8/13/17

Endrite (GM): You know I thought that the village map was coastal for the longest time.

dys: Hello.

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

johns: What if we dammed the river

ahead of the landing site.

Shauncat: hail vendor buy bank guards

dys: What if we damned the village, by leaving it to be slain.

Endrite (GM): Where would you divert all the water to?

johns: what's upstream

anyone we care about?

Endrite (GM): Nope.

Shauncat: Divert the water into a trod

Hafl T.: let's drown some fairies then have artemisia explore for loot

Shauncat: Ok

Endrite (GM): Ghosts are probably not that vulnerable to drowning.

This is just my opinion, of course.

c'thinker: Shauncat: hail vendor buy bank guards

Hafl T.: the point is to drown someone by damming the river, not to save the village

c'thinker: are we still waiting on the result of jorn's faerie trod or have we already gone home and back

Hafl T.: magi are like dogs and just do things arbitrarily

Shauncat: Oh, getting everyone home is easy

c'thinker: magi are like dogs, and don't have free will but instinctively take actions that reflect the inner truths of the human soul

Endrite (GM): All roads lead to Rome, after all.

Shauncat: I spend a few hours making charms to get here and to the village, then take people back to the nearest regio that overlaps Vardian's Tomb

Hafl T.: magi are like dogs in that endrite hates them and wants them to die, but we keep letting him take care of them anyway

c'thinker: everyone walks in on venator molesting a fae in his secret regio

Hafl T.: oh no

Endrite (GM): The nearest regio to Vardian's Tomb, that you know about, is the Rat King's Realm.

johns: thats the one that has every rat in rome living in it now

Shauncat: I don't have to know about it

Endrite (GM): Yes.

I should also point out that you haven't yet finished your initiation.

Shauncat: Charms can be fashioned for mundane locations but trod don't guarantee that the regio will be directly over your destination

That was Spring

c'thinker: can i get a fresh gm ruling here, to overrule the one that gulielmus has aids and is dead

johns: Hmm

Endrite (GM): Gulielmus has AIDS and AIDS-related excess belly fat.

AFK a minute.

c'thinker: gah!!

Hafl T.: what does the Divine think of AIDS?

dys: What if the Gift was AIDS.

Shauncat: 1336	Spring	VIsited the Devil's Lane on an adventure to deal with a hobgoblin infestation in Montcuq. Completed initiation into Arcadian Travel. 8 Adventure	3 Spell Mastery (Piercing The Faerie Veil). 5 Vim

If I didn't actually get initiated that's a season's worth of time that could still be apportioned

Hafl T.: the best part of posting with jayson nuclear is that everyone agrees with me when i tell him that wizardry 4 is the best place to start with the series

dys: lol

johns: thats correct though

Shauncat: The best part of posting with Jayson Nuclear is when people tell him to return the gameboy, he says that the situation with Rlazz has been resolved, and people tlel him to return the gameboy again.

Hafl T.: the best part is that the gameboy was nintendo ds

Shauncat: It would have been cooler if it was a classic gameboy

With green graphics

Hafl T.: that's why the lore was changed to an ideal form rather than mundane fact

dys: I hope his name being stuck as Jayson Nuclear is mod-enforced, though it really should be THIEF

devil's fav demon (GM): a nintendo ds is a game boy

Hafl T.: wordfilter thief to jayson nuclear and apply the wordfilter on riidi's let's play

johns: lol

i guess endrite died irl

time to take a nap

Hafl T.: rip

johns: someone remind me what the whole point of trods and going back to rome is

Hafl T.: he has one more minute according to my computer clock

Shauncat: Jayson Nuclear 4 ruined with context-sensitive gameboy-stealing actions

dys: The mission to infiltrate a shpongle concert

Hafl T.: using arcadian travel to go back to rome and ditching the village saves a season of labwork

Shauncat: Yeah

Hafl T.: it might have horrible consequences on a botch, but still, a season of labwork

johns: ok

Endrite (GM): I'm here.

johns: so the people going back to rome are abandoning the village for good

who is staying then

dys: I don't think we're actually doing that now.

Endrite (GM): Anyway, you're right, Jorn does have the Arcadian Travel ability.

johns: i dont know what the fuck anyone is doing!!!!

Shauncat: I've not forgotten that I owe a favor still

johns: just say right now what your plan is. all of you

bolad plans to stay.

Shauncat: I originally thought Pellow was the messenger for said favor but was mistkaen

Endrite (GM): Yes please good idea.

Shauncat: Jorn will stay and build escape tunnels

dys: I'm going to stay with my sodales and risk my life for a pawn of vis.

Beatrice Orsini : my major flaw makes it so i have to stay and try to help

Aristide of Tremere: aristide will stay to laugh when nothing happens and everyones season is wasted

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll stay because I want to take credit for saving a town.

dys: That includes Aristide's season too.

Beatrice Orsini : no season is wasted when you can laugh at your sodales

Aristide of Tremere: every season aristide is alive is wasted

Bialas of Bjornaer: I thought he loved being alive.

Shauncat: I hereby bequeath my lab to Gimli Jornson of Verditius

Bolad: Does anyone in the village have any stories of what happened 100 years ago when the vikings last showed up. were they able to fight them mundanely

Bialas of Bjornaer: brb

c'thinker: johns: so the people going back to rome are abandoning the village for good

who is staying then

Endrite (GM): No one from back then is alive, of course.

Beatrice Orsini : a lot of people died as recorded in the church records

c'thinker: we can travel back the day before the event

Bolad: obviously someone has some stories somewhere or people wouldn't know this happened 100 years ago

Beatrice Orsini : we could crosscheck baptism records and burial records to see how many people stayed alive after the last massacre

Endrite (GM): Roll Charm, anyone who speaks Italian.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll try, but i have gift stink

Shauncat:

rolling d10+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Endrite (GM): I didn't know you spoke Italian, Shaun.

(To Endrite): presence or comm

Jorn of Merinita: Sorry

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+3+5-5 pre+charm

(

1

)

+3+5-5

=

4

rip

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+4+1-0 charm+comm

(

7

)

+4+1-0

=

12

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5 pre com

(

10

)

+5

=

15

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 13 if you want presence instead

(From Endrite (GM)): Pre

Endrite (GM): +PRe

Bialas of Bjornaer: ok

Endrite (GM): Sorry.

I always forget to do that!

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10+6

(

6

)

+6

=

12

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, 13 then.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Why are we rolling Charm? Who are we trying to seduce?

Beatrice Orsini : the village

Endrite (GM): Ok, anyone who gets a 6 or higher manages to extract the story from a fearful peasant.

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn speaks Italian, and he has Gentle Gift while Shaun has Blatant Autism

Bialas of Bjornaer: Sounds like Intrigue.

Haha.

I'll stop being a dork about the social abilities.

Peasant: The last time the ghost raiders came, they burned down the entire town and slaughtered everyone, piling their skulls in pyramids, then vanished. Everyone that is, except for those who hid in the Church and begged St. Ambrose to protect them.

Bolad: why haven't they asked their lord to defend them

Bialas of Bjornaer: does anyone have church lore

Jorn of Merinita: Let's ask the priest's permission to dig an escape tunnel in the catacomb.

Peasant: For you see, after the raiders were sighted, a brave boy ran to the church and started to ring the bell to call all the villagers to the safety of the church (one of the only stone buildings in town).

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if all of the villagers are faeries, and contain vis

Endrite (GM): Only one way to find out.

Well, there are a couple.

Jorn of Merinita: Anyone have Alluring to Faeries?

Bolad: mu te guideline: Change dirt so that it is highly unnatural (requisites will often be

required).

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It sounds like you should hide in the church and pray to Saint Ambrose, then."

Bolad: could this be used to turn weapons into a form that can hurt intangible spirits

Endrite (GM): Oh yeah, Father Piero did go to warn the lord.

But he's ~ missing ~

Bolad: did we tell the lord anything while we were at the castle

Beatrice Orsini : no

Jorn of Merinita: We learned that the road isn't dangerous at all

Beatrice Orsini : we talked with the priest there

Aristide of Tremere: sounds to me like a scheme by st ambrose to get a lot of worship

Jorn of Merinita: And that Piero could have been there and back easily

Bialas of Bjornaer: smart

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that makes God smart.

Endrite (GM): It seems like you'd need a Mentem requisite of some magnitude to hit a ghost with even an unnatural composition.

Unless there's a metal ghosts hate.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Imaginary metal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: could you have a pevi or peme effect with touch range activate when it swings through an intangible ghost

Bialas of Bjornaer: if you enchant it. sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's not actually touching but it's in very close proximity

Endrite (GM): I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you.

-Ghost slayer

Bolad: lets get the priest's assistant to go to the castle and wake the lord

Endrite (GM): Anyway, when we last met you had just found out that the ghost viking attacks were real.

By consulting the church's records.

Beatrice Orsini : the lord bought the castle from the orsinis, so aristide and beatrice should stay away from it

Archibald of Guernicus: I have Gift Stink Level 2, so I'll also stay away

Jorn of Merinita: We've also found no evidence of faerie regios being nearby, as far as Second Sight and Sense of Faerie Power can tell

Beatrice Orsini : did you try at the landing site?

Endrite (GM): So what I'm hearing is that no one is running away back to Vardian's Tomb?

Bolad: remind me who the junior priest is and what his title is, GM

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's just some kid

Jorn of Merinita: If it's connected to a road I'm standing on, I can sense faerie power until the next moon

Endrite (GM): Lino, the Pastoral Assistant.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well we were all going to run away back to vardian's tomb but then it was decided we wouldn't be able to return, i think

Endrite (GM): He hasn't been ordained BUT he does have a dorky haircut.

Beatrice Orsini : that's just a part of being a teen

Jorn of Merinita: And I see a road by the landing site

Bolad: Let's offer to escort him to the castle to deliver Piero's message

Archibald of Guernicus: Sounds like a plan.

Beatrice Orsini : road and road network are different targets

Jorn of Merinita: Oh right

So I have to go past the crossroads

I'll do that then report back

Endrite (GM): You mean with an InVi spell, Jorn?

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah, I sponted a Sense of Faerie Power las ttime

Road range Moon duration

Endrite (GM): That just tells you if an Aura shows up.

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

No positives

Endrite (GM): Yep.

Beatrice Orsini : except for gui and his aids

Jorn of Merinita: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: greetings.

Endrite (GM): This is a safe space for magi with AIDS.

Anyway, you want to go bother Lino again?

Bolad: Yes

Endrite (GM): Is anyone going to do anything with Pellew?

Archibald of Guernicus: Decapitate him.

Bolad: Bolad doesn't understand everyone's fascination with the tinker

Jorn of Merinita: I'm going to forget the imagined idea of faerie ghost vikings I had and operate on the assumption that these are ghost vikings from Hell, since that's what everyone insists

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill him and then ourselves

Jorn of Merinita: And if they do happen to be faeries, its just them imitating local lore

Beatrice Orsini : we investigated the tinker to the limit of our abilities

Bialas of Bjornaer: I can just make him fall asleep again, stuff his ears with dirt, and hide him in a bush.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make him fall asleep again and then bury him

Archibald of Guernicus: You should bury him yes

Bialas of Bjornaer: He was comfortable in there before.

And I don't want him starting trouble.

Archibald of Guernicus: Bury him... 6 feet under

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make him eat a bug

Endrite (GM): KEEP IN MIND that Faeries and other supernatural creatures aren't restricted to their native aura.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm vaguely aware that there are viking wizards, but they are no friend to dwarves so I don't know anything about them.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I can't do that.

Well, maybe I could just growl at him until he ate a bug.

Endrite (GM): And neither do the necessarily create an aura as they travel.

Ok, so you're just going to let Pellew wander off?

Beatrice Orsini : we really shouldn't

Jorn of Merinita: If they're faerie ghost vikings that show up out of nowhere, that's certainly within the lore, just not much we can do about them in advance.

Beatrice Orsini : he's becoming suspicious again

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well

where DO they show up from

Endrite (GM): Valhalla.

Beatrice Orsini : the landing site

Jorn of Merinita: I can keep Pellew here a bit by having him sharpen my masonry tools

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: great. let's burn down valhalla

Endrite (GM): It's night time, he's sleepy.

Archibald of Guernicus: Pellew the red herring.

Jorn of Merinita: He's a hell of a red herring

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm racking my brains for a good reason to kill this man IC

Lino: If you aren't going to bother him further he's just going to go and sleep until morning.

Bialas of Bjornaer: We don't need to kill him..

Beatrice Orsini : but we want to

Archibald of Guernicus: I want to, yes

Bialas of Bjornaer: We can just leave him in a bush outside with dirt in his ears and let the vikings kill him.

Bolad: it is customary before battle to sacrifice to the gods

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's nail him to the altar

Bialas of Bjornaer: If Bolad thinks it will help...

Archibald of Guernicus: He's probably summoning the Vikings, aetheric vikings that we can't detect with hermetic magic due to the lack of spells to detect lunar auras.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that way we know he won't wander off

Bolad: realm of reason vikings here to defeat us with newtonian physics

GM, do I get Lino to follow me to the castle or not

Bialas of Bjornaer: Let's just tie Pellow up with mundane rope and leave him in the bush.

Then I don't need to get everyone to cover their ears.

Lino: "I suppose I could. I"ve never been that far away before."

Jorn of Merinita: Last time I left Pellow alone, he followed me all the way from Rome to here

Lino: "D... do you really think I could talk to a real lord?"

Jorn of Merinita: So I don't think he needs to be tied down

He'll just keep showing up

Bialas of Bjornaer: I think he might be a demon.

Bolad: "He is no real lord if he does not defend his village."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll just say it.

Bolad: "Until that point he is just another man in fine clothes hiding behind walls of stone."

Jorn of Merinita: If he's a demon he'll definitely not go away if you ignore him

Lino: "Maybe."

Beatrice Orsini : sticking fingers into your ears and closign your eyes is a traditional exorcism methos

Lino: "Will you be there to keep whatever happened to Father Piero from happening to me?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let me check my infernal lore, to see what the consequences of pellew being a demon are

rolling 1d0

(

0

)

=

0

Bolad: "I shall."

Jorn of Merinita: Have Aristide roll Infernal Lore

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: have archibald do it

Bolad: does Gulie want to come along too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as our resident diabolist

Bolad: to the castle

Lino: "Alright then, if Father Piero had unfinished business then it's up to me to do it."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Lino is a good man.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Huh?"

"Oh, sure."

Jorn of Merinita: I'll go visit the castle too

As the gentle gifted retard I guess I better talk to people

Bolad: lets take 1 grog per wizard coming with

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't have control over my token again

Lino: "How much should I pack?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hang on

Lino: "How far away is this castle?"

Beatrice Orsini : i'll stay in the village, just in case the lord is on good terms with the orsinis

Bolad: it was like a day away when we went right?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm standing outside the church, tapping my foot impatiently as I wait.

Beatrice Orsini : a few hours

Lino: Yeah about a few hours.

c'thinker: i dunno what the deal is

Beatrice Orsini : we went there and back and still had time to lose aristide in the forest and mess around with a tinker

c'thinker: it's set to "can be edited and controlled by: c'thinker"

Bolad: "Bring enough for a day, I suppose."

Archibald of Guernicus: Delete the token as GM and then drop it again as a player

the one on the map i mean

Lino: Well, I gave the token special permission for you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ty

Lino: Lino disappears into the parsonage and re-emerges with a basket filled with bread.

"I'm ready."

Beatrice Orsini : while everyone is at the castle, i'll go through the church records again, trying to find the oldest living person in the village

Lino: "Uh... which way is the castle?"

Beatrice Orsini : without actually needing to talk to anyone

Bolad: "We'll lead the way"

Lino: Alright, you head back through the woods at night.

By the time you reach the castle, the first rosy fingers of dawn are reaching over the horizon, not that it's easy to tell with all these trees in the way.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'll wait here while ye escort him indoors."

Lino: The castle is as open as it was last time.

Jorn of Merinita: I inspect the Roman architecture of the castle.

Guardsman: "Halt, who goes there?"

It's a modern castle, not some old Roman fort.

Jorn of Merinita: Ah, French then

Bialas of Bjornaer stretches and yawns

Guardsman: Well, we don't like to say that.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ah, what a walk!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ahhhhh the french

Bolad: "Lino of the village, helper of Father Piero"

"and friends."

Guardsman: The village is Montorsaio.

Anyway,

"What business do you have here?"

Bolad: "The village is in danger and Lino is here to petition his Lord to intervene."

Jorn of Merinita: Can the lord's personal guard do much more against ghosts than villager conscripts?

Guardsman: "In danger? Has Siena hired mercenaries?"

Bolad: "Lino will explain the matter to his Lord directly."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea inspects the nearby plants.

Guardsman: "Why can't you tell us? This youth doesn't seem like he'd have any secret information."

Jorn of Merinita: Gul should bring Violante around with him if he's into plants of virtue

Bolad: "Are you privy to all of your Lord's affairs?"

Guardsman: Gulielmus, they're a stunning example of average flora for the region.

The guards exchange looks.

"Well, we weren't told about such a motley crew as yourselves."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: plants of virtue are cool

"Weren't half of you up here just the other day?"

Guardsman: "I suppose it should be alright as long as you leave your weapons here, but you'd better have something important to say to Conte Annibaldi."

Bolad: works 4 me

Beatrice Orsini : did you know you're baldi, conte?

