12/10/17

johns (GM): putting a timestamp here for later, this is Spring 1342

BR do you want to give endrite and half 1 conf tokens each since they're under 2

Boy R. (GM): alright done

i'm just realising I barely remember how roll20 works

Hafl T.: it doesn't work

johns: Here's how it works; you put the sword art online soundtrack on the jukebox on repeat and leave it

Endrite (GM): Smart.

Boy R. (GM): you can't search for songs any more, gay

johns: yeah you can

everything is on Fanburst

Endrite:  Monkey's Paw finger curls down

Hafl T.: i'll be distracted today, since i'm translating a movie

Boy R. (GM): now how do i play everything on shuffle

johns: make a playlist

Beardbeard: kings honor friend

Shauncat: Zug zug

Beardbeard: whats our Hook gm

Boy R. (GM): good news everybody

today's game will be a trial run for ars magica 6th edition, in development by timothy ferguson

devil's fav demon: lol.

Endrite: Finally.

Boy R. (GM): you can strike out most of your arts and abilities

Endrite: Done.

Beardbeard: i refuse

Hafl T.: but i don't know how to play pathfinder

Endrite: I have replaced my ability section with Profession: Hermetic Magus.

johns: i have added TImothy Ferguson and Boy Reporter to my death list

Boy R. (GM): pathfinder is just dnd 3e which is just ars magica

johns: dys needs a conf token too

Hafl T.: i took sympathetic connection: winning

Beardbeard: subtract all confidence tokens from boy reporter and do not give him any ever again

Hafl T.: low self-confidence was my go to flaw until i learned to remember confidence points exist

Boy R. (GM): refresh to 2 if you're below is the rule now, yes?

johns: yup

it's even on the Wiki 8-)

Boy R. (GM): it's as good as any

devil's fav demon: I have that on Celeste but cleverly got around it by having True Faith.

Hafl T.: who reads the wiki anymore?

johns: me.

Beardbeard: if your gming you can use confidence tokens on your npcs

devil's fav demon: Don't believe in yourself. Believe in me, who believes in you. - God

Beardbeard: this is my new houserule

Endrite: NPCs have their own confidence scores.

Boy R. (GM): i think that's the game as it's written

Beardbeard: they draw from your player pool however

oh

hm

Endrite: Usually it's 0.

johns: if you're GMing you can secretly double all rolls by your NPCs and secretly halve all rolls by the PCs. this is my houserule since the beginning of time

Boy R. (GM): it would be better if there was a gm pool though

Beardbeard: if youre gming you can die

thats my motto

Endrite: No.

johns: in RAW characters have conf tokens, not players

but there's no elegant system for that in roll20

Endrite: Two different pools.

Duh.

Hafl T.: is this going to be an adventure in rome?

Beardbeard: the bookkeeping ftw image but its distorted and screaming and has dozens of grog sheets in front of it

Archibald of Guernicus: The current tokens are Magus Confidence and you can make a mundane one that's goofier and less competent.

Boy R. (GM): you may be called on to go abroadish

Beardbeard: lets take ponza

Lets Take Ponza

LETS TAKE PONZa

Endrite: The Covenant Visits England.

Boy R. (GM): alright, our game begins on the cusp of summer 1342, I think

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There are subsystems that ask you to know what an animal's confidence score is

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh wait, this isn't johns' The Empress, not sure who I'll play.

Beardbeard: The Stonehenge Tribunal Falls

Bialas the Bear tugs at his collar

Boy R. (GM): All is quiet in the Inn of the Eastern Ear, and presumably the adjoining catacombs and sancta

Beatrice ex Merinita emerges from the lab covered in dust until it's clear the adventure won't allow enough lab time.

Bialas the Bear: Ah, I tell ya, I get no respect. My wife's dog's favorite bone, it's in my arm!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll be Fiorella because Hypatia probably ran after the poet

Proclus of Rome: Are you saying Johns is actually Hillary Clinton?

Boy R. (GM): Until that is, a street urchin runs through the door shouting for the wizards

Proclus of Rome: That would explain the current obsession with sleeping.

Beatrice ex Merinita: does Animal work on lizard people?

Beggar: "Oy, where's the witches? The priest was useless!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I look up from my mug of turnip wine.

Ildebrando: "And who are you?"

johns: When we form a proper wizard's guild we need a professional door greeter

Beggar: "I'm not giving you my name, you'll use it to curse me"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Is he wrong?"

Beggar: "Er, meaning no disrespect

Ildebrando: "Who are you looking for, then?"

Beggar: "But here's the thing. The river's risen up and started talking in Latin or such and we want someone to exorcise it"

Zita of Mercere: "Are you sure you weren't just drunk?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Is Lavinia around?"

Beggar: Ildebrando can see a small crowd gathered behind the unusually brave beggar

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That's not the kind of behavior you come to expect from a major metropolitan waterway."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton puts down her copy of Aeneid 2: Rome With A View and turns to see what's going on.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Maybe it got warped."

Ildebrando: "I'll be sure to pass your concerns along to the learned gentlemen."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I go back to my mug of wine.

Bialas the Bear: "Yeah, we all appreciate it."

Beatrice ex Merinita: learned or gentleman. pick one

Beggar: "I mean it might be a demon. Or a drowned wretch. But it's broad daylight and all"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If it's speaking in Latin, let's have a word with it."

Bialas the Bear slaps a paw over his mouth

GM: Who is going to investigate this apparition?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I shall.

Proclus of Rome: I'll go.

Bialas the Bear: Sure.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Let's go.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I hardly think some rabble knows what Latin sounds like."

ill go

ill make a pit under the river

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "So rivers are speaking Latin these days? Nice. Can't be a civilized people if we go around having dumb rivers."

Beatrice ex Merinita: Latin is just Italian but weird.

Zita of Mercere: "It could be something else it speaks."

Bialas the Bear: "I hope the river isn't being rude."

Zita of Mercere: "I'll translate if it does."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "The canals in Venice can be VERY rude in Summer."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Tiberius Fluvius.

GM: The crowd hurries ahead of you, keeping a respectful and fearful distance

Proclus of Rome: Wow, I'll take those three Confidence Points if they're just lying around.

Zita of Mercere: "I imagine the Tiber has a lot of words to say to the people who live in Rome."

"Though none I'd repeat in polite company."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We all heard those words before."

Proclus of Rome: "Rivers shouldn't be talking at all."

GM: They lead you to the riverbank very close by Vardian's Tomb, directly to the southeast

a somewhat larger crowd is gathered on the banks

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Brooks can babble but generally, not intelligibly."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Who here has River Ken.

Proclus of Rome: I'll shout out to the river.

GM: as you approach a somewhat bewildered looking cleric turns and looks very glad to see you

Proclus of Rome: "What goes on here?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: We must flame Tiber.

Proclus of Rome: In Latin, obv.

Priest: "Is one of you Proclus?

"I can't make out what this fellow is on about"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets push proclus in the river

Bialas the Bear: I'll point to Proclus.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me too

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, I am Proclus of Rome. Pleased to meet you."

I hold my hand out for a handshake.

GM: The crowd parts and you can see what everyone's looking at

the priest shakes hands, why not

Proclus of Rome: Ha ha ha!

He falls into my trap!

Of making a new friend!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I bow/curtsy/whatever is appropriate politely.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I refuse to back your foolish plot.

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches.

Bialas the Bear: "Grr. (friendly)"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have XP in Etiquette so it's appropriate

GM: a sharp line of golden light stretches across out across the water's surface, disappearing into either bank

Lavinia of Jerbiton: As is customary when Gulielmus is not around, I ask, where is Gulielmus

GM: near the center it curves into a neat and perfect circle, approximately a pace across

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Give us a talking to rivers potion Guil

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I walk up and poke at the light with my shovel.

Zita of Mercere: Cumthinker has the vapours after seeing the ars 6e preview.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: as is his right

GM: within it the figure of a robed man is standing, hovering an inch or two above the water

Bonafigura: "Ah, Proclus! I was wondering when you'd get here"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "What a strange cantrip."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Bonifagus

Zita of Mercere: "An old friend?"

I ask Proclus of Rome

Bonafigura: "I had hoped to land on your doorstep, but you know how vis is, it never confirms quite to design"

indeed, proclus remembers him as a geometer, formerly of Rome, who was one of his instructors

c'thinker: salvete

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Buongiorno."

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, Bonafigura. Is this nonsense with the river your doing, you old rascal?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I whisper to Proclus.

(To Proclus of Rome): Please tell your friend to stop scaring the townsfolk

Bonafigura: Last you heard he'd gone off to Alexandria, where there were many promising harmonies to be aligned. Full of architecture, that place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ave."

Proclus of Rome: There he is.

Look who came out of his lab!

Bonafigura: "I seem to have agitated the locals. I'm very sorry, my Roman isn't what it was"

"the priest tells me they think I'm a water spirit"

hail, c'thinker

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Ah, Guilelmus. I was wondering if the rumors of a talking river would bring you out."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Why couldn't it have been a talking tree?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea turns to face the camera and winks

Bonafigura: "Sorry to disappoint you, sodales"

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, I can see the mistake."

Zita of Mercere: "Wouldn't a talking tree be a waste of your talents?"

Proclus of Rome: "Sorry everyone, this man is just that, a man. Not a water spirit at all!" I say in Italian.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "This is a pleasant surprise however. I'm eager to meet old friends of the covenant."

Proclus of Rome: "He is an old friend of mine, in fact."

Bonafigura: "This is a little awkward. I'm afraid I'm projecting from Egypt, I can't move my image from this circle

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Friend of Proclus, you've alarmed the fair folk of this city, and we have been asked to Magically Banish you."

Proclus of Rome: "Egypt? What are you doing in Egypt?"

Bialas the Bear splashes at the circle

Bonafigura: "Oh dear. Well I can terminate the spell of course, but I'd rather hoped to discuss something in confidence"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can he mail me a was staff

Proclus of Rome: "For that matter, have you had any trouble with the native wizardry?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Beatrice has a formulaic Perdo Imaginem, I believe, if it comes to it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Can we send you an arcane connection to a better spot?"

Zita of Mercere: Are the peasants still milling around?

Bonafigura: They're watching with interest

"Hmm. My communication spell operates on the Great Line and Circle parameters

Zita of Mercere: I go up to them and start saying "Please step back some more, philosophy is being worked here."

Presence+leadership I assume

Bonafigura: "In fact I'm observing this place with an arcane connection, but I don't have a spell to speak through one

ok roll it

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, naturally."

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+5

(

3

)

+5

=

8

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is this guy an actual magus

Proclus of Rome: How far are we from Vardian's Tomb?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: obviously

Malachiasz of Tytalus: or just a hedge mage

Proclus of Rome: Wow.

Bialas the Bear: I start roaring and swatting at the peasants.

Beatrice ex Merinita: we're at the river

Bonafigura: he's an actual magus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: damn

i cant kill him

Bonafigura: or at least an ex misc

Zita of Mercere: So a hedge wizard then

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Don't lash out, Bialas."

Proclus of Rome: Also you can't kill him because he isn't here.

Zita of Mercere: :weebey:

Malachiasz of Tytalus: id find a way

Bonafigura: Zita shouts at the townsfolk but frankly they're not that interested in her

Zita of Mercere: You could kill his self-confidence with a piercing insult

Beatrice ex Merinita: the aura here is Dominion 3?

Proclus of Rome: "Allow me to measure the distance to our covenant, perhaps we could speak in private there."

Bonafigura: she gets told by one fish merchant to be quiet so they can hear the philosophy better

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dominions 3

Zita of Mercere: Getting nowhere I'll return to my sodales

Bonafigura: that sounds plausible

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, bialas is slaughtering the peasants

problem solved

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "The line and circle don't seem so great if this is the best you could do."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll try soundlessly and gesturelessly make a sound of the church bell to make people think it's late

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if bialas is actually attacking people im going to get him arched

Bonafigura: wait, is he

Bialas the Bear: No.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: shucks

Bialas the Bear: I'm just making swatting motions in the air and roaring.

Proclus of Rome: I'll use my stick and string to mark the distance, after measuring the current length of the string with my ruler.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+46-15-15 vs 10

(

9

)

+46-15-15

=

25

Bialas the Bear: Trying to scare them off.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it works

Proclus of Rome: This'll probably take a while.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Have you tried Hermetic magic? You can be my apprentice."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: don't startle them either

Bonafigura: ok. you're exactly 112 paces from the covenant

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+3 finesse local bells

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Bonafigura: nobody interrupts your measurements, they were expecting something like that

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i manage to mimic the local bells pretty well

Bonafigura: ok nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im going to scheme against anyone who deliberately damages our reputation in the city of rome from this point on

Bialas the Bear: The locals know there's a giant tamed bear around so they

Proclus of Rome: Alright, I'll tell Bonafigura the distance from here to the covenant.

Bialas the Bear: 're ignoring me.

Damn.

Proclus of Rome: It's an ordinary street bear.

Bonafigura: wait are you actually in bear form this whole time

Bialas the Bear: I'm not currently casting that spell.

Zita of Mercere: Perfectly Unfucked-with Bear

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hwos he gonna project into our covenant

Zita of Mercere: Wait you're not

Bialas the Bear: Yes, that's why I'm using the bear token!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we have an aegis

Beatrice ex Merinita: he has a mentem to make people think it's normal

Zita of Mercere: He just said he's not using it

Proclus of Rome: Good point.

Zita of Mercere: oh my god

Bialas the Bear: Well yeah, I'm trying to scare people away.

Bonafigura: I assumed that was an affectation because it's such an obviously bad idea

Proclus of Rome: And i can't give him a casting token.

Hmm.

Bialas the Bear: Whoops.

Bonafigura: ok people are certainly scared away by the bear, but you've created a larger panic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the spell to make everyone think bialas is an ordinary street bear owns

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bialas the Bear: I should re-cast that, then.

Zita of Mercere: it does, which makes his non-usage of it baffling, really.

Proclus of Rome: We could go to the Priory of Saint Ubaldesca, but I don't think they care for us.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets invent a spell to make people think they have to kill any bears they see

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this soup is pretty good.

Bonafigura: huh it's right there

Proclus of Rome: That's normal.

Bonafigura: I choose not to involve any knights hospitaller at this time

Bialas the Bear: Well, normally it's assumed that I'm forcelessly casting it but I chose not to because you were trying to scatter the crowd.

Proclus of Rome: Yeah I was surprised when I looked at the map of Rome.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no, normal is thinking they have to run from any bears they see

Bonafigura: they're on manouevres

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Will he need to penetrate our aegis?"

Proclus of Rome: We could repair to the catacombs beneath the covenant.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Or can we give him a token through this image?"

Bialas the Bear: I'll roll to cast the normal bear spell to try to play it cool. Dom 3?

Bonafigura: ok the crowd are keeping a very respectful distance, being frightened by the bear, so you cna talk to bonafigura without being overheard if you wish

Zita of Mercere: Note: A bear starts yelling latin in a human voice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus has no idea whether or not the spell is up, but will try to reassure the citizens

Bialas the Bear: I can cast without using gestures at no penalty so I can just yell into my arm or something.

Bonafigura: he would need to penetrate your aegis, and didn't try projecting into the covenant on that account

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Bialas, no!"

"Settle down!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's dispel the aegis

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+35-9

(

6

)

+35-9

=

32

Bonafigura: it'#s -5 to cast if you muffle your voice

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Someone's street bear is on the loose again."

Proclus of Rome: Well, there's parts of the catacombs not covered by the Aegis.

Zita of Mercere: You can't cast with your mouth covered up, or at least it counts as having no voice, I'm sure. You could face away and do it quietly for just -5.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sorry, folks. Our street bear has become agitated by the presence of the spirit."

Bialas the Bear: for an additional -5 that's still over 25

Proclus of Rome: But if we can freely talk I think we should.

Bonafigura: sounds good

Zita of Mercere: "That's ours?"

Bialas the Bear: Everyone now regards a bear like a normal street animal like a horse or dog.

Zita of Mercere: "I thought it was just hanging around us."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Does anyone at the covenant own a bear?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Street bears running wild and scaring commoners. How far Rome has fallen."

GM: everyone is a little confused. there are shouts of "control your bloody bear"

is that a spectacle spell? I'm very jealous

Bialas the Bear: it is, bjornaer ftw.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well, you know, a bear is a lot like a cat..."

Proclus of Rome: "Ah well, I think we have some privacy now, Bonafigura."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton makes a note to write a letter to the Doge of Venice asking that he proactively ban street bears to avoid this fate.

Bonafigura: "Dear me. I'd no idea my intrusion would cause such disruption, I really should have known better"

Beatrice ex Merinita: Bear vs Doge

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: wow

Bonafigura: "but the fact is I need to ask a favour, and it may be an urgent matter"

Beatrice ex Merinita: contacts vardian's tomb. isn't ready for chaos. who is this clown?

Proclus of Rome: "Oh no, this is fine. We're working on rehabilitating our status in Rome."

"Of course, anything."

Bonafigura: "Do you remember Gnomon Ex Miscellanea? About your age, but with two to three hundred thousand more hairs on his head"

"excuse my imprecise estimations

GM note: you do, he's another geometer

Proclus of Rome: "Of course, I wouldn't expect a full accounting from Egypt, after all."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gnomon

Proclus of Rome: "Is he alright?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Gnormies

Beatrice ex Merinita: what an insanely hairy man

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: get a brain! gnoman

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gnorman

Bonafigura: "Anyway I've been corresponding with him for some time. He shares a lot of my thoughts on the use of self-supporting arches to promote more healthful vis flows"

"He's been doing good work with the architectural landscape of Ravenna"

"but this year I haven't heard from him at all"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Are they aesthetically sound arches?"

Proclus of Rome: "You know, I have always thought that there was some connection between vis growth and relative rotation."

"Ah, well, if you wish to find someone in Ravenna, you have contacted the right covenant."

Bonafigura: "and more strangely, when I look for anyone who can carry a message to him, all the regular traders say they've given up stopping at Ravenna"

Zita of Mercere: What's the aesthetic quality of Bonafigura's image, by the way. No-one asked yet.

Bonafigura: "ships founder in those waters, or go mysteriously astray"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 0.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the only ships that still sail from Ravenna go from Khuul

Proclus of Rome: "There have been pirates in these waters, perhaps that is why."

Bonafigura: aside, to Fiorella "of course! of necessity. they would hardly be effective otherwise"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If he didn't make a Finesse roll there's no AQ

Beatrice ex Merinita: If he's projecting himself, there's no need.

Bonafigura: It's a perfect replica of his own appearance and voice, which has debatable aesthetic quality

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Bonafigura: it's an excellent example of the aged philosopher type

Beatrice ex Merinita: Marriage material?

Bonafigura: "in fact the only ships that still sail from Ravenna seemed to be owned by venetians"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I did not know Ravenna had sea access

Proclus of Rome: It does.

There's a canal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: built in the 18th century!!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The canal was built in the 18th century

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I should get married before I enter the downs kid age.

