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Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

devil's fav demon (GM): Same to you.

Endrite (GM): Could you leave for a minute, I have to re-enable a script.

devil's fav demon (GM): Sorry I couldn't leave when you asked, I was gone for a minute.

Endrite (GM): Is everyone here?

dys: i am

Shauncat (GM): Yeah

Endrite (GM): Could you both leave and come back in a minute.

dys: sure

Endrite (GM): I need to re-enable a script.

Shauncat (GM): Ok

Endrite (GM): Ok, done.

I'm going to go make a sandwich.

dys: What season is today's adventure?

johns (GM): time stamp fall 1336

you can toggle scripts while people are still in game

Endrite (GM): Oh.

Well then.

Wow, the gang's all here.

devil's fav demon (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Shauncat: I'll have Hypatia do a season of work during the Spring adventure and read the Blessing summae in Summer

Bolad: Greetings

still finalizing my sheet and token

c'thinker (GM): salvete

Białas of Bjornaer: Bolad, Schmolad

Endrite (GM): Oh, one thing I think I should mention: the vicars of Forli and Rimini are both old men, so you should cash in those favors sooner rather than later.

Shauncat: Heil og sael

johns: Old men, running the world

Shauncat: ruining

Hafl T.: get them a longevitiy ritual for a second favor

Shauncat: Wish for infinite favors

johns: legally could the covenant wish for a piece of land to provide income

Endrite (GM): It would be difficult, since they merely administrate the land for their bishop.

You could definitely ask for industries they own, of course.

Like you couldn't ask for land but you could ask for a mill.

Białas of Bjornaer: cool.

johns: mill.

Endrite (GM): Or other rights.

johns: let's survey their land for vis sources and ask the rights to those in perpetuity

c'thinker: boyar malatesta

Endrite (GM): Sure.

c'thinker: let's harvest the magic spirits that dwell inside the trees, rocks, etc on their land

Endrite (GM): Of course, they have no idea what vis is or looks like.

Shauncat: Hypatia has 6 Blessing now, one more season to max out the summae

Endrite (GM): Also most vis is junk that they wouldn't even care about in the first place.

c'thinker: well we wouldn't say "give us your vis."

Archibald of Guernicus: Sounds like we can get rights to all their vis easily then.

c'thinker: we just have to ask for all their weird beetles

Endrite (GM): Do mundane lords even have the right to vis in the Hermetic conception of property?

johns: they'd presume it's some symbolic rent

Beatrice Orsini : get me creo vis to fuel my creo addiction

johns: one of the chapters in the book Antagonists goes into this Endrite

Archibald of Guernicus: No, I think, but it's rude to constantly wander onto someones land to collect beetles and fairy dust

johns: basically: if a lord catches you guys trespassing on his land and stealing pinecones, that's a minor crime

Shauncat: There are Redcap unofficial bankers they could conspire with

johns: if he can prove in court that the pinecones have some sort of "value", then that's burglary, which is very serious

Endrite (GM): Hmm.

Interesting.

c'thinker: well you can always transfer the vis from the pinecones to an empty pawn

johns: and then suddenly the order of hermes will be ticked off that mundane courts are weighing in the value of their magical stuff

c'thinker: and leave the pinecones behind

Archibald of Guernicus: Right, so we arrange things such that our reward is surveying for vis sites and collecting vis

So everything is legal and fine

and we get vis without hassle

Endrite (GM): That's one way to do it.

The pussy way.

Shauncat: Jorn sometimes sends pawn-ready coins to Harco as a gift

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean, if we found vis in the mill we could double down

Shauncat: Well-suited to Terram

johns: the whole story hook in that chapter is all about how you deal with a "real world" nobleman who rightly mistrusts you all

c'thinker: the mill is full of perdo vis, as wealth is destructive to the spirit of man

johns: but i didn't think it worth trying to run since everyone would quickly get so powerful that a mundane opponent is a joke

Shauncat: Are there any combat tutors who could show Hypatia how to handle a dirk?

c'thinker: mmm haha

Shauncat: Or whatever lady knife is the fasion

johns: proclus has good rites for finding vis? and lavinia has her divining so together how long would it take them to find some sources?

Endrite (GM): Everyone has a dagger.

Proclus has no rituals for finding vis.

c'thinker: proclus needs to fix the damn well

Endrite (GM): He has a Rote that allows him to recognize vis when he sees it.

Which might be good enough, depending on how close the Sortes gets you.

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice has 5 Brawl and can accompany Hypatia on Redcape work in Autumn if that's the adventure season

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita has teaching, that I'm slowly buying up on her, Shaun

So not right now but if youre interested later she can teach brawl pretty well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: We need an updated ck2 screenshot

this one is 20 years out of date!

Endrite (GM): Forli and Rimini are both close to Literatus, so some of the vis sources might have been claimed by them, hermetically speaking.

johns: the most recent ck2 map is full of insane garbage like a place called "mongolia" and some fantastic lands in the indus

Endrite (GM): So is this one!

johns shakes fist at johan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cranked

Jorn of Merinita: I should be easier to whisper now

Bolad: ty

Archibald of Guernicus sheds a tear at hte majestic empire of Serbia

Bolad: I work in your covenant as a guardsman/lore gatherer now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Welcome, Bolad.

Bolad: I have a horse who needs the Magic Aura to survive.

Archibald of Guernicus: I always just whisper the player name since whispering characters seems to work half the time

Bialas of Bjornaer: oh, alright, i'll do that too.

Jorn of Merinita: You can still take the horse out for 10 days every season

Bialas of Bjornaer: FINE.

Bolad: I am unaffected by the gift and a Pagan. Hello

Jorn of Merinita: Or feed him vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's kill Bolad for devaluing my major hermetic virtue.

Endrite (GM): Wow another Pagan

Jorn of Merinita: Heil Odin

Beatrice Orsini : Why feed vis to horse when wizards can snort it for xp?

Jorn of Merinita: Horse XP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make everyone roll Riding every time we travel over land

Jorn of Merinita: My horse is a boulder palanquin

Beatrice Orsini : artemisia has riding. i considered taking ability block on it, but i might want to ride a seahorse at some point

Jorn of Merinita: Hypatia has this invested in her Redcap item

"ReAn

R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Ind

Keeps an animal calm while Hypatia sits upon it.

(Base 4, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 two uses/day, +3 environmental trigger)"

Endrite (GM): Ability Block blocks entire classes of abilities.

Not just one.

Jorn of Merinita: You can choose five if you don't have a coherent theme like martial

Beatrice Orsini : i picked a bunch of abilities suggested in rop: faerie

for characters with faerie upbringing

Jorn of Merinita: Same

Bialas of Bjornaer: Jesus....

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ability block: not winning

Jorn of Merinita: Speaking of which, is Artemisia free yet?

Beatrice Orsini : she spent the entire summer lying to galafre why the marriage can't be consummated for guile xp

Endrite (GM): That'll stop the Ultimate Rapist for sure.

Archibald of Guernicus: Guile: Haven't you read the signs?

Beatrice Orsini : also, now taking applications for turning him into ultimate cuck

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's play tihs out as a disputatio over the next 6 hours

Beatrice Orsini : celeste? aristide? anyone else?

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Endrite (GM): Ok, is everyone ready for Adventure?!

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yes!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: venator...

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm ready for adventure.

Beatrice Orsini : ready

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm always ready

Jorn of Merinita: Let's find some Terram vis

Beatrice Orsini : i'll be playing grimoire the entire time, but that's very wizardly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: update the sign to say "non-pagans welcome"

Archibald of Guernicus: The sign is currently at full capacity

Endrite (GM): Please do not play Grimoire concurrently with this game.

Bolad: I now have stats for combat on Foot, On Horseback, On Horseback at Canter Speed, On Horseback at Gallop Speed

Archibald of Guernicus: The word merinita cossed out to say Jerbiton, crossed out to say merinita, is another excellent piece of Vardian's Tomb engineering.

Jorn of Merinita: Fine, I'll build my own tavern

Bolad: once ildebrando dies we should raze the tavern and build a mythic tower

Beatrice Orsini : with duergar and hookers

Jorn of Merinita: Or find a Faerie Tavern

Bolad: A gay bar.

Archibald of Guernicus: [looks around] We're already in the fairy tavern

Endrite (GM): Heh.

Bialas of Bjornaer is a bear drinking wine from a bucket

Bolad: Where can a fellow get some fermented mare's milk around here

(From Jorn of Merinita): Taken to be the messenger for the favor I must render, I will approach.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: salve

Endrite (GM): Feel free to talk amongst yourselves.

Archibald of Guernicus: I sit in my laboratory all day, which is completely sealed up, so I need a GM excuse to leave it.

Beatrice Orsini : i'm drinking with the bear, but from a goblet

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Why, with my help, that last outing was a breeze! Truly, I can say I'm proud to be with peers in this covenant."

(From Jorn of Merinita): "Salve." I will say to him, as if merely greeting a passerby on the road, and see if he gestures for me to follow or anything like that.

Bolad: I eagerly listen on tales of magical adventures and take notes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's too bad I never got to see the Hork in action."

Zita of Mercere: "Yep. Everything worked out in the end. Aha..."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Horp? Honk?"

Zita of Mercere: "Hork, I believe. Our experts in fairies were insistent on the pronounciation."

(From Jorn of Merinita): Let me see if I know Italian

Beatrice Orsini : "Hork."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It was monstrous! Larger than me, and half as charming, ha ha ha!"

Zita of Mercere: I nod "Hork."

(From Jorn of Merinita): Okay, I have it at 5, so not great, but I can pick a more appropriate greeting.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ahem, or so it was described."

Zita of Mercere: "Was it really monstrous? Only Giraldo saw it, and he seemed rather taken with it."

(From Jorn of Merinita): "My apologies. Hello to you."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ah, it's said to be quite large, in ah, an old Gothic volume, you wouldn't have heard of it,"

"Excuse me."

Bialas of Bjornaer heads outside for a moment

Beatrice Orsini : today's a good day to take a break from labwork. no adventure in sight

Zita of Mercere: I continue drinking. Does Bolad have carouse?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We used to hunt faeries... only little tiny things though."

is bolad a muslim

(From Jorn of Merinita): "Ah, nothing of note. I was just admiring your cloak and broach. Fine work. I am something of a dilettante and take an interest in silversmithing."

Beatrice Orsini : worse than that

Bolad: No

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a protestant

Bolad: I get visibly red when drinking any liquor

It's pretty embarassing

Bolad is a Tengrist shaman

Beatrice Orsini : we killed all the heresies and they're not coming back

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

Beatrice Orsini : except for greeks

Zita of Mercere: I roll carouse against the world, then

Bolad: How do we feel about dedicating part of our aura to a temple to the eternal Steppe

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+1+8+5

(

4

)

+1+8+5

=

18

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, the people who practice holy magic wouldn't mind an intrusion of the divine

Zita of Mercere: "How are you settling in, Gulielmus?"

does guli have gift stink

Beatrice Orsini : let's flatten some catacombs and turn them into steppe

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gentle gift

Zita of Mercere: nice

(From Jorn of Merinita): Does he have wares out I can take a look at?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Quite well! The tomb isn't really so bad once you get used to it."

"Not a clue where I'll be able to plant a garden, though."

Bolad: "It is not natural to live without seeing the blue sky."

Zita of Mercere: "It's comfy, so long as you aren't down here too often."

Bialas of Bjornaer wanders back in, no longer a bear, and sits with his back to Zita.

Zita of Mercere: "Must be horrible to work in a laboratory for years on end here."

Beatrice Orsini looks at Zita as if she's crazy.

(From Jorn of Merinita): "Not yet, but I have been meaning to. Is this a good time of year to do so?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's so easy to get absorbed in your work in there."

Zita of Mercere: "Er, of course, I mean that I can't possibly understand the devotion that goes into it. Yes."

Beatrice Orsini : "It's also great excuse if you're unhappily married. Or so I've heard."

Zita of Mercere: I take a long drink "Mm, possibly."

I glance at the door, still not yet thrown open by a redcap/nobleman/distressed townsfolk/fairy looking to start trouble this week.

(From Jorn of Merinita): "Ah, my duties are more... clerical in nature. I am free to travel."

Pellew the Tinker: Gimmie a minute here.

Bolad: lets make a pact to murder the next person to walk through the door and steal their vis.

Beatrice Orsini : wizardry start looking visibly uncomfortable as the social situation rolongs

Zita of Mercere: "That's one thing you have to say for here, at least. It's nice and peaceful."

Bolad: "It is crowded with the stink of many weak men and schemers."

Beatrice Orsini : "This tavern only has customers once every few months, but they always bring trouble."

(From Jorn of Merinita): "I believe not. What is it like?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you ever wonder what's down in the catacombs?"

Beatrice Orsini : why doesn't anyone go to the tavern full of wizard stink?

Máriu Puddu: I have added the new Sardinian combat grog to the list.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It sounds like nobody's ever bothered to explore them, in all this time."

Zita of Mercere: "Well that's ridiculous. There's no way it's totally unexplored, even now. Right?"

"They were probably mapped out and explored sometime before I got here."

(From Jorn of Merinita): "How terrible." I say this somewhat sincerely, as dvergar aren't friends of the aesir.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Right?"

Máriu Puddu: Sardinia gave women the right to refuse marriage and own property about a decade ago and Mariu couldn't handle it, developed a crippling fear of all women, and fled the island.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But I've been asking around, and everyone says the same thing, magus or grog."

Beatrice Orsini : "Hello, Sardinian."

Bolad: he's in the right damn place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Máriu Puddu: "Aaaugh!"

Zita of Mercere: "Of course. A collection of scholars, right over a seat of potential knowledge and magical sources, would definitely have explored it at the first possible opportunity."

Máriu Puddu flips a table over and hides behind it

Zita of Mercere: "Thus, it must be explored."

(From Jorn of Merinita): "Perhaps my work for the, er, Holy Father will take me in that direction."

Zita of Mercere: I glance over at the maniac, then go back to drinking

"Only weirdos starting trouble in here, yeah."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "So you have maps and books and records, and all that, of course?"

"If they're explored."

(From Jorn of Merinita): I'll take this to be my message, if he has nothing to add, and head to the tavern.

Zita of Mercere: "Of course. Presumably. Somewhere. Ask uh, Proclus."

(From Jorn of Merinita): "Thank you for your time, good sir."

Endrite (GM): Proclus is surveying for vis in Cesena right now.

Zita of Mercere: I know that. That's why I picked him to ask.

Jorn of Merinita: John of Cesena

Bialas of Bjornaer: Good one.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if he's keeping it a secret?"

Zita of Mercere: I start laughing really loudly

When I calm down "Oh sorry, sorry sodales it's just. Proclus, keeping a secret. Oh, you jest."

Jorn of Merinita: Alright, instead of a nobleman with a hook, I suddenly enter the tavern instead.

Endrite (GM): Gasp!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve, Jorn."

Zita of Mercere: Everyone turns to look to see the adventure begin, then makes a disappointed sigh when its Jorn instead

Endrite (GM): Jorn, you are murdered for your vis, as agreed by all magi present.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hails"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "No, no, he's in a cult, right?"

Endrite (GM): Well, except you, of course.

Jorn of Merinita: Don't hate the players, hate the game

Pepus smirks pepishly

Zita of Mercere: "They're not really much of a cult, that I know of them anyway. They hang around at tribunal handing out lab texts and asking for membership."

"They're less secretive than some of our own Houses."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: buy my math paper

Beatrice Orsini : the wizard mensa

Jorn of Merinita: Unfortunately I have 0 vis in my body, as The Gift doesn't provide any. You could have murdered my minotaur instead and gotten 2

Endrite (GM): Shucks.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Right, I think I looked at some of those lab texts... total gibberish."

Bolad: we can kill him and carve him up and sell his body parts as magical talismans

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the minotaur respawns when we kill him right

Bolad: no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

Jorn of Merinita: A different minotaur might spawn

Or might not

Bolad: only daimons respawn

Endrite (GM): The minotaur dies when you kill him.

Beatrice Orsini : we have to study it

Zita of Mercere: :weebey:

Jorn of Merinita: It takes 5 years for a magical creature to mature, generally speaking

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :tragic:

Bolad: he's been in a pit for over 1,000 years

Beatrice Orsini : 5 years you say?

legal age

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Now that I'm not murdered after all, I'll mention where I've been

I'll talk to, uh, Archibald, he seems sensible.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rome. horrifying

archibald is in his tomb

Bialas of Bjornaer: He's such a busy guy.

