4/16/17

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

Shauncat (GM): Hail

Endrite (GM): Did you ever decide on a familiar?

c'thinker (GM): cthinker's magus's player here

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

johns: cumthinker raised a good point that we are not making our sigils in spells obvious and absurdly magical enough

Endrite (GM): I say go for it.

Do hedge wizards like Lavinia have sigils?

johns: Yes, I think all supernatural abilities are supposed to have sigils of a sort

Endrite (GM): I think we're all confident enough in the mechanics that we can get a little bit of flavor in here.

Shauncat (GM): Lots of stuff works as a familiar, plot hooks to find them are harder

Endrite (GM): "You go looking for a magical animal to be your familiar" is all the hook you need.

Alright I have to go slam a stack but I'll be right back.

Shauncat (GM): I did manage to find Hermetic Projects which has some spells in that regard

johns: slam a stack? is that a euphamism for shitting

Shauncat (GM): InVi for finding auras the animal would actually grow in, primarily

Endrite (GM): It means "to eat Pringles", Johns.

Ok where the heck is everyone?

johns: i like my interpretation better sorry

Endrite (GM): Well them's the facts.

c'thinker: it means he's taking his nootropics

Shauncat (GM): I was thinking pancakes

But Pringles works

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he's playing pogs and is about to use his slammer

Remember pogs? I remember.

Endrite (GM): Oh here's that boy.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I should play up Prudenzio's magic all smelling like curing meat.

I got caught up playing dark souls 3 sorry.

Endrite (GM): Not a great excuse.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I didn't say it was.

Endrite (GM): Shaun, switch to player mode.

Shauncat (GM): Anyway maybe building a silkworm farm in the covenant's aura could produce a Muto moth eventually

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That's a cool idea.

Shauncat: Done

c'thinker: thousands of romans run into the burning house, trying to rescue the prosciutto

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

I don't remember exactly where we left off. We found this guy in the waterfall cave, was he conscious?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Correctamundo, soladi.

dys (GM): Apologies for being late. Hello.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and there's a bunch of mean faeries just outside the cave who can't cross the boundary in here but want to kill this dude

or capture

Kifaaya of Verditius: Making thread out of beetles like they did with Lisa Lisa's scarf is another idea I had, since tombs have lots of beetles, but spinning thread from chitin is tricky.

Aristocritus Bonisagi makes a note on archibald's permanent record

dys (GM): johns: cumthinker raised a good point that we are not making our sigils in spells obvious and absurdly magical enough

I really should, true

Kifaaya of Verditius: I have cat ears even when I'm a bird

That seems pretty magical

Endrite (GM): Kitty Cat Maga.

c'thinker: as written in the book, even a pretty subtle effect should be extremely obviously not normal

Prudenzio of Flambeau: someone bursts into leprous sores and smells like a nice-a gabbagool.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: kifaaya's familiar should be a llama from which she harvests wool, and should be obtained on an epic quest to vinland

Endrite (GM): This is a great idea and nothing can go wrong.

I CERTAINLY don't have an amusing and perilous journey to the west planned.

c'thinker: go on a journey to mystic cathay and bind one of the natives as your familiar

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh, I did think about something, that's a bit more of a puzzler than familiars, making my wheelhouse useful for noble intrigue

Lavinia of Jerbiton calls dibs on being goku

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald's sigil is the sound of dog's barking, and the spell Unwelcome Entrance makes a sound like a dog howling as the stone door slides open.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Cool.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Right now my thoughts are trending towards communication, like vellum that turns into a bird after you write a letter on it

Endrite (GM): Makes sense, since Guernicus was a dumbass dog.

Kifaaya of Verditius: And flies to the recipient

Endrite (GM): How does the recipient read the message?

c'thinker: by Allah! Guernicus is  so  stupid

Endrite (GM): Since it got turned into a bird.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Ideally, it'd revert once it reached its destination

c'thinker: you pluck the feathers from the bird and read the message on its skin

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That sounds good.

Shame about the bird.

Endrite (GM): That COULD work but you'd need a custom duration.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Another is just making messenger pigeons as fast as falcons

While retaining their navigational prowess

Endrite (GM): Ok good talk everyone but it's time to game.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Ok

Endrite (GM): Everyone boot up Age of Empires 2.

c'thinker: oh hell yes.

Kifaaya of Verditius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-CHG_To7Ag

Lavinia of Jerbiton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFkdcQgNJHo

Endrite (GM): Ok, when we left off two weeks ago, you had finally caught up to the mysterious magus Severin, who attacked your covenant with marauding houses.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Is he able to walk?

Endrite (GM): He's hiding in the Perdo vis cave behind a waterfall.

Unlikely, unless he's a sleepwalker.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: What a nice cave.

Endrite (GM): He's unconscious.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I see

Lavinia of Jerbiton: quick, empty his pockets

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Does he look beaten or bloody? I forget.

Also that, yes.

Endrite (GM): You'll recall that there are a bunch of Entanglements outside.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hell, let's take his clothes off too.

Endrite (GM): He does, Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh yes, I remember now. He's clearly being victimized and manipulated by these fey creatures.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could try to spont a Creo Corpus to get his mobile but that'd be a sad end to the adventure if it botched

Endrite (GM): He was a victim of the evil fairy known as the Cruciator, according to Peripeteia, the Good Fairy of Happy Endings.

You'd need to get through his Parma anyway.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Yeah. He does look tortured.

Endrite (GM): If a hermetic magus he be.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: The story seems to check out.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I medically inspect his wounds

Prudenzio of Flambeau: ?

(From Endrite (GM)): He looks like he was once a healthy man, but he clearly bears the scars of torture and privation.

(To Endrite): I am not sure why that had to be whispered

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He bears scars of torture and privation."

(From Endrite (GM)): You're a medical professional.

(To Endrite): Doctor patient confidentiality does not exist in this era.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, that would align with what the fairy told us, then."

"How's his condition, is he at least well enough tae recover?"

(From Endrite (GM)): I don't want to expose your secrets to the laymen here.

Endrite (GM): He isn't dead, that's for sure.

It looks like he's merely collapsed from exhaustion.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I would assume he'd live for quite a while if we left him here.

Having a very bad time.

Endrite (GM): Well, I mean, maybe.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Who knows!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: He'd eat all our vis

Endrite (GM): There isn't a lot of food in here.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Maybe the fairy would get bored, I guess.

Endrite (GM): The bats can't come in during the spring snow melt because of the waterfall.

Roll Faerie Lore.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Does he have any interesting items or equipment on him

rolling 1d10+2+5 lore

(

2

)

+2+5

=

9

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+0+3 int

(

1

)

+0+3

=

4

cool.

Endrite (GM): He has a staff, some very unfashionable clothing, and a cloak with a yellow spiral on it.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That sure is his sigil that was on those houses and statues.

Endrite (GM): Well he isn't holding the staff, but you assume it's his.

It is.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Someone pick up that staff.

"

(From Endrite (GM)): Some faeries get bored easily but others have almost infinite patience.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I pick up the staff.

I look for any instructions on operating the staff.

(From Endrite (GM)): The staff feels solid in your hands, but there isn't anything special about it. It appears to be ordinary wood.

Endrite (GM): Nothing happens when Lavinia picks up the staff.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Excellent.

Endrite (GM): Well, nothing unexpected, obviously she picks it up just fine.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Let's throw this guy into the water and leave.

Endrite (GM): The water isn't all that deep.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He's unconscious.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's one way to solve an adventure

Endrite (GM): It goes up to your ankles.

Archibald of Guernicus: Throw him in face first. What's he gonna do, not drown?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I splash some water on his face.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: You can definitely drown in that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hitman can drown people in low-flow toilets so it is possible

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Wake up, old man!

Severin of Tytalus: He slowly comes to, his eyes struggling to open.

"Who... who are you?"

He's speaking Italian, but his accent is very unusual.

Archaic, even.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "[in latin] I'm a doctor."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Kifaaya, of the Cult of Verditius."

[Latin]

Archibald of Guernicus: "Archibald of Guernicus, of Vardian's Tomb."

Severin of Tytalus: "Mmm... a woman doctor? I suppose... stranger things have... happened," he responds in an equally strange accent.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Prudenzio, of Vardian's Tomb."

also latin.

Severin of Tytalus: "How did you know to find me here? Are you allies of Lycelleus?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Yes."

