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devil's fav demon (GM): i see everyones just shaking with excitement to be here for tribunal

devil's fav demon: aha, a delay.

Hafl T.: i hope cumthinker streams c-dramas because i'm drunk and sleepy

Boy R.: same but i don't hope that because i don't know what it is

johns (GM): chinese dramas

he was streaming a tv adaptation of The Water Margin

Boy R.: ooh

johns (GM): why are yall drunk on a sunday. dont you have work tomorrow br

Boy R.: I had work today

johns (GM): O_O

Boy R.: anyway work ends at 3pm so we went drinking

devil's fav demon: nice.

Hafl T.: there was drinking at work today

johns (GM): does hafl have a job

Hafl T.: i work at an art gallery six days a month

johns (GM): im so sorry

Hafl T.: it's a good job

johns (GM): hmmmmmm

Hafl T.: there's an average of 0.5 visitors per hour

devil's fav demon: that sounds like a cool one

Boy R.: are you the guy that sits in a corner and reads a book

Hafl T.: yes

johns (GM): here is the stuff that needs to be resolved today, i say this now cause we could finish real early

-- proclus was going to raise a ghost

-- you get to pick some books and spell texts to trade for

devil's fav demon: thats going to take at least 3 hours

johns (GM): -- gulielmus deals with renard

-- archibald debates

Hafl T.: we need a good muto book

johns (GM): -- zita deals with hoplites

-- various ppl have mystery cult stuff in bg

so of that the ghost is the only thing that involves all people that cant be handled in the thred

Hafl T.: beatrice supports zita in making the person she helped murder an outlaw

also gulielmus in attacking a peaceful visitor to our covenant

Endrite (GM): Proclus wrote two Wizard's Communion texts and I want to know if it's ok to trade both or if you guys want to keep one.

devil's fav demon: Renard is cool.

Hafl T.: he may be cool, but gulielmus was right

johns (GM): if dys is here you can tell me what you're doing to the corpse

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think I agreed to help smuggle it back to VT

but if any quaesitor asks me about it I'm telling them everything

johns (GM): someone was planning to ask proclus to Necromance it

Endrite (GM): I think that was the idea.

devil's fav demon: oh what w as that map maker?

the name of it already slipped my mind.

Shauncat (GM): We can probably trade off the Wizards Communions unless they're as good as our aegis

Malachiasz of Tytalus: salvete

Endrite: They aren't.

They're better.

Heliste of Tytalus: salve

Proclus of Rome: They're level 45.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oooh.

Shauncat (GM): Maybe we should keep one then

Proclus of Rome: Well, I could always write more.

Lodewig of Tytalus: idk if i can learn a level 45 wizcom

oh it's muto, I probably can

Shauncat (GM): Well there's one other issue, our two best Vim guys are Proclus and Archibald and they don't seem likely to work together

Malachiasz of Tytalus: why not?

Lodewig of Tytalus: they kick you out of the cult if you refuse to cast a ritual in communion with a fellow mercurian

Shauncat (GM): Oh, I don't know anything about Lodewig's scores, if he can do it then go for it

dys: What spell do you mean, shauncat?

Beatrice ex Merinita: how high is lodewig's muto?

dys: was tabbed out

what vim spell

Shauncat (GM): Wizard's Communion

Lets us get a bunch of penetration on our aegis

Lodewig of Tytalus: i was just reflecting that mid level wizard's communion would probably be the best seller, because it's something you want your whole covenant to know

dys: Do we need a high level wizards communion? Our aegis is level 30.

We have a level 30 communion lying around maybe

Shauncat (GM): Proclus already wrote one down

dys: so we're already good then

Shauncat (GM): He's debating where to sell one or both of his copies

dys: oh

we should keep one, imo

in case others want to learn our aegis text

speaking of which, we have an aegis text, anyone is free to read and learn from it

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's teach the scribe magic theory and have him copy lab texts

Bialas of Bjornaer: That sounds like a pretty smart thing to do.

Why not.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's 2 seasons to get +10 MR against aegis

Bialas of Bjornaer: No reason not to.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, how much xp did we get for the empress adventure?

Proclus of Rome: I think we should trade both Wizard Communion texts, since there won't be another Tribunal for a while.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that doesn't strike me as a good return on 2 season's work

Beatrice ex Merinita: you probably want to know aegis anyway just in case

Archibald of Guernicus: Depends how much you really want to avoid aegis'

Beatrice ex Merinita: so it¨s really just one season

Lodewig of Tytalus: true, you can always set a safe house

Archibald of Guernicus: In fact, if you lend a hand this tribunal with the sanctum argument, you can have a legal out-of-covenant safehouse.

c'thinker (GM): salb

Beatrice ex Merinita: i just want to have faerie safehouse i can fill with insane experiments

Malachiasz of Tytalus: go tribunal

go

c'thinker: i will throw my weight behind the sanctum proposal, destroying its chances entirely with my -3 reputation

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): as a remidner i have our copy of analects of tytalus with its cover swapped out for the bibles cover with me

c'thinker: do we have a judge

johns (GM): what is malachiasz' level of skill in bookbinding

Archibald of Guernicus: He has heard of books

johns (GM): bookbinding is a profession

Malachiasz of Tytalus: completely unskilled, why

johns (GM): okay

you destroy both books

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

Hypatia of Athens: I will go to Tribunal and tell everyone Guileilmus did nothing wrong

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well, at least they werent important ones

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's revoke malachiasz's library access

c'thinker: my strategy is to confess and throw myself on the mercy of the tribunal

Bialas of Bjornaer: That always works.

c'thinker: i havent attempted to contact the flambeau, for which i am blaming archibald

Bialas of Bjornaer: Worked last time.

johns (GM): what are you doing with the redcap corpse you recovered and brought back

c'thinker: who is my legal counsel.

Archibald of Guernicus: what did malach destroy

c'thinker: the bible

lets get him

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's summon a ghost already

johns (GM): he ripped apart the binding on the bible and the analects of tytalus

c'thinker: we swore an oath!

Beatrice ex Merinita: phew, i thought it was something important

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay, let's step back slightly. What was he doing that caused him to destroy books

c'thinker: did he actually destroy a bible

Archibald of Guernicus: Why did he destroy the analects

johns (GM): yes

c'thinker: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it was an accident

Lodewig of Tytalus: he should have switched the binding on the bible and the analectrs

Archibald of Guernicus: why the fuck would a tytalan destroy the analects

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats what i was doing lodewig

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh, well good

c'thinker: he switched the binding on the analects of tytalus and a copy of the economist

Anthemia Mercere: I guess I should wear my red cap if I'm going to tribunal

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmfaio.

mal rules.

Beatrice ex Merinita: should have switched the ink instead

johns (GM): johns (GM): what are you doing with the redcap corpse you recovered and brought back

Proclus of Rome: I'm going to cast Whispers Beyond the Black Gate on it.

WHEN ASKED

c'thinker: ok so

Beatrice ex Merinita: we promised we won't necro a maga, so we'll just romance it

Anthemia Mercere: We were going to preserve it so she appeared to have died after beign marched

c'thinker: can i take affinity bonus on adventure xp

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

c'thinker: and exposure xp.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "we"

"Hey Zita. Who's the dead woman?"

Anthemia Mercere: By which I mean someone with enough CrCO

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have enough crco

Lodewig of Tytalus: c'thinker: yes

at least that's always been my understanding

Zita of Mercere: "The kidnapper."

c'thinker optimizes

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can easily spont charm against putrefaction

i could probably easily modify it to ring and circle

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, nice. Can I have her skull?"

c'thinker: but what if... i were to take 1 xp and round it up to 2

delightfully devilish, cumthinker

Zita of Mercere: "Depends."

Beatrice ex Merinita: actually, ring+circle would be level 5 which i can spont fatiguelessly

Zita of Mercere: "Preserve it against rot for a month, and you can have it to do as you please with."

"That sound fair?"

Anthemia Mercere: I just multiply my lifetime XP in an affinity by 1.5 even if its less optimal than always tkaing an odd number XP in it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Sure, let me see."

Proclus of Rome: "Why are we keeping a corpse for a month?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "because we live in a tomb"

Zita of Mercere: "What's one more body down here?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, should just be level 10

i spont the spell

Proclus of Rome: "But why are we keeping this body?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+23

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24

uh oh!

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: ""To deny her the same justice she denied me."

Proclus of Rome: "No one has been interred in Vardian's Tomb for centuries, to my knowledge."

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Zita of Mercere: "Aristocritus?"

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

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10

Zita of Mercere: Okay, Malach enters the Shadow Realm

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Done."

it is now warded against decay for one month

Bialas of Bjornaer snoozes. A snot bubble grows and then shrinks along with his breath.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Can I have it now?"

Proclus of Rome: "This is ridiculous."

"What is the point of tormenting a corpse?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "So she appears to have died AFTER being marched."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Makes sense. Who's the kid?"

Proclus of Rome: "What are you talking about?"

Zita of Mercere: "Hers. Should use perdo mentem on him."

johns (GM): where is the kid right now

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "You carried her child with her mangled corpse? That's pretty brutal."

"Hey, kid, watch this."

Proclus of Rome: "Have you spoken to Archibald about what I assume is the attempt to cover up a serious Hermetic Crime?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I start stabbing the dead redcaps neck with my shovel as I try to harvest the skull.

johns (GM): the child attacks malach

Proclus of Rome: Astounding.

devil's fav demon: Wow.

Zita of Mercere: "She's a deranged killer who kidnapped and murdered one of our sodales' family members."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Woah, calm down there kid."

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!-4 brawl

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4

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!-1

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Proclus of Rome: lol

Zita of Mercere: "I wasn't letting her flee until after tribunal after doing that."

johns (GM): A four year old beans Malachiasz with a piece of chipped masonry.

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I was denied the agency to save my cousin, so she shall be denied the justice of the tribunal."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "She killed a hermetic magus and is guilty of mundane interference."

Zita of Mercere: "We'll get it sorted out at tribunal, she'll be marched when they find out even half of what she's done, and that'll be the end of it."

Proclus of Rome: "I should point out that there is clearly at least one deranged killer in this covenant already."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The kids will go far."

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, but they don't attack the loved ones of people here."

I look at Lodewig

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Little shit. Fortunately no object of Terram can harm me, as I have mastered it."

Zita of Mercere: "Okay, maybe there are some, but still."

johns (GM): He bites Malach's arm.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I go back to cutting the head off and take the skull to my lab.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I'm pretty sure kidnapping and killing a mundane noble to attempt blackmailing a magus is interference."

Zita of Mercere: "Well we can bring it up if it matters."

Proclus of Rome: I'll stop Malachiasz from cutting her head off.

Bialas of Bjornaer: He already did it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Faustus molests the skull.

johns (GM): other pcs can stop him if they wish

devil's fav demon: It's at least heavily brutalized in the neck area.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "She's already done. Her interference with the mundane nobility is moot, sadly."

Lodewig of Tytalus: sounds like its time for an action priority roll

Proclus of Rome: I'll ask someone to fetch Archibald.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have already spent two turns driving a shovel down onto her neck, yeah.

Proclus of Rome: Rather, you spent one turn being attacked by a child and then this turn when I said I'd try to stop you.

johns (GM): just to be clear everyone now seems to have been clued into the fact that beatrice and malach and zita are planning a coverup on a major hermetic crime

Bialas of Bjornaer: Well, I'm asleep.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh im not planning a coverup

im honest and indiscreet

johns (GM): Archibald has a vision that everyone in the covenant has been corrupted by the infernal

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if anyone asks me about it ill say yeah they were doing this

c'thinker: whats goin on

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

Lodewig of Tytalus: this is also my policy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is malach mutilating the corpse while the child watches

Proclus of Rome: Well do I stop Malachiasz or what?

johns (GM): Yes Gulielmus

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh no! That's the second-worst aura!"

I say, in my lab, distantly

johns (GM): Well how do you stop him, Proclus

are you attacking him

Proclus of Rome: I'll tell him to stop.

johns (GM): ok

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Alright."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I will as well.

Proclus of Rome: Another glorious victory.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Nggaaaaaauuuooooooooooooohhh." I yawn.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'll find another skull I guess, this one was just convenient."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this means that proclus is now doubly obliged to join house tytalus

Proclus of Rome: I'll ask the boy if he wants to speak to his mother.

Lodewig of Tytalus: there's no obligation

he's just there

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Now that the corpse is preserved, I'm going back to my sanctum, since I spent trying to figure out how to be relevant in this scenario aside from losing my cousin and failed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait a minute. so am i

Lodewig of Tytalus: salve

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea screams

johns (GM): I feel that everyone should be here

Because it is getting to be a pain dealing with everyone having partial information

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Morning everyone. Nice crying child."

johns (GM): The child calls you all murderers, Proclus

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Well let's clear that up.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "This kid's pretty smart."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I;'m surprised Fiorella is so indifferent to this turn of events

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Hey, kid, you wanna be my apprentice?"

johns (GM): The child attempts to run away.

Proclus of Rome: I'll cast Whispers Beyond the Black Gate on the dead woman.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He never saw me do a thing!"

Zita of Mercere: "Perdo mentem him, unless you're interested in tormenting a child."

(To Proclus of Rome): Roll it

Zita of Mercere: "Not the first or last time this covenant has covered things up that way."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "You want me to stop him?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll put him to sleep

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to touch the kid and cast a spell.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea crosses himself.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 23

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Oh look I did it.

Zita of Mercere: Bialas' token makes the act of touching a child seem far, far more ominous

Lodewig of Tytalus: wow

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+34

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Base 15, +1 Touch, +1 Diam The target has all ability to think removed; his imagination (which controls thinking) is destroyed, causing him to stand, mouth open, until the spell ends. Only his imagination is affected, so he acts according to his estimation if threatened.

I'll prop him up against a wall.

Zita of Mercere: Okay it's only diam duration, but good lord

I thought you just wiped his brain

Proclus of Rome: "May I speak with you?" I ask the corpse.

johns (GM): whats proclus damn sigil

Zita of Mercere: if hes gifted (i think he is) then you committed a hermetic crime there

Bialas of Bjornaer: "That crying really carries through the cave."

Proclus of Rome: Triangles.

johns (GM): Okay

The arms of the corpse rise up and the hands clasp together forming a triangle.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oh, while this happened I growled at the kid and my eyes turned white. Sigils.

Proclus of Rome: It isn't a crime to do anything to Gifted people if they aren't members of the Order of Hermes.

Consolata of Mercere: "What have you done!"

Proclus of Rome: "I don't know, is it alright if I continue to conjure your spirit?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "So Consolata had a gifted child? Do we know any particularly loathsome Bonisagi?"

Consolata of Mercere: "I can't see.. where am I??"

"It's so cold"

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, well, you are dead."

Consolata of Mercere: "Simon? Simon? Are you there?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Could a Bonisagus be ignoble?"

Proclus of Rome: "Who is Simon?"

Consolata of Mercere: "Simon my boy! Please.. Come to your mother"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Try not to attack the boy while he's leaning there, Mal. He'll still bite."

Beatrice ex Merinita: thats a dangerous thing to ask, consolata

Consolata of Mercere: the child is asleep

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "They spend so much time isolated in their smelly labs, I imagine they well could be ignoble."

Consolata of Mercere: lodewig has put him to sleep

Zita of Mercere: I tap Fiorella and say quietly to her, so Consolata doesnt hear my voice and freak out "There's no need for Houes Mercere to suffer too from this, let's not get bonisagi involved."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oh I had to stand up and missed it.

Whoops./

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: temple aura is 5 right

Lodewig of Tytalus: no, bialas has rendered him catatonic

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Why the hell would I attack a child?"

"Especially my apprentice."

Consolata of Mercere: temple is 6, temple complex is 4

Zita of Mercere: we're in the covenant right now though

i think

Consolata of Mercere: yes

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I guess for Zita's sake I'll go with that

Bialas of Bjornaer: Oh, i thought you said he put the kid to sleep after I cast on him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im going to roll for a past season.

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

Bialas of Bjornaer: No, the kid is standing, slack jawed, with his eyes open.

In a corner of the room.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I looked it up and I can't easily spont call to slumber

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+6 eating 2 pawns faerie vis (corpus)

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oh no

Proclus of Rome: "Is your son here now? I have never met him."

Consolata of Mercere: "I can't see... who's there? Atorcoppe, are you there?"

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): AFK

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'm here."

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

Zita of Mercere: brb

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I am Malachiasz of Tytalus, your son's parens."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton imagines Consolata's son being eaten by crows while her ghost listens, and does her best to hold back

Consolata of Mercere: does studying faerie vis add to # of botch die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: idk.

Consolata of Mercere: "No! Leave him be!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Letting Malachiasz take him is almost as good a torture anyway

Beatrice ex Merinita: almost?

Consolata of Mercere: "Proclus... Proclus... Vardian's Tomb? Am I in Vardian's Tomb? Why did you bring me here?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Faerie vis is generally safe for magi to use, although sometimes it may have strange side effects. It does not, however, tend to distort spells or have bad effects on the magi using it.

Consolata of Mercere: ill assume its fine then

rolling 2d10 botch die

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Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wehw

whew.

Proclus of Rome: "I did not bring you here, perhaps my sodale would like to explain why he did."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If you didn't want this brutish pole becoming his new master, perhaps you shouldn't have killed my cousin."

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): Back

Proclus of Rome: Does he?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Brutish?"

Zita of Mercere: I should note that if Malach actually opens his arts, it gives him more flaws than a starting character can actually have, is classified as the highest crime since the schism war, and the child probably explodes

Bialas of Bjornaer: That's a really good reason to do it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. i'm eating the remaining 2 pawns of vis

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Enjoy Hell you latrina di maiale."

Proclus of Rome: That's just for standard PCs, naturally a character generated in play can have more or less than the normal number of flaws.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

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christ

Proclus of Rome: For example, you could brutally maim your apprentice.

Consolata of Mercere: "Fiorella.. Fiorella! I warned you... you fool, all you had to do was bring me the talon... You killed him!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It wasn't my dagger in his neck>"

Proclus of Rome: How long does this conversation take?

Consolata of Mercere: idk why

Zita of Mercere: Every single art under 5 in the parens gives someone a Deficient art, Malach has 8. Giving someone 1 is a low crime. 2 is a more severe crime. If we extrapolate, Malach will probably cause Guernicus to rise from under Magvillus to personally slay him.

Beatrice ex Merinita: even i'm convinced that malach should do it now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's imprison guernicus and extract vis from him

Bialas of Bjornaer: What if the kid turns into a magical being of terram instead of exploding? That could be cool.

Proclus of Rome: Bialas' spell wears off in two minutes.

Bialas of Bjornaer: It does.

Zita of Mercere: Also Guernicus is the greatest terrae-magus who ever lived, and Terram is a half-complete form because he kept the coolest stuff for himeslf, so gl malach.

Lodewig of Tytalus: guernicus is the greatest master of terram to have ever lived ,so ,luring him into a trap would be an excellent strat

Consolata of Mercere: if you let a true blooded mercere get apprenticed by tytalus you will never receive mail again

Bialas of Bjornaer: The kid will immediately start screaming and crying again once it wears off.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "We didn't become a patrician family by letting ourselves be bullied by blackmailers."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Someone could stuff something in his mouth or tie him up.

Proclus of Rome: Why?

Zita of Mercere: I won't let that happen, don't worry. How old is the kid? He should be apprenticed alongside Zita's first son for optimal hijinks.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "You can say hello to everyone else who attempted to push us around when you reach Satan's bosom."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Just seems like the sort of thing this crowd does.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's not torture the child in non-funny ways

Proclus of Rome: "What is the claw?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: just let me have the apprentice

Lodewig of Tytalus: that';s a good policy

Proclus of Rome: "Or talon, excuse me."

Consolata of Mercere: "I... did it all to learn about the threat... The great threat to the order"

"Swear you'll keep Simon safe! Swear it! I'll tell you all I know"

Zita of Mercere tugs collar

Proclus of Rome: "I swear I will keep Simon safe from those who would do him harm."

This means you Malachiasz.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Going by your logic, anything bad that happens to him at our hands is your fault anyway."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I think we can all safely commit to that"

Beatrice ex Merinita: he did not actually saw me kill his mother, so i could make him my apprentice

Consolata of Mercere: "Proclus, I hear her.. She'll take revenge on my through Simon.. stop her! Please!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im not harming him

im giving him a chance to join the greatest house

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I'd rather have revenge on your masters."

Proclus of Rome: "Hear who?"

"Fiorella of Jerbiton?"

Consolata of Mercere: "Yes, her"

Proclus of Rome: "Surely she wouldn't stop so low as to harm a young child."

I mean "stoop"

Consolata of Mercere: "I hear the bloodlust in her voice... She thinks because she has the gift she can trample all beneath her footsteps.. I know her type"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hmm

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I think it's because she's a noble, actually"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: ;/me puts on a Guile 0 poker face

Zita of Mercere: "I swear I will keep Simon safe from those who would do him harm."

Consolata of Mercere: "Zita! You murdered me!"

"Damn you!"

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

"What?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: uh, that was a wolf

Proclus of Rome: "How did this happen?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Snff, Uh, Yes. I'll keep the kid safe. Must have dozed off for a moment."

He's probably awake now.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Roll Artes Liberales (logic) to figure out it wasn't an ordinary wolf

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh god, it was lodewig

Consolata of Mercere: "She tried to stab me in the back when I was protecting my son! Don't let her near him!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Oh you know what would be fun? Maybe Beatrice knows how to do some of that fairy contract magic so we could put a horrible curse on anyone who breaks their oath of not doing harm to this child"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ill use hands of the grasping earth if the kid tries to run again

Consolata of Mercere wails like a banshee

Bialas of Bjornaer: I try to stand between Consolata and Zita and block the dead woman's view.

Zita of Mercere: "You tortured and killed Marco."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Anyway, I'm not looking with particular malice towards the kid

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I don't think I have the spare time to invent a spell like that."

Proclus of Rome: Has Bialas' spell worn off yet?

Bialas of Bjornaer: I would say so.

Consolata of Mercere: ok

Zita of Mercere: "Everything for that has been settled. I'm not going to harm your son, unlike you I don't attack people's family to harm them."

Consolata of Mercere: the kid flips out and tries to run away again

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Just appreciative of the irony of the reversal of fortune scenario

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i use hands of the grasping earth on him

Proclus of Rome: "Simon?"

Zita of Mercere: I thought Lodewig was putting the little tyke to sleep

good shit malach

Lodewig of Tytalus: "You have to make time for the things that matter in life"

I thought it would be a good idea, but I can't

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, your son is here."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "You have no idea, Lodewig."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Lodewig said that and then Bialas destroyed the kids imagination for two minutes.

Consolata of Mercere: Simon cries as he is magically assaulted.

Proclus of Rome: Please don't murder this son.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can make him fall asleep, I think.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im just holding him

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could put two circles of beast warding around the kid filled with crows to make a wall of killer birds

Zita of Mercere: That sounds like a plan with numerous drawbacks

Proclus of Rome: That seems like an intensely bad idea.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I probably won't do it

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+24)/2 ReMe

(

(

5

)

+24)/2

=

14.5

Consolata of Mercere: "Damn you! Leave my son be! You monster!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But I had fun imagining it

Lodewig of Tytalus: You're really hung up on this wall of killer birds idea

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can make him fall asleep for another Diam.