Bonafigura: the town itself is a little inland

Bialas the Bear: How do you sail from Ravenna? Very carefully.

Proclus of Rome: Clearly built on the site of an estuary.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: although i guess there are earlier canals.

Beatrice ex Merinita: owned by the bad boys of historical research

Malachiasz of Tytalus: sounds like we have to beat the shit out of boy reporter for this tremendous anachronism

Beatrice ex Merinita: we have to

Bonafigura: I think there are docks from which goods may be transported, which belong to the municipality

Malachiasz of Tytalus: [said in desperate voice]

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice save

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the one who is owned is me. and johns

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's have the GM's PC turn everyone into birds

Malachiasz of Tytalus: then we can fly away to more historically accurate lands

Beatrice ex Merinita: like cathay

Bialas the Bear: i can use stamina+heartbeast to resist forced shapeshifting. deal with it.

Bonafigura: I'm considering how to

Proclus of Rome: We could simply ride to Ravenna.

Bonafigura: you can indeed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the port of ravenna hasnt been flooded with silt yet.

Bialas the Bear: I can just fly.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can just ride a horse

I'm Inoffensive to Animals

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Everyone who can ride horses without them throwing them off should go, and everyone else should walk like common peasants.

Proclus of Rome: You can attach the horses to a cart.

GM: If you're willing to investigate what happened to this guys friend, you can travel to Ravenna by any means you please!

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can teleport to ravenna in about five hours by casting a 500 pace teleport every minute

Bialas the Bear: i don't think Soothing Sight of Bialas would work if I were flying. People might go hey. Wait a minute.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Zita of Mercere: I prefer to walk because I have a heroic virtue for travelling very quickly with immunity to bad conditions, and it affects everyone I'm with.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: update your spell to make people think bears can fly

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's a perfectly normal flying bear

Bialas the Bear: lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I will either fly or walk

Zita of Mercere: So long as I'm walking, though. It doesn't work if someone else is sailing a ship I'm on or somesuch

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I ask Proclus, respectfully, if he needs my help, as this trip would be a distraction from my lab work with little reward.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Nerd.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What Faerie Regio did you plan for Ravenna in case we ATed there?

Zita of Mercere: Look who's going back to their cave!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can we fly

or is that only fiorella

GM: You'll have to track down Jorn to find out

Proclus of Rome: "It does seem unlikely that we'll discover any magicians of your lineage, Lavinia."

Zita of Mercere: If we walk, we can make good time. Lemme get this virtue from HoH

Beatrice ex Merinita: Lavinia is not invited to this year's Augustan reunion at Ravenna.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Trick question, Jorn retired so no one would have to prep faerie regios to make adventures itneresting

GM: I know I was interrogating you about Lavinia's story hooks, but this slapdash adventure relates only to Proclus' cult

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you truly need my help, you can scrawl a Hermetic Sigil on one of the city's major monuments and I will detect it remotely."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll find myself a nice math nerd to marry so that's okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "ta ta."

Bolad rides up

Beatrice ex Merinita: Time to troll Proclus by marrying all his friends.

Zita of Mercere: "Hi Bolad."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ave."

Zita of Mercere: Dang, I can't join in iwth this. Good luck everyone else.

Beatrice ex Merinita: time to learn philosophiae so i can explain polyandry to zita

Bialas the Bear: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets go

Proclus of Rome: Zita permanently banned from the city of Ravenna for hat theft.

GM: The mob turns to this noble and heroic looking fellow to aid them against the maddened street bear

ok, who's going and what mode of transport are you using, collectively

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea offers Bialas an apple from his bag.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll see what speed can zita make and then decide

Bolad: Lavinia can visit the Temple of Mercury and use the sortes each night to discern what is written on the side of Mausoleum of Theoderic.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's available, here.

Bialas the Bear: "Ooh, thanks."

Bolad: Bolad is going, and he rides a horse.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll fly and save us a horse.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll ride a horse, i suppose

Zita of Mercere: It doesn't say how fast I can travel, just that I always make good time no matter what.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could ride a horse in though to be more socially acceptable.

GM: is gulielmus ordinary gifted?

Zita of Mercere: Genlte

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cannot ride a horse as i have the gift

Bolad: A woman riding a horse... socially acceptable???

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Guil is gentle, Fiorella is Inoffensive to Animals

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and also tainted with evil

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can't you just put the parma on your horse anyway

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can't ride a horse, so I'll just chain teleport to Ravenna in five hours.

GM: well I suppose so

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If proper ladies don't learn to ride horses then I'll fly

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah let me just spread my parma

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, I see we all have differing travel arrangements."

Proclus of Rome: I don't know how to ride a horse.

Bolad: i take that back noble ladies can probably ride

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, everyone roll ride against 12+ or take a heavy wound.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have Privileged Upbringing

Bolad: in Cadfael they were always shown as just sitting on the horse while someone else pulled its reins

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they ride sidesaddle and halve their Ride skill

Zita of Mercere: "For those whose gifts make riding a horse impossible, I can at least ensure we make good time on our journey."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: As magi can be of noble birth but generally don't have noble status

GM: you can if you wish split up into parties, and each have different encounters on the road

Bolad: random encounters ftw!!

Proclus of Rome: Alright, let's each split into 1-man parties.

Zita of Mercere: ill just paste my redcap virtue in case its ever relevant here

You are never adversely affected by

weather, bad roads, or other negative travel conditions;

you can muddle through no matter what, making nearly

the same time as you would in ideal circumstances. If you

are leading other travelers you can speed the journey for

Zita of Mercere: all of you by encouraging them to match your pace.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can't believe i'm agreeing with proclus

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go ahead and summon birds to see if there's anything suspicious about Ravenna obvious from an overhead view

GM: It seems like Zita can make this go pretty smoothly!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's ride through the extremely powerful faerie forests of Italy.

Proclus of Rome: Where'd you find that picture of a Korean?

GM: Overland it's probably a couple of weeks, should be fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: please.

thats clearly a greek

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's not that far

Zita of Mercere: Anyone who wants to teleport or become a bird is free to, but I'll keep the anti-horse wizards on track.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: While shapeshifted into an animal's form you speak that animal's language

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wish i could teleport or become a bird

GM: I have no sense of scale

Zita of Mercere: I can teleport but I'm not doing so, out of politeness.

Bolad: Bolad spends 1 conf to channel his spirit

Bialas the Bear: I'll fly, but along the ground and i'll put my legs down if I see anybody.

Proclus of Rome: Two weeks sounds about right.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+5+6+1 Spirit Votary

(

10

+

5

)

+5+6+1

=

27

Proclus of Rome: That's about how long it took to get to Cesena and Ravenna is close to that.

Zita of Mercere: That's a lotta might!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: looking grotesque, beatrice

GM: yikes, what is that

Proclus of Rome: It "might" be.

Bolad: He has 27 Might Points "borrowed" from his spirit, that grant powers but no Magic Resistance

Beatrice ex Merinita: she's victorian

Bialas the Bear: nice.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Two weeks?

Hmmm

Beatrice ex Merinita: two weeks is ridiculous with zita

Bolad: He can spont CrAu/ReAu/MuTe/PeTe effects at a cost of 1 might/mag basically

GM: Alright cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we could arcadian travel home.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm definitely flying then

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll teleport there, wait 8 days for others to arrive and if they don't, i'll teleport home

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well I don't know

GM: it's been 10 days on the road and you're all extremely grateful for the parma magica just about keeping you from murdering each other

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't need a full season

GM: did you bring any grogs?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can refine my lab which doesn't require a lab total

Proclus of Rome: Yeah we should.

Tunde at least.

Artemisia replaces Beatrice on this ill-timed adventure.

GM: cool

you all have a lot of things going on

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Wonder what Derfel is up to."

Bolad: stressing the GM out ftw

GM: Still, you make good time, and meet few people on the road

suspiciously few, perhaps

Zita of Mercere: I spent 10 days on the road without parma

Proclus of Rome: Gasp.

Artemisia: not updated since 1340, but she has ride

Proclus of Rome: Any mercenaries or bog monsters?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah but you have social skills.

i tihnk. presumably.

Artemisia: i automatically botch on a roll of 1 with charm

and i roll 3 extra botch dice with guile

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: zita i meant

Artemisia: and i have affinity with both

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have 0 ride. dare me to drive

Artemisia: ride and drive are separate skills

Bialas the Bear: The word "homo" for a ride skill.

GM: One memorable encounter is with a weary-looking peasant leading a horse and cart, on which rides a similarly wear-looking woman, presumably his wife.

Actually perhaps they're not peasants. Their clothes are decent, but naturally travel-stained

Peasant: "Buongiorno, sirs"

Proclus of Rome: "Good day, my good man."

Peasant: "when has it ever been"

Zita of Mercere: "Hello."

Proclus of Rome: "I am Proclus of Rome, a noted philosopher."

"Is there a reason why so few people travel this road?"

Peasant: he gives Proclus a dark look, but you're used to that

"this road leads to Ravenna, as any fool knows"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the party split

Peasant: "and you'd be more fool to go there, there's a curse on this place"

I believe Fiorella and Bialas are flyingh

Bialas the Bear: Yeah.

Peasant: the rest of you probably travel in one party

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Right

Artemisia: yeah

Proclus of Rome: Curse eh?

Bialas the Bear: I mean, I'm a white bear, so if it's daylight it might be hard to see.

Proclus of Rome: "Curse, eh?"

Zita of Mercere: "A curse?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sure

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh boy, a curse!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Forsooth."

Artemisia: Our bear will blot out the sun.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that would be very convenient actually.

Peasant: "Pass through those gates and it'll rob your wits. The roads change from day to day and people wander not caring that they're lost"

Zita of Mercere: "How long have things been this bad?"

Proclus of Rome: "Enchanted gates? Have you met Galafre the Elder by any chance?"

Peasant: "and people vanish too, but until the spell passes you won't think anything's amiss"

Zita of Mercere: I grimace at the thought of enchanted gates

"Please don't remind me of that, Proclus."

Artemisia: "Please don't remind me of that, Proclus."

Peasant: "a month? two? the season turned but I don't remember when"

"it came on slow, when fewer and fewer ships came and suddenly the lord allowed those greeks to put up buildings wherever they pleased

Proclus of Rome: "This sounds like a serious problem. I hope Gnomon is alright."

Peasant: "no reason to it"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: greeks...

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, Greek architects?"

Peasant: he shrugs

Zita of Mercere: "They arrived, and it all began?"

Peasant: "work crews. all talking some foreign gibberish. Someone said they were venetians"

Zita of Mercere: "Or it began then they arrived?"

Proclus of Rome: "Perhaps someone is acting against them to harm their reputation."

Bolad: Bolad scoffs. "Venetians. Weak men who think their gold equal to steel."

Peasant: "hard to say when it began. We were walking in a fog and one day decide its time to visit my wife'#s family, and then outside the town we wonder why we didn't bring the children"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Everyone starts badmouthing Venetians the moment I leave

Peasant: "don't remember when we last saw them..."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Don't worry, peasant family, I'll get rid of this curse."

Peasant: "You've got foul looks, travellers, but any christian deserves to be warned of what#s happening in a palce like that"

Proclus of Rome: "Missing children?"

Peasant: "Well they're grown, but still, you want to know that they're alright

Artemisia: hands up everyone who is a christian in this party

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton raises talon

Peasant: "myself, I don't dare go back"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wish there was a way to find the believers and worshippers in this covenant

Proclus of Rome: "That is quite unusual. Have the local authorities been helpless?"

Peasant: he looks at proclus suspiciously

"I'm loyal to my count. If things went wrong, I'm sure he did what he could to stop it"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm sure he'll reward you by making you a noble yourself

Peasant: "as far as I know the Pope in Rome is his lord, maybe you can ask him for help"

Proclus of Rome: "Well, it seems like this count could have used better advice," I say Guild of Magiciansishly.

Peasant: laughs hollowly

Bolad: "Your count is a weak man who hides behind walls of stone and lets his people suffer."

Peasant: perhaps!

Artemisia: i don't like doing it, but it works

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I whisper to my sodales, "Did he just say the pope in Rome?"

"How long has he been under that spell?"

Artemisia: he laughed just after he said it

Bolad: nic ecatch

Artemisia: i think he was joking

The Pope's in Rome, all's right with the world.

Zita of Mercere: I think rthe only joke here is boy reporter's grasp of history.

Bolad: "Your Pontiff is in France, not Rome, peasant."

Artemisia: agreed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't know the current pope/antipope status.

Peasant: does anyone have an applicable area lore?

Bolad: italy lore?

Peasant: sounds good

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the antipope is venator

Zita of Mercere: I only have area lore (rome), sadly

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+3 italy lore

(

8

)

+3

=

11

Peasant: roman lore is applicable, but get's -3

Bolad: also have church lore

Zita of Mercere: Sure

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: An easy way to deal with a shitty grasp on history is to set your game in a magical swamp in Frisia where nothing makes sense anyway

Artemisia: oh, they speak greek in ravenna now. great. i can get language xp

Peasant: Bolad is aware that Ravenna is part of hte papal states, governed by the da Polenta family

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+6

(

5

)

+6

=

11

Bolad: An easy way to deal with your limited grasp of history is to love history and spend a lot of time reading it

Zita of Mercere: That's with -3

Peasant: it can't havbe been as bad as this peasant says it is, at least not for very long

Bolad: "Your count is da Polenta?"

Peasant: ok Zita knows about as much as Bolad

Artemisia: you can't halfass frisian history anyway or ronnie will kill you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Coudl really go for some polenta right now

Peasant: Ravenna is by no means cut off from the wrold

Zita of Mercere: I'm learning about the history of the trojan war and Hector of Troy's exploits very slowly.

Artemisia: i hope you're reading the thomas hobbes' translation

Peasant: "Count Ostasio, aye. If he's alive"

Bolad: ars magica campaign set in Dark Ages Greece

Artemisia: arse magica

Bolad: "Tell me what manner of man he is. So far all I see is one who lets his peasants suffer."

Zita of Mercere: I'm cheap and got whatever translation is free on kindle. I bought a fancy Aeneid with the fagles translation.

Artemisia: ha, fagles

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, it seems something dark has overcome this city, we should make haste."

Artemisia: the thomas hobbes translation owns, since it's shitty and he made it only to give his critics an easier target than his philosophy.

Peasant: "My lord, I am but a simple cobbler...

roll folk ken

Bolad

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

lets go to Malmesbury

Peasant: he seems reluctant to speak for some reason

Bolad: "Speak." May I use Pre+Leadership on him

Endrite: Gah, sorry about that.

Peasant: you can try

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5+3

(

7

)

+5+3

=

15

Peasant: "It's.. it's not wise for a common man to speak freely of the doings of lords

"But stay, I'll tell you.

Artemisia: stay a while and listen

Peasant: "My lord Ostasio, he seemed a decent enough man to have in charge. A very bad man to know if you stand between him and his ambitions, with the way he killed his uncle and his cousin the archbishop"

Bolad: An archbishop? gotta admire his hustle

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic italian

Peasant: "but once he's got everything he wants, you couldn't want a better ruler. He loved to put up fancy buildings and sponsor poets and the like.

Artemisia: "How scandalous."

Artemisia leans from behind Bolad to listen closer.

Peasant: "you know I wonder if that Boccaccio fellow is still in there somewhere"

Bolad: Ars Cameo Series, pt 2

Peasant: "I've said too much. God's mercy on those behind us, and you if you're headed that way"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ah, italians murdering each other

Peasant: just a detail that came up in my research

Malachiasz of Tytalus: finally we return to historical accuracy

Artemisia: "research"

Bolad: I toss the peasant a coin cause why not.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I throw him a turnip.

Peasant: cool

Bolad: His lucky day!

Peasant: his wife catches the turnip. the peasant scrutinises the coin suspiciously

Proclus of Rome: Wow!

Turnips!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We're well equipped to deal with curses."

Peasant: Meanwhile with the flying squad

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If we survive, we'll surely see your loved ones returned to you!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the flying squad encounters a peasant and his wife flying along in their cart

Artemisia: fiorella gets lazy halfway through the journey and sits on bolad

bialas

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Turnips are a poor substitute for arborio rice

Artemisia: too many b people

Peasant: Cloud peasant: "sigh. times are hard"

Bialas the Bear: Not much to farm up here.

Bolad: "This da Polenta is a typical lord, strong once but weak once succumbing to decadence. The Horde has met men of his mettle many times and each time they have fallen like wheat before the scythe."

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, might I suggest we send a grog in before we cross the city gates? If possible, too, I'll like to find a way in that avoids them."

Artemisia: "That seems like a good idea."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the flying squad encounters a family of flying bears

Zita of Mercere: "Several of us here lack the gifts of the parma, after all."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I fly surrounded by a murder of crows in case I encounter a hawk

Gaetano: Alright. those of you in the air get the first sight of Ravenna

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "A smart plan. Artemisia, you'll be our vanguard."

Proclus of Rome: "Why not simply circumvent the gates entirely?"

GM: wait that's not the right character

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gaytano

Artemisia: "It's a job for commoners to be the vanguard."

GM: this illustration conveys something of the impression you get

Malachiasz of Tytalus: got him

Proclus of Rome: Oh no, are there three Gaetanos now?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: id hate to be that guy right now

Bolad: that guy was there from early on, he was going to do something cool if you decided to go psycho and attack the fat Conti lord

GM: under normal circumstances it's a charming town, displaying a wide variety of influences from roman and byzantine rule

Bialas the Bear: "Looks like a cozy city to take a nap in."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what was he going to do

Bolad: You'll never know unless you attack the Contis!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: who are the contis

i doint remember

Zita of Mercere: "I have from my house an item that could bypass their walls, but Bolad and Artemesia, and all our grogs, would have to find their own way in."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they're a branch of the viscontis

Bolad: they arrested your book merchant ages ago and you showed up and insulted them a bunch

GM: but impressive as the various basilica are, what attracts your eye is all the recent construction

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets kill them

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Bolad: nice map gm.

GM: simple plaster and wood houses have been put up seemingly at random, in a parody of the way towns grow

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Faeries

Artemisia: Excellent

Let's marry one.

Bialas the Bear: Let's eat one.

GM: taken from a bird's eye view it makes no sense at all, and roads that are obviously major thoroughfares ahve been completely blocked off

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: GM: simple plaster and wood houses have been put up seemingly at random, in a parody of the way towns grow

Proclus of Rome: We definitely should have let him throw Bonfillia off the roof.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so your standard rpg city

Malachiasz of Tytalus: holy shit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you really think it's just the gates that are enchanted?"

GM: it's actually a lot like an rpg city

Malachiasz of Tytalus: would not want to be the storied history of rpgs right now

Bolad: Map of Ravenna: http://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/mediawiki/images/6/6d/Zybournecity.gif

GM: from the ground you can see a lot of buildings that you'll never be able to reach

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Would not want to be Stormwind right now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Wouldn't it be simpler to enchant the whole city, instead of each entrance?"

