2/25/18

dys (GM): I cleaned up the Rome map and put all our magi and companions and, I believe, at least most of our named grogs on it so they can be easily set as active or inactive.

During an adventure

devil's fav demon:

rolling 1d10!-4 aging rosario

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4

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-4

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0

rolling 1d10!-4 visible aging celeste

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1

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-4

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-3

Shauncat (GM): Bolad will be the hero again this session I feel

After this year Hypatia might be able to get a doctorate in theology and have a stable living outside the Order

And then she can start writing disputations on how women should be allowed to be priests until someone kills her

devil's fav demon: :blessed:

c'thinker (GM): rome kid

dys (GM): Dome kid

devil's fav demon: (broccoli) rabe kid

johns: lets write disputatios about the great Jan Hus.

dys (GM): Greetings Endrite

Mystical and otherwise

devil's fav demon: afk one second sorry

c'thinker: im here.

Endrite: Hello.

c'thinker: im going to eat some food. but im here

dys (GM): Well, Beardbeard is going to be late and Boy Reporter is a turncoat who lets himself succumb to pain and illness, so when everyone here is ready, we shall begin.

johns: am i forgotting someone or do we have 8 total now

Endrite: Yeah, you forgot Coolio.

johns: i wish coolio would play.

devil's fav demon: ok i am back.

Endrite: Coolio thinking.

Fiorella the Raven puts on her wizard hat

dys (GM): We have 8 players now, yes. A ridiculously small number

I hope we can get by with merely  five  today

devil's fav demon: thats not that much!

Celeste: I miss that cramped feeling.

GM dons his extra-large and ostentatious wizarding hat

johns: stones.

only 8 players... the game is dying cloud

GM: As is usual at Vardian's Tomb, the peace of labwork is disrupted by the familiar siren song of adventure - Stones.

In the morning of Autumn 1344, Archibald gathers the magi for a small announcement

Hmm, some tokens are missing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The appointment of the new co-consul, I"m sure.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Bird crew assemble

Voda: I can't even read.

Celeste: It's fundamental. I heard that once.

GM: Any magi in attendance, please move your tokens down to our badass meeting hall with the skull decor.

Gulielmus? Or is cumthinker indulging in Gluttony

Suppose he is

He can wander in eating an apple when he wishes

Voda: Eating an apple while people are talking to the age old symbol of being a fatso.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'll keep this quick, as I'm sure ye have other things keeping ye busy."

There's an unfamiliar face in the meeting hall

"This is Antone of Verditius, who we're taking on as a client. Kifaaya - a former member of our covenant - gave him a letter of recommendation."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton is in human horm with her unstatted lammargeier

Voda: Gasp!

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hail, magus."

Antone of Verditius: "Oh, hail, yes."

c'thinker: beware! i live

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Buongiorno."

Rosario of Flambeau spits a cherry pit into a cup.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve, and welcome."

Antone of Verditius: "Thank you for your courtesy here."

Voda: Oh HAILS yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: think u mean ave

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's some papers to be filed to legalise the whole process, if ye need me, I'll be sorting them out."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I love Kifaaya's work. Her esteem does you good."

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald departs

Antone of Verditius: "Ah, should I call you sodales, now?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Fiorella has to get her Animal magic-compatible garments somewhere.

Voda: Whatever could he be doing???

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Great meeting."

Rosario of Flambeau: "That Archibald, busy guy."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh right. im supposed to mistrust verdis

Antone of Verditius: "A bit brisk, yes." he sighs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Whoops

Rosario of Flambeau: "What a life, to be so devoted to the law and good deeds."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It is a pleasure to meet you, Antone."

Voda: How many consuls do we have now?

Antone of Verditius: "I didn't get the chance to... ah, you know what, maybe it's for the best. I have a reason for coming here instead of Verdi."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What excuse does one need to want to live in the eternal city, heart of learning and culture in all Christendom?"

Antone of Verditius: "Oh, quite, quite. The statue outside was quite wonderful too."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one consul representing the living, and one consul representing the dead

Antone of Verditius: "Though it isn't Rome that brings me here, but" he makes a dramatic sweep of his arm "Corsica."

Voda: Is there a big map or is he just being theatrical?

Antone of Verditius: The latter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should get a big map

Voda: Gasp!

Rosario of Flambeau: Not Corsicans!

Antone of Verditius: You should jump into the meeting room, Gulielmus.

Rosario of Flambeau: Terrible creatures.

Antone of Verditius: "How familiar are you with the tales of Verditius, the founder?"

Rosario of Flambeau: Probably not very.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Not at all."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+3+1 OoH Lore

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9

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+3+1

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13

Antone of Verditius: He looks around a sea of blank faces. Besides Fiorella, who it turns out actually is decently familiar with them

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+1 ooh lore

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9

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+1

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10

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Journeyed across Ultima Thule for the secrets of Wayland the Smith, correct?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: In truth, Verdi is a creation of fiction and much of his lore is just the repackaged myth of Pygmalion.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Everyone needs a good blacksmith. Smart."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "And famously met his end in Corsica..."

Antone of Verditius: He nods

Voda: Wow.

Not fair Lavinia.

Rosario of Flambeau: "A sad tale indeed. If only he had found those secrets in time."

Antone of Verditius: "His time with Wayland was of great importance to this tale, for it was there that he forged, legend would have it, the 5 rings of Verditius. Each one an item of pre-hermetic power, greater than anything ever forged since!"

"... Or so stories like to exaggerate, but his skill was undeniable, and the rings certainly did exist."

"He was wearing them still when his ship crashed on Corsica and he was slain."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "By the Corsicans?"

Voda: Wouldn't they just have been taken from Corsica in the intervening centuries?

Antone of Verditius: "Oh yes. He was an angry youth, and he killed a young man in an argument. Decades later, the grudge was not forgotten, and that family cut his heart out and beheaded him."

"Very grudgeful people, Corsicans." he twiddles his fingers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sounds like he had it coming

Rosario of Flambeau: "Murder, even in the heat of passion, is no way to get ahead in the world."

Antone of Verditius: Ha ha ha

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus

Voda: He'll never be the head of a Hermetic House.

Antone of Verditius: "His filius avenged him, and the resulting bloodshed almost destroyed Verdi until he went there to make peace and die, ending the feud."

"The rings were, by all accounts, recovered and taken back to the vaults at Verdi. But I've checked them myself, they are not there. Never were!"

Voda: Why is he telling us this big secret?

Antone of Verditius: "Either Verditius or Geron lost them, and they are out there, somewhere."

Voda: Sounds like the old violin scam to me.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Why trust outsiders to the Cult of Verditius with this knowledge?"

Antone of Verditius: "This isn't unknown outside the house, truth be told. A Trianoma caused us no end of trouble a few centuries ago claiming to have found one. They hadn't, but belief in the rings being safely secured has never quite recovered."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We're extremely reliable and discrete."

"Everyone who has betrayed a secret in this covenant has died horribly."

Rosario of Flambeau: "How mysterious."

Antone of Verditius: He gulps "Yes, I did notice there weren't many of the faces I was told to expect."

"In fact, only you and Archibald. There was a Proclus, a Lodewig, a... I'm terrible with Polish names, but another Tytalan, I believe?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Dead."

Voda: Ah, Stanislaw.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "This tomb... was their grave."

Lavinia of Jerbiton steeples hands ominously

Antone of Verditius: He shuffles a little nervously on his feet

"Anyway... I come here, because I believe I know where one of these rings is held."

"I wish to study it, if Verdi were to find it, it'll lie in a vault, a tomb for a masterpiece!"

Faustus Galerius floats in, reading a smutty tractacus

Rosario of Flambeau: "That would be the right thing to do with it, of course."

Antone of Verditius: "That, and if you used it a little in the meantime while it's investigated... who's to know, eh?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "The vault, I mean."

Faustus Galerius: "Did someone say tomb robbing?"

Rosario of Flambeau: I gasp at Antone's suggestion.

Antone of Verditius: "I can compensate you for your time, a Verditius-standard work."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "As Patrons, it is our rightful duty to sponsor such a fine magical investigation."

Voda: Hmm.

Antone of Verditius: He nods "I'm so glad you agree."

Voda: Wouldn't it make even MORE sense to kill him and steal the ring?

Rosario of Flambeau: If we were amoral, horrible people, sure.

Luckily my plan is to get the ring and then return it to Verdi.

Antone of Verditius: "And there is something else that should interest you. What the ring is capable of."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The ring doesn't help me muc hif its a macguffin in a Verditius mystery initiation

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's powerful!

Antone of Verditius: "It is held by the Orezza family, in the Corsican city of Bastia."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: For once, violence is bad, because this person is our Client.

Antone of Verditius: "That is how I came to learn of it. Before being taken as an apprentice, I was born and raised in Bastia, and I saw it with my own eyes."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh? Shoots fireballs, protects from magical spirits? Something like that?"

Antone of Verditius: He shakes his "Mere hedge magic compared to what this is capable of."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Breaking the Hermetic limit of time?"

Antone of Verditius: "Francisca Orezza - you must understand, Corsica has been in a terribly violent state since the Guelphs arrived at it - was wounded in battle. I saw it myself, him being carried back by his servants, a great gaping wound in his side."

"The next day, he emerged, unharmed."

"And he always wore that ring on his hand, its unmistakable design."

"The hermetic limit of vis, healing without a ritual, with just an enchantment."

Lavinia of Jerbiton murmurs "maybe he had a good doctor"

Voda: Ha ha ha.

Antone of Verditius: "Only Verditius himself could have made such a thing."

Voda: Who can imagine a doctor healing someone without chopping off an arm or a leg?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Was he still unarmed when he took the ring off?"

* unharmed

"The ring could maintain a lesser creo effect, giving the wound time to heal naturally."

Antone of Verditius: "At that speed?"

"He was unharmed, because he boasted about it. That all he'd recieved was a scratch before, so why would he be hurt now?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "No, what I mean is, say you creo a bridge to cross a chasm. When the spell ends, the bridge goes away, but you don't get sent back to where you started."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: atone of verditius is a hack and a fraud

* antone

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It is also just as likely that he died and was replaced by an identical Faerie copy."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "That's possible too!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Well there's a lot of explanations, really. But the ring also makes sense."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Worth investigating, at any rate."

Voda: Why hasn't the ring been found until now?

Antone of Verditius: "If it is a false lead, if you can bring back proof of what I saw and what it really is, I will still pledge a season of work as thanks."

Voda: Surely other magi have gone to Corsica in search of the rings.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we killed all the up and coming trianomae in this tribunal

so there was nobody to go find it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: :weebey:

Antone of Verditius: Verdi actually makes a huge point of NOT going to Corsica unless they have to, though, because of the grudge that almost destroyed their covenant

they do not want to start trouble there

"I'm not sure of how the place has changed since my youth there, but I'm sure the Orezzo family is quite intact, they were one of the richest and most powerful in the city."

* Orezza

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If they're fighting Gulephs I'm not sure I should go, seems like the Zenos are popecucks from what's been posted

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "They are Ghibbelines, then?"

Ghibelline.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Studio Ghibelline

Antone of Verditius: "Well... The Pope gave the island to James II of Aragon, some 50 or 60 years ago."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is that related to the sicilian vespers

Antone of Verditius: "The existing families did not agree with this. Technically, the island is property of Genoa, now, but in practice, things are difficult."

"The nobility there call themselves Ghibelline in defiance."

"Conflicts like this spread far and wide, don't they?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "So unfortunate."

Rosario of Flambeau: Ptooey. Nobles.

Voda: AFK for like 10 minutes, sorry.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "They sound smart."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. lets slay all the ghibellines

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Sargon of Aragon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's not, because then we'd have to slay ourselves.

Antone of Verditius: "It's interesting, no?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: pardon me.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's respect the nobles

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :ayfkm:

Antone of Verditius: "I do appreciate your discretion in all this. It would hardly make me a pariah in the House, but I can do without the trouble."

Fiorella Zeno: Tired of this noble shaming

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will interrogate Antone about the lay of the land, notable people and so on in a way to help us dive right into the crux of the story without getting side tracked for a few hours

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will consult my potion stocks

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Also a scribe will record everything he says for later compilation into an Area Lore: Corsica tract.

Antone of Verditius: He's able to relay, with the help of a map, the layout of the city of Bastia and the location of the Orezza estate, as he best recalls it. He left the island at the age of 7, so there's limits to what he can remember and pass along.

Fiorella Zeno: If I have any cousins in the area I will send them a message via magical bird

Rosario of Flambeau: I will go outside and do the grindstone minigame.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Antone of Verditius: Here we are

SELECT YOUR CHARACTER

Lavinia of Jerbiton selects

Antone of Verditius: When tokens are moved up and characters are locked in, I'll move over to the full Italy map

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: very convenient that our mundane servants have labels under their portraits

Rosario of Flambeau: lavinia's already coming but lets bring two doctors just in case

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah

Rosario of Flambeau: well one doctor and one obsessive chirurgeon with no official degree in medicine

gah

Antone of Verditius: I'll lock in Voda, as Endrite has no magus.

You can never have enough doctors

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let's bring Aleseta on this adventure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sobs

Rosario of Flambeau: oh neat, Nevio's one year from being Old and getting the old skill buff

Fiorella Zeno: Mariu should be of mortal age soon

GM: She's no longer on this screen, since she doesn't exist anymore as Rope Kid is playing with puppets and making videos about ships instead.

Rosario of Flambeau: about 10 years

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ;_;

Rosario of Flambeau: rip

GM: When did Aleseta abandon us? How long ago was it now...

Let's get this pagan back

Voda: Ok I'm back.

GM: Bastia is marked on your map as a fast-travel location

How will you be reaching the island of Corsica?

Voda: Alright I will stand on a boat for 4 hours real time instead.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Boat.

How many Stink Gifted in our party?

Rosario of Flambeau: Here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im going to roll some dice, here.

Rosario of Flambeau: Regular gifted, rather. Which is stink.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm going to roll some dice, because I am playing Farkle.

GM: Alright, alright, alright. Confess to me that you stink.

Fiorella and Rosario are cursed with it, and Fiorella also has Guelph Stink.

Voda: I'm not Gifted but I'm pretty unpleasant anyway.

GM: [everyone in unison] We know!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+3+2+6+5+2

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9

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+3+2+6+5+2

=

27

Fiorella Zeno: My Charm is specced for gift compensation so you can always callf or a roll to see how that oges

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: attempting to create a potion of invisibility.

GM: Tell me what arts you're employing when you roll, please. You can keep track of all your potions yourself though.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: incredible. it worked

peim

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you sohuld create a potion to look through walls

a potion to detect magic items

a potion to murder faeries

Voda: A potion to quench you extreme thirst.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: too late. i made a potion of invisibility

GM: Mmmm. A tangy zip to this potion.

Speaking of quenching your thirst, I will go get a drink while Gulielmus rolls a bunch of potions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm just rolling 2

rolling 1d10!+3+2+6+5+11 muco

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6

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+3+2+6+5+11

=

33

Fiorella Zeno: I'll send some letters back home to Venice to find out if there's any family in the city

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have already made a potion using the same effect so i will claim my lab text bonus. 6 charges

Voda: Write a bunch of letters about magic theory.

Fiorella Zeno: :thinkinng:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 7 charges sorry

crime ftw

Fiorella Zeno: I'll write letters to my friend Gulielmus about Magic Theory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: opening verbal correspondence with all of my sodales on the subjects of magic theory, parma magica, creo, rego, perdo, muto, intellego,

Fiorella Zeno: I suppose it's feasible that my parens would want to do a correspondence about Animal

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will search for someone to correspond with on the Vergilian arts........ oh

GM: Fiorella, you get a reply telling you that you should look to the Genoans there as friends, and that you shouldn't say a word of your family to the local nobility, who can't be trusted.

Fiorella Zeno: Hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my name is fiorella, uhh, beno

GM: Go to the underworld and correspond with Virgil. Easy.

Rosario of Flambeau: beano

Fiorella Zeno: Biorella

GM: Setting off, then?

Has Guli rolled out all his potions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fiorella eno

Rosario of Flambeau: "Nobility that can't be trusted? Say no more."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes

Fiorella Zeno: Ball of Abysmal ️lame

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well i could keep rolling

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is this from nier

GM: The island of Corsica, hotly contested territory on the islands between Italy, Spain and France.

