9/17/17

johns (GM): contemplor 1338

dys (GM): I added a new sound effect to help GMs and players alike

devil's fav demon (GM):  toilet flush

dys (GM): nice

good effect

i like the addition of theme songs for NPCs

now for players to start coming up with their own themes

devil's fav demon (GM): this made me realize that i have had music turned all the way down for weeks

lol

Shauncat (GM): 9 Sweet Minutes Of ORA ORA ORA Vs MUDA MUDA MUDAオラオラ無駄無駄

dys (GM): :blessed:

pity damon gant's theme is already taken, thatd actually work well for archibald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqG_qyVkn10 there, this'll do

Shauncat (GM): Should I upload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4XBFo8GoQ for Jorn?

dys (GM): it will deeply upset the GM, so absolutely

Shauncat (GM): I guess it has to be a video game song since pop rock will get copyright claimed on fanburst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJgHn7MeAwc

dys (GM): not sure how good their copyright algorithms are

i know soundcloud was annoyingly good with it

Hafl T.: can you take affinity with a specific spell mastery as a virtue?

Shauncat (GM): That might be cool for Ball of Abyssal Flame

Hafl T.: with flawless magic and independent study, it would give 21xp per season of practice for the ultimate one trick pony

dys (GM): Seems like it'd be a somewhat wasted virtue, but I can't see why not

Hafl T.: insane penetration

devil's fav demon (GM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4 ok this is bialas' theme

Shauncat (GM): I'd just take Affinity with Penetration, I think

devil's fav demon (GM): even though its about stalin

dys (GM): oh right, forgot it subtracted botch dice too. i do want to grab Wizard's Parry and master it sometime.

ill wait until a season where im doing rego terram stuff anyway to squeeze in a 5 level spell

Hafl T.: get spell mastery high enough that you can multiple cast a spell on more individual targets than there are in a group

10 seasons of pracice to get spell mastery to level 20, gain -10 botch dice and murder the pope without a chance of failure

devil's fav demon (GM): totally worth it.

Shauncat (GM): As a Merinita you can make charms to the pope without interacting with him too

Hafl T.: let's see how many original ways we can think of to magically murder the pope

Shauncat (GM): Let's

johns (GM): i dont think fanburst has any copyright scanning on it

dys (GM): neat

unless i think of something better, here's archibald's theme https://fanburst.com/dysrexia/miles-edgeworth-great-revival-2013-ace-attorney-6_-spirit-of-justice-ost

johns (GM): it might take a bit before that shows up in the search

unless that's the version i just added here

Shauncat (GM): If fanburst doesn't do copyright takedowns I'll upload a hair metal song

johns (GM): ideally the theme song should be something it's okay to leave on loop for awhile

Shauncat (GM): Maybe an instrumental then

johns (GM): ya

Shauncat (GM): If it's not an insanely shitty karaoke cover

dys (GM): ill think of something for zita that isnt the Thief soundtrack or something too on the nose

Shauncat (GM): Santana ft Rob Thomas - Smooth

Hafl T.: Vardian's Tomb Investigates Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q-U2THOF00

Shauncat (GM): Let's upload that for the SFX folder

c'thinker: the civ 5 soundtrack. very fitting for vardians tomb.

dys (GM): yeah, was about to do that actually

johns (GM): not sure what cthinker is trying to insinuate there

Shauncat (GM): Potesta theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh9Vt02hvkI

johns (GM): civ5 had good music

dys (GM): its in the sfx folder now

Beardbeard (GM): and good gameplay

hell, just overall good. a great improvement to the series

johns (GM): this track doesn't loop well, hrm

I count 9 so I believe that's everyone

Salvate, omnes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Salve.

Jorn of Merinita: Heil

Plutonis: hello

johns (GM): In the Fall of 1338, there are three issues for the Council of Vardian's Tomb to consider.

First! Lavinia has suggested appointing Beatrice as our archon.

Bialas of Bjornaer yawns

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This season always makes me sleepy."

thats a good idea.

johns (GM): Any objections?

Proclus of Rome: "Then take a tap."

Beatrice Orsini emerges from the library.

johns (GM) looks to Proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: look. just because beatrice is the only competent and sane magus,

Plutonis: i'll do my year updgrades

johns (GM): Beatrice is competent, sane, Hermetic, Christian, and unmarred by any major scandals that I know of.

Aristide of Tremere: aristide approves

Zita of Mercere: "No problems here. Well done."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Huh? Sure."

Proclus of Rome: "On the rare occasion she emerges from her lab, I assume she'll do a fine job."

Giraldo of Milan: i should assign my experience for 1338 on aristide and uhh however many years ive missed on giraldo

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn supports Beatrice for archon

Proclus of Rome: "However, I would recommend someone without a troubling relationship to the Orsini family."

Beatrice Orsini considers whether this is a plot to kill her, given what happened to Aristocritus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whats the year again

Beatrice Orsini : 1338

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't think we'll find anyone who fits all the perfect criteria Proclus, but Beatrice has most of what all of us want to see in our leader."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh johns said it already

Proclus of Rome: "I'm willing to permit it on a trial basis."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Well, as long as it isn't Aristide..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "This is as unified a vote as I think we've ever gotten, so, congratulations, Beatrice."

Beatrice Orsini : i solemnly promise i won't appoint aristide as first officer

"If everyone is in agreement, then I reluctantly accept."

Jorn of Merinita: Appoint him as court jester, he already has the hat

Archibald of Guernicus: "Isn't he in the family too? Hope she's nae too soft on family if he gets up to his antics."

"He's still wearing that damn hat."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: frankly more titles and offices would be nice for our covenant

Proclus of Rome: Aristide isn't funny.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is faustus's cognomen supposed to be superbus instead of just super

"I wish he would stop wearing the hat."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's been over a decade since I studied Latin

Jorn of Merinita: He's hilarious, in a macabre fashion.

Beatrice Orsini : the only superbus i knew was a tarquinius

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well theres like, tarquinius superbus

yeah

Jorn of Merinita: I'll change it to Superbus

Bialas of Bjornaer: Super Bus.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: superbus might be "the most greatest" and super just "great"

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide begins approaching the council chamber. The faint sound of bells can be heard growing steadily louder.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: suporbus

Jorn of Merinita: The name source I got it from sometimes gives odd results

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that feels vaguely familiar to me

Aristide of Tremere: When Aristide enters, he is munching loudly on an apple.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Archon Beatrice -- Or Achontissa, if you prefer-- I would suggest that you set an agenda for the rest of this meeting, as your first duty. I believe both Jorn and Zita had some pressings issues they wished to bring up."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hey, give me a bite."

Aristide of Tremere: I toss Bialas my apple core.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is our big chance. for aristide to be murdered by gordiano

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice. That's like a third of the apple's worth of good apple right there.

johns (GM): the fool aristide just gave bialas an arcane connection, his favorite apple

Bialas of Bjornaer: I already ate it.

Beatrice Orsini : "Since you mentioned Jorn first, let's hear what's his issue."

indirect kiss with aristide

Jorn of Merinita: 1sec

Bialas of Bjornaer: ...indirect kiss...!

Beatrice Orsini : at hermetic dinners saying "could you please pass the salt" always carries a hint of menace

Proclus of Rome: Yeah it means you didn't get your own salt.

Jorn of Merinita: "I went recently to survey the arsenic-tainted lands of Allumiere as a profitable source of reagents."

Proclus of Rome: "Have you tried asking your cousins to vacate the fields?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Har har," I chuckle sincerely and jovially, "but it's not faeries there now. Some goons claiming to represent the Conte di Capocci told me to shove off."

"I have no idea if that's even a real person, so I returned to research it."

Celeste: "The faeries aren't there anymore?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "The count must be really desperate for Arsenic. Perhaps we can help him with his rat problem."

Jorn of Merinita: "If they are, I wasn't given the chance to find out."

Proclus of Rome: "Do you mean Hugo di Capocci?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Perhaps."

"Conte is what I heard, however."

johns (GM): "conte" is italian for "count"

Proclus of Rome: "'Conte' is a title, Jorn. In the future, I hope you bring some grogs with you, for safety."

Jorn of Merinita: "Noted."

Napoliono remembers they lacked a good tavern there so he didn't want to come.

Proclus of Rome: "Was Brunisenda or any of of Hugo di Cappoci's other court wizards present?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Just a couple of horsemen in tabards was all."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "We'll have to visit the court."

Proclus of Rome: "Did you mention Vardian's Tomb?"

"They should have left if you did."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Well, someone should. I don't have the etiquette for it."

Jorn of Merinita: "DIdn't think to. Maybe next time."

Lavinia has volunteered to be our etiquette perosn

Beatrice Orsini : "Was the vis delivery from the source on Capocci lands on time this year?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Does he even have a claim to the place?"

johns (GM): yup

a footman delivers it instead of brunisenda now but it's pure  checks notes  Creo vis

Proclus of Rome: "Why shouldn't he?"

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Bialas of Bjornaer: "The looks you get just for baring some chest and looking people in the eyes. It's like they're not civilized in there."

Proclus of Rome: "Allowing Brunisenda to join Hugo di Cappocci's court was a mistake on my part."

Jorn of Merinita: "I wasn't expecting to treat with mundane noblemen, thought there was some faeries there that get vitality from being treated like royalty. So I returned to research. Didn't know Vardian's Tomb had dealings with this Jarl, I mean, Conte."

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Roman lore or civil law to answer your question about claims

Beatrice Orsini : "The covenant should see what's happening to cause this."

(From Archibald of Guernicus): Area Lore (rome)?

(To Archibald of Guernicus): ya

Proclus of Rome: "You could have asked anyone here and they surely would have told you."

Jorn of Merinita: "I just did."

Zita of Mercere: rolling area lore rome for his claim

Proclus of Rome: "Be more careful when you take secret expeditions in the future."

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10-1+10+5

(

8

)

-1+10+5

=

22

Jorn of Merinita: That's good advice but being reckless was necessary to get the quest.

"I will."

Beatrice Orsini : "As Proclus pointed out, my family connections make me a bit unsuitable for dealing with nobility, so I think he and Jorn should take joint lead of the delegation. Any objections?"

Zita of Mercere: "Ah no harm done, I doubt Jorn said anything to offend the man."

Beatrice Orsini : i planned on taking artemisia for this adventure, so now i have a reason for it

Proclus of Rome: "I doubt he could say anything. How is your Roman these days, Jorn?"

johns (GM): Zita recalls that the village and valley were owned by a French nobleman who paid little attention to the place, and that Capocci recently claimed the land by force. It is up to the absentee landlord to respond to the aggression if he wishes.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "They won't come to odds, I'm sure."

Zita of Mercere: "The gentle gift goes a long way, I think it's a good idea."

"It's not like he's owned the land very long anyway. Stole it from a frenchman recently, I believe."

"Sorry, theft is a strong word. Merely took without permission."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "That's the same thing."

Jorn of Merinita: My Italian is +5

Proclus of Rome: "We should reclaim it for the rightful owner, who also has no knowledge of the true value of the land."

Zita of Mercere: "Or we help Capocci keep his new claim, and use that to ensure its ours. We've dealt with him in the past quite cordially, why throw that away?"

Proclus of Rome: "One of the charlatans in his court is doubtless aware of the magical potential of a treaty with fairies."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "We should shame him for treating one of ours so aggressively."

Proclus of Rome: "I would be surprised if he allowed us to use his lands."

Zita of Mercere: "His knowledge of the value means little if he's unable to capitalise on it properly. And he will if the alternative is losing them entirely."

"As far as I recall he didn't have a single Gifted individual at his court, what could they even use vis for?"

Proclus of Rome: "Brunisenda, at least, is capable of enriching certain types of vis to produce potions."

Beatrice Orsini : "What a waste of Creo vis."

Zita of Mercere: "Because of its value he'll fight to defend it. What he doesn't want is to have to invest a great deal into it, I imagine."

Jorn of Merinita: "Some hedge practitioners can use it."

Proclus of Rome: "What do you base this theory on, Zita?"

Zita of Mercere: "His court of hedge magicians, they'll tell him its valuable."

"Isn't that why he's forcing us off it?"

Jorn of Merinita: "If you're making bargains with faeries, those faeries that can change roles covet faerie vis too, depending on how cognizant they are."

Proclus of Rome: "Hugo di Cappoci has a history of interfering with the trade in magical objects. Recall his seizure of Beasts of Virtue a few years back."

"He is willing to expend significant effort, I contend."\

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He does seem almost obsessed."

Zita of Mercere: "If we kept hold of the site, paying some token tribute to him for using his land, we could limit what sort of resources he can draw from it, too."

"Make sure he doesn't get his hands on anything dangerous that'll cause trouble for us."

Proclus of Rome: "He shouldn't be involved at all."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok im here

johns (GM): welcum

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i spent my seasons.

Zita of Mercere: "Well, yes, ideally not, but he is and we have to deal with that. Besides, Orsu's still there, maybe we have enough goodwill with him to get his help in convincing the conte."

Bialas of Bjornaer: We should confront Dorothy Anning's old ass in some way, now that Zita told us Violante's been spilling secrets to her

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i even got to say my beloved catchphrase

Learned Profession: Apothecary under Jeanne de Ys. Gained 17 xp plus 9 from affinity for a total of 26 xp (9/52 -> 12/78).

Zita of Mercere: Oh yeah, Jeanne de Ys too

The spy stuff was next, Bialas

johns (GM): Jeanne de Ys is not at the Capocci court, to clarify

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice.

Zita of Mercere: oh, huh. thought she was for some reason

Proclus of Rome: "Orsu is loyal to no one besides himself. He is a reprobate who will honor no deals with us."

She's a member of our covenant, technically.

johns (GM): She resides with a different nobleman, Pamphili, the one who lives next to woods full of magical wolves

Bialas of Bjornaer: Cool mystique.

Zita of Mercere: Oh yeah, the ones who we pissed off

Jorn of Merinita: "Anyway, I was just thinking there might be demand for stone calciners to process the soil,and stone platforms on the tainted soil for safety. If it's noble dealings, that's out of my wheelhouse."

Zita of Mercere: IIRC bonfilia yelled at them that wizards were the master race or something silly

johns (GM): you had one interaction with him ~20 years ago

he's definitely forgotten about you by now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: was she wrong

Zita of Mercere: [in mundane voice] well, actually,

johns (GM): She was wrong.

Proclus of Rome: I am coming to believe that she was.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: narrator: she wasn't

Beatrice Orsini : [in merinita voice] well, actually,

Zita of Mercere: "Right, we have every reason to set up there, and the means to do so. Paying some tribute to the local noble is normal, we just have to make sure the Conte understands that it's in his interest too."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I've heard of Orsu from the grogs. They have few kind words to share about him."

johns (GM): Really, I thought he was a charmer

slash rapist

Proclus of Rome: He was a bastard!

Zita of Mercere: "Very single-minded in his goals."

Beatrice Orsini : the grogs were seduced by jewish propaganda

johns (GM): lol

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

johns (GM): the (((grogs)))

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have to assume the grogs don't like rape

but hell maybe im wrong

Zita of Mercere: You thought wrong

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "We could also try to take as much as we can while these idiots can't notice us."

johns (GM): they're in the wrong damn covenant if that's the case

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean i also expect they have few kind words to share about aristide

Jorn of Merinita: There's an old dwarf adage, when there's rumors of a gold vein, don't buy tools, sell tools. Just replace gold with arsenic in that concept, that's the plan.

Beatrice Orsini : where's the sexualized serial killer faeries then?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or prudenzio

Bialas of Bjornaer: Who knows.

Zita of Mercere: "It's a long-term venture, isn't it? You all already investigated the place, if there was something to quickly grab and run we'd have already done so."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 'Tis I. The only wizard in Mythic Europe who does not use the Gentle Gift for rape

Giraldo of Milan: in giraldos lab

Zita of Mercere: You mean Jorn?

Beatrice Orsini : marriage is rape

Celeste: "Holy shit."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jorn's child bride

Zita of Mercere: Jorn's eternal child bride

Jorn of Merinita: I bought True Love at chargen so I'm not sure I can make that claim

Celeste: marriage is an important and wonderful thing.

Beatrice Orsini : it's not child bride if it's true love

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

johns (GM): moving on...

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's

johns (GM): Proclus seems to want to kick the Count off the land, and Zita wants to try diplomacy first

Is that right?

Proclus of Rome: "Is it possible that Cappocci's knights have been hexed by Prudenzio?"

Zita of Mercere: I think we could bully him into letting us take our fair share of the land

Gordiano of Bonisagus: I brought the possibility of just steal all the vis we can

Zita of Mercere: "That old lecher? I thought he fled for the hills with a fairy or something."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he just turned invisible one day.

Jorn of Merinita: I wonder why he wants a faerie invested poison hole, myself

Celeste: "I haven't even gotten a letter since he left. What the hell is wrong with that man."

Jorn of Merinita: *infested

Zita of Mercere: "You don't think he  stayed  there, do you?"

Beatrice Orsini : Merinitas shouldn't wonder why people want faerie infested holes.

Proclus of Rome: "Anything is possible."

Jorn of Merinita: Well I know why I would

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Was he a hexing sort of magus?"

Jorn of Merinita: I don't know why a mundane with no gifteds in his court would

Beatrice Orsini : "I promised I'd name a leprosy causing spell after him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he was our PeMe guy wasn't he

Zita of Mercere: "I could investigate the Conte a little when I talk to him. House Mercere has provided some useful diplomatic tools when I last visitted."

johns (GM): i dont think you guys found any recurring vis sites last time you were there. there may be some but require some investigating to suss out

Celeste: He pretty much only knew how to do perdo corpus and mentem.

Proclus of Rome: The Gift isn't a strict requirement to do magic.

It's been a long time, maybe he learned.

Jorn of Merinita: There's Faerie Doctors I suppose for hedge traditions

But I haven't seen any so far in Rome

Proclus of Rome: How would you?

You barely speak the language.

Zita of Mercere: "Speaking of which, thinking on our latest troubles, I went to the liberty of investigating the grogs a little. Just to see if any were reporting on us to outside groups."

Beatrice Orsini : "The main goal is to secure our already existing vis source again. As to what methods you use, it's up to you."

"But for now, let's hear what Zita has to say."

Jorn of Merinita: I'd speak it better if learning by osmosis was more passive

Zita of Mercere: "As it turns out, about half of our grogs were planted here to spy on us."

"By completely seperate people."

Giraldo of Milan: we must secure the sources of our vis and a future for vardians tomb

Proclus of Rome: "I see Archibald has been doing a fine job."

Beatrice Orsini : we must

only half isn't bad

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Good lord. I knew this covenant was a hot topic, but, hahaha"

Beatrice Orsini : i assume all the grogs are spies in other covenants

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye want me tae pester every new hire? They'll quit."

Beatrice Orsini : "As long as we know who reports to who, we can feed them the information we want."

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): im pretty sure Bialas is also spying on the covenant and telling his clan/house as much as he can, to make himself look better, since he's a social outcast.

Beatrice Orsini : "The Code prohibits scrying, so mundane spying is to be expected."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes. Doing it this way meant it was done subtly. Mostly."

(To Bialas the Bear): Sure

Proclus of Rome: "I expect you to at least pretend that you have any interest in this covenant besides using it to abuse your official position."

"What do you mean 'mostly?'"

Zita of Mercere: "One of the grogs had an effect placed on them to wipe their mind if it was read."

Beatrice Orsini : "That's serious."

Zita of Mercere: "Meaning, most likely someone within the order placed them here."

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, well, I'm sure that the great hunter Archibald is on the case then."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This is spicy."

Beatrice Orsini : "If he wasn't already, he should be now."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I can't even imagine what kind of spell it would take to do something like that."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Please Proclus, let's go one meeting without snidery."

Proclus of Rome: "A watching ward with a PeMe spell."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, this is the first I'm hearing about it. I'll see what I can find on the man, but gettin' something like a sigil or specifics is very difficult."

Beatrice Orsini : "It could be a Merinita."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs loudly.

Beatrice Orsini : "I can make a spell that triggers if a condition is fulfilled."

Jorn of Merinita: "All the dwarves working at the Stoneworks are from Nithavellir. They wouldn't have any local allegiances."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Thank you, Proclus."

Proclus of Rome: "It could be anyone."

"There are many royal fairies that could forge an alliance with your brethren, Jorn."

Celeste: "Faerie magic..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "A watching ward is the most likely. I'll see whit I can find on the man." I head over to the Braindead Grog

Beatrice Orsini : "Could it be Galafre the Elder? He has knowledge of Mentem and he's not exactly a friend."

Jorn of Merinita: "Ah, maybe."

Archibald of Guernicus: Sponting InVi

Shouting + screaming

Celeste: "My dad had a spell to make someone into a drooling toddler, but it only lasted a couple minutes."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we also have some silver paste left over

Beatrice Orsini : "As for the other people the grogs are spying for, who is Stefano the Lombard? Can someone find out?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: from the catacombs adventure

Jorn of Merinita: Our next target will be babies

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+34)/2

(

(

3

)

+34)/2

=

18.5

Hmm

I conf that, 20

Celeste: "Not physically, just mentally, I mean."

Proclus of Rome: Hmph.

Archibald of Guernicus: Base 10, +1 touch, +1 to confirm its hermetic

Or, if not, what sort of magic it is (if ive heard of it)

johns (GM): It is a Hermetic effect, powerful, Pe Me

Archibald of Guernicus: "Nothing on the man's sigil, but it's perdo mentem alright. Hermetic."

johns (GM): PeMe, Base 25: Leaving a person a mindless husk

Bialas of Bjornaer: nice

Jorn of Merinita: Damn

Beatrice Orsini : "Bialas, you're fond of using powerful Mentem. What do you think?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "His mind's gone for good, we'll get nae other information out of him for now. I'll see about an effect tae detect sigils if I can muster it, but that'll be long off."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many magnitudes to detect a sigil

Beatrice Orsini : "Archibald, could you try looking for Prudenzio's sigil specifically?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 3?

Archibald of Guernicus: its +3 magnitudes

base 10 effect, +1 touch

so level 30

Jorn of Merinita: "If we have a powerful Mentem user in the covenant, should we expect spying form the get go?"

Archibald of Guernicus: lemme check the guernicus InVi guidelines again actually

+3 magnitudes gives the rough details of the

effect and the sigil of the caster. This level also

enables the Quaesitor to tell if a Hermetic effect was

created by a spell or invested device.

There's a specific level 30 spell for it

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Honestly, it's impressive. A very clever and powerful spell. I would have never thought of it."

Proclus of Rome: This could POTENTIALLY be a very useful source for studying Adamic.

johns (GM): The mentem spell was Level 30 (Base 25, +1 Touch, Individual, Momentary). Once it fired, its effective level for InVi purposes drops to 15. Tomorrow it will be 10, the day after 5, and the day after all traces will be gone.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I cannae see any sigil at all, it's beyond my capabilities tae achieve it spontaneously. I could speak with Magvillus about purchasing or borrowing a text from them, a copy of Impression of the Faded Sigil should be kept there."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Now, pissing to make someone lose the will to act, or staring someone down to break their leadership of a group, that's more what I deal in."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I've been practicing Intellego a bit lately. I wonder if I couldn't extract a sigil with some more of that silvery paste."

Proclus of Rome: "There must be no one you can bully into submission in that man's mind, then."

johns (GM): So to pick up a sigil on an L15 effect you'd need InVi Base 4, +3 magnitudes, +whatever for target/duration

Archibald of Guernicus: "But in the season it would take to master an effect like that, the effect will be gone. It's powerful, but no powerful enough tae last months."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I can't bully a man who doesn't know what it is to be bullied. That's true."

