3/18/18

ohns (GM): hey endrite i think game will be 1 hour and 15 min from now

Endrite: Oh no!

Think of the gamers!

johns (GM): i thought of them

dys: salvete

devil's fav demon (GM): hail, gamers

Shauncat (GM): hail vendor buy bank guards

johns (GM): im trying to catch up on the 500 unread messages in the Gossip channel on discord but people are posting faster than I can read.

devil's fav demon (GM): try not reading it

johns (GM): impossible

PM] Fucklesnake: One time at the end of a first date i asked the lady if i could kiss her, and she said "haha... no" and got in her car and zoomed off

devil's fav demon (GM): owned.

dys: i will not catch up on them. bwa ha.

johns (GM): you're missing out .boat and sardswine are talking about their tindie dates now

dys: damn. boat i believe, but i cant believe sardonic swine would do that. just unimaginable.

Shauncat (GM): tindu nuffin

johns (GM): anyway

Everyone's here?

devil's fav demon (GM): Maybe.

Beardbeard: salve

Father Hazm: Going player mode

devil's fav demon (GM): sounds like the other discord is a lot like the snapchat

really missing out.

dys: :pepe:

johns (GM): its pretty gay. unfortunately its the only place to be if you dont want to read sheslop and prinny posting.

Father Hazm: I'll stick to the prinny and sheslop discord chat

efb

devil's fav demon (GM): good shit.

dys: sitting in a chat iwth prinny, sheslop, big opinoin, some guy who signed up to badgame to talk about gamergate, etc sounds like an undescribable torment

Beardbeard: the gossip channels gay

johns (GM): i wasnt able to get junk food in time so i just have oatmeal and cold tap water.

anyway

March 18th, 1345 A.D.

What mages are at VT at this time?

dys: Bonfilia, Jorn and Aleseta

johns (GM): right.

Father Hazm: Boyar's magus

johns (GM): q_q

Celeste: I am standing out front of the inn drinking wine on the street, as usual.

Keeping watch.

Father Hazm: Fiorella appears in VT once looking for Gulielmus

Shortly after he was kidnapped

johns (GM): Interesting.

Then actually nothing happens until the Ponza Krew returns on March 22nd.

dys: Lavinia, boyreps magus, thats it I think

Voda: Exciting adventure all.

johns (GM): Loot in tow, sans 1 grog and 1 magus.

Celeste: We did it, boys.

Father Hazm: I hang out in the library and/or improvised confessional so covenfolk don't have to talk about the weird shit they do at a normie church

Beardbeard: what the

i did giraldos seasons for this???

johns (GM): relax.

Voda: How much XP do we get for this week?

dys: where is cumthinker

Celeste: he is thinking.

johns (GM): Anyway, as you are adding your reclaimed vis to the stockpile in the library, Fiorella, Archibald, Antone, Guy, and Rosario notice something odd.

Your vials of Herbam vis are clouded and moldy. Dark spores have grown on the vis!

Voda: Yikes!

Rosario of Flambeau: "Gross!"

Father Hazm: Gulielmus, the protagonist of Ars Italia, isn't here.

Archibald of Guernicus: "They may have sat unused for a while, but this is ridiculous."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Another pestering devil, I'm sure."

Guy of Bonisagus: I use my philosophy, with a spec in natural.

Where does mold come from?

rolling 1d10+4

(

1

)

+4

=

5

oh no

Archibald of Guernicus: mold on the brain

johns (GM): From plants dying.

Voda: You should try licking it.

johns (GM): You have 3 types of Herbam Vis: Some gnarled roots recovered from the Cruciator's henchmen, a regular source from a magic rose that grows in the depths of the catacombs, and a regular source from verdant green mold that grows on the Old Mill.

All are afflicted with decay and mold.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh no. the mold is moldy

Voda: It's a shame.

johns (GM): Indeed. There is now foul black mold on the otherwise exemplary magic green mold.

Rosario of Flambeau: yes, to clarify, the good mold has a different mold on it, correct

okay.

good.

well, that's not good at all.

Guy of Bonisagus: is it still usable

has it become perdo vis

Archibald of Guernicus: "Something is definitely awry, sodales. Some of that wasn't even magic vis, it was fairy-aligned."

Guy of Bonisagus: has it become a mess that the grogs will need to clean up

lest we expose ourselves to the foul air around it

johns (GM): You'll need to tell me how you're investigating to figure that out, Guy

Guy of Bonisagus: hm

Faustus Galerius: "Could it be magical mold feeding on it?"

Guy of Bonisagus: i have scales of the magical weight

Rosario of Flambeau: "Should we set it all on fire?"

Guy of Bonisagus: i will take normal vis and weigh it against the moldy vis

oh, ill cast chamber of spring breezes first

to make the air in here nicer

Faustus Galerius:

rolling d10+3+4+1 Int + Magic Lore (awakened objects)

(

3

)

+3+4+1

=

11

Archibald of Guernicus: "The affliction is likely magical in nature, we shouldnt just run at it without thinking."

johns (GM): Your spell reports that the Molded Vis is still Herbam Vis, just as many pawns as before.

Voda: Well what's the problem then?

Archibald of Guernicus: Did touching it have no adverse affects on Guy?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, it's still usable."

johns (GM): No affect on Guy

Faustus Galerius: "Magical spores can't be good for the humors."

Voda: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: any effects pinging on my parma?

Rosario of Flambeau: "How about we call a priest, have him bless the vis?"

johns (GM): Nay

Voda: Perhaps that's because he's the one who created the spores.

johns (GM): Faustus, what is the nature of your Rolled inquiry?

Voda: This REALLY makes me think.

Archibald of Guernicus: In that case, I'll use Archibald's Unmasking the Sigil on it, to see if there are any active magical effects, and if so, the arts, spell effect and caster's sigil

Faustus Galerius: Oh

Guy of Bonisagus: if we go on 2 adventures in one season do we get to double dip on xp

johns (GM): Nay.

Faustus Galerius: Is there any lore regarding magical mold one might have come across?

Rosario of Flambeau: can you also detect residues of magic w that dys

(To Faustus Galerius): This is completely unfamiliar to you.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's any active magic, iirc that means any positive magnitude traces, not sure

johns (GM): 1 sec

Rosario of Flambeau: you should get the CrVi that lets you boost negative traces if you dont already have it

(To Archibald of Guernicus): It detects Hermetic spells only right?

Faustus Galerius: "We should bring in some damp soil to test the magic mold on."

"Maybe some old cheese too."

(From Archibald of Guernicus): Oh no, it works on any magic at all, something non-hermetic is just harder to interpret since I dont know the theory behind it. Can still tell things like magnitude and closest hermetic form

johns (GM): I have researched the parameters of InVi and find that they cannot detect any active magic on the vis (other than their magical nature).

Hm, well there is one thing

(To Archibald of Guernicus): There is something poewrfully magical and Herbamish around the vis. But you can't figure out what it means.

Faustus Galerius: Let's create magic cheese with disease curing properties

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Voda: Gasp!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, I have something tae report. There is magic afflicting it, but it's not hermetic."

Rosario of Flambeau: Tyromancy ftw.

"Filthy hedge mages."

Archibald of Guernicus: I need to go sort out dinner, brb 10 minutes

Rosario of Flambeau: What a cliffhanger!

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hedge mages!"

Voda: Hmm.

johns (GM): Okay, Faustus wants to bring in dirt

Do you want to try scraping the mold off the vis?

Voda: Well, how did it get through your Aegis of the Hearth?

Guy of Bonisagus: sure

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, that's that. We'll have to bring them to heel.

"

Father Hazm stumbles out of the confessional.

Father Hazm: "Hedge magic?"

Father Hazm covers up mathematici amulets

Guy of Bonisagus: as any philosopher knows, a cloth soaked in honey is an excellent deterrent to bad air

so i will wrap such a cloth around my face before messing with the modl

Rosario of Flambeau: well, you're in the order, right? totally fine hedge magic.

johns (GM): Guy attempts to remove mold from the vis. He gets a few dark spores littering his lab bench, and finds that the rest of the vis is still rotted.

Father Hazm: I am taking over for Walrad, just covenfolk

Not an Order member as such

Voda: You should try using the vis and see what happens.

It might be fine.

Rosario of Flambeau: smh. I'll look the other way.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont know what i could use the vis on

hm

Rosario of Flambeau: "Watch out for your bench. Next thing you know, that'll rot out from under you."

Guy of Bonisagus: i will use the rotted pawn im experimenting with to conjure the sturdy vine

(To Guy of Bonisagus): Formulaic or spont?

(From Guy of Bonisagus): formulaic, i cant spont

Voda: You can always use vis to boost spell casting.

(To Guy of Bonisagus): Roll it anyway, please.

Voda: Well not always, but you could still try it.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+13

(

3

)

+13

=

16

plus the bonuses for using vis

johns (GM): Guy spends one pawn of Rotting vis to boost his Formulaic spell. The spell goes off just fine. Guy feels the vis boosting the spell's power as normal. The only thing unusual is a strange and subtle feeling that the vis is riskier to the caster.

Voda: Ah, how Lovecraftian.

Father Hazm: I can only use Creo and Vim vis so I'll just watch

Guy of Bonisagus: I gather the leftover mold into a vessel and close it up, then clean up my lab bench.

"Well, it's not a major detriment. Not yet at least."

"If we can stop it from continuing it should be fine."

johns (GM): Any further investigation?

Guy of Bonisagus: let me see if i have any other useful spells

nope, nothing for m

e

Voda: You should see what happens if you rub the spores on food.

Guy of Bonisagus: you get mold on your food

Father Hazm: We should try that

Guy of Bonisagus: its probably unpleasant, and dangerous to eat

johns (GM): Where will you store your Rotting Vis?

Guy of Bonisagus: as would be expected of mold

I'll gather the molded vis into vessels and close them up, but otherwise keep them in the storeroom.

I briefly check the non-herbam vis for any signs of molding, then clean up the area.

johns (GM): All non-Herbam vis looks fine.

Then if investigation is concluded, time will pass..

Voda: Good adventure this week, everyone.

Guy of Bonisagus: if only we had some sort of magical detective

to figure out whos doing this

johns (GM): A magical defective.

But he's out to lunch.

Father Hazm: Fiorella has an undetermined amoun tof time to spend investigating the Ponza library

johns (GM): The rot continues on your sealed Herbam vis into April.

Voda: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: does anyone else want to do anything

to stop our vis from being destroyed

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm getting antsy. Been an uneventful month!"

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm busy setting up my lab.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh i know

ill send the grogs to go check on the vis sources themselves

and have them do extra patrols around the surface

Rosario of Flambeau: Good idea.

Celeste: I'll go with them, in case Second Sight helps.

Father Hazm: I'll look around the vis storage using Second Sight

johns (GM): You know that your Rose Vis source has been harvested for the year already -- on the Coldest day in Winter -- and your Mold Vis is not ready until September, after the last seeds of the season have been planted.

Archibald of Guernicus: Back

johns (GM): So there is nothing out of the ordinary in either location, but no vis yet.

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah, but i mean to see if theres anything weird going on in the area

Voda: I'll investigate the rose vis.

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald please find the hedge mage doing this

johns (GM): It's a dark tomb deep in the catacombs.

Guy of Bonisagus: as no one else wants to

Father Hazm:

rolling 5+2+d10! Second Sight + Perception

5+2+

(

5

)

=

12

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, complain about the guy with deficient intellego. I'm not here to investigate.

(To Father Hazm): You spot nothing abnormal

Father Hazm: +3 from aura

Archibald of Guernicus: Which one was the most recently harvested, the rose?

johns (GM): yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we should investigate the site of it, it might be how this was done to us

johns (GM): Any spells you want to use to investigate

Voda: What if it just happened?

johns (GM): Because visually nothing is out of order.

Archibald of Guernicus: Haven't had much opportunity to learn other investigation magic lately, I'll try checking the actual part we harvest from, the area around it, etc for any active ongoing magic.

I've also got my prebuff up that tells me if any magic pierces my parma

Father Hazm: Unless this woudl contradict my Infernal Lore, I'll say, "This does not seem to be the work o hidden demons."

Voda: Maybe the vis is just going bad on its own.

johns (GM): Nothing you can detect ARchibald.

Voda: Can that happen?

I bet it can happen.

johns (GM): an intriguing theory voda

Father Hazm: Magic Lore didn't say anything

So IDK

Archibald of Guernicus: Guess all we can do is resolve to inspect the other vis sites when they're due for harvest, no current problems and not much means to investigate past what we've seen. Got to catch the culprit in the act.

johns (GM): Ok

With no other ideas then I will continue to move time ahead

Father Hazm: Maybe Giraldo knows something, he's a herbalist

johns (GM): giraldo sniffs the vis. "Drowners? no, that's not right"

Archibald of Guernicus: Imagine if we had someone who could talk to plants [said, barely holding back tears]

Did Gulielmus leave any of his plant-talking potions out for his friend

friends

Guy of Bonisagus: if we had a mold forest i could talk to them

johns (GM): you could go into his sanctum and see what potions you can find, I suppose.

Father Hazm: Let's start a mold forest in the catacombs

johns (GM): I don't think those would work on Vis or Dead Plant Matter.

Archibald of Guernicus: That would be illegal, and also rude

The rose wasnt dead, was it?

johns (GM): In the winter, no. But now it is covered in mold and rot.

Archibald of Guernicus: I wasn't sure what Guli did with his potions, whether he left them out or kept them all in his lab. Oh well.

johns (GM): We head into April..

On April 12th, Guy notices that the Herbam vis is now completely rotted. He can detect no Vis in the samples when using his InVi spell.

Voda: Gasp!

Father Hazm: Cast a spell on the mold and see if it has Might now

Rosario of Flambeau: "Is there anyone we can call in?"