Bolad: archibald's tomb is going to be his grave

Beatrice Orsini : let's perdo all air in archibald's lab as a prank

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

how do you even get archibald's attention from outside

you can't knock on the door, since the door is a solid stone wall

Jorn of Merinita: I'll talk to Beatrice then since she's a fellow Merinita.

Bolad: start singing God Save the King

Jorn of Merinita: "I was speaking to a tinker regarding the village of Montorsaio in Tuscany. Apparently it was raided by vikings 100 years ago, and to this day the ghosts of the vikings still torment it."

Archibald of Guernicus laughs loudly, inaudible to all other magi

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Beatrice Orsini : "Vikings this far south?"

Bolad: "What is a viking?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Maybe a way to contact Archibald would be a good idea to install in his lab

Beatrice Orsini : "Were they Normans from Sicily?"

Endrite (GM): Tuscany doesn't exist!

Bolad: ???

Beatrice Orsini : a mage installing a way to contact them in the lab

unbelievable

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a quaesitor no less

Bolad: someone tell Matilda of Tuscany she doesn't exist and wasn't the strongest woman to oppose an Emperor, then

Beatrice Orsini : pepus has -1 size, he can be sent to archibald's lab through a dumbwaiter

Jorn of Merinita: If Tuscany doesn't exist then that statement gets auto-translated into a more appropriate description of the location

Endrite (GM): It might exist.

Who can say...

Archibald of Guernicus: I throw open the door, hitting a grog in the face, an apple in hand. "Greetings, sodales."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea opens a manila folder labeled "Arcane connections, Aac-Ard"

Beatrice Orsini : Tuscany is a fairy place.

Bolad: i say it does because dante and petrarch wrote in the tuscan vernacular

Beatrice Orsini : Yeah, but they're nerds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: tranty and petrarch

Endrite (GM): Well anyway, what do you think about these ghost vikings?

Bolad: "I still don't know what a viking is."

Jorn of Merinita: "They're shore and river raiders from up north."

Beatrice Orsini : "Why would the ghosts still haunt the village?"

Jorn of Merinita: "The ghosts could be fairies."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does anyone know what a viking is

Beatrice Orsini : "Did you tell Venator? If they're vikings, they're pagan."

Jorn of Merinita: "I have reason to believe that the tinker who told me this information was manipulated into doing so by other Merinita."

Beatrice Orsini : "Is it Galafre again?"

Endrite (GM): I put Montorsaio on the map here.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Vikings? Those pricks?"

Jorn of Merinita: "I can bring the information to Venator now, I just got back from the market."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're a few hundred years off from when they were around aren't we

Beatrice Orsini : "No, no real need."

Endrite (GM): Yeah there aren't really any vikings these days, probably.

Jorn of Merinita: "Allegedly, there was a terrible sacrifice to the VIking Pagan Gods. Or in my tongue, the Aesir."

Bolad: the viking age ended at the battle of stamford bridge

Archibald of Guernicus: Vikings have been raiding Scotland for centuries, and apparently still were at this point in time. According to a quick search, anyway.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah, look at the way the sun reflects off the giant nerd of italy

oh

Beatrice Orsini : magnificent creature

so rare to see it in the wild

Bialas of Bjornaer: "How do we know they're ghosts"

?

Jorn of Merinita: "We don't. Faeries often take the form of the ghosts of the dead."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Pity our expert on ghosts decided tae leave us when he did. Venator's not around either."

Endrite (GM): Yeah, too bad.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Are ye saying there's a site of magical import that's lain untouched for the last century, Jorn?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Vikings who died in battle proper become faerie ghosts, according to the lore.and ascend to a part of Arcadia known as Valhalla where they clash in an endless battle known as the Einherjar."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What?"

"That sounds awful."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "That sounds like complete nonsense."

Bolad: proclus is studying Original Video Animation

Beatrice Orsini : Proclud: Eggs

Jorn of Merinita: "What viking ghosts are doing among the mundane. I can surmise less. Though there are rumors that there is an order of hedge wizards among the vikings."

Endrite (GM): Yikes!

Bolad: hedge wizards in italy??? whoa

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh!"

"We should send for a Pralicean then."

Endrite (GM): A what now?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ex misc lineage that tries to study and incorporate other traditions

Archibald of Guernicus: "An order of hedge wizards, eh."

Endrite (GM): I mean, it's possible.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Worthy of investigation, I say."

Jorn of Merinita: "Great pagan sacrifices are odd behavior for mundane vikings, some of which get bribed so frequently not to raid that they're little more than tax collectors."

"If there's a faerie regio near the area, the mystery I was recently initiated into might lead me there.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: some mystery

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Nothing to worry about, if it's just hedge wizards, bureaucrats, and fake ghosts. We'll be back by dinner."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Good, let's prepare for the journey and set off. How far away's it, Jorn?"

Endrite (GM): It's right there.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice, we'll be back by summer

Endrite (GM): It's autumn.

Archibald of Guernicus: Summer 1337

Endrite (GM): September 9th, to be precise.

Archibald of Guernicus: How long does the trip take

Beatrice Orsini : 2 days

we arrive on11th

Endrite (GM): About a week.

It's a little out f the way.

Beatrice Orsini : there goes my labwork for the season

most of it

Endrite (GM): So, what's the plan?

Does anyone want to go to Montorsaio?

Beatrice Orsini : gather grogs and let's go

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll go

Endrite (GM): Put your token on the map.

Beatrice Orsini : i don't have any pevi and i'm never getting any since it would be useless

Archibald of Guernicus: Where does it actually detail how long you can step away from the lab

Without affecting your labwork

Bolad: I suggest 1 grog per wizard.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: core book, somewhere

Beatrice Orsini : longterm events, i think

Endrite (GM): In the labwork section.

Beatrice Orsini : or labwork, yes

Endrite (GM): It's 2 weeks before you start taking a penalty.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: You may miss up to ten days from any laboratory activity, and make up the time by working harder during the remainder of the season. There is no penalty for this. However, if you miss eleven days or more, your Lab Total is penalized by 10 points, plus two points for every day over ten that you miss, up to a maximum penalty of 30 when you miss twenty days. If you miss more than twenty days, you cannot perform a laboratory activity at all, as you lose your synchronization with the cycles of the heavens.

Bolad: there, 5 grogs

Bialas of Bjornaer: powerful

Beatrice Orsini : i don't take the grog afraid of women as my bodyguard

damn, you personality flaw compassionate

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+5+13 Spirit Channeling

(

8

)

+5+13

=

26

How would you like me to adjust me roll to factor for Abilities as Arts, GM?

The final number is the amount of Might Points I have to work with.

Endrite (GM): Hmmmmm.

Bolad: Should I just halve my Magic Lore skill?

Endrite (GM): Multiply by 3/5.

Oh, or that works.

Bolad: [26*3/5]

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so by the book that's -18 to lab total?

Endrite (GM): Nah, multiply by 3/5.

I like that.

We'll do that.

Bolad: 15.6

Endrite (GM): Round up.

16 MP.

Máriu Puddu: Can I have a warhammer instead of the standard grog pole arm stat block?

Bolad 's eyes glow blue.

Bolad: i dont see why not puddu

Beatrice Orsini : with polearm you can keep your distance from women

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe he should take up archery

Máriu Puddu: He's got a great weapon.

Endrite (GM): You can have any weapons you want.

Bolad: it must not have been great enough if his wife deserted him. hoho

Endrite (GM): The only limit is your imagination and the existing weaponry of this historical period.

Bolad: i want a ballista.

Endrite (GM): Go for it.

Bolad: anyway I think we have a complete party here GM

Endrite (GM): Right.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Endrite (GM): The only limit is your imagination and the existing weaponry of this historical period.

ok. i bring my trusty hand cannon

Máriu Puddu: Mariu's wife didn't desert him, he's never been married. He might be a virgin.

Endrite (GM): You take a week to travel to Montorsaio. Nothing cool or exciting happens. You just see a bunch of peasants gathering the harvest. How boring.

Zoom out a bit here.

Anyway,

Montorsaio is a small peasant village situated on a river.

East of the river, the land is marshy and unstable, so there aren't any houses or buildings, besides the tannery.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, this is much nicer than Rome."

Bolad: I approve of the authentic mill drawing

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Reminds me a bit of home."

Jorn of Merinita: Okay, I looked up the EFs for Arcadian Travel and I may not have pumped my EFs nearly enough, however it's a good thing I bought a bunch of souveniers from teh Faerie Market since arcane connections reduce the EF by 10

Endrite (GM): West of the river are 41 cottages with thin, vertical gardens to support them

Jorn of Merinita: I'll be on the lookout for antyhing that might be from a viking ghost regio

Endrite (GM): There are a few fisherman's shacks by the river, and a water mill stands on a race in the river.

There is also a church with a bell tower with a surrounding graveyard.

Jorn of Merinita: I take with me some shards of clay I can use to create travel charms on by carving reliefs into them.

Endrite (GM): Ok, sure.

There's also a low wall surrounding the village, broken by two wicker gates.

It wouldn't keep out any enemy, it's just to keep animals from prowling the streets at night.

Máriu Puddu: "Nice wall."

Jorn of Merinita: "Aye."

It's an OKAY wall.

Endrite (GM): Where do you want to go first?

Bolad: It's a lousy wall

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, 'tis a wall."

Endrite (GM): OR what magic do you want to use?

Jorn of Merinita: Hmmm

Bolad: "Who here knew of the Vy Kings, Jorn?"

Jorn of Merinita: What's the aura?

Bialas of Bjornaer: Someone spont some aura-sensing magic.

Beatrice Orsini : prebuff with doublet of impenerable silk first

Archibald of Guernicus: I give myself the wizard's sidestep.

Jorn of Merinita: I got my InVi up to 13 last season

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, any of ye requiring the sidestep just in case?"

InVi is my highest so I'll try sponting aura magic

rolling 1d10!+3+12+14

(

6

)

+3+12+14

=

35

Bialas of Bjornaer: wait, a touch spell to detect an aura and its strength is only level 3?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sidestep? I'll take any protection I can get."

Archibald of Guernicus: Divided by 2 is 17, so a level 15 effect

Beatrice Orsini : sidestep is personal range

Jorn of Merinita: Sense of X Power is very cheap

Archibald of Guernicus: I have Flexible Formulaic Magic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aura detection is very easy isn't it

Jorn of Merinita: I just cast a random spell and see if it's better or worse due to Dominion

Endrite (GM): It's extremely easy.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea also buffs with Shriek of the Impending Shafts

Jorn of Merinita: If it's Faerie I get teh full level of the aura added to my total

Endrite (GM): Dominion 1.

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Can you buff other people with that spell

Endrite (GM): Typical for a small village.

Beatrice Orsini : i should study herbam to invent shriek and be ablet to cast it

Archibald of Guernicus: I give guli the sidestep

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Bolad: the ol' spicy sidestep

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): personal only but it would make a good magic item effect

Bialas of Bjornaer: yeah, it seems like it. i can just spont sense of x for all the realms with no fatigue, but bialas has chaotic magic and apparently if i roll and dont predict exactly the target level the spell "still works, but the effects are beyond your control".

cool.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i could write you a shriek lab text

maybe. i am incomprehensible

Beatrice Orsini : i have 9 InHe

Archibald of Guernicus: The moment guli drops his parma I cast Clenching Grasp of the Crushed Heart on him,

Beatrice Orsini : i need to study anyway

Jorn of Merinita: "If there's a connection here to Valhalla, it'd likely be upriver."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, i should also mention that when gulielmus casts Shriek his words and gestures are bizarre and non-hermetic

on account of he is a hedge mage

Máriu Puddu: I want sidestep.

Beatrice Orsini : we're almost all merinita here

Bialas of Bjornaer: nice, two incomprehensible pagans

Bolad: we're all mentable here

Archibald of Guernicus: I stare at this horrible hedge wizardry and sigh

Jorn of Merinita: Gulielmus of Diedne

Bialas of Bjornaer high fives Guillaume

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: merinitae still use the regular words and gestures don't they?

Endrite (GM): Probably.

Jorn of Merinita: I have casting tools

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not merinita but I have strong fairy blood so I can still join in the conversation

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, but they're used to weird stuff

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Jorn of Merinita: Otherwise I'm normal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Something wrong, Quaesitor?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Nothing fae so far, that I'm seeing. We should press onwards, sodales."

Bolad: im er um a normal magus

Bialas of Bjornaer: did we bring anyone with second sight?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: companion that pretends to be a magus but nobody ever sees him cast a spell

Bolad: I have very weak second sight

Bialas of Bjornaer: hehe

nice.

Beatrice Orsini : i gave it at 1

Bolad: yeah same

Beatrice Orsini : have

Archibald of Guernicus: "The first I've seen of yer tradition in action, Gulielmus. Confused me for a moment, that's all."

Bolad: I forgot I had it until I already allocated all my ability XP, oops

Jorn of Merinita: Let's go to a tavern and see if anyone will talk to us about the vikings

Archibald of Guernicus: Does anyone here  not  have second sight?

Jorn of Merinita: I don't

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't

Bialas of Bjornaer: I definitely don't.

Endrite (GM): There is no tavern in town.

Archibald of Guernicus: By coincedence, we all grew up at the same fairy orphanage

Endrite (GM): It's just what you see on the map.

Beatrice Orsini : it's free with strong faerie blood

Máriu Puddu: and I'm just a wiry old man with a hammer.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's go into the houses and open their treasure chests.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's go to the church

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, Bolad has it but doesnt have fairy blood, maybe. Right?

Beatrice Orsini : let's go to the church. good idea

Bialas of Bjornaer: if you have it free with strong faerie blood you can also see in the dark for free.

Beatrice Orsini : yes

someone has to be the christian here

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh neat, I keep casting eyes of the cat like a damn fool

Beatrice Orsini : now that proclus is missing

Archibald of Guernicus: When I could have seen this whole time

Bialas of Bjornaer: I really should have brought Celeste.

Beatrice Orsini : you do it to look cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ladies love the eyes of the cat

Archibald of Guernicus: "Jorn, what else did ye hear from the rumours?"

Endrite (GM): I should mention that the streets aren't empty.

There are a bunch of peasants milling around doing "work".

Beatrice Orsini : that's why i didn't sidestep

Bialas of Bjornaer: ah.

Jorn of Merinita: "I heard that the anniversary of the raid was recent"

Beatrice Orsini : i try to be inconspicuous as much as i can with the gift

Jorn of Merinita: "Exactly a century this year."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to surreptitiously transform into a bear.

just kidding.

Beatrice Orsini : I can use aura of majestic presence to replace everyone's gift stink with sleazy salesman stink

Bialas of Bjornaer: Not yet.

Ooh.

Beatrice Orsini : ennobled

Jorn of Merinita: "The rumors spoke of a mass sacrifice."

Archibald of Guernicus: I have Blatant Stink, there's no stopping it

Bialas of Bjornaer: I have Gift Stink and Feral Stink. The ol' one two.

Beatrice Orsini : Heavily armed strangers come to a village and start talking of raiding and mass sacrifice.

Bialas of Bjornaer: if only Aristide were here.

Endrite (GM): Ok, what's the plan?

Jorn of Merinita: "We could visit the church. If there's a ghost problem, the church would be the safest place in the village."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill a peasant and force their ghost to tell us about the vikings

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right. I'll stand outside while ye do that."

Beatrice Orsini : The church might even have some writings.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should try and find where this sacrifice took place, if possible."

Beatrice Orsini : We can find out the precise time of the raid by finding out when the church records start.

Jorn of Merinita: "I agree."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If the ghosts are still haunting the village, the priest will know about it."

Beatrice Orsini : "We should go talk to the priest. Maybe he is an educated man."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I trust my sodales to negotiate.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's the center of the community!"

Jorn of Merinita: Who wants to go inside the church

Archibald of Guernicus: I wait outside, since I don't like churches.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll Aura of Ennobled Presence myself before going to the Church.

Bolad: i stay outside

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I will hide behind something, transform into a bear, and cast The Soothing Sight of Bialas before going in the church.

Bolad: i feed the horse

Jorn of Merinita: Man, I should not have gentle gifted

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+33

(

2

)

+33

=

35

ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll cast The Appropriate Attire before entering the church

Endrite (GM): Why would you go in the church as a bear?

