12/9/18

ohns (GM): iu t was posted in the thread.

7 xp if i recall.

moe i think longevity rituals always use creo or corpus vis

dys: they do, im sure

is dusan really 35 already

moe: and little to show for it

also it's creo corpus and vim

not getting stuck in the corpus trap!

Shauncat (GM):

rolling 1+d10! Addled check

1+

(

1

)

=

2

johns (GM): woot

Shauncat (GM): Fiorella is tripping on Ergot during this adventure

Beardbeard: salve

i still havent done my seasons.

dys: i left 2 as TBD and im thinking of what might be good

oh i have an idea

Beardbeard: also next week i might go to an mtg tournament instead of being here. im not sure

johns (GM): :(

dys: MuIm group spell that makes everyone look like a shrubbery

the ultimate in stealth for a whole gang of magi

Beardbeard: brubbery

moe: Seven inconspicuous pieces of shrubbery localized entirely within the inn kitchen?

devil's fav demon (GM): howdy

moe: mystical greetings

Fiorella the Raven: Let's do the crazy frog

I can spend the season I suffer from Ergot withdrawal teaching my apprentice

johns (GM): i spend 4 seasons playing dota 2

hmm i need a coffee

I will post today's "hook" first

Archibald, on this crisp Spring day, you are getting ready for some more exciting lab work, only to find your apprentice has not reported for duty

devil's fav demon (GM): uh oh.

Fiorella the Raven: Oh wait, I have 2 stamina, I can't become addicted unless that roll is stressed

johns (GM): it is stressed.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh no!

Fiorella the Raven: How many dice then?

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, I'll ask around the covenant if anyone's seen where he got to

Fiorella the Raven: It does not say stressed in the text

johns (GM): gah

foiled again

c'thinker: did fiorella die from too much bird powder

Giraldo of Milan: did harold porter die

rest in peace

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you can become addicted at any time, for any reason, entirely at the gms discretion

the roll only determines if you have a good time or a bad time.

Particella: "I haven't seen him in a couple days. If you find him the brat still owes me money."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I see."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I need to rethink that season any since casting Visioin of the Haunting Spirit with -15 penetration is a bad idea

Rosario of Flambeau: "He doesn't seem like one to shirk responsibilities."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "He's, you know, I've seen him around, I'm certain."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Still, several days. Rome is a dangerous place right now."

GM: Your two sentry grogs give a knowing glance at each other. Napolino says, "I dunno, boss."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Why don't you ask Lavinia?"

GM: Lavinia is mysteriously absent.

Archibald of Guernicus: "An apprentice does need tae learn a certain degree of independence. But it's no good, Lavinia's as mysteriously absent as she always is."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Maybe Lavinia kidnapped him."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can have the magpies look for him."

Archibald of Guernicus: "She has her own apprentice tae worry about. No, I think this is more likely he's wandered somewhere and gotten in trouble."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's plant an illegal tracking device on lavinia's person.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Night terrors and sleepwalking, he's always had trouble with both."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and then use it to cast powerful damage spells from a distance

Archibald of Guernicus: "I tell the damn grogs tae keep the door shut just in case but ye know how lazy they can be."

Zachaois the Stiff: "Hey don't look at me. I'm just the day shift."

"Please don't hex me!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Night terrors?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Speaking of hexes, I can now give people chicken brains until sunset

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Maybe the boy has picked up your talent for prophetic visions."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, waking up screaming during the night."

"If he has, then I dread the coming days."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Plenty to dread, in these times."

his peers are using forbidden dream magic to send him messages like "no1 likes u" via hermetic excel

Archibald of Guernicus: "If ye have any means tae help me look, it'd be appreciated. Ye know I cannae well go and ask around myself, the Gift is too much for this city."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: how many pawns of intellego would we have to burn to just find the guy directly with the inco map spell

Archibald of Guernicus: 2 iirc

oh, wait, its per mag isnt it

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i dont remember

moe: could it be, the fabled short session

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i think it's per mag but it could be per 10

Zachaois the Stiff: do mercerians gain their regular discount when casting ceremonially

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: good question

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: If its per 10 its 3 actually, since the version Archibald made was, hilariously, not designed around the horrifying blight

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ray smuckles: Hilarious!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can give my magpies a solid idea of what SImon looks like using Relay the Vision of the Magus

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald's version tells you the current direction and distance to the target, and is either Conc or Sun based on FFM

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: please do

Archibald of Guernicus: That sounds like a good thing to try first

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: well, we should know what he looks like

but, please do regardless.

Archibald of Guernicus: As for the mercurian blight question - I really dont know, it depends how you feel the Mercurian Magic virtue works when it saves vis.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: As you speak, a miniature image portraying the events you describe appears in front of you. It changes as you speak, and can make sounds as well.

This spell is very useful for telling stories or relaying to your sodales precisely what you have seen and heard.

GM: I thought that was one of BR's houserules to buff a weak virtue.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll cast it once in front of Archibald to make sure my own recollection of what SImon looks like is accurate

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: base mercurian magic halves the vis requirement of rituals

Archibald of Guernicus: Mercurian saves vis on rituals by default

yeah

the buff that BR did was that, before, you couldnt enter a communion with any non-mercurian without losing your virtue entirely

GM: Ok. My bad.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's your decision, anyhow. Does mercurian save on blight-casting when using ceremonial casting?

GM: No, as written it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll then send a bunch of magpies searching Rome for the boy

GM: 's only for rituals

Archibald of Guernicus: k

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: rip

Archibald of Guernicus: 5 pawns of vis is pretty expensive, so we'll try the free options first before we switch to the premium p2w option

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the assorted mercurian cults should be scrambling to try and improve their methods

imo.

all right

i can go hit the streets

Giraldo of Milan: i can search

ill search

find child

GM: Sure

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh yeah, since I don't think he'll get to participate in this adventure, I'll ask Archibald now if it's cool for Bezler to move in

The new redcap

Giraldo of Milan: mezler

GM: Rome's a big city. Fiorella is spreading her birds all around. Those of you on foot, what's your strategy?

Rosario of Flambeau: dave meltzer the new redcap.

Giraldo of Milan: how old is the apprentice now

Archibald of Guernicus: Having a redcap at the covenant helped considerably before, so I approve of it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Chris Metzen of Merinita

GM: Early 20s I believe?

Giraldo of Milan: what the hell

and hes still in gauntlet??

Archibald of Guernicus: no way. what the

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario will run full speed in random directions.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: does an astrological inception take a full season to calculate?

GM: Sorry late teens

Giraldo of Milan: ok

GM: I think you recovered him when he was about 5

Giraldo of Milan: i check the bars and whorehouses

Archibald of Guernicus: apprenticeship began: 1344

oh wow

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Astrology is like a day for a nativity horosocpe

GM: Ok. Rome is a big city with a LOT of whores.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And a few hours for the weaker i think

Archibald of Guernicus: 1342 is when he was 5 so

he actually is 20

GM: And knowing Giraldo his trips to each whorehouse will take awhile.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: yeah but actually using a horoscope to divine someones location

Giraldo of Milan: ones with a shadier reputation and a moderate distance from the inn

Fiorella of Jerbiton: IDK hermetic astrology too well

Dušan of Criamon: I think it's just a bonus

I could whip up a horoscope I think

GM: An inception requires a full season yes Cumthinker, unless you already have one charted out just waiting for the horoscope to be entered in

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ah.

GM: They're functionally the same as Theriacs and Alchemical Potions

Belzer of Mercere finds a unoccupied building to claim while everyone is out searching

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will go to  Bonisagus's Well

Rosario of Flambeau wanders around and gets lost in the Vatican

Archibald of Guernicus: Was there any location he'd mentioned lately, johns?

GM: Hmm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Check out the Arch of Drusus and see if its still a gateway to Arcadia

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if giraldo is looking for hookers the jewish slum is historically a good place

I'm just saying.

GM: Noted

Belzer of Mercere: I'll also look for clues around the Jewish hookers

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella, you were more aware of the circumstances of how his mother died, it was when yer cousin was taken, yes?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: classic redcap

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm, would I impede Giraldo if I joined his effort to find the boy, but not the hookers

I don't want to impede either

but I have the spying spell

GM: At Bonisagus' well Gulielmus is an apartment building where some of the covenant staff stay.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: someone should check out sapienza

GM: It is otherwise a remote and quiet neighborhood.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Yes. His mother was acting on behest of The Spider, who it seems could watch us invisibly without notice."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: I'll quickly check out the Well itself and make some inquiries at the apartments before moving on.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do ye remember where it was?"

Jabier: You catch Jabier, resting in an apartment he shares with a few other male shield grogs.

Rosario of Flambeau: Party zone.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait a minute. Beatrice was there when Consolata died.

Time to see what it takes to get a ghost to tell me where to go

Jabier: "I'm sure he's not in trouble. He's out and about all the time with no incident."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll tell Archiald what Zita and Beatrice told me about the incident

I wasn't there when his mother died

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Oh, I certainly hope so."

does Jabier know any places Simon frequented

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right, Dusan, this might not have been said but Archibald is haunted by the ghost of a dead magus.

So with second sight you presumably see this every now and then

as he keeps giving her a casting token to get inside the aegis

Rosario of Flambeau bumbles into a room full of nuns

Jabier shrugs

Rosario of Flambeau: "Have you seen a boy named Simon? About this tall?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Everyone's worked themselves up into a frenzy over it."

Dušan of Criamon: I am somewhat used to that sort of thing

Jabier: "I am sorry senor, but I honor the magi's secrecy."

Dušan of Criamon: comes with living in a crypt, really

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh yeah Archibald can just ask Beatrice directly

Jabier: Hmm what's beatrice like in death

Archibald of Guernicus: As storyguide, you decide

GM: Rosario gets a lot of cold shoulders and dogs barking at him in the street.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Well, the hunt is on, then!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Probably a fairy-aligned ghost as a Merinita

Ghost: "Death stalks the bloodied halls of Vardian's Tomb!" she shrieks.

"Cursed! Only the pure at heart can lift the stain!"

Giraldo of Milan: ah

time for guy to save us all

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: I'll try to find a good spot to discreetly cast Gulielmus's Eavesdropping Orb on my way out.

Giraldo of Milan: of only gulielmus was of pure heart instead

Archibald of Guernicus: "... Perhaps Fiorella might be able to find the place after all."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hows the aura here

Ghost: At Bonisagus' well? Dominion 1

Archibald of Guernicus: Only the pure of heart can save Vardians Tomb. There's just one problem - Aristocritus is dead.

Ghost: Beatrice darts out of Archibald's view then hisses in his ear. "Death comes on 8 feet!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!-13+11

(

7

)

-13+11

=

5

the spell is cast silently.

Ghost: How long does it eavesdrop for?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gulielmus can hear from a point that he touches for Conc duration

GM: You hear Jabier yawn, shuffle, and then go to sleep.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: classic grog

Giraldo of Milan: nice spell

Archibald of Guernicus: "8 feet.... the spider, of course!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ok, i will drop the spell and make my way to the knights

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella!" I rush over "The house Consolata died at, do ye have any way of locating it? Ye were closer tae it than anyone else here now."

Rosario of Flambeau feels guilty about not being able to find Simon and goes to confession. He walks into a closet, sits on a bucket, and begins talking to himself. An hour passes before he realizes his mistake.

Giraldo of Milan: classic rosario

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can go by memory

Retrace my steps to where we found my cousin's body

Dušan of Criamon: From the pantry one wall away, I absolve you of your sins

GM: iirc only zita went from there to consolata's house

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita and Beatrice both did

GM: aha

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Beatrice's ghost is right here, she doesn't have to just scream nonsense

Archibald of Guernicus: That's why I figured I'd try and get her ghost to co-operate

If Fiorella's birds find anything suspicious there, the magi can be gathered

GM: about 6 miles southeast of the city

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The magpie spell can't use vague commands like "find clues"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Dusan! Funny meeting you here! I hate to admit, but I have no sense of direction. Perhaps I could follow you back?"

GM: here's what I had in the archive for "Well"

i dont think this was the right map though.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Da ze

Archibald of Guernicus: is that an early hypatia token

Dušan of Criamon: "Let us attempt to do so, and rejoin the group to continue our assistance."

GM: Who wants to visit the well for Fiorella's cousin was murdered?

Dušan of Criamon: I'm in, because I think ghosts handle my gift stink better than locals

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go

Archibald of Guernicus: I shall go

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ghosts are also offended by gift stink.

GM: This.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will continue bumbling around the streets of rome.

Dušan of Criamon: I am disheartened, but do not waver in my resolve

GM: Sure, where to next Gulielmus

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: have the knights seen any sign of my fellow scholar's pupil

GM: Dusan, Archibald, Fiorella, and a ghost arrive at the Well (not pictured).

Giraldo of Milan: did the music break for anyone else

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: its playing Civilization VI - Medieval Germany

GM: They say they have not. They ask if he was a good Christian soul.

Dušan of Criamon: Sims - Medieval quest here

Giraldo of Milan: it started again

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I assume so."

Giraldo of Milan: thank you everyone

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "You know how students are though. Always leading each other astray."

GM: thumbs up cat

Sarjeant: "So you've heard the news about the University, then.."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "News!"

"No, I've heard no news about the University. What happened?"

Sarjeant: "... I'll tell you just so you have a chance to set your comrades on the right path.. Rienzi's men arrested some heretics from the University. Said they were spouting the teachings of Satan."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "How frightening!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Beatrice and Zita ran off using teleport magic, before I was able to do so myself."

"From here, you'd have to ask Beatrice the direction."

Rosario of Flambeau: uh oh.

Dušan of Criamon: "That dastardly Rienzi again!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Beatrice, I realise it's been a while, perhaps, since I've consulted ye on covenant matters, but can ye remember the way tae the house where Consolata died?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I was going to make my way over there, eventually.... Perhaps I should go directly."

Archibald of Guernicus: It was her final day alive

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus thanks the serjeant for the tip, and does not proceed directly to the university.

Ghost: "A wretched enemy of the covenant... Her death was not far.. This place, yes, I know it.."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: instead he will detour back to  Vardian's Tomb

Ghost: The ghost tries to move in a Southeasternly direction but finds herself unable to move far from Archibald's presence.

Dušan of Criamon: >se

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll wander along behind then

Dušan of Criamon: you can't move there

Archibald of Guernicus: Fiorella and Dusan coming too?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll follow along

Dušan of Criamon: I'm joining up

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo return

Ghost: You progress some distance

Dušan of Criamon ponders the profound mystery of a well boldly labeled "MILL"

Ghost: You find a burnt wooden building, little more than a pile of embers.

I wonder, what did you all do with Consolata's remains

Giraldo of Milan: I crouch down and inspect the embers.

"Burned. A long time ago."

I inspect a specific area.

"Bootprints. They're fresh."

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Archibald of Guernicus: Truly we pay the finest tracker in Italy

"There's our lead."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Giraldo of Milan: I crouch down and inspect the embers.

"Burned. A long time ago."

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh yeah we set the building on fire

good times

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: giraldo is the traitor

kill him

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What is this crap

Archibald of Guernicus: Consolata's remains were destroyed by Venator, johns

Giraldo of Milan: said before throwing vis down a well

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

this is one wild covenant.

Archibald of Guernicus: he did it right in front of Malachiasz, and then did it to Proclus, and Malach killed himself

Ghost: i have been informed the remains are ashes and not embers

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thank you

while i'm at the tomb i will assemble a party, before venturing forth.

Giraldo of Milan: I plant a stick at a specific part of the ground.

And then head east.

Ghost: "The old basement -- where the traitor kept her hidey hole. Nothing but ash now haha!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "You follow the tracks, Giraldo, see what ye find."

In the meantime, I'll start clearing aside ash and dust to check out the basement

johns (GM): waking up to ash and dust.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll send my familiar to watch Giraldo and inform me if he gets into trouble.

johns (GM): roll your tracking skill Giraldo

while im waiting for beardbeard to come back im making another coffee

Giraldo of Milan: sorry i got a work call

im back

per plus hunt

rolling 1d10+5

(

2

)

+5

=

7

johns (GM): work on a sunday XD

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gulielmus is standing in the bird tower, making a fool of himself by shouting "Fiorella! Fiorella!" to try and get the attention of her absent familiar

Giraldo of Milan: im on call. please kill me

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: beardbeard, m.d.

Giraldo of Milan: yesterday i had to drive half an hour and spend 3 hours on some garbage

johns (GM): You follow the tracks as far as a road (indicated by a new dot) because your Witcher Senses fail and you lose the trail.

Giraldo of Milan: "He came this far. Can't follow the tracks as well on the road."

any notable settlements nearby

on either direction

johns (GM): there's one on the map

well, two

three, really

the Pamphili Estate to the north

the Milestone Village to the east

and the castle town of Albano so the south

Giraldo of Milan: what do we know about any of those locations

johns (GM): there was a killer wolf in the woods around pamphili

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: simply have archibald use his Road magic.

Giraldo of Milan: ah right

we should kill that

johns (GM): there was a gang of kidnappers hired by consolata at milestone village

and you've never been tl albano

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is the pamphili estate where jeanne lived

Giraldo of Milan: milestone village sounds like a good lead

johns (GM): t'was gulielmus

Giraldo of Milan: lets roll

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: jeanne...

Rosario of Flambeau: oh jeanne

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: all roads lead to Hell

johns (GM): lets marvel at the old tokens

old fiorella is here too

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: all of these characters who are no longer with us, like Derfel

johns (GM): The village is absolutely still and silent as you approach Giraldo, not a sign of life. The houses have lost their window shutters and doors and lie abandoned.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It took me a while ot find a good token

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+@+4

(

2

)

=

2

rolling 1d10!+2+4

(

4

)

+2+4

=

10

Giraldo of Milan: I'll look for recently disturbed dust and dirt.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll look for recently disturbed birds

Joking I don't have any such ability

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Giraldo of Milan: I head to the old guest house 'Pensione'

Archibald of Guernicus: Fiorella's bird form token is the best one

Giraldo of Milan: fiorella the bird botherer

Archibald of Guernicus: its impossible to top that

johns (GM): Through the doorway, you see a shadowy human shape sifting through old bottles and papers lying on the floor of the ruins.

Giraldo of Milan: I motion to the magi.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus gets tired of shouting at the birds and retreats to his lab to brew some potions.

Fiorella the Raven: Battle mode activate

Giraldo of Milan: I sneak up on the figure.

rolling 1d10+3

(

6

)

+3

=

9

johns (GM) rolls some dice

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2

(

3

)

+2

=

5

johns (GM): You get the drop on him. It's Simon!

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice!

