11/4/18

Dušan of Criamon: i can never really remember when we begin

one more hour or now?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Six minutes from now.

Dušan of Criamon: Good

Mystical greetings, all

dys: Greetings, mystically.

Beardbeard (GM): hey look its the underatle guy

johns (GM): sans the skeleton

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hey everyone, Sans, the Skeleton from Undertale, has come to visit!

johns (GM): love that guy

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sans Jollybottoms

johns (GM): Good day to all your gamers.

I hope you spent the week wracking your brains over today's ethical quandary.

dys: The name's the skeleton from Undertale. Sans the skeleton from Undertale.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I did and I came to the conclusion that there's no part of the Code of Hermes that prevents magi from cheating at sports.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: All games should expect you to cheat but all games should punish you for getting caught

Dušan of Criamon: Nothing in the rules that a skeleton can't play basketball

Mercuzio Caesar: Actually, it's rule 475

In the post Air Bud rules revisions

Dušan of Criamon: Revisionist! Revisionist!

johns (GM): https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/5r4myz/is_there_anything_in_the_nba_rulebook_preventing/

Rosario of Flambeau: We should rat out the englishman to the nobles imo.

Mercuzio Caesar: The revisions were necessary to cope with situations the original rulemakers simply hadn't envisioned!

Dušan of Criamon: Heterodoxy on full display!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: No one tell Hafl.

Mercuzio Caesar: Let's suspend the session to debate whether or not a dog should be allowed to play basketball or not.

johns (GM): aight

c'thinker (GM): muckle sans

Dušan of Criamon: FURIOUS Criamon typing at keyboard

Beardbeard: hell, lets cancel it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We cheated at games all the time at Valnastium in order to teach apprentices Subtle and Performance Magic

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I pretty much laid out my opinion in the thread.

Dušan of Criamon: Coming back no non-dog issues: I haven't caught up with last session but I approve of Mortis getting married and I kinda like the Rienzi fellow

Rosario of Flambeau: The first half of Endrite's plan s solid. I don't think we should do anything to assist Rienzi beyond linking Locke to him monetarily.

though

c'thinker: did rienzi ask us to do anything besides investigate the source of the coins

Rosario of Flambeau: being the go-between is already much worse legally than just not getting involved at all.

but hey, free noble daughters.

johns (GM): no samog.

c'thinker: mmm haha

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. mission accomplished

Mercuzio Caesar: Could you mint coins with rego craft magic?

Rosario of Flambeau: In that case, I think we should give a bunch of money to Rienzi and tell him exactly where it came from.

c'thinker: yes

johns (GM): Yes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Minting coins like Locke's is really easy because they're just cylinders

c'thinker: it seems like something you could do without any finesse

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Almost platonic solids but not quite

johns (GM): you need raw gold first

or silver.

Mercuzio Caesar: The easiest thing to do is to tell Rienzi that Locke can make gold out of 'nothing', and then also tell Rienzi the address where to find him.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: You can Creo Terram coins straight up, but using Craft Magic to make coins would help to cover up the maga's sigil.

Guy of Bonisagus: its a good plan

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Here's the problem with that: he's going to ask us to make gold for him.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Do you mean Rusticani Craft Magic or the Rego crafting guidelines?

Mercuzio Caesar: This man can make almost limitless gold, and is just as susceptible to coercion and thuggery as any other man. His address is 123 Arsenic Lane.

REgo crafting guidelines

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Yeah, Fiorella.

That.

I think simply laundering the money is the best way to go because then we don't have to tell anyone that you can create money with magic.

Mercuzio Caesar: We could always be honest and say that we've sworn an oath that, as part of it, prohibits generating gold out of nothing.

This isn't the whole truth but is essentially true.

johns (GM): launder the money how?

Dušan of Criamon: Why give him rope to hang us with

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: But then we can't make gold ourselves.

johns (GM): you're the only people who know where it came from

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's create Bison Bucks

Mercuzio Caesar: Ideally it should look like actual money rather than fake money

c'thinker: are there laws on minting coins in italy

Mercuzio Caesar: Since the look of it was so distinctive that it caused this whole adventure

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We would give Edwin Locke money that we make legitimately in exchange for his fake money, that way his money wouldn't appear magical or unusual.

Rosario of Flambeau: you should find a way to make the coins an arcane connection to a magus you hate and frame them at tribunal

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I don't know how much money Edwin Locke is making.

Rosario of Flambeau: i said that out of character.

Haha.

can rego vim magic transfer ACs?

johns (GM): no

Mercuzio Caesar: Can't elementalists create vis out of nothing

Rosario of Flambeau: rip

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The story hooks in Hedge Magic are full of examples of people kidnapping ungifted alchemists and magicians and press ganging them into servitude so really I think anyone with a basic knowledge of the Code of Hermes isn't going ot have a problem with it

c'thinker: hermetic magi can create vis out of nothing

johns (GM): they can refine pure examples of an element into vis

i believe it's seasonal

Rosario of Flambeau: lets give Locke a residence at the eastern ear to piss off archibald

Mercuzio Caesar: Wait. Does this mean that he's been refining gold into vis then refining vis into gold.

c'thinker: he could have been getting the vis from somewhere else

Mercuzio Caesar: Perfect. Let's kill him and steal his vis source.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We don't know how he's making gold other than that he's using alchemy.

Mercuzio Caesar: He hinted at it costing vis, iirc. He doesn't know what vis is, I believe.

c'thinker: lets get giraldo, who practices the exact same kind of alchemy

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can use Philisophiae to make gold without vis, if you have an insane amount of it

Mercuzio Caesar: Good point. Why don't we just steal his vis source, have Giraldo do it, then mint some coins ourselves. We can call them archibucks.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: the ability that is

johns (GM): i dont think thats true shaun

c'thinker: let's take edwin under gulielmus's wing and say vague things about the true nature of the art until he agrees to extract vis all year long for us

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I might be wrong

But Mythic Alchemy can do transmutations IIRC

johns (GM): yeah

because mythic alchemy actually rearranges ataoms

Mercuzio Caesar: At thems.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: In any case, I think my idea is the most practical and would cause the least amount of fuss.

c'thinker: this is entirely in character for a member of the alchemy cult

i think.

well maybe not the slavery

Guy of Bonisagus: we should go home, tell rienzi what this guys doing and where he lives, and then go read books for the rest of the season imo

johns (GM): lets ask the consul which of these great ideas we accept

Dušan of Criamon: knowing little else, I like Guy's idea

Mercuzio Caesar: Okay. Fiorella, which one do we go with

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I mean, Cola di Rienzi is already fighting the Capoccis.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella contributes this proposition: she'll spy on Edwin for a few days with birds, to see if he's using magic or natural philosophy.

c'thinker: gulielmus gains the Personal Vis Source minor virtue, for 12 pawns a year

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I refuse to acknowledge a difference between those two things.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It matters for the sake of the code

c'thinker: would a magic lore or cult lore roll suffice to figure this out

gerald lore

johns (GM): this is complicated by the fact that its not clear whether mythic alchemy is magical or not

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: The Code of Hermes doesn't apply to non-members.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think mythic alchemy is supernatural but not realm specific

johns (GM): I don;t think it gets a bonus from aura

beardbeard can correct me if im wrong

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It does not

Guy of Bonisagus: it doesnt yeah

its just supernatural stuff

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think it leans magical simply because natural law is magical law

Gifted people vibrate at a frequency that allows them to comprehend natural law at a higher level and manipulate it directly.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if we can peel edwin away from the capoccis or whoever then we will be laying the foundation for the wizards guild

presumably.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: But how would we even begin to do that?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If we can't come to a plan now, let's make a tribunal issue. We want license to press gang him into a guild.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I mean, aside from just kidnapping him.

Mercuzio Caesar: Why is he with the Capoccis in the first place? Other than that they fund and support him. Which a wizard's guild would also do.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: He's loyale to his capo.

Also we've never really asked.

Dušan of Criamon: Let's ask him directly and bluntly with no magical assistance

Edwin Locke: "I have all the resources I need for my study, other educated members of the court to consult with, wealth, respect, and the ear of a powerful nobleman and his heir. What else could I need?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: A bunch of ghosts nagging you all the time.

Hmm.

I feel like we don't really have a lot to offer Edwin Locke except a deal.

Though obviously murdering him would be really easy.

Dušan of Criamon: We can always use threats later

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We have a lot to threaten him with, though.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Indeed, there is nothing more you could ask for!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Except for protection from other magi."

Edwin Locke: "I've been here for 30 years now. My whole life is here."

"What other magi?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "As long as you're satisfied squandering your considerable talents on chrysopoeia."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The Order of Hermes."

Edwin Locke: "It's the Great Work itself, Gulielmus."

Mercuzio Caesar: There is one easy way to get him on board with us. Simply ruin the Capoccis.

Edwin Locke: "Why would the order of Hermes care about me? It hasn't for all my life. I don't have 'The Gift,' as you put it."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: But why would we care what he does if the Capoccis are no longer a power in Rome?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "You've avoided our attention until now. But now that you are spontaneously creating wealth, you're bound to attract the attention of others before long."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's simple enough to produce gold with magic. You're not doing anything special, and doing it outside of the oversight of the Order of Hermes is going to be trouble."

Mercuzio Caesar: "I don't know the specifics of my employer's organisation, but the coins do stand out considerably."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "The secrets of the true art run far deeper than some Spanish translator could possibly imagine, Edwin."

Rosario of Flambeau: "House Flambeau is on a crusade against hedge wizards at the moment, and your lack of Gift may not stop those zealots."

"They're not like me, a zealot for truth, justice, and goodness."

Edwin Locke: "I was pressed for time with the coins so I couldn't fake a proper seal. I didn't expect Rienzi to show up when he did and start breathing down everyone's necks."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "And of course my companions are quite correct that there are rules about these things."

Edwin Locke: "If I understand your order.. and admittedly I really only know what Potom Flos told me... you don't interfere with the nobles. And I'm part of a noble's court."

Rosario of Flambeau: can i roll code of hermes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The Gift is just inborn talent that causes you to vibrate faster than other humans. It's not necessary to work magic, and working magic is where the Order stakes its territory.

Rosario of Flambeau: i have a spec in mundane relations.

Edwin Locke: Yeah

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+3

(

7

)

+3

=

10

Edwin Locke: im gonna look something up real quick in a pdf

Guy of Bonisagus: good luck not dying, edwin locke

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: A pdf eh?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: out of character i am pretty sure the order doesnt give a fuck about what you do to a court wizard

Mercuzio Caesar: yeah lol

'we killled a court wizard' [everyone cheers and goes back to business]

Edwin Locke: These are the ambiguities that are

disputed when cases are brought to Tribunal.

There is no hard line here that a

magus of the Order crosses; each case

is individual. Overzealous Quaesitors,

like Galatea described elsewhere in this

Edwin Locke: book, would see interference in most

encounters. But most magi recognize

the realities of life and judge each case

upon its merits. This is not a matter for

storyguides or troupes to rule upon, but

rather for the magi within their sagas to

Edwin Locke: debate at Tribunal.