Jorn of Merinita: Now the autistic scandanavian has to talk tot people.

Beatrice Orsini : it's his natural form

Bialas of Bjornaer: So that I'm less noticeable.

Endrite (GM): It makes you not unusual.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, should i still have aristocritus's cloak

Endrite (GM): But you still take the Gift penalty.

Beatrice Orsini : lose your gentle gift as ordeal in mystery cult initiation

Bialas of Bjornaer: True.

Archibald of Guernicus: Bialas is 7ft high and smells like shit, iirc, so a bear is only a step up

Jorn of Merinita: Oh, I can do that

Bialas of Bjornaer: that's the idea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: presumably giacopo is still making the cloaks

Bialas of Bjornaer: I don't want to participate in the conversation

Endrite (GM): It just makes you an awful bear that people don't like.

Jorn of Merinita: There are Criamon initiations that make your gift less blatant

Beatrice Orsini : yuk

Bialas of Bjornaer: but if he goes oh hey is that your bear, get it outside please, i guess i have to go outside.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if he has the gift then he'll just seem like a mean dog or something

Endrite (GM): Ok, drag yourself onto the church if you want to go to church.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can't drag my token

Archibald of Guernicus: Initiations to get an even more blatant gift are obviously better.

Beatrice Orsini : less blatant gift? are we jerbiton?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the negative gift, which increases your social skills by +5

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Beatrice Orsini : let's hope the priest does not have divine might

Endrite (GM): I think no priests have Divine Might.

As they are all human.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he might have true faith

Jorn of Merinita: I mostly have Gentle Gift so I don't offend faeries, I don't expect muggles to like me

Endrite (GM): He might.

Beatrice Orsini : maybe they're angels disguised as priests for unfathomable reason

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but, uh, probably not.

please drag my token onto the church

maybe he's a living saint

Beatrice Orsini : there's a minor virtue to remove gift penalties for fairies, i think

Endrite (GM): Weird.

You should be able to control it.

Jorn of Merinita: Inoffensive to Faeries probably

Endrite (GM): Anyway.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well for humans you're just slightly weird instead of fully weird

Endrite (GM): The church is a humble pieve.

Jorn of Merinita: I should see about a mystery initiation to downgrade Gentle Gift to Inoffensive to Faeries

Bolad: pieve of shit

Endrite (GM): It's currently empty, except the pastor is scuttling around inisde it.

Except, he looks awfully young to be an ordained priest.

Jorn of Merinita: Hmm

Endrite (GM): Barely out of his teens.

Beatrice Orsini : the quality of priests in rural communities is not high

Bolad: old enough to bleed, old enough to lead (the flock)

Jorn of Merinita: The tinker did mention that this place was in dire need of an exorcist

Bolad: the tinkzorg

Beatrice Orsini : "Are you the priest here?"

Tinkzorg, the Viking Raider

Jorn of Merinita: He thought I was a priest, but that's because I greeted him in Latin thinking he was a Merinita grog.

Bialas of Bjornaer rolls around on his back in the side aisle

Lino: What language are you speaking, Beatrice?

Beatrice Orsini : Italian

Bolad: tinkzorg is a malovalent fae

Beatrice Orsini : don't speak latin until we know he's a priest

Lino: "Ah, hmm, no. I am Father Piero's assistant." He kneeds the hem of his robe.

Máriu Puddu: <"This guy looks like a fucking faggot."> in Sardinian.

Beatrice Orsini : "Could you direct me to Father Piero then?"

Lino: "Ah, uh, hmm."

Beatrice Orsini : "Did something happen to him?"

Lino: "Uh, he's... he's not here right now."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets get some mutual intelligibility values for sardianian, italian, and latin here

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: *sardinian

Beatrice Orsini smiles at Lino.

Beatrice Orsini : "If he's not here, can you tell me where he is?"

can i roll charm?

Jorn of Merinita: Since I figured out I need to grind Stonemason levels to get to Arcadia, I actually have a reason to know the AQ of churches snow.

Lino: "He went to, to visit il Conte Orsini. He should be back any day now, I'm sure."

Beatrice Orsini : sadly, my aura is ennobled not charming, so i can't offset the gift here for self-imposed reason

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seduce that child.

Beatrice Orsini : Orsini, eh?

Jorn of Merinita: Did you tell him your name?

Beatrice Orsini : "And where could we find the Conte?"

no

devil's fav demon: Sardinian is supposed to be different enough that it's considered its own language

Beatrice Orsini : the normandy tribunal book has rules for mutual intelligibility of local languages

Bialas of Bjornaer: you could probably pick up that he said something he shouldn't have said in a church

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill him

Jorn of Merinita: "How long has he been absent?"

Lino: "Oh, uh. I don't know."

"Probably in the castle at Campagnatico."

Beatrice Orsini : "How far is it from the village?"

Lino: "Not too far."

"I've never been."

"I mean, uh, I'm too busy here."

Máriu Puddu: <"I'm just sayin'!">

Beatrice Orsini : "I see. Well, thank you, young man."

Jorn of Merinita: "Seen any ghosts around?"

Lino: "G-g-g-ghosts?"

"Why would you ask about that?"

Bolad: zoinks scoob

Jorn of Merinita: "Academic curiosity."

Beatrice Orsini : we should go visit Conte Orsini. i have a cunning idea how to deal with my bad reputation

Bialas of Bjornaer has found a cypress cone under a pew and is batting it back and forth

Beatrice Orsini : nothing strange about that

Lino: "Could you take your bear outside?"

"I don't want to have to clean up after him."

Bialas of Bjornaer: good point.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Come on, Bialas."

Jorn of Merinita: "I heard stories of ghosts in this village from the laity, I was wondering if the held any weight."

Lino: "How did you hear about that?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea attempts to lead the gigantic bear outside.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas leaves and starts wandering around the town.

Jorn of Merinita: "A travelling tinker."

Lino: "The legends say that we're due to be attacked by vikings on October 31st."

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Lino: "It's a c-c-curse, they say."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that was easy

Jorn of Merinita: Does Archibald know what Samhain is?

Beatrice Orsini : it's a location in grimoire

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's a pagan

Lino: "Weaved by a viking sorcerer after they were defeated hundreds of years ago."

Máriu Puddu: "Whatever a viking is, I'll smash them. No problem, buddy."

Jorn of Merinita: He might be the right kind of pagan for that

Lino: "These are ghosts!"

Beatrice Orsini : mariu gets assaulted by a shieldmaiden ghost

Jorn of Merinita: Whereas I might be the wrong kind

Lino: "How can anyone just smash them!

Máriu Puddu: "Yeah, yeah!"

Lino: "Father Piero was supposed to go get help, but he hasn't been back in weeks!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't know about Samhain, I think

Bolad: maybe he fell in an infernal bog

Jorn of Merinita: Well, we have a missing priest, and confirmation of the rumors.

Beatrice Orsini : "Did he go to the Conte for help?"

Jorn of Merinita: And I missed that the raid is supposed to happen on All Hallows Eve but I see it now

Máriu Puddu: "What's so special about the day?"

Lino: "Yes."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald should know about samhain

Lino: "It's the five hundredth anniversary of the original raid, they say."

Jorn of Merinita: I have Ability Block: Church Lore so I might be reasonable in missing the significance of the date.

Lino: "Every one hundred years, the vikings come back to raid the village and kill all Christian souls."

"That's... that's what the legend says anyway."

Máriu Puddu: "Wow!"

Archibald of Guernicus: [while outside] Only christians huh. Let's not get involved.

Jorn of Merinita: "This is a very long way for a viking to come," I say with my Swedish Chef accent

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's hear the vikings out

Lino: "They're ghosts! They only have to come from Hell!"

He puts his wrist in his mouth and seems to calm down.

Beatrice Orsini : hell is closer than scandinavia

Jorn of Merinita: Hel

Bolad: The ghosts may be made of vis, Archibald

Máriu Puddu looks at the floor

Jorn of Merinita: Hel is Faerie, Hell is Infernal

Hel is also my mother-in-law

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hel / hell / helll

Bolad: Hel,

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and furthermore

Jorn of Merinita: Hel, I'd fuck her

Lino: "Do you know anyone who can help us?"

Jorn of Merinita: "We're scholars learned in this manner."

* matter

Lino: "Scholars? How is that supposed to help?"

"I don't know what we're going to do!" he wails.

Beatrice Orsini : "Have you considered fleeing the village for the night?"

Jorn of Merinita: "If you see any ghosts, gather up all the villagefolk you can find and get them inside the church. It'll be the safest place for a long ways."

Lino: "It would mean abandoning everything to those raiders."

"How would we survive?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Do the ghosts burn down fields and houses?"

Lino: "That's a good idea, uh, I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name."

"Of course they do! They're vikings!"

Jorn of Merinita: "Jo- John."

Lino: "Vikings exist to torment the faithful."

Máriu Puddu:

rolling 1d10!+8 leadership+presence "We confront it face first! These men are very powerful scholars. You can calm down with us here!"

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Lino: "Oh, thank you John. My name is Lino."

Máriu Puddu: I put my hand on his shoulder.

Jorn of Merinita: "Pleased to make your acquaintance."

Lino: "I... I guess so."

Máriu Puddu: that would be only 13 if you want it to be communication.

since i'm still not great at speaking italian.

Lino: Presence works.

"When the vikings come, I'll gather everyone in the church by ringing the bell."

"That should work, right?"

Jorn of Merinita: "I hope so."

"Do you know anyone brave enough to run around and help gather people here?"

Lino: "Everyone here would be able to hear the bell."

Jorn of Merinita: "We'll look for Father Piero as well, but you should be prepared."

Lino: "It's very loud," he adds by way of explanation.

Jorn of Merinita: "I see."

Bolad: Do they have a militia

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems unlikely

Lino: You don't see an armory or anything.

But the peasants do have the usual farming implements.

Máriu Puddu: "If you ring the bell now, will everyone come?"

Bolad: Pathetic!

Lino: "Maybe?"

Máriu Puddu: "We should practice."

Bolad: We could conquer this place ourselves and enslave everyone here.

Lino: "That's a good idea."

"Should I go tell everyone about it?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Some fa- ghosts dislike the sound of church bells. So have someone keep ringing it if it seems to displease them."

"it may help to drive them off."

Lino: "Ok."

Archibald of Guernicus: Some rapists, too.

Lino: Heh.

Jorn of Merinita: I have a theory that there's a trod that follows the river

Lino: It's possible.

Jorn of Merinita: But no evidence, so the missing priest is a better angle

Lino: The river is fast and deep.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea checks his potion satchel.

Bolad: do you have any ghost destroying potions

Jorn of Merinita: It takes me a ceremony to cast Piercing the Faerie Veil, so we should investigate the missing priest first.

Archibald is our best bet for murder I think, he has might-stripping

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if the ghosts have a physical form that can be wounded then yes

also if the ghosts have a faerie vulnerability to wood.

Máriu Puddu: God help us if they don't.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well yeah if they don't then we all die

Jorn of Merinita: I'll make someone who's good at murdering invisible things once Jorn gets killed for his bad build

Beatrice Orsini : bad builds don't die, they linger

Lino: "Should I go tell everyone now?"

Jorn of Merinita: That's the sad part, you have to have a godo enough build to be a thorn in the enemy's side to die

Beatrice Orsini : my next character idea is bonisagi orbus that's obsessed with bookbinding

Lino: Oh by the way, have you been advancing Gulielmus?

Máriu Puddu: orbus

Lino: I haven't seen any posts in the thread.

Jorn of Merinita: "Fortune favors the prepared."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes, i spent a season preparing my lab and a season reading the parma tract

Jorn of Merinita: I keep my advancements logged on my sheets these days

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and a season learning social skills

Beatrice Orsini : if we're going to the castle, i have to deal with my bad reputation among people who respect the orsini

Lino: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think you got gulielmus confused with bialas though

Lino: Please post advancements in the thread, thank you.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll spont the level 5 muco to turn into a male version of myself

Jorn of Merinita: I'll post if I do anything that might need arbitration, such as enchanting an item

Lino: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since you responded to my advancement post and said something about a 70 year old magus with 1 point of parma

Lino: It's possible.

devil's fav demon: Bialas hasn't done spring and summer of '36 yet.

Máriu Puddu: but Bialas has 15 parma.

Bolad: do we have any leads on the priest

which way did he go

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling (1d10!+20-3-1)/2 target 5

(

(

6

)

+20-3-1)/2

=

11

i manage it

Endrite (GM): Anyway, Lino runs out of the church to go tell everyone about your plan.

Jorn of Merinita: Oh yeah, I did labwork in Summer, I need to roll lab wapring

Beatrice Orsini : he went to the castle

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10

(

2

)

=

2

No strange effects

Archibald of Guernicus: "I saw the priest running out, what did ye find out?"

Bolad: did he go on foot? i could follow his path on horse and ask passerbys if they saw him

Beatrice Orsini : and then i cast a spell to make myself look like aristide

Endrite (GM): Wouldn't it make more sense just to cast that one spell?

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+34-3-1 target 15

(

2

)

+34-3-1

=

32

one is MuCo, the other is MuIm

Endrite (GM): Oh, it's Divine 3 in the churchyard and Divine 5 in the Church, by the way.

Máriu Puddu: "He says the vikings will arrive on October 31st."

oh, nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Isn't that a bloody month away?"

Beatrice Orsini : i claim +5 bonus for knowing aristide well on my finesse roll. is that ok?

Endrite (GM): Bolad: You don't see any stables around here, so he might have gone on foot.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe he keeps his mule in his hut

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+6+5

(

1

)

+6+5

=

12

Endrite (GM): Very possible.

Bolad: I have a swift steppe horse

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ach, and a weeks travel, I won't get any labwork done with these disruptions."

Beatrice Orsini : didn't botch finesse

Endrite (GM): Sure, Beatrice.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas will silently cast "Bialas' Trackless Step" and loop around back.

rolling 1d10!+22

(

9

)

+22

=

31

Jorn of Merinita: Would Feerie Lore have anything on the significance of Oct 31st?

Bialas of Bjornaer: ok.

Beatrice Orsini : so total of 11, for enough to fool casual acquaintances

Bolad: Can I head towards the castle at Canter speed, asking for directions on the way/whether people have seen the priest

Jorn of Merinita: It could be Infernal for all I know

Endrite (GM): You don't need no faerie lore to know how important All Hallow's Eve is.

Jorn of Merinita: Ah

Endrite (GM): Common folk myth is that the dead walk the lands of the living during the night of October 31st.

Roll faerie lore.

Máriu Puddu: "He said it was an anniversary, every 100 years they kill all the Christians, or something."

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+9+3 Faerie Lore Int

(

5

)

+9+3

=

17

Bolad: "If I find the priest on the road to the castle, what message do you want to pass to him?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If that were true wouldn't this place be abandoned?"

Jorn of Merinita: "From what I know about faeries, folklore and superstition is enough to bring faeries here."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Peasants exaggerating I bet. None of them know what happened 100 years ago, so they make shit up."

Jorn of Merinita: "A story about viking ghosts could call out all manner of malevolent tricksters."

Máriu Puddu: "We should protect this young man."

Archibald of Guernicus: "However, aye, as Jorn points out, their may be fae influence at play here from their superstitions."

* there

"I've no idea what to say tae some priest."

Endrite (GM): Ok, so who wants to go where?

I heard some people want to go to the castle.

Jorn of Merinita: "Folklore of All Hallows Even states that the dead walk the earth on October 31st. And a rumor of viking ghosts and sacrifices to the aesir could bring them out even where vikings are rarely seen, like Italy."

Beatrice Orsini : i'll go look for the priest

Máriu Puddu: hopefully i can be back outside of the church in time to meet up w the group again.

wait.

Bialas of Bjornaer: i meant to say that.

Endrite (GM): What do you mean Mariu?

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should check for fairy influence in the area. There must be somethin' if they're actually here to be influenced."

Jorn of Merinita: I don't think the Dvergar have much interaction with the Order of Odin, but they did have interactions with Wayland, Verditius, and probably Quendalon.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I meant to say that as Bialas. Because I've been wandering around the village.

And eventually looping back to the church.

Endrite (GM): Wow.

Ok.

Jorn of Merinita: Verditius's theory partially comes from Dvergar

Bolad: beatris and i can go after priest on horse

Endrite (GM): From what you've seen, the peasants here love to hit people with brooms and shoo them out of their homes and gardens, Bialas.

