7/2/17

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

Plutonis: hello

Endrite (GM): I hope you enjoy the game, even if you don't get the chance to adjudicate a trial.

dys (GM): You probably will, unless the party are massively incompetent. But who could imagine that happening?

Endrite (GM): Fu fu fu fu.

Mystical greetings.

Shauncat (GM): Mornin

dys (GM): Good evening.

ill probably be afk the first 15 minutes while you kill the demon and I continue running away. good luck sodales.

Endrite (GM): What a smart tactic.

Shared by every single magus at Vardian's Tomb.

Hafl T.: my only offensive spell that has a chance of penetrating is sight range, so i can try it

Shauncat: Once he starts ignoring my illusion I'll probably run too

johns: I cast GM's Eternal Oblivion on endrite

Endrite (GM): Ok, roll it.

johns:

rolling 100d100

(

5

+

66

+

2

+

98

+

20

+

12

+

96

+

81

+

39

+

24

+

32

+

69

+

90

+

29

+

83

+

34

+

77

+

81

+

7

+

19

+

51

+

59

+

75

+

5

+

92

+

39

+

97

+

83

+

22

+

57

+

68

+

24

+

6

+

75

+

13

+

23

+

1

+

38

+

43

+

1

+

78

+

2

+

57

+

57

+

6

+

16

+

89

+

94

+

45

+

47

+

70

+

22

+

73

+

79

+

64

+

28

+

76

+

98

+

63

+

87

+

28

+

14

+

91

+

66

+

17

+

90

+

31

+

98

+

88

+

81

+

9

+

70

+

10

+

8

+

51

+

17

+

85

+

69

+

11

+

5

+

18

+

6

+

98

+

24

+

83

+

56

+

57

+

78

+

77

+

54

+

72

+

32

+

97

+

86

+

37

+

55

+

55

+

70

+

60

+

23

)

=

5064

Endrite (GM): Darn.

So close.

I have 4,201,488 MR.

johns: i have 1488,420,69 penetration

Endrite (GM): You didn't add it to the casting score so I will declare it null and void.

johns: :(

Endrite (GM): Also I noticed some ones there so I need to roll to confirm your botch.

rolling 2d10 + 80d10

(

10

+

5

)

+

(

9

+

10

+

4

+

8

+

10

+

5

+

9

+

10

+

9

+

8

+

9

+

1

+

3

+

2

+

2

+

9

+

8

+

7

+

8

+

10

+

3

+

10

+

4

+

4

+

9

+

7

+

3

+

3

+

10

+

4

+

3

+

10

+

4

+

10

+

3

+

10

+

5

+

9

+

5

+

2

+

5

+

8

+

7

+

6

+

9

+

9

+

3

+

5

+

2

+

4

+

8

+

1

+

6

+

1

+

8

+

4

+

1

+

10

+

10

+

6

+

7

+

2

+

10

+

5

+

4

+

6

+

9

+

9

+

2

+

7

+

7

+

1

+

6

+

10

+

5

+

9

+

8

+

1

+

5

+

5

)

=

505

Darn.

Looks like your spell backfired, stripping you of GM powers for all eternity.

Hafl T.: did you take in account reduced botch dice for spell mastery?

Endrite (GM): Good point, I'll remove the last two botch dice.

johns: i cast it in Aura of Reason so there's no botch dice.

Endrite (GM): Oh, you should have said.

Fair enough.

johns: my screen is cluttered by 3d dice now

Hafl T.: lol

Beardbeard: arse! bad game

johns: ars magica madoka

Endrite (GM): Ok, this is everyone right?

johns: except for the head of the covenant

Shauncat: Ho ho ho

Endrite (GM): H E H

We got everyone else though, right?

Plutonis, are you on standby?

Plutonis: ?

Shauncat: I do believe he's going to play an arbitrating vote during tribunal

Endrite (GM): I mean are you ready to jump in at any moment?

Plutonis: Yeah

ping me on steam

Endrite (GM): Excuse me, I only use Itch.io

Ok, so as you'll recall, last week you solved (?) the mystery of why two rival families were being joined through holy matrimony when you noticed a magical effect from an elderly priest, who you then beat half to death.

As you worked through the night to save his life, you were attacked by a demon knight, who you clearly were not prepared for.

Currently the sole casualty of this evil minion of Hell has been Aristocritus, the former Archon of Vardian's Tomb, who bravely sacrificed his life to buy the time for the rest of the grogs to arrive.

Yeah that's right I just called Aristocritus a grog.

What are you going to do about it?

Shauncat: When there's a lower class, I am of it

johns: im going to murder proclus

is what im going to do about it

Endrite (GM): That is your right.

Oh good, the turn order setting is still up.

Can you all see it?

Hypatia of Athens: Yes

Endrite (GM): Ok, groovy.

Beatrice Orsini : i'm still in sight range after wizard leaping away, right?

Endrite (GM): You can be, if you want.

Hypatia of Athens: Was there a divine aura at the monastery?

Endrite (GM): Nobody asked.

So you don't know.

As I recall.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there are grogs and malatesta knights here?

Hypatia of Athens: I might flee there anyway

Endrite (GM): The knights are getting ready for battle.

The monastery is quite far away from here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how far

Endrite (GM): Maybe 10 miles.

Beatrice Orsini : we're in the tent village near the church

Endrite (GM): The New Church.

Hypatia of Athens: The notably unconsecrated church

Endrite (GM): Of course, right now it's just a building.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Beatrice Orsini : the church shaped building

Hypatia of Athens: Church of Satan

I can't run 10 miles in the span of a combat but if the combat goes on a long time it'll be nice to know what direction I went

So I'll say I go towards the monastery

If I see Zita I'll suggest she do so as well

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Can Zita run that fast?

Beatrice Orsini : she's been running for rounds by now

Hypatia of Athens: She might have Seven League Stride on an item too

Zita of Mercere: I'm very athletic, but I'm running and have been for a while. Well, I'll stop at a safe distance and watch to see what's happening.

I do

Hypatia of Athens: I probably do not see Zita then

Unless she was running the same direction

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Celeste, what do you do with the headless corpse of the Archon?

Zita of Mercere: You don't see me, as I was invisible. I hope this clarifies.

Hypatia of Athens: You can't see me, my time isn't now

Endrite (GM): Ok, Aristide.

Jeez is everyone gone today?

Well, let's take care of the grogs then.

Aristide of Tremere: sorry i was afk

Endrite (GM): Ok good.

What is your action?

Aristide of Tremere: I keep commanding my two grogs.

Endrite (GM): Ok cool, go for it.

Have them "attack" the Red Lord or whatever it is you want them to do.

There he is.

Ombra Cadaveri: yeah

let me open their things

Endrite (GM): Ooh, hee hee.

Ombra Cadaveri: Alright, Ombra attacks with napolino as the vanguard or however that worked

What was the bonus for each allied combatant?

Beatrice Orsini : +3 per allied combatant next to the enemy

Ombra Cadaveri: alright

devil's fav demon: i forgot it was sunday ftw. having an insanely bad week ftw.

Ombra Cadaveri:

rolling 1d10!+28

(

7

)

+28

=

35

Endrite (GM): The group’s combat statistics are equal to

the vanguard’s statistics.

The other members of the group generate

a bonus. The bonus is equal to the sum of the

combat abilities of the other members of the

group, but limited by three times the group

Endrite (GM): leader’s Leadership score. Thus, if the group

leader has a Leadership score of 3, the bonus

cannot exceed 9. This bonus can be applied to

either Attack or Defense, but only to one of the

two. The group can switch its application from

round to round.

Endrite (GM): Yikes.

Ombra Cadaveri: oh right, reverse then

ombra is the vanguard

whats the demon knights defense?

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 21

(

3

)

+21

=

24

Nice!

Then add strength and you have the damage.

Ombra Cadaveri: Ombra's base damage is 6, attack roll is 11 over

so 17 damage?

Endrite (GM): Sounds right to me.

Ombra Cadaveri: i think thats how it went

Endrite (GM): Ok, the Red Lord is clad from head to toe in mail, so he has +17 soak.

0 damage.

Ombra Cadaveri: i did it everyone

Zita of Mercere: Well done.

We're very proud of you.

Endrite (GM): Ok, now the rest of the grogs have to fight.

Ombra Cadaveri: can someone else control them

Endrite (GM): Sure.

Ombra Cadaveri: i do not like being on duty for the entire grog group

Lavinia of Jerbiton: mwahaha

if only we had good group combat rules

Endrite (GM): They're pretty rough.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait

what if ombra applied the group advantage to attack there

wouldn't that do damage

Endrite (GM): It would.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and then it does that damage times the number of grogs which is

5?

Beatrice Orsini : only 2 in group due to leadership

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Ombra Cadaveri: ars combat rules remain a mystery to me

Endrite (GM): So it's limited to +4.

Beatrice Orsini : mystery cult: ars combat

Endrite (GM): Whoops, +6.

Ombra Cadaveri: ok i guess i do 5 damage then

or 6

or whatever

Endrite (GM): Correct, 6.

Ombra Cadaveri: fantastic

weve done it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so that's 2 medium wounds?

Beatrice Orsini : light according to the handout

Lavinia of Jerbiton: aweomse

Endrite (GM): No.

Also it's 1 Fatigue damage.

So he's at -3.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im going to sleep for a few hours wake me up when this combat is done

Endrite (GM): Heh.

Beatrice Orsini : enjoy your eternal sleep

Endrite (GM): Anyway, who else is going to do some grog rolls?

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

there

Beatrice Orsini : i'm casting sight range spells

Endrite (GM): We have two archers and 2 more melee combatants.

Ok, go for it Beatrice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: who are the melee combatants

Endrite (GM): I thought you were running.

Beatrice Orsini : i'm in sight range after my wizard leap

Endrite (GM): Tunde and Zachaois the Stiff.

There's also a purely fictional illusory fighter.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+14+3 tunde attacks with lance

(

3

)

+14+3

=

20

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+24-2

(

5

)

+24-2

=

27

this spell: http://i.imgur.com/gxjPxiX.png

Endrite (GM): Don't forget you get an adjaceny bonus with Tunde.

Beatrice Orsini : i should have 20 pen. 12 casting score + 8 skill

Endrite (GM): Alright.

It penetrates.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 26 attack from Tunde including adjacency

Beatrice Orsini : it might work, since it's not an illusion, but also this creature doesn't seem to depend on eyes to see

Ombra Cadaveri: doesnt the demon knight not have eyes

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

10

+

5

)

+22

=

37

Yikes.

Correct, Ombra.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+15+3 zach attack with greatsword

(

9

)

+15+3

=

27

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, if it doesn't use eyes the illusion is probably pointless

Beatrice Orsini : it's the only offensive spell i have that can penetrate

worth a try

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+16 tanolfi shoots

(

5

)

+16

=

21

Hypatia of Athens: Figuring that out is probably a good impetus to run for myself

Endrite (GM): He scores!

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

10

+

3

)

+22

=

35

Yikes.

I roll really hot in this dang game.

Zita of Mercere: "Good luck, everyone." I yell from a safe distance

Beatrice Orsini : my only sight range spell isn't useful and i'm not closing in to voice range, so time to start running next round

Hypatia of Athens: Someone invent a spell that lets grogs and companions lend you spirit bomb energy

Beatrice Orsini : actually, i'll stay next round to see that it doesn't work

Endrite (GM): There are plenty of spells that allow you to take Fatigue from other people.

Just ask Aristide.

Beatrice Orsini : using grogs as batteries has negative effect on their loyalty, usually

Ombra Cadaveri: i do not believe aristide has any such spell

Endrite (GM): Alright, for Zachaois, don't forget he has +4 to his attack rolls.

It's a Tremere specialty.

Beatrice Orsini : because they're vampires

Ombra Cadaveri: ah

Endrite (GM): ;)

Ombra Cadaveri: i see

Lavinia of Jerbiton: idk why he has +4 I thought it was +3 for each adjacent friendly combatant

Beatrice Orsini : berserk

Endrite (GM): He's Berserk.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: noice

so he rolled a 30

i mean 31

Endrite (GM): Ok.

rolling 1d10! +22 for Tanolfi

(

5

)

+22

=

27

Oh, Celeste, did you want to do anything?

Celeste: i think i'm still carrying Aristocritus' body and head away

Endrite (GM): You can drop that if you want.

Celeste: I want to give him a proper burial.

Endrite (GM): What, right now?

Celeste: Eventually. If I just leave him next to a demon people might step on him or whatever. He looks bad enough.

Endrite (GM): It's pawsible.

Beatrice Orsini : his looks improved once he lost the head

Endrite (GM): Yikes.

Roasted.

Zita of Mercere: You've dragged him away for a few rounds now I think, you can probably join in the violence again

Endrite (GM): Actually it's just been 2.

Celeste: I'm going to drop him on the ground somewhere and shoot arrows at him when I can, so yeah.

Sure.

Zita of Mercere: Only 2. Time flies when you're having fun.

Endrite (GM): Heh.

Yeah.

Alright, the demon attacks the Holy illusion.

Ombra Cadaveri: why would you shoot arrows at the dead archon

Beatrice Orsini : preserve and enchant the head of the archon with spells that make it randomly say wise quotations from famous greek philosophers

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

9

)

+22

=

31

What a hit!

Ombra Cadaveri: experiment when making this magic item, causing it to give quotes from roman philosophers instead

Beatrice Orsini : excellent

Endrite (GM): He slices through the air as if it wasn't there, which in fact it was not, and howls with rage at being tricked.

Also he takes 6 damage from the grogs this turn, giving him a -3 total fatigue penalty.

Ok, Celeste.

Ombra Cadaveri: hell. just make him recite poems from virgil

johns: my connection just blnked out

Celeste: Ok.

I guess this is far enough.

Beatrice Orsini : severed heads that quote poetry are the hermetic equivalent of audiobooks

johns: that'd be sick

Zita of Mercere: When someone does the vardian's tomb level later on they'll walk around collecting wizard heads

Ombra Cadaveri: necromancer that replaces his lab texts with skulls that recite the spell formulae

Zita of Mercere: Ferris' head recites useful facts about spiders

Endrite (GM): Ok, the tent is pretty much collapsed by now, so you can shoot him, Celeste.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+15+4+4

(

3

)

+15+4+4

=

26

I'll use the other FP to get a 31.