Bialas of Bjornaer: i could turn into a bear and cast the bears are normal spell and then take him out for a ride on my back or something.

Lodewig of Tytalus: think of the poor crows

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'm just holding him still so he doesn't run off and die somewhere."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Well the idea comes from where the original animal summoning spell comes from

Proclus of Rome: "Perhaps my sodales could refrain from relentlessly casting spells on a poor orphan boy."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Where the guy surrounds his camp with two circles of beast warding and a bunch of scoripions

Consolata of Mercere: perhaps

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's more merciful to let him sleep."

Consolata of Mercere: but perhaps not

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+6 eating 2 pawns rego vis

(

8

)

+6

=

14

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "So put him to sleep then."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So its supposed to be effective going by Ars writers intentions, anyway

Beatrice ex Merinita: I did

Proclus of Rome: "I think it is very important that Consolata be allowed to speak to her son, don't you?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Sounds reasonable."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If it'll get her to cooperate."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "He won't have a lot of chances"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We're keeping her body for a month. She can talk to him once he calms down."

Proclus of Rome: "Can you explain what threat to the Order of Hermes you were trying to discover?"

Consolata of Mercere: "You deserve everything that happens to you"

Proclus of Rome: "We are leaving for Tribunal soon, I think it is important to get this matter resolved."

Consolata of Mercere: "Murderers and betrayers all of you!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+6 two more pawns

(

1

)

+6

=

7

cripes

rolling 2d10

(

4

+

10

)

=

14

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I beg your pardon?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "You attacked Vardian's Tomb and met with the predictable result."

Zita of Mercere: Your aids points are growing at an alarming rate

Beatrice ex Merinita: "But your son will be safe, I promise."

Proclus of Rome: "Can you explain the circumstances of your murder?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "You could have asked for my help if this was a matter of a threat to the Order. Instead you kidnapped my cousin and attempted to coerce me to steal from my sodales."

Consolata of Mercere: "Not enough to kill me now you torture my boy"

"I'll see the lot of you in hell!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He's fine!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He's sleeping. He had a tough day."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He's a tough kid, Mal's just sore a four year old whipped his hide."

Zita of Mercere: "He'll be taken back to House Mercere and be freed from the various lunatics of this covenant."

Proclus of Rome: "How do you wish to see your son raised? I will do everything I can to see that it happens."

Consolata of Mercere: "Swear on your life you will keep him free from the sadists of Vardian's Tomb. Let a true Mercere raise him properly."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Why all this fol-de-rol? Look, maga, tell us why you killed Marco and what the deal is with the claw"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I already claimed him."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "What would any of us want with a little kid?"

Zita of Mercere: "You can't claim a gifted child before they're 5."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "we'lre all swearing to keep him safe, and on top of that let's say he's going to be returned to his family

"whoever you like, even"

Proclus of Rome: "Malaciasz, you couldn't raise a dog, let alone a child."

"I swear to return him to House Mercere."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "This child would make a perfect member of Tytalus. Such brutal tragedy, such awful conflicts, and such a strong will."

Zita of Mercere: "You aren't keeping him."

Proclus of Rome: "Just moments ago you were attempting to decapitate his mother's corpse, you maniac."

Zita of Mercere: "Find some other child to torment and lose in a lab accident you overgrown maniac."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Giving him to house Tytalus would be almost as bad as giving him to house Tremere."

Consolata of Mercere groans

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Then let us offer him to Luctatio."

Proclus of Rome: "Never."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He has the heart of a lion. We'll see where he ends up."

Zita of Mercere: "Get out of here, Malach."

Proclus of Rome: "Is there a trusted member of House Mercere you would like me to deliver him to?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 2d10!+6 2 more rego

(

6

+

1

)

+6

=

13

Lodewig of Tytalus: "now that's just absurd. Strength of will doesn't arise in proportion to disaster and woe"

Consolata of Mercere: "I could have been one of you once. I had the gift. But it sputtered and I had to be little more than a servant, a letter carrier to such undeserving wizards.."

Zita of Mercere: Gulielmus Gets AIDS

Consolata of Mercere:

rolling 2d10

(

9

+

9

)

=

18

no botch on cthinker

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Maybe not, Lodewig, but the child whipped a pot at my head and then lunged at me, teeth bared."

Proclus of Rome: Is Gulielmus eating all of our vis?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "He has potential."

Beatrice ex Merinita: he is

Zita of Mercere: "The only Gifted Mercere in the tribunal is Aurora, if I bring the child to her she'll ensure he's taken in properly by the house."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I should take him to the next Gathering of Twelve Years."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh wait

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Surely at least you can see that he belongs in a more prestigious house than Mercere, of all places."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that was just supposed to be 1d10 anway

Proclus of Rome: "Please, to whom should I deliver your son, Simon?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will subtract the extra 1.

Consolata of Mercere: She names a Gifted Mercere who is not Aurora the apprentice slayer.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: how long does the process of opening the arts take anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+6 three pawns

(

5

)

+6

=

11

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Haha

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a full season?

Zita of Mercere: You let one apprentice die in a lab accident and the name follows you forever

Consolata of Mercere: if you're not actually going to stop malachiasz from talking consolata shuts up

Lodewig of Tytalus: he wasn't even a real mercere

Proclus of Rome: Is she going to be at Tribunal?

Consolata of Mercere: no she's from the Alps tribunal

Zita of Mercere: "Malachiasz, get the fuck out of this room if all you're going to do is interfere."

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's kill malachiasz

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll stop Malachiasz

Proclus of Rome: "Malachiasz, you would irreparably maim this child's Gift if you took him as an apprentice."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I have to be more honorable than her

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I can see that Simon gets to what's her name, I was planning on heading north soon anyway"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guilelmus is one point away from learning leap of homecoming.

Consolata of Mercere: rip the fae corpus vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assumed we didnt want it for anything

so i ate all of it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I want to go to the Alps as well to arrange to foster a Jerbiton apprentice

Beatrice ex Merinita: i need corpus vis

Consolata of Mercere: many vikings died to satiate gulielmus' appetice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: just summon more vikings

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Perhaps the child should take Malachiasz as his own apprentice and teach the skinny bull how to fight."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Bah, you lack vision. Go then, give the child to Mercere."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ho ho ho."

Consolata of Mercere: "Atorcoppe was going to set things right... He could bring me my gift back.."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "In 16 years you will see what talent was squandered."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Now we're getting to it"

Proclus of Rome: "Archibald, isn't it your job to prevent Malachiasz from taking an apprentice?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea walks into the room, eating an apple.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What's up guys? Communing with the dead?

"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, welcome back Gulielmus."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Isn't it always?"

Zita of Mercere: Archibald is in his lab preparing for tribunal. The streams remain uncrossed.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "babysitting"

Proclus of Rome: "Who is Atorcoppe?"

Consolata of Mercere: "He wanted the claw back.. He said it was his external soul.. As long as it could be kept safe he'd be indestructible"

"It was a name he gave me... he said once he' d been known as Damhan-Allaidh"

Proclus of Rome: Gaps!

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Let's break the claw down for vis."

Proclus of Rome: I mean Gasp!

Bialas of Bjornaer: I should really get OoH lore outside of my own house.

Oh!

That guy!

Proclus of Rome: "That sounds awfully short sighted, Beatrice.

Zita of Mercere: "The spider, who threatened the order of hermes and warred with them on the british isles."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "and you believe him?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's the safest course."

Proclus of Rome: "The Spider himself?"

"How could he still be alive?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I nudge Gulielmus and whisper to him, "If we destroy that talon we kill some powerful evil, I think."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea thinks about this REALLY carefully.

Proclus of Rome: "Pralix defeated him centuries ago."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10-3, to act in a non-naive manner

(

4

)

-3

=

1

Beatrice ex Merinita: "There's several ways to immortality."

"He could have become a faerie."

Consolata of Mercere: "He said he mastered the knowledge of the external soul... Death could never claim him.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Give you your gift back? That sounds really interesting."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "It's an ugly trick, and we're better off destroying this thing so it doesn't catch on"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Lodewig is right."

I head to the vault.

Zita of Mercere: "What if destroying it returns it to him? Don't be rash."

Proclus of Rome: "That seems disastrously short sighted."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's just being a Tytalus. This thing sounds really powerful."

Zita of Mercere: "A lot of people are dead because of it, its staying locked away."

Faustus Galerius: "What a fellow."

Faustus Galerius floats in.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Certainly we need to hear more about this"

"I've been meaning to ask, whose skull is this?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hello Faustus."

"That's Faustus. Or is it Galerius?"

Zita of Mercere: "Someone help me stop him before he does something stupid." I head off to the vault

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Oh, long time no see."

Faustus Galerius: "Hello. Thought I heard someone say Pralix."

Consolata of Mercere: everyone looks around at lodewig's question, assuming the skull was with someone else

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll go with Zita.

Zita of Mercere: lol

Proclus of Rome: Whose skull this is? :crying emoji: :crying emoji: :crying emoji:

Faustus Galerius: He'll answer to either

Bialas of Bjornaer: "The skull's with Venator, or something like that. A really superb guy. Ho ho ho."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if only we had a gm who knew latin.

Proclus of Rome: "How did you meet the Spider?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: faustus and galerius both have masculine ending, what more do you want?

Consolata of Mercere: "He came to me when I was alone.. I don't know where he went when he was not with me"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fausta galeria  drake approves

Lodewig of Tytalus: faustus will not be an ominous name for ~150 years

Proclus of Rome: Or sooner depending on what he does.

Faustus Galerius: "Suppose I'm Venator's skull, if he's the oldest one here. I'd say I'm my own skull, but I'm sure he'd disagree."

Beatrice ex Merinita: more like faustum galerium ever since he lost his lower body

Consolata of Mercere: "He would speak to me from the shadows.. I did not see him"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone knows faustus galerius superbus. he's great

Faustus Galerius: Yeah it's just a normal Roman name at this time.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean, he has a flaw that makes you think hes an asshole.

but hes great

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Never heard of a man with the ancestry of a spider before. Dark portents..."

Proclus of Rome: "Did he come to you anywhere or was there somewhere you went to commune with him?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he taught me everything i know about, uhh, ooh lore

Consolata of Mercere: "No where in particular"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "There's a variety of faerie blood that's related to spiders. It's a bit rare, but not unheard of."

Consolata of Mercere: "He told me I had failed, that Fiorella had shown the letter to someone else... I told him I'd fix things but... I knew he was disappointed then"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets destroy the talon

Proclus of Rome: "More likely is that it was merely a nickname or nom du guerre."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's destroy the falcon

Lodewig of Tytalus: "So you knew Pralix, Faustus?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Ahem. The more important thing is that he's able to spy on what's going inside Vardian's Tomb."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: fine, well compromise

lets research the talon then destroy it

Proclus of Rome: "What happened after the last time he spoke to you, Consolata?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wheres aristide when you need him

Lodewig of Tytalus: "If it does what he claimed then it absolutely should not be researched"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, Faustus knew all of those guys."

Faustus Galerius: Did Archibald detect any scrying when he read the letter?

Zita of Mercere: "How could he see inside the covenant?"

Consolata of Mercere: "I fled.. I knew they'd be coming"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You should hang out in the catacombs sometimes and hear his stories."

Proclus of Rome: "To where did you flee?"

Consolata of Mercere: "I had a safe house... some outlaws, they helped me watch Simon.. We prepared.."

Proclus of Rome: "Thoughtful outlaws."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Your outlaws, or his?"

Zita of Mercere: If any spell is ever cast on Archibald, he is immediately notified, and then can cast the spell to detect all active magic at personal range to find out the full details and sigil

Consolata of Mercere: "Mine.."

Faustus Galerius: Oh uh

Consolata of Mercere: "I waited.. and she came, and set the building on fire.. I went to my son, to get him safely, and then she tried to strike!"

Proclus of Rome: "Who set the building on fire?"

Faustus Galerius: You should make that at least a Room level detection

Lodewig of Tytalus: I've got to admit, it would be useful to have an outlaw band

Zita of Mercere: he was periodically checking no-one was casting spells on the room by touching the walls of it

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Where does one get good outlaws?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't think personal range will tell you that

Consolata of Mercere: "It must have been Zita!"

Voda: I know some!

Consolata of Mercere: "I fought and... she turned into a wolf!"

Proclus of Rome: Gasp!

Lodewig of Tytalus: "how gauche"

Proclus of Rome: "Is this true, Zita?"

Zita of Mercere: theres a vision range version of it, shaun, but its level 50. archibald is getting a lab text of it.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I stand the FUCK up.

Consolata of Mercere: "She chased me out and... the monster! Damn her!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Zita!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It sounds like a farfetched tale."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Zitas a werewolf?"

Zita of Mercere: "A wolf killed her, what are you looking at me like that for, though? My items are known, they've already been investigated by Mercere."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "That's hardly likely"

"someone would have noticed by now"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Regardless, it does sound like Zita is a bit of a monster."

Proclus of Rome: "I think the woman would know who killed her."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "What kind of wolf?"

Consolata of Mercere moans and wails

Zita of Mercere: "She tortured and killed Marco."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Yes I was hoping we'd get to that"

Proclus of Rome: "That isn't what I asked you, ZIta."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Why did Atorcoppe want Marco dead"

Zita of Mercere: "What are you asking me, then? If I'm a skinchanger or somesuch?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Obviously she killed her, what do the details matter?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It would be good to have that out in the open, if you were."

Zita of Mercere: "I've lived here 16 years, you'd think it might have come up, if it was the case."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm baring my teeth.

Proclus of Rome: "Blood cannot answer blood. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes, I agree with Bialas. You should be open about being a werewolf."

Consolata of Mercere: "Atorcoppe.. It was Atorcoppe.. he tortured Marco... he had to know where the claw was"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'm sure Lodewig agrees with me."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Well, I've only recently settled in."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "How did he trace it to Marco"

Zita of Mercere: "You can keep watch on my door at the full moon, if it helps with your suspicions."

Faustus Galerius: Hmm, a hearing level Invisible Eye Revealed might work for things like letters that tell someone who's reading it

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Oh well, no. I mean who cares. Doesn't she have all sorts of enspelled trinkets about her?"

Faustus Galerius: As written, Invisible Eye Revealed seems vulnerable to this exact kind of gotcha

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ahh... Maybe I'll hire someone. I'd hate to interrupt my sleep."

Consolata of Mercere: "Marco was the Giaro's hier... Giaro took the claw"

Proclus of Rome: "Archibald, do you not care that Zita has all but admitted to slaying a fellow maga?"

"Giaro? Who is that?"

Consolata of Mercere: ooh lore

Proclus of Rome: Plus Intelligence?

Consolata of Mercere: yes

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 1 + 2

(

2

)

+1+2

=

5

Lodewig of Tytalus: I like that we're seamlessly having two arguments at once

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+2

(

3

)

+2

=

5

Lodewig of Tytalus: the tytalan indoctrination is nearing completion

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Did someone say gyros?"

Proclus of Rome: This is to go a level beyond Vardian's Tomb.

Consolata of Mercere: well zita already knows this because she talked to the loremaster about the spider war

Zita of Mercere: I know who he is OOC though

yeah

"The redcap who was with Pralix."

"And was instrumental in winning the war."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton:

rolling d10+3+1

(

2

)

+3+1

=

6

Proclus of Rome: "Did the Spider contact Marco about the ring?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches a turnip.

Consolata of Mercere: "Ring? What ring"

Proclus of Rome: "The Talon."

Faustus Galerius: "Damhan-Allaidh? Pralix went off for a while after all that happened. That's around when I ended up in Vardian's Tomb, in fact."

Proclus of Rome: "Isn't it ring shaped?"

Consolata of Mercere: No, it's claw shaped

"I don't know"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Does it count as jewelry?

Zita of Mercere: "Yeah, it's a claw."

Lodewig of Tytalus: like an ordinary looking bird claw?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Spiders don't have claws."

Consolata of Mercere: The claw is about six inches long and

deeply curved. It has the texture of polished

horn and is a glossy black in color. It

is attached to a leather thong to be worn

as a necklace.

Proclus of Rome: "When did Atocoppe first contact you?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I don't understand this guy."

Consolata of Mercere: "6 years ago"

Lodewig of Tytalus: put an orb in that bad boy and fix it on a staff

and you've got one wizardly talisman

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: good idea

i'm going to do that

c'thinker: the tfw when you give Satan an arcane connection to yourself

Proclus of Rome: "How did you know that he would be able to follow through on his promise to restore your Gift?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. im back again.

Consolata of Mercere: "I believed"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ho ho ho!"

Proclus of Rome: "How can we assure your son that we mean him no harm as we transport him to the Alps?"

Consolata of Mercere: "Keep him away from those with the Gift"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We can ask a Redcap to come escort him."

Zita of Mercere: "Anthemia Mercere is also here, she's a good christian and can be trusted, if you know her."

Proclus of Rome: "Zita, how did you kill Consolata?"

Zita of Mercere: "That's a bit personal."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm glad everyone is ignoring the heavy burns on consolata

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea walks through again, carrying some vegetables down to his apothecary lab.

Anthemia Mercere nods

Bialas of Bjornaer: She said Zita set the place on fire.

Or implied it I guess.

Proclus of Rome: "I think it is germane to this situation, since you have slain a fellow maga days before Tribunal."

Bialas of Bjornaer: The wolf thing, now that's tricky.

Anthemia Mercere: I had no involvement with the spider adventure and hold no malice for Consolata

Beatrice ex Merinita: "A maga who attacked Vardian's Tomb."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Boots of transportation, wands of fire, pelts of wolf - they can certainly afford to pay well in Mercere"

Anthemia Mercere: I suppose I'm mad she killed Marco, but am only really vaguely aware of those events.

Consolata of Mercere: jealous??

Zita of Mercere: "Good service is rewarded."

Lodewig of Tytalus: a little

Consolata of Mercere: all you tytalans ever get is a jar for detaining poets

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea drops an armload of turnips, onions, etc. on the floor.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Killed another maga!?"

Proclus of Rome: "Please answer the question, Zita."

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh yeah, do I still have that

Consolata of Mercere: Ummm

No.

Lodewig of Tytalus: darn

Zita of Mercere: "My answer is that it's not important to his, if you have concerns I'll answer them in private."

* this

Consolata of Mercere: You have the memories of the good times, though.

Anthemia Mercere: I just have a ring for turning male right now, I'm waiting for Beatrice to finish my Guile buffing ring before establishing my persona though

Proclus of Rome: "Why can't you answer here?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Proclus. Shut up. It's not important ot the issue."

Consolata of Mercere: "I smell turnips"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do you think it would make me look better if we mentioned it before my trial?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "We're just trying to get the full picture here"

Proclus of Rome: "For starters, we are currently all accomplices to this murder."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This wolf condition, is it lycanthropy? Some other curse?

...You wouldn't happen to be part Scot?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Why, sure, our good friend Gulielmus attacked another magus, but at least he didn't kill the fellow."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "It's probably magic, Bialas"

"I find that's what usually works"

Zita of Mercere: "Italian, Bialas."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It's the easiest way, but I'm always curious."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's Divine, and he's secretly slavic royalty

Proclus of Rome: "Zita, this is a very dangerous situation you have put us all in, the least you could do is furnish us with an answer."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I don't think that's true Proclus"

"only Zita and Beatrice were present at the murder"

Proclus of Rome: "What?!"

"Did you not think it was important to mention this, Beatrice?"

Consolata of Mercere: lol

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Beatrice?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "what? you were there when they all went haring off"

Zita of Mercere: "I've said before, if you have concerns I'll answer them later, can you stop for even a moment to focus on this?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Are you a wolf?!"

Proclus of Rome: "I was, in fact, here at the covenant preparing for Tribunal."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Would you like a turnip?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Proclus, do you think I'd trust anyone in this room with anything?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea picks one up and rests it against the corpse.

Proclus of Rome: "Clearly not!"

Does Archibald care at all that he fellow consul has just been fingered in a major hermetic crime?

Zita of Mercere: Gulielmus meets a nice young lady

He isnt here, holy shit

Faustus Galerius: "Seems like it was important for her NOT to mention it, seeing how obstinate the revelation has made you."

Zita of Mercere: I said like 10 times

Proclus of Rome: It seems like we should go get him.

Faustus Galerius laughs skullfully

Bialas of Bjornaer: He should probably come here.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "oh yes, of course. Well we caught the scent of Consolata and the ladies outpaced us with their cantrips of apportation, and so here we are"

"I would have like to keep up and inject some level headed counsel, but what's done is done"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Can we go to tribunal yet?"

Zita of Mercere: You can tell him at tribunal, he's preparing an important legal proposal right now

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Don't you agree, Consolata?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Go get Archibald out of his lab, then we can go, Mal"

Consolata of Mercere: Consolata declines to answer

Proclus of Rome: I think we should tell him now since there are two accused Code violators right here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Wait!"

"Help me carry these vegetables, first."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Proclus, if you don't want to end up like Consolata, shut up."

Consolata of Mercere: O_O

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill beatrice

Faustus Galerius: "Anyway I don't know the code, but from what I've gathered, una regula est numerus is Don't Get Caught."

Zita of Mercere: "Bit late."

Faustus Galerius: ""Is it?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I go wake Archibald.

Faustus Galerius: "You're not on trial yet."

Consolata of Mercere: there's an easy fix for this

everyone wizwar on the spot right now

Proclus of Rome: "Are you proposing to murder me here in front of all these witnesses, Beatrice?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Yes."

Proclus of Rome: "Venator could not have possibly had worse judgement than when he picked you as a consul."

Zita of Mercere: Archibald left for tribunal already, so I don't have to deal with crossed streams.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh

I go back.

Zita of Mercere: "Uh."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "He already left."

Lodewig of Tytalus sighs

Zita of Mercere: "Well he could have said Malach"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I begin to sympathise with the old man, I really do"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "A lot of people should say Malach."

Zita of Mercere: "Or Bialas. Or, sorry Guli, Gulielmus. Or you."

Faustus Galerius: Fiorella is also going to leave, so that she doesn't keep Consolata from cooperating.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Anyway, let's go. This argument sucks."

Zita of Mercere: "Really it's not that hard for him to make a worse choice."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "yes, you can kill each other on the way"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I would do very well."

Zita of Mercere: "You sleep through winter."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how long does it take to prepare a poison

Consolata of Mercere: a mundane poison?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes.

Faustus Galerius: Depends on what splat you use

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea screams

Zita of Mercere: Gulielmus becomes hardcore

Faustus Galerius: Giraldo can make poisons in hours

Consolata of Mercere: you make those using the art & academe rules

seasonal activity

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus

Bialas of Bjornaer: "In fact, once we get to Tribunal, before any votes are cast, lets have our own internal vote to replace Beatrice as consul. I'm sure Archibald will agree to the necessity after being told what happened."

