9/30/18

moe (GM): Mystical greetings

I failed to travel again, and so i look forward to the game test dys: Magical greeting, sodales

devil's fav demon (GM): howdy

dys: idea: all speeches, regardless of context, should end with "and furthermore, House Tremere must be destroyed"

Shauncat (GM): hello

devil's fav demon (GM): im in sort of a good mood because i just realized something very obvious and stupid about something thats been nagging at me and fucking up my head.

johns (GM): oh?

i am doing well after beating the crossword despite some BS clues.

dys: my dad was going nuts at a clue he asked for my help on and didnt fit the letters he had. turned out the paper screwed up and printed a bunch of the wrong clues.

johns (GM): lol

punkd

moe (GM): i am furious because a) i damaged a part i was replacing on my motorcycle and b) i now can't reinsert the front wheel axle without setting up some sort of elaborate rube goldberg front fork lift using bricks and wooden planks

johns (GM): the commonwealth has cryptic crosswords which are complete loads of bull ass

Mercuzio Caesar: You don't have cryptic crosswords in the US?

Man that sucks, they're the best ones

moe (GM): the joel fagliano thread dares to disagree

Mercuzio Caesar: I don't know what thread that is

johns (GM): the thread for the new york times crossword.

joel fagliano is both a fag and a very bad crossword maker.

Mercuzio Caesar: That's weird. Shortly after beardbeard joined - and he has yet to rejoin as player

moe (GM): it's amazing how that worked out

johns (GM): i dont see endrite online so can go without him

Mercuzio Caesar: What about Cum Thinker

johns (GM): he said he wouldnt make it today

devil's fav demon (GM): i have been really upset for like a year and a half or two years because i couldnt personally rationalize why i had such an extreme physical reaction to going into work and stuff that i had to leave my last job. like i would go in and be like sweating and swelling up and shitting and having to go sit outside and get fresh air etc.

aside from all the insane safety issues there, i was feeling like a psycho because ive never had uncontrolled physical responses to stress that bad before or since and like, rationally, it wasnt much worse than other problems ive had in my life

johns (GM): oh i have that too. i just assumed it was late capitalism dfd

devil's fav demon (GM): but i just realized that all of that was probably because i worked in a hundred year old paper factory filled with dust mites, mold, and mildew, and i am extremely allergic to all of those things

Beardbeard: lol. who posted that

devil's fav demon (GM): i mean i had that as well

but thats normal

but like i was having real problems and was just literally too retarded to think of the most obvious cause for 2 years.

johns (GM): lol

moe (GM): yeah same, developed ibd at a job then got fired and it went away, capitalism

johns (GM): we live in a society

moe (GM): rise up

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

moe (GM): looking forward to getting there again soon, jobhunting this week

johns (GM): what are the hours of your pf game in eastern time dfd? i found out my work lets out early on fridays so maybe i can make it

Mercuzio Caesar: More magi should come up with theme songs for dramatic moments

johns (GM): agreed

Celeste: 4pm to 8pm est

johns (GM): ok we get out at 3pm so that would work actually

but we'll talk about it later

i should recap first

Previously on Ars Magica

johns (GM): You are in the village of Ponza and have met its many colorful inhabitants, detailed in your  Character Journal.

Gulielmus  poisoned a horse.

Mercuzio  was deterred from a business opportunity with the widow Fransisca.

On Monday night someone undid all the foundation work from the day before.

On Tuesday you turned down a chance to beat up  Isarn  the hunter. Some stayed in the village to help re-dig the foundation. Others explored the island and found  Laura the Midwife's  secret folk witch coven that had hexed the three village boys, killing one of them.

Guy of Bonisagus: bonza

Dušan of Criamon: [B]onza

johns (GM): Can anyone think of anything else major I missed

devil's fav demon: They seemed like nice people aside from being murderous witches.

johns (GM): They were pretty insistent on their right to administer capital punishment. Guy objected strongly but we were running late and didn't discuss it much before cutting off

Dušan of Criamon: let ye who is without murder cast the first stone i say

also iirc they weren't out to murder

merely to annoy and make impotent

this was something johns shared out of game

johns (GM): No, their curses are fatal

Dušan of Criamon: disregard then

johns (GM): Pierre, son of Fransisca, died

Carrugo, son of Anna, was saved when you pulled the charm out of his bed

And Berenger son of Bretmar was saved when Dominica found the charm and gave it to Dr. Matieus for investigation

Guy of Bonisagus: i objected correctly

Mercuzio Caesar: Carrugo was the one grabbing his dick and staring at women wasn't he

Guy of Bonisagus: let he who can hurl flaming pila cast the first uh. pilum

johns (GM): yes

Dušan of Criamon: the crime they are accused of iirc was rape

johns (GM): Yes the witches say they raped Aleseta, daughter of Elena

Celeste: They seem like cartoonish mustache twirling rape maniacs so it's probably fair to kill them.

In a self defense type situation.

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant believe aleseta got raped

what would rope kid have to say about this

it is perfectly fair to kill them

Father Hazm: Yes

Guy of Bonisagus: and hell, even correct

Mercuzio Caesar: He would suggest rapes as arts to normalise XP investment between arts, abilities and rapes

johns (GM): you roll 2 dice on a rape and if the numbers match up it's a critical botch

Celeste: lol

Dušan of Criamon: Ars Magica: the game FATAL was meant to be

Mercuzio Caesar: With Mortis' player absent he's standing around like an rts unit awaiting orders so I'll try and fraternise with these sodales of my employer.

johns (GM): With Endrite absent the party will be very functional today

Mercuzio Caesar: Guy was the only one here with Gentle Gift, wasn't he? Guli too but he's also standing around in his idle animation

johns (GM): yeah rip

Mercuzio Caesar: "So, this island here, I'm sure you must all have a number like it."

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus's idle animation where he reaches into his robe and pulls out an apple

Dušan of Criamon: oh, one question: did we inquire at the witch cave what was up with the foundation getting dug back in

Mercuzio Caesar: We did

they did not know

and werent the ones who did it

Dušan of Criamon: good

Guy of Bonisagus: we still need to find the satans yes

johns (GM): Also last time Mercuzio suggested posting a night watch on the church grounds

Mercuzio Caesar: Mmhm.

Guy of Bonisagus: or possibly the faeries. or possibly the magical creatures.

Dušan of Criamon: Barring beter leads, I concur

Guy of Bonisagus: great. mercuzio and i will watch the church grounds tonight

johns (GM): By the time you return to the village from the witch's cave it's night time, and the villagers are dispersing from their communal meal

Excellent

Mercuzio Caesar: I suggested keeping watch of both places of potential interest to our mysterious foe: the church grounds, and the place where the PCs are sleeping. Someone keep watch there.

Guy of Bonisagus: what other grogs do we have

johns (GM): dusan brought a grog

Guy of Bonisagus: besides napolino who will fall asleep

Mercuzio Caesar: After all, if we're disrupting their plans, they might decide to target someone in the night while they're vulnerable.

johns (GM): you in fact only brought the 1 grog

Dušan of Criamon: My grog bodyguard Zakhar

Celeste: Nice choice.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets have mortis's zombies watch

johns (GM): ok

Father Hazm: I suppose I have to make an appearance at the meal

Celeste: Mortis is busy using his zombies to pretend to have a real family.

Dušan of Criamon: it's a smart move considering the infernal aura at night

Guy of Bonisagus: the infernal aura at night is really big

so i guess dusan will have to sleep soundly

Celeste: We've seen no evidence that his alleged large family is real so I assume Mortis spends a lot of time playing house like a little kid, but with a bunch of corpses.

johns (GM): lol

Mercuzio Caesar: A sound theory

Dušan of Criamon: Actually, considering we have a map, I'd like us to break the amendment about lodging for soldiers and quarter in a house near the church site

johns (GM): it would not surprise me if he were a serial killer

Dušan of Criamon: he could be hanging out with corpses of his family

johns (GM): Are you OK with Dusan's suggestion Hazm?

Father Hazm: Seems reasonable

Guy of Bonisagus: it would surprise me. he doesnt seem very good with poisons or other nonviolent methods of killing

Father Hazm: We do need to guard the foundation

Dušan of Criamon: For the good of the community, please let these untrustworthy weirdos sleep in your hosue

Celeste: Personally, I would LOVE to guard a church.

Dušan of Criamon: think of the Church

johns (GM): with some grumbling you force lodgings in the

rolling 1d20

(

17

)

=

17

Bianchi family house

Celeste: My two favorite things, together at last.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Well, it looks like a long night ahead of us. Tell me, have you ever considered the political uses of the various talents of your society?"

johns (GM): Which spot is the grog stationed at?

Dušan of Criamon: Who actually is going to do the nightwatch

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'm not much for politics. I prefer to live as a good Christian should."

Dušan of Criamon: I'm nocturnal and if my grog goes, I'd like to chance it too

Celeste: I'm not nocturnal and will take a long term fatigue or whatever it is but I'll be happy to do it.

johns (GM): sURE

Guy of Bonisagus: mercuzio and i are watching the church

you can watch yourself sleep

Celeste: cool

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh yes, always important, true, but the two needn't be separate. Constantine was a great example of that."

Father Hazm: "Rape is a crime, punishable within some communions with death. That is known."

johns (GM): If you're applying any buffs or spells to the watch tell me now

Celeste: glad two powerful fighters like yourselves will be watching over us.

Father Hazm: "However, it is also a commandment that one shall not harbor a witch."

Guy of Bonisagus: does it seem like it might rain tonight?

johns (GM): Clear sky

Father Hazm: I'll buff up Celste

Guy of Bonisagus: hm. ill cast the invisible eye revealed

Celeste: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: applying my buffs

Guy of Bonisagus: are we being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

johns (GM): You sense no Aesthetic Quality greater than level 20, Guy

Father Hazm: "R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Group

Up to ten individuals find their fortunes improved while using a bow, receiving a bonus of +3 to all rolls using the Bows ability for the duration of the charm. This charm exists for each Martial ability.

(Base 10, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 Group)"

Mercuzio Caesar: "All I'm saying is, di Rienzi might have been a good thing for Rome, and don't you ever wonder if you could have tipped things in his favour, so to speak?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "He seemed a good enough man, but he couldn't be convinced to stop listening to that malicious spirit following him around."

"A shame."

Dušan of Criamon: OK, applying wiz sidestep, eyes of the eagle

Mercuzio Caesar: "Malicious spirit?"

Father Hazm: I'll buff myself up

"R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Ind

The character gains the benefits of the Virtue Puissant Civil and Canon Law for the charm’s duration.

(Base 10, +1 Touch, +2 Sun)"

johns (GM): lol

VERY important

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye, some old Roman ghost. Seems to enjoy turning people into great leaders, just so it can watch them be killed."

johns (GM): Ok, locking in positions & spells now

Dušan of Criamon: the classic RPG combat group triad: wizard, fighter, canon law specialist

Mercuzio Caesar: "I see. What a dreadful thought. I had no idea, the poor man..."

Celeste: ty hazm

johns (GM): Dusan, after nightfall, the aura becomes Infernal 3 -- roll Stamina

Father Hazm: I'll draft up a letter regarding the fate of the boys, justifying it with my enhanced knowledge of canon law.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+1

(

3

)

+1

=

4

johns (GM): Phew

Time passes

Dušan of Criamon shivers

johns (GM): Guy and Mercuzio, a little past midnight, you start to hear noises in the dense shrubland, around the spot marked with an X

Zakhar Kirillovich: "I tell you what friend, there's dark spirits about!"

johns (GM): Squealing, stomping, leaves rustling, branches breaking

Father Hazm: "For the sake of these soothsayer women, however, they should be assimilated into your Order of Hermes expediently, so they can negotiate from a position of strength if they come into conflict with the Church."

Dušan of Criamon: "Quiet friend, there's dark spirits about"

Father Hazm: I hush

Guy of Bonisagus: I hide.

johns (GM): ok dusan says he celeste and grog at church so they hear it too

Guy of Bonisagus: And keep an eye on the direction of the noise.

Father Hazm: I'll go too, so I can roll Second Sight if needed

Dušan of Criamon: actually, I have eagle eyes and second sight, can i make a roll? No nightvision

Mercuzio Caesar: "Right. Now, just supposing this is some infernal agent coming to interfere, you have a way to fend it off, right?"

johns (GM): Roll it

Guy of Bonisagus: "I will throw a pilum."

Celeste: i thought i was at the bianchis but hey tbh we could probably see/hear it from that position as well.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+2+2 second sight

(

10

)

+2+2

=

14

Guy of Bonisagus: nice, everyones coming to the church now so that the bianchis can be killed

Dušan of Criamon: oh hell yes

Celeste: I aim my bow at the darkness.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Let's just try and remain hidden for the moment at least."

Guy of Bonisagus: the demons cant ambush you in your sleep if you dont sleep

Dušan of Criamon: that's the premise of Don't Rest Your Head

Father Hazm: Second Sight is stressed, if 14 isn't good enough

Dušan of Criamon: "Friends, there's- I see seven of them but I don't know what they are! Shrouded in unnatural darkness!"

Guy of Bonisagus: can i hear them

johns (GM): You all hear em, its loud

Father Hazm: "Demons?"

Guy of Bonisagus: great

i will administer pila

infernal 3 right?

johns (GM): yup

Celeste: "I really don't like demons!"

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll peek out over the foundations

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

8

)

+18

=

26

johns (GM): Roll damage

Father Hazm: "They're the sworn enemy of mankind, so no one should like demons, generally speaking."

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

4

)

+15

=

19

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7

(

10

+

1

)

+7

=

18

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: fatigued em

Celeste: I'm going to roll Second Sight to see if I can spot the demons, and then roll Infernal Lore to see if I can identify them.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Did I get it Dusan?"

johns (GM): Your fireball arcs into the shrubland, illuminating the area. You see the spheres of darkness. The light pierces one of them, illuminating a disgusting demonic imp, that squwacks as you singe it.