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 21

(

3

)

+21

=

24

Ok!

You hit him!

What's your darnage bonus?

Celeste: 11 including str

wait

forgot attack advantage again.

18. a whole one damage!

Beatrice Orsini : knock out the demon knight with fatigue

Endrite (GM): Nice.

Ok, Aristide.

Ombra Cadaveri: ok

did those knights join the fight yet

Endrite (GM): Next turn maybe.

It takes time to get armor on, you know.

Ombra Cadaveri: alright

also i vastly undercalculated ombras base attack

ombra acts as the vanguard and attacks the demon

Endrite (GM): lol

Ombra Cadaveri:

rolling 1d10!+34

(

7

)

+34

=

41

Endrite (GM): Ok, go for it.

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

2

)

+22

=

24

Big damage!

maybe.

Ombra Cadaveri: 23

6 damage

after soak

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Ombra Cadaveri: wait no 12 i forgot that thing again

johns: im adding +5 to tunde's attack for being mounted and +12 for 4 friendly npcs adjacent to target. is that fair

Ombra Cadaveri: 12 damage

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Ombra Cadaveri: good luck tunde

Endrite (GM): Ok, 12 damage.

johns:

rolling 1d10!+14+5+12 tunde attacks

(

10

+

2

)

+14+5+12

=

43

Ombra Cadaveri: wowie

Zita of Mercere: Yes!

johns: damage is +10

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

9

)

+22

=

31

Ombra Cadaveri: 5 damage

you did it

johns: 5

woot

zach attacks, +4 from beserk, +12 from 4 adjacent friendly npcs

Endrite (GM): Ok, this is shaping up nicely.

johns:

rolling 1d10!+15+4+12

(

8

)

+15+4+12

=

39

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

9

)

+22

=

31

johns: +8 dam

Endrite (GM): Close.

Ombra Cadaveri: plink

Endrite (GM): Alright, the demon knight attacks...

rolling 1d4

(

3

)

=

3

johns:

rolling 1d10!+16 tane olfi shoots

(

3

)

+16

=

19

Endrite (GM): Napolino!

Oh, he'll defend first.

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

4

)

+22

=

26

Then he attacks Napolino.

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

8

)

+22

=

30

Roll to defend, someone.

Ombra Cadaveri: let me see

any bonuses to defense from being in a group?

other than the advantage which i spent on attacking instead

Endrite (GM): Nope.

johns: the damage should be equally spread between the group though

and not just all on napolitano

Endrite (GM): That's true.

So Ombra and Napolino.

Ombra Cadaveri:

rolling 1d10!-3+6+1

(

9

)

-3+6+1

=

13

thats napolinos

Endrite (GM): He has +11 damage.

Ombra Cadaveri: is ombra rolling too

Endrite (GM): No, just one roll for the group.

Right?

Ombra Cadaveri: does it add ombras defense too?

johns: 22

no

Ombra Cadaveri: ok

johns: so it's like +11 damage to both of them

medium wounds on both ?

Ombra Cadaveri: yikes

napolino is so fat and useless that hes harming ombra

Endrite (GM): It depends on their soak, maybe.

Ombra Cadaveri: napolinos soak is not listed

oh there it is

johns: i just added sta and +3 from armor

Ombra Cadaveri: +3 soak

Endrite (GM): There he is.

johns: so 6

which i subtracted frm the math already

8-)

Endrite (GM): Ok, so that's a medium wound to both of them.

HOWEVER!

Ombra Cadaveri: ombras soak is 5

Endrite (GM): They cause a Light Wound to the demon!

Tunde and Celeste both do 1 fatigue to the demon, bringing it to -5.fatigue.

Which knocks it out, I beleive.

johns: sleepy demon

Endrite (GM): I mean, believe.

Congratulations!

Zachaois the Stiff: Zach begins hacking at it in a tearful frenzy.

Endrite (GM): Ok, he's got 0 defense.

roll it.

Or not he's probably just dead.

johns: go team

only one casualty

Endrite (GM): But I'd roll it if I were you.

Zachaois the Stiff:

rolling 1d10!+24

(

10

+

4

)

+24

=

38

Endrite (GM): Actually there were 3 casualties, but only 1 fatality.

Nice!

Zachaois the Stiff: 44 damage

johns:

rolling 1d10!+14+5+12 tunde pokes it with a lance

(

2

)

+14+5+12

=

33

Endrite (GM): 17 soak, so that's a heavy wound.

johns: only 43 damage - 17 soak = 26

Endrite (GM): Ok, he's dead now.

johns: Nice. Harvest his vis meats, comrades.

Endrite (GM): The demon collapses to the ground, the horse vanishes.

Beatrice Orsini : his infernal vis must not fall into satanist hands

Endrite (GM): Due to his armor, the demon is stuck in a kneeling position.

The Malatesta knights finally show up in full armor.

Clearly they're a little late, but that doesn't stop them from celebrating over the destruction of this obvious demon.

What do you tell them?

Also, who is still even close to the wedding party?

Beatrice Orsini : i probably didn't make it out of the camp

johns: not lavinia, oak, or the priest

Endrite (GM): Where'd you run off to?

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, good to see you're finally here, men of Malatesta."

johns: in the direction of the ordelaffi camp

if it's close

Aristide of Tremere: "Unfortunately, I have already lead my men to a resounding victory.

"

Zita of Mercere: I'm near enough to watch him die, I stopped far enough away to watch

Knight: "Excellent work!"

"Truly, a feat that exalts your position!"

Hypatia of Athens: I probably didn't even get as far as Zita

Beatrice Orsini : truly, aristide deeds of bravery have honored the house of orsini today

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: At this point, Monsignor Malatesta shows up on is horse, bearing full arms befitting his station.

His actual station, not his ecclesiastic rank.

"What goes on here?"

Aristide of Tremere: I direct napolino and ombra in the proper way to butcher this demon for vis.

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "Where is Monsignor Patrizio?"

Aristide of Tremere: "Nothing to worry about, monsignor. A demon rode in hoping to destroy Father Patrizio, but I've vanquished it."

Hypatia of Athens: I sing a dirge for the fallen archon

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "Should you be touching it?"

Beatrice Orsini : i think this is the time i arrive back at the battlefield

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm having my men ensure that its evil spirit will not rise again."

"There are certain ways about this, you see."

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "I see... Are you a priest?"

Zita of Mercere: I run over to see my sodales

Aristide of Tremere: "No, simply a man learned in these things." I say as I pocket the vis.

Zita of Mercere: I'm still invisible, unfortunately.

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: As if on cue, Father Uallachan arrives.

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales... Aristocritus is, I can't believe it."

Father Uallachán: "Wait, wait!"

"What are you doing?"

"This demon must be disposed of properly, so as to not tarnish your soul with it's concentrated sin!"

Do you have a spell that lets you see where the vis is?

Aristide of Tremere: hm

no

Father Uallachán: Ok then.

Aristide of Tremere: i could spont intellego vim

Father Uallachán: Go for it.

Aristide of Tremere: neutral aura?

Celeste: Good luck.

Father Uallachán: Yes, Mundane 0.

Where did Lavinia run off to, by the way?

I need to know if she gets eaten by a grue.

johns: in the direction of the ordelaffi camp

Father Uallachán: Ok.

Fair enough.

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10!+19/2

(

6

)

+19/2

=

15.5

Beatrice Orsini : doesn't the roll get halved as well?

Father Uallachán: It does.

You need more brackets.

Aristide of Tremere: doesnt the /2 halve the entire thing

oh

Father Uallachán: So that's 12.5

rolling (1d10! + 19)/2

(

(

3

)

+19)/2

=

11

Like this, see.

Aristide of Tremere: ah

i dont think thats enough

let me look at intellego vim

oh actually it should be

level 1 alone is enough to detect the presence of vis

level 10 should be able to accurately detect it

Father Uallachán: Great.

Aristide of Tremere: I direct Ombra to take the demon's sword while Napolino keeps hacking away in a seemingly targeted fashion.

ill have him hand the sword off to uhhh

Father Uallachán: "Don't touch it!"

"It may be a cursed object!"

Aristide of Tremere: "There is nothing to worry about Father."

"I've already determined its nature."

hell ill just take the sword and pocket it

Father Uallachán: "It is the nature of demons to trick you into sin!"

"You put your immortal soul at risk by handling it!"

It's a sword, you can't put it in your pocket.

Aristide of Tremere: that is true

Zita of Mercere: Put it in your inventory

It's infernal vis anyway, so we should just let it go

johns: who's job was it to invent the pocket of holding

Hypatia of Athens: I am one of true faith and take responsibility for keeping Aristide on the road to heaven.

Aristide of Tremere: but its infernal vim vis

Hypatia of Athens: The sword is safe with him

Aristide of Tremere: I hang the sword on my belt.

Beatrice Orsini : take the infernal vis out of the sword

then keep the sword

Father Uallachán: Alright.

Aristide of Tremere: i dont think i can just do that without any equipment

Father Uallachán: "Please, I implore you, think of the danger!"

There's some spells that allow you to concentrate vis.

johns: think of deez nuts

Father Uallachán: So you could move it all to the hilt and then discard the sword.

Or something.

Usually you use it when you butcher magical animals.

Aristide of Tremere: if only our expert in both vim and demons was here

Father Uallachán: RIP

Hypatia of Athens: "There is an expert in combating the demonic back at Vardian's Tomb. He can ensure the sword corrupts no one."

Aristide of Tremere: "Yes, no one is in any danger so long as the sword is with me."

Hypatia of Athens: "At it seems like the sword could very well fall into the wrong hands if left here."

Beatrice Orsini : how long do we have untilaristide is taken over by the evil sword?

Father Uallachán: "While I by no means wish to insult your learned colleague, I believe that the power of Almighty God is sufficient to combat the evil of this sword."

"Please, leave it with me."

Aristide of Tremere: "I'm afraid not Father. This really is for the best."

excuse me beatrice, i think you mean how long until the sword is taken over by aristide

Celeste: time to duel him for the sword.

Hypatia of Athens: "The power of God is absolute, but the flesh of man is not. This demon came here because of idolatresses among the clergy."

Father Uallachán: Everyone gasps.

"What?!"

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah. Well, I guess it's going public now."

Zita of Mercere: "I bet he wants the sword so he can decapitate more of our sodales." I say, clearly upset but thankfully invisible

Father Uallachán: "There are no women at all in the clergy of La Grande Chisea."

Aristide of Tremere: "You see, that demon came to silence Father Patrizio. His former ally."

Hypatia of Athens: Sorry

Father Uallachán: "I have known Father Patrizio for many years and I consider him a friend."

Hypatia of Athens: I had to type the word a different way to get it to properly correct to Idolaters

Father Uallachán: "He would never summon a demon."

Aristide of Tremere: "As you said yourself, Father, it is the nature of demons to trick good men into sin."

Father Uallachán: "What's more, I am quite sure he's a man."

Hypatia of Athens: "Ahem. Idolaters."

Aristide of Tremere: "A man, yes, but not a holy one."

johns: he's quite sure he's a man (said Aristotleishly)

Father Uallachán: Oooh.

Hypatia of Athens: "Excuse me. It's been a distressing evening. We just lost the leader of our covenant."

Zita of Mercere: I'm sitting crying by the dead Aristocritus. Such a noble life, snuffed out in an instant.

Father Uallachán: "I am sorry for your loss, so your unfounded accusations are forgiven."

"Where is Father Patrizio, that he might defend himself?"

Aristide of Tremere: a single gyro rolls out of poor aristocritus's pocket

Beatrice Orsini : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Bernardino_Luini_-_Salome_with_the_Head_of_John_the_Baptist_-_WGA13772.jpg

Aristide of Tremere: salami

Hypatia of Athens: "Lavinia woudl be better suited to discussing this matter, as she is more learned in these matters. But they may not be unfounded."

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh, perhaps. Where is she?"

Zita of Mercere: "Running away as fast as she could." I sniffle

(From Father Uallachán): What do you do when you reach the Ordalaffi camp?

johns: nice snipe from the invisible woman

Aristide of Tremere: "Hm. She probably can't run faster than you. Go find her Zita."

(To Endrite): I look for Vicar Ordalaffi

Hypatia of Athens: "Until we can come to an accord, I suggest we keep the sword where everyone can see it."

(From Father Uallachán): He's being roused from his slumber, as a retainer tells him of the strange goings on.

Zita of Mercere: Isn't Lavinia also invisible?

(From Father Uallachán): His men are barring your access to his tent, however.

Aristide of Tremere: i dont think so

johns: I tell the men that I need to speak to the vicar right now

Beatrice Orsini : equip every covenant member with a bell to ring in case of invisibility

johns: and I point to the unconscious priest slumped over sir oak's shoulders

Endrite (GM): Alright, this is shocking enough that they'll let you through.

You AND Sir Oak.

However, they keep a close eye on you while you have an audience with Monsignor Ordelaffi in his bedclothes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i explain that the priest is a practitioner of the dark arts and that a demon has attacked malatesta camp to try and silence the priest forever

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "A truly shocking accusation! What proof do you have?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "For starters, there is a demon at the camp who was witnessed by my friends and by now, all the Maletestas"

Hypatia of Athens: Over 9000 witnesses to the demonic manifestation

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "But surely a demon would be more likely to attack an honest priest, would he not?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The demon attacked after a rumor spread that the Priest-- who was seriously injured earlier in the evening from a fall-- wished to confess something grave."

"Additionally, the Father attempted to hex me, but failed due to the precautions I have already taken."

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "Hexing? What kind of hexing?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Entrancement. It is done through eye contact. It is the same method I suspect he used on you when you did not support the wedding."

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "So, I was tricked into allowing my precious daughter to be taken by that Malatesta swine?!"

"I knew it! Old One Eye is going to pay for this!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am not certain if he is also a victim of the Father, or an accomplice."

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "Men, arm yourselves! The battle has come to our very doorstep!"

Roll something if you want to calm him down.

