7/8/18

Endrite (GM): Do you remember what kind of wood the shovel is made out of?

devil's fav demon (GM): I don't believe beardbeard ever specified.

Endrite (GM): It doesn't matter, I GUESS.

moe: salve

am i late

Endrite (GM): Yeah we tried to start but everyone said "Where's Moe?" and left.

Ah well, maybe next week.

moe: exactly as was stated in my contract

good job everyone

devil's fav demon (GM): RIP.

You're an hour early.

moe: i should set the TZ on the new phone

Endrite (GM): Did we get any adventure xp in 1350?

Looks like 8 in the fall.

moe: gonna reboot and go for a quick walk, but i'll be back before the full hour

peace

devil's fav demon (GM): i nmight be a little late i gotta make my family food since they just reminded me i said i would do that for them today.

Endrite (GM): RIP

dys (GM): rolling aging for archibald for 1350

rolling 1d10!-16

(

7

)

-16

=

-9

No aging, somehow

dys: brb, might be a few mins late

devil's fav demon (GM): just in time.

Silvano the Scrivener: salve

johns (GM): Hi Sil.

dys: back

johns (GM): i know moe will be here shortly and i can ping shaun on steam

dys: in the list of magi and companions, Lavinia, Rosario, Giraldo and Celeste dont have visible name tags

johns (GM): I think cumthinker said he would not be here

grazi

dys: There are a high number of users in your video chat call.

johns (GM): Multo bene.

moe: Salve

johns (GM): Rome in the year 1351 is a transformed place. Funeral processions and church bells for the requiem are now a daily occurance.

Those who could afford to do so have packed up and fled the city to their homes in the country. The many who could not languish in the streets. It is hard to travel anywhere without tripping over a man covered in plague boils, or someone who has cast himself to the ground in fervent prayer for the mercy of the divine.

Shauncat: We've had to shut down the stillbirth bells as we need them for dead people

moe:  woman with dead child  I understand completely

johns (GM): UNFORTUNATELY Benedetti the merchant is among those who survived the plague. So Lavinia proposes a scheme, which I think dys should ask endrite to arbitrate his specific magic

Shauncat: Man covered in plague boils whispers it's free real estate

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a busy time to be alive.

Guy of Bonisagus: we could totally buy up a lot of property right now

johns (GM): It first betrayed itself by the emergence of certain tumours in the groin or the armpits, some of which grew as large as a common apple, others as an egg... merely by speech or association with the sick was the disease communicated to the healthy... any that touched the clothes of the sick... seemed to catch the disease... Many died daily or nightly in the public streets. Of many others, who died at home, the departure was hardly observed by their neighbours, until the stench of the bodies carried the news.

Dušan of Criamon: On the other hand, the price of labor goes way up

Particella: "Every crisis is an opportunity for profit."

Archibald of Guernicus: Right. We have an AC to him, and I invented two spells: a very very powerful intangible tunnel for owning mundanes with (allows up to level 25 effects) and a touch range spell, level 25 ReMe, that causes someone to feel constant fear for sun duration.

Particella: "That's one of my rules."

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a problem because I didn't have time to enchant this shovel with an charm against putrefaction.

Guy of Bonisagus: "What a miserable outlook on life."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

How many children can we buy?

Particella: if a person dies of disease do they keep their disease penalty as a corpse

Archibald of Guernicus: The idea johns proposed is that Voda threatens him and he gives in because he's very, very terrified

Guy of Bonisagus: is voda pronounced in the old roman way or the new roman way

Archibald of Guernicus: its pronounced voda

Endrite: It's Hungarian.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Weird Al - Yoda but with a V sound

Particella: i have some othe rbad news for necromancers, the Pope has declared, or will declare, remission of all sins for people who die of the Great Mortality

Archibald of Guernicus: The pope strikes again

Is nothing sacred to him? Besides the obvious.

Endrite: I would say no, because Rego Corpus magic means that the debilitating agony caused by disease doesn't matter.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's time to kill the fake French pope.

Archibald of Guernicus: Perhaps it is

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A Mythic Europe sized AoE to consecrate all corpses is pretty powerful even for the world's iconic holy sorcerer

johns (GM): anyway endrite does archibald's plan work without getting us killed by a mob

Dušan of Criamon:  necromancer voice  and I would have gotten away with it too, hadn't it been for you meddling clergy hierarchy!

Mortis ex Verditus: I would say you need a little bit more than just having a guy go around and threaten him.

johns (GM): And now that I remember our neighbors, the Hospitaller Priory, you can imagine it's been a very busy time for them

Mortis ex Verditus: Some flashy magic would help.

johns (GM): He's going to threaten him with a very reasonable offer.

and archibald will ReMe the man into cowardice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: There IS magic

Rosario of Flambeau: Magic is very powerful.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Magic that makes him very susceptible to gaslighting

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, that sounds like it'll work.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, its the base 10 ReMe effect, it makes him terrified

he reacts fearfully to everything

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Base 10 is potent stuff

Mortis ex Verditus: You just need to get him alone.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It sits above Base 1 2 3 4 and 5

johns (GM): can you implant a mental suggestion for him to go to a certain place at midnight

Archibald of Guernicus: Possibly, not without inventing another spell to do so, lets see

johns (GM): Or, I can lend Voda an invisibility ring and let him stalk benedetti, reminding him that we will use Insanely Powerful and Sick Magic if he misuses the item.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have a spell for telling when people who have been tunnelled are asleep

Archibald of Guernicus: A complex command is level 20, it doesnt seem to say about simple commands

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can kidnap him when he falls asleep

And his bodyguards arebeing eaten by birds

johns (GM): remember he has heirs so if he dies we have to deal with them next

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 0 Cowardly

(

9

)

+0

=

9

He agrees!

I mean I agree.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can't inherit a vis site, at least

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Good man."

I lend him the ring.

Rosario of Flambeau:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!-8+1 rosario aging plus overtime lab penalty 1350 ignore this

(

6

)

-8+1

=

-1

Archibald of Guernicus: The big advantage here is that this effect can be used to terrify anyone we want to, all it needs is an AC and they have no idea who's doing it to them

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh yeah johns, was the table of Church Lore EFs in the Church book that isn't RoP Divine?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: correct

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll crack it open when I do Hazm's 1350

Archibald of Guernicus: That is of course until the mentem blight [loud, raucous laughter]

Rosario of Flambeau: Bwahahaha.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that would suck

Lavinia of Jerbiton notices she has no mentem form

Voda: I'll follow Benedetti around until he's alone and then inform the covenant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: or... would it

Dušan of Criamon: Mentem blight sounds like something to insult people with on a gaming forum

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He had bodyguards the last time we encountered him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Maybe they died of plague.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sorry I've been disengaged, I was delayed in last minute cramming my seasons so I wanted to catch up before we really got started.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no worry we're not into the session proper yet dfd

Rosario of Flambeau: ace

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Deficient Mentem is an insult we enjoy

It's also a by the book flaw

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristocritus...

Dušan of Criamon: Perfect

also i might disappear for 10 minutes to hang up some laundry in a few

i'll check right now actuallyt

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If the Church book also has Canon Law EFs I can see about making Hazm useful in that department too

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Blood is an A/C that lasts decades so the samples we have of Benedetti should still be valid

Endrite: They should be.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ah wait it's Years, but you can use Apothecary to extend the shelf life of A/Cs

Guy of Bonisagus: apothegary

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Good indie game name

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so archibald just needs to cast and we'll hope there's no MR here.

Archibald of Guernicus: Shouldn't be any MR to worry about

rolling 1d10+39 vs level 30 for tunnel

(

2

)

+39

=

41

Dušan of Criamon: all done

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A saint extends a holy shield over Benedetti to keep PCs from achieving anything

Endrite: There's six million MR you need to penetrate.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah!

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+34 vs 25 for mentem effect

(

7

)

+34

=

41

Endrite: Alright, it works.

Benedetti is deeply terrified of anything and everything, for however long the duration is.

Archibald of Guernicus: Just sun

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Voda, tell him you want to buy his house for whatever a reasonable price for it is, and suggest that if he declines, your gang of street thugs will burn down his warehouses."

Archibald of Guernicus: If we have a prisoner this could be FFM'd to Moon. I mean, in theory, if we were the kind of people who would do such a thing.

Endrite: Benedetti is so terrified by this idea that he agrees to sign.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Nice.

Which of our covenfolk should get to live in the Rich Person's house

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 3 + 1

(

5

)

+3+1

=

9

Archibald of Guernicus: Napolino

Endrite:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 2

(

10

+

1

)

+5+2

=

18

Archibald of Guernicus: He's a great guy, he deserves it

Guy of Bonisagus: faustus has been behaving. lets let him have the house

Endrite: Even without his wits about him, Benedetti is still a skilled merchant.

What's a reasonable price for a house in Rome.

Dušan of Criamon: Releasing faustus seems like a bad idea to this humble observer

Guy of Bonisagus: whats the worst that could happen

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let me look up city * guild

a Standard Urban House is 5 MP

x2 for Superior, x5 for Excellent

Dušan of Criamon: Flying skull on the loose seems like a classic scenario to me

Endrite: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we cannot let faustus go because he is a source of vis.

Endrite: I'd say 20 MP in this case.

A superior home and a victory in the Bargain contest for another X2 to the price.

Celeste: I think its time to bring Celeste on an adventure, it's been a while.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: That's a year of Gulielmus' profits

Endrite: That should be ok, because profit and saving is sinful.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will be honest. i am not really tracking finance anymore now that we have the de facto fief of ponza.

Endrite: Better to save your soul than your coin, as they say.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Or even better. let's trade him this mysterious Reliquary we've had sitting in oru basement for 40 years.

Celeste: "You guys have such a good library. Thanks for letting me hang out there when I'm off hours."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its got gold and gems on it. a fair bargain

Mortis ex Verditus: Mortis will install Faustus in his lab.

Endrite: He's afraid of magical artifacts.

Celeste: "Can I read that book bound in human skin sometime? I've heard you talk about it. I promise it won't be dangerous or anything."

johns (GM): thankfully this isn't magical, it's infernal

Celeste: Nice.

Endrite: Uh, it's a hermetic device.

johns (GM): ohh fair enough. then we'll give him the rod of kabshiel

Endrite: Just give him the money.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

johns (GM): kk

Dušan of Criamon: these all sound like setups to 1351's Most Humorous Anecdotes From The Home

johns (GM): that was old business, shall we move onto New Business

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

I think we should commission a statue of me.

Celeste: im serious btw i think i have the highest infernal lore in the covenant right now and as someone w true faith and in possession of a relic, celeste is the safest person to have read it.

Mortis ex Verditus: As the Savior of Rome.

johns (GM): I see no harm in letting everyone read the book, Celeste.

moe:  we did it Patrick! We saved Rome

Celeste: Score!

Archibald of Guernicus: lol moe

[standing atop pile of plague corpses] Amazing. Just think, this city would have been in a real bad state without me

Celeste: hah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hazm would be interested to know if Celeste finds the Black Bishop's true name in the flesh book

Celeste: "I'm glad I'm not sick. Probably all that wine, it's good for my, uh, humours."

johns (GM): It is hard to tell what's going on in the outside world these days, because pilgrims are fewer, casual teleportation is gone, and you haven't had a redcap visit in a year.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Celeste: I could roll infernal lore to see if i've read anything yet

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe we should pay a visit to Harco

johns (GM): While in Venice, Fiorella saw that the problem was bad enough that bodies were clogging the canals.

Guy of Bonisagus:  watching miasma ping-pong around the churchyard with my second sight  i wish these people would understand the good that magic can do

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can also send a pigeon out to any location we have an AC to

Mortis ex Verditus: Just make the Gifted Mercere make all the deliveries.

Celeste: hes your classic demon, right, not some kind of infernal ghost or undead creature

johns (GM): lol.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds like Rome is on its way to becoming Caput Mundi once again.

We have way fewer deaths, comparatively.

johns (GM): the demon in the reliquary?

Celeste: more like kaput mundi

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I've left it to johns to define the Black Bishop

johns (GM): it's just a demon. i can't even remember the name I gave him he's so irrelevant.

Celeste: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: But I fugre he's a doppelganger or possession kinda demon

johns (GM): You return to the Eastern Ear Inn, glad to have secured your old vis site back. Particella, your shifty eyed barkeep, is poking through a pile of curios on the bar. "Have a profitable excursion, my learned masters?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Wasn't it like a decrepit hag who appears in your dreams?

