8/5/18

moe: Mystical greetings

devil's fav demon (GM): Welcome.

I may be late for the 2:00 PM EDT start by ten minutes or so. Might not though. We'll see.

johns (GM): timestamp

c'thinker: bulp

GM: Last time: The last wizard in Vulcanal is dead and his Bonisagus magnum opus has been stolen by the magi of Vardian's Tomb and hidden under a vow of secrecy.

Also, a faerie giant under the volcano threatens to kill whoever remains in post-plague Sicily with eruptions and earthquakes.

The local pagans are slowly coming around and joining the new parish.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Father Hazm: If we're going to kill the giant I suggest I go hire some archers

Mortis ex Verditus: Guess we need to kill the giant.

How many corpses are in the cemetery?

moe: I disapprove of murder in general and believe we should attempt to appease the giant and see if it grants us a reward

Dušan of Criamon: If it doesn't, well, I wash my hands of it

If a majority of the covenant charges the beast, I'll contribute what little stopping power I have to the fight

Mortis ex Verditus: Think of it as freeing the giant from its eternal bondage.

johns: lets contact the Faerie Athena and negotiate reenacting the death of this giant.

Father Hazm: Killing the giant is freeing it if we don't destroy its vis

Dušan of Criamon: "What if its very essence is to be bound! Altruism will be no argument for murder with me."

Archibald of Guernicus: Kaiji narrator: they immediately used the vis

Father Hazm: "Faeries don't have souls. It cannot know freedom."

GM: The village is under 50 people so I don't know how many corpses that translates to. There are probably a lot of corpses around that haven't been given Christian burials, and your limit is vis.

Mortis ex Verditus: Not true!

I have magic shovel.

GM: Ah yes!

hazm, johns, and moe all have reasonable suggestions.

as well.

johns: who knows how to contact a fairy goddess

Father Hazm: Jorn

Beardbeard: beatrice

Father Hazm: Galafre

GM: Hmmm.

I'm sensing a pattern here.

Mortis ex Verditus: Makes you think.

Killing her prisoner should do it.

Archibald of Guernicus: We cleaned everything of value out of Vulcanul, correct?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i was shown the secret vis treasury

Father Hazm: Yeah Lavinia already did the pixel hunt

GM: i think that's what you said you wanted to do, yeah. i still haven't written up the contents of the lab or the vis stores but they exist and you stole them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: borrowed

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, I don't want to risk destroying the covenant by attacking the giant.

Mortis ex Verditus: Not attacking the giant also risks destroying the covenant because he makes the volcano erupt.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the giant says it will destroy the covenant. ergo we should not stop it, if we want the covenant to be safe. -- archibald

GM: Smart.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i will use fairy lore to consider how we might contact athena.

rolling 1d10+3+2

(

4

)

+3+2

=

9

GM: This probably won't be an issue but hopefully no one gets blamed for murdering Anson and stealing important Bonisagus research.

Guy of Bonisagus: what if we killed the giant

Archibald of Guernicus: There was no threat of eruption until we interfered, surely interfering more will have no problems though

Mortis ex Verditus: Uhhhh.

There was, that's why we came here.

Archibald of Guernicus: No, you're forgetting about the goats that we took

Dušan of Criamon: I believe the letter stated there were eruptions before we arrived

Archibald of Guernicus: which caused the eruption threat

Dušan of Criamon: are we putting the goats in connection with the giant?

Archibald of Guernicus: it was confirmed that this was the cause

Dušan of Criamon: I thought them at best neighbors, the kind that don't greet each other in the hallway

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the goats were inspiring pagan worship among the locals

pagan worship makes the giant happy

Dušan of Criamon: ah

an entire ecosystem we upset

Mortis ex Verditus: But the giant also makes the volcano erupt when he's happy, so...

GM: monster that blocks the way. This sort of

Guardian is referred to as kerberoi by the followers

of Merinita, and many travelers make

the mistake of trying to fight the monster, assuming

that the only progress can be over its

corpse. This is certainly one way; however, a

GM: kerberos is always restrained in some fashion,

and can always be bypassed through trickery or courage"

smhg

motherfucker.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok

here's the trick

someone walks in there dressed like athena and tells him to knock it off or he is going straight to gay baby jail

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: He's already in gay baby jail.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the even GAYER baby jail

GM: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: But the giant also makes the volcano erupt when he's happy, so...

there were no eruptions yet

Dušan of Criamon: I turn to Hazm: "Does your scripture have any precedent for sacrificing very large amounts of foodstuffs? Surely we can ask the newly un-heathened locals to help out."

GM: the covenfolk just think the volcano is going to erupt. there have been a lot of earthquakes, but the last actual eruption was hundreds of years ago.

Dušan of Criamon: "Or we could lie, say it's for charity?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we'll tell him that if he doesn't knock it off Zeus will throw a thunderbolt through his chest

Shauncat: Hmmm

Mortis ex Verditus: There has been an eruption as recently as 100 years ago.

Father Hazm: I'll consult the bible

Guy of Bonisagus: being a faerie, the giant probably just does nothing, and is born from peoples thoughts on how eruptions occur

Father Hazm: Guy is correct

Mortis ex Verditus: Fairies do things though.

Guy of Bonisagus: what we SHOULD be doing is going into the heart of the volcano and killing the dragon there

Mortis ex Verditus: So it probably is the cause of the eruptions.

Guy of Bonisagus: its in a regio!

Father Hazm: There's a chicken and an egg factor when it comes to faeries

Guy of Bonisagus: its locked away in a regio

Dušan of Criamon: "Perhaps that is the solution! To ask the locals to sacrifice foodstuffs to their new God, covertly feeding their old god, until they stop believing in him, thus cancelling him out!"

Father Hazm: So the giant is the cause of the eruptions, but the eruptions are also why there's a giant

Archibald of Guernicus: Of cours.e

Mortis ex Verditus: God doesn't ask for sacrifices though.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Sounds like a bunch of pagan nonsense"

GM:  drake pointing

Father Hazm: Killing the giant will stop one eruption but won't solve the problem of faeries coming into being to explain geothermic phenomena.

That's what the Church is for

GM: :blessed:

Dušan of Criamon: "I'll admit I'm not entirely familiar with the Good Book. We can't just bend the rules a little for our purposes, can we?"

Father Hazm: "Sacrifice before a craven idol is a violation of the commandments."

Guy of Bonisagus: what if we built another church in the caldera

and one in the regio

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how do we get to elysium, this is new to me

GM: thats what you're trying to do

by talking to faerie athena

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh

Father Hazm: "The true essence of the Greek pantheon lies in the Magic realm. The faerie are for the most part imposters that spring forth from their myths."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: but I have no clue how we even begin that

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have two ways of stopping the eruptions. Either we return the goats, or get into a dangerous battle with a titan with the hope it won't make things even bloody worse."

"... Battle it is, then."

GM: good because i dont have any maps for it and its a really large scale way to solve this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Every village in Europe has something it leaves a little bread and milk out for."

"What's the difference here?"

Father Hazm: Getting to Elysium is really easy, you just find a storyguide who wants to run an adventure there and you'll no doubt wander onto a trod

Mortis ex Verditus: "The difference is household milk fairies don't destroy covenants with volcanic eruptions."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets bring more bread to the giant and look for a way to undo its chains.

GM: elysium is a part of the faerie realm where stories are told and retold in endless permutations and people enter it to participate in these stories to try to gain some kind of insight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, they do all kinds of awful things if they don't get their milk."

Father Hazm: "As the Venetians say, never negotiate with blackmailers."

GM: the giant's role is as a threshold guardian for a pathway to elysium but it has been complicated by conflicting stories about volcanos and giants and further disrupted by your actions w the goat girls

ooc knowledge sorry

Father Hazm: "You give in once, you give in forever."

GM: i should have waited til after the game

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We must trick the giant into opening a path to Elysium so we can make the GM drag this out to a full session

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well here's something we haven't really considered: what if we freed the giant?

GM: You can do this and I'll support it, because the giant is harmless if maintained correctly.

Father Hazm: If you knew he was a threshold guardian, one interesting fact is that all mirrors are a gateway into Faerie

Mortis ex Verditus: Would it want to stay in the volcano and cause eruptions?

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm

What if it wanted to leave

GM: Good question.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it would move on to some other part of its story, which might involve staying in the volcano and causing eruptions.

seems unlikely since it is chained up and we would be freeing it

Mortis ex Verditus: We could always ask it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's a good idea.

