4/23/17

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

Shauncat (GM): Hello

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

dys (GM) emerges from wizard's twilight onto the game

Shauncat (GM): Bird leaf vis

Endrite (GM): I can't believe no one has gone into Twlight yet.

dys (GM): Kifaaya did, briefly.

On her very first session I believe? Or second.

Archibald rolled for twilight in the swamp but successfully resisted.

Endrite (GM): I GUESS.

I just want some damn blood over here.

johns (GM): Twilight is pretty bloodless

in fact in some situations it's safer to go twilight

Mainly everyone is a pansy afraid to spont nonstop, and I cannot cast spontaneous magic.

Shauncat (GM): DCC has funny spell hismaps

mishaps

dys (GM): I fear botches but I think I spont more than anyone else

Simply due to my high InVi in a crowd of magi who never bothered learning either form or technique

Shauncat: I'll get a 5 in every form next character

johns: more people need to make use of the fact that you can roll your spont die first then figure out the exact effect after

Shauncat: That's itneresting

Endrite (GM): It is.

dys: Is this everyone for Wizard's Weekly

Endrite (GM): I LITERALLY have no idea.

dys: I know dfd can't make it, beardbeard has work as he does every single week, go cumthinker.

johns: cumthinker isn't on steam

so who knows

dys: I really don't get how showing up to something on time each week manages to be so difficult for so many people.

Endrite (GM): This is the first game that I've had where it's been a serious issue.

dys: It got pretty bad in the second rogue trader game

Just random who would be there week to week

johns: i was going to make a new thread once we've finished this adventure hoping we could pick up more reliable players

Shauncat: Having random people show up would work out if this group tended to be like one wizard and the rest are grogs every week

johns: i know that cumthinker is enthusiastic about the game so I dont know why his attendance is so spotty

dys: I'll second that, it's not so much fresh blood that would help but just

people that actually show up on time each week, when possible

I'm picturing what ars would be like if I didnt join and recommend shaun to do so too

johns: dead, prolly

hi d4d

dys: Hey gamer.

Endrite (GM): Greetings gamester.

devil's fav demon (GM): hi all

dys: I need to think of better things to spend my seasons on, I think I've capped out on every summa we have by now.

devil's fav demon (GM): i could make it after all. incredible.

johns: make me a bunch of enchanted items

devil's fav demon (GM): i desperately need to update my seasons. i am very behind and for all I know Prudenzio has died of aging complications by now.

Shauncat: Kifaaya's gonna try to get a lot of Rego without any books for it

I mean, summa

Endrite (GM): Just study Vis.

You could get lucky and have the dice explode twice.

Shauncat: I need Rego Animal so I can throw elephants at people

dys: Malach smoked half our terram vis and then left the covenant, so I think we should have stricter rules about allowing the polish into vardian's tomb.

Endrite (GM): That seems smart.

devil's fav demon (GM): Hah

Endrite (GM): So should we start or should we wait for C-Thinker?

devil's fav demon (GM): I have no idea when he's getting here.

johns: i assume we're abotu to fight a pile of faerie junk

aristocritus is back at home and cthinker was just playing a grog anyway

Endrite (GM): Yes that is correct.

dys: He said nothing on being late and isn't online, so your call, Game Archon.

Endrite (GM): Let's trim down the fairy junk here.

Archibald of Guernicus: 10 is a Group so 8 or 10 makes little difference, if I don't botch this spont

NOTE: I will botch the spont and it will be a tpk

devil's fav demon (GM): Score.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Finally, a free respec

Archibald of Guernicus: I forget, is it at all possible to boost the penetration of a sponted spell

johns: Here, only with vis

Didn't we get a bunch of vis from the last batch of fae we killed? What form was it

Kifaaya of Verditius: We were thinking we'd extract vis from this guys, if we have to spend it to kill them we're in trouble.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hm...

Archibald of Guernicus: I had to use PeVi on the last couple fae because it turned out we were comically useless, and actually losing to them, 3 on 3

johns: do you have any AOE spells

im assuming these minions have 10 or less might to penetrate

Archibald of Guernicus: Which is also what I'll be doing to the 8 small ones here.

I do not, no, I'll rectify that soon

They have 5 might

iirc

Kifaaya of Verditius: They were only might 5 last time

johns: doesn't severus have some cool plant related spells

that work AOE

Archibald of Guernicus: I can kill all of the small ones in the opening round so it really comes down to: how much of a risk do you want to take, for vis.

IF we can hold them all in place or some such, then cool

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+15+2 hooting and hollering to spont a ReAq touch + con effect to "Control a liquid in a forceful but calm way, such as a fast but constant

(

7

)

+15+2

=

24

current".

if I can touch the fucking jug we already gave away.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I can turn into a camel and help someone kite them while they cast

Archibald of Guernicus: What would be the form for holding a fae still

terram for their weird junk bodies? or vim

Prudenzio of Flambeau: actually i think that's -2 for the aura.

Archibald of Guernicus: This is a magic aura

Prudenzio of Flambeau: but still a pass for a level 10 fatiguing effect

oh.

Endrite (GM): Ok so it sounds like everyone is interested in starting.

The aura is Magic 2.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could get +5 pen by making Curse of Circe diameter, but I'm not sure that'll be enough

Archibald of Guernicus: Endrite, is it Terram or Vim to affect the movement of these creatures

Prudenzio of Flambeau: so then its a 23 total. I accidentally used the tomb's aura bonus because its the default on my arts page.

Endrite (GM): Well, it depends on how you want to do to them.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I can give you a ride as a camel so you can outpace them

Endrite (GM): You could sink them into the earth with Terram.

Archibald of Guernicus: An effect to hold them still and unable to move, was my thought

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Controlling flowing water at touch range is pretty bad though. I don't want to get near these guys.

Endrite (GM): You could make a ward with Vis (it takes a ritual to do this I'm pretty sure).

You could collapse a building on them.

That might make Severus mad though.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: If you can somehow draw a circle around them during combat, good luck.

Endrite (GM): You could turn the grass into a thorny prison.

Well you'd draw the circle around yourself.

Archibald of Guernicus: Pit of the Gaping Earth is a level 15 effect, doable.

johns: can we impress them with our knowledge of roman poetry

Endrite (GM): There's so many ways to stop someone with magic, is what I'm saying.

Archibald of Guernicus: I meant an effect similar to the ReCo spell where you hold someone still, unable to move

and wondered whether that would be vim, or terram, for a terram-aligned fae

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Anyway i'm cowering behind sir oak for the first combat round til I see where everyone else is going. so i'm set.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's our oak

Prudenzio of Flambeau: good man, oak.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I cast Doublet of Impenetrable Silk on myself

Prudenzio of Flambeau: im going to try to control a small amount of water from Severus' friends' jug, and hopefully throw it in Cruciator's face should the opportunity present itself.

Endrite (GM): Alright, well the other option besides combat is to do what he says and hand over Severin without a fight.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Severin.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm

Endrite (GM): That wouldn't be very nice, though.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Well that way he won't kill Dumbledore

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I would rather rescue Severin and make him our bitch, tbh

Whatever story the faeries are acting out seems pretty stupid so far and it's worth ruinign it

Archibald of Guernicus: Their plan was to torment an old man and it worked

If nothing else, you can't fault their results

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i'll fault what I damn well please

Endrite (GM): Fairy stories are always stupid.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You know what's a good story? The Aeneid

Prudenzio of Flambeau: im going to put on the d'lo brown chest protector and dive off the parapets with the lo-down frog splash

Endrite (GM): Alright, someone tell this evil fairy to stuff it and we can get started.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Hey, evil fairy! Stuff it!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: couldnt have put it better myself

Kifaaya of Verditius: I caste Doublet of Impenetrable Silk during the trash talk phase

Ainz style

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: I step behind the grog here, and spont PeTe while he trash talks.

Endrite (GM): Alright hold up here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I consider it a flaw in our system that we do not mechanically allow for trash talking phases, interrupts where the villain gives a speech without being attacked, etc.

Endrite (GM): Prudenzio of Flambeau Initiative: 18

Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 4

Severin of Tytalus Initiative: 24

Kifaaya of Verditius Initiative: 20

Lavinia of Jerbiton Initiative: 73

Prudenzio of Flambeau: powerful initiative, maga who does not participate in combat.

Kifaaya of Verditius: The penalties for silent and gestureless casting are sort of a villain monologue system, aren't they?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

If you want to cast a spell while someone is talking then you'll need to do it unobtrusively.

Archibald of Guernicus: A magus with 2 ranks of quiet casting and subtle casting would be a blast.

Cruciator: So unless that's the case you'll have to take your lumps.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Maybe that'll be my next character, Gentle Gift and Silent Casting

Archibald of Guernicus: In that case, I'll simply use the trash talk phase to sidle over behind the grog.

Cruciator: Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: ReTe(Co) to crush people into diamonds while they were talking

Cruciator: "Your pathetic show of resistance for your 'friend' will surely be a warm memory when I have you in my clutches!"

With this, a terrifying barbed whip appears in his right hand. In his left, a heavy, dull blade that nonetheless appears to be stained with blood.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh shit a balrog

Prudenzio of Flambeau makes jerking off gesture

Cruciator: It isn't a flaming whip.

Ok fight time.

Kifaaya of Verditius: A whip made mostly of leather?

Cruciator: Fairy lore.

I mean roll Fairy Lore + Int

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10+3

(

4

)

+3

=

7

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+3

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+5+2 lore

(

10

)

+5+2

=

17

Cruciator: Nice work all.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Yep. That's a fairy."

Kifaaya of Verditius nods

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hit the books, sodales

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

3

)

+2

=

5

(From Cruciator): Fairy "equipment" is usually just a prop made from their own essence, not a separate object.

Archibald of Guernicus: I've got enough 'fairy lore' with Prudenzio's son running around the covenant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I recall that this sword is likely a prop made of the fairy's glamous and not a separate object

ho ho dys

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, so it has his full Magic Resistance.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: glamour not glamous

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, there goes sponting against it

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh ho.

Cruciator: Anyways Lavinia what's your move?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Me? I'm taking cover behind Oak

Kifaaya of Verditius: I guess doing a MuAn on the whip is a bad idea too then

Cruciator: Nice.