Jorn of Merinita: Good findings, Bialas.

I'll investigate the area upriver while people are looking for the priest

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I had to leave as soon as the little priest started talking about the viking ghosts. Are they real?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs

Bialas of Bjornaer: "The people in this town must not like animals very much. Untrustworthy."

Endrite (GM): What are you looking for Jorn?

Jorn of Merinita: Signs of a trod, i suppose.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The important thing is that they aren't due to show up for a month and a half."

Endrite (GM): Ok, do you have an ability or spell that can do that?

Jorn of Merinita: Piercing the Faerie Veil would confirm it

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Oh, wonderful! Plenty of time to rest."

Jorn of Merinita: It'll take me a ceremony, I need to grind my InVi a bit more still

So I need about an hour

Endrite (GM): Ok, you definitely have that.

Where do you want to cast it, Jorn?

Jorn of Merinita: I'll move upriver until the aura is mundane

Endrite (GM): I should point out that Piercing the Faerie Veil only really works when you know where a regio is.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Endrite (GM): I mean, theoretically you could cast it everywhere in the world, but that seems time consuming.

It's mostly to figure out how to break through to deeper levels.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if a regio's around then the aura can't be mundane, right

Jorn of Merinita: I could spont a Sense of Faerie Power

Archibald of Guernicus: I wander around with Jorn then, since I have second sight

And help him in his searches

Endrite (GM): Sure, everyone is good at finding auras.

Ok, that's a solid plan Archibald.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll let Archibald take it for the moment

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+5

(

5

)

+3+5

=

13

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: invent an aura sensing spell with Vision/Sun

Endrite (GM): Ok, Bolad and Beatrice are going to the castle while Jorn and Archibald search for faerie regios.

Jorn of Merinita: Smell of Faerie Power

Endrite (GM): What about Gulielmus and Bialas?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

i can't contribute anything to the search so i'll go to the castle

Bialas of Bjornaer: We could assist either team.

Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: UNLESS the search party needs to drink a potion that adjusts their size by +1 or -2

Jorn of Merinita: I can get into the regio faster with Arcadian Travel once we confirm there's a trod here

Bolad: gulielmus can go on horseback with tunde

Bialas of Bjornaer: I can't search for faerie regios either but I've got a lot of self confidence.

I'll go with them.

The faerie squad.

Jorn of Merinita: It takes 10 minutes to create a charm

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Let's handle the search for the priest first.

Jorn of Merinita: Agreed

Endrite (GM): Ok, how did you want to track the priest?

Just take the road to the castle?

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, and ask people along the way if they saw him

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Máriu Puddu: Easy peasy.

Endrite (GM): Roll Charm.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+3+5-5

(

1

)

+3+5-5

=

4

kik

lol

how many botch dice?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Endrite (GM): 0,

Beatrice Orsini : damn

Endrite (GM): I said roll, not stress roll.

Beatrice Orsini : fair

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: should i also roll

Bolad: can I use presence & leadership to bully people into talking about the priest

Endrite (GM): Anyone can roll, as long as they're here.

Máriu Puddu: Good question, Bolad.

Endrite (GM): Yes Bolad.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5+6 bully

(

7

)

+5+6

=

18

Máriu Puddu:

rolling 1d10+8 Leadership "Tell me if you saw the priest!!"

(

6

)

+8

=

14

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+4+2 charm + presence

(

9

)

+4+2

=

15

Máriu Puddu: nooo

Endrite (GM): Nice rolls all.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 14 if you want communication instead of presence

Máriu Puddu: gang of bullies

Endrite (GM): I will take that into account.

The ol' good knight, bad knight routine pays off.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but presence seems appropriate here

Endrite (GM): People along the road say that they saw Father Piero and his ass on the road on August 12th.

Going further along, a man threshing some grain says he saw Father Piero take a shortcut through the woods.

Bolad: why wasn't the father wearing pants

Endrite (GM): After that, you can't find anyone who has seen him.

No, he was riding his ass.

Bolad: ????

Beatrice Orsini : he was riding Lino's ass

Bolad: how big are the woods

Endrite (GM): Not too big..

Máriu Puddu: he loves to love em, he loves to shove em, he loves to pick em, he loves to stick em, hes an ass man.

Endrite (GM): I wouldn't say they're just orchards, but this is hardly the forest primeval or anything.

Bolad: who wants to get lost in the haunted woods

Máriu Puddu: Me! Me!

Beatrice Orsini : i will

Bolad: hooray, off we go

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea slams hands on desk

Endrite (GM): Ok, we'll put a pin in you guys for now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its actually very possible that they are nothing more than acorn and chestnut orchards

Endrite (GM): Back to the faerie finders in town.

Archibald you rolled a 13 on your Second Sight roll.

Archibald of Guernicus: Indeed.

Endrite (GM): You don't find anything faerie portals.

HOWEVER, while you walk up and down the river searching for clues, you find a poor tinker taking a drink. Naturally, this is upstream from the tannery.

Pellew the Tinker: "Ah, hello again Father!" he says to Jorn.

"Fancy meeting you here."

Jorn of Merinita: "Hello again."

Now I'm walking around with tradesmen tools and such on me

I probably don't look very priestly

Pellew the Tinker: Well, that's no reason to discount a first impression.

"Who is your friend?"

Jorn of Merinita: Of course

It does seem of note though

"This is Archibald, a learned scholar."

Pellew the Tinker: "Oh, hello there."

Bialas of Bjornaer looks for fish in the river

Jorn of Merinita:

(To GM) rolling 3+5+d10 Perception Awareness

3+5+

(

2

)

=

10

Pellew the Tinker: There are a few fish in the river.

"Tell me, have you seen any villages around?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod to the tinker

Before he says that

"We just came from one."

Pellew the Tinker: AFK a sec.

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+1+7 Dex + Hunt. I'm going to go get some fish and then come back to Archibald, Jorn, and this new guy.

(

10

)

+1+7

=

18

Nice.

Jorn of Merinita: "This is the fellow that told me of the rumors surrounding this place."

Archibald of Guernicus: You're in bear form right now?

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oh yeah. That's just 15? I forget which abilities Heartbeast carries over right now. I should really remember that.

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is a bear."

Pellew the Tinker: "Can you show me to the village?"

"I seem to be a bit lost."

Archibald of Guernicus: Did we wander far from the village?

Jorn of Merinita: We should be upriver of it

Pellew the Tinker: You're about an hour out.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye can't find yer way back to it?"

Jorn of Merinita: So following the water should take him there.

devil's fav demon: yeah, I can't use human General Abilities. Weird that I'm better at hunting and brawling as a human.

Pellew the Tinker: Makes sense.

Beatrice Orsini : not if you spend more time as a bear

Pellew the Tinker: Humans are superior hunters due to their ability to sweat.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Good point.

Jorn of Merinita: "We followed the river away from the village, if you follow the flow back, it should lead you there."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, in a wee bit, need to discuss things with my friend here." I try and drag Jorn away from

Pellew the Tinker: "Well, I don't know quite where I am. I must have been a little turned around."

Jorn of Merinita: Humans can also wield ranged weapons

Which is very important for killing large or mobile animals

Archibald of Guernicus: When we have some privacy from the tinkzorg, I say quietly to Jorn "Something is wrong here. He isnae yelling at me, or throwing stones, or asking me tae leave. Plus, how do ye get lost on a bloody river?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: I definitely get some fish, either way. I'll leave one for each of you. What a well trained bear.

Jorn of Merinita: Spears aren't quite ranged but also probably better than claws and teeth for killing a boar.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, thanks Bialas."

Jorn of Merinita: I'll whisper back, "He could be a Merinita. The cloak and brooch resemone ones I've encounter before."

Pellew the Tinker: Jorn: he isn't wearing the cloak or broach.

Jorn of Merinita: Ah

Pellew the Tinker: I must have made a mistake on the whisper.

Still, you recognize him.

Jorn of Merinita: I could have misread

Well we all see him now, not just me

Pellew the Tinker: I think I probably just made a typo.

Jorn of Merinita: If he isn't wearing them NOW then that's how it is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cast a spell to detect vis in his body

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye recognise him, ye say?"

Jorn of Merinita: He's a tinker gnome!

Bialas of Bjornaer: Did he take the fish?

Jorn of Merinita: "I recognized some effects he was wearing when I met him in Rome."

Pellew the Tinker: He is of normal height.

A bit stooped, but that's life on the road for you.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's ask some questions of him."

Jorn of Merinita nods.

Archibald of Guernicus: jorn, can you use Fairy Lore to figure out why he might want us to guide him to a village he can obviously reach on his own

Jorn of Merinita: Faeries can't employ trods in the same manner humans can, I know that much

We'd have to be in a regio right now for that to be relevant though

Bolad: is he part of the story

does the story involve a faerie leading people to the village before the vikings attack

Pellew the Tinker: The story of the guy who gets lost easily.

Jorn of Merinita: "After my initiation was complete, I lost some of my memory."

Beatrice Orsini : you found the priest

Jorn of Merinita: "Mayhaps I forgot a meeting."

Pellew the Tinker: Oh, by the way the river is the Ombrone river.

Jorn of Merinita: "Or perhaps he lost some of his."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hmph. Sounds like a chore. Let's ask the bugger what he knows, anyway."

Jorn of Merinita: There could be a faerie that asks you to lead them places and then rewards you. Or kills you.

But I don't think that's the case

Archibald of Guernicus: "Tinker, mind if we ask ye some things?"

Pellew the Tinker: "Sure, why not?"

"After all, it's good to find friends out in the wilderness."

Jorn of Merinita: "You're a long ways from your workshop."

Pellew the Tinker: "I'm a tinker, I travel all over the place to fix people's tools."

"I wouldn't make much of a living if I just stayed in one place. Things just don't break that often."

Archibald of Guernicus: Fae react to the gift too, didnt they

Jorn of Merinita: Yes

Pellew the Tinker: Sometimes.

Jorn of Merinita: The social penalty is the same

Archibald of Guernicus: "Look, we're learned men. Ye can say who or what ye really are."

Pellew the Tinker: "Huh?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye heard me."

Pellew the Tinker: "Have you really never heard of tinkers?"

"I guess you wouldn't."

Archibald of Guernicus: "You've been polite to me. Courteous. Friendly, even. There's no way ye're a normal person, if a person at all."

Pellew the Tinker: "Not much call to fix quills or anything, right?"

"Why shouldn't I be courteous?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I wanna roll folk ken against this little act of his

Pellew the Tinker: "You're a perfectly nice man with a sword I met in the wilderness."

Jorn of Merinita: "Quills do break. Lecterns too."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Did he take the damn fish?!

Pellew the Tinker: Oh, yes.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oh. Well, he seems nice.

Beatrice Orsini : he's a normal person that's unaffected by the gift

Jorn of Merinita: He could have Unaffected by the Gift

beaten

Archibald of Guernicus: Is that even a virtue

Jorn of Merinita: Yes

Beatrice Orsini : yes

in grogs, i think

grogs has cool virtues and flaws

Pellew the Tinker: "I don't really know how to fix a quill. Don't you just pluck another goose?"

Bolad: bolad has it

Pellew the Tinker: The Gift doesn't bother me.

-Mongolian with Stand

Bolad: lol

Pellew the Tinker: "Anyway, can you tell me how to find the nearest village?"

"I've been out here a few days and I would truly appreciate the chance to make a little money."

Jorn of Merinita: "Well, we could take you back with us, but the viking ghosts might still attack later."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I point my paw towards the village.

Pellew the Tinker: "I'll be sure to move on before that happens, then."

Pellew heads toward the village, downstream.

Do you want to keep looking for any faerie regio?

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is very suspicious, but sod it. Let's just keep looking for a fairy regio."

rolling 1d10+3+5

(

1

)

+3+5

=

9

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'm going to follow Pellew."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Still don't see any. We'll meet ye back there later, this might take a while."

Jorn of Merinita: "Quills benefit by having someone skilled with a knife work on them. You could make the knives, if not the quill themselves."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Jorn, he just left."

Jorn of Merinita: Oops

Sorry, I was gogolign quills

Pellew the Tinker: lol

Bialas of Bjornaer: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: It helps Jorn's reputation and personality as a quiet autistic man

Pellew the Tinker: Pellew must have heard you a little, because he waves at you.

Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: [several minutes later] another fact about quills is that

Jorn of Merinita: lol

Pellew the Tinker: Switching back to the Haunted Super Demon Forest.

Beatrice Orsini : jorn is the least autistic wizard around, since he has gentle gift

Archibald of Guernicus: He's autistic but lovable.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll ask about trading in Gentle Gift if there's another chance for a mystery initiation

Endrite (GM): The forest is actually not at all scary.

Beatrice Orsini : wtf

Jorn of Merinita: Turning Gentle Gift into Alluring to Faeries would free up a minor virtue slot

Endrite (GM): There's a small, but well trodden trail cutting through it.

You can do that if you want.

Beatrice Orsini : synaesthesia magic seems to work on the species and not on the organs of perception, so i can't really use magic to see the smell of decomposing priest corpse

Jorn of Merinita: I could couple it with learning Animae

Endrite (GM): I don't mind pushing around a couple virtues if you find out you misunderstood them.

Jorn of Merinita: Is Animae pronounced ANime?

Beatrice Orsini : yes

Jorn of Merinita: NICE

Endrite (GM): ANYWAY, do you want to keep following the trail or what?

Bolad: ok

Beatrice Orsini : i suppose so

Jorn of Merinita: Behold the power of Animae  brings waifu to life by enchanting a statue

Beatrice Orsini : you can do that

Endrite (GM): Alright, the trail is, in fact, a shortcut. You arrive at the castle right before night falls.

Beatrice Orsini : hmm

nothing suspicious around the trail?

Endrite (GM): Not generally speaking.

You could use magic or an ability to investigate more, if you'd like.

Beatrice Orsini : my In is pretty bad and my second sight as well

anything the companions present can do?

Bolad: no intelligo abilities here

i could hunt for tracks

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, that could help

i could try sponting a spell if you find something

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+0+5 per+hunting

(

3

)

+0+5

=

8

Jorn of Merinita: "Archibald, do Italians generally know much about vikings?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Unless they've been raiding Italy for centuries, I doubt it."

Endrite (GM): You don't find any specific tracks, Bolad.

Like I said, it's well trod.

Some tracks lead away from the trail and some come back.

Looks like people walk freely in this wod.

I mean wood.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I didn't know about damn near anything in this country before I came here, vikings only mattered back home cause they raid the highland villages."

Bolad: lets ask at the castle if priest arrived

Endrite (GM): Something is immediately obvious to you, Beatrice.

Beatrice Orsini : my disguise runs out at sundown, so i'll have to reapply it

what is it?

Endrite (GM): The flags on the castle aren't Orsini heraldry.

Beatrice Orsini : hmmm

Bialas of Bjornaer: is this tinker finding the village? I'm doing my best to stay out of his sight but, you know, I am a giant white bear.

Oh.

nice.

Endrite (GM): Area Lore: Rome or similar to figure out who they belong to.

Jorn of Merinita: "I am also unfamiliar with the local culture. If the vikings match local description than the real deal, it should be fairly obvious to me though."

Beatrice Orsini : "Those flags aren't Orsini heraldry." I say to companions who might have area lore.

Jorn of Merinita: "With any luck, they might actually adopt the rumor that church bells ward off viking ghosts."

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5 italy lore to recognize flags

(

10

)

+5

=

15

Endrite (GM): It's this one.

The Annabaldi flag.

Jorn of Merinita: Too bad we don't know the form of viking ghost taeries, otherwise we could ward the chruch.

Endrite (GM): I mean Annibaldi.

The castle itself is busy with activity, but it isn't so chaotic that the gates are unguarded.

Bolad: i dont see any flags, are we supposed to be on a different map than the village

Endrite (GM): No, I accidentally deleted it.

Do you want to do anything at the castle?

Talk to anyone?

Cast a spell?

Jorn of Merinita: Talk to the guards and tell them you're looking for a priest

Beatrice Orsini : i'll rebuff

Bolad: knock on the door

Beatrice Orsini : and then i'll try talking to the guards

or let bolad do it

Endrite (GM): Ok, you work your magic.

Beatrice Orsini : once sun is down

Endrite (GM): The gate is open, but guarded by guards.

