12/31/17

(From Shauncat (GM)): Cool

Morgana:

rolling d10+35 Middle Age

(

9

)

+35

=

44

Okay finished this grog

Endrite (GM): Oh FUCK

Roll20's integrated Video and Voice isn't working!

Shit!

Shauncat (GM): Oh noes

Endrite: I'm screaming and crying and thrashing violently.

devil's fav demon: How are we ever going to cope with this?

Endrite: Well, I've started by bleeding profusely from my uncontrolled thrashing.

So you could use that as a template.

devil's fav demon: I'll call an ambulance.

Endrite: The real labyrinth is how many different pictures we're going to see!

Although that's a maze and not a labyrinth.

Boy R. (GM): oh?

well you can hang out over there I suppose

Endrite: Yeah a labyrinth only has one path and no dead ends.

Boy R. (GM): you may be disappointed

Shauncat: I guess I don't remember any dead ends in the official movie about labyrinths, but it could magically loop upon itself.

Endrite: Jim Henson's Labyrinth was NOT the official film of labyrinths.

And it may have more accurately been called "Maze."

Boy R. (GM): the distinction between mazes and labyrinths is an arbitrary construction of tyrannical mathematicians

Endrite: It is what it is.

Though since it IS still 2017, I would ask you to oppose the forces of fascism by unquestioningly accepting the opinion of experts as fact.

Shauncat: Sucks that you can't search the journal unless you're GM

Endrite: What are you looking for?

Shauncat: I found it

dys: alright, added zita to the gm reference page

Shauncat: I'll add Hypatia when I find out whether Beatrice can help her sneak into boys only college

Since that'll be her primary story if she does

I'll read up on the Tytalan approach to alter egos in the meantime

Oh, Personae is a supernatural, not a subsystem. Gulielmus should get that and make potions that give you a reputation when you drink them for the duration

Boy R. (GM): well, it's ambiguously written

it seems like anyone can establish a persona, which is just a deep cover disguise

but the persona supernatural ability helps, by letting you maintain several human forms

dys: There's rules for establishing an alternate identity, I believe

But the persona shit is good for other reasons

as I believe it cant be pierced

Boy R. (GM): in the tytalus section they frequently use persona just to mean secret identity

dys: classic ars writing

Shauncat: Oh I see the deep cover rules now, this is good

c'thinker: salb.

devil's fav demon: howdy.

c'thinker: im going to eat a sandwich.

dys: ill look into them sometime so i can start setting up zita in the criminal underworld of rome. should be a great income source for us.

Shauncat: I'm thinking that Hyatpia's alter ego goes for a Baccalaureus first, to get established, before attempting a doctorate

Boy R. (GM): hope everyone's prepared for some incredibly low rent creature tokens

Endrite: I am prepared.

dys: The best token was the pig one, which was the lowest rent we've ever reached

c'thinker: was aristocritus the pig

Boy R. (GM): if you have to ask who the pig was...

c'thinker: im pretty sure aristocritus was the pig.

Morgana: I'll find my pig

dys: Persona 4 OST - I'll find my pig

Shauncat: If Bialas helped Fiorella get back to VT, maybe he could have called on some more grogs to show up, though that might take a few days

Who's on the adventure currently? Just Tunde?

devil's fav demon: Oh, haha, I completely forgot Bialas already left.

Shauncat: Bialas can fly

c'thinker: https://i.imgur.com/DziFAUd.gif

Boy R. (GM): did bialas leave?

devil's fav demon: He can, yeah. He won't carry back some regular old grogs though.

c'thinker: bialas can fly, and yet a gm ruled aristocritus could not.

devil's fav demon: i thought he had the hover directly up and down spell

obviously i forgot.

Shauncat: That's fine

c'thinker: he had a spell to move very quickly in any direction

devil's fav demon: that's flying, yep.

c'thinker: it's ok though because i just ignored the ruling and used the flight spell until he died.

Shauncat: Fiorella can turn into a tiny bird, grogs can't

Bialas can tell them how to get through the maze and rendezvous with The Party though

devil's fav demon: "just have a strong mentem resistance and you'll do fine"

c'thinker: There are a high number of users in your video chat call. If any of the players do not have sufficient internet bandwidth, you may experience degraded performance or instability as a result.

Endrite: IT MUST BE NICE!

Shauncat: Oh right, magic

Endrite: The magic doesn't prevent you from finding your way anywhere, it just makes you think everything is fine.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: start the game

Shauncat: One of the battle sisters could lead the rest in

Boy R. (GM): in a minute

Endrite: The game doesn't start for three minutes.

c'thinker: Afk.

Shauncat: Up to the GM mostly, if more grogs can show up, cool, if not, I'll play who was established as being here, like Tunde.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Here we are, in Ravenna."

Shauncat: Visions is a supernatural flaw

Boy R. (GM): Here we are in Ravenna

It's been several hours since the events of two weeks ago

three weeks ago

Zita of Mercere: Boy, how time flies.

Boy R. (GM): The party held a quick conference, and the general consensus as I recall was "let's see how this plays out"

so you're doing that

Proclus of Rome: It just makes sense.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I make myself a nice little chair and rob some food from the market.

And take a good position to watch what happens, excitement in my eyes.

devil's fav demon: mariu has leadership as a shield grog but i havent converted his abilities to the old scale, i see

also hes going to die in a few years

Bolad: RIP

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I assure the Criamon lady that this will be very good, and I am glad she's doing this.

Boy R. (GM): Night has fallen, and Euphemia has generously offered you the hospitality of Count Ostasio. You are of course guests at his table, along with the court maga, the real steward, and a somewhat nervous-looking priest

Bolad: some of us have injuries as I recall, Bolad has a light wound

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah

Boy R. (GM): regarding the grogs; there has been no time to seek outside aid, unless you can do it instantly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i had bound the wounds

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Why so nervous, priest?"

Boy R. (GM): Any spells with a sun duration will need to be refreshed of course

Proclus of Rome: I have a light wound as well.

I think.

It might be a medium wound.

Zita of Mercere: That is an incredibly good token

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i only took a fatigue, i think.

Fra Angelo: "Ah... uh..."

Proclus of Rome: Let me check.

Bolad: remember you can leave a message that lavinia will pick up through divination

Malachiasz of Tytalus: how do i leave the message

i want to leave the message that this is the best vacation ive ever had

Fra Angelo: All the magi suddenly stop what they're doing and start casting their Parma

Bialas of Bjornaer: Smart.

Ostasio da Polenta: "I'm sure it's nothing. So ah... lovely of you fellows to drop in. Any friend of Euphemia is a friend of mine. Who did you say you were again?"

Zita of Mercere: "It is quite alright, father. My sodales are scholars, these are all quite normal actions."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the message: I, Malachiasz of Tytalus, am having a great deal of fun. Wish you were here.

Proclus of Rome: Oh I just took one fatigue level.

Ostasio da Polenta: You have recovered your fatigue

Zita of Mercere: I took zero damage because I teleported outside. A big win for teleportation.

Proclus of Rome: "I'm Proclus of Rome, a noted philosopher."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes, priest, just calm yourself. In a couple days we're going to see a marvelous event."

johns: oh no i think roll20 jukebox is broken too :(

Proclus of Rome: "I am particularly interested in the architecture of this city, it's quite unusual."

Bialas of Bjornaer: >_<

Fra Angelo: "M- marvelous?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh i just lagged out for like 20 messages

Ostasio da Polenta: "Oh good. Excellent. Are you working on anything good? I'm always interested in sponsoring worthy projects"

Fra Angelo: The jukebox is broken, and not playing epic SAO tunes like it should be

Ostasio da Polenta: The servants bring food, which at this point seems to consist mostly of pigeons trapped on the grounds

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I believe angels will be gazing down upon this city soon."

Ostasio da Polenta: the jukebox is working fine for me

Malachiasz of Tytalus laughs and munches a turnip.

Bolad: strange I don't hear anything

Proclus of Rome: "Have you been sponsoring the works in this city?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me neither johns

Bialas the Bear: there we go.

Bolad: i hear music now.

Fra Angelo: I just started hearing music

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me too johns

Ostasio da Polenta: huh i had stronghold crusader on a loop for a good while

Bolad: good game.

Zita of Mercere: I want to roll folk ken, on Malachiasz, about why he's so eager for this criamon experiment

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whats this little statue off to the side

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats the characteristic to go wit hguile

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip

Proclus of Rome: It's non-canon.

Ostasio da Polenta: I don't know what you mean

Zita of Mercere: Communication, typically

Proclus of Rome: It depends on the situation.

Bialas the Bear makes his return, gazing down upon the city from the sky. "I wonder if they've got food ready?"

Ostasio da Polenta: I think just roll per+ folk ken

Zita of Mercere: Oh, and of course, don't forget the Gift penalty.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean for defending against his folk ken

Ostasio da Polenta: is malachiasz attempting to dissemble?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: zita has parma up

Zita of Mercere: Oh, true

no penalty

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'm Guillaume."

"From France."

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Zita of Mercere: thank you... gulielmus? for the parma.

Fra Angelo: It cool that the gift makes you a worse liar

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+7

(

10

)

+7

=

17

Proclus of Rome: Nobody trusts you when you're Gifted.

Ostasio da Polenta: Zita perceives Malachiasz' true feelings

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Malachiasz thinks this is going to end in chaos. Malachiasz finds this hilarious!

Ostasio da Polenta: whatever those might be

Bolad: I can't find the recap post so can you clarify for me: da Polenta is the lord, Fra Angelo is his chaplain, and neither of these guys are the suspicious "Greeks" we heard of?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: which crawl god corresponds to which magus

Ostasio da Polenta: Seemingly not

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets drop everything and figure this out

Bolad: Who are the people on either side of the table

Ostasio da Polenta: the greeks were mere hired labourers

you could ask the count more about it

Proclus of Rome: That's the real steward on the right.

On the left is the real Euphemesia.

Ostasio da Polenta: but it seems like he gave some merchants the run of the town because they had crazy ideas aobut remodeling it

correct

Bolad: Got it. I'm all caught up now.

And the merchants were Fake Greek/Real Venetian

Zita of Mercere: Who were the big players here again, there was a group that we were going to meet with

the merchants i think

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the merchants of venice

Ostasio da Polenta: they appear to come from Crete, a Venetian colony at this period

Bolad: I found the recap post. https://badgame.net/index.php?topic=47117.msg12349467#msg12349467

Bialas the Bear: Cretins.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Bialas the Bear: Cretins.

Bialas the Bear: Sorry, I mean Cretans. Ha ha.

Ostasio da Polenta: Alright, you pass an evening in slightly stilted conversation. It's hard to get anything out of people under this spell

as the count is giving the signal to pour more wine, there's a sudden lurch somewhere and you all feel as if your guts twist into a knot

Bolad: ah shit we drank the gut hurting juice

Ostasio da Polenta: after a moment's disorientation, in which everyone stumbles about and all the crockery slides off the table, you come to your senses in the same room

Fra Angelo looks over the strange new magi curiously.

Ostasio da Polenta: except... an eerie orange light filters through the window... and the floor is slanted at about 20 degrees

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

What's outside?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh boy, has it started?"

Proclus of Rome: That's more like 45 degrees.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I rush to look at the window with the glee of a child on Christmas morn.

Bialas the Bear: Huh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh thank God, it wasn't the wine."

Ostasio da Polenta: it snapped to position and i do not care to remember the right hotkey

Bialas the Bear: Do I notice the building lurching around from outside?

Zita of Mercere: I sit around, Perfect Balance-ishly, not very affected by all this.

Bolad: Alt

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its alt

Ostasio da Polenta: outside looks  vaguely  like this

except the maze is still the streets of Ravenna, unfolded and extended to the horizon

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Ostasio da Polenta: Zita catches her wineglass nonchalantly

Bialas the Bear: Hm. Gonna be a little bit harder than I thought to regroup.

Proclus of Rome: Well, that's unusual.

What is Euphemesia doing?

Zita of Mercere: A tilted room is no reason to stop carousing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i bet itd look really nice if the criamons turned the castle into a ziggurat

Ostasio da Polenta: She is also rushing to the window in glee

she looks vaguely disappointed

Bolad: Are mundanes still under the effect of a spell making them think this is chill

Ostasio da Polenta: your host meanwhile, looks confused and angry

"What... where...."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The wine was excellent, by the way."

Proclus of Rome: What's the aura like?

Ostasio da Polenta: "I have been most grievously bewitched! Guards! Seize these infernal scholars!"

Fra Angelo: Has the furniture slid around?

Ostasio da Polenta: Proclus: what spells are you casting and in what order?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: his rotes are cast silently, i think

Proclus of Rome: Dominion, Faerie, Magic, Infernal.

Fra Angelo: Can I roll Sense Unholiness to see if these scholars are actually infernal?

Proclus of Rome: And yes they are silent and gestureless.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Great work Euphemia! Ah, Criamon, a grand house."

Ostasio da Polenta: you receive a strong sense of magic power

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

What level?

Ostasio da Polenta: can you tell?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, is that awful spell gone?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sense of magic power. triplet maximize magic, scribing the perfect circle

Ostasio da Polenta: I suppose it would be unfair to conceal it - I was thinking of a int roll to make sure you check

this aura registers 6 on both magic and infernal

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

This is highly unusual!

Bialas the Bear spends some time entering rooms and houses at random, shouting "Sodales! I have returned! Fiorella is safe!" and so on. He's pretty lost.

Bolad: Which magi are here, Proclus Gulielmus and Malach?

Ostasio da Polenta: mechanically, it adds to spells like a magic aura but you suffer teh dangers of infernal botches

hmm

I wasn't expecting bialas to actually leave because he was here to the end of the last game

Fra Angelo: The ability to not have to roll for this kind of thing is pretty good when it comes to infernal auras

Ostasio da Polenta: Angelo: you can certainly roll sense unholiness

frankly I'm going to say bialas can be here, because otherwise he's out of the game

Fra Angelo:

rolling d10+2+4 Perception + SHaU

(

5

)

+2+4

=

11

Proclus of Rome: "Was this what you were expecting?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: anyway, are the guards now trying to apprehend us?

Ostasio da Polenta: they're advancing on you, but I don't want to go into combat rounds for something like this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the wine truly excellent, or is gulielmus lying

Ostasio da Polenta: and it's taking them a little time to get organised

The wine is pretty damn good in fairness

this guy likes to live well

Bialas the Bear: Oh, back where you all are? I'm fine just rping Bialas being lost for a couple hours.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: time to escape

i jump out the window

Bialas the Bear: Whatever's fair.

Proclus of Rome: Bialas has a fully realized side adventure being lost.

Bolad: Let's make BR gm two adventures at once

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bialas goes on pilgrimage while lost, and has gained 3 minor virtues:

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, before we are apprehended, if you have a convenient way to leave, it may be best to take it."

Euphemia of Criamon: "Expecting? I mean... I'll have to study it"

Proclus of Rome: You need to be a Christian to go on pilgrimage.

Bolad: I move to protect Gulielmus as he seems the most likely to die here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does anyone have an exit

besides malachiasz

Zita of Mercere: "I'll try and smooth things out, as best I can, but I'll be running for the hills shortly."

Fra Angelo: I should be able to tell that Procus is pious

Since he does pilgrimages and such

Euphemia of Criamon: yes that seems fair

you get no particular sense of unholiness from any of these guys

Fra Angelo: Oh, 15 for specific people

But I can tell the area itself has Infernal taint

Euphemia of Criamon: general unholiness is omnipresent though

Proclus of Rome: I don't have True Faith or anything.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. i'm going to put my plan into action

Euphemia of Criamon: it has been for a while of course

Zita of Mercere: how are you meant to address ostasio

Bolad: Khan

Euphemia of Criamon: with an etiquette roll

Gulielmus: what was your plan?

Zita of Mercere: i mean we've been talking with the guy all evening

im asking what we've been claling the man

Euphemia of Criamon: ok sure

I'm not sure actually. Signore?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+15 Preternatural Growth and Shrinking

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Proclus of Rome: I'm going to take out my bob and protractor to accurately measure the angle of the room.

Fra Angelo: Hmm, the Infernal aura might overwhelm SHaU, but that's pretty telling that it is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus shrinks himself to Size -2 and hides under a table.

Fra Angelo: But it makes it nearly impossible to read a specific person.

Euphemia of Criamon: hmmMM

Proclus of Rome: Smart.

Euphemia of Criamon: roll dex+stealth

Zita of Mercere: "Signore, my sodales and I have only just arrived. Any troubles here were troubles long before we all reached this city. They have done nothing wrong."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets see here.

rolling 1d10!-2

(

3

)

-2

=

1

Euphemia of Criamon:

rolling 3d10

(

2

+

6

+

8

)

=

16

Zita of Mercere: You should ask for a bonus to stealth rolls for being small [in the voice of someone with small frame and 150xp in stealth]

Fra Angelo: "Listen, I'm sure I can talk to these scholars, get a sense of whether their intentions truly are baneful or not."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: has malachiasz already jumped out the window

Euphemia of Criamon: you don't get a bonus to stealthily become small.

Gulielmus proclaims a spell and shrinks himself to dwarf size, which is startling enough to attract the attention of everyone in the room

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm also using normal gestures and voice, so it's very obvious that i'm casting a spell.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes

after being accused of grave crimes my first course of action was to jump out the window

Ostasio da Polenta: Malachiasz has jumped out the window

Malachiasz of Tytalus: this MAY affect his opinion of my companions

Ostasio da Polenta: roll dex+athletics

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and their claims that they have not committed the grave crimes

Fra Angelo: Is Magic or Infernal the dominant aura?

Zita of Mercere: I look around at everyone spellcasting, jumping out the window, etc

Ostasio da Polenta: It's one aura which is both magic and infernal

Zita of Mercere: "This is all just a misunderstanding, I assure you, signore."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Mal, wait, take me with you!"

Fra Angelo: What do you use for realm interactions?

Zita of Mercere: "A... just a misunderstanding, really."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hmm

Bialas the Bear sees Malachiasz crashing out a window. "Oh! There they are!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i could take small guli

Bialas the Bear: There we go.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea rushes to the window just in time to watch Malachiasz fall to the ground.

Bialas the Bear: Now it makes sense.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nevermind, small guli is still there

as proclaimed by his player

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it woudl be a bad idea anyway.

Proclus of Rome: Wait.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i would probably take +75 fall damage or however much

Proclus of Rome: Is there glass on the windows?

Ostasio da Polenta: wait, where did Bialas go in the first place

Fra Angelo: Oh, Divine doesn't get penalized by anything anyway

Nice

Ostasio da Polenta: I thought he was escorting Fiorella

Bialas the Bear: I flew home with Fiorella last session.

Bolad: lets make the gm cry

Bialas the Bear: And I was coming back.

Ostasio da Polenta: ok. that takes several days and you're out of the game

Bialas the Bear: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

archmage neutralized.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: bialas will be sad that he didnt get sent to hell

Zita of Mercere: :blessed:

Bialas the Bear: We'd been over what happened and you're the one who said he was back here! lol

That's fine.

Fra Angelo blurts out suddenly:

Ostasio da Polenta: you can if you wish say he never left, because otherwise you don't have a character here

Fra Angelo: "This place was already tainted before these scholars got here!"

Ostasio da Polenta: and he was biting eu

euphemia, when I thought fiorella was already gone

devil's fav demon: It's fine, I have to leave at like 5:30-6 anyway.

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, it's true. We've been victims of this horrible mess, as well."

Ostasio da Polenta: roll pre+leadership, angelo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'm certain I said something about that!" says Gulielmus in a tiny voice.

Ostasio da Polenta: did Malachiasz make an athletics roll?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: for what

Ostasio da Polenta: jumping out the window

Malachiasz of Tytalus: why do i need to roll

Fra Angelo quakes as he looks at Euphemia, attempting to steel himself in his faith.

Ostasio da Polenta: to avoid falling damage!

oh are you immune to that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im immune

Zita of Mercere laughs

Ostasio da Polenta: ok cool

Fra Angelo: Nice

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats my greater immunity

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: greater immunity: Damage

Fra Angelo: He has a strong character concept

Ostasio da Polenta: "You can protest your innocence all you want, this witch has been whispering poison in my ears for months!"

Fra Angelo: I can only hope that one day the revolving door blesses me as such

Ostasio da Polenta: "Where has the giant gone? What havoc does he plan now?"

Zita of Mercere: "Please forgive him. He's Polish."

Ostasio da Polenta: The men-at-arms have recovered, and are levelling polearms appropriate to this region and period at you menacingly

Proclus of Rome: "I am sure this can be brought under control, with a little investigation."

Bolad: Are they polearms symmetrical

Ostasio da Polenta: I didn't get a roll from Angelo I think. his stats are in the sheet

Proclus of Rome: I bet they're spetums.