It's from the first Nier, yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but i'll just bring some of the potions i didn't use last time instead of rolling fresh ones.

Fiorella Zeno populates the crows's nest with crows to stand guard on our voyage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cannot hear the jukebox

GM: :pepe:

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

GM: Refreshing should fix that, otherwise, alas

Voda: C'est la vis.

GM: You arrive at Bastia's port, an active trade port in both salt and slaves.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I must go shopping.

GM: While Genoa is given ownership of it, the native population speak Corsican, a dialect of Italian.

Your party makes a slight stir as you disembark, armed as you are.

You can hear some commotion from the town itself

Voda: I'm not armed.

I merely have the common tools of any normal person.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I am armed with my devotion to the Holy Roman Emperor and loathing of the corrupt decadent Pope in Avignon.

Fiorella Zeno pets her giant hunting vulture. "Hi, I'm, er a normal person."

c'thinker: I refresh the page repeatedly, trying to figure out if a plugin is blocking the jukebox.

GM: Perhaps it is.

Voda: Wait is anyone armed?

GM: Where do you head, then?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sir Oak

the grogs, I presume

Voda: Oh well.

Sir Oak.

Pshaw.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: rosario?

Rosario of Flambeau: Yep.

GM: Well, your grogs are, sir oak is, and of course Rosario carries around a greatsword

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's check out the commotion.

Fiorella Zeno: I have a raptor which could presumably be trained to tear off faces too.

Though i need to refresh my memory on familiar training rules

GM: You can see, in the midst of the streets, a large crowd gathered along the streets

Voda: What kind of crowd?

Agitated?

GM: Peasants are cheering and shouting wildly

Oh no, celebratory

c'thinker: it was privacy badger.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I ask a random passerby what the commotion is.

Corsican Peasant: "Ah, you're in for a good sight, miss."

Fiorella Zeno: TIL animals have Animal Handling, I guess in place of Leadership?

Corsican Peasant: "Lord Avogari's just had his head chopped off." the peasant laughs

Fiorella Zeno: Or I guess animals that teach their offspring

Voda: Good times.

"Where's the head?"

Corsican Peasant: Through the crowd you can see, in the midst, a headless corpse being dragged along

Lavinia of Jerbiton: awesome

Fiorella Zeno: "Lord... beheaded?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: too bad video cameras haven't been invented yet

Voda: I'll go get a good look at the head.

Corsican Peasant: "I heard they threw it in the ocean. Fat Larry says he pissed on it, and all."

"Oh yeah. Cause of the taxes." he nods

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: these guys are all right.

Corsican Peasant: You can see a figure at the head of this procession, he's got a bunch of armed militia around him, and the crowd are cheering wildly for him

Voda: Taxes suck!

Rosario of Flambeau: "Popular guy."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Who beheaded him?"

"The people?"

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "Another tyrant falls! Another head for the waters!"

Corsican Peasant: "Oh yes, the people."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is anyone in this group wearing heraldry

Corsican Peasant: "Stormed his manor and dragged him out. His wife were a nice catch too."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the heraldic emblem of the hermetic order

Voda: I'm appropriately "horrified."

Corsican Peasant: In the crowd? None

Oh

In the party

Lavinia of Jerbiton: was looking for clues on whether these are guelf or ghibels.

Fiorella Zeno: "People without a tyrant is like clay without a sculptor."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Who's that dashing fellow?" I ask, pointing to Sambucuccio.

Corsican Peasant: "That? Our hero!" he says so proudly

"Said he was sick of all this, and you know what, he's a man who actually acts."

Fiorella Zeno: "While he's not the one in power, anyway."

Voda: Is he wearing any rings?

Corsican Peasant: "Sambucuccio d'Alando."

No, he's ringless

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Rome could use a man like that. We've got more nobles than anyone should ever have to deal with."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: doe he look heroic

Corsican Peasant: He gives a wheezing laugh "Rome, eh? Long trip. Hope you weren't comin' here to meet that prick." he laughs again

Fiorella Zeno: "Rome could use a changing of the guard, yes."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "These people are far more Roman than the city's current stock."

Voda: "Ha ha ha, why would we want to do that?"

"We're here to take in the healthful airs."

Corsican Peasant: He looks more heroic than the peasantry around him, he's wearing nicer clothing and speaking more eloquently

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Not that Rome is unhealthy these days" I murmur to no one

Fiorella Zeno: Well my Venetian contacts said to trust the natives over the nobles so I guess I like this guy.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The other lords must be quivering in their boots right now, like the Orezzas, right?"

Corsican Peasant: "Ha, you bet! They're locked up like a knight in his armour, in that house."

"They know what's comin' to them."

Voda: We should investigate these other noble houses and trade for information about the ring.

Fiorella Zeno: "Who lays claim to stuff like necklaces and rings after a beheading like that?"

"Fancy stuff, you know."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should distribute powerful magic items and buffs among the corsicans

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have an idea for meeting Francisca, we could get an audience by pretending we're here on behalf of the Zenos to investigate reports of the peasant uprising and protect Zeno interests in the area

Corsican Peasant: "Sambucuccio I imagine, or some of them Genoans he knows. They've been a real help them."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Are the Genoans hiring fighting men?"

Corsican Peasant: "What's a couple rings after doin' us a good turn like that?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Some of my friends are looking for work."

Corsican Peasant: "Oh yeah, they've been sending soldiers and that, giving people weapons, they're great."

"All for the revolution!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Sounds great! Where do we sign up?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Yeah!"

Voda: "Oh yeah, sure."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Death to the tyrants!"

Fiorella Zeno: "Power to the people."

Voda: "That's a great opportunity."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea attempts to look menacing with his staff and -3 strength.

Corsican Peasant: "Wellllll, meeting Sambucuccio's not too easy, you know." he whistles, scratching his fingers "But you know, I might be able to show you where to meet him, if you catch my drift."

"You help me I help you, eh?" He grins, one of his teeth is missing

Fiorella Zeno: I guess we give him money

Rosario of Flambeau: Probably better than threatening him.

Voda: OR we could manipulate him with magic.

Corsican Peasant: He leans in closer to you Lavinia "Those two with you?" He points at Rosario and Fiorella

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "They are."

"Unfortunately."

Corsican Peasant: "Extra then. I don't like the look of 'em. Shifty eyes. Know what I mean?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why, I ought to...!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I use my Bargain skill to assess a proper valud of bribe

rolling 1d10+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Fiorella Zeno:

rolling d10+2+1-3 Charm (gift compensation)

(

4

)

+2+1-3

=

4

Not bad considering gift stink

Corsican Peasant: You think a small handful of coins will be enough. You'll make him richer than he's ever been and it won't cost you much at all.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I hand it over. "A contribution to the cause."

Voda: Hmm.

Sounds good.

Corsican Peasant: He grins, and stuffs it in his pocket quickly "A pleasure, miss. Right this way."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: (we can always track him down and mug him later if we're upset)

Corsican Peasant: Of course. As is your right.

You're led to an outpost near the coast

Voda: Alright.

Corsican Peasant: A watchtower, recently built

Voda: Looks pretty small.

Fiorella Zeno: Nice view

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Nice tower.

Corsican Peasant: It's only a model

Rosario of Flambeau: If only we had someone to drop the entire thing in a big pit.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do we have a chance to confer and make a plan before knocking on the door

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I had my doubts about this voyage. But Corsica has turned out to be quite a charming island."

Corsican Peasant: Sure, you do

Voda: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "So if the revolutionaries captured any magic items they'd be in there"

Voda: Well, we could try scrying on the watchtower before we go inside.

Corsican Peasant: I trust that you can keep him busy or waiting a few minutes for a private conference

Rosario of Flambeau: "The peasants are a bit rude, but where aren't they?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "They are in desperate need of a strong lord to restore order."

"But isn't that the story everywhere? Sigh."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :pepe:

Fiorella Zeno: "Mundane rulership gives you mundane chaos."

Voda: They need some milk.

Corsican Peasant: But isn't that the story everywhere?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I think it's quite admirable."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Uh Emperor Augustus was a "Mundane" and yet sager, wiser, and a more capable leader than any Hermetic Magician.

Fiorella Zeno: Maybe he was just a superior magician to the hermetics

Lavinia of Jerbiton: He practiced the greatest Magic of them all: Philosophy

Fiorella Zeno: Indeed

Voda: This is just my opinion, but Hermetic Magi should absolutely be in charge of everything and put their faithful servants in positions of responsibility, to allow them the most time to do labwork without interruption.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Would we gain any advantage by actually joining the Genoese's forces? I doubt they would talk about their loot to just any footpad who shows up looking for work."

Fiorella Zeno: "Peace is good for business, and war is good for business, as my father says. Let's focus on the ring."

Voda: This could be a good opportunity to make some new friends.

Fiorella Zeno: True

Lavinia of Jerbiton: They're Corsicans

You make friends with them and you get drawn into their stupid feuds

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: open a correspondence for bonus Murder xp

Voda: But I doubt the revolutionaries are going to be able to survive any reprisals.

Or maybe they can.

Rosario of Flambeau: lets stream cheech and chong's the corsican brothers.

Voda: We should learn more.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Besides we don't know if they have any rings. We know the Orlezza almost certainly has one.

Fiorella Zeno: We also know they might have been having problems iwth Oriezza nanomachines sonning them

And can see if they need magical help for a magical problem

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oooh

good angle

Corsican Peasant: Fiorella has a family name to namedrop, potentially.

As she was told in her letter

Voda: Potentially.

Fiorella Zeno: I was asked not to do it

Voda: Can anyone scry inside the watchtower?

Fiorella Zeno: I can just barely spont prying eye

That's touch range though

So I'd get hassled by a guard

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I can Sortes various info if you have an idea what I should look for

Corsican Peasant: The Genoese are Guelphs, so they aren't a worry, you were warned not to say your name around the local nobility

Fiorella Zeno: Let's Sortes this shit

I see

Voda: Can you just use the Sortes to find the ring?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Depends if the GM wants to cry or not

Voda: Let us make him cry, as men.

Corsican Peasant: You can if you want to, depending on the difficulty of it, potentially. It depends how vague a question you can ask and still get a specific answer

Fiorella Zeno: You've been made to cry plenty as GM johns. Meow it's time for revenge.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: As when a poisoned arrow from the string

Through clouds a Parthian launches on the wing,—

Parthian or Cretan—and in darkling flight

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Learn a fact that could be ascertained by an observer present in the target location by simple observation, like “is the city under siege?” or “is there water in the jar?” or even “is Theodoric in his sanctum?” Learn all the natural properties of a stone, earth, or metal object.

Corsican Peasant: A poisoned arrow hitting a wing, wonder what this could mean

Lavinia of Jerbiton: but id need a decent magic aura to sortes that high level investigation

Corsican Peasant: Mundane and Dominion are all you have here, that you know of

Voda: I'm sure we can find a good old Infernal aura for our friend Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: easier is "Learn one visible property of a stone, earth, or metal object (a property that someone with appropriate skills could determine just by looking)." -- so I could ask for instance, "Is the ring we seek in the Genose possession" ??

Corsican Peasant: You could ask that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: What's the best Aura I can find

Corsican Peasant: However, you're currently being given a tour to the Genoese watchtower, so you should come up with some excuse for why you run off to do this

Voda: Heh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill do ti later

Voda: Well, we can always do it later.

Corsican Peasant: Mundane 0

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can we just do fiorella's first idea of pretending to be magical experts who heard about orlezza's magical healing

Orezza

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: orbezza

Rosario of Flambeau: thats a fun idea, so sure

Fiorella Zeno: Cool

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Cool -- let's let Gulielmus do all the talking.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: blimey.

Voda: Ok, sounds fine.

How many people are in the watchtower?

I want to use Intrigue to find out how well the revolution is going.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ive got the big 2 points of charm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Can Guli speak Italian?

Fiorella Zeno: I'll let Gulielmus do the talking as a non giftstinker, but I'll introduce myself as Fiorella Zeno of Venice.

Corsican Peasant: The watchtower is well-guarded, there's some militia posted outside. The peasant escorting you says a few words to the guard, they seem to be well acquainted, and he lets you all inside.

Guardsman: "Oi." he say as Rosario tries to enter

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm guarding the madam Zeno. Back off."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he speaks italian yes.

Voda: Can I use Intrigue to figure out how things are going while the magi stumble around the watchtower and manage to get into trouble?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uh. i think

Guardsman: "You look like a damn troublemaker." he spits off to the side

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay. gulielmus only speaks french and latin

Guardsman: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: win

Voda: You know who else has +2 charm?

Me!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Voda.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll make no trouble if my lady is safe."

Fiorella Zeno: "He's fine. Just has a unique air about him."

Rosario of Flambeau winks

Voda: I'll do the talking here.

Fiorella Zeno: Okay

Guardsman: He squints at Rosario, sizing him up

Voda: "We aim to make trouble, hopefully for your sake we make it for your enemies."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He's the kind of guy you want on your side. Just don't turn your back on him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Bonjour."

Guardsman: Are you rolling leadership to intimidate him, Voda?

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Voda: Sure.

Guardsman: Go for it.

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 4 + 1

(

2

)

+4+1

=

7

Gah.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah

Fiorella Zeno: I should invent a MuIm buff for intimidation

Guardsman: "He leaves his sword here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i really not have italian. what the hell

Fiorella Zeno: Or someone should, anyway

Guardsman: "Probably gets it back, too, when he leaves."

Fiorella Zeno: Someone who's not obsessed with birds

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ah, it's just a sword."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does Oak get to stay armed

Voda: "Sounds fine to me."

Guardsman: Yeah

Fiorella Zeno: When all you have is birds, every problem looks like a delicious pair of eyeballs.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Excellent.

Guardsman: He just didnt like the look of Rosario

GM: With that said, do you leave it there and enter, or stay outside, or perhaps start trouble

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll leave it there and enter.

"It's just a sword, I'll take one from your men if things come to it. Hahaha, just a jest."

Voda: Good plan.

Fiorella Zeno: Is this a really long track or does it just loop well?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: loop

GM: A very long track, I just upload extended versions of songs usually since they'll be left on to loop

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice

Voda: Noice.

Fiorella Zeno: I should upload an hourlong The Hot Wind Blowing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that might also be why some people can't hear the jukebox, the track is still loading for em

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i had a thing that was blocking it

GM: Inside the tower, you can see a number of local peasants turned militia, unusually well-armed. There are also at least a dozen soldiers wearing the crests of Genoa

Voda: Hmm.

Makes sense, I guess.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i could swear i had italian at some point.

but i did have pretty high arts right out of char gen.

Voda: Ah well.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I see why they wanted me to give up my arms."

Voda: Who is in charge around here?

Fiorella Zeno: My Italian is +5 before Venetian spec so I doubt there's any communication problems

Voda: Are they just milling around or is there a clear sense of discipline?

Corsican Peasant: "Sambucuccio's up a level, say you're here for the revolution."

The peasants dont have real military discipline and are milling about cheering about their recent success

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sambucuckio.

Rosario of Flambeau: Jesus.

Corsican Peasant: The soldiers are more orderly, but there's some exasperation present at herding peasants around

Fiorella Zeno: I've been reading his name funny too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes

Fiorella Zeno: Starbuccio

Voda: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i looked through the history of the spreadsheet and gulielmus just never had any italian at all.

Voda: Well, do you want me to come with you or should I try and find out about the campaign "from the ground?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you should come with us

Voda: Ok.

Fiorella Zeno: Jorn spoke better Italian that Gulielmus? Jesus

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you're our only fighting guy who isn't suspicious or a grog

Corsican Peasant: Gulielmus only just now finding out that he doesn't know Italian is great

Fiorella Zeno: You could probably learn a lot from blending in with the militia anyway

GM: Do you go up to meet with the revolutionary?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if you want me to talk thats fine, just make the call

yea gm

Voda: Let's do it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was ready to go ahead with the plan and everything.

Fiorella Zeno: I go in

GM: Inside the room is some of the plunder of killing the nobility. You can see a few tapestries piled up, small piles of gold and silver jewellery, and the man at the table is sitting with a golden goblet in hand

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "God's blessings upon you." he greets you

Voda: Any rings?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i uhhhh have to look at my seasons to see if i can learn italian.