Beatrice Orsini : in relative quiet

Endrite (GM): The guards are guarded towards you.

Bolad: Bolad has not invested in social skills

Máriu Puddu: I can only attempt to Lead the guards.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll try talking to them

Guardsman: "Oh ho, who have we here?"

Beatrice Orsini : the priest was father Piero?

Guardsman: Yes.

Máriu Puddu: There's something about this Beatrice dude that spooks me. Can't put my finger on it...

Beatrice Orsini : my transformation ran out an sundown

Máriu Puddu: Oh.

Guardsman: Well?

Beatrice Orsini : "We are looking for Father Piero from (village name). Can you help us? We were told he went here."

Guardsman: Whomst have we?

The village is named Montorsaio.

Beatrice Orsini : Montorsaio then

Guardsman: "Montorsaio?"

"Yeah, it's some village on the Ombrone river."

says the other guard.

"Oh right."

"We haven't seen no Father Piero."

"What would he have been doing here anyway?"

Guardsman: "The castle's already got a priest."

Máriu Puddu hides behind the other grogs

Beatrice Orsini : "He wanted to ask assistance from lord of this castle."

Máriu Puddu: <"How does he do it? She's so scary..."> he says to himself in Sardinian

Bolad: "Who is the lord of this castle?"

Guardsman: "Hmph, that was fast. Well, I haven't seen no village priest around."

Beatrice Orsini : "Perhaps some of the other guards did?"

Guardsman: "Conte Rinaldo Annibaldi. Normally I'd let you have it for not recognizing him but, well, to tell you the truth, we just bought this castle from the Orsini's this year."

"We still need to get the locals used to it."

"There'll probably be a big procession in winter time," says his cohort.

"Yeah, everyone loves a festival."

"Anyway, we haven't seen any village priests around here."

Beatrice Orsini : "Can you let us in to speak with the castle's priest then?"

comm + etiquette?

Guardsman: "I can't see no harm in it."

Bolad: "Is there anything in the woods? Heard he took a shortcut through there."

Beatrice Orsini : oh, easy

Guardsman: "You'll have to leave your weapons here though."

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice is unarmed

Guardsman: "I dunno, deer maybe?"

Bolad and Mariu are dis-unarmed.

Bolad: ah no

Máriu Puddu: You want to go in the woods, Bolad?

Bolad: my Bow, Composite, my Bow, Horse, and my Arrow, Flaming

Guardsman: Also your horse will have to stay outside.

Aristide of Tremere: hey everyone, archon here

Máriu Puddu: Holy shit.

Bolad: im seeing double, 4 aristides

Máriu Puddu: <"Who the fuck is this guy?">

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristide showing up now would lead to new heights of farce

Beatrice Orsini : i didn't renew my aristide disguise after sundown, since the castle isn't orsini owned anyway

Máriu Puddu: I don't think I feel safe enough to be inside with Beatrice while unarmed. I'll have to wait outside.

Aristide of Tremere: i dont know if im allowed to show up now

Guardsman: You can show up at the village.

Aristide of Tremere: alright

i go to the village, completely unaware of what my sodales are doing here

Guardsman: The village of Montorsaio.

Máriu Puddu: ombrone.

Archibald of Guernicus: The running joke where Aristide is left behind and has to catch up later on his own.

Guardsman: Ok, you want to find the castle priest?

Beatrice Orsini : orbmone

Guardsman: He's in the chapel.

Aristide of Tremere: wow. cant believe they forgot to tell me they were leaving again

Bialas of Bjornaer continues tailing the mysterious Tinker

Guardsman: It keeps happening.

Beatrice Orsini : we're hunting viking ghosts who might be faeries

Aristide of Tremere: I look for a peasant and ask, "Have you seen a bunch of weirdos with armed men, likely calling themselves philosophers?"

Priest: The chapel is within the walls, but not within the keep.

Máriu Puddu: lol

Priest: It's next to the guesthouse, which is across from the stables.

Peasant: It's night time.

Aristide of Tremere: oh

Beatrice Orsini : "Excuse me, father. Can I ask you some questions?"

Aristide of Tremere: I look for signs of that unique Vardian Tomb Magus presence

Priest: "Certainly, my dear."

You don't see any bloody corpses.

Bialas of Bjornaer: in that case i will silently cast Eyes of Bialas, allowing me to see in near darkness

Aristide of Tremere: hm

Beatrice Orsini : "'We've come from Montorsaio, looking for Father Piero. We were told he went to the castle."

Aristide of Tremere: this will be a tough one

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+21

(

10

)

+21

=

31

lovely.

Priest: "Father Piero?"

Aristide of Tremere: what exactly have beatrice? and possibly other people? done using aristides visage

Bialas of Bjornaer: really getting those lucky rolls on totally inconsequential flavor shit. excellent.

Priest: "Is he one of the parish priests?"

Beatrice Orsini : sadly nothing

"Yes."

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristide's doppelganger turning out to be his own covenant would be a great twist.

Aristide of Tremere: if its night and theres no trail of corpses or bad decisions given physical form then i look for an inn

Priest: "None of the parish priests have visited us here at the castle. Now, I might not be a bishop or a vicar, but I think a courtesy visit would be the polite thing to do."

"Why was Father Piero trying to visit the castle?"

Beatrice Orsini : "There's supposed to be haunting at the village and he was trying to get help."

Priest: "A haunting?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Apparently ghosts of raiders from centuries ago are supposed to come back and burn the village."

Priest: "How terrible! I'm sure the Conte's men would have let him through right away if they'd heard about that."

"Could he have lost his way?"

"That sounds terrible!"

Beatrice Orsini : "We were told he took a shortcut through the woods, but we saw nothing strange there,"

Priest: "I'm new to the parish myself, so I couldn't say what happened to him, but the wilds of this world are often filled with evil things."

Beatrice Orsini : "Yes, that's true."

"We will try looking for him again. Father, if it would not be too much to ask, could you let the bishop know about this? Father Piero's assistant is a young man and he is overwhelmed."

Priest: "Yes, of course."

Beatrice Orsini : "Thank you, Father."

Priest: "I'll send word as soon as possible!"

Beatrice Orsini : while I'm here, i might as well go to confession, since i didn't have time on the road

nothing special to confess though

Priest: The priest takes your confession. You feel blessed.

Alright, what next?

Beatrice Orsini : I think we should go back to the village and get Bialas' help, since he's a hunter.

take equipment back on the way

Endrite (GM): Right of course.

Máriu Puddu: Wherever he is.

Beatrice Orsini : and if it's evening, we should get the magi together

Endrite (GM): Shockingly, the guards didn't steal any of your stuff.

Beatrice Orsini : oh, i have an idea

Bolad: i have a theory. the missing priest isn't real, they're a fairy.

Beatrice Orsini : let's ask jorn to investigate the wood

Bolad: in fact, everything we've met so far is fairie glamor.

Máriu Puddu: Good theory.

Endrite (GM): Xe's a fairy.

Máriu Puddu: They're so tricky.

Beatrice Orsini : the priest might have stumbled into fairyland

Bolad: we can prove this by setting it all on fire

and seeing if it produces vis

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : glamours are easy to recognize as they're subject to MR

Endrite (GM): What fire do you want to start first?

Beatrice Orsini : i'll tell jorn about the fairyland theory once he's back from investigating the river

Endrite (GM): Alright, so you want to meet up back in the village?

Jorn of Merinita: I could see if the forest shortcut is a trod, sure.

Endrite (GM): You can make it back if you can travel at night.

Beatrice Orsini : i see in the dark

and let me see if i can spont crig spell for the others

actually, what's the aura aroudn?

i can spont eyes of the cat on bolad and mariu

Endrite (GM): It's night time.

Beatrice Orsini : if mariu lets me touch him

Endrite (GM): Infernal 1.

Jorn of Merinita: Infernal

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling (1d10!+15-1)/2

(

(

4

)

+15-1)/2

=

9

on bolad

Jorn of Merinita: Looks like the Limo was right

Beatrice Orsini : that a breather

Endrite (GM): Limo is a name.

Beatrice Orsini : take, i mean

rolling (1d10!+15-1)/2

(

(

7

)

+15-1)/2

=

10.5

on mariu

if he lets me touch him

Jorn of Merinita: He was right about the vikings coming from Hell I mean

Beatrice Orsini : any grogs?

Endrite (GM): Low-level Dominion Auras flip to Infernal at night, sometimes.

Beatrice Orsini : i just have to rest a few minutes between each cast, but i should be fine if i don't botch

Jorn of Merinita: Oh

Endrite (GM): Ok.

That's all good Beatrice.

Beatrice Orsini : if everyone can see at night, we can make it back to the village safely, i think

Jorn of Merinita: I can go spont a Sense of Faerie Power

Máriu Puddu:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+36

(

1

)

+36

=

37

Jorn of Merinita: I'll try to make it last long enough to explore the shortcut fully

Aristide of Tremere: dys is making me look for an actual orsini to be the child of

and im going to go with guido orsini

there you go dys

Jorn of Merinita: Base 1 if it's Personal

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Wait so let's confab back at the village first.

Bialas of Bjornaer:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+7 Art of Memory to remember his location in the woods

(

5

)

+2+7

=

14

Jorn of Merinita: Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: So are we all meeting back at the village?

Aristide of Tremere: i dont know what the contessa de nola is but apparently its some position

and aristide would be the grandchild of someone who held it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hi

Bolad: the countess of Nola

Beatrice Orsini : did jorn mention the tinker mistook him for a priest?

Aristide of Tremere: ah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im here. gulielmus is here

Archibald of Guernicus: Wow. It's

Jorn of Merinita: I'll cast The Never Ending Road as I progress along the shortcut. This will not achieve anything but I like making roads.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's amazing that despite being left behind, every time, Aristide and Gulielmus keep catching up with us

Jorn of Merinita: And it'll improve travel between the castle and the village.

Aristide of Tremere: nevermind, aristide is the son of romano orsini, because hes a senator of rome

thats better

Endrite (GM): You don't have any construction materials, Jorn.

Jorn of Merinita: Heh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ombrone eiver

Archibald of Guernicus: So are we all reconvened at the viking village

Beatrice Orsini : what's romano orsini's relationship to cardinal napoleone orsini. we have to figure out how aristide and beatrice are related

Jorn of Merinita: The spell effect draws construction materials available in the target area of the altered section of road, or within a pace of the nearest edge of the road.

Aristide of Tremere: On 8 June 1293 Anastasia married Romano Orsini (1268–1327), Senator of Rome and son of Gentile II Orsini, Senator of Rome and Claricia de Ruffo.[1] The marriage had been arranged by Cardinal Napoleon Orsini,

Archibald of Guernicus: thats why i was pestering him to find out, theyre in the same family but we dont know how and it bugged me

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Archibald of Guernicus: nice

Endrite (GM): Anyway, what's the plan of action?

We have a missing priest, a strange tinker, and an impending viking raid.

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah, I meet up with everyone to discuss the plan before messing around with the shortcut

Archibald of Guernicus: The viking raid is pretty far in the future at least, we can focus on the priest

Bolad: we can break the cycle if we raid and destroy the village before the vikings have a chance to

Beatrice Orsini : if jorn told us the tinker thought he was a priest, i'll say that it might be related to the missing priest

Aristide of Tremere: alright

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I left the tinker sleeping in a copse next to the church. He found his way here fine."

Aristide of Tremere: lets proclaim ourselves proclus of rome and put the village to the flame

Beatrice Orsini : next to the church?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Quite close."

Endrite (GM): The village is very burnable.

Archibald of Guernicus: Does anyone have the inexorable search?

Beatrice Orsini : "Could you bring the tinker to the boy in charge of the church?"

Jorn of Merinita: "The tinker keeps calling me Father, though have made no steps to impersonate one aside from speaking Latin."

Endrite (GM): Only the mill and the church are stone buildings.

Jorn of Merinita: "I'd have to find him again for that."

Beatrice Orsini : "The tinker came to you for help for the village."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'll go get him."

Beatrice Orsini : "The priest left the village to find help."

Archibald of Guernicus: Even with a good roll I can't spont level 20, damnit

Beatrice Orsini : "He might be the priest and someone tampered with his mind."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll carry the tinker in by grabbing his shirt with my teeth.

Endrite (GM): Into what?

Archibald of Guernicus: "The tinker's strange, I'll say that."

Bialas of Bjornaer: In... front of the group.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Jorn of Merinita: "I do think he may have had Mentem magic used on him."

Beatrice Orsini : if priests can have mr, would it block the gift?

Aristide of Tremere: the mongol should help aristide form an army

Endrite (GM): Bialas drags a sleeping Pellew in front of you.

Jorn of Merinita: "If he interacted with the same people who removed my memory of the Faerie Market."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He didnae once yell at me, or tell me to leave! There's something seriously wrong here."

Endrite (GM): No Beatrice.

Jorn of Merinita: "Or at least, how to get tehre."

Beatrice Orsini : damn

Endrite (GM): Only Parma Magica blocks the Gift penalty.

Beatrice Orsini : or specific virtue

Endrite (GM): Right.

I meant in terms of MR.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: "Either he's blessed with some immunity to the gift, or he's a magus. Or a fairy."

Beatrice Orsini : "Maybe he is bothered, but a spell is forcing him to be polite."

Jorn of Merinita: "He might also call me Father to mock me for speaking Latin to tradefolk. If he's a Merinita, that is."

Beatrice Orsini : does anyone have any ooh lore?

Jorn of Merinita: "A fair jibe, if that."

Endrite (GM): Why do you ask, Beatrice?

Beatrice Orsini : if someone recognizes him?

Endrite (GM): Oh.

Aristide of Tremere: lets kill him and see if we get marched for it

Endrite (GM): Well, roll + Int if that's what you want.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Merinita maybe, neither of ye ever seen him before?"

Aristide of Tremere: if we dont then he wasnt a magus

Beatrice Orsini : i don't have any ooh lore

Archibald of Guernicus: I forgot to buy it, once again

Endrite (GM): Then I can safely say you don't recognize him.

Bialas of Bjornaer: i know some of the Code but I'm not a big lore buff.

Jorn of Merinita: "I just met him once before in Rome."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I mean, he's not a member of House Bjornaer, is he? I have pretty good Bjorn Lore.

Bolad: give him the secret ooh handshake

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have 1 point of lore

Beatrice Orsini : mystery cult lore is about the teachings of the mystery cult, not members, iirc

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+11+2 int+bjorn to confirm if hes in my tight knit house where every member meets every 12 years

(

6

)

+11+2

=

19

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Bialas of Bjornaer: probably not.

Beatrice Orsini : to be fair, bialas has a point in that roll description

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh my god. 11 int.

Bialas of Bjornaer: ol

Aristide of Tremere: every 12 years the bjornaer magi meet and create an infernal aura

Archibald of Guernicus: Obviously to make any visitting tremere feel at home

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I could swear I know this guy. He's got one of those faces, you know?"

Endrite (GM): Who knows what they do?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "But no."

Endrite (GM): I mean Bialas does.

Aristide of Tremere: god

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I've never seen him before."

Beatrice Orsini : "Maybe the young man at church will recognize him."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If he's a member of the order, it would mean we cannae check his mind for interference, keep that in mind till we rule it out completely."

"Though if he is and hiding it he's a damn idiot."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+2+1 perception+ooh lore

(

9

)

+2+1

=

12

Endrite (GM): It's +int.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: int is for solving math problems

Jorn of Merinita: Does tinker = wizard?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "How should I know?"

Endrite (GM): Tinkers are vagabonds, so sort of, Jorn.

Jorn of Merinita: That was a reply to the math problems quip

Archibald of Guernicus: "Show him to the boy at the church then."

Jorn of Merinita: I'm sort of a tinker myself so it's not untrue.

I learned something while reading up on Merinita crap, I'm good at making sympathetic tokens for other people by virtue of Faerie Magic + XP spent on crafting.

If you never need a statue made to fuck with someone

Beatrice Orsini : that's a good merinita power

Jorn of Merinita: It won't be a big or good looking statue, just a small idol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All right, let's bring him to the church."

Jorn of Merinita: That doubles your pen

Endrite (GM): Ok, you want to drag him to the church?

Lino is off sleeping in the parsonage, so the church is empty.