Zita of Mercere: Roll something to excite him further

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: He seems, ironically, hellbent on this confrontation.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how about etiquette

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: Could work.

Etiquette + Pre.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+3+9

(

1

)

+3+9

=

13

hrmph

Hypatia of Athens: Violence breeds violence, but in the end it DOESN'T have to be this way

Beatrice Orsini : it looks like it does

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: Your protestations fall on deaf ears.

Aristide of Tremere: hell yeah

which monsignor are we gonna support

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh well

neither

Beatrice Orsini : run away

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's just let them kill each other and leave

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: He orders his men to take Father Patrizio captive and then march on the Malatesta camp.

Beatrice Orsini : take back the wedding gifts if possible

Hypatia of Athens: We stopped them from creating Infernal Dominion

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Wait, you must cover his eyes with a blindfold, or he will entrance your men."

Hypatia of Athens: Mission accomplished

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: Hold on, a miracle is still possible!

Beatrice Orsini : we can still have the kids marry

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "Thank you, Lavinia. You have saved me from making a terrible mistake."

Aristide of Tremere: that right there is why youre the best, boss [said to aristides headless corpse]

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: They blindfold him.

Aristide of Tremere: aristocritus rather

fuck!!

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: Later that evening...

Beatrice Orsini : a vision of the future?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this way we can rape the priest without him knowing

Hypatia of Athens: He violated the limitation of time and had to be executed. RIP Aristide

Endrite (GM): Only if it is a human-skin blindfold.

Aristide of Tremere: excellent. well contract the experts in that department, beatrice and hypatia

Endrite (GM): Monsignor Malatesta's men, having armed themselves to fight the demon, are prepared to fight Monsignor Ordelaffi's men, leaving neither side at an advantage.

They have lined up on opposite sides of the field and are currently left hurling insults at one another.

Aristide of Tremere: I sneak off to the covenant's tent with the sword while this happens.

Hypatia of Athens: Now THIS is a party

Endrite (GM): However, neither side is willing to make the first move and leave themselves vulnerable.

Beatrice Orsini : we can still make the unite in hatred of us

Aristide of Tremere: And stuff the sword in our traveling trunk.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I know how they can settle this

Endrite (GM): The classic computer game: Archon!

Hypatia of Athens: We can confirm neither side was in on this plot

Endrite (GM): AFK a sec.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: each side sends out 1 champion to fight

Zita of Mercere: I'll help Celeste arrange the archon's body to be taken back and buried.

Beatrice Orsini : it's not hard to stuff him into a box

Lavinia of Jerbiton: That's how the Romans settled it, see the classic tale of the Horatii

Beatrice Orsini : i don't think we should follow that tale

it had too many extra casualties

Aristide of Tremere: we should follow it, but not stick around to see the results

just pack the tent away and leave

Hypatia of Athens: I'll follow Lavinia's leadership in this regard

As the most senior magus here

Lavinia of Jerbiton steeples fingers ominously

Aristide of Tremere: Sword packed away, I return to watch the results of the standoff.

From a safe distance.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we could get the couple to be to run off and elope

Hypatia of Athens: I drill myself on Italian a bit so I don't keep misgendering words

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and then return, announce the marriage

Endrite (GM): I'm back.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ending all strife in a very shakespearian way

Beatrice Orsini : let's help the couple marry

Hypatia of Athens: Spellcheck has been getting bad lately

Beatrice Orsini : that's the best way

Aristide of Tremere: i think its a few centuries early for that lavinia

Endrite (GM): Father Uallachan asks you what caused this sudden call to arms.

Father Uallachán: "What caused this sudden call to arms?"

Beatrice Orsini : we have to provide the story that will inspire shakespeare in a few centuries

Hypatia of Athens: "Each side believes the other is a co-conspirator to the infernal, and forced this marriage."

Aristide of Tremere: lets inspire titus andronicus instead

Hypatia of Athens: "It is far more likely they were both pawns, but they won't believe that."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thats my favorite shakespeare beardbeard

Father Uallachán: "Then perhaps your claim is true, perhaps Father Patrizio truly was trying to manipulate events to ensure this wedding would happen."

Aristide of Tremere: thats not surprising

Hypatia of Athens: "Based on the nature of the demon, this conflict seems more suited to their ultimate ends than a wedding."

Father Uallachán: Who has the highest Awareness?

Hypatia of Athens: "The demon inspired belligerence in our men when it struck."

Father Uallachán: "I see.

"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: tanolfi is awareness 6

Father Uallachán: Noice.

Aristide of Tremere: lavinia can play the part of lavinia in our inspiration

Lavinia of Jerbiton: :|

Father Uallachán: Heh.

Ok.

Celeste: I have awareness 9 but i have not been paying attention.

Father Uallachán: Father Uallachan, well-advised by your report, runs between the two armies.

Ironic.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+9+2 aware + per

(

2

)

+9+2

=

13

Father Uallachán: I didn't ask you to roll it.

"Stop!

Celeste: oh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: where are the two kids to be married

Father Uallachán: "More bloodshed can only serve to cleave our souls further from the Lord's breast!"

"I believe now that the rumors many of your have heard are true!"

"Father Patrizio has used some malefic hex to beguile and confuse Monsignor Malatesta and Monsignor Ordelaffi into joining their families in matrimony!"

"Why the forces of the Devil would pursue such an end is unknown, but it is nevertheless the case that the beloved Father Patrizio has set us all on this path of tragedy and destruction."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: father uallachan is the real dmeon here. someone kill him

Father Uallachán: "To renounce this evil and all the temptations of Hell, I must declare an end to this wedding!"

"Please, come together in the spirit of friendship and brotherly love to morning mass, when we will consecrate the church and banish this evil once and for all!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: kill him

right now

Beatrice Orsini : that doesn't seem suspicious at all

where's celeste with her bow?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway I don't care if these guys summon a demon and kill each toher anymore

let's just leave

Celeste: right here.

Beatrice Orsini : i just want the couple to marry

Hypatia of Athens: I could use Intervention to make Uallachan look holier but he should look holy on his own if he's doing the right thing.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's ask ops to reimburse us for our trouble and not stopping the evil ceremony

Beatrice Orsini : so let's help the kids elope while the mass is going on

Celeste: Thats a good idea.

Hypatia of Athens: Fellow holy normie, Celeste, what should we do?

Endrite (GM): The two Vicars seems to agree with this.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Father Uallachan, how can you have known Patrizio for years and had no suspicion?"

Endrite (GM): But what do YOU want to do?

Celeste: Do we know anyone who can legally marry the couple?

Real fast?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there should be a priest back at the monastery

Hypatia of Athens: Our priestly friends in Rome

Zita of Mercere: Let's walk away and let a demon kill everyone. This is the only fair thing to do at this point.

Beatrice Orsini : the monastery should work, but rome would be safer

Celeste: Let's let this mass go on and unite these lovebirds. It's for the best.

Beatrice Orsini : yes

Father Patrizio: "I would like to believe that Father Patrizio was using his infernal powers to beguile me, but the truth is that I was blind to the signs of his depravity."

Whoops.

Hypatia of Athens: I just want the church to be consecrated

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Father Uallachán: Wrong man.

We have a lot of Fathers, ok!

Beatrice Orsini : consecrating the church is a good goal, but i came here for a marriage

Father Uallachán: "I should have known that his interest in the old, pagan ways of Italy was not merely historical, but concealed a dark desire to seek power from the Great Adversary."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Someone tried to silence Father Patrizio, and the last one to try to see him before then was you."

Beatrice Orsini : let's discredit all priests

Hypatia of Athens: Does the crowd react favorably to Uallachan's speech?

Father Uallachán: Yes, they seem to trust him.

Hypatia of Athens: Good, good

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that's suspicious

someone perdo vim his powers

oh wait we dont have any wizards anymore

welp

Celeste: smart.

Aristide of Tremere: we have aristide

good old aristide

Beatrice Orsini : someone perdo his head with an arrow

Father Uallachán: "I do not know how the legions of the Devil discovered Father Patrizio. I have not made a study of the powers of demons, though I must confess that the events surrounding this cursed hill make that ignorance almost damning in itself."

Aristide of Tremere: i have a variety of useful spells. for example, i could make uallachan angry at god

Beatrice Orsini : do it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do it

Aristide of Tremere: that doesnt sound like it would accomplish anything

Zita of Mercere: It can't make things any worse. Well it can, but you know what I mean.

Father Uallachán: Keep in mind, if he suddenly changed his mind after you obviously cast a spell then people are going to be suspicious of you.

Hypatia of Athens: I think Uallachan has things under control and we can go home

Father Uallachán: And by suspicious I mean they'll try to kill you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok

let's go home

i give up

Beatrice Orsini : let's help the kids elope then

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, we could try to march into Hell and kill Ops but we had a lot of trouble with one demon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets march into hell and rescue aristocritus

Zita of Mercere: Let's march into hell and leave Lavinia there.

Father Uallachán: How are you going to get into Hell?

Zita of Mercere: By going home, weren't you listening?

Hypatia of Athens: Aristocritus died in battle, he went to Elysium

Aristide of Tremere: theyll have to track down malachiasz

Beatrice Orsini : let's open aristocritus body to demonic posession

Lavinia of Jerbiton: were going to play ars magica while endrite gms

Father Uallachán: Damn.

Ok.

Zita of Mercere: Anyway, without any real evidence either way, it's hard to jump in and massively interfere here further without risking just making everything much worse.

On the offchance a powerful demon is going to be summoned we should run away now though.

Hypatia of Athens: Uallachan is more equipped to deal with internal strife within the monastery too

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, he's causing it

Hypatia of Athens: Right

Aristide of Tremere: we should definitely leave before the tribunal charges us with mundane interference

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have a plan

honestly, it's fool proof

while zita is invisible, she hits father uallachan in the back of the head

Father Uallachán: As the heroes of the day, you are, of course, invited to morning mass.

Hypatia of Athens: Hooray

Beatrice Orsini : i don't think we should go

Celeste: trip another priest into a rock. sure.

Father Uallachán: It would be rude to refuse for no reason.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont care

theyre all going to be dead soon

Zita of Mercere: I'm uh. I'm too upset about Aristocritus to attend, I'm in mourning.

Beatrice Orsini : oh

Celeste: yeah when have we cared about appearing rude

Beatrice Orsini : we could hold his funeral at the mass

Father Uallachán: Good idea.

Zita of Mercere: [grimly] lol

Hypatia of Athens: [Renegade] Let's attend mass

Zita of Mercere: An infernal ceremony is perfect for a greek

Aristide of Tremere: aristide attends mass

Father Uallachán: Ok, what is everyone thinking here?

Aristide of Tremere: but stays far away from the clergy

Hypatia of Athens: I attend mass

Father Uallachán: I'm hearing some innuendo but let's get down to brass tacks.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i already said im going home, i can't do anything here and no one who can do anything wants to do anything

Zita of Mercere: I think there's a 50/50 chance everything will be fine, or an actual demon will be summoned.

Father Uallachán: Do anything about what?

Hypatia of Athens: If I get killed by a demon for attending mass, well that's just the completion of my story arc

Zita of Mercere: I don't know what else we can investigate here. I think the only thing we could really do here is to use powerful mentem effects on Uallachan to find out the truth but no wizard intends to.

Beatrice Orsini : if no one wants to help me help the couple elope, i'm not going to attend mass

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill stop at the monastery on the way and tell them that their abbot has been taken hostage by the vicars in a clear violation of canon law

Beatrice Orsini : i'll go with lavinia

Hypatia of Athens: Help me and the bride elope

Beatrice Orsini : ok

Hypatia of Athens: Joking, I don't even know her

Beatrice Orsini : would it stop you?

Hypatia of Athens: Yes

Endrite (GM): Why are you all so afraid of this mass?

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not

Beatrice Orsini : paranoia after the archon died

Zita of Mercere: I think there's a chance a very powerful demon could be summoned and so much has been tossed around either way about it I genuinely don't know what will happen.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: because uallachian is very eager to celebrate mass in the middle of calamity and has done an immediate about face on his comrade, who was almost killed right after he thought the comrade wanted to confess

Zita of Mercere: Fear of character death is reasonable after our archon went on a-head of us.

Endrite (GM): Well, if that's the case, then why wouldn't you want to be there to stop the demon summoning?

Beatrice Orsini : celebrating mass is a good response to calamity

Hypatia of Athens: You know what, if you guys are right to be paranoid, I should witness the mass and try to survive so I can report back

Lavinia of Jerbiton: because there is nothing I can do to stop him

and no character who can wants to do anything

Beatrice Orsini : i can make hypatia invisible for the mass if she won't feel it's a sacrliege

Endrite (GM): Father Uallachan is a 45 year old priest.

Zita of Mercere: It's only a chance though, I don't know either way. Knocking him out won't do much, anything short of actually killing him won't permanently solve things and I'd want some actual proof before committing murder.

Endrite (GM): Even you could probably beat him up.

Zita of Mercere: I can knock him out if Lavinia wants us to stall for time

Hypatia of Athens: Being invisible is only holy if you use it while making a charitable donation

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im not going to attack a priest who has just entranced a mass of armed men

Zita of Mercere: Wait did he actually entrance them

did you feel something ping your parma

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i assume he's using the Enticer of Multitudes power

no

Zita of Mercere: Well. That would have helped if you had.

Endrite (GM): You have not.

Hypatia of Athens: If I don't report back from mass you can assume the demons won

Zita of Mercere: If someone just went hey guys my parma pinged then that'd solve everything and I'd slaughter him like a pig.

Aristide of Tremere: same with aristide

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how about this

desecrate the church

Beatrice Orsini : who is willing to lie for the greater good?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: with aristocritus' severed head

Aristide of Tremere: fortunately, this tag team duo will be able to handle any demons that come

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no one will want to hold mass there

just jam it onto the cross on the altar and that's enough to scare everyone away

Beatrice Orsini : good idea

Hypatia of Athens: We'll bleed on the demons and try to get the blood to cover their eyes

Aristide of Tremere: it would be desecration... in that the church will become dedicated to the archon, as people bow and pray to his head

Beatrice Orsini : but we can't desacrate the church

Zita of Mercere: Alright. To stop infernalism, let's desecrate this church.

