3/11/18

devil's fav demon: is today spring or winter

johns (GM): spring 1345

devil's fav demon: thank you

c'thinker: i found derfels character sheet.

devil's fav demon:

rolling 1d10!-4 aging rosario

(

2

)

-4

=

-2

dys (GM): what times it in EST right now

johns (GM): 2:58 pm

oh well technically it's EDT right now

sorry

dys (GM): alright, i just woke up so thats good timing

Shauncat (GM): I just say Pacific so I don't have to say DT or ST

johns (GM): cheers m8

hi BB

looks like the gang's all here

Beardbeard (GM): hello friends

Beardbeard: and johns

Shauncat (GM): Hail and well met

johns (GM): :(

The date is March 1st, 1345 A.D.

Your faithful and quite aged Steward reports that he has leased a ship for your expedition, and found a pack of very desperate sailors willing to crew it.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

Sir Sebaste the Steward: "We had to put a hefty deposit on the ship so it would be for the best if it came back in one piece."

c'thinker: wonder what Ship Captain is up to

Shauncat (GM): vendor buy bank guards decsu

Beardbeard: march of 1345 huh

oh boy

Rosario of Flambeau: "How desperate, exactly?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Beware the tide pods of March

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the aids of march.

Sir Sebaste the Steward: "Not desperate enough to keep going forward in the face of imminent death, but desperate enough to sail to where no one else will."

Guy of Bonisagus: sure hope nothing big happens in roughly a week

Sir Sebaste the Steward: me too

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, if I have my lab total right, the ReVi staff to control a magic spirit at voice range for moon, up to 50 might, is a charged item with 26 charges that expires in 70 years.

I need to go for dinner, but that's the plan for the djinn

Father Hazm: Oh yes, the covenant has a new chamberlain, a priest who requested to be present at the aegis casting for some reason (it's magic typed reason, so the aura is safe)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i have to burn another season on this one

Archibald of Guernicus: no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whew.

Archibald of Guernicus: this time around i used the similar spell bonus from the last staff

Sir Sebaste the Steward: wtf dys is bailing already?

Archibald of Guernicus: I just woke up dude

I need to eat

Guy of Bonisagus: fat

Archibald of Guernicus: Let who is not a big boy cast the first stone

anyway, brb as fast as i can

Sir Sebaste the Steward: Okay

Guy of Bonisagus: better run as fast as you can bitch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all scottish people are thin, from the heroin

Mortis ex Verditus: So, you're desperate huh?

Sir Sebaste the Steward: Now I have to keep track of the charges on your Uber poewrful item. neat

Should we introduce our newest Magus?

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, that's lucky because you have a new magus on the scene!

devil's fav demon: at around 5 est im going to leave for potentially 20 minutes and then come back. apologies in advance.

Mortis ex Verditus: Me!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Salve

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh shit!

Mystical greetings.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Salve.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm Enki's former apprentice.

Naturally, you need an expert necromancer to help you tame this wild tomb.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: get rid of all your tytalans and a verditius shows up.

Typical.

Gulielmus arranges to have Mortis placed in the farthest lab from his own.

Sir Sebaste the Steward: nice helmet

can you set your character sheet to all people can view

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus looks up from plans for an apiary that can fit on a boat.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Salve."

Mortis ex Verditus: There it should be good to go.

Sir Sebaste the Steward: hafl made me cry

Mortis ex Verditus: Why don't you sort some mail, macho pig?

johns (GM): drop some tokens on the boat if you wish to join this expedition

also, decide who will be the Chief Magus responsible to making decisions today

Fiorella of Jerbiton: This necromancer seems like a responsible sort

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: our beloved consuls are both present

Mortis ex Verditus: I am, thank you.

johns (GM): we have another consul? when did this happen

Fiorella of Jerbiton begins summoning birds to scout ahead after boarding

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume.

the ghost, i mean.

Guy of Bonisagus: the ghost only haunts archibald and archibald is not here yet

he will have to take a rowboat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's belowdecks presumably.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I invented a spell to talk to birds so I can get complex information from them

Rosario of Flambeau: Looks like Gulielmus is boss.

Guy of Bonisagus: rosari ois right

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Gulielmus is the leader

johns (GM): Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to brew some potions

Rosario of Flambeau: the birds start telling Fiorella that Mortis is gay and retarded.

johns (GM): he shoudl fit right in then

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He doesn't seem retarded to me

Rosario of Flambeau: he has offensive to animals.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Mortis ex Verditus: They just don't appreciate my unique charms.

johns (GM): Endrite you can't have regular gift and Offensive to Animals

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That doesn't matter with conjured birds

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh yeah.

Mortis ex Verditus: Whoops.

Archibald of Guernicus: There's some merinita flaws that let you have Blatant Gift but only for humans/fairies/divine creatures iirc

dunno if theres an animal one

johns (GM): While Gulielmus is statting potions, have you decided your approach? I will now switch to the detailed map

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think you still need to be Gentle before you can get those flaws

Archibald of Guernicus: I crafted the ultimate +50 staff of controlling Djinn

johns (GM): whats its Pen

Archibald of Guernicus: 50

johns (GM): good

and it's got limited charges?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, charged item so it doesnt waste too much vis, its moon duration though

So it doesnt waste any, I should say

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Cave of doing pilates, or cave of Chinse pirates?

Gay Island

johns (GM): pepe

With the Djinn under your command, what is the next step of your plan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+3+9+5+3 CrAq, to create a great amount of oil

(

4

)

+3+9+5+3

=

24

Fiorella of Jerbiton: My plan is to get an AC to Ponza Harbor so I can report on trade opportunities to my family

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright I replaced it with Weird Magic.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If I can send a bird out to get terrain samples, I can get ACs for both myself and Gulielmus, who has Leap

johns (GM): Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: What sort of skeleton-based hijinks does our new magus have to offer this adventure?

johns (GM): Do you wish to try that before you get into the Water Djinn's range

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Where's the genie located and where are we approaching from?

Archibald of Guernicus: an ordinary bird wont get shot down by the djinn i bet, its a safe venture

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh yeah

johns (GM): last time you got intercepted around the red "X"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If the birds don't return, thenw e have an ill omen right there

Here there be genies

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12+3+3+3 rego terram, to throw something

(

4

)

+12+3+3+3

=

25

powerful.

johns (GM): is that a potion?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ya

i don't actually have sling.

so i'm going to go in with a few charges of it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll send out a bird to bring back a bird sized satchel of sand, if it comes back safely that's a good sign

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should probably just paste the actual designed potions in here, this has to be really confusing.

johns (GM): im just making notes

oil potion, vilano sling potion

can you let me know the specifics of the spell you're using shaun just so I can be anal retentive

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok, it's a sequence of spells

Murder of Crows - summons a Group of birds

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+9+3+7+3 CrIg (to ignite the oil at sight range)

(

3

)

+9+3+7+3

=

25

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Then

Converse with the Servants of Apollo

R: Eye, D: Conc, T: Ind

Intellego Animal 20

Allows the caster to understand and converse with the targeted bird. The Maga automatically understands the verbal and non-verbal language of the animal, and can communicate basic ideas to the bird.

(Base 10, +1 Eye, +1 Conc)

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Which I invented last year

johns (GM): cool

Mortis ex Verditus: So where are we setting out?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

johns (GM): IS Archibald coming?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you make an illusory Room, for spell parameter purposes

Mortis ex Verditus: No.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sad.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can layer an illusion on a room, though

Rosario of Flambeau: you could make a real room.

johns (GM): 6 wizzies

any grogs?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Faeries can make quite complex interior illustions

Archibald of Guernicus: Capturing Ponza is something we've been planning for a while, makes sense he'd come out on it.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's bring Napolino.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Morgana has motion sickness

Mortis ex Verditus: And Mariu.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So I'll leave her behind

johns (GM): i dont see Mariu in the grog list

did he die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will also bring the good old soak potion

johns (GM): ah there he is

Mortis ex Verditus: There he is.

Rosario of Flambeau: he has an accent mark in his name so its hard to search.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He has fancy characters in his name

johns (GM): Mariu grumbles about letting a woman on a boat but he's here.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Like Jorn did

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12+3+5+7

(

3

)

+12+3+5+7

=

30

Mortis ex Verditus: We should also bring Tanolfi

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. 4 potions seems like plenty

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think people kept whispering johns when trying to whisper Jorn too

johns (GM): gah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Johrns

Mortis ex Verditus: Jorsh.

johns (GM): Alright, those 3 grogs are added, may I consider this party "locked in" and you sail to the spot marked "Your Boat" before Fiorella launches birdscout

Mortis ex Verditus: Johrm's Machete

Guy of Bonisagus: there is no spot marked "your boat"

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah there was also no red X, for that matter

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah I think you didn't put us on the right

johns (GM): sorry

Guy of Bonisagus: maybe hafl was right

Archibald of Guernicus: ah there we go

johns (GM): we were on the wrong Page.

half was right definitely.

Rosario of Flambeau: Aha.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus grabs a rock from the ground, so that he can teleport back if he has to.

johns (GM): do you guys have unlimited range teleport or 7 league stride

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

I also take an AC from Ostia or w/e we are

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have full blown leap of homecoming

Archibald of Guernicus: Leap of Homo cumming

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and, also, full blown aids

johns (GM): 7 leagues is ~38 km it seems

Rosario of Flambeau: I have no teleport abilities and only 1 Swim

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have Flight of Homecoming

Mortis ex Verditus: THANK YOU, Gulielmus.

Someone needed the courage to say it.

johns (GM): Alright, if no objections, locking in party and beginning in 5

Guy of Bonisagus: i cast cloak of the ducks feathers on myself

johns (GM): 4

Guy of Bonisagus: so that i dont get wet when the genie kills us

johns (GM): 3

2

1

Archibald of Guernicus suddenly busts out his companion character he just made right there

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): gah!

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Greetings.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: lol

Father Hazm: Greetings fellow companion

(From Fiorella of Jerbiton): AFK

johns (GM): About 40 kilometers from where you reckon Ponza is

well hmm you'd have to be within 20 km to see it from a crow's nest according to Google.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll never understand how one can point a boat in the right direction."

Guy of Bonisagus: what if fiorella enhances the crows nest

so we can see farther

johns (GM): makes it taller?

Rosario of Flambeau: As soon as we got out into open water Rosario just keeps whipping his neck around and sweating

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the mile high crows nest

johns (GM): the boat tips over and you drown gg

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont know

she can figure something out

johns (GM): shaun went afk.

looks like you're on your own guys.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): the oil creation potion has +3 size magnitudes and is set to activate when the container breaks

Archibald of Guernicus: We have bird scouts, when we near the Djinn area we'll slow down and wait for him to get in voice range. Then engage in hilarity.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, we could head to the monastery to get our bearings.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): feel like i should mention that.

johns (GM): Ok, Mortis

(From Fiorella of Jerbiton): Back

johns (GM): You have sailed to the North side of Zannone island, home of the ruined monastery

From here it is possible to view the Northernmost point of Ponza

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ponza, already?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Can we get a better vantage point by climbing on top of the ruined monastery?

johns (GM): Doth Fiorella deploy thine bird scoutf?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yes

Rosario of Flambeau: "If only I could fix up this monastery."

Guy of Bonisagus: no need to type out your speech impediments johns

johns (GM): The view from Zannon.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sorry, I thought my plan was locked in so I went to get a coffee refill

Archibald of Guernicus: Look at all those dead guys

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: RIP to the fallen nerds.

Rosario of Flambeau: "All we need is a fresh coat of plaster, really."

johns (GM): Fiorella, your bird scouts have no trouble approaching Ponza Harbor and filling their mouths with sand, then returning.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hello Jorn

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald is the only adventuring PC to have lasted this long :tragic:

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Good birds

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: giraldo is still alive

presumably

Mortis ex Verditus: Kidnapped by the Wild Hunt.

johns (GM): Giraldo is busy this season investigating footprints and mumbling to himself

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll let Gulielmus have some sand

johns (GM): The birds spit up precious Ponzian sand into your hands.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus tips some of the sand into a small vial and throws the rest away.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I also keep a vial of it

Whether the sand has mundane value, I'll leave up to my extended family

Maybe I should start a Profession: Merchant correspondence

johns (GM): What's the next step, Captain Gulielmus.

Also, as you have safely docked, you can choose what time of day you wish to take your actions.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's set out after noon, as it's unfeasible to imagine a magus acting before then.

Rosario of Flambeau: smh if you're not up at or before dawn.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Lunch is important

Let's find the bistro

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's go in the morning, so that the sun is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea checks map

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: at our shoulders.

johns (GM): You're sailing or teleporting or what

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh hey, Proclus isn't here to stop us, we can steal the treasure from the graves at the monastery

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's sail to gavi.

Archibald of Guernicus: We're sailing. Let's check the minaret, that's always a source of muslim power. Like a pylon.

Rosario of Flambeau: Why would you rob Christian graves?

What the heck?

Archibald of Guernicus: Well we should enslave the djinn first before doing anything else

johns (GM): Alright

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I go to islands of the Gavi type

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess if we're enslaving the djinn we can go right in and land at the beach

johns (GM): its up to you

Mortis ex Verditus: We shouldn't land at the beach.

That's where they'll be expecting us.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I will send more scouts but what I do will depend on our approach.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's no way a wizard can walk this far

(To Fiorella the Raven): Your original beachcomers reported a large group of people and a few ships at the "Ponza Harbour" beach

Guy of Bonisagus: they wouldnt be expecting us there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: impossible.

Guy of Bonisagus: because they have a genie to kill people

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have something to relay, sodales

(From johns (GM)): Your original beachcomers reported a large group of people and a few ships at the "Ponza Harbour" beach

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i drew on the map, to indicate "this far"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I relay this info to the group

johns (GM): noted, gulielme.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should enslave the djinn, then approach from the north anyway, with the knowledge that we can use the djinn to attack anything that gets in our way

The objective is clearing out the actual wizard, his crew will be easier with him gone and a djinn raining death on them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the north meaning lucia rosa, or the long way

Archibald of Guernicus: hmm

scout lucia rosa, if its safe then we can land there

good shout, guli

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the scout member of the vardian's tomb

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I send birds to Lucia Rosa

Mortis ex Verditus: The objective should be to kill as many Muslims as possible.

So I can put them to work as undead slaves.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sounds reasonable.

johns (GM): Scouting report at Lucia Rosa: There's no one on the beach, but the path from the beach up to the island is a long, winding narrow path, wide enough for only 1 person at a time. There are a couple shacks at the top of the cliff which I will mark now

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 2 grogs in front, one in back, maybe

Archibald of Guernicus: Mortis has a good plan

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't object to kebab removal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

does anyone have arab lore

Mortis ex Verditus: We shouldn't worry about movement order because if we're spotted we'll be outnumbered 50 to 1.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Good point Mortis

I'll turn into a bird before hand then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have to say storming the place with a genie and going up a winding narrow path seem mutually exclusive

Mortis ex Verditus: He's a genie, he can deal with it.

johns (GM): what if.... dramatic sting  you split the party

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we go right into the harbor and have the genie fuck up their boats

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok, we need at least 3 wizards to kill Johns.

It could work but then there will still be pirates ashore.

Rosario of Flambeau: Scaling a winding narrow path sounds fun.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: their noobs.

where exactly is the sand from

Mortis ex Verditus: There might also be other genies.

johns (GM): The beach marked Ponza Harbour

Archibald of Guernicus: I really should have learned leap of homecoming, oops.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah.

johns (GM): The Chaia di Luna beach is one that is too rocky and narrow for a ship to get too

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, the staff still works, and I still have it. It's 1 use per day but it should be good enough for any djinn, and lasts for Moon

so djinn arent a big issue

unless he has some might 60 monster, in which case i dont think any plan would have worked

johns (GM): we appointed Gulielmus commander of the away team, so if there's no concensus whatever he says will be the plan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

actually, the orange trail is just 2 miles

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Might 40 is already is already like, final mystery virtue powerful

Archibald of Guernicus: oh

lets just take the top path then, lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

johns (GM): gaha

Archibald of Guernicus: i thought we were saving a huge distance

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's what aristocritus would have wanted

Sailor: A sailor chimes in

what a lame token. what was I thinking

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :tragic:

Mortis ex Verditus: Aho!

y

Sailor: "There's no good beach I can see on Gazi or north Ponza. If you want to go there we can close in about 200 yards then you need to take a paddleboat"

not the right term

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow, big retcon

Sailor: uhh whatever the little rowboat you attach to a ship is

Mortis ex Verditus: The Ship's Boat.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably just "boat"

Sailor: boat.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: boat...

"That should be suitable."

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds like a good idea to me.

Sailor: for reference you are in a Cog type ship that can be safely brought onto a level beach, which is the same type of craft favored by the pirates. not very good for long distance or open ocean sailing

Ok, do you row to Gavi or to Ponza

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Dropship

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All hands, make ready, et cetera."

ponza

Sailor: All of you + grogs?

Archibald of Guernicus: I wipe a tear from my eye "Aristocritus would have loved this."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: suddenly THOUSANDS of cannons begin firing from Gavi Island (fortified)

Rosario of Flambeau: brb 1 sec

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Not to worry sodales, I won't crowd the rowboat. I prefer the air to the brine."

johns (GM): Alright

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll turn into a raven and perch on the raven's nest

johns (GM): mothership slightly off screen to the north

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Readying myself to follow my sodales when they disembark on the rowboat.

johns (GM): As you pass West of Gavi island, your little rowboat lurches to a stop.

