2/18/18

dys (GM): Hi

Shauncat (GM): Hello

I should see if there's enough animal vis to take a familiar

9 Animal, might be enough depending on the size of the bird

dys (GM): I'm guessing Endrite is playing Voda then.

Shauncat (GM): Caladrius is 14 Might, size -2

and has Creo and INtellego powers so I'll go with CrAn

Did we get XP for the river adventure?

dys (GM): Ho ho ho

Shauncat (GM): Oh I haven't assigned seasons to Fiorella since Spring 1342

johns: i cast magic missile

Shauncat (GM): Guess i have some timet o invent spells after all

dys (GM): Alright. Now, did any of the missing gamers say they'd be late or missing?

johns: lets add 1 aids point to all missing pcs

dys (GM): For each minute that the session is delayed due to them, an AIDS point will be accrued.

johns: boyer and cthinker aren't even on steam or discord.

dys (GM): neither is dfd

Well, the start time was moved an hour earlier to accomodate boy reporter's sleepy baby self.

johns: i am going to sleep now.

dys (GM): And it shouldn't be that long a session, since again, this was just something I came up with earlier.

johns: hail dfd

dys (GM): Do NOT go to sleep.

Fucker.

devil's fav demon (GM): hails. sorry

i was getting some tea and a refill of food for my cat.

dys (GM): What I'm saying is there's no reason to not wait until half past or so to see if they wake up

then start

Endrite: Gah, forgot we had a game today.

devil's fav demon: ^^

dys (GM): There he is

Shauncat (GM): No labwork in winter 1342, right?

dys (GM): Nope

Or Spring 1343

Boy R. (GM): sorry i'm late

dys (GM): It's fine.

Endrite: The guilty pay the price.

Boy R. (GM): i'm going to have difficulty making earlier start times AND i'm going to be a sleepy baby still

this is living

dys (GM): You can apologise to cumthinker, who - now that you have left him the only remaining latecomer - is gaining your AIDS points along with his own.

Beardbeard: boy reporter desperately forcing himself to get out of bed at 7 pm

Voda: Alright I fire my wand of fireballs at the gremlin.

dys (GM): Oh, right, since Gulielmus is now gaining 2 aids points a minute, this means he needs to begin checking for twilight, once a minute. Can someone keep track of how many times he needs to check for this? Starting from about 2 minutes ago.

johns: I would, but I gtg.

devil's fav demon: lol.

dys (GM): You do not actually need to go. Don't do this to me johns.

Guy of Bonisagus: sorry dys. we both need to go

Boy R. (GM): I bet AIDS Twilight is a good time

Guy of Bonisagus: johns and i are uhhhh entering an aoe2 duo tournament

which starts in

now

dys (GM): I'm starting the session now since only one man has let his friends down, and engaged in poor lifestyle choices.

Voda: Gah, just got a phone call from the fire, it says its in my living room.

devil's fav demon: i need to go buy a furminator (tm) for my new cat.

johns: beardbeard left our aoe2 game yesterday to play a MOBA. not a joke

devil's fav demon: lol.

dys (GM): Lmfao. You should kill him.

Guy of Bonisagus: there was no aoe2 game

because you couldnt get it to work

johns: we were going to restart it with different settings then you left.

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds like your fault

being in voice chat with borsche was scaring me

GM: The inn begins to reverbate with the sound of Stones, signalling another chapter in the saga of Vardian's Tomb

Guy of Bonisagus: "That minstrel again?"

Voda: Well, RIP everyone else.

Guy of Bonisagus: cant wait to meet endrites new magus

Voda: Great news.

You get to wait.

Celeste: "No, I will not buy a crossbow. Please stop asking."

GM: Spring is marked by several events. The casting of the aegis of the hearth, which proceeds without issue. Letters delivered by redcap to members of the covenant. And, finally, this is the season when grogs are sent out to collect the covenant's vis from the various sources.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton may or may not have a new Caladrius familiar

Napolino: Grogs like this guy, right here!

johns: classic nap

Napolino: Those of you who spend your mornings in the inn, see Napolino entering, quite flustered. He exchanges some worried whispers with Ildebrando

Voda: Whispered questions like, "Why are you still alive?"

Napolino: Anyone hanging out can roll Per+Awareness to eavesdrop on this clearly private conversation.

Befana: This is absolutely my business

Celeste: Ooh.

Guy of Bonisagus: I won't listen in, because it's not nice.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+0+2

(

10

)

+0+2

=

12

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+4 I'm a damn gossip.

(

8

)

+2+4

=

14

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 1

(

9

)

+1

=

10

Bolad: The entire inn leans in on the conversation

Celeste: lol

Napolino: I'll reveal the results, once Befana has rolled too.

Befana: however I'm out in my workshop worrying about when my linen shipment is getting here

Napolino: Gah!

Befana: and my character sheet is taking al ong time to load

Voda: Oh no.

What a shame.

Napolino: Alright. The three of you are able to hear some of what Napolino is saying

"... lost, and what am I to do! This was meant to be one of the easy ones, what if they fire me for it?"

Voda: Fortunately Beatrice is dead so nobody has to worry about being fired anymore.

Napolino: Napolino, his hurried conversation over, sits down at a table to eat his second breakfast.

Bolad: we have a flambeau so they will be fired for real.

Befana: *2 flambeau with 0 ignem

Napolino: good LORD

Voda: Got 'em.

Bolad: o_O

Napolino: That's fucked up

Celeste: uh, rosario has 5 ignem

and one whole spell in that form

Napolino: Ildebrando heads off into the covenant proper to look for someone to inform

Befana: wow

Napolino: Unless any magi are up here in the inn

Befana: call yourself a follower of Ramius

Napolino: is Guy?

Celeste: it's a light-related spell, so i

ts fair.

I'm not going to rat on Napolino, he's such a good guy, I wouldn't want to get him in trouble.

Napolino: I wish we still had that section to say who was coming on an adventure

Guy of Bonisagus: i am

Napolino: So I could see which characters people were playing

Celeste: I'm playing Celeste because I don't want to take my wizard on three adventures in a row.

Guy of Bonisagus: Guy is poring over some plans for an apiary near the inn.

Voda: Just make it.

Ildebrando: Alright!

Drop your token into the ZONE

For my convenience

Guy, the innkeeper approaches you

Befana: sorry about my huge face

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, hello Ildebrando."

Ildebrando: "Sir, it seems there's been a problem."

Guy of Bonisagus: "A problem? Go on."

Ildebrando: "One of your deliveries of 'vis' has been mislaid."

Guy of Bonisagus: "What happened with it?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm human right now but the raven has a better token

Guy of Bonisagus: the raven has a better token than anything else in the game

Celeste: yeah its really great

Ildebrando: "As far as I can tell, stolen. Napolino is almost in tears about it."

"Should I inform the other magi, sir?"

Voda: What a crybaby.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Thieves, huh? Did he say where he lost it?"

Ildebrando: "The village of Compiano, sir."

You can roll area lore (rome) or (italy) to know where that is

Guy of Bonisagus: "Compiano... Alright, go ahead and inform the others."

devil's fav demon:

rolling 1d10+1+2 int+area lore rome

(

1

)

+1+2

=

4

nice.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Complaino

Guy of Bonisagus: I ask our bright, noble grogs where Compiano is.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+3 italy lore

(

10

)

+3

=

13

Celeste: "Duhh..."

Guy of Bonisagus: thank you bolad

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 8 vs Rome Lore

(

3

)

+8

=

11

Ildebrando: He heads off up to the bird tower and lets Fiorella know

Befana:

rolling d10+3 rome lore

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Ildebrando: Unfortunately, climbing the stairs sets off his back pain, so he has to go sit down and rest, and cannot go tell the other magi.

Befana: there's nothing for it

it'll have to be a grog adventure

Ildebrando: EF 6 is enough to know, it's about 15 or so miles outside Rome.

Voda: Grog only adventure.

It can't be helped.

Ildebrando: Grog of Bonisagus

Voda: Oh man, I thought he was a grog since all he does is putter around with bees.

That's egg on my face for sure.

Ildebrando: According to your lists of Vis sources, the nearest one is the single pawn of Aurum Vis you collect.

Voda: Alright, sounds good.

I'll bring the rope.

Bolad: Nice, we're going to hang Napolino?

GM: You'll need a strong rope

Voda: Great plan.

Celeste: You might need a bigger rope.

Damn.

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll store my apiary plans and organize the grogs and the grog bird.

GM: A gathering of the minds takes place

Celeste: Who's stealing auram vis? Get your own!

Smh.

Lets shake down Napolino for more information on this thief.

Guy of Bonisagus: Go ahead.

Voda: "When did you discover the vis was missing?"

Bolad: "Napolino. You have failed your task and brought disgrace to your covenant."

"If you wish to save face you must tell all you know."

Celeste: "Hey, don't be so hard on him. Look at that sweet face."

Napolino: "I tried to recover it, I swear!"

Befana: I busle in and shake down Napolino for the exposition he's already delivered, because he's looking guilty

Bolad: lets all beat up the grog

Napolino: "It was... I got back from it late, so I stopped at the village not too far from it. They always do a good breakfast, sirs, and the beds are quite clean."

Celeste: "Smart."

Napolino: "Everything was fine, I went to bed, but when I woke up, there was a fellow in my room, running out it with my things. Your vis and all, sirs."

Befana: "Well that's for the best then. The thief doesn't know the value of what he has

Napolino: "I chased the bugger, I did, but that's when" he lowers his voice, looking at you all "something strange happened."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Strange?"

Napolino: He nods

Celeste takes a long drink of wine

Befana: "What IS this 'vis', to the untrained eye? I understand it can look like almost anythign"

Napolino: The wiki and ledger dont list the physical state of our vis sites, sadly

So it's whatever our Aurum vis source looks like

Johns will have to fill me in

Voda: It should give a brief description.

The Auram vis is an egg laid by a magical bird.

Napolino: ah

Bolad: egg

Napolino: "An egg."

Guy of Bonisagus: eggy vissy

Napolino: "Ohhh, if they try and cook it..."

He grabs his head "I didn't mean to lose it, honestly."

Befana: "what happens if they do cook it?"

Celeste: "At least you didn't eat it, haha!" I clap him on the back.

Voda: "I wouldn't eat it, that's for sure.

Napolino: "Well, the magi are always saying this egg is worth it's weight in gold."

"Very important to keep it safe."

Befana: "..."

"You didn't eat it, did you?"

Napolino: "No! I swear on my old mothers bones I didn't even think of it."

Voda: I bet it's worth a lot more than gold.

I mean, eggs don't weigh much.

Guy of Bonisagus: "So what's this strange thing that happened, then?"

Napolino: "Right. Right, yes."

"So, I thought I lost sight of him - he was a quick bugger, for sure, and it was pitch dark outside - but then I spot him again, only this time, he's over by another building. The other way from the way he ran."

"So I run after him, but he disappears, and then I see him walking behind me!"

Celeste: "Tricky."

Napolino: "I grab the man, shake him, ask him for my stuff back, but he's got no bag on him, and says he doesn't know a thing!"

"Something foul and strange was going on, I knew it. So I ran, sirs."

Befana: "he gave you the slip"

Napolino: "No, more than that, he were disappearing and appearing like it was nothing."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps some hedge mage."

Napolino: "No man could have ran behind me that fast, it isn't possible, sirs."

Voda: "Are you sure it isn't a real wizard?"

Bolad: it was a guy with the Blink poewr from dishonored.

Napolino: "He didn't smell like a wizard, he smelled like a farmer."

Befana: "Had you been drinking, Napolino?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Blink power from World of Warcraft

Voda: "It isn't like Vardian's Tomb doesn't have plenty of skeletons in the basement."

Napolino: "Only one glass, miss."

"I don't start seein' people blink around like that till at least 7."

Befana: "mistress"

"But, well, I suppose it's wizardry then"

Napolino: "Mistress" he corrects himself, though he doesn't really know who you are

Celeste flushes at Befana's suggestion. Best not mention she's drunk any time she works.

Voda: "I didn't realize you were the one paying the bills now."

Befana: I earned the title Maestra maybe 4 months ago and I'm not letting anyone forget it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Someone has to pay them."

Befana: "We've been paying them for some time"

Celeste: "Anything distinctive about the man's appearance?"

"Was he wearing some sort of jewelry, maybe?"

Bolad: "Making any sort of arcane incantation?"

Napolino: "It was peasant clothing, he had a bit of a round face, brown hair, and a hat on."

"No, just laughin' and runnin'."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Was it a good hat at least?"

Voda: Hmm.

"Maybe it was a ghost."

Napolino: "It weren't the sort a fashionable lady like yourself would wear, miss."