Well done folks.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Incredible

Giraldo of Milan: hm. maybe i shouldnt threaten him with steel then

ill grab him

Dušan of Criamon: Good game everyone

Giraldo of Milan: we did it

johns (GM): Ok he uhh zaps you with a pilum

Dušan of Criamon: Props to Giraldo

johns (GM): Roll soak

Giraldo of Milan: what the

but ive got the drop on him!

johns (GM): Are you grappling him?

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

johns (GM): Roll it

Giraldo of Milan: ok fiorella and dusan. save me when this fails

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Giraldo of Milan: i strongarm him

rolling 1d10!+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: the insane farce of vardians tomb ftw.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

You surprise him and grab him!

Dušan of Criamon: I will put my life on the line for Giraldo if it comes to that

Simon of Guernicus: "Gah!"

Giraldo of Milan: "Come on kid."

"Enough ruin sifting for you."

I drag him out to the gang

Simon of Guernicus: "Giraldo you crazy fool! Unhand me"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the insane farce boys of vardianst omb

Giraldo of Milan: "Next time you wanna sneak out somewhere, go for a brothel instead. Makes more sense for a boy your age."

Fiorella the Raven: "How's his Animal training, Archibald? I can pin him down without GIraldo holding him if need be.

Giraldo of Milan: archibald is still i nthe basement

eagerly awaiting johns to tell him what he found

Simon of Guernicus: Nothing.

It's ash.

Giraldo of Milan: im waking up. to ash and ash. i wipe my ash and i slap some ash

Archibald of Guernicus: I guess I join everyone pretty quickly then

"Giraldo, unhand him."

Giraldo of Milan: I unhand him.

Simon of Guernicus sees Archibald

Rosario of Flambeau: "You've found the boy!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton humanize

Simon of Guernicus: "Ah -- magister -- forgive me --"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll cast my social buffs to make myself less offensive to the parmaless youth

Giraldo of Milan: where did he even learn pilum

did rosario get a hold of him

Simon of Guernicus: "Please let me explain"

Giraldo of Milan: archibald aint teach him no ignem,

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: whats a kid doing learning pilum

Rosario of Flambeau: i dont even know pilum

i know how to set my sword on fire.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I sit down for story time

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: who allowed guy of bonisagus to be around children

Dušan of Criamon: I respectfully refuse to learn pilum, so as to not infringe upon others spotlights

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rome's a dangerous city, if ye want tae wander around it for days on end, ye should leave a message with Particella where yer going."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I should learn Pillum so I'm not screwed vs Animal immune

Simon of Guernicus: "I was looking for a specific place.. A place I've seen in my dreams. I didn't think anyone would pay it any mind.. Just an apprentice's wild imagination they would say, right?"

Giraldo of Milan: a villain who became evil after everyone mocked his complete immunity to medium sized birds, justified in his existence at long last

Dušan of Criamon: "You would be ASTOUNDED at the kind of leads we as a covenant pick up on and fully invest our resources in."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Circle of Beast Warding is relatively cheap

Archibald of Guernicus: "Might be old memories, more than dreams. That cabin, anyway."

Simon of Guernicus: "When she was alive my mother came through here, didn't she? I was just a kid but I feel like I remember it.. I thought I could find a lead to the fort I've seen."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sorry to have to tell you this but your mother was a retarded cunt.

Rosario of Flambeau: Harsh.

"It sounds like a fine quest, but you should have called on your allies."

Simon of Guernicus regards you sullenly

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye need tae be careful about following where she went. Maybe she was a good person led astray, deep down, but she was led very far astray."

Simon of Guernicus: "How well did you know her?" He ask sharply.

"Sorry -- I don't mean to snap.."

Giraldo of Milan: i cant remember if i was giraldo on that adventure

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I should excuse myself before I say something insensitive."

I'll go outside

Simon of Guernicus: i think giraldo was

I saw his token on some old maps

Archibald of Guernicus: "I didnae, but that was right around the time of the second slaughter of vardian's tomb, most of the ones who did are gone."

Simon of Guernicus: "That's why I had to go, magister. I think she left something behind for me.."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A legacy of ash

Simon of Guernicus: "There's a fort -- a place in a forest that never sees light.. and a cave undernearth.. I need to go there."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gulielmus has done it again

pure reason.

Simon of Guernicus: pure treason

Archibald of Guernicus: "She was dealing with something dangerous. Something older than any man and with a monstrous grudge against everyone in the order of hermes."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: be that as it may.

Archibald of Guernicus: "If there's a final legacy, it might be related tae this. Are ye truly sure this is something ye want tae pursue all the way to the end?"

Simon of Guernicus: "Absolutely."

He speaks quickly and with certainty.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales. I'll be going on this, but if ye wish tae turn back, this is yer opportunity to."

Rosario of Flambeau: "This boy has a lot of passion."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I certainly cannae force ye tae come."

"Besides you, Giraldo, you're the shield grog for Simon on this."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I have to see this through, for Zita and Flora's sake."

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

gottem.

GM: do you wish to include the absen players omehow

Giraldo of Milan makes grumpy Polish noises.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I do

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll come along. My blade isn't as powerful as it could be, but I'll do my best."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can teleport back

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right. Gulielmus and Dusan.

"Fiorella, if ye can let them know so they can decide if they wish tae come."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'll leave Camilla with you in case I need to send a message before I return."

bamf to VT

I'll then get Gul and Dusan caught up on what's going on

GM: also Rosario

Dušan of Criamon: I'm up for adventure

GM: Fantastic -- active chars place yourselves in the Active box

Rosario of Flambeau: i've been following Dusan around since we ran into each other in a pantry earlier.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ill roll for the potion i have been brewing

rolling 1d10!+5+7+8

(

9

)

+5+7+8

=

29

GM: nice roll

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats a veil of invisibility, with 2 charges

Archibald of Guernicus: Maybe we should bring some shield grogs

Guli, Rosario and Dusan can fetch em right

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ye

GM: someone dragged non combat grogs and a dead grog into the play

i am being trolled

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Fiorella, thank God you're back! Di Rienzo is rounding up heretics at the university!"

Archibald of Guernicus: RIP marius

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: rip

Giraldo of Milan: phew. good thing archibald is with us

GM: brb 1 sec

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Simon may be there. We must go immediately!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I think that boy has gotten too big for his britches."

Archibald of Guernicus: 4 shield grogs should be fine, plus Giraldo, the ultimate Shield Grog

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "But for the moment, Archibald needs our help."

"We'll just have to teach Rienzo his place afterwards."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "What could he possibly have discovered that's more important than this!?"

GM: more important question: Why is gulielmus so concerned for the plight of heretics

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: simon may be there. we must go immediately

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Heretics are usually intellectuals like us magi

I said I got you caught up

Which means you know where Simon is

GM: gulielmus the slow

Dušan of Criamon: Heresy is cool

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ok

lets go i guess.

GM: Awesome.

I found Dusan's token here which makes me think he was also around when you entered the shaded glen the first time.

Dušan of Criamon: When would that have been, this session?

GM: Fall 1339

Dušan of Criamon: ah, well conveniently, I don't remember that far back

GM: lol ok

Giraldo of Milan: sorry another player was distracting me and undermining my efforts

i am abck

GM: You find yourself in what was once a foreboding magical wood. The trees have lost their leaves and light shines through the canopies.

Giraldo of Milan: i am the only one here who went to the fort before

so ill watch the canopies

GM: Amid the branches you see many small spiders scurrying about, startled by your presence.

Giraldo of Milan: "We'll need to burn this down on the way out."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Spiders, eh?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I was so young when last I was here."

Simon of Guernicus: "You were here, Magister?" he asks Fiorella.

"Can you tell me how my mother died?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "You don't want to ask me about your mother."

"You won't learn anything useful."

Simon of Guernicus: "No one's given me a straight answer."

"Why does everyone dance around the question?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "She must have been a... spirited woman."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Archibald, he's a grown man. Should I tell him straight?"

Giraldo of Milan: was fiorella there to see it

was anyone actually

zita killed her alone

Archibald of Guernicus: "I know ye have strong personal feelings on the matter, but try tae to be tactful."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I am. He's growing annoyed at my tact."

Simon of Guernicus: "Fine.. let's keep moving then."

Archibald of Guernicus: RIP

RIP

RIP

Simon of Guernicus: Further into the woods you find the ruined fort. "It's exactly as I saw in my dreams.."

Archibald of Guernicus: By god, that's Lodewig's token

Fiorella of Jerbiton: This was the fight that drove Hafl over the edge

Simon of Guernicus: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: oh yeah lol

Simon of Guernicus: why

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It was a mess

Archibald of Guernicus: Because simultaneous declaration/resolution meant that, yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Simon of Guernicus: oh well

Archibald of Guernicus: and his turn got skipped multiple times

Dušan of Criamon: jesus

Rosario of Flambeau: i must have missed this.

Simon of Guernicus: i think it got skipped once and he exagerrates

because i would repeatedly ask "did I miss anyone" at the end of each round

it was more that he couldn't keep track of what effects he was maintaining

regardless

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Combat has been less miserable since we went back to normal initiative, IMHO

Simon of Guernicus: sure

Giraldo of Milan: combat has been [...] miserable

Simon of Guernicus: :|

Giraldo of Milan: got him

Rosario of Flambeau: i like normal initiative

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: normal initiative is much better

Simon of Guernicus: Inside the fort is a narrow passageway ramping deep into the ground, narrow enough for a single person to fit.

Archibald of Guernicus: Normal init is preferable, yeah

Simon of Guernicus: A burst of spiders scurry out of the passage as you near. Who wants to go in first?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ars combat will always be sloggish as long as they can't really decide whether they want it to be heroic or gritty

Giraldo of Milan: ill go

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't suppose ye have a ward against animals, Fiorella?"

Rosario of Flambeau: Good idea, Giraldo.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll slap sidestep on myself and all the other magi for good measure. And Giraldo if he's going in first.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Not a mobile one. I could try to spontaneously cast something though>"

I'm not too familiar with personal wards

Rosario of Flambeau: I can just sidestep myself.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will sip my potion

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I sidestep myself

Archibald of Guernicus: Sidestep is for the magi who dont have it, then

Rosario of Flambeau: actually hmm. i think i might just turn invisible.

nah i'll sidestep.

Simon of Guernicus: What do you do for light?

it is dark.

Dušan of Criamon: Sidestep, eagle eyes and light steps here

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Will Circle of Beast Warding cast on an individual work?

Simon of Guernicus: Not the circle version but a personal version will

Rosario of Flambeau: well, i could go way ahead and cast Mien of Helios but thats overkill. I will instead bring a torch.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Aura?

Simon of Guernicus: Magic 2

Rosario of Flambeau: his spell causes the caster’s body and personal effects to shine with the brightness of the sun. Anyone within 10 paces of the caster who looks in the direction of the caster is temporarily blinded, unless he makes a Stamina stress roll against an Ease Factor of 9. People between 10 and 50 paces from the caster suffer a –3 penalty to all attempts to target the caster. The light created by this spell illuminates a great area and, if conditions permit, could be seen from several miles away.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can see perfectly in the dark, but torches for those who cant is a good idea

Rosario of Flambeau: i'll cast that if we get in a big room.

Simon of Guernicus: Nice -- Rosario is a torch

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'm invisible

and casting a very stark shadow now

Simon of Guernicus: Giraldo bravely steps forth.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, +36 Rego animal, that good enough for a +1 Touch +2 Sun +2 Group version of Circle of Beast Warding

Simon of Guernicus: The walls and ground are sticky with cobwebs. The passage eventually brings you to a large room.

Rosario of Flambeau: gulielmus, can i cast a spell on you

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10!+36)/2

(

(

4

)

+36)/2

=

20

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: please do

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, it wards up to a Might 5 Magic Animal as well as all mundane animals

Gulielmus of Pure Reason holds his homie's hand

Rosario of Flambeau: okay i cast this on Guli

R: Touch, D: Diameter, T: Ind The magus causes light that falls on his body to bend around and be allowed to continue its natural path on the other side. The magus casts no shadow in direct light as a result. Stacked with "Veil of Invisibility", this spell can render the magus almost entirely undetectable to natural sight. (Base 4, +1 Touch, +1 Diam)

Rego Ignem ftw.

Simon of Guernicus: Crude approximation of room drawn below. The room is split by a chasm, maybe 15 feet deep, at the bottom of which you hear running water. Last time you were here there were giant spiderwebs to cross with, but no longer.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think I can also avoid friendly fire with Weaver's Trap of Webs now too with that ward up

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's all follow in behind

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I follow

Archibald of Guernicus: Last time we were here, yeah. The last time we were here. Which was uh

Fiorella?

and no-one else

Fiorella the Raven: I'll recover my short term fatigue riding on a grog's shoulder

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i was never here

Simon of Guernicus: giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: i go across the sturdy wooden bridge

Archibald of Guernicus: wait, Giraldo was here

oh shit. the companions survive

Simon of Guernicus: There is no sturdy wooden bridge.

Giraldo of Milan: its right there

Fiorella the Raven: Oh okay

Simon of Guernicus: You drew that in yourself

Fiorella the Raven: It's a very sturdy stone bridge

Simon of Guernicus: to troll me

Giraldo of Milan: can yo uprove that

Archibald of Guernicus: "How did ye get across last time?"

Fiorella the Raven: I go up to the booth labelled free gondola rides across

Giraldo of Milan: "Spiderwebs."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hmm."

"I should have made an item to fly."

Fiorella the Raven: I can make spiderwebs myself

I cast Weaver's Trap of webs to build a bridge

Throw crap on top of it so you don't get stuck

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Seems safe."

Simon of Guernicus: Magic 2, I assume you can launch the webs ok

Giraldo of Milan: we can throw plansk from the bridge on top of the web

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll teleport across

Giraldo of Milan: we can walk on archiabld

Simon of Guernicus: haha.

Fiorella the Raven: 36 casting total spell level 35

Archibald of Guernicus: "We really need tae deal with the blight sooner or later, it's a sad thing tae grow up in a hermetic world devoid of teleportation."

Simon of Guernicus: Simon looks at the spiderweb nervously.

Fiorella the Raven: With supports, the webs can hang vertically, forming a wall; otherwise they act like a net

quote from the book

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

Simon of Guernicus: "Magister, can you get me across?"

Rosario of Flambeau: lets throw a bunch of rocks on it.

and walk across.

Fiorella the Raven: I can unseen porter rocks onto it

Giraldo of Milan: "Come on kid." I sling Simon over my shoulder and carry him across the portered rock bridge.

Fiorella the Raven: When the webs are through growing after a few seconds, they are as thick as string and as strong as iron.

Simon of Guernicus: "Gah"

Archibald of Guernicus: "The teleportation is only personal, hang on, perhaps I can spont a- oh, I see."

Simon of Guernicus: "Do you manhandle all Magi this way"

Archibald of Guernicus: "On the way back, I'll see about making a bridge across."

Simon of Guernicus looks at the room ahead

Simon of Guernicus: "I think I know what happened here... someone died, didn't they?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Just the scrawny ones."

Fiorella the Raven: "Shouldn't be hard to creo terram a bridge using the web bridge as a chassis. Form can emerge from existing shapes."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Marco, a redcap."

Simon of Guernicus: "My mother killed him, didn't she?"

Giraldo of Milan: marco... harco... woah..

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: muto terram the cliff into having the property of "being a bridge"

very easy

Archibald of Guernicus: "From what we found, the final cause of death was the one claiming tae be the spider. But she did bring him here, and harm him."

Fiorella the Raven: Room target might be able to do what Gul said

Simon of Guernicus: "Is that why she was killed?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: that would work, i think

or just part with a large size modifier

Fiorella the Raven: "She made some other unwise decisions that precluded a less violent end."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The one who killed her in the end was another redcap. Might have been family. So, I suppose, yes."

"Dead herself now. Living violently is dangerous."

Simon of Guernicus: "Maybe she just needed to be stronger."

Rosario of Flambeau: LEVEL 15

Bridge OF PROTECTING STONE

Touch, Diam, Ind

Makes a bridge of granite up to 25 paces

wide, 4 paces high, and 1 pace thick. One

needs miner’s tools to break through it, though it can be toppled if it is not connected to a support on either side.

Rosario of Flambeau: (Base 3, +1 Touch, +1 Diam, +2 size)

Giraldo of Milan: "You just have to pick your fights well."

Simon of Guernicus: "I see.."

Rosario of Flambeau: its wall of protecting stone but you can modify it into a bridge.

Simon of Guernicus: He turns away from the room and points into the chasm. "There's a passage there, in the river."

Giraldo of Milan: I look at where he's pointing.

Fiorella the Raven: "Might be harder to avoid sticking to the web if we used it for climbing."

Simon of Guernicus: There's a barely visible passage. It's almost all under the water line but a small bit.

Giraldo of Milan: "How good of a swimmer are you, kid?"

Simon of Guernicus: "I've swam in the Tiber before.."

Giraldo of Milan: "Good enough."

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+21+2+2 magic creo terram fatiguing spont, shouting and flailing, magic aura

(

5

)

+21+2+2

=

30

level 15 spell for a stone bridge for 2 minutes.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Dangerous if it doesn't come out intae a pocket of air."

Simon of Guernicus: "There's something down there, I'm sure of it.. Please. Let's check it out."

Rosario of Flambeau: i'll wait comfortably on the other side while everyone else goes under the water.

Simon of Guernicus: Who's up for a dip

Dušan of Criamon: Swimming 2 here folks

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: how dangerous does the current look

Dušan of Criamon: make way for the guy who put xp in swimming

Rosario of Flambeau: swim 1 here, coward here

Archibald of Guernicus: Swim 0 here

Hm

Simon of Guernicus: Looks choppy.

The stream in this room is no more than 4 feet wide.

Dušan of Criamon: AND diving specialization

Simon of Guernicus: We can split party if need be

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will roll Perception + Swim to judge what the ease factor is likely to be.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try and spont Lungs of the Fish for myself

I'm in plate but I have a spell that makes it weigh nothing at all

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10+3

(

8

)

+3

=

11

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo has 2 swim and 2 strength

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway, MuAq(Au) sponting, lets go

rolling (1d10!+25)/2

(

(

6

)

+25)/2

=

15.5

Thats enough

Lungs of the Fish on myself

Simon of Guernicus: Goon gratis

Gulielmus of Pure Reason interrupts, invisibly.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I dinnae have the skill tae apply it spontaneously to everyone, does anyone else have a trick here?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "You know, that water doesn't look deep at all."

"More of a wade than a swim."

Fiorella the Raven: Isn't Auram blighted?

Simon of Guernicus: it is

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh shit

Rosario of Flambeau: rofl.

gottem.

Simon of Guernicus: i thought lungs was aquam.. welp

Archibald of Guernicus: I guess I can't do that then

lungs is aquam with aurum requisite

i cant remember if requisites fucked with it too

Rosario of Flambeau: "Does anyone have a rope?"