Sambucuccio d'Alando: You can see a few rings on the pile

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brb.

Voda: "Mystical greetings, sir."

Rosario of Flambeau crosses his arms

Rosario of Flambeau: and mumbles "I feel naked."

Fiorella Zeno: "Well met."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "Is that a mainland accent, I hear? Came to help liberate our island from the dogs that stand on it, have you."

Voda: "Yes, we have."

"You may have heard of our previous successful campaigns in Allumiere and Cesena."

"Of course, you may no have heard of our activities in France, but that is for the best."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "Aha, those silly frenchmen. Always in antics."

"But brave, yes. Like our friends here, from Genoa."

"You wish to join up and fight the good fight?"

"With the money we have, there is plenty room for mercenary work."

Voda: "Yes, of course, we are always interested in well-paying patrons."

"However, there are rumors that some of the noble families have terrible magics that they are wielding to protect their ill-gotten gains."

"Is that true?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton shudders at the mention of magic

Sambucuccio d'Alando: He frowns a little "There are rumours, oh yes."

"But don't let that dissuade you. Whatever devilry they employ, the Pope himself has declared us rightful rulers of this island."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, it's all settled then."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "God himself is on our side."

Voda: "If there is any magic, that will cost you extra."

Fiorella Zeno: "God helps those who help themselves."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: equating Papal Support with the support of the Divine... smdh

Fiorella Zeno: Guleph Win

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what is the season

Fiorella Zeno: Guleph Win

Sambucuccio d'Alando: He strokes his beard

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "It sounds to me, friend, that you feel you have a plan against these things."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: tiny brained wojak: guelph win. bloated popes growing fat off our taxes ftw.

Voda: "We have seen such things before, don't worry about that."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It is one of our areas of expertise."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "Expertise, you say?" He leans forward on the desk

Voda: "As you can see, many of our company are quite wise."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "The Orezzas."

"They're even bold enough to attack  us, the revolution, and they have some foul magics at their disposal."

Fiorella Zeno: "Foul magics, you say?"

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "That's why they always take prisoners." he nods "Human sacrifice. The work of the devil."

Voda: "That comports with our experience," I nod.

Rosario of Flambeau stands at full attention at the mention of demons

Rosario of Flambeau: slash the devil

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "If you can combat this devilish influence, your pay will be 3 times what the others earn, when that manor falls."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You had my curiosity. But now you have my attention

Fiorella Zeno: Let's extend an olive branch to the Diedne covenant on Corsica

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Pray forgive if the question is impertinent but -- what of any magical items or tokens that we may recover?"

Fiorella Zeno nods

Voda: "Of course, we are skilled in the disposal of such satanic artifacts."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "Well, the treasures of the manor go to the funds here. But something touched by the devil should be destroyed, yes."

"But if it were  not  the mark of the devil, naturally, it would come here." he adds

Voda: "Naturally."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You are qualified to make that distinction?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Fair, only fair."

Fiorella Zeno: "We'll properly destroy any infernal artifacts."

Rosario of Flambeau: afk for a moment

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "The priest can make that distinction. Perhaps a bishop might need called in, I don't know."

Rosario of Flambeau: ok.

Voda: "Makes sense to me."

A ring is small enough that we can just pocket it anyway.

Fiorella Zeno: Yeah

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "You give the word that you've figured out how to deal with this magic, and we'll storm him next. A lot of the boys here are eager to take a stab at him."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "With all due respect to the priest, learning the rites and mass does not prepare one for the intricacies of identifying and cataloguing the arcane."

"Myself, I am a trained Magister. My comrades are similarly skilled both academically and in practical experience."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "If you can identify this... arcane treasure, as it might be, you'll be paid for your services."

Fiorella Zeno: "I also believe the Orezzas to be in possession of a precious Zeno heirloom.Not particularly valuable, but precious to us. I can prepare due compensation should it be recovered. A ring."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "Zeno, Zeno.... ah, they're a papal noble family, right?"

Fiorella Zeno: "Si."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: do people just say Guelph out loud, actually, im not sure on this

matty you fuckin guelph, hows it gapin

Voda: Yes.

How else would you talk about them?

Guelph means "Hook" I think.

Fiorella Zeno: Greetings, fellow Guelph. All Hail The Pop.e

Sambucuccio d'Alando: I just don't know how much is something said at the time and how much is just something attributed later for easy categorisation

but then again, the term Brexit has entered the common lexicon despite being the gayest and stupidest word ever coined by the media so i guess human beings will say literally anything

Voda: Sounds like someone's triggered.

Anyway, how much money is this guy offering?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The names were likely introduced to Italy during the reign of Frederick Barbarossa. When Frederick conducted military campaigns in Italy to expand imperial power there, his supporters became known as Ghibellines (Ghibellini). The Lombard League and its allies were defending the liberties of the urban communes against the Emperor's encroachments and became known as Guelphs (Guelfi).

Contemporaries did not use the terms Guelph and Ghibellines much until about 1250, and then only in Tuscany (where they originated), with the names "church party" and "imperial party" preferred in some areas.

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "I didn't know I was in the presence of nobility. My apologies, ma'am, if the boys outside have been rough. They don't know much beyond our own little city."

"Me, I got no problems with the nobility, so long as they're good and proper, like your own."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh this is interesting

The struggle between Guelphs and Ghibellines was also noticeable in the Republic of Genoa, where the former were called "rampini" (lit.: "grappling hooks") and the latter "mascherati" (lit.: "masked")

Fiorella Zeno: "They have been quite gracious. My airs put people off regardless of my heritage."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: That's badass

"This affair is in your hands, my new compatriots." he smiles "You deal with these  mascherati  and their arcane tricks, and glory awaits."

He offers a hand to Voda for a handshake

Voda: "Go with God, Sambucuccio."

Sambucuccio d'Alando: "May God be with you all, friends."

Rosario of Flambeau: "And always with you."

GM: So. What's the next step of your master plan?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We should probably talk to the Orezza

Voda: Yeah I think that's a good idea.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We can do so without betraying the rebels since we've promised to "scout" out the enemy

Fiorella Zeno: Violence begets violence, but in the end, one solution presents itself.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the suggestion i made before was, we say we're a Zeno delegation concerned that the nobility is under attack

does that story make sense politically

GM: There is a fierce divide, one that has even come to arms, between Guelphs and Ghibellines here. Saying you're from a proudly Guelph family to a Ghibelline one at war with them is... well

Fiorella Zeno: How about we do that, but as Capocci representatives?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sure.

we should forge some credentials then.

GM: Unless they're notably Guelphs, you should be dandy

Lavinia of Jerbiton: like write a letter of introduction.

Voda: I bet I'd be great at forgery.

Fiorella Zeno: Capoccis are known for hiring witches anyway

Voda: You know, if I was literate.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Can you fake a seal at least

I can write the letter using my Big Educated Literate Brain

Fiorella Zeno: I have +1 Etiquette (nobility)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm hoping the Capoccis are far enough from Corsican influence and no one knows their seal well or the handwriting of their scribe

Voda: I do have Intrigue and Candlemaking, so I bet I could try to fake a seal.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sick

Fiorella Zeno: Oh yeah, speaking of Intrigue, Voda could try some rumor gathering among the mob too

GM: That does sound like a very sick use of that

Fiorella Zeno: Candlemaking is grea ttoo tho

GM: I'll make it a candlemaking roll, but the EF is easier depending on your intrigue, what's your intrigue?

Voda: +3

GM: Roll candlemaking to forge your seal, Voda

Meanwhile, Lavinia can write the letter

Voda: Any stats?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: in the letter I say that the party bearing the letter are longtime associates of the Capocci family, capable investigators, and well trained in matters related to the arcane and occult. Hugo di Capocci vouches for their trustworthiness and capability yadda yadda yadda. he has heard about the uprising and wishes to know if the rightful perogatives of the nobility are being infringed, and what he can do to help as it is the interest of all blue bloods to maintain the harmonious order of our society (etc.)

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 4

(

6

)

+4

=

10

Fiorella Zeno: I'll summon a messenger pigeon and delive rit

I have a formulaic for that, I spent two seasons making it

GM: Hmm. I'm not sure if the letter should be Guile or Etiquette

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my Etiquette is good so that would be preferable.

I am pretending to be a nobleman, or at least a nobleman talking to their scribe.

GM: If that's how you word it, then yeah. If you're focussing on sounding noble.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: any Characteristic added?

i'll GM roll it

Fiorella Zeno: Comm seems appropriate

GM: Communication, yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+4+2 etiquette+comm

(

3

)

+4+2

=

9

GM: thats typical for letters

Lavinia of Jerbiton finishes letter

Fiorella Zeno: You know, I think I really like the Ars characteristics, Comm as a thing distinct from Presence and Intelligence is cool

GM: Anyhow. With letter in hand, the Orezza estate is some ways outside of town. With the directions from Antone, finding it isn't too much trouble.

Though it's now late afternoon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: characteristics are more important now that we're using Ab as Ab

Fiorella Zeno: Yeah

GM: Yeah

Fiorella Zeno: I also mean thematically that Intelligence, Communication, Presence is cooler thematically than like, Int Wis Cha

GM: Having no stat for Wisdom is great, as PCs never have any anyway

Fiorella Zeno: True

GM: The estate is well-guarded. Soldiers are posted outside by the outer gates, and further in you can see more patrolling the grounds

Rosario of Flambeau: "No one wants for employment around here, that's for sure."

Voda: Hmm.

Are we being spied on by the revolutionaries?

GM: They're in the midst of celebration, and you didnt ask for any backup.

You just spoke with Sambucuccio

Voda: Ok good.

Let's head on in.

Who should present the letter?

GM: I believe a servant normally introduces these things

Voda: Alright.

I'll walk up to the door and shout, "Presenting the honorable and noble Fiorella Zeno, lady of Venice."

I do this with a broad, theatrical bow.

Fiorella Zeno: Voda probably looks more servantly than the psycho women with halberds or the fat battle scarred dude

Guardsman: The guards look at each other.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets make an enchanted item, the Aura of Ennobled Serviance

Guardsman: "Weren't told company was expected. Wait here."

One of them heads up to the manor with the letter, after looking it over and deciding it is sufficiently waxed and letter-y

About 20 minutes later, he returns

"You're allowed in."

"No more than a few bodyguards with you. Got enough people there to start a real fight."

"Rest can wait in the guardhouse."

Voda: "Ha ha ha, surely you jest. This is the peaceful retinue of a diplomatic delegation."

Guardsman: He flicks his head in the direction of the town "You seen what they're fuckin' doing around here?"

Fiorella Zeno: "He has a point

No quote mark meant there

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The peasants are revolting..... and they're in an uprising too! Aha."

Guardsman: "These are the orders. Servants are fine, you can take a few armed men and that's it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I select Oak.

Guardsman: The guards doesnt get the joke

Lavinia of Jerbiton sighs

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It's funny in Rome, I promise."

Voda: You don't get assigned to guard duty because of your scintillating wit.

Guardsman: You can take  Three  shield grogs or otherwise openly/heavily armed people

Sir Oak, I assume Rosario, so one more

Fiorella Zeno: Tunde

Guardsman: Congratulations, Tunde

Napolino and the others shuffle over to the guardhouse

Fiorella Zeno: Morgana shines with a full unit

Voda: I recommend you take me.

Oh wait I'm not armed.

Guardsman: Are you openly and

Right

Alfonso: At the door, a servant greets you

"Hello, sirs and madam. The master is not quite ready to receive guests at the moment, but do come inside."

He leads you all indoors to the hall to recieve guests in.

Voda: How nice is it?

Are we getting the shitty hall?

Alfonso: The Aesthetic Quality is 10

You get given the nice hall, as nobility demands

devil's fav demon: Whew. Almost forgot the game was going on. Had to jump on a job offer really quick.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Wow, nice hall."

Alfonso: The servant lays out chairs for you all

Lavinia of Jerbiton scrutinizes any tapestries

Alfonso: They depict more hotblooded scenes than noble tapestries usually do, a sign of Corsican fierceness

Rosario of Flambeau: "We should get some of these made for the inn."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Got to be careful, Archibald has a thing against tapestries.."

Voda: "He isn't here, what is he going to do about it?"

GM: There are two people sat in attendance to recieve you. A woman in her early 20s, and a man nearing his 30s. Both have a noble expression about them, and are dressed richly. Though notably, both are wearing a breastplate.

Fiorella Zeno: Is it legal for Archibald to watch us by scrying on Voda?

Voda: Weird.

Are they wearing rings?

Quintu Orezza: "My father will be along shortly."

Neither are, not even a wedding band!

Rosario of Flambeau: Gasp!

Fiorella Zeno: Degenerates

Rosario of Flambeau: Sinners...

Quintu Orezza: By which I mean to say, they're brother and sister

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A woman in armor? Shocking.

Lucilla Orezza: "You came all this way to assist against these dogs at our gates, you say?"

Fiorella Zeno: They're letting somethign like being siblings get in the way? Some "nobles"

Voda: "Yes, naturally."

Fiorella Zeno nods.

Voda: "My lady Fiorella Zeno is quite interested in maintaining the relationship between your two families."

Lucilla Orezza: "I thought Rome pretended we did not exist, for their scheming and alliances."

"They hear the pope has given away our land - a pope not even in Rome! - and they abandon us."

Quintu Orezza: "Lucilla, please, there are guests, do calm down."

Voda: "Of course, we pay little heed to the dictates of the King of France no matter which puppet they come from."

Quintu Orezza: "We are honoured to host you here. Do forgive these." he raps the breastplate with his knuckles "But we live in dangerous times."

Fiorella Zeno: "Paranoia is not unbecoming in strife."

Quintu Orezza: "Zeno, did you say? I thought they were a 'guelph' family as you call them."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hey, who can blame you?"

I gesture to my own full armor.

Fiorella Zeno: The letter did say Capocci

Voda: "Ha ha ha, mere rumors spread by jealous rivals."

Quintu Orezza: He squints at you

Fiorella Zeno: But I'll rol l with it and nod to what Voda says

Quintu Orezza: Please roll Guile against his Folk Ken, voda

Voda: Any stats?

Quintu Orezza: Oh, Comm

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 4 + 1

(

8

)

+4+1

=

13

Quintu Orezza:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+2

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau: It's pretty rare to roll an ability without a characteristic as well, isnt it

Quintu Orezza: "Rumours dog us all everywhere, don't they?" he sighs

Voda: "Of course."

Quintu Orezza: "But please, make yourselves comfortable. You've come by in time for dinner, no sense denying you all a good meal while you visit."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Wonderful! What class."

Voda: Oh boy!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This is the part where we all get poisoned.

Quintu Orezza: The doors at the head of the room open

Voda: "Excellent, a full belly makes business much more pleasurable."

Francisca Orezza: A man of about 50 enters, flanked on either side by a knight in full plate. He himself is wearing armour, of a very high quality.

Voda: Also I can't read so I didn't know we were going with the Capoccis.

Is HE wearing a ring?

Francisca Orezza: You can spy on one hand a ring of gold, silver and bronze expertly crafted together.

Voda: Hmm.

We probably should have asked for a description of the ring before we left.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hey, look at that.

Francisca Orezza: It's safe to assume you did. This is the ring.

Rosario of Flambeau: It's a fancy ring. Must be the one we're looking for.

Fiorella Zeno: We'll find out later if anyone bothered to read the letter

Francisca Orezza: I'll just show it, it has a little extra information in the handout but w/e

Fiorella Zeno: We can always make up a story about the Capoccis and Zenos working together on this

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sick

Fiorella Zeno: The infamous Rings of Planet Mobius

Voda: Looks fun.

Francisca Orezza: He sits down at the head of the room

Lavinia of Jerbiton: make up some BS about how the pope is allying with the zenos rivals in venice and so the zeno is exploring a chance to switch sides

Voda: I like it.

Francisca Orezza: "I can't say I've met a Capocci since I was a boy of 8. His interest... interests me."

Voda: "Ah, you must be referring to my lady's... uh... travelling companion, Sir Gulielmus de Capocci."