"Just a working man's hat."

Befana: "What colour?"

Celeste: "Hm. We can't very well hunt him down off of this."

Napolino: "Sorta browny blue?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Wouldn't do to wear an expensive hat while working,I suppose."

"Not that I'd know."

Celeste: "Might have to recreate the conditions, see if he goes for the heist again."

Napolino: "He must have known that village well, runnin' around it like that, sirs, I'd say he's a local to it."

Voda: "How big is this village, anyway?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Then it should be easy to find him."

Befana: I quiz him closely on the hat, making the best of 10 ranks in Craft: Tailor (hats), until I'm certain I can picture exactly hte kind of hat it is and recall anything distinctive about it

Napolino: Nice.

Celeste: "Not as big as a town, probably."

Napolino: You have an immaculate mental image of this man's hat.

Befana: idk if there's a hatter's guild at this point. that might be an invalid specialty

Napolino: "Oh, not that big."

he says to Voda

Befana: "did you complain to anyone that you were robbed?"

Voda: I think for crafting you're good if you have Blacksmithing, Tanning, Weaving, Goldsmithing, Jeweling, or Carpentry.

That pretty much covers everything there is to craft.

Napolino: "I did. Just now, miss, when I got back here."

"Mistress." He corrects himself

Befana: "but not to the inn? Leaving aside the precious egg, you must have lost all your necessaries and valuables"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What jeweling specs are there other than gemcutting?

Befana: I think gems are cut by the time jewellers get their hands on them

Voda: You use it to decorate other objects.

Napolino: "I couldn't find the innkeeper when I went back, and something deeply strange was going on, I just wanted to get out of there."

Befana: specs would be either regional styles or particular items like rings imo

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: A&A covers a lot of the trades that make stuff that looks good

And C&G practical stuff

Befana: "very reasonable"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: C&G also covers things that have practical use by virtue of looking good, like hats

Voda: Craft: Blacksmithing (Labwork)

Anyway, I think we should head to what obviously is a small town and investigate.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Lab equipment seems like a reasonable specialization of a craft

Befana: "Well we can't let this stand. Even if we can't recover the egg, we should bring the thief to justice."

Voda: AFK a sec.

Celeste: "You have my bow."

Befana: "It will redound to our credit, is the phrase I think you use in these circumstances"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "And my beak."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Alright, that's enough. Let's go."

Befana: is fiorella in bird form most of the time now?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hypatia is probably in disguise and taking classes right now

I'll try to be human more often

GM: Are you taking any grogs or whatnot when you head out?

Befana: I don't mind

but if she is I assume she's a familiar

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: She has a familiar now

GM: Anyway, if you take any grogs, move them up into the Active part

The blue X near the aurum vis is the village

Befana: There seem to be a lot of violent types coming so I don't ask for any more assistance

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah lets take a small army to deal with a lone thief

GM: True. Bolad, Celeste and Voda are your hired muscle.

Celeste: weve got the two best archers in mythic europe and a semi-officially dead cold blooded criminal, we're good, yeah.

GM: It's after luncheon when you arrive at the village

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Morgana can lead Tunde and the two of them can shield grog two wizards

Fiorella is difficult to shield grog for as a bird

GM: Your arrival causes a bit of a stir, as Guy and Fiorella clearly stand out. Well, so does Celeste, really.

And Bolad, as a mongolian.

Boy R.: ah yes, the commonly agreed hour of luncheon

how  20th century  of oyu

Guy of Bonisagus: guy looks like a monk

i guess that does stand out in a village

GM: Befana, you take 2 aids points, please check for HIVilight.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: VIrgillian Twilight

GM: Oh, Guy was gentle gift, wasnt he?

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

GM: I'm sorry. He does not actually stand out then.

Befana: I am part fairy, and thus congenitally AIDS-ridden

GM: My condolences.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have Charm (compensating for the gift), I can try that

Celeste: celeste looks like a teenage girl in half chain and armed to the teeth so like, kind of a joke, almost

GM: There's a bit of a scene going on in the village, though, that's distracting from you all.

Befana: I look like a prosperous townswoman

not worth noting really

Guy of Bonisagus: tell me about the scene, gm

Befana: let's look at this scene!

GM: A group of villagers are gathered together, yelling at something.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I look like a noble Venetian

GM: When you draw closer, you can see a man in the stocks. He's got a black eye and has obviously been pelted with rotten vegetables.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But that could be weird enough here

Celeste: "So cruel."

Befana: you know we should have brought Napolino

"That's him!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I try not to judge the commoners and how they enact justice on each other.

Celeste: He's seen enough.

Befana: "I'd know that hat anywhere!"

Guy of Bonisagus: I walk up, adopting a monkly pose.

Voda: Lookin' good.

Rabble: Hail, cumthinker

Befana: It's nice of them to let him keep the hat, honestly

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hello, fine people. What has this man done?"

c'thinker (GM): salvete rabble

Celeste: wait a minute, that hat!

Rabble: "He's a rotten thief, is what he is." one man says

"He stole my linen right out my home, bold as brass, the swine." a woman chimes in

Voda: Tsk tsk.

Rabble: Hello cumthinker.

Guy of Bonisagus: "My, a truly blatant act."

Rabble: Someone fill our latecomer in

c'thinker: Hello rabble.

Guy of Bonisagus: "What have you to say for yourself, my friend?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hat theft?

Simon the Basket Weaver: "It weren't me! I swear!"

Voda: Hmm.

Simon the Basket Weaver: A rotten period-appropriate region-appropriate season-appropriate vegetable hits him on the nose.

Guy of Bonisagus: I would like to use folk ken. GM, please do this the proper way and secretly roll my +2 modifier.

Simon the Basket Weaver: Okay

Voda: Ah, the ol' tomato to the face.

Celeste: Cumthinker, Napolino was robbed on his way home from collecting our magical egg of auram vis. He described this hat-wearing man in the stocks as the thief, and gave the man's mystical powers of teleportation or speed as the reason he couldn't recover the egg.

Also he mentioned the town itself was suspicious in some way.

Befana: we should have made him elaborate I guess

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: But the man in the stocks says he's innocent.

Guy of Bonisagus: I rub my beard. "You're certain this is your thief? The man seems an honest sort."

Celeste: We are currently 15 miles from Rome in a small town.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Maybe Napolino is mistaken.

Celeste: Forgot to mention that.

He might be.

Voda: Are we sure that's what happened or did he just think that's what happened?

Napolino is easily tricked, after all.

Rabble: "I SAW him do it!" one says

"Yeah, so did I"

Cnaeus: Okay I made a sheet for the familiar

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Help. I need an adult

Rabble: Does Fiorella take her familiar along, and hang out with it in bird form, so they just look like 2 birds.

Cnaeus: Back to player mode

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, but devilry can play tricks on the sight, you know. Did everyone get their stolen possessions back?"

Rabble: "He hid 'em somewhere. The bastard."

Voda: Make your familiar take human form.

Celeste: Ah, allow me to introduce my familiar, Cnaus.

God bless you.

Rabble: "Won't even say where he put them."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: She carries it on her shoulder when she travels as ahuman.

Voda: To freak out the mundanes.

Rabble: The crowd jeer and yell at Simon again

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll invest some vis in it later, I"ve used enough for the binding.

Befana: imo someone else should stat out the kind of familiar you want

Celeste: "How long has Simon been in the stocks?"

Voda: I mean, familiar stats don't really matter.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Someone else did stat the familiar

Rabble: "Since this mornin'"

Befana: oh cool

Bolad: oh

Voda: I'll throw some lettuce at Simon.

Bolad: "Where's he live? Did you search for the loot there?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The publishers of Realms of Power: Magic, to be specific

Rabble: "I did, yeah. He musta buried it somewhere or something, wasnt there."

One person pipes up "Oh, I found the linen he stole there, right in his home."

Befana: maybe cool?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, that's certainly incriminating."

Rabble: There's murmurs and continued insults hurled at Simon for his crime

Befana: I was going to say I'd write up a bird but if we're playing it that you can pick one out of the book that's fine too

Voda: Sounds like Simon's just a big crook.

Rabble: I picked a familiar from RoP:M before after checking this was alright to do.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We had a lot of time without a lab so the time seemed about right to search out a familiar

Guy of Bonisagus: "Could you point us to his home? We may be able to find the rest of his ill-gotten gains."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If you wanna stat one I can use it instead

Celeste: "You know, just because a man sins, that doesn't grant you the authority to sin against him in turn. Breaking into his house was wrong. Shame!"

Rabble: One of the rabble points it out, they're eager to have more people go through and trash it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But no one seemed interested the last few times I asked on DIscord

Guy of Bonisagus: "Thank you."

I head over to his home.

Rabble: "He stole from us!" someone says

"Yeah, he stole from us, smelly."

Voda: Let's push down the walls of his house.

Celeste: "You need to go to church."

"Clearly someone's also 'stolen' the light of the Lord from your hearts."

Voda: I can't go to church.

GM: Alright, Guy heads over to the home

Voda: Have a little sensitivity!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go to church

Celeste: I was talking to the rabble.

Rabble: They make a very rude gesture at you Celeste

Bolad: I follow Guy

Celeste: Sorry, Voda.

Befana: "I've heard of people like that. They have a devil that makes them steal when any hardened thief would have more sense"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll follow the party so they don't have to gather me before venturing forth

Befana: "Well. this is probably the safest place for him"

Celeste: Yeah, I'll stop antagonizing the crowd once my bosses move along.

Befana: I'll bring up the rear

GM: Guy, the man's door has been kicked in, and you can see his things thrown all over the place. People clearly rooting through it, searching.

Befana: I search for eggs

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Voda: Door eh?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Ah, this poor man."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did anyone ask simon where the stolen goods came from

Voda: Let's steal the door.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Summoning a bunch of crows to search for an egg might be a bad idea

GM: I'll spare you a taunting awareness roll. Your searching turns up eggless.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: They'd probably eat it

Bolad: I walk around the house looking for signs of something freshly buried.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I believe someone's taken on his identity to commit those crimes."

Celeste: I search for spare hats.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Simon, where did all of those stolen goods come from if you didn't steal them?"

Simon the Basket Weaver: "I don't know! They're saying they found some, then they're saying they didn't find some, and blaming me for both! I didn't do a th-" he's hit in the face with a tomato

Bolad: A tomato???

Celeste: a tomato.

Guy of Bonisagus: alright

Celeste: at this time of day.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats it

Celeste: in this year.

Guy of Bonisagus: were beating the shit out of dys

Simon the Basket Weaver: Sorry. He's hit in the face with a period, region and season appropriate vegetable

Endrite said tomato earlier, blame him

Bolad: No, let's go back to the tomato

Voda: Tomatoes are period appropriate.

Bolad: I feel that's the seed for a very exciting adventure

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: A potato hits Simon in the cheek

Voda: They were actually invented in Poland.

Simon the Basket Weaver: A tomato seed, you might say

Befana: "Hm. No wonder their tomatoes are rotten if they harvest this early"

Bolad: How did an ancient Aztec get into the crowd? The covenant tries to find out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The tomato was first domesticated in China, 4,000 years ago.

Celeste: My god, Strabo has been here and he's sowing the seeds of anachronistic invasive plants all across europe.

Simon the Basket Weaver: He's hit in the face with a coconut, knocking him out

Bolad: much better.

Befana: obviously we have coconuts or else how does anyone know when they're riding a horse

Simon the Basket Weaver: Bolad, you find no signs of something being buried around his house

Bolad: Well if we take everyone's statements at face value there is some evil faerie or demon at work here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: simon's neck has been broken by the impact of the coconut and the stocks. everyone go home

Voda: I feel like Simon is just a huge liar.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "What's with all this spoiling produce? Shouldn't the peasants be eating better if they have this much stocked?"

Befana: Perhaps he just loves to steal

Bolad: Possibly, but this is Ars, so who knows

Simon the Basket Weaver: It's hard to question Simon right now, as the crowd are still interested in calling him incredibly rude names and pelting him

And, indeed, so is Voda

Befana: I feign shock at these rustics' language

Voda: I'll throw some baby bok choy at him.

Celeste: lol.

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed. Is there any Intellego magic of level 20 or lower observing me?

Bolad: I ask around to find who the justice of the peace of whoever responsible for putting this guy in stocks is

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go buy some arborio rice since they obvoiusly have a surplus of food

Simon the Basket Weaver: No, there is not, Guy. Do you do that privately or cause a scene?

Celeste: There's nothing visible with second sight, is there?

Guy of Bonisagus: well im in the house

Celeste: Probably not.

Guy of Bonisagus: i assume theres not any people in here still

since its already been looted

Simon the Basket Weaver: No, but I'll keep you and Bolad's second sight in mind, dont worry. Actually does Bolad have it?