Severin of Tytalus: When you say "Vardian's Tomb" he becomes visibly upset.

Crass: "Crass the swordsman, here."

Severin of Tytalus: "So... you pursued me throughout time... eh?"

"Your Satanic masters... will get nothing from me..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ach, someone needs to fill him in. No, we're not with whoever that is. It's 1333."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "There's been a change in membership. I know, to be honest, very little of the history of our covenant."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: guess he didn't hear that we kicked bonfilia out

Severin of Tytalus: Heh.

That's true, he didn't.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Everyone here was born quite a number of years after ye left the world."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: hah

"Satanic masters?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "And I won't stand for being called a bloody diabolist, either. I'm a damn quaesitor."

Severin of Tytalus: "I... will have none of your trickery, minion of evil."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Why, I'm a proud Christian, a father, and my son may as well be a member of the clergy."

"I won't stand for these accusations."

Crass thinks for a moment.

Archibald of Guernicus: I forget, do quaesitors carry any symbol of authority

Severin of Tytalus: "The evil in Vardian's Tomb... could outlast a mere... three hundred years..."

Crass: "It's all true, sir, he is."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "I've been called worse since coming to Italy."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I whisper to my sodales "Do we know, for sure, that Venator isn't a diabolist?"

"I've never met the guy."

Archibald of Guernicus: "A necromancer, not a diabolist."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Tell me more of this great evil. I have only been a voting member of the covenant for two years."

Crass: do grogs know Latin

Severin of Tytalus: If it's on your character sheet.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Grogs can know it if they slot the ability

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "If there is evil in Vardian's Tomb, you must help us root it out, and destroy it."

"It's a blessing that we've found you."

Severin of Tytalus: "If Christians you truly be... then prove it."

"The Cult of Vardian's Tomb... would recoil from any hint of the Dominion..."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I recite the Lord's prayer.

Severin of Tytalus: Does your tongue turn to bloody foam when you do?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I do the same, about a half-word behind Lavinia as I copy what she says.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+1 bluff to conceal infernalist taint

(

10

+

4

)

+1

=

15

It does not.

Severin of Tytalus: Nice.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lmao

Severin of Tytalus: Nice.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: nice.

Severin of Tytalus: "Then... it must have been... finished without me."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "I am of Mohammed, but will take any test against Infernal taint you like."

Severin of Tytalus: "The war is... finally over."

"This eases my mind... but I am... afraid that this has done nothing to... improve my situation."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: war never changes.

Severin of Tytalus: "I am still... lost and alone..."

He pull himself into a sitting position with some difficulty.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Ah, but you have new friends."

Severin of Tytalus: "The fairy meddler is still... hunting me."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We've heard the story."

"It's horrible to hear a fellow magus being subjected to this."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Vardian's Tomb is standing by your side."

Severin of Tytalus: "Ah... so the Cruciator has taken more victims?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Believe that."

Severin of Tytalus: "Why has no one... slain him?"

Crass: "Don't worry, sir, we know what to do with bad faeries."

Crass puts his hand on his sword.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Well, we found out about an hour ago."

give or take.

Severin of Tytalus: More like a week.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Well, whatever, I've already been lying to this guy.

Crass: no!!

Severin of Tytalus: We skipped all the parts where you traveled through the forest and nothing exciting happened.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, we simply weren't aware."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I'll assure you, it's the very next item on our list."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Severin has an arcane connection to find him, right?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "And with another magus, one with such focused power as you, we should triumph easily."

Severin of Tytalus: No Kifaaya, not as far as you know.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do ye know where his tower is?"

Severin of Tytalus: "His tower? In truth... we battled in his labyrinth for months... until I got the better of him by trapping him in a river..."

"He and his minions are vulnerable... to flowing water."

"They simply... fall apart."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Tricky.

Severin of Tytalus: "That is how I was able... to escape."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you put flowing water in a bucket and pour it on them, does that work?"

Severin of Tytalus: "I have never tried that... but it could work..."

Roll Faerie Lore.

Crass: great thinking, boss, that's why you're the best

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+5 Lore! Lore!!!

(

7

)

+2+5

=

14

Severin of Tytalus: Loreeeeee.

Archibald of Guernicus: Faerie Lore is for fairies, I'll stick with human lore

(From Severin of Tytalus): It's unlikely to work. Flowing water is metaphorically different from water generally. However, the definition of "flowing water" can be quite broad and include such things as spilling water or even tears.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I have no faerie lore, and can't possibly roll higher than a 13. Good luck, lore fiends

Lavinia of Jerbiton: (From Severin of Tytalus): It's unlikely to work. Flowing water is metaphorically different from water generally. However, the definition of "flowing water" can be quite broad and include such things as spilling water or even tears.

Let's start chopping some onions.

Crass: "I don't have any onions."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You don't have an onion tied to your belt?

It's the style of the time.

Kifaaya of Verditius: MuAq to make flowing water in a bucket

Archibald of Guernicus: Good idea

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wouldn't that be CrAq to make a stream

Severin of Tytalus: Making water flow out of a bucket would be ReAq.

Or you could just tip it over.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also if someone has CrAu you could test if rain works

Crass: CrAq(Re) to turn a bucket into a water cannon

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, will we deal with his minions first, then?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: You can also make water flow out of a bucket by whipping the bucket

Prudenzio of Flambeau: All good ideas.

Severin of Tytalus: "If I could just... escape this cave then I could... return to Thaddeus... who still lives after all this time."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He's still alive?"

"In a regio?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm

A cat can smell water that has the quality of flowing

Severin of Tytalus: "He is... my familiar..."

Kifaaya of Verditius: They won't drink from standing pools

Severin of Tytalus: "I know that... he has survived."

"A familiar never dies... before his magus... barring unnatural calamity."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyone here got good Imaginem?

make the waterfall invisible so the faeries walk into it

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Very poor.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have imaginary good arts

Crass: muaq would work for that i think

Severin of Tytalus: I don't see how.

Archibald of Guernicus: 2 imaginem and my creo is my lowest technique, I'm afraid.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could MuIm to make it look frozen

Lavinia of Jerbiton: concentration creo terram/herbam: create something that diverts the flow of the waterfall, then stop concentrating once the faeries walk under it

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, muto, right.

Severin of Tytalus: Water is already pretty much invisible, you couldn't make a less visible fluid with muto.

Though you could destroy the image of the waterfall with PeIm.

Archibald of Guernicus: What's your MuIm, kifaaya? I have +14 in a neutral aura

Oh, PeIm, true

+14 on that as well

Kifaaya of Verditius: I doubt mine is much better, let me look

+23 MuIm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: itd just need to be touch range, conc or diam duration

Severin of Tytalus: MuIm wouldn't make the waterfall invisible, it would just change or move it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: How about making the waterfall look like Ice

Severin of Tytalus: So you could make it look like a rock wall or make it look far away.

Sure.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they wouldn't try to walk through it if it looked like a solid object though..

Severin of Tytalus: Or would they?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah. ReIm or PeIm, is what we need, really

Lavinia of Jerbiton: PeIm Level 4, +1 touch +1 diam = L10. can you hit 20 on a PeIm spont?

Archibald of Guernicus: What's the aura?

It's a magic cave with vis... maybe decent?

Severin of Tytalus: Magic 1.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can definitely hit it with a conf

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm

I'm gonna just give myself an elephant trunk and start blasting them

Archibald of Guernicus: "Alright, can one of ye lure the little horrors inside after I destroy the waterfall's image?"

"It'll only be destroyed for a diadem, ye'll have to be quick about it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Ok."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll walk forward and start the process of Perdoing the Imaginem

Shouting and screaming, as is the style of the time

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, roll it.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

8

)

+17

=

25

Success

Severin of Tytalus: They'll be able to hear you if you shout.

Crass is very impressed by the perdoing and shouting

Crass: So cool!

Archibald of Guernicus: The imaginen, has been perdo'd

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I shout, "Oh no! The barrier is gone!"

Severin of Tytalus: Don't forget to halve your casting total for a spont spell.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We are helpless now!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, it's halved to 10

which is enough

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, groovy.

You can clearly see the gathered Entaglements outside.

Archibald of Guernicus: I slowly back away inside with my sword out, as if this is a really bad mistake I just made

Severin of Tytalus: Of the 10 that remain outside, 8 decide to "take the plunge" so to speak and run at you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Severin is yours, but spare the rest of us, please!"

