6/24/18

johns (GM): beardbeard says he doesnt want to start til 2 and i doubt the others are showing up at 1 either

also unfortunately the nature of today's adventure requires that dys be present

devil's fav demon: aw son of a bitch.

Endrite (GM): Zita Dies Again

devil's fav demon: it could not be helped.

johns (GM): but!!! we can watch SGDQ

johns (GM) tunes in

Endrite (GM): Wow!

devil's fav demon: way ahead of you.

johns (GM): oh its just some fag shilling prizes. welp

Endrite (GM): Can't wait to see which one of these psychotics rapes the other.

devil's fav demon: oh i assume you're on the secret babyhouse stream.

johns (GM): i was not

actually dys says it wasn't working, then when I went into tripwire's stream the twitch wasn't embedding either?

devil's fav demon: weird.

its playing for me but its also total trash not worth watching.

johns (GM): hmm same deal in the Babyhouse stream. which is not secret btw its publicly listed.

devil's fav demon: i get a big kick out of fyb screaming about it so i was just repeating what he said. my apologies.

johns (GM): lol

Endrite (GM): You subtract the magnitude increase from target, range, and duration to find out the effectiveness of a General spell, right?

johns (GM): i dont quite follow

give me an example of what you're doing

Endrite (GM): So for a spell that discerns illusions caused by spells with momentary duration, personal range, and vision target that's level 30 it would only work on illusions of level 5 or lower, because you'd subtract 5 magnitudes for the vision target.

johns (GM): sure

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Man that makes that guideline hard to use.

johns (GM): I'm gonna play rimworld and maybe lose track of time, send me a steam PM if i'm not back here by 5 mins of 2

dys: fyb has brain worms

Endrite (GM): Please do not talk about Badgame's most precious treasure that way.

dys: the worst mistake ever made was letting him post freely again

Shauncat (GM): https://fanburst.com/risotto/become-as-gods-birth-of-a-wish-nier-automata-high-quality-rip

dys: nice

Shauncat (GM): I got a youtube plugin for foobar so now I no longer have to deal with suspicious websites to rip mp3s of them. Aside from Fanburst, ha ha ha.

dys: sounds good, i need to rip more music for my own game

moe: Salve

The headache boy has arrived

dys: mystical salvete

Shauncat (GM): Does Mythic Herbalism still work since is a supernatural plant ability?

Endrite (GM): Don't you need plants of virtue for that?

Experimenting.

Shauncat (GM): GIraldo has it

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

Rolling Extraordinary Results.

rolling 1d10!

(

3

)

=

3

dys: Oh right, Archibald is finally aging

Endrite (GM): Nothing.

How boring.

dys: he turns 51 at the end of 1349

so 2 aging rolls

Shauncat (GM): 35 is first aging roll, right?

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!-11

(

10

+

10

+

3

)

-11

=

12

Good start

rolling 1d10!-11

(

9

)

-11

=

-2

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!-11

(

6

)

-11

=

-5

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah 35 is the first year you roll without strong fairy blood

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling -5+4

-5+4

=

-1

I still look 34

moe: i'm going to find an aspirin even if it kills me

or this headache will

brb

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's kill Johns and actually, seriously kill the man, for real

c'thinker (GM): hlelo

Archibald of Guernicus: greetings

c'thinker: all of these imam sessions are in large groups right.

johns (GM): what did fyb do now

yeah cthinker

c'thinker: ok. my entire captivity is spent learning arabic

since i probably cannot learn anything else, without knowing arabic.

johns (GM): that is good. lets go on an adventure to recover arabic texts on medicine and apothecary

c'thinker: lets.

devil's fav demon: oh hey im here.

johns (GM) hits that mf'ing Stones button

devil's fav demon: totally not late.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus: Finally, after over a year in captivity, I have learned the language of the arabs and can learn from them! is immediately rescued and taken as far away from arabic as possible

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang what are we going to do with all these Arabic texts? Guess someone is going to have to spend all their seasons translating them.

c'thinker: we have like 5 characters who know arabic

Mortis ex Verditus: But if ONLY we had someone who knew both Arabic AND Latin.

johns (GM): the rules for translating stink

c'thinker: and latin

moe: i think i swallowed a fizzy tab aspirin

let's roll

johns (GM): right

anyway the intro for today's adventure will be done by Archibald

devil's fav demon: the most powerful aspirin.

Archibald of Guernicus: By god, that's the relaxing fantasy tones of Vardian's Tomb!

johns (GM): I will tell you now that it is February 1350, and it has been an unusually mild winter.

devil's fav demon: i just made a grilled cheese sandwich in the waffle maker and it has changed my life.

johns (GM): whoa

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!-9 aging

(

3

)

-9

=

-6

Rosario of Flambeau: sorry for off topic posting.

Mortis ex Verditus: A mild winter?

Quick let's kidnap some winter fairies.

Father Hazm: I as of my last update can also translate between Arabic and Latin

Spoken ofc

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, a letter arrived from an associate of mine, asking for some assistance in a matter. I won't pry you away from yer labs, but I will be taking grogs with me, and any assistance would be appreciated."

Mortis ex Verditus: "What's the hurry?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Adventure ho!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "A man gone missing in a city going through times of sieging and war."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Sounds pretty normal to me."

Father Hazm: "I believe I have some time to serve as chaplain to our martial companions."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I was in the mind to get started on a longevity ritual, but depending on the type of matter, I'd be happy to get out into the fresh air."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Normal for such a place, aye. I'll be setting off tomorrow, but my Gift does make mundane matters quite difficult, so I would appreciate the help of anyone willing tae come."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Can you explain more about where you're going and what you want to do?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I couldn't pass up a chance at heroism and derring-do like this. Who's to be rescued?"

"A shame it's not a damosel."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I would prefer to have a reason to leave, yes. Literatus didn't force me into wizard war this Tribunal, but they could be biding their time and I should be prepared."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Of course. An associate of mine was keeping contact with a merchant in the city of Isernia, trying to buy an old and priceless work. Messages began to go unanswered, and soon after news arrived that the city was sieged and conquered."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Surely Lavinia could locate this man in a matter of hours."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Never heard of the place."

Dušan of Criamon: "I will gladly assist in any way that allows me respite from the catacombs!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I owe the man a favour from some old business many years back, and we're better equipped tae enter and find him. Aye, she could, but then there's the matter of his physical predicament."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps its time to integrate teh Sortes into Hermetic magic so that we're not so reliant on her."

Archibald of Guernicus: "And if he's passed on, it may be that these works were stolen in the process."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Why bother? She's a perfectly nice woman."

Rosario of Flambeau: "How tragic."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "She is, but conspicuously absent when she's needed most."

johns (GM): strange that

scheming is a full time job it turns out

Rosario of Flambeau: "Lost works from a legendary painter or something like that, or is this something of Hermetic interest?"

Guy of Bonisagus: salve

Archibald of Guernicus: "Somewhat, ancient Roman works. Nothing hermetic, but I have been researching the old cult of mercury and their rituals, I'll be publishing a collection of them soon perhaps."

Mortis ex Verditus: Illegal Scrying of Lavinia in progress!!!

https://www.simplemost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AdobeStock_93945738-750x500.jpeg

Rosario of Flambeau: My god, that's Guy of Bonisagus' music!

johns (GM): hmm, what would Guy's theme music be

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I am the great mighty poo

Flight of the Bumblebee

Archibald of Guernicus: how about this https://fanburst.com/dysrexia/mmpr-soundtrack-bulk-and-skull-theme

Rosario of Flambeau: "Interesting. Quite a few Flambeau take an interest in the Mercurians and fancy themselves experts. I've never paid them any mind."

lmao dys

"You're onto the real thing, you say?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: https://fanburst.com/risotto/knock-knock-hotline-miami-high-quality-rip

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. Quite a while back we recovered a collection of texts from a mercurian temple. Rituals unusable in hermetic theory, but translatable, I've been studying for years tae be able tae understand them."

"They have a number of effects that, should they function as they appear, break hermetic limits."

Guy of Bonisagus: remember gamers, if anyone else takes an apprentice they can get an entire years worth of xp in one season with uncle guy

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Time to use breakthrough points

Guy of Bonisagus: speaking of which i need an apprentice

Mortis ex Verditus: Just take one.

Guy of Bonisagus: one with 3 int so he doesnt fuck up my lab

Mortis ex Verditus: Take Lavinia's.

Rosario of Flambeau: take Galafre's kid.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Take Galare's kid

Guy of Bonisagus: we dont even know for sure if his kid is gifted

Mortis ex Verditus: You mean his adult son?

Rosario of Flambeau: Yes.

johns (GM): that brings up an interesting point endrite

Mortis ex Verditus: I feel like kidnapping him is going t obe a process.

Guy of Bonisagus: that too

johns (GM): what happens if a bonisagus poaches a guy who has been instructed in the super top secret mysteries of a mystery cult

Guy of Bonisagus: multi track drifting

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Adult or not, the Flambeau motto is join or not if you're Gifted

Mortis ex Verditus: Presumably they don't to avoid Wizard War.

Archibald of Guernicus: "However they hinge upon a key ritual that seems one of the trickiest of the lot, it may be decades or more before the rituals are fully integrated, but... ah, sorry, I rarely get tae speak of this work. Anyhow, the artwork does have some relevance, but only aesthetically, not hermetically."

johns (GM): have they never tried stealing a verditius to try and adapt their crafting gimmick to their own purposes?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: *"Join or die"

Dušan of Criamon: which mystery cult though

Archibald of Guernicus: If they did that House Verditius would murder your apprentice and possibly you

Mortis ex Verditus: That's going to be tough to push on a guy with an army.

johns (GM): the Augustan mysteries

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, it seems very rude to do that.

More than it normally would be.

Join or die is a cool motto.

Dušan of Criamon: brings to mind a certain slithering bastard

Rosario of Flambeau: Especially considering how loose and lacking in strong oversight and leadership the order of hermes is. It's a really great deal.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Galafre would have fucked us at Tribunal if he wasn't afraid of wizard war

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Mortis ex Verditus: He still might, you never know.

Rosario of Flambeau: He could be inventing some epic spell.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well we have seven years now to think about it

Archibald of Guernicus: Wesker: Seven years. That's all I can spare to play with you.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And the paperworked is still filed with Magvilla for a wizard war to go into effect if charges are brought up against us by anyone on Galafre's behalf.

Guy of Bonisagus: we need to get rid of this herbam blight so i can start the apiary i always wanted to

thats my opinion

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can still grow flowers normally

Even in a magic aura

Archibald of Guernicus: "Anyhow, ye've heard the details of the matter."

johns (GM): should i tell you now what you hear happened after you left Galafre and son or wait til end of session

Archibald of Guernicus: is Lavinia around or  mysteriously absent

johns (GM): mysteriously absent, of course

Guy of Bonisagus: disgusted face at using mundane methods instead of magical methods

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can leave it for the end of session

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lavinia is unfortunately missing, so locating the man will rely more on wits and observation."

Rosario of Flambeau: that would be a good punchline to whatever happens today.

Mortis ex Verditus: I need to invent Canaanite Necromancy already so I can find out if Lavinia is actually dead.

Guy of Bonisagus: i need to invent the make a cow corpse spell but my lab totals are distressingly shit

Rosario of Flambeau: we have a bunch of great magic theory books.

johns (GM): two things i would like to clarify before you chose yoru loadout


 * 1) 1. im declaring that derfel's awesome presence power, if it fails on someone once, that person is immune to subsequent usages

Mortis ex Verditus: Lay it on me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can make the cow corpse spell

Archibald of Guernicus: Nerfel

johns (GM): #2. if combat does come up, not that it necessarily will, I'd like to use classic RAW initiative order. i think i can trust you guys now to take your turns on time?

Guy of Bonisagus: cool. in exchange i can uhh

train an apprentice if you get one, or teach a fmailiar magic theory

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, sounds good.

Rosario of Flambeau: that would be cool.

Guy of Bonisagus: you can trust me because guy still has no combat spells

Dušan of Criamon: no objectins

Guy of Bonisagus: i should get some ignem or something

Fiorella of Jerbiton: RAW initiative has mostly worked in Ars Frisia

Guy of Bonisagus: pillum of flame would be cool

johns (GM): #3. i will rudely base adventure XP on how much of the investigation you complete, with up to 10 xp !!!! if you uncover all important things. powergamers take note

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Just don't give each grog their own turn and it's pretty good

Archibald of Guernicus: I love experience points

Rosario of Flambeau: i need to go add what my initiative bonuses are back to my sword and audit my character bc i think theres some other stuff that affected init that ive ignored

johns (GM): grogs will fight as a group

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And then you craft and mine and di ig, to earn experience poitns yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: I'

ll order Carina to pick up my luggage.

johns (GM): please feel free to move your preferred character and/or grog under the "ADventuring today" or continue to press archibald for information

Archibald of Guernicus: Adventure hook has been stated, so you have a good idea of what it is

Mortis ex Verditus: Meanwhile, I'll author a formal certamen challenge to Beatrice and nail it to the the wall.

Rosario of Flambeau: i may want to move some of my spell masteries to Quick Casting now that it affects initiative as normal.

Mortis ex Verditus: For whenever we make it back.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll do it after the session though.

Father Hazm: Fiorella is paranoid about leaving the aegis at the moment

So I shall go and buff the grogs

Archibald of Guernicus: I'd like to make a point about the 'challenging a ghost to certamen' idea.

In that I don't think Consulship should ever be transferrable by Certamen, as we aren't a Tremere covenant.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im here. im here.

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario has even more of a reason to be Wizard Warred than she does, but he is an idiot/filled with hubris so he's just not thinking about it.

johns (GM): any preference on shield grogs?

Archibald of Guernicus: For instance, Gulielmus might be a good consul, but would lose to Bialas, who would have been a terrible consul

Father Hazm: You already lose all Hermetic privilege when you die

Archibald of Guernicus: Additionally, Lavinia is incapable of Certamen, meaning anyone at all can just demand she step down and take it

Mortis ex Verditus: Lavinia isn't a consul.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, but what if she was?

Rosario of Flambeau: :ohh:

Archibald of Guernicus: We're setting a precedent that she never can be

Mortis ex Verditus: How could she be since we don't hold elections and she couldn't challenge anyone to certamen?

Rosario of Flambeau: What if you also can win consulship by victory in mundane melee combat?

I'll make that proposal.

Archibald of Guernicus: THAT SAID if people want to change the consulship and establish it, this is open to discussion. But blatant power-grabs by abusing loopholes is not happening

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: our quaesitor is undermining the fabric of hermetic society

Father Hazm: We could hold an election for the second consul

Mortis ex Verditus: Sorry, I'm going to need to hear a unanimous agreement from both consuls before I can agree to this.

Archibald of Guernicus: In fact we could discuss this in-character when we get back from Isernia

johns (GM): what are we, tremere

Archibald of Guernicus: As I think we should, even

johns (GM): who wants to take a shield grog

mortis has carina

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: which book is the brushstrokes revealed in. i learned the spell but i cant actually find it in a&a, c&g, or societates

johns (GM): prolly soc jerbiton chapter

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah it's the Jerbiton section on species magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: The position of consul isn't the same as the roman one at all, it's just something Venator made up, then ran away. We have to decide for ourselves how it works.

Father Hazm: Considering ghosts already don't keep their voting sigil or personally claimed enchanted items, I don't think Beatrice is still a consul

Archibald of Guernicus: He never said it has elections, or even that it should do, it was people he chose outright with no indication it might ever change.

If people object to how it works and want to voice that openly, then we'll open the floor to all magi to work out how it should be done

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, there it is

Guy of Bonisagus: we have to decide this for our characters

Father Hazm: Mortis could just declare himself a consul and certamen anyone who challenges him, probably

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i probably shouldn't actually learn this spell.

oh well

Rosario of Flambeau: It's a great spell.

Father Hazm: Alternatively, let's use Disputatio to decide how the covenant should be governed in Venator's absence

johns (GM): ^^ this

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, since Venator might be dead I don't think we need to continue following his wishes or we might end up with a covenant run only by dead people.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's just hit each other with clubs

Rosario of Flambeau: That sounds great.

Guy of Bonisagus: good idea hazm

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, the sortes that... at this point only 1 magus is part of I think, oh dear

re, not sortes

societas

Custodians of Cyprus, we have cool rings

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus is a proud custos of cyprian

Rosario of Flambeau: lets use.... Dimicatio.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway the founding principle was that dead magi should receive the same rights in death as in life

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one day he might even learn a necromancy spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: So it would be very strange for Archibald to wholeheartedly agree to this, and then go ah, but, this exception here,

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and on that day he will refuse to use it on any good targets

Mortis ex Verditus: Then it seems like you should be able to challenge dead magi to certamen.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm still not sure what Consul is, it's a position that does something? Is it like the tomb boss?

Rosario of Flambeau: More or less.

johns (GM): clearly if beatrice is haunting the tomb it is our job as her friends to figure out what keeps her spirit from passing on peacefully

Rosario of Flambeau: It's so we don't get (haha) bogged down arguing with each other deciding (hahahaha) what to do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm arguing against consulship being something determined by Certamen at all, as it sets a dangerous precedent that does us no good.

Rosario of Flambeau: afk for about 2 minutes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Could you imagine if  Aristide  was able to bully his way into leadership of the covenant? Contemplate this and scream.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: doesnt the order already handle this

Mortis ex Verditus: The rules don't say "The spirits of magi should be treated with the same respect as if they were alive," it says "Dead magi."

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds like an argument that should be decided by certamen

or even better, disputatio

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you bully someone who cant certamen you back, you get your ass whooped by someone else

that or nobody cares

Mortis ex Verditus: So even if you exorcised Beatrice she would still be consul.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hence why it should be open to the covenant to work this out, and not a singular power grab through a loophole.

Since again, deciding this through certamen is barbaric. What are we, fucking Tremere?

Rosario of Flambeau: back.

Father Hazm: There are several published Ars books that discuss what happens legally when a magi becomes a ghost, faerie, or wild animal.

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's decide it through Wizard's Melee

johns (GM): i feel like lavinia should be around for such a vital debate but alas we've already established she divined An Adventure and went into hiding

Archibald of Guernicus: She'll be here when we get back

Father Hazm: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: Which is when I said it should be discussed anyway, rather than holding up the real adventure

Father Hazm: And I don't think we need a GM for a debate over how to govern the covenant.

Mortis ex Verditus: That'd leave most of us out.

johns (GM): ok a mostly wizard crew + 1 corpse + 1 priest ready to roll out

Father Hazm: That is to say, arbitrary rulings probably won't be needed as you can use Disputatio or Certamen to cover PvP

johns (GM): Your destination, Isernia, is not far as the crow flies but will take 4 days to get there on foot through the Apennine mountains

Father Hazm: We'll take Morgana plus 4 other shield grogs

johns (GM): gah

Rosario of Flambeau: A fun hike.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good, I can always use a healthful walk.

Archibald of Guernicus: Caw caw

Father Hazm: Which four doesn't matter as long as they can fight

johns (GM): okay umm nap, mariu, tunde, and pepe

Excellent.

Father Hazm: Tunde's always a good choice

She's probably our best vanguard

johns (GM): The town of Isernia itself is a narrow strip of urban life atop a steep hill. The climb up is enough to leave those of you who did not wizard powerlevel Stamina out of breath

Father Hazm: Hazm prebuffs the grogs while in the magi caura

And again as we reach the city

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have Carina carry me.

Rosario of Flambeau jogs in place at the top of the hill +3 Sta-ishly

Archibald of Guernicus: Same

I look 50 but I'm as spry as a young man

Mortis ex Verditus: I keep an eye out for Hollows.

johns (GM): Climbing up the steep trail, you note the walls of the city are in severe disrepair and have crumbled apart completely in many places.

Father Hazm: I have bad Stamina but a hike cannot kill me

johns (GM): In the places that are still standing, you can see several naked corpses hanging by their neck off the ramparts.

Mortis ex Verditus: Found 'em.

Guy of Bonisagus: I cross myself.

Mortis ex Verditus: How many naked corpses are there?

Father Hazm: Same

Archibald of Guernicus: "The ravages of war."

Dušan of Criamon: "Heavens above, finally back in the hills!"

johns (GM): The gatehouse is in a similarly poor shape -- the metal portcullis, bent, has been pulled out of its bearings completely and tossed aside with rubble. No sentry is around to offer you any challenge.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

johns (GM): Between 15 and 20, Mortis.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hope we're not too late."

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Father Hazm: I offer up a prayer for the dead people's souls

johns (GM): They dark with decay.

are.

btw i didn't sleep last night so forgive me if I trip up on my words here and there

Archibald of Guernicus: I forgive you my son

Dušan of Criamon: all is forgiven

Rosario of Flambeau: thank you for running anyway.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

How far up are the corpses?

Father Hazm: Archibald could probably Crystal Dart the ropes

Dušan of Criamon: why bother

Rosario of Flambeau: "So, the gatehouse... A Terram mage? Giants?"

Father Hazm: A rope is an individual of rope product

Dušan of Criamon: they don't seem to be complaining

Mortis ex Verditus: Not yet.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh my god everyone. I think these people might be dead.

Dušan of Criamon: OK, I want to run some recon spells

johns (GM): I have set the scene, the next step is up to you.

Father Hazm: Are they similar to the legal hangings that happened in Rome

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It's bad when people die.

Guy of Bonisagus: it is

johns (GM): A hanging is a hanging

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+2 Int + Civil & Canon Law Is it bad when bad people die of being hanged?

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

johns (GM): All the dead people are men between 20 and 40

Guy of Bonisagus: oh my god

im a man between 20 and 40

that couldve been me

johns (GM): It seems more merciful than a lot of Civil punishments.

Rosario of Flambeau: Anything I can use to examine the torn up portcullis?

Father Hazm: "They could do a lot worse to a man under the law."

Endrite: I'll cast Arise, My Servant to reanimate a corpse, then have Carina hand him a sword, then tell the corpse to cut itself down.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm not an intellego boy so that stuff's up to someone else.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Very reassuring, Father, thank you."

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, I'll do this.