Oh, go ahead.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 1 s

Fiorella Zeno nods

Francisca Orezza: He looks across all of you, trying to figure out who this might refer to

Fiorella Zeno: "Ah yes, Gulielmus de Capocci. I cannot bear to be apart from him."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The political situation in Rome is very fluid these days. All look for allies where they can. The lord Capocci has a particular disdain for the Genoese and heard the Ghibellines were under attack."

Fiorella Zeno takes Gul's hand.

Francisca Orezza: Francisca raises an eyebrow at Lavinia's story, then smiles. It's a very dry smile, from a mouth not used to exercising that function very often.

Voda: "Naturally, my lady Fiorella Zeno has taken a ken interest in your plight."

Francisca Orezza: "That is more like it."

"Tales of asserting the will and rights of the nobility are nonsense, dressing around the reality of the matter." he slams a fist on the table

"This is Genoa attempting to steal  our  land."

"Peasants? They have neither the imagination nor the courage to lift a finger against their betters."

Fiorella Zeno: "I am curious who the puppetmaster might be in all of this."

"As is my father."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Their revolt is not just a revolt against you, but against the very structure of our civilized society. Left unchecked they would spread like weeds in a garden.."

Rosario of Flambeau: "The Devil himself, as always."

Francisca Orezza: "The King of Aragon, asserting 'his' claim to a land that the Pope told him was his. A french pope, in France."

"But yes, dangerous ideas like this shouldn't be given too much room to grow."

"Or the world will fall into mud."

Fiorella Zeno: I'm sad Aristide wasn't alive for this adventure

Francisca Orezza: He has a servant pour him a glass of wine, and takes a drink.

Then gestures for them to pour glasses for you all

rip our orsinis

Voda: I nod submissively in respect to his lofty insight.

Is he sitting to my left or my right?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Have you heard of my Lord Capocci's fondness for arcane solutions to the troubles ailing his house?"

Francisca Orezza: To your left, let's say

He takes a long drink "I have not. But I trust you to relate this."

Voda: Alright, I'll discreetly spill my wine into my shirt from the right side of my face without drinking it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Salve.

Francisca Orezza: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: Smart.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [in French] I love the Pope.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll drink the wine.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill talk about how he employs alchemists and astrologers and staffs his court with wizards i guess

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Wine? Don't mind if I do

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no lies needed

Fiorella Zeno: Suspecting my host of spiking the wine sounds rude so I'll drink it onrmally

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: looks like you guys havent brutally murdered the guy and taken his ring

Francisca Orezza: Francisca nods along, occasionally. His son listens intently, asking for details and pressing you for more on the subject. His daughter is very disinterested.

Voda: Uh, quick update, I've claimed that you are a noble from house Capocci.

Francisca Orezza: Gulielmus de Capocci

Fiorella Zeno: And that you're my "travelling companion"

Voda: Please don't reveal that you speak no Italian.

Francisca Orezza: I think he went afk to frantically stuff as much xp into italian as he could

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: surely i would be guglielmo di capocci

Fiorella Zeno: Gulielmus was dropped from a great height as an infant and as a result could only master the degenerate tongue of the norman

Voda: Sadly you aren't.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i ended up increasing my italian to "basic questions and answers"

Rosario of Flambeau: Powerful.

Francisca Orezza: Alright. This whole conversation is of course being conducted in Italian.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hopefully someone can teach me Italian later

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we are guilelmus handlers because he is the retarded expendable capocci the family sends to dangerous missions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: please.

guglielmo di capocci is a man of God and only speaks in Latin

Francisca Orezza: He admires the ring on his finger, and speaks to Lavinia "Are these services he is willing to lend, in support of our family?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It depends what we report back to him, which depends on what we make of the situation here, and whether we can cement an alliance between the two great houses here."

Francisca Orezza: He leans back in his chair, slightly.

Raising a hand in gesture to continue

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: am i even present

Francisca Orezza: Yes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes. Drink your wine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sips

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they gave gulielmus the sippy cup

Voda: Polite.

Francisca Orezza: Gulielmus, please give me a stressed stamina roll, EF 18, to

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!-30

(

3

)

-30

=

-27

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Voda: Well RIP.

Fiorella Zeno: Pizza is served! Wait a minute...

Francisca Orezza: Gulielmus drinks from the forbidden cup and will expire the moment the adventure ends, as he enters final HIVlight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Buono."

in Latin: "Are you sure about this?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If our own arcane knowledges could be of help while we are here... I believe Lord Capocci would be happy to hear of it as well."

Voda: "The rumor is that the rebels intend to steal some great magical prize from you."

Francisca Orezza: He remains neutral in his expression, but a slight hint of anger appears

"Thieves and vagabonds, all of them."

"These knowledges you have, can they aid in this struggle?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sips and nods.

Francisca Orezza: "Rest assured, I am aware that those hounds at my gate covet what I have and fear that I have it. They can remain in fear."

Voda: "Yes, my masters have much in the way of arcane and esoteric knowledge."

Rosario of Flambeau picks his teeth with a dagger

Francisca Orezza: He leans forward, thinking

Quintu Orezza: "Father, perhaps they might be able to help with-"

Francisca Orezza: He raises his hand, and his son stops

"You are experts in the field of knowledge concerning that which keeps me and my family from ruin."

"You are either saints come to save us, or devils to bury us."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Neither my lord, we are mortals."

Francisca Orezza: "Gulielmus, do you know much of what your servants work, or what they know?"

Voda: I lean my head towards Gulielmus like I'm hearing him whisper.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea musters all of his Italian experience

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "gabbagool"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Yes. I know a great deal."

Fiorella Zeno: It's a yes or no question, you can do it

Francisca Orezza: He stares for a moment

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Francisca Orezza: "Why does a Capocci have a french accent?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea gives Voda a meaningful glance.

Voda: "An affectation. He is somewhat eccentric."

Francisca Orezza: "Is that so."

Voda: "He likes to adopt the mannerisms of people and countries that he despises, to mock them."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: a regional dialect

Francisca Orezza: "I suppose they do not send their best on journeys like this."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he allocated his xp wrong, as a joke.

Fiorella Zeno: "It is true. I am not father's favored child either, I can admit."

Francisca Orezza: "Still, you are here in my home, you are honoured guests while you remain."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sips.

Francisca Orezza: "Though I cannot vouch its safety, even now. Damn those Genoans!"

"You are experts, yes? Which amongst you are the experts."

Lavinia of Jerbiton raises hand

Francisca Orezza: He sits, expecting a second

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Magister Lavinia of Salerno, at your service."

Francisca Orezza: Since plurals were used until now

Lavinia of Jerbiton nudges Rosario

Fiorella Zeno: "Gamehawking is my forte. I leave arcane matters to Lavinia, yes."

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, uh.

Yes.

Francisca Orezza: Of course more than 2 can put their hands up, he just expects at least one more after you said masters and experts so muhc

Rosario of Flambeau: "Magister Rosario, slayer of demons and all that."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The Young Capocci here is quite skilled at the application of herbs and natural minerals. He is, as you've heard, an eccentric."

Francisca Orezza: "You'll find many outside these walls. But come with me, I have something that I require your expertise in."

Voda: "Quite eccentric."

Francisca Orezza: "Ah? Well he is your sponsor, it would be good if he saw where his expertise was being applied."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea suddenly becomes more powerful

Francisca Orezza: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. i can multiple cast flash of the scarlet flames now

lets fuck this guy up

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Voda: Smart.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: soon, soon

i will accompany him

Francisca Orezza: He invites you to follow him, taking his 2 knights alongside him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: to whever

with oak in tow

Rosario of Flambeau: Of course.

Francisca Orezza: You are led into the basement of the manor, where a dungeon is set up, several prisoners within the cells.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea follows.

Francisca Orezza: He gestures to a knight, and they drag a man out of them

"Watch carefully, magister. I need your opinion on this."

Voda: Looks good.

Francisca Orezza: He takes a dagger, and makes a large cut across his palm

Then places the ring against the prisoner's forehead

And speaks something that you may recognise as Norse

a short phrase, memorised

Voda: I mayn't.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I do not.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: dont

Francisca Orezza: The prisoner cries out in pain

Francisca holds his hand up to you all

The wound is gone

Then he has the knight hold up the prisoners hand

Voda: Hmm.

Francisca Orezza: Where an identical wound has opened

Voda: Interesting.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Useful."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea raises his eyebrows.

Francisca Orezza: "Through this we have maintained our superiority. There are always prisoners in war."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i try not to smirk as the hermes tards have gotten their hopes up for nothing

Francisca Orezza: It still breaks a hermetic limit, though.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if it is hermetic

it could easily be infernal.

Voda: The Hermetic Limit of Bonisagus being a retard.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: in fact that is what I thought it was.

Francisca Orezza: "Wounds that would leave a man bedridden for months, given over to another to bear."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Interesting. The principle of the ring then does not create health, but merely transfers it from one to another. Thus it is able to carry out the process without requiring the components a true healing ritual would require."

Francisca Orezza: "You sound well-educated in this matter."

"Though I fancy there are few others like this, if any." he admires it again

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will roll some dice

rolling 1d10!+2+0 characteristic + infernal lore

(

5

)

+2+0

=

7

does this seem infernal, based on my single experience point

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Among certain schools of Magic are known spells that heal instantly. However all of them require a mystical power that is expended in the process-- a resource that is very valuable and scarce. Your method here is much more efficient as there are far more wretches in the world than there are pawns of vis."

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+3 inf lore

(

9

)

+2+3

=

14

Voda: AFK a minute.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea says some stuff in Latin.

(From Francisca Orezza): The infernal is undetectable, and likes to masquerade as magic, so nothing is ever certain. However, the way the device functions is not obviously infernal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if you used it on an animal? A corpse?

"

Fiorella Zeno: Nice acting, Lavinia. We of course don't actually condone human sacrifice.

Francisca Orezza: "My ancestors tried these things. Only a living human works."

"But it is not enough. There are wounds beyond what it can heal."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "What are its limits?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that was in latin. to be doubly clear

Francisca Orezza: He gives you some descriptions of what it's worked on previously, your medical experience tells you that it works on up to a Heavy wound at most, and that it does nothing against fatigue

it also works one wound at a time

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Could it possible be that your ancestors were unaware of how to activate that function -- not that the ring lacked that function?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about debilitating effects that are cured as a heavy wound

Francisca Orezza: "That is what I hope, yes."

It does nothing for diseases or poisons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: blindness, a maimed leg, etc

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Very interesting. May I ask, how they came to obtain this ring and learn its workings?"

Francisca Orezza: Someone please bring Beard up to speed while Guy begins to magically appear in this timeline

Fiorella Zeno: Sadly it sounds like it works on getting eaten by crows, or stabbing

Voda: We made a very smart decision to hunt for a magic ring on Genoa.

Guy of Bonisagus: the word salvete for a mouth

Francisca Orezza: "I hear it was taken in a feud, many centuries ago."

Voda: And this is that ring!

Francisca Orezza: "We had no use of it for a long time, the age of peace that the Pisa rulership gave us."

Guy of Bonisagus: ha. francisca is a girls name

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This is Corsica.

Voda: Also there's currently an ongoing revolution and we've pledged to aid both sides.

Oops!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: meh

Voda: Oops! All treachery

Fiorella Zeno: Luckily we hav ean expert on disease and an expert on poisons with us

Guy of Bonisagus: a bush rustles, and guy of bonisagus appears

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve, Guy."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: these political situations are pretty easy to deal with when we give no shits about the long term consequences

Guy of Bonisagus: "Salve."

Francisca Orezza: The party are currently, some of them anyway, downstairs in a dungeon under a manor discussing the ring

Rosario of Flambeau: "Finally up from your nap, eh?"

Strange man, sleeping in bushes.

Fiorella Zeno: I want to help the Genoans, insofar as I won't messily betray them

Francisca Orezza: However, since the magical experts were invited down here, Guy - who was of course here the whole time - is with them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea introduces the magus and the noble.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Guy, the magus."

"Francisca, the count."

Francisca Orezza: He nods in acknowledgement

Rosario of Flambeau: I support the Pope (real pope)

Francisca Orezza: Pope (real not fake)

Fiorella Zeno: The Pepe

Voda: Banned from the offsite.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Is my Lord familiar with Hermetic theory? It is a unified school of thought for the investigation and classification of the Magical realm" (I try to drop in as many big, scholarly sound terms from my limited Hermetic Theory knowledge) ".. it has the capability to investigate the full capacities of this item, though the process takes many seasons of work, within a specifically designed and constructed laboratory whose location must be aligned to various planetary and celestial conditions and so on.."

Guy of Bonisagus: I nod to the count.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he may or may not speak Latin.

Rosario of Flambeau: I stifle a yawn.

Voda: Oh also we claimed that Gulielmus is Gulielmus di Capocci.

Guy of Bonisagus: I correct Lavinia at several points.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You're welcome to

Guy of Bonisagus: soundsl ike you guys did a lot of lying

Francisca Orezza: "Many seasons! My home will be burned to the ground, my daughter ravished and my gold filling the coffers of some Genoan worm in that time."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Also Gulielmus has 1 level of Italian and can't communicate with anyone.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we mixed lots of lies, truths, and half-truths guy, all for a greater good.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus of pure reason was tricked into this by his underlings

Francisca Orezza: It helped that he didnt realise how much they were tricking him, as he doesnt speak much Italian

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

hmm. should we help this guy crush the revolution so he lets us "investigate" his ring

Francisca Orezza: "What can you do here?" he asks, some excitement in his voice

Guy of Bonisagus: does he have the ring with him

Francisca Orezza: If you crush the revolution you completely derail history, since it fully succeeds by 1348.

Fiorella Zeno: I don't think I like him or support his political ambitions.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A moment to confer with my colleagues and consider our options after what we've seen so far in the streets, if you please.."

Voda: If we get this guy killed then we can just take the ring.

Or if we just kill him here and now and then collect our reward.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: part true voda, some grubby peasant might grab it first

Fiorella Zeno: He uses human sacrifices and he's not sanctioned to do so by the OoH

Rosario of Flambeau: It's pretty rude of him.

Francisca Orezza: "Yes. You may confer in private, I am aware scholars consider secrecy a large part of their trade."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we'll just induct him into house guernicus

Fiorella Zeno: :weebey:

Voda: We can also pass off any amount of fancy looking junk as a magical artifact to the revolutionaries for a fat commission.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: human sacrifice problem: resolved

Rosario of Flambeau: Is it enough to slay him? Let's discuss.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok i assume everyone brings ol guli up to speed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: personally I think it'll be funny to show that one of the Great Verdi's Rings relies on human sacrifice

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's just beat him up and give the ring back to Verdi.

Fiorella Zeno: Let's meet up with Guy, who took 8 hours to exit the boat

And explain the situation to him

Rosario of Flambeau: But also threaten Verdi with knowledge of the ring's function.

Francisca Orezza: Bear in mind that all you have seen so far is the activation trigger for a Light Wound, and the more you learn in the field, the less investigation is required.

Guy of Bonisagus: if hes sacrificing people i dont think i want to help him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guy could not get on the boat and was stuck on liberty islan

d

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did the ring have runes on it

Fiorella Zeno: It had the runes of the One Ring on it

Francisca Orezza: It has 3 norse runes on it, and an inscriptoin in latin saying "Vita Mors Est"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also is the GM proposing we watch him activate the ring on people with medium and heavy wounds

Francisca Orezza: You could write to Jorn to find the meaning of the runes perhaps

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:  in baldurs gate voice

Fiorella Zeno: I guess Elvish isn't runes, sorry

Voda: I mean, Verdi has a guy who loves exploding people at tournaments so I think this ring isn't going to be too embarrassing.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: human sacrifice is embarasing cause

you know

diedne

Voda: It isn't like they die when you use it.

They just mostly die.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also this power is Textbook Infernal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Everyone who is wounded by the ring dies.

Fiorella Zeno: Well it's human sacrifice as cause and effect rather than a corruption rite

But still

Francisca Orezza: Oh, yes. I am proposing that, really. The more you learn about it, the more a reward you can get from Antone.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Eventually.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its only because its very likely from Verdi that im inclined to even consider it magic instead of infernal

Francisca Orezza: You could also get the triggers out of him some other way, of course

Fiorella Zeno: You gotta take a principled stand on human sacrifice, you can't just approve of it because you know it's not infernal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you scuffle with a spell

Fiorella Zeno: Or can you?