Severin of Tytalus: As soon as they hit the waterfall they fall apart, leaving only their miscellaneous cores, which slowly get swept downstream.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm, I might be able to turn into an elephant with my casting total halved

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Great job, sodales!"

Severin of Tytalus: The "cores" are things like mugs, buttons, rags, and so forth.

The remaining 2 Entanglements flee.

Archibald of Guernicus: I will be right back, in about ten minutes, sodales.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Being accurate with my nosegun is probably another story

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nosegun

Kifaaya of Verditius: Trunkgun

Prudenzio of Flambeau: elephant cat girl

Lavinia of Jerbiton: . o O (what is a gun)

Crass: skul gun

Kifaaya of Verditius: Owlcat

Severin of Tytalus: Oh I should point out in case anyone has forgotten, fairy corpses contain vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: quick, chase down and butche the rest

Kifaaya of Verditius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1SQtavaUM

Severin of Tytalus: This is well known so I'm not going to require a roll.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll start collecting cores

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Crass, go pick up that garbage! It's very valuable!

Crass: Yes, sir!

Severin of Tytalus: Good job Crass.

Crass dutifully runs out to pick up some garbage.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Extra food and wine for you. Good man.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Archerfish wouldn't be known in the Mediterranean, sadly

Crass: turn into a jaguar, or a coyote

Severin of Tytalus: Turn into a panther.

Crass: a possum

Kifaaya of Verditius: I should learn some Brawl so I can actually make use of turning into predators

Or a bear

Crass: well, Crass returns with some garbage

Severin of Tytalus: Nice.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Thank you Crass

Severin of Tytalus: Perfect treasures for Vardian's Tomb.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: brb slamming a stack

Crass: coneslammer...

Kifaaya of Verditius: If you need ReAq to give water the property of flowing, an elephant trunk probably won't suffice

So I'll keep thinkin

Severin of Tytalus: Well you don't give it the property of flowing so much as make it flow.

Crass: "My heart nearly stopped there, with all those lies, it did."

"But the wizards always know what to do with a bad faerie!"

Severin of Tytalus: It's easy to make water flow but more difficult to make rock flow, for example.

10 lies, to be specific.

Kifaaya of Verditius: There's a lot of good info on lava in Hermetic Projects

Crass: "Oh no... what about the ones that got away?"

Severin of Tytalus: Great question.

Kifaaya of Verditius: "We'll just have to deal with them violently."

I'll cast Doublet of Impenetrable silk on everyone

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Ah, thanks.

Severin of Tytalus: So are you going to chase down the remaining 2 Entanglements?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill stay with severin

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Brave move.

Crass: suspicious!

Severin of Tytalus: What about the rest of you?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm helpless against the poor things.

Archibald of Guernicus: I still haven't learned the crystal dart, was really meaning to, so I'm not sure how to kill them

Crass: do swords not work

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hit em with a sword

Archibald of Guernicus: They're far away and fleeing

Severin of Tytalus: You've never tried swords but there's no reason to expect they wouldn't.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Swords probably work fine. Do you think I know how to use those things?

Severin of Tytalus: All the Entanglements are smaller than you so you should be able to chase them down.

Archibald of Guernicus: Fine. Fine. I'll run around chasing after fairies.

Crass: "The Archon always carries a sword with him."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: archibald is running in circles. bwahaha

Crass: "He's so wise."

Archibald of Guernicus: I sigh and walk out the cave, my spell is still active and I don't get wet.

Severin of Tytalus: Smart.

Anyone want to help Archibald?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I will

Crass: "Ah, wait for me, sir!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'll stay and keep the old man company with Lavinia

Archibald of Guernicus: "Alright, Crass. You get one, I'll get the other."

Severin of Tytalus: He does seem awfully old.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll turn into a camel, I may not be able to kick accurately but I can deny them the bonus for superior numbers

Severin of Tytalus: Huh?

There are only two of them.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Severin of Tytalus: Also what are you talking about?

Kifaaya of Verditius: There was some sort of mechanical effect of them having superior numbers discussed ast time

Severin of Tytalus: That's true.

Crass:

rolling 1d10!-3 Houserule Lore

(

4

)

-3

=

1

Severin of Tytalus: They can act as a group, but being a camel doesn't really do anything.

Maybe you're thinking of Pendragon.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh

The point of beinga camel is just more Brawl damage

Severin of Tytalus: Groups just count the number of fighters, not their size or anything.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Right

Crass: I think we mostly have straight swords in the armory but I bet we can get you a scimitar somewhere.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll run out and chase after one while the noble grog takes the other

Kifaaya of Verditius: Combat:

Kick: Init 0, Attack +4, Defense +2, Damage +2

Characteristics: Cun –2, Per 0, Pre –4, Com

–5, Str +1, Sta +3, Dex 0, Qik –2

Severin of Tytalus: Ok let's fight the two remaining entanglements!

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll trot out at

rolling d2 Arch Crass

(

2

)

=

2

Crass's side

Archibald of Guernicus: Be sure to include the appropriate exciting, intense battle music for this climactic battle.

Severin of Tytalus: Stats in the book always take Abilities into account, so you need to calculate the actual attack, defense, and damage bonus of camel kicking.

By subtracting the creature's Brawl.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay, it has Brawl 2

Severin of Tytalus: Does it have a Specialization?

I bet it does.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Dodging

Severin of Tytalus: If it does you add 2.

Oh hmm.

Interesting.

Ok so then you subtract 1 for attack and add 2 for defense.

Then subtract 2 for defense, because the camel has -2 Quickness.

Kifaaya of Verditius: So Attack 3 Defense 2

Severin of Tytalus: Yes.

Crass: do i get a weapon modifier for my attack

Severin of Tytalus: Yes.

Crass: or just d10+dex+8

Severin of Tytalus: Whatever your weapon is.

Crass: "sword"

Severin of Tytalus: Check the Armory.

Crass is a grog so his total attack should be on hi sheet, including the weapon bonus.

Kifaaya of Verditius: If you're wearing leather armor you have +3 soak too

I prebuffed

Crass: i don't think it is

Severin of Tytalus: Weird.

Oh well.

Crass: Long Sword it is then

thank you.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok let's light this candle.

Drag your token onto the map if you want to fight.

You can see their sizes, right?

-2 and -1.

Crass: archibald was swept away by the stream while we figured out attack bonuses

Severin of Tytalus: It is what it is.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I see them

Crass: yeah they're visible

Severin of Tytalus: Ok cool.

Well we'll fight yours first.

Crass Initiative: 67

Kifaaya of Verditius Initiative: 96

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 30

Crass: hit em kifaaya

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, simultaneous resolution.

Archibald of Guernicus: I zoned out during the camel stats discussion to go feed my cat, sorry

Kifaaya of Verditius: Mkay

rolling d10+3

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Whoosh

Crass:

rolling 1d10!+2+8+4 dex skill weapon

(

1

)

+2+8+4

=

15

cripes

Severin of Tytalus: By the way you both need to roll botches here.

Obviously.

Crass: how many dice

Severin of Tytalus: Since it's combat and all rolls are stressed.

Just one, I think.

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10

(

4

)

=

4

Crass:

rolling d10

(

7

)

=

7

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

1

)

+15

=

16

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

10

+

3

)

+15

=

28

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

Archibald of Guernicus: Attack roll on the thimble here

Severin of Tytalus: Go for it.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2+9+4

(

3

)

+2+9+4

=

18

Prudenzio of Flambeau: brb

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 14

(

6

)

+14

=

20

Ok Crass, you get attacked.

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

7

)

+15

=

22

Crass: yikes

Severin of Tytalus: Don't forget the sword gives you +1 to defense.

Crass: ok, i have uhh

which shield should i use.

Severin of Tytalus: Whichever you want.

Crass: round shield

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Crass:

rolling 1d10!+2+1+8+2

(

6

)

+2+1+8+2

=

19

Severin of Tytalus: Ok thanks.

Ok, you take 3 + 7 damage as the little monster rakes its claws into you.

Do you take any damage after Soaking?

Crass: let's see

i add one of these charateristics, right

Severin of Tytalus: You add Stamina.

Crass: 7 from armor

and 3 stamina.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok cool you take 0 damage.

Phew!

Crass: powerful

Severin of Tytalus: Alright Archibald you ALSO get attacked.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh no

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+1+9+1

(

7

)

+1+9+1

=

18

Severin of Tytalus: Ok you take 5 + 2 damage.

