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Boy R. (GM):Cleared the chat archive johns (GM):Grazi Boy R. (GM):Also: open up one of your character files and go to the character sheet tab johns (GM):Attributes & Abilities? Boy R. (GM):you don't get a tab between bio and attributes? johns:i see it now, had to be player mode cool! lol Boy R. (GM):props to roll20, i didn't knowthey had all this crap johns:yeah you can upload your own tracks now, the jukebox doesnt link to soundcloud johns (GM):cheers rolling 1d10!-7 Aging '62 ( 8 ) -7 =1 rolling 1d10!+4 Study Vis '63 ( 5 ) +4 =9 rolling 1d10!-7 Aging '63 ( 6 ) -7 =-1 rolling 1d10!+2 bolad aging '60 ( 9 ) +2 =11 rolling 1d10!+2 bolad aging '61 ( 9 ) +2 =11 johns (GM):rolling 1d10!+2 bolad aging '62 ( 10 + 9 ) +2 =21 rolling 1d10!+2 bolad aging '63 ( 5 ) +2 =7 devil's fav demon (GM):rolling 1d10!+10-1 Highly Organized roll, Magic Theory + Int, 1361 ( 1 ) +10-1 =10 lol. rolling 1d10 botch check ( 1 ) =1 nice. Hidden Defect flaw gained. rolling 1d10+3 Faithful trait for Spotless virtue ( 1 ) +3 =4 devil's fav demon (GM):lmfao. okay, what the h ell rolling 1d10!-9 Rosario aging 1362 ( 10 + 5 ) -9 =6 this is fine but the fucking rng. im pushing the buttons. rolling 1d10!-9 Rosario aging 1363 ( 9 ) -9 =0 devil's fav demon (GM):rolling 1d10!-3 Bakir aging ( 8 ) -3 =5 rolling 1d10!-3 Bakir aging ( 9 ) -3 =6 Alphubel ex Merinita:Experimenting on inventing a spell. + 1 Risk modifier. rolling 1d10 Lab Total bonus ( 4 ) =4 Rolling Extraordinary Results rolling 1d10! ( 4 ) =4 Plus 1. Side Effect. Alphubel ex Merinita:rolling 1d10 ( 8 ) =8 This spell has a major side effect. Rolling to gain the Highly Organized lab virtue. rolling 1d10! + 2 + 5 ( 1 ) +2+5 =8 rolling 1d10 botch check ( 2 ) =2 Rolling to gain the Spotless virtue, like that'll keep with all these pixies. Alphubel ex Merinita:rolling 1d10! ( 7 ) =7 devil's fav demon (GM):Warning everyone I have to make food for my stepmom since its mothers day and i forgot. i might be a little late and not get here at exactly 1. Shauncat (GM):rolling d10!-5 aging 1362 ( 6 ) -5 =1 rolling d10!-5 aging 1363 ( 9 ) -5 =4 1 year Guy of Bonisagus:rolling 1d10!-13 ( 4 ) -13 =-9 Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-5 ( 8 ) -5 =3 rolling 1d10!-5 ( 3 ) -5 =-2 rolling 1d10!-5 ( 7 ) -5 =2 johns (GM):hey dys any thoughts on what lavinia got after meeting neptune Endrite (GM):Well, Neptune is the God of the Sea, Sailors, and Homosexuality, so probably GRID. johns (GM):That would be an Anachronism. devil's fav demon (GM):I got here on time. Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-5 ( 5 ) -5 =0 Endrite:Hmm. devil's fav demon (GM):Guess the old restaurant timing doesnt always fade away. Alphubel ex Merinita:Can I get a Grand Entrance for my laboratory, you know, while we're fixing up the covenant. johns:i feel that conflicts with the existing setup Alphubel ex Merinita:It might. dys:my thought is that whichever designer saw how twilight worked and decided "we need to have less rules than this" for augustans can suck it devil's fav demon (GM):lol Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-5 ( 9 ) -5 =4 Alphubel ex Merinita:But there are obviously stairs up to the lab, so there's room for improvement in that regard. devil's fav demon (GM):invent an elevator. dys:my genuine suggestion is that it should just work like twilight does for hte purpose of gaining warping + using those warping points to determine what your reward is devil's fav demon (GM):i agree tbh. johns:should I add the simple die of warp points like twilight does? that sucks for me because the faster I warp the faster I die devil's fav demon (GM):i think anyone playing a gifted wizard should probably be affected by the realm the same way johns:nah dfd every lineage has a different form of twilight Alphubel ex Merinita:It isn't like Lavinia does that much spellcasting anyway. dys:thats the same for everyone and you're going to be entering this less than magi are hitting twilight anyway johns:fine rolling 1d10 extra warp ( 10 ) =10 thanks bitch devil's fav demon (GM):lol. Alphubel ex Merinita:Got 'em. dys:lol johns:that's 13 warp total on that event then devil's fav demon (GM):warping is ftw. dys:lemme consult the table Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-5 ( 3 ) -5 =-2 johns:that would be a major virtue at least devil's fav demon (GM):doesnt lavinia just start falling asleep a lot and having weird dreams and seeing ghosts as she gets more warping or something johns:thats at level 7 at 10 she dies devil's fav demon (GM):lol rip. dys:10+ warping is a major virtue, yes devil's fav demon (GM):someone stop lavinia she's becoming too powerful dys:Lemme open Rival Magic real quick devil's fav demon (GM):in the end, lavinia stops lavinia Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-5 ( 5 ) -5 =0 dys:Unfortunately the Ghostly Warder virtue suggests a spirit rather than a ghost, so it cant be the ghost of Aristocritus. devil's fav demon (GM):gah Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-5 ( 3 ) -5 =-2 johns:lavinia can already summon up spirits to do her bidding so that would be kinda lame dys:Yeah that's also why I'm not giving her greater immunity (drowning) because, well its a solved problem johns:that would be fine actually devil's fav demon (GM):it would free up some magic items for the rest of us. johns:having it as an innate virtue instead of an item Endrite (GM):Yeah, it's great. devil's fav demon (GM):she should also have gills. dys:It would be? My other suggestion was going to be Death Prophecy (the sea) devil's fav demon (GM):lol Endrite:Death Prophecy: The GM johns:i already have Death Prophecy: Guy of BOnisagus Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-5 ( 8 ) -5 =3 dys:Neptune proclaims that no others will take Lavinia before he has his dues. Giraldo of Milan:ohh hehe devil's fav demon (GM):thats pretty cool. dys:I'm inclined towards death prophecy, do any other storyguides want to weigh in Alphubel ex Merinita:Now here's another questions: is the tree a Dedicated Building? Obviously there aren't any other labs or anything else in it, but it might be too small to qualify. devil's fav demon (GM):i like death prophecy yeah i thought your lab was just built among the branches, not carved into it. johns:if it's a death prophecy I don't want it to be one the other players know because there is already a risk of Pk going on here. haha. devil's fav demon (GM):lol johns:yes alphubel Alphubel ex Merinita:Noice. I should probably sleep under it. devil's fav demon (GM):i think it would be fun for you to get death prophecy the sea and then die in a way that doesnt involve drowning. johns:well dys is the gm so it's up to him, I won't be picky. thats obnoxious of me sorry. Alphubel ex Merinita:It's impossible to die in a way that doesn't involve your Death Prophecy! That's the point of the prophecy! devil's fav demon (GM):you can die from a really big wave hitting you. or something. dys:I think the death prophecy is more thematic of a powerful entity picking a grudge with you. Alphubel ex Merinita:Well sure. Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-4 ( 4 ) -4 =0 dys:If virgilian twilight is meant to be like a greek/latin epic and one of the gods declares themselves an enemy of you. (To dys): Ok, which do I put on my sheet, Death Prophecy Neptune or Sea johns:badass devil's fav demon (GM):Making her immune to drowning would be like if Neptune wanted to fuck her, also a good story. johns:Hope someone is writing a good book about Lavinia' (From dys): The sea. (To dys): Thanks. dont tell bearbdeard since he's planning to kill me. Alphubel ex Merinita:Noice. 4 Aesthetics already! (From dys): Lol. I wasnt really thinking about pvp stuff when I blurted all this out, sorry. Surely he wont metagame it. devil's fav demon (GM):I'm fine with either tbh. Death prophecy is better to me as a gm since i dont have to worry about accidentally killing lavinia until its a sick and cool moment to do so, but immune to drowning benefits me more as a player becasue item boy wants more cash shop items johns:The Aesthetic gamer. dys:Ghostly Warder (Juno) Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!-4 ( 6 ) -4 =2 devil's fav demon (GM):Guy is probably writing a book about Lavinia. Alphubel ex Merinita:Immunity is always fun because you can really abuse them. Giraldo of Milan:okay giraldo is up to date johns:Nice Let's kill some beasts devil's fav demon (GM):"This Stupid Bitch I Hate, And All The Other Idiots I Hate" by guy of bonisagus dys:He's writing a book about Lavinia where he just keeps scribbling down "she's at it again" Giraldo of Milan:he now has 8 great weapon and 7 infernal lore devil's fav demon (GM):nice Alphubel ex Merinita:Like by making a spell that fills every room you walk into with water so everyone but you drowns. johns:sick bb Giraldo of Milan:and a bunch of other abilities up to +3 devil's fav demon (GM):giraldo can now almost not lose in a fair non-magical duel against rosario johns:watch out rosario, he's a kickspammer devil's fav demon (GM):lol Giraldo of Milan:lol he is 64 years old and is still in his prime devil's fav demon (GM):rosarios next magical item is going to be a gauntlet that spawns a shield. lol Giraldo of Milan walks into the covenant storage room and tosses 4 more bloody horseshoes into a pile. devil's fav demon (GM):lol Giraldo of Milan:"Resuming patrol." johns:make an item that spawns a naked guy who runs around chucking firebombs at your enemies devil's fav demon (GM):rofl. johns:does he have an aging ritual? devil's fav demon (GM):who, giraldo hes probably fae blooded Giraldo of Milan:strong faerie blood and he takes baths devil's fav demon (GM):fae blood is how celeste still got away with having an attractive token while being a 50 year old man its op, frankly. Octavia:Fairy Blood ftw Felipe Calendar:"Are you absolutely sure we can't cut down this tree?" Octavia:we're the fayest building in town Alphubel ex Merinita:"Y... yes," I say while looking at Felipe's ear. Felipe Calendar frowns moe:sorry sorry johns:welcome gamer Belzer of Mercere takes a bite of kugel Felipe Calendar:"Can you at least stop talking to it during construction? It's smacking my men with the branches when it bends around. Someone could get hurt!" Alphubel ex Merinita:"No." "Maybe you c... could build a fence around it." devil's fav demon (GM):dont worry moe, you got here pretty much when we started, i'm still trying to figure out how to get things rolling. Felipe Calendar:"You're impossible!" He turns and storms toward the catacomb stairs. "LAVINIAAA!" Dusan of Criamon:so if i'm seeing these things right Villa Vardian isn't quite done yet Giraldo of Milan:laviniaaaa Lavinia:I ascend. Dusan of Criamon:also now there's a russian flambeau at the covenant which is amazing and excellent Lavinia:"Yes, Felipe?" Belzer of Mercere:"What about some sort of ward? Oh right, the plant magic doesn't work well right now." Felipe Calendar points at Alphubel and his tree. Dusan of Criamon:if he's not statted up yet, I could try my hand at doing his sheet/playing him Felipe Calendar:"He's making it very hard to work!" Lavinia:"Oh dear... Those mischievous Merinita. What is it now?" Felipe Calendar:"If only we could cut this tree down. Or maybe you could get your allies to move it somewhere with magic." Lavinia:"The tree is meant to dominate the inner courtyard, though." Giraldo of Milan pulls an apple from the tree and resumes patrol. Felipe Calendar:"Every time that young magus is there, the tree bends to greet him! What if it knocks one of my workers off a ladder?" "He refused to stop speaking to it during work hours, after all." Lavinia:does alphubel have no way into the tree except by making it bend down to lift him up? Alphubel ex Merinita:There used to be stairs but they were torn down with the rest of the inn. I wasn't actually aware that the tree was this magical. Lavinia:"Alphubel, can't you use a ladder?" Belzer of Mercere:Hmm Alphubel ex Merinita:"Why?" Lavinia:"It'd be polite, and we're supposed to be polite to honored guests." Belzer of Mercere:"Might be a faerie. I don't think faerie plants are having the same issue as magic plants." Alphubel ex Merinita:"That would, would be rude to the tree." "Hospitality is an important virtue, you know." Lavinia:"The tree is young and will have many, many years to stoop and dance and bow once the construction of the villa is finished." "But as a young tree, it also needs to learn manners. You don't want it to grow up spoiled do you?" Alphubel ex Merinita:"I think stairs would be more safe. Let me ask the tree." rolling 1d10 + 4 + 4 + 1 vs InHe 10 ( 4 ) +4+4+1 =13 I ask it if stairs would be too inconvenient. Covenfolk:"Hey, watch it!" a worker ducks. Alphubel ex Merinita:Green mushrooms with pink polka dots sprout at my feet. GM:i was going to say something but im not sure if trees even know what stairs are. Alphubel ex Merinita:It used to be near some stairs. Dusan of Criamon:please consider the option i posted in the discord GM:Excellent. "Just don't put any nails into me. Those things scare me." the tree says. Alphubel ex Merinita:Turning the covenant into a drawing eh? I like it. Sounds good to me. Dusan of Criamon:"Fear not, dear tree, we also have our issues with having nails driven through our bodies." Alphubel ex Merinita:"There's your answer." Lavinia:though, it would be funny to put the golden nail in it. Alphubel ex Merinita:Nobody else can hear the tree unless they also can speak to a tree. Lavinia:"The mushrooms are the answer?" GM:That's a cool idea dusan Alphubel ex Merinita:"Oh, yes, hmm. Just build stairs around it. Don't, uh, use any nails though." Dusan of Criamon:nice Felipe Calendar looks frustrated Felipe Calendar:"I'll add it to the bill, then." Lavinia:"Of course, Felipe." "Thank you for being so accomodating." Octavia:ees not so bad, eh Felipe Calendar walks off to roust his workers away from the canteen tent where Particella is selling them wine and running card and dice games. Giraldo of Milan:hey felipe, the nice safe jobsite i prepared for you isnt turning out quite as planned Felipe Calendar:"New job! Get this done and you stop getting hit by the tree, boys!" Dusan of Criamon:I'll always miss the old inn Giraldo of Milan:im going to miss archibald Lavinia:think of al lthe great memories we had, like when prudenzio was brutally murdered, and fabius was almost murdered, and GM:the workers bedgrudgingly start cutting and fitting frames for a stone spiral stair etc. Alphubel ex Merinita:And the disastrous dinner party that murdered our reputation. Particella scampers away in another direction Particella:anyone want to follow him or annoy the worksite Dusan of Criamon:I merely assure the tree that we won't be perforating it if i am unable to communicate with the tree, I do so anyway Lavinia:I'll hang out with Felipe and watch art in the making. Alphubel ex Merinita:I'll go back to my lab and get the pixies to throw things at Dusan until he leaves. Felipe Calendar:Felipe stands by Lavinia's side and happily chats her up about architecture and emperors. Dusan of Criamon:I accept your advice, and leave Felipe Calendar:"You know there's a new Latin Emperor of Constantinople?" he chuckles. "Right down there in Taranto. He's a fun one at parties, but he's not taking the title seriously." Lavinia:"Why would he? He'd be an Emperor with no Empire." Felipe Calendar:"He's got Achaea." "And, uh, one city in Italy." Dusan of Criamon:felipe confirmed for mapgamer Felipe Calendar:"I'm thinking of staying with him for a while after this job is over, anyway. Maybe I can convince him to spend some of his inheritance on a palace." Lavinia:"Oh, wouldn't that be dangerous? They're all murderers and tyrants in Joanna's court." Dusan of Criamon:hah Felipe Calendar:"If they could be united against the world instead of murdering and terrorizing each other, they'd be set to take on anyone." "No harm in bringing some Augustan influence." Lavinia:is felipe gentle or normal gifted Felipe Calendar:Normal, but he's also always dressed in a filthy apron and covered in clay and mud etc. Rosario isn't exactly secure about where he's keeping the illegal parma text, it's just wrapped in a blanket in his lab. >_> Lavinia:"You have the natural born charm of a leader, to be sure. But you'd be one commoner competing against a whole court of established nobles. Why don't you put your skills to work in the Order of Hermes? There everyone starts as an equal -- it is so much more rife for schemers and plotters, and they already have more domains than any King or Emperor standing today." Alphubel ex Merinita:You have the hands of an illusionist. Lavinia:apparently not, b ecause Virgilian magic has no Imaginem Felipe Calendar:"I've never liked equal odds, but you make a good point about property..." "These hermetic magi, they love towers. I could build a hundred of them..." Lavinia:"You'd already have one ally at your side. That's more than most magi, shut-ins with no appreciation of society and aesthetics, can claim." Felipe Calendar begins staring into the middle distance Felipe Calendar:"No appreciation of aesthetics?" He snaps back to it. Octavia:You could recommend him to Literatus, he'd fit in well there. Felipe Calendar:"Hmm." Octavia:Also maybe they'd hate us 1% less Felipe Calendar:"Maybe not a hundred towers..." Lavinia:does Anna of Verditius want towers Felipe Calendar notices the sun Felipe Calendar:"Shit, look at the time! I'll be back on the site before it's dark. It was wonderful talking to you, as always, Lavinia." Octavia:A tower is pretty worthless underwater, I'm afraid. Felipe Calendar:He tosses his apron over a bench and heads off somewhere. Lavinia:"Always a pleasure, Felipe." it looks cool what else is needed GM:Does anyone follow Mr Calendar? He's heading off in a pretty big hurry Dusan of Criamon:would you say it is prudent for us to send some incognito bodyguards after him Lavinia:Do you not trust our honored guest Dusan of Criamon:purely for his own safety, and that of our investment in him Giraldo of Milan:appear GM:It's up to you, really. Giraldo of Milan:giraldo can track him and move quietly and kill him as needed Lavinia:Hmm. well he does have a habit of getting caught in plots that end up with people trying to kill him when he's not monitored c'thinker:lets get some exotic birds to stand under the pomegranate tree. Dusan of Criamon:okay, good, just not the last bit Giraldo of Milan:no promises (To GM): I would like to follow invisibly as well Dusan of Criamon:i couldn't ask for more GM:Vardian's Tomb: Okay, Giraldo. We need you to track this person, sneak into their home undetected without waking up their baby, and steal this th- Giraldo: "Kill the baby. Got it." (From GM): sounds good Dusan of Criamon:Joseph Smith, do not kill a baby Alphubel ex Merinita:He's reliable that way. Lavinia:ill be very cross if someone kills Fel (sentence is interrupted by loud squelching sound of giraldo removing felipe's head fgrom his neck) Felipe Calendar:lol c'thinker:lol Giraldo of Milan:hey it doesnt hurt derfel c'thinker:thats true. how is giraldo to know that it doesnt work on other people Giraldo of Milan:ookay. giraldo can shadow felipe and will not do him violence unless absolutely necessary wheres derfels seasons,cumthinker Felipe Calendar:Felipe is darting down alleys and doubling back and so on. If he isn't aware he's being followed, he's practicing good technique in case he might be. please roll uh, hunt, or stealth, or another skill you might find appropriate. Lavinia:derfel's seasons are "that place" Giraldo of Milan:hmm will dex + hunt work Dusan of Criamon:the most dangerous prey (said of a man covered in clay and mud) Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+5 ( 3 ) +5 =8 wow! (From Felipe Calendar): you roll awareness at a lower EF to follow giraldo without losing him Felipe Calendar:was that dex + hunt Giraldo of Milan:yes Lavinia:a regular gifted guy in the city should have a bunch of dogs growling at him and cats hissing and such as he passes Felipe Calendar:lol Lavinia:(To GM)rolling 1d10!+2+0 per+aware ( 8 ) +2+0 =10 Giraldo of Milan:i can also do dex + stealth, or perception + hunt Felipe Calendar:you make a good point. that apron probably has a lot of bird shit on it too. 8 is fine, he's not like a master at this. c'thinker:are we getting a stargazing tower Felipe Calendar:you're following an old man with a limp who is leaving dirty footprints around Dusan of Criamon:it would be apt to do so Lavinia:yeah there's a tower in the building i copied the prints from Giraldo of Milan:is he a demon Felipe Calendar:You see Felipe turn down a narrow alley. If he turns around, it would be hard to avoid notice. Giraldo of Milan:hmm Lavinia:https://imgur.com/HOxfsEh Felipe Calendar:Gimme a Stealth roll if you go further than peering down the alley after him Lavinia:we could make the tower taller if alphubel doesnt mind it putting shade on his tree c'thinker:well we're gonna have a bird tower right. Giraldo of Milan:is the alleyway roofed. can i ascend the buildings and follow him from there c'thinker:what if we had... two towers Lavinia:o_O c'thinker:instantly making us the most powerful nobles in rome Felipe Calendar:yeah you could follow him from above if you Assassin's Creed it. the alley is narrow but open to the sky. roll Athletics. Lavinia:wrong franchise giraldo!!!!!! Alphubel ex Merinita:Making anything taller than the tree is a dangerous prospect. c'thinker:he's gonna GTA: San Andreas it Giraldo of Milan:okay i haul myself up to the roofs rolling 1d10!+5 ( 8 ) +5 =13 Felipe Calendar:Score. Dusan of Criamon:whenever someone asks you what Ars Magica is about, you can now say it's "witcher meets asscreed" c'thinker:we could put the aviary and the observatory in the tree Felipe Calendar:Giraldo does smooth Ubisoft parkour up the side of the building. Alphubel ex Merinita:You can't, it's my laboratory. Lavinia:and you konw what dusan. theyd be absolutely right c'thinker:we could poison the tree Alphubel ex Merinita:On your own head be it. Octavia:to thine own self be true [poisons a tree] Felipe Calendar:Felipe makes his way to the other end of the alley. A hooded man with a cart and horse is waiting for him. The cart is covered with a tarp, but it's carrying some kind of large cylindrical object. Giraldo of Milan:How big? Felipe Calendar:pretty big. it's sticking past the ends of the one-horse cart. larger than a person. Giraldo of Milan:does the carp drape over the end too? tarp even Felipe Calendar:yeah, it's tucked around the thing. Lavinia:its the barrel containing the pickled remains of Frederick barbarossa and felipe is going to use necromancy to awaken the Once and Future King Felipe Calendar:lol. Giraldo of Milan:hm. ill find a good perch to watch them and try to listen in. Felipe Calendar:Felipe hands the man a sack and you hear the clink of money. also gimme an awareness roll. Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+6 ( 10 + 7 ) +6 =23 Felipe Calendar:lmao nice. Giraldo of Milan presses X to eavesdrop. Felipe Calendar:Giraldo activates witcher vision (From Felipe Calendar): you just get close enough to hear them as well pretty easily since its dark and you're invisible. Felipe Calendar:You recognize the voice, and come to think of it you recognize the shape of the hooded man's body. It's Particella! Alphubel ex Merinita:Wow! Giraldo of Milan:wa. wa. wahoo Dusan of Criamon:oh my god Felipe Calendar:"Here, I've brought your payment. How many of these can you get for me?" Particella:"Baby, don't worry, I've got my contacts, but doing this on the sly is gonna take some time. Maybe one a month if you're lucky." Particella rubs his fingers together in the universal "money" gesture Felipe Calendar:"Fantastic. Go get the men a round on me. I'll be back after I drop this off." Felipe and Particella part. Felipe takes the horse and begins to lead the cart somewhere in Rome. Particella starts to creep back to the Tomb. Giraldo of Milan:particella will be easier to get a hold of so ill follow felipe (To GM): I'll follow Felipe Giraldo of Milan:i just want to confirm whats being sold Felipe Calendar:Felipe rides slowly for several hours. You smell the sea on the air. Felipe wheels the cart into a run-down building. After he unhitches the cart and stows it inside, he gets on the horse and rides back to VT. Alphubel ex Merinita:AFK a sec, Octavia:likewise, brb Felipe Calendar:k Giraldo of Milan:ill let him depart and then sneak into the building Felipe Calendar:Nice. You enter a large, mostly empty room. The interior is much cleaner and appears sturdier than the exterior of the building let on. Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok, I'm back. Felipe Calendar:The cart and tarped object sit in one corner. Giraldo of Milan:i will look carefully for Virgilian Magic Traps before proceeding do they normally just use magic circles Lavinia:they can cover entire rooms its lower penetration but works fine against mundanes Giraldo of Milan:ok, ill carefully look around the borders of the room as well as the walls and ceiling as i move in Lavinia:ah wait I will reveal myself and tell Giraldo to hold off a second Giraldo of Milan:oh lol Alphubel ex Merinita:Gasp! What a twist! Lavinia:"Sorry for tailing you." Giraldo of Milan:"Gah! Oh." (To GM): what's the aura around here? Giraldo of Milan:"Did you see the meeting with Particella?" Lavinia:"Yes. Why don't I go in first, and if he's warded the place it will hit my Magic Resistance first?" (From Felipe Calendar): poor part of town near the sea at night, Infernal 1 Giraldo of Milan:"That's a good idea." Lavinia:"And if he's put in some sort of devious mundane trap that shoots a crossbow in my gut, I'll ask you to take me back to town." Giraldo of Milan nods. Lavinia:I will enter. ...!!! Nothing happens. Lavinia:Oh. No ping on my MR? Felipe Calendar:Nope. Lavinia:"Seems clear, Giraldo.." Felipe Calendar:Maybe he just didn't get around to warding this secret warehouse yet. He's been really busy. Lavinia:What's inside? Giraldo of Milan:I'll move in. Felipe Calendar:The cart and mysterious object Oh, and some barrels. I forgot to mention the barrels. Octavia:back Felipe Calendar:There are four of them over against one of the walls. Giraldo of Milan:i will not touch the barrels Felipe Calendar:Okay. Giraldo moves the tarp? Lavinia:im on the edge of my seat here Felipe Calendar:i mean im waiting for people to do stuff i dont want to just say peoples characters act Lavinia:"If you don't mind waiting I can consult the sortes for any danger.." Felipe Calendar:i can't help it if BB is playing league of legends or whatever while gaming Lavinia:gah Felipe Calendar:;) Lavinia:fine i'll just pull the tarp Giraldo of Milan:i will move the tarp am i struck down by lightning c'thinker:it's the tarp of death, an artifact belonging to a might 200 faerie. Alphubel ex Merinita:It IS a 200 Might Faerie. c'thinker:look at mr faerie magic over here Alphubel ex Merinita:Hello. Dusan of Criamon:powerful, and impressive rip giraldo Lavinia:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1ikwQ5Zgc#t=1m12s this but it's a piece of cloth on a wagon Felipe Calendar:Both of you tug of war the tarp for a few seconds before revealing a large cannon. Alphubel ex Merinita:Called it. Dusan of Criamon:These mapgamers are getting out of control. Lavinia:"Hmm." Alphubel ex Merinita:What shape bonus is a cannon? Felipe Calendar:lol Lavinia:"How does Particella of all people get his hands on one of these?" Alphubel ex Merinita:You think this is a jest, foeman? You could prevent a cannon from exploding with a level 24 enchantment. Lavinia:I look inside a barrel. Alphubel ex Merinita:So the shape bonus is important. c'thinker:the shape bonuses for a cannon have not been invented by gulielmus yet. however, for a small fee, Giraldo of Milan:"And what does an architect want with it? Is this part of the renovation?" Alphubel ex Merinita:Shape bonuses don't need to be invented, they're an essential part of an object. Lavinia:"It's not on any chart I saw." Felipe Calendar:+4 Perdo Corpus, +7 Create fire and heat. c'thinker sobs Alphubel ex Merinita:Why would it have perdo corpus? Felipe Calendar:There's enough space in this room for about eight or ten of them. Alphubel ex Merinita:Cannons don't destroy anything unless you drop them. Felipe Calendar:Because cannons were anti infantry weapons for like a hundred years. They were invented to kill people. It's the same reason a cleaver has Perdo Animal. Alphubel ex Merinita:It seems like they're more of a Rego bonus. Octavia:the PeCo basis seems solid if cleavers are PeAn Lavinia:whats in the barrels boss Octavia:[while giraldo is lighting the fuse] Just put your head in and see Lavinia:yeah like any of us have Profession: Siege Engineer on our char sheets c'thinker:consult your enemy, alexander of jerbiton or whatever his name was Felipe Calendar:Lavinia, they're filled with a fine black powder. Dusan of Criamon:i will not have you people besmirch the good name of cannons by implying they're not intrinsically good at murdering people Lavinia:"Do you know what this stuff is, Giraldo?" Giraldo of Milan:"Let me see." what is it to identify, philo? Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm, if you made them out of brass you could get a +4 material bonus to warding the cannon against fire. Felipe Calendar:philo or like whatever guli uses to identify plants and potion ingredients Giraldo of Milan:that is philo Felipe Calendar:oh also Lavinia, the barrels have Arabic writing on them. Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10+7 ( 9 ) +7 =16 Alphubel ex Merinita:Gasp! Lavinia:oh cool I can read arabic whats it say Felipe Calendar:they say "75% Chinese Salt" Lavinia:huh/ Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh no, Melamine! Lavinia:huh. Felipe Calendar:Giraldo identifies sulfur and charcoal in the barrels as well. Lavinia:"The barrels say they're 'Chinese Salt,' whatever that is.." Giraldo of Milan:"Sulfur, charcoal, salt." what are the Properties of the mixture Alphubel ex Merinita:A +15 soak ward against fire would suffice to prevent the cannon from exploding, I think. Felipe Calendar:what sort of properties are you looking for its a dry blend of powders. its a dark color Giraldo of Milan:hm i guess thats about it "Not sure what it's for." Lavinia:"Let's take a sample, I'm sure he won't miss a little bit." Felipe Calendar:Sounds good. Lavinia:"Sorry for stepping in on your work. You deserve all the credit for this find." Giraldo of Milan:"You saved me the effort of reporting it to you. I can experiment on the sample." Lavinia:"Are you going to tell the others of the covenant?" Giraldo of Milan:"If you want me to." Lavinia:"Hmmm................ If Particella is dabbling in something this crazy the other Magi should know." Giraldo of Milan:"Tall pale and hairy might be able to interrogate the fatty." Lavinia:"And I might need their help to save Felipe from whatever mortal peril he's about to rush into again." Felipe Calendar:particella has a lot of quark from ds9 to me Lavinia:that was the definite inspiration consider what his name means for instance Felipe Calendar:lol oh my god im retarded. Giraldo of Milan:"Can't say I like the smell of this powder though. I think I'll set my equipment up outside so I can get some good air." "Next to the big tree might be a good spot." Lavinia nods Felipe Calendar:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:That's a good idea. Lavinia:Nothing else interesting in the warehouse? Alphubel ex Merinita:Living trees are difficult to burn. Felipe Calendar:Nah. He's just gotten this plan rolling. So he's only got the one cannon and a handful of barrels stocked up. By the time you get back, it's a little after midnight. Giraldo of Milan:I'll store the sample in my lab and sleep for the night, unless any magi are still awake at this hour. GM:PC's call, I figure a couple of them could plausibly be up Alphubel ex Merinita:I'm sleeping under the tree. Lavinia:naptime, elf Dusan of Criamon:Dusan is nocturnal whenever I don't forget it GM:nice dusan is exactly the right person to let in on this Giraldo of Milan:i will report to dusan Dusan of Criamon:I am a little worried, but calmed by the estimate that no rebellion is imminent I also make a comment about how I don't think this "chinese salt" thing and "cannons" will catch on Lavinia:its just a fad Dusan of Criamon:last year the eastern fashion was minks or whatever, this year it's cannons kids will be kids i suppose oh to be young again Alphubel ex Merinita:You know who will really like cannons? Pixies. GM:they might make them a tiny one. Giraldo of Milan:hey west check out this gunpowder Octavia:Archibald is nocturnal too but a total labrat in the runup to the arcana. Dusan of Criamon:we are blessed by his sacrifice GM:So yeah, to recap, Felipe is being annoying and controlling about the worksite, but that's normal. He's also secretly buying cannons from Particella, who has access to cannons because he said he knows a guy. c'thinker:gulielmus is not nocturnal Dusan of Criamon:i think the important thing we should keep in mind here is that Patricella has done absolutely nothing wrong so far Alphubel ex Merinita:Zzz. Lavinia:he had WMDs and didn't offer them to us first that's wrong. GM:lol. c'thinker:rolling 4d10 ( 3 + 8 + 1 + 10 ) =22 Dusan of Criamon:Unless I'm instructed otherwise I'll inform every other magus tomorrow morning/noon. GM:He would have looked for them if you had asked. Alphubel ex Merinita:Is that a botch or what? GM:Particella just figures you're wizards and can handle yourselves. Dusan of Criamon:Also these are barely weapons of local destruction c'thinker:it is not, but i need to roll another die Alphubel ex Merinita:Hey botch boy, did you botch or what? c'thinker:rolling 1d10 ( 2 ) =2 GM:rip. no botch, i guess. Giraldo of Milan:i will sleep and, when i wake up in the morning, move some equipment to an outside location and experiment on the black powder GM:Nice. Next morning, Giraldo can begin his experiment. Felipe is back to work directing the laborers, and Particella is back serving them drinks, and it's all normal. All the magi are now informed about the cannon and chinese salt. What's Giraldo's plan Alphubel ex Merinita:"Hmm, isn't this Archibald's job?" Lavinia:lets get all the magi into the council chamber and see who lives to come out Giraldo of Milan:hmm well, its dry and has a lot of salt Gulielmus of Pure Reason:I want a sample of the Chinese salt. Giraldo of Milan:i will assume we took an ample sample and will give some to guli i will get a bowl of water and put some of the powder in it Gulielmus of Pure Reason:thank you giraldo, my comrade in alchemy. Dusan of Criamon:I'm amused at all your antics and not especially worried about the arms stockpiling at the moment, but I make a note to check up on the stockpiling in case it ever begins reaching siege strength Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lets calcinate this son of a bitch Dusan of Criamon:I'm not opposed to a siege per se, I just really want to know in advance if any of our few remaining friends are targeted GM:Giraldo, the majority of the mixture dissolves in the water, leaving the sulfur and coal Giraldo of Milan:"Hrm, hrm." Lavinia:could really go for an Alchemy Minigame right about now Giraldo of Milan:I agitate the mixture a bit to presumably no result. I'll set the bowl to a boil and check the vapors. Alphubel ex Merinita:"Can't you just ask it what it's, uh, deal is?" Lavinia:"I think he's in over his head and is probably going to get a bunch of people and himself killed like in Venice. That's Felipe's style." Octavia:Classic Felipe Lavinia:"But I'm not going to be the one to tell him that! I don't want to sound condescending." Alphubel ex Merinita:"Can't Venetians simply dive underwater to protect themselves from this weapon?" GM:Giraldo, you get water vapor and very little else. Giraldo of Milan:I'll note down no response to water or agitation, no vapors. hmm well, i guess the next logical property to check is whether it is hot or cold as i already know it is dry Lavinia:hot coldman GM:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:Sounds smart. GM:you're heating it right now, so it's pretty warm. Lavinia:"Who wants to interrogate Particella?" Giraldo of Milan:i will expose the mixture directly to flame Dusan of Criamon:"Is there really reason to? I mean his plan is far from fruition." GM:the current mixture that you have simmering in water or a new handful Giraldo of Milan:a new handful, as the mixture is probably messed up GM:ok. the powder ignites with a flash as your torch gets near it. you witness a forceful light and heat, and as it dies down, you are left with a small quantity of ash. Giraldo of Milan:I note down that it is dry, and VERY hot. Alphubel ex Merinita:Smart. Lavinia:"Wonder what our consuls think of this." Dusan of Criamon:Natural philosophy is hard Alphubel ex Merinita:"Who?" Giraldo of Milan:"That might be the property it's used for." "But to what end?" Alphubel ex Merinita:"I feel like, uh, it does that." "You know, that thing it just did? Uh, explodes. I think it's supposed to do that." Octavia:This all happening out in the courtyard? Giraldo of Milan:"Hrm. But it was brought from far away, and there's no practical use for something that burns hot and bright for but an instant." "Unless he plans to impress commoners." GM:This is somewhere outside, but probably not right in front of everyone working and milling around. Alphubel ex Merinita:"What about dragons?" GM:Unless Giraldo is really a goofball. Giraldo of Milan:yeah im not doing this near the active worksite where the guy we stole it from is hanging around Giraldo of Milan thinks. GM:Giraldo is hanging out behind the stables or something. Alphubel ex Merinita:Yeah I bet he is. Lavinia:alright, if no one else will I'll accost particella Giraldo of Milan:"He kept it in barrels. It could be for storage, but maybe something else happens from within a container." Alphubel ex Merinita:Thank you. Lavinia:"What kind of business are you dealing with Felipe?" Giraldo of Milan:I'll find a small vessel, put some more of the powder in it, then shove a rope in and seal the opening up with beeswax. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I could use this for potions." Giraldo of Milan:I'll set the sealed vessel away from our buildings, put fire to the rope, and back away to observe. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"You're not thinking big enough, Giraldo; remember that mill explosion?" Lavinia:mill Particella:"His boys drink a lot of wine, heh heh. Keeps them loose when they start rolling dice at my canteen by moonlight." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:mill Giraldo of Milan:mill Particella:"You really did me a favor bringing this guy in." Giraldo of Milan:I think about Gulielmus's words while the fuse on the vessel burns. Lavinia:"Don't play games fat man. The cannon and the powder. Explain fast before a Maga's patience runs out and bad things happen." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:didn't you also murder the papal legate with an arabic naphtha bomb. Giraldo of Milan:yeah but naphtha is different its a continuously burning liquid. that has more obvious applications Particella:rolling 1d10!+3 ( 8 ) +3 =11 Particella attempts Guile (which he somehow doesn't have!! WTF!!!!?!?) Lavinia:what th Octavia:Fucked up. Particella:"I don't know what you're talking about." Giraldo of Milan:people who arent good at lying love to lie Lavinia:rolling 1d10!+2+3 per+folk ken ( 9 ) +2+3 =14 Particella:gah!! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:let's see how this chinese salt scales up by strapping whoever traded all our rego vis away to a barrel of it Giraldo of Milan:we have to wait for the gm to tell us how this small clay vessel reacts Particella:"Ohhhh! THAT stuff!" Lavinia:dual-scene GMing Alphubel ex Merinita:Heh. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:additionally, let's kill the players who made that decision. Particella:Giraldo, the clay vessel explodes with a loud report. Giraldo of Milan raises his eyebrows. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Impressive!" Particella:some dry grass is now burning. Giraldo of Milan:I'll go stomp out the fires. Dusan of Criamon:I am awoken, forcefully Giraldo of Milan:And check to see how far the shards of clay spread. Particella:Particella winces at the sound. "I guess you found it, yeah." Dusan of Criamon:"Is it sext already? Are we under siege?" Octavia:I'll run out to investigate the loud explosion, spear in hand Particella:"Don't worry, this is a side job. It's for after Felipe finishes your palazzo." "He said he's got some unfinished business in Venice." Giraldo of Milan lets out a low whistle. Lavinia:w elp. Alphubel ex Merinita:Phew. No problem at all. Lavinia:"With whom or what?" Alphubel ex Merinita:We got all worked up over nothing. Particella laughs Giraldo of Milan:"The fire is dangerous, but it sent pieces of that vessel a good distance." Particella:"Hey, I didn't ask. He just asked if I could get him some things, and I knew some people." Giraldo of Milan:"Even those could cause injury." Octavia:"What the hell was that noise?" Dusan of Criamon:We should tell him, like parental figures, that we don't care whom he besieges, but he should let us know when he plans to besiege someone. Giraldo of Milan:"Just practicing philosophy." Lavinia:"Can you get more of the powder for our alchemists?" Octavia:"Tch, thought we'd see some action for once." Giraldo of Milan:"We just might. That weirdo's got enough of this to clear out the whole Jewish quarter." Particella:"Hmmm..." Giraldo of Milan:I'll take some more notes on my findings and meet with Lavinia once Particella is done being interrogated. Particella:"It was hard enough getting what Felipe wanted through Constantinople and then the ports here without anybody picking up on it." "Of course, for the right price, heh heh." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"You know, in Egypt they have specially-designed pots for their bombs." Particella:"I'll talk to Carlo." Giraldo of Milan:giraldo can probably make this stuff after seeing whats in it and finding suitable local ingredients Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"They break just right, so as to better maim the foe with the shards, you see." Giraldo of Milan:god those egyptians are amazing Lavinia:"Meanwhile, no more cannons and powder for Felipe until I say so. If he asks you make an excuse, supply problem or something." Particella looks hurt Giraldo of Milan:if i work on my mythic alchemy some more i can probably make powder thats even better than this Particella:"I'm praying you say so soon." Lavinia:"Yeah right, like you pray." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i can inte it and then invent a ritual to create gigantic amounts of it. Particella:"I've got a mouth to feed... My own! Haw haw!" Alphubel ex Merinita:Classic Patricella. Giraldo of Milan:i dont think inte is enough theres charcoal in it too Gulielmus of Pure Reason:thank you boyrep Particella:lol Giraldo of Milan:is charcoal herbam or ignem? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:why would it be ignem Lavinia:definitely herbam Giraldo of Milan:its wood thats been transformed through heat Lavinia:since it's made by charcoal burners using chopped trees Giraldo of Milan:ash is igenm Gulielmus of Pure Reason:thats dumb. Dusan of Criamon:I take Patricella aside and tell him in confidence that again, we're not opposed to arms smuggling as such, this is more of a delay than a cancel. Particella:lol Giraldo of Milan:criamon: look im not saying im opposed to weapons trafficking, Particella:He seems genuinely relieved. Dusan of Criamon:"We just have to make sure this doesn't set any fires that come blowing back our way. I think if you have a deal coming, it'll arrive sooner or later." Giraldo of Milan:anyway it would be a herbam requisite for investigating and reproducing this stuff magically imo Particella:i think so too. Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Giraldo of Milan:but i can probably make it pretty easily hm do the blights affect mythic alchemy at all slash mythic herbalism theyre supernatural abilities that use vim Lavinia:so felipe blowing up Venice unfortunately means the death of all of Fiorella's family and possibly a bunch of Roman Tribunal magi. Giraldo of Milan:vis rather Lavinia:thankfully neither consul was around to hear this so. Particella:Do you know that's what he wants to do? Lavinia:im just kidding around Alphubel ex Merinita:But now that you mention it... Particella:lol Giraldo of Milan:if they do then my ability to enhance the black powder is limited until we get the blight fixed but once we do i can make us some real weapons of mass destruction Particella:Felipe's actual plan for these cannons is even dumber and pettier. Lavinia:hell yes well we're all reconvened right? Giraldo of Milan:using black powder instead of chalk for your virgilian rites Lavinia:"It may be we have no option left but to ask Felipe point blank what his scheme is, and how we can help." Alphubel ex Merinita:"But won't the Atlanteans be upset when their sister city is attacked?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lets arrange for fiorella to be in venice when it explodes. Giraldo of Milan:question for after this adventure is sorted out: can giraldo start using his work seasons to source materials for and begin producing black powder instead of guard duty Lavinia:i think its a good idea Dusan of Criamon:"I cannot in good conscience allow these plans to go ahead without Fiorella's knowledge." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:sure why not. Lavinia:"Hey, hey, we don't know what those plans ar e yet." Giraldo of Milan:equipping grogs with bombs to throw on adventures would be useful Felipe Calendar:lol Dusan of Criamon:"Well, after we find out the details." Lavinia sighs Felipe Calendar:ruining ars combat even more by giving everyone hand grenades Alphubel ex Merinita:Nice. We did it. Octavia:As is our right Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the hand grenade rules are on page 59 of lands of the nile Giraldo of Milan:fuck ytou thats not real Felipe Calendar:lol Lavinia:lol It's REAL Octavia:the writers truly thought of everything Dusan of Criamon:lmao Felipe Calendar:such perfect organization. Octavia:besides [unfurls scroll and it rolls out the doorway stretching off to the horizon] Lavinia:"Should we all speak to him? He might be, uh, more free with his plans if he doesn't feel pressured by those with the Gift." Alphubel ex Merinita:We should implement scatter rules if we start making hand grenades. Lavinia:shrapnel vs. shields rules Gulielmus of Pure Reason:there's a damage falloff of 1 point per foot. Alphubel ex Merinita:"He's your friend, you would best be, be able to convince him." Lavinia:aight Felipe Calendar:lets use the grenade rules from pathfinder Giraldo of Milan:we will have to figure out what black powder enhanced by mythic alchemy is capable of once we fix the blight Octavia:Blowing a hole in Constantinople a century early Lavinia:I ask Felipe to take a break and have a chat. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:you add a magnitude of damage for every magnitude of refinement Giraldo of Milan vaguely remembers the Mythic Alchemy formula rules and smiles. Felipe Calendar:"Ah, I always have time for you, Lavinia." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:although you might not be able to get very many extra magnitudes out of black powder. Dusan of Criamon:we should strangle this scientific discovery in the crib, so as to not endanger the timeline Lavinia:"Oh, you charmer... But, um... I have a serious question.." "... what are you planning to do in Venice with a cannon?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:like greek fire is +15 damage but that's already 2 levels of alteration out of a maximum of 3 Giraldo of Milan:making lots of money and good relations with nobles by having giraldo sell enough black powder to level paris to every nearby lord Lavinia:greek fire does continual damage though right? Felipe Calendar:"Oh, uh." Giraldo of Milan:making +20 damage bombs is still uh Felipe Calendar:"Um." Giraldo of Milan:pretty great Gulielmus of Pure Reason:yeah. Octavia:Felipe begins running away comically Giraldo of Milan:especially since by mythic alchemy rules i can probably make a lot of this for very little vis Felipe Calendar blushes Giraldo of Milan:i need to determine what a dose of black powder is Lavinia:"Sorry dear, but as another Augustan you should've realized how much we love schemes, and uncovering them." Felipe Calendar:"Can you, uh, promise not to laugh?" Lavinia:"On my honor." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:a dose of greek fire is 1 bomb Giraldo of Milan:gah thats expensive then Felipe Calendar:"I just want to knock down the Ducal Palace. It's so aesthetically displeasing! Did you SEE what they did to the windows? It's worse for my reputation than everyone thinking I got hanged in the failed coup, honestly." Alphubel ex Merinita:This man is a genius. Cannons won't be used against structures for another 20 years! Lavinia:I attempt folk ken to deduce if he is joking. rolling 1d10!