Mortis ex Verditus: What's the name of the ship?

johns (GM): The Unlucky Drunk

Guy of Bonisagus: vardians other tomb

Mortis ex Verditus: Makes sense.

johns (GM): Your boat starts lifting up into the air, held aloft by a column of water.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oof!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Seems like a problem.

I hope someone has water magic.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This must be the genie."

"Archibald, I believe you're already acquainted?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye, that's a reasonable guess."

Fiorella the Raven circles the boat

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yes, we met once before. Though last time he had the decency to show himself and greet us."

johns (GM): You continue to lift up. You're now about 30m above sea level.

Archibald of Guernicus: Now, this seems bad, however.

Guy of Bonisagus: I conjure the sturdy vine from the ship and hold on to it.

rolling 1d10+13

(

8

)

+13

=

21

i cast it successfully

Mortis ex Verditus: This is fine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shouts.

Mortis ex Verditus: Just get the genie to set us down gently.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hey!"

Fiorella the Raven: I begin pre-casting Unseen porter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hello down there!"

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll recline in the boat.

I'm sure this will work out.

Guy of Bonisagus: the hell johns

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll cast Break the Oncoming Wave on myself, so that I'll be fine if he tries to drop the water onto us.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think the pcs have a plan

this track is inappropriate

johns (GM): i was just curious what the track was

Archibald of Guernicus: I renamed all the tracks I used, to be annoying

you can change it back to Berserk - Fear, if you want

Fiorella the Raven: "I can try to control the boat's descent if the water disappears."

johns (GM): How will you do that, Fiorella

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay, I guess I missed something important.

Fiorella the Raven: Unseen Porter

johns (GM): Okay.

How much weight can that hold?

Fiorella the Raven: I'll look it up

Mortis ex Verditus: Strength +5.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its as strong as a +5 strength man, whose lifting capacity is clearly established on page

Rosario of Flambeau: "Get me off this crazy thing!"

Mortis ex Verditus: But there's 9 people on this boat.

johns (GM): A boat + 9 people is more than Str +5 can hold.

Fiorella the Raven: Okay

Mortis ex Verditus: "Just twiddle your staff, Archibald. What's to worry about?"

Fiorella the Raven: I'm out of fresh ideas then

Rosario of Flambeau: I draw my sword and begin slashing at the water.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It has one use, and it's at voice range. Need tae see him first."

johns (GM): The column of water explodes out in all directions, leaving you unsupported 30m in the air.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: win

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah-"

johns (GM): any bright ideas, make them quickly

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well, I suppose you didn't really think things through, then."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how much fall damage is that, again

Guy of Bonisagus: I grip tighter on my vine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I thought you were handling the genie!"

johns (GM): also not 30m that's more than this guy could support. it was 30feet.

sorry.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast Preturnatural Growth and Shrinking on myself to increase my size to large.

Guy of Bonisagus: nice, well fall faster

good thinking mortis

Mortis ex Verditus: I assume this will reduce my falling damage because my Philosophae score is low.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll cross myself.

johns (GM): Okay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll teleport using the sand ac.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have an idea, maybe. Supple Iron and Rigid Rope on the boat to make it flexible will mean it hurts less when it hits the water. Maybe?

johns (GM): Down you go, rowboat and all!

Guy of Bonisagus: it must be very low. hitting the water faster would OBVIOUSLY make you more hurt

johns (GM): Gulielmus teleports.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cya

Guy of Bonisagus: goodbye gulielmus

Fiorella the Raven: "Archibald! If the Genie can see us thorugh the water, perhaps you can target it through it as well!"

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll jump over the side so I hit the water instead of the boat and hope the boat doesn't land on me.

johns (GM): Okay.

Guy of Bonisagus: I just grip tightly to my mast-vine.

johns (GM): Final call on reactions, counting to 10

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the aura here

johns (GM): 0

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 4 + 9 + 1 + 1 + 2 -5

(

4

)

+4+9+1+1+2-5

=

16

Rosario of Flambeau: Actually, I probably don't do that, because I'm wearing a lot of heavy armor and weaponry.

Mortis ex Verditus: Phew.

Fiorella the Raven: If the jinn cast Presence on the water, that is

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll make the boat flexible with supple iron and rigid rope to soften the impact

Fiorella the Raven: All of the water counts as its body

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+0+3+12+2+12

(

7

)

+0+3+12+2+12

=

36

good news all

im not fatigued

dead, but not fatigued

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

9

)

+18

=

27

It casts

Rosario of Flambeau: actually wait 1 second, sorry.

Fiorella the Raven: Hmmm

Rosario of Flambeau: I will fatiguing spont something.

Durr.

Fiorella the Raven: 16 Muto Herbam, perhaps not enough to give a boat wings

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17 to cast Rise of the Feathery Body

(

5

)

+17

=

22

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh I should have tried that.

Ah well.

Rosario of Flambeau: Score.

Good luck everyone.

johns (GM): Okay, Mortis grows in size, Rosario floats himself, Archibald softens the boat, Fiorella is a bird, Gulielmus has fled.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll spont Rise

And try to save someone

johns (GM): Guy is grasping a vine.

Archibald of Guernicus: Remember that you have to beat their MR

Fiorella the Raven: Who has the worst Corpus MR?

johns (GM): Fiorella's action will be the last one before we resolve!

Guy of Bonisagus: if im hanging from a vine on the mast it means ill never actually suffer any impact

Fiorella the Raven: I assume not the necromancer

Guy of Bonisagus: as long as i keep my grip

i think

Mortis ex Verditus: A boat doesn't have a mast.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

uh oh

johns (GM): the icon I chose has a little sail on it

so beardbeard wins this one

Fiorella the Raven: I'll save Mariu

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip Guy

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Fiorella the Raven: Make him suffer the shame of being saved by a girl

Rosario of Flambeau: Thanks. He's old as hell and wouldn't have made it.

johns (GM): Gulielmus, make a Int + Finesse stress roll.

Now then

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling (20+d10!)/2

(20+

(

10

+

3

)

)/2

=

16.5

I cast with Voice

johns (GM): The boat crashes violently into the water. Rosario, Mariu, and Fiorella float down after it. Everyone else still on the boat takes +8 Fall Damage, less soak and Aquam form bonus

Archibald of Guernicus: Water, you say?

johns (GM): Aye.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+1

(

10

+

8

)

+2+1

=

21

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast that other spell earlier

So I'm perfectly fine

johns (GM): Oh I just checked Tanolfi and noticed his grog flaw actually has an effect here, neat.

Archibald of Guernicus: violent water doesnt come near me

Guy of Bonisagus: 2 form bonus and 1 stamina

johns (GM): oh I'm supposed to roll damage and you're supposed to roll soka.

Mortis ex Verditus: Breaking the wave would make us crash to the ocean floor.

Guy of Bonisagus: suck it genie

johns (GM): dir.

rolling 1d10!+8 Damage

(

9

)

+8

=

17

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

rolling 1d10!+3

(

4

)

+3

=

7

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 2

(

10

+

8

)

+2

=

20

Guy of Bonisagus: do i get any benefit from my rope trick

Archibald of Guernicus: Breaking the wave just makes a small area around you

Guy of Bonisagus: probably not

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+3 Soak on Tanolfi

(

4

)

+3

=

7

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let the record show that i have achieved 7 ease factors worth of finesse on this teleport.

Rosario of Flambeau: That was a hell of a soak roll.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well at a certain point you're going to hit something.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+3+3 Soak on Napolino

(

6

)

+3+3

=

12

Mortis ex Verditus: I told you it would be fine.

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns, if the damage is from the water, does my spell in fact stop it

it works on magical effects too

Fiorella the Raven: Depends on how phsyics works here

johns (GM): It is Break the Oncoming Waves from RAW?

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

Fiorella the Raven: In modern times, its known that the damage comes from the sudden stop, not the water

Archibald of Guernicus: its aquam form bonus, hence why i asked

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah

johns (GM): Nae

Fiorella the Raven: It's also possible that Break teh Oncoming Waves flares your momentum

johns (GM): Unless it splits the water enough for you to reach the seabed (and take terram damage)

you still hit water

Fiorella the Raven: And you fall into the water softly

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. Rolling my aquam soak then. Damage you rolled was 17 iirc

rolling 1d10!+8

(

7

)

+8

=

15

1 fatigue

Guy of Bonisagus: what is 10 damage

is that a heavy

johns (GM): a light actually

Guy of Bonisagus: the hell

Fiorella the Raven: Thank you damage houserules

Archibald of Guernicus: 10 is a light, 11 is medium

johns (GM): -2 to your rolls and such though

Guy of Bonisagus: nice fucking spell dumbass genie retard

johns (GM): turns out a high dive isn't that harmful

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oof."

Fiorella the Raven: A high school high dive is like 18 feet

Rosario of Flambeau floats down doing the praise the sun pose

johns (GM): Okay, light wounds on Guy and Tanolfi, fatigues on Archibald and Napolino.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dropship. gahaha.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Does anyone see the bastard?"

johns (GM): Also you all submerge under the waves, except Archibald, who summons a huge crater like gap in the water around him

The dropship, softened by archibald's spell, does not break apart but twists and winds under the presure of the fall and begins to sink.

Fiorella the Raven perches on the shattered remains of the boat

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

How far are we from shore?

Or, rather, how deep is the water?

Fiorella the Raven: I guess my perch doesn't last long

Archibald of Guernicus: I have second sight, is the genie visible at all

johns (GM): Roll second sight

the water is 50m deep here. You are 50m from shore

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+5

(

1

)

+5

=

6

welp

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brb

johns (GM): Archibald, Guy, can you swim?

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling d10!+3+1+1 Second Sight (invisible creatures)

(

8

)

+3+1+1

=

13

Archibald of Guernicus: I miss when half the PCs had second sight. rip

johns (GM): Mariu and Rosario have a couple rounds before they reach te water.

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't have any swim, huh. Oops.

johns (GM): Ah.

Guy of Bonisagus: let me see if i can swim

Archibald of Guernicus: I have good physical stats, at least.

Fiorella the Raven: Ravens have Second Sight at least

Guy of Bonisagus: i have 1 swim

with a specialty in diving

Rosario of Flambeau: Same, guy.

Archibald of Guernicus: Lucky spec

(To Fiorella the Raven): You cannot see more than 10ft into the water, and do not see the Djinn at the moment

Rosario of Flambeau: You can roll swim without having it, though.

Mortis ex Verditus: Specialty in dying.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can swim with 0 swim i think

johns (GM): Roll it, Sta + Swim

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you just get more botch dice

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, sta, nice

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 0

(

1

)

+0

=

1

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3

(

8

)

+3

=

11

Fiorella the Raven: ":I don't see the djinn either."

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh no.

Archibald of Guernicus: I swim better than Guy the trained swimmer

johns (GM):

rolling 4d10

(

3

+

5

+

5

+

3

)

=

16

no botch on mortis but he is sinking like a stone

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ah! The new magus!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try and grab hold of him to keep him up

Rosario of Flambeau: I claw at the air helplessly.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Someone give me a hand with him!"

Guy of Bonisagus: reasonbly, mortis should have a swim penalty

Mortis ex Verditus: Why?

Guy of Bonisagus: as the armor hes wearing is constraining his larger form

johns (GM): is he in armor

Fiorella the Raven: I'll try to Unseen Porter the wreckage of the boat over to Mortis as a handhold

Mortis ex Verditus: No, I haven't made my armor yet.

johns (GM): I see.

Archibald of Guernicus: just the helmet

Mortis ex Verditus: I just didn't want to make two tokens.

johns (GM): lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): Fair enough.

Guy of Bonisagus: behead those who make token that is not what they look like

Fiorella the Raven: Or a piece of driftwood

Mortis ex Verditus: You will notice that I didn't add any soak to my soak roll aside from Stamina.

johns (GM): Let me try to picture this... Archibald turns around to grab at Mortis, who is now 10 feet below surface level. Guy claws up to the surface and struggles for air.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll help Guy then if Archibald is killing the new magi

Mortis ex Verditus: Like painting history with lightning.

Archibald of Guernicus: I've got air around me, I should at least try and help my sodales

Fiorella the Raven: I have to release Unseen Porter when someone else grabs what I send over

johns (GM): Alright. Not sure of the mechanics of your spell once you're submerged but we'll say you get a little pocket of air.

Rosario of Flambeau: "for God's sake save the poor man!"

brb

johns (GM): Guy feels something grab his feet and start to pull him down.

Guy of Bonisagus: he falls through the pocket of air which moives with him

Archibald of Guernicus: it could concievably send me to the ocean floor, then id just have to walk along it to reach ponza.

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald takes 1 million fall damage

Mortis ex Verditus: It only breaks oncoming waves.

johns (GM): yeah that seems to be the text of it

Guy of Bonisagus: "Something's grabbing me!"

johns (GM): i feel it should have no effect once you have submerged

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fortunately im only surrounded by murderous arabs.

Mortis ex Verditus: Parting the Waters would create a bubble, maybe.

johns (GM): Right.

Which speaking of Gulielmus, you land elegantly on a beach full of Murderous Arabs.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll still try and grab Mortis and pull him up, how much does this add to the swim EF to reach the surface?

johns (GM): They are surprised.

Lacking any Swim skill, you cannot estimate the impact on the EF.

You will have to trust your gut.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: johns (GM): They are surprised.

Archibald of Guernicus: I rolled 11, I'll drop a conf just to keep him safe

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Same, frankly.

Fiorella the Raven: I still have sponting fatigue so I perch on a piece of driftwood

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds like gulielmus gets a surprise round

johns (GM): As do they.

Guy of Bonisagus: he can take a move or standard action

Archibald of Guernicus: 14 should be enough to pull up Mortis

johns (GM): Alright.

Archibald of Guernicus: When we reach the surface we can grab the boats remains

johns (GM): You claw towards the surface with an extra large Mortis in tow.

Gulielmus, do you have a plan before you are attacked

Guy of Bonisagus: i need to figure out how to deal with the thing grabbing me

i know

johns (GM): Guy, you have been grappled.

Guy of Bonisagus: i will use animal ken to call out to the oceans denizens for rescue

Fiorella the Raven: Ooo

Guy of Bonisagus: they are unlikely to respond

johns (GM): You see no ocean denizens other than the giant blue greenish humanoid gripping your ankles.

Guy of Bonisagus: but theyll at least hear me pleading for life

archibald hit him

Mortis ex Verditus: Or rather, they aren't.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh shit. He can see it huh?

Mortis ex Verditus: Because you're underwater.

johns (GM): After issuing a plea for help, you are drawn under the waves.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: I activate... the staff!

wait, hang on

before i do

what is the effect of water on Voice range

Fiorella the Raven: It should mprove it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ideally i would like to be captured instead of slaughtered

Guy of Bonisagus: huh? why would it improve it?

theres all this water in the way

Fiorella the Raven: Water caries vibrations further than air

johns (GM): This is surely buried in a splatbook somewhere.

Guy of Bonisagus: blocking up your ears

vibrations? huh?

johns (GM): But I would say it makes the voice carry less.

Fiorella the Raven: That's latin for sensible species

* audible

Rosario of Flambeau: Good save.

Archibald of Guernicus: How far down is the green humanoid?

johns (GM): Also, do you require one or both hands to hold the staff? You are presently using one hand to hold Mortis and one to hold the boat.

Mortis ex Verditus: Please focus on saving my life instead, thank you.

johns (GM) does the math

johns (GM): 10 meters west of you, 3 meters beneath you.

Archibald of Guernicus: I need to also save Guy. I'll deposit Mortis on the boat, one hand is enough.

Mortis ex Verditus: Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh no. archibalds staff is sinking to the ocean floor

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Are you going to try to surrender?

Archibald of Guernicus: Right. I didnt grab the boat personally, then. I just came up for air and let Mortis grab it to steady himself.

Since I have one hand on the staff. Alright.

I could cast fine during all this thanks to Subtle Magic

phew

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks around at the assorted Arabs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve."

* Salvete.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus, nervously: What's arabic for salve???

johns (GM): Does Gulielmus speak Arabic?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: He does not.

johns (GM): I see.

You are left to wonder what the word "Firenj" means as they close in on you, weapons drawn.

Guy of Bonisagus: good luck archon

Mortis ex Verditus: Probably it means "friend."

johns (GM): ahh I forgot Archibald had subtle magic, that makes this all easier.

Guy of Bonisagus: easier to kill him, for his powergaming ways

johns (GM): Guy, what is your Aquam MR?

Rosario of Flambeau: What are their weapons?

Guy of Bonisagus: 7

johns (GM): Classic Saracen style curved swords

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i roll GM lore to see how safe it is to surrender

Archibald of Guernicus: The EF has a penalty equal to your current AIDS points, don't forget.

Rosario of Flambeau: Would my voice carry from up here to the saracens?

johns (GM): Rosario you aren't anywhere near the Saracens atm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm like 3 miles away

Rosario of Flambeau: Aha.

Oh yeah, you teleported!

johns (GM): lol

Guy of Bonisagus: 3 miles away

well done archon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and also there are hills between us

johns (GM): Anyway Archibald you take one turn to shift your stuff around

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus raises his hands in a clear gesture of surrender.