Dušan of Criamon: I have a hard time imagining molesting an alchemist counting as interference with the mundane

Rosario of Flambeau: in-character i'm pretty sure i'm being extremely magnanimous to this guy by not openly violently threatening him and instead warning him that he may later be violently threatened

Edwin Locke: yes

Rosario of Flambeau: as a flambeau milite, this is a situation i could see going two ways.

Edwin Locke: The main problem is, if House Capocci gets mad at you, that would be a code violation

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I mean, at this point we could just wait until Edwin Locke dies.

Edwin Locke: You can take action against a noble house who started shit with you, but in this case, you're the instigators

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: He has to be in his 70s.

Rosario of Flambeau: either the order is too busy for this stupid shit and doesn't care, or primus zela gets a wild hair up her ass and decides to murder this guy and take his arsenic and lead.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Then again, he is an Elementalist.

Edwin Locke: he first appeared in 1325, he could be 55

a child prodigy elementalist doctor.

Dušan of Criamon: win/win

Edwin Locke: anyway that's my answer to Rosario's question. locke has no protection from the code. the nobleman does as long as he's not causing you any problems.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Edwin Locke: and this can all be debated further at tribunal.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's have our mentem expert, aristide, calm the count down after the fact

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, Locke, that just means that your boss is safe, not you."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: If All Magic hasn't been destroyed by then.

Rosario of Flambeau: "And you don't seem to spend a lot of time at that court."

Mercuzio Caesar: I can't offer anything order-wise as a suggestion, but I think we should use this gold to fuel a righteous independence of Rome, and the resurgence of its lost empire here in the ancient capital.

Edwin Locke scowls

Edwin Locke: "So the 'other magi' you meant are actually you. You're threatening me, then?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The code of hermes is a living document is the main thing

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Heh.

It isn't worth the paper it isn't printed on.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What it says and what it could say after a tribunal case are two different things.

Edwin Locke: also archibald isn';t here and the code only really matters if you get caught...

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Rosario, please, isn't a little delicacy called for here?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I don't mean to threaten him!"

"At least not directly."

Edwin Locke: "It certainly comes off that way." He regards Rosario warily.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Not exactly the most diplomatic of magi."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Also during a trial you can argue that you were right and the code is wrong.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I would never raise my blade against a weak and helpless man like this. But I'm bound by oath to not stand in the way of my house."

Edwin Locke: "This 'Gift' of yours makes it very difficult for me to trust what you say, you understand."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets fake a quaesitorial investigation

Guy of Bonisagus: "I hardly think he has much to fear from other magi, once we inform Rienzi where the gold funding his enemies is coming from."

Edwin Locke: "If I didn't know that was part of your nature I'd have figured you for cutthroats already."

Dušan of Criamon: "Knowledgeable in both matter and men."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Oh!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I have more important worries than your gold, and will not go spreading rumors."

Edwin Locke: "So you're throwing your lot in with that demagogue?"

Rosario of Flambeau: Gulielmus Best Ohs and Hos Compilation

Mercuzio Caesar: "He's a man with a vision."

Edwin Locke: "The modern day Alcibiades?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "It slipped my mind entirely. Edwin, I can secure you against the mental effects of the Gift, if you will allow me."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hello, trustworthy magician here, let me cast spells on you

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Thus.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, was a man with a vision. Seems tired and barely interested in what's going on at this point."

Edwin Locke: "Alright.." to gulielmus

Guy of Bonisagus: "Gone is the fire of his earlier years."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I stopped the man from getting himself killed once. Rienzi is like a child with a very active imagination."

"I suppose you could say vision."

Edwin Locke: "I think I see what you're getting at then."

"He's someone you can manipulate."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason performs the parma-sharing ritual.

Edwin Locke: "So you want him in power so his power is yours. Do I have it right?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wow.

Wow!

Mercuzio Caesar: "The fire may not burn as brightly, but one such as that can never be extinguished."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I have no interest in mundane political power."

Edwin Locke: com + guile if rosario is lying

Guy of Bonisagus: "Draw your own conclusions, Mr. Locke, but think carefully about how best to use your talents."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gulielmus

Edwin Locke: "I use them to the benefit of my friend and long-time patron."

Rosario of Flambeau: i'm not. i have a lot of interest in becoming the strongest wizard who can beat up other wizards but no interest in rulers or nobles.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: 's parma score effectively drops to 0+0, making this an excellent time to murder him.

Edwin Locke: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hence the 0 Intelligence.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Edwin Locke: Okay Gulielmus is possessed by a demon

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Farewell.

Edwin Locke: oops that was a whisper.

Guy of Bonisagus shrugs.

Rosario of Flambeau: lolol

Edwin Locke: pretend you didn't hear it.

"If you have no interest in mundane rulers why help Rienzi at all then?"

"Or, maybe you're not all on the same page."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i retain my +3 form resistance.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "If people learn that magic can make gold, then we'll never see the end of the demands that we make gold for this that and the other."

Edwin Locke: "I wasn't planning to share my secret. I only told you out of courtesy for the long history I've had with Vardian's Tomb."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I already know how to make gold, I just don't do it."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Incredible..."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Mm, but perhaps sharing such a talent, one that even the ungifted can practice, would bring about an interesting future."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I suppose some sort of fatherly instinct. You meet a young man in odd circumstances and save his life, I don't know."

"The name came up and I felt a responsibility to come along."

int 0, major flaw meddler ftw

Dušan of Criamon: We should convince the Capocci family to join Rienzi

Edwin Locke: "Why not convince him to give up his damn fool crusade then? Let him go back into hiding. He'd likely live longer that way."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Wouldn't it just devalue gold entirely?" I say to Guy

Guy of Bonisagus: "Precisely."

"A world where men seek out things greater than mere coin."

Edwin Locke: mercuzio takes 1 anachronism aids point for understanding the concept of economics

Mercuzio Caesar: "You'd need to find some system of currency not based on gold or silver. Absolutely ridiculous. It'll never work."

Guy of Bonisagus: "You wouldn't need to."

"Perhaps we could live in a society where men help each other out of a desire to do good, all of their base needs taken care of."

"Where a man works not to increase the weight of his purse, but the prosperity of his fellow man."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Too many dark intentions in man for it to ever work out, not without a benevolent and absolute ruler to enforce it."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "What if we were to come up with some variety of compromise, wherein you stop paying your men with magical gold?"

Edwin Locke: "You speak of cockaigne. Rot from idle peasant minds."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: My man.

Edwin Locke: "I'm listening Mortis, but as long you are working for Rienzi I can't see how our interests won't conflict."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Man is inherently benevolent, just easily corrupted by monsters and demons."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Rosario is correct."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Once we kill them all, perhaps that society you speak of could be ours."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "My good man, I don't work at all, I create."

Mercuzio Caesar: "But isn't the desire to kill also evil?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "The first demon that must be conquered is that which dwells in coin."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: good news. the process of killing all the monsters is currently underway

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "And I wish to create a Rome in which constant warfare is not a part of daily life." because I'm in charge with my army of the undead.

Guy of Bonisagus: wow, gulielmus is failing his stamina rolls huh?

Edwin Locke: "You all would go far in the halls of academy, I think."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's just a job that I devote my every waking moment and most of my dreams to."

"It's not like I do this because I love it."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "The first step is to make sure that your mundane conflicts remain that way."

Guy of Bonisagus: i think giraldos totals are probably good enough to be able to turn lead into gold at this point

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's simply the only reasonable path in life I can take, as we are all being assaulted by evil from all directions."

Guy of Bonisagus: not sure though

Rosario of Flambeau: "And also I love it."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets get him to give us his texts on how his transmutations work

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "How much gold, in general terms, are you making per month?"

Dušan of Criamon: Here's a thought: let's tell Rienzi that the Capocci are using magic to make his mercenaries not want to fight them, but that he could attack elsewhere. I mostly just want to help out Locke, I'm growing sympathetic to his plight

Guy of Bonisagus: give us his texts and then giraldo initiates grogs into his cult and teaches them how to make gold

and we drown italy in a sea of gold

Edwin Locke: check lord of men prices

lets say about 20mp per season of dedicated lab work

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: if giraldo learns how to make gold can he do that in place of his guard duty for a contribution to the covenant

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, we could cover that from our own income.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you cant ask him for his formulae.

Guy of Bonisagus: we can

Edwin Locke: so dusan to clarify, right now rienzi is attacking a third party (a noble in palestrina) and locke here has interfered from the shadows. it's not an overt conflict yet but Rienzi hates the nobles so its easy to see where things are going.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll lose "face", the ancient roman measure of social standing and honor.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Though what kind of percentage we should ask for is up to Mercuzio to negotiate.

Edwin Locke: you'll lose fasces

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll gain aids.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: There is no English translation for this concept.

Guy of Bonisagus: did you tell him we wouldnt ask him for his formula

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i told him that turning lead into gold is for fucking noobs

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. gulielmus can sit in a dirty tomb while the rest of the magi are living in ivory towers

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Very well.

Guy of Bonisagus: [said while coughing up corpse dust] ah at least i have my principles

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: edwin. you must not do this. the quaesitores will come for you

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: [aside: all right let's steal this guy's notes so we can run a scam that the quaesitores will never notice]

Guy of Bonisagus: edwin, other magi will come for your money and your secrets. give us your money and your secrets to protect them

Dušan of Criamon: Truly we must bring the Capocci to the side of the revolution to protect Locke

Edwin Locke: the problem with that is

i sorta touched on this last week

this whole allumiere place was originally stolen from a french noble family by the capoccis

and rienzi is the pawn of the french pope who would love to restore the land to its prior owners

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

Dušan of Criamon: Damn

It's time to outlaw France

Rosario of Flambeau: I missed that, in that case now I want to help Rienzi for legitimate reasons other than just being a retarded meddler.

Edwin Locke: not making this up. definitely mentioned that like 2 irl years ago when allumiere was first taken.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I remember.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you did

Edwin Locke: thank you gamers.

Dušan of Criamon: I respect that, I wouldn't remember if I tried and I trust the GM

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's use mentem magic to make cola defy the pope on this one matter

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

lets give the french pope what he wants and right this injustice.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm shocked that Cola is a papist while pretending to be a republican

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Speaking of Potom Flos, how is he, anyway?"

Edwin Locke: "Dead. Plague."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the republic of christ

Guy of Bonisagus: requiescat in pace

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: The Papal States are technically a republic.

Edwin Locke gestures to the vast graveyard visible from the window

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh! ho!

Guy of Bonisagus: lets plunder his lab

Rosario of Flambeau: "God be with him."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ah, my condolences."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Let's enslave his ghost to make potions.

Edwin Locke nods.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets enslave his ghost to make potions and tell us where all of his hidden stashes are

Edwin Locke: "The Great Mortality has been hard on all."

Mercuzio Caesar: No-one in this entire adventure ever knew Potom Flos when he was a PC. Only 2 PCs left even did.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Such a shame. The man knew his way around a plant."