Archibald of Guernicus: How much vis did we lose

Guy of Bonisagus: "This is distressing."

johns (GM): 41 pawns of magic herbam vis, 5 pawns of fairy herbam vis

Archibald of Guernicus: what the fuck

Rosario of Flambeau: Holy shit.

Voda: Hmm.

Maybe it's dangerous to keep that much vis together.

johns (GM): Immediate actions on April 12th?

Archibald of Guernicus: "What the fuck"

Father Hazm: Uhh

Rosario of Flambeau: Who do you know who might want to ruin all our Herbam?

Father Hazm: Are there any new clues?

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm not familiar with the grudges laid on this covenant before I arrived, but are there any suspects?"

Father Hazm: We've rolled Philoiphiae, Magic Lore,a nd several spells at the vis

Rosario of Flambeau: "This is foul play, of course."

Father Hazm: "Could there be an agent of ill intent in the covenant?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "We haven't gone around making enemies out of powerful hedge magi, if that's what ye mean."

"Besides last month."

johns (GM) consults enemies list

Voda: Why limit it to hedge magi?

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+1 Lore of the Mathematici, would they ever do something like this to the Order?

(

4

)

+2+1

=

7

johns (GM): Why contain it

Voda: What if it's a hermetic wizard?

Guy of Bonisagus: "The rose was clearly tainted somehow."

(To Father Hazm): It sounds absurd to think, that they would either have the means or the motive to conduct such an act.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Guy of Bonisagus: "Unless a hedge mage broke into our storeroom."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I checked the site, there was nothing out of place, and definitely no magical interference present at the scene."

Voda: What if there was but you couldn't detect it?

Can't you magically ask the surrounding area if anything unusual happened?

Father Hazm: Let's do all the things we did last time but hope we roll hgiher

Giraldo of Milan: Giraldo gets dragged out of his alchemy shack to go look at the site.

Father Hazm: Anyway I do not hav ea moment of realization after making that roll

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why don't we ask that old Praeco? He's a herbam master, isn't he?"

Giraldo of Milan: I look around at the rose site with second sight.

rolling 1d10+7

(

4

)

+7

=

11

johns (GM): was already done giraldo, and nothing changed this sight.

you see the regular assortment of ghosts who hang around the catacombs.

Archibald of Guernicus: Lovable characters, all

Voda: Just ghost things.

Giraldo of Milan: I look around for anything resembling tracks or a trail from some time ago.

rolling 1d10+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

johns (GM): Your witcher sense only reveals the tracks of the grogs who harvested the rose and those who recently investigated.

Giraldo of Milan: I grab some of the mold and dowse for it.

johns (GM): On April 18th, a redcap arrives at the covenant to drop off the mail.

(From Rosario of Flambeau): should anson's letter declaring tasso's death and accusation of murder be part of this

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5

(

1

)

+5

=

6

well thats not even high enough to find "common things"

(To Rosario of Flambeau): It could. I was about to write an unrelated message so you can write your letter rfom Anson now

johns (GM): Two letters of interest

Father Hazm: I'll give myself BLessing Venus as NPCs to talk to show up

Archibald of Guernicus: I will hang out in my lab wondering what the hell is going on

(From Rosario of Flambeau): ive got the text written up and the hook but it might derail the current adventure because archibald is getting accused of wizard slaying

johns (GM): One from Literatus -- the usual correspondence commentating on gossip, news, political movements and the like -- but also, a somewhat guarded question whether the council has "noticed any unusual magic phenomenon related to one of the Magic forms within the past season"

Voda: Hmm.

(To Rosario of Flambeau): Red herrings are good to help drag out what would otherwise be me just dumping exposition everywhere.

Father Hazm:

rolling 19+2+4+d10! Gift of Venus

19+2+4+

(

10

+

10

+

2

)

=

47

Voda: Does this have anything to do with all of our grogs dying?

(From Rosario of Flambeau): alright. like i said i can run a solid part of strabo if it comes down to it

johns (GM): I don't know who's Xing off the grogs, honestly.

Archibald of Guernicus: What is Hazm even rolling

Giraldo of Milan: hes making a charm to give himself blessing of venus

Rosario of Flambeau: falling in love with the npc

Father Hazm: I'm casting a Learned Magician Charm

Rosario of Flambeau: oh sick.

Archibald of Guernicus: The grogs are obviously rotting

Father Hazm: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_zATeFkJpH4wKabWOenjxRPyxRgQMHiLUVyerUaD0us/edit?usp=sharing

Memorized Charms tab

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why yes, Literatus, we have."

Guy of Bonisagus: "You should go meet with the Literatus covenant in person."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We should write back."

"Yes."

Guy of Bonisagus: "This may be widespread."

johns (GM): im glad someone put Gulielmus' token where it belongs

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'll stay here and try to research the problem."

(To Rosario of Flambeau): Do you want to show the Anson letter now?

Father Hazm: The charm invokes the power of Venus directly

johns (GM): The other letter

Archibald of Guernicus: "Literatus, Literatus, that'd be where Galafre the Elder lives, and Andronicus. The latter may be helpful in this."

johns (GM): “I, Anson of Bonisagus, take my role as the Prosecution Principle and accuse one Archibald of Guernicus, of the meddlesome and Infamous covenant of Vardian’s Tomb, of the High Crimes to follow, being that he was Witnessed in the act.

The Slaying of my covenant Sodalis and Amici, at the unfairly Maligned covenant of Vulcanal, one Tasso Agricola of Bjornaer, a member in good Standing of the honorable Order of Hermes, outside of Properly declared Wizard War.

Interfering with the Affairs of Mundanes, Considering, that the Aforementioned Tasso Agricola of Bjornaer, may he rest in Peace, was a man of Gentle Gift, and of central Importance to the economic Stability of Vulcanal via his Wine-Making, and Deals with the Mundane elements of Sicily and Surroundings.

I will see you at the next Tribunal and must allow you to know I will recommend a Wizard’s March.

johns (GM): -Anson of Bonisagus”

Archibald of Guernicus: :pepe:

Father Hazm: Woah

Archibald of Guernicus: It's George Costanza

Voda: Hmm.

Well, it can't be helped.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Good lord what is happening in here?"

Voda: Who can we get to represent Archibald?

johns (GM): Aurora Borealis

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, everything is becoming far too clear to me. A meeting in the hall, please. We should speak in private."

Father Hazm: I'll go back to the study, as this is wizard business

Guy of Bonisagus: didnt archibald have to investigate some crime as well

Father Hazm: Maybe chat with the redcaps

Guy of Bonisagus: im sure the guernicus villa man can wait

(To Shauncat): Please don't feel you have to keep Fiorella out of play if you want a wiz to take over. I won't say you should use one or the other anyway

Guy of Bonisagus: wait a minute

vulcanal is their covenant name?

johns (GM): sounds better than Etna Covenant

Archibald of Guernicus: "This predates any of you joining us." I begin, to the assembled magi who are here and show up

Guy of Bonisagus: they are COMPLETELY AND FAIRLY maligned

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I just flew in, and boy are my arms tired."

I say, stretchign my arms

Archibald of Guernicus: Mount Etna [slams palm on funny siren sound effect]

Rosario of Flambeau: "It seems very exciting."

"This is all slander, of course?"

johns (GM): Father Hazm gathers the news of the world from the redcaps

Mortis ex Verditus: "Don't worry, I can represent you at Tribunal. I'm sure we can get all the charges dismissed."

johns (GM): 1345 is big enough to get a huge wikipedia article, wow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1345

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I believe the norseman was still using my lab when this affair occurred, sadly."

Archibald of Guernicus: what was george costanzas real name

devil's fav demon: It's a while until the next Tribunal and it's probably better for everyone if it gets resolved before then.

Richard Strabo

johns (GM): I forget what alias he was using back then

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Richard Streber

devil's fav demon: You caught him using a couple different aliases. Walahfrid, Walherich, I forget the surnames.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Of course. A marched hedge magus by the name of Richard Strabo is the culprit here, and what's more, the art he specialised in is herbam. These 2 events side by side, I doubt it's a coincedence."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Waluigi

Archibald of Guernicus: "Amidst his despicable talents were lies and disguises, hence how he went so long without capture."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It might be a coincidence."

johns (GM): Also DFD, I suggested a bit back on steam chat that Lavinia would dispatch a few grogs to investigate his scried location (Palermo). did we agree to go ahead with that or did I postpone? I forget.

Rosario of Flambeau: I think you postponed, but we could do that any time.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:  appears

devil's fav demon: I've got the map ready.

Mortis ex Verditus: "What does the other consul think?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Is the other consul in attendance today

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I've had a notion of where he's hiding, but not the means to go after him myself."

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a minute.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I believe our security is ill and should be bolstered."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The other consul can only be seen and heard by Archibald.

so yes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "As some might recall, someone managed to spy on an exchange I had with Archibald and my cousin died as a result."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My condolences.."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Indeed, how tragic."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It is of no importance right now, aside as a piece of the pattern."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We delayed it too long, and a man is dead." I seat myself "His sodales are right to be upset, and if deception like this was employed..." I shake my head "Almost certainly they will refuse to see me, if someone can ask them about the events that occurred at their covenant, I would deeply appreciate it."

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The sooner we can flush out the real culprit, the less evil he can perform in the world."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Does anyone have a means with which I can quickly travel to the island? An arcane connection, that would be."

"If so, I could make the flight of homecoming."

Mortis ex Verditus: If you were there, couldn't you have taken something?

Archibald of Guernicus: "None offhand, but perhaps birds could be sent to gather one."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I was Jorn back then

Guy of Bonisagus: i can go to vulcanal while everyone else hunts down strabo

Rosario of Flambeau: You could always ask Jorn to take you on the faerie roads.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can send a messenger pigeon. Maybe they'll voluntarily send an arcane connection back. Like a vine cutting."

Archibald of Guernicus: "This man, Richard Strabo, we came across previously. He goes by aliases, and was a Bonisagus before his march."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Jorn's over at Lubeck

Guy of Bonisagus: "Bonisagus? But the vis molding was clearly caused by hedge magic."

Archibald of Guernicus: "When we met him, Tasso - rest his soul - introduced him to us as a friend."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "A Bonisagus is well suited to learning hedge magics as if it were hermetic."

"They're known for their breakthroughs in magic theory."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He was looking into the same research as Henrisson of Bjornaer, ways to grow vis in a garden, we left the garden as property of the magi who live next to the regio entrance. Strabo was not only aware of the location, but has no qualms about violence. It's very possible he forced his way in and uncovered something."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hm... We should find him quickly before he does more than destroy hundreds of pounds worth of vis."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Slaying this fiend would bring real glory to us all."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Agreed, Rosario."

Mortis ex Verditus: "I have more important things to do right now, Consul."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Beyond that, I can't hide that I want his involvement in this to be brought to light. Accusations such as this, they should be cleared up."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'm not sure why he would want o ruin our vis. It doesn't help whoever is framing Archibald, and if he had access to that much vis, better to steal it than to ruin it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It is sad, but not surprising, that a Hermetic magus would rather hide in their dimly lit lab than pursue one who so blatantly flaunts the laws of their Order."

Rosario of Flambeau: "You're a hoplite in good standing. These accusations are outrageous."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If the rose was how he destroyed the vis stocks, as Guy theorised, he would only need to affect one pawn of it, to destroy a whole batch he has no access to."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Anson must be a lunatic himself."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "And we're clearly not dependent on hour Herbam vis, otherwise we wouldn't have let such a large stockpile build up, we'd be using it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He apparently saw 'me' commit these acts, Strabo has met me, he would be able to use imaginem or other such effects to disguise himself."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Rest assured, that once I have finished creating my laboratory, this covenant will never have a single problem again."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I'd be very interested to hear Anson's version of events first hand.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should find what happened that day at Vulcanul, indeed."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps he grew an Archibald-shaped imposter out of plants."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A chillingly plausible explanation, Fiorella."

Rosario of Flambeau: "You're very confident in your abilities, Mortis. I like that!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps we could split." I look around "I doubt Anson would want to see me, but I can make the journey to Literatus to inquire about their vis problems. Fresh leads could help."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'm sure we will have fewer problems with vis stockpiles going to waste with a Verditius around, at the least."

I'll go send some birds to get ACs to relevant locations

Mortis ex Verditus: "Isn't it dangerous for you to travel alone, Consul?"

johns: How long will it take to get to Vulcanal by mundane means?

Guy of Bonisagus: good question

i miss jorn

devil's fav demon (GM): that is a good question.

Guy of Bonisagus: guy will stay at the covenant and research the mold

as johns tricked me into doing giraldos seasons

Mortis ex Verditus: I will stay at the covenant and finish my lab.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm sure Arcadian Travel would have no faerie attacks whatsoever in this adventure that has long travel times planned into it

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'll take a number of our best with us. Giraldo, Celeste, Bolad, that should be sufficient in case of dangers on the road."

"We'll leave Derfel here to guard the covenant" [said while throwing rocks at cumthinker]

devil's fav demon (GM): there were faeries at the end of the line at mt etna's vineyard but they didn't seem hostile and just pointed and giggled from a distance

Bolad: "Anyone who seeks to harm Archibald will die."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Father Hazm will also sit around the covenant while somehow getting adventure XP< I suppose

Archibald of Guernicus: I wipe a tear at such courageous spirit

devil's fav demon (GM): they were a bunch of young girls with goat legs and horns in red dresses or something.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oooh

Archibald of Guernicus: :stringini:

Giraldo of Milan: mm

Voda: I think the obvious answer is to take a boat.