Does Sir Oak do anything?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No, he stands next to me for now

I want to see where everyone else moves before he leaves my side

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Smart.

Cruciator: Ok.

Severin casts a spell.

rolling 1d10 + 39

(

8

)

+39

=

47

Archibald of Guernicus: Blimey.

Cruciator: Alright he throws a wall up between himself and the Cruciator.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Smart

Cruciator: Classic Wall of Thorns.

Kifaaya

Kifaaya of Verditius: Mmm

Well I'll try to establish what this guy's defenses are for my sodales

Cruciator: Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Curse of Circle, FFM to diameter for +5 Pen

Cruciator: You mean Circe.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: Curse of Circle is more a Proclus spell

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling 44+d10! spell level 25

44+

(

4

)

=

48

Prudenzio of Flambeau: conf that shit

Archibald of Guernicus: 19 might is pretty high, might work. whats your penetration gamer?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i wouldn't conf

since I doubt it'll work

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh wait you're not sponting

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it's a corpus spell

Prudenzio of Flambeau: ar you

Cruciator: So what's your Penetration?

Archibald of Guernicus: He's a very corpus-y fae, should work

Kifaaya of Verditius: 0 pen, so margin of 24

Cruciator: Ok.

Do you have any points in the Penetration skill?

Kifaaya of Verditius: No

Cruciator: It's an "Ability" but I'm just going to call it a skill because I'm an evil fairy.

Ok.

No penetration.

Prudenzio.

Archibald of Guernicus: At least 25 might, gl Prudenzio

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm going to try to control some water from Severin's jug, with the roll I made earlier, since no one happened to tell me it was a bad idea.

Archibald of Guernicus: If I had an anti-fae spell I could beat that easily. Unfortunately I never made one.

Cruciator: Ok, what was the spell you were using?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You know what's a good anti-fae spell? Ball of abyssal flame

Cruciator: It's a VERY good Anti-Fae spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: We have a TERRIBLE ignem summa, Lavinia.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll have a chance to turn muggles into pigs instead once Severin enslaves me

Prudenzio of Flambeau: a level 4 ReAq +1 touch +1 conc, to "control a liquid in a forceful but calm way, such as a fast but constant current"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let

's go raid some Normandy covenants for their books

Cruciator: Ok, that isn't QUITE enough to fling water at someone, so where do you want to direct the water?

Archibald of Guernicus: Didn't we make that illegal

You could make a stream between him and us

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it should be fine if we declare wiz war first right?

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, no, running water hurt him but he can cross it I think?

Yes Lavinia, totally legal in that case.

A counterpoint: could you imagine the magi of vardians tomb winning a wizards war

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes, if we cheat

Archibald of Guernicus: We were defeated by a man who only knows herbam

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Can I make the water constantly flow across the thorny bush, reinforcing Severin's defenses?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Winning a wizard's war is merely a matter of preparation

Severin of Tytalus: Specialty magic is very powerful.

(From Archibald of Guernicus): Thankfully, I have been creating all the spells from Hermetic Projects for absolutely crushing a wizard's war from your own lab

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, water flows out of Severin's waterskin and forms a little stream around his Wall of Thorns.

(To Archibald of Guernicus): just in time for us to completely rewrite the rules on magic resistance and make them all useless

(From Archibald of Guernicus): [pained screaming]

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Ok. I thought that would be an unnatural effect and add a magnitude, but that's cool.

Now you just have to throw him into the little creek, sodales.

Severin of Tytalus: Nah, water flowing around is very natural.

(From Archibald of Guernicus): I'd been trying to make my own system in my spare time for Wizard Duels so if we do end up rewriting combat let me know

Archibald of Guernicus: I spont... Perdo Terram!

I shout and scream

rolling 1d10!+(29/2)

(

3

)

+(29/2)

=

17.5

Severin of Tytalus: Alright.

Archibald of Guernicus: Good enough. Level 15 PeTe effect, I open a pit of gaping earth under all the fae.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Sounds good.

Alright The Cruciator, naturally, charges at Severin, but evades the wall of thorns that springs up by flying like a grotesquely mutilated Peter Pan.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice.

Severin of Tytalus: The lil' Entanglements get caught in the pit, however.

They're sort of unsure what to do.

How deep is the pit?

Archibald of Guernicus: 9 feet

Prudenzio of Flambeau: how much does a conf add to a roll, and also can you use more than one in a turn

Archibald of Guernicus: A conf adds 5, and no

Prudenzio of Flambeau: nice. 5 is solid

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You can use 2 conf if you have "Self-Confident" virtue

Severin of Tytalus: You can use more than 1 if you're Self-Confident.

Archibald of Guernicus: He obviously doesn't, so I didn't mention it

Or maybe he does? Who knows what virtues this lovable rapist has

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I don't.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, next round.

Lavinia.

Hello?

Well we'll just skip to Kifaaya.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: smh.

Severin of Tytalus: Go for it girl.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sorry

I don't really have much to do here except cower

so I'll let you know if that changes.

Severin of Tytalus: Okie dokie.

Alright, Severin will cast ANOTHER spell, if you can believe it.

Archibald of Guernicus: You're commanding Sir Oak, our best combatant, so there is that.

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10 + 39

(

2

)

+39

=

41

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Sir Oak is powered off right now.

Severin of Tytalus: Loose debris and some vines from the Wall of Thorns fly into the air around Cruciator.

rolling 1d10! + 8

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Oh wait that should be +20.

Whatever.

rolling 1d10! + 20

(

7

)

+20

=

27

Ooh, tough luck.

Severin of Tytalus: The woodland detritus forms a cage around the Cruciator.

He crashes to the ground with a howl of rage.

Kifaaya

I mean he'll do all that at the end of the turn.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmmm

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh, I just realized I sponted something last session, so I'm Weary now.

Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sponts are short term fatigue so you recover it in a few minutes

Severin of Tytalus: Yeah.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm going to move back to a safe distance and wait to see if people need help retreating.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if need be you can drink one of my fatigue potions to get you back up

Severin of Tytalus: Delicious potions.

Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh, I thought it would carry over since this is still within the same timeframe as last game. That's cool, then, I will happily spont again.

Severin of Tytalus: I mean when did you spont the last spell?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Sometime before Cruciator showed up, when we first got here.

If it's a few minutes, I'm probably good.

rolling 1d10!+14+2+5 shouting and waving, plus conf. probably won't make a 15 ReAq but i'm trying it

(

3

)

+14+2+5

=

24

Nope.

Severin of Tytalus: Well you've still got, uh, 13 spell levels to work with.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm sure you can do a great Rego Aquam effect with that

Kifaaya of Verditius: Fill the pit with water

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I can keep the water flowing in a gently forceful way. Sure, why not. Redirect it to the Entanglements pit.

Archibald of Guernicus: If Sir Oak and the grog focus on stabbing the cruciator to death, I could deal with the entanglements

My penetration ability is high enough to affect them while sponting

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I could also use the 10 ReAq to control the water in a very gentle, but unnatural way, and envelop the caged Cruciator in water.

but it won't be moving quickly enough and probably won't kill him.

Severin of Tytalus: Well, there's also a big pit filled with little fairy monsters.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Yeah. I think I'll do the first thing and try to pour the water onto them.

Archibald of Guernicus: seems like a smart idea

Do the entanglements killed by flowing water leave their vis for harvesting?

Severin of Tytalus: Ok cool, Archibald.

Probably, the last ones did.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: mm vis

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, was checking that the last ones did.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah we got vis from the ones that were washed up

But not the ones that poofed

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll attempt to spont Creo Aquam then

rolling 1d10!+19

(

3

)

+19

=

22

er

Whoops

Well, a level 10 effect either way

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Luckily you have an infinite amount of water to work with.

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 5 to create a spring with a high rate of flow

+1 diadem, hmm. no thats not enough, actually, I believe this needs touch range to make it

Instant duration creo stuff just appears then vanishes, right?

Severin of Tytalus: Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 4 to create water 'over someones head' and then +2 for voice would hit them then vanish right

Severin of Tytalus: Probably.

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, that's the effect I go with then

Severin of Tytalus: Keep in mind the Cruciator is trapped in a bale of hay.

Archibald of Guernicus: No, no, over the entanglements

I assume magically created water would need to penetrate to affect the cruciator anyway

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Always trying to show me up, huh Archibald...

Archibald of Guernicus: Reflect on your poor aquam, and repent.

Severin of Tytalus: When you Creo something it's non-magical.

It doesn't need to penetrate.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. That changes everything.

Severin of Tytalus: Unless you're creoing someone with Creo Corpus or whatever.

Archibald of Guernicus: Even something like abyssal flame?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what

that's a lie

it's only nonmagical if you creo it with vis in a ritual

Archibald of Guernicus: Right. Thought so.

Anyway, that effect I said before is what I do, and was my turn.

Severin of Tytalus: What did you say you'd do?

Create water over his head?

Archibald of Guernicus: Over the entanglements

So it flows onto them (then disappears but it only needs to exist for a moment)

Severin of Tytalus: There's already water heading into the pit.

What's the Penetration on that?

Archibald of Guernicus: At one side, this is to catch stragglers

Severin of Tytalus: Also how much water can you create at once?

Archibald of Guernicus: 9 pen

Uh, the normal size for 1 size of water, hang on

Well

Enough to hit a couple of them anyway

Severin of Tytalus: Alright.

Ok, several things happen this turn.

Kifaaya and Lavinia do nothing.

The Cruciator strikes at Severin with his whip before being caught in a bale of hay.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Excellent work, Sodales.

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 20

(

3

)

+20

=

23

Rolling defense.

rolling 1d10! + 7

(

7

)

+7

=

14

Kifaaya of Verditius: Something I could do

Severin of Tytalus: Ok so that's 24 points of damage, modified down to 20 by soak.

This is pretty bad for Severin, who is now INCAPACITATED.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well.

Severin of Tytalus: Fortunately, Cruciator is no longer in a position to fight back, covered as he is in a bale of hay.

Archibald of Guernicus: If this hay was set on fire, would that affect the cruciator, even if it is Magical Hay

Severin of Tytalus: It is NOT magical hay, since it was dragged into a bale by a Rego Herbam spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ooh.