Dušan of Criamon: Wiz sidestep ReIm10

rolling 1d10!+16

(

6

)

+16

=

22

johns (GM): The corpses are hung so that if they were cut down they'd go toppling down the mountainside.

Dušan of Criamon: Eagle eyes InIm 25

Rosario of Flambeau: If it's not a big deal that something tore apart an iron gate and threw it somewhere I'll just enter the city though.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+19

(

1

)

+19

=

20

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hell yes.

Dušan of Criamon: oh baby

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Dusan, perhaps a little hasty. The sidestep is quite a disturbing visual element to mundane eyes when simply walking through the streets."

johns (GM): If you're casting formulaic outside combat there's no risk of botch

Father Hazm: "The world is not a reassuring place. The only harmony to be found is in our Lord and Savior."

Dušan of Criamon: oh

Mortis ex Verditus: Well then I won't do that.

Dušan of Criamon: you get away with it this time, Twilight

OK

I'm all set with prying eyes and/or whispering winds

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you believe they let this guy be a priest

johns (GM): Remind of Whispering Winds' effect?

Father Hazm: I'll get the grogs in formation in front of anyone who didn't bring a personal servant like Mortis

Mortis ex Verditus: Who wants to fly up to the ramparts?

Looking for volunteers here.

Dušan of Criamon: johns: listen on a convo withing LOS

johns (GM): Nice

Is it always active?

Dušan of Criamon: W HISPERING W INDS

R: Sight, D: Conc, T: Ind

The winds bear their tidings to your ears,

allowing you to hear words spoken by any

group of people within your line of sight, pro-

vided no solid barrier (including glass) inter-

Dušan of Criamon: venes. This spell is an adaptation of an effect

known to Bjornaer the Founder, and fits poorly

into the normal framework of Hermetic magic.

(Unique spell)

Father Hazm: Fiorella is tired of flying onto gibbets for your gross plans so she stayed home

Mortis ex Verditus: Sigh.

johns (GM): Ah conc. Just remind me whenever you wish to cast it then.

Dušan of Criamon: oh yeah def

no LOS to any convo yet either

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok then I order Mariu to do it.

I'll cast Superior Rise of the Feather Body on him.

Father Hazm: "Magus Archibald, does your missing person appear to be one of the hanged?"

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 19

(

8

)

+19

=

27

It's level 15.

Dušan of Criamon: I pat Mariu on the back to boost confidence, not on shoulder as he's already moving upward

Mortis ex Verditus: I fly Mariu up to the ramparts to reconnoiter the area.

Father Hazm: What's the aura here?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the difference between superior rise of the feathery body and lifting the dangling puppet

Dušan of Criamon: reco 10 vs reco 15

Mortis ex Verditus: Superior Rise of the Feathery Body works in every direction instead of just up or down.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah

Father Hazm: Dangling Puppet can manipulate limbs

Rosario of Flambeau: johns what about the gate.

johns (GM): What about it? It's wide open.

Dušan of Criamon: both wrong if i'm reading this right

Rosario of Flambeau: i asked if there was anything to examine about the bent up iron portcullis that was thrown into a pile of rubble.

Dušan of Criamon: the 15 spell is voice, 10 is touch

Rosario of Flambeau: unless thats normal

johns (GM): It's bent.

Rosario of Flambeau: but you just brushed past it.

johns (GM): Something bad happened to it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Alright. Onwards, sodales."

johns (GM): Are you a metal worker?

Father Hazm: "If your missing person is not of the hanged, perhaps it is prudent and timely to move on to the city proper."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Keep yer wits about you, never know what sort of vagabonds like to roam around after war."

Mortis ex Verditus: What do Mariu's Sicilian eyes see?

Dušan of Criamon: "Perhaps in centuries to come, men of science will be able to identify even corpses as black with decay as these."

Rosario of Flambeau: No need to be rude.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Oh I can already do that."

"Just ask them."

"It's that easy.

Dušan of Criamon is humbled, and wiser for it

Father Hazm: I'll put up my communication charm and blessing of venus buffs

Rosario of Flambeau: Mortis is a metal worker though.

He should look at it.

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast Cloak of the Duck's Feathers, just in case it rains.

Father Hazm: Is Ways of the City oa General virtue? :thinking:

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't care though.

Rosario of Flambeau: Strong point.

johns (GM): this is a city

Mortis ex Verditus: I GUESS I can take a look at it if these corpses don't know anything.

johns (GM): well. if you want to be technical. it's a commune. but it's not a Castle, not a Castle Town, not a Village. i call it a city and they think its a city so its a city.

Guy of Bonisagus: this isnt a city, its a ruin

Mortis ex Verditus: Damn, you're right.

johns (GM): don't judge a book by its cover or a city by its gatehouse

Dušan of Criamon: come for the corpses, stay for the...

Father Hazm: I'll invent a blessing for Way of the City, Way of the Castle, Way of the Hamlet, Way of the Thorpe, Way of the Dungeon, Way of the Magic Realm, and so on, if its a generla virtue

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

do it.

Mortis ex Verditus: Does Mariu see anything when I fly him over the ramparts or what???

johns (GM): did mariu choose to go up

Mortis ex Verditus: I ordered him to.

Dušan of Criamon: I encourage him to do so

johns (GM): oh

Father Hazm: He's a grog, he can roll Loyalty if he has a chance to refuse

johns (GM): sorry i got the grog confused with a companion

i thought you were bossing hazm around for some reason

Guy of Bonisagus: brb getting a cold pack for my neck

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah.

No.

Not this time.

johns (GM): okay Shaun you are in charge in Mariu now.

Mariu floats up to the ramparts. He steps onto the battlements and sees some guardsmen up there. A pair play dice while another dozes on a bedroll.

They look up at Mariu with surprise.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Soldier: "Where'd the devil'd you come from!"

Máriu Puddu:

rolling d10 Loyalty

(

9

)

=

9

He agrees to do it

Rosario of Flambeau: he comes from Sardinia.

Wakka wakka.

Máriu Puddu: I float back down

Soldier: "Oy"

Máriu Puddu: "They're patrolling the ramparts actively, boss."

Soldier: The men peer over the battlements.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well done, Mariu."

Dušan of Criamon: "Salve!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Technically I have to float you around.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Surprised to see anyone here!"

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm pretty sure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

Mortis ex Verditus: Anyway, to the city!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, the way the original spell is worded the target has some control, but i think that's just because they fucked up writing it.

Soldier: "Those two," he points to Morgana and Tunde, "they whores? Bring 'em up here"

Máriu Puddu: Well I suppose you could just drop Mariu and let him splatter on the ground but seems like a waste of one of our best combatants

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast Superior Aura of Ennobled Presence on myself.

Máriu Puddu: Soo you should PROBABLY float him down

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

rolling 1d10 + 12

(

1

)

+12

=

13

Passes easily.

Oh wait.

Soldier: are you including the aura

Mortis ex Verditus: It doesn't.

Soldier: if you're within 10 of the target it still succeeds, you just take a fatigue

Mortis ex Verditus: -5 to that roll from my Poor Formulaic Magic.

Máriu Puddu: It's just a short term fatigue if you're short of the level

Mortis ex Verditus: So I take a fatigue.

Máriu Puddu: up to -10 even

Archibald of Guernicus: Damn. That's poor.

Rosario of Flambeau: "They'd have to be some pretty amazing whores with this guard retinue."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What happened to your gate, here?"

Soldier: "I slammed your mum into it when I was fuckin her"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Jesus

Dušan of Criamon: powerful

in private however, I don't think they'd oppose our entering the city

Guy of Bonisagus: "These men don't seem very nice."

Mortis ex Verditus: I have Carina put me down and boldly stride into the city.

Soldier: Alright

johns (GM): You enter the city. You find one main street with branching alleyways. Dogs and rats roam around freely looking for food.

Father Hazm: Let's roll

johns (GM): On the street are a few other souls -- armed soldiers mostly, some laborers hauling things about, craftsmen of some time doing their errands

Dušan of Criamon: "This doesn't strike me as a city entirely under control of its lawful goverment!"

johns (GM): Generally -- quiet

does Dusan speak Italian?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Reminds me of home."

Dušan of Criamon: with his sodales, yes

Mortis ex Verditus: "Obviously it is. Look how well armed the soldiers are."

Dušan of Criamon: i mean it is the covenant preferred language, right?

do we have anyone latin-only?

Mortis ex Verditus: SOME people can only speak Latin.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: magi speak latin to each other

Father Hazm: "Heavens to Saint Margatroid, what happened to this city?"

johns (GM): there are some people in the covenant who don't speak any italian

Dušan of Criamon: ah well then latin

Mortis ex Verditus: Not me though, I'm 100% Italiano, baby.

Archibald of Guernicus: I speak some Italian, though not too much

Father Hazm: I speak Italian

Dušan of Criamon: what we just witnessed was the surgical removal of foot from mouth

Guy of Bonisagus: magi all speaking latin is a reference to dungeons and dragons, where all wizards speak draconic

johns (GM): A few buildings have damage similar to the city walls -- ceilings or walls crashed in. Many have closed window shutters. You pass a simple church, judging by the cross on the front of it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, what dialect should i take for my italian

would it just be roman

johns (GM): The only other obvious landmark is the tower in the middle of town.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or is it Umbrian

Father Hazm: I took writing on my Italian rather than a dialect

johns (GM): lazio region

Father Hazm: So I could write vernacular with 4 levels of it

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll walk up to the tower and have Carina bang on the door for me.

johns (GM): You move closer to the tower. You find it looks over a large open square with various other shops and businesses running off it.

Father Hazm: I'll visit the church

Rosario of Flambeau: I will enter the church to say a quick prayer.

Dušan of Criamon: I will go in to see how aptly the church is in the interior

Mortis ex Verditus: We just had a jubilee, I'm all topped up.

johns (GM): Two banners fly from the tower -- the top is recognizable as the red and white banner of house Colonna. Below it is a banner with two emblems on it that requires a regional lore check

Father Hazm: There's probably a lot of confessing needing done in this city

johns (GM): The door to the tower itself is guarded by pikemen.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we pay a guy to know lore for us.

johns (GM): Rosario and Hazm find the church empty but still full of Dominion goodness.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yum, what's the restipe?

Rosario of Flambeau: Excellent.

Father Hazm: Is the church in servicable repair?

Mortis ex Verditus: "Tell your lord that Mortis is here on a mission of mercy."

Rosario of Flambeau: It must be, if the aura is still present.

Unless it's an Infernal lie.

Archibald of Guernicus: Sounds like something a demon would say

johns (GM): Looks good

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that would be fucked up.

Father Hazm: I can probably figure out logically if it is or not

johns (GM): not much to a rural church. nothing close to the good basilicas you have in Rome.

Dušan of Criamon: I assess it using unknowable Criamon metrics

Father Hazm: I can Entreat the Divine Powers to see if one dwells here

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

I find the church lacking, but not a lost cause

Father Hazm: Has the church been looted?

Colonna Bannerman: "My lord doesn't waste his time with wandering hedge knights looking to mooch. Bugger off."

the altar of the church is barren, hazm

Father Hazm: If not, I'll scrounge up some candles and get this place looking operational again.

Mortis ex Verditus: "I am no mere hedge knight, I am a wizard of great puissance and renown."

Father Hazm: Okay

Colonna Bannerman: "That's different then."

Dušan of Criamon: Actually, I'll assist Hazm

Colonna Bannerman: "He DEFINITELY doesn't waste time with shifty eyed astrologers."

Dušan of Criamon: I do not entirely follow his instructions if any

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll keep to the back to avoid drawing more bad attention to us

Dušan of Criamon: the candle placement is not entirely orthodox

Guy of Bonisagus: i would hope its not orthodox

this is italy

Colonna Bannerman: its better than orthodox, it's marionite

Father Hazm: "This church seems to have been looted, Magus Rosario. None of the typical supplies a church keeps."

Dušan of Criamon: wakka wakka

Mortis ex Verditus: "Very well, it is, as they say, your loss."

Rosario of Flambeau: "The poor souls."

Mortis ex Verditus: I turn my back to him and then start ruining the adventure completely because I got some sass.

Dušan of Criamon: classic

Mortis ex Verditus: But seriously folks I just head over to the ramparts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats the tytalus way.

Father Hazm: I'll stay in the church where I'm not party to Mortis's sinful necromancy.

Rosario of Flambeau: "They can't be that starved for cheap wine and gold"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: his necromancy is perfectly in accord with the principles of natural magic.

Father Hazm: That's for the Church to decide.

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll go to the church and wish we had a magus who could casually check the aura without needing a specific spell.

Mortis ex Verditus: Necromancy is pretty sinful.

Father Hazm: Yeah

It's specifically mentioned, even

Guy of Bonisagus:  sighs and brings out the venn diagram

Mortis ex Verditus: Fortunately forgiveness is as easy as embracing Jesus' sacrifice.

Colonna Bannerman: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Yeah but that's a different kind of necromancy.

Father Hazm: That venn diagram is not in Canon law

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, a good place to start would be locating the man's properties. He owns a warehouse, and a store, but I dinnae know where either are. We should find someone who does."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: talking to spirits is bad. forcing skeletons to do your bidding,

Guy of Bonisagus: jesus came back from the dead, so necromancy is holy

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'll ask around."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the ars notoria is a subset of necromancy.

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, there are stores all around that tower.

So that's a good place to start.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what kind of spells can guy cast

Archibald of Guernicus: "The man's name is Corfi d'Isernia."

Guy of Bonisagus: corfi

corfi. gween tea

Mortis ex Verditus: How many guys do they got on the ramparts?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: borfi

Guy of Bonisagus: bofana

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+d10! Pre + Dominion Lore Entreat the Divine Powers

2+2+

(

5

)

=

9

I go into a trance, seeing if there's a divine power about this place

And verify for Guy it's not infernal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the church is empty except for the party right?

johns (GM): As the walls have crumbled in places, there are different sections of ramparts, some with 1 man, some with 2 to 4, one with 5.

Yes Gulielmus

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll head over to one of the hanged men and start dragging him up.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok.

i will make my way to the tower and offer my services as a healer

johns (GM): The men on the ramparts try to block you by force if you scale your way up.

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm.

I'd like to see if there's a group of guards talking and eavesdrop with Whispering Winds

might yield nothing but hey

i took the spell

Colonna Bannerman: Okay, first Guli, then Dusan

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll turn around.

Father Hazm: If I cast a charm and Entreat the Divine Poewrs removes the Dominion penalty, it's divine. If there's a penalty, it's Infernal.

Colonna Bannerman: "I think you made the hike for nothing fella. No one got hurt taking this place. Only thing to tend for around here is VD."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if the gm hides the result from you

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What, no one at all?"

Father Hazm: We've always said whether we can feel a penalty to our casting or not

Mortis ex Verditus: No corpses lining the streets, then?

Father Hazm: So the specific number isn't important

Colonna Bannerman: Nope Mortis

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

How many buildings are in the commune?

We could just start checking them.

Rosario of Flambeau: Start at one end of the city and start Archibald's Unwelcome Entrancing up and down across the entire map.

Dušan of Criamon: the Zelda style of investigation

Colonna Bannerman: The bannerman grins. "The duke and the mayor of this little shithole made an accommodation, and they just let us walk right in. So no one hurt... 'cept the dumb sons of bitches in the garrison who protested. But we already had 'em at our mercy so it wasn't even a scuffle to get them where they're at now."

Dušan of Criamon: Hello! breaks all pots in building   leaves

Colonna Bannerman: "Sends a nice message to the rest of the folks here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea ponders this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "And with so little loss of life, compared to an ordinary siege."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

We could just ask around.

I mean, a warehouse shouldn't be hard to find.

c'thinker: i trie dto ctrl-f the chat log to read the introduction again and my browser crashed.

Father Hazm: "Suppose as long as we're seeking a missing person, we could find out what happened to the priests of this town as well."

Colonna Bannerman: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. It's dangerous tae the town to leave them without any guidance."

Dušan of Criamon: "Sodales, we may be walking into a situation similar to the Siege. There is evil afoot."

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod

Mortis ex Verditus: "They have guidance."

Are all these soldiers invisible or something?

Rosario of Flambeau: That's not real guidance.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Been a lot of sieges lately."

Colonna Bannerman: "You might catch some guys whining they couldn't prove themselves but fuck that. I got better things to do than die for this worthless spot."

Dušan of Criamon whispers: "I hear of a Magister influencing the local invader lord."

Rosario of Flambeau: Those soldiers probably don't even have a Code.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Pshaw."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nods.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "However, we should not neglect what we came for. It may be that these investigations help uncover the priests."

Father Hazm: I gotta admit, if you're going to die on a hill, you could find a smellier hill.

Although this hill has seen better days

Father Hazm nods

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a nice hill.

Rosario of Flambeau: It's no hills over Gianicolo.

Dušan of Criamon: As this party's resident expert on hills, I

Father Hazm: "Let's seek your missing man."

Dušan of Criamon: "Agreed."

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll accost the closest laborer and demand to know where the warehouse district is.

Dušan of Criamon: What exactly did this missing man do, what was in the warehouse

Rabble quivers

Father Hazm: I'll speak to the laborers in a gentler fashion and ask what happened to the priests.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, you sound like a man with the wisdom of experience."

Rabble: "Beg'n pardon m'lord, what district"

Colonna Bannerman: "I've been around."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Warehouses, man!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus will try to chat with the guard in his broken italian

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm looking for an art dealer."

Rabble: "A-a-art?"

Dušan of Criamon: brb

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to the tune of

rolling 1d10!+1+2 Comm + Charm

(

7

)

+1+2

=

10

Mortis ex Verditus: "Yes, manuscripts, paintings, and similar."

Father Hazm: Hazm will be his normal, charming, foreign but Italian-fluent self.

Mortis ex Verditus: "How could you miss it in such a small town?"

Rabble: "You mean Corfi's... ? It's over yon," he points, "look for the one with glass windows.. now be merciful, leave me be"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm Haltingly Functional depending on dialect.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Thank ye, Mortis, good work."

Guy of Bonisagus: im haltingly functional

Mortis ex Verditus: I head over yonder.

Rabble: The conversation is stilted but the guardsman you speak to is bored and looking for someone to brag about his past exploits to.

Dušan of Criamon: back

Rabble: His fellow guardsman have almost certainly heard the stories many times over.

Father Hazm: Any word on why the priests up and left?

Rosario of Flambeau: maybe all the soldiers talking about raping whores made them feel unwelcome.

Rabble: do we have a 3 way split party now

Father Hazm: I don't need to split, I just ask a few questions then probably join whatever split Mortis isn't in

Mortis ex Verditus: This makes us smart.

Rosario of Flambeau: I've been following the church group around.

Rabble: gulielmus and mortis sort of went their own way

alright i guess hazm is with mortis

Father Hazm: Huh?

I just said the opposite

Guy of Bonisagus: he is

Rabble: oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was gonna ask this guy about the shop and warehouse anyway

Rabble: sorry

like I said i'm tired

Guy of Bonisagus: have fun with mortis hazm

Archibald of Guernicus: I was going over to the warehouse/store with my sodales

Guy of Bonisagus: me too

Rabble: very well

Mortis Archibald and whom's't'ever else wishes to be

Father Hazm: If the entire party is united then w/e

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay let's all get together then.

Rabble: gulielmus is in the town square talking to a guard atm

and hazm is with him by default

Father Hazm: Alright

Rabble: Ok. the larger band of you all find the shop. Unusual for this era it has thick green tinted glass windows in lead frames. There is no light inside and it is hard to see through the window.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Listen, while I'm in town... A friend of a friend owns a shop and a warehouse here."

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Glass!

Dušan of Criamon: Good! Let us attempt to enter.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus would have loved this

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll order Carina to open the door.

johns (GM): You pull on the door. It does not yield.

Father Hazm: Morgana's unit goes to teh warehouse district I suppose

johns (GM): The door to the adjacent stone building, however, is smashed in.

Rosario of Flambeau: Fancy glass.

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed. Is a level 20 or lower scrying effect targeting us?

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, if hazm is here and wants to ask the guy about anything i'll introduce him.

Dušan of Criamon: Stand back, I read of a technique known as "Wizard's knock".

Dušan of Criamon knocks on the door

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: otherwise i'm just trying to make my way over to the rest of the party

johns (GM): Gulielmus gets amazing directions that allow him to join the rest of the party.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll leave Carina to it while I inspect the other building.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ciao!"

johns (GM): No answer, Dusan.

Father Hazm: I'll ask questions when the tired GM can focus on me

Guy of Bonisagus: id like to make a wizards knock spell for opening doors, but doors are made of wood

Rosario of Flambeau: I will go to the building next door and use Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance on the wall separating the shops.

Dušan of Criamon: "Well, I gave it my best shot."

johns (GM): gahaha

Mortis ex Verditus: I have that spell.

Rosario of Flambeau: You could make an item that does that.

Archibald of Guernicus: What if we destroyed every single bit of wood

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make a CrAu spell powerful enough to blow a door open

Guy of Bonisagus: good idea archibald

Father Hazm: Shoot the door with a crystal dart

Also Archibald can just walk through stone

Dušan of Criamon: I mean we could do an old-fashioned CrIg

johns (GM): Rosario and Mortis enter the adjacent building, which is a single large storeroom. It is empty save for splintered wood and broken barrels, and a cracked door leading into Corfi's shop..

Dušan of Criamon: aka "arson"

Father Hazm: And allow others to do so as well

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): brb1 min

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I'll go into the shop then.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm really happy that Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance has caught on as the number one spell in Vardian's Tomb

johns (GM): or 2

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, interesting.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Rosario of Flambeau: I guess someone got to his storeroom.

Archibald of Guernicus: I should publish the text properly at tribunal

and have it become one of the core spells people start learning in the order

Father Hazm: Oh yeah Flora learned some Terram, she should learn AUE

She can also open any lock created in contemporary times.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think having a spell enter the Core Canon of spells that magi learn for their immense convenience is one of the best legacies a magus can have.