Artemisia: damn, i didn't know ravenna has docks

Proclus of Rome: If ONLY there was some kind of central plan for city development.

GM: those who arrive by air can conduct any investigations you want, or we can skip ahead to the main party arriving

Artemisia: centralized planning sounds like a thing lollards would do

Bolad: can hermetic architects enchant a whole city reasonably, endrite

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just a real big boundary, is my reasoning.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll try to talk to one of the local crows

Bolad: true, one hard thing is you have to physically trace out the boundary when you cast

Zita of Mercere: "It could be the whole city, perhaps? A ritual of some sort?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ask them if they've seen anything unusual

Zita of Mercere: "Last time it was only the gates, so I hoped it might be the case again."

Bialas the Bear: I'm trying to spot my sodales

Crow: "What's up motherfucker?"

Bialas the Bear: lol

Bolad: actually I don't know why I thought you have to trace out a boundary, maybe that's just something from the Aegis

Crow: crows are notoriously disrespectful

Proclus of Rome: Hermetic Architects can enchant a city, because they don't have to use Boundary targets.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And territorial

So this is a pretty cordial greeting for a street crow

Bolad: yeah but iirc the vis cost of your projects ramps up with the size of what you want to enchant?

Proclus of Rome: You can enchant a bunch of pillars and then bind them.

Well, naturally.

Maybe Gnomon has more vis than we do.

Or he's working with a Verditus.

Bolad: Both disturbing possibilities.

Crow: "Listen this is our town. We eat here, we shit here, it's spoken for. You'd better not be thinking of bringing that whole flock over here"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe gnomon is the only one in his covenant who can use the type of vis they have in abundance.

Zita of Mercere: Infernal Vis

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Yo. I won't be on your turf too long, just wondering if the humans have been up to anything weirder than usual lately."

Proclus of Rome: Divine vis.

Bolad: A holy wizard hermetic architect???? oh no

Artemisia: let's kill him

Crow: "Lot of busy humans lately. Lot of noise. Lot of new, uh, things. Fewer humans lately though, but whtaever. There's still food in the street"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Pity about fewer humans. Their eyes are delicious."

Crow: the crows' routine has not been enormously disrupted by the curse or construction project or anything

"Whoo! Tell me about it. Usually you got to find a dead one though. Usually get a couple down by the tall wood place, but not so much recently"

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

Crow: it gestures in the direction of a gibbet just outside the walls

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hows mr calculated now

5xparma + form bonus?

Crow: 5xPM, +Form

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I hear you. Thanks for the heads up. I'll be going now like I promised."

Bolad: scenic gibbet

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll go look for the party.

Zita of Mercere: brb

Crow: The party arrive after mere days of hanging around and foraging

Bialas the Bear: "One of these days I gotta learn how to do that."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks at his xp total and sweats

Bialas the Bear: "That crow seemed friendly."

GM: You could try finding a bear to talk to

Artemisia: Beatrice was in the city waiting for the party, but they didn't get here in time.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "You have to respect their territory."

GM: Actually, the rest of you can decide how you want to approach this

Bialas the Bear: Bialas can't talk to animals and presumably not even other mundane bears.

Artemisia: If there's a waterway entering the city, I can get in.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can I think, according to shapeshifting rules

Artemisia: But there won't be one for a few centuries.

GM: Bialas can speak to bears and use all the abilities of bears

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Just bears

Bialas the Bear: Oh, neat.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i could uhhhh shrink myself to size -2 and have someone carry me

Bolad: I could do Rock of Viscid clay on the walls during the night and we sneak in that way

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should invent a cr/reco spell to do that

just have a skeleton carry me around.

GM: I should have mentioned this, but Bonafigura mentioned that Gnomon lived on his own, and rents rooms opposite the basilica San Vitale

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Apparently the city has been depopulated as of late. But not by executions, as the gibbet has been underutilized."

Zita of Mercere: Does your spell shrink people to size -2, or shrink them by 2 sizes?

GM: you could also investigate why the official powers don't seem to have done anything

incidentally, if you were worried about passing through the gates, you can put your minds at ease

there are no more gates

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: PRETERNATURAL GROWTH AND SHRINKING R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Ind Adds +1 to the target’s normal Size or decreases it by up to 2 points.

Bolad: No gates??

GM: they're covered with what looks like the backs of houses

Zita of Mercere: Ah

Bolad: How does the city keep safe

Zita of Mercere: You could make me size -3. Or make Malach into a normal person.

GM: you can infer where they must have been by the roads that approach the city

Artemisia: someone should invent a spell to fill a room with water, so Artemisia can fight inside at enormous advantage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's got an upper limit thanks to size magnitudes but i don't think it has any kind of lower limit?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It doesn't seem like there's someone much in charge of anything."

Bolad: Oh the passages are blocked by the houses? how do people get in

GM: It's certainly strange

Bialas the Bear: through the doors.

Artemisia: looks like it can shrink by 2 sizes per size magnitude

GM: fiorella could see there were people moving around inside

Bolad: Let's knock on a window and ask for directions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the house in the gate flammable

GM: buildings close to the walls seem to be abandoned

it probably is

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could figure out a route from overhead.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Bolad: Is anyone watching, from the walls, say? Can we just break into the wooden house?

Artemisia: what is the EF to climb over the city walls?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's burn this city to the ground.

GM: nobody seems to be watcvhing. the recent construction around the walls honestly looks more like a facade than real houses

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If only there was a Herbam spell to make a house get up and walk away

GM: it's got lots of greebling reminiscent of medieval architecture but noticeably few walls

I mean doors

Bolad: "Wise Magi, let us beat a path through these feeble wooden houses."

greeble

Zita of Mercere: "We should send a grog in first, to see what happens to them."

"If they suddenly disappear, it's a good warning before the rest of us blunder in."

GM: lol

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back again.

Bolad: what grogs did we bring

Artemisia: "We could just have Bialas carry us in."

GM: what language are you talking in, and are we tracking grog morale?

Bialas the Bear: Just Tunde.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I could send a creo'd bird, but as far as I can tell the birds aren't bothered by the curse."

Zita of Mercere: I'm speaking whatever language everyone else is.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: French.

Bolad: we are tracking grog morale

GM: idk if anyone does it'd be you

Zita of Mercere: Actually, Zita knows enough latin to read books now. She speaks it as if it's her native language though.

Artemisia: ooh, i could get french xp from this adventure

thank you gulielmus

GM: I know there's rules for callous treatment of covenfolk increasing costs for the covenant

Artemisia: there are

Bolad: Tunde has the flaw "Poor Memory" so it's fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm not actually speaking french. sorry

Bolad: She won't remember

Bialas the Bear: lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What language should I learn to read romantic trash?

Zita of Mercere: I have high charm and communication, I could ask one of the grogs to step inside first

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: occitan

Artemisia: french

GM: Occitan

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Noted

GM: if you know a fact about history, it's important to try to be the first to blurt it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll spend an MP later for a book on Occitan

Bolad: agreed gm

Artemisia: if zita fails to seduce a grog, i'll try

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: spend a mythic pound hiring a handsome troubadour to teach you occitan

GM: You can ask a grog to go first, but how are they getting in

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea waggles eyebrows

Bolad: Smash open the wooden walls?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Good idea Guilelmus

Artemisia: also, i asked before, but what's the EF to scale the wall?

GM: oh sorry

Zita of Mercere: "Tanolfi, can you check the other side of the city walls? The magi need to know about how it looks, but they're busy examining this side."

Rolling guile

GM: it's fairly steep and you don't have climbing equipment. let's say 15

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sodales."

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+10

(

7

)

+10

=

17

Good lie

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: johns how much will it cost to have a troubadour teach me Occitan until I'm literate?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Are we hacking this wall to pieces, or setting it on fire?"

it will only cost you your heart

GM: is zita scaling the wall?

and does she have magic resistance?

Artemisia: no, zita is convincing a grog to getin

Bolad: its 1 MP / 2 seasons, assume teaching 3 com 1 iirc

Zita of Mercere: No, she rolled guile to convince Tanolfi to go inside the city and examine the wall, and tell us what he sees

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Zita of Mercere: What he sees doesnt matter

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Hacking it to pieces? We're magi, we have far more elegant solutions."

Zita of Mercere: its just an excuse to trick him to go inside

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I use Obliteration of the Metallic Barrier on the wall in front of me.

Zita of Mercere: to see what happens to him

GM: ok, Tanolfi is prepared to follow orders, but looks dubiously at the tall wall

Bialas the Bear: What if I turn into stone, back up, and fly into the wall really fast.

GM: "you got any like, magic ropes?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is the wall more than one foot thick?

Proclus of Rome: "No, do we need them?"

GM: does that work on everything up to metal Malachiasz?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it works on stone and metal

GM: no it's about a foot

Malachiasz of Tytalus: up to one foot thick

Zita of Mercere: "I believe Malachiasz is, ah, providing a solution for you."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Teaching 3 Comm 1 Occitan 5 makes it straightforward

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All right. Thank you for hacking the wall to pieces, Mal."

GM: ok, the city walls are stone so you can ignore the makeshift barrier

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it blows it open and hurts anyone directly on the opposite side

Bialas the Bear: Nice.

Proclus of Rome: That might be the safest way to do it.

GM: it's suitably impressive. Tanolfi steps forward trying to look brave and enters some kind of gatehouse.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I go in after him.

GM: On the other side of the room a man-at arms takes his feet off the table where he was dozing and adjusts his helmet to squint at you

"Oh. Hello there."

Bialas the Bear: He's certainly playing it cool.

GM: Tanolfi feels this is all perfectly fine

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll fly over and perch on the ramparts and see if the other cross safely

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "King's honor, friend."

Bolad: "We fixed your door"

"It was sticking"

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, something like that."

Guardsman: "Hmm."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: (I can MuAn(Co) to speak intelligibly as a bird)

Zita of Mercere: actually I have an idea. is bialas with us again?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks through the hole in the wall.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve."

Guardsman: "Well, it's summer, we can do without one wall"

"How did you do that, anyway?"

Bialas the Bear: I am.

Bolad: Bolad holds off entering the gap until the Magi give the all clear

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I need to make a crowform token

Proclus of Rome: "Aren't you more worried the hole in the wall?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dont worry, if he gets angry ill sling a crystal dart at hishead

Guardsman: "What I'm worried is what the likes of you are doing back here"

Zita of Mercere: "Bialas, I don't suppose you'd be willing to extend your parma over me while we enter, would you?"

Guardsman: "Walls, whatever, you're disturbing my rest"

Zita of Mercere: "I'm sure a magus of your renown and skill would be best suited for doing so."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "We'll be on our way into the city, you can go back to sleep."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Visiting a friend?"

Proclus of Rome: "Well, I apologize, but shouldn't you be preventing us from entering the city?"

Bolad: remember the parma extension only lasts while you remain in sight of the caster

Guardsman: "Well use the bloody gate, couldn't you?"

Zita of Mercere: That's fine. I'm going to ride the perfectly ordinary street bear.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Guardsman: but he doesn't grumble too much because malachiasz is very big

Bialas the Bear: Yeah, I'll do that. Lemme see how it splits up.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I open the door further into the city.

Guardsman: ok, I'm going to need final MR vs mentem on everyone who enters

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 20

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets say 11

Zita of Mercere: I'll find out my MR vs mentem in a moment

Bolad: I have 0 if no one will help me out

Bialas the Bear: Ok, me and Zita have an effective parma of 4.

Zita of Mercere: So 20 MR vs mentem from me then

Bolad: Proclus, wanna shield me?

Bialas the Bear: 35 for me.

Proclus of Rome: How much do you want?

I have 25 Mentem MR.

Bolad: Whatever you're prepared to give

Proclus of Rome: Can't you just fly over the wall on a gust of magic wind or something?

Bialas the Bear: Both people under the effects of a split parma have the magi's parma score -3.

Zita of Mercere: it might be a boundary-targetted effect. or something equivalent, affecting the whole city.

Bolad: that's what seems most likely to me oocly

Guardsman: figure out if bolad and grogs can safely enter, I'll brb

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: same but in character

Zita of Mercere: Yeah. Zita might jump off the bear later and get owned by this effect but she's paranoid about the actual boundary after the galafre stuff

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: 25 Mentem MR

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, I only have +2 Parma Magica.

Bolad: 0_0

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can still share it, and grant a level 0 parma

Proclus of Rome: Yeah that's what I'm thinking.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he should do that

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Protect someone against forceless Mentem could do something

Zita of Mercere: This protects against the gift, making Bolad's life easier. Isn't that nice?

Bialas the Bear: afk for a minute.

Bolad: bolad is Unaffected by the Gift

Zita of Mercere: Nice. It does absolutely nothing.

Proclus of Rome: Oh that's what the problem is.

It's adding the Art score instead of the Form Bonus.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Protection against forcless mentem could also protect you against an item meant to just affect the mundanes of Ravenna

Zita of Mercere: Oh, wait, MR blocks magic items from working. I'll need to remember that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: +0 mr is much stronger than n/a mr

Bolad: it's supposed to add Art Score

Proclus of Rome: It is?

Ok then.

Bolad: mr is parma * 5 + art

Zita of Mercere: yeah

i asked about this last week iirc

i saw form bonus and panicked that id done it wrong this whole time

but its just your form score

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my mentem mr is 12 then.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmmm, if someone was casting a Mentem affect to boundary with an item, they could be... a verg?

Proclus of Rome: Anyway I'll split with Bolad.

Bolad: Thanks Proclus.

Proclus of Rome: If it's a Boundary spell then it probably isn't very high Penetration.

Bolad: I'll even humor you by listening to your ridiculous theology.

Guardsman: ok cool

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah I was saying earlier that it might be low pen if it's an item

GM: Well I'll level with you: if you have MR 0 or greater you can ignore the effect altogether

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And 0 Mentem MR would be better than nothing

Bolad: Nice.

That's very considerate of the person who cast it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we did it team

good work everyone

GM: so Tanolfit and Tunde are affected?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: time to go into the city

Zita of Mercere: Casting it forcelessly is a good way to avoid affecting magi.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Bolad: They're just grogs. Who needs 'em

Zita of Mercere: On the other hand I can hop off Bialas and then sue him for his crime of casting mentem magic on a legal magus.

GM: it doesn't seem to impair them, they're just ok with whatever is going on right now and aren't surprised by anything

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "This curse seems to have been designed not to affect those with the Parma.

Bolad: Grogs accustomed to freaky strange shit? We should cast this on our home covenant

Proclus of Rome: I mean, are we surprised?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should cast it on the entire city of rome

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Bah, another magical effect caused by someone who we can't kill."

Zita of Mercere: "So it's a hermetic magus trying to avoid legal repercussions."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Where's all the damn hedge mages?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Are you allowed to magically bolster Base Loyalty?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Cool

johns is righ tthen

Proclus of Rome: I mean, it's pretty unethical.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I mean allowed as in

Zita of Mercere: "If it affects me we can sue him, sodales."

Bolad: you can magically bolster loyalty, it just tends to cause warping

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can't befriend an animal with magic for the purpose of taking a familiar

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I enter into the city.

Proclus of Rome: You can legally sacrifice your own grogs for pleasure.

Bolad: I follow Proclus wherever he goes, remaining in his sight.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Malachiasz of Tytalus: that would mean you need to lead him

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But Base Loyalty might be one of those subsystems that doesn't let magic bypass it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: unless hes walking backwards

Proclus of Rome: Grogs have no rights at all in the Order of Hermes and are legally classified as property.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And executing grogs for pleasure lowers it

Bolad: its got rules for magic use shaun

Malachiasz of Tytalus: give all of your grogs mentem effects to think youre the best bosses

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Bialas the Bear: back.

Bolad: it also specifically suggests that long-term warping from those effects cause simple minded flaw

which. let's be honest. not a big problem for grogs

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Cool

GM: proceeding out of the gatehouse you find yourselves in a market square. To the north is a small park surrounded by grand houses with lots of shitty house-like structures filling in the gaps. To the east is an alley that winds into a maze of tenemnts. To your left is a solid wall covered in windows and balconies, with no doors or sign of movement behind them

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hypatia will have to recruit more ex-nuns with Divine MR

GM: it's an odd way of putting a town together, but you knew that

there are a few stalls in the marketplace but pickings look decidedly slim

Proclus of Rome: Do any of the balconies have doors?

GM: they all appear purely ornamental

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

How hard would it be to climb up that wall?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Perhaps the Prying Eye would reveal whether these awful houses are a facade."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I look for the highest structure in town and go there.

Zita of Mercere: "This is a really convenient way to get around." I say, sitting on the street bear

GM: Not too hard, if you were say a prince or assassin with a thing for parkour it's the sort of thing you'd take in stride

Malachiasz of Tytalus: zita has mentem mr now

shes afraid of bears again

GM: lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What's the penetration on the street bear spell?

Zita of Mercere: I know it's Bialas though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 0

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats why youre afraid

Bialas the Bear: lol

Zita of Mercere: good point

However, Zita has personality: carefree

Bolad: isn't bialas extra fearful cause of his special Bjoarner Stink Flaw

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he casts it forcelessly after everyone found out he was using powerful cult mentem magic on his sodales 24/7

Zita of Mercere: so she's having a good time

Proclus of Rome: What about the stalls?

What kind of slim pickings do they have?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh

I guess I won't go writing the patricians of Venice about street bears then

Bialas the Bear: that's just a feral scent. He just smells like a wild animal all the time even when he's a human.

GM: this market sells a variety of foods, and examining which merchants have the leanest supplies tells you something about how long the city has been walled in on itself

Bialas the Bear: -2 Penalty to social interactions, stacking w The Gift. Develops a negative reputation of Unclean at 2. Spells with Scent Target have 2x Area of Effect

GM: One fishmonger is glumly sitting behind a stall of absolutely nothing

Proclus of Rome: He smells like shit and has the word "Bear" for a sigil, we know.

Bolad: "So many walls of stone and wood and the city cannot even keep the beasts from roaming the streets!"

GM: there's a few bakers offering what looks like fresh bread though, it seems pretty good

Proclus of Rome: I'll strike up a conversation with the fishmonger.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: My sigil ironically has nothing to do with crows

GM: A vendor of cured meats is doing a healthy trade

Proclus of Rome: "Why have you kept up your stall if you have nothing to sell?"

Bialas the Bear: Mmm... Cured meats....

Rabble: "Some other bugger will take my spot if I don't, won't he?"

I'm sorry, I have to imagine monty python voices for all medieval extras

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: My sigil is maps, so either there's a sound of a dagger hitting a map, or stuff looks like its being drawn for a second when Creo'd in

Proclus of Rome: "But why do you need a spot if you have nothing to sell?"

I don't know anything about snakes.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: As if the cartographer was drawing it into reality

Rabble: "Well, I've had lean days before"

"I've got to hope my suppliers will get back to me"

Bolad: "How can the merchants enter a city with no gates?"

