2/11/18

Endrite (GM): Greetings, gamsters.

Shauncat (GM): hail vendor buy bank guards

Endrite (GM): Anyone want to fill in Boy Reporter on what he missed last time?

Should such a thing even be necessary, of course.

johns: nah

im gonna make a coffee

dfd said hed be late and cthinker bailed entirely

Endrite (GM): Yikes.

Boy R.: I'm sure I can catch up

also i checked the logs, and all of rome is angry about the river

did we reach some kind of agreement with the tiber?

Endrite (GM): Ok so, you're all imprisoned in separate cells in the Lunar Castle by the titan Kronos.

No, you still have a boon you haven't used.

I'll get a drink.

Delicious.

I'm not sure everyone is really on board with this early start time.

Boy R.: rip

Endrite (GM): Wait, why don't you have any Confidence Points?

devil's fav demon (GM): I don't know. I used all of them last session and they were not reset.

Endrite (GM): That's weird.

Rosario of Flambeau: Thanks. Odd.

Shauncat (GM): Looks like if we want CP we'll have to make it ourselves

Endrite (GM): No.

Is Dys coming or what?

Shauncat (GM): By dealing those Confidence Points to ourselves from the deck, as co-GMs, that is

Boy R.: can i get 2 more conf for making a new character with self-confident

Celeste: Only fair.

Endrite (GM): Please note that abusing this privilege by creating multiple characters with Self-Confident and then retiring them will not work.

Shauncat (GM): Dammit

Boy R. (GM): FINE

I mean, thank you

Celeste: Let's get the church to help us with the Tiber.

Befana: do you think they could?

Endrite (GM): Ok, which faction do you want to consult?

Celeste: With faith, anything is possible.

Befana: oh well of course

Endrite (GM): Anyway...

As the summer simmers on, the Tiber River crisis has only heated up.

I've heard a few suggestions on what to do, so here's a social initiative list so people can say their proposals.

Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 96

Lavinia of Jerbiton Initiative: 10

Rosario of Flambeau Initiative: 66

Endrite (GM): Barabba of Flambeau Initiative: 60

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton Initiative: 7

Guy of Bonisagus Initiative: 38

Note that these are not fixed in stone as events may overwhelm these plans.

Shauncat (GM): Without Gulielmus, our spiritual pillar, I am lost.

dys: didnt know we were actually going with the early start time after it didnt come up last week, anyone could have just messaged me the entire half hour between then and now

Endrite (GM): ALSO NOTE: since this adventure takes place over a period of time near your covenant, it won't eat into your lab time for this season.

It's ok, Devil's Favorite Demon said he'd be late and he showed up right before you did.

dys: that said ill have to go afk to finish cooking my dinner anyhow. gaha.

Endrite (GM): Brilliant.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Endrite (GM): Alright Rosario, you're up.

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's kill the Tiber.

Endrite (GM): How?

Rosario of Flambeau: Really though, I'll defer to the others. I haven't met the spirit yet and don't know what angle to take at the moment.

I could echo Celeste's idea of asking the church to help, but I'm not sure ooc how that would go.

Endrite (GM): Who would you ask in the Church for help?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh good I'm after Lavinia, I'll probably second her idea

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what would the church do? only thing I can think of is trying to exorcise the spirit.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, and I'm not sure if the divine can do that to magical spirits.

cant see why not though. I've never actually read RoP:D.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Celeste and Hypatia both have deece Theology and Church Lore

Endrite (GM): Roll it to see what the Church can do to help, if anything.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You could talk to them about setting up a river shrine to spread dominion

Archibald of Guernicus: Spreading the dominon further seems like a bad idea.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: For you.

Archibald of Guernicus: Celeste, Hypatia?

devil's fav demon: sorry i was out oft he room for a second

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's convert the river to Christianity and make it accept Christ as the Son of God and renounce Jove

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+1+2

(

10

)

+1+2

=

13

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Theological question: how do you baptize a river

Celeste: church lore

theology would be a 15

Cygnus of Flambeau: In the sea, presumably

Schediastís the Theologian:

rolling d10+3+4

(

1

)

+3+4

=

8

Intellect pales in comparison to an RNG 10 numbers long

Celeste: everyone has bad days.

Cygnus of Flambeau: Well I'm no theologian, much less a priest, but it strikes me as very unlikely that the rite of exorcism should cast out a spirit from its own body

Celeste: This may not be a great idea, yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. You put forward your ideas, I'll go cook dinner and then return for my turn.

Schediastís the Theologian: Okay

Celeste: Apparently determining if something requires an exorcist to be summoned involves a lengthy investigation.

Endrite (GM): Alright everyone is informed or not based on their rolls.

Celeste: They mostly just purify adults before baptisms.

Cygnus of Flambeau: where does this leave us?

Schediastís the Theologian: Sorry, I didn't quite mean to slow things down with that, I was more looking for excuses to perform dominion rites

Celeste: afk one more time, very briefly.

(From Celeste): AFK

Cygnus of Flambeau: schediastis is pretending not to be hypatia, right?

Schediastís the Theologian: I need to get my Guile up a bit so I can take on a social virtue like Wise One to properly perform a dominion rite, however, but exploring the idea in the meantime is good

(From Celeste): Back

Schediastís the Theologian: Yes

Cygnus of Flambeau: i don't remember exactly what's going on there but if it should affect how much weight I give his opinion I guess

Schediastís the Theologian: Hypatia is pretending to be in Provence, which is where johns suggested

IIRC

He's just a scholar who hangs out in Eastern Ear, you can competely ignore him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We value our theologicians who help our agenda

Endrite (GM): Oh also please rejoin as a player if you haven't already done so.

Cygnus of Flambeau: is it my turn to opine?

Celeste: Yep.

Endrite (GM): Yes, looks like it.

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh ok

Celeste: Nice wizard name too.

Cygnus of Flambeau: thank you, I'm trying it on for size

but please, call me Benigno. I'm not used to having a stage name

Beardbeard: cygnus

this guy thinks hes a swan

Cygnus of Flambeau: it's always been a lucky constellation for me

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Bobbin Threadbare

Celeste: you know, loom's the only one ive never played. one of these days.

Cygnus of Flambeau: Anyway, I think it's charming that we have such a chatty genius locus. We should definitely keep it around and happy, it'll be good for the aura and tourism and all of that.

Schediastís the Theologian: I used Cygnus as the name of a character who was actually the combined form of two characters, a human and an amorphous pool of nanomachines

Cygnus of Flambeau: So the question is how to smooth over mundane relations

Celeste: Someone mentioned a boon?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its already vetoed selling us the tax farm rights, stopping taxing, postponing taxing

Endrite (GM): Yes, the Tiber River has offered you anything besides his londes and his crown in exchange for your help.

So that means no True Name and it won't stop taxing people for money.

Schediastís the Theologian: I think the river needs to bless travelers in some way in exchange for charging them fees they never had to pay before, so that they end up profiting more in the long run

Like speedier voyages

Cygnus of Flambeau: And actually I agree with Rosario here, going to the church is a wonderful idea. I don't think they'll be able to do anything, but I understand there's been some tension in recent years so it would be good to establish a new footing. If they see that we see them as equals and co-mediators with the supernatural world who are willing to cooperate to solve this sort of problem, I think things will go much more smoothly

As for the nobility....

Celeste: lets get a law passed that any ship entering the tiber must have its hull plated with gold

Schediastís the Theologian: Or maybe taking the Guide power and driving business towards those that comply with his fees

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets confess to the knights that we used magic to clean the river and then things got out of hand

Celeste: in lieu of taxes

Cygnus of Flambeau: Well the spirit is a king himself. Perhaps they could be persuaded to recognise him, and it could acknowledge them in turn?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: tricky is that it is a pagan spirit

Cygnus of Flambeau: Organise some kind of meeting to thrash it out, with all the pomp those nobles love

Who has title to the river in any case?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also it regards itself as a King and the highest rank of nobility here is Duke

Schediastís the Theologian: Maybe it could be adapted into the Christian mythos, like Santa Claus

Endrite (GM): The very Christian story of the River That Steals Your Shit.

But I kid.

Schediastís the Theologian: Beating the river with a stick until it stops committing usury.

Endrite (GM): Remember the basics of the feudal system.

Cygnus of Flambeau: Command it in the name of Saint Jobe

Jove

Guy of Bonisagus: it is very clearly not stealing shit anymore, as the shit is destroyed when passing near the statue

Cygnus of Flambeau: Well that's all I've got

let's just try everything and take credit if it works out well

Endrite (GM): Even though Rome only has dukes and counts, they aren't subordinate to a foreign king.

Cygnus of Flambeau: yeah

Endrite (GM): Saint Jobe :DDDDD

Celeste: Let's get rid of the statue until the river wizens up and learns who the boss is.

Shame about the aging points we'll accumulate.

Endrite (GM): Ok, Guy's turn.

Guy go.

Guy of Bonisagus: Hm

Endrite (GM): I assume he named himself after the famous Sir Guy Saxonbane of Arthurian legend.

Schediastís the Theologian: Jobe is stuck in my head as the thing Billy Corgan belts before "despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage"

Guy of Bonisagus: Well, I think the best course of action is just destroying or weakening Tiber until he's not a problem anymore.

Regrettable though it might be to lose an ancient spirit.

Celeste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY

sorry.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: christopher lee ftw

Guy of Bonisagus: rip

Schediastís the Theologian: RIP

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lmao the recommended video is christopher lee singing metal covers of christmas songs

Endrite (GM): Crystal blessings.

How do you propose to destroy or weaken the Tiber?

Cygnus of Flambeau: afk a minute

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if the statue is moved it stops the effect

Guy of Bonisagus: I don't really have a plan for that.

Endrite (GM): But would it eliminate the existing warping?

Guy of Bonisagus: I don't think the church would be much help though.

Schediastís the Theologian: The water also stops flowing into the bathhouse so we can fully pretend Jorn never existed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No but the river lives in Dominion, a magic being living in a hostile aura will lose its magicness

Endrite (GM): Good point.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: actually

why hasnt the river acclimated already

Endrite (GM): Great question.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+3 magic lore

(

6

)

+2+3

=

11

Faustus Galerius knows why

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Anyone else think Faustus would look good with a melting candle on top of him?

(From Endrite (GM)): The Tiber River doesn't just go through Rome. Much of it is in a Mundane aura and you've never visited the source.

Faustus Galerius is all for getting a cool new hat

Lavinia of Jerbiton: . o O ( The Tiber River doesn't just go through Rome. Much of it is in a Mundane aura and you've never visited the source. )

Celeste: Holy shit.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Magic beings still suffer acclimation in Mundane aura

Endrite (GM): Wow, you're all mind readers!

Amazing!

Guy of Bonisagus: Maybe we should visit the source of the Tiber.

Endrite (GM): Destroying or removing the statue does seem like something you could try.

Faustus Galerius: Faustus survived outside the magic aura in the catacombs when he was lost to VT by using Presence, the magic equivalent of extending your glamour into the environment

Celeste: That's the last resort because everyone loves -8 to aging rolls.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I ask Faustus for his ideas on the problem.

Endrite (GM): Lavinia your turn.

Archibald of Guernicus: Back

Faustus Galerius: "The statue does seem to be forming some sort of Magic Tether. Usually such things have to be centuries old, but perhaps the sorcery of Virgil lends it an ancient legacy."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It's like I keep saying, Virgil is the greatest sorcerer of all time."

"Does a Magic Tether mean it will create a magic aura?"

Faustus Galerius: "Perhaps over time."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "How much time?"

Endrite (GM): If the river really is Tibernius then he would be before Virgil's time.

Faustus Galerius: "Can't say. The Dominion surrounds it, plus, it's not the predictable sort of magic."

That is to say, the rules for it involve a stressed roll

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Make the roll.

Oh the rules for adding the aura?

Faustus Galerius: Yeah, from RoP Magic

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright, we have a new objective: Destroy every church bell in Rome.

Faustus Galerius: :weebey:

Endrite (GM): Shouldn't be too difficult.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I could make an Augustan Rite to do it

Endrite (GM): Just get an invading barbarian army.

That usually works.

Unless they're all Christians.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Any objections?

Faustus Galerius: Visigoth party 2nite

Faustus likes this idea

Cygnus of Flambeau: Is it possible that the river itself has always had a magical aura?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's check Proclus' notes since he mapped all the auras in the city

Endrite (GM): Well, he COULD swim.

And he COULD cast spells while wet.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok

So what do his notes say

Endrite (GM): But the river had a similar Dominion/Infernal aura as the rest of the city.

At the time of his survey, of course.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright

"Faustus, what would happen to the aurae if every church bell in Rome were warped by magic, as the river has been"

Guy of Bonisagus: did we ever determine if it was actually magical

it could be a faerie

Endrite (GM): I think you did determine it was magical.

Which is good because it is.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we wanted archibald to figure out its might but dys was being a baby about it

Archibald of Guernicus: Huh???

Endrite (GM): The old hairy baby.

Faustus Galerius:

rolling 0 Dominion Lore

0

=

0

Cygnus of Flambeau: like most vim spells, the guidelines are a pain in the ass to work with

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also endrite promised there would be another part to this adventure and was telling us to stop complaining and i havent seen any development so far

Cygnus of Flambeau: we haven't finished the round table

Endrite (GM): Love 2 round table.

Faustus Galerius: "Well maybe the bells are relics, if so there might be less Dominion around. Otherwise I don't know."

"I doubt the bells help, at any rate."

Archibald of Guernicus: Finding out exact magic might is awkward overall, I could try to intangible tunnel it and then cast touch range InVi sponts to figure out the might

You'll need to collect tiber water with regularity though, since an arcane connection from a flowing water source only lasts hours.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I don't think destroying church bells will do anything good for Rome. In fact, I have a wonderful poem about what happened to Blois as a result of that, if you'd like a recital."

Faustus Galerius: I think Lavinia and Faustus are pretty similar in terms of Magic Lore

She might be better, IDK

Guy of Bonisagus: we have a bath that uses tiber water

Cygnus of Flambeau: I think you shouldn't cast offensive spells at it, including intangible tunnel, unless you're very confident it'll penetrate

Rosario of Flambeau: "Destroying the church bell saved Blois from a terror of diabolism."

"Well, it was more complicated than that."

Endrite (GM): Rather, not destroying it did.

Guy of Bonisagus: "No, no, that bell wasn't destroyed."

Rosario of Flambeau: it was damaged.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: How far away is the source of the Tiber

Faustus Galerius: "Greece managed to keep hydras out of their cities with a bunch of shrines to pagan gods, so I'm not sure how many bells you really need."

Rosario of Flambeau: Can't be that far.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have good pen and great vim, but I dunno if I can pull off the necessary 40-50 pen.

Endrite (GM): It's about right there.

Faustus Galerius: "And Venice has plenty of churches yet they have to put down encroaching hydras every time there's a hot summer."

Endrite (GM): On Mt. Fumaiolo.

Faustus Galerius: "They love the humidity, see."

Endrite (GM): It's about 100 miles away.

As the crow flies, of course.

Cygnus of Flambeau: "I'm up for a hike in the mountains, but I'm not sure if it'll help our current quandary"

Celeste: Hey, Lycellus is on the way. We should stop by and say hi.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we have a crow who can fly there

fiorella

Endrite (GM): You could.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go fly somewhere, crows can go about 60MPH IIRC

The larger cousins of the Corvids such as the American Crow and Raven “walk” instead of “hop” and can fly up to 30 to 60 miles an hour, and can sustain a high speed of 70 mph when in a dive!

Cygnus of Flambeau: it would be worth knowing if they've had any dealings with Tiberinus

how long can they fly at 60mph though

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lavinia, is it possible the sortes could find its might?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Nope

it can only determine its realm

well actually

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/91120-how-far-can-ravens-fly-in-a-day/

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Learn all the magical properties of a liquid."

does that count?

Endrite (GM): I'll give it to you here.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ease Factor is 15

May I use the Temple of Mercury regio

Endrite (GM): Does it need to penetrate or anything?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: maybe??

Archibald of Guernicus: "Knowing the might will make planning easier."

Endrite (GM): Gah!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Fiorella is also operating on human terms rather than instinct, so she can plan a marathon flight with big meals during stops

Endrite (GM): How does a Virgilian calculate penetration, anyway?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If the divination needs to penetrate

Magic Resistance, then Penetration is calculated

as:

Penetration:

Sortes Virgilianae Divination Total

+ Penetration Ability – Ease Factor

Cygnus of Flambeau: I don't think the sortes needs to penetrate, you're not targetting the subject of your inquiry

well shut my mouth

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it makes me wonder how that guy in the pope adventure scried on all those cardinals

Cygnus of Flambeau: he didn't know he couldn't

Endrite (GM): Hey probably had good penetration.

Not listed in his statblock, of course.

Cygnus of Flambeau: actually i'm not sure he did

scry directly on them, that is

Archibald of Guernicus: Oops!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway

scratch that plan

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if I'm scrying on nobles I could assess their willingness to negotiate with a magical river

assuming a +6 aura from the temple, and a +3 bonus for scrying on famous people, my base roll is 18, ease factor to "Divine a single answer from the mind of a target." is 21

Archibald of Guernicus: "I could perhaps open an intangible tunnel tae it, but beyond that, nothing. Spontaneous magic simply wilnae penetrate the might of a spirit like that."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so i'll work on that to see if cygnus plan will work

Endrite (GM): Currently they don't know that you can negotiate with a river but that's a good idea for later.

Ok, that what you want to do, Lavinia?

You can change your mind later but I want to keep this moving.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: jesus you just told me not to do it

make up your fucking mind

Endrite (GM): What?

I just said you can do it later in combination with Cygnus' plan.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then we'll do it later so move on!!! fucks

Endrite (GM): Gah!

Ok, Fiorella.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

I don't have much to contribute to this but I'll go study the effect the river is having on the local birds, for my own hermetic research.

Endrite (GM): Didn't you want to fly to the source of the river?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh right

I can do that too, but that's merely acting on someone else's susggestion

Boy R.: you could profitably combine these ideas, I think

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't know what specific approach we should take, but I think our priority, above all else, is protecting our position here. Whatever plan we take has to be one that assures our wellbeing at the end, the covenant can't survive in Rome making enemies of it. That said, the idea of pushing for more dominion is also a bad idea - the dominion and the infernal are always side by side, for one, and both are horrible to magic. I think Cygnus and Lavinia's plan is what we should pursue, but with a specific goal of securing our own safety before thoughts of profit or gain.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Boy R.: maybe you could even survey the effects the river is having elsewhere, on birds but also things that aren't birds

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Sure

I can spont some InVi

Archibald of Guernicus: Just keep in mind you will not be able to land a sponted inVi effect on the river itself, as even I can't.

And that's my big combo

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Not as good as Proclus spamming Sense of Magical Power rote, but when I take a break from flying I can check auras.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway, I back Lavinia and Cygnus' idea here. We should also produce, at some point, a false 'Guy of Bonisagus' to appease the merchants. Some fall guy.