Thank you once again, Sidestep of Merinita, for your work

Father Hazm: Bofa of Flambeau

Archibald of Guernicus: I think bofa was also Flambeau himself, but it might have been one of his followers

Pillum was Flambeau personally and he had the highest killcount of the ancient magical world with it

johns (GM): Ok, coffee pot set

Depicted here: the shop in better times. At the moment the shelves are empty and the walls are bare.

Father Hazm: Bofa's description mentions a Tremere, which is pretty dedicated for a RAW Tremere to get that much CrIg

Mortis ex Verditus: Where's the door?

johns (GM): it is cut off on the left.

Mortis ex Verditus: Is it barred or what?

johns (GM): Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Does it look as though it's been raided

Father Hazm: The Item Shop has fallen on hard times after tehy disowned their daughter and she went off to live in the Forest of Magic

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, I'll order Tunde to unbar it.

johns (GM): Yes Archibald, the furniture is out of place or tipped over.

Archibald of Guernicus: The item shop fell on hard times when no PCs passed through to buy cash shop items

Mortis ex Verditus: Do any traps go off?

johns (GM): No.

The door is now open.

Sunlight pours in.

Tünde uses her polearm to push the bar in case of traps, anyway

Tünde: Unlike you bad adventurers, Tunde always has a pole on her

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have Carina come inside.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea enters through the open door.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salvete omnes."

Mortis ex Verditus: Then have her open the door to the basement.

Guy of Bonisagus: I will cast Chamber of Spring Breezes to help the investigation.

johns (GM): The basement is the warehouse you entered in through.

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh ok.

Well then I'm out of ides.

I mean "ideas."

Father Hazm: I guess I'm here if Gul is here

moe: We could search the place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Not a single wounded soldier in this town! Would you believe it?"

Dušan of Criamon: "We could search the place"

Archibald of Guernicus: "There must be something out of place in here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus relays the story about the duke and the mayor conspiring to have the city taken.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll sit on the chair and put my feet up while everyone else is searching.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Try and find an arcane connection to the man."

"It was his shop, surely, there must be one."

Guy of Bonisagus: if anythings burned i can use tales of the ashes

johns (GM): Nothing burned except spent candles

Rosario of Flambeau: Hm.

johns (GM): The man's bed is bare, and you can't find any clothes that belong to him. One tables is completely clean except for a single feather quill.

Rosario of Flambeau: Suspicious quill.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, his beloved feather quill?

That must be it!

Rosario of Flambeau: "Could be a trap."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe he's a shapeshifter

Mortis ex Verditus: Search complete.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in feather form

Dušan of Criamon: hopefully not one that turns into geese

Rosario of Flambeau: So we're in the glass-windowed shop?

Father Hazm: Any human stains on the bed or skin flakes?

johns (GM): nay, the sheets themselves were taken off it

Archibald of Guernicus: The quill might be enough

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's tear up the floor.

Father Hazm: Skin flakes is how we got our AC to Costanza

johns (GM): With what, rosario

Archibald of Guernicus: A frequently used tool lasts days, how long ago was the siege?

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, when you've got a greatsword, everything looks like a training dummy.

Father Hazm: Let's come up with an adventuring kit so we take it every time

Crowbars, pole, rope, etc

Archibald of Guernicus: But a favourite tool is months

so we might find something

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Dušan of Criamon: I'm going to stat up a grog that's quite literally a DnD scoundrel with this sort of equip

Rosario of Flambeau: That sounds really good.

johns (GM): Okay, Rosario starts prying up floorboards with his sword

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Dušan of Criamon: oh boy

johns (GM): I consult the City & Guild rules for misusing your equipment.

rolling 1d10

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n obotch

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Father Hazm: Zita was a rogue with maxed out UMD

johns (GM): you disrupt a nest of rats, and find a thick oak strongbox with a metal padlock under a loose floorboard.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Holy shit."

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice work!

Rosario of Flambeau: "That was a good hunch. The Primus must be thinking about me."

Dušan of Criamon: Aha! The rats were hiding in plain sight all along.

Rosario of Flambeau: I take 1d4 damage from the rats.

Archibald of Guernicus: My advice Dusan is what Shaun suggested, a Redcap is a very good way to play a rogue character, or someone similar to a rogue, which we will henceforth call a roguelike.

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah being a redcap is a good way to have a load of sick magical items

as well

Dušan of Criamon: It would be cool if we accidentally sometimes ended up being a DnD group

Guy of Bonisagus: accidentally?

somtimes?

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Dušan of Criamon: exactly

johns (GM): If bolad dies I will roll a bard.

Mortis ex Verditus: We're the best D&D group.

6 wizards.

Guy of Bonisagus: we are

yeah

Dušan of Criamon: "The Glass Cannon" except my guy can't do any damage

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm even the classic D&D archetype of the magic user who is a better fighter than the fighter.

Guy of Bonisagus: tearing apart peoples houses for hidden loot is a universal ttrpg mechanic

Father Hazm: I'm an NPC priest who has no divine spellcasting

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, a lockbox. I'll get it open."

Guy of Bonisagus: ah, a lockbox. well set up camp here

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Supple Iron and Rigid Rope to make the box nice and bendy, then just rip the lock off

Rosario of Flambeau: Good trick.

johns (GM): You cast a herbam spell?

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Dušan of Criamon: Extraordinary strength!

Archibald of Guernicus: Is it? Wait fuck

let me check

Father Hazm: You might be able to spont Key of THeodorus

Archibald of Guernicus: Muto Terram!

johns (GM): ok, ok

The lock peels off.

Father Hazm: Key of Theodorus is ReTe 10

Rosario of Flambeau: thats actually a glossed over part of the spell guidelines

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That condottiere was telling me the siege was back in November, Archibald."

Rosario of Flambeau: nonliving plant material can be manipulated with Terram.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh nice

Father Hazm: That takes a Herbam casting req, Rosario

johns (GM): The inside is full of parchment. There is a leatherbound ledger and opened letters with their wax seals sticking to the edge.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Good find."

Archibald of Guernicus: "November? Damnit, that's 3 months back. Any arcane connection tae find the man will need tae be a strong one."

Dušan of Criamon: Any stamped seals?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Surprised the thieves didn't check the floorboards."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you think he would have made a stand with the garrison?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "We might as well move the bookshelves, for all I know there's a hidden door as well."

johns (GM): They are mostly sealed with signets from other merchants' or crafts' guilds.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll sweep everything off the table so I can read the letters more easily.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Why would a merchant do anything but show a clean pair of heels?"

johns (GM): A scale seal for a pawnbroker, a candle seal for a chandler, etc

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs.

johns (GM): Okay, Mortis scans the letters

Dušan of Criamon: I start leafing through the ledger, material permitting

johns (GM): They're mostly about trade... You find one from a chandler in Rome, inquiring about artifacts he heard that Corfi had acquired. The chandler asks about details to help verify their age and authenticity, and asks what price Corfi is asking

Father Hazm: Turns out the pawnbroker has been using promissory notes to bypass usury laws.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, that's from my associate I believe."

"Strange that it would be locked away..."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Your associate makes candles?"

johns (GM): A letter from a man named Hector advises Corfi to hold onto the items because they may be more valuable than he suspects -- for a fee, Hector would be willing to authenticate them

Mortis ex Verditus: "Wouldn't want any rogue magi to get their hands on your signatures, eh?"

Father Hazm: Oh yes

Signatures are an AC

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aha, here's a possibility. This 'Hector'."

johns (GM): Dusan scans the ledgers. Corfi did a decent trade in perfumes, spices, and the occasional Objet d'Arte. One entry catches his eye

Guy of Bonisagus: hector is a german name

lets kill him

johns (GM): 2 figurine -- wooden -- half cubit length apiece -- depict Hermes -- bought from Barbatus 10 grs.

1 statue -- stone -- 4 cubits -- depiction of gladiator? -- recovered w/ help from B., paid 30 grs.

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang, 4 cubits?

Huge, if true.

Rosario of Flambeau: The Rhineland is beautiful. It's a shame I wasn't able to visit with you all.

Dušan of Criamon: 30 grs

Rosario of Flambeau: thats a large statue.

johns (GM): 4 cubits is approximately 6 feet

Rosario of Flambeau: Barbatus, huh?

Dušan of Criamon: "Do you know this B.?"

Archibald of Guernicus: My trojan lore irl is tingling but we'll see where this goes

Father Hazm: Suffer like B did

johns (GM): the letters and ledgers are all written in Italian btw.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): also some of them are indecipherable because they use Merchant argot.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, we should find this Barbatus.

Father Hazm: We have several here who can read vernacular

Mortis and myself

Rosario of Flambeau: vernacular isnt the same as merchant shorthand

i thought

Father Hazm: Are there rules for merchant shorthand?

johns (GM): It's akin to trying to decipher a Magi's lab shorthand.

is Hazm the Chamberlain or the Steward?

Dušan of Criamon: any cooler profession has indecipherable slang

Father Hazm: Chamberlain

Dušan of Criamon: haven't you people seen The Wire

johns (GM): alright.

Father Hazm: So I know finance to a degree

johns (GM): Oh, and underneath the letters and ledgers are a couple pouches of coins, silvers from various regions of Italy.

Dušan of Criamon: "We should take these, for reasons none other than safekeeping."

johns (GM): Underneath that is nothing but dust.

Rosario of Flambeau: Dust to dust the dust.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Father Hazm: CHamberlain being the profession often occupied by clergy

Rosario of Flambeau: his FAVORITE coins!

Archibald of Guernicus: "True. Now that we've unearthed it, any thief might grab them."

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll dump the coins out onto the table.

Does anything jump out at me?

Guy of Bonisagus: merchants love money, and heres some money

needi say more

johns (GM): No.

Mortis ex Verditus: Metaphorically but also literally.

Hmm.

I think the question is: when did he skip town?

Father Hazm: I'll see what I can do about deciphering merchant shorthand

I have 4 AL, 6 Prof: Chamberlain

johns (GM): Hm, alright

Dušan of Criamon: Mortis: "So you think he's still alive?"

johns (GM): I was inclined to say its a red herring and there's nothing useful there but I'll mention, you don't see any record of him doing trade in statues or statuettes before

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if he's hiding out somewhere?"

Mortis ex Verditus: I bet if any statues were looted, nobody would have taken them out of town yet.

You wouldn't drag that shit down the mountain until you absolutely had to.

Father Hazm: "The statue and idols seem to be non-normal acquisitions. They could be objects of portent, and speak of the motivations of his disappearance. Though I'm sure you inferred that already."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. Now the question remains of how tae find the statues."

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm.

Can an object, possibly magical have AC's

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Let's ask around."

Mortis ex Verditus: "My guess is that they were looted."

Father Hazm: "A six foot statue is difficult to move discreetly, even for a hermetic magus."

Rosario of Flambeau: "What if it's invisible?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "If they're anywhere, they're in the tower."

Father Hazm: Maximus could teleport a statue though

Guy of Bonisagus: rest in peace, maximus'

Mortis ex Verditus: Objects have ACs but I think they're always fragments of the object.

Father Hazm: He lived 150 years ago so yes

johns (GM): lets have an adventure to the remains of the Ars Frisia covenant someday

Rosario of Flambeau: That would be a cool crossover.

Guy of Bonisagus: we did

it was the green man group

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the entire ars frisia covenant attained immortality after making a hermetic breakthrough and discovering the form of Fun

Father Hazm: If Ars Frisia is canon there's a portal there at Harco

johns (GM): gah

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah, so they're all writhing in the flames of Hell, then.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so whats the plan

Archibald of Guernicus: A canon crossover gets awkward as my verditius started selling weapons to the tremere

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think we should see if there are any people still in town who would know anything about corfi

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we should get into the tower.

Rosario of Flambeau: both are good.

Father Hazm: I am not a mage/rogue so I'll be on team Asking Around

Archibald of Guernicus: He must have had friends of some sort, maybe other merchants would be a good bet

Rosario of Flambeau: let's pretend we're B. and we're trying to buy statues.

Guy of Bonisagus: the will of b

Rosario of Flambeau: I can't do that because I have a code against lying.

But if someone else does...

Father Hazm: Oh

Archibald of Guernicus: Hello. My name is Mister B. I believe you have a statue for me.

Father Hazm: I could go to the tower and say I'm the new priest

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Father Hazm: And want some cool statues to spruce up the place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i also cannot convincingly pretend to be B.

Mortis ex Verditus: "B" is probably "Barbatus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean i can but it will immediately go wrong.

Mortis ex Verditus: This is merely my extraordinarily educated opinion, however.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Bortis.

Father Hazm: I don't know Barbatus unless its either a historical reference or covered under 1 OoH Lore

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh yeah, I'm a master of guile, totally got this

Rosario of Flambeau: I was just saying B because I forgot the full name and didnt want to scroll up.

Mortis ex Verditus: He's the guy who found the statues in the first place.

Father Hazm: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: Barnabus was the name of boyrep's magus before he changed his name and left, let's kill that traitor

Mortis ex Verditus: Or made them if they're fake.

Dušan of Criamon: I shall, obliviously, join the asking around

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: clarification: all of the times i called the man-at-arms there a condottiere i should have been calling him a knight.

Mortis ex Verditus: That changes everything.

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, I seem to have arrived late. I was going to ask a man about some statues he found recently!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well, we could secretly create a magical catastrophe and then show up to fix it.

That would get us into the tower.

Father Hazm: What could possibly go wrong?

Archibald of Guernicus: I know what we should do

Hazm crafts amulets that grant the Common Sense virtue, and gives them to everyone

Father Hazm: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: Then we all reasonably pursue the correct course of action

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm not wearing a cursed object.

Father Hazm: That's a memorized charm, no amulet crafting needed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the common sense virtue only winnows out exceptionally bad decisions

Dušan of Criamon: Which is why I took it

Father Hazm: That's a useful virtue when Mortis is leading

Mortis ex Verditus: I can animate all the corpses on the ramparts, but I can't get them to talk without touching them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you animate a corpse discreetly

Mortis ex Verditus: Have I ever steered this covenant wrong?

I haven't.

Father Hazm: I'll give Common Sense to everyone who doesn't block it with their parma

Mortis ex Verditus: Not really.

Dušan of Criamon: We could get a cart and yell "bring out/down yer dead" and have them give the corpses to us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean, without drawing attention to you personally

Guy of Bonisagus: traveling corpse merchants

Mortis ex Verditus: No.

Father Hazm: You have it until sunset, if you accept it

Archibald of Guernicus: The common sense virtue makes us all realise that magic is a bit silly and unrealistic, and we all lost our gift

Guy of Bonisagus: realising that those robes with stars sewn on them just seem childish

Archibald of Guernicus: Mortis was right. This virtue is cursed

Dušan of Criamon: Perhaps the final riddle... was magic itself

Archibald of Guernicus: More stars, taller hats, grander cloaks!

Father Hazm: This is why Fiorella doesn't travel with Hazm

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmm.

Father Hazm: She'll stick with her outlandish outfits made completely of bird product

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, we could just walk right into the tower.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, I feel we're still lacking in the information to crack things here, any suggestions?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're looking for a text right

Guy of Bonisagus: the more ignem you have the taller your hat needs to be, lest you risk overheating

Mortis ex Verditus: We could then offer to buy the statues.

Father Hazm: "We could ask if anyone local has seen a large statue or statue-sized box being hauled around recently."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We could ask if anyone knew Corfi."

Rosario of Flambeau: we could magically change our genders and seduce the guardsmen by pretending to be whores.

Dušan of Criamon: "We know of the man, let's inquire with the locals. They might know his whereabouts. The city isn't dead yet, there has to eb a tavern not unlike ours."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could split the party.

Father Hazm: My charm is specced in Italian women

johns (GM): split it 7 ways.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's.

Father Hazm: I can ask if the whores know Conti

Archibald of Guernicus: We're looking for either the merchant himself or the statues, Gulielmus

Guy of Bonisagus: lets ask forgivenees for our sins

Archibald of Guernicus: What was the tower exactly? I think I missed something mentioned and am a bit out of the loop now

Father Hazm: I pardon Guy's sins

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's a tower in the town.

Guy of Bonisagus: thank you

Mortis ex Verditus: It's the center of military power in this and every other city.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we need to activate our Hermetic Vision again

johns (GM): there is a tower and its guarded by Colonna knights.

Dušan of Criamon: I find a place where beer is served and ask about the man and his Statues

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. Well, good Gamer Sense tells us that its where we need to go. It contains the most combat-ready enemies.

Mortis ex Verditus: If the statutes were looted then they'd be in there.

Rosario of Flambeau: It's only sensible.

Father Hazm: Lets invent an Intellego spell that makes quest-related objects glow orange

johns (GM): Okay, Dusan looks for a drink

Right off the main square he finds a large tavern.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll go look for other merchants.

Archibald of Guernicus: Given that its been months, I doubt there any sort of magical effects remaining in the man's store or warehouse, so I'll cut my losses and move on from it

Father Hazm: And an Intellego Imaginem effect that makes objects that provide concealment glow

No, that's Ignem, since you're looking for shadows

johns (GM): The tavern is full of long tables and benches that make it feel rather empty. A couple sots here and there and a band of chainmailed soldiers hunched over their drinks, but most of the place is empty. The barkeep eyes you warily.

Archibald of Guernicus: Good luck, Dusan

Dušan of Criamon: completely oblivious to dangers: "Thank you Archibald!"

Father Hazm: I'll go to the tavern

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dusan is paralyzed for 5d20 rounds when he notices the circular shape of his mug

Dušan of Criamon: I order something out of courtesy and ask the barkeep about the man and his statues

also a point of observation: locals at tables

Father Hazm: I'll also ask what happened to the town's priest

Lancillotto: dusan is regular gift stink right

Dušan of Criamon: yeah

Father Hazm: named bartender

Dušan of Criamon: i'm putting little faith in information from henchmen

Father Hazm: We found a conspirator

Guy of Bonisagus: hes got a token and hes got a name

whos got pilum for this fucker

Lancillotto: The bartender bites your coin to confirm it before uncorking a bottle of wine and setting it before you. "I mind my business, maybe you should mind yours," he says to Dusan.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait a minute, that token in the tavern

Lancillotto: He quickly moves to serve Hazm.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's a face. He might even have a name!

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Dušan of Criamon: "Why that is the heart of it, his business was my business! Alas, I cannot find him."

Lancillotto: "Sorry buddy. If you're looking for services you're out of luck. The sellswords decided to tar and feather him for a laugh and sent him running down the hill. I don't blame him for not wanting to come back."

Lancillotto tries to ignore Dusan

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Father Hazm: "..."

Dušan of Criamon is ignored

Father Hazm: "Thank you."

Lancillotto: "You're not from around here are you?"

Father Hazm: "I reside in Rome most of the time."

Lancillotto: "What brings you here then?"

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Can I roll Folk Ken to get a general sense if this guy's trustworthiness?

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back.

Lancillotto: Ok

Father Hazm: Considering he just told me they tarred and feathered a priest, I shouldn't say I'm a priest myself to just anyone.

rolling d10!+2+2 Per + Folk Ken

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Archibald of Guernicus: brb 1 min

Lancillotto: He wasn't endorsing the priest abuse if thats what you're askin

Father Hazm: Let me know if a conf will help

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Father Hazm: Okay

Mortis ex Verditus: Tarring and feathering a priest would be pretty funny.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i need to roll some dice sorry

rolling 1d10

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Lancillotto: ty

Father Hazm: "We are philosophers and scholars, looking to get in contact with a local associate."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Not me, I'm a powerful wizard."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!

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Lancillotto: "Hrmph... You must be friends of the Magister Achille then."

"He's staying in the rectory."

Father Hazm nods.

Dušan of Criamon has a mishap drinking his wine at the sound of the name

Mortis ex Verditus: "Where is that then?"

Father Hazm: What academy is he a magister of?

Lancillotto: Are you asking the barkeep?

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

Father Hazm: I doubt he'd know

I was asking first if it was already established

Lancillotto: "It's joined to the church, duh."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Thank you my good fellow."

I'll head there directly.

Lancillotto: alright

Father Hazm: I guess we didn't disturb him when searching the church las ttime

Lancillotto: hazm you head there too?

Father Hazm: Sure

Guy of Bonisagus: shazm

Lancillotto: There is locked door in the back of the church.

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's all go.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets

Rosario of Flambeau: Wow, this locked door mysteriously appeared!

Lancillotto: (locked from your side)

Dušan of Criamon: All the VT people join in for a huge investigation

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have Carina unlock the door.

Lancillotto: With what?

Father Hazm: I will knock

Lancillotto: There is no answer.

Dušan of Criamon: "Drat!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: salve

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh I thought it was locked with a bar and NOT a mechanical lock.

Lancillotto: A padlock.

Dušan of Criamon: this will require an entirely different form of violence

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: happily i read the prying eyes lab text in autumn 1349.

Guy of Bonisagus:  glancing desperately at the current year

Archibald of Guernicus: back

johns (GM): Can you cast it in Dominion 3?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's find out !

Archibald of Guernicus: I have prying eyes as well

Father Hazm: Worh tth efatigue

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't want to smash this particular lock open.

It's in a church.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait if it's locked from the outside and someone is staying in the rectory that probably means that Magister Achille is simply out and about town.

Rosario of Flambeau: And would be disrespectful.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's a level 5 spell, if Guli can't make it I'll do it

Father Hazm: It's a church, you can rest off the fatigue easily

There's pews everywhere

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: pls

johns (GM): Yes but.. He must roll.

Father Hazm: I'll get the grogs organized in case of danger

Mortis ex Verditus: I recommend we continue our investigations elsewhere and return to the rectory in the evening.

Dušan of Criamon: in case God smites anyone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+6+2+3 stamina, intellego, imaginem, virtue

(

8

)

+2+6+2+3

=

21

johns (GM): cheers

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

johns (GM): You see a room devoid of people, living or otherwise.

There are obvious signs it is has been recently inhabited.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: any statues

johns (GM): There is a locked chest, a tub, a bed, a shelf, and a coffin.

Father Hazm: Is the coffin bigger than six feet?

johns (GM): Well it's big enough to hold a six foot tall man.

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: very suspicious, in mythic europe.