Aristide of Tremere: ok im gonna say im with gulielameass

my good traveling partner

Beatrice Orsini : parsonage is near enough

let's take him there

Aristide of Tremere: is beatrice still me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ive been here the whole time looking at herbs or something

Beatrice Orsini : no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: pondering the occult properties of wheat

Endrite (GM): The parsonage IS barred from the inside.

Beatrice Orsini : let's knock

Endrite (GM): I mean you're free to put him in the church if you want.

Aristide of Tremere: "Hello sodales. Where's that Orsini castle at?"

Beatrice Orsini : "The Orsini sold it."

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Aristide of Tremere: "Damnit."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ah, you should wake him up. He won't do so on his own."

Lino: "Who is it?" Lino's quavery voice asks, after a while.

Aristide of Tremere: "Proclus of Rome."

Bialas of Bjornaer: incredible.

Beatrice Orsini : "The scholars who came to the church this afternoon. We need you to take a look at someone."

Lino: "Come back in the morning, please."

"Oh, of course."

Lino unbars and opens the door.

"Who do you need me to take a look at?"

Beatrice Orsini : "This man came to us in Rome, looking for help for this village. My colleagues later met him as he was trying to get to the village, but he seemed to have lost his way. I think he might be father Piero whose memory was tampered with."

Lino: He squints at Pellew as his eyes adjust to the darkness.

"I've never seen this fellow before in my life."

"He doesn't even have a tonsure."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah bugger."

Beatrice Orsini : damn

Jorn of Merinita: "Perhaps before waking the poor boy again, we should get a good description of Father Piero."

Beatrice Orsini : "Good idea."

"Sorry for disturbing you, Lino."

Lino: "It's no problem."

"I haven't been sleeping that well, to tell you the truth."

"I'm scared of these ghosts!"

Jorn of Merinita: "There was no word of the Father at the castle, by the by."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Get that description of the priest from him, will ye." I say to my sodales from a small distance away

Lino: "Really?"

"Where... what could have happened to him?"

Jorn of Merinita: "We mean to find out."

Lino: "Thank you."

"Thank you."

"This is almost more than I can stand."

Jorn of Merinita: "Word is that he took a shortcut through the forest."

"After that, he hasn't been seen."

Lino: "I suppose it's possible. Father Piero was always more well traveled than I."

Lino descirbe Father Piero to you. He's short and well-built. He has blonde hair and a classic Aquiline nose.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and a tonsure!

Lino: Naturally.

He's a priest.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll apologize for the tinker for being dragged out here too.

Aristide of Tremere: my god. jorn was the priest the whole time

Lino: Arlight, where do you want to go from here?

Aristide of Tremere: he traveled backwards in time through a faerie regio

Archibald of Guernicus: When we finish with Lino and leave the shady tinker alone, I ask my sodales "Right, shall we go check out that wood properly now?"

Lino: The Tinker is asleep.

Jorn of Merinita: Ah, that saves some grief

Lino: Where do you want to leave him?

Beatrice Orsini : have we searched the tinker's pockets and bags and things like that?

where we found him, i think

Jorn of Merinita: Is searching through his pockets and personal effects scrying?

Máriu Puddu: "Good idea."

Endrite (GM): Not unless you use magic.

Ok, Pellew's pockets are mostly filled with junk.

Rags, small bits of metal, tools, old crusts of bread, that sort of thing.

Máriu Puddu: "What kind of tinker is this?"

Endrite (GM): He's got cheap shoes.

He also has a staff he carries around.

Archibald of Guernicus: A magic staff, clearly

Endrite (GM): Well, maybe.

Or just a walking staff.

Beatrice Orsini : magic walking staff

Aristide of Tremere: I take the staff.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : don't deprive the tinker of magical power

Bialas of Bjornaer: Aristide the Staff-Taker

Aristide of Tremere: why is this guy asleep. did we put him to sleep

Bialas of Bjornaer: "If you were a Bjornaer, that's what we'd call you. Staff-Grabber.

"

Endrite (GM): Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happens when you steal the staff.

Jorn of Merinita: Cast an unobtrusive spell on him and see if he hasParma

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, I'm honored to be given a name from your tradition."

Endrite (GM): Ok, what spell do you want to cast on him?

Jorn of Merinita: It's a suggeestion, I have bad Corpus and Mentem

Endrite (GM): Well, you guys want to try it?

Archibald of Guernicus: Pillum of flame is pretty unobtrusive

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can drop any spell to 0 penetration

Jorn of Merinita: I could try Rise of the Feathery Body with 0 pen

Endrite (GM): In a way it is.

Aristide of Tremere: I'll cast a spell.

I cast Conjuring the Kingly Facade on a nearby wall.

Endrite (GM): Ok?

Beatrice Orsini : amazing

Endrite (GM): The wall of the parsonage

?

Jorn of Merinita: Great!

Aristide of Tremere: Yes.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Aristide of Tremere: It has moon duration.

Endrite (GM): You look pretty sharp!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Incredible."

Jorn of Merinita: I completely forgot I had Tales of the Ashes

Too bad there's no 100 year old ash around her from the time the town got supposedly sacked

Endrite (GM): A painting of Aristide dressed like a noble appears on the wall of the parsonage.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll roll code of hermes and see about hte legality of casting a totally benign spell at pen 0 on a possible wizard to see if they have MR or not

rolling 1d10+2+7

(

3

)

+2+7

=

12

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Once, I was known as Great Old White Bear, The Heavy Stone, Soul-eater, With No Cave. It goes on further, but it's not all flattering."

Endrite (GM): It's fattering.

Bialas of Bjornaer: eyyy

Endrite (GM): Ok, so do you still want to cast a spell on this guy or what?

Bialas of Bjornaer: It shouldn't be that illegal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't have any suitable spells

Aristide of Tremere: me neither

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't cast anything on him."

Aristide of Tremere: havent we already magically put him to sleep

if were dragging him around

Beatrice Orsini : we didn'z

Aristide of Tremere: is he just a heavy sleeper

Beatrice Orsini : that's another suspicious thing

Endrite (GM): Yes, very suspicious.

Archibald of Guernicus: "If he's a magus, it's a crime. There's been rulings on this at tribunal before, determining a magus is a magus when they're keeping it hidden, by magical means, is scrying."

Aristide of Tremere: hes one of those people that proclus's dead girlfriend was

Endrite (GM): A corpse?

Aristide of Tremere: i said was!

not is

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He's almost assuredly not a magus."

Endrite (GM): She's been a corpse for years, bro.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then there's nae need to check him."

Jorn of Merinita: Challenge him to Certamen. If he refuses, he's trying to hide his magus status

Archibald of Guernicus: Good idea

Though he might just lie

Aristide of Tremere: "So, what are we going to do with him?"

Bialas of Bjornaer roars in the tinker's face

Beatrice Orsini : is he still alive?

Jorn of Merinita: "Is there a way in which he can be legally determined as mundane?"

Endrite (GM): Pellew wakes with a start.

"What's a bear doing here?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: has the sun gone down

Endrite (GM): "Someone save me!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: It has.

I'll run away for a second.

Pellew the Tinker: Ok.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Be right back.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: has someone been watching him the whole time

Pellew the Tinker: "Yikes."

Bolad: i feel like everyone is pursuing a dumb red herring in a really inefficient way

Aristide of Tremere: I chase Bialas off with the staff.

Jorn of Merinita: "No need to fear. Bears are generally more scared of people than people are scared of them."

Bolad: so ive just been tuned out for the last couple hours

Pellew the Tinker: "That bear must have been very scared, then!"

Bolad: anyway endrite asked me to say that. cheers

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll transform back into a person once I'm out of sight.

Aristide of Tremere: hm. if only we had some kind of clue to go on

Beatrice Orsini : we should investigate the tinker more

Aristide of Tremere: maybe a place the priest was last seen

Beatrice Orsini : in the woods

Aristide of Tremere: hm... an area to search...

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if there was also a clue suggesting that very place contained a regio

Archibald of Guernicus: Seeding adventures with red herrings is cruel when there's been ones we've messed up due to not prodding a suspicious npc over and over.

Aristide of Tremere: man. we need to gather information, and find a place like that

Jorn of Merinita: If you have a clue that leads to a regio please tell me

Aristide of Tremere: lets just kill pellew

and assume its correct

and then go search the forest

Archibald of Guernicus: We should check out the forest like I said half an hour ago or w/e

The priest vanished there

Pellew the Tinker: You could just wait for the vikings to attack and then kill them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one of the ways to enter a regio is by getting lost

Beatrice Orsini : i was telling jorn to check it

Archibald of Guernicus: there's obviously  something

Jorn of Merinita: Until I get my InVi up to 20 I need some sort of lead before casting Pierce the Faerie Veil

Beatrice Orsini : we could burn the village before the vikings arrive

Jorn of Merinita: I'm going to the forest then

Beatrice Orsini : that would show them

Bolad: ill go with jorn

Archibald of Guernicus: We have 2 people with second sight, surely one of us will roll well

Beatrice Orsini : same

Aristide of Tremere: ill go with jorn too

Archibald of Guernicus: Same

Beatrice Orsini : hahaha

Pellew the Tinker: Ok, are you going to leave Pellew here?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sure

Jorn of Merinita: I can spont a Moon-duration Sense of Faerie Power, probably

Archibald of Guernicus: Dont do this endrite. Now he seems suspicious.

Beatrice Orsini : he is

Archibald of Guernicus: Now we have to investigate him even more!

Jorn of Merinita: I have no reason to mess with Pellew

Endrite (GM): Well I mean you've been dragging him around so it's a fair question.

Beatrice Orsini : we can take him to the forest

Jorn of Merinita: It's weird that he keeps showing up in the same place as me, but I have no thing to investigate regarding that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyway if he's a magus he would have to perform the parma magica again to resist the gift

Archibald of Guernicus: You have a way of speaking as the GM that makes innocent questions sound like 'are you SURE you do this?'

Jorn of Merinita: I go out until there's no detrimental aura in the forest and spont InVi

Endrite (GM): Thank you.

The forest is wel- traveled enough that there isn't a mundane aura.

Aristide of Tremere: i could put pellew back to sleep and we could throw him into his house

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+24/5 CrHe 2 +1 Touch +2 Sun to spont a new set of robes. if I don't get within 1 magnitude of 5 up or down the spell still works but the effects are beyond my control.

(

9

)

+24/5

=

13.8

Jorn of Merinita: So Dominion 1 at best?

Bialas of Bjornaer: oh that calculated wrong.

rolling 33/5

33/5

=

6.6

whoops.

Endrite (GM): Looks good enough to me.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice. Now I can show up and not be nude.

"Hail, sodales."

Endrite (GM): Ok, so you all want to go to the forest?

Beatrice Orsini : let's fo

go

Endrite (GM): What do you want to do in the forest?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ave."

Archibald of Guernicus: We're going. The magic forest.

Bialas of Bjornaer: turns out you don't keep your possessions on you when you turn into a heartbeast.

Beatrice Orsini : watch jorn investigate

Endrite (GM): It's dark and sinister, but no more so than an ordinary forest.

Archibald of Guernicus: Me and Beatrice can see in the dark and use our second sight to look for regios for Jorn

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Roll 'em.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+5

(

6

)

+3+5

=

14

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+0+1 second sight

(

10

)

+0+1

=

11

nice

Archibald of Guernicus: I believe in you Beatri nice

Aristide of Tremere: "We should split up. If you need to find me, you'll know the path I took."

Endrite (GM): No regios found.

Jorn of Merinita: What's the casting mod in the forest. If it's Faerie it's the same + as Magic.

Endrite (GM): It's Infernal 1 tonight.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay, so -1?

Bialas of Bjornaer: Ooh.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's infernal 1 tonight, and the feeling's right

Endrite (GM): Correct, Jorn.

Bialas of Bjornaer: So you just let Pellow run off and do whatever? I missed it. Now that he's awake.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling (d10+13-1)/2

(

(

2

)

+13-1)/2

=

7

Aristide of Tremere: I walk off and cast the Kingly Facade spell every so often to mark my path.

Endrite (GM): Smart, Aristide.

Aristide of Tremere: getting lost can land you i na regio

Jorn of Merinita: Moon Duration Sense of Faerie Power

Aristide of Tremere: so it IS smart

Endrite (GM): There's no faerie aura in the forest, Jorn.

Bolad: how many days until the vikings attack

Aristide of Tremere: 1 month

Archibald of Guernicus: Over a month.

Endrite (GM): It's September 17th, so a month and a half.

Jorn of Merinita: Road range

For exactly 7

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Oh, ah, you know. I should mention this. I cast a spell on him in the woods. It seemed the right thing to do at the time." (Reckless +3 as a bear sorry)

Endrite (GM): It's possible for faeries to be in a place without a faerie aura or faerie regio.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He had no magic resistance."

Jorn of Merinita: "If the father didn't wander into a regio, he could have been waylaid."

Archibald of Guernicus: What if the tinker is just insane and a wolf ate the priest, and nothing is going on at all.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Could be."

Jorn of Merinita: Maybe

Endrite (GM): Well, people do know about the viking raiders.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Can you track his scent, or something?"

Bolad: how many peasants in the village

Endrite (GM): The one person you talked to in town.

41 families.

Aristide of Tremere: am i lost enough to fall into a regio yet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no, because you're marking your path

Aristide of Tremere: hm...

Endrite (GM): So let's call that between 150 and 200.

Bolad: instead of having them hole up in the church id like to put them to work preparing to fight the incoming raid by makign weapons out of farm implements and building barricades

Endrite (GM): If ONLY you had a mathemagician.

Archibald of Guernicus: The Seven Magi

Máriu Puddu: "Hell of a plan, Bolad"

Beatrice Orsini : nice encouraging of peasant revolt

Endrite (GM): You can do that, Bolad.

Aristide of Tremere: ok, i stop marking my path

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's take a permanent arcane connection to proclus so we can ask him math question

Jorn of Merinita: "At this point we seem fresh out of ideas, so seeing to the village's defenses might be the way to go."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'm glad everyone understands my judgment in that situation. I have nothing but confidence in my actions."

Archibald of Guernicus: It really is just the seven samurai but with wizards.

Aristide of Tremere: now the others can find that my path suddenly ends

and be convinced that i found the regio

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's prepare the villagers

Endrite (GM): Ok, you guys done in the forest?

Beatrice Orsini : let's fill in a hole to make a ghost hole the ghosts can fall into

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's all turn around and leave aristide behind

Beatrice Orsini : i guess so. i was just following jorn

Aristide of Tremere: yeah, lets leave aristide to his own devices

Máriu Puddu thinks about that sexy-ass priest.

Archibald of Guernicus: Unfortunately, we just couldn't find where he went

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: His trail just went a ways in and suddenly stopped.

Jorn of Merinita: We could ask Limo if he'd let Bialas smell something that belonged to the priest

Endrite (GM): Ok, day breaks.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ambushed and devoured by the priest

Endrite (GM): Dawn of September 17th.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ah, also, if you find bear tracks leading to the mill and then disappearing, that was me casting Trackless Step."

Archibald of Guernicus: What if the priest never existed to begin with

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Nothing to worry about."

Bolad: i could do a moon duration version of Wall of Protecting Stone, summong a wall of granite up to 25 paces wide, 4 paces high and 1 pace thick

Endrite (GM): The villagers have all heard from Lino about the impending raid.

He's told them about Jorn's plan to ring the church bell constantly to call them to the church when the Viking Ghosts show up.

The place it says Initial Landing Site is where they're most likely to land.

There's a beach there.

Jorn of Merinita: I could use The Instant Ring Fort to build some fortifications

Endrite (GM): After the mill race the river gets a little rougher.

Archibald of Guernicus: Time to start planning how to fight off a bunch of ghosts, then.

Jorn of Merinita: If All Hallow's Eve is a month and a half away we're a bit too early

Endrite (GM): For what?

Beatrice Orsini : moon duration spells

Jorn of Merinita: Well

Endrite (GM): Well, you can just wait.

It isn't like anything else is attacking.

As far as you know.

Jorn of Merinita: They're attacking are labwork

ourlabwork

Archibald of Guernicus: They are

Endrite (GM): It's so true.

Archibald of Guernicus: I was told their would be a magic site here but instead we're risking our lives for a bowl of rice. We should let them die.

Endrite (GM): Rice?

