6/25/17

johns (GM): blumpy orb 6/25/17

johns: i got a plan

Beardbeard: mystical greetings

johns: lets all pledge our souls to Ops and bask in her infernal power and take over the world

Shauncat: ok

dys: it cant hurt to at least

try it out

Hafl T.: her name is too silly for that

Beardbeard: obs

Hafl T.: i refuse to pledge my soul to the op

johns: She has been called the Dark One, the Queen of Slaughter, and Dis Pater.

She is typically depicted with a bloodthirsty lion.

She is also known as the Storm of War, because her appearance is heralded by dark, heavy clouds.

dys: I'm not pledging my soul to a dungeon crawl boss

Shauncat: Let's pledge our soul to mammon, when we visit his headquarters, Harco.

Hafl T.: ok

devil's fav demon (GM): ok

c'thinker: Shauncat: Let's pledge our soul to mammon, when we visit his headquarters, Harco.

let's pledge our soul to mammon when we visit his headquarters, avignon

Aristide of Tremere: lets pledge our soul to aristide

johns: constantinople

Hafl T.: mammon is rich enough to afford many headquarters

c'thinker: let's pledge our souls to trianoma, who is a powerful magic ghost just hanging out somewhere

unless mont-mercure killed her

johns: mont mercure killed everyone and we're in purgatorio right now

Aristide of Tremere: i dont know who or what trianoma is

cheers

c'thinker: jesus. they let people like you into the hermetic order?

Shauncat: Let's follow the Path of Buddha and Criamon and end the cycle of suffering

Zita of Mercere: They let anyone into Tremere these days

Endrite (GM): I don't know Criamon get that stupid idea from.

Obviously when you die you go to Heaven or Hell forever.

Hafl T.: he was high on the drug twilight

Shauncat: I have no idea where this mystery cult that lets in all the crazy easterners gets their wild ideas.

Endrite (GM): Orientals wouldn't join it, because Islam strictly forbids tattooing.

johns: they could use henna

Shauncat: I googled "sufi tattoo" and I just get picks of hhippie tattoos

Endrite (GM): Well, there you go.

2 minutes until game time.

I hope everyone shows up!

Shauncat: Tattoos - Halal or haram? - Jurisprudence - ShiaChat.com

Zita of Mercere: Every single player in this campaign is in the room right now

This might be unprecedented

Ah there goes Johns. Phew.

Shauncat: Balance has been brought to the force

Endrite (GM): Alright, so as you recall, you are all at an unusual wedding in Cesena.

Unusual, because neither father seems to approve.

You suspected Infernal manipulation and sealed the barrow entrance (a little) and now you want to investigate the church for evidence of Infernal rituals.

c'thinker: isn't criamon gnostic

Beatrice Orsini : whichever father support the pope can go beg him for divorce after the wedding to really make the father that's anti-pope mad

Hypatia of Athens: And if the pope is a jerk about it you can just have the groom beheaded

Beatrice Orsini : just tell the kid that's not yours is impotent/infertile to have a reason for divorce and to make the other father even more mad

Zita of Mercere: I think our plans last time were to replace the one consecrating the church, somehow?

Since there seems to be something fishy

Beatrice Orsini : we wanted to investigate the priest the night before the wedding

Zita of Mercere: and its possible that this wedding is in fact some ceremony of a very powerful demon

Beatrice Orsini : since we don't have much time

Hypatia of Athens: Spot a ReAq to consecrate the water

Endrite (GM): There are two priests.

The abbot of La Grande Chisea, Father Patrizio and a foreign monk who has lived here for a while, Father Uallachan.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fra patrizio is the seniormost and most suspicious

uallachan is going along with patrizio

Zita of Mercere: Patrizio is the one doing the consecrating, too

Beatrice Orsini : patrizio was the shady one

Hypatia of Athens: Uallachan is too epic a name to be the guy we have to kill

Zita of Mercere: The bride was suspicious of him

Wait a minute, Uallachan. Have the hibernian influence spread so far, even this early?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: which one shook us down for money

a decade ago

i'm mad at that one.

Endrite (GM): Father Patrizio.

Zita of Mercere: Greek upset at paying small sum of money

Endrite (GM): Father Uallachan is Irish, yes.

Beatrice Orsini : the celt priest is irish instead of scottish, so it wasn't him who wanted money

Aristocritus Bonisagi: they're both irish

Endrite (GM): Father Patrizio is clearly Italian.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: aren't they

oh i just assumed patrizio was an italianization of patrick

but it isn't!

Beatrice Orsini : that would be a good twist

Endrite (GM): Obviously "Patrizio" came first.

Zita of Mercere: "Sodales, if we do intervene here, how should we do it?"

Endrite (GM): Since Italy is the cradle of civilization.

Beatrice Orsini : it's greece, actually

Aristocritus Bonisagi: thank you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hmm"

"It would probably be best to be very, very sure of what we're doing before antagonizing either of the priests."

How much time til the wedding

Zita of Mercere: Tomorrow? Iirc

Endrite (GM): It's tomorrow morning, after the mass.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Who can investigate the church for signs of infernalism

Aristide of Tremere: "We should try to publicly shame the Orsini family.

"

Endrite (GM): It's late afternoon, early evening.

Aristide of Tremere: giraldo could, if he were here

Endrite (GM): I don't think you need a plan to embarrass yourselves.

Beatrice Orsini : i could seduce the priest. it'd be very embarrassing to the orsini family

hello father, do you want to have a look at my flaggelation wounds?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no one has talked to the irish priest yet

in our party

Aristocritus Bonisagi: negative reputation: Orsini

Hypatia of Athens: Good luck seducing with the gift

Beatrice Orsini : and wounds

i have +1 on the roll if it's charm+presence

Zita of Mercere: Let's put seducing the priest in the maybe pile, and think of alternate approaches.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: convince the priest we're on his side and were sent by Ops too

and get a confirmation

Then we kill him.

Zita of Mercere: I see. First we tell the priest we work with demons. Then we murder him.

Well. I can't see any flaws. Go for it, Lavinia.

Hypatia of Athens: Kill him, thus proving our superiority as agents to Ops

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok, as long as you all approve

Aristide of Tremere: it seems like a good plan to me

"We should speak to the bride."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we could let the plan unfold and then use our, uhhh

Beatrice Orsini : can i still seduce him first to lull him into sense of security?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: does anyone know how to kill demons besides archibald

Endrite (GM): Zita talked to the bride already.

Aristide of Tremere: i know

Zita of Mercere: We could discreetly knock out father patrizio and get father uallachan to do the consecration. If we check out the irishman and he seems fine, this could work.

Hypatia of Athens: I don't ICly like these plans but not much I can do about them

Not like I have any better ideas

Aristocritus Bonisagi: great, let's all head back to the ship and leave aristide to handle the demons

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if need be could one of us magically disguise themself as one of the priests

Endrite (GM): You can say they're stupid ideas.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok

Aristide of Tremere: i could do that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's do nothing and let endrite sort it out

Aristide of Tremere: well, the face anyway

Beatrice Orsini : i can disguise anyone as anything

Zita of Mercere: "I spoke with the bride already. She's really suspicious of father patrizio."

Beatrice Orsini : and i have the finesse to do a decent job

Endrite (GM): I'm just saying, if you think it's stupid you should say it's stupid.

Aristide of Tremere: "I see. Is she attractive?"

Endrite (GM): These all sound like interesting plans to me.

Celeste: "Who can trust an Italian? She's smart."

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

Zita already said it was folly

Beatrice Orsini : i don't think we should replace the priest, since it would make the marriage invalid, i think

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we could snoop around patrizio's place and see if his infernal tome collection has been recently used

Hypatia of Athens: I'm just against murdering priests without absolute proof

ICly

Beatrice Orsini : let's snoop first

we don't have enough info

Aristide of Tremere: you should be more devout, like proclus, and be completely against murdering priests

Zita of Mercere: "Let's speak with Father Uallachan."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: nothing in the church appears unsusual to us, right?

Hypatia of Athens: Oh good point

Endrite (GM): Nope.

Hypatia of Athens: Being against murdering pirests even with proof is a good standpoint

Endrite (GM): It's a little old fashioned, as you can see.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go with that

Beatrice Orsini : you should get church authority to strip priests of their rank and then kill them

Endrite (GM): You'd think something called "The New Church" would look a little more French-y.

Zita of Mercere: "Gifted sodales at the back, don't want to inspire any unwarranted malice here."

Endrite (GM): But it's a classic Roman design.

Blocky and imposing.

There isn't really anyone in the church right now.