Crass: whoops

how do i put these back in the armory

Archibald of Guernicus: 3 soak from stamina and 3 from terram

Severin of Tytalus: Alright, that's one damage then.

Ouch!

You take a Fatigue.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ouch

Severin of Tytalus: Ok round 2.

Attack away, Kifaaya.

Or cast a spell.

Casting a spell will probably work better.

Crass:

rolling 1d10!+2+8+4 again

(

4

)

+2+8+4

=

18

Kifaaya of Verditius: Does Corpus affect entanglements?

Crass: they're just piles of trash, right

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 16

(

10

+

5

)

+16

=

31

Yes.

That's so racist.

They prefer "junk".

Crass: not much of a corpus there.

Archibald of Guernicus: I attempt to stab one again

Severin of Tytalus: Ok go for it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Did fatigue give a -1 penalty

I know wounds were -3, can never seem to remember fatigue

Crass: under the original fatigue rules the first point doesn't give a penalty

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, good.

Crass: but we changed it so it does? but then maybe we went back.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll turn human and give it a shot then

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2+9+4

(

8

)

+2+9+4

=

23

Severin of Tytalus: I don't really remember, honestly.

Kifaaya of Verditius: If it doesn't work then oh well

Severin of Tytalus: We'll say the first one doesn't do nothing.

rolling 1d10! +16

(

9

)

+16

=

25

Archibald of Guernicus: Hopefully this stabs a

God damnit

Severin of Tytalus: Man these guys are rolling hot.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Curse of Circe

Severin of Tytalus: Good thing you used MAGIC to defeat most of them.

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought these things were meant to be incompetent, christ.

Crass, get stabbing

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling 44+d10

44+

(

7

)

=

51

Severin of Tytalus: Why did you think that?

Crass: surely you're feeling confident enough to hit some garbage with your sword

Severin of Tytalus: What did you do, Kifaaya?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Cast a spell that might not work on them if they have no Corpus

Otherwise, turn it into a pig

Severin of Tytalus: They don't.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Severin of Tytalus: I mean they obviously don't.

Crass: i already went for my stab and missed by 13 points

Kifaaya of Verditius: Well I casted something

Severin of Tytalus: If you'd like to take that action over I'll allow it on account of you're new.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Well I could turn into a bird and leave combat

Severin of Tytalus: You could.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Which would probably keep me from slowing things down while I try to think of osmething that's actually helpful

Crass: and leave me to be killed by a pile of garbage the size of a cat?

Severin of Tytalus: Do what you please, I suppose.

-1 is the size of a skeleton.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Wel

Let's see, I could spont a MuHe

Severin of Tytalus: Sure.

You're in the forest so it could work.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh, using it on the trees won't do much

Severin of Tytalus: You're fighting a tasteful chest.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Right

Archibald of Guernicus: Great chest ahead

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Try beating to a pulp.

Kifaaya of Verditius: MuHe to do something along the lines of Curse of Circe, Voice downgraded to Touch, Sun downgraded to Diameter

Severin of Tytalus: Uh like what?

Turn it into a pig?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Turn them into a fish and throw them into the river

Crass: I am going to have to insist that all of the wizards carry swords with them from now on.

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Crass, I wouldn't know what to do with it.

Severin of Tytalus: Go for it.

Archibald of Guernicus: I do and I'm having no luck. Oh dear.

Severin of Tytalus: The forest is Mundane, so no aura bonus.

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling 44/2+d10 vs 20 spell level

44/2+

(

5

)

=

27

Severin of Tytalus: Noice.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I take a fatigue from the spont

Severin of Tytalus: Wait you have 44 Muto Herbam?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh right sorry

That should be uhhhh, 16 Muto, +12 Minor Magical Focus (Animal Transformation)

So no, that wouldn't actually work reliably

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: it still passes i think

wehn you include stamina

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh yeah I have +1 Sta

Crass: use MuCo(Te) to turn my arms into extremely cool swords

Kifaaya of Verditius: Bringing it up to 20

Severin of Tytalus: Nice work.

Ok, the Entanglement turns into a fish.

What's your sigil?

Kifaaya of Verditius: It's a catfish

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Can I join?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Please do

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

It turns into a fish with catseyes.

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d100

(

1

)

=

1

good initiative.

Crass: nice

Severin of Tytalus: That makes it FAIRLY helpless.

Wait what's the Pen?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmmm

Severin of Tytalus: You have to overcome it's Might score to penetrate.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Probably 0 since I hit the level exactly

Severin of Tytalus: You also add your Penetration ability.

Kifaaya of Verditius: 0

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice.

Severin of Tytalus: Nice, it fails to penetrate the extreme power of Might 5.

It remains unfished.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm going to try to spont a PeHe 10 version of Curse of the Rotted Wood at voice range, on my turn.

Crass: let's see the might 5 trash heap's active powers.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I realize I made a lot of mistakes making this character but that's a good reason to enter risky combats

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, go for it Prudenzio.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait, its might is that shit? I could have just sponted crystal darts, oh no

Prudenzio of Flambeau: aura +1, waving and shouting is +2?

Archibald of Guernicus: I can instantly kill it with a spont

Severin of Tytalus: Aura is 0.

Archibald of Guernicus: is it a new turn yet or do they still need to go

Crass: Dishonorable.

Severin of Tytalus: You chased them into the forest.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That's fine.

Severin of Tytalus: They still need to go.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I did forget the bonus for loud + gesticulating casting, though.

Severin of Tytalus: +1 +1.

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17+1+1

(

2

)

+17+1+1

=

21

Well, that only made it by 1.

Crass: freakin wizards

Severin of Tytalus: Don't forget to halve it.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Do I have to roll an attack roll to touch it if I wanted to touch it?

.5, then.

Crass: you round up

Prudenzio of Flambeau: If I can touch it, it passes by 5.

Crass: so you're back at 1.

Severin of Tytalus: You do have to roll to touch it.

Brawl vs defense.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Well, that's not happening.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh

Severin of Tytalus: I think?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Fishing should have never worked anyway then

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'll try again next turn.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Since I have bad brawl

Archibald of Guernicus: You could try

Severin of Tytalus: Ok they get to attack now.

Archibald of Guernicus: Maybe dice will explode and help you out

Severin of Tytalus: Archibald you are being attacked.

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

5

)

+15

=

20

Crass you are being Attacked.

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

9

)

+15

=

24

Crass:

rolling 1d10!+2+1+8+2 defense

(

10

+

1

)

+2+1+8+2

=

24

nice

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+1+9+1

(

10

+

2

)

+1+9+1

=

23

Prudenzio of Flambeau: neat.

Archibald of Guernicus: I defend

Severin of Tytalus: Great job.

Ok next round.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wonderful work, Sodales!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: good work boys.

and lady.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm going to make like a bird and bird leaf

Crass:

rolling 1d10!+2+8+4 attacking again

(

8

)

+2+8+4

=

22

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay, I spont a spell to remove 5 might from a fey, at voice range, which is a level 5 spell.

Crass: "God damn things!"

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 16

(

9

)

+16

=

25

Kifaaya of Verditius flaps off somewhere safe to think for a while

Crass: cripes!

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+27

(

5

)

+27

=

32

I succeed. Hell let's remove 15 might

Just to be safe

Oh, wait

Hang on

Crass: can you bump it up to Group

Archibald of Guernicus: Removing 5 might from 2 fae at once

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling 44+d10 stressed bird roll

44+

(

7

)

=

51

Archibald of Guernicus: Would be +2

for group

so yeah

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

What's your penetration?

Archibald of Guernicus: I have 9 penetration score

Severin of Tytalus: Great job.

They evaporate.

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17+1+1 Whisper of the Rotted Wood (CotRW at Voice)

(

6

)

+17+1+1

=

25

Severin of Tytalus: I mean they will, after this turn.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: wait lmao i forgot to calc my pen

Archibald of Guernicus: "I really should have done that earlier."

Crass: (CoRN at voice)

Prudenzio of Flambeau: that passes at voice range, +3 pen, +5 Pen Ability

Severin of Tytalus: Ok.

They get to attack and then they'll disappear.