Maybe like a vulture?

Dušan of Criamon: That is no way to speak of our noble barkeep

Celeste flirts with Particella

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Particella: He tries to con you out of your relic.

Mortis ex Verditus: So how does the Torre di Conti look these days?

Celeste: "I like you. You're not, uh, you're very not old or decrepit."

Mortis ex Verditus: Are sentries falling dead at their posts?

Fiorella of Jerbiton puts a herb-soaked rag over her mouth for the sundown Parma restoration

Particella: Pretty empty. Hugo moved most of his court out to Allumiere.

Celeste: "But no, that's mine, I use it for work. Sorry."

Archibald of Guernicus: Smart plan.

Mortis ex Verditus: Not the Militia Tower.

The one with the regio in it.

Particella: "Aw you don't want that dingy old thing. Take a look at these artifacts I just acquired -- for a very excellent price, I must say -- genuine pieces of antiquity right here."

He shows you a bronze mirror, a chipped rusted sword, and a chunk of limestone with runes on it that is ice cold to the touch.

Celeste: "You're a riot. You and me, we should go to church together sometime."

Particella: oh historically that one lost its top floors in the earthquake endrite

so the regio is just floating in midair now

Guy of Bonisagus: i recognize this

take the mirror

Celeste: I'm going to keep my holy mace.

Mortis ex Verditus: Just like the rest of the regio.

Still, we should try to claim it.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Archibald, do these runes seem Pictish? Or more Norse?"

Mortis ex Verditus: I want those spirit jars.

Guy of Bonisagus: gotta have my jars

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll take a look at the runes Fiorella brought

Guy of Bonisagus: ill buy the demon sealing mirror off the innkeeper

Particella: "A wise purchase. I've always said you have a keen eye for a good bargain, Guy."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Who sold you this garbage?"

Celeste: Those spirit jars seemed cool.

You had to make them yourself though.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mortis should be able to recognize Norse runes as a Verditius

Archibald of Guernicus: "Certainly aren't Pictish, Norse could be a good guess."

Celeste: And we have the texts. All the ones in the tower were broken.

Particella: "You know how it is. Empty homes, people keeling over left and right, and everyone comes in with some knickknacks they say they got off their dear beloved brother. They give a sob story about how they need money for the coffin and the poor children and .... let's be real. Thieves, mostly."

Mortis ex Verditus: Verditus runes are different than Classic Verditus runes, which are just Norse runes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They should have Norsefeel at least

Guy of Bonisagus: While holding the mirror, I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed. Am I being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

Particella passes a note to a player

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Rune magic is useful because it gives you new durations with the same sort of potential for visless effects as Circle Ring

If this is, in fact, some sort of rune magic or viktir thingy

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll cast Archibald's Unmasking the Sigil on the runestone, any magical effects present?

Particella: None

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

check my mirror

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Mm. So not magical. But still unnaturally cool. Perhaps faerie?"

Guy of Bonisagus: pretty sure limestone is just cold

Celeste: "I'll take the sword if you're just feeling generous for a pretty girl today."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Roll philosophiae to explain that limestone is just cool

Celeste: "I won't buy it though. Looks like a real piece of shit."

Dušan of Criamon: "'twould be humorous to hide a completely mundane rock among a convolution of magical items"

Particella: "Which sword is that?"

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+7

(

2

)

+7

=

9

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's no magic in the runestone."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Pretty good total for a 2 roll

Celeste: "That rusty one that looks like you've been trying to cut through bricks with it."

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't take any interest in this junk.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's see the mirror." I do the same with it, any magic in it

Dušan of Criamon: "If none other desire the stone I shall take it. It seems like the greatest conundrum among this selection."

Particella: "Ah, you mean the  glatius . That's what they called them back then, you know."

Guy of Bonisagus: glat

Dušan of Criamon: "Also, possibly a scam."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps one of my parrots would like the runestone. They enjoy rubbing themselves on oddly shaped objects. How much is it?"

Sounds like Dusan has a better plan for it than me

Celeste: "Yeah, but it's called a sword now."

Particella: "You're wizards, how about turning some lead into gold for me?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Turn beer into gold by selling it."

Celeste: "It might be fun to try to clean up. Never done blacksmithing before."

Guy of Bonisagus: johns did archibald find magic in my mirror

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think you can do Engimatic Wisdom meditations to figure out mundane conundrums

Particella gestures to the nearly abandoned inn

Fiorella of Jerbiton: As a bonus to Lore rolls and such things

Particella: "All this death and plague... it's got people in such a  pious  mood. It's infuriating."

Mortis ex Verditus: "When Rome is once again the center of the world, you won't be able to keep pace with all the customers from every corner of Christendom."

Dušan of Criamon: I know, but I don't know if this truly is mundane

Actually, could I meditate to find out

Particella: Ok.

Guy of Bonisagus: "There's nothing wrong with piety."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can use a fairly low level InVi to find out if something is vis

Mortis ex Verditus: "Just wait a little while while I fix this plague.

"

Celeste: "I'm not even sure if creating gold is a sin. You should go for it, wizards."

Particella: "You want piety, become a monk. I'm here for profit."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Faerie vis can sometimes pass itself off as a lucky object

Celeste: "Just don't let it get to your heads or start worshipping it, y'know."

Particella mutters "if there's any left to have in this city"

Guy of Bonisagus: "You should mind that your coins don't weigh down your soul."

Dušan of Criamon: I don't have the InVi spell and meditation only improves skills I already have at 1 or better

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ahhh

Archibald of Guernicus: "I miss Ildebrando." I mutter as I wander off

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm not sure which ability would apply here

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Celeste: "He would at least pour the drinks quietly!" I yell after Archibald.

Mortis ex Verditus: How CAN we attract more people to the city?

Dušan of Criamon: ACTUALLY if this qualifies as a conundrum

i can meditate to improve a EW roll to solve the conundrum

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Scales of the Faerie Weight is only InVi 5, I could probably cast it

Celeste: We could try to prevent the city from being destroyed by blights.

Guy of Bonisagus: we could use mentem magic

Particella: probably by bringing the pope back, and then subjugating the pope to the Holy Roman Emperor, reinstating the Pax Romana for the next 1,000 years. this tea tho

Dušan of Criamon: boosting my EW using EW like a true gamer

Celeste: And then people would come back.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok that sounds like two good plans.

We need to re-establish communication with the rest of the Order of Hermes.

Dušan of Criamon: Now there's a good plan

Archibald of Guernicus: If only we had a redcap who was immune to disease.

[loudly, half-crying] I said if only we

Dušan of Criamon: let's send out the birds

Mortis ex Verditus: Good idea.

Can you actually do that, Fiorella?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Alright, I'll try to detect faerie vis in the runestone

Guy of Bonisagus: the mirror looks cool

Fiorella of Jerbiton: johns has informed me it's a Base 1 effect

Guy of Bonisagus: wonder what i can make with it

Celeste: I don't know if she can run communication for all of the Order but we can send messages to anyone we know the location of.

I think.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Minimum 2 for Touch

rolling (16+d10!)/5

(16+

(

4

)

)/5

=

4

Celeste: He's not giving me the shitty old gladius for free, I guess?

rip.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, I'll try again with infernal

Mortis ex Verditus: At least pay the man.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (16+d10!)/5

(16+

(

8

)

)/5

=

4.8

johns (GM): He's a businessman, not an almoner.

Celeste: It's trash. I'm doing him a favor.

Guy of Bonisagus: Because other magi can see

you, this spell is not held to constitute scrying

by magic. Using it through another covenant’s

Aegis counts as showing off, however.

Mortis ex Verditus: Don't tell me you've been wasting your salary.

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

johns (GM): If it's trash then why do you want it so much?

Celeste: Because I need a new hobby and I want to get into refinishing damaged arms and armor.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It contains no faerie or infernal vis. Divine is highly unlikely so I don't think I'll continue this line of inquiry."

johns (GM): alright

good session everyone

Mortis ex Verditus: Great work!

Guy of Bonisagus: where are the shape and material bonuses listed

Mortis ex Verditus: How much XP?

Celeste: "Here, I have these fancy alchemically modified steel arrows that I don't want to track in my inventory anymore. You can have 'em."

johns (GM): 5

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

johns (GM): https://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/ArM5IndexS&MbyShape.pdf

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We could try to track down that Norse merinita who used to claim my lab to see if he knows anything."

Celeste: "They're in much better condition than the sword, and rare. You're making out like a bandit."

johns (GM): He is, and he accepts the deal greedily.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "His stuff had runes all over it."

Celeste: "Nice."

johns (GM): Time for an adventure in Arcadia

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Runes, and stone reliefs."

Guy of Bonisagus: mirror doesnt give any bonuses im interested in, maybe ill use it as an actual mirror of opposition

Dušan of Criamon: "Hm. I've nothing to trade, but do hold on to the rock for me. I'll find something to trade for it."

Celeste: "He was really nice. Shame about the wife and family thing or maybe we could have had something."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Guy gets dragged to Arcadia by the Queen of Gold and GLass

And replaced by a faerie who knows all his spells and can invent new ones

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

So if all these houses are empty, I could just animate the former occupants and have them sign their homes over to me.

Quick, let's find a notary!

johns (GM): The notaries are dead.

Celeste: Why not just sign them yourself? It's the same thing.

Mortis ex Verditus: Damn!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hazm has Civil Law

Dušan of Criamon: You could just raise the notaries

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe he can help lay claim to property

Dušan of Criamon: though that would be even more immoral

Mortis ex Verditus: Animating notaries wouldn't do any good.

Can you use Rego Corpus to make someone talk?

Guy of Bonisagus: oh, i know

ill get a ruby and embed it in the mirror

Celeste: there you go.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think it would take a lot of finesse to do it with ReCo but not with ReMe

Guy of Bonisagus: thats a whole +6 for ANYTHING involving fire!

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait what?

What do you want a mirror for?

Celeste: We all got some really badass trash.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He wants treasure

Guy of Bonisagus: i got the cool looking bronze mirror

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can't blame a man for wanting his streasure

Guy of Bonisagus: and im gonna use it to ignite people

Mortis ex Verditus: That seems unwieldy.

You could just make a wand.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A mirror has a handle

I'd say it works as a wand

Mortis ex Verditus: It wouldn't get the wand bonus though.

Guy of Bonisagus: ill figure out something with it

mirrors get a really hefty illusion bonus

ill toss it in a crate

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Guy also has some supernatural compulsion to pyromania affecting him

devil's fav demon: you could create great illusions of fires.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So his plan doens't have to seem completely rational

johns (GM): if we're done here im gonna go play rimworld

Mortis ex Verditus: How fast can your homing pigeons fly to different covenants?

devil's fav demon: Oh, I didn't realize there was a narrative reason Guy was inventing Pilum of Flame in the middle of the blight.

lol

Guy of Bonisagus: mirror that shows the reflection as being covered in fire

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let me look, it's in the spell description

Celeste: NOW it makes sense.

What is the adventure

Mortis ex Verditus: I really need to get some more corpus vis.

Celeste: It's not this shit we just bought?

johns (GM): Well, let's look at the clues

It's something magical. It has no active magic effects. It is not fairy or infernal vis.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They can go up to 500 miles if summoned at sunrise

Celeste: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They can go faster if they're not conserving their stamina though, I assume

Celeste: Too bad I'm not a wizard and can't learn Magic Lore.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can

Celeste: It's an Arcane ability.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That's just chargen though

Celeste: Oh.

Mortis ex Verditus: I need to send out messages reminding everyone that I'm a master of Corpus magic and that I have a few commission slots open.

Celeste: I poke the rock with the rusty sword.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: There's virtues for people who know Magic Lore at chargen but are mundanes

Mortis ex Verditus: They just need to like and subscribe and give me twice the vis cost in corpus vis.

johns (GM): Nothing happens, Celeste.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Arcane" in the sense of unusual or esoteric.

Guy of Bonisagus: I hurl a pilum of flame at the rock.

Mortis ex Verditus: Supernatural skills are the ones that are magic.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll send out Mortis's letters, provided he has ACs to the covenants he wants to mail

johns (GM): Ok, you destroy the rock

Guy of Bonisagus: what the

Celeste: Incredible.