Hypatia of Athens: Haha, a woman wielding church authority. That's more infernal than an infernal priest

Aristocritus Bonisagi: you should engage priests in magic duels until a saint shows up and kills you

Beatrice Orsini : it's fine

Endrite (GM): It's pretty late so the workmen have all gone to the party.

Beatrice Orsini : there was a female pope

Endrite (GM): In fact, it looks like it's just you.

The plural "you".

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh good

Hypatia of Athens: The royal you

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's start enchanting the church

Aristocritus Bonisagi: let's inscribe a gigantic pentagram on the floor so we can use it for Ring spells

Endrite (GM): It's doable.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Aura is Inf 1?

Endrite (GM): In this time period, nobody thinks that pentagrams are particularly satanic.

Yes, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i could put pentagrams on the walls to shoot lightning at people

Celeste: That sounds useful.

Endrite (GM): Go for it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: That might be a bit conspicuous

Endrite (GM): Sounds like it.

Aristide of Tremere: it cant be helped

Beatrice Orsini : would it be possible to make an illusory curtain or something in front of them without obstructing their ability to shoot?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gm call

Aristocritus Bonisagi: let's desecrate this turkey

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also I can put them on the ceiling where they would be harder to spot

Endrite (GM): I gotta check Rival Magic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: assuming I had a boost

Beatrice Orsini : lifting the dangling puppet probably won't work as a boost, i assume

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also it needs a specific trigger condition

Beatrice Orsini : make it saying the lord's prayer

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so if we wanted it to target the priest it'd have to be something like "the priest says "hail satan""

Aristide of Tremere: make a pentagram that sets the entire church on fire

Hypatia of Athens: I could make a statue say hail satan but I'd probably lose True Faith for doing so

Endrite (GM): As long as the magic doesn't need to "see" to function I don't see why a hidden pentagram wouldn't work.

The church is made of stone, you would need serious magic to set it on fire.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The thing is the ward's lightning would target the person triggering it

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we could prop a bunch of bricks up behind an illusory ceiling, and then pevi the spell holding the bricks up at the appropriate moment

killing everyone in the church

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I could also use rites as a lie detector by setting up a trigger "if someone in the ward lies." downside: it works once and might kill the person the moment it fires

Endrite (GM): Oh wait it does say that the Pentragram needs to be clearly visible.

I am sorry.

Aristide of Tremere: once again, the archon has the best plan

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, a Miraculous Effect of Holy Music Intervention could hide a pentagram

Aristocritus Bonisagi: thank you.

Beatrice Orsini : oh, let me take a look at illusions

there's illusions that work in only one direction

Hypatia of Athens: Well no, the images of Intervention are notably alien

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway here's the rites I have to work with

Aristide of Tremere: i have an extremely limited number of spells and none of them are immediately useful for this

cheers

Endrite (GM): I think the direction needs to be from viewers to the pentagram, not t'other way round.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A rite that can destroy all iron in the structure

Beatrice Orsini : fair

Endrite (GM): That's possible.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A rite that can shoot lightning at someone in the ward, but the ward can work at sight range

A rite that makes bells fly around inside a pentagram when triggered

Endrite (GM): Though from just looking at it there's not that much iron in it.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's destroy all the cold iron in the village and tell the fae

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A rite to destroy all poison in a room

Endrite (GM): Those candle globes look like they're made of iron.

Beatrice Orsini : i'm for hypatia's idea

Endrite (GM): There isn't a village here.

It's just a church.

Hypatia of Athens: Darn

Beatrice Orsini : just in principle

Endrite (GM): Well, there's a temporary village for the wedding party.

Hypatia of Athens: Well it'll be a good place for a village once the church is holy

Endrite (GM): I mean, maybe.

Who can say what the future will bring?

Zita of Mercere: First, and foremost, we should try and figure out if Uallachan is in any way abnormal. Besides being Irish.

Beatrice Orsini : i can fatiguelessly spont illusions up to level 5 with my wound and infernal aura

Hypatia of Athens: It could be an infernal church that spreads infernal dominion

Zita of Mercere: Whether he is or isnt will affect our plans

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hypatia, zita, and anyone else plz talk to him

Hypatia of Athens: Ok

I don't have any special sway with the clergy but I have a non-secular education and no gift penalty

Beatrice Orsini : i'll put up aura of ennobled presence to just seem like i'm trying way too hard to get into the priest's good graces

Zita of Mercere: Lavinia can come too, she's gentle gifted

Aristide of Tremere: ill run and hide the moment i see the priest come

Zita of Mercere: Celeste probably should not come unless the goal is to ruin everything completely

Celeste: Probably not.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: isn't that the goal?

Hypatia of Athens: What if that IS the goal?

Zita of Mercere: Which is the usual Vardians Tomb goal, to be fair

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Celeste: I really shouldn't talk to people or be near them if the goal is to get what we want.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i mean, in a way

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the goal is not to let ops get summoned afiak

Beatrice Orsini : i want the kids to be happily married and not sacrificed to a demon

Zita of Mercere: It's in our motto. We Always Fuck Things Up

Hypatia of Athens: Our goal is to have a good time and enjoy a wedding

Disasters are good for that goal

Aristocritus Bonisagi: where's bonfilia when you need her

Hypatia of Athens: No one actually asked us to make sure nothing satanic happened

Zita of Mercere: I think that the infernal wedding will summon Ops, so uh, at the very least we need to ruin the wedding

like idealy we fix it but

as a last resort we can ruin it

Hypatia of Athens: Ruining things is a lot easier than fixing them

Zita of Mercere: That's another vardians tomb motto

Beatrice Orsini : we can always have make some random priest marry the kids once the wedding is off

Aristide of Tremere: i bet hed like that. aha

Endrite (GM): In general, an Infernal plot should be stopped, Hypatia.

Aristide of Tremere: bhahah

Hypatia of Athens: Hm, yes

The disembodied guiding voice has a point

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it's in the code and everything

Lavinia of Jerbiton: where does it say that

Hypatia of Athens: I will act to the best of my abilities to stop an infernal plot, whatever good that'll do

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "if you don't stop an infernal plot we will all kill you" - the code of hermes

Celeste: Let's kill the kids getting married, that way they can't be used as a sacrifice.

Perfect plan.

Beatrice Orsini : that's a horrible plan

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Unnecessarily antagonizing the Infernal is actually against the code

Zita of Mercere: "You make a compelling argument, Archon. We should stop this."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm going to report you all.

Endrite (GM): Too right, Lavinia.

Beatrice Orsini : the cops aren't here to arrest us for defying satan

Aristide of Tremere: that rule only exists so no one stops the guernicus rituals

Hypatia of Athens: I suppose the non-intervention policy of the code affects me even as a mundane.

Zita of Mercere: Where is the irishman? I drag our gang along there

Redcaps swear the oath of hermes, yeah

Beatrice Orsini : if things go wrong, we'll ask sanctuary in a church and the order can't get us without mundane intterference

Zita of Mercere: It doesnt mean very much since half of it doesnt matter for them

Aristide of Tremere: become a court wizard for the pope and see what the order does

Aristocritus Bonisagi: actually depending on what was said in the hell church regio SOME members of vardian's tomb might already be guilty of high crimes.

Endrite (GM): Father Uallachan was at the festivities, the last time you saw him.

Aristide of Tremere: i cant imagine any members of the covenant being guilty of a crime

thats just silly

Zita of Mercere: Which members, and which Crimes

Hypatia of Athens: The pope made crime legal

Beatrice Orsini : being court wizard for the pope would let me torture my orsini father with my presence, so it's a good plan

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i look for an irishman

Endrite (GM): It would also require you to go to France.

A fate worse than death.

Hypatia of Athens: Ooo

Let's go study French architecture

Endrite (GM): Ok, he's nursing a small beer.

Aristide of Tremere: become court wizard for the pope and start teaching parma to the clergy

Beatrice Orsini : we'll wait for the italian wars when france comes to us

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Salve, pater"

Endrite (GM): He isn't dancing or really getting into the music at all.

Hypatia of Athens: Beatrice, roll Faerie Lore to make sure it isn't a leprechaun in disguise

Beatrice Orsini : i have like 1 in that

Aristocritus Bonisagi: my feet hurt / these troubadours are too loud / i wish i were back at the monastery studying infernal lore

Hypatia of Athens: "Salve."

Zita of Mercere: I approach the Irishman "Greetings, father. How do you do?"

Father Uallachán: "Ah, God's blessing to you on the evening of this union," he says.

Aristide of Tremere: I mingle with the crowd, avoiding the clergy, and try to start scandalous rumors about one of the Orsini men in attendance.

Father Uallachán: Ok, spreading scandals is an Intrigue roll.

