5/6/18

devil's fav demon (GM): salve.

Endrite: What's up?

devil's fav demon (GM): i just had a cup of tea, and i'm thinking about pushing through my limits and having another soon.

thrilling shit

Endrite: I like to drink water.

devil's fav demon (GM): risky.

c'thinker: ave

Endrite: What's up?

devil's fav demon (GM): howdy

c'thinker: i also made some tea

Endrite: Tea boys roll deep on this server.

devil's fav demon (GM): mid-30s kidney stone boys

c'thinker: yikes

devil's fav demon (GM): well, thats what i hear about too much tea.

johns (GM): today's adventure has been postponed for an epic side adventure where the grogs disputatio for 10 hours

Shauncat: Cool

I could have Hazm start making charms to buff Disputatio if you really ever wanted to get into it

devil's fav demon: sick.

johns (GM): as long as they dont involve revealing lavinia's horoscope information

devil's fav demon: yeah, the guy making a special new disputatio table + cards doesnt want to get into it

Shauncat: You don't need horoscopes for charms

Buffing a patient's recovery rolls is a low level enough effect that I might be able to chartae it

Especially with a nativity horoscope to them

johns (GM): i posted where we left off last week

Father Hazm was here all along, and he buffed the grogs

c'thinker: what about the custodes

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm sorry, Mario, but you're being kidnapped and taken to another castle.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: prithee

johns (GM): let me recap the outstanding issues to see if I got them right

1- gotta get mario out of the city

2- clear the tower of rebels, yes/no?

3- if no to #2, how to find another way into the regio?

4- someone mentioned investigating cola di rienzi directly too

dys: we should put mario in a warp pipe. videogame reference.

Rosario of Flambeau: tower raid combat!

johns (GM): I do not get the ref because, like the greatest game devs, I have never played a Mario game

Father Hazm: Salaam alaikum

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: why bother? he can't even jump

Father Hazm: Oh wait, no Pashto, that's rooted in Aryan

Sh'lam lak

Mortis ex Verditus: So who do we have who can open this regio boundary?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the lord, who is watching over us always

Rosario of Flambeau: The guy we take Mario to after beating this tower.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yeah but that guy sucks.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sangallo Jollybottoms is alright.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: he'sn't.

Mortis ex Verditus: Do we even want to help Flavio?

Rosario of Flambeau: we could help Sangallo but not Flavio.

and just ignore the cats and try to get the regio goods.

Ha ha.

johns (GM): helping flavio is in essence helping the Metal Cats, who you may or may not care about

Rosario of Flambeau: The metal cats seem like cool characters.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lets kill flavio for betraying the revolution

Mortis ex Verditus: I feel like they don't have a very good grasp on the current political situation.

Zita: I think we'll just have to forgive this in a talking metal cat

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what if we throw the guys out of the tower without murdering them

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella is at home using her birds to spy on the situation and reporting what she finds to the Zeno patriarchs

johns (GM): t'would be cool derfel. i myself haven't considered how it could be done so surprise me

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we should throw the Contis out of the Militia Tower.

Rosario of Flambeau: We let them move into the catacombs, obviously.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow, who wouldn't want to live in a bunch of graves with a 3 foot ceiling?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: well, we could start by stating the obvious, that the tower is haunted and has nothing of value in it

then when the gm rejects that we unleash powerful mentem effects

Mortis ex Verditus: The tower is valuable.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it's full of ghosts!

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a military fortification.

Father Hazm: Hazm could spend a few seasons raising the Dominion level of the tower, until its equal the regio

johns (GM): towers are the essential symbols of strength and authority in Rome

Rosario of Flambeau: let's forge documents from the capoccis saying they want to give them a tower

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's give them the Militia Tower.

Father Hazm: Ok

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's place a powerful levitation spell on the tower and then knock out the lowest floor

Father Hazm: Let's look for clues and find our way into this regio the story way

Rosario of Flambeau: Holy shit.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's get our expert on entering regios to check it out.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's a pretty crazy plan but it might work.

Beardbeard: not my fault

Zita: We could try and look again at nighttime when the dominion aura lowers

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's roll to intimidate every single person in this tower at +11 until they all leave

Father Hazm: Who's our expert

Mortis ex Verditus: Archibald.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: jorn

Father Hazm: Jorn could only shortcut to faerie regios

Archibald having ground Vim might have hope though

Zita: I think we should try and find a way in at night, anyhow, if possible

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that could work

Father Hazm: The Dominion aura beign worse only makes it harder for me

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, that's a smart idea.

Zita: Archibald has leap of homecoming so if you want him in here to find the entrance, you can bring him an AC

johns (GM): Zita the Burgler knows that most important buildings shut up and bar their doors at nighttime when no one reputable has any business coming by

Rosario of Flambeau: would some of those broken enchanted potsherds work?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what if we had a magus who could levitate people

johns (GM): Yeah dfd

Rosario of Flambeau: Noice.

Father Hazm: What about a magus that can levitate herself, with her wings?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lets launch archibald into the tower wall at incredibly high speed

Guy of Bonisagus: what about a magus with a big specialization in herbam who has some cool tricks

Mortis ex Verditus: Can you see regio boundaries?

Father Hazm: LOL!

Archibald can possibly spont Pierce the Magic Veil

Rosario of Flambeau: Can Fiorella's birds carry the potsherds back to Archibald? I'll run back otherwise.

Father Hazm: I have Second Sight and a way to mitigate the Dominion penalty but the EF here is insane

Mortis ex Verditus: Is it?

Rosario of Flambeau: Now that I can turn invisible I can do the horse leg run to get around without being really obvious and shouting hey theres a magus coming through

Father Hazm: I believe so.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: we should also put up a voting box and see how many people want to side with either faction

Father Hazm: It scales with the difference between the aura of where you're entering and where' you're leaving from

johns (GM): yes seeing a regio boundary from a different aura increases the EF greatly

ok cumthinker

Father Hazm: I'll roll it anyway just to get it over with

Mortis ex Verditus: We should put up a voting box next to some freshly dug graves.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: breaking and entering seems like a good plan.

johns (GM): voting enabled

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2+2+1 Entreat the Divine Powers, Divine Lore + Presence

(

1

)

+2+2+1

=

6

Ooh, roll that botch

johns (GM): How many?

Father Hazm: It's a magic botch I think

johns (GM): So 3

rolling 3d10

(

5

+

7

+

3

)

=

15

No botch

Mortis ex Verditus: Phew!

Father Hazm: Cool

That's not a failure then

That's 6 off the Dominion failure

I mean, Dominion penalty

Mortis ex Verditus: Isn't Entreat the Divine Powers a divine power?

johns (GM): The Dominion Penalty was -6 to Magic Powers so that effectively negates it for Hazm

Father Hazm: Okay

Here's the Second Sight roll

johns (GM): if your other PC is not on the board right now you can feel free to slap them into a voting box

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+5+2

(

2

)

+5+2

=

9

johns (GM): No success, sorry

Father Hazm: Alright

Sadly, we also missed the chance to have Virgil drag Hazm to hell as his version of Twilight

johns (GM): Then a night invasion is the plan?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the revolution box has more combined token area. it is decided

Rosario of Flambeau: It is for me and Zita, I suppose

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't think we should do it.

What's stopping Archibald from just coming in during the day?

johns (GM): he's suspiciously gift stinky

Rosario of Flambeau: he could port in with the AC i run him.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the ef will be slightly easier at night

Mortis ex Verditus: He could just use invisibility.

Rosario of Flambeau: like we've already discussed

Father Hazm: I'll take some ACs home for Archibald

Rosario of Flambeau: very kind of you

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what if we take an arcane connection back to the covenant, so archibald can teleport in

Father Hazm: Speaking of invisibility, can anyone write a spell text for it for Flora?

johns (GM): What if indeed Derfel

Zita: Good vote, Guy

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: guy has betrayed the people

Rosario of Flambeau: Prudenzio's personal-range invisibility spell text is in the library

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: very disappointed in my protege

Zita: lets start working out how many pixels are on each side to figure out his true vote

Guy of Bonisagus: what has the church been supporting

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the pope stands with the republic

johns (GM): Rienzi

Mortis ex Verditus: The pope himself supports Cola de Rienzi.

Father Hazm: Hazm stands with the Pope

Guy of Bonisagus smashes the Rienzi button.

johns (GM): The "word on the street" is the Pope is getting back at the same nobles who were responsible for him leaving Rome in the first place

Mortis ex Verditus: Here's my idea: let's all work against one another towards our own ends.

johns (GM) tears the mask off Mortis revealing..... Proclus??????????

Father Hazm: Fiorella already joined Team Pope back at Corsica

Guy of Bonisagus: lets have archibald calculate how much mundane meddling we are doing

and the crime factory

factor

Rosario of Flambeau: Hmm. If the pope is that into him, he can't be all bad.

johns (GM): Guelpsh o_O

Rosario of Flambeau: unfortunately I'm too wrapped up in Meddling

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: guelpsh owo

Zita: I vote for keeping the nobles in power, since they can be dealt with while the mob never can.

We need other people for the mob to yell at and complain about

Mortis ex Verditus: Mobs are easy to deal with.

Father Hazm: Mobs are the ones who do witch hunts

Mortis ex Verditus: Just toss a bunch of corpses at them.

johns (GM): Group Target Mentem

so does the church, famously

Zita: They're incredibly hard to deal with because all it takes is one zealot and the covenant is being stormed.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: derfel can stop a mob of arbitrary size

Mortis ex Verditus: The nobles are standing in the way of us taking full legal control of all magical sites in Rome.

johns (GM): GM johns chuckles to himself as he makes sure every mob is now in multiples of 11 to defeat Target: Group

Guy of Bonisagus: who was the count that keeps hiring court wizards, lets establish ourselves as heroes of the people and set the mob against that guy

johns (GM): Hugo di Capocci

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lets enlist these men to the rightful cause of derfel, king of wales

Mortis ex Verditus: He's sick right now, but he might get better.

Father Hazm: I cast the Gift of Minerva charm on everyone without Parma so they can lead us on the proper course with Common Sense

Guy of Bonisagus: derpfail king of fails

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is there a hatch in the roof

Mortis ex Verditus: I think that we have a far better chance of getting the Wizard's Guild off the ground if we're on the right side of the revolution.

Father Hazm: Which I guess is just Derfel

Zita now has Magic Might

Rosario of Flambeau: Isn't there already a Wizard's Guild? That's what the Order is for.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's just tell Mario and his boys that we need to stay in the tower overnight for a seance.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's.

Mortis ex Verditus: It doesn't have any legitimate recognition.

Father Hazm: I like Mortis's plan

Mortis ex Verditus: For example, magi can get in trouble for kidnapping Indigo Children.

I mean Gifted children.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: seems pretty clear that there is tentative support for the republic

zita isnt even a human anymore. should she really be allowed a vote

Father Hazm: Did we take her voting sigil away?

Zita: We let a frenchman vote

two, even

johns (GM): her voting sigil melted into slag

Mortis ex Verditus: Also we need to consider that Cola de Rienzi is going to recreate the true Roman Empire, so we definitely want to be on the right end of that.

Guy of Bonisagus: were also letting derfel vote

hes never been a magus

johns (GM): whoa now. he wants to create the Republic, not the Empire

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hes in the nonvoting column

Zita: Support seems pretty unanimous for the revolution though

so thats what we're going with

Guy of Bonisagus: neutrality is a vote

Mortis ex Verditus: You can't have Republic without Empire, I always say.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: very well

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Seems like we've got a winner.

Father Hazm: Hazm is covenfolk, is he voting?

Mortis ex Verditus: No.

Father Hazm: ok

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean he can but we also don't need to listen to him.

But feel free to make an argument.

Zita: ANYWAY at 4-2-2 its pretty clear the revolution has won this

johns (GM): Indeed

I have recorded who voted for what

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: second order of business: are these guys going to let us spend the night with the murderous ghosts

Zita: With that in mind, how do we proceed?

"Wow, you all really want this revolution, huh?"

Mario Bonaccorso: who will ask him

Father Hazm: The Zeno family stays on the correct side of hisotry

Guy of Bonisagus: gm there seems to be something wrong with my token

Father Hazm: Reducing Guy's token by 1 pixel every day

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, so who is going to give Archibald his teleport stone?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: someone

Mortis ex Verditus: I volunteer to not go.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: weve had like 3 volunteers

Father Hazm: I give Archibald the thing

Mortis ex Verditus: I have to supervise all thhis ghost stuff.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hmm

Father Hazm: I'm a priest, these guys can let me come and go for their exorcism needs

Mario Bonaccorso: sorry sohuld I press you guys on something when 2 or more people say "we should do ..." cause ive been just waiting for someone to say, "[my char] does X"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i don't know italian.

Rosario of Flambeau: oh we're in a group action and voting

so i assumed we were just doing the majority thing

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: otherwise i would talk to the crossbowmen

Guy of Bonisagus: ok johns.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i can glare at them though

Guy of Bonisagus: i rienzis revolution.

Mario Bonaccorso: Roll for Revolution

Mortis ex Verditus: That's a power move.

Archibald of Guernicus: I teleport in with the AC granted

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d20

(

19

)

=

19

Mortis ex Verditus: Huzzah.

Mario Bonaccorso: Hm, almost a crit

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 19d17

(

5

+

2

+

7

+

17

+

2

+

1

+

7

+

14

+

6

+

3

+

9

+

3

+

13

+

3

+

9

+

9

+

13

+

3

+

2

)

=

128

Guy of Bonisagus: the revolution threatens

lets confirm

rolling 1d20

(

18

)

=

18

Rosario of Flambeau: Close.

Guy of Bonisagus: looks good

Mario Bonaccorso: "Why is that man glaring at us?"

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, let's revolve.

Revolute.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ideally i glare at them when someone else speaks

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll also use a shard to teleport in and hover around Archibald

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: asking to spend the night.

Rosario of Flambeau: Revolutatio.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: but you know whatever.

Fiorella the Raven: In a form appropriate to my flavor of teleportation

Rosario of Flambeau: Someone should really teach Derfel Italian.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: also gulielmus.

Mario Bonaccorso: lavinia will teach it some season

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: derfel is a linguist so hes a quick study at least

Mario Bonaccorso: alright i'll just pretend someone who knows italian asked for night access

Mortis ex Verditus: I will.

I'm a native speaker.