Guy of Bonisagus: it didnt even roll soak

Dušan of Criamon: Powerful

Well, that's one conundrum resolved

Celeste: You should have to roll to hit the person who is holding the rock.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont do that

Celeste: And then I should shoot Guy with arrows for attacking the other wizards.

Particella: Ok, you don't

Celeste: rip.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The rock IS protected by Parma when held by someone with it

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't have any arcane connections, but we have a map.

Dušan of Criamon: Someone either pay for the rock and I go study it next season or keep it with the barkeep and I'll find somethign to trade for the rock on the next adventure

Mortis ex Verditus: Just demand the rock.

He's your employee too.

Celeste: i thought you already bought the rock

smh.

Dušan of Criamon: I've nothing to trade

Celeste: smgdh

Dušan of Criamon: I'm a humble hermit

Guy of Bonisagus: sodales, i know what these are

Dušan of Criamon: also I write a friendly, worried letter to the covenant at Vulcanal, for the birds to send

Guy of Bonisagus: they are from the Realm of Chaos

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have ACs to the places FIorella cares about corresponding with, so that'd be Ponza, Venice, and MAYBE Harco if they allow her to send messages to them that way.

Guy of Bonisagus: as introduced by boy reporter in the ant adventure

Mortis ex Verditus: HMmmmm.

We should send a message to Harco to see what's going on, at least.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Also it'll be very awkward if the recipient doesn't have a messenger roost

johns (GM): im pretty sure you're all just fucking with me at this point

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

I'm not sure what my goal is today

I'm down with visiting Harco to make sure they're okay though

Celeste: I genuinely have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing right now.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont know what the adventure is

Dušan of Criamon: Ars Magica: Bird Logistics

Guy of Bonisagus: was that the adventure

johns (GM): apparently

Mortis ex Verditus: Is this not the adventure?

Celeste: There's a rock and it's something I don't know about because I'm not a wizard.

Maybe we could roll something.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Also I assume there might be more loot in the inn

Dušan of Criamon: if this is the chillout phase before the adventure we can adjourn it and move to the adventure

Mortis ex Verditus: I know I'm having fun,.

johns (GM): No this is the adventure

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Which grogs are still alive

Let's make them loot the inn

johns (GM): all the ones still on the board

Mortis ex Verditus: You can just take the rock, you know.

Dušan of Criamon: Solid, then I want to research the rock in my lab

Celeste: thats stealing

Dušan of Criamon: I use Mortis to issue an IOU

Celeste: and a sin

Mortis ex Verditus: All magical items in Rome are our property.

johns (GM): OK, what kind of research

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I pay the woman

Archibald of Guernicus: Our innkeeper found some stuff and I checked it out and found nothing. I can't think of any IC reason t onot just let Dusan check it out at his own pace.

Dušan of Criamon: I'll admit, I don't know where to start

Fiorella of Jerbiton: She can loot places without getting eaten by a grue, I say it's worth having apositive relationship with her

johns (GM): Fair enough dys

Celeste: johns (GM): Well, let's look at the clues

It's something magical. It has no active magic effects. It is not fairy or infernal vis.

i am not, out of character, smart enough to know what you're trying to indicate here.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a magic item.

That hasn't been turned on.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Enchanted item investigation takes seasonal activity

Celeste: well, yeah. so we do seasonal investigation on it or try to find someone who can read the trigger.

johns (GM): Ok

A season passes

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

johns (GM): Dusan, what is your InVi lab total

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait a minute!

We still have to talk about what messages we want to send to whom!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sure

Dušan of Criamon: +16

johns (GM): Ok

Mortis ex Verditus: So we want to check on Harco, but who else?

johns (GM): After about 30 minutes of labwork you deduce you are holding a piece of Vim vis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can send Rosario out on a summoned horse to get ACs to nearby covenants

Dušan of Criamon: Nice!

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Celeste: Adventure complete.

johns (GM): gg

Mortis ex Verditus: How much XP?

Archibald of Guernicus: ... We did it!

johns (GM): 5

Dušan of Criamon: let the XP roll it

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm glad I finally had an entire adventure centered aroudn my guy

thanks for the evening folks

Celeste: johns must really want me to play kingdom come deliverance.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Vim vis? We should try to find the site."

"A worthy investigation, in my estimation. One could even call it an adventure."

"Were we to go look for it, that is."

Celeste: "Particella said he got his stuff from thieves, so, uh."

"We might actually want to give this back."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We could just ask the vis where it came from."

Celeste: "Depending on where it's been."

Dušan of Criamon: there's an InTe 30 spell for talking with rocks

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I've only talked to vis once and that's because it was an egg."

"But I suppose it could work again."

johns (GM): InVi base 25 as the terram equivalent?

Mortis ex Verditus: I guess.

I mean it is also a rock, so that should work too.

johns (GM): It is vis, not a rock

Celeste: "We could get Particella to confession so he could feel better and not be weighed down by so much sin."

"And maybe he'll tell us who his dealers are."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Pawns contain atoms of other material

I mean, a pure Vim vis isn't really possible since pure magic doesn't exist

johns (GM): Magic is not real

Beardbeard: what season will next session be

johns (GM): idk

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I mean, pure magic is an absurd a concept as pure entropy

Archibald of Guernicus: InTe to talk to a rock is doable, but its very high level

Mortis ex Verditus: We could just investigate ourselves.

Archibald of Guernicus: Originally when I was making Archibald I wanted him to have a minor focus in statues so he could talk to them, MuCo(Te) into one, etc

but the spells were too high level

Mortis ex Verditus: And by investigate I mean we should start robbing houses until we find out who found this rock and where.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can investigate by trying to figure out the rock's origins via clues

Archibald of Guernicus: Well we could ask Particella who he bought it from

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Dušan of Criamon: (man with wizard hat on:) ? (man with wizard hat on panel 2:) ????

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try sponting InTe on the rock

Celeste: we could do the underwater cave at etna next week if anyone wants. it would be entirely inside of a faerie regio so lil vacation from the blight

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+34)/2

(

(

10

+

4

)

+34)/2

=

24

Celeste: id be ready then

nice roll

Archibald of Guernicus: Hot damn. A level 25 effect maybe if I conf. Lets see

Urgh, talking to a rock is level 30

Dušan of Criamon: yep

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hazm won't purposely go into a Sicilian faerie regio again so it'll probably be Fiorella on that adventure

By then she should be able to teleport again

Archibald of Guernicus: I could do Level 10 - learn all natural properties of a rock, or level 20 - learn all magical properties

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll do level 20, since a second spont coudl get the former

Dušan of Criamon: Good enough!

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 20, +1 touch, I learn all the magical properties of the rock. Conf.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Tell me where you got this rock from or you're fire, Patricella."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We could have someone roll AL Rome to describe local quarries

johns (GM): The rock is Vim vis. It was instilled with magic power approximately 2,000 years ago.

Mortis ex Verditus: "There could be a pretty penny in it for you if you manage to remember..."

Guy of Bonisagus: 2000 years huh

Particella: "Oh, so it is valuable?"

Guy of Bonisagus: celeste what does your church lore have to say about this

Celeste: hah

Archibald of Guernicus: I take my sodales aside and impart what I learned. 2000 years old!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Do the runes seem Norse-ish?

Particella: "Well let's make a fair deal then... I think a finder's fee for anything else from where it came from would be reasonable?"

They don't Fiorella

Celeste: "That's really old!"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Certainly."

Particella: wait let me research something quick

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Sounds reasonable."

Mortis ex Verditus: "For example, we could allow you forgiveness on a month's rent."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "A runic script from over 2000 years ago.

Particella: "Make it.. 6 months."

Celeste: would divine or church lore recognize this?

Particella: you can try

Celeste: stressed?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh, do the runes seem like Old Italic then?

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Particella: unstressed

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+5 per + divine lore

(

5

)

+2+5

=

12

Mortis ex Verditus: Six months sounds fine to me.

Particella: Particella. "Deal. This particular item came in my possession from a scamp named Sclavo. He's a daytaler of some kind."

"He told me he dug this out of the Pontine Marsh."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

The marsh must be easier to navigate since the Herbam Blight.

Celeste: "He must have a lot of time on his hands."

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's go!

Guy of Bonisagus: sclavo

its sclavo

Particella: The marsh is a large area.

Where would you like to go?

Father Hazm: Hazm is more interested in a stone that possibly contains Old Italic writing on it than Fiorella

However, Fiorella will summon horses for everyone to get there

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm

Particella: The area amounts to about 80,000 ha (800 km2; 310 sq mi).[5]

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: As an option, we could attempt to seek out Sclavo.

Mortis ex Verditus: That seems like the better option.

Archibald of Guernicus: We could work out how much of a spell level is needed to see through swamp water

And then just look around it

Level 1: Make a sense unaffected by water

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Particella: You will have to be unaffected by trees, dirt, and lichen as well.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, herbam. Very funny.

Guy of Bonisagus: is it just the rock thats vis

Mortis ex Verditus: Who knows?

Hmm.

Particella: Archibald InVi'd the mirror and found nothing. Then again he InVi'd the rock and didn't notice it was vis.

Mortis ex Verditus: I think looking for Sclavo is the better option here.

Celeste: thats still celestes old, cuter token. rip

Dušan of Criamon: "Patricella, you don't happen to know where we might meet this Sclavo, would you?"

Particella: "I could do a little digging, or I could put the word out you're looking for him."

Dušan of Criamon: "He's not a regular customer, is he?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Particella: "More of a friend of a friend of a friend kind of deal. Never saw him before today, but he namedropped someone I sorta know."

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, well I wouldn't wish to compromise your position."

Mortis ex Verditus: It doesn't seem likely that someone would just wander the Potine Marsh on a whim. He must know about some kind of special place in the marsh, or else he's a spy trying to trick us.

Guy of Bonisagus: either way, we should throw a pilum at him and interrogate his corpse

Celeste: "Why wouldn't it be likely? People are desperate."

Father Hazm: -Hmm, I could start grinding devotion points towards St Maron

And spec my relic as being related to him

Dušan of Criamon: I'd vote against letting Patricella put the word out, on account of the guy probably running for the hills hearing some wizards want a word with him

I would approve of letting him dig around though

Father Hazm: I agree with Dusan

Guy of Bonisagus: i wonder if the vikings that first traveled an inland river in italy also left this viking runestone in an inland italian swamp

Particella: lol

Celeste: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: We could also try to ambush him on the road.

Particella: Alright i'll force things along then

Dušan of Criamon: Ah, but Rome has so many roads

Guy of Bonisagus: all longboats lead to rome

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah but look there's a road right there.

That one.

Particella: A couple days pass -- if you have any other thoughts on investigating the nature of the stone lay it on me

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, can anyone read it?

Guy of Bonisagus: you know

Particella: i guess I have to say what is it so you can tell me, it's Etruscan

Guy of Bonisagus: gah

i think you can read things related to a language you know

at a big penalty

Mortis ex Verditus: I will NEVER be able to read Etruscan.

Guy of Bonisagus: or at least speak it

Mortis ex Verditus: I SPIT on it.

Particella: etruscan is a dead language with no known records afiak

Guy of Bonisagus: and you know whats pretty close to etruscan?

latin

Celeste: I cannot read Etruscan. Boy, those letters look cool though.

it's a shame you can't read things with magic or use an intellego sense to perceive languages or something

Archibald of Guernicus: The Etruscans frankly got what was coming to them for fucking with Jupiter's Chosen Empire

Particella: Did you know? Emperor Claudius allegedly composed a dictionary of Etruscan but it is lost time time? Do I smell an Ars Magica adventure hook???

Celeste: :OOO

Guy of Bonisagus: lets find more things like this

guy can learn etruscan

Particella: "Magi, I put my ears to the street and picked up some news."

Archibald of Guernicus: I think the Etruscans weren't wiped out until the 300 BCs, or rather fully integrated into Rome

Guy of Bonisagus: i have linguist

do etruscan tablets count as a book

Father Hazm: There's no rules for what scripts you know which is why Hazm spent XP on both Chaldean and Syriac

Dušan of Criamon: I think that's the version Sword Of Rome posits as well

Particella: "You know Subiaco Abbey, right? They're reclaiming some of the marshlands, and this fello Sclavo is one of their workers."