Attacking Crass

Crass: here's my defense roll, preemptively

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

4

)

+15

=

19

Crass:

rolling 1d10!+2+1+8+2

(

10

+

6

)

+2+1+8+2

=

29

Severin of Tytalus: Attacking Archibald

rolling 1d10! + 15

(

1

)

+15

=

16

Crass: WHAt the heck

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

Prudenzio of Flambeau: if it's a larger wooden object it takes two rounds to fully crumble

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

1

)

+11

=

12

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

No botch for me either but what amazing luck

Severin of Tytalus: Noice.

Ok you take 4 + 2 damage.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll return to Severin's side and see if he's well enough to ride a human camel home.

Archibald of Guernicus: 6 soak, still

Oh, okay

Severin of Tytalus: Alright, they vanish entirely.

Crass: 10 soak still

Severin of Tytalus: Leaving no vis.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Rip

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice.

Sorry about destroying the Vis, guys.

Crass: don't worry, it was archibald's fault

Archibald of Guernicus: "A waste of vis, but I was getting sick of the little monsters."

"Easiest thing is just to make them disappear."

Crass: "Quick little bastards."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Severin, are you well enough to make the journey out of here?"

Severin of Tytalus: "Yes, certainly."

"But... give me a moment."

He begins casting a spell.

Crass looks on nervously.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh no!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Crass, tackle him!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: betrayed!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lol

Crass: unfortunately it will take me one Diameter to review the tackling rules

Archibald of Guernicus: Quick, he's casting, he needs to die

Severin of Tytalus: Heh.

But it's just a Brawl roll.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: don't kill him, but jeez. he's got to warn us.

Severin of Tytalus: He did.

He said to give him a moment.

Kifaaya of Verditius: He's just the guy I saw attacking us, no worries.

Yeah he asked nicely

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh, well, fine.

Fine.

Crass: are you requesting a tackle in character, here

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I was saying it in character voice, yeah. You don't have to listen.

Crass: crass is supremely loyal

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Good man, Crass.

Archibald of Guernicus: Surely he's casting something benign

Crass:

rolling 1d10!+2+6 dex+brawl

(

1

)

+2+6

=

9

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: There are no houses around

Amazing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Classic Crass.

Crass:

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

Archibald of Guernicus: Mission complete. That right there is why you're a grog, Crass.

Crass: well

Severin of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10! + 3

(

7

)

+3

=

10

Crass: maybe he'll have a really shitty defense roll!

damn it!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: ha!

Severin of Tytalus: He dodges you and completes the casting of his spell.

His body turns to the northwest.

That's it.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "This guy's quicker than he looked!"

Kifaaya of Verditius: "What are you doing? He asked for a moment?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Sorry, old friend. I get paranoid."

Severin of Tytalus: "Thank you... for your patience."

"As... suspected, my familiar lies to the northwest."

"Likely he stayed at Lycelleus in my absence."

"I'm sure... Old Marchamp was annoyed to no end..."

"Shall we... set off?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: I nod

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right away."

Kifaaya of Verditius turns into a camel for travelling, loading her humps at the river before embarking.

Crass: "Sorry about that... just gave us a scare, you know?"

Severin of Tytalus: Severin leads you to the northwest, following the mountains.

After a week of travel, unharried by any pursuing Entanglements, you reach a large lake.

After a few decent meals and good nights' rest, Severin looks revitalized.

He's certainly more active than he was in the cave.

"Ah," he says drinking in the air, "Piediluco! And on her north shores we will find the great covenant of Lycelleus!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: have I heard of this covenant before

Severin of Tytalus: Roll OOH Lore.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+4 lore. LORE!!!

(

1

)

+2+4

=

7

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+3+3 int

(

8

)

+3+3

=

14

Archibald of Guernicus: Thank you Prudenzio

At least someone around here knows their stuff

(From Severin of Tytalus): You've never heard of it.

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10+3

(

8

)

+3

=

11

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I've never heard of this covenant before, sodales."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Haha. I definitely don't know in depth secrets about the Order of Hermes, its weak points and opportunities for hedge wizards to destroy it. I'm dumb.

Severin of Tytalus: "Never heard of it?"

"It should be famous."

"After all, we defeated Vardian's Tomb."

Crass: "I've never heard of it either, sir."

Severin of Tytalus: "Freeing Rome from the grasp of the Shadow Senate."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's not one we know about. Perhaps the landscape of the tribunal has changed significantly."

"Magvillus is of course still around."

"And always will be."

Severin of Tytalus: Oh for sure my dude.

Crass:  sfx: God laughing

Archibald of Guernicus: I shall seal the heavens, then

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A shadow senate?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: "If I was not taught about it then I can only recommend my parens be more thorough with their next apprentice."

Severin of Tytalus: "How could you not know of the Shadow Senate? Tales of their villainy must have reached through the ages."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Where I am from, Rome's evil isn't discussed in such conditional terms."

Severin of Tytalus: "They were a coven of ancient Roman Senators who sought to drag the whole of Rome and their ancient empire into the clutches of the Devil."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "And you're absolutely sure this happened."

Severin of Tytalus: "Sure? I was there. We defeated their agents all throughout the Tribunal."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This sounds like some White Wolf nonsense.

Severin of Tytalus: It's real.

It's Canon.

Crass: read a history book.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Updated my journal

Crass: [job] [little bit of advice] [mages' guild] [solstheim] [shadow senate]

Archibald of Guernicus: Amazing canon lore, that's all true

Severin of Tytalus: "Their minions had wormed their way into almost every covenant; Magvillius, Verdi, and even Harco."

Archibald of Guernicus: I leer at him as if to say, oh for sure

Crass: "Sounds like you did a very good job clearing them out, if nobody even remembers they existed."

Severin of Tytalus: "My allies were clearly able to defeat them after I was taken by the Cruciator."

"How could it have been forgotten?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hm. good thing I come from the magical order not infested by demon worshippers.

Severin of Tytalus: Good job.

Archibald of Guernicus: Diedne?

Diedne was clearly a false flag by House Tremere, everyone knows that

Severin of Tytalus: "At least tel me the names of my allies are still remembered."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Uhh..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Might have some bad news on that front."

Severin of Tytalus: "Benedictus of Merinita?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bennie!

Severin of Tytalus: "Marchamp of Diedne?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Diedne???"

Severin of Tytalus: "Sigismund of Verditus?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: "The Golden Horde posted more of an existential threat for my parens, I'm afraid."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Those diabolist bastards? They're all dead."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: for the horde,

Archibald of Guernicus: "That might be why yer work was overshadowed, the schism war was soon after."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Rome being beset by shadow politics and infighting would only be a boon for us in that regard."

Severin of Tytalus: "Well, perhaps a foreigner wouldn't know."

"But surely my countrymen can remember!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "House Diedne was revealed to be a den of diabolists. The house was destroyed entirely for their crimes."

Crass: was benedictus the guy who made the reliquary

Severin of Tytalus: "The what war?"

"Impossible!"

"How could such a thing happen?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "It was a dark day for the order."

Severin of Tytalus: "Marchamp was no infernalist!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "House Diedne were infernalists, it was proven conclusively."

Severin of Tytalus: "Is this some manner of joke?"

"House Diedne fought as hard as any in the Roman Tribunal."

Archibald of Guernicus: "This isnae a joke, ye can see the records for yerself when this is done."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ready for the real bombshell? Muslims control the Holy Land now

Severin of Tytalus: "I don't know why you would say these things, but perhaps you can keep your slander in check until we reach Lycelleus."

"What did you believe the history of the Tribunal to be?"

Kifaaya of Verditius smirks moongodly

Lavinia of Jerbiton: a conspiracy of assassins vs. templars

oh yeah. the templars died while you were out too.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Mongols killed the assassins, sadly

Lavinia of Jerbiton: rip!

Severin of Tytalus: Yeah, rip.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: severin really missed out on some great centuries

Crass: i'm back from 300 years in faerieland, can't wait to visit my favorite roman empire

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm not much of a scholar of hermetic history, perhaps our archon will know more."

Severin of Tytalus: "Archon?"

Crass: "You know, the head wizard."

"Well not really the head wizard, that's whatshisname. Guy who's never around."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Just an internal covenant term for leadership, when our actual head is off. As he tends to be."

Severin of Tytalus: "Magi are entitled to rule their covenant as they wish, I suppose."

Crass smirks gnostically

Severin of Tytalus: Anyway, you make it to the covenant as you walk around the lake.

Everyone put your tokens on this map, please.