Mario Bonaccorso: jesus christ be praised.

Mortis ex Verditus: Thank you Ieush.

Mario Bonaccorso: "Alright. As long as your men are here," gesturing to the 3 men and 2 women grogs, "they can make themselves useful. We need sentries and street patrols. The top level is yours for the night."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that was easy

Mario Bonaccorso: should I have made it harder

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: no

Morgana nods

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll smartly conserve my energy for tonight's adventure by taking a nap.

Mario Bonaccorso: "Don't go roaming, people are on edge enough as it is. I guess I'll leave you to it then ..?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "We should have this tower exorcised by the morning."

Mario Bonaccorso exeunt

Father Hazm: I'll rebuff Tunde at sunset

Mario Bonaccorso: Shaun says Flora takes a shard to Archibald, so that is done

Rosario of Flambeau: Thanks, kid.

Father Hazm: Might take some rolling due to the divine aura

Time passes

Mortis ex Verditus: Night replaces the Dominion aura with an Infernal one.

Mario Bonaccorso: The Aura is now Infernal 2

Father Hazm: I have Entreal the Infernal Powers

Mortis ex Verditus: Because, unfortunately, this isn't yet an official building of the Republic.

Rosario of Flambeau: Turns out the become infernalists crew was smart.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2+2+1 Entreat the Infernal Powers

(

5

)

+2+2+1

=

10

Mario Bonaccorso: Mortis naps the best he can while an annoying invisible spirit haunts the tower with echoes

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: whats the infernal penalty for faerie powers

Mario Bonaccorso: - 2 x aura

Mortis ex Verditus: I feel like sleeping while ghosts are haunting the place is a skill that covenanters learn quickly.

Rosario of Flambeau: not too bad.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+14+5+2 Mars' Blessing of Great Weapon on Tunde and all other grogs with applicable weapon

(

8

)

+14+5+2

=

29

Rosario of Flambeau: What's that do?

Father Hazm: Cast with one level of fatigue

Mario Bonaccorso: true enough endrite

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll drop parma for that if it buffs gw ability.

Father Hazm: "R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Group

Up to ten individuals find their fortunes improved while using a great weapon, receiving a bonus of+3 to all rolls using the Single Weapon ability for the duration of the charm. This charm exists for each Martial ability.

(Base 10, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 Group)"

Rosario of Flambeau: oh yeah

the great weapon spell that buffs single weapon

Father Hazm: That Single Weapon is a typo

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: do you have a single weapon version

Rosario of Flambeau: thats very strong so give it to me

Father Hazm: Yes

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+0+3+3-4 trying second sight

(

2

)

+0+3+3-4

=

4

hmm,

Mario Bonaccorso: If you do not object, your grogs are assigned to various menial duties

Mortis ex Verditus: I feel like it is within your power to correct this typo.

I not only do not object, I encourage it.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: feel like i should NOT use a confidence point on this 4

Mortis ex Verditus: It's only hospitable, after all.

Mario Bonaccorso: Trust your gut

Father Hazm: The typo is now fixed

Rosario of Flambeau: confs should also allow you to reroll

imo.

Mortis ex Verditus: No.

Rosario of Flambeau: or maybe two confs for a reroll. i dont know how to balance that stuff.

Mario Bonaccorso: rerolling is already a special power of the infernal and learned magicians

Rosario of Flambeau: oh

Father Hazm: Conf rerolls would let you botch >:D

Okay I'll do this again for the Single Weapon guys

Mario Bonaccorso: also the Socotrans have a really weird magic power where they can take a good roll, preserve it, and use it at a later date

Father Hazm: After I recover fatigue

rolling d10!+2+2+1 Entreat the Infernal Powers

(

10

+

6

)

+2+2+1

=

21

Rosario of Flambeau: Noice.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, suspiciously good roll.

Mario Bonaccorso: "Entreat the Infernal Powers" is pretty suspicious as is

Will Archibald and Flora return to the tower at night?

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+14+5+2 Mars' Blessing of Single Weapon on everyone the last buff iddn't cover

(

10

+

9

)

+14+5+2

=

40

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "You sure this is all right?"

Father Hazm: No fatigue

Rosario of Flambeau: holy shit.

nice huge rolls you dont need

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, night time

Father Hazm: Demons are a cowardly lot prone to infighting, I simply exploit this.

Mario Bonaccorso: Archibald does this https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.439878981.4333/flat,800x800,070,f.u2.jpg

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Mortis ex Verditus: Smart.

Father Hazm: BAMF

Archibald of Guernicus appear

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Ave."

Father Hazm: Fiorella doesn't follow Archibald then as I am here doing exorcism-looking things that don't work

"Sh'lam, magus."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Salve."

Mortis ex Verditus: I wake up when I hear Archibald's appearance sound.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gulielmus is not here, but purely as an XP contrivance

Mario Bonaccorso cues theme music

Archibald of Guernicus: It's a dog bark, as per my sigil.

Rosario of Flambeau: sigils ftw

johns (GM): its Who Let the Dogs Out by baha men

Father Hazm: Hazm benefits from playing a part in stories for Labor Points

More than Fiorella needs adventure XP

Archibald of Guernicus: what's the aura at night?

Rosario of Flambeau: infernal 2 iirc

Archibald of Guernicus: ah infernal 2

johns (GM): Inf 2

Archibald of Guernicus: Then it's time to conf Piercing the Magic Veil

er, spont

Rosario of Flambeau: ah, its on the map

Father Hazm: Spont and conf

johns (GM): spont conf and burn vis

Father Hazm: Oh, I know what charm I need to memorize next

Archibald of Guernicus: what level was piercing the fairy veil again?

Father Hazm: Intelligence buff for sponting

Mortis ex Verditus: It's a general spell.

So any level you want!

Father Hazm: Or Stamina

johns (GM): L20

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: sponf

Father Hazm: Piercing the X Veil is not general

johns (GM): Base 3 InVi is determining Regio Boundaries

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+35)/2

(

(

3

)

+35)/2

=

19

Conf

Father Hazm: Which is why its better in these scenarios

Archibald of Guernicus: That's 20

johns (GM): Excellent, and you factored in aura

Father Hazm: It doesn't scale up with aura levels like Second Sight EF

johns (GM): ?

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

-2 from aur

aura

johns (GM): Good. Archibald sees the boundary as a thin shimmer of light leading from the center of the room to the wall. By standing on the elaborate hermetic symbol and looking at a particular door drawn in the frescos on the wall, then stepping forward, you may enter the regio.

Morgana gets the grogs lined up to guard the magi as the boundary is located

Rosario of Flambeau: cool

johns (GM): grogs unavailable atm

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's go!

Rosario of Flambeau: heres the question

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm sure we won't need them for anything.

Rosario of Flambeau: when i asked about the frescos last session did you mention the door

i genuinely dont remember

johns (GM): no but there are multiple doors on it

Rosario of Flambeau: oh cool

johns (GM): i think i even have an image file of what it might look like

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh really???

Rosario of Flambeau: cyberguru2.jpg

johns (GM): like this sorta but loops all around the room

Morgana: Well

Archibald of Guernicus: "Found the entrance, sodales."

Rosario of Flambeau: cool

Morgana: Hazm can't do much in a fight

Archibald of Guernicus: I indicate it, and show the necessary steps to gain access

Morgana: So if ther eis one I'll probably space out

Guy of Bonisagus: I go in

johns (GM): Okay Guy

Rosario of Flambeau: Same here.

johns (GM): To the rest of you, Guy seems to shrink down and float up in space as he nears the door, then passes through the wall

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice long scroll with all the problems Rome has written on it.

Rosario of Flambeau: thats a cool effect

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll follow.

Rosario of Flambeau: right behind him

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Derfel says a short prayer and follows the others into the trapped wizard lab.

Rosario of Flambeau: "What an adventure!"

johns (GM): Guy and Rosario, the regio resembles the layout of the room you just left -- carpet, mark on the floor, columns -- but with no walls or ceiling, and an endless blue sky void in all directions

Father Hazm looks for where the grogs went, then follows

johns (GM): Desks and shelves cluttered with tools and papers make this an unmistakable Hermetic Laboratory

Rosario of Flambeau: "How peaceful."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the grog pool was commandeered by the rebels

Guy of Bonisagus: I start rooting through the writings.

Mortis ex Verditus: Is there also an endless blue void below this room?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Watch for traps, Guy."

Father Hazm: I look for the Ars Notoria in the library

Mortis ex Verditus: What about the stairs?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what's the aura here

johns (GM): Mortis peers over the edge. It looks like it.

Mortis ex Verditus: Are there still stairs?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: magic 6?

johns (GM): The stairs lead into empty blue sky.

The aura is Magic 5

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice aura.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright who can fly well?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i will look around with my faerie eyes

rolling 1d10!+0+3+3+3 Second Sight

(

2

)

+0+3+3+3

=

11

Rosario of Flambeau: I can't fly at all.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gah

johns (GM): Guy, you study the work and deduce this was the lab of one "Prosperus of Jerbiton." His work was dedicated to the Airy Spirits

Father Hazm: Fiorella

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll step inside

This is Fiorella's jam, yeah

johns (GM): checking an EF quick on that Derfel

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i can conf

Guy of Bonisagus: jerbiton

I grab all the books and papers I can.

Rosario of Flambeau: I toss a dagger off the edge.

Guy of Bonisagus: when are we gonna find an archmages hidden lab

and get some real loot

Mortis ex Verditus: I think this is the hidden lab.

Rosario of Flambeau: Strabo's lab had the best loot of all.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, who has ever heard of a regio with more than one level?

Rosario of Flambeau: A Q9 Magic Theory Summa.

L9 i mean.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+5+2+1 Second SIght

(

7

)

+5+2+1

=

15

Guy of Bonisagus: no i mean

Father Hazm: I have a look around

Guy of Bonisagus: the lab of an archmage

Father Hazm: 20 from aura

Guy of Bonisagus: with some real high quality stuff

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: theres just one problem:

you havent become an archmage and filled your lab with real high quality stuff

Guy of Bonisagus: you know whos really unlikely to become an archmage

its gulielmus lol. haha

nice spell list fucktard

Rosario of Flambeau: there are two really strong items you got out of the owl's old lab but no one investigated the enchantments

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the fuck

johns (GM): Hazm and Derfel deduce that using a series of clouds as stepping stools, it is possible to access another level. The distance between each cloud is a few meters

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Mortis ex Verditus: Seems fairly dangerous.

johns (GM): I can post some more detail on the finds in the thread

Mortis ex Verditus: For starters, you can't stand on a cloud.

Rosario of Flambeau: Time to make dex+athletics rolls.

Father Hazm: I poke a cloud to see of MOrtis is wrong

Is it firm enough to stand on?

johns (GM): Guy among the texts is Prosperus' personal journal. His final entries detail preparations for an expedition to what he believes is an Island of Spirits.

No, Hazm

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is the journal dated

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice. Gotta have a spell to stand on clouds.

Smart.

johns (GM): ah good catch

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): Now that I think about it obviously should, so you can figure that Prosperus lived in late 10th century

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I think it's pretty clear that the turning this tower over to the Conti family won't help us gain access to the inner layers of the regio.

Guy of Bonisagus: wow thats pretty fucked up

cant believe that 200 years later they built this tower around where his hidden lab was

Father Hazm: Are there any airy spirits here visible with Second Sight?

johns (GM): Can't you?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: didn't the conti guy say the lab belonged to his relative?

johns (GM): he did

No, Hazm

Guy of Bonisagus: what year is it

johns (GM): 1347.

Guy of Bonisagus: nice

this place is gonna get wreckedn ext year

Mortis ex Verditus: Is making a cloud solid Muto Auram 5 or 10?

johns (GM): base 10 imo

Mortis ex Verditus: Seems reasonable.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+5+14+5+2 Give of Minerva to give myself Common Sense about this cloud climbing business

(

8

)

+5+14+5+2

=

34

johns (GM): i mean base 4 can turn it into earth but then it will just fall down

Rosario of Flambeau: Level 4: Transform an amount of air into another element (fire, earth, or water).

Level 5: Transform an amount of air into a mixture of elements. Transform an

amount of air into something slightly unnatural.

Level 10: Transform an amount of air into something wholly unnatural.

yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: My Auram score is 0, so I will not do it.

Rosario of Flambeau: a cloud you can stand on is wholly unnatural.

Guy of Bonisagus: sorry for trolling you by looking up dates johns.

Rosario of Flambeau: mine is 3, so not much better.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: mine is 0

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't think I could get a level 15 spont.

(To Shauncat): Common sense tells you the regio was originally only accesible to an Auram Magi so it makes sense further layers would too

Rosario of Flambeau: or 20, rather, since i would want the cloud to be solid for more than momentary duration

shame we don't have time to invent the spell in a lab.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: gulielmus would have loved this

Mortis ex Verditus: Make boots that turn clouds solid when they touch them.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's a hell of a plan.

Father Hazm goes silent and still for a moment, as if Common Sense is giving him an insight, though perhaps not a helpful one

Guy of Bonisagus: if only we had someone who could levitate over the pit

Mortis ex Verditus: And also useless since you still wouldn't be able to jump between the clouds with them.

Rosario of Flambeau: well, i have pretty high dex and athletics.

Mortis ex Verditus: Do you have to actually "climb" the clouds or is it enough to fly to the next level?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is there anything else of note in the lab

Father Hazm: I'm starting to get the feeling that turning into a bird is too useful to play a companion

johns (GM): Some vis

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: mass-produce items to allow people to turn into birds

johns (GM): Lab notes on the jars, a project to keep spirits from suffering acclimation in a divine aura

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: nice lab notes

Mortis ex Verditus: If ONLY it was possible to fix magic items!

johns (GM): You think you must touch the clouds at the very least.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: quealed up off them jars

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Can you post the details on the jars?

Archibald of Guernicus: ReCo seems the best way of going about getting up there

johns (GM): I shall put them in the thread

after this session

Rosario of Flambeau: love the jars.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: how do we exit this place anyway

Father Hazm: "It seems to be a covenant for aeromancers and built to their advantages."

Mortis ex Verditus: What kind of spirits were the jars made to contain?

johns (GM): Airy Spirits

Mortis ex Verditus: Also, how much Might are we talking?