Simon of Guernicus: that reminds me, lavinia needs to get her lungs of the fish necklace back sometime

Rosario of Flambeau: "Tie me to the bridge, I'll dive for it."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Strong current though. You might get pulled down and swept away."

Fiorella the Raven: I like Rosario's plan

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps with rego aquam we could calm the current?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i like rosarios plan because if he dives into the shallow water he will die.

Simon of Guernicus: oh for reference, the current is moving away from the hole Simon pointed out

Giraldo of Milan: away from hole

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: quite a conundrum.

is there anything to see in the little side chamber

Rosario of Flambeau: hm

Simon of Guernicus: Nay

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hmm.

Simon of Guernicus: The blood and webs have long since faded away

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh wait

I have... a spell for this!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh, can i see a little bit into the hole

Rosario of Flambeau: lets block up the hole

Archibald of Guernicus: I re-read it in the corebook

Rosario of Flambeau: and cause a catastrophic dam failure

Simon of Guernicus: Not from this angle Gulielmus

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ok

Archibald of Guernicus: Break The Oncoming Wave makes all water avoid hitting you, it's a ward against water

With FFM I can give it to everyone

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will cast Gulielmus's Glimpsing Orb in front of the hole, then

Archibald of Guernicus: conc duration so you'll have to go through one at a time though

Fiorella the Raven: Let's muto the water into risotto and eat it

Archibald of Guernicus: Glimpsing Orb

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: orb

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway

I can send people through one at a time

who wants to go first? after guli inspects it

Fiorella the Raven: I wonder if thick molten cheese is aquam

Giraldo of Milan: i will

Fiorella the Raven: I think birds can swim

Oh, speaking of which

Rosario of Flambeau: turn the water into cheese dip yeah.

Fiorella the Raven: I can also reach in using my talisman as a tentacle

Gulielmus of Pure Reason gazes into his bubble.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I see."

Fiorella the Raven: Level 2: Change a natural liquid into another natural liquid.

Hummus or cheese dip is natural

Simon of Guernicus: Cheese dip is a processed Animal product

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Not much to see, though. The passage heads up a ways and then takes a bend."

Fiorella the Raven: Uhhh not really, wine is aquam not herbam

Archibald of Guernicus: it means natural liquid tho

is the problem

Fiorella the Raven: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: wine isnt a natural liquid

Dušan of Criamon: perhaps some sort of sap

a syrup

Giraldo of Milan: alright. is cum aquam

Fiorella the Raven: Level 4: Change a liquid into an unrelated solid or gas (with requisites; Terram for solids and Auram for gases).

Archibald of Guernicus: "How long would ye say it is?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i think wine is a natural liquid for the purposes of muaq

Fiorella the Raven: So terram for cheese dip

Archibald of Guernicus: "I can send one person through at a time."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: since those guidelines are about normal vs. not normal instead of raw vs. processed

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah unnatural means things that don't occur without magic

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "It goes for a while."

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually with how Break the Oncoming Wave works

we might be able to all go through together

it makes water stop 10 paces away from you, according to the spell

Fiorella the Raven: I'll follow in at some point

Archibald of Guernicus: thats enough to fit everyone around me

Rosario of Flambeau: cool

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: nice

Rosario of Flambeau: everyone, hug Archibald.

Archibald of Guernicus: https://puu.sh/Cf7eT/5bdd1ac0e6.png

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: everyone move in and grab a slice of your homie.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can make it Sun Duration too

so no risk of conc checks

since im casting it on myself

Simon of Guernicus: Chill

Dušan of Criamon: I think this is the optimal solution

impressive

Fiorella the Raven: "strawberry flavored castor oil" is what it calls unnatural, castor beans don't taste like strawberries

Dušan of Criamon: we've come a long way from rope and swim ability checks

Simon of Guernicus: Unnatural means not occuring in nature

the guidelines specifically say its extra magnitudes for processed items

and also the amount of liquid effected is lower for processed items

so turning an entire stream into processed liquid would be a feat

Archibald of Guernicus: isnt it based on the original liquid, not what you turn it into

Simon of Guernicus: This is a formulaic spell Archibald?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the animal and herbam guidelines do but the aquam guidelies do not

Archibald of Guernicus: Formulaic, indeed

Simon of Guernicus: its based on the harder of either what it was or what it becomes

Fiorella the Raven: I see

Well in the case of getting through water turning it into processed liquids the diminished size would also be beneficial to your goal

But Archibald already has us covered

Simon of Guernicus: Ok

Down you go

Who's going in?

Dušan of Criamon: In

Fiorella the Raven: I will

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will go

Giraldo of Milan: i

Simon of Guernicus: Neat.

Rosario of Flambeau: Good.

Let's all god.

go.

GM: You enter the passage, Simon too.

You shiver in the cold mist of the freezing water stopped by Archibald's magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should be able to take everyone with us

"No need tae fear, this ward will do us good until sundown."

GM: With the water stopped 10 paces in front of you, you are able to circumvent deep potholes..

The passage continues for half a mile, until you reach the base of a subterranean waterfall, 10 paces wide and 15 paces tall.

Fiorella the Raven: Deep plotholes

Simon of Guernicus: "Any ideas how we can get up?"

Dušan of Criamon: "I will admit, I would not have been able to hold my breath for this long."

Fiorella the Raven: "I can take a look up top."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do we have a rope with us?"

johns (GM): sure the grogs have to be somewhat useful sometimes

Dušan of Criamon: neat

Fiorella the Raven: I'll take the rope up and fasten it.

johns (GM): Ok. Climbing up a rope against cascading water requires a Str + Athletics check.

Giraldo of Milan: thank you grog

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

9

)

+4

=

13

johns (GM): Giraldo succeeds

Giraldo of Milan: fortunately we are all warded against water

so its just climbing a rope against a stone surface

johns (GM): oh yeah good point

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+2+2

(

4

)

+2+2

=

8

johns (GM): well archibald is

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

johns (GM): so he would have to go first.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll climb up

A check needed if climbing up the rope?

johns (GM): Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: athletics?

johns (GM): aye

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2+0 str+athletics

(

1

)

+2+0

=

3

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ftw

Archibald of Guernicus: good start

johns (GM): You fall back to the ground.

rolling 1d10+0

(

1

)

+0

=

1

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

johns (GM): and take 1 damage, minus soak.

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay. I have 19 soak.

Dušan of Criamon: I help him back up fully expecting to experience the same fate

johns (GM): Right.

Rosario of Flambeau: thats a lot of soak.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oof! It's harder than it looks."

Fiorella the Raven: "We really need to get Rise of the Feathery Body working again."

Archibald of Guernicus: Familiar + Plate Armour + lots of terram + 3 stamina

giving me almost as much soak as the average endrite enemy

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats a lot of damn soak.

johns (GM): Do you wish to try again?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: my terram form bonus is 1.

Rosario of Flambeau: i need a damn familiar.

i only have 13 soak!!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: who is killed by archibald falling on them

Fiorella the Raven: Me

johns (GM): A grog

Okay, Fiorella

You have been imapcted by a fat scotsman. You take

rolling 1d420

(

137

)

=

137

damage

Fiorella the Raven: I would honestly die from him falling on me due to my small size

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets get up that rope.

Fiorella the Raven: I also have a lot of dodge

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try to climb up again

rolling 1d10!+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Many attempts later

johns (GM): Archibald makes it to the top of the waterfall and disrupts its flow.

Dušan of Criamon: "Anything good up there?"

johns (GM): The passage continues some more!

Fiorella the Raven: Are there cave fish flopping around

johns (GM): wriggly little eels

gasping for eel breath

Fiorella the Raven: Mmmmm

Let's not waste any food boys

We're having eel risotto tonight

Giraldo of Milan: risotto

Fiorella the Raven: risotto eel nero

The passage continues for another half mile.

johns (GM): Simon points out a hole in the west wall, about 10' off the ground, that would be very easy to miss if Rosario weren't glowing like the sun

Fiorella the Raven: Praise the sun

Simon of Guernicus: "Up there."

"Can you help me up there?" He asks the rest of you.

Dušan of Criamon: this hole

it was made for Simon

Simon of Guernicus: Its big enough for any of you really if you go one at a time

Fiorella the Raven: "Should we use the rope again?"

I'm going up with the rope

Simon of Guernicus: Ok one sec

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's check what's inside it first, would be terrible tae be ambushed down here by some kind of lurking beast."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll peek around the corner again

Fiorella the Raven: "Alright."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason produces a glimpsing bubble

Simon of Guernicus passes a note to a player

Giraldo of Milan: simony

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Huh."

"Looks like someone used to live up there."

Giraldo of Milan: the simony of guernicus

Fiorella the Raven: Simony of Jeribton

Archibald of Guernicus: "Best be cautious, then."

"I'll head in first."

Fiorella the Raven: "Careful of the mold."

Simon of Guernicus: Teleporting, Archibald?

Fiorella the Raven: "I have a supply of handkerchiefs we can use."

I'll pull my talisman scarf over my face since I don't have hands to use a handkerchief over my mouth.

Archibald of Guernicus: aye, teleporting up

Fiorella the Raven: The talisman has a constant InMe effect that lets me control it

Rosario of Flambeau: warping ftw

Fiorella the Raven: Wrong warp

GM: You arrive in a cave room. The floor has been leveled. There is old furniture in here -- a bed, a chest of drawers, a trunk, an escritoire -- all long disused.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: warp big or go home.

GM: The walls are covered in paper and parchment, some nailed in place, others pasted.

Thick black mold permeates the air and has eaten away at many of the papers.

Rosario of Flambeau: gross

Fiorella the Raven: Too bad its black mold and not delicious ergot

Giraldo of Milan: ergot

Fiorella the Raven: claviceps

Giraldo of Milan: urgot

Dušan of Criamon: Just to make sure, I'm not picking up anything on my infernal-meter right

Fiorella the Raven: You're picking up Archibald

Dušan of Criamon: My measly muscles could never pick up Archibald

Archibald of Guernicus: Any of the papers readable

GM: Are you using darkvision or cat vision or what

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: loot the trunk

GM: fae vision is pure darkvision right

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if rosario is up there there's light

Fiorella the Raven: Grog holding torch vision

Dušan of Criamon: basic D&D stuff

GM: have you lowered a rope down to let others up yet or are you proceeding without them archibald

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll lower a rope, yeah

GM: Okay, folks come up

Archibald of Guernicus: Strong Fariy Blood is pure darkvision. You can just see in the dark

so me and Giraldo are fine

Giraldo of Milan: get a rope

Rosario of Flambeau: alright, i'll go up.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: wouldnt the water crash back down on us immediately after archibald teleports

Fiorella the Raven: I pass out handkerchiefs to protect form the mold

GM: It does! You're now cold and wet.

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

Dušan of Criamon: I use comfort of the drenched traveler to make us comfortably dry again

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ftw.

GM: Nice

Epic spell

Giraldo of Milan: woo

GM: Okay, Archibald is looking at stuff on the wall

Dušan of Criamon: This is perfectly Dušan territory

GM: The first item to catch your eyes are pages from a tractatus, you don't know the title or author but guess it's a wizard

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's get the contents of this chest out on a plate.

GM: He describes the ancient Picts of Scotland, who had a priesthood of magic users devoted to the worship of Slaugh, the Pictish god of the dead

Dušan of Criamon: to hell with that, what's the Q and L on that baby

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling (21+1+1+d10!)/5 sponting Cloak of the Duck's Feathers

(21+1+1+

(

2

)

)/5

=

5

GM: Gulielmus cracks open the chest sending a thick cloud of block mold spores into the air -- everyone make a Stamina check

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ftw

rolling 1d10+2

(

3

)

+2

=

5

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3

(

4

)

+3

=

7

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+3

(

2

)

+3

=

5

gah.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: do our handkerchiefs help

GM: they do

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 2+d10!

2+

(

1

)

=

3

Dušan of Criamon: Thank you Fiorella

Archibald of Guernicus: "The picts, eh?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: owned.

"Sounds like the Spider."

GM:

rolling 1d10!+2 simon

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Fiorella the Raven coughs uncontrollably and loses a fatigue

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

6

)

+2

=

8

Fiorella the Raven: I don't know what a raven coughing sounds like but it is how it is

GM: Caw caw cawgh

Giraldo of Milan: cawf. cawf.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. Tae think I share a homeland with a monster like that. It's an awful thought."

GM: Inside the trunk, Gulielmus finds decades old remains of food, and some wooden child's toys

Fiorella the Raven: I go sit on a grog's shoulder to recover my fatigue

Simon of Guernicus: "I remember this place... This is where my mother and I lived.."

"I played with those toys while she worked at the writing desk."

Giraldo of Milan: yeah. can you imagine someone like archibald coming from the same place as the second greatest threat the order of hermes has ever known

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye lived out in this cave?"

Simon of Guernicus: ".... something bad happened here... I remember that too... I was calling out for her but she wasn't there..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "How did ye ever get in and out of it?"

Simon of Guernicus: "..."

"I can't remember the rest.."

He starts feeling the walls. "There might be a passage or.. something.."

Fiorella the Raven: I use my prehensile scarf to feel around for gaps in the rock that might indicate a door

Dušan of Criamon: I try to find something to decipher in the writings

Simon of Guernicus: Dusan examines the writings.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can cast Prying Eyes on each wall until I find one with another side to it

Simon of Guernicus: He finds more pages, reports from Hibernian magus about heathen Cruithnigh magicians. He attributes to them the ability of the "External soul," a means of escaping death by tying one's soul to a physical object. So long as the object is not harmed the magician cannot die

You find a narrow passage behind the chest of drawers that leads up, through try paths, Archibald.

Dušan of Criamon: "Hm, hm. Where have I seen this before." I keep mumbling to myself and perusing the papers

Giraldo of Milan: what are try paths

Simon of Guernicus: Dry.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will look under the bed

Simon of Guernicus: You find a large parchment with a map and notes on it. A stone circle with an unusual alignment scouted by Consolata, and indications of how far and what direction is was, from nearby settlements.

Gulielmus finds bits of a diary, mostly rotted through. A few pages are legible, including Consolata's long held resentment against Gifted Magi and her dreams of being their equals.

She describes the joy she felt learning that her son was gifted, and the pride she felt when Atorcoppe referred to her son as a precious boy.

She describes plots to discredit the Magi who have crossed her once she has gift opened by Atorcoppe, by framing them for crimes against mundanes.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Atorcoppe

Giraldo of Milan: little did she know, vardians tomb is immune to tactics like that

Archibald of Guernicus: Atorcoppe, huh

Simon of Guernicus: "Look at this," Simon points to the map. "This is not far from here.. it has to be something important."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Doubtful it's the Spider himself, she said that she never knew where tae find him."

Simon of Guernicus: "Those pages mention an external soul.. Could this be where he hid it?"

Fiorella the Raven: I memorize the map

Simon of Guernicus: "In the end my mother.. she was not truly in the Spider's thrall after all.. She must have planned to rebel."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Has anyone ever heard of Atorcoppe?"

Simon of Guernicus: i am almost certain you have heard the name before

Fiorella the Raven: Allowing me to recreate it later once we're out of the mold

Rosario of Flambeau: Hmm.

Simon of Guernicus: It was the name Damhan-Duidas was using to Consolata, originally

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's check behind the drawer first. Unless that's alreayd where we are.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets open them, as well.

Simon of Guernicus: You find some clothes.

Fiorella the Raven: I get out of the way of any more container opening

Dušan of Criamon: We should rifle through the clothes

Simon of Guernicus: "Take a look at this--" Simon excitedly grabs a piece of parchment off the wall, but the paste holding it in place causes it to shred. "Ah -- no, I didn't mean to do that--"

Giraldo of Milan: owned

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets rifle through the bedding, too

Simon of Guernicus: You find more mold

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: maybe she had a powerful enchanted dagger under her pillow.

Simon of Guernicus: She had an enchanted dagger you took off her charred corpse

Archibald of Guernicus: "What was it ye saw?" I ask Simon

Dušan of Criamon: "This... mold-like glue substance is beginning to worry me."

"I'm beginning to feel a little surrounded if you'll pardon the panicking."

Simon of Guernicus: "Something about an old Pictish ritual.. I'm sorry I didn't read it all the way through.. I swear I didn't mean to do that."

Archibald of Guernicus: I employ... Folk Ken

I'm sharing my parma with Simon so no Gift penalty for once

phew

rolling 1d10!+3+2

(

6

)

+3+2

=

11

Simon of Guernicus passes a note to a player

Simon of Guernicus mopes sullenly

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's alright lad. Mistakes happen. Ye have tae be very careful when examining brittle things like parchment, especially when it's old."

Simon of Guernicus: He grits his teeth. "I'm almost 20 years old. I'm no 'lad.'"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Let's investigate the exit, Dusan."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Something so fragile and so important at the same time... there's been so many works of the ancients lost over time."

Dušan of Criamon: I'm with Guli

Simon of Guernicus: The exit passage leads into an old abandoned mineshaft, which slopes up to the surface of a hill.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yer a lad until yer gauntlet as I see it. Then yer a full magus, and an equal tae anyone here."

Simon of Guernicus: "Are they all equal really.. ?"

"My mother surely didn't feel so..."

Giraldo of Milan chews an apple.

Fiorella the Raven: "Not all magi are equals in ambition."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll produce some magical light

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's tricky with redcaps, since they lack the Gift, and there's still all sorts of problems with snobbery amongst some houses. Ours is no stranger tae it, either."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and proceed up the tunnel

Simon of Guernicus: You reach the outside!

Dušan of Criamon: I'm moving with

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: following the invisible light source

Dušan of Criamon: "Wonderful, we should mark this place down on a map at some point."

Archibald of Guernicus: "When yer called upon tae act as a quaesitor, that's yer opportunity tae impose yer morals upon the world. There might be opposition, but ye have the chance tae treat all magi as equals under the Code."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Good to be out of that mold pit."

Archibald of Guernicus: I take a breath of fresh air myself

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus surveys his surroundings.

if the archon were here he could have cast chamber of spring breezes on the mold room.

Dušan of Criamon: "I'll be frank, I expected it to somehow attack us! Hah. Seems silly now."

Simon of Guernicus: rejiggering map

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Foul stuff, regardless... I hope Fiorella doesn't fall ill."

Giraldo of Milan: guy has that spell

gehe

Dušan of Criamon: Commence the rejiggering

Simon of Guernicus: map is being a pain

Fiorella the Raven: "I'll be fine."

Simon of Guernicus: Anyway

You're atop an empty hill somewhere between the shaded glen and the city of Albano

Fiorella the Raven: "A good bath and some essence of ergot will fix me right up."

Simon of Guernicus: "We should hasten to the spot on that map... What if it's important to the Spider and he knows we're on to him?"

