11/26/17

johns (GM): CK2 maxes out at 1337 A.D. and EUII starts at 1399 A.D. What is this bullshit, Johan

dys: I just realised I'd messed up an earlier season and actually have more xp than I thought. Good times.

Endrite (GM): Sounds like we need 20 more DLC for each.

johns (GM): oh for some reason ck2 goes until the 15th century but 1337 is the last end date yocan pick

so I'd have to run that then let it run for 3 years and hope the AI doesn't fuck up the map. bleh

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have Auram, Ignem, and Terram left before I can teach apprentices without inducing flaws

Beardbeard: malachiasz has 8 corpus now

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Damn I never thought of running CK2 and let it figure out the political landscape of Frisia

Endrite (GM): I bet there are mods that add later start dates.

Isn't Frisia like one province in CKII?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't actually know

johns (GM): it is zeeland/holland in ck2

Endrite (GM): Owned.

Giraldo of Milan: new zealand

Endrite (GM): Fucking owned Ronnie you little homo.

johns (GM): no half and dfd today so we're missing boyrep and cthinker

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's go to Zeeland and tame some death moas

Zita of Mercere: We need to kill cumthinker for toying with us like this.

Giraldo of Milan: yeah... toying with our hearts!

Zita of Mercere: That was implied in what I said.

Hypatia of Athens: If no Derfel, I'll command the grogs

Endrite (GM): Getting some gamer grub.

Hypatia of Athens: cumthinker - Today at 11:54 AM

i dont think i can set aside 8 hours to pretend to be a wizard today

johns (GM): wtf

what is he doing all the time that he cant come to ars

Hypatia of Athens: :csgogun:

(To dys): you had 0 conf so I have given you 1 for the start of this adventure

johns (GM): alright we'll wait 10 minutes for Boyrep then start without him

When Jorn left did he take Gyro the Gnome with him?

Giraldo of Milan: cumthinker is the cia plant

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah I thought I deleted Gyro, sorry

c'thinker (GM): salve

Giraldo of Milan: we started to figure him out and he showed up after all

c'thinker: im here

johns (GM): Hello.

How's it going?

c'thinker: pretty good.

Giraldo of Milan: cumthinkers handler yelling at him saying he has to get in the game

Endrite: Ok I'm back.

Zita of Mercere: Is Boy Reporter on steam or just MIA

johns (GM): Ok, first part of today's adventure is Proclus and Archibald killing each other

c'thinker: i'm going to eat lunch but i can be back in like 20 minutes

Giraldo of Milan: hes offline on discord

johns (GM): he's not on steam

Giraldo of Milan: lunch at 3 pm????????

c'thinker: after dys and endrite have rolled new magi

please. its only 2 pm

johns (GM) updates posters.xls

Giraldo of Milan: gotcha bitch. got your time zone bitch. your done now

Proclus of Rome: Alright.

As my weapon I choose... disputatio.

c'thinker: i copy and paste time stamps all the time in discord!

johns (GM): Ok, but here's what's actually happening in Mythic Europe today.

Zita of Mercere: I don't read anything you say there, don't worry

c'thinker: christ

johns (GM): Venator has suffered an aging crisis and Lavinia is stuck at the covenant tending to him when an urgent missive from your pal, Jeanne d'Ys comes to Vardian's Tomb.

It is early Fall.

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

What kind of crisis?

johns (GM): He had a stroke.

Proclus of Rome: I guess that's sort of a personal question.

Hypatia of Athens: Mythic Europe Morning News, hot off the wizardsphere

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

johns (GM): He's getting up there in years.

Proclus of Rome: We need to prepare ourselves for his eventual death.

Zita of Mercere starts getting the balloons and cakes ready

c'thinker: a letter from jeanne de ys is highly relevant to gulielmus

c'thinker closes laptop

Proclus of Rome: I mean we need to figure out who is actually going to be in charge of the covenant.

Giraldo of Milan: malach will raise him as a lab assistant when he passes, out of respect

gulielmus will lead the covenant of course

c'thinker: thank you

Giraldo of Milan: hes a natural born leader

c'thinker: we should invite his necromancer rival to take over

Zita of Mercere: Easily manipulated and weak-willed?

Giraldo of Milan: with his  glances at stats and abilities and begins sweating

Hypatia of Athens: Let's put the normanie in charge

johns (GM): Jeanne writes in flowery prose, and details a problem around the Pamphili estate (where she has her sanctum). You all sorta recall that wolves have been a problem there for awhile, but she says that the situation is critical. Wolves are boldly charging out of the forest every night and sometimes in the day and scores of peasants are maimed or dying. Some knights dispatched by the local lord into the forest never returned.

Zita of Mercere: What's the missive say

ah

c'thinker: gulielmus has good presence and communication.

Proclus of Rome: Those damn wolves!

They almost killed me!

c'thinker: and hell good int to boot

Giraldo of Milan: wonder if this is at all related to that werewolf we killed.................

johns (GM): You are extended an invitation to the Lord's estate and to draw upon whatever resources you need, but Jeanne says that the situation is more than she can handle herself.

Zita of Mercere: Ah, now I see why boy rep isn't here. He'll join when it's time to kill Lodewig (Wolf Form)

Hypatia of Athens: As an Animal specialist, Fiorella is of course staying behind

johns (GM): The lord is particularly concerned that his peasants are dying right before harvest time. That is very bad for him.

That's all that's in the letter.

Zita of Mercere: The wolves were magical, not fairy, weren't they?

Proclus of Rome: He's all heart.

Yes, they're magic wolves.

Hypatia of Athens: Faerie wolves appear as the local memes regarding magical wolves circulate

johns (GM): Who's up for this expedition?

Giraldo of Milan: giralbo

Proclus of Rome: The famous local meme "Wolf Eating My Chickens."

I will go.

Hypatia of Athens: Heck, viking eating my chickens is enough to bring faeries

Zita of Mercere: A rich estate? I'd love to go.

Hypatia of Athens: I will go

Endrite: Vikings really raided rivers!

Sheesh!

Hypatia of Athens: Riverfolk need chickens too

Endrite: TFW you realize you haven't learned a beast warding spell despite it being in the library.

johns (GM): Look at all dem tokens.

Zita of Mercere: One of the bigger worries was the wolf being able to make you flee, with a mentem effect.

Giraldo of Milan: i think it just caused a bravery check

because muzio was the only one to pass it

Zita of Mercere: If you fail the effect youre forced to flee, still bad news

johns (GM): I'm assuming cthinker will bring gulielmus

Zita of Mercere: He said as much, yeah

johns (GM): So Proclus & Gulielmus, 2 redcaps, Giraldo, and 5 grogs

Hypatia of Athens: Fiorella has Circle of Beast Warding

Proclus of Rome: Sounds good to me.

AFK a sec.

Zita of Mercere: You could take Fiorella along, an animal expert would come in handy. Do none of the grogs have leadership for trained group stuff?

johns (GM): i can't remember what the trained group rules are unfortunately.

hope they're not important.

Hypatia of Athens: I think it's coordinate a trained group up to your leadership. Hypatia has 7

johns (GM): ah I think I proposed you can take +3 to your attack/defense per 2 levels of leadership, not to exceed group size

so hypatia could add +9 to her group if she had 3 grogs in it. does that work?

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

johns (GM): Ok, we'll give it a shot and see how it works.

Hypatia of Athens: Unless you'd rather have Fiorella for beast warding

None of the grogs I placed have Leadership

Zita of Mercere: Stabbing wolves to death is probably a lot better

Hypatia of Athens: Ok

Giraldo prefers to act independently while stabbing wolves

johns (GM): Cool, cool, cool.

Off we go then. Pamphili Estate is 10 miles away on good roads, so you depart in the morning and arrive late afternoon.

Hypatia of Athens: Moved some grogs back since we're going Leadership/2 round down, and Tunde's a girl

johns (GM): Girl crew.

Arriving as the sun is low in the sky from the north, you hear a commotion in the village, the church bell ringing wildly and people rushing from the fields to the chapel.

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back.

johns (GM): The gates to the Manor House are shut and guards watch from the parapets.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Sounds like a wolf attack.

Zita of Mercere: "That was fast, we've barely even arrived."

Proclus of Rome: We should rush towards the fields.

See where these wolves are at.

Hypatia of Athens: "Should we find some place secure?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Let's find the wolves and figure out what's going on here."

johns (GM): Ok, moving into town.

Hypatia of Athens: I set Tunde as vanguard of the girl grog crew

johns (GM): Outside the house marked with a red X is the center of commotion. In the front garden of the house is are two large wolves with black, matted fur and red eyes. Their faces are matted with blood and two peasants lie incapacitated on the ground. 3 more peasants are nervously circling the wolves with their farm implements as weapons but afraid to close in.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's help them

Proclus of Rome: Ok, we should be able to dispatch two wolves with no effort.

Zita of Mercere: "Time to help them out."

Giraldo of Milan: are the wolves saying anything

johns (GM): No, they're growling.

[Per + Second Sight insight available]

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+14

(

10

)

+14

=

24

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

Proclus of Rome: Wow!

Giraldo of Milan: just in case

Zita of Mercere: I'll try and sneak around and flank them from behind while the grogs charge them.

Giraldo of Milan: it was stressed

i dunno

(To Giraldo of Milan): On the back of each wolf you see what looks the silhouette of a short, shaggy haired human with no discernable features. You can make realm lore checks if you like.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+11 magic lore

(

3

)

+11

=

14

johns (GM): Ok, Zita is moving to flank while grogs charge. Any action from the Magi?

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+8 faerie lore

(

5

)

+8

=

13

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+8 infernal lore

(

6

)

+8

=

14

Proclus of Rome: You mean the other magi.

And yes.

Giraldo of Milan: "Wait, wait!"

Proclus of Rome: How far are we from the wolves?

(To Giraldo of Milan): Infernally, these look like shades of disease.

Giraldo of Milan: "Something's agitating the wolves. Demons."

"Riding on their backs."

johns (GM): You can get up close, the peasants form a sort of shield.

Zita of Mercere: I stop before sneaking off "Eh?"

johns (GM): The peasants cry out. "Satan! God help us!"

Giraldo of Milan: "Swing above their backs, and leave the wolves an escape route."

Hypatia of Athens: The grogs will move in in formation

Proclus of Rome: I mean do we get into Sight Range or Voice Range by the time we see them?

johns (GM): Okay, tell me if the grogs attack now or hold off because of Giraldo

Zita of Mercere: "Will stabbing them still work?"

johns (GM): Voice range, Endrite

Hypatia of Athens: Hold off because of Giraldo

johns (GM): K

Giraldo of Milan: "I don't see why it wouldn't. They're just invisible."

johns (GM): The wolves make an attack on the 3 peasants.

Proclus of Rome: Ok, I'll cast Hands of Grasping Earth on one of them.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+21

(

6

)

+21

=

27

johns (GM) rolls some dice

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 8 + 11 + 2 - 4

(

5

)

+8+11+2-4

=

22

johns (GM): Roll away, Endrite. Aura is Dom 2

Proclus of Rome: Right.

Hence the - 4.

Penetration is 11/2.

johns (GM): -6, no?

Proclus of Rome: Oh, whoops.

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

Proclus of Rome: You're right.

So that'd be 20.

Still better than 15.

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 27-12

27-12

=

15

Proclus of Rome: Total penetration value is 10.5

johns (GM): Ok.

Any action from Zita?

Proclus of Rome: If decimals have been invented yet.

Zita of Mercere: I'll try and sneak around the demons, rather than the wolves, then, going to wait on the grogs to charge in.

Hypatia of Athens: Alright if the wolves are attacking I guess we better head in

johns (GM): Ok.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

10

+

9

)

+22

=

41

That'll do

johns (GM): You sneak up on the wolves as they scratch one peasant and inflict a heavy wound. Earthen hands reach from the ground and grasp one of them, pinning it in place.

Proclus of Rome: Another Peasant Saved

johns (GM): Bite, not scratch. Anyway, grogs can charge now.

Tünde: Ok

johns (GM): Zita can also make an attack if she wishes, but without second sight she can't perceive any demons.

Giraldo of Milan: I point out about where they're sat upon each wolf.

Tünde:

rolling d10!+14+9 3 attacks on wolf pack

(

9

)

+14+9

=

32

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+14 Defense (no group bonus)

(

4

)

+14

=

18

Zita of Mercere: I can still go for an attack though, with Giraldo telling the grogs, right?

johns (GM): Yes.

Tünde: +10 damage (Lance)

johns (GM): 20

Proclus of Rome: Good old lance charge.

johns (GM): You mutilate the wolves.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+15 attack roll from stealth

(

6

)

+15

=

21

Proclus of Rome: Nothing beats Heavy Cavalry.

johns (GM): Zita strikes at the demon, but as it is in spiritual form, she can only strike the wolf.

Giraldo of Milan: oh its actually in spirit form

damn

(To Giraldo of Milan): The demon riders twirl into wisps of dark smoke as their wolves die, and then fly off towards the woods.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Giraldo of Milan: i thought it was just invisible

Zita of Mercere: "Oops."

johns (GM): One peasant tends to his hurt comrade, the other wails on the dead wolves with his pitchfork.

Giraldo of Milan: I run over. "Enough, enough. Let me examine them."

Proclus of Rome: That is his right.

johns (GM): Some more are streaming in from the fields and the church bells still ringing. The danger is over for now.

Proclus of Rome: More what?

Giraldo of Milan: i guess itd be medicine i want

Proclus of Rome: Wolves?

johns (GM): Peasants, sorry. haha.

Zita of Mercere: I back away from the invisible demon

Proclus of Rome: OH WELL THAT'S DIFFERENT!

Giraldo of Milan: I try to figure out what disease these demons are causing.

though im pretty sure

"The demons floated off back into the forest when the wolves died."

johns (GM): Are you examining the injured peasants or the dead wolves?

Giraldo of Milan: hmmm

wolves first

i mean i know what it is i wanna see if giraldo does

rolling 1d10+6

(

9

)

+6

=

15

johns (GM): Is that a Medicine roll?

Giraldo of Milan: yes

Proclus of Rome: "We never found the lair of the wolves the last time we investigated the forest. We should follow the demons, if possible."

johns (GM): Ok -- Though their features are horrid and unnatural, you see no sign of a specific disease on the wolves.

Zita of Mercere: "If they're intangible, won't it be difficult to stop them?"

Giraldo of Milan: ah, hm

I instruct the peasants to take their injured fellow to the nearest doctor, to ensure no disease sets in.

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, but they could lead us to the wolves' lair, allowing us to wipe them out before they cause more trouble."

Giraldo of Milan: "We shouldn't kill the wolves if we can help it, disease demons are afflicting them."

johns (GM): The peasants look at you a little strangely. "Doctor?"

Tünde: Okay there's a level 4 guideline to perceive demons with holy music

Giraldo of Milan: "Do you not have a- Fine." I instruct them in basic steps to take for now.

Tünde: Oh no

They need to give off sensible species for that

johns (GM): doesn't that defeat the point, shaun

Tünde: not rally

Perceive the evil in a target by the appearance of its image; the more deformed and evil-looking it becomes to your sight, the more tainted it is. (Meditation)

They have to have an image for that

johns (GM): Strange, but noted.

Proclus of Rome: Wealthy and well-trained doctor: "I'd sure love to spend my life treating idiot peasants who couldn't afford to pay me one loaf of bread a year."

johns (GM): The peasants point to the church. "Father says to put the hurt in his house."

Giraldo of Milan: To my sodales, "We should, if at all possible, see if any of the wolves maintain their minds. We may be able to help them fight off these demons, which are likely driving them to do as they do."

Tünde: Demons don't just go invisible sometimes they possess people or disguise themselves as people or angels

(To Shauncat): Does that spell reveal if a demon is possessing someone?

Proclus of Rome: "Who cares what a wolf thinks?"

Giraldo of Milan: "If we don't remove the demons, they'll find something else to afflict."

Proclus of Rome: "We should simply exterminate them in any case."

"How would a wolf fight a demon? I don't think any demon has the form of a chicken."

(From Tünde): That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption (Meditation, Intervention, Level 25) R: Per, D: Conc, T: Vision You can perceive the stain of sin upon human beings, twisting and deform- ing them to your sight in a manner appro- priate to their transgressions. For exam- ple, a glutton might appear distended and obese, a murderer’s hands would drip blood, and a liar’s tongue would seem forked. This may allow you to recognize demons masquerading as angels, for true angels are without sin. (Base 4, +1 Conc, +4 Vision)

johns (GM): Sounds like you forgot the Black Cockerel already.