+2+3 ( 1 ) +2+3 =6 Octavia:lmao Lavinia:oh no. Felipe Calendar:He thinks he can improve their design enough to do it. He's innovating technology out of spite. Lavinia:"..... ... seriously?" Felipe Calendar:rolling 1d10 botch check ( 4 ) =4 no botch. he's not joking. https://www.planetware.com/photos-large/I/italy-venice-doges-palace-sea-view.jpg Felipe Calendar whips out a diagram from his pocket Felipe Calendar:"Look!" Lavinia:"Are you going to do it while the council is in session or something like that?" Felipe Calendar:"..." Lavinia:Grover Palace Felipe Calendar:"No, I was probably going to do it at night. Hopefully my men can bombard it and escape into the canals before the whole navy is on them." Lavinia:"A song of arms and the man..." Felipe Calendar:"I don't love the Venetian nobility, but this vendetta isn't about them." Octavia:lets meet the doge of venice and trade him specialised drawings Felipe Calendar:"It's about art!" Lavinia:"But a cannon? Men and armies and navies? We're wizards!" Felipe Calendar clenches his fist Lavinia:"Cast a rite on it!" Felipe Calendar:"You think they'll let me inside the building again?" He gives a big laugh moe:"In a manner of speaking we even have experience with that exact sort of operation" Felipe Calendar:"This is much easier. Just spend some money." "Anyway, I didn't want to trouble you over something so personal." Lavinia:"What if... I could help you get inside?" Felipe Calendar:His eyes light up. Lavinia:"We've helped each other out with sensitive things before haven't we? Let's have no secrets between us." Felipe Calendar:"Oh? You're good at this sort of thing." "I think I'll trust your expertise, yes." "What do you have in mind?" Lavinia:"Now that I think about it though, there might be an even better solution. We don't want Quaesitors sniffing around and we don't want it to look like you designed an inferior palace... Let's put our heads together and think of a plan that doesn't get you killed by the Venetian navy or me marched by the Order." Let's ask the Atlanteans to destroy it. Felipe Calendar:"I'll drink to that." lmao. blessed. Dusan of Criamon:johns, you are a genius Lavinia:I need to talk to an expert in Hermetic Law. Guy of Bonisagus sneezes. Lavinia:No, not him. Alphubel ex Merinita:lol Giraldo of Milan:look. hes committed the most serious crimes of anyone you know whos still alive Lavinia:giraldo and octavia are discrete and can be brought in on a conspiracy right Giraldo of Milan:if you cant call that expertise, well yeah Lavinia:fine I'll cut guy in too. if he betrays me I can always betray him more Giraldo of Milan:giraldos probably more loyal to lavinia than other magi oh i was joking Lavinia:lol Giraldo of Milan:guy probably wont be interested in that Lavinia:hmmm would Felipe be happy if we used magic to fix the palace's appearance instead of destroying it Octavia:I didn't sell out Guy murdering a magus in the covenant, I can be trusted. Felipe Calendar:no, he doesnt want to be tied to venice any longer so he wants to knock it down and hopefully no one finds out who did it Lavinia:Is Venice at war with anyone? "Giraldo, after experimenting with it, could the powder level a building if it were left inside?" Felipe Calendar:theres an off and on war with the Genoese going on right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian%E2%80%93Genoese_wars well not RIGHT now it'll pick back up soon Gulielmus of Pure Reason:burning powder cannot melt marble columns. Giraldo of Milan:"Hmm." "If you placed it at weak points, certainly." Lavinia:does anyone here have skill to id those weak points Felipe Calendar:I do. Dusan of Criamon:i thought our boy was an architect Lavinia:aha can he mark them out for us on a diagram, please. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i had a spell to do that. but you ruthlessly trolled me on the side effect until i deleted it from my seasons Octavia:Boss. This is a sneaking mission. You'll have to plant the charges on the marked locations, then retreat to a safe distance before the building goes down. Lavinia:if I get some confirmation from Belzer that I'm not committing a crime I would bring Gulielmus and Dusan and Alphubel in on this Felipe Calendar:He can mark out places to put bombs in the areas he built, but the finished wing of the palace with the off level windows he's just making guesses. Dusan of Criamon:Hmm I still feel like Fiorella deserves some modest recompense couldn't we also turn this into an insurance scam somehow or! even better, it would be cool if we turned felipe back into a venice-enjoyer he could make a new and better palace Alphubel ex Merinita:I don't think insurance exists yet. Dusan of Criamon:the ultimate "fuck you" Lavinia:Historically, it's her kin, Carlo Zeno who led the Venetians to victory in the war against Genoa. If we frame Genoa for the crime and Carlo Zeno is appointed admiral, we are doing her family a service. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:wee bey with devil horns Dusan of Criamon:Hmm. Good point. Final question: do we know and like anyone from Genoa? Felipe Calendar:oh, coincidentally, remember who Particella said he was getting these supplies from Lavinia:............ ! Octavia:Who did he say Lavinia:carlo. Felipe Calendar:Carlo. Octavia:I thought he just said a friend of a friend ah Dusan of Criamon:neat Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Carloman Lavinia:What if carlo zeno is buildign this scheme so he can crush felipe and gain some easy glory Octavia:Let's join the ever-growing cult of carloman, who are preparing for his Second Coming Alphubel ex Merinita:That would be clever of him. Lavinia:IN WHICH CASE I am fully and absolutely justified in ruining the life of Fiorella's kin Alphubel ex Merinita:Let's do it. Lavinia:ok here's my plan. Alphubel ex Merinita:Lay it on me. Octavia:Incredibly Big Brained Voice: I'm going to make an enemy of the magus who casts spells at such high penetration that they can beat my parma. Lavinia:We rig a collapsing rite on the building. Felipe lets his fake navy attack Venice, going right into Carlo's trap. They will be destroyed. Felipe will be nowhere near this. Then just as Carlo thinks he is victorious, the Ducal Palace collapses and he is disgraced forever. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol. Alphubel ex Merinita:Is there any way we can fake the navy more? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:let's raise an Eastern Roman standard over the ruins of the ducal palace. Lavinia:strong Creo Imaginem Octavia:Are these plans being discussed in front of Giraldo and I, as grogs being brought into the fray to carry it out? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the dogal palace Lavinia:yes Octavia Alphubel ex Merinita:Does anyone have strong Creo Imaginem? Lavinia:not that I'm asking our people to be part of felipe's stupid navy Felipe Calendar:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i have strong creo, and multiple points in imaginem Alphubel ex Merinita:I have to say that Felipe seems a lot dumber than I would have thought possible. Octavia:I give a salute then "So sneak in, place these concoctions, light the fuse and retreat, boss?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:he is an Augustan Dusan of Criamon:He's passionate, it's an italian thing Lavinia:he must have had a lousy master and he hasn't trained in the Hyperbolic Intrigue Chamber that is the OoH Felipe Calendar:He's a really great architect who lives his life to be famous and build palaces for emperors and his name is currently disgraced and his only legacy is an ugly palace. Alphubel ex Merinita:I just mean that this is a stupid plan with a stupid goal. Felipe Calendar:So he's not really being rational. Lavinia:"You guys tell me, how hard do you think it would be to sneak barrels of gunpowder into the palace undetected?" Alphubel ex Merinita:Not to put too fine a point on it. "Just shrink them." Lavinia:ooooh Felipe Calendar:He just wants to wreck his old palace because he thinks someone ruined it, to be petty. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:turn them into water and then shrink the water Lavinia:felipe dancing outside the ducal palace with giant gonnes -- Yeah I'm feeling petty Giraldo of Milan:turn the water into feathers "It should be easy." Lavinia:"If it's hard, I could use my magic to collapse the palace, but that unfortunately leaves a trace a Quaesitor could follow" "Weak magic, or purely mundane, means no one in the order will be wiser" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:let's just check up on our Muto and Herbam stockpiles. huh? bwuhh Lavinia:lol Octavia:"So it's to be done subtle, nothing that can link back to any of you, boss?" Alphubel ex Merinita:"You could make the barrels invisible." Dusan of Criamon:brb 5 Octavia:"I can lift one of those barrels easily." I have the heroic virtue Great Bearer and 3 str so I can carry a lot easily Lavinia:hell yes Gulielmus of Pure Reason:how are you going to trick Gulielmus into helping you blow up the palaso dogal Lavinia:I'll ask him nicely. Felipe Calendar:lol Lavinia:"Gulielmus, would you please help me with a project?" Octavia:You can carry twice as much on your back before you become weighted down, as long as you have time to arrange yourself and your equipment properly. Divide your Burden by two before calculating your Encumbrance. Felipe Calendar:thats cool Lavinia:was Felipe intending to declare himself when he attacked venice, or would his ships look like pirates? Octavia:The difference in load between 3 burden and 6 is 15. 3 burden is 6 load, 6 burden is 21. Felipe Calendar:the second thing Octavia:Metal scale, the heaviest thing listed, is 7 load Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I'm always happy to help, as long as it's not too much of a distraction from our grand goal." "What's the project?" Lavinia:"I want to destroy the Ducal Palace of Venice in a way that does not implicate us." Alphubel ex Merinita:Nice. Lavinia, Master Intriguer. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"This sounds like it's going to be another massacre, Lavinia." Octavia:I whistle Lavinia:"No, we will do it when it's vacant." Alphubel ex Merinita:Said Timothy McVeighishly. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Oh, that makes more sense." "What do you need?" Lavinia:"We need a way to smuggle barrels of that explosive material into the palace undetected, and to set it off safely." "Making them smaller, or invisible, or disguised.." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm. you could ward the gunpowder against flame for diameter, and then conjure a flame under it for sun Octavia:"I have some training as a spectatore, boss. Magic'll make it easier of course, but I can sneak around if need be." Lavinia:"Octavia can lift them, and Giraldo knows how to handle this stuff better than any of us." Dusan of Criamon:back Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I think I can produce another batch of invisibility paste." Felipe Calendar:Gulielmus of Pure Treason at it again. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lemme see what i can actually produce here. rolling 1d10!+4+2+3+7+7 ( 6 ) +4+2+3+7+7 =29 (To GM): Can I confirm with Particella that it is indeed Carlo Zeno he's meeting with (From Felipe Calendar): yeah. He's known Carlo for almost a decade now. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:so when i designed gulielmus i took magical memory in the hopes that i would be able to use the lab text bonus on rusticani item creation in which case that's 6 charges of veil of invisibility Alphubel ex Merinita:Nice. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:either way i can only fuck up this potion on a botch rolling 1d10!+4+2+3+7+7 ( 2 ) +4+2+3+7+7 =25 so we have a very large number of charges here. Felipe Calendar:Very cool. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Thank you. Giraldo of Milan:rusticani ftw do the charges just last forever or hows it work Gulielmus of Pure Reason:charged items last until used Giraldo of Milan:you can make charged items without vis... sugoi... Lavinia:"One more thing..." "I'd like to work this out with Felipe that ensures we do the blast at night, but it'd be nice to take extra steps to ensure the palace is deserted." Felipe Calendar:That's nice of you. Lavinia:"Could you make, maybe, Creo Imaginem potions that fill the palace with a ghastly unpleasant stench?" Giraldo of Milan:octavia can kill everyone inside before we plant the bomb Lavinia:"So anyone still around will want to leave." Felipe Calendar:Felipe isn't looking to specifically kill anyone, but he was certainly not going to go that far. Lavinia:she could but that will blow our Silent Assassin rating Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"A whole palace would be beyond a simple charged item." Alphubel ex Merinita:What if they go looking for the cause of the smell? Octavia:Then your cover is up Lavinia:could he do a structure range PeIg 4 spell that makes the palace uncomfortably cold Peig +1 touch +3 structure is PeIg 20 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh hmm i thought structure was ritual only. whoops creo works weirdly with higher targets anyway ill try peig Alphubel ex Merinita:Noice. Lavinia:also for felipe's navy instead of leaving them to die helplessly, we can lend one of his ships the orb of underwater breathing and tell him to man the other ships with a skeleton crew of good divers and then they just all bail the moment it looks like the enemy will hit them Felipe Calendar:this sounds like a good plan. Alphubel ex Merinita:It does. Felipe Calendar:i didnt expect you to want to go along with it, honestly. Alphubel ex Merinita:Certainly better than Felipe's certifiably insane plan. Lavinia:i can add one more thing to help, the statue of Brutulus has an effect to increase people's stealth rolls inside the palace Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+4+2+7+7+4, using hickory sap ( 9 ) +4+2+7+7+4 =33 Lavinia:defying the GM expectations ftw. Octavia:Ooh I have +2 stealth, but +4 dex So I'm good for sneaking around. Lavinia:brutulus adds +3 Felipe Calendar:nice Lavinia:you will be a ghost in the wind. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:thats a pretty potent potion Lavinia:I don't know the mechanics, does that add enoguh room to put a duration on the effect? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:base 4 +3 structure +1 touch +2 sun actually the dogal palace probably needs a size modifier. so we've got Diam and +1 size (100 rooms) would concentration make sense for a consumable item? Felipe Calendar:for a potion that lasts from when you drink it to when you stop concentrating, sure Octavia:You'd have to concentrate on the effect by holding the potion in your mouth or something Felipe Calendar:for an inanimate thing, probably not? idk. Octavia's idea is fun. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rub the treated sap all over your hands and the effect lasts as long as you keep your gross sappy hands in contact with the building Felipe Calendar:nice Giraldo of Milan:octovia Octavia:Sappy hands Dusan of Criamon:gross sappy hands Octavia:So we need someone to maintain the effect then, won't we? What's that effect for guli Gulielmus of Pure Reason:to chill the building Octavia:If I'm carrying the gunpowder then Giraldo will probably have to handle that side of things Lavinia:"As an absolute failsafe, could we conjure a hearing only Imaginem effect of a voice telling people to get out of the building immediately, a few moments before the explosion?" "Disguised as mundane panicking voices, not obviously magical.." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:nice. Lavinia:"My goal here is to humiliate Carlo. Making him look responsible for not preventing someone's death goes too far." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+4+2+5+3+4 MuIm ( 8 ) +4+2+5+3+4 =26 base 1 +3 structure +1 size +2 sun with tons of points left over: to change every sound in the palace to sound like people screaming to evacuate. Lavinia:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:lol Felipe Calendar:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh i forgot touch but there's still a whole magnitude left over even with that. Felipe Calendar:sounds good. Lavinia:okay here's my notes Gulielmus Potions to make Gunpowder Invisible Gulielmus Potion to clear out Palace with uncomfortable cold Cat's Eye buff: 24 uses to grant Darkvision to infiltrators Innocuous Blade: 3 uses a day, can cut through doors and stone material Gulielmus Effect: auditory final evacuation warning Lavinia:Brutulus' Effect to Increase Stealth +3 Fur Coats to all infiltrators to avoid Gulielmus' effect Octavia: Carrying the barrels, neutralizing people still inside Giraldo: Responsible for ensuring they're set up right, lighting the fuse, neutralizing people inside Gulielmus: Concentrating on the effect to make the palace inhospitably cold Lavinia:did I miss anything Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oorah. Felipe Calendar:that looks like everything. what a hilarious plan Giraldo of Milan:i will neutralize the people inside Lavinia:"Octavia and Giraldo, are you confidant to handle this yourselves? You could take any number of grogs." (or derfel) Gulielmus of Pure Reason:thank you Imaginem for having hilariously low base levels Giraldo of Milan:lets have derfel light the fuses and tell him to make sure they dont get extinguished Belzer of Mercere:I'll start preparing the legal defense in advance in case you guys fuck up Octavia:"It's sneaking around, less people the easier it'll go. Anyone going should be there for a good reason." Lavinia:lmao thank you Felipe Calendar:ty belzer Gulielmus of Pure Reason:derfel is killed when an iron barrel hoop flies out of the explosion and cuts clean through his neck Lavinia:"Felipe and I will be watching the view from across the bay on the San Giorgio Maggiore. If the blast is bright enough maybe we'll make out Carlo's face when he realizes he's been duped..." (To GM): My instructions to Felipe are to continue assembling his navy, but all the cannons should go on one boat. The other boats should have as few men as possible, and they should dive away as soon as the fight starts. The main boat can have everyone touch the water breathing orb to get off safely. Octavia:So me and Giraldo will be invisible too right Or just the barrels Gulielmus of Pure Reason:there's an arbitrary amount of potion really Giraldo of Milan:drinking cheap lambrusco wine on the san giorgio maggiore overlooking venice Lavinia:lol Octavia:lol Love that memory Alphubel ex Merinita:Same. Felipe Calendar:lol. Dusan of Criamon:lmao (To GM): Also he should time his approach to Venice so that it's after sunset by the time defending ships meet (From Felipe Calendar): he's going along with it, but seems surprised that you expect so much resistance (To GM): Just in case Carlo is planning not to meet him in battle but just arrest him or something, I'll lend him Sir Oak as a guardian for awhile Felipe Calendar:watch out being too invisible. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:boy i hope the dogal palace has 100 or fewer rooms. Octavia:"I don't want to go in without armour, can I get a cloak to throw over it in case we're spotted?" Lavinia:yeah you can't coordinate if you can't hear each other "You should wear heavy furs anyway, the palace is going to be very cold." Felipe Calendar:that time Rosario and Dusan were both invisible and couldn't make sounds and had to figure out how to communicate and navigate without being able to see or hear each other was ftw Octavia:"Got it." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it was harrowing! napolino nearly died. Felipe Calendar:It was pretty tense. Octavia:"Palace'll be rubble as you request it, boss." Dusan of Criamon:it was a magical journey Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i mean, he nearly died of being left behind, but that's death for you. (From Felipe Calendar): Sir Oak is so reliable Lavinia:"Aeneas himself did not have a crew as great and reliable as I feel I do today!" Alphubel ex Merinita:It is. Octavia:"It's an honour to be compared to his army, boss." I salute Giraldo of Milan:just realized i forgot to say what is this crap when we first found the black powder Octavia:fuse is howling Lavinia:lol Ah wait. Octavia said she wanted to wear a mask of some sort before committing this plot? https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41jWCcGHgVL.jpg Octavia:lol A mask is a good idea, too. Giraldo of Milan:just say youre mortis Octavia:This is subtle work, it's harder to trace back to Vardian's Tomb the more anonymous we are Giraldo of Milan:its a damn shame mortis was a retarded fag and died he couldve used memento mortis as his catchphrase Lavinia:lol The ghost of mortis just keeps popping up and committing insane crimes and theres nothign anyone can do Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Giraldo of Milan:venatores launching an expedition into hell in order to take back mortis's eternal soul, that it can be destroyed forever Dusan of Criamon:perhaps one day we'll meet another far-off culture that has a phrase for this sort of thing Giraldo of Milan:what of mortis was the second coming of carloman?? Alphubel ex Merinita:Probably not, since he died. Lavinia:no one thought to check his grave 3 days later to see if he disappeared Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what if we're all merely aspects of carloman's shattered spirit. We must never again kill each other, to prevent the re-emergence of the original. Octavia:It turns out that Mortis was part-chinese, meaning that he can escape the clutches of hell by evading the yama kings and reclaiming life as a spirit possessing a corpse, one of the hungry dead. as ars is in the world of darkness, this is all canon Derfel ap Cadwaladr:Magic, Faerie, Divine, Infernal, and China Dusan of Criamon:Time to dust off the old Mortis Announcer Hat Alphubel ex Merinita:The World of Darkness incorporates a lot of real world elements like cars, the US President, and the Order of Hermes. Octavia:Is Derfel joining us on the mission? He's my first recommendation for someone to bring along if asked, second is Bolad. well I was asked but didnt answer at the time Derfel ap Cadwaladr:lets bring the crew i have my trusty club. Lavinia:bolad is afraid of water and swimming Felipe Calendar:I'm not on the ball enough to improvise a detailed and satisfying terrorist bombing heist type adventure but we'll see how it goes. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:imagine if derfels sheet was up to date. Lavinia:also ive hogged too much time this session anyway Derfel ap Cadwaladr:he would probably have like 20 single weapon. GM:It would be epic. Giraldo of Milan:likely not giraldo has 217 xp in great weapon which is only level 8 Octavia:Imagine how long a 30 minute update of Derfel's sheet would take to do Derfel ap Cadwaladr:lmao Dusan of Criamon:i always thought it would both take balls from a GM and work really well to reduce a whole adventure to a single roll, or series of rolls Alphubel ex Merinita:An adventure is a series of rolls, when you think about it. Dusan of Criamon:i got really into this concept trying to whip up a cyberpunk game where hacking wouldn't be a separate game Octavia:brb a few mins Derfel ap Cadwaladr:there was a europa universalis guy on something awful dot com who really wanted to reduce the entire map to a single province and then just run events on it to simulate the realities of the post-1991 world Lavinia:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:All the characters have hacking skills and regular skills. Boom, hacking solved. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:this guy was also very deeply stupid. Lavinia:i dont really get map games but I feel that expanding and making pretty borders is a pretty big part of it Dusan of Criamon:it sounds like a humorous concept until you realize EU events aren't very funny Giraldo of Milan:i love map games like minecraft Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok anyway, let's go blow up that building for no reason. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:It's gonna be great. Lavinia:there's a very good reason it's ugly. Dusan of Criamon:it's true. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:it's full of Italians. not even Italians really. Alphubel ex Merinita:I'm not going to go but my still not finished companion character also wouldn't go. GM:Guli or Giraldo or whoever puts their gross sappy hands on the building and some guards start filing out to the street, complaining about ghosts. Alphubel ex Merinita:So I don't feel bad. Dusan of Criamon:As guards are wont to do. (From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): gulielmus's sigil is bubbles, if you want to make the big structure-target effect a little blatant Guardsman:"Any time it gets cold all of a sudden like that, it's how y'know its ghosts." an older guard advises the younger recruits. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:These guys really know their Faerie lore. (From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): otherwise it could just be the potion itself fizzing and bubbling Octavia:How much Load is a full barrel of gunpowder, GM? The heaviest thing I can find is scale mail at 7 Guardsman:The sap begins oozing out along the walls. It bubbles from between the stones, the bubbles freeze, then crack and crumble as the potion continues to creep along. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:hell yeah. Guardsman:Hmmm. Lavinia:Note that an average person has a Load of 21 (tme p112), if that helps Derfel ap Cadwaladr:is there a maximum load Giraldo of Milan:lets give octavia a full load Guardsman:ok. a standard size barrel filled with liquid is like 300 lbs Giraldo of Milan:this is dry powder Octavia:I have 10 load from equipment and dont get encumbered until 28. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:nice. Guardsman:i know its powder Giraldo of Milan:it is PROBABLY less than water Guardsman:but im just googling barrel weight full Octavia:And I'm at 1 encumberance until... 44 Guardsman:Gunpowder barrels were made of oak by a tight cooper and were actually good enough to hold liquid. The hoops surrounding the staves were of copper and wood, which are non-sparking, never of iron or steel. Standard full barrels contained 100 pounds of gunpowder, ok. Giraldo of Milan:limmy: whats heavier? a barrel of steel or a barrel of feathers? thats right. they both weigh a barrel Lavinia:Octavia the Atlas Guardsman:they are Load 18 wait a person is 21 not 24. uhhh. whatever. 14. Octavia:Great Bearer really lets you carry a ton with how it works, since it just straight-up halves burden, which uses the art scale. Guardsman:i dont know math so im just guessing im sorry. Lavinia:i bet you never thought it woudl come up in play too (that virtue) Octavia:I can carry a full barrel without being encumbered at all, how many do you think we need? Guardsman:great bearer is a cool pick yeah Octavia:I didnt, but here we are 2 barrels is 38 total, so still only 1 encumberance Guardsman:lol Octavia is so buff... Giraldo of Milan:i will pick up a barrel Derfel ap Cadwaladr:i will be on sap duty Giraldo of Milan:hm. maybe i should take off my armor for this Guardsman:A fat guard wrapped in blankets turns and starts patrolling down your hallway. Octavia:If I take 2, that's 3 total, should be enough to level a palace. Guardsman:rolling 1d10!+1+2 awareness ( 7 ) +1+2 =10 Octavia:"Shh. Guard coming." I duck in to the side Guardsman:roll stealth to hide your breath cloudes Alphubel ex Merinita:I mean, how much did Guy Fawkes need? Octavia:rolling 1d10!+4+2-1 ( 2 ) +4+2-1 =7 Guardsman:gah Lavinia:'+3 from brutus effect that dims all the light in the building Octavia:Oh yeah thats 10 Guardsman:whew ty lavinia Octavia:Forgot the brutus effect, my apologies. Guardsman:same. i should also be keepin notes. anyway, gimme a roll giraldo. Octavia makes it. "Did I hear something?" Giraldo of Milan:hold on rolling 1d10!+4 ( 1 ) +4 =5 uh oh Guardsman:gahaha rolling 1d10 ( 1 ) =1 Giraldo of Milan:i got the fugyaa number uh oh! Guardsman:blessed Alphubel ex Merinita:He DID hear something! Octavia:lmao Giraldo of Milan:actually... im NOT resuming patrol! Dusan of Criamon:just chasing each other around a single pillar Guardsman:"Must have been the wi-aaait a minute." The guard spots Giraldo's exhalation of breath. Giraldo of Milan:alright. its fine. i have a plan Guardsman:"Hey! Come quick! I need backup!! Magic!" Giraldo of Milan:oh he recognizes magic i dont have a plan hm Guardsman:He turns and starts to woddle away. Giraldo of Milan:well maybe itll still work Guardsman:Well, he just saw an invisible guy breathe. He doesn't have to know Imaginem to know something's up. Giraldo of Milan:okay. stand back everyone, and watch the plan at work Octavia:I thought we weren't invisible after all, huh. Guardsman:Weren't you? Octavia:Invis adds like +9 to stealth lol Guardsman:I was going by it being very cold and your breath being visible. Octavia:The lights are dim though Guardsman:But Giraldo botched. Octavia:Oh yeah, he still botched Alphubel ex Merinita:It's so true. Octavia:a botch is a botch. Giraldo of Milan:"And where do you think you're going, you little brat? You finally meet your granddad again and you don't even say hello? Guess you never change." Octavia:I just don't think we're- lmao Guardsman:lmao. He freezes. rolling 1d10!-3+2 int + folk ken ( 1 ) -3+2 =0 rofl. Giraldo of Milan:"And just look at you. You can't even fit into your armor." Guardsman:rolling 1d10 ( 4 ) =4 Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+3 ( 6 ) +3 =9 Guardsman:you manage to use your powerful guile to salvage the situation. Giraldo of Milan:"If I still had a body I'd straighten you out proper." Guardsman:"Chief was right about ghosts! I'm sorry grandpa!" Derfel ap Cadwaladr:brb. Dusan of Criamon:Giraldo is a goddamn treasure Giraldo of Milan:"You want to show me you're sorry? You get your apple-laden ass out of here and find some real work. Waddling around, shoveling piles of fruit down that maw of yours..." Derfel ap Cadwaladr:back. Guardsman:hahaha Guardsman gulps down a mouthful of dried apple Guardsman:"Of course!" "R-right away!" "Boy, Mom's not gonna believe this...!" The guard leaves. Close one, Giraldo. Octavia:"Good save." "Almost had to skewer him before he screamed." Giraldo of Milan:"We've got a plan to stick to. No corpses." Octavia:"Yeah. It's a pain in the ass, but that's the order." Guardsman:Octavia and Giraldo get the barrels planted without any further obstacles, working faster than the plan accounted for thanks to Octavia's strength and Giraldo's discretion. Now, I think all that's left is making a safe escape. Octavia:"How long have we got to get out the palace before these go off?" Giraldo of Milan:"A couple of minutes, give or take." Guardsman:Are you taking the boat with Felipe or do you have your own way out Giraldo of Milan:we can take the boat that seems like a good idea Derfel ap Cadwaladr:are you going to uhh Lavinia:felipe should not travel by boat since we're worried about an enemy navy Giraldo of Milan:thats true lets skedaddle hm. we should probably tell gulielmus Alphubel ex Merinita:We did it. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:are you going to use the other potion, or alert derfel as you leave the building silently and invisibly Guardsman:i thought you said you wanted him and all his cannons on one boat (which is a total of two cannons, the one you found and one more he scrambled to get after Lavinia started accelerating his plans) Lavinia:yeah, but he wouldn't be on the boat himself it's just the men he hired Guardsman:oh, i see Lavinia:he's on the island across the bay watching the battle Guardsman:oh yeah Lavinia:while carlo thinks felipe is in the armada Guardsman:with your epic mde ref. Octavia:"Alright, a few minutes is enough." "Let's get moving, old man." (To GM): Is there a battle, or have we been played and carlo wanted this building destroyed all along Giraldo of Milan grumbles. Giraldo of Milan:"The years won't catch up to me for a while." Guardsman:alright. in that case, Octavia, Giraldo, a few thugs, and two cannons are on a boat out of Venice when they see another ship coming toward the city. It looks headed to pass right by them. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:. o O ( would my fellow custodes betray me? ) Octavia:Derfel is the one maintaining the cold right Derfel ap Cadwaladr:ya Octavia:Then we head for you Derfel ap Cadwaladr:ty. Octavia:At least, I do. Perhaps Giraldo runs for the sea. (From Guardsman): Carlo doesn't know where the cannons and gunpowder are going after they get to Particella. Carlo is still an amoral mercenary with a pirate fleet of his own at this point in history. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:it would be pretty funny to leave him behind. but also he would survive and rat you out (From Guardsman): if he knew it was for blowing up part of venice he might be upset, but he didn't Octavia:"We've got a minute left, hand off the wall and let's get a damn move on." I bark as we run off and reach Derfel (To GM): oh lol. I thought he was in charge of venice's defenses. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"Shit!" (From Guardsman): no thats not until he comes back with his pirate fleet to win the battle of chioggia in the 1370s lol. im sorry Lavinia:hmm turns out I was probably thinkign too much about carlo's schemes. well whatever too late to go back now haha. Derfel ap Cadwaladr pours the sound-altering potion on the floor and makes for the extraction point. Guardsman:pequod inbound to lz Giraldo of Milan:lets exfiltrate Guardsman:it turns out there was a little misunderstanding over carlo's possible motivations because lavinia was breaking the hermetic limit of time but its not a big deal. Lavinia:i can't believe Fiorella's family involves pirates. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:just a lil overscheming. Alphubel ex Merinita:I can. Pirates are great. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:lavinia should join house verditius. Guardsman:You are exfiltrating. A ship is inbound, and you are likely to pass closely enough to identify each others markings and possibly deck crew what do you o Octavia:We all get to jump out of the palace as it explodes behind us, making for an incredible visual image. Guardsman:do the palace will explode any second. (To GM): As long as Felipe appreciates the gesture it's still worth it to throw covenfolk's lives in danger. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:I'm invisible. Octavia:The ships were decoys, are we really gonna board instead of escaping by foot? Alphubel ex Merinita:Or it would if you were visible. Giraldo of Milan:escaping by foot seems like the better idea Guardsman:oh i thought you wanted to make sure the cannons stayed in your possessio in that case thats cool. Lavinia:What if we sunk the ship Guardsman:Octavia, Derfel, and Giraldo can escape by foot. Lavinia:and then it became a shipwreck... and we explored it. Guardsman:and the other thugs leave with the cannons. Octavia:Let's hoof it Guardsman:the palace collapses in a controlled demolition as you all haul ass down the roads Octavia:"That chapter house, let's split then meet by there." Giraldo of Milan:i will do so Guardsman:someone on their way into venice may have seen the cannon ship on the way out, but who knows. Octavia:I have no direction sense and my allies were invisible so I don't show up at the chapter house Guardsman:lol lmfao. Alphubel ex Merinita:Here's hoping you get epically lost. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:i also have no sense of direction. Alphubel ex Merinita:lol Guardsman:that's incredible. Lavinia:Great. Alphubel ex Merinita:Well, we lost two grogs but we got the job done. Lavinia:Let's never say "let's split up" without double checking that, first. Dusan of Criamon:you did it, grogs! Lavinia:Time for the next step in our plan, where we implicate Carlo Zeno as the mastermind of the plot. Guardsman:i will roll a d10 for Derfel, and then a d10 for Octavia. if you get closer to 10, you will be farther away from the scene of the crime/nearer to the chapterhouse. if you get closer to 1, you will be nearer to the wrecked palace. rolling 1d10 Derfel ( 10 ) =10 rolling 1d10 Octavia ( 4 ) =4 Derfel ap Cadwaladr:wew. Guardsman:Derfel ends up within sight of the chapterhouse, and is picked up and dragged inside. Alphubel ex Merinita:I mean, if anyone can find our wayward grogs it's Lavinia. Giraldo of Milan pops open a wine bottle. Lavinia:She's busy celebrating with Felipe. Guardsman:Octavia, please roll Awareness. Octavia:Hearing or sight based? Guardsman:Sight Octavia:rolling 1d10!-3 ( 3 ) -3 =0 Lavinia:doh Alphubel ex Merinita:Boh. Guardsman:Well, if you want to use something else, go for it. Octavia:That's sight-based. If hearing-based it's 3 lower. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:lol Guardsman:Octavia, you look around and can't tell one part of Venice from another. What kind of asshole builds a curved street? How long does this invis effect last again? sun? Derfel ap Cadwaladr:sun yeah Octavia:Hm. Well I have an idea. I'll follow the canals to the coast, then wander the coast until I find one of our boats. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"Another successful quest." Guardsman:Derfel, Giraldo, an hour passes and Octavia has not returned. The city is erupting into panic as the people notice what happened to the palace. Alphubel ex Merinita:It's just crazy enough to work. Guardsman:That' That's not a bad idea, Octavia. Giraldo of Milan:following canals sounds like something someone with a sense of direction would do, though Guardsman:rolling 1d2 ( 1 ) =1 You start going upstream. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"Mission, sorry." "It's the Sidhe in me." Octavia:Excellent. Giraldo of Milan:"Huh. Guess she got lost." Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"She'll make her way ba-" Guardsman:Octavia, gimme another sight awareness Derfel ap Cadwaladr frowns. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"Actually, no, it's more likely she'll end up in some Faerie regio." Octavia:rolling 1d10!-3 ( 8 ) -3 =5 Guardsman:Nice. That's high enough to make a minor EF. Giraldo of Milan:make a minor Octavia:"Damn this city, who lays streets out this way?" Guardsman:You notice that the coast seems to be getting farther away. Alphubel ex Merinita:lol Octavia:"Ah fuck." I start running back the other way Guardsman:lol Octavia makes it to the coast before sunrise. The fake navy have gone, but you'll be visible soon. Are the rest of the crew looking for Octavia? lol Maybe telling a magus she's lost? Lavinia:she could ask for directions she speaks italian right? Guardsman:looks like she has italian 3 Octavia:Yeah Guardsman:so yeah enough to ask for directions and sound foreign but in a weird way because latin is her native language Octavia:If I'm stuck here still in the morning I'll yell at venetians until they direct me to the chapter house italian spec is in Insults so that should be easy enough Guardsman:lol Octavia:Actually, I dont even have to yell. I've been meaning to use this. I go find someone and try to Entrance them into guiding me Guardsman:oh fuck yea thats sick. Octavia:It's opposed by a stamina roll, +3 for a normal task I'll find a woman since that's what my spec is rolling 1d10!+3+4+1 ( 3 ) +3+4+1 =11 Guardsman:rolling 1d10!+1+3 ( 4 ) +1+3 =8 Nice. Octavia:I'll describe the area around the chapter house and get them to take me Derfel ap Cadwaladr:what's lavinia's death prophecy Alphubel ex Merinita:Death by the Sea. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:sick Alphubel ex Merinita:We should actually have an exact prophecy. Dusan of Criamon:did octavia just bully her way to some directions Octavia:Johns has asked me to not reveal the exact details of it, on the basis that he is engaged in perpetual PVP. Alphubel ex Merinita:Wow. Octavia:I mind-controlled someone into directions, actually Alphubel ex Merinita:Talk about paranoid. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:ok Dusan of Criamon:I retract Octavia:It IS paranoid, but I'll respect his wishes Derfel ap Cadwaladr:johns can no longer play lavinia in a session run by any gm except you Rabble Woman loses herself in Octavia's eyes and smiles dreamily Giraldo of Milan:Entrance Rabble:"Sure, I'll take you wherever you want to go." Giraldo of Milan:oh ohhh Lavinia:Degenerates Giraldo of Milan:i was thinking entrance but you meant entrance i see Octavia:if Giraldo and Derfel waited around, I'll meet them there Derfel ap Cadwaladr raises a bottle. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"Salve." Rabble:It's been a few hours longer than you planned, but you know what, I think this actually means you kept to the heist timetable. Octavia:"Salve." Rabble:Since you saved a few hours earlier planting barrels. Sure. Why not. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:well unless you run into trouble on the way. Octavia:"Had to get a damn peasant to lead me here, but I think that went pretty well, huh?" Rabble:What do you do with the entranced peasant? They'll just wander off if you've got no plans. No big deal. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"I like this Chinese salt." Alphubel ex Merinita:Entrancing a peasant isn't any kind of crime. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"It's got more panache than just digging a tunnel under the place." Octavia:Yeah I just dismiss them, entrancement is only for a single task anyway "Oh yeah, whole place collapsed with a noise like the roar of the gods." "We've got some damn good employers, I'll say that." Lavinia:I wanted to do terrorism.... bossman agreed Rabble:lol Derfel ap Cadwaladr:"Have to say it's nicer without the Black Knight around." Giraldo of Milan:"Damn, I should've told that guard I was Mortis." GM:Now that Calendar's vendetta against the people who defaced his art is settled, he's feeling much better. Lavinia:nice I will try to convince him to stay with me and the Order once more instead of running off on mad schemes. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:romance is in the air. Octavia:"Some old friend of yours, huh?" Lavinia:This is... my true scheme! Felipe Calendar:He looks at Lavinia in the light of the moon and the fire of the burning palace ruins and leans in for a kiss. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:will lavinia fuck before alphubel does? Felipe Calendar:lol. Lavinia reciprocates Felipe Calendar:ohhhh!! Lavinia:gahaha. pwned, endrite Octavia:Congrats, Lavinia. Alphubel ex Merinita:I've never been interested in dudes that way. But congrats Johns. Felipe Calendar:the scene fades to black and Felipe Calendar decides that he won't go off and try to build a palace for the fake idiot emperor after all. Octavia:Oh shit. Ain't never had a magus come at me like that before. Giraldo of Milan:alright. now lets kill felipe Felipe Calendar:Congrats Lavinia. You have established the ultimate Augustan Murder Power Couple. Lavinia:two bumbling inept schemers. Felipe Calendar:loll Derfel ap Cadwaladr:now sacrifice him to a demon also gulielmus is NOT engaged in perpetual pvp against lavinia, even though i constantly threaten to poison her. Giraldo of Milan:now watch me whip. now watch me sacrifice this man to baphomet Lavinia:the one im most worried about is guy and this terrible secret project he keeps talking about Giraldo of Milan:fortunately, acting on those concerns would be metagaming which you would never do Felipe Calendar:this went pretty well/longer than i expected for a pre-session distraction. and you did cool plans and stuff and worked towards your characters goals and used their abilities in fun ways. i kind of want to give 9 xp. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:oorah. GM:also you have access to two cannons and a quantity of gunpowder i have to stat out Lavinia:this turne dout pretty awesome for something you made up yesterday Alphubel ex Merinita:Has any pre-session distraction not taken the entire day? GM:ty johns Dusan of Criamon:great performance by a GM basically ad-libbing an entire sesh GM:i dont think so now that you mention it endrite Giraldo of Milan:were going to have al ot more gunpowder once i get it figured out Alphubel ex Merinita:We need stats for cannons. Octavia:Oh lol that really wasnt meant to be the session Alphubel ex Merinita:I think we should just accept that you can't do a pre-session distraction. GM:lll lol Dusan of Criamon:i know Giraldo of Milan:ars is very good at being ad-libbable Octavia:Are we proceeding with the Real Session or stopping here as a job well done Dusan of Criamon:that's the beauty of it GM:i certainly cant, at least Alphubel ex Merinita:Or rather, one can't do a pre-session distraction. Giraldo of Milan:especially compared to fucking pathfinder Derfel ap Cadwaladr:what season is the magic realm trip GM:dude right beard?!?! Lavinia:hmmm GM:i couldn't run pathfinder without doing at least several hours of fucking prep Giraldo of Milan:i am looking forward to not having to spend 6-8 hours preparing a session for ars provencia GM:i hated it johns:i think we should take a break and do what I planned next week Giraldo of Milan:it gets harder and harder to prep too because eventually people can just teleport Derfel ap Cadwaladr:do we get seasons tho Endrite:Next week: surprise Paranoia adventure. Giraldo of Milan:i managed to keep it up til level 11 i think? or level 10 Octavia:I can't make it next week, as a reminder. johns:I think Giraldo of Milan:but it was draining johns:Autumn 1364 for next session Derfel ap Cadwaladr:gah devil's fav demon (GM):thats literally the only reason i dislike it. i dont actually think its a bad game i just feel like it puts a huge amount of pressure on a gm Octavia:it was 11 iirc beard johns:dys, what season will Archibald be ready for the magic realm devil's fav demon (GM):like you have to REALLY be hype to run d&d to not want to kill yourself Giraldo of Milan:yeah. i ended up complaining a lot about how mechanics worked but honestly i was just projecting problems onto it the issue is how much work it takes to prep Endrite:Man if there's any game that puts no pressure on the GM it's D&D. Octavia:I think he's ready now, not sure what other prep we need. Well I haven't done his seasons yet. I'm going to prepare some more PeVi to stack up and help my sodales penetrate it. Endrite:Just run published adventures. Giraldo of Milan:it would be fine if i was a neet but i basically had no weekend because all of my time was spent prepping devil's fav demon (GM):i hate doing that lol im retarded. johns:okay Octavia:Even published adventures take a lot of setup time and need adjustments. johns:adventure autumn 1364, then magic realm Spring '65 Giraldo of Milan:published adventures suck mostly devil's fav demon (GM):that would be neat. Octavia:A lot do suck, too, yes. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:works for me. Dusan of Criamon:published adventures are a million times more pressure than winging it devil's fav demon (GM):oh yeah Giraldo of Milan:like the ones that are just big megadungeons are fine. thats cool but most of them suck Derfel ap Cadwaladr:i'm setting aside my vis expenditures right now. devil's fav demon (GM):we need to do the Alphubel/Archibald debate Dusan of Criamon:having to keep up with someone elses canon? No thank you devil's fav demon (GM):over delaying the magic realm expedition to make insider trading profit johns:lol let's do it now. Endrite:Let's do a whole session about Alphubel cashing in his Aesthetics by allowing the pixies to pelt all the visiting magi with bread and sharp rocks. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:wait. no devil's fav demon (GM):lol endrite Derfel ap Cadwaladr:we only have 2 rego/year so i still can't afford to enchant my talisman johns:we still have unspent tribunal BP each one is worth 5 vis straight up Endrite:Hmm. I think we should get a Communication boosting ritual. Derfel ap Cadwaladr:oh. ill take 2 bp of rego then. johns:alphubel you just need the weakest of the Comm boosters to approach something reasonable right devil's fav demon (GM):a comm boosting ritual would be neat. and rosario would help you cast it, since he also has very shitty comm Derfel ap Cadwaladr:we should get a Pre boosting ritual devil's fav demon (GM):and a lvl 30 communion johns:lavinia's at +2 but would like to go higher but I understand its costly Endrite:Alphubel can't benefit from any Communication boosting effects as long as he remains cursed. devil's fav demon (GM):ahhh Giraldo of Milan:guy has 2 presence and 5 comm devil's fav demon (GM):well, rosario would also help you quest to remove the curse, he loves shit like that. Endrite:His particular curse is he's a Sovereign Ward to Vaticanus so he was never given the ability to make sound at birth like everyone else. It's really more of a curse on Vaticanus. Giraldo of Milan:anyway giraldos probably going to spend the next few seasons looking into the black powder and finding local sources for the materials then see about enhancing it Endrite:I should really roll him up already. devil's fav demon (GM):sounds like a fun idea giraldo. i wonder if there are rules for mundane breakthroughs. ha ha ha. Giraldo of Milan:its not mundane im going to use mythic alchemy Dusan of Criamon:im gonna give my burglar a name and actually name him and use him next sesh Endrite:How much BP we got left? johns:good Giraldo of Milan:and the rules for that are just making a formula and then using vis to enhance it Dusan of Criamon:which CONVENIENTLY is going to contain no shooting competition johns:29 BP remaining, Endrite Dusan of Criamon:so i won't be up for the 19th consecutive hour as we finish next sunday Derfel ap Cadwaladr:is the bp recorded somewhere johns:https://ars-badgame-ii.fandom.com/wiki/Health_and_Wealth#Tribunal_1362_Trade Octavia:gn then gamers, good Brief Pre-Session Distraction Derfel ap Cadwaladr:please put me down for either 1 or 2 bp worth of rego Endrite:See ya. johns:i am looking forward to the recap and repurcussions we'll say 2 bp and i'll update the vis ledger Dusan of Criamon:again, props to the GM and big ups to everyone on the bombing chucky ar la see you all tomorrow devil's fav demon (GM):gg everyon ty for playing johns (GM):--timestamp-- c'thinker:slime tramp devil's fav demon:im updating the vis ledger and you cant stop me. c'thinker:i'm going to set aside 4 more pawns and hope that i don't have to use them Guy of Bonisagus:arse! bad game johns (GM):We're short only 1 person, shaun, right Endrite (GM):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og Rosario of Flambeau:dys cant make it iirc, so yeah and it's endrite's birthday. johns (GM):Happy birthday GM appear c'thinker:happy birthday, endrite and endrite's mom. Endrite:Thank you. GM:Ok, let's begin Alphubel ex Merinita:Lettuce. GM:Welcome to Vardian's Tomb, under construction. The summer iof 1364 is nearly at an end, but the hot Italian weather does not relent. The Dog Star beats down heavily upon you with stifling humidity. The Magi retreat to the cold dark labs underground for relief. Alphubel ex Merinita:Unfortunately in the tree it's pretty muggy. Also it's hot and humid! Just a little pixie humor for ya'll. GM:Gulielmus, in his lab, is finalizing a season's work on enchanting his talisman. He used some especially potent ingredients -- perhaps more potent than he knows how to handle -- and feels a tingle of energy as he finishes the calibrations. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"That's strange." GM:Well, regardless, time for the test. He opens the door of his lab to make his way outside where he will have free range to teleport as he likes. Except he does not walk into the claustrophobic hallways of Vardian's Tomb. Alphubel ex Merinita:The chance of a resonance cascade is quite low. GM:Instead he finds himself in a large, ruined cathedral. Several things strike him at once. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the gm's fist, and the floor Alphubel ex Merinita:Heh. GM:This place is not only ruined, but desecrated. The crosses are bent and cast to the floor. Pentagrams and unspeakable things are carved in the walls. Rosario of Flambeau:The bubble pops, as it were. Giraldo of Milan munches on an apple. Alphubel ex Merinita:Phew, that means you won't have to worry about getting stuck in a Dominio aura. Giraldo of Milan:dominos aura GM:Second: There are some corpses on the ground not far from him. Men wearing gambesons, their swords not far from their bodies. They look torn up at a glance. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:I re-enter my lab. GM:You turn around. The doorway you have entered through does not lead to your lab, but a courtyard. Third Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh fugg. GM:You hear noises to the north: laborer breathing, yells of pain, and a voice too quiet to make out. (north end of the chapel. Can't see what's really over there from this side because the Choir is in the way.) Oh yeah, the courtyard looks like a Monastic cloister. And the sky overhead is a strange orange hue. Oh yeah! It's incredibly humid and unpleasant here. You're already sweating. ok, end exposition. Rosario of Flambeau:At least the weather is the same. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:this is the one thing i was trying to avoid! GM:that track is NOT ultima stones. thanks, trolls. Alphubel ex Merinita:Is it a strange orange hue or the kind of orange hue that would come from a huge amount of smoke in the sky? Giraldo of Milan:got him Alphubel ex Merinita:If you don't mind me asking while I'm toiling away obliviously in my lab. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:imagining hypothetical shades of orange for an imaginem study bonus GM:this kind of orange Giraldo of Milan:[in voice of snake saying there! in smash bros when he sets off his remote mine] there! GM:not that you can see the exterior of the building yet. haha. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:blimey. Alphubel ex Merinita:He saw it in the cutscene. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:after taking a moment to collect myself, i'll inspect the bodies. using huh i thought i had 1 medicine but it's 2 Alphubel ex Merinita:Noice. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10+2+2 medicine / perception ( 6 ) +2+2 =10 obviously they're dead but what could have inflicted these horrifying wounds GM:They are each young men, between 14 and 20. They wear gambesons with tabards over them. They have taken heavy blunt force trauma and lots of minor cutting and slashing wounds. One of them is missing his eyes, another has an eye hanging loosely from its socket. Rosario of Flambeau::O Giraldo of Milan:mortis would have loved this Alphubel ex Merinita:Does the guy with a loose eye have an eye in his other eye socket? GM:Yes. Giraldo of Milan:oh i will have to leave for a bit in a couple hours to do something but ill be back Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Gulielmus quietly regrets his initial thoughts on entering this terrible place: namely, "did Lavinia do this?" Alphubel ex Merinita:8{ GM:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:better go aid whoever's making these troubling noises though GM:You move north? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ye moe:I have caught up with the game now GM:You approach the choir. The voice of a man becomes more distinct as you approach, it sounds like it's coming from the north and below. At the choir itself you find the source of the laborer breathing You sorta recognize Sir Tiziano, the hedge knight you encountered on Ponza some years ago. Alphubel ex Merinita:Gasp! GM:He looks like he's been in a bad fight, and has lost an arm. He's struggling to stay alive in a pool of his blood. (I beleive you poisoned his horse, last time you met.) Rosario of Flambeau:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol "Sir Tiziano!?" moe:lmao Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Are we on Ponza?" hmm Sir Tiziano:He looks at you weakly, and shakes his head. He struggles to speak: "Zannone." "Water..?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I'll find you some water." Sir Tiziano:He coughs ruefully. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Let me see your wound, first." hmm, if i happen to have some vis or the healing ring i could actually help this guy. Sir Tiziano:He moves his arm stump a little. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:otherwise i probably can't. Sir Tiziano:He has also taken a lot of cuts and bruises. You were just in your lab and about to head out so whatever you take on your daily carry is fine. Mechanically he is at Incapacitated state and will need to make a roll soon to see if he lives or dies. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll produce my miraculous healing ring then "Be healed." Alphubel ex Merinita:Tadaa! Sir Tiziano:what's the bonus? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's that easy folks i think it's +6 but lemme check. Giraldo of Milan:thought: we should get 1 infernal animal vis per year from the infernal ferriers Gulielmus of Pure Reason:+6 yeah. Alphubel ex Merinita:What infernal ferriers? Giraldo of Milan:the ones giraldo kills Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i will actually see what i can do mundanely but my hopes aren't high Sir Tiziano:rolling 1d10!+3+6 ( 5 ) +3+6 =14 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+5 int medicine ( 4 ) +5 =9 Sir Tiziano:His bleeding stops. If he receives proper chirugy somewhere else, he might survive. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"There." "Now, what the hell is going on here?" Sir Tiziano:He still struggles to speak. "Hazm in trouble... get help.. demons.." Dusan of Criamon:Not Father Hazm! Alphubel ex Merinita:It's troubling to be sure. Gulielmus of Pure Reason cross-references the list of teleport-capable magi with the list of currently absent players Alphubel ex Merinita:Ah but, you are also a teleport capable magus. Giraldo of Milan:shazm Gulielmus of Pure Reason:that is the case. Giraldo of Milan:just think. mechanically, gulielmus is responsible for all this death and suffering Gulielmus of Pure Reason:noo Gulielmus of Pure Reason pales at the mention of demons. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Just, uh, just stay here and rest, Sir Tizano." Sir Tiziano nods Giraldo of Milan:gulielmus of pure treason indeed Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Or move away from that awful voice. It's up to you!" Gulielmus says this over his shoulder as he walks to the exit. Sir Tiziano:He doesn't look like he's moving anywhere fast. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i have negative strength so i can't really help him there. i'll scrounge around in the cloister for a good AC to this place Sir Tiziano:The walls are crumbling and easily yield a fistful of masonry. rolling 1d10!+1+2 ( 4 ) +1+2 =7 Alphubel ex Merinita:A Fistful of Masonry GM:Disregard roll Alphubel ex Merinita:For a Few Fistfuls of Masonry More. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:scary roll but i will disregard it. for my next trick i'll attempt to teleport to vardian's tomb. GM:Nice, Int + finesse please Alphubel ex Merinita:We teleport to a society. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+4 ( 3 ) +4 =7 GM:You arrive 2 feet above the ground, and plop down onto the dirt path surrounding the grounds. Alphubel ex Merinita:Oof. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ouch! GM:Around you the laborers taking siesta in the shade barely notice. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"You there!" Alphubel ex Merinita:I also take no notice of someone appearing out of thin air. Giraldo of Milan looks over at Gulielmus. Giraldo of Milan:"What is this crap?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Pietro! Go and gather the rest of the magi at once, it's urgent!" "It's demons, Giraldo!" Giraldo of Milan pulls up chain pants and runs off to get the magi and a whetstone. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hope shaun is here Shauncat:Hello Fiorella of Jerbiton:I mean hello Gulielmus of Pure Reason:salve GM:Archibald has sealed himself in his lab and left instructions not to be disturbed for anything short of the end of the world. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:classic archibald. (To Giraldo of Milan): Of the living characters, Giraldo and Archibald are the onyl ones who were around the last tim eyou visited Zannone and the ruined Monastery. Alphubel ex Merinita:I figured those were his standing instructions. Dusan of Criamon:"You said demons? I heard something about demons. Does this qualify as end of world or is this merely an adventure we're talking here?" "Either way I'm queasy already." Rosario of Flambeau:"How many of them?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"It's the end of the world for those poor people, at least!" Giraldo of Milan:hmm i will give a general message for all magi that there are demons what need killing Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"It's not clear yet, I-" "Oh no! My lab!" Alphubel ex Merinita:rolling 1d10 +2 Awareness ( 2 ) +2 =4 Gulielmus of Pure Reason runs off to check on his lab. Alphubel ex Merinita:I don't overhear this conversation. GM:Everything is where you left it. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:door still a regular door, both ways? GM:Yes Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what a relief. Fiorella of Jerbiton:"You know, the churches keep collecting all these tithes yet it's us that are expected to go Perdo Vimming all their problems away." Alphubel ex Merinita:I climb down from my tree on my nice new temporary scaffolding. Gulielmus of Pure Reason returns. Dusan of Criamon:"Good point, Fiorella. We really should employ some travelling eccelesiates to take care of these far-flung hives of demonic energy." Alphubel ex Merinita:"Better that we take care of it than allowing one of the Pope's men to do it." Dusan of Criamon:"Maintenance architects, but for wellsprings of the infernal." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"All is in order. Now, as I was saying, the island of Zannone has been completely overrun by the armies of Hell, and our friend Hazm is in danger." Fiorella of Jerbiton:"I like that idea," I remark to Dusan. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Not to mention the wounded who still linger." Alphubel ex Merinita:"What is the island of Zannone and why is there an army of demons there?" Dusan of Criamon:"I prefer the solution to the problem." Dusan of Criamon clutches his sides Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i think giraldo may have actually been to zannone GM:Yes, he and Archibald are the only people still alive who were. Fiorella of Jerbiton:I don't think Jorn canonically died we just joke that he did Alphubel ex Merinita:I assumed he just left for another, less violent covenant. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Yeah, Oculus Sep GM:I hope not cause we're supposed to have adventures up in the Rhine some day and it'll be cool to see what he's up to Gulielmus of Pure Reason:he ascended to divinity ironic since he was a pagan but that's fae for you. Giraldo of Milan:"It's near Ponza, and it's full of demons because there was an Infernal presence that we never got rid of." Alphubel ex Merinita:"If it's an island in the middle of the ocean then what are demons doing there? I thought they only cared about human souls." Rosario of Flambeau:I've never been to Zannone? Dang. Alphubel ex Merinita:"Is the island inhabited?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"And now our good friend Hazm has gotten entangled with those very same demons." Dusan of Criamon:"I would like to later commission a list of our other holdings, with -gulp- untreated infernal presences." Fiorella of Jerbiton:"There are colonists on Ponza, we earn some income from them.through donations from Hazm." Rosario of Flambeau:"Do you have an Arcane Connection there? I'll head there immediately." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"They're haunting a desecrated monastery, Alphubel." Fiorella of Jerbiton:"So yes, there are human souls out there." Alphubel ex Merinita:"Then who summoned the army?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:if that doesn't appeal to alphubel's nature then what will. Alphubel ex Merinita:"Can demons summon themselves?" Rosario of Flambeau:"Let me think." Fiorella of Jerbiton:"They can summon those lower in the hierarchy, I imagine." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:we will reconvene in Winter when rosario is done thinking Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10+1+1 int demon lore ( 6 ) +1+1 =8 I have 1 int now. GM:1 moment to answer that q Giraldo of Milan thinks about demons. GM:Yes, demons can summon their servants, and those of the class False Gods can summon any type of lesser demon Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+8 ( 7 ) +8 =15 Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Dusan of Criamon:Impressive Rosario of Flambeau:"Good lord. This could be a real infestation!" Fiorella of Jerbiton:"Also all the realms can form pathways through regionnes into the material world, over time." Dusan of Criamon winces Alphubel ex Merinita:Good lord what is happening in that infernal regio? Rosario of Flambeau:"I'm not sure if I'm ready to have Henry go along with us, but he could be a real help..." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:paese della cuccagna? can fiorella use birds to airlift the wounded out GM:do I need to quote monty python here Gulielmus of Pure Reason:yes GM:Not unless she has a pet phoenix. or roc. Alphubel ex Merinita:What about a very large goose? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i feel like at one point she was going to invent a spell for that Dusan of Criamon:what about a bunch of small birds, tied to a net Gulielmus of Pure Reason:thus GM:Anyway if you choose not to dive headfirst into danger that's fine too and does not ruin the adventure. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:well we should. Dusan of Criamon:that would be very unVTlike Gulielmus of Pure Reason:think about all those dead guys. Rosario of Flambeau:I can teleport, but my dog can't, I just realized. Alphubel ex Merinita:Quick, council meeting to determine how we can best ruin the adventure. GM:ok moe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFXG3r_0B8 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i didn't know you could teleport Rosario of Flambeau:"You'll have to stay here, dog." I instilled Leap of Homecoming into my talisman a while ago. Rosario can teleport as long as he's got his trusty sword. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh, nice. sounds like we've got an elite demon slaying squad then. GM:Rosario and Gulielmus, you mean? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:and fiorella, unless shaun is going to be hazm GM:What of Endrite, Moe, and Beardbeard? Dusan of Criamon:Let's take the whale Also I see no way how a mundane swallow carrying a coconut relates to our magical birds coordinated by a powerful witch Alphubel ex Merinita:I just put myself in the box! GM:Will you travel by Whale, Alphubel? Alphubel ex Merinita:Yes. GM:Very well. It'll take you almost a full day to get from Rome to Zannone this way. Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok. Giraldo of Milan:lets roll GM:Grogs? Gulielmus of Pure Reason rummages in his satchel and produces a handful of loose masonry. Alphubel ex Merinita:So you just need to keep everyone alive until then and then we can take them back to Rome. Dusan of Criamon:Such is our fate Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"These stone chips should serve as arcane connections to the monastery." Rosario of Flambeau:"Hurry up, or there won't be any demons left for you to kill! Ho ho!" GM:Alright. Apologies to the Whale Team as we split the party. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ha ha. Alphubel ex Merinita:Bwahaha. GM:was someone saying last week you can just drag a token to anothe rboard somehow Alphubel ex Merinita:Time to have an Undersea Adventure. Rosario of Flambeau:I grab some stone chips and my greatsword and slice apart the space between me and Zannone Gulielmus of Pure Reason:you can drag a player's avatar to another map, i think GM:hmm Gulielmus of Pure Reason:there we are. GM:Int + Finesse folks Alphubel ex Merinita:AFK a sec. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+4 ( 2 ) +4 =6 gah GM:You arrive 5 feet east of your destination. Fiorella of Jerbiton:I'll take an AC to unlock fast travel to this location Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+1+1 ( 3 ) +1+1 =5 gah. Giraldo of Milan:gah Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gah! Giraldo of Milan:how is giraldo getting ther GM:The whale. Giraldo of Milan:ok Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it'll take a day. GM:They all left you behind! gah Giraldo of Milan:the magi are going to die Gulielmus of Pure Reason:left behind with alphubel and dusan Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok I'm back. GM:Rosario arrives lying horizontal in "planking" stance. Rosario of Flambeau:Dude you can't say "There's a million demons!!!" and not expect Rosario to instantly teleport there if he has the ability to do so. lol. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol GM:Welcome to the Damned Monastery of St. Sylvester. It's hot, humid, and not a place people want to be. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:these loose stones should serve as arca- ah, vale rosario Dusan of Criamon:Rosario as a distant ancestor of doomguy Rosario of Flambeau:"It's cooler on the floor." Rosario of Flambeau gets to his feet +2 encumbrancely Gulielmus of Pure Reason:stay frosty everyone. "Stay frosty, everyone." GM:The cloister opens into all directions. You hear activity in all directions except the church -- things being smashed apart. and nasty chittering sounds. Rosario of Flambeau:lmao. devil's fav demon:sorry i cant see the word chittering without thinking of the epic phallic baldwin reading of "the chittering" script. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol. Giraldo of Milan:lmfao Dusan of Criamon:lmao Rosario of Flambeau:"They're all around us!" I start to advance in a random direction. oh wait. First I will put up Sidestep I guess. Does that even work on demons i forget. whatever. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:advancing in a random direction, swinging your sword wildly, instantly killing fiorella and gulielmus Rosario of Flambeau:rofl. Rosario swings horizontally with the zwei in frontline. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh i'm looking at the spells i invented and i could have warded the knight against demons before abandoning him GM:btw Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh well. GM:has anyone in this party ever suffered a wound from an infernal entity Rosario of Flambeau:...maaaaybe? GM:you were only gone for like 30 minutes anyway gulielmus Rosario of Flambeau:one of the spider demons probably got a wound or two on me. i was fighting them for a while iirc Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'm also a maybe here i think. GM:those were magic Rosario of Flambeau:oh hmmm i dont remember off hand but it seems very likely. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i think i was wounded in the colossus fight GM:neat Fiorella of Jerbiton:I sidestep GM:You feel something cold and wet, Gulielmus. Fresh scratches and cuts have manifested around your old wound. Rosario of Flambeau:I activate my items to let me ignore wounds and fatigue. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Idea: a swinging blade trap with a pressure blade wouldn't care about Sidestep (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): Assuming you didn't take a Heavy Wound from the colossus, you don't actually have a mechanical wound penalty here. Rosario of Flambeau:its Endurance of the Berserkers but the item maintains concentration. OP. Giraldo of Milan:giraldo has fot demons but i dont think one has ever hurt him Alphubel ex Merinita:If such a trap even existed outside of Egypt! Giraldo of Milan:fought Rosario of Flambeau:that is a good trap. GM:Rosario and Fiorella are sidestepped and buffed. Rosario of Flambeau:"One of you will have to show me around this place, but I've got your backs." "No one in the covenant's better than me against a horde of demons, except maybe Archibald." GM:Per + Awareness anyone who wants to try. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'm trying to figure out what happened in the statue fight. GM:dont stress it. Alphubel ex Merinita:But if you do there's a chance for the dice to explode in your favor. Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10+1+3 ( 3 ) +1+3 =7 gah. GM:You notice nothing more than what I've said so far. Rosario of Flambeau blinks Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10+3 ( 3 ) +3 =6 Fiorella the Raven:rolling 3+3+d10! 3+3+( 1 ) =7 Rosario of Flambeau:good thing that wasnt stressed. Fiorella the Raven:Roll botch dice in secret if it was GM rolls some dice Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"All right." "There was a wounded knight in the nave, over here." Rosario of Flambeau:I will enter with my sodales. GM:Entering the chapel Cathedral The Knight is where you left him, hanging in there. The noises from the north are no longer around. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Salve." how bad is the aura GM:You'd have to cast to measure it haha. Feels rough though. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hehe. Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh ho ho ho. Giraldo of Milan:ok im going to do my thing be back in a little bit GM:cheers Rosario of Flambeau:gg Alphubel ex Merinita:Faretheewell. Dusan of Criamon:salut Rosario of Flambeau:I'm going to put my sword down on the ground and cast Disarm the Warrior on it so it flies into my hand to test the aura. GM:-4 to casting Alphubel ex Merinita:You could just, you know learn an aura detection spell. Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10+26-4 botch check ( 4 ) +26-4 =26 rolling 1d10+3+2+1 dex + athletics + catching things spec vs 9 ( 4 ) +3+2+1 =10 whew. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Rosario of Flambeau:i catch my sword and twirl it. GM:x 1 but there's no one here to duel you! Rosario of Flambeau:lol alright, it's infernal, uh, 4, if i remember the realm interaction table Sir Tiziano:"... back?" Rosario of Flambeau:"He's brought his sodales to slay this demonic infestation." "Strange I haven't seen one yet..." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I brought you some water, as well." Sir Tiziano:Nice He moves his stump a bit, groans, then reaches out for it with the other hand. Dusan of Criamon:good move Rosario of Flambeau:"We'll get you a new hand when we all make it out of this." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Be careful with that." Sir Tiziano:"They came on us from the sky first... the crows... then the beast with the club.. and the wizard.." Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmmmmm. Rosario of Flambeau:"Maybe that Anna was right." Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh no, Johns is going forward with his despicable plot to make us fight evil doppelgangers even though we live in Italy! Rosario of Flambeau:"She was more accurate about this age than I want to admit." Sir Tiziano:"He took Hazm.." He struggles to look towards the cathedral's bare altar to the north. "Down there." Alphubel ex Merinita:Gasp! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Beneath the altar?" Sir Tiziano nods Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Has anyone come out?" Sir Tiziano shakes head Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Disturbing." Rosario of Flambeau turns and heads south for a few paces before wondering why no one is following him Rosario of Flambeau:"Whoops." Sir Tiziano:Does anyone in this crew have Second Sight Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i do not Rosario of Flambeau:the dog i left at home does. Sir Tiziano:rip! Alphubel ex Merinita:Smart. Rosario of Flambeau:He can't teleport yet! He can be on the whale if the rest of the crew doesn't mind watching him for a day. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the girl reading this "Our ship will be here to rescue you within a day, Sir Tiziano." Alphubel ex Merinita:AFK a sec. Sir Tiziano:"My squires.. ?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"The three men in the nave?" Sir Tiziano nods Rosario of Flambeau:"Dead. They'll be buried with honor." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Bedside manner, Rosario." Sir Tiziano:"Oh." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I'm afraid he's right, though." Rosario of Flambeau:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_W3hZ1S6TI rosario with this tone of voice Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Was there anyone else?" Sir Tiziano:"Just us.... Hazm was in a hurry.. Said not to bother the Magi.." Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok I'm back. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:classic hazm Rosario of Flambeau:"Odd of him to ask." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I'm sure it was urgent." Sir Tiziano:"The fishermen went missing around here... should've stayed away... Everyone on Ponza knows to stay away." Rosario of Flambeau:"I wish I had known to come sooner!" "Let's examine this altar and try to rescue poor, humble Hazm." GM:The stone altar has been pushed out of place a bit. Under it was concealed a steep staircase into a dark chamber. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i will cast Gulielmus's Unnamed ReVi Ward (level 15) on the knight. GM:Very well. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+3-4+28 ( 7 ) +3-4+28 =34 GM:It may be prudent to calculate penetration. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:penetration is 21. GM:Noted. Alphubel ex Merinita:Noice. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll move up to check out the stairs with rosario. "Awfully dark down there." GM:zzz Gulielmus of Pure Reason:are the stairs fully accessible Rosario of Flambeau:who has the gauntlet of being a flashlight GM:Without moving the altar, one person at a time can fit in the gap. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast lamp without flame Rosario of Flambeau:and can i have it now ty Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10 botch check ( 8 ) =8 Gulielmus of Pure Reason hands a glowing wooden baton to Rosario. Rosario of Flambeau:I will go behind Guli and mouse wheel up. GM:lol Rosario of Flambeau:"Thanks." I tuck the glowing stick in one of my belts. GM:Down the stairs is a crypt, stacked with skeletons. Rosario of Flambeau:Let's go dungeoneering. Fiorella the Raven:"Spooky." Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok I think the first thing you should do is find out who the pointyhead is. Rosario of Flambeau:Yeah, that guy seems very suspicious. GM:Around the corner, you come across a small chamber reserved for a single occupant, with a heavy marble coffin inside. Atop the coffin lays Hazm, in -- dare I repeat myself? -- a pool of blood, breathing laboriously. Alphubel ex Merinita:Gasp! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:uh oh Rosario of Flambeau:"Horrible." I will try to examine his wounds. GM:He gives a shout of panic and writhes. "No more! Please!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Hazm, it's us!" GM:"Who... I can't see.." Father Hazm:(To GM)rolling 1d10!+1+3+1 ( 6 ) +1+3+1 =11 Rosario of Flambeau:"These demons seem to have a liking for eyes." Father Hazm:His eyes are in tact but looking around blindly. (To GM)rolling 1d10!+5+4 g ( 2 ) +5+4 =11 Rosario of Flambeau:Oh is he just blind normally. I forget. Fiorella the Raven:"Crows and ravens like eyes." Father Hazm:(To GM)rolling 1d10!+2+1 ( 2 ) +2+1 =5 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Gulielmus and Rosario and Fiorella." Fiorella the Raven:"They tend to be the juciest, most accessible part of a corpse. Or an otherwise helpless body." Rosario of Flambeau:"The Magi of Vardian's Tomb, those of us who could get here immediately." Father Hazm:"Thank god," he moans in Latin. Rosario of Flambeau:"Others will arrive in a day." Father Hazm:"Please help.. I can't stand.." (To GM)rolling 1d10!+1 ( 10 + 5 ) +1 =16 Rosario of Flambeau:I sheathe my sword and go help him up. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"What on earth is going on here?" (To Fiorella the Raven): You just rolled a 16 on your folk ken. Something feels wrong. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast lamp without flame again. Fiorella the Raven:"It's a trap." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10 ( 3 ) =3 Father Hazm:Your sidestep image flickers as you try to pick him up. Fiorella the Raven:"Put ihim down." I mean "Get back!" Rosario of Flambeau:"He needs our help!" I'm conflicted between trusting my sodales and needing desperately to meddle. Fiorella the Raven:"Something's wrong here." "I mean, something wrong we aren't imagining." Father Hazm:"F-fiorella... Is that you?" Fiorella the Raven:"Yes." "I had to rush here from visiting family in Sicily, but I came." Father Hazm:"I knew you would.. how did you know? I-- never mind.. please, we need to leave.." Gulielmus of Pure Reason holds up his torch. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"We're short a wizard, aren't we?" Rosario of Flambeau:"Oof." I take on Hazm's weight and get at least another encumbrance I guess. (To Rosario of Flambeau): The old man is heavy for his build. Fiorella the Raven:"Careful." Alphubel ex Merinita:Carrying someone is definitely worth at least the amount of encumbrance that the heaviest armor has. Fiorella the Raven:"Rosario, do you feel anything upon your parma magicka?" Father Hazm:its worth 21 load iirc Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Rosario, wait, his wounds." Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok then. Carry the load. Rosario of Flambeau:oh shit spellcasting IS penalized. that is extremely my fault. I don't think I do. against my parma i mean Father Hazm:Do you report this? Alphubel ex Merinita:AFK a minute. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll burn a pawn of Creo to cast Bind Wound on hazm. Rosario of Flambeau:"I don't feel anything but Hazm's weight." "At least he's been eating well, he's likely to survive this." (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): If a spell does not penetrate, does it still manifest its effect of the sigil etc.? Rosario of Flambeau:ok i take a -8 to athletic abilities and spellcasting atm from encumbrance total Fiorella the Raven:"Something seems off to me still. Be wary of illusions>" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:actually, does a recovery roll boost incorporate bind wound's effect (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): it seems like it depends on the sigil Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+3-8 stamina - encumbrance vs ef 6 ( 7 ) +3-8 =2 i lose a short term fatige fatigue for carrying Hazm (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): The bubbles appear on Hazm. Rosario of Flambeau:but ignore it for now. Father Hazm:Slung over your shoulder? Rosario of Flambeau:fireman's carry yeah (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): in this case both bind wound and the ring have predefined sigils and it might not make sense for someone's wounds to start foaming if they resisted the effect. Father Hazm:Ok. one sec.. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Gulielmus of Pure Reason: actually, does a recovery roll boost incorporate bind wound's effect Fiorella the Raven:OOCly if I suspected a fake I could try Arabic but there's no reason a fake couldn't know Arabic and aside from that I'm out of ideas Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i think we talked about this forever ago and people thought it should. Rosario of Flambeau:RECOVERY TOTAL: Stamina + Medic’s Chirurgy or Medicine score + Magical Aid + Stress Die Gulielmus of Pure Reason:but i'll just go with bind wound for now rolling 1d10 botch check ( 7 ) =7 Gulielmus of Pure Reason performs the necessary non-Hermetic incantations and non-Hermetic hand gestures... Fiorella the Raven:I think Hazm can buff his own recovery rolls too, if he's well enough to cast Father Hazm:(To GM)rolling 1d10!+2+3+5 ( 4 ) +2+3+5 =14 Father Hazm passes a note to a player Father Hazm:wrong button. Father Hazm rolls some dice Father Hazm:what's rosario's terram soak? Rosario of Flambeau:"Let's try to get out of here quickly, I keep in shape but this is a truly, ho ho, infernal load." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hehe. Rosario of Flambeau:not counting armor soak right gah. Father Hazm:right. Sta 3, Terram 2? Rosario of Flambeau:9 total. I have some Bronze Cord. 4. Father Hazm:oh, nice (To Rosario of Flambeau): You feel a sharp pain in your back. You have been stabbed through the gap in your armor and taken a light wound. Your instinct is to drop Hazm. Father Hazm passes a note to a player Rosario of Flambeau:"Fiorella, you were right!" I drop Hazm at my feet. "I've been stabbed!" Father Hazm:Rosario has a bent dagger sticking out of his back. "Tougher than I expected, Rosario, or Gulielmus?" Rosario of Flambeau:"If you're a demon, you're about to regret it." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i cast Gulielmus's Unnamed Perdo Vim Spell on father hazm. Rosario of Flambeau:Classic. Father Hazm:go 4 it. Fiorella the Raven:I use my scarf as a prehensile limb to remove the dagger Father Hazm:He is not making any sudden movements, but bracing himself to get back on his feet. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lemme see here. Rosario of Flambeau shivers at the sensation of painless dagger removal. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10+2+3-4+7+12 ( 3 ) +2+3-4+7+12 =23 (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): Penetration? Rosario of Flambeau:I draw my sword and prepare to chop Father Hazm in twain. "Hmm... But what if this is another demonic trick?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:penetration is 15 but i have to look up the actual might stripping effect. Father Hazm:"Hazm" shifts before your eyes, into a man wearing dark robes with a golden cross and a mask. Fiorella the Raven:Let's see if Gul's spell works first Ah okay Gulielmus of Pure Reason:should be 10 (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): No effect. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Where's the real Hazm?" Rosario of Flambeau:"Gah, a fake after all!" Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok I'm back. Masked Man:"He's under lock and key." Alphubel ex Merinita:What a shocking twist! Masked Man:"To think he had friends with such powers..." Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10+20 ( 6 ) +20 =26 I chop. Fiorella the Raven:"You knew our names." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oorah. Rosario of Flambeau:and that's not affected by encumbrance because combat doesnt take penalties if your weight is from weapons/armor Alphubel ex Merinita:Right. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:huh. Masked Man:Your sword stops as you hit his head. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does that include wrassling Alphubel ex Merinita:I learnt that when I was playing Mortis' constantly changing bodyguard. Immunity to Wounds. Smart immunity, demon guy. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:greater immunity: magic, lesser immunity: wounds Masked Man:did you know it's a surprisingly low level malediction to make yourself immune to metal? anyway Rosario of Flambeau:rofl. Alphubel ex Merinita:Yeah, demons are good at that kind of thing. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:is there a turn order here or should i resume casting Rosario of Flambeau:and i guess a spell i have to dispel terram effects wouldnt work on that, being an infernal power. resume casting Fiorella the Raven:If there's a turn order and/or the other stuff doesn't work I will cast crows Masked Man:A bit unfased, he continues. "Guliemus, Rosario, Fiorella.. Vardian's Tomb and the Parma Magicka.. I'll need to do some research on you.." Rosario of Flambeau:"You're tough!" Alphubel ex Merinita:All magical effects have some correspondence to a hermetic form. Masked Man:Okay, Fiorella then Gulielmus Fiorella the Raven:All supernatural effects, really Hmmm I've changed my mind about birds I'll watit o see if Gul Perdo'ing a demon works first Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it didn't seem to do anything Alphubel ex Merinita:I'm pretty sure it's all of them. Fiorella the Raven:"It knows our names. It wants to do 'research' instead of fleeing. A faerie?" Hmmm Masked Man:"How did you know I was here? I didn't see Hazm alert anyone, not even the sorceror in the old ruins of Ponza." Rosario of Flambeau:"Hey, can you hang on for forty-five minutes?" Fiorella the Raven:"I believe talking is the wisest course of action at this point." Rosario of Flambeau:I start casting Demon's Eternal Oblivion (Lesser) using Ceremonial methods. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:Uh. Fiorella the Raven:I guess that give sus time to talk Gulielmus of Pure Reason:good plan. Alphubel ex Merinita:That seems like a bad idea if there's a guy here. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i cast a spell Alphubel ex Merinita:I feel like he could mess up your ritual. Masked Man:Okay, he attempts something. Fiorella the Raven:That's his choice to make Rosario of Flambeau starts drawing a bunch of stuff in chalk Masked Man:rolling 1d10!+12+4 ( 6 ) +12+4 =22 Alphubel ex Merinita:Wow! Masked Man:What's Rosario's Ignem MR? Alphubel ex Merinita:Nice roll! Rosario of Flambeau:"Let's see, what was the symbol for Perdo again? It's been a while..." 46. Masked Man:46 heh. Fiorella the Raven:Nice Gulielmus of Pure Reason:classic hedge magic Masked Man:The Masked Man yells something in an unknown tongue. Nothing seems to happen. Alphubel ex Merinita:I'm terrified of the mysterious powers of this non-hermetic tradition. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:I will join him in yelling non-Hermetic gibberish. Masked Man:the jukebox didnt seem to work but imagine the cultists from blood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHlJOMjon4Y Gulielmus of Pure Reason looks up a houserule Masked Man:"How are you doing that?" he hisses. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+2+3-4+7+12+6 ( 9 ) +2+3-4+7+12+6 =35 Rosario of Flambeau:"That's probably right. Ok. Now the chanting." Alphubel ex Merinita:He clearly isn't one of the cultists from Blood because Rosario didn't immediately drop to 10% health. Rosario of Flambeau lights some incense and starts waving it around Gulielmus of Pure Reason:12 penetration Masked Man:he throws a bundle of dynamite Rosario of Flambeau:whoa! (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): Nothing seems to happen Masked Man:j/k Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the effect is a general dispel Fiorella the Raven:lol Masked Man:general dispel? Fiorella the Raven:@ dynamite Gulielmus of Pure Reason:of level: rolling 1d10!+18 ( 1 ) +18 =19 fugg Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh no. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:no botch possible also i take three fatigue levels. Masked Man:lol Rosario of Flambeau:holy crap. Masked Man:that's like 1 short of what is needed to unward him against metal. haha Alphubel ex Merinita:Gwahaha. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i will Conf. Rosario of Flambeau:wait i can do that? lmao. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the dispel is level 22 Rosario of Flambeau:do it! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:when the gm foolishly reveals his hand Alphubel ex Merinita:He deserves what he gets. Masked Man:i was wrong. Forsaken duration is +4, like Year. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gah Alphubel ex Merinita:Forsaken is a great duration if you love to sin. Masked Man:"Enough... If you want Hazm again bring me the book of the Morning Star." Alphubel ex Merinita:Absolutely nothing bad can happen as the result of constant sinning. Rosario of Flambeau starts to recite a bunch of Hermetic nonsense about perdoing demons (To Shauncat): He might know your names becaues Gulielmus gave them all to him. (From Fiorella the Raven): Got it Fiorella the Raven:"Where would we look for it?" Masked Man:"Don't play dumb.. It was here!" Fiorella the Raven:"I've never seen a book about flails before." Alphubel ex Merinita:It's that book that everyone was too scared to read. Masked Man:bolad read it Gulielmus of Pure Reason:is it the book bound in human skin Masked Man:yes. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i think giraldo might have read it too Giraldo of Milan:ok im back Alphubel ex Merinita:Do demons even need a book about Infernal Lore? Masked Man:w/b. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:welcome. Giraldo of Milan:ill need to get up to get something out of the oven in about 10 mins but ill be back again after that Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok. Fiorella the Raven:Demons would love a book about infernal lore that might contain the true names of other demons Rosario of Flambeau:Celeste read a lot of that book and then exploded in demonic fire. Makes you think. Giraldo of Milan:is it still the 3 magi solving the adventure Dusan of Criamon:yes Gulielmus of Pure Reason:we are at an impasse because the villain is immune to magic and weapons Dusan of Criamon:advancing admirably i might add Masked Man:you've tried 1 magic and 1 weapon so far, at least. Rosario of Flambeau:It apparently hasn't even been 45 minutes since I started casting. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:well, he's immune to weapons and the effect level is too high to dispel Alphubel ex Merinita:Not true! Giraldo of Milan:if only i were there to determine the source of his demonic powers and the appropriate banes or rituals to invoke against him Alphubel ex Merinita:He's immune to metal. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:that's a good point. Rosario of Flambeau:I'm just being stupid, I have a level 30 minimum Perdo Terram effect to remove wards against metal. Giraldo of Milan:punch him rosario take your gloves off first Fiorella the Raven:"Well he's just a messenger, at any rate." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i will roll infernal lore Alphubel ex Merinita:Wouldn't that need to be a Perdo Vim spell? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10+3 ( 3 ) +3 =6 oorah Masked Man:t'would be. Rosario of Flambeau:I'm going to cast Slashing the Fabric of Terram if my silly ceremony bounces off of him. Oh, I would need to spont it then. Fuck that. I'm casting a Perdo Vim spell now. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what if you punched him Rosario of Flambeau:Whenever 45 minutes passes. Rosario, ironically, has pretty poor Brawl. Alphubel ex Merinita:A Perdo Terram spell can't do anything to magic wards unless the ward is created by a magic stone or something. Rosario of Flambeau:If Bakir were here he could probably subdue this guy. Masked Man:yeah. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Rosario." Rosario of Flambeau:its probably perdo vim with a terram req and i have it on my old sheet as perdo terram because my terram is lower than my vim. I ignore Gulielmus because I don't want to interrupt my Ceremony Masked Man:The masked man boggles at Rosario doing a ceremony. Fiorella the Raven:"If Hazm is a hostage then killing their messenger won't help." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Fiorella the Raven:"Rosario looks like he'll be a while." Rosario of Flambeau:lol Fiorella the Raven:"Why don't you tell us about any proof you have that Hazm is alive in the mean time?" Alphubel ex Merinita:The evil devil worshiping sorcerer waits patiently for 150 rounds. Fiorella the Raven:That's his choice Rosario of Flambeau draws some arrows pointing at the Masked Man on the ground with chalk. Masked Man:He kicks a hole in the chalk. Your ceremony is disrupted. rolling 1d10 ( 10 ) =10 Alphubel ex Merinita:lol Rosario of Flambeau:lol. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:incredible Masked Man:You do not botch. Gulielmus of Pure Reason sighs. Fiorella the Raven:"I guess I might as well get comfortable." Rosario of Flambeau:"Really?" Alphubel ex Merinita:Seems like you'd take more than once botch die here. Masked Man:"Alive..." Fiorella the Raven:Familiar cord subtracts dice Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Come on, man, he worked hard on those symbols." Masked Man:He laughs. "It's been a long time since I was caught so unprepared." Fiorella the Raven:"I didn't envision my day going like this either." "These are interesting times for us all." Rosario of Flambeau:I grab at his robe and try to pull a piece of something off his outfit for an AC. Fiorella the Raven:I translate the Chinese concept of interesting times into Latin Masked Man:ok, he attempts to dodge Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+3+2 ( 10 + 4 ) +3+2 =19 Masked Man:roll brawl I guess gah Rosario of Flambeau:lol. Masked Man:rolling 1d10!