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, wait, so its base 4 to detect it right now?

That's level 20 johns

I got that in my spont

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: depends on whether you count it as active or recent

doesn't it?

johns (GM): Yeah, it's possible I'm misinterpreting it

Since this is a trace of magic, not active magic

Archibald of Guernicus: I think you are, yeah

johns (GM): Sorry bout that

Archibald of Guernicus: It's base 10 to detect previously used magic

So, level 30 in all

Beatrice Orsini : you aren't detecting magic though

johns (GM): Did you ceremonially cast

Giraldo of Milan: do we know the sigil then

Beatrice Orsini : you know magic was used

Giraldo of Milan: someone help

Bialas of Bjornaer: There's no sigil.

Jorn of Merinita: What's wrong Giraldo?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well i can manage 30 because i ahve the dumbest virtue in the game

Bialas of Bjornaer: Or so we can tell at the time.

lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it will take an hour and a half though.

Archibald of Guernicus: Can you ceremonially spont? It wouldn't make a difference here though

Proclus of Rome: You sure can.

johns (GM): All ceremonial spells are sponts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyone can ceremonially spont

johns (GM): Ceremonial is just sponting slower to add in your philo+al

Archibald of Guernicus: In that case, I take back my conf token, since I didnt need it to hit 20

Proclus of Rome: You get to add half your Philosophae and Artes Liberales scores to you casting total.

johns (GM): Ok, well you never put the token down in the first place, so there

Archibald of Guernicus: two steps ahead

johns (GM): Gulielmus wants to spend a day making a potion I take it?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just an hour and a half.

johns (GM): oh

Beatrice Orsini : he can do it while archibald draws his horoscopes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ha ha. hahaha

johns (GM): idk how you calculated that but ok

So is it successful or not cthinker

Zita of Mercere: "The other spies are something we should perhaps look into, though. For instance, finding out more about this Stefano."

Beatrice Orsini : "Does anyone know any Lombards?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one sec

Giraldo of Milan: i dont know

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn goes back to his workshop. Hypatia might be able to see if someone was tainted by an infernal effect but that doesn't seem the case.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I don't."

Proclus of Rome: "You don't know anyone."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I know every single member of House Bjornaer and many of their interests and areas of study."

Proclus of Rome: "We could simply ask him if he knows who hired him to spy."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It's good we're not spying on you."

Beatrice Orsini : "Sure, I believe that."

Beatrice Orsini doesn't believe that.

Zita of Mercere: Eye every housecat suspiciously

johns (GM): especially the ones made of metal

Jorn of Merinita: I wish Merinita were as close as Bjornaer

Zita of Mercere: Can a transformed Bjornaer maintain their heartbeast when entering an aegis?

Jorn of Merinita: Instead of punching each other

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice is getting housecat for use in magical experiments eventually.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+11+3+3+6 arts, aura, inventive genius, apothecary/2

(

6

)

+11+3+3+6

=

29

hmm. looks like ive been owned

johns (GM): gahaha.

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Zita of Mercere: Slam that conf token down

Press dat mfing conf button

Proclus of Rome: I think we should just ask Zachaois if he is a spy.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, he is.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea radiates a crushing aura as he slams the conf token through the table

Beatrice Orsini : Stefano the Lombard is completely made up.

johns (GM): Okay, you force a potion down the throat of the mindless husk of Grosso

Beatrice Orsini : Zachaios just wanted to be interesting.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: lmao

johns (GM): He gags for a moment, then his eyes turn a powerful mystical blue, emitting a trail of blue smoke out of them

Zita of Mercere: "He's reporting on the covenant to outside groups, we should be careful what's said around him at least."

Bialas of Bjornaer: As the actual process of changing

between shapes is a magical act, a magus

affected by spells which would nor-

mally suppress his magic (such as Aegis

of the Hearth) must also make a Stamina +

Heartbeast roll against an Ease Factor of

Bialas of Bjornaer: (3 + magnitude of the spell) to effect the

transformation.

johns (GM): Int + OoH Lore for recognizing this sigil

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Blue? Blue smoke?"

"Smoke?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Well, it's not Galafre."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Glowing eyes?"

Zita of Mercere: "Ooh, that's a fancy one."

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+5

(

5

)

+5

=

10

johns (GM): The sigil is eyes the glow blue and emit bluish vapor.

Hypatia of Athens: OoH Lore

johns (GM): Hypatia does not recognize it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Smoke with blue eyes.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "That's cool."

Zita of Mercere: Surely someone has ooh lore

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+1+2

(

4

)

+1+2

=

7

Beatrice Orsini : Proclus, Lavinia?

Zita of Mercere: At least you tried

Bialas of Bjornaer: Wait.

I know who has OoH lore.

Zita of Mercere: I should get it on Archibald but I keep getting code of hermes instead

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the former archon had ooh lore

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+4+1

(

5

)

+4+1

=

10

Beatrice Orsini : code of hermes is more important for guernicus

Celeste: rip

johns (GM): I'll say right now, it's a Hard EF to clear.

Beatrice Orsini : it does not matter who the criminal is

Hypatia of Athens: Knowing every sigil in the order would probably be pretty tricky

johns (GM): I'll make a note of it on Grosso's sheet.

Zita of Mercere: That's why we're waiting on Lavinia to walk in and get an exploding 10

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, we can always get to this later.

Hypatia of Athens: But at least it's a clue

Beatrice Orsini : nonstressed roll

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Hypatia of Athens: Knowing every sigil in the order would probably be pretty tricky

Bialas of Bjornaer: What's Venator's sigil

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: don't little noble kids have to learn every coat of arms in the kingdom, or whatever

Giraldo of Milan: did someone say ooh lore

Aristide of Tremere: stand back

Bialas of Bjornaer: yeah buddy.

Aristide of Tremere: watch a master at work

Beatrice Orsini : they pay heralds to do learn them

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10+5

(

2

)

+5

=

7

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Beatrice Orsini : amazing

Bialas of Bjornaer: Incredible.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Bialas of Bjornaer: You did it again, Aristide.

Hypatia of Athens: There are more sigils than coats of arms

Archibald of Guernicus: The jester cap starts ringing

johns (GM): I don't think I ever established Venator's sigil? None of you have seen him cast anything afiak

you've never seen his eyes glow blue and emit smoke

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 3

(

1

)

+2+3

=

6

Aristide of Tremere: not yet

but we will

Zita of Mercere: "I could ask around next visit to Harco, some sigils do end up as gossip there."

Proclus of Rome: Sorry, I had to tend to something.

Aristide of Tremere: once i get rid of my noncombatant flaw

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What about Superbus? Maybe he would know."

Zita of Mercere: "This is a flashy one, if someone's seen it they'd remember."

johns (GM): Superbus probably doesn't know any sigils of people less than 100 years old

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe it's a 100 year old magus!

Faustus Galerius: "I only know the hedge wizards Praelix dealt with."

Beatrice Orsini : I propose that all OoH lore rolls are stressed from now on to allow for botches to lead us to hilarious misunderstandings.

johns (GM): Perhaps Zita's research will bear fruit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i second the archon's motion.

Faustus Galerius: "Most of 'em are probably dead."

johns (GM): In the mean time, is there anything else that can be done with the poor fool Grosso?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah we could, like, look it up in a book

Beatrice Orsini : "Let's keep him fed and warm and get some other grog to take away his waste."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Will he ever recover?"

Zita of Mercere: "It'll take some time though, and I'm not set for any deliveries north until later in the autumn. So, till then, this Capocci business."

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice is compassionate, so she wants him to be taken care of plus a mindless husk can be useful for experiments.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's the height of perdo mentem. He's gone for good."

Faustus Galerius: "If his mind is wiped then he can just get new memories, right? Even a baby learns stuff after a few years."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we do have OoH lore books in the library we could use to research

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, but the man he was is gone."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't remember how research works though

Beatrice Orsini : "Let's rebuild him. We have the magic."

Faustus Galerius: "I can teach him Latin."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This is a strange circumstance."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Latin? For a grog? How'll he use?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Are you sure you don't want to just kill him?"

Beatrice Orsini : Level 30 CrMe should be enough to make him an idiot instead of mindless husk.

Giraldo of Milan: he can be giraldos cult initiate

johns (GM): there's no rules on using a library to research but i'd like to think maybe +1 to +3 bonus to lore rolls depending on GM call

Faustus Galerius: "For talking."

johns (GM): Curing him would be a ritual effect, Beatrice

Beatrice Orsini : since it's level 30 CrMe to increase a mental stat and it's +6 magnitudes with Me requisite to make an illusion that can think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: really?

Proclus of Rome: "I doubt he'll be capable of learning anything anymore, but taking care of him would be the right thing to do."

Zita of Mercere: Would researching a sigil by asking around be an intrigue roll, at Harco?

Faustus Galerius: "Teach him Magic Lore and Second Sight and he could still gather vis laright, I venture."

johns (GM): I think you can just ask directly?

Faustus Galerius: "Just have to give him a little push into a magic regio."

Zita of Mercere: "We should take care of the poor man. He's been a victim of a horrible ward."

johns (GM): Well, Intrigue works for information gathering in general

So go ahead

Beatrice Orsini : "I'll work on getting his mind back or getting him a new one. It'll just take a few years."

Zita of Mercere: Sure, I'll do that after the session then cause we're doing capocci stuff first

Harco's far off

johns (GM): Another way of thinking about fixing his mind is that CrCo 30 heals an Incapacitating Physical wound, so CrMe 30 heals an incapacitating mental wound

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It would be a kindness to let him die in the woods rather than use him as a tool to gather vis."

Faustus Galerius: "Seems like he'd be an invaluable test subject as is."

Beatrice Orsini : It's Base 30 CrMe either way

But I need to be able to use that anyway.

Proclus of Rome: It's possible.

Beatrice Orsini : If I want to make self aware illusions.

Faustus Galerius: "Will his personality form back as they were, or trend towards it? Or will it be totally based on his new upbringing? Valuable insight into Mentem."

Zita of Mercere: "It should be noted that two of the spies we did find were reporting to people at the Capocci court."

Beatrice Orsini : "His soul has not yet departed, so we'll see."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Well, someone's got to do it."

Faustus Galerius: "See? We can find out where the line is drawn between Mentem and the soul. Huge leaps in theory."

Zita of Mercere: "If someone's accidentally let something dangerous slip to Ariam or Violante, please say before it comes back to bite us in this discussion."

Beatrice Orsini : in any other game a man getting horribly mindwiped is either a tragedy or a comedy. in ars, it's an opportunity

Proclus of Rome: "Is it not more worrying that Bolad is testing our defenses for an eventual invasion by the Mongol Horde?"

Beatrice Orsini : "There's half of Europe between us and the Mongols."

Proclus of Rome: "For now."

Zita of Mercere: "Beatrice, please, the threat to the catacombs from invading mongols should obviously be assesed."

Beatrice Orsini : Prester John will lead the Mongols against Islam instead and liberate the Holy Land.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Huh?"

Giraldo of Milan: prestor johns

johns (GM): :blessed:

Beatrice Orsini : "Good point, Zita. We must make sure the Catacombs are not accesible by horses."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I chat with Violante all the time."

Zita of Mercere: "Rego animal, perhaps herbam for their arrows."

Faustus Galerius: I'll be sad if I have to remake my cool apothecary VIolante

Zita of Mercere: "You haven't, ah, let anything slip about things that the conte could use against us, have you?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs.

johns (GM): Do you want to take any specific action about the spies

Proclus of Rome: I think we should interrogate them.

johns (GM): Cool, who first

Faustus Galerius: Giraldo and Jorn would have frequent contact with Violante, Gulielmus probably dips into her LP pool to make potions as well, though its less explicit.

Proclus of Rome: I think we should interview Zachaois the Stiff first.

But of course I'll defer to the wisdom of our Archon.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they're fellow apothecaries plus he's gentle gifted

so i figure they get along

Zita of Mercere: Herb Crew

the roots of herb crew run deep

Giraldo of Milan: tghats true

Beatrice Orsini : "We should deal with the Capocci situation first and have a talk with their spies."

Giraldo of Milan: would i have noticed anything strange regarding violante

or really any of the other grogs

Beatrice Orsini : "But we also need to have a talk with Zachaois soon."

Zita of Mercere: "It could just be gossip, of course."

Beatrice Orsini : "We need to know who Stefano is."

Proclus of Rome: "Discovering what their spies have been feeding them will give us an edge on Capocci's court."

Giraldo of Milan: who was pepus spying for again?

devil's fav demon: "He's probably just some guy."

Giraldo of Milan: because hes someone lab assistant

Bialas of Bjornaer: ^^

"Pepus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I don't have much of a head for this stuff. Just don't let Proclus throw them in the river, please."

Zita of Mercere: "Specifically I asked who was passing information on, some people just do that without thinking. Of course, they might be spying accidentally, so it was still worth checking."

johns (GM): Pepus was spying for Jacabo, the book merchant

Beatrice Orsini : i wanted to make pepus a lab assistant, but never got around to doing it, so i'm safe

Giraldo of Milan: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: saved by the hermetic limit of time

Giraldo of Milan: damn!

Beatrice Orsini : i never rebuilt my lab to be diminutive, so i don't need a tiny servant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [solemnly] Pepus.

Beatrice Orsini : only gifted people can be lab assistants, but servant lab virtue is available to all

johns (GM): im gonna pour a coffee real quick then lets get this show on the road

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could just learn the shrinking spell and shrink anyone down to size -2

Proclus of Rome: That seems cruel.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's only for Sun!

Zita of Mercere: Yeah, we'll check with Ariam and Violante about what they've passed along then hop over to Capoccie

Faustus Galerius: I'll get coffee too

Beatrice Orsini : Let's enchant a doorway with the effect to shrink someone.

Bialas of Bjornaer: let's kill that chandler.

Beatrice Orsini : Let's enchant a doorway at the bottom of the stairs to shrink people so much that they'll become too tiny to climb up the stairs.

The perfect prison.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Incredible.

Proclus of Rome: What would the point of this be?

We almost never take prisoners.

Beatrice Orsini : let's enchant 100 people to be tiny and put them into a very small room, then watch what happens when the effect expires.

Proclus of Rome: This seems unethical.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm starting to worry about this archon thing.

johns (GM): you ask ariam & violanet friendly like?

Beatrice Orsini : I have major Compassionate, so I can't do that.

Violante the Herbwife is in the mushroom garden developing an empirica for a mood-altering substances.

Beatrice Orsini : But I wish I could.

Proclus of Rome: I think we should cast Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie on them.

And by we I mean I should.

Zita of Mercere: I'll ask Violante politely if she knows anyone at the Capocci estate

Mention there's been a little trouble with them and it never hurts to have a good word to put in

Violante the Herbwife: "Uhhhhh... I think I know a woman named Dorothy who mentioned the Capoccis."

Zita of Mercere: "She's part of their court, I believe."

Ariam the Ethiop: Ariam, for what its worth, has just been meeting Orsu sociably at a tavern now and then and sometimes the conversation turns to gossip. He doesn't think he's sharing anything dangerous and apologizes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can make opium as a theriac

Violante the Herbwife nods slowly, inspecting a mushroom for its virtues.

johns (GM): milk of the poppy.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Most of this is probably people going "You wouldn't believe the shit those wizards did the other week"

Zita of Mercere: "Chat about Vardian's Tomb much?"

Violante the Herbwife: If I convert Violante to a character with XP I'll keep Milk of the Poppy in mind

Proclus of Rome: Well, we're famous in Rome, you know.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: painkillers cause long term fatigue but give bonuses to uhhh something based on the number of fatigue levels

johns (GM): they replace wound levels with fatigue levels

seems pretty pointless

Violante the Herbwife: "Ohhhhh. Yeah, she's very interested in Vardian's Tomb. It's cool I suppose, living underground!"

Beatrice Orsini : fatigue levels are lower penalty and there's spell to ignore fatigue penalties

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Beatrice Orsini : Let's enchant a doorway at the bottom of the stairs to shrink people so much that they'll become too tiny to climb up the stairs.

The perfect prison.

nice

Bialas of Bjornaer: bialas has a lot more free fatigue levels than he does wound levles

in certain cases.

johns (GM): hmm

then should lavinia make painkillers for combat magi?

Proclus of Rome: Probably because of all the naps he takes.

I guess anyone could.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also under the house rules a wound is 3 times as bad as a fatigue point

Bialas of Bjornaer: Maybe. They could be useful to have around.

Beatrice Orsini : my combat strategy is not getting hit in the first place

Zita of Mercere: If violante is forthcoming with it, I'll ask her about what stuff dorothy asks about in particular

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh hafl said that.

johns (GM): Okay, makes sense now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's all become opium addicts

johns (GM): I'll get around to it eventually I suppose

lets smoke hashish with the assassins

Proclus of Rome: Aren't they all dead by now?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: OR let's manufacture huge amounts of opium and provide it to all the noble houses of rome

Violante the Herbwife: "She's very sweet, concerned for our safety. Asks if we have enough men at arms and if we're making enough dough."

Proclus of Rome: Old Man in the Mountain not so tough after being shot by horse archers.

johns (GM): You can't kill an idealogy with crossbow bolts.

Beatrice Orsini : can you raise muslims ghosts?

Proclus of Rome: I don't think so.

johns (GM): depends if they got a proper burial

Proclus of Rome: I mean if they were bad Muslims you could.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's ablate hakim kemal

Gordiano of Bonisagus: So if they are Shia

johns (GM): The Mamluks continued to use the services of the remaining Assassins: in the 14th century Ibn Battuta reported their fixed rate of pay per murder. In exchange, they were allowed to exist. Eventually, they resorted to the act of Taqq'iya (dissimulation), hiding their true identities until their Imams would awaken them.

Zita of Mercere: "It's always nice when people show concern for others." I return to my sodales "Dorothy was gathering information for Capocci, I'm certain of it. Asking about what forces we have, our money troubles, and so on."

Beatrice Orsini : raising ghosts to smoke hashish with probably doesn't count as abuse under Venator's oath

Proclus of Rome: "Hugo has always resented Vardian's Tomb."

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's what they would want to do.

If they were alive.

Proclus of Rome: "I refused to be his court wizard and he has sought retribution ever since."

Violante the Herbwife thinks about regionnes that might be a good place for a secret poppy garden.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: orsu was forced to swear the oath

Zita of Mercere: "You don't think someone would take such a dislike to you, Proclus, that they pursue a petty grudge nearly 2 decades later just to get back at you?"

I think on it "Good point, actually."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so he is technically a hermetic magus working very blatantly as a court magician

Violante the Herbwife: He's Italian after all

Zita of Mercere: Everyone knows the tale of old Verditius

Proclus of Rome: Vardian's Tomb: Best Eh's and Oh's

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I don't.

johns (GM): i dont recall orsu swearing the oath

since he's ungifted and all that

Proclus of Rome: He wasn't gifted.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah it was a misunderstanding

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

(To Beatrice Orsini ): Fearless archon, suggest a bold course of action for the troupe that takes us out of the meeting room

Proclus of Rome: AND AS WE KNOW, Ungifted people cannot be members of the Order of Hermes unless they're Redcaps.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all that bumbling around and we couldnt even get the man to commit a high crime two decades later

Proclus of Rome: Archibald is such a damn fanatic he'd execute a raincloud for casting Creo Aquam without being a Magus.

Violante the Herbwife: He hasn't killed Hypatia. Yet.

Beatrice Orsini : "We won't find anything out unless we take action. It's time to head to meet with Capocci and argue about what to do on the way."

Giraldo of Milan: archibald trips on a small hole in the ground and immediately retreats to his lair to figure out the sigil of the attacking magus

Beatrice Orsini : "Proclus, I trust you to have the best interests of the covenant on your mind."

Proclus of Rome: "Of course."

johns (GM): You could visit Capocci tower, you could head to Allumiere directly, or you could surprise me with a third option

Proclus of Rome: "In fact, I almost always do."

Beatrice Orsini : And I'll take Jorn aside and tell him to make sure the faeries remain as unmolested as possible.

It's why I asked him to be co-leader with Proclus.

Jorn of Merinita: "They're just employees. I'm not their mother."

Beatrice Orsini : "I meant the ones on Capocci land."

Proclus of Rome: Super Capocci Land

Jorn of Merinita: "They wanna have dealings with some queen, who knows, might be good for them."

"Ahhhhh, I see."

"I'll do what I'm able."

Zita of Mercere: brb

johns (GM): Jorn, what action do you propose the players take

Jorn of Merinita: Proclus was right that I can't trust a dwarf just because they're a dwarf, that logic has shaken my worldview a bit.

So my apologies for the misunderstanding.

Proclus of Rome: Proclus of Rome Presents: Mindfreak

Jorn of Merinita: Okay, let's see

Giraldo of Milan: pepus was a spy planted to keep an eye on jorn, abusing his trust of the small folk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Jorn of Merinita: Proclus was right that I can't trust a dwarf just because they're a dwarf, that logic has shaken my worldview a bit.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm not a big court guy.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: So my apologies for the misunderstanding.

Artemisia will come on this adventure due to her vast experience in dealing with rapists, faeries, and faerie rapists.

johns (GM): ????

Did Gulielmus break the rules

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus will hang for this

johns (GM): I can't follow the conversation sorry

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was going to reply to the thing jorn said

Bialas of Bjornaer: You need to drink more coffee.

Jorn of Merinita: "The land has value as a source of alchemical reagents, but if Proclus doesn't trust the Conte with this information than I don't either."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and then i realized actually what i was going to say was entirely backwards

ha ha.

johns (GM): Anyway someone do something, anything

Bialas of Bjornaer: Let's go to Allumiere and then when the footmen show up we can demand they go get Capocci and bring him to meet us if it's such a big deal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sorry for the confusion.

Proclus of Rome: "I would assume that anyone familiar with Allumiere would know about the vast fields salted with arsenic."

johns (GM): ok Bialas

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo will go on this mission to ensure that faeries are not molested

Proclus of Rome: It would be easier to just walk about a mile to his court.

johns (GM): Who wants to go on the expedition

Proclus of Rome: I think we should go to the court first.

Beatrice Orsini : See if Capocci is at Capocci tower first. No need to go out of Rome and waste lab time¨unless necessary.

johns (GM): Ok, the archon has decided

Bialas of Bjornaer: Thank you, archon.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's do what the archon and the deputy archon said.

johns (GM): drop ya tokens if ya here

Jorn of Merinita: "I assumed before that because nothing grew on the land, a stuffshirt wouldn't care about it. But now you tell me he cultivates a court of learned individuals."

Beatrice Orsini returns to the library to spend an evening with good wine and Something About Vim.

Zita of Mercere: bac

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'm taking Proclus' advice and having a nap."

Giraldo of Milan: zitas heroic token size

johns (GM): Only one regular gifted guy in the bunch

Crazy!

Artemisia: where did artemisia's huge token go?

johns (GM): no clue

Artemisia: i'm sure i dropped it

thank you

Giraldo!!!!!

johns (GM): also I just enabled the API that auto resizes tokens

Anyhow, the 7 (I think) of you head to the tower

Naturally there's a couple men at arms at the entryway to greet any visitors. They do that thing where they cross their pikes as you get near.

Artemisia: Good news, with experimenting, Beatrice can figure out a spell to save Grosso in just three seasons once she maxes out Mentem.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you ruined zita's great legerdemain trick

Jorn of Merinita: I've been slowly making dys's token one pixel smaller each session. Let's see if he notices

Artemisia: Two seasons with lucky rolls.

Celeste: "It's been a while since I've left the house. This can't go well."

Zita of Mercere: Small Frame (token)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i've been halving my paladin's token size secretly, is there anything else i can do

Proclus of Rome: "Stand aside, we have pressing business with your master, Hugo di Capocci."

