9/3/17

GM: whos ready to game in 58 minutes

devil's fav demon (GM): me.

Shauncat (GM): I moved Timotheos to Monsters and renamed him Minotaur

dys: he's still friendly to us, though, since we've taken care of him and some of us have hung out with him in the regio

Shauncat (GM): Yeah

He's just not a PC any more

c'thinker (GM): how much of aristides pinky are we talkin here

GM: did anyone have anything minor they wanted played out during the time between now and previous session

ill ask again before the session starts because i think this is gonna be a somewhat short one

Shauncat (GM): I'll think about it

Jorn would probably require inventing new characters so I'll skip that

devil's fav demon (GM): i dont think i have anything i need to do just yet

dys: past the second (first?) knuckle, cumthinker. the end of it.

devil's fav demon (GM): celeste should get ordained eventually

i should probably also come up with her birth name.

c'thinker (GM): nice.

dys: celeste should do our sermons so we cna get proclus to stop crying about us being pagans, and move onto crying about us being heretics.

devil's fav demon (GM): oh nevermind apparently it was a name used for both men and women originally.

perfect.

GM: celeste and celestina

Shauncat (GM): Celeste doing the sermons would make Procius madder

Hypatia of Athens: Celeste can do sermons for my cult though

devil's fav demon (GM): she knows more about theology than him anyway

GM: lets have a carpenter build the pews so they have a 1 degree incline

and give proclus an aneurysm

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

GM: have celeste get into a theology debate with proclus

dys: he'll lose, for various reasons

for one, the gift stink

secondly, his inferior faith

GM: thats right

devil's fav demon (GM): yeah he doesnt even have true faith. the guy's basically a pagan himself.

GM: and once celeste comes out victorious, proclus will see the error of his ways

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia has the best Divine Lore

Celeste knows doctrine better and Hypatia knows YHWH and the Pagan Moon God of the Levant are the same guy, together we can win

devil's fav demon (GM): hypatia doesnt, unless her sheet isnt current

celeste has 9 in both divine lore and theology, and proclus also has 9 in divine lore

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

dys: Nice. You'll still win due to gift stink.

Gift Stink imposes a higher penalty than Actual Stink, I believe, though I havent checked

Hypatia of Athens: Stink is just a healthy surplus of melancholy humors

Nothing to shame a man over

It's too bad my Divine Lore is inferior but I need my XP for my new cult so nothing to fret over

Faustus Galerius: Okay this guy has a token now

Zita of Mercere: Hey there little guy

c'thinker (GM): welcome, murrius

Hafl T.: if we get celeste to be a bishop, would she be inclined to issue an invitation in God's name to allow powerful faeries to enter Dominion? it's mentioned as one of big Merinita goals in rop: faerie

devil's fav demon (GM): Maybe.

She has faerie blood.

Zita of Mercere: Wouldn't that have already happened when the pope was an elf

Hafl T.: they never bothered, since it changed dominion aura into fairy

Zita of Mercere: Makes sense.

Good luck Celeste

c'thinker (GM): let's kill celeste

Hafl T.: plus fairies are not good at creativity

Shauncat (GM): "Μπαλάντα του Αριστοκρίτου

(Ballad of Aristocritus)"	9	The life and times of Aristocritus, which, as Hypatia only knew him for the last few seasons of his life, includes embellishments based on questionable second-hand account, as well as elements of other heroic tales like Odysseus.

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

that rules

Hafl T.: excellent

c'thinker (GM): nice

Shauncat (GM): All the good holidays are in Spring but I can still write a song in time for Feast of Ascension

Zita of Mercere: That owns

Alas, Aristocritus. I hardly knew ye. [while holding his severed head]

What did we do with his corpse anyway

Hafl T.: i don't know about his corpse, but celeste dressed up his head as john the baptist and keeps it in her room

Zita of Mercere: Yikes

Lets make his skull an enchanted item, then bind his ghost to it

Hafl T.: oh, speaking on binding ghosts

c'thinker (GM): let's make his skull the archon

Hafl T.: we have the sword that attracts faerie ghosts

Shauncat (GM): "Να είστε σαν αυτόν

(Be Like Unto Him)"	9	A song for the Holy Sunday of the Feast of Ascension. Carries a subtext that not only are Christ's preachings and conduct worthy of emulation, but his dvinity as well.

Hafl T.: and there's merinita spell to make any faerie your familiar with Until duration

let's get jorn a viking chieftain familiar

Zita of Mercere: Nice

He is a merinita, he can do it

Hafl T.: if they're unwilling, you have to beat their MR, but there's this sword that's most likely an arcane connection to him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's take 15 minutes to play out jorn's brutal assassination by the inner cult

Zita of Mercere: Let's take 5 hours, to properly play out this epic battle as Jorn defeats the majority of the cultists before being brought low.

Hafl T.: (the sidebar mentions that the spell for enslaving faeries is surprisingly accepted in house merinita)

GM: ok johns has failed us all in not keeping the gm cheat sheet up to date so if i forget your Noteworthy Virtue or Flaw in a situation where its relevant let me know

Shauncat (GM): Note: Jorn died on the way back to his home planet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jorn the mighty. you hear

rolling 1d100

(

87

)

=

87

87 ungauntleted apprentices on the other side of the door

GM: looking forward to cumthinkers session next week

Zita of Mercere: Oh, was rechecking my own virtues and found out something interesting

Shauncat (GM): Hyaption has +4 Cult Lore, now she just needs +69 more to do anything with it

Zita of Mercere: No matter how bad the weather gets or what tries to slow us down, if Zita is in the party, we can always make it anywhere at a fast pace

Hafl T.: nice

Zita of Mercere: You are never adversely affected by

weather, bad roads, or other negative travel conditions;

you can muddle through no matter what, making nearly

the same time as you would in ideal circumstances. If you

are leading other travelers you can speed the journey for

all of you by encouraging them to match your pace.

devil's fav demon: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's all initiate each other into mercurian magic and make proclus cry

Shauncat (GM): Jorn's never affected by bad roads, because he leaves good roads in his wake.

Zita of Mercere: Cool virtue only available to Heroes

Shauncat (GM): If he even uses a road

GM: did endrite say he would be late/not present

Zita of Mercere: Johns, does Bolad have any heroic virtues from the mercere book

johns: gift of tongues

Shauncat (GM): Hypatia now has a +2 artist reputation

GM: theres endrite

Zita of Mercere: Gift of Tongues ftw

Endrite (GM): Here I am.

GM: please enter player mode minnabody

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where's Stones

Endrite (GM): I'll be a little latetoday.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea bangs knife and fork on table

Hafl T.: i am in player mode

playing stones manually

GM: oh fuck i forgot to pick out music

Shauncat: Done

GM: i knew i was forgetting somethingt

Zita of Mercere: Does this mean whenever Zita and Bolad chat they just speak in mongolian/italian to each other and its gibberish to everyone else

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: use the ck1 stuff that nobody has ever listened to

johns: the chewie/han solo effect

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i dont even know what any of it sounds like.

Shauncat: Jorn will speak to the heroes in Old Norse

Zita of Mercere: From now on its canon that when they chat its in total gibberish and no-one can understand it

GM: ok

for the actual adventuer we will be using random ck2 musics

ck1

Shauncat: Let's broker a Mongolian/Viking alliance to conquer Europe from both sides

GM: rahter

Bolad: Mongolian/Viking/Aztec/Prestor John

Hafl T.: let's summon aztecs from faerie to stop the mongolians and vikings

Bolad: death from all sides

GM: Before we start, did anyone have anything they wanted to play out between now and the previous session?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes, my initiation into the highest echelons of the alchemy cult

Endrite: A Certamen tournament.

GM: Alright. Gulielmus, a burly man with 6 strength will be your initiator.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's play a friendly round of Bellum.

Beatrice Orsini : I need more mystery initiations, but I don't think more than one a year is appropriate.

GM: He accidentally kills you when he beats you over the head, as is the way for mystery cult introductions.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the joke is on him: gulielmus is already dead of aids, per gm ruling

Beatrice Orsini : is there any mystery cult that teaches life boost?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's play a friendly round of bellum (note: i do not know the bellum spell and cannot spont it)

GM: We move to the Vardian's Tomb Planning Room.

Zita of Mercere: Oh, I'll write it up in the thread, knew I forgot to. But basically the quaesitors investigated the fat thug's mind with their high level mentem magic and confirmed that Luctatio is guilty of the vis theft. They've settled it with Potestas out of tribunal with a large payment, and you're off the hook.

GM: For several days, bats have been plaguing your covenant, seeming to watch your every movement before disappearing back into the catacombs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Weird bats."

Anthemia Mercere digs a bat out of her red cap

Zita of Mercere: Bats off to ya

Beatrice Orsini : let's enchant a crystal eye to sense bats around it and shoot fire at them if it does

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i could make a ward against bats, in a season

adventure resolved. gg all

Beatrice Orsini : i have circle of beast warding, so i could be fine too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea 's brain is fully aglow

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I can make a ward against bats in an hour.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's capture the bats and dissect them for signs of magic

Zita of Mercere: "I've had to keep the door to Giovanni's room locked, this really has to be dealt with soon."

Beatrice Orsini : let's capture the bats and dissect the for grog dinner

Zita of Mercere: "It cant be healthy to have them flying everywhere."

Beatrice Orsini : "Does anyone know what animal is the bat's natural enemy and what it looks like?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I was not aware you were qualified to make that judgement, Zita."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Cats?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "When did you receive your diploma from an accredited Medical university?"

Beatrice Orsini : "That seems a bit too simple."

Anthemia Mercere: "Creatures that live on the ceiling have little discretion regarding where they go to the bathroom."

"It has made quite the mess."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Owls?"

Beatrice Orsini : damn, phantasmal animal is only a diam duration. too bad

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+6 philosophiae: what is a bat's natural enemy

(

9

)

+2+6

=

17

GM: I would say owls, yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It's owls."

Zita of Mercere: "I'm only guessing out loud, if I'm wrong I'll defer to your expert opinion."

Anthemia Mercere: "If we defer to your expertise and it turns out bats contribute to healthy living, Lavinia, shall I send Violante around to collect samples?"

Beatrice Orsini : i could spont a sun duration owl illusion on a roll of 9 or 10

Bialas of Bjornaer: sponting uh, ReAn 5, Base 2, +2 Voice +1 Conc, to implant a suggestion in the mind of one bat to come rest in front of Lavinia.

Beatrice Orsini : or just cast a formulaic owl illusion for a diam

Bialas of Bjornaer: it will automatically succeed as a non-fatiguing spell

GM: A bat comes to rest in front of Lavinia.

Endrite: Ok I'm back.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Bat bile has some interesting properties in natural philosophy. Galen in his opus suggests that they can contribute to an imbalance of choleric humors--"

GM: It continues looking around at you as it does so.

Lavinia of Jerbiton swats at bat

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Oh, I thought you wanted one."

GM: The bat returns to roosting on the ceiling.

Proclus of Rome: "Why are we holding this meeting in a room filled with bats?"

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, humours. Of course."

Beatrice Orsini : "All the rooms are filled with bats."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Please do not sic animals on me Bialas."

Zita of Mercere: "There weren't any bats in here when we started, I think they're following us around."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Unless Archibald is willing to host us in his lab."

Proclus of Rome: "We could just go outside or to an inn."

Anthemia Mercere: "I will tell Violante. She is not well-read, but understands "bat bile" well enough."

Zita of Mercere: "Isn't he away? He hasn't accepted any of his letters in half a year."

Beatrice Orsini : I can cast a mastered Flame Dart each round without a chance to botch. How many bats are there?

Anthemia Mercere: Infinite

You have to shut off the bat faucet

Proclus of Rome: Are there any bats in the Eastern Ear Inn?

GM: In this room? About twenty.

Beatrice Orsini : so only about twenty rounds

Proclus of Rome: THUSANDS of bats, wow!

GM: If the door to the inn is not shut quickly, they will follow your magi up to the inn.

Anthemia Mercere: XX bats

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does anyone have Animal Ken

GM: As you have noticed.

Zita of Mercere: "An inn might be awkward, as the Gift would make the other patrons uncomfortable."

Beatrice Orsini : "I know Circle of Beast Warding. Perhaps I should have cast it before the meeting."

Proclus of Rome: "These bats are making uncomfortable."

"I'll take the risk."

Anthemia Mercere: "They'll be more uncomfortable if the bats make it up there."

Zita of Mercere: "Don't we have a beast hunter staying here? I wonder if he hunts bats too."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Maybe Merlin will scare the bats off."

thats right. you all forgot about merlin

Anthemia Mercere: "Can the metal cats climb onto the ceiling with their claws?"

GM: Do you inquire with Giraldo?

Beatrice Orsini : faeries have a talent for making your forget them

Zita of Mercere: I look up at a bat getting roasted out of existence

Proclus of Rome: I'm going up to the Inn.

I've had it with these darn bats!

GM: The bats don't seem to respond to one of their kind being burned alive.

Beatrice Orsini : how about the rest of them then?

I can burn them all days

ten days

until it affects my lab total

Anthemia Mercere: How many XP per bat

GM: If you keep killing them, they're slowly replaced by more bats flying in from other areas in the covenant, as well as a steady stream from the catacombs.

Anthemia Mercere: You might not need a lab total if you can grind bats

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets grind bats for gold coins

Bialas of Bjornaer: This is a lot of bats.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do the bats have a rare drop

GM: It really is an unreasonable amount.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll stop once the floor is covered with charred bats.

Proclus of Rome: I'm going to have some wine.

GM: They produce guano, Gulielmus.

Zita of Mercere: "Alright, let's try the inn, then."

Proclus of Rome: Do we pay for anything at the Eastern Ear Inn?

Anthemia Mercere: Guano and bile

Beatrice Orsini : "I don't think they're going to stop coming."

Zita of Mercere: "We own the place, we might as well use it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets process the guano into plant fertilized and sell it

GM: If you're careful to shut the door quickly, no bats follow you up to the inn.

Anthemia Mercere: Also our covenant records show we get vis from discarded fruit cores dropped by bats

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's impossible to think with all of these flaming bats hitting the floor."

Beatrice Orsini : "Sorry, I'll stop."

Anthemia Mercere: Lets migrate these bats to the vis cave

Proclus of Rome: Let's get rid of these damn bats.

Beatrice Orsini : I tried.

Proclus of Rome: We could just build a wall between our covenant and the rest of the catacombs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was a valiant effort

Zita of Mercere: "Why are there so many bats?" I throw up my hands in frustration

GM: dys is gay

oops

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the number of bats is too damn high

GM: that was an accident

Zita of Mercere: What the

Bialas of Bjornaer: Let's go find the source of the bats.

Anthemia Mercere: "Something must be done about these bats. They're disturbing our chanting and prayer."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Someone has caught the attention of a powerful Beastmaster or Magical Bat King."

Beatrice Orsini : accidentally pressed the dedicated dys is gay button

Bialas of Bjornaer: The Bat Regio has been opened.

GM: its next to my ctrl key

so i hit it a lot

Zita of Mercere: :cryingangryfeelsguy:

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Anthemia Mercere: Let's talk to Giraldo

Zita of Mercere: "Ah. So we have to find and kill the boss bat to end this."

Proclus of Rome: "Have we tried talking to the Rat King?"

"He might know something about the denizens of the catacombs."

Zita of Mercere: "I've never met with him before, is he forthcoming with information?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: What would a Rat King know of bats?

He's not the Bat King.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We could just ask the bats."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i thought the rat king was in the rat regio

and not the catacombs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Or Bialas can, probably."

Proclus of Rome: He was but he rules all the rats in Rome.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: all the rats in rome are in the rat redio

Zita of Mercere: Which we drove out of the catacombs, iirc

Yeah

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

"That would make negotiations tense, to be sure."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this idea makes no sense.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Oh, I can't talk to animals, really. I've always been meaning to work on a spell for that."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets just meander blindly through the catacombs until we find the batking.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's only uhh

base level 10.

Proclus of Rome: Then I think a wall would work the best.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: trumpus of rome

Proclus of Rome: We'd just need to close a corridor about 6 feet wide or so.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah, but then if i spont it, I'll get tired.

Beatrice Orsini : lazy bear

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you'll have time to rest!

Zita of Mercere: I'll try and think if there's some sort of Bat King or other magical creature that would do this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: unless thousands of demons pour out of the catacombs right after you cast

Zita of Mercere: Rolling Magic Lore

Beatrice Orsini : lazy bear sponts a diam duration speak to animals spells, then spents the entire duration resting to regain fatigue

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+12

(

6

)

+12

=

18

Proclus of Rome: I'm fairly certain this isn't the work of a hypothetical "Bat King" because they managed to penetrate the Aegis of the Hearth.

Zita of Mercere: It's worth a try

The bats could be mundane but controlled by a magic creature

Anthemia Mercere: A good Magic Lore roll can confirm it's NOT a bat king

Zita of Mercere: This

GM: The Bat King is real and powerful, Zita, but he is in constant war with the Owl King in the Germanic lands.

Zita of Mercere: So not in our catacombs, then? Dang

Proclus of Rome: So what's stopping us from building a wall?

Zita of Mercere: "Don't worry Lavinia. The Bat King is really far from here, he won't be in our catacombs."

Beatrice Orsini : I can get to Irencilla in about a week, ask about the Owl King there and invite him to our covenant to help us.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We could just have Beatrice set up a ward in the tunnel they're coming from...."

"and then have Beatrice kill the remaining bats."

Seems easy to me.

Beatrice Orsini : Bats will circle around through the inn at night

Anthemia Mercere: "What if they can use more than one entrance?"

Proclus of Rome: There aren't that many entrances.

There's a map.

Beatrice Orsini : Not that many human-size entrances.

Zita of Mercere: "It's driving me batty to think about."

GM: They only seem to be coming from one catacomb entrance.

Proclus of Rome: Ok, how big is it?

Zita of Mercere: "Do we need the catacomb entrance for anything?"

GM: It's about 6 feet wide and 8 feet tall.

Beatrice Orsini : "We could try going to the catacombs. We need to clear them out anyway if more houses keep sending their rejects to Vardian's Tomb."

speaking of that, where is plutonis?

GM: hes not here this week

pc troubles i think

Beatrice Orsini : rip

afraid of being killed by bats

Proclus of Rome: Seal the Earth would be enough to plug the corridor, then.

Zita of Mercere: "You'd make Gordo cry if he heard that. He hasn't left his lab since he got here, though."

GM: It would be, yes.

Anthemia Mercere: "Magi budget their time to around 10 days a season to investigate such matters, right? We can seal off the entrance if a search of the catacombs proves fruitless."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Anthemia Mercere: "Within that given timeframe, that is."

Proclus of Rome: I probably should be the one to do that, then, since I can only do ceremonial spontaneous magic and there are so many bats it might require a Concentration roll.

Zita of Mercere: "I've done my duties for the year already, I worry that a wall would turn out to be a non-permanent solution. Then we have to break downthe wall and explore anyway."

GM: What does Seal the Earth do?

Proclus of Rome: It creates enough dirt to fill a hole 6 paces wide and 3 paces deep.

But of course you can do with the dirt as you please.

Anthemia Mercere: "The bats do seem possessed of a certain determination. Almost humanlike."

Proclus of Rome: It's only Sun duration, though.

GM: Okay, you could do that.

I thought it caused a cave in or something, potentially harming Christian remains.

Proclus of Rome: Nah.

Anyway, I shan't be casting that particular spell, but someone else could.

Anthemia Mercere: "Myself, I've been meaning to explore there anyway, to see if there are any useful spaces outside the covenant's aura."

GM: It would provide a temporary relief from your troubles.

Beatrice Orsini : Let's just equip the grogs and go look.

I can spont eyes of the cat if anyone needs it.

Anthemia Mercere: I do

We could also just have a grog carry a torch

Proclus of Rome: A Circle of Beast Warding seems like it would be a permanent solution to this bat problem.

Beatrice Orsini : torch can go out

Zita of Mercere: I have a magical torch that lasts sun duration

From House Mercere

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Before we do anything, shouldn't we investigate the bats first?"

Beatrice Orsini : That would be an easier solution. And less botch prone.

Zita of Mercere: It's detailed in teh ars thread, since I swapped out my magic items recently

Proclus of Rome: "Why, they're bats."

Beatrice Orsini : "But there's a lot of them.

Proclus of Rome: "If they aren't magically enchanted, then they are merely pests."

Anthemia Mercere: "Let's perform a cursory investigation to make sure the bats are the problem, rather than a symptom."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well they don't normally do this!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Perhaps someone has magically enchanted them with enough power to overcome Proclus' aegis.

Beatrice Orsini motions towards the bat body covered floor.

Beatrice Orsini : "I think these bats are unusual."

"Normal animals would flee by now."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Bats are noted cowards."

Anthemia Mercere: "Animals are unusually disquieted by The Gift, are they not?"

Zita of Mercere: "You can see through a bats eyes, can't you? With magic, hermetic or otherwise."

"What if someone's spying on us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A normal bat that's been compelled to enter the Aegis should be able to do so without trouble, no?"

Anthemia Mercere: "Unlike me and Zita, who can get over its effects through human logic."

Proclus of Rome: I like that Pliny says that bats carry their young in their arms when it would only take a cursory examination to notice that this is impossible.

Zita of Mercere: "Yeah, the Gift barely even bothers me these days. Logic, that's it."

Beatrice Orsini : I prefer to belive Pliny's authority over my own eyes.

Bialas of Bjornaer: All those guys just made stuff up.

Who would ever check?

GM: wow. alright man, try saying that shit in the middle of the agora and see what happens

Proclus of Rome: You don't get used to the Gift!

Only Gifted individuals!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is anyone going to cast a damn invi spell here

Beatrice Orsini : haha, invi.

good joke

GM: you are free to do as much investigation as you wish

Bialas of Bjornaer: Hah, spellcasting.

Proclus of Rome: No, I'm not going to risk ceremonial casting with all these bats around.

Zita of Mercere: That's fine Proclus, I'm just lying to spare the feelings of my gifted sodales

Beatrice Orsini : I can make a Circle of Beast Warding around Proclus to give him enough bat-free room for the ceremony.

rolling 1d10!+19 target 5

(

9

)

+19

=

28

Anthemia Mercere: I'll initiate myself into Unaffected by the Gift and then lose it on a divine adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if the bats interfere with your circle drawing!

Beatrice Orsini : did it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god. we'll be killed

Proclus of Rome: I'm in the Inn.

GM: They don't bother you while you draw it.

Proclus of Rome: I thought we all moved up to the inn!

GM: oh

i dont know

Anthemia Mercere: We had a chat in the inn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone's in the inn i think

Proclus of Rome: Also if you can cast Circle of Beast Warding then why don't you just put one at the entrance?

Anthemia Mercere: Now it's time to do somehting

GM: How high into the air do the effects of a Circle go?

Beatrice Orsini : I'm not sure about how Circle spells work. I've never used them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's unclear.

Bialas of Bjornaer: put a vertical circle around the door.

Beatrice Orsini : Let's shape the bat entrance into a circle and make it on the walls.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think of it as a dome

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that would make it insanely dangerous to stand near the edge of a circle though

Beatrice Orsini : ReAn is safe for humans.

And who cares about Bjornaer.

Zita of Mercere: Bialas starts melting down at ReAn not affecting humans

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: not if an animal attacks the part of you that's outside the dome!!

GM: just make the circle 2-3 times as wide as you are tall

Proclus of Rome: It wouldn't work on Bialas anyway, because he has Magic Resistance and is not a mundane animal.

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

GM: and oull probably be fine

Beatrice Orsini : Proclus needs to use his knowledge of geometry to save us.

Bialas of Bjornaer: One day I'll make a Hermetic Breakthrough and merge the An and Co forms.

One day...

GM: apprentices playing tricks on the bjornaer kids by drawing circles of beast warding on their door

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Proclus of Rome: You can just put one circle on the ceiling and one on the floor.

Beatrice Orsini : Let me get life boost and enslave a might 40 fairy to get huge penetration on the circle to keep Bialas out of the meeting chamber

Proclus of Rome: It's tough to say for sure since someone hasn't moved us to the actual covenant map.

GM: i cant find the covenant map

whats it called

Proclus of Rome: It's in the archive.

Beatrice Orsini : Bialas will never make a Hermetic Breakthrough because Arts as Abilities fucked up original research even more than it was already fucked up.

Proclus of Rome: Here let me get it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can make an invi potion. but it will take some time

GM: oh nice there were catacomb maps in there

the covenant map disappeared

Endrite (GM): There I got it.

Vardian's Tomb.