Dušan of Criamon: they bribed everyone not to attack them until their gold mines went dry and rome took over

Guy of Bonisagus: if they count as a book i can get 10 xp per season

in etruscan

and read these

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Particella: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Linteus

Dušan of Criamon: "Splendid work Patricella! Let us travel post-haste!"

Celeste: "Oh, that makes sense."

Guy of Bonisagus: the book learner virtue does NOT say that you need to be able to read the book

only that you get a bonus when studying a book

Celeste: "Slipped into his pocket on the job. Shame."

Father Hazm: Linguist and a book should be able to get you 10, based on 8 for practicing a language

Particella: "My guy who knows the other guy who knows the other guy.. and so on, well he says Sclavo came to him, so I don't have an address where he lives or anything like that."

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok, if we go to Subiaco Abbey how can we get the information we need without speaking to any character or getting involved with any schemes based on Umberto Eco's great work In the Name of the Rose?

Celeste: "Just because the world is collapsing into chaos doesn't mean people should give up being virtuous. God's always testing people."

lmao

Mortis ex Verditus: You know what would help us learn Etruscan?

Father Hazm: "Being virtuous in times of comfort is no true test of faith."

Mortis ex Verditus: Summoning ancient spirits.

Particella: etruscan ghosts

Celeste: The dead ftw.

Dušan of Criamon: I object in no way

also I recommend taking someone without stink with us to the Abbey

Archibald of Guernicus: Yet another plan improved by summoning the dead

Mortis ex Verditus: I will be going.

Celeste: I don't have gift stink but I have regular stink, so Guy should come.

Whew.

johns (GM): i had to change one of the old tokens i had for subiaco abbey monks because it was the same source image as guy's

Archibald of Guernicus: I really need to make another companion.

Celeste: lol

Father Hazm: I'll go to the abbey and vouch for the giftstinkers

Archibald of Guernicus: In just 8 years, Zita's redcap daughter will be 20 and thus old enough to be a PC.

Guy of Bonisagus: owned

johns (GM): Nice, did you make her disease avoidance roll?

Mortis ex Verditus: Gahaha.

Archibald of Guernicus: If I make her as a PC she's inheriting her mother's immunity, so that I can finally take advantage of it.

Celeste: I kind of want to get rosario killed so i can make the door wizard who carries around a doorframe and door all the time and sets his door in the ground and points to the door to neg you

Archibald of Guernicus: oh god the tokens

Mortis ex Verditus: RIP all of these people.

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristocritus!

johns (GM) sighs

Celeste: rip

johns (GM): days gone by

Archibald of Guernicus: Potom Flos....

johns (GM): it feels like just yesterday you wer eall breaking in here and assaulting a holyman

Celeste: prudenzio will return if he can make it through this blight.

that was a great adventure.

man with -5 str and dex attacks a priest

Guy of Bonisagus: IF POTOM FLOS IS DEAD WE CAN ROB HIS HERB GARDEN!!

Father Hazm: Ok

johns (GM): Subiaco isn't far from Rome at all so you arrive the same day you leave. The main gate is open and there's a bunch of activity spilling out of it. Ramshackle tents with sad looking peasants line the road and the grounds of the abbey itself teem with refugees. The monks skitter about trying to tend to their business among the chaos.

Father Hazm: Hazm's relic and death prophecy protects him from the plague

The mob violence of the plague is a perfect opportunity to kill him via death prophecy however

Dušan of Criamon: gotta take the good with the bad

johns (GM): What's your approach?

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll stride boldly up to the nearest monk and show him the stone.

"Do you know what this says?"

Father Hazm: I'll vouch for the wizards as they do w/e insane crap

Celeste: "We should probably ask someone in the library."

Dušan of Criamon: "I'm thinking the common man will be the most direct avenue."

johns (GM): The monk crosses himself. "God's mercy on you poor lad. We've no asylum for the mad here but if you can find the almoner he has some food... God bless."

He tries to walk away.

Dušan of Criamon: "tries"

anime speed lines over mortis' avatar

johns (GM): Well, maybe you try to stop him, idk.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

I'll head for the Aedificium.

Father Hazm: Oh, I'm learning a lot, turns out I have a faith point from ordination

Dušan of Criamon: I'll go direction of the crummy tents and makeshift slum

Celeste: "Before you go, old monk, have you seen a man named Sclavo around? He's a worker here?"

I'm taking Dusan literally and just asking this random guy for posterity.

johns (GM): "I'm sorry dear, but if he's one of the servants it doesn't ring a bell."

Celeste: "Thanks anyway. Go with God!"

johns (GM): Dusan finds himself amidst the peasantry. What's his score in Italian?

Celeste: I'll follow Dusan since Mortis has plenty of protection.

johns (GM): Alright Mortis, the Aedificium is a tall tower with locked doors.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

I'll have Carina knock.

Dušan of Criamon: +3

Father Hazm: I'll go talk to the doorkeeper

Dušan of Criamon: With a slid -3 Com

Father Hazm: Explaining that Mortis is a strange but capable scholar trying to research this stone

johns (GM): Dusan picks up scraps of conversation. Some talk about how God has abandoned them, others argue God is testing them. Some complain that the monks are holding out on them, they must be rich and hoarding all the good wine to themselves. Many trade bawdy tales and songs with filthy limericks.

Mortis ex Verditus: Bawdy tales?

johns (GM): Mortis, a servant in a chef's apron answers the door. He looks surprised to see you and Carina. "M'lords?"

Celeste: "They're right about the wine, I'll tell you that right now."

Mortis ex Verditus: Heaven forfend!

Dušan of Criamon: Smart, Dusan can probably learn the most by simple eavesdropping and not placing any foots in mouths

Celeste: "I bet."

Mortis ex Verditus: "I am Mortis ex Verditus, master magus. I need to speak to your abbot about this enchanted stone."

Father Hazm: Okay, vouching isn't going to help so I'll wander off

Brother Basilio: Hazm finds the Hostillar, a man with a scraggly tonsure trying to argue with peasants to tell them they can't bring their mules into the abbey grounds.

Rabble: The servant asks Mortis, "You're what?"

Celeste: he should try being less hostille.

ha ha ha.

Father Hazm: Hmm

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm from Vardian's Tomb. Perhaps you have heard of us?"

Father Hazm: I'll try to help him out

Can I try to use Charm to smooth things over with the peasants, help them see reason?

A certain decorum has to be maintained, even in these trying times

Rabble: "This is me only donkey, if I don't take it in whose gonna look afte rit"

The servant at the door tells Mortis, "No, m'lord."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Abominable!"

Father Hazm: "There's plenty of things that need to be hauled around in the refugee camp. You could sell it and save the money for when you have a place to stable it again."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Remind me to hire a footman."

Celeste: "The people here seem to be treated well if they can still find time to complain about their wine being of poor quality."

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm. I could do a 2 hour circle walking meditation to boost my charm (humor) to +4 and then try and join the ribaldry among the peasants

Rabble: "Who'm I gonna sell to here?"

"You?"

You will have to let me know whether the meditation works or not moe cause I don't know the rules for it

Father Hazm: "Mmm. I think my scholarly associates could use a pack mule for their upcoming excavation."

"So very well."

Dušan of Criamon: Yeah, it's focus on a single mundane task, but it takes all of 2 hours to prep for

you know what, I'll risk it, I'll risk being an ass

I enter a meditative state and start walking in circles, after warning my sodales of what i'm about to attempt. I hope they don't interrupt me

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm the man who saved the city of Rome with my army of walking corpses. Are you sure you haven't heard of me?"

Celeste: all the homies together cutting up and laughing together and dusan paces around the circle for 2 hours then busts out the most devastating mama joke youve ever heard

Dušan of Criamon: precisely

Father Hazm: I'll give the man a fair price for his mule, better than what the knackers would pay.

Rabble: "Alright Padre, but you take good care of her, but don't let her be lazy neither"

The servant closes the door slowly in Mortis' face.

Celeste: I will preach to the rabble about how it is a test of faith, and most of them are doing great and passing, and hey, at least they have wine, right?

Father Hazm: "She will be treated well and put to good use. Go in peace my child."

I'll find a grog and have them load her up with our gear.

Rabble: "I worked every day I was supposed to, honored every holiday, did my confession, did my penance, and my whole family's gone!"

"What kind of God allows that!"

Celeste: "They're in heaven having a great time right now!"

Brother Basilio: "Thank you, stranger. That was a kind gesture."

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm absolutely incensed.

I think we should seriously consider ripping the monastery apart until we find out where this rock came from.

Celeste: The marsh.

Dušan of Criamon: when a man has a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail

Celeste: nice i dont have any leadership

i forgot

Brother Basilio: "There's not much space left but if you can find a spot on the grounds to claim, you're welcome to it as long as we need wait out this storm."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

We need to find the Brother in charge of the lay workers.

He might know who Sclavo is.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!-6 comm-flaw to preach without any leadership lets see how bad it is babey

(

10

+

9

)

-6

=

13

Holy shit.

God for the mother fucking win.

johns (GM): Nice

Celeste: I do my best to reassure those shaken in their faith

Rabble: "How do we please God again? Do we need to kill the Jews?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Celeste: "You don't need to kill anybody. Just be a good person and say your prayers, it's easy!"

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't see it not working, frankly.

Rabble: "Yeah but anyone can do that... I really think we should be killing Jews"

Father Hazm: Hazm will not spend time reassuring people doing the standard "why does bad stuff happen to good people" line, they need to learn proper Disputatio.

The bible only spends a THUSAND pages explaining why bad things happen to good people

Celeste: "If you try to teach them about Jesus and they don't want to hear it, I don't know. It's not my place to say."

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, let's kill some Jews and if that doesn't work then there's no harm done.

Celeste: "You'd have to be evil or insane to not agree with Jesus!"

Dušan of Criamon: presuming the preaching is taking some time, I'd like to go ahead with my attempt to land a powerful attempt at ribald humor, as presented by a man who spends most of the year in an underground cave

do I have to use Com or can I substitute significantly better Pre

Rabble: Pre can work

Father Hazm: And probably more evil than insane, if you were really driven helpless by insanity you might be allowed to atone in purgatory

Celeste: "And Jesus didn't want to kill the Jews even when they begged for his death, so he's a good example to follow. They'll come around eventually."

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+2+4

(

9

)

+2+4

=

15

Celeste: Sick.

Rabble: Nice

Dušan of Criamon: to do the nature of EW justice, the joke is said off0camera

Rabble: awwwww

Celeste: lol

scene missing

Rabble: You lay your best joke on the crowd.

A couple peasants mutter excuses about having to find their family or take a piss and depart. A trio of foul smelling drunks missing most of their teeth liked it a lot though!

Dušan of Criamon: These people seem trustworthy

Celeste: lol

Dušan of Criamon: I inquire as a by-the-by if they haven't seen a man named Sclavio lately

Rabble: "Y'ever hear the one about the miller and the scholars"

Celeste: I laugh at his joke as it cuts through my sermon.

Rabble: "Sclavio... sclavio..."

Father Hazm: What's Criamon's favorite dessert? Ice cream koan

Rabble: One looks to the other. "Weren't he one of them dumb sods who got roped into working in the marsh?"

Dušan of Criamon: "He may just have been!"

Rabble: The other man burps. "Stupid. Just wait out here. They feed us, who needs coin."

The man sizes you up. Does Dusan look like the kind of guy to do peasant labor?

Dušan of Criamon: Good question. I think of him as a lean character, long beard. Perhaps a peasant down on his luck, yes.

sta +1 str 0

Guy of Bonisagus: peasants are pretty lean

Father Hazm: That's pretty strong for a wizard

Dušan of Criamon: he is of a hermetic tradition

Rabble: "You'd gots to be deshperate to work there. They're keeling over like the beggarsh back in the city out there."

Dušan of Criamon: probably trapped rabbits in serbia

hermetic/hermitic

"Where may this Sclavio have been seen last? Do the workers sleep in a different camp?"

Celeste: "Hard work is good for you."

"You can still drink while you do it, it's fine."

Rabble: "They got a camp, yeah. Now and then the foreman comes by, asking round for new suckers to sign up."

Father Hazm: "A good lord doesn't kill his workers with labor."

Rabble: The drunk beckons you to lean in close.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well let's solve his problem with magic.

Dušan of Criamon: I lean in close, but await the burp

Father Hazm: "God said that every man has a day of rest, even those who toil for a living."