"We'd have a chance to be one step ahead of him!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton become human

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's definitely worth examining, aye."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It could be a trap. He had eyes on us for a very long time."

"Just be wary, is all I'm saying."

"It's not an opportunity to be squandered, either."

Simon of Guernicus: "I can defend myself it things come to it.. But I have you to help too."

Giraldo of Milan: i can defend myself - man snuck up on and manhandled by a guy with no brawl

johns (GM): Who wants to check out Mystery Site? It is 5.5 miles from your current location

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Let's

Giraldo of Milan: lets

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go up in the sky and scout it out

Fiorella the Raven: Caw

Rosario of Flambeau: Might as well check it out.

Fiorella the Raven: Camilla will relay what i see to the party

Dušan of Criamon: Absolutely

Rosario of Flambeau: I will use my horse leg belt and run there at horse speed.

johns (GM): Fiorella investigates. She finds a flat valley hidden among the mountain with a narrow tricky passage leading to it, very easy for mundanes to miss.

Inside the valley is a round dome of earth, surrounded by liths like stonehenge.

Looks kinda like this.

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

a mound.

johns (GM): 'tis

Fiorella the Raven: Fertile mound

Giraldo of Milan: there it is

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll examine the area with my second sight

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: derfel would have loved this

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+2

(

9

)

+3+2

=

14

+1 if its a regio

johns (GM): Are you teleporting ahead or moving with the rest of the ground

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll travel with everyone

johns (GM): Nice.

The sun sets and it is dark out by the time you arrive

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll re-apply sidestep and my armour weight spell, and my spell that tells me if any effect beats my parma

Dušan of Criamon: same

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will re-sip my potion

Archibald of Guernicus: Parma is being shared with Simon

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: leaving me with  0 charges

Rosario of Flambeau: i will apply sidestep and blade of virulent flame.

Archibald of Guernicus: which is -2 to your parma score and both of you have the reduced score, right?

johns (GM): What is the potion effect.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: invis

johns (GM): Nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: allow me to roll to calc penetration

Archibald of Guernicus: i have Parma Magica 5 so thats 15 MR on simon at least, plus his art scores

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: please give me the big invis rosario

to go with my small invis

Archibald of Guernicus: sidestep on simon, too

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+25

(

7

)

+25

=

32

21 pen

Archibald of Guernicus: "We've just walked intae a regio. Be on guard, sodales."

Fiorella the Raven: Sidestep

Rosario of Flambeau: on my flaming sword melee attacks

johns (GM): The air feels magically charged. No stars in the sky, but the moon looms very large overhead.

Fiorella the Raven: I cast Piercing the Magic Veil

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll check the aura with fatigueless sponts. What is it

johns (GM): Magic 5

Rosario of Flambeau: and i will cast the shadow removal spell on Guli, which is rea lly easy

ohhh

johns (GM): Fiorella -- you sense no viel to cross -- the regio was already open somehow.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Magic, at least. Unless this is an infernal trick."

Fiorella the Raven: And no other levels?

johns (GM): None visible at present

One second while I confirm

Second sight on Archibald, Simon

Gulielmus Invisible

Rosario flaming sword

What else?

Giraldo of Milan: i have second sight too

im the fairy boy

Dušan of Criamon: I've second sight and infernal geiger counter

johns (GM): Ok-- roll second sight guys

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gulielmus is invisible + shadowless

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+4

(

3

)

+4

=

7

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+7

(

3

)

+7

=

10

johns (GM): Nothing untoward noticed

The liths each are about 2 meters high

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+2

(

9

)

+3+2

=

14

second sight roll

johns (GM): The mound itself is 4 meters high, with a large open doorway ringed in worked brick stone

Archibald of Guernicus: oh, it gets +2 i believe since its a fairy power and a magic aura

so 16

johns (GM): You can see there's a hallway within

Who's feeling bold

Rosario of Flambeau: i am

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rosario, yer parma is quite advanced, isn't it?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's not bad."

Fiorella the Raven: "I can test the passageways with summoned birds."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll be glad to take the lead."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Either you or I should head in first. If I do, I'd like the full benefit of my parma, so I'd like one of ye tae extend theirs over Simon while I investigate."

Simon of Guernicus: "Giraldo maybe I.. overestimated how well I can defend myself.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, that'd be a good start, Fiorella."

Simon of Guernicus: "I'll let the seasoned magicians have the first look.."

Dušan of Criamon: "No dishonor in not rushing in blind and unarmed."

Fiorella the Raven: I'll send some birds flying through the hallways, have them fly inwards as far as I can see

I assume once they reach that point they do whatever they want

GM: You hear echoey, muffled caws and birds flapping, and nothing surprising.

Fiorella the Raven: "No obvious traps."

GM: glad we have a rogue in the party

does anyone have Intuition or a similar virtue

Rosario of Flambeau: Alright.

Archibald of Guernicus: "When we lose vision of everyone else, the parma over Simon will end, would ye mind extending yours Dusan?"

Rosario of Flambeau: I will walk inside.

Archibald of Guernicus: Same

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: aristocritus did

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll head in with Rosario

GM: Bringing grogs with?

Dušan of Criamon: "Mine is humble, but I shall."

Actually is mine strong enough to share

Archibald of Guernicus: you can always share it, but if its 2 or less its just set to 0

so all you have is form bonus and the parma blocking the gift

Dušan of Criamon: yeah it's 2

GM: A magus may also protect one other person

for each point in Parma Magica, with their

consent. He must touch each person to start

the protection, and it lasts as long as at least

one character can see the other. The magus

may cancel the protection at will, at any distance.

GM: While a magus is protecting others, his

effective Parma Magica score is reduced by 3

points, both for himself and for the other people

he is protecting. If the magus has a Parma

Magica score of 3 or lower, his Parma Magica

provides each character, including himself,

GM: with a Magic Resistance of 0.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: also you retain your full form mr

GM: MR 0 still gets the MR resistance from your Forms, however

Dušan of Criamon: OK, I'm extending

GM: Ok.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and 0 is infinitely better than none

Dušan of Criamon: It's coming back to me now

GM: Rosario and Archibald: 2 stone steps sink a little deeper into the earth, and you are in a rounded hallway that extends in either direction (drawn in red)

Archibald of Guernicus: What do my elf eyes see

GM: The hallways meet on the other side of the mound at an open bier. The room is surrounded with sealed jars, brass and gold, still glinting under centuries of dust. Ancient weapons, chainmail, and shields decorate the walls

In the center is a thick stone coffin.

Giraldo of Milan: open the coffin and get paralyzed + couped by the mummy

Fiorella the Raven: I follow inside

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i follow invisibly

GM: Ok.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: someone should bring the grogs

GM: Giraldo and Dusan, make Per+Awareness checks

Rosario of Flambeau: Hmm...

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+4

(

10

)

+4

=

14

oh there it is

Rosario of Flambeau: "Nice looking weapons."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh, if it's dark in here i'll use lamp without flame on a rock or something

Fiorella the Raven: Dusan can lead the grogs

Dušan of Criamon: Question: wasn't part of the plan that I stay out

Rosario of Flambeau: "Archibald, do you suppose those jars contain magic spirits like the others we saw that other time?"

Fiorella the Raven: Oh well keep the grogs with you then

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+6

(

3

)

+6

=

9

im simons guard

so im staying with him

Dušan of Criamon: I'll join, I was just under the impression that's why I was to extend parma to Simon

Fiorella the Raven: Well find out why you're rolling Awareness first

Dušan of Criamon: "Have heart young friend, no need to hide behind anything just yet."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Oh, good thinking."

Giraldo of Milan: I place a reassuring but firm grip on Simon's shoulder. "Don't be scared kid."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason approaches the jars to examine them.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's a thought."

GM:

rolling 1d10!+3+6+10 checking something

(

7

)

+3+6+10

=

26

Dušan of Criamon: Simon is trying to slink away and I'm preventing him, oblivious to the possibly more sinister motive he has

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hes been possessed by prudenzio

Archibald of Guernicus: "Whatever's in this coffin might be a threat."

GM: The jars are full of mummified organs and funeral incense.

Giraldo of Milan: I heft my big, fine, steel sword and stare at him. "Anything violent comes around, it won't be around long."

Simon of Guernicus: "Good.."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: sounds like they're full of potion ingredients

Archibald of Guernicus: "The dead have walked too many damn times in Italy for me tae not suspect every corpse and every tomb."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: are there any markings on the outside, though

GM: There are runes you don't recognize.

It's not Latin.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Some kind of writing here."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's take a look."

Fiorella the Raven: "I can recreate it later on a parchment."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll examine the writing myself

GM: It sorta reminds you of the old Estruscan artifacts you found in the Pontine marsh.

Rosario of Flambeau: theres no hulkamaniacs here...

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: does fiorella have a memory virtue

Fiorella the Raven: I have Fiorella's Mystic Map which has By His Works packaged in

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye think it might be Etruscan? Writing reminds me of that."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ah

Fiorella the Raven: I guess it's not so good for memorizng words

But it's good for mental photographs

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ive got Magical Memory, which is strictly speaking only good for recreating lab texts.

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah that's for writing texts in your brain

GM: id be willing to consider magical memory as general photographic memory because its absolutely useless otherwise

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the idea was by taking it id be able to make way more potions

GM: source: i had a char with magical memory last saga

Fiorella the Raven: It doesn't even interact with memory palaces for some reason

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: yeah its messed up.

"I can't claim to know any Etruscan."

Giraldo of Milan: tragical memory

Archibald of Guernicus: "I believe last time we found out that no-one does."

GM: Alack

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Nobody still living."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We'd have tae try and find a linguist who's decoded some, or summon the ghosts of Italians during the early Roman times who spoke both it and latin."

GM: Summoning, you say

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll make my way around the edge of the room and take a look at the treasure

Archibald of Guernicus: The incredibly suspicious coffin

GM: It's decent

Maybe worth a look in the lab? who knows

Archibald of Guernicus: I touch the coffin and use prying eyes to see what's inside it without doing something as silly as opening it

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: any inscriptions on the weapons, marks on the coins, other associated red herrings

Rosario of Flambeau: smart

i will go afk. sorry.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i might be able to illuminate the coffin

Rosario of Flambeau: be back shortly.

Dušan of Criamon: it must feel really freaky to use prying eyes on a grave

then again, we live in a catacomb

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is a Lamp Without Flame without any size modifiers good enough to light it up

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's a bloody statue inside the coffin."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh, right

archibalds an elf

GM: dad's bloody statue history

Archibald of Guernicus: "Made out of some sort of red stone. Cannae make out the face, but he's in armour."

Dušan of Criamon: Ahhhh the classic ttrpg standby: graverobbing

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: venturing into the tunnels beneath the earth face the archlich at the bottom

* to face

Archibald of Guernicus: "Now the conundrum. Do we open it?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I have to admit this seems risky."

"Well, it's out of my hands anyway. There's no way I can move that lid."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Rosario and I should be able to."

Fiorella the Raven: "I hope it's not immune to birds if its angry about being woken up."

GM: Ok

But first

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll cast my sight-range spell that reveals all magic, before we do this, FFM to make it diameter

rolling 1d10+43

(

10

)

+43

=

53

No fatigue taken

GM: Nice. However, something more pressing comes up

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay. I'm casting ceremonially so this is happening while I'm drawing a circle and such

GM: Ah

You are interrupted midspell by shouts of surprise from outside.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason stops rifling through a jar full of organs.

Dušan of Criamon: Oh no!

GM: Several large, hulking, monstrous spider/men beasts have sprouted into being right in front of the grogs and Giraldo.

Dušan of Criamon: I am outside!

GM: I am not sure who here was around on the first time one of these was encountered and would remember them

Archibald of Guernicus: do we gamers inside hear this?

Uh

Giraldo

surely

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: giraldo killed a bunch i think

GM: These aren't the spiders you met in the forest.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the guys who spawned after tribunal

Archibald of Guernicus: wasnt the spider we met on the way back to italy one time a HUUUUGE one

GM: These are the  Inspiderwiht. You met one on the way back from Durenmar, saying it was going to kill you all, and Simon too.

Dušan of Criamon: These ain't your momma's spiders

Archibald of Guernicus: these arent huge

unless they are

GM: They are Size +5.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: pretty large.

GM: This horrid hybrid of human

and spider is equally at home on

two, four, six, or all eight of its legs.

When standing upright, its head

bobs twenty feet above the ground

from a foreshortened and hunchbacked

GM: body. Their faces are a terrifying

amalgam of spider and human.

All of its limbs end in a clawed hand.

Their skin is glossy black,

with solitary hairs a finger’s width

thick scattered sparsely over their

GM: bodies.

Dušan of Criamon: humans can range from Size -2 to Size +2

Uh oh

Archibald of Guernicus: hecking large spider

GM: Yup.

Initiative time.

Giraldo of Milan: alright gm. qwhat do i roll for init

Archibald of Guernicus: They seem like they might be magic beings at least, I have PeVi that might be able to handle them

GM: Quickness plus your weapon bonus

rolling 1d10!+0

(

3

)

+0

=

3

Giraldo of Milan: whats a greatswords init bonus gm

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+2

(

6

)

+2

=

8

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 8+d10

8+

(

5

)

=

13

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it is +2

for a great sword

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+1+2

(

3

)

+1+2

=

6

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+3

(

5

)

+3

=

8

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Fiorella the Raven: What was the aura?

Archibald of Guernicus: magic 5 iirc

yep

says in the top left

Fiorella the Raven: Oops okay

GM: Want to wait a minute for DFD to get back?

Fiorella the Raven: Sure

Archibald of Guernicus: sure

GM: brb

Dušan of Criamon: i'll brb as well

Archibald of Guernicus: same then

Giraldo of Milan: pfp

GM: rip.

Fiorella the Raven: Who's running the grog group

Dušan of Criamon: i'm back and the answer should be Giraldo

GM:

rolling 1d10!

(

2

)

=

2

Rosario of Flambeau: sorry

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: this one is looking bad for team hermes

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

10

+

10

+

4

)

+1

=

25

init

GM: Nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: goin back to read whats happening for a sec

GM: Well Rosario, you've been alerted to the shouts of surprise from outside

Dušan of Criamon: I guess kill what's in the grave

GM: You're inside the mount at the moment though.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we're under attack by 5 boss spiders.

Fiorella the Raven: I'll run with Tunde as vanguard an leader unless one of these grogs took Leadership

Rosario of Flambeau: oh nice those jobbers i killed that one time

GM: I think they haven't

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: yeah but now theres 5

Rosario of Flambeau: Ah, we'll be fine.

Dušan of Criamon: 10 actually

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets crack this coffin open in the hopes that it will banish the spiders

Tünde:

rolling d10+4+1

(

10

)

+4+1

=

15

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

7

)

=

22

GM: That's an attack roll?

Tünde: Init

GM: you rolled twice

which was which

Tünde: The 10 exploded

GM: nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: "You think I should head outside, Archibald?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Sounds bad."

GM: As it turns out, three of the monsters have appeared right in the entryway, blocking your way out.

Giraldo of Milan: bind of madness

Rosario of Flambeau: "Have at you!"

i yell at the spider monsters.

GM: are you charge attacking them

Rosario of Flambeau: im making sure i can even move there and attack

Fiorella the Raven: +9 group bonus for the grogs for having 3 allies?

GM: By default, 1 Walk Movement & 1 Standard Action (Attack, Run, Draw Weapon, Fast-cast Spell, Use Enchanted Items, Stand from Prone)

Rosario of Flambeau: i forgot thel ords of men movement rules

GM: sure shaun

Free Actions: Drop item, fall prone, speak a few words

Advanced Movement:

Walk Speed: 10 + Quickness - Encumbrance feet a round

GM: Hurry Speed: 2 x Walk Speed

Run Speed: 4 x Walk Speed, make a fatigue roll (Stamina - Encumbrance vs 6)

Avg. Horse Gallop Speed: 50 ft a round

Rosario of Flambeau: ty

ok my hurry speed is only 16 feet since i have -1 qk and im encumbered.

Giraldo of Milan: burry speed

GM: lol

i thought you made a spell for this

Horsey Legs spell

Rosario of Flambeau: oh yeah i forgot about the horse legs thing.

rofl.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: my only regret is that archibalds dumbass kid got us all slaughtered

Dušan of Criamon: These things happen

Rosario of Flambeau: that just modifies my attack total based on athletics but sure i'll do a charge attack with 4x run.

GM: Ok -- roll fatigue

that's just Stamina - encumbrance iirc

Giraldo of Milan: dont worry

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm back. Wow that is a LOT of init. Congratulations Rosario.

Giraldo of Milan: ill kill simon

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+3-1

(

10

+

7

)

+3-1

=

19

GM: nice

Rosario of Flambeau: amazing.

rolling 1d10!+20 attack

(

5

)

+20

=

25

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1 Defense

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Damage?

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm right behind ye."

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 25-8+18 damage

25-8+18

=

35

GM:

(To GM) rolling 35-14

35-14

=

21

Rosario of Flambeau: blade of virulent flame doubling weapon damage is epic.

GM: The spider mutely reels in pain as you inflict a heavy gushing wound on it.

Oh

Wha't's the penetration on that flaming sword

Rosario of Flambeau: 21

GM: Ok I lied

Your sword bounces off the spider

Rosario of Flambeau: rofl.

GM: Grogs are up

Rosario of Flambeau: "I knew I should have waited until this was instilled in my talisman."

Jabier:

rolling d10!+12

(

1

)

+12

=

13

Rosario of Flambeau: "Giraldo! Give me your sword."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: shouldn't the sword hit and do half damage

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1+6 Defense (group)

(

2

)

+1+6

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau: "Shit!"

"He's outside!"

GM: damage?

Rosario of Flambeau: I agree, Guli.

GM: I am not sure why

Rosario of Flambeau: But Endrite's best friend, Johns, is running.

GM: its coated in magical fire that bounces off the target

Jabier:

rolling 13-9+9

13-9+9

=

13

Rosario of Flambeau: Bwaha.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: jesus

what level is the spell

GM: The grogs blades glance the spiders, drawing no blood.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i can come around the corner and try to dispel it

GM:  Fiorella  and  Giraldo

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: wait this is your talisman isnt it

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Rosario of Flambeau: 15

yeah

Giraldo of Milan: attack spidder

rolling 1d10!+14

(

1

)

+14

=

15

oh my god.

GM:

rolling 2d10 botch

(

3

+

1

)

=

4

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ok. your sword is protected by your Vim mr

Giraldo of Milan: oh my god.

Jabier: Do I need to move to have line of sight on the spiders?

GM sighs and cracks open rules for damaged weapons

Rosario of Flambeau: do i just need a base level penetration effect on my talisman at all times now

Giraldo of Milan: no

do not

i will kil lyou

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'm going to damage the gm's skull

Rosario of Flambeau: my vim form bonus is only 2

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay, Rosario.