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh oh

Severin of Tytalus: Ok, AFK a sec.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: stack slamming time

Severin of Tytalus: Ok I'm back.

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice orange glow highlightin where to go

Severin of Tytalus: I see you've highlighted the Cinematic Takedown position.

Crass: press X to shove severin through the gates to be devoured by ghosts

Severin of Tytalus: Alright, upon seeing the ruined covenant, Severin looks distraught, but perhaps not surprised.

"What could have happened here?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: You blew it up! You maniacs!

Severin of Tytalus: "Surely the covenant would not have been abandoned just because I went missing for 300 years."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Alright, time to start taking apart for vis

Prudenzio of Flambeau: 300 years is a long time!

Crass: truly shocking

Kifaaya of Verditius: How long is 300 in wizard years

Severin of Tytalus: 300.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Wow

That IS long

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps other circumstances befell it. Ye can't ever tell what can happen in that length of time."

Severin of Tytalus: "Please, take care, I do not know what defenses remain from the glory days of my covenant."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Spider time I guess

Severin of Tytalus: "If you explore the covenant, I cannot guarantee your safety."

He pauses and then casts a spell.

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Well. Is there anything in particular that might help us deal with the Crutiator?"

Crass picks up a rock and tosses it through the gate.

Severin of Tytalus: "Yes, I believe my familiar is in that direction, near the kitchens. That rascal."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sir Oak would be safest to send on ahead, if the defences are still active."

Severin of Tytalus: He points at a dilapidated shed.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll help Severin retreive his familiar

Severin of Tytalus: The rock falls to the ground.

Crass: "Looks good to me."

Severin of Tytalus: Past the shack is an overgrown cenotaph.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll turn into a spider and take a look in the shed

Severin of Tytalus: The name on it reads "Benedictus of Merinita."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yeah RIP.

Kifaaya of Verditius: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1013199

Severin of Tytalus: Grief plays over Severin's face.

"Please, it would be an even greater wound to disturb this cenotaph than the Cruciator managed to inflict on me."

Crass: spider anachronism detected

Kifaaya of Verditius: It's not the same species

It's just a visual helper

Severin of Tytalus: "My familiar is buried underneath, please grant me this favor and uncover him."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm

Archibald of Guernicus: Under the shed?

Let's see what Kifaaya uncovers before we charge in, anyway

Severin of Tytalus: No, under the cenotaph behind the shed.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I return from the shed. "Nothing mundane in there seems remarkable," I state after I return to human form.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Cool, let's defile this grave

Kifaaya of Verditius: Who has the best ReTe?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Not I.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I don't know any good digging animals

Severin of Tytalus: Badgers.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I mean, moles and ants are good at it, but not moving large amounts of it

Archibald of Guernicus: "Dig it up without disturbing the epitaph, I assume?"

Severin of Tytalus: "It is all I ask of you."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "How big would the hole need to be?"

"Badger sized?"

Severin of Tytalus: Talking about digging a hole in the memorial of his friend is clearly upsetting.

"Whatever you need."

So what's the plan?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm looking up how big badger dens actually are

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll attempt to spont some Rego Terram, to move the earth out of the way carefully.

Severin of Tytalus: Roll it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I mean one was big enough for the Gordon Ramsay sex dwarf, but he might have been in pieces at that pont

Severin of Tytalus: It's possible.

Archibald of Guernicus: Was just looking up the spell level, alright

Aura? Its a covenant so should be decent

Severin of Tytalus: Magic 2.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+27

(

10

+

2

)

+27

=

39

Well that is

Severin of Tytalus: You can divide by 2 in a roll, you know.

Like this.

rolling 1d10! + (11/2)

(

10

+

5

)

+(11/2)

=

20.5

Please do that!

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, you dont divide the roll itself?

Severin of Tytalus: No.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well now. I see.

Crass:

rolling (1d10!+15)/2

(

(

2

)

+15)/2

=

8.5

Prudenzio of Flambeau: what?

Severin of Tytalus: I mean you do.

Archibald of Guernicus: 12 + 27/2 is enough for a level 20 effect anyway

Severin of Tytalus: You do divide the whole roll.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling ((((((1d10!)/2)/2)/2)/2)/2)

((((((

(

3

)

)/2)/2)/2)/2)/2)

=

0.09375

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: NO

Severin of Tytalus: You can still divide by 2 though.

Crass:

rolling (1d10)^2

(

(

3

)

)

=

3

dang

rolling 1d(1d10)

1

=

1

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling ((2d2)/2)+2

((

(

2

+

2

)

)/2)+2

=

4

Crass:

rolling 1d10/1d10

(

3

)

/

(

9

)

=

0.3333333333333333

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 3 to move dirt unnaturally, +2 for voice, +1 conc, so uh

+2 size as well for a bunch of it

I move the dirt carefully up up and out the way

Severin of Tytalus: Alright.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 0/1

0/1

=

0

rolling 1/0

1/0

=

null

Severin of Tytalus: Where do you move the dirt?

Kifaaya of Verditius: In a pile away from the epitaph would be goo

Archibald of Guernicus: Moving it into a big pile nearby, yes

It's an unnatural fashion so I can pull that off

Severin of Tytalus: Alright.

What's your sigil?

Crass: sound of a dog barking iirc

Severin of Tytalus: You hear another sound.

Thaddeus: A bird statue resting in the ground underneath the cenotaph turns into a real bird!

"Severin! You're back!

The woodpecker speaks with the same accent as Severin.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh my god. A talking bird.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: quick, stomp on it

oh shit... wheres prinny

Kifaaya of Verditius: RIP

Severin of Tytalus: Heh.

Archibald of Guernicus: We already need him back.

Severin of Tytalus: Miss me yet?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I need someone to teach me Verditius mysteries

Crass: as part of your ordeal you must collect 25 human hands

Kifaaya of Verditius: This season might be a good time to learn a Verditius mystery since I don't have time to build or craft

Severin of Tytalus: "My old friend, how have you weathered the ages so well?"

Thaddeus: Thaddeus unsteadily flies to Severin's shoulder and whispers to him.

Severin nods.

Severin of Tytalus: "After I had been missing for a year, Thaddeus showed no signs of the ailments normally suffered by familiars on the death of their masters. My old ally, Benedictus of Merinita transformed Thaddeus into a statue, to await my return."

Kifaaya of Verditius: That's a useful trick

Archibald of Guernicus: "A smart move."

Kifaaya of Verditius: I should turn animals into statues too

Archibald of Guernicus: "Does he know what befell yer covenant?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Or people

Archibald of Guernicus: "Or this shadow something war."

Crass: avoid theft by turning all the grogs into statues until the magi return

Kifaaya of Verditius: Good idea

Severin of Tytalus: Severin confers with Thaddeus.

Crass: you ALSO save money on food that way

Severin of Tytalus: "After my disappearance, Thaddeus spent most of his time scouring the countryside. He was little interested in the covenant even when I was there, so he does not know much."

Thaddeus: "That's not true. That's not true. Benedictus left a present for you."

"Buried it in the well, he did."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Let's check out the well

Thaddeus: Alright, sounds good.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Is it dry?

Thaddeus: The well is in the woods.

No, it's still wet.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Problematic for a spider

Thaddeus: Awareness roll everyone.

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10

(

6

)

=

6

Thaddeus: + Per, of course.

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+4-1

(

9

)

+4-1

=

12

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Thaddeus:

(To GM) rolling 1d10 + 6

(

5

)

+6

=

11

Thaddeus: Everyone, please.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+5

(

10

)

+3+5

=

18

Prudenzio of Flambeau: nice.

Thaddeus: Noice.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yep, it's a well."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Uhh do you have sufficient lore to make that judgment

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Uh, sodales, Severin is making his escape."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: welp

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hey! Get back here!"

I chase after him

Thaddeus: You all hear a door slam.

He's made it inside the covenant.

That building.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: What a weirdo this guy is!

Crass: this meeting of the shadow senate is now in session.

Thaddeus: Heh.

Kifaaya of Verditius: BRB

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, to attack a man inside his own covenant would be a grave breaking of the code. He must be hiding something, though."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh, would it?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's not a legal covenant though

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll stare at the well and try to figure out how to retrieve treasure from it while I'm OOCly

away

Thaddeus: Is it?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: What recognized covenant would our friend be a part of, exactly?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there's only a few legal covenants in rome

is the deal

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Also, he's demonstrably attacked Vardian's Tomb and made attempts on our lives.