Endrite (GM): Wow Gulielmus that's pretty fucked up.

Cygnus of Flambeau: If this spirit was vulnerable to your spontaneous casting we wouldn't need to respect it in the slightest

Endrite (GM): Secret Diedne spotted.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm pretty good at sponting. Just not 40-50 pen good.

Endrite (GM): Proclus is dead and does not have a plan.

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, now we DO need an exorcist.

Cygnus of Flambeau: conceivably he could

let's go to the underworld to ask him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah!

underworld adventure time

Archibald of Guernicus: There's just one problem: you haven't ran the underworld adventure yet!

Endrite (GM): Ok, how do you want to go into the Underworld?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Proclus is in Heaven and cannot be talked to

Cygnus of Flambeau: I walk down the stairs behind the conference table

Endrite (GM): If ONLY you had someone who was good at digging pits!

Archibald of Guernicus: There's an entrance to the Underworld in Italy, as stated in  The Aeneid. We'd have to track down the tree with golden apples that the Sybil used though.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we visit the cumaean sibyl

near the crater of Avernus

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, regarding the plans with the nobility."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: COnfession: I didn't get teh apple meme until someone posted the post in my thread for funny psots

Archibald of Guernicus: "To those new to us, we do have some small friends amidst the nobility. The Capocci's in particular."

"That man, the one whose son Lodewig kidnapped, what was his name again, Lavinia?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hugo di Conti"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Di Conti, aye. He's another possibility."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: BRB. I'm on board with the investigate the source plan though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "di Capocci, sorry"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So I go do that if needed

Cygnus of Flambeau: it's a good thing lodewig isn't here to hear this slander

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we get some of them on board, we could perhaps swing others around on this plan."

Rosario of Flambeau: Investigating the source is a good plan, yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: You literally kidnapped his son

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Strangely, I was always absent when you have adventures involving that man, but I know him by reputation"

Archibald of Guernicus: and kept it

Cygnus of Flambeau: beatrice did

and said let's give him another child

Archibald of Guernicus: no i mean lodewig left the tribunal and kept the kid

Cygnus of Flambeau: he'd already said he'd look after him and raise him

with everyone's apparent approval

what was the better move, leaving a child to fend for itself in vardian's tomb?

Archibald of Guernicus: Hey I wasnt blaming you

I just said you took the kid. Jeez.

Wow. Bit touchy about taking children arent we.

Cygnus of Flambeau: you don't want to get typecast as the kidnapper, is all

Archibald of Guernicus: "Cygnus, Guy, Rosario, how is your Italian?"

Cygnus of Flambeau: "It's pretty good"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Good."

Endrite (GM): Ey, forget about it.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I can speak well enough to get by."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I mean, I am Italian."

Archibald of Guernicus: "An educated man speaks Latin, but we cannae assume good education in all we deal with."

"Oh, yes. My apologies."

"Ahem. My own Gift is far too strong to speak with the nobility and have any good come of it, but if you have any help needed, I'll provide it."

"We may need to end this whole endeavour by crafting a staff tae control the Tiber. If so, I'm well-versed in Vim, and will do so."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Well. I can speak to them in excellent Italian, if I say so myself, but it's been my experience that that isn't always enough to strike up fellow-feeling among the mundanes"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella, do you have effects tae, as ye do, become a bird, that can be cast on others?"

"I could assist in investigating the source of the Tiber, though I cannae travel at the speed ye do."

"Oh I know, I know. But Lavinia and Guy are blessed with the gentle gift, they should be able to smooth over the problems that our ilk carry."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We're also blessed with a bounty on our heads"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Guy is too new tae have his name spread. Incidentally, no-one call him that while this is ongoing. Not a soul. Come up with a fake name, please."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Who did I say I was, Godfrey? That'll do."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Godfrey of Blois"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lavinia, ye already introduce yerself with a different name outside our order, that should be enough, shouldn't it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes, call me Celestina in polite company from now on"

Cygnus of Flambeau: What's this about a bounty?

Endrite (GM): The feminine version of Celeste.

Archibald of Guernicus: There's a bounty on the heads of Guy of Bonisagus, and Lavinia

because the river screwed us

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh dear

Endrite (GM): Rather, it praised you highly.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm not usually one to lie, but, ah, I suppose I can keep your names straight."

devil's fav demon: glad someone picked up on Celeste being a man's name.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Please bear with it. It's for their safety."

Fiorella the Raven birdifies

Rosario of Flambeau: "Absolutely. This kind of subtlety isn't my usual comfort zone."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should perhaps close the inn for the day, while we're out. If any more mobs appear at their door, we don't want them rushing in."

Fiorella the Raven: "While we're incognito you can call me Muninn. I saw the name on a bird statue I salvaged from the lab of the Merinita. The male one."

Endrite (GM): Genderqueer bird.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, that'd be Jorns. Poor fellow, this place got to his nerves."

Fiorella the Raven: Fiorella wouldn't know Muninn is male

Endrite (GM): Ok, so the first thing you want to do is go to the Capocci court?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Sounds... pagan."

Archibald of Guernicus tugs collar

Cygnus of Flambeau: "You can call me Benigno. In any company really."

Fiorella the Raven: If its male sounding, it can be Muninna instead

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'll go with my own damn name, I'll be travelling with my image disguised anyhow."

Endrite (GM): Let's all have several different names and disguises with tokens to go with them.

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Haven't you ever wanted a flashy wizard name though?"

Schediastís the Theologian: Way ahead of you

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yes. This is it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my name is Bonisagus the Fraud.

Endrite (GM): Gasp!

Guy of Bonisagus: "I would much rather have my own name I was born with."

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't want to go by an alias to maximize any potential house acclaim.

Guy of Bonisagus: "But I can't even have that for the moment. Blasted river."

Fiorella the Raven: "Maybe I should get a new wizard name to keep my family safe. But I haven't though of one yet."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Your name carries a price on it right now, Guy, I'm sad tae say."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "So, how much?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't get ideas, Cygnus." I say, jokingly

Endrite (GM): 10 Mythic Pounds.

Archibald of Guernicus: Then stare at him

"No really, don't."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Aww, you got me"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rome drives people funny, keeping a level head is important."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "I was trying to think of how I could get a bigger price on my head"

Fiorella the Raven: Fiorella Zeno of Venice / Ornithia of Jeribton, perhaps

Endrite (GM): Please stop coming up with a bunch of names and alter-egos, everyone.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Wake up early, keep the sabbath, eat lots of silphium."

Cygnus of Flambeau: I refuse

Rosario of Flambeau: "Good way to keep a level head."

Endrite (GM): So what do you want to do first?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I liked where Lavinia establishes if any of these ideas are workable

Fiorella the Raven: My cousin got killed because it was too easy to do the research on me, and I just dodged a bullet by not identifying myself to the river

Cygnus of Flambeau: Fiorella's reconnaissance is presumably a solo mission

Fiorella the Raven: So aliases aren't entirely untopical

Archibald of Guernicus: "As for a deal with the nobility, here is one suggestion. If we could figure out a way to have the merchants accept this as a tax, then supplement the nobility with the earnings lost from it through, perhaps, a ritual tae Creo some gold - not enough tae be interference, merely enough tae quell this unrest - we could find ourselves in the better graces of those who run this city."

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, never mind. I was trying to make a topical reference but silphium was extincted from voracious consumption hundreds of years before now.

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we do this, however, we should NOT reveal that we can create gold."

Fiorella the Raven: I'll grab an AC to the river source for anyone with Leap of Homecoming.

I think terrain ACs last for years

Archibald of Guernicus: "We simply tell them that we know of complex rituals tae  retrieve  the gold, from the river."

"Which we will, free of charge, distribute to the rightful tax authorities."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "If we're to pay the taxes for everyone who uses the river, that's going to add up"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Depends how much they have tae pay, aye. It's just an idea being floated for now. Creo Terram can make a considerable weight of gold."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "If the tribunal frowns on coining I don't think you'd be able to pass it off as a small operation"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If anything they should be paying us for providing them unlimited clean water"

Fiorella the Raven: "Does anyone want an arcane connection to the source of the river? A few pebbles should be easily portable as a raven."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well we might not want tae take credit for that currently."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Perhaps they should

"Where do they think it came from, I wonder"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The river told them"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hmm."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "It can't have escaped everyone's notice that this river runs cleaner than any in italy"

"was nobody grateful?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Honestly, that's true enough. I was shocked to find out this infamous covenant had done so much for Rome."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We need tae make them see the river as beneficial, then. It needs tae be seen as doing enough to justify the 'taxes' it levies."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Well at first they said the river was causing garotillo"

Rosario of Flambeau: "You'd think it would help your reputation."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We aren't all Proclii here, Rosario."

"For all the troubles we experienced, we have done a lot of good for people here."

Fiorella the Raven: "Perhaps taking credit for the clean river can be done at the same time as finding noble patronage for Vardian's Tomb. It's clear our presence here is hardly a secret."

Cygnus of Flambeau: Procloi

Archibald of Guernicus: is that the correct plural

Cygnus of Flambeau: bit harsh imo

Guy of Bonisagus: "Noble patronage? That sounds like court wizardry."

Cygnus of Flambeau: no, but there probably isn't one

Guy of Bonisagus: there is only one proclus, but were there more, the correct plural would be a frustration

Archibald of Guernicus: "We will swear no oaths to noble powers, no."

lol

a frustration of proclii

Fiorella the Raven: "I'm not suggesting an oath, or becoming permanent members of a court."

Cygnus of Flambeau: there've been at least two procloses

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets hear what fiorella and the nobles have to say

Fiorella the Raven: "Just that, perhaps, projects like the statue recieve due recompense."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: since we've been discussing tentative plans for 2 hours now

Archibald of Guernicus: "However, making mutually beneficial deals, it's clear that this is necessary in the city of Rome. We are not disconnected from it, we are right in its beating heart."

Endrite (GM): Ok, Fiorella can go fly off and do her own thing while the rest of you guys go to the Capocci court.

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

Sounds good

Endrite (GM): Ok.

RIP all these characters.

Fiorella the Raven: RIP

I wonder what happened to Artemisia

Endrite (GM): Drop your tokens if you're coming.

Befana: I will request to be present at this negotiation

Fiorella the Raven: Killed by Galafre I guess

Endrite (GM): She lost her gift and I guess stayed married to Galafre.

Befana: if you want to talk to decent people you need someone who deals with them day-to-day

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's take a teenager along, sure.

Hell people took zita everywhere for like 20 years

Fiorella the Raven: Befana is also Wealthy, right? the Capoccis are probably amicable to her for that reason.

Befana: Befana is wealthy and her father has noble clients

Guy of Bonisagus: bofana

Befana: there's probably only so many people you can sell Excellent +5 cloaks to

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my cloak is only +3. I need an upgrade

Befana: give us more seasons and i'll make all the cloaks you want

Fiorella the Raven: Hypatia could use a +1 to guile cloak

Endrite (GM): Alright, as you walk through the sweltering city, you can practically feel the tension in the air.

Rosario of Flambeau: I need to get an Excellent sword and armor.

Fiorella the Raven: Or +X

Befana: i have to redo all my craft totals for abilities as abilities

Endrite (GM): Nearly everyone you see is nervous or angry or both. You overhear snippets of arguments about That Damn River.

Befana: these people should be grateful that something exciting has happened

Endrite (GM): The Capoccis' tower is well-guarded as always and the guards stop you to ask your business.

Guardsman: "Halt, what is your business here?"

Archibald of Guernicus: brb

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Affairs of the supernatural and arcane"

Guardsman: "Alright, go in the servant's entrance."

"I mean the wizard's entrance, of course."

You may freely pass the checkpoint, but before you can enter the tower proper, you are accosted by an old friend.

Befana: this is good, they see us as tradespeople

Brunisenda: "Ah, doctor, to what do we owe the pleasure?"

Anyone should feel to speak up here.

Befana: stop me if I have this wrong

Rosario of Flambeau bows in a gentlemanly fashion

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sorry I was afk 1 sec.

Brunisenda: Wowwwww.

Befana: Brunisenda is the folk witch who lived by the magical spring and took reading lessons at the covenant as the price of letting us use it

Brunisenda: Yes.

Befana: how long is it since she was seen in Vardian's Tomb?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hello Brunisenda, it's been a long time. I am glad to see you carrying yourself well and taking my lessons in etiquette to heart."

Brunisenda: She is currently full time folk witching for the Capoccis.

So probably about 10 years.

At least.

"They have certainly served me well in courtly life," she gives a little mock curtsy and laughs.

Archibald of Guernicus: Does she have a new hat

Brunisenda: Fortunately she never found out who stole her hat.

No, it was stolen.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyone is free to return it, of course, when you recovered the contents of Zita's room.

Befana: oh no!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Have you heard the recent storm of controversy about this river? Any time something goes wrong in the city people seem quick to blame Vardian's Tomb."

Befana: she should have a hat in this weather

Brunisenda: "Oh, but of course! We have it well in hand, don't you worry about it."

"You are free to return to your books and experiments."

Befana: "That's wonderful! What are you doing about it?"

Brunisenda: "Mister Locke has a friend who he says can solve the whole thing."

Befana: "Pardon, who is Mister Locke?

"a foreigner...?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "That prick."

I shuffle further back in our group

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That's fortunate. Can you tell us more? The river has already caused trouble for us by spitting out some names recklessly and I'm worried what else it can do if it thinks it is threatened."

Brunisenda: Edwin Locke is philosophical/medicinal Elementalist.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye can meet with that man alone, his mannerisms make me red in the face with anger. I'll not harm our diplomacy with my rash feelings."

Befana: I don't know what that means

Archibald of Guernicus: hes English

Befana: these Cappocis employ a lot of occultists

Brunisenda: "Well, I gather it's all rather hush hush. But Mister Locke is confident and so is the Count. I must confess I was as worried as the rest of the city until I heard that there was a plan."

It means he can use elemental sympathies to draw out humors to cure disease.

And some other stuff, maybe.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hopefully he won't disrupt the magic that is purifying the water of its dirt and disease... ?"

Befana: "It's good to be confident. Although, who is this new fellow that he's reassured everyone so easily?"

Brunisenda: "I must confess, I don't know what this friend has in mind, so I can't say for certain, Lavinia."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hm, we really need to talk to the count or Locke about it, as the process to purify the river cost a fortune in vis that would all go to waste if it were stopped."

Brunisenda: "Oh, Mister Locke's friend is from Greece! He's sent for her a few days ago, but she has yet to arrive, of course."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Aristocrita

Brunisenda: "The Count isn't seeing anyone today. He's feeling in poor spirits, because of the heat."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I know the perfect remedy to that ailment, actually."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Makes sense."

Rosario of Flambeau: "She is a doctor."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's see if we can find out who his 'friend' is."

Brunisenda: "Mister Locke went out a few hours ago to purchase some medicaments."

Befana: "I'm sure he'll want to see doctor Zoboli, but we shouldn't crowd him"

Brunisenda: "You might be able to catch up with him, he does so love to dicker."

Befana: I'd like to gossip among the servants, if we're hanging around trying to secure an audience

does comm+etiquette work for this?

Brunisenda: "A consultation? You'd need to talk to Mister Locke about that."

Sure it's possible.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Locke manages the Count's health?"

Befana:

rolling d10!+3

(

10

+

4

)

+3

=

17

Brunisenda: You could also try and track down Edwin Locke. Brunisenda can give you directions.

Befana: what's the general opinion of edwin locke, and his plan

Brunisenda: "Oh yes, he's quite expert at it, as I understand it."

Archibald of Guernicus: He's an ungifted hedge wizard so his plan for dealing with an insanely powerful river spirit is probably retarded and wont work.

Befana: I'm interested whether all the mundanes around here have faith in him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "No Salerno graduate of course but I'm sure they have fine teachers at Oxford these days"

"We'll try to catch up with him."

any other questions from folx here

Befana: "Pardon, learned doctors, but I think there is cause for concern here"

I say to the magi and not brunisenda or anyone

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh?"

Brunisenda: The ol' stage whisper.

Befana: "I've been talking to the servants and the like here, and it's odd how they all have complete confidence in mister locke and his friend

"But nobody knows who this person is or what they can do!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hmm. This is all very suspicious,"

Befana: "It's eerie, that's all. And eerie is your business"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Let's ask him ourselves."

Archibald of Guernicus: "They won't appear for another few days, apparently."

Rosario of Flambeau: i thought we could track Locke down

Brunisenda: You can.

His friend isn't here though.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Urgh, we had a few people on decent terms with that awful englishman, but the years have been cruel. You'll have tae do yer best with him."

Brunisenda: AFK a sec.

Befana: let';s

Archibald of Guernicus: "I can't stand the fucker so I won't join you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i just need a couple answers from locke to the questions ive already asked brunisenda

then will use magic to investigate

Befana: what does it cost us to find locke. time? die rolls?

Brunisenda: Brunisenda can give you directions to where he's shopping.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets go

Brunisenda: Alright, she marks the market on your map and you fast travel there.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Uhh.

Befana: ugh, look at all this rabble

Endrite (GM): When you arrive at the bustling marketplace you see a big scene!

Rosario of Flambeau: It's Big Fire!

Someone get that kid with giant robo.

Endrite (GM): I suppose the more correct word might be "riotous".

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh hey. It's the ku klux klan.

Endrite (GM): Edwin Locke is in the middle of an impassioned speech about how only the Capocci family can save the city.

Guy of Bonisagus: its unlikely that these are the kkk, as the majority of italians are catholics

but nice try

Endrite (GM): Uh excuse me they're penitents humbly wearing hoods to disguise their identity.

To avoid aggrandizing their piety.

Befana: so noble

Endrite (GM): Probably.

Befana: or possibly common, I can't tell

Guy of Bonisagus: pretty common probably

Endrite (GM): You've seen these guys all over the place.

Befana: who's the guy behind them?

Paul the Demagogue: "Do not listen to more selfish schemes from the miserly nobility, brothers and sisters!"

Befana: archibald didn't come with us, did he?

Archibald of Guernicus: No

Befana: I want to ask someone if there's magic going on

Paul the Demagogue: "I have received a vision from God that the voice of the river has been sent to expose the daily theft that these self-same nobles perpetrate daily!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm waiting near enough that you can get me if you need me, but I'm avoiding the man

Rosario of Flambeau: "I don't think he's on the right track."

Paul the Demagogue: "We must not allow it to steal our hard won money, just as we must not allow any man to place a tax on the Lord's natural bounty!"

Befana: "a vision from God can't be wrong, can it?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "How do you know it's from God?"

Paul the Demagogue: "Only through the purity of our faith can we exorcise this spirit. Only through the strength of our convictions can we prove that God is the only Law!"

Befana: "You say 'get behind me Satan' and if he doesn't get behind you then he's God or an angel"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Huh."