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice readies her Flame Dart spell and prepares to descend into the catacombs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MzKdjIaPU

Anthemia Mercere: Hello Kifaaya

Zita of Mercere: Increasingly ancient covenant layouts showing more and more dead/missing wizards

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Walrad...

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gotta cross out ombra too

Anthemia Mercere: There's Prudenzio! Get him!

Zita of Mercere: Labs: Aleseta, Ferris, Orsu, Aristocritus, Malach, Prudenzio,

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Endrite: Did the Alarm Ward go off?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we had a newer map

this is before proclus rebuilt the entire covenant

Proclus of Rome: I don't think I had actually done that, it was just a plan.

GM: Regardless, it does have the info you wanted.

Anthemia Mercere: Jorn dug out his own lab, FWIW

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we had, like, a spiral staircase

with a bunch of different circular levels

Proclus of Rome: Yeah, but I don't remember actually going forward with that design.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes

GM: Oh, I guess your alarm ward is probably going off repeatedly.

Unless it's ground only.

Proclus of Rome: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its for people not animals

GM: oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. someone get aristocritus out of his lab

GM: Lab work brought to a halt as ward repeatedly makes air raid siren noises.

Zita of Mercere: Attention everyone. In addition to the bat there is a constant loud screaming from the bat sensor. It cannot be turned off.

Beatrice Orsini : Aristocritus: Bury me in my lab.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: please.

GM: Aristocritus's lab has been cleaned out and given to Aristide.

Zita of Mercere: Alright, so what are we doing exactly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just the nonstop ringing of thousands of tiny bells.

Zita of Mercere: Are we walling off the catacombs and hoping for the best

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: beatrice was drawing a circle for proclus to sit in, but proclus remains unconvinced

Beatrice Orsini : fuck, spell to deafen myself in base level 20 PeCo

So at least level 30 for sun duration

Proclus of Rome: Just putting a Beast Ward down would solve this problem, I think.

Beatrice Orsini : impermanent perdo ftw

Proclus of Rome: How high is the ceiling?

GM: It's 8 feet up in the catacomb tunnel.

Proclus of Rome: Well, I guess you could just make four circles anyway.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I've just had an idea. Save me a bat, sodales!"

Proclus of Rome: One on the ceiling, one on the floor, and one on each wall.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders away, towards his apothecary workshop.

Proclus of Rome: Perfect.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Does anyone have a bag?

GM: Does someone do that, then?

Anthemia Mercere: I'm going to go explore the catacombs, that won't interfere with the beast ward and I can't contribute to that endeavor anyway

Bialas of Bjornaer: Sure, I can spont a spell to tell a bat to get inside of someone's bag, I guess.

GM: Does Anthemia go by herself?

Anthemia Mercere: I'll take some grogs

Sister Aurelia

Proclus of Rome: The beast wards will probably take like 10 minutes to set up.

At most.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Wait, fucking. I forgot I had Chaotic Magic. I should just replace that with a greater malediction since its a huge pain in the ass flaw that makes the GM have to do extra work.

and it's unclear as to what the effects actually are.

GM: I was against that idea until the last few words. You should absolutely replace it.

Anthemia Mercere: Necessary Condition (roaring like a bear)

Beatrice Orsini : you absolutely should replace it. after this adventure

Zita of Mercere: "If there's something out there capable of controlling animals, there's a chance that they might be able to control people too. Unlikely, but at the very least someone with the parma should go too."

"I'd hate to see a fellow redcap get into trouble down there."

Proclus of Rome: "That doesn't make sense, the Mentem and Animal forms are distinct and not related."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah, after the adventure I will. Probably with what you said, or something similar.

Beatrice Orsini : But Rego is the same.

Zita of Mercere: "It's rego for both isn't it?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+3+4+3 crafting an Intellego Vim potion (material bonus rowan berry and silver dust)

(

7

)

+3+4+3

=

17

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bialas should go

GM: I'll be right back. If anyone is going on the catacombs exploration trip with Anthemia, drop your tokens in.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: +9

gulielmus is in his workshop for an hour while everyone leaves.

Zita of Mercere: "Not that unreasonable to imagine, we have no way of knowing what forms this Bat Queen can manipulate."

Sister Aurelia carries a torch in the hand her shield is strapped to.

Proclus of Rome: "This is superstitious clap trap."

Beatrice Orsini : let me list the prebuffs i do in my laboratory after i kill the bats inside so as not to be disturbed

Bialas of Bjornaer: hold on, let me prebuff.

please delete my token. gm

Zita of Mercere: "Oh you think everything's superstition. These aren't ordinary bats, they're acting strange enough we need to investigate."

Beatrice Orsini : Doublet of Impenetrable Silk, Discern Own Illusion, Aura of Ennobled Presence, Wizard's Sidestep

Aura of Ennobled Presence just attracts bats to shit on me.

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Zita of Mercere: I'll take a doublet if you're handing them out

GM: back

Zita of Mercere: Not sidestep since it'll probably make stealth a nightmare

Sister Aurelia: I can prebuff... with Inspirational

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, I can

Beatrice Orsini : If I can cast spells in calm circumstances, I can't botch a doublet, so everyone who wants one can get one.

Bolad: i shall

Zita of Mercere: I get out my Heatless Torch and activate it

Bolad: is doublet +2 soak or +3

Beatrice Orsini : +3

Zita of Mercere: "Coming with us to explore?" I say to Bolad in fluent mongolian

Bialas of Bjornaer: im supposed to roll to change into a stone bear but theres no possible way for me to fail the roll.

Proclus of Rome: Sure there is.

Zita of Mercere: Can you botch in a funny way

Proclus of Rome: You could be in a hostile aura.

Hypatia of Athens: If you can penetrate my 10 MR faith shield that I might not be able to lower, I'll take w/e buffs

Bialas of Bjornaer: it doesn't use hermetic magic. it's a stamina+heartbeast roll

Zita of Mercere: Bialas not so tough after trying to turn into a bear inside the sistine chapel

Beatrice Orsini : One day, I'll invent a MuIm spell to make the Doublet feel nice to touch even when hardened with magic.

Bolad: "Bolad has duty to keep the learned ones from an untimely death in these tunnels made by men."

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+21 over 15

(

9

)

+21

=

30

wow.

Beatrice Orsini : I can penetrate 10 MR

Bialas of Bjornaer: I did it.

Beatrice Orsini : Base casting MuAn is 15 + 3 Aura + 8 Penetration

which is 11 Pen before any roll

Bolad: "One who dies shielded from the sky and so close to the underworld is certainly doomed."

Beatrice Orsini : and if i am calm when casting, i can't botch

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus creates a charged item of level 10 (base 5: detect any active magic +1 Touch +0 individual +0 momentary) with 4 charges

"I have it!"

"Sodales?"

Hypatia of Athens: "The catacombs are the work of civilization. I fear them not."

GM: Alright, is everyone who wants to head out heading out now?

Beatrice Orsini : prebuffing is done, so yes

Zita of Mercere: "What do you have, Gulielmus?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: i'll also cast Bialas' Sidestep, why not.

GM: You find the presence of bats is less clustered out here, though a few are filing out, seemingly following you.

Proclus of Rome: Touch a bat with the item

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea races after his companions.

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+25 over 25.

(

6

)

+25

=

31

GM: Several immediately take off to parts unknown.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Wait! Wait!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: blessed.

Proclus of Rome: What kind of item is it?

Hypatia of Athens: Let me know if we find a Dominion aura inside the catacombs.

GM: Hm

Would there be any natural, weak Dominion aura near the Christian parts of it?

Hypatia of Athens: I will wish to make note of it for my own ends.

Proclus of Rome: It's possible.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a vial of reddish-grey paste, to be applied to the target.

Bolad: i have equipped myself with a great weapon:flail

Proclus of Rome: If it's consecrated then it wouldn't be a "natural" aura.

Hypatia of Athens: A Mundane part would also be noteworthy in lack of a Dominion

Proclus of Rome: I assume there is no mundane aura at all in the catacombs, but I could be wrong.

Zita of Mercere: I have my dagger, as always

Hypatia of Athens: I have no weapons but I can Leadership my shield grog

Zita of Mercere: "How far into the catacombs did you explore before?" I ask Proclus, the only person here who's been here longer than me at this point

GM: Alright. The area immediately outside your covenant's aura/aegis holds a Dominion aura, Hypatia. Assuming you can detect that.

Hypatia of Athens: It affects my supernatural traits so I'd have an idea

Proclus of Rome: I can.

"I've never bothered exploring the catacombs."

Beatrice Orsini : if i'm a bit slow to respond, it's because i'm opening a 40MB chatlog in a notepad

Proclus of Rome: "They're very dangerous, you never know when part of it might collapse."

Hypatia of Athens: When i sing inside of a Magic aura I can feel my divinity diminished.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Fetch me a bat, and the truth will be revealed!"

Hypatia of Athens: Conversely, within a Dominion it is amplified.

GM: Does anyone fetch an animal sacrifice for the hedge wizard?

Hypatia of Athens: Beatrice is the one who can dart them

Beatrice Orsini : I can do that safely in magic aura.

I'll get Gui a dead bat.

Zita of Mercere: "I can't get any bats. they're up on the ceiling."

I have small frame

Beatrice Orsini : same

Hypatia of Athens: Can the horse archer hit them with an arrow?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Come here, bat."

Beatrice Orsini : hmm, let me see

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He doesn't seem to understand."

Bolad: i can try

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Worth a try, worth a try."

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!-2 vain personality roll to touch a dead bat

(

8

)

-2

=

6

i won't touch a dead bat. sorry

GM: It's not very difficult, they're largely stationary.

And only a few feet away.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+22 shooting a bat

(

6

)

+22

=

28

GM: If Bolad tries he can shoot one.

Congratulations.

Proclus of Rome: We did it.

Adventure over!

GM: Once again the bats seem to not care for the death of their kin.

Hypatia of Athens: Hitting a bat with an arrow is pretty mipressive

Even while not on horseback

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's not that impressive.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: All right.

Hypatia of Athens: I guess not if it's sleeping

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus produces some paste, and smears it on the dead bat.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Good job."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The paste begins to bubble and fizz, revealing...

Zita of Mercere: Did you make 4 kinds of paste, one for each realm

Beatrice Orsini : divine bats do not exist

Proclus of Rome: They might.

Hypatia of Athens: Thomas Aquinas wrote about bats

Zita of Mercere: Hypatia can tell us

Beatrice Orsini : they are god's creation, but they're all of the devil

GM passes a note to a player.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea frowns.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Nothing, as far as I can tell."

Proclus of Rome: "Well, there you go."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But look at it bubble! Fantastic."

Bolad: thomas aquinas wrote of the mythical bat on the hill

Proclus of Rome: "It is likely that a host of these bats have merely moved into the catacombs, seeking the darkness."

"A flock, I suppose."

Zita of Mercere: "Bats that don't care if you set them on fire. Right.2

"Let's keep going."

Bolad: a colony

Zita of Mercere: A hive of bats

Beatrice Orsini : herd

Proclus of Rome: Bats are birds!

Beatrice Orsini : let's just list all collective nouns for animals and one of them will be right

it might be cloud

Zita of Mercere: A murder of bats

Hypatia of Athens: For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Proclus of Rome: It's definitely a flock.

Hypatia of Athens: That's Aristotle, not Aquinas, I was wrong

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea pockets the vial (still 3/4 full!) and clears his throat.

Beatrice Orsini : http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/AnimalGroups.html

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "So, ah, where were we headed?"

Beatrice Orsini : this lists both cloud and colony

Zita of Mercere: I'll keep wandering onwards through the catacombs with our merry band

"Well, might be a good opportunity to finally map some of this place."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Beatrice Orsini : wikipedia has cloud, colony, and flock

Zita of Mercere: "I say follow the sounds of bats."

Proclus of Rome: We could use the ol' sortes.

Bolad: meh

GM: There's a steady stream of bats flying back and forth from somewhere. It's not hard to follow.

Hypatia of Athens: Sortes is a good idea

Bialas of Bjornaer: Sounds good.

Let's follow those bats.

GM: A few rooms in, everyone roll perception.

er

awareness

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+5

(

7

)

+5

=

12

Bolad:

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+0

(

3

)

+0

=

3

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+1+6+5

(

8

)

+1+6+5

=

20

Beatrice Orsini : 4 if second sight

Zita of Mercere: Oh sorry

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+4+2 perception + awareness

(

8

)

+4+2

=

14

Zita of Mercere: 25

Bialas of Bjornaer: zita ftw

Proclus of Rome: I'll abstain from this roll.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10

(

10

)

=

10

rolling d10

(

8

)

=

8

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume we're supposed to also add perception

Zita of Mercere: High mundane competence is actually pretty great it turns out

"Sodales, shh."

Proclus of Rome: "What is it now?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What was that!?"

Zita of Mercere: "There's someone talking further ahead."

"I'll take a look and see what they are."

Beatrice Orsini : "Do you need invisibility?"

Bialas of Bjornaer pauses and looks just like a statue.

GM passes a note to a player.

Zita of Mercere: "I don't like invisibility, it leaves your shadow. Can you give me the eyes of the cat? I'll need to leave the torch back here."

Beatrice Orsini : I can try.

Zita of Mercere: I think someone was handing that out. Maybe Bialas.

Beatrice Orsini : what's the aura here?

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nope.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can reduce your size by 2 points.

Zita of Mercere: I'm getting smaller

Beatrice Orsini : i offered, but then you mentioned you have the torch

Bialas of Bjornaer: Although I will cast Eyes of Bialas so I can see in the dark myself.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah I forgot that the torch would interfere with sneaking

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does low size have any benefit at all

Hypatia of Athens: Minor Magical Focus: Bialas

Bialas of Bjornaer: since it's a level 5 spell and i have +30 to cast it, I won't roll.

Beatrice Orsini : better defense, immune to diminutive lab flaw

Zita of Mercere: Size -2 is a child so size -3 would be smaller than a child

Bialas of Bjornaer: naming every spell after myself ftw

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling (1d10!+15)/2 target 5

(

(

5

)

+15)/2

=

10

cast in up to 3 dominion

Zita of Mercere: That'd be a clever trick. Make a regular sized lab and just keep yourself tiny to make your lab much bigger

Bialas of Bjornaer: after bialas dies he'll leave a huge stack of incomprehensible lab notes on spells that only work of the caster is a bear.

Zita of Mercere: God bless you

Proclus of Rome: What's the aura here?

Zita of Mercere: I start sneaking ahead through the catacombs to investigate the noise I heard

Hypatia of Athens: If I make another dwarf he'll be small and have a small lab

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus has his rotes so he knows the exact aura score at all times i think

GM: Here? It's... Magic 1.

Beatrice Orsini : hmm

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+14+3+5

(

1

)

+4+14+3+5

=

27

Proclus of Rome: Oh my!

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

Beatrice Orsini : rip

Zita of Mercere: No botch

Beatrice Orsini : lucky

Zita of Mercere: I creep along the walls without a sound and arrive at the location of the noise

GM: You don't have to go very far, Zita. Resting in one of the cavities next to some jars is a skull, muttering to itself.

Zita of Mercere: "..."

I go back to everyone

Faustus Galerius: "Freakin' bats."

Zita of Mercere: "There's a talking skull."

Proclus of Rome: "I'll go talk to it."

Bolad: lets crack it open like an egg for vis

Zita of Mercere: "Let's."

Proclus of Rome: "Hello, I'm Proclus of Rome."

Faustus Galerius turns to the voice.

Bialas of Bjornaer: proclus is incinerated by a ball of abyssal flame.

Proclus of Rome: It could happen.

In fact, it could easily happen since my MR against fire is quite low.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok

Faustus Galerius: Is Procius speaking Italian or Latin?

Beatrice Orsini : It it doesn't happen on its own, we'll have to make it happen.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i looked it up, and size -3 makes you as big as a baby or a cat

Proclus of Rome: Italian.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [thousands of badgers in unison] What's the aesthetic quality of this baby

Faustus Galerius does not understand.

Faustus Galerius: This skull is the size of a baby, then.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Pretty good sized skull.

GM: thats a big skull

Bialas of Bjornaer: I respect a guy with a big head.

Faustus Galerius: It grew to contain its might

Bialas of Bjornaer: Having a big head myself.

Beatrice Orsini : the full size table is ftw: https://i.imgur.com/h8bQvXU.png

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: zita could also be the size of a baby, i mean

Zita of Mercere: "Hello?" I address the skull in any language that it understands

Baby house

Faustus Galerius: In Latin, "Are these bats yours?"

Proclus of Rome: "No, we don't own bats."

Zita of Mercere: "We thought they might be yours."

Faustus Galerius turns to Zita, leering at her skullily.

Faustus Galerius: "Hellooooo there."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hello nurse

Faustus Galerius: His Magical Air makes this greeting very lascivious.

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, we may have found an excellent vis source."

Proclus of Rome: This skull is very rude.

Zita of Mercere: "One time, of course."

Proclus of Rome: He hasn't even introduced himself.

"What are you doing here, if you aren't controlling bats?"

I'll try in Latin this time.

Beatrice Orsini : what is zita's presence?

Faustus Galerius: "Well, it's been a century or so, let me think."

Zita of Mercere: -1

Beatrice Orsini : ugly but with a teen's body

Proclus of Rome: Probably because she insists on turning into a man all the time.

Faustus Galerius: "Some men brought me down here. Ex Miscellaneous, I believe they called themselves."

Zita of Mercere: Presence doesn't cover how attractive you are. In fact, nothing does, besides a single virtue I believe.

Bolad: I immediately shoot Proclus the traitor

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, he's hermetic property."

Beatrice Orsini : Envied Beauty ftw

Faustus Galerius: "Necromancers."

Proclus of Rome: "Do you know Venator?"

Faustus Galerius: How old is venator?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ah, it might be nice to have a historian around."

Bolad: over 100 by now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Necromancers?"

"Are you a ghost?"

Faustus Galerius: It's possible, if he was with the original VT crew then

Zita of Mercere: I never knew about that flaw beatrice, that's a funny one

Faustus Galerius:

rolling d10+3+6 Ex Misc Lore

(

10

)

+3+6

=

19

Beatrice Orsini : venator was in the vardian's tomb crew last saga

Faustus Galerius: "The apprentice? How's he doing?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea takes a moment to buff with Shriek of the Impending Shafts, since he missed the prebuff party

Proclus of Rome: "That's a very good question."

Faustus Galerius: "Oh wait, he woudn't be an apprentice now."

Beatrice Orsini : Gulielmus has Shriek? I need to get that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+1+12+3

(

10

)

+1+12+3

=

26

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I've never met him, but he writes a nice letter."

Faustus Galerius: "Ah sorry, introductions. I am Faustus Galerius Super."

Proclus of Rome: "It is a pleasure to meet you."

Beatrice Orsini : "A Roman. Makes sense."

Proclus of Rome: "What did you say you were down here to do?"

Faustus Galerius: "Well, I WAS taking a nice long nap until these bats started flapping around shrieking like this."

Proclus of Rome: We should take him back to the covenant and see if we can get any dirt on Venator.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I am Bialas, the White Bear of Bjornaer, Clan Arelie, Formerly of the Sept of Herisson, Harmonist, Mystagogue of the Anima Heartbeast, Marble-Hewn, "

Zita of Mercere: We could find out Venator's pre-wizard name from him, maybe

Faustus Galerius: "Before that? Teaching apprentices, spreading the Magic aura, whatever I was threatened to do lest I be turned to vis."

Bialas of Bjornaer goes on until interrupted

Zita of Mercere: "So you are a source of vis then, that's good to know."

Faustus Galerius: "Well, I AM a Skull of Virtue, or so Guorna the Fetid claimed."

Proclus of Rome: "Please, don't be so crass, Zita."

Beatrice Orsini : "We have enough vis for now. Teaching apprentices would be more useful."

Proclus of Rome: I think I can see why the old Vardian's Tomb died out.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'd love to hear more about Venator."

Zita of Mercere: "What kind of things did you teach apprentices before. Latin, and such?"

Beatrice Orsini : biology

Faustus Galerius bobs in a sort of nod to Zita

Faustus Galerius: "I'm sure you could teach me plenty as well, though."

Faustus Galerius gives ZIta a skully grin.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: skultry

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You know you're a skull, right?

Proclus of Rome: In any case, Faustus has no idea what these bats are all about, so we should just put him in a sack and take him back to the covenant, heedless of any danger.

Faustus Galerius: "I can still dream."

Beatrice Orsini : Let's build Faustus a functional body.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Faustus as the robot head from Lexx ftw

Proclus of Rome: Let's not.

Faustus Galerius d10-3 Bravery to protest getting shoved in a sack

Faustus Galerius:

rolling d10-3 Bravery to protest getting shoved in a sack

(

6

)

-3

=

3

GM: I'll note now that the two jars flanking this lecherous skull each hold 1 Vim vis.

Faustus Galerius: He doth not protest

Proclus of Rome: Wait there are jars?

Beatrice Orsini did not think it would be possible to be jealous of Zita over a skull, but here it is.

Beatrice Orsini : curse you, vain personality

Proclus of Rome: Could you describe the location we're in?

GM: Yes, I mentioned that.

It's a normal part of the catacombs, except one of the cavities is being used as a makeshift shelving.

The middle shelf holds the skull and two jars.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Well, makes sense.

Bialas of Bjornaer moves to gently pat the sack, before remembering his paw is made of marble and hundreds of pounds in weight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks in one of the jars.

Zita of Mercere: Blessing of venus and curse of venus are equally as good at owning you, except one gives a dice bonus so its a virtue

GM: The bottom shelf has a large but rotted tome, and the top shelf holds two scrolls.

Zita of Mercere: "Why did they leave you down here, Faustus?"

GM: It's pitch black inside, Gulielmus.

Proclus of Rome: Scrolls huh?

Hmm.

Faustus Galerius: Having both is cool, especially if you're using the Blessing to get what you want out of people and then forget about them

Zita of Mercere: "Besides the reasons I can think of."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Lemme see those scrolls.

Proclus of Rome: How can we safely get these scrolls back to the covenant?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I put a finger in the jar.

GM: Bialas, they appear to be two lab texts, ready to go.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Faustus Galerius: "They probably all died. Excepting Venator, I'm guessing."

Bialas of Bjornaer: someone spont an InCo/He/An spell to determine what the tome is made of, and then spont a Cr spell to preserve it.

Proclus of Rome: What are they made out of?

Faustus Galerius speaks muffledly from inside the sack.

Bolad: whats the aesthetic quality of the scrolls

Bialas of Bjornaer: What are the lab texts on? Can I read them?

GM: The scrolls are vellum, and seem particularly resilient.

Proclus of Rome: I'll open the sack and ask Faustus what the scrolls are made out of.

Zita of Mercere: "As far as we know they're all dead. How long ago did they leave you down here?"

GM: You can read them. They wil lteach you [Two spells that I will write in the thread after]. Wow!

Bialas of Bjornaer: Wow!

Cool.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Amazing!

does anything horrible happen to my finger

Bialas of Bjornaer: I guess they're Latin and not anything crazy then.

GM: No.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Sounds great.

GM: But you can't feel any bottom or sides to the jar.

Proclus of Rome: Wow!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's all coming up vardian's tomb

Proclus of Rome: A jar that makes your hands numb!

Beatrice Orsini : We're just moving Venator's stuff to his covenant. If it's not Venator's stuff, the owners are dead.

Proclus of Rome: What an invention!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, i'm holding on to this jar.

Proclus of Rome: Mission accomplished!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and the other one, i guess

Proclus of Rome: Another successful adventure.

GM: The scrolls are signed Melvin ex Miscellanea.

Faustus Galerius: The owners are probably dead.

Proclus of Rome: Melvin?

GM: Melvin.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea enjoys a hearty chuckle at Melvin's name.

Bialas of Bjornaer: to create an animal product is base 5, so what would repair an animal product? 4?

Zita of Mercere: Melvin

GM: Everyone's free to roll OoH lore if they want to know Melvin.

Zita of Mercere: I refuse.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 3

(

8

)

+2+3

=

13

Probably not.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I have one point of OoH lore but will not roll.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I know nothing about the Order outside of what goes on in House Bjornaer.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Who was Melvin, Galerius?"

GM: Hm. It seems you have no way to know who Melvin is then.

ah!

Faustus Galerius:

rolling d10+9 Ex Misc lore

(

7

)

+9

=

16

"Melvin? That was Venator's parens, if I recall correctly."

"A right asshole."

Proclus of Rome: Well, this is interesting.

Pretty fortunate that we just stumbled across a talking skull.