Rosario of Flambeau: I've been leaving the room every fifteen minutes or so to make dinner and I'm losing the damn plot.

johns (GM): Meantime the Djinn uses its  Drown  power on Guy. Guy feels water rush into his throat and must make a Deprivation check.

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah.

Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: im very deprived, aha

what am i rolling gm

johns (GM): Stamina.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you get a form bonus i think

Guy of Bonisagus: do i get a form bonus gm

johns (GM): Yes, Stamina + Aquam form

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+3

(

1

)

+3

=

4

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10 botch

(

8

+

2

)

=

10

Guy of Bonisagus: gm i have not rolled well

johns (GM): Well good news is the first EF on deprivation is only 3

and it's not for another 30 seconds you have to make your next check

Alright Archibald. You casting?

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Surrender or fight or run?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes

Mortis ex Verditus: How fast is the boat sinking?

johns (GM): As much as an irregular piece of wood that isn't floating would sink

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm activating the staff's power, targetted on the djinn

johns (GM): Well, a little faster because a large man is clutching it

Your staff shoots a beam or whatever cool stuff it does

Fiorella the Raven: I'll keep making minions just in case I get attacked by the surface

Archibald of Guernicus: It has a very badass visual effect of a ray of light wrapping around the djinn or some such. Probably. I fell asleep and didn't hav time to give it the full writeup it deserves.

Mortis ex Verditus: You could try saving me from this sinking ship.

johns (GM): Sure, sure

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): im surrendering yeah

Guy of Bonisagus: the visual effect goes on for a few minutes and guy drowns

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm saving Guy from being horrifically murdered first

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a visual effect of a dog howling

johns (GM): The +5 form of the genie glows brightly under the waves.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean Fiorella.

johns (GM): It turns its head and stares at Archibald.

Fiorella the Raven: Oh

Can I see Mortis, GM?

Archibald of Guernicus: unseen porter could save mortis here

johns (GM): You can, he hasn't sunk that far enough yet

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

johns (GM): Does the wand do anything outright or do you have to issue orders now

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): You feel a blunt object hit you in the head hard and your world turns black.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's the base effect of controlling a spirit so I think I have to issue orders

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make him roll Leadership

Fiorella the Raven: Would Lifting the Dangling Puppet be strong neough to save him?

johns (GM): It would slow his descent at least.

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bring him up to the surface, and stop drowning him." I order, pointing at Guy

Fiorella the Raven: ReCo spoint

Aura?

Mortis ex Verditus: 0

johns (GM): 0

Fiorella the Raven: kk

Archibald of Guernicus: I think unseen porter on the wood mortis is holding would be better, tho. It's +5 str, thats enough to lift a +1 person iirc

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling (d10!+23)/2

(

(

3

)

+23)/2

=

13

johns (GM): Guy you shoot up to the surface and find yourself laying flat on your back on the wave. You cough up seawater violently.

Fiorella the Raven: I conf

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the guideline just says you command the spirit, but all of the sample spells have leadership rolls to see just how eager the spirit is to comply

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, I'm alive!"

leadership huh

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

johns (GM): Don't worry aobut it for this guy

Guy of Bonisagus: maybe you should hand the staff over

Fiorella the Raven: Move a target slowly straight up, or in one direction over surfaces that cannot support it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's our pal.

Fiorella the Raven: I cast that effect on Mortis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we go way back

Archibald of Guernicus: Is that actually in the guidelines or just the usual thing where example spells are flat-out worse than what you can make inventing them yourself.

johns (GM): Did it Pen Mortis' Corpus MR?

Guy of Bonisagus: genies are probably particularly difficult to command

johns (GM): the latter

Guy of Bonisagus: due to their trickster natures

Fiorella the Raven: I doubt it

He's a necromancer

Archibald of Guernicus: This guy isnt that difficult since he's being commanded to attack us.

johns (GM): Ah, right.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just the usual thing where example spells are worse.

johns (GM): Mortis, you are continuing to sink.

(To Fiorella the Raven): Do you want that conf back

(From Fiorella the Raven): Sure

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rescue him." I point at Mortis

ordering the djinn to save the poor guy

see. everything worked out in the end.

johns (GM): Mortis shoots up to the surface as well and is now floating on his back.

Fiorella the Raven: Can I see the boat Mortis is clinging to?

Oh okay

johns (GM): The dropship sinks out of sight, gone forever. :(

Napolino also bobs merrily to the surface. As someone gave him the Swim ability he seems to be fine.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right. Sodales, let's go ashore, this is quite enough excitement for now. We need tae find and reconvene with Gulielmus."

johns (GM): Rosario and Mariu touch down gently into the ocean.

Fiorella the Raven: Being fat is a boon in this scenario

Guy of Bonisagus: huh?

Fiorella the Raven: Archimedes seen fat men bathing, he knows

Guy of Bonisagus: being fat makes you sink

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok, I'm back.

Guy of Bonisagus: hmm

well have to figure that one out

johns (GM): The waves blow south and you all wash up along the Northernmost point of Ponza.

Mortis ex Verditus: My Corpus MR is 19.

johns (GM): All except Tanolfi, whose Fear (Drowning) made him incapble of reacting, and he is now dead.

Mortis ex Verditus: RIP.

Archibald of Guernicus: wtf

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, we made it, and not too much worse for the wear."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol.

Fiorella the Raven: RIP

Archibald of Guernicus: That seems like something that could have been mentioned earlier. I'll tell the djinn to rescue him too.

Takes a while to drown, might be alright

johns (GM): You have also lost your boat, and Gulielmus disappeared somewhere, you think he teleported.

Tanolfi immediately began gulping down big lungfuls of air and by the time you have made shore and counted your party he is dead. Sorry!

Fiorella the Raven: "I can check if Gulielmus retreated to Vardian's Tomb

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus has not stopped bragging about leap of homecoming since he learned it. He used it mid-adventure to go home and pick up wine to show off, last session.

rip tanolfi

Fiorella the Raven: "Once I have na AC to the shore."

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we're fine.

"Next time I'll think up a plan for us, don't worry."

johns (GM): The man had a Flaw about drowning and by god this was going to be the only time it came into effect so I used it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The plan still succeeded, we have the djinn and we made it ashore."

Fiorella the Raven: I'll grab an AC to the shore

johns (GM): Speaking of the Djinn, a large watery form is standing in the surf, looking at you all expectantly.

Fiorella the Raven: And then Flight of Homecoming to VT to look for Gul

Guy of Bonisagus: johns do you know if ars is authentic about werewolf weaknesses, ie quicksilver, or if they are wrong, ie silver

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella, can ye scout the island and see if Gulielmus teleported onto it."

Fiorella the Raven: I grab two ACs to teh shore

Mortis ex Verditus: Any corpses around?

Fiorella the Raven: Tanof

johns (GM): it depends if they are magic, faerie, or infernal werewolves, bb

Just one, Tanolfi.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright.

I'll animate his corpse and get him to protect me.

Fiorella the Raven: What island do you think Gul teleported to?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Good lord. The man's not even gone cold yet and already you're doing this."

Archibald of Guernicus: You gathered ACs for him, so I'd first check everything in sight range, then check the places you got ACs too

Mortis ex Verditus: I have the Sun duration of Arise, My Servant.

johns (GM): Archibald and Napolino recover from their 1 Fatigue, but Guy still has 1 Light Wound.

Fiorella the Raven: I also told everyone ther ewas a bunch of troops gathered at Ponza Harbor, where the AC links to

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Gul? Haven't seen him."

Guy of Bonisagus: oh i forgot my wound

i shouldve had penalties on stuff

oops!

johns (GM): Tsk.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Mortis, I didnae get much chance to say yet, but the old leader of Vardian's Tomb had a societas about responsible necromancy, a collection of spell texts and tractatii for those who join it. Can discuss that after we're done here."

Guy of Bonisagus: i will take my aids points

Archibald of Guernicus: I had a -1 penalty but it didnt affect anything since it wouldnt change the EF I was hitting

Guy of Bonisagus: responsible necromancy

Archibald of Guernicus: Mostly about not defiling magi corpses and ghosts

Fiorella the Raven: I'll check my ACs that I have previously metnioned, which owuld be VT, the port we disembarked from, and Ponza Harbor

johns (GM): enslaving a grog corpse to protect you is legit i think

Fiorella the Raven: Casting Flight of Homecoming to visit each of them

Archibald of Guernicus: It is

johns (GM): Okay -- Nothing at VT or Ostia Port

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm very responsible."

Archibald of Guernicus: That's why I'm mentioning this, what he's doing is totally ethical

devil's fav demon: alright. i am done cooking. sorry everyone. whew.

johns (GM): You teleport to Ponza Harbor. You notice that two of the smaller cogs have been pulled all the way up onto the beach. There are fewer men around now, but they look agitated and alert. They are lighting fires, honing their swords, etc.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice job taming the genie.

djinn.

Fiorella the Raven: Is Guleilmus in a cage?

Guy of Bonisagus: ok i cant find the image but pretend i posted an edit like this

johns (GM): No sign of him

c'thinker: :blessed:

Guy of Bonisagus: the streamer with the ethical child pornography venn diagram but its ethical necromancy

johns (GM): lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Fiorella the Raven: Alright, I've run out of ideas where Gul could be

I'll have to send out bird search parites

c'thinker: just gis "ethical child pornography"

Or are you scared?

Mortis ex Verditus: Extremely.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, aye. It's more about not defiling the corpses of magi or their spirits." I glance around slightly "Give them the same respect in death as in life."

Guy of Bonisagus: i got as far as typing ethical child before i considered what i was about to hit enter on

c'thinker: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

johns (GM): lmfao

Mortis ex Verditus: Did you check the beach that your bird got sand from?

Rosario of Flambeau: "If you're going to be a necromancer, that's as honorable of a way to do it as you can get, I suppose."

Mortis ex Verditus: I bet he's there.

Fiorella the Raven: I did

Archibald of Guernicus: When you search for something that causes alarm bells to begin sounding in your room

Fiorella the Raven: The beach I got sand from is "Ponza Harbor"

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah.

Fiorella the Raven: Where johns just described

Mortis ex Verditus: Well then.

c'thinker: The Ethical Child, a q15 tract by aristotle

Mortis ex Verditus: My guess is he's been beheaded.

c'thinker: Maybe!

Fiorella the Raven: Same

I can't know that though

c'thinker: is there any blood on the beach

johns (GM): Nae.

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant believe gulielmus is dead

Fiorella the Raven: RIP

Archibald of Guernicus: I can't believe he killed himself when he was the safest person there

Fiorella the Raven: I'll report back to Archibald and tell him he's nowhere I've seen him take ACs to

Mortis ex Verditus: Probably should have come up with a meeting point.

Fiorella the Raven: But there's the possibility he was captured

Archibald of Guernicus: "Damnit, where could he have gotten to?"

c'thinker: maybe he's on corsica

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, let's get the genie to drown all the pirates.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Can ye investigate the pirates camp with birds while we move up?"

Fiorella the Raven: "Yes."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll ask the Djinn to follow us for now, while we wait on the best time and place to strike

Ighraq al-Siq: "I cannot leave the sea."

Fiorella the Raven: I'll summon up some spies

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah. Then, can ye follow us along the coast?" and we can stay near enough to the coast for him to see us

Mortis ex Verditus: "Just make him do it."

Ighraq al-Siq: "Yes."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Gulielmus is missing, there's a chance he's... if he ran into pirates, he might have panicked and been captured. We shouldnae attack them until we can at least verify he's nowhere near them."

Fiorella the Raven: "They seemed a bit upset. i think they know the genie is out of their control."

"They were readying themselves."

Guy of Bonisagus: https://i.imgur.com/qntGQx9.png its done

Ighraq al-Siq: Following along the coast of Ponza, the elevation increases. Your genie friend stays in sight within the water.

post it in the thread bb

Fiorella the Raven: I can check Gavi with some summoned birds

I didn't think to grab a sample there earlier

johns (GM): The island is deserted and barren.

(gavi that is)

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

johns (GM): The part of Ponza you walk up is full of abandoned farms overgrown with weeds and tall stalks of wheat.

Fiorella the Raven: Let's make improvised bread

Mortis ex Verditus: Any makeshift graves?

Archibald of Guernicus: If Fiorella confirms that Gulielmus is nowhere near the pirates, I think we'll just proceed with having the djinn destroy them with huge waves before they flee inland.

Fiorella the Raven: Weeds? Gulielmus would have loved this, RIP

Archibald of Guernicus: Only once she's checked that fully tho

I cant believe Gulielmus is fucking dead

johns (GM): Who is Commander of the Away Team now

Mortis ex Verditus: I will reluctantly step up.

johns (GM): None you can spot, Mortis.

Fiorella the Raven: Do we have anything we can Inexcorable Search him with?

Archibald of Guernicus: Scrying a magus, good one

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, he's our friend, so that makes it alright.

Fiorella the Raven: We can worry about tribunal after we verify he's alive

We can draw a man with a stick in sand

map

We can also draw a man, Gulielmus, to serve as the AC

johns (GM): You've covered 2 miles now without encountering another soul. You're within half a mile and visibility of the Minaret now.

Mortis ex Verditus: Is there anyone in the minaret that we can see?

johns (GM): The minaret stands about 100 feet tall with a winding staircase around the outer edge. There's a room of some sort at the top. How well can you see at 1/2 mile range?

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10-1

(

9

)

-1

=

8

Fiorella the Raven: I can get closer

Guy of Bonisagus: that well

Mortis ex Verditus: D&D had a great table for this...

Archibald of Guernicus: I can spont Eyes of the Hawk, which lets you see well at long distance

johns (GM): Noice

Fiorella the Raven: HERO also has good perceptio nrules

Archibald of Guernicus: Sponting MuCo(An), lets see

whats the aura?

johns (GM): Dom 1

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow thanks index.

Fiorella the Raven: Hmm

MuAn to give myself hawk eyes should be cheap

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+20)/2

(

(

8

)

+20)/2

=

14

Rosario of Flambeau: its level 5 iirc

Mortis ex Verditus: "Vision" goes to the Supernatural Flaw "Visions" and the "Vision" magical sense spell parameter.

Fiorella the Raven: Eyes of the Hawk is Imaginem

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, it passes

No, its muto corpus

its in hermetic projects

Mortis ex Verditus: In any case, half a mile should be close enough to see a person moving around.

Fiorella the Raven: Ahhhh

Hmmm

Archibald of Guernicus: I didn't get enough for group target so it's just me, but still good enough

hell ill make it moon just because i can. i love seeing at long distance.

johns (GM): There's a couple people up in the top of the minaret, one armed piratey fellow and one guy in simple white robes. They are scanning the ocean intently.

Also up in the top level of the minaret is the big horned amplifier thing the Imam uses for the call to prayer. It's aimed towards the center of the island.

Fiorella the Raven: Level 4 Make a major change in a beast, while leaving it recognizably the same sort of animal

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's get to the base, I'll spont Rise of the Feathery Body again, then attack them with my sword.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, seems like it would be easy to walk up to the minaret then.

Archibald of Guernicus: On top of the minaret, huh?

johns (GM): Hm let me draw a quick side view pic

Fiorella the Raven: Personal X duration, Individual

So minimum of 5 for Diam

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, moving a target instantly 5 paces at sight range is level 25, dang

I was thinking about just moving him off it slightly

so he falls and dies

johns (GM): wow that's miserable

my drawing that is

Rosario of Flambeau: it works

Mortis ex Verditus: The Depression GMing Experience.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

c'thinker:  through tears  lol

Guy of Bonisagus: you will have 40 extra hours to practice drawing, johns

each week

c'thinker: fancy minaret

Mortis ex Verditus: You can't fool me, that's the Tower of Babel.

johns (GM): it is the spiral minaret, a wonder from Civ4.

Guy of Bonisagus: the spiral minaret

Archibald of Guernicus: "If ye approach it subtly, I can launch crystal darts from all the way back here."

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling (d10+27+6+6)/2 Muto Animal, give a raven the eyes of a hawk, base 4

(

(

4

)

+27+6+6)/2

=

21.5

Mortis ex Verditus: What's Civ4?

Is that a prequel to Civ 6?

Fiorella the Raven: Lasts for Moon

johns (GM): The real spiral minaret is 171 feet high (52 meter), whereas this is only about 100 feet high.

Rosario of Flambeau: Fakers.

johns (GM): Fakirs

Rosario of Flambeau: :ohh:

I could give myself horse legs and just make a break for the minaret at horse speed.

johns (GM): gm needs a 1 minute break to find food and drink while you consider this obstacle.

c'thinker: you should convert to islam and help the pirates conquer italy

johns (GM): ^^^

Mortis ex Verditus: If they're watching the sea then we can just walk up to it.

c'thinker: these guys are more civilized than any other npcs weve seen

Fiorella the Raven: Also with 21 I can make sure that spell goes off by makign it Base 5

Which is enoug hto turn any animal into a toad

Archibald of Guernicus: I can launch crystal darts from all the way out here, so if we have a second squad assaulting the minaret sneakily, we can take em out.