Paul the Demagogue: Some people react with jeers to this, some with cheers, and some truly devoted throw themselves on the ground at the mere mention of God.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i cast magic missile

Befana: does it look like violence is about to break out?

Paul the Demagogue: If you want to make yourself heard over this racket you'll need some kind of good yelling power.

It's raucous but no one is about to challenge Edwin's armed guards.

Befana: it's probably better not to get involved then

Edwin Locke: "Nonsense! The knightly classes have been chosen by the Almighty Himself to protect the weak and the innocent and so they shall here."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Is even one word wrong?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think these people have the situation well in hand

we can just hide out in the covenant until everything blows over

Guy of Bonisagus: agreed

Edwin Locke: "This river spirit will find no purchase in Rome, I swear it in the name of Count Hugo di Capocci, a name that many of you have come to trust as the authority on matters arcane."

Befana: I think we should keep an eye on this and talk to Locke when we get him alone

Lavinia of Jerbiton: why dont we just scry on him

Guy of Bonisagus: i think we shoudl let locke handle this

Befana: oh, ok let's do that

Guy of Bonisagus: and do labwork

Befana: the magical thing

Edwin Locke: There are some cheers, jeers, and ritualistic self-mortification at this speech too.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:  sigh  if only barabba were here to open a permanent intangible tunnel to him

Edwin Locke: :Crying Emoji:

Befana: I was expecting an audience with a count

it's bad manners to swap in your magus at every scene transition

Edwin Locke: He's sick.

Fiorella the Raven: An audience with a faerie count who counts everything and speaks in a Transylvanian accent.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: archibald said there were a few days before the greek shows up right

Edwin Locke: Ok do you want to do anything here or just stand around listening?

Correct, Lavinia.

Befana: if we're going back to the covenant Cygnus will happily track down Locke and scry on him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if i turn invisible can I steal an arcane connection from edwin

Befana: right now it seems like a supremely bad idea to get involved in this scene

Edwin Locke: Maybe.

Befana: how hard is it to get close to him?

Edwin Locke: The problem isn't visibility, it's that there's a press of bodies that you would need to push past.

Befana: turning invisible in a crowd seems like a bad idea

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah

we can always pay a visit to him at the capocci hideout

and we can always scry his location no matter where he runs

Edwin Locke: Both true.

Befana: would it be difficult just to get near locke or one of the guards?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: basically 2 things I want to try divining atm, first is an answer from Edwin Locke's mind, what he's planning

second is what is up with hugo's health

third is any active magic in this marketplace fiasco

Befana: I'd like to try straight legerdemain to secure ACs, but if there's a solid press of bodies there's not much to be done

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Befana can bribe one of Hugo's servants to steal Edwin's comb for us

q.e.d.

Befana: I'm actually quite good at picking pockets

I have legendary dexterity

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright let's start shoving the crowd around until the push of bodies provides the perfect distraction for befana to pick edwins pocket

Edwin Locke: That's doable.

You can also try tailing Edwin Locke after this all dies down.

Befana: I'd happily do that to

Archibald of Guernicus: Legendary dexterity and legerdemain, huh

Please, carry on this legacy

Edwin Locke: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: learn stealth too so someone else can be good at gathering ACs for us

Befana: it's just what happens when you optimise for crafts

rolling d10!+5+4 picking pockets

(

10

+

4

)

+5+4

=

23

Fiorella the Raven: Ex Misc with Strong Faerie Blood (Goblin) and Affinity with Imaginem and a stealth build

Befana: even if we tail him or just talk to him it would be good to get an AC for later scrying

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Endrite (GM): Edwin and Paul continue on in this way for some time before Paul declares that the only way to solve this problem is to perform a penitent procession around the Militia Tower.

Befana: good rolls today btw

that's only logical

Fiorella the Raven: I think concealment is a published magical focus too

Endrite (GM): He collects his followers and some of the rabble to the jeers of the remaining pro-feudalists.

Edwin gives another speech about the responsibility of noble houses and the crowd disperses.

Befana: keen speechifier, isn't he

well whatever

Endrite (GM): Edwin goes to leave and, as he passes by a merchant stall, Befana reaches out from under a basket of apples to pluck one of his leg hairs.

AC achieved!

Speechifying is the English racial skill.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: grody

Rosario of Flambeau: Woman who sleeps in a room with bottles of everyones piss and blood: "Grody."

Befana: I feel like I've done something scandalous

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright im going to retreat to the temple aura and do some divining

Guy of Bonisagus: good luckl

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Edwin claims he has been advising the crowd on magic for awhile, does he have a reputation for it yet

Befana: I entrust the leg hair reverently to Lavinia, and go pick up my little brother from his swimming lesson

Endrite (GM): Yes, the Capocci house as a whole has a +2 reputation for being interested in magical matters.

Befana: afk a moment

Endrite (GM): Thanks mostly to Hug di Capocci's court wizards.

I mean "Hugo di Capocci."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nto enough for a bonus but I'll try rolling anyway, first divination is "what is locke's plan for the river"

Fiorella the Raven: Hug, to his homies

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+7+2+6 vs ef 21

(

7

)

+7+2+6

=

22

success

Archibald of Guernicus: nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: second divination, what magic is in capocci manor that may be affecting the servants minds? applying bonuses for asking about an area in the city of rome

(From Endrite (GM)): He is summoning an ally who he believes can bind and command the river spirit.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+7+2+6+3+5-1 vs 18

(

9

)

+7+2+6+3+5-1

=

31

Effect: "Detect any active magic and any trace of positive magnitude left by earlier magic"

(From Endrite (GM)): You detect no magic.

(To Endrite): Does Hugo di Capocci himself have enough of a reputation to solicit a bonus? Personages defined as "person with any Reputation 5 or above."

(From Endrite (GM)): Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Third divination, what is the state of Hugo di Capocci's health

rolling 1d10!+7+2+6+3 vs ef 18

(

1

)

+7+2+6+3

=

19

woot

Guy of Bonisagus: stres sdie huh

check for that botch

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if im in a magic aura that's 2 botch die or 1?

Archibald of Guernicus: Dang, she doesn't enter Virgilian Twilight

Endrite (GM): I guess it SHOULD be two.

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also I should have subtracted 2 from that roll due to fatigue

Endrite (GM): Phew!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so it was not enough to divine

Archibald of Guernicus: Do you gain botch dice from magic auras in your tradition? Well it is a regio I suppose

you could conf it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright

conf'd

(From Endrite (GM)): He has Phithisis, a disease caused by bad. marsh air that pollutes the vital faculties with an excess of phlegm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: last question, was there any magic in the marketplace speech contest

ef 18 for all traces of magic, ef 15 for magic of level 15 or higher, ef 12 for magic of level 30 or higher

rolling 1d10!+7+2+6+3+5-3

(

6

)

+7+2+6+3+5-3

=

26

Endrite (GM): Ok, how far back in time can it detect magic?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Any traces of positive magnitude

Endrite (GM): Ok.

(From Endrite (GM)): What kind of details do you get from that?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: As soon as the magic finishes, the magnitude halves. It then drops by one for every duration of the spell that passes. Storyguides should employ this as a guideline, not a rigid formula, and may, if they wish, allow high level detection spells to pick up residues with “negative magnitude.”

(To Endrite): up to you, this is a high level of divination and equivalent to the highest InVi

(From Endrite (GM)): Ok lemme check.

(From Endrite (GM)): There was strong protective magic on Paul.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: After a long day of divining I return to Vardian's Tomb at -4 fatigue and report: "Hugo di Capocci has Phithisis, a disease caused by bad. marsh air that pollutes the vital faculties with an excess of phlegm. I detected no magic that would effect the servants' minds at the tower. Edwin Locke is bringing a colleague he believes can bind and command the river. There was strong protective magic on that demagogue Paul."

Lavinia of Jerbiton takes a nap to recover Sortes Fatigue

Endrite (GM): Sortes Sleepiness.

Befana: Snores Virgilianae

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps magic resistance from a very strong faith?"

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Or a devil protecting his heresies, maybe?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It seems the least of concerns at the moment doesnt it?

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod "Whatever he is, he's a troublemaker, types like that always pop up in times like this. He's irrelevant."

Guy of Bonisagus: phthisis huh

well rest in peace

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how lethal is phithisis

Guy of Bonisagus: its tuberculosis

Endrite (GM): It's also known as "Consumption."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yegas

Endrite (GM): But it is curable.

Cygnus of Flambeau: some kind of phlegm transplant?

Archibald of Guernicus: "If his condition was cured, he'd owe us a great debt."

Endrite (GM): It's slightly more difficult to cure than hermetic leprosy.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: After a restful nap dreaming of Roman villas and poetry, Lavinia wakes up to ask if we should let this elementalist go ahead with his plan.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I think we should see if we can help with it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If he succeeds then the problem is none of our concern anymore. If he fails it adds strength to my argument that a proper Wizard's Guild is needed to deal with these magical problems instead of letting any hedge wizard do their thing."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Well my inclination is to say if anyone can bind the river to their service, it should be us"

"perhaps I was naive to think a creature like that could exist unmolested in the heart of christendom. We'd be doing it a service by bringing it into a kind of protective slavery"

Archibald of Guernicus: "If some bloody hedge wizard can bind that to their service, something is amiss."

Endrite (GM): Wow, racist much?

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

Cygnus of Flambeau: "The Founder famously fought the sahirs who bind the djinn for all his life. I wouldn't underestimate hedge magic in this area."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I think it would look good for us if these pretender magicians tried publicly and failed, then we offered our services and succeeded."

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod "If they solve it, somehow, well, that's a problem out of our hair and we can get on with things. We have plenty time tae prove ourselves later."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Oh I do like that. But let's be realistic too. The foreign conjuror is probably much more adept at this sort of thing than anyone we know"

Fiorella the Raven: Alright

Guy of Bonisagus: you know

Cygnus of Flambeau: Has fiorella found something out?

Guy of Bonisagus: locke got word to this greek person pretty fast

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "An invisible Hermetic wizard could easily screw up whatever ritual this Greek is trying"

Guy of Bonisagus: what if.......... locke or the greek caused this???

Archibald of Guernicus: "I doubt that tosser has any friends with the talent tae deal with this. He might have met some hedge wizard who can bind ghosts or little fairies and got it in his head they can bind Tiberinon."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm could be

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Do you think they could have?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That would be a pretty nice outcome if we could prove it"

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's true, it's been hardly any time at all, word tae Greece of all places? that fast?"

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Let's apply the marvellous razor of Ockham. The river has explained its sudden sentience to us, and the explanation tallies with the facts as we know them"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't think Archibald wants to hear the theories of Englishmen, Cygnus"

Archibald of Guernicus: I chuckle "What if he thinks a friend can solve it that was arriving anyway?"

"Someone visitting, and he goes around spreading stories about how great they are, without knowing at all."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I can try to divine if Locke is responsible for this mess but it may take a few days before I get a lucky roll, I mean, channel the proper energies"

(From Fiorella the Raven): Okay, attempting to spont Sense of Magical power first.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The English are a despicable race, cowardly and incompetent in all things. And liars to a man, he's defrauding the populace in some manner."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If anyone can scry on him hermetically using our arcane connection that would be quicker"

(From Endrite (GM)): Your divination did indicate that he knows this person.

Archibald of Guernicus: Intellego and mentem? I can try, give me some time.

(To Endrite): if I had rolled lower than a 6 it wouldnt have worked

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hand me the connection, I'll do what I can."

(To Endrite): the more specific question is, does locke bear any responsibility for the river awakening

Fiorella the Raven:

(To GM) rolling (12+d10!)/5

(12+

(

4

)

)/5

=

3.2

(From Endrite (GM)): Lucky for you it did!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Though I will be relying on spontaneous magic, so getting full answers may be hard."

(From Endrite (GM)): Not as far as you know.

Cygnus of Flambeau: Befana has encased it in astoundingly fine little emroidered bag. it's there in the magi's conference room

(To Endrite): do I have to roll sortes again to figure that our or are you just giving it to me

Cygnus of Flambeau: one day I will work out what die bonus the bag has

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm, actually I dont know if I can, InMe guidelines are REALLY high level

level 15 to actually find out anything

(From Endrite (GM)): No, I just mean none of your divinations have revealed if he did or did not cause this problem.

Guy of Bonisagus: i could have used inme to figure out his motive

i could have but i didnt

Lavinia of Jerbiton: attempting divination on day 2, question "does locke bear any responsibility for the river awakening"

Archibald of Guernicus: I only have a level 15 intangible tunnel, and a mental question is a level 20 touch spell

Lavinia of Jerbiton: assuming the only source for that answer is in someone's head, EF 21

Cygnus of Flambeau: I have an intangible tunnel that affects level 20 spells, but it works at sight range

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+7+2+6

(

3

)

+7+2+6

=

18

Endrite (GM): You learn that Achilles was a really heroic guy!

Wow!

Archibald of Guernicus: Why would you learn that from the Aeneid? It only ever derides him.

For his desecration of Hector's corpse and keeping it for money

Endrite (GM): It's called critical reading.

Cygnus of Flambeau: that's the power of the sortes

Archibald of Guernicus: and his pitiful death at Paris' arrows

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i attempt to divine the location of Edwin's lab

Endrite (GM): Maybe bump that Artes Liberales score up a little more.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+7+2+6-1 vs 18

(

4

)

+7+2+6-1

=

18

Endrite (GM): You don't need to.

Fiorella the Raven:

(To GM) rolling d10+3+1 Magic Lore, not including creatures spec

(

3

)

+3+1

=

7

Endrite (GM): Well I mean I guess you could.

It's in Allumiere in that skeleton tower.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I ask for a volunteer to sneak in and read his notes.

Cygnus of Flambeau: where is allumiere

Endrite (GM): It's that arsenic zone.

Fiorella the Raven: BR missed those adventures I think

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sad~

Cygnus of Flambeau: I thought it was a merinita covenant

Endrite (GM): There.

Not too far out of town.

Cygnus of Flambeau: interesting

Archibald of Guernicus: "As for scrying on his mind, I should develop better magics for this. My sincere apologies that I have not until now."

Fiorella the Raven: It's got some solo sanctums but isn't really a covenant strictly speaking

Archibald of Guernicus: "We deal with nobles too often tae ignore the importance of the mind and all its answers."

Endrite (GM): Doesn't it not have any actual sanctums?

I thought only hedge wizards hung out there.

Rosario of Flambeau: Pretty much.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if no one volunteers can I send bolad and lend him a magic invisibility ring

Archibald of Guernicus: Allumiere isn't a covenant, you might be thinking of Rellento

Endrite (GM): Why wouldn't you be able to?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I guess I just assumed because it sounds magical

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what and risk wandering into a booby trap?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm sorry. You murdered Zita with lightning so I can't send her anymore.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what kind of idiot wizard just stumbles into another person's lab uninvited? no, that's what covenfolk are for

Archibald of Guernicus: I trust my MR and have a little stealth but I'll say send covenfolk too

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll go on this quest

he's a hedge wizard, how hard can it be

Lavinia of Jerbiton: great

let's m ake haste in case this turns out to be a red herring

do you need an invisibility ring?

Endrite (GM): Wait what are you looking for at this lab?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll take it if you have one spare

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 1, any correspondence with his greek partner or at least his name, anything to help us identify him

2, anything that would indicate what he knows about the river awakening, or even better, that he himself did it

I lend Cygnus my invisibility ring. "Please bring it right back, I'll be very cross if you lose it."

Cygnus of Flambeau: I think we're jumping to a lot of conclusions though

"On my honour, I will return it"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 3, a stronger AC to edwin like a lab tool that will take longer to expire

(From Fiorella the Raven): I'll grab some pebbles so those with Leap of Homecoming can visit, storing them in my gizzard. Then I'll head home.

Cygnus of Flambeau: make a vow on your honour and fulfill it: +5 House Acclaim

Lavinia of Jerbiton: btw did fiorella find anything at the river source

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah it was in whipsers, I'll be back soon to describe it

Cygnus of Flambeau: ah, so stuff has been happening

is anyone else coming to Allumiere?

Endrite (GM): Do you want to wait for Fiorella to come back?

Fiorella the Raven: If someone at VT tells me where everyone's going I can catch up

A covenfolk can probably do it

Endrite (GM): Alright, feel free to relay your info.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i returned to the covenant after spending 5 hours divining and then taking a nap

Cygnus of Flambeau: are we under time pressure? let's see if she has anythign to say

Fiorella the Raven: I brought some pebbles to use as AC if anyone else wants to visit the river.

"The mouth of the river has a magical aura, of the second magnitude."

Endrite (GM): AFK a sec.

Fiorella the Raven: "The environment is lush in the area, so it's likely been like that for a while."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oic

Fiorella the Raven: "If the spirit of the river can become coterminous with the entire river, it can draw magical power from the source, most likely."

Endrite (GM): Sorry, I had to grab a handful of nuts and shove them into my mouth.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Fiorella the Raven: We've all been there

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright. Let's build a church at the mouth of the river. problem solved

Endrite (GM): That would work splendidly.

Fiorella the Raven: "There's a village near the river's source. It wouldn't be difficult to spread the dominion over it."

Rosario of Flambeau: Problem solved.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dusthands

does the village have a church?

Endrite (GM): Great question.

Fiorella the Raven: I forgot to ask

Archibald of Guernicus: "And crush a burgeoning magical aura with the divine? Should every problem be solved like this, we'll find ourselves unable tae practice magic at all."

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's destroy what traces of wonder remain in the world and usher in the age of reason

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hm

Well we could threaten the river that we'll do it

Endrite (GM): Build a pyramid the shoots a blue laser into the sky.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should explain to the river the danger that faces it. The enroaching dominion that will send it back tae eternal sleep."

Fiorella the Raven: "The village was small. They might have had a church. I apologize for not taking a closer look. I get paranoid traveling alone."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's dangerous times, don't worry about it."

Cygnus of Flambeau: sounds like a good all purpose solution, even if i'm missing a ref

Endrite (GM): If you turn into an animal with a requisite that changes your clothes, then put on clothing as an animal, does the animal clothing merge into your body when you change back to a person?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets find a secluded place to talk to the river

Fiorella the Raven: Depends on the spell author

Endrite (GM): Anyway, do you guys want to go to Allumiere or sponsor a church or what?

Fiorella the Raven: Fiorella wears clothing made completely from animal products

Archibald of Guernicus: Smart

Endrite (GM): What do you want to talk to your old friend the Tiber about?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the river should be told it has two major threats incoming: dominion that will put it to sleep, and elementalists who will enslave it

but we, its friend the magi, can help it!!! it needs to do a few things for us though.