Ostasio da Polenta: eh, I suppose they have to be more or less

along some axis

Fra Angelo: What' sthe roll for?

I rolled an 11 on SHaU

Ostasio da Polenta: pre+leadership, you were trying to shout reason at the count

Fra Angelo: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Careful!

Fra Angelo:

rolling 1+3+d10

1+3+

(

8

)

=

12

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Spetums do 15-21 damage and can have up to 6 damage gems socketed.

Ostasio da Polenta: yikes

"there is more going on here, but these infiltrators are mixed up in it"

"throw them in the dungeon, and have the witch interrogated"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I've done nothing wrong!"

Proclus of Rome: "Infiltrator? What kind of an accusation is that? We were invited into your home!"

Bolad: I look at the Magi for the signal to take offensive action.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many guards are there

Zita of Mercere: "Please, signore, you are ordering armed men to attack scholars, philosophers."

Ostasio da Polenta: I think everyone present drop a token at this point

there are

Proclus of Rome: I, personally, don't mind going to the donjon because I can just walk out as I please.

Ostasio da Polenta:

rolling d10

(

7

)

=

7

7 armed men present

Zita of Mercere: "This is excessive. We can explain things civilly, if you give us the chance to."

I want to try rolling charm on that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malach can break you out of jail

just trust in malach

Ostasio da Polenta: he lifts a finger

Bolad: I am thinking of using a Group version of Rusted Decay of 10-score years to render their pikes useless, but will wait until the Magi say to do so

Ostasio da Polenta: "Alright, explain"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have that as a spell bolad

if only you had me there

Bolad: If only you hadn't jumped out the window, like a coward.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i assumed we were all legging it

Zita of Mercere: "To my knowledge, though my sodales can correct any details I have wrong, the troubles here were the work of a group of merchants."

Proclus of Rome: It's a proud Vardian's Tomb tradition.

Zita of Mercere: "Their aims, who knows, but we only just arrived. We couldn't possibly be involved."

Proclus of Rome: Well, not proud, but you know what I mean.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea interjects dwarfishly.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We came to Ravenna to lift the curse!"

Fra Angelo: "This warrants a longer explanation I feel. Under less duress."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: vardian family secret technique

Ostasio da Polenta: Zita can roll charm if you like

Proclus of Rome: "Not entirely true, I came to check on a colleague of mine. Who, I should point out, I have had no success in locating."

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+10

(

7

)

+10

=

17

Ostasio da Polenta: "Your account is unconvincing and your dress unseemly, but I will not let it be said I mistreat a woman for no cause"

Fra Angelo: "Merchants are known for the worship of the fallen angel, Mammon. Their story might hold truth."

Ostasio da Polenta: "However, this witch has been ensorcelling me these many months, whispering in my ear whenever I had misgivings about some mad scheme or other. And she invites you here as friends..."

"My city is in disarray, or possibly hell. We shall confine in you in comfortable quarters until this matter is settled"

Bolad: "She is no friend of Bolad's."

Zita of Mercere: "We've never met her before today."

Fra Angelo: I'll Folk Ken Zita to see if she's lying

Ostasio da Polenta: by all means

Fra Angelo:

rolling 2+6+d10!

2+6+

(

10

+

5

)

=

23

Proclus of Rome: "Are you sure you aren't simply taking this opportunity to blame your mistakes on a convenient scapegoat?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea glances out the window.

Zita of Mercere: Well, I'm not rolling guile, as I'm not lying.

Ostasio da Polenta: Angelo can tell Zita's indignation is the real deal. Her position is so weak, a liar would have given up by now

Zita of Mercere: I actually have a spec in elaborate lies. Unfortunately this story is true.

Fra Angelo: Nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fra angelo detects zita's Way of the Town virtue, and realizes he's dealing with a master liar

Euphemia of Criamon: "I remain your servant, my lord, and accept your displeasure with patience"

Euphemia seems a little anxious, but she's not about to fight her way out of here

Fra Angelo: "The woman, Zita, she speaks the truth. The witch likely invited them here as part of her scheme, perhaps as scapegoats."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anything outside the window besides a thousand foot drop

Zita of Mercere: I dont think I was ever beating his folk ken roll anyway. But let's see how bad it would have been

Fra Angelo: "Or a distraction."

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+8

(

3

)

+8

=

11

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Invite us in? She tried to ward us off!"

Ostasio da Polenta: "Pater, old friend, I recall you were the only one to speak reason this past year. If you urge mercy, this time I will trust you."

Man at Arms: "In truth signore, they tried to kill her, though they seemed to make it up"

Zita of Mercere: Can I be restored to the baseline 2 confidence, as I just realised I cannot even double conf, if need be.

Fra Angelo: "If they are knowledgeable in arcane matters, then through them perhaps the truth of this affair lies."

Zita of Mercere: "We are at your service."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This Fra Angelo guy is pretty suspicious.

What if he's the mastermind behind the whole thing

Ostasio da Polenta: ahh dealing cards is harder than i expected on low res screens

Fra Angelo: Maybe I am

Ostasio da Polenta: ok

"Well god help us, I don't know where else to turn."

"You lot! What is happening here?"

Fra Angelo: "I can't speak for the man who immediately leaped from the window upon being accused."

"But those who stayed should be heard out."

Proclus of Rome: "I believe that the room has tilted by 20 degrees."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, he's just got a nervous temperament."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks out the window again.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's fine."

Ostasio da Polenta: The count carefully places to the window

Bolad: "He is coward borne of weak turnip eating men of the forests."

Ostasio da Polenta: "You know, I believe you are right"

"let me put this another way. What are you going to do about it"

"If you can't help me, it's probably best that I take your heads off here"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: blimey

Zita of Mercere: "Proclus, do you think you could uh, fix this?" I ask him quietly

Fra Angelo: "Maybe they can help track down the pole. He was ranting about angels earlier."

Proclus of Rome: "I think that, by solving the riddle posed by this transformation, we can return this city to normal."

Ostasio da Polenta: "Alright, good, I like where this is going. How do we do that?"

GM: I regret I couldn't find a better picture of altered Ravenna

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its a good picture

Bolad: i like it

is this from the davie bowie movie

Zita of Mercere: "A quiet word with the merchants might be a good start."

GM: The topography of the city has somewhat altered

Proclus of Rome: I also regret that we must ceremonially discommendate you.

GM: it is

which is why the castle is at an angle now

you can sort of recognise the shape of old ravenna in nearby parts of the maze

Proclus of Rome: What's at the center of the maze?

GM: like its been taken as the pattern for a design that's spread out across the landscape

you can't see its boundaries, but the pattern of the streets does suggest they're encircling a fixed point

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

GM: and from your elevation you can see a mound of masonry over there

Proclus of Rome: So is it very large or are there elevation changes that obscure it?

Fra Angelo: Does the layout of the city form a loop?

GM: from your current position, it would be close to the warehouse or offices of Manoli and Chionates, that you never investigated

it's very large for a building, small for a hill

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Hmm.

Let's head over there, then.

Wait.

Where's the sun?

Fra Angelo: I suppose none of the PCs would have any abilities relevant to recognizing a Criamon looping pattern

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in the middle of the maze

GM: the sun had gone down, but the sky now glows with a dull and eerie light

does anyone have enigmatic wisdom?

Proclus of Rome: No.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no

Bolad: Yes

GM: i actually don't know about criamon looping patterns off the top of my head

Bolad: I mean, no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes actually.

the npc maga does.

GM: probably she does

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice, lets hold her at knifepoint and have her explain

Bolad: We can't trust her because she's either stupid or evil or both

Proclus of Rome: So is she just not doing anything?

Fra Angelo: It would be a red herring if the GM hasn't really looked into it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is she in elbow range

Zita of Mercere: Would magic lore work at all here, GM?

Fra Angelo: But interrogating her is probably a good idea anyway

GM: she's surrendered. she wants to examine this phenomenon at her leisure, but a lot of people here would kill her on short notice

in fact while you're all allowed your liberty for now, the count is keeping her firmly under guard

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

How firmly is she guarded?

Fra Angelo: "Scholars, may I accompany you to meet these merchants?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yelling "what's the deal with the maze" across the room seems like a proclus move.

GM: by a guardsman on either side

Proclus of Rome: In the main hall or in a cell?

Zita of Mercere: "Of course."

GM: we're all still ehre

you can talk to her

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's malachiasz up to.

Zita of Mercere: "I'm sure you can relay, afterwards, that our intentions remain solving this horrible incident."

He's killing people in whispers, is the best guess.

GM: actually that's a good question

Fra Angelo nods.

GM: malachiasz jumped into a courtyard filled with confused castlefolk. does he have an objective or is he just hiding out until you can regroup?

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hmm

well now that ive had my laugh at criamons expense ill set to solving this problem

can i see that big mound of masonry from here?

Ostasio da Polenta: "Angelo, you are a faithful servant and man of god. You may be my deputy in this matter."

You took note of it on your way out but you can'#t see it from street level

the streets are higher and narrower than ever

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I'll try to get on top of the sprawl for a better vantage point/easier navigation.

Fra Angelo: "Thank you, Conte." (or approrpiate honorific if I missed something)

Proclus of Rome: "Where is your laboratory, Euphemia?"

Ostasio da Polenta: do you have any climbing ability? mal

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have terram magic

let me see whatd be easiest

Fra Angelo: He could use Finesse to sculpt handholds in stone with PeTe

devil's fav demon: Mal doesn't go up, he goes down. If you know what I mean.

Euphemia of Criamon: "In my sanctum, quite some way distant. I only keep common ritual implements and scribe's tools here"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, ill stand next to a building/labyrinth wall and create a pillar of stone at my feet high enough to bring me to the top

Proclus of Rome: "Did you take any notes on your process or were you planning on keeping it a secret?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: seems to be a level 15 effect

rolling 1d10!+32

(

1

)

+32

=

33

uh oh

devil's fav demon: :blessed:

Bolad: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gm?

roll em

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats 7 dice isnt it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it is

devil's fav demon: The One Where Malachiasz Goes To Hell

Zita of Mercere: Infernal aura is 6 free dice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but wait.

Zita of Mercere: Infernal warping :blessed:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe theres more than one base die

Euphemia of Criamon:

rolling 7d10<1

(

1

+

8

+

10

+

7

+

5

+

4

+

6

)

=

1 Successes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its up to the gm really.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 1 botch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Success!

Euphemia of Criamon: that's a point of warping!

Fra Angelo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2VfmhAlTO8

Euphemia of Criamon: and a botch, let's see

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 19 warping poitns :blessed:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow! the ENTIRE maze has been destroyed

Bolad: the platform should launch malach into the lunar sphere.

Euphemia of Criamon: you reach your hands into the stone to dig some handholds

Fra Angelo: He attempted to make a pillar

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah

under my feet

Euphemia of Criamon: oh sorry

the earth churns around you

devil's fav demon: Deeper. Deeper. More pits.

Euphemia of Criamon: it's not working somehow. you feed it more power. something breaks free and you're tossed into the air, then fall back heavily, but uninjured thanks to your immunities

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Kurwa!"

Fra Angelo: Does parma prevent you from being damaged by aetheric winds as you leave Earth's atmosphere?

Bolad: only if you have the Form of Aether, ofc.

Euphemia of Criamon: coming to his senses, malachiasz is clasped in the jaws of a great stone snake, some thirty feet off the ground. its teeth gently press on your skin, but it's now entirely inanimate

Fra Angelo: Seems Vim-analogous

Possibly Auram

Proclus of Rome: Perdo GM

Euphemia of Criamon: you can even see your goal from up here, but you can't jump onto a rooftop

eh?

Fra Angelo: According to ancient and medieval science, aether (Greek: αἰθήρ aithēr[1]), also spelled æther or ether, also called quintessence

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you dced

Proclus of Rome: You disappeared briefly.

Fra Angelo: Quintessence is WoD Vim

Boy R. (GM): oh sorry

i'm on wifi

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aether is literally its own form

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I Obliterate the Metallic Barrier that is the roof of this snakes mouth to free myself.

Fra Angelo: Where's aether form described?

Boy R. (GM): Dies Irae

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the criamon blowing up the moon adventure

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+44

(

7

)

+44

=

51

Boy R. (GM): it needs to be discovered

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the smell goes off

Proclus of Rome: OR it has already been discovered.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's a copy of it that just includes the moon stuff

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I hop down and go next to where I originally tried my spontaneous cast and go for another attempt.

Boy R. (GM): cool cool. you're effectively standing on a stone pillar a little away from where you were aiming

Fra Angelo: Why do they put all this info in an adventure you might not want to cheat by looking at

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you want to read that without reading the other endgames in dies irae, since we're going to be using one of them

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cant jump to a roof from here though?

Bolad: because aether's primary usefulness is after the moon blows up

Boy R. (GM): well you failed your spell

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ill just make a stone bridge from here to a rooftop actually, thatd be easier

Boy R. (GM): just check for botch once more

fair enough

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: theres a crystal sphere at the top of the atmosphere.

you can't use magic to go past it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+40

(

10

+

1

)

+40

=

51

there we go

that ends up being a level 25 effect

Boy R. (GM): alright you're on the rooftops

Proclus of Rome: I think that, in all fairness, that should be another hilarious botch.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I effectively just cast Wall of Protecting Stone

Boy R. (GM): and you can work your way forward, though you might need to conjure more bridges

what are the rest of oyu doing?

Fra Angelo: We had the discussion before where I found a part in The Mysteries where you can use InVi to tell the time, and everyone found this contradictory but I didn't know why

But I guess if aether is its own form, that makes sense

Boy R. (GM): it has Implications

I'm ok with it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i thought invi to tell the time was fine

Proclus of Rome: Vim is certainly the wrong form.

Boy R. (GM): that's just because you don't understand the nature of time

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but there is no need to rehash that right now.

Proclus of Rome: Anyway, did Euphemia make notes?

Boy R. (GM): ah yes

she says sure, she was keeping note of her observations

they're in her lab cipher ofc

Fra Angelo: I'll see how Learned Magician spells that interact with non-hermetic elements like Luck deal with Parma

Boy R. (GM): you can also just ask her and she'll share freely

Proclus of Rome: Of course.

Euphemia of Criamon: "Well, what do you want to know?"

Proclus of Rome: "Where did you learn how to construct this maze?"

Euphemia of Criamon: "I will share what I can. There are certain things only an initiate can understand"

"I did nothing of the sort"

Proclus of Rome: "Or, rather, why did you learn that it was important to do so?"

Euphemia of Criamon: "It seems to be a very ancient hedge magic

Proclus of Rome: "Of what provenance?"

Euphemia of Criamon: "My research suggests that this place must exist. A regio near the boundaries of the magic realm. Its Form escapes me, but that is the limit of Bonisagus' Theory"

Proclus of Rome: Ohhh, hmm...

Bolad: The Form of Evil.

Zita of Mercere: Greetings

Euphemia of Criamon: "It amazes me that these backward cultists have been able to bring it near"

Proclus of Rome: Perdo Evil, boom.

"It certainly is exciting."

Euphemia of Criamon: she glances at the count as she talks technical witchcraft

he glowers

but frankly his latin isn't great

Proclus of Rome: "Though I am worried that it may be dangerous if we can't escape to tell the tale."

Euphemia of Criamon: "Isn't it!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whats the name of that guy

i forget

the demon on the right

Euphemia of Criamon: "Well, that's true. Now we know how it's done, it can hopefully be replicated in controlled fashion, when the moment is right"

Proclus of Rome: "Still, you have no idea where Gnomon might be?"

devil's fav demon: stolas

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "And have you not noticed the other aura?"

Euphemia of Criamon: "I'm not sure what the Cretans' ultimate object is, they simply seem to venerate in return for simple boons"

the guy done up as a demon is angelo

Malachiasz of Tytalus: diablo

Euphemia of Criamon: you didn't get the steward's name. Luccio maybe?

Bolad: stolas, Infernal Duke of Bird Crew

Malachiasz of Tytalus: infernal duck

Bolad: The Cretins.

Euphemia of Criamon: "The other aura?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: stolas ftw

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea glances at the guards.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You know, the fourth kind."

Euphemia of Criamon: "Oh I see. Look, this is a technical matter"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess thats not very naive and i should instead be hollering about satan

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, of course, you haven't been able to record the magnitude of the auras present."

I explain that there are two of equal strength.

Euphemia of Criamon: "the religion I've been studying predates any hebrew texts, if you get my drift"

Proclus of Rome: ;)

Euphemia of Criamon: "it concerns spirits of Chaos and Night, real elemental stuff like that. To the current paradigm, it would seem a little backward"

Zita of Mercere: "Are we trapped in a regio of chaos because of this?"

Bolad: "They sound like the contemporaries of Tengri, though certainly not as strong as the eternal sky."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: can this really be called a regio of chaos

labyrinths seem more orderly than chaotic

Proclus of Rome: Is it a labyrinth or a maze?

Bolad: a chaos regio? wait a damn minute

is this a warhammer adventure

Proclus of Rome: Tricked again!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: maybe well find tytalus here

Bolad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOugNisFgVo

Euphemia of Criamon: "If you want to put it in those terms, Zita. I prefer to think that we've  found  one"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the only living founder, tytalus

Euphemia of Criamon: "A maze regio, if that idea is more comfortable"

"I have some predictions about its nature, but of course so far they have to be hypotheses"

Zita of Mercere: "Found, whatever, just so long as we can find a way out of here."

Fra Angelo: Chaos exists in Ars

It's metnioned in A&A

Bolad: O_O

Euphemia of Criamon: Chaos is the first guy Lucifer met when he broke out of hell

Proclus of Rome: "If you tell me, I can inspect the regio with your hypothesis in mind."

Euphemia of Criamon: ergo it's not in hell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: chaos is a spirit of the reason realm, who spawned the titans of the magic realm, who spawned the gods of the faerie realm

Fra Angelo: https://puu.sh/yRFuE/ead3f8e6f9.png

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who in turn spawned God, of the divine realm.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

What if this is the realm of Forms?

Could be...

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats true.

Euphemia of Criamon: "Well, this place is likely to despise order. Its paths are a maze, but I expect an attempt to navigate it with the rational senses will fail"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have to see this through so we can get free virtues.

Euphemia of Criamon: cut to - Malachiasz, leaping across rooftops

Bolad: "What if we just knock holes in walls until we find an exit?"

devil's fav demon: lol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: malachiasz doesn't have any rational senses so he'll be fine

Euphemia of Criamon: it's vexing, because you're certainly taking the most direct route, and it doesn't look that far away, but you don't seem to be getting any closer

Zita of Mercere: "If it's a regio, might not work. Could just end up looping around."

Proclus of Rome: "Would it be possible to find our way to the Venetians warehouse?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Aristocritus would have loved this.

Fra Angelo: Loops... Criamon...

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Damnable maze."

Fra Angelo: Time to CrReMe yourself and enter mind palace

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i crreme myself

Proclus of Rome: That's a standard ability.

Euphemia of Criamon: "you do not solve a labyrinth, you allow it to lead you to understanding"

Proclus of Rome: It's MERELY Arcane.

Hmm.

Euphemia of Criamon: "to solve a maze, you have to follow the labyrinth immanent in it!"

Bolad scoffs

Euphemia of Criamon: she's very excited about this conclusion

Proclus of Rome: "Interesting conclusion. I'm sure there will be no harm in attempting it."

Fra Angelo: It seemed pricey to actually make effective, but I haven't looked into memory palace stuff since AbAsAr

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright

if i cant get to it easily i have an alternative plan

how far away is this mountain of masonry

Ostasio da Polenta: I suppose it could be within shouting distance

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats very generous

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I think you've had too much wine, sodalis."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: very, very generous

Ostasio da Polenta: nah that's bollocks. sight range

Zita of Mercere: "Excuse me, one thing to check. What if you don't, or can't, reach understanding."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gah

Zita of Mercere: "Or it takes you a considerable length of time, months, years, who knows"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets see

i can definitely angle this into fitting my magical focus

Fra Angelo: You could try making a rock carry you to the palace

Proclus of Rome: "Nonsense, a simple labyrinth isn't outside the ability of the reasonably faculties to comprehend."

Ostasio da Polenta: meanwhile this guy is looking suspiciously at proclus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good idea shaun

Fra Angelo: I mean, masonry

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wont be using it

Ostasio da Polenta: "You conspire like old campaigners. You claim you had no part of this scheme?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: but good idea

instead

well

I will begin ceremonially casting a spontaneous spell

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, she has put forth a very interesting idea. If you can solve this maze, it will create a moment of understanding."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: The next level of my immaculate art

Proclus of Rome: "Surely, you can understand how exciting that would be."

Fra Angelo: This maze is an infernal koan that gives you tainted virtues for solving it

Euphemia of Criamon: "if I am wrong, we are trapped"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Good news, Zita."