(From Tünde): So up to interpretation, I suppose

(To Shauncat): Hm, does Hypatia have any infernal lore?

Giraldo of Milan: "They're beasts of magic, and they may be able to help us find the source of this curse."

(From Tünde): Not at present

Proclus of Rome: I did.

johns (GM): Barring a PC's actions, the peasants begin to collect their maimed friends and drag them to the church.

Zita of Mercere: "A way to avoid fighting both the wolves and demons at the same time is appealing."

Proclus of Rome: "Magic or not, I fail to see what wisdom mere beasts could gift us."

Giraldo of Milan: church seems like the best idea for them

Hypatia of Athens: I assume the well-trained doctor can ensure the peasants will recover

johns (GM): Too bad she has an excuse not to be here.

Giraldo of Milan: there is no doctor, its just the priest

Hypatia of Athens: Ok then

Giraldo of Milan: i can help out on the way back though

but being in the church should help some against disease demons

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go buff their recovery rolls

Giraldo of Milan: hypatia might be useful against demons

even if all shes doing is singing hymns

johns (GM): Alright, Hypatia follows them into the church. The inside of the church reeks of foul air. The floor is full of wounded peasants in bandages. The priest prays at the altar while one women tries to tend to them.

Hypatia of Athens: I can give people personality traits that could counteract whatever behavior the demon is trying to inpsire

Proclus of Rome: "Is it possible for you to track the wolves, Giraldo?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Of course."

"We should wait for Hypatia's return though, a holy woman could only be a boon when dealing with demons."

johns (GM): Among the peasants who are scratched and mauled, some are also showing other signs of woe, reddened flesh on their hands and shaking tremors.

(To Shauncat): Aura of the church interior is Dom 3

Hypatia of Athens: So +2 Voice, +3 Moon, +2 Group, and guideline is +3*level to recovery roll

Proclus of Rome: If ONLY we had a trained doctor or apothecary.

johns (GM): i just noticed that cthinker logged off

well, rip

Zita of Mercere: "At the end of the day, if we solve this, it'll be a great boon for Pahmphili. Perhaps smooth over earlier misgivings he seemed to have with people here."

Giraldo of Milan: i could probably roll infernal lore to come up with measures the priest could take too

Zita of Mercere: "I'm sure we could leverage his gratitude into something tangible."

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

(

9

)

+8

=

17

johns (GM): Gonna check something in ROP:Infernal real quick

Giraldo of Milan: cumthinker - Today at 3:10 PM

ok im headed out but ill be back with gulielmus

Hypatia of Athens: I'll attempt to give them +3 to recovery, level 25

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus will surely return. the potions must continue

(To Giraldo of Milan): If you can narrow down what disease these shades cause, you might be able to identify their Abhorrent Material.

Giraldo of Milan: I'll head into the church.

johns (GM): Roll it, Shaun

Giraldo of Milan: Taking a look at the most advanced infections.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10!+13+8+3+3

(

2

)

+13+8+3+3

=

29

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+6 identifying disease

(

10

)

+6

=

16

johns (GM): Nice rolls, guys. Also disease identification is stressed.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10 singing quality botch check

(

9

)

=

9

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

johns (GM): Very nice. Okay, here's your results

Combining medical knowledge & infernal lore

Proclus of Rome: Why did you check a botch on a 2?

Giraldo of Milan: i hope its rabies

so i can be right

Hypatia of Athens: I did not

You roll Music when you use Holy Music

johns (GM): Some of the peasants have been infected with St. Anthony's Fire, a minor sanguine disease, with a recovery interval of Season. When the demon uses their possession power against a target, that person is immediately infected with no chance to make an avoidance roll.

Hypatia of Athens: Which can botch

johns (GM): Symptoms include a red rash, intestinal pain, visions, muscle spasms, burning in the limbs, withering of the limbs, and eventually death.

Hypatia of Athens: If the singing isn't very good then it can fail

Proclus of Rome: Oh, you just didn't do a roll.

Giraldo of Milan: minor disease. results in death

Proclus of Rome: I see.

(To Giraldo of Milan): With a roll of 15+ on your Inf Lore, you know that holy water is abhorrent to the shades of this disease.

Giraldo of Milan: I approach the priest.

"Do you keep much holy water on hand?"

johns (GM): Minor refers to the wound penalty it has on all your actions

Hypatia of Athens: There's no EFs for Music so only botches matter

johns (GM): "Dei laudate- ... The font is empty today my son, there have been no baptisms."

Proclus of Rome: "Have you been having problems with infertility in the village?"

Giraldo of Milan: "You need to get some quickly as you can, father. These men are afflicted by demons of disease, the same ones driving the wolves into the village."

Proclus of Rome: "Uh, not you personally, of course."

Giraldo of Milan: "If you don't, these men will surely die."

johns (GM): He looks at Proclus strangely. Also, is Proclus speaking Italian?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

I'm a Native Speaker.

Fra Roncoferraro: Ok, well, he just ignores Proclus anyway. To Giraldo: "You are a Medicus?" He eyes you skeptically.

Proclus of Rome: "He is my servant."

Giraldo of Milan: "I know something of medicine, but more of dealing with problems caused by demons."

"Trust me. Get some blessed water, and rub it upon their rashes."

Fra Roncoferraro: "Domine domine domine. May the Lord soothe the agony of these souls. It shall be done."

Proclus of Rome: Wait a minute.

What happened to Fra Futricio?

Fra Roncoferraro: Apparently he's not here.

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

Giraldo of Milan: "Also, is it possible to get a bottle for us? I wish to drive off the demons afflicting the wolves."

Hypatia of Athens: RIP Friar #3, eaten by wolves

Giraldo of Milan: futricio is a soylentlike

Proclus of Rome: He's also the village priest here.

Or he was.

Fra Roncoferraro: I just read up on the particulars of demons possessing someone who come in contact with abhorrent material, gotta make a few rolls

rolling 10d10

(

3

+

2

+

9

+

7

+

4

+

3

+

10

+

7

+

2

+

6

)

=

53

Zita of Mercere: That's several rolls

Fra Roncoferraro: shh

The priest hesitates at your request. "The blessed font is not something that can be taken lightly, stranger.."

Proclus of Rome: "He is an expert on demon hunting, or so I'm given to understand."

Giraldo of Milan: "I understand, father, but I can think of no other way to deal with the demons. Should we kill the wolves, the spirits will surely go elsewhere and cause more suffering."

Fra Roncoferraro: "The affliction of demons is a result of the spiritual sickness of the flock. We must redouble our commitment to faith and good works and we shall be saved."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Fra Roncoferraro: "You have come to slay the wolves?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, we are friends of Jeanne d'Ys."

Giraldo of Milan: "That is why we were summoned, but I am not so sure it is the correct course. I have seen them, the demons, riding upon the wolves and driving them on as though they were horses."

"Surely the same curse is afflicting them."

Fra Roncoferraro: "A curse afflicting the wolves? The wolves are a curse, upon this village."

Zita of Mercere: "Father, I know you are worried, but you should listen to this man's advice. We dearly wish to help you with this problem."

Rolling charm to try and convince him

rolling 1d10+13

(

9

)

+13

=

22

Fra Roncoferraro: "You teeter on the sin of pride to try where so many have failed before, but if Jeanne has summoned you then I shan't be the one responsible for your failure. Take the phial and my prayers."

Giraldo of Milan: "It's possible that the wolves will remain a threat, and if they do, I'll see that they're put down. But if this is all the work of devils, then it would be wrong to put the beasts to the blade."

Fra Roncoferraro: He gives you a little phial of holy water, then goes to work using water to sooth the disease of the other peasants.

Giraldo of Milan: I hand Zita the phial and a cloth.

Proclus of Rome: "Besides sending knights into the forest, what methods has Lord Pamphili taken to stop the wolf attacks?"

Giraldo of Milan: "If we encounter any more, wet the cloth and rub it upon their backs."

Proclus of Rome: "That seems like it would be quite difficult, given their natural disposition."

Fra Roncoferraro: "The Lord of the land is a private person, I cannot say what he thinks."

Zita of Mercere: "How will I uh, know where their backs are? They're invisible." I ask quietly, so as to not worry the priest here

Giraldo of Milan: "Zita is an excellent sneak and good in close combat. It seems the best option."

"The backs of the wolves, of course. The demons won't ride upon blessed water."

Zita of Mercere: "Ohhh."

"I see. Gotcha."

Fra Roncoferraro: A little more on the description of these guys: They're small, maybe a foot and a half tall. They aren't riding the wolf so much as mounted riders but lying flat on the wolves, gripping to their necks.

Zita of Mercere: Ah, I see. Well we have a plan now.

Giraldo of Milan: holy water on the neck should be enough then

Zita of Mercere: I'll trust the man who's carefully studied our book made of human skin

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't it be easier to kill all the wolves and then put the holy water on people?

Zita of Mercere: They might just go elsehwere and attack other people

Giraldo of Milan: easier maybe but giraldo doesnt want to kill the wolves if its not necessary

Proclus of Rome: ???

Why not?

Fra Roncoferraro: Sounds like an argument to settle with disputatio.

Proclus of Rome: It would be, but Giraldo is a grog and I'm a magi.

Uh, magus.

Hypatia of Athens: "The wolves are a threat to the good people here, regardless of the demons."

Zita of Mercere: Let's get Gulielmus' opinion before we act.

johns (GM): lol

well, ok. see you next week

Hypatia of Athens: When Gulielmus isn't around everyone should be asking, where's Gulielmus?

Giraldo of Milan: "That's simple enough to confirm or deny, Hypatia. These are beasts of magic, not nature, and I want to speak with one to see if they are capable of reason."

Proclus of Rome: "In addition, I believe the lair of these wolves would have considerable magical power, perhaps even a source of vis."

Zita of Mercere: "Vis huh."

"Well, it's unfortunate, but looks like we need to kill every single wolf here."

Giraldo of Milan: "We must also consider the danger in trying to kill them. A group of knights was sent in, as I remember."

Hypatia of Athens: "Wolves and man living together? Outrageous. And magical wolves would be denied the sustenance of aether in civilized lands."

Zita of Mercere: "Wonder if they're still alive, maybe if we rescue them we'll get a reward."

Proclus of Rome: "Knights have no defense against magic, despite what popular literature would have you believe."

Giraldo of Milan: "They don't need to live together, simply keep out of each other's way."

Zita of Mercere: "No defence against magic. Must be rough. Aha."

Hypatia of Athens: "If there is a wolf den with a magical aura upon it, it should be properly consecrated."

Giraldo of Milan: "My point is, there's no harm in speaking with them first. Perhaps they'll even grant us any magic resources they have if we rid them of the demons."

Zita of Mercere: "Hypatia, weren't you safe from some magic? If you and the 2 magi are there you can warn us of any dangers like that."

Proclus of Rome: "What would we have that wolves want?"

Giraldo of Milan: "The ability to rid them of the demons, as I just said."

Zita of Mercere: "Chickens? Chickens for vis would be a great deal."

"Oh. Oh yeah, that."

Hypatia of Athens: "I have some protection against magic, yes."

Proclus of Rome: "Why would you assume the wolves don't want these demons around?"

"Their vile nature surely makes them willing pawns of demons."

Giraldo of Milan: "That's why I want to talk with them first."

Zita of Mercere: "Wouldnt demons spread an infernal aura? That'd hurt the wolves."

Giraldo of Milan: theyre spreading the aura even here lol

it went from dominion 3 to 2

Proclus of Rome: "If they cared, which I don't believe they would."

Hypatia of Athens: "Unless the Tribunal wishes a covenant there, any magical auras empowering these wolves should be removed."

Giraldo of Milan: "They're beasts of magic, they can't thrive in an Infernal realm."

Proclus of Rome: It's only Dominion 3 inside the church.

As I recall.

johns (GM): Seem to be many competing agendas here

Giraldo of Milan: i mean proclus is the magus

johns (GM): Giraldo wants to negotiate with beasts, Proclus wants to slay them, and Hypatia thinks magic aura need to be destroyed.

What does Zita think?

Giraldo of Milan: well i guess zita and hypatia are also magi

Zita of Mercere: I think that after this, we should demand a big fat reward for our hard work

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia only by rights, not by ability

Proclus of Rome: You mean maga.

Hypatia of Athens: My opinion doesn't conflict with Proclus, most likely

Giraldo of Milan: there hge is!!

theres gulielmus!!

Proclus of Rome: There he is.

Hypatia of Athens: And if he wanted to keep the aura I'd probably understand his reasoning.

Zita of Mercere: If we can deal with the demons with holy water, it seems better than slaughtering a bunch of enraged wolves strong enough to wipe out knights

johns (GM): Just in time to resolve this argument.

It's cumthinker.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea slides through the door

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What's up, sodales?

Zita of Mercere: I'm for the path of least resistance and highest paycheck

johns (GM): I'll recap briefly

There are demons of disease who are possessing wolves to attack the village. The demons are then inflicting the disease St. Anthony's Fire on peasants who get attacked.

You've spoken to the Parish Priest so far and helped slay a couple wolves who were far into the village.

Proclus of Rome: I think we should absolutely try to preserve any existing magic aura.

Giraldo of Milan: proclus wants to kill the wolves and let the demons go, as he is an infernalist

hypatia wants to destroy the magic aura in the wolf forest

zita wants money

Proclus of Rome: Big words from the demon man.

Hypatia of Athens: Cleansing the magic aura would turn magic wolves in to normal wolves over time, who the knights can just kill

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: That doesn't sound like Proclus.

Giraldo of Milan: and i want to negotiate with the wolves and save them from demons

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not ordained so I can't do anything about a magic aura anyway

Proclus of Rome: We could ask Lord Pamphili what he's done.

Or tried to do, anyway.

Hypatia of Athens: We should probably talk to the Lord

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's poison hypatia

johns (GM): Okay, all good suggestions.

Giraldo of Milan: i dont know that he would be able to give us much info

Zita of Mercere: thank you cumthinker

Giraldo of Milan: it couldnt hurt but also i think wed be fine just going in and tracking the wolves down

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's proclus's actual plan

Giraldo of Milan: killing the wolves

and looting their den for vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about the demons!

Proclus of Rome: That's my plan.

Giraldo of Milan: i dont think he cares about the demons

Proclus of Rome: Also if there's a magic aura we can probably use it for stuff.

johns (GM): Proclus talks to the Lord.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Talking to the wolves sounds nice.

Let's go with that.

Proclus of Rome: For example, building an annex for the covenant.

Giraldo of Milan: we could probably get a reward from the wolves if theyre happy we got rid of the demons, then bring them chickens or something to get vis every year

Proclus of Rome: It's way too cramped in the Tomb at the moment.

Hypatia of Athens: I would be interested in dealing with the demons if we're keeping the aura

johns (GM): The Lord tells Proclus that he has dispatched messengers in four directions spread word of the wolves and the disease in his land, promising rich rewards for adventurers willing to stop them.

Giraldo of Milan: they might have an actual regio in there by now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where's bialas

Giraldo of Milan: so maybe some real goodies we could trade them for

or at least just nice vis amounts

Proclus of Rome: Adventurers huh?

johns (GM): UH

Hypatia of Athens: I would be interested in dealing with the demons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's get bialas to disembowel hypatia in bear form for suggesting the destruction of a magic aura

johns (GM) slams "Wizard's March" alarm

Proclus of Rome: "Have any adventurers taken your offer?"

Hypatia of Athens: I mean dealing with as in removing

Zita of Mercere: We should slam that alarm every session

Proclus of Rome: Too late, you are now Incredibly Dead.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the insane pedophile alarm but it says wizard's march on it

and Hell it also says insane pedophile alarm on it too.

Hypatia of Athens: If you're going to march me, please do it for the story hooks that already exist and not a grammatical vagueness

Giraldo of Milan: when zita isnt on screen, all the pcs should be saying, i declare wizards war on zita

Zita of Mercere: Insane Necromancer Alarm

Giraldo of Milan: i think youll find many people have been killed for grammatical vagueness when dealing with the church

johns (GM): Benso Pamphili half snorts, half sneers. "One showed up a few nights ago. An old man in rusted armor speaking some barbarian's tongue. He was stirring up trouble so I put him in the dungeon to cool down."