Bolad: suddenly Archibald duty not sounding so good

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella will ride the boat

Voda: Using our new genie.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll fly there with an AC but I'm interested to hear how the rocket boat turns out.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Lavinia would gladly go to Vulcanal and be social.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Hmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Did you know Virgil's villa is on Sicily?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could send Hazm on the social adventure

Where's Strabo's lab?

devil's fav demon (GM): In Palermo.

Archibald of Guernicus: well we dont know if anything dangerous will happen on the path to Literatus, but we're going armed just in case

it could be a totally uneventful trip and a short conversation

devil's fav demon (GM): Palermo is almost 1000km from Rome.

Giraldo of Milan: i thought we were going to vulcanal

are we doing vulcanal or literatus

devil's fav demon (GM): This is a Multiple Choice Day

Archibald of Guernicus: both

im going to literatus while the other magi go to vulcanul

and im taking our Top Grogs

devil's fav demon (GM): also hold on while i look up travel rules. ha ha ha.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This is the most advance TTRPGing possilbe: Split parties, AND split GMing.

devil's fav demon (GM): i forgot about that element completely.

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

Voda: It seems like a bad idea to travel alone when there's someone threatening to Wizard's War you.

devil's fav demon (GM): Anson is actually very explicitly not Wizard Warring you.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella can investigate Strabo's lab alone

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not travelling alone, I'm travelling with a group of insane combat monsters

devil's fav demon (GM): He is calmly sitting in his lab until the next Tribunal, where him and his agents will present a case against Archibald for Marching

Until you resolve it beforehand.

Archibald of Guernicus: Bolad, the ultimate redpilled headshot as his people call him

devil's fav demon (GM): But he had to declare this ahead of time.

So he sent a letter to you, the presiding Quaesitor, whoever that is, and Severin.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway Giraldo is being taken on the trip to Literatus since he's our damn guard that we pay

Giraldo of Milan: fine

but hell require bonus pay for missing out on the sexy goat babes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ive moved my tokens to the relevant Token Boxes

devil's fav demon (GM): Thank you.

These are small parties.

Giraldo of Milan: 5 more years until giraldo starts aging

devil's fav demon (GM): bird crew

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I advise Fiorella to be careful and watch out for magic traps, like something that drops an entire building on your head.

(From devil's fav demon (GM)): you fucker!!!

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

(To devil's fav demon): lmao if you were going to use that again

Father Hazm: Father Hazm has not taken a vow of celibacy and wants to meet the goats

Voda: Great.

(From devil's fav demon (GM)): its not the same trap but theres a freakin trap

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh shit this is a triple split

devil's fav demon (GM): M-M-M-MULTI SPLIT (split... split.....)

Archibald of Guernicus: I assume Fiorella is just scouting strabo's lab and not challenging him to a 1v1

Father Hazm: I put your Lammergier sheet on Camilla's sheet dfd

devil's fav demon (GM): Cool.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm hoping Fiorella is just scouting and isn't going to start attacking an evil wizard without backup

heh ok dys

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Voda: It would be smart to assume that you are invincible, IMO.

devil's fav demon (GM): The bird is cool and has a max attack roll bonus of +30 iirc

its very fragile but bites bones in half with ease

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Which party should we handle first?

Giraldo of Milan: handle both at once

weve got 2 gms

Lavinia of Jerbiton screams

devil's fav demon (GM): ho ho ho hee hee hee ha ha

Giraldo of Milan: what youre seeing now is a party split

and this is a split that has ascended beyond a party split. you could call it a gm split

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Multi-railroad drifting

devil's fav demon (GM): lmao

Giraldo of Milan: and this is to go

even further beyond

johns (GM): We are approaching the most advanced TTRPG possible, where each person is both playing and GMing their own adventure.

devil's fav demon (GM): thats ars magica.

as intended

we made it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ars Magica is almost that but you ahve to do an adventure together once a week out of tradition's sake

Giraldo of Milan: have two music tracks going at once as well

Archibald of Guernicus: this

Voda: Obviously, we should all be playing different characters in each group.

johns (GM): Let's roll a die

1 = vulcanal, 2 = strabo lab, 3 = literatus

rolling 1d3

(

3

)

=

3

Alright

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm the winner

Giraldo of Milan: no you arent

theres not any damn goat babes up here

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll start GMing the 4th scenario featuring Napolino's excellent adventure

johns (GM): No goat babes. Just a rapist.

Voda: Fun times.

Giraldo of Milan: ive changed my mind. guy will be going to vulcanal

devil's fav demon (GM): Cool.

Voda: Smort.

johns (GM): I love pulling up a sheet we haven't used in a while and seeing all the dead people

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont and now I'm sad

Andronicus of Jerbiton: Gahaha.

Celeste: "Hey, look at those hunks."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: Nothing looks out of the ordinary as you approach the Villa. The servants tend to the gardens, clean the walkways, and such

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll greet the good magi of Literatus in their fancy hall or however they recieve guests

Celeste: is the music not playing or is it me

Archibald of Guernicus: its you

Andronicus of Jerbiton: It glitches out to me when I switch between GM/PC

Father Hazm: Maybe FIorella should go to Literatus instead of going ot Strabo's lab by herself

Andronicus of Jerbiton: Anyway.

Father Hazm: Unless its too late

Endrite: It's you, the Hero of Kvatch!

devil's fav demon (GM): tthere we go. just refreshed. NO BIG DEAL EVERYONE

Andronicus of Jerbiton: A wary servant asks Archibald to wait at the gate -- the back gate, just out of sight, if you please -- and summons the Magus.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll do so

Father Hazm: Okay I'm glad she's not here

She coudl do without getting this treatment from fellow jerbies

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "Archibald, an unexpected surprise! If I'd known you were coming I would have prepared a proper feast. I hope you don't mind making do with what we can scrounge up from the larder at the moment."

Endrite: A proper Varidan's Tomb feast.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm afraid I'm not in much of a feasting mood, Andronicus. I came tae discuss the letter Literatus sent out."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: Andronicus' smile fades into concern.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It seemed you might have a similar problem to what we've seen. Herbam?"

Celeste: "No wine?" I shake my head at Bolad.

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "Herbam..."

"How bad was it?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'd like not to go into specifics, but in this tribunal, a heavy loss."

"Mold. I have some information about it, too."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "If it's hit both of us it may be wide spread."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I checked it for any traces, it's similar tae herbam, but non-hermetic."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "I felt a little embarassed tipping my hand as it is.. I can only imagine what the others are going through."

"Interesting. I've found something as well."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Likely they're too embarassed to admit it, someone had to be the one tae start this discussion, if its more widespread than just us."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "The stocks we kept here are gone. But we sent a few pawns to the University in the City for some of the Magisters to inspect. It's still molded but it hasn't disintegrated yet."

Endrite: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The stocks removed from storage survived?"

"Were they afflicted with all the others?"

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "There were some in storage, some in my lab, some in Galafre's... All those, gone. But those we sent into the city are still vis."

"Yes.. black mold, rot, sun scorch... All types of decay and ruin."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then..." I swallow, nervously "This effect is afflicting the  covenants themselves ."

Giraldo of Milan: "Maybe your aura's been poisoned."

Celeste: "The Devil, it always is!"

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "The aura?"

Andronicus of Jerbiton thinks

Endrite: What if it's the wrath of God?

Celeste: Same thing.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Has there been any changes to it? It can't hurt tae be sure here."

Giraldo of Milan: "I can't say I know a lot about vis, but I don't see demons acting this overtly."

Celeste:  galactic theology brain

Father Hazm: I can make a Dominion Lore roll later to check for wrath of god

Archibald of Guernicus: I think carefully, and consider some things

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "Our aura is the same strength and area as it's always been"

Father Hazm: Jorn and Zita are just hanging out here at Literatus

Safe and well

Archibald of Guernicus: "Several years ago, there was some horrendous business at Vardian's Tomb. You likely saw Venator's letters, I feel it's what finally pushed him into retiring from it altogether."

Giraldo of Milan: when are we going to sansarron

Andronicus of Jerbiton:  Crying  when do we get to the fireworks factory

Father Hazm: Let's go to Malta

Archibald of Guernicus: "Around the time of tribunal, there was talk - I have only the recollections of the other magi present who survived, you understand - of an enemy of the order, acting in Italy."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "I heard bits and pieces... Dead or missing Magi. About 40 years ago."

"An enemy?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "No I mean the more recent slaughter, not the older one."

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

Andronicus of Jerbiton: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod "There was a redcap who was insistent they'd broken no laws in scrying and, as I uncovered after their trial, murdering another redcap. They claimed they were working for Daimhan-Allaidh. It seemed like an insane excuse to stall a march, and a few months later they were dead, broke into a sanctum and fell to a trap in it."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "Daimhan-Allaidh?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "But with something like this here, I've verified that the effect on the vis is non-hermetic."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "This sounds a little much.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It seems ridiculous, I understand. But all that vis, being destroyed inside a covenant's very walls!"

"This is just a theory. I'll see what I can find out, outside of it. Please, if others are afflicted by this and contact you, do let me know."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "I shall. Will you be at the Tomb if we need to send a letter?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod "I try tae stay there as often as I can these days, in case of things like this. I may be away for a week or two later in the season, but otherwise can be reached there."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "I'll get messages out to everyone else in the Tribunal."

Archibald of Guernicus: "And, this idea of mine, I wouldn't pass it around much. It'll be seen as little more than paranoia, perhaps that's all it is. All I know is that someone claimed tae be following him, and there is evidence that some manner of hedge magus willing tae murder, claiming that name, is active in Italy. That's all."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: Ok.

Andronicus will reach out and also not tell everyone that hte Spider is going to kill us all

Archibald of Guernicus: well theres not much point telling people if they wont believe it at all

needs at least  some  evidence

johns (GM): what happens now

Archibald of Guernicus: I go back to the tomb and GMs switch I think

Father Hazm: H h here we go

Giraldo of Milan: well done everyone

we ?

Endrite: Huzzah.

devil's fav demon (GM): alright, anyone else want to go to the lab or vulcanal

before we go to one of them

johns (GM): im happy taking a lil break

Giraldo of Milan: i want to go to v ulcanal. but i am on my way back from literatus

johns (GM): so we can do strabolab

i can only hope the goat ladies will still be there

devil's fav demon (GM): well literatus is a much faster trip

the goat ladies will not be at vulcanal because they're only in the faerie regio jorn was accessing

Giraldo of Milan: i have second sight

ill find it

Father Hazm: Same

Giraldo of Milan: bolad and hazm can come with me

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

Giraldo of Milan: this is the real companion adventure

the second sight boys of getting faerie wives

Father Hazm: I can marry Giraldo to a goat

I'm ordained

Endrite: I feel like this would instantly lead to you being defrocked.

devil's fav demon (GM): i have no real idea how long it'll take by boat.

to get to either place.

Archibald of Guernicus: Literatus adventure: [calm and reasoned discussion of serious threat to the order of hermes]

Vulcanul adventure: [dancing goat ladies begin descending to distract you]

johns: he's one of those fake religions endrite

devil's fav demon (GM): but lets see

johns: the kind that can fuck goats

devil's fav demon (GM): 1 is vulcanal 2 is lab

rolling 1d2

(

1

)

=

1

Father Hazm: I probably won't do the thing that makes me get defrocked

Archibald of Guernicus: nice botch

Giraldo of Milan: so does that mean giraldo CAN make it to vulcanal

devil's fav demon (GM): his body is not physically still here

Lavinia of Jerbiton cries at the dead Paulie

Father Hazm: But Maronites have some leeway

devil's fav demon (GM): You could, I don't think Literatus is far away, is it?

Father Hazm: Cool music

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol this is awesome

Father Hazm: I'll give Giraldo Blessing of Venus if he doesn't have any MR

Lavinia of Jerbiton: literatus is in bologna which is north italy

Giraldo of Milan: he has no mr

hell yeah

blessing of venus + lecherous

devil's fav demon (GM): hell yeah

Father Hazm: Oh

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we've always abstracted travel time before but i figure going there by road is a couple weeks at least

Father Hazm: Maybe I know someone from Literatus then

That's where I studied

devil's fav demon (GM): that makes sense then. whoever went to literatus probably didnt come here then

Giraldo of Milan: im killing johns

Voda: Let's.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

devil's fav demon (GM): bwahaha

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I make a note to send back at least one goat babe.

Guy of Bonisagus: Giraldo fades out of the scene and Guy fades in.

Archibald of Guernicus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOD0XCm57d8

Guy of Bonisagus: important question

devil's fav demon (GM): The grape vines are untended. There is an air of sadness and mystery in the air.

Guy of Bonisagus: does blessing of venus work on faeries

Father Hazm: Yes

devil's fav demon (GM): air ar.

Guy of Bonisagus: mm haha

Father Hazm: You'll have to lower your Parma though, it's magical effect

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Untended vines... What a tragic sight."

Guy of Bonisagus: guy is not going to go after faerie babes

Father Hazm: Do you trust a Maronite priest to invoke Venus upon you?

Voda: Are there any grapes around?

Or just the vines?

devil's fav demon (GM): The covenant of Vulcanal is visible in the distance. You are on the grounds where you met Tasso in the past.

Father Hazm: Oh, I guess both your dudes are here, okay

Guy of Bonisagus: but giraldo and hazm can work out a plan for post-adventure to run off into the vineyards

Father Hazm: Kewl

Lavinia of Jerbiton keeps an eye out for the goats.

devil's fav demon (GM): the grapes are visible but small and not yet ripe.

The vines are untrimmed and running wild.

Voda: Are the vines decaying or just untended?

(From devil's fav demon (GM)): theyre mundane plants so just untended right

(To devil's fav demon): correct.

devil's fav demon (GM): The vines are not decaying.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I search for a covenfolk.

Voda: Hmm, magically vital grapevines, eh?

We should just head for the covenant proper.