Faustus Galerius: Well you're the one that chose an A&A craft

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, gulielmus isn't a murderous guy

Faustus Galerius: C&G has crafts that take hours

Bialas of Bjornaer: "And that's a racial stereotype. Shame on you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: even though the former archon is CLEARLY deserving of murder.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I just sleep a little more than usual."

Proclus of Rome: "How would you prefer we cover up this serious crime then, Beatrice?"

Consolata of Mercere: possibly better to conceal it while archibald is not here

Zita of Mercere: "Keep your head down and don't make us look any worse than we need to, while Gulielmus is on trial."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "You fuck off away from this Tribunal and keep your sanctimonious hypocrisy for others."

"The Tytalan kidnapping slime keeps his mouth shut."

"And the Bjornaer mind rapist goes back to sleep."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Who did I kidnap? You brought the kid back here."

Zita of Mercere: "I'll sort everything out at trial, and if it goes wrong the only one itll come back on is me. I won't tell them Beatrice was even there."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The other Tytalan."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "eh?"

"oh, that"

johns (GM): lol

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I think there's a hierarchy of impropriety here, according to conventional moral standards"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :assad:

Zita of Mercere: "I'm not going to drag the covenant into this problem, I only ask that after 17 years of faithful work for the good of it, you can repay a few days of silence while this is sorted out."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "frankly beatrice you seem a little highly strung and I'm concerned that your judgement is impaired by these recent trials"

"I'm not sure you should represent us at tribunal in this state"

Zita of Mercere: "And don't tell that nosy quaesitor, for crying out loud."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Is this a threat, Lodewig?"

Zita of Mercere: "Bad enough having someone like that hanging over us, without my own sodales running crying to him about every occurence."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "It's an honest assessment"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea furrows his brow, trying to process the concept of lying to his sodales

Lodewig of Tytalus: "it's foolish to make threats to a maga's face"

Proclus of Rome: "Though, of course, she does it all the time."

Faustus Galerius: "Theres a standard exercise in Logic. Several men are separated, and asked to tell their tale. The best outcome for all involved comes if everyone keeps their silence, but the greatest personal outcome is if one man tells the truth while the other is silent."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But... We swore an oath!"

Proclus of Rome: Ack!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Companions 'til the end."

johns (GM): BFF.

Proclus of Rome: Don't bring the Realm of Reason into this.

johns (GM): Also you swore an oath not to necromantize Magi, well

Faustus Galerius: It's Artes Liberales

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sounds Infernal, Galerius."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: proclus the oathbreaker

Bialas of Bjornaer: Hey, I personally didn't do any necromancy.

Proclus of Rome: I swore an oath to treat Hermetic Magi with the respect they were given in life.

Faustus Galerius: Logic is an AL specialty

Zita of Mercere: lol

Bialas of Bjornaer: Proclus signed it? lol.

johns (GM): Ah, good point -- Proclus has to die, as he is an oathbreaker.

Proclus of Rome: That's why I kept asking her if it was ok to talk to her.

Zita of Mercere: proclus the legalist strikes again

Bialas of Bjornaer: This makes him smart.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Proclus has to die because the GM declared we have to share information with mortal enemies.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: every pc raise your hand if you AREN'T deserving of incredible death

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, please!"

"Let's stop, calm ourselves, and focus."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I've never wished another living creature ill

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you're a tytalus, and therefore automatically deserving of said death

Proclus of Rome: "Focus on what?"

"Beatrice has all but declared her intent to slay us."

Zita of Mercere: "Gulielmus, and myself, are on trial at this tribunal. Does anyone here truly wish malice, on either of us? For no personal gain but pure spite? No? Then focus on remembering not to tell everyone you meet every detail you know."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's too late for that."

Faustus Galerius: "The nominal lesson of the exercise is to allow one to make logical estimate of human behavior. However, it has two practical lessons as well: don't get caught, and don't get seperated, to avoid the Gaolman's Problem."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The only being of pure spite in this covenant is fully informed."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I almost have a mind to declare wizard's war right now. Nearly."

Proclus of Rome: "Faustus isn't even coming to Tribunal."

Zita of Mercere: I groan "Can you stop provoking her, and Beatrice, please calm down and not rise to this. We'll see at tribunal if Proclus actually does intend to backstab me."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Saying the name of house Bjornaer like a slur. Sheesh."

Zita of Mercere: "If he does, well, you'll be informed and can do as you please."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "No, I'm done with this."

Faustus Galerius: "A third lesson: lie, and lie consistently with your sodales."

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+27+2+3+2-5

(

3

)

+27+2+3+2-5

=

32

Proclus of Rome: "Zita, I have nothing against you, personally."

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+27+2+3+2-5

(

5

)

+27+2+3+2-5

=

34

Zita of Mercere: help, what just happened

johns (GM): murder

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have all been slain

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol.

Beatrice ex Merinita: 21 and 24 penetration pilums on proclus

johns (GM): Bialas the Bear Initiative: 41

Bialas of Bjornaer: Nice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: he halves his MR against fairy power

johns (GM): Lodewig of Tytalus Initiative: 61

Beatrice ex Merinita Initiative: 18

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

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh boy

Faustus Galerius: I go hide in the library

Zita of Mercere: holy shit

johns (GM): Zita of Mercere Initiative: 92

Faustus Galerius makes himself look like a decorative skull

johns (GM): Proclus of Rome Initiative: 17

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is beatrice casting a spell

johns (GM): Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 64

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton Initiative: 66

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are we still in the covenant

Bialas the Bear: Yes and yes.

She just shot pilums at Proclus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Damn I wish I could cast spontaneous magic.

Zita of Mercere: I duck under a table and try and enter stealth to get out of the fight

johns (GM): Malachiasz of Tytalus Initiative: 35

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Now you've done it!"

johns (GM): ok

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+16

(

6

)

+16

=

22

Faustus Galerius: Beatrice already told all my characters not to get involved

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: down you go! this is the part where you fall down and bleed to death!

Faustus Galerius: and Galerius is a coward

Proclus of Rome: I mean, he's a skull, what can he do?

Faustus Galerius: Exactly

johns (GM): proclus can attempt a counter-spell using fast cast rules, if he does betraice & proclus will have to roll stress+quickness to determine init

Zita of Mercere: He can shoot fire out his eyes, I think

Faustus Galerius: Not any more

Lodewig of Tytalus: you roll once with multicasts btw

Faustus Galerius: I nerfed him to grog level

Proclus of Rome: Gah!

Beatrice ex Merinita: that seems wrong. it gives less chances to botch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he can headbutt someone i bet

Lodewig of Tytalus: maybe it should also add botch dice

Faustus Galerius: He took headbutt as a natural weapon

But only for the Brawl (dodge) specialty

johns (GM): i figured nerfing the pen of multicast was better than leaving botch potential

Zita of Mercere: Alright, now I'm under a table.

Proclus of Rome: Where're the counterspell rules?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he should headbutt the consul.

i think.

ctrl-f for "fast-cast defense"

Zita of Mercere: Good luck... Gulielmus?

Faustus Galerius: Faustus has usrvived all these centuries by letting the wizards kill each other instead of him

Zita of Mercere: Also if Beatrice did that as a suprise, does that mean normal init stil lstarts with that as her turn, or it happens THEN turns begin. We've done the latter every other time.

johns (GM): You can only fast cast a spont spell or a formulaic spell you've mastered with fast casting

Faustus Galerius: No reason to change that now

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah, proclus can't spont normally can he

Zita of Mercere: He can't

johns (GM): Ah

Zita of Mercere: Mercurian

Proclus of Rome: Oh that's easy, I don't have any formulaic spells with fast-casting.

Lodewig of Tytalus: if he's mastered a suitable combat spell, then go nuts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhhhhh hmm.

johns (GM): Also he'd have to use Intelligo to identify what spell is coming at him

Pardon -- not that

Zita of Mercere: You should probably lay out where everyone is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't think i can beat anyone's MR.

johns (GM): He has to use Per + MT to identify etc.

You mean use.... a MAP???

Lodewig of Tytalus: only if it's silently cast

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Get away from Beatrice, I'm going to try something experimental."

Faustus Galerius: You can be familiar with noteworthy spells

Zita of Mercere: For one, we have a Fucking Idiot who makes pits and is going to drop half the magi into venators lab or something

Faustus Galerius: Pillum is noteworthy I think

It's like the Magic Missile of Ars

Lodewig of Tytalus: what will a map tell us except we're all sitting around a table that is less than voice range in diameter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah you don't always have to roll

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if i used the pit that would hit everyone then everyone would actually, seriously die

Zita of Mercere: well itll tell us whose lab we're above

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wont do that

Zita of Mercere: Such restraint, Malach!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im just upholding my oath!

Proclus of Rome: So Per + MT?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was going to tackle the consul

but, since i've been warned not to, i will not.

Bialas the Bear: That's fine, because I'm going to tackle the consul.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: good.

I'll make some bizarre non-Hermetic gestures at Proclus.

one sec

Proclus of Rome: Thanks.

Bialas the Bear: On my turn, I will transform into a bear, but from the feet up. At the same time, before my hand turns into a paw, I will throw a copy of the aeneid at Beatrice's head.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+3+3+11+11

(

9

)

+2+3+3+11+11

=

39

johns (GM): Behold, a map.

Proclus of Rome: Wow!

Zita of Mercere: tfw you cast a spell on a fellow magus

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok, you can safely pit them without hurting the aeneid

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's 29 overflow, and 1 penetration ability

johns (GM): Okay, Proclus, fast cast defense rules are p. 83

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+1 dex to throw an aeneid at beatrice

(

10

+

1

)

+1

=

12

Lodewig of Tytalus: uh I thought we established proclus can't do anything like that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: how many feet to a pace again, 3?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I begin turning into a bird

johns (GM): Can Proclus spont cast?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he can't

Proclus of Rome: No.

johns (GM): Okay.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ceremonially, yes

Proclus of Rome: Well I can but only using the Ceremonial method.

johns (GM): Okay, so was the pen on those spells enough to hit you, Proclus?

Zita of Mercere: We're sponting slowly

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

johns (GM): You cannot fast cast ceremonially.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is 1 point of penetration ability worth 1 point of actual penetration

johns (GM): Hafl, did your roll damage?

Beatrice ex Merinita: no

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You're going to DPS very very slowly

johns (GM): Please go ahead

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes, in normal circumstances

ie it's worthless

Beatrice ex Merinita: one roll for both?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, then that's 30 pen

johns (GM): Yes, please.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

9

)

+15

=

24

johns (GM): Proclus, roll Soak twice.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

What's that?

johns (GM): + ignem form bonus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's proclus's corpus MR

Zita of Mercere: sta+ignem form bonus yeah

Malachiasz of Tytalus: stamina and ignem form

johns (GM): Stamina, ignem form bonus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good luck proclus

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

rolling 1d10! + 2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Lodewig of Tytalus: is this the same Sun as when we went looking for Ezio?

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! +2

(

6

)

+2

=

8

johns (GM): 17

16

Proclus of Rome: I'll conf both those rolls.

Zita of Mercere: 14 and 13 then

johns (GM): um

Ok

drop two tokens

Zita of Mercere: 2 medium wounds in our system now?

Not sure

johns (GM): Two medium wounds

Putting Proclus at -8.

Proclus of Rome: Ouch!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did my mystery spell penetrate

johns (GM): Now a proper round can begin

Zita of Mercere: oh right, just so you know, because we added init on the other page, we cant see init on this page. funny roll20 bug.

johns (GM): With simultaneous resolution

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, i see.

johns (GM): cripes, sorry

one sec

is it showing now?

Proclus of Rome: Very hilarious.

No.

Lodewig of Tytalus: no

Bialas the Bear: No.

Lodewig of Tytalus: however I think that's better

if you;re serious about simultaneous resolution

johns (GM): Sure

Zita of Mercere: I already said my turn and rolled 22 on stealth. That's my turn.

johns (GM): Okay, 1 round is about 6 seconds.

Zita already acted.

Lodewig of Tytalus: can you just vanish in a chair

johns (GM): Fiorella & Gulielmus are next

(To Hafl T.): What is your sigil

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i stated my action above.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I haven't tried my aim in a while, get away from Beatrice."

Proclus of Rome: Does the table catch on fire?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Unless someone has a reason for me to get involved I'll just retreat to my sanctum

johns (GM): No because the fire hit Proclus.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): Anamorphic Illusion, it's whatever reminds the person witnessing the spells or the effect of beatrice the most

johns (GM): Okay, Fiorella is escaping.

guleilmus tell me your action again

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Beatrice already approached Fiorella and told her not to get involved

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: casting a spell on proclus, the form and technique of which are a mystery because of his virtue, with 30 pen

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): it's just bind wounds though. corpus mr

Proclus of Rome: Thanks Gulielmus.

johns (GM): Resolving through whisper

(To Proclus of Rome): What's your Corpus MR?

(From Proclus of Rome): 40.

(To c'thinker): What is your sigil?

Lodewig of Tytalus: what's guli's casting technique that we can't identify his arts?

he throws herbs at people?

Proclus of Rome: Snake Nemesis.

johns (GM): Lodewig and Bialas, please declare actions

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: He has casting tools if he took the canon Rusticani build

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dont forget me

Beatrice ex Merinita: bialas threw an aeneid at me

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll cast a perdo vim spell

johns (GM): I haven't

Bialas the Bear: Bialas the Bear: On my turn, I will transform into a bear, but from the feet up. At the same time, before my hand turns into a paw, I will throw a copy of the aeneid at Beatrice's head.

rolling 1d10!+1 dex to throw an aeneid at beatrice

(

10

+

Bialas the Bear: 1

)+1

= 12

johns (GM): I'm going 2 at a time so it's not full chaos

Okay -- Beatrice, please roll Brawl Defense

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): it's bubbles, the wounds will foam vigorously for a while until they've scabbed over

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+2+2

(

1

)

+2+2

=

5

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

8

+

1

)

=

9

Beatrice ex Merinita: rip me

Bialas the Bear: rip.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): plus an occasional bubble emerges afterwards.

Proclus of Rome: How much damage does the Aeneid do, anyway?

johns (GM): I am looking it up while waiting on Lodewig

Lodewig of Tytalus: books are pretty heavy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 1d6 points of INT damage

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Probably comparable to a sling stone

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok

johns (GM): Malach you can declare an action too now

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10!+28

(

1

)

+28

=

29

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10

(

9

)

=

9

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cast Damnation on that circle ive drawn out

its roughly that shape

size rather

johns (GM): That is the spell to put a hole in the floor?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes

Lodewig of Tytalus: penetration 22, on beatrice, with the level 10 Scorn the Rival Sorcerer

Zita of Mercere: Aeneid is probably base damage 0 + thresh + str

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 90 feet down

Beatrice ex Merinita: 33 vim MR

Lodewig of Tytalus: nice

Malachiasz of Tytalus: destroys stone and dirt

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whose lab are you ruining

johns (GM): I'll use the stats for "Bludgeon" which is: "Any improvised bashing weapon such as a rock or hand tool"

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+53

(

7

)

+53

=

60

johns (GM): let me pull up the full cov map to see the damage of malach's spell

Beatrice ex Merinita: book is herbam or animal for form bonus soak?

Bialas the Bear: +2 str

johns (GM): Animal

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Animal

Because they're bound in leather

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the spell goes off, and if penetration comes up its 32

johns (GM): 16 vs Beatrice's soak + Animal form bonus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: though that would only apply to stone thats protected

Proclus of Rome: It shouldn't, since the only Magic Resistance you'd have is the Aegis of the Hearth.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean, maybe someones lab has enchantments

Beatrice ex Merinita: 14 damage

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Maybe Herbam, since the wooden backing inside the binding might be the hardest part

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: stone can only have MR under very weird circumstances

Beatrice ex Merinita: since no prebuffs

johns (GM): Lodewig, what was your spell (if it went off)?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i will be sure to reimburse whoever had their lab damaged, and also fix the damage, naturally

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I think ANimal is best since its the most external part though

Lodewig of Tytalus: Break the Shield from hermetic projects

it lowers parma

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :stare:

Lodewig of Tytalus: or dispels it, rather

Proclus of Rome: Looks like the library.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i take a heavy due to being small size

Zita of Mercere: It dispels it if the ability is 5 or less, specifically

johns (GM): Ok, Malach wrecks the roof of Proclus' lab

Malachiasz of Tytalus: looks like proclus's lab actually

just the roof? its 90 feet down keep in mind

Zita of Mercere: Actually, maybe yours is weaker, what level is yours?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: might hit the floor too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 90 feet is a lot

Proclus of Rome: Oh, I thought the council room map was rotated by 90 degrees.

Bialas the Bear: Bialas flings the tome with such force that it busts Beatrice open and she's donning the crimson mask

Lodewig of Tytalus: level 10, it's the textbook version

johns (GM): I already marked where the entrance and stuff was

Zita of Mercere: Isn't that touch r- oh right FFm

johns (GM): so i'll stick with how it was oriented

Lodewig of Tytalus: mm haha

Zita of Mercere: forgot you ahd that too

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, it doesn't help anyway

johns (GM): Did Lodewig's spell penetrate, Hafl?

Beatrice ex Merinita: no

Lodewig of Tytalus: certainloy not

johns (GM): Ok

Last two are Beatrice and Proclus -- Beatrice make your action first

You can whisper it to me if you like

Lodewig of Tytalus: I was wondering why beatrice's character sheet link was dead but I guess you've been working on this

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): two more pilums, still at full capacity, since it's simultaneous

johns (GM): By the way, Malach needs to make an aiming roll

Beatrice ex Merinita: Beatrice's sheet link leads to 1x1 pixel

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i do, sure

dex + finesse right?

johns (GM): Per + Finesse

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and how much per size magnitude

6?

johns (GM): Beatrice's action is logged -- I'll ask Hafl to roll in a moment

Proclus, state your action

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus: you'll need serious concentration rolls to cast a spell

johns (GM): How many magnitudes Wide is the hole?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: width is just 1

Proclus of Rome: Lemme check the concentration rules.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its 1 size magnitude wide, one extra applied only to depth

johns (GM): I was not going to ask for Conc rolls since everything goes off at once

Thus Beatrice casts a spell just before a book beans her

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so just +6 right

johns (GM): No, just base then

Lodewig of Tytalus: I thought proclus was injured last round

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ???

johns (GM): It's only +6 if it's extra magnitude (i.e. 10 paces wide)

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its 1 size

oh

johns (GM): Proclus was, sorry -- BR is right

Proclus of Rome: Can I cancel Whispers through the Black Gate here?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i thought even basic pit got the bonus, huh

rolling 1d10!+2

(

7

)

+2

=

9

not too terrible

Lodewig of Tytalus: you'll need exceptional concentration to keep it active

Malachiasz of Tytalus: anyway ill brb, damage is 90 of course

johns (GM): You can stop concentration on a spell as a free action

Proclus of Rome: I don't see any need to do that.

I'll cancel the spell and cast Magus' Lensing (Wizard's Sidestep)

johns (GM): Beatrice, please roll Quickness + Brawl + 1 (for your small frame) vs. Malach's 9 aiming roll

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+2+2+1

(

8

)

+2+2+1

=

13

johns (GM): Round resolution time.

Oops! one more thing.

Beatrice, please roll to cast and tell us penetration

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+27+3+2+2-5

(

6

)

+27+3+2+2-5

=

35

15 margin + 5 mastery + 4 ability

24

again, faerie power

johns (GM): Does that beat Proclus' ignem MR?

Proclus of Rome: If her magic halves my MR from Faerie Power, then yes.

johns (GM): Roll Damage, beatrice

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

10

+

6

)

+15

=

31

Bialas the Bear: rip

johns (GM): Roll soak - 8, proclus

Beatrice ex Merinita: and it was multicast

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good luck proclus

johns (GM): Roll it twice, Proclus

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 2 - 8

(

6

)

+2-8

=

0

rolling 1d10! + 2 - 8

(

6

)

+2-8

=

0

Bialas the Bear: Nice.

Lodewig of Tytalus: how pleasingly symmetrical

johns (GM): Round 1 resolution:

Bialas the Bear: I guess that means he's immune to the result.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Fires are pretty chaotic

It'd be very improbable that a fire comes out symmetrical

johns (GM): Proclus casts a spell to mirror his image. Beatrice launches two pilums of flame that incinerate him before Proclus disappears. Bialas chucks a copy of the Aenied that beans Beatrice right in the face for a Medium wound. Zita leaps under the table and Fiorella almost trips over her trying to get out. Gulielmus launches a spray of bubbles at Proclus, to no effect. A trail of wolf hair rises from the table as Lodewig casts at Beatrice, to no effect.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I take a heavy

Small Frame

johns (GM): ty

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I can just turn into a bird if the terrain is problematic for leaving

johns (GM): The room fills with the scent of brimstone as a massive chasm opens up just under Beatrice's right foot, almost but not quite tipping her in.

Proclus is dead.

Zita of Mercere: Gulielmus launches a spray of bubbles at Proclus, to no effect.

Bialas the Bear: Rip.

johns (GM): Round 2

Zita of Mercere: What was this spell

Endrite: Well, the aura certainly isn't expanding now.

johns (GM): Beatrice ex Merinita Initiative: 11

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was bind wounds.

johns (GM): Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 41

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton Initiative: 44

Zita of Mercere Initiative: 26

Lodewig of Tytalus Initiative: 44

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's migrating

johns (GM): Bialas of Bjornaer Initiative: 42

Malachiasz of Tytalus Initiative: 79

Zita of Mercere: we're still on the ancient covenant map

need to move us back

johns (GM): CRAP

Zita of Mercere: just move us, the init will work then

johns (GM): So sorry

Zita of Mercere: there it is!

Bialas the Bear: also, lol at the brimstone from proclus' lab.

johns (GM): Malachiasz and Lodewig may declare actions.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm. I'll cast a spell at Beatrice

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I cast Crest of the Earth Wave.

It should miss Bialas based on the description of the spell.

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10!+25

(

2

)

+25

=

27

20 Mentem penetration

Malachiasz of Tytalus: But Beatrice will be hit and knocked back unless she makes a dex roll of 12

oh, and heres the casting roll

Beatrice ex Merinita: 27 mentem MR

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok, it's parma then

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+30

(

10

+

1

)

+30

=

41

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have absolutely no idea what beatrice can even do, except firebolts

Malachiasz of Tytalus: level 20 spell, it goes off

johns (GM): Formulaic or spont?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: formulaic

Zita of Mercere: Well, I doubt Beatrice is a vim expert anyway, so that should have been obvious. We have 2 vim experts here.

Lodewig of Tytalus: still needs to penetrate iirc

Zita of Mercere: Well... 1 vim expert.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh, total of 44, forgot aura bonus

johns (GM): Okay, what's the Pen on that Malach?