+2+5 ( 1 ) +2+5 =8 Rosario of Flambeau:rofl. Masked Man:rolling 1d10 ( 7 ) =7 You have grabbed his robe. Rosario of Flambeau:"C'mere!" Dusan of Criamon:lmao Giraldo of Milan:now throw him off a cliff Masked Man:He laughs. "What's this now?" Giraldo of Milan:brb Dusan of Criamon:a punch to the face, the least damaging yet most satisfying attack Rosario of Flambeau:I start trying to bite some threads off. lol Masked Man:"Are you for real?" Rosario of Flambeau:I am super for real. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'm going to write an ooh lore tract about rosario groveling on the floor and chewing on a diabolist's robes Alphubel ex Merinita:Bitch, are you for real?! Masked Man:He slams a hand onto cold marble in a way that looks painful. Rosario of Flambeau:If get an Hours-length AC, I have a nickname, and can at least double my penetration. Masked Man:rolling 1d10!+12+4 ( 3 ) +12+4 =19 His cloak erupts into flame. Alphubel ex Merinita:Wait, what nickname? Masked Man:You are holding a flaming rag. Rosario of Flambeau:Hazm. okay, I will try to soak the flames while I cast a formulaic spell Alphubel ex Merinita:I'm not sure that works, since it isn't a name that would identify the Masked Man. Masked Man:It is not. Rosario of Flambeau:Damn. Dusan of Criamon:A fake identity seems exactly opposite to a True Name. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i review my spell list again. Rosario of Flambeau:it's not a true name, a nickname is just a +1 bonus to AC a True Name would be like, an indefinite +4 AC or something Dusan of Criamon:ooh Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+22+2-4-2 pevi shouting and flailing minus aura minus encumbrance this will do nothing rofl. ( 1 ) +22+2-4-2 =19 rofl. Masked Man:nice rolling 5d10 botch ( 2 + 8 + 5 + 3 + 4 ) =22 no botch Alphubel ex Merinita:Gah! Masked Man:What's the PeVi effect? Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 19-15+5+3 pen 19-15+5+3 =12 dogshit. level 15 pe vi Alphubel ex Merinita:Tears are streaming down my face like the Feels Guy. Rosario of Flambeau:"Gah!" "I'm still all flustered because you ruined my ceremony!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast my own useless spell Masked Man:The masked man -- who is quite on fire -- bites down hard on one of his fingers. rolling 1d10!+12+4 ( 2 ) +12+4 =18 Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh no! It's Quercus! Masked Man:cast now gulielmus Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+2+3-6+19 ( 6 ) +2+3-6+19 =24 11 pen Masked Man:effect? Alphubel ex Merinita:AFK a minute. Oh, never mind. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:this is a room-target perdo vim effect, worth 10 points, in case there are some demons lurking and watching Rosario of Flambeau:"Well, we're going to have to read that book to get an edge on this knave." Masked Man:Ah ok. Alphubel ex Merinita:He's right there! Masked Man:Rosario as the cloak burns up and the smoke clears, the masked man is nowhere to be seen. Giraldo of Milan:did you send him to hell Rosario of Flambeau:I don't think I connected. Hmm. Giraldo of Milan:giraldo can read demonic tomes when hes there Gulielmus of Pure Reason:you got a flaming rag though Giraldo of Milan:better give it back to johns lol Alphubel ex Merinita:Bwahaha. Dusan of Criamon:brb Gulielmus of Pure Reason frowns. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Well, that was something." Rosario of Flambeau:"There are probably still demons here." "We should hold out with Sir Tiziano until the others arrive." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I think that was just a man, Rosario." Gulielmus of Pure Reason inspects the crypt. Rosario of Flambeau:"I'm not so sure." Masked Man:Tis a crypt of grottoes of skeletons and marble lidded coffins. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:just like home GM:Yeah, except for the blood everywhere Gulielmus of Pure Reason:just like home. Giraldo of Milan:blood? ah, it must be tuesday Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's blood day in the cafeteria "He said that they were confronted by a wizard and what else, an ogre?" "Some birds?" alphubel is going to love this Rosario of Flambeau:"Yes, birds, a wizard, and some beast with a club." GM:i think he would -- its an endrite inspired adventure. Dusan of Criamon:lmao Rosario of Flambeau:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh shit, are we about to visit a customs office? Hmm. What's the level to find out who blood belongs to? Looks like Base 5 +1 touch +1 Part. GM:Meanwhile, back in Italy. Beardbeard or Moe or endrite, are you here? Dusan of Criamon:yes Giraldo of Milan:h Gulielmus of Pure Reason:something like that Alphubel ex Merinita:I disappeared in the moments between when I said what level a blood information spell was and when you said "Meanwhile, back in Italy," but I'm back now. Giraldo of Milan:wasnt one of our infernal lore books taken from this place? i might be wrong GM:Yes. The Book of the Morning Star. Dusan of Criamon:Giraldo: did you read it it had human skin hard to miss Giraldo of Milan:oh absolutely Dusan of Criamon:nice Giraldo of Milan:ive been reading it a lot GM:Dusan, Giraldo, and Alphubel are nearing the coastal hideout where the whale docks. They have moved off the main road and are on a dirt path. Giraldo of Milan:if you check my last season updates GM:You encounter a bard practicing his lute while sitting on a log. Rosario of Flambeau:Guy read it a lot. Giraldo of Milan:can we say i took that book with me Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok. Giraldo of Milan:it could be a useful reference Alphubel ex Merinita:How goofy is his outfit? GM:Hmmm. Ok. Giraldo had a premonition. Dusan of Criamon:Considering we're going to its place of origin it seems fair. Giraldo of Milan:i mean gulielmums said where it was and that there were demons Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh god he's a doge meme bard. GM:He is dressed modestly. Giraldo of Milan:it makes sense that the book could be useful for dealing with them Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok, I'm not to interested then. Giraldo of Milan:"A bard? This far from Hibernia?" Dusan of Criamon:"At this time of year?" GM:He nods to you all. Alphubel ex Merinita:It's true, Bards only exist in Britain as the remnants of the lowest-levels of the Druidic religion. Friendly Bard:"Ciao, travelers." Alphubel ex Merinita:"Give him some money so he doesn't cast a Lampoon on us." Giraldo of Milan:i will toss him some coin Friendly Bard:He catches it. "Grazi." devil's fav demon:nice arm Friendly Bard:"Good luck in Ponza." Giraldo of Milan:"Thank you, bard." Alphubel ex Merinita:"How did you, uh, know that we were head to, P... Ponza?" Fiorella the Raven:Bards are nature's rumor mill Dusan of Criamon:"Alright, no punishments, but I want to know who tattled." Friendly Bard:"You weren't, but you should, if you want to make it in time." Giraldo of Milan:"Many bards can speak with animals." Friendly Bard:He stands. "Arrivederci." Dusan of Criamon:"Bard! Who sent you?" Friendly Bard:He just waves. "Be seeing you!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:nice Dusan of Criamon:So it goes Rosario of Flambeau:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:I think we should follow this strange bard. Dusan of Criamon:I suspect he's ephemeral, moreso than us Giraldo of Milan:i think we should continue to ponza Dusan of Criamon:I think we should take his advice Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Friendly Bard:Ponza, Zannone, or follow the bard? Alphubel ex Merinita:Giraldo is the best tracker, he should follow the bard. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:cast powerful divine-tuned pevi spells on him Dusan of Criamon:I find Guli's approach disrespectful, but potentially effective Giraldo of Milan:tracking bards seems like a good way to offend them Gulielmus of Pure Reason:afraid of a little brad? Alphubel ex Merinita:In any case, we should head to Zannone because otherwise our sodales won't know where to find us. Dusan of Criamon:Either way we should go to Ponza Alphubel ex Merinita:That's So Bard. Friendly Bard:Back in the crypt: What are the Three Magiteers doing? Giraldo of Milan:bards are noble and their wisdom should be heeded like owls Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Gulielmus is fretting. Dusan of Criamon:you don't just ignore the advice of ephemeral magical bards Giraldo of Milan:we at least know that this bard is not a demon no demon would take the form of a bard, for fear of the repercussions Rosario of Flambeau:crypt boys had a while, so i'm just waiting the night out with Tiziano telling him the whale will arrive any minute now to take him back to a doctor in Rome Alphubel ex Merinita:I feel like demons have plenty of rude songs about them. Friendly Bard:BRB Giraldo of Milan:songs are one thing bards make mocking songs all the time but taking the form is another Dusan of Criamon:Regardless of what action Guli chooses, I strongly advocate double-timing it to the whale and heading for Ponza Gulielmus of Pure Reason:did my infernal lore roll (6) come up with anything GM:Rosario emerges from the crypt. Tiziano is still there, though his head is not. What was the question, Gulielmus? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:yikes! Alphubel ex Merinita:We should go to Zannone and then all go to Ponza together. Giraldo of Milan:ah, i see Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i was just hoping for insight on the guy Giraldo of Milan:its like with derfel Rosario of Flambeau:"Ah, Christ." "Shouldn't have left him alone." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"What's happened now?" "Sacre bleu!" GM:Your Infernal Lore roll suggests he is a Diabolist. Dusan of Criamon:can't go wrong with the fundamentals Giraldo of Milan:I will leaf through the Book of the Morning Star while we ride to Ponza. GM:It's a charming book about demons, demonology, the nature of demons, and learning the true names of demons. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"You see? He was warded against demons!" "Clearly we are dealing with a mortal man." Giraldo of Milan:I will look to see if any particular demons names look to have been marked by the last owner of this book. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Ah, rest in peace, Sir Tiziano." Giraldo of Milan:he cannot rest in piece, as his body is sitting incomplete and defiled in a place of infernal power peace Gulielmus of Pure Reason:sad GM:None in particular. The last owner of the book you might recall was the demon living in the regio of the monastery. Giraldo of Milan:that is true GM:Monastery crew, you hear a loud THUD and the earth shakes. Dust and debris are knocked loose all around the cathedral you are standing in. Giraldo of Milan:hm, didnt he want people to read this book? resuming patrol Rosario of Flambeau:"That's probably the beast." GM:The THUD came from outside the cathedral, to be clear. Rosario of Flambeau:hmm Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm. "Let's not stick around." Rosario of Flambeau:"Yes, let's confront whatever's making that thud." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:actually has it been long enough to lose my fatigue Rosario of Flambeau:I think we've rested long enough for me to lose my Fatigue level but I still have that wound from being stabbed. haha. GM:If you rest for 45 minutes Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hm. Rosario of Flambeau:short term fatigue leaves in 2m GM:Oic then say 15 minutes? Rosario of Flambeau:lets do it Time passes GM:Nothing disturbs your rest other than the oppressive heat. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Ready?" GM:oh fug I forgot something Alphubel ex Merinita:The giant meteor. GM:malevolent aurae add their strength to all physical damage! eh ill leave it. its my b. Alphubel ex Merinita:Take the l and move on! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rosario rests for 15 minutes and explodes in a shower of gore Rosario of Flambeau:lol GM:Retroactive death Dusan of Criamon:Oh no! Time paradox! Giraldo of Milan:lmfa GM:Ok. You're back to normal (though Rosario still has a light wound). Next move? Rosario of Flambeau:Let's go check out the thud, I guess. GM:Rosario looks out into the cloiser. The southern wall -- that borders the bakery -- has been torn down. 10 demons are tearing the place to shreds, ripping apart the furniture, breaking open the masonry and crumbling it to dust, digging into the earth itself. Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmmm. What type of demons are they? GM:They do this under the gaze of a large beastial demon with a club that bashes one of the lesser demons when it slackens its pace. Alphubel ex Merinita:Little winged guys? Rosario of Flambeau:"This looks bad." Alphubel ex Merinita:Guys with horns and pitchforks? GM:yeah endrite imps Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok. GM:The big guy looks like a huge man with the head and hindquarters of a bear. Alphubel ex Merinita:For you. Rosario of Flambeau:"I wonder if he's also immune to metal." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Are you going to satisfy your curiosity?" "We can't allow the further desecratoin of this church." desecration GM:your choice Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i mean it seems like it would be bad for us. GM:Not desecrating so much as dismantling Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the ultimate desecration Rosario of Flambeau:"It would be prudent to wait for backup, but this aggression can't stand." Fiorella the Raven:"How do we stop it? The only one of us who could consecrate soil is Hazm and he seems to be missing." Alphubel ex Merinita:It's already desecrated. Fiorella the Raven:Or how Alphubel put it Dusan of Criamon:Rosario of house Bush Rosario of Flambeau:how close can you get to a formulaic spell and have it still go off? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i am surrounded by sinners Rosario of Flambeau:if you roll lower Gulielmus of Pure Reason:10 but it won't have penetration Rosario of Flambeau:thats fine, i think. hmmm no, i don't think i have an AC to the whale. never mind. also they already left it. Alphubel ex Merinita:What? Fiorella the Raven:Hafl's magi had so much lab cusotmization that she learned Leap of Homecoming but needed an exploding roll for the spell to go off Dusan of Criamon:This is also news to me Rosario of Flambeau:I was going to send a message telling them to hurry up. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"If they're as weak as they look, and we can lure them all into a room, I could destroy all of them at once." "Not counting that mockery of a Bjornaer over there." Rosario of Flambeau:"If you can take care of the little ones, I can probably take on the big one." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast my demon ward on myself Alphubel ex Merinita:Why isn't there a Perdo Vim effect to destroy vis? Seems like it would be pretty easy. GM licks lips and prepares for combat Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+2+3-4+14+12 ( 1 ) +2+3-4+14+12 =28 GM:ooh baby Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gahaha. GM:rolling 4d10 ( 3 + 7 + 1 + 10 ) =21 Dusan of Criamon:lord god Alphubel ex Merinita:I saw the one and I clapped. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10 weird magic ( 6 ) =6 Alphubel ex Merinita:I recognize that! GM:You've taken a point of warp. Your hands burn uncomfortably! (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): You have taken a Light Wound. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Damn!" GM:Everyone else sees Gulielmus's hands spark, ignite for a moment, then snuff out. Rosario of Flambeau:"Shit." I will cast a spell. Dusan of Criamon:the spicy miscast GM:The taskmaster hears your cry of pain and turns to see you all standing in the cathedral doorway. Giraldo of Milan:dont worry everyone. were. well were not coming actually, were going to ponza worry, everyone! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:incredible move by the bard Dusan of Criamon:ponza and hell island are very close GM:How did Dys do that thing last time where different players could see different screens? I want to deal with the Ponza crew at the same time Alphubel ex Merinita:You drag the player avatar over the map you want them to see. Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+25+11+2+1-4-2 CrIg + MMF: Blades + Yell/Flail + Mastery - aura - encumbrance ( 6 ) +25+11+2+1-4-2 =39 rolling 39-15+4 penetration 39-15+4 =28 Rosario's sword blooms with flames. GM:cool and cool Gulielmus of Pure Reason:nice. Alphubel ex Merinita:Wow! Ponza! GM:Monastery team: The taskmaster roars, and sends his workers towards you! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i think this room is too big for the room-target pevi spell. actually, wait Rosario of Flambeau:"Have at them, boys!" Giraldo of Milan:time for team building exercise GM:Ponza team: You notice dark thundering clouds above Ponza as you approach. Rain, wind, and hail are beating down on the island. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i can make the room smaller Alphubel ex Merinita:It seems like exactly the right size for a Room target spell. Hmm. Giraldo of Milan:"Wind's howling." GM:A ship of dark wood with a broken mast and no sails is not far from the harbor, and a strange man stands on the bow waving his hands at the scene. Alphubel ex Merinita:My Auram score is 0, but I can still cast with it. GM:Rosario, Gulielmus, and fiorella, init please.. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does my wound count here Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10-2 ( 7 ) -2 =5 Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmmmmmm. GM:not for init iirc Giraldo of Milan:"Let's try to get close and board that ship." GM:rolling 1d10!+2 beast ( 7 ) +2 =9 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+2 ( 3 ) +2 =5 Giraldo of Milan:"If I can sneak up on him then I can take his head." Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok here's my plan, we need someone to find out what's going on and then if he's a bad guy we can just capsize the ship with the whale. GM:whale added to map Alphubel ex Merinita:Dusan, can you handle that with the orb? GM:rolling 1d10!-3 minions ( 4 ) -3 =1 Giraldo of Milan:great weapon bandit: okay, if we get close i can do a running jump and grab at one of the rougher sections, securing a handhold. climbing up, i can use the mast and other miscellany of the ship as cover until i am able to get within range of the infernalist, then ill be able to clear his head from his neck Alphubel ex Merinita:OMG I love manion. Giraldo of Milan:whale summoner: i can capsize him with the whale GM:shaun? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:immunity to not having a whale Alphubel ex Merinita:That's magic, baby. Moe are you here? GM:we'll skip shaun this turn Dusan of Criamon:sorry yes Alphubel ex Merinita:Can you go talk to that weather wizard and see what his deal is before we murder him with the whale? GM:The beast roars, and you feel an effect resisted by your parma. Gulielmus and Rosario have a turn. Rosario of Flambeau:I will advance and chop the nearest demon. rolling 1d10!+20 ( 3 ) +20 =23 f Dusan of Criamon:hmm Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm GM:rolling 1d10!+6+6 Cudgel + Adjacent Neighbors ( 8 ) +6+6 =20 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh, wait is the cloister appropriately sized for a standard Room target GM:sure Gulielmus of Pure Reason:nice. GM:What's the damage, Rosario? Dusan of Criamon:Alphubel: I'm seeing no orbs Rosario of Flambeau:well since blade of virulent flames doubles weapon damage that does, ha ha rolling 3+22+2 aa + weap damage + str 3+22+2 =27 GM:rolling 27-9 27-9 =18 Rosario of Flambeau:Damn, these are strong minions. GM:Heavy wound Alphubel ex Merinita:Damn these manion. Rosario of Flambeau:I HATE manion. GM:i had to quickly change the stat block because I was going to use Fimus, then I realized he has soak +15 and also explodes on death killing nearby people. Giraldo of Milan:ok Rosario of Flambeau:rofl Giraldo of Milan:lets advance on the boat i can go figure the guy out Alphubel ex Merinita:Gnn, GM:You're going to board the boat? Alphubel ex Merinita:I mean, "Hmm." GM:Do you have umm athletics or anything? Giraldo of Milan:yes Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:I think Dusan should just talk to the guy instead of Giraldo murdering him insantly. I mean "instantly." AFK a sec. Giraldo of Milan:if we talk to him we lose the element of surprise ill spy on him if hes causing storms then im dispatching him Dusan of Criamon:I'm not sure I'm capable of speaking to him in some special way that's better than Giraldo jumping over to him I mean i'll try, don't get me wrong GM:Who else will board? Dusan of Criamon:Can we yell from the whale? Giraldo of Milan:both church and local law have death as the only penalty for those who conjure storms GM:You could. Giraldo of Milan:for a reason GM:He has not noticed you yet. Dusan of Criamon:Obviously, I have very weak presence GM:lol Dusan of Criamon:but that's why we have an animated whale GM:cumthinker, how is gulielmus going to save the day? Fiorella the Raven:When you turn into a small bird you lose Presence by nature of your diminished size Giraldo of Milan:i have learned a lot from Magic in the Middle Ages and i am prepared to use it to make rational decisions here Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast the room target pevi on the cloister GM:ooh hehe Giraldo of Milan:anyway boarding Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+2-2+3-4+7+12+9 ( 1 ) +2-2+3-4+7+12+9 =28 Giraldo of Milan:climbing lol Dusan of Criamon:yelling Gulielmus of Pure Reason:mother fucker!! Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+5 ( 4 ) +5 =9 Rosario of Flambeau:god damnit gulielmus. GM:mmmmm haha Dusan of Criamon:the wages of SIN GM:its only 3 aura in the cloister at least rolling 3d10 ( 7 + 10 + 2 ) =19 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10 weird magic ( 10 ) =10 Giraldo of Milan:weird magic time GM:gruh. Giraldo of Milan:hey Gulielmus of Pure Reason:got them. GM:Strength of the spell, and Penetration? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:all right lets see. GM:Okay giraldo you scale the ratty old seaweed clinging to the side of the black ship. The man on the bow is dressed as ludicrously as a wizard might be. His arms are outstretched and he is silently regarding the scene, but his hands tremble a bit. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:that's 15 pen, and -10 might GM:Otherwise the ship seems deserted, and it's dex + stealth to move across the deck unhead Giraldo of Milan:i will approach him Dusan of Criamon:I yell at the guy "Hail, wizard! What of this weather?" Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+4 ( 3 ) +4 =7 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'm also fatigued again GM:Gulielmus, you hear an awful wretched noise like 100 chickens having their necks snapped. Rosario of Flambeau:oh i forgot the dog was with the group party Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok I'm back. Giraldo of Milan:how did they get my mix tape? Rosario of Flambeau:uh, ship party. GM:The minions shrivel into nothingness, dropping their tools onto the ground. Gulielmus of Pure Reason winces. GM:fiorella if you're here you can do something Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does the big guy react Rosario of Flambeau:"What the...? They headed to Ponza instead!" GM:rolling 1d10!+1+3 ( 6 ) +1+3 =10 Alphubel ex Merinita:For you. Rosario of Flambeau:"Those fuckers!" GM:He .. doesn't! GM checks notes GM:Okay, yeah, he doesn't react. Giraldo of Milan:i will hold off on dispatching the wizard until dusan talks to him Rosario of Flambeau:I will wait until this combat resolves to tell my dog to start biting them. GM:As to the man on the boat Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm. Rosario of Flambeau:"Thanks, Guli! Good one!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does he react if the spell has 18 pen GM:Without looking back, he speaks with difficulty -- "I -- can -- sink -- this -- ship -- and -- you -- with -- it" it depends. what if his MR is exactly 18 in this aura Alphubel ex Merinita:Sinking this ship... with no survivors! Rosario of Flambeau:lol. Dusan of Criamon:well giraldo has a backup plan, what's your reserve, boat boy Alphubel ex Merinita:To be fair our backup plan is also to sink this ship. Dusan of Criamon:our backup plan is the whale! Alphubel ex Merinita:Right, using it to sink the ship. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i think if his mr is exactly 18 then it wins on a tie Dusan of Criamon:and remaining alive inside it! Giraldo of Milan:hm GM:ok I assume cumthinker is not using a conf token and will continue. Giraldo of Milan:giraldo has practiced swimming so with the magis help he should be fine to survive until magical aid is deployed ill just run at and kill this wizard Dusan of Criamon:classic giraldo GM:The beast charges Rosario. Dusan of Criamon:always assassinating Gulielmus of Pure Reason:after this really exciting thought experiment i won't conf GM:lol Rosario of Flambeau:uh oh! lol guli. GM:and.... it uses a confidence GM laughs evilly GM:rolling 1d10!+13+3 vs Rosario ( 2 ) +13+3 =18 Giraldo of Milan:i run at the wizard and slice Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+11 ( 8 ) +11 =19 Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+15 ( 9 ) +15 =24 Rosario of Flambeau:whew GM:Your weapon is iron or steel? Giraldo of Milan:steel Alphubel ex Merinita:Hardened Corn Blade. GM:i mean steel is a type of iron for the purpose of wards as far as I know Alphubel ex Merinita:Unpopped Popcorn Hammer. Rosario of Flambeau:giraldo or both of us? GM:giraldo Rosario of Flambeau:k Giraldo of Milan:hm, i forgot to actually make my silver sword GM:Rosario: The beast's mighty cudgel falls short by a few inches, slamming a might dent into the earth. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gah GM:lol Giraldo of Milan:my sheet only shows one greatsword GM:it would have been perfect for EXACTLY THIS SITUATION Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rosario fatrolls out of the beast's attack GM:Rosario and gulielmus are up. Giraldo of Milan:it would have been GM:And as for boat crew Rosario of Flambeau:Gulielmus of Pure Reason: rosario fatrolls out of the beast's attack GM:The mage doesn't even dodge, and your weapon doesn't cut him at all. Giraldo of Milan:"Oh, one of those." Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+20+9 exertion ( 9 ) +20+9 =38 Dusan of Criamon:I'm yelling at him to explain himself Rosario of Flambeau:ooh babey GM:the mage will react in one moment Alphubel ex Merinita:Does the weapon just stop or does it go through him like he wasn't there? Giraldo of Milan:when i have control again ill rip a cudgel sized piece of wood from the worn ship Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lemme see here. GM:rolling 1d10!+10 Defense vs. Rosario ( 6 ) +10 =16 Giraldo of Milan:ok. lets see what our friend does Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 38-16+24 damage if both the fire and steel hit, +13 if only the fire does. 38-16+24 =46 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i didn't actually invent the spell to halt demons in the end. but now i'm wishing i had GM:yikes rolling 46-10 46-10 =36 The demon's head goes flying off its neck into the air. Rosario of Flambeau:hell yeah big choppy ftw. GM:As for Giraldo Aristocritus Bonisagi loves this. GM:rolling 1d10!+12 ( 6 ) +12 =18 no aura bonus on the ship Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario is using cheat engine to have 3-3-3 armor and a zweihander. ok thats my last mordhau line. Dusan of Criamon:the cheat's name? Magic. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Nicely done, Rosario!" GM:The man utters something in an unknown tongue. Your swordhilt becomes freezing cold, and your hands immediately start to turn black touching it Rosario of Flambeau:"Excellent teamwork!" Giraldo of Milan:"Shit!" Alphubel ex Merinita:Ouch. Well, if you want we can just capsize the ship now. (To Giraldo of Milan): You've taken a light wound of frostbite. GM passes a note to a player Dusan of Criamon:"Wizard! Stop this at once!" Rosario of Flambeau:if you get my fuckin dog killed off screen ill kill you. lol. Giraldo of Milan:that would mean losing my sword GM:Monastery crew, the beast lies dead, and his minions destroyed. Dusan of Criamon:we're holding back the dog Rosario of Flambeau:"Justice for Tiziano." Dusan of Criamon:unless you meant that Giraldo is your dog Giraldo of Milan:wait, is this just an instant effect or does it keep being frozen Rosario of Flambeau:lol Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok I target the dog with Dog's Eternal Oblivion, level 60. Rosario of Flambeau:I will try to scoop up the vis. GM:It's Momentary Giraldo of Milan:ok Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll try to ward myself again rolling 1d10!+2+3-2-2-4+14+12 ( 8 ) +2+3-2-2-4+14+12 =31 Giraldo of Milan:well, ill still drop it so that he doesnt do it again Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ok, whew. Giraldo of Milan:hes not armed with anything wrong Gulielmus of Pure Reason:18 pen if it matters. GM:Incantation/Effusion base 5: Chill an object enough to burn flesh (frostbite) Rosario of Flambeau:ow Giraldo of Milan:oh, an object hm GM:yeah it's the sword that burned you Giraldo of Milan:yeah but if its any object then just grabbing a piece of wood and braining him would still leave me vulnerable GM:Okay Rosario you can harvest some Infernal Vis Giraldo of Milan:okay Alphubel ex Merinita:I like that this fight is purely for Giraldo's self-esteem at this point. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"The beast and his minions are gone..." Giraldo of Milan:i will kick him Rosario of Flambeau:sweet. GM:3 pawns of INFERNALLY TAINTED ANIMAL VIS from his heart brawl Alphubel ex Merinita:Yay! Dusan of Criamon:"Wizard! Surrender now and you will not be harmed further!" Giraldo of Milan:NOTE: i have no brawl Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"That leaves the wizard and the birds." Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+1 ( 4 ) +1 =5 Gulielmus of Pure Reason watches the sky nervously. GM:rolling 1d10!+2+3 ( 4 ) +2+3 =9 Giraldo of Milan:gah! "Sink the damn ship!" GM:He turns around in time to see your kick and weaves out of the way. Giraldo of Milan:have i disrupted his concentration Dusan of Criamon:hmm Rosario of Flambeau:"Henry, are my sodales just vacationing on Ponza or are they doing something important?" I project mentally to the dog Giraldo of Milan:was he actively in the middle of a ritual. is he botching things to know GM:hmmm Alphubel ex Merinita:He cast a spell on you, so probably not. Dusan of Criamon:I don't know he cast a spell, i thought that was a ward Alphubel ex Merinita:It might be. GM:He muttered an incantation as it happened Dusan of Criamon:Ah, my mistake GM:Well he looks focused on you now, but the storm is not abating Giraldo of Milan:"Sink it!" GM:Kinda hard to guess what's going on in his head since he's wearing a sinister looking mask and all Dusan of Criamon:Dammit Alright, I cast a ward against water on myself to avoid being wet GM:sorry dusan. he wasn't really open to your threats this time. Alphubel ex Merinita:Anyway if I see them signalling I'll sink the ship with the whale. Henry the Spectral Hound:"Giraldo is fighting the wizard and doing pretty shitty, boss." GM:Bump! Rosario of Flambeau:"Well, at least they're doing something." GM:Everyone on deck make Dex + Athletics to stay standing as the entire ship lurches violently upward Rosario of Flambeau:"The rest of our crew seems to have found the wizard." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:bump crash oof ow hugalugah Dusan of Criamon:I hope sinking the ship does something, this guy seems to have been perpared for that eventuality GM:rolling 1d10!+3+1 bb ( 9 ) +3+1 =13 Giraldo of Milan:rolling 1d10!+1 ( 10 + 3 ) +1 =14 Henry the Spectral Hound:rolling 1d10!+1 ( 6 ) +1 =7 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"What?" Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10+0 ( 1 ) +0 =1 Rosario of Flambeau:"My familiar is with them, I can speak with it in my mind." Dusan of Criamon:ah GM:rolling 2d10 ( 4 + 9 ) =13 Dusan you fall over! You are now prone. Rosario of Flambeau:"They've just crashed the whale into his ship." Dusan of Criamon:Oh no! Alphubel ex Merinita:Roblox death sound. GM:The weird man grips the rail and stares at Giraldo. He clutches something in his tunic and attempts another spell Rosario of Flambeau:we can transmit images and emotions to each other so I will relay the scene as it happens to Fiorella and Gulielmus. GM:rolling 1d10!+12+4 ( 7 ) +12+4 =23 Giraldo of Milan:is he teleporting Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Be ready if he teleports back here." Giraldo of Milan:he better not be teleporting GM:He says, "Wretched Christ son of the whore Mary, despair thine eyes!" Rosario of Flambeau:"I'll try. Let's hope he doesn't ignore fire." GM:Giraldo has no MR or anythign right? Giraldo of Milan:oh fuck my eyes Rosario of Flambeau:nooo Giraldo of Milan:i need those GM:Giraldo, everything goes black, and burns. Giraldo of Milan:giraldo has no mr and whats more, has magic sensitivity "Agh!" Dusan of Criamon:"You son of a bitch!" I cast the damage dealing PeIg spell I invented recently Alphubel ex Merinita:Magic Sensitivity probably doesn't do anything to Infernal spells. Giraldo of Milan:I dig my blade into the ships hull and try to hold on until its over. no, magic sensitivity would lower my mr if i had any GM:Roll it dusan, but considering the circumstances, it is stressed Dusan of Criamon:Acceptable. rolling 1d10+27+2 ( 6 ) +27+2 =35 GM:Penetration and Damage? Dusan of Criamon:spell level 20, damage +10 so pen 15? (To Dusan of Criamon): What is yoru sigil? Alphubel ex Merinita:Don't forget your Penetration ability. I'm reminded how much I hate that skills are called abilities in this game. (From Dusan of Criamon): a sense of existential dread GM:You feel a sense of existential dread. Giraldo too. Giraldo of Milan:without my eyes i cant read the book of the morning star Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm Rosario of Flambeau:"Thank God Henry can swim." GM:You're not sure if your spell penetrated. Dusan of Criamon:Worrying GM:The ship lurches violently again as the whale backs up, and the masked man falls over the rail into the sea. Alphubel ex Merinita:We did it. Rosario of Flambeau:"Hup!" Alphubel ex Merinita:Free boat! Rosario of Flambeau:"He's in the drink!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Hurrah!" GM:The boat is free, and has a very large hole in the bottom. Alphubel ex Merinita:Nice! Free ghost ship! GM:It's also sinking. Dusan you might notice Giraldo isn't doing too well Giraldo of Milan:the people of ponza had BETTER give us a parade, two mules and a cheese wheel for this shit Dusan of Criamon:"Focus! We've a blinded man on a sinking ship!" "Rope! Does this whale have any rope?" Rosario of Flambeau:brb GM:Would a man go on an adventure without rope and a 10' pole? Dusan of Criamon:Tremendous Alphubel ex Merinita:Who would adventure with a 10 foot pole? Giraldo of Milan:hey Alphubel ex Merinita:On the other hand there's probably plenty of rope on the boat. Giraldo of Milan:malach went on plenty of adventures Alphubel ex Merinita:Molto bene. Dusan of Criamon:I tie one end around me and prepare to enter the stormy sea Oh, I also dispel the ward against being wet GM:is that the Cloak of Duck Feathers spell? it doesn't work if you fully submerge yourself anyway Dusan of Criamon:I assume that would lead to nightmare physics if i tried to swim while it's on i was just winging it as a spont idea Alphubel ex Merinita:Not necessarily. GM:Makes water run off one object or creature, protecting the target and the target’s apparel from dampness. The spell is broken if the target is submerged in water. Dusan of Criamon:Good designer choice, preventing the physics conundrum alright, there's no way to jump aboard now right Alphubel ex Merinita:You can do it it just requires a higher spell level. Dusan of Criamon:or IS there Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it would just be like swimming while covered in grease GM:The deck is quickly coming down to sea level. Alphubel ex Merinita:It prevents water from stopping your passage so you just fall through the water. Dusan of Criamon:Ah, convenient. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:that is true. Dusan of Criamon:Okay, I have swim 2, and a bunch of rope. I endeavor to reach Giraldo as efficiently as possible. Alphubel ex Merinita:I'll move the whale so that it can swallow up Dusan and Giraldo. GM:You sunk points into swim? Bravo Dusan of Criamon:Do not doubt me GM:I wasn't! I respect it. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's a good use of childhood xp Alphubel ex Merinita:All my magi before Alphubel had swim. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what else are you going to take, folk ken? Dusan of Criamon:It's tremendous GM:Ok, you reach Giraldo. He's gripping his burnt eyes. Giraldo of Milan:i have a swim score of 3 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Shut it jock. Giraldo of Milan:with one hand i am covering my eyes, with the other i grip the hilt of my sword firmly lodged into the ships hull Dusan of Criamon:"Easy friend, I have rope, I'll tie you to it, get you to the whale" I yell over the storm Giraldo of Milan:"Mm." Dusan of Criamon:I resolve the tie on me and tie a new knot around Giraldo I assume Alphubel is performing baseplate duties and we'll get to safety soon. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:we should search the ruins of the cathedral Dusan of Criamon:Once Giraldo is tied, we'll start our way back to the whale. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:there's still time to get killed by 1000 birds Fiorella the Raven:I'm doing important bird things Alphubel ex Merinita:There's always time to get killed by birds. GM:The waters start to calm as you do. By the time Giraldo is secured, you feel the pressure of the storm passing and the clouds blowing out west across the sea. Alphubel ex Merinita:Once we get everyone on board we should look for the wizard. GM:The birds left cause I didn't want to deal with that haha. Alphubel ex Merinita:Bwahaha. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Gwee, hee, hee. GM:They were watching the monastery grounds in case you chose to come by land. Dusan of Criamon:That's just sound strategy GM:I also had this cool thing planned with a headless horseman but-- pay it no heed. Giraldo of Milan:we already found tiziano, dude Dusan of Criamon:OK, if we're safe, I want to start using the whale to find the wizard Gulielmus of Pure Reason:feeling felt Dusan of Criamon:^^^^^ Alphubel ex Merinita:I don't need any of the drops from the Headless Horseman. GM:You search the dark briny deep but find nothing. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:are rosario and his familiar ACs to each other Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmmmmmm. Giraldo of Milan:should we magically restore giraldos eyes or make a badass magic item that lets him function without them, gang Alphubel ex Merinita:Sounds like he's still out there or he was made of sugar. GM:yes gulielmus Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:sick. Alphubel ex Merinita:We could also fire him. GM:permament x5 strength ACs Dusan of Criamon:I think we should first identify exactly what's up with his eyes Giraldo of Milan:they have been destroyed Dusan of Criamon:if it's just a mild curse we can lift that Gulielmus of Pure Reason:well i won't use rosario to teleport to the rest of the crew because i don't want to slam into the whale at 100000 miles per hour but it would be a good trick Dusan of Criamon:hmm, total devastation seems like more of a major curse iirc there was an eye of vecna or similar in the desert GM:A pentagram has burned deep into each eyeball, searing out the cornea and what a medical doctor would describe as "the seeing bits." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:metal Alphubel ex Merinita:Modern medicine is so advanced. GM:You are no doctor, but it doesn't look like something that will heal. Rosario of Flambeau:ok i am back time to catch up GM:The skin around the eyes is also singed into a permanent disfigurement. hth Giraldo of Milan:gm Dusan of Criamon:"I don't mean to alarm you Giraldo, but this may be something you'll be dealing for a period of time" Giraldo of Milan:does this provide a bonus to giraldos piercing gaze virtue? Alphubel ex Merinita:Do you have the City of Brass magic item list? I think there might have been a magic eye on there. GM:if he can make eye contact sure there was, i'll get the link Dusan of Criamon:Alphubel: i remember somethign similar Giraldo of Milan:at the very least it should make him more intimidating but giraldo should probably put a blindfold on for now Alphubel ex Merinita:Yeah, I figured that's what you were talking about with the Eye of Vecna. GM:https://badgame.net/index.php?topic=47117.msg13844818#msg13844818 The Eye of an Ancient Hero (2) A bloodshot eyeball with unnatural brass whorls, floating in a jar of preservative. To the bold person willing to remove their own eye and replace it with this (the merchant recommends the aid of a Chirurgeon), they will gain the Keen Vision virtue, granting +3 on all rolls involving eyesight. Rosario of Flambeau:Darn. Dusan of Criamon:As intimidating as a man with no eyes can be Rosario of Flambeau:It would be a very good trick, Guli. Alphubel ex Merinita:Not bad. GM:(in giraldo's case this would be matched with the Missing Eye flaw if he has only 1 eye) Alphubel ex Merinita:Right. GM:Ok. Dusan of Criamon:It is what it is Alphubel ex Merinita:Still that's 30 vis... Giraldo of Milan:thats also an expensive item GM:The black ship sinks into the bottom of the harbour. Rosario of Flambeau:That's PRETTY cool, though. Giraldo of Milan:more expensive than making a magic item to provide some other sort of sight Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i suppose you can also teleport yourself to your familiar GM:The storm abates. The villagers of Ponza lumber out of their shelters to patch up the damage. Giraldo of Milan:replace one eye with that, put an eyepatch over the other Dusan of Criamon:we'll make one and buy this one too Giraldo of Milan:and then reveal the eye underneath like the sharingan Gulielmus of Pure Reason:giraldo has gained 5 xp in Third Sight Alphubel ex Merinita:Blindness heals as a Medium Wound for the purposes of magic, right? Dusan of Criamon:this covenant takes care of its lackeys GM:The three magi on the Monastery are surrounded by silence, and nothing more disturbs them in this cursed place. Giraldo of Milan:did you know: second sight does not use your actual eyes Rosario of Flambeau::O Giraldo of Milan:so giraldo can just see the sorts of things second sight shows, in a void of nothingness Gulielmus of Pure Reason:nice. GM:Dost thou head home? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:recall that canonically every object person and abstract concept inside an aura is tended to by a flock of 1 might spirits Alphubel ex Merinita:It would be a version of the Severed Limb Made Whole that just makes a new body part, right? GM:yeah Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok, that's level 30 Creo Corpus. Dusan of Criamon:We should all meet up together first Giraldo of Milan:it costs vis as a ritual and more vis for being used in the blight GM:sorry this counts as Heavy per the rop:ti guideline Giraldo of Milan:plus the vis to invent it Gulielmus of Pure Reason:he's a faerie wizard GM:severed limb made whole still works tho wait Alphubel ex Merinita:Yeah. GM:it won't -- that one need sthe old limb Giraldo of Milan:it would PROBABLY be cheaper to make some sort of blindfold to provide sight Alphubel ex Merinita:It would need to be a version that doesn't require the missing limb! So it would be level 30. GM:right.. so Level 30 ritual spell cool. Alphubel ex Merinita:Yes. Good. Great, glad we all agree. GM:Will you take Giraldo home or let him heal in Ponza? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gulielmus is still sorting through the rubble looking for a lead on hazm GM:sorry -- dusan says you should all meet up. Alphubel ex Merinita:Well, we still haven't figured out what was going on here, so we should probably figure out what was going on. GM:ah ok. Dusan of Criamon:Correct GM:Gulielmus... Dusan of Criamon:in addition, we still need to find Hazm and also I'd like to visit Ponza, on principle Gulielmus of Pure Reason:out of character it seems like we should have giraldo come here and open up the regio GM:i dont know how to unpin a person's avatar from a board 2 things Gulielmus of Pure Reason:zoinks Alphubel ex Merinita:I think that if you drag the Player bookmark to another map it drags everyone along. GM:#2 .... While exploring, in the crypt, you find the coffin the fake Hazm was lying atop. The real Hazm is inside. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:yikes Rosario of Flambeau:Oof. Dusan of Criamon:Oh no! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:All right. lets break this sleeping curse Alphubel ex Merinita:Guess you have to kiss him. Dusan of Criamon:It is what it is GM:His tunic is spattered with blood, yet his body looks whole and there is a content expression on his face, as though he did not suffer a whit. Also in the coffin is the shattered remnants of his reliquary. Rosario of Flambeau:well thats nice. GM:What map are people seeing now, the cathedral or ponza? Dusan of Criamon:I see ponza Rosario of Flambeau:ponza GM:hmm Alphubel ex Merinita:HMMMMMMMMMM. Giraldo of Milan:pon Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ponza Dusan of Criamon:I see a church now Endrite (GM):Ok that didn't work. GM:Ok -- you can drag the avatars on to the "Players" ribbon itself to bring people back to normal Gulielmus of Pure Reason:neat Giraldo of Milan:what happens if you bring the aegis horseshoe near a magic being that you dont invite into it are they pushed around or are they penalized GM:So everyone shoudl be looking at a ruined church now. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:they feel an urge to leave, i think GM:yea Giraldo of Milan:and casters would be penalized hm maybe giraldo could wear it Endrite:We did it. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:good work everyone. Endrite:If the reliquary is broken it probably doesn't work. Rosario of Flambeau:the aegis horseshoe casts a room target effect iirc Giraldo of Milan:ah doesnt work in the open then Rosario of Flambeau:no Gulielmus of Pure Reason:you could make another item that constantly surrounds giraldo in a dome of solid rock. Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Smart. Giraldo of Milan:that doesnt sound useful GM:I've got one little bit of business for when you're back on the mainland, just in case folks are tired and wondering when this wraps up. But I don't want to hasten you artificially. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:a mobile dome of solid rock. Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmmmm. Giraldo of Milan:that sounds marginally more useful Alphubel ex Merinita:We could interrogate Hazm's body. Rosario of Flambeau:I could actually stand to end pretty soon. just to make dinner. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does magic work on a martyr GM:No. Giraldo of Milan:no they are in heaven like saints Gulielmus of Pure Reason:thats what weve got on our hands, here. Alphubel ex Merinita:We don't KNOW he's a martyr. Fiorella the Raven:I can't cast Whispers anyway Dusan of Criamon:I do not object to a reasonable ending, though i am not in a hurry GM:Will you grant him a funeral? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gulielmus gains 150 guilt points, increasing his guilt score from 11 to 13 we should bury all of these guys Rosario of Flambeau:Let's give a funeral to everyone we can scrounge up the body parts for. Alphubel ex Merinita:Does being interred in a coffin by a Satanist not count as a funeral? GM:Where at, Gulielmus Dusan of Criamon:It would be what he wanted. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ponza i reckon Dusan of Criamon:If we're burying anyone it shouldn't be on hell island imo Rosario of Flambeau:Hmm. True. Dusan of Criamon:in fact I wouldn't object to us sinking Hell Island Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Poor Hazm." Rosario of Flambeau:We should definitely keep Hell Island, just in case. Giraldo of Milan:lets bury him on the site of the new church of ponza imo Dusan of Criamon:He loved that new church. GM delets the labels of people who were all killed for being Evil Rosario of Flambeau:Oh, you can take the Parma text back to Anna now, I had Bakir make me a secret copy back in Spring. Giraldo of Milan:giraldo will follow the gang with a cloth wound around his head above the nose GM:The whole Ponza community mourns the loss of Father Hazm. Dusan of Criamon:I'll guide Giraldo. GM:(except the jerk you have living in the old pirate base) Dusan of Criamon:I also want an explanation from the Ponza townfolk Who was the wizard? What happened to Hazm? Willa:"Ciao, Magi.." Rosario of Flambeau:whuaaahhhh?!?! Willa:what? Alphubel ex Merinita:We should ask the witches. Willa:She was here last time you were too. Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh there she is. Willa:She was the village elder's niece/helper. Rosario of Flambeau:i don't remember who Willa is. One of the witches? Willa:nah I forgot their names lol. I can dig them up if you like Rosario of Flambeau:Oh lol Willa:In brief: The people of Ponza have known for awhile that Zannone is haunted, and to stay away. Not even the fishermen will go there, even though they know the waters are full of fish. Dusan of Criamon:Moral economy, very commendable. Willa:Two days ago a fishing ship went in that direction anyway and was not seen again.. Everyone feared the worse and expressed this to Hazm -- who they know has powerful friends. Then the black ship was spotted and everyone really started to panic. Hazm asked Tiziano to accompany him to Zannona to figure out what was going on. This occured only the morning before Gulielmus' teleported there. Alphubel ex Merinita:Good call on that enchantment test, then. Willa:They don't know what happened next, until the ship showed up, a hurricane ravaged the island, and you all showed up with the bodies of Hazm, Tiziano, and his squires. Any questions? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rip. Fiorella the Raven:Solid story Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. What a mystery! Dusan of Criamon:I don't know who the wizard was and he owes me a pair of eyeballs and a friend, and an acquaintance Rosario of Flambeau:Good adventure. Willa:Right. Rosario of Flambeau:I see the inspiration. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:would hazm have lived if i had run down the stairs immediately GM:After the funeral, those who can't teleport must return to Italy by whale.. do you want to be spoiled or no Dusan of Criamon:No! Rosario of Flambeau:afterwards, yes GM:Dusan and Alphubel are helping Giraldo along, who is still wounded (and blind). Gulielmus of Pure Reason:not if it'll come up in the future i guess. GM:If the othe rmagi are compassionate they might join him but who can say. Rosario of Flambeau:I'll ride in the whale to keep my dog company. GM:Nice! Giraldo of Milan:is the bard back Rosario of Flambeau:"Damn, that sucks, Giraldo." GM:He is!!!! Alphubel ex Merinita:Say what?! Giraldo of Milan:"Hail again, bard." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll travel with giraldo. GM:You meet him right where you saw him last, strumming a slow ditty. Rosario of Flambeau:"No one could have seen it coming." Dusan of Criamon:"Bard! You may have saved some lives." Alphubel ex Merinita:"Who are you?" Dusan of Criamon:"We're in your debt." GM:"Ciao, Giraldo. So your adventure on the Pontine islands did not go as you liked." "You can call me" Giraldo of Milan:"Mm. Stopped that bastard at least." Alphubel ex Merinita:I wait patiently. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"It wasn't that great." Santino Saltarello:"Santino Saltarello, bard by trade." "Trader of stories about men and their follies." Rosario of Flambeau:"Never heard of you." Dusan of Criamon:lol Santino Saltarello:He shrugs. Dusan of Criamon:"Is there any way we can honor you, good bard?" Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Santino Saltarello:"You can listen to my story of the Black Bishop, who lives yet." Alphubel ex Merinita:"How much do you want for a story about a malevolent block of wood?" Rosario of Flambeau:ah shit how do you calculate penetration for magic creature powers Alphubel ex Merinita:"Or, rather, how much would it be worth to you?" Giraldo of Milan:I feel for a dry spot in the earth and sit down to listen Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Santino, huh." Alphubel ex Merinita:Subtract the power cost from the creature's Might score. Rosario of Flambeau:Nice. Alphubel ex Merinita:Then add Penetration skill, if any. Dusan of Criamon:I sit down, following Giraldo's lead Santino Saltarello:"First I must apologize. I had not expected we'd meet so soon. I meant to introduce myself at the reception party, but Gulielmus' unexpected magic changed things." Rosario of Flambeau:I should teach this dog Penetration and how to read Immediately. Dusan of Criamon:man's blind and still knows what to do better than anyone Alphubel ex Merinita:Faeries are uniquely capable of turning just about anything into an Arcane Connection so they can have very high penetration. Giraldo of Milan:hm. rosario has no teaching skill, so hell just have to practice penetration with it oh my god!! Henry the Spectral Hound:Henry sniffs at Santino. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh no Santino Saltarello:"Bishop Theophilus is a dangerous, depraved creature. He does not merely dabble in the occult arts, but drinks deep of its perfidy. He has gone so far as to bind his flesh with a demon, such that few could tell where the man ends and the demon begins." Henry the Spectral Hound:rolling 1d10+3+3+1 per + folk ken + travellers spec ( 3 ) +3+3+1 =10 Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmmmm. Henry the Spectral Hound:is this guy on the level Santino Saltarello:"And, he knows three of your names, the name of your covenant, and in time, he will come to understand more of your magic." You detect no guile from him. Dusan of Criamon:I do not doubt this man for a second. Alphubel ex Merinita:I think this is worth the story about how Vardian's Tomb was nearly destroyed by a wooden block with a nail in it. Henry the Spectral Hound:Henry goes and sits behind Rosario. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Henry the Spectral Hound:"Seems alright to me, Boss." Santino Saltarello:"A man who binds a demon carries all their strengths with few of their weaknesses. Today you met him unprepared, but some time tomorrow he may return the favor." "Though, I could give some advice..." Dusan of Criamon:"Name your price!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"That's a thoroughly unpleasant tale." Santino Saltarello:He shakes his head without smiling. "I tell you this only because I want the world to be rid a villain." Dusan of Criamon:"We share a motivation." Rosario of Flambeau:"We'll be ready for him next time." Santino Saltarello:I'm getting conflincting signals from dusan and rosario. Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Dusan of Criamon:how so, does Rosario reject the offer of advice? Alphubel ex Merinita:I'm pretty suspicious of this guy. He won't buy any of my stories even though he claims to trade in stories. Watch out! Giraldo of Milan:trade not buy he gave you as tory you could give him your story, if youwant Santino Saltarello:"If you are sure then you are sure. May your loved ones not face the fate your companions already have." Alphubel ex Merinita:But without asking for anything in return! Rosario of Flambeau:No, it's good advice. I'm sure. Alphubel ex Merinita:Highly suspicious! Rosario of Flambeau:I'm just optimistic. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:we'll never know Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Giraldo of Milan:wait wheres his advice Alphubel ex Merinita:My loved ones? Giraldo of Milan:are we rejecting his advice Alphubel ex Merinita:Better write my entire family about this one. Santino Saltarello:i assumed rosario was telling him you dont need it. Giraldo of Milan:what the hell Gulielmus of Pure Reason:should of shown humility Rosario of Flambeau:Oh, no. "I appreciate your advice, bard. You should stop by our palazzo when the construction is finished." Dusan of Criamon:We are receptive to his advice. Santino Saltarello:"So long as he is bound to his demon, he will resist your magic. And so long as he has bound his soul to a phylactery, he will resist death. There are yet two things in this world that can put fear in such a man, and I can direct you to each, if you are willing to put a stop to him." Rosario of Flambeau:"I love stopping demons." Dusan of Criamon:"Man sealed his fate." Alphubel ex Merinita:"What do you, um, get out of it?" Santino Saltarello:"As I said, I'm one who wishes to see an end to villains." "Ah but it is getting late, you are tired, one of you is wounded, and you Magi have your own concerns ahead. We will meet again once you have returned from your grander quest." Gulielmus of Pure Reason ponders this. Alphubel ex Merinita:I'm intensely suspicious. Dusan of Criamon:"This makes sense. Santino tells the story, we're characters in it. Imagine that." Rosario of Flambeau:This guy is very suspicious, yeah. But Henry says he's telling the truth, so I guess I have to trust the dog. Santino Saltarello:ill stick around if you want to ask him (or yoru gm) questions Dusan of Criamon:He may be a greater evil, but I am committed to my plan of revenge Santino Saltarello:but i dont want to hold folks who are sleepy. Rosario of Flambeau:what if hes an angel Alphubel ex Merinita:Hmm. Santino Saltarello:7 adventure XP btw. no lab distraction. Dusan of Criamon:Hmm. Rosario of Flambeau::blessed: Alphubel ex Merinita:Well, I don't trust this person so I don't ask any questions. Dusan of Criamon:I like him, enigmatic as he is. I ask him if now is the time he'll reveal the two where the two things are that we'll use to beat him. Rosario of Flambeau:"Have you ever heard any stories of the lost talisman of the founder Flambeau?" Dusan of Criamon:(second him referring to the black bisho[) Santino Saltarello:"I may have." "Should we finish the current story, I may have a story to share for any of you who wish it." Rosario of Flambeau:"I'll take that as a promise." I wink and clap my hand on his shoulder. Gulielmus of Pure Reason interrupts. Santino Saltarello:He doesn't flinch. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Was it really unexpected?" Dusan of Criamon:"There's always going to be wine for you at Villa Vardian." Santino Saltarello:"If the past and present are a clear stream, the future is a murky lake." Giraldo of Milan:"There's a good view from the Gianicolo hills." Santino Saltarello:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:this guy. Rosario of Flambeau:lol Dusan of Criamon:and despite his wounds! I move that he receive not only the usual pay but health benefits. Giraldo of Milan:its just a light wound Alphubel ex Merinita:I think we should experiment on him until his eyes grow back. Giraldo of Milan:his eyes are there but theyre broken Dusan of Criamon:"This man lost his eyes to that monster, and not a drop of sorrow or anger in him. Yet here I stand, intact, filled with an unusual rage." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I'm starting to see why Archibald built his lab the way he did." Dusan of Criamon:"Santino, whatever advice you have, I'll take it." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I'll see you at home, sodales." Santino Saltarello:"Oh, speaking of Archibald.." Giraldo of Milan:"My only regret is that the young women of Rome will be safe from my gaze for a few seasons." Santino Saltarello:"Tell him I know a story of Venator's shame, and how a man may undo it." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Gulielmus teleports away to lie down and stare at the ceiling for a while. Alphubel ex Merinita:Well that's a mean thing to call Archibald. Dusan of Criamon:This was a really strong sesh Giraldo of Milan:Alphubel ex Merinita: Well that's a mean thing to call Archibald. that killed him! Santino Saltarello:to be continued, at some point in the future next week: The realm of Magic awaits. Alphubel ex Merinita:You can see that my low COM score is a result of a curse and not part of my Essential Nature. Dusan of Criamon:props to everyone Alphubel ex Merinita:Congrats. Dusan of Criamon:big ups for this really good denouement Rosario of Flambeau:yeah that was cool i like the new faggot jollybottoms Dusan of Criamon:the split-party stuff was shaky for a while, but very ambitious and overall worked perfectly Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it was good gg. Santino Saltarello::3 GM:i shall post a recap tomorrow... gnith folks Dusan of Criamon:same se you all tomorrow Alphubel ex Merinita:Tomorrow? Dusan of Criamon:well, on the forums, etc Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh yeah. CYA. devil's fav demon (GM):rolling 1d10!-13+1+4 rosario aging in triple overtime season ( 3 ) -13+1+4 =-5 rolling 1d10!-13+1+4 rosario extra aging roll triple overtime ( 10 + 8 ) -13+1+4 =10 rolling 1d10+3 Addled Stamina roll vs 6 ( 3 ) +3 =6 whew. dys (GM):rolling 1d10!-15 aging roll 1362 ( 3 ) -15 =-12 rolling 1d10!-15 aging roll 1363 ( 5 ) -15 =-10 rolling 1d10!-15 aging roll 1364 ( 9 ) -15 =-6 No visible aging x 3 johns (GM):rolling 3dF ( 0 - + ) =0 devil's fav demon (GM):cool fate dice. dys:The Crimson Pathfinders devil's fav demon:they seem alright, for tremere the flambeau with pit arrows is ftw dys:im 90% sure that flambeau is the guy from Magi of Hermes. who is an infernalist. Endrite:The Crimson 9gaggers. devil's fav demon:that makes him smart. johns (GM):No metagaming, please. dys:I'm just making a joke. Guy of Bonisagus:i am ready to save magic and commit unspeakable crimes against house tremere devil's fav demon:Cool. Archibald of Guernicus:I'm here to kick ass and save magic. And, thanks to the pestilence, I'm all out of magic. Alphubel ex Merinita:Rolling an Experiment to invent Repel the Wooden Shafts. Rosario of Flambeau:hey could i hit the black bishop with that demon greatsword made of infernal vis i have Alphubel ex Merinita:rolling 1d10! ( 1 ) =1 Gah! Rosario of Flambeau:i havent broken it down into vis to use it yet. its probably still technically made of metal. but i figured i'd ask Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh wait this uses a simple die. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Okay I'm gonna keep reinventing Piercing the Magic Veil to gain breakthrough points Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok, rolling Extraordinary Results. rolling 1d10! ( 8 ) =8 johns (GM):isnt' a 1 still an epic fail Alphubel ex Merinita:Complete failure. No, it just means that you add 1 to your lab score. johns (GM):o hright First the lab bonus, then the results. got it. Alphubel ex Merinita:You roll a 1d10 to add to your lab score and then roll on the experimental results. johns (GM):anyway im stressed about today. hope it works out. Alphubel ex Merinita:I really just experiment to get the extra +3 from Inventive Genius. Rosario of Flambeau:lets take our time and not rush. Guy of Bonisagus:stressed? just dont botch! haha hehe (To Endrite): You now have control of Severin's token, I will let you know when he shows up and makes his big scene. Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10 spring 1364 experiment bonus ( 9 ) =9 johns (GM):noice Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10 Extraordinary Result, max mod 2 ( 9 ) =9 I shift that to Discovery rolling d10! Discovery ( 5 ) =5 Rosario of Flambeau:sweet. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Oh wait I don't think I roll on the discovery table Alphubel ex Merinita:You don't roll on the Discovery table. Yeah. (From Alphubel ex Merinita): Gotcha. Guy of Bonisagus:do we know how to activate the horseshoe Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok, I have 20 XP for a positive reputation from my nice lab. johns (GM):you have his lab notes, it would be easier for you to spend a season translating them than to investigate the item direct Shauncat:Okay, summer 2 will be an attempt to stabilize c'thinker:greet's Guy of Bonisagus:ok, instead of mastering pilum i translate the lab notes johns (GM):heya Guy of Bonisagus:that way i can bring the horseshoe c'thinker:did shaun get the breakthrough johns (GM):by the way did you ever fix the name and level/quality of your book arguign how awesome augustans are Archibald of Guernicus:ave Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10!+1 extra ordinary results summer 1364 ( 1 ) +1 =2 Alphubel ex Merinita:Oh noooo. c'thinker:botch botch botch Fiorella of Jerbiton:I think that's a single die with familiar johns (GM):wait is it stressed? Alphubel ex Merinita:Yes. johns (GM):gah Alphubel ex Merinita:You don't roll for a lab total benefit when experimenting for a breakthrough. Guy of Bonisagus:you didnt give me the rules for writing polemics johns (GM):lets confirm the # of botch first Guy of Bonisagus:whats my total on the polemic Fiorella of Jerbiton:I can roll it I think because it sa set amount, 1 die per aura level Rosario of Flambeau:wa wa wee wa Fiorella of Jerbiton:-3 for familliar cord So one die Alphubel ex Merinita:Also any risk modifier you added. johns (GM):is it boosted at all for increasing your risk before is what I was wondering ya Fiorella of Jerbiton:Two dice then rolling 2d10 ( 5 + 2 ) =7 johns (GM):gimme one sec and ill make sure heh never mind moe:gomenne, i'll go grab some water and i'll be ready to rock johns (GM):so a 2 is no extraordinary effects, iirc anything that isn't "Disaster" or "Complete Failure" counts as a success for stabilizing? moe:also i will roll a few aging rolls for dusan Fiorella of Jerbiton:Yeah johns (GM):cool c'thinker:the specific way the risk die stuff in the breakthrough section is worded makes me think that the true lineages writers never played ars magica. johns (GM):what was the magnitude of the spell? Fiorella of Jerbiton:SO that's 4 breakthrough points because I was inventing a Diameter duration version of Piercing the Magic Veil johns (GM):You would also take 4 Warping Points, minus a simple die Rosario of Flambeau:guy im trying to find where i put my notes for the horseshoe ha ha. Alphubel ex Merinita:No Benefit also ruins the experiment, as I recall. Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling 4-d10 4-( 1 ) =3 johns (GM):endrites right Fiorella of Jerbiton:Noted johns (GM):agh that sucks you have to check for twilight Rosario of Flambeau:i might have lost them that time i needed to reinstall windows and wipe me hd. Fiorella of Jerbiton:No Extraordinary Effects: Your experiment works without producing any unintended effects. johns (GM):Yeah so the breakthrough is good No Benefit is a 7 on the roll Fiorella of Jerbiton:Cool johns (GM):now to roll a bunch of dice for twilight... weee Alphubel ex Merinita:Here's a question: does the Golden Cord help you on your Disaster! roll? moe:ok, aging rolls johns (GM):Stamina + conc + vim Form Bonus + Stress vs. fiorella's warping score, + 3 (number of points gained) + enigmatic wisdom + 4 (local aura) + stress die Guy of Bonisagus:oh right guys aging for last year lets see c'thinker:oh i need to free up some vis Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10-3 ( 7 ) -3 =4 c'thinker:since i reserved 4 pawns extra that i didn't use Guy of Bonisagus:rolling 1d10!-12 ( 3 ) -12 =-9 resuming patrol guy is now 53 and looks 35 Rosario of Flambeau:its a room target moon duration effect is all i know level 20 as well Guy of Bonisagus:he is 33 hermetic years old and still maintains the same level of prestige in house bonisagus as when he passed his gauntlet Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10-2 ( 4 ) -2 =2 Guy of Bonisagus:but today that ends Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10-2 ( 7 ) -2 =5 Guy of Bonisagus:anyway i translated the horseshoe notes and ill wear the horseshoe as a necklace for the adventure Archibald of Guernicus:lol Rosario of Flambeau:you activate it by tapping it thrice on the entryway of a room. and it will lv20 aegis the room for moon duration. c'thinker:is it a full size horseshoe Rosario of Flambeau:yes Alphubel ex Merinita:That seems like a bad idea, because you wouldn't be able to have beneficial spells cast on you. c'thinker:lol johns (GM):shaun do any of your familiar cords help with twilight fine ill just roll it for shaun if he's gonna disappear Alphubel ex Merinita:They don't. Unless he has some kind of special familiar ability. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Sorry johns (GM):2 stamina, 0 concentration, 3 vim form bonus rolling 1d10!+5 ( 2 ) +5 =7 vs 0 warp score, 3 points gained, 4 aura rolling 1d10!+7 ( 8 ) +7 =15 Rosario of Flambeau:i dont like the bloop noise that lets me know people are sending messages in roll20 but i leave it on because i will absolutely tab away and space out. johns (GM):comprehension roll is Int + Stress vs. Warp score (0) + stress Fiorella of Jerbiton:I had two more seasons to figure out and I needed to think up an original spell since I already did piercing the magic veil Alphubel ex Merinita:I think having the Silver Cord help with Twilight might be a good buff. johns (GM):rolling 1d10!+3 int ( 6 ) +3 =9 rolling 1d10! warp ( 7 ) =7 Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10!+3 ( 4 ) +3 =7 johns (GM):thats comprehension Alphubel ex Merinita:You can invent it with different parameters and each time it counts as a different spell. Rosario of Flambeau:i think if anything it should be the gold cord Fiorella of Jerbiton:I already have it at both Conc and Diameter Rosario of Flambeau:which is like, pff. who wants to remove botch dice i need an incentive to take that thing Fiorella of Jerbiton:And don't have enough lab total to go beyond level 20 Alphubel ex Merinita:The Gold Cord is already good. johns (GM):because fiorella has a warp of 0 and beat the comprehension result she spends but a split second in Twilight rolling 1d10 additional warping ( 2 ) =2 Rosario of Flambeau:the silver cord is pretty good if your character is a retard. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Wait Rosario of Flambeau:bronze is obviously the best even before i realized it buffed aging rolls johns (GM):2 + the 3 in experiment means 5 points total, plus a Twilight Scar and a minor effect like XP or a new spell Fiorella of Jerbiton:My warping went to level 1 because of the stabillizaton Rosario of Flambeau:cool Fiorella of Jerbiton:So that would be a 10 you rolled Alphubel ex Merinita:The Golden Cord is excellent. Rosario of Flambeau:oh i took enough warping while doing hard lab routines to instill effects in my talisman to hit level 2 warping, i forgot to look up what happens. probably nothing Alphubel ex Merinita:Having a high Golden Cord score can prevent you from ever going into Twilight as the result of a bad roll. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Oh I see you were rolling for me johns (GM):a roll of 9 on the Int stress roll and a roll of 8 on the Warp stress roll its still copmrehension, and still lowers your twilight down down a level on the time chart, so it's no time spent at all Fiorella of Jerbiton:Okay Archibald of Guernicus:comprehension, then grats fiorella Rosario of Flambeau:sweet c'thinker:gj johns (GM):mind if I roll randomly to determine your twilight gain Alphubel ex Merinita:Health modifiers are comparatively easier to get, so I think the Golden Cord is better. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Alright, my spell for Fall 1365 is a InVi that lets you hear a soft humming from a nearby magic regio border johns (GM):rolling 1d2 1=xp 2=spell ( 1 ) =1 rolling 1d3 1=art, 2=mt, 3=ew ( 3 ) =3 Guy of Bonisagus:im back johns (GM):that's 10 XP in Enigmatic Wisdom Fiorella of Jerbiton:Nice Guy of Bonisagus:dfd, is the horseshoe unlimited uses? Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10 experimentation bonus ( 9 ) =9 johns (GM):Anyone have suggestions for a nice Twilight Scar for fiorella? Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10! extraordinary result, max mod 2 ( 1 ) =1 Guy of Bonisagus:what was the spell she was making? maybe feathers for hair Fiorella of Jerbiton:lol again I set the mod to 0 for a single botch die Rosario of Flambeau:let me try to remember c'thinker:is there going to be a readable breakthrough text before the adventure Guy of Bonisagus:feathers for hair would be Cool Fiorella of Jerbiton:I like Guy's idea Rosario of Flambeau:it is not unlimited but i forget if its 3/day or like effectively unlimited like 24/day Archibald of Guernicus:Feathers in her hair is totally suitable for her Guy of Bonisagus:it was translated in spring, cumthinker Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10 botch die ( 7 ) =7 johns (GM):it should be something "neutral or beneficial" Guy of Bonisagus:thats neutral johns (GM):imo if all her hair turned to feathers it would be pretty grotesque Rosario of Flambeau:her teeth turn into one solid piece of beak material Guy of Bonisagus:hm Fiorella of Jerbiton:I think if it looks pretty, but weird, that's neutral johns (GM):maybe just enough of her hair turns to feathers to make it look like a fashionable adornment Guy of Bonisagus:yeah Rosario of Flambeau:thats fine c'thinker:feathery p- Rosario of Flambeau:hehe Archibald of Guernicus:YEah that was what I suggested Guy of Bonisagus:FEATHERY PUSSY johns (GM):Feathery Plumage. c'thinker is tackled off the stage by security johns (GM):Yes. Guy of Bonisagus:there you go Alphubel ex Merinita:Or unfashionable, depending on the context. Guy of Bonisagus:her head is crowned by black feathers can be covered with a hat Archibald of Guernicus:Hold up. I think cumthinker's new suggestion has weight. johns (GM):adding this note: "Fiorella grows naturally colorful feathery plumage in her hair that can be mistaken for mundane adornment at first glance." Dusan of Criamon:lol c'thinker johns (GM):ok while shaun works on the lab stuff Fiorella of Jerbiton:Winter 1365, I'll go for a level 20 IER rolling d10 experimentation bonus ( 5 ) =5 Lavinia:I have a few issues for the council, when we meet for the last time, before you all head off to the desert and the realm beyond. Guy of Bonisagus:i show up with my fashionable horseshoe necklace Lavinia:"Nice necklace" Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10! extraordinary result max mod 2 ( 9 ) =9 c'thinker:oh Guy of Bonisagus:johns whats the total on a polemic c'thinker:wait the adventure is summer of 65 right Fiorella of Jerbiton:Shift to discovery Guy of Bonisagus:how do i calculate its Stats and then we can answer your question Lavinia:it's a regular tractatus, so your Communication + 3 Archibald of Guernicus:it is, cumthinker Lavinia:+ 3 for good teacher iirc Guy of Bonisagus:that would be 11 Archibald of Guernicus:good teacher adds 3 yes Fiorella of Jerbiton:rolling d10!-5 aging 1364 ( 8 ) -5 =3 Guy of Bonisagus:5 + 3 +3 Archibald of Guernicus:is 11 really the absolute max on a tract? dang Fiorella of Jerbiton:Alright I'm done Guy of Bonisagus:the title is "Something About Augustans" you can illuminate it too and do other things i think c'thinker:yeah you can pile up the dumb covenants bonuses Archibald of Guernicus:Something About Virgil Guy of Bonisagus:lets pile up these bad boys Lavinia:"First ... Regarding Anna of Verditius, we should offer to make her an official client of Vardian's Tomb. I doubt she knows how the system works in this Tribunal but I could diplomatically explain it to her when I return her missing Parma Text and a copy of the Aegis to her this year." c'thinker:vimgil Lavinia:dys you can add more to an arts tract using weird materials and magic attunement Guy of Bonisagus:this is guys second book i think Alphubel ex Merinita:"Hear hear!" Guy of Bonisagus:the first being Something About Parma Magica Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Seems like a sound course of action to me." Guy of Bonisagus:a very nice tract that many have read Lavinia:wait-- the tract is Com + Good Teacher + 6 so it's q14 Guy of Bonisagus:yes!!! ok now lets get this bad boy illuminated Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's ariam the ethiop's time to shine Lavinia:that level already assumes quality illumination / binding etc. unfortunately Guy of Bonisagus:ah Gulielmus of Pure Reason:da fuq Guy of Bonisagus:still good Alphubel ex Merinita:"I can, uh, use the whale to return her books." Rosario of Flambeau:"That would be very nice of you." Guy of Bonisagus:whale mail Lavinia:"Hearing no disagreement, I presume the motion passes.. ?" Archibald of Guernicus:"Aye. I believe she should have tae present herself tae tribunal tae ensure that she is legally a magus, however. So long as any quaesitor ensures she's sworn the oath, there should be no problem. Rural magi do exist." Lavinia:"Like Klybutes, and Cyra... Wherever she went." Archibald of Guernicus:"In some tribunals this wouldnae be necessary, but Rome is stricter." Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario has instilled enough effects in his familiar that he has elongated canines now, imo. Should help us get along with the Flambeau. Uh, Tremere. Gah. fuckin ruined my joke. Lavinia:"The second matter is.. I'd like to sponsor a new magus to join Vardian's Tomb.. that is, uh, Felipe." devil's fav demon:is he present? Lavinia:We can call him in if you like. Alphubel ex Merinita:Eh, Felipe. Archibald of Guernicus:"He's of your lineage, aye?" Fiorella of Jerbiton:"No objections." Dusan of Criamon:ees not so bad, oui? Lavinia:"Yes, and pending membership in House Jerbiton." "Archibald has sworn him in as a proper member of the Order, in case you didn't hear." "I can assure you he has many great qualities that will make him an excellent addition to our covenant." Archibald of Guernicus:"I have nae objections to those of other traditions joining the Order, or our covenant for that matter." Guy of Bonisagus:brb Rosario of Flambeau:"The one who built our palazzo? He seems like a hard worker. I like him well enough, though I've been too busy to sit down and drink with him." Dusan of Criamon:"I'm glad to hear those words from you Archibald." Alphubel ex Merinita:"Shouldn't he join a, uh, Hermetic House?" Archibald of Guernicus:"House Jerbiton is his adoptive house, at least tentatively." Dusan of Criamon flips open an anarchronistic notepad, clicks a pen and writes under TODO the words "redeem locke" Rosario of Flambeau:"And you know the Flambeau motto. Better he joins than the alternative, ho ho!" Archibald of Guernicus:"Ex Misc should accept him if this falls through, at least. But Lavinia has set a precedent for her tradition, so I can't imagine they'd say no." Lavinia:"Oh.. that was a lot easier than I expected, actually." "I thought I'd have to argue and fight and... uh.... " Lavinia smiles Lavinia:"Thank you, amici." Rosario of Flambeau:"The Jerbitons would love him, they love fancy buildings, right?" Alphubel ex Merinita:I stare off into space while thinking about when I can do another experiment. Rosario of Flambeau:lol Archibald of Guernicus:"I will say though that I think Vardian's Tomb is at full capacity by now, even with our extended aura and lodgings." Lavinia:"If need be, we could always share a lab." "And I'm sure he won't be a drain on resources." Rosario of Flambeau:i wonder if we can sell the flambeau on renovations to castra solis, then send in felipe ahead of time to lay a bunch of traps for when i raid the place. Archibald of Guernicus:"Resources, hmm. Those should at least increase again after the blight is ended." Rosario of Flambeau:ha ha. maybe i'll talk to lavinia IC about that sometime. Lavinia:good scheme imo Alphubel ex Merinita:Augustinian wards aren't that hard to spot with magic. Dusan of Criamon:Felipe prepping the attack on castra solis is extremely Rosario Rosario of Flambeau:lol Archibald of Guernicus:"After the trials this covenant has gone through, it truly warms my heart that we've rebounded so well, and that so many magi stand before me as my sodales." I wipe a tear from my eye Alphubel ex Merinita:ON THE OTHER HAND, Flambeau are dumb as a box of rocks. Lavinia:Lavinia smiles again. "The last thing I wanted to ask.. We -- me, Felipe, and Alphubel, the ones staying behind, don't know how long your expedition will take.. Are there any standing rules for the covenant while you all are gone?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:felipe leaving strategically placed and extremely deadly cans of doctor pepper around castra solis Lavinia:"Archibald... I think that's the first time I've seen you show an emotion other than misery in many years." Dusan of Criamon:Alphubel: it's much worse than that. They have good tohit Guy of Bonisagus:back Alphubel ex Merinita:"What if you don't make it back at all?" Fiorella of Jerbiton:If I die on the magic realm adventure and Guy survives he can steal my research into the magic realm Rosario of Flambeau:"Make sure you've got someone watching Particella." Guy of Bonisagus:guy? steal research? Fiorella of Jerbiton:You generate lab notes for every breakthrough Lavinia:oh yeah good point hope everyone has their wills in order. haha. Archibald of Guernicus:"If we don't return, I'm leaving a will with Magvillus." Fiorella of Jerbiton:I leave most of my notes to Flora, breakthrough notes to Guy Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario has not even considered the possibility of dying. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Kifaaya can have my talisman since she wove it Rosario of Flambeau:We've got this in the bag. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Or rather, her forge companion did Archibald of Guernicus:"In our absence, as the most senior magus of our covenant, I believe we should appoint Lavinia as a Tribune in the interim, to handle the covenant while both consuls are missing." Rosario of Flambeau:Guy of Bonisagus:guy? steal research? lol. Dusan of Criamon:"All my earthly possessions, should fate see fit to take me, should be fairly shared between my surviving sodales. Should my parens ever show up, he gets dibs on any items. Please assist the Cave with any requests they have to my behest." Fiorella of Jerbiton:I also leave any of my pets that produce valuable plumage to Kifaaya Lavinia:me stifles need to laugh sinisterly as her master plan goes into action. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Anything I didn't cover VT can fight over Rosario of Flambeau:"Hmm." "I don't see any issues." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Just leave the covenant standing." Rosario of Flambeau:"We'll be back soon." Lavinia:"It should be standing taller and greater by the time you get back." Guy of Bonisagus:bad end: everyone except guy dies, with the dead magi leaving everything either to guy or vaguely to "the covenant" Lavinia:"Good luck, friends." Winter turns to Spring. The appointed date for mustering for the expedition approaches. Rosario of Flambeau:"Don't make too much noise." I clap Lavinia on the back and laugh before we go. Dusan of Criamon sends his final letters to the Cave before leaving Archibald of Guernicus:"It's better tae be prepared for the worst." GM:Your strange co-adventures begin to arrive. First, the Tremere, eager to take time to assess you and your abilities properly. Guy of Bonisagus:wheres the ring of invincibility if no one else is using it guy brings that Rosario of Flambeau:Lavinia had it last, i thought. GM:do yo8u mean invisibility? Guy of Bonisagus:hmm. no Rosario of Flambeau:the one that protects against weapons Guy of Bonisagus:the one that made prudenzio not get hurt Alphubel ex Merinita:The pixies elegantly and with high Aesthetic Quality throw walnuts at them. GM:that only works on corpses Guy of Bonisagus:gah! GM:lol. my reaction too when dfd told me. Guy of Bonisagus:okay, guy brings his talisman, his staff of parrying, the horseshoe amulet, and a cool bronze mirror he leaves the mirror from the ponza scrublands in his lab GM:The three Tremere -- Amarus, the eldest -- Dulcifera, the middle -- Salis, the youngest. They arrive with 6 well armed knights, their grogs. Rosario of Flambeau:i didn't consider it when building the item but its a funny limitation that prudenzio definitely would put intoi his items and in case you ever have to preserve a corpse, which has come up a few times, its very good at that Fiorella of Jerbiton:Forgot to write up the new spell earlier, here it is GM:The Tremere take the opportunity to practice parrying against the walnuts. Fiorella of Jerbiton:The Sound of Magic Intellego Vim 20 R: Personal D: Sun T: Hearing The magus can hear the presence of nearby regionnes, as if the border was emitting a soft humming. The sound may differ if the magus's sigil emits audible species, such as Archibald's barking dogs. (Base 3, +2 Sun, +3 Hearing) Dusan of Criamon:Dusan brings rope, and a nicer walking stick. If we're bringing grogs, he brings his other coat. Alphubel ex Merinita:Are they really knights or simply well armed fighting men? GM:The latter. but they use a knight's statblock. Guy of Bonisagus:the problem with protecting a corpse is that anyone wishing to do harm to a corpse will probably first steal the fat loot from its fingers Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok, Alphubel can't tell the difference. Rosario of Flambeau:"Nice grogs." Alphubel ex Merinita:Nor is he aware that such a difference exists. Guy of Bonisagus:now, if mortis was still alive instead of burning in hell? could be useful GM:Of the Tremere, the youngest, Salis, is the only one disposed to "small talk." He acknowledges Rosario. Alphubel ex Merinita:Could be... Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Salvete." Guy of Bonisagus:"Salvete." Salis of Tremere:"No idea how they'd fare in the Magic Realm. It's new to them. But they're all ready to lay their lives on the line if need be." Alphubel ex Merinita:I'm going to roll Folk Ken + Perception to see if they like my tree. rolling 1d10 + 1 ( 3 ) +1 =4 Fiorella of Jerbiton:Is Mortis in Hell now or awaiting final judgement? Salis of Tremere:"Frankly... So are the rest of us." hell imo Guy of Bonisagus:he went straight to hell you know how martyrs and saints go straight to heaven? same thing but in reverse Archibald of Guernicus:"As it has been consuming magic, the safest assumption is that the beast itself is magic-aligned. Thus, I will be focussing on stripping away its protection with Perdo and Vim." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gulielmus's only request if he dies in the magic realm is that his sodales inform Tethys. Salis of Tremere:"If we get into a fight, the grogs take the lead. Amarus and Dulcifera know some powerful magic, but want to be careful not to botch in the strong magic aura. Dulcifera's not bad with a spear, too." "I mostly support from the rear." Fiorella of Jerbiton:"If it bleeds, and can be stripped of might, my crows can feast on it." Rosario of Flambeau:"It's good to be martially capable. I respect that from a magus." Salis of Tremere:"I'll let you know this before Amarus can scold you on it... The Vexillation regards this as a reconaissance mission, mostly. If we find a way to source of the problem, and if we can assess it, we think it better to leave and get every free man in the house on the job." "If the stakes are as high as you suggest then there should be no half-assing it. So you know." Alphubel ex Merinita:Wow, the Tremere have a really good plan. Guy of Bonisagus:"An interesting plan, Tremere pup." Rosario of Flambeau:"We'll try to make sure you get out safely when you turn and run. Ho ho!" Archibald of Guernicus:"If we find it and can kill it, every magus in this Order has a duty to defeat it. It is attacking the very core of our power." Salis of Tremere ignores the barbs Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario is joking but it really is a good plan to get out and get backup. And he really will cover their asses while they escape. Archibald of Guernicus:brb, taking dinner upstairs Salis of Tremere:"Whatever it is. What you've shared with the Order is sketchy. And you won't tell us how you know it either... Never mind. Let's not argue about it." Rosario of Flambeau:If it comes to that Salis of Tremere:if you get backup then you don't get as much credit, fyi. Alphubel ex Merinita:That would be terrible. Rosario of Flambeau:I won't be leaving with them, and ideally we save magic before the backup arrives. Guy of Bonisagus:guy needs to get lots of credit and prestige to go with his stolen research he will be submitting as his own Dusan of Criamon:"You know, now that we're all talking about dying or turning coward, I sort of feel bolder. We're putting a name on the unspeakable here. I feel better prepared to face the evil." "I commend you all on tremendous oration." Salis of Tremere:"Mm hmm." he offers, drly. Alphubel ex Merinita:Good Guy Tremere tries to solve the problem in the safest and most efficient way even if it means no personal recognition. Rosario of Flambeau:"I'm not sure it's right to think of this as an evil opponent. It's like a very tenacious weed in our garden." Archibald of Guernicus:guy of bonerfagus Alphubel ex Merinita:AFK a sec. Guy of Bonisagus:what the hell? Dusan of Criamon:not sure where that came from but lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:is he wrong GM:intrusive thought (To Alphubel ex Merinita): let me know when you're back, severin is up next Archibald of Guernicus:Gay of Bonerfaggot. Guy of Bonisagus:intrusive thot [runs hand over picture of zita] Archibald of Guernicus:rip GM:Over the next week, 3 more magi show up, without grogs or attendants. Hot headed young Freydis, phlegmatic russian Gereon, and quiet Prismaticus, who discusses secrets with Gulielmus. Dusan of Criamon:They are all welcome. Guy of Bonisagus:prismaillyaticus Rosario of Flambeau:"I would urge you all to expect nothing, and prepare to react as necessary to whatever you may be confronted with. The City of Brass held too many tricks and deathtraps for me to count, and I'm not sure they were all malicious." Alphubel ex Merinita:Ok I'm back. Gereon of Flambeau:"Have you planned to deal with the heat and light of the desert?" Archibald of Guernicus:oh right the light. I have a season to spend, I'm pretty sure theres spells that reduce light in an aoe around you Rosario of Flambeau:"The Arcana Centrum, even deeper into the realm, I have no idea what we'll see." Guy of Bonisagus:"We have been there once already. Preparations are hardly needed if you have any skill as a magus." Gereon of Flambeau:Gereon has one, actually. Rosario of Flambeau:"It's very exciting." Archibald of Guernicus:"Mostly the heat." Rosario of Flambeau:"We handled it fine last time." I wave it off. Gereon of Flambeau:"I have one of my own I can share. I use it on myself.. But it means surrounding yourself in darkness, so you need a way to see in the dark unless you want to be blind." He demonstrates. A black aura of coiling smoke surrounds his head, shutting out the light completely. Alphubel ex Merinita:Wow! Rosario of Flambeau:Nice. Guy of Bonisagus:ah! now that my head and only my head is covered in shadow i am protected from the heat of this desert Gereon of Flambeau:Oh right it can cover all of him I guess. Or he wears a cloak. idk. Rosario of Flambeau:"Henry could lead by smell." I pat the dog. Archibald of Guernicus:"I've always been able to see in pitch darkness." Gereon of Flambeau:"Ah, same." "What about the others?" Alphubel ex Merinita:Noice. Archibald of Guernicus:Archibald's eyes are a bright green, though it's not very obvious from his token. Guy of Bonisagus:"No heat of this earth can harm me." Gereon of Flambeau:as you may remember, once you depart from the Dusty Road in the Ignem Boundary, it was not just the heat but the light blinding you Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmmm... Archibald of Guernicus:"I believe those who can't see in this way should be lead by those who can until we are through the trials of the desert's light." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll make a potion. Archibald of Guernicus:"Unless anyone has a convenient means tae see in the dark." Gereon of Flambeau:If characters stray off the path into the endless desert, they are blinded by the sun’s glare and suffer +6 heat damage per round. Fiorella of Jerbiton:I have no special sight abilities so I'll follow Archibald's lead Rosario of Flambeau:my spell that stops me from casting a shadow by bending the light around me probably doesnt help Dusan of Criamon:same Gereon of Flambeau:(this is on top of the existing heat damage from the regular desert stuff) Rosario of Flambeau:because the light still touches my eyes first Fiorella of Jerbiton:Oh, Piercing the Magic Veil should help Guy of Bonisagus:as long as the total heat damage is still less than 15 im fine Gereon of Flambeau:nah Rosario of Flambeau:why would we stray off the path Gereon of Flambeau:Because that's the way to the magic realm. Rosario of Flambeau:oh. ha ha. Archibald of Guernicus:The ward against heat I made blocks all heat damage of 15 or less, iirc Alphubel ex Merinita:Piercing the Magic Veil wouldn't help at all. Archibald of Guernicus:and adds 15 soak against ignem Gulielmus of Pure Reason:a potion that holds a Group of grains of sand high in the air in a densely packed formation, casting a large shadow. Gereon of Flambeau:Ah, ok. Fiorella of Jerbiton:It's a Vision spell Gereon of Flambeau:I was thinking you'd need seperate wards against heat and light. Alphubel ex Merinita:It doesn't let you see in the dark though. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:by god gulielmus you've done it again Fiorella of Jerbiton:It makes regionnes emit visible species Guy of Bonisagus:my talisman and myself are warded against flames Gereon of Flambeau:alright. Rosario of Flambeau:i could probably spont some weak ignem wards lemme see Guy of Bonisagus:it is in fact still the only effect my talisman has Fiorella of Jerbiton:Eyes of the Bat lets you see in the dark by making air currents visible, same principle Alphubel ex Merinita:Specie are not visible in the absence of light. Fiorella of Jerbiton:It would highlight a regio detective vision style GM:The covenfolk begin preparing supplies. The Tremere have brought a ship for your trip. A day before you are scheduled to head out, you have a surprise visitor (To Endrite): severin is up. Guy of Bonisagus:gasp GALAF Fiorella of Jerbiton:Eyes of the Bat doesn't work going by your principle Dusan of Criamon:oh wards are rego shame my PeIg is excellent Severin:"Mmm, good day everyone." Archibald of Guernicus:oh no Guy of Bonisagus throws bowl. Dusan of Criamon:lmao Severin:"I see the Tremere have beaten me here." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Praeco Severin! What a delightful surprise." Severin:"So nice to see you all again." Dusan of Criamon:He is also welcome. Fiorella of Jerbiton:I'll ALSO be following Archibald so it's just a safety buffer anyway Rosario of Flambeau:"I didn't know you were coming, Severin!" Guy of Bonisagus:he is not, actually GM:Archibald and Fiorella, are you taking your Familiars along? Guy of Bonisagus:dfd, how many uses per day is the horseshoe Fiorella of Jerbiton:Yeah Rosario of Flambeau:"You're looking, uh, rather frail, actually." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+6+4+12+7 ( 7 ) +6+4+12+7 =36 Severin:"It wouldn't look good if an entire covenant went without a representative from the Tribunal." Guy of Bonisagus:i hope he is killed Severin:'Ha ha, nothing to worry about, young Aristide." Rosario of Flambeau:guy, 6 Fiorella of Jerbiton:If I die my familiar dies so we should go in on this together Archibald of Guernicus:I'll take my familiar, yeah. I usually leave him to do his own thing but this is a potential suicide mission so he can come along. Dusan of Criamon:bird death pact Rosario of Flambeau:"Who?" Fiorella of Jerbiton:I usually leave it behind to watch the covenant but I can't teleport out of the magic realm anyway Archibald of Guernicus:The reason I leave my familiar at home normally is that he has the gossip virtue and talks nonstop. Rosario of Flambeau:lol. that rules. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Can't quicksave during battle Severin:Severin ignores this question and continues, "Have any of you prepared to face the creatures that will no doubt infest the Magic Realm?" Rosario of Flambeau:Henry can't talk to anyone but me at this point. Guy of Bonisagus:ambrosius can shelter in my lantern Rosario of Flambeau:But Archibald should still hate him because he's an English mastiff. Merlin watches Guy of Bonisagus:"Yes." Severin:"If not, I have a high level ward perfectly suited to it." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:base 3 +2 group +2 voice +1 diam, 3 charges Archibald of Guernicus:"A ward against magical creatures?" Severin:"Of course, of course, Archibald." Rosario of Flambeau:ok i can spont a ward against heat and flames up to +5 damage. ha ha. Severin:"That is what I was talking about, after all." Rosario of Flambeau:and also it costs me fatigue. gg. Fiorella of Jerbiton:"I've begun some research into manipulating the realm via Hermetic magic, but it'll take decades to finish, more time than we have." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm make that Sight and 2 Rosario of Flambeau:"That sounds prudent, Severin." "I've been mostly boosting my soak and ability to take wounds." Severin:"A wise decision, Lavinia, but I think we have it in us to solve this problem in one trip." Rosario of Flambeau:I show off for a moment and activate all my item buffs to turn into a Size +3 horse legged giant with a flaming sword. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"That would be ideal, Praeco." Archibald of Guernicus:"Incredible, Rosario." Severin:"Wouldn't want to be stuck in the Magic Realm forever, would we?" Rosario of Flambeau:"THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE, YES" Archibald of Guernicus:"I've set about focussing on spells tae deal with magical defences, and defend against attacks from large monstrosities." Rosario of Flambeau returns to normal size etc Guy of Bonisagus:I cross myself when I see Rosario's transformation. Giraldo of Milan sneezes from his bed at about the same time. Rosario of Flambeau:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what if we had a magical farrier to help rosario out Severin:"A wise decision, quite wise." Rosario of Flambeau:rofl. Dusan of Criamon:"Well, having seen this, I don't think the arcana centrum can be much stranger." Severin:Severin takes no special notice of Rosario. Rosario of Flambeau:lol. Dusan of Criamon:nice Rosario of Flambeau:He's such a dick. "I bought a dog, as well. He's very good at helping me not get lost." Henry the Spectral Hound nods Fiorella of Jerbiton:Blink dog pet Rosario of Flambeau:"Hopefully Camilla doesn't eat him, ho ho ho!" Dusan of Criamon:I think he's tsun this is going to work out Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ghost dog the way of the chevalier Severin:"Ah, having a familiar is a grand idea, why, my own familiar has certainly rescued me from a scrape or two. Why I remember when I was ambushed by walking ghosts and Thaddeus scared them off without me needing to cast a single spell. Of course this was back in my day you understand and ghosts were much more fearsome than the kind you get these days. Why, I wouldn't be surprised if these ghosts are just the ghosts of ghosts, if you catch my meaning." Rosario of Flambeau:lmao. i really need to buff henry's penetration and see if i can spend vis on giving him more Qualities or something Archibald of Guernicus 's eye twitches Rosario of Flambeau:since he can't really track anything non-mundane at this point Gulielmus of Pure Reason nods. Severin:"These days ghosts just have a few parlor tricks up their sleeves, nothing frightening at all. You know, I even left a few ghosts hunting my familiar for sport but I'm sure that he's managed to outwit them until now." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"It seems like most ghosts nowadays don't even have bodies." Rosario of Flambeau:although i could have him phase into people's labs at night to start sniffing when their parma goes down..... Severin:"Excellent point, Guy." Archibald of Guernicus:Alright. that confirms it. Endrite is playing Severin. Dusan of Criamon:this guy's saying our ghosts ain't shit GM:lol Apparition of Pallas:"Did somebody say ghost?" GM:now its a party Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rosario of 1 int: 2 parmas per day? how many parmas would a magus have to cast each day to maintain that rate Severin:Severin regards Pallas impassively. Archibald of Guernicus:Is Pallas actually here or was that a joke. Guy of Bonisagus:i am going to throw pila at pallas if he is actually here Apparition of Pallas:a softly glowing blue Eidolon of Pallas has appeared, yes. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:are we going to bring our legion of ghosts GM:uh oh this is getting out of hand Guy of Bonisagus:rolling 1d10!+29 ( 6 ) +29 =35 Apparition of Pallas:He can leave if it's too silly, but he can project Eidolons into the aegis. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i don't know who pallas is. Apparition of Pallas:It's definitely possible. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Salve." Guy of Bonisagus:i revoke his permission to be here Archibald of Guernicus:I don't know who he is, in character. I think if he shows up then things are about to get very complicated. Guy of Bonisagus:14 penetration on that Apparition of Pallas:lmao. GM:i am not going to railroad you so Apparition of Pallas:If guy shoots a pilum at the apparition he'll just phase it out and disappear. GM:if this goes into unknown territory we roll with it. Guy of Bonisagus:"Phew." Apparition of Pallas:it does nothing because this is just an imaginem-based projection. Salis of Tremere:"Ghost trouble?" Alphubel ex Merinita:Guy needs his regular injection of the NotGays. Apparition of Pallas:it also only has 32 penetration so not everyone might actually see it. Archibald of Guernicus:"Was that- Guy, who was that spirit?" Wait, it needs to penetrate for you to see it? Apparition of Pallas:In an aegis i thought so Guy of Bonisagus:"Something meddlesome." Dusan of Criamon:"We actually spend a lot of time around the deceased here. Not in a weird way, just geographical proximity." "I would pay this no mind, unless it starts screaming or getting touchy." Apparition of Pallas:i actually have no idea how aegises work im sorry. ive been really lacking in paying attention to that Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh right it's that guy. Archibald of Guernicus:"It was INSIDE our aegis!" Salis of Tremere:"Don't get sympathetic, is my advice." Guy of Bonisagus:"Something very meddlesome." Salis of Tremere:"If they're causing troubles, obliterate them. They're not a real person, just a cheap echo of their old mind." Archibald of Guernicus:"You clearly knew them! Guy, we are about to step into the Realm of Magic on the most perilous journey of our lives, this is not the time for keeping secrets from your sodales!" Guy of Bonisagus thinks about his words. Rosario of Flambeau:"Guy seems to have destroyed it, whoever it was." Guy of Bonisagus:"It was the spirit of a dead man from an adventure I was on some time ago. I have been meaning to create a spell to rid myself of it forever." Severin:"You know if it's ghost problems you're having, you should contact a Diedne. You couldn't ask for a better ghost hunter." Guy of Bonisagus:severin was involved in the war against the diedne! Rosario of Flambeau:"You'll have to give us some contact information." Severin:After my time, I'm afraid. Freydis of Tytalus:"Are we done dicking around here?" Archibald of Guernicus:He wasn't involved in it, Guy. He was very upset when he returned and found out that his diedne friend was killed in a war. Guy of Bonisagus:oh well, in any case "Let's get moving." does an ac to a person count as an ac to a ghost? im going to create a spell to destroy pallas forever Fiorella of Jerbiton:Doge: oh boy, I can't wait to see how House Diedne is doing after 1220 AD GM:yes but you don't have an AC to pallas you threw them all in the river. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol. Guy of Bonisagus:yes i do i have his dress which was a fixed ac GM:You kept the evidence of your horrible crime? awesome. Guy of Bonisagus:it was the dress i stole from literatus Rosario of Flambeau:you fixed it and kept the dress? Guy of Bonisagus:it was fixed as an ac Archibald of Guernicus:Guy kept the dress. Let the record show. Guy of Bonisagus:before pallas showed up at the covenant GM:Guy loves collecting dresses Anyway Alphubel ex Merinita:100% hetero guy: "I kept the dress from the man I murdered so I can touch it sometimes." Rosario of Flambeau:you need to spend a season fixing something as an ac, a commonly used item of clothing isnt a fixed ac normally but i forget if you fixed it or not The Tremere have supplied you with a fast mundane ship to travel in comfort. Guy of Bonisagus:i had my apprentice fix it Rosario of Flambeau:i think you did because that adventure lasted 2 seasons yeah GM:Are you ready to go to Egypt? Guy of Bonisagus:this was part of the advenure! Rosario of Flambeau:ok Guy of Bonisagus:yes Rosario of Flambeau:whew. (To Guy of Bonisagus): If Guy kills Pallas before Lavinia gets to learn everything he has to teach that woul dbe bad Rosario of Flambeau:Alphubel ex Merinita:100% hetero guy: "I kept the dress from the man I murdered so I can touch it sometimes." moe:I'll go make tea, let's go to egypt or am i required Archibald of Guernicus:Wow. It's the desert. Rosario of Flambeau:i dont know if an AC to a person counts as an AC to their ghost, though GM:The next sequence takes a month in real time but I will breeze through it. Rosario of Flambeau:i will need to look that up. Archibald of Guernicus:Are any of the other magi in armour? Besides Rosario Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i am not. GM:The Tytalus has light armor, the rest of the NPCs do not Archibald of Guernicus:To any magus in armour, my spell to remove all weight from a suit of armour is touch range GM:Freydis I mean Archibald of Guernicus:And I offer that to Rosario and the Tytalus Rosario of Flambeau:Nice. "Thank you, sodalis." Archibald of Guernicus:I'll give everyone, grogs included, the ward against heat. Rosario of Flambeau does jumping jacks (From Guy of Bonisagus): it is also bad if pallas's ghost is manifesting in front of people Gulielmus of Pure Reason:where's my homie prismaticus (To Guy of Bonisagus): Lavinia will try to talk some sense into him. (To Guy of Bonisagus): But really no one besides you, Lavinia, and Octavia would know who that strange guy is anyway. (To Guy of Bonisagus): No one knows that he was Penthieve's alter ego GM:In short... Alexandria, into the desert, visit the Oasis, pass by the guardian with ease, through the Marble Palace, to the Bronze Horseman statue Activate the statue, then onto the Dusty Road into the magic realm If you press on, you will reach the City of Brass, but the edge of this Boundary -- and the entrance to the sea of Twilight -- is off into the desert. Rosario of Flambeau:"Don't talk to the screaming guy." GM:What is the strength of Archibald's ward? And what other buffs do you have before you step into the unknown? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll activate my potion. Fiorella of Jerbiton:Sidestep Rosario of Flambeau:sidestep, scabbard that casts endurance of the berserkers GM:what does Gulielmus' potion do Fiorella the Raven:I'll also turn into a bird so I can ride on the shoulder of someone who can see moe:back Gulielmus of Pure Reason:let me double check Severin:Severin has only his clothing and his staff. Rosario of Flambeau:what that potion do. Severin:Along with two pawns of Terram vis. Archibald of Guernicus:The ward against fire is Guy of Bonisagus:sidestep me archibald Archibald of Guernicus:With this spell, Archibald wards himself against flames, causing them to be suppressed within a pace of himself. This affects flames of up to +15 damage, which are nullified entirely. Against more powerful fires, this spell grants 15 soak. With Flexible Formulaic Magic this ward can be made touch range and applied to his sodales for the upcoming journey to the city of brass. Rosario of Flambeau:"Severin, you're really going to come all this way?" "Should we all make camp and rest before crossing the desert?" Archibald of Guernicus:I'll sidestep those who somehow never learned sidestep in 33 years as a gauntleted magus. Guy of Bonisagus:i also have the staff of parrying, my own ward against flames, and a cool bronze mirror Rosario of Flambeau:lol Severin:"Oh yes, can't find your way without walking the path, as they say." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it gathers up 100 cubic paces worth of grains of sand, and suspends them high in the air in a disc shape to block out the sun and create some shade. GM:A booming voice informs you that you must gather your party before venturing forth Guy of Bonisagus:the mirror doesnt do anything, but it looks cool and eventually i will make a breakthrough on the cauldron and turn the mirror into meng haos mirror from issth GM:thats sick Dusan of Criamon:I apply classic buffs Gulielmus of Pure Reason:we're in the magic realm so the effect lasts three months. Rosario of Flambeau:what does meng haos mirror do. GM:The Tremere don't sidestep, prefering to have the shield grogs be able to cover them. Guy of Bonisagus:it copies things if you feed it spirit stones in this case the goal would be using vis to copy magic items Severin:Severin also declines having a spell cast on him. Fiorella the Raven:Smart Tremere GM:oh right you all get uhh +24 to ignem casting totals and +17 to all other totals Guy of Bonisagus:no need for long crafting times or skilled enchanters Rosario of Flambeau:Do the shield grogs also want wards to heat Guy of Bonisagus:just take an existing item, throw some vis in, and create a copy GM:yes they need to be warded Archibald of Guernicus:I ward the grogs too, dw GM:Ok -- everyone is sidestepped but the Tremere and mundanes. Everyone is warded against head and light and fire up to +15 damage. Rosario is in Beserker mode, Gulielmus is holding a sand umbrella above you, Fiorella is a bird Rosario of Flambeau:"Ah, I thought the tremere were cruel! You're pampering those grogs." GM:I miss anythhing? Rosario of Flambeau:I wink at the grogs. Guy of Bonisagus:before revealing its existence i would first commission some powerful magic items from verdi Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"It's time to put this thing to the test." Guy of Bonisagus:and then present exact copies of them, created by me Dusan of Criamon:Does... does Archibald sidestep the Tremere grogs Guy of Bonisagus:this is of course all far in the future GM:they dont want it Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10+2+3+17+14+4 ( 7 ) +2+3+17+14+4 =47 GM:they can't fight as a group if they're sidestepped Archibald of Guernicus:sidestep will interfere with yes Dusan of Criamon:ohhh I accept GM:they also can't shield magi who are sidestepped since they don't know where they are Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Gulielmus uses the Invisible Sling to fling the potion far into the desert. Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario's veins are bulging out but they're thorny under his skin like rose bushes. GM:he activates his "advance" Rosario of Flambeau:lol Archibald of Guernicus:brb Amarus of Tremere:gah Rosario of Flambeau:i like having a talisman that has corpus effects and i want to do more magic body horror stuff later on. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i should stress that this is an absolutely enormous sand umbrella. GM:Nice Rosario of Flambeau:"Can you make it rotate, Guli?" GM:there it is. Rosario of Flambeau:Nice. GM:are you controlling its movement too? and keeping it from falling apart? Guy of Bonisagus:gulielmus is krillin Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i can concentrate to reposition it Rosario of Flambeau:gaara Guy of Bonisagus:brb Rosario of Flambeau:hell yes concentration rolls. GM:gfah afk ppl ftl Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the effect is diameter (season) though so it should only fall apart if something goes really wrong. Severin:Severin asks the Tremere if they have any spells that can stop the Shadow Senate from using their Shadow Step power. GM:Ok. Archibald of Guernicus:back GM:The Tremere beckon you to head forth, as the guides of this part of the expedition. Dost thou leave the Road? Rosario of Flambeau:I will. "Goodbye, screaming rock jinn." Fiorella the Raven:I follow the guys who can see GM:You step from the road. Dusan of Criamon:I follow my sodales. GM:Within the shade of the umbrella, all is normal. The sand outside grows brighter and brighter, until it is like the core of a candle flame, and hurts to stare at. gulielmus, Roll to move umbrella as you keep moving forth? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:is it int or stamina GM:ssta Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+5 ( 2 ) +5 =7 Rosario of Flambeau:gah Guy of Bonisagus:back Dusan of Criamon:Can I interfere and ReTe that sand to help him out GM:holding a spell while waing is EF 3. no worries Rosario of Flambeau:"This sand is quite shiny." GM:You continue forth. Dusan of Criamon:ah, nice save Guy of Bonisagus:just dont botch gulielmus GM:The voice of the screaming prisoner fades behind you as press on. Soon the stele, the road, the glimpse of the city are all out of sight. Nothing but you and the eternal sands Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Ah, now we can take a sample of that thorny succulent." Archibald of Guernicus:"Now we journey until we find Magic." GM:In the bright haze, three large shapes begin to approach, flying aboive the ground Wait or act? Dusan of Criamon:I cast Eagle Eyes Severin:Severin will cast a circular ward against Magic Creatures, level 40. Dusan of Criamon:With my magically enhanced sight, what do I see GM:Three mighty Jinn flying on carpets towards you! Severin:rolling 1d10 + 20 + 10 +1 + 17 ( 10 ) +20+10+1+17 =58 Dusan of Criamon:Demeanor? Rosario of Flambeau:"Ah, these types again." GM:Proud, Haughty, and Arrogant. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast Lamp Without Flame. Dusan of Criamon:I inform on my findings. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10 botch check ( 2 ) =2 Rosario of Flambeau:"Try not to accept any deals that sound too good to be true, sodales. They will be." Guy of Bonisagus:"I will destroy them when we are ready." Rosario of Flambeau:I will teach them. GM:The tremere take formation. Archibald of Guernicus:Awaken, my masters Rosario of Flambeau:what's the bonus to any spellcasting again? GM:top corner Dusan of Criamon:I also engage in classic VT formation by hiding in second rank Rosario of Flambeau:oh lol i was scrolled with it just out of frame. Fiorella the Raven:24 ignem, eh? Ganbare Guy GM:i will add you all have +10 to your mr Dusan of Criamon:goodness Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+20+1+17 CrAn + Mastery + Realm bonus ( 1 ) +20+1+17 =39 rofl. GM:hmm I think that may be incredibly bad. one sec Rosario of Flambeau:hahaha. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it is. Rosario of Flambeau:I am trying to Create a Bird. to send over a message. GM:do you have any modifers to lower botch die? Fiorella the Raven:I have that formulaic Dusan of Criamon:Oh you'll send a message alright Fiorella the Raven:You could have just asked me Rosario of Flambeau:I do too, Fiorella. Endrite:Why is it stressed? Rosario of Flambeau:I learned it from you!!! oh is it not stressed? nice. Fiorella the Raven:Oh right I wrote down the spell and never sold the text GM:durr. just in case I want to see what would'v ehappened. rolling 8d10 ( 6 + 6 + 2 + 4 + 1 + 5 + 7 + 3 ) =34 Endrite:I mean, if it's formulaic. Rosario of Flambeau:I thought anything was stressed in an aura. GM:eh not bad. no Rosario of Flambeau:regio, gah. but still no GM:anyway, your bird leaves the umbrella, then quickly wilts and dies. Rosario of Flambeau:lol. GM:The jinn close in! Rosario of Flambeau:"Yeah, rip." Arrogant Jinn:"Look here! Men in our realm!" Rosario of Flambeau:I will activate the other buff in my sword, Gift of the Small Bear's Fortitude. Haughty Jinn:"Let's smash 'em!" Fiorella the Raven:"They only live until sunset anyway." Rosario of Flambeau:And give myself +2 extra soak. Proud Jinn:"Let's splatter 'em!" Guy of Bonisagus:hostilities confirmed engaging Archibald of Guernicus:"I imagine they're warded against flames, themselves." Arrogant Jinn:"Let's fry em!" Guy of Bonisagus:its a total of +24 casting bonus on ignem spells right Rosario of Flambeau:The thorns that were just decorative are now actual thorns poking out of Rosario's skin. Arrogant Jinn:tis, guy Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I thought they were made of flames." Guy of Bonisagus:"I'll just have to make a bigger flame." Fiorella the Raven:rolling d10+8 initiative ( 8 ) +8 =16 Severin:"Are these your friends, Archibald?" Arrogant Jinn:Arrogant Jinn lookes fiery, Haugty Jinn looks earthy, and Proud Jinn looks watery. Rosario of Flambeau:"I guess they don't want to make deals after all." Arrogant Jinn:rolling 1d10!-3 jinn ( 3 ) -3 =0 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10+2 ( 5 ) +2 =7 Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10! ( 5 ) =5 init Gulielmus of Pure Reason:remember you can type your own roll in Severin:rolling 1d10! +0 ( 9 ) +0 =9 Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 1d10!+1 ( 10 + 3 ) +1 =14 Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10+2 ( 8 ) +2 =10 Arrogant Jinn:the orange circle is your umbrella Fiorella the Raven:Assuming the fire guy is immune to fire, do you want to try focusing down Water or Earth first Guy? Arrogant Jinn:rolling 1d10! ( 2 ) =2 Guy of Bonisagus:water whats my ini t Arrogant Jinn:stress + qick + finesse if you're using magi c Guy of Bonisagus:rolling 1d10!-2 ( 6 ) -2 =4 my finesse is 0 make of this what you will Arrogant Jinn:ok Archibald of Guernicus:im using magic so i added my finesse. even bigger init. Arrogant Jinn:Shaun is up, Archibald on deck Dusan of Criamon:hm, I shall also use magic Rosario of Flambeau:ok im changing mine to six to reflect my +1 finesse Gulielmus of Pure Reason:my connection has been interrupted. Fiorella the Raven:I cast crows on Water Guy of Bonisagus:he has no humility, he has no finesse. this magus, is throwing pila at creatures from the realm of pure ignem Fiorella the Raven:rolling d10!+78 casting total ( 1 ) +78 =79 Guy of Bonisagus:lamnfao Fiorella the Raven:-3 dice for cord Archibald of Guernicus:The one on the right is probably not ignem-aligned Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hehe. Rosario of Flambeau:motherfuckin magic real,m Arrogant Jinn:1 base, 7 from aura, -3 = 5 die Archibald of Guernicus:Which cord reduces botch dice. Gold? Arrogant Jinn:rolling 5d10 ( 1 + 7 + 4 + 8 + 8 ) =28 Dusan of Criamon:it's good we're getting these rolls out of the way early Rosario of Flambeau:gah. Arrogant Jinn:You've taken a point of warp Fiorella the Raven:ok Arrogant Jinn:rolling 1d6 effect chart ( 2 ) =2 You become confused, Fiorella. Umm You must roll a die to determine your target for the rest of this encounter. cheers. Archibald? (To Fiorella the Raven): As in you roll a 1d3 to deremine which of the jinn you actually hit with stuff now Endrite:What kind of die? Arrogant Jinn:1d3 as there are 3 targets. Dusan of Criamon:merciful Archibald of Guernicus:I'll try and strip some might from the Arrogant Jinn. Endrite:Ok. Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 1d10!+32+2+17 vs 10 ( 3 ) +32+2+17 =54 49 penetration Is that enough GM:He screams in agony. Archibald of Guernicus:The arrogant jinn loses 10 might GM:a hit! Dusan is up next, Severin on deck Dusan of Criamon:Would a PeIg spell be counterproductive here (From Fiorella the Raven): acknolwedged Dusan of Criamon:it's the one damage dealer i have I want to start freezing the proud jinn Archibald of Guernicus:arrogant jinn has lost MR, for those magi with lower penetration totals Rosario of Flambeau:Sweet. GM cues up Devil Trigger on repeat for rest of encounter Rosario of Flambeau:get his ass dusan Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10!+24+3 ( 1 ) +24+3 =28 oh nice Rosario of Flambeau:lmao. magic realm ftw!!!! GM:any botch die reducers, dusan? Archibald of Guernicus:Cue up Let's Get Retarded In Here Dusan of Criamon:twilight prone folks GM:oh boy Dusan of Criamon:how many dice is that, 7? GM:rolling 8d10 ( 7 + 1 + 5 + 10 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 6 ) =41 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ouch Rosario of Flambeau::wizardblessed: GM:Everyone hears a blast of energy as Dusan turns to ice and is forced into twilight. Guy of Bonisagus:lets get botching in here GM:we'll work on twilight rolls in the background meanwhile: Severin, Gulielmus Dusan of Criamon:acceptable Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast Wizard's Pavise Endrite:Doesn't the spell also go out of control? GM:Yeah, it targeted Dusan instead of the jinn Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh, endrite has a higher number (To Dusan of Criamon): You roll Sta + Concentration + vim Form + Stress die (To Dusan of Criamon): What is your current Warping Score and Enigmatic Wisdom? (From Dusan of Criamon): okay, twilight avoid takes two minutes, which isn't really viable in a combat situation Severin:Severin will cast Wall of Protecting Stone between the magi and the Jinn. Guy of Bonisagus:cant wait to botch with my creo ignem magic Gulielmus of Pure Reason:I will defer to the Praeco. (From Dusan of Criamon): I think I should skip straight to comprehension Guy of Bonisagus:no!! i want to pilum!! curse you severin (From Dusan of Criamon): UNLESS i'm being granted a merciful fast avoid Guy of Bonisagus:i guess i can still hear them Severin:rolling 1d10! + 8 + 9 + 1 + 17 vs 25 ( 6 ) +8+9+1+17 =41 (To Dusan of Criamon): Ok, roll Int + enigmatic wisdom + Stress die Severin:The wall is only 4 paces high. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ah, GM:does it block the view entirely? Severin:Which is quite high, I suppose. GM:does it reach up to the umbrella? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the umbrella spell is Sight GM:cool Gulielmus of Pure Reason:so it can be quite high. Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10+2+8 twilight avoidance ( 9 ) +2+8 =19 GM:Gulielmus, whats your pavise do? Dusan of Criamon:current warping is 19 points, level 2 GM:you mean Comprehension, not avoidance, right? Dusan of Criamon:sorry yes Gulielmus of Pure Reason:uhh Dusan of Criamon:comprehension Gulielmus of Pure Reason:well we now have a 12-foot high wall in front of us making the pavise a little redundant? GM:rolling 1d10!+2 warp score ( 7 ) +2 =9 ez comprehension Gulielmus of Pure Reason:do the jinns fly GM:what's your score in Enigmatic wisdom dusan? yeah gulielmus Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast it anyway. it produces a stone half-dome in front of gulielmus, but he can see through it with an Intellego requisite Dusan of Criamon:8 GM:19 - 8 is 11, so you exceeded the comprehension EF by 2 I believe that means you are instantly out of twilight Rosario of Flambeau:lol Dusan of Criamon:I agree Rosario of Flambeau:dusan is so powerful. GM:rolling 1d10 extra warp gained ( 9 ) =9 yikes Dusan of Criamon:I love entering twilight GM:11 warp total Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol GM:that's somethign major, to be sure. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+17+2+3+11+4 ( 9 ) +17+2+3+11+4 =46 Endrite:Don't forget your Concentration roll Gulielmus. GM:he only needs that when he's moving the umbrella it's stationary now okay, a dome is created Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the spell itself is Diameter so it's fine operating under its own power GM:Rosario, and Guy? Endrite:Ah, so it's like that, huh? Dusan of Criamon:i increased my warping level, which is not super, but comprehending is cool. Archibald of Guernicus:What spell did Guli cast? Rosario of Flambeau:I am going to activate my other item buff and turn giant. I am now Size +3 and my wound range is 1-8 fatigue etc GM:rolling 1d3 twilight effect ( 3 ) =3 3 is a new spell. that would be an 11th magnitude spell Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i drew my half-dome in GM:um... maybe i should reroll Rosario of Flambeau:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:coward Rosario of Flambeau:dusan learns how to blow up the moon Guy of Bonisagus:do not reroll Archibald of Guernicus:Scared of mag 11 spells? GM:Ok Moe, would you like to learn a level 55 spell you possibly can't cast, or sohuld I reroll? Endrite:If the man learns a level 110 spell he learns a level 110 spell. Dusan of Criamon:If I may make a proposal since we're on an epic quest Archibald of Guernicus:its level 55 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:a level 55 spell you can't cast is merely a target to aim for GM:Rosario is now Big. Endrite:Oh right. Dusan of Criamon:make it a plot thing Guy of Bonisagus:okay, i will hurl a pilum at the PRoud Jinn in the hopes that he is not Fire Dusan of Criamon:something about the corn Endrite:Throw cereal at him. GM:I don't think you can sense that target, Guy. Dusan of Criamon:perhaps a valuable insight Archibald of Guernicus:What is this dome that Guli made, btw. Are we all covered in a dome? Rosario of Flambeau:Size +3 is apparently only about the size of an aurochs. Dusan of Criamon:that's what enigmatic wisdom is all about Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's a personal dome. sorry Guy of Bonisagus:can i not hear him Archibald of Guernicus:lol GM:Hmm Archibald of Guernicus:Gulielmus enters turtle mode Dusan of Criamon:for your consideration GM:If you delay, you can act after the jinn does, assuming the jinn makes a noise Guy of Bonisagus:gulielmus does not exit turtle mode GM:acceptable? Dusan of Criamon:not like you're going to have to make up a spell on the spot right now Guy of Bonisagus:okay i guess ill delay fuck you severin Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Farewell. Guy of Bonisagus:you piece of shit Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's a half dome! i can just walk out the back GM:The Tremere party curses severin. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:dusan could lean over and tap me on the shoulder Rosario of Flambeau:lol Guy of Bonisagus:how long until dusan comes back Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Skillfully done, Praeco." Guy of Bonisagus:did he exit instantly GM:he's back Guy of Bonisagus:lol GM:His movements are a little stiff cause he's got a thin sheet of ice around him. It's going to melt in like 10 seconds though Severin:"Ah, thank you Aristide." Amarus of Tremere:"Get this wall d--" Fiorella the Raven:Hmm, did I gain the EW virtue by gaining EW XP? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's the light grey arc i drew on the map. Amarus of Tremere:idk fiorella but once you have XP in it you can advance it as normal imo GM:Amarus is cut off by the three jinn acting Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does fiorella believe in the enigma Fiorella the Raven:DO I check for Twilight on single warp point? Is why I ask Archibald of Guernicus:You dont. Endrite:It's 2+. Fiorella the Raven:Ok Gulielmus of Pure Reason:no, dusan has a flaw that does that GM:Haughty jinn casts an equivalent of Obliteration of the Metallic Barrier (stone variant) Archibald of Guernicus:You check on 2 or more. Dusan just has a crazy flaw. Fiorella the Raven:Oh right that's Twilight Prone sorry GM:Severin, how close is the wall to your party? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh no. Severin:Voice range. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:did you shout GM:Alright, that's far enough that you avoid being splattered with rock debris But the wall explodes towards you. The haughty jinn laughs as he does this. Rosario of Flambeau:Hahaha. GM:Next, the Proud Jinn Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario laughs along with the jinn, excited for the fight. GM:He inhales, then spits out a dusty wind Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh, sorry GM:targeting the npc party. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i forgot i experimented on that spell. the pavise is gleaming bronze GM:rolling 1d10!+15 ( 10 + 7 ) +15 =32 Guy of Bonisagus:lol GM:Ah, souka. Guy of Bonisagus:there they go GM:rolling 30+17-8 30+17-8 =39 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it cannot be helped Guy of Bonisagus:shouldnt it be 32 instead of 30 in that why is it 30 the total should be 41, GM:All the tremere grogs gasp as all the water in their body is evaporated. Before your eyes they shrivel like mummies and fall to the sand, dead. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:classic Tremere GM:The Arrogant Jinn... Archibald of Guernicus:No uh, soak roll? GM:oh right rolling 1d10!+1+3 soak ( 2 ) +1+3 =6 Guy of Bonisagus:are the tremere dead as well GM:yeah no go this spell ignores armor ofc Guy of Bonisagus:did it penetrate GM:no this only hit the mundanes Guy of Bonisagus:damn Gulielmus of Pure Reason:now let's raise those ghosts. Dusan of Criamon:Well there goes that strategy GM:The Arrogant Jinn casts the equivalent of Burst of the Sweeping Flames A fire explodes from Archibald's feet, and spreads 10 paces inward to the PC party Archibald of Guernicus:What's the damage on it? Endrite:Can we get a blast template here? GM:archibalds Ignem MR? Rosario of Flambeau:"You didn't even share your parma with your grogs? Good lord!" Archibald of Guernicus:I have 57 ignem MR right now. GM:effect penetration is oh yeah you're fine Is Dusan behind gulielmus' dome? Dusan of Criamon:He should be GM:Ok Then you're all fine! Relax! haha! Rosario of Flambeau:damn GM:Guy you delayed you can act now Rosario of Flambeau:archibald has a single point more ignem mr than me this cannot stand Archibald of Guernicus:My parma spec is in ignem. (To Dusan of Criamon): Btw, when you enter twilight adn return, you lose all your active wards and parma. Rosario of Flambeau:so is mine Archibald of Guernicus:damn. Rosario of Flambeau:i just don't have very good ignem well, its good but not great. Archibald of Guernicus:ive got 11 ignem from the preparation to burn the corm (To Dusan of Criamon): You are OK for the moment under the umbrell GM:Guy is up, Fiorella on deck Guy of Bonisagus:ok!! rolling 1d10!+49 ( 9 ) +49 =58 pilum at the proud jinn GM:Target, and is that including the +24 from aura? Dusan of Criamon:I redo sidestep as soon as feasible when it's my turn! Guy of Bonisagus:penetration is 42 it is including the 24 GM:hit roll damage! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm Guy of Bonisagus:rolling 1d10!+14 ( 6 ) +14 =20 21 sorry GM:rolling 1d10!+19 soak ( 6 ) +19 =25 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i dont suppose i can retroactively make this half-dome forceless Guy of Bonisagus:gah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GM:wait its actually 22. Fiorella is up, Archibald on deck Fiorella the Raven:Ok Archibald of Guernicus:That is a lot of soak. Fiorella the Raven:rolling d3 fire water earth ( 1 ) =1 Birds on fire GM:I took a sample Jinn who was soak +10 at might 15, and figured with more than twice the might he would have a couple of the Improved Soak magical quality. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh no i forgot to add 10 to my mr. i can survive having all this blasted into my face as shrapnel GM:roll the birds and their penetration and such Fiorella the Raven:rolling 78+d10! 78+( 5 ) =83 rolling 83-35+5 83-35+5 =53 53 pen GM:They hit! Fiorella the Raven:rolling 15+d10! damage 15+( 10 + 8 ) =33 GM:rolling 1d10!+16 soak ( 2 ) +16 =18 rolling 33-18 33-18 =15 Dusan of Criamon:extraordinary violence Rosario of Flambeau:"I love those birds." GM:at size 6 that's a medium iirc He looks (arrogantly) pissed. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what do the blue/red dots mean Dusan of Criamon:"You go Fiorella!" GM:2 dot is magnitudes of might stripped blue dot is might spent on powers Archibald of Guernicus:"I'll handle the one throwing wind around, sodales, focus on the other 2." I cast my PeVi spell on the Proud Jinn, -10 magic might Gulielmus of Pure Reason:so the arrogant jinn has the highest penalty to his mr? GM:yes, -15 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:✅ GM::) Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 1d10!+51 ( 9 ) +51 =60 Penetration is. Well its high, let's put it that way. 55 pen. GM:It's enough Bits of the Jinn evaporate into steam. He screams. Dusan of Criamon:Classic Archibald Archibald of Guernicus:I'll finish it off next round if you all want to focus on the other 2. GM:Archibald has definitely caught their attention. Dusan, and Severin on deck Rosario of Flambeau:"Ho ho! Bet you wish you'd tried to make a deal now, you knaves!" Rosario continues taunting from the back line while his buffs stack up Fiorella the Raven:I'll focus if the confusion wears off before combat ends, otherwise no promises Dusan of Criamon:I recast my wiz sidestep rolling 1d10!+19 ( 4 ) +19 =23 GM:done Severin, and Gulielmus on deck? Severin:Severin will delay until after the Tremere Vexillation. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:is guy throwing fire Archibald of Guernicus:Him is be do that. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ok, i'll delay to use metamagic on his spell (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): How thick (tall) is the umbrella GM:Rosario, then Guy Rosario of Flambeau:I will stride forward and see if i can swing my sword at the Haughty Jinn without stepping into the sun rolling 1d10!+20 ( 3 ) +20 =23 smh. GM:He's flying (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): only as thick as it needs to be GM:how tall are you at size +3? Rosario of Flambeau:i need to find a better chart. i cant really get a clear height comparison. GM:eh Rosario of Flambeau:Over 10 feet tall. GM:I'll allow it (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): which can't be that much Rosario of Flambeau:since Giant Blooded maxes out at Size +2 iirc GM:i check his stats The haughy jinn attempts to parry with his maul rolling 1d10!+3+1 ( 7 ) +3+1 =11 pretty bad even with elevation bonus Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hell yeah. Guy of Bonisagus:maul? watch out GM:oh I guess the bonus should be +3 like if he's on a horse, +1 for extra elevation, so 14 total. rolling 23-14 23-14 =9 damage? Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 23-14+13 damage 23-14+13 =22 GM:rolling 22-16 soak 22-16 =6 Rosario of Flambeau:rofl. GM:You draw no blood but you make him growl in pain. Guy of Bonisagus:is the proud jinn hurt at all now GM:He got might stripped -10 might Rosario of Flambeau:well, i'm still using a mundane blade, that's no surprise. Guy of Bonisagus:dooes that lower his soak at all GM:nah Guy of Bonisagus:ok im going to kill the haughty jinn rolling 1d10!+49 ( 2 ) +49 =51 35 pen GM:Pen? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:this is a pilum, right GM:Your spell does not penetration. Guy of Bonisagus:i am going to kill gulielmus GM:oh wait Guy of Bonisagus:yes it is guli GM:Gulielmus was going to boost you i think Rosario of Flambeau:ok GM:Guli? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i mean i was. but then the gm declared the spell doesn't penetrate GM:35 Pen doesnt a wizards boost would increase the total Gulielmus of Pure Reason:would it GM:doesnt it increase the casting total? Rosario of Flambeau:im reading iron bound tome and every size increase of 3 is supposed to be 10 times larger. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i think you can design one to increase penetration but this one adds 5 damage. GM:10 times in total mass ok. Guy of Bonisagus:i hate gulielmus GM:sorry gulielmus. got anything else in store? Archibald of Guernicus:I'll kill Proud next turn. Then I can strip might from Haughty so you can pillum him Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hrm. Rosario of Flambeau:so yeah im probably only around 10-16 feet tall i guess. larger than a bear at least. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll cast sagitta of fire on arrogant jinn, who is probably immune Guy of Bonisagus:lets just hope we dont run into Strong Jinn finnish voice: sagitta Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+2+3+17+11+7 ( 9 ) +2+3+17+11+7 =49 Fiorella the Raven:Cute Jinn GM:Pen? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:39 GM:and is Saggita of Fire the one that tries to blind someone? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's pilum of fire but a mag weaker GM:No effect! Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gah! GM:NPC time. Amarus attempts PeVi on Haughty rolling 1d10 ( 3 ) =3 no botch bits of the haughty jinn crumble away as 10 might is stripped rolling 1d10 ( 1 ) =1 GM:rolling 2d10 ( 7 + 8 ) =15 Freyis tries shooting Proud Jinn with a crossbow, but the thing jams Gereon casts a PeIg to extinguish the flames around Archibald rolling 1d10 ( 3 ) =3 no botch. Rosario of Flambeau:"Nice one." Severin:Alright, Severin will once again create a wall. GM:lol Rosario of Flambeau:lmao. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what's prismaticus up to GM:oh endrite. Rosario of Flambeau:He's so cool. GM:Prismaticus isn't doing much of anything. He is not a fighter tbqh. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:that's the spirit GM:And the mundanes in need of his help are DOA. Roll it Severin Severin:rolling 1d10! + 8 + 9 + 1 + 17 vs 25 ( 7 ) +8+9+1+17 =42 GM:excllent rosario is separated from you all by a wall Severin:This will be between the arrogant jinn, the proud jinn, and the group. But not the Haughty Jinn and Rosario. GM:ah I see roll int and finesse. Severin:rolling 1d10! +3 + 5 ( 8 ) +3+5 =16 GM:ok. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:this guy's finesse is incredible. Guy of Bonisagus:gm, would anyone notice if i began hurling pila at severin? GM:The arrogant Jinn flies over your heads, and out of sight (because the umbrella is in the way). (To Guy of Bonisagus): In the confusion of battle ,it's possible they wouldnt Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Farewell. GM:The Proud Jinn blasts the umbrella with a spray of water. I believe this turns it into mud. Does that alter gulielmus' ability to hold it in place? Guy of Bonisagus:sand does not turn to mud in water Rosario of Flambeau:sounds like a penalty to the concentration roll. GM:oh right it becomes quicksand. Dusan of Criamon:wouldn't we merely receive a shower through an otherwise diligently upheld sand umbrella GM:ok I have a different idea. He casts something else. You can't see the effect though. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ncie. nice. GM:Haughty Jinn casts something on Rosario Rosario of Flambeau:hmm I hate jinns. GM:Crest of the Earth Wave. Archibald of Guernicus:lunging bear GM:Make a Dex Stress roll of 12+ to leap over the wave. (To Rosario of Flambeau): What's your Terram MR? (To Rosario of Flambeau): Including 10 from aura Gulielmus of Pure Reason:make a Dressage roll to jump while in centaur form (From Rosario of Flambeau): 46 GM:(To GM)rolling 35+17-3-10 35+17-3-10 =39 Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+3 ( 4 ) +3 =7 i do not leap over the wave GM:Rosario, you don't clear the wave, but the rocks shatter into dust as they hit you. The wave continues to your left and right though Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario does a little hop but isn't used to his size. GM:What's Guy's Terram MR? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:remember to add 10 GM:and Archibald Fiorella the Raven:Can I flap out of the way? Archibald of Guernicus:In this aura, I have 53 terram MR. GM:yes shaun, it moves 50 paces a round so everyone besides guy and archibald has a regular round first ok, the wave breaks at Archibald's feet too, but this triggers his sidestep (rosario's also) Rosario of Flambeau:fair enough brb im going to grab a beverage GM:Okay Guy of Bonisagus:terram mr is uhh GM:Guy tell me your MR or try to jump. Fiorella you may act Guy of Bonisagus:35 GM:that is a hit unfortunately Fiorella the Raven:Wait, i think the "triggering" of a sidestep is just someone realizing they have to aim at your shadow Guy of Bonisagus:i have sidestep Fiorella the Raven:Which an AoE wouldn't reveal GM:35 might + 17 from aura - 10 might strip - 1 might spent so far Guy of Bonisagus:does sidestep help at all GM:it's a big aoe spell though guy no Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the image blinks around GM:You can roll Dex to try and dodger Guy of Bonisagus:gah GM:the EF is 12. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:doesn't it Guy of Bonisagus:hm. is that right rolling 1d10!-1 ( 4 ) -1 =3 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol GM:This isn't an aimed spell. The Earth Wave is just making a giant wave of earth outside the caster's control now. rolling 1d10!+10 Terram form damage ( 2 ) +10 =12 Endrite:The wave breaks on the location of his body and not the image of his body, so the Haughty Jinn would be able to see it. Dusan of Criamon:could once concievably PeTe sand in front of him to defeat the wave Fiorella the Raven:Good point Endrite Guy of Bonisagus:i have 2 soak GM:even with Terram form bonus? Guy of Bonisagus:my terram form bonus is 1 Fiorella the Raven:Anyway shouldn't that be Quickness? That's what's usually added to dodge IIRC Guy of Bonisagus:fiorella is right GM:the spell text is from RAW Guy of Bonisagus:subtract 1 from my roll GM:Creates a wave in the earth that starts at your feet and travels out to the range of your Voice in a designated direction. It starts as a narrow ripple and within 5 paces reaches its full size of 5 feet high and 30 paces wide. It moves about 50 paces per round. Those caught in its GM:path must make Dexterity stress rolls of 12+ to leap over the wave, or they are tossed aside and take +10 Damage. The wave overturns trees and damages buildings in its path Fiorella the Raven:Oh well GM:10 is a light wound Guy is bowled over and cut up as he lands in the rippling sands Rosario of Flambeau:Yeah, it's a very silly spell. You should be able to add Athletics to it, in that case. GM:for the rest of you, the earth wave will hit on the Jinn's next round Gulielmus of Pure Reason:guy rolls soak GM:ohhh you're right Gulielmus of Pure Reason:against spell damage GM:duh! Fiorella the Raven:Any circumstantial bonus from having wings? Severin:Severin has 64 Terram MR. Rosario of Flambeau:lol GM:if you're flying more than 5 feet off the ground you are immune to it, shaun Severin:Or wait, 74 in this aura. Fiorella the Raven:Ok I do that GM:any other action this round? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm Fiorella the Raven:If I need to spend the entire round dodging I do so Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what are the odds that my beautiful bronze dome will survive a 5 foot shockwave GM:Alright, Fiorella flies up Dusan, then Archibald Good news cumthinker There are rules in City adn Guild for structural damage Dusan of Criamon:Can I PeTe something between the wave and my sodales to save them the trouble of getting hit? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:blessed GM:Roll Int and Finesse to determine the quality of your pavise, please. Archibald of Guernicus:my init earlier was 15, not sure why its lower now. it didnt matter since no-one was between me and fiorella anyway. GM:weird. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+5 ( 5 ) +5 =10 GM:nice. i will do some math by the next turn for you. Archibald, action? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol. Guy of Bonisagus:rolling 1d10!+2 ( 6 ) +2 =8 hey Gulielmus of Pure Reason:also i double checked and i do resist my own dome if it comes to that. GM:rolling 12-8 12-8 =4 guy takes a fatigue instead of a wound Guy of Bonisagus:wa. wa. wahoo Rosario of Flambeau:oof Archibald of Guernicus:I cast one of my cool new spells on the Proud Jinn Archibald's Destruction of the Rotting Grain GM:You can't see him. He's behind a wall. Archibald of Guernicus:Thank you Severin Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Archibald of Guernicus:I cast pillum of flame on severin GM:Only one Jinn is visible to you, Haughty. Ok, roll it. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what level is severin's wall spell Severin:Level 25. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i can dispel it if it comes to that Archibald of Guernicus:I'll try casting my CrIg spell on the Haughty Jinn. Archibald's Flaming Hound rolling 1d10!+30+2+24 ( 3 ) +30+2+24 =59 Severin:It's proven to be quite helpful so far, so there's no reason to dispel it. GM:Pen? rolling 35-10-5+10 mr 35-10-5+10 =30 Archibald of Guernicus:Spell level is 25 so rolling 59-25+4 59-25+4 =38 There GM:Ok, roll dam Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 1d10!+20 ( 8 ) +20 =28 GM:rolling 1d10!