Good news

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ok but what is your parma

Rosario of Flambeau: extremely high. i just don't want to admit it.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can use PeVi on spiders to make it possible for you to harm them

lol

GM: What is your ability score in sword, Giraldo

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i cannot dispel your sword.

Giraldo of Milan: 7. 8 if you count my specialty

GM:

rolling 1d10!+8+1 vs 15

(

9

)

+8+1

=

18

The sword is NOT damaged.

Rosario of Flambeau: Archibald has an epic plan.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: unless you concentrate to drop all of your mr

GM: You completely missed and hit a rock, though.

Fiorella  and  Dusan  ?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: giraldo foolishly uses the wrong style

Jabier: Ok I move to where I can see two spiders and fast cast Penetrating Murder of Crows on the one Rosario is fighting

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Jabier was me sorry

GM: sure, you need to roll for the fast cast

its -10 to casting totl

Fiorella of Jerbiton: -5, I mastered it for fastcast

Dušan of Criamon: All I have is DEO, I don't remember if that worked on the last time we fought a giant spider

GM: okey

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what are the rules on dropping your mr mid combat. do you have to burn a round concentrating

Archibald of Guernicus: How much could you move, again?

DEO wont work if theyre magic

GM: I thought mastery was required for fast casting any formulaic spell even with the malus

Archibald of Guernicus: which they almost certainly are

Dušan of Criamon: Yep

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it is

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 66+d10!

66+

(

1

)

=

67

GM: the rules for movement rate are in the Combat Handout at the top of the journal

hmm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Roll the botch dice

Rosario of Flambeau: omg.

GM: that's +2 botch from fast cast, what savings do you get from familiar / mastery

Dušan of Criamon: Alright, I delay my turn

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 62 total without botch

Dušan of Criamon: maybe I can pull someone to safety if it comes to that

Fiorella of Jerbiton: -3 dice from familiar cord

GM:

rolling 1d10 botch

(

1

)

=

1

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

GM: hrmm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: lol

GM: hmm...

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol.

Archibald of Guernicus: CrAn isnt it

GM: You dramatically shoot out a thick plume of black feathers, filling the air in front of you.

Giraldo of Milan: bahaha.

GM: And take 1 warping point.

Giraldo of Milan: suffer like g did

GM:  Gulielmus  and  Archibald  ?

Archibald of Guernicus: how far can you move in a round again

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 3 levels of mastery too, though I assume you can't get botch dice below zero

GM: It's in the handout!

Walk Speed: 10 + Quickness - Encumbrance feet a round

Hurry Speed: 2 x Walk Speed

Run Speed: 4 x Walk Speed, make a fatigue roll (Stamina - Encumbrance vs 6)

GM: i'll check on that fiorella

Rosario of Flambeau: oh

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: will rosario have to spend a full round concentrating on his parma for me to cast on his talisman

Archibald of Guernicus: 22ft on a map that only uses 5ft squares...

GM: I know there's at least one botch saving way that CAN reduce to 0 botch but i didnt think a familiar was it

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: because thats my only good move here

Rosario of Flambeau: i should just carry around a spare sword in case i fuck up like this and be even more encumbered

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mastery levels can take it to 0

GM: I take it back shaun

This may bring the

number of dice down to zero.

yeah

Alright.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll walk up here, that's all I can do this turn.

GM: Nice.

What was that Casting and Penetration total again?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, here's the pen on those crows then

rolling 62-35

62-35

=

27

GM: Nice

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nice token

GM: The birds flap lazily around the spiders without closing in.

Gulielmus ?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: please clarify, regarding my previous email.

GM: assuming you want to ignore the MR on his talisman? yes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We're up to a 30 might horde

GM: The last time you encountered one of these you slaughtered it without a scratch

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll run over here

Giraldo of Milan: email

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: to get in position for the next round

GM: nice

Inspiderwihts attack

They throw silken ropes at you!

rolling 1d10!+15 vs Giraldo

(

5

)

+15

=

20

rolling 1d10!+15+1+6 vs Grogs

(

6

)

+15+1+6

=

28

Giraldo of Milan: what in the fuck

GM: Auto miss vs. Rosario

Jabier:

rolling d10!+11+9

(

10

+

4

)

+11+9

=

34

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

10

+

7

)

+11

=

28

GM: Nice!

Simon breaks and runs to the east.

Dušan of Criamon: Hmmm

GM: Dusan?

Jabier: What do the ones in the barrow do?

Dušan of Criamon: I should probably prevent that from happening

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: brb

GM: (Unless Dusan wants to AoO melee him)

Giraldo of Milan: what about my aoo

GM: They stand pat, blocking your route

Jabier: Ok

GM: Oh right you can try one too I suppose

Giraldo of Milan: i wont kill him yet

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm

Giraldo of Milan: i need good enough reason that archibald wont kill me

GM: You would have to attack with a Sword

is the thing

Dusan is barehanded

Dušan of Criamon: Ah

Then I should probably be the one

I'll do my best

brawl 0, dex 0

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!

(

10

+

9

)

=

19

Rosario of Flambeau: wait a minute im retarded.

Dušan of Criamon: oh my god

Rosario of Flambeau: i literally am retarded.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ive whispered my dispel roll to the gm in secret.

Rosario of Flambeau: well done dusan.

GM: What's your Strength?

Dušan of Criamon: 0

cibvebuebtly

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: assuming we are going ahead with the dispel plan

GM: Okay now I have to figure out what Simon's soak is

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and that its resolved before i get back

GM: he's a magus so he logically has Stamina +3

Dušan of Criamon: I mean he should survive getting tackled

GM: Oh you're tackling him? Ok

That will make you both prone

Dušan of Criamon: OK

Rosario of Flambeau: i will go along with the dispel plan.

Jabier: Oh whoops

GM:

rolling 1d10! simon

(

6

)

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: but i feel retarded because the room is filled with weapons, as described by johns.

Dušan of Criamon: "You keep it together! These are your sodales fighting here!"

Rosario of Flambeau: and theres probably a greatsword right there

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I had 32 penetration on my spell

Archibald of Guernicus: Did you not penetrate or did you

GM: oh you did?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Penetration (Animal) 1 and 3 levels of mastery

GM: ok

you still didn't penetrate

Archibald of Guernicus: I was going to just PeVi the spiders until you can hit them with your sword

oh

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: never fucking mind then

go grab a better sword, rosario

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thatll be several rounds

Archibald of Guernicus: urgh

gl with the dispel plan guli

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 35 MR

Rosario of Flambeau: ill drop my parma for the round.

GM: Ok

Question

Can you drop parma (permanently) as an instant?

I assumed the concentration to lower parma was just for tempoerary lowering, and it rises as oon as your conc starts again

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can concentrate to temporarily disable it

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah

i was going to spend the full round concentrating

GM: Ok

Make.... a.....

Giraldo of Milan: its sorcery speed actually

Rosario of Flambeau: its better than spending 2 or 3 rounds running back into the tomb room

CONCENTRATION CHECK

Rosario of Flambeau: and out

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Jesus

Rosario of Flambeau: okay.

rolling 1d10!+1

(

4

)

+1

=

5

i will conf this.

GM: EF for concenrtating while Dodging: 12

Rosario of Flambeau: rofl.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Don't forget characteristic

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: good lord

Rosario of Flambeau: uhh what characteristic.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can potentially beat their ridiculous MR still but its probably not worth it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: GM's call

GM: Stamina

Rosario of Flambeau: so that's an epic 11.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hilarious.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: RIP

GM: You are distracted by the lumbering 20' tall monster right in your face.

Rosario of Flambeau: It happens.

GM: Grogs ar eup

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to move then as well, since i think i can still move, and just go get another sword.

GM: Ok, that will get you a free attack from a spier

Rosario of Flambeau: good luck.

GM: unless you want to try disengaging

Jabier:

rolling d10!+9+12 attack

(

7

)

+9+12

=

28

GM:

rolling 1d10!+15 vs Rosario

(

3

)

+15

=

18

add 9 to your defense from SS

Giraldo of Milan: weird taht these 20 foot tall monsters take up the same space as a player character

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+13+9

(

10

+

7

)

+13+9

=

39

Jabier:

rolling 28-18+9

28-18+9

=

19

Archibald of Guernicus: nothing but 10s and 1s today

GM:

rolling 1d10!+5+6 defense vs. grogs

(

5

)

+5+6

=

16

Rosario of Flambeau: unless you're subtracting my defense since my sword has a magical effect on it

GM: Grog dam?

I'm not

Jabier: 21

Rosario of Flambeau: good thing i rolled insanely high

Giraldo of Milan: howd their defense go up

Archibald of Guernicus: i thought their defence roll was +1

GM: You dodge a slung silk web

Giraldo of Milan: what the

GM:

rolling 19+21-16

19+21-16

=

24

Giraldo of Milan: the gm is hacking

GM: or wait

get this:

They have +5 defense for "Rope"

and +1 for "Claw"

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Jabier: Oh

GM: last turn they Roped.

Giraldo of Milan: im gonna rope on your face you fucking bastard

GM: :|

Archibald of Guernicus: :pepe:

GM: thats just crude

Jabier: The weapon damage is 9

GM: I see

rolling 19+9-16-14

19+9-16-14

=

-2

You don't even scratch their gross carapaces.

Fiorella  and  Giraldo  ?

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+14

(

2

)

+14

=

16

ni

GM:

rolling 1d10!+5 dfn

(

1

)

+5

=

6

rolling 2d10 botch

(

3

+

8

)

=

11

Giraldo of Milan: oh

ah

GM: Nobotch

Dam?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cast birds on a spider in the tomb grup

Giraldo of Milan: 23 - soak

GM:

(To GM) rolling 23-14

23-14

=

9

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 66+d10!+3

66+

(

1

)

+3

=

70

GM: surely you mean, 23 - defense - soak

Giraldo of Milan: fiorella...

my advantage is 10

GM Hrmmms

Giraldo of Milan: my base damage is 13

GM: ok

thats a lot of damage

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Same result as last turn I guess, fail to pen

GM:

(To GM) rolling 16+13-6-14

16+13-6-14

=

9

Archibald of Guernicus: is it?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh wait I didn't fast cast

Archibald of Guernicus: last turn you were at -10 from yeah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 35 pen

GM: You cut one of its disgusting arms! Blood oozes forth!

Light wound!

Wait, no. Fatigue!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: whatd i miss

Giraldo of Milan: i am going to destroy you, gm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A lot of flailing

GM: 35 pen? Which target?

Archibald of Guernicus: You missed The Wall, gulielmus

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d3

(

3

)

=

3

Giraldo of Milan: now see if fiorella botches

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Right most spider in tomb gropu

GM: She rolls 0 botch dice.

Giraldo of Milan: she rolls 1

i said so

GM:

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

No botch

Your birds hit their mark!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I roll zero

GM: They peck and caw at the spider!

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

8

)

=

23

GM: I'm just humoring the troll.

rolling 1d10!+14 soak

(

5

)

+14

=

19

1 fatigue damage

Gulielmus  and  Archibald  are up

Archibald of Guernicus: I step forward and swing my longsword at the first spider

rolling 1d10!+2+4+4

(

5

)

+2+4+4

=

15

GM:

rolling 1d10!+5 dfn

(

1

)

+5

=

6

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

1

)

=

3

Rosario of Flambeau: yesss

GM: Botched

Sword damage?

Archibald of Guernicus: Base damage is uhh

8

GM:

rolling 15+8-14

15+8-14

=

9

Archibald of Guernicus: 23 before soak

GM: You inflict a Fatigue.

Archibald of Guernicus: that feel

GM: What's  Gulielmus  up to?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: are the spiders just sitting there

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They did last turn

GM: They're clacking their mandiblehands menacingly.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Who knows this time

GM: They did try throwing a rope at Rosario, twice.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll cast my blind spell on the leftmost spider, then.

Archibald of Guernicus: they tried throwing a rape. YCS.

I believe in you, Gulielmus.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+5+3+3+2+4+11+15 aura + virtue + mastery + stamina + ignem + creo + life boost

(

10

+

10

+

5

)

+5+3+3+2+4+11+15

=

68

lol

Archibald of Guernicus: ohm y fucking

I WAS RIGHT TO BELIVE

GM: Nice -- but I can't help but notice you failed to make a Concentration check before casting?

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus blows a really big b ubble

Dušan of Criamon: This is the good shit

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ok, bad news, my +15 now turns into a -2 for all remaining rounds

GM: anyway

that weas Flash of the Scarlet Flames?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: yes

GM: what's the penetration?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: 55

GM: Brilliant!

rolling 1d10!+3 stamina

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

GM:

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

Rosario of Flambeau: wtf is with the rolling

GM: The leftmost spider silently rears and flails its spidery arms.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus, now exhausted, steadies himself against the wall

be nice if i could take back my life boost after rolling huge.

GM: The three spiders inside the mound hold their guard!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: however i cannot.

i will go  AFK  again

GM: The two spiders atop the liths dismount and move towards Dusan, Simon, and Giraldo

Rosario of Flambeau: uh oh...

Dušan of Criamon: How's our young friend doing

GM:

rolling 1d10!+15 Rope attacks vs grogs

(

2

)

+15

=

17

Giraldo of Milan: the sound of a frog screaming

GM: He's been tackled to the ground by you. He looks unhoppy

Jabier:

rolling 12+9+d10!

12+9+

(

2

)

=

23

CLang

GM: The one next to Giraldo moves, provoking an AoO

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+14

(

3

)

+14

=

17

GM:

rolling 17+13-14

17+13-14

=

16

You hack a light wound into its back.

It attacks Dusan.

Dušan of Criamon: Wiz sidestep

GM: Dusan did have second sight up but he did tackle Simon

So the spider would see Simon falling and Dusan's fake image also going prone

imho that depletes you of your free no hit round

Dušan of Criamon: oh god

GM: but you are still invisible.

just gonna look something up real quick

Giraldo of Milan: nice nightcore flandre theme johns

GM: Toho ftw

i want to see what the bonus for attacking a prone person is

Jabier: DJ the S

Dušan of Criamon: Please don't kill me to the tune of toho

GM: I literally cannot find what it says the mechanical effects of being prone are

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Jabier: They designed the original combat like a final fantasy/DQ fight

GM: the closest I see is

Rosario of Flambeau: A +6 bonus is very significant, like attacking a

prone character in melee.

GM: Whew

thanks

Jabier: But couldn't stick to their guns about it and threw tactical shit in LoM

Rosario of Flambeau: lords of men p129

its gayly organized

GM:

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

(

5

)

+7+1+6-1-2

=

16

Dušan of Criamon: uh oh

GM: The inspiderwiht brings a clawed hand crashing down towards you!

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

GM: :|

Dušan of Criamon: there she goes

Rosario of Flambeau: :(

Dušan of Criamon: how many botch dice

Giraldo of Milan: dusan should have +9 defense

GM: oh yeah that's right

Giraldo of Milan: with sidestep

GM: so it's 3+9

Dušan of Criamon: oh whoops

Giraldo of Milan: also he has to roll to not botch

GM: the rules suggest extra botch for difficult terrain

Giraldo of Milan: goodl uck sudan

GM: i'll add 1

rolling 3d10 botch

(

2

+

8

+

9

)

=

19

no botch

Rosario of Flambeau: noiuce

GM: what's your soak vs Animal

Giraldo of Milan: youre going to be in difficult terrain when i come to massachusetts and suspend you over some coals

Dušan of Criamon: you mean MR?

GM: No, soak

Stamina + Animal Form Bonus

I assume you don't have armor

Dušan of Criamon: ah

2+5 according to the sheet

Archibald of Guernicus: its your animal score, divide by 5, round up

GM: Cool

Dušan of Criamon: wait hold on

the sheet is probably calculating wrong

i have measly An

GM: what's your Animal score?

total?

Archibald of Guernicus: it fucked up before and used to yeah

GM: It was fucked up by ROPE KID.

Dušan of Criamon: only 1 An

Archibald of Guernicus: 1 form bonus then

GM: You have Animal 1, and Stamina 1.

So your soak is 2.

Dušan of Criamon: yep

GM:

rolling 16-9+15-2

16-9+15-2

=

20

Rosario of Flambeau: :O

Dušan of Criamon: so it goes

GM: You take a heavy wound and just barely avoid incapacitation.

Dušan of Criamon: jesus

GM: The claw tears a nasty hole in your neck.

Dušan of Criamon: i expected instant death

Archibald of Guernicus: it almost was

a confirmed botch would have been

GM: Simon attempts to wriggle free. "You'll kill us both!"

rolling 1d10!+3 brawl vs Dusan

(

5

)

+3

=

8

roll Brawl to keep him pinned.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm not sure I'm resisting, seeing as I'm holding together my neck

GM: Ok, then he just stands up.

also I messed up, Dusan should have gone before the spider -- he was later in the turn round just cause he delayed last round, haha.

so if you want to take an action before being maimed go ahead.

bearing in mind you are on the ground.

Dušan of Criamon: ah, hm

Jabier: Getting up and reducing the attack advantage might help

Dušan of Criamon: I'd been thinking about sponting a level 10 PeIg to try and do +10 cold damage

hmm

Giraldo of Milan: they have 30 might

Archibald of Guernicus: IT has infinite MR so dont bother

Giraldo of Milan: you will not hurt them

Jabier: 35

Archibald of Guernicus: it has literally 30 might. They all do.

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario drops his incredibly valuable and expensive talisman on the ground next to Guli and runs into the tomb room.

Dušan of Criamon: OK, if the timeline is shifting, I get up, yell at the youngun to man up and reduce the advantage

if that's OK with all involved

Rosario of Flambeau: And then picks up a greatsword off the wall.

Archibald of Guernicus: i think without the uh

-6 from being prone

it missed you

Dušan of Criamon: hah

i'll want confirmation on that

Archibald of Guernicus: 15 vs 15, hm. thats a hit still actually

iirc

just a hit with advantage 0

GM: The spider rolled a 16 on attack, so without the prone bonus that's a 10

Dusan rolled a 3 on defense, +9 from sidestep, which is 12

woah!!!

GM: Uhh if we're retconning I want to do a different attack then......

Dušan of Criamon: jesus

GM cries as he is booed

GM: never mind. round is over.

Dušan of Criamon: but that is acceptable, seeing as the timeline has shifted

Archibald of Guernicus: no different attack for you. it has a claw out now and giraldo can supercrit it

Giraldo of Milan: charging a smash attack

GM: Rosario is up.

Rosario of Flambeau: The flaming sword clatters next to Guli as I do what I described.

And run inside to get a sword I can use on these things.

GM: Nice, you grab an ancient bronze sword

It shimmers with regal authority

Rosario of Flambeau: epic.