Fiorella the Raven: In this case I'm just turning myself into a hawk

Archibald of Guernicus: we can co-ordinate at long distance using bird-based signals from fiorella

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah

"Req: Rego

R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Individual

This spell creates a pigeon that can carry a short written message which must be tied to its leg. The Rego requisite allows the caster to direct the bird to fly to a location for which she has an arcane connection (the bird can fly up to 500 miles, non-stop in good weather). The arcane connection is placed in the bird’s beak and remains there for the duration of the flight. At sunset or sunrise the bird disappears, though the message will remain.

Carissa observed that certain breeds of pigeon were capable of finding their way home over long distances and across unfamiliar territory. She developed this spell so she could communicate with her covenant when away on extended journeys.

(B: 10, R: Touch +1, D: Sun +2, T: Individual; Requisite +1)"

Mortis ex Verditus: We shouldn't attack them at long distance until we find out how many there are and how they warn the rest of the pirates.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll use that

Guy of Bonisagus: nice plans. if you want to talk to anyone let me know

Archibald of Guernicus: "The biggest problem is the language. None of us speaks Arabic."

Remember when we had someone who was very good at sneaking and understood every language? I remember.

Fiorella the Raven: RIP Kifaaya

c'thinker:

rolling 1d10!+1+2 rolling some dice

(

5

)

+1+2

=

8

Fiorella the Raven: and Zita

Archibald of Guernicus: 8 aids points gained huh

c'thinker: Gulielmus's corpse successfully resists rotting

johns (GM): They are watching the sea but have a good view of everything around them. They haven't spotted you yet but you're 1/2 a mile away in tall wheat fields. You will cross open ground as you approach the minaret.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Any of ye good at imaginem?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Fiorella the Raven: We should have taken all the corpses from the monastery

Archibald of Guernicus: veil of invisibility is base 20, oof

Mortis ex Verditus: We could just make ourselves look like pirates.

That's really easy.

Base 1.

Fiorella the Raven: O

Oops

Rosario of Flambeau: Can someone make me invisible?

Fiorella the Raven: I will MuIm mysel finto a parrot

Mortis ex Verditus: I have Muto Imaginem 9.

c'thinker:

rolling 1d10!+2+2+1

(

10

+

1

)

+2+2+1

=

16

Mortis ex Verditus: Does anyone have a better Muto Imaginem score?

Archibald of Guernicus: okay, base 1 is change one sensation of an object

Rosario of Flambeau: 17.

Archibald of Guernicus: My muto imaginem is +18 before auras or ceremonial casting

+20 here

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

Rosario of Flambeau: well, 14 not counting aura. i forgot the sheet i have adds it in.

Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Base 1, +1 touch, +2 group, +2 sun is level 10

The question is, what do we make ourselves look like?

We could look like boulders and just move up only when they arent looking directly at us

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling (d10!+16) /2 Muto Imaginem

(

(

5

)

+16)/2

=

10.5

Mortis ex Verditus: Pirates.

johns (GM): Cardboard boxes.

Mortis ex Verditus: Cardboard hasn't been invented yet, nice try.

Fiorella the Raven: I make myself into a parrot, a very piratey animal

Archibald of Guernicus: There's a guy in magi of hermes who makes all his grogs look like rocks

Hmmm. What if we just made ourselves look like something totally innocuous that they wouldnt even pay attention to? Like a tumbleweed.

Rosario of Flambeau: tumbleweeds sound good.

Fiorella the Raven: Using the guidelines for Aura, that's a +3 to looking like a pirate's pet.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway, how does a tumbleweed sound, sodales?

Mortis ex Verditus: What about a pirate?

Archibald of Guernicus: I think pirates would be too suspicious because they'd go 'there arent any pirates in that direction' and sound an alarm

or at least come out ot meet you

Mortis ex Verditus: Well that's fine.

Fiorella the Raven: It's better than nothing

Mortis ex Verditus: It seems like a bunch of tumbleweeds all moving in the same direction at an even pace would also be unusual.

johns (GM): It's really a guess of how petty and cruel the GM wants to be

Archibald of Guernicus: we'd split up while moving of course

Mortis ex Verditus: Are there even any tumbleweeds on this island?

johns (GM): Probably not

When I hear tumbleweeds I think the desert

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay, let's look like Arabs.

Archibald of Guernicus: One thing I wonder though is, how much can you change your image with muim

c'thinker: there are tumbleweeds in north africa

johns (GM): i think there's guidelines in the jerbiton chapter

Archibald of Guernicus: like could we just make everyone look like a field mouse? thatd be pretty easy since we'd be so small they dont notice

Fiorella the Raven: Since my parrot spell is personal range that's probably a +6 piratey aura

Mortis ex Verditus: We aren't in North Africa.

We're on an island.

c'thinker: the pirates are from there probably

johns (GM): base 1 muim assumes you're something of similar size and type

Archibald of Guernicus: hmm

i guess looking like pirates is the best we can pull off with a spont

if only we had an illusionist. rip.

Rosario of Flambeau: Rip.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+20)/2 sponting MuIm ceremonially

(

(

6

)

+20)/2

=

13

10, enough for base 1, +1 touch, +2 sun, +2 group

If everyone consents and lowers parma they can look like pirates too

Fiorella the Raven rests on someone's shoulder, making them even more convincingly piratey

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, you're a responsible magus.

Fiorella the Raven: I already MuImed myself so I don't need to lower it

Archibald of Guernicus: I still reckon hanging back to launch sight-range spells could be a good shout too.

Fiorella the Raven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T_VLIZUOXI

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm, the minaret would be GREAT for sight-range effects, actually

since you can see basically the whole island

c'thinker: have you burned the minaret yet

Fiorella the Raven: The only thing that keeps me from killing meself, is porno and memes from the Gunner himself

Archibald of Guernicus: no, we're about to sneak into it dressed as pirates

Mortis ex Verditus: Well in any case I think we're good to go here.

c'thinker: hurry up. the muslims are extracting power from gulielmus's corpse with their dark rites

johns (GM): You're walking up the ramp into the Minaret?

Guy of Bonisagus: ok ill look like a pirate

Mortis ex Verditus: Is there anyone around the minaret or does it stand alone?

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus's corpse???

but gulielmus is alive and well

johns (GM): IT stands alone.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Guy of Bonisagus: and were gonna rescue him

johns (GM): The closest things are those cliff shanties, about 500m away

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll climb the minaret with Tanolfi ahead of me.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll go stand with Tanolfi ahead of the group.

johns (GM): Okay, you move to the minaret without incident.

Rosario of Flambeau: Wait climbing

Fast-swab Fiorella: Let's go mateys

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll go up the ramp like a normal pirate.

johns (GM): You're on the 4th "floor"

Fast-swab Fiorella: I'll follow someone who's goign in the normal way

c'thinker: all normal pirates scale the walls with daggers between their teeth.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

lol shaun

nice token

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): that should be your look from now on

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright I think we can easily take the two pirates up here before they can raise an alarm.

johns (GM): Okay, you make it to the top fine. The pirate immediately asks you a question in a language you don't understand.

Rosario of Flambeau: We should challenge them to honorable duels.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's two pirates, right?

Fast-swab Fiorella: I've made my voice convincingly piratey as well as my looks

Guy of Bonisagus: how long does this illusion last

Mortis ex Verditus: Let us attack them.

johns (GM): One pirate and one unarmed guy.

Rosario of Flambeau: I shove the pirate over the railing.

c'thinker: do you still have tanolfi

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's open by casting a bunch of spells on them. Sun, Guy.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast a spell.

johns (GM): Okay, Brawl roll on that, Rosario.

Tanolfi died.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I don't know if we should kill that unarmed guy."

c'thinker: yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast Unwavering Attention on the armed pirate.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+2+3

(

2

)

+2+3

=

7

rip.

c'thinker: mortis raised him as an undead thrall though

Rosario of Flambeau: I should have higher Brawl.

c'thinker: i thought

Archibald of Guernicus: There's a spell to understand foreign languages iirc, lemme check

johns (GM): The pirate cries out in alarm as Rosario lunges at him!

Mortis ex Verditus: That's a spell that uses the base 5 Rego Corpus guideline to prevent someone from moving.

It's voice range and diameter duration.

johns (GM): oh ffs my statblock for him is from the olden abilities as arts days

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

johns (GM): 1 sec

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, while we work that out, InMe to understand foreign languages is base 5, then +1 diameter or conc, then +2 hearing. so level 20. oof.

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 9 + 9 + 2 + 1 + 1 - 5

(

1

)

+9+9+2+1+1-5

=

18

Gah!

johns (GM): Which spell was that, endrite

Mortis ex Verditus: Unwavering Attention.

I just explained it!

johns (GM): soz

Formulaic or spont

Mortis ex Verditus: Formulaic.

That's why I get -5.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 Dfn

(

5

)

+7

=

12

Mortis ex Verditus: I have Poor Formulaic Magic.

johns (GM): Alright well I assume it fails

also the guy is occupied with being attacked by Rosario

Mortis ex Verditus: It's level 15.

johns (GM): Aura is dominion 2

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah ok.

Wait, it should be level 20.

Archibald of Guernicus: thats just -6 to casting, oh

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, there you go.

johns (GM): smdh.

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah 12 casting rolls fail then

i think?

oh no

that casts iwth fatigue

Fast-swab Fiorella: It's just a fatigue then I think

Archibald of Guernicus: if you choose to

johns (GM): man i dont want to bother with turn tracker and timer and such

Archibald of Guernicus: 10 or under the spell level still casts with fatigue

johns (GM): anyway the pirate attacks rosario with an axe in response.

rolling 1d10!+12 attk vs. Rosario

(

1

)

+12

=

13

rolling 2d10

(

4

+

9

)

=

13

nobotch

Rosario of Flambeau: did he defend with his brawl or his weapon ability.

Mortis ex Verditus: We just keep winning folks.

johns (GM): Weapon ability.

Rosario of Flambeau: well, i'm going to do the same.

Archibald of Guernicus: mortis' spell worked, just so thats known, here. he takes a fatigue either way so he might as well cast it.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+1 1

(

4

)

+1

=

5

no.

No!

that's plus 11. you liar.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Dominion aura? So there's a mosque here and all? We need to clean this place out.

Rosario of Flambeau: 15.

johns (GM): alright..

You block.

Rosario of Flambeau: I do.

Mortis ex Verditus: A minaret probably has a high divine aura.

Or any.

johns (GM): The robed man makes a move towards the big horn.

Mortis ex Verditus: You know what I mean.

Archibald of Guernicus: Which one did you cast on mortis

since its being ignored but your spell did in fact actually cast

Fast-swab Fiorella: Oh, it IS a mosque

Where's our guy that summons pits

c'thinker: died

Rosario of Flambeau draws his sword into a perfect block with red sparks

Archibald of Guernicus: 12 casting total is enough to still cast a level 20 spell, with fatigue

Fast-swab Fiorella: RIP

Mortis ex Verditus: It's true.

johns (GM): Can anyone react fast enough to stop this guy from hooting into the horn

Mortis ex Verditus: Not me.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Hmmm

Mortis ex Verditus: Unless I can cast ANOTHER spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: [screaming louder and louder] Mortis already cast a spell to make someone unable to move

Rosario of Flambeau: i can fast cast a spell to make him sneeze.

c'thinker: excuse me.

johns (GM): I thought that spell just makes the guy look at you

Fast-swab Fiorella: I can fast cast my summon bird spell but they stil lhave travel time

Rosario of Flambeau: the guy who can't move is the guy i'm fighting.

c'thinker: did anyone notice that mortis's spell was cast successfully, and he just takes a fatigue level.

Rosario of Flambeau: the spell to make a guy look at you is a completely different spell from art and academe

Mortis ex Verditus: No, it's base 5: Hold a Target Motionless.

johns (GM): Ok.

Who are you holding motionless.

The pirate or the robed.

Mortis ex Verditus: The armed guy.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gah

johns (GM): Ah, I see.

Rosario of Flambeau: :ayfkm:

c'thinker: lol

johns (GM): Anyone else taking an action? Archibald you tried to cast the language spell right?

Fiorella?

Napolino?

Mariu?

Archibald of Guernicus: No, I didnt, the spell level is too high. Give me a moment, please.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Is the horn stationary or being held by the robed guy?

c'thinker: but seriously folks what happened to the undead thrall

Rosario of Flambeau: damn, mariu is also still on abilities as arts.

Fast-swab Fiorella: There are big horns sometimes

johns (GM): It is stationary.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Can a Str +5 person pick it up?

johns (GM): No, it's built into the floor.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have good quickness, can I intercept the robed man before he reaches the horn? I'm armed and dangerous.

johns (GM): Okay, make a brawl or weapon attack roll

Máriu Puddu: I hit the robed man with a great hammer.

Archibald of Guernicus: dex or qik

Máriu Puddu:

rolling 1d10!+8+2+6

(

5

)

+8+2+6

=

21

johns (GM): attacks are Dex

Máriu Puddu: +12 damage

Archibald of Guernicus: add weapon accuracy?

Máriu Puddu: yes

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

8

)

+10

=

18

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 dfn vs Mariu

(

1

)

+7

=

8

rolling 2d10 botch

(

8

+

1

)

=

9

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Máriu Puddu: Incredible.

johns (GM): Okay, Mariu caves his head in.

Archibald of Guernicus: 31 damage before soak

he dies

johns (GM): The other guy is held motionless as Rosario stabs him.

Mortis ex Verditus: We did it, everyone.

Máriu Puddu: "Die, Muslim dog!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "That was close. Good work, all."

I sheathe my sword again

Fast-swab Fiorella: What's the penalty to magic from the current aura? -6?

johns (GM): yea

Fast-swab Fiorella: Okay

I should be able to summon birds

I don't sic them on anyone

Mortis ex Verditus: Are both these guys dead?

johns (GM): The pirate is hurt bad and at your mercy. The Imam is dead.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, I'll raise the Imam from the dead.

johns (GM): You fail!

Máriu Puddu: "Old man still strong." Mariu says in broken Italian.

johns (GM): He has ascended to heaven or something.

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

johns (GM): well that's not fair. I need to look up the rules on that again some day.

Fast-swab Fiorella: He hasn't been buried yet

Máriu Puddu clutches his hamstring

Mortis ex Verditus: But you can still animate corpses if they've ascended to heaven.

johns (GM): I think you can revive his corpse unless he was truly a Saint, which he was not.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Oh yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: Animating corpses isn't really revivification.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Since we don't need teh spirit, I'll search for any graveyards

Mortis ex Verditus: Anyway.

rolling 1d10 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 2 + 1 + 1 - 5 - 6

(

5

)

+9+9+9+2+1+1-5-6

=

25

Gah, short by 5.

Guy of Bonisagus: i think they only instantly ascend if they were at least martyred

and well

johns (GM): How long is the Pirate held motionless?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll use this vantage point of the minaret to use my hawk eyes and look around the surrounding area, to see whatI can spot from up here of enemy forces

c'thinker: he was clearly martyred.

Mortis ex Verditus: Diameter.

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant asy our current group is a bunch of christian invaders

Archibald of Guernicus: Kill the pirate imo

Guy of Bonisagus: they have a passing familiarity with the concept of a church

except guy, but guy did not kill him

c'thinker: killed by pagans.

johns (GM): Okay Archibald. You have a really good view of most of the island. The area on the map called "Old Town" is a sprawling mess of crumbling stone buildings, most missing at least a roof and a wall.

Fast-swab Fiorella: I also scope the area out, for graveyards or other dead saracen storage

johns (GM): In the middle of that though is an old Roman style villa -- apart from the thick ivy climbing its walls, still in good shape.

Archibald of Guernicus: As expected of superior Roman craftsmanship

johns (GM): On the roof of the villa, you see another pirate. He is affixing a long spear into the roof to stick up, at the top of which is a familiar looking cloak.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh dear

johns (GM): The villa is about 1 mile from the Minaret.

Archibald of Guernicus: is it Gulielmus' cloak

johns (GM): and uphill

Indeed

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella." I turn to my sodales

Fast-swab Fiorella: I have an idea

"Squawk?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Gulielmus has, at the very minimum, been captured. They're flying his cloak from a pole."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh no!"

"We need to rescue him."

Fast-swab Fiorella: "Would that cloak be an AC?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella, the villa in the town, please scout it with your birds."

Fast-swab Fiorella: I'll do that first

Archibald of Guernicus: "Possibly."

I do have intangible tunnel, maybe I can save Gulielmus with a tunnel and buffing him through it

Fast-swab Fiorella: "If there's an opportunity, I'll try to get a piece of the cloak. I will scout first, however."

Archibald of Guernicus: lol posterior

Fast-swab Fiorella: I assume he's gagged and bound, maybe you can deal with both through the tunnel

Archibald of Guernicus: I think though that uh

a small piece of cloak will just be an AC to the cloak

and you'd need the full article

Fast-swab Fiorella: True

johns (GM): So there's two doorways in here, plus an open atrium

Archibald of Guernicus: to count as an AC to guli

johns (GM): I shall mark the spot with the cloak

Fast-swab Fiorella: I assume since we have a map that the scouting went successfully

Archibald of Guernicus: maybe you could turn into a bigger bird and carry it off, or unseen porter or something, but that'd alert them more so its risky

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus's favorite claok

Rosario of Flambeau: guillaume's iconic cloak

Mortis ex Verditus: How did they know we'd see the cloak?