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think we need to make the clouds solid or anything

just destroying your weight would be fine

Father Hazm: I had an idea for that before, making bird cages that prevent acclimitzation

Guy of Bonisagus: you could stand on clouds then

johns (GM): They may be responsible for the effects that such places have on humans: the intensity of colors, the perfusion of a particular emotion, and the intensification

of experience in general.

Rosario of Flambeau: making clouds solid is much, much easier than destroying your weight.

johns (GM): No more than Might 10

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Guy of Bonisagus: yeha but that takes auram

aurams gay

Rosario of Flambeau: destroying your weight is a base 40 effect iirc

Father Hazm: But we don't really have enough magic birds to make it worthwhile

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: everyone loves corpus

Guy of Bonisagus: thats right

especially perdo corpus

Father Hazm: Rise of the Feathery Body is like 10

Mortis ex Verditus: What about tying a bunch of birds to your body and commanding them to fly you to the next level?

Rosario of Flambeau: how about we find some airy spirits and ask them to help

Archibald of Guernicus: gay-ry spirits

Mortis ex Verditus: The spirits are currently haunting the tower!

Father Hazm: There aren't any around here

Those weren't airy spirits in the tower

johns (GM): magic theory check

Rosario of Flambeau: per, int?

johns (GM): Int

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 4

(

4

)

+4

=

8

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+4

(

5

)

+4

=

9

Mortis ex Verditus: + 2

So 10.

Rosario of Flambeau: eh, i'll conf to get it to 12

since thats another ef breakpoint

johns (GM): Alright

Guy of Bonisagus: magic theory

johns (GM): Airy Spirits can include Spirits of Sensations (sound, scent, vision) and Spirits of Emotions (wrath, pride)

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+7

(

5

)

+7

=

12

add 1 for identifying magic

Rosario of Flambeau: those might have been airy spirits in the tower

Guy of Bonisagus: oh we are not identifying magic

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds like the spirits here are spirits of fear.

Since everyone seems to be pretty paranoid.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: it seems obvious they were in the jars, which broke

Father Hazm: "Ah, like Helios?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Are the jars just for holding the spirits or do they also catch them?

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, I guess we'll see in the thread.

Father Hazm: Airy Spirits can be created by hermetic magi

johns (GM): They look like Lesser Enchantments with only 1 effect Mortis

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: We just need to make some and then use the Evil Containment Wave.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, in the short term, Archibald should be able to dismiss all the ghosts hanging around the tower.

Fully exploring the lab will take a bit of work or Fiorella showing up, but once the tower is secure we can do it at any time.

johns (GM): does Archibald have Intelligo to let him sense the spirits

Archibald of Guernicus: Getting rid of the spirits would be pretty easy. He has second sight.

only -2 at night

johns (GM): I lied before. one of the spirits is Might 15

sorry. sorry.

Archibald of Guernicus: what was the EF on second sight to see spirits again

johns (GM): 6 + magnitude of might

Archibald of Guernicus: im rolling +3 in this aura, dang.

Rosario of Flambeau: i should try to kill this spirit so i can get to another level of House Acclaim

Archibald of Guernicus: still good chance of seeing any of them

since EF 9 is the highest

if thers a might 15 one

Father Hazm: I guess since all the grogs were taken away I might as well play Fiorella

However she doesn't know she's needed here

Rosario of Flambeau: I missed all the grogs being taken away.

johns (GM): iirc one of you second sighted one of the spirits before

Father Hazm: Derfel

johns (GM): it was a man with a perpetual look of Wrath on his face

Father Hazm: Hazm can see them but can't hurt them

Mortis ex Verditus: My guess is he's an Airy Spirit of tiredness.

Guy of Bonisagus: no thats the gm

johns (GM): lol

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+2-2 Second Sight

(

3

)

+3+2-2

=

6

welp

Father Hazm: I've been meaning to buy a ring that can Creo Imaginem with a lot of Pen on an invisible creature

Archibald of Guernicus: thatd be good

Rosario of Flambeau: thats a cool idea

Father Hazm: Well it can be any kind of portable item

Rosario of Flambeau: oh, i need to get on Lavinia's health program soon

and probably find a longevity ritual.

Father Hazm: I don't have contacts in Verdi though so someone would have to give me the idea ICly

Rosario of Flambeau: Eventually.

Father Hazm: I only know the rumors of the Order of Hermes told to me by other learned magicians

Mortis ex Verditus: I have a bunch of contacts.

Rosario of Flambeau: Doesn't Verdi still owe us items? Or did we already resolve that

Or not give the ring back or something

Mortis ex Verditus: I recommend you buy a magical item to detect ghosts from an expert necromancer.

Father Hazm: Maybe i can be Mortis's venditore

johns (GM): we are owed some seasons of labwork from our young Verditius client

Mortis ex Verditus: Sorry, my idiot brother has that job.

johns (GM): you gotta ask dys if he has the arts for your dream porject

Archibald of Guernicus: Which project?

Father Hazm: I'll do that after the session

johns (GM): whichever

anyway, do you have any other notions to remove the spirits from the tower

Father Hazm: Archibald can use the staff

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, right. Antone's good arts were imaginem and corpus

Father Hazm: To ask them to leave

Rosario of Flambeau: I feel like we've got a pretty cut and dry method of doing it but it would involve some seasons of making pots.

johns (GM): the pots don't force the spirits into them tho

Rosario of Flambeau: That's what the staff is for.

johns (GM): right

Father Hazm: Unless they're demon spirits, of course

Mortis ex Verditus: How many uses a day does that staff have?

Archibald of Guernicus: I could destroy all the spirits with some Perdo Vim since I have spells to destroy magic might

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

johns (GM): yup you just have to be able to sense the spirits' presence to target them

Archibald of Guernicus: just need to be able to see them

Mortis ex Verditus: I think that's the safer bet here, unless anyone has a specific interest in the spirits.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+2+2 Int + Infernal Lore are these spirits demons?

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

Archibald of Guernicus: i could come back tomorrow and reroll second sight until it finally succeed

succeeds

johns (GM): They could be, Hazm, as there are certainly demons who do the same thing as what you've seen

Archibald of Guernicus: if the PeVi magic spell does nothing ill switch to demons eternal oblivion and try again

in both cases I can murder a 15 might spirit without much effort

johns (GM): alright that's archibald's plan

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't see a problem with it.

johns (GM): the next day, what do you want to say to Mario?

Mortis ex Verditus: Did we exorcise the tower?

Mario Bonaccorso: You did not

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: We're planning on it.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait what's the holdup?

Mario Bonaccorso: i was under the impresion you were pretending to Exeorcise it with a fake seanse this night

Archibald was unable to sense the spirits to PeVi them

Father Hazm: Sadly, RoP Divine has exorcism down to only dealing with possession

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, Archibald had to see the spirits first.

Mortis ex Verditus: What about the other Second Sighters in the group?

Can they make the spirits visible through some means?

Mario Bonaccorso: im not sure the extent of their Special Companion Powers

do derfel/hazm have anything that could be useful here?

Mortis ex Verditus: SAME!

Father Hazm: Can Gulielmus make me a flask I can throw on a ghost to make it visible?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: not me

maybe

Rosario of Flambeau: brb

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i am not sure how the blight has impacted gulielmus's potion making capabilities

Mortis ex Verditus: You know, if you refuse to post your character sheet then you might as well pretend you have useful powers.

Potions can be made out of all kinds of stuff.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it's true.

Mortis ex Verditus: Not just herbs.

Father Hazm: Also the herbs are growing back by now

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the part about making potions, not the part about pretending to have useful powers

Guy of Bonisagus: yeah. you can also use roots, vegetables, fruits,

Archibald of Guernicus: im sure you can still make potions and that johns didnt take away your one ability

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You can't throw a potion on a ghost, Father Hazm."

Mortis ex Verditus: But what if... you could?

Guy of Bonisagus: look everyone, its gulielmus

hes alive

hes back from araby

Father Hazm: "What if you invoke some sort of command that makes the liquid fly onto something within the range of your voice?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes back to exact vengeance on guy of bonisagus

Mario Bonaccorso: if its a ghost wouldnt the liquid just pass thorugh it

or otherwise incorporeal being

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm not sure I understand how Gulielmus' alchemy works.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't think you can make a lesser enchantment that targets an invisible, incorporeal spirit

Father Hazm: The liquid just needs some way of targeting what the user can see

Probably its a weakness of liquid in this case

A wand can be pointed at something

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its just something you would need a linked effect for

Father Hazm: But also

Wands have to be able to know what to ttarget, otherwise they'd be a bow

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you can already see the spirit then you can go nuts

Mortis ex Verditus: We need a good method to see ghosts.

Rosario of Flambeau: someone should invent ghost glasses

Archibald of Guernicus: with multiple second-sighters, all we really need is someone to roll well

Mortis ex Verditus: Can you target the sounds that spirits make to cast spells on them?

Archibald of Guernicus: EF 9 isnt hard to hit on a decent roll

Mario Bonaccorso: for a second

Father Hazm: I just need a really low level Creo Imaginem effect with a good deal of Penetration on an item

Mario Bonaccorso: i was really tempted to say "you can try"

but i think the answer is no

unless you want to argue otherwise thats just my thought off the top of my head

Mortis ex Verditus: It's reasonable.

Mario Bonaccorso: if a hermetic magus who is invisible creates an effect that doesn't mean you sense the magus' location

Mortis ex Verditus: Ghost sounds don't have to be like regular sounds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

now i see what you were asking for

ok. i might be able to throw together a potion

Mario Bonaccorso: i think you want Muto or Intelligo Imaginem not creo

Father Hazm: Not intellego

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: creo is what we used in the beardbeard catacomb adventure

Father Hazm: Muto could work, provided that the creature gives off any species at all

Mario Bonaccorso: Muto Mentem 15 Level 15: Make a mind or spirit visible. (Imaginem requisite)

Father Hazm: If it gives off NO species by default, Creo is how you make it do so

Mortis ex Verditus: It obviously must since people can use second sight to see them.

Father Hazm: Oh

Well I can try to get an item with athat Muto Mentem effect on it later

Mario Bonaccorso: Lacking a physical existence, a spirit also

lacks the features of informed matter, such

as color, weight, and size, and therefore produces

no sensory species (ArM5, page 75).

When magic is used to sense the presence of

a spirit (this includes the Supernatural Ability

Mario Bonaccorso: of Second Sight), the viewer’s imagination

supplies details for the incomprehensible

species supplied by the magic, and so a

spirit may be perceived by such characters in

very different ways. As visual creatures, humans

usually “see” spirits under the influence

Mario Bonaccorso: of such magic, but those with no capacity

to see are not barred from sensing spirits, if

they have the appropriate magic. For want of

a better term, a spirit’s communication with

physical beings is called Silent Speech, for

such impulses are usually received as auditory

Mario Bonaccorso: species, but it could be interpreted as

smells or feelings on the skin, and still be understood

with no difficulty.

Father Hazm: I think Mortis's Necromancy focus would apply

Mortis ex Verditus: Airy spirits aren't ghosts.

Father Hazm: The ghost problem seems unrelated to the airy spirit research

Without more information

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: according to the terminology of the period necromancy includes airy spirits

Mortis ex Verditus: The "ghosts" are airy spirits.

Mario Bonaccorso: that widens an already pretty broad focus

Father Hazm: johns

Mortis ex Verditus: It doesn't include bossing around skeletons but I do that all the time.

Father Hazm: You said the ghosts coudl be demons

That would mean they are NOT airy spirits

Mario Bonaccorso: i might as well say that one of the spirits is of the form Imaginem whereas necromancy is restricted to animal corpus and mentem by my reasoning

Father Hazm: Would you like to change this in light of what Mortis is saying?

Mario Bonaccorso: let me rephrase

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think you just didn't roll well enough to say that the spirits are definitively one or the other

Mario Bonaccorso: all evidence to date suggests that they are magical, airy spirits, the work of a hermetic magus who left hermetic magic lab notes.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's string up Johns.

Mario Bonaccorso: however if the GM were a piece of shit he could say GAha, it's all a red herring, the ywere replaced by might 50 demons.

Guy of Bonisagus: that would be his right

Mortis ex Verditus: That could happen easily.

Father Hazm: That's valid

Mario Bonaccorso: anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will roll for the potion

Mario Bonaccorso: if there's no other plan in the next 5 minutes: Archibald has suggested he just return the next night and try second sighting again until he succeeds, meaning all that's needed is concocting some story for Mario. also have you decided if you want to kidnap Mario or not?

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't think we should kidnap him.

Father Hazm: Hazm is going to go talk to Faustus about airy spirits

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't think we need to assist the cats at all.

But we can tell Mario that his dad is worried about his safety, I guess.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+5+2+2+3+7 Mu + In + Int + Aura + Apothecary

(

5

)

+5+2+2+3+7

=

24

Mortis ex Verditus: He can make his own decisions, though.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well thats a bad roll

Rosario of Flambeau: Mario seems to be like.

Well, if not possessed literally, possessed by some unnatural drive.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the spirit of soviet power

Father Hazm: Wrath is both an emotion and a sin, so GM dickery is actually very valid here

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah it's called dedication and loyalty.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, assuming someone carries father hazm's request to gulielmus

Father Hazm: I can just go back to VT and tell him myself

Also I get the deets on airy spirits from Faustus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he produces a supremely impractical potion:

Mortis ex Verditus: We'll just tell Mario that there are a lot of spirits, so exorcising them will take longer than one single night.

Father Hazm: Sounds god

Rosario of Flambeau: That's a pretty good story to tell him.

Because it's technically not a lie and I hate deceit.

Father Hazm: I'lls ay my exorcisms went well but didn't repel all the ghosts at once

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you smear it on your hands and clap them inside an invisible spirit, it becomes visible for a moment. 8 pen (base 15, +1 touch, +0 momentary, 4 levels penetration)

Rosario of Flambeau: that's fantastic.

Mario Bonaccorso: lol

thats cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The potion smells strongly of cinnamon. Good luck out there.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

Archibald of Guernicus: That seems pretty useless for what we need here since its not enough pen to cover them. Sorry, but also, I'm not sorry.

Mario Bonaccorso: gahaha.

Rosario of Flambeau: its enough pen for all but one of them iirc.

Father Hazm: Eidolons, the Spirits of Emotion can go as low as 5 might

But as high as 25

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also you have 1 charge

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao.

thank you, Gulielmus.

