10/22/17

ys: hello gamers

Shauncat (GM): Hail

devil's fav demon (GM): hails

Shauncat (GM): I made different character than the Flambeau because I realized they'd just go from forcing the GM to include regios full of incredibly hostile faeries to forcing the GM to have all the bad guys to be immune to fire

devil's fav demon (GM): nice.

Shauncat (GM): So my backup character is now a Jerbiton

devil's fav demon (GM): i was about to introduce a character insanely weak to fire, actually,

jerbitons ftw.

Shauncat (GM): Jorn's still my magi at this time

dys: He's your nigga.

You wouldn't be forcing the GM to have enemies be immune to fire, but you would force them to focus more on the side of adventures that arent setting things on fire.

Which is only a bonus, really.

devil's fav demon (GM): jorn can freely use any of the trods hes used in the last game without worry of consequence, but if you find the location of the secret garden of herisson and then use arcadian travel to get there i have no guarantees about the location of your faerie regio and its exits.

Shauncat (GM): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fvLT3YDCAXbc_0Rncp0pKCOAHhGFJ4D6CDQCDZii_mg/edit?usp=sharing

dys: Ayaya

Shauncat (GM): Channel the power of Tengu

dys: use rego animal to throw birds at people at 500mph

Shauncat (GM): I sorta do that but they just peck people as a swarm

Using an upgraded version of the spell from Magi of Hermes where the dude summons a pile of scorpions

dys: thats a good spell

Shauncat (GM): It's a good think Voice of the Bjornaer Magus doesn't require Bjornaer mysteries

dys: i like his trick where he MuIm's all his allies to look distinctive, then tells the scorpions to attack everyone not like that

devil's fav demon (GM): It's a good spell.

Shauncat (GM): I should branch into imaginem

Put a pink dot on all sodales

devil's fav demon (GM): lol

Boy R.: i'm still mad johns changed the rules against the pink dot exploit in the last game right after i invented a spell for making a thousand weapons glow

in the end it only ever got used as a magic laser pointer

Shauncat (GM): I think turning someone into a dodo should be the same level as Curse of Circe

dys: to be fair, its better overall that the pink dot trick was fixed, as it's a bit stupid.

it also means that you cant do something simple like enchant a weapon to be more durable, or to glow, or anything you might choose to without making it useless as a weapon.

Shauncat (GM): I think it should just be standardized, like CrVi X lets you make an enchantment that exists only to make a sword resisted by Parma

Or like, MuTe

dys: the idea was that the damage has to come from the enchantment itself. so a muto spell to make a sword hit for less should still be resisted by magic, at least.

or a spell to make it stronger, but cast forcelessly. boom.

Shauncat (GM): A spell to MuTe swords into a different kind of steel should be simple

dys: brb, might be 5 minutes late.

Boy R.: changing one metal to another is base 4

Shauncat (GM): Is it? I thought it'd be dirt to dirt

Boy R.: changing them to something like alchemical steel or damascus steel takes finesse iirc

Shauncat (GM): Since you're not upgrading the material

Boy R.: you add magnitudes to affect stone or metal

and then there are spells that treat all solid objects as interchangeable and throw the whole thing ouy

devil's fav demon (GM): powerful stuff.

Shauncat (GM): Edge of the Razor is Base 3

Oh, it adds metal later

I wonder, though, if any magnitudes can be cut by selling back Edge of the Razor's +2 damage

Boy R.: probably not

it's the same nature of change

Shauncat (GM): Stands to reason you could do -2 damage instead at least.

AND make the sword magic

Boy R.: ya at the same level of effect

Shauncat (GM): Name it "Edge of the Sphere"

There's a guy in Guardians of the Forest who can destroy like a thousand swords in a single cast so that's a good benchmark for sword-nerfing spells

devil's fav demon (GM): fuck swords.

staring at archibald

Shauncat (GM): Claymores are basically sword-shaped mauls so Archibald is okay.

Boy R.: aging rolls: 14 13 7 16 10 7 10

Shauncat (GM): What's the name of turn your brain into a bird spell

I should probably remember where to find it, if I play a bird specialist

devil's fav demon (GM): proclus is essentially detecting auras the whole time, right

Shauncat (GM): Yeah

devil's fav demon (GM): ok.

Boy R.: Inmost Companion, Muto Mentem 40

Shauncat (GM): Damn

Okay it does have an animal requisite so she could manage it after a few years of learning

devil's fav demon (GM): does anyone here have second sight?

Shauncat (GM): Archibald

Boy R.: why does the animal requisite make it any easier

Shauncat (GM): Birds focus

Boy R.: regardless you can invent a lower level version and sustain it somehow

Shauncat (GM): And Potent Magic :Birds

devil's fav demon (GM): Ok, this should be a breeze then.

Shauncat (GM): Which means I could craft a casting item that gives Shape/Material to the casting total

And +6 to the lab total

If it was just an eidolon shaped like a bird, it wouldn't really qualify for a Birds focus

Endrite: AFK a minute.

Boy R.: does decrepitude advance as an ability?

GM: When we left off, the magi had been tracking down a lead on the long lost Mystical Garden of Herisson, a legend of the Bjornaer Harmonists.

Bialas, the Bjornaer magus of VT, promises the secret of virtually unlimited, self-replicating vis.

They are in the Alps, at the tower of Varina, the last filia of the wizard who murdered Herisson in the tenth century. She was found, alive, having entered final twilight and become a magical beast. Varina nearly killed Malachiasz with an ice dart, but he made it, and the beast was slain with haste. Now, they move towards the tower. Are they ready for what's inside...?

johns (GM): No

Let's go home

GM: It is within your rights.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's harvest the vis from this owl

GM: You get 7 really nice feathers. They are pawns of Auram vis.

Hypatia of Athens: Sweet

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice

Hypatia of Athens: The nuns steel themselves, ready to push this crusade to the tower itself.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I can't imagine anything stronger is inside. The tower should be ours to loot now!"

GM: There is no entrance immediately visible.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I use Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance.

there is now

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

GM: Nice.

You see a hole in the tower.

c'thinker (GM): salvete

GM: Those with second sight can roll Per+Ability, as well.

Hypatia of Athens: Can Napoliono fit through the hole?

Or will he go all Winnie the Pooh?

c'thinker: i'm making noodles

GM: He should. Archibald is probably almost as fat as him.

Nice.

Hypatia of Athens: I can sing a holy song to see regio boundaries if that's what we're looking for

Endrite: Ok I'm back.

GM: Welcome.

c'thinker: (NOT an anachronism)

GM: You can do that too.

johns: is malach incapacitated

Endrite: Boy R: Decrepitude still advances on the Ability scale or everyone would die instantly.

GM: He is, iirc.

c'thinker: is he

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i am not

i have a heavy wound

c'thinker: i thought he was just heavily wounded

GM: Amazing recovery.

Oh.

Whoops!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gulielmus bound my wounds

c'thinker: also the wound is bound until sunset

dys: Malach is still alive!

GM: He got lucky.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i can continue on the adventure

c'thinker: if you were actually incapped then the binding wouldn't matter but you were just wounded i think.

GM: Does Napolino go in the hole?

Hypatia of Athens: Also I gave Malachiasz a big recovery bonus so it's probably not worsening

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 10	"R: Per, D: Conc, T: Vision

You can perceive the boundaries of a regio, and how to enter or leave it.

(Base 3, +2 Voice, +1 Conc)"

GM: Nice.

c'thinker: you have to shout your ability names out loud

both in game and irl.

johns: lets buff

Proclus of Rome: My feeling here is that the entrance to the regio is to walk through the front door.

johns: sidestep, doublet

endurance of the beserkers

c'thinker: appropriate attire

Hypatia of Athens: What's the aura here?

c'thinker: triplet maximize magic: the kiss of death

johns: How big is the hole

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll give everyone sidestep who wants it

Hypatia of Athens: Magic counteracts holy music

GM: Looking through the hole that you just made, it looks like the interior of a stone tower. There is a spiral staircase along an interior wall.

if Malach cast that spell.

Hypatia of Athens: Me and the nuns take a sidestep

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i did cast that spell

lets go in

Proclus of Rome: Does the staircase have railings?

GM: The aura next to the tower is Magic 1.

Bolad: I take Sidestep and any other buffs that may be given.

I leave my trusted Steed outside.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, well I don't know if I can personally get sidestepped but the nuns can just set down their relics for a second

GM: Proclus, there is no front door. Malach made a hole but did not roll to cast, so I assume it's very easy for him gg.

Proclus of Rome: Does the staircase have railings?

Hypatia of Athens: Magic is -3 to Divine, right?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: do i ened to roll for it?

i guess i do

GM: no.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh ok

Proclus of Rome: Dangerous.

c'thinker: gulielmus takes sidestep

GM: theres a chance you don't if your bonus is high enough.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its +30 in this aura

well

Boy R.: Hypatia: divine powers are never impaired by auras

Malachiasz of Tytalus: - my wounds i guess

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Also I have Shriek up.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats a heavy, 9?

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Bolad: Can I put on some chainmail if I'm going on foot now

Archibald of Guernicus: What's happening currently, just to check. The tower had no entrance I believe?

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling 27+d10! Holy Music Intervention

27+

(

9

)

=

36

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok ill roll it then

Hypatia of Athens: Okay I look for any regio boundaries near the tower

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sounds like someone put a hole in the tower

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+21

(

8

)

+21

=

29

Proclus of Rome: How long does it take to put on chainmail?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its a level 15 spell

congratulations

i win

Bolad: idk

GM: Nice.

Bolad: i assume we're in no rush right now

GM: No.

It's pretty quiet.

Bolad: I put on some chain mail.

GM: Aside from the wind.

Wind's howling...

Malachiasz of Tytalus: winds howling

Archibald of Guernicus: So there's no entrance, correct?

Hypatia of Athens: I don't expect to find much, but I thought since you were asking about Second Sight, i should try

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance on the tower wall

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+5+1 Second Sight

(

4

)

+5+1

=

10

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i already cast it

fuck off!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fight! fight! fight!

(From Hypatia of Athens): I'll lead the nuns through it.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's my  signature  spell. This means certamen.

(From GM): There's a regio entrance that extends around the perimeter of the tower. It leads inside.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cast it better

Hypatia of Athens: Archibald's Crystal Dart

GM: Hypatia leads the nuns through the hole Mal has made. They vanish.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i go in

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll go in as well

GM: As in, they disappear completely from sight after passing through the hole.

Bolad: "Wise men. There is entrance to another realm here."

GM: Nice.

You're going inside. I'm changing the map!

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, rolling second sight to see this, too

GM: ok.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+5

(

9

)

+3+5

=

17

GM: that's a high roll.

Proclus of Rome: Man it's lucky she's dead or this would be VERY confusing.

Hypatia of Athens: "Animal" Bones

Proclus of Rome: So is there no way to get to the trap door?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the archon could have done it

GM: Not unless you can fly or something.

Proclus of Rome: Who wants to do that?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i see the word gargoyles

tread carefully sodales

GM: Also, anyone inside can give me another second sight roll. Is there a reflexive total for that or do you have to keep rolling, or should I just go with what Archibald rolled as his acting SS?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i advance on the stairs

Hypatia of Athens: I can keep singing for as long as I can concentrate

GM: Put your token down if you're going to move around the tower.

Ok, cool.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think you roll each time, but it's your call.

Proclus of Rome: I don't have Second Sight.

Bolad: I believe Nap, Tunde, and Zach were the shield grogs? Not including Tanolfi who is ranged, he will stay outside.

GM: Well, as long as Hypatia keeps singing and doesn't have to roll Concentration due to incident, you'll be fine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A regio entrance, Bolad? Where?"

Bolad: "Through the portal the fat man has opened."

"Around the edge of this stone structure."

I step through to show Gulielmus.

Proclus of Rome: "We should investigate the second floor of this tower first, before we make any rash decisions."

Hypatia of Athens: "Over here, Sodales," I point to the pillar behind me.

GM: Gulielmus sees Bolad vanish as he steps through the hole.

Mal walks up the stairs without incident.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait

napolino opened aportal??

huh??

GM: Mal opened a hole in the wall.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malachiasz is not fat

Bolad: Hm, I thought Archibald did it. Replace "fat" with "ugly" then.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hell hes not even muscular

Hypatia of Athens: I poke a stick behind this pillar, showing the regio border.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hes a lanky man

GM: Mal used a spell Archibald invented.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a giant hungry skeleton

Bolad: Alternatively, chalk it up to Bolad's incomprehensible flaw.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bolad: Is the regio within the pillars, or outside of the pillars? I don't understand what Hypatia is indicating

Hypatia of Athens: We'll find out

GM: Hypatia pokes a stick behind the pillar on the right. It vanishes when it passes through the boundary of a column a pace across.

a theoretical column behind the pillar.

Proclus of Rome: You could draw a picture of it on the map.

Bolad: Can you draw a diagram please.

GM: I will.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus studies the hole for a second, and then climbs through.

GM: I wanted to describe it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: presumably just into the regular inside of the tower.

GM: Gulielmus disappears into another identical copy of the tower. There is now a large sarcophagus sitting in the center of the floor. Otherwise the tower is identical.

damn, forgot to whisper that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: entering from the outside of the tower

Proclus of Rome: Heh.

Hypatia of Athens: Me and the nuns will go through as well.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I check the sarcophagus.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, surely we all see it, since we're all going in

It's fine

GM: It's fine.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait

Proclus of Rome: Shouldn't we explore up the stairs first?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is the sarcophagus in the new area

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the feeling when it's fine.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: or did it appear in ours

GM: The sarcophagus shows an older woman with sharp features. Probably Varina.

It's in the new area.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i open it

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, I'll inspect the sarcophagus.

Or you could just open.

GM: The tower is a series of stacked regios with different items in their respective regios.

Proclus of Rome: That's fine too.

Hypatia of Athens: I probably need to restart the song and risk a botch by now

I will do so after we finish playing with the sarcophagus

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't bjornaer turn intae magic animals when they enter final twilight?"

GM: well, you will in a second. I'm going to ask you to roll concentration after this event.

Archibald of Guernicus: "If she's here, who was that bloody owl"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs.

Bolad: "Wise men once say, Owl is as one sees Owl."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Just some owl?"

GM: Mal moves to open the sarcophagus. A moment after he touches the lid, a thick cloud of noxious yellow smoke smelling of sulfur rises off of it. It is thick enough to block sight within five paces of the casket.

Proclus of Rome: Well, that's bad.

GM: if you have MR over 10 you can ignore the health effects.

Archibald of Guernicus: "That was a creature of considerable might, gulielmus. Magical might, too."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: auram mr?

Proclus of Rome: Still though.

GM: Everyone else has to make a stamina stress roll of +3 or lose a Fatigue level. Auram MR.

Every round for two minutes.

Archibald of Guernicus: My aurum MR is a lot more than that, so I'm fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mine's exactly 10

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have mr 20 minimum

GM: Nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i get to ignore

GM: It's not that bad. You still can't see inside of the fog.

Bolad: The grogs and I never entered Regio level 3.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how's the smell

Hypatia of Athens: Nuns and me resist with divine MR

GM: It smells like rotting eggs.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i continue opening it while the smoke clears

Hypatia of Athens: I stop singing

Proclus of Rome: Wait how do these failed nuns all have True Faith?

Hypatia of Athens: They have relics

Proclus of Rome: Sheesh, they just give 'em away these days.

Hypatia of Athens: They ARE on rope kid's list of valid grog virtues

GM: After about two minutes the smoke clears.