Seems like they have more information on us than we might like.

Archibald of Guernicus: they probably put it up there for when we got near, i think

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe you're a spy and scrying on us for them.

Archibald of Guernicus: and we just happened to see it before they expected

Rosario of Flambeau: Since you only just now appeared!

Fast-swab Fiorella: I'm a hawk disguised as a parrot right now

So I can target teh cloak

Mortis ex Verditus: That's not very likely, since I'm not a muslim.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Maybe I can buff up my voice to carry to SIght range

Rosario of Flambeau: Good point. Strong defense.

c'thinker:

rolling 1d10!+2+5+12+0-5-5 rolling some dice

(

9

)

+2+5+12+0-5-5

=

18

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's go save Guli in this big ass map.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's not that big.

Just a little complex.

Most of these rooms are barely big enough to stand in.

Fast-swab Fiorella: A villa for ants

johns (GM): just for reference the actual villa is not missing huge parts of its walls

this is just a cutaway map...

Mortis ex Verditus: Right.

Rosario of Flambeau: are you sure

Mortis ex Verditus: We could just open a door in the walls and then surprise them.

Rosario of Flambeau: Ah, the postmodern Israeli tactic, inspired by Deleuze and Guattari.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, first we need to see what sort out scouting the birds bring back. If possible we want to find where Gulielmus is being held.

johns (GM): lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Do we have anyone who can actually do any scouting?

Archibald of Guernicus: Fiorella, with her birds

Fast-swab Fiorella: Just overhead scouting for me

I said I did that

Mortis ex Verditus: Why not just fly inside?

Archibald of Guernicus: When we get close I can use Prying Eyes to check rooms before we enter them, then Unwelcome Entrance to actually open them

Mortis ex Verditus: Nobody is going to be on the lookout for birds.

Archibald of Guernicus: welll

WELLLLL

guli got captured

its very likely they made him talk

and he knows about the bird stuff

johns (GM): It's around 2pm at the moment, in case you want to take the time into account.

Guy of Bonisagus: its very easy to make gulielmus talk

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

its harder to stop him talking, really

Guy of Bonisagus: not that much harder

you just have to kill him

Fast-swab Fiorella: Murder of Crows, Converse with the Servants of Apollo

johns (GM): actually according to the sundial in the minaret, it's exactly 2pm.

Archibald of Guernicus: we can assume any big thing we have that gulielmus has seen, the pirates are also aware of

Mortis ex Verditus: We could make the Imam blow the horn right before we attack the villa.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I have to give these pirate dogs credit. It must have taken a lot of time and effort to get the materials for this Minaret onto the island."

Mortis ex Verditus: That way they'd be disorganized.

Fast-swab Fiorella: They could just prepare for an invasion

And be more organized

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah but they'd be preparing to defend the most vulnerable parts of the villa instead of just wandering around.

Archibald of Guernicus: theyd also be defending gulielmus, though, who we need to rescue

Fast-swab Fiorella: Where are we gong thorug that's not the most vunlerable parts of the villa?

Archibald of Guernicus: we can enter any wall we want

thanks to unwelcome entrance

Mortis ex Verditus: The least vulnerable parts.

The walls.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: and we can even check before entry

with pryin geyes

johns (GM): helpfully every room on this map is labelled for EZ reference

Fast-swab Fiorella: For my part I can have crows summoned with the orders to harass and peck everyone in the villa that isn't gulielmus

Archibald of Guernicus: well, we can do that when we need to, for now we should just focus on getting guli out of there

Fast-swab Fiorella: Ok

Any other preparation to do? I assume the scouting is why we have this map

Rosario of Flambeau: what part of this seems the most prison cell like from the outside.

Archibald of Guernicus: we can lay traps with flammable oil while we move around

so if they ambush us, we can set them alight

Fast-swab Fiorella: I can leave circles full of angry birds

Archibald of Guernicus: good thinking

johns (GM): hard to say rosario, you really only parts you can see inside are the atrium

Archibald of Guernicus: then we can set the birds on fire too

and launch flaming birds at them

Mortis ex Verditus: You'd have to draw the circle first.

That seems like it would be tough.

Fast-swab Fiorella: On the run, it would be

Archibald of Guernicus: the oil trap is faster, at least. can set them up and then put down bird circles as further defence.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Make the oil appear in a circle shape

Circles are platonic, so its not a big Finesse problem

Archibald of Guernicus: im going to invent a spell that Creo's a large metal ring for circle effects, later

johns (GM): even if you make a circle ahead of time you still have to trace it to cast a ring spell

Mortis ex Verditus: You need to draw any Circles while casting.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: sure, but it means there isnt a chance of it going wrong or w/e

Mortis ex Verditus: Unless you're a mathemagician.

Archibald of Guernicus: can do a large circle spell reliably

Fast-swab Fiorella: Then the circle is part of the non-fast cast

Mortis ex Verditus: You draw the circle as part of the spell casting.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway. When we've scouted what we can, let's approach the villa as subtly as possible

Fast-swab Fiorella: Yes

Mortis ex Verditus: A spell that makes a circle just makes it easy to actually make a circle instead of an oval or something.

johns (GM): are you still disguised

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll put up some buffs I guess.

Fast-swab Fiorella: I am

Archibald of Guernicus: its sun duration, so yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: still dom 2?

Fast-swab Fiorella: Until sundown

Mortis ex Verditus: Regular circles are easy to make in any case, they don't need that much precision.

johns (GM): the aura gets less Dominion once you're past voice range of the minaret

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll pre-buff too

With my spell to ward myself against metal for Sun

Fast-swab Fiorella: Circle of Beast Warding isn't instrumental anyway

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean if the minaret is for anything it should be able to carry a voice to at least the pirate shanty town.

Archibald of Guernicus: its only a tiny distance from me that it actually does the ward, so I can still hold the handle of a sword. It just means all sword attacks just harmlessly slide off me.

Mortis ex Verditus: Why not just get a wooden handle for your sword?

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+16-3 sidestep in divine 1

(

10

)

+16-3

=

23

Archibald of Guernicus: It has one. That's what I mean

Rosario of Flambeau: just when i needed that.

Archibald of Guernicus: some wards stop stuff like

a pace away from you

im saying this ward stops stuff right at me

so it doesnt stop me using a sword

Fast-swab Fiorella:

rolling d10+12 Sidestep

(

10

)

+12

=

22

Rosario of Flambeau: are we trying to go in stealthy or should i be ready to attack as soon as you open a wall

Fast-swab Fiorella: No fatigue

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll also stick sidestep on, too

sidestep, warded against swords, alerted to all hostile magic that penetrates my parma, think im good

johns (GM):

rolling 1d100

(

33

)

=

33

a giant rock fall sfeorm the sky and crushes archibald. gahaaa!!!!

Guy of Bonisagus: i will be stealthy because if they see me and shoot me with a bow i will die

Rosario of Flambeau: smart

Fast-swab Fiorella: I put shriek up when I'm out of the dominionaura

Guy of Bonisagus: guess who has 3 inhe spells and none of them are shriek

Fast-swab Fiorella: and doublet

johns (GM): You enter the ruined town.

Rosario of Flambeau: i'll put horse legs up right before we go in, but it only lasts for diam

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll give anyone who wants it Sidestep

though I cant hand out the ward against metal since I use FFM trickery with that one, its personal and diam duration and i make it sun with FFm

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: Can Fiorella hand out Doublet?

Fast-swab Fiorella: Yes

I'll doublet everyone

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll take a doublet, thats +3 soak right?

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm already wearing armor, does doublet buff that?

Archibald of Guernicus: 9 soak before form bonuses, nice

Rosario of Flambeau: there's cloth under a chain shirt

Fast-swab Fiorella: Yeah if you have a wool tabard or undergarmet it works

Rosario of Flambeau: Score.

Guy of Bonisagus: thanks for the doublet

Rosario of Flambeau: 15 soak buddy.



I gotta learn that spell.

Guy of Bonisagus: 4 soak

Fast-swab Fiorella: Kifaaya might have put doublet in the library

Mortis ex Verditus: It's possible.

johns (GM): Closing in on the villa, you spot a group of pirates lugging a cart of supplies from the front door away from the villa.

Mortis ex Verditus: Supplies eh?

What kind of supplies?

johns (GM): All wrapped up in cloth.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

How many pirates?

johns (GM): A couple barrels.

5.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: Easy.

Mortis ex Verditus: Maybe we should follow them?

Archibald of Guernicus: If can ambush them away from the camp, it's 5 less to deal with. Provided we can kill them safely.

* if we can

Rosario of Flambeau: maybe we can Split the Party

Archibald of Guernicus: also

5 dead pirates means 5 more corpses

Rosario of Flambeau: Good point.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Ooh

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm curious as to the contents of those barrels.

Archibald of Guernicus: we can split the party when we actually attack. a group can infiltrate with prying eyes/unwelcome entrance and look for guli while we launch a proper assault with corpse slaves and magical attacks

Fast-swab Fiorella: I can go peek through some windows

Archibald of Guernicus: Fiorella can work with Mortis on that part, she can spam deadly birds nonstop. Imo.

Guy can join me on the rescue mission

Fast-swab Fiorella: Ok

Rosario of Flambeau: "So unsporting. What kind of magical defenses could they have?"

Archibald of Guernicus: and maybe rosario, backup in case things go wrong is good. depends.

Fast-swab Fiorella: I can cover the Dominion penalty with my casting total for murder of crows

Archibald of Guernicus: "They have dozens of armed and dangerous pirates, Rosario. Ye dinnae need much more beyond that."

Rosario of Flambeau: I flash a daring smile.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We kill that lot alone, and we have 5 more bodies to take hits for us while we attack."

c'thinker: im back. did i miss anything

Rosario of Flambeau: "I had better put away the sword."

johns (GM): Fiorella peering into the atrium sees a bustle of activity inside. Pirates and servants are pulling packages from further in the villa and stacking them by the entrances. Food, water, bound books, gold coinage..

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ha ha ha"

Fast-swab Fiorella: Nice

Archibald of Guernicus: "Nah, keep it. We want this fight to be as one-sided as we can. We'll be dealing with the full villa after it, let's avoid injuries and fatigue now."

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's bust those barrels.

johns (GM): She spots a couple weird looking fellows dressed head to toe in black. Like Ninjas, if you knew what Ninjas were.

Archibald of Guernicus: books huh

Fast-swab Fiorella: Coin barrels

Mortis ex Verditus: Why do they have things in this villa at all?

Rosario of Flambeau: "The milites seek to use their power

justly and to fight with honor. They tend

to look down on magi who over-use their

powers against mere mundanes: they usually

regard only wizards and supernatural

creatures as worthy opponents."

Mortis ex Verditus: Where are they moving them?

Could be suspicious.

I think an ambush is our best bet at the moment.

Fast-swab Fiorella: I'll warn the party that there's some weird dudes in black tha tmight be sahir or something

Guy of Bonisagus: sahirs huh

Fast-swab Fiorella: I'll use some word like Saracen Wizard since I don't know anything about sahir but know weirdo types well enough

Guy of Bonisagus: perfect for rosario

i think rosario would know what a sahir is

seems like basic flambeau knowledge, especially for milites

Fast-swab Fiorella: Nice

Mortis ex Verditus: So where should we ambush these pirates?

Rosario of Flambeau: probably, i have ooh lore flambeau spec so i'd get it

Fast-swab Fiorella: Just to be clear, I wasn't GM whispered anythig about sahir, that was an OOC guess

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's ambush them as far from the villa as possible, we want to make sure it doesnt alert the others

and then kill the 5 pirates

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, well then! Great news, just in time, Fiorella! I was beginning to think this would be another stain on my honor. You're a blessing."

johns (GM): Okay, the pirates with the cart are moving towards the beach.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean the midpoint between here and the docks is the way to go.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yep

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, let's fight them.

Rosario of Flambeau: Now I'm ready to indiscriminately murder anyone I see.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Not tae worry about that, Rosario. This part might be an ambush, but it's all necessary tae make the real battle possible."

Fast-swab Fiorella: Well

They COULD be hashashim

Archibald of Guernicus: "That, and we have tae find and rescue Gulielmus. Our sodales life is at stake, here."

Rosario of Flambeau: well, the murder would be highly discriminatory. i spoke too soon.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We can't hold back."

Fast-swab Fiorella: But I'm guessing form teh jinn that they are sahir

johns (GM): Ok.

You're all disguised as pirates so you can have the drop on the Party of 5.

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'll save Gulielmus, don't worry."

devil's fav demon: im taking a little bit from goku with rosario with being actually retarded when it comes to fighting strong guys

Guy of Bonisagus: im retarded

i can make one of them fall asleep

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, I'll cast Unwavering Attention on the guy pulling the cart.

Guy of Bonisagus: are they all just normal roughs or does one stand out

johns (GM): Do you make gestures and a voice to cast, Mortis?

Normal roughs, Guy.

c'thinker: every member of vardians tomb is defined by their unique retardation

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

What about the rest of you, what's your plan?

Guy of Bonisagus: ok, when mortis makes the cart puller stop moving ill put the one furthest away from him to sleep

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll charge forward on my horse legs and attack one of them with my sword.

Guy of Bonisagus: whats the aura like here

johns (GM): Magic 2

Guy of Bonisagus: NICE

rolling 1d10+9

(

9

)

+9

=

18

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll run in and start killing them in personal combat, since I'm prebuffed to hell, after tossing a crystal dart at one.

Guy of Bonisagus: call to slumber goes off

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+19

(

7

)

+19

=

26

Guy of Bonisagus: thats one held still and one asleep

Fast-swab Fiorella: I can kill one with birds

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 9 + 9 + 2 + 1 + 1 -5 + 2 vs ReCo 20

(

4

)

+9+9+2+1+1-5+2

=

23

Archibald of Guernicus: So that's my opening volley, a crystal dart on a 3rd one

Rosario of Flambeau: +11 damage.

Mortis ex Verditus: Finally.

Fast-swab Fiorella: I can summon two flocks at a time

With multicast

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+28

(

6

)

+28

=

34

Mortis ex Verditus: Can you drop 5 tokens on the board so we can see 'em?

Archibald of Guernicus: Crystal dart casts

johns (GM): Guy, are you casting the RAW version of Call to Slumber with momentary duration?

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Roll dam on dart

Fast-swab Fiorella:

rolling 52+d10!-5 summon two fllocks of crows

52+

(

3

)

-5

=

50

success

johns (GM): 28

They haven't started damaging anyone yet right

Fast-swab Fiorella: Since the guys have distinctive outfits I can just have the birds swarm everything

johns (GM): the birds?

Fast-swab Fiorella: Right

They're touch range so they can be delayed

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10 dam

(

3

)

+10

=

13

johns (GM): ok

Still waiting for damage roll from archibald and clarification from beardbeard

rolling 1d10!+2 Soak

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Archibald of Guernicus: light wound, nice

Fast-swab Fiorella: The spell guideliens are a bit vague on how many people a single flock can damage at once

Archibald of Guernicus: The guy I darted I'm going to run in and start engaging in melee combat after this

Guy of Bonisagus: yes jhons

johns (GM): One is paralyzed, one falls asleep, one takes a dart in the back, one is cut down by Rosario with only time to yelp before he dies.

Fast-swab Fiorella: But the guy in Magi of Hermes is assumed to spam his scorpion spell numerous times os the result is "enough scoropions for everyone"

johns (GM): oh

but we nerfed call to slumber in combat.

Guy of Bonisagus: in combat yeah

but this is before combat

johns (GM): tsk

Guy of Bonisagus: i do it as the guy stops pulling the cart

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10 does he wake up as people die

(

8

)

=

8

he wakes up.

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

johns (GM): im the worst gm. dwi

Guy of Bonisagus: how could this have possibly happened

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): you have 3 left alive.

and mobile.

Guy of Bonisagus: hes still prone!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rosario, deal with that one, I'll handle this one."

Guy of Bonisagus: for the first round of combat

johns (GM): fine fine

Guy of Bonisagus: hes gotta get up

i helped

I HELPED

Rosario of Flambeau: True, it takes a round to stand up.

I will NOT attack him.

johns (GM): endrite is your parlyzing spell diameter duration

Rosario of Flambeau: Because it would be insanely unfair.

And instead I will attack someone else who is standing up.

Fast-swab Fiorella: I target the birds at teh two guys left alive who aren't waking up

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+17

(

7

)

+17

=

24

Archibald of Guernicus: i think 2 of them are birded too, lol

c'thinker: wait a minute, that song

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7+3 dfn

(

10

+

5

)

+7+3

=

25

Rosario of Flambeau: Holy shit.

This power!

johns (GM): the gm abuse power

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll swing my sword at the wounded guy

Mortis ex Verditus: My spell is diameter duration.

johns (GM): they block rosario's attack and strike back.

Mortis ex Verditus: Had to check.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+12+3 attk

(

10

+

10

+

2

)

+12+3

=

37

oh

Rosario of Flambeau: the guy points in the air like Sabu

lmfao.

c'thinker: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: what the fuck lol. jesus christ

johns (GM): did rosario have sidestep up

Archibald of Guernicus: he did

Rosario of Flambeau: Yes.

johns (GM): whew

Archibald of Guernicus: i gave him sidestep

johns (GM): you watch your sidestepped illusion cut into a trillion billion pieces.