Zita of Mercere: I don't find it fortunate at all

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Wait until Venator sees these spells, haha. That'll bring him back to the good ol' days."

GM: the catacombs hold many mysteries, especially in the areas closest to wizard stink

Zita of Mercere: Small brain: we just found a talking skull

Cosmic brain: we just found at least 2 pawns of corpus vis

Faustus Galerius floats upwards, the sack drooping down over him like a ghost sheet

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh. It can get around."

GM: youve gotten two pawns of vim vis and two scrolls and a heavy rotten book thats illegible

dont be mean to shauns skull

Bialas of Bjornaer: I think it might actually be MuAn(Cr) Base 2 to repair vellum.

Faustus Galerius: "No one's ever given me clothes before. At least, not since I had a body. Thanks!"

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Proclus of Rome: That probably wouldn't work since it wouldn't repair any of the words.

Zita of Mercere: Do we have any calipers to confirm he's properly roman

Bialas of Bjornaer: True.

Beatrice Orsini : "Oh, you used to have a body?"

finally

a chance to test bloodline spells

Proclus of Rome: I mean, it would work but not very well.

Bialas of Bjornaer: But it would preserve the pages, so we could see if any words haven't rotted away already.

Beatrice Orsini : "Did you have any descendants?"

Proclus of Rome: I guess a nice blank tome would be useful.

GM: Is there no spell to recover the words of a parchment?

Faustus Galerius: "Yeah. And the ladies are remiss that I no longer have it, believe me."

Proclus of Rome: I don't see how there could be.

Beatrice Orsini : There's some book-related spells in covenants.

Proclus of Rome: Magic can't read and you can't travel through time.

GM: Hm, you're probably right.

Faustus Galerius is covered by a sack, but he's probably grinning at Beatrice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you might be able to talk to the spirit inside the book

Beatrice Orsini : Ok. we need this skull now.

I want to curse his descendants.

Zita of Mercere: lmoa

GM: whats this. beatrice has cursed proclus, unprovoked??

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: next time, on ars magica: beatrice learns a math lesson

Faustus Galerius: "Maybe. I did meet many young maidens in my travels as a youth with a body."

Beatrice Orsini : i'll cast the bloodline spell forcelessly

Faustus Galerius: "Can't say for certain. The fetid hag got to me before I got married proper."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Beatrice Orsini : "Do you mean your wife?"

Proclus of Rome: Yeah it doesn't look like there are any spells for repairing books.

Zita of Mercere: "Stop, he's already dead."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: every grimoire has a spirit. its a basic fact

GM: are there rules for grimoires like that?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't think so but it is an actual historical belief

GM: hm

Faustus Galerius: "Was I married to Guorna? Heavens no. If I were, I'd be glad she killed me."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: grimoires specifically not just any book

GM: well, considering what it probably is, perhaps there is a spirit inside

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, let us not get sidetracked overly long. We have recovered a valuable old member of Vardian's Tomb, but we still have bats to deal with."

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

GM: if only you knew a necromancer

Bialas of Bjornaer: that's why I think it would be muto animal with a creo requisite. muan 2 makes a major change to something made of animal products that preserves the substance and creo can repair things. like Proclus said, it won't do anything to repair any rotted or degraded text, but at least the book won't fall apart if you pick it up.

GM: Yeah, that makes sense.

Beatrice Orsini : i found a spell to repair books, i think

covenants page 99

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: creo also preserves things, but maybe in a different sense

Beatrice Orsini : https://i.imgur.com/wWHPWIM.png

CrAn 20

GM: Yeah that would work.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice.

Beatrice Orsini : https://i.imgur.com/YVsce2l.png

GM: You wouldn't get all of the text back but you could read it, and perhaps study it to fill in the blanks?? who knows!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Good point. Do you know where the bats are coming from, Galerius?"

Faustus Galerius: Do I?

GM: Galerius can make an int roll.

To remember something.

Faustus Galerius:

rolling d10+3

(

10

)

+3

=

13

Bialas of Bjornaer: I could probably spont that if we were in our normal 3 magical aura.

GM: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Beatrice Orsini : there's a spell to change bookmark into a cobra to protect books against thieves

Bialas of Bjornaer: nice

GM passes a note to a player.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Beatrice Orsini : all the librarian spells are great

Faustus Galerius: "I do remember seeing a magus come down here a century or so ago that wasn't a necromancer, or one of the fops they hung around with. Faerie molester, I believe their type was called."

Beatrice Orsini : "Oh. Him."

Proclus of Rome: So true.

Zita of Mercere: "Giraldo's been exploring here without telling us?"

Beatrice Orsini : Giraldo's not a magus.

Proclus of Rome: This guy doesn't seem to have a good grasp on the passage of time since everything is "a century or two ago."

Beatrice Orsini : Or is he?

Zita of Mercere: Good point

Faustus Galerius: There's no sunlight

And he doesn't benefit much from seasonal activity

Beatrice Orsini : The non-magus faerie molester.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, he's not a magus. Maybe Prudenzio."

Proclus of Rome: We should take a different tack to find where these bats are from.

Beatrice Orsini : "I was thinking Galafre."

GM: note: Bialas is still rattling off titles

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Zita of Mercere: "Please don't even joke that he has any access to this covenant's entrance."

Faustus Galerius: He also has been meditating for most of the interim.

Beatrice Orsini : "You're safe unless your husband is a faerie and I don't think Mercere anre into that."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Well, this has been a bit of a bust.

Beatrice Orsini : "I'm more worried about myself."

Proclus of Rome: No pun intended.

Zita of Mercere: "There were rumours about one of my second cousins, but overall no."

Beatrice Orsini : though Galafre did try to marry Zita, but Beatrice was not present

Proclus of Rome: Do either of the spells have anything to do with bats?

GM: There's still a clear trail of bats, for what it's worth.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I don't know.

GM: No, nothing to do with bats.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmmm.

GM: They'll most likely be necromancy related.

Beatrice Orsini : excellent

Zita of Mercere: "Anyway, we should see where this conspicuous, suspicious trail of bats leads."

Proclus of Rome: Well, it's looking more and more like someone just let a bunch of bats loose in the catacombs.

Beatrice Orsini : That's just irresponsible.

Bialas of Bjornaer: im going to start flying through the corridors of the catacombs and smashing myself into the ceiling and walls, crushing bats until i collapse the walls onto everyone

Zita of Mercere: Aristide intends to learn necromancy then just 'happens' to get some free spells from the adventure huh.

GM: gah!

Bialas of Bjornaer: hah

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Faustus Galerius floats along, following the bouncing bear.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm not actually doing that. Just a joke, sorry.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Beatrice Orsini : i flamed enough bats to claim creo xp from this adventure, so i'm satisfied

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's very hard to cast the flying spell when I'm a stone bear.

Proclus of Rome: Here's my plan: we don't let Aristide into the library.

GM: i didnt originally have the scrolls and tome planned but i figured it would make sense

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what else are you gonna find in the catacombs

Zita of Mercere: You did sell him into slavery for a year, I'm sure you can find it in your heart to let him read books.

Beatrice Orsini : ReAn spell "Circle of Aristide Warding"

Proclus of Rome: More like ReTe.

Zita of Mercere: A MuIm spell that specifically targets the kingly facade, to write 'homo' on his forehead

Proclus of Rome: lol

Faustus Galerius: "If you wanna follow the bats, that might be a fruitful venture. Just watch out for crypt horrors crawling in from Twilight."

Beatrice Orsini : i could probably spont that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's assign a guard to the library, and make it so the door doesn't open unless the guard is defeated in ritual combat

Beatrice Orsini : even with vim requisite

Zita of Mercere: "Crypt horrors. Do they make a noise?"

Proclus of Rome: That seems like a bit of a pain.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the ritual combat is very easy.

Beatrice Orsini : Though I feel the joke would be lost in Latin, since in Latin Aristide is a homo.

Bolad: lets rid a trap ward on the library that shoots lightning at aristide if he walks in

Proclus of Rome: Please Faustus, we're discussing beating Aristide with rods.

Zita of Mercere: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: And canes!

Faustus Galerius: "A terrible noise. Drives men man to hear their song."

* mad

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Sounds like a superstition to me."

Beatrice Orsini : "Sounds like ReMe to me."

Faustus Galerius: He might be bullshitting.

He's a rude skull, after all.

Proclus of Rome: He is.

Well, at least he likes the sack.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should cut some eye holes in it

GM: be right back, again

Faustus Galerius: Could use some eye holes for effect, though he doesn't need them to see.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: If only the archon were here, with his trusty short sword

Beatrice Orsini : Let's put the skull into a pretty dress.

Zita of Mercere: "Who amongst the magi has the best resistance to mentem effects?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: Probably me.

Zita of Mercere: "I assume Bialas, given his length of experience."

Proclus of Rome: We could go grab Sir Oak and push him down the catacombs.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "The last time we ran into mentem effects, the best they could muster was to call me old and fat."

"As if we all can't see that."

Zita of Mercere: "Tell us if anything hits against your parma and take the front, to keep myself and our grogs safe from dangerous mentem magic."

"Ah right. The last time we. Yes. Moving on."

GM: back

Is everyone continuing on then?

Faustus Galerius: "Old and fat people often don't see it in the mirror, after sufficient drink."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah. I'll take the lead.

Beatrice Orsini : I have ok mentem MR though it could use improvement.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have the aristocritus number for my mentem mr

Bialas of Bjornaer: Good luck beating my  40 Mentem MR

Bolad: ok  casts PeTe on you

GM: Alright. You continue on through the scary catacombs.

Beatrice Orsini : i'm doign ebtter than you, since you have 40 mentem MR at 80 year old while i have 21 at 31

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice.

I have 41 Terram MR.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): AFK

Bialas of Bjornaer: Good luck.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brb.

GM: The presence of bats gradually grows thicker.

Proclus of Rome: Are they continuing to just look at us?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Wow, this is a lot of bats!"

GM: Yes, though their shrieks seem angrier, somehow.

Faustus Galerius: "Accursed flying vermin."

GM: At one point, the path leads you to a collapsed wall that once divided two parts of the catacombs.

Roll awareness.

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+5

(

2

)

+5

=

7

Faustus Galerius: "I finally had the chance to rest without wizards making me do chores and you've ruined it all."

Zita of Mercere: "This reminds me, I need to thank Lavinia again for her statue. Imagine if we had rats as well as bats."

GM: Just Bialas?

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Zita of Mercere: oh, awareness, right

Beatrice Orsini : he's too fat and he's blocking the view

Zita of Mercere: hearing based or sight based

Proclus of Rome: There!

Faustus Galerius:

rolling d10+2

(

6

)

+2

=

8

GM: sight

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

Proclus of Rome: Are you proud of how low my stats are?

Sheesh!

GM: yes

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+1+6+5

(

3

)

+1+6+5

=

15

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It would seem unfair to force you into chores. You have a mind, and magical ability. We have living mundanes to force into chores."

Faustus Galerius: Forgot my +1 Perception but that doesn't raise the roll an EF multiple

Zita of Mercere: "If they had him teaching people, that seems like a good use of his abilities."

GM passes a note to a player.

Zita of Mercere: "A skull can't do much besides talk."

Faustus Galerius: "As I heard it, the Order of Hermes exists primarily to coerce magical beings."

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, this was dug out."

Proclus of Rome: He's right.

Zita of Mercere: I point at the passage we're heading down

GM: You all notice that there's a small pool of water formed on the floor in front of this passage.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

GM: On closer inspection, there seems to be a side tunnel going to parts unknown. A tiny stream of water flows from it.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

How does the water look?

GM: It looks very clear.

Proclus of Rome: Unusual, potentially.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Someone drink it.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Back

im back from scrubbing potatoes (anachronism)

Zita of Mercere: More like a euphemism

Bolad: let us go into the side tunnel

Zita of Mercere: Hopefully it's the sea, and we all drown

Bialas of Bjornaer: Gulielmus, bottle up some of this water.

You might get something out of it, or it might be normal water.

Proclus of Rome: Don't bark orders at Gulielmus.

Beatrice Orsini : "We might be under the Tiber."

Proclus of Rome: He's your peer, not your servant.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm suggesting things to him.

He doesn't need to listen!

GM: you should suggest them more forcefully, with creo mentem effects

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If we're under the Tiber then it's definitely not safe to drink."

Faustus Galerius: Gulielmus can pass the order on to VIolante

Bialas of Bjornaer: hah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should challenge gulielmus to certamen, to force him to bottle the water

Zita of Mercere: It's the moral thing to do

GM: A passing knowledge of the river Tiber tells you that it could never produce water this clear.

Faustus Galerius: Who exists to collect and catalog things with the potential to serve as reagents

Beatrice Orsini : "Source of clear water under Rome? We could become rich."

GM: Oh, this area holds no aura at all for those keeping track.

Faustus Galerius: Water that doesn't need to be distilled is definitely valuable.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea passes one of the jars to Bialas.

Bolad: its king arthur's vis lake

Faustus Galerius: "I feel a sudden hunger. There's no magic here, is there?"

Bolad: let us follow the stream as far as we can

Bialas of Bjornaer: My god...

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This is the only container I have."

Zita of Mercere: Let's keep following the stream

Bolad: its king arthur's vis lake

We found i

it

Beatrice Orsini : Finally.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I would say the only  clean  container, but, you know."

Zita of Mercere: The lake with 20 vim vis per year that every covenant is owed by right

Bialas of Bjornaer: I don't have any hands, Guillaume.

Bialas of Bjornaer shows paws

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Proclus of Rome: Just turn into a human!

Sheesh!

Bialas of Bjornaer: No!

Proclus of Rome: The conceit on this guy!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fuckin bjornaers

Bialas of Bjornaer: And lose my soak bonus?

Beatrice Orsini : he's a bjornaer, it's against his beliefs

GM: I'll save you advanced investigation on the water. It's mundane in nature, though perfectly pure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're rich.

Beatrice Orsini : He can't have a familiar, so he has to content himself with being an animal.

Proclus of Rome: What the hell?

That isn't mundane at all!

Faustus Galerius: Water of Virtue isn't mundane

Beatrice Orsini : Don't let the bear pee into the pure water.

GM: oh hm maybe

uhh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who can stop him

GM: does magically purifying water cause the water to become magic

Faustus Galerius: It cancels it out, probably

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it would probably bear some trace of magic that we can't detect

Faustus Galerius: It's the majesty of nature that causes water of virtue to occur

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't think it would bounce off the parma or anything

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea slams hands on desk

GM: Okay. To all immediate investigation, then, this is pure water.

Faustus Galerius: You'd need a breakthrough to distill Water of Virtue

Beatrice Orsini : Gui can smear his paste on the water to detect if it's magical.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: When bialas is in statue form does he pee lava

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

GM: Sorry.

Faustus Galerius: Distill it with Hermetic Magic, anyway

Bialas of Bjornaer: I've always turned back into a bear first, just to be safe.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You sure?"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, so we'd better be ready if we're gonna follow the water.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I only have three doses left."

Faustus Galerius: The talking skull might know something about pure water, but I'll have to read up to be sure.

Zita of Mercere: We are ready. Bialas and his parma are at the front, for now

Faustus Galerius: Shieldbear

Beatrice Orsini : I can't fly and I don't have lungs of the fish, so I'm not ready.

Faustus Galerius: I'm not sure if Magical Things need air

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so we're at a fork in the tunnel right

Faustus Galerius: They don't need food or water I know

GM: Yes Gulielmus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or is the water coming out of a very small side passage

Zita of Mercere: We're following the stream I thought

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah.

GM: There's a circular tunnel carved between two parts of the catacombs.

And in the giant breach in between is a side tunnel with pure water flowing down it.

Faustus Galerius: Water pressure is still pretty harmful, if water pressure exists in Ars.

GM: It's just a small stream though.

Not even as wide as your foot at the entrance.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets trace this bad boy to the source

GM: Everyone going down the tunnel then?

Zita of Mercere: We must locate the water

Beatrice Orsini : I'll go, but very carefully.

Bolad: i go very recklessly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [Water Lore 0]

I'll go but very naively.

Proclus of Rome: It'd be Philosophae.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This is roleplaying. Award me a confidence point

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll curl up in a ball and roll down the tunnel.

Proclus of Rome: I think if it's magical water then there's not much of a chance that it'll be enough to drown us.

GM: Alright. You continue on down the strange tunnel. After a certain point, you suddenly realize the bats have gone silent and are no longer following you.

Faustus Galerius: Pure water would definitely give a Rusticani apothecary a Material Bonus, at any rate

Proclus of Rome: Interesting.

Bialas of Bjornaer stands up and spreads his arms to block the path

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Something touched my Parma."

Faustus Galerius: It'd be up to the storyguide what that bonus is, though.

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does water have any bonuses by default

Proclus of Rome: Ok who can kill mind controlled bialas?

Faustus Galerius: I can look it up

Zita of Mercere: "Oh dear."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if it does it might just be that +1, since philosophiae can purify materials to increase their bonus

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'm fine, but going any farther may be dangerous."

GM: It's probably just +1 since it's pure water.

Maybe +2 since it's truly pure through the power of magic.

Proclus of Rome: AFK a minute.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'll be right back."

I'll go farther down the tunnel, ahead of everyone.

Zita of Mercere: "I hope it was just a one-time thing, I hate mentem effects."

Faustus Galerius: Human skull: destroy or control ghost of particular skull +10

Well I know how I was made at any rate

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Zita of Mercere: Good news, Aristocritus!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristocritus has set the world record for fastest run through purgatory, and is now in heaven

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): I do.

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): nothing else is pinging my parma?

Faustus Galerius: I think pure water isn't particularly magical since you can get it by boiling it

Bolad: w gm okay i roll for the surprise attack on gulielmus now?

oops

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah!

Faustus Galerius: And cavemen made distilleries out of clay.

Zita of Mercere: Fausus Gulielmus

"Should we have a grog test it?"

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): ok. give me one second to check something. also, that's interesting.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): nevermind, art of memory doesnt really apply. I'll head back.

Proclus of Rome: We could try that.

It's a little cruel.

Faustus Galerius: A pure spring might have Aquam vis in the form of smooth pebbles near it or something like that though.

Bialas of Bjornaer emerges from the dark tunnel.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Someone left a beautiful sunlit grove and clear lake in these tunnels."

Faustus Galerius: "Sunlight? Gross."

Proclus of Rome: It's plausible.

Beatrice Orsini : "Amazing. Let me go and take a look."

Zita of Mercere: "Be sure to say if you feel anything on your parma."

Faustus Galerius: If Aristocritus also has a Skull of Virtue, Galerius would know how to enrich it.

GM: No magi feel anything on their parma as they continue.

Zita of Mercere: I start positioning myself behind the grogs so they can get turned to dust first and warn me

Bialas of Bjornaer: "The earth and stone give way, and the tunnel becomes as wood. If you keep going beyond where the stream dries up, you emerge into sunlight, and a lovely copse."

Zita of Mercere: A lovely corpse

Bialas', when he died and this fairy replaced him

Beatrice Orsini : I'm going.

Zita of Mercere: When I'm told that none ofthe magi feel a bump on their parma, I follow along too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I don't see any reason to distrust him.

Beatrice Orsini : Being replaced by a fairy? Hell yeah, most Merinita have to spend a lifetime achieving that.

Hypatia of Athens and Aurelia follow

Proclus of Rome: "That's probably an enchantment. There are no beautiful sunlit groves in Rome."

Beatrice Orsini : "Maybe the pagans left it here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ascetic mood...

GM: the ck1 music is pretty goo

d

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this one is just by dhafer youssef i think

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Well, who should we send in next?

Faustus Galerius: "Maybe its a mirage."

Proclus of Rome: I'll go.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's not ck1

Proclus of Rome: I'll head down the corridor.

GM: ck whatever

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Same.

GM: it says crusader kings soundtrack

Bialas of Bjornaer: Same.

Faustus Galerius: "The wily Saracen is wont to have their jinn conjure them, I heard."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean, this is just contemporary arab music that wound up in the crusader kings playlist

GM: ah

Proclus of Rome: How far do I get down the corridor?

GM: Gulielmus and Proclus, you find that the stream does not so much dry up, as Bialas said.

Instead, just as it becomes as wide as your foot, it abruptly ends.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

GM: And the tunnel you're in is now made of wood.

Zita of Mercere: I'm going along too, to find this wonderful place he described

Proclus of Rome: That's unusual.

GM: Assuming Proclus is constantly checking the aura, it is now Faerie 1.

Beatrice Orsini : I said I'm going even before Proclus.

GM: oops i missed you

Beatrice Orsini : but it's ok, i'll go with him

GM: You'll notice the same things then, except the aura if you are not constantly holding your finger in the air like Proclus.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Interesting place down here."

Faustus Galerius: "If I had a stomach, I'd feel sick."

Beatrice Orsini : I'm a Merinita. Magic and Faerie are the same to me.

"This place is amazing."

Proclus of Rome: Well, let's head back.

Nothing interesting here.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You haven't even seen the lake!"

Faustus Galerius: Unless you can initiate a skull into Faerie Magic, I cannot share Beatrice's comfort.

Zita of Mercere: "We haven't even seen the lake, yes."

Beatrice Orsini : It's probably possible, but I don't have the cult lore for that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Twenty pawns...

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

If we can't see it but Bialas can, then maybe he's become senile.

Bialas of Bjornaer: That's a possibility.

GM: Oh no you can see it.

Zita of Mercere: Twenty pawns of vis in a lake huh? Meh. Let's go home. Actually I'm used to the bats and they don't even bother me either.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have to go down the tunnel!

GM: I just thought you stopped and turned back.

You have to travel a little further.

Beatrice Orsini : "Proclus, what is the aura here?"

Proclus of Rome: "Faerie 1"

Faustus Galerius: "Rattles me bones, it does."

Beatrice Orsini : "We could claim this place as part of the covenant, right?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Isn't this a strange place for a faerie aura?"

GM: Assuming you keep going, you'll emerge into a forest clearing, clear skies above and a sparkling, clear lake before you.

Proclus of Rome: "Not necessarily, the catacombs are quite old."

GM: A small island with a wooden shack and a tree rests in the middle.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Strange. I didn't see that shack before."

GM: i forgot to mention it

sorry

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oh.

GM: assume i did

Proclus of Rome: "Naturally, most pagans worshiped faeries, as they were prone to error."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nevermind.

nice job gm!!!

i woulda gone into the shack alone!!!

lol

Proclus of Rome: What kind of shack?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What kind of tree?

Beatrice Orsini : How far is the island?

Zita of Mercere: I'll wander over to the lake to take a look at it

GM: It appears to be well built and made of wood.

Faustus Galerius floats over the water.

GM: As Zita approaches the lake shore, a woman suddenly emerges from the still waters of the lake.

Beatrice Orsini : Nice.

Proclus of Rome: Ah, a lady.

Of the lake.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "A Rusalka?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Seen any swords? Ha ha ha.

Faustus Galerius: What's her aesthetic quality?

Lady of the Lake: She's very pretty.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [audience shouting in unison] sixty nine!!

Faustus Galerius: "Hello beautiful."

Beatrice Orsini : I'm going to the lady.

Lady of the Lake: She seems to glide across the water as she approaches Zita, something sparkling held in her hands.

Faustus Galerius gives a bow, his sack flapping gracefully.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll go to the shore as well, to protect my sodales.

Zita of Mercere: Oh my god. It really is a fairy lake with 20 pawns of vis.

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Zita of Mercere: Is she approaching hostily or just wandering over

Lady of the Lake: She's approaching at walking speed.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what the hell was up with vis costs in previous editions that all of these online summaries talk about how their covenants crunched through 700 pawns in a year

Beatrice Orsini : Now I have to go along with Archibald's proposal to allow sanctuaries outside a covenant.

I want a second lab here.

Bialas of Bjornaer: What's she holding?

A sword?

Beatrice Orsini : It's easy to go through 700 pawns a year with enough wizards and lab toral.

Lady of the Lake: As she gets closer, you can see that what's in her hands is a long blade, resting on her palms.

Proclus of Rome: Archibald is a real asshole.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Wow, this really is king arthur's lake of vis.

Proclus of Rome: I'll intercept her.

Zita of Mercere: You know what they say. If all your sodales are assholes,

Proclus of Rome: "Greetings, fair maiden, I am Proclus of Rome."

Lady of the Lake: She's walking on the water, Proclus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. who's betraying the covenant to marry this faerie queen

Beatrice Orsini : "I am."

I mean, I am.

Lady of the Lake: She seems fixated on Zita as she continues approaching.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll molest any fae

Zita of Mercere: Damnit, I knew getting married was a mistake

Bialas of Bjornaer: All the magical beings are in love with Zita.

smh.

