11/6/16

devil's fav demon: helolo

Beardbeard: hi

dys (GM): Hey.

Darvin: Greetings

Joshua S.: hail

johns (GM): side effect: every bird in rome is drawn to the covenant and keeps smacking into the side of the inn

Joshua S.: nice

johns (GM): Everyone please welcome our newest player, beardbeard

Joshua S.: salve

Darvin: Hello!

Beardbeard: greetings friends

johns (GM): so Darvin last week the troupe infiltrated a noble's manor and Proclus murdered a dude, shenanigans were afoot, etc.

(From Joshua S.): i'd like to change my major personality flaw from meddler (don't really do it) to hatred: ppl who are cruel to animal

Darvin: the per usual

(To Joshua S.): I like that a lot better

dys: It was a really good kill.

(From Joshua S.): thx u

dys: We're very proud of Proclus.

johns (GM): You got some decent loot including the magical gauntlet that is uninvestigated for now.

devil's fav demon: welcome beardbeard hello

the gauntlet is wicked and sick

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I also murdered a dude.

johns (GM): murder ftw

Settling back into the quiet routine, with Venator still off on wherever he goes to, it is Fall 1327 when your steward Sir Sebaste approaches you, dying to share some important news

Sir Sebaste the Steward: "M'lords and ladies, I've found a tremendous opportunity for you! Have you heard of that merchant Ottovania-- the one obsessed with collecting curios?" And, without waiting for a reply, "He's dead! And they're selling off all his goods. There's bound to be some good stuff there!"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Oh dear! How did he die?"

Sir Sebaste the Steward: "Killed himself."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "This just sounds tremendous."

Aleseta of Bonisagus gasps.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Were things really so bad for the poor man?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "You are right as always, Sebaste."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Good thing we've got all that money."

Sir Sebaste the Steward: "Oh, lately he's had some nasty luck I hear. He sunk everything into some venture on English wool, even went up to his eyes in debt.. The ships went out but never came out. Lost at sea it looks like."

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Won't his goods go to his debtors first?"

Sir Sebaste the Steward: "He'd spend sunup to sundown watching the coast for his ship to come in. Til he realized it wasn't and decided to throw himself in the sea with it."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: mmm classic italian english wool trick!!! thx, ed.

Sir Sebaste the Steward: "That they will. Though a lot of his items aren't the sort you buy on the market. So his creditors are hosting an auction of the stuff they couldn't sell easily."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I truly admire a man as passionate as that."

Sir Sebaste the Steward: Bursting with pride, "I can get you into the auction if you please. I know people."

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Sounds like it would be great for us to attend, thank you Sir Sebaste."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm going to give Sebaste the bottle of wine I took for myself at the end of the last session. There's always more wine.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, sounds a good time. We have a duty to anything of arcane value, to make sure we get it."

Sir Sebaste the Steward: "It's down by the coast at Ostia, a couple miles from here if you recall."

"Much obliged my lord!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Thank you Sebaste. This is a lovely opportunity."

Prudenzio of Flambeau thinks "Good. Can always use a character witness."

Sir Sebaste the Steward: Who is up for this venture? If you're carrying lots of cash a few shield grogs could come in handy too

Archibald of Guernicus: I need to be there, to ensure we bid on the stuff I want.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: aleseta will go

Prudenzio of Flambeau is delivered a letter

Ferris of Bonisagus: Ferris will go and bring Ombra.

c'thinker (GM): c'thinker here

Sir Sebaste the Steward: Heya!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Ah. It appears my son is coming to visit. I'll be in my lab, there's some very important work I must attend to."

c'thinker (GM): c'est moi, imoen

Aleseta of Bonisagus: loil

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Give him some money and say it's from me, won't you?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Beard, are you playing a shied grog?

Beardbeard: I could do that yeah.

johns (GM): I apologize that the shield grogs won't have much use in Act I here but bear with me..

Beardbeard: I am used to having very little use, do not worry.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I know I've never mentioned a son but he's just precious. Very important work. Truly a shame. I mustn't dally."

johns (GM): A bunch of wizards and a transvestite roll into the auction hell

hall

hilarity ensues

(From Beardbeard): which grog am i using

Archibald of Guernicus: Your companion is your son?

(To Beardbeard): any you like in the journal section under "grogs." crass, muzio, raffanio are pure combat guys

Celeste: well, he could be someone else's companion. the book says you shouldn't make your own companion.

but if he can, then yes

prudenzio is incapable of casting a longevity ritual so he has children out there from women he hasn't married.

(To Beardbeard): Grogs are encouraged to act with exagerated personality flaws and to get themselves killed fighting so don't fret dying

(From Muzio the Bastard): i like muzio

Ferris of Bonisagus: Other players are supposed to make each other companions?

Celeste: thats what the rulebook said, i thought. it seems easy to toss.

c'thinker: all right. i 'm caught up on the backlog

johns (GM): i think the suggestion is you make a character companion who has some sort of existing connection to one of the Magi

Archibald of Guernicus: I think the suggestion was to make a companion not tied to your own magus, but it's a suggestion not a rule.

Celeste: ahh.

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns is GM, I'm fine with your crossdressing son being a companion character.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: aren't magi themselves supposed to be shared characters

johns (GM): ahh christ i just realized we lost our 5 hour RPG tavern music playlist with the soundcloud purge

Celeste: >:|

Aristocritus Bonisagi: at least we have Stones

johns (GM): nah Magi are pretty exclusive to a single person

Celeste: stones ftw

Aristocritus Bonisagi: stones, no!!

whew

Celeste: stones (10 hours)

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Celeste: stones (10 hours)

johns (GM): Alright. Aristocritus, you want to go as well?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm down

dys: Oh, noscript was blocking fanburst. I wondered why I had no music.

johns (GM): and -- im curious -- was any of the characters here around during the adventure on the boat with Cupid?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i wasn't

Celeste: nope

Archibald of Guernicus: That was the session before I joined, maybe Aleseta or Ferris were?

Ferris of Bonisagus: nope, that was Potom

Aleseta of Bonisagus: boat with cupid? i think i missed that

johns (GM): Okay. You've got Ombra and Muzio with you to pull the cart along the ancient stone roads to Ostia. The town is already abuzz with the strange activity and a group of magi rolling in adds to the curiosity of the crowds

Archibald of Guernicus: Incredibly high character turnover is rendering us immune to consequences.

Celeste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJzTWk6bSw think of this song because it mentions Ostia

Aleseta of Bonisagus: vardian's tomb roll deep

johns (GM): Around the warehouses is a bevy of clerks, merchants, and armed guards. One warehouse has been cleared out and prettied up for its affluent guests.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: affluent ghosts

shirt look like a dishrag man

Aristocritus Bonisagi: effluent guests

johns (GM): There's a few familiar faces here. Eli the Pawnbroker is one of the creditors and officiating the ceremony.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: edwin locke lamo

Celeste has been brought to the covenant by a kind stranger. He is inebriated and smells foul.

johns (GM): Locke you might remember as Hugo di Capocci's court physician, you met him briefly at the tournament. He greets you politely in an English accent.

Archibald of Guernicus: I feel a deep pang of hatred.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: oh yeahhh

johns (GM): The rest regard you with less politeness.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: salve guvnor

Aleseta of Bonisagus: fugger pic ftw

Celeste: my hair and makeup look great though.

johns (GM): Locke is attended by a couple bannermen of House Capocci. There's a Bishop here attended by a priest and some others you might recognize with Area Lorea

Celeste: im not wearing the bandanna over the metallic gold hair because we're already causing a scene.

Muzio the Bastard: I chat with my good friend Ombra. "Too many laborin' jobs lately, not enough fightin'."

Celeste: i only have area lore rome but i get a +3 to town related rolls.

rolling 1d10+3

(

10

)

+3

=

13

nice.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: Noice.

johns (GM): Okay. the funky beareded guy int he bottom corner is a Magister at Sapienza University.

Celeste: "That's _______!"

magister tony schiavone

johns (GM): The guy in the bottom middle with the Hapsburg chin action going on is an affluent goldsmith, Flavio Bonaccorso, an up and comer in Roman politics

ive drawn out a budget for each of these dudes in advance and know what they are prioritizing when it comes up to bidding. You start with $488 (top left corner). It would be good to end with at least $28 remaining to cover your covenant expenses at the end of this year.

Ombra Cadaveri: To Muzio "Speak for yourself. If I never take another battle sacrifice I'll live a happy life."

Celeste: "I think my dad bought me jewelry from that guy one time."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: start with $1488 and make bids of only $420 and $69! lmoa!

johns (GM): yes plz

Any questions so far?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: how many items are up

and do we have a list

Ferris of Bonisagus: Are we all chiming in on bidding or should we have a single bid-fan holder?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: if we don't have a list, can we cheat and look at the items beforehand

johns (GM): Loads of stuff but I've drawn up 13 items worth bidding on. Some items of interest look like books of arcanum, enchanted items/potions, and material but you can't tell what it is until they bring it out

Archibald of Guernicus: We should big against each other to drive prices up on items NPCs want so they have to pay more.

johns (GM): Sure, you want to go invisible and try to sneak into the warehouse?

Archibald of Guernicus: Then they have less to spend on the good stuff.

Celeste says "Phony Bologna Schiavone" in the murmer of the crowd and hopes he sort of hears it.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: deficient imaginem guy here

Behold! I am one of deficient mentem

johns (GM): lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Ll

Lol.

Ferris of Bonisagus: I'll sneak into the warehouse all spider-like

Aleseta of Bonisagus: Aleseta wants to use a rat to sneak into the warehouse and look around then report back to her so she can read its mind.

or that I GUESS

Archibald of Guernicus: I have yet to invent my hilarious rude entrance spell, so I'll hang out back here and let my sodales fill me in.

johns (GM): There's a fair amount of armed guards around -- they bear the banners of one of the less renowned Condottieri companies

Celeste: "I'm aghast you would cheat like that. A competition like this is something to respect..."

"It ruins everyone's fun, you know."

Ferris of Bonisagus: I'm just going to be turning into a spider and crawling through the (what looks like) open windows.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ach, calm down, we're here for their stuff not to play some game."

johns (GM): Sure. That's a spell you've invented?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'll hang back with archibald

Ferris of Bonisagus: Yeah, "Spilio’s Transformation to the Creeping Spider"

For reference, this is a touch spell if anyone else would find being a spider for a little while would be useful.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i'm still using the gentle beast and mastering the unruly beast for operation: rat spy

Archibald of Guernicus: Could be a good party trick.

Celeste: "I love playing some game."

Muzio the Bastard: "If you want stuff from nobles there's easier ways to get it, boss. More fun too."

johns (GM): Both suitable. Ferris has an advantage that he can read some of the book titles that a rat cannot

Inside the warehouses are piles of stuff and, more guards, naturally

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i'll be using opening the tome of the animal's mind when it returns to read them myself!!