Rabble: He speaks in a low voice to you, exhaling a noxious vapor of beer and gingivitis.

"He been coming more and more often of late. Won't say it but you know they're dying out there. And when you die on the job they don't need a funeral or nothing... just let you sink in the marsh, hah!"

Dušan of Criamon: I put on a somber expression and thank the kind gentlemen.

Father Hazm: Unconsecrated bodies, you sya

Mortis here's your chance

Dušan of Criamon: I turn to my sodales and share anything they may have missed, and add that I heard a rumor: the last prior of the monastery was a kinder one, and is recently departed.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's gonna be great.

Dušan of Criamon: An intrigue methings.

Celeste: "That's a horrible accusation. They must bury them properly! It's a monastery!"

We should check out this evil bog.

Father Hazm: Yeah

Dušan of Criamon: I approve

Rabble: Search on your own, try to find direction, or wait for the foreman to arrive?

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Father Hazm: We could see how he's recruiting people

Dušan of Criamon: Let's split the party - famous last words

Rabble: hell yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: We should try to find the camp ourselves instead of waiting.

Father Hazm: The peasants have a good point, food and shelter are free, you'd have to be stupid to work

Dušan of Criamon: I have an inkling that getting lost in the marsh will lead to interesting results

Mortis ex Verditus: We need to show how important we are.

Father Hazm: If Mortis has an ability to find the camp quickly then that's fine

Dušan of Criamon: We do have a donkey now

Celeste: I could tie my hair up and stand more manlier and then ask for a job in the marshes with my -9 to social interactions and powerful physical stats.

when the foreman gets back.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm willing to be the short spaniard if you wield the lance

Mortis ex Verditus: I have no special ability to find the camp but there is probably a road leading to it.

Father Hazm: You could boss a grog into searching the swamp on foot

Celeste: I'll do it if you want. Or Mortis could use a corpse.

Mortis ex Verditus: Corpses can't look for anything.

Celeste: I guess I'll have to do it then, since we didn't bring grogs.

Father Hazm: My bad

Mortis ex Verditus: I am willing to make this sacrifice.

Rabble: cool

Father Hazm: I spaced out and forgot I use grogs so Hazm doesn't have to fight stuff

Rabble: checking celeste's sheet briefly

Dušan of Criamon: I don't know about Celeste, but of all of us I believe I am the one who looks most like a peasant down on his luck

Father Hazm: I could head back to VT and get some grogs

Rabble: feel free to make an Int + Pontine Marsh Lore check

celeste

Celeste: lol

rolling 1d10+1

(

3

)

+1

=

4

Rabble: im just going off whats in the book

Celeste: excellent.

I will conf that once.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh shit. Can I play again? Are we going to the swamp?

Rabble: if you guys aren't feeling this just say so and we can stop

rolling 1d10!+4

(

7

)

+4

=

11

Father Hazm: I'll go retrieve Archibald and some grogs

Celeste: I'm enjoying this, I just felt like a retard at first with the vis.

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Archibald of Guernicus: No I just meant that I couldn't do stuff at the abbey section so I zoned out, if we're moving onto something Archibald can do then I'll play of course.

Guy of Bonisagus: its time to go to the swamp

lets kill

Dušan of Criamon: I'm having a pretty good time

I'm just torn between courses of action right now

Celeste: 7 is not enough marsh lore i guess. rip.

Dušan of Criamon: I want to be both on the search party and wait for the recruiter foreman

Celeste: oh wait i can't conf so i burned a faith point.

officially.

Rabble: Celeste the marsh is, as established, a huge place. It is nearly impossible for carts, wagons, or even draft animals to pass through. The few roads the exist cross the top of existing natural ridges.

Celeste: i have 2 FP so it's functionally the same thing.

Father Hazm: I thought I had 1 FP but it turns out I have one from being ordained

Celeste: Huh.

Father Hazm: So 2 total with relic

Celeste: Seems like on foot's the only way to do it.

Rabble: It takes a couple days of roaming, asking directions of the few pathetic peasants and ferryman who exist here, but you are able to pick up the trail of where the dredging begins

In the midst of bog vapors is an encampment of simple wood buildings on stilts.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back.

moe: Having real trouble not hearing the left 4 dead 2 soundtrack in my head right all evening

Father Hazm: Lived a country boy named Johnny B Goode

Archibald of Guernicus: I need to brb 10 mins or so, sorry

Celeste sniffs those bog vapors

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll play as soon as I'm back

also archibald can teleport still, if this matters

its in his talisman

Rabble: cool

Dušan of Criamon: OK, how do we play this

variant A: going directly for the jugular, foreman

variant B: subtlety, a VT first

Guy of Bonisagus: i vote a

Mortis ex Verditus: I vote we try to subtly infiltrate the camp.

MEANWHILE, I will deal with the foreman directly and tell him how I can solve his labor shortage.

Father Hazm: I'm fine with A

The foreman sounds like a jerk

Celeste: I cannot legally vote, as I am but a humble covenfolk.

Dušan of Criamon: I expected the pwn from a mile away

Father Hazm: I have rights but not hemetic rights

Dušan of Criamon: fair, let's seek out the Foreman

Father Hazm: So I guess I don't vote either

Rabble: Alright you're all going to convene here?

Dušan of Criamon: I suppose, once we locate the man

Father Hazm: I can't contribute much but I can give out some buffs

johns (GM): Alright Celeste. It is midday -- sun high in the sky. Right now you don't see anyone in the camp. There's 3 small shacks and 1 large shack.

Father Hazm: I should come up with a lEadership buff for bullying people

I could probably spont one as well

Dušan of Criamon: I cast Wiz Sidestep

How large is the large shack

johns (GM): who is actually here? i'm not clear on that

Dušan of Criamon: like one-family large or several dozen laborers large

Celeste: I will go to the nearest small shack and knock on the door.

and if no one answers I knock on the other small shacks.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll allow Dusan to announce me.

Dušan of Criamon: I'll be your Sancho

johns (GM): Several dozen laborers large, moe

drop tokens if you're actually here

Dušan of Criamon: Fair, let us start with the small ones

Father Hazm: I'll come

johns (GM): Everyone who enters the bog mundanely takes a long term fatigue, and must make a Sta + Athletics vs 9 to avoid another -- I already rolled for Celeste and she passed

Celeste: Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: gah!

Dušan of Criamon: If I have no athletics do I just roll Sta?

Celeste: Yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+1

(

8

)

+1

=

9

GOT IT

Celeste: Nioce

johns (GM): bazinga

Father Hazm:

rolling d10-2

(

10

)

-2

=

8

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

Celeste: conf that shit.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+8

(

4

)

+8

=

12

Celeste: oh

lol

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Archibald of Guernicus: Those rolls explode, Hazm

Mortis ex Verditus: I need a real retinue.

Father Hazm: I pass

Mortis ex Verditus: This is ridiculous.

johns (GM): This one is just a simple die actually

Archibald of Guernicus: oh

rip

Celeste: "Keep your stamina up, guys, we still have to get back out."

johns (GM): Okay Celeste. You get no response on shacks 1 or 2. Shack 3, which is on the ground level, you also get no response, but can hear moans and groans within.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway I don't roll as I have an effect to teleport.

Father Hazm: Well I pass if the penalty happened before the roll

Otherwise w/e

Archibald of Guernicus: But I was a bit zoned out, so can someone explain to Archibald what's going on and what he's needed for (if anything)

Celeste: I call the magi over. "Someone's inside. I think they're sick."

johns (GM): lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Moaning and groaning, huh?

Celeste: I'll go in if the door's open.

Father Hazm: *peanlty happened after the roll

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have Carina wrench the door open.

Dušan of Criamon: I'll enter as well

Father Hazm: What's the aura of the swamp?

johns (GM): Roll to check

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+2 Infernal Lore to see if its an infernal swamp

(

1

)

+2+2

=

5

johns (GM): Mortis muscles the door open, easy as it is not locked. Inside are several cots on the floor, and 6 men inside. 4 are still, 2 are shivering and moaning and groaning.

Father Hazm: It's not infernal guys

Celeste: "Oh, these poor souls."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Is it the Pestilence?

Archibald of Guernicus: Whats the level of effect to check aura? I have high enough InVi I might be able to check with fatigueless sponting

Father Hazm: 2

Dušan of Criamon: Hmm. "Hazm, how many of these actually still contain souls?"

Father Hazm: Almost any magi should be able to spont it at /5

Archibald of Guernicus: True

Celeste: Archibald, we're investigating the rock of vim vis, and have traced it to this swamp which is where Sclavo apparently found it before selling it to our innkeeper.

Archibald of Guernicus: dont need me for that

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have Carina pick up one of the dead ones so I can check.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, so we're looking for the dig site now

Celeste: yeah

Dušan of Criamon: we're almost there too

johns (GM): You're not trained in Medicine afiak, but at a glance you don't see any buboes on the afflicted.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+2 per + chirurgy

(

8

)

+2+2

=

12

Guy of Bonisagus: i have physicians eye

whats the aura here

or well

penalties

johns (GM): It has not been established yet

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Celeste: are the men physically injured or overworked

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+11

(

8

)

+11

=

19

it casts

Mortis ex Verditus: Physcian's Eye can't be cast without vis.

It's a Corpus spell.

Celeste: bwahaha.

johns (GM): True that.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh right

thats in effect

nevermind

johns (GM): You can spend a pawn of Corpus or Intelligo, which we just got a source of, though.

Celeste: Do it!

Guy of Bonisagus: hmmm

Archibald of Guernicus: I check the aura with fatigueless sponting

Guy of Bonisagus: ill spend intellego

johns (GM): Ok, I will note it on the ledger.

Archibald of Guernicus: Unless it's a level 10 divine aura I make it. Well actually even with that, I do.

Celeste: so theyre not physically wounded to my mundane eye, right?

johns (GM): Your spell reveals that the man is afflicted with "Marsh Sickness" aka Malaria, a Serious disease.

Celeste: also are the four guys dead or just not moving

ahhh

johns (GM): Your chirurgy tells you that the 4 still people are dead.

Archibald, the aura is Infernal 3.

Celeste: Nice.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

I'll go check out the other shacks.

Archibald of Guernicus: "An infernal aura, sodales, at least 3 strong."

Celeste: The infernal, huh?

Dušan of Criamon: Padre was right, you'd have to be insane to go on this kind of detail while the monastery just hands out food.

Guy of Bonisagus: "We need to get them out of here."

Celeste: "Oh boy, I've just been studying this stuff!"

johns (GM): Those of you walking outside with Parma Magica feel an affect fail to penetrate

The doors to the other shacks don't appear to be locked, Mortis

Dušan of Criamon 's eyes widen

Guy of Bonisagus: we didnt bring any grogs right

johns (GM): No one mentioned it or put down a token for em so I'm assuming no

Guy of Bonisagus: good

Celeste: yeah we didnt

Guy of Bonisagus: does mortis have his corpse boys

johns (GM): hazm and celeste both have MR right

Celeste: yea i have 20 divine mr

Mortis ex Verditus: Is there anything inside 'em?

Father Hazm: 10 MR

johns (GM): Ok, the first one --

Father Hazm: Also divine in origin

johns (GM): Is tidy. A bed, a writing desk, papers. A case with clothes -- the occupant has black robes, sort of like the Benedictines, but made of nice velvet.

Mortis ex Verditus: An occupant?

Is he alive?

johns (GM): No one here.

Guy of Bonisagus: the benedictines huh

lets get him

Celeste: I look through the papers. I can read Italian and Latin.

Guy of Bonisagus: i can read english and french

in case theyre in english or french

Dušan of Criamon: I can practically taste the cult influence in the air

Celeste: "These robes seem really luxurious for a priest."

johns (GM): They are written in Latin with some shorthand. They're plans for the dredging project, schematics on dykes needed to be built, and so on. They look like the work of a skilled engineer.

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Celeste: "Booooring."

johns (GM): Also in the papers are sketches -- amateur drawings of some sites in Rome like Trajan's Column and the Coliseum.

Celeste: I wish Jorn were here to ask about the Aesthetic Quality of the drawings.

johns (GM): Shack #2 is a mess. Bottles and dirty clothes on the floor. No occupant. Papers here too, most are nailed or affixed by dagger to the walls.