Proclus of Rome: Right but if she's walking towards Zita then I can be in between her and Zita.

It's simple geometry.

Lady of the Lake: You could, yes.

Zita of Mercere: "Proclus, don't stand in front like that, it's rude."

Beatrice Orsini : Get to the shore, Zita.

Lady of the Lake: Zita, do you attempt to get Proclus out of your way?

Beatrice Orsini : Drown Proclus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: finally, the payoff

Proclus of Rome: "It's for your own safety, as I can see that she is armed."

Zita of Mercere: I want to see what she's doing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lmao

Faustus Galerius shakes off the sack to show off his virtuous bone structure. "Faustus Galerius Super, madam, though you may call me whatever you like."

Proclus of Rome: Just, sort of, look around me.

Zita of Mercere: "So am I, Proclus, and she's not carrying it like she's going to swing it."

Lady of the Lake: She arrives at the shore and kneels down, holding a beautiful sword out.

Proclus of Rome: "Well, you never know."

Faustus Galerius: Oh my

Zita of Mercere: "See."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Nice sword."

Proclus of Rome: "Who are you?"

Beatrice Orsini : Is Zita the king of Britain now?

Someone should tell Archibald.

Bolad: this is no way to appoint a ruler

Zita of Mercere: "Isn't every single sword this covenant has found cursed in some way?"

Lady of the Lake: "I am the guardian of this lake. Take the sword, and know your destiny."

Zita of Mercere: Oh.

Bolad: is it no wonder the west falls so easily when it entrusts their fates to watery tarts lobbing scimitars from lakes

Beatrice Orsini : "If you won't take it, I will."

Zita of Mercere: Oh I can't say no, my flaw means

No I literally have no choice here

I take it

Proclus of Rome: "What does a sword have to do with that?"

Lady of the Lake: Alright.

Proclus of Rome: "Uh oh."

Lady of the Lake: Zita takes the blade, and everyone can see that it suddenly turns into a vaguely sword shaped lump of ice.

Lady of the Lake passes a note to a player.

Bialas of Bjornaer: zita is suddenly overcome by a compulsion to murder Aristide

Zita of Mercere: Suddenly?

Beatrice Orsini : "Suddenly"

Bialas of Bjornaer: haha

Faustus Galerius:

rolling 0 Faerie Lore

0

=

0

Bialas of Bjornaer: Be right back.

Faustus Galerius: I have no idea what's happening

Proclus of Rome: "Who is the lord of this land?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea whispers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is this normal?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, absolutely."

Beatrice Orsini : "Yes. Trust me, I¨m a Merinita."

Faustus Galerius: If it's a Magic sword I know something about that, but as allegory I have no clue.

Zita of Mercere: "Alright then. Subjects, we're leaving this place."

Proclus of Rome: It's an allegory for the false promise of the heathen gods.

Zita of Mercere: I hold the sword nobly

Beatrice Orsini : "I'm going to look around a bit more."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: So inspiring!

Proclus of Rome: "Why?"

Lady of the Lake: Zita clumsily holds a giant club made of ice.

Zita of Mercere: "The lady of the lake has already granted us this, so there's no reason to continue here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What about that tree?"

Lady of the Lake: The Lady of the Lake bows.

Zita of Mercere: "Let us not disturb this kind benefactor."

Beatrice Orsini : "I don't care about what you got."

Faustus Galerius: "Hey lady, know anything about these bats?"

Lady of the Lake: "Let me know if there is anything more I can do for you or your knights."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lady of the Lake: "Bats?"

She looks at you curiously.

Proclus of Rome: "Knights?"

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, Sir Proclus."

Proclus of Rome: "My lady, we are not knights."

"I am a philosopher."

Lady of the Lake: "Your humility is profound, Sir Proclus. You will surely be King Zita's greatest ally."

Faustus Galerius: "I'm, er, a knight yes. Sir Skullguy."

Zita of Mercere: "You jest as always. Sir Gulielmus, perhaps you can explain to the lady better."

Proclus of Rome: The crowd goes WILD as they hear Proclus' catchphrase.

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Proclus of Rome: "Zita can't be a king, she is a woman."

Beatrice Orsini : how far away is the island from the shore of the lake?

Faustus Galerius: "I have a really cool helmet, back home."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sweats as only someone with N/A Faerie Lore can.

Lady of the Lake: It's about 20 feet in, Beatrice.

Zita of Mercere: Does this mean I'm Arturia Pendragon now.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll Wizard's Leap there.

No chance of botch.

Lady of the Lake: Alright.

Faustus Galerius: I'll float towards Beatrice as she lands.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We're, ah, the Knights of Hermes. That's us."

Proclus of Rome: If it does then my oath of fealty to Liesmith means I need to murder you.

Lady of the Lake: You arrive on the island. In front of you is a shack, with a great tree growing over it.

You note that the shack... has a sanctum marker.

Proclus of Rome: For grave historical inaccuracy.

Oh well.

Beatrice Orsini : Luckily, I know that Archibald has proven sanctuaries outside covenants are illegal.

Zita of Mercere: "Come now, Sir Proclus. There's no reason why not."

Beatrice Orsini : But just in case, is this marker of anyone in Vardian's Tomb?

Lady of the Lake: No.

hmm

Beatrice Orsini : hmm

Lady of the Lake: how exactly do sanctum markers look

Bialas of Bjornaer: Ok, back.

Lady of the Lake: im not sure if you could identify it

Bialas of Bjornaer: A sanctum marker!!??

Lady of the Lake: or identify general characteristics

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nani?

Proclus of Rome: "I'm afraid there is, your gender handicap would prevent you from carrying out your duties."

Beatrice Orsini : I'd know if it was a marker of someone in the tomb.

Other than that, 0 Order of Hermes Lore.

Proclus of Rome: A current member, maybe.

Lady of the Lake: ah

then yeah, you dont recognize it

Proclus of Rome: I'd cross, but, as you know, I can't swim.

Beatrice Orsini : If they're not a member now, the sanctuary is illegal.

Zita of Mercere: "Something like that can't stand in the path of destiny. Besides." I flip the amulet back and forth "Problems like this are easily rectified by my loyal knights."

Lady of the Lake: "Sir Proclus, please. King Zita has a great destiny ahead of her."

Beatrice Orsini : It's probably illegal even if they are.

Fabius floated over to the island, right?

Proclus of Rome: "How can you accept this foolishness, Zita?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Skull, do you recognize this sanctuary marker?"

Faustus Galerius: I doubt it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "She's a hero, isn't she?"

Beatrice Orsini : "I mean Faustus. Sorry."

Proclus of Rome: "I believed you to be more cunning than that."

Lady of the Lake: I'd say it's not even a Code of Hermes roll after the last tribunal to know that this sanctum would not be legally protected.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Proclus of Rome: "That is up for some debate."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "She is likely under the effect of a spell."

Lady of the Lake: Faustus does not recognize it.

Faustus Galerius: I have 0 Order of Hermes lore, I was created by a hedge necromancer and mostly interacted with Ex Misc

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fabius had his name written on his

Proclus of Rome: Ex Miscellenae is a real house!

Beatrice Orsini : I'll take a chance and enter the shack.

Zita of Mercere: "It is objective fact, Sir Proclus, that once heroes walked the earth, and those bloodlines remain. Destiny has found me here, and the lady of the lake has bequeathed me the sword as proof."

Proclus of Rome: "It's just ice."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, it is very nice."

Lady of the Lake: Alright. An effect pings off your parma. A voice shouts, "Mind your manners, Venator!"

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Lady of the Lake: But the voice seems to be coming from nowhere.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Hah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: A sanctum must be clearly marked with a design of square, circle, and diagonal lines, and with the name of the magus who claims it.

Faustus Galerius: If I recognized the marker it'd mean they're either Ex Misc, or a hedge wizard not actually under the Order's protection.

Beatrice Orsini : "Venator's parens is dead, right Faustus?"

Zita of Mercere: Venator's past as a punk delinquent, ftw

Faustus Galerius: "Probably."

Lady of the Lake: It's a female voice.

Beatrice Orsini : "Is Melvin a female name?"

Faustus Galerius: "I mean, dead is a vague term, as you can see."

Proclus of Rome: "I recommend we create some kind of spell to handle swords without touching them, as they seem to cause us no end of trouble."

Lady of the Lake: This marker has no name upon it.

Very strange.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea is too busy trying to see what's going on on the island to get involved much in Zita's delusion.

Beatrice Orsini : The Lady of the Lake is a female fairy in Rome which means that for all I know, it might be my mom.

Faustus Galerius: "I certainly HOPE Melvin is dead, if that helps."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to walk towards the island.

and see if I sink.

Proclus of Rome: You could always ask.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll start looking around the inside of the shack.

Proclus of Rome: AFK another minute.

Zita of Mercere: "Given the last one summoned vikings, yes, that may be a good suggestion. You are wise as always, Sir Proclus."

Lady of the Lake: It's a bit sparse, Beatrice, but it has the workings of a minor laboratory.

Beatrice Orsini : Nice.

Zita of Mercere: "Sir Bialas, know you of any spells that might do this?"

Beatrice Orsini : I'm calling dibs on it, if it's abandoned and free to claim.

I could use a faerie aura lab.

Zita of Mercere: I address the bear, who is completely ordinary, and also a knight

Lady of the Lake: A fine book titled REAL KING ARTHUR THE OFFICIAL, in latin, rests on a podium.

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Lady of the Lake: Note that it reads that, verbatim.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll take it.

Faustus Galerius: "You seem more comfortable here than your sodales, Lady Beatrice."

Lady of the Lake: Alright. Do you look through it?

Faustus Galerius: "Your magical ones, at any rate."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I stop wading into the water and address Zita.

Beatrice Orsini : Yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: @RealKingArtherOfficial ✔

Beatrice Orsini : At worst, I suspect I'll fall under the same spell as Zita.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Let me examine that sword, to, uh, see if I remember any."

Lady of the Lake: The text is barely comprehensible. It appears to be an incredibly poorly translated copy of the King Arthur legends.

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is there anything i can float on

Beatrice Orsini : I'll go out and shout over the lake.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: actually, how deep is the water

Lady of the Lake: The water is about 8 feet deep at its lowest point.

Zita of Mercere: "Of course, Sir Bialas. But be careful - this sword may be powerful, but your stone paws might scratch it."

Beatrice Orsini : Actually, I'll look through the book first.

Zita of Mercere: I hand my knight the sword

Beatrice Orsini : Until I stumble upon the sword in the lake bit.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Thank you."

Lady of the Lake: Alright.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

Beatrice Orsini : I need to get IC knowledge first

Lady of the Lake: Bialas, an effect pings on your parma.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I throw the ice sword back into the lake.

Lady of the Lake: It floats on the lake surface.

Zita of Mercere: "Where did you get that block of ice?"

Beatrice Orsini : Damn you, ice floating on the water.

Zita of Mercere: "Anyway, we find anything useful here yet?"

Beatrice Orsini : Do I find anything about ice swords in the book?

Lady of the Lake: No.

The Lady of the Lake does not seem to notice, or at least doesn't care, about your treatment of the sword.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Zita, you don't feel particularly kingly right now, do you?"

Beatrice Orsini : The Lady of the Lake knows the story is bullshit, but can't act against it.

Zita of Mercere: "Why would I?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Great."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Excuse me!"

Zita of Mercere: "Besides, who heard of a female king?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus tries to get the faerie's attention.

Lady of the Lake: "Yes, Sir Gulielmus?"

Beatrice Orsini : I think I've browsed through the book enough to get an idea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is there any way you can help me get across the lake?"

Beatrice Orsini : At least I found a bit about sword in a lake.

Lady of the Lake: "I would be happy to escort you."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You're liable to get yourself drowned."

Lady of the Lake: Yeah Beatrice, if you really work at it you can figure it out.

Beatrice Orsini : "There's a badly translated book here that might have something to do with what's going on!"

I shout over the lake.

Lady of the Lake: Roll Artes Liberales, as well.

The Lady carries Gulielmus to his destination.

Faustus Galerius: I can help Beatrice with AL if mine is better.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+1+4 int+AL

(

7

)

+1+4

=

12

probably is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "By all means."

Beatrice Orsini : i don't actually need it for what i do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like, bodily carried

Beatrice Orsini : I can turn pages for Faustus to let him help.

Lady of the Lake: Go ahead Sir Skullguy.

Faustus Galerius:

rolling d10+3+7 Artes Liberales

(

10

)

+3+7

=

20

Lady of the Lake: Int + AL

nice

This book can't have been a simple bad translation. Whoever did this was intentionally trying to create a mess.

Zita of Mercere: I tap my boots and teleport across the lake to the island, to keep my clothes dry.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll try to cast Bialas Takes Flight Again.

Lady of the Lake: Especially confusing, as the binding and covers are all top notch work. The creator was a master of their craft.

Beatrice Orsini : Damn my low Faerie Lore preventing me from knowing what's going on IC.

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+29+1 shouting

(

7

)

+29+1

=

37

Score.

Beatrice Orsini : actualyl let me look it up if i can make the roll

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, if i'm on the island i'm gonna investigate this tree.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I fly over to the island.

Beatrice Orsini : "Oh, Bialas, Gulielmus."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hello."

Beatrice Orsini : "Since the sanctuary here is illegal and the owner is most likely dead, I'm claiming the lab here."

Lady of the Lake: Its formation seems unnatural.

Faustus Galerius: "Greetings, fellow knights."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "By all means."

Beatrice Orsini : "I doubt anyone else could use a lab in Faerie Aura."

Lady of the Lake: Some of the leaves are pointing to the sky instead of the ground.

Faustus Galerius: Jorn could

Lady of the Lake: And it twists to provide shade for the island.

Beatrice Orsini : too bad he's not here

Zita of Mercere: "Sounds good to me."

Faustus Galerius: Maybe this is Jorn's secret lab

Beatrice Orsini : Jorn can get a viking.

Faustus Galerius: Don't tell his other faerie wife

Beatrice Orsini : I doubt it, but I'll keep the possibility in mind.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Beatrice! What's going on here?"

"I don't understand faeries at all."

Zita of Mercere: Binding the viking chieftain as a familiar sounds like the perfect conclusion to that adventure

Beatrice Orsini : I'll have to invent the spell for that first.

Bialas of Bjornaer: brb again.

Zita of Mercere: We walk in, blow up the mill, then make the viking our friend

Beatrice Orsini : But I have to do it for myself anyway.

It doesn't make the faerie your friend.

Faustus Galerius: Jorn will take the viking chieftain as a familiar if the troupe agrees it isn't suicide

Beatrice Orsini : It makes the faerie serve you.

It isn't a suicide..

If you bargain with the chieftain, he might even do it willingly.

And part on non-murderous terms once it's over.

Faustus Galerius: Maybe.

They're pseudovikings so Jorn's actual Norse heritage may not count for much, but he'll try

Beatrice Orsini : Serve me until X and I'll return your sword once it's done would probably work as a bargain.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's easy. all you have to do is offer the chieftain ten Christian souls per year

Bialas of Bjornaer: Alrighty.

That's no problem.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm gonna cast Probe Nature's Hidden Lore on the tree. it's formulaic and level 4 so it's not worth rolling

Zita of Mercere: Can we offer Proclus?

I mean, just hypothetically

Lady of the Lake: What's it do?

Beatrice Orsini : The thing about figuring out that faeries change along with stories is EF 6 in RAW which I could make, but it works only after you start changing their glamour.

So I don't know what exactly is going on here, but I'll be able to figure it out after some study.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Tells you what kind of plant you are touching. You also get an image of it in its nat

ural habitat.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice.

Faustus Galerius: Jorn will offer the viking the opportunity to serve Odin, who is named Mercury in these lands.

Beatrice Orsini : Is there anything else in the lab?

Lady of the Lake: It's an apple tree, though it looks nothing like an apple tree should.

Faustus Galerius: A ghost viking isn't going to have Int or Magic Theory, that might be problematic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: shoulda brought a treespeech potion

Zita of Mercere: He has higher int than an animal would

Beatrice Orsini : There's more to Faerie Familiars than that.

Faustus Galerius: It's a green bush on top of a brown cylinder with colored dots on it

Zita of Mercere: Well

Maybe not

I shouldn't make the assumption a swede has more intellect than an animal

Beatrice Orsini : You could save the viking's Pretense points and then alter his glamour.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Animals have cunning instead of int.

Beatrice Orsini : To make his story into story of a viking captured to be a wizard's lab assistant.

Bialas of Bjornaer: If Swedes have Cunning, that would do wonders for my theory of humans as a form of animal.

Zita of Mercere: When you make an animal a familiar it gains an INT score, of -3

Beatrice Orsini : And then he could get Magic Theory from working in your lab.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: perhaps one day gulielmus will figure out who venzi is and what the deal with faeries is

Beatrice Orsini : The Ease Factors for that are manageable even with Abilties as Arts.

Faustus Galerius: If he has Cognizance he could learn magic theory

Beatrice Orsini : Especially since you could stone mason from that.

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back, sorry about that.

Beatrice Orsini : You can give him cognizance.

Zita of Mercere: "Perhaps we should save the lake for another day, sodales. If Beatrice is setting up a lab here, it's something we can investigate at our leisure."

Beatrice Orsini : It's only 15 EF to give him a minor virtue once he has XP for it.

"I won't keep anything important here."

Zita of Mercere: "We do still need to find where those bats are coming form."

* from

Beatrice Orsini : "I can't have a sanctum here anyway."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Faustus Galerius: Post the full faerie familiar plan in the thread since it seems like everyone's mostly on board

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Anyone have anything sharp?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "We should probably also take care of the fae being in the lake."

Beatrice Orsini : Yeah, I'll do that.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I have large claws that are pretty sharp.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, that's true. Can't have a sanctum outside the covenant."

I make a mental note of this

Proclus of Rome: "Why should we?"

Zita of Mercere: No laws apply when its outside the covenant

Proclus of Rome: "All she seems to be interested in doing is handing fake swords to people."

Beatrice Orsini : There's a bit about familiar cords for faeries that's not made clear in the rulebooks themselves which I'd want to investigate.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

can you take a cutting from this fucked up apple tree

Lady of the Lake: you could

Bialas of Bjornaer: "She handed a fake sword to Zita that made her think she was the King of England.

"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bialas, i mean

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Seems reckless to leave that sort of thing lying around"

Beatrice Orsini : "There was a book about it in the abandoned lab."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah, sure. I'll swipe at it with my claws.

Beatrice Orsini : "I'll take care of the place. It's my specialty."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's give the sword to archibald when his parma is down

Zita of Mercere: "It, what?"

Beatrice Orsini : "I'm sure Jorn will be interested too."

Zita of Mercere: "Hang on, Bialas, what are you saying she did?"

Proclus of Rome: "I don't see why, England is quite far away."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "That ice in the lake. You thought it was a sword, and furthermore than we were all your loyal knights."

Beatrice Orsini : "There was a story about England's king in the shack."

Proclus of Rome: "Hmm, do you have Piercing the Faerie Veil, Beatrice?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: that

Beatrice Orsini : "Next year."

Zita of Mercere: "I did? I hope I didn't say anything too stupid then."

Proclus of Rome: "Hmm."

Faustus Galerius: "Not at all, my liege."

Beatrice Orsini : "I'm planning on going to Irencilla for some study."

Zita of Mercere: "Sorry, I know we've had all sorts of trouble from swords lately but I couldn't resist."

Proclus of Rome: "It's possible that we could close the entrance to the regio and open a new one connected to your lab."

Beatrice Orsini : "I won't keep the results of my research from you, Proclus, if you promise to not interfere with it."

Zita of Mercere: "Which regio?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gonna propagate the fucked up apple tree using my incredible apothecary skill

Bialas of Bjornaer: I wasn't destroyed or hit by magic trying to cut the tree?

Nice.

Proclus of Rome: "Frankly, what I've seen here is more vain than dangerous."

Lady of the Lake: sorry. imissed what you said. god kills you, bialas

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It's about time.

Bialas of Bjornaer: rip

Faustus Galerius: Let's harvest the faerie vis in the apples.

Lady of the Lake: No, nothing stops you from making a cutting of the tree.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't think there are any apples

Beatrice Orsini : "Proclus, what is the Faerie Aura around the lake itself?"

Lady of the Lake: Note: The tree has no apples.

Proclus of Rome: "A fantasy to stroke the ego, nothing more."

"Well, as this is likely a faerie regio, then a faerie aura is to be expected."

Lady of the Lake: Proclus, the aura amidst the lake is 3.

Zita of Mercere: "A practical joke, by fairy standards that's outright benevolent."

Beatrice Orsini : "If Archibald's proposal to allow sanctums outside covenants goes through, I could move my lab here to save room in the Tomb itself."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brb

Beatrice Orsini : Faerie 3 is the same as Magic 3 to me.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): AFK

Proclus of Rome: Did you read the book?"

Beatrice Orsini : "It's long, so I just skimmed it."

Proclus of Rome: I shake my head disapprovingly.

Beatrice Orsini : "Our new skull friend says it was purposefully altered. It's not a bad translation."

Faustus Galerius: "It seems a bad translation. Intentionally sloppy."

Proclus of Rome: "With all due respect to a skull that has been in a tomb for 'about a century' I think that he is perhaps not the authority on popular literature."

Faustus Galerius: "Bad as in malefic, in this instance."

Beatrice Orsini : "It's not about quality of the story. It's about changing the story for some purpose."

"Can you keep a secret, Proclus?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes."

Zita of Mercere: Restore the story, make it a real lady of the lake, get a higher aura and 20 pawns of vim vis a year

Faustus Galerius: "I defer to the lovely Beatrice then."

Bialas of Bjornaer: [Lie] "Yes"

Proclus of Rome: I rarely lie.

Beatrice Orsini : "I don't know much about it, but there's rumors in House Merinita about one subsection of the House knowing how to work magic through stories."

"I never had much to do with them."

"Just telling about it to outsiders is not proper etiquette, but I don't have any actual secrets to reveal."

Zita of Mercere: "Ooh."

Faustus Galerius: "Sounds awful." He then realizes Beatrice is a Merinita. "I mean, fascinating."

Beatrice Orsini : "You don't have to lie. My interests lie in another sections of Merinita's teachings."

Proclus of Rome: "Sounds stupid, so I believe it. How would an Arthurian legend be altered to create some kind of fairy? It was only written in the 1200s.

"

Zita of Mercere: "Well, mystery cults do have their secrets."

"At least House Merinita seems mostly good. Mostly."

"There's worse cults out there."

Lady of the Lake:  clears throat  actually it was the 1130s

Proclus of Rome: "Good?"

"They're obsessed with lying to themselves."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "True, there are worse cults out there."

"...Hey!"

Beatrice Orsini : "There's a commonly known Merinita spell to make a faerie your servant. It's not good manners to cast it on unwilling subjects, though."

Proclus of Rome: "Totally unbecoming of any Hermetic magus."

Faustus Galerius: "Are these Merinita any good at controlling mundane bats?"

Beatrice Orsini : "There's no Criamon here, we're fine."

"Anyone with Animal spells could do that."

Zita of Mercere: "I wasn't impugning any of the four great mystery cults of the order, don't worry Bialas."

Beatrice Orsini : Merinita love familiars and Bjornaer can't have them. They're natural enemies.

Virgin Bjornaer can't even attract an animal. Chad Merinita has a faerie harem.

Proclus of Rome: "If I had known how easy it was to find sites of magical power in the catacombs I would have explored them earlier."

Faustus Galerius: "Commanding beasts does seem like it could be a common ability among magi. Not that I'd know."

Bialas of Bjornaer: We CAN in theory have them, but who wants to? It's disgusting.

Beatrice Orsini : I think the rulebook says it's not possible for Bjornaer.

Unless it was changed in Mystery Cults.

Proclus of Rome: Yeah, they can't take familiars.

Beatrice Orsini : There could be a Bjornaer mystery that would let them have familiars. I never read their section.

But they's be hated by other Bjornaer, I bet.

Zita of Mercere: "Well, if nothing else, we've found some interesting things down here."

Faustus Galerius: "Magical sites sometimes emerge from magical things. Tethers, I believe the texts call them."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I didn't read clearly and I thought the only reason they couldn't have them was because the rest of the house would immediately kill them.

Faustus Galerius: "I believe that is why I was originally dragged down here to begin with."

Proclus of Rome: "This is all well and good, but how do we get rid of all these bats?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Yes. Perhaps you and the lake here were both part of an experiment in generating Auras."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nope, I was wrong as usual.

Proclus of Rome: This whole place is open to the sky, right?