Celeste: i love the spider focus

johns (GM): Ah lol okay

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why do ye make that suggestion sound so sinister, Muzio?"

johns (GM): Years and years of accumulated stuff on display. Can you make Per + Awareness for a search, Ferris?

Muzio the Bastard: "'S only really sinister if they're really attached to it."

Ferris of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10 + 0 + 4

(

2

)

+0+4

=

6

Archibald of Guernicus: "A good point. Besides, mundanes have no right to magical property, if we see any on display."

Muzio the Bastard: "That's the spirit, boss!"

johns (GM) wonders what the rat's Per+Awareness is

Celeste: "We've almost inside and no one's offered us wine yet."

johns (GM): Okay, some of the more obvious things that you can spot easily Ferris: A lamp that seems to glow without any flame inside, which is lighting up a good corner of the warehouse

An assortment of high quality glassware, alembics etc. that would be good lab equipment

Ferris of Bonisagus wonders if there is a way to turn inanimate objects into spiders as well...

johns (GM): Ingots of metal that sheen like Damascus steel

Aleseta of Bonisagus: cool

johns (GM): There's plenty of books but you can't find what's good and what's junk in your current search.

Ferris of Bonisagus: I'll scurry out and let me compadres know

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+0+4 Rat

(

3

)

+0+4

=

7

Aleseta your rat noticed two books

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yesss

johns (GM): One bore the title "Edicts of Augustus" on the front. It looked very old.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: cool

johns (GM): One bore the title "Something About Vim."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yessss

a classic

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i inform the others

i think everyone in MM learned from Something About Vim at some point

Celeste: lol

johns (GM): It's a damn classic

Ferris of Bonisagus: I'm pretty sure we already have 2 volumes of Something About Vim in the library

Celeste: its an extensive series

johns (GM): you have the Commentary on Something About Vim

Celeste: there's a lot of things to know about vim

johns (GM): Not to be confused with the higher level summa, Something More About Vim

Archibald of Guernicus: We must get the Vim book. It's important.

I need it for a project. Don't ask what the project is. I'm sealing the entrance to my lab.

Edwin Locke: Dr. Locke approaches your table, forcing a smile

Celeste: big p is sadly lacking in vim ability and it would be, ah, pretty good to have.

Celeste burps under his breath

Celeste: "Ahem, excuse me. Hello."

Edwin Locke: "My learned associates-- I hope you will not be too aggressive in today's bidding? My lord does not have the same opportunities to share knowledge that yours do."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'll bid on what I damn well want."

I call him an arselicker in gaelic.

Celeste: "I think we'll all have a fantastic time here, sir. Are you the waiter?"

Ferris of Bonisagus: "We are always open to an exchanging of knowledge."

Edwin Locke: "I am grateful to hear it! We should arrange something. It can wait until after the auction naturally."

"Good day...  gentlemen. " He gives you all a skeptical glance and retreats to his own spot.

Celeste: "What a rude waiter..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, all he's serving up is bullshit."

Edwin Locke: brb 1 min. do you have any strategies about bidding you want to set up before I start

Archibald of Guernicus: "Wanting us not to bid on Something About Vim, huh?"

"I'll show him."

Muzio the Bastard: "Aye, that's those English rats for you."

Aristocritus Bonisagi waits to make sure Locke is gone.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Too bloody right."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "We need to get our hands on the Edicts of Augustus."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Italian rats are much nicer."

Aleseta of Bonisagus pets rat.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: All right, sounds like we're all in agreement on the Edicts of Augustus then

Ferris of Bonisagus: Unanimously it seems

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'll take my adventure xp in the form of Intrigue points

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bid on it if ye want, but a proper Vim summa is something our library needs. Desperately."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "I agree with Archibald."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Cannae kill demons without it."

"Er, and the other uses too, of course."

Aristocritus Bonisagi waves a hand

Eli the Pawnbroker: Whose attention are you trying to get there

Muzio the Bastard: "If it's demons ya want dead just point me to 'em."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: dismissively

Eli the Pawnbroker: Excellent. And that's the spirit Muzio

Archibald of Guernicus: "Heh, ye say that, but it was me that got that monster down in the swamp. Both heads, one swing."

Merchant: Eli steps to the side so that a Christian merchant can have the honors of banging the ceremonial mace.

Muzio the Bastard: "Bah! Take me on more of yer killin' jobs and maybe I'll outdo ya."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "The world is full of Vim books. But here the key to the secrets of Bonisagus has fallen right into our lap!"

Ferris of Bonisagus: Against what? The floor?

Eli the Pawnbroker: Well, sure

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Do you remember the mural in the well?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do the secrets include how to be better at Vim, by any chance, sodales."

Oh god. Every other magus here besides me is a damn bonisagus.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Ah, yes. Good point Aristocritus"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: mm haha

Celeste: lol

Eli the Pawnbroker: The first lot is a golden amulet bearing a bird-like emblem on a chain. Eli explains: "The previous owner obtained this from a professor at the University of Bologna. He alleged that this amulet had an arcane power to shield its bearer from fires, no matter how hot. The opening bid is 5 MP. You have 15 minutes until the bidding begins."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Could be useful, any of ye interested?"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Surely there is a limit to how much heat it can withstand."

"Perhaps we should discern if it truly has magical power, first."

Celeste: "It looks quite nice."

Archibald of Guernicus: "So Eli puts it on, then walks into a fire to prove it works?

"

"Worst comes tae the worst, he burns alive and we nab the vim book."

Ferris of Bonisagus: Pilium of Flame coming right up

Aleseta of Bonisagus: would an InVi base 5 effect allow one to see if an item is magical

?

Eli the Pawnbroker: base 5 detects any magic

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what would meng hao do at this auction

Eli the Pawnbroker: base 4 - magic of 3rd mag or higher, base 3, 6th mag+ etc

Aleseta of Bonisagus: cool cool cool

Archibald of Guernicus: Meng Hao's eyes glittered as he surveyed the amulet. However, the thought of spending his precious mythic pounds wounded him deeply!

Aleseta of Bonisagus: aleseta's InVi isn't good enough to cast it discretely.

Eli the Pawnbroker: Can you cast quietly?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "A ward against flames isn't a trivial effect, exactly."

Eli the Pawnbroker: No Aura in here btw

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the high concentration of material wealth should cause an infernal aura

Celeste: lol, but yes

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i could cast quietly but my InVi is only +13 so it would be very difficult to succeed.

actually +15, but still hard

Ferris of Bonisagus: I only have a 13 InVi but can subtle/quiet cast. So just as hard

Well... 16 with Stam...

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i can also cast at +16

not quietly though

Ferris of Bonisagus: Think the crowd will mind a bit of hooting and hollaring? :D

Eli the Pawnbroker: You can see what happens

Aristocritus Bonisagi: can i consult my intuition

Eli the Pawnbroker: Also even if you fall short of the base, if it's a high mag effect your spont would pick it up

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i mean, my real-life intuition says it will not go over well

Aleseta of Bonisagus: oh tru

(To Aristocritus Bonisagi): Intuition: Bad idea

Eli the Pawnbroker passes a note to a player

Celeste: haha. yeah it would cause a stir i imagine.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Please, no hooting or hollering."

"We need to avoid being thrown out at least until those books come around."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm calm as a lake."

Celeste: "If I don't get two glasses of wine right now I'm going to melt down."

Ferris of Bonisagus: Wait, if we are trying for a base 5, dont we only neee to roll a 10 to spont?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: we also need voice

+2

Archibald of Guernicus: How much did silent casting affect the roll

Might be doable with a conf point?

Eli the Pawnbroker: Well someone either roll something or we go to bidding

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i am not rolling!!!

Aleseta of Bonisagus abstains from Rollingpalooza

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not rolling, it's an amulet. We should just ask him to demonstrate it if we want to bid and have doubts.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: can we just roll magic theory to inspect the item

Ferris of Bonisagus: This probably should have been the first question, even if it is real, would anyone want it?

Eli the Pawnbroker: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, I don't overly care for it.

Eli the Pawnbroker: Give it a shot Aristo

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm here for that book and I'll bankrupt us to get it.

Celeste: im going to roll carouse to demand wine immediately without being so rude i offend someone. just to roll something, why not.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: +int, or

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10+3+18 magic theory

(

4

)

+3+18

=

25

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+5-3

(

7

)

+5-3

=

9

Eli the Pawnbroker: Looks like something Orsu might make

Aleseta of Bonisagus: HMMM

Eli the Pawnbroker: mt usually adds +int, yes

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling d10+3+6

(

5

)

+3+6

=

14

hmm

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Didn't the amulet Orsu made  only  work for Archibald? Does that apply to all such amulets?"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: looks like i have determined that i need to spend my damn seasons

Celeste: "This is the shabbiest catering I've ever seen in my life for such a high class event. Oh. Oh I'm sorry, thank you."

Eli the Pawnbroker: Alright, Edwin bids 10 MP

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right, he made me an amulet. I should record that somewhere.

What did it add, soak?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: Grant Fortuna Belli (Single Weapon)

TuFa Level 15

R: Touch, D: Diam, T: Ind

Different versions of this charm exist for each Martial Ability. For the duration of the charm, if the character’s Attack Advantage using her Single Weapon Ability is 0 or less, both combatants re-roll. If the second roll produces a positive Attack Advantage, it is used. Should the player botch on any of his rolls, that result is discarded unless he botches on both rolls, in which case he suffers the less-serious botch.

(Base 5, +1 Touch, +1 Diameter)

Aleseta of Bonisagus: it has 7 charges, 8 charges since if archibald allowsed orsu to perform a nativity horoscope.

e: magical restrictions on this amulet: 1) only archibald may use it. it won't do anything for anyone else. 2) wearing the amulet activates it automatically whether the wearer desires it or not.

Celeste: "Blood of our lord Bacchus, Christ, which was shed for me, preserve my body and soul unto everlasting life."

Celeste chugs both glasses

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "It's not even a Hermetic ward? How good could it be?"

Celeste: "Okay, now, that looks nice."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: (quietly to sodales) "We should run up the bid on this a little to drain Edwin's finances."

Eli the Pawnbroker: Going once

Ferris of Bonisagus: "12"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: nice

Eli the Pawnbroker: Edwin bids 15

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, agreed, just be careful we don't buy the damn bauble."

Aleseta of Bonisagus nods Bonisagusishly.

Eli the Pawnbroker: once

Aristocritus Bonisagi: bonisagaciously

Eli the Pawnbroker: twice

Sold

Edwin looks happy.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: mm haha

Eli the Pawnbroker: Next item, is a pamphlet between two wooden sheaves. Eli apologetically introduces it as "An untitled work. The materials within refer to sort of arcane practice. It is will illuminated and will be a unique item in anyone's library."

Celeste thinks "Saving up that much money... Maybe he's not a bad waiter after all."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "What is the language of authorship?"