Lodewig of Tytalus: do we?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: how much of the pen ability do you add

just flat now?

johns (GM): yeah

44 + pen - 20 (spell level)

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 26 pen, though the earth is still heaving and moving under her

Beatrice ex Merinita: 27 terram MR

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

johns (GM): right

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think shed still be knocked back from it if she fails the dex roll, just no damage from the spell itself? not sure

johns (GM): I read it as the wave would just stop right in her face

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well the spell is cast on the earth itself

johns (GM): Unfortunately I should have asked the penetration details in whispers

Since Beatrice ICly would have to decide whether or not to react as if the spell was going to hurt her, not knowing till the moment it hit her nose

Lodewig of Tytalus: and it makes it move by magic, which is resisted by things ithits

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): will this spell kill me if i run up to shove beatrice in the hole

johns (GM): I'll mull on it a bit

Anyway, Fiorella and Bialas, please declare actions

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Either AIming or MR, can't bypass both

Zita of Mercere: If it's not aimed it has to penetrate

Lodewig of Tytalus: if you want simultaneous resolution you need everyone to declare in secret, and then resolve

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Look at your position on the map

johns (GM): True, true

Lodewig of Tytalus: this is just initiative where you don't lose a turn if you die

Bialas the Bear: Yeah.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): cripes

johns (GM): It never came up as an issue because this is the first PvP thing

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to tackle Beatrice.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it#s equally true vs npcs

Malachiasz of Tytalus: knock her into the hole bialas

if she falls in its still 90 damage

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): I'm fast-casting a teleport into Proclus' lab.

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+1+5+5

(

4

)

+1+5+5

=

15

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): through the hole

Endrite: Not really, since the GM can just choose to ignore what they know when running an NPC.

Bialas the Bear: If I have 1 attack advantage she is knocked prone, presumably into the pit.

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): I'm running and making Beatrice an antagonist if I survive, since I think this is an unsolvable issue.

Bialas the Bear: And then I am also knocked prone next to the pit.

I'll conf it.

johns (GM): Malach and Bialas, please roll init, if you're unarmed it's just Qik + Stress Die

Bialas the Bear: Ah.

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!-1

(

5

)

-1

=

4

Bialas the Bear: Oh yeah I'm not stone.

rolling 1d10!+1

(

3

)

+1

=

4

(To Hafl T.): Please roll Quick + FInesse + Stres

Bialas the Bear: Nice.

Lodewig of Tytalus: vs malach's spell?

it should be brawl vs finesse

johns (GM): Actually it's vs Beatrice

but I won't say more than that for now

Malachiasz of Tytalus: beatrice is multicasting on us

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+2+2

(

5

)

+2+2

=

9

Malachiasz of Tytalus: presumably with more pilums

Lodewig of Tytalus: finesse is there specifically for casting speed

johns (GM): remember you're at -6 though

Endrite: Don't forget your wounds.

Beatrice ex Merinita: that's 3 then. Conf

Lodewig of Tytalus: roll concentration to cast while wounded, in fact

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :assad:

Bialas the Bear: ^^^

johns (GM): ok -- dfd you confed? drop the token

Beatrice ex Merinita: stamina + conc?

johns (GM): 3 times wound penalty to Concentration

rolls

wtf

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice

Lodewig of Tytalus: ye

johns (GM): that's impossible

Bialas the Bear: :troll:

johns (GM): that's on top of the already EF Damaged this round Very Hard (15)

Zita of Mercere: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: i was damaged last round

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm glad I'm not here ot see people attacking Beatrice instead of asking her to explain calmly why she had to kill Proclu

Zita of Mercere: theres a good reason why we've never used this rule

johns (GM): yeah

Lodewig of Tytalus: damaged this round shouldn't ever be something you roll under these houserules

yes: you were cheating

johns (GM): lol

Bialas the Bear: lol

johns (GM): remember liesmith's melty

Now I understand why

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+1+1-18 well, rip

(

1

)

+1+1-18

=

-15

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what was liesmiths melty about

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

plus more botch dice

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't want to say which one, but

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

5

)

=

6

aH.

Endrite: Phew!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

johns (GM): I SEE.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's a pretty big failing of the system that Beatrice can't just Han vs Greedo someone here

johns (GM): Well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhh

Lodewig of Tytalus: she already did

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: she did.

johns (GM): Gulielmus and Zita, declare actions

Beatrice ex Merinita: i would have without the wound

Bialas the Bear: Roman Reigns! Spear! Spear! Spear!

Endrite: She hugely did.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I mean

johns (GM): And I get to think how to resolve this clusterfuck

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: She killed the guy she wanted to kill

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think it's resolving itself

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But it's still going

Beatrice ex Merinita: Yes. My goal is accomplished.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Instead of being like BAM and everyone just looks in stunned silence

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well she shoul dhave taken more presence then.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And then we can be like "ok why did that happen"

Lodewig of Tytalus: could have parlayed that into a leadership roll

Endrite: It took her two rounds to kill Proclus.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Work it out like adults why Proclus had to die

Beatrice ex Merinita: using social skills on PCs is wrong

Lodewig of Tytalus: but also han killed greedo in one shot, in such a way that nobody else saw

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: because our consul is an insane parricide

all right. i will uhh

Lodewig of Tytalus: so it's not directly comparable

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cast a spell.

Zita of Mercere: I'll say "Sodales, please stop killing each other, please."

from under the table

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's too late, i'm dead from insane pit

Unless I make an athletics roll to land in Proclus' lab.

Endrite: 90 feet is definitely underneath Proclus' lab.

johns (GM): You also botched the teleport spell

Malachiasz of Tytalus: that would be a pretty big feat of athletics

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll come back when I stop hearing violent spells

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+3+3+11+2+20 spell, quad life boost

(

4

)

+3+3+11+2+20

=

43

Malachiasz of Tytalus: to lunge 6 paces

Beatrice ex Merinita: no, i botched the concentration roll

Lodewig of Tytalus: hey remember way back when we were talking about teleports as just very fast movement spells

Beatrice ex Merinita: botching the spell would be better

Lodewig of Tytalus: and you said a good botch result would be slamming you into a wall

johns (GM): Functionally, I'm not sure what the difference between botching a spell and conc is

Lodewig of Tytalus: but I guess that doesn't happen

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that is uhhh

Beatrice ex Merinita: botching conc can't make me safe in twilight

Lodewig of Tytalus: botching conc means you lose concentration

Endrite:  Galaxy Brain

johns (GM): If the concentration roll fails, the spell

fails. If the spell casting roll involved a stress die, you must still roll to see whether the maga botches, and you get one extra botch die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 29 pen

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): vs ignem mr

Malachiasz of Tytalus: still only one botch though

i dont think beatrice has twilight prone

johns (GM): wait

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): it's flash of the scarlet flames.

johns (GM): well

Lodewig of Tytalus: shye didn't botch the spell in the first place. it seems quite clear.

johns (GM): we'll have a lot to clarify as hoserules after this lol

Bialas the Bear: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: :blessed:

Lodewig of Tytalus: ??

Bialas the Bear: Just Another Sunday....

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think the conc botch and casting botch is separate rolls

johns (GM): Who's the target, Gulielmus?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: beatrice, of course

Lodewig of Tytalus: it is

johns (GM): there's also some vagueness about whether your injury should have stacked on the 15 EF for concing while wounded

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus's spell to talk to the ghost should go haywire imo

johns (GM): What's Beatrice's MR vs ignem

Beatrice ex Merinita: 26

Zita of Mercere: Concentration rolls seem incredibly stupid.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well under your own rules only injuries from previous rounds count

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: You'd have to roll a 1 on the casting roll too so its not like it can raise the chance of a botch above 10%

johns (GM): Make a Stamina roll, please. bear in mind your injuries

(beatrice)

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+1-6

(

9

)

+1-6

=

4

johns (GM): Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

johns (GM): And Bialas, your attack was attempting to Knock her over, not to damage her?

Bialas the Bear: Yes.

Just an unarmed tackle.

johns (GM): It's a long shot but-- Beatrice can roll Dex + Brawl

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good luck bialas

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+2-6

(

4

)

+2-6

=

0

(To Bialas the Bear): And you're trying to tackle her into the pit? that'd take you with her

(From Bialas the Bear): would it? its a tackle. i shove her into the pit and fall over at the edge of the pit.

Beatrice ex Merinita: 12:29AMGulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus's spell to talk to the ghost should go haywire imo

Consolata's spirit animates PRoclus' bosy.

(To Bialas the Bear): You can just fly out of the pit anyway can;t you

Endrite: He canceled it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: too bad

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes

(From Bialas the Bear): if i can cast the flying spell in time sure

(To Bialas the Bear): There's no rules for pushing people that I see so if you want to force both people prone, you have to be on top of her

(To Bialas the Bear): Which means going down with her. Do you want to change your action?

johns (GM): sorry - resolivng 1 thing in whisper

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: when everyone rerolls PLEASE keep in mind that i have dibs on weather wizard

johns (GM): also what is Bialas' MR vs ignem

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll take people's arguments on the Han Vs Greedo thing into account if I make a Flambeau

Too bad the spell mastery virtue is so controversial

Zita of Mercere: Unfortunately, I'll only be rerolling my companion, when she's marched during all this

(From Bialas the Bear): ill just grapple her. this is another -6 to attacks and dodge for beatrice and also she cant use gestures.

Bialas the Bear: Ok fine I won't tackle.

Zita of Mercere: Actually no, I could reroll my magus when he leaves in horror at all this.

(To Bialas the Bear): Ok

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I already had one magi leave in horror

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rerolling gulielmus would be fine since his virtue has been such a shitshow, but i would prefer not to

Bialas the Bear: 38 ignem mr.

I grapple.

And threaten to throw her in the pit.

Endrite: I feel like you already said you'd tackle her.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I really will be doing a revolving door it seems, where I keep making magi who have no idea how fucked up the situation is here

Bialas the Bear: Ok then I tackle her and we both fall in the pit.

That's fine with me.

Lodewig of Tytalus: you'd think word would get around

johns (GM): Resolution of Round 2: The bear Bialas lunges and grapples Beatrice as attempts a spell, cutting her off mid speech. Brimstone fills the air again as the floor of the council room bubbles and rises, cracking the council table, and sending a wall of stone that ends at the grappled Bialas/Beatrice and the pit.

Zita of Mercere: What's going on in h-

johns (GM): Both Bialas and Beatrice tumble into the pit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how are we indicating fatigue levels on the board, again

Lodewig of Tytalus: well that solves several problems neatly

johns (GM): But, before that, Gulielmus launches a wave of bubbles that explodes in Bialas/Beatrice's faces, blinding Beatrice temporarily.

Bialas the Bear: Now, how deep is the pit and can I cast a spell before I hit the ground.

johns (GM): Also Lodewig casts another spell that leaves more hair on the now (thoroughly ruined) table.

Lodewig of Tytalus: like, water bubbles?

johns (GM): The pit is 90 feet iirc?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Another Magi arrives at the Ear https://i.imgur.com/zGHQb4O.gif

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 90 feet yes

Zita of Mercere: 90 feet is a long trip

johns (GM): Cthinker can describe his bubbles as he likes

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't like this manifestation of my sigil, but I'll take it up at length after the game

Zita of Mercere: Casting gestureless, of course

johns (GM): Anyway

Beatrice and Bialas, resolution is just switching to you (unless someone wants to attack someone else at the table)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i envisioned it as a single bubble full of fire growing from nothing in front of the target's face, then bursting in a bright flash

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Gah! That old fool!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok so it's flash of scarlet flame

johns (GM): You are falling down a deep pit. Beatrice is grappled and neither of you can make casting gestures.

Zita of Mercere: Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Another Magi arrives at the Ear https://i.imgur.com/zGHQb4O.gif

Another Tytalan arrives https://animegirlsare.sexy/g/ricAV

johns (GM): My apologies Cthinker. I will try to get the sigil effect right next time.

Bialas the Bear: get this. I never make casting gestures and take no penalty.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll try a fast-cast teleport. Can I use Muto casting requisite to escape the grapple with it?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: for my turn i just go to the edge of the pit to watch what happens

Bialas the Bear: subtle magic ftw.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: can you even teleport midair with out teleport rules

(From Lodewig of Tytalus): lmao

johns (GM): If she shrinks herself down enough to effectively escape the grapple, I'd say yes

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh come on that's a completely different effect

johns (GM): However

Endrite: That'd be pretty shrunk.

johns (GM): Yes that's two clearly different effects

One is rego, one is muto

Let's calculate how long you guys are in the air

Endrite: How small do you need to be to escape a grapple?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: id say she needs to shrink 2 sizes more but its up to the gm i guess

Bialas the Bear: I'm releasing the grapple this round.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: right, but that doesnt take effect til after

johns (GM): um

Malachiasz of Tytalus: simultaneous resolution!

johns (GM): I don't know physics well

Bialas the Bear: Well, next round.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can you shrink a -2 character down to -4 without adding a magnitude

Lodewig of Tytalus: it seems unlikely you'd spend a combat round just falliung

johns (GM): terminal velocity in feet is 176 feet / secon

Malachiasz of Tytalus: f a human were to jump from 100 feet about ground level, it would take about 2.5 seconds before they hit the ground.

johns (GM): and the pit is 90 feet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh this is jst the muto req on a teleport

Beatrice ex Merinita: i assume it has to be a fast cast

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i dont think they even can save themselves actually lol

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's +45 damage

johns (GM): um.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 3 seconds being generous

its 90 lodewig

Beatrice ex Merinita: wait, i have an idea

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 1 per 1 foot if you hit a hard surface

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can fast cast something that could save me

Bialas the Bear: Oh, I know what I'm doing.

I'll probably get hurt but hey.

Beatrice ex Merinita: lifting the dangling puppet at personal range

Lodewig of Tytalus: fair enough

johns (GM): umm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the stone bear is split in half

Bialas the Bear: Ok. I will not cast anything and turn into stone.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Since terminal velocity doesn't exist, does that mean you could destroy the earth by jumping from a sufficient height?

johns (GM): This will take a hell of a concentration roll to fast cast

Malachiasz of Tytalus: as long as bialas takes beatrice with him his life will be celebrated

Lodewig of Tytalus: what's beatrice'#s injury penalty now?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't think fast cast penalizes concentration

Endrite: Still -6.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wounds do

Bialas the Bear: I actually think I might be okay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also being grappled by a bear and pushed into a pit will mess with your EF

Bialas the Bear: Well.

Maybe not.

Lodewig of Tytalus: being knocked down is a base EF 12 before a -18 penalty to the roll

johns (GM): You have wounds, you were recently blinded ("sudden noise or flash of light"), and you are falling ("jostled", maybe?)

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think that's appropriate and don't see the need for further modifiers for depth of pit etc

johns (GM): oh there's a category of conc EF just for "knocked down"

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: at the end of the day beatrice does end up having half a round to cast so i think fast casting is fair

if she can make the roll!!

Bialas the Bear: heres the unnecessary roll to turn into stone because i always do.

rolling 1d10+6+6

(

2

)

+6+6

=

14

thats over 9.

Whew.

Lodewig of Tytalus: there's no penalty for fast casting but you do need to beat the ground's initiative

johns (GM): Does transforming take a full round

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: with her dying breath, beatrice unleashes a terrible curse on vardian's tomb

Bialas the Bear: It does.

Shit.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the roll to cast the spell lodewig

Beatrice ex Merinita: i won't cursed the place i just saved

curse

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Lodewig of Tytalus: there's no penalty for fast casting but you do need to beat the ground's initiative

lol

you should actually do this to see if you get the spell off fast enough.

johns (GM): im trying to get a figure to work with but wolfram alpha isn't loading

Endrite: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what figure do you need

its 3 seconds to fall that distance

Beatrice ex Merinita: does terminal velocity exist in aristotelian physics

?

johns (GM): No

Beatrice ex Merinita: I start falling slower if bialas releases me, because I'm lighter then

Malachiasz of Tytalus: terminal velocity takes like 10 seconds to kick in anyway

johns (GM): Maybe. idk. everything is loading slowly

Zita of Mercere: :thinking:

Lodewig of Tytalus: hey, look, if you can successfully cast with the fast-cast penalty then at the very least you can get your spell off in the first half of a six second round

johns (GM): Anyway hafl just whisper to me what you are thinking of casting so I can rule if it makes sense here or not, please

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah

its taking at least 3 seconds for this to happen

Bialas the Bear: whats the fast cast penalty again?

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): lifting the dangling puppet at personal range to temporarily stop my fall

Lodewig of Tytalus: -10

Beatrice ex Merinita: -10 adn +2 botch dice

Bialas the Bear: hmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it also needs to be spont or mastered for the purpose

Malachiasz of Tytalus: idea for a houserule for if this comes up in the future: you fall 100 feet per round

just so were all clear

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Does fast cast make the spell take shorter than 3 seconds?

Bialas the Bear: and a round is 6 seconds?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah

johns (GM): okay -- as hafl already said he wants to cast Lifting the Dangling Puppet

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok that's simple then

Lodewig of Tytalus: in this specific situation, let's say yes

johns (GM): Is Bialas on top of her?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: There's already rules for whethe ra spell fails or not

Bialas the Bear: i am

Zita of Mercere: Fast casting lets you cast it in reaction to, for instance, someone swinging a sword at you. So its a second at most.

johns (GM): Is Bialas letting go this round?

Bialas the Bear: ok im going to cast a spell and try to fast cast it instead of turning to stone, if thats ok.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It fails if you cast sufficiently beneath the threshold for success, or botches

If you take fatigue it still goes off

johns (GM): You have to let go to cast with gestures

Bialas the Bear: i have subtle magic

Malachiasz of Tytalus: bialas doesnt need gestures yeah

johns (GM): gah

Zita of Mercere: brb while someone dies

johns (GM): what size is bialas in bear form, +1 or +2?

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+30-10+3

(

1

)

+30-10+3

=

24

+2

nice.

lmfao.

johns (GM):

rolling 4d10

(

6

+

3

+

3

+

5

)

=

17

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i need to go afk for like 15 minutes but also i don't want to miss triple pc death

Bialas the Bear: the spell doesn't work.

johns (GM): What's the spell? you can whisper it to me if you prefer

Bialas the Bear: I was trying to cast the flying spell.

johns (GM): ah

Bialas the Bear: 30.

johns (GM): hah.

Zita of Mercere: lmao

okay i cant go afk

Bialas the Bear: wham.

Zita of Mercere: bialas just died

johns (GM): Then I think both Bialas and Beatrice feel the impact.

Beatrice ex Merinita: bialas has insane soak in stone form

johns (GM): Because Beatrice is trying to lift herself up while Bialas is on top of her (he knocked her prone)

Bialas is not stone unfortunately

Bialas the Bear: I'm a regu;ar bear.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's ust a bear.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh

Bialas the Bear: I have OKAY soak. I will probably still die.

Zita of Mercere: It's +90 damage

johns (GM): Does my interpretation of Dangling Puppet make sense here Hafl?

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's environmental damage

if he's on top of me, it's fair

i assume he falls faster than smoke rises

johns (GM): That is what a tackle move does yeah

Yup..

Zita of Mercere: Oh, it puts you on top of them?

johns (GM): Do you want another minute or so to think of something else

WAIT

SHIT

We decided that Bialas tackled and was NOT grappling, right?

Bialas the Bear: We did.

Beatrice ex Merinita: falling is environmental damage, so the +90 damage is stress roll

johns (GM): So I mean he is sorta on top of Beatrice but Beatrice can use gestures to cast

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hes still falling on top of her

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's survivable

Bialas the Bear: Im still on top of her though yes.

johns (GM): Does that make a difference

if you have your hands free

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

Beatrice ex Merinita: i could cast the spell without gestures

johns (GM): Ah

Shit.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Not gesturing is a pretty big penalty

Zita of Mercere: Does momentum exist in aristotlean physics?

Beatrice ex Merinita: well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. lets wrap up this death

Lodewig of Tytalus: have you done the concentration rigmarole yet

Endrite: No.

Beatrice ex Merinita: if he's not grappling me, i can teleport

Lodewig of Tytalus: this is probably moot

Bialas the Bear: isnt it 45 damage?

johns (GM): Momentum didn't exist in Aristotle but later Arab philosophers have the gist of it

Beatrice ex Merinita: that makes a difference

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's 90

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you are blind, also

johns (GM): It DOES!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i thought you could only use teleport to move along the ground

johns (GM): And yes, you are blind from Gulielmus' spell.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Momentum exists in 1340s

Malachiasz of Tytalus: because its just fast walking

Endrite: Jomentum doesn't exist until 2004.

johns (GM): No it's moving your body in any direction fast, like Goku

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

well still blind

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can just teleport blindly since i know the council room

Bialas the Bear: Great.

Beatrice ex Merinita: if i make the conc roll (haha) i can make it

Lodewig of Tytalus: not without an arcane connection

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Anyway, you take more damage the further you fall, so acceleration and momentum exist

Endrite: You'd need an Arcane Connection or some ability to sense the target.

johns (GM): The target is the caster

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what would bialas's soak be in statue form

Endrite: Hmmmmmmm.

Good point.

Bialas the Bear: +26

Lodewig of Tytalus: and an ac is used to target teleports beyond line of sight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lmao.

Lodewig of Tytalus: lots of them require an ac while having a range of personal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: farewell bialas

johns (GM): Here's the guideline from 7 league stride: If you fail an

Intelligence + Finesse stress roll of 9+, your arrival goes slightly awry. For instance, you

might fall when you appear, or just be facing the wrong way. A botch means you appear in the wrong place, perhaps even in a wall.

Bialas the Bear: that should probably be a much higher EF in this situation.

johns (GM): A botch on this spell -- assuming we get there -- would mean very many botch die given the outrageous circumstances.

Beatrice ex Merinita: if i need to sense the destination i'll just teleport at someone yelling in the council room

johns (GM): But Boyrep says Beatrice also has to survive a conc check?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can still hear

yeah, conc is needed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: beatrice's final act is to teleport the entire covenant into the magic realm

Beatrice ex Merinita: -18 vs 12 for knocked down?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: does the wound penalty also apply to that int roll

Lodewig of Tytalus: you also can't cast it withouno, here's the guidelines from seven leage stride: Transports you to any place within seven

leagues either that you can see or that you have

an Arcane Connection with.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i assume so

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Fiorella's going to go turn herself into Magvillus since its clear that VT can't cover up a crime OR rid themselves of Proclus without it turning into a huge disaster

johns (GM): gah

Lodewig of Tytalus: it does

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the revolving door is in full swing today

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: https://i.imgur.com/zGHQb4O.gif

Bialas the Bear: I didn't expect to die anytime soon and I'm barely ready.

Beatrice ex Merinita: in that case, give me a moment to check ReCo guidelines

johns (GM): naturally

Zita of Mercere: well, couldnt beatrice teleport into proclus lab?

johns (GM): She tried to last round but failed the concentration check

and now she is blind

Zita of Mercere: its just a small hole in it theyre both falling through, no momentum to worry about

ah

Lodewig of Tytalus: does she have an ac to his lab

Endrite: It was mostly or totally destroyed by the pit.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: archibald patiently checking the sundial wondering where his sodales are, until malachiasz shows up covered in blood

Lodewig of Tytalus: and not, say, an ac to proclus from his lab

Zita of Mercere: That feel when Gulielmus takes a life with his signature spell

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh I see what you mean

johns (GM): cthinker, did Gulielmus use so much life boost that he passed out?

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, it's one magnitude higher for dangling puppet variant that moves me to the side

this means having gestures helps

Lodewig of Tytalus: why don't you make a concentration roll to see if you could hypothetically cast anything at all

Bialas the Bear: yeah.