With an appropriate Gift penalty.

Aristide of Tremere: comm + intrigue?

i have gentle gift

Father Uallachán: Yes.

Ok, go for it.

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10+6

(

10

)

+6

=

16

Father Uallachán: Wow, cool beans.

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Maybe you can score an agent out here

Aristide of Tremere: I spread the rumor that an Orsini man here is having an affair with a woman from the bride's family.

Beatrice Orsini : it's the bride's mother

Aristide of Tremere: perfect

Father Uallachán: Ok, you'll have to wait to see how your little intrigue works out.

Zita of Mercere: "It's quite a good deed you're doing, reclaiming this land. My sodales say it was very dangerous, when they came here years ago."

Father Uallachán: "I can't claim to be responsible for this miraculous transformation. The Monsignors both worked together to clear the swamp and build the church."

"Under Father Patrizio's guidence, of course," he adds.

Hypatia of Athens: "Very inspired work."

Father Uallachán: "It just goes to show that there isn't anything that can't be accomplished when men work together for a greater purpose."

"Very instructive."

Hypatia of Athens nods in agreement. If only all men could be so strongly guided in purpose."

Zita of Mercere: "Father Patrizio has been working very hard at this yes. He was the one who led all the efforts to reclaim it?"

Father Uallachán: "Yes, of course. As the Abbot, such tasks naturally fall to him."

"And what a task it has been, he has been scarcely seen in the monastery these last few years."

Beatrice Orsini : "He is very fortunate to have your assistance. I heard he was planning to use the ceremony to bring ancient Irish church rites back to use."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i heard he worships the devil and kisses him on the buttlips

Beatrice Orsini : you can hear that about any priest

Father Uallachán: "He is interested in the old ways, but you seem to have mixed up your geography. It is the ways of the early church here, in Rome, that he wishes to revive."

Beatrice Orsini : "Does that mean the ways of the apostles?"

Father Uallachán: "I suppose he thinks it will engage the parishioners."

"Yes, the early Church."

Beatrice Orsini : he wants to bring back greek as official church language

Hypatia of Athens nods along as befitting a PC with more Church Lore than their player.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: same

Hypatia of Athens: same

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Pre-Nicene?"

Celeste: mm

Zita of Mercere: You could roll church lore Hypatia to try and figure out what he means

Father Uallachán: "Yes, it has been a little unusual, but I haven't heard anything disturbing in the performance of mass."

Zita of Mercere: I have no church lore at all, though

Celeste: i only have divine lore, not church lore.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: isn't pre-nicene heresy

Hypatia of Athens: I could probably just google this stuff and figure out what all is relevant

Father Uallachán: Yes, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: HM.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, heresy

I guess I should roll Church Lore then

Father Uallachán: "But I suppose there is no harm in hearing music after church for these poor peasants."

Beatrice Orsini : these darn peasants and their jazz music

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+5 Church Lore to detect heresy

(

4

)

+5

=

9

Not impressive, sadly

Lavinia of Jerbiton consults wikipedia

Celeste: could i roll theology or divine lore

or are they all very separate

Hypatia of Athens: "Secular music can tempt an unknowing mind down the wrong path."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: try both

Beatrice Orsini : theology seem like it'd work in case of heresy

Father Uallachán: They're semi-separate. In this case, Divine Lore is worthless.

Celeste: after all, jesus said to not be like those who pray in the synagogues, so im very devout despite never really going to church

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is Canon law useful for recognizing heresy

Beatrice Orsini : does celeste know there's flaggelants around?

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+7+1 Theology + Int

(

8

)

+7+1

=

16

idk

Father Uallachán: At a penalty. It only really describes the penalties for a finding of heresy, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok.

What's the penalty

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is it death

(From Hypatia of Athens): it seems as though I know enough to be suspicious of the abbot, though we'd have to discuss it later.

Father Uallachán: A higher ease factor.

Roll Divine Lore, if you'd like.

I mean Canon Law.

(To Hypatia of Athens): Just shoot me the look that says "this is heresy"

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+4 law

(

8

)

+2+4

=

14

Celeste lowers her anachronistic lens device

Celeste: "Yep. It's heresy."

(From Hypatia of Athens): I do so.

Father Uallachán: Lawwww.

Hypatia of Athens: 30 days in the penance cube

Celeste: "If you need me, I'll be over here repeating the Lord's prayer."

(From Father Uallachán): A determination of heresy would need to be found at a trial in Rome, at the Bishop's Court.

Beatrice Orsini : good idea

Father Uallachán: "That's putting it a bit harshly."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Have you had any doubts about Patrizio's beliefs?"

Beatrice Orsini : if celeste is leaving to pray, i'll go with her

Father Uallachán: "After all, there have been many different fashions of music over the hundreds of years of the Church's history."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go with them too

Aristocritus Bonisagi: aristocritus is off partying as only the gifted can, which is to say: poorly

Father Uallachán: "If anything, I worry that his time spent in the courts of the Monsignors has exposed him to too much worldly influence."

Beatrice Orsini : whipping myself enough to wound myself made me appreciate christianity

Celeste: Well, my entire life is half standing in front of things looking menacing, and the other half reading religious documents. This place makes me feel icky.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Did you ever think to speak to your diocese's Bishop about Patrizio's beliefs?"

Father Uallachán: You could try reading menacingly.

"I trust that he knows what he is doing. The peace across the land is proof enough that he is doing God's work."

Hypatia of Athens: All this secular music at what's nominally a consecration is deeply upsetting.

Zita of Mercere: "Well"

Father Uallachán: Fair enough.

Zita of Mercere: "Considering there were pretty dangerous demons here, wouldn't you want to be incredibly careful when stopping all that?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Proof? Would that be sufficient proof for an inquisitor?"

Hypatia of Athens: These troubadours haven't even gone to school. Sickening.

Celeste: It really is. This is extremely unorthodox, no pun intended.

Father Uallachán: "I can't imagine to what end a demon would promote peace, let alone a wedding."

"You would have to ask him, Lavinia. I don't much concern myself with legalism."

Beatrice Orsini : being unable to imagine what a demon is thinking is probably a good sign

Father Uallachán: "A simple faith is the best, in my opinion."

Lavinia of Jerbiton gasps

Hypatia of Athens: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i haven't seen such heresy since 5 minutes ago when I saw aristocritus

Father Uallachán: Heresy is complicated business.

And, contrary to what you might believe, isn't too serious unless the heretic doesn't repent.

Beatrice Orsini : if you repent you're just shunned for years

Hypatia of Athens: 30 days in the penance cubes, No biggie

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im not really qualified to judge heresy though

so I leave it to hypatia to show this man the foolishness of his ways

Beatrice Orsini : iirc. it's wearing the heretic cap for two years or things like that

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Father Uallachán: Still, things do seem to be strange with Father Patrizio.

Hypatia of Athens: I could try to offer guidance, but he'd have to open his heart to it first.

Beatrice Orsini : "What kind of music is Father Patrizio planning for the wedding?"

Father Uallachán: "You'd have to ask the troubadours, I haven't involved myself much in the wedding."

Hypatia of Athens: The path to True Faith is ultimately personal.

Father Uallachán: "Some old folk songs, no doubt."

Beatrice Orsini : "I see."

time to go see the troubadours and ruin their musical instruments/get them too drunk to sing tomorrow

Father Uallachán: This merely exposes your ignorance; musicians are never too drunk to play.

Hypatia of Athens: Heresy

Celeste: Let's threaten the troubadours into only playing approved chants.

Beatrice Orsini : let's just ruin their instruments then

Father Uallachán: Genius.

Hypatia of Athens: Only a sober mind can reflect on the Artes Liberales proerly to make music.

Celeste: If only Villani were still with us....

RIP

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Are they going to play inside the church?"

Beatrice Orsini : damn, hearing the silent chorus is personal range only

it would be a fun spell to cast on someone else

Father Uallachán: Most troubadours don't know anything about Artes Liberales or any academic theory of music.

Hypatia of Athens: If you want to give people warping, there's always CrVi

Yes

Father Uallachán: "Not for the wedding, too many guests, you see, but they have played other masses given by Father Patrizio."

Beatrice Orsini : i don¨t want them to warp, i want them to freak out because they can suddenly hear the planets move

Hypatia of Athens: CrIm the sound in their ears

Or CrMe the sensation

Zita of Mercere: new clue found: musicians

Beatrice Orsini : that's not authentic

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Secular musicians in the church? Pre-Nicenianism? Flagellants marching around freely?"

Father Uallachán: Alright so your current plan is to freak out a bunch of wandering minstrels.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Is this madness usual in your home parish, Father?"