Jorn of Merinita: Risotto

Bolad: mmm

Endrite (GM): Thank you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: our labwork is already ruined

Jorn of Merinita: Not mine

I can just teleport home

Archibald of Guernicus: :cryingangryfeelsguy:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: might as well slay some faeries

Archibald of Guernicus: We can still make it, at merely -20 to the lab total, if we hurry!

Bolad: "You turn your back as foreign raiders wash up on your shores. It is no wonder your kind fell like leaves of grass under our hooves."

Endrite (GM): Damn.

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide wanders out of the completely empty forest, not so much as a wolf bite on him.

Endrite (GM): Owned.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve."

Jorn of Merinita: I could teleport us back to Rome and back here on the day of the raid

Archibald of Guernicus: "What foreign raiders. They're ghosts ye twit."

Aristide of Tremere: "I don't know how that priest managed to get lost."

Endrite (GM): That's right, no wolf attacked Aristide in the forest.

Beatrice Orsini : that forest is suspicious

Jorn of Merinita: "The shortcut seemed very straightforward

"As civilized as the town."

Bolad: "Being dead makes them any less foreign?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Still think we should have Bialas try to track his scent."

Archibald of Guernicus: So there's a river (normal) and a forest (normal) and a tinker (normal), so far

Jorn of Merinita: "From a magical standpoint, anyway."

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Aristide of Tremere: "They're Jorn's people, he should be able to speak with them if they do attack."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Archibald of Guernicus: So there's a river (normal) and a forest (normal) and a tinker (normal), so far

Archibald of Guernicus: We should investigate the landing site

Endrite (GM): Did you know: magical phenomna can occur in places that are normal?

It's true.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: weird that we keep following red herrings in these situations

Beatrice Orsini : landing site (normal)

Aristide of Tremere: "What if we burned down the forest?"

Endrite (GM): It is normal.

Aristide of Tremere: "We should be able to find the priest then."

Endrite (GM): It's just a beach.

Jorn of Merinita: "The dwarves are my people. The vikings would run me through as readily as the townfolk."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, Jorn and I are from as far away or further than the ghosts were."

Beatrice Orsini : "We get an Ignem summa and people immediately start thinking of burning down everything."

Endrite (GM): It's only important from a strategic perspective.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A sign of a good summa."

"Learning stimulates the imagination."

Beatrice Orsini : i'll have summa that

Endrite (GM): Pellew sort of follows you around when you start Investigating things in town.

Aristide of Tremere: wait a minute

Pellew the Tinker: "They should really do something about that beach."

Aristide of Tremere: this isnt even an ocean beach

did the vikings come down a damn inland italy river

Pellew the Tinker: "What if someone went swimming and drowned?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they go up the river

Aristide of Tremere: there are no vikings

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in their boats

Aristide of Tremere: there were no vikings

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway, I'm checking out the landing site while this idiot follows us around

Aristide of Tremere: there were never any vikings

Pellew the Tinker: Vikings are notorious river raiders.

Aristide of Tremere: theres no ghosts!!

Jorn of Merinita: I'll introduce Pellew to the rest of my sodales.

Pellew the Tinker: "Hello."

Beatrice Orsini : let me figure out a spell to change my robes into a swimsuit for the beach episode

Pellew the Tinker: "I'm Pellew the Tinker."

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, right, Bialas already confirmed he has no MR

Beatrice Orsini : that makes him even more suspicious

Aristide of Tremere: I cast Sight of the True Form and look at Pellew.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Pellew, can ye stand still for a moment?"

Bolad: Does anyone have decent MR?

Archibald of Guernicus: I do

Bialas of Bjornaer: Me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bialas has 15 parma

Aristide of Tremere: If he has a mundane disguise or a magical disguise level 10 or lower I see through it.

Jorn of Merinita: "You should know, I'm not really a priest. I didn't mean to impersonate one, I thought you were a messenger who would likely speak to me in Latin when we met."

Bolad: Can you rego trees into flammable pitch?

Pellew the Tinker: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: The lowest MR I have is 16 for imaginem

Anyway

I spont InVi

Bialas of Bjornaer: The lowest I have is 33 for Ignem. That dastardly Ignem.

Archibald of Guernicus: 1 dominion, right?

Jorn of Merinita: "I'm a scholar as well. For some of us, Latin is our only common language."

Pellew the Tinker: "Oh, my mistake."

"I mistook you for a priest."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+3+12+14+2-1)/2

(

(

5

)

+3+12+14+2-1)/2

=

17.5

Pellew the Tinker: "I suppose I should be more careful in the future."

"Latin is a real lingua franca."

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 5, detect any active magic, +2 voice, on Pellew

Bolad: are you tuning that to the fae realm or magic realm

Archibald of Guernicus: Magic first

Then fairy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What do you know about the viking spirits, Pellew?"

Aristide of Tremere: were going to cast all sorts of intellego spells on this guy

and hes going to come back completely normal

Pellew the Tinker: "Well, they're ghosts, right?"

Aristide of Tremere: there are no viking ghosts

Pellew the Tinker: "And vikings."

"So, they probably have big axes and longships, right?"

Jorn of Merinita: "They're a long way from home, if they're vikings."

Aristide of Tremere: its a damn inland village

in italy

Pellew the Tinker: "That's what you'd think, but vikings raided as far south as Sicily," he says wikipediaishly.

Beatrice Orsini : the normans no longer rule sicily, right?

Aristide of Tremere: sicily is an island!

Bolad: correct,it's ruled by the aragonese now

Pellew the Tinker: Haven't you played CKII?

Beatrice Orsini : weren't we there for the change of power in the last sagaM

Pellew the Tinker: Viking longboats can go up and down rivers.

Bolad: yes, you were there when they rose up and overthrew their Frankish overlords

Beatrice Orsini : i remember i tried speaking hebrew to an angry medieval mob

Aristide of Tremere: ah, pretty godo way to amke them angrier

Jorn of Merinita: "I see."

Pellew the Tinker: "Maybe you should put up a fence, to keep people from falling in the river and cracking their skulls open on unseen rocks."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "From what Jorn said at the start of all this, it sounded like they were actively haunting the village."

Archibald of Guernicus: I try InVi again on Redd Herrin

Fairy realm this time

Beatrice Orsini : is pellew a viking?

Jorn of Merinita: "I was born in Scandinavia but... a bit isolated from their kind."

Pellew the Tinker: I've only got 15 more minutes today.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+30

(

7

)

+30

=

37

Pellew the Tinker: "Oh, then you must know more about vikings than me."

Archibald of Guernicus: Same again, any active magic or can we leave him in a ditch

Jorn of Merinita: "Depends."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Sorry to go so long. The game is so fun!

Pellew the Tinker: "Is it true that there are still huge piles of Christian skulls on altars in the deep wood?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Sounds like something that would be true."

Aristide of Tremere: I go to Pellew's house and cast Kingly Facade next to his door.

Jorn of Merinita: "Christians have converted much of the populace by now, actually."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Not many people spend time in the deep woods. Even today!"

Jorn of Merinita: "Like, er, me."

Pellew the Tinker: Pellew does not have a house, he is a vagabond.

"Oh, I see."

Aristide of Tremere: goddamnit

Bolad: "Pellew, what year is it?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why cant we track his damn scent

Pellew the Tinker: "Well, I bet it was different in these ghosts' day."

Archibald of Guernicus: The spells found absolutely nothing btw

Bialas of Bjornaer: I don't have any particularly scent-heavy tracking abilities.

Aside from Hunt.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bears should be good at that!!

or you can spont something

Bialas of Bjornaer: Being a bear is more about having a lot of Soak and having very large claws and teeth.

Pellew the Tinker: "Um, hmm, the Year of Our Lord 1336, I believe."

Bialas of Bjornaer: What do you want to track?

Aristide of Tremere: Alright

Pellew the Tinker: "Why do you ask?"

Aristide of Tremere: I cast Aura of Ennobled Presence

I go around spreading the rumor that Pellew is touched in the head and attracts infernal spirits to any town he's in.

Pellew the Tinker: "Oh, were you hit in the head after jumping into a river and forgot what year it is?"

Alright "cool" Aristide.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll invent the MuIm spell to change smell into visible species next season

Pellew the Tinker: Roll Intrigue.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: LEVEL 5

HUNT FOR THE WILD HERB R: Per, D: Conc, T: Smell When you cast this spell, you can smell one sort of plant, and follow the scent, as long as you continue to concentrate. You must have a sample of the type of plant you are looking for. A Perception stress roll of 6+ is needed to follow the scent. If there is no plant of the relevant type fairly close by (close enough to smell), you smell nothing, although the spell still works. (Base 2, +1 Conc, +2 Smell)

Jorn of Merinita: "Christianity was introduced to Scandinavia before the attack on this village. But I think things may be different for the worshipers of Odin."

Bolad: "I do not jump in the river. Is that usual for your kind?"

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10+10

(

3

)

+10

=

13

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I jump into rivers all the time."

Pellew the Tinker: "I'm not much of a swimmer, but, you know, some people will try anything."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm going to check out the landing site in a desperate attempt to find anything that is not completely mundane around here. If I find nothing I'll make the suggestion to my sodales that we've been hoodwinked and there's nothing here.

Pellew the Tinker: Ok congrats Aristide, you will find the results of your rumormongering as such time it becomes appropriate.

Beatrice Orsini : aristide just got an innocent man killed

good job

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic

Aristide of Tremere: hes not a damn innocent

Beatrice Orsini : guilty of being a red herring

Aristide of Tremere: thats right

Pellew the Tinker: It's a beach, what do you want to investigate?

Aristide of Tremere: hes weird and i dont like him so hes gotta die

Pellew the Tinker: There's a small fishing hut and a few fellows fishing.

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+20 shouting

(

7

)

+20

=

27

Archibald of Guernicus: I mostly look around, looking for anything suspicious here with my Second Sight

rolling 1d10+3+5

(

2

)

+3+5

=

10

Pellew the Tinker: Some fishing boats are also in evidence, though they haven't put out yet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Jorn, you said you could bring us to Rome and back in no time?"

Archibald of Guernicus falls down crying

Bialas of Bjornaer: to cast InIm 25 Discern The Images of Truth and Falsehood and look at the tinker. To tell whether an image has been created or altered through the use of a spell.

level 20 or lower.

Pellew the Tinker: What are you doing Bialas?

Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone start rolling all of their lores

Pellew the Tinker: Everyone is staring at you.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Fat Man Yelling At Tinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: until we get some insight

Pellew the Tinker: "What are you yelling at me for?"

Aristide of Tremere: I roll Order of Hermes Lore.

rolling 1d10+5

(

8

)

+5

=

13

Archibald of Guernicus: I return to my sodales "I don't see a single thing around here. Frankly, I don't see a damn thing in this entire village. No evidence of faeries or anything else."

Aristide of Tremere: "Let's leave then."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'm sorry. I thought I might have seen something behind you."

Pellew the Tinker: "Oh, well, that's strange."

Beatrice Orsini : "Only infernal disguise could be so clever."

Aristide of Tremere: "There's nothing here. The priest probably just ran away."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The only bloody viking coming to this village is Jorn."

Peasant: "Hey, what are you doing to that guy?" A peasant asks.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I whisper to my sodales "He seems to not be under any type of magical disguise"

Jorn of Merinita: "Faeries don't obey mundane geometry. I could follow a faerie road right back to my laboratory and be home in ten minutes."

Aristide of Tremere: i could have told you that!

Peasant: "Does this have anything to do with those ghost vikings?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Let's just leave and come back on the 30th."

Aristide of Tremere: ill try one more thing

Peasant: Speaking of, did you guys have any more preparations you wanted to make in the village?

Aristide of Tremere: "Pellew, what makes you think ghosts are going to raid this village?"

Peasant: Or indeed, any at all?

Jorn of Merinita: Let me see the diameter of an Instant Ring Fort

Peasant: I know Bolad wanted to make some weapons.

Bolad: i dont care about losing lab time so i'll stay and supervise making bows and then try to set up some stone walls

Jorn of Merinita: I could put one around a tower

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the one thing we talked about but didn't do was look for things to read in the church

Archibald of Guernicus: "Can ye take people along with ye, Jorn?"

Pellew the Tinker: "It's a well known legend."

"Everyone knows that, right?"

Peasant: The fishermen nod in agreement.

"Yeah, everyone one hundred years."

Archibald of Guernicus: oh its just a mundane spreading lies for entertainment. incredible.

Jorn of Merinita: A circle of rock four paces in diameter, two paces, thick, and eight feet high.

Archibald of Guernicus: Someone hack him to death please

Aristide of Tremere: the villagers will

lets go

Jorn of Merinita: Enough to surround a guard tower but not a church, sounds like.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe it's a wizard spreading lies so he can harvest the faeries

Aristide of Tremere: lets head back to rome

Peasant: "I bet the church rolls even mention it, right?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Also, asked you a question Jorn

Peasant: "They keep records of everything."

Beatrice Orsini : we should go read the church records

Jorn of Merinita: Oh

Beatrice Orsini : that was the initial plan

Máriu Puddu: Oh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

Beatrice Orsini : before the boy distracted us be telling us the priest is missing

Jorn of Merinita: "I can take one person at a time, but I can make more than one trip."

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought you did when you went to the

Ahh

Peasant: You didn't, you got all excited and left.

Jorn of Merinita: I need to level up Faerie magic so I can do an entire party at once

Archibald of Guernicus: I wasnt in the church at all, as I hate them and stand outside

Peasant: Well, then obviously YOU weren't going to read the records.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's not my fault is the important thing

Jorn of Merinita: It'd take forever to be able to take an entire party + grogs though

Peasant: Ok let's wrap this up for today, I gotta go soon.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Peasant: Well, you can read the records first, if you want.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i had to escort bialas outside

Beatrice Orsini : another succesful investigation

Bialas of Bjornaer: Wow, what a lenient GM.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so i think this is all on beatrice and jorn

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, if we find nothing in the records, then ye might as well take me home, I see nothing suspicious here besides rumours."

Jorn of Merinita: I'll get Archibald home if he wants to finish the labwork

Peasant: Who wants to check out the records?

Archibald of Guernicus: The lab work is the most important thing here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll

Beatrice Orsini : I'll go take a look

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many days has it been, 9?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Why didn't you go in the church, Pellew? Who sleeps in a bush outside?" asks the person who sleeps in bushes outside all the time.

Beatrice Orsini : 8, i think

Bialas of Bjornaer: Sorry.

You can answer that next week.

Beatrice Orsini : how long does it take jorn to take someone to rome or back?

Endrite (GM): It takes a while to get through them all, but you do find records indicating that there are unusually high numbers of burials every one hundred years, dating back to 835.

Jorn of Merinita: We can figure out what we want to do about this place in the thread.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Coming out here and going back is two weeks on its own iirc, so you're getting a penalty.

Beatrice Orsini : looks like it's real

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice, if jorn does his thing and the showdown only takes a day we can all get our labwork in

Beatrice Orsini : are the burial places recorded?

Pellew the Tinker: "I'm used to sleeping outside. It's an occupational hazard of being a vagabond."

Jorn of Merinita: It could be that a trod opens up onto this place every century on All Hallow's Eve

Pellew the Tinker: Yes.

They're in the graveyard next to the church.

Bolad: maybe the trod isn't even anywhere near here, it's up the river

Jorn of Merinita: There doesn't actually need to be a neighboring regio for that

Beatrice Orsini : all of them? and always?

Aristide of Tremere: whats a trod

Jorn of Merinita: Archibald didn't see any trods upriver

Pellew the Tinker: Yep, any christian burial will be done in the churchyard.

Beatrice Orsini : also, the records really go that far?

Aristide of Tremere: lets drag pellew into the church

Pellew the Tinker: Yep.

Beatrice Orsini : that looks suspicious

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Good idea, Aristide."

Aristide of Tremere: I grab Pellew's arm and pull him into the church.

Pellew the Tinker: Church records are the best.

"Hey!"

Beatrice Orsini : but the vikings could have burned them

Jorn of Merinita: Not if they can't enter the church

Beatrice Orsini : true

Pellew the Tinker: You drag him into the church and doesn't burst into flames.

"What are you doing?"

Beatrice Orsini : are there records before 836?

Pellew the Tinker: Yep.

Beatrice Orsini : or do they start there?

Pellew the Tinker: No.

Aristide of Tremere: I stare in frustration at the shitty tinker.