Roll initiative, crew

rolling 1d10!+4

(

4

)

+4

=

8

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!-2

(

10

+

1

)

-2

=

9

heyyy

Father Hazm: I'm a noncombatant but can control a grog if someone wants

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll sit out init as I have no weapon, or weapon ability trained

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+2

(

8

)

+2

=

10

johns (GM): Fair enough

Mercuzio Caesar: I have high leadership which is good for grog teams but we dont have one with us

johns (GM): Would you like to roll for the grog?

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+0 zakhar

(

2

)

+0

=

2

Father Hazm: I suggest making up a cheatsheet for Leadership like on Morgana's sheet

And then grabbing as many grogs as you can command on an adventure

Mercuzio Caesar: Sure, the grogs sheet on his in-game sheet?

Dušan of Criamon: is Zakhar the only grog?

johns (GM): Yup

Celeste: yes

Zachaois the Stiff: I dont have control of him

think only dusan does

Dušan of Criamon: possible, how do i share control

johns (GM): try now

Celeste: i will roll init in a second im sorry i lost my reference for the formulas i always forget

Zakhar Kirillovich: There we go

rolling 1d10!+1

(

5

)

+1

=

6

johns (GM): does Hazm want to roll or is he sitting out too

Father Hazm: You give all players the ability to control a sheet when you make it as a GM

If you want to share it like a grog

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2-2

(

9

)

+2-2

=

9

johns (GM): grazi

Dusan, you're up first

Dušan of Criamon: Can I eternal oblivion them at this range

Father Hazm: Oh, I said earlier

Noncombatant

johns (GM): If it's voice, yes

Father Hazm: Sorry

Dušan of Criamon: it is voice

as such I launch the attack

rolling 1d10!+15

(

2

)

+15

=

17

+2 for loud and exaggerated

it's only the level 5 version

johns (GM): You hit!

Dušan of Criamon: fierce

johns (GM): More squwaking

Celeste?

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+3-6 second sight minus inf

(

10

+

7

)

+2+3-6

=

16

Damn, nice.

Dušan of Criamon: hell yes

Celeste: I can now also see what's up.

johns (GM): You take a slight penalty firing into the spheres of darkness that conceal each imp

Dušan of Criamon: color-coded for our convenieve

johns (GM): So you see the demons just as they are marked now

Do you shoot one?

Father Hazm: Is this darkness effect enough to make an Infernal Lore roll?

johns (GM): Yes

Dušan of Criamon: i'm going to get some pants, brb

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+d10! Int InfLore

2+2+

(

1

)

=

5

lol

johns (GM): Sorry, you do not recognize this brand of Demon

Guy do you want to take an attack while we wait for DFD

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

Celeste: Sorry, I had to run out front and grab something.

Guy of Bonisagus: ill pilum in the same direction as i did before

johns (GM): np

Guy of Bonisagus: if i can do that

johns (GM): Pick a color

Guy of Bonisagus: blue

johns (GM): kk

Celeste: I think I'm just going to take two noncombat actions and also roll Inf Lore

Father Hazm: Oh well, I can justify exposure in Infernal Lore at least

Guy of Bonisagus: the one i fatigued

Dušan of Criamon: back

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

4

)

+18

=

22

johns (GM): that's Burning Wheel philosophy right there shaun

damage?

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+6

(

2

)

+2+6

=

10

Guy of Bonisagus: im screaming and shouting for what its worth

Celeste: Amazing roll.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+!15

(

7

)

=

7

johns (GM): It's worth plenty

Guy of Bonisagus: thats 22 damage

Father Hazm: Adventure XP already uses that Burning Wheel logic

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant type right

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7-1 soak

(

8

)

+7-1

=

14

Guy of Bonisagus: got em

Father Hazm: It's even better when you're a magus and you cast a spell of every form while on an adventure so you can divide it up between them

johns (GM): at size 2 thats uhh

err size -2

Medium!

Guy of Bonisagus: burning feel

nice

johns (GM): Celeste you also fail to recognize them

Celeste: Damn.

Mysterious demons.

johns (GM): The demons who have not been hit cover some ground. Demon Blue dissipates back into the ether

Zakhar?

Zakhar Kirillovich: "Уклоните демона из просторија"

I shield grog Dusan

johns (GM): Ok!

Dusan is up again

Dušan of Criamon: DEO on the closest one, I think that's red?

johns (GM): mm hmm

Zakhar Kirillovich: "Душан живи у Србији"

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

8

)

+17

=

25

johns (GM): Success!

purple & red have both been hit

Celeste?

Dušan of Criamon: oh my god

i did splash damage

Celeste: I will shoot red.

rolling 1d10!+4+4+8+2+3

(

8

)

+4+4+8+2+3

=

29

for +11 dam

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7+3 dfn

(

8

)

+7+3

=

18

rolling 29+11-18-7

29+11-18-7

=

15

15 damage at size -2 thats ermm

Celeste: "If I can hit a crow from 100 paces away I can hit a formless shadow!"

johns (GM): Death

boom

Celeste: Sweet.

johns (GM): Guy?

Celeste: Big Numbers FTW

johns (GM): rip guy

the demons attack!

Dušan of Criamon: we should simply presume peace through superior pilum throwing

johns (GM): 3 of them close in to start clawing Zakhar

Guy of Bonisagus: huh

oops

johns (GM): Zakhar and Dusan are enclosed in the circle of darkness as they do so

rolling 1d10!+9 attack 1

(

5

)

+9

=

14

rolling 1d10!+9 attack 2

(

4

)

+9

=

13

Guy of Bonisagus: i will pilum the red one sorry

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+9 attack 3

(

6

)

+9

=

15

Guy of Bonisagus: after their attack

johns (GM): Ok.

the red one is dead.

Guy of Bonisagus: gah

the green one

johns (GM): ok.

Zakhar Kirillovich: "Suki! Ukazhte sebya!"

johns (GM): you can roll now, actually.

c'thinker (GM): hi

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

5

)

+18

=

23

johns (GM): wow!

it's gulielmus

c'thinker (GM): farewell

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

9

)

+15

=

24

johns (GM): roll damage, cause it's a hit

bye

rolling 1d10!+7 soak vs pilum

(

3

)

+7

=

10

Zakhar Kirillovich: mystical greetings and mystical farewell

c'thinker (GM): Featuring a guest appearance by:

johns (GM): thats hmm.... death

c'thinker (GM):  Gulielmus ex Miscellanea

Zakhar Kirillovich: ill roll defence on the attacks on me, how many ended up happening?

as Guy acted before them

johns (GM): 3 attacks on Zakhar

Zakhar Kirillovich:

rolling 1d10!+7

(

4

)

+7

=

11

rolling 1d10!+7

(

4

)

+7

=

11

rolling 1d10!+7

(

6

)

+7

=

13

johns (GM): thats uhh... 3 hits

Zakhar Kirillovich: 3, 3, 2 thresh

6 soak

johns (GM):

rolling 13-11+8-6 dam 1

13-11+8-6

=

4

rolling 3+2 dam 2

3+2

=

5

Zakhar Kirillovich: 3 fatigues?

johns (GM):

rolling 2+2 dam 3

2+2

=

4

yeah

Zakhar Kirillovich: noted

johns (GM): Purple demon picks up loose building stone and hurls it at Guy

Zakhar Kirillovich: I'll swing at the pink one

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+9 vs Guy

(

6

)

+9

=

15

Roll away, Zakhar

Zakhar Kirillovich:

rolling 1d10!+10-3

(

3

)

+10-3

=

10

Guy of Bonisagus: thats just uh

qik right

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7+3

(

8

)

+7+3

=

18

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!-2

(

10

+

8

)

-2

=

16

johns (GM): Yeah

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

Zakhar Kirillovich: +brawl (dodge)

johns (GM): Guy of Pure Alacrity ducks a brick!

Guy of Bonisagus: sprightly guy

Celeste: Guy jumps up, touches on the brick, and backflips off it.

johns (GM): Zakhar your strikes hit nothing in the darkness

Celeste: like snake from twin snakes

johns (GM): Dusan is up once more

Twin Snakes, the  canonical  version of MGS

moe (GM): I dropped but I'm back

johns (GM): Nice

Time to save the day

Dušan of Criamon: More DEO, map hasn't loaded yet but I want to work the outside of the field

rolling 1d10!+17

(

8

)

+17

=

25

johns (GM): You've already DEO'd the one guy who isn't currently attacking Zac

Dušan of Criamon: There were 3 iirc

johns (GM): 2 killed by guy & celeste

Dušan of Criamon: I am so glad to be part of this adventuring party

I strike whichever is closest

Guy of Bonisagus: kono deo da

johns (GM): Ok, Pink gets hit!

Dušan of Criamon: also I forgot about the infernal penalty

johns (GM):  Guy  and  Celeste  are up

It's fine, even with penalty

Dušan of Criamon: I presumed, still

johns (GM): the spell level is 15?

Guy of Bonisagus: kill orange

Dušan of Criamon: oh no, 5

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

10

+

3

)

+18

=

31

Dušan of Criamon: Dogman has the 15

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

johns (GM): pfft okay 5 will pen even in the worst aura

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 Orange Soaks...... ?

(

8

)

+7

=

15

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!++4+4+8+2+3 to loose a deadly arrow on Purple.

(

9

)

+4+4+8+2+3

=

30

johns (GM): Medium on Orange

rolling 1d10!+7+3 Purple Defense

(

2

)

+7+3

=

12

yeah thats what I figured

rolling 30+11-12-7

30+11-12-7

=

22

Celeste: RIP

johns (GM): Purple goes splat

Pink demon de-coagulates, the last 2 standing make attacks on Zak

rolling 1d10!+6+3

(

9

)

+6+3

=

18

rolling 1d10!+6+3 2nd Attack

(

4

)

+6+3

=

13

Zakhar Kirillovich: Shouldnt that be at -4 for one of them

from their medium wound

johns (GM): That one chose to flee

Zakhar Kirillovich: No it was on orange

hes still there

Dušan of Criamon: wise, and infuriating

johns (GM): Ok

Orange flees

Zakhar Kirillovich: Was exertion all defence rolls at once or just a single roll

johns (GM): Single roll

Zakhar Kirillovich:

rolling 1d10!+7-3

(

9

)

+7-3

=

13

rolling 1d10!+7-3

(

9

)

+7-3

=

13

Light wound and another fatigue I believe?

johns (GM):

rolling 18-13+8-6

18-13+8-6

=

7

just 1 light wound

and Zak can now act

Zakhar Kirillovich: Unlikely to hit, but I'll swing at pink, exerting

rolling 1d10!+10+5-3-2

(

1

)

+10+5-3-2

=

11

lol

johns (GM): gahaha.

Dušan of Criamon: sad

johns (GM): Time to break out the 4e botch table

johns (GM) cackles maniacally

Zakhar Kirillovich: Classic 10% chance.

johns (GM): Let's see here

Celeste: lol

johns (GM): Zakhar is dead. Also he swung his sword so badly that it k illed Dusan too.

Dušan of Criamon: classic

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10 actual botch check

(

3

)

=

3

No botch

rolling 1d10!+7+3 defense

(

2

)

+7+3

=

12

But no hit, either.

Celeste  and  Guy  are up

Guy of Bonisagus: kill pink

rolling 1d10!+18

(

9

)

+18

=

27

rolling 1d10!+15

(

4

)

+15

=

19

johns (GM): What's the spell level on your pilum?

Guy of Bonisagus: 20

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 soak

(

4

)

+7

=

11

medium

Celeste?

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+4+4+8+2+3 on Yellow, minus i guess a cover penalty for being behind Zakhar

(

7

)

+4+4+8+2+3

=

28

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7+3+3 dfn

(

6

)

+7+3+3

=

19

rolling 28+11-19-7

28+11-19-7

=

13

The demon is Incapacitated!

Celeste: Score!

johns (GM): The remaining Demons,showing no Valour, flee the battlefield by dissipating.

Dušan of Criamon: "Beasts! Monsters!"

johns (GM): End results: 4 fled, 2 PeVi'd and killed, 1 killed at full strength. Zak has been scratched up by demonic claws.

Mercuzio Caesar: I poke my head up from behind the wall

Guy of Bonisagus: "We should investigate the shrubland in the morning."

Celeste: i will now attempt a reroll to identify the corpse, if any remains exist

Mercuzio Caesar: "Were those DEMONS?"

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+6 infernal lore

(

2

)

+2+6

=

10

god damnit.

the exact same roll.

i will conf.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye."

johns (GM): These imps are human-like, four feet tall, with beaklike mouths, scaly skin, and large claws. They have tiny wings that only work in areas with Infernal Auras of 7+.

Dušan of Criamon: in a state of moderate terror, I start looking Zak up and down for damage and leaks

Celeste: "I think so. Give me a moment" I go poke around the corpses.

Mercuzio Caesar: "You don't think those witches summoned them here, do you? Oh, that poor girl, wrapped up in such diabolical enterprise."

johns (GM): Celeste, these are minor minions of the Hellish hierarchy -- mere pawns that a greater demon sends to do its bidding.

Celeste: "Hm. They must have come from somewhere a lot more evil than a few hedge witches."

Father Hazm: "Magical can't comprehend the demon, but it can control it."

Celeste: lol sick

johns (GM): You may harvest the Imps blood as vis if you like

Mercuzio Caesar: "Still, very good work driving them off. This 'pillum' as you called it has made a great impression, I must say."

johns (GM): the red pillum

Father Hazm: I will take the vis and dispose of it by casting pointless charms

Well no I don't know if charms can use vis

Dušan of Criamon: "I'd rather we burn it, leave no trace."

Guy of Bonisagus: a caesar who doesnt know what a pilum is

Mercuzio Caesar: Well it's not a literal javelin

its a big shot of flame

Guy of Bonisagus: shaped like a pilum

you throw it and everything

johns (GM): Any other action this night? Will you maintain watch?

Mercuzio Caesar: I actually have organisation lore (roman empire) and fluent latin

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+d10! does burning infernal vis remove the demon's Might forever?