Father Hazm: Yeah

Let's convert the giant to Christianity

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's kill it instead. A kinder fate.

Father Hazm: If the holy giant ends up destroying Sicily, it was God's will.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: convert it, THEN kill it, so it is a martyr, and instills a dominion aura

Father Hazm: :weebey:

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

So what was involved in the giant's lair?

GM: the giant is part of the gigantomachia story so there's a solid chance that freeing it would cause it to rampage across italy trying to destroy the gods and take power over the cosmos.

but who knows

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: win.

Mortis ex Verditus: Just a World of Warcraft lava cave and an iron chair he's chained to?

GM: Yep.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah

Father Hazm: Hey

If the giant tries to invade the realm of the gods, that might mean we can follow it into the Magic Realm

GM: :O

Guy of Bonisagus: alright, but has anyone considered killing the giant

Dušan of Criamon: thought occurred to me that this might mean more giant-blooded characters in 20 years time

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have

Archibald of Guernicus: You mean the fairy realm as its been established the ones who sealed the titans were fairies.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have also considered killing the archon whose Giant-loving tendencies are suspicious

GM: lol

Father Hazm: You guys are wizards, if you want to wander down there and throw fireballs at it just say you do that

Mortis ex Verditus: I would call them shocking.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: First Archibald demands we enslave the populace to stuff bread in this giant's mouth. Next he enslaves us to demand we stuff vis into his giant mouth.

Think about it

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

How hot is the giant's lair?

Archibald of Guernicus: A good point Lavinia. But have you considered that I can make myself immune to weaponry while having enough parma to completely block all of your offensive spells, and that the inverse of this is not true?

So get feeding

GM: the lair was hot when you entered, but I was not making anyone take heat or deprivation rolls yet.

Dušan of Criamon: Next we'll have someone enchanting the water to limit dysentry and secretly control the imbibers minds!

Father Hazm: Hazm for his part isn't convinced this giant is a real titan as invocations of the titans are magical in nature

GM: Gulielmus didn't get that close to it though.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i got close enough to feed it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: have you considered I have several arcane connections to archibald

Guy of Bonisagus: giant, crouchwalking in a very loose fitting robe to appear human: listen i think we should hear the giant out. also i hate god

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Giants are the enemy of mankind

GM: The party collectively has enough Faerie Lore to understand what Elysium is and what Threshold Guardians are, and the auras are pretty clear. It would be pretty out of left field if this were a real Titan.

Also you probably wouldn't be able to kill it and I wouldn't be implying you could.

This is more about your choice of how much support to put behind the Dominion, Fae, and Magic realms in Sicily.

Dušan of Criamon: Here's my summary so far: we can do everything, excluding no plan, if we only keep a sequence

first the athena cosplay, then bribing, then killing

at every step we get to consider the results

Guy of Bonisagus: we should be good christians and prioritize the dominion while also ensuring the continuation of magic and the death of the fae

Mortis ex Verditus: If we feed the giant that might improve its Might.

Dušan of Criamon: maybe back to normal levels, i can't imagine genuine improval

we want him satiated, not comfortably fat

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm mostly interested in killing the giant so I can stamp "Giant Killer" on any weapon I sell.

GM: Hah

Guy of Bonisagus: we have to remember that its possible to get very potent arcane connections to faeries, and we have someone good at casting perdo vim

GM: That's a really good reason.

Guy of Bonisagus: killing the giant would be easy if one man would just get onboard with the plan...

GM: If you use Perdo vim you don't get to use its vis.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah that's a bad idea.

I think we should just see if Lavinia's lightning ward can penetrate.

Archibald of Guernicus: Depends on its total might, lowering its might by 15 wont destroy the vis, just make it easier to hurt

Mortis ex Verditus: If it can't penetrate, how would the giant even know we were attacking it?

Guy of Bonisagus: just say were doing a bread summoning ritual

GM: If you're shouting and gesturing at him he might figure it out. Or maybe not.

It was a pretty stupid faerie.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's try the lightning ward plan, yeah

It's a good idea

GM: the classic non-violent lightning ward

Dušan of Criamon: I'm on board

Archibald of Guernicus: If he doesnt trigger it, it doesnt go off, right?

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't really know what's involved with Lavinia's magic and frankly I don't want to know.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm just going to stand here and start shooting lightning bolts in your direction and if you get hit it's your own fault.

Archibald of Guernicus: I could lower his MR by 5, then a further 10, and with -15 MR it might be low enough to trigger the ward. If it doesnt work initially

Guy of Bonisagus: im just casting a ward that shoots lightning haphazardly at roughly 7 feet above the ground and if you happen to get hit its your fault

im a pacifist btw

GM: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: oh cumthinker made the joke first

fuck you cumthinker

GM: lmao.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus of pure reason wins again.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the rite was invented for strictly pacifist purposes, to put on a laser lightshow

Father Hazm: Hazm is also a pacifist

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus of pure wasted seasons

gahaha. take a look at his arts folks

Father Hazm: He has charms for buffing combat grogs but does not participate in fights

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's roll Faerie Lore to compel the gm to reveal the giant's might pool and current might score

GM: its Pretty High.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

10

+

8

)

+2

=

20

GM: lmao.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets roll brawl to beat the gm up

GM: That's a really good roll so I will give you a Big Hint.

Dušan of Criamon: nice

GM: Especially since you were physically there in the giant's room.

Mortis ex Verditus: But let's be real here: that wouldn't be a stressed roll.

Father Hazm: Fiorella's afraid she's going to get a reputation as a Flambeau if she keeps killing things with summoned birds

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets be real here: magic doesnt exist

Father Hazm: So she abstains from this adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'm feeling very stressed out about this giant.

Mortis ex Verditus: If magic doesn't exist, then how am I a master magician?

Guy of Bonisagus: molesting the fae is really piling on the stress

Father Hazm: Magic exists because humans have consistent ideas about what magic is

Same can be said for dragons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is in fact the opposite of the nature of the magic realm.

Dušan of Criamon: So, what's the plan

Archibald lowers the MR, Lavinia does the bolts?

Father Hazm: Sounds good

GM: Trying to get at least one AC for Archibald will help, so try to have him be talking to it for a 2x at least.

actually lets go over that now

Father Hazm: I could use the archer grog statblock from the core rules if I can go hire some hunters or something

GM: you know 2 nicknames and talking to it is a 2x AC for the duration of your conversation so if you take the surprise round/converse with it during battle you're looking at a 4x multiplier to penetration.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is cumthinker keeping his big hint to himself

GM: consider that your base level.

Mortis ex Verditus: I bet he is.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what constitutes a conversation

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets kill him

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's hold him upside down over a well.

GM: You talk to it, and it talks back to you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you just start shouting at it and then cast spells in between shouts

sad

GM: He may or may not be keeping the information to himself.

Dušan of Criamon: I respect that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea presents the information in characterl

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: character.

Mortis ex Verditus: Charcatol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I suspect that the entire chamber is part of the faerie's body."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Cave, magma, chains, chair, and giant."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea ponders this.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Does that mean a spell that damages the chamber damages the faerie?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I think that's everything."

Mortis ex Verditus: How far are we from the ocean?

Dušan of Criamon: "So the captivity IS part of its essence!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "An incredible theory. What if we used Terram magic to bring the entire thing down?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Shouldn't it?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Perhaps freeing him would dissolve him after all."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: etna is in the middle of the island mortis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "They, you know," Gulielmus makes a spreading motion with his hands. "Spread out."

Father Hazm: The room can be part of its glamour but not targeted to hurt it

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, so we can't dig a canal and flood the chamber.

Father Hazm: *targetable

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also I j ust double checked and the limit on vergillian magic directly harming things does NOT apply to fae. gahahaha

GM: rofl

nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: win.

Dušan of Criamon: I think the implication here is that a rock from the chamber would be an AC

Mortis ex Verditus: Bwahaha.

Father Hazm: I don't see why flooding the chamber shouldn't work

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, it theoretically could work but we can't dig a canal that long.

Guy of Bonisagus: virgil's fairy killing gun

Father Hazm: will make you smile

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what if the wizards summoned a large body of water.

using magic.

GM: does anyone even have aquam magic?

Mortis ex Verditus: Nope.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's gulielmus' highest remaining form

Dušan of Criamon: Let us manipulate the labor camp in the swamps north of Rome to dig the canal

Mortis ex Verditus: If it was just a matter of digging then we already have unlimited labor.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can create a small amount of oil, or move a boat across the surface of some water.