Father Hazm: They can also dodge the touch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: choose wisely

Mario Bonaccorso: Mario accepts Mortis' explanation

"I hope my father is not paying you by the hour"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "None of you guys can fly yet? Fine, I'll go with you tomorrow."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We're not being paid at all. It's our job to deal with magical problems."

Mario Bonaccorso nods

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Give the potion to Archibald, if it fails he can still PeVi or crystal dart them

Mario Bonaccorso: okay archibald want to try again

Archibald of Guernicus: Giving it to me is a bad idea because I need to see it to target it anyway, and if I can see it, I can just PeVi them

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm going to go with the party and check out the level no one could get to

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make a philosophical ligature for using second sight on the might 15 spirit

Archibald of Guernicus: theres no reason for me to make them visible to others

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Derfel can take it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hows hazms brawl

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 0

He has Noncombatant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He's a priest

His job is blessing grogs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: derfels brawl is, like, +3 including dex

Mario Bonaccorso: bless them with fists

(To Fiorella the Raven): You want to check out the second regio layer in the meantime?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can anyone even attack the spirit besides archibald

once its visible

Rosario of Flambeau: +5 with dex here.

Guy of Bonisagus: nope

(From Fiorella of Jerbiton): yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: lets save time on this mess by rolling my second sight first, maybe we wont need brawl at all

rolling 1d10!+3

(

9

)

+3

=

12

Mortis ex Verditus: Good roll.

Rosario of Flambeau: Score.

(To Fiorella the Raven): should I whisper the description or just say it out for all

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gj

Mario Bonaccorso: yay

(From Fiorella of Jerbiton): You can say it

Mario Bonaccorso: you sense two spirits, one the Wrathful man, the other a spirit that produces no visible image but you can detect echoing footsteps wherever it lurks

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Mario Bonaccorso: Fiorella the bird follows the clouds into the lab's second layer regio, which is a weightless expanse of thick gray fog

Rosario of Flambeau: Spooky.

Also spooky!

Mario Bonaccorso: does Fiorella have any sort of passive or active Intelligo style effects

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll cast Archibald's Draining Touch at voice range to destroy 10 magic might in the angry spirit

Stressed or unstressed?

Fiorella the Raven: She has Shriek of the Impending Shaft, which she cannot cast

Mario Bonaccorso: Unstressed

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+31-2 vs spell level 10

(

5

)

+31-2

=

34

pen is, well, its high enough

Mario Bonaccorso: You erase it from existence. It gives a hateful shout as it dies.

Fiorella the Raven: Oh

Rosario of Flambeau: Owed.

ned.

Archibald of Guernicus: It disappears with a little puppy yelp as it goes

Fiorella the Raven: I have Magical Second Sight

All ravens do

devil's fav demon: yeah! sigils ftw!

Guy of Bonisagus: bigils

Mortis ex Verditus: I feel like if you just use magic to give yourself the form of a raven you don't get any metaphysical properties of a raven.

Mario Bonaccorso: Roll Magic Second Sight, Aura in 2nd level is Magic 5

er

Magic 6

oh

i assumed it was some part of the spell design

where does it say mundane ravens have second sight

Fiorella the Raven: Your feelings got Aristocritus killed when he probably shouldn't have so we can discuss them later

Mario Bonaccorso: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Disputatio time.

Mortis ex Verditus: I stand by the call.

Guy of Bonisagus: holy shit

whats mortis's ignem mr

Fiorella the Raven:

rolling 1+6+d10!

1+6+

(

4

)

=

11

I'll look it up, might take a few books

Mario Bonaccorso: this is from bjoarner section: "Use the General Abilities of the

animal form."

Fiorella the Raven: I believe it's Bjornaer

Oh right

In that case no Second Sight

I'll move the XP from it elsewhere

Mario Bonaccorso: sorry

Fiorella the Raven: NP

Mario Bonaccorso: you aren't missing anything important anyway I assure you

dys, can archibald do anything against the second spirit

Archibald of Guernicus: The same spell

Fiorella the Raven: If it's a featureless expanse of fog can I actually find my way back to the entrance?

Archibald of Guernicus: Unless its untargettable

Fiorella the Raven: If not I assume I eventually exhaust myself and fall to my death

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald

Mario Bonaccorso: well no because getting lost is one way to move through boundaries and the boundary is really easy to move through ebcause it's only 1 aura difference

Guy of Bonisagus: im being dragged away for something. good luck gamers

Mario Bonaccorso: i will calculate how long you spend in the regio

bye bb

it is targetable dys

Rosario of Flambeau: godspeed bb

Mario Bonaccorso:

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think guy would be much help finishing this up anyway. i need to give him some spells

Fiorella the Raven: In that case, if I am unable to find any features, I return.

Mario Bonaccorso: You spend 1 hour, get lost, and leave

Fiorella the Raven: I'll figure out what the raven form has instead of Second Sight while you resolve Archibald

Archibald of Guernicus: I dunno if theres much reason to destroy the other spirit, I think the wrath one was the one causing problems

Mario Bonaccorso: tis your call

Mortis ex Verditus: We should get rid ofboth.

Fiorella the Raven: Probably 5 mpre XP of Brawl is fine, I need it now that people can just shoot arrows at wizard birds and they can't shriek

Mortis ex Verditus: No reason to keep them around, after all.

Rosario of Flambeau: thats why you have a familiar that is an insane murderer

Archibald of Guernicus: Hm, I wonder if there's some benefit to the spirits since someone took the time to bind them and all. The wrath one does hamper that theory though

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, maybe the wrath one could have also been useful.

Fiorella the Raven: Yeha

And it's not sinful wrath it's just a feeling

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, they were probably useful for whatever research was going on here but that was 300 years ago.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I return to my sodales and tell them the next level has no value to the naked eye

Mario Bonaccorso: I think we've reached a resolution for the current Quests then

?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can maybe manage True Sight of the Air at Conc

Mortis ex Verditus: I can't think of what else to do.

Rosario of Flambeau: Damn. And we didn't even get to do a multi-level combat for two hours!

Mortis ex Verditus: We should probably come up with some sort of plan to deal with what the cats might do.

Mario Bonaccorso: oh, one other thing, not super important but the Regios have Herbam Blight Miasma trapped in them, which is easily visible with second sight

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm curious if the other one was causing trouble or not, if its not then we could leave it and study it later. It'd really suck to find out something from the research that says "oh, btw, this imaginem spirit that makes noises is super useful for X"

Rosario of Flambeau: it's not like anyone can see it.

you could leave it there and not tell anyone

and fingers crossed it isn't harmless

Mortis ex Verditus: It's making ghost noises.

Rosario of Flambeau: isnt harmful.

i mean.

Mario Bonaccorso: to date it seems to make echoes and nothing else

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The staff only works on water spirits, right?

Rosario of Flambeau: the noises are because the building is very draughty

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If the staff works on any magicla being, we could ask it to live with us instead

Archibald of Guernicus: it works on any magic spirit because its Vim

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

Well airy spirits make a magical aura better

Rosario of Flambeau: The catacombs could really use a spirit to make noises all day.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So that's a proposal

Archibald of Guernicus: lets get a free spirit that just makes noises and nothing else

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's do that.

Mortis ex Verditus: Why would we want that?

Rosario of Flambeau: That's essential to the catacomb atmosphere.

Archibald of Guernicus: for a pet

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It can live in a magical catacomb and make spooky noises

Rosario of Flambeau: I support the idea of taking the spirit.

Mortis ex Verditus: It seems pointless.

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, that's fine.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sometimes roleplaying means doing pointless things

Mario Bonaccorso: im a rollplayer not a roleplayer

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And magical beings serve as a tether that makes auras more powerful

Rosario of Flambeau: That's true.

johns (GM): the final decision is Archibald's since he's the one there and the one who made the staff

Mortis ex Verditus: But we don't know anything about this one.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sounds like it's the exact opposite of pointless.

What better way to find out than by inviting it into our homes and giving it zero restrictions

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can give it one restriction

johns (GM): I'll let anyone who wants make a Magic Lore + Int check for an insight against the creature's Reputation score listed in its stats

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That it doesn't make anyone's labwork harder because its annoying them

Archibald of Guernicus: i cant remember how many charges that anti-djinn staff had. oops.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Faustus will roll if you bring it home

Rosario of Flambeau: Magic Lore is the one realm lore I don't have.

johns (GM) looks up rules on Reputations

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: it controlled spirits for a month tho

Faustus Galerius:

rolling 3+5+d10 Int + Magic Lore

3+5+

(

5

)

=

13

Rosario of Flambeau: powerful

Faustus Galerius: Reputations are a bonus to lores I think

johns (GM): the rules are incomprehensible to me

one momento. who is in charge of Faustus

Mortis ex Verditus: Relax, you are among friends here.

Faustus Galerius: I am being controlled by Shaun at the moemnt

Archibald of Guernicus: Help! I am trapped in a dice-rolling factory

(To Shauncat): Faustus has heard of Zwergenstimme Imago, a spirit that inhabits caves of mines and uses echoes to get people lost and then bring the roof down on them

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

johns (GM):

rolling 10d1

(

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

)

=

10

Mortis ex Verditus: Shouldn't they be green?

johns (GM): strange that

Faustus Galerius: Faustus informs the crew that it would be a bad idea to bring Zwergenstimmo Imago to a subterranean covenant.

Mortis ex Verditus: Why?

Faustus Galerius: He causes cave ins

Rosario of Flambeau: He's got a really cool name.

Mortis ex Verditus: Not that I don't agree with you.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hah.

Faustus Galerius: For fun

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh shit a kobold.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's really funny.

We should have brought him in. RIP.

Faustus Galerius: He also suggests that Archibald kill it

Or send it to someone we don't like

Rosario of Flambeau: "Can't believe I won't get the glory for this one."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hell of a killcount, Quaesitor."

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I'll kill it then

pew pew, spirit go bye

johns (GM): poof

kill tracker updated

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+29 vs level 10 poo

(

6

)

+29

=

35

Faustus Galerius: Reputations: Murderous 1 (Local)

Archibald of Guernicus: poof

Mortis ex Verditus: Farewell.

We did our part for the Republic today.

johns (GM): im not sure how to judge a reputation if the thing is taken out of its natural location

Mortis ex Verditus: It doesn't count.

Obviously.

johns (GM): well whatever

Mortis ex Verditus: Locals only.

We should tell Mario to come to Vardian's Tomb if he ever has more trouble with spirits.

johns (GM): So to wrap things up for spring: You've ignored both the Contis' & the Cats' requests, and helped a member of the Revolution secure a vital installation from its magical nuisances, plus got some cool lab loot

That sound right?

Rosario of Flambeau: Sounds about right for VT.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yep.

Rosario of Flambeau: Well done.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The Contis's son is on the right side of history

johns (GM): May we continue into Summer 1347? I expect it to be brief.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

Rosario of Flambeau: Sure, if you want to.

Hype.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good to me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll skip adventure XP on both Fiorella and Hazm as they weren't useful

johns (GM): I would give it to Hazm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sure

johns (GM): and to Archibald instead of Zita, Derfel instead of Gulielmus

I'll say 9 xp for Going Your Own Way and doing things in a manner I did not expect

Rosario of Flambeau: Noice.

Mortis ex Verditus: What did you think was going to happen?

Rosario of Flambeau: Brutally attacking every NPC

johns (GM): either ignoring the treasure completely, or killing a bunch of people

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

That's the OLD VT

Mortis ex Verditus: THUSANDS of XP.

Archibald of Guernicus: summer of 69

johns (GM): May rolls into June. The summers in Rome are hot and humid, a time when those who can afford it retreat to cooler climbs in the hills, but the nobility of Rome do not budge, sensing that if they leave their towers and fortresses they may not be able to return..

Mortis ex Verditus: Fingers crossed.

johns (GM): More proclamations from Rienzi are passed around. He has declared his intention to unite the disparate Italian states and reconstitute the Roman Republic, and has sent word to representatives from Germany, Hungary, Naples and beyond to attend a great council on the matter

Mortis ex Verditus: Hooray!

Have our sodales in the the wider Order of Hermes said anything about this?

johns (GM): Who'ms't've would you like to be Corresponding with?

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm corresponding with Enki.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Zeno patriarchs

And Valnastium

johns (GM): Enki inquires what you think this will mean for the sale of Magical Items. He's inclined to think that it's bad.

Rosario of Flambeau: I keep up regular correspondence with the Milites and the Flambeau Primus, i guess.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: My parens haven't been designated yet

But I assume they live at Valnastium

And are a reputable bird wizard themselves

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we can sell to the Republicans.

War is always good for magical weapon sales.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: War is good for business. Peace is good for business.

The Summa of Aquisition

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Do you need Hebrew to read the Summa of Acquisition

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: tree babe is still mia right

johns (GM): The Zenos, as Venetians with a taste for the mercantile, don't like radical change and think this thing is a mess. Valnastium (and other Jerbiton) are intrigued. You hear that Petrarch has publicly declared support for Cola, and Jerbies love Petrarch.

(To Rosario of Flambeau): For the time being the Primus has no orders about this, he regards this all as mundane matters

johns (GM): Yes. Did you want to follow up on that ever

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably at some point.

johns (GM): We can do it at any time

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: after all she has stolen something extremely valuable from the covenant:

My heart.

Rosario of Flambeau: Now that's a cause to unite behind.

Mortis ex Verditus: Good old hearts.

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): The messenger who passed your notes around was Jozef of Mercere, who does the Provence Italy route

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll continue to keep the Zenos abreast of the situation in Rome, but cannot directly intervene on their behalf.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what does our friend jeanne de ys think of the situation

(To Endrite): you should weigh in on that

(To Endrite): ah ok

Rosario of Flambeau: "The order as a whole doesn't seem to be concerned about this, or at least that's the word from the Primus. No worries about such a mundane event."

johns (GM): She is missing as well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes

Archibald of Guernicus: Jeanne dys

Mortis ex Verditus: What about the Herbam Blight?

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): If you wish to deal with Tree Lady we can do that now, and it may mean some characters are Split Party in summer '47

Mortis ex Verditus: Has anyone started to crack it yet?

johns (GM): Nay.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): splitting the party ftw

Rosario of Flambeau: We're probably closer than most people with the hint we have.

Mortis ex Verditus: What's our hint?

johns (GM): Also, you're the Main Characters of the Saga.