Father Hazm: Anything like mortar dust on the coffin?

johns (GM): Nope

Father Hazm: Oh well

Still, a coffin's a good way to move a statue secretly

Mortis ex Verditus: Who would even want to smuggle a statue?

Rosario of Flambeau: Who wouldn't?

Dušan of Criamon: Why, an art lover

Father Hazm: SOmeone who thinks they might getkilled by someone wanting to steal the statue

Mortis ex Verditus: You could just cart it out without the macabre charade.

Rosario of Flambeau: I look under the bed.

Dušan of Criamon: And suffer the jeers of a tasteless populace?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: You could put it in a box.

johns (GM): Oh, are you going into the room?

Father Hazm: Yeah, and then someone kills you and takes the magic statue

johns (GM): You'll have to remove the padlock on the door.

Rosario of Flambeau: I thought we all did.

johns (GM): No, Gulielmus is just Prying Eyes into it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can look under the bed, though

johns (GM): Not from this angle!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you may change your viewpoint at any time

Rosario of Flambeau: Ah. I got confused and thought he cast the unlocking spell.

johns (GM): really?

that's badass. Well there's nothing under the bed.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [page break] could if you were inside, but magical enhancements of your senses do apply. You may change your viewpoint within the room throughout the duration of the spell.

Father Hazm: If the statue is a powerful enough macguffin and a cult was after it you'd want to smuggle it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What did ye see, Guli?"

Father Hazm: And we're looking at several mysterious disapperances and a clue involving the Cult of Mercury

Dušan of Criamon: or even a single suspicious Magister

Archibald of Guernicus: Could you imagine if a sinister, secretive cult was pursuing this statue?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I cannot.

everyone who knew the chandlers were mysterious is dead now right

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we should have one group waiting at the gate and another waiting in the rectory so we can catch this guy.

Father Hazm: I'll wait at the church then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "There's no one inside."

Father Hazm: I however am not against Mortis using violence to enter the tower due to recent relevations

Dušan of Criamon: I am interested in seeing the Tower showdown, so I join that group

Father Hazm: I also give ROsario indulgence to murder the sellswords

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Nothing very interesting, either, except a coffin."

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't think we need to force our way into the tower.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets go to the tower everyone

Mortis ex Verditus: There's only one way out of town, so time is on our side.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and a chest. there is also a chest.

johns (GM): What's the plan, Consul

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could use magic to enter the room and open the coffin

Father Hazm: I'll wait at the church and get a cup of coffee IRL

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: avert your eyes rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm trying to think if I'm allowed by my Code to break down the door but we haven't confirmed that this man is a thief yet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm. this is a lot like a previous adventure, and i think everyone who was present at that one is also dead

Rosario of Flambeau: So I think I'll take Guli's suggestion and definitely not pay attention to whoever happens to get the door open.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should look inside before deciding on a course of action otherwise

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, you're the guy who can enter through walls

Mortis ex Verditus: That's also an option.

Archibald of Guernicus: The room isnt so small that theres no stone wall next to the door, is there?

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed. Are we being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

Archibald of Guernicus: Also, more importantly - any witnesses?

johns (GM): there is enough wall to breka through. i mean its more plaster and brick than stone but whatever

no, you're alone here

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, well that makes it easier.

Father Hazm: Can Archibald just walk inside the recotry and look in the coffin?

Rosario of Flambeau: Since AUE doesn't leave marks.

Father Hazm: I can pardon whoever gets inside the recotyr

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance

Father Hazm: It's for the greater good

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: To enter the room, bypassing the door

johns (GM): You blast a hole in the wall.

Well carve gracefully

I forget how the spell works exactly.

Mortis ex Verditus: Not real thrilled to hear that you've been withholding unlimited pardons from us.

Archibald of Guernicus: It doesn't blast a hole, since it fixes itself afterwards (muto requisite to do so)

Father Hazm: It can be a blast if it reforms perfectly like the T-1000

Archibald of Guernicus: It's very good because it's also subtle

johns (GM): excellent. you are in.

Archibald of Guernicus: No more noise than a stone block sliding on stone, and no evidence after the fact

It's the only spell I've made that's any good but it's very good imo since everyone wants a copy

Father Hazm: Well I don't withhold pardons per se, but necromancy really will take one humdinger of a penance.

Archibald of Guernicus: Since it's conc duration, anyone else who wants to come in can come in while I hold the door open

johns (GM): It's a party in the rectory and you're all invited

Archibald of Guernicus: Hey guys! We're all going to highlight orange objects and investigate them!

Mortis ex Verditus: Huzzah.

Father Hazm: Rectory full of pew

johns (GM): Hold Alt to activate witcher sense

Mortis ex Verditus: I order Carinia to open the coffin.

johns (GM): Inside is a human sized statue of a gladiator, made of granite, in perfect condition, complete with stone helmet, sword, and shield.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: waow

Father Hazm: "Does it seem enchanted, magi?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I can investigate to tell for sure."

Which I do so. Archibald's Unmasking the Sigil, FFM to touch, aura is -9 to cast right?

johns (GM): Yes.

That detects any Active Magic?

Father Hazm: Oh yes, since every PC magus has Artes Liberales, they should be able to recognize Hazm's amulets as high quality ligatures rather than cursed objects.

Mortis ex Verditus: Quick let's sin a lot to bring the pnealty down.

Father Hazm: Since astrology is covered under AL

Mortis ex Verditus: It's obviously cursed if it gives Common Sense.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll do it ceremonially then, if you don't all mind waiting a few minutes

rolling 1d10+32+5-9 vs level 30

(

5

)

+32+5-9

=

33

I dont even take a fatigue

Dušan of Criamon: with great alacrity committing every cardinal sin to powergame a dominion aura

johns (GM): You detect nothing.

Archibald of Guernicus: However this does involve touching the statue, in case touching it sets off a level 5000 effect

"No, no enchantments that I can sense."

johns (GM): It does not.

Er wait

Let me doubel check something real quick

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Dušan of Criamon: ominious

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Quick, let's smuggle the statue out of here before johns gets back.

johns (GM): Can you tell me the exact parameters of that spell as you've described it?

Archibald of Guernicus: It detects any active magic of any magnitude

Father Hazm: Maybe I can get a script to initiate magi in Entreat the Divine Powers, if they go on an adventure and somehow prove themselves to not be the extremely untrustworthy folk the Learned Magicians think the Order of Hermes is.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets massacre the learned magicians

johns (GM): Do that, but then give the script to the Augustan Brotherhood.

Father Hazm: They are really powerful scripts since they're designed to compensate for giftstink

The Learned Magicians are probably extremely paranoid due to what happened to the Brotherhood in this saga.

Also because Hazm sends them letters to keep them up to date on the Rome Tribunal

johns (GM): What happened to the Brotherhood, besides successfully infiltrating the Order of Hermes and bringing it down from the inside out?

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Well ok we have the gladiator statue right now.

johns (GM): Okay. There is something powerful here. You don't recognize the form or style of power.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hazm like "You are NOT gonna believe this shit."

Father Hazm: Yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: Is this even what you were looking for?

Father Hazm: Moving on we have the statue

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we need to talk to the magister about this.

johns (GM): An effect equivalent to 11th magnitude

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's dispel the statue.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's pretty strong.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Wait... wait, no, there's... my word, an 11th level effect!"

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's take this home.

Father Hazm: "It's a statue with extremely powerful magic."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I have no idea what sort of magic this is, but it's clearly non-hermetic."

Father Hazm: "Probably not more than one in the city."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Pre-hermetic, I bet."

Father Hazm: "The Cult of Mercury?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Perhaps our magister is something more than he seems."

Dušan of Criamon: It certainly would fit the classical style of sculpture."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, we should ship it to Durenmar."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm not sure, mercurian magic was the basis of our own hermetic magic, it would be archaic and different to our own but still recognisable."

"I've been translating mercurian rituals after all, I do have a grounding in it."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's give the statue a Christian burial

Rosario of Flambeau: "Can't wait to see the look on those Flambeau Mercurian phonies' faces when I tell them about this."

Father Hazm: I give Archibald the CLear THinker virtue so he can come up with a plan amidst all the scheming magi going their own way

Archibald of Guernicus: "I wouldn't go spreading the word to all and sundry about it for the moment, not until it's purpose and power has been established."

"It could potentially be very dangerous."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Keep an eye on the grogs, if it exerts an influence around it, those without the parma would be the first to be affected."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, I see. I can always wait to brag."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Obviously we would have bought this statue eventually, so I think it belongs to us."

Father Hazm: "The name of Mercury can be invoked in Mathemateci magic as well."

Mortis ex Verditus: "The fact that the town was besieged is surely a coincidence."

Rosario of Flambeau: "There are still two others, right?"

Archibald of Guernicus: There were 2 other statues right? Or just one more

ah 2

johns (GM): The ledger mentioned 2 small wooden statues, of Mercury

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Father Hazm: "The folk besieging the town are an infernal lot."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The small wooden statues might be similarly enchanted."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I feared as much, Hazm."

Father Hazm: "Their mercenaries openly flaunt the Church."

Rosario of Flambeau: So we haven't busted open this guy's chest yet, right?

just the coffin

johns (GM): correct

Mortis ex Verditus: "If the priest didn't want to be tarred an feathered, then he shouldn't have looked like a bird."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets bust open his chest, and also his chest

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: giancarlo would have loved this

johns (GM): Ok

there are a few things inside the chest

Archibald of Guernicus: "I've established a few contacts, experts in the old cult of mercury, that I've maintained correspondence with in discussing my research into the old rituals. When we remove the statue from here, along with the other 2, I'll get in contact with them and see about unravelling this statue's mysteries."

Rosario of Flambeau: Whew, it's not a mimic.

johns (GM): Changes of clothes -- nice scholarly robes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets bust on his chest

Mortis ex Verditus: Tongue.

Teeth.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to have to use a mimic in an adventure one day.

johns (GM): Multiple statues -- 4 wooden statues of mercury about a cubit in height, and 2 small stone heads that look like they were roughly chiseled off another surface

Father Hazm: "It's a safe assumption that he didn't want to be tarred and feathered, and there is no prescription under CIvil and Canon Law that allows priests to be tarred and feathered because they resemble bird."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the pile of gold coins turns into a vicious red herring. roll initiative

Rosario of Flambeau: "Score."

johns (GM): Loose sheafs of parchment with maps on them

Guy of Bonisagus: brb

any knives in the maps

johns (GM): No knives.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I guess this is B."

Father Hazm: "So it's safe to say the infernal powers are at work with these invaders. It is my place to declare such."

johns (GM): A pair of wooden cylindrical scroll holders

And a leatherbound book, a copy of Zenodorus' On Isometric Figures, heavily annotated

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's use the heads as arcane connections to teleport

Rosario of Flambeau: Interesting.

Dušan of Criamon: Oh now we're talking

That's going in the library

Rosario of Flambeau: Proclus' legacy...

johns (GM): You have a copy of this book already, though not annotated like this one

Archibald of Guernicus: "Strange possessions, sodales, before we proceed with raiding all this, these objects seem tae suggest a 'scholar', if ye know what I'm saying."

Mortis ex Verditus: What are the annotations?

johns (GM): It is a L8 Q6 Summa on Artes Liberales

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A philosopher?"

do the annotations make it stronger

Mortis ex Verditus: I guess it's asking a lot to decipher them on such a short time scale.

johns (GM): It is hard to tell without taking at least a day of proper study, Mortis

Rosario of Flambeau: Are the maps of areas we recognize?

anyone with area lores.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We own this book already, let's put it that way."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): Neither are of towns. One map looks like a series of straight lines, and written in text are instructions of "turn left" or "turn right" and such

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's a good thing off-covenant sanctums are illegal, or we'd be in trouble."

Mortis ex Verditus: Well I think we should hide behind the door and then hit the magister on the back of the head when he comes in to go to sleep.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We can safely imagine that this B will return here."

devil's fav demon: that sounds like a faerie map.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yes, well, we'll soon see about that, Rosario."

johns (GM): The second map looks like a blueprint of a large palace. A "C" symbol blocks some of the hallways, and beyond some of these "C", the map does not show what there is.

Father Hazm: Cast InexSearch with the quill on the maps

Rosario of Flambeau: oh shit.

Father Hazm: Or the signatures

Rosario of Flambeau: Hazm for Consul.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's scrying a magus, though

Mortis ex Verditus: No it isn't.

Father Hazm: Oh yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: The quill belongs to your mercantile associate.

Father Hazm: You can be accused of scrying on a magus who's in mortal danger

Archibald of Guernicus: oh true

i was thinking that the merchant was tarred and feathered, got mixed up

lets try this then

johns (GM): do you want me to recap all the names you've seen to date

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns, does the inexorable search with the quill as AC and this map here... work?

even in this aura I autopass I think

johns (GM): You will have to try casting it and check for penetration and such

Archibald of Guernicus: Sure

rolling 1d10+32-9 vs level 20

(

4

)

+32-9

=

27

johns (GM): You have the spell formulaic? I don't see it on your sheet..

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I have my seasons thing half-filled in, i was learning it since I have the lab total

johns (GM): which I just happen to have open to have calculated pen earlier

I see.

well make a note of it

Archibald of Guernicus: sorry

I'll write it down now so it is recorded

johns (GM): checking something with another player real quici

You run your hand over the maps, but come up blank.

Archibald of Guernicus: though is there any reason, when inventing it for yourself instead of just learning it, that the spell only works on the living and needs a different spell for corpses?

johns (GM): lol

that was actually what I was just asking Endrite's necromancer

Father Hazm: I still need to write down a bunch of spells Fiorella learned but luckily I gave myself a week to do so by playing Hazm

Guy of Bonisagus: that makes you smart

johns (GM): Um I believe when you die you lose any arcane connection to your mundane matters

Only the spot of your death, or your corpse, are arcane connections to your self

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh okay, that's fair.

Well, wait is that how it works? Let's ask the necromancer

Mortis ex Verditus: My advice is to help me discover Canaanite Necromancy.

Father Hazm: The hooks for that are over in Canaan

Hazm would be interested in going there though

Mortis ex Verditus: Also yes that is how it would work.

johns (GM): Necromancy, ugh

Mortis ex Verditus: You need a different spell to find a corpse.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a ghost, a skeleton... ridiculous

Father Hazm: I'll have a look at the Canaanite Necromancy adventure and see if I can fit in with Hazm's search for the works of King Solomon

johns (GM): hey if you are interested in King Solomon, the City of Brass is all about his works

Mortis ex Verditus: ASSUMING OF COURSE THAT THIS PERSON IS DEAD AND NOT MERELY NOT ON THE MAP!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus can tell you all about the works of King Solomon, since he has 2 levels of Suleiman lore.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let me try something then."

Father Hazm: I'm interested in the City of Brass too then

johns (GM): the City of Brass is located in the depths of Mythic Araby. do I smell a Hazm/Gulielmus adventure

Rosario of Flambeau: ooh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: adventure where everyone is killed by a djinn and gulielmus spends 8 hours grumbling about how he just wanted to hang out with his friends in cairo

Archibald of Guernicus: oh wait, quill is useless as an AC to a corpse

do we have a city map, potentially

could try again with that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we drew an extremely crude map

Archibald of Guernicus: if hes not in the city as a living person then we at least find out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like a circle labeled "city" divided into the cardinal directions

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I mean, he could have just walked out of the city, it isn't like the people are prisoners here.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think you could invent a version of Inexorable Search that doesnt need a damn map though, like it just tells you what direction they're in and how far away

johns (GM): gulielmus is right

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i feel like that should actually work.

Archibald of Guernicus: In fact maybe I should just make my version work that way

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: now we're thinking with magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: it just points in the right direction and says the distance

much more useful

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you can make your own map then that allows you a lot of flexibility

Father Hazm: We know there's ramps zigzagging on the way into the city

johns (GM): well one drawback of that is, if the spell tells you they are exactly 5000 paces Southeast, how do you tell what directino southeast is, and how do you measure 5000 paces accurately

Mortis ex Verditus: It wouldn't be very good at actually finding someone.

Dušan of Criamon: It would be a sidegrade

Mortis ex Verditus: If ONLY we knew someone with measurement magic...

johns (GM): unless you keep the spell up WHILE you are moving

Archibald of Guernicus: It would be, because of one VERY important feature

I have FFM

I can set it to Sun

johns (GM): nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: and then follow the trail

Father Hazm: You can tell the direction by figuring out where the sun is

johns (GM): Are you retconning your version of Inexorable Search to work that way, then?

Archibald of Guernicus: So, yes, my Inexorable Search version will work that way, since it's very useful for my character

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could even draw a bullseye map with a compass rose and circles for different distances from your location

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

johns (GM): Ok.

No hits!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: for a similar effect

johns (GM): Your guy is either dead or shielded.

Mortis ex Verditus: A what rose?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Either it's not an arcane connection, or our merchant is no longer with the living."

johns (GM): Or in a regio that has annoying properties about it.

Father Hazm: Does it bounce off an aegis?

johns (GM): Or a demon misdirected your spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: it counts as casting into an aegis

which is a casting penalty

johns (GM): Or  checks notes

Archibald of Guernicus: i think

Mortis ex Verditus: Or Archibald is simply fibbing.

johns (GM): It has to penetrate the aegis to take effect if he's in it.

Once penetrated through the spell works as normal.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think it actually just gives me a casting penalty if he's in an aegis, though lemme check

Mortis ex Verditus: There are really a lot of options here.

johns (GM): Or the quill isn't a valid AC.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh hang on

johns (GM): Or Archibald lost his magic powers and hasn't realized it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seasons spent inventing spells are only good for 5 magic theory xp right

Archibald of Guernicus: oh i was wrong

Mortis ex Verditus: It's so possible!

johns (GM): Or Archibald is actually a Faerie Clone of Archibald and is having trouble keeping up with the guise

Archibald of Guernicus: needs to beat the resistance

johns (GM): Or the guy has Greater Immunity (Scrying) virtue

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: FAERIE ARCHIBALD: I love England.

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang I guess we just need to toss Archibald off the ramparts to be sure.

johns (GM): Or the guy is an elemental and not detectable by Corpus.

Father Hazm: Yeah Aegis is MR over a boundary

johns (GM): Or a miracle is blocking the spell.

Rosario of Flambeau: can you not take art xp or artes/philosophiae xp

Guy of Bonisagus: regardless, i think one thing is clear

we need to kill severin

johns (GM): yes!!!!!

Mortis ex Verditus: Huh, Rosario?

johns (GM): ive been saying it for years!!!!

Rosario of Flambeau: im talking to guli

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we need to kill venzi

Father Hazm: So in this case the penetration is what matters, the penetration of the aegis halves Archibald's casting total if he's standing in it and it penetrates

Guy of Bonisagus: quercus

Rosario of Flambeau: also yes, we should kill severin

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway

Father Hazm: The penetration of InexSearch is what matters, that is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, you can take xp in arts but it's only 2 points.

Archibald of Guernicus: This quill is a dead end, sadly

johns (GM): Kill severin so the Praecoship falls to the next oldest Mage: Aurora of MErcere

Archibald of Guernicus: :pepe:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It's a nice quill.

Father Hazm: I just take exposure in arts for 5 points because BR doesn't play so I'm not taking his nerfs, especially when I already have 105 XP in Magic THeory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a good nerf, in my opinion.

Anyway, let's just wait here so we can confront this miscreant.

Father Hazm: I tried the nerf and don't agree

I'm fine with waiting here

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's kill Malach again for making BR's ghost attack our arts.

Mmhm

johns (GM): archibald are we going with mortis' plan

Archibald of Guernicus: We should wait and set up an ambush here, we need to hold the statues safely anyway and we should confront the one who took them

Father Hazm: I rebuff the grogs at sunset

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll apply sidestep to myself while waiting

johns (GM): Okay, describe the setup of the ambush to me. There's the 7 PCs + 5 grogs + 1 skeleton.

Rosario of Flambeau: ive never taken lab exposure until just before this game, when i went through my seasons and took magic theory for all of em.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow she's a definitely alive woman.

Rosario of Flambeau: It felt nice.

Mortis ex Verditus: Can't believe this.

johns (GM): Are you returning the room to the state you found it in?

Rosario of Flambeau: I could just turn invisible and hide in the room.

Archibald of Guernicus: As much as we're able. We want to catch the miscreant in action.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one magus hides in the tub, one magus hides under the bed, one magus hides in the coffin,

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, Dominion 3, huh?

Father Hazm: 105 XP in Magic THeory is about the reasonable limit for a non-Bonisagus

johns (GM): And you're all hiding in this room and not in the church proper?

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll wait in the church.

Father Hazm: I'll stayin the church

Archibald of Guernicus: "Someone should wait in the room itself."

Father Hazm: I'm a priest

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rosario, you'll be invisible, could you do this?"

Rosario of Flambeau: I could wait in the room and be invisible, yeah.

Father Hazm: I can be in any church I please

Or at least, I have a reason to be here

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll try not to yawn or clank around much."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If this B attempts to flee, do anything ye can tae get an arcane connection tae them."

Hmm. whats the layout of the church, any other rooms connected to this one?

I could wait in a side room and use unwelcome entrance to barge in when needed. The spell didnt get its name for nothing.

devil's fav demon: i'm going to need to pump magic theory to as high as I can get it with books to compensate for low int. We've got a L9 Summa so it's worth throwing a season towards it every now and then.

johns (GM): No, it's a single large room. There aren't any pews, just the wooden sections you can see in the image for a choir and a pulpit for the preacher

Rosario of Flambeau: Especially if you have book learner and can take 10 xp instead of 7.

johns (GM): The door to the rectory is right behind the steps up to the pulpit.

Archibald of Guernicus: guy needs to write his insane 17 quality magic theory tract that he could be writing but doesnt.

Father Hazm: Oh right, magic theory to compensate for Int is legit

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll have to cast the invisibility spell outside or something.

Archibald of Guernicus: Suppose I'll have to wait in the church then if we're keeping Rosario in the main room alone.

Rosario of Flambeau: I can't do it in this aura.

johns (GM): The aura outside is Dom 2

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hide under the bed

johns (GM): After sunset all the Dominion aurae drop by 1

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you not cast it ceremonially

Mortis ex Verditus: Spooky!