There is no skeleton inside.

Proclus of Rome: Yikes!

What is inside?

Archibald of Guernicus: "That makes sense, if she was the one attacking us outside."

GM: An amulet and a tiara.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

No one touch them.

GM: Both are decorated with glittering crystal that resembles ice, set in silver.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Just trash."

Proclus of Rome: I'll cast the Brushstrokes Revealed around the sarcophagus, so we can more closely examine it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I throw the trinkets at Proclus so he can figure them out.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll thrown weapon with a -9 from your wound,

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!-8

(

7

)

-8

=

-1

GM: The species of the sarcophagus come into sharp focus. This is definitely a woman, with birdlike features, sculpted into the lid.

Proclus of Rome: Does she look like an owl?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea coughs up a little blood.

GM: You could say that she looks owly.

Proclus of Rome: Is there any paint on the sarcophagus?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's probably just a coincidence.

"

GM: No.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bolad: I take the grogs and explore the middle floor of the outer regio tower.

Proclus of Rome: What about the tiara and the amulet?

GM: Mal throws the trinkets in Proclus' general direction and they hit the floor.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps these are enchanted, I'll examine them." Current aura?

GM: Magic 3.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+34)/2

(

(

4

)

+34)/2

=

19

Level 15 - any active magic, voice range

magic items count for active magic

GM: Bolad, you've got Second Sight?

Roll it.

Bolad: Magic aura in our regio level is ..?

GM: 3.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+5+0+3

(

7

)

+5+0+3

=

15

Second Sight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i thought the outer regio was just the real tower

and the inner regio is level 3.

Bolad: same, but the GM wrote "to l3"

GM: all of the regios are identical aside from the contents.

Hypatia of Athens: The infinite staircase from Mario 64

GM: level 1 is the area outside of the tower, crossing into the tower by touching the exterior wall or walking through a hole made in it is level 2, passing behind the pillar is level 3

Proclus of Rome: We should really investigate the mundane second floor.

GM: level 3 contains the sarcophagus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh.

Bolad: Updated my journal.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay I'll go see what's on the second floor of regio 2

The nuns guarding me, of course

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: There's nothing for Gulielmus to do by the sarcophagus so he'll go upstairs.

Bolad: put your damn token down cumthinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay.

GM: Ok. Everyone upstairs sees some broken bookshelves and tables.

Bolad: if hypatia is in level 2 move to the map on the left marked "level 2" !!

jeez.

way to squander a perfectly good map, guys.

Proclus of Rome: I'll draw another circle around the amulet and tiara and cast the Brushstrokes Revealed again.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we need to kick dfds ass

i go up to floor 2 level 3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess i never entered level 3 then. but i was there commenting on the sarcophagus and resisting the spell

Hypatia of Athens: Uh if everyone is here then I don't need to be

I'll keep an eye on Proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so here i am, on level 3, second floor

Archibald of Guernicus: Also GM, I cast InVi magic on the two items

what did I find

Bolad: lmao

GM: This is a great fuckin level lol.

Ok. How powerful of an effect are you looking for.

Bolad: It seems perfectly straightforward to me, honestly

GM: Archibald

Archibald of Guernicus: Any active magic.

Bolad: People just love warping all over the place with 0 consideration for the GM's feelings.

GM: This doesn't detect enchanted effects then

?

Archibald of Guernicus: It does

It can detect either

GM: Any active magic up to a certain level or just any. I'm sorry.

Archibald of Guernicus: enchanted items count as a magnitude of effect equal to vis invested, but base 5 is any active magic

Hypatia of Athens: Proclus and Archibald are senior regulars so I'd rather guard them than play with the junk upstairs

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, malach touched them and didnt die

so +1 touch and +1 for more details

Proclus of Rome: You don't know what did or did not happen to him.

GM: Ok. These are enchanted items. You would probably have to investigate them.

Archibald of Guernicus: I believe in my parma

"They're enchanted, aye. We should transport them out carefully, investigate them back at the tomb."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is there anything interesting mixed in with all the smashed tables and shelves

Bolad: Mr. GM, you asked me to roll Second Sight when I moved to 2nd floor, 2nd regio, and I got a 15. Anything I should know?

Proclus of Rome: What do they look like?

Anything fancy?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mister gm, tear down this tower

GM: I thought you were on the third regio.

If you were, you see something.

Bolad: I PUT MY TOKEN ON THE 2ND REGIO FFS

GM: Oh.

Hypatia of Athens: lol

GM: I just noticed you were doing this.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm just gonna chill here since there are too many people doing stuff at once

GM: We don't have enough maps for the amount of regiones.

Bolad: there's 3 maps and 3 regios

GM: What if there are more regiones?

Proclus of Rome: Well, what I did was copy the same map 4 times when I had to do it.

Bolad: then you'll have to copy the map

GM: That's probably smart.

You know what's smarter?

Declaring the first and second regios empty and saying these are 3, 4, and 5.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: splitting the party as finely as possible

Proclus of Rome: Having a skeleton pop out of a treasure chest.

Bolad: In theory, splitting the party allows the adventure to move faster, not slower

GM: Much like communism,

Bolad: Anyway, if there's nothing unusual going on in Top Floor / Regio #2, I commence a search of the junk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: communism and our party-splitting farces are both ftw.

Archibald of Guernicus: If no-one securing the enchanted items to transport back, I'll place them carefully in a small sack just in case they have a 0 penetration touch effect.

* if no-one is

GM: Anyway, if you're using second sight or any of these powers and you're looking upstairs on the same regio as the sarcophagus, you will see another regio entrance behind the pillar. this is spatially directly above the regio entrance to the sarcophagus floor.

Archibald of Guernicus: A 4th regoi level?

Good god

Proclus of Rome: Spooky.

GM: Archibald puts them in a sack without event.

Proclus of Rome: What do they look like????

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is there anything else up there

im on level 3 floor 2

Bolad: I hoep I placed that correctly on the map

Archibald of Guernicus: "Malach, Gulielmus, there's a 4th bloody regio level."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Blimey."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Excellent."

I walk into whatever Archie is staring at.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay well we seem to have figured out that the towers are stacked upon each other in the fourth dimension

Proclus of Rome: "Shouldn't we also be exploring the top of the tower in each regio level?

"

Bolad: ive been trying for the last 20 minutes, proclus.

Hypatia of Athens: So it makes sense, in a tesseract sort of way

GM: Mal, if you pass through the NEW regio boundary, you see something incredible.

Proclus of Rome: No I mean the tip top, with the nest.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do we not have a single magus who can levitate?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Gulielmus, would ye mind informing the others before we set off intae-" I watch Malach just blunder in

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn has Rise of the Feathery Body

If you want to risk the guy who's supposed to get everyone home on investigating a nest full of bones

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cast fist of shattering at voice range to blow up the trap door

Archibald of Guernicus: "If someone has rise of the feathery body, I can open the trap door and explore."

GM: the furniture is still broken, but now there are a bunch of torn up papers everywhere.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: torn up papers. incredible

GM: Also, the trap door is open, and a rope ladder is hanging down.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus sighs and works his way back through the tower to tell everyone about the new regio.

Archibald of Guernicus: "But I want tae explore here first, cannae just leave Malach alone with his wounds in there."

I go into Level Four

Proclus of Rome: What do the papers say?

Hypatia of Athens: I go to level 4

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i examine the papers

Bolad: I have drawn a map of Region Level 4, for everyone's convenience.

GM: Thank you.

Hypatia of Athens: Warp to World 6-9

Proclus of Rome: I'll head upstairs in level 3.

Bolad still attempts to search the room he's been standing in

GM: They're unsorted documents, heavily damaged.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just some wood scraps i think.

GM: About Auram.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Trash, trash, and more trash."

GM: You also see, in some other scraps, some stuff about Herisson and some "Garden."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I look upwards to the level 4 trap door.

Proclus of Rome: You can tell because every page has the word "Whooosh" written on it.

GM: You could probably collate this stuff eventually and get a tract on Auram out of it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the gm has a good point.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I think up a plan.

GM: im not fucking with regio 6.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I scream and shout and spont a spell to open the roof, bringing whatever contents there are down to us.

Bolad: WHAT'S IN THE FUCKING ROOM GM FOR FUCK'S SAKE

GM: It's the fucking papers!

Bolad: NO

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+46

(

7

)

+46

=

53

Bolad: Fucking hell

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

GM: I described it!

Bolad: I go home

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok gm what falls down from the level 4 roof

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's in level 2, second floor

GM: no ones token is on the roof

The same shit as in every other level!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: looking through all the wood scraps

GM: Trash!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im in floor 2 level 4

i just opened the roof

Archibald of Guernicus: I step into the level 5 regoi

Hypatia of Athens: The lady of the lake regio is full of Might 69 faerie kings who are all very hostile and demand we finish the quest.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The GM cries! The GM cries! The GM is slain.

Hypatia of Athens: Can't go home

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

GM: Archibald's on the roof after climbing up the ladder that I already described was hanging from the open trap door.

Archibald of Guernicus: It is? Alright.

GM: In Regio Level 4.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The GM cries! The GM cries! The GM is slain.

oh theres a ladder

hm

GM: The ladder is in level 4.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i guess i dont spont the spell to break the roof

so am i!

Archibald of Guernicus: Anything interesting on the roof here?

GM: After climbing up it, Archibald is in level 5.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: intredasting.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i go

Hypatia of Athens: I follow

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to the lower floor of level 4.

GM: You see a giant owl nest made of mostly papers and shredded lab texts, some clean animal bones, and not much else.

Bolad: I go find Proclus and talk to him about Regios.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Endless trash!"

GM: The lower floor of level 4 has no sarcophagus and nothing but broken furniture and owl shit in it.

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Endless!"

"She copied the same tower 5 times to create endless copies of this nest."

Hypatia of Athens: "It's all hermetic text to begin with, means little to me."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll examine the papers regardless

And the nest in general

I'll let my owl hop around it and get comfy in the giant owl nest

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "What an awful, miserable place. I hate Bjornaer."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll have the grogs collect the craps of paper that might get collated later.

GM: There's more stuff about Herisson in the shredded and crumpled papers. You find one interesting page.

Archibald of Guernicus: "You'd break Bialas' heart if he was awake tae hear that."

Proclus of Rome: What is the sarcophagus made out of?

Bolad: "Why would a bird of the sky build so many homes with roofs to hold them in. This structure is folly."

GM: Stone.

Proclus of Rome: Interesting.

Bolad: I say, to Proclus, the only one around.

Proclus of Rome: Is it built into the floor or can it be moved?

GM: There's a map in there.

Bolad: Burger Forest.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: friesland...

Hypatia of Athens: Friesland

GM: The sarcophagus is built into the floor.

Bolad: with Munster cheese, and a side of Fries.

Proclus of Rome: "Perhaps this tower was constructed as a side effect of some greater magic?"

As there is no knife stuck into the map, I am incapable of parsing it.

Bolad: "Then it goes to waste. This is pitiable!"

GM: You don't always get lucky.

The map is marked with an X, not a knife.

Hypatia of Athens: Irencilla is in a faerie regio that's known to be safe, because the covenant keeps it that way

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This map is written in English. How is anyone supposed to read it

Proclus of Rome: "Not every maga is a success, it seems."

Bolad: "We should take what few fineries are still here with us, the spoils of our great battle. This sarcophagus, those gargoyles on the pillars, for instance."

Hypatia of Athens: So if we have to go there it's fairly simple

GM: Smart, Bolad.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I think this map is going to be the only thing of value in this entire cursed regio."

Proclus of Rome: "The columns would also be a good treasure."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Let's leave."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fries Land? What sort of place is this a map of?"

Hypatia of Athens: "Germany, correct?"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, I'd better investigate the bird nests.

GM: the rhine tribunal.

Proclus of Rome: They might have vis in them.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right

we investigated the owl corpse for vis, yeah?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i make my way back out of the tower and wait for everyone

yes

7 auram vis

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice

Hypatia of Athens: We got 7 auram vis from teh owl corpse

Archibald of Guernicus: Good work all

Bolad: I investigate the gargoyles to assess their Aesthetic Quality, and how easily I can pry them off the pillars.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Germany, aye that'd be it."

GM: The bird's nests are just birds nests and unreadable scraps of stained documents other than what you've found already.

They're very poorly made.

Bolad scowls

GM: AC 3, I'm sure.

Maybe lower.

Proclus of Rome: I can make a vine and then Bolad can shoot an arrow with the vine tied around it like a grappling hook.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does anyone want to dig through owl shit to recover the auram tract

Archibald of Guernicus: "Germany's quite a distance."

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Are you crazy?

Of course we want to.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to tell Jorn about this and see waht he knows about the area

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I don't.

Archibald of Guernicus: I already did

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wait outside for everyone to exit

Bolad: I thought Jorn died.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This place is disgusting.

Archibald of Guernicus: Jorn is still alive for now

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn is going to be retired after this adventure

GM: I'll post the loot itt afterwards.

Bolad: Let's retire him, with a bullet.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Jorn should be able to get us tae Germany, Irencilla's there after all!"

Hypatia of Athens: You might want to get back to VT before than

GM: Archibald is keeping the jewelry?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where are we going to find a slinger, bolad

Archibald of Guernicus: The magic items? Yeah, I'm holding them in a sack

Proclus of Rome: Did anyone look outside the tower on any of the higher regio levels?

GM: where is irencilla?

Hypatia of Athens: After Jorn has gotten us back to VT, you can kill him if you want.

Archibald of Guernicus: Irencilla is in germany, east of the black forest i think

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: for the crimes of being helpful and getting along with everyone this court sentences jorn to death

GM: I should read more splatbooks...

Archibald of Guernicus: He was too useful for the GM's to let him live

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Hypatia of Athens: Irencilla is a good place to go if you don't want to immediately be murdered by faeries by going to some place unknown with Arcadian Travel

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is everyone out of th etower now

Proclus of Rome: No, I think there might be more here.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gah!

Proclus of Rome: For example, no one has even investigated the gargoyles yet.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going home

GM: Bolad did.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: They're nice gargoyles.

Hypatia of Athens: We got The Clue

GM: They have AQ 3.

Archibald of Guernicus: We aren't leaving till we've pried out every stone to sell for a pittance

Proclus of Rome: It would DEFINITELY be a good idea to try and loot them.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's what Bolad is doing

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, the nuns are grogs, you can order them to help loot if you want

Bolad: Me & the grogs work at hacking them off of the pillars.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Malach, I've an idea. Can ye perhaps spont a perdo terram effect tae remove a tiny sliver of stone behind the gargoyle? That'd let it fall down without harming it."

Proclus of Rome: Did anyone go to regio level 6?

GM: What regio level 6.

I didn't draw that.

Proclus of Rome: Fake news.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i drew regio 5 as a joke and then there was a regio 5

and i screamed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the gargoyle will fall 30 feet and hit the floor

GM: the diagram says there are 6 regio levels but the book only describes 5.

sorry.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wheres the damn animals

GM: You killed it.

Proclus of Rome: Wait a minute.

GM: If you're knocking gargoyles off the walls they're gonna break.

Proclus of Rome: How did the owl get inside the tower to cross to different regio levels?

GM: The trap door is large enough for a size +2 creature.

Archibald of Guernicus: You see, it [begins skipping ahead to next scene]

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you just have to touch the wall to enter the regio don't you

GM: Also they

Proclus of Rome: Hmmm.

GM: are her regiones.