Eli the Pawnbroker: "Latin."

Aleseta of Bonisagus nods.

Eli the Pawnbroker: He sets the book down on a table for folks to look at. "Bidding starts at 3 MP."

Aleseta of Bonisagus looks to the others and shrugs.

Celeste yawns

Eli the Pawnbroker: Various parties get up to examine, including Edwin, Bishop, and Magister

Aleseta of Bonisagus examines it

Celeste: "Nothing I know about. You all seem like the type."

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): Looks like 3 spell texts: Shell of Opaque Mysteries (5th magnitude), Piercing the Faerie Veil, Love's Unfaithful Witness (InTe, lets you talk to jewelry)

Aleseta of Bonisagus: (to sodales) "Three hermetic spell texts! Good ones, too."

Shell of Opaque Mysteries (5th magnitude), Piercing the Faerie Veil, Love's Unfaithful Witness (InTe, lets you talk to jewelry)

Archibald of Guernicus: Intellego Terram

Yes! Yes!

Eli the Pawnbroker: that last one is InTe 35

Ferris of Bonisagus: Nice.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: mm

delicious

Archibald of Guernicus: I have 13 Terram

"We're bidding."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i bet i could cast that if, you know

Aleseta of Bonisagus: are they already translated?

Eli the Pawnbroker: Yeah, these are published versions

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i.e. ready for anyone to read?

nice

Celeste leans back and lets her eyes wander across the other bidders. "That guy in the back has no style, but he's kind of cute."

Plain Dressed Man stares ahead emptily, waiting for something.

Archibald of Guernicus: "3 mythic pounds." I place our bid

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "The man was a merchant, right?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait bidding didn't start did it

Eli the Pawnbroker: "A merchant and a collector."

johns (GM): Magister bids 8 MP.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "How are all of these Hermetic texts making their way out of the Order?"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Good question."

"10." she says, cool as a cucumber hit with a PeIg spell.

Bishop Savelli: "12"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Bishops... 14."

Celeste: I'm going to try to catch the eye of the plain-dressed man while they bid.

Magister Schiavone: "15"

Archibald of Guernicus: "17"

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Does the order normally confiscate rogue spell texts?"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "I'm not sure," she says, having 0 OoH Lore.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let me roll code of hermes and check

Magister Schiavone does math on his fingers

Ferris of Bonisagus: Same

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+6

(

7

)

+2+6

=

15

Celeste: what would that be, charm + presence?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i have both code and lore, but not much

Magister Schiavone: Archibald: This is not a major priority since the texts are worthless outside the order. Sometimes they wind up in private collections-- even if mundanes can't understand them at all, books are a status symbol.

Charm and Pre works, Celeste

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, cool.

I, however, am greedy, and want the texts.

Magister Schiavone: not sure how you figure in the penalty for being a transvestite, if one exists

The Magister waves his hand. No more bids-- you get the book for 17 MP.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+3-3

(

6

)

+3-3

=

6

if he finds out im a man its another -3

Archibald of Guernicus: The penalty is if he isn't cross-dressing.

Celeste: but while living as a woman its fine. but i get a -3 because i smell extremely bad and don't bathe or wear perfumes

or i just have really bad taste in perfume. whatever.

Plain Dressed Man seems more interested in your traveling companions than you.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: nice

Celeste: "So hard to find someone." says the 18 year old heavily armed crossdresser

Aleseta of Bonisagus: every boy-girl's crazy bout a plain dressed man

Celeste: he's got a good face.

Eli the Pawnbroker: Next lot is a green vial. "A fascinating item, this. Acquired from a wise man who could commune with animals and nature. It is said that one who drinks this gains the ability to see that which is unseeable. Trust me friends, you can't afford not to let this one slip you by! The bidding starts at 1 MP."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: hmm.

Aleseta of Bonisagus examines it.

Celeste: "Might be something to run that waiter's money out with."

Eli the Pawnbroker: It's a potion of some sort.

Aleseta of Bonisagus nods to the others, then returns.

Ferris of Bonisagus: Potiom of secondsight I assume

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Yes, let's use it to drive up the price."

"Or rather, to drain Edwin's finances."

Eli the Pawnbroker: Opening bid?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "2."

Flavio Bonaccorso: "4"

Ferris of Bonisagus: "6"

Edwin Locke: "10"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Let's leave it there."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, sure. We've got piles of cash left anyway."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Even if it works it's not worth 10 MP."

Edwin Locke: once

twice

Sold

johns (GM): Well edwin looks happy at least.

Eli the Pawnbroker: The next lots are unremarkable, but then Eli's servants bring out a thick summa whose cover is inlaid with gems and gilt --

Archibald of Guernicus: Let him buy all the useless crap so we can get the

Here it comes

Celeste: "Gosh!"

Celeste procures and quickly empties another glass of wine

Eli the Pawnbroker: "This is a unique piece, gentlemen. It is entitled.. 'On the Magi of the Roman Tribunal.' A fantastic recounting of adventures of mythical people who master the supernatural under our very noses."

Celeste: "That would look so good hanging off my horse. If only I still had my horse."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: :T

Eli the Pawnbroker: It is a high quality summae on Order of Hermes Lore.

Aleseta of Bonisagus examines it

Archibald of Guernicus: It's probably an order of

Yeah, I guessed it right

Celeste wipes a tear or two away from his eyes

Eli the Pawnbroker: "Opening bid is 10 Mythic Pounds."

Ferris of Bonisagus: We already have a L12 Q9 summa

Archibald of Guernicus: "Worth bidding on, but I dinnae think we should break the bank trying to get it."

Celeste: "12 Pounds"

Archibald of Guernicus: We could trade it with another covenant for a better book

Eli the Pawnbroker: What's a bank? :)

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, shit.

Celeste: I look embarassed.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah fuck.

I'll have to shoot myself for that anachronism.

johns (GM): idk if it's an anachronism when you have banking families in italy

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yeah

bardis, et al.

johns (GM): anyway, the Bishop, the Magister, and Edwin all bid-- the Bishop lands the highest bid at 20 MP before you have a chance to butt in

I think the bardis went bankrupt right about now??

Celeste: "I don't know what I was thinking. I'm sorry. I don't even have a horse." about this book.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yeah. they get Wooled by ERIII

Archibald of Guernicus: "21"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: oh wait that's not until the 1340s

johns (GM): wikipedia says he defaulted on a loan of 900,000 florins. by my pencil math that's like, a million mythic pounds

Celeste: lol

johns (GM): Bishop bids 25

Celeste gets another glass of wine and holds it at the ready

johns (GM): once

twice

Sold

Celeste: i finish the glass while staring at archibald

johns (GM): Next item of interest: The flameless candle. It shines a steady light but there is no candle or flame inside. The light itself feels, well, a bit magical.

sorry, flameless LANTERN

Archibald of Guernicus: Wow, generating light. What an amazing high level effect. Better bust out the big pounds.

johns (GM): It is actually 4 pawns of Spell-like Ignem Vis. Opening bid is 5 MP

Celeste: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: What was the approximate value of vis

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lightless lanterns are tainted. everyone knows this

johns (GM): 10 pawns apiece for form vis

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we were decently good on ignem vis and had no pressing need for it BUT we could always trade it

johns (GM): you have 0 ignem vis

Archibald of Guernicus: "5"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i read the chapter on special vis types but i don't remember, what's spell-like vis

johns (GM): Its vis that also works like an enchanted item on its own, until it's consumed

Locke bids 8

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ah

hence the light.

Archibald of Guernicus: "10"

johns (GM): 14 from Flavio

Archibald of Guernicus: You people don't even know what vim is!

"15"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: weem

johns (GM): Hm, does Edwin not know what it is? 20 from him

once

twice

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Twenty-four."

Edwin Locke: "28"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Hm.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: fire man

Archibald of Guernicus: I think vis isn't worth 8 pounds a pawn, hm

Let's make him spend more though

"30"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Agreed."

Edwin Locke: "34"

Archibald of Guernicus: Letting it go here, unless Aristocritus really needs the ignem vis and chimes in

Aleseta of Bonisagus: holy moly

Ferris of Bonisagus: We are just mugging Edwin after this, right?

Edwin Locke: i mean he works for a guy who's sorta your ally

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm completely in favour of mugging him if he steals the books.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yeah i thought we were on somewhat good terms with him

Archibald of Guernicus: Otherwise, only partially in favour.

Celeste: "I could, haha, try to pick his pocket."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ach, 4 pawns are good but not worth the trouble. If we gets one of the books you can do as ye please."

Edwin Locke: once

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well, it is still cheaper than buying it off the market, but i'll let it go

Edwin Locke: twice

sold

Edwin Locke has spent 56 MP so far for those keeping count

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what's going to happen if the tomb burns down and we don't have any ignem vis OR any flame-ward amulets

johns (GM): Next item: The old book, Edicts of Augustus. "Written by Athenaeus, a scholar during the pagan era. Records of the Emperor and his deeds in the early Empire. Exceptionally rare-- bidding begins at 3 MP."

Archibald of Guernicus: Time for the 3 stooges to bankrupt us

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yuuuup

Aristocritus Bonisagi: think of how much prestige we'll gain!!

Archibald of Guernicus: Reputation (Poor)

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Five pounds."

Plain Dressed Man: "10"

Celeste: "Look at him go."

Ferris of Bonisagus: "15"

Plain Dressed Man: "20."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: who is this fuckin dude

Celeste stares at the plain dressed man. "40."

Plain Dressed Man: You're really bidding 40?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: lmao

Celeste: she's really drunk.

Plain Dressed Man pales

Archibald of Guernicus: "We're never babysitting for Prudenzio again."

Plain Dressed Man looks in his purse

Plain Dressed Man: "40 and a half"

Ferris of Bonisagus: "40.51"

Archibald of Guernicus: I will briefly be right back, do not let the vim book go if I am absent

Celeste: lmao

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we still have hundreds of pounds to throw at the vim book

Plain Dressed Man: He bites his nails but has no more bid. Everyone else looks at you like you're insane.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: good shit

Celeste has lost track of what's going on and is finally sipping, not immediately chugging her wine

Plain Dressed Man leaves

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+3+1 folk ken+perception to inspect the plain dressed man

(

9

)

+3+1

=

13

oh, he's gone

heck

Plain Dressed Man: You ken that he was plainly dressed

Aristocritus Bonisagi: nice.

(From Aleseta of Bonisagus): i want to go out and use bird to observe where he goes

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Aristocritus has done it again

Celeste: "I'd spend 40 mythic pounds on some cheese right now."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "That man certainly was plainly dressed."

johns (GM): Next lot is the ingots-- Alchemically treated steel. A blade made of this gains +2 to its damage. There is enough to make 1 great weapon OR 1 single weapon/1 dagger OR 4 daggers.

Opening bid here is 10 MP

Archibald of Guernicus: Good work, sodales. Excellent psycho bidding.