GM: you would also have to find a way to route the water through a series of regios, yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus: i can make it so i dont get wet in the rain

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's reroute the aqueduct from the very first session

Guy of Bonisagus: lets take the tiber statue and drop it on the faerie

GM: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's create a more powerful volcano animo

GM: do something with it. wheres the consul and arcon

hon

Guy of Bonisagus: covers all the bases

using aquam magic, and using virgil magic

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a minute, sorry.

Dušan of Criamon: Is there a way to detect if a thing is an AC?

If so I'd take a rock from the cavern for purposes of violence

Father Hazm: Cast in Arc range intellego spell on it

Dušan of Criamon: and go ahead with Plan Thunderbol

perfect

let's take a bread, to mask our intentions, and return to the giant, and take a rock

GM: The ol' switcheroo.

Dušan of Criamon: I volunteer for the action since I saw the giant once already

I'll go alone or with company

I get a loaf of bread from the locasl

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back.

Dušan of Criamon: I assume I pilfered a few coins back in VT

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's befriend a fairy with the faerie sight virtue, used to identify foreign glamours.

Father Hazm: Did anyone bring a grog?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes

I was smart

Father Hazm: I mean if there's no grog for me to control I'll just spectate

I didn't think ahead on the possibility that I'd need a character who can grind a faerie's HP down

Rabble: "What's with the bread? You don't want to buy any eels? We got lots of eels. Delicious. Over a fire, in a stew, heck. You can do anything with 'em."

Dušan of Criamon: I consult my knowledge of magic theory, unstressed, to find out if eels have whatever the giant wishes to consume

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have an eel.

Do they have any jellied eels?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "eel" have some of that

GM: They have lots of little eels because its spawning season.

I don't think jellied eels are a medieval italian food or at least not one eel fishermen would have on hand.

moe: oops

GM: ?

Dušan of Criamon: my bad, connection

OK, I buy bread and mount a repeat expedition to the giant

Father Hazm: I'll have some risotto al eel

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: garcon. your finest non-jellied eel

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets use logic to convince the fae the benefits of a gluten free diet

Dušan of Criamon: thus killing it

I take an eel or two as well

Who knows, maybe the giant will like it

Maybe he'll be insulted and want to kill me, leading to a comical conversation

"Hail! Giant! We come bearing an offering!"

(to sodales, whispered: "take a rock when you get the chance")

Giant in Bondage: "More food!"

Father Hazm: Giant of Bonisagus

Giant in Bondage: "Who comes to share a mouthful?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a spicy mouthful

I will look for a rock.

Dušan of Criamon: "I'm Dušan of Criamon, and I bring bread!"

Now that I think about it he's probably kind of tall even seated and bound

Giant in Bondage: roll qik+legerdemain or just qik to pick up a rock.

Yes, the giant towers over your head even in its current state.

Mortis ex Verditus: He's bigger than our covenant, I think.

Dušan of Criamon: I mean, do I lob the food at his mouth

Mortis ex Verditus: Just from eyeballing it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm very quick, fortunately.

Giant in Bondage: It's 27 feet from front to back.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

3

)

+2

=

5

oh no.

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!+3

(

4

)

+3

=

7

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will  conf

Giant in Bondage: Oooh.

Token slammed down.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as is my right

Dušan of Criamon: That's passion

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: putting my all into picking up this rock

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Giant in Bondage: The giant turns one of its heads toward Guli as he crouches for the rock. Everything goes still for a moment. The giant is just stretching its neck out.

You got: Rock

Dušan of Criamon: Yes

Mortis ex Verditus: We did it!

Magic is saved!

Dušan of Criamon: OK, we can leave

Guy of Bonisagus: good work getting a rock, everyone

Giant in Bondage: "Bread, from Dusan!"

Dušan of Criamon: now to check if it's worth anything

I give the bread to the giant

is it important we find out the specific vector or merely accept it as fact

Giant in Bondage: The faerie giant happily accepts the bread.

Mortis ex Verditus: Damn those are some sweet kicks.

Dušan of Criamon: Perfect

We leave

Giant in Bondage: It does not acknowledge the eels.

Dušan of Criamon: I didn't offer them!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "eel" have none of that

Dušan of Criamon: I will munch up a little bit on the way out

Giant in Bondage: You didn't.

Ok.

You have the rock.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Lavinia of Jerbiton: "eel" have none of that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea holds the rock up triumphantly.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I have the rock."

Dušan of Criamon: Someone do the AC detection

If this was worthless I'll be only a little ashamed and we can continue seamlessly with the Athena plan

Mortis ex Verditus: I think this will work.

Really what we should be doing now is thinking about what we'll do when we're heroic giant slayers.

Rosario is going to be so jealous he missed this.

Dušan of Criamon: Continue to live in humility, having merely done our duty.

Giant in Bondage: im desperately trying to see if theres any reason in RoP:F that the rock would dissipate into nothing once you remove it from the regio but I'm not seeing it.

Damn.

Mortis ex Verditus: Fu fu fu.

Another victory for the Player Characters.

Dušan of Criamon: I don't have inte spells, I could spont intellego on it

Giant in Bondage: Ah yes.

Why don't you go into that cathedral to examine the rock. Heh heh heh...

Dušan of Criamon: Let us hold off on that

Archibald, InTe?

brb 1 sec, cat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if the faerie were fully cognizant it could withdraw its glamour from the rock.

leaving us with not a rock, but a mere rock instead

Guy of Bonisagus: mere club

GM: sadly most of the covenant is under a faerie aura so there's no reason i can think it would do that until you moved into a different aura.

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't think there's much to be gleamed from the rock

Guy of Bonisagus: you mean gleaned

Mortis ex Verditus: Glint.

Guy of Bonisagus: kenned

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's probably an ac, and that's good enough for me. now let's march lavinia into the magma chamber

Mortis ex Verditus: It's Lavinia's time to shine!

Congratulations!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what am i doing

Mortis ex Verditus: Making a bunch of lightning traps.

Guy of Bonisagus: using pacifist magic to kill it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: uhhhh ok

GM: they were just getting an AC to it.

to make it easier for you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can virgilians use acs

GM: i'm still not sure how this is going to work, but I have faith in the players

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no

Archibald of Guernicus: not the pentagram ward

Dušan of Criamon: cat pacified

Archibald of Guernicus: I can use the AC, though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will enter the magma chamber with sir oak and grog

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's probably an ac, and that's good enough for me. now let's march archibald into the magma chamber

GM: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: If the wards can't penetrate, I'll lower its MR by 15 - this wont PeVi it out of existence, since it has enough might to not trigger the wards in the first place

then if the wards still cant penetrate we should have our martial response ready

i call it plan C

GM: how much penetration do the wards have

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the amount I exceed the casting total + 5xmy pen score of 5

GM: cool

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what should the trigger for the ward be archibald

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: demanding bread. this ward will also have several uses in the city of rome

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

ok

Mortis ex Verditus: It should be something he does less frequently so you can set up multiple wards.

Actually, can you do that?

Can you set up overlapping wards?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can you set up overlapping circle spells

Dušan of Criamon: venn diagram spells

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

But who knows how hedge magic works?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: not me.

GM: rough.

you can indeed put circle spells inside of each other but cant break the line of the circle line a venn diagram afaik.

like*

Lavinia of Jerbiton: seems safer to assume 1 pentagram for now

GM: should i move to the battle map so everyone can take positions?

Mortis ex Verditus: Please do.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh btw it will take 1 hour of loud vocal recitations and gestures to set up this rite

devil's fav demon (GM): lmao.

Guy of Bonisagus: just tell him were making a bread summoning invocation

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i will entrust all my metal items to sir oak in case something goes wrong

devil's fav demon (GM): actually

does it take one hour? or does it take one hour to inscribe a pentagram of base Individual size?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the rite itself takes 1 hour

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, what should we tell the giant to make him think this is a good idea?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the pentagram may take an additional 15 minutes

Drawing a Pentagram requires 15

minutes and a Dexterity + Artes Liberales

roll against an Ease Factor of 9, owing to

its great complexity

Dušan of Criamon: Somehow we have to make him believe this is for his benefit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the plan to draw a pentagram underneath the giant. or is the pentagram just somewhere and it shoots lightning at the giant

Lavinia of Jerbiton: To calculate the casting time for a

Vigilo rite, take the final Ease Factor and

divide by six, rounding up. This is the

number of 15-minute periods needed to

complete the rite. For example, an Ease

Factor 39 rite takes 7 x 15 minutes, so one

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hour forty five minutes to cast.