Hypatia of Athens: Once you have glamours, you'll have the finesse requirements that are made easier with authenticity

Father Uallachán: "These Flagellant processions are quite unusual, but I don't think they're from this parish."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "And yet where is Fra Patrizio to put a stop to them?"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: freak those musicians out, tritone

Father Uallachán: "The parishioners here would never be involved with something so unpleasant."

Beatrice Orsini : don't speak bad of the flagellants

Lavinia of Jerbiton: why

they're heretics

Father Uallachán: "As I said, worldly concerns have taken much of his time."

Beatrice Orsini : they're my friends now that i've whipped myself

Hypatia of Athens: I could scare them with my singing

(because its bad lulz)

Father Uallachán: AFK a sec.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I suggest you speak to him about these spiritual concerns. He risks having the entire parish put under interdict."

i got no other plans for uallachan

let's murder some musicians

Beatrice Orsini : no murdering

Zita of Mercere: I'm not sure what I could convince him of here and I'm still unsure whether hes pro or anti demon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think he's too stupid to realize there is a demon prboelm

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what if he has true faith and is correct about the old ways being better

Zita of Mercere: Well he's still going to summon a demon

Aristocritus Bonisagi: That's free will for you.

Zita of Mercere: But he'll feeel really bad about it afterwards

Father Uallachán: "That seems a little harsh, but I think the results will stand for themselves."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey man I went to university. I think I know what im talking about

Hypatia of Athens: I listened to the musicians earlier and being secular was the only offensive thing about them.

Beatrice Orsini : it couldn't have been a good university if they let a woman in

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Salerno is the best medical university in the world, fool

Father Uallachán: It's just a fact.

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, that's deeply offensive, but I don't have the Infernal Lore to tell you whether it's actually demonic.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: gonna need an aesthetic quality rating to know how damaging this secular music is going to be

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets ask them to play a song for us

one of their folk songs

and we'll judge what its like

Father Uallachán: If ONLY we had a book about Infernal Lore.

Beatrice Orsini : the higher the aesthetic quality, the more satanic the music is

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not a monk, I don't have special dispensation to read Infernal Lore

I am of the laity and must walk a pure path.

Father Uallachán: You don't need one, you're working for wizards.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do we let redcaps into the forbidden zone of the library

i guess they're magi

Beatrice Orsini : you're not an insane psychopath just because you work for wizards

but it helps

Hypatia of Athens: Well

If a wizard ordered me to learn Infernal Lore, maybe Theology would tell me whether doing so would compromise my True Faith

Father Uallachán: Anyway, are you done with Father Uallachan?

Hypatia of Athens: I am

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i guess

Beatrice Orsini : probably

Father Uallachán: Alright, he gets back to his small beer.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also i was gonna put the weapon destroying ward in the church so i guess ill try that

Father Uallachán: Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ease factor is 18

Father Uallachán: Ok.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll listen to the musicians some more since my sodales are suspicious

Zita of Mercere: We were going to try pestering the musicians now, on the offchance they are key to htis

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+4+3+11-1

(

3

)

+4+3+11-1

=

20

success

Beatrice Orsini : i'll stay with hypatia

Father Uallachán: Aces.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the trigger is hmm

Father Uallachán: Hypatia, are you Italian?

Ok.

Beatrice Orsini : drawing a weapon?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: when someone quotes the line "Go no further down the road of hatred"

Hypatia of Athens: I understand Italian

To a limited degree

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hypatia of athens (venetian)

Hypatia of Athens: Ethnically I am Greek

Beatrice Orsini : italy belongs to greece

Minstrel: "Good evening, could you make it quick? I'm on my break," he says between mouthfuls of ham.

Beatrice Orsini : magna graecia but big

Hypatia of Athens: Ohhh

That's someone else's cue, I don't have any means to screw with him

(To Hypatia of Athens): you can bribe him to play because we are Rich

Celeste: forgot to say brb. nice. back now

Zita of Mercere: Celeste. This is your hour.

Minstrel: He's still eating ham.

Beatrice Orsini : seduction time

Zita of Mercere: We need you to ruin these demon minstrels somehow

Hypatia of Athens: Celeste's got this

Minstrel: Well, come get some ham.

Hypatia of Athens: "My companions are interested in the performers for the wedding. May we join you?"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: how seductively can you eat this ham

Minstrel: Good question, Aristocritus.

"Sure, everyone loves an audience."

Celeste: i'll go give up the ass to these minstrels and they'll be too tuckered out to play.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll be Celeste's wingwoman

Beatrice Orsini : i'll help

Zita of Mercere: I'm beginning to think that just dropping rocks on the entire church might have been the best plan and we were foolish to discount it so early

Hypatia of Athens: It's not too late

Beatrice Orsini : i'll spont an aura of ennobled presence variant that helps with charm.

Minstrel: You still have plenty of time.

Celeste: it'll help since i have a -3 to all social rolls. thanks.

Minstrel: Ok, but remember that if people can see you doing magic then they'll probably be at least suspicious.

Beatrice Orsini : let's go into a private tent first then

rolling (1d10!+21)/2 vs 10

(

(

4

)

+21)/2

=

12.5

passed

Celeste: nice

Beatrice Orsini : and i'll catch my breath and try a personal range version on myself

Minstrel: Ok.

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling (1d10!+21)/21 vs 5

(

(

1

)

+21)/21

=

1.0476190476190477

lol

Minstrel: Oh nooooo.

Zita of Mercere: Infernal sponting

Beatrice Orsini : is botch check stressed

Zita of Mercere: Here we go

Minstrel: How many dice do you roll on a botch?

Just one?

rolling 1d10

(

2

)

=

2

Phew!

Beatrice Orsini : just one i think

Minstrel: I mean you specifically.

Zita of Mercere: Well. In the swamp before, we were rolling 2, so I know aura can affect it

Hypatia of Athens: I guess I don't need to guard Beatrice while she's in fairy twilight

Arcadia, whatever

Beatrice Orsini : i don't have anything to modify it

Minstrel: Also why did you divide by 21?

Beatrice Orsini : typo

Minstrel: Ok.

Zita of Mercere: When I botched in the swamp I had to roll 2 dice with no personal botch modifiers, that's all I remember about botch dice

Minstrel: Well you pass with flying colors.

Zita of Mercere: I'm not sure how it's actually determined though

Aristocritus Bonisagi: you get bonus botch dice

in an infernal aura

Minstrel: The wedding party is Mundane 0.

Beatrice Orsini : there's no infernal aura in the tents though

Zita of Mercere: ah

thats good then

Beatrice Orsini : does the spell still cast if the botch's not confirmed?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did you meet the casting level

Beatrice Orsini : iirc, the societates book says that this variant of the aura is affected by the gift to make the person seem overly friendly

yeah

Minstrel: Then there you go.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hen it should work

Beatrice Orsini : if divided by 2 for target level 5 for personal range

Minstrel: Alright, thus bolstered by magyckk, what do you want to do with the ham-loving minstrel?

Beatrice Orsini : let celeste ask him if he wants some other ham

Celeste: This is going to go great.

Beatrice Orsini : can we work together on a charm roll?

Minstrel: Nope.

Celeste gestures sensually and sticks out her rear end

Minstrel: You can both try one individually.

Beatrice Orsini : i can go first to make celeste look better

Celeste:

rolling 1d10-3-3+2 Comm + Social Handicap + Charm

(

2

)

-3-3+2

=

-2

Hypatia of Athens: I wouldn't want to trump Celeste

Celeste: nice.

Beatrice Orsini : ah

Minstrel: Amazing.

Beatrice Orsini : you got the spell bonus

Celeste: I have Curse of Venus as well but it doesn't apply here since I wish to attract this person.

Minstrel: The minstrel, a sensualist who drifts from town to town, fails to even notice your clumsy attempts at seduction.

Hypatia of Athens: Well I don't have to go apologize for Celeste at least.

Beatrice Orsini : now let me try

"Pay no mind to her. There's better women around."

presence?

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

(

5

)

+3+5-2-5+5

=

11

the gift warps the spell to making me seem like i'm trying too hard though

Celeste: if I could roll Presence instead of Comm that would have been a whole 1 roll from me.

Good job Beatrice.

Beatrice Orsini : 9 if comm

Minstrel: Use Presence for seduction.

Sorry, I should have made that more clear.

Anyway...

Celeste: Well, I'm into positive numbers now.

That's a success as far as I'm concerned.

Minstrel: "To look at you, it is scarce believable to imagine other women could exist. Your loveliness is like the night sky, all-encompassing and comforting."

Caught another one, Beatrice!

Beatrice Orsini : first one, actually

Minstrel: "You aren't married, are you?"