Bolad: yea

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I upend a bowl full of Jollof rice on Simon's head.

Simon the Basket Weaver: Alright. I'll keep it in mind.

Befana: I also see twice

Simon the Basket Weaver: You have privacy in the house, don't worry.

Wow. I'm seeing triple. Sixth sight.

What do you do now, then, all?

Bolad: I ask around to find who is in charge of this village

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe it's a magical spirit of theft that doesn't care about the consequences of its actions, or a magic magpie or something.

Befana: "So how long has he got in the pillory?"

I ask of a reveller

Voda: This is just a good old time.

Rabble: "Since we pulled him out his house this mornin'."

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll ask around to find out if any locals have gone missing or started acting differently.

Befana: "that answers my next question"

Voda: Wait a minute... is this mob justice???

Shocking stuff!

Befana: "but first, how long do you plan to keep him here?"

Rabble: "Till he says where he hid my bloody horseshoes, for one."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Who holds the key to the pillory?"

Voda: I pretend to throw an apple at him but I actually hide it in my sleeve, for later.

Befana: actually, if this town HAS a pillory, that must mean there's a justice man

Bolad: What is the aesthetic quality of the pillory?

Befana: executioner or bailiff or soemthing

reeve?

Voda: What if the pillory is a cursed object?

Rabble: 69. Your eyes burst into flames at the sight of such beautiful stocks.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is italy, so the reeve is called a Rivo

Celeste: I'll stop searching the house and go back out to the pillory.

Befana: is it a pillory or is it a stocks

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Is there an Army of Darkness pit next to the pillory like in Sims Medieval

Bolad: What is the age of the pilory, within a margin of 10%

Celeste: "When did Simon show up? How long have these thefts been going on?"

Voda: That would explain my zealous persecution of a man I've never met before.

Rabble: It's stocks

Befana: sorry for speaking imprecisely

Rabble: Which I looked up and did exist in medieval times, as a seperate thing from a pillory.

Befana: hooray

Celeste: thank you.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Pillory is fun to say

Rabble: I don't think they have a lock but will just be tied up with rope or something

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But I guess stocks are different since they have posts

Befana: ok but I will say that if they have a place for criminals to be punished they've obviously got an organised law enforcement system

probably?

Rabble: Also Bolad asked about who's in charge, but it's a small village, so I don't know if they have a formal leadership

Bolad: Who is the Bailiff? The liege lord? The parish priest?

Rabble: And anyway, this is mob justice

Bolad: Who collects the taxes? Who pays the night watchmen?

Voda: Wow.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: They could have a seneschal or something

Voda: I throw a mango at Simon.

Bolad: Castellan

Rabble: Bolad you gain an AIDS point.

Bolad: Justicar

Voda: I think it's probably cursed.

Celeste: This is just ridiculous.

Guy of Bonisagus: have i been able to find any information about missing or strangely acting locals, gm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who is the local  Ti-pao

Rabble: What do you ask around about, Guy?

Bolad: what is the qi condensation level of the stocks

Celeste: If it were cursed, it would be affecting Bolad too.

Guy of Bonisagus: I ask around about locals that have gone missing or started acting strangely.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I will ask if anyone has seen an egg.

Bolad: that is right. i have no MR so when magic curses are about look to me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Has anyone seen an egg? I'm looking for a stolen egg. Missing an egg, here, folks."

Voda: Ah, but he's mongolian.

Rabble: No-one is missing, but when you ask about the events of the night before, hang on I'll roll your folk ken for you as you want.

Voda: He's probably just waiting to chop Simon's head off.

Rabble:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There's EFs for finding rumors with Intrigue in True Lineages if you want an easy method to drop clues

Rabble:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

Guy of Bonisagus: need an egg here. egg here. thief stealing my egg

Befana: I want to gather gossip on who precisely has been stolen from. people love to talk about stuff like that. and in fact is anyone complaining about having something stolen this very day, or do they all agree the thefts have stopped and they caught the culprit

Celeste: Good question.

Befana: dang i should have got intriuge

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go up in bird form and check out the scene from above

Celeste: Intrigue is a good stat to get, because then people can start rolling Intrigue instead of Charm every time an intrigue situation comes up.

Fiorella the Raven: Transforming in secret, of course

Guy of Bonisagus: I head to check out the inn.

Befana: ars has a kind of arbitrary selection of social skills

Celeste: its dumb as hell but it makes me smile.

Rabble: Gathering gossip on the people who were stolen from is easy. They have similar stories, either of not seeing who did it, or seeing who did it and it was Simon. Everyone who witnessed a thief last night says it was clearly Simon that they saw, no doubt in their minds.

Fiorella the Raven: There's a Heremtic House that specializes in intrigue, even

Voda: It absolutely infuriates me.

Fiorella the Raven: Intrigue is very good because its not scrying to roll it

Innkeeper: "Hello, sir." you're greeted, Guy

Befana: I made a conscious choice never to learn Charm but sometimes leadership and bargain don't get what you need

Fiorella the Raven: Leadership has a lot of explicit uses

Charm almost requires you to get aggressive to make it useful

Celeste: Before following the group, I try to pick out some fruit that isn't spoiled and feed it to Simon.

Voda: Paranoia has the best speech skills.

Celeste: "Here, you're probably hungry."

Fiorella the Raven: What are the Paranoia social skills?

Voda: Bootlicking, Chutzpah, and Intimidation.

Celeste: Nice.

Simon the Basket Weaver: "Thank you" he eats it

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hello. A friend of mine left something here, large fellow with a big appetite. Do you remember which room he was in?"

Befana: afk a moment

Fiorella the Raven: I like it

Simon the Basket Weaver: Celeste, please roll quickness+brawl to dodge a kiwi being thrown at you for this

Fiorella the Raven: Bootlicking is clearly the master choice though

Simon the Basket Weaver:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+2

(

7

)

+2+2

=

11

Simon the Basket Weaver:

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

10

)

=

11

Okay

Never mind

Celeste: lmao.

Bolad: The Kiwifruit is era appropriate, as it is native to Senica.

Fiorella the Raven: "What are all these strange fruits anyway?"

Bolad: Serica. Cathay. Whatever

Simon the Basket Weaver: They hit one of their friends instead on the back of the head and an argument breaks out

Celeste: celeste does a backflip for no reason.

Guy of Bonisagus: damn, fiorella found the character tab

Simon the Basket Weaver: :tragic:

Bolad: is anyone able to InVi active or past traces of magic

Innkeeper: "Oh, you mean the big guy who was in here last night?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Guy of Bonisagus: damn, fiorella found the character tab

Innkeeper: "He asked for a breakfast but he left before morning, strange guy."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Innkeeper: "You a friend of his?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye, I am. He's an odd sort, sorry if he caused you a bother."

Voda: He was probably too upset to eat anything.

Innkeeper: The innkeeper shows you to the room Napolino stayed in

Guy of Bonisagus: "Thank you." I give the man a small tip for his hospitality.

Innkeeper: He smiles and accepts it

Guy of Bonisagus: I look around Napolino's room for anything interesting.

rolling 1d10+2

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Bolad: what about an InVi to hear the sound of vis

and follow that to the egg.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats all for fiorella to do

as i cannot spont

Bolad: lol.

Innkeeper: You find some muddy footprints, Guy. Though they could just be Napolino's.

Bolad: tfw no magi

Voda: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: Do they look large enough to be Napolino's?

Innkeeper: You have Fiorella, Guy and Gulielmus. 3 whole magi.

They look like an adult male foot size, if that's what you mean

Voda: We shouldn't be looking for footprints, since the culprit can teleport.

Innkeeper: It's not like Napolino's feet are as notably rotund as he

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmm

Guy of Bonisagus: well, if we had a good magus, the footprints might be an ac?

Voda: Or, rather, we should be looking for foot prints that are 50 paces apart.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could try to spont an InAn for Egg VIsion

Guy of Bonisagus: i dunno

Celeste: well, the culprit may not be able to teleport so much as disguise himself as someone else

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there are probably a lot of eggs in town.

Celeste: or maybve also teleport.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Dungeon master, have any of the townsfolk heard of the egg

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't have great Intellego but I have the bird focus

Voda: We just need to distinguish it from other eggs.

Innkeeper: I think seeing through a material is Intellego of that form, so seeing eggs through wooden walls is still InHe and not InAn

Guy of Bonisagus: any plant bits in the footprint mud?

Innkeeper: But I'm not sure

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Eggs that aren't in kitchens or a market are unusual

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seeing eggs through wooden walls probably takes a requisite

Celeste: Can I roll Hunt or Survival or something on the footprints? You can't tell fatness of a man but you can tell depth of a footprint in mud

Innkeeper: The egg is visibly strange, iirc. It's a magical egg after all.

Celeste: Just to rule out if the man is fatter than normal and thus napolino

Innkeeper: Oh, yes, you could roll Hunt to track them

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's an Auram egg so probably blue and swirly looking

Innkeeper: Per+Hunt, Celeste

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the gm is trolling me. im going to eat a sandwich

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+2

(

6

)

+2+2

=

10

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If it was Animal maybe it'd be a platonic egg

Guy of Bonisagus: are there any plant bits, game master

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Or spherical

Innkeeper: How am I trolling you? Are you trying to do something, Guli?

Celeste: Sadly my hunt specialty is in Covering Tracks, not Tracking.

Guy of Bonisagus: well, when we find this guy you can give him some tips

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm trying to gather information on whether or not anyone has seen our missing egg!

Innkeeper: You can follow the footprints all the way out of the inn, Celeste, but that's about as far as you can manage. There's too much noise from other people walking to see where they go next.

Celeste: "Hmm... Have to find another trail."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What's the rules on magical hearing? Does something have to be moving?

Innkeeper: Gulielmus, who are you asking, just random people?

No-one claims to have seen an egg

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well the egg would be moving if the thief was carrying it away

Innkeeper: That isn't a normal egg

It doesnt have to be moving. It just has to be in hearing range.

Bolad: we could ask lavinia to divine the location of the egg

i wonder if the gm was hoping we'd do that

Innkeeper: Oh no, not at all.

You can if you want though. Hell, I can't stop you.

Voda: I always hope we go ask Lavinia to find things for us.

Bolad: I think we're making good progress already

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I think I could do Shriek of the Impending Shafts but with an egg

With Bird Focus and Potent Bird Magic

Guy of Bonisagus: shriek of the impending egg

Bolad: So Guy has found no leads on anyone suspicious, or anyone new in town, or anything out of the ordinary?

Celeste: Alright, why Simon?

Guy of Bonisagus: i might have a lead once the gm gets to telling me whether or not theres any plant bits in the footprint mud

lets hope the thief stepped on a non-grass plant at some point

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Innkeeper: No-one claims to have seen an egg

alas!

Innkeeper: There's some grass I suppose

Celeste: I hope he wasn't just made a patsy at random and actually got in trouble with someone or something.

Guy of Bonisagus: just grass?

ok ive got no leads

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could stay a night and leave out some items to be stolen

Innkeeper: I don't think they were running through any flowerbeds, its just the normal sort of mud you get from walking about a peasant village

Bolad: I activate my Witcher Vision

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Alright I spont an InAn, I'll use the InHe guidelines since Shriek is more useful for detecting a product

Innkeeper: To hear eggs?

Celeste: the unmistakable sound of an egg.

Voda: I feel like hearing eggs isn't that useful.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll try to tailor it to the specific egg we're looking for, if possible

Voda: Since there are probably many eggs.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Innkeeper: That isn't a normal egg

It doesnt have to be moving. It just has to be in hearing range.

Voda: Why don't you just cast a spell to find vis?

Bolad: If we have to steal every egg in town, we'll do it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Maybe the magic egg sounds different.

Innkeeper: It depends which base guideline you use, let me check

Bolad: but also yes, just finding vis would be easier

Befana: I don't think the shriek effect is the guideline you want

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does anyone have good vim

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Voda: Not I.

Befana: detecting eggs is a good idea though with fiorella's specialty

Bolad: Fiorella is the only person who can spont here. lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What's a good vis findign spell

Innkeeper: Okay, Base 4 tells you a specific fact about an animal's body, which we can extrapolate to a specific fact about an egg

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Befana: I don't think the shriek effect is the guideline you want

Innkeeper: So you should be able to hear a magic egg with that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is, it uses the "locate a plant" guideline

lv 2

Befana: I think that's way too high

Innkeeper: base 4, + 3 hearing, then +1 for conc/diam duration

Bolad: InVi Base 1, Detect the presence of vis. As concentrated magic, vis is not hard to spot.