Endrite (GM): The church hasn't been consecrated yet, so it can't be desecrated.

Beatrice Orsini : since it isn't consecrated yet

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its not a church yet

yeah see

Aristide of Tremere: have him consecrate the church

then zita invisibly shoves aristocritus's head on a cross

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so someone who's invisible grab the head and run ahead of the war party

Zita of Mercere: "Are you really sure this is the right idea, Lavinia?" I say, tearfully holding the archon's severed head

Endrite (GM): Well, they seem less interested in fighting now.

Beatrice Orsini : it's what he would have wanted

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The Archon would be glad to disrupt a Catholic church, Zita."

Zita of Mercere: I nod

Endrite (GM): They're already starting to head back to their pavilions.

Zita of Mercere: I'll get ahead of them by teleporting up to 500 paces ahead, while invisible, and prepare to ruin the church

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go to my hut.

And meditate on my experiences

Endrite (GM): No one is heading up there right now.

Apparently.

Zita of Mercere: Ah. So I have to time it right then.

Or just do itnow?

Endrite (GM): So you can, indeed jam a rotting head up there.

Aristide of Tremere: wait so is mass over

did nothing bad happen

Endrite (GM): No, it's going to happen in the morning.

Beatrice Orsini : no, we're preventing it

Endrite (GM): It's still night time.

Aristide of Tremere: oh

oh i see

good luck zita

Hypatia of Athens: Assuming my sodales wouldn't do anything so drastic as what they're doing, I am completely unaware of what's going on as I meditate.

Zita of Mercere: I sneak in, and affix the head on the cross, ruining the ceremony.

We did it, all

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im going back to the monastery to tell Fra Contizo what's going on

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Zita of Mercere:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+1+6

(

10

+

9

)

+1+6

=

26

Beatrice Orsini : i'll hang out in our tent

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you could get the kids to the monastery if you're able

and want them to elope

Aristide of Tremere: get them to kiss under the archons warm gaze

Beatrice Orsini : i don't know where the kids are

Hypatia of Athens: I'll start composing a dirge to be performed for Aristocritus at Tribunal, unaware of what my sodales are doing with his head

Beatrice Orsini : but i could try doing that

if i can get to them

Hypatia of Athens: For Aristocritus's sake, that is

Aristide of Tremere: i dont understand the purpose of any of this

Zita of Mercere: I return to Lavinia and the rest of my sodales. I'm still holding the head.

Hypatia of Athens: Same

Zita of Mercere: "Someone desecrated it first."

Beatrice Orsini : i came for a wedding, so i want a wedding

Lavinia of Jerbiton: e: f, b

Beatrice Orsini : good twist

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Desecrated how?"

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Zita of Mercere: "There's stains on the altar. Wax mixed with blood."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is it black goat wax

Aristide of Tremere: whats the aesthetic quality of the wax

Zita of Mercere: "I'm, er, a good person so I don't have the slightest clue about the infernal or what it means, but its black wax."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ooh maybe that's how someone summoned the red lord

Beatrice Orsini : probably

Endrite (GM): In case I wasn't clear, there's black blood and black wax sort of smeared together on the altar.

Zita of Mercere: Right. I relay that, then.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Ok."

Endrite (GM): I think I probably wasn't clear.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We should post a grog to watch for someone who comes to clean up the mess."

Endrite (GM): Anyway that's my bad.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Also, I wish to meditate briefly on all I've learned in the tent."

Beatrice Orsini : "Just one?"

Zita of Mercere: ah, yeah when you said a mix of wax and blood i thought you meant the black stains were all one thing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "For about, 36 minutes."

how many hours until Mass, endrite

Zita of Mercere: "I could watch it. I'm still invisible until the next movement of the sun."

Endrite (GM): Hours yet.

It isn't even daybreak.

Hypatia of Athens: "I'll help clean up."

"Should I go tell Father Uallachan?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Not yet, please."

Beatrice Orsini : "I can make the grogs invisible to keep watch. Not having enough armed men to protect the priest cost the archon his life."

(To Endrite): Neutral aura in my tent?

(From Endrite (GM)): Mundane 0

Hypatia of Athens: "Okay."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I do not know who we can trust, as there's at least one more malefactor about."

Lavinia of Jerbiton slips into tent

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+14+2+0 Sortes

(

5

)

+14+2+0

=

21

Endrite (GM): Tents into tent.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: vs 20: Natural property of liquid

Endrite (GM): Nice.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go to one of my conjured wooden huts

(From Endrite (GM)): The blood comes from a reanimated corpse.

Aristide of Tremere: I'll go into the tent and go to sleep.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: rolleyes

ehh wait

who died recently enough that they'd still have blood in them

(From Endrite (GM)): You may recall there were a bunch of them the first time you were here.

Beatrice Orsini : aristocritus?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The blood in this ritual is from a reanimated corpse. I recall there were many of them the first time you all were here."

Celeste: He's always helping us.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so that wasn't helpful

Endrite (GM): Whoops, there isn't actually anyone here who remembers the mudmen.

I didn't realize this until now.

RIP Aristocritus.

Zita of Mercere: Thanks archon. Jeez.

Hypatia of Athens: We'll just have to go back to Vardian's Tomb to talk to the necromancers

Endrite (GM): Anyway, as you may or may not recall, the first time you were here you found a bunch corpse monsters held in place by some kind of divine ward.

Man that adventure was a damn mess.

In the mound.

You probably all heard about those through the grapevine at Vardian's Tomb.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is the entryway to the mound still sealed by sand

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: great

just find whoever is hiding all the corpse monsters

or blow up the church

...

Endrite (GM): Those are all great plans.

Beatrice Orsini : we have until morning to figure out who is hiding the corpse monsters

Lavinia of Jerbiton: idk how

unless you want to invisibly break into each of the vicar's houses and the priest's home

Zita of Mercere: I think we should let the demons win. They've tried hard enough.

Endrite (GM): If you can be invisible, then why are you afraid of a secret demon summoning in the church?

Beatrice Orsini : invisibly breaking in is always an option

demons see through deception

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets tell everything we know to the monks

Beatrice Orsini : since it's their nature

Endrite (GM): Just have invisible spies watch for it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and maybe they have some ideas idk

Zita of Mercere: The demon might be able to see without eyes. For instance, the demon we just fought did.

I can stealth around though.

Endrite (GM): The church, I should point out, doesn't have any extra rooms or anything.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so someone disintegrated or hid the corpse after draining its blood

Endrite (GM): It's just a nave and an altar behind a rood screen.

Basically.

Well, as you know, using vis consumes it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is there anything weird about the altar

Endrite (GM): Other than the sordid remains, no.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok i go talk to fra contizo

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and tell him as much as possible without mentioning the order of hermes

Endrite (GM): What about the rest of you fellows?

Aristide of Tremere: I sleep.

Beatrice Orsini : how do you know he isn't a satanist?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont

Beatrice Orsini : i'll go with lavinia as backup then

Monk: "That sounds horrible!"

"The abbot was a secret witch?"

"How could this have happened?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes, and he's not the only one sadly"

Monk: "Didn't Father Uallachan notice?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "His research into the ancient ways may have corrupted him."

Monk: "They often took dinner together."

"I cannot believe it!"

"Maybe we should get rid of these old records."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Let's see if they offer any insight into what he was hoping to accomplish."

"Did anyone else access them?"

Beatrice Orsini : we could get rid of these old records for you

Monk: "Who knows? We didn't think to guard the library."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If Father Uallachan has fallen astray, what options are there to stop him?"

Monk: "Well, he would be owed a trial at the Bishop's Court in Rome."

"If he was found to be involved in witchcraft he would be convicted and punished, of course."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I'm worried that someone has used the altar in the church to commit Maleficia, and they may still do so-- even at the coming ceremony to consecrate it."

Monk: "I don't know anything about evil rituals, but could you not merely stop it?"

"Removing the goat head or however these foul witches do it?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well maybe but we're all cowards

Monk: This is proving to be a very significant obstacle.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Zita of Mercere: All I said was that I want evidence before murdering someone.

Beatrice Orsini : we don't know where the goat heat is?

head

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If I see the records Father Patrizio was working on maybe I'll see what steps this ceremony requires so we can be sure before taking any action."

Monk: "Certainly, you may freely access our library."

Lavinia of Jerbiton looks for unholy desecreation for dummies book

Zita of Mercere: Lavinia will gather evidence and I'll knife an old man in the back. Good teamwork.

Monk: "However, I do not know what Father Patrizio was reading, so it may take you months to find what you are looking for."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok

I got a great plan

Beatrice Orsini : i have a plan

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm going to lie to my sodales and tell them I know what I'm talking about

Monk: Smart.

Beatrice Orsini : use a spell to change color of animal products in a room

that will make the book written on human skin stand out

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It would help my comrades and I if the brothers of this monastery were there to vouch for them, should the need to take action arise."

"I think they are all afraid that the Vicars are not seeing the situation as reasonably as you are."

Endrite (GM): "Certainly, we all remember the good work you did in stopping those cruel mercenaries."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "As a final precautioun, write yourselves a note to confirm what you are thinking now, in case a malefactor attempts to meddle with your minds."

if the monks are there, is that enough for all other players to be less cowardly

Zita of Mercere: https://youtu.be/rcjpags7JT8?t=46s

Sure, you can just lie to me. Hell who am I to question it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no lies

Beatrice Orsini : no

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we'll just keep an eye out for something weird

and we have a bunch of theologically trained monks there too

Endrite (GM): "Very well. I can see this is very serious."

Zita of Mercere: Literally all Zita wants is any actual evidence to support her stabbing an old man to death.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Fine. I'll go to Mass.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll compose the note

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Zita just needs to be prepared to act if the guy is about to do something strange.

Endrite (GM): I mean the monk says that.

What do the rest of you want to do before morning mass?

Hypatia of Athens: A holy melody

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if I survive I am going to let everyone know what a damn coward Beatrice and Aristide are

Zita of Mercere: So, invisible, lurking near the altar?

I can pull that off

Endrite (GM): lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im going to commission poets and artists to enshrine their cowardice forever.

Endrite (GM): But also, that is your right.

Aristide of Tremere: im not a coward

im going to mass

as i said

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to mass

Aristide of Tremere: before mass i comb my hair

Zita of Mercere: You should enchant Aristocritus' head to recite these poems to anyone entering the covenants

Beatrice Orsini : i'm outside the church and invisible

Aristide of Tremere: and admire myself in my pocket mirror

Endrite (GM): All night, Beatrice?

Hypatia of Athens: I also make my hair and laurels look nice

Beatrice Orsini : no, before the mass starts

Endrite (GM): Ok.

When do you sneak in invisibly, Zita?

Hypatia of Athens: Make sure there are no protruding vines

Beatrice Orsini : i'll find the best spot where to hide my shadow while having a view of what's goign on inside

Zita of Mercere: After sunrise, when I can have invisibility applied to me again

Endrite (GM): Everyone else, you are allowed to sit close to the rood screen in the front rows if you have no Gift or are gently Gifted.

Aristide of Tremere: i sit in the very back

Endrite (GM): Good, good.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm on team muggle

Beatrice Orsini : i have normal gift, so i wouldn't be allowed there anyway

Endrite (GM): As the heroes who stopped the wedding, you are afforded this honor.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I compose a quick will

Zita of Mercere: I'll crouch near enough the altar I can intervene if need be, and hide my shadow in shadow of one of the decoration.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: all my fortune is to go to commission an epic poem about the fools of vardian's tomb

Endrite (GM): If you are normal Gifted you are still allowed to attend, in honor of your achievement.

Beatrice Orsini : do i have line of sight to the priest from outside the door?

Endrite (GM): Alright, with whom do you leave your will?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll put a note saying to return my laurus frame to Harco if I die

Zita of Mercere: Leave it with Aristocritus, the only reliable man here

Hypatia of Athens: It's my only possession that matters

Endrite (GM): You mean seated in the Church, Beatrice?

Hypatia of Athens: Only Harco knows how to remove it from my body safely

Beatrice Orsini : i said i'm invisible outside the church

Hypatia of Athens: So give them my corpse as well

Endrite (GM): Ok.

No, there's a rood screen between the altar and the pews (very modern).

Beatrice Orsini : i'll join zita on the inside then if i still have time to move

Endrite (GM): So looking in through the door, the rood screen, or tramezzo as it's known in Italy, blocks your view.

Sure.

It's something you would instantly know on trying to stake the place out.

No one has cleaned up the stains on the altar.

Beatrice Orsini : can i agree on a sign with lavinia? if she gives it, i try to blind the priest?

Zita of Mercere: Remember, Beatrice, this is a sneaking mission.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok

Zita of Mercere: Yeah. I agree on a sign with Lavinia too.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if I pull my Right Earlobe, blind the priest.

Zita of Mercere: I can knife him

If you want me to

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if I cross my eyes, Knife the priest.

if I do both, then do both.

Endrite (GM): Ok, you can't see the congregation from the altar.

Well, you kind of can.

There's a screen!

Hypatia of Athens: If I get stabbed to death by a demon, that's your sign to jump in

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay we need an audio cue for zita then

i'll shout uhh

Zita of Mercere: Big Boss voice: stabbed by a demon?

Endrite (GM): lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'll shout I saw a rat

Hypatia of Athens: I'll start singing if I panic

That's all I know how to do

Zita of Mercere: I'm by the altar, surely lavinia can sit at the front and I can see her

Well near it

Oh, theres a screen blocking the whole thing or something

That's not suspicious at all

Hypatia of Athens: Harry the target with visible and unsettling images appropriate to its sins: bloody wounds, harassing locusts, darkened skies, or rivers turned to blood. (Meditation)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait so I can't see the priest while he's at the altar if I'm sitting in the congregation?

Hypatia of Athens: That's what I'll do if I sing

Endrite (GM): Correct, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: :|

Endrite (GM): You can see him moving around, but any details would be obscured.