Guy of Bonisagus: why would they be decaying

Father Hazm: Magical air affects faeries though

devil's fav demon (GM): There are no covenfolk visible. The mundanes employed by Tasso are no longer working.

Guy of Bonisagus: i thought they wer ejust normal grapes

Father Hazm: But BoV will compensate

devil's fav demon (GM): They are just normal grapes. That's why they're not decaying.

Voda: You can never be too sure.

Guy of Bonisagus: giraldo doesnt have magical air

Father Hazm: My mistake

Guy of Bonisagus: its just his initiation that gives it to you

the initiations will be better since the later ones wont require such a big ordeal, due to the bonus that going through ordeals gives you

Father Hazm: Let's find a covenfolk to greet

devil's fav demon (GM): You can approach the covenant entrance in the mountains.

Father Hazm: I'll give myself Common Sense before we enter the aegis

devil's fav demon (GM): What's that do?

Guy of Bonisagus: i have common sense and intuition

wait no

thats the other game

nevermind

Father Hazm: It's a charm, Gift of Minerva

The Common Sense virtue warns you when you're about to do something stupid

devil's fav demon (GM): Two enormous men guard the entrance, which is imposing in its own right. Once you get up close they really ramp up the volcano lair aesthetic.

Father Hazm: Or are missing a big clue

Voda: Common Sense allows the GM to tell you if you're doing something an ordinary medieval person would find foolish.

What kind of weapons do they have?

devil's fav demon (GM): The men are dressed identically and have and identical build. One has a moustache and the other is clean shaven. They carry arming swords and shields.

Voda: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Salve."

Father Hazm:

rolling 19+2+d10 Succuro FOrtunam minus aura

19+2+

(

3

)

=

24

Fedele Grassi: "Oi! Who's comin' up the path?"

Father Hazm: It's a bit fatiguing, it'll wear off

Voda: I'll let you do the introductions, Doctor.

Father Hazm: "Salve."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Magi of Vardian's Tomb."

Felice Grassi: "Watch, it's those criminals Anson was raving about, I'll bet you my wages."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Lavinia of Jerbiton, my associates Guy of Bonisagus, Voda of the Tomb, and the rest"

Felice Grassi: "Ha, couldn't even speak in time."

Fedele Grassi: "No bet."

Archibald of Guernicus: Watch out for the dragon, sodales.

Fedele Grassi: "Nice to see you. You got the letter an' all?"

Voda: Hmmm...

I think this might not be as successful as I'd hoped.

Fedele Grassi: Do you both have normal gift?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gentle

Fedele Grassi: Nice.

Father Hazm: Two gentles and two muggles

Lavinia of Jerbiton: additionally. I am sporting a VERY nice +3 cloak.

"Indeed. We must speak with Anson immediately, he is sure to wish to speak with us as well."

Fedele Grassi: "Sharp cloak, lady."

"Yeah, Anson doesn't like comin' out of his lab."

"I'm sure you understand."

Felice Grassi: "You're not as scary as that other guy."

Voda: Finally, someone gets it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I understand there's been some horrible incident involving that brutish Scotchman."

Felice Grassi: "I thought everyone from Vardian's Tomb was some sort of beast or devil or faerie."

Father Hazm: "They are not, I assure you."

"I should know."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "No, thankfully, most of our worst people died recently. It was just bad fortune that Archibald survived."

"Bad fortune for us and poor Tasso it seems.."

Voda: Dang.

Lavinia throwing major shade.

Archibald of Guernicus: Time to find her favourite aeneid in the pile and start casting the intangible tunnel

Father Hazm: "It is my hope that his wayward soul is not forever lost."

Felice Grassi: "I saw him do it y'know! He was ten feet tall! The sky was red and black! Lightning and thunder! The rain was pou-"

Fedele Grassi: "Alright, alright."

he puts his hand on his twin's chest.

Father Hazm: "Perhaps we can sit down before you tell us the tale?"

Voda: Twins are so weird.

Fedele Grassi: "We gotta stand here and not let anybody in."

"You can sit down, though. Be my guest."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Do we have benches or are they asking us to sit on the ground

Father Hazm: "I see, very vigilant."

Guy should get a formulaic to make benches grow

Fedele Grassi: There are no benches or furniture. There are some pointy rocks and the ground.

Voda: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Do you have any chairs for us?"

Voda: Well, that's pretty rude then.

Guy of Bonisagus: i should

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there's a verditius in MoH who has a bunch of "practical" spells like one to just create a chair

Felice Grassi: "Can't you just make chairs?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: stuff a real player would never waste a season on but are still thematically cool

Felice Grassi: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It's very rude to cast magic in another magician's domain, didn't you know?"

Felice Grassi: "Anson only sits down on magic chairs he makes. Says if he leaves chairs around we'll get lazy."

Fedele Grassi stares at his brother.

Fedele Grassi: "My brother likes to tell stories."

Voda: "How pleasant."

Fedele Grassi: "He's a friggin' idiot sometimes. Excuse my french."

Father Hazm: "I was given some token to be better able to commune with God within when I came to Vardian's Tomb. I believe such a thing would make them more capable of doing such acts, if you have any on hand."

Guy of Bonisagus: Lavinia of Jerbiton: stuff a real player would never waste a season on but are still thematically cool

im absolutely going to make a bunch of retarded psells

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thank you

Voda: Bless you, Guy.

Father Hazm: Fiorella wasted a spell on messenger pigeon summoning

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You were both there when Archibald attacked? What did you see?"

Voda: That's a very useful spell.

Father Hazm: Maybe she'll get around to less useful stuff later

Fedele Grassi: "Ehh... You don't know? He wasn't home braggin' about it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "No, he's fled to another covenant."

Father Hazm: I have an idea for a spell that makes clothes out of feathers as a way for apprentices to learn Finesse

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Literatus."

Father Hazm: birdleaf

Fedele Grassi: he puts his hand over his brother's mouth before Felice can start talking.

Father Hazm: "Literatus? I believe i heard that name on occasion during my studies at Bologna."

Voda: Twins!

Father Hazm: "Perhaps I should have gone there? Ah, oh well."

"This island is quite lovely."

Fedele Grassi: "I dunno if we should just come out with it like that."

Voda: "Do you think there's a conspiracy between Vardian's Tomb and Literatus? I wouldn't want to get caught up in it."

Fedele Grassi: Feel free to Bargain or use Intrigue or some other sort of thing.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I can understand your hesitance, but my friends and I have traveled here all the way from Rome, hoping for the hospitality a Magus of the Order is due."

Father Hazm: "You can confess it to me in private if you wish."

Voda: I can try Intrigue.

rolling 1d10 + 3

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Fedele Grassi looks confused

Voda: Plus 1 if I can use a stat.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2+2 intrigue - trying to suss out a good way to manipulate these guys

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

Father Hazm: Pretty good bargain

Fedele Grassi: "Are we supposed to give you hospitality?"

Father Hazm: I mean, intruge

Fedele Grassi: it appears to be a genuine question

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes."

"As we would you, naturally."

Voda: "Oh yeah, it's typical Christian charity. Didn't your mother raise you right?"

Father Hazm: "Let it not be said that Vulcanus isn't welcoming of clergy."

Fedele Grassi: "Huh."

Felice Grassi: "Tell the truth, this situation's never really come up before."

Voda: "Have you never had guests before?"

Felice Grassi: "Well, Tasso always met people in the vineyards or off the grounds, and Anson, well, he doesn't get a lot of visitors."

"One of us has to stay outside, you can come in and sit down for a moment."

They are both very stupid and have been convinced that you're due hospitality

Guy of Bonisagus: we are

Felice Grassi: If this is actually true, even better.

Voda: Well, it's mostly true.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's called civility

Lavinia of Jerbiton remembers we're dealing with Magi

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Uh... it's also hermetic tradition

Voda: Hey let's just kill Anson right now and solve our problem.

Fedele Grassi looks like he understands completely

Fedele Grassi: "Oh, oh. I see."

Father Hazm: If I get drunk cand cast all night long it's a family tradition

Fedele Grassi: Who do you want to talk to?

One will stand watch while the other gives you his eyewitness account

Or I guess we could do both.

Just pick who you wanna hear from first.

Father Hazm:

rolling d2 Fedele Felice

(

1

)

=

1

GOd has spoken

Voda: Sounds good to me.

devil's fav demon (GM): You are invited just inside and given hot wine. The temperature is also quite warm, on top of this, and humid to boot.

Voda: Well, it is Italy.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Gah

Too much sanguine humor

No wonder they're unbalanced here

Father Hazm: Do they have a chapel here?

Even outside the aura?

Voda: What kind of room are we in?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do they live right in the caves of the volcano

Father Hazm: I understand the need for magi to be in a Magic aura, though Sad! if they don't even leave it for mass.

Guy of Bonisagus: mount etna

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thatd be cool if they live in caves thick with sulfuric gas

Fedele Grassi: you are in a room carved out of the volcano just inside the big mouth on the screen there

the volcano is probably vented or something i dont know what they do to not die from fumes

"Well, it was night, like my brother said. Only a week ago. It was just a drizzle of rain, yknow. like a mist."

He goes on about the irrelevant details of the weather and his temperament that day.

Fedele Grassi: "And then, y'know, Tasso went down to check on the dirt, see if it was drainin' or something he said. Went down there with a torch, to the vineyard, with Felice. I stayed up here but you can kind of see down there from up here if you got good eyes."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they read the whole chapter in Hermetic Projects about living in a volcano

Father Hazm: That's a good chapter

Fedele Grassi: "And wham! There he was! Right outta nowhere. A huge guy, real hairy, popped right next to Tasso and started chokin' him to death!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i suppose the mist could have been strabo's doing

Father Hazm: I like the bath tha tyou can either make into a health spa or torture device

That's powered by lava

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "'Popped right next to him'? Like teleported in?"

Father Hazm: Archibald is part Padfoot

Maybe it was a Padfoot

Fedele Grassi: "Tasso was walking between the grapevines and all of a sudden there was that huge guy next to him."

Voda: Hmm.

Fedele Grassi: "Teleported, whatever that is, yeah."

Voda: Well, it might have been Archibald.

Can Strabo make mist?

devil's fav demon (GM): not that you've seen before.

it's not an herbam spell, so odds are low

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Describe the hairy guy as best you can."

Voda: Hmmmmmmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "And when you say hair you mean, hair on the top of his head, or hairy like a bear?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Should ask what he means by choking, just using the hands or magic vines or w/e

devil's fav demon (GM): things you've seen strabo do or have become aware of strabo doing

Fedele Grassi:

turn into vines

create vines

spy on things as vines

???

Voda: So, you're saying he's mastered transformation and mist magic.

The cunning fiend.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What was the choking, with his hands, with vines, with telekinesis, with poison gas?"

Fedele Grassi: "Hairy like a bear. And very large. A big fat man, like me. Hwahaghagh" He starts coughing.

Voda: Hmm.

Fedele Grassi: "I couldn't see that closely from where I was. He raised his hand at him and Tasso started flailin' around like crazy."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Was Tasso autopsied?"

Fedele Grassi: "Coulda been a big one hand choke, or magic!"

Voda: Hmm.

What if it was suicide?

Fedele Grassi: "I dunno. Anson investigated the scene and said there was DEFINITELY magic involved."

"I didn't see what happened to the body. Maybe he threw it in the volcano."

Voda: "Does that happen often around here, people being thrown into volcanoes?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hm, seems I definitely need to speak to Anson then."

Fedele Grassi: "You can write him a letter, he gets back to people real fast."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You mean he isn't here?"

Voda: "Are there any magi at all here?"

Fedele Grassi: "No, no. I'm just makin' a joke. Tasso always used to call Anson a hardass, say he was gonna toss him in the volcano."

"Yeah, Anson's here. Like I said, he doesn't like leavin' his lab."

Voda: Hmmmm.

Let's break into his lab and throw him into the volcano.

Fedele Grassi: "You wanna write a letter, I'll slide it under the door for you."

Voda: Have we seen any other covenfolk?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fine fine

Father Hazm: "If you two are always guarding the gate, how to you obey the Sabbath?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill write him a damn letter

Fedele Grassi: There are some people doing mundane tasks around here like keeping things clean and serving you wine.

They're just generic coven grogs.

Father Hazm: Write a letter then slide it under his door

Fedele Grassi: "Some other people guard the gate sometimes. We're just the top gate guards."

Father Hazm: "I see. Very diligent."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i write: "Anson, I would like to know what evidence you have against Archibald. If my covenfolk is a murderer as you claim, my own safety and that of my sodales are at risk. Please respond as many lives are at risk."

Voda: Slip it under the door.

Anson of Bonisagus: "To the esteemed Doctor Celestina Zoboli,

One of my highest-paid guards, Felice, was but feet away from the Slayer at the time. The description he gave was universally returned to me as one of your Archibald. Magic was used at the scene. Without further evidence I must conclude he is a killer.

-Anson of Bonisagus"

Voda: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thanks for the arcane connection and your signature b*tch!!

Anson of Bonisagus: owned

anson is extremely autistic

thats all

Voda: Wait, did anyone detect Archibald's sigil?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I slip back a letter: "What was the sigil of the magic"

Anson of Bonisagus: it takes significantly longer for the response to arrive this time

"I didn't check."

Father Hazm: Two pagans who don't leave their lab, I'm not inclined to believe either of them

Lavinia of Jerbiton: DURR

Voda: Amazing stuff Anson.

I think we're done here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What killed Tessio exactly?"

thats my last question

just morbid curioisity i guess

but otherwise voda is right. these people are idiots

Anson of Bonisagus: "Ask Felice."

Archibald of Guernicus: House Retard

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i show that letter to felice

Felice Grassi: Felice tells you this:

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Anson says you need to tell us everything you've seen. Here's him authorizing it."