Befana: it's not telling you a fact about an egg, it's telling you "is this an egg"

Celeste: I'm going to go back to Simon and say "Hey, you can trust me. What have you been doing the last few days? Did you get involved with something out of the ordinary? I won't get you in trouble."

Innkeeper: Or that.

Befana: base 2 at most

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm already looking at InVi since there's too much controversy over egg intellego

Befana: if we consider sensing anything of the animal kingdom as base 1

Celeste: "I'll even try to get you out!"

Voda: You can't be afraid of controversy, IMO.

Bolad: Base 1, +3 Hearing, +2 Sun = L10

Innkeeper: No, Befana, she wants to use it to tell if its the specific magic egg, not just any egg

Bolad: Hear vis all day.

Voda: I throw a dragonfruit t Celeste.

Celeste: roll thrown weapon.

Voda: I mean "at Celeste."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, Invi, tailored to bird and egg related vis

Befana: mm ok

Innkeeper: the guideline for that would be base 4, since it tells you a specific fact - in this case, that its the magic egg

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 1

(

1

)

+1

=

2

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll soak against the incoming barrage of pineapples from the Trained Group of rabble

Bolad: I throw the following at Simon: corn, potato, tomato, bell pepper, chili pepper, vanilla, tobacco, beans, pumpkin, cassava root, avocado, peanut, pecan, cashew, pineapple, blueberry, sunflower, petunia, black-eyed susan, dahlia, marigold, quinine, wild rice, cacao (chocolate), gourds, and squash.

Voda: Gah.

Innkeeper:

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

1

)

=

3

Celeste: this is the power of God.

Innkeeper: Voda

You manage to fall flat on your face throwing the dragonfruit

Celeste: This is what it means to play a Divine character.

Voda: It happens.

Befana: sensing whether an egg is magic is definitely InVi then

Bolad: The egg is raw vis

Innkeeper: This is twice someone has botched throwing fruit at Celeste

Befana: bit harsh on Susan imo

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling (12+5+6+d10!) Intellego Vim, Bird/egg specific

(12+5+6+

(

6

)

)

=

29

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I throw a bushel of amaranth at Celeste.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling 29/2

29/2

=

14.5

Innkeeper: I would have allowed InAn with base 4 guidelines to tell if the egg is magical

Because it seems reasonable

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a vis container! that's why we're here

Befana: I vehemently disagree

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: for the vis

Bolad: I munch a peanut.

Simon the Basket Weaver: Before I resolve Fiorella hearing the vis, Simon was addressed by Celeste, so I'll cover that first

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Detect the presence of vis is base 1

Simon the Basket Weaver: The man hangs his head low "I don't know, I don't know..."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: +2 Smell

Bolad: I didn't know Blueberrys were new world. tragic

Simon the Basket Weaver: base 1, +3 hearing is probably better, can still get Sun duration

unless you want to smell vis for a month

Voda: Who wouldn't want to?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Celeste: "It's alright. God will forgive you."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hearing egg vis for Sun

Guy of Bonisagus: what about crowberries

Simon the Basket Weaver: "Maybe it was-" someone pelts him with a banana

Bolad: also nbew world

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Empetrum nigrum, crowberry, black crowberry, or, in western Alaska, blackberry

Nigrum

Bolad: native to the Falkland Islands

Celeste: "Savages!"

Voda: Hmm.

Well, do you smell any vis?

Simon the Basket Weaver: It seems hard to get a conversation going while people are crowded around like this

GM: In the meantime, Fiorella, you can hear the unmistakable sound of an egg

Celeste: Yeah. I'll have to wait for nightfall or ask for help with the crowd.

Time to go back to the group.

Voda: Gasp!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll notify any nearby sodales about the egg sound

Voda: Fiorella is hot on the trail!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And then approach it

GM: In an eggy voice, it cries out to you. It seems to be in one of the houses here. Not Simon's house.

Celeste: "It seems like Simon knows something else, but he's being pelted with fruit at such a high rate of speed that I can't get anything out of him."

Voda: I'll follow Fiorella after throwing one last plantain at Simon.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "This house, sodales. i hear something.

Guy of Bonisagus: I take a look at this house.

Befana: cast a ward against fruit

Celeste: "Oh, the egg!"

Bolad: I pace around the house.

Befana: I'll follow the troupe. To watch a man get pelted is prurient and unbecoming

GM: The house is currently empty, as the owner is out throwing all manner of anachronistic and ridiculous vegetables, fruits and plant matter at Simon

The sound of an egg grows louder

You can't escape the sound of an egg

Bolad: "The bird has flown the coop, and leaves the egg behind."

Celeste: The egg quakes in your mind.

Voda: Can anyone find out whose house this is?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't care for peasant justice myself. They should behave properly and kill each other with bloody duels

Bolad: I can try.

GM: A cursory search, effortless with the loud, booming sound of an egg, reveals the item hidden in a small pile of clothing under the bed

Bolad: I will try by asking people at the crowd at random until I either get a response or accidentally ask the person who owns the house.

GM: "I am an egg" it seems to cry out as you hold it

Guy of Bonisagus: I look around for other items reported as stolen.

Rabble: "Yeah, that's my house, what of it?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "This egg contains vis, as far as I can tell."

Celeste: I will shout "Since you're all thieves, I shall rob this empty house! By your logic, you are defeated!"

Befana: "Do you own an egg?"

Bolad: Note that Bolad is NOT at the house to save you when you trigger the watching ward to collapse it on you.

"It is a fine house. Did you build it yourself?"

Rabble: "The fuck? Of course I own an egg, I got a chicken."

"Several eggs even."

Befana: I've followed Bolad because I'm worried he'll get in trouble

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What does the vis egg look like?

Befana:

rolling d10+5 folk ken

(

8

)

+5

=

13

Rabble: It's blue and you can see air swirling around inside the shell. Really mystical and foreboding.

Celeste: I'm with the magi because i need to get paid.

Rabble:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+3

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Befana: does he really own a chicken? does being asked about eggs make him nervous?

Bolad: Befana successfully kens that Bolad has to bite his lip at describing any sort of house as "fine."

Voda: 'tis well.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could try rolling someting to see if I've heard of chickens laying auram eggs

Guy of Bonisagus: did ye ken

Rabble: aye ye ken like

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Chickens can't fly very well so I have serious doubts

Rabble: thats how people in aberdeen talk and it drives me nuts

Voda: If he really does have a chicken that lays magic eggs we should still steal it.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats how you talk

Bolad: I think of a clever ruse to pull this Rabble away from the crowd, to where we can accost him. "You left your coop open."

Befana: "You seem nervous, my good man. Any peasant should be proud to speak of his eggs, but the topic has you all a-flutter"

Rabble: i was talking with one before and they kept saying 'ye ken like' every like 5 words and it was really something. i asked why the fuck they kept saying it and they said 'what do you say instead of it'. Fucking animals in that city.

Befana: oh jesus it's like getting a corkman to stop saying "so it is"

Rabble: "I'm not nervous talkin' about eggs. What you tryin' to accuse me of, huh?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ryu: Sure you Ken

Rabble: i cant say i know what a corkman sounds like but possibly

we're both in gaelic nations after all, theres crossover

Befana: "You have an egg that isn't yours. It's strange and seemingly valuable. You're hiding it, and possibly more"

Voda: Hmm, I'll continue to toss this guy's house.

Bolad: Gay lick nations.

Did Mr. Rabble take the bait on my clever Chicken Coop ruse.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll back the egg safely for transport, as the bird lover of the bunch

* pack

Rabble: You also find the rest of Napolino's things. They're without any value to anyone but him.

Befana:

rolling d10!+8 leadership (intimidation)

(

4

)

+8

=

12

Rabble: He backs off a little "I don't know nothin' about nothin'!"

Celeste: I'll carry Napolino's other things for him if no one else wants to.

He'll appreciate it.

Guy of Bonisagus: alright everyone. we got napolinos things and we got the egg

mission accomplished

Bolad: Am I authorized to beat up peasants on this mission

Rabble: Oh, yes, Bolad. You've managed to corner him away from the general crowd.

Voda: Hmm.

Rabble: They're a bit distracted since that punch-up started over missing Celeste.

Voda: Nothing else interesting in his house, then?

Befana: "Do you know what the mongol barbarians do to liars, good man?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We should find the bailiff and tell him SImon is wrongfully sotcked

Rabble: Nothing else that stands out, no

Bolad: ACtually I don't have very good Brawl. I could beat him to death with a flail though

Befana: "Bolad here likes to make a flail from their skulls"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Bailiff, Justicar, village elder, w/e

Rabble: He gulps, Befana

Befana: "Tell us everything, honestly, and you have nothing to fear"

Bolad: I put on my best threatening barbarian scowl.

Voda: I feel like you don't need great brawl to beat up a guy who is cowering cowardishly.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll inspect the man's chicken

Bolad: We don't need to, but it's fun

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What's the Bird Quality

Bolad: When VT gets bullied by powerful river spirits and the inbred nobility they take it out by bullying defenseless peasants

Befana: "Why do you have this egg if Simon stole it?"

Rabble: "It were in my house in the morning when I woke up."

"I bet it was that bastard Simon who put it there, he was running around stealing all sorts."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I am inbred nobility

That's why I got a fucked up gift that's only gentle for animals

Rabble: "But if I just said I found it there, it'd make me look like  I  was a thief, and I'm a good man, and that fat fella who owned it wasn't here, so"

Befana:

rolling d10!+5 folk ken

(

7

)

+5

=

12

Guy of Bonisagus: "How did you know who owned it, friend?"

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5+3 leadership (intimidating scowling)

(

3

)

+5+3

=

11

Befana: I'm going to assume he's telloing the truth, barring obvious signs to the contrary

good catch guy

"What fat fellow?"

Rabble: "Huh?"

"Well the, the one who..." he trails off, furrowing his brow "Well it was his, I know that. I didn't take it though."

Befana: "How do you know? Did he show it to you?"

Celeste: "Honorable magi, do you have any way to disperse this crowd? I think Simon may have information if only he could be spoken to without so much distraction."

"Maybe we could free him."

Rabble: "No, he didn't show it, it was in his room so it had to be his."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea thinks.

Bolad: Honorable Magi. Put the fear of god into this defenseless rabble.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Do crowds hate lots and lots of crows?"

Befana: "and why were you in his room?"

Bolad: (magi begin salivating)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We could... no, it would be best not to repeat the incident at Blois."

Rabble: "Well I was in there to..." he rubs his head "Well, I saw it there, what's it matter?"

Befana: "Well it might make me think you're not a thief"

Rabble: "But I ain't a thief."

Befana: "If you had a good reason"

Rabble: "I'm a good man."

Befana: "We're going in circles here."

Bolad: "We Mighty Mongols devour the flesh of good men who lie to us."

Befana: "How is it you made people think Simon did all those thefts?"

Rabble: "What? I saw him runnin' off with stuff myself, and not just me, you ask anyone."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Whatever the horseman won't eat, the crows will rend from your bones."

Rabble: "He nicked my favourite spoon too, the prick."

Voda: Woah.

Where's the law in this town?

Bolad: Let's become the law.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: simon fancied me mobile and nicked it

Guy of Bonisagus: I think about Napolino's description of events.

Rabble: Are Fiorella and Bolad attempting to scare the crowd into dispersing, or just threatening this one guy

Voda: Anyway I'm going to go steal Simon's door.

Bolad: These hapless peasants cry out for order, and only Vardian's Tomb can delvier it.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Fellows, I think this man is innocent."

Bolad: just the one guy

I can turn my menace onto the crowd at large if I am ordered to

Rabble: He falls to his knees "Please, I didn't take anythin', I'm a good man, I swear."

Befana: I don;t think we should try to rescue Simon before we can show there's been a miscarriage of justice

otherwise we look like his partisans, and it'll taint any evidence we do bring to light

Rabble: You could always wait until later to talk to him, the crowd has other things to be getting on with eventually.

Befana: uh, if we care about this town respecting the legitimacy of our investigation

Celeste: Makes sense.

Rabble: After dark the stocks are easy to access, too.

Celeste: It's not like they're going to let him out.

I'm just drunk and impatient. (ic)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should press him on why he was in napolinos room.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "There's another possibility. Someone who knew what vis is wanted us here."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Let this poor man go. I believe we found all there is to be found from him and his home."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll leadership and all

Befana: idk if it's possible to scare this guy further

Bolad: "Why were you in the fat man's room?"

Rabble: "Oh thank you sir, thank you for your kindness." he says to Guy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if you scared him so hard he died

that would be badass

Bolad: "Ach."

Befana: maybe you could try reading his mind

Bolad: "Very well Guy."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill Guy

Voda: What like with magic?

Befana: Isn't that a wizard thing?