Guardsman: Anyway, you're escorted into the castle.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I don't have any weapons, and in fact have sworn an oath to never carry them."

"Sounds great."

Guardsman: You have to wait around a bit because the conte is still asleep.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea takes his staff with him into the castle.

Jorn of Merinita has some time to study French architecture then

Guardsman: But after a few hours go by you are allowed an audience with Conte Annibaldi.

Gulielmus, you are forbidden from doing so.

Bolad: "Lino, just tell the count what Piero told you."

Guardsman: Jorn, you aren't allowed to wander around the castle, you're basically only allowed just inside the gate and the great hall.

Jorn of Merinita: If I'm spending my season in this hamlet i could study this castle like a tract

Lino: Lino is awestruck, he's never even seen a castle before, let alone been granted an audience. He stammers until the Conte shouts, "Spit it out, boy, I don't have all day!"

Jorn of Merinita: I lend Lino spirit power

Lino: Lino looks like he's about to cry, but manages to say "My village is going to be attacked by vikings on October 31st."

There's a lot of stammering and snot that I'm leaving out, for reason of time.

Jorn of Merinita: Succinct yet moving

Patrician: "Vikings? Is this some kind of joke? Did my uncle put you up to this?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Finally, someone sensible

Patrician: "Are we to be besieged by Visigoths next?"

Aristide of Tremere: I laugh.

Patrician: The whole court laughs and Lino looks like he's about to die of shame.

Beatrice Orsini : i hope so

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm not laughing.

Patrician: AFK a sec.

Please think of how to help out.

Beatrice Orsini : actually, it's more likely to be ostrogoths in this part of the world

Archibald of Guernicus: I can't hear this, as I didn't come in, but outside I'm laughing.

Bolad: lets kill the count and usurp his title. you keep what you kill

Bialas of Bjornaer: "They're ghost vikings, obviously."

Beatrice Orsini : laughing on the outside, crying in the inside

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: killing the count seems like the way to go here but i was not allowed to bring my staff

Jorn of Merinita: "Church records confirm that there has been a massacre every century."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm probably not inside either considering I smell like a wild animal and have the gift.

Now that I think about it.

I'm standing next to Archibald, not laughing.

Archibald of Guernicus: You're also a big fat albino

Bialas of Bjornaer: Also true.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nods.

Aristide of Tremere: theres not going to be any vikings and were going to get an increasingly large number of people involved in this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Besides, even if nothing happens, you could earn much goodwill with the villagers by sending aid."

Beatrice Orsini : Bialas should have been a White Wolf.

Archibald of Guernicus laughs louder

Patrician: "Ghost vikings?"

"Do you have any proof of such an outlandish claim?"

Aristide of Tremere: "No."

Patrician: "What londes do you hold, that you know how to control the peasantry, vagabond?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill him

Patrician: This is directed at you, Gulielmus.

Jorn of Merinita: If only we had a court wizard with us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many guards does he have

Beatrice Orsini : the original conte hired the vikings to control his peasants

Patrician: In court with him are 4 guards and 2 armored courtiers. This is in addition to 6 unarmored courtiers, his wife, and 4 heralds (likely unarmed but you never know).

Jorn of Merinita: Perhaps skepticism like this could be weaponized

Patrician: Not in this edition.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's set up a festival where the kids dress up as vikings and demand treats

No one will take the folklore seriously any more

Beatrice Orsini : mont mercure already destroyed magic by unleashing the spirit of reason into the world

Patrician: So are you going to provide proof, give an argument, kill everyone, leave, or do something I haven't considered yet.

Beatrice Orsini : jorn mentioned the church records

Jorn of Merinita: We don't know that it's not a setup

Aristide of Tremere: i dont think we have the records with us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we already provided the only proof we have so the only remaining move is for me to argue with this guy until you kill my pc

Patrician: You do not, because Beatrice is explicitly combing through them.

Jorn of Merinita: I take the claims seriously OOCly because there's a published map for this adventure.

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Aristide of Tremere: lets challenge him to certamen

Archibald of Guernicus: :weebey:

Beatrice Orsini : but what if it's a map to a different adventure

Patrician: It might be.

Bialas of Bjornaer: what are the rules for arguing with mundanes not using disputatio.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're all going to die because we never investigated the tannery

Bialas of Bjornaer: are there regular argument combat rules?

Patrician: There aren't any, Bialas.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: disputatio is the mundane way of arguing

Bialas of Bjornaer: Shucks.

Archibald of Guernicus: Initial Landing Site for the chunk of moon rock that lands and gives a shocking clue about the ambitions of House Criamon.

Bolad: "Annibaldi, what is worth more to you: the wealth and lives of your subjects, or the possibility of losing face by sending a garrison down the road for 1 day at the end of October?"

Beatrice Orsini : let's resolve this through shoujo tenrankai social combat rules

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you're a tytalus you can argue using the special tytalus rules

Jorn of Merinita: "It seems the burden of evidence is on us, and we are lacking," I say quietly to my sodales.

Aristide of Tremere: what if its not a published adventure at all and endrites markov chain functions are finally advanced enough to create his own

Patrician: "How can I be sure this isn't just some trick?"

Jorn of Merinita: "We may have to return to town for the church records."

Bolad: "Take Lino and some of our men as hostages."

Patrician: "I have many enemies who would gladly attack a small garrison."

Bolad: "If we working for Siena as you think you may do as you please to them."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hey Bialas, do ye reckon some Lord's going tae listen to tales of vikings attacking."

Patrician: "Capital idea."

Beatrice Orsini : poor lino has curse of venus

Patrician: "Very well, for every man I send, I will require one hostage from your... band."

Aristide of Tremere: not it

Patrician: "I'll not detain this young lad any further, however."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We're who knows how many miles inland, in Italy of all places. How did Vikings get here?"

Jorn of Merinita: Alright, I'll start working on an escape tunnel for our grogs.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He'll listen to tales, sure. Take action? Maybe."

Patrician: "Surely he is eager to return home to his mother."

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+2 folk ken

(

9

)

+2

=

11

is this guy just fucking with us

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling d10+5 folk ken

(

5

)

+5

=

10

Jorn of Merinita: "The village is also missing their priest. If he cannot be located, a new one should be requested."

Aristide of Tremere: is this guy just fucking with them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+4+2 folk ken + perception

(

1

)

+4+2

=

7

yikes

Beatrice Orsini : i told the castle priest about the missing priest and asked him to do something

(From Patrician): He sounds sincere, but clearly he isn't offering much.

Patrician: "I'm not some heathen. I do not meddle in the affairs of Churchmen. I'm sure the Bishop will appoint a replacement when he sees fit."

Bolad: "Do you offer Knights or weak guardsmen like those I see around here? One of us is worth 10 of their ilk and would serve the village better in their stead."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hahaha!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea seethes.

Patrician: Conte Annibaldi looks irritated by this question until one of his courtiers whispers something in his ear.

Jorn of Merinita: Priests have a powerful Mu(Re)Co(Im), you want to build as many as posible

Patrician: "If you are so certain that you would be better at defending the village, than by all means do so."

"I am not averse to hiring mercenaries to battle vikings, after all, it's the traditional method."

Big laughs from everyone at this line.

Bolad: hell yeah lets get paid

Jorn of Merinita: Nice

Bolad: does anyone have bargain

Bialas of Bjornaer: more laughs all around

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: not me

Jorn of Merinita: I have +5 Bargain

Beatrice Orsini : hey, any wizard with useful life skills around?

Jorn of Merinita: A token amount for masonry negotiations

Patrician: "I would be willing to compensate you handsomely for any viking ears you bring me."

Archibald of Guernicus: I have Single Weapon, that's a useful life skill

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Bolad: oh now he's just being a dick

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes been a dick this entire time

Jorn of Merinita: That's a good deal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats why we need to kill him

Patrician: He's being kind of a dick.

Folk Ken success.

Archibald of Guernicus: Man it's  really  going to sting when no vikings show up

Jorn of Merinita: Can anyone CrCo and ear for Moon duration?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably anyone

Beatrice Orsini : i have creo and corpus

Bolad: ooooh

Bialas of Bjornaer: I guess we'll just have to kill all the villagers ourselves.

lmfao

Bolad: i like this pla

n

Bialas of Bjornaer: i could do that jorn.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Bialas of Bjornaer: i could creo corpus a lot of ears, more than likely.

Beatrice Orsini : 21 base CrCo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can anyone crco an enormous pile of ears, right now

Jorn of Merinita: Make a pile of bloodied ears that'll last for Moon

Bolad: hey here's an even simpler idea

let the vikings kill everyone in town, then take all the peasant ears

Beatrice Orsini : let's cut off our own ears

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :weebey:

Jorn of Merinita: :weebey:

Aristide of Tremere: lets cut off archibalds ears

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if aristocritus were alive i could fill this room with bloody ears

Archibald of Guernicus: You could fill it with 2 of them, anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and, also, murder the lord and fly away.

Patrician: Heh.

Jorn of Merinita: Cut off our own ears then CrCo to restore our ideal forms

I guess that takes vis

Bolad: well lets accept the deal regardless of how we plan to get the ears

Patrician: That seems like the smart move.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's dress up as vikings and claim their danegeld

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's geld them

"All right. One pound per ear."

Patrician: Time to Opposed Bargain.

Stress + Pre + Bargain

If you want to bargain now, of course.

Jorn of Merinita: My total for that is +5

Bolad: mine is +7

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mine is +2

Jorn of Merinita: I'll let Bolad do it then

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+5+2

(

1

)

+5+2

=

8

yessss

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Jorn of Merinita: Confirm the botch

Bolad: gm can roll however many botch die are needd

Patrician:

rolling 1d10! + 10 + 2

(

6

)

+10+2

=

18

Beatrice Orsini : i hope bolad has careless with bargain

Jorn of Merinita: Oh it's opposed

Patrician: Ok you do FAIRLY badly on this negotiation.

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

But not catastrophically so.

Jorn of Merinita: So confirmations barely matter

Patrician: They might.

For example, if you had botched you might have had to purchase a right to be bounty hunters from the Conte.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well we could, instead of getting a bad deal, be thrown out of the castle and beaten

Jorn of Merinita: I guess we could get executed on the spot by the guard

Bolad: we could just kill this guy

Patrician: As it is, he's willing to pay one Mythic Pound for every 20 ears, as he assumes you'll get two ears per vikings.

Bolad: i haven't seen any real knights yet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone take an arcane connection to the building so we can return and poison the conte

Bolad: i think we can take him. let's take him, guys

Patrician: I think you should keep your objectives in mind when making decisions.

Bolad: i assumed our objective was to get the biggest payout possible

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my objectives are to reach the end of the adventure and, secondarily, to kill the conte

Patrician: Good objectives.

Bolad: let's dress up like vikings and attack the castle on october 31 while the real vikings attack the village. the perfect crime

Patrician: Genius!

Ok, so if you have no more proof than the Conte is going to kick you out.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's convince his wife and child to visit the village on the 31st and then lock them out of the church

Beatrice Orsini : let's

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's get thrown out of the castle and return to the village empty-handed

Archibald of Guernicus: brb 1 minute

Patrician: Ok, as you make your way back with an oddly excited Lino, let's go back to Beatrice.

Endrite (GM): Beatrice, you're consulting the church records to find the oldest person in the village, right?

Hello?

Archibald of Guernicus: Back.

Endrite (GM): Anyway, you find something.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Endrite (GM): The oldest living person in the village is Maria, the gravedigger's mother.

Jorn of Merinita: My objective is to dig an escape tunnel out of the church catacombs since I don't know how to kill a ghost.

Beatrice Orsini : Can I go visit her?

Endrite (GM): Sure, she's alive and the village is not large at all.

There are no catacombs at the church.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll cast Aura of Ennobled Presence first.

Endrite (GM): It's not that large.

Ok cool.

Beatrice Orsini : make some catacombs under the church

rolling 1d10 just to see if botch because of dominion

(

1

)

=

1

lol

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Endrite (GM): Bellisima.

rolling 2d10

(

10

+

8

)

=

18

No botch!

Beatrice Orsini : lucky for now

i still have enough casting total even with a roll of 0

Endrite (GM): Alright, the gravedigger's hut is easy to find, it's right next to the church.

Beatrice Orsini : handy

Endrite (GM): A roll of 1 without a botch is a 1, though.

Anyway.

Beatrice Orsini : that's still enough casting total for a level 10 spell in one of the 4 arts i'm good at

Endrite (GM): You see the old woman tending the hearth in her thatched roof cottage.

There's no chimney, so the smoke from the fire spreads out over the roof and through gaps in the straw.

Did you know: This keeps pests out.

Beatrice Orsini : I did not, but it makes sense

Endrite (GM): Anyway, the 65 year old crone has her back to the door, how do you want to announce yourself?

Beatrice Orsini coughs.

Old Woman: She doesn't turn around, but says, "Hello are you a visitor? Come sit down by the fire so I can get a better look at you."

Beatrice Orsini : "Thank you."

I'll do so.

Old Woman: As soon as you get near the fire she gasps and starts to stand up

Beatrice Orsini : damn you, gift stink

Old Woman: She doesn't have an easy time of it, but she manages to curtsy.

Beatrice Orsini : "No need for that."

Old Woman: "I had no idea, I am so sorry my lady."

"What brings you to a poor old woman's home?"

Beatrice Orsini : "I wanted to ask some questions about old tales."

Old Woman: "I'm sure my stories have nothing to suit a woman of your bearing, my lad."

y

Lady.

I mean lady!

Beatrice Orsini : she's a bit shortsighted from age

"Oh no, I'm very interested in them."

Old Woman: "You flatter me, my lady. What are you interested in hearing?"

Beatrice Orsini : "I wanted to know about the ghosts from hundred years ago. Surely, you must have heard something from your own grandparents."

Old Woman: "Oh, those were dark days, dark days indeed."

"This town is cursed, they say."

"Every one hundred years, the viking raiders return for their bloody vengeance."

"My grandfather must have buried a hundred bodies the last time they were here."

"They burned the crops, destroyed the old mill, and killed everyone who didn't seek refuge in the church."

Beatrice Orsini : "The mill?"

Old Woman: "If only they had been given a proper burial..."

"Yes, the old mill."

"They burnt it to the ground."

Beatrice Orsini : "But you said your grandfather buried the dead."

ooc, i know she means the raiders, probably

Aristide of Tremere: i dont see how a burned mill would stop her grandfather from digging graves

Old Woman: "Yes, after the raiders disappeared back into their longboats, the few survivors left the church to bury the dead and rebuild the village."

Her grandfather was not the old mill, if that clears things up.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Old Woman: The old mill was where they made flour.

Beatrice Orsini : makes sense

"There wasn't a priest around to bless the dead?"

Archibald of Guernicus: What if we burned the old mill before they get here, so they leave in disappointment

Old Woman: "Oh, of course."

Jorn of Merinita: Burning infrastructure and killing women? Seems like diabolists disguised as vikings

Old Woman: "He was the one who rang the bell!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets invent the mythic backhoe and get these bad boys back to the tomb so we can animate them

Beatrice Orsini : "But father Piero is missing this time..."

Old Woman: "I may not see much these days, but my ears are as sharp as ever."

Jorn of Merinita: I think I might go ask around the village about Piero

Old Woman: "I have heard that Father Piero has gone missing."

"If you ask me, he's lying drunk in a ditch somewhere."

Beatrice Orsini : "Yes, it's strange. No one heard of him at the castle and the woods are not dangerous."

Old Woman: "Shirking his responsibilities to this village."

Beatrice Orsini : "Was he a big drinker?"

Old Woman: "Yes!"

"He went through a bottle of wine almost every week!"

"Shameful!"

Beatrice Orsini : "Watered down or not?"

Old Woman: "The cheapest he could find, I'm sure."

A bottle of wine isn't really that much to drink, as you know.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

I can't think of any relevant questions to ask, so I'll just chat with the old woman until the others come back from the castle. Maybe help her a bit around the house while talking.

Old Woman: I just want to make sure of something here.

You guys all know that there have been alleged to be multiple ghost raids, right?

Beatrice Orsini : yes

every 100 years

Old Woman: The one 100 years ago wasn't the first one.

Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : but i doubt she knows about the previous ones in detail

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the first one recorded, then

Old Woman: She does!

She told you she thought that they cursed the town for an improper burial.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, knowing trends about where they appear, where they go, etc will help

Jorn of Merinita: We told the Patrician about the church records that show that it happens every century

Archibald of Guernicus: For formulating a counter-attack

Jorn of Merinita: He didn't care though

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's why we NEED to kill him

Beatrice Orsini : i remember the bit about improper burial

Old Woman: Ok.

Aristide of Tremere: i cant believe father piero got drunk before his forest walk, tripped and fell into a hole, and then the impact caused a lot of dirt to fall and cover him

Beatrice Orsini : but jorn probably knows more about viking burials

Jorn of Merinita: I can help dig graves

Old Woman: You didn't show him the records, Jorn.

Jorn of Merinita: Digging? That's where I'm a viking!

I said told

Old Woman: Well ok.

Jorn of Merinita: We can go back with the records

If it'll help

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok

i'll prepare some poison that we can put on the pages so it's absorbed through his skin

Jorn of Merinita: We established earlier that Beatrice was combing the records so we didn't have them available to take with us to the castle

So we can rectify that

Old Woman: *Implying that he reads.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm sure he has a reader guy we can give them to

Aristide of Tremere: lets give him a monks hood salad

Jorn of Merinita: If Beatrice tells me about the improper burials I'll volunteer to help in that regard

Beatrice Orsini : I'll tell everyone

and also about the mill

Old Woman: Ok, everyone can be back at the village now.