Beatrice ex Merinita: concentration against 12 with -18 penalty first?

Bialas the Bear: probably.

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

johns (GM): I'll go with BR's judgment on the conc roll

Lodewig of Tytalus: by the book, anyway

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+1+1-18 vs 12

(

3

)

+1+1-18

=

-13

rip

johns (GM): Ah

Well.

Endrite: Well, that saves a lot of effort.

Beatrice ex Merinita: where's the need to roll concentration every roll when casting while wounded?

Bialas the Bear: Time to roll soak.

Beatrice ex Merinita: since i casted while wounded before and no conc roll was needed

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think lodewig deserves the kill credit for using the rulebook

Lodewig of Tytalus gets up and brushes ash off his tunic

Lodewig of Tytalus: "You people are nuts"

johns (GM): Yeah that's something I was going to bring up

Zita of Mercere: The arcane concentration rules

where are they

johns (GM): Is whether you have to roll for the "continuing situation" penalty every time you take an action or not

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Lodewig of Tytalus: being injured is a continuing situation that applies penalties to all your concentration rolls

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Ah... Bialas, you sorry fool."

johns (GM): Regardless -- not counting the injury -- Assuming we just used -6 from Beatrice's primary injury roll vs the ease factor of being knocked down

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, but do I need to roll concentration?

every time i cast when injured?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: johns (GM): cthinker, did Gulielmus use so much life boost that he passed out?

Bialas the Bear: youve never taken penalties to your conc rolsl before because no one has had the balls to call for conc rolls.

Lodewig of Tytalus: A maga must concentrate in order to cast

a spell. If she is distracted, she must make a

concentration roll.

Zita of Mercere: Injury is only one roll every 2 minutes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's OK/1/2/3/4/unconscious, isn't it

johns (GM): I think it's only if you're injured in the current round

Yes cthinker

Lodewig of Tytalus: taht's to maintain concentration

you check every 2 minutes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's at 4, so he's sitting at a -3 penalty but is one step away from unconsciousness

johns (GM): But you still rolled because you were knocked down which is its own category of concentration ease factor

Lodewig of Tytalus: casting a spell is a new action, which requires concentration

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why do i have anx

johns (GM): no idea

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, but i make the roll only once

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how do you put a number on the snail?

johns (GM): A maga must concentrate in order to cast

a spell.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

johns (GM): While mousing over the snail, press a number button

Beatrice ex Merinita: but i roll for continuing distraction only once

johns (GM): (mousing over it in the "choose a symbol" window)

Right -- this has nothing to do with the continuing distraction-- being knocked over applies to this round

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think for ease of tracking unconsciousness + the first level it should be 4 and then everyone remembers he has a reduced penalty, instead of remembering that he goes up to 3 on the board before falling asleep

Lodewig of Tytalus: but it's clear in the table - injury is a penalty to your conc, not an ef you roll against

johns (GM): the number is important for tracking the effective penalty to your rolls cthinker

Lodewig of Tytalus: wound penalties apply continuously, to everything you do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: right.

Lodewig of Tytalus: my advice would be to stop being wounded

Beatrice ex Merinita: even without the penalty i would have failed, so it's a moot point for now

johns (GM): Right

Beatrice ex Merinita: if i have to roll, i fail the roll

johns (GM): In a way I'm glad that's the case, and we can revisit the issue in the thread without having to wonder if beatrice would have retroactively survived

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but the actual number of levels is probably more important to track, and you have to remember it's different either way

johns (GM): because she rolled a 3.

i disagree gulielmus -- as long as you remeber the detail about the levels its fine. the GM has to see at a glance what number is being applied to your rolls

Beatrice ex Merinita: i still have a 1% chance of survival

johns (GM): How's that

The injury roll?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I believe my reading is the rules as they were intended to be played, though it's not totally clear

Bialas the Bear: perhaps less than that.

Beatrice ex Merinita: falling damage is environmental, yes

so it can botch

johns (GM): Then -- taking one moment to breath before we deal with environmental damage --

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well the other way around the gm has to look at a snail and figure out if that's a 1-1 snail or a 2-1 snail

and remember that he goes from 3 snails to ko

johns (GM): There is nothing else Beatrice/Bialas can do right?

You hit the ground?

Zita of Mercere: You also roll to check for a botch, on the spell you tried to cast, but failed

Beatrice ex Merinita: i tried all i could

Zita of Mercere: so you might end up in twilight

Bialas the Bear: yeah.

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh right

botch check for spell

Lodewig of Tytalus: if bialas hits first beatrice only takes +45 damage

johns (GM): i dont follow cthinker, ask me about it on discord when im less distracted

Endrite: Beatrice would technically take damage twice here.

Beatrice ex Merinita: with 4 dice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sure

Bialas the Bear: i'm on top of beatrice.

johns (GM): Ok. The hole is 90 feet I believe?

Endrite: Once from hitting the ground and once from Bialas hitting her.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: People have survived falls from very large heights due to freak luck.

johns (GM): So it is +45 damage.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe Proclus put a carpet down in his lab

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its +90

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: AD&D 2e mentions this

Beatrice ex Merinita: botch check from the spell i failed to cast can still save me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's 90 damage

johns (GM): its +1 per 2 feet

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its 1 damage per 1 foot if you hit a hard surface

Lodewig of Tytalus: if it's onto stone it's double

Beatrice ex Merinita: otherwise, i die to either fall or bialas falling on me

johns (GM): I see.

Endrite: This obviously goes through Proclus' lab.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a5045/4344036/

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe proclus's rug flutters to the bottom

Beatrice ex Merinita: how deep are the catacombs?

Endrite: It's a mystery.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's soil if the pit is deep enough

if not, it's stone

Bialas the Bear: 90 feet baby.

Maybe it's dirt.

johns (GM): Well, if it botches, something strange happens.

Bialas the Bear: Do you feel lucky?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wouldnt there be more stone under the catacombs

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+90

(

2

)

+90

=

92

Unfortunately, no.

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can still botch the spell i was trying to cast

rolling 4d10

(

1

+

1

+

1

+

6

)

=

9

lol

Zita of Mercere: oh my god

Bialas the Bear: lol.

c'thinker: win

Malachiasz of Tytalus: motherfucker

Bialas the Bear: incredible.

johns (GM): lol.

Bialas the Bear: thank you for saving our lives.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i do not resist twilight

can i do that?

johns (GM): gahaha

let me think

Beatrice ex Merinita: 3 warping points and i advance to next warping score anyway

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i get to see the effects at least and plot out a way to have beatrice die when the twilight is over

Beatrice ex Merinita: and i'm at wound penalty to resist twilight

Zita of Mercere: You can intentionally fail a roll, I'm sure. Why couldn't you?

Endrite: Well, when it ends she'll finish falling and then die.

johns (GM): I think not? Since you failed the conc check, you couldn't cast any spell anyway and wouldn't check to botch it, right?

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah you can embrace twilight

criamon do it all the time

Zita of Mercere: No, it explicitly says in the rules you or BR pasted that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe her momentum will disappear

Zita of Mercere: you still check for botch

Beatrice ex Merinita: if the roll is stressed, you have to check for botch if you fail to concentrate

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Can you botch on purpose?

Zita of Mercere: No

Bialas the Bear: thats true. you botched.

amazing! bialas is teleported to safety!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok.

johns (GM): True, but a few minutes ago, you argued that botch check was for concentrating, not the spell itself

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i must roll to resist twilight according to rules

Zita of Mercere: You can purposefully enter twilight with that one virtue from the Rhine? splatbook.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am afk.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i argued that

Lodewig of Tytalus: no, it's consistent

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): AFK

Malachiasz of Tytalus screams.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that was when the conc roll botched

Beatrice ex Merinita: but before this roll, i agreed i was wrong in that case

Lodewig of Tytalus: this time the casting roll has botched

johns (GM): This came up a round ago, you botched the conc on teleporting to Proclus lab and argued that meant you did NOT botch the ReCo spell

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll look up that virtue in case the revolving door psits otu a criamon

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: spits out

Beatrice ex Merinita: i was wrong and i admitted it before this came up

johns (GM): wait

when did you admit it? if you admitted it before then we would have had to simulate the effects of botching the ReCo spell when you first tried to go into Proclus' lab

Endrite: Holy moly.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: this is stupid

Bialas the Bear: lol.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't understand the confusion here

Beatrice ex Merinita: you rolled the botch, i think

johns (GM): yeah

On your behalf

Malachiasz of Tytalus: theyve been falling for like half an hour now

Beatrice ex Merinita: for both the concentration and the spell

johns (GM): No, just the concentration

settle down beardbeard

Malachiasz of Tytalus: sorry

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh, then i could have botched last round

Endrite: Another fine Tribunal.

Lodewig of Tytalus: did you check botch for the spell last time?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wanted to go to tribunal...

Beatrice ex Merinita: i thought i checked for botch last time

Lodewig of Tytalus: if you fail to concentrate there is still specifically a chance your spell botches

Zita of Mercere: Yes

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

johns (GM): I checked a botch after Hafl rolled a 1 on the conc and said "you botched the spell" and he argued "no I just buotched the conf"

Lodewig of Tytalus: but botching concentrate shouldn't affect that

well maybe it can add botch dice. it's a botch, it does what you want

Zita of Mercere: Botching conc isnt botching the spell, thats different

Lodewig of Tytalus: he was right

Zita of Mercere: If you fail conc, on a stressed spellcasting roll, you check for the  spell  botching

Lodewig of Tytalus: but the spell should have been rolled to check for botching that

Zita of Mercere: afterwards

yes

johns (GM): okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the hermetic limit of time has been breached

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I understand people's complaints about the revolving door but on the other hand, there's a huge hole in the floor of our inn now

Zita of Mercere: there should have been a botch roll for the spell, then

johns (GM): then he should have botched when he tried teleporting into proclus' lab in the first place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bonisagus kill squads have been deployed to vardians tomb for stretching half a combat round into an hour

Lodewig of Tytalus: when was that

Beatrice ex Merinita: the round i was tackled

Zita of Mercere: Well, good news, there's your botch roll right there

Beatrice ex Merinita: i tried escaping then

johns (GM): in which case, Beatrice slammed into a wall, knocked herself unconcious, bialas tackled thin air, both go into the pit, same result

johns (GM) dusts hands

Lodewig of Tytalus: good result

Beatrice ex Merinita: actually, my spell botched and i check for twilight

johns (GM): Nope!

It was 1 botch die, not 2.

Unless you are twilight prone?

Zita of Mercere: Uh

You get

1 extra botch die

its 2 botch dice

twilight

johns (GM): That's not what I mean, Dys.

I rolled 3 botch die, 1 of which came up as "1"

Lodewig of Tytalus: seems reasonable to resolve the actual effects of the botch before twilight takes hold anyway

johns (GM): Ergo Beatrice takes 1 warping point, the spell botches, but she does NOT check for Twilight.

The effects of the Botch of the pre-tackle teleport spell, as I already decided before Hafl told me it didn't take ffect were: She slams into the wall full speed.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the concentration botch and spell botch are two separate rolls, i argued they were not and i was wrong

Bialas the Bear: just accept your death and move on please

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's important to have it all out now

Zita of Mercere: No, johns, you rolled 2 botch dice for concentration, to confirm that concentration botched.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the rules don't account for the concentration roll botching, since the end effect is the same: the spell fails

johns (GM): Right, regardless if you were right then or right now

Zita of Mercere: Then, afterwards, the spell is rolled to check for botch

Beatrice ex Merinita: but you only checked for botch on the concentration roll

johns (GM): does anyone else get what im saying

Bialas the Bear: yes.

Endrite: I get it.

Zita of Mercere: If she enters twilight, she lives, and she rolled what, 3 1s?

On the botch check

Lodewig of Tytalus: if you want to declare a spell botch is the result of concentration botch, I'll go with it, you're the gm

Zita of Mercere: The actual, real, spell botch check

not the conc roll botch check

johns (GM): I'm saying that, retroactively, Hafl is acknowleding Beatrice's spell Botched in the Round where Bialas rolled to tackle her. And the botch was a botch that makes the spell misfire but not enough of a botch to check for twilight.

Zita of Mercere: It wasnt, though

Lodewig of Tytalus: did anyone roll for that

Zita of Mercere: I've got the logs open right now

Beatrice ex Merinita: no

the roll for the spell botch wasn't made

just for the concentration botch

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok im back, made a bowl of popcorn

johns (GM): ...

Bialas the Bear: you just argued that you take the concentration botch roll as the spell botch, didn't you? i'm not imagining that?

Zita of Mercere: Beatrice rolled a 1 on concentration. You rolled the 2 botch dice for the concentration roll botch check, confirming it. What this means, who knows?

Then the botch dice on a spell was rolled

and she botched so hard it entered twilight

Bialas the Bear: And then you walked that back as soon as johns told you the result.

johns (GM): what the hell does botching a concentration roll do then

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It seems like a lot of fuss to prevent what is, hnarratively, a cool outcome: Beatrice dodges getting piled on by everyone in VT, some with more of an axe to grind with Proclus than with her, by entering Twilight and being immune to damage for a while.

johns (GM): if not causing the spell to botch.

Lodewig of Tytalus: those botch dice were for a spell on a subsequent round, right?

where the concentration roll failed but did not botch

Zita of Mercere: The only thing I can think of is that it makes you roll more botch dice, so the spell is more likely to botch, lol

johns (GM): If the spell casting roll involved a stress

die, you must still roll to see whether the maga

botches, and

Beatrice ex Merinita: that's if the conc roll fails

johns (GM): Which it did.

Lodewig of Tytalus: like with most ability botches, it's up to you to do something creative or cruel

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

but it failed by rolling a 1

so it checked for botch

and it was checked

johns (GM): Ahhh

Okay. Fine. I see what you mean.

Beatrice ex Merinita: then the spell botch itself wasn't checked

johns (GM): Alright, so you're zooming into twilight.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah, that's the progression of events.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can still unluckily resist it

since the rules say i must try resisting it

(From Lodewig of Tytalus): just kill her with the spell botch so she's too dead to twilight please

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think only criamon can embrace it, i guess

johns (GM): br he's arguing the spell never botched

look

Either way she's done as a character right?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm arguing the botch check wasn't made

johns (GM):

rolling 10d10

(

9

+

6

+

6

+

2

+

7

+

5

+

10

+

3

+

4

+

1

)

=

53

Lodewig of Tytalus: what's that for now

johns (GM): No idea!

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's get specific

Zita of Mercere: Roll to resist twilight

Maybe she'll resist it and we'll all have a good laugh

Lodewig of Tytalus: what spell did beatrice botch that is sending her into twilight

Endrite: More like a good lol or sinister type of laughter.

Beatrice ex Merinita: moving myself sideways to stop the fall

johns (GM): ReCo

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok, the second one

johns (GM): Okay, how about this: You reco into a wall.

You come out of twilight in a wall.

GG

Lodewig of Tytalus: after the one that wasn't checked for botch

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Beatrice being in twilight gives people a chance to calm down

johns (GM): also ReCo

Beatrice ex Merinita: that was the second one

Lodewig of Tytalus: imo if you die instantly then you don't enter twilight

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And decide whether Beatrice is marched or not

Lodewig of Tytalus: although you manipulated the vis in such a way that you would have

Bialas the Bear: Luckily, we don't have to argue about that because Beatrice is dead.

Zita of Mercere: *In twilight

johns (GM): Sorry I still think there's a contradiction here

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If she's in twilight and not dead there's the chance for a discussion

Instead of everyone piling on agains ta signle magi like a bunch of sharks

johns (GM): Either she died in the first round or she died here

Malachiasz of Tytalus: there isnt because im going to kill her

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Who act on the scent of blood rather than logic

Malachiasz of Tytalus: she killed proclus

Lodewig of Tytalus: certainly

Endrite: Ah, wrong.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes, and?

Endrite: She murdered him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if she's not dead we're all going to kill her.

Zita of Mercere: I don't see how she'd die in the first round, unless you're saying that its okay to have a spell botch so bad you enter twilight, then kill the PC before they enter twilight

Lodewig of Tytalus: did she die in the first round? did the spell botch? have you checked for that yet?>

It is ok to say that

Zita of Mercere: It definitely isn't.

Lodewig of Tytalus: in a situation where a spell botch would kill you, it is

Zita of Mercere: That's stupid, what's the point of twilight if the GM can just kill you for japes and ignore it

johns (GM): wtf

dys do you not understand that twilight has to have 2 botch die, not just 1

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Murder is murder when someone brings it up as a grievance, there's no people's court.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah, she rolled 3 dude

johns (GM): That's in the 2nd round

And IF the spell even makes an attempt. Which, if we're aruging you still roll the spell's botch die after a failed conc check -- that means she already botched a spell a round prior

Beatrice ex Merinita: the first spell was never checked for botch

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

Zita of Mercere: Yeah

Lodewig of Tytalus: please do that

Zita of Mercere: You rolled the conc roll botch check

johns (GM): Fine

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: People are shanked in alleyways and there's no trial over it because they're not nobles who can have one convened

Beatrice ex Merinita: 1 base + 2 fast - 1 master + whatever the conc botch gives

johns (GM): How many botch die for a spell being cast as you are being tackled

Zita of Mercere: (also, botching the conc roll should be bonus botch dice to the real botch dice, tbh)

johns (GM): gah

Bialas the Bear: smfh

Lodewig of Tytalus: gm call

devil's fav demon: ridiculous.

johns (GM): this does feel ridiculous

Zita of Mercere: 1 base, +1 from the conc roll failing at all, +2 from fast cast, -1 from mastery

3 dice at least

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: FIORELLA: Hell people get killed in alleyways all the time. Don't ask me why I know so much about this

devil's fav demon: lol

Zita of Mercere: Surviving death because of an insanely lucky twilight is ars as hell, whats wrong with that

johns (GM): would you say the circumstances are as difficult as "Fighting exact faerie copies of yourself and your companions on a crumbling ice floe in a blizzard."

as the floor is blowing up and you are fighting fellow magi

Lodewig of Tytalus: idk why that would be worse than fighting anyone else onf a crumbling ice floe

Beatrice ex Merinita: if it doesn't botch, things proceed to round 2 where i botch with 3 1s, if it botches with just 1 botch dice, I slam into wall and die, if i check for twilight, it's up in the air

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh I guess it's the potential to stab your friend

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Mugging is given as the standard example of assassination method in Lords of Men

Zita of Mercere: She was being pushed into a pit and blinded, the floor is exploding and she just got hit with one of the greatest poems of all time

Endrite: A mugging gone right, they call it.

johns (GM): fine I'll just say 5 +1 from conc fail +2 fast -1 mastery

Beatrice ex Merinita: so 7

johns (GM):

rolling 7d10 Botch check!!!!!

(

5

+

8

+

8

+

1

+

1

+

7

+

9

)

=

39

Wow, awesome.

Lodewig of Tytalus: incredible

johns (GM): TWilight.

devil's fav demon: rules lawyering and changing your position to whatever would maybe allow you to live ftl, imo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone spend your seasons writing up lab texts before your deaths please

johns (GM): beatrice as a PC is gone no matter what

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that or huffing as much vis as possible

Beatrice ex Merinita: i changed my position before it would have allowed me to live

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: either/or

johns (GM): Okay, Roll to see how long you are in twilight

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+1+1+2 resist

(

4

)

+1+1+2

=

8

Lodewig of Tytalus: at least bialas jumped into a pit for some reason

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+3+3+3

(

10

+

10

+

8

)

+3+3+3

=

37

lol

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Hahaha

johns (GM): uhm.

Endrite: Don't forget you get -8 from your wounds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's uh

Beatrice ex Merinita: twilight wins with 29 margin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Beatrice ex Merinita: 35 margin

johns (GM): Great, final twilight

Beatrice ex Merinita: -6 wounds

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: really

Endrite: Right.

Beatrice ex Merinita: no, i cans till comprehend

johns (GM): bah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cheers armaban

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+1-6 comprehension

(

5

)

+1-6

=

0

Zita of Mercere: Wait, you only enter final twilight if you botch the comprehension roll and move up the table.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: win.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Putting Beatrice's damage-immune body in storage is a better ending than her just getting lynched for taking control of the narrative

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+3

(

10

+

5

)

+3

=

18

johns (GM): Ah, nice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: lost comprehension by 18

it might be final

Lodewig of Tytalus: A maga may choose not to resist Twilight,

in which case she makes no roll and automati-

cally enters Twilight. In some situations, such

as combat, taking two minutes to control the

magic may be very dangerous, and in such

cases a maga may wish to enter Twilight in the

Lodewig of Tytalus: hope of comprehending it and thus getting

through the experience more quickly.

devil's fav demon: too late.

Zita of Mercere: Your time in twilight is based on warping score, thats it, it seems

Lodewig of Tytalus: ye but it came up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait, whats the 2 minute thing

aint no chance for 2 minutes to pass here

Beatrice ex Merinita: base time is Sun for my 3 warping score

since i didn't botch the comprehension roll

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: 2 minutes is the next longest a mount of time after momentary

Zita of Mercere: "If the comprehension roll fails, the maga spends the base time in twilight"

johns (GM): right

Endrite: Not if the moon explodes.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10 Extra Warp Points on Beatrice

(

4

)

=

4

Zita of Mercere: Roll to see how much more warping you gained, tho

ah there we go

johns (GM): Okay.

RESOLUTION.

Lodewig of Tytalus: great, now everything is suddenly not neatly wrapped up again

Zita of Mercere: Everything is wrapped up, in new and zany ways

johns (GM): There is a crystalline figure of Beatrice stuck in the air above the giant pit.

devil's fav demon: you should rule that i fall onto dirt so i can survive.

Endrite: How high?

devil's fav demon: lol.

johns (GM): 85 feet above the bottom of the pit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Endrite: Ruthless.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hopefully bialas is clinging to it

Anthemia Mercere: I'lll go rig some rope to her so she doesn't fall when she comes out.

johns (GM): Bialas has fallen in the pit. There is also a ripping of stone wall around the edge of the pit (marked in Orange).

devil's fav demon: claws crossed.

rip.

didnt argue long enough

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right.

lets kill lavinia next

throw her in the pit

Zita of Mercere: It's fine, the fall damage might botch and Bialas is fine

johns (GM): That is your right.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, that needs to be rolled

johns (GM): We already did the fall damage.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: come on mal. let's go kick down lavinia's door

Zita of Mercere: Oh, I see

Endrite: The damage rolled a 2.

Lodewig of Tytalus: cool

Zita of Mercere: Is Bialas insanely dead, then?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: bloodthirsty norman

Beatrice ex Merinita: the soak can insanely explode

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wtf

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ill retrieve bialas's corpse then

johns (GM): Yes, as will Beatrice be if she wakes up from twilight and nothing stops her fall.

devil's fav demon: I could roll soak or you could rule that it was dirt instead of metal or what ever.

johns (GM): Roll soak

Beatrice ex Merinita: :27AMAnthemia Mercere: I'lll go rig some rope to her so she doesn't fall when she comes out.

devil's fav demon:

rolling 1d10!+11

(

5

)

+11

=

16

johns (GM): Dead.

devil's fav demon: Ok I'm still dead.