Father Hazm: I can wait in the confessional

johns (GM): There is no confessional booth

Father Hazm: No wonder this town is so sinful

Rosario of Flambeau: I'

I

johns (GM): In this era the priest would just sit in the apse you confess to him in plain sight

Rosario of Flambeau: ghgaah

keyboard!!!

I've never actually cast a spell ceremonially. Do you roll a die?

Archibald of Guernicus: Well

johns (GM): The confessional in its modern form dates no farther back than the 16th century, and Du Cange cites the year 1563 for an early use of the word confessionale for the sacrum poenitentiae tribunal.

Archibald of Guernicus: I could use conventional stealth

johns (GM): yes rosario

Archibald of Guernicus: I have +2 stealth, in fact

I really could just hide under the bed

Rosario of Flambeau: Aren't you extremely large?

johns (GM): You are sponting this spell right? You can't ceremonially cast a formulaic spell

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm normal sized, just overweight

Father Hazm: Archibald is a Mercurian

He can take ceremonial bonus on formulaic

Rosario of Flambeau: In that case, I can't cast it ceremonially.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ceremonial casting can't be used on formulaics without this virtue, yes

Rosario of Flambeau: Because I don't have the casting total.

Archibald of Guernicus: its a major virtue that makes you worse at sponting so its allowed to have fun effects like this

you cant make yourself invisible at all?

even shouting and screaming in dom 1?

Rosario of Flambeau: Not ceremonially.

In Dom 1 I could, probably.

Archibald of Guernicus: you can conf too

dont forget

Mortis ex Verditus: You still can't cast Formulaic magic ceremonially with Mercurian Magic.

Father Hazm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVUOGUmxJI

Archibald of Guernicus: You can, it's one of our houserules.

Check the wiki!

The virtue got some fun buffs which is why I took it instead of not taking it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can't manage it and take a fatigue?

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow when did this happen?

Archibald of Guernicus: Before this game even began

Father Hazm: Yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: I can cast it formulaic if I only have to deal with a Dom 1 aura.

Father Hazm: It happened with Aurora was a PC

Rosario of Flambeau: It's not a big deal if we wait.

Archibald of Guernicus: Mercurian got buffed between sagas iirc

Father Hazm: Oh right

Archibald of Guernicus: but it got buffed off of Boy Rep's suggestions after playing a mercurian for so long

since it really was far too weak for a major

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+15-3+2 shouting and flailing.

(

5

)

+15-3+2

=

19

there, that casts in dom 2 as well.

Archibald of Guernicus: especially one that actually cripples one part of your casting

Rosario of Flambeau: So I can just walk outside and turn invisible and come back in.

johns (GM): crazy hobo yells at no one in the street then disappears

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

that hobo just exploded into rose petals.

weird.

johns (GM): You're casting that after sunset right?

cause otherwise it will wear off right At Sunset

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

johns (GM): and you are just concealing your Visual Sense, nothing else?

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll conceal that and I'll cast the spell that removes my shadow after entering the church.

johns (GM): meanwhile: Mortis, Hazm, and Archibald in the church. no one else? where are they going to hide out

Rosario of Flambeau: Since I have a way higher casting total on that one.

rolling 1d10!+21-6

(

3

)

+21-6

=

18

Dušan of Criamon: I think I can stay seated in the pews

Rosario of Flambeau: That also casts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm in the church i guess.

johns (GM): No pews in Medieval Churchs, moe

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's pray, friends.

johns (GM): The congregation would enjoy mass while standing

Dušan of Criamon: standing only, final destination

I shall lean against something then

johns (GM): Also the priest would face AWAY from the congregation in medieval mass

Rosario of Flambeau: huh

Mortis ex Verditus: Fucked up how degenerate modern worship is but there you go.

Dušan of Criamon: if God didn't want me to lean on some of the furniture he wouldn't have allowed it to be placed here

johns (GM): Okay, 4 of you in the church

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hey!!

johns (GM): 5 of your

It's crowded

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you

johns (GM): are you keeping the grogs in here too?

Rosario of Flambeau: Hazm can pretend to be giving mass.

Or give a real mass.

And we can hide in plain sight.

Dušan of Criamon: exactly

hell, some locals might accidentally join in

we did prep the place with candles, etc

johns (GM): Guy wanders off to contemplate greater things and takes the grogs with him

Alright.

Time passes

It gets dark outside

You light the candles?

Guy is here too! The whole gang!

Dušan of Criamon: We could light them

Rosario of Flambeau: Someone should just let me know when someone is coming because my no-shadow spell only lasts for two minutes. I didn't really think it through when inventing it.

Dušan of Criamon: For esoteric reasons, and vision

Archibald of Guernicus: I have perfect darkvision from fairy blood

johns (GM): you enjoy hazm's mass I guess

hours pass

Father Hazm: Giving mass in the dark sounds wrong

johns (GM): You hear footsteps at the front door of the church!!!

Murmured voices

Mortis ex Verditus: We did it.

Dušan of Criamon: I could combo whisper/prying gaze but I assume they'll come in in a moment

Mortis ex Verditus: We solved the mystery!

johns (GM): Two folks step in: An armored knightly fellow, who is helping the other, a scholarly fellow with an irregular gait

Guy of Bonisagus: oops i forgot to check if we were being scried on by a level 20 ro lower effect

sorry everyone

Rosario of Flambeau scratches his nose

Mortis ex Verditus: Just get a cane moran!

johns (GM): "Is it matish already?" the scholar slurs.

* matinsh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is it my friend

probably not huh

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's see if he goes for the room.

The guy's name was Bartabus right? The 'B'

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: barnabas, i think

Colonna Bannerman: "Let's wrap it up folks. It's past curfew. You need to go home."

Guy of Bonisagus: barnabus

Archibald of Guernicus: No, that was Boyreps PC

Father Hazm: The congregation is unusually armed and armored

Rosario of Flambeau: Bortobus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: heck

Dušan of Criamon: Barbatus

Archibald of Guernicus: "Of course. First though, we'd like to talk a little to the man there."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bector

"We've come so far to see him."

Colonna Bannerman: The knight tenses as Archibald spews gift stink at him.

"Who are you?! I haven't see you before!"

Dušan of Criamon: as is his good right

Mortis ex Verditus: "We're business associates of that man there."

Archibald of Guernicus: Guy and Guli, employ your lack of stink

johns (GM): The scholar also tenses. "I don't know theshe people. Quickly, back!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'm-"

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast Call to Slumber on the guard.

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

johns (GM): The scholar stumbles backwards out the church doors and the knight draws his blade to cover his retreat.

Roll it

also is that momentary call

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+14

(

5

)

+14

=

19

uhh i think so

Rosario of Flambeau thinks to himself "I hope my sodales are keeping it subtle."

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh that spell doesn't work in combat or other stressful situations.

Guy of Bonisagus: but it still works outside of combat doesnt it

johns (GM): The guy is getting into combat mode.

Father Hazm: Fast cast it

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah but he wasnt in combat mode

johns (GM): Ok.

Guy of Bonisagus: when i said that

johns (GM): Fast cast vs his init.

Guy of Bonisagus: how do i fast cast

johns (GM): Quickness + Finesse

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10-2

(

4

)

-2

=

2

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+2 init

(

10

+

4

)

+2

=

16

Rosario of Flambeau: lmfao.

johns (GM): Too slow.

Rosario of Flambeau: also you can only fast cast spontaneous spells or spells which you have mastered with fast casting.

johns (GM): The guy sags momentarily then perks up.

Guy of Bonisagus: alright everyone, have a fun combat

Father Hazm: Nerfing Sleep in a game about wizards. SMDH

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!-2

(

4

)

-2

=

2

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!-2

(

8

)

-2

=

6

Archibald of Guernicus: Does anyone have good brawl to catch the scholar and grab him? Or a spell that would slow him down / stop him

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10!

(

8

)

=

8

I do.

Rosario of Flambeau: Bialas' level 35 call to slumber variant where he yawned and everyone who heard it fell asleep for a month ftw.

Dušan of Criamon: init is just quickness right

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

rolling 1d10!+1

(

9

)

+1

=

10

Rosario of Flambeau: there is

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the variant where everyone who heard him yawn Died

Tünde:

rolling d10+4 grog vanguard initiative

(

3

)

+4

=

7

Rosario of Flambeau: a level 3 or 5, very low level spell you can spont to stop him

johns (GM): The Scholar is on the other side of the room and booking it, with the guardsman blocking your path, so you have a round to cast spells on either target before the scholar is out of sight.

Dušan of Criamon: Dušan of Criamon Initiative: 56

Dušan of Criamon Initiative: 94

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2 quickness

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: MuTe to temporarily make his shoes sticky

so he falls down

Tünde: Tunde is vanguard of the grogs, Morgana leader

Rosario of Flambeau: i think its base 1 or 2 + part + voice

johns (GM): Your regular Init Dusan is just Stress Die + Quickness

Dušan of Criamon: You cast, I'll try to grab him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok uhh

Rosario of Flambeau: so 5

probably

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have a plan. hang on

Tünde: They've all been buffed with Mars' Blessing

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 50

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: don't actually hang on though. please take your turns

johns (GM): RAW init archibald.

1d10! + qik

Archibald of Guernicus: I know, you didnt add my token

johns (GM): + your weapon mod if you are using a sword.

Archibald of Guernicus: so I had to use the macro

Oh, weapon mod, lets see

Tünde: All grogs act on Tunde's turn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i get to add init for holding a staff?

Archibald of Guernicus: Longsword is +2

so 12

johns (GM): Not if you are using the staff to cast a spell.

Rosario of Flambeau: a staff is +2 init though.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Footsteps of Slippery Oil, at voice with FFM, to make the scholar slip up

Tünde: If you are being shielded by the grog group, say so now

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+21+2

(

10

+

5

)

+21+2

=

38

Minus aura

vs spell level 10 iirc

johns (GM): Okay. The guardsman spends his turn planning to intercept any attacks who move towards him or the scholar.

Mortis?

Archibald of Guernicus: 10, yes

johns (GM): The scholar slips and falls.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you resolve the combat before gulielmus breaches the code

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

Rosario of Flambeau: I feel like I should just try to cast Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance and start hauling this stuff out onto the street.

Mortis ex Verditus: The spell holds the target in place for diameter duration.

rolling 1d10! + 21 - 5

(

8

)

+21-5

=

24

Plus whatever the aura penalty is.

johns (GM): Ok he has fallen to the floor and then freezes with his arms and legs all willy nilly. it looks funny

Mortis ex Verditus: It's level 20.

johns (GM): Grogs

Archibald of Guernicus: Rofl... the scholar stopped animating when he fell

Morgana: "Should we remove the threat of his bodyguard?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't kill the man, but aye."

Morgana: "Nonlethal isn't our department."

"Removing threats often isn't."

johns (GM): That's a lot of conversation for one combat round

can I say you're also just taking a Defensive pose

Morgana: I don't know

If the ocnsul says "Don't kill him" and that's teh only thing grogs can do to neturalize him, then I suppose we are

Dušan of Criamon: crap, had i re-cast wiz sidestep I could have just ran past the guard

Morgana: Or we ready an action for when the consul orders us to kill the knight

johns (GM): Ok.

Guilelmus!!!!!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will cast

Archibald of Guernicus: Ohhh he castin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let me double check this

johns (GM): RETCON Mortis spell does nothing to the scholar. He still slipped and fell.

Rosario of Flambeau: huh

Morgana: "We'll cover your advance then. If the knight presents steel, so will we."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The Genethilialogical Investigation

rolling 1d10!+2+6+12+3 aura not included

(

5

)

+2+6+12+3

=

28

Rosario of Flambeau: uh

johns (GM): What did that do.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 13 pen

Mortis ex Verditus: This guy's sword has a wooden hilt, right?

Rosario of Flambeau: Gulielmus is inscrutable.

johns (GM): Yes mortis.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Rosario of Flambeau: Araby has changed him...

Morgana: It's still mostly Terram

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's the spell that takes someone's time and place of birth.

Mortis ex Verditus: I need a quick draw talent so I can carry around a bunch of wands.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, score.

Well done.

Dušan of Criamon: Mortis: The sorcelator

johns (GM): Guy.

Guy of Bonisagus: i look at my shoes

dusan

Archibald of Guernicus: Gay of Bonersuckus

Dušan of Criamon: So is anyone engaging the guard

johns (GM): Dusan. It's all up to you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if i had a real arcane connection that would be a great sympathetic bonus.

Morgana: I already asked Archibald if he wanted the guard dead

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should make a spell to take a real arcane connection.

Morgana: If you attempt to get to the schollar and the knight attempts to intercept you, we intercept the knight

As you're shield grogged

Dušan of Criamon: Barring the use of Taste of Spices to make him think he's having a stroke, or physically brawling, I don't see much of a chance

I can go for the intercept

Morgana: Okay

johns (GM): Are you able to fight? I thoguht criamon were pacifists

Morgana: We protect Dusan as heapproaches the scholar

Guy of Bonisagus: they are

Dušan of Criamon: I am, who's fighting?

Morgana: If the knight attacks Dusan we take teh hit

johns (GM): Ok.

the scholar tries to get up.

rolling 1d10-4 vs 6

(

7

)

-4

=

3

He fails.

The Knight continues to block your way and prepares to intercept anyone who approaches.

Rosario, you can hear from the other side of the wall that shit is going down.

Morgana: His block goes against us

johns (GM): Archibald. You're up.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Give up, Bartleby!"

Morgana: Instead of Dusan

Dušan of Criamon: So do the grogs shield my offensive push or not

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. I'll run over to the scholar, without standing in the oil of course because thats just silly.

johns (GM): You would be engaged by the guard en route.

Morgana: We do

Archibald of Guernicus: I have sidestep up

johns (GM): I see.

Morgana: The guard can't engage Dusan

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't want to leave the artifacts alone in case they have accomplices, but I will come to the doorway.

Where I can see the guard.

johns (GM): Then he swipes at you and that's the guard's turn.

Rosario of Flambeau: Is the guard wielding a sword?

johns (GM): The door is closed.

Also it is locked from the other side.

Rosario of Flambeau: I open it.

Oh yeah.

johns (GM): Remember?

Rosario of Flambeau: lmfao.

Dušan of Criamon: padlock, right?

johns (GM): The pool of oil, according to the description, is 10 paces wide.

Yes Dusan.

Tünde:

rolling d10!+12+10 Defense vs the Knight

(

4

)

+12+10

=

26

johns (GM): He was attacking Archibald, not Dusan.

Tünde: There's five of us

We can cover all the magi

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+18+2-6 shouting and flailing.

(

9

)

+18+2-6

=

23

johns (GM): Very well

Rosario of Flambeau: I cast Archibald's Unwelcome entrance and open the wall.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+14 attack roll vs grogs

(

7

)

+14

=

21

Rosario of Flambeau: ...On the outside!!!

And loop around the building.

johns (GM): Ok.

Mortis, you're up.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah my full turn is moving to the scholar. I'm now an armed man standing by him.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh my god I'm an idiot and opened myself up to johns telling me Rosario gets lost trying to walk around the outside of a building.

johns (GM): gahahahAHAHAHAHA

this is the ultimate poiwer.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'd advise ye tae stay in the oil."

lmfao

Rosario NO

if we lose the statues im going to scream

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all you have to do is keep the wall to your right!

or your left.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm going to cast Unwavering Attention on the bannerman.

Rosario of Flambeau: My sodales are under attack! I have to save them!

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 21 - 5

(

6

)

+21-5

=

22

Tünde: Just keep touching the wall

johns (GM): Penetration?

Mortis ex Verditus: 2.

johns (GM): Okay, the man seizes and is held motionless.

Grogs

Tünde: Hmm

We'll stand at the ready and keep protecting the magi

johns (GM): GULIELMUS

SAVE THE DAY

well actually

no need to keep init

the swordsman is incapacitated for a diameter and the scholar is too drunk to get out of the puddle

Rosario of Flambeau: cool

Guy of Bonisagus: "Great work everyone."

johns (GM): The scholar holds up his hands meekly. "Eashy, eashy"

Tünde: We take the guard's sword

Rosario of Flambeau: I run past archibald and try to break the lock back into the room.

Mortis ex Verditus: "We want our statues back."

johns (GM): "What shtatues"

Mortis ex Verditus: "The statues you have in the rectory."

johns (GM): "They're.. Shure, shure, take em, they're all yours"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Wait a minute, Rosario, what are ye doing out- hang on, I'll get us intae the room again."

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, that was easy.

Archibald of Guernicus: I walk up and cast Unwelcome Entrance, this time with FFM for Sun duration so we can move the statues out easily

Mortis ex Verditus: Kudos all around.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Hopefully they're still in there.

Mortis ex Verditus: "We should wait for him to sober up before we finish our conversation."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I heard a commotion and thought you were all in danger."

johns (GM): It will take 3 grogs to carry the big statue, being as it is solid stone

Archibald of Guernicus: "It was no trouble, but your concern for the wellbeings of your sodales is admirable."

Father Hazm: "I believe I should ask for the key to the rectory. It's church property, after all, and the last priest seems to have forsaken this parish."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is Florence nice? I've never been there."

Mortis ex Verditus: "How long have you been keeping these statues here? Didn't you know we'd come for them>"

Dušan of Criamon: "THIS is the magister?"

johns (GM): "I'm just keeping them safe from the pillaging mercs.. They belong to my lord.. My lord of the Duc di Colonna... does that ring a bell?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Not really."

Archibald of Guernicus: Quick. Someone, anyone, roll area lore [pleading]

Mortis ex Verditus: "Yes."

johns (GM): You all know who the House of Colonna is.

It is one of the most powerful houses in Rome.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, that Duc di Colonna.

Father Hazm: What a guy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they were at the battle of rome

Mortis ex Verditus: "Can you arrange a meeting so we can thank him for keeping our property safe?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hmm..."

johns (GM): "You've robbed me blind.. Shurely you don't need to press a ransom too.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you think the duc could have taken this town just to get his hands on the statues?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Are you sure they're your Duc's?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should leave immediately.

"Let's stick around and investigate."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We have documentation of at least three of them as belonging to someone else."

johns (GM): "The Duc owns the town and everything in it"

"I'm sure you're mistaken"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, the one who took the city then."

johns (GM): "Retook"

"Merely reclaiming his ancestral rightsh"

Archibald of Guernicus: "But these were our property, not the city's, even retaking the city gives him no right tae them."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ancestral rights as a common highwayman, I'm sure."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Look, we had a prior arrangement regarding the purchase of these statues."

johns (GM): "Of course, you're absolutely right -- im being foolish"

"They're all yours!"

Father Hazm: "These men are not robbers, I can assure you. Church records can verify their claim to the statues."

Mortis ex Verditus: Did we actually buy them?

Archibald of Guernicus: No

Rosario of Flambeau: No, but Archibald's friend did.

Dušan of Criamon: The pope should arbitrate the issue

johns (GM): "Not robbers! They're just reclaiming their property! It's perfectly understandable."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, then it seems like we should pay the Duc.

"Ah, same."

"Fortunately we didn't need to resort to violence."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right. The Duc was holding onto it, keeping it safe, so we should give him some money for it."

"That should smooth over this unfortunate misunderstanding."

Father Hazm: I can make sure the Duc is properly credited for tithing these statues.

Mortis ex Verditus: "We would also pay handsomely for information regarding the previous owner of these statues."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why were you being escorted by that guard in the first place?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Is this guy wearing a relic?

johns (GM): "Is.. he alive?" The scholar keeps his hands up, but jerks his head to the stationary bannerman.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Of course he is."

Mortis ex Verditus: "He's simply been hexed by my powerful magic."

Father Hazm: Half my job is laundering various items as tithes

johns (GM): "Ah, I see I see, no harm no foul"

Mortis ex Verditus: "He should be fine in about half a minute.



"

Guy of Bonisagus: no harm no foul huh

johns (GM): Mortis, are you going to search his person and under his clothes and such

Guy of Bonisagus: bit of an out of place expression

johns (GM): Its a regional dialect

Upstate Milan

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Good point.

I'll tell Mariu to do it.

Dušan of Criamon: if we're preparing to loot and exfil, I want the annotated book

Archibald of Guernicus: Dohohoho, patented expression. Oooold Italian dialect.

Máriu Puddu: Ok

Mortis ex Verditus: "Can't be too careful."

Rosario of Flambeau: Good call Dusan.

johns (GM): "Gah"

Mariu manhandles your prisoner.

He takes the man's coinpurse, and the string that was around his neck, which features a large key, a ligature, and a charm of some sort.

Mortis ex Verditus: Does it DEPICT a key or is it ACTUALLY a key?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Strange. Pass me that charm, will ye?"

johns (GM): Tis a key.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald's Unmasking the Sigil. What's the aura in the church at night?

Mortis ex Verditus: "Hand him his money back, we're no robbers."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Are we not paying you enough? Give the man's coins back."

Good Boys of Vardian's Tomb

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: vardians tomb suffers -3 loyalty for the next decade

Dušan of Criamon: lmao

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm investigating the charm, because it could be magical, but we're not robbing the man

johns (GM): Dominion 1

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+37-3

(

1

)

+37-3

=

35

Good thing thats not stressed

also level 30, didnt ened to roll, oh well

Rosario of Flambeau: arent casting rolls alwatys stressed in hostile auras

johns (GM): Uhh quickly consulting the guidelines I believe it is a Mag 4 effect item, non-hermetic

no rosario

Dušan of Criamon: so, remaining unresolved mysteries: whereabouts of merchant, possible meeting with Colonna, how we'll smuggle out the art

Father Hazm: I have 4 AL and a magical tradition that uses ligature style effects, I'm interested to know the components if nothing else is obvious

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: just infernal?

Rosario of Flambeau: i dont know why i keep thinking that

johns (GM): not even in infernal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what the

johns (GM): Ok Hazm it's a Learned Magician charm

Succoro Fortunam

Archibald of Guernicus: "Non-hermetic, but it's magical. Magnitude 4, not too shabby."