Severin of Tytalus: Anyway, a few of the Entanglement climb out of the pit. Let's see how many.

rolling 1d10! + 13

(

1

)

+13

=

14

Whoops he falls in the soup and dissolves.

rolling 7d10!

(

10

+

5

+

7

+

7

+

5

+

7

+

4

+

5

)

=

50

Prudenzio of Flambeau: oh no!

Severin of Tytalus: Alright the rest make it out, except for two which get soaked by Creo water.

What's the pen on that?

Archibald of Guernicus: 9

Severin of Tytalus: 9.

Right.

They're ready to fight!

Lavinia.

Note that this is not to scale.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hm

I guess Oak tries to fight the entanglements

I take this occasion to strategically retreat several paces

rolling 1d10!+15 attack

(

5

)

+15

=

20

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

rolling 1d10! + 16

(

7

)

+16

=

23

Archibald of Guernicus: Sir Soak should be able to decimate them, at least.

Severin of Tytalus: He blocks!

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh fug

Lavinia of Jerbiton: uhh that's not fair

Lavinia of Jerbiton cries

Severin of Tytalus: Owned.

Ok, Severin is unconscious and possibly dying.

Kifaaya.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Kifaaya, can ye pull him away before he dies. I have an idea."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm

Archibald of Guernicus: maybe kifaaya can heal him?

or at least stop him bleeding to death

Kifaaya of Verditius: Healing is a ritual I think

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, but stopping him bleeding out might be possible

Severin of Tytalus: Yes.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Would closing wounds be ReCo?

Severin of Tytalus: Wounds healed without a ritual are only healed for however long the duration is.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: CrCo can bind wounds

it's a pretty low level crco spell

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh I could just spont CrCo and try to keep the wounds bound for however long I can make it last

Move into touch rnage

Severin of Tytalus: You only need Level 5 for Sun duration.

Also wounds can't heal while they're being kept magically closed.

Kifaaya of Verditius: +3 from the aura?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: 2

Severin of Tytalus: +2.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

rolling (d10+16+2+1)/2

(

(

10

)

+16+2+1)/2

=

14.5

rolling d10

(

10

)

=

10

rolling d10

(

6

)

=

6

Prudenzio of Flambeau: nice.

Severin of Tytalus: Very nice.

So that's 22?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Severin of Tytalus: You can easily make Bind Wounds then.

Very smart move, if indeed that's what you want to do.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah Bind Wound or THE CHIRURGEON’S HEALING TOUCH, whichever is more appropriate

Probably Bind Wound, since that seems more relevant to the threat of bleeding out

Severin of Tytalus: The second one is a Ritual.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Right

Severin of Tytalus: You can't spont it unless you're a Diedne.

Archibald of Guernicus: Huh. Looks like satan is cool after all.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Bind Wound, duration Moon

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Thats a really long duration.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I think that's the best I can do without a ritual

Severin of Tytalus: That's a very bad idea since it would leave him in this state for a whole lunar cycle.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay, just Sun then

Severin of Tytalus: Read the spell description, you can't heal while under the influence of Bind Wounds.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

So Sun

Nothing else worth doing without a ritual

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm going to go pick up the jug from Severin's immobile body and start pouring it on the hay bale.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Pour it on the Cruciator himself

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That's what I said. He's in the hay bale.

Severin of Tytalus: Yeah.

Could work great.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I mean, pour it through the hay instead of making it soggy

Prudenzio of Flambeau: RIP Prudenzio.

Severin of Tytalus: That requires no roll at all.

Archibald.

Archibald of Guernicus: I was going to set him on fire, instead I'll see about doing that to the little ones

Footsteps of slippery yet flammable oil, FFM to make it voice, dropping it on the remaining entanglements

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+19

(

1

)

+19

=

20

Oh dear

1 botch die right?

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

Kifaaya of Verditius: If we can get a bed set up for Severin in the covenant before sundown, I can prepare a ceremonial cast of Purification of the Festering Wound to go off right as night begins

Severin of Tytalus: Nice, nice.

We also have a doctor in the house.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Even better

Severin of Tytalus: Ok Archibald does that make it?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes

Level 10 effect with FFM

Only rolled in case of botches, my raw penetration is enough to beat these chumps.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Nice.

Alright, the Cruciator tries to break free from his prison!

rolling 1d10! + 1

(

8

)

+1

=

9

Nope.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice job, Cruciator!

Severin of Tytalus: Prudenzio pours some water on him, but it just slips right off, as the waterskin has no Penetration built into it.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lmao oh yeah, it's not mundane water.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oops!

Fae that can be defeated by a puddle too difficult for a group of magi to overcome

Did the well still have water in it?

Could ReAq some water into a bucket then try again

Severin of Tytalus: The well probably still does have water in it.

It's a well after all.

However, consider where all the well water came from.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, good luck Prudenzio

The sky???

Oh. Oh I see.

I understand now. Incredible.

Severin of Tytalus: Amazing.

Ok.

These creep little faeries attack Sir Oak.

Archibald of Guernicus: Did they make that well to kill peasants.

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 4d10!

(

2

+

2

+

5

+

8

)

=

17

Prudenzio of Flambeau: The well water came out of the jug I just used, Archibald. Good memory.

Severin of Tytalus: +16 to each.

Kifaaya of Verditius: You can still wash clothes with water that disappears afte rthe duration

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hm

Kifaaya of Verditius: Or power a water wheel

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+12 defense

(

8

)

+12

=

20

Severin of Tytalus: Does Sir Oak have Magic Might?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes, Magic Might 7

so his MR is 9 in this aura, if it matters

Severin of Tytalus: Ok cool.

0 damage, their horrible little claws slide right off him.

My guess is they'd look surprised if they had facial features.

Ok, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I look for a shrubbery to hide behind

and oak attacks

rolling 1d10!+15

(

10

+

2

)

+15

=

27

Severin of Tytalus: Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: damage is +12

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! +14

(

9

)

+14

=

23

Kifaaya of Verditius: I wonder if you can clone people by temporarily turning them into starfish

Severin of Tytalus: Which one does Sir Oak attack?

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d5

(

2

)

=

2

number 2.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, it's size -2 so it gets incapacitated.

And basically dies because why wouldn't you kill a fairy?

Severin is unconcious.

Kifaaya.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Take that, junk.

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh actually I want to stabilise the fae, wow. Nice job denying our agency.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Nice railroading. Who wrote this, Greg Stafford?

Severin of Tytalus: Yes.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Let's see, Cruciator's might is a bit high for my casting level, Severin is already stabilized to the best of my talent

Archibald of Guernicus: You could possibly beat his might. Maybe.

Severin of Tytalus: Yes possibly.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

What's the bonus for shouting and waving

Severin of Tytalus: +1/+1

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Severin of Tytalus: You could also eat some vis.

Or however it works.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could burn some of that infernal animal vis

Lavinia of Jerbiton: infernal vis is perfect for combat casting

Kifaaya of Verditius: I didn't really say I was carrying it with me though

Archibald of Guernicus: Kifaaya carrying around demonic cores to eat in combat sounds reasonable.

Severin of Tytalus: As I recall they're eyeballs.

Or maybe noses?

I can't really remember.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: tongues.

Archibald of Guernicus: Dog tongues, yes

Kifaaya of Verditius: I wear leather and silk so I can transform so I can fit some fetishes made of animal bits on that motif

Severin of Tytalus: I mean you COULD.

Kifaaya of Verditius: With bracelet cords of sinew

Severin of Tytalus: You could ALSO come up with an action this round.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

I'll just go with the shouting and waving bonus

rolling d10!+46

(

2

)

+46

=

48

Exact same result

Ok I'm done

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, what were you doing?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Curse of Circe

Severin of Tytalus: Curse of Venus on Cruciator?

Ok.

Cool, cool.

Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm going to cast Spirit of Wolf, my "teleport" spell, and get the hell out of the danger zone.

rolling 1d10!+25 spell level 20, botch check

(

10

+

2

)

+25

=

37

Archibald of Guernicus: Your determined spirit in fleeing is admirable

Severin of Tytalus: Ok nice work.

Archibald of Guernicus: God bless you Prudenzio

Severin of Tytalus: Archibald.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Good luck, Sodales.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Palm of Flame, FFM to make it voice range, on the entanglements

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could do that eventually so I don't eat up any more time

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+14

(

9

)

+14

=

23

No botch, spell level 10, success

Kifaaya of Verditius: Bust so far testing his Might isn't a bad idea either

Severin of Tytalus: Ok nice, they all go up in flames.

Kifaaya of Verditius: RIP Oak

Severin of Tytalus: I'm just going to roll damage once because it's more convenient for me.

He's fireproof.

Prudenzio of Flambeau shouts from 30 feet away "Good work, Archibald!"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Good Oak

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

3

)

+6

=

9

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fire ftw

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, decent enough damage.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oak is fireproof and that's why I didn't hesitate with this action

Now we need to stab the cruciator to death

If you find any water, Prudenzio, bring it back

Kifaaya of Verditius: OH

I actually have a sheet ability for finding water

Turning into a camel

Prudenzio of Flambeau: You know, I wonder, now. Did he ward every entrance to his covenant? Are the wards still up now that he's unconscious?

Archibald of Guernicus: Wouldnt that just find the water in the well though

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'd have to walk a ways away from the well first

I'll look up the camel's stats

Smell Water, 0 Points, Init 0: The camel can smell drinkable water for a distance of up to two miles.

Doesn't say "closest source"

Severin of Tytalus: Sounds good to me.

Ok, the horrible little monsters attack Sir Oak again.

rolling 1d10! + 14

(

7

)

+14

=

21

rolling 3d10!

(

9

+

6

+

10

+

4

)

=

29

Ok so we've got a 21, a 23, a 20, and a 28 against Sir Oak.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Kifaaya, drag Severin over here so I can open the door to his covenant with his limp hand.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hm

i gotta roll multiple times?

rolling 1d10!+12

(

7

)

+12

=

19

rolling 1d10!+12

(

3

)

+12

=

15

rolling 1d10!+12

(

10

+

10

+

8

)

+12

=

40

rolling 1d10!+12

(

8

)

+12

=

20

Severin of Tytalus: NICE nice nice.