Zita of Mercere: "I love good news. Tell me."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Once we start, we won't have enough food or water to remain trapped for months."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i just need to see what my total bonus is

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, but of course she might be wrong."

Zita of Mercere: "Ahahahaha. Aha. Ahaha."

Euphemia of Criamon: "but the maze is the law of this place. how could one travel but by becoming lost?"

Zita of Mercere: "Um"

Fra Angelo: Oh, does Bialas have trouble navigating while flying?

Zita of Mercere: "I, uh."

"I can't"

Proclus of Rome: "Still, the possibility is worth the risk, isn't it?"

Zita of Mercere: "Get lost. I can't get lost."

Euphemia of Criamon: Bialas is not in the regio

Proclus of Rome: Gah!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Cranked.

Proclus of Rome: Immune to the cure!

Euphemia of Criamon: "oh dear"

lol I wish I had planned this

Zita of Mercere: lmao

devil's fav demon: lol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dont worry. i have a solution

Fra Angelo: "Explain, please," I ask Zita.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if I blind you?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok i think the effect i want would still work out to the same as end of the mighty castle

same level rather

Euphemia of Criamon: "We could destroy your mental faculties, as necessary"

Bolad: "Put her in a sack and set her atop a horse. Let the horse solve this stupid riddle."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I want to turn the masonry mound into a big pit

Its ceremonial time

Euphemia of Criamon: hmm.

Zita of Mercere: "A family blessing, father Angelo."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: my casting bonus for this will be +60

Euphemia of Criamon: ok it's made of stone primarily

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah

im using end of the mighty castle as a baseline, but part target but remaining the same level because of magnitudes

Zita of Mercere: "If we can confirm that getting lost works, I'll take the sack and horse idea."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cant just cast end of the mighty castle because i would not have my focus bonus though

anyway

ceremonial spont

lets see

rolling 1d10!+60

(

4

)

+60

=

64

Euphemia of Criamon: that won't do

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are you sure

Euphemia of Criamon: it's either part or structure

Proclus of Rome: "If we get lost, then how would we know if it works?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it is part

hm

Euphemia of Criamon: with part, you need scale magnitudes to affect more than a single cubic pace

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh

hm

lets keep it structure target then

Euphemia of Criamon: "well, it can't hurt to try"

ok let me check that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it should just be a level 30 effect

end of the mighty castle but bumped to 30 because its going from voice to sight

Euphemia of Criamon: you will need +2 mags to affect a structure of this size

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Are you sure Criamons are actually part of the Order, Proclus?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: [screaming]

Euphemia of Criamon: end of the mighty castle is, as written, end of the good-sized house

Proclus of Rome: "Why wouldn't they be?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it says castle keep

Euphemia of Criamon: on this other conversation, euphemia shrugs

Bolad: lets beat up euphemia with sticks until she opens a regio back to not fucked up land

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im unsure how big this thing is, you said its smaller than a hill

Euphemia of Criamon: "won't know till you try. I'm saying this in latin so it sounds pthy and learned"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's Die

Proclus of Rome: "Smart."

Ok, I think getting lost is a good place to start.

Euphemia of Criamon: it's hard to be precise, sorry

Bolad: that feels incredibly stupid to me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we haven't figured out how to deal with zita

Euphemia of Criamon: a standard structure is 10 large rooms

Proclus of Rome: Why?

Euphemia of Criamon: this is I guess the size of a large castle

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is it sufficient to take away her sight, or do we have to also destroy her mind

Bolad: because getting lost sucks.

Proclus of Rome: It seems like accepting the rules of this regio would allow us to understand it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hmm

Euphemia of Criamon: how does zita's virtue work, because you are well off the maps right now

Fra Angelo: End of the Mighty Castle might target the mortar aggregate, which is dirt

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could roll magic lore to see if it makes any sense

Proclus of Rome: Assuming, of course, that Euphemia is correct.

Fra Angelo: Dirt is 10 paces for an individual

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets see what effect i can get then

Euphemia of Criamon: always a good start

Proclus of Rome: Alright.

rolling 1d10 + 2

(

3

)

+2

=

5

+2 Intelligence.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Zita of Mercere: If I've travelled a route before, I cannot ever get lost on it. Since we had to navigate the maze ot get here in the first place...

Proclus of Rome: It's different.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i can get pit of the gaping earth, but targeting stone, at sight range, with +2 size instead of +1

Fra Angelo: Oh no, it says it makes the stones themselves turn to pebbles

Euphemia of Criamon: the place has changed considerably

Proclus of Rome: Also last time we took the gigantic path made of destroyed buildings.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i make a pretty big and deep hole in the center of the masonry hill

Euphemia of Criamon: zita can certainly get lost here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should blind zita anyway.

to be safe.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats the spell effect

Euphemia of Criamon: alright I'll accept that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many magnitudes is this

Malachiasz of Tytalus: normal pit is 6 paces across and 9 feet deep

Zita of Mercere: I'm still going to roll to not get lost, since it's funnier that way.

Bolad: Make a blinding potion.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and im making that +1 size bigger

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ceremonial casting takes a long fuckin time.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: however much that works out to

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have a blinding fomrulaic spell!

formulaic!

i used it to commit a high crime!

i'm a real magus!

Euphemia of Criamon: nice

Zita of Mercere: lol

Euphemia of Criamon: so it seems like malachiasz is tied up for an hour and a half

Zita of Mercere: isnt that the one that can cause permanent blindness

you are NOT casting that on me

Euphemia of Criamon: your plan is to all go out and get lost?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can fix it with a ritual creo spell.

its fine.

Fra Angelo: If Gulielmus is being charged with a crime for that, Hypatia probably should too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did proclus have any insight from his magic lore

Zita of Mercere: My plan is to go to the merchants and scream at them

Fra Angelo: As she ordered the turb to attack Renard

Proclus of Rome: Not yet.

Euphemia of Criamon: oh sorry what was the roll and the question?

7

Fra Angelo: I'll follow Zita

Euphemia of Criamon: you can't think of anything that pertains to thjis issue

Proclus of Rome: Oh I thought you told me to roll Magic Lore to understand what was happening.

Zita of Mercere: Oh, I have magic lore too. I mentioned it, didnt get a reply.

Proclus of Rome: BUT you might have been talking to someone else.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about uhhhh

magic theory

Proclus of Rome: Anyway, let's get lost.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10-1+4

(

7

)

-1+4

=

10

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't have any lore.

Euphemia of Criamon: frankly this all sounds pretty dodge

Bolad: doge

Euphemia of Criamon: probably this criamon is making it up

Proclus of Rome: This,

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hour and a half huh

just long enough for the real party to get to masonry hill

and be talking to whoevers in there

Fra Angelo: I don't know what a Criamon is, otherwise I'd say something.

Zita of Mercere: I'm not getting lost here. Anyone else who doesnt want to get lost can stay with me.

Euphemia of Criamon: maybe!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: before a chunk of it vaporizes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+5 magic theory and int, if that can possibly help

(

8

)

+5

=

13

Fra Angelo: Can they roll OoH lore to know Criamon talk in bullshit riddles

Bolad: i 'll follow gulielmus the dwarf

Zita of Mercere: We'll get there before Malach breaks it, yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm following zita, in case she needs to be blinded

Euphemia of Criamon: yes, if oyu have 1 ooh lore you know this

Zita of Mercere: "Alright, let's go speak with these merchants first."

Euphemia of Criamon: Gulielmus has heard of magic that can draw on infernal auras without being satanic per se, though the idea that an aura can be infernal and magic is novel

mazes sound like they might be a demonic device, to confuse the intellect or make you waste time

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

being a gross hedge wizard pays off yet again.

Proclus of Rome: Alright, I'll take some of Euphemia's scribal supplies so I can take observations.

Euphemia of Criamon: but in theory it could actualize some perfect form

ok, you have pen and paper

so you're setting out towards the big heap of junk?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll share my insight as the gm described it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what about ink though

Euphemia of Criamon: everybody?

you have that too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the big heap of junk is where the venetians are?

Proclus of Rome: I'm going to just try to get lost.

Euphemia of Criamon: are you travelling as one party?

Fra Angelo: This witch speaks in riddles, making the echoes of one's own mind seem as wisdom and insight, when true wisdom comes from without, from the divine.

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't that make us less lost?

Euphemia of Criamon: well, perhaps

put your tokens down and decide who's in what party

Fra Angelo: That's a huge bitch

Zita of Mercere: I'm going to the merchants of venus

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, it can't hurt to look for the merchants and then get lost.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm following zita so i can curse her with permanent blindness.

Bolad: Each Grog will go off separately on their own to get Lost.

Fra Angelo: Let's have Tunde guard Proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i THINK the permanent blindness cures as a medium wound

Euphemia of Criamon: sounds plausible

Proclus of Rome: She could just shut her eyes.

Euphemia of Criamon: proclus is breaking out on his own? and the others are going to merchantsville?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, no, it just says permanently blinded

Boy R. (GM): the count allows you to leave, with angelo as his agent

Proclus of Rome: I'm going with the others.

Boy R. (GM): the men at arms disperse to try to calm the populace

ok cool

Proclus of Rome: I can just get lost later.

Boy R. (GM): you walk the streets, attempting to navigate by familiar landmarks that crop up at unexpected moments. you come across a lot of people wandering around confused, but more productively confused than they were before

you're starting to think this is hopeless, when you're arrested by a startling encounter

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

Bolad: please consult random encounter table.

rolls dice

Boy R. (GM): from around the next corner, you hear the distinct sounds of people shrieking and begging for mercy, and an odd chirping, clicking sound undercuts it

Bolad: you have run up against 3d6 kobolds.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d20

(

2

)

=

2

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 3d6

(

6

+

4

+

6

)

=

16

Boy R. (GM): how do you care to proceed? you have a chance of a surprise round

Proclus of Rome: An ettin and 2 ghasts.

Bolad: is zita on the horse

Boy R. (GM): does she want to be?

Proclus of Rome: I'm going to cast Magus' Lensing.

Bolad: that's what i'm asking dys.

Proclus of Rome: Which is like Wizard's Sidestep but it only lasts for a diameter.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how does penetration work now

i will buff with shriek of the impending shafts.

Boy R. (GM): as RAW

explain the lensing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10 botch check

(

5

)

=

5

Boy R. (GM): ok cool

i read slow

Bolad: its raw but magic beings have a buff, they subtract 5xeffect level in RAW and only subtract effect level in current system

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 25

(

10

)

+25

=

35

Boy R. (GM): alright for some

bolad channels a 30 might creature right?

Zita of Mercere: I'm not on a damn horse

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i cast another preternatural growth

Bolad: might 35

Boy R. (GM): you can't stack it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to increase my size

Zita of Mercere: We arent trying to get lost right now

Proclus of Rome: Magus' Lensing is only spell level 5.

Boy R. (GM): p cool to get guaranteed 25 penetration on any spell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't want to be size -2 anymore.

Bolad: it is p cool.

also maybe it's only might 25 but it gets +10 from living in the magic realm. who knows

Zita of Mercere: I'll do the sensible thing and duck behind a stall so I can sneak up on whatever it is

Bolad: I get on horseback

Proclus of Rome: Summon Horse

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+16 stealth

(

8

)

+16

=

24

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll follow my fellow dwarf's cue and hide behind something

Boy R. (GM): what virtues and items give you bonuses to stealth?

Zita of Mercere: 7 stealth, 2 from puissance, ways of the town, 4 dex

Boy R. (GM): that's all good then

Proclus of Rome: Uh, this is a city, NOT a town.

Boy R. (GM): zita reconnoiters. it seems nobody has detected you

Bolad: it's a hell regio, clearly.

Proclus of Rome: Also correct.

Zita of Mercere: Ah shit, I should have had ways of the labyrinth. Ways of the regio. Ways of this specific street, this one we're on.

Boy R. (GM): it would be cool to have ways of your own street

anyway, peeking around the corner reveals the shocking site of innocent humans being manhandled by armed men with a pack of vicious... ants?

Fra Angelo: I am Enfeebled and will not attack anything and will stay behind Tunde for the time being

Proclus of Rome: IF ONLY this game had point buy.

Ants?

Zita of Mercere: ant you glad i didnt say ants

Bolad: what if the maze is an ant colony

and the mound is an ant mound

Fra Angelo: What is this, a city for ants?

Bolad: and the end boss is an infernal queen any.

Proclus of Rome: That would make me antsy.

Bolad: that magi? she was an ant in disguise.

Boy R. (GM): the ant-handlers wield torches and clubs, and bizarre features of their own. though mostly human and atttired in human clothing, several exhibit extra arms, ant-like headsm and a general chitinousness

devil's fav demon: Yuck.

Proclus of Rome: Gasp.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there he is

Proclus of Rome: 6 attacks per round!

Boy R. (GM): their work ants are the size of large dogs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: these guys are immune to teleportation iirc

Boy R. (GM): there are 3 ant-men and six enormous ants

Bolad: Ah, the Ethiopian gold burrowing ants.

Proclus of Rome: GiAnts.

Boy R. (GM): their specific immunities are indeterminate

I wish I had found better pictures

Proclus of Rome: "What is the meaning of this?" I shout.

Boy R. (GM): but it is what it is

ok, everyone stops tyo look at you

Fra Angelo: Lunar rabbits and Infernal ants

Criamon are a heck of a ride

Ant-Man: "Intruders! Bow down and drop your weapons"

"You shall serve and be blessed"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: have fun with your ants guys

Zita of Mercere: Are they speaking italian?

Ant-Man: good catch

they are, though this guy's accenty is foreign

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

A foreigner!

From Sicily!

Ant-Man: the other ant-men mutter to him in their own unholy language

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

Zita of Mercere: Me and Bolad have the Gift of Tongues

Ant-Man: are you surrendering or attacking? that's how this is going to go

Zita of Mercere: so we can understand it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gift of tongues only works if the person is addressing you

Bolad: I do not wish to surrender to the Ant men.

Ant-Man: ok. you don't know the language but they're sayinh "are you sure boss, these one's might be tough"

hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. the gm has revealed his weakness. it's time to strike

i cast the 10 crystal darts spell

Zita of Mercere: All that matters for tongues is the other guy is fluent and isnt just reading shit out

they cant turn to their friend and you stop understanding them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: You can understand and speak any language as long as you are communicating directly with someone else who is ﬂuent in that language.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: So you arent scrying them, and are hearing it in person, yes

Proclus of Rome: "We are looking for the Venetian's warehouse. Do you know where it is?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i would not read it that way.

Ant-Man: that's how i'm doing initiative. it's the same as d100 but it's faster

Bolad: i dont understand the order

Ant-Man: you're in order now

Bolad: why does a 2 of spades go before a ten of spades

Ant-Man: ah there we go

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many ant men are there again

Ant-Man: there are 3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes.

Fra Angelo: The suits are ordered the way they are in Savage Worlds, I assume

Ant-Man: in reply to proclus' question, they laugh mockingly and say "you shall see! you shall serve!"

Proclus of Rome: Time to learn bridge to interpret the turn order.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cast my signature spell.

Ant-Man: it is indeed savage worlds order

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the aura here still 6

Ant-Man: yes. go hog wild

Tünde: Anyway I guess I'll control Tunde

Ant-Man: I didn't give angelo a turn because he's incapable

Tünde: That's about right

He'd just spend every turn attempting to disengage anyawy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+15+3+6+5 Flash of the Scarlet Flames, life boosted 1 time

(

9

)

+15+3+6+5

=

38

Ant-Man: ooh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: on the lead ant-man.

Ant-Man: penetration?

devil's fav demon: dang.

Ant-Man: that's like level 15 right

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah

Ant-Man: ok it penetrates

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my penetration ability should be 1

Ant-Man: so he's blind or something?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he gets to roll stamina

to avoid it

9+

this spell is NOT good

devil's fav demon: Classic Guli.

Ant-Man:

rolling d10!+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

he's dazzled!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: eat shit, ant-man.

Ant-Man: effect?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's blind

devil's fav demon: Good ol' Erasmus' Razzle-Dazzle.

Ant-Man: nasty

go proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he cannot see.

FURTHERmore the ant man is entitled to another stamina roll in 10 combat rounds

Proclus of Rome: Ok, what is everyone else doing this turn?

Ant-Man: my understanding of the action resolution rules is that he WILL be blind at the end of the turn

Bolad: yea

Hope you're jotting notes down as the combat goes.

Proclus of Rome: I can try blinding another mant OR try grabbing one of the ants with Grasping Hands.

Ant-Man: :[

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We won't surrender to demons like you!"

Bolad: Ants may excel at burrowing out of dirt, Proclus.

Tünde: I'm going to shield grog Proclus

Proclus of Rome: That's true, but not with their legs, surely.

Tünde: How symmetrical are these antmen's natural weapons?

Ant-Man: the antmen fight with cudgels and hatchets

really they're ant-themed mutant humans

Proclus of Rome: Actually, if they're dog-sized I could just blast the giant ants with a crystal dart.

Zita of Mercere: I'm going to stay in stealth while the enemy are a big blob of enemies. That's my turn, this round.

Tünde: I hope they're extremely gnarled wooden clubs and uneven stone hatchets

Ant-Man: no, they're ordinary household implements

Tünde: Pity

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i forget.

Ant-Man: the thri-kreen picture may be misleading

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does the actual shape of the weapon matter, or is it the shape of the ideal platonic form of hte weapon

Ant-Man: actual shape

i'm ruling now

Proclus of Rome: I'll cast Crystal Dart on one of the ants.

Yes it' the actual shape.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: intredasting.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 28

(

1

)

+28

=

29

Gasp!

Fortunately it's a formulaic spell.

Bolad: It's still combat

Proclus of Rome: Oh, good point.

rolling 7d10

(

9

+

2

+

9

+

7

+

4

+

5

+

1

)

=

37

Ant-Man: oh right

Bolad: Also. Can't help notice you didn't make a concentration check to cast a spell in combat. You know, in case the GM didn't spo tit.

Botching ftw, folks.

Ant-Man: i will only call for that on injured characters

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: isn't it ef 0 or something

Ant-Man: proclus gets a warping point and a crsytal dart strikes

rolling d5

(

2

)

=

2

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: unless something specific happens

Ant-Man: gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes

devil's fav demon: no!!

Zita of Mercere laughs harder

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

9

)

+10

=

19

Zita of Mercere: crit the damage roll and make him

ahaha

roll soak!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't know what my magic resist is now.

Tünde: What's your terram MR?

lol

Zita of Mercere: its your parma, times 5, plus your score in terram

Bolad: If I am shielding Gulielmus, would I not take the dart

Ant-Man: that's true

i mean he is shot in the back, but i'll allow it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, it's 12

Ant-Man: what's bolad's MR?

Bolad: 0

devil's fav demon: rip.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Bolad: Rolling soak, including -2 from light wound

Proclus of Rome: Doesn't he not have any?

Ant-Man: roll some soak

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+7+6-2

(

5

)

+7+6-2

=

16

Proclus of Rome: That's totally different than 0.

Bolad: Correct, no MR.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bolad no

Proclus of Rome: THANK you.

Ant-Man: just fatigue I guess

roll to resist infighting

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 +1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Ant-Man: and Tunde can act

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+1 Compassionate

(

2

)

+1

=

3

Tünde: AFK 1sec, I'll delay declaration to see if any ant men try to get close to Proclus so I can guard him

Zita of Mercere: You fail to be compassionate enough

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus MUST die

Tünde: I don't want to move out of shieldgrog range

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Proclus, what the hell are you doing?"

Ant-Man: Tunde readies to intercept

the ant men are going to charge you, and flank with their ants, so you can get in an exchange of blows

Proclus of Rome: It was an accident.

Obviously.

Ant-Man: you go first on attack, shaun

oh he's afk

Tünde: Ok

Back

Ant-Man: well, I presume you're vanguard of this sorry crew

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: türde

Tünde:

rolling 14+d10!

14+

(

8

)

=

22

Ant-Man: hmm. actually, the ant-men direct the ants to swarm you, and watch over the captive humans themselves

rolling d10!+14

(

3

)

+14

=

17

you strike

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the road suitable for crhe spells or is it all stone

Ant-Man: it's a dirt road

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, nice

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gulielmus's eyes flash dangerously

devil's fav demon: get em tunde.

Ant-Man: attack adv 5, soak 7, what's your damage?

Tünde: +10

Ant-Man: ok, 8 damage, a medium wound

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: id like to remind everyone of the beardbeard ruling, which states clearly that gulielmus does not suffer any fatigue penalties until he reaches the point where he falls asleep

Ant-Man: the ants attack for 14

roll defense

devil's fav demon: rip. i have to leave now. good luck with the ants sodales.

johns: l8r

Proclus of Rome: Farewell.

Ant-Man: sorry for your bear

Tünde:

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

5

)

=

20

Oops

Ant-Man: you fend them off

Tünde: Oh wait that's right

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im glad swsord art online music is playing

Ant-Man: thanks whoever

Proclus of Rome: That's how you can tell it's serious.