GM: I feel like the Ease Factor should be higher on that, owing to the immense size of the giant and uneven terrain.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a ward so you have to draw it around the giant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the pentagram must have the giant in it

if the ease factor is higher then i probably wont be able to pull this off then

Dušan of Criamon: Maybe just tell him we're sprucing the place up a bit, so the peasants are reminded whom to bring food to

GM: draw the pentagram around his foot

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're reciting poetry. giants love poetry

Mortis ex Verditus: What if we told him it was a ritual to break his bonds?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that was what i suggested last session

are there chains around his foot

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah, Lavinia was right.

GM: He's thoroughly chained up.

Mortis ex Verditus: I signal boost women.

GM: Even if they don't appear on his model.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then the pentagram will be around the foot and target a chain on his foot

GM: Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok

I say hello to the giant.

Giant in Bondage: "More guests!"

"...More food?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Do you wish to be free?"

Giant in Bondage: "To be free? You can lift this island from my back and set me against the gods again?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I can start by loosening your chains."

"I am a powerful Wizard, you see."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, we missed an opportunity to get him to pay us for this fake service.

Giant in Bondage: The giant struggles and pulls at his chains, and does not break free.

"Wizard..."

Dušan of Criamon: Oh he'll pay

Giant in Bondage: roll Guile

"...Is this a trick of Hermes?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+3 guile

(

2

)

+2+3

=

7

"No, I a descendant of Venus, and the mortal Kign Anchises of Troy."

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10+3+1 folk ken spec to threats

(

6

)

+3+1

=

10

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Yikes.

Folk Ken (PCs)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ah but wait.

Giant in Bondage: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have a ring of Authority, granting +3 on rolls to persuade or lead others.

Giant in Bondage: Aha.

Mortis ex Verditus: What about your cape?

Giant in Bondage: Unfortunately a roll equal to the EF is a failure, as far as I know.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean cloak?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I also have a cloak that grants +3 on First Impressions to those impressed by cloaks.

Giant in Bondage: He's not very impressed by cloaks.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fine then I have to conf

Giant in Bondage: Okay cool.

AFK for a second I'm sorry.

Mortis ex Verditus: How can we forgive this crime?

Giant in Bondage: "Must be after my time. Too young to be a threat."

Father Hazm: That tool bonus seems too specific

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: If the total equals or exceeds the Ease Factor, the action succeeds.

Father Hazm: An impressive cloak shouldn't need to target cloak affectionados

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that was how boyrep explained it

Father Hazm: As the person willing to read C&G I suppose BR can explain it how he likes

Guy of Bonisagus:  glances briefly at other explanations boyrep has given for game rules

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah but folk ken beats guile on a tie

since the folk ken EF is the guile roll

hope this helps

Mortis ex Verditus: That's a win with the confidence token, in any case.

Archibald of Guernicus: yes

but just clarifying this as there were some strange ideas going around about how guile works

Giant in Bondage: Okay. I'm back.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: If the total equals or exceeds the Ease Factor, the action succeeds.

Oh, cool, thank you.

I was incorrect about meeting EFs for some reason. Not sure where I got the idea that meeting it is a fail from.

Guy of Bonisagus: in this case the ef was the guile roll

Giant in Bondage: I have given jhons back his conf point

Guy of Bonisagus: no

Giant in Bondage: because the lie was successful with the cloak.

Guy of Bonisagus: he still needs to spend it

oh

Giant in Bondage: no he met it with his first magic item

the second one didnt work.

wait not cloak.

fuck.

what was it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ring

Aura of Rightful Authority

Giant in Bondage: that.

Guy of Bonisagus: ring of lying good

Giant in Bondage: Good ring to have.

Guy of Bonisagus: good ring if you can get it

Archibald of Guernicus: Ring Of Not Telling Truths

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I will need to draw a pentagram under your chained foot to channel the bond-breaking energies of the Gods."

Giant in Bondage: "Set your spells against my chains, then. And give me bread."

Guy of Bonisagus: guile specialty: not telling the truth

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok first rolling to draw a pentagram

rolling 1d10+1+3+1 vs 9

(

9

)

+1+3+1

=

14

success

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: now for spellcasting, the aura adds +4 to magic?

Giant in Bondage: Yep.

is Archibald here?

Lavinia of Jerbiton walks around for an hour shouting poetry and gesturing wildly

Mortis ex Verditus: Nothing at all suspicious here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+7+9+2+4 vs 21

(

5

)

+7+9+2+4

=

27

Giant in Bondage: "Where is the bread??"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the trigger condition should be something that occurs within the pentagram

so like the giant thrashing his foot in agony as he is PeVi'd works?

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah

Dušan of Criamon: If even the chamber is part of him, his foot should partake in the desire for bread as much as anything else

Giant in Bondage: Yeah, if the giant happens to thrash around in pain it will trigger the ward.

That's fine.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Penetration is 31

Giant in Bondage: Ooh. Nice.

That's pretty good.

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice bunchies.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I will go find some bread. Be right back."

Archibald of Guernicus: How many ACs did we manage, just a +2 AC right?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I walk away from the soon to be antagonized giant.

Archibald of Guernicus: thats x3 pen score and my penetration is 5

so 10 bonus pen

Here goes nothing

Shouting and screaming of course

Giant in Bondage: The rock is a Body Part and so a +3. Plus nicknames (Enceladus, The Palici) thats 5.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I turn invisible before archibald casts

Mortis ex Verditus: Smort.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+36 vs 5

(

6

)

+36

=

42

Dušan of Criamon: I do wiz sidestep

Archibald of Guernicus: 37 + 25 penetration

oh, same

before doing this

Giant in Bondage: Oh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Get those buffs up.

someone could Sidestep the grogs too.

Giant in Bondage: "Is this all part of your chain loosening?"

Archibald of Guernicus: thats 62 penetration dfd. if this doesnt penetrate him i think we should abandon this plan to kill the titan.

Giant in Bondage: It absolutely does.

I just wanted to have him say a line before it hit.

Archibald of Guernicus: -5 MR, does the ward hit him now

Giant in Bondage: The ward does not hit him now. But also now everyone has to roll initiative.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sir Oak Initiative: 94

Jabier Initiative: 44

oh normal init?

Giant in Bondage: yeah.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 0

(

2

)

+0

=

2

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2 Sir Oak Initiative

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!-2

(

6

)

-2

=

4

Carina:

rolling 1d10! + 3

(

9

)

+3

=

12

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+3 Jabier Initiative

(

4

)

+3

=

7

rolling 1d10!+1 Lavinia Initiative

(

8

)

+1

=

9

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!-6-7

(

1

)

-6-7

=

-12

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Dušan of Criamon: uh oh

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!-8-7

(

1

)

-8-7

=

-14

Mortis ex Verditus: Hope he doesn't botch, increasing his initiative to 0.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Noob

Dušan of Criamon: He is chairbound after all

Giant in Bondage: guli init?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

i don't have any reason to be present for this fight.

Giant in Bondage: Oh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but there is my init

Giant in Bondage: I'll take you out then, sorry.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you need someone to dispel a magic-aligned effect of level 10 to 20 then im your man

Giant in Bondage: Okay. Let's go in order.

Carina's up.

remember your positioning and movement limitations

Endrite?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bueller?

Giant in Bondage: I'll just delay the turn.

Sir Oak?

Archibald of Guernicus: Bueller?

Bueller?

Mortis ex Verditus: Carina sticks next to me at all times.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: archibald are you going to follow up with more PeVi after this

Giant in Bondage: Good defense, Mortis.

Mortis ex Verditus: But I do have to go AFK for a sec.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think it makes sense to wait until a successful lightning blast before the grogs get close

Giant in Bondage: "It WAS a trick of Hermes! Gah!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: GM, how many GRIDS can a man walk in one turn

Father Hazm: There's rules for granular movement in Lords of Men

Giant in Bondage: oh thats whre they were

i was looking in the core book.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hurry: 2 x (10 + Quickness –

Encumbrance) paces per round

how many paces is one grid

Giant in Bondage: you can move your walk distance + take an action like attack, cast a spell, etc in one round, or make a full action to run more than that iirc

one grid is one pace. 3 ft.

Dušan of Criamon: I should download Lords of Men

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok so jabier can hurry 22 paces.

Father Hazm: Does the length of a pace change based on who's currenly Pharaoh?

Giant in Bondage: cool.

Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sir oak can merely hurry 20 paces. great.

Giant in Bondage: Fantastic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: since dys won't answer me I assume they should run to the giant so they will do that.

Giant in Bondage: Works for me.

Lavinia herself is up.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah I'm doing more PeVi

Lavinia of Jerbiton: she is invisible and leaving the battlefield.

Archibald of Guernicus: I missed that one message, sorry

Mortis ex Verditus: You know what you need?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 22 paces away.

Giant in Bondage: She learned a lot while Prudenzio was around.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hell, she'll just teleport 50 paces using a magic shoe.

Giant in Bondage: Dusan?

Mortis ex Verditus: A magic wand that shoots magic missiles.

Archibald of Guernicus: 10 less MR next round, if the ward still doesnt penetrate then thats 45+ might and we're going with plan C

Dušan of Criamon: I won't act until the Giant acts maliciously against us

I dealy

delay

Giant in Bondage: the giant loses 10 more Might and bellows in pain.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dys remember this guy has +7 MR in this aura

Giant in Bondage: What does this spell look like, flavor wise

Guy of Bonisagus: we have +7 pen

Mortis ex Verditus: Love that flavor.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh wait

faerie

Giant in Bondage: Dys' penetration was absolutely insane.

Guy of Bonisagus: oop

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the lightning spell? it is the same as the hermetic spell Incantation of Lightning, but targets something metal

Giant in Bondage: He would have hit anything that wasn't like, an actual dragon or deity.

Archibald of Guernicus: I did say from the start I reckon his might is high enough even PeVi wont do much, but we'll see how it goes

anyway

rolling 1d10!+36 vs 10

(

3

)

+36

=

39

Giant in Bondage: Mortis and Carina are up.

Oh, you are rolling.

Archibald of Guernicus: 29+25 pen

think thatll do

-10 might, big boy

Giant in Bondage: that is extremely enough penetration yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: does the ward trigger now

Giant in Bondage: The ward was set to trigger with him moving his feet outside of the pentagram so no, not yet.

But it will hit him when it does.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he doesn't have to move it outside the pentagram

just lifting it up is fine

Giant in Bondage: He hasn't done that yet but I'll keep it in mind.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: uhhh

is he even able to with the chains on

Giant in Bondage: We'll see!

Archibald of Guernicus: ;p;

Mortis ex Verditus: Whoops!

Ok, I cast Brief Sidestep.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i feel like I have been misled by the gm

Dušan of Criamon: It would be extremely heartwarming if we destroyed the chains in an attempt to kill him, accidentally setting him free and thus dissolving him

Giant in Bondage: You haven't.

Trust the Process, as they say.

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 17 + 1 + 1

(

7

)

+17+1+1

=

26

Guy of Bonisagus: trust these

Mortis ex Verditus: Plus the aura.

Vs 5.

So I succeed and manage to penetrate my own Parma.

Giant in Bondage: Well done.

One of the heads turns and locks eyes on Archibald.

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

Archibald of Guernicus: Wowie

Giant in Bondage: He spends some Might!

30 penetration, ignem form

Archibald of Guernicus: Don't forget that at -15 might he has 15 less penetration on everything

Giant in Bondage: Ah yes.

Hahaha.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Bob Page: Ah yes

Archibald of Guernicus: Not that it matters, I have way more than 30 ignem MR

Giant in Bondage: 15 pen then.

Cool.

Archibald of Guernicus: Plink

Giant in Bondage: The other head takes an action because I'm a cheater.

rolling 1d10!+1+6+6

(

9

)

+1+6+6

=

22

One of the giant's arms breaks free of the chains. It picks up a rock and throws it at Archibald.

Roll Defense.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I've watched enough magi get burnt tae death tae learn the importance of good ignem resistance."

thats like THREE actions dude

Mortis ex Verditus: He really should've tried this earlier.

Giant in Bondage: That's two.

MR use and throw rock.

Archibald of Guernicus: breaking the chains

Giant in Bondage: Might use I mean.

The chains are part of the faerie's body.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll exert myself then, let me confirm my defence total

Lavinia of Jerbiton: archibald has sidestep up doesnt me?

Archibald of Guernicus: oh

yes

Giant in Bondage: Oh, he does, yeah.

Ok, cool.

Sir Oak!

Archibald of Guernicus: Been a while, keep forgetting about sidestep

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Logically the rock should hit the person next to him then.

which is (checks notes) MOrtis

Dušan of Criamon: never leave the house without it

Archibald of Guernicus: It's a fair cop

Mortis ex Verditus: That is logical.

Giant in Bondage: I guess so.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sir Oak spent his turn moving up to the giant.

Giant in Bondage: Luckily Mortis is protected by a grog.

Dušan of Criamon: Doesn't it project the mirage into open space

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is this round 2?

he'll attack!

Giant in Bondage: Yep.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+10 Sword

(

4

)

+10

=

14

+12 damage on a hit

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!-7-2+7

(

8

)

-7-2+7

=

6

Guy of Bonisagus: whens the lightning ward gonna kill him

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 14-6+12

14-6+12

=

20

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Why isn't Guy here shooting fireballs

Giant in Bondage: 20 damage, causing a

Light wound.

Guy of Bonisagus: i rolled init

Mortis ex Verditus: He has decided instead to undertake a study of the local herbs.

Guy of Bonisagus: but the gm did not put me on the tarcker

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wheres your token

Archibald of Guernicus: you dont have a token down

Giant in Bondage: oh i missed you i am sorry beardbeard

thats why.

Guy of Bonisagus: what the

it was there

Giant in Bondage: what did you roll

i trust you.

Guy of Bonisagus: 4

Giant in Bondage: You're on the tracker. Please take last round's turn.

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

i willl... cast pilum of flame!

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gasp

Giant in Bondage: Gasp!

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+19

(

7

)

+19

=

26

Giant in Bondage: That...

penetrates!

Guy of Bonisagus: that has... 7 penetration!

wow

er

6 pen

Giant in Bondage: wait i forgot. haha.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ho ho.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the giant absorbs the Fire, gaining 50 might in the process

Giant in Bondage: 7 times 4 for conversation + sympies is still penetrating

so thats fine. how much damage is pilum

i never use it so i forget if its 10 or 15

also ive been forgetting about this guys soak but it doesnt matter since its very small.

Guy of Bonisagus: +15

rolling 1d10!+15

(

10

+

10

+

7

)

+15

=

42

Giant in Bondage: lmfao.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

We did it gamers.

Dušan of Criamon: I pity the giant

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!+3 sta

(

3

)

+3

=

6

you do 36 damage to the giant, causing a Medium Wound.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: his soak is -2 from a previous injury fyi

wait n/m

Giant in Bondage: 38 damage.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we went out of order

Giant in Bondage: Wait.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so 36 is right.

Giant in Bondage: You're right.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I cast ReMe Confusion on the GM.

Mortis ex Verditus: Smart.

Giant in Bondage: Powerful move.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Anyway that means its now Round 2 Jabier's turn officially.

Mortis ex Verditus: But GMs don't have souls or minds.

Giant in Bondage: Yes.

Jabier the mighty.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+12 Attack w/ sword

(

10

+

5

)

+12

=

27

Giant in Bondage: christ.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes, the power of christ is awesome

Giant in Bondage: nbice rolls everyone!!!

Mortis ex Verditus: Phew.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: damage is +9

Mortis ex Verditus: We planned this perfectly.

Giant in Bondage:

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

(

2

)

-7-2+7-6

=

-6

Cool.

That's another medium wound.

Wait, do we count negatives or just take it as a 0.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you count negatives

Giant in Bondage: Wow.

Ok that's a Heavy Wound then.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice.... but does he move his damn foot

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hows the giant slaying going

Dušan of Criamon: good, good

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: It's going

Mortis ex Verditus: Pretty good, I've got him right where I want him.

Giant in Bondage: He probably will once he goes into Phase 2 on the next round.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hows the pc slaying going

Giant in Bondage: Archibald.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he's going to go SSJ3

Giant in Bondage: Jabier is cutting deeply into the giant's body and it's bleeding everywhere like a man.

Archibald of Guernicus: I launch a crystal dart at it

Giant in Bondage: Powerful.

Mortis ex Verditus: Classic.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i inspect the covenant apothecary

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+32 vs 10

(

9

)

+32

=

41

Giant in Bondage: "The gods were never this cruel!"

Archibald of Guernicus: 31 + 20

(i have a vim spec in penetration, so my score is 4 now)

Giant in Bondage: nice

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Mortis ex Verditus: Noice.