Mortis ex Verditus: I feel like that spell needs an old fashioned nerf.

johns (GM): probably!

Rosario of Flambeau: There's like a million rose petals.

Archibald of Guernicus: I feel like it doesnt and stfu about that

johns (GM): anyway they're now being swarmed by birds

Rosario of Flambeau: You can give me a +9 to defense.

Archibald of Guernicus: I attack the guy with a light wound

Mortis ex Verditus: It shouldn't be better than invisibility.

Rosario of Flambeau: I guarantee I'll be fine.

Fast-swab Fiorella:

rolling 15+d10! flock 1 damage

15+

(

8

)

=

23

rolling 15+d10! flock 1 damage

15+

(

4

)

=

19

johns (GM): sidestep is always 1 free dodge no matter what and I'm okay with that

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10 attack vs guy with a light wound

(

8

)

+10

=

18

Fast-swab Fiorella: flock 2 for second, obv

johns (GM): it's after people realize there's an illusion I feel it should be a bit weaker but magi do need that 1 free life

rolling 1d10!+7 soak 1

(

7

)

+7

=

14

rolling 1d10!+6 soak 2

(

7

)

+6

=

13

Rosario of Flambeau: "That technique! It's amazing!"

johns (GM): light wound apiece

defending vs archibald

rolling 1d10!+7-1 dfn

(

3

)

+7-1

=

9

whats archibald's damage

Fast-swab Fiorella: Biiiiiiirdnado

Archibald of Guernicus: 9 advantage, damage is 8

17 - his soak

johns (GM): medium

well

I think it's safe to say you can murder these guys

Archibald of Guernicus: I think this fight is over, yeah

johns (GM): Maybe if they had a chance to fight as a group all 5 at once they could've scratched you but

Rosario of Flambeau: rosario does the black knight greatsword charged r2

on the last one

johns (GM): Add another Muslim to your kill count.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll kill the guy I'm duelling, Rosario finishes off a guy being birded. I'll step over and kill the immobilised guy. Fiorella kills one with birds.

"5 bodies, Mortis, there ye are."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well done!"

I'll raise all 5 of them.

johns (GM): I forget if your reanimated bodies keep the injury penalties

Fast-swab Fiorella: "Sic semper saracen."

"Yarrrr."

Mortis ex Verditus: It's possible.

Rosario of Flambeau: I attack one of the barrels until its HP is depleted.

johns (GM): You have 5 kind of cut up and maimed pirates at your command now.

Mortis ex Verditus: What's in the barrels?

johns (GM): Inside the barrel you find supplies for travel: salted meat, hard tack, beer

Guy of Bonisagus: "Good work everyone. The land will be much safer once every last saracen dog has been put down."

Mortis ex Verditus: Junk!

johns (GM): You find 4d20 Xanthip spears

Archibald of Guernicus: "Indeed."

Xaurip, johns

theyre called Xaurips

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh, Xaurip are fictional.

Guy of Bonisagus: whats a xanthip spear johns

johns (GM): They're Kobolds.

Mortis ex Verditus: This is the real life of Mythic Europe.

johns (GM): it is a junk item in Pillars of ETernity

Rosario of Flambeau: I eat a little meat and have a drink. Got to stay refreshed and keep your energy up in a situation like this.

Guy of Bonisagus: no no

those are xaurip spears

Archibald of Guernicus: All items in pillars of eternity are junk items

johns (GM): a xanthip spear is what a guy who barely remembers poe thinks they are called

Guy of Bonisagus: including the game disc!

c'thinker: old family recipe

johns (GM): lmfao

gahahaha!

brutal.

c'thinker: holy shit.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright let's dump out this cart and then have these undead slaves bring it back to the villa.

Then start killing people.

So we can walk in from the back.

Archibald of Guernicus: "While we assault the fortress, we should look for Gulielmus."

Rosario of Flambeau: I have a better idea.

Guy of Bonisagus: every time a saracen dies we get one more grog that endrite has to roll for

c'thinker: is gulielmus still dead

Guy of Bonisagus: this is a fantastic character for him

still?

he was never dead

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's empty out the barrels and fill them with the undead slaves, and then carry the cart in. Or vice verse.

a

Guy of Bonisagus: were going to find adult alive gulielmus in a cell and free him

johns (GM): he's in the capable hands of his sodales

c'thinker: no Saracen could hope to harm gulielmus of pure reason

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'll come in from the side. Who wants to come with me on infiltrating the inner compound? The goal is tae find and save our sodales."

Rosario of Flambeau: But I don't want to get inside of a barrel.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Of course I'll save your friend."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll come with you, Archibald."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'm not one for combat. I'll help find our friend."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella and Mortius should lead the main assault, they can cause the most mass damage."

"Rosario and I can cover Guy in a pinch."

"We fight better in close quarters."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We don't need to cover the main assault.

They will be too busy fighting their comrades and we'll be able to rescue Gulielmus and then leave. If we're all together it will be easier."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't ye need to command them?"

"I still think Fiorella should be swarming them with as many birds as possible, anyhow. Chaos will be our distraction to reach Gulielmus safely."

Fast-swab Fiorella: My birds might attack the zombies but I don't think that's a problem

Mortis ex Verditus: "No, I can just say, 'Go to the villa and kill everyone inside,'"

What's a zombie?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, that's good."

johns (GM): ty

Mortis ex Verditus: Do you mean the WALKING DEAD?!?!

Fast-swab Fiorella: I said that OOC

So here its shorthand for animated corpse

johns (GM): they're called zombies in Mythic Vinland

Mortis ex Verditus: Mythic Vinland can bite me.

Archibald of Guernicus: Zombeis from mythic vinland begin biting mortis

johns (GM) adds this to his notes for upcomign Sunset Invasion story arc

johns (GM): okay so fiorella and zombies are just going to barge in killing all they see?

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, the zombies will.

Fiorella can do as she pleases, of course.

c'thinker: mali is a canon part of the saga

johns (GM): timbuktu is real

c'thinker: but what about the congo??

Archibald of Guernicus: If she can move them around by concentrating she can sit as far away from the villa as she wants and direct them with her great distance vision

johns (GM): it could be.

Archibald of Guernicus: to slaughter the pirates en masse

Fast-swab Fiorella: I'll summong antagonistic birds in a different spot

So it'll be a while before they attack the  animated corpses

johns (GM): feel free to mark up this map

Archibald of Guernicus: Where's a place we can sneak up to the side walls without people around?

devil's fav demon: ohhh, bingo bango bongo i dont wanna leave the congo no no no no no no - criamon

Fast-swab Fiorella: I summon 10 birds every 6 seconds and implore them to attack saracen

Guy of Bonisagus: the kill notch banner but its kill saracens

Archibald of Guernicus: I'd still command them somewhat manually, since we have that MuIm effect up

to look like saracen pirates

Guy of Bonisagus: mulm

Fast-swab Fiorella: MusIim

Mortis ex Verditus: We should obviously go in through B-01.

johns (GM): test

okay connection is back up

you can sneak up anywhere archibald

Rosario of Flambeau: whew

Fast-swab Fiorella: Okay I send the group of birds at someone specific every 6 seconds

Archibald of Guernicus: anyway if we're attacking now i want to grab a drink first, brb 1 min. when we move up archibald casts Prying Eyes on any wall he approaches, then casts unwelcome entrance if its safe to. he can cast both these spells without words and they cast without fatiguing.

Fast-swab Fiorella: While circling the villa from air with Shriek up

johns (GM): im getting water

watar

i changed my mind. i got beer

Rosario of Flambeau: :O

devil's fav demon: kind of want some beer. i'll probably go to the store after the game.

johns (GM): In B-01 you see a long elegant hallway lined with silk tapestries and such. No one inside

Mortis ex Verditus: Looks good.

johns (GM): is there no limit to the amount of birds you can have, shaun

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's go inside.

Guy of Bonisagus: glad were poutting that genie to good use

johns (GM): It's a bit smokey though

Rosario of Flambeau: The genie can't leave the wter.

Archibald of Guernicus: the genie cant leave the sea

Rosario of Flambeau: wooder.

Guy of Bonisagus: i know

Archibald of Guernicus: we'll have him destroy their beach camp

but for now, gulielmus is more important

As we move up, I'll check every room with prying eyes first

Let's search all the B rooms for guli before moving up

johns (GM): Okay.

Pick north (B-02) or South (B-10) first

Archibald of Guernicus: also mortis is with us, I believe

rolling 1d2 north/south

(

1

)

=

1

north

johns (GM):

rolling 5d10 botch check

(

4

+

7

+

3

+

5

+

7

)

=

26

You botch.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Owned.

johns (GM): The hallway of B-01 is thick with strong incense smells, unfamiliar to you.

You move into B-02.

It is a kitchen. Many shelves are empty, a few of their contents left scattered on the ground. A stew bubbles on the stove.

You feel very hungry.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Fast-swab Fiorella: Remove kebab, by taking it form the spit and putting it in your stomach

Rosario of Flambeau: Should have had a quick bite of dried meat and sip of beer earlier, like me.

(To Shauncat): Let me know when BIRD ASSAULT begins.

Archibald of Guernicus: I doubt theyd poison their own food, but we'll check all the surrounding rooms first before engaging in gluttony

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): I'll start now that everyone's in

Archibald of Guernicus: so 4, 5 and 6, then 7 8 9

(To Shauncat): Do the birds react like normal birds would to regular bird impulses?

Archibald of Guernicus: lack of doors never matter as we can make our own

johns (GM): You find pantries of various ingredients, a servant's quarters, a toilet, and so on, but nothing interesting

Archibald of Guernicus: prying eyes to check any room before moving in, ofc

Mortis ex Verditus: Right.

We don't want to take too long here.

johns (GM): From afar you hear the squawking of many birds.

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): Yes, they follow commands but also have normal instincts

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait a minute.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's check the lower tower, if it's empty we move in."

Mortis ex Verditus: We should check the basement.

(To Shauncat): Where are you observing the scene from?

Mortis ex Verditus: These aren't towers, they're just rooms.

johns (GM): There is no basement here, I assure you.

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): Circling the villa

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, there's a basement, lets head

oh

Guy of Bonisagus: thats bullshit i see stairs

fuck you johns

Mortis ex Verditus: Then what are the stairs for???

Archibald of Guernicus: same

johns (GM): what stairs

Guy of Bonisagus: sorry i didnt mean to be so mean

Archibald of Guernicus: above V-06

johns (GM): Are you IN V-06?

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): Once I have a proper panic going I'll stop summoning, in case i need to command them manually.

c'thinker: what's the hole

Rosario of Flambeau: :ohh:

johns (GM): It's a compost pile, cthinker.

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Archibald of Guernicus: no, i thought endrite meant 'lets move over to the bit with the stairs'

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a well.

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus lounging on the compost pile, waiting for rescue

johns (GM): Yeah, it's a well.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well fine, let's check B-10.

c'thinker: in the room with the magus tokens, i mean.

(To Shauncat): Okay -- you do indeed get a panic going -- and then your birds start panicking themselves as a large white cat bounds out of room V-29 and begins hissing fire at them.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's check B10 and its nearby rooms very quickly, then head out to the villa

johns (GM): You cross the hallway of B-01.

It is still smoky and rich with incense.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, this is bothering me."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Offensive to my nostrils on principle, but devilishly tempting."

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast Chamber of Spring Breezes

johns (GM): You enter B-10 and find a large room bedecked in pillows, but nary a soul in sight.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+10

(

5

)

+10

=

15

adjust that for aura

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): I'll go find a tree to perch on out of sight when I see the cat

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's try V-32 next.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh oops that should be +8 forgot my wound

c'thinker: nice room.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, let's move up to the main villa

Rosario of Flambeau: Good idea.

johns (GM): There is a thick curtain between B-01 and V-29.

Dare you to open it?

Archibald of Guernicus: we dont need to obey doors, we can cheat and move into v32 from v29

Fast-swab Fiorella: Archibald, without knowing the context, would you give Fiorella an AC under the pretense that it would allow her to send you messages?

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's do it.

I'll open it.

Archibald of Guernicus: My parma is likely too high that you wouldnt be able to, so probably not

johns (GM): Rosario opens the curtain.

You immediately find yourself looking at 3 monstrous humanoids!

Fast-swab Fiorella: I don't need to penetrate

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh my god

Mortis ex Verditus: Great job Rosario!

Archibald of Guernicus: its a mirror

johns (GM): Rosario of Flambeau Initiative: 32

Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 96

Rosario of Flambeau: "Jesus Christ be praised!"

johns (GM): Guy of Bonisagus Initiative: 65

c'thinker: I must penetrate.

Archibald of Guernicus: is Mortis with us on this quest

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

johns (GM): Beast Initiative: 43

Guy of Bonisagus: see the white space between b-10 and v-32 for full size art of the monstrous humanoids

Fast-swab Fiorella: I need the AC to send a summoned messenger pigeon to you

johns (GM): Archibald you may act

Fast-swab Fiorella: It won't be relevant until after this is resovled anyway

Archibald of Guernicus: I have sidestep up and doublet, I'll open with a crystal dart

rolling 1d10!+28 before aura

(

3

)

+28

=

31

level 10 so well

a lot of penetration

johns (GM): Roll damage

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

3

)

+10

=

13

johns (GM): Guy of Bonisagus?

Beast rolls some dice

Mortis ex Verditus: Mortis ex Verditus Initiative: 24

Beast: Ah, Endrite is here too.

Make that 4 beast, for balance sake.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah sheesh!

FORTUNATELY FOR YOU I am last.

Archibald of Guernicus: sotp

Fast-swab Fiorella: I don't know that Archibald is fighting anyway, so I send summoned a messenger pigeon informing them that they have a large predatory cat loose in the villa

Guy of Bonisagus: i do not have anything i can do to help

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+26 greatsword attack on beast, spending 1 fatigue.

(

8

)

+26

=

34

Fast-swab Fiorella: If the pigeon shows up and gets eaten by teh beast, that's how it goes

Guy of Bonisagus: i could use airs ghostly form but i feel like that would hurt us more than the dogmen

Mortis ex Verditus: That's just how game chasin' go.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 34-19+11

34-19+11

=

26

26 damage

Fast-swab Fiorella: Either that or the spell just fizzles off of Archibald's Animal mR

Beast:

rolling 1d10!+11 defense

(

8

)

+11

=

19

Mortis?

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast Wizard's Brief Sidestep.

Beast: Cheers.

Also all of you casting notice the aura feels strongly magical.

Fast-swab Fiorella: That's a good spell

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 9 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 1 -5 + 2

(

9

)

+9+5+2+1+1-5+2

=

24

Fast-swab Fiorella: I should learn that

Mortis ex Verditus: It's good stuff.

Beast: Anyway, a crystal dart and Rosario's sword slam into the beasts. One of the beasts likewise casts a missile at you and expertly swings a giant blade at Rosario.

Mortis ex Verditus: What kind of missile?

SCUD?

Beast: The air between you two cracks and shatters, and then the beasts disappear. All that is left is a thick oak door with shards of glittering metal on it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh it really is a mirror

Rosario of Flambeau: "What the hell?"

Mortis ex Verditus: We did it.

Archibald of Guernicus: I was joking

Beast: You feel a bit dizzy.

Mortis ex Verditus: Great work Rosario.

We broke the magic mirror.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A mirror. Some Saracen trick."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Good that we've destroyed it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's get into a side room before we run into another."

hmm

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, take the Flambeau and expect him to not attack and destroy as much as possible.

Smart.

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Feel free to consider how Archibald would react under the influence of Hashish.

(To Rosario of Flambeau): Feel free to consider how Rosario would react under the influence of Hashish.

(To Guy of Bonisagus): Feel free to consider how Guy would react under the influence of Hashish.

(To Mortis ex Verditus): Feel free to consider how Mortis would react under the influence of Hashish.

(From Mortis ex Verditus): I will.

johns (GM): Well, the mirror is quite broken now, and the door remains.

Where to next?

Mortis ex Verditus: "Alright men, to V-32!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll just move up without a word and cast prying eyes again, and then cast unwelcome entrance to get us into v32

johns (GM): You are not in V-29 yet.

Archibald of Guernicus: actually, we could just

step outside the villa to do that

Mortis ex Verditus: "Excellent suggestion, my man."

Rosario of Flambeau: Now you're thinking with portals.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll move up to v32 through this route

johns (GM): Ok.

No one inside V-32. As you get closer you hear the sounds of fighting and birds dying in the Atrium.

V-32 looks like a Philosopher's lab -- Alchemical supplies abound, many jars and bottles

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll follow closely, head darting over my shoulders to keep track of where I am.

follow Archibald, I mean.

"Should I leave a trail of crumbs? This place is a labyrinth!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I've not said a word in a while, I just walk around repeating prying eyes followed by unwelcome entrance. Moving to v33, then v35, then v-02

Mortis ex Verditus: "Great work, Archibald."

Archibald of Guernicus: then we can head into v-01 and approach the basement steps in v-06

johns (GM): Empty, empty, full of cots that are unused.

Rosario of Flambeau: I hear the sounds of fighting and perk up.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Heh."

Mortis ex Verditus: Any extra corpses around?

johns (GM): V-01 is an open space, the villa porch.