Voda: We don't truck with magic at Vardian's Tomb.

Befana: I know I always watch what I think when I'm around the magi

Guy of Bonisagus: "I spoke with several villagers earlier, and their stories of last night's events didn't add up."

Bolad: We could also try staying the night here and see if the thief reemerges

Voda: Sounds like a good idea.

Bolad: If there's some weird hocus pocus you can tell if Bolad's brain gets scrambled.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'm certain I've figured out what happened."

Voda: I mean I don't have anything better to do.

Anyway I need a place to put this door.

Befana: "Pray tell, magus?"

Rabble: Are you just carrying a door around

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nods.

Befana: what's the load rating on a hovel door

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I listen to Guy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's obvious."

Bolad: Let's replace Encumbrance with Inventory Tetris.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Some sort of magic worked the minds of many townsfolk, causing them to steal from each other. It also made them all look like Simon."

Rabble: get a 'load' of this door

Befana: obviously both are necessary

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: A 4x4 grid on your character sheet you put items on would be cool

Celeste: "That sounds about right."

Bolad: yeah, yeah

Guy of Bonisagus: "I think if we searched other houses in the village, we would also find stolen goods. Though there's no need to confirm that."

Bolad: frankly, a more interactive character sheet that looks something like a baldur's gate interface

Celeste: "I think Simon may be at fault of something, but I don't know what."

Guy of Bonisagus: "He's done something to anger someone."

Voda: I have personally carried a door a mile and a half before.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Or something."

Befana: but why, voda?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but could you cast a spell afterwards

Celeste: I cross myself.

Endrite: No, I meant me.

Bolad: "Masters of Magic, I propose, a party that copy the Fat Man's actions of that night, and another party that watches the Simon at night."

Befana: more importantly: has anyone complained of theft and not been able to find their stolen goods at simon's house?

Endrite: It was too big to fit in my car.

Celeste: I really think a ttrpg with inventory tetris would be cool

Guy of Bonisagus: "A good plan if we can't figure out anything else before evening."

Befana: oh irl

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Carcuck detected

Befana: that's somehow less noteworthy

Bolad: A TTRPG with more colorful board game elements.

Befana: anyway you should have tied it to the roof

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's convert TTRPG crew to co-op board game crew

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if bandits attacked? you would have to take 6 seconds to put the door down and another 6 seconds to draw your weapon

Guy of Bonisagus: lets all laugh at endrite for having a car instead of a truck

what if he used the door as a weapon

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: A door is a pretty heavy weapon

Celeste: you should have a paper doll of your character and only be able to carry what you can draw onto it

Befana: you can drop items as a free action

Voda: Sounds like what you want is the latest edition of Paranoia.

Which has cards and a game board.

Befana: in most systems, I dare say

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a door seems like a bad weapon

Befana: I lvoe when RPGs do that

Bolad: is that for real endrite?

osunds sick

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I didn't know there was a Paranoia newer that XP

Voda: Naturally I will NOT be wrecking this door by attacking with it.

Celeste: dropping items as a free action rules.

Bolad: GM, does this village have a church

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone was going to investigate the church

Voda: It is for real, Johns.

Befana: in fact I'm infuriated that 4th ed Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is ignoring all the cool stuff 3rd ed did with action cards

Bolad: "I seek the temple of the slain god of woodworkers."

Celeste: someone wanted to investigate the church, yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus: "We should see if the rabble wanders off to tend to whatever it is peasants do all day, and then speak with Simon."

Celeste: "Who's that? Wait a minute. Sheesh."

Rabble: They go to another nearby village on sundays, a couple miles away. It's a bit small for a church. This is where you step in and tell me this is anachronistic I guess.

Bolad: thats fine for me

Celeste: "Can you read, Bolad?"

Bolad: I bet the parish priest is some illiterate muck who doesn't even speak latin

Befana: it might be weird for the papal states but i think it's cool

Celeste: "I have some books you should check out."

Rabble: I honestly don't know about some things like this

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Warhammer 3rd seemed the best of the generation of RPGs that tried to have cooldown abilities and such

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This violates basic setting conceits, as any villager who travels a couple miles is devoured by wolves

Bolad: "I can find the meaning in your letters of ink and pages of skin."

Befana: if only it had true grid combat...

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: 2m hex grid :stringini:

Bolad: let's skip grid combat and go right to VR combat

Anyway, any other suggestions before we try Bolad's keen plan?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's just fight IRL with real weapons

Guy of Bonisagus: we could talk to simon when the rabble disperses

Celeste: I'm going to talk to Bolad about Jesus eventually and mention the fig tree and the whipping moneylenders in the temple parts to appeal to his nature.

Bolad: thats what all the original d&d crew was about, larping

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could break into every house in the village

Voda: Well, what if we tried scrying everyone who touched the egg?

Befana: it was about military simulation board games

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wasn't the original d&d crew about wargaming

yeah

Voda: Is your animal good enough to talk to an egg, Fiorella?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I dunno

Rabble: If you have any other suggestions before the 'go to the inn until night while some people watch over Simon' plan, please say now

Bolad: "This Jesus fellow is intriguing. But if he were god of woodworking, how could he be slain upon two crossed beams? He should have comanded the beams to do his bidding."

Rabble: Good point, Bolad

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Speak with an animal is level 10

Bolad: i guess im thinking of the wizardry/ultima people who were LARPers and not the d&d wargamers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait. wait

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't now what it is to talk to an animal product

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could break into the houses while everyone is at church.

Celeste: "Well, he was killed on purpose. That's sort of the main thing."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: instead of while everyone is at home

Voda: They weren't LARPers, they did Renaissance Fairs.

Celeste: "He welcomed it for a greater cause."

Rabble: That sounds like a great idea. You just have to wait 5 days, as it's tuesday.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It might be Terram to speak to an inanimate object

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah

Celeste: "And then he came back anyway. What a cool guy."

Voda: The difference is that Renaiisance Faires don't have any rules besides the kind that get your thrown out or arrested.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nods approvingly.

Rabble: I read that as renaissance fairies at first

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I am glad you have come to admit that Christ is intriguing, Bolad."

Befana: one day I want to experience an authentic american renaissance faire

Voda: Well anyway can you talk to the egg?

Celeste: They're very bad.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I need some help figuring it out

Bolad: same

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Like I said, there's only guidelines for living animals

Bolad: i live 30 minutes away from King Ricahrd's Faire but never went

Rabble: You can extend the guideline to an egg, I suppose. One problem is that the egg won't have much to say, as it's an egg.

Befana: there are spells to talk to rocks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if the egg is unfertilized.

Guy of Bonisagus: egg: "egg"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could use guidelines for talking to a human corpse

Rabble: Sure, but those are much, much higher level, because rocks are much harder to talk to

Celeste: more like "EGG"

Bolad: "Christ may have been a powerful spirit, but what is the power of wood and beams compared to the might of Tengri, in whose name the great horde topples the houses and castles of men?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It says to refer to Corpus or Mentem under Intellego animal if needed

Celeste: [payne]"egg"[/payne]

Rabble: Speaking to a rock is base 20, for instance

Befana: yeah

Rabble: an animal is base 10 because they can move around, see things, have a mouth usually, etc

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if the egg is fertilized then clearly the egg is just a small animal

Rabble: It's not fertilised, as it's a lump of Vis

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, Bolad, what are the shafts of your spears made from?"

Befana: that's a strong theological assertion gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im willing to make it.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Also you have to bring yourself to an egg's mental level to talk to it

Which probably fucks up your brain as eggs aren't very smart

Rabble: I'm sure Vardian's Tomb can manage that part at least

Celeste: OHHHH

Bolad: "Bamboo and birch."

Voda: Rabble spitting hot fire.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: A chicken egg is as intelligent as a chicken.

in my opinion.

Bolad: "A bowyer, is not a carpenter."

Rabble: Is there guidelines for talking to Vis?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Whispers through the Black Gate but with InAN cold work

If the GM approves

Befana: there are not

Guy of Bonisagus: "Are you certain?"

Rabble: Whispers is talking to a guy's ghost, though

the base 10 InAn effect is your best bet here

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps a bowyer could be considered a carpenter of war."

Rabble: but you might not get much answers out of it, just a fair warning. its an egg that was kept in a small sack.

Bolad strokes his goatee in deep thought

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll look up InMe

Base 10 is too bloated for a spont

Befana: tbh I think if something isn't sentient on some level, it needs to at least be a geographical feature of long standing to be able to speak with it magically

Voda: Also it's a bird so you'd get your magical focus.

Rabble: its the relevant guideline for interrogating an egg

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can talk to a fire

Voda: But there are a bunch of spells for talking to ordinary inanimate objects like rings or swords.

Befana: i'm all for clarifying and then ruling what magic is capable of by inference from the published spells

that works for me

Rabble: but, again, not to rain on your parade, but the egg was in a sack, and is an egg, so you really arent going to get anything useful out of it.

Befana: things develop a magical identity by age and perfection

Bolad: Interrogate the sack.

Rabble: I've got a sack you can interrogate right here

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay I'll give it a try

I can ceremonial it, maybe

Befana: what can eggs even sense

Celeste: "His adoptive father was a carpenter, and he was by trade, but Jesus had many powers over life and death. He brought others back from the dead, turned water into wine, made a small amount of food feed a multitude, all kinds of amazing things."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: boy rep with the big intellego nerf.

Befana: I imagine they're very inwardly focused

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's probably not worth the bonus though

Celeste: "The wood beams were a hobby!"

Rabble: They can probably vaguely hear things and sense movement, from their inside being jostled about it

* by it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Wait, level 10 with Touch and Conc is 20

I cna't hit 40 on the roll

Rabble: Rip.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I toldyou 10 was a lot

Celeste: rip

Bolad: "Death is created by Tengri. Human beings have all been created in order to die, until Tengri gives us live again. This is known."

Rabble: It is a lot but thats the only relevant guideline, I'm sorry

talking to a rock is base 20 lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: ok

It IS the only relevant guideline

Celeste: Rolling theology to say well, maybe tengri is an aspect of christ and they're sort of the same thing.

Befana: it should be harder to talk to an egg than a bird, as a matter of princile

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: theology (heresy spec)

Befana: imo that's a guile roll celeste

Celeste: that actually is my spec.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

Rabble: It should, but I think it's more relevant to have a bird just give better information than an egg, because an egg is an egg

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'd say a Terram casting req due to the object being inanimate

Voda: Syncreticism is NOT a heresy, maybe.

Bolad: can Magic Lore be used as theology for one's spirit

Celeste: I think it's definitely more of a theology than a guile roll.

Rabble: If the Tengri is a magic spirit, I suppose it can

Actually no, you need Tengri Lore

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: an egg is alive

Celeste: lol.

Guy of Bonisagus: i think it is probably a low heresy factor if its in an effort to convert a pagan

Befana: i don't think you ever need a terram req in those circumstances

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have an idea

I'll spont Image of the Beast and figure out what laid this egg

Voda: Does it involve trying to figure out how to not cast a spell?

It's a magic bird that lives on a cliff.

Befana: hopefully

Celeste: afk for a moment

(From Celeste): AFK

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh we already know

Okay then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could go door to door, and ask if the dastardly simon left any stolen goods in each home

Bolad: "Heaven and Earth decided together that the world was Chinggis' to claim. Today his empire spans more souls than grains of sand on the beach. What empire has your King of Christ created? I see nothing but weak squabbling lords on this peninsula, hiding behind walls of stone, thinking themselves safe."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: either we find someone who wasn't hit by the curse or we find that everyone was, and obviously simon could not have done all this

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Level 5: Learn the origin, age, and history of something made of animal products.

History is what we want, I think

Rabble: I think the egg has given up any secrets it has left to give.

Befana: but is an egg truly made of animal products?

Guy of Bonisagus: chinggis changgis dagger

Egg: "Fiorella, please, move on. I have nothing left to teach you."

Befana: ok. so we were going with the split into two parties plan?

Bolad: lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Bolad: The egg token..

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I follow the investigators

Befana: thank you Egg

Pepus: pepus

Befana: I vote to be in the team that sleeps in a comfortable inn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's each party doing

Voda: I will also take this hazardous duty.

GM: Who is sleeping at the inn, and how is being sneaky?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should do the thing i said!

Guy of Bonisagus: i will sleep

Bolad: what was gulilemus' suggestion

Befana: what was that again?

Voda: Hmm.

Changed my mind.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's bookending bolad's pagan ramblings

GM: Please move your tokens to the relevant side. What did you suggest, again?