Lodewig of Tytalus: AAAAH now we all have to consciously decide to let her die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I will cut the rope.

Lodewig of Tytalus: thanks a lot GM

devil's fav demon: If that was dirt I would be alive.

As I take wounds in 7 point increments.

Thanks.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if anyone takes any action to save beatrice i wont let them

johns (GM): The council chamber reeks of brimstone, every feels like their hair is growing, and there's popped bubbles all around

Also the smell of burning philosopher corpse

Beatrice ex Merinita: the smell of victory

Zita of Mercere: I peek my head out from under the table

"What was that thud?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i just retrieve bialas's corpse and then take him and proclus to my lab

johns (GM): You have, say, 20 seconds before the next event occurs.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

devil's fav demon: I dont think rubble should count as a hard flat surface but hey. That's me.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ill wait actually

to see if beatrice comes out of twilight

devil's fav demon: lol.

Zita of Mercere: I peer down the hole, to see whats at the bottom

Malachiasz of Tytalus: in the meantime i do as i said and dont let anyone do anything that might save her from her deserved death

Zita of Mercere: "Oh dear."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus slumps against the wall and buries his head in his hands.

Zita of Mercere: I step away from the hole

Lodewig of Tytalus: well I have no reason to expect another event

Anthemia Mercere: I'll try to set myself to catch Beatrice when she comes out, either with ropes or to just grab her

Lodewig of Tytalus: except I guess the building collapsing

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "This is a dark day sodales."

I shove Anthemia away from the pit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should stand at the bottom of the pit and catch her

Endrite: Catching her would involve being 85 feet underneath her.

Anthemia Mercere: Bye

Zita of Mercere: I look over at Proclus' charred corpse

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm. I switch my thoughts to my mind and listen for sounds of earth shifting

Anthemia Mercere: How far over the pit IS she?

Zita of Mercere: "Let's just uh."

"Let's remain calm."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Why? I thought my threats would be enough to stop this."

Zita of Mercere: "No-one cast any more spells, please."

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10+6 sharp hearing

(

2

)

+6

=

8

Anthemia Mercere: She was topped over not thrown in

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm sure it's fine

(To Lodewig of Tytalus): You hear someone stirring in Venator's lab.

Zita of Mercere: Are we rolling awareness?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "It sounds like the boss is waking up. Everyone get your story straight"

I put my feet on the table and contemplate the situation glumly

Zita of Mercere: I sit down at the table, and pick up an apple, biting it listlessly.

johns (GM): The table is a smashed wreck.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "The only story is the truth of what happened here."

Beatrice ex Merinita: if venator asks, i attacked proclus over breaking his oath

Endrite: I feel like this situation should be easy to explain away.

johns (GM): Someone cast an earth wave through it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I put my feet on that

Zita of Mercere: I right a chair and sit down at the table wreck

Endrite: Just say that God reached through the Aegis and destroyed everyone for their sinful behavior.

Easy.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I gaze down at Beatrice's suspended form.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: happily you will not get a chance to explain.

Lodewig of Tytalus: here's a question:

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I guess I should play her

Lodewig of Tytalus: where's the child that was riding on bialas' back

Zita of Mercere: "Is she going to be alright?" I look over at Crystal Beatrice

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Stay away from the hole Anthemia."

Beatrice ex Merinita: where's the child is a good question

devil's fav demon: Lodewig of Tytalus: where's the child that was riding on bialas' back

lol.

Zita of Mercere: lmao

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "She's going to be dead once she returns."

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait a minute.

Zita of Mercere: "Please stop murdering people, good god."

johns (GM): hm, somewhere along the line I got the impression you stashed the child somewhere out of the room

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where are we goign to get a new AQ 69 council table

johns (GM): because his presence was disturbing the dead mother

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "She murdered Proclus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: malachiasz. you fucker

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I could Unseen Porter a chair beneath Beatrice

Zita of Mercere: "Look at Bialas! Look what happens when people keep these fights going!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And pull it back when she's restored

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, that could certainly have been the case

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "If she doesn't die here, then she'll die from the March."

"That I'll be certain of."

Lodewig of Tytalus: but I thought bialas was looking after him

Zita of Mercere: "Then can we hand her over and stop all this before you open another pit and destroy the covenant."

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's get an impartial judge to oversee the case

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Don't worry, no more pits."

johns (GM): Also at some point Malach cast grasping hands on him

Zita of Mercere: "Look, she's not moving, we can tie her up. Gag her so she can't cast. Just stop killing."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks up.

Endrite: Hands of Grasping Earth only last for a Diameter.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "She's a lunatic, Zita."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Zita, I can't let you do anything to save her life."

"There's one more harvest for the reaper this day."

johns (GM): That's enough time to cover the whole combat, Endrite.

That was... 3? 4 rounds total

Endrite: Sure, but it happened during the conversation.

So who knows how long that took.

johns (GM): True, true.

Anyway, Venator hobbles in angrily.

Venator ex Misc: "What in the name of Bonisagus' beard is going on here?!?!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I'd like to lodge a complaint about the consul"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "No jokes Lodewig, it's not the time."

"Even my mood's spoiled."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Alright"

Venator ex Misc: "Explain yourselves" he thunders.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll maintain concentration on catching Beatrice with a chair

Floating chair

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Beatrice murdered Proclus with pilums of fire. Bialas pushed her into the pit to try and kill her, and fell in himself."

devil's fav demon: beatrice is going to have to make a dex+athletics roll to land on the chair.

Zita of Mercere: "Proclus is dead. Bialas is dead. The covenant is heavily damaged. Beatrice is in twilight and probably dead when she gets out."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Fiorella! Get that chair away!"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If it's pressed against her ass and back already I don't think she has to catch it

Venator ex Misc: "Why?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "the pit is one of malach's from when we were all trying to kill her"

Venator ex Misc: "In the name of God, why?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "she contrived to enter twilight though"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I don't know, Venator."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "you know I've never known what her problem was"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "She's gone mad."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if fiorella doesnt get the chair away i sling a crystal dart at it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus corrects himself. "She had gone mad."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "we were arguing about the redcap that got killed by her and zita, and she took it poorly"

Zita of Mercere: "Their arguments had been going for a while. Whenever he was asked to stop, Proclus would always go, 'are you going to kill me then?'. I think he got his wish."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I've heard several remarks about how Proclus kneels before demons. Maybe we should hear her out."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what are these glowing red things anyway

Zita of Mercere: AIDS ponits

Malachiasz of Tytalus: candles

Endrite: Candies.

Venator ex Misc: "This devastation you've wrought.. Do you realize what a disaster this is?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Delicious.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think only archibald would realize

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I'm sure you'll tell us it's worse than it looks"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "There was no other way, Venator. Nothing I could have done would pierce her parma. Even Lodewig was powerless."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guilelmus, the archmage

Lodewig of Tytalus: aww

Venator ex Misc: He points to child. "Who is that?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm flattered

Zita of Mercere: "You should have let her flee instead. It's not like she was going to kill anyone else."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "that's the child of the woman on the table"

Zita of Mercere: "You got Bialas killed with your bloodlust."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait. wait

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Some Mercere kid, probably gifted."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hang on

Lodewig of Tytalus: "His name is Simon"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you forgot the most important detail

Venator ex Misc: He notices the corpse which was also hit by a crest of earth wave.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there are also a bunch of turnips and onions all over the floor

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I made an oath to Proclus, Zita."

Venator ex Misc: "Then who in heavens is that?!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I said I would help him if Beatrice attacked him."

"Some Mercere woman that Zita and Beatrice killed."

devil's fav demon: malach ftw.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "well, we know her from before. She killed another redcap. This was all supposed to come up at the tribunal, but they couldn't restrain themselves"

Zita of Mercere: "She's a traitor to the order and killed at least one magus herself, Venator."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea stands up and begins gathering his vegetables, in a daze.

Zita of Mercere: "We were interrogating her when all this broke out."

Endrite: All your cabbages have been eaten by your fox.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "The black gate and so on"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah!

Venator ex Misc: "Necromancy?"

Zita of Mercere: "Yes, Proclus cast the black gate on her, to get her to talk."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Consolata killed my cousin, in a failed attempt to force me to steal from VT for her."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "yes?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "The only immoral thing about her death is that she didn't suffer more."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Honestly if that was against the rules it's the first I'm hearing of it. Anyway Proclus did the honours and... "  gestures to pile of ash

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I continue monitoring Beatrice to make sure no one is still trying to save her.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Malachiasz kills me then since i was floating a chair to catch her

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont kill you

i threw a dart at the chair if you didnt move it

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't think the chair can dodge

Venator ex Misc: "Is there not a single Magus in this Order who can still be trusted?"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Crystal darts always hit

I'll look for another chair

Venator ex Misc: "A day after you all swear to peace and the halls are stained with blood!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I don't know. Certainly you've been let down by those you chose to trust. You might have to take a chance again"

Beatrice ex Merinita: technically, i swore i wouldn't declare wizard's war and i didn't

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if fiorella keeps moving chairs in i keep flinging darts at them

Lodewig of Tytalus: "More pressingly we'll have to worry about what to do with her over there. She's not visibly scared so I wouldn't give her more than a day or two"

"I wish to god she'd had the decency to die cleanly"

Venator ex Misc: "All of you, out. You are due in Venice."

"I don't want to see any of your faces again before the next Spring Equinox."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "No, you'll need to let us know what's going on"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: If that is your wish, Venator, but I want to retrieve Bialas's body and take it and Proclus's to my lab."

"I intend to immortalize them in stone."

Venator ex Misc: "I will decide whether there is any future to this covenant then."

"Begone, now!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "if you had confided in us all, the covenant grounds would be intact. Why is that so important?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "My onions."

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I guess there's nothing to be done

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I must gather my onions."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Will you truly not allow me to retrieve the bodies of my sodales?"

Zita of Mercere: "I'll need to take Giovanni from here, to take him to Harco, at some point. Is that alright? Simon there also needs to be taken to the alps later, as per his mothers wishes."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can't actually leave.

there's a hole between us and the entrance

Venator ex Misc: "I can terminate your residency here immediately. You will become vagabonds and by the laws of the tribunal have no right to sanctum."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "May I at least repair this floor so we actually can leave?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "You can do whatever the law declares, I'm asking you not to be a bloody fool"

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "..."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "You're trying to do somethign important and it's blown up in your face, so just give us the benefit of the doubt and maybe we can actually help"

"what's more it's unreasonable to ask us to leave with the murderess hanging there"

Venator ex Misc: "You've earned no trust from me, Werewolf."

Endrite: Gasp!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I go ahead and spont some crte to fix the floor so we can get out.

Zita of Mercere: "Eh? Oh that's funny."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "No? I've put my life on the line for this covenant?"

Endrite:  Botches and insanely dies

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+32

(

3

)

+32

=

35

level 15 effect

Lodewig of Tytalus: that last one wasn't a question either

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets see

Beatrice ex Merinita: hmm, there's floor under me now

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no theres not

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "It seems our absentee landlord has declared himself master over our property, even Zita's child."

Endrite: Rather, there is clearly not.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: theres a floor over you

Venator ex Misc: when did you put your life on the line for the covenant

Malachiasz of Tytalus: youre 85 feet from the bottom

Zita of Mercere: When he went into the rat regio to hide a tiny man there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Lodewig of Tytalus: "what would I need to do to be worth your trust? Nurse a grudge until it consumes me?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: at least weve solved the chair problem

Lodewig of Tytalus: uhh I murdered proclus' girlfriend to remove her malign infernal influence

Venator ex Misc: ...

Zita of Mercere: Such virtue!

Lodewig of Tytalus: THANK you

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It turns out Proclus was the malign influence ove rher

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: she had ensorcelled proclus, a powerful magus

pretty risky.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, thats enough to make a stone bridge over this pit for 2 minutes

Zita of Mercere: "powerful"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets leave now

Endrite: He was, HOWEVER, he was vulnerable to fire and fairy magic.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I pick up Proclus's body and take it with me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he has an impressive spell list.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "I'm removing my birds in an orderly fashion."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I mean honestly if you've a problem with werewolves why didn't you kick me out before??"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone should translate his texts

Beatrice ex Merinita: i was afraid proclus would have ReIg ward by now

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "If you want to spill another magi's blood instead of lettin gme do so, that's your choice."

Endrite: All the rotes are uncastable unless you have Hermetic Numerology and PROBABLY his notes were destroyed when a giant pit was created in his lab.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well whatever I can tell you want to wrap this up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did you write all your notes on stone slabs

devil's fav demon: oh, speaking of notes

Endrite: No, but I had Improve Heating or whatever so they probably burnt up.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Endrite: The lab virtue.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think I'm using this occasion to retire Lodewig though because this place is nothing but a liability

devil's fav demon: all of bialas' lab notes are incomprehensible and most use ranges you can't access or have conditions like "the caster must be a bear" good luck

Zita of Mercere: Good haul

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: tfw

Endrite: Let's see if we can get all the magi to quit or die this session.

Venator ex Misc: "If you wish to stay, then stay and watch as I put an end to this damned covenant once and for all, in a crash of stone and timber."

Zita of Mercere: Patrick Bateman, sweating: Let's see Beatrice's lab notes

Venator ex Misc: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I leave with Proclus's body and head to Tribunal.

Zita of Mercere: "Wait, wait, hang on."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "that would be worth seeing"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea is satisfied that he's collected enough onions.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Shut up, Lodewig."

Zita of Mercere: "My children live here, one moment."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Let's go."

Venator ex Misc: Good thing Gulielmus took Magical Memory for an occasion just like this

Zita of Mercere: "I'm taking them somewhere else during all this."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guilelmus's notes are also incomprehensible

devil's fav demon: lol youtre losing all your sweet magic items

rip

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah let's move on

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: although he might not keep any

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "Wouldn't be the first time some damned fool tries to destroy their own building to spite me."

Lodewig of Tytalus: making accomodations for our various dependents

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: because of the magical memory

Zita of Mercere: I walk into the covenant proper to get them out and take them somewhere

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: "i'll be prepared this time."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is INEVITABLE that a gm is going to rule that magic memory doesn't work with fast-crafting charged items

Venator ex Misc: cripes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and im going to melt down

Venator ex Misc: now im the bad guy all of a sudden

Lodewig of Tytalus: venator was always an idiot and this is the perfect time to call him on it

Beatrice ex Merinita: sadly, i don't see a way to avoid retiring beatrice after this, but i still count this as a win

johns (GM): idk he has a pretty good reason for acting this way

i think dys and hafl could back that up

Lodewig of Tytalus: maybe? how would we know?

Beatrice ex Merinita: he has a pretty good reason

Zita of Mercere: I can back it up, yeah

johns (GM): Unfortunately, you killed one of the people who was aware, and the other is at Tribunal waiting for you all

Endrite: RATHER, Beatrice and Archibald can.

Neither of whom are here.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: as a bonus, by bringing proclus's b ody i have more evidence to make sure beatrice is marched

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm just getting my birds out safely and I'll make sure Zita gets her kid out

Lodewig of Tytalus: alright i'm going to tribunal to get archibald to spill the beans

Zita of Mercere: On the other hand, is he going to immediately destroy the covenant, or let Zita take her children out of it before he drops the place

Malachiasz of Tytalus: assuming she survives her fate

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are we bringing the other body

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm not sticking around beyond that

Lodewig of Tytalus: we'd better

johns (GM): He won't destroy the covenant if you actually go to Venice now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guilelmus has already crossed the bridge

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean he probably should

johns (GM): Probably!

Zita of Mercere: Well he said he wants to so I'm trying to move the kids out

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i already did too

Beatrice ex Merinita: he should

Malachiasz of Tytalus: with proclus

Zita of Mercere: Just in case he gets in a funny mood

and does it

johns (GM): But a decision like that is a troupe decision

Zita of Mercere: also, he should do it

johns (GM): alright, take your valuable notes/vis/children

Endrite: I mean, that would essentially be the end of the SaGa.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait does proclus still have a body

or is he ash

johns (GM): Essentially, but not my fault!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: after tribunal we should sail from venice to ponza

johns (GM): Venator dusts to dusts him.

Endrite: Burning a body to ash takes a lot of hotness.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's going to be really troublesome raising my ward to fulfil his destiny if I have to go back on the road

Zita of Mercere: New beginnings

devil's fav demon: All the characters that start shit all the time are dead.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: does he really do that

while im picking him up

devil's fav demon: So we should be fine.

johns (GM): Yes.

Zita of Mercere: Venator ftw

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I cast Damnation on Venator.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: devil's fav demon: All the characters that start shit all the time are dead.

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

johns (GM): Hm, okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Oh no. What a shame.

Endrite: Welp, good SaGa everybody.

johns (GM): He fast casts Mirror of Opposition and you die

devil's fav demon: lol.

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's see the rolls

devil's fav demon: lol.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: but does he really do that

johns (GM): let's not

Zita of Mercere: Isnt that the spell to reflect a spell back on someone?

Endrite: Malachiasz is immune to falling damage.

Zita of Mercere: Yeah

Malach cant be harmed by his own spell

johns (GM): Yes he destroys Proclus' body. He's not letting you get your hands on it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I approach him and cast Damnation at my feet.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok he's a reformed necromancer, we get it

devil's fav demon: I really like ars. Let's immediately start a new SaGa.

johns (GM): okay

no beardbeards allowed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's ignore beardbeard's actions

Zita of Mercere: Let's continue this saga.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and move on.

Lodewig of Tytalus: we can have one

Zita of Mercere: We do - his name is Endrite

Endrite: Yes, my new magus, Beardbeard.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wanted to turn proclus into a statue because i failed to keep my oath

johns (GM): Fine, instead he'll fast cast a spell to turn himself into a cloud

devil's fav demon: Venator fast casts the instant death spell with 60 penetration.

Zita of Mercere: As is his right, really

johns (GM): Then he casts spell to make Malach's eyes explode

Lodewig of Tytalus: sick

leave it at that

he';s just got exploded eyes now

and venator's an angry cloud

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I assume Venator has his reasons for being a dick

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: say hello to my new magus, Tonsor the Twice-Bearded

johns (GM): btw

the 5 people who voted "Proclus" in the thread poll

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm just making sure I can feed by birds

johns (GM): Congrats!

Zita of Mercere: lmfao

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont know why he wouldnt let me have proclus's body so i could turn it into a statue

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Endrite: I feel like it's pretty obviousy why.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

Zita of Mercere: https://animegirlsare.sexy/M9BO9

johns (GM): because there's no reason for you to have a magi's body other than foul desecration or necromancy

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I guess if the birds aren't in VT he can't sotp me from feedin gthem anyway

They're in the Ear

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i said what i was goign to do!

turn him into a statue!

thats not desecration or necromancy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, so foul desecration that still allows the possibility of necromancy

Lodewig of Tytalus: instead you could make a statue of him

Endrite: Why would Venator believe when you just wrecked the covenant?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I assume Venator has his reasons for being a dick

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its not like its an unrepairably big hole

Lodewig of Tytalus: ehhh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: venator has a lot of excellent reasons and most of them are abundantly clear considering the last couple of hours.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: two decent level crte effects and its back to normal

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah

Lodewig of Tytalus: if venator doesn't disband the covenant the tribunal probably should

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I did not make the argument that he is reacting poorly to the circumstances

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: HOWEVER we should kill beatrice

johns (GM): i have added a new poll to the thread

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm fully justified in what i did

Endrite: Are you?

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

Lodewig of Tytalus: you might be! I have no idea of anyone's motives at all

johns (GM): actually for once i don't think its cut and dry, proclus had a good reason to flip out when it looked like you all were hiding a murder

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: What are you going to do, pillum me?

Endrite: You murdered a pacifist to cover up a second, unrelated murder.

Beatrice ex Merinita: my evidence, every single line in the chatlog preceded by Proclus of Rome

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think a new saga is the best bet

Zita of Mercere: Hang on, hang on, hang on

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 3 magi are dead, one is dead or an npc

2 are leaving the covenant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill zita on our way out

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its just archibald and gulielmus left

Lodewig of Tytalus: zita is about to be marched anyway

Endrite: That would be the most fair thing to do.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i didn't plan on killing proclus, but i got pushed too far

Lodewig of Tytalus: did you?

Zita of Mercere: Before we vote on that, can you lay out exactly what a new saga entails. Entirely new game, but the same setting? Or continuing this game at a different covenant with the same PCs.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: theres two options dys

devil's fav demon: Lodewig of Tytalus: did you?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: new saga, same tribunal

or new saga, different setting

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does "end this game" just mean no more ars

johns (GM): yes

devil's fav demon: thats gay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :stare:

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh cool

i can start my mage campaign

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i voted different setting

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: If FIorella stays its mostly for OOC reasons, IE the "revolving door"

devil's fav demon: lets play but we just kick beardbeard and hafl out. :trollface:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i voted to continue, but if all of the people who have just died or left want to start fresh thats fine.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its just 2 people left

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's also derfel.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: assuming shaun and br follow through on what they said

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if we start fresh im bringing derfel.

Endrite: I don't, personally, mind making a new character.

Beatrice ex Merinita: line from a recent chatlog with johns:

22:02 - hafl: oh, and beatrice is not going to declare wizard war on proclus now,

devil's fav demon: oh i voted to continue.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i voted to continue

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean I can't think of a good IC reason to hang around except that I just adopted a child, and I have enough biological children I don't give a fuck about already

Zita of Mercere: There's 4 options, one of them is continuing. I want to know the difference between continuing and new saga, same setting, though.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'll keep Fiorella if people don't want me to keep retiring characters who aren't dead

But mostly for that specific reason

And not because she has incentives to stay

johns (GM): i like both my characters but have good ideas for alts so w/e

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: magus of tytalus: Oh no. There's too much conflict here. I had better leave.

Beatrice ex Merinita: 2:07AMGulielmus ex Miscellanea: magus of tytalus: Oh no. There's too much conflict here. I had better leave.

Lodewig of Tytalus: this conflict is tiresome and incomprehensible

Endrite: I mean there's conflict and then there's the entire covenant building collapsing on you.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh right i forgot lavinia, ok 3 magi still left

Beatrice ex Merinita: Tytalus spent the last few centuries hanging out in a Merinita forest. House Tytalus has been surpassed in conflict.

Lodewig of Tytalus: plus what lodewig likes about vardian's tomb is it's a comfy and safe place to hole up

devil's fav demon: Continue the Saga -- You remain as Wizards in Rome 1342 A.D. The nature of Vardian's Tomb may be quite different than it was before.

New Saga, Same Tribunal -- We pick up as Wizards in another Roman tribunal in 1342 A.D.

New Saga, Different Setting -- We pick any tribunal and any time date.

End this game -- No more Sunday Ars.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald, gulielmus, lavinia, bolad, and derfel.

2 magi and 3 companions

devil's fav demon: continue is obviously the most interesting.

Endrite: I'm going to be honest, I have no idea why Beatrice was going to try to kill Proclus after the Tribunal.

devil's fav demon: i dont really understand it either

Endrite: Was it just because he was rude to her?