Rabble: "anyway if I'm honest I haven't got much else to do"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm gonna make a character named Robbie Rabble

Proclus of Rome: "When was the last time you spoke with your suppliers?"

Rabble: he looks confused

"damnedest thing"

"could have been week? Well, it's probably not important"

* a week

Zita of Mercere: ronnie did that already, shaun

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Everyone in this city seems placated against their worries."

Zita of Mercere: "Everyone here is bamboozled, it's incredible."

"Hmm."

"Sodales, I want to test something. Bialas, can you give me your parma again in a moment?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "They've stopped caring, so they also don't care how awful the city functions when you build stuff anywhere you want."

Zita of Mercere: I jump off Bialas and exit his parma

Rabble: Meanwhile, Malachiasz was looking for the highest building?

He can't see it but Fiorella or Bialas could easily guide him

Proclus of Rome: "Well, how many problems are there so far?"

Rabble: it's the castle on the hill

Bialas the Bear: I'll lower it for you and make Zita think she did something magical.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i go to the castle on the hill

Bialas the Bear: You touch to start the connection but it lasts as long as we can see each other.

Proclus of Rome: "It just seems like people are having a hard time finding the city."

Zita of Mercere: Oh. Well sure.

I just want to see if putting a parma on someone ends it.

Bolad: Aquinas spoke of the Castle on the Hill.

Zita of Mercere: And what safer way to test it than letting a mentem effect hit you?

Bialas the Bear: Good trick.

I can just temporarily extend my parma to him as well without you losing it.

I have really high parma.

GM: ok I think bialas can voluntarily suppress the effect on zita

Bialas the Bear: I can.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It's no problem finding the city. But why would you want to leave if you didn't care about anything?"

GM: Zita doesn't notice anything different

Zita of Mercere: "Seems fine."

GM: In fact everything is fine, although you're not totally sure what you're doing here

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Then when people notice no one returns, they say its cursed."

Zita of Mercere: "Cursed?"

Proclus of Rome: "It does seem fine though. After all, Rome isn't so well designed that it couldn't use improvement."

Zita of Mercere: Woudl this sort of effect interact with rolling Carefree personality, by any chance.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Well of course, it's no Venice."

Proclus of Rome: I'll ask the fishmonger if he knows who built the wall with the balconies and windows.

Bolad: "The Magus Gnomon would have noticed this surely, Magus Proclus?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What did you learn from your experiment, Zita?"

Rabble: "Ohh, that was a big one. Bit inconvenient frankly, because my house was down that street"

Zita of Mercere: "Uhhh. Well, nothing."

Proclus of Rome: "Have you tried climbing through the windows?"

Rabble: "It was the venetian concern. Manoli and Chionates. I know them well because they took over all the shipping down at [dockside village]. Important to know this sort of thing in the fish trade"

Zita of Mercere: "What were we looking for again?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Here's a good place to stay while we're in Ravenna http://www.selecthotels.it/it-IT/hotel-doge

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Well I think it's pretty clear what's going on.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah - absolutely nothing

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Manoli and Chlonates..."

Rabble: he chuckles. "I'm not one for housebreaking. Don't ask me to tell any tales of balconies I might have climbed to in my younger days"

Proclus of Rome: A radical scheme to improve the living standards of Ravenna is being implemented by Gnomon and the Venetians.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+3+1+1 Int + Venice Lore (nobility)

(

6

)

+3+1+1

=

11

Proclus of Rome: "What's inside those windows, anyway?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Goes up to EF9

Zita of Mercere: boyrep, this effect doesnt really change how you act, just make you think everythings normal and fine, rigth?

for Roleplaying it

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im back.

Rabble: yes, to be perfectly clear

there are two parts here

Proclus of Rome: "Do you know where the Venetians are based?"

"At the docks?"

Rabble: one constant effect making you think everything's fine, nothing's important

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus will extend his parma over zita

Bolad: the Weed spell

Rabble: also something to make people's memories unreliable, butyou can't tell if that's the same spell

Zita of Mercere: Alright. Proclus, do you carry money on yourself?

Bolad: "Have any Greeks been through this town recently?"

Proclus of Rome: Probably a little.

Zita of Mercere: I pickpocket Proclus

Rabble: "the lord let them have a guild house in town when they were talking about civic improvements. they certainly got busy!"

Bolad: lol

Bialas the Bear: Bolad: the Weed spell

Zita of Mercere: Zita uh, I think I've said before but she pickpockets at the market for fun and practice and has been doing this for over a decade

Rabble: "it's on the piazza dominico frangipani italiano"

ok cool

Zita of Mercere: This is opposed by awareness

Rabble: I won't even make you roll that, unless proclus objects

Proclus of Rome: Alright, are you trying for anything specific or are you just grabbing the first thing you touch?

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+8+3

(

3

)

+4+8+3

=

18

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10!

(

2

)

=

2

Zita of Mercere: Just your coin pouch or whatever equivalent.

I assume Zita can pick that out well enough, she's had enough practice

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Do I know anything about these families from taht roll?

Rabble: you secure proclus' coin pouch, belt knife and horn-shaped belt accessory

also his belt if you wish

Zita of Mercere: Do I wish that? Yes, yes I do.

Rabble: pardon shaun i was distracted

Zita of Mercere: Personality: Ambitious + 4

Of course I do

Rabble: Those are not the names of Venetian noble families

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Still EF9 without the specialty

Rabble: they sound greek in fact, although the venetian republic has greek holdings

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, I assume we aren't going to get good directions to the piazza.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmm

Rabble: you can get directions but the problem is: this town has been turned into a maze and nobody knows their way around any more

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well they arent patrician families, yes.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: am i at the castle on the hill yet

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can go look for the guildhouse as a bird.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea inspects the bread that's for sale.

Proclus of Rome: We could try going by the roofs.

Bolad: No one seems to mind if we just punch holes through everything.

Proclus of Rome: What's the aura here?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Bolad is right

Proclus of Rome: Well, that would be quite rude.

Bialas the Bear: We can use the israeli war tactic inspired by deleuze and guattari.

Bolad: Also as a companion I cannot say this, but the Magi should probably keep a leash on Malach.

Rabble: do you have aura detecting spells?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

All 4.

They're rotes so I don't need to roll.

Zita of Mercere: Aquinas spoke of the mythical retard on the hill

Rabble: I didn't think that sort of thing was possible but I will defer to the game as it has been played in this campaign

the aura here is infernal 2

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

Malachiasz of Tytalus:  licks lips

Bolad: The Greek influence is real.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: time to kill some infernalists

Rabble: ok, some of you have expressed a desire to go places

Proclus of Rome: What didn't you think was possible?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus gives in to criminal temptation and takes a loaf of bread, leaving an apple in its place.

Rabble: detecting infernal power with hermetic magic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what a thrill!

Rabble: alright so I won't play through this turn by turn

but you should know that it is effectively impossible to navigate this place by magic

Bolad: you can detect aura, and powers, just not demons, and some demons have special effects to let them mess with the effects of spells (such as Intelligo effects detecting the aura)

Rabble: from the ground, sorry,

by magic it may be possible

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the aura can also lie

Proclus of Rome: That's demons you can't detect.

Yeah, Bolad is right about this one thing.

Rabble: from the air it becomes very clear: this place has been deliberately turned into a complex maze

Zita of Mercere: I have the Intuition virtue so if I wander around at random I have a 50/50 chance of finding the right place to be.

Rabble: excellent

I was about to list some things you could roll to find your way through

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Sense of Infernal Power isn't subject to the Limit of the Infernal, I think

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I just walk straight towards the castle on the hill and blow apart walls in my way.

I guess I should roll that if we're in an infernal aura?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Otherwise Vim would only cover three realms

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's stuff in rop infernal about magic beings being corrupted by infernal auras that appear to be magic auras

Bolad: Is it easier to navigate if we move to the rooftops?

Proclus of Rome: I guess I'll follow Malachiasz, though I object strenuously to his wanton destruction.

Rabble: if you have a formulaic spell and a margin of -2 won't affect you its fine beard

Zita of Mercere: It's only 50/50, it could easily fail. On the other hand, it could just lead me right where I need to be, along with anyone who followed me while I run around like an idiot.

Rabble: it is easier to see if you move to the rooftops

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "It's fine, none of the mundanes care."

Zita of Mercere: Oh, wait, Gulielmus gave me his parma. Does the effect end? Or keep gong.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: isnt there always a chance to botch in infernal

Zita of Mercere: *going

Bolad: Then I would suggest we move to the rooftops!

Rabble: malachiasz will not end up where he's going unless someone with a better view guides him

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Proclus can't botch a rote

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "How am I going to get to the rooftops?"

Rabble: zita you are free from the effect

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: That's why he's the aura detecting guy

Bolad: I can create a powerful upward draft of wind

Zita of Mercere: "Oh. Gulielmus, thank you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm talkin about malachiasz's swath of destruction

Rabble: actually I think bialas parma just springs back after he stops concentrating

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Is Malach only destroying ugly houses?

If so then this seems fine.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im destroying anything that blocks me walking in a straight line to the castle

Zita of Mercere: "I could check the rooftops, though I believe it would remove the parma from me."

Bialas the Bear: I'd have to touch her again to start the parma back up after dropping it.

Rabble: no, ravenna is filled with beautiful and historic architecture

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

Bolad: ah zita is right about that isn't she

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Stop that."

Rabble: and he destroys large chunks of it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Don't destroy the old buildings."

Rabble: she could in theory stay within line of sight

Zita of Mercere: If you stood right on the edge of the roof it might be fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The magus may cancel the protection at will, at any distance.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Why?"

Bolad: Then I suggest we go to the rooftop and lower down ropes for Proclus/Gulielmus

Proclus of Rome: "People live there."

Zita of Mercere: I have the virtue Perfect Balance so standing on the edge of a roof is easy for me. Boy, all these stupid virtues really are doing work.

Bialas the Bear: Nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "That's true."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's time to houserule perfect balance

Proclus of Rome: "Honestly, it's strange that you should even need to be reminded of it."

Rabble: lol, i'm glad this adventure is somehow working with everyone's specific and crazy powers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sobs

Proclus of Rome: Also Ways of the Town don't work, because this is a maze and NOT a town.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dont worry gulielmus

Rabble: well, it's kind of both

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im sure the pizza house will be made of trees

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Well I think some of these newer houses have to go, but I suppose Proclus has a point."

Zita of Mercere: I just have a whole bunch of really goofy virtues and a few great items from House Mercere

Malachiasz of Tytalus: that you can talk to for passage in

Rabble: malachiasz runs into an issue

because his spell only blasts apart stone and metal, he's not able to push through a lot of houses of cheaper construction

Zita of Mercere: Anyway, I use my Sandals of Hermes to teleport up onto a rooftop, on the edge, remaining in sight of Gulielmus, to examine the area.

Rabble: and you end up going in a circle mouseholing through some grand mansions

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Terram... foiled??

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: drop the wooden houses into a pit

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Proclus of Rome: I'll go with Bolad on the roofs, in this case.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: as an alternative i can rego the stone houses and move them over near the wooden houses

then blast a hole in the stone walls

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll turn into a bird.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: which will damage the wooden walls on the other side

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Rabble: alright. you get the lay of the land. by pooling your knowledge you can fast travel to known landmarks such as the castle, Gnomon's sanctum by the basilica, or the guildhouse of the venetian traders

Zita of Mercere: Using stone houses to destroy wooden houses

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its +10 damage actually, probably decent enough

Rabble: can malachiasz actually lift a house?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's make sure Gnomon is okay

Proclus of Rome: I never use fast travel.

Bolad: Nice. Are you going to put those Waypoints on the map

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We're here to check on him

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i fast travel to the castle

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: highlight the areas in wizard vision

Proclus of Rome: Let's talk to fellow Hermetic Magus Gnomon.

Bolad: We should kill MAlachiasz, though. Just saying

Zita of Mercere: I climb down from the roof to rejoin everyone

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have done nothing wrong

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, I think I see his sanctum."

Rabble: incredible, look at those waypoints

Bolad: I say that OOCly, but of course, Bolad appreciates his work ICly.

Zita of Mercere: brb

Proclus of Rome: I click on the one that's Gnomon's Sanctum.

Bialas the Bear: whoa.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: As a Zeno I appreciate good cartography

Bolad: I deeply appreciate these additions, BR.

Bialas the Bear: that's a big building.

GM: i thought this was alot higher res

Bolad: looks fine to me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice house

GM: ok that's my connection

Bialas the Bear: Wow, look at that sign. This must be an infernal place.

GM: gnomon's sanctum is actually across the street

Proclus of Rome: You know, you can move drawings behind other token-level objects.

GM: according to bonafigura he rented rooms in teh base of a laundry

Bolad: The sign says "Wizard's Sanctum This Way"

GM: you probably can

Proclus of Rome: Anything weird about the laundry?

GM: It still seems to be working

the proprietor scowls to see you loitering outside, but in an accustomed way

Proclus of Rome: Well, I'll knock.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Scowls

He's not affected

Rabble: this woman is middle aged and very respectable looking, but mentally you categorise her as rabble anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe he just always scowls

or she

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "He doesn't seem to be placated by the curse. Might there be an aegis up?"

Proclus of Rome: Does anyone answer when I knock?

Rabble: "What is it? we're not washing the clothes off your back, though god knows you need it

Bolad: "Wash... clothes??"

Rabble: (after opening the door)

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Mine are clean

Rabble: bolad speaks good italian I trust?

Proclus of Rome: "I'm looking for Gnomon. My name is Proclus of Rome."

Bolad: "Is this another strange Frankish decadence?"

he speaks perfect italian

he has Gift of Tongues

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Specially designed clothes by Kifaaya of Verditius that let you turn into an animal without stinking them up.

Rabble: ravenna preserves traces of byzantine culture, leaving them oddly decadent in some respects

Bolad: Yeesh. I bet they even bathe here.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Fiorella Zeno of Venice."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets give them some real traces of byzantine culture and kill them off!! bwahaha

Zita of Mercere: Gift of Tongues ftw

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Gulielmus ex Miscellanea, at your service."

"Is Gnomon in? We've come a long way to see him."

Rabble: "that fellow! walks off without saying a word and where is the rent for the past month? And I don't know what he did to that room, I can't so much as open the door"

Zita of Mercere: me and Bolad have to be careful when we talk to each other because whoever addresses the other first determines which langauge we conduct the conversation in.

Rabble: "I'll need to have a man in to look at it... but I suppose it's not that urgent"

Zita of Mercere: if bolad addresses me we talk in mongolian

Proclus of Rome: "Oh? Who were you going to have look at it?"

Bolad: perhaps he warded his sanctum against Corpus

Rabble: "Those rooms! He's barred the door or something"

Zita of Mercere: "He disappeared?"

Rabble: "Oh, who are you that I should be telling you this anyway"

Proclus of Rome: "I'm a friend of his, from Rome."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Do you find your feelings about Gnomon changing when you go out onto the streets?"

Rabble: "Look, I'm sorry, he's an odd fellow but I do hope he's not dead"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Like it's nothing to worry about?"

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, I should just remind you, just as an aside, that a sanctum outside a covenant enjoys no special protections, if we want to check inside to ensure his safety."

Proclus of Rome: "Do you know if he worked with the Venetians?"

Rabble: "Well now that you mention it, I do all my worrying in here..."

"whenever I talk to anyone else I feel like I'm being such a fool"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "May we step inside?"

Proclus of Rome: "I wouldn't worry about it."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Hmm."

I say quietly to my sodales. "If he put an Aegis up, he might have other surprises for intruders as well."

Zita of Mercere: "He might, I suppose."

"Still, can't hurt to take a look."

Rabble: "I suppose you can, if you're friends of his. Do try to get into that room for me, I'd hate to think... well all my friends tell my I imagine too much"

Proclus of Rome: Quick, try to pick the lock.

Zita of Mercere: I want to examine this door and see what's wrong with it.

Guess who dumped 140xp into Legerdemain! That's right!

Rabble: what's y'all's MR against VIM?

magi only

Zita of Mercere: 0

Rabble: or people with might

Proclus of Rome: I'll cast The Brushstrokes Revealed on the door.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: 25 Vim MR

Proclus of Rome: Wait I can't.

I can't form a circle.

Bialas the Bear: I am just quietly tagging along so far. My Vim MR is 42.

Rabble: can't you?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mine is uhhhh 14

Proclus of Rome: 12, since I'm sharing my parma with Bolad.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets wizards war proclus and use perdo mentem to make him forget how to draw circles and squares

Rabble: Gulielmus and Proclus feel the chafing burden of a foreign aegis settle on them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: use muto mentem to make him think a triangle is a circle

Rabble: -5 to all casting total!

he's a damn baby

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gah!

Proclus of Rome: I have +10 MR vs. Aegises of the Hearth.

Rabble: Proclus feels nothing of the sort!

Proclus of Rome: Got 'em.

I'll try to open the door.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "There's definitely an Aegis in here."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Time to invent a level 1 Aegis just for the mastery

Rabble: the door is an ordinary wooden door, however it yields not even a fraction of an inch once you put your weight on it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the aura still infernal in here

Proclus of Rome: What's the aura here?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will cast a formulaic spell.

Rabble: it is actually, infernal 2

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

Alright, my plan is to conjure vines from the door and try to pull it down.

Rabble: even those of you with solid magic resistance can't help but find the air of this bracing, in a way that inspires an air of confidence

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+13+3-2-5 Probe Nature's Hidden Lore, level 4

(

2

)

+13+3-2-5

=

11

Rabble: what does that do Gulielmus?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cant believe the geometer cult are infernalists

Bolad: If Proclus' spell fails, I will try smashing the door with a flail.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it, uhhhh

reveals what kind of tree the wood in the door is made from, and provides a mental image of its natural habitat.

that's all i got.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could cast Unseen Porter on the door with Herbam req

Proclus of Rome: Are there any cracks in the door?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: vines + porter would be a funny combo

Rabble: It's made of distinct timbers I guess. You can't see through it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: pull on the vines with +5 strength or however much

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What kind of wood are we dealing with here though.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I want Terram XP so I will try

Proclus of Rome: Wait I have an idea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Oak?

Proclus of Rome: I could cast Prying Eyes on the room.

Zita of Mercere: There's no sort of external, pickable lock, is there?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And Porter is a Terram spell even if I take a casting req of Herbam

Rabble: This door is made of cypress wood. You gain an image of a sunny hillside, but you saw a lot of that on the way here

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: My Herbam is better so I'd be using Terram anyway

Bolad: I hit door with flail.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: -2 for infernal?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's cypress, everyone."

Proclus of Rome: I'll try sponting Intelligo Imaginem.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Cypress Hill

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is anyone here strong

Bialas the Bear: I have +6 Str as a bear.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh, Prying Eyes is only level 5

Proclus of Rome:

rolling (1d10! + 8 + 9 + 2 + 9 -2)/2

(

(

2

)

+8+9+2+9-2)/2

=

14

Rabble: astonishingly the flail bounces off the wood without leaving a mark. you suspect witchcraft

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: We should all be sponting it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sobs

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Since Proclus did it first, I'll wait to find out what he discovers

Proclus of Rome: Alright that's good enough for Prying Eyes.