Hypatia of Athens: It'll probably have a chance to fail, but oh well

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay

cut down the screen before anyone gets here

or

Beatrice Orsini : give me a second

Endrite (GM): I mean, it's part of the ceremony.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: a NON COWARDLY magus could put an enchantment on the screen to make it visible from one direction

Endrite (GM): They'd probably just put it back.

Beatrice Orsini : there's one-way illusions

yeah

Zita of Mercere: Beatrice is our illusion specialist. Good luck.

Beatrice Orsini : if i figure out how to make the screen see through from the congregation, it should work

found it in the book

Endrite (GM): Basically if you aren't familiar with it, a rood screen basically looks like the boss door to Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souils.

Hypatia of Athens: R Voice makes that 30

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can you invisibly cast it after the priest has taken his position, so he doesn't realize we can all see it

Hypatia of Athens: Doable

Beatrice Orsini : ok, it's normal PeIm, it just needs finesse

Endrite (GM): Basically.

Beatrice Orsini : i'd have to spont it

Endrite (GM): Also everyone would be able to see this illusion.

Obviously

Lavinia of Jerbiton: zita just needs to nut up and kill the priest without proof

this is entirely her fault

Beatrice Orsini : the examples make it seem like it could be arranged so that it's seethrough just from the front row

Endrite (GM): You could try it, but covenanters won't be the only ones in the front row.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i got an idea

Beatrice Orsini : ok, the example spell is making something invisible from a single person

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we tear down the screen and replace it with a conc duration image of a screen

Beatrice Orsini : so just lavinia's position

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and then beatrice stops concentrating in the middle of the ceremony

it doesn't matter if everyone else can see what's going on

Beatrice Orsini : that could work

what are the rules for maintaining concentration for extended periods though?

even if just doing nothing?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you roll every 15 minutes i think

Beatrice Orsini : what's the EF?

i have an idea

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If you are undistracted,

you can maintain concentration for fifteen minutes

for every point you have in the

Concentration Ability.

Beatrice Orsini : 0 concentration ability

Celeste: nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ffs

Beatrice Orsini : that's the book i skipped

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does anyone have Perdo Vim

Zita of Mercere: [distant scottish voice] yes

Beatrice Orsini : aristide should be better than me, since i have wound penalties

Endrite (GM): Heh heh.

Zita of Mercere: Let's not pretend Aristide is going to contribute to this adventure.

Aristide of Tremere: i can spont at uh

+15 on perdo vim

Lavinia of Jerbiton: an illusion of a screen that is only visual is low level

Beatrice Orsini : that's better than me

Endrite (GM): The church is Infernal 1, as you'll recall.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, it's low level

Aristide of Tremere: ok +14

what am i sponting

Beatrice Orsini : CrIm, 1 base + 1 touch + 2 Sun = 4 total

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dispel any magical effect with a level less than or equal to half (the level +4 magnitudes) of your vim spell, + stress die (no botch)

Beatrice Orsini : i can spont it without fatigue

Lavinia of Jerbiton: So a base 1, +2 voice pe vi spell could remove the illusion

Beatrice Orsini : it's just visual illusion though

Aristide of Tremere: ok

i think i can handle that when the time comes

i wont let you down team

Endrite (GM): Why are you making an illusion of the rood screen again?

So you can see through it?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: simialry there's a general PeIm spell that dispels any CrIm spell whose level you match or exceed on stress die

Beatrice Orsini : to dispel during the ceremony

Endrite (GM): You could just knock it down.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he would notice that

Endrite (GM): That's true.

Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: will his back be turned when the ceremony begins? most mass is delivered that way

Endrite (GM): Yes, probably.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll also buff myself with discern own illusion in the morning

Endrite (GM): Of course if it's a secret demon summoning then who can say...

Beatrice Orsini : formulaic, so i should be able to handle it

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Yeah, Mundane 0.

Aristide of Tremere: id probably try for sight range instead of voice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: good call

Aristide of Tremere: but i think when sponting you can try to cast it in the least subtle way possible based on your roll

er

msot subtle

ie sight if able, voice otherwise

Beatrice Orsini : silent is -10, quiet is -5

with my magical focus, i can put up the illusion with fatigueless sponting

Aristide of Tremere: no i mean you can designate the spells targeting to be the most subtle possible one

Beatrice Orsini : if you're already casting a spell, it shouldn't matter

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's get this show on the road

Beatrice Orsini : if the priest sees me and zita, he's a satanist

Zita of Mercere: Everyone's casting spells and making plans and I'm just here to have a good time.

Endrite (GM): Sure.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: zita should be trying to hide normally in addition to being invisibly

Zita of Mercere: I'm stealthed so he won't see me anyway.

Yeah

I'm doing so

Beatrice Orsini : i should stealth too

Endrite (GM): Roll it, you two kooky kids.

Zita of Mercere: I invested [checks sheet] 107 xp into stealth for this moment

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+0+5 dex+stealth

(

2

)

+0+5

=

7

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+14+3

(

8

)

+4+14+3

=

29

Beatrice Orsini : eh

Endrite (GM): Ok.

That'll be opposed by an Awareness roll.

Beatrice Orsini : before invisibility

Zita of Mercere: Yeah this is without invisibility, and whatever bonus that gratns.

Endrite (GM): You know, if anyone spots you.

Zita of Mercere: *grants

Endrite (GM): Ok.

So everyone is set?

Beatrice Orsini : i'll put up doublet of impenetrable silk before setting out, but it's formulaic again

and i can do it in the tent

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Nice, nice.

Zita of Mercere: Oh. I do that too, I have enchanted clothes that can dothat.

Endrite (GM): As the bell is rung for the first ever mass in The New Church, the congregants are split much as they would have been if this had been a wedding.

Aristide of Tremere: what an exciting tribunal

Beatrice Orsini : we're the best detectives

Lavinia of Jerbiton: :mrnegative:

Aristide of Tremere: weve really let our friend plutonis down this time

Endrite (GM): The Malatesta and Ordelaffi families sit on opposite sides of the aisle and practically radiate hostility.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im sorry plutonis

Beatrice Orsini : i'm glad inviting people to be judges then never getting around to the trial is becoming a tradition

Lavinia of Jerbiton: are they armed

Aristide of Tremere: another vardians tomb reputation established

Endrite (GM): Before mass starts, Father Uallachan brings a chest containing ecclesiastical supplies to the altar.

They are armed, Lavinia.

Good thing you put that ward up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im going to send sir oak to stand outside

so he doesn't lose his armor when a ward fires

Endrite (GM): Ok, sounds good.

There are a fair few people hanging around outside, since the church isn't large enough for all the attendants.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: are the monks here?

Beatrice Orsini : i'll put my token down with zita

Aristide of Tremere: the aristide token slides in tremerishly

Endrite (GM): Yes they are.

They're going to hold the second mass right after this one for everyone who can't make it inside.

Father Uallachan starts the mass.

Everyone in the front row can see him, right?

Beatrice Orsini : no, the illusion is up

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: aristide do your thing

Beatrice Orsini : until aristide dispels it

Lavinia of Jerbiton turns to look at Aristide

Aristide of Tremere: alright

I spont the perdo vim spell people wanted, at the highest possible targeting magnitude

lets see what result i get for that

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling (1d10!+14)/2

(

(

6

)

+14)/2

=

10

i think that gets sight range?

i think the base spell level was 1

Lavinia of Jerbiton: base 1 + 4 sight = l5

Endrite (GM): Congrats.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so i think it works?

Aristide of Tremere: i did it team

Beatrice Orsini : sight is just +3

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh even better

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's play Aristide's victory music

Beatrice Orsini : for the first time

Hypatia of Athens: Churches have pretty good acoustics so Voice reaches pretty far

Aristide of Tremere: that right there is why im the best

Endrite (GM): It's fairly clear this is not a normal mass, because Father Uallachan pulls out six severed heads from the chest and places them on the altar.

Aristide of Tremere: voice is also audible

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Gooooood shit.

I pull my right earlobe and cross my eyes.

Zita of Mercere: Oh. I jump up and stab him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: And scream, "a rat!"

Beatrice Orsini : ok, i'll try blinding him

Zita of Mercere: I stab him in the back of the neck with a dagger

Endrite (GM): With his back turned, he doesn't realize that he has been found out until everyone starts shouting.

Ok, roll it Zita.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Endrite (GM): It's fairly clear this is not a normal mass, because Father Uallachan pulls out six severed heads from the chest and places them on the altar.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+8+3

(

9

)

+4+8+3

=

24

Lavinia of Jerbiton: correct, it's a greek mass

Endrite (GM): Ok, he doesn't see you, so his defense is 0.

He's wearing robes, so his soak is 0.

Zita of Mercere: Sorry, -1 to that, daggers are +2 to hit

Endrite (GM): HOWEVER, your dagger slides right off of him, harmlessly.

Zita of Mercere: The damage is the advantage, 23, +3, and -2 from my strength. 24 d

Oh dear

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hell yeah

Endrite (GM): Good thing there isn't anyone there to see it.

Since you're invisible.

Zita of Mercere: Well. No-one can say I didn't try.

Endrite (GM): However, everyone can see the severed heads, so the crowd, lead by Monsignors Malatesta and Ordelaffi rush the altar and grab Father Uallachan, who responds with shocked protestations.

They grab him no problem.

Hypatia of Athens: Alright

Zita of Mercere: I slink off, dejected

Aristide of Tremere: responds with shocked protestants

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think it's for the best

why dirty your hands with murder when a fanatic mob will do it for you

Zita of Mercere: I pass by Lavinia and whisper to her "He can't be hurt by weapons, just so you know. Couldn't stab him."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's drop him in a bottomless hole

Endrite (GM): They drag him outside, where the monks urge calm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Cover his mouth and his eyes! That's where is demonic powers come from!"

I say.

Zita of Mercere: Then leave, glad that I at least didn't die

Endrite (GM): They are all, after all, officials of the Catholic Church.

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "Good idea!"

They also bind him with rope.

Before he has a chance to say anything.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll examine the heads more closely while everyone is busy

Endrite (GM): Anything else, I mean.

The heads are covered with mud.

Beatrice Orsini : hmm

Aristide of Tremere: "Well, this has been interesting."

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to pray for salvation after that ghastly sight.

Endrite (GM): Good idea.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is anything else in the trunk he brought

Beatrice Orsini : i have no knowledge of infernal magic, so i can't try to pevi infernal illusions

Aristide of Tremere: "I wonder how deep the infernalism goes in their monastery."

Endrite (GM): Yes, some black candles, black ashes, and a stick.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: good stuff

Beatrice Orsini : i should get some infernal lore to better fight against the infernal

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont know about you but i see no reason to interfere with the lynch mob, I think we've done our duty for today

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

nothing more to investigate

Lavinia of Jerbiton: would still be nice to get the kids hitched but im not stressing it

Beatrice Orsini : let's leave as quietly as possible

Knight: "Yeah, how do we know all you monks weren't in on it!"

Hypatia of Athens: We don't have any trustworthy friends in the monastery either

Beatrice Orsini : we can get them married later

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fra contizo was my penpal for awhile

Hypatia of Athens: It's up to them to root out the judases

Knight: "We should call for an inquisition!"

Zita of Mercere: Oh my god! He's immune to rope too!

Knight: "That'll get to the bottom of things!"

Aristide of Tremere: hes right. they should call for an inquisition.

Zita of Mercere: And here's Proclus with the steel chair... by god, he's immune to this as well

Aristide of Tremere: "Let's go home."

Hypatia of Athens: I can't argue with that knight

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if an inquisition comes then maybe someone halfway comptentent could deal with this mess

Beatrice Orsini : yes

and we shouldn't be around at that time

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Endrite (GM): So you're just going to slink away?

Hypatia of Athens: Inquisitions aren't all that wizard friendly

Aristide of Tremere: Proclus stares in horror as the mathematically refined chair, complete with perfectly circular tube legs, slides off the evil priest

Zita of Mercere: I attacked every single enemy present here and only 1 of them was affected in any way. I'm going home to sulk.

Endrite (GM): Or will you claim the accolades you have won by your magical puissance?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I should at least say goodbye to our gracious hosts on behalf of my colleagues

Beatrice Orsini : let's leave being social to lavinia

Hypatia of Athens: I also need to consider how much I actually contribute to Vardian's Tomb as I sulk at home

Zita of Mercere: We should claim full responsibility for solving this, then run away before father uallachan starts performing ancient irish rituals to sink the entire place.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i tell them that their feud has been provoked by the powers of hell, that it is not too late to reconcile, and they could start by working together to tear down this tainted building brick by brick

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "Thank you for catching these reprobates before they could do any lasting harm."

Beatrice Orsini : use the bricks to wall up the cave

Lavinia of Jerbiton: brown bricks

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "If there is anything I can do for you, do not hesitate to ask, for I am deeply in your debt."

You could build a church on it.

Beatrice Orsini : get them to marry their kids to each other

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: That works every time.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "End the feud today with a marriage, and assert your victory over the forces of evil for good."

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "I, too will do anything you ask of me. My debt to you is far greater, since you saved my son from being married to that Ordelaffi strumpet."

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Zita of Mercere: I make the yikes face, though none can see it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "A marriage? Is this truly what you want?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Monsignors, just now as you all worked together to drag that infernalist away from his ritual, bound and gagged, I saw you all working together."

"And it brought hope to my heart."

Endrite (GM): Note for moderns: a medieval favor is a real promise that you can use to leverage great gifts.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: true

Hypatia of Athens: Let's marry Lavinia to someone rich

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey good call

Beatrice Orsini : flip a coin to see which monsignor you want to marry

Endrite (GM): Neither of them can be married.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: liesmith would be happy we're throwing our favors away on a marriage between two people we don't care about

Endrite (GM): As men of the church they are required to be celibate.

Zita of Mercere: Marry Aristocri- oh

Beatrice Orsini : they can leave the church

Endrite (GM): Don't push it.

Beatrice Orsini : i care about the couple

Zita of Mercere: I'm not too fussed since the girl can do better than him anyway. Theoretically.

Endrite (GM): It's possible.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyone else care either way

Zita of Mercere: Frankly after this wedding I'm hoping they all murder each other after all.