Giraldo of Milan: hell, thousands

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's mail fake declarations of wizard's war to zita, as a prank.

Giraldo of Milan: "Can we speak with him?"

Proclus of Rome: Let's

Hypatia of Athens: I mean I have Compulsion (Sapphism) and Dark Secret (Goliard lineage), there's better ways.

johns (GM): "Tch. Jeanne said to let you have what you need so if you want to waste your time be my guest."

An old man is produced.

Hypatia of Athens: Just because I don't Hafl it up with every female NPC doesn't mean I can't be burned at the stake

Proclus of Rome: lol

johns (GM): Let he who is without heresy burn the first stake.

Proclus of Rome: Done.

johns (GM): What non-latin, non-Italian languages do people speak here

Hypatia of Athens: Greek

Some Arabic

Proclus of Rome: Fortunately, Zita speaks all of them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: french

Zita of Mercere: I speak every single language, yeah

I can even read 1.5 ofthem

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: only when it's being spoken directly to you!

Zita of Mercere: Yeah

Hypatia of Athens: Enough to translate

Zita of Mercere: But that's, of course, when you want to use it

johns (GM): Alright, should I whisper to Zita to simulate her having to translate or can I just speak openly

Proclus of Rome: Obviously you should whisper.

Giraldo of Milan: obviously, you should whisper

johns (GM): That is usually a little dull for everyone else playing.

But ok.

Zita of Mercere: I'll speak with the barbarian

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is

Giraldo of Milan: how is zita going to trick us and kill us if we can see everything this guy says?

Hypatia of Athens: I think it'll be less dull once the game of telephone begins

(To Zita of Mercere): The man's name is Stanislaw. He says he's come here from Poland to hunt the Lupus Magnus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Zita would never trick and kill me.

(To Zita of Mercere): He's upset and speaks very quickly and erratically, annoyed about the whole dungeon thing.

Hypatia of Athens: Zita will inadvertently trick and kill us with red herrings from grammatical vagueness.

johns (GM): The man talks normally at first to Zita (in his native language), then gets agitated and excited and gestures around the place, to Baron Pamphili, to himself.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

(From Zita of Mercere): "The wolf in the forest, right? I can see why you were upset, do you not speak Italian at all?"

Zita of Mercere: I speak in this horrifying, HORRIFYING language

johns (GM): In heavily accented Italian, he tries a few words: "I speak, a some, lingua d'Italian. Mia nomme, est Stanislaw. Si?"

Zita of Mercere: That no-one here can understand, unless someone has a Dark Secret

Proclus of Rome: Oh no, is he English?

Zita of Mercere: Okay not that bad

But close

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: frisian

johns (GM): scottish

Giraldo of Milan: stanislaw huh

Proclus of Rome: Swedish.

johns (GM): he won't shut up about shmups and weens

Giraldo of Milan: hm. wonder what thsi guy is

(To Giraldo of Milan): He looks like someone you had a wine-induced vision about awhile back

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah, a saracen

Hypatia of Athens: How barbaric

(From Zita of Mercere): "Er, let's just stick with Polish then. I'll explain your situation to the lord here, since he does require your services. In return, since we're also dealing with the problem here, will you assist us?"

Hypatia of Athens: Not a saracen, of course

johns (GM): "The, the ah, Lupus Magnus, wolf blanco, wolf sylvanus -- " he lapses back into his native tongue to communicate better

(To Zita of Mercere): I will help you! Listen to me, I have traveled far and seen much, my wisdom is at your command, but get me free from here.

Giraldo of Milan: I rub my chin.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The big wolf."

Hypatia of Athens: The Saracen are perfectly civilized, if they could just be rid of their moon-based idolatry.

(From Zita of Mercere): I'll roll folk ken on him, see if he's being shifty

(To Zita of Mercere): The legend of the Great Wolf has spread far. She is no ordinary creature of the forest. She is a being of vengeance and terror, a monster worshipped by man before the dawn of civilization.

Proclus of Rome: At least they aren't pagans.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in fact they're more civilized than the rest of us, as shown by their aniconism and devout faith

Hypatia of Athens: Agreed proclus

johns (GM): He babbles some more. The language is Polish, btw.

Proclus of Rome: Or Jews.

Zita of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+7

(

10

)

+7

=

17

(To Zita of Mercere): You detect no guile in the man.

Hypatia of Athens: Saracens and Jews live in divine auras, pagans in magic and faerie auras, it's clear who the redeemable ones are here.

Proclus of Rome: Ha, none of all ya'll are going to agree with that one.

johns (GM): Zita scrutinizes Stanislaw carefully.

Saracens and Jews live in divine auras because they were created by God to test the faith of man by opposing them with violence and usury.

Proclus of Rome: Smart.

Zita of Mercere: "Alright, sodales. He's a man who's come from Poland, to hunt this beast. He heard that it was terrorising this area, then was unfortunately imprisoned due to a misunderstanding."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Poland?"

Zita of Mercere: "He'll agree to help us with this if we get the lord to let him go."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Isn't Malachiasz from Poland?"

Proclus of Rome: Preposterous, who ever heard of a Polish monster hunter?

Zita of Mercere: "I'm sure he'd have loved to meet one of his countrymen, but he was off raiding the vis vaults last I saw him."

johns (GM): a polish monster hunter, you mean Adolf Hitler. haha.

Zita of Mercere: :weebay:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Proclus of Rome: "How is it that he heard of Lord Pamphili's predicament?"

Giraldo of Milan: wouldnt want to be poland right now

(To Zita of Mercere): He is guided by visions and premonitions.

johns (GM): i would want to invest in eastern poland right now.

Zita of Mercere: "Apparently he had visions of it. Not unheard of, for some."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what will you say when ronnie asks, "why didn't you invest in eastern germany"

johns (GM): i'll kick him in the nuts and dump a box of spiders on him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea turns and stares directly into the camera at the mention of Visions

Zita of Mercere: Ronnie lives in western germany, so I imagine he'd never say this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he gets mad about eastern germany all the time

Hypatia of Athens: Maybe we can give him whatever cured people at Varidan's Tomb of their Visions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the hiv virus

Giraldo of Milan: "Vision, huh?"

Proclus of Rome: "Hmm, I suppose it couldn't hurt to bring him along. Did he mention what the misunderstanding is?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What does he know about the  gros loup ?"

Zita of Mercere: "Well, they don't seem to speak his language. They took him for a barbarian and threw him in the dungeons, he seems very upset about it."

Proclus of Rome: "It seems like it would be easy enough to gain his freedom, in that case."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, and his help could be useful."

I'll address him again to get him to speak and ask him what he knows about the wolf

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm. if we help this guy kill the wolves then we can't befriend the monsters.

Giraldo of Milan: we could probably get him to not kill them immediately, maybe

Hypatia of Athens: We can befriend the greatest monster of all, a pole

Zita of Mercere: Gerald of Riviera is a better help

johns (GM): He communicates as best as he can. Some of what he is saying uses mystical terminology obscure to you. He says the wolf exists as a being with many facets, but the strongest was the wolf of Rome. It empowers those who have been wronged with what they need to seek justice. Wherever its lair is, werewolves are often nearby.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Choice and consequence, Watcher.

johns (GM): [Int + Magic Lore insight]

Proclus of Rome: The wolf of Rome?

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+7

(

5

)

+7

=

12

The wolf of rome huh

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+11

(

7

)

+11

=

18

Proclus of Rome: You mean the one that nursed Romulus and Remus?

Zita of Mercere: Does  Ways of the City  apply to the wolf of rome

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't have magic lore. haha

johns (GM): Nay, Zita.

Zita of Mercere: Dang

12 then

johns (GM): Also, [Int + Magic Theory Insight] available too.

Giraldo of Milan: hm. werewolves huh. wonder what it means

[forgets about the werewolf swearing vengeance on us]

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+6 int+MT

(

6

)

+2+6

=

14

johns (GM): we have a werewolf swearing vengeance on us?

I thought you killed him

Giraldo of Milan: we did

johns (GM): Oh, good

Gosh! way to remember that. it was only

johns (GM) checks calendar

johns (GM): 20 years ago

Zita of Mercere: He did say the court of the wolf would judge us

But I think only Proclus was there and here now

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 13

(

7

)

+2+13

=

22

(To Endrite): Is that theory or Lore

Proclus of Rome: I've never met a werewolf.

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): No insight

(From Proclus of Rome): Theory.

(To Zita of Mercere): No insight

(From Proclus of Rome): My bad.

Zita of Mercere: I wish we had our allied werewolf with us.

Proclus of Rome: That was like the one adventure I missed.

Zita of Mercere: The only way to deal with a man thats a wolf, is a man thats a bigger wolf.

Giraldo of Milan: i think that was the first session i played

(To Giraldo of Milan): An old magic being could have a sort of primordial cult based around it, depending how far back it goes. That's your insight.

Giraldo of Milan: i dont know if i had malach then or was just playing a grog

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i wish i had enough magic lore to name what he's obviously describing

Hypatia of Athens: I think it predates Hypatia

(To Proclus of Rome): His description of the wolf suggests the one in the forest is a Daimon of an entity that lives elsewhere, perhaps the Magic Realm itself.

Zita of Mercere: Wasn't malach's debut destroying that merchant's shop?

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, Kifaaya

Zita of Mercere: I know Archibald was there for it, anyway

Giraldo of Milan: "It sounds like these wolves are lead by something fairly ancient."

(From Proclus of Rome): Hmmm.

johns (GM): beatrice was the one who did it

Hypatia of Athens: The Beast of Gévaudan

johns (GM): she blew up the guy's shop and cut off his brother's hands and left him to die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A being with many facets..."

Giraldo of Milan: brutal

Zita of Mercere: you mean  Bonfilia

Proclus of Rome: "Well, I certainly think my plan of killing all the wolves will be more difficult than I had at first believed.

johns (GM): Or... do I?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Never heard of anything like that."

"Excepting the Holy Trinity, of course."

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): did you make a theory roll or a lore roll

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): theory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea crosses himself.

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Oh. fine. it's a Daimon.

Proclus of Rome: "This may be the manifestation of a Daimonic wolf spirit or vengeance spirit."

Giraldo of Milan: "We definitely shouldn't kill these wolves if we can avoid it."

Zita of Mercere: "If we get rid of the demons, perhaps we can negotiate to get these attacks to end. Then claim a nice reward from Pamphili."

Hypatia of Athens: "If the magical wolves bear normal pups, they'll still potentially encroach on manoral lands.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Can a daimon be negotiated with?"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

I don't know.

Giraldo of Milan: "We'll find out."

Hypatia of Athens: "As I understand it, magical lineage is not a guarantee of magical children, in animals or man."

"And mundane wolves need to eat."

Zita of Mercere: "Well, you know, if we go in there and see what happens, I'm sure it'll work out."

johns (GM): thats the vardian tomb way

Hypatia of Athens: "If the negotiations fail, it's likely the wolves will push a conclusion eithe rway."

Zita of Mercere: "Probably."

Proclus of Rome: "Has Jeanne d'Ys attempted any plan to kill the wolves?" I ask Lord Pamphili.

Benso Pamphili: "No, and isn't it the damndest thing? Always full of ideas but when I need her most she says she has to take off on some emergency."

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, Gulielmus. I don't suppose you have any potions that would aid a poor, ungifted individual in this plan here, would you?"

Proclus of Rome: She's a pro.

Zita of Mercere: Why didnt WE think of that. Damn.

Proclus of Rome: Way to avoid being a Court Magician, Jeanne.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea checks his satchel.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I don't suppose you need to talk to any plants?"

Hypatia of Athens: InAn would let you talk to wolves

Zita of Mercere: "Probably not, no."

"Nothing like doublet, or perhaps some imaginem to make it harder for them to bite me?"

I ask, hopeful

Proclus of Rome: We could ask the trees when they noticed a change in the wolves.

Giraldo of Milan: i doubt they pay much notice to the wolves

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This one will repel vampires."

Giraldo of Milan: other than that they exist and walk around near them

Proclus of Rome: Ah, but wolves pee on things.

Giraldo of Milan: true

Hypatia of Athens: Trees don't have a way to process any sensible species from the wolf except their feces, probably

Benso Pamphili: btw Gulielmus and Giraldo have been through here a few times since they were taught by Jeanne, so it's normal that the lord recognizes them

Hypatia of Athens: But maybe possessed wolves leave infernal feces

Proclus of Rome: Trees also have no way to speak, but fortunately we have magic.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: objects are just kind of aware of what's going on around them if you ask

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah, speaking just solves one problem though

Zita of Mercere: "I don't think the wolves are vampires, unfortunately."

Benso Pamphili: Trees are like ghosts, and just tell you things arbitrarily.

Zita of Mercere: Does Gulielmus have tools to repel vampires just in case another Tremere joins the covenant

Hypatia of Athens: Well that's true

ReHe awakened plants don't need eyes

Benso Pamphili: cthinker is just prepared for the upcoming Castlevania adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he has garlic

Hypatia of Athens: Faustus doesn't need eyes either

Giraldo of Milan: faustus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ha ha.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Well, I suppose we should come up with a plan now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs.

Hypatia of Athens: Faust is the famous character, Faustus is a perfectly fine name that's completely different.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'm afraid I didn't prepare anything before rushing to join my sodales."

Proclus of Rome: Can you talk to the trees?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think we have 2 charges of that left

Hypatia of Athens: Worth a shot

Oh, animals can't sin, so if I can perceive sin upon the wolves, that could indicate demonic presence.

Benso Pamphili: Nice

Proclus of Rome: Well, let's see what the trees have to say.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Giraldo of Milan: you know what else indicates demonic presence

demons riding on their backs

Hypatia of Athens: Demonis

Benso Pamphili: Ok, so you're headed into the woods, with Stanislaw in your party?

Hypatia of Athens: Second Sight trumps Sense Holiness and Unholiness

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Giraldo of Milan: you know what else indicates demonic presence

the symbol of the order of hermes

Giraldo of Milan: :ohh:

Hypatia of Athens: Let's go on a forest adventure

Proclus of Rome: Sure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's find some likely-looking trees

Hypatia of Athens: I put the grogs in line, with Tunde as vanguard

johns (GM): I've put Stanislaw's character at the top of the journal viewable to all, including tentative combat stats. I may tweak them later when I sort out the AbAsAr conversion.

Proclus of Rome: Zita, you should stick close to Stanislaw, since none of us can understand him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: arasab

Proclus of Rome: What's his single weapon?

Oh, short sword.

johns (GM): A short sword.

Welcum to forest. It is magical.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah, I'll be near him to communicate anything we need to pass along

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice forest.

Proclus of Rome: "Giraldo, can you track where the wolves came from?"

johns (GM): An effect of the aura is a heightened sense of anxiety from everyone.

Giraldo of Milan: I crouch down and check for tracks.

johns (GM): Per + Hunting

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+11

(

6

)

+11

=

17

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus surveys the surroundings for an impressive-looking tree.

johns (GM): You find a few trails, some leading out of the forest, and a couple paths in. They travel in packs of 5.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

What should we do in case we need to fight some wolves?

johns (GM): The trees are impressive. Their aesthetic quality is good.

Proclus of Rome: We should have a plan ahead of time.

Hypatia of Athens: The grog group has room to guard 3 more magi

And we don't have tha tmany magi with us

johns (GM): Feel free to drop some tokens on the board and arrange them in a fighting line

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: God, these trees are incredible.

Proclus of Rome: What kind of spells you got, Gulielmus?

Giraldo of Milan: I point out the ones leading in. "We need to be alert, they're traveling in big packs."

Hypatia of Athens: Sorry 2 more

Since I'm being guarded

Proclus of Rome: I can blind the wolves and I can grab them with good ol' Hands of Grasping Earth.

Giraldo of Milan: is the blind permanent

johns (GM): Gulielmus/Proclus/Zita, do you want to be shielded by grogs?

Proclus of Rome: No.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can blind one wolf, do damage to one wolf, or grab several wolves with trap of the entwining vines.

Proclus of Rome: I do.

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i would like a grog.

johns (GM): All grogs now claimed.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, i'll buff with shriek of the impending shafts

Giraldo of Milan: we should try to talk to them and delay them for a bit while zita smacks their necks with holy water

Zita of Mercere: I'll have a shield grog while we're advancing, but I'll abandon their protection to holy oil up a wolf

johns (GM): We are out of grogs, sorry Zita.