2+2+

(

9

)

=

13

Infernal Lore roll

Dušan of Criamon: "All things considered, we should set up a ward against demons at the church site."

Guy of Bonisagus: before we do that what kind of vis is it

i assume corpus

Dušan of Criamon: "I say this as a man who does not know how to make one."

Guy of Bonisagus: maybe vim

johns (GM): Infernal vis is not like Fairy vis, a demon who dies in its physical form is 100% dead, gone back to hell forever, stuck as a powerless soul unable to do anything except suffer

Mentem

Guy of Bonisagus: bah

Father Hazm: Okay, burning it is fine then

Celeste: Owned.

Let's give it to the witches.

johns (GM): lol

Guy of Bonisagus: lets

Father Hazm: Faeries are the master race

Mercuzio Caesar: "Something must surely have attracted the infernal to this place."

Dušan of Criamon shudders at the thought of the witches getting their hands on infernal vis

Celeste: "Something significant, maybe, if greater demons are involved behind the scenes."

Father Hazm: "Perhaps the Black Bishop has followed me here."

Dušan of Criamon: "I suspect they think of a church construction site seems to these beasts like a new fish stand at the market to old traders."

Celeste makes the weebay face

Dušan of Criamon: i can't words today

Mercuzio Caesar: "You were the priest here, if you had some old adversary they may have thought to sabotage your church."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Let's rest for the night and hunt down the diabolists in the morning.

"

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh, let's indeed, battle is exhausting."

Dušan of Criamon: How late in the night is it anyway

I should know, based on star locations

johns (GM): 1 AM

Dušan of Criamon: well past the witching hour

do we assume no more attacks?

johns (GM): Every hour is the Witching Hour when Giraldo's around

Mercuzio Caesar: "I must confess I was a sickly lad and never learned much of swinging a sword, but I did a great deal of organising my father's guards, give me a few trained men and I'll have them directed more effectively than you can imagine."

Dušan of Criamon: "That would be splendid, seeing as our lone sword today seems to have sprung a few leaks."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Perhaps some inhabitants of this village have training."

Guy of Bonisagus: giraldo hears about the witches and immediately begins packing his bags for ponza

johns (GM): lol

Father Hazm: "Demons take a risk coagulating like this. There has to be an intelligent force behind the attacks."

"Whether a greater demon or a diabolist."

Mercuzio Caesar: There's a bunch of witches on Ponza!

Giraldo: Open the gate

Guy of Bonisagus: Giraldo: More.

johns (GM): true to the lore, all the witches are stuck up retards

Mercuzio Caesar: They're human beings, not fae

Giraldo: Close the gate

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: They're all retarded

Giraldo: Open the gate a little

johns (GM): lol

Father Hazm: "The witches seem content to occupy a cave outside of where the Dominion would spread should the church be completed."

Dušan of Criamon: lmao

Celeste: "Those imps make their homes in some truly evil places. How near might one be?"

Father Hazm: "Several of us possess the Second Sight. We could go looking for an infernal regio."

Dušan of Criamon: "Perhaps around noon we might set out into the wilderness to look for it?"

Mercuzio Caesar: "It's the magi's isle, but it seems you've all taken command of a place with more little holes and hideaways than you expected, eh?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Holes and hideaways are an asset, not a liability!"

Father Hazm: "The sahir are able to command infernal djinn."

Mercuzio Caesar: "I would imagine the demons to be rather a liability!"

Father Hazm: "Such a creature would have no problem calling minions into being."

johns (GM): Guy suggested turning in for the night, is that acceptable to everyone?

Mercuzio Caesar: "Sahir? Isn't that something eastern?"

Dušan of Criamon: sure

Father Hazm: Yeah

Mercuzio Caesar: Yeah

Celeste: Yeah.

johns (GM): Okey dokey.

Dušan of Criamon: "For now they may have hurt us, but they also steeled our resolve and provided valuable insight into this issue."

Father Hazm: "Yes. They used to occupy the villa."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Ah, you took it from them."

johns (GM): The cock crows, heralding the sunrise and the beginning of Spy Wednesday

Father Hazm: "They form the Order of Suleiman in the Levant, a few of them have joined the Order of Hemes under the aegis of Ex Miscellanea."

zzzz

Dušan of Criamon remains asleep until at least 11am

Guy of Bonisagus: has the church site been filled in by their second assault

Mercuzio Caesar: "That would be the same as Gulielmus of Pure Reason, wouldn't it?"

I roll my eyes a little as this title he insists on being called in full each time

johns (GM): Guy you find the church is just as you left it. Bretmar the Carpenter is on his knees, loudly thanking Christ for his aide.

Father Hazm: "Yes, though they don't share ideological banners like other houses."

Mercuzio Caesar: "A pot that all the smaller groups fall into under one name, I see."

Bretmar, Carpenter: "Thank you, O Lord, that Our Great Work continues. We shall double our efforts and build the greatest church this side of Rome!"

Guy of Bonisagus: what a nice man

i wonder if hes the infernalist

Dušan of Criamon: actually, Celeste, can you wrap up Zak's wounds

Father Hazm: Who's our best explorer? I will give them the Ways of Ponza virtue

Bretmar, Carpenter: Dare you try to Ken his Folk?

Mercuzio Caesar: I will do that

rolling 1d10+3

(

2

)

+3

=

5

Celeste: I can try to roll Chirurgy, yeah.

Bretmar, Carpenter: Such zeal! Such lust for the Heavens!

Mercuzio Caesar: My spec in underlings does not apply

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+3+2 Folk Ken

(

2

)

+3+2

=

7

lol

Celeste: What's the characteristic on that?

Mercuzio Caesar: Oh, mine was 2 more, forgot my PER

Father Hazm: Perception

Bretmar, Carpenter: "Father Hazm, we're still a day behind because of what happened on Monday -- are any of your friends willing to pitch in with today's work? We're putting in some masonry and the beams today."

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+4 im just using dexterity since its my highest relevant characteristic score

(

8

)

+2+4

=

14

Dušan of Criamon: I think it's Zaks STA + your skill

Celeste: for a Chirurgy roll.

Bretmar, Carpenter: theres rules for first aid that i will look up

in a&A

Dušan of Criamon: ah

Father Hazm: "We'll contribute what we can, yes."

Bretmar, Carpenter: If first aid is received within one day of being wounded, then the patient receives half of his chirurgeon’s Chirurgy Ability (rounded up) to his subsequent Wound Recovery roll.

Guy of Bonisagus: who wants to go traipsing through the shrubland, throwing arrows and pila at suspicious folk

Mercuzio Caesar: "I can only offer my skills at organising others and stirring their spirits to the task at hand."

Celeste: oh its not even a roll

well he would get a +1 bonus then

Mercuzio Caesar: "Seeing as how my employer has been laid up since yesterday afternoon with a cold, I have nothing better to do for the moment but to help."

Bretmar, Carpenter: wait there's more Celeste!

Mercuzio Caesar: Can you use leadership and presence to motive/organise a group?

Bretmar, Carpenter: When tending a patient’s

wounds, a chirurgeon can make a First Aid roll

against the Improvement Ease Factor of his

patient’s most serious wound on the Wound

Recovery Table (ArM5, page 179). If this is

successful, the patient is treated as one category

Bretmar, Carpenter: higher with respect to Activity While

Injured (ArM5, page 178). The effects of a

successful First Aid roll last just one day, and

cannot be repeated.

Father Hazm: I can give the architect Free Expression to raise the AQ of the church

Bretmar, Carpenter: he is at -6, equivalent to MEdium wound, so his Improvement EF is 12

Celeste: nice

Father Hazm: Oh

Celeste: I made that EF.

Bretmar, Carpenter: Wait.

-6 is a heavy wound.

EF is 15. sorry.

Mercuzio Caesar: Oh, hang on, I need to check a virtue a moment

Celeste: in that case ill just spend another conf since im only one point off

Bretmar, Carpenter: lol ok

Father Hazm: I should make a chirurgy buff

Bretmar, Carpenter: I mean all it means is that Zak acts as if he were at -4 instead of -6, for 1 day

are you sure you want to spend a conf on that?

Celeste: yes because i have to leave todays session in 1 hour.

Bretmar, Carpenter: Ok.

Dušan of Criamon: does that -4 count on his recovery

Mercuzio Caesar: Okay. I have piercing gaze, does that affect the carpenter?

Celeste: high level metagaming right here

Bretmar, Carpenter: Now responding to what I missed while looking up rules

Father Hazm: "R: Per., D: Sun, T: Ind.

The character gains +2 on Guile rolls towards those suspecting them of heresy, witchcraft, or consorting with eldritch powers.

(Base 5, +2 Sun)"

Bretmar, Carpenter: Bretmar bristles a bit at Mercuzio. "Er ah I'm doing a quite good job myself managing things here."

Celeste: lol

Father Hazm: I could buff the witches with that until we get the demon problem fixed

Bretmar, Carpenter: The man's faith does not waver in the face of your piercing gaze!

Guy of Bonisagus: this bretmar guy seems too suspicious. maybe we should try to use magic on him

Mercuzio Caesar: That's a good sign.

Guy of Bonisagus: for example, creo ignem

Father Hazm: Infernalists don't generally have Might

Mercuzio Caesar: "At least let me stir their spirits then."

Guy of Bonisagus: if he burns, hes an infernalist. if he burns and his soul goes to haven, hes a good christian

Father Hazm: :weebey:

Mercuzio Caesar: I begin giving a rousing and inspirational speech to the labourers about the grand church they'll soon have, and their triumph over the great adversary's ill-fated attempts to hinder it.

Bretmar, Carpenter: "Right! They could always use a stirring speech."

Mercuzio Caesar:

rolling 1d10+5+7+1

(

4

)

+5+7+1

=

17

Celeste:  swoon

Bretmar, Carpenter: You score a Demagoguery Success!

Mercuzio Caesar: puissance and a spec in speeches paying off

"Doctor" Matieus: "Yeah! Yeah! Let's show those decadent bums on the mainland what real work is!"

Celeste: lol

Dušan of Criamon: a real stakhanovite

Mercuzio Caesar: Not necessary here but Mercuzio can pay fatigue for a power to keep a large crowd's attention while delivering a speech.

johns (GM): Neat

Mercuzio of Pure Sophistry

Mercuzio Caesar: Shame there's no mundane Mythic Blood but I used the rop:m rules for a minor power and they worked well enough for it.

johns (GM): Now, who wants to help the construction; who wants to explore the island for Infernalism; and who wishes to do something else?

Father Hazm: RoP:M might be a mess to read but the power creep is good

Guy of Bonisagus: i will go on a nice hunt in the shrubland

for satans

Father Hazm: Same

Dušan of Criamon: I want the shrubland

also how hurt is Zak, 4 fatigue 2 light?

Father Hazm: I want that juicy Shaq meat

johns (GM): Zak is effectively at -4 to everything after his First Aid

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll try and inquire about who on the island is trained in combat and still keeps arms, in case we need an impromptu military response to demonic threats

Dušan of Criamon: yeah but how close is he to biting the dust

johns (GM): Not close at all

Dušan of Criamon: super

then I'd like his company on the adventure in the wild

Celeste: What a trooper this guy is.

johns (GM): that's pretty easy Mercuzio -- there's Sir Tiziano the visiting Hedge Knight; Gasparo the old crusader still has his gear somewhere in his house; Isarn the hunter is known to be a strong fighter

Guy of Bonisagus: isarn hates us, sir tiziano would hate us if he knew what we did

Mercuzio Caesar: The hunter is a bit sore with us I imagine, do we still have an imp corpse?

johns (GM): Up to you -- Hazm suggested burning them

Mercuzio Caesar: We could use that to show him there's infernal influence and we want his help removing it

Dušan of Criamon: I think they're all allowed to hate us, as long as they hate imps attacking their village more

Father Hazm: "Auras tend to follow borders, natural or manmade. So a forest clearing might be one ideal target for corruption, as an example."

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll try and soothe the drunken hunter's anger then

The knight will join up with us the moment we say 'its time to kill a demon' and gasparo either will or he wont

johns (GM): Ok, I can resolve these elements simultaneously

Isarn's house is in the north side of the village. Smoked fish hang out to dry from its sides. One of his hunting dogs is limping outside.

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll approach openly and try not to attract undue attention from the guard dog

johns (GM): Explorer Party: What are you using to detect Aurae?

Guy of Bonisagus: my grogs' second sight

johns (GM): second sight doesn't spot aurae

just regios

Guy of Bonisagus: my casting penalties

johns (GM): lol ok

Guy of Bonisagus: imm joking

Dušan of Criamon: I have second sight and susceptibility to infernal

i'm a living geiger counter

johns (GM): You hear the sound of someone inside the house, Mercuzio.

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll knock politely but firmly on the door

johns (GM): Isarn opens the door, chewing an apple disdainfully.

Isarn, Hunter: "Yeah what?"

Father Hazm: "We can narrow the likely areas down to places humans inhabit or have inhabited."

I'll say to the aura hunting crew

"One must possess a rational soul to sin, and thus spread corruption."

Isarn, Hunter: here's the map of islands near ponza too http://i.imgur.com/21Tmh9d.png?1

zannone has a perpetual infernal aura just fyi

Mercuzio Caesar: "You were right about a malign influence affecting the church, but wrong about the ones responsible. Last night we were ambushed by demons attempting to sabotage it."

Celeste: oh yeah, i was just trying to remember which one was evil

ty

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think the demons are coming from there

Mercuzio Caesar: "The scholars believe there is a demon on this island, lurking and attempting to lay low all attempts to bring a church onto it."

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2+2 Infernal Lore roll for IC knowledge of Zannone

(

5

)

+2+2

=

9

Isarn, Hunter: The island had a prosperous monastery that was destroyed by pirates, causing the infernal aura. A demon monk lived there trying to trap people and demanding their soul in exchange for escape.