GM: Grogs?

Jabier:

rolling d10!+13+9

(

7

)

+13+9

=

29

Archibald of Guernicus: you should double move or w/e to get back here quickly. ill do what i can until then.

GM:

rolling 1d10!+5 dfn

(

2

)

+5

=

7

Jabier:

rolling 29-7-14+9

29-7-14+9

=

17

17 damage after 14 soak

GM: oh I forgot group bonus, that was +6 to defense

so 11 damage

4 light wounds

Fiorella  and  Giraldo

Archibald of Guernicus: One thing while thats done that I feel should be mentioned

Jabier: Attempting to bird the one Archibald damaged

Giraldo of Milan: alright. im going to exert on this thing

Archibald of Guernicus: these things at size 5 really should take up way more space on the battlefield. like theres 3 in the entrance but really they cant fit. i saw how big the spider was last time.

being really huge has downsides

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

6

)

+22

=

28

slamming down a conf

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 66+3+d10!-35+2+3

66+3+

(

4

)

-35+2+3

=

43

43 Pen

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus is  Back

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus is black

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: whats goin on.

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling d10!+15 left spider damage

(

8

)

+15

=

23

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1-3 dfn

(

9

)

+1-3

=

7

Giraldo of Milan: im about to unleash a charge smash attack on this thing

GM:

rolling 31+13-7-14

31+13-7-14

=

23

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling d10!+15 right spider damage spider damage

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i see we are still at one wounded and blind, one sitting there, one wounded and birded

Giraldo of Milan: 31-7 is 24

plus my damage is 37

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: or maybe multiple birded now

Giraldo of Milan: 37 - soak

Fiorella the Raven: spider damage

GM: Cool

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Ferris...

Archibald of Guernicus: Ferris would have loved this (???)

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Fiorella the Raven: Maybe The Spider is Ferris reincarnated and not DA

GM: Giraldo chops a Medium wound onto a spider thing

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: he definitely would have had some thoughts on this.

Archibald of Guernicus: then why isnt mortis dying here

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ill tell you what.

GM: Sorry, back to Fiorella

Fiorella the Raven: 23 damage roll on both

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14-1 soak vs bird

(

9

)

+14-1

=

22

rolling 1d10!+14-1 soak vs bird (right spider)

(

7

)

+14-1

=

20

minor damage on both

giraldo took a fatigue from exerting

ok.

Gulielmus  and  Archibald  are up

Archibald of Guernicus: I try and tire the spider out some more. Does it get a big defence penalty from being blind?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it should

i uhhh cannot take any actions against the spiders anymore

GM: -6 or -9 to defense i will look it up

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2+4+4

(

4

)

+2+4+4

=

14

There's my attack against it

GM: you get +9 attack vs it

rolling 14+9

14+9

=

23

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: did rosario drop his sword on the ground for me to dispel

GM:

rolling 1d10!+5-2 dfn

(

3

)

+5-2

=

6

You hti it

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: or did someone just draw a sword on the map next to me

Rosario of Flambeau: i did drop my sword on the ground.

Archibald of Guernicus: He dropped it yeah

you could dispel it for fun

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will dispel it

Archibald of Guernicus: 8 damage base so

GM:

rolling 23+8-6-14 dam

23+8-6-14

=

11

A light wound

Dusan?

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait, does it only get -2

I'm hitting the blind one

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: buddy

GM: yes I factored the blindness by adding to your attack roll

Archibald of Guernicus: oh you added 9 to my attack

sorry, missed that

Dušan of Criamon: I can't figure out the trick to winning this battle

I want to yell the correct thing at Simon

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+3+5+2+5+12-2 Unraveling the Wizard's Handiwork

(

5

)

+3+5+2+5+12-2

=

30

22 pen

GM: does that include your fatigue penalty

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: yes

GM: -3

Dušan of Criamon: delay me again

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it's -2

Archibald of Guernicus: It's to do what the ars designers desire - base your character around a single damage spell, or invest 500xp into great weaon

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i have a virtue.

GM: ok.

nice.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

nice.

i do not dispel the sword

GM: The spider throws web at Giraldo.

Rosario of Flambeau: rip

GM:

rolling 1d10!+15-7 vs giraldo

(

5

)

+15-7

=

13

Fiorella the Raven: Or take a grog with a bunch of leadership like I neglected to do

Dušan of Criamon: the dice ARE strange today

GM: Another spider charges Giraldo with claws.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

10

+

4

)

+10

=

24

defend vs web

GM:

rolling 1d10!+7+5 vs giraldo

(

1

)

+7+5

=

13

rolling 2d10

(

5

+

4

)

=

9

no botch

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

10

+

2

)

+10

=

22

GM: Epic, epic

The spider in the doorway starts weaving web across the doorway.

Giraldo of Milan: "Shove off!"

GM: The spider on the right helps him.

Archibald of Guernicus: Might want to keep that flaming sword then

GM: And then

rolling 1d10!+7+6 vs Grogs (claws)

(

9

)

+7+6

=

22

Rosario of Flambeau: Guli can pick it up if he wants, or I'll be back for it later.

Jabier:

rolling d10!+12+9

(

5

)

+12+9

=

26

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll grab it if i can

Giraldo of Milan: "I don't know what's going through your mind, kid, but you stay behind me."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Gulielmus, don't dispel the sword! We'll need it tae cut our way out when these ones are dead!"

GM: Ok

Jabier: 25 but same result

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Parbleu!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Fire doesn't burn spider silk."

"Not as effectively as you're thinking."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well it'll cut better than a normal sword will!"

GM: I am checking something with a player

Fiorella the Raven: "Right."

GM: I apologize for the delay

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+6

(

8

)

+6

=

14

GM:

rolling 1d10!+3+2+4 vs Giraldo

(

7

)

+3+2+4

=

16

oh

+6

so 22

Giraldo of Milan: hows he got 3 bonuses

stat + ability plus ??

GM: Str, Brawl, and something special

i assume you have no MR

Rosario of Flambeau: gm mood

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

9

)

+10

=

19

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: racial enemy: noobs

Giraldo of Milan: my soak is 9

Rosario of Flambeau: conf it

GM: Okay, Simon produces a weird dagger covered in runes and jams it in Giraldo's back

Giraldo of Milan: conf it

GM: he confs it.

Rosario of Flambeau: ohhh

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i think natural weapons just have bonuses

GM:

(To GM) rolling 22-19-9+5

22-19-9+5

=

-1

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: classic Simon

GM: You feel the knife blocked by your armor.

Dusan?

Giraldo of Milan: "You little fuck."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: kill him. kill him

moe: He crossed the line

GM: you're up dusan

kill him

kill Archibald's beloved apprentice

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't even see this happening since I'm all the way out here

Dušan of Criamon: I don't carry weapons, I clock him

Rosario of Flambeau: good luck, im behind 6000 lbs of spider

Fiorella the Raven: Consolata's tainted womb plagues as even after she's dead

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: dusan, brawl expert

GM: moooooeee

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+0

(

9

)

+0

=

9

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: incredible

Archibald of Guernicus: All the good redcap child apprentices (zita's kids) went to my friends, and I got this one

Dušan of Criamon: sorry, I keep checking the rules

GM:

rolling 1d10!+3+2 defense

(

9

)

+3+2

=

14

He blocks you with his dagger hand.

Rosario  and the  Grogs  are up

Giraldo of Milan: is his hand a dagger

Dušan of Criamon: impressive move

for a man stabbing another's back

Fiorella the Raven: Pillum him

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+25 spell level 15

(

2

)

+25

=

27

Rosario runs up with his new sword.

Dušan of Criamon: say, I'm still extending parma to him, I cease that aroudn now

Rosario of Flambeau: He casts  Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance  and the stone wall swings open to reveal the giant spiders.

GM: Ok.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I forgot I had this spell!!"

Tünde: Switching vanguard to Tunde since I realized Jabier's soak is irrelevant against an even # of enemies

Giraldo of Milan: do i have to declare my exertion on my turn

or can i exert defense in response

Tünde:

rolling 13+9+d10!

13+9+

(

10

+

2

)

=

34

GM: you cna exert defense I think

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's... by Mercury, that's my signature spell! Rosario, how could you?"

GM: By expending a Fatigue level you can add

a bonus equal to your Combat Ability to either

attack or defense for one round. This bonus

applies to a single attack roll, but to all defense

rolls you make before your turn comes round

again.

GM: declare it now

rolling 1d10!+1+6 dfn vs grogs

(

6

)

+1+6

=

13

14 soak, damage?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Can I not take a lesson from you?"

"It's a fine spell."

Tünde:

rolling 34-13-14+7

34-13-14+7

=

14

Archibald of Guernicus: "I meant forgetting it when it's so useful!"

GM: light wounds!

Rosario of Flambeau: "Gah!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Now come, let's hack this thing intae bits."

GM:  Fiorella  and  Giraldo  and the  Birds  are up

Giraldo of Milan: I go for Simon's arm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Does the webbing block my line of sight ot the middle one?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i would join you but the rules bar me from actually wielding this greatsword as a weapon

GM: Not yet, Shaun

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+13

(

7

)

+13

=

20

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

Birding middle

GM: Are you aiming that at a specific body part Giraldo? that does make it harder to hit

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 66+3+d10!-35+3+2

66+3+

(

9

)

-35+3+2

=

48

Giraldo of Milan: ill just hit in general

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 48 pen

Giraldo of Milan: a wound is fine

GM: Cool, and the spell penetrates

rolling 1d10!+2+3 simon defense

(

1

)

+2+3

=

6

rolling 2d10

(

6

+

1

)

=

7

botch

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 15+d10! left spider

15+

(

3

)

=

18

Giraldo of Milan: oops

GM: what's the weapon damage?

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 15+d10! middle spider

15+

(

8

)

=

23

Giraldo of Milan: archibald your apprentice is dead

GM: 13?

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 15+d10! right spider

15+

(

6

)

=

21

Giraldo of Milan: yes

GM: ok, you chop off Simon's head

Rosario of Flambeau: rofl

Archibald of Guernicus: Simon has sidestep up

Rosario of Flambeau: jesus.

Archibald of Guernicus: but

Well, uh

Giraldo of Milan: he botched

Archibald of Guernicus: You did(?) it(?)

Giraldo of Milan: so the defense doesnt matter

GM: does he? then he should have had a bonus when attacking giraldo

and he shouldn't have been tackled by dusan

Giraldo of Milan: no

GM: sheesh

Giraldo of Milan: his free sidestep bonus faded

GM: it would have been good to declare this along time ago

Giraldo of Milan: after getting tackled by dusan

gahaha

Dušan of Criamon: hmm

GM: Dusan should never have been able to tackle him

Archibald of Guernicus: I declared it before we went in, I figured Dusan was able to tackle him since they were standing next to each other

Dušan of Criamon: well in this timeline he didn't

GM: Hmm

This basically ruins everything

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

GM: If dusan didn't tackle him then Simon got away

Dušan of Criamon: hah

Giraldo of Milan: i just wanted to cut off his arm

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Giraldo of Milan: but i got his head

GM: Do you want to go with that?

Giraldo of Milan: oh well!

Dušan of Criamon: how much warping damage do we get from the shifting timelines

Archibald of Guernicus: I could check the logs to see if I explicitly gave him sidestep after sunset

while you handle the spiders

GM: There's two options here. Either Simon did not have sidestep, or he was not tackled by Dusan, and was able to move out of range while Dusan and Giraldo were fighting.

No, you did give him sidestep -- it was partially on me for forgetting it.

So, it's up to you guys to decide what happens now

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I remember sidestepping myself because Archibald was declaring it

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus: sidestep on simon, too

Yep

GM: It doesn't change too much -- Dusan would have still faceplanted, and spent a turn getting up.

And Giraldo was not hurt by the dagger.

But it means Simon got out of range of them.

Archibald of Guernicus: I guess he made it away

GM: Ok.

Dušan of Criamon: Tragic

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: as he is running away, simon's head pops off

Dušan of Criamon: OK so do i have an open neck again

GM: No, you blocked that legit

Dušan of Criamon: OK

GM: In fact you completely blocked it by spending your SS freebie

Since the spider couldn't see you tackle Simon.

It just saw you hit the ground.

Dušan of Criamon: cool

GM: Anyway.

Archibald of Guernicus: this means

GM: We're all cool with this, right?

Archibald of Guernicus: giraldo can hit a spider this turn at least

GM: Beardbeard? You too?

Archibald of Guernicus: its the correct series of events adn doesnt change anything

Rosario of Flambeau: There was, literally, nothing i could do.

Giraldo of Milan: thats fine with me. i want to maim him, not kill him

GM: Ok, cool.

Archibald of Guernicus: hes probably not my apprentice anymore after this immense betrayal, anyway.

Giraldo of Milan: hes gonna be my apprentice

GM: Simon runs to the side of the Tumulus, chanting something in an ancient dead tongue. He tears open his shirt as he does, revealing fresh scars of runes drawn all over his chest.

Giraldo of Milan: "What is this crap?"

Dušan of Criamon: He's gonna get strung up

Rosario of Flambeau: What a little psycho?

GM: so in three rounds he was able to get to the top of the tumulus

Rosario of Flambeau: i mean !

Dušan of Criamon: jesus

Giraldo of Milan: "Get down off of that you little freak!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh

Hes

he's the spider

GM: Anyway

Archibald of Guernicus: hes the physical body for the spider

GM: Fiorella roll damage for your three batches of birds

Giraldo of Milan: alright. lets go back to the timeline where i chopped his head off

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 18,23,21

Already rolled it

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14-4 soak left

(

3

)

+14-4

=

13

Archibald of Guernicus: [sweating] Actually, you know what, I think I forgot to sidestep him after all,

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14 soak middle

(

7

)

+14

=

21

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Had it on my clipboard after this was resolved

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14-2 soak (right)

(

6

)

+14-2

=

18

nice

fatigues all around

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: very cool

Giraldo of Milan: i get my attack on a spider now at least

GM:  Giraldo  and  gulielmus

Giraldo of Milan: ill kill the wounded one

rolling 1d10!+13

(

2

)

+13

=

15

maybe.

hey

give me my conf back

GM: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you sure you dont want this thing dispelled

Archibald of Guernicus: he has another greatsword

he doesnt need that dispelled anymore

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: this ones probably nicer

Archibald of Guernicus: but it might help with the webs

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Dispel the webbing from the doorway

GM: Are you confing the attack?

Giraldo of Milan: im not

i just wanted my token back

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's a magic effect

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah try setting the webbing on fire guli

Rosario of Flambeau: that one is nicer

it has +2 extra attack and defense

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats a good idea.

Rosario of Flambeau: but yeah do that

GM: +3 to defense because he has a neighboring ally

Rosario of Flambeau: instead

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1+3-7 dfn

(

7

)

+1+3-7

=

4

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will attempt to dispel the webbing

GM: heh

rolling 15+13-4-14 dam

15+13-4-14

=

10

another fatigue

Ok Gulielmus, roll it

is this a spont? you'll fatigue for it

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it is not

GM: kk

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!-2+5+3+2+12+5

(

4

)

-2+5+3+2+12+5

=

29

20 pen

but the silk itself should not have mr

GM: Your bubbles pass through the natural web meaninglesly.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

7

)

+10

=

17

Archibald of Guernicus: magical effect shouldnt have mr yeah

rip

set it on fire

GM:  Archibald  and  Dusan ?

Archibald of Guernicus: I start stabbing brutally into the spiders face in front of me. Including the +9 bonus here from it being blind.

rolling 1d10!+2+4+4+9

(

4

)

+2+4+4+9

=

23

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1-5 dfn

(

3

)

+1-5

=

-1

Archibald of Guernicus: 8 damage so

GM:

rolling 23+8+1-14 dam

23+8+1-14

=

18

Dušan of Criamon: I doubt it'll go through but I want to spont PeIg on the little shit

GM: another light

Give it a shot dusan

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling (1d10+27)/2

(

(

5

)

+27)/2

=

16

oh plus 2/1

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm, giant spider webbing is permanent

and natural

Dušan of Criamon: for the level 10 effect so pen 7?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Time to creo some silkworms

GM: hehe

Dušan of Criamon: 7+1

GM: what's the damage on the spell?

Dušan of Criamon: +10

GM: Okay, you burn Simon

Roll damage

Dušan of Criamon: freeze

GM: You freeze Simon

Roll damage

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

GM: the +10 freeze spell at voice range would be Level 20

Fiorella of Jerbiton: lol

Dušan of Criamon: ah

GM: L15 lets you do the +5 damage though

Archibald of Guernicus: +5 damage then

GM: so that's...6 damage

rolling 1d10!+3 soak

(

3

)

+3

=

6

Giraldo of Milan: i hope no one taught him aquam

GM: He soaks it

Archibald of Guernicus: roll to check for botch on the damage

Giraldo of Milan: gah

Dušan of Criamon: tragic

GM: I also forgot whatever his form bonusea are

Dušan of Criamon: I take a fatigue

Archibald of Guernicus: why would aquam give him soak???

or MR?

Giraldo of Milan: oh

ugnem

shgut up

Archibald of Guernicus: its an ignem effect

Giraldo of Milan: oh

hes been established to have good ignem. lol. bhaha

Archibald of Guernicus: in fact

Guy of Bonisagus taught him ignem

Rosario of Flambeau: huh.

maybe he's in on the spider.

Archibald of Guernicus: the question of how does he know pillum is, it turns out, because of beardbeard

so itll be really funny if he kills giraldo with a pillum

GM passes a note to a player

GM: Simon holds the dagger in front of him. He seems about to plunge it into his heart, but is resisting against himself.

Inspiderwihts attack grogs and giraldo

rolling 1d10!+15+3 rope vs giraldo

(

10

+

1

)

+15+3

=

29

rolling 1d10!+7+6-4 claw vs grogs

(

8

)

+7+6-4

=

17

Giraldo of Milan: ni

Tünde:

rolling 13+d10!+9 defense

13+

(

10

+

2

)

+9

=

34

Giraldo of Milan: hm

i could exert but thered be no real point

well

hm

itd lower the damage

ill exert on defense

Archibald of Guernicus: very appropriate battle music rn

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+20

(

6

)

+20

=

26

GM: Your shield gets covered in sticky web goo, but you block the worst of it. (Effects are determined by attack advantage, which was only 3 here)

Giraldo of Milan: my... shield?

GM: You don't have a shield? Then your off hand.

Tünde: Your parrying blade

Archibald of Guernicus: Your shield: Dusan

GM: Your fist is all gooed up.