Bolad: oh

GM: Please keep in mind I was tracking the theological discussion and egg talk

Bolad: i don't see the value of gulielmus suggestion

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its a flawless plan.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go to the Inn and cast Circle of Beast Warding around the egg

(From Celeste): Back

Bolad: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could go door to door, and ask if the dastardly simon left any stolen goods in each home

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: either we find someone who wasn't hit by the curse or we find that everyone was, and obviously simon could not have done all this.

GM: People could of course just lie to you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The value is that we will find the truth and see that justice is served.

Voda: Do you think people would do that?

Just lie to me?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll also make another Circle of Beast Warding and fill it with birds, ordering them to attack anyone who tries to take the egg, or break the circle to get the egg out of the ward

Befana: eh this sounds like a lot of bother

where are you making this cage of a thousand crows

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: In our Inn room

Voda: Wouldn't it make EVEN MORE sense for someone to take the egg back to Rome?

Befana: I politely ask that you not

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If I take the egg back to Rome I can AFK for a bit

GM: Wouldn't this fill your bedroom with screaming birds?

Bolad: No, we're all capable and competent here and don't need to go begging the adult Magi to bail us out.

Celeste: I'm going to talk to Simon at night and try to get him to admit what he was doing

And then go to bed.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: ANyway the birds don't make it hard to sleep unless I order them to

GM: Anyway, if you are on Team Inn, move yourself to the inn side, and if you are on Team Sneaky, add yourself to the sneaky side, so I can better track where people are and what they do.

Celeste: "They are safe! Go to the pope and try to invoke Tengri, see what happens."

GM: Alright.

Bolad: hmm, all fighters in one spot and all noncombatants in the other

sounds like a winning plan

Celeste: Well, I'm not doing your full sneaky plan.

Befana: I try to get some sleep, watched over by a thousand silent, hungry crows

Bolad: does Celester or Voda have second sight?

GM: The sun goes down, and the magi frantically re-apply their parma.

Celeste: I just want to see if Simon was in a faerie glen or some nonsense.

GM: Celeste does

Bolad: does anyone at the Inn party have second sight

Befana: I do

Bolad: ok

Celeste: And then I'll go back to the Inn.

Bolad: i'll stay put then

Voda: I do NOT have second sight.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm not a noncombatant, I'm just very specialized in how I handle being attacked

There's only so much I can do to prevent being shanked in my sleep

GM: People still mill around, occasionally insulting or assaulting Simon, for a while after sundown, but soon people head off to bed.

As they do...

Two things

One: Bolad and Celeste, please roll Perception+Second Sight

Neutral aura

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

4

)

+2+3

=

9

smh.

GM: Secondly: Everyone here, please tell me your Imaginem MR.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+0+@

(

2

)

=

2

erm. that's a 2. so 4 total.

Celeste: I have 20 divine MR due to true faith + a relic

Bolad: Bolad's Imaginem MR is: n/a

Guy of Bonisagus: 6

Voda: Shouldn't there be a Divine/Infernal aura in an inn?

Probably just an Infernal one, what with all the drinking and so forth.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 12

GM: Okay. Neither of you see anything strange, until you notice the rope holding the stocks down unties itself.

Fiorella, what is your imaginem MR?

Celeste: If it's a ghost that's a 10, then.

Bolad: The village with no law, no church, and no aura....

Spooky!

Celeste: I forgot to mention my spec since I didn't think it was a ghost.

GM: It is not a ghost. Also neither of them are in the inn, Voda, so the inn's aura isnt important.

Celeste: Nice.

Voda: Please don't die Steve Farming!

Celeste: "That rope!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's getting windy so if I disappear it's because of a power outage

Or a tree fell through my house, possible but less likely

GM: Pre-buff with Shriek just in case

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Good plan

GM: Anyway. Fiorella, your imaginem MR?

Bolad: Hmmm

Let's shoot whatever invisible thing is untying the stocks.

GM: I'd like to know what yours is before I move on to describe what happens

Voda: What do your Mongoliak eyes see, Bolad?

Bolad: Nothin' Voda.

So let's shoot first and ask questions later.

GM: Shaun?

Did your power go out?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

25 Imaginem MR

GM: Alright.

You feel an effect ping your parma

Voda: Is someone trying to turn steal your image?

GM: Gulielmus, Bofana, and Guy

Celeste: can I fire an arrow nonlethally

GM: All 3 of you now look like Simon the Basket Weaver

As does Bolad and Voda

Celeste and Fiorella are unaffected

Bolad: My beautiful face!

Celeste: In a scuffle, the effects of a successful

attack are changed, causing the opponent to

lose Fatigue levels, and take much less serious

wounds. Work out what level of wound the

defender would take in a normal combat, using

the rules above, and read the scuffle result off

Celeste: the Scuffle Effects table. Fatigue levels inflicted

in a scuffle are Short-Term Fatigue levels.

A character may scuffle with no penalty

when unarmed or armed with a sap. If using a

real weapon, he takes a –3 penalty to his Attack

Total, reflecting the need for care to avoid

Celeste: killing his opponent by mistake, and does not

add the weapon’s Damage Bonus to his Damage

Total.

ok i'm going to Non Lethally shoot the invisible thing untying the rope

Guy of Bonisagus: "What is this? This can't be simple hedge magic."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It seems this village has been riled up with illusions."

Simon the Basket Weaver: As for the real one in the stocks, he's pretty worn out, and hasnt noticed them being undone. You were shooting an arrow at the air near him to see if you hit something?

Bolad: I am going to shoot but not bother being nonlethal

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+14

(

2

)

+14

=

16

Nice roll.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus is asleep.

Voda: Hmm.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok I wake everyone up

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+14 attacking thin air

(

10

+

8

)

+14

=

32

Simon the Basket Weaver: Classic Gulielmus

Good heavens

Celeste: Classic Bolad.

I shoot the dirt.

Befana: that's what you earn for attempting to scuffle with a bow

I shoot him for 3 fatigue levels. This makes sense.

Simon the Basket Weaver: What book was the rules for defence added by invisibility

Voda: I feel like you can't scuffle with a bow.

Celeste: It's in the rules.

Bolad: its in our combat rules wiki

Simon the Basket Weaver: ah

Bolad: seems you could use blunted arrows for scuffling?

Celeste: I could shoot them in the foot.

Voda: That's quite a different matter.

Befana: that seems intensely gamey to me

Bolad: Shoot the crossbow out of their hands.

Befana: that's a trick shot

Simon the Basket Weaver: Okay, I'm going to roll their defence versus both attacks, then

Celeste: I'm a good enough shot and have chirurgy so i know where to place an arrow non-lethally.

Bolad: Make Gulielmus respect into making Magic arrows then make the Gas arrows from Thief

Befana: it's not hte same as wearing someone down and roughting them up by shooting them with arrows

GM:

rolling 1d10!+13 vs celeste

(

8

)

+13

=

21

rolling 1d10!+13 vs Bolad

(

1

)

+13

=

14

Bolad: lmfao

GM:

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

lmfao

Bolad: lmfao

Celeste: lmfao.

GM: Okay uh

Bolad: +8 damage

GM: Okay uh

Voda: Mission complete!

That's why you're the best Bolad.

Celeste: This was Christ's hand on your bow, Bolad.

GM: They have 2 soak and are size 0.

They are fucking dead

Voda: Another successful speedrun.

Bolad: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: win

Celeste: See how powerful woodworking is.

Befana: are they still invisible

Bolad: i will update the kill count tracker once we identify the victim

GM: Bolad, you somehow - only the Tengri knows how you fucking did it - hit a figure, in the dark, who is totally invisible, right in the head.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: could this be?

the fabled "short session"

Celeste crosses himself

GM: I mean I said it'd be short but this is quite unexpected

Bolad: sorry.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's make dys permanent storyguide

Celeste: Oh my god, another one!

GM: Let's figure out where we go from here

Celeste: Seven of them!

Guy of Bonisagus: so this is it... the ultimate redpilled moor headshot

GM: Bolad, the figure regains visibility.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god! it's the pope

Bolad: I mean it could have been a wizard with shriek of impending shafts, or an intangible something or other

GM: You see your arrow embedded in the forehead of a young woman in strange clothing, not native to the area.

Bolad: ah.

Voda: Thus always to roasties.

Bolad: please add the "headshot" UT announcer to jukebox. tia.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh my god. its the hedge mage that was gonna bind the tiber

Celeste: you know, i just realized that having Nevio craft bone arrows would be really good for getting around the usual wizard anti-arrow defenses.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Voda: Thus always to roasties.

Guy of Bonisagus: does the imaginem effect end too

Celeste: "Oh no!"

Befana: Cygnus asks Bolad whether he's free for a season to teach woman-slaying

GM: It has a Sun duration, so it does not

Voda: Hmm.

Well, we did it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can upload that

i think

Voda: Let's go home everybody.

GM: You did something, certainly

Bolad: "Celeste, Voda, you look very strange right now."

GM: Celeste is unaffected

Her MR was high enough

Guy of Bonisagus: he knows

Bolad: "Voda, you look like the man in the stocks right now."

GM: well

true

Voda: "So do you."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I make everyone at the Inn aware that they look like Simon

Bolad: "Ehh?"

Befana: oh, do we?

Bolad: "Witchcraft."

Simon the Basket Weaver: Speaking of the man in the stocks, he just noticed a woman die right next to him and starts screaming

Befana: I thought this was all happening outside

Voda: "Well, I suppose there was magic afoot. Not so much anymore after you shot the invisible sorceress."

Simon the Basket Weaver: This is all happening outside, yes

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll go investigate the sound of a screaming man.

Voda: I'll discreetly slip away.

Bolad: "Blessed Tengri guided my arrow, that I am sure."

Simon the Basket Weaver: "What the hell? Simon? Another Simon?" says who you assume to be the innkeeper, Befana

Bolad: I inspect the corpse.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I resisted the simonmorphing spell and I was in the inn

Simon the Basket Weaver: "I'm seeing double! Four Simon's!"

Voda: I feel like in this case you'd be well within your rights to say that shooting someone you can't see and aren't sure even exists is an automatic miss.

Too late now though.

devil's fav demon: I examine the dead woman.

Simon the Basket Weaver: "Oh, thank the lord, someone normal." he runs up to you Fiorella

Guy of Bonisagus: well, you can see that theyre untying a rope

Celeste: I do.

Simon the Basket Weaver: "What is going on here?"

Celeste: She's definitely dead.

Guy of Bonisagus: so you can guess that, if theyre doing it themselves, theyre in that area

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah you know where they should be, if they are there.

and, they were there.

Celeste: "Oh God!"

Bolad: in theory seeing someone untie the rope would be enough to target them magically even if they were invisible

Celeste: "What if she was just trying to help?"

Bolad: im not committed either way so I leave it in the Gm's competent hands

Celeste: "If only Jesus were here."

GM: Voda, I considered this, but it seemed logical that if you can place their general area, you can try to hit them. How do we determine how well you do at this? Well, attack vs defence. And uh. And uhhhhh

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Something strange is going on. I think I see why all the confusion has happened. There's an illusionist about."

Bolad: I am going to stuff a rag in (real) Simon's mouth so he stops screaming.

Voda: Anyway, I'm going to hide.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If the illusion happened at midnight this feels like faerie shit to me.

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 4 + 1

(

10

)

+4+1

=

15

Guy of Bonisagus: I emerge onto the streets.

Celeste: there are rules for attacking an invisible opponent in hoh:s in the flambeau section

they're very detailed

GM: The woman is wearing a white gown, is barefeet, and has a large arrow embedded in her brain, making her bleed onto the ground.

Bolad: i think that's what he used. +9 is the defense bonus for having ful linvisibility or concealment

Befana: weird

Celeste: yeah

GM: Yeah, that's what I used. They weren't really a combatant.

1 quickness and 3 brawl (well 2 with a dodge spec)

Bolad: I look for a purse or a trophy prize of any kind.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's extract teh woman's faerie vis

GM: She has a hairpin of solid gold, Bolad

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea watches an expert marksman kill an invisible opponent with a single arrow based on nothing more than the motion of a rope

Bolad: I take, and will show to the Magi later.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhhh, this isnt cool at all and should be banned

GM: Only on one side of her head, though, the other side is hanging loose

Celeste: it shouldnt because its totally within the rules

GM: It was badass, so it happened

Bolad watches Lu Bu shoot through the halberd

GM: Also it made sense, rules-wise

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Bolad is a horse archer

Befana: it's not that crazy either

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: A mongol archer, he should be one of the foremost archery experts in Mythic Europe

Voda: Man, talk about your differing ethoses.

Befana: it is lucky, but whatever

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay so why is anyone wringing their hands about it.

Befana: is anyone?

GM: It's perfectly plausible. Keep in mind this was a freak scenario, too, where he landed the ultimate headshot and she totally botched her defence

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes.