Zita of Mercere: "Seems to be working. Isn't Vardian's Tomb a small bubble of magic aura amidst dominion?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Which would mean there might be an Infernal Aura around as well."

Zita of Mercere: "... Right, Bialas can stay in front."

Lady of the Lake: Yes, Proclus.

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's some kind of soul scarring that no one in the house cares about because Birna never used a familiar.

Faustus Galerius: You can transport sunlight with ReIm

Proclus of Rome: "Potentially."

It's just a fake sun.

Beatrice Orsini : They look down on people with familiars because they think familiars are replacement heartbeasts.

Zita of Mercere: More houses should worship their founder, they'd be better off

House Merinita worships Quendalon instead

Beatrice Orsini : Merinita was better.

Zita of Mercere: She was

Bialas of Bjornaer: That's the suspicion, yeah, but also if you've ever had a familiar in your lifetime you're unable to complete the ritual of twelve years.

Zita of Mercere: Rest in peace her legacy

Faustus Galerius: Beatrice likes Merinita, Jorn likes Quendalon

Beatrice Orsini thinks "Maybe I should convert to the cult of Diana."

Proclus of Rome: We could try exploring the forest but I don't think that would be that productive.

Bialas of Bjornaer: and once you've completed it, you're unable to bind on.e

Neat.

Zita of Mercere: "I think it's safe to say, given the lack of bats here, that this isn't the source."

We need to turn off the bat faucet

Bialas of Bjornaer: The cult of Diana isn't all bad.

Lady of the Lake: I think exploring this regio would be interesting... in a future adventure!!

Bialas of Bjornaer: As far as I hear.

Zita of Mercere: shaun already made that joke but im making it again

Lady of the Lake: look forward to it!!

Faustus Galerius: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: greet

Beatrice Orsini : Ok

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Back

Faustus Galerius: I am ready to get out of this non-Magic aura

It makes me hungry.

Zita of Mercere: I teleport back to the shore

Beatrice Orsini : Let me first grab everything i can from the shack.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Faustus is suffering so much for us.

Lady of the Lake: Anyone have anything they want to do before leaving?

Bialas of Bjornaer: Gulielmus can ride on my back if he really wants. No one look.

Proclus of Rome: Not really, I'm not interested in Arthurian fan-fiction.

Beatrice Orsini : And I'll test if I can get back in here.

Lady of the Lake: Beatrice, you take the book, the pen, and the... fresh ink?

Beatrice Orsini : Nice.

Faustus Galerius: I am following the women, so I can take a little suffering

Beatrice Orsini : That looks interesting.

"Gui, you still have some of your paste left, correct?"

Lady of the Lake: You also collect some notes.

Beatrice Orsini : "Is this ink fresh because it's magical or because it's just fresh?"

Lady of the Lake: Though they're not immediately readable.

Beatrice Orsini : "This place might not be as abandoned as we thought and I'd rather make sure."

Proclus of Rome: I'd be careful, you don't want to ruin the ink by mixing it with salve.

Beatrice Orsini : you can separate some of the ink from the rest, i think

Bialas of Bjornaer: Let's slaughter the lady of the lake.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the ink in a bottle

Lady of the Lake: It is.

Proclus of Rome: We should leave her alive, since she isn't really doing anything.

Beatrice Orsini : Don't slaughter the fairy that might be my mom.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Okay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hmm. It might be easier to investigate back at the covenant."

Zita of Mercere: Let's not slaughter the lady of the lake

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Unless you don't mind pouring a little out."

Beatrice Orsini : Let's trick every single one of our grogs into becoming a king of England.

"We can do it at the covenant."

Zita of Mercere: "As for the lady of the lake, we should leave her in peace. By fairy standards she's harmless and molesting the fae is illegal."

Faustus Galerius: "How illegal?"

Beatrice Orsini : "We could get sued for deprivation of magical might if we spill it our. Might just as well steal it."

Faustus Galerius: "Ah, you mean bothering."

Proclus of Rome: "Only a little."

Beatrice Orsini : CrCo tongue for Faustus

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, bothering, not what you had in mind."

Faustus Galerius: I have Unseen Porter but a tongue would be better.

Beatrice Orsini : Unseen Tongue

Proclus of Rome: We should put a marker on the entrance to the regio so we don't lose it.

Faustus Galerius: Good idea

Beatrice Orsini : Yes

Zita of Mercere: I'll head back out with my sodales and take the other path at the fork this time

Bialas of Bjornaer: Sounds god.

good.

Proclus of Rome: Could work.

Beatrice Orsini : Does Poor Memory (Faces) apply to skulls as well?

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia rejoins her sodales, having mapped out some of the more discreet areas with Dominion.

Proclus of Rome: No, all skulls look the same to everyone.

Beatrice Orsini : I wouldn't expect Proclus to say something like that, since he's obsessed with measuring.

Faustus Galerius: A skull the size of a baby surrounded by green miasma is probably memorable enough

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is a VERY large skull.

Proclus of Rome: The iron science of phrenology hasn't been invented yet.

Beatrice Orsini : No, no. By baby skull I meant skull the size of a baby.

Lady of the Lake: Alright. As the wooden tunnel turns back to earth and stone, you see a congregation of bats upon the ceiling, suddenly startled and shrieking.

Bialas feels an effect ping on his parma again.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh right, the bats. We need to fix this, soon."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hey!"

Lady of the Lake: At the same point as last time.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Faustus Galerius: I'm a skull of virtue by Platonic standards, not Phrenological.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tfw when you're scried.

Zita of Mercere: Ohhh

Proclus of Rome: I'll cast Light Without Flame on my plum bob here.

Zita of Mercere: Its a ward against animals

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or, possibly, subject to a rego animal effect

Zita of Mercere: I see

Beatrice Orsini : Makes sense.

Wouldn't want a rat to become the king of England.

Proclus of Rome: Do they mind the extra light?

Beatrice Orsini : Not until the House of Hannover comes.

Bialas of Bjornaer: If it's a ward against animals, it wouldn't work on me anyway, as I'm currently only affected by Terram form spells.

Lady of the Lake: They seem to be less able to focus on you with the extra light.

But they continue their vigilance.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Maybe it's a ward against virgilian constructs.

Lady of the Lake: oh

Zita of Mercere: Now we have two torches

Lady of the Lake: i thought you still got affected by animal things

Proclus of Rome: It could be a mentem spell.

Beatrice Orsini : ReAn(AqAuIgTeCoMeVi) Wards Against Animals and also Fuck off Bjornaer

Lady of the Lake: hm. bialas suddenly forgets any effects pinging his parma

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's a pain to keep track of but I'm affected by Animal form when I'm a regular bear and Terram form when I'm in the anima heartbeast form.

Zita of Mercere: Ward against small rocks rolling in

Lady of the Lake: you figured it out anyway and its not like it changes anything

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah.

Faustus Galerius: Corpus and Vim would both work on me probably

I'm a ghost bound to a skull.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mentem

Beatrice Orsini : Me would work too

Faustus Galerius: Yeah

Lady of the Lake: Continuing on down path of bats, then?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ward against finding out where the bats came from

Faustus Galerius: Aye

Proclus of Rome: Let's do it.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bat Road

Zita of Mercere: I walk this lonely road, the only one the bats are on

Faustus Galerius: Immunity to Winning

Lady of the Lake: There's a definite hostility to their gazes at this point. A couple of them fly past your heads and shriek.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea checks to make sure he still has his precious jars, and hurries after his sodales once more.

Beatrice Orsini : Shriek of the Impeding Bats

Faustus Galerius: "Piss off."

Zita of Mercere: "Might need to start setting them on fire again soon."

Faustus Galerius bites at the bats

Beatrice Orsini : "Proclus, can you tell me what is the Aura here?"

Lady of the Lake: Their presence is also much denser now, and the floor shows it.

Proclus of Rome: I can.

Zita of Mercere: "Urgh."

Proclus of Rome: What's the aura?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Yech."

Lady of the Lake: The aura is... Infernal 1

Proclus of Rome: Yikes!

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ahhh"

Proclus of Rome: "Infernal 1"

Beatrice Orsini : "Looks like my suspicion was correct."

Proclus of Rome: "About as sinful as a sad drunk."

Beatrice Orsini : "If it's the same as before, we'll find something generating the Aura near here."

Faustus Galerius: "Infernal. That's, uh, bad."

"Yeah. Totally don't like it here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus of rome: Danger. Infernal 1, beep, whirr"

Lady of the Lake: You can see the glow of a fire coming from a side chamber up ahead.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It's a shame about the aura, otherwise it's quite nice in here."

Lady of the Lake: The path of bats seems to go into it.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lady of the Lake: There's also a constantly flying of bats back and forth from your position to the room.

Faustus Galerius: Is there an Infernal counterpart to Faerie Magic

Lady of the Lake: constant flying, even

yeah... Diedne Magic!

Faustus Galerius: :weebey:

Beatrice Orsini : Please,Diedne is Faerie.

Proclus of Rome: There is but I don't want to talk about it.

Lady of the Lake: alternative joke: Guernicus

Beatrice Orsini : A lot of Merinita fought on Diedne side in the schism war.

Lady of the Lake: Do the brave adventurers step into yonder room?

Faustus Galerius: Sure

Proclus of Rome: Alright.

Beatrice Orsini : After the bear gets in.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I wish we could all move past that Schism War."

Lady of the Lake: let me check through these tracks for good music

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: There's nothing to fear as long as my fellow Knights of Hermes are here.

Bialas of Bjornaer: says the bear from the house that hid in a secret regio the entire time.

Zita of Mercere: "I thought we had, several centuries ago when every single Diedne was killed."

Lady of the Lake: this might be a winner

Zita of Mercere: The sad thing about the sword was it erasing my memory of the stuff I said so I cant keep the Knights of Hermes stuff going

Lady of the Lake: As you step into the room, you note that the ceiling is covered in bats, all obviously angered at your presence.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

Beatrice Orsini : Zita can't keep the Knights of Hermes doing, but everyone else will.

Lady of the Lake: At the far end are 3 lepers, gathered around a fire. One seems more noble and handsome, in spite of his lesions, and a bat perches upon his wrist.

Beatrice Orsini : Except Beatrice. Curse you, Compassionate personality.

Zita of Mercere: I hand the torch to someone else so I can skulk around here

Oh, I know where I can hide. I hide behind Bialas.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's keep the knights of hermes going, as a cruel way to mock zita's memory loss

Zita of Mercere: Rolling stealth

Bialas of Bjornaer: you totally can, I'm size +4 right now.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+14+3+5

(

5

)

+4+14+3+5

=

31

Ferrando: "You finally found your way here. I thought your devil magics had eluded my little angels."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Klybutes???

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, technically size +2, +4 is just to calculate fatigue and mass.

Ferrando: Proclus, the aura here is Infernal 2.

Zita of Mercere: I'm size -1 so yes I think I manage to hide behind you

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Our devil magics?"

Proclus of Rome: Interesting.

Hmm.

Ferrando: "Don't play the part of a fool. God has spoken to me of the infernal rites you commit in your den of sin beneath the tavern."

Zita of Mercere: I tap the dagger on my belt while looking back and forth between my allies and this guy

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Some of us are devout Christians, I'll have you know."

Ferrando: The two lepers to the side seem to be lost in prayer.

Beatrice Orsini : "At least two."

Proclus of Rome: "I would not be surprised if there were Infernalists in our ranks."

Beatrice Orsini : I hope Zita continues her streak of failing to kill frail and helpless people.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Is he wrong?

Proclus of Rome: What prayers are they praying?

Hypatia of Athens and Sister Aurelia also lose themselves in prayer, but the divine kind.

Beatrice Orsini : In general no, in current situation yes, since Archibals is away.

Bialas of Bjornaer: These guys aren't alarmed at a talking stone bear? They must be pretty cool.

Ferrando: "Nor would I, as my precious angels have been keeping me up to date on those rituals you perform in your holes."

Faustus Galerius: "Nice digs."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'm glad you found so much entertainment, watching my naps."

Proclus of Rome: "What have you seen?"

Ferrando: Your prayer is clouded with dark whispers, Hypatia.

Zita of Mercere: Bialas: I'm not sinning. In fact I [proceeds to detail how he commits the deadly sin of Sloth, constantly]

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Hypatia of Athens: I hear the whispers, but I will not be led astray from the path of True Faith so easily.

Ferrando: "I have seen you, Proclus, constructing satanic symbols upon the floor. You, Beatrice, offering prayer before statues depicting Lucifer."

Bolad: i knew it

Zita of Mercere: I eye Proclus suspiciously

Beatrice Orsini : "That was Saint Ambrose, actually."

Ferrando: "And countless other disgusting acts that I am sorry these bats had to relay to me."

Proclus of Rome: "Everyone knows pentagrams are a common Hermetic symbol."

"It's all fine."

"I'm sure."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: pentagrams aren't even satanic!

Zita of Mercere: Not making a good case for us here

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Your bats seem to have a problem with their eyesight."

Ferrando: "Hermetic? I knew it, pagans as well."

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Beatrice Orsini : I've seen Zita wallow in human filth when changing diapers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I just make potions."

Proclus of Rome: "Why have you waited until now to use bats to spy on us?"

Zita of Mercere: I don't do that. Hermetic Magi live like nobles. I have someone else to do that.

Ferrando: "I was only recently informed by God of the sins you commit beneath this holy city."

Beatrice Orsini : Also, Zita should have taken some funny child-rearing magic items.

Like a think to make someone suddlenly crave eating vegetables.

thing

Proclus of Rome: "Well, that is fair enough."

"Do you know Klybutes?"

Zita of Mercere: There's a bunch of great ones in magi of hermes, a jerbiton with 10 kids who made a PeIm magic item to make them silent if they start screaming and crying

Ferrando: "I have never heard the name. One of your infernal associates?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice. sounds like my potions are legit

Beatrice Orsini : oh yeah, the baby-focused wizard ftw

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to curl up and lay down by the fire near the lepers.

Proclus of Rome: "No, he's a leper."

"I just assumed you all knew one another."

Ferrando: The lepers awaken from their prayer and jump back, Bialas.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Jesus, Proclus.

Zita of Mercere: I like his spell to make you more virile that it points out is impossible under hermetic theory, and of course doesnt work

Faustus Galerius: Guorna was probably dead before Tytalus contracted leprosy so I don't get the significance of what's going on

Zita of Mercere: but he still casts it all the time

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This fire is cozy."

Faustus Galerius: "I believe Mistress Pralix had a leper friend. Perhaps you kno whim. Oh wait, that was hundreds of years ago. Never mind."

Ferrando: "I believe this talk will teach me nothing I do not already know. You clearly have no shame for your actions, but I will offer you the chance to fall to your knees and repent your sins, that you might have a chance at salvation before I take your heads."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You knew Pralix?"

Proclus of Rome: Well here's the thing, sorcery IS technically a sin.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Never mind -- we don't have time for this."

Proclus of Rome: So he's right.

"I have time for this."

Ferrando: He shouts some awful tongue at the bats, and they grow more agitated.

Proclus of Rome: "I confess my sins every week, Ferrando."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "What is that Infernal speech?"

Ferrando: "Good. Then perhaps at least one soul will reach His kingdom today."

Faustus Galerius: "I don't have knees. Sorry."

Ferrando: "The tongue spoken by angels. I'm not surprised you don't know it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I have done nothing wrong!"

Ferrando: As he stands, you see that he has a sword upon his belt. The other two lepers are unarmed.

Proclus of Rome: "How did you find this crypt?"

Zita of Mercere: By the way, when he yells at the bats, I understand every possible language

So tell me what he said

Ferrando: He doesn't seem very intent on talking any longer as he draws his blade, eyes darting around the room.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Oh?"

Faustus Galerius:

rolling d10-3 Brave

(

3

)

-3

=

0

Nice

Zita of Mercere: "The bats are about to attack you." I whisper to my sodales

Ferrando: He moves his hand to the hilt of his sword.

Ferrando Initiative: 72

Faustus Galerius: "I repent!"

Ferrando: Leper Initiative: 14

Leper Initiative: 31

Zita of Mercere: Zita of Mercere Initiative: 99

Proclus of Rome: "Hold your sword, if you kill anyone in a state of sin, they'll be condemned to an eternity of torment!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 43

Zita of Mercere: "Bialas, get me closer and I'll stick a dagger in his neck."

Proclus of Rome: Proclus of Rome Initiative: 82

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice Orsini Initiative: 54

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas of Bjornaer Initiative: 12

Faustus Galerius: Faustus Galerius Initiative: 87

Ferrando: "I'll not hear the pleas of a sinner!"

is everyone who wants to fight in

Faustus Galerius: Sister Aurelia Initiative: 81

Hypatia of Athens Initiative: 67

Bialas of Bjornaer: You're so fucked, kid.

Ferrando: His eyes continue darting around the room, nervously.

Zita of Mercere: I'm in it, to win it

Bolad: Bolad Initiative: 55

Faustus Galerius: Faustus is going to fly away, but yes

Proclus of Rome: "Wait, I'll offer myself for a trial by ordeal."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone cast the crystal dart on faustus

Bialas of Bjornaer: Of course Proclus wants to make a deal with the Infernalists.

Ferrando: He stops short of pulling his blade out.

"What do you intend, Proclus?"

Beatrice Orsini : Faustus can teach apprentices to read so that you don't have to spend a seaon on it.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah. Apprentices.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: high crime

high crime!!

Faustus Galerius: Female ones, especially

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: weve got you now proclus of rome.

Zita of Mercere: Giovanni is male, but luckily for Faustus, he won't be apprenticed here almost certainly.

Proclus of Rome: "Try to cut me with your sword, if the Lord wills it, I will not be harmed."

Zita of Mercere: He's going to House Mercere

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: faustus teaches a bunch of things, unless he's been nerfed

Beatrice Orsini : Someone make an actual Mercere magus.

Ferrando: He narrows his eyes at you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: greetings. my name is... Auroro.

Zita of Mercere: I pre-emptively start planning a eulogy for Proclus

Ferrando: "You think your infernal defenses so secure, Proclus?"

Beatrice Orsini : That's Hypatia's job.

Faustus Galerius: I'll be Zita's kid if Jorn dies in 20 years

Proclus of Rome: "Uh... no?"

Zita of Mercere: Gotta help a fellow redcap out

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Are you sure you wish to risk your life like this, Proclus?"

Ferrando: He laughs. "I'll take your challenge. Whatever defense you believe Satan grants you, I can pierce it."

He barks at the bats again, and they calm slightly.

Proclus of Rome: Alright, I'll boldly stand before Ferrando.

Ferrando: He draws his sword and steps forward.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Proclus!"

Ferrando: What effects do you have on you?

Sidestep?

Proclus of Rome: Nope.

Nothing.

Ferrando: Uhhh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Proclus of Rome: Except for Greater Immunity: Symmetrical Objects.

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Ferrando: lol

Zita of Mercere: Lmao

Bialas of Bjornaer: hell yeah

Faustus Galerius: He draws a katana instead of a gladius

Proclus of Rome: A katana is symmetrical!

Faustus Galerius: True

Zita of Mercere: By the way, did Proclus step forward far or just a bit

Faustus Galerius: I was thinking fomr the wrong side

Ferrando: He brings a longsword down upon the crown of your head!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he floated all the way up to the top of the arch

Proclus of Rome: As far as I need to go.

Ferrando: And... stares in shock as it bounces off!

Proclus of Rome: It would slide off, probably.

Ferrando: Slides off, then.

"I see. A ritual to grant you skin of iron."

"A clever trick."

Zita of Mercere: In that case, I sneak behind Proclus while this all going on, using him as cover to hide myself from the leper and his bats.

Beatrice Orsini : Zita saw an old infernalist priest not die when hit with a dagger, so now she knows Proclus is an infernalist.

Zita of Mercere: Oh yeah

That piece of shit

Proclus of Rome: I'll cut myself with my fingernail to PROVE that I'm not trying some trick.

Zita of Mercere: I didnt just see it, my damn dagger bounced off him

Ferrando: He stares as blood comes from your cut.

Beatrice Orsini : time to make a MuCo spell that makes fingernails symmetrical

Bialas of Bjornaer yawns but not a magic yawn, just a regular yawn

Hypatia of Athens commits this moment to memory for future heroic ballads.

Ferrando: "You... Your infernal methods still won't be enough!"

Proclus of Rome: I trim them irregularly so I can scratch myself.

"Please understand, this is all a misunderstanding."

Ferrando: He's glancing around the room even more nervously now, barking irritably in that awful tongue.

Proclus of Rome: "The Order of Hermes was founded to use magic in service to the glory of God."

"Possibly."

Hypatia of Athens: "Funnily enough, a big green talking skull doesn't seem to bother them."

Beatrice Orsini : let's find Merinita or Tytalus and ask them

Ferrando: "No, you're devil worshipers, and you're trying to stall for time while that sneaking rogue you employ tries to plant a knife in my back!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Wow, good eyes."

(From Ferrando): i didnt realize Bolad had the Gift of Tongues too.

Proclus of Rome: "She's impetuous."

(From Ferrando): He's been shouting "Find her" msotly.

Faustus Galerius: "Well, you ARE insane, and seem intent on making a failure of this parley."

(From Ferrando): But also orders to the bats.

Faustus Galerius: "So you can't blame her. I won't, at any rate."

Proclus of Rome: "I hope that no one gets hurt today."

Zita of Mercere: I continue getting ready to earn my brawl xp

Ferrando: He gets angry and begins furiously swinging his sword at Proclus's neck.

The two lepers are cowering against the wall.

Faustus Galerius: Let's let him exhaust himself.

Bolad: "Who are you looking for, Ferrando."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to walk towards Proclus and Ferrando.

Proclus of Rome: "Please, you are making a mistake."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Slowly, in no rush.

Ferrando: He looks worried now, but hasn't completely lost his composure.

His eyes slide over to Bolad.

Beatrice Orsini : everyone knows mongolians are christian

Proclus of Rome: "Please excuse my companion, he is a pagan, though we do endeavor to covert him."

Ferrando: "Ha... I can at least do this..." He laughs to himself.

And makes some sort of infernal noise.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Continuing to slowly walk towards Ferrando until I'm in Touch range.

Zita of Mercere: I stab him in the neck

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Ferrando: Roll it.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I had a plan. Jeez.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Beatrice Orsini : please let the dagger bounce off

Ferrando: Is it defense 0 vs someone you can't see?

Hypatia of Athens: Maybe I can confront him with his own sins, but trying to do so in an Infernal aura is a good way to get a Hubris

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hubris ftw though

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+8+2+5

(

5

)

+4+8+2+5

=

24

It's vs defence 0, yes

Hypatia of Athens: I'll see if I'm capable of hitting him with a voice range effect

Proclus of Rome: I can't believe this Zita.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is so fucked up

Proclus of Rome: Though he probably is somewhat aware of this.

Ferrando: Alright, let me check his soak.

Zita of Mercere: Base damage is 2, -1 strength

Proclus of Rome: Since he clocked her coming at him.

Bialas of Bjornaer: He did mention that there was a sneaking rogue with a dagger, yeah.

Zita of Mercere: He didnt

Ferrando: He's aware that Zita exists and that he can't find her.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Ah.

Zita of Mercere: I should clarify that I can understand all the shit he's been saying

And that's why I'm killing him

Also, he's been panicking for hte last ten mintues about not seeing where I'm hiding

Ferrando: He's got 5 soak.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, I'm going to make an attack (But not as an attack, just to touch him.)

Ferrando: Might doesn't give any soak does it?

Hypatia of Athens: Base 20 Voice +2 Dia +1 would be 30, probably too much, but I could conf. I'll wait until actual turns are being taken before trying anything like that though

Proclus of Rome: No it doesn't.

Ferrando: the damn might rules are everywhere

ok

Zita of Mercere: Might-based powers can give soak

Hypatia of Athens: 35

Ferrando: let me just make sure hes got nothing else

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

7

)

+17

=

24

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas reaches out a paw.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: now rule by fiat that all of these attacks fail so that i can blind this guy

Ferrando: Alright, he's incapacitated then.

Zita of Mercere: This is the first person that might actually die when I stab them. Don't take this from me, guli.

Proclus of Rome: Rest... in pieces.

Zita of Mercere: I should have confed to kill him instantly

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, nevermind.

Ferrando: The lepers give a shout as this happens.

Proclus of Rome: You shouldst've.

Ferrando: The bats begin frantically harassing you now.

But don't do any actual damage.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Thoumstn't.

Zita of Mercere: "He was casting some sort of infernal spell." I tell my sodales "He was GET THE BATS OFF US PLEASE."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, he's incapacitated from Zita's knife, and also if Bialas touches him, and he has less than 20 MR, he loses a fatigue level.