Beatrice Orsini : the vikings didn't burn the records even the first time

Bolad: how did pellew hear about the vikings in the first place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone knows

Beatrice Orsini : when they were presumably still alive

Pellew the Tinker: Sounds like it's a common legend in the village.

Aristide of Tremere: lets just fucking leave

Bolad: and if the answer isn't something suspicious im done caring baout this npc and think we just need to Finish the damn Fight.

Jorn of Merinita: Vikings aren't in the business of genocide or total razings, just sackings.

There's no reason to burn the church down

Beatrice Orsini : though maybe they were repelled then which left their ghosts around

Jorn of Merinita: When you raze a village it makes it harder to raid it again next century

Pellew the Tinker: I mean, they're ghosts so...

Beatrice Orsini : it's just a village, they could have just sailed up to ostia and rome

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Wow, this guy hates being inside this much? Clan Midusulf would love him."

Bolad: why have we been assuming they're fairie all this time

couldn't they be regular infernal or magic ghosts

Pellew the Tinker: I don't know.

Bolad sighs

Aristide of Tremere: what if theres actually a group of vikigns that sends raiders here every century

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Pellew the Tinker: Ok, I've gotta go.

Bolad: Epic session everyone

Pellew the Tinker: Continue to gossip amongst yourselves.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Thanks for the game. Bye!

Beatrice Orsini : unironically epic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gg

Jorn of Merinita: I thought it was Faeries at first because I thought this guy was a Merinita calling in the favor I owed them

Bialas of Bjornaer: I think there's something fucked up about this tinker.

Jorn of Merinita: But then it turns out he's not wearing teh cloak and brooch I thought he was

Aristide of Tremere: i think hes a fucking liar

who is having a lot of fun fucking with us

did anyone ever roll folk ken on him

Beatrice Orsini : does anyone have folk ken?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe he's some kind of merinita pawn

i have some folk ken but i didn't think to use it

Jorn of Merinita: I have Folk Ken

Archibald of Guernicus: I have folk ken and mentioned can I roll it on him

Beatrice Orsini : i just want to cast CrIg at a ghost to get creo xp. that's all i want from this adventure

Jorn of Merinita: I wanted to do my favori for the cultists tha I woed

Aristide of Tremere: what if theyre draugr

Jorn of Merinita: But now I'm not so sure this will achieve that

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+4 folk ken on him talking about the vikings

(

1

)

+3+4

=

8

Amazing

Moving on

Bialas of Bjornaer: That's why you're the best, Boss.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll need to improve mentem soon

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10+5 folk ken on the guy

(

1

)

+5

=

6

Beatrice Orsini : i'll need it

Aristide of Tremere: there we go

Bialas of Bjornaer: Holy shit.

Beatrice Orsini : excellent

Jorn of Merinita: We're so offensive with our Folk Ken that the peasants rise up and lynch us as Viking spies

GG

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+4+2 folk ken + preception

(

6

)

+4+2

=

12

Beatrice Orsini : you ruined it

Archibald of Guernicus: "Alright, Jorn. So, about those trods."

Aristide of Tremere: we should just leave the village

Jorn of Merinita: "Aye?"

Aristide of Tremere: whatever happens, the village deserves it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's cast Flash of the Scarlet Flames on the tinker over and over again until he botches his roll and is blinded permanently

Beatrice Orsini : post aristide's posters everywhere and the villagers will be happy to see the village burned down

Archibald of Guernicus: "They're instant, aye? Right back to the tomb?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Pretty much. Not so much instant, but you get more than an instant's travel done within an instant."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Time to spitefully take a piss in a Ring around the church, making everyone who smells it act listlessly and without care, and be killed in the raid.

on the 31st.

Jorn of Merinita: "I can take one person along with me."

Aristide of Tremere: ill put an aristide on every house

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's a lot of piss

Jorn of Merinita: "If I'm to escort the entirety of my sodales, I'll need a few hours to fashion a permanent charm. I already have one for Vardian's Tomb."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm Size +2. I can drink a lot of water.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, all of us? That'd be amazing if ye could do it."

"We could consult with Lavinia back at the Tomb about this nonsense, maybe she's read of it."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: imagine this though:

Jorn of Merinita: Well, doing one person at a time pretty much guarantees an eventual botch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: drink the size change potion and become size +3

Jorn of Merinita: Someone might when the Arcadian Lottery and end up like Severin though

Archibald of Guernicus: Can we save the botch for Aristide

Jorn of Merinita: win

Aristide of Tremere: nice

lets do it

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait, based on Severin, that means he'll end up head of the entire tribunal

Let's not

Aristide of Tremere: aristide signs up for the botch train

Bialas of Bjornaer: Does the size change potion affect my Strength score as well?

Aristide of Tremere: make the roll shaun

Jorn of Merinita: Actually it's very hard to go to Arcadia, I don't have enough Stonemason skill to do it

Bialas of Bjornaer: Because some size change stuff doesn't/.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it doesn't say

Adds +1 to the target’s normal Size or decreases it by up to 2 points. (Base 3, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 because the spell allows growth or two kinds of shrinking)

Archibald of Guernicus: roll 1d10 to send aristide to hell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the change to wound threshold is pretty good though

Jorn of Merinita: Let's see, the EF to go to Vardian's tomb

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, there's 6 wizards here besides Jorn. So roll 6 dice to check for botches.

Beatrice Orsini : i'm base size -1, so i could use improved size

Aristide of Tremere: small

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we also have 5 grogs

Archibald of Guernicus: 5 wizard, sorry

Bialas of Bjornaer: yeah it definitely is.

Archibald of Guernicus: Grogs? Why would they matter here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does it take a few hours of lab work to make your totem or just a few hours, period

Archibald of Guernicus: Give beatrice size -3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Jorn of Merinita: Few hours period

It dumps us in the closest regio to Vardian's Tomb, actually

Aristide of Tremere: wheres my damn roll

Máriu Puddu leaps into the air and hangs on a chandelier in terror at the sight of tiny beatrice

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d19

(

12

)

=

12

rolling d10

(

2

)

=

2

I do not botch and send Aristide to Arcadia

Of I've got AFK now

Bialas of Bjornaer: you should give me a potion of ensmallening before Jorn teleports me back so his spell doesn't fuck up.

Archibald of Guernicus: Cheer up. You can always send Bialas there.

or Lavinia. tell her its safe and just keep teleporting her over and over until the magic happens

Bialas of Bjornaer: hah

Jorn of Merinita: I'll search around the Atlas Games forum for how this damn charm works in a bit

I mean, virtue

Bialas of Bjornaer: I really got lucky that everyone was totally fine with me just casting a spell on some guy.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: disclaimer: i haven't made any charged potions yet and this potion of ensmallening contains magic that has to be unleashed by me

Bialas of Bjornaer: Confidence really IS key!

Archibald of Guernicus: It's fine because he wasnt a wizard

if he was then you'd have committed a crime

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can't find the portion of the core book that talks about casting with 0 pen

Bialas of Bjornaer: Good thing I was very, very sure that I wasn't committing a crime.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i know it's in there somewhere though

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay, here's an idea

what if we teamed up with the ghosts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we convert to judaism to escape the curse

Máriu Puddu: Mariu has been walking around for days so if he's involved next time his arthritis is probably going to give him a -5 to everything.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes got a month and a half to recover

Máriu Puddu: He'll take a lot of naps.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Teaming up with the ghosts sounds cool. They probably know some secret magic stuff.

Let's let them into the order after marching the holy magic guy and really stick it to the dominion.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ancient bjornaer: we should team up with the faeries

Aristide of Tremere: giraldo fades into the scene to agree

but really. theres no faeries, or ghosts

Beatrice Orsini : giraldo: we should marry the faeries

Prudenzio of Flambeau: good plan, giraldo.

Aristide of Tremere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOh4FyH_424 magical visual recording of the vardians tomb investigation into the village

Aristocritus Bonisagi: from my point of view the vikings are evil

Bialas of Bjornaer: All they're doing is killing a bunch of Christians.

Who among us can say they haven't done the same?

Beatrice Orsini : i can

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: same

Bialas of Bjornaer: Huh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: killed a bunch of faeries though.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Can you believe it took me seventy five years to invent a spell that makes mundanes not immediately run from or attack a bear? My greatest shame. I won't discuss it any more.

devil's fav demon: the vikings seem alright though. i don't think we'll be allying with the church anytime soon, so we might as well try to negotiate.

Bialas of Bjornaer: maybe they don't need to kill ALL the Christians.

Jorn of Merinita: Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: Here's my very real suggestion: why dont we jsut tell the villagers to evacuate on the day and come back when their village is safe

Beatrice Orsini : they said they can't

Archibald of Guernicus: Solving everything, easily

Beatrice Orsini : i suggested it

Jorn of Merinita: From what I can tell, you make a charm, and then, when this charm is used in Arcadian Travel, it takes you to a trod near your destination of the storyguide's choosing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: their stuff will get burned

Archibald of Guernicus: They can leave, though, they're just stupid and choosing not to.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: devil's fav demon: the vikings seem alright though. i don't think we'll be allying with the church anytime soon, so we might as well try to negotiate.

well it's about the peasants, who happen to be christians sitting on top of a potential pile of vis, not the church as an institution

Archibald of Guernicus: What vis?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: faeries are made of vis!!

Archibald of Guernicus: Dont think ghosts are, and we found zero evidence of fairies

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: magic spirits are also made of vis

Jorn of Merinita: Basically, its a matter of how much the storyguide wants to fuck with you and stop you from teleportign around

http://forum.atlas-games.com/viewtopic.php?p=262699

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: infernal ghosts are made of vis as well. also it's a high crime to let them burn the village

Archibald of Guernicus: Is it? We didnt bring them here, they attack anyway. Once every century, in fact.

Jorn of Merinita: We could go to Asgard and ask them to stop having their followers raid the town.

Archibald of Guernicus: We looked into this matter pretty thoroughly and found absolutely nothing to suggest we should risk our lives and labwork to help a bunch of suicidal peasants.

there may(?) be a small amount of vis in it for us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we know there's probably something up

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, there is something up. A bunch of ghosts are going to attack.

We'll lose grogs, risk losing another PC, and in the end we get nothing out of it. I dont see why, IC or OOC, we should fight here.

Beatrice Orsini : because we spent time on this already and wizards love sunk cost fallacy

Archibald of Guernicus: but jorn can get me back in time to do my labwork for the season, so theres no longer any sunk costs

Jorn of Merinita: I kept getting reminded I owed these Merinita guys a favor and that I would recognize their messenger when i first saw Pellow he was wearing a familiar green cloak and silver broach

Archibald of Guernicus: ah

and we ran around chasing fairies cause of it

theres probably no fairies whatsoever

Jorn of Merinita: It turned out later that that was a mistake?

Beatrice Orsini : maybe there are fairies

Jorn of Merinita: And that's why Pellow is just a tinker and not a Merinita

Archibald of Guernicus: I want to kill him

Jorn of Merinita: And I don't actually absolve my favor by being here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ooc it seems pretty obvious that there are going to be faeries if everyone in the village believes so

Archibald of Guernicus: Do they? When did they say that?

Jorn of Merinita: My Faerie Lore roll did

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: when someone pressed the tinker

Jorn of Merinita: I got whispered that malevolent faeries will tkae whatever form folklore dictates

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and some peasants passing by agreed

Archibald of Guernicus: we're the ones talking about fairies iirc, we checked everywhere and found nothing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: plus, we had the guy in the church spread the story to everyone

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah but that could just be another red herring

like the tinker

Jorn of Merinita: They could be infernal vikings

Archibald of Guernicus: the Incrediblyl Mundane Tinker

Beatrice Orsini : there probably is something that isn't a red herring

Archibald of Guernicus: The last infernalist we encountered was immune to all weapons right? We should stab the tinker and see if it bounces off him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i feel like there are probably rules in the faerie book that prevent you from just spreading stories to attract faeries

Jorn of Merinita: I mean, the vikings are faeries theory hasn't been disproven either

Archibald of Guernicus: It hasn't but

we found nothing while investigating

so its hard to get too enthused about the idea

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but i haven't read it so it seems pretty likely that some faeries are going to be drawn down

Jorn of Merinita: And I know the viking ghosts in Valhalla are real

Beatrice Orsini : we found records of large amount of burials every 100 years

Jorn of Merinita: And that Valhalla is in Arcadia

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

so all we really know is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in character all i know about faeries is that you kill them for vis

Archibald of Guernicus: every 100 years, a bunch of ghosts attack

i think the adventure really is exactly what it looks like and says it is

a bunch of ghosts are attacking. can you defeat the ghosts?

Jorn of Merinita: We figured out fairly early on what was going on with the wedding but we didn't know the trick to trigger the final encounter

Archibald of Guernicus: ghosts can be fairy-aligned so thatll be all it is lol

Jorn of Merinita: The problem is we showed up a month and half too early

Archibald of Guernicus: did the tinker tell you it was halloween they attack?

Jorn of Merinita: If this is a horde mode map we should have showed up in time to prepare a defense, win the encounter or die trying, and go home in the span of 10 days

Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: welp

Jorn of Merinita: I didn't know it was September

I thought these things were covered by adventure planning

Someone kill Jorn and I'll roll a character who ICly has ADHD or Alzheimers so they don't get trusted with plot hooks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they might actually be demons

infernal auras are extra strong on all hallows eve

Jorn of Merinita: They might be

We got off to an incredibly bad start

Archibald of Guernicus: we should have showed up on november 1st

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Jorn of Merinita: Let's leave and come back in Winter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: good news: even if i walk back i won't get a penalty to reading a book

Archibald of Guernicus: books... my god, youve solved it gulielmus

lets go home and just read books instead for more XP than the adventure would give!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is why i should be the archon

Beatrice Orsini : i don't have book learner

and i can get 13xp out of the adventure

maybe 12

Archibald of Guernicus: Hm. You have to stay then.

Alright, everyone with book learner, follow me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i took some flavorful but worthless stuff instead of bonus xp feats

i also took life boost though.

Jorn of Merinita: Arcadian Travel has really confusing rules and the EFs are too damn high and I didn't expect to actually learn it I guess

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: shh, don't tell the gm

Everyone uses Arcadian Travel to return directly to Vardian's Tomb in an instant, safe and sound.

Jorn of Merinita: The adjusted EF to go to Arcadia is 30 with the Realms of Power; Faerie rule

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bonus XP feats are Gay.

Jorn of Merinita: it says you can make a charm for travelling to a mundane location at EF12, which is EF20, I can manage that

But there's no actual EF to navigate to amundane place since you have to go through a faerie regio

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao tom sizemore hiding behind a desk in the new twin peaks.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think i'm going to learn the houseruled teleportation magic even though you can't use it from indoors or whatever

Beatrice Orsini : there's wizard's leap lab text in the library now

so all you need is 15 ReCo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

i have 15 reco

devil's fav demon: if you have Finesse and a Muto req you can just mush your body through small spaces.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh i have 10 reco

Jorn of Merinita: Oh yeah

If I actually do teleport back to this village

I'll discover the closest faerie regio to it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's full of angry vikings

Jorn of Merinita: Possibly

Beatrice Orsini : archibald is the strongest in combat, so he goes first

Jorn of Merinita: I don't even understnad how EFs above 20 exist

I mean, EF18

I mean, EF12s that become EF20

EF18 is EF30 by our rules

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You go first, Archibald" says bear with 26 soak

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what was zita's ef to steal a hat

Jorn of Merinita: Oh, we'd probably just og through the Faerie Market to get home

Since it already exists in the canon

As long as the Faerie Market's arua isn't more than 4

rolling d10!+15+3

(

5

)

+15+3

=

23

Yeah, I got a long way to go before I get to Arcadia

Okay, let's see how hard it is to get to Arcadia from a level 4 regio

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling (13-4)*5

(13-4)*5

=

45

What the hell

rolling 4*5/3

4*5/3

=

6.666666666666667

I guess you get +7 to the roll though

devil's fav demon (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

experimentation die, extraordinary results, extra die because it was supposed to be a stress die.

rolling twice more on the extraordinary results chart.

rolling 1d10!

(

5

)

=

5

devil's fav demon (GM):

rolling 1d10!

(

6

)

=

6

side effect, side effect

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

great.

fuck it. never mind

devil's fav demon (GM): aging roll

rolling 1d10!+1

(

9

)

+1

=

10

incredible

lets ttry experimenting without jorn

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

rolling 1d10!

(

9

)

=

9