Beatrice Orsini : the vikings seemed extra interested

Jorn of Merinita: Oh

A burned mill means ashes

Endrite (GM): Roll Ignem + Int

Jorn.

Jorn of Merinita: I have Tales of the Ashes

Endrite (GM): Right.

Jorn of Merinita: I can cast that afterwards

Aristide of Tremere: i think he wants you to know a fact about ashes

which is what the roll is about

Endrite (GM): Well, I think the ashes would tell you they got burnt down by ghost vikings.

Aristide of Tremere: oh

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+3+7

(

10

)

+3+7

=

20

Endrite (GM): Jorn, a mill wouldn't so much burn down as it would explode.

Jorn of Merinita: That's the Int + Ignem roll you called for

Endrite (GM): RIght.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The mill?"

Jorn of Merinita: If the Tales of the Ashes says that it was Ghost Vikings, I can at least confirm that it was ghosts who are vikings

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What about the tannery? Is that new?"

Jorn of Merinita: Both were heresay accounts up until now

Beatrice Orsini : "She didn't mention the tannery."

Endrite (GM): The flour stored in a mill is dangerously volatile and a fire of sufficient size would ignite the small particles of flour floating around in the air, causing an explosion that does +15 damage to everyone inside.

Beatrice Orsini : let's tell the villagers to hide inside a mill

Endrite (GM): The flour is usually kept wet to avoid an even worse disaster, but if it were sabotaged it would create an explosion that deals +21 damage and flatten the mill.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Let's set fire to the mill.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's lure the ghosts into the mill

Beatrice Orsini : let's lure the vikings to the mill and make it explode

Endrite (GM): Jorn, I think you'll know if there are ghost vikings or not when you see them.

Jorn of Merinita: It might have been a booby trap for the vikings back then

Endrite (GM): It would make an excellent booby trap.

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah but that's a month away

If everyone wants to time lapse to the attack though, then sure

Endrite (GM): HOWEVER, the destruction of the mill would leave the village without food for the entire winter.

Beatrice Orsini : i wanted to ask jorn about proper viking burials

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's bring all of the villagers to the castle with a cart full of dead viking ghosts

and then blind the lord

Jorn of Merinita: I don't know if everyone knows the longboat thing in the 1300s

Bolad: the villagers can eat the grain in their lord's granary

Jorn of Merinita: But if not I'll tell them

Bolad: since their lord betrayed them he has not upheld his end of the feudal contract

therefore the peasants are within their rights to rebel

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this

Archibald of Guernicus: Instead of dying to vikings, they can die in a peasants revolt, the proper way

Jorn of Merinita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_funeral There's not a singular tradition, really

Endrite (GM): She was probably talking about a Christian burial.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets focus on the important thing here

Jorn of Merinita: Oh

Beatrice Orsini : that too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since i cannot fly i need a getaway plan after i use magic to blind the count

Jorn of Merinita: Well I can dig really quickly, someone else will have to consecrate the grounds, like Lino.

Beatrice Orsini : lino is not a priest

Endrite (GM): Lino is not an ordained priest.

Jorn of Merinita: He should gets some faith then

Endrite (GM): Darn, if only there were more time.

Jorn of Merinita: He's got a month to find his faith

Or Piero

Beatrice Orsini : there is a priest at the castle

Endrite (GM): He isn't going to develop True Faith in a month, which in any case does not empower you to consecrate land.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's make a sacrifice to a powerful faerie god

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright.

Jorn of Merinita: YHWH

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's come up with our plan for the invasion, though.

How we're going to prepare and set things up

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Let's get this done with

Archibald of Guernicus: And what we will do to kill them without being killed ourself

Bolad: jorn will build walls

Jorn of Merinita: I'm not sure the not dying part is necessary

Bolad: magi will cast spells

Archibald of Guernicus: I can cover the whole landing area in flammable oil (since FFM can make my oil spell Sun duration) then set it on fire when they land.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is there a space here that can be used as an apothecary lab

Bolad: Bolad can spont CrAu, ReAu, MuTe, and PeTe effects

Beatrice Orsini : i have +10 damage spell, but that's all

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide will hide in the mill and watch from the top.

Archibald of Guernicus: Classic Aristide

Beatrice Orsini : illusions are not good against ghosts

unless i could make illusionary people running into the mill to lure the vikings there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll have the villagers round up some staff-sized lengths of wood

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll transform into a bear.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll cast Instant Ring Fort around the mill so Aristide has a fortified position from the ruins

Endrite (GM): What ruins?

Jorn of Merinita: Oh right, 100 years to build a new mill

Endrite (GM): Yeah.

It's a perfectly nice new mill.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is there anything useful in the tannery

Jorn of Merinita: Relatively speaking

Endrite (GM): Also, any ashes from 100 years ago would be gone by now.

Jorn of Merinita: Ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can we pour lye on the vikings

Bolad: draw some fortifications on the map jorn

Archibald of Guernicus: Illusionary people running into the mill, then we blow it up, actually sounds pretty good

Endrite (GM): Well, aside from the overpowering stench, there are a couple dangerous things in the mill.

Jorn of Merinita: I can still cast Instant Ring Fort around inportant structures then dig an entrance.

Aristide of Tremere: if you can do things like that then instead of hiding in the mill i make jorn build me a fortified tower i can watch from

Endrite (GM): 1) There is a supply of caustic lye which does +3 damage on contact. Powdered lye smeared on a surface will do the same amount of damage, but it's possible that the ghosts will notice before it eats through their clothing.

Jorn of Merinita: I can't make towers quickly

I build fast in Vardian's Tomb because it's underground

Bolad: bolad can use Auram effects to spread a wave of lye on the vikings

Bialas of Bjornaer: it seems like the mill is more of a deathtrap to the players than anything else.

Bolad: just give him a big ol' pile of it to work with

Jorn of Merinita: The safest place to be is probably not an explosive mill, but under the church

Beatrice Orsini : i don't think ii can spont phantasm of the human form, since it's level 25 spell

Aristide of Tremere: i cant get a good view from under the church

ill watch from the church bell tower

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is there any chance of getting a replacement priest

Jorn of Merinita: Go on top of the church then

Beatrice Orsini : there's a priest in the castle someone could try persuading

Endrite (GM): 2) There's a pit in the tannery filled with lime, dog excrement, and animal fats. If someone is submerged in it for a while they would certainly die. This disgusting slurry can be controlled with Animal magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: You could spont human voices in the mill.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Endrite (GM): Yes, draw fortifications.

Archibald of Guernicus: Or alternatively, when they step onto the flaming oil that I'm going to put all over the landing site, their flaming bodies will just set the mill on fire on its own

Aristide of Tremere: caustic lyle

Bolad: aristide should hide in that pit

Archibald of Guernicus: Still need to lure them in though

Endrite (GM): Bolad, you could definitely throw a wave of lye on some vikings.

Archibald of Guernicus: Tremere Hole

Jorn of Merinita: If the church does not have a catacomb I'll start digging one.

Beatrice Orsini : i can summon illusionary animals

or voices

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Aristide of Tremere: ill be on bell ringing duty

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's your casting score with the modified oil spell dys

Archibald of Guernicus: Voices yelling "Help us we are in the millwehrstation." sounds like a good plan to lure the vikings

Endrite (GM): Jorn, the church grounds are Divine 3 and the interior of the church is Divine 5.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: + penetration

Jorn of Merinita: Instant Ring Fort is instant, so I can put it up around the church one everyone's inside.

Beatrice Orsini : how soon after sunset do the vikings appear?

Endrite (GM): They appear during the day, allegedly.

Jorn of Merinita: I think Pit of the Gaping Earth can do at least Divine 3

Beatrice Orsini : then how soon after the sunrise?

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to piss in a big ring around the landing site.

Endrite (GM): Who knows?

Archibald of Guernicus: In a neutral aura I have +21 to casting the oil spell, and it's level 10 when sun duration

And I have great pen, so

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have a sun-duration oil spell but your numbers are probably higher

Archibald of Guernicus: I reckon it'll beat any ghost

Bialas of Bjornaer: nice

Jorn of Merinita: I have 5 margin on Pit of the Gaping Earth

Endrite (GM): Wait what are you using the oil for?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what the

my spell is voice/sun/ind and level 15

how's yours 10

Jorn of Merinita: I figure the church might not be big enough to fit everyone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're setting the oil on fire.

Jorn of Merinita: And that the dead will need to be properly buried this time.

Endrite (GM): Oh also, roll Folk Ken + Int everyone.

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10+7

(

5

)

+7

=

12

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+4+2

(

8

)

+4+2

=

14

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+5+3

(

9

)

+5+3

=

17

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+1+0

(

6

)

+1+0

=

7

Endrite (GM): The dead were properly buried last time, Jorn.

The dead that weren't were the vikings.

Beatrice Orsini : it's about the dead vikings

Endrite (GM): Ok!

Good rolls everyone.

Beatrice Orsini : i can use captive voice to place someone's voice in a bag inside the mill instead of sponting

Jorn of Merinita: You mentioned Christian burials last time we discussed it

Beatrice Orsini : and it's a bit easier for me

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+4

(

3

)

+2+4

=

9

Endrite (GM): It occurs to you that the mill is owned by some nobleman, who will be upset that you destroyed it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill him

Endrite (GM): Possible.

Aristide of Tremere: oh no. not noblemen, angry at us

Endrite (GM): He'll demand restitution.

Archibald of Guernicus: What if we just don't tell anyone it was us.

Aristide of Tremere: what if we kill him

Bialas of Bjornaer: Let's call in one of our favors in case he demands anything.

And blow up the mill.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the mill was exploded last time the vikings showed up

Archibald of Guernicus: The vikings burned down the mill, and we were unable to stop them

Beatrice Orsini : yes

Endrite (GM): Unfortunately your two noble favors are currently being used by Lavinia and Proclus who are surveying for vis.

c'thinker: does he know our names

Bolad: if lavinia and proclus aren't here there's no one to object to us bullying the nobles aroud

Endrite (GM): It is what it is.

Ok, so you're going to put some human voices in the mill to draw the raiders and then blow it up?

Archibald of Guernicus: Without those nerds to stop us, we are free to destroy the mill.

Beatrice Orsini : looks like the best bet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about the lye and oil

Beatrice Orsini : using captive voice for that is probably better, since it's sun duration and the person talking can control it

Endrite (GM): Ok, Int + (Ignem/5) to determine how much flour you need in the mill.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well the first thing I'm doing, on the night of the raid, is casting my oil spell with sun duration over and over to fill the entire landing site with flammable oil. When they land, I set it alight. Boom.

Bolad: i drew a position for the lye on the map

Beatrice Orsini : we can soak the mill floor with oil

Jorn of Merinita: If you can find the viking bodies I can bury them properly

Endrite (GM): The landing site is NOT near the mill.

Jorn of Merinita: Not on consecrated soil, but in a stone ship.

Aristide of Tremere: its during the day dys

the raid that is

Endrite (GM): Well it is, but it's separated by the mill race.

A fire there would have to be pretty strong to ignite the mill.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we put some kind of barricade to funnel them into the mill

Jorn of Merinita: I can make a barricade

Aristide of Tremere: the day of the raid, i cast kingly facade on the outer walls of the belfry

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess between the fire and the blowing lye

Jorn of Merinita: Where do you want it?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they might be chased that way

Aristide of Tremere: on every wall of it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or they might go berserk, as all good vikings do, and kill us

Endrite (GM): Ok great plans Aristide.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll ask lino to volunteer his voice for the captive voice plan. he won't need it if he's ringing the bell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone has to lead the prayer

Aristide of Tremere: im ringing the bell

Endrite (GM): He isn't thrilled about giving you his voice, to be honest.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: excellent. borrow aristide's voice

Aristide of Tremere: you can use aristides beautiful voice

Beatrice Orsini : ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's a noncombatant so he won't need to cast spells anyway.

Beatrice Orsini : he can cast spells

Endrite (GM): Oh was someone asking about oil?

Beatrice Orsini : but voice range is limited to the inside of the mill

Jorn of Merinita: The dimension of the Ring Fort are "four paces in diameter, two paces thick, and eight feet high"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: really

thats pretty slick

Beatrice Orsini : captive voice puts someone's voice into a bag

Endrite (GM): The fishermen have a lot of pitch they use to waterproof their boats.

Beatrice Orsini : which affects voice range

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but he's not aware of the inside of the mill

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Endrite (GM): It's sticky and burns easily.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we were also conjuring a bunch of flammable oil

Beatrice Orsini : it can be used more effectively with more planning

Endrite (GM): It deals +6 damage and sticks to people like the lye does.

Jorn of Merinita: Instant Ring Fort does not sound big enough to fortify a building, but it could fortify a tunnel entrance

Endrite (GM): These boats are anchored by stones with holes drilled in them to take a rope. If dropped from a height of 6 feet or more, they deal +10 damage.

Bolad: does aristide have any magic to add here

Endrite (GM): What is all this tunnel talk?

Aristide of Tremere: i cast kingly facade on a few spots of the landing beach

there you go

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+21 to turn into a marble bear.

(

7

)

+21

=

28

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so the kid is leading the prayer

Bialas the Bear: Look at that, it beat EF 15.

Jorn of Merinita: Tunnels for getting to the church easily at the time of the raid

Endrite (GM): What's the duration of Kingly Facade?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh hm

i can give us all +1 size

or -2 size

Jorn of Merinita: I'll just shoot crystal darts at the vikings until they or I die at the time of the raid

Bialas the Bear: attempting to cast Bialas Takes Flight Again

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyone want that

Endrite (GM): It's already easy to get to the church.

Beatrice Orsini : i could use +1 size

i'm -1 base

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bialas can't have the size mod since he's in bear form

Archibald of Guernicus: Since I'll be casting the same spell over and over, to figure out pen, can I roll it once and we take that as the pen for all of them? The spell to make oil, I mean.

Endrite (GM): You just run from your home down the road.

Jorn of Merinita: Ok

Archibald of Guernicus: Give me +1 size, the extra wounds help

Bialas the Bear: 1 dominion? i forgot already.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll look at my spells for ghost viking killing stuff

Endrite (GM): Correctamundo.

Archibald of Guernicus: Dominion 1 is uh, -2 to casting, right

Jorn of Merinita: Though the results might be disappoitning

Endrite (GM): Walls are probably going to be useful.

Bolad: i can light the oil mundanely with a fire arrow if we want to ensure the effect penetrates the ghosts MR

Bialas the Bear: my size when i'm a stone bear counts as +4 for the purposes of wound tracking.

Aristide of Tremere: is archibald a skilled archer?

Endrite (GM): Bolad is.

Aristide of Tremere: oh

Jorn of Merinita: Oh, I could use Unseen Porter to drop some pots of whatever stuff we're using to burn vikings

Aristide of Tremere: i keep thinking bolad is archibald

Archibald of Guernicus: Christ.

Bolad: ????

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, it's Sun duration so i'll have to cast the size spells in whatever the aura will be at dawn on the day of the event

Aristide of Tremere: the tokens look similar

Beatrice Orsini : scottish people are basically mongols

Aristide of Tremere: in the small chat size

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+29 vs 35. good luck self.

(

8

)

+29

=

37

nice.

ok now i'm a bear made of marble that can fly.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll get you for this as soon as someone makes another eastern european magus.

Endrite (GM): Let's wait until the day of to cast any sun duration spells, please.

Jorn of Merinita: I could use Instant Ring Fort to build walls I suppose

Bialas the Bear: oh yeah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess it doesn't matter anyway

Bialas the Bear: Sure.

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought it was the day of

Beatrice Orsini : you cast the spell if you hit -10, but take fatigue, iirc

Bialas the Bear: i thought we'd already skipped.

Endrite (GM): It isn't.

Bialas the Bear: I'm keeping that roll. Sorry.

Endrite (GM): You're discussing your strats.

Sorry, but you aren't.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if i fail by 1 point the spell goes through and i just take some fatigue that will clear up by the time anything happens

maybe.

Endrite (GM): Ok so here's what I've got so far:

1) Flammable oil at the landing site.

Jorn of Merinita: Oh

Endrite (GM): 2) Caustic Lye to be thrown at the viking raiders with magic.

Jorn of Merinita: I can cast Fire duration fire maintaining spells on the burning oil

R: Voice, T: Fire, D: Individual

A fire will give out more heat and burn more brightly without consuming any more fuel. In addition it will produce almost no smoke at all.

Jørn's sigil manifests as a jingle of coins as the fire is bolstered.

Jorn of Merinita:

(Base 2, +2 Voice, +3 Fire)

Endrite (GM): 3) Blowing up the mill after luring vikings into it with someone's stolen voice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe some barricades to redirect the vikings toward the mill

Jorn of Merinita: Ok

Endrite (GM): So who wanted to go looking for the original viking corpses to bury?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: should we put the pitch outside the church maybe

Jorn of Merinita: They'll be several stone rings next to each other, but we can cut off the superfluous parts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if they end up surrounding the church we can light it

Jorn of Merinita: I'll help look for the viking bodies

Bolad: draw some stone walls on the map jorn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this will not backfire

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll look for the bodies

Endrite (GM): You're in luck Jorn.

Bialas the Bear: Burying the original corpses sounds like a strong plan.