Rabble: prying eyes eh?

Bolad: Is it possible the door is actually a solid object disguised as a door

And the real entry is elsewhere

Bialas the Bear: I can also make 2 fatigue rolls to, once per day, have +9 str.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

Bolad: What's the remaining wall of the sanctum look like

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you should come retrieve malach to enter this sanctum

Zita of Mercere: "Where did Malach run off to?"

Rabble: it's a well-kept bedroom, with a tiny window with an ornamental iron grate

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 樂

Zita of Mercere: "The last time he was left alone in a town... maybe it's a good thing that the inhabitants treat everything as normal."

Rabble: there's a step down as you cross the doorway, which has allowed someone to inscribe a perfect circle on the wall that encompasses the door

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Can a bird fit through the grate?

Proclus of Rome: Interesting.

What else is in the room?

Rabble: a bed, a chest, a chair, a table with an oil lamp on it. a thick rug woolen rug covers the centre of the floor, and ties the otherwise spartan furnishings together to give it a simple but undeniable charmn

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

GM: that's the rabble's opinion anyway

Proclus of Rome: Well, I recommend we avoid the door, then.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could go have some birds mess up all the circles

Proclus of Rome: How?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If they can fit through the grate

GM: most birds could not find through the window bars. a lizard could

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

Proclus of Rome: How big would the window be if we removed the bars?

GM: big enough for a man to wriggle through

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Are the bars also circled?

GM: nay

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay

Zita of Mercere: What if we left the bars, but Gulielmus made me size -3

Proclus of Rome: Alright, lets go in that way.

GM: -3 is bigger than a crow I think

probably dog sized

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

Zita of Mercere: Probably, true

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's bigger than a crow

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: –3 badger, carp, cat, duck, falcon, gull, hare, human baby, osprey, otter, pike

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Crows are -4

Zita of Mercere: Human Baby

GM: you finagle a way in!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll cast Unseen Porter on the bars to see if they can be bent

GM: I assume one of you can bend bars

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If it fails then it's still Terram XP

GM: actually you can sort of unhook them now that can see them from the other side

you're in a totally unprepossessing chamber

does anyone have second sight?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I do as a raven

Proclus of Rome: Hopefully not.

Zita of Mercere: All the characters with second sight stayed at home I think. Maybe Bolad does.

Bolad: i do

1 sec

Bialas the Bear: I do not.

Damn you bolad.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+0+2 ss

(

7

)

+0+2

=

9

Malachiasz of Tytalus: golad

GM: interesting

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wow that second sight score sucks

Bialas the Bear: I rip off the bars to the window after they've been unlatched, just to show off.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone congratulates gulielmus on dealing with the door

GM: ok here's what's in the room: a bed, a chest, a chair, a table with an oil lamp on it. a thick rug woolen rug covers the centre of the floor, and ties the otherwise spartan furnishings together to give it a simple but undeniable charm

Bialas the Bear: I can't go in the room since I don't fit. I refuse to be shrunk.

GM: no magus though

Bolad: "Let us look under the rug."

GM: shit!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, now to think of an excuse for Auram XP

Proclus of Rome: I'll move the rug.

Move Rug

Malachiasz of Tytalus: spartan furnishings huh

thats whats causing the aura

damn greeks

GM: it's all coming together

Bialas the Bear: "Hey, check out that chest."

Zita of Mercere: "Where?" I spin around to look

Bolad: "The laundy lady was not that impressively endowed"

GM: the chest contains clothes mostly

Bolad: Clothes are arcane connections.

GM: the rug reveals a slab of stone chiselled out of the floor. you could easily get your fingers around it

it's quite small in here, how many of you are searching this place?

Proclus of Rome: What's the aura in the room?

GM: still infernal 2

Proclus of Rome: I shall be.

Alright, let's lift the stone out.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll spont a Chamber of Spring Breeze to make this place smell nice

Bolad: Good, get rid of the smell of piss bear and unwashed mongol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling (14+d10!-2)/2

(14+

(

1

)

-2)/2

=

6.5

GM: cool. so it's zita, proclus and bolad who are definitely in here

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10

(

2

)

=

2

GM: and fiorella

Zita of Mercere: its infernal 2

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: 2 More for infernal?

Zita of Mercere: thats like

Bialas the Bear: I really need more scent range spells.

Zita of Mercere: 2 more botch dice at least

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling 2d10

(

5

+

4

)

=

9

GM: let me look something up real quick

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Phew

The spell succeeds then as its levle 5

Proclus of Rome: Close one!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I create the pleasing aroma of a well-aged vellum map

GM: this room smells fantastic!

Proclus of Rome: Someone lift that stone up.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll have to get that as formulaic

Proclus of Rome: I would do it but I don't want to damage my fingers.

Zita of Mercere: I have str -2, so someone else will have to.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll cast Unseen Porter on the sotne

GM: ok cool

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: This time it should be wholly relevant and not just adventure XP whoring

GM: the delightful smell is cancelled as all the plaster disappears from the bricks in this building, and your environment transitions from a hermetically-defined room, to a pile of bricks that is falling on you

Bolad: oops

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

How regularly shaped are the bricks?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's only three stories worth of bricks

Bolad: [5:55 PM] dys: interesting theory. however, zita cant die.

GM: does anyone have a suitable reaction they can active as an interrupt?

Bolad: Depends if I can use one of my Spirit Votary poewrs

GM: or else I'll roll damage

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i imagine the bricks are probably rough and asymmetrical

as most bricks are

GM: I honestly don;'t know how these powers work

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmmm

GM: where are they from?

Bolad: realms of power: magic p 88

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the floor made out of

Bolad: they're from a Magical Being

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a building falling on you is pretty damaging

i think some pcs might die

Bolad: basically I am activating the power as if I had the magic being's innate power

GM: well, unless the being bought the specific power upgrade that enables fast-casting they cannot

the floor is made out of stone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is it possible to cast a trap of entwining vines

Malachiasz of Tytalus: one of the pete spells has +10 damage for small stones falling on you

GM: well there's a room below you, so it's thin stone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh that's true. i do not have fast cast anyway

Bialas the Bear: I pull my head out of the window.

GM: yes it's +20 damage on everyone who doesn't have a clever save

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok just making sure

Bialas the Bear: Jesus christ.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I only have my crow spell as fast cast

Bolad: i am not sure there is a fast cast option for magical beings

Malachiasz of Tytalus: pc death. pc death.

Bialas the Bear: Put it back!

GM: there is for fairies i think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm not even in the room. i'm just inside the building, which is now killing me

Malachiasz of Tytalus bangs knife and fork on table in house that he passed through on the way to the castle.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could try putting the stone back

Bolad: HOWEVER.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll do that

Bolad: Canonically.

A certain Bird managed to fire off their power in a fast cast way.

Zita of Mercere: Theres no time at all to use any abilities?

Bolad: So it would seem that beings of Might CAN fast cast.

Indeed, Boyrep signed off on that.

Proclus of Rome: Beings of Might.

GM: oh they CAN, but they have to specifically know how

it's a quality of a power, i think

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok, the bares are removed right?

Proclus of Rome: I don't have any spells that work here and I can't cast spontaneous spells that fast.

GM: is fiorella putting the stone back?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

GM: ok

Proclus of Rome: How would that help?

Zita of Mercere: Do I have time to activate an enchanted item, boy reporter?

GM:

rolling d10!+20 damage fiorella

(

9

)

+20

=

29

you can roll soak

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Wait

GM: yes, I'll allow an action priority roll

Bolad: Can I roll Initiative against an Ease Factor?

GM: versus /d10!+1

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm going to leave instead

As a bird

What's the penalty to fast cast cloak?

GM: I'm afraid fiorella chose her action

Bolad: Master of (Form)

Variable points, Init equal to (Qik

– Might cost), appropriate Form

GM: also transforming and moving is not a fast-cast

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You asked that question in a vague manner

But okay

Zita of Mercere: Can I activate an enchanted item in this time

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: THe presumption was that you asked that because putting the stone back had an effect

GM: I said yes, but you need to beat 9

Zita of Mercere: okay

rolling 1d10!+1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

GM: on, uh, qik+finesse

Zita of Mercere: Oh, +finesse. Maybe I have that

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: ANyway I don't have anything if Cloak of Black Feathers is enough so I'll just die here

Zita of Mercere: Wait, I have ways of the town, and a town building is falling on me. I win.

Proclus of Rome: I'm going to try jumping through the wall bodily.

Zita of Mercere: I activate my item to teleport and teleport out the room

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have Small Frame so this wont' go well

GM: ways of the town is immunity to all rolls?

i'm sorry that's not what i meant to say

Proclus of Rome: +3.

GM: adds to all rolls?

within towns

Zita of Mercere: No? It's +3 to rolls in a town or involving the habitants of one

GM: well that works

Zita of Mercere: Its

a major virtue

GM: where do you teleport to?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10! Soak roll

(

1

)

=

1

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!-5 Initiative on PeTe effect

(

10

+

5

)

-5

=

10

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10

(

9

)

=

9

Bialas the Bear: Oh jeez.

GM: that's 1 total?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, time for a new character

Yes

GM: RIP

Zita of Mercere: I teleport through the window to as far outside the room as I can go. I can surely fit through it, I have small frame.

Bolad: Is an initiative roll of 10, plus whatever bonus Lightning Reflexes gives, enough to let me cast, BR.

GM: Have you established that you have a power you can fast-cast?

Bolad: oh come on

Bialas the Bear: wait can you fast cast/react with a spont without fast cast mastery?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you hurry up and roll damage against my character so i can close the tab

Bolad: There is no fast-cast option for powers, I just rolled the init for it to try and preempt the stones

GM: ok sorry G

rolling d10!+20

(

4

)

+20

=

24

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Small Frame so RIP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+1

(

8

)

+2+1

=

11

GM: I'm afraid Fiorella is crushed

Gulielmus is possibly ok

Zita of Mercere: Small Frame too

christ

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im back is anyone dead

oh nice

Zita of Mercere: Yes

Bolad: so you're vetoing interrupt poewrs 100%?

Proclus of Rome: Yes everyone.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: everyone except malach!! tytalus wins again baby

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sadly i just have a medium wound

GM: Is +13 fatal on size -1?

I wouldn't have thought so

Bialas the Bear: This seems like a rude way to make an ooc point about rules.

Bolad: please answer my question since it will change how much damage this does depending on the answer!

GM: Proclus I'm actually going to rule that your immunity to symmetrical objects protects you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: +13 should be a heavy wound against -1?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: why would it

GM: specifically because gnomon used extensive hermetic architecture on this building

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah but bricks are still rough

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Zita of Mercere: Bricks are symmetrical? Oh, I see.

Bialas the Bear: proclus wins again.

Zita of Mercere: that actually does make sense

Malachiasz of Tytalus: did he make perfect rectangular prism bricks?

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Zita of Mercere: yes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they arent symmetrical!!

have you looked at a brick??

Zita of Mercere: hes a hermetic architect

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gah

Zita of Mercere: it

actually makes sense

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There's a spell in the cult that specifically makes buildings symmetrical.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean if he handmade the bricks himself instead of just buying them

Zita of Mercere: he might've

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And it would probably affect teh bricks too

Zita of Mercere: boy rep says it applies, i believe him

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Can I shield anyone?

GM: I'm going to let Bolad fast-cast, but I'll re-examine this ruling after the game

I have no idea if spirit votary powers can do that

Bolad: it's a question of whether a Being of Magical Might can do it if it scored high enough init

and this guy got a 10 init

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Is teh power in question flexible?

GM: Proclus you can attempt to roll qik+athletics vs 9 to tackle someone

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't it be Brawl?

Bolad: yeah fiorella it's flexible and the init is slower the more powerful the effect used

GM: ok brawl

i was debating that

Proclus of Rome: Ha, got 'em.

Bialas the Bear: Save_us.proclus

GM: so flexible powers let you replicate hermetic spont casting?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If the power in question is flexible then yeah, you should be able to drop the level for more Init

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'll save...

rolling 1d3

(

1

)

=

1

Zita of Mercere: The real winner is Artemesia, who won by their player going AFK

GM: that sounds reasonable

Proclus of Rome: Fiorella.

Bolad: Duplicates any of a range of non-

Ritual Muto or Perdo spells pertaining to

the specified Hermetic Form, at a cost of

1 Might point per magnitude of the effect.

The level of the effect cannot be greater

than the creature’s Might, or 25, whichever

Bolad: is lowest. This power affects only one

Form, but some creatures have this power

more than once, for different Forms.

Mu(Form) or Pe(Form) 25: Focus Power

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Magic power initiative is derived from the level of the effect

Bolad: Variable points, Init equal to (Qik

– Might cost), appropriate Form

R: varies, D: varies, T: varies

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 1

(

1

)

+1

=

2

Hmmmmmmmmm.

GM: I don' even know what a botch would do here

you don't need to roll that

Proclus of Rome: Confidence points are + 3 now, right?

GM: yes

Proclus of Rome: Well shucks.

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

Bolad: Anyway the effect I wanted to use was equivalent of L25 Hermetic Effect End of the Mighty Castle, which still does +10 damage to everyone since they have pebbles rain on their head

Proclus of Rome: Botches don't need to "do" anything.

Bialas the Bear: you could use Exertion, possibly.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: +10 would keep me from dying

Bialas the Bear: As well as a confidence point.

Proclus of Rome: Exertion?

Oh, lemme check that.

GM: exertion is a combat thing

Bialas the Bear: oh.

GM: i'm pretty sure anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are my potions ok

GM: almost certainly not

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fuck!

Zita of Mercere: 19 vs 1 is still 18, which still kills a character with small frame.

Proclus of Rome: That's not good enough anyway.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the revolving door is moving of its own accord

Zita of Mercere: however, a conf takes that to 4, which is 15

Proclus of Rome: Wait.

Wait!

It is.

Zita of Mercere: which merely heavy wounds you

Proclus of Rome: +1 then + 6 from two confidence points is 9.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The falling bricks use three confidence points.

GM: are you sure?

Proclus of Rome: Yes I am sure that 2 + 1 + 3 + 3 is 9.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Increasing their damage to

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll conf to save Fiorella if it'll help

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea moves something on top of the new house rules

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: +35.

Bialas the Bear: I don't think you can use exertion but I don't know why I was thinking that you could spend fatigue to add a bonus to physical rolls. It makes sense, I guess.

GM: exertion is sort of a patch on the base rules

Proclus of Rome: By expending a Fatigue level you can add

a bonus equal to your Combat Ability to either

attack or defense for one round. This bonus

applies to a single attack roll, but to all defense

rolls you make before your turn comes round

again. In a group, all members of the group

Proclus of Rome: must expend a Fatigue level, and the bonus is

equal to the vanguard’s Combat Ability.

GM: because confidence does not go very far to give players control

Proclus of Rome: I mean, I AM adding a bonus equal to a combat ability here.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well wait, being incapacitated by pebbles is different from being incapacitated and bleeding out inside of a pile of rubble no one can get you out of

Bialas the Bear: You are.

GM: ok this seems to be how things play out:

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So I could probably survive Incapacitated

Bialas the Bear: You know, yeah, defending yourself is a combat ability.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+7+6 soak

(

2

)

+7+6

=

15

GM: bolad shatters the falling bricks, which i#ll allow is still a structure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: updated my powergaming journal

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

GM: fiorella is heavily wounded. gulielmus is lightly wounded

rolling d10!+10 bolad

(

6

)

+10

=

16

so is bolad

proclus now takes damage as well

Proclus of Rome: Right.

GM:

rolling d10!+10 proclus

(

5

)

+10

=

15

Proclus of Rome: I was going to demand that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you hack 10 points off the damage of the falling bricks i actually just take a fatigue

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 2 soak

(

9

)

+2

=

11

GM: I'd forgotten we changed all that

Proclus of Rome: That's 1 fatigue.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm just looking at the thing in the combat rules popup, is it out of date

Bolad: Me, after making sure i'm not dead: Sheesh, can't believe the GM welshed out of a TPK  again. rolleyes

GM: No, I am

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:  eyes glowing with power  furthermore thanks to my virtue i do not take any penalty from my fatigue point

GM: OK! a shower of bricks inconveniences you! fiorella seems to be in bad shap

Bolad: i think the handout is up to date but use the wiki if in doubt

Zita of Mercere: I have a soak of 1 and small frame so I'd have died if I failed my quickness roll

Proclus of Rome: Alright let's check under that brick.

I have 0 medical skill.

GM: probably not

Zita of Mercere: Well. Dead without Bolad's crit roll

GM: ok, beneath the slab is a small underground chamber

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I guess I can learn from this and master a fast cast teleport

Maybe learn to fast-cast Doublet too

GM: it's clearly the laboratory of a magus

Zita of Mercere: +20 vs +1 and you die on a thresh of 16, hmmm

Bolad: Oops, I read the rules wrong. Turns out everyone is dead.

GM: you can go through the belongings here, pick up an AC if you want

Bolad: j/k

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Small Frame is a buff to my Quickness - if I'm a bird

Zita of Mercere: Oh right. Because I teleported out I left Gulielmus' line of sight

GM: I honestly suspect everyone should be dead but it would take a lot of research and it's on me to know PCs capabilities

Zita of Mercere: "Wow, why are you all lying in those bricks?"

GM: but jesus there's a lot of them

Bialas the Bear: "That looks like it hurt."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea dusts himself off.

Proclus of Rome: Uh, when the pebbles enter a 10 pace radius they turn into flowers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Come inside, Zita."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I get up, surprised I'm not dead.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Or, well, you know."

GM: you feel like you shold be

Zita of Mercere: I posted my exact magic item in the ars thread before, but its a 500 pace ReCo teleport spell with several uses per day.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the aegis still up

Proclus of Rome: Who is hurt and how badly?

Bolad: I cough and spit out pebbles.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait a minute

did bolad factor the aegis in

GM: I was considering saying bialas was in the way of that teleport, but thought that would have been a dick move

Malachiasz of Tytalus: when he was using that ability

Proclus of Rome: What about the old washer woman?

GM: she's dead

Bolad: I didn't. How strong was the Aegis?

Proclus of Rome: Oh no!

GM: she wasn't that old

Zita of Mercere: lmao

GM: the aegis gives you -5

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it was -5 to casting totals for the magi

Proclus of Rome: She is now!

GM: or 1 less magnitude I suppose

Bolad: That doesn't effect my spirit powers, it's a penetration issue since the spirit is outside the Aegis

Penetration is 30 I believe

GM: ah fuck

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:  time rewinds  all right. everyone has been killed by bricks

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Bites Za Dusto

GM: ok that's a powerful spirit, it's not inconvenienced

Bolad: The pen is higher if the Spirit dwells in a Magical Aura

yay

Malachiasz of Tytalus: penetration 30 is pretty strong

im saddened now

Proclus of Rome: Darn, was really hoping to save on 1 fatigue point here.