Beatrice Orsini : you're just jealous he thinks you're a man

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I can't think of a good favor to ask for right now but I think it worthwhile to bank

Zita of Mercere: I think we should bank the favour for later

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if beatrice wants to be matchmaker she should just do some ReMe later

Zita of Mercere: And run away before father Uallachan summons Ops

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Well, I confess it was a bit of a romantic request as I was caught up in the moment. I cannot ask of you something that is against your natures."

Beatrice Orsini : oh, now that we're friends of the family, i can help the couple elope

Endrite (GM): By the way, if anyone wants to marry the bride or the groom, I have stats for them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hell yeah, time for zita and proclus to fulfill their ambitions

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: "I certainly see no reason why we can't merely keep the peace. There is no reason to go to such... unpleasant lengths to do it."

Hypatia of Athens: The families don't seem particularly inclined to unite.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I understand. No need for us to lose our heads"

Monsignor Francesco I Ordelaffi: Oh yeah, remember that Gaetano has Second Sight.

Zita of Mercere: Fine. If you insist, I'll marry the bride.

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "Yes, exactly."

Zita of Mercere: I can't marry the groom, since he's met me.

Endrite (GM): Sure you can.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We should hasten to Rome to bury our fallen comrade. Thank you for your hospitality."

Endrite (GM): His father owes you a favor.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll let the Curse of Venus decide what sort of entanglements I find myself in

If it does nothing, I'll just be happy for it and move on

Aristide of Tremere: Is the bride attractive?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Zita of Mercere: More importantly, was it the bride or groom that was a guelph

Er, their family

Aristide of Tremere: I rub my chin.

Endrite (GM): The Malatesta are Guelphs and the Ordelaffi are Ghibblines.

Bella is Monsignor Ordelaffi's daughter.

Aristide of Tremere: ghibelline you say

Zita of Mercere: Sounds like a good favour to ask for

Endrite (GM): And Gaetano is Monsignor Malatesta's son.

Aristide of Tremere: I whisper to Lavinia, "It certainly would help us to have a political tie to the Ordelaffis."

I pull out my comb and pocket mirror and make any necessary adjustments.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's resolve these schemes another time

Zita of Mercere: Anyway I won't get married here because mundanes can't appreciate a good magic item. I'll find someone in the order.

Hypatia of Athens: I don't get married because I'm a wannabe priest

Lavinia of Jerbiton: skipping ahead, what happens to the two priests

Endrite (GM): Sure.

You get wined and dined at a great victory feast, since they already had all the wedding feast vittles prepared.

You are allowed to stay in Cesna as long as you wish, since you have the gratitude of both families as well as of the monks of La Grande Chisea.

Both Father Uallachan and Father Patrizio are tried for witchcraft and found guilty.

Zita of Mercere: Woo

Hypatia of Athens: I have deliveries to do this season

Zita of Mercere: "I think we learned a valuable lesson, sodales. To find an infernalist, try stabbing them. If they die, they weren't an infernalist. If they are, the dagger will bounce off harmlessly."

Hypatia of Athens: Time to get going.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It would be nice to have an enchantment that detects infernal based powers"

Endrite (GM): Father Patrizio claims he was only interested in reviving the pantheon of Roman Gods.

Zita of Mercere: "I could ask around at Harco, I'm due to return some of these as it is."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go with Zita to Harco, Beatrice probably wants to come along as well

Endrite (GM): When he learns of the demons involved in this plot, he repents and is defrocked, left to wander the world in search of salvation.

Aristide of Tremere: so it was uallachan all along

alas patrizio

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, my lab is getting remodeled, so i'll go with hypatia

Endrite (GM): Father Uallachan, on the other hand protests his innocence, even in the face of his hellish immunity to Steel and prominent Witch Mark, greasy feathers growing on his breast that leak blood.

He is burned alive at the stake.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the hibernian mastermind..

Zita of Mercere: Oh. Wait a minute.

Endrite (GM): RIP.

Zita of Mercere: If we had just

seduced him from the start

and he got naked

Hypatia of Athens: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Zita of Mercere: we'd have won this adventure a week ago

Aristide of Tremere: hm. i guess zita has learned a lesson for the future

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Endrite's complaint about too much rape was to throw us off the trail!!

Zita of Mercere: It was all a damn trick!

Hypatia of Athens: Good job treating him without taking off his clothes, Lavinia

Endrite (GM): The winning plan was Lavinia's who wanted to shoot him in the head.

Zita of Mercere: Wrong priest, Hypatia

Aristide of Tremere: lavinia never treated uallachan

Endrite (GM): Since that would work perfectly.

Hypatia of Athens: Ahhh

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think I had a lot of good ideas this time

Aristide of Tremere: i feel bad for patrizio now

at least hes alive

Endrite (GM): He is.

Zita of Mercere: I liked my plan of showing off my amulet as a party trick and utterly alienating everyone around me.

Endrite (GM): Here's what happens if you hadn't been able to stop the demon summoning.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay if I spend 5 mythic pounds I can sponsor a pretty famous artist to compose a poem about this adventure and then publish it and pass it around at tribunal

Endrite (GM): Uallachán must concentrate to keep

Crom Dubh in the summoning circle.

Knowing that he can’t concentrate and

attempt to control the demon, he stops,

hoping to command the demon before it

reacts. Faster and stronger, Crom Dubh

Endrite (GM): strides from the circle and strikes the diabolist

to the ground. Moving past the

terrified bride and groom, he throws the

rood screen aside with a powerful backhanded

blow. The demon is beautiful,

appearing as a Biblical king of old. With

Endrite (GM): bronzed skin and sculpted chest, he

strides forth wearing shining chain mail.

His black beard is oiled and groomed,

in curled ringlets. A lion stands behind

and his long black hair falls to his shoulders

him, tail swinging lazily.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh no, now he has to wander alone without any church hierarchy backing him up in his search for divinity, just like EVERY FEMALE.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: crom dub

Endrite (GM): Crom Dubh addresses the crowd.

“My people,” he says in the area’s native

tongue, “I have returned. Much has happened

in my absence, and many need to

be brought back to my banner, but all

will be remedied.” He promises wealth

Endrite (GM): and opportunity to the powerful, to

those who have stood by the old gods

and the old ways. Crom Dubh then uses

his Obsession power on Gillisa McGovern,

giving him a temporary Personality

Trait: Murderous +1. Following this

Endrite (GM): he uses his Gather the Murderous power to

force The McGovern to join his side.

Hugh McTiernan flatly refuses to join

the Dark One, as do his men.

Hypatia of Athens: Dubhstep

Endrite (GM): “We will build a new kingdom,”

Crom Dubh cries, “We will rule a new

world!” Crom Dubh uses his Sculpt the

chasm to open in the church floor under

Bloody Battlefield power and causes a

the feet of the McTiernans. Initially

Endrite (GM): crack widens into a gaping chasm 15

a long, sinister crack, in two rounds the

feet wide, 60 feet long, and 30 feet deep.

To avoid falling in the pit, characters

need to make an Athletics + Quickness

stress roll against an Ease Factor of 9.

Endrite (GM): Those who fall take +30 Damage. Make

Quickness stress rolls for the principal

storyguide characters. Crom Dubh then

orders The McGovern to have his men

attack those who didn’t fall in the chasm.

Swayed by his temporary Personality

Endrite (GM): Trait, The McGovern happily complies

and orders his men to attack their longtime

enemies. As the McGovern warriors

rush into the McTiernans, Crom

Dubh summons bog revenants and Red

Knights from Hell to help, spending up

Endrite (GM): to half his Might points in this manner.

Anticipate a wild melee, as the player

characters fight Crom Dubh’s deluded

and supernatural forces. Women and children

flee. Leaving the battle to his minions,

Crom Dubh uses his Sculpt the Bloody

Endrite (GM): Battlefield power to craft steps into the side

of the chasm. Descending to the bottom,

his surviving diabolists behind him, he

opens a pathway to the first regio in the

mound, which leads to the Hall of Revenants

(see adventure one). From there he

Endrite (GM): proceeds to the Obsidian Throne Room,

where he will rest and regain his Might.

Of the approximately 200 guests,

half are soldiers, and half of them have

followed their baron to join Crom Dubh.

Aided by a handful of revenants and a

Endrite (GM): Red Knight or two, they have the advantage

in the fight. Don’t concentrate

on the overall melee, focus on the player

characters. Do they fight or do they flee?

Or do they chase Crom Dubh into his

hole and attack him?

Zita of Mercere: McTiernans. Wait a minute

Endrite (GM): If they fight, treat the warriors as

standard soldiers (ArM5, page 22),

who brought their axes but left heater

shields and scale mail in their tents.

Five untrained solders and one supernatural

entity — use your best judgment

Endrite (GM): based on the player characters’ capabilities

whether this is a revenant or a Red

Knight — rush the magi. If the magi

win, send a second and then third group,

which should include Red Knights. If

they defeat those groups, assume that

Endrite (GM): the remaining warriors allied with Crom

Dubh have also been defeated.

If they flee, give the players the

chance to make heroic decisions even

though their characters are in flight: a

knight threatens a helpless woman, Fiona

Endrite (GM): trips and hangs from the edge of the

chasm, Tadhg is hard pressed by a revenant.

Give them some small measure of

victory so that their retreat doesn’t leave

a sour taste in their mouths. Naturally,

they will return better prepared to deal

Endrite (GM): with Crom Dubh and his minions.

If they are powerful enough, and

brave enough, to charge after Crom

Dubh, interrupt their dash forward with

a group of soldiers and a Red Knight,

positioned to cover their master’s departure.

Endrite (GM): Give Crom Dubh five or six rounds

to reach the bottom of the chasm and

slip into the mound’s regiones. If the

magi can overwhelm the soldiers quickly,

they meet the Dark One on the stairs.

Just out of the Stinking Pit, Crom Dubh

Endrite (GM): is not about to go back. He fights for a

few rounds, but if seriously threatened

takes spiritual form and retreats. His first

choice is to fly to the Obsidian Throne

Room, but if the magi are hot on his

heels he rushes instead into the countryside,

Endrite (GM): looking for some natural hiding

place where he can recover and summon

his generals and their legions.

Yeah, this is originally set in Ireland.

Sorry for the text dump.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I guess that's a bad ending, but it's pretty badass

Endrite (GM): It's bonkers.

Zita of Mercere: We could have met the dark one in the stinking pit and messed up

Endrite (GM): I can't believe they would put this in an adventure, since it wrecks the campaign completely.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay I have an objection

Endrite (GM): The stinking pit is Hell.

Zita of Mercere: Though if even Vardian's Tomb can stop this ceremony, anyone can

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is the stinking pit the chamber below the mount where you go into the regio?

oh

okay

Endrite (GM): So I mean, maybe.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's not go into the pit

Beatrice Orsini : let's connect vardian's tomb's plumbing to the pit

Zita of Mercere: Wait, what happens exactly if the ceremony completes. Do demons just swarm the world?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Actually, let's go into the Pit, and hang out with Virgil and the good pagans in the top level of Hell.

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do you mind if I read and send everyone a copy of the adventure as it was published in the book

Beatrice Orsini : we should have just left before the mass

Endrite (GM): Crom Dubh (or Ops) summons his legions and attempts to take over the world.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so we can laugh at all the horrible mistakes we made

Endrite (GM): Go for it.

I endorse it, because the conclusion to this adventure is beyond belief.

Hypatia of Athens: We got the bad ending and have to sit through a Tribunal instead of the world getting destroyed

Endrite (GM): It also has the stats for the bride and groom, if you want to marry them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

they thought of everything!!!!

Zita of Mercere: Is it in the same book as other adventures or on its own

nice

Endrite (GM): It's from Tales Thrice Told.

Zita of Mercere: Well, well done Aristide.

Endrite (GM): It's called "The Mound".

Aristide of Tremere: why do the bride and grooms stats matter

do you get a better marriage if your wife is stronger

Beatrice Orsini : yes

Endrite (GM): Not really.

Zita of Mercere: You can use it to optimise your children

Endrite (GM): But they can get into trouble.

Beatrice Orsini : also, someone might invent fertility magic

Zita of Mercere: They did

Beatrice Orsini : wtf

Zita of Mercere: It's part of hermetic theory now

In this saga

Beatrice Orsini : someone actually did it

Zita of Mercere: Because it happened in the last game or something?

Beatrice Orsini : no one ever looked at the books on it last game

Zita of Mercere: I dont know the exact reasons but the timeline says its all hermetic theory now

The ancient knowledge of Fertility Magic (Ancient Magic) was recreated Hermetically and published for general use in the Library of Durenmar.

Hypatia of Athens: Learn the M2F MuCo and fertility magic

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hafl I think aurora sent the materials to durenmar

Endrite (GM): After Mont Mercure exploded the books landed in a more research oriented covenant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: after you recovered them

Beatrice Orsini : i guess

but it's still betrayal of the lore

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It happened last game. Mont Mercure's neighbors were working on it, then they were slain by antagonist Fernand of Guernicus

Endrite (GM): These damn Bonisagii.

They just love throwing away perfectly good secrets by blabbing them.

Zita of Mercere: Is Aleseta converting those mercurian rituals to be hermetic or just making copies and bragging about finding them

Aristide of Tremere: what does fertility magic do

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it lets you imbue babies with preset virtues, including the Gift

Beatrice Orsini : the untouched fertility research books sitting on a shelf gathering dust for decades was an important part of the setting

Aristide of Tremere: ohh

Beatrice Orsini : also, you can target unborn target

at +0 magnitude

Zita of Mercere: lol

Beatrice Orsini : instead of +1 part

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it's a little limited cause you need a fertile person to carry the babies (which most magi aren't), and you need custom rituals for each gifted baby you want to create

Hypatia of Athens: There's a breakthrough for longevity rituals that don't make you infertile in Magi of Hermes

Endrite (GM): You can also use it to kill babies.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: HMM

Our next target is Babies.

Beatrice Orsini : not just babies

Endrite (GM): Well, fetuses.

Beatrice Orsini : you can teleport unborn babies out of mothers

Zita of Mercere: Making gifted babies sounds like a good deal.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so, when are proclus and aristide going to duel for the love of Bella?