Aristocritus Bonisagi unfurls scroll

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hear ye, hear ye. a blade made from this steel will gain +2 to its damage. press the SQUARE button to learn more

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): Outside, the man paces outside, gnashing his teeth. He waits just outside the auction hall and keeps looking at the entryway.

Archibald of Guernicus: I actually could use it

Eli the Pawnbroker: "Snake, press the X button to cast a ball of abyssal flame"

Archibald of Guernicus: "10"

Flavio Bonaccorso: 15 from Flavio

Celeste vomits a little bit in her mouth, but manages to contain most of it and deposit the rest in an empty wine glass. "God is on my side."

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, we'd need a blacksmith

Hmm

Nah, I'll let it go

Flavio Bonaccorso: it's no trouble to get someone to work the metal for ya

Aristocritus Bonisagi: could rego it

Archibald of Guernicus: "16"

Flavio Bonaccorso: "Um... 18?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait, I already opening my current sword to enchantment

Fuck

Yeah take it

Celeste: "Could one make arrows out of this? For heads, that's quite a lot."

(From Aleseta of Bonisagus): hmm okay. i will PeIm myself from a location to observe him to make sure he doesn't try any funny biz

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do we receive our lots when the bidding is finished, or at the end

Flavio Bonaccorso: Oh, good idea

Probably like 25 arrowheads

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): You're slipping out of the auction?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: big arrowheads

Flavio Bonaccorso: You get the stuff right away

Aristocritus Bonisagi flips through the Edicts, assuming they're in good enough shape to do so

Celeste: if celeste gets those arrowheads and uses a virtue, she can open a combat round with a +27 to attack. hell yeah.

Flavio Bonaccorso: They are. You'll need to make a horoscope back at the lab to get that info you need but that's not a seasonal activity

(From Aleseta of Bonisagus): if that's allowed.

Celeste: wait +25 to attack, +16 damage

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): Sure

Flavio Bonaccorso: Going once

Celeste: not bad for a non wizard.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: are you bidding on the metal

Flavio Bonaccorso: Going twice

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it's going to flavio atm

Archibald of Guernicus: I gave up on it.

Celeste: yeah i'll bid.

20.

Flavio Bonaccorso: Flavio shakes his head and waves his hand-- its yours.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh, i just remembered i was going to start carrying around the short sword i grabbed during spider queen part II

Eli the Pawnbroker: "The next item.. A curious tome, entitled, "Something About Power." It has been inspected by Father Ghili who has attested there is nothing heretical or unholy in here. The book is unknown outside the deceased Otto's collection. Bidding begins in 15 minutes, at 10 MP."

i missed that adventure, what was unique about it

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it was just a test of the combat houserules

Eli the Pawnbroker: The Something About Vim book is before you. It's a good quality Vim summa

Aristocritus Bonisagi: but a sword would be nice to have, sometimes.

Eli the Pawnbroker: L12 Q12

Archibald of Guernicus 's light up as his dao increases in intensity

Eli the Pawnbroker: brb 1 sec

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do the other notables look interested

especially locke

Eli the Pawnbroker: Bishop, Locke, and Magister all interested

you can talk to them during this time too if you like

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "We should go and have a chat with Locke."

did we bring anyone who a) doesn't have gift penalties b) didn't insult the good doctor

Celeste: haha

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye can tell him to keep his fruity mitts off our summa."

Uhhh

Maybe aleseta?

Eli the Pawnbroker: lol

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Our grogs"

Archibald of Guernicus: Muzio has no gift penalties :)

Eli the Pawnbroker: Funny, it seems Aleseta has stepped out?

Celeste: hell yes muzio

Aleseta of Bonisagus isn't here!!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: where has aleseta gone!

Muzio the Bastard: "Talkin' job? If that's what you want boss."

Archibald of Guernicus: I believe in you Muzio

"Aye, might as well try."

Celeste: "Muzio, you're the only one who can do this."

Muzio the Bastard: I walk over to the Englishman.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Remember, the english have no spine."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Just make it clear that the information in the book won't be useful to him."

Muzio the Bastard: I make sure not to call him Cock.

Edwin Locke: lol

don't say cock, don't say cock..... "Cuck"

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should dissuade the other bidders, one of ye talk to them."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: doc cock

Muzio the Bastard: "Hey, friend of the boss. We're interested in that book there, and it ain't of no use to you.

Celeste: i'll talk to the bishop if no one else volunteers.

Muzio the Bastard: oops forgot to finish

'Preciate if you didn't bid."

to locke btw

Edwin Locke: "I admit I have little use for it, however, it could be of great insight to my colleague. He's working on a unified theory of the realms of power-- very fascinating material if it pans out. You see,"

(babble)

The Bishop looks at Celeste with pure disdain.

Muzio the Bastard: "Oh wow. For sure. Somethin' could be arranged with uh, the text in it. Sharin' like."

Edwin Locke: "Interesting-- would you permit our scribes to make a copy? We could coordinate in this auction then."

Celeste: "Well met, Father. I'm Celeste, a crusader on the road for our Lord, you could say. What does a good church man like you want with that?"

Muzio the Bastard: "Course. Friends is friends."

Bishop Savelli: "Are you drunk?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Jesus turned water into wine, you're in the clear.

Celeste: "I have enjoyed the blessings of the blood of our lord, yes."

Edwin Locke: "Tell your friends I can cover, mm, 30 pounds of their expense if they need to bid more than their budget."

Muzio the Bastard: "Aye. Thank ye."

Archibald of Guernicus: 30 punds, good work

Muzio the Bastard: I head back over to the characters that matter and inform them.

Bishop Savelli: "Disgraceful."

Archibald of Guernicus: Thank you Muzio

"Yer a social butterfly, Muzio. We should send ye on stuff like this more often."

Ferris of Bonisagus: Good job

Celeste: "You can teach me how to be good, Father."

Aristocritus Bonisagi makes his way over to Schiavone

Celeste: hopefully he starts yelling and gets escorted out.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Salve, Magister. Aristocritus Bonisagi."

Bishop Savelli: The Bishop only scowls at you.

Celeste gets in close to the Bishop and breathes vomit-scented breath across his ear

Magister Schiavone: In a whispy voice, "Why hello there my boy. Schiavone's the name. To what do I owe the honor?"

Celeste: "We can talk to God together, haha"

Bishop Savelli: "Vile wretch, go back to your sorcerors!"

Celeste: well, I couldn't distract him for long enough. I'll have to sit back down so I still look polite to the crowd.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "I must warn you. This book is written in code, and of no practical use to those without the Gift."

Magister Schiavone: "Yes, erm, aheh, it seems so? Regardless do not underestimated the scholars of Sapienza, they are quite gifted, I assure you."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is sapienza a covenant

Aleseta of Bonisagus: agent 47 is an amazing scholar

Magister Schiavone: a University, in this city

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh

Celeste: im going to write a note in ancient greek that says "no one has to know. go outside and i'll follow." and have it send to the bishop with a glass of wine. as a religious scholar he should be able to read it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Good luck aristocritus.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "greek is for losers" - 14th century academics

Celeste: on a piece of wax or something.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: greek is ftw

Bishop Savelli: losers and heretics

Aristocritus Bonisagi: What!!

Celeste: if hes a catholic and hes read books he might very well know greek, like me

im trying to look risky and cultured

Aleseta of Bonisagus: ppl made fun of boccaccio for knowing greek because everyone thought it was dumb.

Celeste: lol

Bishop Savelli: how's that Fall of Constantinople workin for ya greeks :smugdog:

Celeste: dang

ding dang, even.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: EVerything is fine thank you very much.

Bishop Savelli: Lol

Shall we begin the bidding?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: sure

johns (GM): The magister bids 15 to start.

Celeste: what is this a piece of wax with a fake language on it

Archibald of Guernicus: "20"

Ferris of Bonisagus: I remeber reading somewhere that the aristocrates of the Roman empire liked to speak/write in Greek because their servants couldnt understand them. Might be misrembering.

johns (GM): the bishop is probably afraid it's aristotelan heresy

Aristocritus Bonisagi says his farewells and begins the long journey back to the covenant's table

johns (GM): the romans loved greek the way american nerds love britain

Bishop: 24

Archibald of Guernicus: "30"

johns (GM): Hmm..

Archibald of Guernicus: Roman gods being hilarious rip-offs of greek ones, ftw

johns (GM): The Magister lets out a low whistle of respect. No one else bids as much

Archibald of Guernicus: 30 pounds is what Locke's giving us to help the bid. Ga ha ha.

Celeste: "The ones I like are just never into me."

Archibald of Guernicus: It's Free Summae

Aleseta of Bonisagus: lol

johns (GM): He said he'd cover some of the cost in exchange for getting to make a copy

Well, if you went over budget that is

If you bid on anything else that might prove you still have money to spend

Ferris of Bonisagus: Halvies seems reasonable

Archibald of Guernicus: The typical weasel words of an englishman.

We have 30 pounds to spend, actually. We overbid by 30 assuming his money, definetely.

Edwin Locke: typical bullheadedness of a scot

Celeste: brb im going to put some laundry in.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: five hundred eighteen mythic pounds. we can't just let locke's money go unspent

johns (GM): Ok-- I got a few more items, let's quickly power through them to see if you're interested

Aristocritus Bonisagi: four hundred ten and a half i guess

johns (GM): Next one is: A set of lab equipment that can count as the "Superior Lab Equipment" virtue

Ferris of Bonisagus: Seems good

(From Aleseta of Bonisagus): i'm still watchin that dude

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): If he could take a cigarette break he would

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald's eyes light up

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "It sounds like our local scholars are working on a collection of Hermetic texts. Maybe we should pay them a visit some time."

johns (GM): The bidding is between you and Locke on this one. What do you want to bid?

Archibald of Guernicus: Opening bid?

johns (GM): 1 MP

Archibald of Guernicus: "2"

johns (GM): Edwin 5

Archibald of Guernicus: I decaptitated a demon for this money, it's mine to waste on lab equipment

Aristocritus Bonisagi: how much would it normally cost to get the virtue?

Archibald of Guernicus: "7"

johns (GM): A season of work

Archibald of Guernicus: Nothing more valuable than a season

johns (GM): 10

Archibald of Guernicus: What did superior lab equipment add, again?

johns (GM): +1 quality

aand extra upkeep

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I was going to buy this anyway. It saves me a season potentially.

"12"

johns (GM): Superior Equipment: The lab is supplied

with higher-quality equipment, for

example Venetian glassware. If the equipment

was made at the covenant, the

craftsman should have a Craft Ability of

6 or more, but do not increase Upkeep.

johns (GM): +1 General Quality, +2 Upkeep, +1 Safety; +1

Vis Extraction.

sorry it doesn't actually cost a season, just hard to find

15

Ferris of Bonisagus: Does improved general quality help with spell invention?

johns (GM): This will give you the virtue without the added upkeep

Archibald of Guernicus: It adds to all lab totals

"17"

johns (GM): 20

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do we have a glass crafter

johns (GM): Nope

Aristocritus Bonisagi: dang

is proclus just selling off enormous bricks of glass

johns (GM): he's a wholesaler

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll let it go, I was going to get something different anyway.

johns (GM): Okey doke.