Beatrice Orsini : since i'm the only christian around

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Excuse me.

Archibald of Guernicus: They'd have iron weapons, and be buried with their weapons, right?

Endrite (GM): The gravedigger's mother knows exactly where they're buried.

Aristide of Tremere: yeah, lets correct that. beatrice is the only person around that god doesnt hate

Endrite (GM): Gravediggers cove!

Jorn of Merinita: "Yes, and you bury them properly in a barrow surrounded by a stone ship."

Endrite (GM): It isn't on the map, it's further down river.

Beatrice Orsini : actually, beatrice has abhorrent to divine beings

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh we know where they are.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm a good christian but have been cursed with aids nonetheless.

Aristide of Tremere: fortunately, god is a faerie

Jorn of Merinita: I'll build a proper Norse barrow

Endrite (GM): It's several miles away.

Jorn of Merinita: Since I'm an excellent digger

Beatrice Orsini : i'll go ask the castle priest to put a cross on the barrow and bless it

Archibald of Guernicus: God hates everyone, especially Celeste and Proclus.

Endrite (GM): It's a pebbly, unused beach.

Do you want to dig them u[?

One thing at a time, please!

I mean dig them up.

Jorn of Merinita: How does the burial site look now?

Endrite (GM): It's a pebbly, unused beach several miles from the village.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Does anything stand out about the burial? Does it seem immediately improper?

Endrite (GM): So you dug them up?

???

Jorn of Merinita: Not yet

Endrite (GM): You wouldn't know they were there if the gravedigger's mother hadn't yelled at her son to show you this neglected cove.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Bialas the Bear: what a nice old lady.

Jorn of Merinita: "Beatrice, why do they think the burial method has something to do with this?

Archibald of Guernicus: What if we used necromancy to make the corpses animate. Then used the animated corpses to fight the ghosts.

Jorn of Merinita: "Before I go digging them up, I want to have the story straight."

Beatrice Orsini : "From what I remember, Christian burial prevents necromantic spells from working on a body. Which is why it's often efficient to Creo a new one."

Endrite (GM): Archibald, you could try asking them if they'd go for that.

Archibald of Guernicus: Unfortunately, I don't have the necromancy to pull it off. Unfortunate, but what can you do

Jorn of Merinita: "But if the vikings weren't Christians, would that be an affront to the Divine to bury them as such?"

Endrite (GM): Roll Theology to get that answer.

Beatrice Orsini : "I don't know."

Endrite (GM): Whispers Through the Black Gate is only level 15.

Jorn of Merinita: I ask because I don't know myself.

Beatrice Orsini : "We could ask the priest at the castle."

Endrite (GM): Ok, so what are you going to do?

Dig them up?

Ask the priest?

What?

Jorn of Merinita: I don't think that'll achieve ahything yet

Archibald of Guernicus: I meant that I dont have the necromancy to animate a corpse, since it's a fairly high level effect

Jorn of Merinita: Achieve anything positive, that is

Bialas the Bear: If only Celeste were here to roll Theology.

RIP.

Beatrice Orsini : I'm for asking the priest first.

Endrite (GM): Yeah, rip.

Archibald of Guernicus: We'll ask the priest, since we have time anyway

Wait, what if this means it stops the ghosts entirely and all our planning was for n

Bialas the Bear takes a shit in front of the parsonage

Endrite (GM): That is normal for a bear to do so no one notices.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jorn becomes a christian

Bialas the Bear: One weird trick.

Beatrice Orsini : I'm for doing a good deed by helping the people and giving some pagans a christian burial.

Jorn of Merinita: "According to the old stories, Draugr don't rise because of an improper burial, but because the spirit is foul and potent enough."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Giving them a Christian burial can't do any harm, right?"

Endrite (GM): Ok, if you want to ask the priest, you don't have any trouble getting into the castle as "employed" "mercenaries" though there is some laughter.

You can find the priest pretty easily if you can handle all the tittering.

What do you want to ask him?

Beatrice Orsini : I can, since it's for a good cause.

If it's a problem to give pagans a Christian burial to stop their ghosts from rising.

Jorn of Merinita: I could build them a proper barrow but exhuming them seems like a trap at this moment.

If someone can convince me otherwise I'd be happy to exhume them.

Beatrice Orsini : I should take the church records with me to have proof for the priest.

Priest: He's willing to answer the question in the abstract.

He says that it's improper to give pagans a Christian burial unless they've been baptized first.

And, naturally, you can't baptize the dead.

Beatrice Orsini : "Not even if it's for a cause such as this?"

Where is the nearest university? Let's get a doctor of theology on this.

Priest: "It would be terribly improper to do so."

"I would never do such a thing. Pagans made their choice to deny God in life and are punished for it."

Archibald of Guernicus: And now they kill christians. Thanks, God.

Beatrice Orsini : "But good Christians are suffering because of it."

Priest: "Have you considered an exorcism?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Would it be possible?"

we don't have an exactly good track records with exorcisms

Priest: "Possibly, I'm no exorcist, myself."

Beatrice Orsini : "Where could we find one? Would the local bishop be able to help?"

"He needs to be made aware of father Piero's disappearance anyway."

Priest: "Mmm, perhaps."

Jorn of Merinita: Both people with Holy characters didn't bring them

Priest: "Bishop Conti is in Avignon at the moment, however."

"I expect him to be back by December."

Bialas the Bear: I was going to bring Celeste if today involved Jorn's fae trod back to the Tomb, but, welp

Beatrice Orsini : We have weeks.

Bialas the Bear: Go get her then.

Beatrice Orsini : "And the Archbishop?"

Jorn of Merinita: I'll take a look at the Blessing miracle guidelines

Priest: Yeah, you could just fetch him.

He gives you a strange look.

Beatrice Orsini : alternatively, how long would it take to travel to Avignon and back

Priest: "The Holy Father is also in Avignon, at the moment."

Beatrice Orsini : "Oh."

We're that close to Rome.

Máriu Puddu goes off to bring Celeste, after being reassured that she's not really a woman.

Priest: Getting to Avignon would definitely take a lot of time.

Beatrice Orsini : We have about six weeks total.

Priest: You have some enemies in Normandy.

Like that necromancer and his Bjornaer buddy.

Jorn of Merinita: I can use Blessing to give away all my Conf points so we can stack them all on the most powerful chracter

Beatrice Orsini : Let's go to some university then. They should have either a doctor of Theology to tell us it's ok to give christian burial or an exorcist.

Priest: Blessing?

Beatrice Orsini : By coincidence, the nearest university is in Siena.

Jorn of Merinita: Divine Miracle technique

Archibald of Guernicus: Celestial Bliss Trick

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you perform a miracle that restores my fatigue

Priest: Do you know anyone in Sienna?

Beatrice Orsini : not really

Endrite (GM): Then I don't know how you expect to get your question answered.

Jorn of Merinita: I don't think blessings can mess with fatigue, and they'd probably immediately be hit by the nerf bat if they did

Endrite (GM): Or rather, to get the answer you want to hear, since you already got an answer.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Endrite (GM): You can drink potions to restore fatigue.

Jorn of Merinita: Potions are fine

Endrite (GM): Anyway, it looks like you have to make a judgement call on whether or not to exhume these old corpses.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll do it

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : Jorn's idea of giving them a proper viking burial could work.

If we can't get a christian burial.

Endrite (GM): How do you dig 'em up?

Jorn of Merinita: If they weren't buried with their belongings, that could still have consequences like this

Pit of the Gaping Earth

Celeste: damn i really wanted to roll that theology.

lol.

Endrite (GM): You can go for it, Celeste.

Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : let's have everyone around when jorn's digging in case the ghosts are hanging around their bodies

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+9+1 theology+int

(

6

)

+9+1

=

16

Endrite (GM): You open a big hole in the ground, causing a bunch of skeletons wearing positively ancient armor to clatter to the ground. The armor is in such bad shape that some of it just falls apart on the spot.

Celeste: Too late.

That was efficient, though.

Jorn of Merinita: Looks like they were buried with their armor, but perhaps not their weapons

Beatrice Orsini : the theology question was about giving pagans a christian burial

Endrite (GM): Do you want to sort through all their stuff?

Beatrice Orsini : not exhuming pagans, which is ok since they're not in consecrated ground

Celeste: "I don't know why you dragged me out here, you guys already know you can't give a Christian burial to someone who hasn't been baptized. Mariu told me you even talked to a priest."

devil's fav demon: ha ha.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if you destroy the bones?"

"Then they won't have any remains to get mad about."

Archibald of Guernicus: "What if we killed the ghosts."

Endrite (GM): The bones are in rough shape, most of them are broken in some way.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll leave them with their belongings

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Jorn of Merinita: Taking grave goods is bad

Beatrice Orsini : let's put the bones into the mill

Bialas the Bear: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah. It might lead to angry ghosts.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's mill the bones and make gummy bears

I'll use Instant Ring Fort to get started on a cairn.

Endrite (GM): Ok, do you want to try any other investigations of these corpses or just let them lie in their pit?

Jorn of Merinita: I'm a mason, I can build an excellent barrow.

Beatrice Orsini : we should look over the bones in more detail before burying them

Jorn of Merinita: Uh

Beatrice Orsini : reburying them

Jorn of Merinita: I'll look through them for clues first

Endrite (GM): Ok, roll Theology: Norse to figure out how to build a barrow.

Beatrice Orsini : norse theology is just faerie lore

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Endrite (GM): What little armor remains is thoroughly rusted.

Jorn of Merinita: That's fine, we can afford to buy our own armor

Endrite (GM): Some of their weapons have little flecks of decayed leather stuck to them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: norse theology is the organization lore of... the norse church??

Endrite (GM): No, that would be Norse Church Lore.

Jorn of Merinita: Norse barrows predate organized religion in the area

Endrite (GM): Knowledge of doctrine is separate from the knowledge of organization, though there's overlap.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

i was thinking of church lore

Endrite (GM): Yeah, it works the same for the Catholic Church.

In fact it's even worse because there's also Dominion Lore.

Archibald of Guernicus: Good god.

Endrite (GM): Anyway, you can build a barrow, but you aren't really sure how to make it goof for these corpses.

I mean "good".

You could ask them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can anyone cast that spell as a ceremony

Jorn of Merinita: I'm just an architect, my barrow will only be good in the Artes Liberales sense.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im going to learn it at some point but i am a whole shitload of seasons away from being able to do anything at all besides read a book

Archibald of Guernicus: I could possibly spont whispers through the black gate though its unlikely in this aura

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're away from the town right

village

Endrite (GM): Gravedigger's Cove is Mundane 0.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm as specialized as you can really expect a magi PC to be in this area, having a Norse background and and skill at building stuff

I can translate Old Norse though

If someone else can talk to the the corpses

Bialas the Bear: Whispers through the black gate doesn't work on skeletons.

Archibald of Guernicus: Also I dont know if itd do any good since we want to go kill the ghosts

Bialas the Bear: It needs to be a corpse that hasn't decayed.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh nevermind then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jjesus.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah theyre skeletons, sorry

Jorn of Merinita: I'm done playing with the bodies

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets dust to dust these fuckers

Archibald of Guernicus: I do exactly that

Jorn of Merinita: I'm going to cast Instant Ring fort to wall of the bodies until we know what to do with them

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast dust to dust a bunch and remove skeleton from premises

Jorn of Merinita: wall off

Bialas the Bear: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you

Endrite (GM): Wait wait wait, who is doing what here?

Aristide of Tremere: "Finally, I was getting a bit worried with how much fun he had playing with those."

Bialas the Bear: creo herbam a boat and set it on fire with all the skeletons in it and set it to sea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: certamen.

Archibald of Guernicus: We're fighting the ghosts now. We're advancing time to fight the ghosts with our plan to fight the ghost.

Endrite (GM): You can't both build a barrow mound AND destroy the skeletons.

Aristide of Tremere: skeletons are destroy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's ask the archon.

Jorn of Merinita: We're not building a barrow if it's pointless without an ability no Magi PC is ever going ot have in Italy

Bolad: im falling asleep here. are we fighting or not

Aristide of Tremere: the archon, aristide, thats me, says destroy the skeletons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus

Beatrice Orsini : let's not ask the archon

Bialas the Bear: As the elder of the group,

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is the dawn of a dark age for vardian's tomb

Archibald of Guernicus: "As the most senior magus of Vardian's Tomb at the moment, I appoint myself temporary archon to decide on our next course of action. I say we Dust tae Dust the remains and begin preparing defences for the day of the assault."

Beatrice Orsini : hole left behind by the aristide dark ages

Aristide of Tremere: the archon should be someone that everyone in the covenant holds the same opinion of

Beatrice Orsini : archibald dark ages

Aristide of Tremere: a figure thats universally regarded in the same way by all

Jorn of Merinita: I'm just walling off the area so people don't fall in the corpse hole

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah it was great when bonfilia was the archon

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice likes aristide, sorry

Endrite (GM): Alright, good job Archon.

Aristide of Tremere: what the fuck?

Archibald of Guernicus: I then cast dust to dust over and over on the skeletons until the skeletons are gone.

Aristide of Tremere: does beatrice have negative int?

Endrite (GM): The skeletons are reduced to dust.

Bialas the Bear: "I say we just make sure the villagers survive the night. We have a hundred years to research viking burials."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's go back to rolling the celestial die at the start of each session

Beatrice Orsini : she is orsini black sheep

Bialas the Bear: Nice.

Endrite (GM): Or rather, less than dust.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d1

(

1

)

=

1

Endrite (GM): Ok, so what is the plan to get the vikings into the mill?

Archibald of Guernicus: Amazing, a botch. Archibald is archon.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll borrow aristide's voice and put it into a bag that's inside the mill

Bialas the Bear: We say "Hey, vikings, enter this mill."

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : what's the aura in the village?

dominion 1?

Endrite (GM): Make sure to keep the bag open.

Archibald of Guernicus: While they're on fire, Beatrice is going to use the most obnoxious voice imaginable to lure them into attacking the mill in a rage.

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+25-3 vs 25

(

1

)

+25-3

=

23

lol

Jorn of Merinita: I'm not going to have any part in destroying the mil, it'll just make people starve to death instead

Endrite (GM): Molto Bene.

rolling 2d10

(

3

+

2

)

=

5

Beatrice Orsini : it's still enough to cast with fatigue

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : if aristide hasn't put up his parma yet

Endrite (GM): Well, he can drop it.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Endrite (GM): Ok, we're at Halloween, October 31st.

Jorn of Merinita: I can build a wall surrounding the landing site

Endrite (GM): So anything you want to do now you should do it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who wants size buffs

Beatrice Orsini : it's sun duration, so i do it in the morning

Jorn of Merinita: I'll do that

Beatrice Orsini : i want a size buff

Bolad: buyff the grogs

Bialas the Bear: Ok. I'm still a stone bear, because it's just a form of my Heartbeast, but I'll cast my flying stone bear spell again and see if it works this time.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+12-2 Preternatural Growth and Shrinking

(

7

)

+12-2

=

17

Archibald of Guernicus: I give everyone who wants it the ol Sidestep

Who wants sidestep?

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+29

(

10

)

+29

=

39

Beatrice Orsini : i can sidestep myself

Bialas the Bear: score.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll plan with Archibald to cast a fire spell that'll keep the oil burnging for the duration of the attack

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, Bolad was going to light it

with a flaming arrow

Bolad: sidestep everyone but bolad and tunde who are on horses anyway

Jorn of Merinita: I'll keep my parma up myself

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess i have to roll these out since it's nowhere near a guaranteed success in the dominion

Beatrice Orsini : i can give everyone who wants it invisibility

Bolad: if it's a formulaic spell it's gaurenteed guliel

Aristide of Tremere: I go take my position in the belfry, carefully avoiding the fearsome clergy.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the spell is level 15 and my bonuses add up to 10

Bialas the Bear: My plan is to fly at high speeds into the vikings and cause Falling damage because I'm an object made of stone weighing thousands of pounds.

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide will contribute greatly to the efforts of his sodales.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm not going invisible, I'm going to battle gloriously, live o rdie.

Bolad: we ;[

lp

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many size buffs

Beatrice Orsini : aristide can still cast, the spell moving his voice into a bag just changes voice range

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: beatrice has one

Beatrice Orsini : thank you

Jorn of Merinita: I'll Crystal Dart from inside one of my ring forts

Beatrice Orsini : i have CrIg equivalent of crystal dart

it's level 15 but uses arts in which i have much better scores

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: presumably the villagers have provided the several staff-length pieces of wood i requeste

d

so i have my crystal dart equivalent

Aristide of Tremere: I lean out the belfry windows and admire the work I've done to improve its walls.

Beatrice Orsini : can i get into mundane aura before casting buffs in the morning?

Endrite (GM): Yes, Gulielmus.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll put up a ring fort for where it says "grog archer" too

Endrite (GM): Ok, draw it on the map, please.

Archibald of Guernicus: Fly. Greater Hardening. Bless of Wizard's Sidestep.

Bialas the Bear: oh yeah good point archibald

i'll also cast Bialas' Sidestep

Endrite (GM): Drawn any and all fortifications on the map now.

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+20 vs 25

(

1

)

+20

=

21

I do not.

Endrite (GM): Also, who is buffing up with Wizard's Sidestep?

Beatrice Orsini : i am

c'thinker: me

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

again?

i went to mundane aura to cast it though

into the forest

Endrite (GM): You should feel free to do that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my good friend archibald is casting it on me

Bialas the Bear: what are the restrictions on casting the same spells twice in a row?