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang these guys are everywhere.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hazm and the guy start doing the secret handshake

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: We should do something about it.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, they should join the order of hermes.

Father Hazm: "It's a Mathemateci charm. Same form and technique I use."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: isnt learned magic splintered into a bunch of tiny traditions anyway

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I can describe the effect and co-operate with Hazm if he understands the theory behind it.

johns (GM): Are you able to ID charms purposes just by analysis? I don't know the specifics offhand

Guy of Bonisagus: this "magician" will "learned" not to fuck with vardians tomb

Rosario of Flambeau: Or, if they don't want to, they could, if it comes to it, be slain by a ton of Flambeau.

johns (GM): I mean I know the specifics of what the charm does

Father Hazm: I don't know, but you said them out loud

I can retcon that if I can't think of a reason why I could

johns (GM): By the way about a diameter has passed

what are you doing about the bannerman

Mortis ex Verditus: He was disarmed, but that's all.

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns, since I get full details on the charm, can I co-operate with Hazm to find out the effect?

Rosario of Flambeau: Is he still going to act all crazy?

johns (GM): I don't think it worth figuring out the nitty gritty of this so I'll just tell you

Archibald of Guernicus: I still get full information, I just lack the theory to interpret it, but he would

johns (GM): It grants a seasonal +2 to all artes liberales rolls for geography

Rosario of Flambeau: cool

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

johns (GM): or cartography, if such a science actually existed back then

Archibald of Guernicus: wowie

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are there tradition-specific invi spells

Father Hazm: Cool

Rosario of Flambeau: map guy loves to make his maps.

Mortis ex Verditus: Labwork to make maps.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll hand Mariu the amulet to hand back to him

johns (GM): Well the knight is disarmed and surrounded by many armed people and hostile wizards so he silently puts his hands up in the surrender gesture too, glaring daggers at you all

Dušan of Criamon: as long as he's only glaring them!

Guy of Bonisagus: watch out

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Guy of Bonisagus: hesusing more learned magician magic

Father Hazm: Can I roll Mathemateci Lore to see if I recognize the handwriting?

johns (GM): He's Creoing Terram at Eye range to shoot daggers.

Rosario of Flambeau: We should interrogate the knight as well, if possible.

johns (GM): Okay, Hazm.

Mortis ex Verditus: Who cares what he has to say?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: me, since i want 10 xp

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2+1 Int + Lore of the Mathematici

(

1

)

+2+1

=

4

Sorry all

Rosario of Flambeau: he has plate armor so i want to know where to buy it

since i only have chain

i should just take it.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think that Guy, who has such legendary communication skills that his every sentence carries 1xp exposure on it, should talk to the guard and scholar and find out more about these amulets, and maybe about our merchant.

Mortis ex Verditus: Partial plate exists.

johns (GM): He has mail.

Sorry the token is inaccurate.

Rosario of Flambeau: nice token!!!

Mortis ex Verditus: You just commission it.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll do that eventually.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's ask him about the maps.

Colonna Bannerman: "If you want to get out of this with your treasure you'll let us go now. If I'm late reporting back they'll investigate and you'll have a lot more than me to deal with then."

Father Hazm: "I don't recognize much, but I can tell you that such amulets are made for their wearer and won't work for anyone else. So he either made it himself or had it made for him."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Good, we want to talk to the Duc."

Dušan of Criamon: "Good argument, and also a possible clever ruse to alert the others."

Rosario of Flambeau: "If only we had a Mentem specialist, we could send him back with an all clear."

Colonna Bannerman spits

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

Colonna Bannerman: "Witches and brigands."

Guy of Bonisagus: what do we want to know from them

Colonna Bannerman: "To hell with the lot of you."

Rosario of Flambeau: "You're the one who's thieving!"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Don't be such a sore loser."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We've got paperwork for those statues, not that you can even read."

"I'm sorry. That was disrespectful."

Father Hazm: "I heard what this town did to the last priest. It's not them that's going to hell."

Rosario of Flambeau: I bow my head to the bannerman.

Father Hazm: "Even if it was the sellswords, no one else lifted a finger to stop them."

Colonna Bannerman: "Laying in ambush in a church then sullying it with your demonic sorcery. If only God would grant me the strength to smite you all now."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: miracle roll

miracle roll

miracle roll

Colonna Bannerman: ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Didnae care much for God when you ran the old priest out."

Colonna Bannerman: since you insist.

Father Hazm: "Perhaps there's a good reason why He does not."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

Colonna Bannerman:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

3

)

+1

=

4

Mortis ex Verditus: "Look, are you going to help us arrange payment with the Duc or not?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "He would back our plans, as all we do is to thwart people like you, who would desecrate a church by hiding stolen goods within it."

Colonna Bannerman: Hm.. No miracle.

Rosario of Flambeau: Also I'm going to have to insist, if we do take the statues, that we only take the ones we can tie to the store.

Father Hazm: God's probably not going to give him the strength to strike down an ordained priest and his associates.

Colonna Bannerman gives you the fig

Rosario of Flambeau: and the papers.

iirc there were two wooden statues on the bill but four in the chest, along with some other stuff.

We shouldn't take all of them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's a crime.

Mortis ex Verditus: We should buy them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: youve denied archibald magical resources, and now you must pay the price

Rosario of Flambeau: If you buy them, you can possibly get all the loot, or you can possibly be killed by a noble.

Father Hazm: I can arbitrate the Duc being credited for their donation, as a chamberlain and ordained priest.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's fair.

Father Hazm: The Parish of Ponza thanks you, your lordhsip.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are you wearing a common sense amulet

Father Hazm: It's a charm, doesn't need an amulet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if so, this plan has the tacit approval of the gm.

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice

Colonna Bannerman: Hmm

Common Sense tells you that you just mugged the Duc's pet magister violently

Rosario of Flambeau: It was extremely non violent.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and are stealing all of his shit

Colonna Bannerman: You used magic, which is violence against God.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we also announced we live in rome at one point. lol

Colonna Bannerman: ummm Folk Ken + Per from anyone who wants to try

Mortis ex Verditus: It was definitely slightly magic.

Rosario of Flambeau: get this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brb

Rosario of Flambeau: is this magister technically clergy?

Father Hazm: I've come to the conclusion that common sense doesn't lead to adventure success by any clearpath.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+1-6

(

10

)

+3+1-6

=

8

Rosario of Flambeau: because thats my fuckin folk ken spec babey

Archibald of Guernicus: oh these rolls explode

hang on

Mortis ex Verditus: It is what it is.

Father Hazm: And mabye it would be a curse if you had it all the time

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

oh my god

Rosario of Flambeau: lmfao.

Colonna Bannerman: hm.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Rosario of Flambeau: never mind.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

Mortis ex Verditus: What a roll!

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay so, 23

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+3+1+1 because i want to roll! i love rolling anyway!

(

10

+

8

)

+3+1+1

=

23

hioly shit.

lmfao

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

23

isnt there a movie about how the number 23 is linked to everything

Father Hazm: I can roll Church Lore to see if I recognize the magister

Rosario of Flambeau: yes, the movie is based on an old idea that william s burroughs had irl about that

its a magick irl meme.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

my numbers not as good

Rosario of Flambeau: Seems like the magister is more worried about what the bannerman said about those "others" coming

than about us.

So let's take our shit and go.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+3+1+2 Folk Ken (scholars) + Percdption

(

4

)

+3+1+2

=

10

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, while we should take the statues, before we leave we should locate the missing merchant."

"There are still things afoot in this city."

Rosario of Flambeau: If only we had a magus who could make giant pits we could hide our loot in.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Fair enough."

Father Hazm: Hmmm

What's a good period word like "Quisling"?

Colonna Bannerman: Judas

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmm.

Father Hazm: Quisling hasn't been born yet, I know, s'why I ask

Mortis ex Verditus: Well we could cart this stuff out immediately.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Consider the powerful magic on the stone gladiator, and that this man named Barbatus seemed an expert on them. Maybe he was a charlatan, of course, that's a possibility. But if he wasn't, we must find him."

Father Hazm: Judas seems a bit too much of a pawn compared to Quisling

Dušan of Criamon: would they just let us leave in the night

Mortis ex Verditus: They didn't have anyone guarding the gate when we came in.

Colonna Bannerman: No one was watching the gatehouse if you remember, and the alarm hasn't been rung yet.

Mortis ex Verditus: Also the gate can't be closed.

Colonna Bannerman: Brutus or Cassius

according to Dante's Inferno, at least.

Father Hazm: "Can your Intellego Vim tell if the man is Gifted?"

"Only the Knight seems to be reacting harshly to your Gift."

Colonna Bannerman: may I assume this is all being said out of earshot of the magister who probably speaks latin

Father Hazm: I suppose so

Archibald of Guernicus: hm

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, he is pretty drunk.

Archibald of Guernicus: how DO you tell if osmeone is gifted if they give off no stink

Colonna Bannerman: InVi can do it

Mortis ex Verditus: Magyyk.

Archibald of Guernicus: whats the guildeline for it

Dušan of Criamon: i've iInVi at +13

Archibald of Guernicus puts a hand on your shoulder

Archibald of Guernicus: That's nice

Dušan of Criamon: i suspected so

Guy of Bonisagus: a magus is just a human of virtue

Mortis ex Verditus: There's a lot of stuff that magic can do that doesn't have a guideline.

Archibald of Guernicus: you are like little baby. watch this

Father Hazm: Can I roll Area Lore: Bologna if I have no AL but DO have a virtue that says I got a BA from tehre?

Guy of Bonisagus: well, virtue by one definition, and certainly not by others

Archibald of Guernicus: Not to diminish Dusan's skill at it but Archibald is 51 and has been training his intellego vim for a long time

Colonna Bannerman: weird i coudl have sworn there was a simple hermetic spell for this but i can't find it now

Archibald of Guernicus: its his highest combo

Colonna Bannerman: okay hazm

Archibald of Guernicus: If the level is low enough I could fatigueless spont it I think

Colonna Bannerman: just cuase i love lore

Guy of Bonisagus: my best casting score is rego animal at +22

Mortis ex Verditus: There are a bunch of magi who have spells to find Gifted children.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2 Area Lore: Bologna to recognize the magister if he studied there

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Colonna Bannerman: THE NUMBNESS OF THE GIFT

InVi 20

R: Per, D: Conc, T: Touch

When the caster places his

hand on another character who

has The Gift, his hand feels numb.

Colonna Bannerman: This spell was initially invented to

detect Gifted hedge wizards, and

was first described in Hedge Magic,

page 6.

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

Archibald of Guernicus: Doesn't need the conc part really, just momentary

Colonna Bannerman: Intellego Vim spells can detect

The Gift. The base level is

10: “detect the traces of powerful

magic,” which will detect both the

Blatant Gift and the Gentle Gift,

as well as the regularly Gifted.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try sponting it

Well

That would involve ceremonial sponting

are we sure we really want to look into this?

If you're worried that he has a parma

just forcelessly cast something harmless on him

Archibald of Guernicus: if it fails, he has MR

Rosario of Flambeau: my best is Rego Vim at +25 at the moment which isnt great for a 49 year old wizard but I have a SHITLOAD of xp in abilities.

Father Hazm: My thinking was that he might be a Gifted Learned Magician

Colonna Bannerman: you have already cast spells on him

Rosario of Flambeau: Interesting.

Father Hazm: In which case I'm inclined to sotp being mean to him

Archibald of Guernicus: didnt one fail though?

the one mortis cast

Rosario of Flambeau: We should have him join.

Dušan of Criamon: Isn't this scrying by the way

Colonna Bannerman: You're in a church, after all

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah but his spell failed to do anything

Colonna Bannerman: What's to say it even went off?

Rosario of Flambeau: Dusan, if he's not a member of the Order of Hermes it doesn't count.

Archibald of Guernicus: i think someone should forcelessly cast something harmless on him just to confirm, then, since youre saying that doesnt count!

Dušan of Criamon: Hm

Father Hazm: He shouldn't have the Parma if he's not in the order

Rosario of Flambeau: True. And he wasn

't carrying a relic.

Weird.

Father Hazm: And AFAIK ICly there are no Learned Magicians in the Order

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe the knight is a wizard and is sharing his parma.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's possible.

Guy of Bonisagus: I forcelessly cast The Physician's Eye on the magister.

Father Hazm: It's possible but I haven't been let in on any such possibility

And it could be a hook

Guy of Bonisagus: "He resisted a spell."

Rosario of Flambeau: He could also have True Faith.

johns (GM): oh hazm

Guy of Bonisagus: unlikely

johns (GM): regarding the lore

Rosario of Flambeau: That's a distinct possibility.

johns (GM): you were wondering if you recognize a professor named Barbatus?

Father Hazm: "The Learned Magicians have form resistance, though not as strong as yours."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Are you sure, Guy?"

Guy of Bonisagus: people with true faith are very rare, people with true faith who run around and get nearly blind drunk are even rarer and we already know one of those

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: That's true.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Certain."

Father Hazm: Art: Fortunam

Defense: Confounding Magics

Effect: Defense vs Mentem effects.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Form resistance is possible."

Rosario of Flambeau: Huh.

Guy of Bonisagus: physicians eye is corpus

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmm.

johns (GM): "It's nothing more than a simple mental discipline.. anyone can learn it with the right training and scholarship.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Could someone less afflicted by the Gift ask the man if he's the one who made that amulet."

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, we could just take the loot and send messenger.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aha."

Father Hazm: Art: Vulnero

Defense: Confounding Magics

Effect: Defense vs Corpus effects.

johns (GM): Hazm has not heard of a Magister Barbatus.

Mortis ex Verditus: You know, with payment.

Father Hazm: Alright

9 is a pretty high roll in terms of reputations

Guy of Bonisagus: is there anything a learned magician wouldnt be resistant to

just through their techniques

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Father Hazm: Terram, Corpus, Mentem, Vim are on the list

Guy of Bonisagus: aha

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then the important thing here. These statues were originally held elsewhere, where and from whom were they recovered?"

Guy of Bonisagus: wait let me check if this is personal range

its touch range

I cast Cloak of the Duck's Feathers on him

forcelessly

johns (GM): Ok

Father Hazm: Oh, hedge wizards don't get form resistance

Guy of Bonisagus: this is aquam so if he resists it something else is up

Father Hazm: Just a Defense

johns (GM): How can you tell if he resists

Guy of Bonisagus: get some water and splash it on him

Rosario of Flambeau: pee on him.

johns (GM): Ok

He's now wet

Guy of Bonisagus: rosario is technically right

ok

johns (GM): wait

No hes not!

Rosario of Flambeau: :O

johns (GM): The water slides off him.

johns (GM): How about that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Holy shit

Rosario of Flambeau: johns is ready to go to bed but we just busted this shit wide open

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Archibald of Guernicus: We did it everyone. We cast a spell on the red herring

johns (GM): no no I'm still here

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, he didn't resist that one."

Mortis ex Verditus: Cast Call to Slumber on Johns.

johns (GM): wait

hang on

Guy of Bonisagus: "A hedge mage to be certain, though."

johns (GM): Yes, he gets wet

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

Rosario of Flambeau: smh

johns (GM): sorry. its late and I'm confused.

Father Hazm: Does call to slumber work on johns? He's belligerent but also sleepy.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Wait, nevermind, he resisted it."

Dušan of Criamon: "I can't believe my eyes!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ;p;

johns (GM): someone perdo'd my mentem.

Mortis ex Verditus: Maybe we should come back next week and finish this adventure up.

Archibald of Guernicus: "He just keeps getting wetter and drier, it's so hard tae keep track of."

johns (GM): Nonsense. you're doing great.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm about to crash myself

johns (GM): true.

Mortis ex Verditus: I know WE are, but you don't seem to be doing so hot.

Archibald of Guernicus: "However, this means that he's not merely a learned magician."

Guy of Bonisagus: learned magicians dont have a thing for aquam so hes got real magic resistance

Father Hazm: "I was mistaken. The Learned Magicians do not have form resistance, just a few confounding defenses."

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, we can still do the Galafre recap.

Father Hazm: "I believe this is the work of your Parma."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Meaning that he has real magic resistance."

Father Hazm nods.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The parma can only be maintained if a direct eye contact is kept up, I see no other magi around here besides us."

"Meaning it would be his own, if so."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Good point. Rosario, please do the honors."

johns (GM): "I'm not from Parma.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Right, he's from Florence."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Have you considered joining the Order of Hermes?"

the disembodied voice asks him

Archibald of Guernicus: "There are several possibilities. OH don't say it out loud Rosario, we're still thinking this through."

"He may own a genuine relic."

johns (GM): "You're... you're with the cult of Mercury? But they're gone.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "... Now that I didnae expect."

johns (GM): What if he has a relic and he swallowed it.

But you didn't think of that.

Father Hazm: Relics don't give form resistance

Mortis ex Verditus: "Are you serious?"

Father Hazm: So no protection from getting wet

Mortis ex Verditus: "Have you never heard of the Order of Hermes?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if he has a parma you can probably spont to break it.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm very glad no one can see the expression on my face.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's meant to be a secret, though such a bloody poorly kept one these days."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: frankly im not sure if he is wet or dry, here

johns (GM): "Oh, ohh, uh, enlighten me, please."

schrodinger's ReAq

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hold on one moment then please."

Guy of Bonisagus: if he has any amount of magic resistance hes wet

Mortis ex Verditus: "That's stupid. If it was a secret then how would I sell things? Come on now."

Guy of Bonisagus: otherwise hes dry

Father Hazm: "If he's a Mathemateci he's likely heard of the Order of Hermes."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Now, do ye have any idea why ye resist magic?"

"I have a few theories, personally. The first is a relic - do ye own one?"

johns (GM): "I'm a mere humble scholar of no merit, surely this is some simple misunderstanding.. Your magic must not work right in God's house is all.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The second is that rather than a human being, you're some sort of realm-aligned creature - a magical being, a fairy, or a demon."

Father Hazm: Magical Fortitude can give you Soak vs Aquam, but it's not on the LM list

johns (GM): "A fairy or a demon?? Now be reasonable, I'm flesh and blood human like the rest of you!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ooh, now that's a good guess."

Mortis ex Verditus: I have Carina give a thumbs up.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I hadn't even considered it in this situation."

Father Hazm: "The angels do allow magic to work, when invoked properly."

Rosario of Flambeau: lol mortis

everyone hears the sound of me drawing my sword.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The third is that you possess the parma, and since my sodales have spoken so eagerly thus far, I'll state this: as a quaesitor in good standing, I would like ye to state yer name and house now before we proceed. If ye don't, we'll have tae figure out the reasoning some other way."

Guy of Bonisagus: he is LIKELY not a demon, as hes in a church

Rosario of Flambeau: Could be a faerie.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats possible

he may also be a creature of magic

johns (GM): "My name and house? Uhhh... Magister Elias Achille, Commoner.."

Guy of Bonisagus: he has a reason to gather mercurian artifacts

Archibald of Guernicus: "Actually, let's try something."

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow a commoner who made it to magister?

Congrats.

Guy of Bonisagus: a commoner with a last name, too

we live in a miserable time

M. Achille: also I can finally speak as him now that we have identified his real name

Mortis ex Verditus: "Settle down, I'm sure everything is above board here."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I could confirm if he's human, before we proceed."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Our goods were seized during the siege and we just need to collect them."

"No need to make a bad situation worse, Archibald."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I keep telling you, he's from Florence."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If you are human, there's nothing tae worry about. If not, please do say."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I cast a Corpus spell on him earlier."

Father Hazm: I Disputatio him to test if his AL is as good as a Magister in Artibus should have.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's a simple test, Mortis. Observe."

I cast demons eternal oblivion on him, the might 10 version. Rolling it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess actually nobody would know that, since gulielmus has incomprehensible casting or whatever

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+31-3 vs level 10

(

4

)

+31-3

=

32

27 pen

M. Achille: Nothing happens

Archibald of Guernicus: "Not a demon, see. A simple test."

Father Hazm: It's funny how there's a dominion penalty to Demon's Eternal Oblivion

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp, he's a powerful demon!

M. Achille: "God save me! He's hexing me!"

Guy of Bonisagus: now do a faerie one

Father Hazm: "I'll be the judge of that,"

Archibald of Guernicus: Fairy one now

Guy of Bonisagus: then break his parma

Archibald of Guernicus: Only the level 5 one, dont want to murder a fairy, just make the damn thing co-operate

Father Hazm: "You're not a priest. You're not the artiber of what constitutes sinful hexing."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+28 vs level 5

(

3

)

+28

=

31

Rosario of Flambeau: Father Hazm: It's funny how there's a dominion penalty to Demon's Eternal Oblivion

sun t urning around to reveal thinking emoji.gif

Archibald of Guernicus: No reaction to removing 5 fairy might?

M. Achille: Nothing happens.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's because anyone who casts demon-slaying spells is corrupt

Archibald of Guernicus: then finally, magic

rolling 1d10+28 vs level 5

(

6

)

+28

=

34

Guy of Bonisagus:  grins gmishly  hes an angel who gets blind drunk

Father Hazm: There's a PeVi to turn off parma too

Rosario of Flambeau: He could be.

Guy of Bonisagus: archibalds feet are nailed to the floor

M. Achille: Nothing happensd

Do you wish to try the Realm of Reason or the Lunar Realm ones next?

Guy of Bonisagus: hes got parma

lets get him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What about this?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "He's entirely human. But whence comes the magic resistance?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea begins casting a spell.

Rosario of Flambeau: "An ancient mercurian ritual, I would have to assume."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+3+5+4 unnamed dispel, lv5

(

3

)

+2+3+5+4

=

17

i dont remember the aura here.

M. Achille: -3

Guy of Bonisagus: ah, gulielmus's signature spell, unnamed dispel, lv5

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 5 pen

Archibald of Guernicus: Classic Gulielmus

M. Achille: what are you dispelling

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a general dispel

rolling 1d10!+5

(

5

)

+5

=

10

Guy of Bonisagus: if his mr is more than 5 hes definitely a parma haver

M. Achille: there's no such thing as a general dispel

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah there is

M. Achille: you mean a Magic dispel?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, I suppose we have to take your reference to the Cult of Mercury seriously."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhhh sure

Guy of Bonisagus: the camera cuts to gulielmus holding the pathfinder core handbook

M. Achille: a PeVi has to be specific to a realm and a style of magic such as Hermetic, Vergilian, etc

Rosario of Flambeau: "You wouldn't happen to know the story of Bonisagus, would you?"