Watchman: "Whoa there fella. I'm sure you do. But who are you?"

Proclus of Rome: "I am Proclus of Rome."

"I am here with a message from Vardian's Tomb."

Zita of Mercere: "My sodales and I are philosophers, we have some association with the conte's court."

Watchman scratches his chin

Watchman: "Oh yeah, you lot."

Zita of Mercere: "Orsu's still here, isn't he?"

Proclus of Rome: Illiterate Philosophers ahoy.

Jorn of Merinita: "Heil and well met."

Giraldo of Milan: "Wind's howling."

Celeste: lol

Watchman: "s'matter of fact Orsu's not 'round at the moment. Nor my lord di Capocci. If you're part of that.. crew, I s'pose you'll be wishing to talk to his steward or the witchy woman?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: All women are witchy

Zita of Mercere: "We will. Do you know when the conte might be back?"

Watchman: "It aint my place to say."

Celeste: "I'm not witchy at all. I'm very devout."

Watchman: "Not today at least."

Celeste: "Where is he?"

Watchman: "It aint my place to say."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I think we already know the answer."

Zita of Mercere: "We do not mean to pry, but we have important things to discuss, I'm sure you could let it slip just once."

i wanna roll charm to persuade him to tell us

Jorn of Merinita: Scry on his brain and if it deletes itself we push past

Watchman: Roll away.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

2

)

+18

=

20

Proclus of Rome: We should just ask the steward.

Zita of Mercere: Why scry with a modifier like that?

I'm saving my uses for the count

Watchman: "Eh, honestly... I don't know. Not that I could tell you if I did, y'see."

"He & that Orsu fella left a few days ago on some secret business."

Zita of Mercere: "Not been gone long, has he?"

Jorn of Merinita: This Bonfilla rap isn't funny. If you know the breads you need to PeMe yourself.

Proclus of Rome: Heh.

Celeste: "Probably off raping Jews together."

Watchman: "If'n you wish to see the steward Proclus Ofrome, I kin take you now."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Celeste!"

Artemisia: Ofrome

Celeste: That was mumbled to myself.

Zita of Mercere: "Celeste, please. Orsu was solitary in his pursuits."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean you aren't wrong.

Celeste: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Zita of Mercere: Oh yeah, the witch was the one I tried to steal her hat off her head

Watchman: Zita has an unsettled score

Proclus of Rome: "I am grateful that he has the time for us."

Celeste wipes the wine off her mouth with a sleeve.

Zita of Mercere: Hang on, lemme check my modifier for that now

Think I can actually do it

Watchman: Okay, a page leads you into the complex to the great hall.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Pretty good hall."

Zita of Mercere: +24, alright

Watchman: The whole place -- the tower, its surrounding buildings -- are pretty quiet. You don't notice many people around.

Giraldo of Milan: the witch has also been training

her awareness score has grown massively

Zita of Mercere: It's not an opposed roll

It's EF 30

It should be opposed but it's not, so I'm going to make Johns regret making it an EF by achieving it

I've been training for years for this

Edwin Locke: Inside the Great Hall you find Edwin Locke looking at some papers. He greets you politely.

"The wise ones of Vardian's Tomb. To what do we owe the pleasure?"

Proclus of Rome: "Thank you for the honor of this audience, Edwin Locke. We believe that there has been a misunderstanding involving our affairs in the poor village of Allumiere."

Edwin Locke: He offers you all to take seats at the nice big oak table (Aesthetic Quality: 15). "Where to begin..."

Jorn of Merinita: "Nice table."

Celeste: "Drinks?"

Proclus of Rome: What's the EF to steal the table?

Zita of Mercere: What's the aesthetic quality of the... no... no!

Edwin Locke snaps fingers. Nothing happens, so he tries a few more times until a servant finally shows up.

Artemisia: I'm glad the GM learned to prepare Aesthetic Quality in advance.

Proclus of Rome: Who is the servant?

Just a servant?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many years ago was the table built

Jorn of Merinita: You could get 30xp a year studying that table, nice.

Edwin Locke: "My Lord has recently acquired those lands, yes. I had no idea you had an interest in them as well. May I ask what your affairs there were?"

Edwin Locke rolls some dice

Jorn of Merinita: I'll have to send any wannabe carpenters here.

Edwin Locke:

(To GM) rolling 1d100+20

(

98

)

+20

=

118

Edwin Locke: The table is 118 years old.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Thank you.

Giraldo of Milan: "Mm. Nice table."

Jorn of Merinita: If it's a table of virtue and over a century old, it could serve as a magic tether

Proclus of Rome: "We believe a fugitive is hiding out in those lands. His name is Prudenzio and he is quite dangerous. Have you heard of him?"

Edwin Locke: You notice many nicks and scratches where over the hundred or so years, people have stuck maps to the table with daggers.

Artemisia: excellent

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the dagger marks only serve to enhance the aesthetic quality of the table

Edwin Locke looks shocked for a moment, but quickly hides it

Jorn of Merinita: The dagger nicks make it more virtuous

Edwin Locke: "A fugitive? Good heavens. From.. what, precisely?"

Artemisia: Orsu and Capocci went to Prudenzio to study rape arts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Vardian's Tomb."

Proclus of Rome: "We don't like to discuss it, save to say that he committed a grave crime against our Order."

Edwin Locke shifts uneasily in his seat

Edwin Locke: "I.. was under the impression he was one of your own."

"Your covenant, I mean."

Zita of Mercere: "You met with him?"

Celeste: "He's always been so full of shit."

Proclus of Rome: "That is part of what makes his crime so heinous, as he is also a traitor."

Zita of Mercere: I use my bracelet. I ask the silent question 'did the conte meet with prudenzio'

Edwin Locke: Yes.

Are you asking if he did in the past, or is doing so today?

Zita of Mercere: "You let the conte leave with him?"

Just in the past

Edwin Locke: Edwin is silent for a bit, visibly pondering what to say.

"The man is.. hm, how shall I put this."

Proclus of Rome: You can tell because it says "Edwin Locke is typing..."

Edwin Locke: "He is performing a service for the court. I am sure that whatever his crime is, Lord Capocci can make the affected parties whole."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is all because aristocritus forgot he had the gentle gift isn't it

Jorn of Merinita: "Maybe we can get back some vis. Seems lately we've been handing out reparations like candy."

Proclus of Rome: "It is a grave crime indeed. I will have to consult with my lawyer, but such an accord may not be possible."

Celeste: "We'll have to meet with him ourselves."

Edwin Locke: "I believe an accommodation of vis is possible, certainly."

"Hmm.."

Celeste: "I thought he was dead!"

"He could have sent a letter."

Zita of Mercere: "This depends what he's been doing with them, though. Prudenzio was an expert in beguiling."

Proclus of Rome: "If he is not dead, he may soon be."

"You know what a stickler for the rules Archibald of Guernicus is."

Edwin Locke: "I can assure you, Mrs. Zita, my lord's mind is untampered with. I monitor his humors carefully and would note any variances caused by Hermetic magic."

Artemisia: he tastes his urine and everything

Edwin Locke: "You put me in an awkward position Mr. Proclus. I can't truly bar you from seeing the man, but it would be a grave offense to my lord if you were to slay Prudenzio."

Proclus of Rome: "Is it possible for you to recall Lord Capoci to Rome? We may be able to determine if he has, in fact, been bewitched."

Edwin Locke emphasizes the word "grave"

Zita of Mercere: "We could meet with Prudenzio."

Edwin Locke: "I believe my lord will be here within a fortnight, perhaps 3 weeks."

Proclus of Rome: "It would serve no one's interests if the wrong people were to discover this heinous breech of the Code."

Edwin Locke: "Respectfully, I do believe your Code involves some measure of abstaining from the affairs of mundanes?"

"Murdering one of Lord Capocci's ... acquaintances would transgress that, I would think."

Proclus of Rome: "Unfortunately, as far as I know, the Code makes no provision for the protection of those magically enslaved by its enemies."

Jorn of Merinita: "It's a code that's interpreted by learned men. Sometimes creatively. Like most legal systems work."

Zita of Mercere: "Rest assured, we have no desire to mess with your court. Only a concern about what this dangerous individual may do, or may have done."

Edwin Locke nods

Zita of Mercere: "Three weeks, then, you won't mind if we return then?"

Edwin Locke: "You will find him and the others at Allumiere. Prudenzio is in the tower.."

Jorn of Merinita: "For example, the code is lax when it comes to providing quality mason work at rates more negotiable than the guild's. Just an example."

Proclus of Rome: "Has he repaired it?"

Edwin Locke: "Repaired?"

"Oh--"

"The new tower, pardon."

Proclus of Rome: "Interesting, where is the new tower?"

Edwin Locke: "You Magi are always welcome, Mrs. Zita. I may not be present in person to welcome you but I shall keep the servants aware."

Celeste: "Of course he's in a tower."

Edwin Locke: "If you know the land, you know there are hills surrounding a valley. You will see the tower under construction on one of the hills. It is impossible to miss."

Celeste: "Showoff."

Proclus of Rome: "Interesting that he should decide to do that."

Jorn of Merinita: "I look forward to inspecting the aesthetic quality of the tower."

Artemisia: Time to wait for three weeks in order to prevent loss of lab time and allow the villains enough time to finish their evil plan.

Zita of Mercere: Everyone cheers at Jorn's classic catchphrase

Edwin Locke: right

So you could wait 3 weeks or you could head out now

Allumiere is less than a full day's travel away

Proclus of Rome: We should go immediately.

Celeste: Yeah.

Proclus of Rome: With a full force of grogs.

Zita of Mercere: When we're finished here, I'll suggest to my sodales that we go immediately

Proclus of Rome: Loyalty not required.

Edwin Locke: You could also: talk to other people, go back home and give up, or spend the rest of the session arguing and calling each other names

Artemisia: If it's less than a day away, it's fine, I guess.

Let's do the last thing.

Proclus of Rome: As Prudenzio can merely destroy their minds anyway.

Artemisia: Stick to our strengths.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we need the archon to draw a dashed line on the map

it's traditional

Edwin Locke: Prudenzio hasn't been officially marched, right?

Jorn of Merinita: I will be for giving up pathetically in 2 hours or so since I have dinner with family, but I have time at the moment.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Looking forward for the latter

johns (GM): alas...

Zita of Mercere: "Unfortunately, Prudenzio's rather expert knowledge of Mentem seems far too dangerous for someone without the parma to interfere with, so I won't be coming."

johns (GM): Well, who wants to go? Drop some tokens of magi/companions/grogs on the map, please.

Artemisia: tell me when everyone's ready to start

johns (GM): Tanolfi is unavailable, recovering from a crossbow wound

Artemisia: rip

(From Zita of Mercere): Not worth handling now, but while we're here, I'm going to try and get that hat. To test my abilities.

Proclus of Rome: What a baby.

(To Zita of Mercere): Okay, roll stealth, stressed

Sister Aurelia hands towards Artemisia since she doesn't know the other magi well

Gordiano of Bonisagus: You can't die of a crossbow wound

Zita of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+27

(

9

)

+27

=

36

Artemisia: "Hello, sister."

is that everyone?

(From Zita of Mercere): legerdemain, now. here i go

Sister Aurelia: "Salve."

johns (GM): Looks like it, 6 wizards, 6 grogs, 1 companion

Zita of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+24

(

10

+

6

)

+24

=

40

Beatrice Orsini wishes you pleasant journey.

Sister Aurelia: Does a relic give you gift resistance?

johns (GM): lets see if I can copy all these tokens to the next page

nah sister

Proclus of Rome: Only the Parma Magica does.

Sister Aurelia: Good to know

Artemisia: Artemisia has Gentle Gift for now, anyway.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: looking forward to being killed by prudenzio, so that johns doesnt have to deal with any more questions about formulae or the rusticani virtues

johns (GM): The last time you visited Allumiere, finding the village was a little tricky -- it's far off any main roads.

Sister Aurelia: Or Aesthetic Quality

Proclus of Rome: AFK a minute.

johns (GM): This time, there is a well trodden dirt path leading to the village, showing signs of much use.

Artemisia: Everyone asks about aesthetic quality now.

Mill!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mill.

Artemisia: let's blow it up

johns (GM): From far off, you also spot a 6 story tower on the top of one of the hills that was  definitely  not there last time.

Where to first?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The tower.

Celeste: Yeah.

Sister Aurelia: Who's going to tell Hypatia after you get Aurelia killed while she was out on pilgrimage?

Archibald of Guernicus: "That definitely wisnae here last time. Did ye happen tae see it when ye were inspecting the place, Jorn?"

johns (GM): It was here when Jorn came in but maybe he didn't notice or came at a different angle

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "What a large tower. Italy is truly a rich land."

johns (GM): Anyway, your band of magi and armed men / women head towards the river crossing.

Sister Aurelia: Jorn always comes at odd angles, as he's a dwarf who favors tunnels.

johns (GM): You haven't gotten far across the river when hoofbeats sound and two riders in tabards approach..

Watchman: "Halt! Who goes there!"

Jorn of Merinita: "Might've caught a glance at it before, oh. Heil and well met."

"Jorn of Vardian's Tomb."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Gulielmus ex Miscellanea. And no doubt you will have heard of Proclus of Rome."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea indicates Proclus Ofrome.

Watchman: "These lands are claimed by the Count di Capocci. What's your business here?"

Artemisia: Ofrome is Italian for of Rome

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclo di roma

Archibald of Guernicus: I think about speaking up, but remain quiet to keep my Blatant Stink from interfering with this

Jorn of Merinita: "Seems an odd stake, considering barely anything grows here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We're here to see the Conte."

Watchman: One murmurs to the other in response to Jorn and Gulielmus, "Foreigners."

The other murmurs, "A frenchman."

Jorn of Merinita: Garrisons require food back home, too

Watchman: "Go tell that son of a whore Richemont if he wants it he better bring a whole army."

Archibald of Guernicus: All the magi stand around, stare at their feet, wait for their mom to pick them up

Jorn of Merinita: "RIchemont?"

Watchman: "Don't play dumb, frog."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i know who richemont is

Watchman: No.

Sounds French.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm french!

Jorn of Merinita: "Sacrebleu."

Watchman: What's your Area Lore: France

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: zero, as i have area lore: normandy instead

Watchman: gahaha.

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah I take tribunals as area lore

Artemisia: Richemont is rich and lives in mountains.

Celeste: It's all there.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: OBVIOUSLY referring to the duchy here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks confused.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Who on God's green Earth is Richemont?"

Jorn of Merinita: I took Scandinavia as my area lore because the splat is called Ultima Thule - Mythic Scandinavia

Watchman: "Your lord, sending you sorry lot to spy on us. Tell him we're ready for anything he's got."

Artemisia: i am magus, i go outside and i have area lore

Jorn of Merinita: I mutter at them in Old Norse and go to analyze the tower's AQ

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the pro move is to have a covenant upbringing so you can take ooh lore instead of area lore in childhood

Watchman: any non retarded people want to act here

Celeste: "I want to see my father!"

Jorn of Merinita: Nice

Celeste: they probably hear that all the time.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably.

Watchman studies you

Giraldo of Milan: "I don't know who Richemont is, but the day I take orders from a frog is the day I die."

Watchman: "Hmm.."

"Who you say's your papa?"

Celeste: "Prudenzio of Flambeau."

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: welcome.

Watchman: The two riders share a hearty laugh.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm not sure what they have against modern architects but thees guys are a pain to talk to

Watchman: "Christ another one. Well you shoulda said so."

Giraldo of Milan: of course theyre a pain to talk to, theyre guards

their job sucks and the only fun in it is being an asshole

Jorn of Merinita: The other guard wasn't this aggressively uncultured

Celeste: You know, I've never met any siblings.

Jorn of Merinita: Back at Rome

Watchman: "Sir Prudenzio's up there." He points to the tower. "Course he's an important man 'n' all that so don't go getting yer hopes up."

Proclus of Rome: That fucker got himself knighted?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Obviously there's nothing to do here but turn back while Celeste goes on alone.

The guard said we can't continue.

Proclus of Rome: Obviously we need to go with her.

Celeste: "Can I bring the people I'm guarding?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Court wizardry, of all things." I mutter

Watchman: The riders discuss in hushed tones for a bit, one of them laughs and nods

"Sure, we don't have enough freaks 'round here already. It ain't us you gotta worry about making a false move around.."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Just give them some money to buy beer or something." Gordiano whispers.

Watchman: And they head off.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Or nevermind

Artemisia: Celeste should shoot them as soon as they turn their backs to us.

Celeste: "They were very nice men."

"No!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Some guards."

Watchman: That is your right.

Well.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's see the AQ of this tower and if they're hypocrites about hating the frogs.

Artemisia: nice tower

Watchman: The tower is clearly under construction. You can see the scaffolds and falsework as you approach.

The AQ is... 10 !

Celeste: "Wow."

Proclus of Rome: Wow!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea coughs up blood.

Celeste: that's not that nice.

Proclus of Rome: That's 20 higher than it will be in 24 hours.

Archibald of Guernicus: "He's got them building a bloody tower for him."

Artemisia: "I've seen tables more aesthetic than this tower."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Watchman: There's plenty of activity around. Guardsmen and lots of laborers toiling, dragging sleges of stone, chipping at stone, mixing masonry glue, etc.

Giraldo of Milan: "What is this crap?"

Watchman: lol proclus

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Jorn of Merinita: Only AQ10? Maybe they do have a coherent hatred of the French after all.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's 10 better than a conjured tower

Giraldo of Milan: me, im more of an aq40 man myself

Watchman: You can see some cool pictures if you scroll down too.

Proclus of Rome: There's an excellent chance that this has been built over the cave network.

Artemisia: nice scans of "Life in Medieval Castle for Kids"

Proclus of Rome: Prudenzio was familiar with it.

Watchman: In addition, waving above the gatehouse is a white banner, lined with silver, fashioned with an ornate letter "P."

Artemisia: tacky

Archibald of Guernicus: Rolling Code of Hermes on what to do if someone is committing constant crimes after leaving their covenant and stopping attending tribunal

Jorn of Merinita: :thinking:

Celeste: "It's very 'him'."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+7

(

2

)

+2+7

=

11

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably wizard's war

Giraldo of Milan: is there a full moon tonight?

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean within my legal capacity as a quaesitor, not just my right I have at all times, against any wizard, for any reason

Watchman: If you're going to kill a wizard outside of wizard's march or wizard's war they better be doing something so blatantly dangerous and illegal that they're under forfeit immunity

like diabolism

Proclus of Rome: He's an illegal vagrant since he left Vardian's Tomb and didn't join another covenant.

Jorn of Merinita: "I could have built him a tower at least one and one half times this aesthetic," I mutter sullenly.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably wait until the next tribunal and have him marched in a kangaroo court

Proclus of Rome: And it's been more than a year since he left.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "P for Puto."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I kind of like it."

Archibald of Guernicus: A vagrant merely means he has no sanctum, unless Flambeau disowns him for more than a year he's still legally a magus

johns (GM): brb 1 s

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "As far as towers go it's much nicer than what we've got."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I should point out, before we confront the bastard, that he is still legally a magus. Unless he is directly attacking us, or engaging in diabolism, please do not blind or grapple the man."

Artemisia: Our tower goes down into the ground.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if a magic aura is produced by, say, an exceptionally beautiful mountain

will a high aq tower do the same

Artemisia: Someone being a magus hasn't stopped us this spring.

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, I forgot that you have infinite patience for obvious criminals."

Celeste: "Wait, I can't shoot him?"

Artemisia: "You can."

Jorn of Merinita: "If you want a tower just let me know, Gulielmus."

Celeste: "You know, that would be a sin, now that I finally confront the idea."

"I shouldn't."

"Shit."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, Proclus, my patience for ye all is boundless."

Artemisia: "You have tha ability to shoot him."

Celeste: "I really want to shoot him."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If Celeste shoots her dad of her own accord, it's her own choice."

Proclus of Rome: "There would truly be nothing we could do."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Getting set upon by a noblemen's retinue would not be good for the Covenant, however."

Artemisia: "Except letting go of him to let him dodge."

johns (GM): Jorn expertly notices the trail the laborers make, and sees that there is much movement between here, the hill, and the village proper.

Jorn of Merinita: Hmmm

johns (GM): What next, Troupe?

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait for prudenzio to die of old age

Proclus of Rome: I think we should check out the ruined tower.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it should only take a couple years

johns (GM): The one with the old covenant in it?

er necormancer's lab?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: >North

johns (GM): Ok.

Proclus of Rome: And the skeleton elevator.

Jorn of Merinita: Classic necrotech

johns (GM): En route you pass through the Gorge. There are new structures there, too, but not towers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets get some dotted line action here

Jorn of Merinita: What kind of structures?

johns (GM): I lead the dotting to you, cthinker

Giraldo of Milan: what kind of structures

Artemisia: to ruined sanctum?

Jorn of Merinita: I'm interested in practical stuff too

Not just pretty stuff

Proclus of Rome: Tiny wall.

Giraldo of Milan: im interested in this

johns (GM): See, the poor angling and perspective on this is a deliberate choice. to show that it's out of place.

Giraldo of Milan: wow. nice wall, hadrian

johns (GM): Anyway it's a wooden shack and a 2 story building with stone foundation.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

johns (GM): Around them are gardens, clearly manmade.

Proclus of Rome: We should investigate them.

Artemisia: let's

johns (GM): Well, that's your right.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: that's one shitty shack

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Nice gorge."

johns (GM): You investigate, and conclude that the buildings are real and not Imaginem illusions.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus gets distracted by herbs

Violante the Herbwife: What are they growing in the gardens?

johns (GM): Herbs!

Violante the Herbwife: Oooh

Proclus of Rome: Herbs, eh?

Artemisia: Let's steal the herbs.

Violante the Herbwife: Let's

johns (GM): Oh as a reminder, this entire valley has a Magic 5 aura

Celeste: Those aren't your herbs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: any good herbs

Proclus of Rome: Let's knock on the shack door.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: (dinner brb)

johns (GM): Lots of good ones. Roll Apothecary + Int for insight

Violante the Herbwife: I can roll Magic Lore or Survival on the herbs

Or Medicine

johns (GM): Also valid, Violante

Giraldo of Milan: oh no. gordo has begun uncontrollably eating every herb

Archibald of Guernicus: Prudenzio backstabbed us over 3 pawns of perdo vis and an aura 2 better than what he had

Violante the Herbwife: Also Profession: Apothecary

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12+2

(

8

)

+12+2

=

22

Violante the Herbwife: I'll figure out which one is best

Artemisia: 2 extra aura is not bad

Giraldo of Milan: i dont have apothecary but ill roll int

Archibald of Guernicus: I wasn't knocking it. Hell he made the right choice.

Violante the Herbwife:

rolling d10+8+2 Medicine

(

5

)

+8+2

=

15

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald is going to do the same thing so

Archibald of Guernicus: Besides when he became a court wizard and died in an adventure due to high wounds

johns (GM): You note many herbs associated with folk remedies and concoctions. Violante dismisses some of those as superstitious rabble.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+1

(

5

)

+1

=

6

Artemisia: archibals is going to betray us for 3 higher aura, actually

johns (GM): There are exotic herbs here that must have cost a good deal to bring over and require good care to grow.

Giraldo of Milan: 11 if its medicine instead of apothecary

johns (GM): Giraldo, you believe some of the herbs are edible and not poisonous.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea admires the herbs.

Violante the Herbwife: "Someone seems to know about cultivating herbs in magic auras, at least."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Clearly the work of a talented apothecary."