Celeste: "What does this infernal bog have to do with these architectural sites? Demon people are so hard to understand."

Guy of Bonisagus: [unprompted] i wish jorn were here

Mortis ex Verditus: What do the papers say?

Or rather, what is written on them?

Dušan of Criamon: Daggers, huh?

Father Hazm: Anyone with 1 AL and 1 in a Profession or Craft that makes beautiful things knows the concept of AQ

johns (GM): Lists of workers, salaries, expenditures on tools and such. Lots of workers have names crossed out and recent dates next to them. There are multiple versions of maps of plans for the dredging, the most recent matching the designs of the papers in Shack #1.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Sounds boring.

Dušan of Criamon: I sense a conflicted man living in this shack, turning to drink to calm his conscience, plagued by the voices of the dead

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait are any of these maps to existing dike sites?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Little clues thus far, let's check the other shacks."

Celeste: I think the only shack left is the big one.

johns (GM): Yes, you can follow the maps to an active work site whenever you like.

The last shack is a communal barracks, but there's no one here at the moment. Its just lots of cots and boxes of people's personal effects.

Father Hazm: These blueprints look like Tremere shit

They love blueprints

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's head to the work site and clear all of this up.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets

Celeste: ^^

Archibald of Guernicus: Led's

Celeste: ooh

Father Hazm: LEDs

johns (GM): The sound of hammers and axes at work guides as you approach. A team of about 20 workers are hard at work setting up wooden dams and sluice gates to drain a section of the marsh. Most have stripped to just their trousers in the heat, only one important looking fellow keeps his tunic on.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, someone introduce me.

Father Hazm: I run and hide when the identical looking teamsters begin to form combat ranks

Celeste: "Hey everyone, this is Mortis, he's a wizard!" I yell at the top of my lungs.

Guy of Bonisagus: thank you

Dušan of Criamon: In contrasting baritone I bellow "All bow before Mortis ex Verditus!"

johns (GM): The foreman yells, "What the fuck is this?"

Father Hazm: All hail Shadow

Archibald of Guernicus: Corpses rise again

moe: said left4deadishly

Celeste: "He really likes to get introduced!"

johns (GM): The workers gawp at you all. The foreman notices and yells at them, "Get back to work!"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Salve, I have heard of your many troubles and offer a solution, for a price."

Claudio Rendino: "Who told you I had troubles?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "It is plain to see. Your men are dying and there are not enough replacements left alive in Rome."

"But I can give you as many bodies as you require to finish this work."

Claudio Rendino: The man wipes sweat off his face and looks at you exasperatedly.

"What, you're a slaver?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Even better, I'm a wizard."

"I, and my chosen servants, can command the dead."

Claudio Rendino crosses himself

Claudio Rendino: "Devilry! You're a devil!"

Dušan of Criamon: under breath to the sodales by my side: "this oughtta be good."

Claudio Rendino: He avoids eye contact.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Who says so?"

"Just because I give a job to the dearly departed?"

Celeste: to Dusan "Think this guy sees a lotta devils?"

Claudio Rendino: "Begone wretch.. You'll not take my soul or sour my wine or whatever twisted deeds you're after.. In the name of Christ, begone!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "In the name of Christ? Can you really say that, knowing how you treat your workers?"

Claudio Rendino: This touches a nerve, and he marches right up into Guy's face.

Dušan of Criamon: to Celeste: "Good point, actually, invoking Christ is not standard for cultists. Think he's making it up?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Our society today...

Celeste: "I wouldn't put anything past a guy with velvet robes."

Claudio Rendino: wait

does guy dress like a monk

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

Claudio Rendino: a benedictine monk

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: hmm

Claudio Rendino: i.e. black robes

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah actually

Dušan of Criamon: oh

SHIT

Celeste: thats convenient

guy ftw.

Claudio Rendino: Okay, I take that back

He does not get in your face

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice

Claudio Rendino: Wearily, "Brother, how can you say such a thing.. I'd give my life for these men."

Mortis ex Verditus: He weepily gets in your face.

AFK a sec.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Then why don't you? Two men languish back in their shack, dying of illness, next to four corpses."

Claudio Rendino: He grits his teeth. "Respectfully,  Brother, it's  your  infirmarion whose supposed to be tending them, and it's that engineer  you  chose who's leading us into this hell."

Celeste: "Oh, they're not his robes. This changes everything."

Guy of Bonisagus: "My infirm- And where are these men?

Father Hazm: [Macho Man voice]  Brother

Dušan of Criamon: -HH

Claudio Rendino: "We're working on  your  schedule. You wanted us to get these fields clear and we're doing it. We're not complaining. We're not shirking."

Dušan of Criamon: We should meet this engineer

Mortis ex Verditus: We shoulds't.

Celeste: "Father, maybe you should let the men go back and rest."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I fear something is afoot here. Where are this infirmarion and engineer?"

Celeste: wink wink.

Guy of Bonisagus: "They certainly aren't staying in their quarters at the moment."

Claudio Rendino: you asking claudio that, guy?

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

Claudio Rendino: "Brother, I've only got two eyes and two ears. I got to watch after my own men. You can't ask me where your own kine have buggered off to."

Father Hazm: Podestas are hard at work making sure the swamp doesn't get drained

Claudio Rendino: You are feeling occasional intermittent pings off your Parma.

Guy of Bonisagus: "What are their names? I am afraid we are from different groups."

"A callous engineer is one thing, but for a man to abandon his duty and leave six men to die is another. I want to have words with him."

Dušan of Criamon: to Archibald: "Invisible Eye Revealed, you or me sodalis?"

Celeste: I have Second Sight, nothing invisible is casting at us, right?

Father Hazm: Same

Claudio Rendino: He looks a bit confused, but too weary to figure out what's going on. "Brother Andrea, the infirmarian, and Thomas Berenger..." he turns and spits. " Master  Engineer."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's quite suspicious, aye."

Celeste: tom berenger.... a demonic name if ive ever hgeard one

Claudio Rendino: Roll the second sight, if you please

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll roll too, infernal 3 still rgiht

Claudio Rendino: aye

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+2-3

(

1

)

+3+2-3

=

3

Father Hazm: Tom Riddle

Archibald of Guernicus: rip

Mortis ex Verditus: Whoops.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Thank you. I apologize for my harshness."

Claudio Rendino: i dont think you warp from botching second sight

rolling 3d10

(

10

+

7

+

2

)

=

19

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+3-3

(

3

)

+2+3-3

=

5

Nice.

well, good luck.

Claudio Rendino: You don't see anything unusual, you don't see any Corpus Miasma, and no one's around except the men and the beasts of the bog

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

4

)

+4

=

8

Guy of Bonisagus: i cast The Invisible Eye Revealed

rolling 1d10!+6

(

6

)

+6

=

12

Father Hazm: Thomas Berenger... It has all the letters for an anagram with Tremere in it.

Claudio Rendino: success?

Guy of Bonisagus: are we being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

yes

Claudio Rendino: lol shaun

No, Guy

Guy of Bonisagus: damnit

i was certain this time

Father Hazm: https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=thomas+berenger&language=english&t=500&d=&include=tremere&exclude=&n=&m=&a=n&l=n&q=n&k=1

Tremere Bang Hos

Claudio Rendino: lmao

Guy of Bonisagus: my god.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll cast Archibald's Unveiling the Sigil at touch range when one of these pings happens, think that should be enough to catch it in the act

Father Hazm: Hang SOB Tremere

Guy of Bonisagus: oh my god. its a tytalan plot

Mortis ex Verditus: So true.

Dušan of Criamon: theres one we can all get behind

Guy of Bonisagus: the entire order of hermes uniting under one tytalan plot

Father Hazm: Tremere Has Bong

Claudio Rendino: "You went in the sick men's shack then brother?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye."

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Archibald of Guernicus: Checking something real quick, one sec

Guy of Bonisagus: "Little that can be done, but I will try to get them to a good physician."

what did you say was the Appropriate NAme for malaria again

Claudio Rendino: Marsh Sickness

Guy of Bonisagus: "They've caught the marsh sickness, I'm afraid."

Claudio Rendino: "Thank you brother.. tween the marsh air and the muck giving way under men's feet.. its tough out here. Not complaining, but just saying."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Mind that you don't overwork yourself. There's evil in this swamp."

Dušan of Criamon: "Speaking of evil, will the engineer be at the camp come evening?"

Claudio Rendino: He makes the manu cornuta gesture, and then scratches his balls.

Celeste: lol

Claudio Rendino: "Not sure.. Man prefers the stone walls and roof of the abbey over a wood shack."

"He's a  scholar, you know."

Claudio Rendino spits

Dušan of Criamon: The sign of the horns is a hand gesture with a variety of meanings and uses in various cultures. It is formed by extending the index and little fingers while holding the middle and ring fingers down with the thumb.

Father Hazm: "A scholar, you say?"

"I believe I know the type."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, we are also seeking a man by the name of Sclavo. Is he here, or is he one of the..."

Celeste: dont turn your back on the wolfpac. or you might end up in a bodybag

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns, did my whisper go through

Claudio Rendino: "He took sick last week and has been barely hanging on. He was alive when I poked my head in the sickroom this morning but.."

Father Hazm: "One of those newfangled secular scholars like my associates here, I take it?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmm.

Celeste: Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: the abbey is closer to here than rome, right?

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I could use some Corpus vis to speak to him.

Can we get a description?

Celeste: There were two living people.

He might have been one of them!

Guy of Bonisagus: were

Claudio Rendino: The foreman grabs his balls and sticks his nose up in the air, and in a mocking tone: "I say, I'll have you know I studied at  Cambridge "

Father Hazm: Haha

Celeste: Hah.

Claudio Rendino: He offers a description of one of the living sick fellas.

Celeste: Damn, it's a shame Archibald isn't here.

Father Hazm: Sounds like a Tremere alright

Claudio Rendino: Yes Guy the abbey is closer

Guy of Bonisagus: alright

we need to go back to the abbey to find the physician and engineer anyway

so ill make celeste carry one sick guy and have hazm help me with the other

Father Hazm: "Sounds like Lavinia except with Salerno instead of Cambridge."

Celeste: Sounds good.

Claudio Rendino: From afar, the person scrying on you all with the Sortes rages.

Celeste: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, a word in private." I look around to see if anything's visible that's causing this

Guy of Bonisagus: lets be fair here. theres no reason to compare lavinia to an englishman

two completely different types of evil

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow.

Celeste: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Can't believe you'd do her dirty like this.

Dušan of Criamon: lmao

Claudio Rendino: Can you make a ... hmm, Int + Philosophiae check here

Father Hazm: Salerno is pretty evil, they gave a doctorate to a woman.

Guy of Bonisagus: IS IT NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

Claudio Rendino: Yes

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+7

(

4

)

+7

=

11

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+1+2

(

4

)

+1+2

=

7

Claudio Rendino: Unless you have Area Lore (Pontine Marsh) and want to substite that instead. haha.

Guy of Bonisagus: im CONFING

what do i find out

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 1 +2

(

6

)

+1+2

=

9

Claudio Rendino passes a note to a player

Guy of Bonisagus: I say to my sodales, "Mind yourselves. It's the crows doing this, I'm certain."

"They're up to no good."

Celeste: "Really!"

"That's the last thing I expected."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The crows? Bloody things, and with Fiorella at the covenant, too."

Celeste: "Should I shoot them down?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "What's the problem?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Pay attention to them. They've not landed once the entire time we've been here, nor do they stay in vision."

Dušan of Criamon: "Of course, of course. Bad air, air-aligned beasts. It all makes sense."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hold on, I'll go get her." I pick up two ACs to the swamp and use my talisman to leap of homecoming back to VT. Then I go get Fiorella and explain we're dealing with evil crows and need her expertise.

Claudio Rendino: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Perfect.

Celeste: lol.

Dušan of Criamon: power move

Archibald of Guernicus: The two seasons spent putting this in my talisman were worth it

Fiorella's leap of homecoming is animal-based, not corpus, so she can do it too.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Celeste: I nock an arrow and point it at a crow.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hazm hasn't done anything useful yet so I can still claim adventure XP on her

Claudio Rendino: The crows stay about 80m from you

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can ride a horse to the adventure site

Celeste: Smart crows.