Beatrice Orsini : "Of course not. Don't you see my hair is still down?"

Minstrel: That's enough for him!

He continues to flirt with you until it's time for his set.

Beatrice Orsini : any info i can get out of him?

Minstrel: What would you like to know?

Beatrice Orsini : did they learn any new songs for the wedding?

Aristide of Tremere: is the weding tonight or today or whatever time period it is

Beatrice Orsini : tomorrow, i think

Minstrel: It's now early evening.

Beatrice Orsini : i'd ask him to show me his instrument, but i'm afraid of what the context might make it sound like

Minstrel: It will sound like you want to see his dick.

Beatrice Orsini : exactly

Minstrel: Just a little hint.

Beatrice Orsini : if i can get the info out of him, i can arrange a meeting with him after his set

Minstrel: What info?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill listen to the set and judge how evil it sounds

Beatrice Orsini : if they learned any new songs for the wedding

things they don't usually play

Minstrel: Nope, it takes musicians a while to learn new songs and you'd never play a new one at something as important as a wedding.

You might screw it up.

Beatrice Orsini : makes sense

Minstrel: Lavinia, they're playing some very old music.

Beatrice Orsini : did the priest have any special requests?

Minstrel: Roman music, in fact.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Minstrel: You know, old Roman.

Hypatia of Athens: Old doesn't seem to be necessarily good in this adventure

Beatrice Orsini : just flirting with this minstrel to get a sneak peek at the wedding music

Minstrel: Not whatever CRAP the city is churning out these days.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is it latin

Minstrel: No, it's been modernized.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: What're the songs about?

Minstrel: It's in the vernacular and is played on modern instruments.

The usual.

Hypatia of Athens: I knew it, Satan has summoned Justin Bieber from the future, we must kill him.

Minstrel: Love, tragedy, people farting.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hmm

Hypatia of Athens: Is farting a sin?

Beatrice Orsini : it makes people laugh, so yes

Hypatia of Athens: Good point

Minstrel: Farting is not a sin, it is merely rude.

Hypatia of Athens: Is the love the proper kind within a marriage?

Minstrel: Not really.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmmmm

Minstrel: The songs all describe pre-marriage love.

No sex, of course.

Hypatia of Athens: Ahhh

Beatrice Orsini : not really wedding appropriate

pre-marriage love sounds like french thing

Hypatia of Athens: So not the sinful kind between two people form different marriages that's becoming popular in poetry

Aristide of Tremere: are they playing in the open

or is beatrice getting a private performance

Lavinia of Jerbiton: who here can turn themself invisible

Beatrice Orsini : i can turn anyone invisible

touch range

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, Fin Amors

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if we have nothing more to do with the musicians I want to try talkign to patrizio but want someone invisible to back me up

Hypatia of Athens: Had to open up Lords of Men since I forgot everythign I learned from Pendragon

Minstrel: Huh?

Pendragon is for jocks.

Beatrice Orsini : i can try making celeste look like me for my later meeting with the minstrel

that's the best i can think for avoiding it

Minstrel: Also it's set 800 years ago.

Hypatia of Athens: "There is one form of noble sport, perhaps

akin to hunting, that raises more controversy than any other does. This is the practice of

fin’ amors, or, as it sometimes called, courtly love.

Aristide of Tremere: Is the minstrel performing in the open right now, Endrite?

Minstrel: There's a whole troupe of them.

A band?

Whatever.

Aristide of Tremere: the troupe, then

Minstrel: Yes.

Aristide of Tremere: I walk up when it's done and applaud them.

"Great performance, fellows! Outstanding!"

Minstrel: Hypatia, magi's arms are too noodly and their voices are too quavery to score.

Celeste: brb once more, sorry

Minstrel: "Thank you, good sir, we live to entertain."

They bow.

Hypatia of Athens: I see

Well liasons with secular musicians is no way for the faithful to act

Aristide of Tremere: I smile. "I happen to be from the Orsini family, and we are always looking for great minstrels to entertain our guests."

Hypatia of Athens: Also I have Vow (Chastity)

Minstrel: "Oh ho, it would be our pleasure to play for such a noble household."

Well that complicates things, Hypatia.

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, but alas such matters are not up to my decision. However, I do have a suggestion if you wish to impress the fellow who is."

Beatrice Orsini : how long until sundown, i have an idea on how to avoid the minstrel

Minstrel: "I'm all ears."

Sundown is quite soon.

A few minutes away.

Beatrice Orsini : ok, then i'll quietly and without movement cast veil of invisibility on myself

one level of quiet casting, so only -5 for silent

Hypatia of Athens: Beatrice turns into the witch from Snow White at sundown

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10+24-2+2-10 vs 20

(

9

)

+24-2+2-10

=

23

damn, made it without fatigue

Minstrel: Noice.

Well, being invisible is certainly a good choice for avoiding unwanted suitors.

Aristide of Tremere: "It's a simple one, change some of the details of that fantastic love song, make it sound like one of his early romances." I give the minstrel some details about that rumor I spread, with the specifically scandalous parts removed of course.

Hypatia of Athens: I am open to my flaws bringing complications, as they are not powergamed

Minstrel: However, be aware that your shadow is visible in the light of the bonfires.

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, but i can get away if the minstrels are distracted

i can roll dex+stealth

rolling 1d10!+1+5

(

4

)

+1+5

=

10

+whatever is the modifier for invisibility

Minstrel: "While we would ordinarily be happy to, we are otherwise engaged to perform for our heavenly patrons," he says, looking skyward. He then takes off his cap and holds it in front of you, giving you a wink.

Aristide of Tremere: just to be clear hes asking for money right

Minstrel: Good enough, Beatrice.

Hypatia of Athens: He pointed to the morning star

Minstrel: Yes.

A "bribe" if you will.

Aristide of Tremere: yeah

is there an ability i could use to determine an appropriate amount

Hypatia of Athens: Bargain?

Minstrel: Yep.

Bargain.

Aristide of Tremere: oh yeah

+comm?

Minstrel: Yes.

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10+5

(

5

)

+5

=

10

I place a few shillings in his cap and smile.

Minstrel: He puts his hat on and smiles.

You have successfully done something???

I'm not sure what you hoped to achieve there.

Aristide of Tremere: reminding people of the rumors i spread

at tomorrows wedding

Beatrice Orsini : make the minstrels sing about the rumor he spread?

Minstrel: Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whats the point of the rumors

Beatrice Orsini : to make orsini mad

Aristide of Tremere: to humiliate the orsini family

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so you're just wasting everyone's time basically

Hypatia of Athens: Mission accomplished

Beatrice Orsini : i support his goal in spirit

Aristide of Tremere: "I bid you good night then, fellows. Perhaps I'll see you at our seasonal feast next month."

Hypatia of Athens: I suppose nothing seems particularly sinful about the music?

Minstrel: That's one way to put it, but another way would be to say that he is enjoying the local color and providing a deep roleplaying experience.

Nope.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: why don't you pay them to join you right now

leave today and skip the wedding

Minstrel: Unless you are pre-disposed to not like music.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: give them a mythic pound

Hypatia of Athens: I'm pre-disposed to not like secular music

And love holy music

Zita of Mercere: One mythic pund to derail the wedding seems a good start

Aristide of Tremere: ive saved money

Zita of Mercere: For some reason the priest really wants these guys

Aristide of Tremere: that only cost me a quarter of a mythic pound

Beatrice Orsini : i didn't live with the orsini family enough to actively work against them, but i support aristide's attempts at destroying them

Minstrel: It also did NOT disrupt the wedding.

Zita of Mercere: I meant if he paid them to leave now

Hypatia of Athens: How much to get Celeste a mythic pound?

Aristide of Tremere: it might disrupt the wedding

Zita of Mercere: It would help us, possibly. I mean, theoretically, potentially, it might in some way mildly irk a man possessed by demons.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im going to kill aristide if he just wastes people's time for no reason

Aristide of Tremere: a scandal erupting during the wedding performance could do something

Minstrel: I mean, you can just hand Celeste money if you want.

Aristide of Tremere: what the

Minstrel: She's your employee.

Or, to be more accurate, property.

Celeste: He was trying to do some wordplay, I think.

Zita of Mercere: I'm honestly unsure of what plan would work best here. I think we should knock out patrizio and get the irishman to do the actual consecration if we cant come up with anything better.

Hypatia of Athens: Ignoring wordplay is also wordplay

Beatrice Orsini : that works

Minstrel: I mean, it's night time.

Zita of Mercere: It's not very subtle but I'm trained in CQC if need be

Minstrel: Everyone is about to be knocked out anyway.

Later than usual, since there's a party.