Giraldo of Milan: both of my hands are round the hilt of my greatsword

GM: the music keeps stopping and starting for me :|

Giraldo of Milan: its been secured in my hands now

GM: okay, now they're glued around the greatsword.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: giraldo has been training his entire life for this.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Giraldo of Milan: i cant drop my sword anymore. my path is clear

Archibald of Guernicus: the current track is Nier - City of Commerce, for me. because i uploaded it and used it when i ran a session.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: same.

it says Corsica though

GM: mine was on the rance playlist

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah cause i renamed all the tracks when i gmed that i uploaded

GM: why is it all descyned? that's weird

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: sneaky

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+9+1+5+3 bronze greatsword attack

(

7

)

+9+1+5+3

=

25

Giraldo of Milan: this is avery bad piano version

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1-7 dfn

(

10

+

3

)

+1-7

=

7

Rosario of Flambeau: gah.

GM: he'll exert too!

so 12 defense total

dys: i need to brb for a few minutes

Giraldo of Milan: you have to exert before

dys: so i am now  AFK

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 25-12+9 dam

25-12+9

=

22

Giraldo of Milan: you cant roll then exert

GM: This may be the Last Round.

Rosario of Flambeau: gm superpower.

GM: Fine.

He doesn't exert, and keeps the fatigue.

Jabier: Switch vanguard back to Jabier because he does more damage

GM:

rolling 25+9-7-14 dam

25+9-7-14

=

13

then he takes a light wound.

Rosario of Flambeau: good

GM: He's at -9 total.

Giraldo of Milan: "Hey kid! Whatever that weird ghost is, fight it!"

GM: Grogs?

Giraldo of Milan: "I'll be up to kill it in a second!"

Jabier:

rolling 12+9+d10!

12+9+

(

8

)

=

29

Rosario of Flambeau: "Archibald, just head outside! We're being kept in here for a reason, don't forget the unwelcome entrance yourself."

GM: Spiders exert

rolling 1d10!+1+5-4 dfn

(

7

)

+1+5-4

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll hold them away from Guli."

Giraldo of Milan: "Archibald! A ghost's making your kid stab himself!"

"Bringt the ceiling down in there!"

Jabier:

rolling 20-9-14+9

20-9-14+9

=

6

GM: IU forgot but that last spider moved next to grialdo last round haha.

fatigue wounds on the big ground

group

Jabier:

rolling 29-9-14+9

29-9-14+9

=

15

GM:  Fiorella  and  Giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: try again to kill the injured spider

Jabier: Typed the damage wrong

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+12

(

2

)

+12

=

14

for fucks sake

GM: vs wounded?

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1-8+6 dfn

(

4

)

+1-8+6

=

3

Hit

Giraldo of Milan: 24 - soak

GM:

rolling 14+13-3-14

14+13-3-14

=

10

fatigue

Giraldo of Milan: im going to kill derfel

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Gm that was supposed to be 15 damage not 6 earlier

Ok spider bird damage

GM: ok, which target?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I mean on the grog's attack

GM: Ok.

thats wounds then. cool.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok existing spider damage

rolling 15+d10! left spider

15+

(

4

)

=

19

rolling 15+d10! middle spider

15+

(

9

)

=

24

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14-9 soak vs 19

(

6

)

+14-9

=

11

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 15+d10! right spider

15+

(

5

)

=

20

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14-1 vs 24

(

2

)

+14-1

=

15

rolling 1d10!+14-3 vs 20

(

4

)

+14-3

=

15

fatigues

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok can I see any of the spiders outside?

johns (GM): Where are you positioned?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Otherwise I uh

johns (GM): yeah I guess you can see one

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Eh I have an idea

I'll summon a flock to start tearing up the webbing

Archibald of Guernicus: back

johns (GM): sure. there's even rules for damaging the web!

Giraldo of Milan: i yelled at archibald to bring the ceiling down

if you can

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 66+3+d10! crows on webbing

66+3+

(

2

)

=

71

johns (GM): ok

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 15+d10! web damage

15+

(

3

)

=

18

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+8 soak

(

8

)

+8

=

16

You cut part of the rope

Well you cut "a" rope acording to these rules

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok have to let the cat in

johns (GM): and the spider was armed with 3 to start with

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: where is the webbing anyway. whats it doing

johns (GM): it's blocking the door

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Its blocking us from leaving

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ah

johns (GM):  Gulielmus  and  Archibald  and  Dusan, save the day

Rosario of Flambeau: archibald, i told you to just leave and let me fight the spiders, presumably you can just walk outside with AUE

Archibald of Guernicus: How much dirt was on top of the ceiling? Is it stone?

johns (GM): it's stone

Dušan of Criamon: Offhand, would I identify the character inspiring our youngun as a demon

johns (GM): let me sketch up a rough map

Giraldo of Milan: open it up and it should collapse in

from the support being taken away

johns (GM): the hallways are tall enough to accomodate these hunched 20' monsters

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will cast a spell

Archibald of Guernicus: So the ceiling is 20 feet above me right now. Hm

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: but first i will think to myself

Archibald of Guernicus: I do have something though

johns (GM): so the whole mound is about 4 meters tall, you are about a meter below surface level

Dušan of Criamon: Is the thing talking to our guy a demon

Am I assuming it is a demon

Archibald of Guernicus: I know what to do now

I have the ultimate trick here

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: actually ill just cast the spell.

Dušan of Criamon: OR

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Creeping Oil on the webbing

rolling 1d10!+5+3-2+18

(

7

)

+5+3-2+18

=

31

johns (GM): ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance on the ceiling, at voice range, aimed at the centre of the room.

Dušan of Criamon: Can I use unseen porter to take the kid's dagger

johns (GM): the center of the room is not visible to you, archibald, because you are standing in the hall.

Giraldo of Milan: yeah it is

theres a hole in the wall

johns (GM): the red lines are walls, remember?

Giraldo of Milan: and besides, its voice range

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the hole is closed

Archibald of Guernicus: The hole closed up

Giraldo of Milan: its still voice range

gahaha

johns (GM): He would have to sense the target

Archibald of Guernicus: You need to be able to see something to target it

or at least sense it

Giraldo of Milan: gah

johns (GM): He cannot currently hear, see, feel, or smell the roof of the main crypt

Archibald of Guernicus: I believe in Dusan

Rosario of Flambeau: i accidentally deleted my token sorry johns

johns (GM): lmao

Rosario of Flambeau: when removing my wall drawing.

Archibald of Guernicus: in the meantime I'll cut the spider again to make room to get out

hm

fiorella, how far can you move in a round?

could i open the ceiling ofr you to fly out?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: unseen porter is a good idea

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A lot

I have 8 quickness as good athletics in bird form

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast it on the ceiling as close to Fiorella as I can manage, then

rolling 1d10! botch check

(

10

+

1

)

=

11

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What's your plan when I get out, suppor tthe other fight?

Archibald of Guernicus: No botch

Stop the ritual, whatever it is

Giraldo of Milan: theres clearly a 1 there

johns (GM): Ok I'll mark a hole

Archibald of Guernicus: i drew the hole

it lasts only one round, fiorella

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh I gotcha, I have an idea then

Archibald of Guernicus: then i have to stop concentrating

Fiorella of Jerbiton: How's Simon's Animal MR?

Giraldo of Milan: that wont work

simon gets his turn ebfore fiorella

its up to dusan

Archibald of Guernicus: well maybe she can do something when dusan delays this

Giraldo of Milan: pick up the dagger and fly off

Dušan of Criamon: Can I take the dagger johns

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: damn i wish i could cast spontaneous magic.

Dušan of Criamon: unseen porter or arm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can cover Simon in spiderwebs if his animall MR sucks

johns (GM): Hmm

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: unseen arm explicitly cannot but i think unseen porter should

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Unseen spells can't act against active resistance

Archibald of Guernicus: that feel when you gave up sponting to save some vis in rituals

johns (GM): Unseen Arm: "it cannot oppose intentional resistance."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah Porter exerts a lot of force

Dušan of Criamon: i suppose it could be a second opposed roll?

johns (GM): Unseen Porter says "Like Unseen Arm"

Dušan of Criamon: rats

hmm

Well I could try to DEO the ghost/demon or cold attack our boy again

johns (GM): Weilding the invisible sling, which is stronger than unseen arm, likewise cannot work against an object held by another

Rosario of Flambeau: rosario has a spell that specifically targets bladed objects other people are holding and makes them fly to his feet with an opposed str roll

R: Voice, D: Mom, T: Ind Causes a single bladed object within range to fly towards Rosario; he may attempt to catch it if he wishes by succeeding on a Dexterity + Athletics roll against an Ease Factor of 9. If he chooses not to attempt to catch the item, it falls to the ground by his feet. The spell is very forceful, and has an equivalent Strength of +5; if the object is being held by someone else, then make an opposed Strength roll. If the caster rolls higher then the item is lost to its holder. Rosario usually uses this effect to disarm his opponents, or to retrieve his weapons should they not be to hand. (Base 3, +2 Voice, +2 Affects metal, +1 sudden and forceful)

rip

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: furthermore, make ten concentration rolls

Rosario of Flambeau: sadly he's inside

johns (GM): hmmm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Objects cannot have more than one animating force

I think is the thing, because you CAN teleport items held by others

johns (GM): That seems like a different guideline than Unseen Porter

Rosario of Flambeau: it is.

johns (GM): since you are making it specific to Metal

idk

what do folks think

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: metal and all lesser forms of terram.

Archibald of Guernicus: Do you have any spells that can target him that can do anything at all, Dusan? What sort of spells do you have at your disposal here

johns (GM): yeah im thinking cumthinker, Rosario made a stronger spell, Unseen Porter is general weak Telekinesis which is weak in part because it's o broad

Dušan of Criamon: Only DEO or sponting cold again

Archibald of Guernicus: what sort of arts do you have

for sponting

Dušan of Criamon: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1323mdBj0fzinKshBeyRVfhoWd8wh1PWDbpg1IK5XYoA/edit#gid=485896723

hmm PeTe

Archibald of Guernicus: i was thinking that but

johns (GM): oh

also you're in melee with a spider

Archibald of Guernicus: its base 3, +1 stone, +2 voice, +1 part

johns (GM): so you have to make.....

Archibald of Guernicus: hmm. thats actually level 15

johns (GM): no j/k

Archibald of Guernicus: +22 perdo terram

shout and scream my man

its a +5 aura

you cant fail if you conf

Dušan of Criamon: I'm hollerin', trying to down the guy

Archibald of Guernicus: actually you cant fail even without the conf

but yeah

roll to spont PeTe and you can pit him

johns (GM): base 3, +2 metal, +2 voice range is L15 yheah

Archibald of Guernicus: The Sons of Malach...!

Giraldo of Milan: all you need to do is make him trip. that much is good enough

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling (1d10!+25+2+5)/2

(

(

5

)

+25+2+5)/2

=

18.5

Giraldo of Milan: if you make a hole ven better

Archibald of Guernicus: oh... destroying the dagger also works lol

Giraldo of Milan: its a magic item

he wont be able to

Rosario of Flambeau: epic

johns (GM): are you putting him in a pit or destroying his dagger

Dušan of Criamon: pit

johns (GM): ok

Rosario of Flambeau: the soul of malach...

johns (GM): that's Base 3 +2 voice +1 part

so you pit him

Rosario of Flambeau: Archibald of Guernicus: The Sons of Malach...!

Dušan of Criamon: oh minus 1 fatigue

but otherwise the math is good i think

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It still goes off

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: cant you just destroy a magic item

Dušan of Criamon: OK

Archibald of Guernicus: A new polish pit wizard was born today

Giraldo of Milan: the stench of brimstone fills the air as an ugly, scarred polish man smiles up from hell

johns (GM): okay

Simon falls into the tumulus

out of your sight.

Giraldo of Milan: oof

johns (GM): inspiderwihts are up

Archibald of Guernicus: Falling 20 feet

Dušan of Criamon: how is his accomplice, Satan, doing

Archibald of Guernicus: "What was that noise?"

johns (GM): 20 feet is +!0 dam

Giraldo of Milan: resuming patrol

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+10 dam

(

2

)

+10

=

12

rolling 1d10!+3 soak

(

4

)

+3

=

7

owch!

they exert attack giraldo

rolling 1d10!+15+6+7

(

7

)

+15+6+7

=

35

and exert attack the grogs

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7+5+6-7 vs grogs

(

6

)

+7+5+6-7

=

17

Rosario of Flambeau: good lord

johns (GM): and attack Archibald

rolling 1d10!+7-9-9 vs archibald

(

9

)

+7-9-9

=

-2

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+1+4+1+9

(

4

)

+1+4+1+9

=

19

oh, -9

johns (GM): You block, amazingly

Jabier:

rolling d10!+11+9 defense

(

3

)

+11+9

=

23

johns (GM): the spider who was guarding the door crawls up the tumulus to block the hole you made

or to guard it

just waiting on giraldo's defense

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!+8

(

9

)

+8

=

17

uhhh

i shouldve exterted that. hm.

johns (GM): Okay, giraldo is thoroughly webbed

Giraldo of Milan: conf

oh

is it just the rope

johns (GM): yes

they have +15 on rope attack and +7 on claws fwiw

Giraldo of Milan: if i conf will i be less roped

i feel like im going to die now

Archibald of Guernicus: Why would they ever use the claws then

johns (GM): No.

Giraldo of Milan: i will not conf

johns (GM): they have limited supply of rope.

and the rope does not do damage.

Archibald of Guernicus: """Limited"""" supply

Giraldo of Milan: how webbed am i

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+2 something

(

3

)

+2

=

5

Jabier: All out of cum

johns (GM): Your arms are pinned to your side and a web is constricting your throat.

Ok, the real last round, for real

Rosario and Grogs

Jabier:

rolling 12+9+d10! attack

12+9+

(

5

)

=

26

Giraldo of Milan: i guess i cant attack. or move. or anything

Rosario of Flambeau: i will exert attack the spider and not open the wall to get simon

Giraldo of Milan: uhhh

good luck gang

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+1-7 defense

(

9

)

+1-7

=

3

Archibald of Guernicus: Fiorella is our best shot to reach him now

gl bird

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+9+1+9+5+3-1

(

10

+

4

)

+9+1+9+5+3-1

=

40

Jabier: Can I fly through the legs of this thing?

johns (GM): You can try

It will get an attack but you get a big dodge bonus for being small

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 40+9-3 minus soak damage.

40+9-3

=

46

Archibald of Guernicus: fiorella has sidestep up too iirc

Jabier:

rolling 26-3+9-14 grog damage

26-3+9-14

=

18

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+1-9 dfn

(

5

)

+1-9

=

-3

rolling 46+3-14

46+3-14

=

35

You cleave the disgusting thing's head open, and it slumps to the ground without a sound.

Rosario of Flambeau: "That's two now."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Is simon inside the tomb?

johns (GM): You have no idea

you can't see either room fro your position

Archibald of Guernicus: "The inner chamber, Rosario! Something happened in it!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Uhhh

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i can just walk around the corner. no big deal

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Archibald is expecting me to do something Simon related

johns (GM): also a giant spider went woodling by you

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, does anyone else have any ideas how I can figure out hwere to go?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the webbing at the door is soaked in oil if anyone wants to burn that

Giraldo of Milan: if you fly up the hole youll see another hole going to the inner chamber

then you can go in and take away the dagger

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: theres a big spider on top of the hole

Archibald of Guernicus: the other hole is blocked by a spider right now

Giraldo of Milan: i know

dodge well

Archibald of Guernicus: but fiorella can fly over the spider in front of her

and reach the inner chamber

johns (GM): can she?

it's a 20' tall spider

you were the one who reminded me earlier to account for how giant these guys are

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. Well, dodge it and go under with the free sidestep dodge

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok I'll eat the AoO from the one guarding the hole

johns (GM): :)

Fiorella the Raven: I do haev a chance of making the dodge roll

johns (GM): Okay, you fly past a swatting mandible. You see there's a round hole in the middle of the tumulus now.

You're sidestepped

Archibald of Guernicus: Their tokens are 10ft x 10ft so theyre still incredibly tall but spacially constrained spiders

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 3+1+8+d10! dodge

3+1+8+

(

10

+

5

)

=

27

I might keep my sidestep

johns (GM): that works for me too

Fiorella the Raven: Oh yeah here's my bird damage

rolling 3d10

(

6

+

6

+

8

)

=

20

21 21 23 left right middle

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+14-1 middle

(

3

)

+14-1

=

16

rolling 1d10!+14-4 right (now bottom)

(

9

)

+14-4

=

19

fatigue, light wound

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 15+d10! door webbing damage

15+

(

10

+

5

)

=

30

johns (GM): the "left" one is already slain

rolling 1d10!+8 web soak

(

9

)

+8

=

17

Fiorella the Raven: Oh right

johns (GM): the rope is cut

the door is open!

giraldo  and  gulielmus

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will walk around the corner

Giraldo of Milan: i am webbed.

good luck gang

Archibald of Guernicus: What does Fiorella see with her bird eyes

Fiorella the Raven: The one guarding the hole didn't make an attack

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what do i see with my human eyes

johns (GM): Ok, you see Simon about to stab himself in the heart.

Giraldo of Milan: you were sidestepped

it missed

grab his dagger. derail the plot

Fiorella the Raven: I have a chance of keeping my sidestep

Giraldo of Milan: the first attack is just an automiss dude

thats how it works

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if i attempt to grab the dagger johns will force me to make a brawl roll requiring +9 combat advantage

Fiorella the Raven: Why?

Giraldo of Milan: you still get the +9 bonus afterwards

johns (GM): you cannot make a brawl this round, as you have already taken a move action

Fiorella the Raven: The bonus keeps goign down

Giraldo of Milan: isnt it +9. i dont know. lets kill boy reporter

Fiorella the Raven: I have XP invested in dodging

Archibald of Guernicus: the idea behind the automiss is that you get it because they didnt know you had sidestep. so effectively youre invisible, but they didnt know it.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will look up the fast casting rules

johns (GM): I bet they never miss, huh.

Rosario of Flambeau: :|

johns (GM): page 83

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: since i think thats the only way i can cast after walking 3 tiles

johns (GM): what's Archibald gonna do

Archibald of Guernicus: youll have to spont then

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i have a mastered spell

Fiorella the Raven: What if the image itself dodged?

Giraldo of Milan: is the mastered spell a combat spell, gulielmus

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: yes

Giraldo of Milan: are you going to blow healing bubbles at him gulielmus

Archibald of Guernicus: I touch the wall here and cast Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance to see whats going on. FFM to sun duration.

Giraldo of Milan: are you gonna quick brew him some tea gulielmus

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10! botch check

(

6

)

=

6

no botch

johns (GM): ok. you see Simon about to stab himself and Gulielmus casting a spell on him

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: do we have any fast cast house rules

johns (GM): afiak no

Archibald of Guernicus: "Simon? Simon, no!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!-12+5+3+3+4+11+5 Flash of the Scarlet Flames (fast, boosted)

(

1

)

-12+5+3+3+4+11+5

=

20

Archibald of Guernicus: spont anything at all that delays him even one round

johns (GM): the logical conclusion is: Gulielmus is killing your apprentice with powerful ReMe magic

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gahaha.