Hypatia of Athens: Beatrice and Faustus burn the bats slowly to death one by one

Ferrando: He does not lose a fatigue level.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Ok.

Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Whoa!!

Bialas of Bjornaer: Wait.

21 MR.

Sorry.

Still, he's fine.

I'm sure.

Ferrando: They actually begin to fly away as they're cast at this time.

Zita of Mercere: Nice, I just beat something that would have completely stumped the bad boys of vardians tomb

Ferrando: he's still fine yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus swings his staff around at the bats.

Faustus Galerius: "Looks like he won't be taking a stab at a new hobby any time soon."

Ferrando: The bats are quickly dispersing.

Zita of Mercere: Technically he's not fine, as he's incapacitated and bleeding to death

Ferrando: well yes

Zita of Mercere: "I believe I've solved our bat problem, sodales."

Ferrando: do you want to kill him and finish him off?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Well done.

"

Ferrando: also if anyone has second sight feel free to roll it

Faustus Galerius: "Perhaps logic finally PIERCED that thick head of his."

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+1 second sight

(

9

)

+1

=

10

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll sit on him, sure.

Faustus Galerius:

rolling 7+d10 Second Sight

7+

(

6

)

=

13

Proclus of Rome: Sheesh you guys.

Zita of Mercere: "Still, considering that the other two auras were a magical and fairy creature respectively."

Proclus of Rome: I can't believe this.

Zita of Mercere: "There is a possibility this is a demon."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tfw when zita condemns a soul to hell.

Proclus of Rome: A dang holy leper and here you are murdering him.

Ferrando: both Beatrice and Faustus see it actually

Beatrice Orsini : "Most likely."

Zita of Mercere: "If not that, he's at least an infernalist."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice.

Ferrando: There's another bat, this one with a grotesque human face.

Beatrice Orsini : "There's a bat with a human face."

Ferrando: It's flying arround the corners of the room, watching the group.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5-1

(

4

)

+5-1

=

8

Faustus Galerius: "Well, it was KNIFE meeting you, good sir."

Zita of Mercere: I slit his throat, anyway, and end this terror

Ferrando: Bolad does not see it.

Beatrice Orsini : Can I cast a Flame Dart at it?

Ferrando: You kill Ferrando.

Yes.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+22 Hoot and holler

(

1

)

+22

=

23

rip

Zita of Mercere: Does he explode into vis

Bialas of Bjornaer: I already said I sat on him, but fine. If you want the kill, you did all the work.

Zita of Mercere: Nice

Ferrando: ok

now roll your botch dice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: BOTCH

Beatrice Orsini : -aurato casting total

Ferrando: in the infernal 2 aura

Zita of Mercere: extra botch dice from the infernal aura!

dont forget!

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Beatrice Orsini : how many fice?

dice

Ferrando: is infernal 1 botch per aura level

its 3

3 dice

Beatrice Orsini : so 2 total

mastery

Ferrando: oh

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

3

)

=

4

Ferrando: ok

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Ferrando: ohhh

Beatrice Orsini : rip

Faustus Galerius: "I'd like to say it was fun, but you were BATSHIT crazy."

Ferrando: i dont know what happens now

can the real gms tell beatrice what she wins

Bolad: the spell fails dramatically

Beatrice Orsini : just one warping

Bolad: she doesn't go to twilight though

Ferrando: damn

Bolad: she takes a warping point

Zita of Mercere: What happens is that you check the creo ignem botch results

Beatrice Orsini : that's the important point

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does she gain a sinful trait

Proclus of Rome: She wins a warping point and her spell is fucked up.

Bialas of Bjornaer: maybe i'll take Twilight Prone

Bolad: (unless she has twilight prone flaw)

Bialas of Bjornaer: instead of Chaotic Magic

Beatrice Orsini : don't take twilight prone

Faustus Galerius: Take Twilight Prone on a Criamon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i know aristocritus did when he fucked up in the tower

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll never botch!

Proclus of Rome: It's an Infernal aura so I would encourage you to be cruel.

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's the perfect plan!

Beatrice Orsini : i already have vain+2 persnaolity

you can get it higher

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: something related to the specific sins going on here, maybe

Ferrando: Hafl, what's Flame Dart in terms of damage

Beatrice Orsini : +10

crystal dart but ignem

Faustus Galerius: I am avoiding using my fire breath as to not get VT wizard warred for owning me. Again.

Ferrando: hmm

The spell backfires in this demonic realm, and blasts back at you.

Beatrice Orsini : damn

Ferrando:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

8

)

+5

=

13

Bialas of Bjornaer: Is this the second time you've set yourself on fire?

Beatrice Orsini : yes

Faustus Galerius: "Damn baby, you're a hot mess!"

Ferrando: What's your ignem soak?

Beatrice Orsini : 1 stamina + 1 form

Bialas of Bjornaer: Jesus.

Ferrando: 11 damage then, yikes

Beatrice Orsini : with small frame

Proclus of Rome: That's not so bad.

Zita of Mercere: If only she'd read the ignem book...

Beatrice Orsini : then i'd have 3 soak

Hypatia of Athens: "Sister Aurelia, help me get her out of this aura."

Ferrando: That's a heavy wound

Congratulations

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea claps

Beatrice Orsini : still a medium

Ferrando: You see the man-face bat laugh at you.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "The infernal defenses of these lepers are powerful."

Hypatia of Athens: I'm gonna drag her out so I can treat her with holy music.

Beatrice Orsini : 1-4 fatigue, 5-8 light, 9-12 medium

Ferrando: oh

dys lied to me

Beatrice Orsini : still not good

Proclus of Rome: It's fine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can bind the wound

Zita of Mercere: I was going by the book table, I forget we houseruled every aspect of everything

Proclus of Rome: We're like 100 paces from the covenant.

Beatrice Orsini : this wasn't houseruled, i think

Hypatia of Athens: Between binding and holy music we can probably make sure Beatrice recovers quickly

Beatrice Orsini : well size zero is by 5, but it's by 4 with small frame

Ferrando: With the magus who can see him gone, the man face bat seems a bit more confident, Faustus.

He continues looking around at your group.

Beatrice Orsini : I can get back once treated.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how are we supposed to detect an immaterial demon anyway

if invi doesn't work

Ferrando: Does invi not work?

I thought it did.

Zita of Mercere: This is the table I was going by anyway http://i.imgur.com/F2SJ77D.png

Beatrice Orsini : I think demons are immune

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: against the infernal

Bialas of Bjornaer: demons can just go "nah im not a demon" iirc

Ferrando: ah

Bialas of Bjornaer: in response to intelligo magic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you see whatever the demon wants you to see

Beatrice Orsini : oh, we added fatigue damage in houserules

Hypatia of Athens: I think I can manage to give Beatrice a +12 to her Recovery roll, or +20 if that bonus is 5/3

Beatrice Orsini : that's strange

Ferrando: If only you had a man with good second sight and perdo vim here.

Bialas of Bjornaer: If only.

Proclus of Rome: Sigh, if only.

Beatrice Orsini : i assumed all houserules were bad, so this one is the first good one

Bialas of Bjornaer: Or a holy warrior with a relic as a weapon with second sight.

Zita of Mercere: I can't find our houserules on damage right now

Bialas of Bjornaer: Too bad she's busy doing guard work or whatever.

Zita of Mercere: anyway sodales lets work out how to kill the Boss Bat

Beatrice Orsini : Damage Table

(for a size 0 character):

0: No effect

Beatrice Orsini : 1 - 5: 1 Fatigue Damage

6 - 10: Light Wound (-2)

11 - 15: Medium Wounds (-4)

Beatrice Orsini : 16 - 20: Heavy Wound (-6)

21+: Target is dead

A total -10 penalty renders a grog incapacitated

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12+3 casting Bind Wound (minus aura)

(

10

+

1

)

+12+3

=

26

Beatrice Orsini : nice

23 casting total, i think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well that passes whatever the aura is

the spell is just level 10.

Zita of Mercere: Oh, wait, so we removed incap altogether?

Ferrando: You hear a laughing, shrieky voice around the room you're in.

Zita of Mercere: Well whatever I already slit this nerds throat

Ferrando: "What's the matter? Gonna finish the job?"

Proclus of Rome: "I don't think we should murder a helpless man."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bound the hell outta that burn.

Hypatia of Athens: "Let it tempt you not!"

Beatrice Orsini : Once I'm bound I can get back to trying to burn the bat.

Zita of Mercere: "I think we should dispose of a demon taking root in the catacombs, Proclus."

Ferrando: The two lepers are begging for their lives.

Proclus of Rome: "Demons can't get leprosy, don't be absurd."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to be clear you still have the wound penalty, but any further actions won't make your wound worse

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oh, hey.

Someone.

With hands.

Proclus of Rome: What?

Bialas of Bjornaer: Get that sword and make sure Aristide doesn't touch it.

Beatrice Orsini : if i could see it with 10 second sight roll, it probably doesn't have that high MR

Ferrando: Get that sword, and turn it into vim.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll get back after being bound.

Ferrando: vis

Beatrice Orsini : Do I still see the bat?

Faustus Galerius drags the sword with unseen porter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: get that sword and make sure aristide touches it

Ferrando: Yes.

Zita of Mercere: "And lepers don't speak in tongues to comnmand bats, as far as I know. He was telling them to kill us all, he only held back because he couldn't see me."

Beatrice Orsini : ok

Ferrando: It's laughing.

Beatrice Orsini : attempt number 2

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you even dart an immaterial spirit

Proclus of Rome: "I know AT LEAST one Leper who could command bats if he wanted to."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'm sorry for leaving you out, Faustus. I'll try to check my limb-owning privilege in the future."

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+18+2-4-2+1+1

(

5

)

+18+2-4-2+1+1

=

21

Proclus of Rome: You can't.

Beatrice Orsini : 14 pen

Proclus of Rome: I mean you can but as it is not material it does nothing.

Ferrando: Your flame dart passes through and splashes against a wall.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: damn. being a hermetic magus sucks

Ferrando: "Kehehe. I guess you're weak."

Hypatia of Athens: "We should treat this man."

Ferrando: Ferrando is dead.

Hypatia of Athens: "And get the others out of this place."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip.

Hypatia of Athens: Second thing still applies at least

"This place tempts us to sin."

Proclus of Rome: We should just drag the other lepers out of here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All right. Come on, you."

Beatrice Orsini : I'm making note of this.

Ferrando: They comply with whatever you want them to do.

They're terrified.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea jabs at one of the lepers with his staff.

Zita of Mercere: "They might be real lepers, he sure wasn't. We need to get rid of that thing that's laughing, too."

Beatrice Orsini : Last saga, I was allowed to make an Ignem spell with Me requisite that would burn a ghost? Could I do that now too?

Bialas of Bjornaer: it's a shame I can't see it.

Ferrando: i dont know if that would work on a demon

Bialas of Bjornaer: We shouldn't just leave a demon hanging around.

Beatrice Orsini : I'm thinking for future reference. I can't spont that anyway.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, vim requisite

Hypatia of Athens: We should bring Archibald here

Proclus of Rome: You could absolutely do that, in my opinion.

Ferrando: The bat flies in front of your face and makes a taunting expression, Beatrice.

Hypatia of Athens: We probably need Mentem or Vi to deal with this thing

Beatrice Orsini : "I'll be back."

Ferrando: "The magi of Vardian's Tomb, reduced to this! So sad!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: If someone could mark the bat somehow I'll fly into it at high speeds.

Zita of Mercere: Everyone: Wow, archibald, you're the worst. No we won't support your plans.

Everyone, 5 minutes after confonting a demon: alright archibald we said some mean things but

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Beatrice Orsini : I could try.

Hypatia of Athens: It's true

Beatrice Orsini : I see the bat right?

Proclus of Rome: I think we should continue to not support Archibald.

Beatrice Orsini : I have a plan.

Ferrando: "Ohhh, you have your thinking face on. Careful, you might burn from overexertion!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll probably miss if I try to fly into it though, it's small and I have poor Finesse and Per.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can't fly into it.

Proclus of Rome: You should try.

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia and Aurelia will bring the lepers up to Vardian's Tomb and give them fresh wrappings and a meal.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling (1d10!+12+12+13+1-4-2) CrIm spont illusion of a bat at the bat's position to follow it.

(

(

10

+

6

)

+12+12+13+1-4-2)

=

48

24 casting total

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's not a ghost, it's a demon bat.

Ferrando: "I- Hey, what's this?"

Beatrice Orsini : 1 Base + 2 Voice + 1 moving image + 2 Sun

level 10

forgot to divide, but the casting total was 24

Ferrando: "Hey hey hey, get this thing off of me!"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Beatrice Orsini : If it follows the bat, maybe it needs to penetrate MR, but it would be 22 Pen

Ferrando: that penetrates

Hypatia of Athens: It doesn't actually interact with the bat

Proclus of Rome: I don't really have any spells that work on intangible creatures.

Hypatia of Athens: So I don't think MR matters

Beatrice Orsini : it does interact, since it follows its movement

Ferrando: "I mean, ha! Even with this, there's nothing you can do!"

Hypatia of Athens: That's just it following its programming

Ferrando: "That's what they say, isn't it? You're the weakest magi around?"

Proclus of Rome: "It is what they say."

Hypatia of Athens: The bat is immaterial, it can't be touched by the species of your fake bat

Bolad: I channel the spirit of tengri

Hypatia of Athens: Spirit of tengu :stringini:

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5+7

(

9

)

+5+7

=

21

21 might points

Ferrando: what are you doing to this poor creature

Proclus of Rome: Shoot a spirit arrow like a racist caricature of an Indian in a video game.

Bolad: does hitting a demon with lightning hurt it

Beatrice Orsini : if it does not need Pen, then I can spend extra casting level on making it follow my command and make it track the bat. in either case, it worls

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas attempts to tackle the bat.

rolling 1d10!+8

(

7

)

+8

=

15

and probably just crashes into a wall.

Ferrando: You just crash into a wall.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Pest."

Ferrando: I don't know Bolad.

Zita of Mercere: "At least you tried, Bialas!" I shout words of encouragement

Ferrando: Lightning might.

Bolad: ok, I shoot a lightning bolt

Ferrando: I thought Flame Dart would've worked until Endrite thankfully said it doesn't.

Bolad: it's a L30 effect so it costs 6 might

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone is blinded and deafened.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Cool.

Ferrando: Where's the rules for what can kill immaterial demons

Bolad: hell i was hoping you knew

now I gotta look it up

Ferrando: Endrite knew

Proclus of Rome: Any ghost busting spells or reducing it to 0 Might.

Bialas of Bjornaer: If only Prudenzio were here.

Hypatia of Athens: Ghosts need a power to incorporate

Ferrando: So lightning doesn't do anything, then?

Proclus of Rome: Also you can kill them with True Faith or their Weakness.

I don't see why it would.

Hypatia of Athens: How does True Faith apply?

I have it

Ferrando: You could roll infernal lore to know this thing's weakness.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Wow, i can't believe Celeste would be off standing in front of someone's manse to make a quick buck instead of slaying the demon beneath her own covenant.

Proclus of Rome: Oh wait my bad.

Bolad: A demon in

spiritual form can only be slain be effects

that deplete its Infernal Might (such as

Perdo Vim spells);

welp

Proclus of Rome: It's only relics WITH true faith.

Hypatia of Athens: Celeste's department,then.

Let's go get Celeste

Proclus of Rome: Provided the relic's Divine Might exceeds the demon's Infernal Might.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you lure it out of the aura it'll be easier

Ferrando: whats the divine might of celestes relic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: casting totals up / demon's MR down

Bialas of Bjornaer: the relic's divine might would only be 10, since it has a single TF point.

Ferrando: alright

Beatrice Orsini : the demon does not have a high infernal might, i think

Ferrando: what do you do in the meantime

Hypatia of Athens: Same iwth Aurelia's shield, then.

Proclus of Rome: I'll try and Infernal Lore roll.

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 2

(

1

)

+2+2

=

5

Hmm.

Ferrando: at least its not a botch

Beatrice Orsini : I'm going to get treated by hypatia.

Ferrando: whats the normal ease factor to know a demon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you think the church would have anything to do with these lepers?"

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Bialas of Bjornaer: Proclus: "It might be a demon."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll figure out the Miracle Level to treat Beatrice

Ferrando: The demon continues flying around and taunting you.

Hypatia of Athens: I assume I should use Moon for a Medium wound?

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Ferrando: "If you can't even kill me, what can you do? Nothing, haha!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "We can go get someone else to kill you."

Hypatia of Athens: To win you must kill me, John Romero

Ferrando: "That is the Vardian's Tomb way, huh? Why do yourself what others can do for you!"

Proclus of Rome: Does no one else have any Infernal Lore?

Ferrando: "Kehehe! I like it!"

Beatrice Orsini : we're not satanists

Bialas of Bjornaer: Why would I have any Infernal Lore?

Zita of Mercere: Not all of us are sinners, Proclus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's a demon

Zita of Mercere: I think Lavinia might, someone ask her

Hypatia of Athens: If I can get dispensation from a Bishop to read Infernal Lore, i will.

Ferrando: "You've got a bunch of magi who couldn't cast the simplest cantrip! An archer who couldn't hit the broadside of a church!"

Bolad: "You couldn't hit a church either, even using your bare hands."

Ferrando: "Kehehe! Your tongue's sharper than your weapons!"

Proclus of Rome: Damn.

Hypatia of Athens: Base 4, +2 Voice, +3 Moon, to give Beatrice +12 recovery

Bolad: "You are weak and forgettable and must lurk under the ground like a rat."

Ferrando: I'm assuming this is all happening while you make your way to the safety of the aegis.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Ferrando: It flutters in front of Proclus's face, though he can't see it.

"How about you, circle boy? Are you good at anything?"

Hypatia of Athens: I'll treat Beatrice in a Mundane or Dominion aura though

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to spont Demon's Eternal Oblivion before we leave. Even if it won't penetrate, just to act as a rude gesture towards the demon.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go with Mundane so a Dominion one doesn't have to be mad eup

Zita of Mercere: Within the catacombs, the PCs encounter Faggot Jollybottoms. Faggot Jollybottoms cannot be harmed in any way. When they meet him, read this aloud:

Proclus of Rome: "No, I have scarcely begun to examine the Ars Magica."

Beatrice Orsini : do we have a doctor grog?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes, lavinia

Beatrice Orsini : i don't trust lavinia with my blood

Zita of Mercere: We have nunzio, I believe

Ferrando: you can try it bialas

go ahead and roll it

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10!+21+1 shouting

(

3

)

+21+1

=

25

Beatrice Orsini : i'll look up nunzio's skills

Ferrando: whats the pen

Beatrice Orsini : you can't shout when sponting

Bialas of Bjornaer: that's just a level 10 with 16 pen.

Yes you can.

Ferrando: whats the effect

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can't you

Bolad: proclus killed nunzio

Beatrice Orsini : you don't get bonus for it

it's mentioned in spontaneous magic

Zita of Mercere: That strips 10 might from a demon, if it penetrates

Ferrando: its gone

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+24 Blessing Meditation to give Beatrice +12 to Recovery for Moon duration. Miracle Level 25

(

9

)

+24

=

33

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Ferrando: It disappears in the middle of a laugh.

It had 5 might.

Proclus of Rome: RIP.

Bialas of Bjornaer: DEMON’S ETERNAL OBLIVION

R: Voice, D: Mom, T: Ind

Weakens and possibly destroys a demon.

If the spell penetrates the demon’s Magic

Resistance, the demon loses Might Score equal

to the spell’s level.

Bialas of Bjornaer: (Base effect, +2 Voice)

Hypatia of Athens: It works

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Proclus of Rome: We did it.

Beatrice Orsini : good job

Proclus of Rome: "Zita, please do not murder unrepentant sinners in the future."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Well, that was easier than I thought."

Zita of Mercere: Amazing! That right there is why you're the best

Beatrice Orsini : I could see it with 10 second sight roll

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+9+3 singing quality check

(

10

)

+9+3

=

22

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where's it say that

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10

(

7

)

=

7

Beatrice Orsini : obviously it had low might

Proclus of Rome: "It merely gives the forces of evil exactly what they want."

Hypatia of Athens: I sang Beatrice a very good song.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The following options can be used when casting Formulaic or Spontaneous spells, but not for Ritual Magic.

WORDS AND GESTURES

Zita of Mercere: "I'm not letting an infernalist stab you to death when he finds some way to bypass... whatever it is you did."

Bialas of Bjornaer roars mightily and the demon flashes away in a burst of white light

Ferrando: brb

Zita of Mercere: "Actually, what did you do?"

"His sword just slid off you harmlessly."

Proclus of Rome: "I was protected so that I could show him the error of his ways."

Zita of Mercere: "The last time I saw that happen was when I tried to stab Father Uallachan at his infernal ceremony."

Proclus of Rome: "But your violent impulses ruined that."

Bolad: ooooh shit

Hypatia of Athens: "Now Lady Beatrice, would you return the Divine's favor and help feed and clothe these poor lepers?"

Bolad: is proclus.... an infernalist???

Proclus of Rome: "Let this be a lesson for you."

Beatrice Orsini : oh, i confused it with fast casting spells

Zita of Mercere: "It wasn't divine will, you're a magus."

"I'd like to know just what exactly you did to make yourself immune to weaponry, Proclus."

Beatrice Orsini : "I will do that once I'm recovered."

"I could give them some of my clothes before then, though."

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to look up the roll to take a leper as an agent

Beatrice Orsini : "Though they might not like them."

Proclus of Rome: "You don't need to worry about it, Zita."

Hypatia of Athens: "Maybe one of the lepers is female, we haven't examined them closely yet."

Zita of Mercere: "I am worrying about it, hermetic magic can ward against weapons as far as I know, but not like that."

Hypatia of Athens: "Besides, they stay heavily wrapped up anyway."

Bolad: lets report proclus to the inquisition

Zita of Mercere: "You did something powerful and non-hermetic, I think that's something you should disclose."

Proclus of Rome: "I am certain that once you learn to restrain your impulses you'll realize what happened."

Zita of Mercere: I take out the dagger again "So will this just slide off, or will it work, if it touches you?"

Proclus of Rome: "Please do not attempt to find out."

Hypatia of Athens: Now you know why they make those daggers with the wavy shape.

Kriss or kryss or w/e, I can't get spell correc ton that

Zita of Mercere: "I'm not coming at you to harm you, but I want an explanation for why you have a strange, mysterious power, that we have only ever seen used by infernalists."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Those are still symmetrical.

Down the line of the blade.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they'ren't.

Proclus of Rome: "I would like to know why you can't stop yourself from stealing, murdering, and lying but I don't think I would get an answer from you."

GM: The group makes it to the safety of the Aegis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Are the bats gone now"

GM: Giraldo is walking around with an arm full of bat leathers, trying to find any stragglers.

Proclus of Rome: Did we remember to drag the lepers back?

Zita of Mercere: "Oh come on, you go back and inspect him, I bet you find vis in the corpse or his possessions. He's an infernalist or a demon."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah.

Beatrice Orsini : is that +12 to recovery by RAW, hypatia?

Zita of Mercere: "Actually, someone else can inspect him."

GM: Gulielmus brought the lepers, yes.

Beatrice Orsini : recovery is a roll, so it gets multiplied by 5/3 if it is

GM: They're apologizing and pleading the whole way.

Proclus of Rome: Good, good.

Zita of Mercere: "Bialas, you're good with vim too, right?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could ask them.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+3+3 vs Ease Factor 10 recruit a leper as an agent

(

9

)

+3+3

=

15

Bialas of Bjornaer: Vim is one of my worst forms, but I have very high Perdo, which helped against the demon.

Hypatia of Athens: Hooray

Proclus of Rome: Well, where was the Dominion bubble?

GM: A leper is your agent, whatever that does.

Hypatia of Athens: Not a lot

GM: Dominion bubble? Most of the catacombs had a Dominion aura.

Zita of Mercere: "Can you see if theres any vis on that infernalist I killed?"

Proclus of Rome: Still, you'd expect to see something like that.

Bialas of Bjornaer: We should have checked before we left his corpse in the catacombs.

Hypatia of Athens: It'll be a good milesotne in the development of my holy cult though.

Proclus of Rome: Oh yeah, what's with that sword?

GM: Did you retrieve the sword on the way back?

Bialas of Bjornaer: Sure, though. How do I do that?

Someone did.

I hope.

Zita of Mercere: We can just walk back in and check. I dont think his body is going anywhere.