+16-2 soak ( 1 ) +16-2 =15 rolling 1d10 ( 2 ) =2 rolling 28-15 28-15 =13 Rosario of Flambeau:nice. Archibald of Guernicus:The spell is a large hound of pure flames rushing at the target and exploding on them with a loud howl GM:The jinn's arm burns like charcoal in a fire, He flails it about, howling in a deep basso tone Rosario of Flambeau:"Wow, that was impressive!" GM:thats a medium i think Dusan, then Severin? (To Dusan of Criamon): fyi your parma is still dow (From Dusan of Criamon): can I get it working before the wave hits? (To Dusan of Criamon): yeah you'd have to concetrate for one round. if your terram MR isn't very high you might want to find another response though Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does guy need to spend a turn standing up GM:i think he can cast magic on the ground Rosario of Flambeau:you take a penalty to gestures iirc but i dont remember what it is. Guy of Bonisagus:crying and screaming and pounding fists on the ground while casting Rosario of Flambeau:lmao GM:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Endrite:Classic Guy. (From Dusan of Criamon): it's 19 and unfortunately my strongest (To Dusan of Criamon): i'd try to shield yourself, perdo the wave, or run elsewhere under the cover GM:dusan needs a minute to decide so severin can act if he likes Dusan of Criamon:Alright, my plan for PeTe falls through because I have to get parma going sorry everyone Gulielmus of Pure Reason:huh GM:Dusan lost his parma when he went into twilight. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ah. Rosario of Flambeau:It happens. Severin:Alright, Severin is going to cast Banish the Noisome Fairy, which works exactly like Ominous Levitation of the Weighty Stone on the largest piece of rock. Fiorella the Raven:You don't need parm ain twilight because you're a statue with immunity to everything Dusan of Criamon:I forgot about parma and upped sidestep first, a tactical mistake GM:There are no boulders here Severin, you're in a desert. or were you doing to use it on your wall? Severin:The Haughty Jinn exploded the first wall into chunks. GM:Oh, good call Fiorella the Raven:Although you can be tied up or something GM:Roll it Severin:rolling 1d10! + 20 + 10 +1 + 17 vs Level 15 ( 10 + 10 + 3 ) +20+10+1+17 =71 GM:You levitate the fuck out of the stone. rolling 1d10 ( 10 ) =10 dusan's parma is up Gulielmus, then rosario? Severin:Ok, I will move it over to where the Proud Jinn is and that's my turn. Rosario of Flambeau:Nice, severin GM:Ah shit. Severin:How large is the rock, by the way? GM:Shaun, I forgot something. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll wait again, to boost guy's pilum. GM:You can roll the bird damage again. The birds followed the Arrogant jinn as he flew up. Fiorella the Raven:Oh right GM:ok guli Rosario? Fiorella the Raven:rolling 15+d10! 15+( 9 ) =24 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+17+2+3+12+5 Bonisagus's Faithful Ally ( 1 ) +17+2+3+12+5 =40 lol GM:haha. hehe. hoho. Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+20+9+3 conf + exert attack ( 8 ) +20+9+3 =40 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:well we can deal with that when it comes up. GM:rolling 1d10!+16 soak v birds ( 6 ) +16 =22 A fatiguing wound rolling 1d10!+3-1-4 defense ( 7 ) +3-1-4 =5 damage? Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario makes a wild jumping slash. Endrite:AFK a sec. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i do have that spell mastered Archibald of Guernicus:Rosario activates his ult Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 40-5+13 40-5+13 =48 Dusan of Criamon:That's the shit right there Guy of Bonisagus:just realized ive been forgetting to add shouting and screaming (To Rosario of Flambeau): Do you want to describe an epic death or shall I Guy of Bonisagus:whats my penalty to casting on the ground Gulielmus of Pure Reason:so -1 botch die GM:-3 I declare, completely arbitrarily. Guy of Bonisagus:n GM:no sorry. subtle gestures is -2. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:that is -3 off shouting and screaming isn't it i think im wrong. GM:shouting adds +1 Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario cleaves the Haughty Jinn in half as Rules of Nature kicks in to the third section and sends the two halves of its body spinning into the sand behind him. GM:you can't do crazy gestures if you're already gesture imparied. Guy of Bonisagus:cool i cant target anything anyway im going to fucking kill severin Gulielmus of Pure Reason:nice, i don't cast my botched spell then. Dusan of Criamon:Rosario scores a notch Rosario of Flambeau:Severin doing retarded shit ftw. GM:Rub'al Khali, mighty spirit of the mountain, cannot even complete a vicious curse in a long forgotten tongue before crumbles into dust. gulielmus takes Guy of Bonisagus:i rise GM:rolling 1d69 aids points ( 36 ) =36 Endrite:That's a lotta AIDS. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i can still attempt to dispel severin's wall though. (To Rosario of Flambeau): Your dog will be hit by the wave next round unless it does something Endrite:Don't you need to check your botch first? (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): Is your dome metal, stone, or other? GM:He used aids points to retroactively change things, since Guy is not going to pilum this round Endrite:I see. (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): it's bronze, from a side effect (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): nice. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:should i just reuse the previous roll GM:NPC squad -- Processing Gulielmus of Pure Reason:and botch incredibly Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario feels a tingling on the back of his neck as he realizes his dog is in danger. GM makes grinding comptuer noises as a little hourglass flips around GM:The Tremere apply their sidesteps. rolling 3d10 ( 10 + 5 + 8 ) =23 No botches. Henry the Spectral Hound activates The Veil of Orpheus and turns into a ghost dog, unable to be harmed by mundane effects or non-necromantic magic. GM:Freydis curses, drops her crossbow, and wields a trident instead, looking for the next target. Gulielmus, you are up Henry the Spectral Hound:loses 4 might Gulielmus of Pure Reason:should i make a fresh roll GM:yes Rosario of Flambeau:The dog is now invisible to everyone who doesn't have Second Sight GM:well use a conf and I'll allow it I guess Rosario of Flambeau:including me, except I know where it is because of magic. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ok GM:completely arbitrary but im like that. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:you didn't refresh it so i will just remain at 1 GM:I don't know what you mean. is the wall dispelled or not Gulielmus of Pure Reason:my confidence token rolling 1d10!+2+3+17+12+8 dispelling ( 6 ) +2+3+17+12+8 =48 GM:derp/. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lemme see here GM rolls some dice GM:rolling 1d10!+10 ( 6 ) +10 =16 rolling 1d10!+20 ( 8 ) +20 =28 ignore fo rnow Archibald of Guernicus:brb Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10!+18 ( 6 ) +18 =24 the wall remains GM:great. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:and i am fatigued GM:also great. Severin:You should have waited until after the Jinn moved to do that. GM:Dusan, the crest wave approaches Roll Dex + Stress to dodge it unless you are in geulielmus' dome meanwhile The proud jinn flies out from under Severin's rock and over the umbrella. Rosario of Flambeau:what a dick Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Hmm. GM:The arrogant Jinn, in Arabic, reiterates his previous phrase. "Let's fry 'em!" You hear crackling noises and smell burning oil above your heads. Dusan of Criamon:I initially thought I was in the dome, unless Guli says otherwise GM:thats fine dusan I rolled damage for the dome and it held Dusan of Criamon:cool GM:Severin can resist, Fiorella is flying, and the dog is immaterial The terror of the wave is finished. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:whew GM:Shaun is up, followed by Archibald -- neither Jinn is in sight atm though They're above you, behind an umbrella of sand. brb Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Frying?" "What are they going to try, hot oil?" oh i see you mentioned the oil already. gulielmus still says this but he sounds much stupider Fiorella the Raven:Ok Water and Earth left? rolling d2 water earth ( 1 ) =1 Archibald of Guernicus:Foolielmus Rosario of Flambeau:"YOU JINN ARE COWARDS!" I bellow. Fiorella the Raven:rolling d10!+78-30 bird pen/botch ( 5 ) +78-30 =53 GM:you can't see him Severin:Can the Proud Jinn move and activate a power in the same turn? GM:so you can't target him Fiorella the Raven:Oh GM:you can roll damage for the existing birds on Arrogant tho Fiorella the Raven:Ok No other Jinn visible? GM:nope Fiorella the Raven:rolling 15+d10! existing bird damage 15+( 2 ) =17 GM:rolling 1d10!+16-3-1 ( 3 ) +16-3-1 =15 another scuff you know what I changed ym mind. you hear him howling and cursing. that's targetable. Fiorella the Raven:Okay GM:(arrogant only) Fiorella the Raven:If you rule that the bird damage can stack I'll put a second flock on him then GM:ok roll away please. Fiorella the Raven:rolling 15+d10! second flock 15+( 7 ) =22 GM:Pen? Fiorella the Raven:53 GM:hit! Fiorella the Raven:Okay 17 and 22 damage GM:rolling 1d10!+16-5 soak vs 2nd flock ( 4 ) +16-5 =15 rolling 22-15 22-15 =7 a light wound Fiorella the Raven:Done Archibald of Guernicus:I will throw another flaming hound at the Arrogant Jinn GM:kk Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 1d10!+30+2+24 ( 7 ) +30+2+24 =63 Pen is Fiorella the Raven:I think for normal sized humans most of the peckable space is covered by a single flock, but big guys have more flesh to peck Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 63-25+4 63-25+4 =42 GM:makes sense these guys are +6 each anyway Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 1d10!+20 dmg ( 10 + 10 + 9 ) +20 =49 holy shit GM:Nice. The Arrogant jinn is immune to fire, btw. Rosario of Flambeau:niiice Archibald of Guernicus:You fucking n GM:Dusan? Rosario of Flambeau:lmao. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:anyone have a plan for the boiling oil the genies are about to pour on our heads Dusan of Criamon:Can I see the Arrogant Jinn GM:You can't but you heard him just a moment ago So you can target him Dusan of Criamon:I would like to use my cooling spell on him Fiorella the Raven:I have a plan, a plan for my next character that is GM:until he moves Archibald of Guernicus:I can fast-cast my dome Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10!+27+2 before auras ( 9 ) +27+2 =38 Archibald of Guernicus:That was my plan Guli Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i was going to turn my half dome into a full dome but that just seems like a great way to get cooked alive in a gigantic bronze pot. Archibald of Guernicus:I was GOING to kill the proud jinn but severin saved his life and now he's hiding somewhere Dusan of Criamon:spell level 20, penetration skill 4 (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): Originally I was planning for the Terram guy to disperse your cloud after they ignite it. What should happen if they just smash it mundanely, would that send sand raining down? Rosario of Flambeau:lets give the jinns dome and have them bust in our mouths like a neil gaiman story. Dusan of Criamon:it's PeIg so ignem bonus applies? Rosario of Flambeau:yeah GM:Yes +24 What's the spell? Dusan of Criamon:it's like wizard's icy grip, but i downscaled it GM:voice range? Dusan of Criamon:only +10 damage, otherwise identical wizard's grip is voice iirc GM:rolling 38+4-20 penetration 38+4-20 =22 Dusan of Criamon:if not, I changed it to be so GM:No penetration. Both jinn have lost a lot of might but still enjoy +10 Mr in this aura. Archibald of Guernicus:arrogant jinn lost a bunch of MR since the fight started, maybe that works gah Dusan of Criamon:gah well, I'm glad I didn't botch GM:Severin, then Gulielmus (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): hmm Dusan of Criamon:my only regret is not being more of a utility boy Rosario of Flambeau:"Severin, can you lift me into the air on a disk of stone or something?" Severin:Hmm. "No, you are too heavy in that form." (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): well, the spell is still in effect on that group of grains of sand, right (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): yeah Severin:Are there any rocks that would be large enough in any case? (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): but i'm not concentrating on it presently. GM:bricks and stuff (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): ah right Severin:It would need to be one rock. Rosario of Flambeau:"Damn." Severin:Hmm. It might be possible if he can balance on one large rock without falling off. (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): so the sand they hit could be knocked down lower in the air and hang there i suppose (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): lol okay. Severin:But he is +3 Size. (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): i mean. whatevers cool GM:It's okay. The Jinn's epic plan was just ruined too as I have confirmed in pms Rosario of Flambeau:;p; I just need to balance long enough to swing once., Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it doesnt have to be ruined! Rosario of Flambeau:We can try it. GM:you were about to see the epic confluence of Ignem, Aquam, and Terram. anyway Rosario of Flambeau:Were the jinns about to combine and form a super jinn? Guy of Bonisagus:storm, earth and fire Rosario of Flambeau:mecha? GM:that'd be chill Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i was just offering one possibility Severin:If there is no rock large enough then Severin will levitate the rock over the Arrogant Jinn and drop it. Guy of Bonisagus:brb GM:The Jinn laughs, smugly. "Keheheh... So now you get to see my true form." like that? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:please, wipe out the tremeres with flaming sandy oil. GM:okay, it takes a roudn to move the rock iirc Severin:Right. GM:rosario and gulielmus Dusan of Criamon:Fire earth and water will only make a lukewarm mud the team was right to defeat them early Rosario of Flambeau:I will move to the other edge of the sand umbrella and see if I can spot the jinn Fiorella the Raven:It also makes lava GM:the other edge is 100 m away Rosario of Flambeau:oh damn Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol GM:its a big umbrella. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:just this once i have gone all out Fiorella the Raven:Lava is water in Ars Rosario of Flambeau:i have big legs now but im not making it in one round, no GM:it is shaun? shit now I wish I used that instead of oil. Fiorella the Raven:It's something funny Endrite:AFK a minute. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's water with an ignem requisite or something ridiculous like that Fiorella the Raven:Yeah Rosario of Flambeau:yeah GM:lol Dusan of Criamon:oh wow GM:ok never mind Fiorella the Raven:It's discuessed in Hermetic Projects GM:If you guys really have nothing to do, do you want to delay until after the Jinn? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:sure i hope i havent actually ruined your plan. GM:It wasnt' a good plan tbh Guy of Bonisagus:brb er back Rosario of Flambeau:I will, sure. Rosario really needs to learn how to fly. GM:hmmmm Gulielmus of Pure Reason:also if you were pooling flaming oil up there it would probably seep through the cracks and rain fire on us GM:rolling 1d10!+6 ( 10 + 7 ) +6 =23 Archibald of Guernicus:I'm glad we ruined the plan. I bet it was gay. Rosario of Flambeau:That's the next epic thing to do. GM:The Arrogant Jinn remains stubborn But he does fly another 50 meters in the sky, where you lose track of him for targeting purposes The Proud Jinn blasts the umbrella with a wave of heavy oil. Dusan of Criamon:It would be good to finesse the umbrella into a slope shape to remove potential buildup topside Archibald of Guernicus:Can you see him at that range? GM:This accomplishes the following: Endrite:Ok I'm back. Archibald of Guernicus:I have FFM, Johns. I can make my spells Sight range. Ehe. GM:A hole is punctured in the umbrella, letting in the blinding light. From your perspective the Jinn is a shadow on a flat blue plane of sky. Rosario of Flambeau:archibald ftw. GM:Burning oil and boiling hot sand spray in your direction. Rosario of Flambeau:"Gah!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Ehe! Eho! GM:I wonder though, what was Gulielmus' penetration on the umbrella Archibald of Guernicus:Is oil dropping on all of us? GM:Yeah and hot sand Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's very small, like 4 GM:ok the sand is irrelevant then Gulielmus of Pure Reason:since i turned my surplus total into an extra charge Archibald of Guernicus:In that case, I will attempt to fast cast Archibald's Emergency Shelter GM:go 4 it Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 1d10!+1+1 qik+finesse roll ( 8 ) +1+1 =10 Then the actula casting Gulielmus of Pure Reason:too bad about those grogs though Endrite:Well, they're dead. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:perfectly good corpses about to be ruined Archibald of Guernicus:rolling 1d10!+31+2+17-10 ( 5 ) +31+2+17-10 =45 It casts just fine, no botch, phew GM:How big is this dome, enough for everyone, just the VT party, or just you? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it's very large iirc Archibald of Guernicus:The size on it was 1000 cubic paces of stone iirc Rosario of Flambeau:yeah Archibald of Guernicus:up to, I should say GM:yoza Gulielmus of Pure Reason:by the book i think you have to compare magnitudes Rosario of Flambeau crouches Gulielmus of Pure Reason:to see if your fast cast defense actually functions GM:Ok, your call if you want to enclose both parties then Archibald of Guernicus:I'll enclose both, since it's conc duration anyway GM:ok and the stone is see through? or are you all in the dark now Archibald of Guernicus:And then let it expire as soon as the oil's done falling GM:ahh Archibald of Guernicus:In the dark briefly GM:Hmmm Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i have a glow stick Archibald of Guernicus:the oil will slide down the dome, then i dismiss it GM:Okay that takes a round at least Gulielmus of Pure Reason:so we can see inside the dome. we are truly blessed. Archibald of Guernicus:Wsa the oil targetted at all of us, including the tremere, btw GM:Just your half Archibald of Guernicus:if not I just cover the people it was targetting GM:You caught their attention in particular, Archibald Oh, ok. In that case Archibald of Guernicus:yeah sorry I thought it was on everyone GM:You hear lots of muffling banging and shouting and pitter patters of hot sand and flickering flame Rosario of Flambeau:lol GM:When you remove the dome, the Jinn and the Umbrella are gone. Rosario of Flambeau:"It's very stuffy in here." "Gah! The light!" GM:In the light, you can see the other party as 6 shadows, plus 6 shadowy corpses. One of them tells Archibald to cancel his sidestep. Archibald of Guernicus:Doesn't that require PeVi Dusan of Criamon:That would seem unwise GM:You haven't mastered it with the special Mercere thing? Shame. Well, no biggie. Archibald of Guernicus:I actually do have a formulaic PeVi but its for Vim effects, sadly GM:Voice: "Hey keep humming for a second so I can locate you" Archibald of Guernicus:"We're here." I hum badly and out of tune Endrite:Whose turn is it? GM:The Flambeau surrounds you in shadowy vapor. The light of the world reverses, and you now see normally, in strange muted colors. The combat is over. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:the jinns are gone Rosario of Flambeau:"Interesting." GM:The Haughty Jinn was slain. In his remains are 5 precious gemstones of vis. Severin:I'll safely drop the rock somewhere. Fiorella the Raven:I have +3 Music (singing) in this form Rosario of Flambeau:My dog remains ghostly and can remain safe from the light in that form afaik. Dusan of Criamon:lol Archibald of Guernicus:"I'm sorry I couldnae slay the other 2 in time." Fiorella the Raven:I'll make pleasant birdsong Rosario of Flambeau:"We tried." GM:The Proud (watery jinn) has been obliterated from existence, and the Proud Jinn has flown off, cursing you every way you can think possible, and many ways more. Rosario of Flambeau:Haughty was killed. Fiorella the Raven:What's the pen on those curses? GM:"Can someone remake our shelter?" Rosario of Flambeau:I return to normal size etc. GM:0 -- they're empty words Endrite:The Proud Jinn, Proud Jinn, and Proud Jinn. Rosario of Flambeau:"Let's scoop up that vis." Archibald of Guernicus:"I had tae focus on yer lives, I didnae know if yer parmas would all hold in the face of that last onslaught." Endrite:If they're mundane then they have unlimited penetration. GM:my bad endrite. twas the ARROGANT ( fiery) jinn who escaped. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:make a personality roll to see if severin's feelings are hurt Archibald of Guernicus:He's prouder, prouder and prouder too. He's the dead member of the water jinn crew. Fiorella the Raven:Good point Endrite. A mundane curse doesn't need to penetrate MR Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I have one more sand potion!" Severin:rolling 1d10 + 3 Brave ( 1 ) +3 =4 GM:where's the ars rule that make the curse of a Dying King have infinite Penetration Severin:Severin's feelings are hurt. GM:"Use it," the elder voice commands Gulielmus. Endrite:The Ravenloft DM handbook has all the rules for curses. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10 sling ( 10 ) =10 Rosario of Flambeau:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Gulielmus slings the potion into a dune without botching. Rosario of Flambeau:Beautiful. GM:A shadow surrounds you all once more, and the dark shapes in the harsh light settle back into human form./ Salis of Tremere:"Are any Magi hurt?" Archibald of Guernicus:"Guy, are ye alright?" "Ye tumbled over during it all, were ye hurt in the assault?" Guy of Bonisagus:"Aye." Severin:"Only my pride has been wounded, Tolas." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"I'll need a few minutes' rest." Archibald of Guernicus:"That's good to hear. I believe we're all unhurt, save your grogs. Poor men." Salis of Tremere:"Severin you --" begins Salis sharply. His companion, Dulcifera, grips his shoulder, and he stops. Rosario of Flambeau:"A little rest would be good. I'm slightly fatigued." Dulcifera of Tremere:"They died as warriors. Their families can take pride in that." Rosario of Flambeau:"A shame I couldn't get to the other jinn in time. I'll need to learn to fly or learn Leap of the Frog's Legs or something." Dulcifera of Tremere:"Their duty has ended. Salis, tend to the bodies. The rest of us, stop, and catch your breath." Archibald of Guernicus:I nod "The road ahead will be dangerous still, but we're making good progress." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"It was quick, at least, there's some merit in that." Severin:"We should continue moving, we won't find any safety in this place." Guy of Bonisagus:"Mm. Martyrs all. It's too bad the indistinct sea of sand will be their grave." Dulcifera of Tremere:I have added 5 pawns of Terram to the ledger. Rosario of Flambeau:noice. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:will the umbrella lapse when we exit this boundary Dulcifera of Tremere:Salis touches each of the dead grogs with a wand, and their withered corpses, along with gear, wither into dust that is carried off into the wind. Once you exit the boundary you are in the Twilight Realm. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i mean, if we exit this way instead of finding another way out Dulcifera of Tremere:"Dusan, construct a maze. We need to meditate." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it won't be waiting for us Endrite:Construct a maize. Dulcifera of Tremere:hard to say if you can even get back the way you came Rosario of Flambeau:entering twilight ftw. Endrite:Also I believe that you can exit the magic realm to basically anywhere. Dulcifera of Tremere:yeah btw for reference each of those guys were might 35. rosario should note that for his glory stat Archibald of Guernicus:Badass. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll survey the landscape. are there any more cacti Dulcifera of Tremere:No cacti, no rocks, no nothing... just rolling sand as far as the eye can see. Dusan of Criamon:"I might be able to do you all one better. The maze I have is one I carry with me most days." "Might also not work. Give me a minute." I would like to use mind labyrinth meditation, if it's a viable option Dulcifera of Tremere:Ok Dusan of Criamon:this should take me around 7.5 minutes doing math yup Guy of Bonisagus:lets get to the arcana centrum imo Dusan of Criamon:I have a fully functional labyrinth, in my head, for labyrinth use. Dulcifera of Tremere:Ok. What's that add to your Enigmatic Wisdom? (To Dusan of Criamon): And do you have Second Sight? Dusan of Criamon:half, so it should be 8+4 (From Dusan of Criamon): yes (To Dusan of Criamon): Can you try Int + EW then? (From Dusan of Criamon): sure Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10+12+2 ( 9 ) +12+2 =23 Dulcifera of Tremere:Standby Rosario of Flambeau:oh damn i get to record all 3 for glory? GM:nah, you killed only 1 Rosario of Flambeau:ok. good. (To Dusan of Criamon): You and Dulcifera reach a realization. The Heat of the Desert itself is a Vestige. By focusing on it with Second Sight, you can travel and take others into the Twilight Void. GM passes a note to a player Endrite:Finally, we've discovered the Asia album cover. Dusan of Criamon:"Hah! What a trick! We've had signposts in front of our eyes all this time!" "This is a conundrum the good people of the Cave will gasp at!" Rosario of Flambeau:"What are you talking about, my friend?" Dusan of Criamon:"Sodales, I think we can follow a path here, those of us with second sight at least. Think about it, what was omnipresent on this quest in the desert? Heat of course!" "It's a sort of direction marker! A very cleverly disguised one." Guy of Bonisagus:is my fatigue gone is this short or long term fatigue GM:short Gulielmus of Pure Reason:we took a break GM:its gone Dusan of Criamon:"Rosario, should I fall on this quest, you must let them know of this conundrum. It's excellent." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"...Do you mean the sun?" Dusan of Criamon:okay, I will guide my sodales wherever they choose and I can see Rosario of Flambeau:"I'll try to keep it all straight in my mind." Archibald of Guernicus:I have second sight, so I can follow along more easily. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll take a sample of sand before we leave. Dusan of Criamon:"No, no! The sun is too far up to be useful for telling direction. The heat is what works." GM:these rules are such a fucking mess lol. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:it would be cool if we rolled poorly and everyone was final twilighted GM:I am presuming you have 1 person as guide it would tbqh Dusan of Criamon:There's no other Criamon here, right? Fiorella the Raven:Sounds cool to me Rosario of Flambeau:the Tremere all have EW iirc GM:yeah Dusan of Criamon:ah, perfect GM:You can let them guide in fact Gulielmus of Pure Reason:do they have more ew than dusan GM:But you have to be willing to follow Tremere. haha. actually Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what about my friend, the alchemy criamon GM:Dusan surprised me with 8 EW Gulielmus of Pure Reason performs the secret alchemy handshake. Dusan of Criamon:I was at 7 until I did my seasons yesterday GM:I will say he is tied with the most experience of the Tremere for EW then. Rosario of Flambeau:dusan is a really freaking good criamon Endrite:He's the best. Dusan of Criamon:In complete humility I would be willing to surrender the lead, but I know what my sodales think of the Tremere or at least I suspect it, I know nothing of politics GM:The Tremere are older, but have to spend more time on Tremere duties so they have less time to stare at rocks at Criamon Hq or whatever Endrite:Who is the current Prima? Archibald of Guernicus:I'll follow Dusan. No offence, Tremere. Well, some offence. Endrite:Is it still the 500 year old loli? Archibald of Guernicus:Do you think Johns is brave enough for that? Dusan of Criamon:I hear that's not canon Archibald of Guernicus:It's canon. It's right there in the book. GM:No. Rosario of Flambeau:lol. GM:Just, no. Dusan of Criamon:Either way, Dusan has no, or next to no criamon lore Rosario of Flambeau:It's actually a 1000 year old loli. Archibald of Guernicus:It was canon 140 years ago though so I imagine the primus of every house has changed by now, especially the one with a principle of ritually murdering the primus every so often. Dusan of Criamon:so he's not an authoritative guide to Criamon politics Endrite:That makes it even more legal. GM:if you dont mind dusan I might just pull some stats direct from your sheet to figure out the rolls myself Fiorella the Raven:We don't actually know how old the loli is due to phantom time. Dusan of Criamon:yes GM:wait a level 10 vestige, if I read this right you can get through here to twilight without issue Vestige Travel: stress die + Perception + appropriate Ability + Form bonus vs. ((10 –level of the vestige) x 3) GM:– Familiarity modifier Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gulielmus's friend and ally, who has not spoken a single word or performed a single action, and lives in canada, but is assuredly real. GM:The Ease factor is : -9. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:huh. GM:But, please roll a Stress Die and Perception and Second Sight and your Ignem Form bonus. Dusan of Criamon:interesting, I will GM:the familiarty modifier is 8 from enigmatic wisdom, +1 from knowing the name of the place you want to get to. Dusan of Criamon:rolling 1d10!+2+2+2 ( 6 ) +2+2+2 =12 so this plus 8+1 GM:on the speed chart this means you can reach your destination in 2 real hours. not bad. Rosario of Flambeau:cool. GM:Well now. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:see you in 2 hours. GM:Dusan is leading the way. No turning back. Ready? Dusan of Criamon:I love it when enigmatic wisdom makes time periods shorter Rosario of Flambeau:"Ready when you are, Dusan." Archibald of Guernicus:Let's-a-go Dusan of Criamon:"Let's not get split up. Nothing scarier than a split up party." Severin:Severin is ready and has a vitality you haven't seen in him for a long time. Guy of Bonisagus:lets roll GM:Your wards against heat expire. You sweat. Your eyes unfocus. Guy of Bonisagus:i want to see the big corn GM:The rolling dunes flatten. The blue sky becomes dark. The world is a plane of solid light beneath a plane of solid darkness. Archibald of Guernicus:I'll re-apply my parma first, followed by all my buffs. Guy of Bonisagus:me parma too me Fiorella the Raven:I put up Sidestep GM:Heat, light, fatigue, all cease to have meaning to you. You are traveling an endless sea. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll recast lamp without flame. Fiorella the Raven:I also put up social buffs in case there's something in the magic realm friendlier than the jinn Rosario of Flambeau:I will reapply parma etc. GM:Nothing but light, heat, and fire holds form in this place. Archibald of Guernicus:"The sea of magic!" Rosario of Flambeau:"Beautiful." Archibald of Guernicus:"The twilight sea!" GM:The stars are empty pinpricks of lightly halos. Any creatures who would traipse here are just shadows, form without substance. You feel yourself watched. Dusan of Criamon trembles GM:From the corner of your eyes you see the shadows of immense titanic figures. Rosario of Flambeau itches with excitement. GM:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6JNQwPWE0 Existence lurches about you. Rosario of Flambeau:"Things like that I might not be able to cut with a sword." GM:You feel yourself jerked out of place as if caught on a fishing hook. Light and dark spiral around. You cannot tell what is ground and what is not. Dizziness overcomes you, then -- nothingness. end of act I. i need a brave volunteer. who isn't severin. Endrite:I had a magic sword in Pendragon that could cut anything that moved. Rosario of Flambeau:Sure. Endrite:That would've been perfect here... Sir Tera... Rosario of Flambeau:I will volunteer for something. GM:gimme 1 sec to mess with my notes. Rosario of Flambeau:unless someone else wants to do t he thing moe:I am clenching my fist and doing the ganbare pose irl GM:Rosario awakens. Guy of Bonisagus:bosario GM:You are in bed, in a stone bedchamber. 1 moment.. Rosario of Flambeau:"This is no time to sleep!" I jump out of bed and assess my equipment. GM:Rosario comes to, wearing his bedclothes. He is alone in the well decorated room. The room has one wooden door. There is a window on the wall, a thin arrow slit. Outside he sees nothing but mist, but hears the gentle roar of the ocean and the squwacking of birds. Rosario of Flambeau:"What the hell?" GM:The bed is wooden, with ornate designs on the head board depicting scenes of saints doing battle. There is a great tapestry on the wall with many other scenes too. You recognize for instance, the parable of Roland. There's an unlocked chest at the foot of the bed. Fiorella the Raven:Rosario wakes up in the ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey Rosario of Flambeau:"Well, at least whoever's kidnapped me has good taste in tapestries." GM:Ah, there's also a hearth with a nice mantlepiece, though the fire isn't lit. Rosario of Flambeau:I will look under the bed for hidden assailants and then open the chest. GM:Nothing under the bed. The chest contains your gear. Rosario of Flambeau:"Hmm." GM:There is a knock at the door, and it begins to open. Rosario of Flambeau:I start the long process of putting on my armor. "Wha-" "Who is it?" GM:A servant walks in, bearing a tray with a meal. Servant:"Your breakfast, sir." Rosario of Flambeau:"You don't look like Violante." "What the hell is going on here?" I continue putting on my armor. Servant:The servant sets down the tray. "Do you need assistance getting dressed?" Rosario of Flambeau:"Hmm..." "Yes, if you'd like to help, it'd speed things up. Thank you." "I've really got to get going." Servant:He helps lace up your armor and such. Rosario of Flambeau:After I'm armored I will grab my sword and run out the door. Servant:Ok. You're in a hallway, like in a castle. Rosario of Flambeau:"Servant?" Servant:It curves in both directions, and you see other doors. The Servant has disappeared behind you. Rosario of Flambeau:like, completely disappeared Servant:You see a T intersection as well where the hallway widens and leads down a path without doors. Rosario of Flambeau:"Where the hell has he gotten off to? Curious." Servant:i would updat ethe map but alas -- it is vandalized. Endrite:Blast. Rosario of Flambeau:Hmm. rolling 1d3 ( 3 ) =3 I will take the curving path to the right. Endrite:Following the Dole Dippers, I see. Servant:You pass more doors like the one to your chamber. Guy of Bonisagus:ah, good thing rosario was the one to get this event Rosario of Flambeau:I continue, looking for a way out of the building. Servant:Ok. Rosario of Flambeau:lol. Servant:lmao. haha. hehe. hoho. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hehe. Servant:You arrive at another intersection. To your right, a large hallway, forward, a passage with more doors. Rosario of Flambeau:"Hmmm..." Do any of the doors look larger or more ornate rolling 1d2 ( 2 ) =2 I run down the large hallway Servant:Ok. GM futzes with map GM:You enter an immense chamber. There's a lot to take in so a bit at a time... The chamber is three "stories" tall, and you are on the second story. You are on a gallery that overlooks the room itself, and there are stairs going up to the top floor, and down to ground level. The room is massive. Maybe as big as the entire Vardian's Tomb Palazzo itself. You can't make out the opposite end because of a thick layer of mist. Rosario of Flambeau:"Where in the world are my sodales?!" GM:The second gallery -- the one you are on -- has 4 hallways, including the one you just emerged from. You can't make out details of the first floor, which must be at least 50 feet below you. Rosario of Flambeau:I'm going to go downstairs and try to make my way outside, if I don't get lost. GM:Alright. rolling 1d5 ( 5 ) =5 (To Beardbeard): You here? Rosario of Flambeau:Also I will shout a bunch of names. Basically everyone except Guy. Endrite:Ruthless. Archibald of Guernicus:Savage. Rosario of Flambeau:"Where are you!?" GM:well BB is afk so Guy of Bonisagus:im here GM:Hi. Guy, you had a similar experience. You bump into Rosario in the mist on the ground floor of the Great Hall. Guy of Bonisagus:"Salve, Rosario. Where are we?" GM:Once on the ground floor you can make out what is here: Rosario of Flambeau:lmao "Guy!" GM:It's a 5 sided room, you think. It is so large you can't make out far walls without getting close, due to mist. Rosario of Flambeau:"I didn't, uh, expect you here." GM:The floor is covered with a massive mural. Byzantine style, tiled. Rosario of Flambeau:"I'm not sure. I woke up in bed, and an old man helped me don my armor, then he disappeared." "What's this mural about?" Guy of Bonisagus:"Let's see..." GM:The mural has many scenes on it. 1 sec The border, acanthus and laurel leaves wreath around the heads of savage men. The main part of the floor, which surrounds the statues and templte -- we'll get to thos in a second -- show many scenes about health, medicine, hygiene Endrite:Lavinia would have loved this... GM:There are scenes of doctors administering regimens, and scenes of Roman men and women bathing for their health. The scenes are a bit shockingly frank by medieval standards. The mural is enough that you could spend time studying it to learn Medicine even. I mentioned the statues and a temple? Well, in a ring in the middle of the room are 14 human sized statues. They're made of a murky crystal. Their faces have highly abstracted features that are uncomfortable to look at. Guy of Bonisagus:"Hmmm..." Endrite:One for each form. Guy of Bonisagus:there are 10 forms, endrite GM:And in the very center of the room is what looks like a scale model of a Greek Temple. Large enough that a man crouching could fit inside, brushing up against the ceiling -- though the doors are closed at the moment. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:one for each founder. GM:The exterior of the temple has 4 colored columns in strange proportions. Guy of Bonisagus:lets find the one for tremere and push it over GM:Black, white, red, and yellow. Rosario of Flambeau:"I have no idea what the hell is going on." Endrite:You're forgetting Aether, Lunar (integrated), Reason, Time, and Vampires. Guy of Bonisagus:"What could it mean?" GM:The black column dominates the composition. The yellow and white columns are equal, but too small for their role. The red column is far too thin. phew! ok. that covers the basics. Rosario of Flambeau:"Is everyone else sleeping?" Archibald of Guernicus:Tremere's statue is the very small one that is staring enviously at Tytalus Guy of Bonisagus:"We're clearly in some sort of twisted regio, Rosario. We need to stick together and be careful about what we do." GM:Everyone else in the party has also woken up in their rooms, attended by a helpful servant. Each person's room has scenes that feel significant to them. (To Guy of Bonisagus): Your room for instance included scenes about betrayers and murderers. Guy of Bonisagus:"This room seems important, so we should investigate it carefully." Guy of Bonisagus pales as the memory of what was in his room returns. Guy of Bonisagus:"This scale temple, in particular, stands out. What do you make of it, Rosario?" Fiorella the Raven:Mine is probably a map Shipping routes to Malta or w/e Endrite:Are the Tremere here? Archibald of Guernicus:I'll dress myself and suit myself up in my armour again before wandering out, listening intently for my sodales Rosario of Flambeau:"I think we should find the others and gather here, then leave." Fiorella of Jerbiton:Oh yeah and I'm human now probably Guy of Bonisagus:"If they're even here." GM:The scenes in each room tend to be allegorical scenes, from history and folk tales. Fiorella for instance, you have a tapestry of Saint Francis, and an engraving of Lief Ericcson encountering the skraelings, and so on Rosario of Flambeau:"We could waste a very long time here." GM:The Lion of St. Mark as well Fiorella of Jerbiton:Sounds pretty metal GM:Little by little the Magi arrive in the great hall. Rosario of Flambeau:cool Guy of Bonisagus:"Let's look around a bit and see if there's an exit to this place." "Ah, salvete all." do the tremere come GM:No more split party! Thank you for yoru patience! Yes Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Salvete indeed." GM:They look annoyed and bewildered. Dusan of Criamon:if the tapestry is compact enough, Dušan takes the one from his room Gulielmus of Pure Reason:What is Gulielmus's tapestry? Guy of Bonisagus:"Our path must have gone astray, and we've stepped into some ridiculous Greek regio." Fiorella of Jerbiton:"This is a pretty nice place all things considered. I was expecting, like, stairs built sideways except you can walk on them and everything defying Euclid's logic." Guy of Bonisagus:"We should get a sense of the sort of place we are in." I touch the pillars on the temple. Rosario of Flambeau:"It's magical." Salis of Tremere:"Are we in the Arcana Centrum?" Guy of Bonisagus strokes his beard. Guy of Bonisagus:johns is this hall too big to be a room Salis of Tremere:Yeah Severin:Severin attacked his servant as soon as he comes to. Guy of Bonisagus:damn Gulielmus of Pure Reason:probably Salis of Tremere:It's more like Structure target at this size Ok, Severin. The servant drops your meal on the ground. Rosario of Flambeau:severin ftw. Guy of Bonisagus:i touch the pillars and then the statues to see if anything happens Salis of Tremere:He crumples to the ground as you slay him. Fiorella of Jerbiton:I'm used to servants personally Severin:I nod grimly and set out to find the rest of the magi to warn them. GM:Each of the columns has a strange feel to them, not like marble. \ Archibald of Guernicus:"The world of magic is the world of forms. Everything has a basis in it." Guy of Bonisagus:do the pillars feel the same or different? GM:The white pillar feels like metal covered in condensation. The yellow one feels like cloudy amber. Guy of Bonisagus:ah GM:The red pillar is warm, but moist, sticky. Fiorella of Jerbiton:I think the world of forms should be the border between the Magic and the DIvine but it's not my lore to write Rosario of Flambeau:gross. Severin:"Beware, remember that we are in the heart of danger." GM:The black pillar is smooth polished jet. Severin, the slain servant disappears as he dies. He leaves a cloak that evaporates into nothignness as you pick it up. Guy of Bonisagus:"Hmm, the red one... Blood?" Rosario of Flambeau:"And air...?" Guy of Bonisagus:"Let's see about these statues." Rosario of Flambeau:"Or maybe water, it feels wet." Severin:Hmm. Archibald of Guernicus:"Ah, the fundamental building blocks of everything." Severin:Severin will attempt to discern the level of the aura. Archibald of Guernicus:"The four humours, sodales." GM:Magic 10. Severin:Severin discerns the level of the aura. Rosario of Flambeau:"Aha, you must be right, Archibald." Dusan of Criamon:"Akh, vile." Archibald of Guernicus:"Hot and wet, hot and dry, cold and wet, cold and dry." Dusan of Criamon:"And bile, too." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll inspect the inside of the temple GM:Guy scrutinizes the statues. They're crystal, but cloudy, he can't see through them. They're all humanoid though. Archibald of Guernicus:I'll examine the statues myself. What sort of people do they depict? GM:"They're all dying," offers a voice behind Guy. Guy of Bonisagus:"Wha?" Severin:"If these truly represent the four humors, they must be some sort of illusion to disguise the sickness at the heart of magic." Sine Nomine:"They're all d... dying." Guy of Bonisagus:"Who are they?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"What's going on out there?" Sine Nomine:Another person has surreptitiously joined your group. He is dressed like a wizard but not someone you've met before. Rosario of Flambeau:"Excuse me?" Dusan of Criamon:"Not a disguise perhaps, maybe an allegory." Sine Nomine:"Do the math. They're dying, you know." Guy of Bonisagus:"There's 14 of them, you fool. There's only 10 forms." Sine Nomine:Gulielmus: The temple doors are metal, and they are closed. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ah. Fiorella of Jerbiton:It's Odysseus Archibald of Guernicus:"Fourteen, fourteen... hmm. They cannae be the forms, as that would be 10." Endrite:It's all in the numbers. Number one, that's magic. Number two, that's magic. Sine Nomine:"Fourteen... They're dying." He begins wandering off into the mist. "They're dying. You know? They're dying." Fiorella of Jerbiton:"The humors are four, as are the elements." Sine Nomine:Archibald you asked what they represent hmm Severin:"Ignore him, no doubt some kind of distraction placed in our path by the creature behind this." Sine Nomine:Some are short, some are strong, some are fat They have no clothes or accoutrements Rosario of Flambeau:"The four humours plus the ten forms makes fourteen." Sine Nomine:Modesty be praised they are not "nudes" per se.; More like mannequins. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i will try to open the door. Guy of Bonisagus:"Some sort of puzzle, no doubt. The Greeks were fans of such things. Let's see these pillars again." Dusan of Criamon:I wander off with the unknown character Guy of Bonisagus:"We simply have to even them out." Dusan of Criamon:I desire to talk to him Archibald of Guernicus:"Just what could they refer to?" Sine Nomine:You catch him before he disappears from sight Archibald of Guernicus:"Dusan, does the enigma have any insight intae this myster- ah, he wandered off." Sine Nomine:He looks at you with a vacant gaze. Dusan of Criamon:"Sodalis! You seem to know more than us. Help us on our quest." Severin:Hmm. Rosario of Flambeau:"Ah, Dusan is too valuable to lose..." Guy of Bonisagus:"Probably nothing important, these pillars are the puzzle near as I can tell." Sine Nomine:"Quest?" Dusan of Criamon:I pack him by the shoulders. Rosario of Flambeau:"But he knows his way around places like this." Severin:Severin asks the Tremere if they have any way to find a higher regio level. Dusan of Criamon:"The arcana centrum! It's in grave danger. We need to save it." Fiorella of Jerbiton:"We seek a lamprey feasting off the power of magic itself." Guy of Bonisagus:is the black pillar too large, or is it at the appropriate size? Sine Nomine:"Danger.. Yes, it's dangerous." Too large. Rosario of Flambeau:"Hmm..." Guy of Bonisagus:I strike it with my staff. Rosario of Flambeau:I will take my dog to the courtyard to explore. Dusan of Criamon:"That's the spirit! Now listen carefully: Who is dying?" Rosario of Flambeau:brb. afk for maybe 5 minutes (To Guy of Bonisagus): For a moment, as you do, you feel like someone has just poked you in the small of your back, with their finger. Guy of Bonisagus:"Ah!" GM:Amarus clears his throat. "Let's collect our sense." Fiorella of Jerbiton:I'll send out my birb to scout but hold tight with the gang Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Thirteen of us plus that fellow makes fourteen dying men and women." Amarus of Tremere:"We don't know what else is around here or how big this 'place' is." Gulielmus of Pure Reason pushes on the door. (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): Won't budge! Archibald of Guernicus:"That's a possibility, Gulielmus." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Hmm." Guy of Bonisagus:"Ah! You may be on to something. Let's test the theory." I strike a statue with my staff. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"It won't open." Amarus of Tremere:"We should form 2 parties to cover more ground. We can meet back here and share our notes." Any particular statue, Guy? Guy of Bonisagus:hmm a fat one as guy is not fat Dusan of Criamon:If possible I guide the unknown character back to the group (To Archibald of Guernicus): You feel like someone just tapped you on the shoulder, but no one is there. Sine Nomine does not resist Archibald of Guernicus:I turn around suddenly, then wander over to Guy "Guy, tap that statue again." Severin:"Watch yourselves, this place is surely designed to weaken any intruders. We should stick together to better counter any traps or ambushes." Guy of Bonisagus:I tap it. (To Archibald of Guernicus): and again Dusan of Criamon:I rejoin the group, together with the new guy Archibald of Guernicus:"Gulielmus, you were right. They're us!" Guy of Bonisagus:"Aha!" Sine Nomine:"D-- D'ont do that. Don't do that." Archibald of Guernicus:"Perhaps we must match each man to his statue self." Guy of Bonisagus:"The studious research of the Bonisagii proves valuable once again." "I think it's a balancing issue, Archibald. The humors are unbalanced, and these statues are unbalanced." Dusan of Criamon:"What are you afraid of sodalis?