I'm not the code expert

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does the Orezza have any prisoners that are scheduled for execution anyway

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't think you can scuffle with spells because there are spells specifically to reduce fatigue

and inflict fatigue damage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nonlethally casts a ball of abysmal flame

Francisca Orezza: All the prisoners are, since they keep them here to rot until they die or are used for the ring

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay. Which of our Grogs Wants To Be a Test Subject

Voda: I volunteer anyone else.

Guy of Bonisagus: ok so hes keeping prisoners to use for his diedne ring

i dont think i wanna help him

Francisca Orezza: They're peasant rebels who wanted the Orezzas dead, as far as the family is concerned they forfeited the right to a life without pain.

Guy of Bonisagus: i also do not want to subject grogs to the diedne ring

Lavinia of Jerbiton: d'aw.

Fiorella Zeno: Guy has a point

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Guy the Martyr

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll nobly take a hit.

Voda: Sounds good to me.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I think you'd have to lower your parma for the effect to work

are you sure you want to do that

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh no.

Guy of Bonisagus: "This count is a mundane, and is using a hermetic artifact frivolously?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how is this for a plan:

Fiorella Zeno: I'll have to side with Guy my bird (bees are birds) loving friend.

Francisca Orezza: I'm frankly shocked that you didn't immediately decide a ring that can heal you without vis is the best thing ever. What happened to this once noble covenant?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Pre-Hermetic."

"Technically."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alternatively, could he just use 2 separate prisoners to test on, isntead of working on any of our folks

Guy of Bonisagus: "We should liberate the ring, and liberate him of his life if he objects. A true villain."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: voda drinks the invisibility potion and crushes the count's skull with a cobblestone (non-lethally)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If possible. It's best to find out all we can first."

Fiorella Zeno: "It would be irresponsible to leave the in the hand of unsanctioned mundanes, at any rate."

* the ring in the hand

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Remember, a fellow member of the Order -- and a client of our covenant -- seeks our help .That should outweigh all other considerations."

Francisca Orezza: that said, brb 1 minute while you discuss this

Voda: "Also we were offered a lot of money to kill all these people."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will make my suggestion in character, even.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I'd just like to be sure the peasants don't storm the house and take off with a bunch of magic valuables they'll mishandle, Voda."

Guy of Bonisagus: "The weight of sin is greater than that of the gold which would line our pockets."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I prepared a potion of invisibility before we left. Why don't we have Voda drink it and do as he did in Blois?"

Fiorella Zeno: "We should, if possible, make any assassination look as mundane as possible."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea mimics bashing someone's skull in with a brick.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: an accident kill

Voda: Let's drop a bell on him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's make him walk into a pentagram that zaps him with lightning.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: minor magical focus: bells

Guy of Bonisagus: oh no, the count accidentally fell on a sword

Fiorella Zeno: "The man has a dungeon full of people who were just waiting to be used as sacrifices, correct? What if there was a gaolbreak?"

"Much could happen in the chaos."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets ask the gm what the dungeon set up is like when he gets back

Guy of Bonisagus: "A good plan, Fiorella."

Voda: "They're too sickly and weak, on account of being imprisoned and tortured with a magic ring."

How many knights are in here? We could just kill them all.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also the main nobleman is always in armor and attended by 2 knights

Fiorella Zeno: "Maybe too weak to actually do the dead, too weak to be plausibly the culprits is a separate matter."

Francisca Orezza: It's a series of cells, with prisoners inside each one.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have a rite that can destroy Iron in a room

but I have to set up the room in advance ofc

Fiorella Zeno: *do the deed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we'll trick the knighs into drinking the invisibility potion, so they can't see each other and can't coordinate as they cut us all down.

Francisca Orezza: There are also, of course, a number of less impressive guardsmen on the property

Fiorella Zeno: How elaborate is the setup?

Can a bird do it?

Francisca Orezza: The knights are his personal guard

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 45 minutes of loud chanting and gestures

Francisca Orezza: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also depending on the aura it might be hard to pull off... does the aura feel very Divinish here

Voda: Just ask them to stand really still.

Francisca Orezza: The aura in here is Infernal 1 from the constant murder that occurs

Rosario of Flambeau: Ouch.

Voda: It's a dungeon, after all.

Not many of those in heaven.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok, then I can pull it off with a conf token, though still risk a botch

Francisca Orezza: Where do Virgilians go instead of twilight, or do they get that too

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We could ask the count to attend a seance of some sort or whatever as a cover story to why i have to chant and hoot and holler

Voda: Also it would destroy all our iron.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they don't go into twilight, they catch the notice of a powerful spirit like Juno

Fiorella Zeno: Infernal 1? Looks like I made the right choice getting a level 3 golden cord

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, yeah, I wouldn't want to be in the room.

Francisca Orezza: That's cool.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes, that too. what, didn't you back the knifes made of bronze?

Francisca Orezza: I'll remember that

I am positively itching to have you catch the notice of Juno

If you did so before your trip to Troy, lets just say [kisses fingers]

Lavinia of Jerbiton: So that's my half baked suggestion: Get Francisca and some of his guards in a room, destroy all their swords and armor, then we attack them. Pretty crude but i'll put it out there

Voda: Also it isn't like Lavinia is the only magician here.

What about the rest of you?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: vergilian wizard repeatedly botching on purpose to try to catch the attention of venus

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes! please make alternative suggestions.

btw GM. can I ask Francisca to show off the rings power using other prisoners to see activation for medium/heavy wounds

Francisca Orezza: This is the crux of an ars session. The information is laid out, and the magi get together in an american football huddle to discuss how to cause chaos

Give me an etiquette or charm roll to convince him, Lavinia

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can do the oil thing again.

Fiorella Zeno: I'll go along to summon attack birds if something goes awry

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's go tell Verdi that this guy has one of their rings and is killing people with it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+4 comm+etiquette

(

2

)

+2+4

=

8

Francisca Orezza: He's eager for help, but paranoia is still there

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ff

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok get this:

Guy of Bonisagus: my plan is to rile the revolutionaries up and throw open the doors to this evil bastards home

my suggestion rather

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you summon attack birds, and i drench them in flammable oil.

Fiorella Zeno: We can confirm to the revolutionaries that he does use human sacrifice

Voda: I can lock the door from the outside.

Well, the human sacrifices definitely can.

Francisca Orezza: "Perhaps later, when you have looked into it more. It has limited uses each day, and the enemy could attack any moment."

Fiorella Zeno: I'm not opposed to attack birds being lit on fire

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I can teleport home.

Fiorella Zeno: They disappear when the Creo effect expires anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and teleport back! wow

Fiorella Zeno: I'm going to invent Flight of Homecoming this year, I think

Voda: What, over the ocean?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes.

Voda: Yikes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, no.

there's no place over the ocean to teleport back from.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: GM, do I get a bonus to my rolls from having a well made cloak.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can teleport over the sea

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I can walk home, through the sea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: here is what i've got:

1) flammable oil

2) invis potion (2 charges)

3) soak potion (7 charges)

well time to go afk

Francisca Orezza: Oh

your cloak added +3 to rolls like that, yes?

Voda: Looks good.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the way br described it is "rolls where it would matter that someone is impressed by a cloak"

Voda: I recommend you give me one of those invisibility potions and then I can lock the door from the outside.

Francisca Orezza: You're impressing him with wizard knowledge, it should be applicable here, yeah.

Fiorella Zeno: I could try to find the magical rape dungeon as a bird, and tell the revolutionaries where it is

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Awesome.

Francisca Orezza: In that case, since your roll is now, iirc, 11

he agrees to show the Medium wound one

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Nice!

Francisca Orezza: or you could just slam down a conf for one more EF. hell, why not

Lavinia of Jerbiton: boom.

i am VERY etiquettish.

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

Francisca Orezza: You are treated to a grisly spectacle of the guards making brutal attacks against a prisoner, then forcing his suffering onto another.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I take notes.

I wish there were an illuminator here to capture this..

Francisca Orezza: You notice the name 'Loki' in the norse phrases used

Do you have Pagan Theology?

Voda: Alright, who is going to set up the seance and with whom?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No. We'll have to ask Bolad when we get back.

Francisca Orezza: Just one thought, though, before you set this rite up

Now, your plan is to make a rite that destroys metal, correct?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its Iron specifically

is the ring iron?

Francisca Orezza: oh, I see

no, its gold, silver and bronze

Fiorella Zeno: Is Pagan Theology used in any published statblocks?

Guy of Bonisagus: I frown at the pointless bloodshed.

Francisca Orezza: fun fact: it was going to be gold and silver but i sat and worked out how many pawns of vis it took so it had to have bronze too for enough space

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok. one other plan to float to the orezza is engineering some sort of trap for the revolutionaries-- prepping a weakness in his estate, lining it with guards and magical defense, and making the rebels think they can atta ck there.

Voda: Why would a non-hermetic item need any pawns of vis?

Fiorella Zeno: Several hedge traditions can use vis

Francisca Orezza: Because hermetic enchanted items were made in the first place by Verditius?

It's literally all him

Fiorella Zeno: Oh true

I don't remember if viktir runes do anything with vis

Francisca Orezza: the entire process is taken from the cult of vulcan and the order of odin, which he stole and combined together before dealing with bonisagus

Voda: It just seems a little silly to follow the item creation rules for an item that lies outside hermetic theory.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Actually, it seems Right.

Voda: Well anyway, give me that invisibility potion.

Francisca Orezza: It doesnt follow them exactly but I mean. Pillum is pre-hermetic, and it's a hermetic spell too.

This ring was made by the man who literally invented hermetic enchantment

it makes sense to follow the guildelines he personally made!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does Francisca have any thoughts on the other suggestion ive made. im no strategist so the idea of what would be a weak point he can exploit is up to him.

Fiorella Zeno: I don't think this thing is a hermetic breakthrough, just breakthrough

Francisca Orezza: Which suggestion, again?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok. one other plan to float to the orezza is engineering some sort of trap for the revolutionaries-- prepping a weakness in his estate, lining it with guards and magical defense, and making the rebels think they can atta ck there.

Fiorella Zeno: *just A breakthrough

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i know this isn't popular with the fellow PCs but i just want to see if its feasible.

Fiorella Zeno: So it can definitely work along normal parameters

Francisca Orezza: "Lure them in, to crush them in one go?"

Voda: I like the idea but we should ideally follow it up with an actual attack by a frenzied mob or something.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The dreaded quadruple cross

Francisca Orezza: "You must understand, my dear magister, there are more of these flies than you might find around a dead animal. No, the serpent will not die until the head is cut off."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A pity a Trojan Horse wouldn't do.."

Voda: Also we need to be aware that aiding the revolutionaries would make us Ghibellines.

Francisca Orezza: Guelphs

Voda: Right.

Francisca Orezza: The revolutionaries are the Guelph sid

side

Guy of Bonisagus: well, francisca is evil

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hm

Fiorella Zeno: The Zenos are Guelphs so I am one too

Guy of Bonisagus: so killing him would make sense

Lavinia of Jerbiton: another thought, requires Imaginem

Rosario of Flambeau: He's probably just misguided.

Guy of Bonisagus: hes committing human sacrifice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we convince Sambucuccio to hide underground for a little bit and we present a fake Sambucuccio head to francisca

Fiorella Zeno: dys did his research and gave me my family's position on this

Rosario of Flambeau: What leader isn't?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then once Francisca has parted with his magic ring, Sambuccucio comes back and surprises them, wiping them all out

Voda: I mean, there's an angry mob outside right now.

We just need to weaken the Orezza's guards enough for them to win.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to have to leave before this wraps up, I think. RIP.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how many guards, gm

Francisca Orezza: How long do you think you can stay?

Fiorella Zeno: I can attack a bunch of guards with crows

Rosario of Flambeau: about a half hour.

Francisca Orezza: In total, across the grounds? You count at least a dozen, probably more. Then there's the 2 knights, and the family themselves are likely trained for battle.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If Bolad were here he'd be really gung ho about taking all these guys on.

Rosario of Flambeau: An easy fight.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: But we have only 2 real wizards here.

Voda: Well if we get the knights with the iron killing spell we should be in good shape.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's Room Target

not structure

Francisca Orezza: They've held out a while because they attack out when they can, have a defensible position, and the populace think that their knights are immortal

Voda: Right but we could fix it so they're in the room for the seance.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Well

Okay

Voda: I mean it makes sense they'd want their guards in the room for it.

Guy of Bonisagus: whats the penalty for casting silently without gestures

Voda: What's the plan for when they have their weapons destroyed by you and attack?

Rosario of Flambeau: -10? -15 maybe.

Francisca Orezza: Is your plan to begin an all-out slaughter, then? Keep in mind that you'd have to have anyone armed outside the room initially, so their equipment doesnt explode too

Lavinia of Jerbiton: That's where my plan stops.

Francisca Orezza: -15, Guy

Guy of Bonisagus: how about just silently

Rosario of Flambeau: -10

Voda: Well, you could use magic.

Francisca Orezza: -10 for silent, -5 for no gestures

Voda: That's my idea.

Rosario of Flambeau: -5 if you just want to be quiet.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You"

heh.

Voda: If I'm invisible I can sabotage the gate and also try and direct the mob with shouted accusations.

Fiorella Zeno: [Soulja Boy voice[ You

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Rosario, are you up to the challenge of murdering a nobleman and his guards after all weapons are destroyed in the room

Voda: I recommend having a caster cast magic spells at the nobles and their entourage.

Rosario of Flambeau: Probably.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Gulielmus has his multicast ball of puny flame

Fiorella Zeno: I have birds that aren't really too bad against naked dudes

Francisca Orezza: Alright, alright. Lay out your plan for me so I can get a sense for whats going on here. I dont have a battlemap of the mansion I'm afraid, but I will try to quickly draw one up to help

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Tell Francisca we can unlock the power of the rings through a seance channeling their creator, but he will have to attend -- he will insist on his guards and we accept -- at the seance I am actually just casting my spell to destroy iron

Guy of Bonisagus: i can use call to slumber berfore a fight breaks out to take a single knight out of the fight

thats the limit of my magic

Rosario of Flambeau: Guli gives me a potion of invisibility, I buff up with sidestep and horse legs, then run in and slay everyone

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Once the iron is gone, Rosario and Gulielmus attack

Guy of Bonisagus: but i can rouse the rebels

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Lavinia turns invisible and hides.

Fiorella Zeno: Hmmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Naturally all this assumes I don't botch the ritual and hilarity ensues.

Voda: I feel like invisibility and wizard's sidestep is not the power combo you might imagine.

Guy of Bonisagus: we should encourage him on the guards actually

tell him that the spirits arent always kind

Fiorella Zeno: If Guy gives me a piece of hair

I can send a messenger pigeon to him when things are going to go down

Voda: I guess I can just VISIBILY rile up the crowd.

That fine.

Fiorella Zeno: So we can synchronize this

Rosario of Flambeau: I could just be invisible.

Francisca Orezza: Welcome to the hilariously bad battlemap

Rosario of Flambeau: Both of them give similar defense buffs.

Guy of Bonisagus: i can rile up the crowd far better than voda

far better

Rosario of Flambeau: but being invisible also gives you bonuses to attack

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Are we allowed to have our armed grogs in an adjacent room?

A wizard could weaken the wall so they burst in once shit goes down.

Voda: Wizard's Sidestep would do absolutely nothing if you're invisible.

Since your image has already been destroyed.

Rosario of Flambeau: I think I might just go with sidestep since invisibility doesn't seem to affect your weapons

Francisca Orezza: You're allowed to have the armed people you took in with you, yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: and having a visible sword while im invisible and clanking around in armor doesnt really give that significant of a bonus

Francisca Orezza: Which is, iirc: Rosario, Oak and Tunde

Lavinia of Jerbiton: on this map, can you specify which room(s) are ours

Francisca Orezza: There's a room at the back of the manor which they'll agree to use for this

I indicated it with a giant red pentagram

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Great. What are in the adjacent rooms? can grogs just wait in there with their weapons and barge through the door when its time

Francisca Orezza: Hopefully you can move these tokens

Voda: I'll go outside and then tell the crowds that the Orezza's are doing human sacrifices and that I just escaped from their dungeon.