Mortis ex Verditus: The what?

Rosario of Flambeau: We have access to the one unaffected magic regio in mythic europe.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the Kings Arthur of Ars Magica, if you will.

johns (GM): the FAerie Regio in which this all takes place, Mortis.

Rosario of Flambeau: I wonder why it's unaffected?

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): So do you, and if so, whats your course of action

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm a bit player and am annoyed that anyone ever asks, "Where's Fiorella?"

Mortis ex Verditus: To what magic aura are you referring?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the bjornaer garden isn't bothered by this particular blight

Rosario of Flambeau: herisson's garden. it was not covered in black rot and did not have miasma.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: even though weve blighted it in half a dozen other ways

Mortis ex Verditus: I had no idea!

Rosario of Flambeau: oh yeah!

johns (GM): he posted George Costanza's theories about it

Rosario of Flambeau: you weren't here for that session i think!

i did post tat.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): sure

Rosario of Flambeau: that.

johns (GM): oh shit. what DID we do with george?

Mortis ex Verditus: I must've missed it.

johns (GM): did we just leave him buried alive

Rosario of Flambeau: you cut his hands off and threw him in prison.

and he's just, somewhere in the catacombs i guess.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

i thought we turned him in

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Rosario should execute him for the rep

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): she disappeared while he was in cairo right

Rosario of Flambeau: hell yeah.

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): You haven't pinned down the exact date yet.

johns (GM): Speaking of all this correspondence, Jozef the Redcap visits in Summer, carrying your mail.

Rosario of Flambeau: i would feel bad having my character benefit from a session i ran though.

Jozef of Mercere: "Salvete, sodales."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Salve."

Mortis ex Verditus: Eh.

"Salve, Jozef."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Buongiorno!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Marco II.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, yeah, you planned on turning him in. You've probably done that by now.

Archibald of Guernicus: I did turn in George Costanza, after we interrogated him

Rosario of Flambeau: Because, like.

You had to clear Archibald's name.

Yeah.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Turned him in to Rosario, who kills him

Archibald of Guernicus: It probably gave me a little quaesitor rep and yeah, had to clear my name

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "No one told me it was my responsibility to feed him. You can't blame me"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Cool

Mortis ex Verditus: What does Jozef want?

Rosario of Flambeau: "What's the news, Jozef?"

Flora of Mercere waves to Jozef

johns (GM): He's just dropping off the mail.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve, Jozef!"

johns (GM): And delivering any gossip. Unless someone wants something else he'll stay a night then go on his way.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you bear any tidings from Tethys?"

Flora of Mercere: I ask of Jozef's talked to my dad recently.

Tremere are unlikely to come visiting VT

johns (GM): "[Flora's Dad], last I heard he was recalled to Transylvanian tribunal. He's in a Vexillation whose name escapes me right now."

Mortis ex Verditus: We could try reaching out to Rellantali and see if they've noticed anything unusual with faerie vis.

johns (GM): "Oh hi Gulielmus, long time no see! Why do you ask about Tethys?"

Flora of Mercere will try to write a letter to her dad before Jozef leaves.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, you know, we had been exchanging some letters."

"Only I haven't heard from her at all since I returned from Egypt."

Jozef of Mercere: "In truth my sodales it's a sad tale, I haven't seen her in many moons." He clears a table and puts on his best storytelling manners.

Flora of Mercere: "Dear dad, things are going well. It turns out Mom is quite all right after all, the lightning bolt merely stunned her for a bit. I am learning lots about magic, soon I will be able to turn invisible! Hope your business in vampire land goes well. -Flora"

Mortis ex Verditus: Classic raconteur.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Heavens!"

Rosario of Flambeau: Flora owns.

Jozef of Mercere: "Her home is in a magic woods in Provence -- of course you know this. She's usually such a private person -- you recall how she sticks out like a sore thumb, after all -- so she secured it from intruders. Animated trees, disorienting magics..."

Mortis ex Verditus: Classic fairy forest maga.

Flora of Mercere: I will also include a child's drawing of a vulture.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: castle by the fairy forest, two-car garage, white picket fence

Jozef of Mercere: "Naturally as her favorite redcap I know the safe route through. But back in.. I want to say, October '44? I was on my usual route and found twice the number of guardians as before. Even Jozef of Mercere knows when to accept defeat and I had to turn around."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ahh, mythic america.

Jozef of Mercere: "I think it was pretty clear she didn't want to be disturbed."

Mortis ex Verditus: How did she manage to conjure up guardian trees in this environment?

We should Investigate.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea furrows his brow.

Mortis ex Verditus: That would take me out of Rome at a critical time though, so I won't be able to come along.

Rosario of Flambeau: I would imagine the Faerie aura.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That doesn't sound right. What if she's in danger?"

Rosario of Flambeau: And powers.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Herbam magic? At this time of year, this far into the crisis, in this part of the country, localised entirely within this forest?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What if she needs rescue? What if she's rotting away from the Herbam blight and requires the aid of an apothecary?"

Mortis ex Verditus: A Corp Porthecary.

Boom.

Jozef of Mercere: "Your devotion warms my heart, Gulielmus ex Miscellanea."

He means it even though in text it sounds sarcastic.

Mortis ex Verditus: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: But also, Redcaps probably have high Bluff.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Jozef of Mercere: "May I, your humble servant in the  affair d'amor, be of any help here?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "We should go visit her, Guli."

"It sounds dangerous! You'll need help."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I, ah."

Fiorella the Raven: I think I'll spend Spring learning Wizard's Mount so we can travel normally

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea is caught somewhat off guard by Jozef's declaration.

Mortis ex Verditus: If we're going to Provence then we're travelling by ship.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Yes, Tytalus though she may be, we cannot let the disappearance of our sodalis go uninvestigated!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Very well then

Jozef of Mercere: I had something planned for this time in Rome as well. Dare we.... split the party??

Rosario of Flambeau: :O

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :lets:

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sure

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds like a great idea.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll be on Team Rome

Mortis ex Verditus: Voda will go to Provence.

Rosario of Flambeau: I have no official business in Rome, so Provence it is.

An adventure! Love! A dangerous path! This is what I live for. Outside of following rigid codes of conduct.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets bring giraldo to provence

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I put my token down for Hazm as well since everyone else is putting down magi/companion

Archibald of Guernicus: What's the rome adventure?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Jome adventure

Jozef of Mercere: you know what

Mortis ex Verditus: No.

Jozef of Mercere: i don't think this actually merits splitting the party. le tme just say what "hook" is for Summer 1347

Another man in a Red Cap shows up at the inn as you're preparing the provence excursion.

Rosario of Flambeau: hwahaha.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: blimey.

Bishop Savelli: "Salve."

Mortis ex Verditus: Goodness gracious!

Covenfolk: magi. the tiber overfloweth with aids

Mortis ex Verditus: "Mystical greetings."

Bishop Savelli: oh no. gulielmus stepped in it

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Ave, Bishop."

Father Hazm: I make due sign of respect to a superior

Archibald of Guernicus: I bring good news. 20 mobs have spawned outside in the streets.

The good news is that not all of them are attacking you at this exact moment

Rosario of Flambeau: "What brings you all the way here, Bishop?"

Bishop Savelli: "Jesus christ be praied. May I speak with the Master of the Covenant?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "What would you like to speak to him about?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Rare monster «Legendary Peasant» (Lv.30) has spawned and is terrorizing Rome

Bishop Savelli: "A simple matter, but one I wish to speak to them directly."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll head out

Bishop Savelli: someone loaded the Witcher 3 DLC and now Level 40 peasants are everywhere

Archibald of Guernicus: of my lab, that is. to be here.

Mortis ex Verditus: Smart.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "The Consul is presently- ah, here he is."

Bishop Savelli: The Bishop looks uncomfortable in your presence. "Would you mind extending your Parma? I mean no offense but.. well, you understand?"

Mortis ex Verditus: That's just polite.

Archibald of Guernicus: "You hadn't extended it to him already?" I ask my sodales, and lend him mine

Bishop Savelli: "Bless you, my son. I'll cut to the quick as they say. I understand you have a retinue of fighters under your command, bodyguards and the like.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Always slips my mind."

Archibald of Guernicus: Now he gets to discover that I'm almost as unpleasant even without powerful magic making me appear so

Mortis ex Verditus: The best.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We keep guards, some specialists, aye."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "They are an odd collection, not all of them speak fluent Italian."

Bishop Savelli: I, with the parish priests under my authority, are organizing a procession to extol the glory of Christ in the face of the blasphemous heretics who have been polluting our city with their degenerate chants and self-mortification."

"I am looking for disciplined men who can accompany us should anything go wrong. I pray it does not but I do not want to be caught unprepared."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Smart plan."

Morgana is happy to be conscripted.

Mortis ex Verditus: How many corpses would he like to accompany him?

Bishop Savelli: None.

Mortis ex Verditus: My guess is: many.

Looks like I was wrong.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The flagellants?"

Father Hazm is not of Savelli's parish but would be happy to help buff troops

Bishop Savelli: "Yes, they."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We've lost some good covenfolk to those lunatics."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I do not think they themselves would turn to violence, their leader was deeply against it. He carries some manner of relic that keeps him safe should others attack him, as well."

"But, his followers may not share his views."

Morgana: "Relics don't work against normal steel."

Mortis ex Verditus: Or rather, they do.

Morgana: Not always

Guy of Bonisagus: im back

did we beat the monsters

Morgana: They can if the storyguide really wants them to

But divine intervention can happen outside the rules anytime anyway

Bishop Savelli: "Nonsense. Their relics are as false as their raving babble. I don't know if you keep abreast of what is happening outside your lab but there are those who claim their scourging can replace the sacraments, that they can repent their sins by shedding blood and other wicked heresy."

Father Hazm: "How awful."

Mortis ex Verditus: Gasp!

Bishop Savelli: "What is next? Ordaining their own priests? Christ save us. The souls of this city are in the balance."

Rosario of Flambeau: I cross myself.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I see." I say, not seeing that well "So, you fear that this heresy may condemn their well-meaning but misled followers to hell?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Maybe we should listen to what these wisemen have to say...

Bishop Savelli: "Sin is absolved through contrition and penitence. These heretics are unabsolved and think themselves morally pure."

Archibald of Guernicus: "When do you plan to do this procession?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Bishop, I'll be happy to accompany you and see you aren't harmed."

Bishop Savelli: "Tomorrow."

Mortis ex Verditus: "What about targeting the agitators where they live?"

Bishop Savelli: "We shall depart from the Cathedral Santa Maria de Populo bearing a relic of the Blessed Benedict, and make a round of the entire city."

"I have written to Avignon urging them to send the Inquisition to do just that, .. Hm, I'm afraid I don't recall meeting you."

Mortis ex Verditus: "How do you do? I'm Mortis ex Verditus."

Bishop Savelli: "Jesus christ be praised."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Same."

Father Hazm silently checks his own relic of St Maron hanging about his neck.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: afk

Bishop Savelli: "May I count on your guards' support, my son?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: fyi.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Of course."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yes, he's a new but reliable addition. We'll lend you our aid."

Bishop Savelli: He blesses you.

Mortis ex Verditus: "How long will this procession last? A general estimation is fine."

Bishop Savelli: "I know with your gift it is, difficult for you to show your devotion publicly. But the Lord will understand."

"I shall march until my feet can bear no more."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Oh, sounds like a very pious plan."

Father Hazm: You have our axe

Rosario of Flambeau: I probably have more stamina than him. No problem!

Bishop Savelli: so what would yall want to work on first, the march or Provence? and if you are just sending grogs/companions on the march we could resolve it in the background. your call entirely

Guy of Bonisagus: wizards march

Father Hazm: Hazm will join the march, of course

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I could bring a bunch of undead footmen along.

Always good to fly the colors, what.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think god would be happy with undead footmen in the procession

Father Hazm: Fiorella doesn't really care about either hook, aside from dropping THUSANDS of crows on the heretics

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow.

Rosario of Flambeau: Actually, if they're happening simultaneously?

I'm doing provence.

Bishop Savelli: kewl

Mortis ex Verditus: If God didn't like skeleton armies then he wouldn't have them fight the Antichrist during the Apocalypse.

Rosario of Flambeau: God is cool and all but he can handle things for himself.

Bishop Savelli: Which grogs do you want to march and which do you want to go to Provence

Rosario of Flambeau: Gulielmus must get laid.

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we should focus our grogs on Provence, since I can supply ample manpower.

Guy of Bonisagus: agreed

gulielmus has my

uhh

Bishop Savelli: Stave

Guy of Bonisagus: i can shiver if im near a lycanthrope

he has my shiver

i can also make a fire spark in vivid colors, to entertain children and the simple minded

Father Hazm: Is Tunde on this map?

Mortis ex Verditus: You should Invent a spell between spring and summer.

Guy of Bonisagus: i should use current year - 1343 years worth of seasons to invent something at all useful

Archibald of Guernicus: I should probably go to the procession incognito just in case.

Rosario of Flambeau: hah

you should not complain about not having abilities and spells if your character is several years away from being current

Bishop Savelli: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: That is his right and I DEFY you to claim otherwise.

johns (GM): Will you send Ilbrago, Pepus, or Mariu on either party

Mortis ex Verditus: We need someone to hold down the fort.

Father Hazm: Mariu's good to guard VT

Pepus can go to Provence

Rosario of Flambeau: when mariu dies i'll be sad

hes so old and decrepit.

but very strong

Guy of Bonisagus:  flambeau taps his head knowingly  cant age to death if you never update your sheet

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Father Hazm: Morgana's driven by her ambitions to join the procession

Rosario of Flambeau: mariu has under 10 years to live

johns (GM): Excellent.

As Cumthinker is AFK I think we shall start with the Procession.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, we're starting it tonight?

johns (GM): If you don't mind

Guy of Bonisagus: vicious troll gm says he has a short wrap up session. what happens next might surprise you

johns (GM): lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): If you want to break now and deal with both stories next week that's fine by me

I can go back to playing Terraria or napping

Rosario of Flambeau: hey, i'm not complaining!

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont care

Rosario of Flambeau: we can postpone if you want, but im having a good time.

Guy of Bonisagus: my plans for the rest of the night are play world of warcraft and sleep

johns (GM): good plan.

Guy of Bonisagus: the march can probably be done

johns (GM): The day of the procession is unbearably hot and humid.