Ant-Man: tghe ant-men jeer and throw stones

it's bolad

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im going to log in as a gm and remove the sword art online music from the jukebox.

Ant-Man: how else will we get pumped

Bolad: Is it my turn or are they attacking me

Ant-Man: no it's your turn

Zita of Mercere: I'll add twice as much more, and rename it to things like Age of Empires OST - Track 12

Ant-Man: i', letting tunde defend as group vanguard

Bolad: I will shoot the leader of the ant crew (the ones the others looked up to)

from 30 paces away on horseback with a comp. bow

Ant-Man: he;'s the blind one

Bolad: not adding in fatigue since it kicks in at end of this round

rolling 1d10!+17-2

(

5

)

+17-2

=

20

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: pls

Ant-Man:

rolling d10!+2

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Bolad: Damage +8

Ant-Man: 10 net damage, medium wound. this guy is in bad shape

the round resolves. the lead ant-man stumbles in agony while a swarm of ants blocks the alley in front of you, nipping at tunde's heels

the ant-men waver. what's bolad doing?

Bolad: I just took my turn!

Are you resetting init each round?

Ant-Man: I just dealt initiative

Bolad: Alright

Ant-Man: well, it's easy to

Proclus of Rome: Aigo.

Bolad: I will shoot the blind ant again

rolling 1d10!+17-2-1 (1 fatigue)

(

1

)

+17-2-1

=

15

Curses!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: rough

Ant-Man:

rolling 3d10

(

4

+

8

+

10

)

=

22

rolling d10!-1

(

4

)

-1

=

3

Tünde: Nice save

Ant-Man: he takes a heavy wound

his carapace is studded with arrows

Proclus of Rome: Ouch!

Ant-Man: gulielmus, victimising this guy further?

Bolad: Remember, we can loot their corpses for Ant Chitin, with which to craft Ant Chitin Armor.

Tünde: Where's the vis located

Ant-Man: nice morrowind ref

Proclus of Rome: Why would we do that?

Bolad: Because Ant Chitin Armor is a very useful light armor in the early stages of Dungeon Rats.

Tünde: We do it to do it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can sell the ant chitin armor for thousands of gold, but it's better than anything you'll get for several acts.

oh uh

i'm castinnnng

Proclus of Rome: I don't think I've ever been in a dungeon.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Trap of the Entwining Vines

Ant-Man: you just missed your chance

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: on the ants

Ant-Man: does it affect an area?

Proclus of Rome: No wait, I saved that bookseller from the Conti dungeon one time.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+18+3+6

(

5

)

+18+3+6

=

32

lv 15

Ant-Man: ok, so 18 penetration with pen 1

Bolad: The vines cover a

circle 2 paces across and reach 6 feet high.

Ant-Man: I think that catches Tunde to

too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the ants are allowed a quickness roll

Bolad: To avoid the vines, the target must make a

Quickness – Encumbrance stress roll of 9+. To break out requires a Strength stress roll of 12+ (allowed once a round). Someone not trapped can cut a trapped person free in two rounds, assuming proper tools. The vines weaken and wither to dust at sunrise or sunset.

gahaha.. time to calculate ENCUMBRANCE

Ant-Man: cool, the ants have no encumbrance and tunde of course has hers recorded

Tünde: It's +2 for armor IIRC

Metal grog armor

Ant-Man: ant saves 11 8 9 3 15

Tünde:

rolling d10!+4

(

2

)

+4

=

6

Bolad: she has 8 points of load, which is 3 encumbrance, but also 3 strength, so 0 burden

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice. lets kill the gm

Proclus of Rome: Wow, good rolls.

Ant-Man: oh noo

Tünde: Grogs have simple encumbrance in rope kid's rules

Bolad: o i c.

Ant-Man: Proclus is up

Tünde: But Great Quickness does not overcome my bad luck, at any rate

Ant-Man: having been immobilised, Tunde is not a group combatant any more

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'll shoot an ant with the ol' Crystal Dart.

rolling 1d10! + 28

(

2

)

+28

=

30

Phew!

Ant-Man: nor are the ants it affected though, which was about to become important

it penetrattes

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

5

)

+10

=

15

Ant-Man:

rolling d10!+7

(

5

)

+7

=

12

Proclus of Rome: What a hit!

Ant-Man: no!

Tunde can strike an ant in range if desired

Tünde: Remember that Soak is penalized by injuries

Ant-Man: aye

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Tünde: I don't think I can attack

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if i shrink an ant does that do anything besides changing its wound threshold

Tünde: I'm wrapped up in vines

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: never mind thats a corpus spell anyway

Tünde: The whole point is to CC you

Ant-Man: it'll alter its strength and quickness iirc

Bolad: The vine effect doesn't go in until the end of the round

Because of Simultaneous Resolution.

Ant-Man: oh yes

Tünde: Yeah, they get bonus quicknus for each negative size

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if we were fighting on a grid i could have targeted the spell in a reasonable way

Tünde: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but alas

Bolad: I believe each step of shrinking adds +1 Quickness and -2 Strength.

Tünde:

rolling d10!+14

(

7

)

+14

=

21

Ant-Man: this isn't what i understood by simultaneous resolution as an rpg concept, but it is internally consistent

ars is not built for grids

Bolad: It is.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Grids ftw.

Zita of Mercere: They really help

Tünde: Ars works fine with a grid as long as you use an increment the system understands, like 3 feet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ars has effects that are measured out in paces

Ant-Man: it has effectively non-existent combat movement rules

Tünde: roll20 can accurately calculate the distance if you use 3ft squares

Zita of Mercere: Being able to see the layout of a fight helps a great deal in decision-making during it.

Ant-Man: i think it's more useful to understand whose in which melee

Bolad: ars uses several units of measurement (feet, meters, paces) depending on who the author is

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

Also sometimes no measurements.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you cast a spell wit han effect measured in meters your character should take 100 points of damage

Bolad: anyway tunde attacked so the ants need to defend.

Ant-Man: pardon

new vanguard

Tünde: Anyway I target that at the most wounded ant I can hit while guarding Proclus

Ant-Man:

rolling d10!+14

(

4

)

+14

=

18

Tünde: Damage +10

Ant-Man: another medium wound! they allocate it to an uninjured ant

Tünde: Once they're entangled they can't assign them as vanguard

Ant-Man: 2 ant-men charge forward uncertainly

that is true

Tünde: But it hasn't happened yet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Tfw Tunde has died.

Ant-Man: let's see. Tunde is engaged, I think this lot go for the magi and are intercepted by Bolad, because he's defending

Bolad: tfw you bring tunde back to life as a badass headless horsewoman revenant.

okay

if it matters I was 30 paces away since that's the minimum distance of my bow

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back.

Bolad: maximum

Ant-Man:

rolling d10!+13

(

1

)

+13

=

14

Bolad: gahaha!!!! noob!!!! noob antman!!!!!!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you were also shield grogging for gulielmus

Bolad: sure, sure

Ant-Man: yeah, you had to have been up in there

Bolad: Sigh, if only there were GRIDS here.

Ant-Man: i'll call that charging distance

rolling 3d10

(

3

+

9

+

3

)

=

15

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+12-2-1 Defense

(

10

+

4

)

+12-2-1

=

23

Ant-Man: grids would just make us realise these manouevres were impossible

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: theres an awful lot of GRIDS here actually.

Bolad: I dodge an Ant.

Ant-Man: you dance your horse between these clumsy foethings

Proclus of Rome: Foemant.

Tünde: I use grids in Frisia to help keep track of who's grouped up and who's charging who

Bolad: Fermidable opponents.

Ant-Man: is zita doing anything? the lead ant is isolated, though at the other end of the scene

well that's fine

i think at most a zoned battlemap is appropriate for such an abstract system

Zita of Mercere: I'll jump out and gut the blind ant-man while he's isolated.

Ant-Man: i'll allow it. you were probably setting that up

Bolad: it should be a chessboard with exactly 64 spaces.

Ant-Man: do you know the bonuses for attacking a blind antman from stealth?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: formicidable opponents

Proclus of Rome: A bunch.

Bolad: their defense is probably 0.

and the bonus to full invisibility is +9 attk/dfn

Tünde: I'll make a 8x8 chessboard for Frisia

Ant-Man: ok, he rolls -11 and may kill himself even if you botch

Bolad: Given that he cannot perceive Zita's shadow, I think that would apply.

Ant-Man:

rolling d10!-11

(

9

)

-11

=

-2

Tünde: 9x9 to allow for a border

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+5+2+9+3

(

3

)

+4+5+2+9+3

=

26

Tünde: I mean 10x10 since the border would go around all four sides

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the combat screen should be an extremely intricate hex battlefield, with lots of environmental features.

Zita of Mercere: Base damage of... 1

dagger is 3, -2 strength

so 28 total

29, rather

Ant-Man: he's down

a brief flurry of ant attacks

Tünde: I love hex

Proclus of Rome: This would be the perfect time to use the Warhammer 40k RPG Crtiical Wound table.

Ant-Man:

rolling d10!+8

(

3

)

+8

=

11

Tünde: Hexhavers

Ant-Man: I feel it would be gratuitous

roll defence tunde, but not as if immobilised

Tünde:

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

4

)

=

19

Ant-Man: you parry

the round resolves, the surviving antmen yield, and the ants disperse into dark holes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: indiana jones trianoma with a whip talisman for extremely long touch spells

Tünde:

rolling d10!+3 getting out of vines

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Botch

Proclus of Rome: Make your talisman a permanent fog cloud that follows you around for huge touch range.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I cut Tunde free with my knife.

Bolad: "We should slay these antmen and mount their skulls on the walls of our common room."

Tünde: Thank you Gul

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should sacrifice them to our dark gods

Zita of Mercere: I mouth 'working on it'

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its only fair.

Tünde: I think the effect of a botch is just that you fail to get free even if you somehow have 12 Str

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh no! tunde has strangled herself to death

Ant-Man: yeah

Proclus of Rome: "Where have you come from? I don't recall Ravennans having this many arms," I ask.

Boy R. (GM): I don't think this warrants a dramatic botch

what languages does proclus speak?

Tünde: Anyway Gul cuts me free

Boy R. (GM): better yet, what is he speaking?

Proclus of Rome: Tunde's head explodes, showering the area with high velocity bone fragments.

I speak Italian here.

Fra Angelo: Did the ants look infernal to me?

Boy R. (GM): mmm

Bolad: If I may I will dismount and begin tying up our prisoners.

Boy R. (GM): yes kind of

Proclus of Rome: I mean, they're giant ants.

Fra Angelo: Yeah

Boy R. (GM): they feel off

Fra Angelo: But it's objective to me

Boy R. (GM): you may do as you wish

they don't resist

Zita of Mercere Initiative: 91

oh sorry i just discovered that macor

Fra Angelo: Anyway it's EF15 to actually know the ants are infernal

Boy R. (GM): try by all means

Fra Angelo: Unless they're possessed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can anyone detect any vis

Zita of Mercere: "Alright, good work all."

Bolad: if you have the tracker up, that macro adds a turn for them as well automatically

Boy R. (GM): the ants speak very little italian, and one insults proclus' mother

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: which macro is that

Boy R. (GM): they do not have the vocabulary to surrender gracefully

Proclus of Rome: Mama mia!

Bolad: you click the token and there's a button that says "Initiative"

Fra Angelo:

rolling d10!+4+2

(

5

)

+4+2

=

11

Boy R. (GM): the very same

Fra Angelo: Not enough to conf to 15

Boy R. (GM): you're too shocked by their abnormality to determine if they're  evil

Bolad: Does Gift of Tongues allow one to communicate in their native Antspeak

Boy R. (GM): I think so

you understood them before

Proclus of Rome: Well, I'm upset enough that I'll cast Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie on one of them.

Zita of Mercere: It's any language, so long as the speaker is fluent

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: argh!!

Bolad: "Tell us where you come from." I chitter.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 28 vs SL 20

(

3

)

+28

=

31

Uh whoops, that should be + 21.

Fra Angelo: If they're demons or possessed, the EF is their Might

Proclus of Rome: So 24.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+15>20 test

(

4

)

+15

=

19

Ant-Man: "from Chania, in Krete. You know this place, Rus?"

Proclus of Rome: Pen +2

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+25>20 test

(

4

)

+25

=

29

hm

Bolad: I relay this back to PCs in Latin.

Ant-Man: it penetrates

Bolad: "Who brought you here, and how do we find them?"

Ant-Man: "We go where the boss commands, we are fortunate to be chosen. You won't find them any more, the spirit has claimed this place"

Zita of Mercere: "What spirit?"

Ant-Man: they get very excited

Fra Angelo: "Mmm, if they were demons, I think they would be better disguised."

"The form of a large ant is not exactly subtle."

Ant-Man: "Great one! She is Amphisbaena, writher in darkness, mistress of ant-kind! She dwells in the maze-nest and speaks with two tongues!"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Ant-Man: "Praise her! You shall be remade!"

Zita of Mercere: "Ah. I see."

Proclus of Rome: This isn't quite the breakthrough I had hoped for.

Fra Angelo: "but it does sound as though some dark power might have them in its sway."

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+6 Magic Lore (have I heard of Amphisbaena)

(

2

)

+6

=

8

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+4 magic lore

(

1

)

+4

=

5

rip

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 2

(

9

)

+2+2

=

13

Ant-Man: Traveller's tales mention the amphisbaena - it's a kind of snake with two heads. Not very large, you've heard

Bolad: "How do we get out of this maze?"

Fra Angelo: "So you say it is of the natural order, scholars?"

Ant-Man: Proclus has heard it's a mythical beast with a deadly vwenom. It sprang from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa wherever Perseus let it fall

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Are snakes the same as ants?

Ant-Man: roll philosophiae

Proclus of Rome: My guess is not.

Boy R. (GM): Superficially, no

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 4 + 2

(

3

)

+4+2

=

9

Boy R. (GM): Snakes are not ants.

Proclus of Rome: My huge number...

Hmm.

Fra Angelo: Is Tiamat Magic or Infernal?

Suppose Cradle & Crescent would say

Proclus of Rome: "Is it possible that Amphisbaena was an ant all along?"

"Alternatively, could she have obtained dominion over ants somehow?"

Bolad: I kick Antman. "How do we get out of this maze?"

Zita of Mercere: "Maybe shes just suited to mazes and ants like mazes?"

Boy R. (GM): "eh? I don't know. We sealed up all the entrances"

"Come serve amphisbaena! She is strong, the queen of un-sense. She loves a philosopher. She will reward you greatly!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Let's not."

Fra Angelo: Sounds like a Faerie, if it wants human servants that know things

Bolad: "I have already pledged my fealty to the great Khagan."

Proclus of Rome: "How did you know I was a philosopher?"

Fra Angelo: Good question

Boy R. (GM): if you relay that question he reveals that he just thought you were learned by the way you dress, including the priest

and a learned man must be a philosopher. the last one they sent her said it often enough

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

"How long have you been in the city?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ask them if they love sin.

they have to say yes if they're a demon

Bolad: "Was that last philosopher named Gnomon, and what happened to him?"

Boy R. (GM): this guy says he's been in the city most of the year, though he's only been an ant a few hours

Zita of Mercere: "Oh. Oh that means the other ant man was also, uh."

Fra Angelo: "He was a human?"

Zita of Mercere: I look over at the person I killed

"Oops."

Proclus of Rome: Smooth.

Fra Angelo spectacle testicles wallet & watches.

Bolad: Not seeing a problem here, guys.

Zita of Mercere: "Wait, were you the merchants?"

"Who were you before you were an ant?"

Bolad: Actually, I do see a problem: The extremely racist assumption that Antmen Lives are worth less than Human Lives.

Boy R. (GM): "I think he's still going. She loves to hear them talk and this guy talks and talks. Too much, I think, but you try telling the serpent queen what's important"

Bolad: "Can you take us to him?"

Boy R. (GM): This guy's name is Nicos

Fra Angelo: Well, antmen are of the Animal form, not Corpus

Boy R. (GM): he signed on with a shipping company, and got inducted into the cult that runs it

Proclus of Rome: We should tell Euphemia what's going on first to see if she knows anything about this.

Fra Angelo: Unless they're faeries, in which case I'll let Proclus go itno whether that makes them subhuman.

Proclus of Rome: On the other hand, I don't know how we'll get back to the castle.

Boy R. (GM): he was a little nervous about the whole thing when the orders started getting wilder and wilder, but frankly since the world change and he got cool chitin armour he's been feeling great

Bolad: i bet these guys would love serving in the catacombs, let's take them home as pets

Fra Angelo: Though Will Smith also has some wisdom to share regarding whether faeries are subhuman or not as well

Bolad: lol

Proclus of Rome: Sadly it isn't the Willenium yet.

Boy R. (GM): Anyway, if anyone was having doubts, they just fell away as soon as they entered Ravenna. The bosses said they'd never gone this far to curry the favour of a god in the past, but everything was going so smoothly it must have been fate

this guy is remarkably upbeat, considering his current situation

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

I definitely think we should consult with Euphemia about this.

Bolad: cmon. it's obviously infernal.

a faerie would not live in a magic/infernal aura.

Proclus of Rome: It would be the ultimate trick.

Zita of Mercere: I can lead us back to Euphemia, at least. Without any risk or worries.

Fra Angelo: Faeries go where they want

Bolad: I would like to bring the prisoners and the dead ant/potential vis/chitin crafting material with us.

Boy R. (GM): you can do all that

Proclus of Rome: Ok, sounds good.

Let us regroup.

Zita of Mercere: I think we should rescue Gnomon, if he's been stuck here a while he might have some insight into fixing this mess. Or at least information that could help us figure out how to.

Proclus of Rome: Wait.

Fra Angelo: Only Magic beings need friendly auras

Boy R. (GM): the townsfolk who were almost dragged off to hell thank you

Proclus of Rome: What if the count kills the mants?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that is his right

Bolad: OOCly, if there were a faerie queen around here, the faerie aura should grow as more people accept her rule/join her cult

Fra Angelo: What if Gnomon is responsible and that's why his lab was set to self-destruct?

Bolad: of course Bolad doesn't have faerie lore so he doesn't know that, haha.

Fra Angelo: I mean if it was just standard theft deterrent, he'd just have the trap kill the invader

Boy R. (GM): roll any lore you please

Bolad: well we should find Gnomon either way. if it's responsible, we kill him. if he's not responsible, we free him.

Proclus of Rome: I mean, the trap did kill the invaders.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+6 magic lore

(

5

)

+6

=

11

Proclus of Rome: Almost.

Boy R. (GM): Bolad knows mighty magical beings are often happy to be worshipped by humans

Bolad: and Gnomon is with the Anteater Goddess, and these Ants can lead us to her, I think. so we should do that.

Fra Angelo: It seems like destroying your own notes and lab equipment is counterproductive to preventing your notes and lab equipment from being stolen.

But it's great if those notes and equipment are evidence of infernalism

Boy R. (GM): worship can sustain fairies, but a magic spirit might be pleased with reverence and tribute in the way a mortal ruler is

Proclus of Rome: Also the lab notes weren't destroyed.

They were posted in the thread.

Fra Angelo: Good point

Proclus of Rome: Anyway, maybe we should find Gnomon first.

Fra Angelo: I guess it just wastes whatever time was spent building and refining the lab then

Boy R. (GM): the ant-men suggest he's with Amphisbaena

and they're happy to take you htere

Bolad: Let us recover our fatigue and bind our wounds, then someone magical needs to inspect the dead antman for vis.

Boy R. (GM): Gnomon's lab was actually a secure basement beneath the collapsed building. you could start working there right away if oyu clear some rubble

Fra Angelo: Oh nice

Boy R. (GM): the antman contains no vis! you've also observed that these guys have no magic resistance

Bolad: Intriguing.

Proclus of Rome: Gah!

Fra Angelo: I guess I sort of lost track of the narrative after Fiorella was taken out of play

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Fra Angelo: I didn't realize the floor didn't collapse under teh weight, but that makes sense for a hermetic architect

Bolad: "Shall we hasten to Gnomon, or will we return to the count as someone suggested?"

Zita of Mercere: "We'd be better off bringing Gnomon to her, if we meet with her at all."

Boy R. (GM): it is thine ane call

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Fra Angelo: I'm just making sure these sholars aren't up to anything nasty, and so far all they did was help some citizens fight off ant men

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the count wants to kill us with halberds

Zita of Mercere: "Besides, what if things get worse?"

Proclus of Rome: How wounded is everyone?

Bolad: 1 Light Wound

Fra Angelo: With witchcraft, sure, but mostly benign.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have one level of fatigue (-0)

Fra Angelo: Can I roll Theology to see how wicked their sorcery is?

The PCs, that is

Boy R. (GM): by all means

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's go into the mound

Proclus of Rome: I think we should press on if we aren't that badly wounded.