Oh, I could probably make it without penalties.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you have a fatigue level now

Endrite (GM): None, as long as you have enough fatigue.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i also cast The Appropriate Attire

Bialas the Bear: I have a lot of fatigue.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+9-2

(

9

)

+9-2

=

16

i'm looking stylish.

Endrite (GM): Nice.

Beatrice Orsini : it's not a stress roll in mundane aura, right? sicne i can cast in relaxed conditions

Endrite (GM): So Aristide, how many portraits are you making with magic?

Right, Beatrice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there should be a gap in the landing site barricade, by the bridge to the mill

Bialas the Bear: I fly over to the Mundane aura and cast it again.

oh wait it's stressed?

Beatrice Orsini : ok, then i can give everyone doublet of impenetrable silk in the forest?

Bialas the Bear: let me check ofr a botch then

for the last time

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll take a doublet

Jorn of Merinita: Ring forts don't destroy existing stone like boulders or animal walls

Beatrice Orsini : ok

i have 15 casting total for that, so i can manage it casually in a mundane aura

Bialas the Bear: is that just 1 dice?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if it's a formulaic spell i don't think you have to stress it

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10

(

2

)

=

2

close. nice.

Endrite (GM): Ok, cool, cool.

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+25 sidestep i nmundane aura blah blah it works

(

8

)

+25

=

33

Endrite (GM): How high is the ring fort wall?

Jorn of Merinita: 8 feet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyone with doublet is also eligible for the appropriate attire

Bolad: if you block the river the vikings won't land there

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: very important!

Jorn of Merinita: I'll take down some of the forts blocking the river

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Jorn of Merinita: There, the river is unobstructed

Endrite (GM): Ok so what are the preparations, just so I have it all straight?

1) Ring forts as drawn.

Bialas the Bear: Bialas is under the effects of sidestep as well, it's just a custom spell that works on him if he's a larger size category.

Endrite (GM): 2) Oil at the landing site.

Bialas the Bear: its going to be sweet to still die.

Endrite (GM): 3) Sabotage at the mill to make it explode when a fire is started.

4) Lye is a pile.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll die as I swore I would to my father, murdering the lapdogs of Odin

Endrite (GM): A Lye-l if you will.

Bolad: gm can you shrink our tokens down a bit so they fit better on this map

Endrite (GM): Sure.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll enhance the oil flame with Merinita fire magic

That'll keep it burning a long time

The duration of the attack, most likely

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: will it

Aristide of Tremere: use fire duration spells

Jorn of Merinita: "R: Voice, T: Fire, D: Individual

A fire will give out more heat and burn more brightly without consuming any more fuel. In addition it will produce almost no smoke at all.

Jørn's sigil manifests as a jingle of coins as the fire is bolstered.

Jorn of Merinita: (Base 2, +2 Voice, +3 Fire)"

Endrite (GM): There is no fire yet, of course.

Jorn of Merinita: That's a formula

Beatrice Orsini : fire duration is strong, but limited

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you use a storm to creo a storm with storm duration, the spell ends as soon as the natural storm would have ended

Bolad: bolad will light the fire then jorn will buff it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats a hell of a sentence

Jorn of Merinita: I've had that spell since chargen and it's why my lab has 1 Warping

Endrite (GM): How does Jorn see it?

Jorn of Merinita: From within one of the ring forts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: beatrice has size +1

for the buff list

if we have enough time i can life boost the spell to guarantee it passes for each grog, but i have to wait a few minutes between casts

Endrite (GM): But if the forts are ringed how do you see out of them?

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, Beatrice has size +0.

Jorn of Merinita: The dirt is tapered on the inside of them to climb up

Endrite (GM): Ok.

So they're like big cups.

Or bowls.

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Bialas the Bear: Cute.

Endrite (GM): Ok, sounds good.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, my base size is -1

Jorn of Merinita: I also have Rise of the Feathery Body if not

Beatrice Orsini : which lets me have tiny lab tools without a penalty

Archibald of Guernicus: Adding the size spell to our covenant pre-buff list is great because now we're a gang of huge wizards clipping into the scenery

Endrite (GM): If you want a buff just write your name next to it, I guess.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you have +1 to your -1

Endrite (GM): Wait, what do you wear if you increase your size?

Since it makes all your clothes no longer fit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: not my problem.

Endrite (GM): It is a problem for grogs, because they wear armor.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i look like a grog

Bolad: id like to add +9 defense to tanolfi the archer for "standing behind a chest high wall" (as detailed in lords of men) & another +1 defense/+1 attack for higher ground

Archibald of Guernicus: I have baggy wizard's robes, they'll manage

Beatrice Orsini : i'll take robes of someoen who is size +0

getting normal sized clothes shouldn't be an issue

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: which fort is jorn sitting in

Aristide of Tremere: chest high wall

Archibald of Guernicus: How far is Voice range on this map?

Jorn of Merinita: That's what you get for not wearing leather armor made out of human flesh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll also hang out in that fort

Endrite (GM): Right Boald.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, actually, I can do something here. I spont eyes of the hawk for myself

Endrite (GM): Everyone behind a wall gets +9 defense.

Archibald of Guernicus: In a neutral aura

Bolad: may we position our non ranged grogs in the forts closest to the landing sites and have them rain down the heavy stones

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+20

(

8

)

+20

=

28

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll hang out with the grog archer

Endrite (GM): You may.

Beatrice Orsini : depending on voice range

Bolad: if no one objects I will put all 3 of our foot grogs in the towers right next to the landing site

Beatrice Orsini : i have mastered wizard's leap to get into safety fast, but my spells are voice range

Endrite (GM): Keep in mind that throwing uses the Thrown Weapon ability, which I don't think anyone has.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my spells are voice range and i will die if the vikings get close enough

Bolad: Zachaois the Stiff Initiative: 89

Ilbrago Initiative: 95

Máriu Puddu Initiative: 35

Archibald of Guernicus: Eyes of the hawk is a level 4 effect so I'll stick it on me for moon duration, since it can't hurt to.

Jorn of Merinita: I can ride my rego rock if I decide to retreat

Bolad: im just rolling those so we dont lose track of them under the orange circles

Archibald of Guernicus: I can now see for vast distances

Endrite (GM): Nice.

Right.

Archibald of Guernicus: I hide back here and start making all my voice range spells sight range

Endrite (GM): Here lemme do this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to be clear i'm in the coward fort with bolad and beatrice

not up front with jorn

Bolad: ok

Beatrice Orsini : how far is voice range

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can we even see into the landing site

Aristide of Tremere: as far as your voice can reach

devil's fav demon: is there enough room in he grog archer fort for 2

Beatrice Orsini : i'll need to be on front lines, probably

yelling is 50 paces

Bolad: bolad *& tunde are outside the fort as they are on horse

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: voice range is 50 paces if you shout

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

how far is 50 paces on this map

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh you already said that

Bolad: imo i would not completely cover the landing site in stone walls since the vikins will probably just try landing somewhere else

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah when i said barricades i had like, a couple wooden fences in mind

Beatrice Orsini : depends on how bound up to recreate previous events they are

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: although it is very funny to surround the landing site in actual fortifications

we can probably actually calculate how far 50 paces is on this map based on the width of the farm strips

Jorn of Merinita: I could dam the river past the landing site

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if only i had played Corn, the game of political economy

Bolad: I see a scale near the bottom right of the map

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats no fun

Bolad: assuming 2.5' per pace, 50 paces will be 150 feet on the scale

Jorn of Merinita: That'd flood the oil trap though

Beatrice Orsini : i'll mvoe to the front line fort then

i'll see if my spells can penetrate and if not, i can start moving away

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

can anyone CrAu a gentle breeze in the mill

Bolad: i could, why

Endrite (GM): Also keep in mind that north of the river is land.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: to get a bunch of flour moving around in the air

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 77

Endrite (GM): It's damp and marshy so no one lives on it, but you can definitely walk on it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it should make it explode better

Bolad: Is a breeze necessary to make the mill a deathtrap, GM

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the mill is already a deathtrap

Endrite (GM): If you don't wet the flour then it will move around without your help.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok

Jorn of Merinita: Beatrice, set their boats on fire when they get here

Endrite (GM): And you didn't.

Jorn of Merinita: Just in case they decide not to land

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait a minute

we're in the way of the caustic lye pile.

Aristide of Tremere: thats vardians tombs superior strategic planning for you

Endrite (GM): I mean in some ways you are.

But in other ways you aren't.

Jorn of Merinita: I left a gap in and out of the ring fort

Bolad: will suggest one last time there should be fewer forts immediately around the beach and some more in land

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah back off

Bolad: Doublet adds +2 to soak?

Jorn of Merinita: How's that?

Archibald of Guernicus: Make it seem more like we're gonna fight them on the land and not just immediately set them on fire

Beatrice Orsini : +3, i think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think a wall along the edge of the farmland there and a fort near the crossroads

would be good

Bolad: to blow up the mill, someone just needs to set it on fire once people go inside?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the crossroads by the mill i meant, since that's where we're pelting the vikings with darts

Bolad: id like to add a few torches stuck in the ground here and there for the sake of lighting fire arrows

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: inland forts cant hurt though

Beatrice Orsini : would it be possible to wizard's leap from fort to fort?

Endrite (GM): Do you want to make any attempt to remove flour from the mill to help feed the villagers?

This will reduce the damage caused by the explosion from +21 to +15.

Jorn of Merinita: Like that Gul?

(To Jorn of Merinita): what's the dimensions on your ring fort

Beatrice Orsini : we can leave them some of the payment for viking ears

Bialas the Bear: That's fine. Go for it.

Endrite (GM): But it will allow them to not die.

Archibald of Guernicus: [smiling] I will not remove any flour

Bialas the Bear: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they can eat chestnuts

(From Jorn of Merinita): 4 paces diameter, 2 paces thick, 8 feet tall

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: itll be fine

Beatrice Orsini : i'll remove the flour unless i can convince my sodales to give the villagers moeny for food

Bolad: the peasants should have grain to feed their rebellion when they overthrow their decadent lord

Archibald of Guernicus: Can we throw their possessions into the mill too just to be safe

How high can we pump this damage modifier by harming the village

Endrite (GM): You can't.

I mean you can but they're all asleep in their beds right now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we'll give the peasants some of our bounty money

easy.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if the lord doesn't give us the bounty money we can kill him

Endrite (GM): Go for it.

Don't block the river.

Bialas the Bear: lol

Endrite (GM): Thank you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: perfect.

Endrite (GM): If you do it will overflow andthat might be bad.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: now for the vikings to land downstream and jump the 2 foot hedge

Endrite (GM): Ok how long do these ring forts last?

Aristide of Tremere: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they can eat chestnuts

Jorn of Merinita: Rego, so forever

Aristide of Tremere: we can not risk villagers having chestnuts

Endrite (GM): Well alright then.

Aristide of Tremere: they will be a threat to magi everywhere

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Bolad: oh youve been digging up the ground for each of these?

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Bolad: have you been making finesse checks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what are the parameters on the spell

Bolad: (trollface)

Jorn of Merinita: Sure

Endrite (GM): Good point.

Jorn of Merinita: Figure a few gaps here and ther efrom botches

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume an actual circle isnt involved

Jorn of Merinita: Finesse ins't mentioned in the description of the spell however

Endrite (GM): Oh, well then.

That's fine.

Jorn of Merinita: The outcome of the spell is fairly uniform

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Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: horrified villager: my god. the aesthetic quality of our village has dropped to 0

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Alright. I press the rest button and advance time until the ghosts appear.

Jorn of Merinita: I Have Rock of Viscid Clay, I can spend the rest of the season making the walls look good.

Endrite (GM): You have kind of torn up the village but no one really minds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

oh are we using the pitch at the landing site

Jorn of Merinita: In fact I will do just that

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide stares out at the beach from his safe belfry.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or are we using it to booby trap the church

Jorn of Merinita: Provided I live

Aristide of Tremere: can i laugh and the voice comes from the bag or no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: either way lets fight the ghosts

Endrite (GM): Yep.

Beatrice Orsini : yes

Aristide of Tremere: nice

Endrite (GM): That's exactly what happens.

Beatrice Orsini : that's what captive voice does

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's the point of the plan!!

Bolad: the oil/pitch is at the beach

Aristide of Tremere: i wasnt sure if i still controlled it

Endrite (GM): Ok, the morning the raid is unusual.

A heavy fog blankets the entire village, preventing you from seeing more than 600 feet.

Beatrice Orsini : all wizards are in the forest buffing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hold up. lets spend 2 hours working out a system of signal fires

Bialas the Bear: is this fog illusionary fog

Jorn of Merinita: Someone ring the blels

Aristide of Tremere: ah. fog rolling into the village

a lovely sight, atop aristides tower

Jorn of Merinita: Can I Unseen Porter the bells from here?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no.

Jorn of Merinita: Oh Aristide's up there

Aristide of Tremere: im ringing the bells fucker

Endrite (GM): Everyone at the land site espies a single, small long boat.

Beatrice Orsini : aristide could CrIm a sound of bell

Jorn of Merinita: That's some good ringing, boy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: speaking of signal fires do we have a fire up in this fort

Celeste: if it is illusory fog, Celeste can see fine.

Endrite (GM): It has a single tattered sail and a fearsome dragon prow.

Bialas the Bear: Spooky.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i want to get some of my lengths of wood burning

Endrite (GM): On the sides of the ship are painted shields and withered heads tied to the ship by their hair.

Ok, go for it Gulielmus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can't actually crig a fire

ha ha

Endrite (GM): The deck is seeming empty, though the mist swirls as if there was some activity.

Aristide of Tremere: we destroyed the bodies so theres no ghosts, just an empty ship

great work team

Endrite (GM): The ship lands at the Landing Site, despite the lack of crew.

Beatrice Orsini : we have destroyed the bodies, so the ghosts are invisible

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's hagrid see

Jorn of Merinita: I have no way to target the invisible ghosts so they kill me. GG

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes not even in the fort. jesus.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can see very well at long range and have Second Sight.

Beatrice Orsini : i have bad second sight

Aristide of Tremere: can you see through the fog though

Endrite (GM): What the rest of you see, 5 warriors jumping from the ship onto the beach.

Aristide of Tremere: what the fuck??

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm within 600 feet so yes, I can

oh my god

the ghosts are real

Bolad: pwnd

Aristide of Tremere: youve ruined it endrite

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they're agnels

angels

Bialas the Bear: Holy shit.

Bolad: first Grimoire, now this.

noobs get wreckd

Aristide of Tremere: big warriors

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can drop their size by 2 points.

if i touch them

"They're here!"

Máriu Puddu: Oh shit!

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Tell me when to shoot fire

Beatrice Orsini : it's fine mariu. they're all men

Endrite (GM): They're all wearing rusty chainmail shirts covered with seaweed.

Bolad: are they landing on the north side of the river where their tokens are?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is aristide crying for help, praying to god, etc

Aristide of Tremere: i cant even see them

Máriu Puddu: "I can take them, I just never saw a ghost befo-DONT TALK TO ME!"

Aristide of Tremere: im relaxing in my belfry

Endrite (GM): The 4 Untested Youths appear to be children in their mid teens, ordinary except for the ghastly wounds covering their bodies.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we had a damn plan!!

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, I should build a villa here."

Endrite (GM): The Young Warrior is older and well built. He has a commanding presence.

As well as a jaw that has been smashed open.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: selected|character_name Initiative: 73

Endrite (GM): The 4 Untested Youths wield huge axes that they struggle to carry, while the Young Warrior has a sword and a painted shield, though the design has long since worn down to nothing.

Roll Initiative!

Bolad: hi

are they landing on the north side of the river where their tokens are?

Bolad Initiative: 68

Endrite (GM): No, they're landing in the landing zone.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Beatrice Orsini : how do you roll initiative with this system?

Bialas the Bear: Bialas the Bear Initiative: 35

Endrite (GM): I'm going to use the Young Warrior token to show where they are.

Bolad: Tanolfi Initiative: 28

Bialas the Bear: Celeste Initiative: 24

Bolad: Tünde Initiative: 97

Zachaois the Stiff Initiative: 63

Máriu Puddu Initiative: 88

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn of Merinita Initiative: 78

Bolad: Ilbrago Initiative: 55

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice Orsini Initiative: 38

Endrite (GM): Ok, first things first, who is going to tell Aristide to ring the bell?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's been ringing it

hasn't he

Jorn of Merinita: The fog makes it hard

I suppose if Endrite has to ask

Aristide of Tremere: Hm

Beatrice Orsini : let's just make him ring all day

Bolad: how about a signal arrow

from tanolfi

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can throw a flaming spear at the archers as a signal

Endrite (GM): You haven't heard any ringing.

Bolad: he can see the beach, he's within 600 ft

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and then they would have to signal the church

Endrite (GM): Ok, sounds good.

Aristide of Tremere: no i cant

im at the church

oh

you meant tanolfi

ignore me

Endrite (GM): A flaming signal staff would work quite fine.