Proclus of Rome: We could cast Supple Iron and Rigid Rope on the gargoyles to make them soft.

GM: You could.

Then they'd be soft.

Jorn of Merinita begins chiseling a charm to go to Level 1 of the Bohemian Forest surrounding Irencilla.

Proclus of Rome: So they wouldn't break when they hit the floor.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have supple iron and rigid rope as a formulaic

So I'll do that each time to help with removing them

Proclus of Rome: The go to it.

GM: Nice.

Proclus of Rome: I mean "Then go to it."

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright everyone. Is there anything left to steal or are we leaving

GM: After a while, you amass a pile of 30 soft gargoyles.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's pry up all the tiles and process them into truly shocking medicinal pills

Bolad: Nice!

GM: 6 from each regio level.

Proclus of Rome: What do they look like?

Archibald of Guernicus: "We did it, all."

GM: They look like those gargoyles in the picture.

Jorn of Merinita: How many MP do we get from selling the gargoyles?

Gargoyim

GM: Small bodies, large heads, ugly pointed faces.

I don't know. They're just regular gargoyle statues. They're pretty bad as far as gargoyles go.

You've seen better.

Jorn of Merinita: You did it everyone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus could describe a faerie regio in normandy to jorn, and we could travel from there to munster

Proclus of Rome: Still, they'll make a real cost savings when we build some columns and need gargoyles for them.

Jorn of Merinita: Bohemian Forest is probably closer than Normandy

GM: That would work.

Sure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could make our way to a port and take a boat

GM: Holy shit.

Proclus of Rome: A what?

Like a boot?

Jorn of Merinita: And Bohemian Forest is the place surrounding the Domus Magna of his house, so it'd be unreasonable for him not to know it exists.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Boy R.: bohemia to friesland is quite a march still

Proclus of Rome: How long would it take for us to walk from there to the giant X?

It might be quicker to just go by ship.

GM: It might be.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll Europe Lore, gm

Jorn of Merinita: The Waddenzee pirates should be dead by now

Proclus of Rome: You know, assuming we don't attract ANOTHER fairy.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Greetings.

Jorn of Merinita: Hail

GM: Hails.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is everyone out of the tower yet

GM: I think so.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm

Jorn of Merinita: We could talk to people at Irencilla and try to get rumors of a closer regio

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

GM: Are you going home or teleporting somewhere.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: with everyone out of the tower i perform the last necessary procedure

i scream and shout and create the biggest pit i can under the tower

Bolad: dont

Proclus of Rome: We should go home.

Bolad: why isn't malach incapacitated again?

Jorn of Merinita: Now that there isn't a Might 35 bird living in the place, the regios are going to collapse on their own

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+44

(

3

)

+44

=

47

Archibald of Guernicus: God wills it, brother

Proclus of Rome: Why would you destroy a magic aura anyway?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: because he's size 2 and spent 2 confidence points on his soak roll.

Bolad: because beardbeard

Jorn of Merinita: I start taking people home

Proclus of Rome: Oh right it's because Malachiasz is an insane person who loves destruction.

GM: Well, there you go.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets see

rolling 47/2

47/2

=

23.5

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just full of bird shit anyway.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats uhhh

hm

i dont think thats enough for a pit this large

Proclus of Rome: It was probably as big as Vardian's Tomb.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i make a small hole in the ground near the wall

GM: Nice job, Malach.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Malach, we're going back, dinnae knock the thing over."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Tytalus would be proud."

GM: Some more earth collapses and the tower leans a little bit.

Proclus of Rome: Now we can drop off all the gargoyle statues.

I guess that's redundant.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets go back

GM: Jorn makes 30 trips carrying statues one at a time.

Archibald of Guernicus: Come on everybody. Let's go home.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's go back and pick up lodewig.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and derfel

GM: When you get home, you notice the inn is overrun with ivy.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "What the hell?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bloody hell, where did all this ivy come fae?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: come, fae

Proclus of Rome: IVy?

I V

Malachiasz of Tytalus: come, let us speak as fae

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you think this a jest, faeman

Archibald of Guernicus: The inn is within the aegis, so this is serious

Malachiasz of Tytalus:  gm begins sweating

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe it's just regular ivy

GM: Ivy.

Proclus of Rome: Not really.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Regular owls, regular ivy.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: could you magically accelerate the growth of a natural plant to get it through the aegis

Proclus of Rome: It might just be something new the groundskeeper is trying.

Jorn of Merinita: Ordinary Flambeau

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I was just wondering that. Ildebrando always ran a tidier joint than this, in my recollection."

Bolad: "The earth reclaims these feeble structures of brick and wood."

Proclus of Rome: "Oh wonderful, you aren't dead."

"I'm so pleased."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That wasn't one of my plants, was it?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "same to you, old fellow"

Jorn of Merinita goes and makes whatever charms we need to finish this quest

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lodewig, it's been years. How've ye been?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: can you get in through the ivy or has it encased the building

GM: You can get in through it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I walk around chopping at the ivy with my shovel.

Lodewig of Tytalus: then i'm sitting with my feet up on an ivy-covered table

GM: It's just kind of all over the sun-facing side of the building and kind of coming in through some cracks.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "oh, not so bad. How goes the quaesiting?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Come tae think, ye left around the same time Malach did. I hope ye both returning so close together isnae a tytalan plot." I chuckle

then realise this is very possible

Lodewig of Tytalus: bwahaha

Proclus of Rome: "Why are you here?"

"If you're looking for a place to be buried, we're full."

Lodewig of Tytalus:  quizzically  "I live here"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus laughs. "Lodewig? Not the same one who-"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea glances at Proclus.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "If you've lent someone my room, I quite understand

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You know, did that thing you always tell the story about."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh, I wisnae there for that."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Ah, Lodewig, good to see you again. Did you know? Lavinia and Proclus have joined our house."

Proclus of Rome: "Why have you decided to come back?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Well frankly I thought I could use some peace and quiet. But the funny thing is, whenever I drop in there's always some kind of crisis"

Proclus of Rome: "No I haven't, that's just some lie that Luctatio is spreading."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I hear you're hunting some hedge wizards or such now?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Ah, another famed Magi from before my arrival. Heil Hermes, brother."

Proclus of Rome: "Archibald's bloodlust is something that we have to deal with, yes."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Nonsense, I heard about what you did. Gave some upstart rogue a good outfoxing."

"Hm. This ivy is definitely unnatural."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "anyway, hearty congratulations to proclus and lavinia, hellos to the new folks, but don't let me get in the way of whatever you're doing here"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Grows back every time I chop at it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bloodlust my arse. He broke the code, I prosecuted him in my duties. I never hunted the man once, despite the pressure fae the House tae do so."

Lodewig of Tytalus: are any of the covenfolk about?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we need some rabble in here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the rabble would want to kill us probably.

Proclus of Rome: "You LITERALLY signed his death warrant and you have the gall to say you're innocent?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just what rabble do

Violante the Herbwife is a covenfolk

Bolad: I am a covenfolk

and I am here.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I wander around trying to trace the origin of the ivy.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Literally? Stuff it Proclus, the sentence is decided on by the judges. If ye had even the slightest knowledge of hermetic law ye'd know that."

Lodewig of Tytalus: well I guess what I mean is, was anyone here who saw all this ivy appear

Proclus of Rome: Ah, but which magus am I talking about?

Bolad: I admire the spirit of Mighty Wolf in this newcomer. Could he too be related to Asena the she-wolf?

Violante the Herbwife collects the high-penetration ivy for making medicines and reagents with

Archibald of Guernicus: "In fact, in most tribunals, the quaesitor has tae specifically request a marching. Rome was one of the few that didn't have this law, until we enacted a Praeco."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I notice Bolad looking at me and pull my sleeves over my hairy hands

Violante the Herbwife: Oh yeah we took some stuff from Etna, right?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: presumably the ivy started after the companions went on their adventure

which theyre still out on

Proclus of Rome: "Don't worry about Bolad, he's a Mongolian."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Well, look, it's got to be coming from somewhere."

Violante the Herbwife: Let's go inspect anything we took from Etna

Lodewig of Tytalus: I try to trace the roots from the stem of the ivy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lodewig and i work together on the task then

Lodewig of Tytalus: My instinct is it's coming from the ground, but you never know

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a duo that can find anything

GM: Ildebrando says it just started growing a little while after you guys left for Mt Etna.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's not downstairs, is it?"

Violante the Herbwife: It's really easy to get something to go off inside an aegis if a wizard with a token carries it in voluntarily

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have utmost confidence in malachiasz powers' of investigatino, especially if it involves excavation

GM: It's not in the catacombs.

Proclus of Rome: "It's very possible that this is just some scheme cooked up by Archibald."

GM: Just on the inn, for the moment. But there's a lot of it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I barely use herbam. Our only herbam specialist was Bonfilia, maybe ye should guess her first."

Bolad: Ceremonially cast a spell to detect magic, then a spell to detect the sigil.

GM: Smart.

Proclus of Rome: "Bonfilia is writhing in the fires of Hell, in al likelihood."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: have i had any luck tracing the

root

cause

bwehehe

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus' ludicrous sponting will save the day here

Throw a vial of sigil potion at the vines

GM: The roots of most of the ivy go into the ground outside the inn.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: GULIELMUS CAN TALK TO PLANTS

TALK TO THE IVY GULIELMUS

YOU CAN DO IT

GM: Oh shit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what, to help a tytalus?

Archibald of Guernicus: Go on Gulielmus. Make the potion. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5vdEPP1O9LE/maxresdefault.jpg

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, miscalculated before. Lemme spont ceremonially to investigate the magic on the ivy

Can you Shout and Scream for ceremonial

Proclus of Rome: No.

Or rather, you have to and gain no bonus from it.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+38)/2

(

(

3

)

+38)/2

=

20.5

not enough to get a sigil, lemme check what i get from 2 extra mag

Wait, no, its active magic. I can get a sigil if its 3rd magnitude or higher

Do I get a sigil, GM?

GM: Oh, nice. You do get a sigil.

The sigil is the smell of damp soil.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales! I have a sigil, we can begin our research."

"The distinct smell of damp soil. Before yer clever comments, Proclus, no I'm not just smelling the ivy."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: rolling order of hermes lore

rolling 1d10+3

(

7

)

+3

=

10

Proclus of Rome: "I wouldn't dignify you with a joke, murderer."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Damp soil?"

Violante the Herbwife: Is there some script that makes everything you draw black?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, damp soil."

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 3

(

10

)

+2+3

=

15

GM: Yeah. The ivy, i mean, pretty dry. it's ivy. And it's a smell of rich, moist soil.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+6+2 Ex Misc lore

(

2

)

+6+2

=

10

Bolad: let's have a fight

right here

kill each other

GM: Proclus, what was that roll?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wrap up vardians tomb

what if it's a faerie.

GM: OoH Lore?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Sorry.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+2 faerie lore

(

9

)

+2+2

=

13

all right everyone. roll for every single lore

Proclus of Rome: I complain about such things all the time and here I am, making a roll without saying what it is.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+13 magic lore

(

10

)

+13

=

23

(From Proclus of Rome): Ah, of course.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I sniff the ivy and roll nothing

(From Proclus of Rome): Why was he marched?

(From Proclus of Rome): Also, when?

Archibald of Guernicus: Smells like ivy

Lodewig of Tytalus: and good soil, apparently

maybe we should keep it

gives the place a very rustic look. goes nicely with all the ruins about the place

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we should feed proclus to it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's give it some blood

(From Proclus of Rome): Hmm....

Lodewig of Tytalus: there's no need to be melodramatic, manure ought to do fine

Proclus of Rome: "Perhaps you're familiar with Walahfrid?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and this guy calls himself a magus?

Bolad: lets feed him your posts haha

Archibald of Guernicus: "Which house?"

Proclus of Rome: From everyone's blank looks, I get the sense that I should explain.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Who?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Probably Tytalus."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "an Englishman?"

Proclus of Rome: "He was a marched Bonisagus Herbam specialist, with a penchant for killing other magi and stealing their research."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sounds like a Tytalus to me."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "interesting"

Proclus of Rome: "So, unlike Archibald, he had a motivation for all of his murders."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "when was this march, and did it find its quarry?"

Proclus of Rome: "He was marched around 30 years ago and clearly it did not."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It presumably didn't if he's casting this spell in our bloody inn."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I don't like to jump to conclusions"

Proclus of Rome: "Unless you are suggesting that someone has faked his sigil, an interesting theory, to say the least."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Well, he must have a lot of valuable research then. And likely well catalogued, if he's a Bonisagus

Proclus of Rome: "Who would be the most familiar with the sigils of Marched magi?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Excellent, let's kill him."

Proclus of Rome: "We should ask the vines when he was here."

GM: If you happen to find him, yes, you would be fully within your legal rights to kill him.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "seems expedient"

"I note though that he's blasted a powerful spell right through our Aegis. He could easily have made it more destructive"

Jorn of Merinita uses the stories of the man to make a stone idol charm

Proclus of Rome: "It is certainly possible."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "speaking of, anyone have one of the tokens for this year? Sorry I couldn't make it for solstice"

Proclus of Rome: "We need to know when he was here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All right, all right. If you insist, I'll make the potion."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Shrouding their sigil here would have to been cast for at least a months duration, and been good enough tae cover up the existing spell. It'd be 6 magnitudes. That's unlikely to be something ye cast in an aegis."

"That's the lowest it could be, I should say."

Bolad: Is the Aegis still up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "With my wound, and all."

GM: It is.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus shuffles off to his lab, in extremely melodramatic fashion.

Bolad: "A great and powerful man must have engineered this feat... We must add his knowledge to our own."

Archibald of Guernicus: "In light of this, I should note that I've been researching a more powerful aegis. This is proof we need one."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes. We'll kill him and take any Terram books he has."

GM: These are just created vines, of course. It's not a high level spell.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Well said that man"

Archibald of Guernicus: Nah, but disguising the sigil for Moon duration would be at least level 30

Proclus of Rome: "How did this happen without any of our servants noticing?"

Archibald of Guernicus: level 30 in an aegis is pretty unlikely

Lodewig of Tytalus eyes Bolad appraisingly

GM: Maybe he has spell mastery on that one spell.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "It would be simple to secure a connection to an unguarded inn"

Archibald of Guernicus: Learning a spell to disguise your sigil formulaicly is unlikely too, unless its some insane tytalan plot

Archibald of Guernicus eyes lodewig and malach

Bolad: dont forget proclus.

Proclus of Rome: Well, he is a skilled and practiced murderer.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+13+5+3+3

(

5

)

+13+5+3+3

=

29

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I've never heard of an insane Tytalan plot, but I suppose it's possible"

Proclus of Rome: I'm not a Tytalan.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay. gulielmus is gone for about an hour and a half

GM: The ivy also smelled like damp soil before you cast the spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: Take an appple with you

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes, if anything this must be a Tremere plot."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:  throws open the door, hitting a tytalus

Malachiasz of Tytalus pulls out a turnip and bites into it loudly.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm doubtful of that."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: [mouth full of apple] "Maybe Flambeau."

fuck

Lodewig of Tytalus: what season is it?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: turnip!

mouth full of turnip!!

Archibald of Guernicus: "They left a thank you note with his cousin after they picked up Aristide's body."

Proclus of Rome: "I think prejudice against Tremere magi is the source of a lot of dangerous mistakes made by this covenant."

Fall.

GM: Still Fall. Everyone's been moving fast as heck with Arcadian travel.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Proclus of Rome: "I think prejudice against Tremere magi is the source of a lot of dangerous mistakes made by this covenant."

we have to kill proclus.