Giraldo of Milan: and see if they get any less angry

Zita of Mercere: Dang, rip

Hypatia of Athens: Zita's a solo melee anyway isn't she?

Since she does sneak attacks

johns (GM): Okay, you've formed battle lines, are you going to talk to a tree, follow a trail, or strike your own path?

Hypatia of Athens: Hmm

c'thinker (GM): hi

Hypatia of Athens: Talk to a tree first

johns (GM): Hello!

c'thinker (GM): gimme a second here

Zita of Mercere: No harm in talking to a tree if someone wants to, I don't think we'll get much out of it but it can't hurt to try

brb

Giraldo of Milan: the trees are working with the demons and want us dead

c'thinker: then there is nothing we can do.

Hypatia of Athens: They want us dead, but that doesn't mean they're working for the demons

johns (GM): The tree sneak attacks for 5d20+4 damage.

Proclus of Rome: That is its right.

Giraldo of Milan: tears stream down gulielmus's face as he is forced to rub on the perdo herbam salve

johns (GM): They weren't trees at all, they were kobolds in disguise! Better luck next time, Pathfinders.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh man.

i forgot about the perdo herbam potion

Proclus of Rome: What does it do?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: destroys plants in an area

Proclus of Rome: Ah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hang on, sodales."

"This looks like a good tree to question."

johns (GM): What's the duration on your potion

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Conc

johns (GM): k

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Do you need to make a roll or anything

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): i don't think so. let me check the core book real quick

johns (GM): What do you wish to ask the Tree?

Hypatia of Athens: I may be able to create a convincing illusion of a hapless peasant when we think we're nearing their territory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll ask it if it's noticed anything different about the wolves lately

johns (GM): The leaves on the branches waver in place. The tree says some have gotten sick from the touch of the 4 legged things.

Hypatia of Athens: Oooh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Is there a part of the forest where more trees are falling sick?

johns (GM): The leaves lift, as if moved by an invisible wind, and point in a certain direction further into the woods. This matches one wolf path Giraldo found.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmmmmm.

johns (GM): Any more questions?

Proclus of Rome: Seems pretty straight forward.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Thank you for your assistance, monseigneur.

"

Proclus of Rome: Is there any way we can approach from an angle and thereby gain the advantage of surprise?

johns (GM): That'd be Stealth I believe

Hypatia of Athens: If only we had two magi who could turn into birds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus tells his sodales what all of the players just read

Hypatia of Athens: "So the rot can spread to the trees as well?"

Giraldo of Milan: i have some stealth so i can sneak up ahead with zita

Hypatia of Athens: "That's concerning."

Giraldo of Milan: as an option

Proclus of Rome: Could be good.

Giraldo of Milan: the wolves would probably notice me though, i ASSUME wolves have good awareness

johns (GM): They are excellent hunters.

Hypatia of Athens: "The holy song requires, of course, singing, so I shall hold my tongue while we move in silence."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should invent a spell that makes a tree lower its branches, so you can climb it without an athletics roll.

Hypatia of Athens: That's a cool idea

Zita of Mercere: Hello, I return

Giraldo of Milan: make a spell that turns hte tree into al adder

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, i should have tried to get some information out of the tree so i could use Hunt for the Wild Herb

oh well.

Hypatia of Athens: Turn the tree into a badass ent

johns (GM): The Herb, mon.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a spell that turns a skeleton into a ladder

Zita of Mercere: hunt for the funny plant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we already have the funny plant. ive got a garden full of vegetable lamb

johns (GM): So you have two wolf trails you can follow, one leading to ???, the other leading to a spot with dead trees. What's the plan

Giraldo of Milan: the dead trees are probably a hub of wolf activity

Zita of Mercere: Dead trees seems more likely to be the demon presence, which is the real problem here

Giraldo of Milan: or at least demon activity

(To Shauncat): Do all your nuns have true faith, and do any have relics

Giraldo of Milan: lets try there first

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems like both are going to be hubs of wolf activity, but one is also infernal

Proclus of Rome: Would wolves really leave their waste where they live?

(From Hypatia of Athens): True Faith is major so grogs can't have it, they each have a relic however, so 10MR in total

Giraldo of Milan: proclus is right, we shouldnt attribute human characteristics to them

Hypatia of Athens: Zing!

Proclus of Rome: Even animals are smart enough not to do that.

Famously.

johns (GM) checks Proclus' animal handling score.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [while digging through mound of wolf shit] i bet there's going to be at least a rook of vis in here

johns (GM): Hm.

Giraldo of Milan: only animals, apparently

afk 1 sec

Zita of Mercere: Designated shitting trees

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tree only said "the touch of the 4 legged things"

Hypatia of Athens: The demons might be turning this aura slowly infernal with the wolf poop

The wolves can probably bite the trees to taint them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does anyone want to use the last remaining potion to say "just to be clear we're talking about shit here right"

Hypatia of Athens: Not I

Zita of Mercere: Kizuna Ai: Let's not

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think it matters, Proclus has a point about them possibly avoiding defecation where they live

johns (GM): i dont know who brought up the poop thing at all

Hypatia of Athens: Oh the other hand, defiling the forest makes it less useful as a hunting ground

johns (GM): because it wasn't me

Giraldo of Milan: it was proclus

Proclus of Rome: There is no way to be sure.

Giraldo of Milan: lets go check the Dead Tree Storage

johns (GM): Great.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's follow the proud and ancient traditions of the roman tribunal

and put it to a vote

johns (GM): Following the trail or trying some Stealth?

Zita of Mercere: Betray and kill each other?

Proclus of Rome: We should try some stealth.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that also

Zita of Mercere: I'll scout ahead, then, and report back on what's up

rolling 1d10!+22

(

3

)

+22

=

25

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!-2 Stealth+Dex

(

5

)

-2

=

3

johns (GM): are you adding your ways of the city bonus to the forest

Zita of Mercere: No

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+0+6

(

7

)

+0+6

=

13

johns (GM): Okay.

Zita of Mercere: I have 15 stealth, 3 from puissance, and 4 dex

Hypatia of Athens: Why are you following the people with Stealth with a negative roll?

Giraldo of Milan: i keep gulielmus from hopping on every fallen branch he sees

Hypatia of Athens: Wait for them to report back

Proclus of Rome: I mean, there's a forest in the middle of New York City.

I bet you'd get the bonus there.

Giraldo of Milan: i guess i could go too

rolling 1d10+6

(

4

)

+6

=

10

Zita of Mercere: You wouldn't, since it's based on terrain

johns (GM): Okay

That was Giraldo's stealth roll?

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

johns (GM): Are you moving with Zita or separate

Giraldo of Milan: seperate, flanking the trail

johns (GM): Okay

Zita of Mercere: You have to find me to go with me. Good luck.

johns (GM): And Gulielmus is just marching in, hooting and hollering, I suppose

Giraldo of Milan: good, he can be the distraction

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess i won't go with the stealth party

Proclus of Rome: I recommend against this course of action.

Giraldo of Milan: our archon is a natural leader

Zita of Mercere: Gulielmus walks along, taking only the noisiest apples from his backpack

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: BUT in the future, if any wolves are trying to detect us, i'm hooting and hollering and stepping on branches

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus: whats the aura here? bites loudly into apple  [mouth full of apple] looks infernal

johns (GM): Ok.

Hypatia of Athens: The girl grogs, being armored, wait for the word to rush in

johns (GM): I have drawn an excellent representation of your approach.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea bites loudly into an apple, the sound echoing through the entire forest

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

johns (GM): Zita gets to the dead tree copse first and sees a pretty weird sight.

Proclus of Rome: What is the aura here?

johns (GM): On one dead tree is a corpse, old, decayed, and naked, hanging crucified upside down.

At the foot of the tree are two dead knights and a dead wolf, more recently dead.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: The knights that went in, we heard about it being more than 2?

johns (GM): 4 living wolves, in black matted fur, are gnawing and tearing at the corpses of knight and human alike.

Yes, it was described as a "party" of knights.

As Zita watches, one of the wolves lifts its nose in the air, sniffs, then turns to the southwest and starts growling.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Towards your direction.

Proclus of Rome: Knights are human.

johns (GM): Sorry, I meant knight and wolf alike.

Proclus of Rome: Phew.

I took a bit of a gamble there and I'm glad it paid off.

(From Giraldo of Milan): I try to retreat. Do I see demons on their backs?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus whistles a French song.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not entirely sure knights are human, but the difference is trivial at this time

(To Giraldo of Milan): Per + Second Sight again

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+14

(

5

)

+14

=

19

(To Giraldo of Milan): There's demons on four of their backs, and one just floating in the air around the crucified corpse.

Zita of Mercere: Giraldo may be in trouble. I'll start sneaking back to tell everyone what's up ahead, so they can charge in before he's mauled to death

johns (GM): Hm, beating a retreat is a Quickness roll, Giraldo. What sort of armor/gear does Giraldo carry?

Hypatia of Athens: Move out

Giraldo of Milan: hes wearing full chainmail

johns (GM): Quickness + Athletics

Okay, that makes it a bit tougher, but please try and roll it.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+6

(

4

)

+6

=

10

johns (GM): There's mechanical rules somewhere about the rate of wolves hunting you down that I used before but I'm just going to try common sense this time.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: november 26 2017: ars gms begin tracking encumbrance

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+10+2

(

8

)

+10+2

=

20

johns (GM): Let's say the non-stealth party is 50 paces away from the copse.

Giraldo makes it 25 paces before he's set on by wolves.

Giraldo of Milan: december 2 2017: ars gms begin tracking diet and assigning the obese flaw

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

johns (GM): (they rolled a 20)

Giraldo of Milan: crikey

Proclus of Rome: Check the rules in the Book of Being Eaten By Wolves.

(To Giraldo of Milan): You can cry for help if you want to alert everyone else

(To Giraldo of Milan): Otherwise they are alerted when Zita sneaks back to them.

Zita of Mercere: The rules in Lords of Men But Also Wolves

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

(From Giraldo of Milan): ill do that, then try to speak with them. "Calm down, I'm here to help."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the wolves are coming

who is above the wolves?

Hypatia of Athens: The rules for Leadership in Lords of Men can only prevent negative results so I didn't memorize them

(From Giraldo of Milan): using animal ken of course

johns (GM): Giraldo has cried for help, alerting you to the problem 25 paces away. I'm going to resolve Giraldo vs. Wolves for 1 round then everyone can cast.

act.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Unfortunately the wolves are corrupted by demons who have inflicted Savage and Merciless personality traits on them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if i soak giraldo in oil and set it alight the fire will harm the wolves.

johns (GM): Worth a shot, imo.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: note: i cannot actually set my oil alight

johns (GM): The wolves making no indication of slowing down Giraldo, will you attack?

Tünde: I'll roll for grogs as Tunde unless Hypatia needs to make a check

Proclus of Rome: Can we see the wolves?

Giraldo of Milan: Is there an option for fighting defensively?

johns (GM): No but you can hear them.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: switch to group style

johns (GM): let me sneak a peek at Lords of Men to answer that beardbeard

Tünde: There's an option to disengage from melee by rolling your Defense vs your attackers' Attack

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where are your potions now. lmao. gahaha

Tünde: Which removes you from the encounter

Zita of Mercere: Have you tried applying Quen to yourself?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: look at me. look at me

i am the alchemist now

johns (GM): I'm not seeing an option for this Giraldo.

Tünde: Disengage is in core rules

johns (GM): Ah yes

Well sure, you can try that.

Tünde: It's the closest thing to an active defense

Giraldo of Milan: ok, i will attempt to disengage

johns (GM): Roll your defense score

Giraldo of Milan: how much did exertion give you

+3?

Proclus of Rome: Here's what I recommend: do an attack and kill one wolf per turn.

johns (GM): It lets you add your ability score once more

Giraldo of Milan: oh

ohhhh

Tünde: Killing wolves isn't a bad idea

Giraldo of Milan: are these magic wolves or normal corrupted wolves

Zita of Mercere: I'd kill one wolf and rely on us to kill the rest

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are the wolves purple

johns (GM): They look pretty fucked up and evil, is all I can say

Zita of Mercere: I want to see what doing the holy water trick does to them, so I'm going to to try that

Well

Giraldo has second sight, right?

You should check for demons

Giraldo of Milan: i dont THINK theres any saving these ones and exertion is a massive enough bonus

i already did

exertion can only be used on either attack or defense though, huh

johns (GM): Yup

Giraldo of Milan: but if its defense you get it for the entire turn... hm

i could attack one then exert for defense

Zita of Mercere: Exerting one defence roll seems a lot worse than exerting attack, killing one wolf, and assuming you wont be killed in one round. Oh

oh the whole turn? exert defence lol

Giraldo of Milan: i think thats how it was anyway

can johns confirm

johns (GM): Yeah.

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Proclus of Rome: How tough can wolves be anyway?

johns (GM): This bonus applies to a single attack roll, but to all defense rolls you make before your turn comes round\again.

Proclus of Rome: It isn't like they attack in packs or anythjing.

Giraldo of Milan: i mean theyre at least not a trained group this time

thats what fucked us up last time

Proclus of Rome: If it was up to me a wolf pack would definitely count as a trained group.

Giraldo of Milan: i assume being demoned has hurt their ability for that though

anyway

ill hit the green one

rolling 1d10!+20

(

9

)

+20

=

29

johns (GM): Ok.

Tünde: A magical alpha wolf might have Leadership

But I can't say for certain

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+14+12 Defense

(

5

)

+14+12

=

31

Giraldo of Milan: gah!

and ill exert myself for defense

johns (GM): Wait, my bad, they only get leadership bonus per 2 ranks of leadership, so their final roll was actually [5+14+9]

28

So that's a hit.

Tünde: GJ Giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: 11 damage from greatsword, so 12 damage

johns (GM): Okay.

johns (GM) consults chart

johns (GM): Light wound then

rolling 1d10!+16+9 Attack vs. Giraldo

(

6

)

+16+9

=

31

Tünde: The wolves probably change their vanguard to the least wounded wolf on their turn

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+34

(

9

)

+34

=

43

johns (GM): That seems a logical course for trained combat

+34 ??

Giraldo of Milan: im exerting

johns (GM): oh right, exertion

Okay, you defend, but take 1 fatigue

Round 2. Everyone can act. The main part is 25 paces away through rough terrain.

main party

Giraldo of Milan: oops, should be 3 lower, forgot atk and def bonuses are lower

still defend though

Proclus of Rome: Ok, if I can hear them I can cast Voice range spells on them, right?

johns (GM): Yup.

And to make things less chaotic, I'll do init

Giraldo of Milan Initiative: 32

Wolf Initiative: 49

Zita of Mercere Initiative: 39

Hypatia of Athens Initiative: 55

johns (GM): Proclus of Rome Initiative: 35

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 35

Stanisław the Sage Initiative: 83

Unless you want him to do something different, Stanislaw is going to spend a turn closing the gap.

Tünde: That' sfine

Zita of Mercere: Go for it boy

johns (GM): Hypatia & her grogs

Tünde:

rolling d10!+14+9 Tunde as vanguard, 3 attacks on wolf group, distributed as they choose if she hits

(

7

)

+14+9

=

30

johns (GM): it'll take you 1 turn to close the gap

Tünde: Okay they do that instead

johns (GM): sorry :)

Tünde: My bad

johns (GM): Wolves attack Giraldo

rolling 1d10!+16+9

(

1

)

+16+9

=

26

rolling 2d10

(

4

+

5

)

=

9

Giraldo of Milan: gaha

johns (GM): No botch

Giraldo of Milan: damn

ill exert myself on defense again

was 1 fatigue 0 or -1 in these rules

johns (GM): -1

Giraldo of Milan: ok

johns (GM): even if Boyrep hates it.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+30

(

10

+

6

)

+30

=

46

johns (GM): Borat: very naice

Giraldo of Milan: and ill hit the red one

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: simply take the minor virtue that removes the fatigue penalty entirely, as ruled by beardbeard

Proclus of Rome: If he doesn't like it he can Storyguide.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+29

(

2

)

+29

=

31

johns (GM): Zita, you're about 50 paces away, but can run through the dead Copse and close the gap in one turn.

rolling 1d10!+14+9 Defense vs. Giraldo

(

4

)

+14+9

=

27

Giraldo of Milan: 15 damage

oh wait, 17

forgot my strength

johns (GM): Medium wound

(To Giraldo of Milan): Seen only to you, one of the demon riders vanishes, and you feel a little weakened, taking a light wound.