Celeste: Do I recognize the gown as belonging to any religious group

GM: Nope

Celeste: Huh.

Poor lady.

GM: A tailor could perhaps tell you more about it, I suppose

Bolad: I pull the arrow out of her brain.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I ask Befana about her gown

GM: It comes out with a sickening schlorp noise

Celeste: "Well, we should bury her, at least."

Befana: ok I get fetched from the inn I guess

GM: You can see people starting to approach, wondering what's going on. They all look like Simon

Celeste: "We should haul the body to the church the next town over."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I believe you have put an innocent man in the stocks."

Simon the Basket Weaver: "What the hell? Why's there another Simon next to Simon?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Take a look at each other. Surely an illusionist is about."

Bolad: "Look, simple villagers. The body of a sorceress here."

Befana: I look on the dead body with revulsion and pull my immaculate shawl tighter about myself

Bolad: "Who recognizes this face?"

Befana: also I look like Simon the basket weaver I suppose

Simon the Basket Weaver: None of them seem to

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Everyone is wearing name tags, too bad only the magi ar eliterate

Befana:

rolling d10!+3+9 per+craft on the woman's clothing

(

10

+

4

)

+3+9

=

26

there's no reason that should be stressed, sorry

Bolad: i should be able to recognize some folks from their clothes

Befana: although I AM stressed out!

Bolad: ah cmon it's just murder

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, ah, mission complete I suppose."

"Some meddlesome hedge witch is dead and we got our vis."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If she's a faerie sorceress perhaps she has vis upon her person."

Celeste: "How cruel."

Simon the Basket Weaver: Befana, you notice that these clothes were not sewn or stitched at all. They look very fancy, but they aren't actually possible.

Guy of Bonisagus: faerie huh

definitely deserved to die

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Impossible clothes

faerie

Celeste: i mean you could creo clothes.

like that.

well, i don't say that.

Voda: Oops, we killed a Verditus maga.

Befana: hmm

Voda: By we I mean only Bolad.

Guy of Bonisagus: hooray, we killed a verditius maga

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Are they platonic clothes?

Befana: I don't have fairy lore, so I don't find it odd that her clothes and body should persist after her death

I do find the clothes odd

Bolad: Did anyone in the crowd recognize the woman's face?

Guy of Bonisagus: no

Simon the Basket Weaver: No-one seems to recognise her

Bolad: Okay, if she turns out to be a Maga, IN MY DEFENSE she was responsible for our vis getting stolen.

Simon the Basket Weaver: She's quite beautiful. Or at least, she was, before you left a gaping hole in her head.

Voda: Hopefully it won't come up.

I mean, how many times do crimes even get brought before Tribunal?

Almost never!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If we give her a Christian burial she cnat' testify against us

Bolad: Good call.

Guy of Bonisagus: if she was a maga shes guilty of casting spells on us

Celeste: I strongly recommend that, and in fact have already suggested it.

Guy of Bonisagus: and also scrying

Bolad: "The sorceress has been slain but her devilry persist. Take shelter, simple villagers!"

Celeste: We're obligated to bury her properly.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Cover your faces until the effect fades

Bolad returns bloodied arrow to quiver

Simon the Basket Weaver: Okay. Now that I've found out what's meant to happen here:

Did you remove the hairpin?

Bolad: Yes.

Simon the Basket Weaver: Alright

After a few minutes the body and clothes melt into rocks

Celeste: Huh.

Voda: Gasp!

Celeste: It was a faerie after all.

Simon the Basket Weaver: Roll Fairy Lore, anyone with it

Bolad: and the hairpin is the faerie vis right?

Simon the Basket Weaver: Yes

Voda: I don't have it.

Bolad: i dont have faerie lore so I cant know that ICly unfortunately

Celeste: yeah same.

Simon the Basket Weaver: Surely someone does. Surely someone

Oh my god

Bolad: lol

Befana: I don't believe in fairies

Celeste: i only have divine, church, order of hermes, and rome lore

Simon the Basket Weaver: okay this is going in new and hilarious directions

Voda: Another job well done.

Celeste: I mean

Simon the Basket Weaver: Bolad, you are standing over a pile of rocks, holding a hairpin

Celeste: This isn't necessarily a bust though.

Voda: Let us retire to Vardian's Tomb and toast our success.

Bolad: Let's

Simon the Basket Weaver: It's whatever you choose it to be

Bolad: "Villagers! Tengri has saved you from great danger. Remember!"

Celeste: Because even without Faerie lore, someone here knows that faeries turn into objects when they die, because someone else has spoken that fact aloud in character before.

I don't know who.

But it's possible.

Simon the Basket Weaver: You could leave now if you wished. You've uh. Well I hesistate to say 'solved' but you've certainly ended the adventure by any reasonable standards of that.

you could say it then, Celeste

if you heard someone say it IC before

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We had two faerie experts, one is dead from PvP and the other died on the way back to his home planet

Bolad: I know how we solve it from here, like proper wizards: weeks of meticulous library research

Celeste: I don't know if I was on one of those adventures.

Befana: he's in recurring character purgatory hopefully

Voda: Well, what other thing do we even have to do here?

Bolad: Anyway if this vis is the faerie's Anchor I think the faerie can't reform as long as the hairpin is in the aegie

aegis

Celeste: My dad is married to a faerie and i'm part faerie, but I have no idea.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If the hairpin is external vis, it might give you a virtue if you keep it in you rpossession

Celeste: I really should get faerie lore.

Bolad: Ahh interesting

Can InVi figure out its power?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Maybe

Befana: fairies aren't real and you should concern yourself with serious matters

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don 't think you can investigate external vis

Simon the Basket Weaver: The real Simon (rag in mouth) points at the hairpin and tries to say something, though cant

Bolad: lavinia has a meager +2 faerie lore but can try to assess the pin when we take it home

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Maybe you could with a breakthrough

Bolad: How did Aristide figure out what bonus he was getting from his faerie viking sowrd?

Oh

I ungag Simon

Guy of Bonisagus: because endrite told me

Celeste: "Hey, Simon's trying to say something."

Simon the Basket Weaver: Sheer natural retardation I guess

Celeste: "After all this time."

Simon the Basket Weaver: "That's... I saw that pin before!"

"But I lost it, how'd you find it?"

Voda: You find out what bonus you get when you pick up the sword.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Maybe you CAN investigate faerie vis

Celeste: "I knew you were involved in something shady!"

Voda: Feel free to pick it up!

Simon the Basket Weaver: "No, nothing shady!"

Bolad: is it a greatsword or a short sword

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You could just spend a season attempting to do so, and find out by accident that the item is granting you a vritue

Befana: it's probably just a matter of having enouhg lore

Simon the Basket Weaver: His voice is still a little muffled from the bruises where someone kicked him before

Voda: It's a big ol' viking sword.

Bolad: i have great weapon not single weapon so if it's a 2 hander i might use it

Befana: I don't think you should have to investigate it like a magic item

Voda: Imagine the goofiest looking sword from Warhammer Fantasy.

It looks like that.

Celeste: Nice.

Bolad: "I pulled it from the corpse of the invisible sorceress, who I have slain."

Befana: I'm not going to stand for this

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's up to the storyguide how hard it is to figure out what the purpose of a chunk of glamour is

Simon the Basket Weaver: "I was in the woods, and there was this pin, made of solid gold, just lying there on a tree stump."

Befana: it has to look goofy in a way a medieval dude would imagine

Simon the Basket Weaver: "I took it back home, but..."

Bolad: so the sword gives leadership bonus but it summons the vikings anytime its outside the aegis?

Voda: It's a fairy weapon so it can look even goofier.

Yes basically.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It doesn't seem like an enchanted item or holy relic. We'll have ot ask someone with knowledge of the fae, I imagine."

Bolad: hmm, I can see how that'd be pretty annoying to everyone else so maybe we keep it shelved

"And you took it?"

Simon the Basket Weaver: "I was in Tony's barn, and I dropped it." he says sheepishly "I don't know where it went. Then all this started and- do you think this is why these horrible things have been happening?"

He nods, Bolad

Befana: "Well, probably"

Simon the Basket Weaver: "It was solid gold, just sat there, who wouldnt?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The sword can be the external vis of a faerie king

Who can summon servants by extending its glamour

Bolad shrugs

Bolad: "Who's Tony?"

Voda: Ey.

Simon the Basket Weaver: "Oh, he's just a friend. Well, was a friend." he rubs his bruised face

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There was a faerie pretending to be a Herbam-specced magi in Frisia who extended their glamour into a forest and made tree servants

Bolad: "Why'd you fight? I am very curious of the details of you Latin folks mundane lives."

Simon the Basket Weaver: "Cause he thought I stole one of his chickens, even though I didn't do a thing!"

"I was asleep, and when I woke up, I was getting screamed at and dragged to the stocks."

"People accusing me of every crime under the sun!"

Bolad: "Masters and Mistresses, it would seem Simon is a victim of injustice. Should we not set him free?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "We should."

Celeste: "He's been tested enough."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If no one is coming to unlock him, that is."

Voda: "What if he's the wizard?"

Simon the Basket Weaver: Well someone was!

ha ha. ha ha ha.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: lol

I'll spont Pass the Unyielding Portal and set him free

Bolad: lets slay him and see if he drops vis, just to be safe

Simon the Basket Weaver: It's worked out so far

Voda: "Seems like a pretty convenient story, to me."

If you want to free him you could just untie the knot.

You know like his servant was trying to do.

Celeste: "So, the hairpin... You have a lady in your life?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well I missed something but okay

"Does anyone object to me freeing him?"

Celeste: "No, please do."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: After a moment of silence I'll do so

Simon the Basket Weaver: "What? No, I wish."

"I just found the damn thing. I wish I never did!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton unties him

Bolad eagerly awaits the twist

Simon the Basket Weaver: He sits down, happy to be out the stocks

Celeste: I give him some wine.

Simon the Basket Weaver: No twist happens. He takes it eagerly

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10-9999 Soak with the mystery penalty whispered to me

(

5

)

-9999

=

-9994

Bolad: Nice

Simon the Basket Weaver: Oh right Bolad has been speaking to him with his own face this whole time

Befana: I'm sure he's used to it

Bolad: I wonder how well people recognize their own faces? They don't have mirrors

they'd only know it from looking in muddy water

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: They can ask each other if they look like Simon or not

Simon the Basket Weaver: Well when everyone has it and they say it looks like him

its easy to figure out

Bolad: ok, ok

Simon the Basket Weaver: "Do you think this curse will end?" he asks you

He asks Fiorella and Celeste especially, since they seem unaffected

Befana: a wondrous item that switches your image with your maid or valet's so you can check your hair

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I think if you let us take this hairpin away from the village, it won't happen again, at least not here."

Simon the Basket Weaver: "But there's another, it's still here." he wails

"It's lost, though, it's lost..."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Where was it lost?"

Simon the Basket Weaver: oh wait I just realised Fiorella fucking had a sun duration thing to hear vis aoiwgoehwogwhj9ghhghouewrgh

Befana: "and where did you find it?"

Simon the Basket Weaver: im sorry everyone

Voda: It's night time.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Voda: That means the spell expired.

Simon the Basket Weaver: i mean she'd have heard it earlier

Befana: there you go

Simon the Basket Weaver: okay

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I only hear vis that's bird related

Befana: that's an immense stretch of a magical focus but whatever

Simon the Basket Weaver: oh wait, vim spells only work with one realm. i know we houseruled to change that but

thats my excuse

for why it didnt work

Bolad: "Did it look the same as this gold pin?"

Celeste: "I think this curse will end if you have faith in God. You've been tested today, a bit like Job, but you have a new day ahead of you."

i tell him.

Befana: that's not universally true

Simon the Basket Weaver: He nods

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If it's not an egg or feather or w/e I didn't hear it

Bolad: "Where did you lose it?"

Befana: you made a spell to sense vis, not eggs

Simon the Basket Weaver: And then he nods at Celeste "It was a theft what caused all this, I'll never touch a strange pin again."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I specialized teh spell for a bigger total

Simon the Basket Weaver: Oh

Well it wouldnt hear the pin ever then

phew

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Simon the Basket Weaver: No problems after all

I should have said nothing

Befana: you're either detecting magic or animal, and only one of those encompasses bird

Simon the Basket Weaver: "In the barn" he tells Bolad

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: An ANimal casting req wouldn't have made the spell any worse

Simon the Basket Weaver: "There was this big haystack, I was lying on it to rest, and it must have fell out my pocket. I searched and searched, but couldn't find it."

Befana: it would have made it a different spell, to sense eggs

sorry I'll stop

Voda: Why is there a haystack in Spring?