Jorn of Merinita: Anyone want to wimp out at the bulwark could go run ot the church

Aristide of Tremere: whats the fucking point of the lye pile by the way

whys it there

Bialas the Bear: to fly into our faces and kill us.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dont ask questions

Beatrice Orsini : we have to flame lye

Aristide of Tremere: why do we have a pile of lye burning a hole in the middle of the village

Beatrice Orsini : i mean lylel

Aristide of Tremere: whos idea was this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Beatrice Orsini : we have to flame lye

Jorn of Merinita: We must flame shapoo

Bolad: im gonna throw it in their faces once they get past the beach

Aristide of Tremere: were fighting the equivalent of 4 children and an untrained mercenary grog

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so is the signal staff suitable for getting the attention of everyone, or only of the archers

Aristide of Tremere: and these are the preparations we made

everyone involved should be ashamed

Endrite (GM): Oh right I forgot the most important detail.

Aristide of Tremere: how do any villagers die to this every 100 years

Endrite (GM): Their weapons are made from sea ice and some unidentifiable bones.

Bialas the Bear: Cool magic weapons.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: weappies

Endrite (GM): They are cool.

Jorn of Merinita: Glamour?

Endrite (GM): Who knows?!

I know.

Beatrice Orsini : let's peco their weapons and if that doesn't work, let's pean their weapons

Bialas the Bear: lol

Beatrice Orsini : and peaq them as well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. it's someone's turn

Beatrice Orsini : do we have time for combat?

Jorn of Merinita: If all the Perdo stuff fails they could be glamour

The distinction doesn't seem important at this time though

Bolad: Tunde skips turn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea casts Piercing Shaft of Wood, to throw one of the flaming staves into the sky as a signal.

Endrite (GM): Oh yeah, who is Leading the grogs?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+12-2

(

4

)

+12-2

=

14

Bolad: no one i guess

Endrite (GM): For the purposes of group combat.

Bialas the Bear: probably Mariu.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Bialas the Bear: Since he has leadership 8

Bolad: okay then dfd can roll the grog stats :evilgrin:

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, just like the alchemists of my youth would make."

I go to ring the bell.

Bialas the Bear: i don't know how to do that, but sure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as usual everyone is weirded out by gulielmus's blatantly non-hermetic methods.

Endrite (GM): Gotta put them next to one another so they can benefit from being a Trained Group.

Ok, what does Mariu's Group want to do?

Bialas the Bear: if we don't have any ranged weapons among these grogs, we're going to wait.

Máriu Puddu: What he said.

Endrite (GM): They have stones they can throw.

Aristide of Tremere: oh no

its 4 hours in

Máriu Puddu: Whoops.

Endrite (GM): But probably not very well.

Let's get this combat done and then we'll call it for this week.

Máriu Puddu: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's.

Máriu Puddu: They will throw stones. What do I roll?

Endrite (GM): Thrown Weapon.

Máriu Puddu: That's definitely not going to serve them well.

so I just use Mariu's Dex?

Endrite (GM): + Dex + you can use your trained bonus.

Trained Group I mean.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone make a failed apprentice companion who spends all his time training Finesse so we can give him cool magic items

Endrite (GM): Also, please listen to this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY

Máriu Puddu: ok. What's the group bonus? I'm sorry for being retarded.

leadership minus the amount of grogs or something? im looking for it now.

Jorn of Merinita: RIP Lee

Endrite (GM): Trained Group bonus is the sum of the combat abilities of everyone in the group, limited by 3 times half your leadership score.

Máriu Puddu: nice.

Endrite (GM): So I guess still 0.

Whoops!

Máriu Puddu: mariu doesn't count as part of the group?

Nice.

oh. no one has thrown weapon anyway.

Whatever.

Endrite (GM): He does, but his ability is 0.

Máriu Puddu:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

6

)

+2

=

8

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Máriu Puddu: "Get out of here, you vikings!"

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 13

(

3

)

+13

=

16

You don't hit with your stones, not that you were likely to have.

They're heavy!

Jorn.

Beatrice Orsini : this should trick them into thinking they're facing untrained villagers

Jorn of Merinita: I translate our jeers to Old Norse

Endrite (GM): Smart.

Jorn of Merinita: Oh, my turn

I'll shoot a crystal dart at one

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling 25+d10

25+

(

10

)

=

35

rolling d10!+35

(

7

)

+35

=

42

Máriu Puddu: nice job.

Endrite (GM): The damage for Crystal Dart is +10.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+10

(

9

)

+10

=

19

Endrite (GM): Thank you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Endrite (GM): Alright, the crystal dart slices the head off of one of the Untested Youths, at the end of the turn.

Archibald.

Archibald of Guernicus: Since we're already going all out with spells, I attack a youth too

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: Crystal dart, FFM to make it sight range so I can easily do it from here

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: Dominion 1 right

Endrite (GM): Correct.

Bialas the Bear: They're all going to be dead before I can cannonball at terminal velocity from 14 feet in the air into one of them.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+23

(

2

)

+23

=

25

Endrite (GM): Goongrats.

Archibald of Guernicus: 10 thresh and 10 base pen, if it matters

Endrite (GM): It might.

Roll damage.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+10

(

8

)

+10

=

18

Aristide of Tremere: terminal velocity?? is that some kind of experimental philosophy term?

Bialas the Bear: Speaking of that, I should Initiate a Mystery to give myself the power to spontaneously burst out in stone spikes

Endrite (GM): Ok, the crystal dart embeds itself into this child's eye socket, killing him.

Bialas the Bear: so i can be a rolling spiny ball.

Endrite (GM): Sure.

Bialas the Bear: Turns out these aren't ghosts.

And we're just murdering regular kids.

Endrite (GM): Gulielmus.

Bolad: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i fired the signal

Jorn of Merinita: Nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i get another turn

Endrite (GM): I mean, regular kids don't have gruesome injuries.

Yeah sure.

Beatrice Orsini : yet

Archibald of Guernicus: These ones do

Endrite (GM): Why not, I say.

Jorn of Merinita: Child soldiers are still soldiers

Aristide of Tremere: thats very insensitive to other cultures, endrite

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, i'll cast the same spell

Jorn of Merinita: Maybe the walls were a bit much but the stories played them up a bit

Aristide of Tremere: i dont know about the walls

what about

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12-2+15 Piercing Shaft of Wood, triple life boost

(

3

)

+12-2+15

=

28

Aristide of Tremere: the fucking

lye pile

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the lye pile is fine. its fine

Aristide of Tremere: theres a fucking pile of lye burning a

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 19 pen

Aristide of Tremere: 150 foot long hole in the middle of the village

Jorn of Merinita: Free pit

Beatrice Orsini : it's fine

Bolad: lets throw aristide in the lye pile

Aristide of Tremere: youll have to take him from his home

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is against the leader ideally

Aristide of Tremere: in the belfry

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : let's throw aristide into the lyle pile

Endrite (GM): What does Life Boost do again?

Also roll damage.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i added 15 points to the total, but now i have 3 levels of fatigue

rolling 1d10!+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

does it get a bonus for being on fire

Endrite (GM): Wow, ok.

Hmm, I think it's +5.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if not it does +10 for being a staff-sized piece of wood

Endrite (GM): Johns do you have the flaming arrow stats?

Ok gimmie a sec to look them up.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well i'm gonna be afk for a few minutes so there's my roll

Endrite (GM): Ok, looks like +1 damage over a regular arrow.

So I think I'll give you an extra +1 damage here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sits down against the edge of the ring fort and tries to catch his breath.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I think that's all you'll be getting out of me for the moment, sodales."

Endrite (GM): Fortunately, or unfortunately, the stave sticks in the youth's gut and does not ignite the flammable oil.

He's badly wounded but not yet dead.

Bolad.

Bolad: moves closer along red arrow path

thats it

Endrite (GM): Beatrice.

Beatrice Orsini : Flame Dart at a youth. It's Crystal Dart but CrIg.

Dominion 1 at the beach?

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Yes.

Beatrice Orsini : hoot and holler is +1 each?

Endrite (GM): You betcha.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+17-3-1+1+1 vs 15

(

8

)

+17-3-1+1+1

=

23

8 pen + 8 pen skill

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Roll damage.

Beatrice Orsini : if it's after noon, it's 9 pen

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh i forgot to hoot and holler

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

Endrite (GM): It's before noon.

Probably 9.

Beatrice Orsini : i have nocturnal so i get -1 between sunrise and noon

which i accounted for

Endrite (GM): Ok, you hit the boy Gulielmus hit, causing horrific burns that kill him.

Beatrice Orsini : good teamwork

Bialas the Bear: lmao

nice job everyone.

Endrite (GM): Bialas.

Beatrice Orsini : good news, everyone, the older warrior is a hell knight

Jorn of Merinita: It'll be a good death for me then

Time to return to Hel, my mother-in-law

Endrite (GM): Bialas?

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to fly from a height of about 10 feet and land at falling speed on the older knight. I'm not sure if this is a Brawl roll or what.

my combat ability?

Aristide of Tremere: finesse id say

Beatrice Orsini : that should be finesse, yeah

Endrite (GM): Yep.

Bialas the Bear: sounds good

rolling 1d10!+6 finesse

(

4

)

+6

=

10

nice roll.

Great.

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 13

(

1

)

+13

=

14

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

He steps out of the way and you fall on the sandy beach that is covered in flammable oil and pitch.

Bialas the Bear: nice.

Bolad: Airbuccaneers voice: Epic!

Endrite (GM): Tanolfi my dude.

Bolad: no action from tane

Endrite (GM): Let's Archer.

Ok, Celeste.

Bolad: he's way out of range

Bialas the Bear:  time to work on my finesse

Archibald of Guernicus: Light the oil.

Beatrice Orsini : it seems super hard to hit things with finesse, since you get no weapon modifier and no stat bonuses

Bolad: makes sense tho cause you bypass mr

Endrite (GM): You can get bonuses with the right spells.

Bolad: It's....... BALANCE

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+25 to shoot a flaming arrow at the small visible patch of oil.

(

2

)

+25

=

27

Endrite (GM): Like a spell that throws a mountain of dirt at someone.

Celeste: I don't see Bialas in there, so, rip

Beatrice Orsini : honorable

Endrite (GM): Frankly, you don't have to see the ground to hit it.

You can shoot over walls and stuff.

Beatrice Orsini : but you need to hit the right patch of ground

Endrite (GM): Well I think Celeste can hit the broad side of a barn.

Jorn of Merinita: You do need a Finesse roll to use pit of the Gaping Earth as a weapon and such

Endrite (GM): Anyway, you hit the ground.

The flamming oil ignites.

Flamping.

Jorn of Merinita: It gets easy to the point of no point in rolling for each Size modifier over Ind though

Celeste: I kind of think Bialas should be able to add Dex or Athletics or something since it's flinging himself bodily at something and not just a stone statue he's controlling

but hey. not a big deal.

Endrite (GM): The Young Warrior yells an oath to his dark god, Odin and charges forward with the Untested Youths.

Archibald of Guernicus: Jorn...

Endrite (GM): They're cut down by magic until only one Untested Child remains.

Then the ground catches on fire.

In the new round, everyone in the flaming oil takes 1d10! + 6 damage.

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

8

)

+6

=

14

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

7

)

+6

=

13

That's for the two remaining vikings.

Bialas the Bear: Nice. RIP.

Endrite (GM): What about you Bialas?

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+6

(

3

)

+6

=

9

Endrite (GM): You are also standing on flaming oil.

Bialas the Bear: Bialas takes no damage, as he has +26 Soak.

Endrite (GM): Phew!

Ok.

You still don't hear any bells.

Are the archers all skipping?

Let's just skip 'em for now.

Bialas the Bear: Sure.

Jorn of Merinita: What happened to Aristide?

Endrite (GM): Jorn.

Beatrice Orsini : fell off the tower

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristide died.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's only been a few seconds since the signal went up

Jorn of Merinita: I'll crystal dar tthe last non-badass kid

Archibald of Guernicus: The second boat landed on him

Beatrice Orsini : no one heard him scream, since his voice is inside a bag

Endrite (GM): Go for it, Jorn.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10!+24

(

1

)

+24

=

25

Endrite (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

7

+

7

)

=

14

Jorn of Merinita: Does it connect?

Aristide of Tremere: "Hm, the bell doesn't seem to have a rope."

Endrite (GM): Yeah if you cast it and pass this guy's MR.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll figure the pen real fast

+5 from penetration mastery

Bolad: hit it with your head aristide

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling 25-10+5

25-10+5

=

20

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Roll damage.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10!+10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, I see, it's been cut."

Endrite (GM): Alright, you strike him in the "thigh", tearing his leg from his torso.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay, we have a missing priest and a sabotaged bell

Endrite (GM): Archibald.

Bialas the Bear: This last helmeted soldier.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+23 spell level 15, 10 penetration skill, crystal dart on the Big Man

(

1

)

+23

=

24

Jorn of Merinita: Is a bell too big to Unseen Porter?

Bialas the Bear: Is his face obscured?

Endrite (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

9

+

5

)

=

14

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

7

)

=

9

oh you did it

Well no botch at least, 19 pen total

Jorn of Merinita: Hypatia can actually create ropes with her Redcap item

Endrite (GM): He's wearing the horned helmet you see before you.

Roll damage.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

Endrite (GM): Molto bene.

Bialas the Bear: Incredible.

Archibald of Guernicus: Guessing he survives that, even with fire damage

Beatrice Orsini : each wound helps

if it's even a wound

Endrite (GM): Yes.

He's Still Alive.

Like the famous song.

Jorn of Merinita: From Mirror's Edge

Endrite (GM): Gulielmus.

* Mira's Edge

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Archibald of Guernicus: I need to invent a version of crystal dart that does even more damage, just to steal kills

Endrite (GM): Feel free.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll soon be able to get pilum of fire

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Where's the damn bell?"

Archibald of Guernicus: same

Endrite (GM): Good ol' Pilium.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'm going to go check on the church."

Archibald of Guernicus: I finally bumped my damn creo up

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea departs for the church.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm going to upgrade my crystal dart eventually too, but since my labwork is shot for the season, I'm going to spend this one making the town fortifications less ugly and getting Stonemason rep

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ive got a -11 casting penalty so i'm just going to walk away

Endrite (GM): Bolad.

Archibald of Guernicus: If you make a psycho powerful crystal dart, I'll exchange lab texts with you

Jorn of Merinita: The better my Stonemason ability, the closer i can get to Arcadia with Travel too

Bolad: am i in range to shoot a regular arrow shot at helmet ma

n

Jorn of Merinita: You probably have a better lab total than me

Endrite (GM): Yeah sure.

Beatrice Orsini : sharpened crystal log

Endrite (GM): 233 feet?

Sounds fine.

Jorn of Merinita: But I can trade a lab upgrade for better crystal dart

Archibald of Guernicus: oh, sounds good

Bolad: i will cantor in his direction to close the gap a bit, at the cost of some accuracy

Aristide of Tremere: i just realized

we could use captive voice as a radio system

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+21 attack (horseback, canter speed)

(

3

)

+21

=

24

Endrite (GM): You could.

Beatrice Orsini : sort of

Aristide of Tremere: to keep in touch across two groups

Endrite (GM): Just don't lose the bags!

Ha ha ha.

Ok, he'll Defend.

Aristide of Tremere: surely captive voice has a duration

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 11

(

8

)

+11

=

19

Bolad: Damage is +8

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Aristide of Tremere: and i get it back without needing the bag

Endrite (GM): The arrow lodges itself in his side.

Beatrice Orsini : Sun duration

Endrite (GM): He's not dead yet..

Beatrice.

Beatrice Orsini : flame dart again

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can dispel it if we need to

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10!+17+1+1-3-1

(

9

)

+17+1+1-3-1

=

24

Endrite (GM): Roll damage.

Beatrice Orsini : 9 + 8 pen

rolling 1d10+10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

eh

Endrite (GM): Could be worse.

Bialas.

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+11 to grapple him.

(

3

)

+11

=

14

nice roll.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: try setting your flame dart on fire for +1 damage

Endrite (GM): Smart, very smart.

rolling 1d10! + 12

(

1

)

+12

=

13

rolling 1d10!

(

10

+

2

)

=

12

He's grappled!

Bialas the Bear: Oh snap.

Endrite (GM): Archers all skip?

Bialas the Bear: "Grrr!"

Bolad: what archers

tanolfi isn't in range

Endrite (GM): Oh right.

Ok.

Rolling fire damage.

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

5

)

+6

=

11

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

3

)

+6

=

9

Jorn.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Dart armorman

rolling d10!+24

(

10

+

10

+

10

+

8

)

+24

=

62

Holy shit

Archibald of Guernicus: what the fuck

Bolad: hachi machi

Archibald of Guernicus: and its totally useless since he didnt need the pen

still

what a roll!

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10!+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

Aristide of Tremere: fantastic

Endrite (GM): Molto bene.

Jorn of Merinita: I did need the dmage though

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10!

(

5

)

=

5

Aristide of Tremere:  tf2 dingaling begins playing repeatedly at max pitch

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Crystal Dart again

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Go for it.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+23

(

6

)

+23

=

29

24 pen

rolling 1d10+10

(

6

)

+10

=

16

Nice

Endrite (GM): Very nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, what's Aristide's soak?

Endrite (GM): Bolad.

Jorn of Merinita: lol

Bolad: i shoot... an armor piercing arrow!!!!!!!

while sitting statinoary

Wow!

Way past cool!

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+23 attack

(

6

)

+23

=

29

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: tank commander: load armor piercing

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! -4

(

4

)

-4

=

0

Bolad: damage +10

Endrite (GM): Whoops.

rolling 1d10! +9

(

10

+

10

+

3

)

+9

=

32

Bialas the Bear: lmao

Bolad: ffffuuuuu

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Endrite (GM): Your arrow pierces through his shield and gets caught in his hand.