Last item is a Summae on Magic Lore, good quality.

"Fortuna's Compendium of Supernatural Creatures and Realms"

L12, Q10

Any interest?

Celeste: i was distracted by a cute small animal i'm sorry.

Archibald of Guernicus: Not overly, but a customary bid can't hurt

I'll bid the starting price just in case we can snag it cheap

johns (GM): The Magister bids up to 15 quickly

Archibald of Guernicus: RIP

Unless someone else wants it

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do we have a magic lore book

johns (GM): currently youve got Gregory of Tours' Decem Libri Historiarum, summa, L7 Q12

Aristocritus Bonisagi: 17

Celeste: that would be good to have.

johns (GM): Ok, its yours!

Archibald of Guernicus: Good work, sodales.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we managed to not spend all 500 pounds

Archibald of Guernicus: 17 is good as we cn pretend we only had 17 left

Celeste: "A lovely time, I knew it."

Archibald of Guernicus: So we can steal 13 from this git

johns (GM): yeah you only spent enough to support the average peasant family for 10,000 years

Aleseta of Bonisagus: mm

Archibald of Guernicus: Peasants are a theoretical construct.

johns (GM): Whew! Good bidding all.

Everyone goes home with something or other. Your grogs start packing up the wares.

Aleseta

Aristocritus Bonisagi: In Greece we understand frugality and could support a peasant family for 20,000 years with this much money.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): Mystery man comes closer to the door as people leave, looking for someone in particular

johns (GM): Anyway

Aleseta of Bonisagus gm i'm ready to act if he does some SHIT

Aleseta of Bonisagus: lol nice

Aristocritus Bonisagi gm is also ready to act.

johns (GM): The plain dressed man accosts the first of your party to leave. Uhm, which of you leaves first

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d6

(

1

)

=

1

Celeste: im pretty tough, so if im here to guard i could be first

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ferris.

johns (GM): That's leadership!

Archibald of Guernicus: It's a fair cop.

Ferris of Bonisagus: Nice

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm getting the hang of this archon thing, several years after we apparently scrapped it

Plain Dressed Man: "Excuse me friends, I need a moment of your time."

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Be quick, normie."

Plain Dressed Man: "I..

Aleseta of Bonisagus: lol

Plain Dressed Man: "My name is Gaius. I  need  that copy of the Edicts. I, I've spent all I have, but I can get more-- and beyond money, those things of power your kind desire so much. Vis?"

Aleseta of Bonisagus appears out of invisibility behind this fuckin dude!!

Celeste laughs at Gaius

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "We  need  it also."

Archibald of Guernicus: "They really do need it."

Celeste: "You should have been nicer to me. Who taught you how to treat pretty girls, anyway?"

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Ah, wonderful. We could make youna copy of you have the patuence."

Plain Dressed Man whimpers at Aleseta's sneak snark

Aleseta of Bonisagus: lol

Plain Dressed Man: "No copies. What is in there cannot be shared."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: bad timing, but: brb

Celeste: "Maybe you could come over and look at it sometimes."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aristocritus, what do you think of- Aristocritus?"

"Ah bugger he must have gotten lost. Leaving the building."

Muzio the Bastard: I step up next to whoever he's talking to, just in case.

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Then tell, what is so special about this book?"

Plain Dressed Man: "I can't say much, but, I have friends with a very strong interest in it."

"Friends with access to vis.. ?"

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Have your friends bring the vus to our covenent and I'm sure we can find an agreement."

Plain Dressed Man: "For it to work-- I would have to leave here with the book."

Aleseta of Bonisagus shakes her head.

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Well you are either going to have to get much more specific with your explanations or have much more to offer than your 40.5 in your pocket."

Celeste: "An impasse. We don't want you to do that at all."

"Gaius": "I offered vis.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Vis, eh."

"How much is this book even worth?" I whisper to my sodales

Celeste: "I thought I spent too much on it but I'm feeling pretty confident about it now" Celeste whispers back

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "There is no amount of vis worth trading for it."

Ferris of Bonisagus: "I could offer you a dragon, but without showing it to you there is no establishment of trust."

Celeste: still whispering "Like I said, God is truly on my side."

"Gaius" suddenly grows a spine

"Gaius": "I will let my friends know how you feel."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "You lost. Now...  get lost! "

Muzio the Bastard: I step up to him.

"That some kinda threat, guy?"

"Gaius": He shakes his head. "Valete, omnes."

Celeste laughs at Gaius again. "I still can't believe you have friends.

Celeste: "

"Gaius": He heads off, if you let him.

Archibald of Guernicus: He's dissing us in latin! Get him"

Celeste: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Not in character

I dont actually say that

"Gaius": It's too late. I heard everything.

Celeste: i dont know latin, but celeste does.

"Gaius": He just said "bye everyone" fyi

Celeste: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Does anyone else here have good perdo mentem

Just out of curiousity

Ferris of Bonisagus: "Gaius" hears out of character thoughts

Celeste: if only prudenzio wasn't ashamed of his family

"Gaius": i had a latin teacher who made us say "salve magister" and "vale magister" at the start and end of every class

Alright

Archibald of Guernicus: It is a level 4 effect to remove an important detail from someones memory

"Gaius": He slips away! This will never come up again

Archibald of Guernicus: No no wait

It's a level 4 effect

And +2 voice is level 10

Celeste gets in position to ready an arrow, laughing

Celeste: "This is, hahaha, oh man. Ok."

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh wait, damnit, it's a neutral aura

My calculations were wrong

Celeste: use a point

Archibald of Guernicus: Does anyone have good perdo mentem

I cant get 20 even with a conf, sadly.

"Gaius": prudenzio.......

Celeste: damn...

Archibald of Guernicus: I do have good muto though

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i had a latin teacher who would make his hand into a gun shape and hold it at our heads and tell us to conjugate a verb and if we messed up he would yell BLAM

"Gaius": lmfao

Celeste: lmfao

i wish i had a latin teacher, they sound badass

i mean i could try to fire an arrow at his leg or something but he'd probably instantly die

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 2, make a major change to person's memory of an event. +1 touch and +3 moon, is level 10.

Muzio the Bastard: i could chop his head off

Aleseta of Bonisagus: oh yeah

"Gaius": Murder solves everything

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i want to do operation birb on this guy

Muzio the Bastard: is that perdo mentem

Archibald of Guernicus: I could spont something here with a conf point

No this is muto

So it's non-permanent sadly

Muzio the Bastard: no i mean chopping his head off

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh that's permanent

Celeste: lmao

Archibald of Guernicus: That's ReCo, honestly

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i.e. use a bird to follow him and then report back to me so i can see where he goes

Ferris of Bonisagus: We do a lot of memory alterations in this troupe. We should probably a top trying to spont these eveey session.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not the big mentem man

Muzio the Bastard: we know

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway, for the good of my sodales

"Gaius": or at least make an enchanted item to do the gruntwork

Archibald of Guernicus: I will do this

For my friends

Celeste: prudenzio can remove major memories as a regular spell, yeah. if only he had family values.

shame.

boo.

Archibald of Guernicus: After he turns around, I spont the level 10 effect I mentioned and pat him on the shoulders to apply it to him

rolling 1d10!+9+5

(

8

)

+9+5

=

22

It succeeds, no conf needed!

"Gaius": What are you changing the memory to?

Archibald of Guernicus: I am making him think the bishop won

That auction

"Gaius": niiiice

Celeste: lmfao

hell yes.

"Gaius": Okay, and Aleseta, what is the duration on Operation Bird spel

Celeste: magic rules.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have subtle magic but not silent magic so that involved speaking, if relevant

I did it for my sodales

Aleseta of Bonisagus: just a moment

"Gaius": Ah, you're talking to a bird and asking it to follow

Aleseta of Bonisagus: conc

yeah

"Gaius": Okay, how long do you want to wait around here for the bird to get back

Aleseta of Bonisagus: like an hour or so

1 hour later...

johns (GM): The bird saw him go to one of the ruins in Old Ostia, take out ink quill and parchment, write something, and put it back. Then the bird went back to you because it was getting bored.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: cool

i convey this to sodales

Archibald of Guernicus: Gaius did?

johns (GM): yup

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ahaha, he wrote a load of shite then. I fiddled with his mind before he trotted off."

Ferris of Bonisagus: Did he leave the parchment there?

johns (GM): Yeah

Ferris of Bonisagus: We _could_ go find out what he wrote.

johns (GM): depends what our bold archon

rolling 1d7

(

5

)

=

5

um, beatrice is drunk and not here

rolling 1d7

(

2

)

=

2

Ferris! says

Archibald of Guernicus: Being drunk is little excuse not to play.

johns (GM): lol

Celeste: It might be hard.

Ferris of Bonisagus: Let him be, I'm not worried about him.

johns (GM): Time to head back to Rome?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yase

Ferris of Bonisagus: Yep

johns (GM): OK. Cart of goods in tow, you follow the road home

Passing rolling fields, orchards, ancient stonework..

Everyone or someone gimme a Per + Awareness check

Archibald of Guernicus: I can't hurt to investigate his writing, though I couldn't care less

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+7

(

7

)

+7

=

14

Ferris of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10! + 4

(

6

)

+4

=

10

Muzio the Bastard:

rolling 1d10+1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+5

(

10

+

6

)

+3+5

=

24

Celeste: christ

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10!

(

9

)

=

9

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+2+6

(

8

)

+2+6

=

16

Okay normally they'd roll every dozen or so paces but Archibald spots it early.

Archibald of Guernicus: What's happening, friend

johns (GM): About 40 paces up the road is a spot surrounded on either side by olive trees and a bit of hedgerow. On either side of the road are a set of 2 wolves stalking the area.

One is exceptionally large-- 6 feet in length, with red fur.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: cool

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): This should immediately ping as weird as hell toa nyone who knows animals

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "This is very strange... "

Archibald of Guernicus: "Watch out, there's something up ahead."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "I can ward us against them.... "

johns (GM): You spotted them so it's up to you how you want to initiate things, if you do.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Even that big bastard with the red fur? Don't think he's a local species."

Muzio the Bastard: wheres my token

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "That's the one specifically I will ward against first."

Celeste: if we get a little closer i could loose an arrow at them.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: what's the aura

"Don't shoot them!"

johns (GM): 0 aura-- countryside

Celeste: "Heard, heard."