Faustus Galerius dragged the sword along with his Unseen Porter-like magic power

GM: brb again

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where'd we get all these items

Proclus of Rome: Agreed.

Faustus Galerius: I said I did earlier

Bialas of Bjornaer: That was it.

Proclus of Rome: We should investigate the crypt a little more.

Faustus Galerius: Kifaaya made the saddle

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets beat proclus with crucifixes and see if he bruises, if he doesnt he's an infernalist

Faustus Galerius: And donated it when she left

Zita of Mercere: I don't remember where that smock came from

did lavinia trade for it

or is it just really old

Lavinia of Jerbiton: our tailor made it

Proclus of Rome: Eh, ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: giacopo...

Faustus Galerius: If Giacopo gets played, Faustus can enrich his cloaks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+4 Presence and Charm, to try to get some kind of story out of the lepers

(

10

+

1

)

+2+4

=

17

Faustus Galerius: Well no, Wondrous Items are not Items of Virtue

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. theres my roll to try to get some kind of story out of the lepers.

Zita of Mercere: Is that with Gift Stink

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus turns on the charm to try to get some kind of story out of the lepers

i don't have gift stink

Zita of Mercere: Oh good, someone easy to get along with

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we had a chat about, uhh, labs

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice.

GM: im back, sorry, i shouldnt need to go afk again

Bialas of Bjornaer: Is this in 1337 or 8?

Proclus of Rome: I suppose the demon crypt isn't going anywhere, but I think we should investigate it a little more.

Beatrice Orsini : autumn 37

Zita of Mercere: 1337, autumn, I believe

Proclus of Rome: Since obviously this is a serious crime.

Zita of Mercere: We should check it out, yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what do the lepers say

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Proclus of Rome: "lets spend a lot of time in the infernal aura"

GM: Okay, for the demon, it contains a pawn of vim vis, in its wings.

Let me see your question gulielmus

Beatrice Orsini : nice

infernal vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the demon was destroyed with perdo vim

Zita of Mercere: How much vis did the demon I killed drop

Faustus Galerius bounces hilariously off of the aegis

Bolad: put a note of all the vis included aura and type in the thread later so I can update the tracker

Zita of Mercere: yeah, the bat didnt leave any vis, it died from lack of vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so we can't recover anything from it

Bialas of Bjornaer: ok, updated the kill tracker

GM: oh ok

Proclus of Rome: Monsters don't drop vis if you reduce it's might to 0.

Faustus Galerius: "Well, uh, bye then."

GM: yeah nothing then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Later, Galerius."

GM: Ferrando contained two pawns of corpus vis, in his hands.

Faustus Galerius goes back to a Magic aura.

Zita of Mercere: "Don't wander too far."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Oh, someone give the skull a token"

GM: For the lepers, let's see.

Zita of Mercere: "Lavinia, we found a talking skull in the catacombs. He seems to be something that the old vardian's tomb used to train apprentices."

GM: Gulielmus, they tell you that Ferrando came to them, told them he was of noble blood but was blessed to lead a truly pious life. Took them around destroying sinners and heathens.

Proclus of Rome: You just need a token to cast spells, you can just invite creatures in.

Zita of Mercere: "The bats were being led by some sort of infernalist or demon, I stabbed him in the neck and disposed of him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Tragic!

GM: But this plan was nothing like the others, he claimed the hand of God was guiding him directly.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets cast him in our community production of Hamlet

Faustus Galerius: If I'm invited I'll come in

Proclus of Rome: "You murdered him Zita, please have more faith in me in the future."

Beatrice Orsini : I can manage wizard's leap even with the wound, so I'll spend my recovery time at the fairy lake.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah, I'll invite the skull in

Faustus Galerius: Lavinia used Sortes to write Hamlet in 1337

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how do items work with the aegis

Zita of Mercere: "Check his body if you dont believe me."

Beatrice Orsini : I'm locking my lab first, though.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Come on, Faustus. You're allowed in here, you've been around longer than any of us."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the year is 1337, and yet hackers won't understand how cool that is for nearly a millenium

GM: if anyone wants to, since hes gone forever, that demon was Bomburkhan under the Corrupters section of the infernal book

Zita of Mercere: "Bialas or someone else, can you come with me to inspect his corpse and prove he wasn't an innocent leper."

Faustus Galerius: "Must be a new aegis then."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Tell us a story about Venator!"

GM: hes got a pretty funny power

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Sure."

GM: which i suspect endrite at least had figured out

oh right, the fairy lake.

Zita of Mercere: GM, did the 'leper' dissolve into vis

Beatrice Orsini : Also, can anyone just edit the kill tracker? If so, I'm adding the vikings Beatrice landed the killing blow on.

GM: He did not dissolve into vis, no, but he contains vis.

Proclus of Rome: It sounds like you murdered him.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I think so.

GM: One pawn of corpus vis in each hand.

Zita of Mercere: Interesting. Just normal, innocent leper vis.

Faustus Galerius: As an apprentice, he once inquired whether INtellego Herbam would allow him to see women's undergarments while they were wearing them beneath their clothes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nothing dissolves into vis. you have to actually cut the dogs up and take their teeth or whatever

GM: And the fairy lake sword

Faustus Galerius: Just kidding, I'll only say about Venator what I'm told is true

GM: it contained a mix of vis types.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas bites his hands off to take back to the covenant.

Zita of Mercere: "Vis right in him, I'd say that confirms my suspicions."

GM: 2 pawns each of Aquam, Mentem, and Imaginem.

Zita of Mercere: "We can check the realm they're from when we get back."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: venator ex misc died in the year 1230 and you have been interacting with a demonic imposter since

Proclus of Rome: "I think you're jumping to conclusions."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: adn he's standing RIGHT BEHIND YOU

GM: For future purposes, the lake will form one sword each year.

Faustus Galerius: To extract Faustus's vis you just damage him, a vis falls off and he shrinks into a smaller skull.

GM: Each with the same value.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+5+2 Magic theory: can someone have vis in their body without being a demon or faerie

(

10

+

2

)

+5+2

=

19

GM: Yes Gulielmus.

You yourself have vis in you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Well ok then.

What the

Beatrice Orsini : You don't use InHe to see through clothes. You use special PeIm that only makes the clothes invisible from your positiion.

GM: Because you have the Gift.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait what

Beatrice Orsini : There's spell for that in Societates.

GM: doesnt the gift make you have vis

Faustus Galerius: Smart, Beatrice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's dissect aristide and put this theory to the test

GM: i might be incorrect

but i feel like it was mentioned

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Faustus Galerius: I have two vis, the glowy part in each of my eye sockets

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you have to have might to have vis, BUT there is one exception

if you've been in the Realm of Magic, when you return, you have bobules of pure vis on your skin

Bialas of Bjornaer: That's cool.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can't you just transfer it into your body with rego vim though

GM: oops

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like you would put it in a chess piece

GM: ok gulielmus, the short answer is no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Good work, Zita, he really was a demon."

Zita of Mercere: "Thank you, Gulielmus."

Proclus of Rome: "You had no way of knowing that when you murdered him."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll look up the stats for a leper mage and remove the mage bits to come up with an agent

Beatrice Orsini : MuVi(He) to change vis into bread.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "With a second, smaller demon doing his bidding."

Proclus of Rome: A leper mage with no magic is not great.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did you know, Hermetic magic cannot alter the consecrated host

instead of an aegis, build your covenant out of communion wafers

Beatrice Orsini : That's because it's consevrated.

Zita of Mercere: "Actually, as I have the Gift of Tongues, I did know that, because he yelled out cries to his slaves to kill us all over and over and tried to invoke some power. And was standing in an infernal aura."

Hypatia of Athens: That's fine, agents don't do much

Bialas of Bjornaer: "That's a strong argument."

GM: oh right

Beatrice Orsini : Turn vis into communion wafer and have it consecrated, then once the duration of the spell runs out, you have divine vis.

GM: the power he was going to use infests the target with the sin of pride and makes them want to boast

Proclus of Rome: "We were all in the Infernal aura and he was right to have his servants kill us, since you were plotting to murder him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Having lost the argument, Proclus is now initiated into House Mercere

GM: if you look up the demon with him, you can see the purpose

Zita of Mercere: "I was plotting to stop him killing you, speaking of which, you haven't explained a single thing about how weapons bounce off you harmlessly."

GM: Did anyone have any investigations they were doing that I didn't respond to?

Proclus of Rome: "I don't see any reason to explain myself to a murderer."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That sounds like a typical ward against iron, a capability known to Magi and demons alike."

Beatrice Orsini : I'll be reading the king arthur book while recovering to figure out what it is. But it does not have any mechanical effect.

Zita of Mercere: It's a book on King Arthur Lore (Fake) obviously

GM: Alright. Focused work on reading it allows you to note that certain details are written with more clarity.

Beatrice Orsini : excellent

Fake Lore is the best Lore

Zita of Mercere: a L10 Q12 summa in it, an amazing work

Beatrice Orsini : rip Black Monk's book on Fake Infernal Lore

still lost in the abandoned ruins of Kerguntuil

GM: The ones you most easily note are the shape of the tree on the island, and the details of the lake.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: kerguntuil is destroyed and lost forever

dys knows the lore.

Beatrice Orsini : it sank to the seas

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, i have my tree cutting

i'll try to root it

Zita of Mercere: "For a man who's killed before, you certainly have a lot of empathy for a dead demon."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if only we knew someone who specialized in lost underwater places in Brittany

Proclus of Rome: If only.

Zita of Mercere: "Unlike you, I've never taken the life of another human being."

"So I'd calm down with accusations like that in defence of a demon I just saved you from."

Beatrice Orsini : Artemisia can go underwater easily.

Proclus of Rome: "Is that an accusation or a jealous slight?"

Beatrice Orsini : And Beatrice is taking a vacation next year.

Zita of Mercere: "Obviously the former, Proclus."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: recovering the lost treasure of kerguntuil would be a fun adventure

cause i could just recycle the entire calebais splatbook that kerguntuil was originally based on

Zita of Mercere: "Well, to put it more accurately, it's a statement of fact. You killed Nunzio in an argument over a woman, I killed a demon to stop it attacking my sodales."

Beatrice Orsini : Artemisia has bonuses underwater and has greater immunity to drowning.

Proclus of Rome: "You need to meditate on how you continue to put yourself and others in danger, Zita."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ACTUALLY THE ARCHON CAVED NUNZIO'S SKULL IN WITH A MACE

Beatrice Orsini : Since her labwork was ruined, Beatrice will go look around the lake in a month or so once she's recovered.

Zita of Mercere: Proclus has the kill on the kill tracker

Looks like he's a thief too

Proclus of Rome: I did kill him.

Beatrice Orsini : iirc, proclus had exploding damage on crystal dart

Zita of Mercere: Yes

Nunzio's head exploded

I remember it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i had exploding damage on a mace

Bialas of Bjornaer: Proclus admits to killing an innocent man. Wow.

Proclus of Rome: He wasn't innocent, we were having a duel over a woman.

That is not only popular, but celebrated.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: st peter will have you answer for this, proclus of rome!!

Beatrice Orsini : Let's crucify Proclus on St.Peter's cross.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Let's be fair, who in this covenant has not sullied their hands with some horrible sin of one type or another? Myself excluded, of course."

Proclus of Rome: "Sloth," I mutter.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hm?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A fatuous accusation, and I believe you owe an apology."

Zita of Mercere: "I wouldn't care if I wasn't accused of murder for saving my sodales from a demon."

Beatrice Orsini : It's sloth if you study and taste urine for pleasure and not for living.

Proclus of Rome: Heh.

"I apologize, Lavinia."

"These groundless accusations have rubbed my nerves raw, I'm afraid."

Zita of Mercere: "Unless you wish to claim that the charge of murder applies to disposing of a demon, I'd like one as well."

Proclus of Rome: "No."

Zita of Mercere: "Such virtue as always, Proclus."

Beatrice Orsini : "It's only murder if it's human, divine, magical or faerie, Proclus."

Proclus of Rome: "The sheer criminality that haunts this covenant needs an answer."

c'thinker: salvete

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The nature of an infernal aura is to promote deviant behavior, including paranoia among friends."

"I know this, as I read it in Palomachius' Dictionerre Infernal -- a valuable source."

"To give into bickering and accusations is only to let the infernal work its wickedness into your hearts."

Hypatia of Athens: Name	Corbiniano

Bond	A leper sheltered by Hypatia

Agency XP	0

Social Status	Outcast (Minor Flaw)

Resistance	1

Resources	Exceptional Skill (Folk Ken) (Major), Social Contacts (network of Rome's homeless) (Minor), Gossip

Hypatia of Athens: Relevant Flaws	Leprosy (Major)

Zita of Mercere: "Then perhaps that is part of it. At any rate, I apologise for any accusations of your miraculous safety, though I don't understand why you keep it such a secret."

Proclus of Rome: "To forgive you I would need some sign that you are willing to repent and perhaps your apology is enough."

PERHAPS

GM: oh no someones using gm powers thats not me

Proclus of Rome: Spooky.

GM: It's me.

im writing up the session notes right now

gah!

Scared?

Zita of Mercere: "Then we should put it behind us, rather than dwell on argument from the heat of the moment."

Proclus of Rome: I'm terrified.

Zita of Mercere: *an argument

Proclus of Rome: "I suppose that's the only thing we can do."

Faustus Galerius floats into the library, though he finds himself unable to tether himself to it without a token.

Zita of Mercere: "Then I apologise, Proclus, for any suspicions about you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hug it out

Zita of Mercere: "Though I would like you to rescind accusations of murder, since they are observably and objectively false."

Proclus of Rome: No.

GM: 7 adventure xp

Zita of Mercere: 10 for me, good virtue

Proclus of Rome: "I don't know what you spend your time doing outside the covenant, so I cannot rescind my accusations."

GM: ill have the scrolls spells written out tomorrow, or maybe tonight

Zita of Mercere: "I've never taken a human life."

c'thinker: nice. time to spend the rest of this season reading a book

Faustus Galerius: "Not having nostrils helps with that. Can't breathe i the stink of a man burning to death."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, I think we wasted our noble favors since that was only good for 5 vis a year when we were sitting on top of 6.

GM: 8 if you think about it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you never told us what the vis sources in forli were

GM: if you let faustus have a token

Zita of Mercere: King Arthur's Lake was right there, in the covenant, all along

Proclus of Rome: Oh, I'll post it in the thread today.

GM: i thought having the king arthur lake would be a fun joke

Zita of Mercere: It was.

c'thinker: the fake king arthur lake ruled

Faustus Galerius: Hypatia writes a ballad about a man with a geas that he would be killed when cut by an asymmetrical blade.

Zita of Mercere: You know what's a great punchline? 6 pawns of vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets bottle all the water and sell it to rubes

Bialas of Bjornaer: That was great.

Proclus of Rome: Dancing Excaliburs enter from both sides of the screen to keep your attention.

Beatrice Orsini : I set myself up in the abandoned shack lab.

c'thinker: do the jars do anything cool

actually what kind of vis is in the jars

Beatrice Orsini : And once I can have a sanctum there, I'll move there permanently.

GM: It's vim vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cum vis

Faustus Galerius: The stream saves us from having to waste precious time on distillation.

GM: They're not really noteworthy aside from parlor tricks.

It feels weird to reach in them.

Zita of Mercere: Living on a fairy island and fixing the story to summon excalibur would be cool

Proclus of Rome: I'm not going to drink water like some kind of peasant.

Faustus Galerius: Watercucks

GM: Faustus can make similar objects once a year as a vis income

Beatrice Orsini : I want to get a faerie familiar so living in Faerie Aura would help.

GM: if he gets a token and can tether to one of the rooms

Faustus Galerius: Only if I'm given a token

Yeah

It'd probably be the library so I can read the books with my magic vision

GM: As for the source of the pure water, you seem to be unable to find it with the regio entrance there.

Proclus of Rome: AKA literacy.

GM: Though you can still send someone to collect it for use.

Zita of Mercere: Anyway, I'll spend the rest of the season gradually getting used to my child's Gift Stink making me want to leave him in the catacombs.

GM: It doesn't produce enough to reasonably sell as a profit in the current state of things though.

Faustus Galerius: Reading books manually is problematic for me due to my lack of hands.

Let the skull raise your kid

GM: But I'd say Gulielmus or anyone crafting with it can take a +2 materials bonus where pure water would be relevant.

Proclus of Rome: Interesting.

It was a fun adventure, Monty Haul.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah, I had fun.

johns: CONGRATULATIONS

Faustus Galerius: The skull is mostly an adventure treasure since I don't want to track his XP

johns: everyone comes in clapping

GM: thats good. i kept fucking up things because i dont know enough about the finer points of ars

Zita of Mercere: I now have a kill on my kill tracker too.

Bialas of Bjornaer: WOOO

johns: you are stained with murder.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I need to finish statting out my npcs.

GM: if anyone wants to run an adventure in the faerie regio feel free to

Zita of Mercere: Actually, it's a demon, so I'm not

I optimised my first kill

GM: i can give you examples on how it works

Beatrice Orsini : Wait with the Faerie regio until 1339, please

GM: ok

Beatrice Orsini : I want to play Artemisia in 38 since I didn't use her in 37

Bialas of Bjornaer: 1339 should be fun.

Faustus Galerius: Jorn will bring Artemisia back after his vacation in Avignon

Beatrice Orsini : This adventure brings me up to 13 Creo

It was worth getting burned horribly to get it

Zita of Mercere: In 1342 we can go to tribunal and try to get them to allow non-covenant sanctums, after we kill the pirates and colonise ponza in 1340 or w/e

GM: i thought about being really cruel and having it be the same damage as the spell

Zita of Mercere: Speaking of which we need to investigate that pirate

then kill him

GM: which could have potentially killed you outright

Beatrice Orsini : it was +10 damage

GM: because i didnt know you had small frame

johns: investigate deez nuts

Proclus of Rome: The microscope hasn't been invented yet!

Beatrice Orsini : I'll get personal ward against fire at some point

Zita of Mercere: You find an item: tiny pair of nuts

Proclus of Rome: Ha ha ha owned!

Beatrice Orsini : MuCo to shrink nuts

GM: proclus is going to hell for that one

a true savage

Beatrice Orsini : Proclus is already going to hell for being a wizard

johns runs away crying then deletes the game

Proclus of Rome: Phimosis is a disease so it would actually be PeCo.

Beatrice Orsini : I could give Proclus phimosis

Bialas of Bjornaer: Phimosis has nothing to do with the testicles.

Proclus of Rome: You could.

Beatrice Orsini : By cursing his ancestor Faustus' bloodline.

I did promise Prudenzio I'll name bloodline target leprosy spell after him.

Time to test it.

Proclus of Rome: Faustus won't be written for hundreds of years.

Faustus Galerius: I'm not THE Faustus so that's okay

I'm A Faustus.

Zita of Mercere: he's just a guy who happens to be a magical skull

its not a big deal

Beatrice Orsini : Let's use the king arthur lake as a model and make a faerie regio that's about proclus making a deal with a devil.

Faustus Galerius: I can't even rape retarded women, as I have not the organs

Zita of Mercere: Where there's a will, there's a way

Proclus of Rome: That is your right.

c'thinker: that seems like a lot of vis per year

Beatrice Orsini : The story is corrupted so the main character is Doctor Proclus combining Lavinia and Proclus into one person.

Proclus of Rome: It do.

Beatrice Orsini : We're running out of books to study, so it's time to start eating vis.

c'thinker: Maybe you should try being decapitated and rerolling.

then you can read all the same books over again

Beatrice Orsini : killing yourself is the only reasonable answer to playing bonisagus in this game

c'thinker: harsh but fair

GM: i felt that way too cumthinker but if you think about it our covenant has yet to discover the real 20 vis lake

Zita of Mercere: The virgin bonisagus. The chad trianoma.

GM: so this should tide us over until then

Beatrice Orsini : the one thing bonisagus are for: original research

Zita of Mercere: If Archibald dies I'm making a Criamon who specialises in self-transformation, follows the path of strife, and tries to make a hermetic breakthrough for permanent muto

c'thinker: let's get investigated by the quaesitores for suddenly throwing around 8 extra pawns of vis per year

Beatrice Orsini : Hermetic Breakthrough is impossible. Double with Criamon.

Zita of Mercere: The quaesitors get suspicious. We go from 0 to 8

Proclus of Rome: They aren't the IRS, we can just tell them to fuck off.

Beatrice Orsini : You get more warped with Abilities as Arts and you get breakthrough points for each point of warping you take while stabilizing your discovery.

Zita of Mercere: I dont think permanent muto would be a full hermetic breakthrough, itd be a minor or major. Probably major.

Beatrice Orsini : And Criamon have enigmatic wisdom to make them even more susceptible to twilight.

Proclus of Rome: Ok, see you guys later.

Beatrice Orsini : Would permanent Muto be just Rego though?

wouldn't

Zita of Mercere: Good night, Proclus

I wouldnt say so, since something like

giving yourself eyes of the cat, permanently, as a ritual somehow

isnt something rego does

Beatrice Orsini : that makes sense

but you could just make a mystery cult to initiate strong faerie blood. imagine what the script for that would be

Zita of Mercere: I was just thinking about how itd be a neat breakthrough for a weird transhumanist criamon renegade

Beatrice Orsini : criamon and merinita are worst at original research

since you have to take warping to do it

Zita of Mercere: Also itd be funny for combat to have powerful fists that combine with the path of strife and gib everyone you hit

Criamon love getting warped though, I thought

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

but you get more and more wapred

warped

so you get huge chance of final twilight

and with warping advancing on the arts scale, you're more warped compared to RAW even if it gets divided by 2 for twilight rolls

Zita of Mercere: Get this: entering final twilight on a criamon is the victory condition

Beatrice Orsini : not if you have other goals

Faustus Galerius: Hypatia's songs for Fall

Hypatia of Athens: The Cycle of Arcadius A collection of songs, designed to impart the wisdom of Hypatia's cult, telling the story of the hero Arcadius. She does not write them n order, but rather in the order that the major plot points occur to her.

The Death of Arcadius	9	Arcadius meets his hubris when he is stabbed by a spurned lover. Her first blow with the knife was deflected by his immunity, bending the blade. Laughing at her, he does not see the blade is now asymetrical, and she stabs him again, killing him.

Chapter One	9	Arcadius as a young man encounters a beautiful witch, while exploring the forest. In retribution for his tresspass, she forces upon him knowledge of his death, being pierced by an assymetrial blade. As following the curse of Cassandra, this knowledge is destined to bring it about.

She hits Artist Reputation +3 from those

Zita of Mercere: I looked up the Bombhurkan, that's a funny demon

It has one power. If you boast in front of it, it immediately uses a powerful ability to contradict it and ruin you

GM: yeah

Bialas of Bjornaer: Hahhh

That rules.

GM: i think endrite figured that out based on his responses

dude dfd an example given is a magus boasting about how good his parma is

and then a passing grog casting a pilum of fire and killing him in one hit

thats what bomburkhan can do

Bialas of Bjornaer: Now I feel like an asshole, I should have boasted, I'm Overconfident.

Hypatia of Athens: Talking to a demon is playing their game on their terms in most cases

GM: it uses up all of his might to do it though so hell fly off after

Hypatia of Athens: I didn't figure it out, I was close to saying "you cannot tempt me, demon"

GM: thats not really a boast

Zita of Mercere: That is a boast

GM: hm

i dont think itd work for him though

he cant give himself powers with it

Beatrice Orsini : I'm going to invent a powerful PeVi spell that has momentary duration and then torture demons by erasing them out of existence for an instant.

Hypatia of Athens: Or "my will is too strong a shield for you" then

GM: thatd work maybe

Zita of Mercere: You cannot tempt me demon would probably make him try and make another girl incredibly attractive to tempt the sapphist

GM: thats true actually

Zita of Mercere: Which wouldnt really work there since he has no penetration and Zita was hiding

which I believe is the second time I've accidentally sidestepped sapphistry on this character

Beatrice Orsini : I want a faerie familiar and out of Realms of Power, lesser nymph is the only appropriate power level.

Sorry, Hypatia.

Hypatia of Athens: Ooh

Zita of Mercere: time to do my seasons, because why not

Hypatia of Athens: Is next sessoin Spring 1338

Beatrice Orsini : RoP Faerie mentioning faeries get confused by magi since they don't have the same rites of passage as mundanes ftw

Faeries targeting adolescents pursue 90 year old magus because he's unmarried

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Beatrice Orsini : https://i.imgur.com/J4mM8lT.png

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think it matters much if there's a Winter 1337 adventure

Hypatia can do her rounds on an adventure season and not lose time

As long as we go somewhere in the Rome tribunal

Beatrice Orsini : Life Stages for Magi

The life stages through which magi

pass are different from those that mundane

people experience. Many faeries that seek

children as victims mistakenly assail magi,

because some magi have not been marked

Beatrice Orsini : as adults by rituals the faeries recognize, like

first communion or marriage. Other faeries

that interact with magi reflect their unusual

lifestyle by guarding the borders of the life

stages unique to Hermetic culture.