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): I could try casting a spell on the cat but I'll need to figure out what I can spont, but I could manage something along the ReAn lines

johns (GM): From here you can clearly see the fighting in the Atrium. Fiorella's birdswarms are being countered by a large, fire breathing white cat, and two figures dressed all in black who seem to be teleporting around.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus would have loved this (teleportation)

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, let's steer clear of all that.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, lets leave the fighting to the artillery

Rosario of Flambeau: "Are you sure? It looks so fun!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Stairs" I grunt, after inspecting the wall at v-06

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'd love to get over there."

Rosario just kind of stares at the fighting for a while.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Naahhh. Bad idea."

Guy of Bonisagus: "He's probably in the basement."

Rosario of Flambeau: and spaces out

Mortis ex Verditus: "Who's stopping you?"

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): I can easily mange Panic of the Elephant's Mouse, not accounting for aura bonus

Archibald of Guernicus: "S'bad idea."

(To Shauncat): try it and tell me the Pen. Aura is Magic 4

Rosario of Flambeau: "Mmm... Alright. Alright."

Damn my deference to authority.

Mortis ex Verditus: Where's Tanolfi's token?

johns (GM): The zombies?

I was not sure when they barged in.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, that's fine.

Anyway, what's over here in V-06.

johns (GM): I guess dead pirates and tanolfi are fighting the living pirates in the Atrium

In what is a really amazing fight scene that thankfully is not being rolled out

There's nothing in V-06! and in the basement is a cave.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm sure it's sensational.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Archibald of Guernicus: I can see in the dark, what's in the cave?

johns (GM): it slopes down a bit and leads into some ancient temple to a forgotten god.

it feels magical.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Archibald of Guernicus: Wowie

Mortis ex Verditus: But this isn't Gulielmus!

johns (GM): Nope!

Archibald of Guernicus: No sign of the bad boy here?

Guy of Bonisagus: time to find gulielmus sleeping on a slab in front of some sort of altar to this god

johns (GM): The cave continues Northwest up to V24

Fast-swab Fiorella:

(To GM) rolling ((28+d10!+4)/2)-15+2

((28+

(

5

)

+4)/2)-15+2

=

5.5

johns (GM): No sign of Gulielmus or Hakim here.

Guy of Bonisagus: whos hakim

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): 5 Pen

johns (GM): the pirate.

pirate king

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's use this as a chance to examine the other side

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Archibald of Guernicus: good cave

(To Shauncat): No effect

Guy of Bonisagus: fast travel point located

(From Fast-swab Fiorella): I'll fly away and recover fatigue

Archibald of Guernicus: I feel like guli is probably in v-14 but we shold check the other rooms just in case

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

johns (GM): Continuing to just move through the walls and ignore the Atrium?'

Mortis ex Verditus: Yep.

Archibald of Guernicus: lets check 25, 26 and 27, since we can get to them safely, then head back and go for 23, 21, etc until we hit the east side

johns (GM): and you've skipped V-29 entirely

Rosario of Flambeau: "I wonder if that cat can breathe anything other than fire."

johns (GM): were you going to come back to it at some point

Archibald of Guernicus: oh, i cast prying eyes on it

whats in it

johns (GM): Ah.

Well, now that you mention it, there's people and stuff in there

A couple of the guys dressed in all black, a very well dressed Saracen, lots of magic circles inscribed everywhere, and a brazier blazing with smokeless fire.

No gulielmus.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sheesh!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Found Hakim. No gulielmus."

"Best avoid it. Gotta find him."

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm sure he's in V-14."

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod

Mortis ex Verditus: 'No doubt in my mind."

johns (GM): I shall cut to the chase

V-14 has a nicely stocked Library, but no Gulielmus

In fact, there is No Gulielmus in this Villa.

Rosario of Flambeau: What the fuck?

Guy of Bonisagus: library huh

Rosario of Flambeau: He must have just gone home.

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds like loot

johns (GM): It sure is, Guy.

Guy of Bonisagus: wasnt his cloak being waved as a flag on top of this villa

Archibald of Guernicus: they have his cloak, hmmm

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's go get his coak.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets go grab it and inexorable search him

Rosario of Flambeau: yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: What if

Ohhhh I have an idea

Guy of Bonisagus: hopefully it was his favorite

Archibald of Guernicus: Fiorella you have an AC-range teleport, right?

Guy of Bonisagus: what if he was trapped in the mirror

Mortis ex Verditus: It may of been.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Yes

Archibald of Guernicus: Use that on his cloak

johns (GM): Does that work if it's an AC to a person and not a place?

Archibald of Guernicus: to reach him

idk

maybe?

Fast-swab Fiorella: The Flight of Homecoming

Rego Animal 35

R: Per, D: Mom, T: Indl

Works as the spell Leap of Homecoming, but the caster must be a bird.

(Base 35)

johns (GM): Level 35: Transport the target instantly to a  place  to which you have an

Arcane Connection.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Good point

Archibald of Guernicus: true

Guy of Bonisagus: place: gulielmus's heart

Archibald of Guernicus: a bird enters his heart and he dies instantly

Fast-swab Fiorella: I could send Gulielmus a message

Mortis ex Verditus: It can't be helped.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, if there's no sign of Guli, it's pretty tricky. There's a load of dead pirates at least now?

johns (GM): yup

Archibald of Guernicus: Raise them all up and launch them at Hakim, then we burst in from the side and kill him

johns (GM): Using superior magic, you have neutralized everyone except the Magic Cat and Hakim's Fadayeen

Fast-swab Fiorella: InSe him and i can sent AC gatherers over there

Rosario of Flambeau: "If we can't find Gulielmus we should at least slaughter every magical beast and human around."

Mortis ex Verditus: So how many corpses does that make?

johns (GM): 10

Mortis ex Verditus: Pretty good.

johns (GM): + the 5 you ambushed

+ tanolfi so 16 total

can you control that many at once?

Fast-swab Fiorella: If they're Sun duration I don't think there's a limit

As long as you're not giving them direct orders at every round

johns (GM): kk

Archibald of Guernicus: "We need tae take out that damn cat. Fiorella can swarm it with birds, while we deal with those strange figures in black."

johns (GM) wishes boyrep were here to nerf mercilesly

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then we jump the bastard."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Shouldn't we be looking for Gulielmus?"

Fast-swab Fiorella: Okay about the only thing I can do to the cat is spam birds at it

Archibald of Guernicus: "We've searched every room in the place. He isnae here."

Fast-swab Fiorella: I already tried sponting a ReAn on it

johns (GM): The issue Fiorella is running into is that her birds are naturally afraid of cats.

Fast-swab Fiorella: It's got too much might for that

Archibald of Guernicus: ah

Rosario of Flambeau: "Any of those books in Latin?"

johns (GM): Some!

Rosario of Flambeau: "We might be able to... Negotiate... With Hakim."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well, then shouldn't we look somewhere else?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "If Hakim speaks latin, we can interrogate him. Take him alive. We want Gulielmus back, above all."

"We have no idea where he might be. Hakim knows."

"Getting him tae talk is our best bet."

Mortis ex Verditus: "How many more places can there even be on this island? They probably just took him to one of their ships."

johns (GM): The weed effect begins to wear off.

You feel more level headed.

Archibald of Guernicus: "There might be things we don't know about."

Guy of Bonisagus: "If he speaks French, Latin, English, Italian or Low German I can try to speak with him."

Archibald of Guernicus: "And, further, we came here tae kill Hakim."

"This is what we came here for originally, and it's our best way of finding Gulielmus."

Mortis ex Verditus: "What if he speaks none of those languages?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Then I can't."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He likely knows latin."

"Based on his library."

"It'd be stupid tae not know latin when learning magic, even an arabic tradition understands the best texts are written in it."

Fast-swab Fiorella: Do they have an Ars Notoria

(To Shauncat): One thing you are noticing is that the cat seems not to be running out of might even as it takes injuries and casts effects.

Mortis ex Verditus: "I think I can beat that firebreathing cat as long as Rosario keeps it busy."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have 16 raised corpses fighting with us, the 5 of us in addition. They have 4 of those strange men, Hakim himself, and his pet."

Fast-swab Fiorella: "My crows might not be able to kill it, but they can bait it."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I like your thinking, Mortis."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I can try negotiating with the cat."

Fast-swab Fiorella: "It seems to be undaunted by its injuries, however."

"Let's hear Guy out."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Just stay safe, you two. I'll try and deal with his goons while we fight this out."

"Guy, you'd be putting yourself in a lot of danger."

Fast-swab Fiorella: I could spont a Ward Against the Beasts of Legend

Guy of Bonisagus: "Negotiate from behind a wall of saracen flesh."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fair enough."

"We'll be close by."

Fast-swab Fiorella: I can manage a levle 15

Archibald of Guernicus: In fact, we should sneak around and ambush Hakim."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Mortis, please tell them not to kill me."

Fast-swab Fiorella: Not including aura since the beast gets peentration from the aura

Mortis ex Verditus: "Why should I?"

"You aren't even a cat.

"

Rosario of Flambeau: How big are these doors?

would a Size +3 person fit through them.

johns (GM): The ones east of B-01?

Big double doors, yes

Rosario of Flambeau: The ones west of where my token is

Guy of Bonisagus: "No, but I can speak with cats."

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

johns (GM): west of your token?

it's a regular door

Rosario of Flambeau: Left.

johns (GM): so, tricky

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay.

I'll wait until we get into the atrium.

can you recast to refresh sidestep if you already spent the free hit

johns (GM): yes

Rosario of Flambeau: ok ill do that

Mortis ex Verditus: Presumably the free hit is per fight.

johns (GM): Are you negotiating or storming Hakim's lair?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: that makes sense.

Mortis ex Verditus: Or, even better, never.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think it's not worth storming the lair if we're doing this, since I'd be storming it alone

So we'll see how Guy does

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, I would storm it with you but I don't want Guy to get killed.

johns (GM): its a pretty impressive undead army you've got

Fast-swab Fiorella: I might be able to penetrate with a lesser spont

johns (GM): Is this positioning correct?

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh I know. Fiorella, can you command your birds to peck at Hakim, if things go bad? As in, so we can get an AC to him from his blood

Fast-swab Fiorella: Like plant a suggestion to "Hear Guy out"

Guy of Bonisagus: that is incorrect

i want the zombies between us

Fast-swab Fiorella: Oh

I'll do Archibald's plan

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hello, magical cat."

johns (GM): The cat regards you quizzically.

Guy of Bonisagus: "We seek negotiations with your master."

Fast-swab Fiorella: I can do Disguise of the Putrid Aroma but the suggestion is that Guy is not food

Cat cocks its head, then moseys through a little arabic style cat door into V-29.

Fast-swab Fiorella: That'd be about 10 pen, meh

GJ Guy

Archibald of Guernicus: guy has animal ken, so it at least understands him

Cat: A minute passes..

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast Wizard's Brief Sidestep again.

Fast-swab Fiorella: I'll start conjuring birds since the cat is gone

Cat: are they attacking or is this prep

Fast-swab Fiorella: Prep

Cat: k

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 4 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 1 -5 + 2

(

6

)

+4+5+2+1+1-5+2

=

16

Versus 5.

Cat: A voice in French calls out from V-29: "Entrez vous!"

Fast-swab Fiorella: Freaking normies

Guy of Bonisagus: I cautiously step up and monitor the sahir(?)'s reactions.

Mortis ex Verditus: What's in V-14 again?

Cat: They open the door for you, then disappear in a puff of smoke.

Library Mortis

Rosario of Flambeau: "Are we going with him?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I don't know if they'll let us."

Guy of Bonisagus: I respond in French, "If you'll allow it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should stay close, in case anything goes wrong."

johns (GM): Dare ye enter, Guy?

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'll tell you, I'm not the one controlling the birds or your men or anything like that. Killing me won't do anything."

can i see hakim from here

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Are you of the Order of Hermes?"

devil's fav demon: don't mention the flambeau

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Nope, all you see inside is the brazier burning with smokeless flame

c'thinker: salve

Guy of Bonisagus: i want to try folk ken to get info

oh dear

with my wounds its just a flat roll

Mortis ex Verditus: Oops.

Rosario of Flambeau: brb 1 second.

(From Rosario of Flambeau): AFK

Guy of Bonisagus: ok johns, please secretly roll my 1d10 and tell me if it gives me anything

i doubt it since all i can do is hear him

Sahir Hakim Kemal:

(To GM) rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Unsure at the moment what you're hoping to detect. He genuinely wants to know if you're of the Order.

Guy of Bonisagus: his mood i guess

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Frustrated but Diplomatic

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Then on our honor as gentlemen we may parlay without suspicion."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Thank you."

I'll go in.

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Ok.

You see no one inside-- no ninjas, no cat. But there's a circular window on the north wall through which you see the face of Kemal.

Guy of Bonisagus: who?

c'thinker: cumal

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

his surname

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Well, a guy who looks more important than anyone else you've met so far, at least.

On the floor by the brazier you see a ring of the Custos of Cyprian.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Bonjour."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Parlez-vous Latin?"

"Ou Arabique?"

Guy of Bonisagus: In Latin, "Of course."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Ave."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ave."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Gulielmus is my prisoner."

"You've forced me from Ponza but I still hold your man hostage."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I know, we would like him returned safely."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "It is custom to expect a ransom to return a prisoner."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Did you have something in mind?"

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "I had not imagined the day this would come to pass but I have thought about it in the past few minutes..."

Guy of Bonisagus: are sahirs still banned from the order

(From Rosario of Flambeau): Back

Guy of Bonisagus: or did that go away with flambeaus death

Sahir Hakim Kemal: nah there's ex misc sahirs

Archibald of Guernicus: There are sahirs in Criamon, iirc

Fast-swab Fiorella: Ther eare some in Ex Misc

Archibald of Guernicus: and ex misc

c'thinker: there is an entire covenant of them in this tribunal.

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "The lands of the Levant belong to the Sultan and the Magi of Solomon."

Guy of Bonisagus: thats what i thought

Fast-swab Fiorella: As long as they have the Gift they can join

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "We have driven your Firenj soldiers and nobles from our lands but your Hermetic wizards still lurk in our lands."

"Once the Order of Hermes has withdraw from the Levant, you will have your Gulielmus back."

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm. This might be tricky to negotiate.

Guy of Bonisagus: does levant mean the turkey-egypt area still

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds like a deal.

Guy of Bonisagus: or is it different in current times

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Everything south of Turkey

Fast-swab Fiorella: It's a Tribunal

c'thinker: :blessed:

Sahir Hakim Kemal: modern day Lebanon/Israel

The Sultanate does not control the area that Sansarron is in btw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate_(Cairo)#/media/File:Mamluk_Sultanate_of_Cairo_1317_AD.jpg

Fast-swab Fiorella: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/arsmagica/images/3/3d/Tribunalmap2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080627185800&path-prefix=en

Sahir Hakim Kemal: yeah shaun's right

although the Levant sourcebook is 4e and obviously out of date since it's from a time when crusaders till ruled the land

Mortis ex Verditus: Is this a map for ants?

Fast-swab Fiorella: Crescent & The Cradle is 5e I think

Sahir Hakim Kemal: it is, i'll scour it

Guy of Bonisagus: "You ask a great deal. While we are in the same Order I think it might be difficult to get them to abandon their homes and labs."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: (I the GM was also caught off guard by this development)

Guy of Bonisagus: "Can we not compromise?"

Fast-swab Fiorella: C&TC has better Sahir info than Ex Misc

Guy of Bonisagus: "Find a way to live in peace?"

Fast-swab Fiorella: There's also the fact that we don't even rule our own tribunal, much less tell the Levant Tribunal what to do

devil's fav demon: time to report this to the primus and call the other milites in

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "I have heard that your Order of Hermes thinks itself the greatest magic in the world and the superior of all others."

Fast-swab Fiorella: Also that Gulielmus is a valued friend, not a noble

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "For centuries, your kind has persecuted ours."

Guy of Bonisagus: "There are those of such a mind, yes."

c'thinker: i'm going to smoke hashish with my new friend hakim kemal while you die of plague

Archibald of Guernicus: I think it's worth informing him that we dont have any way of ever carrying this out, and that if he's going to put forward an impossible request, we'll just, well, kill him.

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "By the will of Allah the Order of Suleiman has opposed you and driven the Franks from our lands."

Mortis ex Verditus: We'll get 'em next time for sure.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Kebab Removal stuck at 99% yet again!

Guy of Bonisagus: "Your Order seems far more, well, orderly than ours. We often have trouble getting magi sharing a roof to agree on things."

"What you ask is, unfortunately, beyond any power that any Magus of Hermes holds."

c'thinker: Actually we are very weak. - wise diplomat

Sahir Hakim Kemal: In 1220 there are approximately 5,000

members of the Suhhar living in the lands

of the Mythic Middle East PEPE

Guy of Bonisagus: "I am willing to help end the blood feud between us, however."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: tHAT'S a lot of Rival MAgicians!

Is Guy being honest?

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'm certain your wisdom understands how much better it would be if we worked as friends."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: If he's lying, prepare to be Folk Kenned.

Guy of Bonisagus: he is

he doesnt like saracens and doesnt mind if they die, as he is a pious christian, but he wont seek out their deaths when they havent wronged him

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Who is your leader, Hermetic?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Of our covenant? Well..."

c'thinker: *Hermestard

Guy of Bonisagus: "For this expedition, you can find him in the cell or room you've placed him in."