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10!+8+12+2 Ward Against Beasts of Legend 15

(

2

)

+8+12+2

=

24

succeess

johns (GM): That's a ring ward against Animals with might?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yes

i'll also make circle of beast warding

johns (GM): & penetration?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: idk how we calculate pen in this BR-cursed world

(From Ferris of Bonisagus): Im casting doublet of silk on myself all subtle/quiet like.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Just keep calm, we're probably fine. For now."

(To Ferris of Bonisagus): Excellent

johns (GM): as RAW

Aleseta of Bonisagus: okay, then pen is over 15

johns (GM): but halve your effective penetration score. shitty patchwork solution for now.

OK.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast wizard's sidestep. Does it need to be a stress die, or are we still out of combat?

johns (GM): Non stressed

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay

I autopass and pen doesnt matter

I am sidestepped

Celeste: that reminds me, i was reading the societates book and it had some good tips for perdo combat. i should really up his pen

johns (GM): there's your ring

Aleseta of Bonisagus: cool

Aristocritus Bonisagi: doesn't drawing a ring take a ton of time

ALSO i am back

Celeste: turns out a canonical and recognized school of flambeau combat involves being invisible the whole time and casting direct perdo spells

Aleseta of Bonisagus: no

Celeste: so, yeah, I'm heeding Aleseta's warning but my hand's on my bow

johns (GM): The ring can't move with you, so what's the play?

Celeste: lure them in?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: I will call out to SOOTHE the big wolf using Sooth the Ferocious Bear

if it is in voice

Ferris of Bonisagus: Let Aleseta try to tame them for mounts of course

johns (GM): sure if you step to the edge of the ring

That is a ReAn spell? And you cast it vocally?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i will!!!

yes and yes

johns (GM): Roll plz

Aristocritus Bonisagi: use the invisible sling to brain one with a pound of silver. easy

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10+8+12+2 Soothe the Ferocious Bear

(

9

)

+8+12+2

=

31

Archibald of Guernicus: Ooh.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: pen is like 25

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): what's your sigil?

(To Aleseta of Bonisagus): Oh right flowers

(From Aleseta of Bonisagus): the smell of edelweiss flaurs

johns (GM): The smell of edelweiss flowers fills the air as your spell fires, but the Giant Wolf only turns to the sound of your voice and snarls, before bounding in your direction

Aleseta of Bonisagus: oh snap

rolling 1d100

(

23

)

=

23

rolling 1d100

(

30

)

=

30

Ferris of Bonisagus: What are the odds it's a man-wolf?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: Aleseta of Bonisagus Initiative: 97

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d100

(

11

)

=

11

Ferris of Bonisagus: Ferris of Bonisagus Initiative: 68

Muzio the Bastard: Muzio the Bastard Initiative: 74

Ferris of Bonisagus: Ombra Cadaveri Initiative: 18

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 94

johns (GM): Alright you can tell it's about to bound in your direction but get to act first

Celeste: -2 to init with the bow for me, unless we're doing something different.

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10!+10+12+2+1+1 Hoot & Holler Beast of Miniscule Proportions

(

5

)

+10+12+2+1+1

=

31

pen is 15

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Aristocritus Bonisagi Initiative: 36

johns (GM): Against Big Red?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yes

Celeste: how do I roll for that, actually, haha. I forget.

johns (GM): No effect

Archibald?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: wtc

okay

Archibald of Guernicus: I, uh

Aristocritus Bonisagi: if you turn on the macro bar you can just click a button

Archibald of Guernicus: Damn I wanted him to move first

I turn on the amulet then

johns (GM): amulet?

Archibald of Guernicus: The amulet Orsu made me

johns (GM): Ok

Muzio

Muzio the Bastard: how far can i move in a turn

Celeste: Celeste Initiative: 21

19

johns (GM): You can position yourself freely in the ring this round, or run 40 feet in any direction

Muzio the Bastard: ok there we go

johns (GM): humans move at 4 x (qik - encumbrance) for this battle only because its too complex to keep using in the future

Ferris of Bonisagus: Dat's a dead grog

Muzio the Bastard: reckless berserker baby

Aleseta of Bonisagus: brb feeding cat

johns (GM): ferris?

Ferris of Bonisagus: I'll web restraint the wolf behind the big bad.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Really gonna miss the guy who promised a copy of our vim book to a hedge maze

Ferris of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10! + 11 + 12 + 11 + 3 + 0 (Cr+An+Focus+STA+Aura) Casting Spilio’s Webbed Restraints - Spell Level: 20

(

1

)

+11+12+11+3+0

=

38

johns (GM): 1 botch die

Aleseta of Bonisagus: back

Aristocritus Bonisagi: *mage

Ferris of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10

(

2

)

=

2

johns (GM): Okay, success

Aristocritus?

(From Ferris of Bonisagus): Exact effects if you want it: (Success) The target is caught in tangle of webs that bind their arms to their side and feet together. Getting free requires a Strength stress roll of 12+, or someone else may use an edged weapon to free a victim in three rounds. Fire is not effective against these webs.

(To Ferris of Bonisagus): I put the custom spells on the wiki for just this occasion B)

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'll cast invisible sling on one of the wolves, using my trusty short sword as the projectile

(From Ferris of Bonisagus): :)

johns (GM): Ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: no aura right

johns (GM): Right

I think we went over this but it's still +5 damage even if it's a sword?

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling d10 for botch

(

1

)

=

1

johns (GM): XD

Aristocritus Bonisagi: jesus.

Celeste: wheeeoo

johns (GM): Well you take 1 warping point

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the short sword has +5 damage in a happy coincidence

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10 how bad a botch is it

(

9

)

=

9

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hey wait

that was just the d10 to cast the spell

johns (GM): Oh

Good point. Haha.

Well then no botch.

(To Aristocritus Bonisagi): roll dam

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10+5 damage

(

1

)

+5

=

6

cripes

also,

johns (GM): Wolf takes a slight wound, 1 fatigue

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 2d10 reckless sorcery botch dice

(

4

+

7

)

=

11

whew

johns (GM): so! the wolves can move 60 feet in a round

Aristocritus Bonisagi: careless not reckless ig uess

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10!+7+2 Conc

(

10

+

2

)

+7+2

=

21

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh, i didn't specify but i had this wolf in mind

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+16 Biting Muzio

(

6

)

+16

=

22

rolling 1d10! damage

(

2

)

=

2

soaked

Giant wolf tries breaking free

rolling 1d10!+2>12

(

3

)

+2

=

5

Muzio the Bastard: can i berserk off a soaked damage

oh it says take a wound i guess not

johns (GM): Shield grog Ombra?

Ombra Cadaveri: Shielding Aleseta since she is keeping me alive.

johns (GM): gotcha

Aleseta?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: hmm

going to try blunting the viper's fangs on the nearest wolf

Celeste: is a 5 foot increment considered a "pace" in roll20 or how am i counting range here

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10!+9+12+2+1+1 Blunts H&H

(

6

)

+9+12+2+1+1

=

31

success

rolling d10!+7+2 Conc

(

10

+

1

)

+7+2

=

20

noice

johns (GM): 1 pace is 3 feet, if you don't mind having to do some division on the fly

Celeste: thats fine.

johns (GM): Archibald?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: BLUNT THE VIPER’S FANGS

R: Voice, D: Momentary, T: Individual

Blunt the claws, teeth, talons, or other

natural weapons of a beast. Only sharp

weapons may be affected: this spell does not

affect a weapon such as a horse’s hoof or a giant

Aleseta of Bonisagus: snake’s coils. The blunted weapon has its total

damage (including Attack Advantage) reduced

to half (round up). The beast may recover from

the effect as if it were a Light Wound. The spell

may affect animals of size up to +4

Muzio the Bastard: i think you can change how much distance the square represents if paces are the norm

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh

I should maybe help this dead grog

Muzio the Bastard: i have 8 soak. i am not dead

Archibald of Guernicus: How far up can I move

johns (GM): Sure, just done

Celeste: if its possible to eventually convert this to 3 foot increments that'd be nice but its fine now.

johns (GM): 4 x (10 + qik) archibald

its 3 feet increments now

Celeste: thank you

Archibald of Guernicus: So 44 then?

johns (GM): mm hmm

grids ftw

Archibald of Guernicus: The wolf with the love heart

Is it charmed?

johns (GM): it's blunted

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway the other one, I slice it up

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Weed.

Archibald of Guernicus: This one diagonal to me

johns (GM): ok

Archibald of Guernicus:  Archibald of Guernicus  attacks  Wolf

rolling {1d10!+14}>0

{

(

6

)

+14

}

=

1 Successes

Archibald of Guernicus  does 17 Damage

johns (GM): that macro is still a work in progress but that's a big hit regardless

Celeste: "Aleseta, now, I shouldn't attack the big wolf?"

johns (GM): 2 wounds, -6

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "You can!"

"I don't thnk it's even a wolf!"

johns (GM): Celeste

Ombra Cadaveri: Aren't you skipping Muzio and I?

johns (GM): celeste was before you in the turn order

Celeste: i'm going to take a fatigue point to exert myself and add a bonus = my weapon ability to my attack roll and shoot an arrow at the big wolf

Ferris of Bonisagus: I being Ferris

johns (GM): i accidentally bumped the tracker ahead 1

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+36

(

2

)

+36

=

38

johns (GM): Hit

Roll damage

Celeste: whats the attack advantage

johns (GM): No attack advantage in our homebrew system

Celeste: oh ok cool

johns (GM): just add 5 to the base daamge + stress

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+16

(

5

)

+16

=

21

after adding 5

johns (GM): 3 wounds

Archibald of Guernicus: Be right back.

johns (GM): near incapacitation.

muzio?

Muzio the Bastard: I smite the wolf in front of me.

Muzio the Bastard  attacks  Wolf

rolling {1d10!+15}>0

{

(

3

)

+15

}

=

1 Successes

Muzio the Bastard  does 5 Damage

Celeste hiccups. "Got him!"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: lol wth

johns (GM): you scuff his fur, slightly

Muzio the Bastard: the damage macro seems wrong

johns (GM): It's all fucked up sorry

Muzio the Bastard: damage+10

so 15

johns (GM): oh ok

2 wounds

Okay so the macro is broken and I don't want to redo the combat rules on the fly-- assuming the red wolf can't break free, what do you want to do with all the wolves? Kill or capture?