Zita of Mercere: Good news, though, all! This is the perfect time to found a new covenant!

It's tribunal!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i guess were probably continuing

Beatrice ex Merinita: about 50% of it was that

johns (GM): Current surviving wizards (confirmed): Zita, Fiorella, Gulielmus, Archibald, Lavinia. Possibly not around anymore: Malach, Lodewig.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: shaun said fiorella was leaving

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fiorella is in the not around anymore column, i think.

Zita of Mercere: Fiorella is in possibly not around anymore

So that's 4

johns (GM): Classic Shaun

Beatrice ex Merinita: houserule: all continuing magi must take the PTSD flaw

Endrite: What was the other 50%?

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I said twice she wasn't leaving

Malachiasz of Tytalus: also i think malach is definitely not around since venator just killed him

Zita of Mercere: Archibald, Gulielmus and and Lavinia. Which means we have 2 hermetic magi, and one is the potion seller from the classic video.

johns (GM): Exploded his eyes at least

Beatrice ex Merinita: wanting to kill faeries constantly, suing the covenant for aristide

even if the lawsuit didn't go through

Malachiasz of Tytalus: exploded his eyes and hes trapped at the bottom of a 90 foot hole

i doubt anyones gonna help him out

by giving him new eyes

Endrite: That seems like a really flimsy justification for killing him.

Beatrice ex Merinita: suing the covenant was the big deal

Endrite: But, of course, it was your right to do so.

johns (GM): check out the wiki char list now lol http://ars-badgame-ii.wikia.com/wiki/Ars_Badgame_II_Wikia#Characters

Beatrice ex Merinita: she just wanted to wait until after the tribunal so it wouldn't look like she was killing him to avoid the lawsuit

devil's fav demon: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: time to think of an insanely retarded magus that would want to join vardians tomb, now

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I don't have an idea for a new character honestly

Endrite: But he agreed not to sue Archibald.

johns (GM): me 3 hours ago [5:45 PM] johns of jerbiton: lets just end the campaign here with everyone marched

Zita of Mercere: lmao the character list

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes, he agreed not to sue archibald

but proclus being rude and probably wanting to start another lawsuit over killing someone who 100% deserved to die was what pushed beatrice over the edge

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he was right though.

johns (GM): Killing Aristide was fine

Killing Consolata was very troublesome though

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think it wasnt the fact that she was killed

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Fiorella hasn't even made any real enemies, I mean someone knew about her cousin but that's just basic research any villain could do

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so much as the fact that zita and beatrice wanted everyone to cover it up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i thought 0 murders was normal. this is highly unsettling

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and then after getting her marched produce the preserved corpse

devil's fav demon: yeah

Endrite: To be fair, FIorella has only been around for like two years.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i didn't want to do that

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: That IS fair

Malachiasz of Tytalus: zita did at least

Beatrice ex Merinita: i was invisible for the whole murder and was gone before lodewig arrived

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It goes to the point that she has no pressing reason to leave

Beatrice ex Merinita: but he dragged me into it anyway and set proclus off

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right everyone

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Unless everyone was leaving in dusgust anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is a GREAT time to start the hedge-tradition-only saga

Zita of Mercere: I was asking my sodales to not sell me out immediately and at least give me the chance to sort it out at tribunal

Endrite: It would have come out if anyone had interviewed Zita with magic, which they would have.

Zita of Mercere: Depends what they ask

johns (GM): lol, but Gulielmus is now the 2nd most senior hermetic magus so this is his time to shine

Zita of Mercere: jesus christ

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont think zita would even be marched given the circumstances

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: probably given a hefty penalty

Beatrice ex Merinita: 2:13AMGulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is a GREAT time to start the hedge-tradition-only saga

Endrite: I mean, it was a grey area.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll change my vote to completely new saga if it's hedge only

johns (GM): Let's all play a campaign where we're the Hedge Wizards in the Capocci court

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm sure venator will preserve the consulate

Malachiasz of Tytalus: marching is usually for really serious and obviously harmful to the order stuff, and for the holy hedge mage

Lodewig of Tytalus: Beatrice ex Merinita: i was invisible for the whole murder and was gone before lodewig arrived

devil's fav demon: i would really prefer to keep the continuity of ars italia.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I just know the two of you raced off and killed this redcap we were hunting

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Malachiasz of Tytalus: zita would probably just get some extra service to Mercere or something

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:  lavinia walks out the front door and down the street to hugo di capocci's household  all right, everyone, let's all

Lodewig of Tytalus: I assumed that's what everyone around the table knew

Beatrice ex Merinita: i do not dispute your knowledge of beatrice being there

Zita of Mercere: I'm actually tempted to vote same setting, new saga, since it wouldn't be very hard to imagine Archibald leaves for Magvillus after this, and Zita's already a redcap that spends half the year wandering around mythic europe.

johns (GM): take plenty of time to decide

devil's fav demon: Bialas didn't know anything iirc other than you just attacked proclus for no reason.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: same.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I did not expect to set off a confrontation, I just wanted to discuss the situation openly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if we do same setting / new saga then derfel can join the new covenant.

Beatrice ex Merinita: replace all of ARchibald's personality flaws with trauma and survivor's guilt

devil's fav demon: I already decided, I want to continue this game with the same continuity.

Lodewig of Tytalus: because everyone else's secrets are interesting and gossip worthy

devil's fav demon: This seemed inevitable and justified.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i definitely would prefer new saga different setting but hell its a diplomatic process

johns (GM): If we do Same Saga - Different Covenant then the surviving chars here can transfer

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think you should make like

a strawpoll or something though

that forum trolls cant vote in

Zita of Mercere: Hmm.

johns (GM): no one reads our thread but us anyway

Zita of Mercere: Yeah lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: or you know

just ask people

Zita of Mercere: the last vote had 9 fucking votes dude

johns (GM): i'm a fan of this area, the history, and the upcoming plague

devil's fav demon: Yes.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that sounds about right

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I'm making new characters if it's no longer VT

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fortunately all of the magi who do nothing but cause trouble are now dead

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm a fan of the plot we're not allowed to know

Endrite: I'm a little peeved that you decided to explode the covenant for a petty grudge.

johns (GM): Whoa, hang on

Zita of Mercere: Technically the actual damage to the covenant was Malach

johns (GM): It was Malach who exploded the physical Covenant

Beatrice exploded the figurative Covenant

Zita of Mercere: and Bialas just killed himself

Endrite: I meant socially.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: huh? gulielmus, the man who tried to blind a flambeau hunting a marched magus, is still here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what % of the players know the secret forbidden knowledge

its like half

Endrite: The covenant as in the magi who make up the covenant, not the building.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: more than half maybe

johns (GM): the SECRET of Vardian's Tomb?

Zita of Mercere: Oh right, half the PCs still around are on trial at tribunal lmfao

Lodewig of Tytalus: I know some secret knowledge but idk if it's the same

johns (GM): I mean would Archibald just tell the survivors here when they show up in Venice

that might help with the vote on the saga fate

Zita of Mercere: Fuck no

johns (GM): ah well!

Zita of Mercere: Archibald says to sink the covenant

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's the only reasonable decision

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i assume its got something to do with why venator wanted us to not use necromancy on magi

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's become hermetic fugitives and hide out somewhere in italy

johns (GM): we could set up a covenant in the Mercurian Temple and keep the roman flavor

Zita of Mercere: I'm honestly unsure what to do because starting from scratch would kinda suck, but being the big fish in a small pond seems a bit crappy too.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could set up a covenant on ponza

johns (GM): set up a covenant on pizza.

Let's do a saga where we're all muslim pirates.

Zita of Mercere: I don't want to be walking around as the big fat wizard cop 20 years older than the other magi.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i have a saracen token for frisia i'm not going to use

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Fiorella in her short time here saw the covenant destroyed, several magi killed, and also her fellow Jerbitons called her a barbarian

johns (GM): people would make age advanced chars

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Ok, the reolving door IS justified

johns (GM): I mean not Bialas age but

Zita of Mercere: 40 year old magi?

ish

johns (GM): I've always given people that option

Zita of Mercere: suppose

johns (GM): If Lavinia died I would make a wizard as old as Archibald

Beatrice ex Merinita: but starting young is more effective in xp gains

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: people should be able to reroll around guilelmus's age, fi they want

Zita of Mercere: ISnt he just 27

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or older really

yeah hes really young

Zita of Mercere: he joined us last tribunal

so

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Starting young is pretty good in the long run, less so if you can't exposure XP on arts tho

Zita of Mercere: 7 years ago

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think the final decision on arts exposure was that it's RAW while abilities exposure is 5xp

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't think the age on his character sheet is right but he's 27 or so.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: But still you can usually invent more spells than you can buy with 30 levels for that year

johns (GM): Starting older lets you minmax according to the library selection and then make your familiar cords/amulet powerful from the getgo

Beatrice ex Merinita: but boy reporter was 100% correct that abilities shouldn't have exposure, only practice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :pepe:

Lodewig of Tytalus: thank you

Beatrice ex Merinita: and i'm not saying that because Independent Study is the best virtue

Lodewig of Tytalus: we needed to amend independent study, not the well-conceived house rule

johns (GM): Hey if everyone's making new characters now we have a chance to hammer out the kinks in some of these houserules, lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

Zita of Mercere: Ha ha ha.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: haha. ha

i think the 100 foot fall per round thing is good

does anyone dispute that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: excellent point

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's

Lodewig of Tytalus:  licks lips

devil's fav demon: that is good.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's start RAW but keep simultaneous resolution combat as long as some sort of order is maintained

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how do i change my vote from "continue this saga" to "end ars"

Zita of Mercere: You can probably march Zita then, rip. Well, depends what's found out.

lol

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's not keep simultaneous resolution combat because it doesn't mean anything

johns (GM): q_q

Lodewig of Tytalus: you're still having us declare in initiative order

devil's fav demon: lets try not to make characters that attack other pcs for no reason

johns (GM): i just like it because it makes things move faster

Endrite: It definitely worked badly in this case.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Three magi are dead because we DIDN'T want Zita marched

Lodewig of Tytalus: does it???

johns (GM): Yes, absolutely

Beatrice ex Merinita: simultaneous resolution is slightly faster, i think

johns (GM): With 9 players doing regular initiative woudl take forever and ever

Lodewig of Tytalus: but it';s the same thign!

johns (GM): No, because people seldom are ready on their exact turn

Endrite: I think the crazy thing is that it's impossible to stop Zita from getting in trouble here unless she wipes her memory.

johns (GM): Either they're looking stuff up, they need rules clarified, or they went AFK

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok

Zita of Mercere: Well, my plan at tribunal was, basically, the judges don't know Consolata is dead

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, simultaneous resolution lets you skip someone togive them time while the game keeps moving

johns (GM): People who have figured out what they're doing -- for instance, companions with limited verbs -- have to sit there for half an hour waiting to say "I roll to hit thing"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i still dont think zitas getting marched

just heavy fine

Lodewig of Tytalus: you want to go to whatever character is ready, thats' fine

Zita of Mercere: So I'll testify about the scrying, and talk openly about the massive crimes Consolata committed.

Beatrice ex Merinita: and for that to work, the resolution has to be simultaneous

Lodewig of Tytalus: It just irritates me because combat systems with real simultaneous resolution and blind declaration and phases and shit are cool, and this isn't that

johns (GM): Right.

I could do Blind Declaration.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: actually hang on

Zita of Mercere: I mean, this was my plan. Zita could have gotten marched here.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: did venators dust to dust pierce proclus's parma

johns (GM): Proclus has no parma once he is dead.

Zita of Mercere: What parma? He's fuckin' dead mate.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its a sun duration spell

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's nto a spell

johns (GM): Parma as a spell??? What is this, 1e???

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Roll20 doesn't have a good declaration system

Zita of Mercere: cast on an adult, alive proclus

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: FOr anything but turn taking

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah whatever you're doing is fine

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So it's relaly hard to do like, Torchlight combat

Lodewig of Tytalus: ars combat is rotten to the core

Malachiasz of Tytalus: magi corpses should have their parma until it fades normally

johns (GM): lol sorry

Malachiasz of Tytalus: imo, anyway

unless they have the flaw where their magic ends when they die

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Yeah the parma comes out of their stamina

johns (GM): This is the first time we've done PVP. its never been an issue in the past because I always know what my NPCs were going to doa nyway

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: The energy was already invested

Zita of Mercere: I will say, that was a really funny session.

Endrite: It seems like a grey area, since the Parma Magica isn't a regular spell.

johns (GM): A corpse does not have the Gift, and the Gift is necessary to have the Parma.

Zita of Mercere: No matter what, I want Ars to continue

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It used to be a spell

Zita of Mercere: You can trust me to be a good boy who doesn't destroy covenant

johns (GM): Ars will continue.... as Shadowrun: New Roma 2026. jump in gamers

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm sorry for killing ars the second time and for indirectly causing bialas' death, but not for killing proclus

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: And it's made clear in the fluff that Parma is a Sun duration effect

Zita of Mercere: you killed it the first time?

johns (GM): I am not sorry because I have epic player death finally, and dont have to feel guilty for any of it

Zita of Mercere: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: it ended when i dropped it to play in nihnoz's burning wheel

Lodewig of Tytalus: you should feel guilty for allowing beatrice to live

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hang on

have venator roll his two spell casts

Zita of Mercere: Oh god you dropped ars for that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: to see if he botches

Zita of Mercere: im so sorry

johns (GM): Regardless -- Dust to Dust is a very low level Corpus spell and Venator is an elder archmagus with a focus in Necromancy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: :evilbuddy:

Beatrice ex Merinita: it was a great decision on my part  said in a very sarcastic voice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 2d10

(

7

+

10

)

=

17

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait, 3 spells

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he doesnt botch

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

Malachiasz of Tytalus: because he used dust

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: win

Malachiasz of Tytalus: aha

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: I think it's clear that Beatrice has been trying to have an impact on the story and furstrated that she kept failing

Malachiasz of Tytalus: his third spell botches

the third spell was blinding malach

so perdo corpus

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: So her actions aren't that nonsensical

johns (GM): He doesn't roll a stress die on Dust to Dust because it was outside combat.

Zita of Mercere: Boom

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah theres no reason to stress d to d

Endrite: I don't understand what you're saying, Shaun.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he was using it on something i was carrying though

Beatrice ex Merinita: he was insanely mad when casting it

devil's fav demon: beatrice has been a central part of the story since she murdered her cousin for no reason.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and agitated, yes

Zita of Mercere: What?

He was marched and trying to destroy us

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he botched the blowing up malach eyes spell johns

johns (GM): Aristide had to die dude!!!!!! wtf

Nah he has it mastered or whatever. relax

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: She's a parricide and a torturer.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, i think my participation was fine

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wont relax!!

oh wait he has to confirm botch

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

gah

Zita of Mercere: Both of beardbeards characters have exclusively acted to destroy the covenant and I want to have a houserule setup that he isnt alloewd to play someone who can and will destroy the covenant

Beatrice ex Merinita: i was not happy with the pace, not with what was going on

johns (GM): agreed dys

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i didnt want to destroy the covenant!!

Lodewig of Tytalus: the pace of what

devil's fav demon: yeah thats tru

Beatrice ex Merinita: though the pace got a bit too fast this time

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no one could pierce beatrices parma with anything except gulielmus going super saiyan

Beatrice ex Merinita: pace of the game

Zita of Mercere: You destroyed a big part of it, right here.

Endrite: What the heck?

Zita of Mercere: The only thing you achieved was killing Bialas, too

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nothing else could kill beatrice

Zita of Mercere: which is really funny

Endrite: Maybe you should have said something instead of nuking it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: out of character i think its good aristide died. but in character i tihnk its good beatrice is going to die

johns (GM): can we move this discussion to discord

Lodewig of Tytalus: like just the fact it takes several weeks to do a year

Beatrice ex Merinita: no, because i'm not going on discord

johns (GM): oh



Zita of Mercere: the badgame discord is basically dead anyway

besides the ttrpg channel

Beatrice ex Merinita: i guess i have it on this computer

johns (GM): make kv make a ttrpg channel on her channel then

Beatrice ex Merinita: so i could

but i'm doing it under protest

Zita of Mercere: the main channel is sheslop talking to mealwormjim about bikes

devil's fav demon: lol.

johns (GM): no worries

Beatrice ex Merinita: that sounds epic

johns (GM): we dont have to move to discord

Beatrice ex Merinita: sheslop ftw

devil's fav demon: thats more interesting tan anything in here.

Zita of Mercere: nah lets just use the main badgame discord, fuck moving.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the mealworm man approaching sheslop about a modification to his bike blueprints

Zita of Mercere: also it isnt kvs discord anymore

johns (GM): I am going to crack open a beer, however.

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: It's too bad Steam is so gay

For chat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the moderators are gay  hands power over to kv

Zita of Mercere: after she literally handed control of it to boat, unprompted

as a joke

and panicked when he wouldnt give it back

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

johns (GM): lol

but boat would be a better mod

Zita of Mercere: so boat owns it

Beatrice ex Merinita: last time i was on discord, boak was moderator. what happened?

devil's fav demon: not really.

Zita of Mercere: uh

johns (GM): kv threw a tantrum and splintered.

Zita of Mercere: kv got sick of boak and made a splinter discord

and then because the main one was like

mealwormjim and red and sheslop talking about tinder and shit

devil's fav demon: this is all insanely f ucking gay and i want to play a game withp eople who arent constantly metagaming and trying to antagonize other players.

Zita of Mercere: most people just moved over

devil's fav demon: for t he most part.

Zita of Mercere: im not out to antagonise anyone

Beatrice ex Merinita: frisia is egenrally friendly

except for my insane backstabbing plan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: most people just moved over, except for the following:

Endrite: I really wish you had said you had problems with the pace of the game instead of destroying the SaGa.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea unfurls scroll of people who are not allowed in the kv discord

devil's fav demon: Me too!

Zita of Mercere: Your insane backstabbing plan is driving me to tears

Beatrice ex Merinita: i didn't want to destroy it

johns (GM): umm endrite please don't pretend you weren't deliberately antagonizing people with proclus

Endrite: What did you think was going to happen when you murdered a Proclus in front of everyone?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i was willing to pay the price of beatrice dying

devil's fav demon: i was kicked from kvs discord after calling boat gay so i dont think i'll be back to it with the new management.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, the price is all of the magi died or left

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we should probably stop arguing and go with a fresh new covenant where no one has to kill each other

Fiorella Zeno of Jerbiton: Let's kill Proclus and actually kill him... wait why are you killing Proclus????

Beatrice ex Merinita: even if i would argue to the last drop of my blood to avoid it

Endrite: I wasn't deliberately antagonizing people, he just was unafraid to speak his mind and rarely agreed with Archibald.

johns (GM): um

Lodewig of Tytalus: beatrice's motivations seem so slight to me I have to think hafl has just wanted to kill a pc and been building towards it for most of the game

Zita of Mercere: :pepe:

johns (GM): no he was antagonizing

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont have room to talk but proclus was a dick

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean I wasn't around for the whole aristide thing so maybe it makes sense

Zita of Mercere: I've never had any PC basically dedicate themselves to attacking mine before, like that. He definitely went way too far with it.

devil's fav demon: proclus was in character and justified ic for basically everything hes ever done

Beatrice ex Merinita: beatrice's main motivation is that she was distraught over having to kill aristide and proclus was a dick about it

Endrite: I mean, he was VERY rude but he never did anything to actually hurt any other magus.

Beatrice ex Merinita: and it snowballed from there

johns (GM): brb

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah i dont think he deserved death

he didnt go to aristide lengths

johns (GM): aristide did deserve death at the end the way endrite was rping him

because he was threatening to destroy everyone to try and extort poewr

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you mean proclus or beardbeard

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait are we talking about proclus or aristide

i was talking about proclus

johns (GM): ah

right.

Zita of Mercere: He didnt physically hurt them, but he did spend his entire time on adventures interfering with them, disagreeing just to cause problems, and then launching an actual court case just to get the PCs only reputable member disgraced.

Endrite: I cleared all that with Beardbeard beforehand.

He never disagreed just to cause problems.

He just had strong feelings about when it was ok to hurt mundanes (never).

Zita of Mercere: He definitely set out to antagonise, all the time.

Endrite: I think you're a little biased, since he argued with Archibald constantly.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ars italia has had an unbroken chain of half of the players either antagonizing everyone else and the other half getting drawn into bizarre grudges after being antagonized

Zita of Mercere: Every conversation involving him needed someone to step in and say "please stop causing arguments and insulting people all the time"

It's very grating when someone does that nonstop for like, an irl year

I definitely wanted Proclus dead

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you simply hate proclus because he's a man of God.

Endrite: Well, you got your wish.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i also wanted proclus dead

Zita of Mercere: I did

Beatrice ex Merinita: endrite roleplays intense characters that evoke intense reactions

Malachiasz of Tytalus: however i think this did more harm than proclus being alive

Zita of Mercere: I don't hold anything against Endrite, I just despised Proclus and am really, really glad he's fucking dead, permanently.

Beatrice ex Merinita: my best case scenario was proclus dying and beatrice escaping to be an NPC antagonist

johns (GM): You know who I blame?

Rope kid.

devil's fav demon (GM): lol.

Beatrice ex Merinita: good pick

Endrite: Hmm.

Zita of Mercere: True

It's his fault

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean hell its really my fault

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: right but alongside proclus we had bonfilia and aristide and a whole host of pacifists

devil's fav demon (GM): Sounds good.

Zita of Mercere: :pepe:

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm annoyed at Proclus' death because I had big plans for the Enemies of Geometry

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i made aristide and then made everyone real mad and put the taste of blood in their mouths

devil's fav demon (GM): seems like the majority of people want to continue this saga.

Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone was mad at proclus long before aristide existed

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and then beatrice lost it, she knew she could kill. the truth exists beyond the black gate

Beatrice ex Merinita: i knew what malachiasz would do and i still went for the kill

Endrite: I'm annoyed because it detonated the SaGa to a degree that I don't know if it can recover.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dys was saying you had come up with a counter to my pits and i dont think you did, in the end

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm sorry for that. i didn't expect it to go that far.

Zita of Mercere: Playing a quaesitor is too high-intensity for me, I think. Maybe a more 'chill' PC would be good.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea slams hands on table

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What kind of magus is everyone rolling

Beatrice ex Merinita: my counter was fast-cast teleport

johns (GM): i want to keep my maga :(

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ah

i mean

devil's fav demon (GM): I'm going to be a Wealthy man with deft auram.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we can do a new covenant

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think at minimum we need a new covenant

Endrite: I mean, how would anyone know if Lavinia retired or not?

Beatrice ex Merinita: but i made conscious choice to leave myself open for the second volley against proclus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gulielmus and lavinia leave to make a new one

archibald goes to magvillus and his hair goes all white

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: devil's fav demon (GM): I'm going to be a Wealthy man with deft auram.

johns (GM): all of lavinia's stuff is already tied to rome

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im melting down

Zita of Mercere: Zita I'm keeping if she survives tribunal

No matter what

Archibald I think I might retire amidst all this, at this point he's probably better as an NPC.