What's his soak?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll do that instead of the camel trick

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 19

Severin of Tytalus: Ok 0 damage again.

Cruciator tries to break free of his bondage again.

rolling 1d10! + 1

(

10

+

2

)

+1

=

13

Uh oh, he does.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: well, that sucks.

Kifaaya of Verditius: If I MuCo to make myself stronger, does that meant I'll get repelled by Severin's Parma?

Severin of Tytalus: No, why would casting a spell on yourself be resisted by someone else's Parma?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I mean, like how enchanted blades are subject to resistance

Severin of Tytalus: Hmm.

It depends on what you're enchanting, I guess.

What were you thinking of doing?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Prudenzio suggested dragging him to the covenant door so we could use his hand to open it

I might be strong enough to do so without magic, really

Severin of Tytalus: I mean, dragging an unconscious person is basically not difficult.

No reason to roll, really.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Right

I'll consider that on my turn

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I have no reason to enter his covenant, really. I don't know of an in-character reason why you would help me.

Just that charming Prudenzio smile.

Severin of Tytalus: Lavinia?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh

Well I would like to drag him away from Cruciator

Prudenzio of Flambeau: If you want to put HIM inside, sure, that's probably a good plan.

But I just wanted to snoop around.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: me?

i guess I attack

rolling 1d10+15

(

5

)

+15

=

20

die, thing

Severin of Tytalus: Which one?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: any of them

doesnt matter

Severin of Tytalus: It does they have different sizes.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I don't really think about Prudenzio's motives, I'm just going to try to help him inside.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A big one then

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 11

(

7

)

+11

=

18

Ok.

Thwicker thwack, it gets smacked with a sword a dies.

Kifaaya.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay, I drag him towards the door and try to use his hand to get it open.

Archibald of Guernicus: Theyre basically all dead anyway

Since they're on fire

Cruciator is, however, incredibly alive.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, that's sort of a complicated procedure, but you do it because I have no real reason why you shouldn't.

The door pops open neatly onto a small corridor.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Cool

Once I have an opportunity, I'll try to use his hand to shut it behind us

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice.

Us including me, of course.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I have no reason to exclude you, but time is a factor.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok Prudenzio.

What is your cowardly plan?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: to also run inside of Severin's covenant.

And then go poking around for anything that might be useful to the current situation, or failing that, books to steal.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, smart move.

Potentially.

Also very cowardly.

Ok, Archibald.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh.

The grog that cumthinker was playing as

Can we assume he tried to stab cruciator and wasnt just watching

Severin of Tytalus: He's protecting you.

Archibald of Guernicus: I see

In that case, I do the only sensible thing here. Wizard's sidestep. We're going into normal combat after all.

rolling 1d10! botch check

(

2

)

=

2

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Your funeral will be a humble and respectful one.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, great job.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hopefully I become an NPC who turns people into pigs instead of dying

Severin of Tytalus: The Entanglements are still on fire.

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

10

+

10

+

6

)

+6

=

32

Kifaaya of Verditius: And crafts items for Cruciator to help his dreams of conquest

Severin of Tytalus: Yowch, not anymore!

Archibald of Guernicus: Boom. Roasted.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, Cruciator takes the fight to you, Archibald, but Crass protects you.

So roll his defense here.

rolling 1d10! + 20

(

7

)

+20

=

27

Archibald of Guernicus: He has a sword on his token

So I'll assume that is his weapon

Severin of Tytalus: Check out his character sheet.

He does, in fact, have a sword and shield.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2+8+1

(

3

)

+2+8+1

=

14

Single Weapon (Sword + Shield) yeah

what does shield add

Add whatever a shield adds, to that

Prudenzio of Flambeau: i think crass died.

Archibald of Guernicus: He has heavy armour and a shield

I wouldnt count him out just yet.

However, in a turn or two he probably will

Severin of Tytalus: I can't believe he doesn't have a soak on him.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah. What the fuck.

I have to look up mundane soak values

Severin of Tytalus: It's probably +6.

Archibald of Guernicus: A grog made for ONE thing and he doesnt even have one ofthe most important stats on it.

Severin of Tytalus: So + 6 + 3 +3.

12 soak, that's pretty good.

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay

Crass and Boak, I believe in you both

Severin of Tytalus: Ok he takes 21 damage and dies as his skin is flayed off.

RIP Crass.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh sweet jesus.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: huh, cool

Archibald of Guernicus: Sodales? Sodales?

Severin of Tytalus: Ok!

Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hm

I guess oak goes and attacks cruciator

rolling 1d10!+15

(

6

)

+15

=

21

Prudenzio of Flambeau is busy pouring himself a glass of grappa

Severin of Tytalus: Ok noice.

rolling 1d10! + 20

(

5

)

+20

=

25

Hmm.

Ok, Kifaaya.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm

Archibald of Guernicus: I think this adventure assumes a level of competence that most of our wizards lack. Well, could be worse.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: grappa hold of deez nuts

Archibald of Guernicus: urgh I cant even spont an effect that might hit him because my finesse is pitiful

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay, I'm gonna find a flat surface to set Severin on

Then look for a way to the roof

Severin of Tytalus: I thought you were a cool Terram man.

Just do some of that to him.

Archibald of Guernicus: I didnt learn any combat terram spells and I really, deeply regret it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Effectively, I think I'm out of the combat while I try to navigate this place, I'd rather not open the door and risk him getting inside. If we win, then I can rejoin the party, if we lose or retreat, Kifaaya gets up getting mind controlled once he find shis way in I guess.

Severin of Tytalus: I mean you definitely are not out of this combat.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I mean

Severin of Tytalus: What is all this mind control stuff?

Kifaaya of Verditius: He mentioned enslaving

Alright I'll do this play by play

and explore further down the corridor

Severin of Tytalus: Ok are you sure that's smart?

Roll Awareness.

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10

(

5

)

=

5

Smart would have been turning into a bird and leaving on the first round

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

What's your Penetration?

Kifaaya of Verditius: 0

Severin of Tytalus: I mean Magic Resistance.

Mentem.

Kifaaya of Verditius: 2

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Cool.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Alright, I grab the door handle and try to leave

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

The door swings open.

Ahh, feel that fresh outdoor air

Archibald of Guernicus: Hey, sodales

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hello

Well we know the trap is one-way, at least

Severin of Tytalus: Potentially.

Kifaaya of Verditius: You might want to close the door, Prudenzio

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I guess I'll close the door. Really wanted to keep exploring though. I can't do both, can I?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Closing the door is just a suggestion, I'm not your boss.

Severin of Tytalus: You can't.

I mean you can if you want.

It's just a door.

Archibald of Guernicus: The horrible realisation that Archibald, who lacks several useful and effective combat spells that he really should have, is in fact far more competent at it than any of his sodales.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Ok. I don't know how the action economy plays out, exactly, or if "closing a door" is a full turns action

I also want to check out that corridor because my Mentem MR is 22.

Kifaaya of Verditius: All I can say is if I die here I'll take it in stride and roll a more competent character

I can't really make him want to attack me over you guys though

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, nothing happens down the corridor.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Kifaaya is fine its more that no-one, at all, has any basic effect to harm someone and we have collectively earned this situation.

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): do any of the doors bear distinguishing marks or do they all appear identical

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm going to lock archibald in his lab until this is fixed.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I have plenty of effects to harm others, they just have to be a living human.

Archibald of Guernicus: We barely ever fight those guys!

Kifaaya of Verditius: I've mentioned going on a quest to learn to make casting tools that add to my pen

Archibald of Guernicus: And theyre always in groups

Kifaaya of Verditius: But I can only suggest that those quests exist

Archibald of Guernicus: If Prudenzio is wandering around, I'll do the only sensible thing here.

I spont ReCo

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

4

)

+22

=

26

Damnit, hm.

I drop a conf and move myself 50 paces away from the cruciator

Not dying here

In service of an old idiot that attacked us

Sir Boak, please gather the vis while fleeing

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): I will spont PeTe Curse of the Rotted Wood (5) at Voice range (10) on the center door.

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+19-1 weary

(

5

)

+19-1

=

23

and now I am at -3.

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): at least i'm not touching it this time.

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d5

(

1

)

=

1

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): ah, interesting

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Round complete!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hit thing

rolling 1d10!+15 attk

(

6

)

+15

=

21

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: People should totally flee into the house with me. Just sayin'.

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 20

(

7

)

+20

=

27

Archibald of Guernicus: The house does not seem very safe, as I doubt any magical traps there will beat his 25+ MR but might beat our much weedier wizards who never trained their parma.

Severin of Tytalus: Let me just tell you that the Aegis of the Hearth only lasts one year so it's unlikely that the house is safe.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah.

Severin of Tytalus: You should probably come up with a Plan.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I have a plan.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm fleeing for the damn hills, dude.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: It's very good.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's my plan

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Learning from the best, I see, Archibald.

Archibald of Guernicus: Crass was the strongest man here and just got his skin flayed off, while wearing heavy armour, by a monster even sir boak can't touch

So yeah, I'm fleeing.

Kifaaya of Verditius: If I survive standing outside next turn I might go with that plan as well

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm going to do one more thing inside and then try to flee as fast as I can.

Archibald of Guernicus: Maybe Lavinia could lure him away from us with sir oak, I dunno.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I can't see my presence being constructive if 25 MR is unsurpassed by anyone

Archibald of Guernicus: I can beat that... if I had a useful spell to use here

Which I do not, so I'm fleeing.

Then I'm going to invent PeVi effects for fae and angels just in case

Kifaaya of Verditius: I can spend my adventure XP on Penetration

Severin of Tytalus: I mean let's be real here.

That whip is definitely magic

People's skin doesn't just rip itself off.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Someone make an anti-fey arrow and send Celeste in alone to fight him.

Archibald of Guernicus: He still has a magical high attack roll, so

Celeste would have been great here since she can shoot arrows.

Severin of Tytalus: You've got Wizard's Sidestep, what's the problem?