Cygnus of Flambeau: fiorella wear woollen dresses in summer and sweats a lot

Rosario of Flambeau: :stringini:

Fiorella the Raven: Maybe I can buy a dress that's cool in summer from Kifaaya

Archibald of Guernicus: We might be able to bully it into listening to us

Hmmmmm

Cygnus of Flambeau: we can make a good case

we just have to hope it's reasonable and intelligent

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Anyway

I'm going to say what I just said, to the river

without me actually typing it out again

Archibald of Guernicus: It wants to be acknowledged, maybe we could pay it tribute with creo-d gold or some such, and get it to merely have travellers ask permission or some such. Which it then grants.

Fiorella the Raven: Or pay Kifaaya to open a dress for enchantment

The Tiber River: "What do you propose to do about it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We can keep the dominion from stifling you, and stop the elementalists. But so long as you keep asking tolls from all the merchants instead of just asking us, people will find ways to oppose you."

Cygnus of Flambeau: actually the question of how we stop the elementalist from binding it is a good one

I think I will visit Allumiere after all

Fiorella the Raven: Flambeau know how to deal with elementalists: Join Or Die

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we hit the elementalist with sharp, pointed pieces of metal until he loses all his blood

Rosario of Flambeau: ^^^

Archibald of Guernicus: amazing. the ultimate plan, that never fails

Rosario of Flambeau:  taps forehead with gigantic sword

Cygnus of Flambeau: "The plan is assassination then? Or outright war with the Capocci?"

The Tiber River: "I cannot be enslaved by mere mortals! I am an adopted son of Jupiter himself!"

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Which is more to your liking, Rosario?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Outright war? No no, no no no."

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, I wasn't agreeing in character. I need to use the /ooc command more.

Archibald of Guernicus: ""If we put them to the sword, it has no connection to us."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The time of Jupiter is long gone, my friend. His Temples are now churches to the God Christ, who reigns supreme."

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm into the plan where we sponsor a church.

But if we don't need to do that, it's fine.

The Tiber River: "Surely you realize, though, that if I am threatened then you, too are threatened. For if I am incapacitated, you will lose access to my might and wisdom."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Even we, followers of Hermes, are nothing but a flickering candleflame against the hurricane gale of the divine."

"Of course. You have said yourself I brought you back to this world. How could I bear to see you brought low again?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Jove has seen no worship in Rome in 1000 years! The world has changed, irreperably so. Whatever our feelings on the matter are, we must accept the world as it is, not as we wish it tae be."

The Tiber River: "Simply sunder his temples and they will do no harm."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hmm"

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Should we tell him that Jupiter serves Christ now?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "The Church was born from Rome, it has an empire of soldiers and temples as vast as Rome commanded at its height."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is Jupiter a saint

Thanks to the faerie pope

Cygnus of Flambeau: all the seven planets are saints

The Tiber River: I think only Mercury made it out as a saint.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ooh

If Jove is a saint thats an angle

Wait, is Venus a saint then

Cygnus of Flambeau: well you can retcon that if you want, it's just an injoke I liked

Lavinia of Jerbiton: depends how many people still accept that cult of saints

Cygnus of Flambeau: sure. mars, saturn, the moon, all that crew

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the pope who suggested it was hated and caused a mini schism

Fiorella the Raven: Despite all my rage I am still just a hatless mage

Cygnus of Flambeau: They're Roman saints though

The Tiber River: As I recall all the other planetary saints were decanonized or something shortly after that pope died, but Saint Mercury was oddly popular.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm sure I've had npcs swear by saint Jove

The Tiber River: So there's still some shrines toit.

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh ok

The Tiber River: I mean "to it."

Cygnus of Flambeau: I don't remember that, but it would be reasonable to go with the interpretation that leads to less blatant paganism in the church

The Tiber River: "Simply defeat these armies. They cannot stand against us if we fight together."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "By the laws of the Order of Hermes, we cannot destroy the temples of Christ, as He will pass judgement on us in this world and the next."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I think this river is a little bit soft in the head."

Fiorella the Raven: "Also I don't want to go to Hell."

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

The Tiber River: "What a ridiculous law, you should swear fealty to me, instead."

Archibald of Guernicus: thats a good fuckin token

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao hell yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus: good new raven

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We have already sworn fealty to the Order of Hermes. To break that would make us traitors. Is that what you expect of us?"

Archibald of Guernicus: its the most magical raven youve ever heard. its the calm jerbiton nerd.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is that a bird with a witch hat

Fiorella the Raven: Yes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: YES

Cygnus of Flambeau: that's a good bird

The Tiber River: "It is, of course, your right to remain with your weak and impotent lords, but they have done you a great disservice by attempting to bind your power."

Rosario of Flambeau: 

Archibald of Guernicus: "The Order of Hermes grew from the ashes of the Cult of Mercury. This is no fealty to fickle lords, this is an oath to Magic itself."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "You have slept long, Father Tiber, and there are many mighty lords in the world now"

Archibald of Guernicus: "These laws exist to keep us safe, and they have done so, for centuries, even as the dominion lays waste to what we once had."

"Without it, we would be nothing."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "A war against the secular power would be ruinous, although we would undoubtedly prevail. Better by far to secure our power now so they dare not challenge us"

The Tiber River: "If you will not fight, then it will fall to me alone to stand against the mercenary armies of this Christ."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Nice knowing ya

The Tiber River: "I am a peaceful king, but I will not be provoked."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You may be a King, but Christ is King of Kings."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We offer a chance at continued life, the life we helped restore."

Guy of Bonisagus sweats while wondering if his sodales are serious about their grievances with God.

Fiorella the Raven: Flambeau are pretty devout

The Tiber River: The Tiber is agitated by this, Lavinia.

Rosario of Flambeau: i give the fig to the river.

Fiorella the Raven: Except for Laurontius

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can befana make floppy witch hats +5

Archibald of Guernicus: we can only hope she can

Fiorella the Raven: But Laurontius also has a poor reputation

The Tiber River: "By what right does he claim this?"

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'd stake my family name on it

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lavinia, wasn't Christ predicted within the Aeneid? Perhaps he'll listen to that." I whisper to her

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Christ will have his kingdom, will we or no. Is it not enough if mortals pay you tribute within your rightful londes?"

"In fact, I have a proposal on that score"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That was the ecologues. Are you familiar with them, Tiberinus?"

The Tiber River: "Not at all."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Allow me to recite from memory"

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Archibald of Guernicus: I should pick up the ecologues sometime, I have the georgics

Lavinia of Jerbiton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclogue_4

Cygnus of Flambeau: I hope you're assuming the proper poetry reciting prose

The Tiber River: "I have no time for the learning of greybearded sages."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Really?"

"I thought you were supposed to be wise."

The Tiber River: "I am wise and vigorous in my reign. That is why I always make correct decisions."

What's your proposal, Cygnus?

Archibald of Guernicus: :ayfkm:

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm trying to think how to put it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i will hold off saying something rude til cygnus floats his idea then

Cygnus of Flambeau: well, basically I want to say we should found a cult or something that gives the river proper tribute, instead of taking it from every passing traveller

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah i think we suggested that before

Cygnus of Flambeau: and gently insinuate that a kingdom is worth little without a people

but it's not really the issue at hand

Fiorella the Raven: " But Samuel replied:

“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as in obeying the Lord?

To obey is better than sacrifice,

and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Fiorella the Raven: 23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as king.”"

Cygnus of Flambeau: haven't we already committed to fight off the elementalist/theurge/whatever?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and the river said each merchant would have to go to us first, get us to throw money in the river, etc., instead of letting us do bulk payments

Archibald of Guernicus: We've been trying to offer him that but he really wont back down on taxing Literally Everyone

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm not sure what more he wants from us

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You've promised us wisdom for helping you, but you seem woefully ignorant of the world as it is now, of the great thinkers of time past."

"You are a king with no soldiers, who rejects his counselers. Why should anyone swear fealty to you?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Think of all the stories he could tell us about the different kinds of fish dung."

The Tiber River: "Counselors? By your suggestions I had thought you envoys for this Christ's kingdom! If you have advice to defeat my enemies then I would hear it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Our own Gift comes from the realm of magic, Rosario. We should preserve it in this world."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Your counselors can stop the threats to you, but only as long as you do not continue to put them in danger themselves."

The Tiber River: "Ah, subterfuge is it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Strategy, is the term."

I could dredge up examples of past great kings following this lead but the tiber seems completely ignorant of all real examples

The Tiber River: "Ha ha ha, a counselor's polite words!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "The people of Rome worship God, whose churches and worship covers all of Europe, and Rome part of the beating heart of it all."

The Tiber River: "I can protect myself from any Church, but this magician worries me. How do you propose to defeat him?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "A sword is just as good in this age as in yours."

Guy of Bonisagus: when do we find out its a demon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I was also thinking we could publicly sabotage his ritual when he attempts to bind you, which would instill fear and respect of you into everyone watching."

The Tiber River: "That is an excellent plan! Defeat this magician and I will be on guard against any who would attempt to build a church near my lands."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you want to keep the magicians at bay, instead of asking every merchant for a tribute, you can keep count of what is owed to you and ask us at the end of each year."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have no intention of denying you your rightful earnings, but the citizens of Rome will take some time tae adjust and understand."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Permit us the tasks that fall beneath your dignity"

Archibald of Guernicus: I say privately to my sodales "Perhaps we could even ask him to make it clear we solved this, that they travel thanks to our help?"

The Tiber River: "How many of these magicians can there be? Simply prove your superior magical prowess and the rest should stay away."

"If you need, I can also make a show of my own power to assist you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bah

Cygnus of Flambeau: "You speak rightly my lord. Let us humiliate the foreign sorcerer in such a way that all are aware of our power"

Fiorella the Raven: "How much do we know about the elementalist orders?"

Cygnus of Flambeau: "for that matter, I have little liking for blades in the dark"

Cygnus has the idea that you have to talk melodramatically to get through to a king, or an ancient magical being

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sidebar to colleagues: "Let's use the boon to ask the river to stop taxing peopel for a year, then use that time to make a permanent solution in the lab. There's no reasoning with it here."

The Tiber River: Since this is NOT Paranoia, I don't feel the need to record all your mistakes in a little book to punish you and instead I can warn you in advance.

How do you know the elementalist will perform a ritual in public?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We don't.

The Tiber River: Alright then.

Guy of Bonisagus: we could encourage him to

Cygnus of Flambeau: we don't at all, and it would be weird if they did

Guy of Bonisagus: i could encourage him to

Lavinia of Jerbiton: And if it doesn't look like they are, then we fall back onto plan B, stabby mc stab stab.

Fiorella the Raven: I think the Flambeau should bully the elementalist into joining the Order

Cygnus of Flambeau: hmm. we should prove we're the best magicians, but we should also not antagonise di Capocci

I don't see a way out of this one

Rosario of Flambeau: I agree with Fiorella.

That's a smart move.

Cygnus of Flambeau: yeah probably

let's challenge them to a duel

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hugo has many court wizards. Maybe some of them worry about losing prestige to this newcomer

The Tiber River: I mean, you say the Tiber can't be reasoned with, but have you even TRIED annihilating the Catholic Church and replacing it with cults devoted to magical beings with yourselves as the priesthood?

Fiorella the Raven: Challenge the elementalist to certamen

Winner controls the river

Archibald of Guernicus: "How about this, if I may put forward an idea."

Rosario of Flambeau: brilliant.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm now worried about what the Tiber is planning when it says it can deal with the church

Archibald of Guernicus: "Changing the minds of man is difficult and time consuming."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it could probably flood the city

The Tiber River: Certamen is only something Hermetic wizards can do and only the Order of Hermes cares about.

Fiorella the Raven: The river is just ignorant

Cygnus of Flambeau: yes

Fiorella the Raven: It imagines the Church is just some cult

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's challenge them to a real duel instead

The Tiber River: That could work.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's also a good idea.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway

regardles of what we do to the elementalist

are we on board with eventually enslaving the river ourself

Rosario of Flambeau: Sure.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: to make it shut the fuck up forever

Cygnus of Flambeau: It may be the best course

Guy of Bonisagus: aye

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rather than ask tribute, simply demand that they ask permission to proceed along your river. While merchants despise parting with money, they will accept this and go along with it."

Cygnus of Flambeau: I don't think any of us are particularly strong in that area though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then I'll ask a boon of no tax for a year. is that enough time to get something made in the lab?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm a vim specialist

Cygnus of Flambeau: Can vim control any spirit?

Archibald of Guernicus: Tho the problem with Lesser Enchanted Devices is that you need to invent them in one season

The Tiber River: Ok, but shouldn't you wait and see what you find at Edwin Locke's Lab AND what kind of enemy magician you face before you ask for that?

Cygnus of Flambeau: good idea

Lavinia of Jerbiton: waiting is stupid.

Cygnus of Flambeau: well let's check out his lab anyway

Fiorella the Raven: Maybe Lavinia can get Verdi in on this magic guild idea

Cygnus of Flambeau: if I get instakilled by a lab trap, well I've earned it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also archibald it doesn't have to be a lesser enchanted device if you use malach's shovel or bialas' cloak

Archibald of Guernicus: Oooooh

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: lets go shovel

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm hiking to allumiere, how long does it take?

The Tiber River: About a full day.

Cygnus of Flambeau: that should be fine

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I give Cygnus the usual warning about don't dig up the ground and get poisoned to death

Fiorella the Raven: I'll ride along to Allum

Archibald of Guernicus: I could also use my own sword, opened for enchantment, but I intend to use that as my talisman and dont want to flood it with other shit.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Also the water around there is poison too

Also watch out for the pseudoelementals, the restless dead, the fae

Cygnus of Flambeau: I keep an intangible tunnel open on lavinia's ring, my hand rock, and the fireplace in the central hall in vardian's tomb

Archibald of Guernicus: tho maybe, actually

Cygnus of Flambeau: *handy rock

The Tiber River: Ok, can you do that?

Archibald of Guernicus: if i open the sword as my talisman it gets a bonus to lab total

Fiorella the Raven: The sword has the shape bonus of a Crucifix, giving you a bonus to assuming the Divine Command of Kings

Cygnus of Flambeau: yes, if I can see them and am not in a hostile aura

I mean I can cast it if I can see them and maintain it as long as I want

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will wait for the results of Cygnus' trip back at the tomb.

Fiorella the Raven: And subjugating creatures with Might into your kingdom

Endrite (GM): Ok, who is coming along then?

Fiorella the Raven: I will

Endrite (GM): Cygnus?

Rosario of Flambeau: I guess I'll also go along.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its a sneaking mission

Fiorella the Raven: I can be a lookout

Guy of Bonisagus: brb

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Guy of Bonisagus: i can go

but brb

Cygnus of Flambeau: sounds good

I wear some armour for this trip

Endrite (GM): Smart.

Rosario of Flambeau: Same, as always.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll cast Doublet on my own body

Cygnus of Flambeau: is that a thing you can do

Fiorella the Raven: Mabye if I had a leather doublet on before I transformed

Endrite (GM): Wouldn't it then provide no soak?

Fiorella the Raven: If it has to be Feathers of Impenetrable Silk then that's how I invented it

I wouldn't invent a version I couldn't use

Endrite (GM): It seems dangerous to be in bird form all the time.

But whatever!

Fiorella the Raven: I only have Brawl in bird form

Endrite (GM): Fortunately the lab is marked on your map.

Archibald of Guernicus: the problem with bird form isnt the soak as much as how fast you die due to low size.

Endrite (GM): So you find your way there expeditiously.

Archibald are you going?

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll cast Personal Ward Against Demons just in case, even though there are probably no demons.

Archibald of Guernicus: you dont want to get hit at all

Fiorella the Raven: I die fast in human form anyway

Archibald of Guernicus: I wont go, its a sneaking mission after all

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+18

(

3

)

+18

=

21

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the crystal tower

Rosario of Flambeau: ok i cast it. its like circular ward against demons but it only protects my body and lasts for moon duration.

Endrite (GM): The lab has been refurbished, though much of the tower still lies in ruins.

Fiorella the Raven: I cast Doublet of Impenetrable Feathers, Sidestep, and Shriek

Endrite (GM): Instead of human guards, the Silver Queen's Iron Pigs are standing guard.

Rosario of Flambeau: lv10

Oh.

Hey.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: FREE VIS

Cygnus of Flambeau: I have endurance of the berserkers and shriekd of the impending shafts active btw

Endrite (GM): Well, one of them is asleep, but the other two are guarding the hell out of this place.

Cygnus of Flambeau: "So what's th story with these things?"

Endrite (GM): They are equipped with chainmail and iron spears.

Rosario of Flambeau: "They're quite burly."

Fiorella the Raven: I should see about making Endurance of the Berserking Bird

Endrite (GM): Also they have no recorded stats so I'm gonna have to make something up.

Fiorella the Raven: Endurance of the Heron

Endrite (GM): Shouldn't you have been a Bjornaer if you wanted to be a bird all the time?

Well whatever!

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll also do sidestep, why not.

Endrite (GM): It doesn't matter!

Cygnus of Flambeau: is there anyone who's been here before?

how tough are these guys and how many of them are there, do we have any idea

Guy of Bonisagus: "I sure hope those guards aren't hostile."

Fiorella the Raven: Could've should've too late now

Archibald of Guernicus: Shes a jerbiton because she's a noble. She's a bird because her major magical focus is in birds.

Endrite (GM): You probably should have brought someone along to help you out.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: why not just put the ring on and stab them to death

Endrite (GM): Someone more familiar with the terrain.

Fiorella the Raven: I go around in human form if I get some sort of social benefit out of it

Cygnus of Flambeau: well, I assumed any of the older magi qualified

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cast call to slumber on them

Rosario of Flambeau: in an ironic twist, fiorella's heartbeast is a fish.

Fiorella the Raven: And none of my experiences to this point have led me to beleive I'd get a social benefit.

Guy of Bonisagus: does call to slumber even work on faeries

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it should

Guy of Bonisagus: well ok

Endrite (GM): It might.

Cygnus of Flambeau: depends how human they are

Endrite (GM): They have pig faces but human bodies.

Archibald of Guernicus: human-shaped ones it should iirc

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll cast Faerie's Eternal Oblivion on one of the awake ones, I guess. If we're going in swinging and not full diplo.

Fiorella the Raven: When someone recognizes me as a Zeno who isn't an antagonist I'llb e human

Guy of Bonisagus: unless they have less than 10 might though i dont think my call would work on them

Cygnus of Flambeau: they wouldn't have sent team flambeau for full diplo

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah

Endrite (GM): They probably do have less than 10 might.

10 or less.

Guy of Bonisagus: well

i could try putting one to sleep then

Cygnus of Flambeau: "Fiorella, can we dispatch these creatures?"

Guy of Bonisagus: while barabba stabs one

Fiorella the Raven: "I can summon a flock of birds if I can penetrate their might."

Rosario of Flambeau: whats the aura again?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: magic 5 iirc?

Rosario of Flambeau: Cripes.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm asking if it's alright to

Endrite (GM): Remember that ordinary sleep spells aren't strong enough to make someone sleep through a fight.