But still.

Beatrice Orsini : let's knock out the priest and tie him to the altar like rock in satan cave

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it's full of dirt

courtesy of the archon

Beatrice Orsini : i thought only mostly full of dirt

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well. mostly full of dirt yeah

(To Aristocritus Bonisagi): can aristo turn invisible

Minstrel: It could be excavated if you really want to.

(From Aristocritus Bonisagi): n

Beatrice Orsini : not really

(From Aristocritus Bonisagi): bad imaginem

Beatrice Orsini : but kidnapping the priest sounds like a decent idea

Aristocritus Bonisagi: you could just pevi the dirt

if you had to

Minstrel: It's probably vanished by now in any case.

Wasn't it Sun duration?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: moon duration

Minstrel: Ah.

Well then.

You could use a shovel.

Beatrice Orsini : my illusion of rocks blocking it was moon duration as well

Aristocritus Bonisagi stumbles through the crowd.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Excuse me. Excuse me. Hello, Aristide, it's sunset. Excuse me."

Hypatia of Athens: Cast the spell of making Celeste dig it

Minstrel: Giant glowing hermetic brain.

Beatrice Orsini : cast the spell of turning celeste into a real girl

Celeste: sigh...

Aristocritus Bonisagi: let's have celeste shoot arrows at the altar for 8 hours while everyone else sleeps

Celeste: lmfao

Beatrice Orsini : i'll be eventually be able to do that

Celeste: finally, something i can do

Aristocritus Bonisagi: soo

Minstrel: Ok, so make a decision.

It's evening, what are you doing.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: beatrice is talking to the priest, right

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah yes, it's sunset. That is true, Aristocritus."

Beatrice Orsini : no, i was talking to the minstrels about their songs and then i disappeared until sunset

Aristide of Tremere: I scratch my head at the archon.

Beatrice Orsini : but i'm ready for any priest bothering now

Beatrice Orsini turns visible as the sun sets.

Hypatia of Athens: It's the witching hour, and devout souls should retire to bed.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well, someone was going to go talk to the priest

Hypatia of Athens: I'll be off

Minstrel: Isn't the witching hour midnight?

Beatrice Orsini : zita wanted to do it with invisible backup

Hypatia of Athens: Oh right

I guess I can stay up a little

Zita of Mercere: I think we should perform CQC attacks on the priest in lieu of a saner plan. Vardian's Tomb is incapable of anything more likely to succeed.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ok everyone

now is your chance to slay aristide before he remembers to re-raise his parma

Minstrel: Didn't Lavinia want to talk to him?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i was going to talk to the priest but i wanted someone invisible to back me up

thats what im waiting for

Hypatia of Athens: Oh yeah

Beatrice Orsini : oh, i can make anyone invisible if they want to, i just can't remove the spell

Zita of Mercere: I'm willing to be made invisible to join you, along with anyone else that can pull it off

My stealth is impeccable

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide retires to the mage tent and writes in his journal.

Hypatia of Athens: Now that the sun is down, i can erect my portable house.

That doesn't achieve anything, but it makes me comfortable.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll make zita invisible

rolling 1d10+24

(

6

)

+24

=

30

Minstrel: Great.

Beatrice Orsini : done

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I go find patrizio

where's he at

Minstrel: Fantastic.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll retire with hypatia, since i need some rest

Hypatia of Athens: I can follow Lavinia non invisibly if she wants.

Beatrice Orsini : i've been running around wounded all day

Minstrel: He's at the Malatesta's feast table.

Hypatia of Athens: Otherwise I'll go to bed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no I want him to think I'm alone

oh

Beatrice Orsini : the invisibility is sun duration, so you can wait until he's about to go to bed

Minstrel: Even though the families usually share a table, they couldn't agree to do it in this case.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Father, I'm sorry to disturb you, but I must have a private word. I feel it is a crisis of the very soul.."

Hypatia of Athens: Zita is good since she has silent footsteps

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i can tag along if you invis me too

Hypatia of Athens: And is good at hiding her shadow

Minstrel: He's whispering to Monsignor Malatestino, but stops when you approach.

Lavinia, roll Awareness if you'd like to snoop.

Beatrice Orsini : oh, i have enough mastery to reduce my botch dice for invisibility to zero in mundane aura

so everyone who wants invisibility can get it

Father Patrizio: "Very well my child, but can it wait?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I suppose, so long as I can speak to you before the end of tonight."

"Again, I'm so sorry to intrude.."

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2 perception

(

8

)

+2

=

10

(To GM): no awarness skill :(

Father Patrizio: "Oh, Monsignor Malatesta is not offended."

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "That's right, I'm not offended."

"Please, tend to your flock, Father."

(From Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta): He was whispering something, but you don't know what.

Zita of Mercere: I'll roll awareness to snoop

Father Patrizio: Father Patrizio is now willing to go along with you.

Zita of Mercere: Since I'm with Lavinia, invisibly

Father Patrizio: Go for it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay, I seek a spot reasonable for us to talk privately

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10+1+6

(

4

)

+1+6

=

11

Father Patrizio: Ok, even among the commotion of the party, you can find such a spot.

Beatrice Orsini : the party's tent that is empty except for shadows

Aristocritus Bonisagi: everyone loves the shadow tent

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Father, for awhile now I have had.. disturbing dreams. This afternoon as I napped I had the most clear of them, and in it I saw you. I hope you can tell me what it means.."

Beatrice Orsini : roll charm

Father Patrizio: "Me? Whatever could I have been doing in your dreams?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My dreams are so often filled with thunder and rolling clouds. Today what I saw was a mountain-- a vast mountain towering over the world, with a throne atop it."

"I couldn't see clearly who was sitting in it-- it hurt me to try and look-- but I saw two figures on either side."

Father Patrizio: "Ah, God."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "On the right, a Red Lion. And on the left, it was You."

Father Patrizio: He looks a little confused.

"Me?

"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes, Father."

"A voice from the throne said, 'They shall be rewarded in this world and the next...' Does it make any sense to you?"

Father Patrizio: "Well, uhm, hmm... Perhaps the lion represents Jesus Christ and I, in your mind, represent the Church, which has stood for a thousand years?"

"That might be it."

Beatrice Orsini : cool pride, father

Lavinia of Jerbiton: iis christ ever depicted as a lion

Father Patrizio: I guess, but not as a red and bloody lion.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "This lion was red and bloody, father, and sought to devour."

Father Patrizio: "Oh dear."

"That does sound unpleasant."

Beatrice Orsini : narnia is unknown in 14th century europe

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Truthfully-- it did not feel unpleasant, Father. And perhaps that's what worries me..."

Father Patrizio: "Well, you certainly aren't going to be worried about such a thing."

"I mean, you shouldn't be worried."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Why not? What could it mean?"

Father Patrizio: "It is only a dream, after all."

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+6 folk ken

(

2

)

+2+6

=

10

Lavinia of Jerbiton: conf

Hypatia of Athens: I could confess to being a former Goliard to him

(From Father Patrizio): He's clearly behaving oddly. He keeps staring into your eyes, for starters.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: am I feeling an effect on my parma as he stares at me

Father Patrizio: Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that would've been nice to say

Hypatia of Athens: Ooo

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

Father Patrizio: Here's your conf point back.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I.. You're right Father. I must be worrying about nothing."

Aristide of Tremere: lets kill him for magically assaulting a wizard of the order

Father Patrizio: My mistake.

Aristide of Tremere: and also for whatever hes trying to do to lavinia

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If Father Patrizio turns his back on me to walk away I want to signal to the invisible people to try and trip him

Hypatia of Athens: Let's bring up on chares at Tribunal for using infernal scrying on his fellow infernalists.

Father Patrizio: Ok.

He will, as soon as you finish talking.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I finish talking.

"Pardon me for interrupting the feast. I am a fool, father."

Father Patrizio: "Take no shame from it, we all have troubling dreams from time to time."

(From Father Patrizio): Sorry for the weird omission, I had to check his stats.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: When his back is turned I turn to where I hope one of my invisible comrades is and pantomime a figure (represented by two fingers walking) being hit by another figure (represented by my hand) and falling over.

Father Patrizio: Classic tactical sign language.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: The archon takes swift and decisive action!

Zita of Mercere: Alright. This can only end well.

Aristocritus Bonisagi puts his foot out to trip the priest.

Father Patrizio: This would be a Brawl roll, + Dex, of course.