Archibald of Guernicus: You didn't put your bird transformation on an item?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If this is Spring 1351 I can't teleport yet

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. What's the problem?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: https://badgame.net/index.php?topic=47117.msg13062025#msg13062025

It tkaes two seasons and I started in winter

I'd need 80 Lab total to do Cloak of Black Feathers with unlimited uses in a single season

Archibald of Guernicus: Transforms an individual of corpus blight miasma into a large bird Bird Leaf,

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh well

Mortis ex Verditus: Smart.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I managed to get one use of feather but not the other

Guy of Bonisagus: im gonna read some penetration books but also work on getting my auram supercharged so i can create incantation of lightning

Celeste: ok i have looked up range increments and ranged combat penalties

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Anyway everyone walked here in a day and I'm riding a horse

Celeste: you said 80 meters so do you mean 80 paces

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh.

Claudio Rendino: alright, you have a little time to kill before Fiorella gets back, do you hang out at camp?

Celeste: I shoot an arrow at a crow.

Claudio Rendino: Alright, roll it

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+4+4+8+2-3-3

(

4

)

+4+4+8+2-3-3

=

16

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 80 meters is 262 feet or 88 paces

Dušan of Criamon: I'd rather not watch the workers, I'd feel for their plight and join the drudgery.

Claudio Rendino:

rolling 1d10!+7

(

1

)

+7

=

8

Dušan of Criamon: I go to the camp

Celeste: still 2 longbow range increments away.

Guy of Bonisagus: we need more penetration books

Claudio Rendino:

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

Damage?

Celeste: +11

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A summa on Penetration by Fatalpulse of Tytalus

Claudio Rendino: The crow explodes into a puff of feathers and its claws, that fall to the earth. The other crows in the group disperse quickly.

Celeste: "Got em."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Alright I get here in time to find out Celeste scared all the birds away

Celeste: It did drop bird vis.

Claudio Rendino: you track down its remains?

Celeste: I could try.

I have hunt, awareness, and survival

Claudio Rendino: Ok, you start off in the direction of where the crow landed

Trudging through swamp water you suddenly feel the earth give way beneath you, and you sink!

Celeste: Oh shit.

rip.

Claudio Rendino: The rest of you see Celeste suddenly plummit into marsh water.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yikes.

I'll send Carina in to rescue her.

Claudio Rendino rolls some dice

Mortis ex Verditus: Specifically to grab her and then come back out.

Celeste:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2+2 brawl + qik

(

6

)

+2+2

=

10

Claudio Rendino:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+6

(

7

)

+6

=

13

Celeste rolls some dice

Claudio Rendino: that's not including the -1 from lt fatigue right

Celeste: what fatigue

Dušan of Criamon: from swampwalking

Fiorella of Jerbiton: brb

Claudio Rendino: yea

Celeste: i wasnt fatigued. you told me i passed.

Claudio Rendino: that was... for the second fatigue lol

Celeste: oh lol.

well im confing that roll.

Claudio Rendino: okay -- unfortunately you are still grappled but that lessens the total grapple score

Celeste: rip

Claudio Rendino: Carina likewise gets sunk into the water and must make a Brawl check as she is being grappled from below

No fatigue penalty, but attack and defense in the marsh is at -3

rolling 1d10!+6

(

5

)

+6

=

11

Dušan of Criamon: OK, if I try to spont with fatigue, that's what, total roll/2 or casting bonus/2

I want to try some ReTe

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 3 + 1

(

9

)

+3+1

=

13

Claudio Rendino: total roll / 2

Mortis ex Verditus: Minus 3 of coure.

So 10.

Claudio Rendino: ok so the grapple advantage is 1

The magi have now noticed both Celeste and Carina suddenly plunge into the muck.

Dušan of Criamon: I'll ReTe a reverse of Hands of Grasping Earth

Claudio Rendino: That erm... what's that exactly

Dušan of Criamon: the original is hands grip your ankles and prevent you from moving

i want them to help get out instead

Guy of Bonisagus: ill run over but also try not to get sucked into the muck

Celeste: rip guy

Claudio Rendino: Okay Guy. The earth beneath your feet gives out and you fall into the muck.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10+17-3

(

3

)

+17-3

=

17

Claudio Rendino: Something attempts to grapple you, so roll Qik + Brawl to defend

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+4-1-3 i think you said was the total penalty for muck, brawl + dex to grapple attack my way out.

(

3

)

+2+4-1-3

=

5

jesus christ.

nice roll.

Mortis ex Verditus: I will stand well back from the mud.

Claudio Rendino: ill get to celeste in one second

Celeste: tfw you die in a swamp.

Claudio Rendino: I would like to resolve what everyone else is doing.. I'm not quite sure what Dusan's spell is

Guy of Bonisagus: does terram form bonus help at all

Claudio Rendino: Are you trying to force people upwards by making the mud push them up? that would have to penetrate Celeste and Guy's MR

Dušan of Criamon: spont, trying to push her up using soil

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10-2

(

3

)

-2

=

1

Celeste: yeah, thats the issue with having non parma related mr

i cant turn it off for people

Claudio Rendino: it doesn't guy but Aquam does help vs drowning

Dušan of Criamon: Although, I am trying to manipulate soil, not Celeste

or is this a textbook example of gravity-rock casting

Celeste: the soil has to penetrate my MR to grab me, as it is being magically controlled.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Back

Claudio Rendino: I think it has to penetrate still, just as if you were trying to use the soil to push Celeste horizontally, it definitely would be resisted

Dušan of Criamon: fair

Claudio Rendino: You rolled a 17 Dusan, that's your casting total before dividing for spont?

Dušan of Criamon: yep

17+3-3 for one fatigue right

now it's 2 fatigue

Claudio Rendino: So that means you can cast a ReTe spell up to Level 10

2 Magnitudes are spent casting at Voice range, so it has to be a Base 4 or less effect

Guy of Bonisagus: why isnt this magic rolling to penetrate.....

Claudio Rendino: oh

also if you're targeting part of the ground it needs a magnitude for +1 Part ..

Dušan of Criamon: bit off more than I can chew, huh

Celeste: you could just spont a spell to move the muck away from us.

Mortis ex Verditus: Speaking of chewing, AFK a sec.

Claudio Rendino: as for Guy's question, what has happened is the following indirect effect: This power rapidly moves the earth aside from under the feet of a target. The space fills with water and the target drops into the marsh.

Celeste: so we can see what we're being grappled by/not have a -3 muck penalty

Dušan of Criamon: well the water would do the rest then

Celeste: maybe

ah.

Guy of Bonisagus: do peaq instead

or reaq

idk

Claudio Rendino: Archibald or Fiorella, would you like to chime in too?

Dušan of Criamon: aq at 0 lol

I'm waiting for Archibald to save the day tbh

Celeste: if i manage to get out i'll try to pull everyone else out

Dušan of Criamon: ReAm at +11

probably not enough to give you people scuba gear

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm trying to see what I have available that could help

Since I cannot spont fast enough to help

Claudio Rendino: fyi you don't make air deprivation checks until 30 seconds (5 combat rounds)

Dušan of Criamon: are the laborers within shouting distance

Celeste: i have to go in a few minutes, im sorry. if i have to leave before this is resolved my sheet is in celeste's character tab

Claudio Rendino: Yes Dusan

Dušan of Criamon: I start yelling and waving arms "ROPE! We have people drowning here! Quick!"

Mortis ex Verditus: I have no rope.

Celeste: I have a rope, but unfortunately I'm under a swamp.

Claudio Rendino: It will take a few rounds for people to get out of their current jobs and to get to your position.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: I run their way the moment I see they recognized me

Archibald of Guernicus: I have 24 uses of my teleport effect, so I could teleport back to the covenant, grab some rope, and come back. But also this would probably be slower than just fetching it manually

Mortis ex Verditus: Unfortunately I don't have any magic items that can help here.

Celeste: Also I already have rope.

Archibald of Guernicus: I could simply use FFM with my rego corpus spell to hahahhahahHAHHAHAHAH

Celeste: bwahahaha

Claudio Rendino: Ah, well.

Dušan of Criamon: Celeste: can you throw the rope

Archibald of Guernicus: I could sit down and begin summoning a stone whale. It won't help but it'd give you something nice to look at.

Celeste: I could, if I weren't being grappled.

We'll see how that goes.

Dušan of Criamon: I continue with my running plan

Claudio Rendino: Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try and pull Guy out by hand

Celeste: smh.

Archibald of Guernicus: If I fall in, I'll teleport out

And continue

so its safe enough to attempt

Claudio Rendino: Okay, Dex + Athletics to reach him without falling in

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

Celeste: lol.

Claudio Rendino:

rolling 3d10

(

10

+

5

+

10

)

=

25

Dušan of Criamon: Mother of god

Claudio Rendino: No botch, but you come up short.

Fiorella?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh I'm not sure if I'm here yet

As I mentioned before I cannot teleport

Claudio Rendino: Let's say you are, because it's looking grim otherwise.

Dušan of Criamon: Dynamic entry!

Celeste: lol.

Guy of Bonisagus: make a rope out of crows

johns (GM): You arrive on scene as Dusan is running off screaming about a rope and people being sucked in.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay so Celeste is stuck in a marsh and sinking to death by drowning?

johns (GM): Archibald perched on a log trying to reach in.

Guy of Bonisagus: so is guy

Celeste: At the moment, yes.

Guy of Bonisagus: so is a mortis friend but it cant drown

johns (GM): Yes, Celeste Guy and Mortis' grog. They're all completely underwater so can't be seen, just the waves they make from thrashing.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Well conjure the sturdy vine is out

Perhaps a leather rope

Celeste: oh my god, celeste hsa just spontaneously manifested her latent magical ability of being able to teleport 5 paces

who could of expect

Mortis ex Verditus: Just win your brawl roll, IMO.

Guy of Bonisagus: holy shit. guy has entered twilight and has gained greater immunity (depravation)

Celeste: I'll try that when the round comes up.

johns (GM): I will go simultaneous resolution once we've finished this round with Fiorella

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh hey, my scarf is a talisman

Guy of Bonisagus: i could try to botch my way into twilight

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can touch range cast on people with it it

Guy of Bonisagus: were in an infernal aura

man i should get the crvi spell to give myself 2 warping

thats actually a handy spell

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have it

Mortis ex Verditus: If you want to kill yourself.

johns (GM): TME p 107

The view taken in this chapter is

that since Rego Corpus spells move

the body, anything that the body is

wearing or carrying is moved as well.

Living creatures cannot be transported

johns (GM): without requisites, except for familiars

(if they can be carried), which share a

special bond with the magus.

If the target is burdened by an

unusually large load then casting

requisites are certainly justified.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have touch range two warpign point spell

Dušan of Criamon: I've an InVi that does it also iirc

Guy of Bonisagus: oh right familiar

i guess theres a bee buzzing above guy

Celeste: i would recommend just clearing our visibility so that i dont have -3 to my brawl rolls.

Archibald of Guernicus: Buzzy the bee

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can spont a ReAq to keep my scarf from becoming filthy with swamp water then use it as a rope

Guy of Bonisagus: his name is ambrose

Mortis ex Verditus: Smart.

Celeste: No one can grab it because they're currently being grappled.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Celeste: Wait, Guy might.

Be able to.

I don't know if he's being grappled.

Guy of Bonisagus: i am

Celeste: Oh.

Im sorry.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well someone give me some ideas because the game is on pause on the assumption I can help

crickets

Celeste: you could rego aquam a base 1 spell to control a liquid in a gentle way away from me.

Mortis ex Verditus: You could summon fish.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm

Mortis ex Verditus: Fish: The bee of the sea

Fiorella of Jerbiton: ReAq might need to be higher than that but that's doable

Celeste: actually that wouldn't work since parting the waves is apparently a level 30 effect and splitting a body of water is base 10

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Could Creo Auram create a bubble underwater?

Celeste: base 10 individual touch diam is 20, 15 could be fatiguing sponted but would only give us an unobstructed brawl roll for one round

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can use the scarf to cast the touch range spell underwater

Creo Auram level 1 creates still air

johns (GM): im not certain but ive looked this up before and couldn't find examples of creating an air "bubble" since creating air like a gas isn't really auram

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think it's ReAq then

johns (GM): the equivalent effect that the ocean maga in MoH uses is ReAq to make a pocket

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Bubbles of air being air is modern physics I guess

I'll see if I can find that spell

Celeste: fingers crossed my character doesnt die while im gone lol

johns (GM): Lungs of the Fish

MuAq(Au) 24

Pen +0, Constant Effect

R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Part

As Lungs of the Fish (ArM5, page 122).