Cygnus of Flambeau: not whether we can do it, I'm sure we can

Endrite (GM): But if you called them all to slumber you could avoid one.

Cygnus of Flambeau: this is so

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah, but i get house acclaim for killing things with magic might.

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's just kill them

Fiorella the Raven: "If the faeries are not antagonizing humans I'm not sure if it's right to kil lthem."

Endrite (GM): They're fairies.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Its free vis

Endrite (GM): -The Fay Molester

Fiorella the Raven: "I'm not an expert on the Code."

Cygnus of Flambeau: she's dithering, I stop regarding Fiorella as away team leader

Endrite (GM): On the other hand, I don't see any cops around.

Cygnus of Flambeau: in fact we're all dithering. I spont sidestep and assume  en garde

Rosario of Flambeau: alright, I draw my sword and begin casting.

Archibald of Guernicus: Fiorella is technically the most senior magus, but only by like 2 years

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Fiorella the Raven: "I say go for it."

Guy of Bonisagus: I hide in a shrub.

"Good luck."

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling (d10!+20)/2

(

(

4

)

+20)/2

=

12

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+21 faerie's eternal oblivion on the top guy

(

8

)

+21

=

29

18 pen

Endrite (GM): Is that good enough, Cygnus?

Fiorella the Raven: "Faerie places are good vis sources, so few magi have been willing to argue that charging into a faerie area spells blazing, stealing large amounts of faerie proper- ty, and retreating to your covenant, counts as molestation."

Cygnus of Flambeau: it is. I'm sidestepped

someone said aura magic 5 right?

Rosario of Flambeau: if it connects the faerie is flattened as if they're a flower pressed between the pages of a book, then crumbles.

Endrite (GM): What level might does that destroy?

Rosario of Flambeau: 20 or lower.

Endrite (GM): You have SUCCESSFULLY destroyed the fairy and its vis.

Rosario of Flambeau: Rip.

How embarassing.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You can't put a price on the glory of combat

Fiorella the Raven: It's still worth house acclaim, yes

Endrite (GM): The remaining fairy grunts, "Alarm! Intruders!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton updates kill counter

Endrite (GM): This wakes up the other Iron Pig, who jolts to attention.

Time for a fight!

Archibald of Guernicus: Here's an interesting fact: Fiorella, although the most senior magus here in terms of membership at Vardian's Tomb, is in fact our youngest magus. In the entire covenant.

Endrite (GM): Fiorella the Raven Initiative: 73

Guy of Bonisagus Initiative: 26

Cygnus of Flambeau Initiative: 29

Rosario of Flambeau Initiative: 37

Cygnus of Flambeau: it feels like she's been around for years

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, she's tied with Cygnus

She was born in the same year

Cygnus of Flambeau: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: Still, it's a funny little result of everyone making 30 year old magi.

Cygnus of Flambeau: being young ftw

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald was 21 when he joined the covenant and now he's the second oldest

Endrite (GM): Fiorella, the enemy is attacking!

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

Endrite (GM): What do you want to do?

Fiorella the Raven: I cast Murder of Crows on one of the pigs

rolling d2

(

1

)

=

1

Leftmost

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Fiorella the Raven: Of the alive ones, of course

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

Phew, didn't botch that random choice.

Right.

Go for it.

Cygnus of Flambeau: at last, the fabled murder of crows

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling d10!+46 spell level 40, +7 Pen

(

5

)

+46

=

51

Endrite (GM): Ok, what does this spell do?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hachi machi

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 51+7-40

51+7-40

=

18

Cygnus of Flambeau: damn +7 pen

Fiorella the Raven: Conjures a flock of crows onto the creature that deal +15 damgae per round

Wait

Endrite (GM): Ok, you penetrate this disguised Hermetic Magi's parma magica, committing a high crime.

Roll damage.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

1

)

=

16

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's not a crime if no one witnessed it.

Endrite (GM): Gah!

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Fiorella the Raven: I think that's just no damage this round

Guy of Bonisagus: actually wed be justified

because the maga committed a high crime first

by scrying on us

Fiorella the Raven: Good birds

Endrite (GM): Well, it didn't botch so that's some damage.

Anyway, Rosario!

Rosario of Flambeau: Are the pigs holding bladed weapons?

Fiorella the Raven: They can roll soak

Cygnus of Flambeau: +8 damage is something

Endrite (GM): Iron Spears.

Cygnus of Flambeau: don't forget they get their animal form bonus against bird damage though

Endrite (GM): I shan't.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hm. I will run up to the non-birded guy and attack him with my sword.

Endrite (GM): Nice.

V-Nice.

Roll it.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

8

)

+17

=

25

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

7

)

+15

=

22

Rosario of Flambeau: +11 damage.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Fiorella the Raven: The main reason I'm not a Bjornaer is that I want a familiar

Rosario of Flambeau: brb.

Endrite (GM): Cygnus.

Cygnus of Flambeau: which of these guys looks more injured?

Fiorella the Raven: But I need someone else to stat up a bearded vulture, unless I can find a published one

Endrite (GM): Neither has been injured yet, since the round isn't over.

But Fiorella obviously rolled higher.

Fiorella the Raven: The birded one gets a soak roll

Cygnus of Flambeau: ok I'll defend guy and cast vilano's sling at the one being assailed by crows

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Fiorella the Raven: So we don't know how muc hthe margin is

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10 botch check

(

4

)

=

4

Endrite (GM): Phew!

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think you need t odefend me

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+9 finesse

(

4

)

+9

=

13

Guy of Bonisagus: im hiding in a bush

Cygnus of Flambeau: ok I'll defend fiorella

Endrite (GM): He gets defense against this, right?

Cygnus of Flambeau: he does

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

7

)

+15

=

22

Cygnus of Flambeau: pretty good!

Endrite (GM): He bats your rock away.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I should learn real invisible sling as well

Endrite (GM): Someone sign this guy up for the Red Sox!

Fiorella the Raven: We established when fighting the owl that you can fly and cast at the same time without concentrating

Endrite (GM): Guy.

Maybe the owl had a feat.

Cygnus of Flambeau: it seems like it should be at least as difficult as walking

Fiorella the Raven: DFD didn't mention any virtues for it

Endrite (GM): It does seem like it would be that way.

Well, how would you know what virtues it had?

You killed it!

Guy of Bonisagus, what do you do?

Guy of Bonisagus: i hide in a bush!

Endrite (GM): Smart!

Fiorella the Raven: He didn't make an argument based on virtues when I asked if it was making concentration rolls

Rosario of Flambeau: Do might based powers operate the same as spells re: concentration

Endrite (GM): Ok, Rosario you get attack by the guy you're fighting.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 14

(

8

)

+14

=

22

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

9

)

+11

=

20

ouch.

Endrite (GM): Ok, +10 damage.

What's your soak?

Rosario of Flambeau: 12.

Endrite (GM): Terram form bonus also applies.

Rosario of Flambeau: 17 with form bonus.

I'm alright.

Endrite (GM): Ok you take no damage.

Phew!!!!

Remember it's form bonus, not your Terram score.

Anyway, Cygnus also gets attacked!

But his opponent misses!

Rosario of Flambeau: Yes, my terram score is 6, form bonus is on my sheet as 5.

Cygnus of Flambeau: ah hah!

Rosario of Flambeau: idk how the sheet auto calculates it though, i should check.

Archibald of Guernicus: Your form bonus is 2

Rosario of Flambeau: Ok.

Good.

Archibald of Guernicus: from 6 terram

Endrite (GM): It takes a medium wound from all the dang crows.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm blaming nihnoz.

Archibald of Guernicus: its art/5 round up

Endrite (GM): Rosario's opponent takes a light wound from the sword.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's all blame Nihnoz, even here, even now

Rosario of Flambeau: Score.

Endrite (GM): Ok new turn, Fiorella.

Rosario of Flambeau: ah. the sheet is calculating your art xp/5 rounded up for some inane reason.

Endrite (GM): It's one column over.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Fiorella the Raven: Alright, I'll summon a flock onto the pig not being attacked by crows, and then roll damage for both unless omething goes horribly wrong

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Fair enough.

Say which damage you're rolling first.

I think Nihnoz is about to have a major meltdown given his recent behavior, but you never know.

Samememe doesn't exactly bring out the best in people.

Ok, while Fiorella is doing that what do you do Rosario?

Archibald of Guernicus: He stopped posting entirely, I believe.

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 46+d10!+3 4 pen

46+

(

5

)

+3

=

54

18 pen again

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll attack the guy in front of me again.

Endrite (GM): Ok, sounds good.

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling d10!+15 Left Pig

(

9

)

+15

=

24

rolling d10!+15 Right Pig

(

9

)

+15

=

24

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

5

)

+17

=

22

smh.

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 15 -2

(

10

+

7

)

+15-2

=

30

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice defense.

Cygnus of Flambeau: pretty good

Endrite (GM): He bats away your pathetic blow, Rosario.

But he does get eaten by crows so that's good.

Ok, Cygnus.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sweet.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll get down to some defencing for once

rolling d10!+13 attack

(

3

)

+13

=

16

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 14 -4

(

5

)

+14-4

=

15

Cygnus of Flambeau: and exert, for 23

Endrite (GM): You hit him!

Cygnus of Flambeau: actually no

actually yes

thats 16-soak damage

I'm fatigued

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Alrighty.

Guy continues to hide like a small child.

You get attacked Rosario.

rolling 1d10! + 14 -2

(

10

+

7

)

+14-2

=

29

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

4

)

+11

=

15

Ouch, damn.

Endrite (GM): You get attacked Cygnus.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice rolls.

Archibald of Guernicus: yowza

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+12 defence

(

7

)

+12

=

19

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 14 -4

(

4

)

+14-4

=

14

Alright that's +10 damage, Rosario.

Rosario of Flambeau: I should have exerted defense.

Cygnus of Flambeau: on top of +14 attack advantage?

Endrite (GM): Well, you could spend a confidence point.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sure, I'll do that.

Endrite (GM): Alright, you take 19 damage before soak.

Cygnus of Flambeau: how do you figure

Endrite (GM): If I was TRULY cruel you would also immediately become poisoned by arsenic.

Cygnus of Flambeau: it was a 24-soak hit, no?

-3 for conf?

Rosario of Flambeau: 21 before soak, yeah.

so I take 9 damage.

Cygnus of Flambeau: a scratch

Endrite (GM): Oh right, conf is +3 now.

Fiorella the Raven: You can still do this, just get lucky instead of the pig getting lucky

Rosario of Flambeau: I mean, technically I shouldn't be getting hit by this at all because I had Sidestep up, but we both forgot so I'm just rolling with it.

Fiorella the Raven: That's a pretty big thing to forget about

Endrite (GM): Both pigs take heavy wounds from the crows.

Oh then you don't get hit, Rosario.

Phew!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Remember to hide the bodies when you're done

Cygnus of Flambeau: i just remembered i have a ring of invisibility

Rosario of Flambeau: It's fine, I definitely forgot.

Endrite (GM): The one your fighting is dead, Cygnus.

Cygnus of Flambeau: A heroic victory

Endrite (GM): Ok, this is probably just a formality.

Let's roll attack for the last pig and we'll see what's what.

rolling 1d10! + 14-8-9

(

9

)

+14-8-9

=

6

Fiorella the Raven: PC could still botch

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

6

)

+11

=

17

wait +9.

gah.

Still, he misses.

Endrite (GM): Ok!

Roll damage Fiorella.

Also roll to attack Rosario.

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 10!+15

10

=

10

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling d10!+15

(

4

)

+15

=

19

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! +14 -8

(

9

)

+14-8

=

15

That's the defense roll for Rosario.

Rosario of Flambeau: okay.

Endrite (GM): Roll to attack it, please.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

7

)

+15

=

22

Endrite (GM): For defeating two Iron Pigs, you gain 2 pawns of Terram vis!

Wow!

Rosario of Flambeau: Heck yeah.

Cygnus of Flambeau: hell yeah

Endrite (GM): Ok, what now?

Fiorella the Raven: Once there are no active threads, I issue a command to the birds to fly off. The spell has a Rego component, so they should be obedient.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I scatter whatever residual matter the pigs leave

it has a rego component to do what the spell does

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah

Cygnus of Flambeau: does it create birds that act as you direct, or does it create birds that attack the target

Fiorella the Raven: "Req: Rego

R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Group

Creates a flock of crows, who can be directed at the caster's will. An attacking flock of crows does +15 damage automatically each round, but this can be Soaked normally.

(Base 10, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +2 Group, +1 Rego Requisite)

(Damage based on Recruiting a Tiny Phalanx, Magi of Hermes page 12)

(Utilizes a leather crown studded with a topaz for the Potent Spell bonus. The leather portion transforms when the wearer shrinks or grows.)"

Endrite (GM): There's one pawn of terram vis in the right tusk of each fairy.

Cygnus of Flambeau: cool

Endrite (GM): You toss the fairy corpses off the cliff.

Cygnus of Flambeau: traditionally fairy bodies dissolve as they die, leaving the incidental matter they were animating

Endrite (GM): The perfect crime.

Cygnus of Flambeau: probably some arsenic laced rocks, in this case

Endrite (GM): Maybe, you'd have to climb down the cliff to be sure.

Fiorella the Raven: Oh yeah, the main thing keeping me from tkaing a familiar was upsetting Bialias

And he's dead

Time to get aggressive about it

Endrite (GM): He just has to accept that magi take familiars.

Or hd to.

Anyway, you done here or do you want to do some investigating?

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's do some investigating

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Fiorella the Raven: I don't think we came all this way for 2 terram vis

Cygnus of Flambeau: I wonder why I threw that body off a cliff

Guy of Bonisagus: lets investigate

Cygnus of Flambeau: must have been the battle lust

Endrite (GM): Most of the tower is still ruined, but there's a newly installed door.

To an enclosed sanctum in the refurbished part of the tower.

Or maybe Narnia!

Who knows until you open it?

Guy of Bonisagus: I open the door.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll go check out the Roosting Quality of the roof

Cygnus of Flambeau: I open it

Endrite (GM): Unfortunately, it's locked.

Cygnus of Flambeau: are there any windows?

Endrite (GM): It's roostable, Fiorella.

Fiorella the Raven: Excellent.

Endrite (GM): Yes, on the side with the sheer cliff.

Fiorella the Raven: Not bad for a ruined tower

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, the door's barred."

Cygnus of Flambeau: hmm. good thing we brought a bird

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, I guess that's our investigation at an end."

Fiorella the Raven: Is there an open window?

Endrite (GM): It's barred, but you can see inside.

Fiorella the Raven: No glass?

Endrite (GM): Nah, that's pretty expensive.

Cygnus of Flambeau: glass is pricy

otoh you would expect shutters if nobody's in there

Guy of Bonisagus: he probably reckoned his faerie guards would keep people away

Fiorella the Raven: I'll go back to the PCs

Cygnus of Flambeau: even the rain?

"how does it look, maga?"

Fiorella the Raven: "Three's a woman cowering inside there. Probably a mundane servant."

Cygnus of Flambeau: the order of hermes needs more gradations in terms of address

what's latin for senpai?

Fiorella the Raven: "I considered using Unseen Porter to unbar the door, but she's already pretty frightened so it seemed cruel."

Endrite (GM): You could try, "Your Mysticness."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "She's going to be frightened regardless"

Fiorella the Raven: I'll describe the woman to the other magi

Endrite (GM): She's Old and Womany.

Cygnus of Flambeau: "She's also going to give report of us to her master, and I don't want to kill a servant"

Guy of Bonisagus: "You shouldn't want to kill anyone."

Endrite (GM): If ONLY there was a master of Mentem magic who lived in Allumiere!

Rosario of Flambeau: If only!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Bribe her

Guy of Bonisagus: "Slay if you must, but kill?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Bribe and threaten her

Cygnus of Flambeau: I knock on the door

"Madam, we're here to burgle you. Please open the door"

Endrite (GM): Your rap your hands on the solid oak door.

You get no reply.

Fiorella the Raven: "The bible says thou shalt not kill. To slay is to meet honorably on the battlefield, to kill is to murder. Guy has a point."

Guy of Bonisagus: "No, no, don't mind him. We're burgling your master, not you."

Endrite (GM): Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Grimoires.

No reply.

Cygnus of Flambeau: "That's more accurate, thank you. We're here to commit a burglary and you need not be greatly inconvenienced"

Guy of Bonisagus: well really to slay can also be for self defense or otherwise justified

Endrite (GM): No reply.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I try in Latin and Italian, which are both impeccable

Fiorella the Raven: Agreed Guy

Cygnus of Flambeau: alright, I guess we bust down the door somehow

Guy of Bonisagus: kill was the word for murder for a long time

Endrite (GM): Your gambit to persuade an old woman to let you barge in his failed.

Ok, how do you want to bust in?

Guy of Bonisagus: we could have fiorella raise the bar

Fiorella the Raven: Let me see if my Herbam is good enough to lift a bar with Unseen Porter

Cygnus of Flambeau: is it barred or locked?

Fiorella the Raven: It is, in this aura

Cygnus of Flambeau: you could see from the other side

Endrite (GM): Barred.

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh that's easy then

Rosario of Flambeau: someone count spont a curse of rotted wood.

just to be really rude.

Cygnus of Flambeau: no need to cause any damage

Rosario of Flambeau: and mess up the place.

oh, okay.

Cygnus of Flambeau: fiorella simply lifts the bar remotely through the window

Fiorella the Raven: I'll fly up to the window and get sight of the bar and cast Unseen Porter with Herbam casting req

Endrite (GM): Go for it.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I don't think you need a casting req even

Endrite (GM): Yeah I don't think you would.

Heh heh.

Fiorella the Raven: I don't think it can botch right now

Endrite (GM): Pardon the pun.

Fiorella the Raven: So I just cast it

Endrite (GM): Well if you're casting spontaneously it could.

Fiorella the Raven: It's formulaic

Endrite (GM): Anyway, the bar lifts off the door.

Fiorella the Raven: "It is open, sodales."

"Do as you must."

Endrite (GM): Feel free to bust in and ransack the place.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, thank you Fiorella. Hello miss."

Rosario of Flambeau: Someone cover the old woman with a blanket.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Don't mind us, just looking for incriminating correspondence."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm very sorry ma'am but we're just trying to stop evil."

Old Woman: "Oh please! Oh please don't hurt me!"

"I'm just a poor old woman," she sobs.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Why would we?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Do you want me to make you a cup of coffee?"

Guy of Bonisagus: coffee huh

take him away boys

Rosario of Flambeau: shit.

Old Woman: Alright, Rosario-2, what do you want to do?

Rosario of Flambeau: we're still 60 years away from coffee. RIP.

i make an ass out of u and me when i assume like this.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I bust in and politely ransack the place

Old Woman: "I don't want to cause any trouble, just don't hurt me!"

Cygnus of Flambeau: the nice thing is none of us are known associates of vardian's tomb

Guy of Bonisagus: "For the love of God, we aren't going to."