Crass: "I don't understand wizard politics."

Thaddeus: Finally, some honesty.

So what are you going to do?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm about to have to leave.

I could try to spy on him through the wall.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Thankfully, it's perfectly legal to assault him here, as he tried to kill us."

"We should break in and force him to talk, this is getting out of hand. He's hiding something, and you heard what he said. Friends with a Diedne, vouching for them!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+10 prying eyes, level 5 spell

(

1

)

+10

=

11

Thaddeus: Nice.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: well, luckily that wasnt stressed.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Let's knock over his precious cenotaph."

Thaddeus: Ok.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: so I can see inside of any room I'm touching the exterior wall of. If he has no light, this defeats my gaze.

I'll go check the door he closed.

Thaddeus: Ok.

You touch the door?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I do.

Not the handle or anything, just the door.

Thaddeus: What's your Magic Resistance?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: i think 10 generally. higher depending on the form?

Thaddeus: Auram.

Archibald of Guernicus: It should say on your sheet each MR anyhow.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yeah, that's just a flat 10.

Archibald of Guernicus tugs collar

Kifaaya of Verditius: Back

Crass: the magic resist part of the template was broken for a wihle

Thaddeus: Ok, there's a loud thunderclap and you get thrown backwards 8 paces.

Archibald of Guernicus: It was pretty easy to fix manually, though yeah, it was broken at first when I copied it for my sheet.

Thaddeus: You are now deaf, Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That sucks.

Thaddeus: It's probably temporary.

Archibald of Guernicus: RIP

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I would hope so, since I didn't get to resist a Perdo effect.

Thaddeus: Oh right, I forgot about that.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I can't hear a thing!" I should.

shout.

Thaddeus: Roll Stamina, Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: as the background noise of the woods fades quickly.

rolling 1d10+3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

Good roll.

Thaddeus: Yeah excellent.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why are ye using the door, anyway?"

Thaddeus: Yeah you're deaf.

Archibald of Guernicus: I walk up to a wall nearby

Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "What?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I point into the entrance, to indicate to Prudenzio to come this way

Thaddeus: What materials does that work on?

Archibald of Guernicus: Stone

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Ah. I nod and follow.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's a stone building in the picture here

Thaddeus: Ok.

Crass: and earth.

Thaddeus: You open a hole in the stone wall, but not the wooden wall behind it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll fly up and land near Archibald

Oh, hole, not climbing

Archibald of Guernicus: "Damnit."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: i'm sorry I keep forgetting but what's the Aura here? Magic 2?

Thaddeus: Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Can someone destroy this while I hold the entrance open?"

Crass: "Probably not me, boss."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Touching wood again? Sounds risky

Crass: mmm haha

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oak will hack at the wall with sword

Kifaaya of Verditius: God is clearly striking us for touching wood

Thaddeus:  CLANG

Lavinia of Jerbiton: He's got a greatsword. let's see how it handles lumber

Thaddeus: That's the sound the sword makes when it hits the wood.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm, a CrCo could make us a human arm to touch stuff with

Archibald of Guernicus: "So it's wood, as hard as metal. Great."

Thaddeus: The door flies open, Severin asks,

Prudenzio of Flambeau: ;p;

lol

Severin of Tytalus: "By the Founders, what are you doing?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "What?"

Severin of Tytalus: "Did I not tell you to not touch anything?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then why did ye sneak off inside, without saying a word?"

Crass: "They were trying to get inside!"

Severin of Tytalus: "Sneak?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye could have just said, it's not like we'd object."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Did he say something?

"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh, someone knock Prudenzio out until he recovers."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Let's take a look at the well."

Severin of Tytalus: "I merely decided to return to my sanctum and change into fresh clothing."

Indeed, his clothing is nice and clean.

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Severin doesn't seem to be doing anything untoward here."

Severin of Tytalus: The yellow spiral on his cloak has been replaced with a GOLD spiral."

Crass: He's so honest!

Severin of Tytalus: It's so nice.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: What a show-off.

I'm the fancy one here!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then my apologies for any untoward action."

Kifaaya of Verditius: I have some nice leather clothing so I can go in and out of animal form smoothly

Archibald of Guernicus: "As ye can see, though." I release the spell, closing the entrance. "See. Good as new, as if nothing was ever done to it."

Severin of Tytalus: "I see that in this fallen age, mankind has forgotten the rules of hospitality."

Archibald of Guernicus: I take some pride in my great spell I invented

Lavinia of Jerbiton: uhh he never gave us bread and water

soiunds like he's the one who forgot the rules

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He didn't even invite us inside.

Severin of Tytalus: The well's right there.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: After saving his life!

Kifaaya of Verditius: "We're still a bit shaken from when the Crutiator had control of you."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: AND getting his familiar for him!

Severin of Tytalus: "What?"

"No power could ever steal my will."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "That may have been phrased wrong. But for whatever reason, we were attacked by a man of your image, animating houses and statues to attack Vardian's tomb."

Archibald of Guernicus: "..."

It's been a long day for Kifaaya, probably.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

"That may be an inaccurate recalling as well. Just know that paranoia runs high in this age."

Severin of Tytalus: "That was me, I am sorry to say."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Archibald! smite this guy

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, ye can at least understand why tensions may be high, if ye run off unannounced."

Severin of Tytalus: "It would seem that, in my haste, I attacked you without realizing the changes that had happened in my absence."

Crass: "You left the Archon in pretty bad shape, you know."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, that ye did. But that's a matter for the tribunal, not for now, we should focus on the task at hand."

Severin of Tytalus: "I am sorry, but there was no way for me to know."

"Tribunal? Is forgiveness also a lost art?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is not being a fucktard jerk a lost art???

Crass: yes

Kifaaya of Verditius: "I have no intent to dwell on any grudge that is not a Verditius vendetta."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye almost killed the man! If instead of bothering with the tribunal, you make it up to him, then that's fine."

I go to the well and peer in

Severin of Tytalus: Alright.

It's wet.

"Very well, I will apologize."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "With this misunderstanding in the past, we should focus on the Crutiator, the threat to our mutual interests."

Severin of Tytalus: Cruciator.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Orry

Crass: Let's get to the cruc of the mator

Archibald of Guernicus: If only we had someone who was adept at hovering slowly vertically down! Damnit!

This well is a real doozy of a problem without such a man

Crass: hey, aristocritus can hover at tremendous speed now

Kifaaya of Verditius: That's more my typical bad typing of reversed or letters omitted, plus hitting the wrong key to fix it.

Crass: even though the legality of the spell has been called into question

Archibald of Guernicus: Very fast archon hovering at increidible speed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's throw the jew down the well

Crass: Archibald of Guernicus: Very fast archon hovering at increidible speed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Crass, can you swim?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Lower a grog into the well with the rope

Crass: is swimming covered by Athletics

or is there a Swim skill

Archibald of Guernicus: Swim skill

Severin of Tytalus: There is a swim skill.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hah.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright, I got it

Kifaaya of Verditius: This game as a lot of skills for something ostensibly about wizards

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sir Oak goes in, holding something heavy

sinks

gets whatever's at the bottom

lets go of the heavy item

floats to the top, because he's wood

Crass: "Afraid I can't."

Severin of Tytalus: Does he wear armor?

Crass: something heavy, like a grog

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes

He can take it off

Severin of Tytalus: Ok cool.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps a big rock, then, Lavinia."

"There should be some nearby."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "if the water still flows, how did they bury something down there to begin with?"

Archibald of Guernicus: shhh. we arent allowed to speak the truth in this age.

Severin of Tytalus: Good question.

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Does Thaddeus remember what sort of magic your sodales used?"

Crass: "What if you dried up the well?"

"Just for a little while, you know."

Severin of Tytalus: "To do what?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: "To store an object at the bottom of the well."

Crass: "Well, you know."

"Then you don't have to worry about the water."

Thaddeus: "After my time. After my time."

It's just water.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i look for a rock

Crass: all right let's throw severin down the well.

Thaddeus: There's plenty of water.

I mean rocks.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oak picks up a rock

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could potentially fly back out, going straight up is hard though

Thaddeus: It's almost impossible for most birds.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: tie rope to oak

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Thaddeus: And I should know.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oak enters water.

Thaddeus: I'm a woodpecker.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Well let's take a risk

I can ride down in the bucket

As a spider

Thaddeus: Ok.