Zita of Mercere: Looks like shaun's magus doesnt explode into gibs

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh, I do have 1 Terram soak

Proclus of Rome: Alright, how hard is it to dig everyone out of the rubble?

Zita of Mercere: wait, do they? 19 damage vs 2 soak

thats 17

GM: Let's just skip ahead a little here - you can loot the sanctum and take his lab texts. there's gno sign of gnomon in here though

Zita of Mercere: thta kills her with small frame

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll conf then

GM: you can also free yourselves without too much trouble

Malachiasz of Tytalus: didnt you botch

Proclus of Rome: What's in the sanctum?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: can you conf if you botch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is anyone hurt?"

Zita of Mercere: no he didnt botch

Proclus of Rome: Anything besides lab texts?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I rolled a 1 but did not botch

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gay

Zita of Mercere: with a conf its merely a heavy wound

GM: just lab equipment and personal correspondence

Zita of Mercere: congrats

Malachiasz of Tytalus desperately flips through rulebooks looking for an interaction we weren't aware of.

Bialas the Bear: We should keep that big rock from the floor.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: You need to agree for your character to die. Don’t be a tool. Seriously. People will hate you if you are a tool.

Bialas the Bear: As a memento of the time a bunch of you cheated death.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hey Shaun quit with the revolving door of characters  confs  pussy!

Bolad: I kill myself in shame.

GM: you do actually

because the GM will usually give in if you argue enough

Bolad: :(

Zita of Mercere: Its true

Proclus of Rome: What's the lab texts?

Also what about clues?

I love clues.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: people should be more like endrite when he gms, but not like him when he plays his pc

my thoughts

GM: I will go into them in more detail in the loot recap

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Who's going to carry that slab all the way back to Rome?"

Zita of Mercere: I saved myself from death by stopping play to melt down about the 1/10000 dice explosion that almost killed zita, long enough for someone to find that rule that lets you exert for double defence

Proclus of Rome: Anything immediately relevant?

GM: but you find a promising dialogue with bonafigura that might give insight into learning improved versions of arcane circle and line paramters

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristocritus died before exertion was invented, i think

GM: or you could ask one of them i guess

Zita of Mercere: brb

GM: clues there are none, however

unless you want to use some kind of magical investigation

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Not at -5 to everything

Malachiasz of Tytalus: aristocritus got ahead of our understanding of the rules

Proclus of Rome: IMPROVED VERSIONS OF ARCANE CIRCLE PARAMETERS????

GM: I think exertion is pretty wonky to be honest

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea pours some sludge and shards of glass out of his satchel.

GM: but people wanted tactics and things to risk

how many potions was gulielmus carrying

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is proclus going insane

Proclus of Rome: Just a sec my brain is glowing and is of galactic size.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm going to invent Shriek for terram projectiles after this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he was carrying an arbitrary number of potions

GM: venzi had that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: that wouldnt have really ehelped here

GM: curiously he never seemed to be wonded

Malachiasz of Tytalus: there were too many to dodge

Proclus of Rome: I FEEL like that wouldn't have helped in this situation.

GM: it would not

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There was an open window

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you should instead consider a Rego Terram ward

GM: you need to wriggle through it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: which would protect you both from metal-tipped arrows and rocks

GM: zita's teleport was pretty dodgy with the way it's been ruled to work

Bialas the Bear: i like exertion. its one of my favorite ars rules.

Proclus of Rome: Anyways, we should confront the Venetians now.

GM: ok, gulielmus loses Dinfinity of his potions, unfortunately leading to all of them being smashed

had he a finite number, some proportion might have been saved

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he also had one potion of talking to trees wedged in with the infinite number of other potions

Bialas the Bear: lol

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll play Tunde if our grogs aren't dead

GM: where did you leave them?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Fiorella probably won't help you any walking around with you bloodied

Proclus of Rome: They were outside.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: She never gets recognized for her patrician blood as it is

GM: Fiorella needs to make concentration rolls to cast spells,remember

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: She won't now with it spilling out of her

Proclus of Rome: She should be taken back to Rome before she dies.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is anyone besides fiorella wounded

GM: Not seriously

you should definitely give her a bind wounds

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll

Malachiasz of Tytalus: do i arrive at the castle yet

GM: is anyone guiding malachiasz to the castle?

Bolad: when do we get to the fireworks factory  crying

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+18+3-2

(

8

)

+18+3-2

=

27

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What's the Concentration rol lthing in reference to?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wounds status: bound

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I control-Fed in Obstacles and it went straight to the Realm chapter

Zita of Mercere: well magic items are technically spells but otoh, a lot of them have really quick and simple activation methods, so in-character it seems weird that they couldnt be used on reaction.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: magical items are NOT spells

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the activation methods are actually also things that are intended to not come up accidentally

Proclus of Rome: Activation method: recite the English alphabet backwards.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but spell-like effects.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i think you should roll concentration

Zita of Mercere: these ones are activated by clicking your heels together, not really hard to do on reaction.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: for casting them in a stressful situation

GM: casting while injured imposes a wound penalty x3 penalty to concentration

Malachiasz of Tytalus smiles Tytalishly.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

GM: casting a spell requires a concentration total of at least 0, if you're standing still

ok, I'll let malachiasz find his way to the castle because he's been a good sport and knows how to solve labyrinths

it helps that you cna just follow the ground where it slopes up

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah thats what i was thinking

it shouldnt be hard to blast my way straight through

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: https://puu.sh/yDH2W/e5776e8261.png

GM: the castle has not been greatly interfered with in all the remodelling

so you can just roll up blasting through houses and the guards are like "hey, what's up"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Hello, where are the important people?"

Proclus of Rome: Someone should take Fiorella back to Rome.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I haven't actually tried to cast anything anyway

Bialas the Bear: I could fly back to rome with her on my back.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh no, Fiorella!"

Bialas the Bear: That could go poorly.

GM: "You mean like the sergeant? The count? I mean they're mostly inside but you can't go in"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, the count said I could go in. Any strange guys with robes about?"

hm

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Does this happen often with you guys?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nah i cant say that im honest

GM: lol, are you?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: instead i will say I am going in, and also ask the second thing

yes

honest +3

GM: excellent

Zita of Mercere: "It's never happened on any other sanctum I've entered."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Zita, did you bring any clothes I can borrow?"

"Mine are all bloody."

"And I'll have to take them to Verdi to get them repaired."

GM: "I don't know if it's strange. There's that mystic woman the count took up with, but he always has his favourites.

Zita of Mercere: "I'm afraid mine are from Mercere."

GM: "Hey I shouldn't be telling you this, get out of here ya freak"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Where is she right now? I have to see her."

"You should definitely tell me."

GM: "I can't do that. It's totally not what being a soldier is about"

Zita of Mercere: "Well."

"Hang on, let's get you out first."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "That's true."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Do they have a Hospital here? As in, the place with the knights?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I walk past him.

Time to find the old hag.

GM: "Heeey!"

"well, whatever"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nothing he could do

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Do you have a court physician, my good guard?"

GM: I'm afraid fiorella isn't here, she's injured in another scene

Zita of Mercere: "You'll have to drop your parma, but I could lend you mine. They let you change your appearance, you just have to fiddle with this button here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: her wounds are bound though!

GM: Nonetheless Mal has a head start

Bolad: "Potion master, give her one of your finest potions."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Has Bialas volunteered to fly me home?

Proclus of Rome: We're hundreds of hieratic perspective paces away from the castle.

GM: You burst your way into the castle, meeting with mild interest wherever you go

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'm afraid my wares did not survive."

Steward: "Hello. I'm the NPC that approaches you"

Zita of Mercere: "At the very least, you could keep your dignity, while you're transported back to Lavinia for treatment."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea dumps an arbitrary amount of broken glass out of his satchel again.

Bialas the Bear: "Yeah, Fiorella, I could use a nap."

Steward: "You seem to be in a hurry. What's your purpose here, young man?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Hello steward, I have to see the old woman the count has been seeing."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was going to say there's a chest full of clothes but i don't think gulielmus knows about it.

Steward: "And what will you do when you find her?"

Bialas the Bear: "You sure you're not gonna fall off?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Talk to her about the town."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I went over the rule section and seems like casting while injured is just the injury penalty

* wound sectoin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Instead Gulielmus will just stand around and think about cypress.

Proclus of Rome: The chest was probably destroyed when a building collapsed on it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nonsense, i'm nowhere near as tough as a chest and i turned out fine

Steward: "I recognize you're in a hurry, but I'll have to insist you slow down and let us recieve you properly.

Bolad: The chest needs to make a stress check in response to the damage.

The strength of the chest depends on the craftsmanship that went into making it.

Steward: "Simply cutting through the labyrinth gives it no time to aid your reflections"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I stare at him.

Zita of Mercere: Does Fiorella still want the change of clothes? I answered her.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Ah, yes, the labyrinth. That is its purpose?"

Steward: "In the meantime, who is it precisely you seek, and who am I to say is calling on her?"

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If Gulielmus's potions are wrecked then there's an easier way to deny me casting, that my Potent Magic casting tools are also impaired

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'll, ah, give you ladies some privacy."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders away, leaving Fiorella and Zita sitting in the middle of a pile of rubble.

Zita of Mercere: "Thank you Gulielmus for your consideration."

Steward: johns has mentioned that rocks falling should force stress checks on all equipment you're carrying, and I approve this suggestion if he has the rules handy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is there any sign of malachiasz's tunnels

Steward: you can't miss them

Zita of Mercere: alright now im free from his parma i become even more retarded again

Steward: the town isn't that big, all considered

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, I have special casting tools for Cloak of Black Feathers and Murder of Crows

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I rub my chin. "I don't know her name, but it's an old lady that the count has been meeting. I'm sure she's very wise. Tell her... Hm... Justice is calling on her." I laugh.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And Cloak of Black Feathers is relevant since that'd be how I get home

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sadly i already bound fiorella's wounds and cannot walk away, leaving her bleeding out in the middle of a pile of rubble

Bolad: When a story event threatens

to break an item, the player makes

a stress check to see whether that

item survives the incident intact or

is damaged. To make a stress check,

roll a stress die + modifiers against a

Bolad: 15. If the roll is successful the item

has survived intact. If not, it has

been damaged. If the roll botches,

the item is damaged so badly that it

could break.

Stress Check: stress die + modifiers

Bolad: vs. Ease Factor 15

The modifier to the stress check

is usually the Ability of the character

wielding the item. Thus, a veteran

warrior has a better chance of preserving

the edge of his sword in

Bolad: battle than a novice. Other modifiers

depend on the situation, and the following

list provides many possible

example stress check modifiers.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: looks like gulielmus needs to roll infinite stress checks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's begin.

Bolad: damage levels: Shoddy ITems 1, Standard 2, Superior 3, Excellent 4, Supernatural 5

Steward: "I believe I can speak for her"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 100d10

(

7

+

2

+

2

+

6

+

5

+

1

+

6

+

7

+

1

+

9

+

4

+

4

+

4

+

10

+

7

+

3

+

2

+

3

+

6

+

1

+

4

+

7

+

1

+

6

+

10

+

5

+

5

+

2

+

9

+

10

+

2

+

2

+

7

+

9

+

4

+

2

+

8

+

9

+

6

+

10

+

7

+

6

+

2

+

1

+

2

+

9

+

3

+

10

+

4

+

10

+

9

+

6

+

2

+

7

+

1

+

4

+

5

+

6

+

1

+

7

+

2

+

7

+

1

+

6

+

6

+

7

+

9

+

9

+

8

+

4

+

6

+

7

+

8

+

2

+

6

+

6

+

2

+

9

+

4

+

6

+

1

+

9

+

2

+

7

+

3

+

6

+

7

+

7

+

3

+

4

+

9

+

4

+

7

+

2

+

6

+

3

+

9

+

8

+

2

+

1

)

=

525

Zita of Mercere: Work out whats needed to survive with your int+apothecary score

Bolad: Hermetically enchanted items have a bonus of magnitude of the total of instilled spell effects.

Steward: "Let us dispense with deceptions that no longer serve us"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll roll Bargain to figure out how good the casting tools I bought from Kifaaya are

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, I guess that works too."

Bolad: however that does not apply to gulielmuis' potions, since it is the glass bottles breaking, not the potions.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Is 15 from Abilities as Arts?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I scratch my head. "I was hoping you weren't her so she might panic a bit with the justice line."

Proclus of Rome: Got them.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+7 Bolads Bows

(

8

)

+7

=

15

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's this? looks like i don't have any knife skill, and so my knife has shattered into ten thousand pieces

Bolad: it's 15 from core rules.

Zita of Mercere: if the potions are dropped, doesnt that mean all their effects immediately go off

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok

Proclus of Rome: I think my stick broke.

Steward: "My lady Euphemia of Criamon bids you desist from interference in a phenomenon of great interest here"

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+3 Bolads Flail

(

8

)

+3

=

11

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Criamon? Oh, I see."

Bolad: My flail takes a level of damage.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, not Bargain then if it expects me to be using abilities that are 6+

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i kill bolad.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 1 Stick

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I guess Gnomon is a male name then. Does she know where Gnomon is?"

Steward: "She has taken no steps to scry on you, and remains ignorant of your interests here.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10! Bolads Armor

(

3

)

=

3

My armor takes damage.

rolling 1d10!+3 Bolads Dagger

(

1

)

+3

=

4

rolling 1d10 Botch

(

5

)

=

5

Steward: "This is immaterial. A magical power of great potency is unfolding here, and it would be a grave breach of our Code for your party to interfere"

Bolad: My dagger takes a level of damage.

rolling 1d10! The Chest in the Lab

(

10

+

5

)

=

15

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Your code? Are you a magus?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: incredible

Bolad: The Chest in the hermetic sanctum is not damaged.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, are you Gnomon?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't think casting tools have any hope here since the relevant ability is Animal and that's not an ability

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I guess you're okay then."

Steward: "This is the message I relay"

"I'm sorry, I don't know who it is you speak of"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh. Well, there's some Ex Misc hedge mage that was doing something here and his partner has lost contact with him."

"Also I think someone said there's an infernal aura about the place, which is also concering."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Anyway I guess I'm done until the recap

Zita of Mercere: Did you actually swap clothes or not!!!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Sure

Zita of Mercere: I need to know since my clothing is a magic item

and yours might be too?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't want to deprive yo uof your clothes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Really, I think the hedge mage is the thing that everyone cares about, and we should hope that whatever you're doing here hasn't gotten him killed."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders into the scene.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: They're not enchanted

THey're casting tools

Zita of Mercere: oh okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hello, Mal. Have you found Gnomon yet?"

Proclus of Rome: Your clothes, give them to me.

Steward: "Ah I see. I wish I could help you, but it may be dangerous to linger here"

Proclus of Rome: Just tell us when we show up, I guess.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I assume Zita can take them to Kifaaya at her convenience

Zita of Mercere: I was offering to help our noble jerbiton preserve some of their dignity on the ride back but if theyre being transported by a flying bear thats not really a concern

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: True

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I hardly think I'm in any danger here."

Steward: "I would urge you not to take any rash action though. Something interesting is happening here"

ok, malachiasz has taken the diplomatic route

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Interesting? I love interesting things."

Steward: the rest of you can arrive

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i say the line i said above

Zita of Mercere: What was in the magus' sanctum, by the way?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I whisper to the steward.

Zita of Mercere: Just lab texts and books?

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): "Whatever your master is doing here, I'm keen to help in any way I can. Could be a spot of fun."

Malachiasz of Tytalus passes a note.

Bolad: GM, please roll Damage Checks for all Texts and Books.

Steward: just lab texts and books

Malachiasz of Tytalus: especially for the perfect circle book

Steward: which were fortunately in an underground chamber

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes but it was thin stone

some chunks could have broken through

you never know

Steward: solid bricks would have crashed right through, certainly

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If he built a trap that extreme there was probably some evidence he hoped to deny us

Steward: actually i will roll checks for them, that';s a good call

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thank you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god.

Steward: but later once i establish how many items there are

Malachiasz of Tytalus: as endrite would agree it is only fair

Proclus of Rome: Alright, I'll inspect them.

Not really, if they're pebbles it's unlikely they could break through the floor.

ALSO Fiorella helpfully replaced the stone blocking the entrance.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the collapsing started first, some bricks may have survived and remained bricks

Proclus of Rome: Those wouldn't have fallen far enough to get through the floor.

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): "Restraint, of course. Once again, anything I can do to help."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: remember to give all of the books at least a +5 bonus to their rolls, since the author would have had that much in Latin

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think thats for the dice to decide frankly

Steward: Sorry let's recap

Zita of Mercere: The important thing is that we steal everything not nailed down

Steward: How are you all introducing yourselves to this oddly lucid steward

Rather he notices you approaching and bids you all welcome

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hello, Mal. Have you found Gnomon yet?"

Steward: He remarks that you have destroyed no further walls

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Just a moment." I go back to my whispered conversation.

Steward: so you're in his good books

Proclus of Rome: We should offer to fix the damage we caused.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets kick malachiasz's ass

Zita of Mercere: "Hello. I am Zita of Mercere, these are my sodales, fellow philosophers."

Steward: the steward is conscious of a steward's duties, so he pulls away from a whispered conversation

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Gulielmus ex Miscellanea."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gah

Steward: "Hello, my dear. Charmed."

Zita of Mercere: "Might you know of where Gnomon has gotten to? This city's design is apparently his handiwork, after all."

Steward: "The magus here was telling me all about your lost friend. I'm afraid we;ve seen no sign of him, but if there's anything I can do to help, pray let me know"

Proclus of Rome: "Thank you."

Steward: "There is no point dissembling, I speak for the maga Euphemia ex Criamon, who has a declared interest in this matter"

Proclus of Rome: "How long has this experiment been going on?"

Steward: "I would beg you not to take any gross disruptive measures"

Zita of Mercere: "Ohh. Well, we must speak with her. As her sodales, it would only be right, you understand."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait a minute

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Euphemia ex who?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: euphemia

nice

Proclus of Rome: "I don't see any reason why we would need to."

Steward: "A long time in the making, I think, but it escalates as it approaches completion."

Zita of Mercere: "A magus is living here, Proclus, and the town is enchanted."

Steward: "I'm afraid my lady is occupied at present. Can I convey a specific request to her?"

Proclus of Rome: "Uh, Euphemia ex Criamon is surely a maga."

Zita of Mercere: is maga the female? i thought magus was just for either

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a woman magus is a maga

Proclus of Rome: Magus is the male singular and maga is the female singular.

Steward: maga is the female. it's an ahistorical construction though, there were never women maguses

Proclus of Rome: Also Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign slogan.