Father Hazm: I guess Giraldo and I can go investigate the aferie aura soon

Archibald of Guernicus: Guy, you have to get in here and defend the honour of your house

before Anson destroys it

Father Hazm: I have enough faerie lore to know succubi are dreamwalkers, they don't just hang around going clippy cop on real world hooves

* infernal lore

Guy of Bonisagus: this is the worst bonisagus

Father Hazm: clippity clop

Felice Grassi: "I was standing right there! It was like he stood up right out of the ground! He was ten feet tall! Wind was whippin' around everywhere, it was like a miracle our torches didn't blow out!

Here's what happened. I was right behind Tasso. Then I couldn't move! He kept walkin' ahead, and I looked down and my feet were all wrapped up in ivy! Then I looked back up and there he was! That big beast Archibald! And he looked at Tasso and Tasso looked at him and they were gonna fight!"

He looks pale.

Felice Grassi: "And then Tasso didn't do anything. He just stood there and cried and waved his arms around. Archibald made all the vines come up and strangle him right in front of me."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i just noticed the new background at the bottom of the screen

epic!

Voda: Pretty different looking.

Hmm.

Father Hazm: Cool

Archibald of Guernicus: I warned you about the dragon in it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: death by vines..

yes. this is definitely the work of archibald

"Our worst fears confirmed sodales"

Voda: It can't be helped.

Felice Grassi: "I never saw Tasso cry before."

"It was crazy."

Voda: We have to remove him as consul immediately.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: GM, what day did we arrive in Sicily?

Archibald of Guernicus: Anson: Hmm. It looked vaguely like him, cast a spell at one point, yes, we have our culprit. Please burn the body before anyone can check sigils.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: date of the year

Felice Grassi: late April iirc

Lavinia of Jerbiton: kk

It's okay dys. once we kill strabo we can kill anson next

i think we've learned everything we can here though

and shaun should check out the lab unless anyone else has an idea here?

Felice Grassi: Turns out Vardian's Tomb DOESN'T have the dumbest magi in the covenant.

Archibald of Guernicus: I trust him to kill himself when he falls into the volcano by accident after tying his shoelaces together

Voda: You mean Tribunal.

Father Hazm: "It may be of little concern, but Vardian's Tomb has brought me on to help reform their ways, though it may seem the situation is more dire than I thought."

* little concoslation

Felice Grassi: I do, thanks Voda.

Yeah, I think you've gotten everything out of these guys.

hold on.

Wait.

Voda: Alright so, how do we kill all three magi without getting in trouble?

Felice Grassi: Ehhh, I'll give it to you. Roll folk ken.

I hinted, but heres the other hint.

Father Hazm:

rolling 5+d10!

5+

(

3

)

=

8

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2+2 folkken+per

(

6

)

+2+2

=

10

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 3 + 3

(

1

)

+3+3

=

7

Gah!

Father Hazm: I should make a buff for Perception charm

(From Felice Grassi): Felice looks embarassed when relating his story, as if remembering his brother telling him to keep it under his hat. For all his embellishment, he's leaving a detail out.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Felice, you wouldn't want me to have to tell your master that you disobeyed his order to tell me everything, would you?

Felice Grassi takes a big gulp of hot wine and shakes his head from side to side.

Voda: Mmm, warm wine.

Delicioso!

AFK a sec.

Father Hazm: Hot as the blood of Christ when he ejected the moneychangers. Good stuff.

Felice Grassi: "Uh, I also saw an invisible man. Fedele and Anson tell me I'm going too far and you can't see an invisible man but it was misty and raining out and I swear someone else was there. I only saw him for just a second, but I swear on my sweet old nonna."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well ok then.

Felice Grassi: "Don't tell them I told you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I surmise that strabo himself was invisible and the hairy archibald was some sort of magical construct.

or an ally.

whichever.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's sweet that after Criamon paved the way with a -3 int magus, Bonisagus are now employing a -5 int magus.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Felice Grassi: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: its cool that if this actually got to tribunal itd be over in like 5 minutes as the prosecution slowly realises they havent got any evidence at all

Lavinia of Jerbiton: What if Anson is in on the conspiracy.

devil's fav demon (GM): shrug

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Trust no one, not even your sodales

Archibald of Guernicus: What if Archibald is in on it. Think about it. All the other magi who met Strabo are dead now.

Voda: Ok I'm back.

Felice Grassi: Yeah, consider this, what if all of this is true and Archibald did kill Taso.

tasso.

Voda: It's possible.

Father Hazm: You can trust me, I'm certainly not going to try to steal the secrets of the Parma Magica for the gifted Mathemateci or anythigg like that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will also consider that

Father Hazm: I'm just a simple eastern priest

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I would be a little hurt if Archibald is murdering people and not inviting us to join in the fun.

Father Hazm: Yeah

Crows are very good for that

Archibald of Guernicus: You practice pacifist magic, I thought you wouldn't be into it

Father Hazm: Crows are known to eat bodies

devil's fav demon (GM): So the next lead, Lavinia used the Sortes to divine the location of Strabo's lab.

This was a few months ago but he probably hasn't moved labs.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll use my birds to scout around once I have a general location

devil's fav demon (GM): And even if he has, the skilled investigators of Vardian's Tomb will find some useful evidence or material

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And test for traps, scatter circles, etc

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cool lab

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Voda: What are the black worms on the ground about?

devil's fav demon (GM): Forella, Strabo's lab is a tiny square building on the outskirts of Palermo, bordered by a well-kept garden. A spry old man is maintaining it and works hard for most hours of the day.

Voda: Also windows have been invented.

devil's fav demon (GM): They're enchanted black vines that carry water to all the plants on a regular cycle.

There is a helpful arrow and note encouraging you to pretend the windows do not exist.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fiorella should attack the old man with crows, just to be safe

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Out of view, I'll cast Aura of Ennobled Presence

And then turn human and approach the man

Sclavo Buticularo: "and they sent this letter by them, "The apostles and the brethren who are elders, to the brethren in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia who are from the Gentiles, greetings."

the old man has a deep and rumbling voice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Greetings."

Sclavo Buticularo: he is speaking Latin.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ah

"Is your master in? If he is busy, perhaps I can send a letter before next calling on him."

Sclavo Buticularo: "The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.”"

Sclavo Buticularo he shrugs and shakes his head.

Voda: Makes you think.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Is he preaching to the plants?

Sclavo Buticularo gestures to your surroundings.

Sclavo Buticularo: he's looking you in the eye and addressing you.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hm

Sclavo Buticularo: "Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Parli italiano?"

Sclavo Buticularo: He looks puzzled.

"And whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

He starts to get back to work.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

"You're not a magical construct that learned to talk from the Bible, are you?"

I'll say that in Latin

Sclavo Buticularo: "Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?"

Voda: Rather a rude question, if you think about it.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It is

Sclavo Buticularo: He does look sort of offended.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: But Ialways was one of the odder Zenos.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you should just ransack the place and see how christian he really is

Sclavo Buticularo: "And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "My apologies. That was rude of me." I'll give him a Charming smile.

Sclavo Buticularo: He winks.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I mean, the door is open, and you can just look in through those windows there.

Sclavo Buticularo: It's probably not a big deal.

Hey!

That hut is CLEARLY MARKED

Archibald of Guernicus: Perfectly unfucked with open door

Sclavo Buticularo: roll Charm?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He sounded sort of welcoming

So I'll go closer to the hut

Sclavo Buticularo: He's a friendly guy, he just seems to only be able to talk in Bible quotes.

Voda: That's a classic move.

VERY cool.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I guess there's a logical explanation, but we're also dealing with this guy potentially being able to grow doppelgangers

Sclavo Buticularo: He doesn't move to stop you, being an old man who don't want no trouble, but he says

"One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "You're right."

What's the aura?

devil's fav demon (GM): The aura is...

There is no aura.

Voda: Gasp!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: zawa... zawa...

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

I'll summon up a bunch of birds to poke at the door, climb in through the chimney, check for hidden circle traps in front of the door, etc.

"Prudence is wisdom, as you say."

Sclavo Buticularo: the door is a door and the chimney is all blocked up with wood.

There are no circles scribed on or around the door.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Corpus targeted traps on the door wouldn't affect the birds

Or Mentem

I'll cast Unseen Porter and open the door fro maximum range.

devil's fav demon (GM): The door moves and stops short. It's either barred or barricaded in some way.

You can use the porter to unbar it or move the thing behind it though, I think.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: throw the gardener into it headfirst

devil's fav demon (GM): So if you do that...

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey i just had a lightbulb thing in my head

devil's fav demon (GM): The door creaks...

Lavinia of Jerbiton: weren't there plants in the garden that could grow into animals?

what if strabo has grown plants that can turn into people

devil's fav demon (GM): And opens. A little bit. You can't see into the lab from here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and thats where he gets these weird automata

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm thinking that too

But I forgot about growing animals

I'll direct the murder of corws inside to test for traps

Voda: Maybe he just really loves God.

devil's fav demon (GM): There was the vegetable lamb of tartary, yeah. it was a carnivorous plant that looked like a bunch of lambs with vines attaching their heads to a central stalk.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can fiorella Intelligo this guy to see if he is corpus or herbam

devil's fav demon (GM): not carnivorous.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I probably can

devil's fav demon (GM): it also just ate plants. herbivorous.

You can.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think a spont to smell humans is cheap

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if he's a mutant plant he might have some Imaginem magic trying to make him look normal. since the Fake ARchibald had a monstrous appearance akin to the vine lamb

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm

Imaginem would cover up smell of a plant

Voda: It would.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Does IMaginem fool Intellego

I guess so if Voda 's rght

Archibald of Guernicus: Muto Imaginem fools Intellego Imaginem

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Do the birds spring any traps?

devil's fav demon (GM): The birds have not sprung any traps.

You unbarred the door with unseen porter and can enter but the birds have not entered yet.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have the birds go inside and poke around fir traps

devil's fav demon (GM): so they're flying around and touching everything

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah, especially places before bookshelves and lab samples

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the birds are making a mess of his pots and pans

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That too

I can't prevent the birds from obeying their primal urges

devil's fav demon (GM): Okay. Are you moving close enough to see inside when the door opens or just waiting from afar

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I move close enough to see thorugh the doorway

devil's fav demon (GM): Fiorella sends a wave of birds crashing through the door.

She sees a small room with a dirt floor. It is mostly empty except for an overturned desk, upright chair, and pile of woven straw mats in the corner. Paths of furniture dragged through the dirt and out the door are clearly evident.

The birds alight on the chair and begin to peck it, triggering the following effect

Voda: Uh oh.

devil's fav demon (GM): CrHe 35 ROOM OF THORNS R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Group/Room. Within seconds, this spell fills the room with woody, thorny bushes. The thorns, which are unnaturally resilient, have a +15 Soak, are cut by edged weapons only, and cutting through requires inflicting a Heavy Wound. Bodily forcing one’s way through the wall requires a Strength stress roll of 9+ and does +15 damage whether the attempt succeeds or fails. If the roll botches, an additional 5 points of damage are suffered. The wall grows out of existing bushes or fertile soil. An Athletics stress roll against an Ease Factor of 9 allows a character to scale the wall, but the character takes +10 damage in the process. (Base 1, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +2 Group, +2 size, +30 Penetration/15 levels)

Fiorella of Jerbiton: At least I'm not standing inside the building this time

Voda: Comfy.

devil's fav demon (GM): The birds are trapped within the dense thorns and begin taking damage.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that is a sick trap

I'm taking notes on this

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Sorry crows but this is why you were created, literally.

Sclavo Buticularo: "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field"

"Hyeh hyeh hyeh hyeh"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh no

Archibald of Guernicus: Aw son of a bitch

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its me austin.

Sclavo Buticularo: It's not him!

He's just observing

Archibald of Guernicus: A bush takes off its mask, revealing themselves as Strabo

Sclavo Buticularo: He can quote the bible and laugh. A guy can't laugh?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Interesting."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Jesus never laughed.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps I should partake in this herb you speak of."

devil's fav demon (GM): I will spoil that the lab is not entirely empty. Strabo emptied it in a hurry. There might be something tucked in there still that could prove useful to a magus trying to kill someone.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Bite Sclavo and see if he tastes like herb

devil's fav demon (GM): unfortunately it's filled with dense thorns for the next day.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The crows coudl possibly peck through +15 soak bramble, slowly

Voda: Wouldn't they take damage at the same time.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They do 15 base damage

I can make more

Voda: Well, I guess you aren't going anywhere.

+15 damage seems like a lot for crows.

Sclavo Buticularo: Are crows edged weapons?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They're piercing, I guess

Beaks and talons

Well I'll try to get to my sodales before too long, but I have one idea

Sclavo Buticularo: I guess so. It would probably be slow enough going that by the time you got through, the spell would wear off.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could use Intellego Corpus to sniff around and see if the gargen itself smells like human

Sclavo Buticularo: If you wait until nightfall you can search the lab yourself, too.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Sclavo Buticularo: The garden is just a garden. It's well tended.

"Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust."

he gives another shrug.

He walks into the lab.

At night.

I mean.

Sclavo Buticularo: If this is nightfall.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Unjust? I am here investigating a man being framed for murder. My duty is justice."

I'll activate Shriek of the Impending Shafts

Sclavo Buticularo: His eyes widen.

"Do not murder."

Voda: Classic Bible.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "You mean, thou shalt not kill?"

Sclavo Buticularo: Yeah I'm using the first googled translation and theyre all modern crap.

he nods.

Archibald of Guernicus: https://i.imgur.com/U1o4d30.jpg

Sclavo Buticularo: but also i thought it was funny phrasing.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's a longshot but do I hear his body moving with Shriek up?

Sclavo Buticularo: Shriek protects from all wood how exactly

oh by hearing it

no, you don't

he's a normal person.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Damn

Oh well

Sclavo Buticularo: He just had a really specific education.