Fra Angelo:

rolling 1+2+d10 Int Theology

1+2+

(

4

)

=

7

Boy R. (GM): Sorcery is a sin. That's what you were always told.

Fra Angelo: I guess I can't argue doctrine

Bolad: To the mound, and perhaps Malach.

Boy R. (GM): alright, you're heading into The Mound?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Fra Angelo: Not at just +2, anyway

Zita of Mercere: I'm off to mound up

Bolad: Does anyone object if I take the dead antman skull as a trophy.

Fra Angelo: Maybe Hypatia can do a disputation in favor of sanctioned sorcery, if she gets her doctorate

Boy R. (GM): the ant-men lead you in what you think is entirely the wrong direction, but they seem quite certain of it

Fra Angelo: I might object

It's a human, it should be buried properly

If they were Christian, anyway

Bolad: Enhh. It's your town, your rules. ... for now.

Proclus of Rome: I think it's a grey area.

Fra Angelo: Did the ant give us the name of the dead man?

I'll look him up later.

Boy R. (GM): if you like

i'll invent one later

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ricos

Fra Angelo: If he's a foreigner he wouldn't be in tehe records anyway

Ricos Uave

Boy R. (GM): any your route proves to be the correct one, as you hear a sudden thunderous rumble from not too far up ahead, and antlike voices raised in screams

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: Hmmm

Proclus of Rome: This MAY have been a mistake.

Bolad: No, no, this is badass.

Boy R. (GM): Malachiasz' ceremony went off a beaut

a small section of the mound just vanishes, but the whole thing is constructed so poorly, with almost willful disregard of architectural principal, that half of it just collapses in on itself

Zita of Mercere: Gnomon dies in the collapse, Malach is marched nad beard has to reroll a third magus :blessed:

Proclus of Rome: Gah!

Bolad: lol

Good Ending

Fra Angelo: My report to the Conte so far: they used sinful sorcery, but it was against a cult, Euphemia may be guilty of other things but the cult doesn't seem to be her pawns

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Ah, beautiful!"

Boy R. (GM): OK here's how this is playing out. you can see the edifice build of hollow shells of buildings - and as you get closer, stranger debris like enormous jugs turned on their side - but now that it;'s fallen away you can see it in cross-section and it's much more compacted and solid, riddled through with tunnels like an ant's nest

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): AFK

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bolad: sick

Proclus of Rome: Well, where would the queen be?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the afk macro isnt applying the hourglass or whatever to my token.

Proclus of Rome: I'll roll Philosophae.

rolling 1d10 + 4 + 2

(

2

)

+4+2

=

8

Boy R. (GM): there is one great yawning void in the earth, a tunnel wide enough to ride a horse and cart down.

your philosophy tells you nothing but every instinct tells you it's the approach to the boss chamber

Bolad: "Magi, I have a suggestion."

Boy R. (GM): now here's the trouble. there are distressed ants and ant-men swarming all over the place

Zita of Mercere: "Yeah?"

Boy R. (GM): I do NOT want to do this as a combat situation

Bolad: "Instead of entering the beast's lair and engaging on its terms, let us flood the chamber and force it to us."

Zita of Mercere: "Gnomon's down there, isn't he?"

"That'd be drowning the poor man."

Proclus of Rome: I cast Mage Armor and Bigby's Crushing Hand.

Boy R. (GM): by the way Beardbeard, Malachiasz has a great perspective on all this and can see the party walking by not too far away

Bolad: "We can send one of our prisoners down there. Tell the Queen to let Gnomon go or we destroy the whole hive."

Boy R. (GM): this might be against internal regio rules but what the hell, you can rejoin at any time

Proclus of Rome: "We should talk to Amphisbaena to discover how to leave."

Fra Angelo: I'll pray for Gnomon's deliverance, should he be trappe

Bolad: "Then the message we tell the Queen is to meet us up here, bringing Gnomon."

Proclus of Rome: "In addition, we still need to find out Gnomon's role in all this and senseless destruction wouldn't help."

Zita of Mercere: "Crazy cultists ruined a city."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, il lrejoin while theyre starting at the nest

"Oh, there you are sodales!"

Boy R. (GM): I wish I had a good image for this scene

Bolad: "Bolad has no wish to die deep beneath this earth in a folly."

Boy R. (GM): is this a bluff or do you actually have the means to flood a large tunnel network?

Bolad: CrAu could create Rain, no?

Boy R. (GM): I suppose so

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "What do you think of my work? Took out nearly the whole damned... uh..."

"Are those ants?"

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't the ground just soak up all the water?

Fra Angelo: The Aquam requisite doesn't really bother a non-Hermetic like Bolad, I think

Bolad: Clouds of Rain and Thunder, p 126, has no Aquam req

Boy R. (GM): there's no aquam requisite for rain

Fra Angelo: The ground would erode after soaking enough water, probably

Zita of Mercere: "I could investigate and take a look for Gnomon. Potentially break him out. Or at least find out what we have to worry about down there."

Boy R. (GM): still, that's a lot of rain you'd need

Bolad: True but the Queen has no idea how long we can keep the rain storm going

Proclus of Rome: 'That could give us a better idea on the situation."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Who's Gnomon?"

Zita of Mercere: "How is your imaginem, Proclus? Could you make me invisible? Shadows shouldn't be an issue in a dark cave."

Proclus of Rome: "If they have any light down there, wouldn't that just make shadows even more visible?"

Zita of Mercere: "Well, still harder to spot than a full person."

Bolad: Hope u got Ways of the Ant Colony virtue 8-)

Proclus of Rome: Also my Perdo Imaginem isn't quite high enough.

I could try for it, but it would be risky.

Bolad: try it.

Proclus of Rome: Also you'd be stuck invisible.

Bolad: don't be a wimp.

Zita of Mercere: PeIg is just base 1 to remove 1 sense (sight) right?

er

PeIm

Proclus of Rome: Veil of Invisibility is level 20.

Zita of Mercere: ah

Proclus of Rome: Level 2: Destroy an object’s ability to affect taste or touch.

Level 3: Destroy an object’s ability to affect smell or hearing.

Destroy an object’s ability to affect taste and touch.

Level 4: Destroy an object’s ability to affect sight.

Bolad: Can Proclus ward himself against ants

and just go in

Zita of Mercere: yeah, not doable as a spont

Bolad: since he's the one who wants to do diplomacy.

Zita of Mercere: He could try that, I could sneak along behind him and, if I can, help if anything goes tits up

Boy R. (GM): I'll give you this for free: a ward against magic beasts might affect the ants but not the humans with ant features

Proclus of Rome: Yes, I could.

It wouldn't work on their weapons anyway.

Boy R. (GM): tru

Zita of Mercere: on the other hand, i have some bad news sodales. i will need to go afk for at least 15 minutes. going to be sitting for the bells with my parents.

Proclus of Rome: I could simply call for a parlay.

Zita of Mercere: happy 2018, and all.

Proclus of Rome: That might work.

Bolad: sit on the balls.

Boy R. (GM): actually

how does everyone feel about a 15 minute break

Bolad: lol

Proclus of Rome: I mean, Malachiasz has almost caused a colony collapse disorder.

Bolad: ok

Boy R. (GM): I'll probably have to take a couple phone calls

Zita of Mercere: You're in the same time zone, I figured you might say that

Bolad: Also my idea still remains the best.

Boy R. (GM): my in and out in 4 hours plan was optimistic

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if the antmen use metal weapons i can also completely neuter their combat ability if it comes to it

with my veyr cool custom spell that only archibald decided to learn for some reason

if he even learned it

Proclus of Rome: Well, tell us if the world ends in 2018 as predicted by the Mayans.

Zita of Mercere: im fine with anything, but zita volunteers to do dangerous and ambitious plans of stealth and cunning.

anyway, brb

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

I mean, we have definitely already struck the first blow here.

So I think we do have leverage.

Fra Angelo: Fiorella might learn it when she recovers

Proclus of Rome: Ok, did the world end?

Fra Angelo: I was wondering

Boy R. (GM): alright gang

what's the plan?

Proclus of Rome: Looks like I'm going to negotiate and Zita is going to recklessly sneak in after me.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ill go for negotiations in case proclus's charisma gets him into combat

Boy R. (GM): Proclus is going in with the prisoners to parlay?

Tünde: I'll keep guarding Proclus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the thing about this adventure is

all we really wanna do is get out with gnomon

the dumbass count or whatever can stay here

Boy R. (GM): that's true

Proclus of Rome: Uh no.

Bolad: i dont really care about gnomon honestly

as long as we get out

Proclus of Rome: The city of Ravenna is an important and wealthy city.

Bolad: proclus can stay and study the ant geography if he wants

Proclus of Rome: Also it's filled with people.

Boy R. (GM): it has fucked up a significant portion of the italian landscape

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait

are we in a regio

i thought this was a regio

has reality truly become maze hell

Bolad: me too

since he said the maze spread to the horizon

Proclus of Rome: No way to know.

Bolad: there is one way

botch a spell and if you roll double botch die, you're in a regio

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i botched

Boy R. (GM): ah shit

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and only rolled the extra 6

Boy R. (GM): s that a rule

Bolad: lmfao

yes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: uh oh

do we have to wind back time

Bolad: gahahahahHAHAHA

p190 Supernatural powers or spells

used in a regio level are affected just as

in any other aura, determined by the

Realm Interaction table. Use the aura

rating of the level occupied to modify

Bolad: spell and other supernatural rolls.

However, any power used within a foreign

regio attracts twice the normal

number of botch dice.

I believe Proclus also botched, in combat.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: looks like we have to wind back time

Boy R. (GM): there were a lot of botches

hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right.

whats goin on.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: were winding back time so malachiasz can enter super twilight hell

Boy R. (GM): if malach suffers a little twilight episode retroactively, i don't think it changes anything

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well it does

Boy R. (GM): but let's worry about that later

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cratered the ant nest

Bolad: yeah it would mean we arrive at the mount and it doens't blow up

which is a minor revert

Proclus of Rome: Not necessarily.

Boy R. (GM): i think it's likely to be a brief episode

Proclus of Rome: If it happened 2 minutes later or something it might not matter.

Boy R. (GM): but regardless, let's move on

Bolad: Only one way to know.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we must find out now

because it will make the gm cry

Proclus of Rome: We should do it now if we're to do it.

Boy R. (GM): aaaah ok

Bolad: Also I believe combat would have resolved in our favor even if Proclus went into twilight.

Since we already accounted for the effect of his spell botching.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hit me with those 7 extra botch dice

Boy R. (GM): malachiasz' extra botch dice 0

Malachiasz of Tytalus: boy howdy

Proclus of Rome: Now me!

Boy R. (GM): proclus' extra borch dice 47

Proclus of Rome: Gah!

Boy R. (GM): wait

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Bolad: you take 47 warping points.

grats.

Boy R. (GM): what did I do wrong there

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you put the !

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bolad is hit with 47 crystal darts

Boy R. (GM): 7d10

Bolad: you can see the results of the die roll if you mouseover it, br

Boy R. (GM):

rolling 7d10<1

(

1

+

7

+

2

+

9

+

7

+

9

+

7

)

=

1 Successes

yes but I thought taht should have worked

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm. well, this fair and proper reroll has clearly shown another 1

proclus has entered twilight

Boy R. (GM): i need to refresh roll20 syntax as well as ars rules

Bolad: I guess you can't mix Exploding Dice ! with the < function.

Proclus of Rome: I try to avoid using mathematical symbols if I can avoid it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling (1d10!)<5

(

(

2

)

)

=

2

Malachiasz of Tytalus: uhhh excuse me

you should NOT be saying that as proclus

Bolad: Anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 10d10<5

(

10

+

7

+

5

+

8

+

8

+

6

+

9

+

7

+

3

+

4

)

=

3 Successes

weird

Bolad: We've confirmed we are in a regio.

Proclus of Rome: OR HAVE WE???

Bolad: We should get out.

Boy R. (GM): you are, I thought that was obvious

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: has anything at all happened since i left

Bolad: I thought it was obvious too

I think Endrite is just being a no good troll, as always.

Boy R. (GM): well then why weren't you catching these botch dice, lead storyguide?

Zita of Mercere: Bolad: I guess you can't mix Exploding Dice ! with the < function

You can

Bolad: I couldn't be 100% sure that it was a regio, and took your failure to roll extra die as either proof it is an aura or an element of the strange weird infernal/magicness of this place.

Tünde: ((( 2 )))

Bolad: Cheers.

Boy R. (GM): oh that's true i've been making up rules

Proclus of Rome: Anyway let's go with the plan here.

Zita of Mercere: oh, wait, maybe it doesnt work with < for strange, unknown reasons. it works with > though.

Boy R. (GM): ok, nothing has happened

Bolad: Anyway, let's wait for Proclus to wander in the ant hive, then flood it.

Boy R. (GM): I understand Tunde, Proclus and Malachiasz are your emissaries to the ant queen

escorted by your prisoners

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it was just because he put exploding dice on it!!!

the first one worked and didnt have it

i cant wait to hit this ant queen with two gifts!

shell love us

Proclus of Rome: Please don't ruin everything.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im just here to be threatening

Zita of Mercere: I'm coming, but I'll be travelling in stealth. If need be I can jump out and announce myself.

Ant-Man: A better-armed ant-man guards the hive entrance. Confused and panicked labourers run back and forth before him, seeking advice, but fall quiet and hostile at your approach

are you invisible? it's an open field with one entrance to a tunnel, so stealth by itself may be impractical

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok.

so nothing has happened

Ant-Man: nay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the thumbs up emoji

Zita of Mercere: You can roll stealth differently. I could follow along with the group, looking inconspicuous, then slip away when we get nearby.

Actually, since I've learned this works

I take a little bit of the dirt from outside with me, as an AC to the area outside

meaning I can teleport to it

if things go wrong

unless we're going more than 500 paces deep into this nest, ill be fine

Ant-Man: nice. ok, the blend in and slip away technique is fine

Proclus of Rome: Wait you could teleport to one of us to get inside.

Zita of Mercere: 2 uses per day, I used one to avoid being killed in the lab explosion.

Proclus of Rome: And by one of us I mean not me.

Ant-Man: Well, the lead myrmidon, whose armour matches his chitin and everything, plants his halberd in the way.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: do group targeted spells work if theres only one person

Ant-Man: "Have you come to offer homage to Amphisbaena? Who are these vagabonds, Nikos?"

yes, you can target a groupe of one

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Ant-Man: une groupe

Proclus of Rome: "I'm here to speak to Gnomon ex Miscellanea."

Tünde: You get a bonus to aiming rolls for redundant magnitudes too

Ant-Man: "Quite impossible. He discourses with the queen. If you wish you may speak with her"

Proclus of Rome: "Alright, that is acceptable."

Bolad: I ask Malach about his plans to seal the ant hive with earth.

Ant-Man: is bolad in this group?

the negotiators are conducted within

Zita can try to slip away if she likes.

your antman prisoners slip away quite naturally, because they're at home among friends

Bolad: bolad is not here

Ant-Man: anyway you're conducted through a tunnel that twists in darkness until you're certain to have lost your way, and find yourselves in a great cave

Zita of Mercere: I'll slip away to observe and think of something during this meeting.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Create... earth...?"

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+13 stealth

(

7

)

+13

=

20

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I give Bolad a funny look.

Ant-Man: it's a little more impressive than what I've got set up here, but the gist of it is a creature with a dragon-like winged body and long flexible neck holds court in it, giving irritated orders to herds of ant-men

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dragon

dragon

VIS

theyre ants

terram vis

Proclus of Rome: How many heads?

Tünde: Rock the dragon

Ant-Man: its snakelike tail stretches a long long way into the dark, where you can dimly see it coiled around itself. another head bends and waves in the darkness, muttering softly

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

What's the aura here?

Ant-Man: "You stand before the queen of Un-Sense, she without fixed angle. By her are all roads bent, all ways made long, all arguments stymied. Here shall your reason meet its end, unbeliever. Kneel and pay homage"

this is recited as a form, without particular drama

the aura here is magic/infernal 7

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh no

this sounds terrible!

Bolad: go on. kneel.

what's the worst that could happen.

Tünde: If Magic/Infernal is anti-reason, maybe Magic/Divine is Reason

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

I'll bow.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Huh. Lot of rock here."

"The whole place is made of it in fact."

Malachiasz of Tytalus licks lips.

Proclus of Rome: "Greetings Queen, I am Proclus of Rome, a noted philosopher."

Amphisbaena: "What do you bring me, Iacomo, while the enemy is at our gate?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: tfw Proclus dooms his immortal soul.

Amphisbaena licks its lips

Proclus of Rome: IN FACT, it is the sin of pride to not give due fear to the princes of hell.

Zita of Mercere: Do we see our noble philosopher friend

Amphisbaena: "no, we cannot afford it"

not right here. is zita exploring?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats the penalty for casting silently and without gestures

Amphisbaena: -15

Zita of Mercere: I heard he was in the amphi theatre

Proclus of Rome: Heh.

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): are there any stalagtites above the dragon

Zita of Mercere: So I'm looking around that area. He was in conversation with this thing, apparently

Bolad: Hey everyone. Proclus just swore an oath of fealty.

Let's kill him.

Proclus of Rome: What are the two things next to her token?

More heads?

Amphisbaena: ok, there is a head at each end of her token

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Amphisbaena: what zita discovers as she roams the cavern, is that the distant head is in conversation with gnomon, who is tightly bound in her coils

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): mm, heavy stone [homer voice]

Amphisbaena: he looks like a man who's been through a lot

nonetheless they are having an involved conversation about ethics

does Zita have any philosophiae?

Zita of Mercere: I... don't, sadly

Amphisbaena: it's pretty technical

Zita of Mercere: Artes Liberales, no philosophae

Amphisbaena: "Philosopher, have you studied music? I have much to argue with your churchmen and their fixed notation"

this, from the near head, to Proclus

Tünde: Angelo has no Philisophiae either

Amphisbaena: some priest

Ant-Man:  clearing his throat  My queen, this men have come to parley. They resist your rule.

in inverted commas

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, I do know something of music, but I must ask you what, if anything, you are doing in this city."

Tünde: Philisophiae hardly comes up as a bog standard educated person thing, even for medical doctors

Amphisbaena: "Oh, yes, business"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, question

Tünde: As far as published statblocks go

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it says to destroy stone you add 1 magnitude, bringing it to base 4

would it be base 3 to just weaken stone?

Amphisbaena: right

Malachiasz of Tytalus: since .normal base 3 is just destroy dirt

Tünde: I think Fiorella took a 1 in Philisophiae so she could have a natural world (birds) specialty

Amphisbaena: if you want to weaken it enough a stone structure will fall apart, that's base 4

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Amphisbaena: like end of the might castle doesn't evaporate a castle

Malachiasz of Tytalus: true

Proclus of Rome: Also, it would kill us since we're inside.

Tünde: And since there aren't ornithologists in this day and age, she's probably not going to go to school for a higher score

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats the casting penalty if its just without gestures

Amphisbaena: -5

Malachiasz of Tytalus: mm

Bolad: Specifically, it would kill everyone who was foolish enough to turn their back on Malach.

Amphisbaena: "this city is our city. our servants have made it ready for us, and we accept tribute gratefully"

"more precisely, this city is within our realm now"

Proclus of Rome: "Do you know Euphemia ex Criamon?"

Amphisbaena: "I am ordained queen in other parts of this world or another, so it follows, it follows"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there could conceivably be someone who is really good at bird taxonomy

Proclus of Rome: Yeah.

Amphisbaena: "we have not met, nor have I heard of her. She is known to me"

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, well then your majesty, you would certainly know of her fascination with mazes of all types, if you did."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea whistles a tune.

Fra Angelo: A talking snake? Queen. This. is BULLSHIT

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: samememe would have hated this...

Amphisbaena: "Mazes are known to us, I comprehend them not. To the lord of mazes we offer fealty, and these his servants serve me"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its just me proclus and bolad here isnt it

and zita

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm somewhere

Amphisbaena: Gulielmus is outside, I assume, because he didn't volunteer to go in

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i dunno. i dont feel like gulielmus has a lot to contribute here except by doing something stupid

Proclus of Rome: "I thought you were the lord of mazes? Is it someone else?"

Amphisbaena: so is Bolad

Proclus of Rome: Uh, you should do something stupid, obviously.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have something really stupid i plan to do if negotiations go bad

dont worry

Amphisbaena: "I am sovereign and supreme, thus I owe fealty to the lord of unmarked paths"

Fra Angelo: "No serpent has the divine right of royalty, not even in a realm like this," I'll say quietly to whoever is standing near me

Amphisbaena: "Wait, you have purpose here. Have you assaulted my servants for we shall become wroth"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, I'm Honest.

rolling 1d10 + 1 vs Honest

(

5

)

+1

=

6

Amphisbaena: the head swings round to Angelo

Fra Angelo: I'll pray to an angel to start smiting shit

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, but it was a misunderstanding."