(they didn't stand a chance once you got the drop on them)

Celeste: capture the red one since it isn't dead, but just heavily injured, imo

but fuck the other ones

Aleseta of Bonisagus: ycs

Ferris of Bonisagus: Yep

johns (GM): lol

Muzio the Bastard: blow out their assholes

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol\

Celeste: i was not referring to blowing out the wolves assholes.

johns (GM): Alright the red one will keep trying to break free every round unless you can subdue it

Muzio the Bastard: it seems in character for celeste imo

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i will try other calming magics on it

Celeste: Maybe if the wolf was blowing out Celeste's asshole.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: is there any way i can determine if it's actually an animal?

johns (GM): InAn?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: can i get near it without being in danger?

johns (GM): as long as it doesn't break free

Aleseta of Bonisagus: okay

she will try some spontin

rolling (d10!+8+12+2+1+1)/2 Shiver of the Lycanthrope

(

(

3

)

+8+12+2+1+1)/2

=

13.5

succeeds

Ferris of Bonisagus: Would Open the Tome work on humans who are turned into animals?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not concerned with what we do to them, though killing a magical beast means it drops vis.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: then she sneaks up and touches it

Archibald of Guernicus: Which is always good.

johns (GM): Ferris: It would unless it were a Bjoarner

You got a werewolf on your hands here Aleseta

very unhappy with you

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "It's a werewolf!"

Celeste: "How romantic!"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what if we could talk to the monsters.

Archibald of Guernicus: "So we can't kill the bugger, but we should find out who they are."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Yes." What do we know about werewolves??

is it magic or faerie?

johns (GM): Ferris, what is the duration on your web spell?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: or ???

(satan)

Ferris of Bonisagus: Diam

johns (GM): Heh

Aristocritus Bonisagi: werewolves are products of Reason

johns (GM): a relevant Lore check from one of the Realms would help

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10+3+7 Faerie Lore

(

7

)

+3+7

=

17

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i have uhh

Greece Lore

johns (GM): Greece Lore: Hairy, savage beings with an unquenchable lust for murder? Don't you mean the Turks?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: holy moly

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

johns (GM): Aleseta: There can be faerie werewolves sure, this would have to be a creature of might if that were the case

Aleseta of Bonisagus: if the others haven't slaughtered the wolves, i'd like to calm/shoo them

if it's too late, :rip:

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i suspect these wolves are extremely dead

Aleseta of Bonisagus: rip

Celeste: i hadn't started smashing them with my saint's penis mace but i assumed Muzio got them

Ferris of Bonisagus: Muzio, book deal maker and wolf hater.

johns (GM): The red wolf writhes

Aristocritus Bonisagi: time to spont up some perdo aethera

Aleseta of Bonisagus: is there a way to force him into human form??

magic theory check?

johns (GM): You could wait until it bleeds out and dies

Yeah MT works

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10+3+18 Magic Theory

(

1

)

+3+18

=

22

lmao

Celeste: anyone good at ReCo

damn.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: classic bonisagus

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

Archibald of Guernicus: Decent corpus, bad rego.

johns (GM): MuCo or PeVi basically

Aleseta of Bonisagus: i have dece muco

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i have +14 muco

Aleseta of Bonisagus: +21 muco

johns (GM): I'm talking out of my ass here but I'm guessing it's Base 10, which is the same level for turning a human into a land animal

Aleseta of Bonisagus: okay i'll try to do that whilst touching this guy

rolling (d10!+10+9+2+1+1)/2 Spont MuCo H&H

(

(

1

)

+10+9+2+1+1)/2

=

12

nice

rolling 2d10

(

9

+

3

)

=

12

no botch

i fail, anyway

johns (GM): Unless you conf

Aleseta of Bonisagus: OKAY!!!

johns (GM): lol

TY

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10!+2+7 Conc

(

9

)

+2+7

=

18

gioberto's famous calzones

Aristocritus Bonisagi recovers his trusty short sword.

johns (GM): The wolf's skin seems to turn inside out, and laying on the ground before you is Gioberto Calzolaio, naked and heavily injured

Gioberto Calzolaio: bonus conf if anyone remembers where this guy was from

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: that village from the beginning of the campaing?

campaign.

Celeste: "And don't I feel like cupid."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: hey it's that wolf

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is he from the cupid boat that none of us were on

Aleseta of Bonisagus: oh lol

Gioberto Calzolaio: Nah

He was a simple cobbler who happened to be the son of a redcap

Aleseta of Bonisagus: nice

Gioberto Calzolaio: Then one day a bunch of magicians tore down his shop and murdered his brother

Aleseta of Bonisagus: mm haha

Celeste: coincidence about the cupid mention, Celeste is just looking at a naked guy.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh yeah.

Ferris of Bonisagus: (was that us...)

Gioberto Calzolaio: "Damn you to hell" he gasps

Aristocritus Bonisagi: OH is he the guy with the cart that got filled with bread-soil

Archibald of Guernicus: That was the adventure I first joined, wasnt it. Ha ha ha.

"Ohh. That was all Bonfilia's fault."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: classic bonfilia [crosses self]

Ombra Cadaveri winces at the mention of Bonfilia

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "What's this all about, then?" she says to Naked Man.

Gioberto Calzolaio: "You murderers can't escape justice forever.."

Celeste: "I thought I was trying to murder a wolf at the time."

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Did you force those poor wolves to attack us?" she says as she pulls out a knife.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, we could just kill you, and then we do. You really didn't think this through."

Gioberto Calzolaio: He grins and spits up blood. To Archibald: "Go ahead then. No one will know your crime if you do it here, right?"

Celeste: lol @ spits up blood

Ferris of Bonisagus: "That does sound correct."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: this was essence blood, and gioberto would only be able to spit up five such drops of blood in his lifetime

Celeste: i should read issth

Gioberto Calzolaio: (as said by cat putting down newspaper)

Celeste: lol

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

Aleseta of Bonisagus: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, that's true. I'm not saying I'm going to, just questioning yer accusations."

Celeste: "Shouldn't you be happy you're not a vicious old wolf right now?"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: "Answer my question! Did you set these wolves to attack us?"

Gioberto Calzolaio: He laughs. "You've slain her children! You'll pay for this at her court!"

And he slams his head into the ground repeatedly.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: wtc

agent dale cooper

Muzio the Bastard: "What a weirdo."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: gioberto would rather dash his head on the stones than betray the Han

Gioberto Calzolaio: All that's left is a dead man and some dead wolves. What next troupe?

Aleseta of Bonisagus:

rolling d10!+8+12+2 Cast The Industrious Flensing on his corpse

(

10

+

4

)

+8+12+2

=

36

Celeste: "May he rest in peace. I forgive you, buddy."

Gioberto Calzolaio: Spell effect?

Aleseta of Bonisagus: beetles devour his body (sans bones) over the course of a day

Gioberto Calzolaio: Excellent.

Celeste: ooc if anyone wants to grab that, i mean, nevio can make stuff out of it

Gioberto Calzolaio: Well you've gotten mysterious threats from a guy with vis regarding a book and a mysterious attack from a guy with wolves regarding a murder.

Celeste: we probably have a lot of bones, but this guy might have an arcane connection to something? or does it not work that way

Aristocritus Bonisagi: he didn't get a proper burial so we can raise his skeleton i think

Gioberto Calzolaio: now you're thinking with necromancy

Celeste: probably his family, at least.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: lol

Celeste: i mean, we have a bone crafter and a guy who is sort of leaning into necromancy

Aristocritus Bonisagi: necromancy ftw

Archibald of Guernicus: Having a werewolf's bones can't hurt.

Gioberto Calzolaio: Sure. Figuring out where this guy became a werewolf could lead to something cool.

On to Rome, then?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Her court, huh."

Ferris of Bonisagus: To rome!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Could there be a Faerie regio so close to Rome?"

Aleseta of Bonisagus: maybe!!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it's only 17 feet to ostia.

Ferris of Bonisagus: There was a Faerie churchin Rome.

Gioberto Calzolaio: miles now

Aristocritus Bonisagi: nice

Celeste ties her hair up beneath a cloth in babushka fashion

Gioberto Calzolaio: youve encountered a faerie church, an infernal bog, and magic before iirc

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the bog was really far away though

Aleseta of Bonisagus: infernal blog

Gioberto Calzolaio: Ah, now onto the last bit of business

johns (GM): Athenaeus, Edicts of Augustus (Tractatus, Civil

and Canon Law (emperors), Quality 8).

Notes the commissioning of the temple,

the date of Augustus’ investiture, and locates

the Roman province Augustus traveled

to for the investiture. This book was

johns (GM): written in the second century AD. The

book is not widely circulated in the Order,

and is known of, but neither considered

very important, nor widely circulated in

scholarly legal communities. Athenaeus

seems to have had access to a now lost

johns (GM): archive of early imperial correspondence.

A character who knows

the exact date of this investiture can use

this horoscope to back-calculate the location

of the temple (Intelligence + Artes

Liberales (astronomy) roll against an Ease

johns (GM): Factor of 9).

Celeste: B-)

Aristocritus Bonisagi: bonisagus crew

Archibald of Guernicus: Nerds.

Orsu Paganacci:

rolling d10!+2+12 AL

(

9

)

+2+12

=

23

Archibald of Guernicus: Hm, did this auction and wolf adventure take less than 10 days? I have lab work I want to do.

johns (GM): It was less than a full day

Poof!

Orsu Paganacci: orsu uses his x-treme AL to find the temple!!

johns (GM): A new marker has been added to your map

Orsu Paganacci: cool!!!!

Ferris of Bonisagus: Location discovered

Archibald of Guernicus: New Undiscovered Location

johns (GM): Out in the middle of sprawling plains stands the remains of an old Roman triumphal arch, not far from the remains of an old aqueduct stretching to the nearest mountain

The entryway is 15 paces wide. Within 100 paces of the arch is a Magic 2 Aura.

Orsu Paganacci: sick

johns (GM): and now it's up to you to investigate it magically! psych! it's another mystery!

Celeste: this is sick. its a god damn shame i can't be here next week.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: yeah!!! yeah!!!

Celeste: i'll be back the one after though.

this is sick.

johns (GM): Anyway, sorry to leave off with so many unresolved issues but I wanted to further a few things introduced awhile back

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hang on

johns (GM): You also got a shitton of loot which I'll write up int he thread tomorrow

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, is this bonisagi temple the same damn season but a seperate adventure?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do our second sight people see anything

johns (GM): Oh hoh hoh

I'm real glad you asked

Celeste: it was a fun session. sorry if i went a little too wild playing up those flaws or anything.

oh yeah

johns (GM): A few things going on here

Celeste: i should have asked haha

Aleseta of Bonisagus: flaws fw

Celeste: second sight!

Aleseta of Bonisagus: ftw

johns (GM): On the arch, currently, are 2 carvings. The first is Mercury waiting behind a triumphal arch that Augustus is entering. The second shows Augustus receiving a laurel wreath from Mercury. Beyond that, to most of you, nothing seems notable here.

Those with second sight notice two things

One, they can look through the arch and see a road and buildings beyond it like a small settlement

Celeste: gasp

Aleseta of Bonisagus: nice

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh hell yes

johns (GM): Second, they see a third carving missing in the real world, depicting Augustus sacrificing a bull in front of a temple

Aleseta of Bonisagus: btw in this book on central european magical texts i just read there's a guy going around claiming to be the incarnation of mercury and these two priests are writing back and forth about what a fucking idiot he is

johns (GM): lmao

Celeste pulls out her wineskin, kneels, and begins drinking enthusiastically

johns (GM): Duh!! Mercere the founder was the incarnation of Mercury! everyone knows that

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what's the book

Celeste: durr, the bull is bacchus and this is very traumatic to me

as the bull is also jesus

that book sounds awesome ya

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns is this the same season?

johns (GM): Actually there's not much more to the arch at the moment

So next season would be 1328.