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus really has gone too far this time

Lodewig of Tytalus: I should get some apples while they're fresh

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you can have a turnip

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus has a really great apple tree in his garden

Proclus of Rome: You should cast that spell that creates an apple for a diameter.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malachiasz carries an arbitrary number in his robe pockets

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: at least i assume it's really great. maybe it's just an average apple tree

what's the Apple Quality of this tree gm

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+1

(

1

)

+1

=

2

Bolad: i think archibald is well within his rights to declare proclus marched for that comment

GM: Someone else statted up that tree.

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

its a quality 2 apple

GM: Amazing.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus

do i not get a bonus for being the world's best apothecary

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought malach carried around turnips to eat

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i do

gulielmus was asking about his apple tree

GM: You probably do. I don't feel comfortable deciding if it's an Apple Tree of Virtue or not.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: which he grew from a cutting from the twisted one in the lake regio

GM: It probably is.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its a normal apple tree

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

GM: Well then it's a normal apple tree.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one with shitty apples apparently!

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, magic to make plants grow healthy is easy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: however, its still pretty nice to have a personal apple tree

Lodewig of Tytalus: what a shame

GM: It's got apples that are crispy but bland.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you could bake with them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's true.

Proclus of Rome: I don't cook because I'm too busy with magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: "With this information in hand, sodales, we should keep an eye out for this madman as we continue."

"A chance tae bring him tae justice should not be overlooked if he rears his head in person."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you could load your potions into apples and be the return of bonfilia

Proclus of Rome: "We weren't gone that long, we still might have time to catch him."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "If marched archmagi are assaulting the covenant then I think we all have a stake in this. What exactly is going on?"

Proclus of Rome: "After all, Lodewig was a renowned tracker in his day."

GM: Well, the covenant isn't harmed right now. It's just partially covered in decorative ivy.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "thank you. I like to think I've kept in practice"

Archibald of Guernicus: We were only gone 2 days, actually

At most

Lodewig of Tytalus: It's an implicit threat and there was clearly some sort of adventure underway before this

Archibald of Guernicus: We've got a good shot of just tracking this guy down

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have to assume they're linked

Proclus of Rome: Yeah we should track him down.

GM: 2 days is fair.

Proclus of Rome: And then request an apology.

Bolad: what about the suspicious guy at etna

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i could make all of my spells apple-themed and then confuse the quasitores by having an unrelated sigil

Bolad: who we purposefully ignored

Proclus of Rome: He WAS pretty suspicious.

GM: That's a good question.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We were looking intae something a Bjornaer at our covenant uncovered. Information about a lost regio."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: did gulielmus talk to the vines yet

GM: Nope.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait

the suspicious guy from etna

he was from the rhine tribunal

what if hes the guy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Two hours pass without Gulielmus emerging from his lab.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait a minute, that magus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: herisson or whatever

Archibald of Guernicus: Herisson is the garden I thought

garden's owner

Malachiasz of Tytalus: herisson made the garden yes

wait

Lodewig of Tytalus: how badly was gulielmus injured?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's sixty diameters.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: theres a legend associated iwht herisson

oh my god

GM: He was killed 300 years ago. Ish.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: that guy is a faerie herisson

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just a light wound

Proclus of Rome: Badly enough that he's coming up with bad ideas.

Archibald of Guernicus: his name was Richard Strabo

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its a fucking faerie herisson

Jorn of Merinita: Daimon plant wizard

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: richard streber

Archibald of Guernicus: He was the magus who looked like george costanza

Jorn of Merinita: Streeeeeeeeber

GM: Richard Strabo, yeah. That's Tasso's buddy.

Bolad: while I was at Etna, I tried recruiting one of the covenfolk there as an agent

if you recall

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmmm

GM: He's the Herbam specialist who helps Tasso with his gardening.

Bolad: i was planning to resolve it after the adventure but maybe I could use it now

Archibald of Guernicus: "If it was disguised, the logical thing tae examine is: who knew we were looking into this?"

Bolad: to get information about Strabo.

Lodewig of Tytalus: what if this marched magus is hiding out in the lost regio?

Archibald of Guernicus: "There was one other magus present when we discussed this Tasso, at Etna."

"Richard Strabo. From the Rhine, if ye recall."

GM: You did, yeah. I don't remember what the details of the agent were though.

Archibald of Guernicus: *this with Tasso

Proclus of Rome: Believe it or not George hasn't been marched,

please don't kill him, if you please.

GM: Could you use that? I don't know.

Bolad: we never established it cause it didnd't seem important then

we were at Etna for a couple days I think?

Archibald of Guernicus: He hasnt been marched marched, but we should look into him, since he's the prime suspect

GM: Yeah.

Like, a day. Most of a day, I'd say.

Archibald of Guernicus: been marched. i think my brain is shutting down, im repeating and skipping words constantly.

Bolad: heh

Proclus of Rome: Well, I think the prime suspect is the marched magus, but that's just me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the prime suspect is bialas.

(To GM): If you don't want to bother with agent rules right now we can ignore this

GM: Richard Strabo has not been marched, according to any records you have.

Archibald of Guernicus: It  could  be that Richard Strabo just used a known marched magus' sigil, and disguised his as it

Proclus of Rome: I know Archibald is more familiar with innocent magi being marched, but this is an unusual case.

(From GM): i just don't know them.

Proclus of Rome: Let's see what Gulielmus turns up.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea finally emerges from his lab, carrying a small rattling box.

Archibald of Guernicus: We can perhaps find this out if Gulielmus talks to the plant and gets a physical description from it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salvete, omnes."

Bolad: "I have a suggestion using guile"

Proclus of Rome: "Hello."

Bolad: "Send a letter to Strabo asking his advice, tell him you detected the sigil, but describe it slightly off. Perhaps instead of dirt it is mud."

"If he tells you that this is the work of that ancient Magus, you will know he is the one trying to cast suspicion."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Can you believe it? I made two of these potions before I remembered I had a whole box of them lying around."

GM: That crazy Guli.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus made seven potions to talk to the tree last time, for some reason

Proclus of Rome: Everyone laughs heartily.

Archibald of Guernicus: That Feel When Too Many Potions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Tfw.

What if we could sell the potions for money? haha.

Archibald of Guernicus: "In the meantime, we should ask around the covenfolk. Likely if someone came here, they were invisible, but it never hurts tae check."

"Perhaps one of the people living in the street saw something strange. The Gift does make a man stand out."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I laugh heartily, assuming making two potions in a couple of hours is part of the joke

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea pours a potion out on his hands, rubs it in, and grabs some ivy.

GM: What do you want to ask the ivy??

Proclus of Rome: Isn't that an oil, not a potion?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "agreed. The folk around here should know it for what it is, too"

Bolad: christ is cumthinker powergaming AGAIN?

GM: I mean, we'll see, man.

He did make potions that let him talk to plants.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: first he rips off giraldo, now he comes up with a solution for every problem in the adventure

Proclus of Rome: "We could ask the Knights Hospitaller, they must keep a close eye on the covenant."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll patiently sit down while someone without the Blatant Gift asks mundanes for their help.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: first i'll ask i where its origin is

* it

Archibald of Guernicus: I sit down and exude a powerful aura of Gift

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll interrogate the mundanes, starting with the attractive female ones

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Crushing Gift

Lodewig of Tytalus: It's probably getting harder to leverage venus' blessing now that I'm 47

Bolad: > tfw you stink and everyone hates you

Proclus of Rome: Uh, why would it be?

Archibald of Guernicus: The difference between Archibald and Gulielmus' Gifts was like the difference between the heavens... and the earth!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: but archibald, gulielmus is already helping us. we dont need to ask him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus

GM: Gulielmus, in response you smell the sigil of damp soil more strongly.

Proclus of Rome: Also the Knights Hospitaller priory down the street DOES have an unusually high number of nuns.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the Sigil of Damp Soil

Bolad: they're probably screwing the nuns

the hospitallers are decadent dandies

Lodewig of Tytalus: Can I just roll Charm to interrogate the people hereabouts?

Archibald of Guernicus: A good tip Lodewig is to pair it with Unaging so you just look like a 20 year old until you suddenly collapse of instant aging death.

GM: You could, sure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that is a good tip.

GM: And the knights hospitaller ARE nosy.

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10!+2+7

(

8

)

+2+7

=

17

GM: Someone must have seen something.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea frowns.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Just the smell of soil, again."

Bolad: Let's dispatch our pagans and blatant gifters to talk to the Knights.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "hello ladies. Strange doings about here recently, eh? Anyway seen any weird strangers?"

Proclus of Rome: I'll go introduce myself to the knights and ask the guards if they saw anything.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go say hello I suppose

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'll ask the ivy how long it's been here.

Nun: "No more than any other day."

Proclus of Rome: Uh, a nun wouldn't be guarding a priory.

WOW.

Come on!

Knight: "Just a bunch of ivy spring up the night before.

"

Proclus of Rome: The night before, eh?

Nun: The nun is just walking across the street.

Proclus of Rome: "Thank you for your help, sir knight."

Nun: As Lodewig stops her.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "ah, cunning. If I was to illegally plant a pile of ivythat's what I'd do"

GM: Guli, the ivy says it's been about a day.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Well, no harm done. Best be about your prayers, darling"

Archibald of Guernicus: (if) I Illegally Planted A Load Of Ivy, by Lodewig

Nun: "Oh, thank you, dear. May the Lord be with you."

Proclus of Rome: Is it possible that this ivy is fully natural and is merely a special, fast growing breed?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "He always is"

I walk back, whistling jauntily

GM: It openly carries the sigil of a marched magus.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "yeah they dont know shit"

Proclus of Rome: Well?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay. time for the obvious question: does it know who created it

Hypatia of Athens: It would be really easy for a Herbam specialist to spont a circle ring CrHe

Proclus of Rome: I mean, marched magi can be horticulturalists.

Hypatia of Athens: Or a Moon CrHe

GM: I mean, it is otherwise just regular ivy, yes.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

GM: So, possibly. He might be a rogue decorator.

Archibald of Guernicus: The ivy was identified as having active magic on it, meaning it was either Creo-d or is under an effect currently.

Hypatia of Athens: Did we take any free wine, made from a fruit that grows on a vine, from Etna?

GM: It was the product of Creo magic, yeah.

Proclus of Rome: What if this guy already knows the secrets of growing unnatural plants and is trying to stop us from discovering how to grow vis?

GM: Could be a ritual.

Or several.

Proclus of Rome: There's no way he could have had time to cast a ritual in the middle of the street.

Hypatia of Athens: Because English Ivy is so mobile, it does not have an extensive root system. Instead of roots burrowing deep into the ground, the roots of this plant allow for easy movement

Lodewig of Tytalus: non-ritual creo can grow plants from seeds almost instantly

GM: Good fact.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, over the course of a day or night

GM: The roots are indeed VERY shallow, where they touch the ground.

Proclus of Rome: Do the vines continue to grow when you uproot them?

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we should go with the plan to try and trick Strabo into a snafu.

GM: No.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. does anyone else want to try talking to the vine

Bolad: archibald should write the letter (dictate it to the scribe)

GM: But if you uproot some vines, and then leave and come back, there's a good chance more vines will have replaced them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ive got a whole shitload of charged items here.

Proclus of Rome: Why don't we just uproot all the vines then?

Archibald of Guernicus: There's no reason for someone to just cast vines here, except they did so and made their sigil very obvious. What do they gain from that?

Lodewig of Tytalus: ah, so you've got an active ivy-growing spell

well why not dispell it?

Hypatia of Athens: Google's recommended method of killing ivy is to poison the roots, not to uproot it

Archibald of Guernicus: I think it's Strabo and he's trying to make us think a psycho marched bonisagus did this

GM: You could do that.

Proclus of Rome: Fortunately Google is not the authority here.

Archibald of Guernicus: after all, its not like the bonisagus can defend his good name here

Proclus of Rome: Why would Strabo do it?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I probably can't, because i'd be casting spontaneously within an Aegis I haven't been invited under

Proclus of Rome: What possible reason do you have to suspect him?

Hypatia of Athens: Google is useful for not making adventure-prolonging assumptions about how ivy works

Archibald of Guernicus: He's the only person who knew we were pursuing this

Outside the covenant

Proclus of Rome: He isn't the only enemy we have.

Hypatia of Athens: And alchemists can make palnt poison

Proclus of Rome: It could have been anyone.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's a good enough reason to investigate him at least

Bolad had a good plan

Who has the best Guile at the covenant, and is literate?

GM: The letter is a pretty sick plan.

Bolad: surely it's Lodewig the Liar

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita doesnt have enough latin to write with it, unfortunately

So probably Lodewig

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have no Guile

Bolad: lmfo

Archibald of Guernicus: Good lord

Hypatia of Athens: But if Google says that, it's likely that a gardener also knows that poison works better than rooting for ivy.

Lodewig of Tytalus: when have I ever deceived anyone?

Bolad: all those times you said "I am not a werewolf"

GM: What a good man.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't recall that conversation

Proclus of Rome: Uh, but he clearly isn't a werewolf.

He's a man.

See?

Archibald of Guernicus: Doesn't anyone here have the common decency to be a horrible liar?

Proclus of Rome: No wolf features at all.

Bolad: fine, lavinia can compose it

Proclus of Rome: You know who was a great liar?

Aristide.

Archibald of Guernicus: :tragic:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What if we had two Trianomas in the covenant

Bolad: he wasn't that good since his lies just kept causing more problems than they solved

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i bet wed be great at guile and intrigue then.

(To GM): lavinia has comm +2, guile +3

Hypatia of Athens: Aristide was good at self-preservation via lying

Archibald of Guernicus: Every week we keep encountering problems that we can only solve by putting a portrait of Aristide on the wall

To remind us of what we lost

Hypatia of Athens: We just managed to get away with a fairly insane plan

Archibald of Guernicus: He wasn't that good at it because he failed miserably to convince people not to kill him.

Who were in fact offering not to kill him, even.

Hypatia of Athens: The way we killed him could have gone wrong in a million different ways

Archibald of Guernicus: It did, but gamer spirit perservered. Lavinia's guile is what we're going to rely on, then?

Proclus of Rome: How high is her guile?

GM: 3.

Bolad: Actually, her guile is 30, and the GM is a liar.

GM: I was tricked.

Hypatia of Athens: WTF

Archibald of Guernicus: If we thought he spoke italian, Zita could write it perfectly in that.

But he's from the rhine

so I doubt it

Proclus of Rome: I assume the letter will be in Latin.

GM: He can probably read Latin.

Lodewig of Tytalus: even writing Italian is a weird concept

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmmm

Lodewig of Tytalus: tbh I'm not sure you need an immense Guile ability to write a letter containing falsehoods

Proclus of Rome: I wish I had my new Bible in the Tuscan vernacular...

Lodewig of Tytalus: just say what you want to write and he'll take it how he chooses

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+2+3 guile

(

2

)

+2+3

=

7

there

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, wait. Hang on

GM: What are you lying about?

Bolad: unless he has Letter Ken how will he know it's a lie

Archibald of Guernicus: What if we

Just dictate the letter

Bolad: the letter says archibald detected a sigil of dry, parched dirt (instead of wet soil)

Proclus of Rome: Well, presumably someone who is compulsively honest would have trouble with it.

GM: And you're sending it to Richard Strabo?