Father Hazm: If it can dispel the parma it's easy to nail down as Hermetic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no, a pevi can be specific to a realm and general to all effects

within that realm

it's just significantly weaker

M. Achille: ah I see now.

Dispel any magical effect with a level less than or equal to half the (level

+ 4 magnitudes) of the Vim spell + a stress die (no botch).

Well okay. Nothing seems to happen.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Huh."

"Guardian angel?"

M. Achille: "So it must be"

Archibald of Guernicus: I gasp in shock

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds like we need to start Incredibly Sinning on him to confirm this

Archibald of Guernicus: "You're right, why didn't I consider it... I'm sorry for the undue stress we've caused you."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Look, we really just need to talk to the Duc."

M. Achille: "Ah, well"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats the bonisagus spirit

M. Achille: "You wanted the statues, I can understand"

Rosario of Flambeau: He ignores my question about Bonisagus I guess?

M. Achille: "Bonawho?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "So what exactly do you know about the Cult of Mercury?"

"Just a fan?"

Father Hazm: "If you're protected by a guardian angel, then surely he's telling youthat you would be guilty if you were involved at all with the violent disappearance of Conti the merchant?"

Guy of Bonisagus: corfi

Archibald of Guernicus: I say quietly to Guy "I did see an angel when we were speaking with him, but I took it to be a vision, forgetting that no others here have the Second Sight."

Father Hazm: The GM knows what I meant if I messed something up there

Guy of Bonisagus: I frown a bit and back away from the magister.

M. Achille: "Oh I read about them here and there you know"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Apologies for my actions, magister."

M. Achille: "Who are we mere men to comprehend the nature of Angels... As St. Augustus once noted... [blah blah]"

Father Hazm: "Men with Divine Lore."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Father Hazm: "That's who."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If you've been reading about them, might you know of a man named Barbatus? Or of the merchant, Confi, who lived here?"

M. Achille: St. Augustine: "Our comprehension is but a drop in the Ocean, but that Ocean is the fulness of God."

Father Hazm: I DIsputatio his nonsense about angels being ineffiable

Blow itout of the freaking water

Mortis ex Verditus: They're definitely ineffable.

Father Hazm: Oh, are you getting in on this disputatio too? Then rol lyour lores

M. Achille: "Corfi... I believe there was a man of that name here? But so many people left after the quake and the siege so who knows"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Earthquake?"

M. Achille: "Last year"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "No one's repaired the walls or gate for a whole year?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "What time last year?"

M. Achille: Indeed, there was a major earthquake in Italy in 1349.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm shocked.

M. Achille: January 22 1349

Archibald of Guernicus: Did this earthquake, by any chance, happen shortly before these statues entered the market

Father Hazm: "Corfi's logs go back to three months ago."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Who brought you these statues in the first place?"

M. Achille: Hmm, could be Archibald

"I .. knew the men of the Great Company were pillaging.. I made a special request that any objects of scholarly interest, I get a chance to survey them for the sake of the Duc.."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well that settles that then.

M. Achille: "Where those mercenaries drag them from, I think it better not to pry.."

Father Hazm: If it was impossible to know things about angel then Divine Lore wouldn't exist, as well as teh various abilities that invoke them like Ars Notoria and Entreat the Divine Powers

Mortis ex Verditus: Maybe those only work because angels permit them to.

Dušan of Criamon: "And the maps?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm. This Barbatus and the status of the missing merchant are pretty big mysteries remaining, though I'm not sure how to make any headway with either.

Father Hazm: That's possible

Archibald of Guernicus: Technically speaking its Mission Complete, if we want

but something feels unfinished

Father Hazm: Well someone made the merchant disappear without taking his hidden storngbox

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Father Hazm: And this guy is incredibly suspicious

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have not talked to the Mayor.

Mortis ex Verditus: He's pretty drunk.

M. Achille: "The maps?"

"You.. went through my belongings??"

Father Hazm: Drunk idiots can still lie

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well how were we to know?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Dusan clinches it

Rosario of Flambeau: "Again, we were investigating a theft."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We didn't steal anything."

Father Hazm: "The rectory is the Church's domain."

Dušan of Criamon: "The statue was what we were hoping to find."

Father Hazm: "It's not your personal sanctum,e ven if you the poor priest allowed you to stay there."

M. Achille: "The maps are just.. doodles of a silly man who wanted to be an architect one day.. dreams of building something great... nothing of importance"

Father Hazm: I take out my ordained priest membership card

Dušan of Criamon: "Now I may not be a big civitas sleuth...

Mortis ex Verditus: "I bet you could get a lot done in town, what with all the collapsed buildings and all."

Father Hazm: Archibald might have enough pen on Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie or something like that

Dušan of Criamon: ... but it'll take a better excuse than that."

Father Hazm: But we're going to be stonewalled on trying to get him to confess to anything

I don't think it's a guardian angel though, as they ditch you if you do things like murder Corfi for his statues

Archibald of Guernicus: It's a guardian angel

Father Hazm: Okay

What I said still holds though

Rosario of Flambeau: The last time we encountered a guardian angel it physically appeared.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the angel up to

just hangin out?

Father Hazm: He's giving him MR despite his sinful behavior

Rosario of Flambeau: It could still be True Faith and I haven't ruled it out

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we should make a copy of the maps and see if we can find what damn building they correspond to though

Dušan of Criamon: We should invite him to the covenant

Father Hazm: He doesn't strike me as True Faithful

Rosario of Flambeau: He could also be getting MR from one of the statues if it's an ancient mercurian effect and he triggered it somehow.

Mortis ex Verditus: The last guy who had a guardian angel ALSO had a magical technique for making it manifest.

Father Hazm: We established with Carloman that God doesn't protect you if you're an asshole

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh, he does.

Carloman had Infernal powers.

Guy of Bonisagus: proclus is in heaven

Father Hazm: Did he?

Mortis ex Verditus: Makes you think...

Father Hazm: I don't think infernal powers work with guidelines like fasting

Mortis ex Verditus: "What are all the notations on the maps for?"

They were False Powers, so they did in this case.

M. Achille: "Which?"

Father Hazm: There's a description of how guardian angels work, at any rate, they warn you if you're about to do a grave act that would cause them to abandon you

Mortis ex Verditus: "All these letters. What do they indicate?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we had a tremere specialized in mentem magic who could compel this guy to talk.

M. Achille: "C for.. Columns, merely noting the decoration"

Mortis ex Verditus: Looting an abandoned shop is 100% sin free.

Damn, this guy is good.

Archibald of Guernicus: Lets folk ken that

Come on a bunch of exploding 10s again

rolling 1d10!+3+1-6

(

7

)

+3+1-6

=

5

Father Hazm: "If you did do something to poor Corfi, this will be you rlast chance to confess, I will be leaving with my associates and I doubt another priest will show up any time soon after I inform Bishop Savelli about what happened here."

M. Achille rolls some dice

M. Achille:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+5

(

3

)

+5

=

8

Rosario of Flambeau: I will also roll folk ken, as I am present.

what's the -6 for?

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+1+2 FOlk Ken (scholars) + Perception

(

5

)

+2+1+2

=

10

M. Achille: "I swear on my soul, I don't know what you're talking about"

Mortis ex Verditus: He's Blatant Gifted.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+1+3+1-3 i see

(

8

)

+1+3+1-3

=

10

Gah.

Archibald of Guernicus: -6 is my blatant gift penalty

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will not roll folk ken for gulielmus, on principle

Father Hazm: "C for columns seems a specious answer. He's not confident in it at all."

Rosario of Flambeau: "A little big for columns, aren't they?"

M. Achille: "And what university taught you architecture?" he smirks.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Should I take the guard outside? Are you afraid of saying something that will get reported to the Duc?"

Father Hazm: "If you also know anything about why a bunch of sellswords thought attacking a man of the cloth was a good idea, I can make sure you and your associates don't take the blame instead."

M. Achille smirks and laughs

M. Achille: "Y-yes, just what I need, absolution from sorcerors.. don't make me laugh.."

Mortis ex Verditus: Damn, he's so right.

Father Hazm: I take out my Social Status: Ordained Priest membership card once agian.

I paid a dman virtue for it

I don't have Hermetic Magus either

Dušan of Criamon: "Careful, only some of us are wizards."

M. Achille: How long would you like to keep interrogating this guy

Father Hazm: It does seem pretty futile

Mortis ex Verditus: HMmm.

Forever.

Dušan of Criamon: It's 2am for me, I think I shall call it a day

Rosario of Flambeau: I mean, especially now that we know he's lying.

Father Hazm: Though some of his dodges aren't very valid

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mortis would like to interrogate him until we are hauled before the duc, i think

M. Achille: Well, yes, he's obviously lying

Rosario of Flambeau: Hell, let's take the statue out of the box and put him in it and take him back to the covenant.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems more likely we will just be brutally slain

moe: it's been good fellas, y'all make sure to bring those statues in one piece home

Father Hazm: I disputatio him until he stops denying that I'm a priest

M. Achille: But when you've pushed him he just lies again so..

moe: take it easy, but take it

night

M. Achille: cheers moe

Mortis ex Verditus: See ya.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: teleport him back to vardians tomb with flexible formulaic magic

Rosario of Flambeau: :blessed:

Archibald of Guernicus: i wish zita's bracelet that let you read minds wasnt melted when she died

M. Achille: lol

tfw no mentem ami rite

Archibald of Guernicus: what a fucking eternally useful item

Father Hazm: Yeah I move on if the GM is tired

M. Achille: im fine

I just think you guys are spinning your wheels atm

and im throwing you a lifeline

Archibald of Guernicus: im getting tired, mostly since i know hes hiding shit but wont say and that always ends up a stalemate that ends in people throwing their hands up in frustration or moving onto full on torture

Rosario of Flambeau: Sure.

That's fair, Archibald.

Father Hazm: Well I would like to figure out how I can use this social status, since I'm not playing a sorcerer

Mortis ex Verditus: Full torture you say?

M. Achille: torture eh

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, if you insist.

M. Achille: Perhaps it's time to get medieval?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll something to compel the gm to react

Father Hazm: I could have been casting bird spells instead of making a good faith attempt to play a companion

Archibald of Guernicus: DOes anyone have any social ability that they can roll to terrify him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Derfel does.

Guy of Bonisagus: i think leadership can intimidate

Archibald of Guernicus: its the abilty you use for it yeah

Father Hazm: I'll roll Theology to give a good speech

Fire and brimstone and all that

Mortis ex Verditus: Even better than that.

I'll have Carina remove her mask.

Guy of Bonisagus: let me see if im really that willing to intimidate a man with a guardian angel, who is watching the whole thing

rolling 1d10!+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

i think i am

Mortis ex Verditus: "I just want to get to the bottom of this. If you keep lying then you can put the mask on next."

Rosario of Flambeau: oh shit.

Mortis ex Verditus: Removing the mask, naturally, causes her to collapse in a heap.

M. Achille: Ah

Rosario of Flambeau: also the revealed face is a skeleton or something, i guess

M. Achille: "Y-you wouldn't... I'm worth a lot to the Duc alive.. fools don't throw away a fortune!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "The angel protects your soul, magister, but I wonder how much it cares for your lying tongue?"

I will roll the intimidation.

rolling 1d10!+8

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice!

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm sure he'd accept a fair price for your body and soul."

M. Achille sputters and laughs

Father Hazm: You are worth nothing if the Church brands you a sorcerer. And despite your claims to the contrary, that's my place to declare, not yours to call me and my associates."

M. Achille: "You t-think you can scare me.. I'm set in this world and the next.. nothing you can say makes a difference.."

Mortis ex Verditus: "The Jubilee is over, what makes you think your soul is still safe from my magic?"

M. Achille: "You.. You have no idea what real power is.. I hope I get to see you beg for mercy when your time comes..."

Father Hazm: "Your Guardian Angel will abandon you if you wallow in sin."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We can certainly insure that your stay in this world is a long, miserable one. And if we take your tongue and cripple your hands, who will ever know?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Jesus!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Torture breaks through another stalemate.

Archibald of Guernicus: Bringing up torture jokingly but really its the only way to solve situations like this

you gotta love it

Mortis ex Verditus: "What feeble spirit do you follow that would even dare threaten me?"

Father Hazm: "You tarred and feathered a priest. I very much doubt you have a seat reserved in Heaven. Perhaps another place."

Guy of Bonisagus: While trying to keep up my menace I get a good couple paces away from Mortis.

M. Achille: "H-heh... Do all you want... the more I suffer for his cause the more he'll reward me... And anything you do to me you'll feel a thousandfold... what do you know of suffering you who've never felt the lick of the flames of.."

"Nghh.."

Guy of Bonisagus: "My good magister, our Order has developed powerful magic that can extend a man's life to centuries."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Is he okay?"

Mortis ex Verditus: The flames of the N-word.

Guy of Bonisagus: nihnoz

Rosario of Flambeau: thats the real n word.

Mortis ex Verditus: Woah, let's not say things we can't take back.

Father Hazm: "His infernal master has declared him to no longer be of use, I think."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Freakin' demons."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes.

M. Achille: The scholar turns his head and slams it, jaw first, into the ground.

Mortis ex Verditus: How does the bannerman feel about all this?

M. Achille: He makes a horrid screaming noise and spits up blood and the better half of his tongue.

Then smiles at you with bloody teeth.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Shit. Demons, they'd grant magic resistance alright."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice. let's take him prisoner

Father Hazm: "The Black Bishop has showed me worse."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets

Father Hazm: *shown

Guy of Bonisagus: I conjure the sturdy vine. Oh wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

M. Achille: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: teleport him away boys

Mortis ex Verditus: ???

Guy of Bonisagus: lets cripple his hands too, and give him longevity rituals

M. Achille: You hear a crash from the rectory.

Archibald of Guernicus: His MR will probably block that

Guy of Bonisagus: follow through on our threats

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh dear

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he doesn't have a lot of mr.

just some.

Mortis ex Verditus: What's the bannerman doing?

M. Achille: He is still watching you all with hate in his eyes.

Mortis ex Verditus: Fair enough.

Archibald of Guernicus: Is the stone gladiator about to break through the wall screaming HEEEERES SATAN

Father Hazm: Hate for the devout, nice.

M. Achille: Well, no, he just walks through the door. And he doesn't say anything.

Guy of Bonisagus: using the longevity ritual as a torture device would be a real powerful and acceptable use of hermetic magic

Rosario of Flambeau: Cool.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh fugg

Colonna Bannerman: "God save us!"

Father Hazm: You could also make someone into a ghost against their will.

johns (GM): Now then

Mortis ex Verditus: Is it just standing around?

Guy of Bonisagus: cripple someone and give them a potent longevity ritual, while using mentem to fortify their senses and ensure that they dont fall to insanity

johns (GM): frankly guy it seems like a waste of vis, why not just use Mentem to change their perception of time so a moment of torture feels like years?

Guy of Bonisagus: why not both?

Father Hazm: That's a good idea

johns (GM): that was the basis of a really nasty trap the tytalus who used to live in Allumiere valley had

Father Hazm: Cool dude

Guy of Bonisagus: its also a trap from the tomb of darkness

johns (GM): it was a spell with two effects, the first spawned flesh eating maggots inside you, the second made the next minute of your life feel like a year

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

johns (GM): Anyway.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right, we resisted that effect didnt we

Guy of Bonisagus: you did

johns (GM): The grogs are surrounding the Bannerman, near the front of the church.

Guy of Bonisagus: i think it was basically the same effect

Archibald of Guernicus: Because I had good corpus

Father Hazm: Is an infestation of maggots Creo Animal or Perdo Corpus?

johns (GM): But now there's a stone gladiator emerging from the back of the church, heading towards you.

Archibald of Guernicus: and mentem

Guy of Bonisagus: oh you meant

ah

Mortis ex Verditus: I shall DEPART.

johns (GM): toodles.

Guy of Bonisagus: I get behind Rosario

Father Hazm: I'll play teh grogs if the magi are being attacked

Hazm is a noncombatant

Rosario of Flambeau: Can you see invisible people, Guy?

Guy of Bonisagus: nope

Archibald of Guernicus: Are we continuing? I need to get a glass of water, but hoo boy, let's work out a plan here

Rosario of Flambeau: Good luck getting behind me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I don't have anything for this one, sodales."

Tünde: Morgana leader Tunde vanguard

Guy of Bonisagus: i get behind archibald

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hey! Can you speak?" I yell at the statue

johns (GM): If it can, it doesn't, and marches towards you and the magister.

Guy of Bonisagus: its probably a demon possessing it

Archibald of Guernicus: Can I roll second sight to see if theres, say, a demon possessing it

johns (GM): Yes, remember the aura, -6 to magic

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+2-6

(

9

)

+3+2-6

=

8

That might actually see something, maybe. Maybe.

Tünde:

rolling d10!+2+2 Entreat the Divine Powers

(

1

)

+2+2

=

5

Botch check please, that's for Hazm

johns (GM): how many dice?

And Archibald I had to look up the specifics on this guy and I need to make a judgment call and say: You don't see any spirits

Father Hazm: Probably the standard amount

Rosario of Flambeau: I really need to learn the Chirurgeon's Healing Touch.

Archibald of Guernicus: Sure.

johns (GM): So 1 + 2 for aura?

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm actually upset I can't cast it because I really want to heal this idiot magister.

Father Hazm: Yeah

johns (GM):

rolling 3d10

(

4

+

9

+

7

)

=

20

Bazinga.

Father Hazm: Okay

Dominion penalty reduced to -1

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

johns (GM): For you or for others?

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+5+1-1 Perception + Second Sight (demons)

(

5

)

+2+5+1-1

=

12

Rosario of Flambeau: We don't even have a spell text for that one, do we?

Father Hazm: Only for me, for one roll

Rosario of Flambeau: Damn, we need to get Nevio back. It's important to have a doctor who can actually go on adventures.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Father Hazm: "It does not appear to be a demon or other possessing spirit."

johns (GM): You have to decide quickly what you are doing, grogs included.

I know Mortis did.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Exeunt.

johns (GM): Done

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to grapple whats his name.

Tünde: Hazm ducks away in noncombatant NPC space, grogs getin formoation to protect wizards

johns (GM): The Bannerman, the Magister, or the Statue?

Rosario of Flambeau: The guy who slammed his face into the ground.

johns (GM): Okay, he's currently lying on his back on the ground.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, nevermind.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i would like to buff myself

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm going to try casting Demon's Eternal Oblivion, the 5 might version, on the statue. To see what happens.

johns (GM): Where he's been since you slipped him on oil.

Tünde: The wizards can of course refuse protection, but all who accept it are shield grogged

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: with gulielmus's guarding glyph, a rego corpus ward against humans.

Rosario of Flambeau: Someone should knock him out or immobilize him so he can't otherwise act.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+31-3 vs spell level 5, penetration 5

(

9

)

+31-3

=

37

37 pen

Time to use my vim specialisation to help my sodales

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+3+12+12-3 lv 15

(

1

)

+2+3+12+12-3

=

27

lol

Rosario of Flambeau: Because otherwise I will grapple him while he's on the ground because a grappled opponent can't take any actions other than making a melee brawl attack against me

Archibald of Guernicus: :blessed:

johns (GM):

rolling 3d10 Botch check

(

8

+

8

+

2

)

=

18

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sad!

johns (GM): No botch on Gulielmus.

Rosario of Flambeau: And I don't want him to hurt himself.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I am immune to humans until the sun rises.

Rosario of Flambeau: And trigger any more effects.

Tünde: It's too bad no botches yet. hazm has his own version of Twilight he can go to

Where Virgil drags you temporarily to Hell

Mortis ex Verditus: Remember that being immune to humans doesn't protect you from swords.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Rosario of Flambeau: And I doubt any of my mundane sword attacks will hurt this stone man.

Does the gladiator have a sword?

johns (GM): Yeah

A Gladius.

Tünde: "Did you see that, Magus Archibald? Your spell seems to have some sort of effect."

Father Hazm: Hazm says that

Rosario of Flambeau: I imagine the sword is physically attached to the statue and part of it, but I will try to cast Disarm the Warrior anyway.

Father Hazm: I'll just control the grogs as Hazm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is anything going on outside

johns (GM): No, it's quiet

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+26-6

(

7

)

+26-6

=

27

johns (GM): Do the grogs attack?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whew.

Father Hazm: Sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hey, now endrite can talk to a corpse

johns (GM): How many? There are 4 total and you have to remember the bannerman is here too

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's working! Rosario, work with me on the next assault, the eternal oblivion is weakening it!"

Now it's time for an all-out attack!

johns (GM): Rosario's spell casts with its magnificent sigil, but nothing seems to happen.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+9+12 Tunde's great weapon + Morgana's Leadership bonus

(

7

)

+9+12

=

28

johns (GM) rolls some dice

Rosario of Flambeau: a bunch of rose petals wrap around the statue's sword and tug at it, but do nothing.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll cast the level 10 eternal oblivion, then Rosario follows it up with his level 15 one

thats my plan

I should have tanked its MR enough for him to land it

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice

Mine is level 20 but my penetration sucks ass!

johns (GM): The Gladiator lazily raises his arm covered in Manica armor, but fails to block. Your swords hit him square in the chest but clang off him.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sorry!

Archibald of Guernicus: Well

just try anyway, hes at -15 MR after this

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay.

johns (GM): The gladiator simply walks past you, permitting an attack of opportunity, then smashes the Magister's skull with his stone sword.

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

damn.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds fine to me.

johns (GM): Meanwhile,

Father Hazm: Well we didn't say the grogs were protecting the magister so yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: should have tried to teleport him away!!!

johns (GM): The bannerman sees an opportunity and tries to bolt for the door.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+38 vs spell level 10

(

7

)

+38

=

45

er

28

johns (GM) quickly checks rules on disengaging

Archibald of Guernicus: not 38

Rosario of Flambeau: wait the penalty is only 3? aha.