Naturally I'll ragged myself up a little.

Fiorella Zeno: I'll send pigeons to the people who are outside to let them know when Lavinia's going to start the rite

Voda: I'll wait 30 minutes before doing this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus is back

Voda: Or so.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll still cast + quiet cast sidestep so as to not make a ruckus. -5 b/c i have still cast mastery.

rolling 1d10!+16-5-1

(

9

)

+16-5-1

=

19

Wonderful.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whats the plan

are you not using the invis potion

Fiorella Zeno: This spell creates a pigeon that can carry a short written message which must be tied to its leg. The Rego requisite allows the caster to direct the bird to fly to a location for which she has an arcane connection (the bird can fly up to 500 miles, non-stop in good weather). The arcane connection is placed in the bird’s beak and remains there for the duration of the flight. At sunset or sunrise the bird disappears, though the message will remain.

Voda: I don't need it.

Francisca Orezza: Alright. Voda, give me a roll to rile up the crowd. Your words are good enough for it, but the roll will determine how much support you gather

Rosario of Flambeau: Nah, being invisible while fully armed and armored would only give me a +1 to attack and +3 to defense.

Voda: I think Lavinia definitely needs one of them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have an invis ring

im ok

Voda: Alright, what should I roll?

Francisca Orezza: Pre+Leadership

imo

Voda: Leadership?

Ok.

Fiorella Zeno: I'll go somewhere i can escape in bird form

Like a window or balcony

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 4 + 3 + 1

(

3

)

+4+3+1

=

11

I'll spend a confidence point here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Rosario of Flambeau: Nah, being invisible while fully armed and armored would only give me a +1 to attack and +3 to defense.

is that a lords of men thing

Rosario of Flambeau: hoh:s has a combat invisibility table in the flambeau section

Corsican Peasant: "I fuckin' knew it! Let's show these devil worshippers what for!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's weird

Corsican Peasant: The mob begins to march on the estate...

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah where did you get that rosario

i thought it was a flat +9 attk/dfn for total invisibility

Voda: Full Invisibility is +9 to attack and defense in the house rules.

Rosario of Flambeau: Clarity of

Signs

Examples Melee Attack

Bonus

Defense

Bonus

Rosario of Flambeau: Stealth

Bonus

Obvious Invisible character with visible

sword

+1 +3 +3*

gah

Rosario of Flambeau: formatting

Corsican Peasant: Still good

Rosario of Flambeau: it also states that if you're noisy you would get a penalty to clarity of signs, and im in full chain armor

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the triggering phrase for my rite, and the cue for people to rush in and start murdering, is the phrase "Doúreios Híppos"

Corsican Peasant: In that case...

Francisca Orezza: "Do you require the ring laid out in your circle?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes, but no one must touch it once it is in place and the ritual has begun."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems like most invis spells should include the target's equipment

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The ring is a natural arcane connection to its creator and will form the catalyst of accessing the daimonic form of ... " (gibberish)

Francisca Orezza: He nods, and slowly places it in the centre. He lingers on it for a few seconds, before setting it down.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I can try to grab it after I invis myself

once things go to shit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's this room we're in

Fiorella Zeno: your worn possessions are part of your Imaginem individual

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we'll make the circle wide enough and make everyone sit cross legged so they can't get up and grab the ring in one round

Francisca Orezza: His knights watch, whatever they feel about all this, they certainly don't show it through their helmets.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you obviously wear a sword. natural-language rules.

Francisca Orezza: Also, moved Voda down, since he's being sneaky outside

Lavinia of Jerbiton: who is in the room? right now guli fiorella and rosario's tokens are outside

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, yeah, all my shit is iron.

Francisca Orezza: Rosario needs to be outside as the rite will destroy his iron

Does Gulielmus come inside? Or wait outside

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the lord di capocci should observe the rite

Francisca Orezza: Actually, you can move your token, right?

Guli?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ty.

Fiorella Zeno: I guess I take part, as the Zeno representative

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or uh. whichever house i'm representing

am i a capocci

Lavinia of Jerbiton: apparently

Francisca Orezza: That's the line you guys gave!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Capocci," Gulielmus says to himself under his breath.

Francisca Orezza: 50 minutes of mystical hoodoo and virgilian incantations happen

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so if I botch here, it's 1 normal botch die, +1 for infernal aura, and then my extra die for having Weird Magic flaw

Francisca Orezza: To the 3 of you sitting watching, it's probably quite strange, since it's totally non-hermetic

Voda: Well only one way to find out if you botch.

Francisca Orezza: You have as much clue about all this as the Orezza does

Lavinia of Jerbiton rubs hands

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is this really supposed to work?"

in latin, to guy

Francisca Orezza: Thank you for reminding me of your botch dice

Well

In your own time, roll it

Fiorella Zeno: I go out of my way to not wear metal

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+11+4+2-1 vs 18

(

2

)

+11+4+2-1

=

18

Rosario of Flambeau: So close.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: success

Voda: Close!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait isn't it a succes?

if not i'll conf

Voda: Close (or almost!)

Rosario of Flambeau: It was close to a botch.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was close to a botch

Francisca Orezza: vs EF 18?

Fiorella Zeno: Which is why I need a friend like Kifaaya

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh

lol

THANKS GUYS.

I'm glad you're on my side.

Francisca Orezza: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yeah GM it's Ease FActor 18

Francisca Orezza: I said out loud 'awwww'

Anyway!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Hell lets roll some botch dice anyway. Just to see what could have happened.

Francisca Orezza: your rite succeeded, as you can tell

rolling 3d10

(

10

+

3

+

3

)

=

16

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 2d10 regular botch

(

5

+

4

)

=

9

ah ok

thank you.

Francisca Orezza: Nope! We werent going to have fun anyway

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Anyway.

Francisca Orezza: Perdo Fun

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Voda: That is NOT how causation works!

Fiorella Zeno: Francisca Orezza: Perdo Fun

Lavinia of Jerbiton: With all that said and done, I shout the signal word, then slip on my invisibility ring.

Rosario of Flambeau: Aww, here it goes.

Voda: AFK a minute.

Francisca Orezza: Then, with that...

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Assuming the rite was successful, all Iron in the Room crumbles to scale and dust in seconds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hey, my knife!"

Rosario of Flambeau: Gah, I forgot the horse leg buff!

Fiorella Zeno: I hope Lavinia's invisibiilty ring is gold

Lavinia of Jerbiton: silver

Fiorella Zeno: Good enough

Guy of Bonisagus: i stop being in the room

Rosario of Flambeau: Ah, forget it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the window open

Francisca Orezza: First, let us describe what happens. All iron in the room is turned to dust, immediately. Francisca is disarmed and disarmoured. His knights are left half-naked in their underclothes, and disarmed, Gulielmus loses a perfectly good knife to negligence.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and, can i retroactively perform an action before leaving the covenant

Rosario of Flambeau: I draw my sword and shoulder check the door open.

Francisca Orezza: Depends on the action. The window is closed.

One moment, because that was just what happens before Battle begins

Rosario of Flambeau: Ahh

Francisca Orezza: im about to put up init. actualyl ill do it now

Knight Initiative: 25

Francisca Orezza Initiative: 6

Man at Arms Initiative: 93

Voda: Ok I'm back.

Francisca Orezza: Tünde Initiative: 36

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario of Flambeau Initiative: 57

Francisca Orezza: Who wants to play Tunde?

Lavinia of Jerbiton Initiative: 46

Voda: I can.

Francisca Orezza: Sir Oak Initiative: 49

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 88

Fiorella Zeno Initiative: 32

Guy of Bonisagus Initiative: 44

Quintu Orezza Initiative: 90

Tünde: Hmm, I only have a lance.

Which is NOT useful on foot.

Or, rather, it's a spear.

Francisca Orezza: Hmm. Actually rolling enemies in was a bad idea when they take all their turns last anyway. God damnit

This infernal init system

Lavinia of Jerbiton: as gm you're free to run combat in any way you want and make the players deal with it

Francisca Orezza: Alright

GM: NOW combat begins

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Remember that the NPCs can only move towards the commotion at a rate of 3 tiles per round.

Rosario of Flambeau: afk one second.

sorry.

GM: The guards begin moving at a rate of 3 tiles per round. Quintu hears a commotion and draws his sword, headed over

Gulielmus!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im quickly scrambling to convert sir oaks stats from abilities as arts lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i made that number up.

GM: lmao

Tünde: Pwnd.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think it was what we used in blois though.

GM: Well while you do

Gulielmus, do your thing

Or anyone who knows what they want to do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will blind the knights

what's the aura?

GM: We'll do simultaneous since fuck changing combat again

Infernal 1

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ltes see

i have to look up multiple casting. sorry

GM: Okay

Rosario is also afk, Fiorella, Guy

Guy of Bonisagus: i want to get far away from the bad things

GM: There is a guard headed towards the commotion right now

Just so you know

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, it's easy

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll yell, "The spirits are angered!"

As I run past him.

GM: Farewell, Guy

Fiorella Zeno: Hmm

GM: Fiorella, Tunde, do us proud

Fiorella Zeno: I'll cast Unseen porter and snag the ring

Jedi telekinesis

GM: Roll it

Tünde: That seems pretty difficult to do.

Since he's wearing it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it's in the circle

he had to take it off

Fiorella Zeno: Yes

GM: Yeah

Tünde: Oh right.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!-1+2+11+2+5 Flash of the Scarlet Flames (1 life boost)

(

3

)

-1+2+11+2+5

=

22

Fiorella Zeno:

rolling 17+d10!-1

17+

(

10

+

1

)

-1

=

27

GM: I assume that casts?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, both copies go off

one on each knight

GM: Alright. Stamina roll, correct?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: stamina versus 9+

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1 left knight

(

7

)

+1

=

8

rolling 1d10!+1 right knight

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea hoots and hollers

GM: Both are blinded!

Rosario of Flambeau: sorry sorry. bad timing.

GM: It's fine. Rosario, Lavinia, Tunde and Sir Soak are still to go

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: tune in next week, when the real capoccis raid vardians tomb

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Was Lavinia able to turn invis before we started

Tünde: I'm going to attack the guard.

GM: Did she slip the ring on while saying the words?

If so, yes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Great, she'll look for a corner to scamper into.

Tünde:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 3 + 1

(

9

)

+5+3+1

=

18

With my Great Spear.

Which does +10 damage.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sir Oak will woodle into the Seance Room and go for a knight.

Rosario of Flambeau: I will attack Francisca with my sword.

GM: Which one, that left one? Gimme a sec

Rosario of Flambeau: and burn one Fatigue to exert.

Tünde: Yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+25

(

1

)

+25

=

26

lmao.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah!

GM:

rolling 2d10

(

5

+

1

)

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: ;mao.

GM: You botch!

Rosario misses entirely

Meanwhile, let me roll the defence roll for the guard

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Pause for 15 minutes while we look up the rules in City and Guild for damage to your sword for botching a combat roll.

rolling 1d10!+10 Sir Oak Attacking a Guard

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i also reach to grab the verdi ring from the circle in my turn

Lavinia of Jerbiton: why would you if fiorella already took it

GM: Hmm, I guess I'll use the Tough Guy statblock for guards, theres no generic guard block

Tünde: Yes, but Fiorella snatched it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

sad!

GM:

rolling 1d10!+10 defence against Tunde

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Hit! 4 thresh

Wait

Are you attacking the Knight, Tunde?

I thought you went for a guard

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about the man at arms behind you

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if tunde and oak are attacking the same target they should get +3 to their attk rolls on our house rules

Tünde: Oh I got confused here.

GM: Right. If you are attacking a knight, please say you are attacking a knight, so I dont get confused

Tünde: Yes it's the guard.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whew.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh the rules say 5 tiles per round

but in blois we had differently sized tiles. so it was 3

GM: Okay. That should have been +11, not 10, my mistake. He takes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the distance movement is completely arbitrary lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: there's rules in Lords of Men but they're WAY too convoluted

GM:

rolling 18 - 15 + 10 - 8

18-15+10-8

=

5

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sobs

GM: One fatigue

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also? they require you to calculate encumbrance

it's evil

Tünde: What a great hit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus

GM: Sir Oak was attacking the knight, lets see

rolling 1d10!+4

(

1

)

+4

=

5

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice

GM:

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

7

)

=

8

Lmao

Okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton: great sword is +12 damage

GM: What was your roll, again?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 14

GM: He has 1 soak right now

So thats

26 - 1

Okay he dies

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

GM: The first round for the knights is just spent standing up and getting ready to fight so uh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:  in knight voice  i use 3 confidence points

GM: Hes gone

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Remember this is what Guy said is the most ethical path.

Guy of Bonisagus: it is

theyre evil

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they are

Guy of Bonisagus: they have to be slain

GM: The Orezza tries to flee out the door, screaming "GUARDS! GUARDS!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does he have to roll to disengage from rosario

GM: No, because Rosario moved up this turn

simultaneous

Rosario of Flambeau: probably not since i missed completely and botched

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oic

Rosario of Flambeau: oh that too

GM: Sir Oak would meet him in the door though

hmmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: That's unfortunate. Remember the Vardian's Tomb motto guys: No witnesses.

GM: Well, he makes it this far, at least.

I believe thats everything

So

NEW TURN

This guard moves in here

The one here swings at Tunde

(To Rosario of Flambeau): sir oak will go for the big guy, you can take the new guard/knight?

(From Rosario of Flambeau): sure. sounds good.

GM:

rolling 1d10!+12-1

(

6

)

+12-1

=

17

Roll defence, Tunde

Tünde:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 1 + 4

(

9

)

+5+1+4

=

19

Got 'em.

GM: I feel I should be usin gfog of war to hide what other rooms are doing but meh

You block it

He moves up to let this guy get in too

Tünde: Also he shouldn't take -1 here since it is simultaneous turn resolution.

GM: Its a new turn

Tünde: Well, ok.

Guy of Bonisagus: i exit the utility closet that i accidentally ran into

GM: This guard here breaks the window so he can get in and help

Voda will arrive in about 2 more turns

Fiorella Zeno: I cast Wizard's Sidestep

GM: What do you all do

Go ahead and roll

Rosario of Flambeau: I will attack the guard who just entered the room.

Fiorella Zeno:

rolling d10!+17-1

(

10

+

9

)

+17-1

=

35

Jesus

GM: Roll to attack, Rosario

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

8

)

+17

=

25

GM: You are sidestepped

Rosario of Flambeau: +11 dam

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: your sidestepped image appears in rome and hands the ring to the verditius

Fiorella Zeno: Keep wasting my good luck on unresisted casting

GM:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

6

)

+11

=

17

8 advantage, 8 soak

11 damage

A medium wound

Rosario of Flambeau: "Vae victus!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

GM: The blind knight tries desperately to punch you, Rosario

He misses. He cannot hit

Rosario of Flambeau: victis *

GM: he's blind and unarmed

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The chivalric thing is to cut him down while he's in that state.

GM: Gulielmus, Fiorella, Lavinia, Oak

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm just ignoring him completely to focus on the armed guy.

GM: er

Not Fiorella

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oak pursues Francisca and attacks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if i remove a hair, am i an arcane connection to the hair

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+10 Atk vs. Francisca

(

2

)

+10

=

12

Rosario of Flambeau: nice

GM:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

5

)

+4

=

9

Hit

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Lavinia looks to see if either door in this room can lock

Damage on that sword is +12

GM: He has 0 soak currently

15 is... a medium, just

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 12+12-9

12+12-9

=

15

m

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus tries to open the window.

GM: The right hand door can lock

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok, id like to lock it

GM: Alright

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're on the ground floor right.

GM: Yes

Francisca, for his turn

Does a running jump out the window while being stabbed

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

GM:

rolling 1d10!+5 athletics

(

8

)

+5

=

13

He makes it upright

Though takes a light wound from diving through glass

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea applauds.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Impressive

Fiorella Zeno: Glass windows? Fancy place

Tünde: Nice work.

GM: And with that, I believe it's a new turn? Oh, Tunde

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wtf

Tünde: Ok, I'll attack the guard again.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i slay the gm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Should Sir Oak pursue or should we hope the rebels storm the place and eat him alive

Tünde:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 3 + 1

(

1

)

+5+3+1

=

10

Gah!