Archibald of Guernicus: If you want a proper guile rating on the letter, hang on

Bolad: yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita can just dictate it

Lavinia and Hypatia are the only ones who know she's illiterate though

Bolad: gahaha

GM: "Hey asshole, do you know anything about this ivy? Here's the sigil. Thanks.

bitch,"

Bolad: lavinia's etiquette is very good

GM: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how's her intrigue though.

Bolad: in fact we'll send a gift along with the letter. a copy of (rummages through library)

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's probably much more important

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, actually. How can you tell someone's lying in a damn letter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you had better be able to beat ef 20 in intrigue, guile, and etiquette or the letter will simply fail

GM: What if he just says he's never heard of it.

Bolad: That's his right

Proclus of Rome: We should head to Frisia ASAP, IMO.

Archibald of Guernicus: The letter fails and crumbles into dust

Bolad: well hopefully he still apprecaites the copy of Notes on Alchemical Processes Anno Dominio that we enclosed and we boost our relations with etna covenant.

Archibald of Guernicus: Strabo wasnt at Etna, iirc

he was just visitting

Bolad: wtf

gay!

Archibald of Guernicus: he lives at the Rhine tribunal

meaning we can ask him person, if we want

* in person

Proclus of Rome: Yeah you just go to Germany and ask if anyone has seen Strabo.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I have some knowledge of the Rhine tribunal, and let me tell you, it covers quite a wide territory"

Hypatia of Athens: We can ask him in prison

Proclus of Rome: It's just that easy!

GM: I mean, it's just a letter. If Richard Strabo doesnt know anything about the ivy, and is innocent, you just made up a sigil he probably doesnt know. If he is involved, he will probably lie and say he doesn't know.

Bolad: well ok if that's what happens you should just say so

instead of making us waste time deciding who will write it

Hypatia of Athens: I'll retire Jorn now so we stop taking the prospect of a trip to Germany lightly

GM: I'm just saying, like, what do you want out of sending a mundane letter.

Archibald of Guernicus: If he's trying to mislead us surely he'd say 'yes, thats [marched bonisagus' sigil

Like if the sigil was disguised here

then surely he wants us to think, oh its this guy

so this is his chance to push us into believing this

GM: It wasn't disguised, I just said you could smell the damp soil the whole time.

a while ago.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

GM: You did confirm that it was a sigil.

Bolad: lets kill this GM

Archibald of Guernicus: You can disguise sigils.

GM: You can, yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: that was the crux of this

Proclus of Rome: Lettuce.

GM: I said, a while ago, that you could smell the sigil the whole time.

Bolad: ok

are we done here then

let's go to the garden

Lodewig of Tytalus: Well whatever you write to this fellow, I would suggest not sitting on your hands waiting for a reply

GM: This is your right.

Proclus of Rome: We should hire a ship.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can anyone pevi the ivy.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should hire a Jorn

Bolad: yeah let's hire a ship to go from italy to germany. durr

Proclus of Rome: Don't you mean... Frisia?

Bolad: i thought the garden was in the teutoberg forest

Archibald of Guernicus: The rhine is where the merinita domus magna is, it's probably the easiest place in the world to visit with arcadian travel.

it is, yeah. frisia was northwest of it

Hypatia of Athens: Can't Lodewig transform a group into birds?

Lodewig of Tytalus: sure

Proclus of Rome: Yeah but the boat wouldn't be able to go into the Teutoberg Forest.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have a magpie spell. Are you into that?

Proclus of Rome: What if we get attacked by haws?

I mean "hawks".

Lodewig of Tytalus: A ward against mundane animals might be prudent

Hypatia of Athens: Circle of Beast Warding is level 5

Easy spont

Proclus of Rome: Here's the big problem with that: it's a circle.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Take a real duration on it instead then

Proclus of Rome: It wouldn't work while flying, which is when hawks would attack magpies.

Lodewig of Tytalus: easier yet to spont at personal range and target

Hypatia of Athens: It's a spont, after all

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's a city on a river right by the forest.

Proclus of Rome: Oh you're right.

GM: It's probably pretty easy to get to.

Proclus of Rome: We could just take a barge upriver.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's probably a better idea

Proclus of Rome: None of this "flying over the Alps" business.

Lodewig of Tytalus: navigating a flock of magpies over hundreds of miles is likely a pain in the arse

Bolad: Bolad offers to ride ahead and wait for you there.

Lodewig of Tytalus: maybe I should have taken something more powerfully migratory

GM: I forgot the Merinita domus magna was there, so that's also an easier trod than I planned for.

Proclus of Rome: A pelican.

GM: However you want to get there.

Hypatia of Athens: Corvids are migratory

Archibald of Guernicus: Irencilla is definitely the easiest place to trod to, yeah

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think arcadian travel and then hiring a damn boat is an excellent plan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if jorn is still alive we could go there and then fly to the forest

Proclus of Rome: The boat is good, that way we can keep House Merinita out of our hair.

GM: I don't have anything to really throw in the way of that, so it works fine.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, we can do mundane travel when we're closer. Arcadian can save us a great deal of time.

Proclus of Rome: I don't mind long travel times, since, just as an example, I don't turn into a murderous wolf on the full moon.

Archibald of Guernicus: They cut into lab time!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Same here.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I was going to say, I'll tag along now that I know there's not going to be a long sea journey

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: regarding turning into a wolf. losing lab time sucks

Proclus of Rome: Finding a way to grow vis is worth losing a season.

Archibald of Guernicus: But what if we had both

Proclus of Rome: Well, it could work.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Jorn, this is where we need tae reach, how close do ye reckon ye can take us?"

Hypatia of Athens: FFM the magpie spell to make it apex raptors intead

GM: Int+OoH over a certain EF could tell you something about the area of the Teutoburg forest where the entrance to Herisson's garden is supposed to be.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I rely on FFM to make it touch range in the first place

Hypatia of Athens: Right

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 3

(

9

)

+2+3

=

14

Hypatia of Athens: Magpies are decent since they probably have better overland navigation than raptors

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's just give up, since it's very hard to travel to germany

Bolad: yeah

Lodewig of Tytalus: I thought we'd solved it

Bolad: if the garden was worth finding, it would be in italy

Proclus of Rome: Wow, don't let Lavinia hear you say that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: bonisagus's well was worth finding and it was just down the street

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets go to the damn garden and kill whatshisname

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm actually pleasantly surprised to find that travel can be an issue

Bolad: Let's spend some seasons crafting instruments of insane Magi murder.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's go to the Garden and kill God

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn will go check out the garden offscreen when he retires

Archibald of Guernicus: Lets go to the garden and kill George Costanza.

Hypatia of Athens: If he dies there by GM fiat, then that's how it goes

Lodewig of Tytalus: these all sound like excellent plans

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay.

are we faerie trodding

Bolad: how about this

you turn into magpies and perch on bolad's head

and bolad just rides there on his fast magic horse.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that is a good idea

GM: I didn't want it to be in Italy because then you guys could just go whenever you wanted.

Archibald of Guernicus: We can do that after we trod to get a lot closer.

Hypatia of Athens: That's a good idea

GM: Come on.

Bolad: I do think, maybe, it would be a good idea to prep something before wandering into danger.

Proclus of Rome: "We should be careful, the Rhine is a wild tribunal and anything could accost us in the forest."

"In particular, an Herbam specialist would have no trouble killing us in a forest."

Archibald of Guernicus: We can bring grogs along, not sure what we can prepare in a few days

Magi are slow

Malachiasz of Tytalus: an herbam

Lodewig of Tytalus: Good idea. I order a packed lunch

Hypatia of Athens: We can trod to Bohemian Forest, which is famous for not being full of murderous faeries yet being a faerie regio

Bolad: Giant barrels full of plant poison.

Hypatia of Athens: And ride from there

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm

Bolad: Let's bring a huge pile of salt and throw them at the flower wizard, killing him.

GM: Brutal.

Proclus of Rome: Hey, it worked on those vikings.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Gulielmus, before we leave, could ye make potions that dissolve plant matter? Some perdo herbam effects just in case we need them in the forest."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wjhat the hell is salt gonna do to gulielmus

Hypatia of Athens: If there were murderous faeries in Bohemian Forest, Irencilla would kill them, as to keep them from revealing the palce to mundane nobles

Lodewig of Tytalus: Actually I do have something to prepare - I conjure a wolf out of my head and set it to watch the catacombs

Bolad: Let's use ceremonial magic to create fire that burns for moon duration so we can have flaming arrows and torches to heave at the enchanted ivy

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway I think we should plan by getting a bunch of anti-herbam potions

GM: Sick wilf!

wolf. !

Archibald of Guernicus: badass, lodewig

GM: Definitely bring those talk to plants potions.

Archibald of Guernicus: Potion seller

GM: If you have more left.

Those are cool.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

Hypatia of Athens: We should probably have grogs guarding the lady of the lake regio

Archibald of Guernicus: We have a bunch left

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have like 7

Proclus of Rome: Sounds good.

Bolad: wait

was the knights adventure in 1339

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Bolad: then endrite, how long did napolino/tunde/nevio's sickness last

Endrite: Until they recovered or died.

Bolad: do i need to make recovery rolls

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Something to destroy a plant?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Destroying a tree at touch range is level 15, gulielmus. If you can get 25, you could make group-target plant destroying potions

Lavinia of Jerbiton: tell me what to roll

Endrite: Yeah I figured we could handle it before the adventure but I was held up.

GM: Well, there's no rush.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hmmm. You could start with some elm bark, and then..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, perdo herbam. Something that'd work on trees especially."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders to his lab, muttering to himself.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh wait, level 15?

what's the aura here?

GM: Magic 3?

Lodewig of Tytalus: right, right

Endrite: Disease Recovery Total:

Stamina + Medicine* + Recovery Modifiers

+ Magical Aid + stress die

* Medicine may only be added if the Prognosis

Total is sufficiently high; see Diagnosis

and Prognosis

Endrite: As you have successfully already diagnosed the patients, you may add medicine.

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+9+12+9+2)/2

(

(

9

)

+9+12+9+2)/2

=

20.5

alright I'll destroy a plant up to ten times the size of a young tree

Lavinia of Jerbiton: assuming we halve medicine for that roll, then +9 is added to their recovery total from lavinia

GM: Nice.

Endrite: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's level 15 to destroy it at touch range, I should say

at voice its 20

i was assuming the potion would have to be touch to rub it on them

Endrite: You could have Gulielmus whip up the medicine.

Lodewig of Tytalus: we're talking about the ivy here aren't we?

GM: Lodewig is just casting that at the visible ivy here?

Lodewig of Tytalus: sure

GM: Guli is making stuff to bring, but I thought you were casting.

Cool.

pehe?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus can just add 3 to lavinia's medicine roll

Lodewig of Tytalus: if that destroys it, I'd like to establish if there's still an active effect here

pehe, yes

pevi pending

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+3+12+4+3 potion

(

3

)

+3+12+4+3

=

25

nice

Hypatia of Athens: Could Gulielmus make a CrVi potion to pour into someone's food that sends the drinker into twilight?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It seems Guilelmus is busy so the grogs will have to recover without his help.

GM: The ivy withers and crumbles away.

Lodewig of Tytalus: but does it grow back?

Endrite: You can only add warping points, I think.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: typical reverse powergaming from johns.

GM: Are you outside looking at the building?

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

GM: It does not grow back.

Hypatia of Athens: You could get a fairly likely twilight check with enough points though

Lodewig of Tytalus: a job well done

Archibald of Guernicus: If you gain 2 warping points at once you check for twilight, so it usually forces it

Two warping points at touch is level 20, iirc

SO. ARE WE GOING TO GERMANY.

Hypatia of Athens: And no need to penetrate parma if someone willingly ingests it

GM: Sure!

Archibald of Guernicus: It does need to penetrate parma, its just a spell-like effect.

Proclus of Rome: It would need to penetrate the Parma Magica.

Archibald of Guernicus: They would have to lower their parma

to drink it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have 1 potion to destroy a group of plants

GM: There's no more ivy visible, from where you can see.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Proclus of Rome: If it doesn't penetrate then the liquid would slide out of their mouth.

Lodewig of Tytalus: cool

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets fucking go to germany

guli can bind wounds twice a day on me every step of the way

Proclus of Rome: Where?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also on myself

GM: Now, from this moment in the official timeline, do you spend a few days bringing stuff and getting things ready, or do you immediately open a faerie trod and go somewhere near the map I gave you.

Proclus of Rome: That's probably very stupid, Malachiasz.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh that's right. i forgot the wound penalty

the potion fails.

Lodewig of Tytalus: RIP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or it doesn't fail, but it's only level 23

Archibald of Guernicus: Giraldo can't come instead of malach, as that would cause a time paradox.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE SOME TIME TO PREPARE BEFORE FIGHTING SUPER DEATH ARCHMAGUS

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean I'm good to go whenever...

GM: I just want to know if you dilly dally.

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought time was of the essence. We should learn a CrCo spell to just cure wounds instantly sometime.

Spend some vis on ol malach

Lodewig of Tytalus: those are way hard

Proclus of Rome: Well, the Bachelor Party adventure only lasted one day, so I assume they're back by now.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh

Giraldo can tag in then

GM: Otherwise I'm cutting directly to the forest marked with the X and handwaving the travel.

But I wanna know if you canonically spend some days.

Since that's important.

Spoilers.

Lodewig of Tytalus: how long does the travel take?

Archibald of Guernicus: We're not dilly-dallying, no. We did some basic prep and packed delicious lunches.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay, the potion destroys a group of plants when poured on the ground, but doesn't have a size modifier so it won't kill a tree

and we have 1 potion.

Hypatia of Athens: Even a faerie regio can be a few days away

Proclus of Rome: I want to do a lot of roleplaying where we have to exchange currency.

Lodewig of Tytalus: luckily I know all the local customs and get us through without fuss

Malachiasz of Tytalus: giraldo si not tagging in

we need malachiasz's wizard killing expertise

Proclus of Rome: It's your funeral.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it turns out I can't keep my mind out of my body for more than a day, so the wolf vanishes after that long but it does keep an eye on the state of the place for a day after we leave, so I can see there's no more weird herbam assaults

Archibald of Guernicus: "Are ye sure ye should be coming in that state, Malach? Ye;re still bleeding."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I want to kill an archmagus."

Lodewig of Tytalus: has nobody given him a Bind Wounds?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: guli did

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn can speak West Norse so he can hold basic conversations with germanic folk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's on a strict bind wounds regimen

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he will have to continue casting it on me twice a day

GM: Who are you going to kill, the guy who's been dead for three hundred years?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes

Proclus of Rome: How long do you plan to continue on without treating your injuries?

Lodewig of Tytalus: Let's find out what's there and decide who needs killing

Proclus of Rome: I worry about you.

Jorn of Merinita: PeCo is fairly simple

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's just a little foam from the spell."

GM: anyway, you're going to the Teutoburg Forest.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If he was really bleeding, you'd definitely know."

Jorn of Merinita: PeCo a corpse, that is

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it's the mask

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the green man regio

Bolad: ssssssssomebody spont me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a whole group of green men.

GM: And the nearest regio was a few days away.

But you made it through without incident. This is just the real forest.

Archibald of Guernicus: Holy shit some green dudes

GM: The trees throw thicker and make a sort of natural arch at one point. Five green-skinned men are standing around in the sunbeams.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I conjure my mind wolf every morning and let it sniff around a safe distance behind us

Proclus of Rome: We should say hello.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the brainwolf

Lodewig of Tytalus: "This is the place, yes?"

Jorn of Merinita: "Should we dart them?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You're the faerie expert."