Simon the Basket Weaver: Ah, you see

Simon the Basket Weaver starts walking down imaginary set of stairs behind counter

Bolad: gm throws smokebomb

Celeste: So young lovers can go roll in it.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's a cusotm spell anyway

Simon the Basket Weaver: The answer is that I wanted the final challenge of an adventure to be finding a needle in a haystack.

Voda: What I'm getting here is that Simon is a huge liar.

Bolad: it could be hay left over from the winter, Voda.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If you wanted a generic InVi spell you could ask the Bonisagus

Simon the Basket Weaver: We couldnt, though, as he literally cannot spont

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh right

Simon the Basket Weaver: Neither can Gulielmus

Befana: they should keep it in a hayloft then

so it doesn'trot

Guy of Bonisagus: its a good set of flaws

for a lazy gamer

Rosario of Flambeau: "What if you set the hay on fire?" Rosario thinks about the needle in a haystack problem, miles away, unprompted

Simon the Basket Weaver: So, Bolad, are you going to try and find the pin?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Too bad Lodewig isn't here to teach me how to adventure, if I'm going to be the lone sponter

Bolad: Ok

Why not.

Simon the Basket Weaver: You could leave it, but It's Free Vis

Giraldo of Milan: "Lavinia, he's having a fever dream again."

Voda: Hmm.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Second Sight should be pretty godo for finding the pin

Or not, I dunno

Voda: Well, finding a needle in a haystack should be easy.

Befana: only if it's disguised, I think

Simon the Basket Weaver: Second Sight doesnt help for that.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Voda: Just use Rego Herbam to move all the hay away.

Befana: but can't you spont a conc-duration sense vis?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Typical for most Flambeau to suffer from an excess of yellow bile."

Guy of Bonisagus: second sight would be GREAT for finding the pin, if its in a haystack regio

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm going to cast Unseen Porter with Herbam req on the haystack

Is the hairpin made of Herbam?

Bolad: lets go to the hay regio where everyone is hayman and they eat ridiculous faerie fruits called "bluberries"

Befana: tbh I think you could find a hairpin in some hay just by sorting through it diligently

Simon the Basket Weaver: Oh, also, I'm awarding a confidence point to Bolad for the ultimate redpilled headshot.

Bolad: its gold fiorella

Befana: it's not like a tiny sewing needle

Bolad: ty gm.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

The hairpin is not affected by Unseen Porter

Simon the Basket Weaver: The hairpin is made of Terram

specifically, gold

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Right

But I'm targeting Herbam

Bolad: Do you have InTe? This could be a simple variation on Probe for Pure Silver, which is only Level 4

Befana: I don't really understand what's going on with these hairpins but it seems they're valuable and apparently ours...?

Simon the Basket Weaver: Ah, so your plan is to move all the hay out the way, and then the needle is left behind?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

Bolad: "The sorceress had a gold hairpin, and was up to no good. Surely there is a reason another gold hairpin exists."

Simon the Basket Weaver: Alright. It takes a little while of moving hay around, but eventually, you find the other hairpin.

Congratulations!

Celeste: "Some woman was wearing one of the hairpins, then Bolad murdered her and she turned into a pile of rocks."

Befana: "I suppose that makes sense"

GM: With the owner of the hairpin incredibly, insanely dead, I think that marks the end of today's adventure, unless you want to, I don't know, start raping and pillaging or somesuch.

Celeste: "Maybe if two people put the hairpin on opposite sides of their head, they'll fuse together."

hairpins

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm not a rapist, not yet anyway

Befana: Are the hairpins identical?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, let's find out."

I put the two hairpins on.

Befana: or just matched somehow?

it's not the sort of thing you'd expect to come in pairs

GM: One has a tiny blue gem in it, the other has a tiny green gem in it.

Bolad: Did someone say Rape and Murder?

Guy of Bonisagus: "No, seems it just makes me look ridiculous."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll let Guy keep the hairpins and go home

Celeste: "They're really cute, but my hair is already gold so it's probably too much."

GM: Uh. I think there are rules for using vis to gain strange powers but I'm not sure what these pins would give.

Bolad: "Respectfully Masters, I ask that I may claim the hairpin that I have won as blood price."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Of course."

I give Bolad the gold pin.

Fiorella found the other one so she can do whatever.

Celeste: "Really sets off your eyes, Bolad."

Guy of Bonisagus: wit hit

Befana: well there's like plants and rocks of virute

virtue

Bolad puts the hairpin on.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I only use bone or ivory when wearing solid accessories, as to keep them on me when I transform."

Guy of Bonisagus: ive got some rocks of virtue for you buddy

GM: Maybe they confer an imaginem effect where your hair looks long and flowing and beautiful if you wear both.

Guy of Bonisagus: bolad begins plotting to take the other one

Voda: How much XP did we get for this grand outing?

Befana: I think the idea is that every vis source is a fully formed magical thing and wonder in its own right, that it just happens you can render down for wizard dust

Guy of Bonisagus: only the faithful of tengri could wear such beauty

GM: Ah. 7xp for an unexpected and violent outcome.

Bolad: Back at Base can we ask people with Faerie Lore / Archibald with InVi to figure out the deal with these pins

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok I'll wear a hairpin and go home the normal way

Celeste: Score.

Befana: pretty good

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Or put the hairpin in my bird backpack

GM: The pins contain 2 pawns, each of fairy imaginem vis.

Voda: Great stuff.

Celeste: Oh, has Archibald mentioned his vision to anyone else at the covenant? The one I sent him weeks ago is canon.

Befana: if this vis is a fairy anchor it doesn't need special powers beyond that imo

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

GM: I should re-read that one you sent me

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: External Vis can be Minor or Major

Minor doesn't have any powers

It just means if you hide your vis, you don't die when you are killed

Befana: or it could be other vis a fairy was hanging onto to eat at a later date, that's often the case with vis residue when you kill a fairy

Bolad: Lavinia attempts a Faerie Lore roll to deduce some greater meaning from everything that has happened

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+2

(

7

)

+2+2

=

11

GM: Fairies gain energy from stories. Based on all that happened, it seems to be a simple cautionary tale about theft.

A man steals something and gets away with it, then finds himself accused of all sorts of thefts.

Befana: I'm surethat's all there was to it

Guy of Bonisagus: weve turned it into a better cautionary tale about fucking with mages

GM: He fixes this by returning what he stole

Lavinia of Jerbiton: For the purposes of divining, does trying to figure out any cool effects of the hairpin count as a Natural Property or a Magical PRoperty?

GM: Magical

Befana: Good game! thanks for pulling that out on short notice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok, that ends my investigation.

GM: I made all this up this morning

johns: Thank you for running dys. I genuinely enjoyed this.

GM: it only needed 2 tokens and i didnt even use one

Celeste: That was a lot of fun, yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus: i liked watching bolad roll a big number and commit a murder

Lyrica: This is the fairy you murdered

Celeste: Yeah.

Befana: I hope you prepared Egg ahead of time

Lyrica: I didnt

Guy of Bonisagus: lyrica is a drug

Lyrica: I made the token while we were working out how to talk to an egg

Celeste: I learned my lesson, trying to be nonviolent.

johns: Murder ftw

GM: I mean, hell

johns: Sorry for derailing your cool stuff

GM: You did solve the adventure, by any reasonable definition

nah its fine dude, its an adventure, if you couldnt derail it then whats the point

Boy R. (GM): being nonviolent, or having any scruples about murdering people who get in your way, never pays off

Guy of Bonisagus: we got our vis back, and some extra vis on top of it

Voda: You know you can always change things to make them more interesting if the players do something unexpected that short circuits the adventure.

Guy of Bonisagus: AND we killed a fairy

GM: It just put me on the spot briefly while I figure out how things resolve

johns: Except when your charcter goes to heaven instead of hell, but by that point you don't care about the PC

c'thinker (GM): i got the headshot wav

GM: Anyway, the fairy had two real powers: an effect to change everyone's imaginam in a boundary, and an effect that removed some memories of the night before so that people forget that they were all Simon, so they blame him for what he did

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Haha, I managed to have my power out age right as we ended the game

Celeste: lucky

Boy R. (GM): this fairy sounds like a real dick

johns: arent they all

Celeste: yeah

Guy of Bonisagus: good work everyone

good session

Boy R. (GM): it's better that she's dead

GM: there was no mentem effect spurring them to steal though. turns out people are just fucking assholes when they have zero consequences.

Celeste: classic faerie

Voda: It's just a good old time for everyone.

johns: how many faeries have we met that weren't assholes

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I got the idea that everyone is an asshole from the chicken guy

GM: however, Napolino left before the mentem effect went off

so he could report what happened

Voda: How many fairies aren't assholes?

Nobody.

johns: boyrep's tailor

he does nothing except give us money

Voda: He was obviously fairy blooded only.

johns: ahh

Voda: He has a daughter!

Boy R. (GM): he was touched by faerie, not even fairy blooded

Voda: And she wasn't kidnapped or anything.

c'thinker (GM): hmm. the jukebox isnt working for me

Boy R. (GM): befana is fairy blooded, purely for powergaming purposes

GM: I mean, this one was relatively non-violent, they just bait someone into stealing then get them to regret it and return what they stole.

Voda: Smart.

johns: Someone remind me why molesting the fae was banned in the first place

c'thinker (GM): house merinita

Boy R. (GM): it's creepy, and it encourages fairies who are into being molested

or worse, teaches them to molest

GM: Because you have no idea if this fairy has any other fairies that watch over it, who would seek vengeance over what you did.

It invites trouble to kill fairies without good reason, generally

c'thinker (GM): I will not molest the faeries, lest their vengeance catch my sodales also.

Guy of Bonisagus: it was a good reason

shes tole our vis

johns: What if -- hear me out -- the order of hermes used its incredible magic power to indiscriminately wipe out all threats to its, and take its place as Masters of Europe.

c'thinker (GM): faeries LOVE being killed though

Voda: That seems like a LOT of work.

johns: Rome wasn't built in a day

GM: She didnt steal anything from you. In fact you recovered your vis from the real thief before blowing her head up with mongolian power

Guy of Bonisagus: itd be cool to play a post-wizardocalypse game

Boy R. (GM): let's instead use our incredible magical power to test whether it would be possible to build Rome in a day

johns: yeah... shadowrun

GM: Oh some fairies love being killed, yeah

this one didnt

Guy of Bonisagus: paranoia but instead of the computer its the order of hermes with constant scrying effects

johns: what if there was a school of magic whose powers were all based on interpretations of metaphors br

GM: Will there be any consequences from indiscriminate murder? [shrugs noncommittally]

Voda: Then Liesmith would start playing again.

Guy of Bonisagus: and instead of being mutants people just have magic/faerie/etc blood

GM: anyway, i hope everyone had fun with a low-stakes adventure for once

johns: you can add both hairpins to the vis ledger if you want, bolad can't deny the wizards a chance to grind it into vispaste

Celeste: have i really not updated celeste since 1341

sheesh

Guy of Bonisagus: secret societies are the remainder of fallen noble houses

johns: this was Spring 1344 right?

Voda: Paranoia is more a state of mind than a setting.

GM: dfd, can you resend the vision you sent me before, i dont see it anywhere

yes

spring 1344

c'thinker (GM): bolad's hair needs to be long and beautiful.

johns: like lu bu

Endrite: Who?

johns: You need to brush up on your Faerie Lore (China), I believe.

Endrite: Clearly.

johns: umm so next week, visiting North Africa?

going by boat?

Endrite: I thought he was playing in the Frisia game on Wednesdays.

johns: gahaha

GM: He isnt, sadly

cool vision

oh right i got this adventure from a suggestion in the grogs book

https://puu.sh/zqGO4/dcd644884e.png

thank you story seeds

well i changed it around obviously

Endrite: Sure.

Celeste: Good stuff.

Endrite: As any GM would.

johns: GG!

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10-9 aging lavinia 1342

(

7

)

-9

=

-2

rolling 1d10-9 aging lavinia 1343

(

3

)

-9

=

-6

rolling 1d10!+6 studying Aquam vis in regio

(

6

)

+6

=

12

dys (GM): -9, jesus

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+1 Bolad aging 1342

(

9

)

+1

=

10

rolling 1d10!+1 Bolad aging 1342

(

10

+

2

)

+1

=

13

1343 rather

dys (GM): nice aging, kid

johns (GM): hm, 6 Aging Points.

this is the price a man pays for refusing to take a bath.

dys (GM): Crisis too

johns (GM): nah hes unaging

dys (GM): ah

we had 2 unaging characters with gift of tongues once...

johns (GM): but its starting to look like decrepitude will kill him on a normal life span timeline just cause of living int he city. lol

dys (GM): lol

johns (GM): okay its only 4 aging points total, enough to take him to 5 Decrepitude XP