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

6

)

=

7

GM:

rolling 2d10

(

5

+

9

)

=

14

GM botch roll is the canon one

You might hit

rolling 1d10!+10

(

4

)

+10

=

14

Nope

Tunde is 2 against 1 now, as we enter... round 3!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmmm

Fiorella Zeno: Is 2 the accepted number of botch dice for combat?

Tünde: Yikes!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: should sir oak help Tunde, or should he continue chasing the big boss

GM: It's the general set for normal combat that we've been using, I think it's fine

Fiorella Zeno: Mundane combat, taht is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im trying to get out the god damn window here

Fiorella Zeno: Yeah

I'm just curious

GM: Okay guli

before the turn ticks over

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we have the ring so it really doesn't matter to me if we finish the job

GM: what do you do to exit the window

Fiorella Zeno: Seems a fair amount

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can it be opened

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you can tweak the number of botch die depending on the conditions shaun

GM: It can be

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will attempt to open the window and exit.

Fiorella Zeno: Yeah I just want to make sure my sodales escape at this point

GM: I would roll 1 botch die for non-lethal combat, imo

2 for lethal

and then additional for Crazy situations

Fiorella Zeno: I think Rosario, Tunde, and Oak can get out safely

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lords of men suggests if you want to simulate weird weather conditions or sloped ground or whatever you just fiddle with # of boches

Tünde: How can I get out safely?

Fiorella Zeno: By cutting a path thorugh

Tünde: Ok sure.

GM: Tunde would almost certainly need some help here

Fiorella Zeno: Oh ok

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Guan your bird thing, Fiorella.

GM: Keep in mind that nobles, by their position in life, get more XP

and that Quintu is armed and armoured

Fiorella Zeno: Ok

Rosario of Flambeau: Sir oak can help Tunde and I can dive out the window to chase the guy if we can see him through it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you shouldn't leave the room until all Magi sare safe, there's still two mean guys in it rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, it would be hard to catch him.

Also.

Fiorella Zeno: Should I be trying to BPR (bird per round) one of these guys?

GM: He's fleeing away from you all to find his guards

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if gulielmus is exiting the window he could spam is Magic Missiles at Francis.

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll keep slaying the armed guard in the room.

rolling 1d10!+17

(

2

)

+17

=

19

GM: Blinding him would limit his ability to run, yeah

rolling 1d10!+11-4

(

6

)

+11-4

=

13

Hitto

8 soak

Damage?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: breaku.

Rosario of Flambeau: +11 damage

Fiorella Zeno: Oh, I forgot I can multicast crows

GM: 17 - 8

so 9, a light wound

Rosario of Flambeau: m-m-m-multi wound (wound... wound... )

GM: The guards will go, then

This guard tries to hit Rosario back

rolling 1d10!+12-4

(

6

)

+12-4

=

14

Defence roll

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+11+9

(

10

+

3

)

+11+9

=

33

GM: The guard Tunde is fighting attacks her

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario does a backflip out of the way of the guard's sword.

GM:

rolling 1d10!+12-1

(

9

)

+12-1

=

20

Tünde:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 1 + 4

(

1

)

+5+1+4

=

11

Gah!

GM:

rolling 2d10

(

3

+

3

)

=

6

No botch! But a hit

Soak?

Tünde: I have soak +5.

Rosario of Flambeau: the false image disappears in a cloud of rose petals and Rosario appears somewhere else.

GM: 7 base damage so

11, a medium

Tünde: Ok.

Fiorella Zeno: Ok I'll try to help Tunde

GM: Quintu also tries stabbing at you, to reach the magi

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Good sigilism dfd

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14

(

5

)

+14

=

19

Fiorella Zeno: If I can see her from here that is

Tünde:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 1 + 4

(

5

)

+5+1+4

=

15

GM: Defence roll, Tunde, no wounds as simultaneous

Alright, that hits

Tünde: Soak + 5.

GM: 7 again, so thats a light wound

Tunde's in a pinch!

Tünde: Ouch!

GM: This guy runs up to protect his lord

Fiorella Zeno: Ok, multicast crows on two guys fighting Tunde

GM: Nice

Roll it

Fiorella Zeno:

rolling 49+d10!-1-5 vs spell evel 40

49+

(

6

)

-1-5

=

49

GM: Does that multicast successfully?

Fiorella Zeno: Yes

The -5 is for multicast, I think that's right

GM: Ah

Yes, it casts

How much damage did it do per round?

Fiorella Zeno: 15, soakable

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Blood-red, and huge, and glorious to behold

As some dark cloud, far-blazing with the light

Fiorella Zeno: From top to bottom

rolling 15+10!

15+10

=

25

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

8

)

=

23

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

2

)

=

17

GM:

rolling 1d10!+8 soldier

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Sorry, 1 less

8 damage, another light

On Quintu...

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think the first cast is as normal and the second has the -5

GM:

rolling 1d10!+8

(

7

)

+8

=

15

2 damage, a fatigue

The blind guard tries to punch Rosario

rolling 1d10!

(

6

)

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, stop that."

GM: actually ill replace the blindness image

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+11+9

(

2

)

+11+9

=

22

GM: Alright

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the  guard

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

GM: Who has not gone, yet? Gulielmus, Lavinia, Sir Oak?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm still trapped in round 2, trying to open the window.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sir Oak will help Tunde, can he close the space and attack same turn

GM: YOU OPENED IT

i told you this

Yes

Fiorella Zeno: Since the birds emerge from my body ranther than appear at the target, they do offer a clue as to seeing thorugh the sidestep

GM: he can attack here

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sir Oak attacks Quintu, adding +3 to Attack roll for having an ally (Tunde) adjacent to same target

rolling 1d10+10+3

(

6

)

+10+3

=

19

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14

(

6

)

+14

=

20

He blocks it

Tünde: Owned.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Tunde should try to disengage if she can next round, and just let Sir Oak soak attacks from these two guys

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you said it could be opened.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sir Soak

GM: You opened it then, right? You opened it? Right?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes.

GM: Then it's open. Your turn, new round.

Round 3, guli

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Lavinia hides in the corner again.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i move outside.

GM: dont dwell on the past, live in the present

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was going to look for some rocks but there's a fleeing noble out here so i'll cast a spell on him

Rosario of Flambeau: I keep attacking the armed guard.

rolling 1d10!+17

(

1

)

+17

=

18

nice.

GM:

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

8

)

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau: Score.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: cripes

Rosario of Flambeau: Amazing.,

GM: Wait, hang on, you already attacked this turn

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why... won't... you... DIE?!?"

GM: its round 3 i was just yelling at glui

guli

Rosario of Flambeau: oh you said new turn to guli and i got confused lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Gluey.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!-1+2+3+11+5 Trap of Entwining Vines

(

4

)

-1+2+3+11+5

=

24

Fiorella Zeno: Hmmm

GM: Does he get a roll to avoid, or is he trapped?

Fiorella Zeno: He gets a roll

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he may roll quickness

at some kind of penalty

Fiorella Zeno: Quick vs EF9

Wound penalties apply

GM: he took his wounds this turn iirc

rolling 1d10!

(

1

)

=

1

lol

well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he did not, as it is round 3

GM: he doesnt make it

oh, true

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Success!

GM: Okay he got like -6

Fiorella Zeno: Nice

GM: A bunch of tentacles grab the man just like your favourite christian shows

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well thats my turn

GM: That's everyone then

NEW TURN FOR REAL THIS TIME

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my favorite Asian illuminated manuscripts

GM: The guard tries to hack his lord out

This other guard tries to hack Tunde out

Tünde: Ok.

GM:

rolling 1d10!+12-1

(

8

)

+12-1

=

19

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, that takes 2 rounds

Tünde:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 1 + 4 - 8

(

7

)

+5+1+4-8

=

9

Fiorella Zeno: There's some rules for cutting someone out I think

Yeah

Tünde: + 5 soak

GM: Oh, does the bonus apply to defence rolls too, johns?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the count is also allowed a Str roll

GM: wait, why -8

you took 1 light and 1 medium

thats -6

Tünde: Oh right.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: against, lol, 12+.

GM: 11, then

Lavinia of Jerbiton: attack only gm

GM: and maybe 14 if you get

ah

11 then

8 and 7 base, 15 - 5, 10, a light wound

Fiorella Zeno: I'll roll damage for the guys I crowed, still thinking of a new action

GM: Sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: use the ring imo.

Fiorella Zeno:

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

3

)

=

18

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

8

)

=

23

GM:

rolling 1d10!+8-3

(

1

)

+8-3

=

6

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

12, a medium

and for the nobleman

rolling 1d10!+8-1

(

10

+

8

)

+8-1

=

25

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip

GM: No damage, oof

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

GM: He stands amidst the birds like he belongs there

Rosario of Flambeau: My Large Son

GM: so this is the power of the nobility...!

Speaking of which, he swings for Sir Oak

rolling 1d10!+14-1

(

2

)

+14-1

=

15

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+7 dfn

(

1

)

+7

=

8

Rosario of Flambeau: gah

GM:

rolling 2d10

(

4

+

8

)

=

12

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Soak 19

GM: 7 base, thats

0 damage

holy shit that soak

Rosario of Flambeau: sir soak

GM: Alright

Rosario of Flambeau: ftw

GM: Rosario, Gulielmus, Fiorella

your turns

Rosario of Flambeau: hes made of oak AND wearing armor, its ftw

oh you're being nice enough to let me reroll my botch?

GM: Oh, and Tunde. Let's not forget Tunde

Rosario of Flambeau: sick

GM: Well you rolled it on the wrong turn, I wouldnt have let you keep a crit either

Rosario of Flambeau: Fair enough.

Tünde: Ok.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17 to armed guard

(

5

)

+17

=

22

Fiorella Zeno: Unless someone things more crows would help, I'm thinking I can take the ring somewhere safe, I could maybe even have a pigeon bring it back to my lab

Tünde:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 3 + 1 -6

(

7

)

+5+3+1-6

=

10

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will drop another trap of entwining vines on the man-at-arms when rosario is done

use the ring on tunde!

Fiorella Zeno: Okay that's what I do, I summon a pigeon and use an AC to my lab to direct it there

As someone who took part in the aegis ritual it should have no problems getting in

GM:

rolling 1d10!+11-6 vs rosario

(

6

)

+11-6

=

11

Hit, Rosario

11 advantage, 8 soak

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 33-11-8

33-11-8

=

14

Fiorella Zeno: Oh

GM: Another medium

Fiorella Zeno: What happens iif I put the ring on Tunde?

Tünde: I'm too busy to put on a ring.

GM: Who knows? You would need to use the ring in combat, though, which requires a brawl roll to pull off or someone unable to resist

Fiorella Zeno: Ok

GM: And of course, you can only give someone wounds that you have

so its combat application is limited

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: too busy dying to use the ring that makes you not die

GM: Anyway, the defence roll against Tunde is

rolling 1d10!+11-3

(

5

)

+11-3

=

13

Blocks it

Tünde: Darn!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: slide the ring across the floor so one of the corsicans can grab it and we can have a vardians tomb farce.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

GM: Has anyone not acted yet? Guli, make us proud

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 1d10!-1+2+3+11+5-0 Trap of Entwining Vines

GM: also Fiorella I believe

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whoops

rolling 1d10!-1+2+3+11+5-0 Trap of Entwining Vines

(

1

)

-1+2+3+11+5-0

=

21

Lavinia of Jerbiton: vt farces are like thorsby farces except they wind up with everyone dead in the end

Fiorella Zeno: I'll turn into a bird

Rosario of Flambeau: smh.

GM: Botch!

Botch!

rolling 3d10

(

2

+

3

+

10

)

=

15

Rosario of Flambeau: Night of Botches

GM: DAmnit!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i also have weird magic.

GM: yes

Fiorella Zeno:

rolling d10 botch check

(

5

)

=

5

GM: i included your weird magic

i knew you had it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah

GM: Alright

Fiorella Zeno: I do not become an infernal bird

GM:

rolling 1d10!+1 vs EF 9

(

1

)

+1

=

2

He is also vined

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, that's on the man-at-arms trying to chop his lord free.

Gulielmus turns around and looks for some rocks.

GM: Yep

Fiorella the Raven: POOF

GM: Which means all thats left to deal with is...

Guy

Fiorella the Raven: Guy is just exiting I think

Rosario of Flambeau: where is that scamp anyway?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes chasing after the lady

Fiorella the Raven: Ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic frenchman

GM: You see the daughter of Francisca, Lucilla, organising the guards to come defend the manor

But you ALSO see

Voda

With a huge gang of angry peasants

Voda: Hello!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Classic Voda

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i pick up a rock in my turn

Fiorella the Raven: The ring is stored safely in my bird-compatible satchel

GM: I won't roll out what's happening down there

But suffice to say

It's getting ugly

Guy, you can see that the way out this way is barred by a peasant revolt

Voda: Oops!

Sorry!

Guy of Bonisagus: its fine

Lucilla Orezza: "Those traitors!"

She turns around looking at you, Guy

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hello."

Lucilla Orezza: "You! You did this!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, no, I didn't,"

Lucilla Orezza: "You and your ilk brought this on us!"

"You have two choices, wretch. You will help me escape, or I will know that you have brought this on us, and I will cut you down right here."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, certainly I'll help you escape. I didn't expect a woman to get caught up in this retribution."

"I was about to offer that."

Lucilla Orezza: "Then let us go."

alright

GM: ROUND 5

Voda I'm sorry but what's happening with you will be played out narratively, rather than the correct and proper way of rolling another 20 people into fight

Voda: Oh no.

How awful.

Rosario of Flambeau: What a shame.

GM: My condolences

Anyway

Guy of Bonisagus: "My suggestion is to let those angry peasants get inside, they're far less likely to kill you that way."

GM: Magi, declare your actions

Lavinia of Jerbiton bangs fork and knife on table

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's summon kabshiel.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Lords of Men Seige Rules.

Fiorella the Raven: Hmm

Rosario of Flambeau: alright, lets hopefully finally kill this mundane guard.

rolling 1d10!+17

(

4

)

+17

=

21

GM:

rolling 1d10!+11-8

(

3

)

+11-8

=

6

8 soak

15 - 8 so

7 + your base

Fiorella the Raven: I don't think I need to crow the blind guy then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the comte up to

Rosario of Flambeau: 18

GM: He's struggling

hes heavily wounded

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gahaha.

GM: he cant get out of that

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

GM: 18 damage, a heavy

Rosario of Flambeau: Only a flesh wound./

GM: Fiorella, Guilielmus, Sir Soak, and Tunde

Guli, you can pick up rocks as your turn if you want

Tünde: I'll Attack the guard again.

Fiorella the Raven: Rolling damage on goon and Quintus

Tünde:

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 3 + 1 -10

(

1

)

+5+3+1-10

=

0

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

10

+

10

+

3

)

=

38

GM: lmfao

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 15+d10!

15+

(

7

)

=

22

Tünde: That's a PRETTY bad roll.

Not going to lie.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that guard has 1 heavy, 1 light, and 2 medium? that's enough to incap a grog

GM: Okay look. The guard is dead. let's be honest

Oh

yes it is

you incap him, rosario

sorry

Rosario of Flambeau: Hah.

GM: He gets a turn off but this has gone on long enough so I'll spare you it

The guard here is dead, at the end of this turn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I pick up a rock.

Fiorella the Raven: I will cast Shriek on myself in preparation to exit via the window

GM: As for Quintu

rolling 1d10!+8-1

(

5

)

+8-1

=

12

10 damage

a light

Sir Soak, your turn

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+10+3 attk vs. Quintu

(

5

)

+10+3

=

18

GM: Oh wait, Tunde has -10 total

Sorry, she's incapped

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay, so subtract 3 from Oak's attack roll

no more bonus

GM:

rolling 1d10!+14-1

(

5

)

+14-1

=

18

Does that hit or miss

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Miss.

GM: Okay

You're making progress on him with the birds anyhow

Fiorella the Raven: Guleilmus can save Tunde if we don't arbitrarily declare her dead

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oak's a marathon guy, he'll win if we have to go the distance

GM: This fight has come down to Sir Oak vs this guy, hmmm

Fiorella the Raven: I think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can but i'm outside picking up rocks.