Giant in Bondage: pens easily

rolling 1d10!+3-12 soak roll

(

7

)

+3-12

=

-2

16 dam, takes a fatigue from the dart bouncing off its baby head forehead.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ars seems to really favor normal people in armor over giant earth shattering giants with no armor

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, he is tied to a chair.

That makes things easy.

Guy of Bonisagus: what if the giant wore armor

Giant in Bondage: dusan is still waiting?

Dušan of Criamon: We were promised a horrible phase 2

I am not waiting, as he lobbed a rock

Giant in Bondage: guy, dusan, and mortis still have to go

he may die before phase 2 if you keep rolling exploding 10s.

Dušan of Criamon: I shall try to follow Archibald, does Demon's Eternal Oblivion still apply?

Giant in Bondage: No, because it's not a demon.

Dušan of Criamon: Ah well that's worse

I'll run slightly from the group so we are spread better vs more rocks, but not cast anything

move over

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You should try to Aggro its DPS.

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

pilum go

Dušan of Criamon: I should try to use my seasons for combat speccing

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+19

(

6

)

+19

=

25

5 pen

Giant in Bondage: 20 total pen is sadly not currently enough penetration to hit

Guy of Bonisagus: dang

good luck mortis

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Giant in Bondage: The flame dart flickers harmlessly off the giant's body this time.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast Superior Aura of the Ennobled Presence on myself so I look my best for the inevitable statue of our triumph.

Giant in Bondage: Smart.

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 12 + 1 + 1

(

3

)

+12+1+1

=

17

That casts.

Giant in Bondage: The giant spends Might! but sadly the effect no longer retains penetration.

Everyone in the room who does not have MR must make a Quickness - Encumbrance roll of 10+ or fall prone.

As the room quakes and shivers around you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+1 Jabier

(

8

)

+1

=

9

It's just Jabier & Carina

Giant in Bondage: Nice.

Jabier falls down.

It takes a full round action to stand up iirc.

Jabier: "Ay tamale"

Giant in Bondage: Carina? Would Mortis use Finesse or is she just falling over?

Carina:

rolling 1d10! - 6

(

8

)

-6

=

2

Giant in Bondage: Nice.

She also falls over. What a clumsy oaf.

The giant's second action?

It spends more might!!!

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they might be giants.

Giant in Bondage: It breaks its other arm free and starts wrapping the chains around its fist.

the giant stomps in excitement and triggers the ward.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cool.

Mortis ex Verditus: We got him now.

Dušan of Criamon: Nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+30 damage

(

3

)

+30

=

33

Dušan of Criamon: Gruesome

Lavinia of Jerbiton: meh

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!+3-13

(

2

)

+3-13

=

-8

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: blessed

Mortis ex Verditus: I can't believe he is't dead yet.

Giant in Bondage: Another Heavy wound.

with -19 to all actions, it's any minute now.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can someone ReCo Jabier out of the way of impending doom

Archibald of Guernicus: Sure, let me just spont...

Giant in Bondage: Also it's the players' turn.

Archibald of Guernicus: Sure, let me just use corpus...

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol. haha. lol.

Spont a powerful Auram spell to blow him out of the way.

Mortis ex Verditus: I do not order Carina to stand up, as I have a cunning plan that will secure our victory.

Dušan of Criamon: Frankly I can believe it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: am i at risk of being crushed by a falling bookcase from the earthquake

Dušan of Criamon: he's a giant

Archibald of Guernicus: My teleport effects are tied to my talisman, they're personal range thanks to that fun little aspect of talismans

not touch

Giant in Bondage: No, the quake is only in the regio. Ssh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the quake is in the evidence room licking all the murder weapons

Giant in Bondage: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Giant in Bondage: Oak?

the Boak

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ah right

can he move behind the chair, assuming the giant can't reach behind himself

Giant in Bondage: he can move behind the chair but there are no guarantees about his cover

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sounds suspicious, he'll just attack then

Giant in Bondage: Okay.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

3

)

+10

=

13

daamge +12

Giant in Bondage: "Oww! My head! My arms! I've never felt pain like this!"

rolling 1d10!+3-19

(

7

)

+3-19

=

-9

Mortis ex Verditus: Yikes.

Giant in Bondage: oh wait i dont roll soak for that

its even worse

Mortis ex Verditus: You roll DFENS

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!-7-2+7-19

(

2

)

-7-2+7-19

=

-19

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 44 dam?

Giant in Bondage: Another Medium wound, now at -23.

Guy of Bonisagus: its ok

Giant in Bondage: 12 + 19?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 41

w/e

Giant in Bondage: oh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: eat shit giant.

Giant in Bondage: Heavy then.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: jabier stands up.

Guy of Bonisagus: im lining up the ultimate redcap faerie headshot

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its 13 + 12 + 19 - soak

Giant in Bondage: aaahhh.

i'm sorry im getting sleepy from the heat.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and its hot too

Giant in Bondage: that is a heavy yes.

Mortis ex Verditus: How can he still be alive?

Giant in Bondage: so -25

he's a giant.

you go until he takes an incapacitating or mortal wound.

Archibald's up.

Archibald of Guernicus: me shoot dart

rolling 1d10!+32

(

6

)

+32

=

38

unga bunga me hit

Giant in Bondage: Sir oak chops into the giant and it sprays more blood in dramatic gouts

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Giant in Bondage: boo boo

Archibald of Guernicus: unga bunga

Giant in Bondage: ok fine if you're going to mock this tedious dragged out torture of a crying giant I can just end it early.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Dramatic gouts. the giant complains it was blocking and nothing it could do

Giant in Bondage: Since you're going to win.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make them roll

Mortis ex Verditus: What if the giant gets a big crit?

Dušan of Criamon: I pity the giant even more now

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We like rolling natural 10s.

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!+3-25 soak rolley

(

7

)

+3-25

=

-15

powerful.

another big boom

Dusan, Guy, Mortis?

Guy of Bonisagus: its time

rolling 1d10!+19

(

6

)

+19

=

25

5 pen

i dont think its might has been lowered any more yet

Giant in Bondage: it only has (iirc) 13 magic might at the moment so that pens with all associated multipliers.

it just spent 10

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

5

)

+15

=

20

Lavinia of Jerbiton: magic might????

Giant in Bondage: to do the quake + attack buff that won't do anything.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what the

Archibald of Guernicus: spending might points does not lower might

Giant in Bondage: Faerie might.

Hah hah a.

Hah hah.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

i guess no damage then. good luck mortis

Giant in Bondage: Huh.

Was that a houserule? I get confused on that pretty much every time.

But that's fair.

Dušan of Criamon: I don't think I can contribute but I will stand more centrally in case I need to do something simple

Giant in Bondage: Run up and punch it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea whistles a French tune.

Giant in Bondage: >_>

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you should prepare for when the regio self destructs on top of you

like the two smartest wizards here already did

Dušan of Criamon: I never did put that point into brawl

I will go punch him next turn if he's still alive

Giant in Bondage: Nice.

Mortis?

Mortis ex Verditus: I dramatically unsheath my Magnificent Want of Alacrity and strike a dashing pose on Carina's body.

That's my turn.

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 1d10!+1+7+7-29

(

5

)

+1+7+7-29

=

-9

rolling 1d10!+1+7+7-29

(

10

+

8

)

+1+7+7-29

=

4

Two big backfists to Jabier!

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow, what a crit!

Giant in Bondage: What a crit indeed.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+11 Defense

(

10

+

1

)

+11

=

22

Giant in Bondage: Nice.

What a perfect parry.

Dušan of Criamon: 11 the hard way

Giant in Bondage: the giant's weak swing is easily deflected by the mighty Jabier.

New round.

Time to take it home.

Jabier: "Die, vile Ferracutus"

Sir Oak:

rolling 1d10!+10 Attack

(

6

)

+10

=

16

Giant in Bondage: "I see how I'm meant to be freed."

rolling 1d10!-7-2+7-29

(

7

)

-7-2+7-29

=

-24

rolling 16+24+12

16+24+12

=

52

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmm.

Giant in Bondage: Jabier leaps into the air and chops one of the giant's heads off.

Blood sprays across the room and sizzles against the lava.

It is Incapacitated.

Mortis ex Verditus: Only one more head to go!

Jabier: That was sir oak

this one is jabier

Giant in Bondage: Oh.