However, this still does not allow you

johns (GM): enough air to fully vocalize the required

words to cast spells underwater. See Voices in

the Ocean side bar.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That's a bit high level for a spont

I think we've gotten too used to the sponts of wizards who are dead like Proclus and Aristocritus

Celeste: cast an intellego auram spell on me to make my visual sense unaffected by water.

CLEAR SIGHT OF THE NAIAD

R: Per, D: Mom, T: Vision

You can see as clearly through water as

through air, for a single moment.

(Base 1, +4 Vision)

Mortis ex Verditus: Why not just destroy the water?

Celeste: because that's a higher level spell.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have deficient perdo

Celeste: lmao.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well then.

Celeste: it's only level 5!

10 if you make it diam duration

johns (GM): she needs to be able to sense you first

Archibald of Guernicus: brb

Celeste: good point.

cast it on yourself, then me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Level 3: Change a liquid into the corresponding solid or gas (for example,

change water into ice or steam). This does not require requisites.

Celeste: Nice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll turn the water to vapor

Dušan of Criamon: holy shit

Fiorella of Jerbiton: This shouldn't burn anyone with MR

Celeste: Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: you can just cast it forcelessly, too

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Aura penalty?

Mortis ex Verditus: It wouldn't burn anyone.

johns (GM): Group target or part target

well, Group target

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A body of water is pretty large

Part if necessary

johns (GM): Group: A number of Individuals. This can

include a large river, where there are several

different currents, a number of rivers flowing together, or a lake.

Mortis ex Verditus: Turning water into vapor makes it mist or fog. You'd need an Ignem requisite to make it hot.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well I don't want it to be hot

So all the better

Celeste: Thank you.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well it's base level 4 to ReAq the water into vapor. I'll put any extra mags from the roll into Target or size mags

johns (GM): duration?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's say Diameter, Sun if I can afford it

johns (GM): ganbare

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Aura penalty?

johns (GM): -3

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10!+16-3+1+1)/2 Shouting and gesticulating

(

(

7

)

+16-3+1+1)/2

=

11

Okay, Touch, Diameter, and Part

johns (GM): Okay

gears turning in fucktard gm's head

Celeste: lol

johns (GM): that would be like nuking a small amount of the water

not destroying it outright

but lowering the water level

fair?

well ok your three heads pop up above the water level

Celeste: Nice.

johns (GM): Round #2

Celeste: "Hey, something's grappling us!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fair enough

johns (GM): Celeste, Guy, and Ciraga, something body and gnarly is grappling you

Celeste: "Don't get too close to the water!"

ok.

I rolled a 5 total last time, but I can see now, so if I can roll again that would be nice.

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'll have you out in no time."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Archibald, can you see what's grappling them? Demon's Eternal Oblivion might work."

johns (GM): You will still get the penalty for being immersed in muck tho

Celeste: rip

is that still -3 total or is it in any way lessened

johns (GM): -3

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+2-3-1+2 im exerting brawl because im a retard, will have -2 fatigue penalty next round

(

5

)

+2+2-3-1+2

=

7

johns (GM): anyone can take an action now

Celeste: amazing fucking rolls here.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 dfn

(

7

)

+7

=

14

Celeste: Cool, I'll see everyone later, afk

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah, RIP.

Celeste: good game, ill read what happens later

Mortis ex Verditus: Phew.

Pretty dangerous there for a second.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm

Mortis ex Verditus: Anyway, Carina will try to break free, because I order her to do so.

rolling 1d10! + 3 + 1 - 3

(

9

)

+3+1-3

=

10

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 dfn

(

8

)

+7

=

15

Dušan of Criamon: hmm

i keep running for the rope, but also relaunching the roll20 client

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Dusan shouls "someone get a rope, we have to do something about the scholars" and the workers spring into action

Hmmm

PeAq to destroy the murkiness of water might be low level

moe: OK, now it redrew correctly

Mortis ex Verditus: Destroying a quality is always more difficult than destroying the whole thing.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ah

Guy of Bonisagus: i will escape this grapple

rolling 1d10-2

(

3

)

-2

=

1

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+7 dfn

(

7

)

+7

=

14

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try and pull Guy out again

rolling 1d10!+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

I'm improving

johns (GM): no go

Archibald of Guernicus: Only 8 more rolls and itll explode

johns (GM): thats everyone cept fiorella

Archibald of Guernicus: The sad thing here is that I actually did have a solution to this problem, but the blight ruined it

Guy of Bonisagus: we should do something about the blight

Mortis ex Verditus: If only there was something we could do.

Guy of Bonisagus: instead of digging for rocks in swamps

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I had an idea but it takes to omuch GM coordination to get it done as a spont

Using Rego Animal to make the scarf really strong like a tentacle and pulling them out tha tway

It'd need a strength score to resist the grapple so not worth it

johns (GM): should we just call it

i feel like no one's enjoying this

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm low on ideas

I could try to vaporize more water

I guess I'll do that

Dušan of Criamon: I don't have much in the way of hermetic options so I'm choosing the mundane path

it's been a little slow but the moving parts were good imo

Mortis ex Verditus: We just need some good rolls and we'll be out of this jam.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling (d10!+18-3-1+1+1)/2 vaporize more water spont

(

(

5

)

+18-3-1+1+1)/2

=

10.5

johns (GM): im just feeling really discouraged right now and dont want to run a whole combat especially when i know you guys dont want to run through one

Dušan of Criamon: if you're not feelin' it I wouldn't object to a called night however, since i'll back out within the hour anyway

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm sorry, I'm just not feeling it, you're right.

johns (GM): alright

we'll just say this whole adventure never happened then

cheers

Archibald of Guernicus: I can't speak for anyone else of course

oh

Dušan of Criamon: Ah well

Mortis ex Verditus: What?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could eventually have birds peck at the hands of what's grabbing them

Mortis ex Verditus: I think you need a nap Johns.

Dušan of Criamon: fwiw the whole swamp setting worked for me, I love a swamp horror

johns (GM): maybe

Fiorella of Jerbiton: But I don't have a formulaic to summon ducks

Guy of Bonisagus: im fine with a combat

now that i can see the enemy i can throw ap ilum at it

johns (GM): can you do that without gestures

Mortis ex Verditus: Or rather, you can't because you're being grappled.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: No gestures is -5

Guy of Bonisagus: well its just grabbing my feet isnti t

johns (GM): lemme check grapple description

The grappled character may

make a normal attack against the grappler to

attempt to escape, but may not make any other

attacks or take other actions that involve moving

around.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't think grappling their feet counts

Guy of Bonisagus: a pilum is a normal attack

Mortis ex Verditus: Not really.

For example, you have to cast a spell.

Guy of Bonisagus: casting a spell is normal, for a magus

now if it were a mundane? yeah, thats not a normal attack

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If they're in a bearhug then their arms are restrained but I don't think anyone here has their gestures defined as using their feet

Guy of Bonisagus: hell its outright impossible

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't think so, Guy.

Dušan of Criamon: Ah the grapple, the most universally hated of all ttrpg rules

Guy of Bonisagus: still i cant cast without gestures

i can still get my screaming bonus

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The grapple rules are too vague in this instance, not too complicated

Guy of Bonisagus: er can cast without gestures

johns (GM): A grapple inflicts no damage, but holds

the defender so he can’t escape and his actions

are hindered. The defender is caught in

a hold or lock that lasts until the start of the

attacker’s next turn. After that, the attacker

must succeed at a new grapple to maintain

johns (GM): the hold. The grappled defender suffers a

–6 penalty on all attacks and most reactions,

including Defense and Evasion, and can’t

perform spellcasting gestures. He can escape

by succeeding at a grapple of his own, or by

inflicting any level of wound or Bruise on the

johns (GM): character who’s holding him. It is possible to

grapple while prone.

Dušan of Criamon: true enough, though I don't know if we have confirmation that only feet are being restrained

Fiorella of Jerbiton: In HERO a Grab attack immobilizes two limbs, and you have to define the limbs being immobilized

It's complicated but not vague

A power that uses Gestures is shut off if the grab goes for both arms

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Or one arm, if the Gestures (uses both hands) limitation is taken

Guy of Bonisagus: i will attempt to cast pilum while grappled. gestureless, with screaming

Mortis ex Verditus: Also casting Pillium of Fire on someone who is grappling you sounds very dangerous.

But then again, you do have magic resistance.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Pillum of Fire doesn't inflict a DoT

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

3

)

+11

=

14

Fiorella of Jerbiton: DoTs use different rules

johns (GM): -3 from aura

Guy of Bonisagus: i slam a conf down which makes it succeed though i take uhh. a fatigue?

Mortis ex Verditus: What?

Guy of Bonisagus: that is with -3

i think failing by 5 or less succeeds but with a fatigue

johns (GM): what's the penetration

Guy of Bonisagus: do they have mr

its no penetration

johns (GM): ........................ yes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Setting something on fire and inflicting damage with Ignem are two different kinds of spells, defined differently

Guy of Bonisagus: i figured it was just animated skeletons or something

goddamnit

johns (GM): im sorry

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Archibald please Demon's Eternal Oblivion them

I loewred the water level again, maybe they're visible now

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh

johns (GM): alright

Archibald of Guernicus: If they're visible, then I can do that

johns (GM): archibald end this

Archibald of Guernicus: DEO, might 10 version, on one. How many are there, 4?

Ah 3

The pen is ridiculously high if it doesnt botch, a lot more than 10, so 3 botch checks

rolling 3d10

(

4

+

7

+

9

)

=

20

johns (GM): ok

ill take your word for it

Archibald of Guernicus: Guy, Celeste, then the undead

johns (GM): goodbye Vengeful Dead

Archibald of Guernicus: well its.. lets see

+27 to cast, WITH the aura penalty

on a level 10 spell

so 20+ pen

johns (GM): they are might 10, +3 mr from aura, and spent 3 might points on the effects to summon watery graves and to travel through earth unhindered. cheers

Celeste: i tihnjk im caught up but it was scrolling out of view faster than i could read so i might have missed something

Archibald of Guernicus: They spent 10 might points. I spent it. They're dead.

Celeste: im sorry i didnt leave because i wasnt having fun i left because i live with my parents and get called away to do favors for them

johns (GM): nah it wasnt that

relax

Celeste: its been a good session.

lol

idk

johns (GM): anyway the foreman and a bunch of guys show up and wonder why you walked into a swamp.

Celeste: ive been having a fine time at elast

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I also helped my dad move somethings, that's why I was out of it for a bit

Celeste: Hey, it happens.

"I was tracking a crow I shot down. The wizards I guard have reason to believe it was a demon."

"And then I got grabbed by some demons."

"Seems pretty clear."

johns (GM): lets call it for tonight

Dušan of Criamon: I breathlessly finish running to the rest of the group with a length of rope, that I ineffectually throw towards no longer trapped sodales

freeze frame, credits

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright.

Celeste: lol

johns (GM): sclavo can lead you to the vis source and we could just end if there if you like

Celeste: dusan ftw.

Mortis ex Verditus: It seems like we still have a lot more to do with this adventure.

Dušan of Criamon: we could also cut it up into 2 sessions unless that's against group policy

Mortis ex Verditus: I recommend we continue next week.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: DEO speedwagon

Celeste: yeah this seems like a fun adventure with plenty to do.

i dont know. im sorry you're not having a good time johns.

Dušan of Criamon: johns: if you think your session has material we can continue next time

johns (GM): alright we'll pick it up next week

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm fine with either continuing this or going to sicilian faerie regio next week

johns (GM): dfd prep the regio in case the adventure goes short

Dušan of Criamon: Nice, double feature

Celeste: ill have it prepped by next week yea

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah just prep it and we can see how johsn feels by next week

let johns nap for now

Celeste: that one will probably have some combat but im gonna try to be fun with it if thats possible.

gg

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah, same.

Guy of Bonisagus: johns needs to get a job again to restore his vigor

Mortis ex Verditus: He's the most sleepcucked man I've ever seen.

Dušan of Criamon: alright

I think it's time for my medication to kick in

smell y'all later

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

See ya.

Celeste: score.

goodnight, then