Zita of Mercere: I'll try and knock the priest out with my actual skill at these matters

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do i get a bonus for being invisible

Father Patrizio: It's reflected in the Ease Factor.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+0-2

(

9

)

+0-2

=

7

Lavinia of Jerbiton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTJgkiOlmKM

Aristide of Tremere: thats our archon

Zita of Mercere: How about this. While Aristrocritus bumbles this, can I knock him out from behind

A two-pronged assault

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The pincer maneuver

That's why you're the best, boss

Father Patrizio: Ok, roll it Zita.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Pincer attack! Escape not possible

Father Patrizio: Brawl + Dex.

Hello?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hello.

How are you

Father Patrizio: Roll Brawl + Dex, Zita.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+8

(

7

)

+4+8

=

19

Celeste: nice

Zita of Mercere: Sorry, net briefly cuts out a lot, it's annoying

Father Patrizio: Alright, for both of you his defense is 0.

His Soak is -3.

Due to his advanced age and poor health.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: zita kills a priest

Zita of Mercere: I hope I deal enough damage to instantly kill him, frankly

Father Patrizio: Well. almost.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: not really my plan but I can work with this

Father Patrizio: He's knocked out and has recieved two wounds totaling -12.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Father! Oh no!"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "What the hell?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "not so rough" I hiss quietly

Aristide of Tremere: well done everyone

Father Patrizio: To everyone else it looks as if he has simply tripped.

Beatrice Orsini : he tripped and hit his back on a blade

Father Patrizio: He's unconscious.

Is there a doctor in the house?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Grab an arcane connection, I can take it from here" I whisper

i presume it would look bad if he died in my presence unexpectedly

Beatrice Orsini : we have a grog doctor with us

Aristide of Tremere: did lavinia actually put that thing up that breaks weapons in the church

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yeah

Aristide of Tremere: nice

Aristocritus Bonisagi produces his trusty short sword (invisible) and cuts a lock of hair.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I steal some of the priest's hair

Endrite (GM): People are starting to notice something, assuming you shouted loud enough for people to hear.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I uhhh surreptitiously pluck a bit of hair

Endrite (GM): Do you just do it or do you make some pretense?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I am checking his vitals

Tending to the man who just fainted

"The father has fainted and injured himself!" I say to the crowd. "Get some water and a blanket!"

Zita of Mercere: I skeddadle out of here

Aristocritus Bonisagi: same

we have a tent, right? i'll retreat to the tent and then try to pevi the invisibility off of me

Hypatia of Athens: I have an item that conjures wooden huts for us

"CrHe

R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Ind

Springing forth from nearby trees, other plant growth, or fertile earth, a platonic half-Icosahedron forms out of wicker, bark, and ribs of laurel boughs. The bottom is formed of soft, fluffy grass, suitable for sleeping on, and an arched doorway allows entry and exit, covered by a large leaf to provide protection against the elements. Another leaf-covered hole on the ceiling can be peeled open to create a sky window or chimney, if desired. The huts last until sunrise, at which point they retract from where they grew from. With many uses per day, she can create one hut for herself, and several for her sodales or turbs.

(Base 3, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 size, +2 six uses/day)"

Endrite (GM): Some strapping young knights do as you say, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my story is I told him about my vision and the father fell down, knocking his head on a rock or a tree or the ground or whatever makes sense

Endrite (GM): There's still some rocks on the ground.

It's probably one of those.

Zita of Mercere: He hit his head and now he loves dota (the most infernal game)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The father is in luck, for I am a doctor. He will be alright if we get him inside and treated."

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "What ruinous luck!"

"And on the night of my son's wedding!"

Aristide of Tremere: Aristocritus finds Aristide writing in his journal with a smile.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He will be fine, I assure you, Monsignor. All the same, we should find Fra Ullachan. He may need to conduct the ceremony now."

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "Thank God."

Aristocritus Bonisagi courteously steps back out of the tent, to avoid committing a high crime.

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "I'll dispatch some of my men to find him right away."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: not sure i like the sound of that

but w/e

Zita of Mercere: wow this actually was the right idea after all

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: It isn't like he's going to do it.

Aristide of Tremere: "Huh, what was that? Just the wind."

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: He's to important.

I mean "too important."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Is there a tent or somewhere we can lay the good priest so I may treat his wound?"

"He'll need some quiet."

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: "Certainly, it would be my honor if you used mine."

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling (1d10!+10+1)/2 sponting pevi

(

(

3

)

+10+1)/2

=

7

dang my perdo vim is not good.

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: Monsignor Malatesta's tent is luxuriously appointed, with a feather bed taking up much of the space.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: good

i will do nothing to hasten this guy waking up

Beatrice Orsini : if i figure out how the pevi guidelines work, i'll invent a spell to remove invisibility next year

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: First do no harm.

Check.

Anyway, you remain invisible, Aristocritus.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hang on i'm not done!

treating that as a level 5 spell,

Dispel effects of a specific type with a level less than or equal to the level + 4 magnitudes of the Vim spell + a stress die (no botch),

does that mean it hits everything at level 25 plus the stress die

rolling 1d10!+25

(

10

+

4

)

+25

=

39

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: I guess that works, since you're sponting.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: It would be 5 +4 + stress die in this case.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: 4 magnitudes though

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: This doesn't seem correct.

But since you're dispelling your own spell it is possible.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well, we can figure out how to interpret it later

Beatrice Orsini : the example spell also claims something different: http://i.imgur.com/ycRf2G9.png

Aristocritus Bonisagi: me being invisible/visible will probably not come up before morning

i think the example spell is accounting for the 2 magnitudes used by the range?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what should I do about the priest

while he's helpless

Beatrice Orsini : oh, that actually makes sense

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: Good question, Lavinia.

Anyway, you're visible Aristocritus.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hell yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I ask a Malatesta servant to send word to my sodales' tent under the guide that I need supplies

Monsignor Malatestino "dell'Occhio" Malatesta: He does so with the promptness of someone unused to dealing with a doctor.

So you can all show up now if you want.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Salvate, sodales."

Aristide of Tremere: "Greetings."

Hypatia of Athens: "Salve."

Beatrice Orsini : "What happened?"

Aristide of Tremere: I look uneasily at the priest.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Salve."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if there are still servants here I communicate in latin

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Is he...?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "This priest tried to cast an eye-range effect on me. I could feel it against my Parma."

Hypatia of Athens: I switch from chatting in Greek then.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Alive."

Hypatia of Athens: Beatrice is trying to learn

Zita of Mercere: "That could have been dangerous, good thing it was you talking to him."

I say, invisibly

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Finally, something concrete after all this time."

Endrite (GM): The servants all keep well away from any medical situation.

Beatrice Orsini : they know need for doctors is contagious

Zita of Mercere: Let's all chat in greek about how great Mercury is

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Do you believe we can trust Father Ullachan to run tomorrow's proceedings? He struck me as a pawn of Fra Patrizio, not an ally."

Zita of Mercere: Especially his incarnation, Mercere

Hypatia of Athens: So we have privacy?

Oh yeah, servants

Zita of Mercere: "He seemed like a gullible man led astray, more than anything."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: (loudly) I love Mercury, but the Mercere cult just isn't for me. If only there were another way.

Zita of Mercere: "We'll find out tomorrow when he draws a demon into this world."

Endrite (GM): If you whisper in Latin you should be fine.

Aristide of Tremere: "Sure, but what are we going to do about this one?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I think it'd look pretty bad for all of us if he were to suddenly perish before the wedding."

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, it's probably not a big deal if I sing

The minstrels are all done anyway

Endrite (GM): It would be strange but music is an acknowledged therapy for what ails you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If we can keep him asleep until after the wedding though.."

Endrite (GM): No they're still going.

Hypatia of Athens: Very well

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's search his pockets to make sure he's not some super secret hermetic wizard holding a sigil somewhere

before you all do your violence thing ofc

Hypatia of Athens: I will work the miracle, "That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption"

Endrite (GM): He isn't carrying anything with him.

Zita of Mercere: "How do we keep him knocked out?"

"Any ideas, good doctor?"

Hypatia of Athens: No aura, right?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm not sure what the options for anesthetic are here

Endrite (GM): Also, since he's incapacitated you will need to give him medical attention if you don't want him to die before morning.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oh, it was that bad a wound?

Endrite (GM): Mundane 0, Hypatia.

Yes.

-12.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Endrite (GM): Well, it's two wounds that total -12.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10 botch check on quality of singing

(

10

)

=

10

Aristide of Tremere: whats the total aesthetic quality of that song

Beatrice Orsini : heavenly

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "We could come by in the morning and put him to sleep until sunset."

Endrite (GM): What are you rolling for, Hypatia?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Could you spont a moon duration of the call to slumber?"