Edwin Locke: lol dys

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol.

his name is on some of our finest tracts

our finest copied tracts

Guy of Bonisagus: [smiling and wiping away a tear] never thought wed see the day

Dušan of Criamon: It's true, I read his work

or planned to

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I recommend that, to seal the deal, I marry Giulia di Capocci.

Mercuzio Caesar: Potom Flos: I'm going to be Gifted but NOT join the order of hermes despite how easy this would be. Nothing can go wrong from not having the parma.

Potom Flos, 20 years later: oh fuck

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: there was nothing he could do

Dušan of Criamon: Potom Flos holding steering wheel

Guy of Bonisagus: "Frankly Mr. Locke, I think this entire situation is a bit of a mess and hardly worth anyone's time. But your talent is intriguing."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is orsu also dead

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: AFK a sec, SWAT raid.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: thoughts and prayers, mortis

Edwin Locke: "He left the court some years ago. I don't know what became of him."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Farewell.

Edwin Locke: yikes but I warned endrite about pirating movies.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Dušan of Criamon: "I have to agree, while the mundane politicking is all but pointless, it's wonderful making the acquaintance of a competent scholar. I hope this ends well for you."

Edwin Locke: "I think we exist in different worlds, Guy. The Order of Hermes is a level apart from those of us closer to mundane soceity."

Guy of Bonisagus: "True enough, much as I don't like it."

Mercuzio Caesar: Orsu died when abilities became abilities again, destroying the houserule that bound his soul to the game.

Edwin Locke: Dusan: "I am always glad to be an acquaintance to Vardian's Tomb."

Dušan of Criamon: "For my part, I no longer feel Rienzi's actions are a crusade of good as much as a revenge ride. I now feel we should mitigate damage, instead of fanning flames."

Edwin Locke: Orsu took a vacation right when the black death hit so he could go biking around mythic europe and hang out with white supremecists in prague

Rosario of Flambeau: ol

Guy of Bonisagus: i should have giraldo learn to make lead into gold and then make gold coins that have rude words on them but people are forced to use them as currency because theyre 100% pure

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: touring europe, getting banned from entering the ghetto in each major city

Guy of Bonisagus: does a mythic pound represent one pound of gold still

or is that standard gone

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: not anymore, thanks to the inflation caused by edwin locke

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus takes another point of anachronism damage

Edwin Locke: theres no good way to judge prices back in this era

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the, uhhh. rebasement of currency

Guy of Bonisagus: desperately reaching out for a bite of potato as the pain from anachronism damage wracks your body

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the economy is... stronger than ever? thanks to edwin locke's actions

Edwin Locke: tayto.....

locke is creating jobs and innovating and disrupting the Murdering People for Money market

Guy of Bonisagus: anyway lets go home and never speak of any of this except to tell giraldo to start making gold

Edwin Locke: alright

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

johns (GM): I mean that's a valid option

everyone else on board?

Rosario of Flambeau: im going to tell rienzi so he can help the french pope.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we stopped tracking our mythic pounds like a decade ago

in real life

Dušan of Criamon: I disapprove of Rienzi and hope his efforts fail

johns (GM): ok. rosario betrays guy.

Rosario of Flambeau: because im the opposite of dusan and i think it's even more moral and just for him to help get stolen property back

Guy of Bonisagus: im just going to use his work seasons to make gold as an excuse to get more xp in skills that arent great weapon

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i hope he succeeds so we can have the holy roman empire, the roman empire, the byzantine empire, the sultanate of rome, and the caliphate coexist

Guy of Bonisagus: the city of rome faces an influx of ferriers, crashing the job market, after giraldo retires from his duties

Rosario of Flambeau: but i am also saying all of this out loud in character because rosario doesnt understand why you'd oppose the idea

johns (GM): alright

so if folks want to stop or object to rsoario or join him they can

Guy of Bonisagus: ah yes, its righteous to return the... stolen italian land to its rightful french owners???

Rosario of Flambeau: who wants a bunch of poison and lead?

johns (GM): if we take beardbeard's plan the adventure will wrap up and we jump to tribunal. if we take rosario it keeps going and you have a chance to change hitosyr.

Dušan of Criamon: I'll voice an objection but I respect that in character it makes sense for Rosario to do what he does

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: italians don't rightfully own anything

Guy of Bonisagus: im not gonna intervene in whatever rosario does

Rosario of Flambeau: we can use it to point at all the french people and laugh at them for dying of poison

Guy of Bonisagus: guy doesnt care one way or the other because rienzis just a puppet with no sense of purpose and the other sides some noble assholes who want to live in an arsenic field

well

johns (GM): its not all poison worthless land

Guy of Bonisagus: both sides are the latter i suppose

johns (GM): There's a mill, too

Guy of Bonisagus: poison mill

mill that turns arsenic into dead people

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and a well-stocked graveyard

back in Rome

Guy of Bonisagus: i think mortis would have a real appreciation for a plan that involves nobles moving into a land where they die of poisoning, which causes no wounds and leaves a nice strong corpse behind

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah i want to be clear rosario is involved in this specifically because hes an idiot who feels paternal instincts toward rienzi and now feels like there's a quest with justice involved that he can get inserted into

Cola di Rienzo: "You have something for me?"

Guy of Bonisagus: rosario inserts

Cola di Rienzo: salve??? this thing on

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: vale

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why didn't you just tell us what this was all about from the beginning?"

Cola di Rienzo: "I don't follow."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I would have been far more enthusiastic about helping you recover your friend's stolen land than I was about some silly gold."

Cola di Rienzo: "You've lost me. What does this have to do with the Mascagni's band?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I was bored to tears until I found out there was some quest to right wrongs involved."

Endrite: Ok, I'm back.

It was just a nearby fire.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm loving how Rosario is trying to turn this into a thing

endrite: please avoid dying

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, there's some conflict over the land of Allumiere. Apparently the Capocci family stole the land from some Frenchmen some time ago and your friend the french pope wants to right this injustice."

"The band is being bribed by some alchemist, it's really nothing."

Cola di Rienzo: "Interesting."

Cola di Rienzo leans back in his chair

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: just remembered how the actual history played out here and lol.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: The medieval version of the thinking emoji.

Cola di Rienzo: "The Capoccis were going to have their day soon but they have acted ahead of my plans."

he does the genji steepled hands thing

Dušan of Criamon: Rienzi doing the Wee-bay face

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Cola di Rienzo: "The alchemist is a rich man? Or you mean to say he is.. creating gold?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus, in his lab: "Hope nothing bad happens to my friend Edwin today."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's a simple trick, really. He has a unique method for it, but any magus worth his salt can create some gold coins."

"Well, he's not a magus."

Cola di Rienzo: "Of course." Though he regards you as if you're making idle boasts.

Mercuzio Caesar: No re-restablishment of the Roman Empire today [vin diesel grabs at the reins of his rapidly turning horse]

Cola di Rienzo: "I have learned some things recently too."

Rosario of Flambeau: I wave my hands italianishly.

Dušan of Criamon: Dušan, leaning back in a rocking chair in his lab "Boy am I glad no mundanes are abusing my friend Locke to get into hermetically creating currency."

Rosario of Flambeau: "All the legalities of the magical world are very boring, I know."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ain't it the truth.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: dusan takes 400 points of unsoakable anachronism damage for sitting in a rocking chair

Dušan of Criamon: you can't be serious

1725, by god

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Farewell, Johns.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: its an invention of the hated protestants

Dušan of Criamon: Dušan is retconned to be kind of hinking a regular chair back and forth and also thinking there has to be a better way

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

johns (GM): looks like my last few lines got cut off

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Alright, so how do we get deeply and illegally involved in mundane affairs from here on out?

johns (GM): Rienzi: "I hear the men of Vardian's Tomb slew 100 Colonna soldiers and knights in the street, while outnumbered and ambushed. You didn't mention you were warriors, too."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: dusan invents the swivel chair to aid his circle meditation

Rosario of Flambeau looks confused and gestures to his plate armor and giant sword

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmjZuAfqHrA

Mercuzio Caesar: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: "Not all of us, but, well."

Cola di Rienzo: "You and the man who pretends to be a monk, for instance."

"Anyway --"

Mercuzio Caesar: Ah. The bad boys of being a 2 strength magus who cuts people in half with a magic sword.

Cola di Rienzo: "The Gondrin family wants that land back. They have petitioned the Curia for decades and His Eminence has decreed it rightfully theirs. I have the seal bull to that effect."

Dušan of Criamon: Quoth the classics: "I cast fist."

Rosario of Flambeau: its going to be cool because i just invented a spell last season that dispells Terram effects up to level 30 that i will later instill into my talisman (my sword) to trigger on hit to dispel any terram wards.

Cola di Rienzo: "But the Gondrins won't actually come to Italy. If I get that land for them, they'll send some steward to oversee it. And out of gratitude for me, they will grant their full support to the revolutionary project."

"So, this is what we'll do."

"You, and some of the mercenaries -- I have a band known as the 'Crows' nearing the city -- are going to storm Allumiere. You will bring that alchemist to me. You will put the Capoccis to the sword until there is no one left to seek vengeance."

"You do this and the reward is whatever you name."

"With that alchemist there to ensure the success of the revolution, I promise you, I will be in position to grant  extensive  reward."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: ah, no committing the crime of court wizardry today

Rosario of Flambeau makes the pepe2 face

Gulielmus of Pure Reason whistles an old Norman tune.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, things went exactly as I predicted.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I have to say, I feel no obligation to do that. I seek fame as a slayer of demons and monsters, not noblemen. My involvement ends with the information I share."

"I can ask my associates, of course."

"And I can wish you well, and pray for your success."

Cola di Rienzo: "I remember my enemies as well as my allies." he murmurs.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm sorry, but as I said, gold is trivial to a magus, and I have much more important things to kill."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Oh my God these are the worst answers possible.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Cola di Rienzo: "Not even other wizards? Those sword to uphold the corrupt, bloodthirsty nobles who have spread tyranny through this great city?"

Dušan of Criamon: I respect them

Guy of Bonisagus: i was expecting rosario to do it

i was expecting him to go back to the covenant and say hes borrowing the grogs for a couple weeks

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we have grogs?

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

Rosario of Flambeau: I rub my forehead and think about drawing a chart for him.

Guy of Bonisagus: derfel, for starters

Cola di Rienzo: plenty

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: At this point it would be a violation of the Oath to NOT invade Allumiere.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I see no problem with loaning him our mundane bodyguards, and assisting with the intelligence gathering of magical birds."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: who's derfel

Dušan of Criamon: If Dušan finds out about this relaying of info, he'll ask Fiorella for an express bird delivery of a letter to our friend, Locke

Cola di Rienzo: badass warriors who faced down an army of cultists and demon statues and lived

Rosario of Flambeau: "He's not really a wizard. You see, magi can be alchemists, but not all alchemists are wizards."

"He's just read a lot of very obscure books."

Mercuzio Caesar: Rosario going alone is the worst possible outcome. This owns.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I think we should invade Allumiere. At this point, our hand is forced."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I could kill him in an instant, have no fun doing it, and bring shame on my reputation."