Rosario of Flambeau: "No one wants to hurt you."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "We're not going to, I thought that was clear"

"pray sit down and let us be about our work, gentle crone"

Guy of Bonisagus: I try to calm the woman down.

Old Woman: She cries.

Clearly, she's faint hearted.

Cygnus of Flambeau: women

Guy of Bonisagus: oh i know

Endrite (GM): What are you looking for?

Guy of Bonisagus: i use call to slumber on her

Endrite (GM): Letters?

Guy of Bonisagus: and set her in her bed

Cygnus of Flambeau: letters is a good start

Guy of Bonisagus: or something that serves as a bed

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll examine any texts just to see what sort of thing is kept here

Endrite (GM): Alright, she eventually falls asleep and you tuck her in.

Cygnus of Flambeau: hmm. maybe we should have done that first

Endrite (GM): Most of the texts are on medicine, but some are pretty strange.

If you don't know the first thing about medicine you can't tell, though.

devil's fav demon: lets go get the other flambeau closest to this location to wipe her memory.

Endrite (GM): I mean, you can't tell what exactly is strange.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Lol

better take everything

Cygnus of Flambeau: artes and philosophiae is the extent of my medical knowledge

Guy of Bonisagus: I will use Recollection of Memories Never Quite Lived on the sleeping woman.

Endrite (GM): Smort.

Guy of Bonisagus: To make her remember us as having church symbols upon us.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Endrite (GM): There are also a few letters.

Rosario of Flambeau: Smart.

Cygnus of Flambeau: "as it stands we could make it seem like there was no break in"

Endrite (GM): From someone named "Odele."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "but we could also take this material to be deciphered by Lavinia or someone"

Guy of Bonisagus: "I've altered her memories, she should remember us as church officials now."

Cygnus of Flambeau: ah, splendid

what do the letters discuss?

Endrite (GM): She (for it becomes clear later on that she's a woman) says that, indeed, it is within her power to summon and control the river spirit.

After that it gets a little smutty.

Cygnus of Flambeau: my goodness

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ohh hehe

Cygnus of Flambeau: are both these people gifted?

Fiorella the Raven: Let's compile the letters into a tract on Charm

Guy of Bonisagus: locke isnt

Cygnus of Flambeau: well, we can't know about Odele I guess

Guy of Bonisagus: hes just a hedge mage i think

Endrite (GM): She details a list of objects she'll need for her rituals (candles, powdered iron, salt, and a silver dagger).

Guy of Bonisagus: he knows a few elementalist abilities

Endrite (GM): Edwin Locke is not gifted.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hmm.

Cool ritual materials.

Guy of Bonisagus: Can I use Magic Theory to determine if her ritual sounds hermetic?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets replace her ingredients with fakes

Endrite (GM): Also, you all have the Parma Magica up so you can't detect the social penalty of the Gift, even if it was possible to do so from the letter.

There are no such ingredients here.

Fiorella the Raven: Guy's proposal seems sound

Endrite (GM): Well, there are a bunch of candles and some salt in a tiny kitchen.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll look through the paraphernalia here for vis and magical treasures

rolling d10 botch check

(

10

)

=

10

I can sense vis

Fiorella the Raven: Hedge elementalists don't need to be gifted

Endrite (GM): There's a super cool globe and some jugs.

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's call that conc and scent range

what's cool about the globe?

Endrite (GM): It's round and you can spin it.

Fiorella the Raven: And controlling a river god is within the means of a mythic companion level ungifted elementalist

Endrite (GM): Neat!

Rosario of Flambeau: Neat.

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh like a map globe

Guy of Bonisagus: well i guess going by the materials its probably not hermetic

Cygnus of Flambeau: this seems.... anachronistic

Rosario of Flambeau: What's on the globe?

Endrite (GM): Nevertheless, your sense do not betray you.

Europe, Africa, the Orient.

Rosario of Flambeau: The usual things.

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Cygnus of Flambeau: the traditional blank quadrant to doodle on

Endrite (GM): Right, exactly.

Ok, do you want to steal anything?

If not I think we can get back to town.

Fiorella the Raven: Any texts to steal?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I vote we rob the books and correspondence

Rosario of Flambeau: Does he have any chivalric romance?

Endrite (GM): Oh also if you don't want to murder the old woman or cast more spells on her.

No.

Rosario of Flambeau: Some scholar.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Now, we came here for some information. It's hardly necessary to steal."

"The letters, sure, but leave the man his books."

Fiorella the Raven: I will return to Rome, going as the crow flies, so to speak.

Rosario of Flambeau: "He has nothing worth reading, anyway."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "they might be a clue, if we had the knowledge to understand them"

"and rather low, I agree, but this man is our declared enemy"

"well, declared by us, in private"

"and not to his knowledge"

Endrite (GM): Thank you.

Guy of Bonisagus: "They're clearly works on medicine of some sort. The man's a doctor, albeit a hedge magician."

Cygnus of Flambeau: "fair enough"

Rosario of Flambeau: I hope I can survive long enough to read Orlando Furioso.

Cygnus of Flambeau: the letters are a recent arcane connection to Odele at least

are they dated?

Guy of Bonisagus: we wanted a better ac to him as well

Endrite (GM): Nope.

Must be recent though.

Guy of Bonisagus: we could take a lab instrument of some sort

Cygnus of Flambeau: true enough

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe with the best rituals possible I could get to it on my deathbed.

Endrite (GM): Unless he concocted the whole river thing far in advance.

Which you found no evidence of.

Cygnus of Flambeau: is there any tool here that looks frequently used?

Guy of Bonisagus: is there any evidence that he had anything at all to do with the river waking up

Endrite (GM): No.

Rosario of Flambeau: do you want to leave a threatening message or symbol?

Cygnus of Flambeau: "he won't buy the churchmen story. everything we take screams magician's intrigue"

Fiorella the Raven: It seems to me like a combination of the river source being magical + the statue warping the water

Cygnus of Flambeau: does he store personal items here like clothing?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

There's a single change of clothes here.

Well, men's clothing.

Cygnus of Flambeau: hmm. it'll have to do

Endrite (GM): The Old Woman has some of hers here too.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Sure, but it should throw him off at least a bit."

Endrite (GM): You already have an Arcane Connection to Edwin Locke though.

Guy of Bonisagus: "It's not like it's impossible that the church would investigate him after his scene in the market."

Endrite (GM): His leg hair.

Cygnus of Flambeau: yeah, it's as good as anything we'll find here

I guess we're done

Endrite (GM): Ok, so you're not taking anything?

To be clear.

Cygnus of Flambeau: well, the letters

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: specifically the most recent letter from Odele would be useful

Endrite (GM): Pervert.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We take 2 terram vis as well

Endrite (GM): Right.

No reason to leave that lying around.

Alright, anything else?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well it could turn back into a faerie if we're lax about using it

Endrite (GM): Ok, going once.

Going twice.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll pat the sleeping old lady on the head.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I feel like we're missing something obvious, but whatever

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant think of anything else to take

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's move on

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait

what if the old lady is odele

Guy of Bonisagus: i doubt it

Archibald of Guernicus: the old woman was an arcane connection t

Cygnus of Flambeau: take a hair from the lady as well

Endrite (GM): Could be.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The only way to be sure is to kidnap her.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Rosario of Flambeau: Ok.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can InVi her to see if she's been recently used as a spell target

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll yank a hair out of her head.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But I guess your Call to Slumber owuld show up

Rosario of Flambeau: "Sorry."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: First and foremost

Guy of Bonisagus: shes an old woman so i hope the flirtatious letters arent from her

Endrite (GM): She sleeps through it.

Guy of Bonisagus: well first would be my memory alterations

Endrite (GM): Hey, old women need love too.

Guy of Bonisagus: then call to slumber

Endrite (GM): Anyway, you take an arcane connection from her and then....

Go back to Rome.

Or not??

Cygnus of Flambeau: I can't invi well enough to detect spell traces, which in any case would only pick up call to slumber

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think theres anything else we need to do so we would go to rome

Cygnus of Flambeau: we go back to Rome! and catch up with everoyne who didn't want to make the hike

Endrite (GM): Alright, what's the plan?

Cygnus of Flambeau: "we can scry on this summoner if need be"

Endrite (GM): The plam is a new kickstarter.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did you get papers for lavinia to check out

Cygnus of Flambeau: I give the letter to archibald

Guy talked me out of it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fff

Cygnus of Flambeau: who can say no to that face?

Guy of Bonisagus: i didnt want to actually steal things of value from the man

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Archibald, do you know the touch of midas?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's shove Guy into a furnace

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Guy of Bonisagus: its bad to steal

Archibald of Guernicus: "I do not, but I can invent it in a season's time, I know that."

Cygnus of Flambeau: in the end we just took things he won't miss, like intimate love letters

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "We have some terram vis that should be used in a timely manner."

Guy of Bonisagus: sinful love letters

Cygnus of Flambeau: "they're pretty juicy. anyway this one must have been written in the past few weeks because it talks about the river god"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If you don't wish to invent the Touch of Midas, you could always use it in your studies in the temple."

Archibald of Guernicus: i'll read through the letters

Endrite (GM): You learn a little more about the art of love.

And also all the info I already relayed.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Looks like we got the best text in the tower

Archibald of Guernicus: "Load of nonsense. So they'll be here soon, then?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's add the letters as a Charm correspondence to our library

Archibald of Guernicus: "Is there a possibility of knocking them out before they attempt this ritual with the river?"

"Well, frankly, if they manage to succeed, good for them. We can take control of them at any point we deem appropriate, and the river is ours, the problem solved."

"If not, we can move to solve things in the coming year."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "That's not a bad plan."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We should try to observe this ritual."

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod "We should, aye."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It'd be better for us if they fail spectacularly."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Whatever the outcome, it should be seen."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If the elementalist is gifted, he can be coerced to join the Order."

Endrite (GM): She.

Guy of Bonisagus: "She."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: She

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh yes, but even a success can be turned tae our advantage, given some planning."

Guy of Bonisagus: is it possible to folk ken a letter

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I ignore guy as that was an OOC mistkae

Endrite (GM): What do you want to know, Guy?

Guy of Bonisagus: i want to get a sense for this womans pride

Endrite (GM): There's not really enough material here for that.

Guy of Bonisagus: fair enough

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The elementalist could botch the ritual and it'd be very funny

Endrite (GM): She does seem to be an avid gardener given how many budding flowers she talks about.

Rosario of Flambeau: Ooh.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I want to get a sense of her literary ability

Endrite (GM): Pretty decent.

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus would have loved this

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't think she's talking about gardening.

Ha ha.

Violante the Herbwife: I think Violante met her

Maybe

Endrite (GM): When?

Violante the Herbwife: I might be thinking of someone else

Ptol something

Endrite (GM): It does seem that way.

I don't think that Violante has ever met her.

Violante the Herbwife: Right

Cygnus of Flambeau: it would be convenient

Violante the Herbwife: Especially if its an NPC made upf or this adventure

Cygnus of Flambeau: who's violante?

Rosario of Flambeau: the Herbwife.

Cygnus of Flambeau: ah

Violante the Herbwife: An apothecary who gathers stuff for Gulielmus

Cygnus of Flambeau: a grog?

Violante the Herbwife: Yeah

She has Magic Sensitivity allowing her to find her way around regios

Endrite (GM): Anyway, what's the plan here?

Cygnus of Flambeau: good trick

Violante the Herbwife: And enough Magic Lore to diventify herbs of virtue

idenfity

Close enough

Cygnus of Flambeau: well who's any good at scrying?

Violante the Herbwife: Archibald

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's get some pen multipliers on this elementalist

Violante the Herbwife: We have a letter of hers

Intimate letters, even

Endrite (GM): Lavinia is also an excellent scryster.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok back to active PC

Archibald has formulaic Inexorable Search, right?

Archibald of Guernicus: No

He sponted it before, during the tribunal adventure, and has not actually been allowed to do labtime since then

fucked up, but true

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sorry what needs to be scried here?

Cygnus of Flambeau: we have her signature and a +2 ac, so pen multiplier is at 4

Archibald of Guernicus: i doubt pen matters for an elementalist anyway

Cygnus of Flambeau: well anything that gives us an advantage on this lady

I guess so

Lavinia of Jerbiton: their location?

easy

rolling 1d10!+7+2+3 vs 12

(

5

)

+7+2+3

=

17

Cygnus of Flambeau: it would be good to know when she arrives

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: This hedge wizard... knows the Parma? The plot thickens

Cygnus of Flambeau: she'll presumably need to get in range ofthe spirit

Endrite (GM): She's here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: who can conjure a storm at A/C range

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: That's a big Severin

Endrite (GM): It is.

Cygnus of Flambeau: it only needs to be at touch range, if it's a less than level 20 storm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ah could I scry "how long will it take her boat to arrive"

Cygnus of Flambeau: curse of the rotted wood, target:structure

Guy of Bonisagus: ok now spont a peco effect on her

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i get a bonus for questions about ships

Endrite (GM): Smart.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Intangible tunnel the boat using your AC to a passenger

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Learn a

fact that could be ascertained by an

observer present in the target location

by simple observation"

(From Endrite (GM)): 4 days hence.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 4 days

whats the highest mentem you guys can get, using ceremonial magic

Cygnus of Flambeau: I have intellego 7 mentem 0

Archibald of Guernicus: You can create a storm at level 15, though it has to be made in the sky

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant get any, as i cannot spont

Archibald of Guernicus: for touch range, i mean

Cygnus of Flambeau: yeah

you can't target the sky through a tunnel to a person

Rosario of Flambeau: 8 ceremonial casting total inme

Archibald of Guernicus: what sort of mentem, intellego?

Rosario of Flambeau: heh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what if you put the Thought in their mind that they have to do the ritual while standing on the Tiber Island Bridge

CrMe

Rosario of Flambeau: 14

Cygnus of Flambeau: ooh

Lavinia of Jerbiton: CrMe Base 4, moon duration

or repeatedly cast with sun duration

Archibald of Guernicus: I can spont a level 15 effect in the regio without worry, and possibly a level 20 with a decent roll

i have a level 15 AC range intangible tunnel

Cygnus of Flambeau: 4 +1 touch +2 sun is the realistic max i think

Archibald of Guernicus: so touch-range is good

but yeah

capped by level 15

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what if you used vis

Cygnus of Flambeau: that should be fine, just make sure you get up for sunrise

Archibald of Guernicus: So this is what you want to put in her head?

Cygnus of Flambeau: which every good magus should anyway

using vis won't alter the spell's parameters

Endrite (GM): I think this should be a Base 5 situation to create a full memory.

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean its capped by level 15 because my intangible tunnel only allows spells up to 15

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh. OH

Archibald of Guernicus: I could spont a level 20 tunnel

Endrite (GM): If it's just a thought it could slip away or be easily revealed as incorrect.

Archibald of Guernicus: but

Cygnus of Flambeau: a level 15 AC range intangible tunnel

will allow me to use my level 15 Sight range intangible tunnel

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright. I have a Hitman idea.

Cygnus of Flambeau: which allows spells up to level 20

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We kill her at he docks, then replace her with an Imaginem imposter.

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

okay and i have a formulaic spel

to detect any active magic

so i can detect your tunnel without any worries

are we doing this, Cygnus

are we comboing tunnels

Rosario of Flambeau: powerful...

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's

Endrite (GM): Wait what?

Cygnus of Flambeau: nested tunnelling

Endrite (GM): How would that work?

Guy of Bonisagus: its not nice to kill people

Archibald of Guernicus: [gurren lagann voice] That's how a tunnel works!

Guy of Bonisagus: especially some lady thats coming here to do something she thinks will help people

Endrite (GM): Can you cast spells through someone else's intangible tunnel?

Cygnus of Flambeau: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, yes

Explicitly

Cygnus of Flambeau: but it has to be revealed to you

Archibald of Guernicus: you have to be able to detect them, of course

Cygnus of Flambeau: a simple CrIm saying it's over here is sufficient

Guy of Bonisagus: however, its an endrite adventure, so killing off npcs is a good idea to make sure they dont come back

Rosario of Flambeau: So this is Tunnel Docking...

Archibald of Guernicus: this is why Archibald prebuffs, every morning, with a spell that protects him against them

or rather, helps him detect them

because then you can cast BACK through it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: She is a Hedge Wizard, and she is on Our Turf.

Endrite (GM): So wouldn't that mean you could only cast a spell on Cygnus?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It would be wrong NOT to kill her.

Archibald of Guernicus: No no, a tunnel is between 2 people

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Also.

If all else fails.

Let's get the Knights in on this.

Cygnus of Flambeau: no he's casting on Odele through the letter

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I think they should know someone is planning to control the river.

Cygnus of Flambeau: and then I can cast on her through his tunnel

Archibald of Guernicus: you can cast on one end of the tunnel, and it hits the other person, on the other side, so long as you can see it. magi can in fact co-operate on tunnels.

Cygnus of Flambeau: and then whatever spell we actually want goes through my tunnel

Guy of Bonisagus: it would be wrong to kill anyone, as you risk your immortal soul

Endrite (GM): I feel like allowing this is going to cause serious problems in the future.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's not a matter of "allowing" anything though, this is actually how the tunnel works

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I've already killed 1 person

Archibald of Guernicus: you have [screams]

Lavinia of Jerbiton: actually I get to look forward by being haunted by Zita's ghost later in life, it's part of Virgilian twilight

Rosario of Flambeau: i mean allowing you to cast a tunnel that is more powerful than the initial tunnel through the first tunnel

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Lavinia has a PVP kill, even

Archibald of Guernicus: lol, is it?

Guy of Bonisagus: that wasnt a kill

that was slaying

Cygnus of Flambeau: exploits like this are why I took a minor magical focus in Spell Regulation (ReVi that affects other spells)

Archibald of Guernicus: she cast a rite that murders people

Guy of Bonisagus: zita was not killed, she was slain

Archibald of Guernicus: All I did was hide that bear trap in my room. You simply had to not step on the hidden bear trap.

Rosario of Flambeau: something seems a little off about this.

Endrite (GM): I'm not happy about this, but I'll allow it with the express caveat that I or another GM can reverse this decision at any time.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats correct archibald

Cygnus of Flambeau: it's entirely within the letter of the rules

Guy of Bonisagus: all you had to do was not break into your friends room

Cygnus of Flambeau: if you're disallowing it, I want to know the precise ruling that's being made

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there is another thing we can do here

that archibald definitely can do

Guy of Bonisagus: lavinias right

Endrite (GM): I just said I'd allow it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: keep casting CrVi on her to give her warping points

Guy of Bonisagus: we can reco the hedge mage onto a lavinia trap

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and eventually she'll be addled with flaws

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

well, that too i guess

Archibald of Guernicus: Other magi can also cast spells through

the tunnel (from either end) on either

the target or the caster. The effective

range is the range to the local end of

the tunnel

Lavinia of Jerbiton: elementalists might also have their own form of twilight

Guy of Bonisagus: theres no twilight if shes not gifted

Endrite (GM): Couldn't you just straight kill her?