Kifaaya of Verditius: How much MR do magic items have

Prudenzio of Flambeau: celeste also has like a +24 to attack pre-buffs and 20 innate MR

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't trust my odds of not being flayed alive in battle, since my attack roll is the same as sir boaks.

And you left her at home???

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Yes.

Severin of Tytalus: Whoops!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: She's reading the bible or something.

Archibald of Guernicus: Prudenzio shoving his son out of the way to come here instead, thinking he could give a wizard leprosy

and just running around with nothing to do

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lmao

Hey, I'm going to do something big on my next turn.

Just you watch.

Severin of Tytalus: You could try giving him leprosy.

Archibald of Guernicus: I could retract my fleeing if you really think we have any sort of chance, but his defence is uh

Endrite (GM): It's +20.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes.

Big value.

Endrite (GM): The value.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I have no idea what the thing I'm going to do is actually going to accomplish, but I'm convinced it's a good idea. In my heart.

Archibald of Guernicus: Kifaaya might as well keep trying with Circe

and just hope

for exploding 10s

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah I guess

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): I'm going to drag Severin's unconscious body to the pitch black hole and shove it in.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I mean fleeing is a possibility but this character is relatively new

Archibald of Guernicus: Can I just retract my ReCo to flee then, I forgot how insanely high Sidestep sets your defence roll

+9 to defence becomes +15 in the new system, jesus fucking christ

Endrite (GM): WellllllLLLLLL.

Lemme check my Just score.

rolling 1d20 vs Just 18

(

5

)

=

5

No.

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): should i roll a Strength check or something first to stand him up so i get some fall distance on the shove.

Archibald of Guernicus: How many paces can you move a round

Endrite (GM): I think we just said 3.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. That's a lot of paces I left by.

Endrite (GM): 'tis.

Archibald of Guernicus: I completely forgot that sidestep gave a massive passive bonus, well uh

I guess I can't really do anything else all fight then. Rip.

Endrite (GM): You could just teleport back.

Archibald of Guernicus: I had to conf to even make it before, so not very likely

Also fatigued from constant sponting I think

Endrite (GM): lol

Oops!

Who knew that something bad would result from rank cowardice?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought we were all fleeing, tbh.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: speaking of which,

Archibald of Guernicus: Prudenzio and Kifaaya ran off, Lavinia is hanging back

I didn't want to be the sole PC actually fighting

Endrite (GM): So Kifaaya you don't have a move, right?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I got Mentemed back into the fight

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Heh, thinking I just "ran off".

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh I can keep trying Curse of Circe until I die

Archibald of Guernicus: ;_:7

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10+3 Perfectionist

(

10

)

+3

=

13

I won't let this job go unfinished

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Go for it then.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

rolling d10+46 Curse of Circe with shouting and waving, SL25

(

6

)

+46

=

52

rolling 52-25

52-25

=

27

Prudenzio of Flambeau: gasp

Endrite (GM): Alright, cool.

Cruciator's turn.

He tries to kill Sir Oak.

Kifaaya of Verditius: New MR estimate

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 20

(

2

)

+20

=

22

Defense roll?

Archibald of Guernicus: A 6 got you 27 pen, so a 9 or 10 might pig him

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll only pig him for two minutes so he'll still need to be stabbed to death

Lavinia of Jerbiton: uyrh

uhhh

rolling 1d10!+12

(

10

+

1

)

+12

=

23

Endrite (GM): Noice.

0 damage.

Then The Cruciator turns into a pig.

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

Endrite (GM): Oink oink.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm running back anyway

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bacon time

Endrite (GM): Naturally, his cruel whip and horrible knife clatter to the ground.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hell yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: My excuse will be that I botched the spont

I meant to give myself endurance of the berserker, clearly

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Kifaaya is so strong.

Endrite (GM): Good excuse.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well she did single-handedly kill a very powerful fae.

Endrite (GM): Ok, Lavinia.

What do you do?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Now I feel slightly embarassed about what I'm secretly doing.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I am still hiding. Oak hits pig with sword.

Endrite (GM): Ok, go for it Sir Oak.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Kifaaya of Verditius: Since he died as an unclean beast he goes to Moon God Hell too

Pig:

rolling 1d10! + 2

(

6

)

+2

=

8

Endrite (GM): What's the damage?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +12

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: cute token

Endrite (GM): Nice, that's 18 damage.

Kifaaya of Verditius: That settles it, instead of being suicidal I'm going to weave myself a glove talisman

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have stained my sword with the blood of swine

Endrite (GM): Ok, Kifaaya.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm putting the plans for the roost on hold too

My action again?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll keep casting at an attempt to refresh the duration

Endrite (GM): Ok?

Doesn't seem very useful to me.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmmm

Endrite (GM): But go for it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: It doesn't

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Stab that pig.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Actually I'm just going to go collect his weapons

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: I continue walking back to the combat on my turns, for the next 16 turns.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lol

Endrite (GM): Smart.

Ok.

The Cruciator turns himself back into a horrible skinless man in a puff of black smoke.

His weapons disappear from your hands Kifaaya and reappear in his.

Still, he's wounded.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm going to continue shoving Severin into a hole.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Well

Cruciator: "You thought such meager magic could deter me? I shall torment you a thousand times over for this!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Keeping talking, I'm recasting

Cruciator: Ok, that takes his round.

Lavinia.

Kifaaya of Verditius: So a confidence point adds 5?

Cruciator: Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton strategically cowers

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+15 attk

(

3

)

+15

=

18

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): nice. I'm going to go back outside, I guess.

Cruciator:

rolling 1d10! + 20-6

(

5

)

+20-6

=

19

Do wounds also reduce damage done?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: only on damage rolls

err

Cruciator: Ok.

Kifaaya.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: like if you're rolling soak vs. a spell that does +x damage

Cruciator: Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Alright, let's try this again

rolling d10+46 Curse of Circe

(

9

)

+46

=

55

Cruciator: Ok, nice.

The Cruciator attacks Sir Oak!

rolling 1d10! + 20 -6

(

1

)

+20-6

=

15

rolling 2d10

(

10

+

5

)

=

15

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 2 attacks?

rolling 1d10!+12 dfn

(

1

)

+12

=

13

Archibald of Guernicus: Botch check

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh no!

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao.

Cruciator:

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

10

)

=

11

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh no!!

Cruciator: So that's 0 defense, right?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I guess

Cruciator: Ok.

35 damage, less soak.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 16

Cruciator: Phew.

Survivable!

Archibald of Guernicus: johns: botching is cool though

Cruciator: Wait wiat.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is that 3 wounds?

Cruciator: I mean 30 damage.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 11

Cruciator: So only 11.

11 is two wounds.

Also Cruciator turns into a pig again.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: baleful polymorph ftw

Cruciator: Ok, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: -3 for each wound?

Cruciator: Yes.

So -6 total.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright

after this we need to find a carpenter to get him fixed up

rolling 1d10!+15-6

(

3

)

+15-6

=

12

Pig:

rolling 1d10! + 2 -6

(

4

)

+2-6

=

0

Amaazing.

Endrite (GM): Boom, 13 damage.

That's another 2 wounds.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: someone throw his weapons in the stream.

if he's not dead.

or incapacitated.

Endrite (GM): I mean I'm willing to call him dead here.

He's at -12.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Cool.

Prudenzio of Flambeau walks outside just as his sodales finish stabbing a pig to death

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's cook and eat him before he does some faerie resurrection gimmick

Archibald of Guernicus: Deciding exactly when someone dies is something we need to sort out lol.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I knew this plan would work."

Endrite (GM): He transforms back into a horrible man right before you kill him.

But he's still pretty dead.

He looks very surprised.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I guess he won't go to moon god hell then, pity.

Archibald of Guernicus: A few minutes later, I'll arrive.

Endrite (GM): Congratulations everyone!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I emerge from a bush holding several leafs. "I have strategically located some healing herbs, sodales."

Endrite (GM): That's 8 Entanglements and 1 Cruciator dead!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I propped Severin up in a closet for safekeeping."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, good work Lavinia."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "How much vis juice you think his body and weapons have in them?"

Archibald of Guernicus: The kill for this goes to Kifaaya, imo, for bookkeeping.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yeah

Endrite (GM): Alright, what next Magi?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: also i need to figure out how to boost my casting totals since i have no idea how you people are getting 50+ totals.

Archibald of Guernicus: "How's Severin? I saw ye working on him, is he still alive?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll remember my part in this insofar as that I need to upgrade my Penetration ASAP

And put aside vanity projects

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, Kifaaya has a minor magical focus

I just have

a lot of vim

I have really high vim. That's how I do it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Cheating, mostly

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That makes sense.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oh, we lost a grog

Oh well

Kifaaya of Verditius: "He should be okay until nightfall, then he will need immediate treatment."

Endrite (GM): It's 1332, right?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I check on Severin

1333 I thought

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Spring 1333

Endrite (GM): Oh I can't edit the murder count ledger.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Apologies sodales, I mis-cast endurance of the berserker when some of Crass's blood flew in my eyes."

Endrite (GM): Alright, well, where is that old Severin?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I mean, corpus would work on him, as I can see from Kifaaya's casting, but as a magus who has specialized almost entirely in perdo, corpus, and mentem, I'm still like 20 short of those totals.

Thaddeus: Yeah, where is he?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He's in a closet inside.

Nice and safe.

Archibald of Guernicus: Kifaaya is incredibly focussed at her small area of expertise, which is turning humans into animals

iirc

Kifaaya of Verditius: "I apologize as well, it should have given me this much trouble to trap him in the form of an unclean beast. I will remedy this as soon as I have the opportunity for labwork

Yeah

Prudenzio of Flambeau: nice.

Thaddeus: You know if you want you can just make a version of the spell that doesn't turn someone into a pig.

Kifaaya of Verditius: It's a poor life choice for a Verditius, who are more supposed to be using items with a lot of Pen on them

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, this has raised some alarming worries overall. We need tae be better prepared for foes like this."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "The traps on the covenant also seem to be clever on a level we should aspire to."

Archibald of Guernicus: "However, we have its vis, and the vis of its despicable minions. And I am sure Severin will be deeply grateful."

"Oh, you ran afoul of another?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: where is Severin

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Yes, a compulsion to leave hit me as I wandered down the corridor.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I lost track of where you dragged him off to

Kifaaya of Verditius: I set him inside somewhere.