Violante the Herbwife: "They'd have to import the soil too."

Giraldo of Milan: I look for any herbs we don't have at our covenant garden and loot them.

Violante the Herbwife: "I chatted a bunch with Dorothy about projects like this. Funny coincidence."

Proclus of Rome: "Could it be Brunisenda's handiwork?"

johns (GM): A voice calls out from the second story window.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The folk witch? Mebbe, she had a hand in these sorts of things I recall."

Potestas Covenant is typing

Potestas Covenant: "Ho! Cease! You, there!" He points at Giraldo.

Did Potestas say that?

I mean

Violante the Herbwife: lol

Potom Flos: I said that

Giraldo of Milan: what the

Archibald of Guernicus: The potom flos theme tune kicks in

Giraldo of Milan:  rips smug mask off prudenzio and reveals potom flos

Violante the Herbwife: Potestas Covenant: Not the walnut sauce again!

Proclus of Rome: Damn!

Potom Flos: i thought i mentioned potom in the capocci recap

oh well

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: How long ago did he leave us, anyway?

Giraldo of Milan: that man wrote a lot of books

ive got it

Archibald of Guernicus: He was someone's companion or something

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume potom flos was gone before i showed up

Giraldo of Milan: lets ransom his herbs

Potom Flos: Around the time Ferris died.

Archibald of Guernicus: Darvin's companion?

Ah

Giraldo of Milan: i never knew he left

Proclus of Rome: "What are you doing here, Potom Flos?"

Giraldo of Milan: i thought he was just kept in a time bubble

Celeste: He was quiet.

Potom Flos: "Touch those herbs and I'll hex you and your descendants bald for 3 generations!"

Giraldo of Milan: and occasionally a book came out

Archibald of Guernicus: He left and no-one noticed for [checks watch] ten years

Celeste: Potom flos attempted to blackjack a man into unconsciousness with -4 dex or str or something and then ran away

Potom Flos: "I  live  here!"

Giraldo of Milan: I back off from the npc conversation.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was ftw

"In this aura? That's not safe."

Giraldo of Milan: i just assumed whoevers character he was forgot to make books

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you get warped in a level 5 aura right

Archibald of Guernicus: "Actually, an aura of 5 is perfectly safe to live in indefinitely."

Potom Flos: if you're mundane

well, not if you'r emundane

Violante the Herbwife: ""Nice garden."

Potom Flos: but potom isn't mundane

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, well, i don't know that

Potom Flos: "Grazi."

Potom Flos leans further out the window

Archibald of Guernicus: You only take warping at aura 6 and above, even if mundane

Celeste: Smart.

Proclus of Rome: "Why have you joined up with the treacherous Prudenzio?"

Potom Flos: "What?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I missed this before. Magi can live in magic auras as strong as they like, with zero warping

Potom Flos: He gets tired of shouting out a window and walks downstairs to talk to you all face to face.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's find a magic ten aura to move to

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have to go to araby to get a magic ten aura

Potom Flos: "'Joined up?" We serve the same Lord but I'm not his servant if he's been saying something silly like that."

Proclus of Rome: "Surely you know that Prudenzio has claimed this valley as his own. You couldn't have missed the tower with his name on it."

Potom Flos: "Claimed as his own?"

"Then he's getting ahead of himself isn't he?"

Proclus of Rome: "Prudenzio no doubt has ensorcelled Hugo di Capocci."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's his bloody tower, I bet."

Potom Flos: "By law it's Capocci and by custom it's the Silver Lady's."

"Ensorcelled.. No, I think not. The conte takes precautions against that sort of things. Charms from the learned magician, potions, herbs, and so on and so forth."

Jorn of Merinita: "I guess if they acknowledge the Silver Lady's claim, that rests the matter of fae molestation to rest."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fat lot of good that'll do against the kind of mentem prudenzio got up to."

Proclus of Rome: "You certainly must be aware that Prudenzio would never content himself with servitude and that his powers are far greater than the ability of the Conte's hedge magicians to defeat."

Celeste: "He's not that great."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Are you formerly of Vardian's Tomb? Why would you leave to become a court magician?"

Potom Flos: "I know the merits of Hermetic magic, I've read plenty of books."

Potom Flos coughs

Jorn of Merinita: "What if he let Prudenzio have a tower because he knew it'd irk us?"

"Well, not me. Never met Prudenzio."

Potom Flos: "Hunched over a lectern copying books in a dank crypt is not for me, ... I haven't met you yet."

Jorn of Merinita: "Jorn of Merinita."

Celeste: be right back.

Potom Flos: "The tower is for the Silver Lady's sake, if I heard right."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I dont see why Prudenzio'd be out tae piss us off. He stole and fled, that was the end of it, till this."

Proclus of Rome: "The Silver Lady?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, Gulielmus ex Miscellanea, pleased to meet you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea extends a hand.

Artemisia: "Oh dear."

Proclus of Rome: Metal Gear?

Potom Flos shakes it

Artemisia: "He wants to marry her for some reason, doesn't he?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "The one ye couldnae stop insulting, Proclus, and got a grog killed."

Potom Flos: Two gentle gifted guys, shaking hands. Heartwarming

"He already did."

Jorn of Merinita sees the hand shaking social custom and does the same.

Archibald of Guernicus: [eyes glowing] potom flos is gifted?

Potom Flos gets lost in thought for a moment

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont know a thing about him, he showed up here before I did

Potom Flos: "Ah... I remember!"

"I was very curious, why you were not at the wedding. Yes, that was it."

Proclus of Rome: "Surely Prudenzio wouldn't be the court magician of a fairy queen."

"Not even he is that stupid."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Wedding. Aye, seems like he is."

Artemisia: "Why do I keep getting into situations like this?"

Giraldo of Milan: "He married a faerie?"

Potom Flos: "What is 'stupid' about serving a noble lord?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Nothing wrong with marrying a faerie."

Archibald of Guernicus: Giraldo yells, jealously

Proclus of Rome: "The SIlver Queen is no noble."

Potom Flos: "I have a strong aura, all the herbs and space I need, no want or worry of anything.."

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo would never tie himself to one partner

Artemisia: it's not molesting if it's within holy matrimony

Potom Flos: "Not technically. Yet, at least."

Violante the Herbwife: "Need any grogs?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yet?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The sort of deal the Order should have been able to offer you."

Proclus of Rome: "She is a trickster who has tormented the people of Allumiere with her vile poisons."

Potom Flos: "You have a keen eye for herbs, I could certainly use.. Oh, hm, yes Archibald. The court intrigue is not for me so I don't know the details but I heard.."

"What was it.."

Artemisia: "She is just like any other noble lord then, Master Proclus."

Celeste: "I'm shocked."

Proclus of Rome: "A shocking sentiment from one so young."

Potom Flos: "Oh, I recall... If.. a human man were a noble, then it would legitimize the faerie wife? I believe."

Celeste: "She's going to be so upset with him in a few years."

Potom Flos: "It is so confusing."

Violante the Herbwife: Hard to grow anything but mushrooms and lichen in a tomb :thinking:

Proclus of Rome: "Prudenzio's plan is as depraved as he is."

Archibald of Guernicus: Prudenzio's dead wife still follows him around, that must make things awkward

Proclus of Rome: "We have to stop this no matter the cost."

"Surely even you agree Archibald."

Giraldo of Milan: "I don't know what his plan is, but nothing good can come of it."

Artemisia: "I agree, Master Proclus."

Giraldo of Milan: "Is that shack in the distance yours too?"

Celeste: Yeah, I haven't seen Esther in a while, she must be with him.

Potom Flos: Potom smirks.

Artemisia: here's the plan. i seduce prudenzio andmake the silver lady break off the marriage

Celeste: lmfao

Archibald of Guernicus: "Even me? Save yer pish till we're done with this, he's gone too far here, we do have a duty tae stop this."

Giraldo of Milan: heres the backup plan. i seduce the silver lady

Potom Flos: "It was that other witch's for a spell but.. I was able to demonstrate my abilities were superior, to the Conte. So now this entire Gorge is mine."

Artemisia: any charm roll of 1 is automatically a botch for me, even unstressed so there's no downside to my plan

Jorn of Merinita: "What would be the supposed terrible consequences of a magi marrying a faerie?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Do you mind if I investigate it?"

Potom Flos: I am not sure you can make the Silver Lady divorce Prudenzio unless they are cousins

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Other than the usual consequences of marrying a woman?"

Potom Flos: and the Pope allows it

Proclus of Rome: "She would become a true queen."

Jorn of Merinita: "Nice!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Imagine if we'd talked to brunisenda instead of stealing her hat.

Proclus of Rome: "And thus have all the legal rights thereof."

Potom Flos: "I would mind, I saw how you were going to manhandle my garden."

Jorn of Merinita: :thinking:

"I see. I see."

Giraldo of Milan: "Sorry. I thought this was Prudenzio's temporary home, and wanted to repay his act of thievery."

Artemisia: ok. let's leave until the marriage is done

then return and kill prudenzio

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's no the marriage that's the problem, it's him handing over control of a region tae his fairy wife, and ensorcelling mundanes tae do it."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It is a truly exquisite garden, by the way."

Potom Flos blushes

Proclus of Rome: "There is no doubt in my mind that Prudenzio will then attempt to gain control over Hugo di Capocci's londes, even in Rome."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Proclus of Rome: "Was the Conte really so foolish as to knight Prudenzio?"

Artemisia: seduce him, gui

Giraldo of Milan: "He'll probably throw you out of the gorge, as well."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, I bet he's the one who pushed the conte tae take this place over."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Being knighted does sound good. Perhaps the Order was wrong when they outlawed Court Magicians."

Potom Flos: "Last I heard it was not settled yet."

"Some in his court were telling him he should, others telling him he shouldn't."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Imagine the sorts of feasts that a Lord can pay you!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i take a point of faerie lore xp from adventures where someone explains how faeries work

Proclus of Rome: "The Conte's men called him 'Sir Prudenzio.'"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or do i have to read a book.

Potom Flos: "I don't eat to excess myself but-- the Conte spares no expenses on treating his courtiers."

Celeste: potom flos is really making the hard sell.

(From Artemisia): what's the fairy place artemisia is a princess of by marriage in case i need to pull rank?

Potom Flos: "Maybe in jest."

(To Artemisia): Devil's Lane

Jorn of Merinita: A faerie marriage, a cool garden, everything seems right here.

Artemisia: yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and once the faerie queen takes over rome she can put an end to the ghibellines

Jorn of Merinita: Tower's a bit gaudy, but you can't win them all

Artemisia: let's let the faerie queen become a real girl and then kill prudenzio

Jorn of Merinita: Oh no, not a faerie ruling rome

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we allowed court magicians, then any magus with ambition could use their position tae cause any trouble they want. When another lord, or the church, finds out the guilty party is a member of the order, it brings trouble on us all."

Jorn of Merinita: That's the last thing Jorn wants

Artemisia: Jorn of Merinita: Oh no, not a faerie ruling rome

Potom Flos: Hm, now that Jorn mentions it

A faerie aura is created when a certain region acknowledges the legitimacy of a Faerie ruler

Proclus of Rome: "The threat is more obvious than your nitwitted platitudes, Archibald."

Artemisia: let me see a non-holy wizard who prefers dominion aura to a faerie one. except proclus

Proclus of Rome: "The Silver Queen's influence is poisonous, all of Rome would be dead or dying from lead poisoning if we allow this to happen."

Jorn of Merinita rubs hands merinishly

Artemisia: oh no. not rome dying of lead poisioning. there's absolutely no precedent for that

Archibald of Guernicus: "Forgive me for educating the young bonisagus on vital parts of our code, Proclus, I didnae mean tae distract from you raving about fairies again."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea finally gets it.

Giraldo of Milan: "He's right. The Silver Lady shouldn't be expanding her domain."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This  is  all very alarming! We have to do something."

Giraldo of Milan: "She can stay right here."

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+3+9 Faerie Lore will Rome die of lead poisoning

(

5

)

+3+9

=

17

Archibald of Guernicus: Did Jorn or Beatrice actually confirm that the silver lady spreads poison

Potom Flos: Maybe not die but there will be lots of birth defects, mental retardation, etc

Proclus of Rome: She poisoned us with a poison cloud.

Artemisia: and the modern italian nation will be born

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Thank you, Master Archibald. Even though it still isn't enough to fully convince me of the benefits of serving a random lord."

Potom Flos: In fairness, you really deserved it

Jorn of Merinita: You'll just have to breed with faeries to weed out the defects

Artemisia: oh no

Celeste: Breeding with faeries IS cool.

Archibald of Guernicus: This is the one thing we [checks notes] oh actually this is fine

Artemisia: Giraldo changes his mind about stopping the silver lady

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mmm.

Jorn of Merinita: Nature corrects her mistakes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This is the one thing we wanted to happen.

Potom Flos: If you want to walk away, that's perfectly fine by me. It's up to you to decide what you want to accomplish here

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's confront our former sodales, we've tarried here long enough."

Jorn of Merinita: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This is the one thing we wanted to happen.

Proclus of Rome: I think we shouldn't confront him.

Artemisia: "It can wait until the marriage is done."

Proclus of Rome: We should just kill him.

johns (GM): lol

Giraldo of Milan: "We can't let the marriage go through."

johns (GM): the marriage already happened

Artemisia: "We can."

johns (GM): is the thing

Artemisia: excellent

Jorn of Merinita: I need to ask Prudenzio if he needs a skilled mason who knows his way around hermetic magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: If he won't back off, I'll send him a wizard's war declaration, nailed to his lab at the covenant.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "We did!"

Celeste: "I'm sure she's a nice lady. I feel bad for her."

Artemisia: Let's just kill Prudenzio then.

good idea, archibald.

johns (GM): Do you want to be announced, or just break in and start killing stuff

Artemisia: Let's get announced.

Proclus of Rome: "We don't have time for a formal declaration of Wizard's War."

Giraldo of Milan: "The realms of faeries and men need to be kept seperate. Especially faeries with an affinity for lead."

Celeste: lmao

"You want to just bust in and start casting?"

Proclus of Rome: "If he gets married and dies, then the Silver Queen will still be a true queen."

Artemisia: Send a grog back to Rome with a letter and Beatrice will nail the declaration on the lab door for you.

Celeste: "He's already married."

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn won't attack Prudenzio but Aurelia can still take part

Proclus of Rome: "We should investigate the ruined tower."

johns (GM): im hearing 1 vote for enter politely, 1 vote for kill, 1 vote for checking out the lab ruins

Giraldo of Milan: lets kill him

johns (GM): Who's in charge here while Beatrice is not around

Celeste: I think we should enter politely, then kill him.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye cannae just kill the man in cold blood, outright. He has tae be offered a chance tae stop this idiocy."

Giraldo of Milan: lets see

Artemisia: Jorn and Proclus are co-leaders

Jorn of Merinita: He's just a guy who rapes faeries, especially if they're mentally retarded and frankly I'm tired of hearing about it every time his name come sup.

Artemisia: everyone agreed with that

johns (GM): Okay.

Giraldo of Milan: leadership should be decided by blatantness of gift

johns (GM): Proclus wants to check out another site so we can do that quickly

Artemisia: that would make archibald the leader

we can't allow that

Giraldo of Milan: it cant be helped

Jorn of Merinita: Proclus is in charge if Jorn won't act against Prudenzio

Archibald of Guernicus: "The next tribunal is in 1342. If he won't back off, he'll be causing a danger tae the entire region before then. A grievous enough code violation that we can stop him."

"But we must confirm he's set on this path."

Giraldo of Milan: in times of doubt, have every present magus stand next to the nearest mundane

whichever one provokes the worst reaction is the most magical

Artemisia: Artemisia has Unaffected by the Gift. She is the perfect test subject for that.

johns (GM): The ruined sanctum of the former necromancer shows a bit of simple renovation and signs of habitation. A roof applied where one had fallen in. A line for laundry to dry and signs of emptied chamberpots. A single armed guard half snoozes in the midday sun.

Jorn of Merinita: Also Proclus should be in charge since Endrite is faster at thinking of things to do

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll play a Criamon with that flaw that makes your stigmata start appearing on mundanes you walk past in the street

Proclus of Rome: Is there any laundry on the line?

Artemisia: We couldn't steal the herbs, but we can steal the laundry.

johns (GM): Yes, you see some towels and cleaning rags

Archibald of Guernicus: His... favourite towel?

Jorn of Merinita: There should be a Criamon build where you can go Tetsuo with enough warping

Celeste: My god... Out in the open all this time.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmmmmm.

Does anyone have a magic spell that will keep this guard asleep?

I recommend we do it quietly, if possible.

Archibald of Guernicus: There's a criamon build where you gain +500 to attack and everything you touch disintegrates. You also have to get married to progress in this path.

Jorn of Merinita: :thinking:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can entangle him in vines.

johns (GM): Yes, but Criamon are still objectively wrong.

Proclus of Rome: Sleep is better.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and blind him.

Proclus of Rome: Then he won't know we were here.

Celeste: Bialas could, but he's asleep.

Proclus of Rome: Classic chicken or the bear problem.

Artemisia: Criamon marries the now homeless moon fairy.

Jorn of Merinita: Hmm, wonder why no one learned Call to Slumber

Archibald of Guernicus: Whats the penalty for no voice, -10?

Artemisia: yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: I have call to slumber, DESPITE it being nerfed into oblivion

Proclus of Rome: It's still good.

Artemisia: but no voice also reduces the range

Proclus of Rome: For example, this exact situation.

Artemisia: but you can try casting it on sight

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast it without voice, for -10. No gestures needed since subtle magic. FFM to make it sight range.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: start the game already

Jorn of Merinita: Now that I know the spell level to delete someone's brain isn't unreasonable I might look into Mentem someday

johns (GM): ok

aura magic 5

does it pass

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+15

(

9

)

+15

=

24

Level 15 effect, so yes

Artemisia: deleting someone's brain is a standard equipment for mystery cults

johns (GM): there shuld be a simple "zzzz" status marker

anyway the guard is now alseep

Archibald of Guernicus: This is the hermetic equivalent of the tranq gun in MGS3.

Proclus of Rome: Alright, we should be good to go in.

Too bad no one has a familiar.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm picking one up in Winter, fun fact

Celeste: "Cozy."

johns (GM): Clear signs of habitation inside

Proclus of Rome: What's with the orb?

johns (GM): Not very tidy, though. The room is full of texts (most in a Language I don't think any of you read), sample jars of stone, water and ash

The orb is a globe.

Proclus of Rome: Shocking!

johns (GM): To whom?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: For you.

Proclus of Rome: I didn't think anyone made globes this accurate.

johns (GM): Meh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what kind of script are the books in

Artemisia: i am saddened the globe does not show america, depriving me of chance to complain

Archibald of Guernicus: I have an idea

Proclus of Rome: Is the skeleton well around here?

johns (GM): Latin alphabet

(it's English)

Artemisia: I know English

at 9

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: waow

johns (GM): You look for the room that the well used to be in, but someone has stripped apart the stone well and put a floor over the hole in the ground.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hm, does it look like a hermetic lab, or something different

johns (GM): Artemisia is an Englishwoman???

Artemisia: cornish

johns (GM): Corm.

Proclus of Rome: What kind of floor?

johns (GM): Wooden.

Proclus of Rome: Curses.

Archibald of Guernicus: What's the aesthetic quality of the wooden floor

Artemisia: What are the books about?

johns (GM): The elements, atoms, medical humors

Proclus of Rome: Well, we can just get the grogs to pull up the boards.

johns (GM): Manipulation of the elements

Theurgy

Artemisia: any evidence of who owns them?

johns (GM): so on and so on

Proclus of Rome: Classic book stuff.

Jorn of Merinita: Oh hey, the Cornish where who thought up using calcification to make mines full of arsenic profitable.

johns (GM): Well, you know only one educated Englishman who might have a lab around here, and that's Edwin Locke

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh my god

Proclus of Rome: I only know one educated Englishman.

Artemisia: makes sense

johns (GM): You can pull up the boards and find a big hole leading into the ground with no rope or elevator anymore

Archibald of Guernicus: Cornwall joined England

in 1337

Artemisia: oh no

johns (GM): Free Cornwall

Proclus of Rome: Guess what I can do.

Archibald of Guernicus: Artemisia is offically English

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: begin the gift destruction ritual

Proclus of Rome: I can make UNLIMITED ropes with magic.

Artemisia: I am not.

Celeste: rip

Archibald of Guernicus: Thankfully, none of us know this

Proclus of Rome: Sun duration.

Artemisia: I have Fairy Upbringing.

Giraldo of Milan: january 1, 1337. archibald suddenly gains a strong desire to murder artemisia

Jorn of Merinita: I'll cast Rise of the Feathery Body

Artemisia: my nationality is Lyonesse

johns (GM): Anyway! There's some Latin texts here I can stat up later if you are feeling like stealing shit.

Proclus of Rome: We want our grogs to come with us.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, that's fine then.

johns (GM): Artes Liberales, Philosophae, Magic Lore

Celeste: Wow, Proclus shoots nice ropes.

Jorn of Merinita: The grogs can use the rope

Artemisia: Let's steal the English stuff as well.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm just getting ReCo XP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: levitate me

Archibald of Guernicus: Nothing hermetic? I asked before if this lab seemed hermetic

Artemisia: I can grind English and translate it into Latin.

johns (GM): Nothing Hermetic.

Jorn of Merinita: Ok

Giraldo of Milan: lets thieve

might be philo tracts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: itll be very obvious it was us

Proclus of Rome: How deep is the well?

johns (GM): 50 paces

Artemisia: are there rules for translation? if not, it seems like an oversight

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not going to burgle someone who might not be Prudenzio

johns (GM): There are

It's in the same chapter as writing books

Jorn of Merinita: There's rules for translating Greek

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this guy is english though archibald

Proclus of Rome: So I'll cast Conjure the Sturdy Vines 6 times.

Artemisia: in base book?

Jorn of Merinita: Hypatia has Greek Lore because the rules call for it

Giraldo of Milan: lets send archibald home and summon in zita

johns (GM): ya

Artemisia: i'll look it up while you investigate

Proclus of Rome: For 60 paces of rope-style vines.

Jorn of Merinita: That's a good spell/rope

johns (GM): i know i've seen example texts where it says it's -1 quality because it's translated from arabic to latin or somesuch

Jorn of Merinita: Hypatia can create ropes from her item

* spell/rote

Proclus of Rome: So we can safely climb down.

Giraldo of Milan: archibald isnt okay with theft unless its from the church sanctum of a man who may or may not have committed a crime

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, they're english. "Bloody englishmen." I say aloud "Bet its that rat at the capocci court who stays here."

Archibald didnt support that at all

Jorn of Merinita: "Ahh, raiding the English. Good times."

Proclus of Rome: "He may be part of this."

Oh fuck, cats.

johns (GM): They're all asleep.

They're also not made of metal. They are in fact, made of snow.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Heard some stories about them going to start something in France. Hopefully it will be a quick skirmish."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita and Archibald are different people with differing, conflicting goals and values

Jorn of Merinita: What's the AQ of the cats

Proclus of Rome: This is too much of a coincidence.

Archibald of Guernicus: Classic gordo

johns (GM): Also, a certain inscription that was here last time is not here. Now.

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

1! Miserable AQ!

Artemisia: still good cats

Jorn of Merinita: What terrible breeding

Proclus of Rome: Bullshit! Ultra-Failed AQ!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Those are the shitest cats I've ever seen."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

johns (GM): They are clearly the product of a stunted imagination.

Artemisia: there's the hairless cats with 0 AQ

Jerbiton will tell you they're 15 AQ, but they're full of shit.