Bolad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0ckdRnVsE

Endrite (GM): Beatrice.

Beatrice Orsini : again

rolling 1d10!+17+1+1-3-1

(

3

)

+17+1+1-3-1

=

18

11 pen

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Roll damage.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

lol

Endrite (GM): Belissimo.

Bialas.

Aristide of Tremere: high and a winner

got a hot hand

Jorn of Merinita: (in Jet Set Radio Future voice)

Oh I guess that' sthe ref

Sorry

Aristide of Tremere: lets make this combat take as long as possible to annoy endrite

Endrite (GM): Do you continue your grapple or what?

Jorn of Merinita: This is better than the last time I participated in a fight

I actually killed something this time

Bialas the Bear: If he remains grappled

Endrite (GM): I fucking LOVE grapples.

Bialas the Bear: I fly into the air.

Bolad: bear hug

Jorn of Merinita: Nice

Bialas the Bear: Carrying him.

Bolad: do a wrestling move on him!!!!!

Bialas the Bear: lmao

Endrite (GM): Great news.

Beatrice Orsini : i killstealed from gui

Endrite (GM): You can't take any actions that involve moving while grappling.

Beatrice Orsini : rip

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Bialas the Bear: I'm not moving my body, I'm using ReTe to move a piece of stone.

Beatrice Orsini : does bialas have parma up?

Bialas the Bear: That is my body.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you probably wouldn't be able to concentrate on a spell while grappling anyway

Jorn of Merinita: Make yourself an item that maintains concentration on a flying effect

Bolad: if bialis is stone how is he moving

Jorn of Merinita: Rise of the Feathery Bear

Bialas the Bear: I'm moving stone. It's a Bjornaer thing.

Jorn of Merinita: Rise of the Feathery Rockbear

Bialas the Bear: I'll just continue grappling him so he can't leave the fire, then.

Endrite (GM): I'm still not seeing how it would work.

Ok, cool.

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

6

)

+11

=

17

Aristide of Tremere: bialas is just a bear that has stopped animating and is flying around

Bialas the Bear: ^

previously this was Grapple Strength 1.

with more attack advantage...

Endrite (GM): Rolling for more fire damage.

rolling 1d10! +18

(

5

)

+18

=

23

Bialas the Bear: who knows!

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! +12

(

4

)

+12

=

16

Bialas the Bear: Nice.

Endrite (GM): that second one is for you, Bialas.

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice.

Bialas the Bear: I still have 26 soak. Being made of stone isn't a spell I need to concentrate on.

Endrite (GM): The viking succumbs to the flames and is melted away.

Aristide of Tremere: we did it everyone

congratulations

Archibald of Guernicus: We did it, reddit.

Bialas the Bear: Nice.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's go find out why Aristide isn't ringing the bell

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. So when do the real vikings show up?

Bialas the Bear: I'm getting out of this fire.

Jorn of Merinita: Next week

Endrite (GM): All that remains are five sets of briny bones.

Bolad: They were here the whole time

Bolad takes off mask

Endrite (GM): Yikes!

Aristide of Tremere: what if waves of viking ghosts keep coming until the mill is destroyed

Archibald of Guernicus: Does Bolad have magic resistance. Just wondering ha ha lol

Endrite (GM): Ok, you've got a bit of a breather, what do you want to do?

Archibald of Guernicus: Defence of the Village 2

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn was mistaken for a viking and stabbed by a pitchfork

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i want to recover my 3 temporary fatigue levels

Jorn of Merinita: RIP

Beatrice Orsini : we could bury the bones properly

Bolad: all magi take a quick power nap

Endrite (GM): Speaking of peasants, you haven't seen any.

Jorn of Merinita: Weird

Endrite (GM): They're all still cowering in their homes.

Bolad: lets go ring the bell, then wring aristide's neck

Archibald of Guernicus: When the fire dies down, we should examine the bones to see what kind of vis they are

Jorn of Merinita: Ok we need to tell a priest who takes us seriously this place is fucked up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably because a psychopath just stacked brown bricks all over their village

Archibald of Guernicus: Its the most fun you can have with terram

Beatrice Orsini : minecraft ftw

Endrite (GM): He's been doing it for a few weeks, it's all good.

Jorn of Merinita: Piero disappeared mysteriously, someone cut the rope in anticipation of the church being a sanctuary.

Bialas the Bear: Endrite.

Endrite (GM): Yeah, how weird.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where's pellew

Bialas the Bear: Do they still have their magic ice weapons?

Endrite (GM): What's up?

Bialas the Bear: We should pick those up.

Endrite (GM): No, they seem to have melted away.

Beatrice Orsini : they melted in the fire

Bialas the Bear: Cool.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are there any ears

Endrite (GM): All that's left are 5 piles of vis.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll make the fortifications look good over the rest of the season

Endrite (GM): I mean briny bones.

Beatrice Orsini : now let's go beat up the mastemind behind this: the tinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, what about the boat

Endrite (GM): It's just sitting htere.

I mean, sitting there.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's loot it

Jorn of Merinita: I have Artes Liberales education and Craft Stonemason, i can make fortifications that aren't ugly given time and Rock of Viscid Clay

Endrite (GM): It's bumping against the bridge.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone should go de-sabotage the mill

Jorn of Merinita: Let's extract vis from the boat

And the bones

Bolad: i go to church and leave boat duty to land grogs

Jorn of Merinita: Same

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll go door to door looking for the miller

Endrite (GM): Ok.

rolling 1d41

(

11

)

=

11

Jorn of Merinita: I have a Stonemason rep so I have no intentions of leaving the villag elooking ugly

Endrite (GM): He's the 11th home you go into.

It's nice.

It has a cellar and everything.

Jorn of Merinita: Once we get to the church we find out about the rope being cut

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The Vikings are gone now. The flour will need to be dampened again."

Jorn of Merinita: Let's kill Lino

Endrite (GM): Yep, the rope's been cut.

Peasant: "Really? Thank you."

Bolad: would the bell ring if I shot it with arrows

Jorn of Merinita: He'd be the one most capable of killing Piero and none of the villagers showed up at the church.

Beatrice Orsini : let's kill everyone who owns a cutting implement

Peasant: It would only ring a little.

Beatrice Orsini : let me take care of it

Peasant: It's hitting the clapper that does it.

Beatrice Orsini : the aura inside a church is dominion 3?

rolling (1d10!+25-9) CrIm spont

(

(

2

)

+25-9)

=

18

Jorn of Merinita: The last diabolicist we dealt with by accuisng them of diabolism, maybe that'll work again

Peasant: "I'll be sure to do that really soon."

Beatrice Orsini : 9 total

Peasant: He stays with his family, for now.

Beatrice Orsini : so i can make sound of bell ringing

Jorn of Merinita: I'll cast Unseen Porter on the clapper

Beatrice Orsini : at voice range

Aristide of Tremere: I wave at my sodales.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Why did no one run to the church?"

Beatrice Orsini : for diam

with 1 extra magnitude for size

Peasant: "Lino told us to only do it when we heard the church bell ringing."

Aristide of Tremere: who has my voice bag

Beatrice Orsini : as level 5 spell

Peasant: "And we didn't do it."

Beatrice Orsini : it's in the mill

Peasant: "I mean hear it."

Aristide of Tremere: oh

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes Aristide. Run into the mill.

Beatrice Orsini : so there's now sound of bell ringing in the tower

Jorn of Merinita: Oh wait

Beatrice Orsini : i think extra magnitude for size could be used for lourder sounds

Aristide of Tremere: why are you ringing the bell though

Peasant: Alright, people leave their homes and start for the church.

Aristide of Tremere: the vikings are gone

Jorn of Merinita: Pellow has acted more suspiciously than Lino

Beatrice Orsini : to get peasants here

Aristide of Tremere: but why

Beatrice Orsini : for the unmasking the villain scene

Aristide of Tremere: you killed the pathetic invasion force

ah

Bolad: the villain was aristide

calling it now

Peasant: Speaking of.

Aristide of Tremere: what the fuck?

devil's fav demon: lmao

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did they lynch pellew

Beatrice Orsini : whoever cut the rope should be freaked outb that a bell is ringing

Aristide of Tremere: im far too afraid of the clergy to get near enough to a priest to kill him

Endrite (GM): The grogs you sent to the boat have a little difficulty.

Every time they try to set foot on the deck, they crash through the entire ship and end up in the river.

Aristide of Tremere: leave them to it

im sure theyll overcome the obstacle eventually

Jorn of Merinita: They'll figure it out eventually

Endrite (GM): That may be the case, Beatrice.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's get that bell ringing

Bolad: a g-g-g-ghost ship

Jorn of Merinita: We should at least congregate people and tell them what happened

Beatrice Orsini : i sponted a spell to make sound of bell ringing for a diam

Archibald of Guernicus: I can believe that Aristide cut the tope.

rope

Jorn of Merinita: I can also Unseen Porter the clapper

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the enormous oil fire under control

Endrite (GM): Not at all.

Bolad: let's drop dirt on it

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

It's a beach, find some sand

Endrite (GM): I mean, it isn't spreading because someone brainfully surrounded it with dirt, but it's just burning.

Bolad: Philosophae question: What happens when you dump a pile of lye on a oil fire

Aristide of Tremere: its incredibly rude to accuse aristide of sabotage

Beatrice Orsini : i wanted to invent a spell for making a sound of ringing bell since it sounds obviously useful for misleading people about time, but i never got the time/spare CrIm lab total

Endrite (GM): It spreads a caustic vapor, probably.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume you get a huge cloud of caustic vapor

yeah

Jorn of Merinita: Oh yeah

Endrite (GM): Actually it doesn't.

Jorn of Merinita: I can use The Never Ending Road to dismantle some of the walls and use them for paving material

Endrite (GM): It creates a lot of flame but I think the caustic elements are burned away entirely.

I checked and I'm PRETTY sure that's what happens.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in aristotelian terms though

Aristide of Tremere: it would probably be semi poisonous to be near it and breathing, though

Bolad: hafl here's something I thought of once: a magical bell that creates the sound of a bell but only up to voice range

Endrite (GM): Ok, what do you want to tell the assembled crowd of peasants, Lino, and Pellew?

Bolad: since dominion only carries by the sound of the bell, you're limiting the dominion aura to 50 paces

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice

Endrite (GM): That doesn't sound like a church bell, in that case.

Beatrice Orsini : it wouldn't be a real bell, so it wouldn't create an aura

Bolad: that's a theological question

Endrite (GM): It's a good one.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think sounds can carry farther than the Voice range

Beatrice Orsini : but you could probably use ReIm to ward against sound

Bolad: i mean it's still calling people to prayer even if it's magic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but the voice range is still capped

Endrite (GM): AFK a sec here.

Beatrice Orsini : the range for CrIm spells is for origin of the image created

Endrite (GM): Prep a speech to these guys.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm over by the boat, watching the grogs fall in

Bolad: Your false lords and Gods have abandoned you. Only through the will of Tengri, Mercury, and the realm of Magic are you now saved.

i do not say this.

Jorn of Merinita: That's a good speech

Aristide of Tremere: I say nothing because my voice is in the mill.

Beatrice Orsini : pellew is suspicious, but he doesn't have a reason to get us involved if he wanted vikings to burn the village

Bolad: id like to remind them that their feudal lord DID abandon them though assuming no one objects

Beatrice Orsini : so it's probably lino

aristide can go pick up his voice bag

Aristide of Tremere: I go pick up my voice bag.

I sure hope I don't get ambushed and killed on the way there.

Jorn of Merinita: The ghost vikings have been abated at the shore. I promise that in a fortnight, these palisades will be dismantled or look more pleasing.

I'll say that

Aristide of Tremere: While everyone is gathered at the church, and I'm alone.

Bolad: "You will tell your children, and your grandchildren, of the day when all seemed lost, when your very lord forsook you, that a band of strange heroes from afar saved you from scourge of the North!"

Bialas the Bear: i'm going to stop being made of stone for the moment, and then turn into a human

Endrite (GM): Ok Aristide.

What's your kit?

Aristide of Tremere: My robes and a confident stride.

Endrite (GM): Bolad, you get a smattering of applause.

Do you have any metal on you?

Aristide of Tremere: No.

Endrite (GM): Ok, phew!

Aristide of Tremere: im scared

Endrite (GM): You get to your voice bag.

At this very moment, everyone in town hears a loud, low horn.

Aristide of Tremere: I peek out of the mill door.

Endrite (GM): You and the grogs on the bridge see a fleet of ships sailing down the river.

Bialas the Bear: Nice

Endrite (GM): Longboats, to be precise.

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Bolad: hell yeah

Aristide of Tremere: I cover the door of the mill with a Kingly Facade and run back inside.

Beatrice Orsini : good thing everyone is in the church now

Aristide of Tremere: And hide myself.

Beatrice Orsini : you know the mill is rigged to explode

Bialas the Bear: In the mill?

Nice.

Endrite (GM): Ok that's a potentially incredibly smart idea, Aristide.

Bialas the Bear: Good work Aristide.

Archibald of Guernicus: In the mill, incredible

Bolad steeples fingers

Aristide of Tremere: yeah but everyones at the church

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not

Aristide of Tremere: so no ones set to explode it

Endrite (GM): The grogs also aren't.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm outside where I am right now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can throw fire at the mill

i'm by the dock

Archibald of Guernicus: I never went back because I hate churches anyway

and I'm suspicious

so I stuck around to watch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but i am about to be at the church

on account of the vikings.

Endrite (GM): Oh yeah you're at the church too.

Bialas the Bear: Me too.

Aristide of Tremere: im sure the grogs will hold off the vikings

and protect me

Endrite (GM): Everyone who was going to the church hears Bolad's speech about how their feudal lords suck.

Bialas the Bear: It's a good speech.

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Endrite (GM): From what you can see they don't Aristide.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm not sure how to deal with an army

Bolad: Peasants of the world, rise up, you have nothing to lose but your chains

Endrite (GM): Also heads and dicks.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I cheer at Bolad's speech.

Endrite (GM): Ok, great adventure everyone.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Assuming I'm there already.

Endrite (GM): See you all next week.

Figure out how to defend yourselves from a bunch of scary vikings.

Bialas the Bear: Here's what we do: Leave

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we still have the lye pile

Bialas the Bear: Who cares

Aristide of Tremere: i am potentially in the safest spot in the whole village

wait a minute

what if ringing the bell made more vikings come

Endrite (GM): You didn't ring the bell.

Aristide of Tremere: didnt jorn?

Endrite (GM): Beatrice made a bell ringing sound.

Aristide of Tremere: or was that just an illusory bell sound

oh

Bolad: i got a plan

Endrite (GM): What if Beatrice summoned the vikings?!

Beatrice Orsini : oh no

Bolad: a magician floats up to the clapper and just goes HAM on it with their bare hands

Endrite (GM): That's bad for your hearing.

Beatrice Orsini : i have mastered wizard's leap, so i can probably get away faster than vikings can run

Jorn of Merinita: I can flee but i won't

I can't return to my woman a coward

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can flee upriver with the gentle wave

Aristide of Tremere: thats cool. with my spells i can uh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in fact that sounds like a great idea.

Aristide of Tremere: make a feast taste really good, or like actual shit

uhhh

listen in on a conversation in the same room

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could spont some crig

Archibald of Guernicus: You should blow up the mill when they come into the mill to kill you

Aristide of Tremere: see through mundane disguises, and magical disguises below level 10

Jorn of Merinita: Challenge the vikings to certamen

If they lose they have to go away without damaging the village or sacrificing anyone

Bolad: let's parlay with the vikings, and offer to ally with them to take on the real prize: the nobleman's fort

Aristide of Tremere: if they dont agree to those terms ill let them sacrifice celeste and archibald

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does anyone have aoe damage

Beatrice Orsini : i don't

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: same

Bialas the Bear: i only have aoe sleep, which is ineffective during combat due to houserules.

Bolad: i can do auram spells to knock people down in an aoe

Aristide of Tremere: I bar the mill door.

theyll never get in now

Jorn of Merinita: Building a wall in advance is about the only thing I do for AoE

Beatrice Orsini : allying with vikings to siege the castle sounds like a superior option

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we put our faith in god. gahaha

Archibald of Guernicus: I do not have aoe damage.

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice would do it unironically

Archibald of Guernicus: I could spont pit of the gaping earth.

Jorn of Merinita: Let's put our faith in Odin

Beatrice Orsini : aoe is expensive

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have a tangle thing

Bialas the Bear: I should make a spell where Bialas roars and it does a PeMe that destroys ghosts.

Jorn of Merinita: I said I wouldn't run but I i didn't say anything about defecting

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who was going to kick up some wind for the lyle pile

Bolad: me

Aristide of Tremere: aristide has auram

wait a minute

was that the plan with the lye

to fucking blow it towards the beach??

Bolad: i was gonna wait until they cleared the beach

Jorn of Merinita: They also have to funnel through a small gap in the walls

Aristide of Tremere: vardians tomb figures out a way to not only ruin the grain supply but also kill off all the fish in the river

Endrite (GM): I mean, it is UNLIKELY that they will continue to land at the beach, since it is on fire.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tannery already does that

Endrite (GM): But you never know.

Bolad: good thing we set up all the other forts along the river

Archibald of Guernicus: They'll land at the mill :blessed:

Endrite (GM): It is a good thing, Bolad.