(To Giraldo of Milan): After this round, you're at -2 from fatigue and -2 from Injury

Zita of Mercere: I'm sure entering the dead copse will be fine

I'll do just that

johns (GM): Ok, Gulielmus?

(From Giraldo of Milan): it diseased me didnt it. motherfucker

Tünde: How do you add a number to token symbols?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets see here

johns (GM): When mousing over it, you hit the number on your keypad

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: am i in range to hit a wolf with a voice spell

Tünde: Nice TY

johns (GM): I'm using the numbers as total negative modifier instead of tracking individual wounds

Tünde: I've been wanting to do that in my game but never figured it out

johns (GM): Yes Cthinker

(From Giraldo of Milan): which one vanished

(To Giraldo of Milan): The one on the Green rider, but that hasn't changed the wolf

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll try to blind a wolf

johns (GM): Sure, specify a color

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+3+15+3 Flash of the Scarlet Flames, l15

(

2

)

+3+15+3

=

23

orange

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Aura is +3, does it penetrate 5 might?

johns (GM): Proclus?

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): yes, i think

Proclus of Rome: I'll cast Hands of Grasping Earth on a wolf.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): the wolf gets a stamina roll against 9

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10+3

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 8 + 11 + 2 + 3

(

10

+

10

+

9

)

+8+11+2+3

=

53

Wow!

Got 'em.

johns (GM): Nice.

Proclus of Rome: Ok, picking a wolf.

johns (GM): Grasped.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d4

(

3

)

=

3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: holy shit.

Proclus of Rome: red.

johns (GM): Okay, Red is thoroughly grasped and is now helpless.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this fucking wolf.

johns (GM): Orange is hit by Gulielmus's spell but is able to shake it off.

Proclus of Rome: Pen is still 11/2

johns (GM): web token = immobilized.

how is pen only 11/2 if you rolled that high

Tünde: Rote?

Oh, no dice for rotes

johns (GM): Ah

Oh

Well, Endrite can clue me in next round.

Tünde: I have no idea

johns (GM): First, Stanislaw

i'll just do his attack in gmrolls.

Hypatia & the grogs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i burn a fatigue to try to blind this wolf again

johns (GM): I don't know why you need to fatigue

Isn't it formulaic?

Proclus of Rome: I mean the pen ability is 11/2.

Tünde:

rolling d10!+14+9 Tunde as vanguard, 3 attacks on wolf group, distributed as they choose if she hits (vanguard takes at least one)

(

5

)

+14+9

=

28

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+22

(

8

)

+22

=

30

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Take another standard action by spending 1 short-term fatigue.

Proclus of Rome: Sorry.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+14+9 dfn vs. stan

(

1

)

+14+9

=

24

Proclus of Rome: I need to go AFK a sec.

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

6

+

7

)

=

13

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or, i'd have to fast cast i guess.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+14+9 dfn vs. Hypatia

(

4

)

+14+9

=

27

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that takes mastery doesn't it

johns (GM): Hypatia's group hits, damage?

Zita of Mercere: You can always fast cast spontaneous spells. Unless you can't spont, of course.

Tünde: +10 so 11

johns (GM): Hmm, I think in theory you can fast cast without mastery, but I would have prefered if you said so while we were on last round

You can cast twice this round if you like

Oh wait, Zita's right

You can't fast cast formulaics without mastery I think.

Zita of Mercere: To fast-cast formulaic requires mastery

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah

johns (GM): 11, soak is 4, so they take a light wound -- allocated to Blue

Wolves attack Giraldo

rolling 1d10!+16+9 Attk

(

3

)

+16+9

=

28

Tünde: Two others get hit too

johns (GM): Ah, good call

So hang on, Orange and green also take light wounds, meaning the attack roll vs. Giraldo is 26

Giraldo of Milan: ok so this is round 3 right

johns (GM): Yup

Giraldo of Milan: hmmm

fuck it ill exert on defense again

johns (GM): Also, the roll is 28

because of simultaneous resolution.

sorry. sorry. sorry.

Tünde: np

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+26

(

4

)

+26

=

30

johns (GM): Okay, is that including -4 from fatigue/injury?

Giraldo of Milan: yes

johns (GM): kk

Zita?

Giraldo of Milan: and for my action ill attack orange

, after zitas turn of course

johns (GM): hehe

(To Giraldo of Milan): You see more demons leap off the wolves, one to Zita, one to Tunde, one to Stanislaw.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to blind this fucking wolf.

(To Shauncat): Fyi Tunde feels a little weak with no apparent cause and has taken a light wound, -2

Zita of Mercere: Bit late to try removing demons, maybe. I'll try sneak-attacking the wolf, green one

Proclus of Rome: Ok, I'm back.

Zita of Mercere: Time to finish it off, I'll exert and spend a fatigue on it too

Tünde: Hypatia moves Aurelia into vanguard position

johns (GM): Noice.

Also noice.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+24 vs def 0

(

9

)

+24

=

33

base damage is 3 -2, for  1  base damage

johns (GM): Did you roll stealth to sneak up on 'em?

Zita of Mercere: I rolled it before, should I roll it again?

johns (GM): If you please.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

1

)

+22

=

23

johns (GM) cackles

Zita of Mercere: :pepe:

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

7

+

10

)

=

17

Ok, ok.

Zita of Mercere: lol

Tünde: Still a chance

Zita of Mercere: jc denton: what a shame

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+6+0-2 wolves awareness

(

10

+

1

)

+6+0-2

=

15

Ok, sneak successful.

You slay a wolf.

Gulielmus.

(To Proclus of Rome): What is duration on Grasping Earth?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll do the same thing again, but to the blue wolf

(From Proclus of Rome): Diameter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+15+3+3 arts/stamina + aura + virtue

(

2

)

+15+3+3

=

23

with the same roll, apparently

johns (GM): Gj.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 10 pen

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10+3 Sta

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god.

johns (GM): lol

lol.

Proclus of Rome: Can we actually tell the difference between wolves by hearing alone?

johns (GM): the injury didn't come into effect because it was taken this round

Tünde: That should be a 7 I think?

Oh

johns (GM): Well you ran up to them so you're nearby enough

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

johns (GM): Do you want to fast cast another shot, cthinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can't

johns (GM): :(

Good point.

Proclus?

Zita of Mercere: At least you tried!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have used this spell THREE times and all three times it's beaten MR and then been blocked by dexterity

including against a hermetic magus!

Tünde: Jorn had good Dex due to being a crafter

johns (GM): It seems pretty shitty, tbf.

Zita of Mercere: Is it just EF 9 to block it? bites into apple  sounds pretty gay

Proclus of Rome: I will cast Hands of the Grasping Earth on one of the remaining,un-Grasped wolves.

johns (GM): Sure.

Tünde: The -2s are the biggest threat

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 8 + 11 + 2 + 3

(

8

)

+8+11+2+3

=

32

rolling 1d3

(

3

)

=

3

johns (GM): Does it Penetrate 5 might?

Proclus of Rome: The blue one.

Zita of Mercere: Don't you mean 1d2?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's zita's dex

Zita of Mercere: 4

Proclus of Rome: Yes, I have 11/2 bonus Penetration and it's level 15.

No, 3 wolves are alive this round.

Tünde: You said ungrasped

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's inject her with legacy faerie blood so she can hit 5 dex.

Zita of Mercere: Ah

Tünde: Only 2 ungrasped wolves

johns (GM): btw dys. I think sneak attacks should not be against 0 defense, but instead add +9 to attack. i'm basing this off lords of men's interpretation of attacking from Total Concealment.

Giraldo may attack now

Tünde: That'd be fair

Giraldo of Milan: ok. ill kill the orange wolf

Tünde: The +9 thing I mean

johns (GM): also they get an extra botch die on defense if attacked from invisibility

Tünde: I'll do that in my game since grafe's character is sneaky

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

3

)

+15

=

18

Zita of Mercere: Wouldnt +9 be +15 in abilities as arts

Giraldo of Milan: oh no!

johns (GM): hmm

no it'd be like +18 I think

well

whatever

Zita of Mercere: Let's work it out later, not now then

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+14+9 dfn

(

2

)

+14+9

=

25

Tünde: Situational advantages don't necessarily need to be buffed by 5/e

johns (GM): Okay.

Aurelia: Oh yeah I'll switch to her since she's vanguard

johns (GM): Round 3 resolved. Stanislaw inflicted a light wound. Two of the wolves are stuck in place and can no longer fight. One is dead. The last one fights on savagely.

Proclus of Rome: Classic wolf.

johns (GM): I would like to get one more shot on Giraldo before you kill it this round since you're guarenteed to incap it somehow.

rolling 1d10!+16-2 No group bonus, attk vs Giraldo

(

8

)

+16-2

=

22

Giraldo of Milan: johns is trying to kill me

Proclus of Rome: I SAID it was Classic Wolf.

Giraldo of Milan: help

rolling 1d10!+12

(

9

)

+12

=

21

damnit!!

johns (GM): oh no!!!!!!

Proclus of Rome: What more do you want from me?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: have the wolf exert itself

johns (GM): damage is....

+0.

Giraldo of Milan: guess who didnt write down how much soak full chain gives me

this guy

johns (GM): Lol.

Giraldo of Milan: but if its +0 then i win anyway

johns (GM): I think it's safe to say you soak 1 damage.

Okay.

Giraldo of Milan: i think its 7 soak

Zita of Mercere: 6 i think

johns (GM): Either through a zita sneak attack, proclus grasping earth, gulielmus' flares, or hypatia's army, the last wolf is dispatched.

Aurelia: RIP

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Giraldo of Milan: full chain is 9 soak!!

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 8 + 11 + 2 + 3

(

2

)

+8+11+2+3

=

26

johns (GM): Two wolves dead, two trapped and at your mercy. Tunde, Giraldo, and Stanislaw are all feeling a little under the weather.

Proclus of Rome: Phew, I didn't botch, BUT I COULD HAVE!

Zita of Mercere: I perform my victory animation and relax

Giraldo of Milan: "Tunde, Zita, Stanislaw, the disease demons flew into you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i melt down

Aurelia: The other nuns probably are as well

(To Giraldo of Milan): The demon that went to Zita flits about her, through her, and then flies right into the chest of the crucified disease corpse.

Aurelia: I mean grogs

Zita of Mercere: "Oh. Hang on, I have the holy water here."

Giraldo of Milan: "And myself."

I look at the crucified boy.

Proclus of Rome: I'll head to the fight area.

Aurelia: Tunde isn't a nun and I stopped calling the other girls that as well

Giraldo of Milan: "Nevermind Zita, your demon went back into that corpse."

Zita of Mercere: I'll pour a bit of holy water onto the rag and start helping the others

"Probably cause I can't get sick."

Giraldo of Milan: "Try some on one of these trapped wolves."

(To Giraldo of Milan): The chest cavity is collapsed and has an unholy energy into it, like an aperture to a bad place.

Proclus of Rome: Tunde is a Magyar.

Aurelia: Right

johns (GM): ty

Does anyone besides Giraldo have second sight?

Giraldo of Milan: I take a look at the corpse, being careful to keep my distance.

Zita of Mercere: Greater Immunity (Disease) really paying off

Giraldo of Milan: infernal lore

Aurelia: I'll make another of what a Magyar is when Hypatia is 8 Leadership

Giraldo of Milan: oh do wounds and fatigue apply to lore rolls

johns (GM): I think they do.

Giraldo of Milan: i guess they probably do huh

Zita of Mercere: Depends if its a head wound or not

johns (GM): idk.

Giraldo of Milan: ill rest the fatigue off first i guess

itd make sense for pain to impair your thinking

Proclus of Rome: A Magyar is a Hungarian, Shaun.

johns (GM): I want to make an Infernal Lore roll, but my daughter has AIDS.

Hypatia of Athens: I mean I can google it later

Zita of Mercere: "Giraldo, can you tell me if this gets rid of them? Show me where to apply it on people."

Hypatia of Athens: But I'll try to focus on the game right now

Zita of Mercere: "I can't see the things."

Giraldo of Milan: "You'd want to apply it to the rashes, I believe. It's hard to say right now."

"We should be fine until we get back to Rome."

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not actually roleplaying the grogs otherwise I'd look it up immediately

Giraldo of Milan: "Try on one of these wolves first, see if it brings them to their senses."

Zita of Mercere: "Hypatia, do you have anything that might help?"

"Ah, alright."

I try rubbing some of the holy water onto the neck of one of the trapped wolves

Hypatia of Athens: "I could attempt to see demonic presences, though it's not as reliable as Giraldo's sight."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is stanislaw doing anything

Giraldo of Milan: "We've at least found the cause though, that corpse's chest is bringing in these demons. I'll rest for a minute and try to figure out if it can be undone."

Zita of Mercere: "Maybe dumping holy water on it? Maybe..."

johns (GM): Stanislaw is catching his breath.

Hypatia of Athens: "The presence of sin can warp sensible species, but those sensible species must be present to begin with."

johns (GM): He looks a bit old for this stuff.

Giraldo of Milan: "Keep an eye on the old man, the disease might get to him faster than it does to us."

Proclus of Rome: "What corpse?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the crucified one, i think

Giraldo of Milan: "The crucified one in that copse."

Zita of Mercere: "Over there." I point to the one on the tree "I assume he means."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if I go and fetch the priest?"

Zita of Mercere: "It does stand out a bit."

Proclus of Rome: "What???"

johns (GM): It's crucified upside down on a tree, and has been dead awhile.

Proclus of Rome: I'll rush to the copse.

How awhile?

Giraldo of Milan: "Stay away from it!"

johns (GM): A month, at least.

Proclus of Rome: Can I use Whispers Through the Black Gate on it?

Zita of Mercere: Proclus senses infernal power and gets excited

Giraldo of Milan: "Its chest is some manner of portal."

Hypatia of Athens: Can I roll Theology to try to think of something to do about this corpse?

johns (GM): Let me check on that spell, Proclus.

Yes, Hypatia.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a priest can get rid of a demon right.

Giraldo of Milan: if they know the methods, yeah

Zita of Mercere: it probably still has a tongue after a month? I've never kept a corpse in my house for a month, so I don't know.

Giraldo of Milan: really anyone can

johns (GM): Yes, Proclus, that spell will work.

Giraldo of Milan: a priest is just likely to have the knowledge, and also a divine aura helps

Proclus of Rome: Ok, I will so cast it.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+7+3 Theology: Christian + Int

(

6

)

+7+3

=

16

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess hypatia might also know the method

Zita of Mercere: If Giraldo and Hypatia aid with the instructions, should be possible to banish it

Giraldo of Milan: does anything happen with the wolf that got holy water on it

(To Hypatia of Athens): OOCly I'm not sure of the rules for purifying an area. Basically there's a small opening to an Infernal Regio here that the demons are coming from.

Giraldo of Milan: lets make johns handle as many things as possible at once and then demand answers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus and his bodyguard head back to the town to get the priest.

johns (GM): No, Giraldo. The beasts have been irrevocably tainted and even without contact to the demons they cannot revert.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay I've got a note from the GM, but it might take some looking at the rules before I can offer a solution

Giraldo of Milan: "Nothing. The wolves are beyond saving."

johns (GM): No rush on that Shaun.

Giraldo of Milan: "Finish them off."

I lean against a tree and catch my breath.

Zita of Mercere: "Alright."

I'll cut a wolf throat while a grog handles the other

johns (GM): Grusome.

Zita of Mercere: Updated my Kill Count Journal

johns (GM): Proclus, was Black Gate formulaic or sponted?

Proclus of Rome: Formulaic.

johns (GM): ack you reminded me how out of date the global kill count tracker is :(

Hypatia of Athens: Okay, the site of a grisly murder can manifest an infernal aura of 2

At night that becomes 3

johns (GM): The corpse speaks in the local Italian dialect. It identifies itself as a peasant from the village.

A wanderer passing through tricked him into coming into the forest, saying he found some treasure here he needed help getting unearthed. He brought him to this copse, knocked him out, then murdered him... grislyishly.

Proclus of Rome: "Who did this to you?"

Giraldo of Milan: my god. it was jeanne d'ys

Proclus of Rome: "What did this wanderer look like?"