Giraldo of Milan: "Must be the work of the faerie queen here."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Wasn't there a problem with winter fairies, seperate fae here?"

* her

Proclus of Rome: "Yes."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/13/84/09/138409551662497a7a0ad24792fc4412--pottery-animals-ceramic-animals.jpg

johns (GM): I will save a little time on exploring and say that the rest of the mines are as you remember it except: The stalagmite you took vis from is gone, the ghost miners are all gone

Proclus of Rome: Phew.

Celeste: "There are too many faeries."

Proclus of Rome: Do the mines extend under Prudenzio's new tower?

johns (GM): Nay

Proclus of Rome: Darn.

johns (GM): I just assumed you wanted to play with the cats

Jorn of Merinita: Someone start a road so I can tunnel under Prudenzio's tower

Giraldo of Milan: i wish malach was here so i could create a pit under prudenzios tower

Archibald of Guernicus: "The stalagmite was where a malevolent figure fae ancient times was sealed, as I recall. Even after this mess with Prudenzio is sorted, we should see about dealing with that."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: these are some ominous cats

Proclus of Rome: Snow cats...

Jorn of Merinita: Are the cats faeries

Proclus of Rome: I can't think of what we could do with them.

johns (GM): I'm not sure how exactly you identify them at a glance

I mean they're clearly not mundane cats

Giraldo of Milan: we could melt them down for water

Jorn of Merinita: I see

johns (GM): You could, you could.

SSMA.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brb

Jorn of Merinita: Cat vis

Proclus of Rome: We could try waking them up and talking to their master.

Giraldo of Milan: we could also expose them to the light of day, causing god to smite these hideous beings

Proclus of Rome: We might need allies against Prudenzio, as ridiculous as that sounds.

Artemisia: would rolling Second Sight to reveal something about the cats do anything?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rather than piss off a second fairy here, we should leave em be while we think on how tae deal with the silver lady."

"We  could  simply kill her instead of Prudenzio. Perhaps he'll see sense with her gone."

Artemisia: "That's not a good idea."

Giraldo of Milan: "There's no reason to kill her. This is Prudenzio's doing."

Proclus of Rome: "That would still leave Prudenzio with a hold over Hugo di Capocci."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, yer right, on reflection it all comes down to Prudenzio."

Artemisia thinks about taking over this Faerie land if the queen is dead.

Archibald of Guernicus: "No sense molesting the fae."

Artemisia: "On second thought..."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "I can see some yellow snow in them. Better not to mess with those things."

Celeste: "It would probably be easier to kill him"

Jorn of Merinita: http://spla.sh/bp/orcdude_files/bone5.htm

(From Proclus of Rome): Does Hugo di Capocci have a daughter?

(To Proclus of Rome): Yes

(From Proclus of Rome): Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I must stress, to my fellow members of the order, that we do not attempt to murder the idiot until we are certain he poses a threat. He may see sense, when the weight of the situation becomes apparent tae him."

Proclus of Rome: "He clearly poses a threat."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He clearly does, but may not if persuaded off it."

Jorn of Merinita: "Interpretations of threat seem to vary wildly."

Proclus of Rome: "In addition, an aggrieved mundane has stated her wish to kill him."

"Would it not be interference to keep her from doing so?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "What his kid does tae him is their own decision."

Artemisia: the Translation Rules are in Art and Academe, not base book!!!! i was lied to!!!

Proclus of Rome: Do you really think Johns would do that?

Just lie to someone?

Artemisia: yes

Jorn of Merinita: "I promise not to open hostilities against him without due consideration."

Proclus of Rome: So as I see it we have three enemies here.

Conte Hugo di Capocci and his men.

Artemisia: prudenzio, capocci and proclus

Proclus of Rome: Prudenzio.

The Silver Queen and her fairy retinue.

We have two people with True Faith who could surely defeat Prudenzio.

Artemisia: "I can deal with the Silver Queen, I believe."

Proclus of Rome: If we have a way to defeat the Silver Queen's noxious cloud then our grogs can make short work of her.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Of course, if he attacks us, then do whatever ye can tae keep yerself safe. I wouldnae want any of my sodales tae be harmed by all this."

johns (GM): Hey sorry about that, lost connection for a couple minutes

Proclus of Rome: I believe that if those two die, we may be able to convince Hugo di Capocci to accept that he was hexed.

johns (GM): Last thing I saw was Proclus' question to me about the daughter, answer is: Yes

Jorn of Merinita: Gulielmus could make auram warding putions, maybe

Proclus of Rome: Can he?

Jorn of Merinita: Maybe.

Can you Gulielmus?

Archibald of Guernicus: Everyone starts staring at Gulielmus, awaiting potions that solve the adventure

Jorn of Merinita: Hmmm

Can The Miner's Keen Eye find any gold or silver in the cave?

johns (GM): There

Giraldo of Milan: the contrarian faerie, gulielmus, suddenly disappears in a cloud of smoke as an earnest interest is expressed in his abilities

Jorn of Merinita: It can see through rock up to VIsion range

Proclus of Rome: There's lead in the cave, probably.

Jorn of Merinita: Lead too

johns (GM): There's some silver around here yeah. When they mined this place there was some silver ore in the lead veins

Jorn of Merinita: Nice

johns (GM): (hence the fairy queen's name, The Silver Lady)

Proclus of Rome: Hence the Silver Queen.

Curses!

We should check out that quarry with the demon in it.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll have to diggy diggy hole a road here that's outside the tower's gaze.

johns (GM): The demon's gone, just a big hole of dirt now

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Phew

Jorn of Merinita: And get me some silver deeper than the muggles dig.

Giraldo of Milan: lets just set jorn to the task of digging a hole under the tower

solving the prudenzio problem

Archibald of Guernicus: An elegant solutoin

Artemisia: throw the... flambeau? down the hole

Jorn of Merinita: What Prudenzio problem

Artemisia: he keeps living

Proclus of Rome: Far more valuable than the silver is the arsenic sown throughout the plains.

Jorn of Merinita: There's going to be a faerie human wedding, seems like a joyous occasoin to me.

Celeste: It already happened.

johns (GM): The wedding already happened!!!!

Jorn of Merinita: Ah

Archibald of Guernicus: It already happened and hes using it to spread an aura of poison that will kill people

Jorn of Merinita: Nothing we could do then

Proclus of Rome: Wait is there still a field filled with poison?

johns (GM): well that's archibald's take

Yes, it's the area marked "Plain"

Artemisia: does the poison gas go up or down?

johns (GM): the quarry is pretty polluted to

Artemisia: if it goes up, we live in a hole and have nothing to worry about

Proclus of Rome: It's not a gas, it's a powder.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's talk to Prudenzio and see if he'll consider a plan that turns everyone in Rome into faeries instead

johns (GM): Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: Seems reasonable

johns (GM): What do you wish to be announced as

Artemisia: Artemisia, Princess of Devil's Lane

johns (GM): nice!

Proclus of Rome: Proclus of Rome.

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn of Nithavellir

Giraldo of Milan: Giraldo

johns (GM): The herald is a pro and remembers all your weird names and titles with ease

Celeste: just Celeste. He knows the one.

Proclus of Rome: He's great.

Good job, Herald.

Jorn of Merinita: Good herald

Artemisia: once prudenzio dies, celeste will inherit his lands

Celeste: Harold the Herald.

johns (GM): Yes. And if you destroy the tower, you will kill him. How do you like  that  moral quandary?????

Giraldo of Milan: you could probably make it far in the herald world by having a good memory and absolutely nothign else

Proclus of Rome: HmmMMMmmmm.

johns (GM): Now then.

Archibald of Guernicus: Now, this LOOKS bad, but

Celeste: there he is

Archibald of Guernicus: Before we step inside, since we're going in

johns (GM): You enter the hall. The place is... Much different than you are accustomed to, in mundane towers and forts.

Archibald of Guernicus: hang on johns, before we go in, i pre-buff

johns (GM): bless the magic caster.

Archibald of Guernicus: and offer sidestep to anyone who wants it

Giraldo of Milan: i take it

Artemisia: I'll take it.

johns (GM): lol

Proclus of Rome: No thanks, I'm not a weirdo.

Archibald of Guernicus: Do we have any other buffs to pass around?

Jorn of Merinita: Looks like she's a faerie noble after all if she can bless the interior of a structure like this with rich glamour.

Giraldo of Milan: archibald screaming and shouting right outside the door

Archibald of Guernicus: I've only got sidestep that seems immediately apparent, that I've got as a formulaic spell

Giraldo of Milan: while rubbing his hands all over people

Celeste: lmfao

Artemisia: Artemisia doesn't wear armor, so she needs every bit of help.

all glamour looks a bit computer generated

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn has a very powerful ability, leaving if the party attacks Prudenzio.

johns (GM): Before you ask, I can't qualify the AQ, because it's clearly faerie glamour and not the work of a real artist

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im back

Jorn of Merinita: Understood

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i had tacos

Giraldo of Milan: whats the faq of the room

Jorn of Merinita: I wasn't going to ask, because my Faerie Lore tells me this

Proclus of Rome: Wait if we're inside then I can easily defeat the Silver Lady's arsenic cloud.

Artemisia: what if you managed to combine human creativity with faerie glamour?

Proclus of Rome: I have a spell that puts all the dust in a room at my feet.

Easy!

Artemisia: we're here to kill prudenzio, not the faerie lady

johns (GM): The Silver Lady occupies a large, ornate, silver throne. Prudenzio sits in a much smaller, less ostentatious throne off to the side. Flanking the hallways are half a dozen short, stout guardsmen with pig tails poking out of their armor.

Proclus of Rome: We should kill both of them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what was the deal with the cats

Giraldo of Milan: proclus folds his arm and smirks at the silver lady, seconds before keeling over from arsenic touching his feet

johns (GM): they're part of the new winter faerie hierarchy

Proclus of Rome: They're winter fairies.

Jorn of Merinita: I could probably manage finesse with Terram glamours but making actual stonework is more interesting to me

Artemisia: we shouldn't molest the fae by killing them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should kill the fae by etc

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Sodales! You made it! Welcome, welcome!"

Giraldo of Milan: "Nice place."

Proclus of Rome: The Silver Lady brought the war to us!

Celeste: "You didn't even send a letter!"

Jorn of Merinita: "Heil, fellow magi."

Proclus of Rome: "What in God's name are you doing here, Prudenzio?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Celeste! You never got my letters?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Is this where we find out celeste cant read either

Artemisia: She's just a fairy that wants to spread poison all over the world. Looks like you have some growing up to do.

Celeste: "Oh, this bullshit again."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "So is that the man who married the Fairy?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Run out of funds for real architects and had to resort to glamours?"

Jorn of Merinita: "You're quite infamous, it's quite good to finally meet the man in person."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, this is Prudenzio, Gordiano."

Jorn of Merinita: "And of course, the fair Queen."

Jorn of Merinita kneels, as is appropriate.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, settle down, settle down everyone. You're in the presence of a Lady," he gestures to the Silver Lady. "Show a little decorum,  please ."

Artemisia: I have no etiquette, so I don't kneel.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Very good Jorn

Proclus of Rome: "Pick yourself out of the dirt, man."

Giraldo of Milan: I look around for Prudenzio's ghost wife.

Jorn of Merinita: I have Faerie Lore, which is etiquette here

Artemisia: true

Proclus of Rome: I continue to not kneel.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: The Silver Lady bids you to rise. "You are welcome in my court," she says.

Artemisia: But I have enough Faerie rank to not have to kneel.

Jorn of Merinita: I stand after the appropriate amount of time.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye don't have a court, Prudenzio, and ye know that ye can't hold one."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: I take of my hat and do a quick bow.

Proclus of Rome: "When did you concoct this little scheme of yours, Prudenzio?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus doesn't bow.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Of course, Archibald. It's  her  court."

Archibald of Guernicus: When is it going to switch to Prudenzio's Theme

Proclus of Rome: :weebay:

Giraldo of Milan: "This is absurd."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I don't know what you mean by 'scheme,' Proclus.'"

"Clue me in?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Well, there is a whole thing about poison going on."

Proclus of Rome: "Don't play any dumber than you already are, 'Sir' Prudenzio."

"How dd you get the Conte to knight you?"

Celeste: https://fanburst.com/mir/quest-for-glory-4-the-leshy

Artemisia: "Or did you gain the title from your wife?"

Celeste: lmao hell yeah

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I am no knight, Proclus! Come on now... Me? Not likely!"

Proclus of Rome: "Then why do all of the Conte's men call you 'Sir Prudenzio?'"

Archibald of Guernicus: I roll Folk Ken against his, iirc, monstrous guile score

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Now, if I hear some of his court thinks he should give me a title, I'll just politely decline when it comes up."

Artemisia: they're dumb guards

Archibald of Guernicus: Is he fucking with us here

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "A little joke of theirs!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Could he have bewitched... himself?"

Proclus of Rome: "Well, I can assure you I'm not laughing."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+4

(

6

)

+3+4

=

13

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Could be just like "Don"

Celeste: "He lies to himself all the time."

Artemisia: Bewitching yourself is a pro strat.

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'll cut you a little slack and say the "sir" comment was a red herring, Prudenzio has NOT been knighted.

yet.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Would ye mind explaining why ye ran away from us all, vis in hand, till we find ye here?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau rolls some dice

Artemisia: boo at the GM for stopping us from chasing a red herring for hours

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Otherwise... Well, you try to read Prudenzio as best you can, and I'll whisper what I can.

Archibald of Guernicus: I added the red herring sfx

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is there a gmroll command

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Ran away? Hold your horses, my friend!"

it's just a macro i made

Archibald of Guernicus: its "/gmroll"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

(To GM) rolling 1

1

=

1

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "We agreed we were going to claim Allumiere for Vardian's Tomb, and here I am, holding down the fort, cleaning up the mess that got left behind."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+4+2 folk ken and perception

(

8

)

+4+2

=

14

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye vanished for half a decade!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "You never thought to come looking for me."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye struck deals with Capocci, kicking us off the site!"

Jorn of Merinita: "Ah, so you're the one to talk to about those guards that accosted me when I tried to survey for silver and lead."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I did nothing of the sort."

"If you want some space here I'm sure an arrangement can be made."

Celeste: "...Well, that's nice."

Jorn of Merinita: "Seems like my sodales exaggerated your belligerence."

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back.

So is this the first floor of the tower or what?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yeah

the top floors are still under construction and probably unglamored

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i dunno. this guy seems pretty normal

Jorn of Merinita: He does.

Celeste: "That's how he gets you!"

Jorn of Merinita: Quite amicable too.

Proclus of Rome: "How is your wife treating you?"

Celeste: That's a good question.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "We are deeply in love, Proclus."

He kisses her hand.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Prudenzio, regardless of what ye say here, ye have been meddling in mundane affairs. Where's Capocci, for that matter?"

Celeste: "What about Esther?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right

Proclus of Rome: "I mean your real wife. The one who died for you."

Archibald of Guernicus: I have second sight too

Is his dead wife hanging around

Artemisia: i have second sight too

Archibald of Guernicus: I've seen her before so I'm looking out for her

cause I used to see her hanging around him all the time

Proclus of Rome: I have just the one sight but I can close one eye.

Jorn of Merinita: I have normal sight as well.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "The Count is off studying the arcane under his tutors, of course."

Artemisia: "It's not prohibited to remarry after a wife dies."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: If you add up all the combinations that's four sights.

Jorn of Merinita: If you need someone who isn't blind, I'm your mand

Giraldo of Milan: i said i was looking for her but never got an answer so i dont think shes here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Normal sight, left sight, right sight, and no sight.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: his dead wife is no where to be seen

Celeste: Spooky.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Speaking of which, she used tae always follow ye around. I don't see her."

Jorn of Merinita: "Perhaps his wife has passed on, knowing he's found happiness."

Archibald of Guernicus: I stare at Jorn for ten solid seconds

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Precisely, Jorn."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Giraldo of Milan: "That would only anchor her spirit further."

Artemisia: "Perhaps she remarried herself."

Celeste: "I don't think ghosts can marry."

Proclus of Rome: "That seems preposterous."

Artemisia: "Can faeries be possessed by ghosts?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Were I to guess, Prudenzio destroyed her spirit."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe she shacked up with Voda

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "What a vulgar suggestion. How dare you!"

Proclus of Rome: "If she remains unbusted, then where is she?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Did Abel not once say, Am I my brother's keeper? Well, am I my wife's keeper?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes."

Celeste: "She was obsessed with you! That's a very poor excuse."

Archibald of Guernicus: brb 1 minute, hopefully combat doesnt start

Giraldo of Milan: "Aye, you're her connection to the material world."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Proclus. My old friend Proclus. I know.. it must be hard for you, to see me have what you failed to have, a happy marriage. But please, put those feelings aside."

Giraldo of Milan: would ghosts be magic lore

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yeup

Archibald of Guernicus: oh, before i go, that means prudenzios dead and replaced with a fairy, try that line of inquiry

Giraldo of Milan: ill try to think of possibilities other than her spirit being destroyed

rolling 1d10+11

(

7

)

+11

=

18

Prudenzio of Flambeau passes a note to a player

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did my enormous folk ken roll come up with anything

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Either she was Mentem nuked, found a reason to pass to the next life, or... well, you can't think of an or.

Proclus of Rome: "How have you concealed these fairies from the workmen?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Gulielmus you have no idea when this man is lying or telling the truth.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Business as usual.

Giraldo of Milan: I whisper to my friends, "There's no doubt about it, he destroyed the spirit."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I haven't. My wife -- my beloved, wife, o, how I adore her -- everyone around here knows she's the Lady of the valley."

Artemisia: I whisper back. "Can you blame him?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Absolutely."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Jorn of Merinita: "No choice but to destroy his true love, so mad was she driven by the transformation into a spirit. I weep for him."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "On that note -- the Fae  do  gain vitality from their titles being recognized -- I would appreciate if you play along, ok?"

Jorn of Merinita nods

Proclus of Rome: "Not on your life."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Poor Proclus! Oh, woe!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau feigns exaggerated sorrow

Artemisia: "Faerie titles are more real than human ones."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Maddened with envy, he tosses the Code aside and takes his rage out on the poor Faefolk!"

Artemisia: "Shameful."

Proclus of Rome: "Molesting the fae is illegal, Prudenzio."

Giraldo of Milan: "She's the ruler of this land, but nothing else. Whatever plans you have here, I can assure you they'll end in pain and misery for everyone."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Yet here you are, coming into my wife's court, armed and magically buffed to fight. So why shouldn't I be informing the tribunal about this mad vendetta of yours?"

Proclus of Rome: "The ruler of these lands is Hugo di Capocci."

Jorn of Merinita: "The leader of the Roman Tribunal fed a fertility faerie vitality in order to secure herself against a great villain, didn't he?"

Proclus of Rome: "I thought you were securing this site for Vardian's Tomb?"

Artemisia: "He's the usurper here."

Proclus of Rome: "What do you have to fear if this is the case."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "And the Silver Lady will be his honored vassal, and her claim will be true in the eyes of Man and God."

Giraldo of Milan: "He rules the village, but these plains and hills are the Silver Lady's."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea remembers something and speaks up.

Artemisia: "And the Capocci claim is disputed."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "By Richemont, whoever that is."

Proclus of Rome: "There are no lands in the world that the fae can truly claim."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Because ye stopped attending tribunal, Prudenzio. Ye stopped attending it tae molest the fae while becoming a court wizard."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "By some fat french sluggard hundreds of miles away."

"Tch, a court wizard? You think I'd stoop to that?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Absolutely."

Celeste: "Yes."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "It's me who's keeping  those  court wizards from running rampant! I'm the one who is making sure they aren't poaching every vis source in site after you all turned a blind eye to them."

Jorn of Merinita: "They have nice architecture over there, you should go see some time."

Giraldo of Milan: "Stop playing at this charade before you bring a cloud of death to Rome."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "The Conte is powerful among the lords of men. If he declares that the Silver Lady is the Baroness of Allumiere her title will have to be recognized."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then what's yer involvement with Cappoci, in yer own words."

Artemisia: We have to let the plan proceed so there is canon explanation for the Black Death.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah."

Proclus of Rome: "Who are you trying to fool, Prudenzio?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I don't have a damn clue what you're talking about," he says to Giraldo, truthfully.

Proclus of Rome: Arsenic poisoning is, alas, not contagious.

Jorn of Merinita: "You guys came up with this poison cloud plan via conjecture."

Archibald of Guernicus: Just to confirm, Jorn told us what the silver lady's domain does when it spreads right

Giraldo of Milan: "If her realm expands, it's going to maintain the same aspects."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Quite obviously Archibald, I am watching these hedge wizards, making sure they do not use their  hedge magics  to toy with the Nobility of Rome, and to molest the Fae of this valley."

Giraldo of Milan: if he didnt giraldo would

Prudenzio of Flambeau: i dont know where you got the bit about her domain expanding

Artemisia: Her domain will be the valley.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: unless you think she's going to usurp all the capocci lands

Jorn of Merinita: It mostly comes from Giraldo, yes

Prudenzio of Flambeau: her domain already was the valley

Artemisia: officially

Giraldo of Milan: i thought jorn said something

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought that's what was going on here, and why this was a big deal. Someone said it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

Jorn of Merinita: "How cognizant is Her Grace?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's just go back and steal the english guy's books and go home.

Artemisia: "What does the Lady has to say? This is her court after all."

"May I ask?"

Giraldo of Milan: alright i dont know the source but lets blame the misinformation on proclus

Silver Lady: "I feel myself stronger each day more know of my title."

Giraldo of Milan: and then go with gulielmus's plan

Proclus of Rome: What season is this?

Artemisia: autumn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: autumn

Silver Lady: "I will kneel to the Conte, be titled Baroness, and the heralds will pass word to the corners of Italy and beyond."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, the winter faeries will be waking up soon.

Artemisia: "You are already a Queen. What need do you have for more titles?"

Silver Lady: "Already he honors me with the tower you see around here."

Jorn of Merinita: "How open to change are you, Your Majesty? If your subjects would revolt at the spread of poison air, could you accommodate?"

Artemisia: "It is a beautiful tower."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is this wise?"

Artemisia: "Yes."

we can't stop the fae from spreading, it would be molestation

Silver Lady: "You think me a tyrant, Jorn? I care for my subjects, and honor them, as they honor me."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I don't know much about faeries but I have to say it seems unwise."

Jorn of Merinita: "I do not. I have a scholarly interest."

Proclus of Rome: "Do not play along with Prudenzio's puppet."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Has Proclus been filling your head with lies about my wife? Shame, Proclus."

Jorn of Merinita: "It is said that some fae can use vis to adapt to changing circumstances. This ability is called Cognizance."

Artemisia: vis isn't even needed. it just makes it cheaper.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Prudenzio leans towards the silver lady. "Vis -- he means when your title is announced to the world."

The Silver Lady nods.

Artemisia: "I will help proclaim your rule all over Italy, my Lady."

Proclus of Rome: "You should have seen Allumiere when we first visited. A shanty village filled with dullards."

Artemisia: "Your, not your husband's.

"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Prudenzio, I have tae ask, however. Vardian's Tomb was doing work here, are ye still claiming tae be part of it? After not a word for half a decade?"

Artemisia: let's help the silver lady grow her might so much that prudenzio won't be able to control her

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "A single moment away from the side of my wife is agony, Archibald!"

Jorn of Merinita: "For example the dwarves keep vis, vitality, sovereignity, whatever you would like to call it, inside of their tradesmen tools. If they should need to pick up a new trade, or get better at the one they currently employ, the power of the tool can be consumed."