Archibald of Guernicus: Cool.

johns (GM): I can tell you straight up that in its present state you can't get through, even with Piercing the Magic Veil

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll invent that spell then study our amazing new vim book.

Aleseta of Bonisagus: HMMM

okay

i gotta run

thx johns

johns (GM): Cheers!

Celeste: this is neato.

i really enjoy ars magica.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: same

Ferris of Bonisagus: I"m heading out too, but Potom is going to spend the season copying Something about Vim for our friend.

johns (GM): Nice, +1 Word of Honor

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what's the status of the rod + other things bonfilia was holding on to

Ferris of Bonisagus: Whooo

johns (GM): Still lying around in her lab

Celeste: Prudenzio has not come out of his lab yet and won't for the whole season, or until he's finished crafting something.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is there an in-game reason for her disappearance

Ferris of Bonisagus: See you guys next eeek

Thanks for the session Johns

johns (GM): Yes, she left with Venator when he departed earlier this year

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh, i missed that

Archibald of Guernicus: And he has yet to return, hasn't he

Celeste: we don't track grogs seasonally do we? unless they're specifically being used to do something

Aristocritus Bonisagi: so they're still off-limits for now probably

Archibald of Guernicus: We should probably be somewhat suspicious of Bonfilia, an obsessive in the covenant's politics, being gone for a full year

Aristocritus Bonisagi: off topic:

is tinkzorg really winning as Ys

Archibald of Guernicus: I have nothing I can do to stop it, gamer. I'm playing Marignon.

johns (GM): is this a dominions 4 thing

Archibald of Guernicus: But yes. Everyone else has ceded territory to him for no reason.

Muzio the Bastard: wow. tinkzorg is winning a dominions 4 game

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it's so bad!

Archibald of Guernicus: Ys is underwater elves, I dunno. No-one can ever kill him and he'll never stop being obnoxious.

How do you kill underwater invisible elves

Muzio the Bastard: ys doesnt seem that bad or at least not compared to all the other underwater nations

especially in a game where all of the nations are supposed to be bad

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not sure why they're included in the same mod as, well

THe really bad nations

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well. even the bottom tier nations have really nasty tricks up their sleeves

Archibald of Guernicus: UW is such a terrible mechanic

johns (GM): you should ban him from dominions until he updates the LP

Archibald of Guernicus: You get to be invulnerable to all attacks for most of the game

Muzio the Bastard: he and buff butler should be banned but buff butler only because he hurt my feelings

Archibald of Guernicus: He should try hurting tinkzorg's forces

Instead of surrendering to him

Aristocritus Bonisagi: people only being allowed to join games if buff butler approves is stupid

Muzio the Bastard: hes a stupid queer who gets angry at anyone whos not in his little group of friends

Celeste: jesus.... getting serious in here.

johns (GM): lol why does buff butler have any authority

Celeste: im really high and i don't even know what dominions is.

hell yeah.

Muzio the Bastard: dom onion

johns (GM): he is-- and I realize this is harsh-- a goddamn nub

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ys has good stuff in its capital but all of that good stuff is wildly overpriced. everything outside the capital is insane garbage

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't like their horses. The horse wiped an expansion party of mine, alone.

If I ever fight him he casts rain and mists and woops now I can't use fire magic at all or even my crossbows.

Nothing I could do.

Muzio the Bastard: oh yeah is someone just allowing the covenant to use these catacombs or are they ours

johns (GM): Venator owns that block of buildings legally

Muzio the Bastard: ah

johns (GM): The catacombs aren't widely known about. In real history people are still tripping over and excavating new passages for centuries to come

Muzio the Bastard: just asking because i was gonna see about just terraming my lab up whenever i make that

are there still corpses in them because i was gonna see about embedding some skulls in the walls as decor

johns (GM): Lots of corpses

Muzio the Bastard: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: Corpses give a corpus benefit, probably

Muzio the Bastard: i am never putting a single point in corpus

terram is the only form necessary

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i think we loot the protective charms from the graves as one of our vis sources

Celeste: prudenzio can animate some skeletons we can use as guards.

johns (GM): Yes.. Yes!!!

Muzio the Bastard: oh

embed skulls in the walls and set them up as alarms

Celeste: hell yeah.

Muzio the Bastard: they start screaming if someone who shouldnt be there is there

johns (GM): lolll

Celeste: thats the best.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ALSO the charms can be studied to create a hermetic breakthrough but nobody has bothered to do so!!

Celeste: the baba yaga classic.

Muzio the Bastard: maybe give the skulls some arms too and they can grab intruders

johns (GM): There's a good mix of christian and pagan dead, also a Jewish catacomb somewhere in the network

Celeste: i think he can only animate the pagan ones, something about church burials

johns (GM): there's contradictory rulings on that

Celeste: oh?

johns (GM): I know that the ghost/spirit of a christian person-- off limits

but Hermetic Projects suggests their body can still be messed with necromantically

Muzio the Bastard: cool jew fact: blazejewski is a real polish surname and thats what the polish name generator gave me

Celeste: well, that's interesting, since yeah, it's just simple commands to a body.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: AWAKEN THE SLUMBERING CORPSE

R: Voice, D: Conc, T: Ind

Causes a corpse to function at your verbal

command. Commands have to be very simple,

like “attack anyone who comes through here.”

The corpse used cannot have been buried by

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Church ceremony.

(Base 10, +2 Voice, +1 Conc)

Celeste: s k e l e t o n t i m e

johns (GM): The best supernatural protection

a graveyard offers is to the soul of the

departed, for if he was buried with the

proper Christian rites, his soul and spirit

are immune to magical tampering. However,

his body is not, and his parts and

johns (GM): remains may prove useful to necromancers.

Muzio the Bastard: wouldnt there be a ceremony on these since theyre in the catacombs?

johns (GM): Yeah

Hm

Sounds like a flat out contradiction

Aristocritus Bonisagi: not necessarily a Church ceremony though

johns (GM): But these were originally Pagan catacombs before Christians started using them so there shouldn't be any shortage of safe to use corpses in either case

Muzio the Bastard: ah

thats true

Celeste: i think you can still use intelligo corpus spells on church-buried corpses

maybe its just that specific spell

johns (GM): The whole chapter on Necromancy in Hermetic Projects has a load of good general ideas for that stuff if you want to go into it

Celeste: neat.

johns (GM): oh and we're only ~20 years away from having more corpses than you would ever know what to do with, so look forward to that too

Archibald of Guernicus: I really hope a PC causes that.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Cadaver Synod II

Muzio the Bastard: bonfilia...

Celeste: i'm going to have prudenzio develop a voice or greater range leprosy spell at some point if i can get there. hopefully it doesn't go wrong.

if he's not dead by then since he's almost 35

johns (GM): raises a good point, someone should invest in corpus and be our longevity ritual specialist

trade rituals for lab assistance

Celeste: i forget if i can cast them on other people or not

Archibald of Guernicus: Bonfilia didn't have much corpus, she was a herbam specialist.

Celeste: i think he's completely incapable, but i'm unsure

Archibald of Guernicus: Still, 20 years with a library and no adventuring is

Well,

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i might focus on corpus alongside the elements

Muzio the Bastard: i could probably do some corpus investment later

Aristocritus Bonisagi: since the four humours are basically the same thing

Muzio the Bastard: but out of chargen im stickin with terram

Aristocritus Bonisagi: terram ftw

Archibald of Guernicus: Good news Johns. Archibald doesn't need a ritual until 50, and Zita gets one from Mercere for free.

Celeste: terram is strong.

johns (GM): reiterating for new players: Lavinia can make a medical regimen for PCs that grants +2 to your living conditions modifier. the drawback is she has to draw blood and such so you would have to trust a hedge wizard with your arcane connections.

Muzio the Bastard: i have a focus and that focus is pits

Archibald of Guernicus: A hedge wizard huh.

Good one.

Celeste: i showed my friend kevin the rules and he wants to play in a game and make a wizard who uses terram to do everything possible with salt.

Archibald of Guernicus: I love pits (audience laughs)

Archie has 13 terram so your wizard is going to be shown up slightly at mastery of the earth, I'm afraid.

Muzio the Bastard: i knew terram was my true calling when i found out that going deep enough will lead you to hell

Celeste: that rules.

johns (GM): oh

there is a covenant virtue if you put a hell portal in your lab

Muzio the Bastard: hell portal in the catacombs beneath rome

sounds good

johns (GM): Hell Portal

Major Supernatural Flaw

The laboratory contains a fiery portal

to Hell. –2 Safety, +2 Warping, +1 Re, +3 Vi

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

johns (GM): from the chapter about volcanos

Muzio the Bastard: what forms do you need to make a hell portal

or i guess i could just make a pit into hell

Archibald of Guernicus: +3 vim!

We

Muzio the Bastard: in the center of my lab

Archibald of Guernicus: We must, we need to

johns (GM): colonize a volcano

Celeste: a pit into hell seems, infernal, in some way.

Muzio the Bastard: hook it up to the skeleton alarm system

Celeste: sorted

Muzio the Bastard: intruders are grabbed by a chain of arms and delivered into the pit

johns (GM): lol

Archibald of Guernicus: As long as you never tell Archibald or Venator about the pit

You'll be fine

If you tell Archibald he's duty-bound to throw you in and seal up the lab

Muzio the Bastard: but the vim

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll seal it up as tears roll down my cheeks at the vim bonus we lose

Celeste: celeste is very devout in her own way and has +20 magic resistance and 9 soak with the buckler. but she'll never find out, she's just a companion.

Archibald of Guernicus: If she has MR that's useful, as she's immune to the gift.

Explains why she could sit near Archibald and not run away

Celeste: im gonna go, thanks for running. i want nevio to craft a small hand mirror from bone and a piece of shiny reflective metal, if someone wants to take a tiny piece of the alchemized steel and make a mirror disc. not werewolf bone just a regular person's bone

so i'll do that later

Aristocritus Bonisagi: apparently generalized MR doesn't block the gift, only the parma

Celeste: dang

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it came up last time i think?

in some session at least

Archibald of Guernicus: Really? Dang.

That doesnt make much sense though

Celeste: shes also disgusting and has no sense of self preservation and was really drunk so maybe she could resist it for a little bit.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: if you're around a gifted person for long enough you get used to their individual gift though

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean, it could let us weaponise the blatant gift to make someone leave, even if they have MR

Because it isn't the 'right' MR

It feels off that it works that way