Fructus ex Miscellanea stands and stares aimlessly into the woods.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Goden dag, sodales"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Depends what they are."

Ex Miscellenea

Well then

Malachiasz of Tytalus: fructus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhhh spoilers

Proclus of Rome: Spoilers.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "What a bunch of weirdos."

Jorn of Merinita: "They look delicious."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Do they see us?"

Lodewig of Tytalus:  in Latin  "Ho there! Can you see us?"

Folium ex Miscellanea: They turn towards Lodewig in unison.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I grin toothily

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "Hail, stranger."

Lodewig of Tytalus: Bear's Fortitude and Cat's Eyes are also my morning regimen, should have mentioned that

Proclus of Rome: "What are you doing so deep in the forest?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wizzy sidestep

Jorn of Merinita: "Ah, they talk as men."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "It is strange, to see so many visitors."

Jorn of Merinita: "Hail Hermes, brothers."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Fine day isn't it?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I warm up every morning of the journey with eyes of the hawk, sidestep, etc

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Are you men, or faerie?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: imo it should be unpractical to go about your daily business with wizard's sidestep on

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "It's a little cloudy."

Proclus of Rome: Are you Devo?

It seems like it would be quite difficult to interact with people if you have Wizard's Sidestep on.

Archibald of Guernicus: I give sidestep to anyone else who wants it, so it's fine

Jorn of Merinita: Archibald has Blatant Gift anyway

It's not like he interacts with muggles for fun

Proclus of Rome: Yeah but it also makes it difficult to interact with magi.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I'd love to do the introductions but frankly I don't remember why we're here"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald goes to pull a book off a shelf, but all anyone sees is a fat man standing in a T-pose clipping through everything in the library

Proclus of Rome: Anyway.

Jorn of Merinita: Magi understand that he's paranoia buffing

Proclus of Rome: "Have seen any other travelers lately?"

Fructus ex Miscellanea: "We try to keep to ourselves."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Who are ye, exactly?"

Proclus of Rome: "Why are you green?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: rude

Jorn of Merinita: "I'm sure they have their reasons."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "This is the covenant of Caerfloron, and questions like that are why we try to stay in the woods."

Proclus of Rome: It's a fair question, in my opinion.

"Ah, I'm sorry for trespassing, in that case."

Jorn of Merinita: Raditz

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sorry, we saw no markers indicating it, we didnae mean to intrude."

Proclus of Rome: We should ask them if they know where the big red X is.

Radix ex Miscellanea: "We don't even know each other's names."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+6+2

(

8

)

+6+2

=

16

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. They're weirdos.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats ex misc lore

Jorn of Merinita: "Does Durenmar know you're here?"

Radix ex Miscellanea: he means his group and your group. they know the names of their covenfolk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: have i heard of these guys

from galerius i guess

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Durenmar knows they're here.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Archibald of Guernicus."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: They're not that far away.

They just really don't talk to very many people.

Proclus of Rome: "I'm Proclus of Rome."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Malachiasz of Tytalus."

Proclus of Rome: "I'm a philosopher," I add by way of clarification.

Jorn of Merinita: Founding a Rhine covenant also requires a vote of approval from every existing covenant

So they should be famous enough

Bolad: "Bolad of the line of Jochi."

Jorn of Merinita: "Jorn of Ultima Thule."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "Caerfloron himself, and these are my filia, Radix, Surculus, Folium, and Fructus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Gulielmus ex Miscellanea. But please, call me Guillaume."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I also introduce myself. It's very civilised

Hypatia of Athens: "Anthemia, follower of Mercere."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "Why are you here?"

Proclus of Rome: "We're on the trail of a treasure, hidden in the Tuteborg Forest."

Surculus ex Miscellanea: "We should never have started sharing knowledge with visitors."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's find the skeletons of all the Frisia PCs

Proclus of Rome: Surely they have all melted by now.

Bolad: Succ ex Miscellanea

Hypatia of Athens: Maybe

Bog body bones do melt

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "What could possibly be here? A treasure of fruits and flowers, maybe."

Hypatia of Athens: "That is indeed the treasure we seek."

Proclus of Rome: "Excuse me, but you wouldn't happen to know of a man named Richard Strabo?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, verditius crafting is going to keep the covenant alive well into the year 1340, so we can go meet them

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "No, that's not a familiar name."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's go meet Vanya's kids

Archibald of Guernicus: I wanna roll folk ken on that response

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: There are fruits and flowers on a lot of trees around you. The covenfolk of Caerfloron gesture around as if to say "help yourself".

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+4

(

5

)

+3+4

=

12

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Roll it.

Nice.

Proclus of Rome: Is this where the red X is?

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus pulls a fruit from a tree.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll pluck an apple and see if it bounces off my Divine MR

Bolad: I peer with second sight

Hypatia of Athens: When I try to take a bite

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm scouting the forest in my mind's body as this conversation drags on. Is there any sign of animal life or other people? Are the plants wacky or just abundant?

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5

(

4

)

+5

=

9

Proclus of Rome: Well, clearly they have already stolen the secrets of growing vis.

Bolad: (add whatever the magic aura is)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i eat the fruit.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I look around for turnips in the ground.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah these apples seem okay, no MR intereaction

Time to chow down

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll join Bolad in investigating. No aura bonus to second sight, though.

rolling 1d10+3+5

(

1

)

+3+5

=

9

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: The folk ken result is that he is telling you he's unfamiliar with the name as a genuine response. The fruit that gulielmus and hypatia pluck is normal fruit. Bolad's second sight roll does not reveal anything.

Neither does Archibald's.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that you don't resist the apples doesn't prove much by itself

Proclus of Rome: They could MERELY have very high penetration.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A guy could get used to this place."

Proclus of Rome: We should just ask them if they know about a secret garden.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hell, they could be poisonous

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: That's reasonable.

Hypatia of Athens: They could have high penetration but they weren't actually trying to get us to eat them, just saying help ourselves.

So mostly going by occam's razor here

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: They could just be apples that they grow.

Archibald of Guernicus: "If a covenant's already found the garden and claimed it in secret, that's their right to."

Hypatia of Athens: They are most likely mundane apples, going by Occam's Razor, yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's take a look around, anyway."

"Jorn, ye had piercing the fairy veil, correct?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What's the AQ of the apples.

Proclus of Rome: I say we just ask if they know about Herrisson.

Hypatia of Athens: Assuming a gardener with Craft: Gardening of 13, AQ5 apples

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: These apples taste much better than the apples from the lady of the lake regio. While they are similarly attractive and crisp, the flavor is rich and complex. They're really good.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Pardon, are we in your covenant grounds now, or do you make use of all these woods. I'dhate to think we made a faux pas here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'm jealous.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I pocket apples absently as I talk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Much better conditions for growing here than in the old Tomb."

Hypatia of Athens: Wait, that'd be AQ7 for a score of 13 in Craft: Gardening

Lodewig of Tytalus: "well it doesn't do too badly, for a tomb"

Hypatia of Athens: AQ8 if planted by a gardener with Dwarf blood

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: You're very close to their covenant grounds. They're on the border of their aegis.

Lodewig of Tytalus: is there a noticeable boundary, or some kind of building in sight?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bolad: Let us claim the garden by right of conquest.

Hypatia of Athens: Slightly better if the gardener has Artes Liberales, as they'd know enough about astrology for proper planting times

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: your flambeau needs to have Ability Block: Craft/Profession

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: No buildings. The trees grow slightly thicker inside, and form a sort of vague archway, but there are just more trees in there.

Hypatia of Athens: I made a Jerbiton instead

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what a bunch of weirdos

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Lodewig of Tytalus: looks comfy to me

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Again, if you live in a tomb, you can't be too fussy

Proclus of Rome: It's a very nice tomb.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's really nice, for a tomb

Proclus of Rome: I think we should just ask if they know Herisson.

GM: Are you going to just press them about the magic legendary garden?

Ok.

Proclus of Rome: I'm consulting my sodales first, of course.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to eat some food.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Isn't that what we came for? I'm sure these guys claim it of course"

Archibald of Guernicus: If they do claim it, it's pretty clearly their property. With no bonisagi among them, they arent obligated to share its secrets.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): AFK

Bolad: maybe they dont know what secrets they're sitting on

Proclus of Rome: "They might simply attack us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: offer them a cut

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Do you know about a Herisson or his garden?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Surely even in the Rhine they wouldn't be so barbaric."

Bolad: "Didn't you say this garden would be a boon to your Order of Wizards? And you are content that they would selfishly hoard it to themselves?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Hm.

Proclus of Rome: "Would we share these secrets? I doubt we would."

Bolad: "You would marshal them more wisely than they would, don't you believe?"

Proclus of Rome: "There is an element in Vardian's Tomb obsessed with secrecy."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "I have heard that name before."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Something like this should be shared with the Order at large."

Proclus of Rome: Hmmmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Trying to take it away from them would be a serious crime, by the lights of established wizardry"

Lodewig of Tytalus finishes his apple and licks his fingers before starting another

Proclus of Rome: Lodewig the Fat.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "From another visitor."

"How strange."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Another visitor?" I wander over to join Malach

Proclus of Rome: Do we have the map with us?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes, apparently some old Bjornaer named Herisson had a magic garden around here."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "What is this garden like? Where have you heard to ask us?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "We found a map in the Alps that supposedly claims it is in this area."

Proclus of Rome: If so, I'll show them the map.

Bolad: "Great men create laws for the sake of a great society. A weak society has no laws worth respecting."

Hypatia of Athens: The map now just says "I'm doing magic and I'm still alive. Love, Aristide"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "In fact we haven't, but you're here and you seem knowledgeable about gardens"

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: They look at the map, an old, owl-stained parchment showing an x marked on their forest.

Proclus of Rome: "We didn't realize that there was a covenant here at all, to be honest."

(From Hypatia of Athens): AFK

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "This must be very old."

"Give me a moment."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, we would have wrote ahead had we known."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: after a few minutes of huddled discussion with the other magi,

"Where have you heard the name Herisson?"

Proclus of Rome: "An old and fat Bjornaer named Bialas."

Archibald of Guernicus: "From a Bjornaer friend of ours, he's a follower of Herrison's teachings."

Proclus of Rome: Please note that I did NOT call him retarded.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "And also another one, whose name I forget. He lives in a volcano in Italy."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. Tasso of Bjornaer, has a badger heartbeast."

"If ye don't mind, this other visitor, what were they like? How long ago did they visit?"

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: The old green wizard's eyes narrow.

Proclus of Rome: I probably should NOT have mentioned the name of the notorious dog fucker Bialas of Bjornaer.

Bolad: bialas of BlownOutDogAsshole

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "A short bald man with a moustache and goatee. He said he was going to visit his friend. At a volcano in Italy."

Archibald of Guernicus: All his enemies are in the same house as him, we're fine

Proclus of Rome: Ah, Art Vandelay.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: He is very suspicious of you.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I bloody knew it. That's Strabo."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Caerfloron is, now.

He's not telling you the bald guy is suspicious of you.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, ye see? Strabo is investigating this too, and he's the only other one who knew we were."

Proclus of Rome: I guess its easy to get a read on these guys, since they're green.

"How do you know he's the only other person who knew?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, I guess he did live in this area."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Who else could? Bialas told us then went tae sleep. We only told Tasso, then went straight tae the tower."

"Tasso and Strabo. But Tasso has no intention to investigate this at all."

Proclus of Rome: "Bialas must have heard about it from somewhere, not to mention every single one of out covenfolk is a spy for someone else."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "Why are you calling this man Strabo? Does he go by other names?"

Proclus of Rome: I mean "our covenfolk."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "That's what uh... Basso called him."

"Did he give you a different name?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "The name his friend gave him was Richard Strabo."

"Perhaps not his friend, since we have no idea if even that was his real name."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "I know this bald man as Walherich."

Proclus of Rome: What a twist!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Huh."

Archibald of Guernicus: He wasn't bald when we saw him though, right

His token isnt bald

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "What a strange man."

Proclus of Rome: The incredible magical technique of buying a wig.

Archibald of Guernicus: Had a big moustache and goatee tho

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he was george costanza with a moustache

GM: It's not bald.

But yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean, I'm just confirming if he wore a wig and that the token is correct

GM: You can have hair real easy.

Archibald of Guernicus: or CrCo

GM: The token is correct.

Proclus of Rome: For example, by growing it out of your head.

Lodewig of Tytalus: so wait how do we know this is the same person

Archibald of Guernicus: "He wisnae bald when we saw him. Perhaps it grew back on the trip."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he was visiting a friend who lives in a volcano in italy

GM: You could ask if they know any other identifying marks.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and strabo said he lives in the rhine

GM: Or aspects.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well ok

Proclus of Rome: "Did you notice his casting sigil?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean technically he could have been visitting a different italian volcano...?

GM: I mean, you have a lot of circumstantial evidence.

Proclus of Rome: "Probably not in this environment."

"It's the smell of damp soil.:

Archibald of Guernicus: We dont have hard proof but everythings pointing to Strabo as worth taking a look at

Lodewig of Tytalus: shocking!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hmm."

GM: lmao.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye don't think..."

GM: There's nothing wrong with having it be obvious the whole time.

Archibald of Guernicus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3quxUDs3Wk

I sit in thought for a while

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Anyway, would you like to help us check for this garden?"

Proclus of Rome: But, here's the thing, how did he know about it before we did?

We found the map in a tower protected by a giant owl.

GM: If Richard Strabo knows anything, it's the location of this covenant.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Does anyone know what House this Richard Strabo is supposedly from? Outside of what he's said."

Lodewig of Tytalus: and is he manipulating you into finding it for him

GM: If that's him.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Almost certainly Tremere, Archibald."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I mean for a fact. I had a disturbing thought."

"He varies his appearance. He gives false names."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, don't worry, Tremere the founder is long dead."

Proclus of Rome: Oh my god everyone, I've found the secret of this adventure.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What if the sigil wisnae faked, but it was Strabo who cast it."

Proclus of Rome: "Richard Strabo" is an anagram of "Brad Rats Choir"

Archibald of Guernicus: "What if he's this marched bonisagus all along!"

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Back

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "That's a possibility, but the marched magus, ah... Winnigan? He was from Bonisagus."

"Strabo is clearly a Tremere."

GM: Walahfrid.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i know

GM: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: "He never gave a house."

Bolad: winnebago

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Just like a Tytalus."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Tremere wear their name with pride."

GM: He's given 2 similar aliases and it's normal to forget names.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Except when they're plotting."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh no. tasso

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "And they're always plotting."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I believe Tremere are like rats, and just sort of do things to bring ruin."

GM: It's a good thing you have Arcadian travel, and could get here so fast.

Lodewig of Tytalus: so anyway, the green dudes are no friends of walherich/strabo, right?

Proclus of Rome: Well, maybe the Herisson's lab was simply destroyed and reclaimed by the forest.

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's work together to beat him to the loot

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I turn back to the green men.

Archibald of Guernicus: If Strabo is this marched bonisagus that'd explain everything, and is definitely insane enough to be possible.

Lodewig of Tytalus is catching rabbits in his mind

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "This Tremere clearly seeks the garden to do something foul. Let's find it."

Lodewig of Tytalus: on the ohter hand, the green men  are  hermetic magi. Is it conceivable they could miss a regio they live on top of?

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "We have shared some Herbam spells with Walherich. Some techniques on farming."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Caerfloron, would ye mind us looking around? I have my suspicions about this man who was here before, and he may return looking for this place for his own ends."