Cygnus of Flambeau: it'd be interesting to find out, if nothing else

it amounts to hte same thing

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont have a spell to give someone warping, formulaicly, I'm afraid

Guy of Bonisagus: that being said i still think its rude to do this

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's embarass her instead

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: As an elementalist accumulates Warping,

instead of gaining new Virtues and Flaws as described in Ars Magica 5th Edition, he instead becomes even more strongly attuned to the four elements, both mentally and physically.

Cygnus of Flambeau: you can spont through an intangible tunnel

Guy of Bonisagus: or just let it play out

Archibald of Guernicus: my plan was to invent it and kill proclus with it by forcing him into final twilight, denying him Heaven forever, but i wasnt able to.

Guy of Bonisagus: and then take control of the ritual that controls the river later

Cygnus of Flambeau: muvi doesn't allow sponting, but revi generally does

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: you can spont through a tunnel yeah

Guy of Bonisagus: if you warp an elementalist you empower them

Archibald of Guernicus: thats how beatrice killed aristide, in fact

she had insanely high creo and it let her spont touch-range low level CrIg

Guy of Bonisagus: warp her so much that her ritual definitely succeeds

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how about this

CrVi 15: give the target the phantom gift so everyone hates her

Archibald of Guernicus: TO be honest though, I think we should see what happens with the ritual. We can do that, but we need to know what happens with it.

If she succeeds, we can control her

if she fails, we proceed as planned

either way, we win

though making everyone hate her sounds like fun

is that a touch range effect, to give the false gift?

Cygnus of Flambeau: she's probably already gifted if she's strong enough to do this

surely it can be any range

Lavinia of Jerbiton: base 3, +1 touch, +3 moon

Archibald of Guernicus: if shes gifted we should press-gang her into the order, removing her from the capocci court

then all her actions in Rome are regulated by tribunal as somethign we're free to charge her about

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no

if we make her part of the order we lose our right to bully her

thats a bad idea!

Archibald of Guernicus: do you want to see if shes gifted?

Endrite (GM): What if she's already a member of the Order of Hermes?

Archibald of Guernicus: thats one thing i did consider, so again, we should see what happens

if she casts hermetic magic then well

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then she's depriving us of magical resources and has forfeit immunity anyway

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We already scryed on her so we should kill her if she's a hermetic magi

Endrite (GM): Oh we have to be able to cast hermetic magic to be in the Order of Hermes now?

Wow.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So she can't report us

Archibald of Guernicus: thats not how forfeit immunity works, but it does mean we can ruin her at tribunal

Endrite (GM): Just wow.

Archibald of Guernicus: lavinia scried on her but with magical virgilian shit, i doubt shes in the order, anyway

Endrite (GM): The track record on ruining people at Tribunal has not been great so far.

Archibald of Guernicus: we havent ever tried it on anyone

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also

lets give her Curse of the Unruly tongue, base 2, +1 touch, +3 moon

Cygnus of Flambeau: I mean we'll probably all be dead by the time of the next tribunal, so let's leave that aside for now

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: She didn't resist the sortes so she might not be a magi

Archibald of Guernicus: the only person anyone ever tried to own at tribunal was zita trying to own Galafre. and she did. so id say thats ag ood record!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hermetic magi, anyway

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's decide what should happen and wrap it up quickly because it's 1 am

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets just kill her

this has gone on too long

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we should see what the fuck she does, lavinia should check if she's gifted

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no

I refuse. she has to die

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I would like to have one season available ths year, yes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: give her gift stink, palsied hands, and unruly tongue. all

Archibald of Guernicus: we can tunnel up on her up to level 20 if needed

Endrite (GM): Perdo Decision.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets perdo GM

Archibald of Guernicus: i want to see if she just solves the advneture and renders all this pointless and we move on with our lives

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if we can't publicly embarass this ritual caster there is no point to letting them cast the ritual

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You'd have to be in charge of these indecisive players if you perdo GM

Endrite (GM): I feel like it's well within your power do something at this point.

Cygnus of Flambeau: we still want the river as a friend don't we

Endrite (GM): Or to choose to do nothing.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: letting some hedge wizard come in and fix our problems is embarassing.

its shameful.

Guy of Bonisagus: we want the river to not ruin our lives

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no, the river is a moron

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm cool with doing nothing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it either has to die or be our slave

Guy of Bonisagus: our problems, yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: the river is stupid, yeah

Guy of Bonisagus:  sweeps virgilian statue that caused this under the rug

Archibald of Guernicus: we tried

we really did try

with it

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: but it hates any plan we give it

so why bother

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It has no survival instinct

Cygnus of Flambeau: I thought we wanted to bind it to service ourselves

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Not a great trait in a king

Guy of Bonisagus: we did but if we cant do thati t might as well die

Archibald of Guernicus: we should, but we need to know its Might for that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the only way to make this whole waste of time have any gain is if we get the credit for bringing the river under control

Cygnus of Flambeau: ok, at minimum we should render it for vis

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We need a season to bind it I think

Guy of Bonisagus: lavinia succumbing to sunk costs fallacy

Cygnus of Flambeau: and we certainly shouldn't let anyone else have it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes so let's stop the Capoccis from binding it or else we wont get any credit for binding it ourselves later

Endrite (GM): Dang a whole season to bind a god?

Cygnus of Flambeau: however murdering the elementalist is pretty cold and evil though

Endrite (GM): Wow what a waste of time.

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we dont have to murder her, just threaten her

and ruin her ability to cast magic

hmm wait

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We need to spend a season but the elementalist doesn't

Is the thing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: actually that could come back to bite us if she complains to the noble

better to just kill her.

Guy of Bonisagus: the bad boys of vardians tomb hear word of a hedge mage coming to use her magic to benefit the people and all begin devising plans to ruin her

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Elementalists just need to spend a long term fatigue

WHich is a good night's rest

Cygnus of Flambeau: I have to say I think this is a dishonorable act, and I won't facilitate it

if we're killing her, anyway

Endrite (GM): Uh oh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wow. its like proclus never left.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I say we meet her, if she's gifted we can Join Or Die her, if she's not it's dishonorable to murder her

Endrite (GM): Well good thing I said that the only way for you to all die on this adventure was to kill each other

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there is nothing to gain by inducting a gifted elementalist in the order who has strong connections to the capocci court

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And if she's an Order member already then we sweep scrying on her under the rug

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it would be Bad for us

if she's an order member already she is a scrub with no parma

Archibald of Guernicus: We should find out if she's Gifted to see if shes got any hope of succeeding or not, though

if she has no hope, just let her fail

Guy of Bonisagus: shes done nothing that makes it seem like she deserves to die

Lavinia of Jerbiton: She has no parma. this is established, unless endrite just forgot to take that into account

Endrite (GM): I did not.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you have no way of knowing if the gift is needed for her to actually bind the river though

Archibald of Guernicus: if she has no parma we can fuckin mind control her to do anything we want later

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you can't even mind control her now!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We know that hedge magic doesn't always require teh gift

Archibald of Guernicus: the river is ours if she succeeds

Lavinia of Jerbiton: with all of us in the covenant trying to work through a tunnel

Archibald of Guernicus: i can spend a gODDAMN season to invent spells to do so

Guy of Bonisagus: hows the tunnel work

can i cast any formulaic spell through it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and who knows what insane precautious she takes with the hedge wizard court in the meantime

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Pagan elders sometimes work sorcerous rites without the gift

Lavinia of Jerbiton: plus she's claiming the credit and making us look bad and doing nothing about the bounties on me and guy's name

Guy of Bonisagus: can i touch range through one of barabbas tunnels

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Maybe she's a charlatan and the river has a deal with her already

Guy of Bonisagus: if so barabba can make a tunnel and i can find out some more stuff for us

Archibald of Guernicus: If you have a means to detect and view the tunnel

Cygnus of Flambeau: yes, ok

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And that's why the river won't work with us, it already has a deal with her

Cygnus of Flambeau: I trust guy not to surprise murder her

Endrite (GM): I don't think the Tiber River would do you dirty like that.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't know how honorable rivers are

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont have anything special for that

Cygnus of Flambeau: not after it's been so thoroughly cleaned up

Guy of Bonisagus: can barabba guide me

Archibald of Guernicus begins lifting a large rock to throw at endrite

Endrite (GM): The fact that you can't decide what to do with, as far as you know, an entirely helpless victim is on you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Look

do this, CrMe 15: panic of the trembling heart

make her afraid of rome

keep casting it until she turns around and goes back the way she came

no one dies and nothing bad happens

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Cool

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its sun duration.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: That gives us time to bind the river ourselves

Archibald of Guernicus: ALright

Endrite (GM): She is probably not the captain of the ship.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We just need long enough to let Archibald make the item

She could just catch a boat at Ostia

Archibald of Guernicus: When does she land? We found that with the sortes right

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 4 days

Guy of Bonisagus: 4 days

Archibald of Guernicus: we just need her afraid when she lands

and then she'll flee

Lavinia of Jerbiton: her ship should be moving up the coast though and stopping at each port for supplies

Rosario of Flambeau: hah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if she wants to turn back, she can disembark now and get another ship

Endrite (GM): Could be.

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright then

Guy of Bonisagus: i still wanna cast my spells first

before we send her running off

Cygnus of Flambeau: ok all the effects to detect intangible tunnels appear to be base 5

Archibald of Guernicus: In that case, my penetration on Tunnel is something like +20 in the temple before even rolling, since she has no parma it doesnt matter

So, sponting to CrMe fear of rome, each day, for 4 days

Cygnus of Flambeau: I don't think I can give Guy such a sense

Guy of Bonisagus: damn

oh well

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I should teach my familiar to detect tunnels cast on the both of us

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+34)/2

(

(

3

)

+34)/2

=

18.5

Amazing. It casts.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But first I'll teach it to talk so it can assist Dr Zoboli in performing diagnostics.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+34)/2 DAY 2

(

(

6

)

+34)/2

=

20

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill keep track of her and her ship. those are two separate questions for the divination so I can cast one in the morning and one at night

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: it casts, i cant do more than leve l20 through the tunnel unless im getting help from cygnus

is cygnus helping here?

Cygnus of Flambeau: well, what's the plan again

Archibald of Guernicus: we're making her terrified of rome so she just leaves

Cygnus of Flambeau: ok sounds good

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We gaslight her until she hates Rome and never wants to show up

Archibald of Guernicus: If Cygnus helps, its a level 20 tunnel

meaning a level 20 effect meaning

shes terrified for Moon

Boom

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10+6 conc check

(

3

)

+6

=

9

rolling d10 botch check

(

1

)

=

1

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Are you doing Communion on your tunnel? That's badass

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh no!

what was i botch checking for

Rosario of Flambeau: No, they're casting a larger tunnel through the first tunnel.

Endrite (GM): I have no idea.

Archibald of Guernicus: nah no communion, hes casting a tunnel through my tunnel, which i can then percieve with a formulaic, and then cast through

and thus, then cast through

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh yes sense archibald's intangible tunnel

which is a level 10 invi

Endrite (GM): So this is at the Temple, right?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh, so Arc range for teh first, them the highest level you can manage through Touch?

Cygnus of Flambeau: right, aura 5?

Archibald of Guernicus: after i cast through his tunnel, which allows up to level 20 spells

6!

Cygnus of Flambeau: I still have casting total 10

11

Archibald of Guernicus: yes

the first range is AC range

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10 botch check

(

4

)

=

4

Endrite (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

10

)

=

11

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh no!

Endrite (GM): Gasp.

Archibald of Guernicus: the second is sight but

oh dear!

Endrite (GM): You botched it!

Cygnus of Flambeau: I gain a warping point

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You still have 4 days

Cygnus of Flambeau: and I've botched an InVi. what effect does this have?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: That should be enough to recover

Endrite (GM): Well, nothing appears to happen to you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you summon a demon

Archibald of Guernicus: a botch wont interfere with our plans overall, though. it gives false information, but if he fucks up his tunnel, ill know, since i have to detect his tunnel to cast through it

but i have a formulaic for that

so theres no worries

Cygnus of Flambeau: alright. can I try it again?

Endrite (GM): Wait what spell was this a botch on?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: How much PeVi is needed to remove a botch that isn't damage?

Archibald of Guernicus: it was an InVi botch

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I was blinded by an Intellego botch

Cygnus of Flambeau: I need to sense Archibald's spell with a spontaneous spell of my own before I can cast spells through it

Endrite (GM): But who was the target?

Ok.

Hmm.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So it can be more than false info

Cygnus of Flambeau: archibald's magical construct

Endrite (GM): Let me think for a second.

Archibald of Guernicus: the thing is that all it really leads to is him fucking up and wasting time, we can recover and deal with it, since i have to confirm his spell worked before i do my next one

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I suggest from now on that the GM secretly roll for Intellego botches

Archibald of Guernicus: so if he does something stupid, i briefly point out he fucked up, we start again, and he does it properly this time

Cygnus of Flambeau: what if i botched so hard i went to bed

Endrite (GM): It doesn't really make sense in this case.

Archibald of Guernicus: a botch doesnt really affect much unless he enters twilight

besides the warping point

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can tell them after the session that they got a warping point

Endrite (GM): Let's just say you can suddenly sense the aura around Archibald.

Cygnus of Flambeau: does it appear that the spell worked

Endrite (GM): No, it's a botch it still fails.

You can try again though.

Cygnus of Flambeau: alright

I rest a couple of minutes and try again

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Roleplaying Intellego botches well could also be worth confidence XP, perhaps

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10! +21

(

9

)

+21

=

30

15

ok I'm sensing it

time to maintain the demanding spell

rolling d10!+6

(

10

+

4

)

+6

=

20

incredible

Endrite (GM): What a roll!

Cygnus of Flambeau: time to cast another intangible tunnel. it succeeds

presumably! it's formulaic

unless I wackily target something completely different

Archibald of Guernicus: then i cast my formulaic spell to detect any active magic (with full details) and cast through the tunnel

Endrite (GM): I doubt it

Archibald of Guernicus: we did it!

Endrite (GM): Ok!

It works as far as you know.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll give Cygnus a congratulatory handshake

Cygnus of Flambeau: archibald's senses should be able to tell if it's working properly

high five!

i guess she has no MR anyway

Archibald of Guernicus: The tunnel wouldnt function without a target, and the target was through the tunnel, so even with botches theres no real risk of something going awry

Endrite (GM): Alright, she stays on course for the next day.

Archibald of Guernicus: We can attempt emergency measures if it doesnt seem to work

Cygnus of Flambeau: it would be surprising if the ship turned around because a passenger has a panic attack

Archibald of Guernicus: but for now we can retire

Cygnus of Flambeau: what happens the next day?

Endrite (GM): Do you have to recast any botchable spells?

Cygnus of Flambeau: idk. how long does the terror last

Endrite (GM): Was it Sun or Moon?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if it was l20, its moon

Endrite (GM): Ok then.

Cygnus of Flambeau: cool. you can scry her location without any tunnel docking

Archibald of Guernicus: moon, aye

Endrite (GM): You don't detect any deviation from her route until the last day, when she gets off south of Rome, here.

She stays there for a full day.

Do you want to do anything?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: keep observing

waiot show us the map

is she just going to cast on the river outside the city

Endrite (GM): Oh whoops!

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Endrite (GM): She gets off there.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright ill hire a bunch of cutthroats and bandits to go kill her

Endrite (GM): Then stays for a whole day.

Alright that's doable.

Cygnus of Flambeau: does lavinia know a lot of cuththroats

Endrite (GM): Voda does.

Guy of Bonisagus: does lavinia mention that plan

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I know Tim the Graverobber

no idk

Guy of Bonisagus: that seems very unnecessary

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm asking for updates on this situation daily

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im just tired and want this to end soon

Archibald of Guernicus: We met a bunch of bandits on the adventure to deal with Consolata the first time that were open to hiring

zita talked them around

Guy of Bonisagus: id still rather we not kill this woman

Endrite (GM): I think we might have to go into the dreaded third session on this adventure if everyone is about to fall asleep.

Cygnus of Flambeau: it's probably just me

and I think I'#ve made my position clear

Archibald of Guernicus: I believe in Lavinia's plan to commit murder

Cygnus of Flambeau: cygnus will not willingly abet murder, but he'll help if you want to remote magic her otherwise

and in fact we can sort her out any number of ways so we may as well go play by post, there's not going to be a combat scene after this or anythign is there

Guy of Bonisagus: we could also go tow here shes at

and make her leave

Endrite (GM): It's possible, but if there is we can just handle it next week.

Cygnus of Flambeau: ahhh

this shouldn't be this difficult

well, we're faffing around i guess

Endrite (GM): I don't see what's so difficult here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: look in a mirror

Archibald of Guernicus: christ

Endrite (GM): I've done nothing but try to speed this adventure along.

Cygnus of Flambeau: i'm going to sleep and if the npc is dead in the morning so be it

Rosario of Flambeau: God bless.

Endrite (GM): So what's the plan after she's dead?

Rosario of Flambeau: Goodnight br.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we should just see what happens, we tried a bunch of stuff and nothing seems to have changed whats occurring, so why not wait and see. If she does the ritual, and it succeeds, shes doing it far away from public eyes, right?

Endrite (GM): If she's dead then she's not going to be doing any rituals.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: My plan is to do my Summer labwork

Whether she's alive or not

Endrite (GM): Ok I think everyone's pretty faded tonight.

Let's take this to the thread over the week and we'll see what's left for next week, if anything.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok good night everyone

Rosario of Flambeau: Alright.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Or see you in Discord/the thread, for those in the US

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

Endrite (GM): Alright, I'll make a post about where we're at.

dys (GM):

rolling 1d10+37 casting Aegis of the Heart, Level 30

(

9

)

+37

=

46

Okay, we have 21 pen on our level 30 aegis.

Endrite (GM): Alright let's do it.

So which character are you taking?

Boy R.: well ok

Cygnus of Flambeau: I've been given a mission and I'm reasonably confident I remember what it is

and I'm this guy

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: also I have Lavinia's invisibility ring

and I think we've divined the location of the foreign sorcerer?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Lavinia has helpfully marked it on your map.

Cygnus of Flambeau: very good

Well I'll make my way there, just strolling along like I'm taking the air

I have shriek of the impending shafts and endurance of the berserkers active

Endrite (GM): Alright, so you're just walking by yourself?

Cygnus of Flambeau: Yes, unless a lone traveller would be conspicuous

this is supposed to be a stealth mission

if there's a location marked I can't see it. should I be on the ck2 italy map?

Endrite (GM): Well, you can turn invisible so I don't think you have a problem there.

You want to go to the blue x.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I want to save the invisibility until I need it

Endrite (GM): Ok, well there are travelers on the road.