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Aha indeed!" Archibald of Guernicus:"Amarus, please dinnae stray too far immediately, we have something of possible import to uncover here first. It may require all of us." Dusan of Criamon:(i'm continuing my interrogation of the unknown) Guy of Bonisagus:"Some are strong, and they are fine. Others are short, unbalanced by the indulgences of the fat ones." Sine Nomine:The unknown man trembles. Guy of Bonisagus:"The humors may work in a similar way. We simple need to balance everything." Sine Nomine:"I don't want to die.." Guy of Bonisagus:"You shouldn't need to, friend." "Everyone, call out when you feel something." I whack all of the statues. Dusan of Criamon:"Friend, all will die eventually." I reassure the unknown in the most Criamon way possible Guy of Bonisagus:And leave a message labeling each one. Sine Nomine:"No!" he screams violently. He runs from Dusan's grip. Endrite:Time for a GRAPPLE CHECK! Dusan of Criamon:the most hated mechanic Sine Nomine:Good thing he specced Athletics into (run away) Gulielmus of Pure Reason:how high up is the upper floor Guy of Bonisagus:brb a few minutes Sine Nomine:At least 100 feet, Gulielmus. Dusan of Criamon:"There's nothing to fear! Return to us where it's safe!" I yell after him Sine Nomine:Before you explore I (gmishly) would like to say I think it would be best if you went as a group. Sine Nomine disappears in the mist. Rosario of Flambeau:whew alrighty. Dusan of Criamon:I accept the wise GM advice Severin:Is it possible to build stairs here? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:I will cast a spell. GM:Guy, you chart out who belongs to who. Through elimnation, it would seem the 14th statue belongs to the mystery man. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Could he be another magus?" Severin:Or use Wall of Protecting Stone to make a ramp? GM:You could Severin. You could also just walk up the stairs. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:Borrowing the Stylite's Sandals, Cr(Re)Te 5 A pillar of clay with a base covering about a square pace emerges from the ground or floor at Gulielmus's feet and lifts him steadily toward the sky, with a maximum height of 100 paces. Gulielmus may concentrate to slow or halt the rise of the pillar, but cannot reverse it without canceling the spell entirely. Rego magic keeps the pillar from collapsing under its own weight. (Base 1 create clay +1 Touch +1 Conc +1 Rego requisite +1 size) Rosario of Flambeau:Severin is playing Fortnite and we're all playing Ars Magica. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:rolling 1d10 ( 5 ) =5 see ya. Dusan of Criamon:lmao Rosario of Flambeau:Severin does the arm swingy dance. Severin:It makes more sense to make a series of ramps, to avoid any traps. GM:gulielmus in monotone "I have to return to my home planet" Rosario of Flambeau:lmao Gulielmus of Pure Reason:I have to go now. The third floor needs me. Dusan of Criamon:three frames of animation as he rises upward Rosario of Flambeau:Gulielmus ftw GM:Gulielmus sagely ignores the GM advice and splits the party. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:I'm sure everyone is coming up the stairs to meet me. Rosario of Flambeau walks back inside with his dog Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i can, uh, no i can't come back down. the pillar only goes one way. Rosario of Flambeau:"I didn't see anything in the courtyard, but I wasn't really paying attention." GM:So Amaraus butts in, "We will look through that gate -- it may be a way out. The rest of you should explore this room." He points towards what the map already reveals as Courtyard. Rosario of Flambeau:"You were saying something, Guy?" Archibald of Guernicus:"Let's take a look at it, regardless. There is a mystery to this place, and understanding it will be the key to escape." Rosario of Flambeau:oh he's still afk never mind. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what do my frank-eyes see Rosario of Flambeau:"Yes, it would be nice to take another look. " Guy of Bonisagus:im back GM:Gulielmus: The upper gallery is like a terrace. There are 5 large rooms adjoining it with big open doorways. The rooms are filled with books! There are also tables and lecterns. The books are in a huge jumble. Some are scrolls, some bound, other loose sheafs of paper. The NPC Magi shuffle out under Tremere control. Dusan of Criamon:"So, humoric imbalance? I am only a layperson when it comes to medicine. I'm going to look at these mosaics and see if I can't figure out how to cure what ails me." GM:i chose to ignore rosario walking out as that was his AFK move. haha. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll step off the pillar and onto the terrace Guy of Bonisagus:"Were I to guess, there are other rooms we can interact with to change things in this room." "Actions that can decrease one humor while raising another." Rosario of Flambeau:The upper floor is every dream i ever have where i get distracted and spend uncountable periods of time flipping through stuff and going ohhh neat Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Sodales!" Rosario of Flambeau:so i ran away as hard as i could Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"There's a library up here!" Fiorella of Jerbiton:"Birds are made up of all four humors as are people, I believe, but I'll do what i can to help." GM:Dusan: It is possible to learn from the mosaic. You could study it as a season activity to gain medicine. You can learn much quicker (hours, days, or weeks) if you have specific questions in mind. Severin:Severin resists the temptation to read the books and instead looks for a door, gate, or portal. Guy of Bonisagus:"That sounds as good a place as any to start our search." GM:Okay Severin, rolling 1d4 ( 4 ) =4 Guy of Bonisagus:I will ascend to the library. GM:You go southwest and i will ignore you for a minute while I focus on the PCs. Guy of Bonisagus:brutal Gulielmus of Pure Reason:is there anything about the ground floor that jumps out while i'm looking down at it from above Fiorella of Jerbiton:The tiger GM:You can't even make out the ground from this height, Gulielmus. Just the mist Archibald of Guernicus:I'll stick with my sodales as we wander. GM:In fact This is a Misty Palace. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Hmm..." Rosario of Flambeau:I'll be in the courtyard with the Tremere, since I want to actually do that as a real action. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:I'll light up a baton so that my sodales can see me at a distance. GM:The "libary" is a disgrace to the name if you want to call it that. No shelves. Just piles, strewn piles. Ah, okay. Rosario of Flambeau:sick library. GM:Now I have to multiparty GM... great. Dusan of Criamon:best intentions Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i was going to wait patiently for my sodales to come up the stairs Guy of Bonisagus:"Hmm... Let's see." Are the book piles organized at all? Rosario of Flambeau:You don't have to, you can just wait. Archibald of Guernicus:I'll go to the library, where magi belong. Rosario of Flambeau:And do the library first. GM:The courtyard: Barren rock and dirt. No plants. A flagstone pathway to the gatehouse. Mist, lots of mist, can barely make out the walls. Above is a cool moonlight sky... Rosario of Flambeau:"The moon is still here, at least." GM:Picking through them Guy, you find no sense of order. Some books read like incomprehensible dream diaries. In bits and pieces are things that could correspond to things like Medicine and the Arts. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh i should botch check rolling 1d10 ( 3 ) =3 whew GM:At a rough guess You think it might take a week at least to put these books in usable order. Guy of Bonisagus:"Mm, perhaps they were organized on shelves before the Herbam blight?" GM:You are in an Aura and not a Boundary anymore. You do not need to worry about extra botch dice. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ah. disturbing. (To Guy of Bonisagus): A book at random details notes about health regimens, stuff you are already familiar about firsthand from your own regimen. Guy of Bonisagus:"Organizing them may do something, but it would take far too long. Let's try another room." GM:Ok. Rosario, your party finds nothing itneresting at all in the courtyard and continues to the gatehouse... The gatehouse is a single chamber with a barred portcullis, made of 32 interlocking bars. The bars -- and the gaps they make -- are of varying width and size Archibald of Guernicus:It looks like our time here will take a while regardless of what we pursue, I think that learning enough medicine to know what the 4 humours represent would be a good start. GM:Past the portcullis you see a long bridge extending into the mist. Rosario of Flambeau:what is this myst shit. Fiorella of Jerbiton:It's a power of 2 GM:This is the adventure. :) Rosario of Flambeau:its good. GM:Hope you enjoy it. Rosario of Flambeau:i like it lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:badass. Guy of Bonisagus:we dont need to know what the 4 humors mean Rosario of Flambeau:i like the pun as well. Guy of Bonisagus:we just need to rearrange stuff until the pillars match up GM:However it's definitely going to spill into next week... I have a certain break point in mind, we'll see if we make it there. Archibald of Guernicus:Gulielmus of Pure Treason Gulielmus of Pure Reason:gulielmus has medicine i think guy might too GM:Ok. Guy of Bonisagus:the bonisagus way is to brute force things Fiorella of Jerbiton:I think Fibonacci already pointed out the usefulness of powers of 2 by the time Ars starts IIRC Endrite:Man I figured that solving the End of the World would be one adventure. I mean session. Guy of Bonisagus:guy has no medicine Dusan of Criamon:Hmm GM:Great hall crew: You've explored the upper two galleries. The middle galley has hallways leading back to your bedrooms. Those of you without No Sense of Direction begin to realize the geometry of the bedrooms and those hallways don't make sense. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does gulielmus notice that his casting total is only +10 Dusan of Criamon:Way "ahead" of you GM:On the bottom floor, the only thing you haven't studied yet are 4 doors. Dusan of Criamon:get it, because the space is non-eculidian Rosario of Flambeau kicks the bars five or six times and grunts in anger Fiorella of Jerbiton:I have Chirugy Guy of Bonisagus:oh theres doors okay lets take a look GM:Severin is currently in front of one of them now. It is rolling 1d4 ( 2 ) =2 Guy of Bonisagus:describe me the doors GM:Each one is hard to make out until you come up close to it because of -- you guess it-- mist. Endrite:Pyst. GM:But each also resembles one of the pillars, plus a little extra styling. The one Severin is in front of, for instance, looks to be made of a single piece of red garnet, warm and moist to the touch. It has no apparent handle. Archibald of Guernicus:Aha GM:Above the door is a sculpture, an eagly with a holy nimbus, grasping a quill. Archibald of Guernicus:the roooms that correspond to the humours then Guy of Bonisagus:oh Gulielmus of Pure Reason:thats a sincere question. Dusan of Criamon:That makes sense Guy of Bonisagus:here i was thinking abstract things about how an organized library associates with humors Archibald of Guernicus:"Gulielmus, ye have training in medicine, yer the best equipped tae answer questions about the humours. Can ye tell us about each one, which each pillar represents?" GM:Rosario, in your party, Freydis suggests she try to squeeze through the bars. Severin:Hmm. Guy of Bonisagus:waiting for the part where it turns into a murder mystery GM:Oh, I think I missed somethign kinda obvious lol. None of your familiars are here. Guy of Bonisagus:oh oh! GM:sorry. that's a big stupid goof on my part. Guy of Bonisagus:its fine, i forgive you for lavinia Severin:rolling 1d10 + 4 +3 Chirurgy ( 1 ) +4+3 =8 Guy of Bonisagus:why are you rolling chirurgy Severin:That's good enough to explain what each humor is. Guy of Bonisagus:chirurgy isnt medicine what the hell GM:tsk. Severin:It covers similar territory. Guy of Bonisagus:its a completely different subject! it does not! Rosario of Flambeau:"Can you turn into mist or something?" "The bars seem quite tight." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"The colors are easy enough to match." "Blood is red, yellow bile is yellow, black bile is black, and so the last one is phlegm." Archibald of Guernicus:Second sight can show the familiar cords, can't it? GM:Yes. Unfortunately you can't see yours. Rosario of Flambeau:chirurgy is stuff that actually works irl and not stuff like if you rub the ashes of a burned mushroom on your eyelid you will be cured of pinkeye Archibald of Guernicus:Missing entirely, huh (From Gulielmus of Pure Reason): i assume this is correct Rosario of Flambeau:like guli specializes in GM:This is not unexpected though, I think we discussed certain links are broken temporarily in twilight travel. Rosario of Flambeau:no offense. Archibald of Guernicus:right Gulielmus of Pure Reason:mushroom ashes also work, of course. Rosario of Flambeau:it works in this game. (To Gulielmus of Pure Reason): yes Gulielmus of Pure Reason:well yeah Rosario of Flambeau:yeah. Dusan of Criamon:I have no doubts. Archibald of Guernicus:So which humours are too high. Just black bile? Endrite:I feel like knowledge of the four humors should be available to anyone with even a point in Corpus. GM:Rosario: She tests their strength. "It's not even. See, some give just slightly. If I go through... here..." Guy of Bonisagus:Black is too high, the others are too low Red is very too low GM:And she is on the other side of the portcullis. Rosario of Flambeau:"Huh." "That's interesting." Guy of Bonisagus:"Okay Gulielmus, what's good for lowering the black one or raising the red one?" Rosario of Flambeau:"Did anyone bring a rope?" Dusan of Criamon:ding ding ding Archibald of Guernicus:"No, but if someone were tae spont a very long metal rod, I have a spell that would turn it as flexible as rope." Dusan of Criamon:I brought rope. Rosario of Flambeau:Dusan is a fucking genius. Dusan of Criamon:He learned from experience. GM:Rosario, you note there's a small gap in the ceiling where the portcullis comes from, that a small athlete might be able to climb into Meanwhile, Freydis gives you all a cold look, and then turns around to start down the bridge. Rosario of Flambeau:I'm not small, so I will suggest that Freydis hold on to one end of this rope. And not go farther than the length of it, and then report back on what she sees. Freydis of Tytalus:"Fine," she spits. Rosario of Flambeau:"Thank you." Freydis of Tytalus:She scowls and ties it around her waist. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hmm. Guy of Bonisagus:answer me gulielmus! Rosario of Flambeau:"Hmmm...." Freydis of Tytalus:"There's something .. far down the bridge. A landmass maybe? Barely make it out." "I'm going." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i will roll Medicine. rolling 1d10!+5 ( 1 ) +5 =6 lol Guy of Bonisagus:thank you for your service Freydis of Tytalus:No worries. Archibald of Guernicus:Please dont forget that the INT boosting ritual was performed and your INT is 1 higher. Rosario of Flambeau:Okay, I have a really stupid idea. Ha ha ha. Guy of Bonisagus:please do not also forget that you have no familiar so no cord bonuses Gulielmus of Pure Reason:that's with 3 int Freydis of Tytalus:here's the basic answer, guli Guy of Bonisagus:gehehe Rosario of Flambeau:If anyone wants to stop me, feel free, but I think I'm the only PC down here. Freydis of Tytalus:Hot and Moist substances and foods will increase Sanguine humor. Hot and Dry substances will increase choleric and reduce phlegmatic, etc. Rosario of Flambeau:Anyway, I stuff my dog through the hole and then use my talisman to teleport around the portcullis and gate to my dog, who i have an AC to. Guy of Bonisagus:i stuff my dog through the hole Archibald of Guernicus:you dont have your familiar though unless only you do Guy of Bonisagus:thats correct Rosario of Flambeau:I didn't remember. Freydis of Tytalus:He does not. Rosario of Flambeau:Where the fuck is my dog. I will activate my power to locate my dog. Freydis of Tytalus:Who knows. Guy of Bonisagus:"So we need... Cold and Dry?" "Wait, no." Freydis of Tytalus:Your dog is not in this plane of existence. Please hang up and try your Intellego again. Rosario of Flambeau:Son of a bitch. Guy of Bonisagus:"Okay, who has something hot and moist to throw at this red door?" Rosario of Flambeau:ok how about this even stupider idea. I stick my arm and my greatsword through the hole and touch it to the ground on the other side and then try to teleport to my sword. Guy of Bonisagus:"Or at the black door, assuming there is one." Freydis of Tytalus:Freydis walks down the bridge, spear in one hand, other hand ready to cast. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Everyone seems to have blood these days." (To Rosario of Flambeau): Formulaic? Fiorella of Jerbiton:"We could set a homing pigeon on fire." (To Rosario of Flambeau): and corpus? Fiorella of Jerbiton:"A bleeding one." (From Rosario of Flambeau): its an instilled effect in the talisman itself Guy of Bonisagus:"We could just cut it up and rub it on the door. That might work." (From Rosario of Flambeau): its a very stupid idea that i dont think will work. (To Rosario of Flambeau): Strangely, it doesn't work. Fiorella of Jerbiton:"Right." Endrite:Teleportation spells can't take you past barriers that your body can't fit through. Rosario of Flambeau:i dont think rego corpus pathfinding AI is good enough to teleport me around the building. yeah Freydis of Tytalus:You hear Freydis talking to someone but can't make out the words. A moment later, she looks like she's fighting, but all you see are a flock of birds spiralling around her. Endrite:Wow thanks Fiorella. Guy of Bonisagus:fiorella!! Dusan of Criamon:Oh no! Rosario of Flambeau:I will try to fiddle with the bars and see if I can work out a path to squeeze myself through. Fiorella of Jerbiton:I didn't do it Guy of Bonisagus:okay fiorella make a bird and ill cut it up and rub it on the door if it doesnt work ill find a black door and do the same Fiorella of Jerbiton:I make a bird for Guy Guy of Bonisagus:i cut it up and rub it on the red door Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10+1+3 per awareness ( 8 ) +1+3 =12 ooh. Freydis of Tytalus:It feels easy to get through, actually. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh, perfect Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario is smarter than me, the player. (To Rosario of Flambeau): What active effects do you have on at the moment? Gulielmus of Pure Reason:birds are highly airy, which matches with blood. Freydis of Tytalus:1 sec guy Archibald of Guernicus:I'm with Bird Murder Crew Gulielmus of Pure Reason:this is no mere blood. this is Super Blood Freydis of Tytalus:lol (From Rosario of Flambeau): parma, +2 soak from talisman effect, Freydis of Tytalus:The door itself is blood red, hot, and moist. The surface of the door is pliant and viscous to the touch. If a character applies any pressure to the door it yields and that character sinks into the door and falls through onto a large Freydis of Tytalus:enclosed courtyard. (From Rosario of Flambeau): horse legs Archibald of Guernicus:the bad boys of conjuring a bird and then brutally murdering it (To Rosario of Flambeau): Your horse legs return to normal once you pass through the portcullis. Freydis of Tytalus:So, Guy rubs a bird on the door, and it swings open like a moat bridge flapping down. (From Rosario of Flambeau): is my skin still thorny from my soak spell Archibald of Guernicus:Oh, maybe it needs someone with a sanguine personality. Freydis of Tytalus:gha Gulielmus of Pure Reason:intredasting. Severin:Severin tries to grab Guy before he falls to his doom. Freydis of Tytalus:that should be a map token not a hadnout Rosario of Flambeau:tower: johns Fiorella of Jerbiton:Tower of johns Dusan of Criamon:^^ Archibald of Guernicus:Well, I'm not sanguine at all. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'll push on one of the other doors to see what happens Archibald of Guernicus:Same Severin:Is that Athletics or Brawl? Freydis of Tytalus:Towers of Chelms. ok hold your horse.s Guy of Bonisagus:i enter the tower of blood Freydis of Tytalus:so I need to give a description of the other doors, and the tower of john, and what's happening on the bridge. Guy of Bonisagus:i will ascend to look out upon the plains of blood (To Rosario of Flambeau): No. All active effects are gone. Archibald of Guernicus:lets continue splitting hte party further until each person is in 3 places Dusan of Criamon:I wait patiently for the GM to deliver descriptions Endrite:Also you should adjudicate what Lavinia and Alphubel are doing back in Rome. Freydis of Tytalus:Toasting the loss of all the stink wizards to their untimely death I guess Ok, Bridge first. Freydis begins to panic and shout. "No! Bring me back!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:let's use our knives and greatswords to separate guy and place him in each of the towers Freydis of Tytalus:She follows the rope towards the gatehouse, fear and horror on her face. She struggles with the bars to get back in -- seems it was easier to get out than vice versa. Gulielmus, the other doors: (From Rosario of Flambeau): ok i reapply my parma and soak effect before running down the bridge with my dog towards Freydis Rosario of Flambeau:oh wait. ha ha. Freydis of Tytalus:Door of Mark: A Metal slab covered in condensation. Has a keyhole, but is not locked. The door opens inward on hinges. Rosario of Flambeau:I meet her on the way I guess. Freydis of Tytalus:oh ffs that's the Door of Matthew. sorry. my notes are a jumble. Endrite:Gah. How can we ever trust anything you say ever again?! Freydis of Tytalus:Door of Mark: Has a lion figure over it -- nimbus, quill, etc. It's made of a dark yellow material that is warm and dusty to the touch, slightly translucent, like amber. No visible way to open it. Rosario of Flambeau:"Relax, relax!" Freydis of Tytalus:Door of Luke: Marked with a bull. The door is a slab of polished black stone. There is a tiny keyhole. The door is locked, and won't open. Rosario of Flambeau:"The door stripped magical effects, put your Parma back up!" Freydis of Tytalus:Freyid snaps at you to shut up. The Tremere try to guide her path back in. Okay. Last. Guy, the Tower of John. Rosario of Flambeau:"Unless you're just ill-tempered all the time." I grab the rope and head down the bridge to whatever was scaring her so much. Freydis of Tytalus:The tower opens into a courtyard like you might find in a nice Mediterranean villa. No plants, just tile work. Guy of Bonisagus:"Mm." Freydis of Tytalus:In the center is a dry fountain. There is a ring of columns holding up the upper galleries. Guy of Bonisagus:"Ah, so it's like that." Freydis of Tytalus:Craning your neck, this tower goes up, and up, and up.... and the ceiling is out of sight. You count at least 10 floors of galleries overlooking the fountain. Guy of Bonisagus:I wring out the rest of my bleeding bird in the fountain. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:brb. Freydis of Tytalus:There's a spiral staircase along the far edge that winds up. Also. There are people in here. Guy of Bonisagus:oh Freydis of Tytalus:All the colors of the place are muted and dull. Even on the people. The air feels cold. You count 14 total, lounging about the bottom floor, most sitting on the edge of the fountain. A few you recognize. Endrite:Which ones? Freydis of Tytalus:tehtys of tytalus. Rosario of Flambeau:oh shit (To devil's fav demon): whats the name of pallas' woman form? (To devil's fav demon): i need her token (From Rosario of Flambeau): Peithene Endrite:Gulielmus would have loved this... (From Rosario of Flambeau): i think its archived Freydis of Tytalus:and Peithene of Jerbiton sorry roll20 is being slow to grab tokens. Endrite:I accept your apology. Guy of Bonisagus:"What the hell?" I continue up to the fountain and wring out the dead bird. Rosario of Flambeau:lol Freydis of Tytalus:DOne. Guy of Bonisagus:does anything happen Freydis of Tytalus:Rosario, you're heading down the bridge? Archibald of Guernicus:Oh, hey, it's Tethys. Wonder what she's doing here? [already pushing past her to wring a dead bird out like a sponge to see what happens] Freydis of Tytalus:No effect, Guy Guy of Bonisagus:Damn. I go ask Tethys what's going on. GM:He says nothing for a moment, then listlessly shrugs. Rosario of Flambeau:I am yeah. Guy of Bonisagus:i was about to say GM:Great. You have no active magic or Parma, Rosario. Rosario of Flambeau:Even if I try to apply it again? GM:Nope! Guy of Bonisagus:hmm ill smack peithene with my staff GM:Freydis shouts, "it doesn't work here!" Rosario of Flambeau:Good thing i have >>>FULL PLATE ARMOR AND +9 GREAT WEAPON ABILITY<<< Severin:I'll create a ramp up the Tower of Johns. GM:There's a slight pause, then she rubs the spot you wounded. "Oh... Why?" Dusan of Criamon:Rosario is the real genius here Rosario of Flambeau:I will continue. GM:Severin: On the successive floors are dozens of small alcove/side rooms. Guy of Bonisagus:do i feel anything from it? GM:No Guy of Bonisagus:aha GM:Inside the side rooms is... how shall I put this Guy of Bonisagus:okay, gang, i think what we have to do is completely fill the fountain with blood GM:Piles and piles of random junk. For instance Musical instruments of any variation and description Tubs with loam Pots for plants of all sizes, including ones GM:large enough to hold a man Seeds, seedlings, and small cuttings of plants and trees Bolts of cloth and hangings of every color Barrels filled with water Barrels, kegs, and flasks filled with wine, GM:beer, and fruit juices Cages with songbirds, ferrets, cats, and dogs Bottles with perfume, receptacles of incense, and sweet-smelling herbs A library of romantic and heroic literature, for example, the Mabignogion, Beowulf, GM:or the Song of Roland Pots and jars with pigments and paints (To Severin): Do you ascend to the ver ytop? Rosario of Flambeau:"Don't worry, Freydis! This is what the great Flambeau school of Ramius is for. Even without my magic, I'm stronger than any mundane warrior!" GM:Rosario Archibald of Guernicus:"Guy has been in there long enough. We should join him." I say to whoever is still here. Severin:I continue going until I reach the top of the tower. Guy of Bonisagus:ah, water! Archibald of Guernicus:I'll try and enter the tower of johns GM:You move down the bridge. You vaguely make out the land mass off in the distance. Dusan of Criamon:Loam! Guy of Bonisagus:water and loam! GM:I will tend to Severin and the top of the tower shortly. Severin:"Touch nothing, Guy." Guy of Bonisagus:i completely ignore anything severin says Rosario of Flambeau:"There... That must be where the corn is." Guy of Bonisagus:i will drag the water down to the fountain and fill the fountain up GM:The wind howls from the side of the bridge -- it seems to be coming up, as to push people back on to it. Giraldo of Milan sneezes. GM:The birds hover in the air, and off in the mist, you make out shadowy figures, who wave. Endrite:AFK a minute. Rosario of Flambeau:I wave back. GM:The water, and blood, simply drain from the bottom of the fountain, leaving it dry and empty, cold and lifeless once more. Further on, Rosario, you encounter, Rosario. A ghostly version thereof. Guy of Bonisagus:i plug up the bottom of the fountain with loam and get more water GM:Loam. Ok. There is nothing stopping everyone else from entering the Tower of John. The door is open. Archibald of Guernicus:I enter the Tower of John GM:You see Guy slowly lugging giant barrels of water up and down flights of stairs. Archibald of Guernicus:I don't recognise Pallas' sexy alter ego, so is Tethys the only one I recognise? Rosario of Flambeau:Oh. GM:Rosario, your doppleganger laughs. "Giving up so soon?" Rosario of Flambeau:Ghost rosario. GM checks notes Guy of Bonisagus:ghost fiorella actually attacked the tytalus lmfoa Rosario of Flambeau:"Giving up? This is the way to the Arcana Centrum, isn't it?" Dusan of Criamon:I join Guy in the tower of John and immediately understand I have to help plugging the fountain with Loam Guy of Bonisagus:"If we fill this fountain, then maybe something will happen." GM:The others are not ones you recognize, but you can get a sense of what kind of person they might be. A warrior woman in a toga. A humble soldier. A lady with a noble air. A clerk with rich robes. (To Severin): Ah yeah. You recognize one of them. (From Endrite): Which one? (To Severin): It was a girl you were fond of back in apprenticeship, 200 years ago. Archibald of Guernicus:"13 strangers, and Tethys." Rosario of Flambeau:"And this is some sort of test, I imagine..." Archibald of Guernicus:"Why is it showing us her, here?" "Where's Gulielmus?" (From Endrite): Hmm. Endrite:(To GM)rolling 1d10 +3 Brave ( 3 ) +3 =6 Guy of Bonisagus:"If filling the fountain doesn't work, we grab something hot from the rooms and throw it at these people, then throw water on them." Rosario of Flambeau smiles. "A duel, then?" GM:Ghost smirks. Severin:"Ah, of course." Guy of Bonisagus:"Learn well from the measured and logical approach of a Bonisagus, Dusan." GM:But, he doens't move to do anything. Archibald of Guernicus:"Guy, are ye really proposing we approach this like clumsy apprentices?" Severin:"This tower shows you your greatest love." GM:Okay Severin. As for the top floor... Archibald of Guernicus:"Hmph. But I dinnae see anyone here I recognise." Guy of Bonisagus:"This is the hot and moist place, Archibald, but it is cold and dry." "Any fool can figure it out." Rosario of Flambeau:I will step forward and offer a handshake. GM:On the, let's say, 15th story, you find the ceiling of this massive room, and the stairs leading to either an attic or the roof. (To Severin): But as you try to climb, you are overcome with waves of boredom and unhappiness. (To Severin): Severin's existing miserable state will not let you further. GM:The man tries to wrestle you to the ground, Rosario. Dusan of Criamon:"If I may be so bold as to introduce a third doctrinal position: what if it's not the rooms we have to change, but ourselves?" (From Severin): Makes sense. Dusan of Criamon:"Hurting a statue is felt in the person, perhaps this is indication we should try it the other way around." Guy of Bonisagus looks up from the fountain, still slightly stained with the blood of animals. Dusan of Criamon:and loam. Rosario of Flambeau:he's wrestling? wtf. Guy of Bonisagus:"A good second opinion, Dusan, but let's see what reasoned approaches do first." GM:rolling 1d10!+3+2 Brawl vs. Rosario ( 2 ) +3+2 =7 Archibald of Guernicus:"Severin put forward a suggestion, but I find a flaw in it. I dinnae recognise anyone here but Tethys, and there are 14 figures." Dusan of Criamon:"True enough." I continue lugging a sack of loam Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 3+2 3+2 =5 Guy of Bonisagus:how full is the fountain now? Rosario of Flambeau:way. lmao. Guy of Bonisagus:are the loam plugs doing anything? GM:Half full. Severin:"Perhaps you should look within your own heart to learn why, Archibald." Guy of Bonisagus:aha were making progress GM:You are shoved, Rosario, but maintain your balance. Guy of Bonisagus:"Look Dusan, halfway there! It's working!" Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+3+2 ( 2 ) +3+2 =7 i didnt roll. the d10. lol. GM:derp. Then you are equally pitted. Rosario of Flambeau:this really is a mirror match. Dusan of Criamon:"This feels like a very hands on tutoring in medicine. I'm learning so much!" GM:You do that wrestling thing where they press hands against each other's hands and its like a dumb contest of strength Rosario of Flambeau:yeah lol i was imagining exactly that. GM:Let us plan to end tonight in 30 minutes. Severin:"Summon the Tremere, they should confirm my theory." Rosario of Flambeau:sounds good. Guy of Bonisagus:"I can't believe that witch Lavinia spent years of her life and pounds of gold on this." GM:lol in the confusion, have I missed anyone's requests or actions Dusan of Criamon:I agree with the wise GM decision Archibald of Guernicus:Does Dusan recognise anyone besides Tethys and the other? I think only a few people have someone in here. Rosario of Flambeau:i still have my equipment so i will yank a dagger off my belt and try my best to defend against his next shove. "I thought you wanted to swordfight, you knave!" GM:You are all starting to feel tired, by the way. Like you've spent a full day on this. Dusan of Criamon:we practically did GM:He does not draw his own dagger. He continutes to try and wrestle you. Guy of Bonisagus:ill continue my work until the fountain is filled, at least GM:rolling 1d10!+2+3 vs rosario ( 7 ) +2+3 =12 Guy of Bonisagus:ghost rosario didnt get his int ritual yet wonder what ghost guy is like Severin:Severin will abandon Vardian's Tomb for the moment and search out the Tremere Vexillation. Rosario of Flambeau:oh fuck he did shove me last time i accidentally rolled dex instead of qik. im gay. GM:They're all in the Gatehouse, yelling at Rosario to come back inside. Archibald of Guernicus:I'm going to leave the tower of Johns and try out the tower of Luke. I'll see if the door opens. Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+2 ( 2 ) +2 =4 lol. Archibald of Guernicus:I think we need more information than we currently have. GM:Negative, Archibald -- to reiterate, it's a slab of black jet, with a tiny keyhole. No key in sight, and it won't budge when you push it. Ok rosario, you've been pinned. Guy of Bonisagus:you are not depressed enough to open this door archibald Rosario of Flambeau:"You got lucky!" Endrite:Hafl would have loved this... Rosario of Flambeau:wait i need to be prone first before an attacker can pin so i was. i guess. yeah. smh. He got my ass. Guy of Bonisagus:ooh Archibald of Guernicus:I'll return to the sanguine tower then. Where is Gulielmus of Pure Reason right now GM:"Give it up," he tells you. i think he died irl Archibald of Guernicus:I think the solution involves him and Tethys but hes afk fuck you gulielmus Guy of Bonisagus:dont worry rosario, when we fill this fountain youll be saved thhey have to fuck Dusan of Criamon:i mean we also have to fill it with blood too that's how it works not enough blood? Shove in more blood Archibald of Guernicus:That's just an insane assumption Guy had GM:Dusan of Diedne. Dusan of Criamon:make sure it doesn't leak out Gulielmus of Pure Reason:greetings. (To Rosario of Flambeau): Give up? Dusan of Criamon:salve Archibald of Guernicus:Gulielmus, please join us in the Tethys Tower Gulielmus of Pure Reason:look. i said "brb" GM:lol Rosario of Flambeau:can i even roll an escape attempt? Guy of Bonisagus:gulielmus told me blood is hot and moist Gulielmus of Pure Reason:now i'm right back GM:there's been a lot goign on since you SPLIT THE PARTY 3 WAYS Guy of Bonisagus:im just following the clues the gm is giving us (To Rosario of Flambeau): you can, just roll a regular attack Fiorella of Jerbiton:I'll follow uh Archibald Dusan of Criamon:I sincerely believe in my guess that it's actually us that we have to change in some way Guy of Bonisagus:do you think the gm would have told me there is water and loam if he DIDNT want me to plug up the fountain drain and fill it with water? Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+3+2-6 dex plus brawl minus penalty grapple escape attempt. ( 4 ) +3+2-6 =3 I do not. "Ah, I guess you got me." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:is everyone hanging out in the tethys tower Guy of Bonisagus:yes GM:He tries to throw you in the direction of the gatehouse. Rosario of Flambeau:"I should work on my brawl." GM:rolling 1d10+2+3 ( 3 ) +2+3 =8 Guy of Bonisagus:dusan and guy have packed a fountain drain full of loam and are filling it with water Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Archibald of Guernicus:Severin is off with the Tremere somewhere, Rosario is failing to cross a bridge, Fiorella is somewhere, the rest of us are in Tethys Tower GM:You roll a few feet away from him, Rosario. He folds his army and stands where you first saw him, shaking his head. Dusan of Criamon:"Ho! It's cool! We need to heat this!" I begin heating the water in the plugged up foundaint Archibald of Guernicus:Rosario is experiencing Persona 4 while Guy is playing Minecraft GM:lol Guy of Bonisagus:i throw pila into the fountain Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Guy of Bonisagus:lfmao Dusan of Criamon:Dusan is in a lucasarts Endrite:Try Using a Clue. GM:I opt for GM Fiat to pull the parties together. Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+3+2+1 brawl daggers spec, i try to lunge forward and stab him. lol. ( 6 ) +3+2+1 =12 GM:jesus that's dishonorable rolling 1d10!+2+3 brawl ( 10 + 2 ) +2+3 =17 Rosario of Flambeau:lmfao. Archibald of Guernicus:Guy and Dusan are playing an adventure game but without the part where you try to do something totally wrong and your character turns to the screen and says 'No. That's a really stupid idea. I won't do that.' GM:He sidesteps and slaps you in the face. "Wretch." Rosario of Flambeau:Rosario is freaking out and wants his dog back. "Just give me my damn dog back." Guy of Bonisagus:thats true, archibald because we are doing the correct thing Endrite:Rosario is in Dark Souls. Dusan of Criamon:lmao i agree Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i wish my friend, guybrush threepwood, was here Rosario of Flambeau:lol Dusan of Criamon:they're actually looking at the 4th wall and saying "Oh yeah, this will absolutely work" GM:"Put that little pea brain of yours to work Rosario. There's nothing out here for you." Guy of Bonisagus:ill help dusan by lighting the barrels that had water in them on fire Rosario of Flambeau:"Draw your sword so we can stop playing these games. Or do you not even have one?" GM:as your doppleganger, he does, but he declines. Dusan of Criamon:oh we can't CrIg that stuff? Rosario of Flambeau grabs his genitals. Guy of Bonisagus:"Bring it to a boil Dusan! As hot as you can!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"Salvete, Archibald, Guy, Dusan...." GM:A vital clue was found but only by Endrite, so tha texplains why it is not helping anyone else here. Anyway. Rosario of Flambeau:lol. GM:Maybe we should break here. I'm tide. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Dusan of Criamon:"Not now Guillaume! Making a fire here." Rosario of Flambeau:I will head back to the gatehouse after insulting Shadow Rosario. GM:ah, good. then let me wrap this up. Rosario of Flambeau:ok. neat Dusan of Criamon:cool GM:Everyone reconvenes. And shares notes. Guy of Bonisagus:how did the fountain project turn out Dusan of Criamon:loamy GM:Nothing happened except exhausting yourself. Endrite:Oh I thought I mentioned it. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:who's the non-tethys person in tethys tower Archibald of Guernicus:It's Guy's gf, I believe. Guy of Bonisagus:no! Rosario of Flambeau:It is. Guy of Bonisagus:im going to throw peithene in the boiling fountain Severin:"There is an entrance to the roof, but I find myself unable to enter it." GM:The NPC party explains that apprently, magic does not work past the gatehouse. Neither spells, nor parma, nor items. Guy of Bonisagus:ah ok Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hachi machi. Guy of Bonisagus:ill go up there next time then GM:Both Rosario and Freydis encountered a doppleganger of themselves who tried to stop them, using brawling. Archibald of Guernicus:"An area where magic disnae function at all. Distressing." Rosario of Flambeau:"There's a doppelganger of myself out there." GM:But to the ponit of view of everyone else, it looked like those two were just grapplign with a flock of birds. Rosario of Flambeau:"Probably others of you if you decided to go on the bridge." Gulielmus of Pure Reason:ok, the ghost of beatrice is advising me that the only way to solve the puzzle is for guy and gulielmus to kiss Rosario of Flambeau:ok my chat is acting weird. roll20 ftw. Archibald of Guernicus:"Let's solve the mysteries of this tower, before proceeding outside again." GM:Amarus suggests that everyone is weary and we need to process what we've found so far, so we should retire to the bedchambers and reconvene after sleeping. Dusan of Criamon:if Rosario owns his doppelganger, his renown should practically double GM:The Tremere naturally will post a watch. Rosario of Flambeau:"I don't feel comfortable sleeping in this place." "I suppose we have to, though." Archibald of Guernicus:Rosario figures out a trick to increase his renown to infinite levels despite no-one actually witnessing it Rosario of Flambeau:lol Gulielmus of Pure Reason:are they just statues GM:No, they're moving about, like people, but they are listless, and not talking to each other. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:hm. Severin:Severin offers to ward everyone's bedroom. GM:lets call them Simulacra. Rosario of Flambeau:Hmm. Archibald of Guernicus:Let's try the roof of the tower of Johns as one last thing, to see if some people can pass through but others cannot, perhaps GM:They show only a passing interest in you and your schemes. Ok, that'll be the last thign for tonight Archibald of Guernicus:I think that Guy and Gulielmus should try, especially, since they have someone on the lower level corresponding to them. GM:It's a long climb up, and you finally reach the ceiling of the room. however. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:what's the deal with the tower GM:Those who attempt to climb up to the trapdoor that leads to either the attic or roof are overcome with unhappiness and boredome. Rosario of Flambeau:ooh. Endrite:How does the Sun duration work here? GM:and find it impossible to keep going forward, at present. Archibald of Guernicus:Oh shit. I know how this works. It's like Usopp and Perona. I'll handle this. GM:Not clear yet, Endrite. I don't get the ref, unfortunately. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i'm already overcome with unhappiness after the ponza adventure Dusan of Criamon:Oh, if we're retiring to chambers the question of hunger comes up Archibald of Guernicus:Perona has a power to make people far too depressed to act. Usopp defeats her because he's already too negative to have any affect on him. Dusan of Criamon:Dusan calls out for the servant from earlier. GM:excellent question dusan! It's been a day (maybe?) but you don't feel hungrier. Dusan of Criamon:Rats! I was hoping to change the humoric balance with food GM:And unfortunately, no servant is around. You do catch a glimpse of Sine Nomine, but he just sulks and disappears back into the mist. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:oh lol. (To Dusan of Criamon): Make a note of that suggestion, btw. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lamp without flame is conc duration. Guy of Bonisagus:"Rosario, I have an idea!" Archibald of Guernicus:Anyway, do Guli and Guy feel too depressed to open the hatch too? Do I feel too depressed to continue as well? (To Dusan of Criamon): It'll come up next week. Guy of Bonisagus:oh yeah can i just walk in GM:They can't even make it to the hatch (From Dusan of Criamon): I suspected as much, I also thought about say, exercise or bloodletting etc Guy of Bonisagus:ok i will pilum the hatch Archibald of Guernicus:So what happened, happens to everyone then? GM:Yes. Archibald of Guernicus:Got it. Guy of Bonisagus:does the hatch take damage from my pila? GM:ive added this note to the map you shoot a pila at it? Guy of Bonisagus:yes GM:Ok. (To Guy of Bonisagus): You feel a burning pain in your chest. Guy of Bonisagus:"Ahhhhh!" (To Guy of Bonisagus): like when you eat too much spicy food. Guy of Bonisagus:I grab my chest and collapse. Archibald of Guernicus:"Guy!" GM:The trapdoor is singed a little bit, but the pila is ineffective against solid wood. Guy of Bonisagus:"We have to... burn the hatch open...!" "And then... Rosario... Enlarge yourself, and throw me in...!" "Wait... The unseen porter... Does anyone know it?" Gulielmus of Pure Reason sits down on the stairs. Dusan of Criamon:I rub my hands Gulielmus of Pure Reason:"What a shitty plan." Guy of Bonisagus:"Open it, Dusan!" Dusan of Criamon:to remove the loam from them I cast it to open the hatch Endrite:Gulielmus coming at Guy with mastery of Ignem. Guy of Bonisagus:"You'll see, Gulielmus. I am a genius!" does it open johns GM:ok Guy of Bonisagus:are you crying GM:the trapdown has a simple latch and it opens down. Guy of Bonisagus:aha! "Now, Rosario!" Rosario of Flambeau:I will try his plan. And attempt to stuff him in the hole. GM:how tall are you getting? Rosario of Flambeau:rolling 1d10!+3+2 brawl. ( 8 ) +3+2 =13 Gulielmus of Pure Reason:roll Thrown Weapon Rosario of Flambeau:I can get about 16 feet tall I think. Whatever 10x the volume of a human would be GM:hmmmm, fair enough that bypasses the funnier way up but w/e Guy you let yourself get manhandled? Archibald of Guernicus:Did we bypass forcing Guy and Gulielmus to kiss damnit GM:That was not the goal Rosario of Flambeau:lol GM:Well it's A goal. not mine. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:now we can't skip the boss battle against ghost beatrice Guy of Bonisagus:yes it was my plan Archibald of Guernicus:Gulielmus should kiss Tethys. Get Rosario to pick him up so he's high enough. Guy of Bonisagus:lol Archibald of Guernicus:That will work, probably. It's very sanguine. Endrite:Wow. Gulielmus of Pure Reason:lol Guy of Bonisagus:the actual idea was probably to go up with whoever you should be paired with from among the people milling around GM:You are in a small round chamber, with little arrow slit windows all around. Guy of Bonisagus:but this is MUCH better "I am a genius!" Gulielmus of Pure Reason:does guy die of depression GM:In the middle is a large wooden vat. It's nearly empty but for a little reddish residue at the bottom. Guy of Bonisagus:"Dusan! More water and loam!" Dusan of Criamon:"Understood!" Rosario of Flambeau:Oh no! Guy of Bonisagus:"Fiorella! Another bird!" GM:anyway im tired irl Guy of Bonisagus:me too Dusan of Criamon:same Guy of Bonisagus:we can throw garbage in the vat next week GM:so I am using my infinite force of will to force all characters to go to bed. Guy of Bonisagus:and ruin it ok guy retires after finding the vat i will use the horseshoe on my room Endrite:I'm surprised Guy didn't die of depression. Rosario of Flambeau:ok im going to stream a movie no w Gulielmus of Pure Reason:he really should have GM:that would be the Liesmith move Archibald of Guernicus:Excited to solve more puzzles next week. Endrite:Not necessarily. moe:i would like to post how happy i am about this sesh in here as well as the dsicord Rosario of Flambeau:yeah this has been extremely cool Gulielmus of Pure Reason:i picked a bad time to eat some hot dogs (traditional American meal) GM:mmm Endrite:It could be just below the trap door, in which case it is a tricky trap and not a fundamental part of the structure. moe:much good shit, and i am very intrigued by this puzzle i couldn't think of a better weekend tbh past 72 hours have been kind of miraculous, and this is a real crown jewel ending props to the GM GM:looking forward to dfd statting up felipe. he needs a pretentious name if he's in the order now moe:looking forward to dfd statting up my CAT FAMILIAR Endrite:I don't think Liesmith every killed anyone. In Rogue Trader all the deaths were from PVP. Rosario of Flambeau:i will do the cat familiar after felipe but yeah they'll both be done by next game i hope ghehehe moe:no sweat lol i'll take the cat if i live through this GM:thumbs up cat all Gonna rehydrate and maybe watch the stream or play battle brothers or both Endrite:In Pendragon the GM doesn't really have to TRY to kill anyone. Archibald of Guernicus:we'll solve the puzzles at least we now know for sure that ridiculous schemes can cheat some of them GM:fair warning this might go over 2 sessions Endrite:If you take the Trial of Ultimate Death then you are definitely ready to die. GM:and since dys is gone in two weeks Endrite:Oh no! My seasons! GM:we'll fill in with a companion session or somethign in the meantime moe:I would expect no less from the epic conclusion of a saga oh nice, intermissions Endrite:Side adventure where Alphubel gives Anna the Parma book. moe:i'll test my burglar devil's fav demon:nice Archibald of Guernicus:If we're ALMOST finished I could try and bring a laptop on holiday and very rudely play ars for a bit on it. But we'll see. GM:No no no enjoy your holiday Archibald of Guernicus:Alright. Well, maybe we'll finish next week. devil's fav demon:ill wait until 8 for the movie i want to go take a shower its too damn hot out Endrite:Hope you don't melt before next week. devil's fav demon (GM):I didn't, as I am not a witch.
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