Guy of Bonisagus: as cumthinker has died

Rosario of Flambeau: 

johns (GM): You gather at the cathedral, where about 100 others are gathered. Bishop Savelli, along with priests, monks, and 4 Knights Militant are at the lead. They hold a large gilded reliquary fashioned with an icon of Saint Benedict.

Father Hazm: I'll play w/e private server Guy is on

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back.

Guy of Bonisagus: i am playing on gummys, shaun

Father Hazm: Cool

johns (GM): Wiping sweat from his brow already, Savelli begins the  Lauda Spirituale  chant. Its a sort of call and response.

Father Hazm: I fall in line with the lesser priests

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll use my bracelet to not stand out during all this

johns (GM): The procession begins. You head towards Vatican hill. ~30 minutes later the procession comes to a sudden halt as there are several broken farmer's carts on the bridge blocking the way.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll direct my "men".

johns (GM): The owners of the carts are arguing with each other wrathfully and pay no mind to the procession. Do you take action?

Mortis ex Verditus: "Clear the streets, procession coming through."

Rosario of Flambeau: "If you need assistance moving the carts, I'll be glad to help."

wait.

DUH

IM NOT HERE

Rabble: lmao.

Father Hazm: "Surely there must be a way to quickly mediate this dispute?"

Rosario of Flambeau: i always do this.

Rabble: psyche.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll direct the grogs to move the carts.

Guy of Bonisagus: what the fuck

Rabble: "Yeah, make that idiot " -- pointing to other rabble -- "pay me for the broken cart wheel and all the eggs rotting in the hot sun cause he fucked up"

Father Hazm: I approach the farmers

Guy of Bonisagus: that would be out of character for rosario anyway

isnt he meant to be like a knight

Rabble: A knight doing menial labor o_O

devil's fav demon: he's just a guy who likes to stick himself into trouble.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's Morally Wrong for knights to work.

Rabble: Pick a grog from your party

Guy of Bonisagus: man claims to be a knight but when the chips are down hell use his own hands for physical work

disgusting

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+2+d10 Int + Civil and Canon Law

2+2+

(

7

)

=

11

12 if Disputation applies

I'll try to figure out who's at fault here

Rabble: They both hit each other but blame the other for the fault.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

(To Endrite): select one of the grogs who is pushing the carts

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

(From Mortis ex Verditus): I think Napolino is game for it.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Clearly you're both at fault."

(From Mortis ex Verditus): He's easy to boss around, anyway.

Rosario of Flambeau: AAAAA

im leaving

Father Hazm: "By legal rights, you are both responsible, and restitution goes to he who's stock took more damage."

Rabble: The Rabble spins around and tries to shove Napolino forecefullyl!

rolling 1d10!+10 Attack

(

1

)

+10

=

11

rolling 2d10

(

8

+

4

)

=

12

(To Endrite): Defense?

Napolino:

rolling 1d10! +1

(

1

)

+1

=

2

Rabble:

rolling 2d10

(

3

+

7

)

=

10

Napolino: lol

Rabble: Napolino is violently shoved!

he takes

Napolino: Obese seems like it should make that hard but that's a hell of an attack advantage

Rabble: 3

1 fatigue.

Napolino: He windmills his arms to try to stay balanced but falls comically backwards.

Rabble: Your grog has been assault, Magi.

What now?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Guy of Bonisagus: i can also make a fire spark in vivid colors, to entertain children and the simple minded

very important for a gulielmus journey

Morgana: "Lose some weight, soldier."

Guy of Bonisagus: there he is

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Morgana: "And fall in line

Mortis ex Verditus: "How much for the eggs?"

Morgana: I get Napoliono back in line and set Tunde to Vanguard

Rabble: The rabble greedily licks his lips. "2 pounds"

Father Hazm: I ask the other farmer what his damages are.

Rabble: The same.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr slips into the procession.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Ave."

Father Hazm: "Then restitution is already met."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Great, visit Vardian's Tomb for your payment."

I snap my fingers and have my undead slaves grab the carts.

Rabble: Outnumbered the rabble relent.

Mortis ex Verditus: We can negotiate under more favorable conditions.

Rabble: Continuing

Father Hazm: I'll use Professon: Chamberlain to deduct 4 pounds of undead services from their restitution

Rabble: The procession follows the green route marked

Mortis ex Verditus: Through the Tannery District?

Rabble: Indeed.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: where does it start

Mortis ex Verditus: Blech.

Rabble: Cathedral S. Maria de Poulo

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ascetic journey ftw.

please drag a Bishop token along the path of the procession, for immersion

Rabble: You are passing by a tall, 2 story wooden tannery when thick foul smoke bursts out the windows and the smell of tannin is replaced with the smell of fire!

Father Hazm: I decided Fiorella taking Flora to Provence would be a good adventure after all

Celeste: aw hell theres no reason im not here

Guy of Bonisagus: is that something tanneries should normally be doing

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: :blessed:

Archibald of Guernicus: Trying desparately to teach your apprentice how to turn into a bird

Father Hazm: Biff Tannin

Flora won't learn bird magic

Rabble: Do you have Tannery Lore, Guy of Bonisagus

Father Hazm: Fiorella is going ot encourage her to be a thief wizard

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: craft: tanner

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll take my men inside the tannery to see what's what?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: delightfully devilish, fio

Celeste: "That's not normal, right?"

Rabble: Its on fire, is what.

Archibald of Guernicus: Area Lore (The inside of this specific tannery)

Father Hazm: Are the tanners screaming or anything?

Archibald of Guernicus: Ignem Lore

Father Hazm: I'm not a tanner but I don't think they scream as part of their job

Rabble: No one inside, apparently.

Mortis ex Verditus: Where's the fire?

Rabble: But the fire may spread or cause the building to collapse. The procession has come to a halt, unsure of what to do.

Are you yourself going into the burning, smoking building Mortis?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Gah!"

Celeste backs her alcohol-soaked body a little further from the fire

Guy of Bonisagus: whats the arson quality of this tannery

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "What a terrible stench!"

Rabble: 5

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: running into a burning building... aristocritus would have loved this

Father Hazm: Smother the fire with zombies

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i bet zombies burn really well

Guy of Bonisagus: probably

theyre very dry

Father Hazm: They probably do

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Father Hazm: But even kindling can smother a fire

Also youc an wrap the zombies in wool

Mortis ex Verditus: If ONLY we had someone who could put out this fire.

Some kind of professional fire fighters.

Rabble: if onlyl gulielmus were here, he could go to the lab and spend 8 hours inventing a potion to put out fires

Mortis ex Verditus: How close are we to the river?

Rabble: 100 meters

Father Hazm: I'm here to cast buffs on the fighters

Mortis ex Verditus: We could organize a bucket brigade, I guess.

Rabble: Alright

Mortis ex Verditus: I have 0 Ignem.

Archibald of Guernicus: We could use our command of the Tiber River to make him launch a wave and put it out

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: we could order the tiber to flood the tannery

Celeste: I'm a person with no magic.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yeah

oh my

you could

Celeste: We could just leave.

Father Hazm: Bucket brigade is fine

Archibald of Guernicus: I have leap of homecoming so I can go back and organise this

Then come back again

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i could invoke my fearsome presence

Archibald of Guernicus: So, that's what I'll do

Celeste: "I'm going to have a drink and think about this."

Rabble: Any objection, Endrite

you are the authority on the Tiber's powers

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i could organize a bucket brigade with +8

Archibald of Guernicus blinks out for a few minutes then blinks back again

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: BUT I CANNOT SPEAK ITALIAN

Archibald of Guernicus: "My work here is done."

Father Hazm: What can Derfel speak

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: welsh, latin, greek, arabic

Father Hazm: I'll translate your Greek

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ah its not important

ill just make sure to give him some italian when i update him

Father Hazm: Greek or Latin

Mortis ex Verditus: The Tiber can do Rego Aquam 30, so that should be good enough.

Rabble: Sick.

A huge ball of water shoots out of the river like a rock launched by a trebuchet and smashes into the tannery.

Mortis ex Verditus: Kablam!

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: does the crowd begin rioting when the incredible gift stink man starts teleporting around and producing the sinister sound of hungry wolves

Rabble: Ash and soot shoot out in all directions, covering the crowd. They cough and sneeze, and after the smoke has cleared enough, they see the building is flattened and the fire gone.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll do it a bit out of sight

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Jesus Christ be praised!"

Rabble: Savelli holds his reliquary up high. "Jesus Christ be praised!!"

Guy of Bonisagus: nnice. those stupid tanners fucking died

dumb bastards

Father Hazm: The crowd hasn't rioted over the zombie horde

Rabble: The procession is hot, dirty, and tired, but the sight of an apparent miracle has filled them with zealous energy.

Mortis ex Verditus: They wear armor and masks.

Father Hazm: Very good

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, helmets.

Guy of Bonisagus: the rabble probably just assumes theyre germans

Derfel ap Cadwaladr cheers.

Father Hazm: Helmets can have a mask built in

Guy of Bonisagus: they have typical german mannerisms

Rabble: lol

Teutons

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Father Hazm: I accept Guy's explanation

Rabble: you know how they are. not eating or breathing

Guy of Bonisagus: or making intelligible noises

Mortis ex Verditus: They also aren't narrating everything they do.

Rabble: The procession has lost 2 dozen from the interruptions and oppressive weather, but the remaining ~70 (including your party) press on.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: neither an internal nor external monologue

Father Hazm: I give Derfel GIft of Venus so he can hit on women during the procesison

Rabble: You near the plaza of the Santa Maria Church (the Parthenon), and hear a call and response chant similar to your procession's own, but the words are different-- they are praising the blood and suffering of the Lord

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: zombies are truly horrifying creatures

Guy of Bonisagus: derfel doesnt care about this rabble

Rabble: Some 50 Flagellants in their typical outfit have taken up in front of the Church, doing their thing.

Guy of Bonisagus: he wants his goat ladies

so does giraldo

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: whats the aesthetic quality of the rabble

Father Hazm: Why not both?

Guy of Bonisagus: you better run the goat ladies next week johns

Rabble: I can only trust DFD to run a story of that caliber

Celeste: I could maybe do that next week.

Father Hazm: We need Hafl back to run the lewd adventure

Guy of Bonisagus: now

lets not say things we cant take back

Celeste: I don't know why everyone is convinced it's going to be lewd.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what would my charm roll actually be

"Ladies."

Guy of Bonisagus: i am going to get a goat wife

Celeste: There are just a bunch of faerie goat women.

Guy of Bonisagus: Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what would my charm roll actually be

good question

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+5+2+3 presence + charm + venus's blessing

(

4

)

+5+2+3

=

14

Guy of Bonisagus: if you had a sheet you could add up the ability and stat associated with it

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: sad!

Rabble: The flagellants carry a banner of the cross, drawn in smeared blood on white canvas.

Father Hazm: Make that 15

I also have a Charm buff

Mortis ex Verditus: How should we break these guys up?

Rabble: Thanks to your actions, you outnumber them

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

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

(

5

)

+5+2+3+1

=

16

very good.

Mortis ex Verditus: What was that?

johns (GM): As you ponder the scene, a few of the Flagellants cry out, "blasphemers!" and their party charges into yours.

i have no intention of running this as a combat.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it's just some dice, man.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright, time to roll THUSANDS of combat dice.

johns (GM): just think of what you'd do as a Choose Your OWn ADventure book.

Celeste: "Christ!" I almost drop my wineskin

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll have my men try to wrestle them to the ground.

johns (GM): Non-lethal fighting?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Derfel steps forward and channels his Awesome Presence (RoP: Faerie, page 113).

Morgana narratively hacks up some heretics

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

johns (GM): Morgana, you will fight Lethally?

Celeste: I could use a mace nonlethally I guess.

Morgana: I'll use Leadership to fight, yes

Celeste: I don't think I have goofy boxing glove arrows.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Heathens! Make way for the procession of the true Church!"

Morgana: I can use Leadership to command a nonlethal subdual

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: everyone present who does not have magic resist must make a roll against EF 8.

johns (GM): A more powerful spell is in effect, Derfel

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wtf

johns (GM): Well, let me confer with my associate quickly.

Morgana: "Destroy the false relic!"

I command the grogs to beat path through the mob and get to the relic.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that also includes any party members who dont have MR. ha ha

Celeste: i have 20 MR.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: possibly only party members who dont have MR, since johns and endrite are conspiring against me

Morgana: Hazm has 10

johns (GM): Ok, great news.

Archibald of Guernicus: You invoke your power that is only good against mundanes. The mundanes all begin manifesting MR. The head of the flagellants begins to speak - omit nothing

Morgana: I'll accept Derfel's inlfuence over the relic's

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Celeste: "Bishop, these men are attacking us! It's fine to kill people if they're trying to kill you, right?"

Guy of Bonisagus: Morgana: I'll accept Derfel's inlfuence over the relic's

this sends you to hel

l

Morgana: It's an infernal relic

Celeste: I could roll theology and already know this.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: mmm haha.

johns (GM): Alright.

What are they rolling Derfel, just a simple die? Or a personality trait?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Brave

johns (GM):

rolling 50d10+2>7

(

2

+

9

+

9

+

4

+

2

+

5

+

2

+

7

+

6

+

5

+

10

+

3

+

5

+

6

+

7

+

10

+

3

+

7

+

8

+

1

+

9

+

5

+

6

+

9

+

10

+

2

+

5

+

10

+

5

+

5

+

7

+

8

+

8

+

5

+

8

+

4

+

7

+

6

+

3

+

4

+

3

+

3

+

8

+

6

+

4

+

7

+

8

+

9

+

5

+

10

)

+2

=

302

that didn't work.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: um

johns (GM):

rolling 50d10>5

(

10

+

2

+

4

+

6

+

10

+

5

+

7

+

1

+

9

+

1

+

5

+

2

+

5

+

8

+

2

+

9

+

8

+

4

+

5

+

9

+

9

+

1

+

9

+

4

+

1

+

9

+

8

+

7

+

2

+

10

+

2

+

8

+

4

+

4

+

4

+

5

+

7

+

1

+

4

+

5

+

9

+

4

+

2

+

9

+

7

+

10

+

2

+

8

+

3

+

7

)

=

29 Successes

Archibald of Guernicus: you could just, instead of doing +2

johns (GM): There.