Mercuzio Caesar: Ohhh shit

Father Hazm: Oh right, Jorn was on that adventure

Mercuzio Caesar: right

Isarn, Hunter: Archibald either killed him or scared him off, I forget, and took his sword and book of Infernal Lore bound in Human Flesh

Mercuzio Caesar: THAT demon

i think scared off if it had 15 might or more

Father Hazm: Jorn and Giraldo are teh only surviving people on that adventure

Mercuzio Caesar: he stripped 15 might from it as it fled

Isarn, Hunter: That sounds right

Father Hazm: Oh yeah and Archibald

Mercuzio Caesar: it went invisible but he had second sight and made the roll

Isarn, Hunter: The regio it lives in was a very unpleasant place and the only way out was to jump off the roof of the Regio's fake version of the cathedral (or wade through hellfire)

Father Hazm: I guess its just Proclus that died

Mercuzio Caesar: yeah, it was a badass regio

Isarn, Hunter bites apple

Celeste: that sounds sick

Isarn, Hunter: "Demons? Real demons?"

Mercuzio Caesar: "As real as the nose on your face."

"They assure me that these horrible creatures are more common than we see, I could hardly believe to see them myself, but they were truly creatures of evil."

Isarn, Hunter: other regio on the island... Fairy regio around Circe's cave, Magic regio near the old pirate's base in the old town ruins.. You can find no aura that makes Dusan sick

"Sounds fishy, like those scholars."

Mercuzio Caesar: "They're setting out now to find the demon lurking on the island and destroy it, but our only guard was heavily wounded by their claws. If you care for defending this island, its church and the souls of everyone on it, we could use your help."

Isarn, Hunter: "You asking me to fight?"

Mercuzio Caesar: "You hunt, yes? Any help would be appreciated."

Father Hazm: What about the foundation of the dismantled minaret?

Seems corruptable

Mercuzio Caesar: "This island is mostly women, children and the elderly. Very few with both experience and weaponry."

Isarn, Hunter: "I never hunted demons. But I'll say this. Anything comes at me I'm ready to kill it." He grins wickedly.

Mercuzio Caesar: "That's the spirit. Do we have your support when we find its lair and go to destroy it once and for all?"

Isarn, Hunter: "Alright, yeah. But if you're pulling my leg.."

Isarn, Hunter shakes his fist

Mercuzio Caesar: "Do you want to see the corpse of the ones that attacked last night? Or the wounds on our poor guard's face and arms as they flew and scratched at his eyes?"

"The man's in bed, but he's well enough for visitor's I'm told."

Isarn, Hunter: "A corpse? Lemme see."

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll lead him back to wherever we're keeping the imp corpse

Then he can use the infernal vis to summon a more powerful demon

as he is the infernalist all along

Guy of Bonisagus: pulling my leg?? this guys really ahead of his time

Isarn, Hunter: is that a new colloquialism

Guy of Bonisagus: 1800s

gotcha bitch

Isarn, Hunter: Ffffuu.

Also I bet it's not even an Italian phrase.

Mercuzio Caesar: Yeah, back in medieval times they'd say 'your really pulling my potatoes'

Guy of Bonisagus: victorian london

ive slain the gm

Isarn, Hunter: "Scrawny thing. Ugly." He pokes at its limp limbs. "This thing beat up your guy? Hmph. Where'd they come from?"

Mercuzio Caesar: "Well there were more of them, this is about all we could recover afterwards. They came from the forest in the dead of night, by the time I saw them they were almost upon us."

Isarn, Hunter: i gotta start dropping more italian

"Yeah, show me where that was."

Guy of Bonisagus: seems like youve "dropped" it enough

Isarn, Hunter: A fagiolo

In Italian, fagiolo means “bean,” and the phrase a fagiolo (“at a bean”) means the English expression “to the letter” or “to a T.”

Guy of Bonisagus: small fagiolo regarder

Celeste: lol

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll head over to the church site, then point out north to the woods "About there, I believe. I missed when they first appeared, but some of the others noticed strange movement there."

Father Hazm: "Another thought occurs to me, but I did not wish to talk about it in front of the neocromancer Mortis. He was involved in the battle to take the island. Turning the bodies of the fallen against their former comrades instead of giving them a consecrated burial could have corrupting effects."

Isarn, Hunter: Isarn follows the tracks into the shrublands.

Guy of Bonisagus: hmm. sounds like we will have to offer up mortis as a sacrifice to appease their tormented souls

i like doing it, and it works

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll head along a little behind him, more curious what he's looking for than anything

Isarn, Hunter: " Mi fa cagare!  Tracks coming out of nothing." He points to where the demons knocked down several bushes.

Father Hazm: "There are three known origins of demons. Fallen angels, the progeny of fallen angels, and infernal spirits of men."

"The imps strike me as of the progeny category, but their master could be a ghost."

Isarn, Hunter: "Stupid dog doesn't pick up any scent either. Worthless git." He kicks it.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Now you believe me? I suggest you relate your findings to that knight as well, him and the old merchant are the only others I could find on this island with even a weapon to wield."

Isarn, Hunter: "You're the wordsmith. You do it. You need action you call me. Otherwise let me go hunt on my own."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Fine, fine. Grazie."

Isarn, Hunter: "Yeah yeah Grazie."

Father Hazm: He has a point, I don't trust him to make a good impression on the knight.

Isarn, Hunter: Congratulations, you have gained +5 Social Points with Isarn.

Mercuzio Caesar: Wow!

Father Hazm: Relation upgraded

Mercuzio Caesar: A good start to the.... Devil  social link???

Celeste: He's not so bad of a guy, as long as you can get past the animal abuse.

Mercuzio Caesar: I cannot get past it irl, but Mercuzio isn't too phased.

Isarn, Hunter: he's just some guy who beats dogs, especially if they're helpless, and you keep blowing it up and making abig deal about it every time he beats a dog

Some hours later, the party that went to search the island for Infernal Aura/Regio returns empty handed.

Father Hazm: Ignore the blindfold enchanted with infernal vis

johns (GM): Sunset approaches. Anything else you are interested in doing this day?

Father Hazm: Hmmm

The foundation of the minaret turned up nothing, right?

johns (GM): Correct

Mercuzio Caesar: "You didn't find it? Well that's a bit awkward, I convinced the hunter to aid us in killing the thing, I'm not sure if he'll still be as compliant if days pass with no findings."

Guy of Bonisagus: I will turn in early so that I can wake up during the night and go watch the church site again.

Dušan of Criamon: Did the brush turn up nothign?

johns (GM): It turned up nothing.

Dušan of Criamon: Tragic

johns (GM): Ok, Guy is turning in. The rest of the village is assembling for their communal meal.

Mercuzio Caesar: "The knight should help us the moment he hears of the thing and his chance to show bravery in fighting it."

Father Hazm: "It is a good thing that no passageway to Hell existed anywhere near the village."

"Even if the fruitlessness of the search is frustrating."

Mercuzio Caesar: Yeah Guy, just sleep through sundown. What's the worst that could happen?

johns (GM): If I were Endrite, I might make use of the fact that Infernal Aura/Regio can wander around to troll you.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Clearly it does exist, father! The imps appeared from nowhere, I am told - our hunter friend tracked them and found this."

Father Hazm: What is "this"?

An imp corpse?

Mercuzio Caesar: the fact that they appeared from nowhere

Father Hazm: Ah right

Well we didn't try using Second Sight where the imps appeared from yet

We've only gone around using logical places that might be corrupted auras

Guy of Bonisagus: the worst that could happen is that the gm remembers to impose fatigue penalties on me for lack of sleep

so i am counteracting that

From afar, Mr. Carter smirks.

Mercuzio Caesar: Guy thought sleeping would cure him of sleep. Well, Mr Carter had a thing or two to say about that

johns (GM): Gasparo's emaciated son, Costanza, approaches Mercuzio and Hazm.

Costanza: "Good evening Father -- and sir -- "

Father Hazm: Costanza... skinny?

That IS infernal

Mercuzio Caesar: Was he one of the ones afflicted by Anti-Rapist Curse

Father Hazm: "Good evening my child."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh, Gasparo's boy, hello."

Costanza: "I just wished to remind you, my father is holding his feast tomorrow. He's really hoping you and your friends will attend -- even set aside the seat of honor for you all."

He was not, he seems to be a good boy so far

Father Hazm: "Of course, of course. We shall not miss it."

Mercuzio Caesar: "I wouldn't miss it for the world, tell him that if he inquires after our word about it."

Costanza: He smiles politely. "I'll let him know, thank you. Church is coming along nice while you were gone Father -- it looks like maybe another solid day of work will have it ready, if we all pitch in."

"Uh, well.. I'll leave you to your meal then. Good night."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Good night."

Father Hazm: Alright, once the mundane is gone I'll continue talking about demons.

Costanza: hehe

Mercuzio Caesar: "Father, are we guarding the church again tonight?" I ask after he departs

Dušan of Criamon: We should have corrupted the youth by speaking openly of demons

Father Hazm: "Demons are caught between the spiritual and material worlds, and as such, most can go indefinitely without physical form."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Sounds like a yes, then."

Father Hazm: "They could have come hundreds of miles away from Ponza, if they knew how to get from their place of origin to here."

"When they appeared in front of the hunter, simply choosing that time to manifest."

johns (GM): Alright, who is sleeping, who is watching?

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll watch for a bit, but about 2am or so if nothing's happened I'll depart to sleep

Father Hazm: I'll help with the watch again.

johns (GM): Dusan?

and Celeste, if dfd's still with us?

Father Hazm: brb

devil's fav demon: my fault, I got called away for a bit. the good news is i wont have to leave the game a ft er all.

johns (GM): nice!!

Mercuzio Caesar: Guy is watching with us too it seems

Celeste: Also helping w the watch, absolutely. Thats what i do. [gif of mark henry]

johns (GM): Ok.

Guy will wake anon.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets pilum some demons

Night Falls

Dušan of Criamon: back

Mercuzio Caesar: "Invited out to a formal dinner and welcoming of a new church, I really did not expect to spend my time camped out at night awaiting demons to shoo them away."

Dušan of Criamon: if this took place before noon i was not participating

johns (GM): Guy, you awaken in the guest house. It is dark and the guest room is vacant except for you. You hear a voice calling your name from outside.

Mercuzio Caesar: Good news! It night

Dušan of Criamon: Perfect

johns (GM): Mercuzio, Hazm, and Celeste, make Per+Awareness rolls.

Mercuzio Caesar:

rolling 1d10!+2+2

(

5

)

+2+2

=

9

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+5+1 night watch spec

(

4

)

+2+5+1

=

12

Dušan of Criamon: I'm not one for feasts, I'll stand guard or reserve

Guy of Bonisagus: "Yes, who's there?"

Voice: : Guy of Bonisagus!

Come here!

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

johns (GM) rolls some dice

Guy of Bonisagus: Hmmm

I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed.

Father Hazm: If it botches its just zero

Guy of Bonisagus: Am I being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

johns (GM): You isn't.

Guy of Bonisagus: Phew.

What's the voice sound like?

johns (GM): It sounds like one of the villagers but you can't place it.

Guy of Bonisagus: Is it coming from the door or a window?

johns (GM): It seems to be coming from outside.

so, the window.

Guy of Bonisagus: I take a look out the window.

johns (GM): It is dark and you see nothing.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Who's there?"

Voice: Guy of Bonisagus! Come here!

Celeste: Guy of Bonisagus getting up from the computer to close the curtains

johns (GM): lol

Guy of Bonisagus: Is it about the time I wanted to wake up anyway?

johns (GM): There's no clocks around but it's dark enough to be 11pm

Guy of Bonisagus: Hmm. Do I need to roll something to realize I am being Tricked?

This seems like an obvious enough demon ruse.

johns (GM): GM Ken

Oh

Is your grog watching or is he here with you?

Guy of Bonisagus: I don't think I had a grog with me.

johns (GM): Zakhan the injured

did you take him to the church, guys?

Zakhar.

Dušan of Criamon: I think me and him are standing guard

it's the apt thing to do

johns (GM): Ok.

Looks like Guy is all alone!

Celeste: rip

Dušan of Criamon: I can't believe we have the smooth talker with us

Guy of Bonisagus: I will throw a pilum at the demon.

As I can detect it saying things.

Mercuzio Caesar: I'm out at the church because I'm intensely proud and need to be seen out in the most important, dangerous location

johns (GM): Ok.

Roll it!

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

3

)

+18

=

21

johns (GM): Your fireball flies out the window and curves out of sight.

Guy of Bonisagus: Now I'll make a run for it to the church grounds.

johns (GM): Ok!

You burst through the door.

You are now standing inside the church.

It is filled with imps.

Father Hazm: I'm glad Flambeau decided all the fire spells should travel from the caster to the target because it looks cooler

Guy of Bonisagus: Huh.

I'll go back.

johns (GM): There is a throne of bones where the altar should be. Sitting atop it is a proud looking man who could be a nobleman except for the horns coming out of his head.

Okay, you turn around.

You are now facing the throne again.

Father Hazm: DEO you just wiggle your fingers and the demon gets hurt and it looks really boring

Guy of Bonisagus: "What devilry is this?"

Celeste: Well, that seems bad.

Dušan of Criamon: using DEO: it's a living

Escarus: "How droll to have a slave who won't come when he is called. Still, an eighth for my collection.."

johns (GM): The floor gives beneath your feet. You are now falling down a pit.

Guy of Bonisagus: whats the aura here

gah!

johns (GM): Insanely Infernal.

Father Hazm: Guyralt: What is this crap

johns (GM): You tumble down a shaft whose walls are comprised of demonic flesh. Arms and limbs reach out to scratch and bite at you as you fall.

With a start, you wake up in the guest house. It is around midnight.

Do you join the crew watching the church?

Guy of Bonisagus: I scratch my head.

Yes.

johns (GM): Excellent!

Nothing happens for the rest of the night.

Guy of Bonisagus: what a relief. maybe the church will be finished

Father Hazm: "A nightmare of demons, you say?"

Or maybe he doesn't say

Sorry

Celeste: "That sounds pretty crazy."

johns (GM): I was leaving a pause to see if Guy wanted to share

but if not, we'll just skip to the next day

Father Hazm: I'll wait for Guy to bring it up, respecting BB's agency

Celeste: good point.