Guy of Bonisagus: not sure but hes in our lsit of grogs. looks like hes got -3 in every stat, and 10 points of flaws with no virtues

and every flaw is "stinks like shit"

strange sheet

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can use my birds to spy for him but having my birds attack stuff would give me away too easy to the order

Cola di Rienzo: lol

"Pah. Perhaps your reputation is exaggerated after all. You're either too coward to act when the time for fighting comes or you have the heart of a slave, begging for the aristocrats to rule you."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The Order is tyrannized by something worse than aristocrats. Democrats."

Dušan of Criamon sneezes

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ma'am this is the library

Rosario of Flambeau: "I am indeed a slave. To a set of ideals with higher nobility than any blood you serve."

Rosario of Flambeau puffs out his chest

Cola di Rienzo rolls eyes

Cola di Rienzo: "You can see yourself out."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Rosario, at his trial "I am a slave... to the rhythms."

Mercuzio Caesar: https://i.imgur.com/nVZAwj1.png

Rosario of Flambeau: "Good day, my friend, and good luck."

Rosario walks out the door whistling and the mission accomplished banner unrolls.

Cola di Rienzo: lol

johns (GM): well, now what

Guy of Bonisagus: rosario the dork

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Do we really ahve to be unified on this?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats up to the storyteller

Dušan of Criamon: Does Rosario admit what he just did

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If Mortis wants to help Cola I don't see the problem

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, Rosario has put us in quite the pickle.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, yeah, I'll tell the covenant exactly what happened if they ask.

Guy of Bonisagus: dys wanted me to write something for archibald for his speech at tribunal or something then never told me to write it

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We're caught coming or going.

Dušan of Criamon: Excellent

Guy of Bonisagus: good work dys

johns (GM): archibald pulls out parchment and begins reading: "ahem. court wizardry ftw everyone. i love the king of england."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: If we DON'T attack Allumiere then we'll be on the hook with Cola di Rienzi and if we DO then we'll be responsible for any reprisals by the Capocci family.

Dušan of Criamon: I send a letter to Locke and tell him his fillet is fried (adding an italian malapropism) and that he should come seek asylum in the Tomb

Rosario of Flambeau: also who took me to visit rienzi because there's no way i'd figure out how to get there on my own

fiorella probably already knows what happened because i followed a bird or something

Guy of Bonisagus: probably rienzi_lover_69

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "He didn't seem interested in anything but us committing a hermetic crime. Strange that he should refuse all aid that could be specifically be explained away as mundane."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "We don't have much mundane aid to offer."

"Just fewer than a dozen elderly grogs."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We have a lot of money and a loyal turb."

Rosario of Flambeau: "He didn't seem to believe that we're not interested in money."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "And I personally have an army of aerial spies."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Well, that's because it's unbelievable."

johns (GM): Fiorella of Jerbiton: Do we really ahve to be unified on this?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats up to the storyteller

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "If you're going to help out a ruler with magic then there is no reason not to help him enough to actually win, in my opinion."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Anyway, what about your Verditius privilege? You can assist him perfectly legally."

johns (GM): i dont think its revealing much to say if someone helps magically attack the capoccis it would probably change things.

since the capoccis have magic help on their side.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: This Cola di Rienzi guy is a real scorpion in the sand.

Mercuzio Caesar: "The corrupt aristocracy have it coming, and these are the perfect days to do it."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If the Capoccis use magic themselves they're not mundane, they're a rival order

We wipe them out like we did the vergils

johns (GM): Yeah I -- wait what

Rosario of Flambeau: The Capoccis love hedge wizards and have a load of them.

that's all.

Guy of Bonisagus: nice. lets kill them

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: no no i like where fiorella is going

Fiorella of Jerbiton: ^

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mercuzio Caesar: The Order of Cappocci are clearly behind the blight, and on that basis we had to slaughter them

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: what if we told rienzi nothing of the help we would be giving him, and just sneak off to insanely murder all of capoccis hedge wizards

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok, now that we've got that out of the way.

Dušan of Criamon: Rienzi is a scorpion on sand, very visible

Guy of Bonisagus: so we get no benefits, at all, from either side. but we get to killl hedge wizards

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: It's time to count our chickens before they hatch and come up with what we want our payment to be.

johns (GM): you would be hard pressed to haggle for a reward guy

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The Capoccis have a legion of magical assistants. It's time to stop treating them like the noble estate rather than what they are, a rival order."

Guy of Bonisagus: i know

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think the Guild of Wizards.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: This adventure is shaping up to be a real dance with the reaper.

Guy of Bonisagus: but killing hedge wizards is reward in itself

lets make johgns stat up all these hedge wizards

lets make him figure out everything

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats easy since all of them seem to have died of plague

johns (GM): Gahaha bitch you think I haven't done that already? :dukedog:

Rosario of Flambeau: "Aren't they a little small for a rival order?"

Guy of Bonisagus: lets not interact with the hedge wizards in any way so johns's work is wasted

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Doesn't matter."

johns (GM): joike's on you my time has 0 value anyway

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gwahahaha.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's paralyze them and ship them in crates to a pralician

Dušan of Criamon: I... CAn't... Break him!!!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Small just means we'll have an easier time of it."

Mercuzio Caesar: "War, then."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: So are ALL of the Capoccis in Allumiere or how far do we have to go, here?

johns (GM): yeah

If you killed them all you would wipe out the house

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "If we obsess over the letter of the law rather than the intent, that's just slave morality>"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, once again my plot to marry a woman has failed.

johns (GM): mortis the supreme gentleman

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: this adventure is a real conflict between cross and crown

Dušan of Criamon: Increasing his killing prowess

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Rienzi has a point about us. Wolves do not allow the sheep to rule them.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok so, who do we have setting out with us to murder a million hedge wizards, as is the style of the time?

Dušan of Criamon: I'll walk with, as the option of redemption, offering induction to worthwhile hedge wizards

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "So we shouldn't allow ourselves to be ruled by sheep either. Nobles aren't nobles because they're chivalrous. I knew enough nobles to know this. They're nobles because they have little compunction about grabbing power."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Yes! Exactly it!"

johns (GM): murder ftw. vardian's tomb baby!!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think that we should go in before Rienzi's men so we can demonstrate our puissance.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hmm

Mercuzio Caesar: "A new order is truly upon us. I knew this was the best place in Italy to come."

Guy of Bonisagus: interesting words from a noble

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i could have derfel use his one ability

or i could send gulielmus, and try to save edwin

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. i guess giraldo is going for the hedgie murder time

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Oh, you mean that Holy method that obliterates all human life in a valley?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Make the Capoccis play their supernaturla hand first. Let the world see they're not simply nobles playing their role in society, but a magical faction unto themselves."

johns (GM): Everyone who is going on this expedition, drop a token

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Where?

johns (GM): soz here we are

Dušan of Criamon: I think I'm going to take a white flag, at the risk of being misidentified as a frenchman

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: AFK a sec, have to check on the fire.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hang on. i have to find derfels character sheet.

Mercuzio Caesar: I have no combat ability, but my leadership and presence are pretty rad, for leading.

ROFL. Good one.

johns (GM): Are you planning to storm into the area, swords drawn? To sneak in? To approach diplomatically first? Something else?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ok. ive got it

Derfel is here, with his club.

Dušan of Criamon: We should find a nice high place overlooking the action

wait for the right moment

johns (GM): this place is hilly so thats easy

Mercuzio Caesar: Let me pull out Derfel's character sheet  tears off a piece of toilet paper from the roll

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: good lord

johns (GM): lmao

Derfel's severed head: Stop! Stop! I'm already dead

Guy of Bonisagus: lmfao

Rosario of Flambeau: i like that rosario came in and said hey guys heres this insane criminal plan i just got offered anyway im going to go swing my sword in the air by myself in the basement bye

and then everyone was like criminal plan?

great idea!

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: snake: criminal plan?

Dušan of Criamon: It's a bad plan but hey, a crime's a crime

johns (GM): Who is Team Leader here?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: cola di rienzi

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella is a Jerbiton, crime is in her DNA

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll take command of the armed forces.

Jabier: "Deed somebody say creeminal blan?"

Guy of Bonisagus: snake: a hermetic crime to surpass fabius's!?

Mercuzio Caesar: I really need to write and stat up my Difficult Underlings for my flaw, I keep forgetting to do that.

Jabier: i will play jabier and do a racist voice.

Fiorella the Raven: I will send out crows to provide intelligence on group size

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: thats our dfd

johns (GM): put on your best Medieval Iberian Accent

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: okay

Derfel ap Cadwaladr begins speaking arabic

Jabier: lol

Mercuzio Caesar: So just assume for this scene that I brought along some personal troops and they all managed to get lost in the same regio Rosario keeps wandering into.

Dušan of Criamon: nice

johns (GM): Okay so your recon tells you the Capoccis have not stirred into action since you left

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok I'm back.

johns (GM): Around the Palazzo is a village of peasants. The Palazzo itself has a stable with 5 horses, a dog kennel, and you count

hmm

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what's with the critical rules on the cards

johns (GM): 15 fighting men around the palazzo

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wow!

johns (GM): those cards are ancient cumthinker

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: how many crossbows

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Level 4/2/1.

johns (GM): we haven't used those in literal IRL years. they dont apply anymore

no active crossbows.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: perfect.

johns (GM): They are unaware and have not mobilized.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Active Crossbowman.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hmm.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I think that we should announce our intent.

Fair is fair, after all, and they can't stop us anyway.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm considering walking in there and telling them they can leave unharmed before the slaughter begins

johns (GM): I would, with the players permission, prefer to run this as a mix of dice and CYOA style decision making, than an actual Ars combat involving many tokens.

Dušan of Criamon: I respect the GM's intent

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Please also include non-combatants on the combat board.

Guy of Bonisagus:  turns to page 69

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wouldn't this be a chance to use the Massed Combat rules?

johns (GM): It would

Guy of Bonisagus: il ltake the gun and infinite weed

Fiorella the Raven: I'm fine with Lone Wolf style

johns (GM): But I don't think you're meeting this guys in the field, and you're not laying siege?

Fiorella the Raven: Lone Wolf being the non-visual novel series

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I mean, we would be laying siege if we told them about it.

Jabier: "Jefes magos, these Cabochos are gonna get it good!"

johns (GM): lol

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's tell them about it by having derfel walk up and use his awesome presence to

jesus

to demand their surrender.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Speaking of, in preparation I'm going to go find some arsenic caked skeletons to animate.

Dušan of Criamon: OK, we're going in, is that it

johns (GM): I'm not even sure what your plan is.

Jabier: lol

same here.

Guy of Bonisagus: 1. breackfast

2. kill hedge wizards

Jabier: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wow, that's a lot of fighting men tokens.

johns (GM): Dusan you said you want to talk to them, are you actually going in to talk or were just floating that as an idea

Dušan of Criamon: I want to do it, solo or not

johns (GM): Cool.