Archibald of Guernicus: yes

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: thats the spirit.

Guy of Bonisagus: wow nice exalted damage roll dude

ahahah

johns (GM): 29 stay agitated and 21 are cowed.

Guy of Bonisagus: hoo

Celeste: If the Bishop says it's ok to kill people I'm going to start shooting them with bows.

johns (GM): The Bishop and his knights concentrate on getting the relic out of the fight.

Celeste: arrows.

They're comin' right for us!

Derfel ap Cadwaladr appears to shine like the sun for a moment as he shouts at the flagellants.

Celeste: "Wow, that guy's pretty!"

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't think you need to shoot arrows at them.

Their numbers are depleted enough.

Morgana: I have the grogs rush the relic!

Celeste: I want to use my way of the town bonus.

johns (GM): The 30 who charge at you are outnumbered 2:1 by zealous processionists who think they just saw two miracles in one day.

Morgana, you mean they're rushing the Flagellant's banner?

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah, this is a city.

Celeste: No mortal sinning for Celeste today...

Morgana: Well

We'll join the knights in what they're doing

johns (GM): Okay, protecting the Bishop's relic

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: vin diesel suddenly swerving: oh shit, its the worlds most handsome man

Morgana: Their authority supersede Morgana's

johns (GM): Savelli and the relic make it out unscathed.

Celeste: "We did it."

johns (GM): A few of your profession are killed by flagallent flails but the flagellants are also beaten and trampled.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i don't know if you want to roll for it but it does hit any friendlies without MR

Celeste takes another long drink

Mortis ex Verditus: RIP.

johns (GM): This was an ever better result for this CYOA sequence then I could have imagined. gg.

Mortis ex Verditus: True martyrs of the cross.

Morgana: Morgana already said she'd accept Derfel's influence

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: and then if they're hit and recover, they become immune to Frightful Presence

johns (GM):

rolling 80d10>5

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45 Successes

45 of your party remain unswayed by Derfel.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: BUT derfel gains the Awesome (+2) reputation

with the people who have become immune.

Celeste: derfel ftw

Father Hazm: I'll bring our 21 cowed people back into the fold

johns (GM): This concludes the Summer '47 Rome Adventure. I was secretly hoping for an excuse to kill of Savelli but alas.

Archibald of Guernicus: Reputation: This guys is pretty badass

Mortis ex Verditus: Huzzah.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Celeste: rip.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh. fast adventure.

johns (GM): I'm sure we have not seen the last of these wacky flagellants.

Mortis ex Verditus: No they're all dead now.

johns (GM): Shall we off to Provence then? This will also be quick.

Father Hazm: There will be a shitload of flagellants when the plague hits

Mortis ex Verditus: Tick off another win for us, the good guys.

johns (GM): What plague?

Mortis ex Verditus: It already hit.

All our Herbam vis died!

Voda: Alright let's go for it.

Father Hazm: The Green Plague

johns (GM): smash cut to a noise show in an abandoned dead forest

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella and Flora go to Provence

Rosario of Flambeau: What the hell is that

Really weird tree in this forest.

Voda: Nice.

I smoke some marijuano.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus calls out into the woods.

"Salve?"

Jozef of Mercere: Jozef notes that the usual defenses, spells to disorient people and animate trees, don't seem to be doing anything.

Also all the trees are dead.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I send Flora to Harco so she can get to Provence the safe way

Jozef of Mercere: You eventually come to a lone tower in the middle of the woods, with a sturdy thick oak door, featuring Tethys' sigil.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: She can hang out in a Mercere chapter house while we deal with the dangerous part

Guy of Bonisagus: "Quite the sturdy oak door."

"Seems rather thick, too."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Alright, so what kind of trap do you think is on it?"

Voda: Who is going to knock on the low res door?

johns (GM): if you had investigated this lead in a more timely manner when the Ritual spells were active you'd have to deal with being attacked by trees

anyway

brb 1 min

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will.

johns (GM): No answer.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hello?"

Zita: "I'm sure nothing can go wrong from opening up the door to another wizard's sanctum and exploring inside it."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Tethys?"

"What if she's in mortal peril?"

Rosario of Flambeau: Any other visible entrances?

Zita: "The peacful ones especially, who'd ever imagine they'd set a trap. No, do go ahead."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, I cannot bear the thought."

Rosario of Flambeau: two windows, but the tower looks very smooth in this pic.

Voda: Climb on the jagged anti-aliasing.

Rosario of Flambeau: Good idea.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Strabo had everything in his lab cover you in deadly bramble if you touched it."

johns (GM): smh no respect for darklands here

devil's fav demon: i'll play it one day.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rope kid lies slain

gulielmus will open the door

"I will open the door."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea attempts to open the door.

Voda: Brave.

johns (GM): It does not budge.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ah, let me try."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I send Camilla up to keep an eye on the ramparts

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll try to force it.

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast Air's Ghostly Form and monitor the fog, to see if it flows into any sort of illusory door.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+2 str

(

6

)

+2

=

8

+2 if i can use athletics.

lol.

johns (GM): You bounce off the solid door. Ouch!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cast End of the Mighty Castle, destroying the tower

johns (GM): Alright, formulaic?

Guy of Bonisagus: johns does my retarded plan turn up anything

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't actually know end of the mighty castle

johns (GM): It does not, I am afraid.

Voda: Hmm.

I'll look around the grounds.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ow!"

Voda: Is there just a tower or are there any outbuildings?

Zita: How high is it?

johns (GM): Just the one tower.

Rosario of Flambeau: I attack the door with my greatsword.

johns (GM): 3 stories

Zita: How many paces is that, less than 50?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll summon a bunch of crows and have them peck at various parts of the wall around the ground floor

Voda: Any gardens or anything?

You know, apart from the froest.

johns (GM): One story is like 4 paces I think so 12 total?

Guy of Bonisagus: I will cast Circle of Beast Warding to protect us from wandering bears and wolves.

johns (GM): thereabouts

Voda: I mean forest.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you Guy.

Zita: I teleport up to the top of the tower to take a look around there

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have Camilla guard Zita

johns (GM): Just judging by the bark, the forest had a wide variety of trees, and there's a plot of soil that could have been a garden but is nothing now.

There's no entrance in the top, sadly.

Voda: Hmm.

johns (GM): Anyway Rosario hacks at the door for awhile until he can unbar it.

Who dares to enter?

Voda: I'll go in.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Voda: Last.

johns (GM): lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I go in

Rosario of Flambeau: Same.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus will enter

johns (GM): Great!

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll go in first, of course.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I send Pepus in as the vanguard

Rosario of Flambeau: Unless anyone objects.

johns (GM): I record who is the bravest here.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: After Rosario

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow,

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Rosario is the bravest

Pepus has the least amount of authority to not take point

Rosario of Flambeau: Guli can! I just assumed I would go first since I got the door open.

johns (GM): Anyway, there's no booby traps, sorry. The first two floors are the standard living quarters and apartments you'd expect of a Hermetic maga.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fiorella was the first to enter, and has won tethys's heart

Voda: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I entered but I'mnot particularly brave

Rosario of Flambeau: "I should think about getting another sword one day. I really beat mine to shit."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So Rosario can go in faster than me

Rosario of Flambeau blesses himself that we're not using equipment degradation

Zita: I'll enter too when I see the top has nothing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll proceed to the third floor instead of rummaging through her stuff.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets go

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Pity Pass the Unyieldling Portal is useless now."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: zita can handle the looting

Guy of Bonisagus: if anyone tries to rob her i will get upset with them

Rosario of Flambeau: Same.

johns (GM): Moving onto the third floor... It is a lab, but something terrible has happened here. The scorch marks of what appears to be a huge explosion lead from the workbench. Broken glass and ceramic litter the floor. In the middle of the room stands what looks like Tethys -- completely static, her hands raised to shield her face, her image gray and fuzzy and hard to look at..

Voda: You can use Herbam vis to cast it.

Rosario of Flambeau: No need for robbing someone who we're trying to save. Rude.

Voda: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes

Voda: Well, she's probably fine.

What's a little Wizard's Twilight?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm not acknowledging this scam to make us spend vis

johns (GM): Perception + Second Sight or Magic Sensitivity (+5 Magic Aura) for an immediate insight

Guy of Bonisagus: and now she comes out of twilight and sees gulielmus standing there, intruding on her sanctum

she has him marched next tribunal

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Not on formulaics

Guy of Bonisagus: whos got the fragrant branch of yore

johns (GM): Other insights available with Per + Magic Theory, Per + Awareness, and anything else you want to describe what you are doing

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't have those now that I realize I wasn't supposed to have Second Sight as a raven

Voda: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Tethys...?"

Voda: I'll rifle through her kitchen.

Tethys of Tytalus does not respond or react.

Zita: I have... magic lore, if that helps?

johns (GM): All the food has rotted long ago.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling 5+d10! Magic Theory

5+

(

8

)

=

13

Voda: Darn!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea 's expression falls somewhere between crestfallen and relieved.

Guy of Bonisagus: ok i use magic theory

johns (GM): go 4 it

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+7

(

3

)

+7

=

10

+1 if im identifying magic

Zita:

rolling 1d10+5 if magic lore counts

(

3

)

+5

=

8

Guy of Bonisagus: and heres awareness

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "So, she was in Twilight all this time."

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+1

(

1

)

+1

=

2

hm

Voda: I'll try Awareness.

rolling 1d10 + 1

(

4

)

+1

=

5

Wow!

johns (GM): Fiorella inspects the wrecked lab workbench. There are tatters of notes of Tethys' latest project. You see that she was working on something based on Rego but also incorporating all other four Techniques.

Zita: I'll also try awareness, let's see how this girl's been doing

johns (GM): Her notes indicate that a sample tray had diseased grain on it, but the tray is empty now.

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

4

)

+4

=

8

johns (GM): Guy of Bonisagus, you find several containers that may have held vis once, that are all destroyed.

That is, the vis is gone too.

Voda: Yikes!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: alas.

Voda: Did Jozef lie to us?

Rosario of Flambeau: Damn.

This is fucked up!

johns (GM): Zita, you inspect the library. Tethy's library is mostly focused on Herbam, Vim, Rego, and Magic Theory. A strange tome sticks out, oddly shaped and of colorful leather, titled  Codex Fantasia, book marked with a black raven's feather.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea paces back and forth.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, this is terrible."

johns (GM): i take it no one here has second sight?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea turns.

Zita: Oh shit! We left all our second sight in the other party.

johns (GM): gahaha.

lol.

Rosario of Flambeau: My second sight character is over there, yes.

johns (GM): its not vital anyway.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But it could be worse! She's not actually dead."

Rosario of Flambeau: Also I have deficient Intellego.

I'm all about being on a team.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea turns again.

Zita: "Hey, good news. This book's marked with a bird feather."

I hand it to Fiorella

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But terrible, on the whole... what if she never returns?"

Zita: Maybe she was seeing if bird leaves count as herbam.

Rosario of Flambeau: "You'll have to keep up hope."

Voda: "Why don't we just wait here for her to come back?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton inspects the feather.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I think she might not appreciate that her sanctum has been intruded upon if she does come back."

johns (GM): It's a crow's feather. The page it has bookmarked has a passage underlined:

Guy of Bonisagus: "And she definitely won't appreciate that her door's been destroyed, leaving her tower open to looters."

johns (GM): “For at the very core sat

the Arcana Centrum, the center of all,

the beginning and the end, the mouth

that holds the tail in a toothy grip.”

The book does not explain what the

Arcana Centrum is.

Voda: Convenient.

What's before this passage?

Zita: "Wow, sounds pretty complicated."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: type up the rest of the book too

johns (GM): An unrelated discussing of Magic Lore. The book is a bit befuddling.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "A reference to the Ouroboros? A Criamon might be interested in this."

johns (GM): The author appared to be on Institus of Criamon.

* one

Rosario of Flambeau: "If only that new Criamon were here."

Voda: Hmm.

RIP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: alas!

johns (GM): That's it for obvious clues. If you got ideas for other leads lay em on me

Zita: What if she needs to be woken up with a kiss, Gulielmus, like in various popular fables

johns (GM): also if you want to take anything here with you let me know

Zita: Let's take her with us

Voda: Was she part of a covenant?

Do they even still have covenants in France?

johns (GM): this is Provence, not the shithole Normandy tribunal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, come on, that wouldn't be proper."

johns (GM): But she was a solitary magus who games alone

Voda: Can she be moved?

johns (GM): No, your hand passes through her like she's not there.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Twilighted magi can't be moved as far as I know

Zita: "We could hire someone to keep an eye on her and see if she wakes up, Guli."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Sad."

johns (GM): To date, Hermetic Magic has found no way to affect someone in twilight.

Zita: "It might not be final twilight. You never know!"

Voda: Hmm.

We could try hunting down the vis.

johns (GM): t'was vaporized in the lab accident

Voda: That's just the kind of coverup I'd expect from the REAL thief.

johns (GM): All of her vis is gone as well, some 20 pawns of Herbam, Perdo, Muto, and Vim vis.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's a real shame.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "No, no -- I'll do it myself."

Rosario of Flambeau: I clap Guli on the back.

"True love!"

Zita: "Wow, that's so sweet."

"You'll feel really silly if she doesn't come back though. Oh well."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Aside from myself, you're obviously the most knightly among us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'll just pretend I didn't hear you there, Zita."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "That's very noble of you. Pity Petrarch would be unlikely to pen a poem about it."

Guy of Bonisagus: nearly a century later and normandy is still a hellhole

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: chaos reigns

johns (GM): *7 centuries

Voda: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Tethy's token is really good

Voda: We should take an arcane connection.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All I need is an arcane connection, anyway, and then I can come around and check on her."

Voda: Or several.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

well hang on now. lets not make this weird,

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus will woo tethys by revealing that he broke into her lab and took an arcane connection to her

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Keep the place tidy. You know."

lol

Rosario of Flambeau: "Perhaps Guillaume de Machaut will take a vain interest in your story."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I care not for glory in this matter, Rosario!"

Voda: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau blinks, not understanding

Voda: Well, we could leave a note.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should do that also.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I return to the Provence chapter house, or wherever Flora took a portal to

Voda: Well, that was a bit of a bust.