Dušan of Criamon: Rules Of Play

Mercuzio Caesar: Rules of Play-ture

johns (GM): Ok then!

Day 4.

Mercuzio Caesar: brb, gl finding the demons guys

Guy of Bonisagus: Hmm.

Mercuzio Caesar: check the church to see if the carpenter has secretly written "666" on every brick

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll go tell Hazm about my dream. Maybe he can interpret it.

it would be weird for a carpenter to do things with the bricks

the much smarter and more logical option would be carving it into the beams, as they would be covered up and taint the church forever

johns (GM): oooh

Celeste: Interesting idea.

You must have done this before.

Father Hazm: Does Artes Liberales have anything covering dream interpretation?

johns (GM): not especially... that's a special power some Kabbalists have

Father Hazm: If not I can roll InfLore

Dušan of Criamon slyly touches his character sheet under skills

johns (GM): also an educated man like yourself would know that Cicero derides dream interpretation as pure folly

Dušan of Criamon: a dream you say...

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+d10! Infernal Lore

2+2+

(

8

)

=

12

Dusan is better suited to defy Cicero

Guy of Bonisagus: yes, but also theres demons afoot and hazm is a holy man

Dušan of Criamon: grinning Criamonishly

Father Hazm: I can do some mundane exorcisms on Guy

I'll look for exorcism rules

johns (GM): Is Dusan going to make an Enigmatic Wisdom roll? I'm on the edge of my seat here

Father Hazm: "The Eighth... perhaps he refers to the seven, wherein Lucifer: pride.

Mammon: greed.

Asmodeus: lust.

Leviathan: envy.

Beelzebub: gluttony.

Satan: wrath.

Father Hazm: Belphegor: sloth."

Dušan of Criamon: If I'm permitted

johns (GM): you are

Guy of Bonisagus: lets all gather round and take a look at dusans dice

Dušan of Criamon: hell yes

johns (GM): I'm going to put a coffee on gimme 1 min

Dušan of Criamon: I'm gonna do a meditation while johns gets coffee

Guy of Bonisagus: "Strange."

Mercuzio Caesar: brb

Father Hazm: Perhaps a magus could serve as the Demon of Simony."

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+4+2+2 wisdoming it up

(

2

)

+4+2+2

=

10

LACK LUSTER

Father Hazm: "After the crime for which Simon Magus was named."

* For the crime named after Simon Magus

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'm no criminal. Perhaps it is more meaningless words from demons."

johns (GM): Ok, I'm back

Day 4. Maundy Thursday.

There is a feast this evening, but in the meantime the villagers get to work on that Church. How will you spend your days?

Father Hazm: Let me see if exorcism can do anything for Guy without supernatural power

Celeste: Oh yeah, the heretical feast is today.

Let's spy on Gasparo.

johns (GM): Ok.

Father Hazm: I'll do a humorously useless exorcism on Guy

johns (GM): roll it!

Father Hazm: Uhh is there a roll for it?

Dušan of Criamon: let's see that double botch

Father Hazm: I haven't found a mechanic yet

But I also know exorcism is one of the first things a proper cleric learns

johns (GM): The Church, pg 34

Guy of Bonisagus: you mean Bless and Divine Favor

johns (GM): Stress Die + Bonuses

Those ordained as Exorcists get +1, holy water is +1, crucifix is +1

and it costs 1 faith or conf point

adding +3 per usual.

Bless of the Magic Caster

Father Hazm: Okay

johns (GM): did someone actually want to check out the church building for signs of corruption?

Father Hazm: Let's do that

Guy of Bonisagus: lets

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+3+1 holy water and crucifix bonus + Conf bonus

(

4

)

+3+1

=

8

Dušan of Criamon: I heard an anecdote once about church building crews being the first ones to have to sing choir in a new church to see if it falls to the vibrations

johns (GM): Ok, you have Exorcised Guy of Bonisagus.

Father Hazm: Hooray

Guy of Bonisagus: wow!

thanks father hazm

johns (GM): Guy, you feel damp from holy water.

Otherwise nothing else has changed.

Father Hazm: Excellent

Guy of Bonisagus: hm

Celeste: "Gasparo doesn't seem to be doing anything infernal, he's just eating a lot of treats."

Guy of Bonisagus: well, it makes me feel better

Celeste: "Maybe he's not involved with the demons after all."

Dušan of Criamon: Also his soul is saved imo

johns (GM): One of the laborers who sees you inspecting the church approaches, Guy.

Arnold, Laborer: "Say there fella, I need to fetch some water for the mortar mix. Mind helping me haul some buckets?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye."

Arnold, Laborer: Dusan, you are helpign Celeste spy on Gasparo?

Ok, Guy

He hands you a pair of buckets and bids you to follow.

Guy of Bonisagus: I follow.

Dušan of Criamon: I shall endeavor to help Celeste. using eagle eyes

Father Hazm: Same

Arnold, Laborer: He goes to the coast. He takes a look behind him as if to see if he is being watched, then beckons you towards a spot shaded by a large shrub.

Father Hazm: But just second sighting

Dušan of Criamon: also I could probably scry using my surveillance spell

Guy of Bonisagus: I follow, curious.

Arnold, Laborer: He sets the buckets down. "Shh," he tells you, and reaches into the bush, pulling out a wineskin.

"How about a break?"

"We can tell 'em we had to take time cause the bucket leaked and we had to patch it."

Guy of Bonisagus: "A break? With the work already a day behind?"

Arnold, Laborer: "We've been working so hard for days on end. And you've been out keeping watch every night. A body can't take that too long, you need a break."

"You deserve it!"

He takes a gulp from the wineskin.

Dušan of Criamon: He is right, and also a demon of sloth

Arnold, Laborer: Meanwhile Dusan, you observe nothing out of the ordinary. Gasparo oversees the feast preparations as much as a man of his limited mobility can. His servant and son do the busy work. His wife pouts quietly in another room.

Guy of Bonisagus: I shake my head. "There will be time for rest when our work is done. And-- Wait a minute, how do you know what I've been doing at night?"

Arnold, Laborer: "Everyone's seen you and your folks settling in at the evening then finding you when they come by in the morning." He looks a bit confused at your suspicion.

Guy of Bonisagus: I will folk ken him.

Arnold, Laborer: "Well if you wanna work yourself ragged be my guest." He toasts you with his skin and settles into the shade of the bush.

Guy of Bonisagus: Please roll my +2 bonus in secret as the book decrees, GM. +3 if this is a magus.

Thank you.

Arnold, Laborer:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

Guy of Bonisagus: that is NOT in secret

Arnold, Laborer: lol.

haha.

lol.

Fine.

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Arnold, Laborer rolls some dice

Arnold, Laborer rolls some dice

Guy of Bonisagus rolls some dice.

Guy of Bonisagus: "You should be ashamed."

Arnold, Laborer: "Aw c'mon, don't you scold me too."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Indulge your petty whims if you wish, but don't tempt others to do the same, wino."

I will haul my two buckets back in a slow, exhausting -2 strength manner.

Arnold, Laborer: Nice.

Also you haven't had a good night's sleep in 2? 3 days? Exhausting!

Guy of Bonisagus: That's right.

johns (GM): Regardless you get a hearty slap on the back from Bretmar for your efforts. "Bless you, Guy!"

Celeste: Whatta guy!

johns (GM): As for inspecting the church for corruption, I think Perception + Infernal Lore?

Father Hazm: Ok

Guy of Bonisagus: I have no infernal lore.

I will help Father Hazm.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2+2

(

4

)

+2+2

=

8

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!

(

1

)

=

1

lol

johns (GM): gahaa.

But there's really nothing to find. It's a very quaint and simple village church. There's no markings anywhere, nothing unusual about the architecture, etc.

Any other activity during the Day?

Father Hazm: Why's this cross upside down?

johns (GM): it's the style these days

Alright, Day turns into Night

The aura is now Infernal 3

Father Hazm: Very well

Dušan of Criamon: I'll stand guard as usual

johns (GM): The church is complete except for the hanging of the bell.

Celeste: The most important part.

johns (GM): Not so fast Dusan -- there's a party tonight!

Who's going?

Guy of Bonisagus: I'm not.

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah! Oh no, that's not for me. You all have a good time, I'll be far from the tumult"

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll watch the church site during the party, then go to sleep once it's over if other people take over the watch.

johns (GM): Okay, Dusan and Guy lose 15 Social Points with all villagers.

Mercuzio, Celeste, Hazm?

Guy of Bonisagus: thats fine

Dušan of Criamon: psh, like i had any

Father Hazm: It's Maundy Thursday, right?

johns (GM): Yes.

Father Hazm: Feasting is tradition then

Celeste: I thought it was in fact not tradition, and fasting was tradition.

Father Hazm: The liturgy held on the evening of Maundy Thursday initiates the Easter Triduum, the period which commemorates the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus

I will do that

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

if thats the case i will go to the party

Father Hazm: We fast tomorrow, it's Good Friday

Guy of Bonisagus: then sleep after if others are watching the church site

Celeste: I will go to the feast then

johns (GM): Ok.

Dusan I will get to you in a bit.

Dušan of Criamon: ready

Father Hazm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Thursday#Eastern_Christianity

johns (GM): The rest of you head over to Gasparo's nice house. Firepits are roaring, villagers are bantering, the Bard is strumming his lute; it is a festive atmosphere.

Celeste: aha

Father Hazm: I'll do the readings as indicated there

johns (GM): Garsinda the Servant is hurrying about pouring wine. You also spot Hyllia, the daughter of Laura the witch, serving food. She gives you an expressionless nod of recognition.

Celeste: so i will not eat, but i will drink a lot of wine and get fucked up

"On this day alone during Holy Week, the fast is relaxed to permit consumption of wine and oil. "

johns (GM): Costanza the son is nowhere to be seen, and Alba the wife is fluttering about here and there.

Guy of Bonisagus: holy shit. theyve got a dragon

and that dog is gonna eat it

johns (GM): Yeah!!

Celeste: Badass.

Father Hazm: "Of Thy Mystical Supper, O Son of God, accept me today as a communicant; for I will not speak of Thy Mystery to Thine enemies, neither will I give Thee a kiss like Judas. But like the Thief will I confess Thee: Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom."

johns (GM): The villagers bow their heads respectfully, but also occasionally lift their eyes to peek on the meal, waiting for Hazm's sermon to end.

Guy of Bonisagus: I will listen attentively to the sermon.

johns (GM): There is a pause after Hazm says "Thy Kingdom," as they wait to hear more.

Bretmar, Carpenter: "Amen!" shouts Bretmar.

Amen echoes the villagers.

Father Hazm: Ahhh

Bretmar, Carpenter: hehehehe

Father Hazm: This goes on for a long while it seems

Dušan of Criamon: a comically appropriate length

Celeste: lol

Father Hazm: Yeah

The primary service of this day is Vespers combined with the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great at which is read the first Passion Gospel (John 13:31–18:1), known as the "Gospel of the Testament", and many of the normal hymns of the Divine Liturgy are substituted with the following troparion:

Bretmar, Carpenter: If you  really  drag it out, you do witness Gasparo occasionally sneaking quick bites or drinks when he thinks no one is listening

Father Hazm: Haha

"I don't drag it out beyond tradition

The tropario is what I put into IC quotes

Bretmar, Carpenter: Bretmar, who is wearing an oversized wooden key around his neck, greets you enthusiastically. "Wonderful sermon Father -- amazing!"

He barks orders for wine for you all.

Father Hazm: "I am glad you enjoyed it."

For reference, my Presence is 2, My Church Lore is 5, and my Theology (rites) is 2

Bretmar, Carpenter: Nice!

Then it was

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

A good sermon.

You all are beckoned to the head of the master table by Gasparo.

Father Hazm: I go, as politeness to the noble estate dictates

Gasparo: "Welcome, welcome, come here where I can see you, new friends."

Father Hazm: Or at least, politeness to high-tithing peasants dictates.

Gasparo: "Father Hazm, and you must be, uhh.. Guy, and Celeste? Forgive me for not standing to greet you, but my one leg has been getting weaker and weaker as the years have gone by."

Guy of Bonisagus: i go

Gasparo: "You are guests of honor here. I've been giving feasts like this every Easter for years, but I've never had guest are peculiar as you. These seats here on my left are for you, and Father Hazm, I'd be pleased if you would sit here on my right when the feast begins. Very well?"

Father Hazm nods.

Guy of Bonisagus: for a few years

well

Gasparo: maybe he had them before he came here.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats true

Celeste belches in appreciation

Guy of Bonisagus: I will sit.

Gasparo: You also have a chance to move around and mingle between dishes, if you wish.

Father Hazm: I'll hand him some myrrh to consecrate, as the closest thing to a patriarch the village has.

And with that we can eat

Gasparo: I am looking up what fine dishes are here

Ah here we go

Course #1: Bread & Cheese

Guy of Bonisagus cracks knuckles and prepares Google to authenticate the historical accuracy.

Gasparo: You are served by Hyllia, who ignores taunts and teases from some boisterous young men of the village.

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Gasparo: The maid comes out of the house holding an ornate, ceramic salt-shaker in the shape of a three-foot high dragon. Gasparo passes it around the table for all to admire. "And put a bit of salt in the little bowls you each have, that's how hospitality works, you know."

Gasparo continues reading

Guy of Bonisagus: a three foot high salt shaker seems very inconvenient

Gasparo: You are served the upper crust of the bread, a tradition for honored guests. Did you know that is where the expression "the upper crust" comes from? anyway

Father Hazm: TIL

Guy of Bonisagus: also period inaccurate

Celeste: lol

Gasparo: gaaaah

Guy of Bonisagus: by my hand the gm will kneel

Gasparo: You have received your salt and bread. the Pact is Sealed.

Guy of Bonisagus: thank you

Gasparo: Course #2: Stewed, heavily spiced vegetables.