Proclus of Rome: That's an insanely bad plan.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did we ever plunder prudenzio's lab

Artemisia: it's the perfect plan

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm fairly certain OOC, but confirming IC, rolling code of hermes on how illegal it is for him to get a title here

rolling 1d10+2+7

(

3

)

+2+7

=

12

Prudenzio of Flambeau passes a note to a player

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume one of the current magi is using his old space

Jorn of Merinita: Passing notes beyond the fourth wall. He's a Diedne!

(To Archibald of Guernicus): It seems pretty clearly illegal to get a mundane noble title, so he must have some trick or something in mind

Artemisia: i'll embark on a plan to grind Profession: Poet to create ballads of the Silver Lady that omits Prudenzio's involvement and he'll be owned

Celeste: That's the best idea if we can't kill him.

Jorn of Merinita: Hypatia has Good Teacher now, she can teach you that

Artemisia: cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's just some guy who doesn't want to die at age 40. it's not a big deal and honestly

Jorn of Merinita: She isn't free until 1339 but you can approach her about it

Artemisia: i have no seasons to spare ths year anyway

Giraldo of Milan: jorn has been working to turn prudenzios lab into a fully functional bathroom with a direct pipeline into the tiber

Artemisia: 2 adventure, 2 apprentice work

Archibald of Guernicus: "Prudenzio, we worked together for many years. Surely ye can tell us what yer actual plan in all this, is. As we both know, ye gaining a title from the conte is directly against the code."

Artemisia: "He does not need to get a title from the conte."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Perish the thought!"

Jorn of Merinita: "Far as I know, you haven't been marched or warred by my sodales. I'd just like to talk as magi here as well."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: waiting for hafl to speak

Artemisia: "The Lady will gain the title. It does not have to pass onto her husband depending on the condition under which it's given."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Quite right, Princess Artemisia."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Everything seems above board here.

Proclus of Rome: "Do not imagine Prudenzio is ignorant of inheritance law."

Celeste: "So what are you getting out of it?"

Artemisia: "It is possible to give titles to just a single individual and not their descendants."

Proclus of Rome: Does anyone have canon law?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Haven't I already said? I am keeping my beloved wife and her faerie subjects safe from harm at the hands of horrid Magi... Hedge, or otherwise.."

Archibald of Guernicus: Artemisia never introduced herself as a princess did she

Artemisia: I did.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: she did

Archibald of Guernicus: during this

oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "So what is the  Comte  getting out of it?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: she was announced as such

(To Archibald of Guernicus): but there was the clue. have fun

Archibald of Guernicus: i missed it and thought it was a slip-up

thats why i checked

Artemisia: "The Comte is getting a vassal who will keep Richemont away, I assume."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Those courtiers of his are getting an aura and lab space. And what the courtiers want, the Conte does."

Giraldo of Milan: is there anything that allows you to get a plant familiar

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that would be cool

Artemisia: You can get a plant faerie familiar.

Jorn of Merinita: "Your majesty, a more friendly question. Has your court picked up rumor of a man named Quendalon in recent times?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Daffodil of virtue

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about an awakened tree

Silver Lady shakes her head

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh you could bind a dryad

Artemisia: But faerie familiars are super inconvenient for everyone except Merinita.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: with the right virtue

Proclus of Rome: I'll whisper to Archibald.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since they're magic spirits

Artemisia: And even for Merinita, they're tough.

Giraldo of Milan: hm

i guess i could just make a non-familiar man eating plant

Jorn of Merinita: I like that Verditius can just have friends who help out in the lab, no need to bind an animal.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think for a moment on all this. He does have an explanation for most things, enough to avoid a hermetic prosecution. But something is amiss.

"Why are ye going along with her silly title, Prudenzio? She's an apprentice."

Actually

I have a question

Artemisia: "I gained this title through marriage, Master Archibald."

Archibald of Guernicus: does he look any older

than when we last saw him

Silver Lady: "She is the Princess of Queen Desdemona of Devil's Lane. I am honored to host you in my tower, Princess."

a little bit, archibald.

Artemisia: "Thank you, your Majesty."

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks out the window.

Artemisia: it's not unusual toa void aging for five years with a longevity ritual and good living conditions

Silver Lady: You see purple clouds outside.

Artemisia: pretty

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: longevity rituals don't work on him, do they?

Silver Lady: The aesthetic quality is 420.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Wow!

Jorn of Merinita: I'll have to go at 5:15 or so and so far everything seems normal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Jorn, you have to check out this cloud.

Proclus of Rome: They don't work.

Artemisia: really good living conditions

Archibald of Guernicus: He was already in his 40s when he left us, and had Rapid Aging iirc

Proclus of Rome: He has Greater Immunity (Longevity Rituals)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Oh, it's gone.

Silver Lady: yeah

Jorn of Merinita: I go look at the cloud

Silver Lady: he's aged the appropriate amount of years

Artemisia: that sounds like a waste of virtue

Silver Lady: as someone who has no longevity ritual would have

Proclus of Rome: Well, I'm not one to judge.

Artemisia: damn, i can't die from longevity rituals. great deal

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh okay, he's still normally human then

Probably

Artemisia: or just altering his appearance

Silver Lady: "Do your friends not also recognize your title, Princess?"

Jorn of Merinita: Someone invent Occam's Razor, it's a good spell for slaying red herrings

Artemisia: "Some of them have trouble accepting it."

Jorn of Merinita: I recognize her title

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if only our archon had intuition and luck and could steer us away from red herrings

johns (GM): well, anyway

there's nothing too important hiding here

Beatrice Orsini is sipping wine in her new archon chair.

johns (GM): So, what do to

to do

Artemisia: I think we're fine here.

Proclus of Rome: I think we should kill Prudenzio.

And ALSO the Silver Lady.

johns (GM): that's proclus' answer to everything

Jorn of Merinita: I got what I wanted, seems like Prudenzio will help me build properties here.

johns (GM): has proclus been snorting the infernal vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what was Jorn's plan for this place anyway

Archibald of Guernicus: I think I'm missing something big but I can't grasp it. As far as I can tell, he's acting far enough within the law we have zero reason to attack him. I want to sort out his standing in our covenant though.

Celeste: I'm leaning towards agreeing with Proclus, on principle, but he's really thrown me off track by being a nice friendly guy.

I hate when he does that.

Jorn of Merinita: Build mines and soil purification labs.

Proclus of Rome: Attacking Prudenzio for no reason is also within the law.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Attacking a Faerie nobility on her own lair sounds like a bad idea honestly.

Jorn of Merinita: My plan is to claim a Labor Point bonus from the adventure

Artemisia: Let's kill Prudenzio and have Celeste marry the Silver Lady.

Proclus of Rome: It's called "Wizard's War."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's all marry the silver lady

Artemisia: I'm already fairy married.

Giraldo of Milan: i agree with killing prudenzio but not the silver lady

though its hard to do the former without the latter

Archibald of Guernicus: "Prudenzio, where's the conte again? We still have tae sort out our business with him, he was impeding us setting up here."

"We know he came out here, him and Orsu were meeting with ye."

Giraldo of Milan: we could just kill the count

and end this plot

Artemisia: I don't think killing Prudenzio right now is a good idea, but I'm not opposed to it and I'm in favor of killing him at a better time.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could demand vis

Jorn of Merinita: We COULD demand vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: on what grounds, i don't know, but we could do it

Proclus of Rome: When would be a better time to kill Prudenzio than now?

Giraldo of Milan: we could demand vis, and his head

Archibald of Guernicus: He stole vis from us is pretty good grounds, frankly

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I haven't seen Orsu in ages. He keeps to the city. Maybe he and the Conte are in some haunt by the University?"

Celeste: I like to imagine we're discussing the possiblity of killing him while standing in front of him in a big group as he's smiling

Jorn of Merinita: The only thing Prudenzio really did was take vis that VT had claimed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's true.

Jorn of Merinita: AFAJK

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we also always need money

Proclus of Rome: Don't be so naive.

Giraldo of Milan: he stole vis, abandoned the covenant, and is now doing something insanely stupid and dangerous

Proclus of Rome: This is obviously a dangerous plot against us.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What are ye on about, Orsu's at the count's court, he came out here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Proclus of Rome: Don't be so naive.

I am literally incapable of this.

Artemisia: The Capocci vis was always delivered to us.

Giraldo of Milan: frankly we should just initiate combat here and remove prudenzios head

Artemisia: so he owes like three pawns + reparations

Giraldo of Milan: archibald has the perdo vim

ive got the sword

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I gave Orsu a stern warning about hanging around here. I didn't want him to upset my wife with all that.. ogling he does."

folk ken

Artemisia: That is completely reasonable.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+11

(

6

)

+11

=

17

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+4

(

5

)

+3+4

=

12

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "And as you can see he's clearly not here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well, he's somewhere in the neighborhood."

(To Giraldo of Milan): seems true

(To Archibald of Guernicus): seems true

Artemisia: He's in the Allumiére synagogue conducting an affair.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+6

(

3

)

+6

=

9

yikes

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Seems... plausable?

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+1+1

(

3

)

+1+1

=

5

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 6

(

10

)

+6

=

16

Artemisia: at least i rolled something this session

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

I'll conf that.

(To Artemisia): Seems... like it could be true. it could also be false. who knows.

(To Proclus of Rome): It's true, Orsu doesn't hang out in the valley and he's probably back in the city

Artemisia: I want to believe.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+5

(

1

)

+5

=

6

(To Jorn of Merinita): seems plausible

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Good rolls, everyone.

Jorn of Merinita: +3 Perception, wouldn't have kicked it up an EF though

Artemisia: i actually rolled a 0

i forgot i'm at -5 from travelling

Proclus of Rome: Yikes.

Jorn of Merinita: Get yourself a riding rock

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there should be a life boost virtue for abilities

johns (GM): What next, Arsketeers

Jorn of Merinita: Prudenzio's agreed to help me build a mne here

Artemisia: i have Anchored to Sea and Shore. i get -5 to all rolls when not in that terrain until i settle down

Jorn of Merinita: Seems like everything's in order

Archibald of Guernicus: Did anyone beat him and find out something interesting?

(To Jorn of Merinita): Did he?

Archibald of Guernicus: That's what I'm waiting on

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

johns (GM): I responded to everyone in whisper

Proclus of Rome:

(To GM) rolling 1d10 +1

(

3

)

+1

=

4

(To Proclus of Rome): What's that for

(From Jorn of Merinita): He seemed to be willing to let us set up a base, i thought.

Artemisia: Prudenzio: Good luck, I'm behind 9000 guile.

(From Proclus of Rome): I'm roll Honest.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, that's why I'm waiting on the PCs with higher rolls to do something funny

Proclus of Rome: I think we should leave the court for the time being.

Giraldo of Milan: i agree with that sentiment

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Jorn got what he wanted, let's just go home.

Celeste: Oh, I forgot to roll it.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Celeste: Lmao.

rolling 1d10+5 folk ken.

(

10

)

+5

=

15

Ni]ce.

(From Jorn of Merinita): If I should be specific about that, I can wait until everyone leaves.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could see the sights again

Artemisia: The Silver Lady acknowledged my title, so I'm more inclined to side with her and Prudenzio than with Archibald and Proclus.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Prudenzio, we'll have tae return, but ye are still claiming to be part of Vardian's Tomb, right?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we never saw the shrine the first time around

Celeste: Honestly, they were both nice.

I'm so disappointed.

Artemisia: Immature+2 Personality ftw

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Until Venator tells me otherwise!"

Jorn of Merinita: "I'll be with you in a moment, sodales."

Archibald of Guernicus: "So ye'll assist us, or at least speak with the conte about it, tae let us continue what we were trying tae do here, then?"

johns (GM): thank you for drawing the dots, whoever put those down

Giraldo of Milan: it was me

ive accurately described our path

Artemisia: "Would the Lady permit me to kiss her hand in goodbye?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's go to the shrine!!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: whoa, okay

Giraldo of Milan: lets go to mikus shrine

Artemisia: let's get poisoning

Prudenzio of Flambeau: to archibald: "Sure, sure," Prudenzio says a bit dismissively.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's.

Jorn of Merinita: Artemisia has the right idea

I should do that too

Prudenzio of Flambeau: To Artemisia, you kiss the silver lady's hand. You don't feel well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Artemisia: excellent

Giraldo of Milan: dont pussy out

kill her

Jorn of Merinita: "Are you feeling well, Princess?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: roll stamina please

Celeste: Uh oh.

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

nice

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Here's the shrine Gulielmus wanted to see.

Proclus of Rome: To be fair, this is your fault.

Artemisia: i assume it was against 9

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Cool shrine."

Artemisia: at least

Prudenzio of Flambeau: it'll take me a minute to look up the poison ef and such

the shrine itself is an old structure, but there's a recent house here

Archibald of Guernicus: "If there's continued trouble from all this, we'll have tae sort it ou- what is that girl doing."

Artemisia: "Just a little dizzy. The Lady's presence is overwhelming."

Jorn of Merinita: "I see."

Proclus of Rome: She's the hag we inadvertently released.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Haha, wookey hole."

Giraldo of Milan: I open the house door.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Please have some pity on the italians, gulielmus."

Celeste: "Can I get a hug before I leave?"

Proclus of Rome: The Wookey Hole is a real place.

Artemisia laughs weakly at wookey hole as she needs grogs to support her weight.

Jorn of Merinita: "Prudenzio, would it okay for me and some faerie brethren of my own to set up shop here/ There is still valuable silver, lead, and arsenic in the land, and the townsfolk seem disinclined to mine it themselves."

Proclus of Rome: IN ENGLAND!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gah!

Artemisia: is that why Richemont is involved around here?

is this adventure transplanted from england?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: most of our adventures are

i think

Giraldo of Milan:  johns begins sweating

Jorn of Merinita: Wookeypedia

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Blomby Hole

Celeste: If he goes for it I'm going to try to rifle through his pockets with legerdemain.

Artemisia: random irish priest at satan wedding ftw

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yes wokey hill is in the somerset hills of england

of which this adventure was inspired by

Archibald of Guernicus: Good thinking Celeste

Prudenzio of Flambeau: oh okay

giraldo barges into the house

Giraldo of Milan: lets expose all of johns's lies and deceit

Prudenzio of Flambeau: There's a guy inside reading a book. He looks really surprised

Domenici Viterbo: "W-what?"

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+5+4 leger + dex

(

5

)

+5+4

=

14

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: open all his treasure chests

Giraldo of Milan: I walk back out and close the door.

Celeste: I'll conf.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lmao

Giraldo of Milan: "No one I recognize."

Domenici Viterbo: What is Celeste stealing

Artemisia: Gui: https://i.imgur.com/odBqs14.png

Domenici Viterbo: oh, he's molesting his dad

Celeste: Honestly, anything. Some jewelry he's got on, he loves wearing jewelry.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wots this

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, I think we should investigate the tower. He's keeping things from us, but we need tae find out exactly what's going on here."

"I don't like that the conte is mysteriously unaccounted for."

Proclus of Rome: "There is no more investigation necessary."

Artemisia: prudenzio's pockets connect directly to inside his underwear

Domenici Viterbo:

rolling 1d10!+4-1

(

4

)

+4-1

=

7

Proclus of Rome: "He's clearly lying to u."

s

Domenici Viterbo: You swipe Prudenzio's coin purse

Artemisia: "He seemed honest."

Celeste: Nice.

Artemisia coughs up a little blood.

Proclus of Rome: "His plot, even as stated, is obvious fairy molestation."

Jorn of Merinita: Does Prudenzio seem amicable towards my proposal?

Giraldo of Milan: "He's dangerous and his plan needs to be stopped."

Domenici Viterbo: From inside the house, you hear someone moving furniture against the door.

Celeste: "Do you need to sit down, Artimisia?"

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn will render unto Caesar, as it were, if he accepts

Proclus of Rome: "Furthermore, you remember how power hungry Prudenzio was, there is more at stake here than just the valley."

johns (GM): What was the proposal Jorn

sorry I lost a bit of chat trying to look up the poison

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is anyone going to save artemisia

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn of Merinita: "Prudenzio, would it okay for me and some faerie brethren of my own to set up shop here/ There is still valuable silver, lead, and arsenic in the land, and the townsfolk seem disinclined to mine it themselves."

Artemisia: arsenic is page 180

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is it up to me. my god.

Artemisia: only medium wound

Giraldo of Milan: jorn is proposing to prudenzio, johns

Jorn of Merinita: He's already married

Giraldo of Milan: boy those are catholic laws

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll Norse Law

Proclus of Rome: I don't know any poison cures.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Of course Jorn. We can't put anything down solid just yet until the Lady has her title and everything's settled but once it's in order we'll reach some agreement that's good for everyone."

Archibald of Guernicus: You have to have Norse Marriage Law Lore, a seperate ability

Proclus of Rome: Certainly not for arsenic ingestion.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: norse law (specifically as it pertains to barrows (specifically as it pertains to weddings conducted inside barrows))

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Medium wound on Artemesia. have a conf for acting recklessly in character

Jorn of Merinita: "Sounds good, I can return at a more convenient time."

(To Jorn of Merinita): folk ken it

Jorn of Merinita:

(To GM) rolling d10+5+3 perception

(

1

)

+5+3

=

9

Prudenzio of Flambeau rolls some dice

(To Jorn of Merinita): Ok.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Okay, I think I'm caught up now. So Proclus is trying to get you to murder everyone again?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes

The christian is, inexplicably, completely set on murder - the more illegal the better, as he always says

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what is the aesthetic quality of the shrine.

johns (GM): I'm starting to think Proclus was replaced by a demon at some point

Jorn of Merinita: Important question

Artemisia: replaced?

johns (GM): I'll say AQ 6

Archibald of Guernicus: I think a demon was replaced with Proclus

johns (GM): As you can see, it's quite old and dilapidated, and the new house doesn't match the decor.

Giraldo of Milan: ill say it again but i feel like proclus's sin is more wrath than pride

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm inclined to agree

Artemisia: Proclus tears off a mask: Surprised? I was Bonifilia all along!

Giraldo of Milan: the man hasnt gone a single session hes in without calling for murder

hell, hes justified in this case. but even so

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Bless him for that

Jorn of Merinita: Proclus confessed wrath to a priest not too long ago

Archibald of Guernicus: No no, one time he sided with a fairy. Only because it would cause the most possible misery for everyone.

johns (GM): let's kill proclus

Giraldo of Milan: chaotic neutral

Proclus of Rome: Did he break the seal of confession?

Jorn of Merinita: No, but you did it in open chat

Proclus of Rome: Wow.

Giraldo of Milan: the Seal of Confession, an ancient norse tradition

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn doesn't IC know this, of course

Proclus of Rome: Is this really what we're doing now?

Artemisia: reading chat is scrying

Celeste: And breaking the hermetic limit of time.

Giraldo of Milan: lets conduct the rest of this session via whispers to johns

Artemisia: but also lol if you're not scrying on every confessional

johns (GM): Imo scrying on confessional should fail, just like you can't muto the host

Artemisia: fair

johns (GM): Proclus and Jorn are still in charge

Giraldo of Milan: warp the dominion aura in the confessional booth

johns (GM): So unless Jorn says otherwise, Proclus is leading the way to murderville

Proclus of Rome: So who is this guy's house?

Giraldo of Milan: and plant a ward there

johns (GM): just another court wizard

Dominic Viterbo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's his deal

Giraldo of Milan: he was reading a book

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should investigate the tower subtly. Something is plainly off, perhaps we'll find something on the upper levels."

johns (GM): last time you talked to him he knew a lot about infernal lore

Giraldo of Milan: goddamnit

Jorn of Merinita: Anyway I've had some epic fails folk kenning Prudenzio, so someone should probably talk to Jorn if they're suspicious and they're typically less paranoid than Proclus.

Giraldo of Milan: we have to go back in

kill him

Proclus of Rome: Fair enough.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: I failed, but the scenario itself is suspicious

Proclus of Rome: "How much more subtle do you need to investigate it?"

Artemisia: just don't kill the lady

johns (GM): If you want to do nothing -- that's a valid option, and we skip ahead to a future point in time

Proclus of Rome: "The man initialized it!"

Jorn of Merinita: I vote do nothing, due to rolling a 1 on both Folk Ken rolls.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I mean to go into the upper levels without immediately alerting him, clean yer ears out Proclus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe someone in the village knows about the french guy

Giraldo of Milan: proclus and i and archibald want to kill him

Artemisia: but i probably need some treatment. can gui bind my wound.

?

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): you sohuld probably not focus so much on the french guy who doesnt even merit a token.

Celeste: I'm conflicted but yeah, we should kill him.

Artemisia: poison causes wounds bindable by spells

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): probably.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

if that's legal then i can

johns (GM): ok

Proclus of Rome: Why wouldn't it be legal?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i know there are different spells for treating regular wounds and poison wounds

Jorn of Merinita: I mean, if Prudenzio is Enchanting and I roll a 1 on every Folk Ken roll, I probably do not want to kill him or think he's playing me.

johns (GM): you give her a potion of bind wounds?

Artemisia: preventing wound from worsening is not treating it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i just cast the spell normally

johns (GM): ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "normally"

Jorn of Merinita: And I don't think I'll help kill him either, also because if there's a combat this session I won't have time to help.

Giraldo of Milan: my god. jorn finds prudenzio enchanting

Jorn of Merinita: It's a supernatural ability, nothing I could do.

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't think we have anything even approaching sufficient evidence to just straight-up kill a hermetic magus on the spot, and don't support Proclus' murderlust.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+15+3

(

1

)

+15+3

=

19

johns (GM): GAHAHAHA WELCOME TO BOTCH VILLE BITCH

Proclus of Rome: We could always wait for Jorn to leave and then kill Prudenzio without him.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It's formulaic! It's formulaic!

johns (GM): lol

Jorn of Merinita: I am fine with people killing Prudenzio without me

Proclus of Rome: Too late, he rolled a 4.

That's means you're dead 4ever.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can't understand why Archibald is being so patient with this possible criminal - said by literal, confirmed criminal

johns (GM): lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The spell goes off without a hitch, and Artemisia coughs up some bubbles.

Giraldo of Milan: come now, i think we can add at LEAST one more botch dice here

from being near the infernalist house

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: That's my sigil. Boom.

johns (GM):

rolling 100d1

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=

100

oof

doesnt look good, pal

Artemisia: cute sigil

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay. First, everyone, you see the moon in the sky begin to stop moving

johns (GM): despite being a shrine this aura, like everything else around here, is magic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Wow, can't believe I was awarded 100 confidence points for mentioning my sigil

Proclus of Rome: What kind of shrine is it?

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus's iconic sigil

Proclus of Rome: A real shrine or some pagan bullass?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the ruined kind

johns (GM): it's a real shrine. did you miss the inscription pop up

Giraldo of Milan: i closed it

immediately

johns (GM): it's dedicated to a monk from subiaco abbey who sealed the blear eyed hag away in the first place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone from the abbey sealed the faerie in the wookiee hole

Artemisia: shrine of the woookie hole

Proclus of Rome: Ah.

Ok then.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus's iconic sigil

i have actually been mentioning it where possible

which is not often, because i very rarely cast spells.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus' iconic mention

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus's iconic existence

Archibald of Guernicus: The potion seller is an iconic figure

Proclus of Rome: Archibald has hung men on less evidence than we have right now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i bet i could solve our income problems by selling a bunch of potions to the conte

johns (GM): im hearing Jorn wants to head home and let sleeping dogs lie, and Proclus wants to kill the moment Jorn walks away

Jorn of Merinita: "Did he use his satyr blood and Mentem magic to make the Silver Lady marry him against her will? It occurs to me that I was not at my best judgement at the tower."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do faeries have will?"

johns (GM): shit

Artemisia: "Yes."

johns (GM): that's a deep question

Proclus of Rome: "No, but I assume a faerie queen is eager for marriage."