You walk up to the Palazzo. Do you knock?

Mercuzio Caesar: I have an idea. Are there soldiers in the peasant village?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, my plan is to crash the native arsenic corpses against the largest mass of enemy troops as soon as is honorable.

Dušan of Criamon: If that's the way to access it, yeah

johns (GM): None that Fiorella saw, Mercuzio

Mercuzio Caesar: "Dusan, let me come with you, I also wish to ensure the civilians are properly informed of what dangers there are."

johns (GM): Okay. A servant greets you and turns up a nose at you. "Oh it's.. ahem.. you again. I assume you want to speak with Steward Locke?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Correct you are."

"It's a matter of life and death as it were."

Edwin Locke: "Salve"

Guy of Bonisagus: hey edwin. were gonna kill your patron and all your friends and youll lose your house and your livelihood. hust thought you should know,

Edwin Locke: are you planning to kill the nobles too.

Dušan of Criamon: "Alchemist Locke, I bring bad news. Your home is about to be in grave danger. I fear I can't avert this in any way, but I can offer you an alternate path."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: well that was colas plan

Mercuzio Caesar: Looks like you've really mastered alchemy as you're turning hopes and dreams into tears, Locke.

Giraldo of Milan: yo locke. you dead locke

Dušan of Criamon: "You and any local dabblers in the dark arts are welcome to extract yourselves from here to safety now, or stand to face an onslaught."

Edwin Locke: "Shit," he says, Englishly.

"Just tell me, is it Rienzi? Or is it your comrade?"

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll step around all this and look around the village to make sure there's no soldiers lurking around ready to jump in

Dušan of Criamon: "I am not entirely sure what role my sodales choose in the upcoming battle, but they will not strike at anyone leaving before the bloodshed, which I hope you'll consider doing."

Edwin Locke: "Like you leave me a choice."

"The others on the court? Can they leave too?"

Jabier: let them all stay at the inn for awhile

dare you to offer

Mercuzio Caesar: Yeah, go fetch Jeanne d'Ys.

Dušan of Criamon: come to think of it

this might end up with the nobles leaving as well

Edwin Locke: JEanne d'Ys? You mean,  Gulielmus  ?

he means his other hedge wizards, dusan

Giraldo of Milan: good work everyone. lets make an enemy of the man who can make infinite gold

Dušan of Criamon: ah

Mercuzio Caesar: Oh my god. His name was an anagram of jeanne d'ys this whole time.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr checks jukebox

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: This place is a real Crac des Chevaliers.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Makes you think.

Edwin Locke: I would play Gulielmus' theme music, but there isn't any!

Dušan of Criamon: "Yes, I was expecting you to take them with you. It would be also beneficial for them to later join the Order, but that is neither here nor there at the moment.""

Mercuzio Caesar: The best solution to a bad guy with an infinite pile of gold, is a good guy with an infinite pile of gold.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: this situation is a regular scottish declaration of war

Dušan of Criamon: "Make haste, there's troop movements already in progress."

Edwin Locke: "If inducted in the order we would be protected? Since, after all, you are saying our current protectors are about to be destroyed."

Mercuzio Caesar: Gulielmus does have a theme

It's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhO4BdvHrjs

devil's fav demon: i mean that is the whole idea behind join or die.

Edwin Locke: gOOD TRACK

devil's fav demon: never thought i would say rosario is too subtle for flambeau.

Dušan of Criamon: "The order's protection is one thing, protection from Vardian's Tomb an entirely other. You have my unconditional vote on the latter."

Jabier: if inducted into the order they would be protected, though.

Edwin Locke: "Can you induct me now?"

Jabier: lol

Dušan of Criamon: Could I?

Edwin Locke: "I'll swear the oath. I don't want to be left high and dry."

I believe so?

Dušan of Criamon: code of hermes 1

Edwin Locke: another pc can correct me

Fiorella the Raven: You have legal protection as a covenant employee unless there's a wizard war

Jabier: a quaesitor has to be present iirc.

Edwin Locke: ah

Archibald of Guernicus starts screaming suddenly, in his lab

Edwin Locke: Then you will have to make Archibald swear this Englishman in.

Jabier: lmao.

Edwin Locke: l m a o

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'm hype.

Fiorella the Raven: I don't see any reason Mercere wouldn't take him though, not if he has a really useful ability

Gulielmus of Pure Reason taps at the wall of his lab with a broomstick.

Giraldo of Milan: alright. lets force archibald to swear in an ungifted hedge mage englishman

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Keep it down in there!"

Giraldo of Milan: i like this adventure now

its the best one johns has ever run

Jabier: lmao

Dušan of Criamon: "We have a group nearby where we can officially seal the pact, for now I declare you and all your assistants to be under the protection of the Covenant by the power... almost vested in me."

Jabier: its been really cool.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Heh heh.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sorry, I was faced with the most horrifying vision. Thankfully, my sodales would never do it."

Jabier: Dusan ftw.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Oh, we should also allow all women and children to leave. I'm not heartless.

Edwin Locke: "Fine. Then we'll head to the Eastern Ear Inn."

Dušan of Criamon: and so the caravan goes

actually i think we rejoin the group first

Edwin Locke: Edwin, the Sahir, and a somewhat senile Banisher all leave.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm kind of entering wargamer brain mode

Edwin Locke: Well

Dušan of Criamon: I just don't want them ambushed by a rienzi party

Jabier: that sahir ftw

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: You could escort them, Dusan.

Giraldo of Milan: ;ets convince archibald to make a big speech about allowing ungifted hedge magi into the order at tribunal and then bring edwin locke and all his clown friends out of hiding once the rule is officially written

Edwin Locke: Without the opposing magicians, and with you being Hermetic Magi, the world is your oyster

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's interrogate the sahir for the secrets of the order of suleiman

Edwin Locke: unfortunately he's about to be inducted into the order and protected. gahaha

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hu hu hu.

Dušan of Criamon: I will interrogate him for exotic recipes

anyway that's this scene imho

johns (GM): this is what my pdf says about inducting them

House Ex Miscellanea explicitly accepts

members of hedge traditions into its

community. While they have most often

been Gifted and of considerable talent to

begin with, there is little preventing the

johns (GM): covenant from trying to persuade Ex Miscellanea

to absorb the members of Geoffroi’s

court. Those same members may

need a little persuasion, but the benefits

of membership could be made clear, especially

when presented in contrast to the

johns (GM): implications of refusal.

Once members of the Order, the

hedge wizards are bound by the Oath and

must moderate their behavior.

Dušan of Criamon: that's cool

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll give a rousing speech about freedom, throwing off the aristocratic yoke, and the great new future that awaits Rome to the collection of peasant villagers here.

Dušan of Criamon: I saved hermetically valuable lives from senseless slaughter

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's antagonize house mercere

johns (GM): ok.

What now? Slaughter?

Jabier: epic.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr yawns.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "You ready for me to go in yet?"

Dušan of Criamon: That's up to my sodales

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah, we can start with mundane troops.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Derfel will surely not be filled with enough arrows to supply an army of Normans.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll keep an eye in the sky in case magical assistance is needed to save Derfel and other named turb members

johns (GM): again i really dont see a need to run this out. we already saw how you did against a mass army back when you butchered the colonnas twice, and they were even more powerful than these guys

Fiorella the Raven: Or yeah, warn Derfel about 1000000000 archers

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, let's see how Defel does.

Dušan of Criamon: presumption of... pwnage?!?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Please, do not shoot me with 1000000000 arrows.

johns (GM): derfel is shot with

Jabier jabs his sword into the  pinche  Cabochos

Giraldo of Milan: were going to make archibald swear in ungifted hedge magi

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Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Farewell.

Jabier: Jabier gets confused during the battle due to his face blindness and chops Derfels head off by accident.

rip.

johns (GM): Derfel's Head token added into play

Jabier: lol

Giraldo of Milan: derfel sighs and puts it back on

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: so, what's the situation here

some guys outside a tower

Jabier: I guess we won. Jabier shield grogs for someone.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

johns (GM): here's what the palazzo looks like https://www.sanmarinosite.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/referendum-sanmarino.jpg

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That can't be right.

It should be filled with a bunch of dead bodies being picked over by crows.

johns (GM): right.

anyway you have slain your old friend and ally, Hugo di Capocci, in a despicable act of betrayal.

Mercuzio Caesar: We did it.

Jabier: lmao.

johns (GM): Also his son.

Jabier: Great job, everyone!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Huzzah.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Farewell.

johns (GM): Also his daughter falls on a blade rather than fall into the clutches of the vicious invaders.

Jabier: I have no idea why you did that, but it's cool.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That is her right.

Mercuzio Caesar: To be fair, "old friend" doesnt really work when our turnover rate is so high.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: this was all cola's fault.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: So how many people saw how great my magic was?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: none, as they were all awed by derfel

johns (GM): hmm

Fiorella the Raven: Excellent

johns (GM): Are you concerned about witnesses? There are peasants milling about

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Always.

Fiorella the Raven: Caw

Jabier: klmfao.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Mercuzio, please tell them about my great name and mighty deeds.

Mercuzio Caesar: I really have to say it fucking owns that Rosario got offered this insane deal, said "thats an insane deal", told us about it as a funny anecdote and went ot bed and then multiple other magi stood the fuck up and went out and did it.

Jabier: lfmao.

it's really really funny.

Fiorella the Raven: Sic Semper Tyranis

johns (GM): You haven't fully delivered yet

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I realize this is a bit outside your wheelhouse, but I would still appreciate it.

johns (GM): You haven't given Rienzi his alchemist.

Fiorella the Raven: Alright

I'll send out magpies to track down Edwin

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Mercuzio Caesar: I'm going along with it since Mercuzio came to Rome out of a deep respect for Rienzi's initial rebellion.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Yeah, tell them about me, too."

Fiorella the Raven: I'm going along with it to weaken Rome in favor of Venice

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh, yes, of course." I gather the same peasants I was giving a speech to before and add "This was all made possible by the arcane might of Mortis, the Giant Slayer and banisher of revenants."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: You know I always wondered why you'd want to create cursed objects so badly that you'd go through a serious virtue initiation to get them, but a curse that prevented Rosario from talking to anyone on his own would have really paid out big time today.

Mercuzio Caesar: lmao.

Fiorella the Raven: lol

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the more great things you say about derfel the faster he will be consumed by a faerie curse

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Anyway, I appreciate it Mercuzio.

johns (GM): okay so Dusan is escorting the hedgies back to Rome while this goes on

fiorella can spot them as they're entering the city

Mercuzio Caesar: Hang on, let me roll to see how much I impress Mortis' name and deeds on the peasantry.

Dušan of Criamon: the adventure was at Palestrina, right?

johns (GM): Rest of you, what do you do with the Capocci Palazzo? Rienzi said he might send mercs here eventually but you have plenty of time

Mercuzio Caesar:

rolling 1d10!+5+7+1

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Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Thank you for your service.