"For our covenant, a tall Scottish man named Archibald."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Of your Order, Firenj."

Guy of Bonisagus: the order doesnt have an actual leader does it

Rosario of Flambeau: It does.

Fast-swab Fiorella: Severin is the closest thing we have ot a figurehead

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, the Tribunal does.

Sahir Hakim Kemal: It does-- Venzi Quercus of Tremere.

Guy of Bonisagus: no!

Mortis ex Verditus: Makes you think.

Guy of Bonisagus: if i say quercus hell blow my head off

Rosario of Flambeau: I fully support blaming Severin for everything.

Archibald of Guernicus: we have no leader whatsoever, we have 12 houses with their own leaders

so at best, there are 12

Guy of Bonisagus: "The Order does not have a leader."

Sahir Hakim Kemal laughs to himself

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "To be expected!"

"Who is the most superior you know of?"

Fast-swab Fiorella: Aristocritus

He was too superior to live

Guy of Bonisagus: "That I know of? Hm..."

which house is the strongest right now

probably tremere

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Tremere

Guy of Bonisagus: is venzi the actual tremere leader right now

c'thinker: yes

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Yup

Fast-swab Fiorella: Seems like the democratic Order is clearly inferior to Caliphate leadership

Guy of Bonisagus: "Probably the head of House Tremere. Quercus I believe his name is."

"Though their house is also one if ill repute among non-members."

c'thinker: i'm partying in the magic realm right now.

Fast-swab Fiorella: What about the Bonisagus Primus?

Guy of Bonisagus: bonisagus is a really weak house

c'thinker: once again gulielmus aint dead. im smoking a fat ass hashish blunt right now

Sahir Hakim Kemal: * a basket in the back room of a Cairo shopp

Fast-swab Fiorella: Weak but well liked

Guy of Bonisagus: yes but they dont hold any power

Fast-swab Fiorella: They have the power to apprenticecuck you

c'thinker: the trianomae hold ultimate power

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Is it no wonder if I have plied my trade so easily and so close to the Firenj when they are so disunited?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, no, it isn't."

Fast-swab Fiorella: He has a point

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Send your speaker to negotiate with the Majlis al-Sulayman in the court of As-Salih Imad ad-Din Abu'l Fida Isma'il."

"We shall uphold our honor and treat our captive with respect."

Mortis ex Verditus: I feel like this adventure is getting away from us.

Sahir Hakim Kemal: well, you got ponza

c'thinker: wildcard

Fast-swab Fiorella: We lost a PC but took over a large island chain

Sahir Hakim Kemal: The Sahir looks aside for a moment, then back at you. "And Firenj. For your sake, do not disturb the brazier."

Fast-swab Fiorella: Pretty good trade

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's steal his cat.

Mortis ex Verditus: Not that large.

Ponza is only like 4 miles long.

Archibald of Guernicus: Still a good haul

4 miles we didnt have

c'thinker: how many miles of island do the other covenants in italy own

Guy of Bonisagus: "I don't think Quercus of Tremere is likely to listen to anything I have to say. Maybe if you took a member of his house."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: You get an island, a library, various magical resources

And in THEORY you haven't even lost gulielmus.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah guli is an ex misc

Fast-swab Fiorella: Gulielmus is going to lose some seasons at least

Guy of Bonisagus: "If you are open to negotiations, though, I will seek the leader of the Levant tribunal."

Archibald of Guernicus: you could point out that gulielmus is a member of the same house that admits sahirs

c'thinker: hes going to get exposure xp in the language of the muslims, Greek

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "If you must travel to our realm, say you do so in the name of Sahir Hakim Kemal."

(To Guy of Bonisagus): Anything else?

Guy of Bonisagus: I think for a bit.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait, why don't we just interdict all their ships with our new genie?

Sahir Hakim Kemal: hell I figured you would've already

they're a bit short on crew since you've slain half of them anyway

c'thinker: the tree babe will come to rescue me.

Archibald of Guernicus: we dont know where guli exactly is one problem

you should probably point out that letting him juts

leave, at all

Rosario of Flambeau: The fuckers used rope trick.

Archibald of Guernicus: is something he has to negotiate for

c'thinker: i'm sure of it.

Guy of Bonisagus: hes already left

Mortis ex Verditus: Well yeah but you can just have the genie grab each ship and then search it.

Guy of Bonisagus: he teleported back home and is talking to us through a magic window

Archibald of Guernicus: oh

Sahir Hakim Kemal: He's gone. He's talking to you through a Solomonic Portal.

c'thinker: throw a rock through the portal

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Archibald of Guernicus: oh.....

Rosario of Flambeau: why cant we knock over the brazier.

c'thinker: dive bodily through the portal

Archibald of Guernicus: i guess thats where he shoved gulielmus

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Well, you can, and see what happens.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll cast my spell to examine any and all active magical effects at touch range, with full details on them, on the brazier

what do i find

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Archibald is going into the room?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Alright. Know that it will take some time for me to do all this, though. Do you have any feelings for Sahirs that aren't of your Order?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Well I assume this is after Guy comes out

ill wait until hes done

Sahir Hakim Kemal: "Allah blesses all who serve him."

"You are not too late to embrace the will of Allah, firenj."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I hold faith in the Lord, Sahir. But I don't see the need for us to live as true enemies."

"I'll take my leave now. Please treat our friend with kindness, his house allows many Sahirs without prejudice."

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Hakim says something very poignant relevant to Islamic theology that the GM cannot currently find the words for.

Then he dismisses his spell, and the window returns to empty wall.

Mortis ex Verditus: THANKFULLY, it is in Arabic.

Guy of Bonisagus: I return to my sodales.

c'thinker: whew!

Sahir Hakim Kemal: Well.

Ponza is yours!

Archibald of Guernicus: All in all, a 100% successful trip

Guy of Bonisagus: "The Sahir had already left, he and Gulielmus are in the Levant."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: . o O ( My quick thinking and decisive action have saved the day. )

Archibald of Guernicus: "The Levant?!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Yes."

Fast-swab Fiorella: We should probably help a new convenant get a foothold here if we can't have a chapter house in Rome

Rosario of Flambeau: "What an adventure."

Archibald of Guernicus: "They have magic on par with mercurian portals? Bloody hell."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: just lie about occupying ponza

Fast-swab Fiorella: We could do that

Well we can have labs

Archibald of Guernicus: "Is he safe? Is he alright?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye, he spoke with me through a strange portal. Oh, and he said for our sake we should not do anything to the brazier in his room."

Fast-swab Fiorella: Just not sanctums

Guy of Bonisagus: "He's safe, but the Sahir refused to release him unless we drive the magi in the Levant tribunal out."

Archibald of Guernicus: "What a ridiculous notion. As if we would, even if we could."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well, Gulielmus' sacrifice will not be forgotten."

Guy of Bonisagus: "He seemed alright with doing further negotiations, however."

Fast-swab Fiorella: "Why would they keep Gulielmus in comfort when he's clearly not a high value hostage?"

"Seems like the Rusticani makes fast friends."

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll check out all the books in my new library.

Guy of Bonisagus: "For that, though, I'll need to head to the Levant."

Archibald of Guernicus: I think on it a little "If we captured a sahir, we could propose a trade."

Fast-swab Fiorella: I also inspect the library

Guy of Bonisagus: "Is there not a covenant with many sahirs in our tribunal? Maybe they'll be willing to help us."

"Or at least give advice."

Fast-swab Fiorella: I assume it'll be posted in the thread but I'll do tha tICly just for posterity

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sansarron? We were going to make an expedition there soon."

"Venator arranged it, before he left us."

johns (GM): indeed.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I inspect the basket.

johns (GM): im doing a write-up right now.

10 adventure XP all.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Excellent. In the meantime, we should try to avoid doing anything to cause more problems between us and the saracens."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I need to speak with them about a grave matter, but we should discuss what can be done to rescue Gulielmus while we go there."

Woo

Mortis ex Verditus: Congratulations!

Guy of Bonisagus: nice xp

Rosario of Flambeau: whoa

thats a lotta xp!

Guy of Bonisagus: and all it cost us was a grog

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus sacrificed himself for your +1 adventure xp

johns (GM): Anyway gulielmus eventually comes to perpetually clasped in irons and gets to enjoy the hospitality of his educated sahir captors

Fiorella the Raven: I'll fix the token since we're wrapping up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :assad:

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright let's go rescue him.

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod "Yes, they have our friend, we should not take them lightly, nor stir their wrath."

Mortis ex Verditus: First, we have to build a glass whale.

Guy of Bonisagus: is it really a sacrifice if you get to learn from a different order of magi

Fiorella the Raven: See if you can learn sahir theory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that would be sick.

Fiorella the Raven: And use it for breakthorughs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: isn't it basically impossible for a hermetic magus

Guy of Bonisagus: so, going to sansarron for next adventure i guess

Fiorella the Raven: We're having a companion adventure next week i think

Guy of Bonisagus: ah

well the sansarron thing should be done sooner rather than later for our sodales sake

Fiorella the Raven: It takes place while the magi are at Ponza

Guy of Bonisagus: the levant thing i can do on my own, maybe take a couple grogs

so no one has to lose a lot of labwork time

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, first we need to investigate Troy, then we can rescue Gulielmus.

Fiorella the Raven: I can also sacrifice lab time to visit the Levant

I have cousins abroad anyway

Guy of Bonisagus: going to the levant and doing all this seems like itd probably take like

Mortis ex Verditus: What if you are also captured by Sahirs?

Guy of Bonisagus: 2 seasons

johns (GM): Perhaps this is the event that reconciles the Order of Hermes and the Order of Suleiman against their common foe: The Order of Odin.

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario wants to go with you in case he gets to murder any more sahirs.

any, rather

Guy of Bonisagus: their common foe: house tremere

Mortis ex Verditus: The common foe of all magi: House Mercere.

Guy of Bonisagus: i think a diplomatic mission with sahirs might be compromised by a flamebaus presence

Fiorella the Raven: Tremere have an OoO chapter

Guy of Bonisagus: OoO whats this

Archibald of Guernicus: OoO

Fiorella the Raven: OoO

Mortis ex Verditus: Order of Odin.

Guy of Bonisagus: thank you endrite

Rosario of Flambeau: ( . _.) OoO(cum)

Archibald of Guernicus: With Gulielmus gone, Fiorella - who has been with us for less than 7 years, iirc - is our 3rd most senior magus.

Guy of Bonisagus: johns out of curiosity was there a chance to get gulielmus back

if we stormed the sahirs room

i feel like he probably already had an escape planneed

and/or gulielmus was already gone

johns (GM): i ran the interrogation with gulielmus in steamchat

he stuffed gulielmus through a portal the moment has was aware that order of hermes would come looking for him

Archibald of Guernicus: rip

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

Fiorella the Raven: Smart

Guy of Bonisagus: its not a bad idea

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i failed to resist the weed smoke

Fiorella the Raven: I really did tell everyone that the harbor was full of goons

Sorry Gul

johns (GM): i have been very eager to implement weed trap since rereading Name of the Rose.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well at the time i thought i was going to take +30 fall damage.

Guy of Bonisagus: johns and the weed trap

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and also didnt want to teleport home.

Mortis ex Verditus: Anyway I cast Charm Against Putrefaction on all my new corpses.

Guy of Bonisagus: you could have teleported to the empty island

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i couldnt of

Guy of Bonisagus: why

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no ac

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Archibald of Guernicus: It also lets you teleport to anywhere in sight range, so you could have

johns (GM): idk i feel like personally this was a lot more interesting than you easily bowling over a bunch of nonhermetic scrubs

Guy of Bonisagus: cumthinker just wanted an excuse to miss the next few sessions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Transports you to any place to which you have an Arcane Connection. Most magi use this to return to their laboratories

Guy of Bonisagus: nothing he could do

Fiorella the Raven: Gul, you should master gestureless casting of Leap of Homecoming while you're in irons

johns (GM): He can't teleport out of irons though.

Thanks to the new Teleport Rules.

Archibald of Guernicus: it's interesting, but its also true that gulielmus could have avoided this

Fiorella the Raven: Oh right

Mortis ex Verditus: Seems like it would be hard to practice while clapped in irons.

Guy of Bonisagus: i got to force diplomacy into into this big combat session

pacifist magi win again

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah it was a more interesting ending than an all-out battle

Fiorella the Raven: Well it's exactly what you're practicing while in irions

You don't have to successfully cast the spell, just try to cast it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: don't forget to cancel guilielmus's minor income source

Rosario of Flambeau: I need to get a muto req teleport that turns me into a mushy blob first.

Mortis ex Verditus: Can you believe there aren't ANY rules in Lords of Men about having a giant army of the walking dead?

Fiorella the Raven: The problem is the houserule, as johsn said

johns (GM): the problem endrite is that you can't use leadership on your walking dead

Guy of Bonisagus: i should probably start running my apiary

for some income

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they took all my stuff so i don't have an ac to go home

johns (GM): so they can't fight as a trained group

Guy of Bonisagus: how does that even work out

did proclus actually spend seasons on his glassmaking

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah but you can just tell them to go kill everyone in the castle and if you outnumber them 100 to 1 you should still win.

Fiorella the Raven: Use the irons to teleport to the blacksmith's forge

johns (GM): if you have an income source you maintain with spells and devote 0 seasons a year to it's worth 20 mp a year

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: however, thats a moot point, as my new home is a basket in Cairo

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont maintain the apiary with spells yet

i should though

johns (GM): Oh noooo. You get to be in the most civilized place in Mythic Earth.

Guy of Bonisagus: i could get a queen bee familiar

sorry

king bee

Mortis ex Verditus: THANK you.

Guy of Bonisagus: as they are known in mythic europe

have the king bee familiar manage the apiary

and grogs just collect the honey

johns (GM): Archibald et al kick down the door to Gulielmus' library/apothecary/bath/harem. "Good news sodales! We have rescued you and you can return to a filthy hole in the ground"

Fiorella the Raven: I could make a Bird item to help guy's Familliar lab total

Since bees are birds

Guy of Bonisagus: you could do that

and if bees are birds then they live 1000 years

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a Bug item to help guy out with his bat-themed spells

Fiorella the Raven: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Speaking of, who is moving their labs to the Magic 5 aura?

Guy of Bonisagus: probably only people who can teleport

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am moving my lab to the Magic 10 aura in the secret sahir castle

Fiorella the Raven: I can teleport

I can move to Ponza

Guy of Bonisagus: some day ill make a teleport spell

Archibald of Guernicus: I imagine Fiorella could make good use of Ponza, since its open air and all

Guy of Bonisagus: and move my lab to ponza

and put my apiary there

Fiorella the Raven: I can open a lab for Guy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you have a bees focus

Fiorella the Raven: That might be better than a familiar item

Guy of Bonisagus: no i dont

i will remain in my dark hole and apiary for now

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we should have some way of letting the ponza magi know that something is going on. One of them should make a simple magic item that makes a little bell ringing noise at AC range with an AC to the lab area

Guy of Bonisagus: if only we had someone who could send messenger pigeons

Fiorella the Raven: I can write down my messenger pigeon spell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should put up a fixed AC to the tomb at ponza and vice versa

Archibald of Guernicus: i mean without making the magi who dont live on the magic island spend seasons to communicate with those who do

Fiorella the Raven: I'll see what i can manage with items

Mortis ex Verditus: Seems like it's worth it since you get a magic 5 aura.

Fiorella the Raven: I could try to make a want that summons messenger pigeons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 2 seasons for +2 to your lab totals

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm moving my lab to a magic 6 aura, when I finish my project to safeguard it.

Fiorella the Raven: I can make the wand in Spring

Where's the rules fo rcasting tablets? Covenants?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ya

Archibald of Guernicus: im moving to the mercury temple for other reasons anyway, since ill be translating those mercurian rituals. which require a mercury temple to cast.

the spell to consecrate it is something like 55 CrVi tho, fairly ridiculous until a while from now

Fiorella the Raven: I can make casting tablets in the same season I copy spells, right?

Oh, I need spell mastery for it

One season to master pigeons, one season to make a tablet

I don't need a lab for either activity so I can move to Ponza immediately

johns (GM): great.

who's going to build the whale  crying

Guy of Bonisagus: johns tactically delaying the whale by giving us a levant adventure

allowing him a few more weeks to cry

Fiorella the Raven: What if I creo the corpse of a real whale instead?

johns (GM): thats my secret captain... im always crying

Rosario of Flambeau: Mortis can probably build the whale.

Mortis ex Verditus: I can.

Fiorella the Raven: Cool

Mortis ex Verditus: If it's made of human corpses.

Fiorella the Raven: I keep my sanctum in VT to obey the law, the bird tower in the Eastern Ear

johns (GM): ill leave the villa and island maps up for you to plan your dream covenant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tower full of ravens, a common attraction in inns across europe

Fiorella the Raven: I don't need to keep pet crows

They show up o ntheir own

Mortis ex Verditus: You can have a lab outside your covenant as long as it's your only sanctum, I believe.

That's why Klybutes does.

Fiorella the Raven: I have exotic birds like parakeets and lammergeiers in there

Archibald can advise me in the legalities

I'll keep a lookout for an apprentice too

I can have them open labs after they have 3 Magic Theory

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

Fiorella the Raven: Later gamers

Mortis ex Verditus: See ya.