Amphisbaena: "Priest! Have I a soul? I slew a bird and its soul flew out. How is it transmitted to heaven?"

are Zita and Malach doing anything? You can't really follow this conversation

Bolad: is one head magical and one head infernal

Amphisbaena: at either end

potentially

Zita of Mercere: I'm waiting for an opening, essentially

Bolad: Therefore, they both contain vis

Proclus of Rome: To do what?

Zita of Mercere: I have a plan

to save gnomon

its stupidly risky

Proclus of Rome: I also have a plan and it isn't risky.

Zita of Mercere: but itd need about ten seconds or so of opening to work with

Proclus of Rome: EXCEPT it requires me to tell a small fib.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have a plan and its nothing but risk

Zita of Mercere: hes more tightly guarded than i hoped

Malachiasz of Tytalus: but it makes zitas plan easier

Ant-Man: while the serpent is distracted the head ant-man engages Proclus sotto voce

Proclus of Rome: I would just offer to exchange Euphemia for Gnomon.

Fra Angelo: "Things that live have a soul, but not to the magnitude of men."

"And the fish, not as much as the animals of land."

Ant-Man: "Her ladyship can entertain philosophers for a very long time. What did you actually come here to say?"

Boy R. (GM): Interesting doctrine angelo

Fra Angelo: I checked A&A

Boy R. (GM): are you prepared to thrash it out at length with what might well be a demon?

fair play

Proclus of Rome: "My friends would like to know how to leave and I would like to bring Euphemia here. I think she would have a lot to say."

rolling 1d10 + 1 vs Honest

(

10

)

+1

=

11

Gah!

Fra Angelo: I can Dispute it if I have to

Though I'm sure some people migth be a bit tired for that

Boy R. (GM): excellent. but the better question is whether that's what you want

yes, sorry, I'm getting caught up again

Proclus of Rome: "I would also like to speak to Gnomon."

Boy R. (GM): we're not doing full disputatio

Proclus of Rome: Wow.

Why not?

Boy R. (GM): if you want to get into a serious discussion with amphisbaena, roll theology

Fra Angelo: It probably ahs better Philisophiae than Angelo

Boy R. (GM): the best reason, Proclus, is that I don't know the rules and won't learn them

Fra Angelo: Angelo's strong suite is AL rhetoric, at a glance

Bolad: Guess what, I do

And I am prepared to run it.

Boy R. (GM): I forbid it

Fra Angelo: I'll give it a theology roll

rolling 2+2+d10! Comm + Theology

2+2+

(

2

)

=

6

Proclus of Rome: It's time for a Gamer's Revolution to overthrow the tyrant GM.

Boy R. (GM): hmMM

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus sits down on a barrel and bites into an apple

Boy R. (GM): you're painfully aware of the inadequacy of your own education in this regard

you've never been better read than you need to be to tell a count to say a prayer

Bolad: If Angelo isn't here then I will begin harvesting our dead ant for chitin.

Boy R. (GM): but... the demon doesn't care

Fra Angelo: Angelo's storng suite seems to be Charm and Sense Unholiness

Sense Unholiness being more relevant as an NPC for this adventure

Boy R. (GM): it happily answers every assertion with an argument or quibble that superficially seems relevant, but has absolutely no coherent argument behind it

Fra Angelo: As befits a creature of the Unreason realm

Bolad: oh no! it's a tytalan!

Boy R. (GM): nonetheless it eats your unimpressive arguments eagerly, just answering them with enough nonsense to keep the conversation flowing

Proclus of Rome: Yikes!

It IS a Tytalan.

Boy R. (GM): if you want to negotiate, you can with the chief ant-man here

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "So, ah, Proclus? How do you think negotiations are going?"

Boy R. (GM): it seems evident that Gnomon is undergoing something similar on his end

Proclus of Rome: Well, I told him what I want.

I want a way out and I want to help my friend Gnomon.

Fra Angelo: I'll keep the snake distracted while the magi figure something out

Zita of Mercere: There's two snakes

Ant-Man: "I'm an honest man here. Why should we not keep you all? or let you fetch your philosophress friend as well?"

Fra Angelo: I'll keep the head that's interested in me distracted, then.

Ant-Man: Gnomon seems to have observed that the other head is engaged with Angelo. It cheers him, but he keeps up his argument

Proclus of Rome: "Well, unfortunately, and this is beyond my control, my colleague Malachiasz wants to bury this entire chamber."

Zita of Mercere: i have a plan to save gnomon, but it requires some distraction on the second head

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "How did you know?"

"Well, you're not wrong."

Proclus of Rome: "It was an educated guess."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, ah." I nod.

Proclus of Rome: "My evidence? Everything you do all the time."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I do love Terram."

Ant-Man: "You have the power to do this?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I destroyed your nest didn't I?"

"Or whatever you call that mound."

Ant-Man sneers uncertainly

Proclus of Rome: I mean, IS it a nest?

Ant-Man: roll pre+leadership

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+1

(

4

)

+1

=

5

Ant-Man: "if you could have killed us, you would. I am not a fool to think you have so much love for us"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Would you like to see a small demonstration? It shouldn't harm you."

"I assure you I'm an honest sort."

Proclus of Rome: "If he did, he would have killed my friend Gnomon, so perhaps it is best he did not."

Fra Angelo: "The souls is what makes humans, angels, and demons rational beings. If you are the antithetical to reason, would that go against the very nature of having a soul?"

Ant-Man: "Consider your actions carefully, freak. One wrong move and you will be skewered a dozen times"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "As I said, a small demonstration."

Amphisbaena: "I know you are but what am I?"

Fra Angelo: Dann

Malachiasz of Tytalus: can i consider every Ant Man here to be in a group

Amphisbaena: confidence to angelo for researching his arguments

Boy R. (GM): a standard group spell affects up to 10 targets. there's more than 10 here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are all formulaic spells stressed in this aura

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

Boy R. (GM): you can consider the ones menacing you right now a group, how about that?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: sure

Bolad: they shouldn't be cthinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: asking for a friend

Boy R. (GM): I don't think formulaics are stressed no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I cast Wizard's Disarming Shout to show him a small demonstration.

rolling 1d10!+43

(

10

+

9

)

+43

=

62

Boy R. (GM): so what, their weapons fly from their hands?

Bolad: gulielmus what if we ring the entrance to the hive with burning oil

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no

its rusted decay but on all of their metal equipment

Boy R. (GM): they leap forward to grab yoy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Hey, hey, I told you I'd give you a demonstration."

Amphisbaena: "you are a fool, sorcerer! to come here under a white flag and think to overpower us!"

wait no, ant-man said that

Fra Angelo: Pity

Amphisbaena: amphisbaena is really engrossed in this debate

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Overpower you?"

"I'm not even armed."

Fra Angelo: That might've served to distract the other head

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I just wanted to show you that I do have power."

Fra Angelo: "You know I am the monarch of anti-reason? Does that make me king here?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Now, if I wanted to do something more violent, it would go something like this."

I spontaneously cast a spell, unfortunately without gestures due to my presumed restraint.

Zita of Mercere: Boy, he bout to

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Hooting and hollering.

Fra Angelo: "If so, something must be done about this dreadful decor."

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+45

(

5

)

+45

=

50

perdo terram

Amphisbaena: if ever there was a moment

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets see what i do

Proclus of Rome: Amaazing.

Amphisbaena: well that's 25

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Amphisbaena: you could do a pit of the gaping earth

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no no im targeting the ceiling above the amphisbaena

Amphisbaena: sure

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I want to destroy it in such a way that a very large rock falls upon it

I guess 25 just makes a pretty sizeable boulder.

Bolad: I ask Gulielmus, "Do you think they have been eaten yet?"

Fra Angelo: You could make it crumble, which is the same mass as a huge rock, really

Proclus of Rome: Ah, but you can't make things with Perdo.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: No, I'm destroying the rock.

Amphisbaena: no, this is an acceptable use of perdo terram

Fra Angelo: Perdo can weaken too

Proclus of Rome: That means that it's impossible to kill someone and thereby make a corpse.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are there any ants up here observing us

Amphisbaena: it's also the textbook example of spells requiring an aiming roll

Proclus of Rome: Really makes you think.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Part of the rock is carved away, leaving a large chunk to fall on the Amphisbaena.

Amphisbaena: break down the spell you're casting for me

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets see

base 4 destroy stone

Amphisbaena: you need minimum base 4, +1 part and the more size mags the better

Malachiasz of Tytalus: goes to 10 from voice range

15 part

that leaves me 2 magnitudes

I'll spend 1 on size, is there anything I can do with the other one to help me make sure it hits just the amphisbaena and not Gnomon?

Amphisbaena: well i'll tell you what

the amphisbaena is a long beast by its nature

you can avoid gnomon, though that avoids one of its heads

the head you're talking to, and the torso, are well in range

Fra Angelo: You can do two sizes

Which helps with aiming

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Yeah, I'll just do 2 sizes and aim it to not kill our friend Gnomon.

Amphisbaena: ok, give me a per+finesse roll

Fra Angelo: Size makes it harder to hit, but the quickness penalty from size makes it easier

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

uh oh!

i mean its a very large rock

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus begins performing a secret action on the surface, far from the cursed sight of the GM.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so im not worried about the amphisbaena being hit

i have been informed that this is stressed

my botch dice please gm

Zita of Mercere: thats stressed, large objects have a massive aiming bonus though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Proclus of Rome: Yeesh.

Amphisbaena: yes

Zita of Mercere: theres rules for it in the corebook. somewhere.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i believe its 2

Amphisbaena:

rolling 5d10<1

(

6

+

8

+

1

+

1

+

7

)

=

2 Successes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: why 5?

Amphisbaena: it's a stressful situation

Malachiasz of Tytalus: fair enough

Amphisbaena: are there specific rules for this?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont know

Fra Angelo: If the direct target of the spell is a basic Individual for the Form in question (see page 112), there is no bonus to the aiming roll. For every step larger, and thus for every magnitude added to the spell, the aiming roll gets a +6 bonus. It is hard to miss a single person when you create a pit the size of a church.

Amphisbaena: good find

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean, it would seem a bit silly for a boulder to miss even on a botch

Amphisbaena: ok, that is a sizable aiming bonus, but it is also a botch

Fra Angelo: Yeah

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i guess its up to the gms interpretation

of how the poor aim works out

Amphisbaena: I think there can be no more fitting way to resolve this

than to say you hit teh amphisbaena. you cast a wide net, and got a great spont rolll

Fra Angelo: An aiming botch means the roll is 0 I think

Amphisbaena: indeed you hit most of the people in the cavern

Fra Angelo: Since its vs Defense

Bolad: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dys is gay

Bolad: Everyone dies! The end

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oops

i hit the button

Zita of Mercere: Boy Reporter, for the second session in a row: the ceiling crushes you all to death

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): gulielmus is saturating the soil and wood of the mound up top with flammable oil

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean, i DID tell them that a more lethal attempt at sorcery would look like this

theyll surely believe me now

Proclus of Rome: Yes thank you.

I mean, I certainly believe you.

Amphisbaena: more strictly, you botched the finesse necessary to carve out a giant snake crushing boulder

instead you fracture d the roof, causing a lethal hail to fall

hell you've been through this already, what's the wrost that can happen

Zita of Mercere: Am I caught up in this? I was observing the second head, the one with gnomon, from enough distance it wont go for me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

Bolad: Bolad and Gulielmus look really smart now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does this do anything to the surface boys

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are you in the cave? then yes zita

Amphisbaena:

rolling d10!+15 damage on malachiasz

(

4

)

+15

=

19

Zita of Mercere: he said most, idk if its everyone

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, i will roll my soak now

Amphisbaena: roll stam+ terram soak

rolling d10!+15 damage proclus

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Proclus of Rome: Gah.

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+6

(

7

)

+6

=

13

Amphisbaena:

rolling d10!+15 damage angelo

(

3

)

+15

=

18

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 6 damage

Amphisbaena: various ant-men are crushed

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats like a light wound for a giant i think

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 2

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: malachiasz rolls philosophiae to argue that, from certain points of view, he's falling up at the deadly hail of rock

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, I'm going to go ahead and spend two confidence points here.

Fra Angelo:

rolling d10!

(

3

)

=

3

Proclus of Rome: Wait.

Lemme check something.

Amphisbaena: But! The spell has its intended effect. a large spiked boulder falls straight onto the serpent's primary head

Proclus of Rome: I'm limited to two, unfortunately.

Amphisbaena: Proclus receives a heavy wound, I believe

Malachiasz of Tytalus: was it just us 3, plus some ants?

Amphisbaena: Zita and Gnomon are out of range

Bolad: Gulielmus has given me the signal, so we begin Operation Cool Smart People.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well, if it hit me, then i guess it did hit the ants around me at least

Amphisbaena: ok, meanwhile, above ground

Proclus of Rome: So that's 8, which is a light wound.

Amphisbaena: it did

Proclus of Rome: Ouch!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i am freed up and only suffered a light wound

Amphisbaena: they're variously injured

Malachiasz of Tytalus dusts himself off.

Fra Angelo: I take a Heavy wound

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Sorry Proclus, must have struck a fracture in the ceiling."

Zita of Mercere: How's the second head take this turn of events?

Bolad: I summon a cloud at touch range right beneath the rim of the hole entrance. That's Base 2, +2 Unnatural, +1 touch, +2 sun = L15, 3 magnitudes

Amphisbaena: It screams like hell

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Creeping Oil, forcelessly cast over and over again since everyone went down in the tunnel

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): also, i shared my parma with bolad.

Proclus of Rome: "What is the matter with you that you would do this?"

"You've killed us all!" I shout.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "You don't look too bad."

Amphisbaena: Gnomon cheers, but then starts chokingh to death as the dying snake starts throttling him

Bolad: Next, I summon Monsoon Level rain from the cloud. That is Base 3, +1 Touch, +2 Sun = L10, 2 magnitudes

Zita of Mercere: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "A bit bloodied, but hey, we'll live."

Zita of Mercere: oops!

Well

Boy R. (GM): Alright

Zita of Mercere: Better late than never

Proclus of Rome: I'll run to try and save him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats a lot of rain!

Boy R. (GM): that is a lot of rain

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Now, ant men, you can see that I am a true master of the earth. Serve me or die."

Bolad: i fill up a couple buckets before scurrying out of the hole.

Boy R. (GM): even with a monsoon, it's going to take a while for these tunnels to fill up

Bolad: true, true

Zita of Mercere: I run up to Gnomon and pull his shoes off, and stick my magic ones on him, hand him the AC, and tell him how to activate the item.

Boy R. (GM): "witch! you have ruined us! Ill fortune pursues our house to the end of days!"

Zita of Mercere: [you click your heels together sharply, so he can do it]

Boy R. (GM): huzzah

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait

Boy R. (GM): he gets the message, and does that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: id like to retroactively ask something

Zita of Mercere: he needs to drop his parma to do that, though.

wait, hang on

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have Luck, does that influence the way the rocks fall around me

Zita of Mercere: i have a question

can you set your MR to 0

even dropping your parma

Boy R. (GM): Bolad and Gulielmus are surprised to find a bedraggled philosopher materialise beside them

Bolad: yeah dys

Zita of Mercere: this item has no penetration

Malachiasz of Tytalus: presumably he has no parma

Zita of Mercere: okay

Boy R. (GM): and yes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: because hes been wrapped up

and hasnt been able to cast it for some time

Bolad: if you willingly drop your parma for an effect you also drop the bonus your Arts give to MR

Zita of Mercere: he has passive Corpus MR!!!!

from his corpus score!!!!

Boy R. (GM): it's Malach's incredible Luck that means you're not fighting ant-men right now

Proclus of Rome: How are we supposed to leave if the tunnels are flooding?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: excellent

just walk up the way we came

Fra Angelo: Can someone help me out so I can return to the Conte?

Zita of Mercere: "Alright, sodales. I have a final suggestion."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: youre at risk of slipping but not much more

Boy R. (GM): torrents of water are streaming in

Zita of Mercere: "The Vardian's Tomb secret technique."

Proclus of Rome: I'll cast Ward Against Water on myself.

Boy R. (GM): oh that could work

Zita of Mercere: I start running for the tunnels as fast as I can

Proclus of Rome: It Wards me against mundane Water.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I also leg it.

While the ants are dazed.

Back the way we came.

Boy R. (GM): is anyone helping the crippled priest?

Fra Angelo: I have a heavy wound, so I'll try to get Zita's help getting out

Proclus of Rome: I will if Gnomon disappeared.

Zita of Mercere: Ward against water makes the water stop about a pace from you, doesnt it?

Proclus is best equipped for it

Boy R. (GM): it curves around him

Fra Angelo: Yeah

Malachiasz of Tytalus: follow behind him

Fra Angelo: Zita can sneak out

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I walk behind Proclus.

Fra Angelo: I'll go with Proclus

Boy R. (GM): there's only so much sneaking you can do in these circumstances

Zita of Mercere: I'll leg it. If absolutely need be, my swim spec is in diving.

What I'll do though is

my magic item to change my appearnce

Fra Angelo: Zita should start carrying smoke bombs

Zita of Mercere: (conc duration, item retains concentration)

ill make myself look like an antman

so they dont stop me

while i leg it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: FANTASTIC plan

Boy R. (GM): ok

Zita of Mercere: ill end it as soon as i get out so you dont freak out

Proclus of Rome: I feel like you can't sneak at all if you follow me here.

Since water is curving around me in a perfect circle r=5.

Zita of Mercere: yeah. im not sneaking, im legging it at full speed.

Boy R. (GM): I feel like this should be perilous but I'm not sure how

Proclus of Rome: Well, we could almost drown except I am wisely aquaphobic.

Zita of Mercere: Athletics check to see if you need to swim or not at the end, perhaps?

Boy R. (GM): give me a strength+ athletics check versus 9 everybody. proclus can roll for him and angelo at -3

if you fail, you'll lose fatigue and have to try again

Zita of Mercere: strength, not dex or quickness?

Boy R. (GM): strength

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Proclus of Rome: Why do I have to roll?

Water can't touch me.

Boy R. (GM): oh you're warded, pardon

Zita of Mercere: i thought str+athletics is for stuff like lifting heavy weights, running fast is dex or quickness im sure

Bolad: I prepare a flaming torch

Zita of Mercere: long distance is stamina

Boy R. (GM): you're running strong

through oncoming torrents of water

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im running behind proclus

who is making the water curve around

Boy R. (GM): that means it hits your face with extra force

Malachiasz of Tytalus: not if im right behind him! gah

ok lets see

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10-2+3

(

1

)

-2+3

=

2

lol, christ

Bolad: lol.

Proclus of Rome: Bad time to be taller than me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I continue casting a spell.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok i have no athletics and no strength

Boy R. (GM):

rolling 3d10 botch

(

8

+

1

+

6

)

=

15

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i hope gulielmus's spell is intended to save us

Boy R. (GM): oof

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

uh oh!

Bolad: lo, again.

Proclus of Rome: Yikes.

Zita of Mercere: man that has been a lot of botches today

Boy R. (GM): zita slips, hits her head, and gets carried back down

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh right, -3 from a light wound

i uh

Boy R. (GM): you sit up among a horde of scrambling ants

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cant pass that ef, i will find a different solution after failing

Proclus of Rome: Hope for a botch because you'll get a 0 instead of -2.

Boy R. (GM): take 2 fatigue and roll again

Malachiasz of Tytalus: check my botch boyer

Boy R. (GM): malach takes 1 fatigue

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): do you think this much oil will only burn for 3 rounds

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets see

Zita of Mercere: I have a way that might work here, I'm going to need to check something first, also not something I'm eager to use

Boy R. (GM):

rolling 3d10

(

10

+

4

+

5

)

=

19

Bolad: You don't mean.... "That" technique??

Boy R. (GM): you're ok, but not making progress

what are bolad and gulielmus doing? bedraggled ant-men are clawing their way out, and then proclus and the priest

Malachiasz of Tytalus: perdo terram, scream and shout spont at a nearby wall

Bolad: Oh

We'll light the oil

Proclus of Rome: What the heck??

???

Bolad: Don't worry, it won't burn Proclus

just the ant men

and zita, but that's why we set buckets of water aisde

Proclus of Rome: Why won't it burn me?

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+45

(

5

)

+45

=

50

Boy R. (GM): are you sure of this?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, a level 25 effect

Bolad: Gulielmus cast it forcelesly

Proclus of Rome: It'll kill the priest.

Boy R. (GM): I thought creeping oil and then real fire was a classic trick to bupass MR

Proclus of Rome: Not that you'd be aware of this scenario.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I create a very, very long pit in the stone going diagonally upwards.

Bolad: that seems illegitimate.