The first threshold is being taken as an

Beatrice Orsini : apprentice:

Black Faced Hermes: This faerie comes

down the chimney to take away unnatural

children, still abducts the Gifted and

leaves them at the doors of covenants.

The Mournful Maga: While growing up,

Beatrice Orsini : apprentices face the Mournful Maga, a

Bonisagus maga whose apprentices kept

dying in laboratory accidents, who tries

to steal the apprentices of other magi

when they travel from their covenants.

The Seducer: Just before the Gauntlet, an

Beatrice Orsini : apprentice may meet the Seducer, a faerie

that tempts him with a life of social

acceptance and domesticity.

Zita of Mercere: edited my older post and did zitas seasons, she now has +5 to teaching

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Zita of Mercere: though, on second thoughts, it might actually be better to get the skull to teach me teaching in that season

ill get more xp than from practice probably

Beatrice Orsini : does anyone remember how to convert paces into feet?

i need to figure out my fast travel speeds

Bialas of Bjornaer: 1 pace is 3 feet.

Beatrice Orsini : ok

Zita of Mercere: I now have +18 stealth, with puissance.

Hypatia of Athens: I managed +6 in my new cult by Winter 1337

Zita of Mercere: With 4 dex, and ways of the town, I roll 1d10+27 on stealth now

Beatrice Orsini : i need music and merinita house lore

Zita of Mercere: i believe that insane dc johns gave me before to steal a hat off someones head might be doable too

15 legerdemain, 4 dex, 5 from ways of the town

with a conf point its almost guaranteed

actually its guaranteed, nvm. zita has a confidence score of 2.

johns made it 30 so id never do it. now im already at a point where i can do it if need to

Beatrice Orsini : EF 30 would be 18 in RAW which is not actually huge

Zita of Mercere: Christ

Well it's huge now

Beatrice Orsini : you gain skills a bit faster with abilities as arts so EF 30 is a little less than EF 18 now

it tends to encourage overspecialization though

you need to get higher to have equal chances

Zita of Mercere: ive not massively overspecialised on zita, i think the 20 points of virtues helped a lot though

Beatrice Orsini : since rolls are almost meaningless now

yeah

Zita of Mercere: she has 15 in stealth and legerdemain but she still has good enough brawl to one-shot a demon with over 20 might

Beatrice Orsini : abilities as arts solves literally nothing and breaks a ton of things. all the improvements are due to other houserules

companions are fun since mythic companions are default

penetration is useful, since it's literally twice as powerful as it should be

Zita of Mercere: well zita actually is a mythic companion, even by raw

Bialas of Bjornaer: it solves not having to spend eight million points and 20 years to be "a good bow guy"

Beatrice Orsini : it doesn't

Bialas of Bjornaer: it creates the illusion of doing that.

Zita of Mercere: it doesnt because your enemies still use the same system

Bialas of Bjornaer: which is fine by me.

Zita of Mercere: see: trying to hit the cruciator with swords

see: trying to hit the red lord with swords

Beatrice Orsini : see: trying to use finesse to hit anything

Bialas of Bjornaer: Celeste hit both of those guys without a lot of problems and she's not even min-maxed for bows.

Zita of Mercere: She missed constantly and landed one hit on the red lord that fatigued him, iirc, cause they have like +35 to defence

Beatrice Orsini : and insane soak

Bialas of Bjornaer: She hit twice and then had to pick up Aristocritus' headless body.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah, 17 soak too

Beatrice Orsini : the only reason to use abilities as arts is to nerf wizards which is an insane goal in a game named ars magica

Zita of Mercere: I dont know how much bow you consider reasonable but even with 15 bow skill (very high), 3 dex, accuracy, etc thats not enough to reliably hit someone with +35 to defence

a bow is +4, so 22? taht wont hit him without a good explosion

... and even when it does, 17 soak

Bialas of Bjornaer: That's why I'm trying to give Bialas more moves that do direct Fatigue damage.

But yeah.

Zita of Mercere: I've been bumping up Zita's brawl so that she can at least damage someone if she stabs them

Stealth has been a lot more fun than I thought, I usually dislike it in ttrpgs but frankly being able to go where I like and stab people with zero defence is good fun

Beatrice Orsini : also, bumping exposure xp to 5 is something i've been exploiting as much as possible, but it completely breaks training

Bialas of Bjornaer: +21 defense is pretty insane even with the old scale.

Zita of Mercere: training is 6-8 now instead of 3-8, cause it has to be with exposure at 5

Beatrice Orsini : it should be old training value+3 to work, i think

so minimum of 7

Zita of Mercere: though with independent study zita can practice for 8xp in whatever she wants in a season, not too shabby

yeah id probably raise a fuss if i didnt have this virtue

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice has it too and it's going to be useful for mystery cults

have you seen the EF for making your own script to study?

Zita of Mercere: speaking of free xp generators, is there a virtue for getting bonus xp when you snort vis?

GM: ive added the spells you found in the scorlls

Beatrice Orsini : iirc, there is

Hypatia of Athens: Let me know what you figure out for creating new scripts, it seems like it's too hard if you multiply everythign by 5/3

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

https://i.imgur.com/J2Wwi4v.png

Hypatia of Athens: The d10 used to matter

Beatrice Orsini : i think just the 9 should be multiplied by 5/3

Bialas of Bjornaer: yeah.

Beatrice Orsini : the extra EF from script bonus should not

that is still insane but manageable, i think

Bialas of Bjornaer: Just the base EFs.

Multiplying totals seems ridiculous.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

you need like +10 script bonus usually

Bialas of Bjornaer: You don't multiply your entire attack roll by 5/3 after all.

Just the skill.

Beatrice Orsini : attack roll is abilitiy against ability

so nothing gets multiplied there

Hypatia of Athens: The d10 makes a big difference RAW

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Zita of Mercere: yeah theres some very weird stuff where its like, well.

EF 18 vs 30 is a difference of 12

Bialas of Bjornaer: actually i have a question, elif

Zita of Mercere: so you have to look at where that difference actually happens between the two systems to see where you can finally be as competent

Beatrice Orsini : i made a comparison table for it

Bialas of Bjornaer: nevermind

GM: alright. has anyone figured out how any of the houserules work yet

Beatrice Orsini : https://i.imgur.com/55c1xEu.png

Zita of Mercere: yeah, 21 skill

GM:  takes bite of apple

Hypatia of Athens: If scripts just used the invention rules they'd be great

Zita of Mercere: you need 21 in an ability before you can achieve something you could before

before that, youre worse

Bialas of Bjornaer: huh

Zita of Mercere: except that in the old system you could use attributes to help yourself

i mean for EF 30, dfd

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, attributes barely mattering is a problem

they do help with static things, though

Pre is still pretty good for mystery cult initiation

Bialas of Bjornaer: let's also multiply attributes by 5/3.



Zita of Mercere: right now zita is worse off than if she had abilities as abilities, is the thing. since she as 4 dex

but that 4 dex doesnt matter much its a gap of 12 youre stuck with

* when its

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Zita of Mercere: actually tbh any greater attribute is a total waste of a virtue now

BESIDES

int

and maybe stamina

Beatrice Orsini : I want to do mystery cult stuff, so presence is good

Bialas of Bjornaer: having 6 stamina is win

imo

Zita of Mercere: oh right yeah, pre helps directly there

communication helps with teaching too

Bialas of Bjornaer: because stamina gives you soak

Zita of Mercere: alright, ill rephrase it

stuff like greater strength, dex, quickness dont matter

Beatrice Orsini : Soak is also less useful.

Since combat skills are higher.

Hypatia of Athens: Right now I'm at +3 Pre +6 Cult Lore

Bialas of Bjornaer: True. Maybe I should have 44 Soak.

Zita of Mercere: 26 soak is enough to take the concept of combat and remove it

Beatrice Orsini : You're supposed to fight demons with PeVi.

Hypatia of Athens: The guy in the RAW example of inventing scripts has 9 skill 2 Pre

Bialas of Bjornaer: It worked.

Beatrice Orsini : But Beatrice literally can't now.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Even with a spont.

Beatrice Orsini : But I had to make the demon visible to you.

Zita of Mercere: i figured that out early on and did it, i just keep bumping into demons on zita and having to try and stab them

Beatrice Orsini : So my Magical Focus was useful.

Zita of Mercere: bumping up your second sight and making illusions to allow your allies to target them is actually a really good trick, imo

Beatrice Orsini : Making an Illusion of the Demon on the Demon so others can target it is a trick I should rememebr for the future.

Bialas of Bjornaer: that was really really cool.

Beatrice Orsini : I don't need second sight if i get a faerie familiar.

You share senses with them.

did you see the faerie senses virtue most faeries have

Zita of Mercere: it was a moment where someones magical focus suddenly let them turn the tables and win something we had no other solution to, which is the ideal ars moment

one of the ideal ars moments. the others are a 5 hour discussion about what to do with something

that ends in certamen

Beatrice Orsini : https://i.imgur.com/d1aQ4GF.png

Zita of Mercere: oh nice

Beatrice Orsini : https://i.imgur.com/2vQzCX6.png

Bialas of Bjornaer: nice

Beatrice Orsini : faerie familiar can also spend might to give you fatigue

it costs more when you're more fatigued, but still cool with a life boost

Zita of Mercere: im going to get an owl, because i dont have much pressing need to get a familiar for non-lab stuff but i really want to bump up my lab total to be able to do stuff like invent level 30 spells

Beatrice Orsini : the downside is that at best, they cost vis constantly and at worst they're temporary

archibald is spending a season on finding a familiar because he wants a beast of virtue, right?

Zita of Mercere: thatll be the plan later, yeah

not sure how immediately, since i also want to get the cords as good as possible the first time.

well. i guess they dont matter. bronze cord can be fuck all for now

devil's fav demon: twin peaks is really good everyone. im sorry to be off topic. but this was a great frickin show.

Zita of Mercere: silver cord is a joke, gold cord really only needs 1 or 2

Beatrice Orsini : cords cost the same to improve from 0 as from midway.

you just spend an extra season.

Zita of Mercere: yeah, i mean optimising to save a season

Beatrice Orsini : There's a Merinita mystery that makes Silver Cord good.

But only in RAW

Zita of Mercere: but realistically thats a dumb idea since the familiar grants a better lab total to bind the familiar

Beatrice Orsini : It gives you +1 to social interaction with Faeries per Cord Level

Zita of Mercere: nice

Beatrice Orsini : Which in RAW negates normal Gift at level 3

Zita of Mercere: it still works if cords work like arts. which they dont since thats insane and being reverted i imagine

what was boy rep THINKING

Beatrice Orsini : Gentle Gift + Alluring to Faeries + This Mystery

i don't know if you can take alluring to faeries without gentle gift, just with inoffensive to faeries.

The penalties to Negative Cords balancing Silver are also the least important.

Extra Botch in Infernal Aura that can get negated by other cords.

And social penalties to dealing with demons.

Hypatia of Athens: It's also weird that script bonuses raise the EF anyway since the bonuses aren't free

Beatrice Orsini : They're for making the script.

Not using it.

Hypatia of Athens: You have to quest for them, make a sacrifice, spend a season, and/or take on flaws

Beatrice Orsini : Yeah,

But the EF is for making a working script.

Enacting the script to gain the virtue is another thing.

Hypatia of Athens: It makes it so you might as well make a script with no bonuses and add them later

Until you're capable of using it

Beatrice Orsini : You have to use the script succesfully first before you can modify it.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh I see

Exposure not sucking at least makes Cult Lore somewhat attainable

Beatrice Orsini : you can practice cult lore

Hypatia of Athens: If you experiment in you rlab you can get both a discovery and exposure

Beatrice Orsini : discovery xp was nerfed in the houserules

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

Beatrice Orsini : Experimentation: When you roll a disaster on the extraordinary results chart you can avert it with a reflexive roll of d10!+perception against an ease factor of 9+(risk modifier). When rolling to determine the result of the disaster add the experiment's risk modifier but not your character's perception.

When you gain experience from an experimental discovery it's always exactly 3 points.

I don't get the reason for that except to nerf wizards getting lucky.

Hypatia of Athens: That's not great but it's something

Beatrice Orsini : It could give you enough xp to get to the next level.

Which was huge for mystery cult lore.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah, there's breakpoints if you have scripts from others

We could attempt to write up our own script experimentation system

Or at least fix the numbers

Beatrice Orsini : If only the base EF and not the script bonus gets multiplied, it's ok, I think.

Hypatia of Athens: Just halving the ability before rolling would possibly work

Beatrice Orsini : Keeping RAW EFs and halving the ability could work too

I don't have nearly enough Cult Lore for it to be relevant yet.

Hypatia of Athens: Multiplying the EF but not the script bonus is workable, I'd maybe do the math to see what the breakpoints are for that

I might go through and see what it takes to have a 50% chance of success based on everything goes up 5/3, just teh EF, and halve the ability

Cult Lore is one of those abilities that should never be your specialty anyway, so there's no need to reward mundane excellency in this case

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Hypatia of Athens: https://puu.sh/xqYS5/7d27d79d97.png

Beatrice Orsini : halve ability is more advantageous, but only multiply the base EF is more in line with the current rules

Hypatia of Athens: That last column is wrong but oh well

Oh wait I suppose its correct. Cult Lore becomes 6, +3 Int, 6-10 hits the EF

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, i always rounded up after halving

Hypatia of Athens: It takes 225XP to hit Ability 9 RAW which is enough for 20 in an Art

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

abilities as arts is slightly more advantageous

probably even more at higher levels

Hypatia of Athens: So sad as it is, multiplying Script Bonus AND base EF seems correct

At this level it saves you XP

Beatrice Orsini : at 1050 xp, abilities as arts is +3 over regular abilities

20 ability in RAW, 45 in abilities as arts

you usually need scripts around level +10 though

maybe even higher

Hypatia of Athens: It's one of those peculiarities about Ars in general, where it's easier to use something someone else wrote than to write it yourself, but it begs the question of how the original guy created it

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

you're trying out the script on other people, usually

you need 26 in cult lore to have 50% chance for a +12 script

Hypatia of Athens: I need the virtue myself I want from the first script so its reasonable to try at 16

Beatrice Orsini : I was planning on finding an ancient lost script and modify it, since it's the only way besides impossible original research

and there's enough in the books to suggest that it's something Merinita knew

Hypatia of Athens: I could run an adventure if people want to find lost knowledge

Beatrice Orsini : It would take some time.

I need Animae and Glamour first.

But in general, I think Beatrice is going to decide that Quendalon was wrong in trying to become a faerie and look for original knowledge left behind by Merinita.

Looking for the 7th cord to bind a familiar.

(From johns (GM)): (GM)

Setting Soak, Dodge, Block, Attack, Damage, showplayers_name to 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 for characters Bonfilia of Verditius, Proclus of Rome, Lavinia of Jerbiton, Lodewig of Tytalus, Marco of Mercere, Venator ex Misc, Aristocritus Bonisagi, Esther, Masini, Covenfolk, Magus, Man, Ferris of Bonisagus, Aleseta of Bonisagus, Brunisenda, Saint Simon Zealot, Rabble, Benedetti, Milo of Guernicus, Ildebrando, Orsini Family, Annibaldi Family, Colonna Family, Conti Family, Frangipani Family, Savelli Family, Magvillus Covenant, Verdi Covenant, Literatus Covenant, Harco Covenant, Rellantali Covenant, Luctatio Covenant, Potestas Covenant, Sansaron Covenant, Sir Sebaste the Steward, Walrad the Chamberlain, Turb Captain Luca, Giacopo, Hugo di Capocci, Claude, Alenardo di Capocci, Klybutes of Tytalus, Isabella di Capocci, Nun, Torquato di Conti, Baronessa Marta, Fra Abel, Gaetano, Jacapo, Philip di Carbognano, Andronicus of Jerbiton, Snake, Falcon, Knight, Merlin, Captain Cavaleri, Man at Arms, Thug, Orbus of Criamon, Diana of Mercere, Skeleton, Magister Arigiano, Foolish Bones, Craven Sods, Agrippina of Criamon, Gozzoli of Mercere, Rat, Rat King, Spider Matriarch, Spiderlings, Potom Flos, Emilio the Baker, Tim the Graverobber, Mercenary, Carelia, Captain Folpert, Elena, Piccardo, Argosus, Bishop Savelli, Arsizio, Cupid, Sailor, Spectre, Paul the Demagogue, Steward, Guiseppi "Gaius" Chandler, Eli the Pawnbroker, Desiderio di Genzano, Gioberto Calzolaio, Sir Pamphili I, Vilfredo, Voda, Archibald of Guernicus, Legionary, Lady Pamphili, Priest, Vardian's Tomb, Peasant, Fra Rinaldo, Cardinal, Bishop, Beggar, Madman, Blasio, Old Man, Pilgrim, Shadowy Figure, Ombra Cadaveri, Sir Oak, Penitent, Kabshiel, Hauteville, Minstrel, Squire, Muttley, Letta, Dog, Villagers, Merchant, Monk, Abbot, Innkeeper, Saint Victor Maurus, Cierella, Goblin, Grumpy Goblin, Heliste of Tytalus, Pig, Asp, Wolf, Kestrel, Bear, Rabbit, Cat, Pike, Crow, Mouse, Queen's Champion, Horse, Deer, Ram, Otter, Amenea, Owl, Sofia Handmaiden, Muzio the Bastard, Silvano the Scrivener, Raffanio, Sahir Hakim Kemal, Selim, Pirate, Sailor, Ighraq al-Siq, al-Qatil, Adhamh Brathair, Jabir Al-Qazwini, Domenici Viterbo, Edwin Locke, Dorothy Anning, Enki of Verditius, The Gilt Knight, Giulia di Capocci, Archer, Lord Farnese, Hannelore, Orsu Paganacci, House Capocci, Patrician, Alberico III da Romano, Nunzio, Abbot Abramo, Prior Goffredo, Brother Ugo, Brother Tiberio, Brother Ilario, Brother Donato, Brother Basilio, Benedictine Monk, Subiaco Abbey, Ariam the Ethiop, Crass, Prudenzio of Flambeau, Old Woman, Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta, Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi, Father Patrizio, Young Gaetano, Father Uallachán, Bog Monster, Two-Head Vulture, Nevio, Beatrice Orsini, Lady Gracia St. Daune, Rogier St. Daune, Father Tomas, Eloisa, Bishop Guerau Berasc, Valentin, Galafre the Elder, Mengarda, Sir Vital, Watchman, Guildmaster Scapa, Perrin, Grigori, Zita of Mercere, Silver Lady, Pandius, Pseudoelemental, Skeleton, Pixie, Miner, Tancred, Otto, Helga, Iron Pig, Portius, Aramitz, Father Braun, Guardsman, Renato Bufalini, Bufalini Knight, Arthis, Fabius Ex Misc, Giacinta, Giant Wolf, Wolf, White Wolf, Magister Schiavone, Celeste, Flavio Bonaccorso, Malachiasz of Tytalus, Sir Pamphili II, Jehan the Leper, Rabbi Aharon ben Efrayim, Abraam ben Isaac, Imanitosa of Verditius, Aurora of Mercere, Karantia of Tremere, Tolas of Tremere, Exileratus of Flambeau, Julius Trianoma, Anson of Bonisagus, Zayd, Caretaker Marcus, Smiling Simon, Baron Rafael Frangipani, Invidia of Merinita, Diarmuid, Perkunos Bjornaer, Jeanne de Ys, Traveling Monk, Ailuros, Maahes Tyreos, Teschio the Teamster, Grosso the Servant, Pugnalo the Laborer, Giacco, M. Andrea Savelli, Elijah of Mercere, Renard of Flambeau, Napolino, Crossbowman, Swordsman, Pikeman, Champion, Annibaldi Guard, Annibaldi Crossbowman, Annibaldi Soldier, Annibaldi Henchman, Paolo Annabaldi, Harpalos of Verditius, Maze Beast, Red Knight 1, Red Knight 3, Red Knight 2, Hell Mastiff, Condottieri, Slattern, Bella, Tanolfi, Tünde, Giraldo of Milan, Giancarlo di Cantalice, Adelberto Ordelaffi, Giacomo Malatesta, Kifaaya of Verditius, Leopard, Father Carlo, Blacksmith, Joseph, Elizabeth, Master Clothier, Anton, Master Smith, Peter, Master Merchant, Simon, Master Builder, Beast, Cutthroat Claudio, Sister Gwenneth, Pacifico, Minotaur, Gorvio, Severin of Tytalus, Carved Assassin, Entanglement, Peripeteia, Cruciator, Aristide of Tremere, Thaddeus, Lycelleus Covenant, Violante the Herbwife, "Blind Man" Villani, Jorn of Merinita, Father Guthrie, Gyro the Gnome, Hypatia of Athens, Ignacio the Penitent, Savelli's Canons, Anthemia Mercere, Ilbrago, Pepus, Zachaois the Stiff, Jadwiga Ex Misc, Brown Wind, Apprentice Eduardo, Bialas of Bjornaer, Dannato Capra, Pellew the Tinker, Gulielmus ex Miscellanea, Hork, Etna Covenant, Queen Desdemona, Slua, Hospitaller Knight, Artemisia, Seasoned Warrior (Viking Ghost), Young Warrior (Viking Ghost), Chieftain's Bodyguard (Viking Ghost), Chieftain (Viking Ghost), Advisor, Lino, Viking Ghost, Berserker (Viking Ghost), Untested Youth (Viking Ghost), Zavkhan, Daimon of Tengri, Bolad, Máriu Puddu, Bialas the Bear, Atlas ex Tytalus, Thug, Fat, Thug, Skinny, Accusing woman, Young scholar, Ferrando, Sister Aurelia, Gordiano of Bonisagus, GM, Lady of the Lake, Leper, Mysterious Female Magus, Faustus Galerius.

Shauncat (GM): Aging roll for Jorn

rolling d10

(

4

)

=

4

Proclus of Rome: How much XP did we earn for selling Aristide into slavery?

dys (GM): 7 iirc Proclus, think I said in the thread

Proclus of Rome: Ok thanks, I don't read the thread.

What about the adventure where we found THUSANDS of vis sources underneath the covenant?

Was that 7 or 8?

Hafl T.: 7

Proclus of Rome: Ok, thanks.

Alright time for AN EXPERIMENT!

Rolling the Lab Total boost die.

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

Nice.

Rolling on the Experiment table.

Hafl T.: proclus gets engulfed in a perfectly symmetrical explosion and does not die

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10!

(

3

)

=

3

Actually, nothing unusual happens.

Wow, what safety.

Shauncat (GM): After a year of abstracted activity, Jorn is invited to join the Neo-Mercurians, and starts another year of abstracted activity.

Proclus of Rome: The Neo-Mercurians?

Hafl T.: they can target roads with their magic

Shauncat (GM): Also they accept Odin worship as a variant of Mercury worship.

Proclus of Rome: Wow very interesting.

Also please take a long look into the well and don't look behind you.

Shauncat (GM): Well I do love to observe stone constructs, but I guess I should cast Rise of the Feathery Body in advance. Never know what can happen around these rickety folk constructs.

Archibald of Guernicus: Just obtain Malach's fabled immunity to fall damage

Shauncat (GM): That'd be a good immunity to have

Archibald of Guernicus: It was

Proclus of Rome: For a clown to have.

Hafl T.: momentum does not exist, just fast cast teleport yourself to the ground

Proclus of Rome: At the circus.

Shauncat (GM): Well some clowns walk tightropes at the circus, so sure

Proclus of Rome: Rolling aging.

Shauncat (GM): Getting Fast-Cast on Rise of the Feathery Body might be smart

Archibald of Guernicus: Going for a walk before the session. If I don't return I died.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10!

(

2

)

=

2

Lucky.

Shauncat (GM): RIP dys, caught by a roving rape gang right before Archibald's greatest triumph

devil's fav demon: rolling aging

rolling 1d10!+1

(

10

+

9

)

+1

=

20

hell yes.

looks like i need to come up with a new longevity ritual or find a better one.

oh wow, i assumed that would just be a crisis. just under the limit by 2. whew.

Proclus of Rome: I'm looking at the houserules here and it says a roll of 20 makes you explode.

devil's fav demon: you must have a different copy.