Sir Oak sinks up to his neck.

Then what does he do?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he digs up the ground

Thaddeus: Ok.

His hands brush against a bag.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: > get bag

Thaddeus: Without too much digging.

Ok.

Got it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: > exit well

Thaddeus: Alright.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: > e bag

Thaddeus: The bag isn't a bag at all, as you can see.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's a bag of holding!

Thaddeus: It's a waterskin and water pours out of it at a constant rate.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Neat

Severin of Tytalus: Severin laughs.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hah.

Classic.

Severin of Tytalus: "Ah, I see Benedictus' wit has survived 300 years."

Roll Magic Theory + INT to find out why he's laughing.

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10+10

(

9

)

+10

=

19

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+4

(

6

)

+2+4

=

12

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+12+3

(

1

)

+12+3

=

16

nice roll.

love those 1s.

Crass: "What's so funny?"

"You're just wasting our time here!"

Kifaaya of Verditius: A magic item made out of leather interests me

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+11

(

4

)

+2+11

=

17

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Studying Magic Theory with rope kid's character was very profitable.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's important to be smart enough to get the joke.

Severin of Tytalus: A hermetic waterskin that produces water is almost totally useless.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: seems handy if there's a fire around

Severin of Tytalus: Since the water created isn't permanent and anyone drinking from it will eventually die of thirst.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That's pretty funny.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ha ha ha

Severin of Tytalus: Not at the rate which water pours out it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is funny."

Crass: you could use it to kill a faerie

Prudenzio of Flambeau: You could.

Severin of Tytalus: Possibly...

Prudenzio of Flambeau: At least, those specific faeries.

Kifaaya of Verditius: If I can learn the mystery to turn magic items back into vis, it'll have a use, which I need to learn anyway for the bodice

Crass: i mean, uhh, i don't know anything about magic

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh my god. They included this item to let you kill Cruciator if you have no other way. I hate ars adventurer designers.

Severin of Tytalus: You COULD turn it into vis, if you stole it.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lmao

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah, it belongs ot Severin

Archibald of Guernicus: The magic of the adventure has fallen apart and I can see the tiny man operating levers

Kifaaya of Verditius: Enjoy, big guy

Crass: if you don't have a way to kill cruciator all of italy should fall to infernal faerie rule

Severin of Tytalus: It would be VERY difficult to kill anyone with this.

Archibald of Guernicus: And yet

Lavinia of Jerbiton: put them in a pit

Crass: You could pour it down their throat.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and let the waterskin fill it

Severin of Tytalus: This might work.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could put a fountain in my studio

Severin of Tytalus: If ONLY we had someone who knew how to dig pits!

Crass: That would be nice.

The fountain, I mean.

Severin of Tytalus: Black and white man with a shovel falls over after sticking it in the ground.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Severin's skin though, he can decide what to do with it

Severin of Tytalus: It's a pretty simple CrAq item.

Anyway, we're just about wrapped up for today.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: We arent going to kill Cruciator?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Not this week

Severin of Tytalus: So what do you do with the water skin?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll keep it

Archibald of Guernicus: Add it to our inventory and forget about it.

Severin of Tytalus: You aren't going to give it back?

For shame.

It's a gift, you know.

Crass: yeah it's a gift from the dead guy to his living buddy

Kifaaya of Verditius: I SAID Severin coudl keep it

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah he can keep it

We aren't gonna steal it

Not Even Worth Stealing

Severin of Tytalus: Alright, as soon as Sir Oak hands the water skin to Severus, a huge cloud of black, sparkly smoke erupts from the woods!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wowza

Endrite (GM): A horrible figure emerges!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Archon!

Kifaaya of Verditius: lol

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lol

Endrite (GM): Shaped like a man, but you would never mistake it for anything but a monster.

It's skin has been peeled back in several places, exposing the muscle and sinew underneath!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gruesome

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Hey, cool!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah."

Endrite (GM): It is the Cruciator, flanked by his minions, the Entanglements!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "How ugly!"

Cruciator: "Mortals, leave me to my prize and I will spare your wretched souls!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I think we should kill it."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Finally, some human flesh."

Archibald of Guernicus: I spont a PeVi spell to kill fae

I'm going to kill every single one of his pets in one go

Cruciator: Ok, so you want to fight this guy?

Archibald of Guernicus: We have Sir Oak, who is basically invincible, and I've shown earlier I can kill every single entanglement in one spont.

Cruciator: Protecting the untrustworthy Severin?

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, Cruciator is

very obviously evil

compared to the guy who is only possibly evil

(To Endrite): Did oak have time to put armor back on

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I suppose.

Crass: Everyone knows what you have to do with bad faeries.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I have to leave now though.

Sorry.

(From Cruciator): Sure.

Kifaaya of Verditius: He's a Magus, he's allowed to be evil

Archibald of Guernicus: If my sodales dont want to kill this thing, that's different

Cruciator: That's fine, we're done for today.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Cool.

Crass: i mean you could propitiate them i guess.

Archibald of Guernicus: It seemed like people were on board with Murder

Kifaaya of Verditius: Faerie evil is less tolerable

Archibald of Guernicus: We could discuss it in the thread

Kifaaya of Verditius: Alright, if we're done I'll bring up my idea as far as animals go

Lavinia of Jerbiton: murder ftw

Kifaaya of Verditius: Built a homing pigeon roost on top of the inn, to breed them inside the aura.

It can be an ongoing project using Hermetic Projects material

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Good shit.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what if we trained the pigeons to home in on vis, and then put them in a chamber inside our gigantic glass whale and navigated by watching which wall they bash themselves against

and by trained i mean magically altered.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what if we had a glass whale

Kifaaya of Verditius: MuAn to give InVi properties seems pretty high level, but I could research it

Endrite (GM): What if indeed...

You should just do the standard thing and make a cage that gives warping points to whatever is inside it until you get a pigeon that can find vis.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Anyway just breeding Homing Pigeons of Virtue will keep me occupied for a century or two

I can also give pigeons warping

Archibald of Guernicus: A glass fail

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Lavinia of Jerbiton: what if we had a glass whale

let's have our verditius drop whatever she's doing and make a glass whale

Endrite (GM): Breeding pigeons of virtue is easy.

Just get two pigeons of virtue.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Probably make four cages then, one for males, one for females, and two for males and females who are going to get warped.

Endrite (GM): They mate for life, you know.

Archibald of Guernicus: What was the level needed to make a glass whale. If I finally make this damn whale will you all promise to come raid the pirate island.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Getting two pigeons of virtue is part of it too

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i have some great ideas for sailing adventures that will happen on the way to the island, preventing us from ever actually reaching it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "it'd need some input by the Hermetic magi, specifically a L20 CrTe ritual to create the whale, which is beyond the capabilities of mundane glassworkers. awaking the animo would cost 7 terram vis and inscribing a waterproofing rite would cost 4 rego or terram vis. optional but useful would be a base 4 MuTe that can harden the glass so it doesn't crack easily and a base 4 MuTe that can shrink the whale down when it is being transported overland."

Endrite (GM): It also needs to be shrunk to fit in Lavinia's lab.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: right

Endrite (GM): Proculus could enchant it as Structure with Hermetic Architecture, but it doesn't work with hedge magic.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Anyway I figure I'll spend the rest of this season building a roost, since we've gone into overtime on this adventure.

Endrite (GM): Building a roost is for grogs.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I mean

Overseeing the grogs building it

Endrite (GM): That isn't really necessary.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Alright

Archibald of Guernicus: So a level 20 CrTe ritual is all that's needed on my end, then?

I could invent that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill need to recheck my math

salve, beardbeard

Archibald of Guernicus: Just in time for the session being over, 15 minutes ago.

Beardbeard: mrgh

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll post about building a homing pigeon roost in the thread then

If the construction itself doesn't require magus efforts

And just sort of happens

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets put those stupid redcaps out of work

Endrite (GM): Way to go everyone.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I figure the repairs of the inn are a good time to establish it

Endrite (GM): I mean this kind of work doesn't require your attention at all.

A roost will probably take a single grog one day to build, at most.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

I'll focus on spells for capturing pigeons of virtue then

Endrite (GM): Cool, cool.

Ok, see you guys next week.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Later

Archibald of Guernicus: See ya.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Cheers!

Beardbeard: gmrh

Aristocritus Bonisagi: gg