Boy R. (GM): ooh

Fra Angelo: It won't kill me

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well, not a pit, as i didnt use my focus

Fra Angelo: Maybe

Bolad: Gulielmus, roll MT.

Fra Angelo: I have some MR

Malachiasz of Tytalus: because that would be a bit iffy i think

Bolad: If it will kill our allies, then we won't ignite it until they're all clear.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: but anyway, i make a big hole/ramp for myself to run up

Fra Angelo: Forceless fire, yeah, True Faith guards me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

5

)

+5

=

10

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its +2 size magnitudes worth

of length

Fra Angelo: No one would know I have True Faith, but that makes it funnier

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you lost true faith for losing an argument with a demon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus has been conjuring oil this entire time

Malachiasz of Tytalus: as your self doubt sets in, so too do the flames around you

as your soul is dragged down into hell

Fra Angelo: That's up to the GM

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so it is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in the past lighting magic oil with mundane fire has not been a way to bypass mr.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: anyway, im safe for now and continue up until being told my shaft did not go quite far enough to get to the surface

Fra Angelo: In which case, I'll have to rely on my Relic to save me from the fire

Boy R. (GM): ok no worries

malachiasz' plan seems fine. you can keep casting until you breach the surface, at which point a little water runs in but whatever

the plan to toast a lot of ant-men is also going smoothly

I THINK we can begin to wrap things up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do we kill any pcs

Zita of Mercere: Malach you shit, take me with you

Boy R. (GM): well, there's zita, who hit her head and got lost

Malachiasz of Tytalus: theres nothing stopping you from following me

Zita of Mercere: Yes there is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did we drown zita

Malachiasz of Tytalus: except the fact that you look like an ant right now and if i look behind ill kill you

Bolad: erm

io think i fucked up guys

im sorry

Boy R. (GM): are you going to say you couldn't have done any of this

Bolad: unless

My Magical Horse has Immunity to Deprivation

and can go into the water.

Boy R. (GM): well, does it?

Zita of Mercere: I can drop the illusion at any time, if I enter the tunnel I'll drop it

Bolad: I don't know, it has no stats other than it has Might 25

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well, its right next to the ramp

Boy R. (GM): it should have something for that I suppose

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you can start going up it

Zita of Mercere: the real problem is I'm lying on the ground apparently

however, im not lost

as, as stated earlier

i cant get lost

Boy R. (GM): hmm, no you're fine after losing 2 fatigue levels

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait

Boy R. (GM): I guess you get out because I can't think of a way to make this an interesting struggle

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the amphisbaenas vis

no!

its lost forever!

Boy R. (GM): should have thought of that first

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh well

Bolad: the example magic horse on p59 has susceptible to deprivation

Proclus of Rome: Or of anything at all ever.

Fra Angelo: Malachiasz didn't decide to flood the place

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im alive and i killed a blue wormlike reptile

Boy R. (GM): zita sneaks out behind the panicked remaining ant-men

Fra Angelo: So technically he was still thinking of the vis when he started shit

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean, a two headed snake dragon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i killed a lot of people, i think.

Zita of Mercere: I dont know where the vis would be located in it

hmmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but they were pagans.

Zita of Mercere: actually

rolling magic lore

Malachiasz of Tytalus: probably in the fangs

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10-1+4+1-2

(

4

)

-1+4+1-2

=

6

Boy R. (GM): I have better news yet! the amphisbaena, which was severely stunned, is now firmly drowned

Bolad: hooray

we did it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gj.

Boy R. (GM): with this creatures death, the thread of maze-curse is severed, and the regio unravels, or perhaps retreats

Fra Angelo: Can you drown in creo'd water if you have MR?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i would say yes, since it displaces the air

Fra Angelo: Maybe if the water comes from rainclouds

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: all mr would do is like

Proclus of Rome: You need air to breathe.

Bolad: you'd suffocate as if you were buried alive

Malachiasz of Tytalus: maybe stop the water from pushing you around a lot

Fra Angelo: I didn't think of the water sealing off the air

So I get it now

Boy R. (GM): you only need to travel a short distance and round a corner, to find yourselves in conventional, much-abused Ravenna

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: two things can't exist in the same place. it's the foundation of aristotelian physics

Fra Angelo: What's the duration on the flood?

Bolad: Sun

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I emerge near Gulielmus and Bolad.

Fra Angelo: Okay that's enough for the air bubble you'd get iwth MR to run out

Zita of Mercere: I gasp for air at the top of the tunnel

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Sodales! Hello."

Boy R. (GM): bad news, the rainstorm has stayed here as things assume their normal character

Proclus of Rome: Oops.

Boy R. (GM): you find yourselves in the wrecked offices of manoli and chionates

Proclus of Rome: "What were you thinking? You could have killed us all!"

Boy R. (GM): it's as if an earthquake struck this place. disfigured corpses are lying all over

Zita of Mercere: "A cave-in! A flood! After I give away my only escape route to save that man!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "As I said, there must have been some fault in the stone there."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You missed the fire! It was great."

Boy R. (GM): the companies' meticulous records are cast about the floor, being ruined by torrential rains

Malachiasz of Tytalus: theres probably also a giant hole where the offices were

Bolad: "We heard the ground collapsing and naturally assumed you had done something insanely idiotic and gotten yourselves slain."

Boy R. (GM): yeah there's a bit of that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: like, a very giant hole

ravenna has a new lake

Fra Angelo: Zita, roll a Charm roll on me so I give a favorable report to the COnte despite being seriously injured

Zita of Mercere: "I was fine, I know what I'm doing."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

Zita of Mercere: "I survived a cave-in already today."

Proclus of Rome: "We could have drowned!" I shout over the storm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Roll a charm roll on me... in PMs

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "We could have, but we didn't."

Zita of Mercere: Gnomon is here, right

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "All's well that ends well, Proclus."

Boy R. (GM): well you didn't get the vis or any leads or witnesses, BUT it wasn't a dead loss

Zita of Mercere: if he used the AC i gave him he should have been dumped at the entrance-ish near bolad and guli

Bolad: "You wandered into the beast's lair and complain that you were in peril? Fool."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we saved gnomon and freed the counts town

i mean

Fra Angelo: We got Gnomon which was Proclus's emotional investment in this adventure

Gnomon Ex Miscellanea: "thanks you guys. nice bit of work there"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah he teleported out by us

Malachiasz of Tytalus: in spite of things the count might be happy, or at least not hateful

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have a lead: there's a master of the maze

Proclus of Rome: "I didn't expect to be imperiled by my own allies!"

Gnomon Ex Miscellanea falls into hideous coughing fit

Proclus of Rome: "Gnomon, are you alright?"

Bolad: "You accompanied Malachiasz and didn't expect to be imperiled by your own allies? Then you are the supreme fool."

Zita of Mercere: "Gnomon, I wasn't able to bring your boots out, I'm afraid, due to the flood."

Gnomon Ex Miscellanea: he'll be alright eventually

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Bolad is right."

Zita of Mercere: "You'll have to go barefoot for the moment."

Gnomon Ex Miscellanea: let's tie some things up

I'll do a recap post in the thread of course

Fra Angelo: "Is this..." groans in pain  "a typical outing for you sorcerors?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "When's the last time you had something to eat, Gnomon?"

Zita of Mercere: well i saved the guy we came to save, so i feel good

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, not at all priest."

Boy R. (GM): it's been a few days

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Normally I don't get to kill anything!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I think I have an apple somewhere."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Especially not in so spectacular a fashion!"

Boy R. (GM): he was held captive by the snake cultists for quite a while, before they could feed him to their god

Proclus of Rome: "You almost killed me!"

Zita of Mercere: do I get a confidence point for sacrificing my only escape route to save a man and ensure a successful adventure?

Bolad: I still have some power left so I can conjure wind to blow the rainstorm up into the sky where it will run its course more naturally.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Almost, but not quite."

"You've just got some cuts. It'll heal soon enough."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how's the aura now

Proclus of Rome: "The giant snake did less to try to kill me than you did!"

Boy R. (GM): yeah confidence bonuses to everyone for gutsy hail mary plans there

Zita of Mercere: i was playing up my Flaw of being constantly compelled to heroic acts

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "That's because I struck first, Proclus."

Boy R. (GM): except proclus, who didn't really do anything

Bolad: "And what did you do to kill it?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: add my conf point

give it here

Bolad: lmao br

Zita of Mercere: "He dropped the cave on it, Bolad."

Proclus of Rome: Uh, I save Fra Angelo.

Bolad: "I was asking Proclus, not Malach."

"I know Malach does not tremble from destruction. Perhaps the aftermath sometimes... but regardles!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Are you wounded, Fra Angelo? Allow me to tend to that."

Proclus of Rome: "Nothing at all! Why should we have killed it in the first place?"

Fra Angelo: "Ah.. very well. Just enough to get me to the court chirugeon."

Boy R. (GM): if you can bind his wounds, you're fine

Zita of Mercere: I sigh in relaxation, now that its over

Boy R. (GM): does Angelo give the count a favourable report of the magi?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to call on all of my foul sorcery and give him a recovery roll bonus.

Fra Angelo: Let me think

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Didn't you want to save that, ah..."

"What's your name again?" I ask Gnomon.

If he goes to answer I wave him away. "You wanted to save this guy."

Bolad: I explain myself to Proclus with a classic folk tale of my people. http://www.uexpress.com/tell-me-a-story/2014/8/31/the-frog-who-was-a-fool

Proclus of Rome: "Violence wasn't necessary, we could have come to some peaceful agreement."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+18+3+5 Asclepius's Aid, lv 15, boosted once

(

7

)

+18+3+5

=

33

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "It was a demon Proclus!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that probably penetrates his faith unless the aura is extremely divine

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "We went to hell!"

Boy R. (GM): it does

Bolad: I think Proclus has to make an Honesty check to say Violence wasn't necessary

Boy R. (GM): lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

i guess i could also help gnomon with the same spell.

if he's actually wounded

Boy R. (GM): I'd like to pull back the narration and officially wrap up the session, you can keep arguing for as long as you please

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Be serious for once in your life, you sorry fool."

Bolad: I have 1 vital question.

How many ant-men did we kill.

I want to add it to the kill tracker.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: more importantly

how many antmen did I kill

i want johns to add it to the kill tracker

Boy R. (GM): like a couple of dozen, it's hard to tell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do we each get half credit for the antmen we burned to death

Malachiasz of Tytalus: my ant men, and my amphisbaena

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, the streets are returned to normal, we should find somewhere to drink.""

Proclus of Rome: "It was a mere monster, Malachiasz."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the amphisbaena kill was bolad

Malachiasz of Tytalus: credit goes to the last hit

Bolad: I think Gulielmus should get credit for all burning deahts, Bolad for all drowning, and Malach for all crushing

Boy R. (GM): 2 matters really I want to establish

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was stunned and then it drowned

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok but it had 2 heads

i killed one

bolad drowned the other

there

fair

Boy R. (GM): first up, the count is disgruntled at all this sorcery, but you seem to have sorted things out, so he's happy enoug but not going to reward you

Zita of Mercere: I killed 1 (one) Ant Man.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: certamen. certamen

Boy R. (GM): secondly, he wants Euphemia's head

Fra Angelo: To the Conte, I say: They were reckless and seems to act on the spurt of the moment, but their actions ultimately led to the slaying of a demon plaguing the town. Neither they nor Euphemia seem to have been involved in the cult's conspiracy, though I absolve them of no other wrongdoing. I intend to henceforth expound upon the sinfulness of sorcery.

Boy R. (GM): do you have anything to do with her?

Bolad: she was cavorting with infernal cultists

Proclus of Rome: I think she shouldn't be beheaded.

It sets a bad precedent.

Bolad: you'd think she should if she were a faerie

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Well, whatever she was doing, it helped a very large demon and its cultists do something to your city."

Boy R. (GM): will you intervene on her behalf?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I can't fairly say what the punishment should be."

Proclus of Rome: Yeah and if she was a pig I'd eat her.

But she isn't so I won't.

Bolad: Letting the count kill her is the cleanest course of action. There's no trial. The OoH doesn't have to deal with bringing her ot tribunal only to execute her herself and enrage the count.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will submit a memorial before the emperor and beg for mercy.

Boy R. (GM): in fact she's capable of escaping any mundane punishment so you don't need to worry too much

Fra Angelo: My advice to the Conte regarding Euphemia is that she be kept alive to question about this order of "scholars" that seem to have fraternal bonds.

Bolad: If she escapes that might look a bit bad for us

Proclus of Rome: I think we should try to save her, since she could make a decent ally.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "The priest is far too kind a man. That should absolutely not happen."

Zita of Mercere: Interesting. I'll stab Angelo to death in the night, just in case.

Fra Angelo: That is your right

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did she ACTUALLY do anything to bring about the portal to hell

Bolad: ehhhh it's not too awful if the count learns there is an Order of HErmes

plenty of nobles already know about it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well she did

she found out what was going on and helped it progress

Proclus of Rome: Does Gnomon know anything about her?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: now, to be fair, so did we

HOWEVER

Boy R. (GM): she's kind of evasive on the subject

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it is better to let the blame fall on her

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's see here.

rolling 1d10!+3 Naive

(

10

+

2

)

+3

=

15

booyah

Bolad: What does Gnomon think should happen to her?

Fra Angelo: She's not being a very good Criamon, honestly, they hate the Infernal

Bolad: This is arguably the place he has the most interest in

Boy R. (GM): Gnomon really is learning all of this from you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus will ask the comte for lenience

the blame clearly falls on the greeks

Boy R. (GM): he just went to confront the sinister town planners and got imprisoned for it

Bolad: We should also let Gnomon know we accidentally killed his landlady

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no we didnt

that was his trap

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hey uhhh we pillaged your lab

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we should not mention anything about that to him

Boy R. (GM): a lot of people got accidentally killed in the year the town was a maze

Malachiasz of Tytalus: anything at all

Proclus of Rome: I think, if it was still alive, Amphisbaena would have been the ideal debating partner for many Criamon, so I can't fault her for that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus fulfilled his promise

the curse is lifted

Zita of Mercere: My plan with Euphemia is that I'll talk to her and offer to help her escape, as a good redcap should here. In return, she owes me. I've got a case I could bring against her at tribunal, that I'm not bringing.

Bolad: Proclus: I wish the demon were still alive so I could learn frmo it.

Boy R. (GM): in fact this is a catastrophe it's going to take years to fix

Fra Angelo: It would be nice not to mention going in his lab without a proper marchign or wizard war

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should have kept amphisbaena alive and fed tytalans to it

Bolad: Gnomon is interested in fixing up the place with his Magic Architecture, right?

Boy R. (GM): the count is all the more eager to execute someone because the mob are demanding heads to roll

Proclus of Rome: He could execute the mants.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets give gnomon a good word with the count

Boy R. (GM): oh gnomon will go right back to what he was at

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and get him to lead the reconstruction project

itll make him happy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does bolad's antman head remain in ant form

Boy R. (GM): this sounds viable

I'll wrap it up in the thread

Bolad: Yes whatever helps Gnomon stay in the count's good graces is the best course here

Boy R. (GM): he can also fly completely under his radar, which might be safer

Malachiasz of Tytalus: itll make gnomon an ally to us, and an ally with a close connection to the count of ravenna at that

always good to have!!

Bolad: and all it costs is one criamon life

It's a steal at twice the price

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its win/incredible win

Boy R. (GM): alright, good work all round. and then good night, and happy new year.

Proclus of Rome: Also there's this: I don't think a Redcap should interrogate a master of Mentem.

Bolad: Yay!!!! This adventure ruled BR

Proclus of Rome: Happy new year, gamer.

Bolad: thank you for staying up late tonight to gm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gg

Malachiasz of Tytalus: cool adventure yeah

Boy R. (GM): it was some insane bullshit but I'm glad

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i definitely need to make some spells

Proclus of Rome: What happened to Hafl?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: involving pits and stone

so i can stop rolling sponts

Fra Angelo: The Criamon allowed the Infernal realm to spread over a city so I don't think Angelo will defend her if anything is explained to him.

Bolad: depression probably

Zita of Mercere: he wasnt here for the first half of the adventure either, really

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hell that didnt stop me.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hafl said he wouldnt be here

Fra Angelo: He gave fair warning, yeah

Proclus of Rome: Ah well.

Fra Angelo: And didn't really have a character active for the first half of the adventure anyawy

Thank you for giving me Angelo, he was fun.

Zita of Mercere: there was always gonna be at least one person missing on new years

Bolad: Normies...

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh i thought angelo was the new hypatia

i was gonna feel bad about killing him

now i wish he died

Zita of Mercere: i was missing at midnight when the new year started, to be with my family. however, not as a normie, as i live in my parents attic.

johns: did your parents say "look who came out of their cave"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no, but bolad and gulielmus did

Zita of Mercere: no because i eat dinner with them to avoid that comment

Fra Angelo: I have six hours of 2017 left

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i go out to the dining room to get my dinner then bring it to my computer

Fra Angelo: What a boring ass year compard to 2016

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have 3 hours

johns: this year sucked

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the year of bad shit

johns: Except for the ~50 or so times I got to play Ars

Endrite: Wow.

Ok that's better.

Fra Angelo: Trump didn't even replace the statue of liberty with a statue of himself

Or die hilariously

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ars ftw.

johns: ars ftw.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait. what are those banners in the inn.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what season was this

Endrite (GM): Lions.

Zita of Mercere: i wont forgive whoever deleted our Merinita Welcome sign

johns (GM): I did, sorry

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what season

Zita of Mercere: i wont forgive you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they better be guelph lions.

johns (GM): It was an eyesore

Malachiasz of Tytalus:  banging on table  what season

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can someone rename the Bird token

Zita of Mercere: that was spring 1342

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to Merlin

johns (GM): Next adventure is Winter 1342

the tribunal

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what

1342??

holy shit

i havent done my seasons since 1339

Zita of Mercere: :pepe:

Fra Angelo: Hey johns, I might retire the nuns, which would be a net decrease on combat grogs

johns (GM): your call

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh shit

what adventures did i go on in that time

ah fuck

johns (GM): we never came to a concensus about genericizing combat grogs

Malachiasz of Tytalus: did i do anything disruptive that would stop labwork

Endrite (GM): We're replacing combat grogs with healing surges anyway.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: replace fatigue with daily abilities

Fra Angelo: Generalizing combat grogs seems like something for a new edition

johns (GM): fine fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could do it right now

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok im gonna make spells with my seasons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this instant

Malachiasz of Tytalus: that i did not cast in this season, because.

Fra Angelo: Well I mean, making grogs as abstract as healing surges shouldn't be a spur of the moment ruling

But a generic statblock you can slap a name on is fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: endrite is a notorious troll

Endrite (GM): We could replace combat grogs with Mandatory Bonus Duties.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

my lab total for making pit spells is 61

its time

Zita of Mercere: we're replacing grogs with a Grog Meter, representing the overall Grogosity of our fighting force. deplete the enemy Grog Points to win, before they get yours!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: grogstone

johns (GM): pay the GM $4.99 to buy 2000 Grog XP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could simulate our labs using caveman 2 cosmos

Zita of Mercere: My lord, come play grogs now

Endrite (GM): Alright, see you all next year.

Rolling Aging for 1339.

rolling 1d10! -6

(

1

)

-6

=

-5

Gah!

A botch!

Rolling Aging for 1340

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! -6

(

3

)

-6

=

-3

Beardbeard: whos ready for fun tribunal and wizard war

Endrite (GM): Rolling aging for 1341

rolling 1d10! -6

(

4

)

-6

=

-2

dys: Be right back, will be slightly late. Salve, sodales.

Boy R.: what to do about all these users in my video chat call

johns (GM): We got two things to resolve before Winter 1342

my colosseum adventure & br's ravenna adventure

br are you willing to go first

Shauncat (GM): Did we get 8 XP for the poet adventure

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Shauncat (GM): I thought we wrapped up Ravenna

Endrite (GM): I have a question.

Shauncat (GM): Oh I se

see

Endrite (GM): It says here you can write Latin x 20 spell levels of lab texts in a season. Can they be of different forms and techniques?

johns (GM): we haven't decided Euphemia's fate

yes endrite

Boy R.: oh ok

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Boy R. (GM): Well the thing is, things will resolve themselves unless any of the PCs want to try to get something out of this

johns (GM): same with my adventure

Boy R. (GM): you did what you were asked to do, and now Proclus' colleagues owe you a favour

johns (GM): won't the count be mad at us

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think the counts neutral overall from this

Boy R. (GM): He's mad at Euphemia primarily, because he's persuaded you guys did damage control he's letting you leave without trouble

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we killed the demon but his citys fucked up

Boy R. (GM): and he's a little scared of you

Euphemia is a capable magus who can look after herself, if she's not facing down a bunch of other magi

there should be fallout from this, and I think after the tribunal of this year all the magical community of Italy nows what happened, but Euphemia is not present there or currently being sought for questioning, as far as you know

Endrite (GM): I've got two copies of Wizards Communion to trade at Tribunal.