Lone travelers aren't so unusual.

Especially armed ones.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I bid them good day and carry on my way

Endrite (GM): Alright, you get to the location by dusk.

It's a clearing overlooking the Tiber River.

SUSPICIOUSLY NOT AT ALL SIMILAR TO ANY OTHER CLEARING YOU'VE SEEN.

Cygnus of Flambeau: near the road?

Endrite (GM): No, you have to go off-road a bit.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I don't recognise this clearing in fact

Endrite (GM): Phew.

There's a small fire outside a large tent.

Roll Awareness.

Cygnus of Flambeau: well, I'll go invisible once I need to start cutting cross country, if there's nobody around to see it

Endrite (GM): Ok, smart.

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+4

(

1

)

+4

=

5

oh dear

any botch dice?

Endrite (GM): Well, it isn't stressed, so don't worry.

You notice that there's smoke coming out of the tent.

By the way, the entrance is between those two guards at the south end.

Nobody seems worried about the smoke coming from the tent.

Cygnus of Flambeau: hmm

Endrite (GM): It's a standard Hermetic invisibility ring, right?

Cygnus of Flambeau: the blue circle is the tent, i gather

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Cygnus of Flambeau: it has 6 charges and the effect seems to be standard veil of invisibility

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: i do have to worry about my shadow, but it's dusk and I'm not standing by the fire

ok seeing the scene I think I'll approach from the east

Endrite (GM): So remember that you can still be detected if your shadow becomes really obvious, like near a fire at night.

Cygnus of Flambeau: and Wizard's Leap up that stone ridge

Endrite (GM): Or dusk, I guess.

Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: hmm. -5 for quiet casting

what's the aura?

Endrite (GM): The rocky terrain around it is traversable if you don't want to use magic.

Mundane 0

Cygnus of Flambeau: odd place for a magical ritual

Endrite (GM): Well, it's near the river.

Cygnus of Flambeau: i guess it's as good as they'll get

Endrite (GM): It's to the south of this map.

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

formulaic

Endrite (GM): Phew.

Cygnus of Flambeau: it could be stressful if you want to say that

Endrite (GM): Nah.

Cygnus of Flambeau: anyway i take fatigue

Endrite (GM): You can take your time.

The guards are attentive but it isn't like they're walking around swinging their swords looking for invisible people.

Cygnus of Flambeau: yeah.

I'll sit on a rock and listen closely to what's going on in the tent while I get my breath back

Endrite (GM): Alright, roll awareness.

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10+4

(

5

)

+4

=

9

Endrite (GM): With a hearing adjustment if you have one, obviously.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I have none!

Endrite (GM): Do you speak Greek?

Cygnus of Flambeau: for all the aristotle i've read, I do not

so I take it someone's talking greek

Endrite (GM): In fact, two someones.

A man and a woman.

One of them you recognize as Edwin Locke.

Cygnus of Flambeau: are they conversing, or incanting?

oh, good, I was about to check that

Endrite (GM): Sounds like a conversation.

Cygnus of Flambeau: well I still need more intel. time to see if I can spont a prying eyes

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Remember it's a tent.

So you could just peek underneath or something.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I suppose I'm invisible

Endrite (GM): Thou art.

Cygnus of Flambeau: can I look through a flap?

Endrite (GM): Sure.

Check out this cool technique!

Ding!

Cygnus of Flambeau: whoa!

Endrite (GM): You see a Edwin Locke and a woman.

Cygnus of Flambeau: ok it seems to be the same ground inside the tent, that bodes well

I can't learn much from listening to these guys, and in any case it feels a bit prurient

what I really want to find are some kind of magical ritual paraphernalia

Endrite (GM): The tent doesn't have the usual accoutremonts of a tent (beds, clothing, and toiletries) but it does have a ritual circle drawn in powdered iron and salt.

There's also a small fire in the middle of the tent.

Cygnus of Flambeau: yep, that's powdered iron alright

Endrite (GM): It's a little unusual, because this fire is a little more animated than you might expect.

It's busy greedily devouring the wood feeding it.

Also unlike a normal fire, this one is shoving the wood into its mouth.

Cygnus of Flambeau: hmm.

again this is all fitting the known facts

it would be cool to slay a fire elemental but I think I need to know my limits here

I'll observe for a time. does the fire seem animate enough to move from its little heap of fuel? are the magicians avoiding the circle?

Endrite (GM): How long do you want to observe for?

Cygnus of Flambeau: let's say 5 minutes

it's totally possible the river ritual hasn't started yet

Endrite (GM): The fire elemental doesn't move from the woodpile, but that might just be because it doesn't want to stop eating.

As your eyes adjust to the light, you notice a lantern near the fire.

The door is open and it isn't lit.

Cygnus of Flambeau: nice, nice

I'll drop an intangible tunnel on Locke, the greek woman, and the lantern

Endrite (GM): Ok, can you do that?

Cygnus of Flambeau: automatically unless any of them have MR. it takes 3 rounds

Endrite (GM): Ok.

None of them do.

Cygnus of Flambeau: is the lantern positioned such that they'd notice if it moved?

Endrite (GM): No, they're engrossed in some kind of discussion.

Cygnus of Flambeau: then it's time for a quiet spont of the Unseen Arm

base 4, at touch range

Endrite (GM): Fingers crossed.

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling (d10!+12+4+2-5)/2

(

(

8

)

+12+4+2-5)/2

=

10.5

you know what I'll give that Sun duration

Endrite (GM): Ok.

That is your right.

Wait shouldn't it be Diameter?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I drag the lantern over to me, and use it to scuff up the circle on the way

Endrite (GM): 4 + 1 touch + 1 Diameter.

Cygnus of Flambeau: sorry I meant I was going for level 4

base 2, touch, diam

or conc

Endrite (GM): Oh.

Ok.

Well you get the lantern.

Cygnus of Flambeau: and the circle is broken?

Endrite (GM): It has powdered iron and salt on it.

Yes.

Cygnus of Flambeau: good, good

does the elemental seem to care?

Endrite (GM): Not that you can tell.

Cygnus of Flambeau: hem

Endrite (GM): Roll Fire Ken.

Cygnus of Flambeau: this might not be going fare enough

Endrite (GM): Just joshing.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I will not

Endrite (GM): Alright, you have the lantern.

Cygnus of Flambeau: if I close it, does anything happen?

Endrite (GM): It makes a little clicking sound, but nothing else happens.

Fortunately you aren't noticed.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll put it down so it doesn't give me away

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Inside or outside the tent?

Cygnus of Flambeau: outside the tent, just on the ground near me

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: fuck I don't know anything at all about this sort of magic

still I can't go back without making my best effort at foiling it

Endrite (GM): Heh.

Roll Magic Lore.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I don't have that, to my shame

Endrite (GM): Hmm.

Cygnus of Flambeau: so I'll rely on hermetic techniques

Endrite (GM): Well, I suppose you could also try Magic Theory in this case.

It'll be a bit tougher, but you can do it.

Cygnus of Flambeau: seems like a reach but I'll take it

Endrite (GM): I believe in you.

Cygnus of Flambeau: +int?

Endrite (GM): Well, you're trying to find out about a magic ritual.

Yes.

Cygnus of Flambeau: d10!+4

rolling d10+4

(

8

)

+4

=

12

Endrite (GM): Pretty good.

Even though the ritual circle has been prepared, the spell or spells to summon the Tiber River spirit must not have been cast yet.

You notice a change in the tone of the conversation.

Cygnus of Flambeau: that's basically what I'd concluded

Endrite (GM): It seems to get a little more heated.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I've hopefully fouled the circle, but will it be noticed?

maybe if i could fake something to close it

Endrite (GM): Edwin Locke says something and storms out of the tent.

Cygnus of Flambeau: which way does he go?

Endrite (GM): The woman looks at the circle and then yells something at him.

She gets to work fixing it.

He heads over to the mundane fire.

Cygnus of Flambeau: does he come back?

alright, I'll call to slumber her

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling (d10!+12+2-5)/2

(

(

2

)

+12+2-5)/2

=

5.5

Endrite (GM): Do you need to roll anything or are you good?

Cygnus of Flambeau: a success, at touch range

Endrite (GM): Right.

Cygnus of Flambeau: i'm on -2 fatigue maybe

Endrite (GM): She mutters something in Greek and yawns.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll try slipping under the tent fabric, once it's taken

Endrite (GM): Then, shortly thereafter, she goes to lie down.

Ok.

You're inside the tent.

Cygnus of Flambeau: time to root through her possessions

is the elemental reacting to anything?

Endrite (GM): You notice your shadow projected clearly across the fabric of the tent.

Cygnus of Flambeau: be that as it may

Endrite (GM): Fortunately the fabric is thick enough that they might not see it from the outside.

The fire turns to look at your shadow.

It continues to eat, but at a slower pace, as if it's considering the situation.

Cygnus of Flambeau: hrm

Endrite (GM): You know, like when Curly gets lost in thought.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll scuff the circle again so that the fire can't miss it

this is probably pointless

I'm not sure what else there is here I can interact with, unless I just stab this woman

Endrite (GM): It continues to look at you shadow.

Well you have a couple options if you'd like me to line them out.

This is just as I see it, of course.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm just making it more obvious that I was here

it's possible she needs this spirit to bind the other one

Endrite (GM): Maybe.

It might also just be a guard or familiar-type spirit.

Cygnus of Flambeau: right

the lantern seems like it's for this guy but I don't know how to force him in it

that's fine, I'm not an elementalist

Endrite (GM): You probably can't.

Well, you could try talking to the woman.

Who you may have already surmised is Odele.

Cygnus of Flambeau: this occurred to me, but I think it's beyond the terms of the mission

Endrite (GM): Says who?

Cygnus of Flambeau: otoh she IS disagreeing with what's his name

Endrite (GM): Yes.

What is your decision?

Cygnus of Flambeau: sorry

Endrite (GM): No pressure.

Cygnus of Flambeau: i'm spending too much time looking up what spells i can spont on her

Endrite (GM): Spend all the time you'd like.

That's the great thing about solo adventures.

Cygnus of Flambeau: learning the true name of tiberinus or giving her a block against remembering it is beyond me, sadly

in any case we already can do anything we want to this woman through the ac

Endrite (GM): I don't want to make a capital R ruling here, but I'd say that plucking a True Name out of someone's head is like plucking out a spell.

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh right

Endrite (GM): I.E. impossible.

Cygnus of Flambeau: those things take xp to learn

Endrite (GM): You could block it with Mentem magic though, if you knew what it was.

Cygnus of Flambeau: Oh I've got an idea

Endrite (GM): Sounds good so far.

Cygnus of Flambeau: is there writing material in here?

Endrite (GM): Sure, you could write something in salt or powdered iron.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I will write in salt in some prominent place "The life of one who binds Tiberinus is forfeit"

and draw my sword and place it across her sleeping throat

Endrite (GM): Ok, like killing her?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I trust elementalists can't do anything with arcane connections

no, to show I was there and could have killed her

it's a classic chivalric move

Endrite (GM): Oh, you mean you're leaving your sword here.

Right.

What language do you want to write in?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm sure elementalists can't do anythign with arcane connections

latin of course

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: if there are no other obvious tools of power here, I'll retreat, and take the lanter

and watch from the woods

Endrite (GM): She's asleep, so she doesn't do anything.

Uh to be clear you're going to carry the lantern some distance while invisible?

Cygnus of Flambeau: well, I'm going to teleport 50 paces at a time to avoid the guards

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Sounds good.

Are you going to cast subtly?

To avoid waving a floating lantern around?

Cygnus of Flambeau: quietly I guess

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: it's not lit is it

Endrite (GM): Nope.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I think a certain amount of waving is acceptable in the dark

Endrite (GM): Sure.

It should be fine.

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10+8

(

7

)

+8

=

15

Endrite (GM): Phew!

Cygnus of Flambeau: no fatigue!

Endrite (GM): Don't forget your Fatigue penalty from sponting twice.

Cygnus of Flambeau: aye, it's in there

Endrite (GM): Ok, groovy.

Well, I just noticed the scale on this map isn't quite right, but 50 paces should be enough to take you away from the tent.

Cygnus of Flambeau: is there some tree cover hereabouts?

Endrite (GM): Yeah enough.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I guess I'll just keep watch then

if they start summoning the tiber I trust the effect will be obvious enough

Endrite (GM): No.

Hmm.

You hear a woman scream!

Cygnus of Flambeau: that's promising

Endrite (GM): Then you see Edwin and two guards go into the tent.

Roll awareness.

(Hearing)

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10+4

(

3

)

+4

=

7

Endrite (GM): You hear muffled talking but you can't make out the content or disposition of the speaker(s).

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm going to spont The Ear For Distant Voices

have I had any time to rest?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling (d10!+7+2)/2

(

(

1

)

+7+2)/2

=

5

Endrite (GM): Oh, it's probably almost time for your invisibility spell to wear off if you waited for her to wake up.

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh no

I'll use another charge as necessary

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Phew.

Cygnus of Flambeau: ok, 5 is exactly enough for touch range

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I can hear what is happening at Odile's location

Endrite (GM): She's having an argument, in Greek, with Edwin.

Cygnus of Flambeau: predictable

are the guards saying anything?

Endrite (GM): Are you watching the tent?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I guess!

not to the exclusion of everything else

Endrite (GM): You hear Edwin say, "Tell the other guards there's a wizard around!"

One of them leaves the tent and does just that.

Cygnus of Flambeau: you know what, I should have taken all her salt

oh well!

Endrite (GM): That'd show her.

Cygnus of Flambeau: well there's nothing to do but stay alert

Endrite (GM): Anyway, you see her leave the tent in a huff.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I have to know whether this is going ahead

Endrite (GM): Are you going to stay here all night if necessary?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I think so

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I don't know what time they'd appointed for the ritual

dawn seems likely

Endrite (GM): After a cooling off period, Odele returns to the tent.

Cygnus of Flambeau: tch

Endrite (GM): After all the other guards are informed about the wizard on the loose, they close ranks to guard the tent more closely.

You hear more arguments in Greek, but they get a little less heated over time until you hear her kiss him.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I allow the spell to expire

Endrite (GM): Ok.

You don't hear what happens next, fortunately.

Cygnus of Flambeau: damn it! who knew being a master of espionage was so complicated?

Maybe I should have stabbed her in her sleep

Endrite (GM): Well, it's too late now.

You left your sword behind.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I carry a dagger as well

Endrite (GM): Phew.

Cygnus of Flambeau: because I can't use magic if I don't have a weapon on my person!

Endrite (GM): The guards guard the tent closely.

They each have a torch and have their swords at the ready.

Only two guards sleep at a time and one is always inside the tent.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'm just going to keep watch until anything changes

the smoke from the tent should be a good indicator

Endrite (GM): Why?

Cygnus of Flambeau: or perhaps, the only indicator I have from here

idk I'm assuming the fire elemental plays into this somehow

Endrite (GM): The smoke stays mostly even.

During one of the watch changes one of the guards brings more wood into the tent.

Other than that, the night is boring for you.

Cygnus of Flambeau: all in a day's work. think of the house accclaim.

Endrite (GM): In the morning, everyone, fire elemental included, walks out of the tent.

You see Edwin talking to the guards.

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh he'll be talking italian probably

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll echolocate on him

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Do you need to spont that?

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10!+9

(

10

+

7

)

+9

=

26

yes

Endrite (GM): Wow!

What a roll!

Hot dog!

Cygnus of Flambeau: I feel unaccountably pleased with myself

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Cygnus of Flambeau: time to reapply tunnels on all the major players as well

no rolls needed

Edwin Locke: "...only it's very important, mystically speaking, do you see? You need to find that lantern before we can escort the lady back to her ship."

Cygnus of Flambeau: I'll also put one on my sword if I can see it.

Edwin Locke: Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau: how does he expect these guys would be able to find it

well whatever

Endrite (GM): Some of the guards busy themselves looking for the lantern, while the rest look around the campsite, presumably for the lantern.

Eventually the tent is packed away and set on the horses.

And the mundane fire is put out.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I will Muto the lantern's Imaginem so it seems like a rock

Endrite (GM): You're just holding onto it, right?

Cygnus of Flambeau: I think it's a liability. I'll live it hidden among some rocks here and keep an intangible tunnel on it

leave it

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Cygnus of Flambeau:

rolling d10!

(

6

)

=

6

no botch, sun duration

Endrite (GM): Nice.

Once the fire is put out, Edwin says something to Odele in Greek.

She nods.

She kneels down next to the fire elemental and whispers something.

Cygnus of Flambeau: damn I wish I had a classical education from several centuries later than the one i had

Endrite (GM): Then the fire elemental starts running directly towards where you buried the lamp.

Cygnus of Flambeau: oh, good trick

Endrite (GM): Everyone else follows behind and watches as the fire elemental excavates the exact rock, fumbles around for the latch, and jumps inside.

Cygnus of Flambeau: well it was a good ruse while it was going

I'll stay out of its way

I guess some spirits love being bound in lamps

Edwin Locke: "In light of this strange assault, I believe that we will be heading instead to my laboratory in Allumiere while the lady recuperates from her assault."

Endrite (GM): The men look nervous, but agree.

Cygnus of Flambeau: are any of them carrying my sword?

Endrite (GM): Odele picks up the lamp and they set out for Allumiere.

Yes, this guy.

Cygnus of Flambeau: eh, he can keep it

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Well, things are a little uncertain from here.

Cygnus of Flambeau: sorry if this was supposed to wrap everything up neatly

Endrite (GM): You have certainly spooked Odele, but she remains close to the river.

The ritual has certainly been delayed, but it is possible it could be resumed at any time.

Cygnus of Flambeau: we still have her letters, and can keep close watch over her

Endrite (GM): Edwin Locke and the Count's men have a pretty good idea who is behind this, generally.

Cygnus of Flambeau: what??

Endrite (GM): Unless you know any other wizards in Rome.

They might think it was a foreign wizard, though.

I just mean they think it's wizards.

Cygnus of Flambeau: it's obviously a defense mechanism of the Tiber itself

anyway we can keep Odele under surveillance and kill her if she shows signs of doing rituals

Endrite (GM): Well anyway, time to report your findings.

Cygnus of Flambeau: if she sneaks it past us, we can still kill her

I'm sure everyone will be delighted with my heroics

Endrite (GM): Sorry this took a while to get sorted out.

Any other questions?

Cygnus of Flambeau: not that I can think of.

Thanks for running this anyway

Endrite (GM): No problemo.

Cygnus of Flambeau: even if it hasn't resolved the situation, well that's on me

Endrite (GM): You're just a big softy at heart.

Let me just state, for the record, that I do NOT FOR ONE SECOND regret using Hearthstone art for the fire elemental token.

This is my last stand.

Cygnus of Flambeau: I didn't recognize it. that could be any dnd token.

Endrite: Oh boy, new video and voice chat.