Aristide of Tremere: oh my god

they will

theyll land at the fucking mill

Bolad: lmao

Beatrice Orsini : boyar aristide: mill

Bialas the Bear: lmao

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's send aristide out as a false defector, and have him convince the viking leader to chain his boats together

Bolad: So what's your next char gonna be, beardbeard

Endrite (GM): Hoist by your own petard.

Aristide of Tremere: i dont know

but at least ill have 2 weeks to plan it out

Bialas of Bjornaer: Aristide can ignite the mill with mundane flour and be canonized as a saint.

Archibald of Guernicus: And none of us know that Aristide is in the mill, since there's fog and he told no-one, and if we hear his voice from inside it it's just from Beatrice's spell.

Lmfao

Jorn of Merinita: Aristide has volunteered to suicide bomb himself at the mill

Very noble

Bialas of Bjornaer: fire.

not flour

Archibald of Guernicus: He's going to die

Specifically we're going to kill him

Beatrice Orsini : aristide being canonized would be the best end

Bolad: yeah -- shot from a canon!

Beatrice Orsini : how long until the invention of gunpowder in europe?

Endrite (GM): -100 years.

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Bolad: The formula may or may not already be known to high level alchemists

Jorn of Merinita: We've already visited China via the silk road and discovered the secret of explosive powder

Bolad: I have seen some sources saying it's already been used in battle but the record is unreliable here

Endrite (GM): Wow yeah China is definitely a real place because you can get there by road.

-Fairy Road Specialist.

Jorn of Merinita: :weebey:

The Silk Road was a trod after all

Endrite (GM): It might be!

Jorn of Merinita: Polo of Merinita

Endrite (GM): What happens if the bag with Aristide's voice in it is destroyed?

Beatrice Orsini : no idea

Captures a person’s voice and places it in a

bag. The person may not speak unless the bag is

open, in which case the voice comes from the

bag, not the victim’s mouth. If the victim screams

while the bag is shut, the bag vibrates visibly.

Archibald of Guernicus: A flaming, vibrating bag

Aristide of Tremere: i can use it to hide the sound of my voice

perfect

Beatrice Orsini : it's the highest level spell beatrice knows

Endrite (GM): I think probably if the bag is destroyed you get your voice back.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

in the worst case, the voice is lost until the duration expires, but that's highly improbable

Archibald of Guernicus: Unfortunately, the bag will be destroyed in the same explosion that brutally kills youo

Endrite (GM): You can't win them all.

Oh, and since I think it's relevant, what is the plan to stop the vikings from mounting the walls and then walking across them all the way to the church?

Aristide of Tremere: if i shut the bag and hide in a closet theyu wont be able to know theres anyone here

Endrite (GM): You still make noise.

Also you just painted a big target on the door.

Aristide of Tremere: no, i hid the door

they wont be able to find it

Endrite (GM): Yeah with a giant picture of your face.

Aristide of Tremere: a very noble picture

theyll be struck by my majesty

and move on to destroy the village

Archibald of Guernicus: They'll be struck by an increased desire to burn the mill down

Endrite (GM): They may or may not throw flaming javelins at it.

Archibald of Guernicus: lmfao

Beatrice Orsini : lino is most likely a satanist who wants to use the massacre for some sort of demon summoning ritual

Endrite (GM): But for real how are you going to protect that whole wall?

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristide completely ruining the best plan we have to pointlessly kill himself would be uh

Beatrice Orsini : have you seen his haircut? it screams satanist

Archibald of Guernicus: well

i mean it suits him

Endrite (GM): I mean, you're going to have a chance to run out of the mill before they manage to land.

So I think you'll be ok.

Jorn of Merinita: I can go destroy part of the wall along the river

Aristide of Tremere: tgats true

i could outrun them on my weak little noncombatant legs

Archibald of Guernicus: Run out, we'll go with the mill plan and blow it up to take out as many as we can

Run out and lure them inside it with your voice

Beatrice Orsini : aristide's voice screaming "don't leave me behind" as aristide runs away

Archibald of Guernicus: Just scream like a coward, I'm sure you'll manage it

Jorn of Merinita: I'll go desttroy the part of the wall connected to the ring around the church

Endrite (GM): We'll handle that next week, I guess.

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Something can be done

Rock of Viscid Clay would probalby make it too weak to stand

Without making it impossible to later use the stone as building material

Endrite (GM): I mean you can kind of walk on clay, but yes it would be tough.

Wait I thought these were dirt walls.

Since you can't rego dirt into stone.

Jorn of Merinita: Earth and stone is excavated from a circular ditch around the caster to create a circle of packed earth and rock four paces in diameter, two paces thick, and eight feet high. The spell does not break stone, so any boulders that extend beyond the target are left in place. The ring fort provides an ex- cellent defensive position for holding off a superior enemy, or providing cover for or from archers

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Most of the large stones have been removed, as they lie near the farm plots.

As you can see on the map.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jorn can rego dirt into cement can't he

Jorn of Merinita: I need lime for that

Dirt and gravel is aggregate, but you need calcium to bond it together

Endrite (GM): Yeah you need a reagent.

Jorn of Merinita: Yep

If the walls are just dirt I can Pit of the Gaping Earth them

Endrite (GM): You sure can.

Jorn of Merinita: I might need to haul in some soil from elsewhere to make up for the loss, but It'll help get us through All Hallow's Eve

Endrite (GM): I mean don't assume you have that much time.

Jorn of Merinita: Well the hope is to survive

If I come up with a plan that involves my noble death, I'll let you know.

Beatrice Orsini : if the worst happens, beatrice mounts bialas to fly away

Archibald of Guernicus: you should drop the ghosts into pits

Endrite (GM): Seems like it would work, honestly.

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Aristide of Tremere: theyre clearly not ghosts

they take damage from physical items

Jorn of Merinita: I've never had time to upgrade Pit of the Gaping Earth but if I'm going to put myself in danger it's probably the best tactic against a horde

They might be draugr or something

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can't beatrice teleport

bialas should save me, instead

Beatrice Orsini : only 50 paces

Jorn of Merinita: Walking on top of the walls gives me an idea though

Beatrice Orsini : though once i'm in mundane aura, i can¨t botch

Jorn of Merinita: If there's a path running along the top of them, Never Ending Road should work.

That sassuming we live and the beauty of the town matters.

I have FInesse EFs written down for Never Ending Road due to it being rego craft

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to have Bialas fly over them before combat starts and cast Bialas' Extended Hibernation, and make them all fall asleep on their boats and miss the raid.

Jorn of Merinita: And versatile in application

Endrite (GM): Pro tip: they will throw javelins at you if they see you flying overhead, Bialas.

Archibald of Guernicus: Plink

Beatrice Orsini : 26 soak

but maybe they're trained

Bialas of Bjornaer: Yeah but if they throw javelins.

The spell won't work.

That's the point.

Beatrice Orsini : and work in groups

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh wait, group combat bonuses were absolutely stupidly huge

Rest in peace, noble bear

Endrite (GM): They are pretty significant.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok lets be clear here:

Archibald of Guernicus: They're huge, so we should have our grogs fight together

Jorn of Merinita: Since the town is already covered in brown bricks, might as well blow craters everywehre

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if the ghosts make it into the church bialas is carrying me out

Aristide of Tremere: vardians tomb plans a winning strategy once again

Jorn of Merinita: I'll defend the chruch's ramparts

By which I mean die horribly on them

Bolad: i will micro my cav archers to harry the infantry

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm going to set up another oil trap if we're making a hole in the defences to lure them to a chokepoint. We should blow up the miill if possible, though

Aristide of Tremere: ill run to the south and return the next morning

Bialas of Bjornaer: lets have bolad, celeste, and any grog archer fight as a trained group to get like a +40 bow

Archibald of Guernicus: If we lure a bunch of them to the mill and blow it up, it will be significant

Endrite (GM): It will be, Archibald.

Aristide of Tremere: maybe our oil fire on the beach will produce some valuable glass

Bolad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUS3ZpgMORg

Archibald of Guernicus: anyway after getting oil set up ill hang back and fire darts at them from a distance

yes thats the reference i was making johns

Bolad: ok.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm gonna make a Jerbiton mercenary captain when I die

Since other people want to be necromancers

Aristide of Tremere: ill make a flambeau specialized in pillum of fire

Jorn of Merinita: My spells will all be for comfort on the road and keeping troop morale high

Endrite (GM): You guys are so grim.

You might survive this.

Beatrice Orsini : maybe it's just more children

Jorn of Merinita: I'm a Norseman, I seek a good death.

Endrite (GM): Fingers crossed.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not thinking about a new PC at all, since I will survive this encounter and kill the enemies.

I'll earn glory in battle and go home

Aristide of Tremere: i was really hoping that all the build up would lead to a reveal that there was no curse

the ghosts didnt exist

Beatrice Orsini : my new pc will be orb bonisagus bookbinder

Archibald of Guernicus: If that had happened I was going to close the roll20 tab immediately

Endrite (GM): There were ghosts and I was sitting here absolutely trolled that you kept getting distracted.

Beatrice Orsini : excellent

Archibald of Guernicus: I was trying to fight the ghosts.

Beatrice Orsini : this adventure was a success

Aristide of Tremere: i hope the thing you needed to do 2 hours ago was very important

Beatrice Orsini : let's throw the tinker to the ghosts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are you going to reveal the secrets of the adventure after it ends again

Beatrice Orsini : we need to know what was up with the tinker

Endrite (GM): No, Gulielmus.

Beatrice Orsini : let's kidnap endrite irl and keep him prisoner until he reveals pellew's secret

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's just kill proclus as soon as we get home

Aristide of Tremere: [unprompted]

Endrite (GM): Anyway, see ya.

Archibald of Guernicus: How is the damage of Crystal Dart determined

Beatrice Orsini : no idea

it's a book spell

Archibald of Guernicus: is there a guideline that explains why it does +10, what it would take with +1 size, etc anywhere lol

or just the devs cheating

Beatrice Orsini : no

Bolad: its a legacy spell from older editions

Beatrice Orsini : the real power is just striking people with lightning bolts for +40 damage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably 1 extra magnitude would be worth 5 points of damage

Beatrice Orsini : it's like only +1 magnitude if it's from clear sky

Bolad: still in general for ignem and other similar things, to increase damage add +1 mag for +5 damage

Archibald of Guernicus: thats what i was going by

thank you ignem for being purely for flambeau psychopathy and having nothing but damage values listed for most levels

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the real power is using peaq to deal unsoakable damage

Bialas of Bjornaer: it doesnt really make sense that it's so much harder to hit people with my giant flying body than it is to hit them with my hand.

but yeah.

hey. whatever.

Bolad: in that instance I would have made them do a dodge check without adding any weapon modifier to defense

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: was the finesse roll opposed

Archibald of Guernicus: I think in general rego magic is quite imprecise and slow

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Bialas of Bjornaer: these rules dont really make a lot of sense as hard as we try.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems like it should just be against a flat ease factor

or you should get a bonus since you're much larger than an arrow or whatever

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'll think about it.

Archibald of Guernicus: finesse is for chumps, just have the spell target someone and beat their MR

Bialas of Bjornaer: Since I pretty much built this character entirely around tackling people from great heights

and doing sleepy time spells

Archibald of Guernicus: any demon or fae with enough MR to stop your spell will also have combat stats so high your finesse magic also cant hit them ever

Beatrice Orsini : i need finesse for illusion

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how much finesse does bialas have

Bialas of Bjornaer: 6

Archibald of Guernicus: i mean finesse-based combat spells, they make sense for illusions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone needs to get huge finesse so we can have them make formulae

Beatrice Orsini : i'm working on huge finesse, but creo comes first

Archibald of Guernicus: im going to read The Ignem Book and start on some CrIg

Beatrice Orsini : i was going to read the ignem book in winter

Archibald of Guernicus: It's fine.

We can certamen for it, the just way

Beatrice Orsini : 31 CrIg lab total right now

+3 similar spell

so just 4 more to invent pilum of fire in one season

and i get +3 more if i experiment

Archibald of Guernicus: +27 here, do you have really high creo or something

Beatrice Orsini : 6 more

yeah

creo is important for glamours

all glamours are creo imaginem + form requisite

Archibald of Guernicus: i really want to invent a spell to talk to a statue but it takes a monstrously high lab total

Beatrice Orsini : so i need creo as high as possible

Archibald of Guernicus: i still dont know how stuff like level 60 spells ever get invented

Beatrice Orsini : non-adventuring wizards

who spend a year on it

also, you can use magic items in your lab

Bolad: dys: Magical Focuses, customized labs, Apprentice assistants

Archibald of Guernicus: are they just exclusively for 200 year old mages with 20 in everything, a powergamed familiar, apprentice, magical focus, tricked out hyperlab

Beatrice Orsini : use your lab total to make a magic item to use in your lab to increase your lab total to make a better magic item to use in your lab to increase your lab total even more and so on

Archibald of Guernicus: with 20 in every art and magic theory you could get a nice toasty 56 to all lab totals (assuming 3 int)

Beatrice Orsini : it's basically skyrim crafting

magical focus would add another 20 to it

Bolad: i just looked at linf's sheet, he was almost 100, he had a 70 crme lab total, +13 from his ghost assistant, and +18 if using his major magical focus

Archibald of Guernicus: also i thought about it and i realised that puissance lets you capbreak beyond 20

i was thinking before that puissance is good at first but then affinity is better

but in the end puissance wins

since it breaks the cap

Beatrice Orsini : you can get higher scores than 20, can't you?

Archibald of Guernicus: can you?

Bolad: yes

Beatrice Orsini : i saw a discussion on the forums

where someone had insane exploding dice when studying vis

Archibald of Guernicus: i had it in my head that 20 was the limit but i suppose i just invented that

lol

Beatrice Orsini : and getting 6000 mentem xp

Archibald of Guernicus: ;lmao

Bolad: fair & balanced

Beatrice Orsini : someone actually posted the formula

Bolad: here's linf's breakdown at age 98

Creo 14, +4 lab specialization in creo

Mentem 18, +4 lab specialization in Mentem

Int +5, Magic Theory +9, Lab General Quality +4, Aura +5, Familiar +7

Beatrice Orsini : you get slightly more from magic theory with abilities as art

linf would have +10 from it

Bolad: intelligo ignem casting total: 12

Beatrice Orsini : lol

dumping intellego is what the smart wizards do

Bolad: its the weakest technique for sure

Archibald of Guernicus: Intellego is Archibald's highest technique, and he has 2 int

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice has +1 int

and +1 stamina

Bolad: the mont-mercure wizards worked together to make the ritual that increases Intelligence so Linf, Venzi, Aurora all had +5 by the end

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

thats a good idea though

Bolad: Linf also spent like 3 or 4 years solid working on his skull fortress/lab with its sick bonuses

Archibald of Guernicus: if you have piles and piles of vis lying around

Bolad: well aurora could cast mercurian magic so it wasn't too outrageous

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Bolad: the familiar bonus is also a bit high because he got to use his major magical focus when binding to a spirit

Archibald of Guernicus: I want a tricked out lab eventually but I'm not sure about the best way to do it. We're kind of stuck in the catacombs no matter how it's done up.

Beatrice Orsini : it's done with magic items

Bolad: We could move to Ponza or the Temple

Bialas of Bjornaer: its cool that mont-mercure was apparently all about completely breaking the game by doing insane shit that normal players would never do, then nerfing things to prevent what they did that negatively affect normal players

Beatrice Orsini : 20 levels of magic item can be done into +1 General QUality

Archibald of Guernicus: Isn't the temple high enough that we'd take warping

johns (GM): ill double check

Archibald of Guernicus: its aura 6

Beatrice Orsini : just kill a bunch of children there to shift the aura towards infernal

Bialas of Bjornaer: somehow despite playing ars all day i forgot it was sunday and that twin peaks was on

nice.

johns (GM): it's magic 4. the aura was higher in the temple itself but not the entire regio

Archibald of Guernicus: oh fuck its 4, not 6, yeah i was thinking of the temple specifically

Beatrice Orsini : excellent

Archibald of Guernicus: we really could move to the temple regio

Beatrice Orsini : let's move there and just go into the temple to snort vis

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah i remember going to the temple for vis snorting

so thats why i was sure it was 6

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

johns (GM): i liked having the covenant within the city for easy story hooks but we have set up a lot of mundane relations already that it isn't strictly necessary, so it's fine by me if we want to colonize the temple

Bialas of Bjornaer: But our nice cozy cave! That atmosphere!

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Probably not fine by your cult though bwahaha

Bialas of Bjornaer: wow, the description of the leaked ep 14 that apparently aired on german tv

seems accurate

(From Archibald of Guernicus): How safe is the temple? Could Archibald theoretically make his own lab and aegis there?

Bialas of Bjornaer: i thought it was a german prank

Beatrice Orsini : i just need to wait on mystery cult initiation to start inventing a ton of weird spells that use spell timing durations

(To Archibald of Guernicus): As far as you know so far there's only one entrance, the archway, but there were signs of other wizards having been here within the last century while the arch entrance was down

(To Archibald of Guernicus): the arch itself is just in some field in nowhere particularly special

(From Archibald of Guernicus): Right. Though they were the neomercurians, so if Archibald talked to them and got in with them, he could do it safely I think

(To Archibald of Guernicus): You'd have to join the cult basically

(From Archibald of Guernicus): I was thinking of doing that anyway and having a fancy lab right next to the temple of mercury would kick ass

johns (GM): later folks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: intellego is ftw