Celeste: I shoot an arrow at the salt shaker.

Just kidding.

Father Hazm: Stew-y Griffon

Gasparo: Around the table, you hear various villagers remark that this will be Gasparo's most extravegant feast to date.

Course #3: Meat pies. Gasparo has an especially large one plunked down in front of you -- when he cuts it open, a real live bird flies out!

Guy of Bonisagus: "What in the world?"

Gasparo: "Hahahaha!!"

Father Hazm: After I've eaten enough to be polite, I'll prepare for the final part of the ceremony, changing the vestments to black

Dušan of Criamon: I love renaissance cooking

Gasparo: "Isn't it grand!"

Celeste: I fall out of my chair in shock.

Gasparo: Ok, Hazm has answered a question I was about to ask -- How much Merriment Are you Prepared to Enjoy tonight

Father Hazm: Gulielmus of Pure Reason makes a short appearance at the feast, then leaves

Gasparo: Celeste, Guy, and Mercuzio (if dys shows up again), do you Drink and Be Merry

Celeste: yeah

Gasparo: Give me a Sta + Carouse roll, please.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+2

(

2

)

+2+2

=

6

gah

Guy of Bonisagus: i will drink and be merry

Gasparo: hell yes!

Guy of Bonisagus: for a round

Gasparo: give me a Sta + Carouse roll, please.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

1

)

+1

=

2

uh oh!

Celeste: lol

Gasparo:

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

10

)

=

11

It's damn good wine.

Celeste: :blessed:

Gasparo: Ahh Guy. This is life.

Course #4! Roast beef in gravy!

Fransisca, Widow: Fransisca notices how much Guy is enjoying himself. "You folk must have lavish feasts like this one every night of the year, you're so wealthy. In your eyes Gasparo must look like a fool, pretending to be a man of fortune."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I prefer to live humbly."

c'thinker: im here for the anachronism

Fransisca, Widow: "Yet such fine cloth you wear! How much does it cost?"

Guy of Bonisagus: I look at my well worn robe.

Fransisca, Widow: It was nice, once.

ok, maybe she doesn't say that. uhh

Dušan of Criamon: brb

Fransisca, Widow: "And yet such fine cloth and weapons your companion has!" she says about Celeste.

"Must cost a fortune to keep her thus."

Guy of Bonisagus: its about as fine as a standard monks robe. maybe a bit btter quality material or craftsmanship, for the magus on the go

c'thinker: ._. the humble bonisagus

Fransisca, Widow: is gulielmus here or are you toying with us against

Celeste: Celeste just has normal quality gear but i guess it's out of the ordinary to wear a suit of armor everywhere

and armor is expensive

Guy of Bonisagus: "What is your goal here, miss?"

c'thinker: as already established, hes wedding the cave full of witches

Guy of Bonisagus: bedding the cave full of witches

Fransisca, Widow: "Sheesh, I was only asking questions."

She moves off to find more sociable company.

Guy of Bonisagus: mission accomplished

johns (GM): The gentle gift wizard who still stinks

Guy of Bonisagus: weve met the wrathful, the greedy, the gluttonous, the slothful

perhaps the lustful

johns (GM): it turns out Guy is a surly drunk

Course #5! Honey-glazed chicken!

Your wine cups have never been stayed more than half empty this entire feast as the servants tend to them dutifully.

Perception and Awareness available here.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+5

(

10

)

+2+5

=

17

Father Hazm: Nice

Dušan of Criamon: back

Celeste: Celeste keeps a sharp eye and ear open as she stumbles around trying to accidentally sit on dudes laps

Dušan of Criamon: i'm going to be intermittently jumping to the kitchen because all this talk of feasting got me hungry

johns (GM): lol

i should have cracked open a copy of redwall and copied the food descriptions from there

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2 personality trait rude

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Celeste: "Hey, how come everyone isn't getting as much food as us! That's mean!" I sort of shout, not modulating my voice

Guy of Bonisagus: "Mm? Are they not?"

Gasparo: "They --  burps DSPishly  -- have plenty ma'am. No one leaves my feasts hungry. But the best is for my honored guests!" He raises his cup with a cheer.

Celeste: I pick up a plate from a commoner's table and hold mine next to it to show Guy

Father Hazm: I'll look as well

Gasparo: "Drink up, drink up, you're here to enjoy yourself! Ah, here it comes--"

Course #6: Pork ribs in red pepper sauce

Celeste: Ah, he went to Garden China.

Guy of Bonisagus: I try to rouse myself from the effects of the drink and joyous air. "That goes against the spirit of the feast."

Gasparo: Hm. What's the roll to counter a botched carouse roll

Father Hazm: "We must always be vigilant against gluttony, especially on the night of the last supper."

Gasparo: A personality trait maybe?

Father Hazm: Maybe Guile

Or Charm

Guy of Bonisagus: guy has compassionate, pious and adventurous

Celeste: "I don't think he's trying to get me into bed. Maybe he's poor. Or eating everything himself! Haw haw haw!"

Gasparo: is compassionate major or minor?

Guy of Bonisagus: major

Gasparo: ooh

Okay, roll 1d10 vs 6, minus uhh... -2 for drunkennes

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+1

(

2

)

+1

=

3

Gasparo: idk im making this up off the top of my head. maybe its not fair to make you roll your personality

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: i guess it depends on how drunk i am

Gasparo: pretty drunk. but i'll allow it.

Father Hazm: You can just say I'll give you a conf i you make an ass of yourself and live up to your flaw

Gasparo: Ah

I like that.

Guy of Bonisagus: which flaw

oh

right

my intention was already to make an ass of myself after this revelation

I will take my portion and distribute it to another table.

Gasparo eyes the food moving away from him with puppy dog eyes

Father Hazm: "A true testament to Christ's passion."

Bretmar, Carpenter: Bretmar raises a hearty toast. "Hear hear! To good Christian men!"

Celeste: I will give some ribs to the dog. Not even the bone, the whole rib.

Bretmar, Carpenter: Course #7: Baked apples in cinnamon sauce

Guy of Bonisagus: I assume we are still being given lavish portions compared to the other tables.

Father Hazm: Ah cinnamon, spice of the homeland

johns (GM): Gasparo scoops out a huge heaping spoonful for his plate, but noticing you, sighs and offers you the serving spoon instead.

Celeste: gottem

johns (GM): Cinnamon is a real status symbol of this era btw.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

do i have the whole serving thing

johns (GM): You are in charge of determining who gets how much!

Celeste: buying cinnamon from the Soqotrans

Father Hazm: I'll give away my apples to the lesser tables

johns (GM): :3

Guy of Bonisagus: Was everyone at our table getting generous portions, or just us and Gasparo?

johns (GM): Everyone at your table, the table of honor, was getting the big proportions

It was the other tables that were getting slighted

Guy of Bonisagus: Alright. I will distribute the whole thing amongst every other table.

Celeste: the cool guys table

johns (GM): Nice!

Guy of Bonisagus: And return with the empty serving bowl.

Celeste: denied the big boy his apple treats

Gasparo sighs

Celeste: you will rue this day

johns (GM): He runs a finger along the inside brim of the bowl to scoop out any remaining apple cinnamon juices.

Time for the most important question guys....

Guy of Bonisagus: "Have some shame now, Gasparo."

johns (GM): Which of these courses did you enjoy the most?

Guy of Bonisagus: The apples.

Father Hazm: Apples

Celeste: the roast beef

johns (GM): Ok.

Dušan of Criamon: let's be real, the bird scored the big points

Celeste: i like the big cartoon meat

johns (GM): Fiorella would have loved it

i assume

Father Hazm: Maybe

Or maybe she likes millet

johns (GM): Course #7 winds down. The bard begins to strum up dancing music but there are only a few villagers with the energy to partake -- most struggle to fight off food coma

Some get up to stumble home drunkenly

Garsinda the servant approaches your table.

"M'lord, there is still some  Baked Apples  and  Roast Beef  left over."

Celeste dances by herself in a corner

Father Hazm: Fiorella has an interest in chicken since she can produce it without spending vis

But she's has Small Frame so I assume she doesn't eat much.

johns (GM): As the leftovers are put in a serving plate before you all, Gasparo remarks: "Well, it would be a shame to see this food go to waste, and I might not be able to eat it all by myself. Which of you virile young folk will help me with it?"

Guy of Bonisagus: small frame from hollow bones

"I think we have all indulged ourselves enough, Gasparo."

Father Hazm: "I shouldn't. It wouldn't be a fast tomorrow if I wasn't hungry."

Gasparo: "We only  burp  only live once in life friends!"

Father Hazm: "Yes, and that one life is our one chance for right living."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Some of us, perhaps. The virtuous live forever."

Gasparo takes a bite out of apple, but does not say, "sounds gay"

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: gasparo ftw

Father Hazm: "Or yes, as Guy put it, right living is life eternal."

Guy of Bonisagus: when guy gets killed by the demon king maybe i should make a big sinning fan

Celeste: we could all learn from his restraint and moderation

Guy of Bonisagus: instead of just a specifically wrath fan

Father Hazm: And his purging of the wicked with flame.

Gasparo: "The Lord can forgive me for enjoying the same hospitality I show my guests, especially after a life I spent slaying His enemies."

johns (GM): Any last business at the feast?

Guy of Bonisagus: I will restrain myself from causing a big scene and getting us hated.

johns (GM): lol

Guy of Bonisagus: We need to find the envious one.

johns (GM): and you call yourself a magus......

MEANWHILE

johns (GM): Dusan, you with us?

Guy of Bonisagus: ive got it. its gulielmus.

Dušan of Criamon: I am locked in

johns (GM): Great!

Guy of Bonisagus: a shame his player is not here

johns (GM): You've spent the night at the church. It's cold, and it's dark. You haven't eaten well. Your shield grog is having trouble staying awake.

You hear soft footsteps approach from outside.

Father Hazm: We are damned for having a scene where Gulielmus isn't present and not asking where he was.

Dušan of Criamon: I gently knock on his helmet

once I have my grogs attention I gesture towards the steps

Father Hazm: > stigmata hurts > no gf

johns (GM): Your grog peers outside the church. "It's a lady approaching," he says Rusishly.

Dušan of Criamon: from his demeanor I surmise it's no danger coming towards us and I see for myself

johns (GM): It is indeed Alba, the very fair wife of Gasparo.

Father Hazm: Go for it

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, fair evening, miss. Shouldn't you be at the feast?"

Alba: "I needed some air, good sir. I couldn't stand watching that wretched excess... and I thought, this village has no one educated and refined like you scholars, and you're off sitting here cold and lonesome, how can that be fair?"

Celeste: Oh babey

Dušan of Criamon: "Oh it's a privilege to help protect what's good. And fasting regardless of calendar date is something of a tradition among some of our sort."

Alba: "Perhaps you'd like to stretch your legs? Why don't we go for a walk?"

Dušan of Criamon: Dušan is entirely pure, but Zak can fall prey to the sin of lust

Alba: Sounds good. Who's controlling Zak

Dusan the Volcel

Dušan of Criamon: look, it's the 13th century, this is the style

Celeste: If only you had brought Mariu so he could have freaked out and beat her to death with a hammer.

Alba: oh did I ask you to make a Sta check for infernal aura tonight?

Dušan of Criamon: not yet

Alba: lmao dfd

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

"We-" Zak gives a nudge

Guy of Bonisagus: everyone wont stop sinning

Alba: Virtue Is Gay.

Guy of Bonisagus: i trust dusan to be true to th ecriamon values

Dušan of Criamon: "I mean /I/ couldn't leave my post, not after what we fended off just recently."

Alba: "Oh, what a pity.."

Dušan of Criamon: Zak puffs his chest I assume

does that work with armor on

Alba: lol

sure

Dušan of Criamon: perfect

Alba: "Perhaps your servant, then? Unless you deem it just a fair lady like myself to walk unescorted.."

Guy of Bonisagus: dusan alone vs the demon army

Dušan of Criamon: "Oh! Oh no, absolutely not. You should really try to stay with the others, nights are not safe here anymore. Zakhar, do me the favor and bring the fair lady to the feast safe and sound."

Zak has about two seconds of internal conflict about his obligation to protect me vs obligation to fulfill orders

Alba: "We are fortunate to have a real gentleman like yourself around."

Celeste: lol

Dušan of Criamon: I'm picturing Zak pushing his helmet forward with a hand movement from the back like Donald Duck

Celeste: lmao

directly into a full strut out the door.

Alba: Very nice.

Dušan of Criamon: also I seriously assume she's a demon

am I second sighting anything

Father Hazm: She's a female so yes

Alba: No, she looks perfectly normal.

except for the part where her gender causes the fall of mankind etc.

Dušan of Criamon: Oh god, an ADVANCED demon

Alba: Just to be fair I added 50 might to all demons featured in this adventure

Celeste: lol

Dušan of Criamon: sidewhispering to my grog: "You take good care of her."

Zakhar Kirillovich: "Trust me on this, I'll take good care of her!"

Alba: lol

Also

Any character

who does more than his injuries allow

must make an immediate Recovery roll for his

most serious wound.

Alba:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

4

)

+1

=

5

Zakhan is now Medium Injured

Celeste: rip zahkar, fucked to death

Father Hazm: The hunter said he'd come help if we had actual demons for him to attack

Zakhar Kirillovich: rip, but what a death

Alba: Zakhar. I will get his name right one day.

Celeste: death by puff-puff

Father Hazm: Snu snu

Alba: Phew! Long and productive Thursday everyone.

Celeste: im very deep into dragon quest atm whoops.

Dušan of Criamon: In principle putting the h before the k changes nothign o f the pronounciation

johns (GM): Guy and Celeste rest easy, laden with fine food and wine. Dusan has an uneventful quiet night in the church.

It is now Day 5: Good Friday.

Guy of Bonisagus: whats so good about it

johns (GM): Dusan can you make a Stamina roll

Father Hazm: Since Friday is when the consecrations begin I assume I'll be busy

johns (GM): against the new aura, Infernal 4

Dušan of Criamon: "Zakhar! You are leaking like a stuck pig. You must have been fending off beasts last night!"