The door's open though so you should be able to go in and out

You'll need Mentem resistance to go deeper inside though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hmm

Kifaaya of Verditius: You should be able to go to where Severin is without Mentem resistance

Thaddeus: Possibly.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll wander inside and see if I can find Prudenzio

I have good mentem MR

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I already left.

Archibald of Guernicus: 21, almost identical to Prudenzio, should be fine

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm standing outside.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I choose not to go inside the deathtrap.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Unless Prudenzio dragged Severin to where Mentem resistance is necessary, but as I recall, I was the only one seeing to his safety

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "You'll find a corridor inside. At the end are four doors and one opening to pitch blackness. Severin is hidden inside."

I did.

Thaddeus: That is your right as a human with free will endowed by God.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll head in to fetch Severin with Prudenzio

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I secretly dragged him through the corridor and put him in a hole.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should drag him out, our sodales are of deficient mentem and can't make it in that far."

Kifaaya of Verditius: You might want to bring him to our doctor then

Archibald of Guernicus: "Give me a hand carrying him out will you."

Prudenzio of Flambeau motions for Archibald to go ahead of him

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Of course."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I inspect Crass.

Archibald of Guernicus: I walk in and go to the room Prudenzio mentioned

Thaddeus: Crass has had a lot of his skin removed.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hmm

Thaddeus: Strangely, most of the skin has been removed underneath his armor!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I wrote a tractatus about flaying wounds

I will make good study of this.

Thaddeus: Probably a smart idea.

Or not since faeries love their stupid bullshit.

Ok.

Archibald you see a room with 5 doors leading off in different directions. One of the doors is open onto a black hole.

Not the cosmic phenomena, (maybe) just a black hole in the wall you can't see through.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Too bad our grog is dead, this would be the perfect job for them

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "He's in there. Totally safe."

Archibald of Guernicus: I eye Prudenzio

Thaddeus: I mean let's hope you didn't accidentally kill him.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why don't ye go in first, then? Since it's so safe."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: To be completely fair, I was intending to kill him by pushing him in the hole.

I don't say this out loud.

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao.

Thaddeus: Smart.

Archibald of Guernicus: Vardian's Tomb really does deserve everything it gets

A gaggle of deranged sociopaths

Thaddeus: Ok, what's the plan for the Tomb of Horrors trap?

Archibald of Guernicus: we need Proclus to be the good cop to this madness, christ

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hey, why let Cruciator get what he wants, am I right?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I can do things that don't involve turning people into animals, I had several planned out in the roost writeup

Archibald of Guernicus: "Have ye been inside to check it's safe, Prudenzio?"

"Ye didn't just... toss him in there, did ye?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+7 guile

(

8

)

+7

=

15

Archibald of Guernicus: I stare at Prudenzio

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Yes."

"I need to piss, be right back."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

3

)

+2+3

=

8

Kifaaya of Verditius: During my last bout of spell invention, I had access to Spillio's notes so it made sense to go with my magical focus then though

Thaddeus: Sure.

I'm not sure who Spillio is.

Archibald of Guernicus: I stare at the black hole.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Me neither

But his name was on the spider spell

Archibald of Guernicus: It was Ferris

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He was the spider mage.

Archibald of Guernicus: That was his full name?

Thaddeus: Since Ferris invented them.

Archibald of Guernicus: Or original name or w/e

Thaddeus: Magi don't have two names that's crazy.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes they do.

Thaddeus: Ok, the hole stares back, Archibald.

Metaphorically.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: maybe Spilio was Ferris' friend or something.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast eyes of the cat on myself

Can I see inside

Thaddeus: Nope.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Nietzsche won't invent abysses for 5 centuries yet to come

Well I guess abyssal flame already exists

Thaddeus: There's plenty of abysses.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Sorry

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. I cast prying eyes on the wall next to the door, to look inside the room

Thaddeus: Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm gonna turn into a camel and find us some water

Severin might be dehydrated when he wakes up

I'll grab a bucket with my camel teeth

Or have a grog attach one to me

Archibald of Guernicus: What grogs

Kifaaya of Verditius: Teeth it is

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Did you see anything but blackness inside?

Archibald of Guernicus: I see

I use archibald's unwelcome entrance on the wall and go in that way, sidestepping the door

Wait, endrite, one second actually

Kifaaya of Verditius: Is Lavinia outside?

Or somewhere I can get without Mentem resist?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes.

Thaddeus: Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll bring her the water and then ask if there's anything else she needs

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh okay. I use unwelcome entrance on the wall to get in then

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The patient, Severin.

Kifaaya of Verditius: "They never brought him out?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm trying!

Thaddeus: Ok, you open a hole in the wall to a solid slab of wood.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh fuck off."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My sodales couldn't find their ass with two hands and Intelligo Corpus."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: can i roll magic theory and examine the blackness?

Archibald of Guernicus: I start hacking away at the wood with my sword

Thaddeus: To determine what, Prudenzio?

What's your damage, Archibald?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: If I recognize the spell or effect used, I guess.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's uh

str+4+thresh

6 rather

2 strength, 8 plus thresh

Thaddeus: Ok, roll it Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+12+3 int

(

9

)

+12+3

=

24

Thaddeus: Alright, your sword clangs against the wood ineffectually.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Can you MuHe spont?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: C'mon. Don't be a pussy. Just stick your hand in the black hole.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have 0 herbam

Kifaaya of Verditius: Same

Archibald of Guernicus: I am NOT jumping into the comical death trap

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hm. Either this blackness isn't Hermetic magic or it's been invested into the doorframe.

Archibald of Guernicus: Why did this awful people put wood everywhere in the walls

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Lavinia could probably figure it out.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Wood paneling looks nice.

Thaddeus: Gotcha.

Another successfully defended covenant.

Owned.

Owned.

Archibald of Guernicus: Are we really so vain

Thaddeus: Owned.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Ah, you know what, heck, I wanted to make a new character anyway.

I'll reach an arm in and feel around to where his body should be laying.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Our covenant is just made of stone, maybe we should consider doing this as well

Thaddeus: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: My lab is sealed up with stone specifically so the only way in or out is casting this spell

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my lab is wide open and inviting to all who want to step into boobytraps

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): I'll start pulling him out, then.

Archibald of Guernicus: My research must remain hidden.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Mine is wide open because rich muggles visit it regularly.

That's the studio life

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "See? I told you it was harmless."

Thaddeus: Prudenzio slowly drags Severin's body out through the privacy screen.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "To think, not even trusted by my own sodales."

Thaddeus: He's still alive, so it's a little rude of me to call it his body.

Well, I'm the GM and that's my right.

Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A little rude to throw him in there, too."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I was trying to keep him safe. It was but the gentlest push."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why did these stupid bastards line their walls with wood anyway? Beginning to think this covenant died out for a damn good reason."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Also I'm going to walk into the room to see what was behind the screen.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: rip

Thaddeus: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll carry out Severin while you do

We should rob this place blind, imo.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I come back out.

(From Prudenzio of Flambeau): oh lmao. that changes things.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: There's a fresco in there Kifaaya would just adore.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I examine Severin medically

Thaddeus: Ok.

(To Endrite): Also I take a blood sample and store it carefully to maintain its arcane connectiveness

Thaddeus: He's on death's door.

(From Thaddeus): Ok, smart.

(From Thaddeus): Also sort of violating the code there.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I tell my sodales the details of what was in the room, in case they find it more suspicious than I.

(To Endrite):  fart noises

Lavinia of Jerbiton: What are the odds I can save his life

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "It's a dining room, one long table with benches. There's an iron chandelier with no candles in it, a fresco of forest animals dressed as humans eating a feast, and a sideboard with some kind of cloth on it.

"

Thaddeus: Pretty good probably.

RECOVERY FROM INCAPACITATION

For an Incapacitated character, the outlook

is grim — death could come at any time.

The player must make two Recovery rolls each

day (at sunrise and sunset) that the character

Thaddeus: has an Incapacitating Wound. On a roll of 0 or

less, the character dies. A roll of 9+ improves

all Incapacitating Wounds to Heavy Wounds,

and recovery then proceeds normally. Any

other roll means a somewhat worsened condition,

and all subsequent Recovery rolls are

Thaddeus: made at a cumulative –1 penalty until the

wounds improve or the character dies. If the

character is attended by a chirurgeon or medic,

a bonus equal to the relevant Ability applies.

magic that helps normal Recovery rolls also

These are standard Recovery rolls, and

Thaddeus: helps these.

RECOVERY TOTAL:

Stamina + Medic’s Chirurgy or Medicine score

+ Magical Aid + Stress Die

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can I use Medicine instead of Chirurgy

Thaddeus: Severin has +1 Stamina.

Probably.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: swell

Thaddeus: Hmm wait.

No.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: less swell

then I only give +4

Kifaaya of Verditius: It said or Medicine right in that copy/paste

Thaddeus: Oh it did.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: nice try!

Thaddeus: I was thinking about Apothecary for some reason.

Anyway, you're in good shape.

Severin's Stamina is +1.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+1+17 medicine

(

1

)

+1+17

=

19

good shit

Thaddeus:

rolling 2d10

(

8

+

3

)

=

11

Phew!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright he stabilizes

Thaddeus: Alright, looks like he improves this evening.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice job, everyone.

Let's explore the rest of this booby-trapped fey-overrun covenant next time.

Severin of Tytalus: He awakes from his wounds, tired but aware.

Archibald of Guernicus: we dealt with the fey, we can probably explore the place just fine.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That's the second time we've saved yoru life."

Severin of Tytalus: "Is it over? Did we slay the faerie?"

Archibald of Guernicus: well, besides the boobytraps

Severin of Tytalus: "Thank you, I will always be in your debt."

Where are you?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, dead as dead."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I am suspicious that there will be more fey involved at some point.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: mwahaha

Severin of Tytalus: I mean where are you resting?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm gonna fly home

Archibald of Guernicus: 'Wow, could you imagine if I was trapped in an existence of eternal servitude and torment? Thank goodness you saved me from it, Lavinia.'

