Nico of Capocci: "Doctor... where is Gavriella..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Right here."

"Your potion didn't work so well. Where did you get it?"

Nico of Capocci: "I can't see her... it's so dark..."

Perhaps he's wondering why you'd summon a ghost just before pushing him out a plane.

"The cure... it was... I found it... in a house..."

"Where is Gavriella... we are to be together..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "C'mon, focus. Whose house. Who told you it was a cure."

Nico of Capocci: "The potion... he said it would help... I found it..."

"He was a good man... Gavriella... got better..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Who?"

Nico of Capocci: "Then... we came here... to flee to France... but then what happened..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You died after drinking from the vial."

Nico of Capocci: "He was... a leper..."

Celeste: "Hm."

Nico of Capocci: "But... he traveled with the penitents..."

"Dead... no... where is Gavriella..."

Celeste: "Klybutes?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "She's dead too. Her ghost is over there."

Nico of Capocci: "Where is she... I can't see her..."

"It's so dark..."

Ilbrago: "So it was murder, then."

"Not suicide."

Nico of Capocci: "Doctor... you have to help..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Does Cyanide cause blindness or are they jsut being dumb ghosts

Ilbrago: roll hermetic theory. gahaha

Nico of Capocci: Seems like some ghost bullshit to me.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+2 magic theory

(

10

)

+2+2

=

14

Ilbrago: criminy

Lavinia of Jerbiton slam dunks Ilbrago

Ilbrago is reduced to ashes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I remember a leper with the penitents awhile ago, Jehan or something was his name."

"So he gave you a potion to give to Gavriella before your escape, and then a potion you tried out here in Ostia?"

Nico of Capocci: "She was... sick again... we had no cure... for it..."

"Better to be... together... forever..."

"Where is Gavriella..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Oh, so you killed her. Good job."

Ilbrago: "So it was suicide, then."

"Not murder."

Nico of Capocci: "Never... she was... my true love..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "So she'll get buried in consecrated ground and be with Jesus and you get stuck in Mortis' lab and sent to hell."

"Tough break."

"Or we could bury you both together if you tell us where to find the Leper."

Ilbrago: "Oh!"

"What if you keep both of their ghosts around?"

Mortis ex Verditus: If he's destined for Hell then, according to Hermetic Theory, he's already there.

Ilbrago: sad

Mortis ex Verditus: Also I'm not going to keep Whispers Beyond the Black Gate up on two people forever.

Ilbrago: mortis, sworn enemy of true love

Mortis ex Verditus: Also they aren't technically ghosts, as they have no ability to move about the spirit world, so more technically they would be called apparitions and blah blah blah.

Endrite (GM): He continues in this fashion for a while.

Ilbrago: "Okay, but, what if you get their real ghosts?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What if we visit Avernus and meet their ghosts in the afterlife?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Why would we?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Just a thought."

"Anyway Nico, where do I find the leper?"

Nico of Capocci: "I don't... remember..."

"A house... in Rome..."

"But... where..."

"The penitents... were they there..."

"No... I was alone..."

"Where was the house..."

Nico of Capocci: "Doctor... you have to help me... find Gavriella.."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Any other questions

I feel we have exhausted the use of this dead man.

Endrite (GM): Anyone?

Ilbrago: we could ask him for capocci secrets.

where's the secret loot, ghost

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Where does Hugo di Capocci keep his most valuable magical secrets"

Nico of Capocci: "My treasure..."

"Where is she..."

"My father... came between us..."

"Nothing can come... between true love..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Alright."

"They're all yours Mortis."

Lavinia of Jerbiton dusts hands

Mortis ex Verditus: "I don't want a couple diseased corpses."

"I might catch something."

Spoilers: he didn't.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright, I'll ask my graverobber to bury them somewhere.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright cool.

Celeste: Nice job.

Endrite (GM): Well, a tragic end to this tale.

But a question remains, what of this mysterious leper?

And who poisoned the Annibaldi well???

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We must spread the word to everyone that lepers need to be persecuted.

Endrite (GM): 7 XP to keep you from asking questions.

Ilbrago: wow!

that's 16 xp for ilbrago

Endrite (GM): Yeah he's doing great today.

Celeste: Score.

Endrite (GM): Next week a probably much more dangerous adventure involving the greatest knights on life!

Jousts, duels, and thrilling grand battles are probably in store!

Ilbrago: next week: the faerie exploration crew poisons the annibaldi well

Endrite (GM): I'll definitely award bonus XP if that happens somehow.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Cheers

Celeste: God bless.

Guy of Bonisagus: good work everyone

Ilbrago: gg

Endrite (GM): C-ya.