Archibald of Guernicus: so 30 pen

Father Hazm: Only the statue can prevent him disengaging, probably

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah only -3 rn

Father Hazm: He rolls Defense vs anyone who can prevent him escaping

johns (GM): Mariu and Ilbrago must make an attack roll

Father Hazm: Okay

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+5 Defense (unarmed)

(

3

)

+5

=

8

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+19-3 damn i hope this even casts, too bad i have no pen

(

6

)

+19-3

=

22

6 whole pen. hope his mr is 5.

wait.

7.

johns (GM): So Archibald you've stripped a total of 15 might?

Máriu Puddu:

rolling d10+15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

rolling 8+d10

8+

(

3

)

=

11

Thank you whoeer gave all the grogs easily accessible roll info

johns (GM): np

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes

johns (GM): Ok, then what level might strip is Rosario casting?

Rosario of Flambeau: 20, with a mighty pen 7.

johns (GM): It's enough, considering the aura

Rosario of Flambeau: :blessed:

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes

Yes!

johns (GM): The statues suddenly stops animating, tips over, falling atop the magister

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

johns (GM): The outstretched swordhand slams into the ground and snaps off.

Rosario of Flambeau pulls in the House Acclaim chips

Guy of Bonisagus: we can fix that

Máriu Puddu: We have several statue experts, one in enchanted statues

johns (GM): The Colonna Knight, with Mariu's axe at his throat, decides not to make another move.

Archibald of Guernicus: The statue breaking is just cruel. Unless it needed to break, in which case good.

Mortis ex Verditus: It happens.

johns (GM): well actually I just look

mariu has a warhammer

so let's assume he has it raised above his head ready to let it drop at a moment's provocation

The message is the same either way

Mortis ex Verditus: He has his warhammer at the knight's throat.

johns (GM): lol

Máriu Puddu: We have someone we can interrogate about Corfi

Let's bring him back with us

johns (GM): Now. Unfortunately the Magister is quite dead.

Rosario of Flambeau: Too bad we don't have any necromancers around.

Máriu Puddu: Cast Whispers on him

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh wait.

Archibald of Guernicus: Surely our iconic necromancer has whispers

SURELY he does

Máriu Puddu: Ha ha ha

Mortis ex Verditus: I do have that spell.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, you mean prudenzio of flambeau?

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "Mortis, he's in your domain now."

Mortis ex Verditus: HOWEVER, he is currently writhing in the flames of Hell and will spend most of his time lying to us.

johns (GM): lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Still, I'll go for it.

johns (GM): was just thinking that

devil's fav demon: the last prudenzio appearance is going to be pretty funny, im hoping

i finally have a plan for it and its even tied into some old stuff thanks to johns.

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 10 + 4 + 4 - 5

(

5

)

+10+4+4-5

=

18

Ok done.

"See, I told you you should have told me the truth."

johns (GM): The corpse screams in agony.

Father Hazm seems smug

johns (GM): Blood keeps sputtering out of his mouth, its nastry

Rosario of Flambeau: thats actually a pretty good one two punch me and archibald did. i was busy complaining about having a low pen spell but the combo of low mag high pen stripping spells and the nuke at the end is the real way to go.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Aren't you lucky that we were here to kill this maniac?" I ask the knight.

Father Hazm: "Perhaps necromancy can help solidify one's faith after all."

johns (GM): "N... no! I was loyal! I don't deserve this!!!"

"A test.... a test... the emperor tests me... I WILL ENDURE THIS AGONY!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Vim Specialist is very good at setting up allies for a kill

Father Hazm: "Sic semper infernal."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Betrayed by your own master. If only there was a way for you to get back at them."

Rosario of Flambeau: "This guy was a real nutcase."

"Jeez."

Archibald of Guernicus: "You can start by naming this emperor."

"Think about it. All that pain you're experiencing now, that he sent you to? You can send him there too."

Mortis ex Verditus: Charles IV.

Father Hazm: Charles IV

M. Achille: "I.. AUGHHH.. Emperor.. Another chance... I beg of you....please... you will have dominion over this world once more... I have been there all this time...." He screams. "The Kings and Popes will be crushed beneath your feet... Imperator!!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: charles iii

Father Hazm: May he reign until 1378

M. Achille: "I... AGUH... told them nothign..... They will never find your crown... your success is certain... please.. make it stop!!"

Father Hazm: "Internal betrayal is the way of all demons."

Mortis ex Verditus: This is still sounding like Frederick II.

M. Achille: "AVE... TRUE TO CAESAR!!!"

Guy of Bonisagus: just get as much incidental stuff as we can and then relay it to giraldo so he can make an educated guess

Mortis ex Verditus: Yep, Frederick II it is.

Archibald of Guernicus: OH my god. It's an Augustan plot! That's why Lavinia is missing!

M. Achille: dAMN

busted

Father Hazm: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: we need to get back tot he covenant!!!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are you ready for this.

Archibald of Guernicus: im not, but proceed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+0+2+1 Infernal Lore +int + spec

(

1

)

+0+2+1

=

4

oh hell yes

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm ok here's my plan: I have his corpse walk out into the street and then we slip away into the night with the statue and the strongbox.

Guy of Bonisagus: its too late. lavinia has already set up the Virgilian Chairs That Fire Lightning When You Sit In Them all over the inn

M. Achille: that would be a funny pranky

Father Hazm: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: brb

Father Hazm: We have a pretty good idea that Corfi was murdered now

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh I also put the Servant's Mask back on Carina.

Guy of Bonisagus: corfi

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Virgilian Chairs That Fire Lightning, Indirectly

Guy of Bonisagus: his name is corfi

Mortis ex Verditus: Can't waste a perfectly good skeleton.

johns (GM): Corfi

Father Hazm: Cornfey

w/e

I want to get back to VT so I can write to my mystagogue telling him I encountered a diabolicist with a mathemateci amulet

Guy of Bonisagus: this proves it. math is for satans

Colonna Bannerman makes the pepe face

Father Hazm: And the rest of what happened here

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+1+1 infernal lore: demons to see if i get anything from the ranting ghost

(

7

)

+1+1

=

9

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it seems like we shouldnt allow our vassal hedgies to remain part of their old traditions

writing back to their mystagogues and all.

Mortis ex Verditus: "I think you can agree that we should take this statue off your hands," I tell the knight.

Father Hazm: Vassal? An ordained priest?

Colonna Bannerman: hmm

Mortis ex Verditus: It happens.

Colonna Bannerman: the Emperor could be a False God

it certainly inspired a level of devotion in this magister

but it also sounds like someone who ruled outside of hell at some point

An Infernal Ghost perhaps?

Guy of Bonisagus: someone like frederick ii

Rosario of Flambeau: the dead magister is a really big wh40k fan

Colonna Bannerman: True, except Frederick II is in Purgatory, according to Dante.

Rosario of Flambeau: So Dante canonically really did that?

Mortis ex Verditus: The Emperor is in Mongolia right now.

Colonna Bannerman: Ah

Wait

I misremembered

He's in the circle for heretics. lol.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Father Hazm: It COULD happen but I think i nthis case Gulielmus misunderstands our relationship. I'm not an indentured employee, our relationship is one of mutual benefit and I can leave if the relationship stops being beneficial to me, and you are Interfering with teh Mundane (church) if you try to stop me.

Guy of Bonisagus: purgatory is an in between

how do you know frederick didnt slip down into hell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets slay father hazm for insubordination

Mortis ex Verditus: I can't find any fault with this idea, Gulielmus.

Colonna Bannerman: "I swear before Christ and the saints. Let me go and I will leave this town and not speak a word of what I've witnessed here. I'll take a tonsure and the cloth and live my days in service of God. Just please.. let me live in peace.."

Rosario of Flambeau: It's time to turn to father hazm and say join, or die

Colonna Bannerman: (I say this, not the magister)

Father Hazm: PvP is your right

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good to me.

"You've got a deal!"

Guy of Bonisagus: frederick has had 50 years to sin himself out of purgatory

Father Hazm: Hazm doesn't have The Gift, you can't join or die him. The die part is applicable though.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Go with God, soldier."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hey, good luck out there."

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, duh.

I

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh, we can just murder him? With magic?

Duh?

Rosario of Flambeau: That was the loophole.

Father Hazm: Only Mercere can gauntlet a mundane

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok let's gather up the rest of the loot

we join-or-died orsu

and then he left us.

Father Hazm: I said the die part is applicable, stop being contrarian Endrite.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, Hazm is fine, he's a buddy. I'll only join or die people who legally can join the order.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets kill orsu

Colonna Bannerman: You look in the rectory and see that the book On Isometric Figures was violently flung against a wall, sending its pages all willy nilly, meaning it will be a pain to put it back together.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm not being contrarian!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes a buddy who hangs out in our council chamber and sometimes lives on the island we own and also relays all our secrets back to a rival tradition

Mortis ex Verditus: Good thing we have a bookbinder.

Father Hazm: You are, I indlucded a clause ofr the crap you're spewing before you said it

Colonna Bannerman: Do you wish to take the remains of the statue too? It's more portable after breaking

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's

Mortis ex Verditus: Sure.

Father Hazm: Yeah let's go

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, I don't have to carry any of it.

Colonna Bannerman: Alright

Rosario of Flambeau: We should also take all the other statues now.

Colonna Bannerman: If Archibald's cool with it we'll say Investigation Complete

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mentioned this before, but now that it's night is it any easier for mortis to speak to the bodies

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm rescinding what I said about only taking what was on the list.

Fuck em.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's always been easy.

Colonna Bannerman: oh sure its a lot easier for magi to get away with stuff at night because guardsmen don't plan for people who can move around without torches

Mortis ex Verditus: I just have to be able to touch them.

But I don't really have anything to ask them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i suppose.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean I assume they were murdered by their fellows.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hazm, let's do the right thing.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, fair enough.

Rosario of Flambeau: Give the man a Christian burial.

Mortis ex Verditus: It saved the town.

Colonna Bannerman: they were the members of the city garrison who objects to their mayor selling them out

Rosario of Flambeau: *Maronite

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we did good here, though there's still something more at play. Is this adventure end to be resumed another day, Johns, or are we only half-done

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if the gm is lying and one of them is the merchant.

Mortis ex Verditus: Anyway I'll cancel Whispers Through the Black Gate.

johns (GM): Unless you really went above and beyond this was always going to be the beginning of a larger plot

Rosario of Flambeau: For all this ordained priest business you're saying, it's the least you can do.

johns (GM): Unfortunately you missed a cool chance to go spelunking and to meet a  Historical Cameo  so I can merely award 8XP

Father Hazm: Anyway, we did have a Tribunal resolution about taking in mundanes who could work controlled miracles, they said no way, Ex Misc only wants Gifted people and Mercere doesn't want a repeat of what happened with Goliard.

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah.

Rosario of Flambeau: sounds like BULLSHIT

lol

johns (GM): gahahah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how much of the loot is small enough to be portable

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast Arise, My Servant on Achilles or whatever his name was and order his body to jump off the cliff.

johns (GM): all of it

Guy of Bonisagus: looking forward to this long plot being wrapped up like all the  glances at chatdump and pales

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll also take his money.

Rosario of Flambeau: Mortis, I'm planning out loud with Hazm to bury his body Christianly, so please don't do that.

Mortis ex Verditus: You can bury him at the foot of the mountain.

Guy of Bonisagus: it has to look like an accident or at least a suicide so no one gets suspicious

Mortis ex Verditus: He's in Hell anyway, he can't have a Christian burial.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he jumped off a cliff and exploded his head.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's been known to happen.

Father Hazm: I'll help santify his body if Rosario wants

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also his head is smeared across the floor of the church.

Rosario of Flambeau: I think it would be the most spiteful thing to do, in a way.

Mortis ex Verditus: That could be anyone's head.

Rosario of Flambeau: To bless him and bury him properly.

Father Hazm: I'd probably be good to not let him be resurrected

johns (GM): did anyone pick up on the tie between this and an earlier lead from the last time we dealt with the cult of mercury

Father Hazm: Through proper burial

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe?

Father Hazm: I think that's before my time

Rosario of Flambeau: No, because I don't remember the last time we dealt with the cult of mercury. I have the brain of a goldfish.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: when was the last time we dealt with the cult of mercury

Father Hazm: I don't remember Kifaaya or Jorn going on a Cult of Mercury adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i know there was a coffin in that other murder mystery where we peeked through a wall

and i think the chandlers were involved in that one

Mortis ex Verditus: That was a LONG time ago.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but the coffin just had a person in it?

Mortis ex Verditus: Also there was a human body in that coffin.

johns (GM): look in the handouts folder

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm...

Guy of Bonisagus: i found a mysterious note

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: says here i'm a friccin moron, and just got beaned

Mortis ex Verditus: Got 'em.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

johns (GM): lol

Father Hazm: Hazm can invoke Mercury/Hermes as a god of knowledge and alacrity but he's not special to him otherwise.

Guy of Bonisagus: The last letter in sequence ends:

"... Denied the means to maintain command, I have ordered the burial of the Emperor's Pit and its prize in secrecy. None in the centuria but myself and my optio know the truth of what you all have left here."

its probably this

Archibald of Guernicus: ooh

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang, it can't be helped.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i wasnt there.

Archibald of Guernicus: was that from the temple?

Rosario of Flambeau: Good lord.

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: We'll just have to stamp out all traces of every noble family.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i dont think i was at any mercurian adventure.

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't remember that at all.

But I might have been there.

I'm sorry.

Father Hazm: Have to admit, Mortis is right.

johns (GM): I remember that cumthinker because every 5 minutes we asked, "Where isGulielmus?"

Mortis ex Verditus: We always do this.

Archibald of Guernicus: it was: Zita, Proclus, Malach,

Rosario of Flambeau: I think it's important to just remind people of an important hook if one is present.

Archibald of Guernicus: hmm

not sure who else

Father Hazm: I get mad if a cutscene plays and my own character appears in it instead of Gulielmus

Archibald of Guernicus: it was a long time ago

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristocritus did some of the research to find the temple in the first place

Archibald of Guernicus: lol shaun

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and then didnt explore it

Archibald of Guernicus: hold on. im sticking a funny image in the ars thread.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, now all we have left to do is my totally legitimate power grab.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: turns out its pretty hard to come up with multiple 1st-magnitude spells for many art combinations

Archibald of Guernicus: I posted it.

Father Hazm: Ponza and the Temple of Mercury are now both footnotes that appear in people's seasonal activity that only get read by people who read the posts.

johns (GM): okay

im going to post 3 things before i zonk out

Father Hazm: *who write the posts

johns (GM): first a brief recap of what we learned

Mortis ex Verditus: Torture always works.

johns (GM): second, a recap of what happened in montcuq after you left

third, the beginning of the corpus blight

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh oh.

Archibald of Guernicus: nO

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus

Mortis ex Verditus: I warned you this was going to happen.

Rosario of Flambeau: lmfao.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i just invented like four corpus spells.

johns (GM): Spring equinox of 1350 is March 12

Rosario of Flambeau: incredible.

johns (GM): im not kidding at all btw

cheers

Mortis ex Verditus: See ya.

Rosario of Flambeau: so is the end of this game just slowly playing out the death of magic

i guess i made a good character.



johns (GM): welcome to the Great Pestilence

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's rapidly playing out the death of every player character

except Derfel

Father Hazm: Uh if Fiorella can't turn itno a bird I probably need a new character

Archibald of Guernicus: that feel when you just learned a corpus spell and got to cast it once

Father Hazm: I guess she has Sidestep but she'll probably die quick regardless

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i learned 4 corpus spells and got to use 1 of them.

johns (GM): and now you can invest it into an enchanted item or talisman andgain a bonus.

Rosario of Flambeau: My only corpus spell is the spell to make people sneeze but i really wanted a longevity ritual.

johns (GM): also no one will lose their vis this time because people know how to avert the original destruction.

Mortis ex Verditus: Boo.

Father Hazm: Ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Winter of 1350: the Rego Blight begins

johns (GM): btw i tweaked the original scenario as written

in which one form dies every 4 months.

cheers

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: lmfao

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Don't joke, no GM would ever lose control.

Archibald of Guernicus: FUCK the ars writers

Guy of Bonisagus: ill say this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Item four on the agenda.

Rats have eaten all of the vim vis

Guy of Bonisagus: im glad johns did this now and not next session, when i would have finished making a corpus spell

Father Hazm: Flora did waste a season learning animal and probably can't ever use CLoak of BLack Feathers now but oh well, she can just get 5 animal and be done with it

johns (GM): gaha..

Rosario of Flambeau: well, we could fix the blight

Father Hazm: What does fixing the blight entail?

Rosario of Flambeau: gahahahaha

Mortis ex Verditus: Impossible.

Father Hazm: Anything really high levle like exploring the magic realm?

Guy of Bonisagus: it involves killing johns

Rosario of Flambeau: there have been a couple major hints.

the blight does seem to be connected to the magic realm, yes.

Mortis ex Verditus: We should just click the glowing parchment to get our next quest, IMO.

johns (GM): you will have more clues when Tethys comes out of twilight

Guy of Bonisagus: black man tapping his forehead: the gm cant take away your magic if you never let him run

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you know which tradition has access to the magic realm.

Rosario of Flambeau: because the single magic regio you found that was disconnected from the herbam blight, Strabo theorized was disconnected from the Magic realm entirely.

in some way.

Father Hazm: Even getting ot the magic realm is high level stuff

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's the order of suleiman.

johns (GM): here's the good news

Guy of Bonisagus: johns's plot to make us go to his magical realm

Archibald of Guernicus: It's Johns.

johns (GM): at the current rate, assuming no change

Archibald of Guernicus: The culprit is Johns

Father Hazm: So we'll need to know exactly want forms to grind

johns (GM): you have 40 years to fix things before magic is destroyed

Father Hazm: Not just hints and lore

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm so impatient.

I just want magic to be destroyed right now!

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): Mortis of Merinita

Father Hazm: It's really easy to destory magic, just say its destroyed and we're starting a new saga everyone roll new characters

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

yeah

but this could be a fun scenario.

Mortis ex Verditus: If magic is destroyed then there can't be a new SaGa.

Duh.

Rosario of Flambeau: we have some clues and things to investigate.

johns (GM): the infernalist saga.

Archibald of Guernicus: We need to discover the form of Aether to slow down the blight

Rosario of Flambeau: we would just need to break the hermetic limit of time and start some other era.

johns (GM): lets enter a Regio of Reason

unrelated

Father Hazm: Magic is real in every saga that it is real in

And not real IRL

johns (GM): assuming the world is not destroyed i had an idea for a saga after the great pestilence that would go the completely opposite of this and be high power and fuck the real world

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh.

johns (GM): but thats dreaming far off.

Mortis ex Verditus: If magic isn't real then what's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YaOA5wmgGY

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. i will play a folk witch in the new saga

johns (GM): lol

Father Hazm: Aurora borealis

Rosario of Flambeau: thats a good tease and incentive to get through this johns

lets all work together and live up to archibald's big speech about teamwork he gave to the bjornaer

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is all happening because aristocritus is no longer alive

johns (GM): aristocritus literally was the Nexus Arcanum of magic

Mortis ex Verditus: High powered roleplaying is so boring.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who was the player character dedicated to finding the deepest secrets of magic?

Archibald of Guernicus: That's so wrong it's incredible.

Guy of Bonisagus: if the animal blight happens i am killing guy and statting marisa kirisame

Father Hazm: Anyway I can try looking up the hints you posted about how to fix the blight but Archibald is our master of Vim so if he can't do it I'm not sure who could

johns (GM): high powered ars magica where every priest has a guardian angel, every noble is a demon, every village has a dragon

Rosario of Flambeau: the order of suleiman is apparently the other hook, ifthey can access the magic realm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: teleportation is still illegal

Archibald of Guernicus: High Powered Roleplaying is win and Exalted: Third Edition is the best system currently out.

Guy of Bonisagus: aside frfom pathfinder

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im not sure if we know, in character, that the order of suleiman has a magic castle on a magic island in the middle of the magic realm

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmmm

Sounds like a coincedence

Rosario of Flambeau: oh, i thought you were saying that to us in character

johns (GM): i know an adventure where you go to the realm of magic

it's called th eCity of Brass.

Mortis ex Verditus: Suitcase nukes are only $250k in Traveller.

Jump in gamers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+2 Int + OoS Lore

(

1

)

+2+2

=

5

Father Hazm: Exalted will be high powered when Stormwind Rider's effect on the story stops offending GMs

Mortis ex Verditus: THE CITY OF That's a good idea let's go.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: looks like i do not know

Archibald of Guernicus: The Conciatta of Bonisagus stuff in Legends of Hermes starts off in the realm of magic. As in the adventure begins with "while youre already running an advneture, in the realm of magic, start this adventure here"

Father Hazm: Let's go to the City of Brass

Archibald of Guernicus: which is a really great hook to begin a long premade adventure with

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the city of ass.

Archibald of Guernicus: We must travel there

Father Hazm: The regio border we started taht adventure with in Frisia unfortunately moves aroudn a lot.

Maybe Henissey's garden borders on the magic realm

herbam still works in it

Mortis ex Verditus: Herisson.

Father Hazm: Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: Maybe it's an artificial regio of some sort. Disconnected from the magic realm but magic-aligned.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: looking forward to the terram blight

Father Hazm: Fiorella's teleport doesn't use Corpus BTW, so provided she can make a magic item to get into bird form, she might be able to do some research on the garden

Archibald of Guernicus: Come to think of it

a spell to teleport while not a human is REALLY useful

in this upcoming fucking hell

Father Hazm: When the Animal blight starts I'm rolling a new character tho

Archibald of Guernicus: at least its a convenient way for me to retire the revenant zita

shes corpus aligned

Father Hazm: If there's an animal blight let's just say she goes into twilight like Tethys

So far the two blights are both of organic forms,as opposed to elemental

Guy of Bonisagus: gg gamers

Father Hazm: gg

Rosario of Flambeau: gg

ngiht all

Mortis ex Verditus: See ya.