Zita of Mercere: i said maga then, my virtue automatically has me speak fluently

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a group of magi and magae is a group of magi

i think.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I would like to speak with her when she has a moment."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea whispers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What's a Criamon?"

Zita of Mercere: "I realise she might be busy, but it would be a great service to us if you let us meet with her just now. You will, won't you?"

Proclus of Rome: "It's a hermetic house, Gulielmus."

Zita of Mercere: [sighing deeply] does Blessing of Venus give me +3 to influencing this man

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Never heard of it."

Steward: "she is somewhat reclusive, I fear, so I must ask what  specifically  you require"

are you trying to charm him? roll it.

Zita of Mercere: yeah, charm

rolling 1d10+13

(

4

)

+13

=

17

Proclus of Rome: Ways of the Fucktown.

Steward: including blessing?

Zita of Mercere: Thats including it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: look how far i can charm this bad boy

Zita of Mercere: if it doesnt apply, subtract 3

Bolad: BR knows everyone takes blessing of venus and wisely makes all characters homosexual

Steward: he smiles thinly

Zita of Mercere: I've used blessing of venus once in 16 years of playing zita, I should use it more.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Bolad: BR knows everyone takes blessing of venus and wisely makes all characters homosexual

hafl begins radiating a truly shocking aura

Zita of Mercere: That just makes it easier to influence women, yeah

Steward: "bless you, dear. look for your friend by all means, but I can only advise you leave this town in the next day or two. Things are coming to a head.

Zita of Mercere: "Of course, I understand."

Lets go meet with this MAGA

(From Steward): sorry late realising this. roll second sight

Proclus of Rome: "Shouldn't the citizenry be evacuated?"

Steward: uhh he did not by any means grant you an audience

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+0+3 ss

(

8

)

+0+3

=

11

Steward: he finds your flirtations charming, in a manner that seems a little condescending

Bolad: sorry that's a 2 actually

and it's modified by the aura, if it's infernal, that's -2

Steward: ah

Zita of Mercere: Oh. I was kinda rolling it to convince him to let us meet with her.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wheres celeste when you need her

Bolad: In other words, the result is 8+2+/-aura. hth

Steward: I know, and he's not having it

Zita of Mercere: Alright.

Steward: so the result is 8

ok you perceive nothing out of order

Bolad: Good to know.

Steward: It seems that polite words have accomplished all they will!

Proclus of Rome: What's the aura?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I want to watch what happens at least. Can you recommend a good vantage point?"

Steward: still 2 infernal

it's oddly consistent

Proclus of Rome: It is.

Zita of Mercere: "Gulielmus, one moment. Can we confirm if the effect on this town persists even in here? Just drop your parma on me and ask simple questions, it should be easy enough to check. Though please give me it back again soon enough."

Steward: "I expect you can be appointed chambers here, if you have no intention to interfere"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Of course."

Zita of Mercere: Does the effect still apply in here?

The steward seems oddly unaffected, so worth confirming

Proclus of Rome: "What is the expected outcome of this experiment?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I would appreciate it."

Steward: It does. this place is within the Boundary

Zita of Mercere: Interesting

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: intredasting.

Zita of Mercere: "That was awful. Thank you for your help."

Steward: he pauses a long time before answering

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the criamon are creating a second moon.

Proclus of Rome: Don't you mean... a third?

Steward: "Are you familiar with the practice of labyrinth meditation?"

Proclus of Rome: "Not at all."

Zita of Mercere: "No."

Steward: "This explanation may not be much help."

Bolad: Hm. Infernal Aura. Impending doom. Homosexual steward. Greeks.

Steward: "It's a way of achieving mental states that bring one closer to truths that are hard to grasp"

Bolad: I think there's a demon afoot.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Oh wait, Magic THeory (Animal) probably works for casting tools since that determines the maximum bonus

Zita of Mercere: "I see."

Bolad: The safest course of action is to murder this man.

Steward: "It is in essence a mental exercise however. One can walk the labyrinth, or trace it, or simply think on it"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "That's interesting."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus has let us know abotu the infernal aura, right

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Proclus of Rome: "Then why create a labyrinth in an entire city?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brb.

Steward: "The thing that is forming here, we postulate might be considered a labyrinth meditation for a place, for a part of the physical world"

"I cannot speak with clarity on these matters, as these are truths that must be learned in proper order"

Bolad: This guy is definitely not the Criamon Maga in disguise, btw.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+1+5 Cloak of Black Feathers

(

9

)

+1+5

=

15

Oh hey, I CAN fly home

Zita of Mercere: "Alright, here's a riddle to reflect on. Your master cast a mentem spell on a magus, which is, of course, a crime. Unless she wants her ass hauled before tribunal, she can meet with us and arrange a good explanation for what she did."

Bialas the Bear: Oh, did I forget to roll to fly home? I thought we were already doing that.

Hah.

Steward: "But it's just such a relief to talk to someone who might understand"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+1+5 Murder of Crows

(

2

)

+1+5

=

8

Steward: "Now wait a minute young miss."

Proclus of Rome: "Interesting idea, but why the necessity to make the citizenry a part of the labyrinth?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can't summon flocks of birds though

Zita of Mercere: "I've waited enough minutes. I can't walk 5 feet away from my sodales without being rendered an idiot by the ritual here."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Bialas can just fly me to the nearest magic aura

Proclus of Rome: ALSO you'd need to be able to make it home in one day or Bind Wounds would wear off and you'd be at risk of aggravation.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And I'll get myself home from there

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Huh? What magus did she use a spell on?"

Zita of Mercere: "Me."

Steward: "Oh, I don't know. I haven't seen how it works yet"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: -5 just means travel time is halved

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "You voluntarily went under the effects."

Zita of Mercere: "I didn't."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "You were protected by another magus's extended parma."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You can actually generate lab totals at -5

Bialas the Bear: Hm. Wonder where the nearest magic aura is.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "And asked them to stop, knowing something would happen."

Zita of Mercere: "I had to leave Gulielmus' sight when a building collapsed on me. That wasn't my choice."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, what if the high infernal aura is due to the city of Ravenna itself?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Do we have any proof of this?"

Steward: There are quite a few churches here

Zita of Mercere: "So, the effect was cast on me, entirely against my will."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But yes, i go to Vardian's Tomb ASAP

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "You don't look like a building fell on you."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, the half-dozen people who saw the building collapse, malach."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Half travel speed is still pretty good for a bird

Steward: "It might seem to a disinterested observer that you walked into a place where magic was being worked, unprotected

Zita of Mercere: "I avoided it, they didnt. Fiorella almost died, she had to leave us."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Seems a matter for tribunal, we shouldn't let this magus stop her research over such a thing."

Proclus of Rome: But what if the effect of the labyrinth is to normalize the aura over the city to its average?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Roll Perception + Heartbeast to find a magical piece of nature

Bialas the Bear: Hell yeah.

Zita of Mercere: "I'm not asking her to stop her research, I'm asking her to meet with us."

Steward: it takes fiorella a while, but she arrives home safely

there's a lot that could happen to a wounded crow travelling long distance, but i'm not that cruel

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Will she be available once this labyrinth research is complete?" I ask the steward.

Bolad: A disinterested person could shoot the steward with an arrow, in the face

just sayin

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well Bialas did volunteer to take me all the way, though it'd make it hard to continue the aventure

Steward: all things are possible

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: For him

Steward: the steward shrugs noncomitally

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Well, it seems likely. We'll wait until then."

Proclus of Rome: I have to say that I'm equal parts worried and interested in this experiment.

Zita of Mercere: "For that matter."

"Why are you acting normally"

"You don't have a parma on you"

Steward: it's true, bolad is totally fine with whatever's going on

who gave him parma before

Zita of Mercere: "I tested it. The effect works in here."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll leave it up to Bialas whether he wants to risk me getting eaten by a hawk

Bolad: Proclus did

Malachiasz of Tytalus: bialas is lazy

Proclus of Rome: Yeah it was me.

Bolad: Also if this person has the gift i'm not affected by giftstink

Steward: ok, you didn't leave his sight

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i feel like he would have to allow some danger to befall firoella

Zita of Mercere: If they have the Gift I am affected by it

Steward: well, then you can't tell if this person has the gift

Malachiasz of Tytalus: due to his negligence

Bialas the Bear: Technically I'm magically specialized in laziness.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: That's a good specialty

Steward: zita isn't getting any gift off this guym, he's just conventionally annoying

Zita of Mercere: wait, no, the parma blocks that anyway

Steward: oh no!

Bialas the Bear: he's got the personality traits Bear, Tireless, and Intemperate.

Zita of Mercere: well. i did leave the parma briefly. i guess i could have found out in that brief moment.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: bears are lazy

that counts

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Bears are also matronly so they could be good at caring for a wounded animal.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hes a male bear

well i assume so anyway

Proclus of Rome: Fucked up if true.

Steward: Fiorella is fine, I assure you

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's likely though not certain

Bialas the Bear: Alright, she's fine.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: That he's male while a bear

Bolad: I have a way to test my theory. I can shoot a lightning bolt at this person and see if they die or if they reflect it.

Shall I?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: garfield throwing bowl labeled pc death out the door

Steward: can you?

Zita of Mercere: YOu should

Proclus of Rome: I would hope you don't.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i would also hope youdont but for different reasons

Proclus of Rome: If this guy wants to stonewall us we can just go talk to the Greeks.

Bolad: Fine

Zita of Mercere: actually what the hell am i thinking, hang on

Steward: he's not interested in giving you an audience with what's her name

Bolad: Also maybe I can't, I think I'm limited to L25 effect

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Okay, I spend my adventure XP on Auram and Terram which both got used in hilarious ways this adventure, and lose a season of labwork recovering

I'll spend the time writing letters to my family about my crazy adventures

Zita of Mercere: I squint at the steward

Steward: he smiles blandly

Bialas the Bear: "Should I just go wild on him?"

Steward: this is a whole new smile

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll write to my parens as well and tell them to give my regards to Lyaois

Proclus of Rome: "Thank you for your time, uh, Steward."

Steward: a few servants mill around offering you refreshments, as you seem to be guests

Zita of Mercere: "You aren't a mundane steward, and I'm sick of this."

Proclus of Rome: It would be rude to refuse, I'll refresh.

Steward: "Then what is your object here"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Calm down now Zita, let's take him up on his offer for room and board."

Bialas the Bear: I'll eat large, socially rude quantities of refreshments.

Steward: "You are welcome to remain, as long as you don't interfere"

The steward remains standing and benignly smiling, seemingly needing to give no directions to the staff

You can leave at any time of course

Zita of Mercere: "We came here to look into a man's disappearance. We find a city enchanted, an insane maze set up, a boobtrap that almost killed us, and you, whoever you are, with some resistance to magic acting as if this is normal."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "It's a research project and we should respect it."

Proclus of Rome: "The boobytrap was likely Gnomon's."

Steward: "This not at all normal. Nothing like this has been seen for centuries"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I hardly think Criamon would intentionally do something harmful."

Zita of Mercere: "Then where is he? That's what we came to investigate, and this Euphemia should know."

Proclus of Rome: The Man in the Moon winks at Malachiasz.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they intended to do something great there

so what im saying is still true

Bolad: how about we issue threats

Proclus of Rome: "I would hope that to be true, but there's no way to know for certain."

Steward: "I confess, it concerns me to hear that a magus was living in this city"

"I mean, I'd call it a town"

Bolad: lol

Zita of Mercere: "Concerns you! We found him in moments!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Well, you were also aware of his presence."

"And his living area."

Zita of Mercere: "If you're Gnomon in disguise, or any magus in disguise, not announcing yourself and putting up this fake persona is scrying."

Bialas the Bear: This is some pretty clear interference with mundanes in a way that impacts the order. Let's Wizard's War him.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "The Criamon maga can hardly be expected to think a magus would be living here, where there is no covenant."

Zita of Mercere: "Also"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: actually the only thing theyve done to interfere that we could be certain of is putting up the houses

which might not be magically made

Bialas the Bear: The mentem effect?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: that could be the geometers

Steward: Many citizens attest to mundane workers putting up those houses

Bialas the Bear: Hm.

Proclus of Rome: Sounds like everything is in order.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we should stay here for a couple days and see what happens imo

then look for gnomon

Proclus of Rome: We should talk to the Venetians.

Bolad: We could look for what Hermetic Architecture is causing the effect, and topple it.

Steward: I have to confess this is a turn of events I didn't expect

Proclus of Rome: Who probably know Euphemesia.

Steward: but it's looking as if this is going to need an extra session

Zita of Mercere: us trying to reach Euphemia?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

i think ill be about an hour late next session

Zita of Mercere: i dont get this steward at all, i told him his master is committing a crime and needs to sort this out. is he some hermetic geometer construct?

GM: No, waiting to see what happens

Proclus of Rome: There's no such thing as a hermetic geometry construct.

Zita of Mercere: the steward having mr is driving me nuts because i cant figure it out.

Proclus of Rome: Well, there is, but it's strictly limited to geometrical shapes.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok yes 40-50 minutes late next week

Zita of Mercere: I try prodding him in the chest to see if my hand goes through, maybe hes an illusion

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to maul the steward to death.

Ho ho, just a joke.

GM: lol, sorry this is going so slow, ive forgotten so much of ars

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he could simply have true faith

GM: ah shit

Malachiasz of Tytalus: or any of the other effects that grant might or mr

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: his master has invented the parmula

GM: ok your hand goes right through him, he disappears, and reappears in another portion of the room

Zita of Mercere: "You piece of shit."

Bolad: oh snap

Zita of Mercere: "Alright."

Bialas the Bear: "Ohh"

Zita of Mercere: "We're finding this magus."

Bolad: The magus is right here

he just has sidestep up

GM: "Now let's not be hasty"

Zita of Mercere: "Oh right, the sidestep."

"Right."

"So, what's your real name?"

GM: "alright TECHNICALLY this might be considered scrying"

Malachiasz of Tytalus begins sweating and thinking about his Tytalan plot.

Bialas the Bear scrapes his claws against the floor

GM: "but I think a little caution is justifiable

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Nonsense, nonsense, Wizard's Sidestep is not scrying."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders over from a table full of refreshments.

Zita of Mercere: "A magical disguise is."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You have to try this. They've got meat between two slices of bread."

Zita of Mercere: "Well, maybe its not."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "It is not NECESSARILY magical."

Zita of Mercere: "What's your real name?"

Proclus of Rome: I sigh at yet another threat of legal action.

Bolad: "That sounds barbaric, Gulielmus"

"Meat is meant to be eaten off the bone, raw, washed down with mare's milk"

Bialas the Bear: "Why do you need the bread?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Of course Bolad, he's a Norman."

"Nothing but raving madmen over there."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Of course bread sounds barbaric to you. You aren't even a Christian."

GM: "A magical disguise is occasionally necessary when nobody expects to be dealing with magi"

"My name is Euphemia of Criamon"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes, but your disguise is definitely n-"

Bialas the Bear: "What's wrong with not being a Christian?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I cough.

Bolad: Who has two thumbs and called it???? This mongol

GM: "I think I've dealt very fairly with you"

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Well, you're right, this was justified."

Proclus of Rome: "I would be forced to agree."

"However, I would still like to know where Gnomon left for."

Zita of Mercere: "You cast an enchantment on me. I've been through this before, an idiot leaving indiscriminate enchantments around."

Proclus of Rome: "Maybe you should have stayed with someone who has the Parma Magica, then."

Zita of Mercere: "I did, until the building collapsed. Not my fault at all."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Again, a matter for tribunal."

GM: "I? What have I done to you?"

Proclus of Rome: "I can hardly see how."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Euphemia seems apologetic, and may not even be responsible for that enchantment."

"We should simply see what this experiment leads to."

Zita of Mercere: "I don't want to bother the tribunal, I just want to find out where this Gnomon is."

"After he dropped a building on us."

Euphemia of Criamon: "Honestly, I wish I could tell you"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It was a good trap I have to admit. Everyone expected something bad to happen when you touched the rock, not to the entire building when the rock was moved

Euphemia of Criamon: "wait, your friend atacked you?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good token

Bolad: gives me a good idea for a rite for lavinia though

Proclus of Rome: "I believe it was an accident."

Euphemia of Criamon: "you said you never saw him?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "She raises a point."

Zita of Mercere: "We wanted to see if he was in his room, when we entered it, the entire building was rigged to collapse."

Proclus of Rome: "We were dispatched by our mutual friend."

Euphemia of Criamon: "Ah, you entered a magus' sanctum"

Zita of Mercere: "We were concerned for his safety."

Bolad: I'd just like to point out, if we murder this person right here and now, there are no witnesses, and we get to loot two Hermetic labs.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats correct

Bialas the Bear: I'm very seriously considering it, Bolad.

Proclus of Rome: That's 100% correct.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and is definitely something malachiasz would normally support

Bialas the Bear: I should have to roll against my Reckless trait.

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, but this is Rome. It's come up before, see. Sanctums arent legally sanctums outside of a covenant."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: however the alternative option is far funnier

"Yes, but it was still clearly marked as such I assume."

Proclus of Rome: "As an aside, are you aware of the Infernal aura in the city?"

Euphemia of Criamon: feel free to roll it bialas

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "And so such things could be expected."

Euphemia of Criamon: "the magic that is being practiced here is very old, and shall we say dark of aspect"

Bolad: lmfao

Kill her now

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im not sure everyone here would be alright with bialas killing or attacking a fellow magus

Zita of Mercere: holy shit

Bialas the Bear: It wouldn't really apply. It's described as "not noticing when situations are threatening" and i can't have personality traits reflecting care or patience.

Zita of Mercere: kill her now

Proclus of Rome: "Shall we?"

Euphemia of Criamon: "I would ask you not to jump to conclusions on the matter"

Bolad: She's an infernalist She's an infernalist kick her ass out

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Let's hear her out."

Bolad: ooh it shocks you, to see what infernalism lies beneat

Bialas the Bear: "Excuse me? Dark?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "She's a Criamon, after all."

Proclus of Rome: Wow, now who loves murder?

Zita of Mercere: WARNING WARNING INFERNALISM DETECTED INFERNALISM DETECTED

Euphemia of Criamon: "Chthonic, in the technical language."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god.

Euphemia of Criamon: "the founders knew of these matters"

Malachiasz of Tytalus sweats.

Bolad: You know who else was Chthonic? Beatrice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did the bread i took survive the collapse

Zita of Mercere: Oh god shes like Bonfilia

kill her

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh my god. the bread... it broke apart and killed gulielmus

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "As a Criamon, you are of course certain to the best of your knowledge that anything happening here isn't harmful."

Euphemia of Criamon: "Nobody's killing babies or desecrating the host here"

Proclus of Rome: I relax visibly.

Bialas the Bear: lol

That's the line.

Proclus of Rome: "What of the Venetians you hired?"

"Can you vouch for their good character?"

Euphemia of Criamon: "you simply need to take a broader historical perspective on non-hermetic traditions"

Proclus of Rome: "Not that you are required to do so, of course."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "She's absolutely right, the great house Tytalus was especially progressive in considering alternative magic methods."