GM: She's only incapped, she can be saved

she didnt Instant Die

in fact, you have a ring that could work...

Fiorella the Raven: True

GM: Okay

Reasonably, at this point

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyway, once i find a rock i cast leap of homecoming.

GM: there is... 1 combatant left

who is being attacked every round

and fighting sir soak

the fight has ended

Fiorella the Raven: Wait, doesn't the bearer of the ring have to invoke it?

GM: Nope, as testing showed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!-1+3+12+12+2

(

4

)

-1+3+12+12+2

=

32

Fiorella the Raven: So she can be unconscious? Nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Later nerds.

GM: it affects the bearer, but another person can have it go off

as the prisoner torture showed

Rosario of Flambeau: i thought we watched him move a wound from one prisoner to another.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Now aren't you glad I pressed for that experimentation?

Rosario of Flambeau: Ah.

Fiorella the Raven: Good job Lavinia

GM: Anyway, please tell me what you do right now. Quintu is being pecked alive by birds, the guards are fighting a peasant rebellion, the knights are blind and naked

Rosario of Flambeau: hold on let me do one more thing.

GM: Francisca is held tight by vines

Tünde: And dead.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Transfer Tunde's wounds to one of the knights.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+17-3 scuffle attack to naked knight

(

4

)

+17-3

=

18

+3 damage

GM: Scuffle attack?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It has a certain sick poetic irony to it, I think.

GM:

rolling 1d10!

(

6

)

=

6

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhhh

GM: 12, 1 soak so

Rosario of Flambeau: Work out what level of wound the

defender would take in a normal combat, using

the rules above, and read the scuffle result off

the Scuffle Effects table. Fatigue levels inflicted

in a scuffle are Short-Term Fatigue levels.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: transfer tunde's wounds to francisca obviously

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Even better lol

GM: he is unable to resist

Francisca Orezza: "You beasts! Snakes in the guise of friends. You will pay for this, you will PAY for this!"

Voda: Fortunately Tunde is unlikely to remember this.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I can do it with Sir Oak's help if he finishes up fighting

Francisca Orezza: "You monsters, you'll kill my son and all?"

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah, he won

i just wanted to pommel strike that guy.

Francisca Orezza: "What won't you step on and crush underfoot in your greed, you swine!"

Fiorella the Raven: Tunde Will Not Remember This

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the nerdhau

Francisca Orezza: The guy is being pecked alive and slowly worn down by Sir Oak

I'll deal with whats going on at the front of the house in a moment, for Guy and Voda's sake

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have to put the ring on Tunde, drag her to Francisca, press the ring to his head, and utter the words?

Francisca Orezza: Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Fair enough

Francisca Orezza: Once per wound, she has 2 mediums and a light

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'll check once that I'm not gonna get shot with a crossbow before taking off my ring so I can actually incant

Fiorella the Raven: I can call off the birds if I'm not being particularly stressed

I think

Francisca Orezza: Your choice. He's at your mercy right now.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): ill grab a bottle of wine from the eastern ear

Fiorella the Raven: Okay, I'll try to calm the murder of crows

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Just as Turnus was at Aeneas' mercy

and Aeneas slew him anyway.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): and then try to teleport back with the rock i grabbed.

Voda: I gotta say, these guys were real paper tigers.

Fiorella the Raven: I give the ring to Lavinia

Lavinia of Jerbiton: They probably shouldn't have invited us into their homes

Francisca Orezza: "You... swine..." he cries out in pain as wounds are inflicted upon him

Fiorella the Raven: If she helps me find her, that is

Rosario of Flambeau: What are we, Tremere?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!-1+3+12+12+2-1

(

2

)

-1+3+12+12+2-1

=

29

hoops that should be 32

Francisca Orezza: The knights were pretty damn dangerous before you removed their ability to fight entirely lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: *whoops

33 actually

Francisca Orezza: you used magic to make a fight you couldnt win into a fight you did win

thats ars baby

Fiorella the Raven: Okay I have to help with groceries

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Here's my closing quip to Francisca as I transfer multiple painful wounds to him: "Pallas takes the lawful forfeit of thy guilty blood!”

Fiorella the Raven: So I give the ring to Lavinia

Francisca Orezza: He collapses unconcious from the pain

What do you do with him and his son?

Fiorella the Raven: Give them to the Genoans is my vote

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: A large bubble rises up from the ground outside the ritual room and bursts, revealing Gulielmus.

Francisca Orezza: There is a loud crowd of peasants beginning to breach the doors

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let voda have at em

Francisca Orezza: Speaking of which

at the front of the house...

Rosario of Flambeau: bubbles ftw.

Lucilla Orezza: There is utter chaos, Guy

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It's not technically murder if I let a horde of stampeding peasants lay the final blow.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea laughs heartily.

Lucilla Orezza: The guards are doing all they can, but they're completely outnumbered, and being driven back

"This way."

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): i am assuming it actually worked, and the ac is good

Lucilla Orezza: Lucilla runs off to the side of the house

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It worked!"

Lucilla Orezza: "You have tricks, dont you? Do something, anything, to get us out of here!"

"Do you know what those animals do to noblewomen they capture?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'm inclined to help you, but answer a question first. Do you know what the count was doing to his prisoners?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks around to see if anyone observed his moment of triumph.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sodales?"

"I said, it worked!"

Lucilla Orezza: "You would have to ask Quintu about that, if my brother is even still alive."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Well done?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, I know what he was doing, I just wanted to see if you did."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I guess it did."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "We should be going now."

Fiorella the Raven: Ok back

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, it seems you're innocent then. I'll help you, but I'm a philosopher, so I have a single trick."

Rosario of Flambeau wipes the blood off his sword

Lucilla Orezza: "What is your trick, philosopher? They are baying for our blood."

Rosario of Flambeau: "A shame. Wasn't a fair fight."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus leans in through the window, holding a bottle of wine.

"I've been to Rome and back!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The Joestar secret technique....

Guy of Bonisagus: "Oh, two tricks actually. Is there another way out aside from the one they're blocking?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ha ha!"

Lucilla Orezza: "There is the hedges, but climbing them, they may catch us and drag us down."

Rosario of Flambeau: "What are you talking about?"

Lucilla Orezza: "The walls as well are too high to climb"

Guy of Bonisagus: "The hedges will do. Let's go there."

Fiorella the Raven: "Gulielmus, as long as Rome is a twelve second trip for you, maybe you can store the ring safely in Vardian's Tomb

Rosario of Flambeau: Who's carrying Tunde? Oak?

Lucilla Orezza: She shows you to them

"I hope you have a very, very good trick, Philosopher."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks dismayed.

Voda: Tunde doesn't need to be carried if she has no wounds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "To Rome. And back. Just now, Rosario."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well done!"

Lucilla Orezza: Oh yes. Tunde feels as good as new.

Fiorella the Raven: I forgot to cast the spell to talk as a ravel

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Thank you."

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling d10 botch check

(

2

)

=

2

Phew

Guy of Bonisagus: I conjure a vine from the hedges, which should make it much easier to climb them.

Lucilla Orezza: She begins climbing

Do you go with her, or stay

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll go with her after casting one more spell.

Air's Ghostly Form

the area floods with fog, let me see how much

Lucilla Orezza: Good trick

Guy of Bonisagus: several paces of fog

then i go after her

Fiorella the Raven: Roll Charm to elope with her after you escape

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's a good idea! Just let me rest a moment."

Lucilla Orezza: Alright. Lucilla Orezza escapes death at the manor.

Guy of Bonisagus: do i also escape death with her

Voda: Great work.

GM: Yes

Alright

Guy of Bonisagus: nice

GM: It's about now that the peasants begin storming into the manor, Voda at their head

Voda: Alright when does the mob break in and kill all the magi?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I hope she doesn't maintain a lifelong corsican grudge against us

oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who wants invis

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, girl, your father was a wicked man practicing human sacrifice. That's what happened with your prisoners."

Voda: I'll go rescue the prisoners.

Fiorella the Raven: Thank you Voda

GM: Ah right, shit. That isn't a closet, its the stairs to the dungeon, Guy. I should have

drawn them

oops

Guy of Bonisagus: "Such is what brought the wrath of heaven down upon your estate."

Fiorella the Raven: I'm going to fly ahead to the port, detransform, and make sure we have passage home secured

Lucilla Orezza: "Heaven? There is only Hell there, they'll put our home to flame, ransack it, defile it!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i am going to stick by sir oak invisibly until he can walk out of here

Lucilla Orezza: "Slaughter from jealousy, those stupid men, they only act from their own greed."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're sailing on to africa aren't we

Lucilla Orezza: Might want to make a stop back at Rome first

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess we didnt establish that

Guy of Bonisagus: "No worse defilement than what your father felt he should do to his fellow man. It's unfortunate, but this is fate."

Fiorella Zeno: If I have to go to Africa, so be it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we have to report everything that happened and stress how much danger we went through and all that.

Lucilla Orezza: "My father is dead, whatever he did, he is family."

"Family is everything. Everything."

Voda: Also I'm going to pocket any old junk I find so I can claim it's a magical item.

Lucilla Orezza: Alright. Lets see about wrapping all this up.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh thats right.

we went to a nobles manor without plundering it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: voda is going to get paid right

Voda: I sure hope so.

Fiorella Zeno: I'm not going to plunder a Corsican manor

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we kept up our bargain with Sambucuccio

GM: Does anyone have any further chicanery they wish to engage in, or are we free to go to the thread to conclude things and let you decide what you do regarding Antone.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps. But before you go getting any ideas in your head, I would like to offer you shelter with my fellow philosophers and I."

GM: Do you collect your payment from him?

Fiorella Zeno: Voda can, but I'd rather not invoke their wrath on a Zeno

GM: he pays up, I should note

you did what was asked and more, he's very impressed

Voda: Nice.

Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Do you have any skills?"

GM: though he wants the secret to what they were doing

Voda: Gimmie them ducats.

Lucilla Orezza: "Shelter? With the ones who killed my family!?"

Fiorella Zeno: Voda can make up a good story here I feel

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont care about money so let voda reap the rewards

Voda: Obviously it was this terrible enchanted knife I found.

Lucilla Orezza: "A pox on your philosophers!"

Rosario of Flambeau: Obviously.

Voda: And this magical grail that enhances your ability to command soldiers.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Calm down. Your father and brother fell due to their wickedness, there's no reason for you to join them."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this magic rock, enchanted to keep ghibellines away

Lucilla Orezza: "Is that a threat, philosopher?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Of course not. I won't hurt you."

Voda: And this candlestick that, when lit, confers resistance to magical spells.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh. Right."

"Who wants some wine?"

Lucilla Orezza: That sounds great Voda. Gimme comm+guile to fob this all off on them

Guy of Bonisagus: "But if you insist on holding this anger, it will only bring you a miserable fate."

Voda: Guy very smartly bargaining to have Lucilla kill him.

rolling 1d10! + 4 + 1

(

5

)

+4+1

=

10

I'll use a confidence point.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets do Guy a big favor and murder lucilla in cold blood

Lucilla Orezza: "... You granted me escape from certain death. I was not raised to be ungrateful."

"I am leaving, philosopher. But I will not forget this."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh yeah????? Perdos her mentem

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea holds the bottle up in the direction of Rosario, who is the only person left in the room (except a blind knight).

Guy of Bonisagus: "Well, if that's what you want. But if you change your mind, feel free to come to Rome. The Eastern Ear Inn."

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll smile.

"Thanks. I could use it."

Voda: Lavinia uses Perdo Mentem by smashing the Aeneid into Lucilla's skull.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'll teach you beekeeping, or some other wholesome profession."

Lucilla Orezza: She looks away and walks off without another word

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: "Just feel bad. Those guards couldn't do a damn thing."

"Doesn't seem fair."

Voda: Guy the Incredibly Smart

GM: Voda, you make a KILLING by selling some stupid crap that isnt magic

Camilla: I found a good name for Fiorella's vulture familiar

Guy of Bonisagus: damn. now where am i gonna get a beekeeper apprentice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Not very chivalrous, yeah."

Guy of Bonisagus: i guess ill just have to create a grog

GM: And with that... this adventure is over!

Rosario of Flambeau: Woo!

Voda: How much mahney did I make?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we did it.

Guy of Bonisagus: voda made a lot of money, for his bosses

GM: 9xp for cunning plans, daring-do, good roleplaying and a rousing success.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sweet.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: woot!

GM: Hope you had fun

Rosario of Flambeau: I did.

Voda: How much did I get???

Guy of Bonisagus: you got your standard seasonal pay, voa

voda

GM: Money? Hmmm.

How much did it cost to hire mercenaries

I'll work things out from there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll roll to take the ring back

and see if i explode or send myself to hell

1d10!-1+3+12+12+2

fuck!

rolling 1d10!-1+3+12+12+2

(

8

)

-1+3+12+12+2

=

36

rolling 1d10!+3+3+12+12+2

(

9

)

+3+3+12+12+2

=

41

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok i made it.

Guy of Bonisagus: looking forward to the future adventure where lucilla hires a group of thugs to kill us, or becomes a beekeeper

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: good hustle gulielmus.

Rosario of Flambeau: Good job.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: teleporting ftw

Camilla: "Then, seizing the reins, she exacted her punishment from her enemy in blood, as easily as the falcon flies from his crag to pursue a dove high in the clouds, catches it, holds it and rips out its entrails with hooked claws as blood and torn feathers float down from the sky." (XI ll. 720-5)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should go back to the wolf of vengeance and encourage it to move to corsica

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lmao

Camilla: Smart

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: or as it will soon be known, Werewolf Island

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thank you for the session dys, I had a lot of fun today

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: once the entire island is depopulated we can claim it in the name of the order

Fiorella the Raven: I'll fly back with Camilla guarding me and get to work in my lab

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gg

Fiorella the Raven: Yeah today was fun dys

Voda: It wasn't very dangerous.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was good though

Rosario of Flambeau: it was fun. it would have been more dangerous if we weren't wizards

rip.

Fiorella the Raven: I wouldn't have had much to do as Hypatia

So I'm glad I took a wizard

GM: glad you had fun then

Fiorella the Raven: GG

Endrite: See you all next week.

dys (GM):

rolling 1d10!+6

(

9

)

+6

=

15

Shauncat (GM): Moved Hypatia to the NPC magi folder

johns (GM): rip...

Father Braun: Also this guy has a sheet now. I'm thinking the old Chamberlain can train him until he can provide the same benefit to the covenant

Father Hazm: Whoops, forgot there's a lot of priests in Rome

johns (GM): ok I am preemptively vetoing that token

please pick a NON ANIME token.

Father Hazm: Ok

johns (GM): ty

Father Hazm: I thought it was western drawn but not western enough I suppose

johns (GM): A compelling argument to use the #western filter.

Father Hazm: I'll use a painting of Saint Maroun

johns (GM): ill be back in like an hour i guess

devil's fav demon: he should use art from the dragon ball manga of jackie chun.

Father Hazm: That's what this was

devil's fav demon: oh im seeing the western fanart version

Father Hazm: Oh right

devil's fav demon: thats still a cool token

Father Hazm: I think this looks papropriate

I think this looks youthful enough

Shauncat (GM): Oops

Father Hazm: This one

Endrite (GM): Where is everyone?

Shauncat (GM): No idea

Endrite (GM): Could it be that they FORGOT about DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME??

Shauncat (GM): Well johns didn't

johns (GM): ill be back in like an hour i guess

johns (GM): i posted in the thread that the game was at 3pm est

Endrite (GM): Gah!

johns (GM): so we're down to 7 players total now

this is really depressing

Endrite (GM): Who quit?

johns (GM): b oyr

Endrite (GM): RIP.

johns (GM): so now we're just waiting for the arch normies dys and beardbeard

Celeste: let's get phallic baldwin to join.

johns (GM): no

dont even joke about it

c'thinker: lets get samememe to join

devil's fav demon: samememe doesnt play rpgs

as far as i know

johns (GM): he plays tyranny then melts down that there are women in it

Shauncat (GM): PB is no joke fun to play with

johns (GM): i despite pb as a person

* Despise