Mercuzio Caesar: "The first days of revolution. What a beautiful sight it is."

johns (GM): Allumiete is where the Capoccis are. Palestrina was the site of another conflict where some mercs were besieging a noble named Mascagni

Dušan of Criamon: ah

johns (GM): It's where folks got the lead on the alchemical gold -- Locke was bribing the mercs there to drag out the siege, in favor of the noble.

Dušan of Criamon: Either way the token is now on the correct side of the city

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Hugo di Capocci, gasping and dying, falls from his horse into the midst of battle.

Hugo di Capocci: "Curse you... Vardian's Tomb ..."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, I think we should check out any treasures they may or may not have.

Hugo di Capocci passes from this world.

Dušan of Criamon: tragic

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Fun fact: if your make your curse rhyme it gets +1 to work.

Hugo di Capocci: Good call. In addition to mundane wealth Hugo has amassed a collection of supernatural oddities that I will stat up later.

Dušan of Criamon: time to count all the money we got from noble death

Hugo di Capocci: He also has a library of original works composed by his court that constitute tracts on Realm Lores

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Wow!

Neat!

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: blimey.

did he ever finish his initiation into learned magic

Hugo di Capocci: cool thing about that, 1 sec

Dušan of Criamon: I'm imagining Archibald just awoken, with comical nightcap on, being asked to induct hedge wizards

Jabier: oh damn

i didn't even THINK about all the treasure

Hugo di Capocci: https://imgur.com/pnrZyf6

Jabier: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: What a shame.

Mercuzio Caesar: lol

Hugo di Capocci: Alright i am moving the surviving hedgy characters into the "Roman Citizens" folder and the rest of the Capocci Family into "Dead/Retired"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: RIP.

We did it.

We finally derailed the course of historical events.

Dušan of Criamon: Live by the sword, etc

Hugo di Capocci: we're almost done

johns (GM): Just a couple things to resolve --

What do you do with the Palazzo/news of this event?

Does Edwin et al make it to the covenant, and if so, what happens next?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, we should split the plunder with Cola di Rienzi.

Dušan of Criamon: I mean, physically there's little stopping them from getting to the covenant

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i think all of the magi who wanted the arsenic mine to themselves are now dead

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Naturally we'll take all the magical items and the entire library.

But other than that I see no reason not to turn it over to Lord Frenchy or whatever.

johns (GM): the only thing realistically that can stop them is Fiorella

Dušan of Criamon: Would Fiorealla peck at a convoy of noncombatants clearly displaying a white flag some 400 years before the Geneva conventions

Fiorella the Raven: Hmmm

Mercuzio Caesar: I believe in her.

Fiorella the Raven: No

Okay, what did the covenant tell Fiorella they wanted Edwin's fate to be?

Because I can also just give his location to Rienzi

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well I mean, I don't think we should do any more shocking betrayals.

Dušan of Criamon: 100% of the daily recommended dose of shocking betrayals

Jabier: I mean, we should let them join if we were forcing the "or die" option.

Archibald of Guernicus: You've already betrayed Locke. Think about it.

Fiorella the Raven: Let them join, then

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: aristocritus's sword, from the wall of the council chamber: induct them, archibald. just like old times

Fiorella the Raven: I've done what I wanted by creating bloodshed between Rome's patrons and Rienzi

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Fiorella the Raven: I have no reason to attack Locke IF it's against the express wishes of the covenant.

Dušan of Criamon: I hope my presence is enough of an implicit wish

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gulielmus wouldn't want you to attack locke

Fiorella the Raven: Gul's vote is enough for me

I do not attack Locke or otherwise deliver him to Rienzi

Dušan of Criamon: they live to see another day

johns (GM): Ok.

Archibald is up.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is the talking sword a canonical vision? who can say.

Archibald of Guernicus: Who is coming to me with this

Dušan of Criamon: Dusan

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm just hanging out in my lab just now

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'm busy looting the wreckage of one of Rome's most ancient and noble families.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm practicing sword techniques in the basement and also have no idea of what happened.

Archibald of Guernicus: The perfectly smooth stone wall has a door-shaped opening suddenly, and I step through it.

"Ah, hello Dusan."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hup! Hah! Hyahh!"

johns (GM) leans back and sips tea

Dušan of Criamon: "Archibald! Good to see you. I have several hedge mages here who would like to join the order and not die. Also Mister Locke here, who is not a wizard, but close."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Rosario practicing his triple jump.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Locke? That rat is HERE?"

"That bloody court wizard?"

Dušan of Criamon: "In the flesh, and repentant. All behind us now."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I think I may have been the first to offer that he join the Order, but why would they be worried about dying?"

Edwin Locke: "Tch... of all of Vardian's Tomb to survive this long it's  you .."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Owned.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Have Rienzi's men already attacked?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "JOIN?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Oh you know each other, excellent."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Molto bene."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He's not even gifted!"

Dušan of Criamon: "Colonna is gone, I'm afraid."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Colonna... the Capocci court? What happened tae it?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Well he's not [i]gifted[/i] gifted but he is gifted."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Archibald, please, there's legal precedent. Ex Miscellanea should take him."

"He wouldn't have to live anywhere nearby."

"But yes, what happened to the court?"

Dušan of Criamon: "As it happens, the same thing I expect to happen to our three visitors. Rienzi."

Archibald of Guernicus: "That legal precedent carries little water in Rome's tribunal. I refer ye tae the case of Fabius Ex Misc, 1335, and the hedge tradition he was part of. A complete denial of entry for the ungifted hedge tradition he presided over."

Edwin Locke: oh yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus walks down the hall in front of Archibald's lab and turns around on seeing the scene.

Edwin Locke: oops.

"What? Did you lie to me?" he asks Dusan.

Dušan of Criamon: both in and out of character I am willing to accept a plan B where we merely shelter these souls for a period and then let them flee on their own but I'd prefer them in

Rosario of Flambeau: "The order is in chaos. Perhaps we could induct him now and worry about it after the blight. Haven't you been wanting to relitigate that issue anyway?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Shelter these souls then liberate this souls from their bodies.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Or was it the other one from that tribunal?"

Dušan of Criamon: "One way or another, I don't want to see competent men meet their fates at the blades of mundane looters."

"If induction is not an option, then some form of protection for the time being would suffice."

Rosario of Flambeau: oh since Dusan lied about who killed the capoccis im gonna roll per+folk ken

Dušan of Criamon: wait am I mixing up names

I didn't intend to lie on the killing

Archibald of Guernicus: "Induction isnae an option. Bring it up at tribunal if ye wish tae make a case for it, but I'm busy there with far more important matters than the fate of a few court wizards."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Archibald bites into a big apple.

Edwin Locke: the issue is that you are saying Rienzi killed the family, not your fellow magi

Archibald of Guernicus: "Didnae even ask for my damn opinion." I grumble, and step back into my lab, the wall sealing up behind me

Dušan of Criamon: ah

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, my issues at tribunal aren't ready to be brought up publicly yet. I'd be happy to represent them."

Edwin Locke: and just to clarify--  Colonna  is the family who had a guy possessed by Nero some time ago. They still exist even after you killed a bunch of them and are 1 of the 2 most powerful families in Rome. Capocci  are the guys you just wiped out now, whose head was obsessed with the occult.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Correct.

Dušan of Criamon: Whoops

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Let's continue to wipe out noble families in Rome.

Dušan of Criamon: Well, chalk it up to Italian 4

Edwin Locke: no worries. you wont have to worry about mixing them up after this afterall haha.

Dušan of Criamon: Ouch!

Edwin Locke looks angry

Dušan of Criamon: "I'm sorry, this did not go entirely as planned. But you are in a secure place for the time being, instead of in a burning castle."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: lol

Edwin Locke: "Are we prisoners then?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Tribunal's only in a month or two. You'll come with me."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!

Dušan of Criamon: "I wouldn't dare lock you up. The warden however, is Rienzi."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, no, you can leave if you want, but you're welcome to stay under our Aegis until I can present the case that you be inducted into the Order of Hermes."

"I'm somewhat famous, this should be a breeze."

Dušan of Criamon: famous last words

Edwin Locke: oh forgot the aegis. the cheetah is not here

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Welcome the cheetah into your heart and the Aegis of the Hearth.

Edwin Locke: "Don't pretend you're giving us a choice. It's clear what you mean. Stay here or die at the hand of Rienzi's fanatics."

Rosario of Flambeau: "You have all of Rome to hide, if you don't want my help. Rienzi doesn't know where you or your friends are."

"Honestly, he probably suspects me, it may not be the safest place for you to be here after all."

Dušan of Criamon: "Strictly speaking, I'm not giving a choice, I am one of the choices. Either way, I continue to hold the opinion you are better off alive than cut up by the revolution."

Rosario of Flambeau: I make the wee bay fce.

Edwin Locke: anyone extending their parma here

Rosario of Flambeau: I will, sure.

Dušan of Criamon: Yeah, same.

Edwin Locke: "What about Jabir's djinn? He says your ward is keeping it out."

Dušan of Criamon: i know nothing about djinns but my default position would be that he promises not to do anything bad and is allowed inside

unless djinns have a history of crossing oaths

Rosario of Flambeau: alright, i'll share my parma with edwin and now we both have 2 (ignem) for the time being.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Isn't it the opposite?

Rosario of Flambeau: Great.

i can protect up to 5 people with a level 2 parma, not including myself, so Dusan should be fine not sharing.

Edwin Locke: do you give aegis token

Rosario of Flambeau: so all the hedgies are covered.

unless someone is really holding me back i do.

Edwin Locke: awesome.

Dušan of Criamon: I have parma 2 as well, but I don't know the mechanics for sharing parma

I contribute in whatever way is considered efficient

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you just subtract 3 from your score

Rosario of Flambeau: i have 5 parma, you can protect a number of people = parma score, reduced by 3

Dušan of Criamon: ah

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if your parma mr drops to 0 it still blocks the gift

Dušan of Criamon: better ramp mine up

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and i think still grants 0 mr, which is a lot better than no mr

Edwin Locke: ok

johns (GM): i guess we can wrap this up then

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We did it.

We betrayed an ally and enslaved some innocent magicians.

Dušan of Criamon: survival counter goes up one number

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: How much pottage do we get?

Rosario of Flambeau: This was a great session for blundering around like a goof.

johns (GM): resolving something in whisper

Guy of Bonisagus: great job everyone

im proud of you

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thank you

Guy of Bonisagus: [said while very far away and uninvolved in any of this]

Rosario of Flambeau: oh also let me be clear i'm sheltering them until tribunal. if they don't get accepted i may put on the joker makeup and slay them right there to save face.

Archibald of Guernicus:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2+1

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)

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=

10

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Uh.

Rosario of Flambeau: i need to read pdfs and see if that's justified but probably not.

johns (GM): ok.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That's insane.

Rosario of Flambeau: so we'll see.

johns (GM): So Mortis you steal everything valuable from the palazzo then clear out?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats the order of hermes baby.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

I guess I should poke around for any secret compartments.

Dušan of Criamon: we live in a secret society

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Also someone needs to be there when Rienzi's men get there.

johns (GM): ok.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: And I suppose it may as well be me and Mercuzio.