Boy R. (GM): So if nobody wants to try to influence events to their liking, I think this episode is wrapped up

johns (GM): fair nuff

are you trading away our only copies of communion

Endrite (GM): I think Zita should loan her shoes out.

I mean, yes but I just wrote them.

I GUESS I could keep one copy.

I guess!

Boy R.: wat level are they

johns (GM): Well, the thing is, if Proclus is trading away our only copies of lab texts, he needs to be killed

Endrite (GM): Level 45.

Boy R.: respectable

Endrite (GM): Does anyone have Profession: Scribe?

johns (GM): W ehave a grog scribe

Boy R.: I guess I should learn communion at some point

Endrite (GM): Ok.

It seems weird that grogs can scribe lab texts but I mean, I guess that makes sense.

Beatrice ex Merinita: they need to know magic theory

johns (GM): yeah and some troupes rule you need the gift to scribe anything magical

Boy R.: looks like there's no houserule against a mundane scribe copying magic books endlessly

johns (GM): anyway i already have an idea to abstract the trading of books and materials

so dont bother tracking it

Endrite (GM): Some troupes also only have three players: 1 to Storyguide, 1 to play the Magi and Companions, and 1 to play the grogs.

AFK a minute to grab some gamer grub.

Boy R.: i'll believe in such a troupe when i see it

Endrite (GM): I think that's how that one game with the lake of 20 vis did it.

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): I'll want to make some arrangements for the Wizard War at the tribunal.

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): kk

johns (GM): Alright, so who's going to press Euphemia for stuff. dys said he wanted to extort an item

Boy R.: what are your terms, I guess

she doesn't have a lot of readily tradable trinkets. books and lab texts are more realistic

Shauncat (GM): Right now I have a disguise roll of 7+d10, if Beatrice can make Hypatia an item to buff her Guile, Hypatia should at least be able to pull off establishing herself as a male redcap

Boy R.: or her intelligence on the Chaos worshippers, if you're into that

johns (GM): How about a list of names of Chaos Worshippers who we can march for being Infernalists and then jack their shit

c'thinker: salve.

Boy R.: she insists that's not an accurate characterisation of their practices

devil's fav demon (GM): Chaos is cool. Huh huh.

c'thinker: how about a piece of paper that says List of Chaos Worshippers and is otherwise blank, so we can fill it in with people we want to march

Boy R.: is it a crime to love Chaos?

none of them are magi, anyway

c'thinker: the above paper, but we can sign it with our own names for unlimited power

Boy R.: oh she can give you tips on where to join a weird cult if need be

johns (GM): What kind of perks does the cult give

can she induct us into Cthonic magic? asking for a friend

Beatrice ex Merinita: everyone loves cthonic magic

Boy R.: good fortune in trade and enterprise, weird mutations

johns (GM): the blessing of Mercury

Boy R.: actually she probably can induct you into Chthonic magic, or lead you to someone who can. if you're serious about that she'll talk to the relevant mystagogues and get back to you

she's very keen to proselytise on behalf of chthonic practises

johns (GM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JOsUhrrxeg

c'thinker: i think im going to pull all my xp out of ooh lore so that gulielmus can have 3 extra botch dice every time he tries to make an ooh lore roll

Bialas the Bear: Mm. Wawa just introduced chicken corn chowder as a new soup. Delicious.

c'thinker: or is ooh lore a special case of organization lore

Boy R.: I guess Bonafigura owes you some kind of reward, but it hasn't arrived yet.

it is

c'thinker: and you need 1 xp

christ

johns (GM): i wouldn't think you could use any lore skill untrained

c'thinker: it's not starred in the ability list

johns (GM): weird

Boy R.: or it isn't

I guess every character in an ars magica saga is going to have a passing familiarity with the ooh

c'thinker: oh, no

that's actually just a typo in the short list

johns (GM): I guess dys is the only one who wants to press for a reward and he's AFK atm, so we can switch up to resolving the Empress isue

c'thinker: it's starred in the full list

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its a shame, but it looks like zita is dead

c'thinker: gulielmus will retain his 1 xp organization lore (order of hermes)

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think we can all agree this is the only acceptable outcome

Boy R.: euphemia decides the safest course of action is to neutralize zita

c'thinker: it's a shame but there was nothing we could do.

johns (GM): https://badgame.net/index.php?topic=47117.msg12359511#msg12359511

c'thinker: does the core book have the stuff about 1 alphabet per artes point

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

Boy R.: Lodewig offers to raise the baby

c'thinker: oh, there it is

Beatrice ex Merinita: does the baby have any birthmarks or anything like that to let the count identify it?

johns (GM): nah

any objections to lodewig's plan

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have one

since i had a plan

https://badgame.net/index.php?topic=47117.msg12361664#msg12361664

c'thinker: im watching my awareness drop from level 4 to level 1 and crying

Bialas the Bear: If you eat that baby...

c'thinker: ...you will become INCREDIBLY powerful

Bialas of Bjornaer: I have no objections, I don't know Lodewig to be dangerous to babies.

Endrite (GM): AFK a little longer.

johns (GM): Ah but unfortunately the baby does not have an identifying birthmark, and it does not look like the baby that was abducted

Beatrice ex Merinita: That's why we tell the baron about the faeries.

Boy R.: We can attempt to demonstrate the kind of magic that his child was afflicted with

and introduce him to the fairy

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oh wait this si the other thing with the baby and the ring. I'm not here.

Celeste: Okay.

Boy R.: so the truth seems more plausible

johns (GM): you want to bring him into the regio?

Boy R.: I'm not sure. did the empress want to kill him>

johns (GM): Yes

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm. troubling.

Beatrice ex Merinita: tell him to bring a gift for the empress

c'thinker: oh wait.

johns (GM): Also the Baron does not want to leave his keep until he feels safe

Lodewig of Tytalus: Let's frame him for the murder of his own child and wife

Beatrice ex Merinita: that seems wrong

c'thinker: gulielmus doesnt need any ooh lore, since his knowledge of the oath is covered by code

Celeste: Did Beatrice end up keeping the faerie ring?

Beatrice ex Merinita: no, celeste can have it

Celeste: Sweet!

Lodewig of Tytalus: is the ring an ac to the empress?

johns (GM): You'd have to use InVi to figure that out I think

Lodewig of Tytalus: If it is, she'll have high resistance

this seems like a job for Wizard's Communion

which only works with formulaics, darn

does anyone have a good arc range spell?

Shauncat (GM): Beatrice killed a magi with an intangible tunnel IIRC

Beatrice ex Merinita: it was sponted

Shauncat: Ok sorry, player mode

I was playing Mariu last time but he doesn't have much to contribute to the planning phase

dys: Hail

Lodewig of Tytalus: hail

zita died offscreen

there was, unfortunately, nothing anyone could do

Shauncat: There's a lot Zita can do, being a literal hero of mythological proportions

Celeste fiddles with the ring and stares into the middle distance

Beatrice ex Merinita: If the baby has no identifying marks, let's just pick up an orphan baby and give it to the baron with the same story. Lodewig can raise the baron's kid.

johns (GM): o_O

Boy R.: ok sorry, we skipped over the other scenario and decided the only open quesiton was whether Zita wanted to try to get somethin from Euphemia

c'thinker: proclus should raise the child

c'thinker bangs gavel

Beatrice ex Merinita: We help a poor orphan kid and the baron's baby gets raised by a wizard. Everyone wins.

Boy R.: but I should warn you most of the stuff she can give you would only interest a magus

Celeste: Beatrice ex Merinita: If the baby has no identifying marks, let's just pick up an orphan baby and give it to the baron with the same story. Lodewig can raise the baron's kid.

Endrite (GM): Ok I'm back.

Celeste: The Archon is right.

dys: She does, though I'll need to think of a suitable interesting Mentem effect to request.

Shauncat: Let's Creo Corpus a baby for Sun, the lack of Mentem probably won't be discovered

Boy R.: You want her to work for you? What are you threatening her with specifically?

johns (GM): Okay, is everyone on board with Beatrice's plan

Malachiasz of Tytalus: why bother trekking to an orphanage? just take one of zitas

Máriu Puddu: Sure

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm having second thoughts but my lived experience has told me never to betray feelings like that

Beatrice ex Merinita: zita's kids already have parents

johns (GM): Who's the best baby thief in the covenant

Beatrice ex Merinita: zita

Malachiasz of Tytalus: fiorella

johns (GM): she's in Ravenna unfortunately

Máriu Puddu: She'll be badly injured when she gets back to Rome too

Beatrice ex Merinita: and we're not stealing a baby, we're getting a baby no one wants

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hypatia

c'thinker: oh

Celeste: create an invested item that creos a baby every 12 hours

Endrite: Proclus is against kidnapping a baby.

johns (GM): Proclus is also in ravenna

Malachiasz of Tytalus: proclus isnt here

owned btich

c'thinker: faustus galerius superbus doesn't teach ex misc lore anymore

Endrite: We could just cast a spell on the Baron to make him believe that the baby is his.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Let's just go adopt a baby, and to be extra safe destroy the memories of the orphan keeper or whoever once the deal is concluded

johns (GM): That's feasible but you'll have to roll the spell ofc

okay in this era Orphans are kept as wards of the church so you'd be taking it from a priest's house

dys: I'm asking for a token of her gratitude. We did not interfere with any of her work, her work then caused untold chaos in a city, which we then - at great personal risk - solved. Asking for a single season's work as a reward seems charitable. After all, we lost a season cleaning up her mess.

c'thinker: that messes with my plans a little.

Beatrice ex Merinita: wouldn't that need to be a ritual?

Lodewig of Tytalus: it could be a constant effect item

Endrite: It seems like it would be easy to cast a spell on the Count to make him think the baby is his.

johns (GM): Things may unfold on their own if you take a season to do labwork

Beatrice ex Merinita: Let's ask the priest for a baby toa dopt.

Lodewig of Tytalus: the baby will prove to have no mind or soul once it grows up

johns (GM): Okay, which Wizard is going to ask the Priest to turn over a baby

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's turn an animal into a baby

Beatrice ex Merinita: hypatia

johns (GM): Hypatia didn't go to Ravenna right? ok

Endrite: It's base 5 to create a memory.

Hypatia of Athens: Hello

Beatrice ex Merinita: wouldn't it need to be ritual for it to be permanent?

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

Endrite: Not totally.

johns (GM): Okay. Hypatia can aquire a foundling child.

Endrite: You can remember having a memory even if you can't remember it.

dys: If you creo a memory into someone, it mixes with their real ones, so if it happens long enough, they just keep the memory.

johns (GM): Rome truly is a city of wonders.

Celeste: whats the maximum amount of warping we can inflict on this baby

Endrite: So it could be a memory of us offering him proof that the child is his.

johns (GM): They can use Intelligence to realize those sorts of memories are false dys

Beatrice ex Merinita: unlimited warping

Lodewig of Tytalus: I theorise that long enough duration on creo and muto mentem spells may train the target to treat it as real, but that didn't work on Petrarch

johns (GM): Who among the Magi can do the talking to the Baron

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's compare the babies

iirc, lodewig is the best at etiquette

are the babies roughly the same?

Endrite: How many sex change magic items are we going to get?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't know why you'd recall that

isn't beatrice a literal noble

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah. but black sheep

dys: So is Fiorella, and she got injured at Ravenna and sent home early

Lodewig of Tytalus: and thus raised in a sheepfold

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia got an item tailored to her non-lowerable MR

Lodewig of Tytalus: so i hav epresence 2 etiquette 1

johns (GM): normal gift?

Hypatia of Athens: I have Etiquette (church) 1

Lodewig of Tytalus: normal

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have 3 pressence, 1 etiquette and aura

so i'm probably better

normal gift

Lodewig of Tytalus: unless i have someone to seduce, probably

Beatrice ex Merinita: 3 charm and charm aura

Hypatia of Athens: I have no gift penalty due to being a muggle

Endrite: Oh I still have to assign Specializations.

There's no penalty now, right?

dys: No

johns (GM): correct

Endrite: Ok.

johns (GM): Well, all 3 of you can talk to the baron at once

provided you have no visible weapons on you

Beatrice ex Merinita: except for archibald

Lodewig of Tytalus: I forget what we were trying to convince him of

Beatrice ex Merinita: that the foundling baby is his baby

Lodewig of Tytalus: ah yes

Beatrice ex Merinita: because his real baby is too old now

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh we'd better do inco on the real child

johns (GM): The Baron is holed up in the dining hall, surrounded by men at arms, and unwilling to let anyone get within 10 paces of him

Lodewig of Tytalus: what's the base effect for determining what someone looked like as an infant, or a year ago

johns (GM): Level 5

Hypatia of Athens: Also as not, it wasn't my idea to crossdress, johsn said it'd be necessary to study Theology with the new post-chargen education rules

* also of note

johns (GM): Endrite is just being a hater

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's dress him up in a dress as punishment

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+29)/2 intellego corpus

(

(

5

)

+29)/2

=

17

base 5, touch, conc

does the baby we have look passably similar to the baron's child?

johns (GM): Yes.

Lodewig of Tytalus: phew

johns (GM): Or, to what the child looked like 1 year ago

Celeste: Score.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I appreciate your desire not to make this more complicated than it needs to be

johns (GM): I don't want to get on a watchlist so I'm not going to google what the notable stages of child development are and how they are distinct etc. but 1 year old baby = 1 year old baby works for me

Lodewig of Tytalus: the watchlist of expectant parents so the government can send you a congratulatory card

johns (GM): Anyway

Any other prep before an audience with the Baron?

dys: Archibald preps by running into the covenant and going back to his lab.

Beatrice ex Merinita: just normal buffs

and getting ready to teleport at moment's notice

Lodewig of Tytalus: I iron my cravat, buff up, and leave my mind at home watching the real baby

Voda: Are cravats historically accurate?

Lodewig of Tytalus: doubtful

johns (GM): If any of you have sidestep that may make things awkward when you are checked for weapons

Lodewig of Tytalus: or walking through doors

Beatrice ex Merinita: what's the aura inside?

dom 2?

johns (GM): Dom 3

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh

ok

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm just wearing bears fortitude

johns (GM): Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll sidestep myself after i'm checked

johns (GM): Well, you're checked at the door to the hall, is the thing

At which point you are being watched

So people are going to see your image suddenly move 5 paces to the side.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh ok

johns (GM): Excellent

johns (GM) prepares to update player death count

Beatrice ex Merinita: ready to fastcast a teleport still

i have doublet up, obviously

Lodewig of Tytalus: trade you a doublet for a fortitude

johns (GM): Sure, sure. The steward who hired you shows you inside but does not follow. The furniture in the hall has all been tipped over and moved into makeshift barricades behind which are about a dozen men at arms (militia). The Baron himself is behind a huge shield at his throne, a sword at the ready.

Are you carrying a baby?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll make the trade

and i'll carry a baby

johns (GM): The Baron orders one of his men to take the child and deliver it to him.

Celeste: Did they check the baby for weapons?

johns (GM): Hmm

That would have been a cool trick worthy of Agent 47

Lodewig of Tytalus: I told you we should have turned an animal into a baby

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think the InCo covered both babies being boys

even if we didn't explicitly ask about it

Baron Rafael Frangipani: "You have my gratitude strange.. people.. And who was responsible for this? The Colonna? The Conti?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It was a fairy. It wanted to steal your child and give you its own, but your brave knights prevented the second part."

Baron Rafael Frangipani: "A fairy? Where is it.. I will have its head for what it has done!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: did you know Italians use the same word for fairy and witch?

Baron Rafael Frangipani: cool

Beatrice ex Merinita: i was waiting because i thought lodewig wanted to say something

Voda: He did.

Beatrice ex Merinita: ic

Voda: He wanted to give us an interesting factoid.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think beatrice has this in hand

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's gone. It fled when we recovered the baby, most likely to search for other parents to rob."

Baron Rafael Frangipani: "Find it for me. I have a score to settle."

"You'll be compensated of course."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It will be difficult, but we'll attempt to do so. It might have already adopted a new disguise."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "These spirits are like demons, more easily driven off than destroyed. But your house should be safe from it now"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "If I might be so bold, I would like to suggest a ward against such occurences in the future. It's however, a bit... pagan, if such a thing offends your lordship."

Baron Rafael Frangipani: He groans and sinks to his throne, holding child.

Voda: ChildHolder420

Baron Rafael Frangipani: "Pagan... what have I done to deserve this... "

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's something pre-Christians Roman did to ward away faeries in their houses, since they lacked God's divine protection."

"If you do not want to attempt it, I believe the only other course of action would be to change your lodgings. This is an ancient Roman site and their folklore is still strong here."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Perhaps more accurately, the practice dates from pagan times. The arts we practice are entirely a secular matter, no less christian than a woodworker or doctor"

Voda: Or wild shaman.

dys: Hell, some of my best friends are Christian.

Baron Rafael Frangipani: Okay, make Pre or Com checks to sell your suggestion, I'll keep in mind the bonus from what you've already said

Beatrice ex Merinita: i put up charm aura, so i'll try charm if it's appropriate

stressed?

Baron Rafael Frangipani: Indeed

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+3+3+3-3

(

6

)

+3+3+3-3

=

12

pre

Baron Rafael Frangipani: and lodewig?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I suppose I'll try pre+etiquette

no, guile

Hypatia of Athens: I can't defend this paganism, due to my high levels of faith

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10!+1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

incredible

Baron Rafael Frangipani: is that taking into account gift penalty

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

Baron Rafael Frangipani: Okay.

Baron Rafael Frangipani rolls some dice

Lodewig of Tytalus: unless this baron finds me attractice, then it's 11

hypatia's a magus, she should be able to make a case that the arts aren't unchristian

Baron Rafael Frangipani: "Faeries.. rituals.. paganism.. Am I Job? The love of my life and my loyalist knights ripped from me, a prisoner in my own home and now tempted to these strange occult ways.."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I did suggest he move out as an alternative.

Baron Rafael Frangipani: Of his castle?

Beatrice ex Merinita: is the colosseum his castle? i thought there were more people living there

Baron Rafael Frangipani: A part of it is fortified, the rest is just the old ruin

Celeste: Kind of a cool aesthetic, living in a ruined colosseum.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmm

I could make a case with Theology (heresy)

Lodewig of Tytalus: "The choice is yours, my lord. We can only advise"

Baron Rafael Frangipani: "What is this offering? I will have to consult with my Chaplain.."

err "what is this ward"

Lodewig of Tytalus: are we offering to sustain an aegis here? that's going to be expensive

Beatrice ex Merinita: no

i want to make him give offerings to the empress

Lodewig of Tytalus: I suppose that's a little pagan

Hypatia of Athens: In God's creation of Man in his image, so too did he give man his ability to shape the world like clay.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "A small silver medallion inscribed with words 'For the Empress' in Latin, left in the wine cellar every season."

Hypatia of Athens: It is such elemental mainpulation that my sodales wish to conduct.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The wine cellar was the spot the faerie used to enter."

Celeste: He could build a church and raise a belltower and drive out the fae aura.

Baron Rafael Frangipani: "That is it?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Faeries are simple being at their core. It doesn't take much to manipulate them."

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, a traditional ward, that's a bit more explicitly pagan than magic

Baron Rafael Frangipani: Does Hypatia object

Guess not

"I will discuss with my chaplain and my bannermen when they arrive.."

"I will take your advice under consideration, magi... Thank you."

Lodewig of Tytalus bows mystically

Beatrice ex Merinita bows as well.

Baron Rafael Frangipani: Good shit.

johns (GM): Any other tricks you want to do before we relegate this adventure to the background

Voda: Get a plaque for the giant crystal.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I still need to know my positive twilight scar and twilight minor virtue.

johns (GM): ack!!!!

i completely forgot

Voda: Pwned.

100% pure pwnage.

Beatrice ex Merinita: on both sides

johns (GM): ill think about it in the bg

alright

Celeste: Boom. Headshot.

johns (GM): I guess that's the Empress for now.

shall we warp to Winter 1342

Beatrice ex Merinita: how much xp for the Empress?

Lodewig of Tytalus: what are the stats on this baby?

johns (GM): 8 xp and a year of aging

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: STR 14

DEX 12

CON 18

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll make him a barbarian

johns (GM): I am terrified of the consequences of Lodewig having a nobleman's baby

Voda: What are you going to tell people about where the baby came from?

Archibald of Guernicus: He could just say its his

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll say we found it in a faerie regio

Archibald of Guernicus: We already know Lodewig runs around chasing girls

Celeste: I'm going to go gossip about everything to the knights hospitaller and tell them theres a baron who could use some religion.

johns (GM): Smart

Celeste: Not EVERYTHING.

Not the stealing a baby part.