It happens.

Voda: Thank you church education.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot."

Sclavo Buticularo: He smiles. What a nice lady!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I look around for anything shiny.

Sclavo Buticularo: He's holding a trowel but it's pretty dirty.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Right

Sclavo Buticularo: Do you want to skip to night time and look inside the hut again?

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+1 Awareness

(

1

)

+1

=

2

Ooh

Sclavo Buticularo: ouch.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: But yes

Sclavo Buticularo:

rolling 2d10

(

10

+

7

)

=

17

devil's fav demon (GM): Fiorella and Sclavo swap bible quotes until nightfall.

Sclavo Buticularo: The trap fades and the vines crumble.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I remembe rhow much the Bible hates women as we talk

Sclavo Buticularo: The room is empty again save for one wood chair, one overturned desk, and one pile of woven straw.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all."

Fiorella of Jerbiton laughs

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he's right.

Voda: AFK a sec.

Sclavo Buticularo: Sclavo walks into the lab and hangs the trowel on the far wall after it clears of thorns.

"Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll but Shriek up

Sclavo Buticularo: After dropping the tool off, he leaves the room.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I will not beg of your hospitality much longer

I'll use Porter to set the desk upright

If the thorns kill me, oh well

Sclavo Buticularo: I was about to ask, yeah, are you in the room?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If I can do it from outside, i probalby have enough good sense to

If not, oh well

Sclavo Buticularo: Okay, well, the desk is trapped too. Mostly it's just a very tedious spell.

You're outside and go through the whole process again.

In the morning, the vines crumble to nothing again.

The room may finally be safe.

Fiorella the Raven wakes up, having slept on the roof

Voda: Ok I'm back.

Fiorella the Raven: Okay, time to find out the straw is trapped too

Sclavo Buticularo: if you rummage through the straw, it triggers...

Nothing.

Fiorella the Raven: Alright

Voda: Spooky.

Sclavo Buticularo: As you lift the mats into the air with Unseen Porter, the morning light coming in the front door illuminates falling transparent flakes.

Hard to see, but it could be dead skin.

Fiorella the Raven: I look up at the ceiling

Most dust is dead skin

Guy of Bonisagus: nice ac

Sclavo Buticularo: I mean there's some pretty big flakes.

Fiorella the Raven: Hmmm

Sclavo Buticularo: bark-like, almost.

Fiorella the Raven: All right, I'll load up the barkskin into my bird-portable satchel.

devil's fav demon (GM): gm note: strabo's arms look like twisty roots and seem wooden due to warping

Voda: Sounds good.

Fiorella the Raven: And head home

Sclavo Buticularo: looks like you survived and got an ac to strabo

and also know several of his nicknames, which are sympathetic connections.

Fiorella the Raven: Neat!

Sclavo Buticularo: congratulations, folks.

Voda: Alright!

Fiorella the Raven clutches an AC to VT in her talons, using it to teleport home.

Voda: Let's kill him and wrap up this adventure.

Sclavo Buticularo: Feel free to kill him from afar if you want.

Johns, please advance time

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright

Archibald of Guernicus: I have a great trick for killing a magus from afar but it might be better to bring his corpse in to confirm the kill

Lavinia of Jerbiton: By May 20th everyone has reconvened at the Tomb

Voda: Why?

We could just kill him now.

Archibald of Guernicus: Because we live here, Voda

Fiorella the Raven: I'm glad he didn't call me on the full verse

The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

Voda: Sounds like you don't want to kill him because you want your confederate to live.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A letter arrives with Severin's seal.

devil's fav demon (GM): He was just happy someone else memorized some lines.

Fiorella the Raven: I remembered all the woman hating parts

Lavinia of Jerbiton: An emergency tribunal meeting has been called. All covenants in the Roman tribunal are to send representatives to Venice as soon as they can.

devil's fav demon (GM): rip

Archibald of Guernicus: hoo boy

Fiorella of Jerbiton: People tend to spout them at me due to the gift

johns (GM): Getting to Venice will take 18 days.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I PROBABLy have an AC to Venice

But I'm not the best rep

Mortis ex Verditus: "It is with a heavy heart that I must decline this honor in favor of completing my laboratory."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets go to sansaron

Archibald of Guernicus: is this now Summer and another season of labwork is sacrificed

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Lavinia is the COnsul after all

Mortis ex Verditus: No she isn't.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Mortis ex Verditus: Archibald and Beatrice are.

johns (GM): depends who is going to venice and who isn't

Rosario of Flambeau: O

johns (GM): it is now summer yes

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go to Venice

It's not a loss of labwork if I teleport

Archibald of Guernicus: I can't learn leap of homecoming because of the adventuring.

Fiorella of Jerbiton teleports into her family's pigeon roost.

Guy of Bonisagus: ill go to

johns (GM): Mundane methods, Guy and Rosario?

Guy of Bonisagus: while the magi go to tribunal, giraldo bolad and hazm can go to the vineyards

yes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Every time they send me a letter I keep a bit of pigeon down.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can learn leap in one season but cant spend a season learning leap so I'll go by mundane means

Rosario of Flambeau: Yep.

johns (GM): You could stay behind if you want archibald

Archibald of Guernicus: It would make zero sense IC

johns (GM): gahaha.

torturing dys by making him act ICly ftw.

Rosario of Flambeau: AFK for a minute. drat.

(From Rosario of Flambeau): AFK

johns (GM): alright

Guy of Bonisagus: emergency tribunal to have archibald marched

johns (GM): I'll assume Voda or a grog for Endrite if he wants to chime in?

Voda: Yeah it's me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hazm has little to do with Order affairs and will probably stay far away from Tribunal the moment he learns about Fabius

So he'll keep investigating Etna for sure, he can find out if there's a proper parish there

Guy of Bonisagus: a proper regio

johns (GM): Guy, Rosario, Archibald, and Voda take the slow way to Venice. Fiorella, you get there ahead of them and meet up with a few other wizards who chose to teleport.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Investigating the Parish is his reported motivation

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus would have loved this

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The goat girl regio is his real one

johns (GM): Present early on is Andronicus of Literatus, Milo of Guernicus, and Severin of Severin's Cool Covenant.

Voda: Lycelleus.

johns (GM): Thank you. Do they have a logo?

Voda: Not yet.

Archibald of Guernicus: DO they have a theme song?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I assume I had the chance to share the skin AC with Archibald by now

This is ther etheme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFHUIzFxz20

johns (GM): Fair enough

Severin of Tytalus: "Welcome Fiorella. I expect other Magi to begin rolling in in the coming weeks. I know some have a long distance to travel."

actually im getting a little sleepy. gimme 1 min to set the coffee on

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Greetings, Praelco. I would be remiss if Venice was an inconvenience ot visit."

Guy of Bonisagus: youve only been up 6 hours!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "My sodales are on their way."

Severin of Tytalus: im a sleepcuck

Voda: Severin of Garfieldus.

(From Rosario of Flambeau): Back

Severin of Tytalus: "Yes yes... Well I can't really begin until others get here... For now all I can say is what you and Literatus have seen is widespread."

If you've no pressing issues, he and the other magi elect to retire to their chapterhouses until the meeting proper can commence

Voda: Hmm.

I think I know the culprit!

Vengeful ghosts!

(To devil's fav demon): Would Anson show up or would he stay in hiding?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah, I will go stay with my family until the proceedings begin

(From Rosario of Flambeau): Anson would show up out of obligation. It's tribunal and he's the only living magus at Vulcanal.

Guy of Bonisagus: cant believe the spider wizard, who came back to life after his beloved child, ferris, fuckign died, is going to cause the black plague

Severin of Tytalus: A week and a half later

(From Rosario of Flambeau): hes probably really nervous

Severin of Tytalus: The rest of the tomb waddles in.

Voda: *woddles

johns (GM): There is an atmosphere of fear and suspicion in the meeting room. The various covenants' representatives keep to themselves. Anton, sole representative of Vulcanal looks apprehensive in the corner..

Rosario of Flambeau: "There he is, the bastard. The nerve, showing his face like that!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Anson

Voda: Anson :DDDDD

Milo of Guernicus: Milo bangs a big funny ceremonial mace to call to order. "Greetings sodales. You may have noticed the absence of a few of us. Severin, Iminatosa, and the praecos of Guernicus and Mercere have all been called to Durenmar. In Severin's absence I've been asked to conduct this meeting..."

You note also there is no one from Sansarron here.

Voda: As expected.

Milo of Guernicus: "An unprecedented crisis has befallen us. Our Herbam vis is under attack. I understand a few covenants have been able to save some pawns but I am told that expected Herbam vis harvests since March have turned up nothing."

Voda: Hmm.

Milo of Guernicus: "That representatives of the Grand Tribunal were called to Durenmar outside schedule leads me to believe the attack is widespread. I am sure we will learn more once Severin returns from the Rhine but until then... We as a Roman Tribunal need to figure a way to deal with this crisis."

Voda: Hmm.

The Rhine?

Milo of Guernicus: that is where Durenmar is.

Voda: Hmmmmmm.

Milo of Guernicus: for reference, the Grand Tribunal, normally held once every 33 years, summons the Praeco of every Tribunal + the leaders of each Hermetic house.

Voda: Alright the key problem, as I see it, is that no one from Vardian's Tomb was sent to Durenmar.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I studied the vis as it was rotting. Using it for spellwork seems fine, but it carries a strange feel with it. Not unlike using tainted vis."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Could the mold itself be a charged item? Legend speaks of a Verditius who enchanted saplings in his lab, then utilized the grown trees."

Guy of Bonisagus: "It's possibly infernal work."

Harpalos of Verditius: "So quick to pin the blame on Verditius!" snaps an old man from Verdi.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "One can achieve a very large degree of penetration with charged items, enough to laugh at an aegis."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Investigating the mold with intellego vim reveals the presence of active magic, but it is non-hermetic."

Guy of Bonisagus: hm

Milo of Guernicus: "Even the Aegis of Magvillus? The strongest in all the Order?"

Guy of Bonisagus: i did keep some of the mold itself in a vessel

does the mold survive

Milo of Guernicus: yeah, but its just natural mold

Guy of Bonisagus: "The mold itself seems to just be normal mold, though."

"Kept in a vessel by itself, nothing strange happens."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I make no accusations of Verdi. I have nothing but esteem for the legendary tree wizard."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I believe our quaesitor also found it to be some sort of hedge magic."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ah, yes."

Klybutes of Tytalus: "Vardian's tomb is no stranger to Hedge Magic."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Which doesn't rule out an infernalist cult. But this is a bold move for what I had assumed to be small, scattered people."

Voda: Klybutes spitting hot fire.

And also bile from all his sores.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Is it possible that the vile druids of Diedne have resurfaced?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I think we should ask for expert help from house Ex Miscellenea, either the lineage of pralix or those schooled in celtic druidic traditions, to learn more about the effect itself."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I brought some of the mold with me in case it might help. As I said, though, it seems to be completely mundane once seperated from the vis."

Milo of Guernicus: "Why Celtic Druidism in particular?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The rumors regarding The Spider's reemergence."

Milo of Guernicus: (murmurs)

Rosario of Flambeau: "Yes, let's just get it out there."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It was laughed off at last tribunal, and I didnae pay it much mind either, but this is a catastrophe, sodales."

"Outlandish ideas must be considered when the situation is truly outlandish."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'm afraid there isn't any more evidence than at Tribunal, but still, this is a large scale phenomena."

Milo of Guernicus: "I still think it's ridiculous but.. It can't hurt to send a letter off to Cau Gadu."

(ex misc hq)

Enki of Verditius: "Pointless. There's a much easier explanation."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: By now I might have finished my messenger pigeon tablets, though... no, I'll finish them at the end of SUmmer

Archibald of Guernicus: "I put forward this. If there is someone who wishes doom on the order, and acts to enact it, what does it matter if they are the same figure from long ago, or another person claiming the same name? The threat is real."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Since I'm translating notes I'll probably need Fall to make a bunch of copies of the tablet

Enki of Verditius: "Those fools at Vulcanal have been sitting atop a dormant Titan this whole time. They must have woken it up and let it run wild."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What of marched magi still at large? Such as Fabius or Strabo."

Voda: Hmm.

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Wasn't it you at Vardian's tomb who helped Fabius escape?"

Voda: Heh.

Guy of Bonisagus: "This seems a bit beyond a lone magus of the Order."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It was Proclus, dead, and Gulielmus, missing, who did that."

Klybutes of Tytalus: "Surely Guy you aren't suggesting a Hedge Magician was capable of something greater than a Hermetic Wizard.. ?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "They are quite reformed these days."

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Gulielmus is missing? What's happened to him?"

Voda: Don't say "kidnapped by sahirs on the secret magic island we own."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What about breakthroughs in hermetic theory? Some of those resemble hedge magic, but have the potency of our arts."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Nevermind that. Klybutes, I know that this was Hedge Mage work, and that it's definitely something beyond most magi."

"I still believe it to be some sort of group, though. Surely no lone person could do this."

"Especially if other tribunals are similarly afflicted."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Wait, sahirs... hedge magic

Exileratus of Flambeau: "Anyone else notice who is missing?"

Rosario of Flambeau: :O

Archibald of Guernicus: "How can ye just decry something non-hermetic as weak and useless, anyhow? Didn't Tytalus the founder chain the titans with pre-hermetic magic?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, let's find whoever summoned a genie and wished for all the herbam to rot

Exileratus of Flambeau: "An order of Hedge Wizard you claim did this. Who else could it be but the Order of Suleiman -- and their puppets at Sansarron hide their faces rather than show today?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's outrageous."