Zita of Mercere: Oh my god. It was Patches

Trustworthy Patches

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: john d'ys

johns (GM): He describes a handsome man accompanied by a red tinged cat, who may or may not be completely irrelevant to the rest of this story.

Zita of Mercere: Jeanne dys

gasp!

Zita of Mercere: If this traveller passed through, we could get information at the village

Hypatia of Athens: "I don't think properly burying the corpse itself here is enough. This place is an entrance to somewhere darker."

Proclus of Rome: A cat, eh?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: shaun dys.

Proclus of Rome: I'll ask the corpse if he has any unfinished business besides vengeance on his murderer.

johns (GM): He wasn't really thinking about vengeance. He was more concerned about getting the treasure so he could afford some new tools.

Maybe a mule, if it were a lot of treasure.

Proclus of Rome: Alright.

Well, I'll de-crucify him.

Hypatia of Athens: "Someone who is ordained might be able to do something for this place, i cannot."

johns (GM): He falls to the ground.

Stanislaw gibbers something and points to tracks on the ground.

Giraldo of Milan: i could try to undo the ritual, maybe

Proclus of Rome: "What did he say, Zita?"

(To Zita of Mercere): He says: "Two sets coming here. One pack here, another moving further in. See?" He points further into the forest.

Giraldo of Milan: infernal lore

rolling 1d10+6

(

2

)

+6

=

8

to see if i can figure anything out

probably not though

johns (GM): yeah I think fixing this is a Divine matter

infernal powers rarely give a shit about fixing what they've done

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

all id be able to do is figure out the intent of this, maybe

but the intent is pretty clear

johns (GM): As Shaun suggested, a ritual murder can add to an infernal aura or power an infernal ritual

Hypatia of Athens: The rules in RoP Divine say you need to have at least a Minor Social Status Virtue representing position within a religion to promote divine auras

Giraldo of Milan: we should probably have the local priest try to take care of this

Hypatia of Athens: Which would probably tie in to closing off infernal ones

Zita of Mercere: I translate for my sodales "He says the tracks show one set coming here, and another set moving further in. These aren't the only infernal wolves."

"If we take the priest here, he might get attacked."

Proclus of Rome: "We need to return these men to the village.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i already left to get the priest

johns (GM): Sure.

Giraldo of Milan: we should take these guys back towards the entrance of the forest then

johns (GM): You can bring him back here.

Proclus of Rome: Oh, speaking of, I'd also like to ask the knights what happened to them.

Giraldo of Milan: so the priest can figure it out

johns (GM): Ah, good call Endrite.

(From Zita of Mercere): I tell Stanislaw "We're getting these mens bodies out of here to be buried, before we go after the other wolves. Just wait for now."

johns (GM): Well the Knights got attacked and split apart by the wolves. Two of them ran this way and met their obvious end here, killing one wolf before falling themselves. The other two they don't know which way they went.

Zita of Mercere: How long ago did they die? Recently?

johns (GM): Less than a week ago.

Zita of Mercere: doubt theres any survivors then

johns (GM): The dead guy feels very ashamed that they ran off and were scared by a wolf's howl.

Zita of Mercere: or if there are, they can wait an hour or two for us to get a priest here

oh shit its that fucker again

johns (GM): Okay, Gulielmus can show up again with the Priest.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shows up again.

Giraldo of Milan: the great white wolf at least might not have succumbed to demons yet

there could be a chance

johns (GM): He's just such a trustworthy guy that he can get people to follow him into the killer forest.

Zita of Mercere: He's lovable

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The gentle gift ftw.

Giraldo of Milan: the archons shining radiance

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salvete."

Proclus of Rome: Well, it wouldn't be the first time someone was lured into the forest.

Fra Roncoferraro: He crosses himself. "By the saints, oh this is a tragedy! God have mercy on us poor sinners." He prays.

Hypatia of Athens: Me, Aurelia, Guzepinna join him in prayer.

Fra Roncoferraro: "Please travelers, they must have funerals, they must enter the consecrated ground."

Proclus of Rome: "What should we do?"

Hypatia of Athens: "We can help transport them away."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "There is the matter of the exorcism as well, Father."

Hypatia of Athens: "Yes, the taint here will persist, even after they are buried in consecrated soil."

Fra Roncoferraro: "I am.. not qualified for that.. I must write to the Deacon, or the Arch-Deacon, someone will come, God willing."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: better luck next time disease demon crew

Fra Roncoferraro: pwned by the infinite power and love of Christ.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Checking out the great white wolf is still a productive opportunity here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Owned! by the Your Christ Saves crew

Zita of Mercere: "This seems to be the cause of the wolf attacks becoming so frequent lately."

Giraldo of Milan: "In the mean time, continue as I said. Treat the afflicted with holy water regularly until they return to health."

Zita of Mercere: "Thank you for the holy water, father, it helped keep us safe here."

Proclus of Rome: "Rome is so close, how long could it take?"

Fra Roncoferraro: "Pax vobiscum."

"Not long, not long."

Giraldo of Milan: lets get the dead boys down to the church and then go look for the white wolf

and maybe the other 2 knights? who knows!

Fra Roncoferraro: Ok.

Everyone on board with that?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/27366932/2GjNAsds0fo3J_cEIObuCA/med.png?1484400867

sounds good

johns (GM): Indeed

Giraldo of Milan: there he is

Proclus of Rome: I like it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the white wolf. weve got him.

johns (GM): The priest talks a lot about how there's going to be a Bishop and a ceremony and maybe they'll bring out a relic once they get this place fixed up. Should be grand.

Zita of Mercere: Congrats, priest

johns (GM): Anyway.

Stanislaw pointed out some more tracks, was that was you were refering to, Giraldo?

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

Hypatia of Athens: I'm looking at https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-no2-2016-march/shrines/ to see if building anything here would help

johns (GM): . o O ( what are the mechanical rules for building a shrine)

Hypatia of Athens: How, then, should Christians view pilgrimages to and worship at shrines? Taking into account Jesus’ command that true worshippers worship God with spirit and truth, it is clear that worship rendered at any shrine or sacred place has no special value to our heavenly Father.

johns (GM): Okay, following the tracks leads you away from the dead copse and towards the heart of the forest..

Proclus of Rome: Fortunately Jehova's Witnesses are Insanely Heretical Protestants.

johns (GM): You come to stone ruins in the middle of the forest, overgrown with many years' neglect.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think the mythic european attitude is probably "shrines are great"

Hypatia of Athens: Pretty

Zita of Mercere: Nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Nice."

johns (GM): There is an innate beauty to this place that is only marred by the dead knight on the ground, and the dead wolves whose blood is still fresh.

Zita of Mercere: "Wait, the wolf's howl was what set people off, didn't it?"

"Shouldn't we plug our ears?"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Hypatia of Athens: Well yeah, maybe a theology roll will say something different about shrines, but that's up to seasonal activity anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are we out of the anxiety aura

Proclus of Rome: I'll try talking to one of the dead knights then.

johns (GM): No, Gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh no

johns (GM): And with a very faint sound, an 8' giant white wolf alights on one of the ruins to look down on you all.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the anxiety and insomnia covenant

johns (GM): What are folks' Mentem MR? Aura is Magic 5

Giraldo of Milan: I look at the wolf. Any demons?

Hypatia of Athens: This, however, does not mean that God’s Word forbids having a preferred location for prayer, study, or meditation. A meeting place that is orderly and dignified is conducive to learning and discussing spiritual things. Neither is it wrong to make a memorial, such as a tombstone, for a deceased person. This may simply be an expression of remembrance or affection for the deceased. However, considering such a location as a holy place or venerating images or relics there would be completely contrary to Jesus’ words.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+10

(

9

)

+10

=

19

Zita of Mercere: Oh, Magic 5 huh? 0.

(To Giraldo of Milan): No demons

Hypatia of Athens: Going by the part about relics, this web site is wrong

Giraldo of Milan: I animal ken.

johns (GM): One sec, I'd like to resolve the Mentem first, which has to go through whispers

Giraldo of Milan: "Great wolf, it's good to see you free of the demonic taint."

oh

johns (GM): I think Zita and Giraldo are afflicted. Who else has mentem MR?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well like endrite said its the jehovahs witnesses

Proclus of Rome: Mine is +12 in this aura.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do we add the aura to our MR?

Zita of Mercere: You do

Hypatia of Athens: I have 25 Mentem MR, Aurelia and Guzeppina have 10

johns (GM): uhh actually the pen on this is pretty insane so even the wizards get effected lol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have 15, then

johns (GM): so no need for whispers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes

Hypatia of Athens: Tunde is affected

Proclus of Rome: The big heresy for Jehovah's Witnesses is that they don't believe in the soul.

Zita of Mercere: What's the pen, out of curiosity

Proclus of Rome: High.

Zita of Mercere: so I can feel good about not taking archibald

Hypatia of Athens: I didn't even look at teh URL until now, haha

johns (GM): By RAW, it's 40. By our rules, it's 44.

Zita of Mercere: lmfao

Hypatia of Athens: Google put the Jehova's Witness web site before the Wikipedia entry that says Catholics love shrines

johns (GM): Uh, anyway. It's an InMe effect, Eye/Group target. It's probing your minds for a specific piece of information, which you can choose to tell me by whisper, if you wish.

Giraldo of Milan: shaun: wow check this out, christianity is pretty cool [links to dulcinitecentral.net]

Hypatia of Athens: It IS cool

johns (GM): The wolf wants to know if you have a desire for vengeance, be it just or unjust -- some scenario where you have been wronged and unable to get justice from elsewhere.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: when it comes to shrines and gaudy shit your choices are "i love it" "i really love it" and "i hate it (muslim)"

johns (GM): Dulcinites ftw, folks.

(From Giraldo of Milan): yes

(To Giraldo of Milan): Okay, what was the situation

(From Proclus of Rome): Just one?

Zita of Mercere: Oh

Hypatia of Athens: Okay 44 pen, well that that's probably everyone

(From Giraldo of Milan): well i dont know. i want justice for marco, who was killed by his fiance

(From Zita of Mercere): Yes, I want to get revenge on Consolata and kill her.

(From Giraldo of Milan): if that counts

(From Proclus of Rome): Probably the freshest is against Archibald for Marching two magi that I liked.

(From Hypatia of Athens): Hypatia wants vengeance for Fabius Her Guardian Angel would advice her against any course of action to actually get it.

johns (GM): Excellent, got some good whispers here.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): besides all of the normandy tytalus stuff, gulielmus has been wronged by that extremely rude noble from the viking village

johns (GM): i think I got everyone now

Wow, you're all spiteful people.

The wolf looks you all over. Without opening its mouth, you each hear a voice as if someone is speaking right in your ear, asking if you wish for the court to empower your vengeance.

(From Giraldo of Milan): no

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): and possibly secretly resents the stuff with the knights? i don't know if the whole deal with the flambeau would count.

(From Proclus of Rome): No, I don't trust the wolf.

Giraldo of Milan: wait a minute, that means even the archon wants vengeance

(From Hypatia of Athens): Aurelia and Guzeppina likely have nuns at their old convents they dislike.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the archon isnt here

(From Zita of Mercere): do we answer out loud, or mentally

(To Zita of Mercere): Either

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus is the true archon

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia knows when her True Faith is being tested, and refuses.

Giraldo of Milan: beatrice is a pretender

Zita of Mercere: "Yes."

johns (GM): boak_screaming_good_shit.gif

Hypatia of Athens: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus looks extremely conflicted.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I.... No, that would be wrong."

"Wouldn't it?"

Hypatia of Athens: I could possibly give people a Faithufl +3 personality here, if they wanted it

Zita of Mercere: "Only if the desire itself is wrong."

johns (GM): The wolf looks at Gulielmus vacantly, with no sense of judging.

Zita of Mercere: "The guilty pay the price."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whats the proper way to roll against a personality trait, again.

Giraldo of Milan: "You should be careful borrowing the power of others for your own revenge."

johns (GM): You roll 1d10 + personality against an ease factor decided by GM

Hypatia of Athens: Roll +d10, divide by 3 to figure out the magtitude of the effect

Or set by teh GM yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to borrow the power of a mighty daimon for the most petty act of revenge imaginable

Hypatia of Athens: Okay it's just +1 Faithful or -1 Wrathful

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+1 Compassionate

(

8

)

+1

=

9

whew.

johns (GM): Alright.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's see, level 5, +2 Voice, +1 Conc, +2 Group

johns (GM): I guess only Zita will take up the offer.

Giraldo of Milan: i cant wait to see stanislaw go insane and uh kill the duke or something

oh

damn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my boy stanislaw.

Hypatia of Athens: level 30, too dangerous i

Zita of Mercere: Bunch of damn cowards here

johns (GM): Stanislaw by the way is gibbering in Polish.

(To Zita of Mercere): "What are you all doing? We should slay it. It is a dangerous beast."

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus looks away from the wolf.

(From Zita of Mercere): "The demonic presence doesn't seem to be here, and it cut through the knights like nothing."

(To Zita of Mercere): Accepting the Court's power involves a ritual. You will have to return to the court on Lupercalia, bearing certain herbs of the forest that the wolf has described to you.

Giraldo of Milan: i cant believe zita was engulfed in flames for her wrath

Hypatia of Athens: Okay, I can create a powerful emotion (contentment)

That's level 25

Proclus of Rome: What's he saying, Zita?

Giraldo of Milan: alright everyone. were dealing with demons here, we have to get them to leave. no one commit sins

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can't believe zita is comprehending the true dao

Giraldo of Milan:  zitas eyes flash

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if the guy is talking to the wolf she shouldn't be able to understand, i think

johns (GM): He was talking to Zita

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a likely tale

Zita of Mercere: "He's saying we should kill it." I say to everyone "I don't see that we should, though."

Proclus of Rome: "Why shouldn't we?"

Giraldo of Milan: "It has no demonic presence on it."

johns (GM): In broken Italian, "My seeings, the traum, bring me to Italia, to Lupus Magnus, is it so, not so, I must capo, merde it--" he pantomimes stabbing.

Hypatia of Athens: "It's a temptation to sin, regardless."

Proclus of Rome: I must be loyle to my capo.

Giraldo of Milan: I shake my head at Stanislaw.

Zita of Mercere: "There's nothing a humble messenger like myself can do against something like that. I'm not getting involved."

Giraldo of Milan: "Wolf, are you aware of the demons plaguing your kin?"

Proclus of Rome: Is the wolf attacking?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it could attack at any second!

Proclus of Rome: If not, I'm going to cast Whispers Beyond the Black Gate on one of the dead knights.

Hypatia of Athens: "I can try meditating on its form. the second sight may only see what is not visible to the naked eye, and not a demon in plain sight."

johns (GM): The wolf is not attacking.

It doesn't seem particularly bothered by anything you're doing at the moment.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It is perpetually about to attack.

Giraldo of Milan: does it answer me

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia has Offensive to Demons

johns (GM): The wolf looks at Giraldo, then looks at the corpses of wolves near the ground. It doesn't seem especially worried.

Hypatia of Athens: Its its not particularly bothered by my divine air, then it could be magic.

Proclus of Rome: If ONLY they was a Folk Ken for dogs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems very safe to say it is magic.

and also incredibly deadly, naturally.

gulielmus backs away from the wolf

Hypatia of Athens: Can I roll Theology to see if intelligent creatures that aren't humans can sin?

johns (GM): Sure.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+7+3

(

6

)

+7+3

=

16

Giraldo of Milan: "Wolf, your kin are attacking the village. They seek vengeance on you and your kind. Does that not bother you?"

Proclus of Rome: Ok, I'm casting Whispers Beyond the Black Gate.

rolling 1d10 + 8 + 11 + 2 + 5

(

10

)

+8+11+2+5

=

36

Wow what a roll.

johns (GM): An animal acting to its nature does not sin, even if that nature is vicious, such as a wolf hurting people. A magic creature acting to its nature should likewise not be considered sinful.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmm

MAYBE a wolf of virtue would embody vengeance

johns (GM): The wolf speaks without moving its mouth, "Vengeance is and shall always be, whether man asks for it or not."

Proclus, this knight got separated from its buddies too, wound up here, and tried attacking the wolf, then got killed.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

How?

Hypatia of Athens: "26 “In your anger do not sin” : Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. "

Proclus of Rome: The usual way?

johns (GM): The wolf bit it, a lot

Proclus of Rome: I see.

Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: Are there remaining knights then?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it'll bite us, too, if we don't leave.

johns (GM): There's still 1 missing somewhere in the forest, probably dead.

Proclus of Rome: Does this one know what happened to him?

Hypatia of Athens: "I believe the presence of the infernal and this spirit of vengeance are coincidentally related."

Giraldo of Milan: "I see. Many of your kin are afflicted by demons and deranged. They are beyond saving. We are going to kill them."

johns (GM): Torn to bits by a wolf!

before his very eyes. gruesome.

The wolf regards you as if to say, "Well that's your right."

Proclus of Rome: No, I mean the missing one.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Horrifying, even.

johns (GM): yes, the missing one was killed in front of the dead one here.

mystery solved.

Giraldo of Milan: "I just wanted to make sure you know."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets focus on the important details, here.

Giraldo of Milan: ok done animal kenning

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Are there any cool plants inside the level 5 aura?

Hypatia of Athens: "Perhaps this is a Daimon of Vengeance, as you wizards would say."

Proclus of Rome: Oh I see.

Giraldo of Milan: "We should find the rest of those tainted wolves and put them down."

johns (GM): yeah there's some cool herbs around here and in the forest.

Giraldo of Milan: "The great wolf seems to have no desire to stop or aid us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: But what if I wander off to pick herbs and get killed by wolves?

Oh my God.

Hypatia of Athens: "Vengeance for it is no sin, but for humans, it is Wrath."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This is the worst dilemma Gulielmus has ever faced.

Zita of Mercere: "If we deal with the rest of the tainted wolves, we can put an end to the attacks on the village."

johns (GM): The wolves will stop being tainted if you get rid of the demons

err I mean

no more will be tainted

Proclus of Rome: But how could we do that?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did the priest go home

johns (GM): he went back to the church to give a funeral

Hypatia of Athens: The priest has to do it, probably

Build a proper Catholic shrine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What a lucky break for him.

he won't be devoured by wolves.

Hypatia of Athens: The villagers should be warned about going into these ruins

Zita of Mercere: Oh, there's no more remaining tainted wolves, then?

Hypatia of Athens: That their immortal soul mayb e forfeit.

johns (GM): none worth simulating combat with, dys

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: o, weep for we poor magi of hermes, etc

Zita of Mercere: We're already sorting out the actual tainted part, so I think... we did it? Wow, we did it.

Hypatia of Athens: Any vis in the tainted wolves?

Giraldo of Milan: yeah we found the satan ritual

johns (GM): yes, actually, there is tainted vis in the dead wolves

Hypatia of Athens: Score

Proclus of Rome: Oh? Can any of use tell the difference between good vis and tainted vis?

(From Zita of Mercere): I'm going to get Gulielmus to pick the herbs for me, since he's insanely naive, I'll be whispering him but this is to let you, the GM, know.

Hypatia of Athens: You could probably trick Fiorella and give her tainted animal vis to snort

As for me, I don't touch any kind of vis

johns (GM): you get 8 pawns of Perdo Vis Infesta

Proclus of Rome: Argh!

How can we tell???

Hypatia of Athens: I saw it come out of a corrupted wolf, that's evidence enough for Hypatia

johns (GM): because i just told you

Proclus of Rome: This is assault.

Hypatia of Athens: You should whisper it in the future

Giraldo of Milan: ugh. wish we had some way to tell if this vis from the demonic wolves is tainted

Hypatia of Athens: Seeing as Proclus is the one with Sense of Infernal Power

johns (GM): Any outstanding business in the forest?

Zita of Mercere: None... [ominous music] right now

Proclus of Rome: Not that I can think of.

Giraldo of Milan: is stanislaw sad that no ones killing the wolf

Proclus of Rome: We need to come up with a plan to kick this wolf out of our Magic 5 aura.

johns (GM): He is, also he's annoyed that Zita is the only one he can communicate through.

Hypatia of Athens: What if the wolf itself is the tether?

Giraldo of Milan: why does the wolf need to go

its not stopping us from walking around

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): what kind of herbs am i gathering for zita, here

Hypatia of Athens: If it's casting 44 pen powers at people it's probably the main tether

Proclus of Rome: Oh yeah, I'll drag out the other two knights.

Giraldo of Milan: hell, so far its only attacked after being attakced i think

johns (GM): He thinks that his visions brought him here to hunt it down. He also has experience slaying mythical beasts in the past. Seems logical.

Proclus of Rome: What's a tether?

Hypatia of Athens: A source of a magic aura

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Nothing outrageous, most can be found in this forest.

Hypatia of Athens: From RoP Magic

Proclus of Rome: Oh, well who can say?

Hypatia of Athens: Someone with Magic Lore, that's who

Proclus of Rome: Ok, who does NOT want to kill this wolf?

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia doesn't concern herself with it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's find another magic 5 aura, this one is terrible.

Giraldo of Milan: me

Zita of Mercere: I have my own reasons not to kill it.

Hypatia of Athens: She will help kill the wolf by leading the grogs, if necessary

Giraldo of Milan: we can just see if the wolf cares about us being in its ruins

it probably doesnt

Hypatia of Athens: I'm also ready to make dinner so I can go either way

johns (GM): Magic theory wise

if you kill a daimon it just comes back

because it truly exists in the magic realm, not here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Giraldo of Milan: we can just see if the wolf cares about us being in its ruins

it probably doesnt

Hypatia of Athens: You can still get vis out of its eidolon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: once we're outside the aura this plan seems perfectly reasonable to gulielmus

Hypatia of Athens: Or maybe you can't

Zita of Mercere: I'll make it clear I don't think it's a good idea to sacrifice our grogs and put magi in danger for a handful of vis.

johns (GM): ....

Proclus of Rome: Ah well, I guess we just have to go into the magic realm and kill a Daimon.

johns (GM): What game are YOU playing, dys

Zita of Mercere: But I'm not going to press the issue

Proclus of Rome: Are you high, Zita?

Zita of Mercere: Sorry, to clarify. I'm lying when I say this.

We can do guile vs folk ken if you like

Giraldo of Milan: also we have the temple of mercury regio already

Zita of Mercere: Gift Penalty applies. Get ready.

Giraldo of Milan: i dunno why we need this aura

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea powers up

Proclus of Rome: Here's the thing: a Magic 5 aura is probably not safe to use if a Daimon keeps offering power to anyone who has vengeance in their hearts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+4+2 folk ken + perception

(

10

+

4

)

+4+2

=

20

Hypatia of Athens: You could send grogs to collect vis from it

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Hypatia of Athens: If you tell them not to talk to the wolf

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: No Gift penalty.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+12

(

4

)

+12

=

16

Proclus of Rome: Great news: the wolf is magic and can read their minds.

Zita of Mercere: I can't believe it. That's it I'm raising guile.

Wait, sorry

Gulielmus is a town dweller

+5 to that

Giraldo of Milan: imagine being seen through by gulielmus

Zita of Mercere: I win after all

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Giraldo of Milan: hm. i dont think it works like that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Uhh Rome is a city.

Not a town

Zita of Mercere: It actually does, if you read the virtue

Proclus of Rome: Oh yeah, that roll I lost? I actually got just enough of a bonus to not lose.

johns (GM): Anyway, who wants to go collect their big fat payday

Hypatia of Athens: Ok

Proclus of Rome: Does Stanislaw have any idea how to kill the wolf?

Giraldo of Milan: what was zita lying to gulielmus about

Zita of Mercere: Yeah Proclus, that is what happened. I had 5 more and forgot to add it. THankfully I remembered, phew.

Giraldo of Milan: lets go get our pay

johns (GM): Stanislaw knows a shitload of random mumbo jumbo if you have the patience to learn from him.

he probably has to learn italian first.

Proclus of Rome: Sounds like good Grog material to me.

Zita of Mercere: In the meantime I can translate OR malach can

johns (GM): Back at the manor house, Jeanne d'Ys is here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: malachiasz is actually hungarian

Proclus of Rome: Talk about your Sophie's Choice.

Giraldo of Milan: jeanne d'Emonsummoner

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bialas is polish though.

Zita of Mercere: He is?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: isn't he

Hypatia of Athens: I'll make a bargain roll as we collect our reward so I can say I bargained on this adventure

Zita of Mercere: Do we have 2 polish giants staying in our covenant

Giraldo of Milan: malach is a PROUD pole and you slandering him

Zita of Mercere: What we did to deserve this

(To Giraldo of Milan): Also I was figuring stan could be a mystagogue for your witchering

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's get rid of all the poles and all the tytalans

(From Giraldo of Milan): thats possible

Zita of Mercere: "Greetings."

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling 9+5+d10 Bargain + Comm

9+5+

(

7

)

=

21

Benso Pamphili: "We meet again. Jeanne was just telling me what you'd found out."

Giraldo of Milan: lets sue jeanne for spying on us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, bonjour, Jeanne."

Proclus of Rome: What if she was just hiding behind a tree?

That's 100% legal.

Giraldo of Milan: "What?"

Benso Pamphili: Jeanne courtsies.

Jeanne de Ys: "My apologies sodales -- I rushed back to be of some help but it seems I was just a bit too late."

Hypatia of Athens: "Your reputation preceded my visit here. A pleasure to meet you."

Giraldo of Milan: jeanne is the wolf

damn. i;t all makes sense

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if shes stanislaw.

Jeanne de Ys: Stanislaw is standing right next to you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: holy shit.

Proclus of Rome: "It is no matter, we were able to slay the wolves and destroy the ritual object that was summoning demons."

Giraldo of Milan: shes the wolf, and stanislaw, and the infernal boy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: two jeannes de ys

she's pellew the tinker

Jeanne de Ys: im going to lose my shit if someone brings up pellew again

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, he was killed by the mob after aristide spent an entire day telling everyone in the village that he's an infernalist

Hypatia of Athens: Let's not make johns cry after we managed to wrap up an adventure neatly in 4 hours

Jeanne de Ys: no worries

besides it was endrite's fault

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, hopefully this puts a stop to the attacks. There is always the possibility a wolf or two escaped us, but the demonic influence itself is gone."

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 1 vs Honesty

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Jeanne de Ys: "A word in private, sodales?" She wishes to speak to the Magi away from the Baron/grogs.

Proclus of Rome: "However, there is still a great white wolf dwelling in the depths of the forest. Our divinations have determined that it is not interested in attacking your town."

Benso Pamphili: "The She-wolf? No shit, I thought that was an old wive's tale."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Bien sur."

Hypatia of Athens: "Yes, the townsfolk should be warned against going in there."

Proclus of Rome: "Well, old wives have had plenty of time to gain grudges, I suppose."

Zita of Mercere: "Unlike the demons, however, it is best left alone. The knights that attempted otherwise did not survive their efforts."

Benso Pamphili: "Tch. If the killer wolves weren't enough to keep fools from wandering to their ends, why bother."

Zita of Mercere: "It isn't threatening you, so it's smarter to just tell people to stay away."

Proclus of Rome: Anyway, I'll step away with Jeanne and leave the grogs to handle our payment.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: same.

Hypatia of Athens: I was rolling Bargain so I'll be with the grogs

Giraldo of Milan: ok grogs. time to cheat zita, gulielmus, proclus and hypatia out of money

Zita of Mercere: Good news. Hypatia and/or me are handling the actually money arrangements.

Benso Pamphili: Jeanne says that the Baron was planning a monetary rewards for any adventurer who was going to solve this problem. She suggests that you should barter for something more substantial, like the income from one of his plot of land, that befits your elevated status. She'll back you up if you do.

Hypatia of Athens: I rolled a 21

I've been pumping it so I can actually get somewhere as an artist

Giraldo of Milan: sounds to me like jeanne de ys would like pamphili weakened

however, hes a noble so i agree

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: "I can only hope this means an end to any misfortune here." I say politely to the lord

Benso Pamphili: The baron's steward comes in and has a whispered conversation with the Baron. "'Strange' how?" The baron asks the steward, incredulously.

Proclus of Rome: What about rights to the river?

Does he have that?

Oh, or the forest.

Benso Pamphili: Yes.

(From Zita of Mercere): I use my magic item. Asking benso the mental question "what are the most valuable things in this manor" and then a second question of "where are they located"

Giraldo of Milan: lets roll awareness to hear the conversation

rolling 1d10+11

(

5

)

+11

=

16

Proclus of Rome: That might be a bit of an ask, though he did say that it's too dangerous to actually go into.

(To Zita of Mercere): He values his theriacs, which are in his philosopher's lab.

Proclus of Rome: So taking the forest instead of any payment might actually work.

(From Zita of Mercere): is his 'philosopher' jeanna d'ys by any chance

Proclus of Rome: Does anyone here have Bargain?

Giraldo of Milan: i hope proclus doesnt intend to go in and kill the wolf repeatedly as it keeps respawning

Hypatia of Athens: Yes

Zita of Mercere: Hypatia and I both do, I think her modifier is higher

I have +11 here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems like the wolf would eventually decide to spawn somewhere else

Hypatia of Athens: +9 but 5 Comm

(To Zita of Mercere): He has one of his own separate from Jeanne's sanctum

Giraldo of Milan: +11 huh? you must have ways of the  castle

(To Zita of Mercere): Ask Endrite for deets

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ways of the earth

Benso Pamphili: You're standing on a stone floor above the earth.

Giraldo of Milan: ways of the being human

Benso Pamphili: Foiled again.

If you'd like, you can suss out the reward later.

There's actually 1 more issue today

Zita of Mercere: I could get +10 extra if I went all out but we don't need  that  power here

Hypatia of Athens: I also have Aura of Ennobled Presence up, if that helps

Giraldo of Milan: nice, zitas getting killed by the quaesitor swat team

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if we can get vis rights from the forest that seems like a good way to go. also we have to find a vis source in the forest

Giraldo of Milan: johns said there were magic herbs

Benso Pamphili: True. Also an exorcist is going to do a divine ritual in the forest at some point to clean things up. That may have an impact.

Giraldo of Milan: i assume the wolf will be fine

Benso Pamphili: "Business later, Jeanne's friends. I need a quick favor."

Hypatia of Athens: The wolf maintains its own aura probaby

Like Faustus

That's how he survived all those years

Benso Pamphili: "Someone's poking around one of my fields to the south, one of those adventurers lured in, maybe. My men are saying there's something 'strange' about them. It could be trouble."

"You aren't the type to shy from strangeness I take it."

Giraldo of Milan: oh my god. its plutonis's new pc

lets go take a look

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A man with a cat?"

Benso Pamphili: The steward pipes up. "A woman.. a very tall woman.. and a man in a red hat."

Zita of Mercere: "Red hat, huh."

Hypatia of Athens: "A red hat..."

"Shall we go see, Zita?"

Zita of Mercere: "Might be a coincedence, but you never know."

Benso Pamphili: does Hypatia and Zita wear things to identify themselves as redcaps

Hypatia of Athens: Zita does, I do not

Anthemia Mercere: Unless I put on my red hat

Benso Pamphili: delightfully deceitful.

The field in question has been abandoned by the peasants for the day, what with the lateness of the hour, the death and mayhem etc

Anthemia Mercere: I don't like waving my magi status around mundanes

Proclus of Rome: This seems like quite an issue.

Anthemia Mercere: But since we're going to greet someone possibly from Harco, I put on a hat

Giraldo of Milan: these peasants have it so easy

Proclus of Rome: Oh no, a Noonwraith.

Giraldo of Milan: constant festivals to let them get off working

Benso Pamphili: A woman standing 7 feet tall, dressed head to toe in a brown cloak, is walking through the wheat, occasionally stooping down to inspect it closely. The man in the red cap follows nearby.

Giraldo of Milan: sunday mass to get them off working

and now a couple guys die and there was a satan ritual so they get off working

Benso Pamphili: being a peasant ftw, folks.

Zita of Mercere: When I arrive at a covenant for the first time, I wear a red cap, after then I just arrive normally.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: constant death and mayhem to get them off working

let's sew a giant red cap for malachiasz to wear when arriving at a new covenant

Benso Pamphili: on the one side, you have to worry about constant war, plague, etc. On the other hand, you probably work less hours than modern wageslaves do. so enh

Giraldo of Milan: peasant: uhhh yes my lord, in fact there is a festival today, and tomorrow. weird that you didnt know that

Anthemia Mercere: I'm, err, a very devout woman

Let's make a red cap for our gentle gifted guy

Giraldo of Milan: you also just have to deal with dumbass lords and tax collectors

Zita of Mercere: I'll approach with everyone

Giraldo of Milan: instead of corporate evil

johns (GM): The tall woman takes a sickle from the red hatted man, and with gloved hands, cuts some wheat from the ground, which she stuffs into a sack.