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lmao

Kifaaya of Verditius: If I hurry I might have enough lab time to open a talisman

Severin of Tytalus: Ok Kifaaya.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is there a place in this covenant we can rest

Severin of Tytalus: Well, the dining room seems ok.

Unless you're asking Severin.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I think we're still in the corridor with the doors, unless Severin was moved out to the lawn.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well the others can't even get there I thought

because of the mentem trap

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh yeah, so we definitely had to drag him outside.

Severin of Tytalus: You noticed no Mentem trap.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Severin, is there a place inside we can rest?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Guess it was a one-time thing then

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Who painted your dining room fresco? Real interesting work, I want to hire them for the Tomb."

Severin of Tytalus: "Yes certainly, Lavinia. The grog's barracks should still be safe. Take care when entering, you must have your back to the wall to avoid the ward."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I imagine someone who died centuries ago, Prudenzio."

Severin of Tytalus: It's the door on the opposite side of the dining hall.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Maybe they have students."

Look, it's a cool painting. Maybe if you had some balls you'd have seen it.

Severin of Tytalus: "Ah, that fresco was made by Benedictus."

"He always liked scenes of friendly animals, though he never found a familiar."

The grog's barracks is a simple affair.

Just 12 straw beds in a plain room.

Any other furnishings have been removed or were never there to begin with.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: *makes mental note to research the name later

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You shouldn't do anything strenuous like casting spells for a few weeks."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Especially not ones to animate houses."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A sudden imbalance of the humors would cause certain death in your condition."

Severin of Tytalus: "Duly noted, but I still have to reclaim my property."

"My talisman is missing. I can only assume that monster took it."

Roll Faerie Lore everyone.

+ int

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+3

(

8

)

+3

=

11

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+5+2 Lore!!!!!!!

(

1

)

+5+2

=

8

Severin of Tytalus: Loreee.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What was the form of your talisman?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I whisper to Archibald "I think this guy isn't being entirely forward with us. I can't narrow it down, but this doesn't seem right for a fairy problem."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

A fairy? Ah we have one

Severin of Tytalus: "A staff.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm no sure of it myself, but we have to have faith in our fellow brothers of the order."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hm

Severin of Tytalus: "I'm not sure where it is, but a simple Intellego Vim spell will allow me to locate it easily."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I did find a staff in the cave where Severin was.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Fairies, I have heard, can only be truly defeated when the conditions are symbolically correct. Cruciator may yet return."

Severin of Tytalus: Do you mention that to Severin or is this merely musing?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: This is still to my closest friend Archibald.

Severin of Tytalus: "Then we should do whatever it takes to defeat it. I'm not interested in living the rest of my life on the run.

"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I may have an idea where it is. Supposing you find the talisman, what will you do next?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "So we still have work to do yet, then?" I'm also conferring in secret with Prudenzio

Severin of Tytalus: "I'm not sure. The war is over and I find myself in a covenant that is no doubt much changed."

"Where did you see my staff?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Indeed." i say to Archibald.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We found a staff in the cave we found you in."

Prudenzio of Flambeau stares daggers at Lavinia

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I left it behind my strategic shrubbery cover for safe keeping."

Severin of Tytalus: "Oh, that is merely an ordinary staff."

Archibald of Guernicus: 2staff lmao

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Oh, of course."

Severin of Tytalus: "I carved it myself after escaping Fairy Land, it has no true power."

"Except as applied with a little force, of course."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We shouldnae delay overly long before finding the staff. How soon will ye be able to locate it?"

Severin of Tytalus: "Well, the spell is easy enough, but apparently I am too weak to withstand the strain of spellcasting. My doctor would know more than I would, I'm afraid."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I have to get going, I'm sorry.

Severin of Tytalus: That's cool.

devil's fav demon: ooc.

I will catch up and finish my seasons at another time.

Severin of Tytalus: This is basically the last leg of the adventure, so I think we can pick it up next week.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I see my sodales are scheming so I suppose we'll hold off helping this guy for a little bit.

also I can try divining the talisman's location later when no one is looking

Severin of Tytalus: Do you want to just wait for Severin to recover?

devil's fav demon: I don't trust Severin at all.

Archibald of Guernicus: He's constantly suspicious, but he did almost die.

The cruciator was also very, obviously an evil fae.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll make a grog to play next week

Archibald of Guernicus: So we should side with the shify tytalan.

devil's fav demon: Yeah. I think there's something else going on.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Kifaaya left

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

devil's fav demon: See ya everyone! Thanks for running, Endrite. I'll post my seasons itt tomorrow.

Kifaaya of Verditius: GG

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i just assume he's goping to kill all the other fae in his story

Archibald of Guernicus: Are you suggesting severin is a fairy

Severin of Tytalus: It'll be a season, a month, and a week before Severin recovers completely.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Talisman attunement has no minimum lab total so I can miss more time if Kifaaya is really needed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: There was a good faerie faction in this story, the pregnant lady whose name escapes me

Severin of Tytalus: Oh wait just one season.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, the pregnant fairy

Peripeteia: It's me!

Archibald of Guernicus: Hey! its her

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah

anyway severin probably is going to kill her or something because he's insane after being tortured for a billion years.

whatevs.

Endrite (GM): If you want Severin to recover his Heavy Wound he'll need treatment.

Kifaaya of Verditius: It'll be two seasons before I can get a penetration bonus from a talisman

Endrite (GM): From his perspective it was only a few months.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is there a wagon or something we can transport him back to our covenant with

to treat him there

Endrite (GM): And it wasn't really torture it was more like being trapped behind enemy lines.

Not that you can find outside.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If only we had a grog to carry him. sigh

Kifaaya of Verditius: Since I already know Curse of Circe, I could instill an effect for turning grogs into tigers

Endrite (GM): You could always make Sir Oak do it.

That'd be good but tigers aren't really that much tougher than grogs.

Especially since they can't wear armor.

Archibald of Guernicus: Fucked up if true.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do you even know what a tiger looks like in medieval europe

Kifaaya of Verditius: That is true

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i mean they exist in india I guess? so its feasible

Kifaaya of Verditius: I' need to get out of the D&D mindset where Peasant to Tiger is pretty good

Lavinia of Jerbiton: may I suggest instead: crocodiles

Endrite (GM): They look like panthers.

http://bestiary.ca/beastimage/img4437.jpg

Lavinia of Jerbiton: everyone knows what crocodiles are. and that they are horrible maneating monsters

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah I'm sure there's some sort of apex predator feline to go with here

Endrite (GM): Lions are also a good choice.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Kifaaya knows of lions for sure

Endrite (GM): Everyone does.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they're on everyones coat of arms

Endrite (GM): He's the King of the Beasts.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how about a Llama.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh, there's always finding that familiar too

I could get myself a housecat of virtue too.

Instead of a pigeon or butterfly.

Endrite (GM): Sure.

It'd be a Cat of virtue, obviously.

But it's up to you.

Archibald of Guernicus: meow we're talking

Endrite (GM): So what are you doing with Severin?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how about a 1,000 year old robot cat

Kifaaya of Verditius: I have some magically charged cathair to study

Lavinia of Jerbiton: will he consent to returning to rome for treatment

Endrite (GM): For sure.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we should tell him to stop being a baby and find his staff now, so his horrible wounds dont disrupt our other seasons.

Endrite (GM): He trusts you enough.

Lavinia of Jerbiton laughs

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll help him return to Rome for treatment

A 1000 year mechanical cat would be a good familiar

But they don't like Verditius

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we can discuss what to do with him in the thread I suppose?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Sure

Lavinia of Jerbiton: while in rome we can keep an eye on him

Endrite (GM): Well if he's coming back to Rome then you get, at minimum, a season while he heals up.

You've been busy for about 2 weeks at this point.

If you head straight home, I mean.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: great.

Archibald of Guernicus: You also can't make the cat a familiar, annoyingly.

Kifaaya of Verditius: 4 days over uninterrupted lab time then

Archibald of Guernicus: I was going to

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey let's bring Crass in case prudenzio wants to necromantize jhim.

Endrite (GM): You can, if it agrees to being a familiar.

It just didn't like you enough, as I recall.

Archibald of Guernicus: Didn't someone insist that you had to make the cat yourself to make it a familiar?

That's the only reason I abandoned the idea.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think I remember reading in the MEchanica chapter that they can be familiars but onlyh if you make them yourself

Endrite (GM): Can't you make any creature with Magic Might into a familiar?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I don't think Kifaaya is mechanically speaking more likeable than Archibald.

Endrite (GM): Maybe not.

Archibald of Guernicus: It'd be hard to be less likable than archibald, mechanically

Endrite (GM): Actually you are.

He has the Blatant Gift.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Ah

Endrite (GM): Everyone hate Archibald.

Archibald of Guernicus: -3 communication, -2 presence, blatant gift, the word 'homo' for a sigil,

Endrite (GM): That's an order.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I also have an easily improved Rego Animal lab total

Archibald of Guernicus: On the other hand, there are two cats.

Kifaaya of Verditius: But that's for training animals, not binding them as familiars

Archibald of Guernicus: You could bind a metal cat with Terram, which is what I would do

Kifaaya of Verditius: lmao 2cat!

Endrite (GM): If you want to train animals, use the Animal Handling skill.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh

Endrite (GM): You can't use arts for anything besides magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: IF I can make the cat a familiar I'll pursue that again.

Endrite (GM): Johns would know more about that than I would.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh

Rego Animal lab total is used for training in Hermetic Projects

Endrite (GM): It is?

That doesn't make sense.

Kifaaya of Verditius: It only works on magical animals

Archibald of Guernicus: On the one hand, it probably does say you need to make it yourself to make it a familiar. On the other hand I doubt it'd disrupt anything and we have torn the rules apart already.

Endrite (GM): Anyway Johns, make a recovery roll for ol' Severin here to see when this adventure can continue.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+1+17

(

8

)

+1+17

=

26

Endrite (GM): Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: btw I don't think I've mentioned that I am a wizard to him at any point

if that matters

Endrite (GM): Just one season.

Well if you didn't mention it he PROBABLY doesn't know.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I am a harmless, truthworthy mundane.

Endrite (GM): Except for your assertiveness.