Jorn of Merinita: "They have glamour, and cognizance. It can serve as self-determination under certain circumstances."

Archibald of Guernicus: I want to use invisibility, or perhaps flight, or perhaps both, to get into the towers upper level and investigate

Artemisia: "She is using him probably even more than he is using her."

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All right. So, what's he doing that the average Merinita doesn't?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, she seems tae get far more out of it than he does. It's strange."

(To Archibald of Guernicus): There's a Hermetic lab in there, a non-hermetic Lab full of oriental rugs, and nothing else worth noting

Proclus of Rome: "He's lying to us."

Celeste: "I thought he only got into it to get immortality, but he kind of looks like shit."

(From Archibald of Guernicus): So, no tied up count or orsu?

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Nope.

Artemisia: he gets a medium wound every time he kisses his wife

Giraldo of Milan: presumably he wards himself against the arsenic

Jorn of Merinita: "I feel like Prudenzio is extremely honest, but that's an odd feeling to have about a person that's described in the manner he is."

Artemisia: if he does, he's a coward

Giraldo of Milan: "Did you breathe in any of the dust Jorn? That sounds like a side effect."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can an apothecary make an antidote for a medium poison

Proclus of Rome: "He's the least honest man I have ever know."

Yes.

johns (GM): that's a medical theriac

Jorn of Merinita: "I haven't gone near the arsenic."

Proclus of Rome: "The Silver Lady is arsenic."

Giraldo of Milan: lets make some mithridate

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fortunately assembling theriacs requires medicine, the skill of diagnosis, and not apothecary, the skill of assembling cures

Archibald of Guernicus: "As we have no immediate threat, I have a suggestion. We send someone tae the count's place, and find an arcane connection. I want tae know where he's got to, that's the loose end that bothers me most here."

Jorn of Merinita: "Dwarves are immune to Terram. I'd be doing business with them, were things to go well."

johns (GM): good idea dys

Proclus of Rome: Shouldv'e taken the opportunity to learn medicine!

johns (GM): have a conf

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we can scry and locate the count, we can find out if he's ensorcelled or just taken with Prudenzio's scheming."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: prudenzio's coin purse might also be an AC

Artemisia: kill the count through arcane connection

johns (GM): ohhh SHIT cthinker

Proclus of Rome: "I don't see how it matters how he was fooled."

Giraldo of Milan: if anyones coin purse would be an ac its definitely prudenzios

Artemisia: prudenzio's still protected by the code, though

Proclus of Rome: Oh no.

Giraldo of Milan: not for much longer

Proclus of Rome: Not the Code of Hermes.

Celeste: It's probably got a silver P on it and everything.

Giraldo of Milan: just wait for the next full moon and nail a note to his door

Archibald of Guernicus: "It matters, as lying is not a crime, but using mentem magic tae control a local lord is."

Proclus of Rome: The thing I definitely care about.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there are so many rules and regulations... i will never be able to murder my enemies

Artemisia: on his sanctum door that is next door to your lab

johns (GM): should I just skip ahead to the results of scrying the Conte's location

Giraldo of Milan: then send the coinpurse to harco, with zita, and say prudenzio is challenging redcaps to certamen

Proclus of Rome: He can't legally have a sanctum.

Jorn of Merinita: "Is there a painting of the count back at Rome? I could fashion a small statue in his likeness that can increase a spell's sympathy."

johns (GM): He can't legally have a sanctum... unless Archibald's proposed law passes!

Archibald's in league with him!

He's the traitor!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: prudenzio is only a day away so any of your sodales might rat you out and deliver the declaration to him

Artemisia: his last known sanctum is in vardian's tomb

Giraldo of Milan: just skip to the scrying

for both the count and prudenzio

johns (GM): right

Artemisia: we delivered the war declaration there, his fault for not checking his mail

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm not going tae stand by while ye attack and butcher the man for 'being suspicious'. If ye take great offense tae his very existence, there is an option available, as ye very well know. Wizard's War."

johns (GM): I'll wait 30 seconds if someone wants to whisper an interruption. if not, archibald or zita steals something from the capocci tower that lets you locate the count

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye know where tae find him, he doesn't even have an aegis."

Proclus of Rome: "We can't wait for the next moon to act."

Celeste: I'm not stopping them.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Can we not? We haven't even spoken with the count about this!"

Proclus of Rome: Go for it, gamers.

johns (GM): great

johns (GM) does the wave screen and harps sound effect to show passage of time

Jorn of Merinita: I'll chip a bust out of a piece of rock if someone can describe him to me

Proclus of Rome: "Even if he is in his right mind now, he is defenseless against Prudenzio."

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. Magic 5 aura, using ceremonial casting, shouting and screaming, map secured with a dagger, lets do this. Sponting InCo

rolling (1d10!+38)/2

(

(

4

)

+38)/2

=

21

Jorn of Merinita: And then give it to Archibald

Artemisia: nice AC

johns (GM): The count is at Sapienza University Library

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+19+3 Craft: Stonemason

(

9

)

+19+3

=

31

Artemisia: "I have another idea. We could ask my 'husband' for help."

Jorn of Merinita: I don't care that it's too late to be useful, I just wanted to roll

Artemisia: Fight rapist with rapist.

Archibald of Guernicus: "He was telling the truth, he's at Sapienza right now."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10 Rolling a 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Jorn of Merinita: Nice 3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a good number

lots of mystical significance.

Jorn of Merinita: 3 is awesome if you're a witch

Artemisia: it reminds me of holy trinity

Proclus of Rome: "What would a Conte be doing at Sapienza?"

Artemisia: studying

Proclus of Rome: ????

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: for example, did you know that the magi of vardian's tomb can be divided into 3 groups of 3?

Giraldo of Milan: 3 s a very nce number

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ask him yerself. Let's settle this and begin our operations at Allumiere, if Prudenzio interferes we can pursue this further at tribunal."

"If he poses a genuine, provable threat, ye can come tae me and I'll help ye with it. For now, I think yer just bloodthirsty, Proclus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess we could have asked prudenzio about the winter hag. oh well

Jorn of Merinita: 16LP for my business being a side story, freaking sweet

Good adventure

Archibald of Guernicus: "A liar and a scoundrel he might be, but a threat sufficient to commit a high crime over? Going tae need a little more than that."

Proclus of Rome: "You are sickeningly naive to believe a word of what Prudenzio said."

johns (GM): who wants to wander into the deathtrap

Archibald of Guernicus: "If ye consider it so important, ye can wizard's wars him yerself, nothing's stopping ye."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Me.

Giraldo of Milan: the pallet demon, of course

Proclus of Rome: There aren't any demons.

Giraldo of Milan: he wil lbe our ally in this fight

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Me

Archibald of Guernicus: I return to Vardian's Tomb

Proclus of Rome: So what's to worry about?

johns (GM): He clearly says there's no devils back there.

Jorn of Merinita: I return to the workshop

Giraldo of Milan: ill wnader into the deathtrap

johns (GM): Okay

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Actually I'll go back to the workshop

Celeste: "He's definitely lying about everything."

Zita of Mercere: Didn't I steal from here when I came here before? I think I recognise this picture.

johns (GM): Yes, this is the exterior of the University

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes

Zita of Mercere: Nice

johns (GM): there were lepers and flagellants and such

Proclus of Rome: You did.

You stole a bunch of books you couldn't read.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think i floated up to the balcony and you went in the front door?

Artemisia: i'll go get treatment from lavinia once back in rome

Zita of Mercere: No-one ever caught me, it's fine

Jorn of Merinita: Okay my mom's here, got to go

Good luck with the deathtrap

Artemisia: see you

Zita of Mercere: Speaking of which, Johns, can I add that hat to my list of stolen loot?

johns (GM): The Conte is in a private study room off the library, along with Orsu. The room is full of papers, a few books on Magic Lore, and some amulets. The Count looks tired and haggard.

Artemisia: add it to the AC pile

johns (GM): You try to add the hat to your loot.... But it's gone! Oh shit! You took the faerie glamour hat!!!!!!!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: annihilated

Celeste: noooo

Proclus of Rome: RUTHLESS

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many mythic pounds did celeste steal

Zita of Mercere: Brunisenda's hat was real and it's mine now

johns (GM): just kidding

you now have a floppy witch hat

Proclus of Rome: "Good morning Conte, how does this day find you?"

johns (GM): less than a pound

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes

Hugo di Capocci: "No better than the last. Why have you tracked me down, Proclus? I'm in the middle of a rite here."

Proclus of Rome: "Are you aware of what your servant Prudenzio is doing?"

Hugo di Capocci: "An ally, not a servant. What is he doing that you have to trouble me now?"

Proclus of Rome: "He is enacting a rite which I believe will culminate in the destruction of your holdings."

Hugo di Capocci: does proclus have guile

Giraldo of Milan: proclus is telling the truth

Zita of Mercere: I tap Gulielmus on the shoulder and whisper to him

Proclus of Rome: It's BROADLY true.

Hugo di Capocci: "That's ridiculous. We're helping each other out. He's nothing to gain by crossing me."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea whispers back.

Giraldo of Milan: new plan: use mentem magic on the count to make him kill prudenzio

Proclus of Rome: "If you legitimize the Silver Lady as true nobility and give a title to Prudenzio, he will take liberties with your trust."

Hugo di Capocci: "What do you know of the ways of leaders, Proclus? I trust your counsel on matters of mystic geometry, the motion of the planets, and such, but you are no noble."

Zita of Mercere: "Conte, we do not wish to impugn your judgement, my learned friend merely has concerns about the nature of Prudenzio's character. We knew him for some time, after all."

I use my bracelet and try asking him a mental question, 'What do you get out of this deal with Prudenzio?'

Hugo di Capocci passes a note to a player

Proclus of Rome: "Of course, Conte, I am merely informing you of my suspicions."

(To Zita of Mercere): He will keep the fae in line and let my court use the lands as they need.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how far down the chain does MR go for ruling nobles

Hugo di Capocci: it's entirely GM fiat!!! bwahaha

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah!

Proclus of Rome: Gah!

Zita of Mercere: He deals with witches, so he obviously has none

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's teach the parma magica to potom flos

Proclus of Rome: Lets

Hugo di Capocci: "He's the husband of a liege. I'm not bringing him into my household."

what if he already knows it >:D

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: haha. what if.

Artemisia: let's trick prudenzio into teaching parma magica to a fairy

Proclus of Rome: :O

Fairies can't do the Parma Magica and also they don't need to.

Zita of Mercere: "Quite alright and understandable. The main reason we came was that we had been trying to examine the land, not knowing it had now fallen under your control, and your men asked our sodales examining it to leave."

Giraldo of Milan: potom flos copied a lot of books and was given full access to the library

he almost certainly learned parma

Proclus of Rome: Good thing you can't learn the Parma Magica with books.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: our book has the key, i think

Hugo di Capocci: "I apologize, but my men have to be wary of Richemont's scouts should the man decide he wants a war after all."

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

Zita of Mercere: "I am sure, with our continued good relations, you can see the benefits of allowing us to work on it alongside your court. We have a number of talents that they do not, and of course a fair tribute would be paid."

"And in such a case, we would certainly back your new claim to the land. It would be good for us both, after all."

Hugo di Capocci: "You would?" The count perks up.

Giraldo of Milan: "After all, who has more right to the land?"

"No one but yourself."

Zita of Mercere: "What would we gain by throwing our lot in with a distant frenchman, over a longstanding ally?"

Proclus of Rome: We need to just sell this guy a longevity ritual already.

Artemisia: the silver lady

beatrice can make decent longevity rituals now

+4 is good enough for mundanes

Hugo di Capocci: "Excellent, excellent."

He beckons you all to join him outside, away from the stuffy library cell and Orsu.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could sell him some potions

Zita of Mercere: I'll briefly say hi to Orsu from politeness, and go with him

Artemisia: but her schedule for now is to study mentem to save grosso

Proclus of Rome: I give Orsu the fig.

Hugo di Capocci: "Let's work out some details, then. This Silver Lady, as she calls herself, I understand she's essential to the valley and the one who can keep things in check."

orsu remembers that he is not stink gifted, and he now has a better home and aura than you

Proclus of Rome: "This is not entirely true, your grace."

"There is another faction opposed to the Silver Lady."

"Winter fairies."

Zita of Mercere: "You would have to ask Jorn on this, he is our expert on the fae. To my understanding she is fairly inseperable from the place without being disposed of, though."

Hugo di Capocci: "Prudenzio tells me the Silver Lady can conjure storms of poison, bring the dead from the ground, and other terrible deeds. How strong are these 'Winter Faeries'?"

Giraldo of Milan: ill figure that out for him

Hugo di Capocci: you met them. they were cats

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+8

(

2

)

+8

=

10

i assume theres more

we went in autumn

Hugo di Capocci: yeah yeah

That's Faerie Lore?

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

Proclus of Rome: "He was lying to you, your grace. The restless dead are the remnants of an ancient, evil covenant."

Hugo di Capocci: Well the winter faeries have been out of the picture for a long time so the ones here are newish and probably haven't gotten their glamour folk traditions spread around a bunch

Proclus of Rome: "They were all dispatched on our last trip to Allumiere, though more may have been lying in wait."

Zita of Mercere: "The poison is real though."

Proclus of Rome: "In any case, the dead should not be a problem."

Hugo di Capocci: "If you can clear this Silver Lady out then I won't have to treat with her as though she were a human noble."

Proclus of Rome: "The fields were sown with arsenic by a particularly evil sorceress. If the arsenic is removed then Allumiere will become healthy once again and the Silver Lady's power will diminish."

Giraldo of Milan: "If you stop treating her as a noble right now, she'll also grow weaker."

"Simply proclaim that she's not a noble."

Hugo di Capocci: "I've no interest in fighting a war on one front when I have to watch for a war on another. And it does my Magi no good to have fighting tracked through their sanctums."

Giraldo of Milan: "You don't need to make her aware. Saying that she holds no claim to any titles out loud should have some effect."

Celeste: "She looks very noble, though."

Hugo di Capocci: "The people who were living there before-- in the village and around-- already believed it. Doesn't that matter?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Faeries work in strange ways. Every person no longer acknowledging their titles will weaken them."

Proclus of Rome: "Hardly, they are imbeciles from decades of lead poisoning."

Hugo di Capocci: "Hmm.."

"Perhaps.."

Giraldo of Milan: lets get him to say it and then a watching ward goes off and blows his head up

Hugo di Capocci: "I shall have to run it by my Magi."

Proclus of Rome: "She was so weak we could have done away with her on our first meeting if not for Prudenzio's treachery."

Zita of Mercere: "I thought you lost horribly to her and had to run away?" I say to Proclus, quietly

Proclus of Rome: "Maybe on the second meeting, then."

Zita of Mercere: "Don't get his men killed attacking some fairy, he'll hate us and it'll ruin this deal." I say, quietly, again

Proclus of Rome: "We can deal solely with the Silver Queen if you merely withdraw your men to safety."

Hugo di Capocci: "I have your word?"

Proclus of Rome: "We can destroy the Silver Lady, yes."

Hugo di Capocci: "And her fae subjects?"

Proclus of Rome: "Impotent without her."

"Her guards are easily matched by any fighting man."

Hugo di Capocci: "Tame that valley and I shall share its resources with you." He offers his hand to shake and seal the deal.

Proclus of Rome: Ok, I'll shake his hand.

Hugo di Capocci: grats

Zita of Mercere: You take

Proclus of Rome: "It is as good as done."

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+40

(

1

)

+40

=

41

damage

Hugo di Capocci: Okay

Zita of Mercere: from the non-hermetic hand magic

Artemisia: do you report any of this to beatrice?

Giraldo of Milan: whats this... hugo has a strangely symmetrical hand

Proclus of Rome: Sure.

Beatrice Orsini : "That's an extremely bad deal, Proclus."

Proclus of Rome: Hands can't be symmetrical, because people aren't.

Giraldo of Milan: thats why is strange

Zita of Mercere: "He proposed it after I already got us a better one, even!"

"We didn't have to kill some fairy, he was going to let us set up on the land."

Giraldo of Milan: "Killing the Silver Lady isn't a good idea, but I don't see any other option."

Proclus of Rome: "Killing the Silver Lady is the deal."

Giraldo of Milan: "If we ruin Prudenzio's plan, she'll be our enemy."

johns (GM): GM is getting tuckered out so I'll let you all argue it out what the final plan is

Beatrice Orsini : "Proclus."

Proclus of Rome: "She is a menace and we cannot rest easily with her alive."

Beatrice Orsini : "If you attack the Silver Lady, it's Wizard's War."

Proclus of Rome: "If Prudenzio wishes to do so, then let him."

Zita of Mercere: "It wasn't until you pushed for it, it'll take a lot of effort to fix it."

Proclus of Rome: "He can't defeat all of us."

Beatrice Orsini : "I mean I'll declare Wizard's War on you."

Proclus of Rome: "Surely you must be joking."

Zita of Mercere: "Proclus, I know you're really upset this fairy made you run away half a decade ago, but please don't screw up our mundane dealings."

Beatrice Orsini : "I am completely serious."

Giraldo of Milan: "It makes no difference, ruining Prudenzio's plan would anger the Silver Lady."

Proclus of Rome: "She plots to take over Rome I am sure of it."

Celeste: "I need to study more OoH Lore, I don't understand you people at all."

Giraldo of Milan: "We would need to destroy her either way."

Beatrice Orsini : "That's a delusion."

Proclus of Rome: "It is simply logical."

"She seeks true nobility,does she not?"

Giraldo of Milan: "She holds more power than she ever likely has before."

"She won't let that be taken away from her."

Beatrice Orsini : "She already has true nobility."

Proclus of Rome: "Furthermore, Prudenzio is also seeking a title, though of course he can obfuscate his intentions through layers of magic."

Beatrice Orsini : "No matter how much you're trying to connect them, Prudenzio and the Silver Lady are ultimately separate matters."

Proclus of Rome: "As a member of the Capocci household, there would be nothing stopping him from gaining control of Hugo di Capocci's lands for himself, thereby making the Silver Lady the rightful rule."

"I needn't tell you of the consequences of this."

Zita of Mercere: "Er, Prudenzio's also still a magus, just a vagrant. If he does any of this we can take him to tribunal, let them sort it out."

Beatrice Orsini : "Yes. Until there's solid proof, it's matter for the Tribunal."

Proclus of Rome: "By that time we could all be dying of lead poisoning."

Zita of Mercere: "Good thing we have a Salerno doctor, here."

Beatrice Orsini : "How would that happen?"

Proclus of Rome: "It would be the entire city of Rome, not just Vardian's Tomb!"

Beatrice Orsini : "Even if the Silver Lady gains a human title, she'd still be a rural baroness in the eyes of people of Rome."

"Her domain won't extend here."

Zita of Mercere: "Do you really think people would sit back and let Prudenzio, of all people, take over the entire city of Rome?"

Proclus of Rome: "The Silver Lady's dominion is suffused with toxic vapors and lead contamination, should she extend it to Rome, we would all suffer."

Zita of Mercere: "You don't gain titles in backroom deals, it'll be known the moment he does, and we can do something about it then."

Beatrice Orsini : "Also, you should be aware that faeries have trouble dealing with Dominion aura."

"Rome should be the safest place from them, just after Jerusalem itself."

Zita of Mercere: "Unless, as I'm sure Beatrice can clue us in if this is true or not, the silver lady can immediately impose total spread of her aura over Rome in a few days, I think we're fine."

Proclus of Rome: "How long have you lived here?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Proclus, if the Silver Lady grows in power, Rome will be even safer from her."

Proclus of Rome: "Rome may be the center of Christendom, but it is riddled with decay. Evil stalks the streets each night and corruption reigns in its noble houses."

Beatrice Orsini : "Do you know what is one of the greatest hopes of house Merinita?"

Proclus of Rome: "What?"

Zita of Mercere: "Maniacs lurk in tombs, plotting."

I add onto Proclus' statement

Beatrice Orsini : "Obtaining an invitation in God's name for powerful faeries to enter Dominion aura."

"So far, no bishop has issued one."

"Rome is safe."

Proclus of Rome: "The Capocci family counts bishops among its number."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Thank God for that. All of this nonsense is giving me a headache."

Zita of Mercere: Do they? I'm rolling area lore (rome)

Beatrice Orsini : "Do you think they'll give an invitation like that?"

Proclus of Rome: IDK, probably.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+14

(

8

)

+14

=

22

I'm checking with johns, tired johns

Beatrice Orsini : "Even the most venal bishop would be careful with issuing proclamations in God's name."

"And the rightful Bishop of Rome would have something to say about that."

Proclus of Rome: Any noble family worth its salt is going to have a bunch of religious sons.

johns (GM): A headache? perhaps you should smoke some opium

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that sounds like a fantastic idea.

johns (GM): capocci's sons are not churchmen but his extended family has priests bishops cardinals etc

Giraldo of Milan: are we going to be doing the murdering of prudenzio/silver lady/proclus this session

johns (GM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Capocci

Proclus of Rome: "You mean the one who has left the governance of Rome for his subordinates?"

Zita of Mercere: "Beatrice, it wouldn't work if it was just a bishop ensorcelled to do it, would it?"

Proclus of Rome: "They could well be tricked into doing it."

johns (GM): I dont think I'm up for running a big fight against a wizards and a supernatural creature this late so it'd have to be next week

Beatrice Orsini : "I don't know, but I'm sure it's something that was tried."

Zita of Mercere: "Good point."

Celeste: That's cool, gives me an extra week.

Beatrice Orsini : "A large part of house Merinita is pagan and respects the Church very little."

Zita of Mercere: "Not to suggest that there are those in house merinita will little respect for the minds of others."

Celeste: "Maybe I'll be a bishop one day. You never know."

Beatrice Orsini : "I don't think Galafre the Elder is interested in the Church. Not until women are in the priesthood."

Zita of Mercere: "I wonder if Artemisia poisoned herself on purpose to take a break."

Artemisia yells weakly from the infirmary.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The poor girl."

Artemisia: "No."

Zita of Mercere: "My apologies, Artemisia."

Beatrice Orsini : "She's too well-behaved for her own good."

Aristide of Tremere distant jingling.

Zita of Mercere: "In that case, I'll try and explain things to the conte. He has a poor opinion of Proclus already, he should understand that this was just a personal vendetta and not the decision of the covenant as a whole."

johns (GM): artemisia shares the infirmiry with grosso, who has come down with diptheria

Zita of Mercere: "Unless he wishes to engage in wizards war with his sodales, in which case we have more important troubles than Allumiere."

Proclus of Rome: "If you do so you are making a serious mistake."

"I don't know how you can allow yourself to be a part of Prudenzo's scheme "

Beatrice Orsini : "Proclus, if there is a proof the Silver Lady wants to take over Rome of her own accord, I'll be on your side in fighting her."

Zita of Mercere: "His scheme to give us a worse deal? He's a pervert and a liar, but come on, you just want to kill a fairy that pissed you off."

Beatrice Orsini : "If there is a clear proof against Prudenzio, I'll be with you there."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: look

if we're going to kill anyone, it should be the lord of the viking village

Beatrice Orsini : "But the reputation of Vardian's Tomb is already bad enough that we can't afford to take rash actions."

Proclus of Rome: "Your standards for proof are astronomical, this is as plain as the nose on your face."

Zita of Mercere: If we're going to kill anyone, it should be Proclus.

Proclus of Rome: "A typical noble's approach."