Hypatia of Athens: PeCo

Aristide of Tremere: imagine how powerful your covenant could be if you could make multiple gifted children in a year

Endrite (GM): It Depends.

Hypatia of Athens: Lesser Purification (Pregnancy)

Aristide of Tremere: in desperate time you could sell them as apprentices

Zita of Mercere: Hmm. If only one House had a large supply of people carrying on an ancient magical bloodline but a low supply of gifted magi.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah that's the best use for it aristide

since raising your own apprentices is so time consuming

Endrite (GM): Gifted children are not necessarily apprenticed to their parents.

Aristide of Tremere: but you would naturally have the first chance to claim them

only bonisagii could really dispute you

Endrite (GM): And indeed, they can be claimed by a Bonisagus at any time.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol at the art on page 54

what the hell is that

Zita of Mercere: Bonisagus can snatch them, though I think House Mercere would get a lot of use out of this ritual since every single gifted Mercere has to be descended from him.

Endrite (GM): I think that's Crom Dubh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: holy shit this conclusion is fucking bonkers

it expects you to fight like a whole seige combat scenario

Aristide of Tremere: lets get a specialist in fertility magic and extort house mercere

Endrite (GM): It's beyond belief that they would just toss off "Oh yeah have an epic campaign against a demon army" in two pages.

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Endrite already asked so I've told him there is an NPC fertility magus who is willing to create rituals for people for a large vis cost

Aristide of Tremere: neat

how difficult is it to make your own ritual if you have access to the texts

Endrite (GM): There's a formula for how much you can get with Fertility Magic rituals in Ancient Magic.

Since Fertility Magic is from caveman times.

Beatrice Orsini : the problem is that they have to be custom rituals

Lavinia of Jerbiton: not hard

Zita of Mercere: What's the actual spell, muto corpus?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I think last saga we acted like the discoverers had almost made the breakthrough to turn it into a teachable skill

Aristide of Tremere: lets go to the library and make a copy of it then

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Endrite (GM): Does it still require a Virtue?

Beatrice Orsini : but we never got around to finishing it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If it's teachable it doesn't

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i'll review my notes

I don't think it's unbalanced to have it around honestly

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Endrite (GM): Anyway, the ritual uses your Creo Corpus lab total.

Aristide of Tremere: lets use the ritual to help bolster criamons ranks

Lavinia of Jerbiton: :|

Zita of Mercere: What level of ritual is it?

Beatrice Orsini : but if mont-mercure library is floating around, where is the Fake Infernal Lore summa? since i want it

Endrite (GM): It can also gain a bonus if the mother creates a fertility idol using any Craft skill.

It's like the Longevity ritual.

It doesn't use spell creation rules, it just uses your lab total, plus bonuses.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you get 1 trait point for every 10 points of your lab total, and a major virtue (like The Gift) causes 3 trait points

Endrite (GM): Maximum Trait Points: 1 for

every 10 points or fraction of Creo

Corpus Lab Total

Next, the traits that the child

should manifest are chosen. Each trait

costs a number of Trait Points, and the

Endrite (GM): total number of Trait Points cannot

exceed the maximum calculated for

the ritual.

Trait Trait

Point

Cost

Endrite (GM): Major Virtue or Flaw 3

Minor Virtue or Flaw 1

The Gift 3

Specify gender 1

Specify other general features

(e.g., red hair, green

Endrite (GM): eyes)

1

Specify precise features

(e.g., child’s features

are those of the king

That last one is 3 points.

Hypatia of Athens: Le'ts overrun the world with redheads

Beatrice Orsini : let's

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also the ratio is 1:5 if you are making the ritual for your own child (and you are a mother)

Hypatia is in league with the Hibernian conspiracy!!!!

Zita of Mercere: Well, bit late for any magus at Vardian's Tomb then

Beatrice Orsini : i'll just steal children when i want any

Zita of Mercere: Still, thats what, 6 pawns of vis to make a gifted child?

Aristide of Tremere: can you give them unnatural hair colors

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Aristide of Tremere: or other unnatural features

nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A keen observer

sees Uallachán take the Red Knight’s

sword from the alter, or the revenant

heads if he was unable to get the sword,

Beatrice Orsini : can you experiment on the ritual?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh that's why he was freaking out about the sword lol

Endrite (GM): Yes, but you would be insane to do so.

Hypatia of Athens: There's a breakthrough for permanent Muto Corpus in Magi of Hermes you could use to do permament weird hair colors for cheaper

Aristide of Tremere cracks knuckles.

Beatrice Orsini : insane or a wizard

Aristide of Tremere: youve convinced me. lets get that ritual

Endrite (GM): Since if there's any trouble with the experiment then the mother will probably die.

Beatrice Orsini : oh no

Endrite (GM): And the child will be fucked up and weird.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The Red Knight may be too powerful

for the group.

Beatrice Orsini : oh no

Lavinia of Jerbiton: HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

MMMMMMMMM

Aristide of Tremere: fortunately, mercere is willing to let zita take that risk for the future of the house

Zita of Mercere: 300 pounds - 1 point

Both parents are charles manson - 1 point

Word 'homo' for a mouth - 3 points

Endrite (GM): Hey man, you killed it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: jesus this thing was 30 might

Endrite (GM): You would have dropped it easily if you hadn't all ran.

Zita of Mercere: Archibald can beat that, Lavinia.

I could have dropped him to 15 might

Aristide of Tremere: if only we had a magus who could specialize in "dropping" it

Endrite (GM): It was actually 20 might, since Archibald hit it with a Perdo Vim spell 5 years ago.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Weakness: Abhorrent Material (obsidian)

argh.

Zita of Mercere: He hit it with 2, iirc, but I assume it recovered 1 might per year

That was its stats while weakened though, jesus

Rip Aristocrtius

Endrite (GM): Oh, this contains all the info about that miniature tower.

Whoops.

Oh well.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oops :|

sorry

Endrite (GM): It doesn't matter.

Aristide of Tremere: johns has cleverly outsmarted the gm

Beatrice Orsini : let's make a kid and then give the kid the miniature tower to use as dollhouse

Zita of Mercere: It's not like we'll know unless I somehow achieve a lab total of 85 or something ludicrous

Endrite (GM): If you use the same fertility ritual twice then you get weird children.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Father Uallachán was born and trained

in Dublin (or another large city if you have

relocated the story). During a pilgrimage to

Rome he met and was deceived by a demon

claiming to be one of the city’s pagan gods.

By granting the priest supernatural powers,

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the demon seduced Uallachán into believing

that the old gods should worshiped

alongside the Christian God.

we got totally snookered by that damn irishman

Beatrice Orsini : time to distrust all celts from now on

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Patrizio has this skill: Awareness 1 (lost cows)

Endrite (GM): I kept him Irish.

Every skill having a specialty in published adventures is so cool.

Hypatia of Athens: RIP specialties

Aristide of Tremere: i wont be here for the tribunal next week

Zita of Mercere: I don't know if anyone bothered taking specialties. I took one on Archibald.

Aristide of Tremere: im sure aristide will be missed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If the

Perception + Awareness roll was 12 or

higher, the observer notices a fine Latin

scrawl etched into each knight figure.

Each is the True Name of the demon, a

considerable advantage for those who

Lavinia of Jerbiton: little later meet the knights in combat

when they come back for adventure

two, “Red Knights Return.”

graaaaah!!!!

Endrite (GM): Archibald read them.

Hypatia of Athens: You get one specialty for free per ability I thought, RAW

Endrite (GM): And then forgot about them forever.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lmao

Beatrice Orsini : i think the houserules state that specialties are abolished

Hypatia of Athens: They do Beatrice

Zita of Mercere: He wasn't here, sad!

Beatrice Orsini : yet another one of their crimes

Zita of Mercere: The houserules said that specialties are now

+2 to that speciality, and -1 to all other rolls with taht ability

So I took one for longswords with single weapon

Endrite (GM): Don't you mean... arming swords?

Zita of Mercere: No, the ars rulebook says longsword so I mean longswords.

Endrite (GM): Archibald could have used them to blow up the demons in the Basalt Tower.

Zita of Mercere: When did we even find their names, on the very first adventure?

Endrite (GM): Their names were written under their pictures on the lowest Regio level.

Remember?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: During the wedding gathering,

he plans to summon a Red Knight

and command it to attack the bride and

groom. He hopes the magi will prevent

the attack and slay the demon.

He will offer to take care of the filthy

Lavinia of Jerbiton: corpse, when he will take the vis prava

and summon Crom Dubh.

Zita of Mercere: Right. I do now, yeah.

Endrite (GM): They were trapped in the wall and then you set them free by stealing the treasure.

Zita of Mercere: I genuinely forgot about that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay this is just dumn, to expect the player character to let anyone else take their precious vis

Zita of Mercere: oh.

oh...

Endrite (GM): Probably should have written that down!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway guys

it's late so I assume tribunal will be next week

i don't have the energy for an involved trial

so let's all apologize to Plutonis for wasting his time

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Sorry Plutonis!

But also I warned you this might happen.

Zita of Mercere: I do NOT like how many damn adventures leave treasure lying around, but if you take the treasure it unleashes something incredibly powerful.

Endrite (GM): That's treasure for you.

It's there for a reason.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The real treasure, is Friendship.

Endrite (GM): It's a big pile of hell hound vis.

Plutonis: oh well

Zita of Mercere: Because ultimately all it encourages is just leaving every last thing you find untouched just in case the author is feeling like a prick.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Later in life we can all look back on this and laugh. "Remember when Zita bashed that priest's brains in? Good times"

Beatrice Orsini : it encourages conducting adventure through remotely controlled grogs

Zita of Mercere: Oh right. The only person I managed to attack was actually innocent. Woo.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: was he?

Aristide of Tremere: i wouldnt call patrizio innocent

Endrite (GM): Also one adventurer or another ends up stealing the mound treasure after you lave anyway.

Aristide of Tremere: he was practicing paganism

Endrite (GM): I mean "leave".

Aristide of Tremere: i just wouldnt call him evil either

Zita of Mercere: I hate the infernal when I'm not playing as Archibald and can cast insanely high penetration perdo vim spells on them until they fall over

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Father Pádraig

Having undergone an Infernal Initiation,

Pádraig has a new Virtue and a new

Flaw. Adjust his character sheet as follows:

Entrancement 5 (nobles)

Endrite (GM): I like how terrified you were of Father Uallachan when he has no combat capabilities whatsoever and you could have stopped his ritual by shoving him.

All he's good at is summoning demons.

Hypatia of Athens: Shoot him to death with over 9000 crystal darts

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice, we did something right:

If the player characters “rescued”

Uallachán from the Basalt Tower, they

interrupted his Infernal Initiation and he

does not receive the Major Virtue: Infernal

Blessing.

Zita of Mercere: Well to be fair, we were worried he might have insane, nonsense powers that we cant beat.

For instance, being totally immune to all weaponry,

Endrite (GM): I ruled that you did not interrupt this ritual since you retreated for weeks after your first attempt to siege the tower.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if he got infernal blessing he would have had Magic Resistance, greater immunity to steel, and the ability to climb walls like spiderman

oh

that explains it

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Endrite (GM): He's only immune to steel.

Zita of Mercere: I need a silver dagger for monsters

Endrite (GM): Probably a good idea.

Aristide of Tremere: hm. i cant find "the ability to climb walls like spiderman" in the corebook. is that a virtue from a splat, johns?

Endrite (GM): Maybe also a bone dagger.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Infernal

Ability (Uallachán’s palms and feet can

turn tacky, allowing him to climb walls

and ceilings like a spider, level 20).

Aristide of Tremere: alright, but where is "the ability to climb walls like spiderman"???

Endrite (GM): Realms of Power: The Infernal

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's from logical induction, Beardbeard.

Beatrice Orsini : man who climbs like a spider

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Spiderman does whatever a spider can. Ergo if you replicate a spider's abilities, you are acting like Spiderman.

Endrite (GM): I like how useless that is.

Aristide of Tremere: i have taken ability block for that

Zita of Mercere: Nice job revealing you're the only PC who didn't get powers from Realms of Power: Infernal

Beatrice Orsini : he could have run away to the roof

Endrite (GM): There is basically no situation in this adventure where he would do that.

Zita of Mercere: lol

Endrite (GM): Then he'd be stuck on the roof.

Zita of Mercere: so its just a totally useless power

Endrite (GM): It's Flavorful.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the important thing is it looks badass

Zita of Mercere: True

Aristide of Tremere: much like the actual spiderman

Beatrice Orsini : he'd be stuck on the roof until our ai resets and we return to our standard patrol routes

Aristide of Tremere: spidermans a really stupid superhero concept because htey could just shoot him with guns

or shoot his web string with guns

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sidestepping giant portal to hell: "Huh, must've been nothing."

Zita of Mercere: I still can't believe that the fucking plan about seducing the priest, said right at the start of this, was actually the best possible thing we could have done. Aristocritus would still be alive!

Endrite (GM): Uh, his webbing has the tensile strength of spider silk and is therefore bulletproof.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: in honor of the fallen we will seduce all holymen we meet from now on

Endrite (GM): It might've.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll devote at least a season each year from now on to training charm

Hypatia of Athens: Spider-man is a skilled chemist

Aristide of Tremere: superman is immune to bullets and batman is good at sneaking but spiderman wears a bright red and blue outfit and swings around open areas in broad daylight

why isnt he dead??

Beatrice Orsini : let's consult the HERO system 6th edition rulebook for answers to thet question

Lavinia of Jerbiton: beardbeard, it's because comic books are stupid

Aristide of Tremere: im beginning to think western comic writers are stupid

Zita of Mercere opens rulebook to page 759

Hypatia of Athens: Spiderman has Combat Luck

Which is as good as bulletproof armor

Endrite (GM): He has Spider Senses.

Which allow him to sense when someone is going to shoot at him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that makes no sense

Endrite (GM): Sure it does.

Beatrice Orsini : oh, hey: http://newmuse.com/hero_rpg/comics_spiderman.htm

Aristide of Tremere: hm. he may have a point

Hypatia of Athens: You can unify Combat Luck with preternatural senses

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if that made sense I shouldn't be able to swat regular spiders

since they'd see it coming

Aristide of Tremere: has anyone tried pointing a mac 10 at a spider and seeing what happens?