Jabier: with a RESERVES OF STRENGTH

Giant in Bondage: Sir Oak does that then. I got the PM from Jabier.

Jabier:

rolling 1d10!+12

(

10

+

1

)

+12

=

23

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Can't harvest vis from the body of an incapacitated faerie.

Jabier: damage +12 against the last head

Mortis ex Verditus: Ga ha ha ha.

Giant in Bondage: i dont think he has any defense when incapacitated which is weird since that seems like its somehow more powerful than his waking defense.

Anyway that's just a straight -29 then

never mind im retarded

and really out of it rn.

Jabier: lol

Giant in Bondage:

rolling 29+23+12

29+23+12

=

64

Jabier: maybe its good this session won't run long then

Giant in Bondage: He's dead.

Mortis ex Verditus: We did it!

Huzzah!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: play the fanfare, bart

Jabier: Jabier and Sir Oak spin their swords dramatically and cross them in a victory pose.

Mortis ex Verditus: "As perish all my foes!"

Dušan of Criamon: I contemplate mortality

Guy of Bonisagus: sir boak

Giant in Bondage: The two heads are very large and rest on the ground. The rest of the regio transforms before your eyes and becomes a normal, lava-free cave.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok let's get this vis out onto a tray.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Giant in Bondage: The giant's body, chair, and chains melt into the floor before it solidifies.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We did it."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No challenge is insurmountable as long as you have the  Unlimited Power of Vergilian Magic

Archibald of Guernicus: which dealt a medium wound

Dušan of Criamon: ... and the other half is violence

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Sir Oak is also Vergilian magic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Also Sir Oak jumped 20 feet in the air and chopped its head off. We all saw it happen

Giant in Bondage: The heads contain, together, a mighty 8 pawns of Faerie Corpus vis. The smaller is 3 feet across and the larger is 9 feet.

Dušan of Criamon: They'll never going to believe us at the inn

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Here's the great thing about that: we can order them to believe it and they have to or we fire them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets put the grass crown on it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dibs on the 8 pawns of corpus vis.

Giant in Bondage: Good idea.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: with Fae vis don't you have to worry about it reforming into its full fae form at some point?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's drag both heads into the village and show them that we saved Sicily by slaying the giant.

Giant in Bondage: If you don't use the vis or destroy it, yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what if you cut it up into little vis pieces and separate each pawn

Giant in Bondage: Also if the stories still exist the faerie could just get built back up from nothing anyway.

I think you can do that but there's a spell for it.

to concentrate vis into a tongue or ear or something.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can move vis around with a day of labwork

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Or with one spell.

Father Hazm: Destroying a faerie permanently is more important when the faerie is highly cognizant

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's more important because I need that Corpus vis.

Dušan of Criamon: I think there's a spell for moving vis in body parts

Father Hazm: Incognizant faeries just reform if the stories persist

There is

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that just means another opportunity for vis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It would be the same vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:  Infinite  corpus vis.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So, Athena doesn't show up to yell at us?

Disappointing.

Giant in Bondage: Nope.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets kill athena next

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's.

Giant in Bondage: Congratulations everyone.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's report the members of this covenant for molesting the Fae.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's

Giant in Bondage: The extremely alive members of this covenant.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The only two people who have NOT molested the Fae here are me and my good buddy Gulielmus.

GM: You should Weekend at Bernie's the situation to convince people Anson is still alive and then report him and "Wizard War" him.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: But I can keep a secret.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: agreed gm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That was my plan last week!

Dušan of Criamon: Technically I only provided the AC

Father Hazm: When we harvested the vis from the faerie vikings it was made pretty clear they'd be back in another 100 years

Whether we used the vis or not

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the members of the custos of cyprian are compelled to bring anson's ghost on trial

GM: The only thing preventing the faerie from coming back generations from now is the Dominion.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Thank you God, you are my greatest ally.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they should build a church in the cave.

GM: If everyone just converts then there's no more stories about worshipping the volcano giant who seals oaths and has sexy goat nymphs.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Speaking seriously for a moment, what is to become of this covenant's magical resources"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Do we know where their vis sites are located?"

GM: Lavinia does.

Dušan of Criamon: Easy: we say we saw the Virgin Mary in the cave

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Gahaha.

Dušan of Criamon: Lourdes, here we come

Archibald of Guernicus: "We investigated for a while, surely some note was kept somewhere."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It would be nice if we knew what we actually found in the covenant.

GM: It would, yeah. That's my greatest failing.

I will post it in the thread today though.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Do we have any legal right to the vis sites though? Other covenants are closer."

GM: Possibly late at night and not technically "today" in my timezone, but it will get posted.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "We would if we Wizard War'd Anson and stole the vis."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I mean as sources of recurring vis that we want to harvest, I thought that was what was being asked."

Father Hazm: I can consecrate the giant cave

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Can't those be taken as spoils of war as well?"

Father Hazm: If we don't maintain the consecration maybe a Magic aura will take over

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Archibald is the expert in the code and the one most concern with moral behavior so its a question for him."

Guy of Bonisagus: his concern is being as immoral as possibl

e

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: backdate a declaration of wizards war and nail it to ansons door

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

8

)

+2+3

=

13

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We could just hand deliver it now and then wait a month.

I mean, we are here.

Archibald of Guernicus: code of hermes regarding the vis sites

GM: the contents of anson's lab are

-1 new summa

-2 new tracts

other copies of things you already have access to from your own library and literatus

- some spell texts

- an item that isnt the horseshoe of aegis

GM:

- vis stockpile of ?? size

- knowledge of vis sites for intellego, aquam, ignem

so i can flesh this out later and give a general idea

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

What about the spell texts?

Father Hazm: Wow! Anson had Piercing the Magic Veil, which we can use to get to the Realm! How lucky!

GM: lol.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats pretty damn fortunate

good work anson

thanks for dying so we could have this

GM: lol

Dušan of Criamon: rip

GM: okay let me look something up in hoh:tl

Dušan of Criamon: I think he deserves a nice sendoff at least

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We could toss his body into the volcano.

Dušan of Criamon: I hardly knew him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could bury it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We could fulfill his dying wish of donating all his vis and magic items to the Augustan Brotherhood

GM: ooh.

theres a catch 22 inherent here.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's what he would have wanted.

GM: i didnt even consider it.

archibald im not sure about vis sites yet but consider this

Guy of Bonisagus: no one knows anson is dead yet

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah

GM: i didnt know this rule existed but tl'dr to what i sent to archibald Anson is actually a hermetic criminal

Lavinia of Jerbiton: How?

GM: BONISAGUS RIGHTS AND DUTIES

� “I shall further the knowledge of the Order and

share with my sodales all that I find in my search for

wisdom and power.”

Sworn by members of House Bonisagus, this provision

requires members of the House to make available all

GM: finished discoveries

Anson was suppressing his discovery of the Aegis breakthrough.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That assumes he discovered it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oops. Doesn't that mean Guy is a criminal if he doesn't uphold his vow of secrecy

Archibald of Guernicus: Even if he just found out about it

he'd have to make it available

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Also if he breaks his vow we get to kill him.

Archibald of Guernicus: its not just stuff you personally do the full research for

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hahaha.. I wonder who proposed such a wicked oath in the first place to trap Guy like this

GM: Yeah.

Wild.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I high five Lavinia.

GM: This was pure luck, because I didn't know this rule existed when I planned this adventure.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That's something I just innovented.

Of course, we can't tell anyone about his hermetic crime because that would betray our oath.

GM: To avoid these demands a Bonisagus magus can send

a copy to the library of Durenmar. Once it is in this

library, the Bonisagus can refer any enquiries there.

You could also break into Durenmar to see if they're holding the secret and not telling anyone.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Are there any lab texts about this breakthrough in the covenant?

GM: Yes, those are some of the texts you found in Anson's lab.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: There is a way out for Guy, all he has to do is renounce his membership in house Bonisagus and join one of the cool Societas

Dušan of Criamon: Welcome, Archibald of Criamon

Guy of Bonisagus: how am i supposed to steal my enemies' apprentices if i do that

GM: Welcome, Guy of Tytalus.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You mean Guy of Criamon.

Dušan of Criamon: Whoops

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Archibald doesn't have to do anything here.

Archibald of Guernicus: Guy becoming a Tytalan would really throw a wrench into his Tytalus enemy's plans.