(To Zita of Mercere): what if we let him enact his plan then let the tribunal kill him

(To Zita of Mercere): let's pretend lavinia suggests that

Proclus of Rome: "Just avoid all blame until you can take credit."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus is a close second

(To Zita of Mercere): in less harsh words

Beatrice Orsini : "We could bring the matter to the attention of Quaesitores and officially announce that Prudenzio has renounced his residence at Vardian's Tomb and is now a vagrant with no sanctum if that would make you rest easier."

Proclus of Rome: "I had hoped you would show some wisdom as Archon."

(From Zita of Mercere): I agree with that sentiment, but we should try and sort out this trouble with the conte in the meantime. I'll explain to him that Proclus speaks only for himself, and was being deceitful to further a grudge. Probably have to roll bargain to get him to go back to a better deal.

Proclus of Rome: "Archibald is perhaps the most vigilant Quaesitore in the Tribunal and he isn't motivated to do anything more than take Prudenzio at his word."

"But very well, if you are only willing to banish Prudenzio, then do what your conscience demands"

Beatrice Orsini : "Zita, are you willing to visit Allumiére again?"

"I need you to deliver a letter to Prudenzio."

Zita of Mercere: "I'd like a magus there with me, just in case, if someone is willing to come along. Unless you don't mind it being delivered discretely."

Beatrice Orsini : "A warning that if he does not come to Rome, his residence at Vardian's Tomb will be forfeit."

Zita of Mercere: "Still not quite sure about what his deal is here, mentem worries me a lot after Montcuq."

"Either way, I'll ensure he gets it. Redcap's honour."

Beatrice Orsini : "Sadly, Hypatia is not here and this is too delicate to entrust to another Redcap."

Proclus of Rome: "Should you need an escort, I volunteer."

Beatrice Orsini : "I'll ask Archibald to come with you."

"This should get Prudenzio to come to Rome."

Zita of Mercere: "Perhaps someone with a... gentler gift would be nice. I can't be around him long."

Beatrice Orsini : "You'll have chance to investigate then."

Proclus of Rome: "What do you hope to gain from Prudenzio coming to Rome."

Beatrice Orsini : "Get him away from Allumiére."

johns (GM): how long do you want to pull him away from allumiere

indefinitely?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs.

Beatrice Orsini : a day or two should be enough

johns (GM): what happens after 2 days

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well, you certainly don't want Aristide to tag along."

Beatrice Orsini : get to rome, talk with beatrice and get back

Zita of Mercere: "Aristide's gift is not a problem."

Beatrice Orsini : it's to get him away from there to let archibald an zita investigate the tower without him around

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's the rest of him."

johns (GM): > tfw you can trust anyone in the covenant

Archibald already scoped the tower out tho

Beatrice Orsini : I don't know that.

johns (GM): ok.

Proclus of Rome: He didn't say so?

johns (GM): Oops

I broke kayfabe

sorry

Beatrice Orsini : he said so, but i don't know it ic

Zita of Mercere: I definitely would have. Ah shit.

johns (GM): I deduct 1 conf from myself.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the gm's might total is reduced by 10

Zita of Mercere: He found a hermetic lab and a non-hermetic one, iirc?

johns (GM): correct

Zita of Mercere: It's just prudenzio's wizard tower right now, nothing too spooky

Beatrice Orsini : "Proclus, Prudenzio wasn't here when the Aegis was cast, correct?"

Proclus of Rome: "He hasn't returned since he hatched his wicked scheme with the Silver Lady."

Beatrice Orsini : "Then the Aegis should protect us if he comes here."

"If he doesn't, he's banished from the covenant publicly."

"If he does, there's time to investigate Allumiére."

Proclus of Rome: "Fine."

Beatrice Orsini : "If he's the leading mind in this scheme you think is going on, he's guilty of both mundane interference and fae molestation."

Proclus of Rome: "His word is worthless, he will attempt to lie to you at every turn."

"If he attempts to convince you that he was bewitched by a fairy, this will be nothing more than another lie, to gain your sympathy."

Zita of Mercere: "I'll get the letter to him, anyway. Just don't go murdering his wife, or promising nobles you'll do it."

"Can't you just settle it over certamen or whatever."

Proclus of Rome: "The Silver Lady is too dangerous to live."

Zita of Mercere: "Aristide is too dangerous to live, and, yet."

Proclus of Rome: "Aristide is only a danger to himself."

Beatrice Orsini : "Fae need humans."

Proclus of Rome: "Have you ever visited Allumiere?"

"It is a blighted and cursed land."

Zita of Mercere: "Our merinitas say the silver lady is fine, I'll trust their expert opinion."

"Giraldo disagreed but he's probably jealous."

Beatrice Orsini : "I have an idea on how to fix Allumiére."

"Prudenzio is not an artist, is he?"

Proclus of Rome: "Please, enlighten us."

johns (GM): the art of rape

Proclus of Rome: By Donald Trump!

BOOM!

This is it, Trump!

The final nail!

Zita of Mercere: "I don't recall him ever mentioning the aesthetic quality of anything."

Beatrice Orsini : "My idea would involve some fae molestation, but it would be in a good cause of helping Allumiére."

Celeste: "He has no sense and just likes things that are gold or fancy"

"Or silver, now."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: He's not wrong.

Beatrice Orsini : "Excellent."

"Faeries feed off of human spirit."

"Some are more aware of it than others and can guide their actions to that end."

"I don't know where the SIlver Lady falls, but I assume Prundenzio would pick a fairy he could control."

"The important thing is, humans can shape faeries."

"By changing their stories, the faeries themselves change."

Beatrice Orsini : "It could be possible to change the Silver Lady to a fairy that blesses the fields instead of poisoning them."

Zita of Mercere: "You want to try and move her away from the lead poisoning, I get it."

Proclus of Rome: "If this is what you want, then why not remove the Silver Lady and replace her with the Winter Faeries?"

Zita of Mercere: "Well, that'd solve Proclus' concern entirely, and the conte's."

"Uh, winter destroys crops, Proclus."

Proclus of Rome: "It would certainly be faster."

Beatrice Orsini : "Is land of harsh winters better than poisoned lands?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, every year after the harvest."

"Much better."

Beatrice Orsini : "A cold comes early and the entire harvest dies."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Whatever the winter faeries did, it was bad enough that they had to be sealed away."

Proclus of Rome: "In addition, the winter faeries are weak and undeveloped."

Zita of Mercere: "For now, yes. If the silver lady was gone, well."

Proclus of Rome: "If you wish to mold them in your own image, it would be no trouble, I'm sure."

"They were sealed away for centuries, the people forgot them."

Zita of Mercere: "Or we don't bother killing the silver lady. Didn't you lose to her before, anyway? Do you even have a plan or are you leading a heroic charge of the grogs to their death in poison?"

Proclus of Rome: "They were but mewling, sleepy housecats when I saw them."

Beatrice Orsini : "The people have little to amuse them. They tell faerie stories when working the fields to ease the burden. They tell faerie stories in long winter evenings when they labor by candles."

Proclus of Rome: "We developed an antidote to arsenic poisoning as well as a poultice against it."

Beatrice Orsini : "The stories about them would grow quickly."

(From Zita of Mercere): To note, no matter what The Fool proclus says here, I arrange a better deal with the conte and explain that Proclus is driven by a grudge, not good sense, and should be ignored here.

Proclus of Rome: "It merely seems to me, though I am no expert, that immature and weak fairies would be easier to manipulate to change their stories than one who has ruled unchallenged for hundreds of years and is currently being strengthened by a magus for his own evil ends."

(To Zita of Mercere): Sure...... ROLL BARGAIN

(To Zita of Mercere): bwahah

johns (GM) laughs to self

(To Zita of Mercere): well what deal do you propose

johns (GM): ltes invoke the most powerful faerie of all: god

Beatrice Orsini : "Prundezio has no idea of what he's meddling with, I'm sure."

"But finding out more about the winter faeries could be also worth it."

(From Zita of Mercere): The same as before. We help him keep his rightful claim if its opposed, since we have a vested interest in it. We pay him some tribute from what we earn there (probably not too much)

Zita of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+11

(

7

)

+11

=

18

Proclus of Rome: "You should go yourself to confirm my report."

"They are as weak as kittens."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets invoke the most glamorous faerie of all: the gm, johns.

(To Zita of Mercere): lets adjudicate it tomorrow cause im fading fast

Beatrice Orsini : "I'll return with Prudenzio if he arrives at the Tomb."

"If he does not, it will be only polite to deliver the notice of his banishment in person."

Proclus of Rome: "You mustn't let him know that we know about the winter faeries."

Beatrice Orsini : "I'm not a fool, Proclus, whatever you might think."

"And I practiced my Parma."

"You should stay here in the Tomb with me. You could see that I won't reveal anything to Prudenzio."

"And we should wake Bialas. He is a Mentem expert, after all."

johns (GM): gm is fading fast

Proclus of Rome: "Prudenzio is well aware of how I feel about him."

johns (GM): i think we have to resolve this (shudder) in the thread

Proclus of Rome: "I shouldn't be here when he visits."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how much xp

Beatrice Orsini : "Once the matter with Prudenzio here is resolved, I'll go with you to Allumiére."

johns (GM): 8

Beatrice Orsini : "I can make you invisible."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and, can i spend any of it on faerie lore

Proclus of Rome: "Fine."

johns (GM): yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

johns (GM): but, you SHOULD spend it on ex misc lore

Proclus of Rome: It seems like we've got another session on this adventure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will be learning ex misc lore from galerius.

johns (GM): well idk

Celeste: It could go that way.

Beatrice Orsini : "Prudenzio could sue you for scrying, if he finds out."

johns (GM): its more about going back and forth on negotiations with prudenzio and conte

zita wanted to make her own offer to the count

Celeste: Let's RP all of that out in character.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh hey

Zita of Mercere: Specifically, I went and did that, the offer he was fine with before and agreed to.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have a couple seasons of labwork too

Zita of Mercere: Naturally I told everyone about it at our weekly No Proclus Club meeting

johns (GM): the count will probably come back asking for you all to sign some sort of agreement of rights of protection for his hedge wizzerds if youre moving next to them

since his hedge wizzards want you to

not kill them

Proclus of Rome: What a deal Zita.

Beatrice Orsini : if they don't know parma, they can be tolerated

Zita of Mercere: Sigh

I guess we just have to agree to not murder his hedge wizards on sight

It's a tough sell but we do want Allumiere

Proclus of Rome: Is Archibald going to be able to agree with that?

johns (GM): we might have to codify it a bit more

well okay im not falling asleep yet, let me get into it

Beatrice Orsini : get us exclusive rights to all vis on Capocci lands

Zita of Mercere: To not kill hedge wizards? They're outside the order, we can do what we want to them by the code but we dont have like, a legal stipulatoin we need to give them a sufficient number of wedgies per month or something

Beatrice Orsini : and exclusive rights to sell vis to his hedge wizards

Proclus of Rome: Whatever happened to Join or Die?

Beatrice Orsini : that's only if they know the parma

johns (GM): the Count would own the vis sources and magical animals in Allumiere and would arbitrate disbursement of them between you guys and his own guys. the hedge wizards have the right of sanctum to their various areas. vardian's tomb has rights and privileges to conduct mining.

Zita of Mercere: That's for the Gifted, and theres no reason to force potom floss in as hes a harmless potion man who lives in a herb garden

Proclus of Rome: This all hinges on Prudenzio being dead, of course.

Zita of Mercere: Are you attacking him?

Proclus of Rome: Isn't he gifted?

johns (GM): a token tribute goes to the silver lady and a token tribute goes to Hugo di Capocci, specifically outlined NOT as a tribute of a vassal to a liege, but a tribue in exchange for the Rights & Privileges of Mining/Extraction

neither tribute is valuable enough to even merit accounting for

Zita of Mercere: Excellent

Proclus of Rome: Or we could just make a bunch of snow cats who we don't have to tiptoe around...

johns (GM): If there's a dispute between you and the Hedgies, he gets to arbitrate it as the lord of this land

I mean

if it occurs in Allumiere

if it occurs in rome or something then it gets arbitrated by whoever the lawful lord fo whatever land it is is

Basically he doesn't want you dragging his guys to a Hermetic tribunal if you're mad at them. does that make sense?

Proclus of Rome: Yes, but also it seems like a problem.

Zita of Mercere: Sure, it's rome, gotta work around mundane interests. We do that a lot.

(From Beatrice Orsini ): Zita said she'd deliver an extra letter for the Silver Lady while delivering the letter to Prudenzio. It's just an official greeting from the archon of Vardian's Tomb to the Silver Lady, ruler of Allumiera and some phrases about hoping for long and fruitful future relations with her specifically.

johns (GM): Prudenzio is one of you guys, he's  not  one of Capocci's, so dealing with him is your prerogative as long as you don't provoke a war with the Silver Lady

Proclus of Rome: Giving Hugo di Capocci the right to judge us on magical matters is bad precedent.

Zita of Mercere: We could probably work out a deal with a longevity ritual in exchange for much better vis rights, permanently. If someone wants to give him one.

We gave him a letter, its fine

johns (GM): Ok

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice will soon hit 40 lab total on CrCo.

Zita of Mercere: If he wants to live out there and go vagrant, its his own decision. He's a big boy. If he starts actively interfering with us, we take him to tribunal.

Beatrice Orsini : I can make it a priority if the good relations are important.

johns (GM): dfd, do you think prudenzio is a spiteful enough asshole to molest the fae and interfere with nobles as some big final fuck you to VT, or will he just wander off to find other opportunities to exploit

(as in, he could go back and provoke the silver lady to get mad against you all/The Count, but that would be super clearly breaking the code at that point)

Celeste: He's super clearly broken the code several times.

Zita of Mercere: I dont know if we even did anything big enough to warrant that sort of reprisal. On the other hand, he did know Proclus for several years.

Celeste: Just in relatively minor and hard to prove ways.

Zita of Mercere: If he did this we could kill him

johns (GM): Yes you probably could

Proclus of Rome: We can kill him whenever with Wizard's War.

Beatrice Orsini : I don't want to involve the Tribunal because the line of mundane interference is open to interpretation and we're not super popular.

Proclus of Rome: Uh, we're pretty popular.

Zita of Mercere: I'm avoiding the tribunal until we have proof he's up to something particularly dangerous enough that they will obviously, 100%, leap to our side

Proclus of Rome: Severin owes us several favors.

Zita of Mercere: Archibald is objectively popular in the tribunal, he has a virtue for it

Proclus of Rome: And we've proven to several people in Vendi that we can do deals.

Zita of Mercere: Even people that don't like him respect his opinion. That's prestige, baby

Celeste: If he's got a good thing going and Vardian's Tomb isn't going to ruin his shit, he won't do anything, but he doesn't hold any special sentimentality for anyone in Vardian's Tomb.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did severin give us his spells? i don't remember

Proclus of Rome: Also we can count on either Luctatio or Potestas, but not both at the same time.

Celeste: If you're a problem he's going to be a spiteful asshole.

Beatrice Orsini : Yeah, but we have the matter of Renard to consider.

And Proclus specifically is involved pretty deep in that.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Oh yeah there's that guy

Proclus of Rome: No one ever agreed on what spells they wanted from Severin, but he does owe us three spells from his spell list.

Zita of Mercere: Oh right. The magus Proclus and Gulielmus attacked. Ha ha ha.

Beatrice Orsini : And Archibald is probably mad about that, so if he's respected that's worse for us.

Celeste: Hahaha

I forgot about that.

Proclus of Rome: He's French, who gives a fuck?

Beatrice Orsini : He had enough Mercere favor to take a portal.

We paid reparations for the Rhine grog Artemisia killed and she's also another Tribunal.

the maga he belonged to is

Proclus of Rome: He attacked in our own Covenant.

johns (GM): Okay, so signing a compact with the nobleman/hedge wizards is an interesting possibility that could lead into stuff in the future. i think i should write up what the proposed deal is in the thread and get your approval or disapproval there

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Zita of Mercere: He's going to argue for the tribunal to be understanding of the circumstances and try to lessen whatever sentence they give Gulielmus and Proclus. Well, he'll probably argue for Gulielmus, Proclus he's starting to think might be outright dangerous at this point

He really doesnt give a shit about breaking laws and killing wizards

Proclus of Rome: We have been playing for almost 7 hours so it makes sense to wrap it up.

johns (GM): :)

i expected this one could drag on for awhile cause it was pretty open ended

also you all love to argue a lot which is cool

Beatrice Orsini : We also don't want to bring Prundenzio up at the Tribunal, since Archibald wants to propose allowing sanctums outside covenants and if that passes, Prundenzio could make use of that.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah. Archibald will argue in Gulielmus' defence, not to exonerate him, but to show the circumstances and try to get the tribunal to show mercy on the poor guy. If he can make a convincing enough case that Renard agrees with it, can probably lessen it to a small fine.

Proclus of Rome: We could ask Severin to postpone that vote while we murder Prudenzio.

Zita of Mercere: Unless you bring in prinnydood as a guest judge or some shit

Proclus of Rome: The last guy Archibald tried to show mercy was marched.

(To Proclus of Rome): do you still want to do some sort of epic behind the scenes betrayal of everyone and attack the silver lady

Zita of Mercere: Yes, but he was the prosecution that time. This time he'd be defence, and in a case relating to that very marching.

(To Proclus of Rome): if the answer is No then I think I can safely resolve this

(From Proclus of Rome): Maybe, it depends on what Beatrice decides to do. If she won't deal with Prudenzio then obviously Proclus will have to.

(To Proclus of Rome): When you say "deal" with him..

Zita of Mercere: This is more what I intended when I made a quaesitor. Defending allies and fighting for them at tribunal against injustice, and such. Oops.

johns (GM): gahah

Zita of Mercere: They committed high crimes, nothing I could do. I'm pushing buttons.

(From Proclus of Rome): I mean kicking him out of the covenant and letting me kill the Silver Lady.

(To Proclus of Rome): and if they just kick him out but DON'T kill the silver lady you're going to kill her?

Zita of Mercere: It seemed that rome was more corrupt and false/exaggerated accusations were a bigger issue than my sodales being outright, unabashed criminals.

(From Proclus of Rome): Probably, it depends on the context.

(To Proclus of Rome): i see

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: would a ring that preserves plants just be base 1 +0 circle +2 ring +1 touch

(From Proclus of Rome): In any case he'd need some help to do it, so it would be an adventure.

(To Proclus of Rome): Who is going to help hinm

(From Proclus of Rome): A couple people were interested in getting rid of the Silver Lady.

Beatrice Orsini : aren't there some pirates to murder? if we don't let proclus murder someone soon, the stress might get too much

(From Proclus of Rome): I'd resolve it in the thread.

Zita of Mercere: I'm down for sid meiers pirates

Proclus of Rome: I don't think we really need to murder the pirates.

Just kick them off of Ponza.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make up your damn mind about murder

johns (GM): endrite is prinnydood

Zita of Mercere: Someone please kill Proclus

Beatrice Orsini : we need someone the whole covenant agrees on murdering

johns (GM): he's beardbeard

he xists just to cause us pain

Beatrice Orsini : except proclus

Celeste: Proclus is right about Prudenzio.

Zita of Mercere: I think we'll find that agreement, but it'll be about Proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: He seems wrong.

johns (GM): What if Prudenzio goes missing.

Zita of Mercere: Maybe Aristide will disagree, as a wildcard

johns (GM): He's a vagrant. Who'd notice?

Beatrice Orsini : i don't think anyone is against killing prudenzio, but proclus wanted to take the silver lady down with him

Zita of Mercere: If Prudenzio disappears, it's his own choice. we aren't his caretakers. If he actually attacks us or we catch him doing something dangerous enough to warrant it, we can butcher him like a pig.

Proclus of Rome: I hate the Silver Lady a lot more than Prudenzio, who I merely think is a greedy, selfish jackass.

johns (GM): Hate is unchristian.

Beatrice Orsini : nobody is perfect

Proclus of Rome: Hate the sinner, not the sin.

johns (GM): maybe proclus needs to take another pilgramage.

Beatrice Orsini : except for the cathars who are all dead

johns (GM): I dont think it goes that way

Proclus of Rome: And since faeries are ideas, they're sin.

Celeste: I'm going to send huge quantities of angry letters to Prudenzio's tower calling him all kind of bad names.

Zita of Mercere: I was against killing Prudenzio because it's illegal, morally I'm ambivalent on it and suggested a very simple way Proclus could legally murder him.

If Proclus wants to do it, absolutely nothing is stopping him

johns (GM): prudenzio uses the arcane connections you send him to rewrite your mind remotely and turn you into a manchurian candidate

Zita of Mercere: the fact that he isnt means he has no faith in his convictions, he just wanted us to kill prudenzio for him

Beatrice Orsini : i think we have a scribe grog

Zita of Mercere: like all demons, proclus just wants to tempt us to sin

johns (GM): gah, foiled again

Proclus of Rome: Uh, I haven't said I WON'T Wizard War him.

Beatrice Orsini : wizards don't write their own letters, especially beatrice

Zita of Mercere: Are you, then?

Proclus of Rome: We'll see how the meeting goes.

Zita of Mercere: Archibald does but PeVi's them afterwards

Proclus of Rome: But what we REALLY need to do is kill the Silver Lady, she's bad news!

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice can't do that

Zita of Mercere: oh yeah. ha ha.

a letter was only valid to you for weeks right? moon duration pevi is good enough for beatrice i think

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Zita of Mercere: by the time it comes back, its faded and gone

Beatrice Orsini : i think

johns (GM): oh i just remember something that might affect the negotiations

did you legit steal edwin's books

Zita of Mercere: No, Zita wasn't there

Celeste: I usually write my own letters, because I can read and write.

Proclus of Rome: I didn't.

johns (GM): archibald said he did

giraldo said he did

Celeste: Lmao.

johns (GM) crumples up peace treaty, lobs it into trash

johns (GM) starts writing declaration of war

Zita of Mercere: I was joking and didn't actually steal from him, just insulted him

johns (GM): no no, it's better this way

Celeste: Fingers crossed. You can do it Giraldo.

johns (GM): ok fine

Proclus of Rome: Hugo di Capocci declares Regular War on Vardian's Tomb.

johns (GM): you did NOT steal.

Zita of Mercere: Giraldo almost certainly did. You're asking beardbeard if he took an action that harmed us. Come on.

Celeste: He must have.

Proclus of Rome: Beardbeard isn't even here.

We really need to move this discussion to the thread.

johns (GM): i cant speak for beardbeard

Proclus of Rome: It's seven hours now.

Zita of Mercere: I asked beard and he didnt steal them

johns (GM): sleepy gm

Celeste: Dammit!

johns (GM): recap and outstanding questions will probably go up tomorrow

Proclus of Rome: Ok, see ya.

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice will personally visit edwin while under aura of ennobled presence and give him his books back and we can get scribe grog to copy an AL tract to give as reparations.

if it turns out we stole

Zita of Mercere: So what's left to resolve, then. Just meeting Prudenzio?

I guess we do that at the early parts of next session then move onto the adventure after it.

Beatrice Orsini : pretty much

Zita of Mercere: or proclus' wizards war with him if that happens

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice has 23 mentem MR and if the meeting is under Aegis, I think it's safe.

But Zita should check all grogs that came into contact with him afterwards.

Zita of Mercere: Let's destroy more grog minds

Would prudenzio permanently mentally a cripple, just for the sake of it, passing through?

I say - yes

* mentally cripple a grog

im tired too

night

Beatrice Orsini : see you

c'thinker (GM): experimenting on a CrCo spell

rolling 1d10!+1 (1 risk)

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2

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+1

=

3

No extraordinary effects

rolling 1d10 Simple die roll for lab total

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3

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=

3

nice