The plan is to give the lion's share of the mundane loot to Cola di Rienzi but to keep the library and any magical items.

Rosario of Flambeau: oh yeah per folk ken durr i forogt

rolling 1d10+1+3 vs guile

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)

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=

6

nice.

You have a real shot to get away with me not knowing you killed the nobles.

Dušan of Criamon: I didn't intend to lie, I hope you'll moderate your wrath

Rosario of Flambeau: you can very likely succeed in lying to me if you beat 6 with comm+guile

johns (GM): Alright.

Dušan of Criamon: yet that is not my intention, I was actually blundering

johns (GM): Night falls in Allumiere.

Many of the peasants slip away.

Rosario of Flambeau: ohh so you do just say a mortis and vardians tomb killed everyone?

johns (GM): Endrite and Mercuzio, you are started to see Edwin Locke returning to the Palazzo.

Rosario of Flambeau: *that mortis, not a mortis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I am startled, but not started.

Dušan of Criamon: That would have been the original intention but now I'm realizing I never actually saw it happen, having been with the caravan

Rosario of Flambeau: oh shit

sick!!!!

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh, it's the alchemist. Wasn't he joining your society or something?"

Rosario of Flambeau: that's very lucky

Edwin Locke: What di dyou do with all the dead bodies you created?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Just march them into rows and have them lie down until they get buried.

No reason to be a sore winner, as they say.

Dušan of Criamon: perhaps the correct retcon would be to say Dusan said he "assumed Rienzi happened to them".

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "What ho, alchemist. Forget something from your lab?"

Edwin Locke: "What?"

"What are you doing here? What's happened to this place?! Why are the windows smashed?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "That's war for you. Why should you be so surprised?"

Dušan of Criamon: Are they rejoining them at the looted castle?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "After all, Dusan told you this would happen."

Edwin Locke: "What?!"

Dušan of Criamon: That seems dangerous, but within their rights

Edwin Locke: "Who attacked? It was.. Rienzi?!"

"What have you done?"

Giraldo of Milan whistles while organizing his lab.

Dušan of Criamon: lmao

Edwin Locke: "Lord Hugo! Lord Hugo! Are you alright?!"

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao

Dušan of Criamon: "That bastard Rienzi. How did the battle go, sodales?"

Rosario of Flambeau: uh oh.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Well, mostly it was Cola di Rienzi, but of course we of Vardian's Tomb arrived to try to negotiate a peaceful outcome."

Dušan of Criamon: "Apt, very apt."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Lord Hugo and his issue sadly perished in battle."

Edwin Locke: "What?!"

"You can't be... Lord Hugo!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "But I would have thought you already knew."

"You left this afternoon with my ally Dusan."

Edwin Locke: He starts tearing through the Palazzo, calling out names of friends and allies.

"I did nothing of the sort!"

Rosario of Flambeau: lmfao.;

aw chirst.

aw jeez

Edwin Locke: "i was.."

Mercuzio Caesar: "What's the matter with him?"

Edwin Locke: "No.. why was I in Rome?"

"I..."

Edwin Locke breaks down weeping

Edwin Locke: "They're gone.."

Dušan of Criamon: I'll let him have his moment

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: How could you stop him?

You aren't here.

Dušan of Criamon: Unfortunate

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Makes you think.

Giraldo of Milan kicks back in his chair and reviews a well written parchment.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Now wait just one moment, if you were in Rome all day, then who was it we met here today?"

Dušan of Criamon: Hold on, did he use a body double

Edwin Locke: "I remember you were here this morning.. You said you were looking for where the coins came from.. I told you to consider staying out and you left.. I remember that much..

Rosario of Flambeau: i think i just gave my parma and a casting token to a demon

tbh

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Smart move.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the parma expires when he leaves your line of sight

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: A creature with Might would probably resist the Parma Magica though, as it wouldn't penetrate their MR.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: or you can revoke it at any time.

Rosario of Flambeau: Good point.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: Same with the token.

Too bad I think that's the real Locke!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Have you been having troubling dreams lately?"

I mean, he will going forward.

Giraldo of Milan dusts off his hands.

Giraldo of Milan: "Archibald, do we have any lead in our stores?"

Dušan of Criamon: So hold on, am I understanding right that half the party is still at the castle and is talking to another Locke

Mercuzio Caesar: "Aye, it's near the arsenic though, mind, so be careful with it."

Archibald of Guernicus: er

as me

not Mercuzio

Giraldo of Milan: I nod and head off to retrieve a couple lumps.

Edwin Locke: its just mercuzio and mortis back at the castle

talking to eddy

Mercuzio Caesar: "Dream magic? What a silly thought."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ol' Eddy.

"Now this is serious."

"You say you lost your memory?"

Edwin Locke: "How can someone even answer that?"

Rosario of Flambeau: and locke is back at the eastern ear, no?

or is this much later.

Edwin Locke: He goes to check his lab, if you aren't stopping or blocking him.

He's back at Allumiere.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Heck I'll let him.

Rosario of Flambeau: i was also assuming this was a double.

Edwin Locke: Seems he slipped out of the Inn at night to return to Allumiere.

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay.

Dušan of Criamon: OK

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: OR IS IT?!

Edwin Locke: Ok. He is unhappy at the sight of his lab that you ransacked.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "I had to prepare your laboratory in advance of Rienzi's men arriving to take control of Allumiere."

Edwin Locke: "They're all dead?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Not all. Some of your colleagues took the chance to surrender and returned to Vardian's Tomb with Dusan."

"I'm not sure who, exactly, as I was, uh, preoccupied with other matters."

Edwin Locke: "Surrender? So now they're your prisoners?"

Dušan of Criamon: this man is such a pessimist

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Well, I'm not sure, to be honest. I believe Dusan was going to induct them into the Order of Hermes, as you may or may not recall."

"Still, I'm not sure how successful that will be."

Edwin Locke: "I never heard anything about this!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Well, troubling indeed."

Edwin Locke: "I.. There's nothing left for me here."

"I'm done with this damned peninsula."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "That is your right."

Edwin Locke: " Farewell, he says in exotic English."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Oh.

Mercuzio Caesar: "The finest peninsula in the world."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: So assuming Rienzi doesn't go on his historical tour of Prague, Locke can take his place

Mercuzio Caesar: "Any idea what got him so upset? Dusan talked him around to this whole plan earlier."

Edwin Locke: well historically Rienzi died here.

but you have altered the course of history.

Mercuzio Caesar: Yes!

Edwin Locke: let's see if you have anything else you want to do before we wrap things up?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Stay one moment, I must perform an examination."

I'll cast InVi on him.

johns (GM): What level InVi?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'd like to detect magical effects on him.

johns (GM): right, what's the strength of your detection

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Oh.

Lemme check.

Third magnitude or higher.

So level 5.

rolling (1d10! + 6 + 5 + 1 + 1 - 6)/2

(

(

10

+

2

)

+6+5+1+1-6)/2

=

9.5

Nailed it.

johns (GM): umm ok.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That's without the aura.

Mercuzio Caesar: Base 4, +1 touch

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: AFK a sec.

Mercuzio Caesar: Though not any extra details

johns (GM): so he detects a 5th magnitude effect?

if I got that right.

Right.

Awesome.

This adventure keeps on giving.

Giraldo of Milan: it sure does

it sure does...

Dušan of Criamon: Strong adventure

Mercuzio Caesar: Unless you're Hugo di Capocci. In which case it only gave you one thing - death.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Yeah, rip.

johns (GM): well we just gotta wait for endrite to put out the fire.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i mis hugo di capocci already

* miss

Mercuzio Caesar: Something just occurred to me

Giraldo is the third-oldest PC remaining

oh, wait. 4th-oldest. I forgot about Voda.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ok I'm back.

johns (GM): its lavinia, archibald, voda, giraldo, then ?? fiorella?

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Uh, Gulielmus of Pure Reason???

Mercuzio Caesar: Gulielmus is older than Fiorella, yeah

johns (GM): ahh

Mercuzio Caesar: Lavinia has basically only made it this far by going on 1/10 of the adventures that occur.

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo was born in 1300

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: So anyway did I detect a spell?

johns (GM): That Makes Her Smart.

Yes, a 5th mag effect.

You didn't have enough levels for more details.

Endrite: The smoke has mostly cleared up here.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's good.

Endrite: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: It sounds pretty serious.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well, on the one hand I should probably bring this to the attention of our resident magical investigator. On the other hand, submitting Edwin Locke to further indignities would be quite cruel.

Rosario of Flambeau: 

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I'll simply allow him to leave.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the thinking emoji.

Giraldo of Milan: we should try to figure out whats going on here imo

but im just a grog reading his books

Dušan of Criamon: I feel like I caused the Morrowind thread message to appear

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I mean, I'll tell Archibald about it, but I also am not going to force Edwin to stay here.

johns (GM): Sure.

Mercuzio Caesar: "There he goes, then."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I guess I could ask Mercuzio to keep a watch on Edwin while I go talk to Archibald.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Strange man."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: That seems like a good compromise.

Mercuzio Caesar: Sure, I can keep him company on the road and write back where to find him.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sure.

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll try and console the poor man that it's not his fault.

johns (GM): HE doesn't really trust you.

Since you're a Rienzi partisan.

Mercuzio Caesar: Oh. Yes, avidly.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Fair enough.

johns (GM): he'll summon up an earth elemental to pick him up and carry him on his shoulders and disappear into the hills.

Mercuzio Caesar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHcJxHqIotY

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Ah well, I can't stop him.

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao

Archibald of Guernicus: Do you still pass it along to me?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Sure.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm glad he's gone, but I can investigate it for ye if he's brought here. I'm not traipsing aroudn the hills looking for him."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "Fortunately, we have an expert in finding people in this covenant."

johns (GM): gah

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: "That's right, I'm talking about Giraldo of Milan."

Boom.

Giraldo of Milan looks up from his documents.

johns (GM): i have been cranked.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Subverted much, expectation-tard?

Rosario of Flambeau: llmao

this adventure is really good.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Less than eager tae see the man again, but the mystery has me intrigued."

johns (GM): and that jerk endrite said I was railroading you last week.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gah, the tag!

Dušan of Criamon: This leaves Dusan as the protagonist of the Name of the Rose as an incompetent character that ultimately achieved nothing

Shame, Locke had potential

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: This is right in Giraldo's area of expertise.

What does he got to find Edwin Locke?

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo is great at tracking things if he has a trail to start on

Archibald of Guernicus: He is our best(?) tracker(?)

Giraldo of Milan: he can follow tracks and dowse for things

if you had gotten an ac off that earth elemental i couldve used that

a piece of it rather

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmmm. Magical dirt. Giant elemental-shaped footsteps. Tear-stained hankerchief. No doubt about it. He's gotten away without leaving a single trace.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I assume an earth elemental will leave quite the trail.

johns (GM): a trail of tea leaves and crumpet crumbs

Giraldo of Milan: frankly i assume an earth elemental would be very hard to track along the earth

Dušan of Criamon: Come to think of it, I didn't mention that bit

I'll let Giraldo in on the inn visit if he's going to go out tracking

Giraldo of Milan: alright. giraldo will go for a hike if you give him a place to start

his hike might take a while if all you have is allumiere

Dušan of Criamon: There's an inn in Rome that he visited before coming to VT

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Gasp!