Guy of Bonisagus: uh oh!

Father Hazm: RoP:D has the consecreation rules, I'll open them up

Zakhar Kirillovich: "It is of no issue, I merely... fended off one beast. I won."

johns (GM): beardbeard what happened to dys

Guy of Bonisagus: not sure

johns (GM): The weather is humid and overcast today.

Guy of Bonisagus: he might have died

johns (GM): gah

I'm going to let Hazm dictate the tempo and pace of today

Celeste: hope he didnt die.

Father Hazm: Here's the roll, as per page 11 of RoP: Divine

Guy of Bonisagus: i hope he didnt die, but also hope he did die

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+1+d10! Communication + Theology (rites), EF6

2+2+1+

(

10

+

2

)

=

17

Damn

That's to consecrate the area, another roll with the same stats is needed to fully create a Dominion aura

johns (GM): when the divine aura good https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/318904864811778048/496081839362932790/unknown.png

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+1+d10!

2+2+1+

(

5

)

=

10

Celeste: rip

Father Hazm: Alright, nothing has gone wrong

Aside from planned events

johns (GM): the reliquary is put under the floor under the altar I think?

Father Hazm: That's suitable

johns (GM): Ok.

Father Hazm: As per RoP:D rules, you need an altar, a celebrant, and a congregation

johns (GM): The villagers clean up the area around the chapel somberly (and slightly hungover)

Father Hazm: I took the Social Status (priest) virtue, qualifying me for celebrant.

johns (GM): these rules are in The Church book?

Father Hazm: RoP: DIvine

page 11

johns (GM): cool

Father Hazm: The aura isn't created until after the adventure concludes though, probably

It's fair to say it takes the rest of Holy Week allowing stuff to happen in the interim

Guy of Bonisagus: what if hazm is the infernalist ruining everything

Father Hazm: If true, that's for you to find out.

johns (GM): Indeed. So on Day 5, how would you like to investigate Hazm?

Father Hazm: I think being pillumed to death while demanding I confess to being an infernalist would count as martyrdom

So Guy could do that if he wanted

Guy of Bonisagus: guy would not do that to his friend hazm

Father Hazm: That is your choice, just trying to be sure to play Death Prophecy in good faith, no pun intended

Dušan of Criamon: so i'm not up on VT lore

but the minaret yielded no results

the shrubland also

the cave was a dud

is there anywhere else to investigate

the map says there's farms in the south and abandoned farms in the north

Father Hazm: The village itself

johns (GM): the farms are from the pre-pirate age

Guy of Bonisagus: we could investigate the farms in the south, or the abandoned farms in the north

Father Hazm: The demon could just be an invisible presence within it

Hmm

I'll keep a vigil on the church

johns (GM): Ok.

Dušan of Criamon: If it takes me less than a day to go to the northern farms I'd like to chance those

but I'll leave the grog in (his) bed

johns (GM): Ok.

Celeste and Guy?

Celeste: If you're going to go to the northern farms, I'll back you and Zak up.

Gotta walk off this hangover.

johns (GM): The hangover is not helped by the heat and humidity.

Dušan of Criamon: Zak is backing nothing but a warm bed

Celeste: Smart.

Ah, to suffer in the service of something greater than yourself. Isn't it the best?

johns (GM): Alright

Dušan of Criamon: Me and Celeste get along perfectly

johns (GM): Stink Wizard and Stink Mundane

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: i will go to the north

johns (GM): I regret to inform you there is nothing going on at the Northern farms. They were abandoned when pirates took the island, grew wild, and then died out during the blight.

Guy of Bonisagus: gah!

johns (GM): gahaha.

The day is spent!

Dušan of Criamon: tragic

johns (GM): Time for evening mass!

Celeste: "Hey, it was a nice walk."

Father Hazm: It was productive for me

Dušan of Criamon: "At least we can guarantee there's no higher demon there"

Father Hazm: I held a daytime mass and made sure the reliquary went unmolested

johns (GM): Two hours before sunset, the villagers begin to congregate. Many of them walk to the far end of the village and then walk to the chapel on their knees.

Chief among them is Bretmar, who drags a finely constructed heavy wooden cross over his shoulder and wears rags.

Father Hazm: Good man

Dušan of Criamon: Much like Christ!

johns (GM): By the time he arrives at the chapel, his knees are bloody and dirty.

Father Hazm: Dats de joke

Celeste: That seems vaguely sacreligious but maybe it's actually extremely religious.

Dušan of Criamon: I can't tell with 0 chuch lore

johns (GM): Hazm, do you want to say a few words?

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds extremely religious to me

Father Hazm: Let me see if there's a special liturgy for Good Friday for eastern priests

Celeste: I have a lot of church and divine lore and theology but ooc i have no idea what the accepted view of making yourself into an idol to appropriate a little worship is

johns (GM): You can roll it

Celeste: it seems weird but people love being penitents

Father Hazm: On Friday night, the Matins of Holy and Great Saturday, a unique service known as The Lamentation at the Tomb (Epitáphios Thrēnos) is celebrated. This service is also sometimes called Jerusalem Matins. Much of the service takes place around the tomb of Christ in the center of the nave.[

The bracket is from the citation needed

johns (GM): "Citation needed. Amen"

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+5 per+theology

(

1

)

+2+5

=

8

Father Hazm: Amen

Celeste: nice

lol

Well, you know, people look at the good book a lotta way.

s.

Father Hazm: " When Thou didst descend to death 0 Life Immortal, Thou didst slay hell with the splendor of Thy Godhead! And when from the depths Thou didst raise the dead, all the powers of heaven cried out: O Giver of Life! Christ our God! Glory to Thee!

The angel standing by the grave cried out to the women: Myrrh is proper for the dead, but Christ has shown himself a stranger to corruption."

johns (GM): The villagers stand throughout the mass.

Father Hazm: Another pithy troparia, since those are the easiest things to find

Alright, here's how the service concludes

I long for Thy salvation, 0 Lord, Thy law is my delight

The mind is affrighted at Thy dread and strange burial.

Father Hazm: Let me live, that I may praise Thee, and let Thy ordinances help me

The women with spices came early at dawn to anoint Thee.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, for I do not forget Thy commandments

Father Hazm: By Thy resurrection grant peace to the Church and salvation to Thy people!

"Amen."

Celeste: Amen.

johns (GM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pRa7665Bf8

Father Hazm: Alexander Anderson for the god damn win

I mean, god blessed

I mean, God blessed

johns (GM): hehe

Guy of Bonisagus: amen

johns (GM): The villagers quietly shuffle out. There are no festivities tonight -- a subdued meal beneath tarps and tents laid out by Lodovico the host.

Yet an hour later, the humidity gives way to a storm, that sends most running back to their homes.

Celeste: Oh jeez!

Dušan of Criamon: Left 4 dead hard rain theme

johns (GM): You hear noises from the chapel -- first whispers, then singing, flutes, crude drums, and raucous dancing

A clamor of voices proclaim, "The king is dead! Long live the King! The King is dead! Long live the King!"

Guy of Bonisagus: wha

Celeste: This is definitely unconventional.

Father Hazm: Yes

Guy of Bonisagus: gah! we didnt watch the chapel and now its getting deviled

johns (GM): Dusan, please make a Sta roll against the new aura, Infernal 5

Guy of Bonisagus: i go to undevil the chapel

Father Hazm: Same

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

I'm looking forward to a fight

Guy of Bonisagus: "If there's devilry afoot, get them out of the grounds before we kill them."

johns (GM): Bretmar the carpenter -- still clad in his bloodied rags -- rushes to join you. "It is an insult to all true believes that anyone, even Satan himself, could find joy on this night!"

Bretmar, Carpenter: *believers

Father Hazm: "I have a bad feeling about the chapel. But I must protect the reliquary!"

Bretmar, Carpenter: Ok, anyone got Theology or Divine Lore?

Celeste: Sure.

Father Hazm: Both

Bretmar, Carpenter: Roll one or both

Celeste: same score in both so here

rolling 1d10+5+2 lore + per

(

1

)

+5+2

=

8

nice.

hahaha

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+d10!

2+2+

(

6

)

=

10

Theology

Celeste: all that sinning is catching up to Celeste's perception of reality.

Dušan of Criamon: gotta get those 1's out before combat

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+d10! Divine Lore

2+2+

(

9

)

=

13

Bretmar, Carpenter: Ok -- All of you are going to the church?

Guy of Bonisagus: aye

Dušan of Criamon: Adventuring group mode activated

Father Hazm: "This is the time when the hubris of demons was at their greatest, when they thought they have won. Be on your guard."

johns (GM): Zak too or you let him recuperate?

Father Hazm: I'll clutch my relic tight

Dušan of Criamon: I feel he ate enough shit for one adventure, but if anyone else vetoes I'll respect that

Father Hazm: Making sure its secure upon my person so its not stolen

johns (GM): your personal relic, right?

Father Hazm: Yeah

johns (GM): Ok.

Man I hope Dys is OK.

Father Hazm: Same

johns (GM): You approach the church. The raucous din is unholy and grating to your ears.

Guy of Bonisagus: cons: if dys is dead we will lose our devil killer

pros: ill have an excuse to stop gming

Father Hazm: Archibald already isn't here

Celeste: lol

Father Hazm: Oh right, lose them permanently

johns (GM): here is a disgustingly crude map.

you enter from the right side. the boxy thing is the altar. makes sense?

Guy of Bonisagus: hes been in roll20 this whole time still so he didnt lose power or internet

Father Hazm: Yeah

Guy of Bonisagus: i think he just fell asleep

Father Hazm: dys has just been tired during gametime lately

Guy of Bonisagus: he has been

johns (GM): :(

Guy of Bonisagus: 8 or 9 pm seems a bit early for an armed home invader but maybe scottish criminals are impatient

johns (GM): Alright, well let's try to wrap up before the rest of you fall asleep too

Guy of Bonisagus: could have fallen down the stairs

Celeste: I'm approaching sleepiness.

johns (GM): You all, plus Bretmar, round the entrance and immediately something seems wrong. The interior of the chapel is impossibly larger than the exterior. Inside are hundreds of imps dancing, jamming on their hell instruments, waving banners

As in Guy's dream, the altar is covered in a pile of bones, and a throne of bones.

And in the throne sits a regal looking demon.

Celeste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JplmZGzweVc

Guy of Bonisagus: this sounds really badass and its a shame were all good christians

Escarus: "Congratulations, for coming to the winning side."

Dušan of Criamon: this is the opposite of what should be happening inside a church

the architecture is all wrong

Escarus: "Rest assured friends. There will be a place in the new order for you if you join us. Our victory is already complete."

Guy of Bonisagus: I throw a pilum at him.

Celeste: I shoot him with an arrow.

Guy of Bonisagus: Still infernal 5?

Celeste: Good teamwork.

Escarus: Yes.

Dušan of Criamon: I can start whipping up a DEO

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+16

(

3

)

+16

=

19

fatigues me but it goes off and probably doesnt pen

Escarus: Penetration?

Guy of Bonisagus: uhhh

i guess just 2

Dušan of Criamon: are we presumed to have buffed at this expectation of demons

Guy of Bonisagus: from my skill

someone get me an ac

Escarus: Ok. Celeste, roll attack

You may choose to if you wish.

Guy of Bonisagus: celeste run up and tear off his ear or something

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+1d10!+4+4+8+2+10 i think hazm's charm wore off (no idea what the duration is) but im Exerting.

(

9

)

+

(

9

)

+4+4+8+2+10

=

46

Escarus: However. You are currently outnumbered about 100:1.

Guy of Bonisagus: hell yeah

Celeste: reduce that by 9

Escarus:

rolling 1d10!+7

(

8

)

+7

=

15

Celeste: i dont know how 2 dice got in there

Escarus: Okay, you obliterate a Shield Imp.

Celeste: "Drat!"

Dušan of Criamon: we have the tactical advantage because of the gate chokepoint

Father Hazm: "Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica. Ergo, omnis legio diabolica, adiuramus te…cessa decipere humanas creaturas, eisque æternæ perditionìs venenum propinare…Vade, satana, inventor et magister omnis fallaciæ, hostis humanæ salutis…Humiliare sub potenti manu Dei; contremisce et effuge, invocato a nobis sancto et terribili nomine…quem inferi tremunt…Ab insidiis diaboli, libera nos, Domine. Ut Ecclesiam tuam secura tibi facias libertate servire, te rogamus, audi nos."

Escarus: "Come to me, friends. A place has been reserved for all of you and your six friends."

Father Hazm chants crap, unable to actually fight

Dušan of Criamon: "Not in this life, not in the next."

Escarus: Ok.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+17-5

(

1

)

+17-5

=

13

oh hell yes

Guy of Bonisagus: if only giraldo was here

he would have loved this

Escarus:

rolling 7d10

(

8

+

9

+

6

+

6

+

9

+

1

+

1

)

=

40

Okay, you botch.

Guy of Bonisagus: if only archibald was here

Celeste: I start hitting the altar with my mace, a holy relic of minor power.

Guy of Bonisagus: he also would have loved this

Dušan of Criamon: twilight HERE I COME

Guy of Bonisagus: have fun in twilight dusan

Escarus: The aura is Infernal 7, inside the Chapel.

Celeste: rip

Escarus: What's the might on that Mace?

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald would get to see a church Incredibly Defiled, and also get to kill demons

Celeste: im not actually sure. 1 i think? its the minimal amount to give one faith point.

Escarus: okay that's 10

Celeste: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: no avoidance, will attempt comprehension

hmm, actually let me try to avoid since it's no sweat off my back

Escarus: here's how you can tell I am adapting this from an older edition btw

Vis: His horns are each worth 45 pawns of Vim

vis.

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: i guess i can throw pila at the altar

Father Hazm: . o O ( If I ever play an older edition, roll a demon summoner )

Escarus: i am put in a sort of bad spot here as gm

Guy of Bonisagus: just think to yourself: what would endrite do

and follow your heart

Escarus: Okay. You are each mobbed by about 100 demons who try to grapple and stun you.