Dušan of Criamon: I guess I'm a little out of it as well

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean, theoretically, if that enemy existed and had plans

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: And indeed he should not lest we band together to slay him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: He should quit the tyrannical Order of Hermes and join the enlightened Order of Suleiman

Guy of Bonisagus: theoretical adventure based on a player characters story flaws

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, are we mailing the aegis artifact to durenmar

and all of ansons writings

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Not unless you want to die.

GM: if guy has story flaws that can be triggered by this event i'd be happy to write up an adventure about them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: then i don't see how his violation of the oath matters.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: He gets blackmailed by a Tytalan enemy...

Me

GM: please remind me of stuff that hasnt come up that you'd like to see your characters do because im retarded and forget things constantly.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a tytalan enemy, Gordiano of Tytalus

GM: lol

"Local Tribunals are

left with great control over important details like property

and inheritance law. "

unless johns wants to define how roman tribunal inheritance law works rn im going to say that without an apparent living parens or apprentice, legally anson's remains and materials should go to Durenmar.

You could try to do the Wizard War trick to steal it all or just suppress his breakthrough and send over the rest of his stuff.

Dušan of Criamon: sorry cat again brb

GM: good cat

Archibald of Guernicus: I could spend some time studying the Code and looking for precedents and loopholes to get us a good deal out of this.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's WizWar and cement our reputation as bloodthirsty savages

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think a phony wizard war is the best way to go here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume most tribunals would have some other process besides shipping all of the loot to germany

Archibald of Guernicus: We could probably lay claim to a number of the vis sites, and the rest being handed willingly over to Verdi will still get us in with them. The aegis device is a trickier conundrum - however, it should be noted that Guy has absolutely no idea how it works.

There's nothing saying he has to hand over every magic item he trips over

but if he figures out the trick himself, itll have to be sent to durenmar to explain it

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Giving the aegis device to anyone is a violation of our oath to keep it secret.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ah

We have to investigate the item to ensure it's even Hermetic

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Which can only be repaid with the life of the offender.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: For all we know Anson just fished it out of the Fairy regio.

Archibald of Guernicus: Quite

GM: True, it hasn't been officially investigated yet, you've just seen it in action.

Archibald of Guernicus: and he is under no obligation to investigate it, either

Lavinia of Jerbiton: And who knows how long it will take us to investigate it

We've got such busy schedules afterall..

Archibald of Guernicus: indeed.

Dušan of Criamon: We have a sneaking suspicion, nothing more

Archibald of Guernicus: We simply have to deliberately keep Guy out of the loop on anything we uncover from it

Dušan of Criamon: Hell, we might be sending a worthless trinket to Germany, wasting everyone's time

Archibald of Guernicus: until we're willing to share with durenmar

Lavinia of Jerbiton: And what if some crafty person broke into his lab at night and swapped the item for a fake, then delivered the real item to the enemies of the Order of Hermes. He would have nothing to turn over at all

Archibald of Guernicus: yes, they c- wait what

Dušan of Criamon: lol

GM: lmao.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dammit

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We do need to secure these secret texts though.

The library is far too open.

Dušan of Criamon: Obviously, we must protect it, for the order's sake

Guy of Bonisagus: the librarys too open. please give me a few seasons alone in the library, to secure the secret texts. dont come in

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we have a secret vault

GM: people gawking as Jabier and Carina roll two giant heads across Sicily and into a giant stone whale's mouth.

Archibald of Guernicus: What I should do is make a new vault for us sometime

thats even more impenetrable

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we'll just put the Greatest Breakthrough Of The Last 600 Years inbetween the demonic reliquary and the book bound in human flesh

GM: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The problem with the secret vault is that we can't tell if someone breaks in.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: put an alarm ward around it

GM: anson was completely useless at everything except making the most important hermetic breakthrough in modern history and then hiding it.

whatta guy

Dušan of Criamon: gotta hand it to him

f

GM: hes basically the ideal npc bonisagus

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Makes you wonder who even cared about the volcano in the first place.

GM: Weird.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Guess we'll never know...

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's make the volcano blow up to cover the traces of us stealing all his shit

Dušan of Criamon: No!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Until I perfect Canaanite Necromancy and summon the ghosts of all the dead NPCs and subject them to rigorous interrogation.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah

GM: There may or may not be a hint to the magic aura's origins in one of the tracts.

I'm sorry for procrastinating.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wasnt the volcano covenant out of one of the supplements

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes hermetic projects

Archibald of Guernicus: well the secret vault mk2 will have an alarm built into it

GM: oh i thought there was no defined ars badgame lore history for this covenant before anson moved in

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The founding of the covenant was one of the things that happened at our first Tribunal.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: iirc i thought the volcano covenant was cool and needed filler political fluff for a tribunal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah we had to convince people to vote in favor of the new covenant

GM: i've got some ideas for exploring the covenant zone containing the magic aura if you want to come back and do that another week

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It paid off bigtime because we stole all their stuff.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the long con

Dušan of Criamon: I love the warm south

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that would be cool.

GM: As it is, Anson and Tasso were the two prominent magi, and Anson just built his lab and stayed there. What Tasso actually did other than make wine is still pretty mysterious.

Dušan of Criamon: FORESHADOWING

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's summon his ghost, with Canaanite Necromancy.

Speaking of summoning ghosts, can I experiment of Faustus?

I mean "on Faustus."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i vote no because he is a source of vim vis and we can't afford to let him die

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What say the rest of ye?

GM: Does anyone have an adventure to move into? Otherwise I think everything's pretty settled aside from if you're Wizard Warring Anson post-death and taking all of his stuff vs sending most of it to Durenmar along with a regret-filled letter reporting his death (but stealing and suppressing the aegis horseshoe)

Rosario thinks you should go ahead.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sounds risky

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: When's the next Verditus Contest?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have no adventures for today

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We've played for four hours already, we don't need to do another adventure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that works

ill do next week

Dušan of Criamon: I'm cool with a finish

Father Hazm: I agree

GM: Nice.

Father Hazm: GG

GM: That worked out well.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there's a contest in 1352 and 1360 Endrite

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Lavinia, can you make an animation out of metal?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes

Dušan of Criamon: What's the adventure XP and can I put it into perdo even though I didn't use it, but wanted to

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think we can cheat to win the contest then.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey i thought I was the one who suggested it in the first place!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: By making an Animation with Hermetic Enchantments on it and passing it off a single enchantment.

Yes, but I'm taking credit for your idea.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway instead of a mobile animation I think an animo with a boundary effect would be more impressive to the verditius judges since it breaks a hermetic limit?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think that's a good idea.

Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: An animo that coats a boundary sized target in fire

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Who were the last couple of winners in the Contest?

Archibald of Guernicus: They'll probably get suspicious when you present something that breaks every hermetic rule

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That merely confirms how brilliant and talented I am.

Archibald of Guernicus: and wont even necessarily win, hafl came up with a fun one for the verditius contest in ars frisia. map that tracks ships using ACs to them and you can move the toy ship to move the real one.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: why it was our old friends Kifiyaa of Verditius and the 150 year old Harpalos of Verditius

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice, nice.

That sounds way worse than a statue that can create a wall of dancing flames.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The magical power of the device

is not the only criteria for winning, and

items are judged according to their usefulness, inventiveness, beauty, cost in construction, and innovative nature.

GM: 8xp

Lavinia of Jerbiton: animo breaking puny hermetic limits definitely win in inventiveness, innovativeness, and vis cost

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice, I love XP.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how about an effect that makes every tree in the forest rise from its roots and become mobile defends of a covenant

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That's pretty good, but Severin already did that in his covenant with regular hermetic magic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: True but who can afford to keep that spell going nowadays?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Not him, probably.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: an animo the summons a perpetual neverending tornado

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What about an animation that can move city walls around?

Oh, that's a good one.

But how do we zazz it up?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the tornado only targets hermetic magi

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Good idea.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Feel free to read Rival Magic p 57 - 60 to consider the capabilities of Virgilian Rites.

i think im going to go play videogames now

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok.

Farewell.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dfd should we take all our season for 1351 or did you want to run a followup in this year?

GM: Nah this is a full season. There's no immediate follow up to this.

If you take the Wizard War path I will probably run an adventure where you get investigated by another Guernicus.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hehe

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's do it.

Ok, see ya.

GM: GG

Dušan of Criamon: gg

see y'all next time

Guy of Bonisagus: gg

Roy: dys is gay

johns (GM): Studying ignem vis

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rolling 1d10!-8 lavinia aging 1351

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rolling 1d10!+2 bolad aging 1351

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devil's fav demon (GM):

rolling 1d10!-8 rosario aging 1351

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