Giraldo of Milan: then he would be able to track him back to allumiere

and then follow the trail fromthere

Dušan of Criamon: He was inside for precisely 9 minutes and then some, but not 10

Giraldo of Milan: unless he was riding around his earth elemental through romes streets thats not gonna be a viable trail

johns (GM): he weren't.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Dang, Johns has been putting in some WORK today.

johns (GM): he did nto return to the city after seeing mortis and mercuzio.

Giraldo of Milan: alright. guess its off to allumiere

johns (GM): the inn visit was while dusan was bringing him back from allumiere the first time.

alright you get attacked by

rolling 2d4

(

3

+

3

)

=

6

arsenic kobolds

Giraldo of Milan: gah!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Delicioso!

Giraldo of Milan: well, no choice here. ill have to pass turn

johns (GM): nah but uhh roll Perception + your tracking skill

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

4

)

+4

=

8

johns (GM): You fail to uncover the trail.

Giraldo of Milan: wait

add 1

my hunt is +3 not +2

johns (GM): You find unusual drag marks that highlight red in your witcher vision.

Your man went somewhere north.

Giraldo of Milan: "Drag marks. Celeste?"

johns (GM): lol

Fiorella the Raven: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Thank you CD Projekt Red for dumbing down Giraldo just enough for this to work.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Giraldo of Milan munches on an apple and follows the trail for a time.

johns (GM): It goes up into the Apennines, where your horse has trouble following.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: well

i tried

I'll go home.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Uh.

You could try getting off your horse.

That would be my expert advice.

johns (GM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28XX3-2_uDw

Giraldo of Milan: hes got half a day head start and is riding on the shoulders of a giant

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah. You can just whistle for it when there's an area you can ride in again.

Giraldo of Milan: through a mountain range that goes along the entire length of the italian peninsula

what season is it

johns (GM): fall

Giraldo of Milan: ok its also cold out and colder on the mountains

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: As an expert tracker, you should know that the tracker has the advantage in this scenario because he can increase his pace to surpass that of his quarry, who does not know he is being followed.

Giraldo of Milan: hes riding on the shoulders of a giant that does not get tired

and wants very much to be gone

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: He still needs to sleep.

Giraldo of Milan: me too

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Just sleep less, whitey.

Besides, think of all the valuable adventure XP you're getting.

Giraldo of Milan: very well. ill follow for another day and see if i can make any headway on the chase

but this seems like a bad idea for a lone adventurer

also bad for my horse who is being abandoned in the foothills

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what if we sent a bird after the giant

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

johns (GM): Geralt is away from the covenant for a few days.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Who?

johns (GM): Hehe.

Meanwhile

johns (GM): Rienzi pulls his mercenaries off the siege of Palestrina and sends them to take Allumiere.

With a influx of new cash he is able to hold onto his mercenaries a bit longer.

Grumblings of discontent are rife through the city. Word gets out that Rienzi has used Dark Magic to destroy one of Rome's families outright.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: True.

Dušan of Criamon: Good.

johns (GM): The common Roman begins to complain of their new tyrant. But with his army in hand, he is safe for now.

And..

That's where things end!

Giraldo of Milan: tyranny is tyranny. let it come from whom it may

johns (GM): You have  altered the course of History.

Dušan of Criamon: ... if nothing else

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: We did it!

johns (GM): And boy howdy do you have a mess on your hands.

Dušan of Criamon: also good book loot?

johns (GM): Yes, lots of loot -- I need a bit to stat it up.

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm.

Does Mortis admit what happened to me

johns (GM): Anyway... Winter 1355 is the Tribunal meeting.

So since we're wrapping up a bit early today it might be a good idea to talk about anything you're up to before then. Or even jump right into it.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Well we have a couple things we should try to do at Tribunal.

1) Tell them about Archibald's 100% accurate and not fake vision.

Dušan of Criamon: A crusade into the magical realm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: 2) Try to get Archibald's old peripheral code ruling about mundanes in the Order overturned.

johns (GM): Also besides Edwin getting away, some letters he sent out will eventually reach their destination.

Wonder what they were about?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: 3) Try to avoid getting into trouble for wiping out a mundane noble family.

In this matter I recommend we blame fairies for impersonating the entire family.

Fiorella the Raven: Nice

Giraldo of Milan: right. lets get our charges downgraded to molesting the fae

Dušan of Criamon: slap on the wrist

johns (GM): okay here's what on my list

-Archibald's Vision -- he may want to decide how he's going to explain where he got it from

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Also we should see about hiring a new tracker.

johns (GM): -Tethys' note -- do you do anything with it?

-The peripheral code argument about sanctum

-Lavinia's argument about Guilds

-Rosario wants to ask about Flambeau's Talisman -- I was hoping someone else was interested in GMing that particular lead

-Fiorella is assembling a league trying to get a route into the Magic Realm

-You all need to do something about the insane charges of Hermetic Interference you may face

johns (GM): Anything I missed?

Giraldo of Milan: guy took no part in any of this

Archibald of Guernicus: My answer to the last part is I'm totally innocent of it all, and also considered Capocci one of our few long-term and reliable allies and don't like at all that he was murdered on behest of some raving lunatic.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: I wouldn't say that Fiorella raves that much.

johns (GM): heh

7 adventure XP btw

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher: Fair enough.

Dušan of Criamon: Jesus

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: I didn't expect quite as much reality shattering

All I thought I'd do would be save some worthwhile almost-wizards and let the dice fall where they may with the mundanes

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: That is more than fair.

johns (GM): tfw your naive idealism is crushed by the psychopathy of vardian's tomb

Dušan of Criamon: I still don't know if it's been crushed

if mortis doesn't admit his actions I have no way of knowing

johns (GM): well,

what's going to happen to the other 2 hedge wizards?

Giraldo of Milan: it was very important that what happened today happened

Dušan of Criamon: I don't even know the other two

johns (GM): edwin's gone but you still have jabir and domenici

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: I will absolutely admit my actions.

Dušan of Criamon has a deserved existential crisis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: Sundering a cabal of witches is perfectly legal.

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't think there's much chance of the other 2 being admitted into the order.

Dušan of Criamon: "Oh no! Colonna blood on my own hands!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus could have backed Locke's admission, but the other 2...

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: Sure there's some collateral damage, but that's what you get when you work with unlicensed magi.

Aren't Sahirs allowed in?

Dušan of Criamon: Well, I suppose they should be told their chances and ask them for an opinion

Archibald of Guernicus: You'd need someone to actually back them in this tribunal to have a chance.

Dušan of Criamon: I mean they could choose to continue fleeing

"thanks but no thanks"

Archibald of Guernicus: Ex Misc is so fractured that there's little central authority for you to appeal to with them

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: well

thats how it was in 1220

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: I'll back them, I'm sure they'll appreciate it.

What's FIorella up to?

Fiorella the Raven: Good music today

I could track down some fleeing hedgies, or just trying to clean up any messes I've left to avoid prosecution.

I'd prefer the latter.

Oh, Tribunal business

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i think we should share the letter

Archibald of Guernicus: Tethys'

?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: also, having read tethys's magic lore summa for one season, gulielmus is the tribunal's foremost expert on navigating the magic realm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: With Archibald's vision that should give us more proof for our argument than the other theories have had.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: As I posted earlier, I spent Fall creating a folio for the potential League to be formed. It containes Piercing the Magic Veil, a spell for creating maps and other drawings drawings easily, a spell for locating magical vis and sending grogs out to search for it

And a spell for creating any image in order to instruct grogs.

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I've also advised Archibald to keep his own projects to invade the Magic Realm separate from this endeavor, as I intend to keep Tremere and other busybodies and parasites busy, but if actual talent volunteers for the league, Archibald has my permission to poach it.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: nice.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: Oh speaking of letters, what has Enki been up to?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh we should ask around about institus

did dusan ever visit the cave

Dušan of Criamon: He did, I could check when

it was between adventures

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: did he learn anything about our boy

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: Specifically I want to get more Verditus Cult lore.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will also spend some time hanging out with potion crew

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: Maybe get some initiations going.

johns (GM): alright

Dušan of Criamon: i found the line, now to id what session that was

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: chatting about potions and moslems

johns (GM): i think thats lots that I can worry about next week and not delve into tonight

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and the magic realm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: Hmmm.

Well, that is your right.

Dušan of Criamon: the one where prudenzio died

johns (GM): enki is being enki

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: someone should stop him

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: Nice.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you can't just murder people at tribunal

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: My man.

I'm kind of interested in Reforging Magical Items but I don't want to take Averse to Risk. I'm like the wind, I can't be tied down.

johns (GM): sorry to say most of the verditius inner mysteries are dumb, except elder runes, which is broken OP

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: We've stricken Verditus Elder Runes from the record and I have no problem with that.

Reforging is neat, but I love experimenting too much.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: take the one that lets you melt down all of our crap items for vis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: That is Reforging.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what's wrong with elder runes

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: It allows you to add your lowest art again when making an item, like the way Magical Foci work.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: seems cool

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: Wait no I'm wrong.

It's either art.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: huh.

Dušan of Criamon: OK, I'm going to take my sleeping pills and thus set the countdown timer for my bowing out

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: You can inscribe two runes per item, but each rune adds +5 to the final level of the device.

johns (GM): Cheers moe

Glad you could join us as the voice of reason

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: It's just a straightforward lab bonus, which isn't very interesting.

Faretheewell.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I was thinking of introducing a new redcap at tribunal but I can just have him show up at next week's session too

His gauntlet will be some Tribunal business though

Dušan of Criamon: I just wish I had done better

But I'm going to use this for character development

Rosario of Flambeau: the real vardians tomb starts here.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: I think in the future we need to stop Rosario from handling any negotiations.

Dušan of Criamon: I should really really read all the books

Rosario of Flambeau: Lmao. I think that went completely fine and I have no responsibility for the events that followed.

Dušan of Criamon: and stop playing the bumbling fool 100% of the tiem

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: I think the boringness of Elder Runes is compensated by not needing to take a flaw in the example initiation script.

You just need to sacrifice a magic item.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: there are also a bunch of scripts to initiate yourself into a magical focus

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: And eat a crow.

johns (GM): be nice 2 bird

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it seems like rosario handled the negotiations very well

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer, Revenant Banisher, Witchbane: We didn't even get a parade.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: our parade is currently running through the appenines

well. gg

i have to go update  Vivaldi

Rosario of Flambeau: gg

Dušan of Criamon: should I forget, thanks for a dope game

as usual props to johns who survived the classic gamemaster situation of the party murdering an important npc, and his entire family

Endrite: It's the dream scenario, as a GM.

Dušan of Criamon: this was autumn 55, right?

Rosario of Flambeau: Yep.