Proclus of Rome: "Farming?"

"Anything to do with growing grapes?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "That was how he got intae the good graces of Tasso, as I recall."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "He once obtained a Mandrake of Virtue from a regio under our aegis. We considered him a great ally."

Proclus of Rome: "Were you aware that he has been marched for the murder of many magi and the theft of their research?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Mandrake? That was one of the plants in that book."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "No, no, Proclus, that was Wilfred."

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "You are welcome here. I have to hope he returns, now that this trickery is exposed."

Archibald of Guernicus: "There is a distinct possibility those men are one and the same, Malach."

Bolad: Ok, now that we're welcome into the aegis, let's kill them and leave no witnesses

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: lmao.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Of course, we should speak with him tae find this out before we act. But simply getting him tae reveal his sigil in person will tell us everything."

Lodewig of Tytalus: Oh, did they invite us in?

Proclus of Rome: "You have to understand, we must be careful when entering your aegis. What if you are secretly in cahoots with this murderer?"

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Caerfloron is the guy to give out invitations, and he did.

It's only fair, since the other guy has one.

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, thank you."

Archibald of Guernicus: You can retract an aegis invitation with just a thought, at any instant, btw

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Oh yeah.

Lodewig of Tytalus: This guy's sense of fairness is going to get him killed oneday

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Well, he doesn't have one anymore.

Proclus of Rome: You need to be alive to have a though, Archibald.

Archibald of Guernicus: Inviting people into your aegis is fairly safe unless they can kill everyone with aegis rights instantly + without alerting the others

Proclus of Rome: Adult alive Caerfloron ex Miscellanea.

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's test this theory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: crme to force him to withdraw the other guy's invitation

Archibald of Guernicus: I believe I have the highest Vim MR here so I might just resist their aegis naturally.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: It's not a very strong aegis.

Archibald of Guernicus: Then we just need to stab them, and use their blood as an arcane connection to insanely devastate their parma.

Proclus of Rome: Or, we could just go into their regio and take a look around.

Archibald of Guernicus: Theoretically, in a self-defence situation

Lets go sodales

Lodewig of Tytalus: cool

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: You could do that. They're going to want to send someone with you. It's a pretty ritualized experience for them.

(From Hypatia of Athens): Back

Lodewig of Tytalus: It's their house

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Wait, actually.

They won't. Lmao.

They'll send someone with you to the entrance.

Proclus of Rome: Well alright then.

Let's do that then.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: easy.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Huh

do they have like a taboo against going in?

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "We only enter this regio once in our lives. Our apprentices enter at the beginning of their training to retrieve a mandrake of virtue. This Walherich-Strabo accompanied our youngest.

"

Proclus of Rome: "Why do you leave such a well of magical power untapped?"

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: "It's just some mandrakes."

Lodewig of Tytalus: lol

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Well, I can't argue with that.

Archibald of Guernicus: :weebey:

Bolad: let's smoke the mandrake.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's kill magical creatures of steadily increasing might.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: They plug their ears, go in, get one, and leave. That's it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's the quest they must go on to gain the minor virtue Green

Proclus of Rome: Weird ritual, but that's none of my business.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: They're not really going into great detail, but that's the main body of it.

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10+5 magic lore

(

8

)

+5

=

13

what's a mandrake useful for anyway?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: deadly poison

Lodewig of Tytalus: neat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: at least, apparently.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Mostly deadly poison. Lemme see if i can give you some more on that number.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's enter the poison swamp level

Lodewig of Tytalus: I can look it up, go on with the game

Archibald of Guernicus: Poisoned wizards haul poisoned sacks from the regio of pure poison

Hypatia of Athens: A madrake root of virtue has 5 corpus vis in it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: psychotic murderer: i should hang out with these guys some time

Archibald of Guernicus pushes Hypatia aside and runs into the regio

Malachiasz of Tytalus: excellent. lets shove a bunch of mandrakes of virtue in our robes

Hypatia of Athens: According to page 130 of Realms of Power: Magic

Malachiasz of Tytalus follows close behind.

Proclus of Rome: We shouldn't waste our time with petty theft.

Archibald of Guernicus: :pepe:

Malachiasz of Tytalus: petty?

he just said 5 corpus vis!

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Lodewig, its not high enough.

Archibald of Guernicus: And in such small portions!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus's apothecary sense leads him into the regio after archibald and malachiasz

Proclus of Rome: If this is Herisson's garden then there's far more valuable information to be learned.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: But there's probably something else they use the mandrakes for.

Archibald of Guernicus: What if we commit petty theft after we find the garden

Proclus of Rome: Hmmmmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Well that was easy.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: Ok. You're in the Marsh.

Hypatia of Athens: https://www.dropbox.com/s/82pddzvs0wp6rer/mandrake.pdf?dl=0

Proclus of Rome: Let us head directly to the Tytalan spiral.

What's the aura?

Archibald of Guernicus: We spent several hours slowly removing and stealing a bunch of gargoyles to sell for a pitiful amount. Let's not pretend we're above stealing this entire regio.

Proclus of Rome: Uh, those were owned by someone who was dead.

This stuff is owned by some very nice magi.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: To find a Heavenly Realm like this is truly a stroke of good fortune.

GM: No, you can't see that. The Marsh happens to be the lowest point in the garden, and is cleverly obscured with hahas and other landscaping tricks. You just see a hill on one side, a line of trees on another, and an open park on another.

And you're around a lot of mandrakes.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hahas

Proclus of Rome: Let's head for the hills so we can get a better vantage point.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: have hahas been invented yet

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are we in the regio now

Lodewig of Tytalus: Alright well, I don;t know a lot about mandragorae, but I think it's better not to try to harvest them

GM: Whoever enters the regio is in the regio.

Bolad: I take off my rubber Bolad mask, revealing myself to be Winnebago the Wicked Bjoarner. I cast CrIg and set this entire place on fire.

GM: It is magic 6.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i enter the regio

mm

Lodewig of Tytalus: I enter the regio

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice aura

Lodewig of Tytalus: and smell the bracing aura

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's a wonderful aura, here."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I look for the places with the lushest growth."

minus the "

Archibald of Guernicus: "I wonder why they haven't moved their laboratories in here."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "They're fools, that's why."

GM: Among the mandrakes in your marsh and immediate surroundings, you see

Archibald of Guernicus: "There may be some danger present. Be vigilant, sodales."

GM: all those herbs created by

God to punish man for original sin. Most

are poisonous, such as yew, henbane,

foxglove, hellebore, dodder, aconite,

and a whole host of toadstools, but this

tribe also includes the thistles, brambles,

GM: holly, and hawthorn.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: cool

I look for the places of verdant greenery and take soil samples.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea stands in awe.

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's a lot of poison."

Lodewig of Tytalus: like I asked outside - are there animals in this forest?

garden

GM: Oh, there were animals outside. Sorry, I missed that.

Bolad: Anything tasty looking

GM: Now that you are inside, though, the forest is eerily silent.

Bolad: interesting

GM: No bird, insect, or other noise.

Bolad: I look around for any sign of game tracks

Archibald of Guernicus: "Could this really be his garden?"

Proclus of Rome: That was pretty easy.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "why not?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I go to the orchard.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "it's got a pleasaunce"

GM: No game tracks.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's investigate it, then."

GM: I just said you cant see the orchard!

Lodewig of Tytalus: The Wizard's Pleasaunce

GM: it's a big garden!

You can blindly stumble around.

Proclus of Rome: What about... other warm blooded animals?

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I slowly advance forward then.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I opt to blindly stumble around.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Taking a great deal of soil samples.

Proclus of Rome: We should go for the hills!

Obviously.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Herisson claimed he had a method tae grow vis, this place should answer if that was true or not."

I have Eyes of the Hawk on, so I can examine the whole place if we find somewhere elevated

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could levitate.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ya

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or follow proclus into the hills.

Lodewig of Tytalus: actually I'll turn into a bird and get the aerial view

Proclus of Rome: Wait, I've got it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'd also like to spont a spell to see vis

Proclus of Rome: We can cover more ground if we split up.

GM: Okay. You can get a good vantage point and look around to get a sense of the place.

Give me one second.

Bolad: Good idea, we can do more damage that way

Archibald of Guernicus: I will also spont a spell to see vis

GM: Okay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many people are in the garden

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+42)/2

(

(

3

)

+42)/2

=

22.5

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+6+9+1+2+6)/2

(

(

8

)

+6+9+1+2+6)/2

=

16

Archibald of Guernicus: Base 1, +4 vision, +3 moon so I can just look at vis for a month

GM: You are able to reach a higher vantage point and identify the layout of the garden in character. You remain unmolested. A large quantity of these plants contain vis.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll take the same but be content with Sun duration

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I cross the river.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Wait, sodales."

Proclus of Rome: Why is this covenant so incredibly stupid?

Archibald of Guernicus: "The plants do indeed contain vis."

Lodewig of Tytalus: So these guys said they only come here for the mandrakes right?

Bolad: I begin stuffing the plants into my mouth to consume their power.

Proclus of Rome: The one in the forest, I mean.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea distributes one tree-speech potion to each of his companions, except for Malachiasz.

(To GM): i do not actually do that.

Archibald of Guernicus: Every single plant is deadly poisonous

(From GM): smart move.

GM: Be right back.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean, they don't seem to care if we take all this vis?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "It's the soil, it must be. Only powerful Terram magic could empower so many greens."

Bolad: Then I will be VERY powerful.

Proclus of Rome: They seem like they're pretty dumb.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: That which does kill you makes you stronger.

Proclus of Rome: I wonder how they'll react when we tell them how much vis is in here.

Lodewig of Tytalus: idk they must know on some level

Malachiasz of Tytalus: one of the things on the map says mead

the regio of deadly poison and also alcohol

Lodewig of Tytalus: they've got weird priorities i guess

Archibald of Guernicus: The covenant of ex misc that claim one of the biggest vis sources imaginable and then never harvest it.

They should be slain on principle

GM: meads doesnt mean alcohol.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it is revealed that a tytalus convinced them long ago that this place was sacred

GM: Well, every living member of that covenant has only been in here for like a few minutes at most.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and he continues harvesting obscene amounts of vis in secret

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why does this covenant leave all this vis just lying here? For what possible benefit?"

GM: And you've all already walked farther than them.

They're hedge mages.

Who knows?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: That makes them smart.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: does anything happen when i cross the river?

Proclus of Rome: Wow that's mean.

GM: Nothing yet.

Proclus of Rome: Well, let's head for the Orchard then.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: excellent

Bolad: was I able to bring my horse in here

Hypatia of Athens: "The vis is itself alive, and reproduces. It grows like an investment."

Proclus of Rome: That's where I'd go if I wanted to grow a lot of vis.

GM: Aside from all this vis laying around, this garden is just being very quiet.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's visit the pleasaunce.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i just continue moving forward looking for what i believe to be places of great magical concentration

and taking soil samples from them

GM: Your horse can come in, sure.

Lodewig of Tytalus: what can we offer these guys that will secure us exclusive harvest rights to this place and make them think we're doing htem a favour

GM: Mal continues taking soil and remains unmolested.

Bolad: Wizard's War.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Bolad: Wizard's War.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I flutter to the pleasaunce to mull it over

Hypatia of Athens: "There is the fable of the goose who lays golden eggs. The owner cuts the goose open, to get many eggs at once, and ends up killing the bird, ending his supply forever."

Bolad: What is a Pleasaunce

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah well that guys retarded

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a nice place.

Proclus of Rome: It's like a garden.

Bolad: Lodewig seems like the man with the plan here so I'll stick by him.

Proclus of Rome: You know, like the garden next to a house.

Lodewig of Tytalus: a formal garden for lounging

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should investigate further in."

I'll go with Lodewig since I want to look at the pleasaunce and the orchard

Lodewig of Tytalus: i mean in these times i think a garden is mostly just a field you don;t let the cow in

GM: I might have to wrap up in a half hour or so. This could go several more hours depending on what happens in here/after you leave.

Proclus of Rome: I mean it's what you think of when you think of a garden.

Pretty plants and so on.

GM: It's a very lush garden.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'll follow everyone else to the pleasaunce, since if there are any actual dangers I'll die incredibly.

GM: It's loosely split into three kinds of plants.

As you walk around.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: have i reached the orchard or Anything Of Note yet

Proclus of Rome: I'll go with Lodewig.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have to go fairly soon as well but I don;t knowwhat to do to instigate conflict or plot here

Bolad: We should take as much as we can carry, then leave, then immediately plan wizard's war to seize these lands.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll follow a person doing things

Lodewig of Tytalus: we can plunder this place and go home i guess

GM: aside from the poisons, you also have

all the plants

that provide tools or raw materials for

people’s needs, such as wood and fiber,

or provide aesthetic pleasure.

and all plants created to

GM: provide nutrition for man or beast, and

also those that provide medicines.

Bolad: Do we have the ability to preserve plants? We could transplant some of the magic vis plants with us.

Proclus of Rome: We shouldn't plunder this place, instead we should figure out how to grow vis ourselves.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: this is the damn garden of eden

nutrition huh

i pull up a turnip and eat it

Lodewig of Tytalus: or an earnest attempt to recreate it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's just live in the garden

Proclus of Rome: It isn't the Garden of Eden, because the Garden of Eden has animals in it.

Archibald of Guernicus: If we figure out the secret to this place, we can grow our own vis.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it does have animals in it, right now

archibald and lodewig are running around

Proclus of Rome: Also, I needn't remind my learned colleagues that every rose has its thorns.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's much nicer than the tomb, and there are no nobles.

Archibald of Guernicus: The important thing now is figuring out what sort of limits the garden has. What kinds of vis can it make, for instance.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I ought to challenge you to debate for that

but it's too nice a day

GM: Speaking of thorns,

most of these plants do seem pretty thorny. Even the ones that don't usually have thorns.

Mal eats a turnip.

Proclus of Rome: Maybe that was Herisson's sigil.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I pick the thorns off my turnip and eat it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's a little ominous, but no more than the poison

oh good call

Archibald of Guernicus: It was, as I recall

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was

GM: It was a regular turnip. Not every single plant contains vis.

Proclus of Rome: How wet am I?

Archibald of Guernicus: We took his notes along and found out that the drawings of plants were all thornier than they normally would be

GM: It's not raining, so not wet.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I continue on my soil sampling journey.

GM: Unless you went in the water.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: proclus's Wetness Quality

Archibald of Guernicus: I spont an InVi effect to determine the art of each vis type there is here, let's see

Lodewig of Tytalus: I guess the question now is what we have to fear from Strabo or Walherich whoever

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+42)/2

(

(

1

)

+42)/2

=

21.5

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

No botch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: die!

Proclus of Rome: Wait do you take any botch dice from the high aura?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well, sodales."

"Shall we make our way to the center?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: not if your powers are in tune with that realm, i believe

may as well, pleasaunt as this place is

Archibald of Guernicus: Base 4, +2 sun, +2 smell. Each type of vis will smell appropriate to the art it is, and I can see all the vis sources

Hypatia of Athens: Merinita need two 1s to botch in faerie

Archibald of Guernicus: So as I walk along I can mentally catalogue the vis

And see what sort of types there is, how much of each type, etc

Hypatia of Athens: Archibald's memory palace fills up with turnips

GM: Nice. I'll post a catalogue of the vis and types in the thread.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as if it wasn't already.

Lodewig of Tytalus: do you remember every turnip you ate in your life?