Proclus of Rome: "Hello, I'm Proclus of Rome, a noted philosopher."

Giraldo of Milan: "What are you doing?"

johns (GM): latin or italian, endrite

Proclus of Rome: Italian.

Anthemia Mercere: "Yiassoo."

johns (GM): The pair turns around, startled. The redcapped man starts to speak in Italian, then tries Latin: "Er, Sodales? Magi?"

Zita of Mercere: I now have 4 ranks of  Order of Hermes Lore  so I'm going to use it to see if I know this redcap

rolling 1d10-1+4

(

2

)

-1+4

=

5

johns (GM): Nope.

Zita of Mercere: I don't, probably

johns (GM): His accent is Slavic, but NOT Polish. Clearly a foreigner.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salvete."

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, how do you do?"

Anthemia Mercere: "Not from Harco, Zita?"

johns (GM): "Magi! Ah, good, good." The woman smiles, relieved, and does an awkward bow.

Anthemia Mercere: "Aye."

Tethys of Tytalus: "Salvate. I am Tethys of Tytalus, and this is my companion, Jozef. I didn't expect fellow Magi around here. How are you?"

Anthemia Mercere: Her token is very cool

Zita of Mercere: "Ah. Zita of Mercere, I'm a redcap as well."

Tethys of Tytalus: As she faces you, you notice she has little berries sprouting in her hair.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Gulielmus ex Miscellanea."

Zita of Mercere: Twilight scars ftw

Proclus of Rome: "We are quite well, thank you. If you are here about the bounty on wolves, I'm afraid we have already collected it."

Anthemia Mercere: "Anthemia of Mercere."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus extends a hand, but his smile becomes a little forced at the mention of house Tytalus.

Tethys of Tytalus: She removes a glove, revealing her fingernails are tree bark, and shakes your hand.

Anthemia Mercere: I curtsy politely.

Tethys of Tytalus: "A pleasure to meet so many of you out here. I'm not here to take any reward from you, rest assured."

Giraldo of Milan: "What are you doing here?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Friends of Jeanne's?"

Zita of Mercere: "The local lord seemed upset by it, perhaps the Gift setting off local peasants."

Tethys of Tytalus: "Oh that's simple enough... Jozef and I have been traveling, collecting materials for my work.. I heard the herald speak of the outbreak and I came here and-- " she gestures to the field, which has several trails of dead, rotted wheat -- "collecting samples for my research."

Proclus of Rome: "Well, he is known to be upset from time to time."

Tethys of Tytalus: "Jeanne?" she asks. "Who's that?"

Proclus of Rome: "She's a fellow maga of Vardian's Tomb."

"She has her sanctum in the manor, however."

Giraldo of Milan: huh. did the field always have a trail of dead wheat

i guess thatd be the wolves

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is jeanne an ex misc

Giraldo of Milan: shes a court wizard

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thou'rt.

Proclus of Rome: That's my guess.

Tethys of Tytalus: To Zita, "You can understand some people are a little alarmed around me so.. Having Jozef around is quite helpful!"

Proclus of Rome: She hasn't said, though.

Tethys of Tytalus: Jozef smiles and bows.

Proclus of Rome: So definitely some kind of societas, you know how we can be.

Giraldo of Milan: actually, shes a tytalus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: together we can end hedge mage stigma

Proclus of Rome: "What covenant are you from?"

Tethys of Tytalus: "Formerly Cau Gadu, though I call Provence my home now. No real covenant to speak, just my sanctum."

Zita of Mercere: Where was that again

Tethys of Tytalus: Cau Gadu is in Wales

Provence is southern France.

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, how unusual. As you know, covenant membership is a requirement in the Roman Tribunal."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does she know derfel

Tethys of Tytalus: She might, did Derfel hang out at Cau Gadu

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: she ruined his career as a monster slayer, and now shes back to finish the job.

Proclus of Rome: "Have you found other places that have been attacked by similar diseases?"

Anthemia Mercere: "Provencal Tribunal may allow chapter houses, though."

Tethys of Tytalus: Tethys has. Indeed plant disease, and the protection/curing of it, is her Hermetic specialty.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have to flip through the stonehenge book and see which covenant would be a good fit

Tethys of Tytalus: She has traveled through France and now Italy investigating the causes of plant disease and means to ward against it. She's happy to recount her adventures in detail.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: when was the most recent stonehenge book. 2e?

Tethys of Tytalus: I think Heirs to Merlin is 4e

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whew.

Zita of Mercere: "These illnesses only affect plants, not people, right?"

Proclus of Rome: Love a good adventure recounting.

Tethys of Tytalus: "Yes, I know a bit of Corpus but I prefer working with Herbam."

"I'm not causing a problem by taking some samples? I don't mean to tread on your toes or deprive you of resources.. and I'm not setting up a lab or covenant in Italy, I assure you."

Giraldo of Milan: we should kill these two just to be safe

Anthemia Mercere: "We were curious when we heard you were accompanied by a man in a red hat."

Giraldo of Milan: she made the fatal mistake of admitting to having her sanctum in france

Tethys of Tytalus: Provence, not Normandy

Giraldo of Milan: get her magic resources while the gettings good

Anthemia Mercere: "It's no bother to us."

Tethys of Tytalus: Provence still has laws.

Proclus of Rome: "I believe you."

Giraldo of Milan: theyll never find out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you really think giraldo knows the difference between provence and normandy

Giraldo of Milan: does gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Yes.

Giraldo of Milan: oh

Proclus of Rome: "I just wish you had visited us earlier. The location of Vardian's Tomb is no secret, after all. By combining our resources we might be able to help each other."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: provence is to the south, and is less awful

Anthemia Mercere: "If you ever find yourself in Rome, visit the Eastern Ear Inn."

Proclus of Rome: Or more awful depending on who you ask.

Tethys of Tytalus: "That's a splendid idea Proclus. May Jozef and I pay you a visit? Maybe we can help each other out."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, we're quite open to visitors nearby. If you want to research the local area, it would be best to stay in touch while you do."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What do you think is the problem with the wheat?"

Proclus of Rome: "Certainly, we were just about to return from our adventure, so we can show you the way."

Tethys of Tytalus: "The wheat in this path has been inflicted with Necrosis. I was investigating magically and take the source to be Infernal in nature, a disease demon most likely."

Giraldo of Milan: "The problem's already resolved."

Proclus of Rome: "We found the victim of an Infernal ritual in the woods yonder and he told us much the same thing."

Anthemia Mercere: Gulielmus here can brew potions that let you talk to trees. I think you two would have a lot to collaborate on."

Tethys of Tytalus: wow!

Proclus of Rome: "Not by half, Giraldo, the culprit remains at large."

Tethys of Tytalus: herbam powers unite.

Zita of Mercere: "You don't think there's more still being done, do you?"

Proclus of Rome: I describe the man and his cat to her.

Zita of Mercere: "But the culprit is still out there, true."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're still carrying the disease demons around with us, aren't we

Tethys of Tytalus: She has not seen the man with the red cat.

You all washed up with Holy Water as I recall.

Tethys also suggests a potent regiment of Perdo Vim to rid yourself of them.

Zita of Mercere: The one on me immediately left, I remember

A more powerful spell is already in effect

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, that's true, Hypatia, I wasn't even thinking of that."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea offers the last vial of tree-speech potion to Tethys.

Tethys of Tytalus: She politely declines, knowing the spell Formulaically.

Giraldo of Milan: force it into her hand

Anthemia Mercere: Cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cranked.

Giraldo of Milan: be assertive gulielmus, this is your chance

Anthemia Mercere: Get yourself a sexy tree GF

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a tytalus? gross

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus will be a tytalus before long

once malachiasz challenges him to a herbam contest

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ten minutes later: damn i wish i had a seven foot tall tree girlfriend.

Tethys of Tytalus: She has renounced the teachings of Tytalus and taken on a benevolent course to atone for the sins of her parens.

Giraldo of Milan: fucking BITCH

lets kill her

Anthemia Mercere: You just joined House Tytalus by successfully defeating a Tytalus's attempt to seduce you

Proclus of Rome: Renouncing the teachings of Tytalus is VERY Tytalan.

Zita of Mercere: lol

But, it is

Tethys of Tytalus: gahaha.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the ultimate tytalus

Tethys of Tytalus: Well, I think that resolves that. You've picked up a Hermetic correspondence partner who may have some resources to trade down the line.

And made a new Redcap friend. May this one live longer than the last.

Zita of Mercere: The best part about renouncing the teachings of tytalus is that no-one takes you seriously in the house, thehy just smile and wink at you and say "I get it"

Giraldo of Milan: getting a copy of the analects of tytalus and defacing it

Anthemia Mercere: Nice

johns (GM): Finally, at some point you can bargain for a reward from the lord that isn't just a lump of cash.

Anthemia Mercere: Let's go home and reflect on our experiences

Giraldo of Milan: that redcap has a really weak chin

weaker than the tree girls

Anthemia Mercere: Oh

Proclus of Rome: Does anyone have bargain?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll do a bargain

Yes

Zita of Mercere: The tree girl ftw

Hypatia of Athens: Two of us said yes last time you asked

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wise criamon, having just exited secluded meditation: I renounce the teachings of Tytalus.

assembled lesser criamons: the wee bey face

Hypatia of Athens: So we're bargaining to harvest magic herbs?

Proclus of Rome: We should just bargain for the whole forest.

After all, Lord Pamphili isn't willing to send anyone in there and the locals are all afraid of it.

Hypatia of Athens: That's a lot of potential forestry income for the baron but okay

* lord

Proclus of Rome: I think we could definitely negotiate for exclusive access or even ownership.

Well, lumberjacks presumably get eaten by wolves.

johns (GM): Tethys and Jozef are now in your journal under "Non-Romans"

Hypatia of Athens: I will go negotiate rights to the forest in lieu of a monetary reward

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Tethys...

johns (GM): Stanislaw is under Grogs for now

Zita of Mercere: Tethys and Jozef are exalted names

Hypatia of Athens: I have +9 Bargain, +5 Communication, and +5 Aura of Ennobled Presence if it counts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can give you +1 from the appropriate attire.

Hypatia of Athens: That'll help

Do you need to roll Finesse?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that would make sense, but it isn't actually required.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think because it's just +1

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10!+9+5+5+1

(

3

)

+9+5+5+1

=

23

johns (GM): You want rights to everything in the forest, like it was your own fief?

Proclus of Rome: I think that makes sense.

What about you fellows?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Sounds good to me.

Hypatia of Athens: Sure

He can counter offer

johns (GM): you're asking for all the trees and game and herbs and such

his counter offer is rights to all things in the forest a lone man can carry with his bare hands

Hypatia of Athens: I'll bring this offer to Proclus

Proclus of Rome: That sounds fine, since creating magic gloves that let you carry a tree seems easy enough.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bare hands though.

Hypatia of Athens: True

How often can this lone man go in?

Proclus of Rome: Well then a magic shirt.

Or a magic ring.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume it means we have the right to every object that can be carried in that way, not to one armload

Proclus of Rome: It's all good.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay that works

Magic herbs are pretty portable

As is fish

And small game

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if there's any vis we can transfer it to a portable container

Hypatia of Athens: We can invent a ReAn item that cuts the portable meat from a deer

Proclus of Rome: Lifting an entire tree is only ReHe 5.

(From Zita of Mercere): I return on the date specified with the herbs gulielmus gathered up for me, that the wolf wanted.

Proclus of Rome: So for a ring it'd be, uh, Base 5, +1 Touch, +10 Unlimited.

What kind of duration would you need?

Hypatia of Athens: Conc probably

Part would probably crush him

Proclus of Rome: So +2.

Part isn't a duration.

Hypatia of Athens: I mean Diam

Not part

Proclus of Rome: You'd only need Individual target.

Well, if it has unlimited uses it would presumably work every time the ring touched the tree, which would be all the time.

(To Zita of Mercere): check ur pms

Hypatia of Athens: True

I think Diam would be fine then

That would prevent gaps in between repaplications

Proclus of Rome: Oh dang, we have a TON of Herbam vis.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we don't have enough vim vis to open an item

Proclus of Rome: We could commission a couple of these rings and get a real logging business going.

Hypatia of Athens: A lesser would be fine for carrying trees out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait, do verditius magi get a discount on opening items

Hypatia of Athens: Yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but it still takes a whole season.

Hypatia of Athens: You can also enchant something after a Verdi opens it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so we probably can't outsource that to our boy enki

Proclus of Rome: Why not?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's a busy guy

Proclus of Rome: Verditus magi always take commissions for twice the vis it takes to make an item..

I'm sure there are plenty of magi at Verdi who are less busy than he is.

Hypatia of Athens: Verdi with a high extraction total sometimes charge more

Zita of Mercere: Verditius magi do commissions all the time, Enki will do stuff if you pay him, I imagine

Though finding a more herbam-focussed magus would be better

Hypatia of Athens: Anyway carrying trees out is probably b ad faith interpretation of the contract so I don't involve my self with this scheme

Proclus of Rome: Boy, wait until Hypatia finds out about medieval weight standards.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. is there anything left to do here

Hypatia of Athens: If the Lord isn't upset by your activity then I will realize I had little cause for concern.

That's up to him.

Giraldo of Milan: proclus has done far more things to disappoint god

Proclus of Rome: Of course he'll be upset, upset that he made a bad deal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: iirc making nobles look like fools is the primary pastime of wizards.

read the romance of the three kingdoms.

Giraldo of Milan: far worse rather

johns (GM): hope you dont mind but the baron probably specifies a duration for this right

like 70 years

Hypatia of Athens: That's fine

Proclus of Rome: That makes sense.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets roll some dice for that duration.

Proclus of Rome: Probably we'd want to talk to his lord for a permanent gift.

Zita of Mercere: 14d10 years

rolling 14d10

(

3

+

5

+

6

+

5

+

2

+

7

+

8

+

2

+

10

+

1

+

6

+

10

+

5

+

2

)

=

72

There we go

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like 70 years

Hypatia of Athens: 72 makes sense given the potential for a mistake like saying a peasant's arm load as the maximum haul

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are we going to figure out what to do with the aura itself in the thread

the wolf, the exorcism, etc

johns (GM): 70 years is the biblical length of a man's life

yeah i'll post some deets in the thread right now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the length of a man's life [drake disapproves]

Giraldo of Milan: the length of a mans hermetic life

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the length of a man's life, plus two years [drake wearing goetic wizard's hat approves]

Giraldo of Milan: we could have also sold the lord longevity rituals

Hypatia of Athens: Anyway Hypatia doesn't have the Folk Ken to see through Proclus's guile so she assumes the deal is fine for everyone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about the secret intrigue

Zita of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+27

(

3

)

+27

=

30

Proclus of Rome: What guile?

It's just a very good deal for us.

johns (GM): tread updated.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay the summary's posted so sounds like GG

Time for dinner

Zita of Mercere: yeah, gg

Giraldo of Milan: ytea

Proclus of Rome: See ya.

Beardbeard (GM):

rolling 1d10+3

(

8

)

+3

=

11

rolling 1d10+3

(

9

)

+3

=

12

rolling 1d10+3

(

8

)

+3

=

11

rolling 1d10+3

(

5

)

+3

=

8

rolling 1d10+3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

rolling 1d10+3

(

6

)

+3

=

9

dys (GM): Archibald experiments to invent a spell. Let's see his bonus, first.

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

Incredible. A spell is invented in one season. Or is it? LEt's roll experimental results

rolling 1d10!

(

8

)

=

8

dys (GM) screams

devil's fav demon (GM): aging bialas

rolling 1d10!-5

(

3

)

-5

=

-2

visible aging celeste

rolling 1d10!-5

(

9

)

-5

=

4

damn. finally looks over 18.

johns (GM): Using Sortes in the temple of mercury. Target is 12 (18 -3 for city, -3 for personage). Topic is sanctum of Richard Strabo

rolling 1d10!+2+7+6

(

9

)

+2+7+6

=

24

devil's fav demon (GM): overtime aging roll celeste

rolling 1d10!-5

(

9

)

-5

=

4

art experimentation

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

rolling 1d10!

(

8

)

=

8