Klybutes of Tytalus: "Naturally anything Tytalus did is greater than any of us could aspire to."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I repeat my earlier theory. The druids of Diedne have returned."

Voda: I think the real question is: why target the least useful vis?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, the tradition was never actually wiped out, there's a few magi openly claiming to continue parts of that lineage these days. There's no laws against it."

Guy of Bonisagus: they didnt target animal vis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yes, the animal vis is useless, better let me have all of it

Aurora of Mercere: "Why would Druids destroy the very vis they use?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "What if it wasn't destroyed, but somehow drained of its power and into their hands?"

Aurora of Mercere: "Hmm"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ah, greetings Aurora. Do your Herbam stocks fare much better than ours? Harco must be doing well if so."

Fiorella of Jerbiton smiles.

Aurora of Mercere regards you expressionlessly

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Well if she's not selling Herbam at a huge price it's probably not worth investigating.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella, please, let's keep discussions civil here."

johns (GM): Elsewhere in the hall, the Verdi delegation and Anson have gotten into a very loud argument, flinging insults and accusations at each other.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "You're right, I apologize."

Voda: What kind of accusations?

The Titan ones?

johns (GM): Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmmmm. Should I side with my best pal Enki OR the -5 int bonisagus.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go leave the room and see what's going on, I'm obiously not helping in teh chambers

johns (GM): Anson in turn blames the Verditius for experimenting with magic seeds or something else.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Verdi! Anson! Conduct yourselves properly, nothing's going to get done like this."

Rosario of Flambeau: "What a fool."

Karantia of Tremere: "Lessons on conduct from Vardian's Tomb!"

Voda: lol

But also, hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We are trying to improve."

"Perhaps we all should."

Rosario of Flambeau: "And a fine day to you as well, my lady."

Guy of Bonisagus: "This is why our enemy, whoever they are, is strong. They don't bicker and politic amongst themselves."

Karantia of Tremere: "If you can call the deaths of many Magi an improvement.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, in Proclus' case..."

Karantia of Tremere: hee hee

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "And the pole's."

Fiorella probably always had trouble pronouncing it

Guy of Bonisagus: "Does anyone have any information at all that they're withholding? The longer this goes unsolved, the more likely it is they'll figure out some ritual to corrupt the other forms."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Look, as far as magic seeds go, any sort of contagious plant would have to suffer acclimation outside of an aura."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "I've found that our Herbam vis, once it was stored in a Dominion aura, stopped decaying. I haven't dared to test other auras but I suspect other people here may know what those would do."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "That IS useful."

Voda: Fascinating.

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's a strong case for it being the work of infernalists."

Rosario of Flambeau: "That boy-girl was right."

"Jesus."

Aurora of Mercere: "Vis in infernal and faerie auras are unaffected."

Voda: Aurora just casually admitting to storing vis in infernal aura.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's our Aurora.

Aurora of Mercere: Aurora says nothing after this, thinking no explanation is due.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Then it's only the realm of magic being afflicted."

Voda: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Does anyone harvest perhaps fairy herbam vis? The magical sources of it seem to be in danger, but if a fairy herbam vis source was confirmed to be safe, it would confirm this."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps it is mold spreading from the Magic realm itself?

Voda: Are we sure it isn't leprosy?

Rosario of Flambeau: Leprosy, huh?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Has anyone investigated any magic regios associated with herbam, as well?"

Literatus Covenant: "That seems reasonable Guy... Faerie Herbam vis was impacted too but most thinkers suspect non-Magic vis still draws on the realm of forms."

(andronicus said that).

Voda: Right.

Archibald of Guernicus: Literatus jumps in

Guy of Bonisagus: "If it's the aura being afflicted, then any vis stored in a magical aura would be at risk, no matter the realm. If faeries of herbam are unaffected in their regios, but magical creatures of herbam are affected in theirs, I think we would have this confirmed."

Heliste of Tytalus: Grudgingly, Heliste responds: "A regio we know of that used to produce Herbam vis does no more. We haven't noticed anything else yet."

Voda: I think we can't discount the attack on Vulcani, here.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps the mold itself comes from a deep regio, and has some way of finding vis, like vines seek sunlight, allowing it to find aura borders too small for the naked eye to see?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Were that the case, I would expect a more gradual spread."

Voda: But then how does it get through the Aegis of the Hearth?

Guy of Bonisagus: "This was clearly an attack."

Julius Trianoma: "It would have to be a regio that encompasses all of the Tribunal, and can penetrate Magic Resistance.."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The scale still boggles the mind, yes."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Powerful hedge magics, or perhaps an ancient magic spirit, must be at fault."

Enki of Verditius: "You'll find both in the Titan of Mount Etna!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do you have evidence of this titan, or its unleashing?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I think Guy's plan to seek out a powerful Herbam regio has merit."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Which titan dwelled there, again? I would hardly think them to be associated with herbam."

Rosario of Flambeau: "What's this Titan you keep talking about?"

Enki of Verditius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhon

Guy of Bonisagus: "Were our terram vis crumbling, or the ignem vis cooling, the theory might hold."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nice, I love Final Fantasy

Enki of Verditius: "Typhon, son of Gaia and Tartarus. Imprisoned by Zeus under Mount Etna."

Voda: He's got you there.

Archibald of Guernicus: "And of it being unleashed?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "It's not impossible, but seems unlikely given whats happening."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Seems legit."

Enki of Verditius: "What else could have such power if not a Titan?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps one of the spirits those runecasters invoke."

"They're certainly an enemy to our order, and an organized group themselves."

Enki of Verditius: "You mean the gods of Odin?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye."

Galafre the Elder: "Isn't there a much more sensible enemy? One who lurks within our very midst and not outside our borders?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Look, if we know it needs a magic aura to spread, we know it might suffer acclimation."

Galafre the Elder: "One with a very powerful grudge against the Order of Hermes and a willingness to do anything it takes to hurt them? I think the people at Vardian's Tomb know them very well.."

Voda: lol

All the Magi of Vardian's Tomb.

Archibald of Guernicus: "As has already been brought up, Proclus has passed away."

Galafre the Elder: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Galafre the Elder: "The Augustan Brotherhood is the only one who could launch such a coordinated attack in all parts of Europe at once."

"And one of their own has been in our midst this whole time, studying our methods, our texts, and learning our secrets!"

Voda: Gasp!

Archibald of Guernicus: wait do we acftually know lavinia is an augustan or what

Guy of Bonisagus: "I would be surprised if the Augustans could muster a ritual great enough to cause every magus to sneeze."

Archibald of Guernicus: i never thought about this

Galafre the Elder: She is a member of the Order of HErmes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Does she have a reputation of Hedge Mage?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Let alone destroy scores of vis."

Archibald of Guernicus: i mean, do we know that shes from a lineage that used to be, and might still be, an enemy of the order

Galafre the Elder: her parens was a member of the Augustan Brotherhood who struck a deal with Mont-Mercure to formally defect and join the Order of HErmes.

Yes.

Absolutely.

she does shaun

Fiorella of Jerbiton: COol

That means an OoH roll might tell us who they're implying

Galafre the Elder: Sorry my shift key is being weird.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I think investigations will have to be conducted. None of us are near enough to investigate the Order of Odin, but hopefully the Rhine or Novigrad are sensible enough to figure that out."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Send a letter to Jorn

Guy of Bonisagus: "Vardians Tomb will investigate the sahirs."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Now hold on. Lavinia is a fully gauntleted member of the Order, Galafre. The Brotherhood were all but destroyed a century ago."

Voda: You mean Novgorod.

Galafre the Elder: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: that Is what i mean

Galafre the Elder: he's thinking the witcher

Archibald of Guernicus: Giraldo begins phasing into the scene

Voda: Witcherthinker.

Galafre the Elder: "The Spider was slain 500 years ago and here you are claiming he's still around. How's that any less plausible?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Wind's howling."

Galafre the Elder: lol

I get the ref now. wouldn't have a month ago

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Voda: I think it's most likely a sahir.

Archibald of Guernicus: I was going to say 'theres no way lavinia's magic can do this stuff' but then i remembered Animo and im just stumped

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont

"Would any covenants like to volunteer to investigate the Augustans, the Spider, or Diedne?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I think inductive reasoning isn't working. TOo many conflicting theories, all entertaining if not plausible."

"We need facts."

Milo of Guernicus: "That's an excellent idea Guy but we should find a sensible way to split up these investigations."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps I can befriend Lavinia."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye, that's what I'm saying. One covenant to investigate each theorised threat."

Milo of Guernicus: "I think private conference would be better than open forum given how high tensions are getting here."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I am a member of her house and covenant, after all."

Guy of Bonisagus: "As I said, we will investigate the sahirs."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have a few. The effect is non-hermetic in nature - for this reason, I strongly suggest the legacy of pralix, and my gut instinct remains that asking for information from remnants of celtic druid traditions will help."

"Figuring out what the effect  is  will narrow down who is responsible."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We can reconvene in two or four seasons, or earlier if definitive evidence is found."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps a season or two working for her in her lab might confer some Augustan lore."

Milo of Guernicus: The crowd seems receptive to Guy's ideas.

Galafre the Elder: "I wouldn't step foot in that lab."

"Safer just to rid her and be done with it. She's of an enemy of the order anyway. It's our duty."

Archibald of Guernicus: that lab has a killcount

Guy of Bonisagus: "Galafre, know your place."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "She's a gauntleted Jerbiton."

"If you have an issue with her, present a formal grievance."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Exactly. She's a member of the order, for God's sake."

Galafre the Elder: so was: bonfilia, proclus, malach, aristide

Voda: I think we can absolutely throw baseless accusations at her.

Rosario of Flambeau: prudenzio, strabo,

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'm glad to hear that Literatus has volunteered to look into the Augustans, however."

Milo of Guernicus: yeah lol

Guy of Bonisagus: "That leaves the Spider and Diedne."

Tolas of Tremere: "We can deal with the Diedne."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm

Voda: Oh no!

They found Diedne everywhere!

Tolas of Tremere: "House Tremere had for a time a Vexillation devoted to noting their return. We need merely reactivate it."

Voda: What are the chances???

Archibald of Guernicus: "If real and strong evidence is brought forward of the Augustan Brotherhood being involved, then we will discuss what should happen with one of their tradition being part of the order. Until then, talk of getting rid of them is just bickering and in-fighting."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I feel I still owe it to Zita to investigate The Spider."

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's good, Tolas. But if you find nothing that way, be sure to do proper investigative work. They've surely changed much over the years."

I nudge Fiorella. "Our covenant is investigating the sahirs for a reason." I whisper.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I nod and silence myself.

Archibald of Guernicus: We're 'investigating' the sahirs

by which i mean we're doing other things involving them and not actually investigating them

Milo of Guernicus: by giving them heaping piles of gold to buy back gulielmus

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yes

Also asking them nicely if they used a genie to ruin all the vis

Milo of Guernicus: a similar notion to the titan

Guy of Bonisagus: the levant tribunal is probably already preparing to go to war with the sahirs if the vis blight is affecting them too

so we should stop that

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Good point Guy

"On further thought, the matter of The Spider seems to be the least credible of the theories put forth. I will leave it lie if no one else volunteers to look into it."

My -1 Int is at least enough to not talk about my cousin

Milo of Guernicus: "I shall stay in Venice. You all have chapterhouses here so I will be in touch with your various representatives to keep the whole deal organized."

Guy of Bonisagus: its almost certainly the spider

Archibald of Guernicus: -1 int magus??

Voda: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh yeah its absolutely the spider

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm joking

Maybe

Voda: Who should we deputize here?

Milo of Guernicus: -1 jerbiton is not unrealistic

Voda: To stay in Venice?

I nominate myself.

Milo of Guernicus: you can use a mundane represntative if you like

Guy of Bonisagus: voda can do it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Voda can hang out with the Zenos

He was already our official rep once

Voda: Nothing bad could possibly happen in Venice.

Rosario of Flambeau: ^^^

Milo of Guernicus: "For now I urge everyone to avoid jumping to hasty conclusions." His gaze sweeps across everyone in the room at this.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I still feel the spider should be looked into. But if no one can turn up any evidence on the enemy orders, we can at least leave ourselves with only one option."

Milo of Guernicus: "Vardian's Tomb, you have more information on this spider than anyone else here. I'll ask Cau Gadu to include you on any information they can provide."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, that should work."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Thank you."

Guy of Bonisagus: did sansaron even send their mundane representative this time

Milo of Guernicus: Milo deputizes Julius Trianoma to handle all inquiry related to the Order of Sulieman.

No but in fairness they had short notice and are very far away

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe Flavia became a daimon and is stealing all the vis

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah thats fair

anyway

i guess visit sansaron next

finally!!

Milo of Guernicus: are we letting strabo go

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm

Guy of Bonisagus: he doesnt seem responsible for the vis rot

and dealing wit hthat is far more important

it could be vim vis next time!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm not sure I could kill him with the AC

Archibald of Guernicus: I can with a season

Seasoned Warrior (Viking Ghost): Well, he has been tampering with some primoridal Herbam elements in the Garden from what we've seen

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Someone would really need to walk me thorugh the advanced wizard murder stuff

Voda: Gah!

Guy of Bonisagus: we could sell the ac to a flambeau if we really want him dead

Voda: A ghost!

Archibald of Guernicus: hello seasoned warrior viking ghost

Seasoned Warrior (Viking Ghost): Salve.

Guy of Bonisagus: im sure theyd pay a fair amount for a tool to kill a marched magus

and get the glory for themselves

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I like Guy's plan

Rosario of Flambeau: you have a strong AC, two nicknames, and theres probably something else to add to the multiplier

Seasoned Warrior (Viking Ghost): DFD, how strong is the A/C we recovered? How quickly will it degrade?