Still, I think we all deserve 7-10 XP for it.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I won't pay for a portal myself, but I can tell her it's time to go home

johns (GM): If you want your other characters to teleport in and investigate, the lab isn't going anywhere

Sure, 7 XP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what kinda books she got

johns (GM): Good books on Herbam, Vim, Rego, Magic Theory; the weird Criamon book is a L4 Q7 book on Magic Lore, a couple other minor tract, plus her lab notes

Rosario of Flambeau: rego books ftw

magic theory ftw.

Voda: Dang, big loot this run.

We should raid more labs.

Rosario of Flambeau: i should steal some of boyrep's spells since im going to have decent rego and vim eventually anyway

johns (GM): are you taking the books with you? not that I'm judging you I just need to know if I need to put their stats in the thread

Rosario of Flambeau: You should not steal any books.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ftw.

johns (GM): I believe it has been suggested we should raid our Praeco's lab since his Herbam defenses are useless

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i do not want to take the books

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm going to yell at you and try to stop you if you do it in front of me, at least.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont want to rob a maga after we broke into her house and stole her hair or something

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, the Praeco is an idiot.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but, you know, if i happen to spend a season hanging around her tower like a psycho, i'm sure she wouldn't mind if i read a book.

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+1 kleptomania

(

7

)

+1

=

8

johns (GM): lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Zita: I'll steal something

johns (GM): and lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Zita: What's she got?

johns (GM): the books I just described

and idk some nice silk bedsheets I guess

they have little tree patterns on them

Zita: I'll take them

johns (GM): Excellent. Add it to your sheet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Also I'll pen her a note explaining that she was sent into twilight by a lab explosion, Gulielmus and friends came by to check on her, etc., etc.

Rosario of Flambeau: zita carrying all her shit wrapped in her bedsheet

"oh i had this the whole time"

(To Zita): Is she taking it all, or just the sheets

(From Zita): Just the sheets, I can't learn from books anymore

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus was too busy rushing to the 3rd floor to notice the bedsheet was there before

(From Zita): Though I also dont need to sleep. Still, what a nice pattern!

Voda: We really need a plan to deal with the Herbam blight.

Rosario of Flambeau: We should definitely investigate that somehow.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll look up dfd's post on Strabo later and see if i can figure it out

Voda: I think we have a good lead here.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: By which I mean, figure out if FIorella has anything to contribute

Voda: A weird, cryptic message in a Criamon book.

Sounds good to me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could make a trip to the Cave of Twisting Shadows

As a solo venture

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess i will roll to see if i realize zita probably stole everything

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Se what they can make of the book

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!-3 personality roll (subtracting naive)

(

6

)

-3

=

3

(To Fiorella the Raven): When would you like to do that? Can we assume it takes a season

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i feel like thats a no

johns (GM): she did not steal the books

Voda: Let's ask our Criamon magus.

(From Fiorella of Jerbiton): Fall would be fine.

johns (GM): also a good plan

(To Fiorella the Raven): Ok, some more stuff might happen in Rome in Fall just fyi. This is a busy year for historical reasons, I'll try to put a gap year in to make up for the long IRL time spent here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about the bedsheet

johns (GM): You do not notice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: incroyable

"Well, that was a somber journey."

Mortis ex Verditus: What's our plan to deal with the cats?

johns (GM): let the dogs out

Rosario of Flambeau: Ayy

We act like nothing is fucked.

Mortis ex Verditus: What about the Conti family?

johns (GM): you didn't owe them anything

Zita: I didn't steal books, that would just be wrong.

Mortis ex Verditus: I guess it's up to me to plan out a strategy for evicting all the noble families from Rome.

johns (GM) salutes

johns (GM): it might take me a day to stat up the loot and recap

also, next adventure is Fall 1347

Rosario of Flambeau: cool

johns (GM): we'll fit in a gap year to make up for spending so much time here soon, promise

Endrite: Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you how much mahney you made from curing the Annibaldis.

30 Mythic Pounds!

(From Fiorella of Jerbiton): I can postpone it, espeically since we have a PC criamon

Endrite: A king's ransom!

johns (GM): nice

Rosario of Flambeau: whoa!

Endrite: Sort of!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow!

johns (GM): i donate it to the church ofc

Endrite: They're also very grateful.

johns (GM): or commission stained glass for the church, even better

Endrite: There's probably some kind of rule to gain them as an ally or something but I don't know it.

johns (GM): the agents system is fucktarded

there ARE rules for sponsoring artwork. ill look em up

thats all 4 today tho

epic short session

Rosario of Flambeau: i love ars.

gg

Endrite: Good sesh.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: GG

Guy of Bonisagus: g

c'thinker (GM):

rolling 2d4

(

4

+

4

)

=

8

rolling 1d20

(

11

)

=

11

rolling 4d20

(

12

+

13

+

13

+

17

)

=

55

moe: sup sup

devil's fav demon (GM): yo moe

devil's fav demon: whoops was still set as gm

moe: having a good time out chyeah

i'm looking forward to the game and hope i'll attend as much as possible of it

devil's fav demon: nice. i think it'll be a fun one today.

Endrite (GM): It's Autumn 1347, right?

dys: OH yes. Most certainly,

moe: before we begin, I spent the season studying Italian and doing menial astrology work, do I get xp for last session and the downtime? Should I spend it now or is it more convenient if I do it in bulk after this session

Endrite (GM): You get XP after every season.

It's up to you if you how often you remember to update your character though.

dys:

what the hell

devil's fav demon: Weird.

dys:

<

okay if yyou start a sentence with "

what the fukc

devil's fav demon: lmao

dys: < THEN a -

try it yourself

devil's fav demon:

its just a <

dys: well a < on its own worked

<

<

devil's fav demon: < with anything after it

dys:

devil's fav demon: immediately after it

dys: ah

devil's fav demon: rather

dys: i see

it must be converting it to a fucking bbcode or w/e

does this work

moe: lol

dys: oh my god it is

devil's fav demon: i kept trying to do an ascii heart in a game a couple weeks ago and it wouldn't work.

rip.

moe: https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat

doesn't mention <

i guess it thinks it's like a color tag

<#>

hmm

moe: doing <# offers some command

dys: must be the special fx shit or something

moe: <\3

<//3

"

dys: roll20 only lets you break hearts

moe: i think I got it

&

wow

the designated "do not parse" character doesn't work, it's `

moe:

"

i concede

alright, i'll go grab a snacc, back in 5

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright time to do some Experimentation.

I'm inventing a level 29 Rego Corpus item (helmet).

It's a lesser enchantment.

rolling 1d10!

(

1

)

=

1

Gasp!

dys: could be worse

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 4d10

(

10

+

9

+

9

+

5

)

=

33

Phew, no botch.

Ok, now for the bonus lab points.

rolling 1d10

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2

)

=

2

Alright cool, I just need 1.

Well frankly I didn't even need 1.

Mortis ex Verditus: I just needed the extra +3 from Inventive Genius.

devil's fav demon: im going to assume johns is sleeping the extra hour.

Mortis ex Verditus: Probably, he's sleepy.

devil's fav demon: im gonna be back in 10. assume rosario is fired up to accuse people of infernalism and crusade at them

moe: to prove my worth, if anyone's doing anythign that can be improved by use of a horoscope (ritual magic mostly) i'll be the source for that

Pluto AND Mars in the 5th house

strong creative and passion impulses

Derfel would have loved this

devil's fav demon: lol

moe: I guess as a stoic hermit my only outlet for this alignment will be by making some thoroughly disconcerting efforts in the kitchen

devil's fav demon: grogs sweating, crying "n-no! it's really g-good! i promise!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh.

moe: I never asked actually, did the herbam blight also hit regular plantlife? I just assumed it did

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah, iirc

its generally all plants and plant based magic in magic auras.

Dušan of Criamon: Then my desperate efforts to stave off keto in the covenant shall continue unabated

Mortis ex Verditus: Magical auras (not other kinds) produced a one time miasma that killed plant life.

The miasma worked like any normal miasma and could be blown around by the wind.

Shauncat (GM): You can put an aegis over a farm if you think it's in danger still I think

Dušan of Criamon: I have no specific cropfield in mind, but in the interest of maintaining healthy bodies for healthy minds, the covenant would be wise to safeguard some source of food

Does this mean the covenant's hearth aegis protects its own soil?

Rosario of Flambeau: I think we're currently getting food from a faerie aura.

Mortis ex Verditus: I recommend you invent a net that makes fish jump into your boat.

Rosario of Flambeau: Or our status as landed knights in the king arthur regio is contributing toward us being able to afford food in these trying times.

or something.

Shauncat (GM): We also have chickens if you don't mind a little ketosis

dys: I suggest you invent a catch. You better catch it while you can.

Dušan of Criamon: Fish are fine, but I think it would be more appropriate for Dušan to begin planting a herb garden somewhere unobtrusive

moe: Then again, that net would make for a good training wheels artifact creation

Mortis ex Verditus: It would.

Shauncat: I think it would have to be ReAq(An) to target fish you can't see

Mortis ex Verditus: You'd just need to stick your head underwater.

Rosario of Flambeau: Re(In)Aq(An)

Shauncat: We could start a fishing income source on Ponza

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

thats a good idea actually.

start a totally legitimate trading company.

Shauncat: Yeah

Dušan of Criamon: end up in a vicious fishery power struggle

Shauncat: Voda's already expressed interest in being a trader

Mortis ex Verditus: Frankly we should start investing in Ponza.

Shauncat: Yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we're in a good position to claim it ourselves, legally.

Shauncat: Hazm's ready to go act as Chamberlain for Ponza whenever we want to get something goin there

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah. It'll be a good property to have.

Shauncat: It's technically his parish because no one else has claimed it

Rosario of Flambeau: thats pretty cool.

Father Hazm: He just takes a boat there during working seasons

Rosario of Flambeau: Put all the ownership documents in Hazm's name so he's technically a landed noble.

Father Hazm: Oooh

Mortis ex Verditus: TFW you accidentally grant land to the Catholic Church.

Father Hazm: TFW

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a minute.

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok I'm back!

Wow what a game!

Can't wait!

devil's fav demon: Yeah!

i checked steam and johns is not online but was online an hour ago.

rip this game.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmm.

I talked to him earlier today, so unless he fell asleep he should be awake by now.

dys: Good news! He fell asleep

devil's fav demon: strange that he decided to fall asleep after being on steam at the game's start time.

but hey, it happens.

moe: I just want to say I am truly enjoying being merely in the presence of gamers willing to play a game with a rulebook longer than 10 pages

devil's fav demon: hahh

moe: We probably did more theorycrafting/RP/ingame planning than I've seen from some real life groups in several hours of vain efforts

devil's fav demon: he seemed in the spirit of running and all, so i didnt get maps and tokens prepared for the damn fairy adventure.

or really write it.

im sorry.

i feel like i should have an adventure in the can or something in case the planned gm cant make it

dys: johns of jerbiton - Today at 6:09 PM

i set my alarm for 1 hour we'll see if i actually wake up

devil's fav demon: theres still a chance.

Mortis ex Verditus: I believe in him.

devil's fav demon: so i have something more to go on next week whats the approach w the goat girls? heres what i put in the hooks and rumors page on the wiki

The untended vineyards of the Vulcanal covenant are overgrown and wild within their Faerie aura. Anson's guards claim to have seen monstrous women cavorting between the rows and are fearful of leaving the covenant grounds.

you could also tell me you dont want to do this and i could prep the bjornaer adventure instead.

because i dont know if this crew even wants to help anson outside of the players making jokes about goat girls.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, adventure is adventure.

Father Hazm: I already wrote down that we did a side story a few years ago with the goat girls that just never had an actual adventure

devil's fav demon: for moe, since he wasnt here, anson is a reclusive bonisagus who (almost) never leaves his lab and prefers to communicate by passing letters under a door. he's been unable to handle the management of his covenant after his sodalis Tasso Agricola, who managed the vineyards and grounds, was assassinated.

Mortis ex Verditus: He needs to attract more talent to his covenant.

devil's fav demon: he doesn't have a great relationship with vardian's tomb but also that's his only relationship in the tribunal.

so he sort of hopes you'll help him anyway.

he does, yeah.

im surprised he hasn't already, mt etna is a great location.

what was the side story? i don't have a great memory, in general.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wasn't Beardbeard really interested in that adventure though?

devil's fav demon: i don't know if he really is or if it's just a bit.

i'm hoping he is.

dys: oh, ill miss the goat girls, dang.

have fun, all.

im going to france to beat up ronnie

devil's fav demon: it could be a two parter. we'll never know until it happens.

that's cool.

beat up that bussy.

im sorry.

Mortis ex Verditus: Today's adventure was supposed to be Momentus.

devil's fav demon: i've been looking into folklore of the area and i found some fun stuff that doesn't involve morgan lefay's castle

Mortis ex Verditus: So if we do do a side adventure you shouldn't bring your favorite guy.

Father Hazm: Fiorella's more apt to help out someone who lives so far away since she can teleport around

devil's fav demon: well, if johns doesn't come back I assume we're doing whatever he had planned for today next week.

but i'll have something ready in case

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok

dys: Moron le Fey

how close is pendragon to the end

Father Hazm: Sexy Le Fay

devil's fav demon: today, i'm not going to be able to do it justice, i just have vague ideas about a hot springs regio and the girls.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ha ha ha.

devil's fav demon: it will subvert expectations.

Mortis ex Verditus: Pendragon is about 7 years out but we keep skipping weeks.

devil's fav demon: damn.

what is the current status of king arthur

Mortis ex Verditus: He's vigorous and wise.

devil's fav demon: Bless him.

dys: think thats 2 hours after johns said he'd wake up, im giving up hope, just @ me on discord if he comes back and the session is still on somehow

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Can do.

I hope Johns is ok.

Father Hazm: Same

devil's fav demon: yeah.

im gonna go to the store and get something to eat.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm really sorry about this Moe.

moe: Oh everyone's gone

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, Johns never showed up.

So what can you do?

moe: well rest assured I enjoyed my time and perhaps this was for the best, I do have a doctor's appointment tomorrow

I don't know the particulars of johns situation but it seems everyone is worried for him and as such I shan't bear ill will towards him

Mortis ex Verditus: He probably just took a nap or something.

moe: I too have carried the burden of the GM and I know one should cut a nigga some slack

devil's fav demon (GM): rip.

hope he's not dead.

rolling 1d10!+1+3

(

2

)

+1+3

=

6