Hypatia of Athens: Superhero measurements are done via feats

Aristide of Tremere: 5'10

short

Hypatia of Athens: Spiderman has dodged bullets so he can dodge bullets, it doesn't matter if regular spiders don't dodge bullets

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol at this

"If they flee, give the players the

chance to make heroic decisions even

though their characters are in flight:"

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Endrite (GM): He has proportional spider senses, like his spider strength.

Zita of Mercere: It's like they anticipated us

Aristide of Tremere: yeah. look at all the heroic decisions we made when fleeing the solo red knight

Endrite (GM): Zita trips a fleeing old woman so she can get away slightly faster.

Aristide of Tremere: *invisibly delivers a haymaker to a fleeing old woman

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Zita of Mercere: Good plan

Endrite (GM): The conclusion to this adventure is just beyond belief.

Zita of Mercere: Just speed yourself up by punching old people so hard you fly in the other direction

Hypatia of Athens: 9XP, hmmm

Endrite (GM): I don't know how "campaign is totally ruined forever" gets past the editor.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: here's the better conclusion to the bad end: we realize roman tribunal is lost and move to normandy

Aristide of Tremere: ive said it before but i think the ars magic writers might be retarded

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ^^^^

Beatrice Orsini : they know it's funny to read and they also know that no one will let their campaign be ruined

Endrite (GM): You say that, but wait until you meet the Industrial Accident fairy.

Aristide of Tremere: this seems to be written and thought out worse than the average pathfinder ap

Beatrice Orsini : i can't wait

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ars is not really good for these kinds of d&d linear adventures

because the players have so much flexibility

Beatrice Orsini : can i make the industrial accident fairy into a familiar?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Beatrice Orsini : excellent

that's worth the insane penalties for fairy familiars

(To Endrite): can you deal out the conf points

Endrite (GM): Oh yeah.

Aristide of Tremere: dnd is not really good for linear dnd adventures johns

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hehe

Aristide of Tremere: the wizard could at any time have the spells needed to skip over the majority of the ap writers carefully laid out plans or lack vital spells that the writer assumed any wizard would take

i think a lot of pathfinder aps could have major, difficult encounters skipped by setting a building on fire

Hypatia of Athens: Arson is usually the optimal move in Call of Cthulhu

Endrite (GM): Gigantic glowing hermetic brain: What if you turned the house into fire?

Beatrice Orsini : merinita: with Fire duration

Endrite (GM): You couldn't create a fire with fire duration since the fire needs to exist before you cast the spell.

Aristide of Tremere: start a mundane fire

then expand it with merinita magic

Beatrice Orsini : exactky

Endrite (GM): Well sure.

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn can do that with a formula

Beatrice Orsini : it's fires all the wy down

Aristide of Tremere: run into a stone building? no problem, carry a pouch of pitch with you

Hypatia of Athens: "R: Voice, T: Fire, D: Individual

A fire will give out more heat and burn more brightly without consuming any more fuel. In addition it will produce almost no smoke at all.

Jørn's sigil manifests as a jingle of coins as the fire is bolstered.

Hypatia of Athens: (Base 2, +2 Voice, +3 Fire)"

Zita of Mercere: Get two fires. Enchant each fire so that it lasts as long as the other fire lasts, without dying down.

Perpetual energy

Endrite (GM): A perpetual energy machine is only like, level 15.

Hypatia of Athens: Perpetual motion is easy, making it matter is the hard part

Endrite (GM): Make a rod that turns all the time.

Done.

Aristide of Tremere: create a steam locomotive

Zita of Mercere: You could put each fire in the eye of a giant decorative skull in your covenant

It'd look really cool

johns (GM): oooh

Zita of Mercere: We have two merinitas. Get it done.

Hypatia of Athens: A perpetual motion machine is worth its spell levels, according to Covenants

johns (GM): last saga I had an industrialist tremere who used rete circles to make perpetual motion

and thus fuel the industrial revolution

I think BR regrets letting me get away with it

Endrite (GM): What was it?

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Zita of Mercere: Well, it'd just create a powerful Reason aura eventually, and destroy itself

johns (GM): it was just a circle spell to make a metal object turn in place forever

Endrite (GM): You can just make a magic item that magically turns and give it two sun durations.

johns (GM): and from that I made engines to run factories everywhere

Endrite (GM): lol

Zita of Mercere: lol

Endrite (GM): Owned.

johns (GM): yeah but this one cost no vis

Endrite (GM): Of course the real question is why you would bother when you can create 60,000 flawless pearls with one vis.

Hypatia of Athens: You can do Circle CrHe to just grow platns really fast without spending vis

Beatrice Orsini : we will break the peasant monopoly on crops

johns (GM): well that's illegal endrite

and destroys the economy

whereas the industrial revolution lets you build the economy and also get thousands of free villeins in your service

Endrite (GM): It's free labor.

Hypatia of Athens: Create gold and use it to make microchips 800 years early

Zita of Mercere: It's Free Labour

Beatrice Orsini : just get your infernal lore enough to invent capitalism

johns (GM): lol

Endrite (GM): The Templars have already invented banking, Beatrice.

johns (GM): and now they're dead

Hypatia of Athens: Rest in pieces

Beatrice Orsini : templars live only in darklands now

Hypatia of Athens: Let's invent Star Trek TNG postscarcity

Zita of Mercere: The Art of the Deal (Infernal Lore Summa, L20, Q3)

Beatrice Orsini : let's gloss it

johns (GM): the templars split into two factions, biology templars (assasins) and technology templars (templars)

Endrite (GM): We have a gigantic Infernal Lore book you can read.

Zita of Mercere: Which one was Masini allied with when assassin mercenaries cut him down?

Hypatia of Athens: Someone make a non-Shadowrun non CP2020 (lol CP) RPG

johns (GM): he was a templarist templarite assassin

Hypatia of Athens: So we can do biology vs technology

Endrite (GM): Oh by the way there were three Red Lords and you only killed one.

Beatrice Orsini : we can always come back

Hypatia of Athens: Or Shaper vs Mechanist

Beatrice Orsini : the bride and the groom were both replaced by Red Lords

Endrite (GM): Oh, they left.

johns (GM): The Red Lords died on the way to their home regio

Endrite (GM): To start the big mercenary craze that's going to sweep the nation.

Beatrice Orsini : infernalist condotierre companion

Hypatia of Athens: I might make a mercenary captain companion in 1336

Beatrice Orsini : hypatia is cool if your sort out how holy music works

Zita of Mercere: We have arcane connections to the red lords right?

Endrite (GM): You do.

If you know their True Names.

Do you?

Zita of Mercere: Uh. Archibald can kill them from this lab. And could have at any point.

Endrite (GM): I think you don't.

johns (GM): larry curly, and moe

Zita of Mercere: I think we do

Hypatia of Athens: I know how Holy Music works mostly

Zita of Mercere: If we had their true names before

I could try it, worst case scenario it just doesnt work

Endrite (GM): You didn't write them down and then forgot them.

That says to me that you don't know them.

You could try some memory magic to remember them, if you'd like.

Hypatia of Athens: You calculate the spell level of what you want to achieve before you roll, then roll, like Elementalists

Zita of Mercere: It says that my character is not my player, and though I'm a deeply stupid person, I dont think my +2 int wizard should suffer for that

johns (GM): everyone suffers

Zita of Mercere: I'll use memory magic on myself and wrap up this adventure for good

Endrite (GM): If you remembered them then why didn't you use them the last time you encountered the Red Lords?

Hypatia of Athens: I only copied down the miracles from the book because it makes it faster to reference those examples, there's no such thing as a miracle lab

Zita of Mercere: Because I, dys, forgot

Endrite (GM): Well, there you go.

Zita of Mercere: I'll cast memory magic on myself, then, and murder the two other red lords from a million miles away and we can all relax.

johns (GM): Besides experience and Confidence

points, which you should award generously,

each member of the group receives

a positive Reputation in both local

and Hermetic circles. Long will the

area remember those who stood fast and

johns (GM): defeated Crom Dubh!

Zita of Mercere: And hermetic, nice. I'll use it to manipulate people at tribunal by pretending I'm heroic

Hypatia of Athens: 1335	Fall	Helped foil a demonic plot, employing Holy Music, Intervention, Music, Theology (Christian), and Church Lore. Performed Redcap duties. 9 Adventure	1 Church Lore, 5 Theology, 3 Intervention

johns (GM): i will manipulate people by pointing out that Hedge Magicians saved the day.

Zita of Mercere: I'll help prop up your lies if you help prop up mine

johns (GM): deal

Hypatia of Athens: I will also prop up my hedgebros

Zita of Mercere: Vardians Tomb's reputation as being full of hedge wizards and necromancers just gets worse

Hypatia of Athens: I'll make a necromancer if Jorn dies

johns (GM): i have a readymade story hook for any necromancer

cumthinker was briefly considering it before deciding he wants to be an exmisc

Hypatia of Athens: Or if Jorn gets stuck for an entire year working for the Neo-Mercurians

My necromancer would be Ex Misc

Since it fits the lore

Beatrice Orsini : i need a necromancer to help me find out if bloodline targets work on descendants of the dead

Zita of Mercere: Another bloody hedge wizard

Cumthinker!

Beatrice Orsini : at this rate i'll have to use an illusion to make my lab look like a hedge just to fit in

johns (GM): gaha

botanist jerbiton who jokes about being a hedge wizard

Zita of Mercere: A hedge wizard who cant cast formulaic spells, spontaneous spells, has no magic resistance, the noncombatant flaw, Dark Secret (always working with the villain of the adventure),

Hypatia of Athens: Canon Vardian's Tomb is Jerbies and necromancers anyway

Beatrice Orsini : small bird bjornaer who lives in a hedge

Hypatia of Athens: It's not like its a bunch of basic bitch bonisagi and flambeau or something

Zita of Mercere: Well we WERE that

we had 3 bonisagi

and 2 are dead, and one is off making pillars of eternity 2 (dead)

Beatrice Orsini : i should enchant the entrance to my lab with curse of baby's bladder

Hypatia of Athens: A fate worse than death

johns (GM): Hypatia of Athens: A fate worse than death

Endrite (GM): The canon Vardian's Tomb is from more than a hundred years ago.

Hypatia of Athens: As is the rest of the canon

Endrite (GM): It's had some real turn over over the years.

Oh, you also stopped him from using his zombie heads.

So you can steal that vis too, if you want.

Zita of Mercere: The only real OG member of the tomb is Venator now

And we're just waiting for him to die

Endrite (GM): 12 pawns of Corpus vis.

Zita of Mercere: YES

well done sodales!

Hypatia of Athens: Nice haul

I will try to buy a book on Blessing or Purity even if I can't help Fabius

Oh, if I can start a correspondence with the canon, I got some XP in Intervention

Endrite (GM): Which canon?

Hypatia of Athens: The one Fabius was training

johns (GM): assuming they aren't all murdered in the upcoming tribunal

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Endrite (GM): Murdered at the Tribunal, eh?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll write up the correspondence and mail it off to him at any rate

If he dies, then it just never gets finished

Endrite (GM): You made Hypatia, right?

Shauncat: Yes

Endrite (GM): Are you still using her?

Wait what am I talking about?

Shauncat: DO you mean VIolante?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Shauncat: I'm using her to provide ingredients to Jorn and Giraldo

Endrite (GM): Did you have her learn to make potions?

Shauncat: The only kind of potion like that she could make is Theiriacs, unless Giraldo initiated her into mythic herbalism

* theriacs

Endrite (GM): There's someone who can teach Theriacs.

Jeanne de Ys.

Shauncat: Right

Giraldo is overall better at that sort of thing

Endrite (GM): Jeanne de Ys gives you 17 XP a season.

Shauncat: Oh nice

johns (GM): potions ftw

Zita of Mercere: Okay, I know what hook/rumour to follow up on next

Aurora, gifted elder Maga of Harco covenant, has a feud with the Tremeres.

johns (GM): sure

i got something in mind for that

Zita of Mercere: Let's murder everyone in House Tremere [camera zooms in] and actually murder them

johns (GM): also after tribunal there are a couple stories involving mundanes I want to revisit

since the mundanes will eventually age out of existence/die if left alone

Zita of Mercere: That's fair

Endrite (GM): Incredibly wise kabbalah brain: Mundanes die when they are dead.

Zita of Mercere: Hmm. If fertility magic is part of hermetic theory now, doesnt this mean a terrible person could get this ritual done on them, produce Gifted children, and sell them within the Order

Shauncat: Kabbalists are very smart

johns (GM): yes

zita

Shauncat: Violante is useful as a background character since she can gather stuff from auras

And navigate regios

Endrite (GM): Huge glowing cosmic genius brain: you could get the ritual done on someone else and sell their children.

Zita of Mercere: Come to think of it, having multiple Gifted merceres could put the house in the strongest position it's been in within the order since the schism war.

Yeah but I more meant this specific usage

where all mercere magi MUST be descended from the founder

and so making specific children gifted is actually relevant

well, more relevant than getting any old peasant to do it

Shauncat: Jorn used Violante's labor this year to gather volcanic ash for Roman concrete

Endrite (GM): Can you still have children, Zita?

Zita of Mercere: Yes. She turns 31? This year I believe.

No need for a ritual before 35 anyway

Though she gets one for free from the house as part of her redcap status

Endrite (GM): Well, sounds like it's time to get knocked up.

Shauncat: Hypatia could also get a husband, but she'd probably retire as she'd have to give up her holy vows

Zita of Mercere: Right. That's what I'll do at tribunal. I'll use my virtue to find a gullible, rich magus.

While Archibald gets a hedge wizard killed

Shauncat: She could still be a redcap, but she'd probably lose all her holy abilities

Zita of Mercere: Sounds like a bad idea then

Endrite (GM): Is Blessing of Venus blocked by the Parma?

johns (GM): no

Shauncat:  rubshands

Zita of Mercere smirks mercerishly

Endrite (GM): Alright, see you all at the Tribunal.

Zita of Mercere: farewell