Archibald of Guernicus: You're also in command of Sir Oak.

Endrite (GM): Which he may or may not find suspicious.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll get a page number for that Rego Animal lab total thing since it probably won't make sense coming from me, it's mostly for doing project work behind the scenes, you'd definitely use Animal Handling during an adventure

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Who's to say Sir Oak is magic

He's just some guy in armor who never talks.

Kifaaya of Verditius: And non-magus magical trainers use Animal Handling + Animal Ken in the same situations.

Endrite (GM): Well he was wounded pretty badly, maybe he's splintered a little.

I dunno.

I mean, all his skin hasn't fallen off, that's for sure.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Severin was unconscious for most of the fight so he has no idea whether oak was hit or not

Endrite (GM): True, true.

Anyway, you all get at least a season, maybe more.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I think 2 weeks costs 8 from the lab total

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sortes Ease Factor 20: Locate a plant. so I think that should apply to his talisman?

Endrite (GM): Yeah.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did he put his parma back up

Endrite (GM): Oh yeah, of course.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: damn

Endrite (GM): He does it every day.

Ok good adventure everyone.

Kifaaya of Verditius: GG

Endrite (GM): Oh I guess I should hand out XP.

Archibald of Guernicus: We did it. We won.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: These fae did not count on our true power: Friendship.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll figure out how to attract a cat of virtue later

Endrite (GM): Basically you just say you're looking for one and then you find one.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lure it with a mouse of virtue

Archibald of Guernicus: Sit down and enchant your lap to be magically appealing.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

I'll see if Realms of Power Magic mentions a technique for cats

It has a panther of virtue

Endrite (GM): Oh also you get 5 XP in the covenant's Magical Meddlers reputation.

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice.

Well done everyone

Endrite (GM): What with the incredibly destructive assault on your covenant and all.

johns (GM): Oh well

Kifaaya of Verditius: The vis in a Raven of Virtue is Enriched by turning the whole corpse inside out, wrap- ping the bloody flesh in the leaves of plant called eyebright, then suspending it in the top branches of an ash tree for a season. The de- tached claws then grant the wearer the Keen Vision Virtue. If buried under the roots of a willow instead, the raven’s skull grants the In- tuition Virtue when crafted into a ring.

johns (GM): that rules

Endrite (GM): Vis enrichment is strictly bush league.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay, a Panther of Virtue is Rego

dys: As for ideas about a radical new combat system and changing magic resistance/penetration completely, were people interested or should we let that lie since a new thread is being made

Endrite (GM): This adventure isn't TECHNICALLY over yet.

You still need to get Severin's staff back.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

johns (GM): Sure, sure

dys: I'll send Zita on that adventure since stealing is her passion

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm also gonna stat out a grog to serve as my Forge Companion

Endrite (GM): Stealing a magus' talisman is 1) illegal as hell, 2) not very smart since they can find it no matter where it is in the world.

dys: I mean stealing it from wherever it is, and giving him it.

johns (GM): Throw it in the rat regio

dys: We should put it in a house and then animate the house.

johns (GM): We should make more use of the fact that we have a regio full to the brim with horrible hungry rats

Endrite (GM): No one has really tried to buddy up with the ol' Rat King though.

dys: I didn't even know we did

That was before I joined

Kifaaya of Verditius: If someone had a really good ReHe lab total and a season, they could build him an item with a single charge that calls a wooden talisman back to him via the arcane connection

johns (GM): We can just let him heal up and InHe it himself and ask to go with

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

He's the one with insane He

Re He He He heally

dys: In all honesty, though

Do we need to go with him?

Its your staff bitch. What are we, your fucking escort

Kifaaya of Verditius: If the Cruciator trapped it, maybe

dys: Sorry, we  only  saved your life multiple times despite your insane assault on our covenant. This wasn't enough.

Johns please, please

have Lavinia make this man our slave

Kifaaya of Verditius: There's an entire chapter on magic cats in Realms of Power Magic

So I might just go with a cat friend, an Animal cat not a Terram one.

Endrite (GM): He's a member of the Order of Hermes.

johns (GM): Yeah

Endrite (GM): You can't just make him your slave.

johns (GM): First we just guilt trip him a bit

Then we threaten to have him marched for his flagrant crimes

Endrite (GM): I posted the vis you got.

22 vis in total.

Wow!

What a vis.

johns (GM): Nice

Let's snort it like cocaine

dys: Terram Vis :blessed:

Kifaaya of Verditius: vis a vis

Live a Live - Megalomania

Endrite (GM): Did Lavinia do that Sortes?

johns (GM): I can't get past the parma that covers the tlaisman

Kifaaya of Verditius: The Black Lineage of cats is descended from the Founder Jerbiton’s familiar, a prince of the Egyptian cats, descended from the great queens of ancient Bubastis. The center of the Black Lineage is the domus magna of Jerbiton, Valnastium in the Tribunal of the Greater Alps, where their elected monarch reigns. But cats of this lineage have followed their magi to many covenants and cities across Europe. They are aristocratic, aloof cats. The members of the Black Lineage see their role as defenders of the home.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I can manage an adventure to the alps next season

dys: Do NOT invite more jerbitons into the covenant

No Jerbitons Allowed

Endrite (GM): Lavinia is the only one and let's face it, she's barely one.

Kifaaya of Verditius: It's just a cat, I don't think they're loyal.

dys: We're allowed one. That's it.

Endrite (GM): What has she ever made?

One guy?

Hardly a great creation of beauty.

dys: Lavinia is tolerable as she's a completely different sort of evil schemer to a normal jerbiton.

johns (GM): uhh I cleaned all the rats out of the city

Endrite (GM): Seems like the Rat King would hate that.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Lavinia can help me adopt a magic bombay cat with her Jerbiton contacts.

johns (GM): I put all the rats in his regio

He should be thrilled

Endrite (GM): I mean probably not.

Kifaaya of Verditius: There's also the Tortoiseshell line, which are Celtic, so I'd have to talk to Archibald I guess.

johns (GM): I am also not sure where Lavinia gets the reputation as evil considering all the good she does for you all

Endrite (GM): Yeah it's really unfair.

dys: She's a PC.

johns (GM): This is just descrimination against hedge wizards

dys: Hedge PC

johns (GM): Well guess what. The founder of my lineage predates all of you, including Bonisagus.

So in my view, you're all the hedge wizards.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Saracen who turns people into pigs so they can be stabbed to death: haha, glad I'm not that freak

Endrite (GM): 100% Hermetic.

dys: Does it predate Mercurian cults, which Zita has a true lineage to

johns (GM): Probably not. they were around during the punic wars iirc

dys: Speaking of which, I really need to get these silly combat spells mastered quickly so I can focus on what matters

Converting those weird mercurian rituals into real spells

Shauncat: There's cat kings in the Alps, Scotland, and the Rhineland. Alps is closest, so black cat it is.

dys: If we fix the spell to give mundanes the gift itll be funny

Endrite (GM): Get whatever kind of cat you like.

dys: Though I doubt anyone cares enough to investigate that one.

Endrite (GM): There's a whole House of people who can get you what you want from far away.

dys: Yeah

Shauncat: Oh

dys: One lives at the covenant, and everything

johns (GM): we live in one of the most urbane cities in the mediterranean

we should be able to get anything we want

Endrite (GM): Yeah.

Well, Rome is probably the least great city in Italy, honestly.

Shauncat: Alright

johns (GM): lol

Endrite (GM): It's no Venice or nothing, is what I'm saying.

johns (GM): sad but true

Shauncat: I'll just say I found a magic cat I'm attuning when I have a free season

dys: You can do labwork without penalty even while taking 10 free days, iirc

Shauncat: The magical black cat is of an Egyptian lineage anyway so I prefer it.

Endrite (GM): Just pick your favorite cat.

johns (GM): how about a siamese

dys: 10 days to go to Harco and back, sounds easy

johns (GM): how about... a llama

dys: Johns if there isn't any sort of innate, ridiculous mechanical advantage that attuning to someone else's cat gives, I'd like to go about making one of the goofy cats my familiar sometime soon.

Shauncat: I don't know what an alpaca of virtue would benefit since it can't permanently Creo Animal to increase its productivity

dys: the mechanical cats

Shauncat: But I could use a source of free wool

johns (GM): thing is the mechanical cats are pretty crazy powerful

im not sure they wouldn't end up just mindslaving you

Endrite (GM): No it's cool, just let the mind control cat get underneath your Parma.

johns (GM): an alpaca of virtue does not exist sorry im just being a troll.

Endrite (GM): It might exist in America.

Which does not exist.

johns (GM): In where?????

Shauncat: I'm not sure what cat breeds existed in 1333 so I'll probably use at least a little bit of book guidance

johns (GM): America?? Sounds like an Italian name

Endrite (GM): It's where St. Brendand visited.

It's to the west of Vulcan's Forge and Hell.

Shauncat: Yes, they are Siamese even if you don’t please. The precise origins of the breed are somewhat murky, but it’s generally accepted that the breed did originate in Siam. In fact, written records from the Siamese capital of Ayudha mention cats fitting the Siamese’s description as far back as 1350.

Close

johns (GM): that would be worth an epic advernture

Endrite (GM): Oh yeah just go to Siam.

johns (GM): marco polo and ibn battatu did it

Endrite (GM): What a grand adventure to a totally real place.

johns (GM): who's to say a wizard can't

Shauncat: I can turn into a camel but I'm not sure that'll save me from getting raped on the silk road

johns (GM): i think the pax mongolica is on the wane :(

Shauncat: The Sphynx cat is actually from Toronto. Fucking bullshit

Endrite (GM): I still love you Tengri.

johns (GM): ibn battuta's book is good source for any middle eastern adventures we end up taking

Shauncat: This one is good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Mau

johns (GM): sick

one of the metal cats is based on that

Endrite (GM): Oh hey I had one of those cats.

I hated it.

johns (GM): how did it taste

Endrite (GM): I didn't get to eat it.

johns (GM): XD

Shauncat: I guess there's also Persians, from Persia

Endrite (GM): Alright, see ya'll next week when hopefully we put a bow on this adventure.

Shauncat: Not introduced to Europe until 1500, but that's not that much of a stretch