But Zita is staying my PC

johns (GM): :(

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guilelmus moves up the ranks

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are tehre any hedge traditions other than rival magic and the actual hedge magic book

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm making either Intellego mapmaker Verditius or Undine Merinita who has an underwater lab and Atlantean magic.

devil's fav demon (GM): actually no im going to be a deft aquam wizard and be constantly covered in noxious slime

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: say hello to the new archon.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wanna be a hedge mage but i wanna be something really goofy

Beatrice ex Merinita: there's some in provencal tribunal, i think

and some in levant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there are a bunch of weird ex misc lineages

Lodewig of Tytalus: Lodewig is probably going to go back to germany and find a new scheme to infiltrate bjornaer now that bialas isn';t a potential resource

devil's fav demon (GM): slime wizard sounds badass.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Oh!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if gulielmus is marched i'm making a deft auram weather wizard

Beatrice ex Merinita: Proposed houserule: Ex Miscs can pick a minor supernatural virtue and minor hermetic flaw instead of major ones if they so choose.

Lodewig of Tytalus: but I guess he can show up to resolve the fairy baron's destiny

Zita of Mercere: I was thinking which one I'd rather play as Johns and I think Archibald might just be better off as a named quaesitor for people to interact with. Zita, on the other hand, is now covered in magic items and still has a ton of stuff going on.

Beatrice ex Merinita: We will never bring down house Tremere this way.

devil's fav demon (GM): Celeste is going to be fine.

Zita of Mercere: So I'd rather keep playing as this mythic hero whose power manifests as stealing everything not nailed down.

devil's fav demon (GM): And I want to still play as her.

She's badass.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the entire covenant should be initiated into the neomercurians

Lodewig of Tytalus: hey

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since we have the damn temple

Lodewig of Tytalus: should we do this tribunal in any fashion

because what I have been waiting for is johns playing Aurora

johns (GM): it really depends what you want the fate of the saga to be.

actually I was going to make BR do it while I fed him prompts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whether or not anyone advances in the ranks is a different matter

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh

Zita of Mercere: Also, if we move onto new pastures, Lavinia and Zita were friends I thought. So they can go together.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well that's fine too

johns (GM): hehe

no no i'll RP her in a way to aggravate you

Zita of Mercere: Aurora talks in a midwestern accent

johns (GM): there's 3 major magic auras we could colonize and still be near rome: Ponza, the Temple, and the Poisoned Fields

Lodewig of Tytalus: this is my major source of satisfaction in gaming

Beatrice ex Merinita: phonetic irish accent

Malachiasz of Tytalus: my new magus will be a beekeeper

Lodewig of Tytalus: the midwestern accent is canon

Zita of Mercere: [2 sessions later] Okay, so, the covenant and all the grogs have been devoured by bees.

Endrite: Hmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Owner of a flea circus with the spell from magi of hermes that ReAns fleas to suck magi blood and bring it back

Lodewig of Tytalus: she picked it up from the paradise isles we discovered and never explored

Zita of Mercere: OH shit, Johns, I know where we could set things

Etna

Malachiasz of Tytalus: mount etna

Endrite: We could take a fifth, unmentioned option.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's not center the game around 2000 years old loli

Zita of Mercere: We have like, 1 named wizard there, an old-ass bonisagus

johns (GM): also tasso

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have already heard dozens of mount etna jokes

Endrite: It was all a terrifying premonition.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hell yes old ass wizards

I bet they have mysterious agendas

Zita of Mercere: Technically Tasso is there, but he could have moved out later or something, i dunno

I'm saying Etna would be a great place to start fresh, in 1342.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think we should retain our VT affiliation and live in the regio and/or ponza

or both and just teleport around

Zita of Mercere: With mostly new PCs, a small number of returning ones

Endrite: I actually like that idea now that I think about it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: googling mount etna eruptions in 1340s

devil's fav demon (GM): tassos immediate fate is up in the air depending on what people do here

Zita of Mercere: Living in a volcano is really fucking cool.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i like the mount etna plan because its got lots of nice open fertile land

Zita of Mercere: Johns, please, consider this notion

Malachiasz of Tytalus: for my bees and my flowers

johns (GM): alright post it in the thread

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sobs

Endrite: Since a lot of the conflict here is because players didn't communicate.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gulielmus can go there too

as long as he doesnt touch my bees

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i bet you could make some good potions out of bees.

devil's fav demon (GM): because until this happened and VT exploded, spoilers, i was going to have strabo murder him while disguised as one of you and etna was going to declare wizards war on VT.

Endrite: I mean, it's kind of a cheat.

But it would preserve the SaGa intact.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i really liked the ideas of ponza and the temple so i would rather do those than start fresh in the bonisagus nerd cave

johns (GM): yeah

also i like the real italian history of the time and not sure if anything interesting is happening in sicily to interact with

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe not the temple, if archibald is bailing

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think sicily always ahs something interesting

Lodewig of Tytalus: where is the temple anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: some goofy stuff is going to happen in sicily becaues it is going to fall into the hands of

joanna of naples

Malachiasz of Tytalus: like 20 minutes walk from the covenant i think lodewig

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and then back out of the hands of joanna

Endrite: I say we rewind to the beginning of the day and say everything was all a terrible dream/premonition of what happens when you don't get along.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: And then we kill Beatrice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont like the it was all a dream stuff

johns (GM): It was all Archibald's Visions flaw.

devil's fav demon (GM): Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: And then we kill Beatrice.

lol.

Lodewig of Tytalus: an ancient arch huh

johns (GM): After years of complainig I never used it, here you go.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it was archibalds visions flaw, which caused him to leave early

however

Endrite: I feel like it is somewhat justified in this case.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it also actually happened

while he was gone

Lodewig of Tytalus: idk I don't want to diminish epic PC death

johns (GM): same.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah

Endrite: Since everyone died and the SaGa was mostly ruined because of an impulsive decision that was better handled by players talking to one another than character conflict.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dont rewind time

johns (GM): i assumed it was a joke suggestion.

Endrite: It was but then I liked it.

I mean, I liked Vardian's Tomb.

devil's fav demon (GM): Yeah.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well

Beatrice ex Merinita: i want it because i waited irl years to get glamours and beatrice is on the verge of it, but i don't want to take things back

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did anyone have any distinctive personal effects

Beatrice ex Merinita: so i abstain in regards to this suggestion

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can put, uhhh, bialas's severed head on the wall next to aristocritus's sword

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh my god, what a horrible dream!" I sit up, sweating, after napping in my chair working hard at this polemic "I dreamt Proclus was still alive. How horrible. Thankfully, he is definitely dead, forever."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I could see Vardian's Tomb continuing, but it would need a radical overhaul and probably a new cast of characters

Malachiasz of Tytalus: vardians tomb season 2

Archibald of Guernicus: im posting my continuing suggestion in the thread, right now

Endrite: I liked all the characters.

Lodewig of Tytalus: but with the upcoming tribunal, and venator being spurred to drastic action, I think there's grounds for a fresh new status quo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: even gulielmus

johns (GM): i feel like I need to reveal the stupid background of VT that venator was keeping secret

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well

Lodewig of Tytalus: Not completely fresh but several people will need new characters

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if we do that then we are definitely leaving VT behind right

Beatrice ex Merinita: it was a good secret

Lodewig of Tytalus: you don't, but it needs to come to the foreground soon

johns (GM): what do hafl and dys think

devil's fav demon (GM): I'm really glad I get to make a character that's roughly the same age as everyone else now but boy I wish I had landed on Beatrice, still.

Beatrice ex Merinita: depends on how much you want to deal with it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: man looking at poll where 6 out of 9 players want to continue in vardian's tomb: i should end vardian's tomb

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have faith that everything will make sense

devil's fav demon (GM): Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: man looking at poll where 6 out of 9 players want to continue in vardian's tomb: i should end vardian's tomb

Beatrice ex Merinita: it makes perfect sense

and it proves that gulielmus was right when attacking renaud

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :blessed:

Malachiasz of Tytalus: johns is now playing hitman

johns (GM): also i assumed if things went on archibald/beatrice would reveal whats going on once venator left

Endrite: The double, two games.

Beatrice ex Merinita: my companion will be a faerie doppelganger of beatrice now

i wasn't planning on revealing anything

unless there was a new consul when archibald died

Archibald of Guernicus: ive laid out my plan

in the thread

my suggestion rather, but there it is

Endrite: I don't want to have to come up with a bunch of new game ideas.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh shit youre talking about retconning. uh. i will never support large-scale retconning, as its immoral.

I vote no to it

johns (GM): i like the urban setting

Archibald of Guernicus: oh, right, revealing the secret

Endrite: Don't do it!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god.

Archibald of Guernicus: No no, Archibald talks with Venator and agrees the covenant grounds should be sunk. That's all.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're going to leave for etna and they aren't going to have a leap of homecoming text.

i was a year away from learning the spell!

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald is now a quaesitor carrying knowledge of a horrid secret.

We can take the texts out first

If we sink the place, everyone gets to clear their stuff out

its only fair

devil's fav demon (GM): score

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald moves to Magvillus, telling them Vardian's Tomb's destruction was necessary, and the century of bloodshed in it is a clear indication of that.

He doesn't ever speak of what he saw in Venator's lab.

devil's fav demon (GM): you shoulod post the secret anyway, ooc.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh no

Lodewig of Tytalus: or else use it

Archibald of Guernicus: Because there's still one person out there who could do something insane with it

Beatrice, when she escapes captivity and flees

devil's fav demon (GM): rolleyes

Archibald of Guernicus: Trust me, you want an NPC antagonist who knows this secret.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should post the secret to remove any possibility of us continuing in vardians tomb, forcing the entire covenant to agree with your proposal

Beatrice ex Merinita: she definitely wouldn't do that no matter how insane she went

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic guernicus move.

Endrite: I really don't want to do a new SaGa but I don't know how the SaGa can recover from this.

johns (GM): we make a bunch of magi who aren't incompatible sociopaths

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, as I said in the thread, I want it to continue, and offered one way it could.

Beatrice ex Merinita: dys' plan but not in etna

Endrite: I don't understand, Johns.

Archibald of Guernicus: What's wrong with Etna?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's not ponza.

Archibald of Guernicus: Too old for you? Ba ha ha

devil's fav demon (GM): dys plan but in etna because strabo has arcane connections to the place

Beatrice ex Merinita: i don't want to deal with ignem for an irl year or so

Endrite: Why not?

johns (GM): if we are moving to a fantastical/remote location id rather switch the saga entirely to something different from Dies Irae

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think i had my fill

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't want to spoil the plague for you

devil's fav demon (GM): We can still be in Rome and that'd be fine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: moving to ponza would be cool.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Deep caves beneath the Roman catacombs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its right next to italy.

hardly even remote.

johns (GM): yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: We can dig up and hit Vardian's Tomb's secret accidentally.

devil's fav demon (GM): ponza ftwe.

johns (GM): It's within sight of Naples I believe?

Archibald of Guernicus: I think Etna sounds badass, though. It's not like you need to do any ignem stuff in it.

I guess itd be a great help if you had the Study Bonus virtue

and 30 ignem

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i dont think its quite that far.

Archibald of Guernicus: and still wanted a bonus

devil's fav demon (GM): etna is mostly vineyards

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets go to ponza

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i really like ponza, the legacy of bonisagus, the city of rome

Archibald of Guernicus: Ponza could work too, I was offering a way that things could work out without uh, needing to found a new covenant. Since Italy is pretty bad for allowing new covenants, and they'll probably be sour on it after allowing one so recently.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: etna is just so different it would feel like a brand new saga, even if we kept the same npcs and some of the pcs

Beatrice ex Merinita: let's say the proposal for allowing sanctuaries passes and the "covenant" at ponza is just a bunch of people having sanctuaries there without legally forming a covenant

Archibald of Guernicus: But Etna is so cool!

Beatrice ex Merinita: and everyone belongs to a different covenant in rome officially

Archibald of Guernicus: I guess it'd be a pretty big change in scenery, though.

Beatrice ex Merinita: working to be allowed to establish a new covenant could be good hook

and common goal

Archibald of Guernicus: A... common... goal?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bwuhh

Archibald of Guernicus: [squinting]

Endrite: I think the root problem here is that people have different expectations for what they want out of Ars and that's built into the game.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. everyone here is working together towards a common goal

[THOUSANDS of tytalans and tremeres pour into the pseudo-covenant to work against the players and sink the proposal]

Endrite: There's just a ton of tension between the grounded reality of Mythic Europe and the insane fantasy magic stuff.

Shauncat (GM): Roll20's integrated Video and Voice is not currently compatible with Chrome version 63.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the nerds in charge of etna would probably be interested in the bonisagus temple

at least

Boy R.: the insane fantasy magic stuff is the best way to have fun with ars

Shauncat (GM): Oh no!

Archibald of Guernicus: Tis

Endrite: I'm not really interested in a rural setting.

Boy R.: but i do sympathise with the desire for a grounded campaign setting

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think the covenant needs much more vis if there's so many magi, though

lack of vis forces it towards mundane europe

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, one thing about being vis starved is that it's one thing to go, alright yeah this place is pretty bad on vis. Buuut... we hvae like twice as many players as normal.

So we need the vis to actually let people do things with

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we had so much vis we burned like 200 pawns on purifying the tiber

we just don't have the vis that lets you enchant items

Endrite: Worth every pawn IMO.

Shauncat (GM): I like covenants giving you a fictional fourth estate to play with

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: venator is going to need fresh blood right

the guy is dying

or will the big secret actually be canceled out by sinking rome into the groud

ground

Beatrice ex Merinita: nuking vardian's tomb will keep it dormant for some time

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, Vardian's Tomb being completely buried is the best thing for it.

Well, some idiot will unearth it one day I bet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they're going to dig up the ruins of vardian's tomb and invent baroque art

Archibald of Guernicus: They'll invent something much worse

Beatrice ex Merinita: the statue of beatrice is moved into a museum in vienna and inspires a struggling artist named adolf hitler

Malachiasz of Tytalus: did we make a decision yet

Endrite: I feel like it's going to take a while.

Boy R.: ok but we should play out this tribunal for sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its almost unanimous:

everyone except 1 person wants to keep playing ars

Archibald of Guernicus: And that mans name? Johns.

devil's fav demon (GM): Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its almost unanimous:

everyone except 1 person wants to keep playing ars

Archibald of Guernicus: And that mans name? Johns.

Shauncat (GM): Looks like Endrite is trying to start a second Pendragon campaign that takes place in Ars's timeslot

johns (GM): WTF

ill kill him

Endrite: Why would I start a second Pendragon game when the first one barely has enough players to run?

Beatrice ex Merinita: everyone already played in the first game

except for perfidious johns

and cumthinker

Shauncat (GM): Also instead of knights you play wizards with no powers

Endrite: Historical wizards FTW, folks.

Boy R.: every wizard has a Weird score which they rely on for all their powers and can only be improved by immense sacrifice or bargaining with dread powers, and you lose 10 points of it every time you pick up a weapon

Hafl T.: that's what some people want ars to be

Archibald of Guernicus: Even at least one developer

Ponza could be good, my suggestion remains as-is but I'll totally back Ponza

Endrite: I don't like any of the other settings.

devil's fav demon (GM): Honestly, yeah. A big draw of this is the game being in Rome.

Ponza's ok.

Endrite: Ponza would be incredibly remote from Rome.

devil's fav demon (GM): It's better than Etna.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: etna would be a great location for an honest-to-god fresh start but i don't want to drop all of our cool hooks

it's remote but we're wizards, we can make ships faster or just teleport

and if we have ties to rome and VT then we have ties to rome and VT

Endrite: If you can just teleport over the ocean then it doesn't matter where the covenant is.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i want ponza

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also that level of factual remoteness will be handy when the plague hits

Endrite: It will only be handy for the player characters.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes.

Endrite: It would be pretty boring for the players though!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they can investigate the bottom of the sea while everyone else is dying

Archibald of Guernicus: one thing abotu the rome setting is that the only reason vardians tomb even existed was for the catacombs, which a bunch of necromancers wanted into.

cities, especially cities with lots of divine aura, are the worst place for magi to go

johns (GM): but they make the coolest stories.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they left a pretty good magic aura behind

Hafl T.: infernal, actually

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and even if you aren't a necromancer the catacombs are full of vis



Shauncat (GM): Yeah that's a reason why I revolving doored Kifaaya and Jorn, they weren't really made with the urban setting in mind

I just wanted to make a genius inventor arab and a dwarf

Archibald of Guernicus: ehhh

i played a magus with Blatant Gift in this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: for more than 2 decades

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: half giant with blatant gift, diabolist, giant skeleton, werewolf

Archibald of Guernicus: The concepts that really dont work in cities are like, nature magi who want to make big trees or w/e

He's not half-giant, hes just overall a bit tall and overweight.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could have a really nice street

with lots of trees

Endrite: But the countryside is boring because you don't need to interact with the tides of history at all.

johns (GM): 3/4 of rome is farmland

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is MUCH better than the other game of ars magica i played, where we played one session and then two of the players quit and moved in with each other

Endrite: But you could hardly call Vardian's Tomb remote.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's about bridging the gap between OOC and IC concerns. Vardian's Tomb was a damn dangerous place for a covenant, even if it made it easy to get involved in local troubles.

Hafl T.: let's have an enchanted castle on a hill next to a faerie forest

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it did mean that every time we did anything, anything at all, the gm was thoughtfully fingering another onion offense card

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ponza

Archibald of Guernicus: The freedom to fuck around with the setting immediately around you is cool, tbh.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont think im gonna be a hedge mage

im gonna be a bonisagus that likes bees and flowers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: be a True Merinita

Endrite: A place where you just do a bunch of magical projects and only engage when you feel like it sounds absolutely dreadful.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think ponza really is the most sensible choice though

Archibald of Guernicus: It's what magi want to do, though!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about a place where you aren't allowed to do any magical projects.

Endrite: It's what SOME magi want to do.

Archibald of Guernicus: Like I said, there's a gulf between IC and OOC concerns.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: because the nobility, the knights, the rabble, and god all want to kill you

Endrite: I think it makes sense that the only people who would join an urban covenant are magi who are willing and able to deal with the urban setting.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well it's definitely a place they sent Bonisagi to die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: instead of that we got diabolists, pagans, aristide, etc

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald was sent there because it was deeply out of his comfort zone and he had to be able to adapt to it to be a good quaesitor.

Endrite: Whoops!

Archibald of Guernicus: He made it to the end alright so I'd say he did fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: evangelion congratulations video, but only one person is alive to congratulate archibald

Boy R.: if archibald can successfully bring his sodales to justice he'll have proven himself as a quaesitor

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald's final test: beheading gulielmus

Archibald of Guernicus: Be that as it may

Boy R.: my major impression of him is the guy who's otherwise occupied when grievous hermetic crimes are being committed

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

Hafl T.: turns out that made him samrt

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: by god it did.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

7

)

+10

=

17

Alright, roll defence Gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did we remove the exertion option

Archibald of Guernicus: For convenience just roll normally

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

what is it. dex and brawl

Archibald of Guernicus: Also I had Archibald move onto tribunal because he had good reason to and I did NOT expect what would happen.

Hafl T.: quickness

Archibald of Guernicus: Qik + Brawl

Oh, with a penalty, I believe

If you're unarmed, dodging an armed man

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't see the unarmed penalty on the table

Archibald of Guernicus: might have been a houserule or some shit

oh well

who cares

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: here we go

rolling 1d10!-3

(

3

)

-3

=

0

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay. What's your soak, Gulielmus?

Shauncat (GM): Maybe FIorella gets sent to a convent after this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is 3.

Archibald of Guernicus: Add your terram form bonus, if you havent.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i've.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah. You are decapitated and instantly die, Gulielmus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: So be it.

Archibald of Guernicus: You got your wish

devil's fav demon (GM): ok bye

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gg

hmm. we dont have a criamon

Shauncat (GM): Criamon are cool

Archibald of Guernicus: We may.

I mean, if 7 people are making new magi.

Shauncat (GM): A Criamond from teh silk road who worships Fat Bald Jesus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone should make a zoroastrian flambeau

Endrite: It seems like Flambeau is the worst house for non-Christians.

They're pretty zealous about crusading.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll do the sensible thing and throw darts at a dartboard with the houses on it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the zoroastrian flambeaus are canon, for some reason

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, Tremere. An excellent hit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea screams

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you do make a tremere, you should make another tremere who needs to slay venzi to win his sigil

Hafl T.: let's make a magi least likely to survive

a Tremere orbus

Boy R.: hi, the unarmed penalty was a legacy from when i rewrote the combat system to get rid of weapon modifiers to attack and defense rolls. i urged johns to remove it after he rolled back almost everything else.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ah

Archibald of Guernicus: ah

Endrite: I don't think there should be an unarmed penalty at all.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about exertion

Boy R.: as it stands, in raw, the unarmed penalty is not having an attack bonus from a weapon

that's in core i believe

Endrite: Since you already eat a pretty significant penalty for using fists.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, not that it mattered, as the AIDS points Guliemus took to his quickness score proved fatal for him.

Endrite: In the sense that they have no bonuses.

Boy R.: right, that's why it was taken out

Hafl T.: you use your fists to deliver spells

Boy R.: it made sense when the only real difference between weapons was the damage score

Hafl T.: hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess exertion being gone makes sense

Hafl T.: what if you had abunch of rings on your hands that trigger multiple damage spells when you punch someone?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone should make the faerie wizard who uses brawl rolls to produce spontaneous effects

Archibald of Guernicus: i think the dramatis personae post should be left as a reminder of the majesty we lost

and a new one written up when we sort out whats happening

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip

Archibald of Guernicus: I would love a "Where are they now?" post about everyone who left, honestly

And the corpses, of course

Hafl T.: became an alcoholic

for everyone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: most of those people are still relevant, though

just have to shuffle the dead ones into the graveyard

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean, just where they run off to immediately

Does Lodewig return to Germany to get back to killing and eating people on the full moon in the swamps

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if anyone wants to add anything to it i can edit it in

there's still a lot of gaps from adventures i don't remember, and the magi don't have their cool deeds recorded

Archibald of Guernicus: i just think it should be left as a reminder of what things were

before a new one is began later

Endrite: I just want to make it clear that I don't like the idea of changing the setting of the game from Rome.

Hafl T.: a county estate near rome could work better for everyone

Boy R.: I agree tbh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats fair

we were always planning on colonizing the regio and the islands though

Boy R.: I'm invested in johns' Rome and don't consider it worth continuing the campaign in another setting

Archibald of Guernicus: We'd need a magical aura to set up in, for one. So there's a lot to be ironed out about staying in Rome.

Especially when one very big problem with Rome is that it has almost no magic auras whatsoever, due to the constant divine stink

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can use muto to shrink ourselves, and live in the bonisagus well

Archibald of Guernicus: good trick

make a second, tiny lab

for your secret experiments

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it really is

Endrite: The Bonisagus well doesn't have any aura.

Endrite (GM): Now that's a sound effect I haven't heard in a long time.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+8

(

7

)

+8

=

15