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

Rosario of Flambeau: noooooo

johns (GM): nice, +2 botch die from fast casting

rolling 3d10

(

1

+

6

+

3

)

=

10

you botch

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: but -2 from mastery

Archibald of Guernicus: oh m ygod

johns (GM): Okay, well the first die botched anyway

You blind yourself

and take a warping point

Fiorella the Raven: "Once the image has been hit." seems to imply there's a chance to miss the image

Archibald of Guernicus: a 1 in 100 chance

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: well, ok

johns (GM): are you upset

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: only moderately

johns (GM): sorry

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i also take a fatigue

johns (GM): let's abandon this mess and play dota 2

Rosario of Flambeau: i have a funny idea if i can see simon

Archibald of Guernicus: that feel when you dont have a familiar for the cord bonus

Giraldo of Milan: gulielmus of pure season

johns (GM): what's dusan up to

Rosario of Flambeau: i will shoot a dagger at him to prevent him from stabbing himself with a magic dagger

heh.....

Dušan of Criamon: He can't see the guy anymore and he can't fightthe spiders

I mean I don't want the grogs to get hurt but I can't fight either

I keep a respectful distance and if someone is downed I'll see further

johns (GM): does Gulielmus have the luck virtue

Dušan of Criamon: I don't quite want to run away

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: he doesnt

johns (GM):

rolling 1d2 1 = archibald 2 = gulielmus

(

2

)

=

2

Rosario of Flambeau: nooo

johns (GM): You are attacked by a giant spider.

Archibald of Guernicus: my friend gulielmus will avoid it with his sidestep. its fine.

johns (GM): now's a good time to check if you declared a sidestep previously

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i did not, as i was going in doubly invisible

johns (GM): oh

you're invisible

duh

then it attacks archibald

rolling 1d10!+7-6 vs archibald

(

10

+

8

)

+7-6

=

19

Rosario of Flambeau: O_O

Archibald of Guernicus: Wowsers

Fiorella the Raven: Luck should cause a spider to trip on a bird and die, not affect choice in PC screwed

But invisibilty is fair to work that way

why is this roll taking so long to appear

help

rolling 1d10!+15

(

6

)

+15

=

21

johns (GM): Ok, cool

Archibald of Guernicus: There it is

Fiorella the Raven: lol

johns (GM): Wow!

Rosario of Flambeau: whew

johns (GM): Anyway

Simon jams the dagger into his chest.

Swirling moonbeams rain from the sky into the open tumulus.

Rosario of Flambeau: sweet

johns (GM): You hear a cry like several voices shouting at once. Light and shadow flicking all about the ancient chamber.

You next see Simon holding his heart in his hand, crystallized.

Rosario of Flambeau: seath...

johns (GM): Okay! Next round! The  real  final round!

No init matters!

Giraldo of Milan: nice. we all die

johns (GM): Archibald, Rosario, and Fiorella are the only ones whose actions matter!

Giraldo of Milan: good SaGa everyone

johns (GM): im glad you liked it

Giraldo of Milan: what about gulielmus

johns (GM): He's blind

Fiorella the Raven: Any ideas Archibald?

Giraldo of Milan: perhaps it is the blind that truly see

Archibald of Guernicus: I... It's too late to just knock him out, something is happening

The Spider is about to be revived

Fiorella the Raven: I was gonna cover him in webs

Should i still try it?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not sure. It could help

Fiorella the Raven: I could try sealing the sarcophagus

Rosario of Flambeau: I will cast Rosario's Invisible Archer and cross my fingers.

johns (GM): Collapse this burial mound, with no survivors

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+26+5+2 aura shouting and flailing

(

5

)

+26+5+2

=

38

johns (GM): What does the spell do, Rosario?

Giraldo of Milan: we REALLY should have stuck with the timeline where i chopped his head off

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 38-15+3 pen

38-15+3

=

26

johns (GM): haha. lol. haha.

Rosario of Flambeau: 26 pen, a dagger shoots out of my belt and into the crystal heart.

johns (GM): Ok. you knock the heart out of his hand.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sick.

johns (GM): It shatters into smaller crystals.

Simon smirks.

Archibald?

Rosario of Flambeau: Great.

Giraldo of Milan: did you roll second sigh for archibald

already

Archibald of Guernicus: I was going to go for the heart too.

Oh

Fiorella the Raven: Okay

Dušan of Criamon: go for the neck

Fiorella the Raven: I can try to web Simon

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+2+2

(

5

)

+3+2+2

=

12

second sight

johns (GM): You see nothing unusual aside from the magical lightshow and the screams of the damned

(the figure beardbeard was asking about is no longer there or no longer visible)

Giraldo of Milan: gah

Archibald of Guernicus: Can I... attempt a magic lore roll for a hint at what might work?

Dušan of Criamon: he got in

Fiorella the Raven: "Is Simon under his own control, Archibald?"

johns (GM): idk.

Fiorella the Raven: I can cast Mind of the Beast on him

johns (GM): It's an ancient pictish ritual unknown to anyone in the order of hermes.

even the surviving members of his lineage in house ex misc.

Rosario of Flambeau: damn

Gulielmus of Pure Reason performs the diedne handshake

Fiorella the Raven: That roll is good enough to see a ghost

SS I mean

johns (GM): right

well depends on the ghost's might

Fiorella the Raven: I'm choosing between Mind of the Beast (Chicken) and Weaver's Trap of Webs

Archibald of Guernicus: Well magic does work on enough of a grounding principle that Bonisagus made his theory, I wouldn't understand the ritual but it might be enough to get some insight into what might work here to stop it

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: second sight ignores magic resist

johns (GM): Alright, roll for it

Fiorella the Raven: The former cares if he's possessed and the latter does not

So please answer me

johns (GM): the difficulty for spotting a ghost goes up by the magnitude of the ghost's might iirc

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+2

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

magic lore lets me down, rip

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh, yeah

Giraldo of Milan: a more powerful ghost should, reasonably, be easier to see

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh

johns (GM): you'd think but

Archibald of Guernicus: "I don't know!"

I don't see a ghos

ghost

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: or no

Giraldo of Milan: web his ass

Fiorella the Raven: The Ease Factor to see a natural-

ly invisible thing is normally 9, and the Ease

Factor for seeing regio levels is specified on

page 189. A

Archibald of Guernicus: I think he's not acting under his own volition right now

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if you're looking at something that's naturally invisible you can just see it.

Fiorella the Raven: Might kicks in if it's an invisibilty power

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns said there was something that is no longer here, though

so SS didnt fail, as it were

johns (GM): hey that's ooc knowledge

Archibald of Guernicus: there was just nothing to see

Fiorella the Raven: Fine

Archibald of Guernicus: im just explaining to shaun why SS failed

Fiorella the Raven: I cast Mind of the Chicken on Simon

johns (GM): The Ease Factor to see through

illusionary concealment is normally equal to 6 + the magnitude of the might of the creature responsible for the effect, or 6 + the magnitude of a Hermetic spell.

ok roll it

Fiorella the Raven: Illusionary concealment is different from not having a body

Anyway rolling that spell

rolling 44+d10!+11

44+

(

6

)

+11

=

61

johns (GM): you're adding your major focus?

Fiorella the Raven: That's the 11

johns (GM): ok

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 61+2-30

61+2-30

=

33

33 pen

johns (GM): it'd be L45 without the focus so I think that lands anyway

you used your focus in the lab routine?

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah, it can only ever use bird transformations

johns (GM): enhh

was this based on the existing L40 spell or did you make it into a voice version

Fiorella the Raven: It's level 30

https://puu.sh/CfdTR/12b844d914.png

johns (GM): oh I was confusing it with inmost companion

alright

that one is Eye range though

are you casting this at voice?

Fiorella the Raven: Are simon's eyes not visible from here?

johns (GM): it's an eye range spell?

Giraldo of Milan: did you account for the +5 aura

johns (GM): those don't work in combat

Fiorella the Raven: I didn't know that

johns (GM): It

is impossible to make eye contact with an

unwilling human without getting at least two

people to hold the victim down. It is effectively

impossible to make eye contact with an

enemy in combat; they aren’t looking at your

johns (GM): eyes

Fiorella the Raven: Alright can I cast webs instead?

johns (GM): lol

ok

Fiorella the Raven: I have to possibly reassign the season, I don't know why they wrote a spell for CCing stuff that doesn'tw ork in combat

rolling d10!+39

(

6

)

+39

=

45

moe: alright, I'm having trouble staying up

I'll read the conclusion tomorrow

johns (GM): okay

Fiorella the Raven: 12 pen

johns (GM): well the conclusion is everyone is about to hate me

moe: if anyone gets hurt, Dusan will try to help extract

hah

johns (GM): here's simon's final action

moe: oh johns

johns (GM): he turns into a swarm of spiders and spreads out in every direction

moe: heavy is the head

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

johns (GM): typical escape scenario

has him grant himself the shape

of a swarm of spiders and scatter in all

directions; he might first curse his opponents

with druidic magic, enhance his

speed of movement with rune spells, or

johns (GM): create an earthquake with elementalism

Ok, who's ready to quit forever

Archibald of Guernicus: I never had my turn

moe: Badgame Suicide Pact (Winter 2018)

johns (GM): you spent it mulling magic lore

Archibald of Guernicus: I figured out my action, I was waiting on Fiorella to

what???

johns (GM): sheesh

fine

take an action

moe: I'm out, see y'all tomorrow

Archibald of Guernicus: i was rolling that to see if i could figure out what might work!

johns (GM): you used second sight, magic lore, and called out to others

but fine go ahead

Archibald of Guernicus: i cast Seal The Earth and cover him in 6 by 6 by 3 paces of dirt

johns (GM): ok

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Fiorella the Raven: Splitting into spiders still works

johns (GM): then he turns himself into mice and burrows in every direction I guess

his rune for this covers all vermin

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Fiorella the Raven: Or mice

johns (GM): Rats, technically

Fiorella the Raven: Half mice half spiders

johns (GM): and this way you can't even see him escape

Fiorella the Raven: The spiders go thorugh the webs

Rosario of Flambeau: this guy is so badass.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: wheres the druid curses

lay it on me

Rosario of Flambeau: the designers must love him.

johns (GM): im sorry

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hes the damn spider

johns (GM): i might as well post the whole book now that we're done with it

Archibald of Guernicus: ... done?

Rosario of Flambeau: oh is that the end lmfao

johns (GM): yes

Archibald of Guernicus: what the fuck

Rosario of Flambeau: ahahahahhahahaha

what???

Archibald of Guernicus: this

johns (GM): i mean he could come back

but that's not written up

Rosario of Flambeau: loool

Giraldo of Milan: ???

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: As our greatest ally, in these times of trouble

johns (GM): he achieved what he set out to do

he was reincarnated inside the body of a hermetic wizard

Giraldo of Milan: an adventure path where the end is... the villain finishes his plan and nothing happens??

Rosario of Flambeau: well done

Fiorella the Raven: He could have gotten Archibald to teach him Parma first

johns (GM): I mean I can keep running this

and he can appear later

Archibald of Guernicus: this wasnt set up as basically impossible because they wanted to force this outcome for a big finale. this was just a giant fuck you, he wins, go home.

johns (GM): If I show you his book that will reveal all his powers

Giraldo of Milan: i fucking hate you, rope kid

Rosario of Flambeau: he should steal prudenzio imo

johns (GM): no you could win

Giraldo of Milan: i am going to kill rope kid

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: well

johns (GM): alright here's the Deal

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you shouldnt reveal his powers

johns (GM): I'll reveal what you can logically piece together over time I guess

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: since hes going to continue existing and being the spider

Giraldo of Milan: we had won the adventure but i was convinced to do a big retcon

johns (GM): He was possessed by the spider

You can only see the spider's ghost while the possession is "Active," otherwise he was invisible

as a might 40 magical ghost, the spider was able to penetrate your Aegis, but did so sparingly since you might spot him with SS

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh lets smash faustus open for his vis

when we get home

Fiorella the Raven: I'll just keep Mind of the Beast and use it to invent a voice version with similar spell

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: fucker skull

Giraldo of Milan: i should have fought to keep us in the timeline where i won

johns (GM): at the end of this adventure (As written), when Simon is resiting the spider's control for 1-2 round, he both shouts "stab me in the heart" and "Cut off my head"

and the players are supposed to make a split decision

Fiorella the Raven: I have a feeling like the guy who wrote the spell didn't know Eye doesn't work in combat though

johns (GM): however. because Archibald was a bad teacher and you were all kinda jerks to him, he did not have any muster to try and sacrifice himself in this timeline.

Rosario of Flambeau: rpofl

johns (GM): The "good" ending is

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: fair

Giraldo of Milan: he acted like a shit. he deserved it

johns (GM): You injure his heart without killing him

Rosario of Flambeau: i have never interacted with Simon before this adventure iirc.

johns (GM): That would instantly kill the spider, because Simon's heart was his external soul

thats why I brought in the scenes asking about his mother

and also why I pointed out to dys that he neglected simon's training for many years

Rosario of Flambeau: Thankfully, I blew up his heart, winning the adventure.

johns (GM): oh the heart is vis, you keep that

you also get animal vis from the spiders

Archibald of Guernicus: I spent the entire session giving him advice and trying to help him out.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: SIMON: Please, I do not remember my mother... Tell me what you know of her

VARDIAN'S TOMB: Fuck off kid.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): well I guess it wouldn't have made a difference since you launched him in a pit anyway

Giraldo of Milan: lmfao. the second greatest enemy to the order of hermes is brought back because archibald was a Bad Dad

Fiorella the Raven: I resisted ragging on his mom

johns (GM): you did not lol

anyway. if the players cut off the head (as damhan duidas tries to force simon to say), the spiders try to recover his body and he goes into hiding for another century before trying again

Giraldo of Milan: archibald opened his arts and then forgot about him for about 15 years. at least uncle guy taught the boy the pilum

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i have a question.

johns (GM): if you just stab him in the heart outright without trying to mitigate the wound you'd kill simon and the spider at once

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: how does the kids heart being the phylactery of a guy who died like 800 years ago make any damn sense

Fiorella the Raven: Alright let's get Archibald a new apprentice

johns (GM): the question is why you let johns be gm, and the answer is, idk

Giraldo of Milan: we shouldve had guy here to give him words of encouragement

johns (GM): Good question Gulielmus. Allow me to expalin

Giraldo of Milan: like "dont use a dagger you fool the pilum is better"

johns (GM): The Spider has died and been reborn many times. Each time he "dies" he needs to go through a specific ritual

At the end of the Spider War, he allowed himself to be killed, figuring it was time for a new form

However his ritual failed because his body was not fully destroyed.

A single piece was taken from the battlefield by a redcap who later passed it down in his family.

When Faustus destroyed the claw, the ritual was finally complete, and the Spider was able to begin his second ritual to take over a new host.

Oh yeah the dagger got left behind

johns (GM): it's got runes on it and magic

Giraldo of Milan: score.

nice work vardians tomb

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ftw.

Giraldo of Milan: lets go home and celebrate

Rosario of Flambeau: oh sick.

nice look.

loot.

Well done folks.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets celebrate by killing cola di rienzi

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's kill the spider after we save all of magic.

johns (GM): ancient loot from the crypt (which is just a random dead king's tomb), the vis from spiders, the  Corpus  vis from simon's heart, and the runic dagger

gg

8 adventure xp

Fiorella the Raven: Belzer might be interested in helping the Sapienza heretics

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and, of course: let's celebrate by killing Johns.

johns (GM): im so sorry guys

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: do my eyes start working again

Rosario of Flambeau: oh belzer has info on the flagellants, we can do that next week

johns (GM): ok dys already stormed off

Rosario of Flambeau: if you want

johns (GM): yes cthinker

Rosario of Flambeau: rofl. rip.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ftw

Giraldo of Milan: yeah hes not happy

johns (GM): :|

are you guys in voice chat

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

johns (GM): nice, invite me

Rosario of Flambeau: amazing.

Fiorella the Raven: Son of a drink!

Rosario of Flambeau: can you just invite me to whatever secret discord this is or will i and you get instantly banned.

Giraldo of Milan: i dont care as much but i dont have as much investment into simon so maybe thats why

its just a mumble serrver

johns (GM): this is why I delayed it towards the end of his apprenticeship

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: maybe he shouldnt of been a bad dad

Rosario of Flambeau: rofl.

Giraldo of Milan: lol

johns (GM): and hell I gave you all a warning that simon was being targeted by the spider 5 years ago!

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah I'm annoyed but I'm used to ars adventures being annoying

Rosario of Flambeau: You did.

Giraldo of Milan: hm. guess its time for a new SaGa

johns (GM): Ok.

Giraldo of Milan: see you all in... transylvania!?

Fiorella the Raven: Heck the faerie lich adventure feels dickish and it wasn't even a bpulished adventure, just a pastiche of ideas from published material

Rosario of Flambeau: i dont know

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i dont really mind having an adventure that ends poorly, but ars badgame has been 99% of my ttrpg experience so maybe my expectations are warped

Fiorella the Raven: I could have had him just use his castle to resurrect himself if I said SS didn't work

Rosario of Flambeau: i think its fine that we dont win and get huge amounts of loot every time

johns (GM): Rmember when you blew up the colossus.

Rosario of Flambeau: it was epic.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: twas

Giraldo of Milan: that was cool

Rosario of Flambeau: actually it would be cool if we were soon forced to ally with simon as the spider, as he would also be concerned about all of magic dying.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: that would be cool.

Giraldo of Milan: im sure the spiders not even that bad of a guy once you get to know him

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: or he could just menace the order of hermes, either way

Giraldo of Milan: and yeah, dfd has a point. he could help with the great blight: house tremere

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: would simon have tried to cover his eyes and dropped the knife if i had not gotten the 1/100 botch

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah if the OoH banded together with The Spider and the Order of Solomon to deal with the blight that'd be the best way to salvage this

johns (GM): he would have been blinded and unable to cut out his heart accurately and would have risked hurting his soul so he'd call off the ritual

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ftw.

RENARD: Gulielmus the peace talks are underway. Help me perform this ritual to kill everyone in the building

Fiorella the Raven: I could have also webbed him earlier

If I hadn't gone in the tomb

Giraldo of Milan: vardians tomb

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: vardians womb

Fiorella the Raven: I tried

Giraldo of Milan: ohh

Fiorella the Raven: Okay goodnight

Rosario of Flambeau: i think if rosario hadnt been engaged in being a retard

running back and forth to get a functional weapon

maybe we could have gotten out earlier

c'est la vie