"And look at where we are today."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nods.

Bolad: Here's a perspective for you  shoots an arrow in her eye

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's true. My own fellow members of Vardian's Tomb are frequently inconsiderate about my tradition."

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to declare wizard's war on Euphemia and then fly home to tell Archibald.

Euphemia of Criamon: "I emphasise, I've brought none of this about, I'm simply intrigued to see an ancient tradition revitalised. It bears on my own research"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Absolutely, Gulielmus."

Proclus of Rome: How many days is it to the new moon?

Euphemia of Criamon: let's say 5

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Now let's all calm down and see the results of this experiment."

"I'm sure it will be interesting."

Zita of Mercere: "The results are that everyone in town is retarded."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes, they're mundane."

Proclus of Rome: "What covenant are you from? It's illegal for vagrant magi to go without covenant sponsorship."

Euphemia of Criamon: "the venetians seem like petty merchants, but they're actually much more spiritual than you think"

"ah, ahhh, is that Roman custom?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That is true. The effects on the locals have been absolutely catastrophic."

Euphemia of Criamon: "I'm sure they'll vouch for me in the Cave of Twisting Shadows"

Bolad: Euphemia of Criamon: "the venetians seem like petty merchants, but they're actually much more spiritual than you think"

Zita of Mercere: "Things are different here."

Bolad makes are you fucking kidding me face

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Now hold on, if we declare here a vagrant, what of Gnomon?"

her even

Zita of Mercere: "Right."

"He was staying here. Where is he?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Gnomon would be just as vagrant."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we'll just have archibald declare a death sentence for gnomon and then not follow up. easy

Euphemia of Criamon: "Again, I don't know. Obviously it would in everyone's best interest if you found your friend and went on your way"

"to that end, I'd be happy to help"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'm sure he'll turn up once your research is over. Perhaps he's marveling at it himself."

Proclus of Rome: "I think vagrantism is only a problem after a year."

"I can't be sure, of course."

Zita of Mercere: I can't enter stealth to backstab this infernalist without her Milky Holmes Field making me too useless. So someone else will have to kill her.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i just want to laugh when she allows this to happen and people die and she loses her criamon powers for it

Bialas the Bear: Ok. I'll roll Reckless.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and ill be damned if i dont do everything in my power to see it happen

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+3 Reckless

(

10

+

9

)

+3

=

22

Malachiasz of Tytalus: uh oh

Bialas the Bear: Okay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Now, we seem to be calming down. Let's retire to those rooms."

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+1+5+5 I attack Euphemia.

(

2

)

+1+5+5

=

13

Euphemia of Criamon: i don't think that calls for a stress roll

Bialas the Bear: Oh, damn.

Euphemia of Criamon: I insist you act on a reckless result of 13

Bialas the Bear: Okay.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont think youre going to hit

Proclus of Rome: That's PRETTY reckless.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: as euphemia has sidestep up

Euphemia of Criamon: it's about as reckless as humanly possible

what if

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: zita popped the guaranteed miss though.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its still a massive defense bonus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: now we all know she has sidestep up.

Proclus of Rome: Especially since we aren't sure she's actually here.

Euphemia of Criamon: she had a variant sidestep

Bialas the Bear: Yeah, it's pretty significant. This could also just be an illusion.

Euphemia of Criamon: she vanishes, and the steward reappears over by the fireplace

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's time for boyrep to stand for his principles and nerf sidestep

Euphemia of Criamon: I tried my best

Bialas the Bear: "Good one."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: right here. right now

Euphemia of Criamon: that would be untroupely

Bolad: i got an idea

Proclus of Rome: I feel like if you're going to be a bear all the time you should at least have good Brawl.

I have a GREAT idea.

Bialas the Bear: Sidestep is cool and you shouldn't nerf it because of the spell I have that gives me Sidestep effects as a stone bear with +26 soak.

Euphemia of Criamon: you actually have the bear's brawl

you can put exp in it if you want

Bolad: I can make it rain inside, and you'll know where the magus really is because you'll see an invisible human shaped spot where the rain is hitting her

Proclus of Rome: Let's leave and go talk to the Venetian.

Euphemia of Criamon: that's a good idea

Bialas the Bear: I do, I have Large Claws 5 and the Large Claws weapon bonus is 5.

Proclus of Rome: Actually you would not.

Bialas the Bear: and 1 dex.

Euphemia of Criamon: ok, if you want to do this we'#re going into combat rounds

Proclus of Rome: Because she isn't invisible, her image has moved.

Bolad: ..

Proclus of Rome: Also we shouldn't murder her.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is bialas a stone bear right now

Proclus of Rome: I think that much is clear.

Bialas the Bear: I'm a regular bear.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should stick around and see what happens

Bialas the Bear: I don't have sidestep up.

Euphemia of Criamon: well, euphemia shouts "Pe-" and her image vanishes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you should become a stone bear

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Pe.

Bolad: nuts.

Zita of Mercere: peh. peeh. peeeh

Euphemia of Criamon:  solemnly  "pe"

Bolad: i wanted to kill a wiz.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I try to fake yelling and being angry about this but I laugh instead.

Euphemia of Criamon: you can all roll awareness if you like

Proclus of Rome: "Excellent job, you maniac."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Hot scene maga says "peh."

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

Bialas the Bear: stressed?

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+2

(

10

)

+2

=

12

Proclus of Rome: "Extremely."

Euphemia of Criamon: nay

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Bolad:

(To GM) rolling 1d10 second sight

(

9

)

=

9

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+1+4

(

8

)

+1+4

=

13

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+1 per+awareness

(

7

)

+2+1

=

10

Proclus of Rome: "Why would you attack a maga who has been nothing but hospitable?"

Zita of Mercere: "About as hospitable as Galafre."

Bialas the Bear: "It was never going to hit."

Euphemia of Criamon:

(To GM) rolling d10!+3+4

(

3

)

+3+4

=

10

Bialas the Bear: "An especially threatening gesture, you could call it."

Proclus of Rome: "Galafre never told us what he was doing until we caught him."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, that's what happened with Euphemia, right there."

Euphemia of Criamon: you wouldn't hear ordinarily, because people would be screaming at the bear trying to maul a disappearing man

Zita of Mercere: Oh right

if hearing is what matters

i have Sharp Ears

good virtue

+3 to hearing-based awareness

Proclus of Rome: "She explained exactly what she is doing here and, though I find it highly unusual, there is nothing that warrants an on the spot execution."

Euphemia of Criamon: but since all the staff are looking on in bemusement, zita bolad and gulielmus all hear someone trying to quietly hustle upstair outside the room

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what about me

i rolled higher than guli!

Bolad: "Upstairs, Magi!"

Euphemia of Criamon: oh sorry, you also hear that

Zita of Mercere: "Maybe not, but I don't like her, I'm sick of dealing with this town. Come on, Gulielmus, I need your parma." I start pushing him along and running as fast I can while I do

Proclus of Rome: "That is no excuse for outright murder!"

Bialas the Bear: dont bully guli

Bolad: .. it isnt??

Zita of Mercere: "I'm not saying kill her, I'm saying I want a damn apology for her actions."

Euphemia of Criamon: ok, let's not do battlemap combat, this is a chase scene vs one person

Bialas the Bear: "You can't prove I was trying to murder."

Euphemia of Criamon: everybody roll athletics

Zita of Mercere: dex+athletics?

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+2

(

10

)

+2

=

12

Euphemia of Criamon: if you're giving chase

Proclus of Rome: "What possible other outcome could there be for attacking someone?"

Euphemia of Criamon: I guess that IS stressed

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

Bolad: I follow Bialas' lead

Proclus of Rome: I'm chasing Bialas.

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

21

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+2 Athlet

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I consider whether I should hustle after her or not.

rolling 1d10+1 lazy

(

9

)

+1

=

10

ok

Proclus of Rome: Oh if that's +dex then I got a 8.

Bialas the Bear: wait what

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i will leisurely walk after the others

Euphemia of Criamon:

rolling d10!+4

(

2

)

+4

=

6

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches on a turnip.

Bialas the Bear: did i just really fail at addition.

jesus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Euphemia of Criamon: hmm

you're all pretty fast

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!-2 dex+ath

(

10

+

1

)

-2

=

9

i did it

Zita of Mercere: faster and faster, its gulielmus

Bialas the Bear: Bialas stops arguing that it wasn't a murder attempt and bolts off mid-sentence

Proclus of Rome: Gah, a botch!

AFK a sec.

Euphemia of Criamon: you come around the corner of a staircase just as she's conjuring a bunch of illusionary doors and walking through one of them looking pleased with herself

"Fuck!"

Bialas the Bear: "I'm not trying to kill you!"

Euphemia of Criamon: ok bialas, you're in the lead, what do you want to do

Bialas the Bear: -giant slavering bear

Euphemia of Criamon: actually your bulk is such that nobody can get past you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Does this mean we can't stay and see what happens?"

Zita of Mercere: What if I stood on Bialas while he charged on ahead. I have perfect balance, after all.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should absolutely do that.

Zita of Mercere: Should I do this really stupid thing?

Euphemia of Criamon: he's quite a bit faster than you, in this moment

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+5

(

1

)

+5

=

6

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in this moment i am euphoric

Euphemia of Criamon: probably not

Zita of Mercere: 6 still succeeds, guess i do.

Euphemia of Criamon: succeeds at what?

Bolad: is "fuck" anachronistic

Euphemia of Criamon: yes

so is english though

Zita of Mercere: I just assume personality rolls are 6+ you actually do it

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to turn back into a person and stop brandishing my claws and teeth. The collar I'm wearing becomes a huge cloak and covers Bialas' balls and ass.

Bolad: Ok, time for me to speak in Latin

Euphemia of Criamon: are you, with 13 reckless?

Zita of Mercere: I mean, thats just my personal interpretation.

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back.

Bialas the Bear: I guess. I don't actually want to kill Euphemia.

I guess I could grapple but that's still physically attacking now that I know her location and not a sidestep/illusion.

Euphemia of Criamon: "Idiot!" she casts a spell

Zita of Mercere: Oh she's throwing down. I see.

Proclus of Rome: Fuck is actually one of the oldest known English words.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone roll to identify the form and technique

Bolad: She said Idiot, so it's Perdo Mentem

Proclus of Rome: In 2015, Dr. Paul Booth claimed to have found "(possibly) the earliest known use of the word 'fuck' that clearly has a sexual connotation": in English court records of 1310–11, a man local to Chester is referred to as "Roger Fuckebythenavele", probably a nickname. "Either this refers to an inexperienced copulator, referring to someone trying to have sex with the navel, or it's a rather extravagant explanation for a dimwit, someone so stupid they think this that is the way to have sex," says Booth.[8] An earlier name, that of John le Fucker recorded in 1278, has been the subject of debate, but is thought by many philologists to have had some separate and non-sexual origin.

Boom, Wikipedia.

Euphemia of Criamon:

rolling d10!+46 perdo mentem

(

5

)

+46

=

51

Proclus of Rome: I think Fuck is even older than that.

Bolad: Fuckebythenavele

Bialas the Bear: I'll extend my arms like I'm going for a hug.

Euphemia of Criamon: that's 27 penetration

Bialas the Bear: Oh shit.

I have 47 Mentem MR.

Euphemia of Criamon: lmao what

ok fair enough

Bialas the Bear: I am 82 years old.

Euphemia of Criamon: right, right

Bialas the Bear: With a heavy focus in parma.

Zita of Mercere: :blessed:

Euphemia of Criamon: she falls to her knees visibly much more tired "I yield!"

Bolad: gahaha, stupid maga, you didn't think you'd come up against the Ultimate Powergamer Squad

Zita of Mercere: Did she cast a level 30/35 spell on Bialas lmao

a level 30 perdo mentem effect, even

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i hope so

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hey, let's all get some food. I'm starving, it gets to my head."

Euphemia of Criamon: it looks that way!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I walk up a few seconds behind and toss Bialas a turnip.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "No hard feelings."

Euphemia of Criamon: what do you want to do with this idiot?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: not kill her as shes done nothing we can kill her on the spot for

Proclus of Rome: Why would we want to do anything?

Bolad: what do we want to do with bialas? idk

Proclus of Rome: I have no idea why we attacked her.

Zita of Mercere: Because we could

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Please, forgive Bialas."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Because Bialas is a fucking retard who shouldn't ever leave his lab.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's, uh."

Bolad: Because the bad boys of Vardian's Tomb are vicious psychopaths

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's got...?"

Zita of Mercere: Don't you even dare pretend that we were wrong to do this, johns

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malach is facing a heavy internal struggle because he wants to kill the woman but also wants to laugh at her experiment

GM: that's fair

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's veryyyyy..."

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches.

Proclus of Rome: Once I catch up to Bialas I'm going to do the old non-violent resistance move and interpose myself between BIalas and Euphemia.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Why are we chasing and trying to kill her?"

GM: I think I'd like to call it here

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Who's trying to kill her?"

Zita of Mercere: "I'm not trying to kill her."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, okay."

Bolad: Ok, I shoot Euphemia with my non-symmetrical arrows but accidentally hit Proclus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I toss Euphemia a turnip.

Zita of Mercere: "I wanted to yell at her for sticking that stupid ritual on this town."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Right, that's the important thing. Nobody is trying to kill you."

Bialas of Bjornaer: People always just assume that if you're a bear coming at them, you're trying to kill them.

It's racist, honestly.

GM: at present you know that whatever's going on here will complete in a couple of days, and if you want to find more about it you can call on the venetians in their mystery guild house

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the venetians are beating us to inventing the wizards guild

Proclus of Rome: Wow, why would we want to do that when we can attack and threaten people instead?

GM: if everyone's cool we can do that confrontation as a full adventure next week, and that should wrap things up

Zita of Mercere: i want to blackmail her into making me a magic item i can use, in exchange for not telling the tribunal about the numerous crimes she committed.

GM: i forgot how long it takes to type things out and remember how things should work

at present she will agree to almost anything

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, like i said ill be almost an hour late next week so until i arrive malachiasz is eating a turnip and watching everyone execute euphemia, or if they dont execute her, hes finding the highest viewpoint he can waiting for whatever happens

Proclus of Rome: I feel like she'd be willing to call that bluff.

GM: she's not thinking straight. I'm only covering matters that happen within 2 days tops

Bolad: Ask her to agree to donate all her lab books to us.

and vis,.

GM: sorry that fiorella is out of the adventure. there are still grogs hanging around at least

Zita of Mercere: what bluff? she scried on all of us and observably, demonstrably, cast a spell on a magus of the order that deeply affected their mind.

Bolad: Well, come on. Redcaps aren't "Real" Magi.

Zita of Mercere: she cast on bialas but that was after he swung at her

GM: zita cannot identify arts and magnitudes at a glance

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i award myself 20 xp for having the gm skip past a challenge so he could hit us all with +20 damage

Bialas of Bjornaer: That did sort of prove, or at least heavily imply, that she was responsible for the earlier Mentem effects.

Zita of Mercere: it made everyone in town retarded

its a mentem effect

GM: i don't follow

Bialas of Bjornaer: That's a hell of a casting total for someone not heavily specialized in mentem or also 80 years old.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good session

i think she life boosted

GM: i just expect you to use some basic divinations for breaking into a magician's sanctum

Malachiasz of Tytalus: she was tired after

Bialas of Bjornaer: That makes sense.

GM: she did life boost

and is specialized in mentem

Bialas of Bjornaer: Someone needs to kill Bialas.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i hope when i arrive at 4 pm est next week that everyone is killing each other

GM: why are you playing a magus 50 years older than everyone else?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dude dfd if bialas turns into a stone bear i can probably just destroy him off a spont

Bolad: Divinations

I think only Archibald and Lavinia do that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: denunciado

GM: Intelligences, let's say

Bolad: Again,

Zita of Mercere: anyway, she did commit multiple hermetic crimes here, so im going ot bully her into giving me something for the trouble she caused me.

i dont want it to go before tribunal either

but i do like free stuff

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill zita for dishonesty

Proclus of Rome: I'm a decent diviner.

Zita of Mercere: (also most cases are settled this way anyway)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea osbs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea *sobs

GM: settle the case by getting killed by whatever the venetians are summoning

Proclus of Rome: More Venetians to open a bank.

Zita of Mercere: that would explain the infernal aura

GM:  screams

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cant wait to meet mammon

Bolad orbs

Bolad: Wait.

I've got it.

Zita of Mercere: the venetians complete their ritual. everyone, roll soak against

Bolad: Let them summon whatever they're going to, then kill it, and harvest its vis.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+69

(

3

)

+69

=

72

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: These are Greeks anyway, not real Venetians

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: now i can never run the adventure i came up with since part of it was a mazelike city.

Zita of Mercere: lol

a third minotaur has hit the saga

GM: i'm sure the Enemies of Geometry will never appear again

Zita of Mercere: theyve realised proclus doesnt need to be actively opposed, as he's the greatest threat to himself there is

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm trying to edit the wiki with my updated sheets since Endrite reminded me my links are still to the old abilities as arts sheets.

they're good here

wiki's just loading. taking very long. rip.

Bolad: Let's let the demon wake up and fight it in glorious combat.

Proclus of Rome: Just once I'd like to be able to make friends with a wizard instead of watching my sodales try to kill her.

Zita of Mercere: We could have. She could have said hello, I'm Euphemia of Criamon.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malachiasz and proclus are the only ones not wanting her dead

Fucked Up but true

Zita of Mercere: And then we talk to her

Proclus of Rome: All she did was pretend to be someone else.

Zita of Mercere: yes, all she did was scry on magi. tsk, people complain about the tiniest things these days.

Proclus of Rome: Quite reasonably, I might add, since the person talking to her leveled the city to reach the castle.

Zita of Mercere: could you imagine if this was illegal and you were taken to tribunal over it? what a world that would be.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus doesnt want to kill his fellow hedgie

Proclus of Rome: Criamon is probably a stronger house than Ex Misc.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he doesn't know that.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: criamon is not hedge magic

Zita of Mercere: i dont want to kill her, i just want her to think bialas might so i can exort her for magical power.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who am i going to trust

Bialas of Bjornaer: I did just say "I don't want to kill you." to her.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the criamon we talked to, or malachiasz (tytalus)

Bialas of Bjornaer: But she's in shock and might forget.

Zita of Mercere: yes but youre also an 8ft tall maniac who smells like a bear

and tried ot claw her

Bialas of Bjornaer: Point taken.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you should trust malachiasz as he has honest +3

Proclus of Rome: Are you going to post the lab notes in the thread or what?

GM: I will yes

i'll write them up tomorrow, tehy only exist in concept at this stage

Bolad: anyway this is why lavinia wants to push for covecnant law

GM: good night, thanks for playing

Bolad: if youd pulled this stuff in the city of rome she would uhhh idk. throw books at you

Proclus of Rome: So that's where that saying comes from.