Hypatia of Athens: Yes

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, it's clear this place is an unparalleled source of vis."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many breads have you eaten in your life?

Hypatia of Athens: It's a simple InMe to tell Dio how many breads you've eaten

Proclus of Rome: "We should tell the ex Miscellanae covenant, then."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Even the lake under vardian's tomb is but a drop of water compared to it."

Proclus of Rome: :They have quite the find on their hands."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are all of the vis-bearing plants Plants of Virtue

Hypatia of Athens: They don't have to be

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are they, though

Hypatia of Athens: Plant monsters also have vis

Lodewig of Tytalus: "if they haven't laid claim to this vis, then it's ours to take. why make things complicated?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should explore in full before we relay anything. If there is hidden danger lurking in this place, it would be a grave mistake to compel them to enter."

Proclus of Rome: "Well, they will naturally claim that they own this entire regio."

GM: There is a variety of different types and strengths of vis containing plants and the occasional wondrous discovery.

Proclus of Rome: "Wait, is it possible to re-enter this regio once you have left it?"

"We probably should have asked that first."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The regio is clearly within their lands, and we live in Rome. The Rhine tribunal would never uphold any vis claim here."

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's explore in full - do we meet with any surprises?

Archibald of Guernicus: "We could check."

"Order a grog to go back outside, then come back in."

"If they dont return, that's our answer."

Hypatia of Athens: "I can check at Durenmar if the garden is named in the peripheral code.

Archibald of Guernicus: GM, does the grog make it back in

GM: For example, the garden contains a Vegetable Lamb, which stands about four feet high, with long dark leaves, and, at the tips of the stems, the head, forequarters, and body of a miniscule lamb, complete with wooly fibers. The plant's lamb-like growths graze on the grass surrounding it.

Stuff like that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Cool lamb.

GM: Well, not like that. That's the only animal-like presence.

It's just a fun folklore plant that turns out to be right here.

Proclus of Rome: What the HECK?

Bolad: ill test if I can go outside then go back in

GM: The grog leaves, but doesn't immediately return because he's being asked what's taking you guys so long.

Archibald of Guernicus: Do they return eventually

Bolad: hmm

GM: Bolad, you also see all the Caerfloron magi standing out there asking you why you're all staying in there so long.

It doesn't take that long to get a mandrake.

Bolad: "I do not know their methods so I cannot say."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go out.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I take a cutting of the lamb, intending to plant it next to my faerie apple tree.

GM: Nice.

They're surprised that you'd want a different plant, but it's fine.

Hypatia of Athens: "My sodales will be done shortly."

Archibald of Guernicus: [screaming] Can one of the people who walked outside please confirm if you can walk back inside or not

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: You can.

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's in the middle of this bad boy

Proclus of Rome: Sheesh.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: They're not stopping you if you want to ignore their questions and shoulder past them to get back in.

Archibald of Guernicus: We dont have to raid the entire place, then.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: It's an arch of trees you walk under.

Proclus of Rome: Ah, the ol' non-violent resistance technique.

Hypatia of Athens: Bolad has Second Sight so he'd probably see any one way regio boundaries

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i orchard

whats at orchard

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmmm. We have casting tokens for the aegis here.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: A bunch of apple trees.

And other fruit trees.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I take an apple and eat it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no!

have you even HEARD of the bible

Bolad: I will stay outside and distract them with questions about their spiritual beliefs, and ask if they wish to hear the good news about Tengri.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have an idea for the Tytalans. Not Proclus.

Caerfloron ex Miscellanea: You prick your tongue on an apple thorn.

Archibald of Guernicus: We could just take a bunch of plants, put them in a sack, then use imaginem to make the sack invisible.

GM: But it's fine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: My idea for the Tytalans is that we push them into what I assume is a whirlpool.

GM: Just an apple.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I throw the apple at a tree.

"Apples aren't supposed to hurt."

I gather some more soil samples.

And move towards the center.

what do i find at this great House Tytalus Marker laying at the center

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The archangel Gabriel.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I agree with discreetly robbing the place

GM: The center of the garden. A small clearing with soft grass to rest on.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hey what's happening over here

Proclus of Rome: We should just stay here until we make a Major Breakthrough.

Hypatia of Athens: Bone hurting apples

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: isn't there a lake

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I take a larger sample from the center of the regio.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not doing any Herbam breakthroughs so I'll have Jorn take me home

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, hello sodales. I've a great deal of soil in my pack."

"I'll discover the secrets hidden here."

Proclus of Rome: How do you keep all your soil samples separate?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or a pond i guess.

GM: Per+Awareness from everyone?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats simple

rego terram

GM: If you're retracing steps and so on.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 0

(

6

)

+0

=

6

GM: And actively looking around.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+4

(

3

)

+2+4

=

9

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10!-1+7

(

3

)

-1+7

=

9

Bolad: I try to learn more about Caernefon's people and history while I'm holding up the Magi outside the regio

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+6

(

1

)

+3+6

=

10

My eyes are mine and I am aware

GM: Archibald and Malach notice that, in areas they've been before, toadstools are starting to spring from the ground.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we destroyed the garden. good job everyone

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, there's something amiss here."

Proclus of Rome: What kind of toadstools are they?

Archibald of Guernicus: What's the aesthetic quality of the toadstools, too

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Fascinating."

I grab a toadstool.

GM: All sorts of toadstools.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

GM: This is a risk, Mal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes.

GM: Mushrooms can be dangerous.

Even mundane ones.

Proclus of Rome: Well, Malachiasz clearly has never cared about risk.

Archibald of Guernicus: Mushrooms are well-known for being poisonous to the touch, often

Even a child knows not to grab strange mushrooms

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus bends down to study the toadstools.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its unlikely that its a mundane one

so im safe

Archibald of Guernicus: CrHe would make a mundane mushroom grow quickly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12+2 apothecary, if it matters

(

8

)

+12+2

=

22

GM: I might not have been clear but there are a lot of mundane plants here.

Proclus of Rome: You were clear.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah but these ones are growing where we left

so its clearly something strange

GM: Well, Archibald makes a good point.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that still doesn't mean it's an active effect that you can resist

Proclus of Rome: What kind of fungal AIDS does he get?

GM: Anyway, Gulielmus notices that all of these mushrooms are extremely deadly.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: anyway, i grab a mushroom and throw it in with my soil samples

ah

hm

well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All of these mushrooms are extremely deadly!"

Bolad: i can't believe the GM is wimping out of player death, AGAIN

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean i did already say it

GM: lmao.

Proclus of Rome: I'll take a swing at the GM.

rolling 1d10! + 4

(

6

)

+4

=

10

Archibald of Guernicus: If he's not even going to wait 5 seconds for the EXPERT IN PLANTS to examine the potentially deadly plants

Then frankly

hes too stupid to live

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright well compromise

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: eat the mushroom.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i take my shovel and scoop up a mushroom

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you're size +2 you'll be fine

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and put it in my pack

GM: I haven't decided what kind of poison it is.

Because this was very sudden.

Proclus of Rome: lol

Bolad: he's also at -9 from his existing wound

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the deadly kind.

the combat rule popup says -6

Archibald of Guernicus: Don't forget his current massive wound penalty, yes

GM: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Malach takes his wound penalty to INT

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All right."

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's clarify what happened here. Malach saw some mushrooms and just turned around and bent over (he is 8ft tall) and picked one up immediately, or not

GM: Okay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We destroyed the Garden of Eden."

GM: Did you just touch it?

Or did you eat it.

Proclus of Rome: lol

GM: I'm giving you a reasonable out.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i just grabbed it and threw it in my sack

GM: Okay.

You're fine.

Proclus of Rome: Did you just eat it or did you smear it on your eyes and tongue?

Bolad: Boo

BOOO

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wasnt planning to eati t anyway!

Bolad throws rotten cabbage at GM

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: extremely deadly means extremely valuable

GM: There aren't that many mushrooms that actually kill you if you touch them.

Archibald of Guernicus: Did you inject it into your bloodstream? Did you shoot crystal darts at your own forehead for 12 rounds

GM: I'm being fair.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "We should gather a few of these."

GM: He also blindly ate two previous plants.

He might have eaten this.

Archibald of Guernicus: "For what possible purpose."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the two previous plants were turnips and apples

GM: You can eat mushrooms all the time.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "It may help us understand how to recreate this garden."

Lodewig of Tytalus: being a glutton is my dominant motive but i'm not eating anything in here

Proclus of Rome: Vardian's Tomb is FULL of fatties.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, I think this regio is dangerous. Herisson succeeded at growing vis, I believe this, but it seems tae have had bizarre consequences."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as long as i'm stealing mundane plants i'll take a branch off the apple tree and propagate that, too.

Archibald of Guernicus: "And his notes are all encoded."

GM: Anyway, Gulielmus identifies it as an amanita, which would cause severe stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, etc, healing as a heavy wound.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lmfao amanita

woo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow, just like in the elder scrolls iv: oblivion

Archibald of Guernicus: its called amanita, cause amanita that

Bolad: The best Elder Scrolls, imo.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets go home

weve got the magical soil samples and the magical amanita

Proclus of Rome: We still need to investigate the regio.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait. We still havent worked out how to steal immense piles of vis from here.

Proclus of Rome: We haven't found any notes.

GM: Archibald of Guernicus: Wait. We still havent worked out how to steal immense piles of vis from here.

There's the rub.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well I suppose we could stuff a stack with mushrooms and shrink them

Proclus of Rome: Also, we don't know if the vis can die as easily as it's grown.

Lodewig of Tytalus: or whatever vis platns aren't poisonous to handle

vis usually survives an organism's death

GM: Unless you get pricked by a thorn of a poisonous vis plant.

Lodewig of Tytalus: you can always transfer it to something in the lab

Proclus of Rome: Sure, but you can't usually grow vis.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do the mushrooms have thorns

GM: The little white spots are pointy and raised.

Lodewig of Tytalus: cute

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: these mushrooms are fucked up.

"Where are you expecting to find notes?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "It may be that we shouldn't recreate this at all. Just by standing here the place is beginning tae change."

"The vis, however, is quite real."

GM: This is the longest anyone has been in this regio for at least a hundred years, probably more.

And the record grows by the minute.

Proclus of Rome: "We haven't even scratched the surface here and you're already willing to give up. Absolutely pathetic, even for you."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'm sure we can work out the issues."

Lodewig of Tytalus: alright it's unstable and the green men have a taboo for good reason

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is our trail of destruction getting worse, or is it just some mushrooms

Lodewig of Tytalus: it still bears investigation

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "This Herisson was a Bjornaer, he has no proper appreciation for Terram. No doubt his form was deficient."

Proclus of Rome: Wait, what are these bridges?

GM: They're just some mushrooms.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "But I can refine his methods."

GM: They're bridges over the little rivers.

Proclus of Rome: But what are they made out of?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: but you said the center was a clearing

what the...

Proclus of Rome: Just wooden bridges or are they plants?

Hypatia of Athens: I think I'd go Bjornaer if I made a Herbam bro

Proclus of Rome: Uh, I mean alive plants, since wood is already a plant.

GM: They look like they're living plants, just shaped like bridges. It's a tree laying across the river, but shaped in a manner that's comfortable to walk on.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We need tae look into the rest of it. If there's something hidden by Herrison in here, it needs to be found."

"Perhaps there's rules that must be followed tae use it properly."

Proclus of Rome: Anyway, if you've got to go this is as good a place as any to take a break.

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+20+9+1+2+6)/2

(

(

3

)

+20+9+1+2+6)/2

=

20.5

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the flower token?

Proclus of Rome: It's a flower.

Duh.

GM: oh yeah. i did say that. well theres a clearing of flowers and soft grass at the center "spoke" of each wedge anyway.

Lodewig of Tytalus: trying on some muto herbam

GM: Those tokens will be revealed later.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: anything interesting about the lake though?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a giant whirlpool, which we're throwing the tytalans into

Lodewig of Tytalus: I can transform a Group of plants into straws or feathers or somethign we could easily transport I guess

would that be useful?

GM: Okay. The center is a spring.

I knew the description was somewhere.

Here:

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i jump on it and launch up to the cloud level

GM: Laboratory equipment is provided

by the garden itself: the gourds that

grow on vines make ready-made flasks

and alembics; bowls can be found in

the cup-shaped fungi; tables, desks,

and chairs are provided in the twisted

GM: branches of the trees over rocks; the

Ever-Burning Tree is a source of fire,

and the brook a source of water; and

birch-bark paper can be simply unrolled

from the trees. All manner of

rods, pens, knives, and other simple

GM: tools can be quickly manufactured

from the reeds, razor-sharp grasses,

and countless branches and stems. A

notable feature is the spring, which

as source and destination of all the

garden’s water serves as a Lesser Feature

GM: that assists in the extraction of

vis.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: christ.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Ever-burning tree you say

GM: I was looking for that freaking thing.

that paragraph.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: now everburning tree i can get into

Hypatia of Athens: That's badass

GM: Yes, there is an ever-burning tree.

Proclus of Rome: Ok  pushes you into it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I turn my head slightly.

"Oh, that tree is on fire."

Lodewig of Tytalus: this is a hell of a sanctum

GM: It's not organized at all and all of this shit is just kind of growing in different parts of the garden.

Lodewig of Tytalus: however, I have to go to sleep

GM: I have to go as well.

Bolad: gm has to go, because wrestling is on

Proclus of Rome: Farewell.

GM: That's true.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's fair

gg all

Proclus of Rome: See ya.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gg

GM: You can talk about how to proceed ITT and I will post the current loot.

But you don't get XP yet.

And it's still Fall.

Hypatia of Athens: still fail

GM: We'll just wrap next week and find out what happens with this garden and george costanza.

And then I will never GM this game again.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's going to kill us.

Proclus of Rome: Yeah right.

Also you need to GM again so you can use all the plot threads you leave hanging.

GM: I might do that if there's time.

in the schedule.

Thank you for playing.

Archibald of Guernicus: 1339 might be the longest year so far

if theres 2 adventures in one season, both multi-session

plus the stuff with Aristide before

Hypatia of Athens: Imagine we didn't have Arcadian Travel and we were also having adventures on the road

Archibald of Guernicus: Pinch me, I'm dreaming

Proclus of Rome: Ok, see ya.

devil's fav demon (GM): Hi.

I was very bad about missing stuff as chat moved along last session and I'm going to try my best today.

Boy R. (GM): I forget what time the game is. half an hour?

Hafl T.: i think so

devil's fav demon (GM): yep.

3 est

Hafl T.: daylight saving time changed for me last night, so all my games are going to be an hour early for a bit

Boy R.: same

Hafl T.: also, what happened last time?

Boy R.: i didn't notice till i got in my car and thought i'd lost an hour

Hafl T.: i could just look up legends of hermes, but that wouldn't be fair

Boy R.: we reached the regio and seem to be on good terms with the hedge wizards who own it, and it's filled with vis, but apparently being in the garden for any length of time damages its paradisical state and causes poisonous plants to sprout

this may be why the local covenant have a tradition of entering it once in their lifetime and just to grab a plant and get out

that's actually all that happened last time. oh and the other guys finished exploring the bjornaer's tower and looted some gargoyles and maybe other stuff

Endrite (GM): I don't know why you think that the poison mushrooms are spoiling it.

A quarter of the garden is dedicated to poisonous and deadly plants already.

Hafl T.: that only makes it seem even more like there shouldn't be any in the other three quarters

Endrite (GM): Also, consider that, despite what it looks like, this isn't the Garden of Eden.

It is instead a Hermetic Magus' lab.