Celeste: lol

Escarus: Escarus himself has a cool power that I will try on Celeste, let's see

Turns the burning desire of sin into a physical

heat that burns the target from within, centered

on the heart. With each use of this power, he

focuses on a specific sin, such as lust or greed. (It

does not work on sloth or gluttony because these

Escarus: The character must make a personality roll to

determine how much damage the power does. To

keep from being burned by lust, one must make a

Chaste roll, while a Humble roll will protect

against burning pride, and so forth. If the victim

has a score in the sin being targeted, this number

Escarus: is subtracted from the resistance roll. A Violent

+2, for example, means a –2 penalty on the resistance

roll. Armor does not count on the soak roll

for this damage.

Celeste: lol nice

Father Hazm: Why doesn't it work on sloth or gluttony?

Dušan of Criamon: 1d10+1+3 vs 1+warping gained+4+7+1d10

Escarus: (It

does not work on sloth or gluttony because these

desires do not “burn” within the human soul.)

Father Hazm: Ahhh

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+4 my avoidance roll

(

1

)

+4

=

5

oh hell yes

Escarus: Nice!

Dušan of Criamon: i'm in the twilight

Celeste: celeste is Rude and Sensitive so you can probably hit pride or something

Dušan of Criamon: going to try and comprehend

Celeste: hell yeah dude

you did it

lets run into the portal

Guy of Bonisagus: actually my desire to be an incredibly lazy piece of shit burns like the sun

these writers are hacks

Escarus:

rolling 1d10+1+2+4+7 the Ease Factor of avoidance

(

8

)

+1+2+4+7

=

22

looking at celeste's sheet he doesn't actually have a lustful personality trait but he sure acts like it

would you say that's like, +3 lustful? +2?

Celeste: i should rewrite the traits because i didnt really think about them when i first made the sheet and rarely look at them

+3 lustful is fair

rolling 1d10+3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+2+4 vs warping score 1+1d10 comprehension roll

(

8

)

+2+4

=

14

Escarus: roll Soak, not including armor

Escarus rolls some dice

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Escarus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

10

+

10

+

6

)

+15

=

41

Celeste: l,mfo

Escarus: erm.

Celeste: lmfao

Escarus: er..

Dušan of Criamon: oh wow

Father Hazm: Holy shit

Escarus: uhh..

Father Hazm: Well

Celeste: this is honestly totally fair and a completely reasonable way for the character to die

Escarus: Let me level with you before we accept this

In the adventure as written, the Priest character is an NPC

Celeste: celeste is useful and has true faith but she is absolutely a hypocritical sinner

Father Hazm: There's one thing I can think of, maybe Celeste should have a chance to shoot an arrow at him first, provided Celeste won init

Escarus: Who would have urged and advised you all to simply NOT go in the Chapel

Father Hazm: Oh yeah, Celeste has true faith and a relic

Celeste: lol

thats true but i think a demon lord can break 20 mr

Escarus: If you haven't figured it out Bretmar is the 7th sinner and his sin is Pride, and the action is him going to the church to try and fight a Master Demon during the cosmological Death of Christ

Celeste: lmao.

that makes sense.

Father Hazm: Oh yeah

I had a bad feeling about the chapel but I thought it was due to Death Prophecy

Escarus: i have been tracking the sins and celeste was guilty of 3 this week: lust, wrath, and pride

Father Hazm: I didn't realize I was supposed to warn the PCs against a trap

Celeste: lol

Escarus: right so maybe I didn't communicate it well

Guy of Bonisagus: why did we even go in the chapel

Escarus: thus I leave it up to the troupe how they feel about Celeste burning to death from Sin

Guy of Bonisagus: i assumed i was hurling pila from outside

Escarus: Gah

Father Hazm: Because extremely blasphemous crap was going on in it

Guy of Bonisagus: i mean celeste actually went in

Escarus: I even drew a map to explain you were looking in it

Guy of Bonisagus: to smash the altar

Celeste: idk im fine with it either way. if we want to walk it back thats fine but im also not mad if it turns out that celeste died

Father Hazm: And all the effort gets ruined if the reliquary is fucked up

Guy of Bonisagus: lets tell prudenzio and rush him here so that he can mourn his dead gay son

Escarus: Very well DFD

Celeste: unless celeste manifests her LATENT MAGICAL ABILITY and it happens to save her life somehow.

Escarus: I am going to stick with it then

well now that you mention it, didn't I tell you to look up that bit in Rop Magic about people who die in elemental fashions and come back to life

Celeste: Hell, it's so poorly defined it could be a one time rez.

Oh shit, yeah, you did.

Escarus: the classic example is "Drowned men" but there are also "buried men" and .... "burned men"

Celeste: And then I didn't remember it.

Escarus: Regardless of if Celeste gets revived later: for the rest of this adventure Celeste is a charred corpse

Father Hazm: Celeste shoudl come back as a burned woman since her platonic ideal is female

Escarus: I am sorry.

Celeste: Badass.

its cool because now the villain seems really really serious

Guy of Bonisagus: burning man from mgs5

Escarus: Okay, Guy you said you were outside the church -- Hazm and Dusan likewise, did you opt to stay out?

Father Hazm: Let me check personalities

Dušan of Criamon: Well I thought that was the plan, I wouldn't mind that outcome

Father Hazm: Higher Purpose and Compassionate personality flaws

Dušan of Criamon: seems like a good killing zone on the doorsil

Father Hazm: Curious, Pious and Compassionate personality rolls

Hmm

Okay, I decide that storming the chapel is a fruitless way to die

And warn Guy against going in

Guy of Bonisagus: nice

Father Hazm: Celeste and Dusan can leeory jenkins inside

Guy of Bonisagus: i will hurl pila at imps from outside

its like shooting imps in a chapel

Dušan of Criamon: I want the killzone, I'm outside

Father Hazm: Ok

Dušan of Criamon: how does this affect my travel plans

Escarus: like thus?

Dušan of Criamon: I mean, I think the GM has to roll vs my roll to comprehend

Escarus: Sorry I got a little lost

Dušan of Criamon: nw

Escarus: what do I roll?

Dušan of Criamon: I got a 14, I think it's 2+1d10

Escarus: 1d10+1+ ?

rolling 1d10!+2 Comprehend Ease Factor

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Dušan of Criamon: OK

Father Hazm: Nice work Dusan

Escarus: I have moved Dusan to where he would have been able to DEO Escarus, on the map

So Dusan comprehends by a Margin of 4?

Dušan of Criamon: Yeah

Escarus: What's your Enigmatic Wisdom ability, and what's your Warp Score?

Dušan of Criamon: How many warping points did I get from this? I assumed my new score was 2

Escarus: If the comprehension roll succeeds, subtract the maga’s Enigmatic Wisdom score from the result, and compare that total (that is, the maga’s Intelligence plus the stress die result) to the Twilight’s result.

2 points of Warping gained.

Dušan of Criamon: EW at +4

OK so new warping points total is 15

is that a higher score

Escarus: So.. if I read this right.. I subtract 4 Enigmatic Wisdom from your success margin of 4, and use that to figure out twilight time?

I am a little lost so if you know what it should be tell me

Dušan of Criamon: hold on

Escarus: 15 is a Warping Score of 2

while moe works on that

Guy are you leaning around the corner to Pilum snipe? You still have to be sorta in the church for that

johns (GM): zzz

Guy of Bonisagus: no i dont

i can hear them

johns (GM): Ah ok

What if they fly out and attack you

Guy of Bonisagus: thats what my shield grogs bernard and hazm are for

johns (GM): Nice!

Also Bretmar has chosen to run away in pure frish

fright.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

thats his name

uhhh

johns (GM): something about the demon addressing him by name.

Guy of Bonisagus: hazm what do we do

Father Hazm: Hmmm

I'm honestly not sure.

"We should rally those in the town who can fight."

"The hunter said he would, provided we could show him demons in the flesh."

Dušan of Criamon: I think I'm figuring out the twilight time thing, I almost have it, just have to check what rolls we already made

devil's fav demon: You should hide and pray imo

Dušan of Criamon: Base twilight time for this case was 2 (two hours) and I beat it by 4 plus my EW bonus which gets me down to -6 which is a moment

Guy of Bonisagus: hiding and praying seems like a solid strat

Dušan of Criamon: Dusan does it again

Father Hazm: Okay here's my plan

I cast Gift of Minerva on myself

rolling d10!+2+2+1 Entreat the Infernal Powers check

(

3

)

+2+2+1

=

8

Okay, no aura penalty to casting

rolling d10!+12+14 cast check

(

9

)

+12+14

=

35

devil's fav demon: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: OK slight adjustment I get it down to -2 but result is the same

Father Hazm: Okay, using the virtue of common sense, I use this to metagame and say

"Run. We should run. We cannot win at night."

Dušan of Criamon 's veins glow more radiant

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

lets run

Dušan of Criamon: "I see the wisdom in your words, father"

where do we run to however

Father Hazm: The knight's house maybe

johns (GM): You peel out into the stormy dark night.

Dušan of Criamon: you're still positing a variant where we fight the hundred demons

with my newly clear mind I'm thinking about the harbor

Father Hazm: Let's go to the villa

johns (GM): Putting distance between you and the church, the storm builds up and eventually you can't hear the sounds of the hellish celebration. No one pursues you on your way north.

Father Hazm: The infernal aura won't affect the villa since its magic

And it's closer than the faerie cave

johns (GM): The rest of the night is a blur.

Do you mind if I accelerate things a bit as it's late?

Dušan of Criamon: go ahead

i'm getting tired

devil's fav demon: fair enough

johns (GM): You stumble from the villa in a haze.

Dušan of Criamon: though i am gripped, don't get me wrong

johns (GM): It is still overcast, but now cool and windy, and the next day.

The church is back to normal -- a simple, humble village chapel -- all the remains of last night is Celeste's charred body.

devil's fav demon: im really torn between remaking celeste as a faithless spirit of flame and violence or making that turkish wrestler

Guy of Bonisagus: thgeres always the horseshoe maker

devil's fav demon: lol

johns (GM): No.

There's not.

Father Hazm: I'll try to do the Christian thing with Celeste's remains

johns (GM): You sure? That precludes Unchristian Magi tampering

Father Hazm: Oh alright

johns (GM): lol your call man

devil's fav demon: Celeste

johns (GM): I know what Endrite would do if he were here

Father Hazm: I postpone

devil's fav demon: 's body could just be like, a big pile of ashes.

Guy of Bonisagus: i will give hazm the okay to save celestes soul

johns (GM): The villagers are scared and congregate in crowds, discussing disturbing nightmares.

Father Hazm: Celeste has friends at VT who will want to be part of the wake

devil's fav demon: its like in mandy where you go in and see the charred corpse still sort of in the correct shape and then the wind blows it away

johns (GM): On Saturday, no Eucharist is observed.

Father Hazm: So we can save on interring the remains until then

Dušan of Criamon: I will collect her remains before Hazm gets to do the christian thing

johns (GM): As the sun begins to dip, the ground starts to rumble.

Dušan of Criamon: Fate chose to take her, not me

I owe her now

johns (GM): It begins to crack and open, east of the church.

Who is prepared for a final showdown?

- oooor -- it can happen next week before the next adventure.

Dušan of Criamon: cliffhanger ending

Father Hazm: I'll go "bless" (with Magic bonuses) any of the villagers in fighting shape

Guy of Bonisagus: i think we should wait to see if dys died

devil's fav demon: That's fair.

johns (GM): We'll hold a vigil for him.

Father Hazm: Alright yeah let's postpone so we can find out about dys's status

johns (GM): ok

Dušan of Criamon: oh man

Father Hazm: The ground cracking open is a good cliffhanger

devil's fav demon: excellent cliffhanger yea

Dušan of Criamon: PC death and player death

devil's fav demon: gg everyone. thanks for running johns

Dušan of Criamon: this was good shit

johns (GM): thanks dfd, let's talk about a magic character later this week

Dušan of Criamon: and we fell for it

devil's fav demon: yeah. im kind of hype looking at the book now

Dušan of Criamon: like a goddamn 7-piece fiddle set

devil's fav demon: its cool because you lose all your divine abilities and protections and have to rebuild your character as a magic being

so celeste is going to be a pretty different character coming out of the other side of this

Father Hazm: Shoot arrows that set people on fire and have a distinct gimmick from Bolad

Who sets people on fire with skyfire instead of flamign arrows

devil's fav demon: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: im liking this adventure

johns (GM): ty glad to hear it

Father Hazm: Hello dys. It's me, your computer.

The Lake People came up in Ars Frisia

They cohabitate with the magi and bring them vis

In exchange for not killing the Diedne ghost that lives with them

johns (GM): sounds cool but have you considered enslaving the diedne ghost to teach you its lost arts

Father Hazm: That's up to the PCs

I was running the ghost

Dušan of Criamon: this is frisia we're talking

not some big shot big city adventuring party

jetsetting, tricking goatwomen and killing giants

johns (GM): bog city

Father Hazm: Gronigen is a cool city

Everyone wanted to live in a swamp but it would have been cool to live in a lacunae in Gronigen

Dušan of Criamon: i don't actually know what the frisia game is like

Father Hazm: At least two of the canon lacunae are tombs

Vardian's Tomb, Michael's Tabula

Dušan of Criamon: i just imagine the VT-frisia dichotomy is some city slickers in the country stuff

johns (GM): aesop's fable of the country magus and the city magus

Father Hazm: Frisia involves every wizard having a self-contained building that's extremely themed towards them

Ice palace, creepy circus tent you can wander inside and walk out in Italy, and creepy treehouse

johns (GM): thats sick

Dušan of Criamon: these all sound extremely good

(camera pans to dingy, damp basement in catacombs, where a single emaciated wizard shivers)

Father Hazm: VT isn't so bad

johns (GM): im gonna log off

if dys is alive he'll pop up on discord

good night folks

Father Hazm: GN

Dušan of Criamon: later johns

sleep tight