Rosario of Flambeau: lemme look at the chart for exact numbers

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's say Boyar's flambeau kills him offscreen

Archibald of Guernicus: We could just do that, yeah. We hand it over to a miltiates

Seasoned Warrior (Viking Ghost): awww

Guy of Bonisagus: well, not hand it over unless we really have to

i think theydp ay for it

Archibald of Guernicus: OR i could do a very sick tunnel kill

Seasoned Warrior (Viking Ghost): i was really looking forward to murdering a Hermes wiz again

Guy of Bonisagus: at least a small amount

it saves them a lot of work and gives them very easy glory

Archibald of Guernicus: i really want to employ the ultimate magus killer trick

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Guy of Bonisagus: if its the boyer magus though then yeah its free

Archibald of Guernicus: step 1: tunnel

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I might be able to send a flock of crows after him

Archibald of Guernicus: step 2: dispel parma

Rosario of Flambeau: Months Strand of hair, favorite tool or item of clothing, wood shard from a specific

place, feather from a bird, scale from a reptile.

Years Invested device, rock or metal from a specific place, blood, lock of hair,

group of feathers from a bird, group of scales from a reptile.

Archibald of Guernicus: step 3: give them 5000000000000 warping points

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can use AC in Rego spells that aren't Arc range

Rosario of Flambeau: You have the equivalent of a group of scales.

Archibald of Guernicus: step 4: send them into twilight

Rosario of Flambeau: Years.

Guy of Bonisagus: if we wanna do archibalds plan we could spend a season in sansaron studying, if they let us

Milo of Guernicus: "I hope Severin has something more tangible when he gets back from Durenmar."

Guy of Bonisagus: while archibald makes his spell and does that

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Like how Leap of Homecoming is Personal but uses ACs

Milo of Guernicus: "But until then unless there's some outstanding business I should consider this meeting concluded."

Rosario of Flambeau: so you have at least 5x Penetration on any spell

Guy of Bonisagus: if they have a q12 or better book on speaking arabic i can instantly get up to a proficient level in it

which will help a lot for the levant trip

Milo of Guernicus: we have a decent arabic book I believe?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, I'll go stand in the Temple of Mercury and summon birds at Strabo until the AC no longer works

Guy of Bonisagus: do we?

Archibald of Guernicus: im a vim specialist and this plan is nothing but vim, with a seasons work i can pull it off

Fiorella of Jerbiton: FTV

Milo of Guernicus: De Lingua Saracen, summa, L5 Q9

eh not great but OK

Guy of Bonisagus: its a q9 book

i cant instantly get to level 3 with a specialty off that

Voda: That's not bad.

Guy of Bonisagus: but with q12 i can

Rosario of Flambeau: Archibald is strong.

Guy of Bonisagus: but also q12 is unlikely

well

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That's a Q12 book for Hazm

Guy of Bonisagus: probably fairly likely, in sansaron

oh wait. i have book learner

ahaha

Milo of Guernicus: also i am caught a little surprised by you wanting to visit sansarron, whats your aim there? rellantali was given the goal of investigating the sahirs

Archibald of Guernicus: CrVi as a murder method is definitely not cool and honourable

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah our book will do. i can take it with me on our sansaron trip and study it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh, Q16 book fo rGUy

Guy of Bonisagus: sansaron is the sahirs

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I actually wanted to learn Arabic on him biut it can wait

Guy of Bonisagus: is sahirs, rather

Archibald of Guernicus: iunno, people just really jumped on sansarron, we were going there before but things are kind of in the way of that right now

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Too bad we don't have any redcaps who can speak every language

Rosario of Flambeau: its freakin strabo, hes a huge dick and breaks all kinds of crimes

johns (GM): I will point out to Archibald that killing Strabo remotely doesn't clear his name as perfectly as meeting Strabo face to face and forcing him to confess would.

Guy of Bonisagus: i figured theyd have good information on hakim

Rosario of Flambeau: That's true.

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah, thats the problem

Voda: Eh.

Just kill Anson too.

johns (GM): Lavinia knows Arabic and Bolad speaks every language. what a pity neither can be around when you visit arabia gaha

Guy of Bonisagus: wait why was rellantali given the thing

i volunteered us for the sahir investigation

as the very first thing

johns (GM): do you want to ask milo

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

Milo of Guernicus: "Salve, Guy."

Guy of Bonisagus: its a good excuse for us to head off to the levant

Archibald of Guernicus: why are we doing the sahirs, we have no reason to believe its them whatsoever

Guy of Bonisagus: not that we really need one but itll make it not suspicious at all for us to be in the levant

because gulielmus was kidnapped

by the sahirs

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah but it also means we  arent  investigating the people we actually think it is lol

Milo of Guernicus: "I assumed you would be busy investigating the Spider. I thought Rellantali would be better as they are closer to the Levant and it's an easier trip for me."

Guy of Bonisagus: i want to get gulielmus back

Milo of Guernicus: *trip for them

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'd also like to get Gulielmus back

Voda: I'd like to talk about my expense account.

Archibald of Guernicus: we can do that without bungling either the sahir investigation, the spider one, or both, tbh

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah but i mean

we cant investigate the spider in the levant!

Archibald of Guernicus: by just doing the spider one, and also going to the levant to get guli

Guy of Bonisagus: and going t othe levant will probably take up a lot of time

well. if wed rather do the spider then i can walk back the sahir thing

but i still want to rescue him quickly

Archibald of Guernicus: i think we should discuss it further before Guy tries and volunteer us. and i also want guli back.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: How much Intellego Imaginem pen do you think you could manage with an AC and sympathetic multipliers, Archibald?

We could at least ifnd out Strabo's location

Guy of Bonisagus: theres also the fact that the sahirs might not like a bunch of order magi they dont at least slightly know walking around in our land

Archibald of Guernicus: ive got good base ben, 5x multiplier gives me 20 pen

Milo of Guernicus: whoa according to C&G you can go from Rome to Tunis in only 6 days

Guy of Bonisagus: we at least got hakims approval to be going there

in their land rather

Archibald of Guernicus: im tired, we can discuss it in the thread or w/e

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah thats probably better

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Milo of Guernicus: Okay here are the Confirmed Travel times according to C&G: Rome to Bologna (literatus) is 17 days, Bologna to Venice is 3-4 days

Guy of Bonisagus: the spider is definitely the culprit but also we dont want to risk the sahirs being antagonized

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could ues an AC to summon a pigeon and follow the pigeon to Strabo

I have a lot o fAnimal pen

Guy of Bonisagus: and also its gonna look weird for vt magi to be in the levant talking to sahirs when they should be investigating the spider, if we bump into the actual sahir investigators

Rosario of Flambeau: So disguise yourselves.

Milo of Guernicus: if I recall in your last conversation with Hakim it basically ended with "get your bosses to talk to my bosses"

Voda: We did it.

Milo of Guernicus: cause you weren't powerful enough to negotiate on your own

Guy of Bonisagus: the closest thing to our bosses, as far as their concern was, would be the levant tribunal leaders

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They wanted the entire Levant Tribunal to withdraw

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'd say we don't have that authority

Milo of Guernicus: sounds like you need to go to the Levant then.

Guy of Bonisagus: we need to talk to the levant tribunal and work something out

i think, to that end, getting sansarons aid might help

if theyre willing to give it

Archibald of Guernicus: heres a better idea: wait for the idiots here to kidnap and imprison a bunch of sahirs, then work otu a deal where we swap those sahirs for guli

Guy of Bonisagus: thats also a possibility

ok

lets do the spider investigation first

gulielmus's fate can wait a bit

Milo of Guernicus: Rome to Acre is at least 30 days

according to c&g

that's one way



Archibald of Guernicus: whats the adventure xp for the other adventures today, which are the adventure xp for Summer

Milo of Guernicus: actually

Voda: "Gulielmus sorry but we have to wait to investigate the claims of a woman who hated us and also everyone who heard about it died except for Archibald."

Milo of Guernicus: We're not done with this adventure yet.

Archibald of Guernicus: motherfucker

Guy of Bonisagus: johns smiles double sessionishly

Milo of Guernicus: Though since it's 8:30PM I want to be diplomatic and say if people are getting tired I can wrap things up here for now, and next session we could go ahead with a plan to investigate a specific lead

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm going to invent a higher pen bird attack spell I think, I'll do that before trying to hunt a powerful marched magus

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald didnt hear it either

Guy of Bonisagus: is investigating the lead part of this adventure then

Milo of Guernicus: I'm fine to keep going BUT I don't have anything prepared at the moment if you want to visit Sansarron

Guy of Bonisagus: if so we should probably just do it next week

Milo of Guernicus: Well

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could also ask for help from Flambeau before chasing Strabo

Guy of Bonisagus: were not going to sansaron right now

Milo of Guernicus: A couple other things are going to happen this year regardless of what you do

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, it's getting late.

Archibald of Guernicus: it seems like we need to actually plan what to do lol

Rosario of Flambeau: Good session though!

Milo of Guernicus: So it's just a question of what you are doing when those occur

Ok.

Voda: 'Twas.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Today was a lot of fun but I'm getting tired yeah

Milo of Guernicus: Cool.

Guy of Bonisagus: investigating spider stuff is the first thing we wanna do i think

then go to the levant

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I managed to dodge a trap

Guy of Bonisagus: and this time for sure

this time no more vis rot. gulielmus will be freed

where is it

Rosario of Flambeau: I was really hoping you would fall for the second trap that was exactly the same as the first trap.

Voda: Also all the loot from Ponza, please.

Milo of Guernicus: I'm going to post a recap in the thread, plus Severin's report from Durenmar.

just to be clear beardbeard, The LEvant and Sansarron are different places

ahhh shit endrite caught me

Guy of Bonisagus: i know

sansaron is an order covenant with sahirs though

Milo of Guernicus: right right

Guy of Bonisagus: so i would like to get their help for the eventual levant trip if possible

even if its just information

Milo of Guernicus: ok.

lots of leads.

rip our vis.

johns (GM): rip EVERYONE'S vis.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Last time they caught us off guard being able to take Gul thorugh a portal

Guy of Bonisagus: with our arabic book + my book learner and linguist virtues i can get 15 xp in arabic

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Information is good

Guy of Bonisagus: which with a specialty takes me to a score of 3

which should be enough to get by

johns (GM): the consequences of this impact are felt in the vis trading market -- for the time being, ALL VIS now trades for double value, and Herbam vis is unavailable.

err not doubel value. +50% value

Mortis ex Verditus: Here's a question: do musical instruments have a Voice for Voice range?

Rosario of Flambeau: oh hell yes

vis ftw

johns (GM): i think so?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think so Mortis

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: time to profit off of whatever else we have stocked up

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Performance Magic works iwth an instrument

Mortis ex Verditus: I want to make a horn to wake the dead but there's no shape bonus listed.

Rosario of Flambeau: and just pile up mythic pounds for later

Fiorella of Jerbiton: There's a lute player in MoH

Check him out

Rosario of Flambeau: voice range magic works at longer ranges if you're louder, iirc.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe his talisman is useful

Rosario of Flambeau: so a horn may be good for that

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Have johsn make up a shape/material bonus if in doubt

Mortis ex Verditus: I'd imagine a horn would give a bonus to hunting or commanding.

Since it isn't really a MUSICAL instrument yet.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Intimidation is a good bonus too

johns (GM): yeah

commanding would be a classic one

Mortis ex Verditus: Intimidation?

How so?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Anyway my immediate plan is still to give the covenant a bunch of casting tablets for summoning messenger pigeons

Rosario of Flambeau: intimidation uses leadership

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah but horns aren't very intimidating.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Horns can be pretty scary I think

If you disagree then you disagree

Mortis ex Verditus: Maybe if you're a fox or deer.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And I'll accept it

Intimidating animals, then

johns (GM): Shape/Form bonus to Horniness.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ha ha.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Seems valid

Rosario of Flambeau: shape/form bonus to angel summoning

johns (GM): shit

i forgot one potential explanation that an npc should've thrown out

ill just sneak it into the recap and see if anyone notices

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh.

johns (GM): in march 1345 there was a conjunction of planets

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

johns (GM): in the real world this was suggested as the cause for the black death.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): Endrite, if I don't get a writeup of Ponza loot by Wednesday, please send me a reminder

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+4+1 Artes liberales to recognize the alignment of planets

(

6

)

+4+1

=

11

devil's fav demon (GM): Tasso not fighting back at all and only responding by crying and the report of the invisible man were real btw. I mean, still a red herring because there's no way to follow up on that.

alright, bye

Father Hazm: Bye

Mortis ex Verditus: See ya.

Beardbeard (GM): arse! bad game

jhons when you read this you are gay

Endrite (GM):

rolling 8d2

(

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

)

=

8

rolling 1d4

(

4

)

=

4

Ok, Mortis has four older siblings and four younger siblings.

rolling 8d2

(

2

+

2

+

2

+

2

+

2

+

1

+

2

+

2

)

=

15

Yikes, they're almost all boys.

rolling 8d365

(

206

+

219

+

26

+

331

+

298

+

287

+

129

+

5

)

=

1501

Endrite (GM):

rolling 8d15

(

11

+

14

+

7

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

11

+

14

)

=

60

rolling 2d365

(

212

+

139

)

=

351

Hafl would have loved this...

Shauncat (GM): Cool cake Napolino

Endrite (GM): Wait are we playing in 10 minutes?

johns (GM): 40 minutes

Endrite (GM): Phew.

johns (GM): 1345 part 2 -- timestamp for chatlog

Endrite: Time Stamp 2 Chatlog.

johns (GM): Beardbeard said he'd be pretty late, and Cumthinker is iffy about playing at all, so we can begin when folks like

dys: I am here

Endrite: RIP Cumthinker.

Rosario of Flambeau: i am saving and quitting ni no kuni as we speak.