Aristide of Tremere: excellent

Hypatia of Athens: "R: Voice, D: Conc, T: Grup

You can make visible the stain of sin upon human beings, twisting and deforming their image in a manner appropriate to their transgressions. For example, a glutton might appear distended and obese, a murderer’s hands would drip blood, and a liar’s tongue would seem forked. This may allow you to recognize demons masquerading as angels, for true angels are without sin.

(Base 4, +2 Voice, +1 Conc, +3 Group)"

I'm just going for Ind Personal though

Zita of Mercere: Archibald could do that if he was here. oh well

Hypatia of Athens: I wanna see what this guys' deal is

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "I'm an elementalist, not a mentalist."

Beatrice Orsini : that would show your sins, wouldn't it?

Aristide of Tremere: "I could."

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

(To Endrite): Medically, is it possible to keep him unconscious if he survives the night?

Zita of Mercere: "Wow, could you imagine if we had an invisible, morally loose magus with excellent skill in mentem?"

Endrite (GM): Ind Personal would make the stains of sin visible on you only, Hypatia.

Which I guess is fine.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

(From Endrite (GM)): Let's say yes.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to use the one described on Page 52 of The Devine

R: Per, D: Conc, T: Vision

(From Endrite (GM)): It seems like he'll be unconscious even if he survives.

Hypatia of Athens: Level 25

Endrite (GM): The Levine.

Lavinia of Jerbiton assess him medically

Aristocritus Bonisagi looks up from low-quality theology summa

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I think he'll be unconscious for a time even if we treat his wounds and he survives the knight."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Hello there.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: *night

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10!+28

(

1

)

+28

=

29

rolling d10 botch check

(

5

)

=

5

Celeste: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That was very powerful blow, whichever of you struck it."

Hypatia of Athens: Phew

Celeste: nice

Zita of Mercere: "Almost certainly our Archon's strength."

Endrite (GM): Hypatia, it doesn't look like you can do anything besides cast the miracle that you know.

Which is level 30.

Beatrice Orsini : keep trying

Hypatia of Athens: Do miracles have formula?

Endrite (GM): You can't push targets around without a special virtue.

Yes.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: does it work like hermetic magic, where you cast on a near miss but are fatigued

Hypatia of Athens: Uhh

I need to redo the character then

Zita of Mercere: Let's figure out how this hedge wizardry works, together.

lol

Aristocritus Bonisagi: cranked

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Actually, I'm going to need Nevio's help on this." assuming the guy has -3 sta, judging by his soak

Endrite (GM): Why?

Zita of Mercere: you just got ARS-d!

Endrite (GM): He does indeed.

Hypatia of Athens: Because I ddin't actually make the character knowing that they had to specifically train miracles as formulas

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait

Hypatia of Athens: I wrote down the spell levels for reference purposes

Endrite (GM): That's the way it is.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I thought you could spont but just within a couple of the Divine Schools

becuase it's Music, not holy magic

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "I may be able to patch his wound for a while."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what's the name of Hypatia's skill?

Hypatia of Athens: Holy Music

Which is Meditation but musical

Lavinia of Jerbiton: right and Meditation is just a single "form" of the divine arts

Zita of Mercere: "Why do you need Nevio?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This Ability is associated with the

Holy Method of Meditation, and allows

you to achieve a supernatural state of

mind by giving praises to God in music.

You must sing a devotional song, rolling

your Presence + Music vs. an ease factor

Lavinia of Jerbiton: based on the circumstances. If you succeed,

use your Presence to determine the

effect. If you are distracted during the ritual,

you must make a Concentration roll

to keep your focus.

hm

Zita of Mercere: "Now, just hypothetically, if you need Nevio here, does this mean he's in danger of dying?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes."

Zita of Mercere: "Oh dear."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: would a recovery roll bonus help any

Lavinia of Jerbiton: one sec i have the example of the holy singers in the fabius adventure

so ill check if they explain how it works there

Zita of Mercere: "Ah, archon, you're in real danger now."

Endrite (GM): That he should live forever and not see corruption is an Intervention spell, though.

Which Hypatia has, to be fair.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it would cthinker, the problem is this guy is already at -3 to recovery from his stamina

lavinia has chirurgy 5, nevio has 14

and I think we need to hit 15 on recovery to stabilize it from incap -> wounds

Aristide of Tremere: we could let him die but pretend hes still alive

Hypatia of Athens: http://i.imgur.com/lq0mZOq.png This read like the chraacter is sponting

Endrite (GM): Also, when you fail to perform a Miracle you don't fatigue.

Zita of Mercere: Weekend At Fabrizio's

Endrite (GM): Instead you suffer a Tragedy of Hubris.

Aristide of Tremere: i could put an illusion of his chest rising rhythmically so it looks like hes breathing

Beatrice Orsini : 9+ recovery roll improves incap to heavy in RAW

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok

Aristide of Tremere: after the wedding say were leaving to get better medicine and never come back

Endrite (GM): Genius.

Ok give me a sec to think of the tragedy.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so it sounds like Holy Music skill is just used instead of Meditiation skill in the dice roll, but mechanically they accomplish the same thing

Beatrice Orsini : http://i.imgur.com/E7PufKg.png

Hypatia of Athens: Level 25 effect

Beatrice Orsini : and he needs a season in bed to improve from heavy

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i hit him in the shins and transferred the force of the blow all the way up to his head and out the back of his skull

Hypatia of Athens: If they're formulaic spells then I don't actually know a level 30 spell because I never invested XP in knowing spells

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Is there time for a ceremony?"

Aristide of Tremere: such is the power of the archons cultivation base

Hypatia of Athens: And if they're sponted, I said I was doing level 25 before I rolled

Zita of Mercere: Aristocritus held his leg out, and though he was invisible, his eyes radiated deep killing intent!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: For the true Church!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The example canons in my source adventure don't list the effect they've casted as things they know or researched or like

Endrite (GM): Ok give me a sec I'm reading through the holy powers rules.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I know that the Infernal spell casting is all sponted and costs a conf, I was assuming Divine (non-Holy Magic) works the same way

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Actually, did we bring any Corpus vis?"

Aristide of Tremere: im just at the start of book 4 in issth now and its really epic

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I only brought elemental, not having any use for Corpus myself."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Creo?"

Aristide of Tremere: i think book 3i s gonna be hard to top though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "No techniques, sorry. You could do a ceremony if we can convince the servants to clear out for a bit."

Endrite (GM): Ok we'll just say things work out for now.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it gets REALLY bad for a stretch but i don't remember what book it happens in

Endrite (GM): I don't want to hold things up too much.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i can actually give this guy a recovery boost though

Endrite (GM): But prepare for an audit, Hypatia.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton: issth was best in the beginning when meng was a scrub, I stopped liking it when he's effortlessly pwning everyone

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling (1d10!+19+1)/2 sponting crco (gesturing but not shouting)

(

(

3

)

+19+1)/2

=

11.5

Endrite (GM): Anyway, your miracle makes him appear to bleed profusely from a wound on his head.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright, let's all clear out except for Aristocritus so it's a little less suspicious

Aristide of Tremere: ive just started treating it as a complete comedy

which helps

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then come back in once he's done

Hypatia of Athens: It's not a well written set of rules, to be fair, they forget to make it clear that they're accelerated abilities, though compared to similar abilities in Hedge Magic and Ex Misc, they should be

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh if you're giving me room for a ceremony i can add more

Aristide of Tremere: also a look into what chinese culture is actually like

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yeah, let's do a ceremony

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it will take uhhhhh

Lavinia of Jerbiton: since this will be a hard case to stabilize

Aristocritus Bonisagi: gimme an hour

Zita of Mercere: My work here is done. I'll explain clearly to my sodales which bed I'm sleeping in while invisible, then go to sleep.

Hypatia of Athens: Also because most of the spell level guidelines woudl be pointless if they aren't accelerated abilities

Aristocritus Bonisagi: should i reroll or just add my bonuses on to what i previously rolled?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Servants, my assistant will be conducting an emergency bloodletting. We will have to give him room and privacy, the process is very delicate."

exeunt omnes

Endrite (GM): They exeunt.

Hypatia of Athens: "He appears to have a head wound," I say, surprising no one.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i can scrape together... 5 from a confidence point, 3 from ceremonial casting, 1 from shouting

Hypatia of Athens: "Representing the sin of willful ignorance."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you only get +3 from ceremonial?

Hypatia of Athens: "Hey may be a pawn as well."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: better hit the books bro

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yeah my philosophiae is uhh 0

Beatrice Orsini : incap makes recovery rolls at sunset/sunrise, so you don't need as much duration, i think

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He did seem pretty close to Monsignor Malatesta at the feast.."

Aristocritus Bonisagi: bringing the total from 11.5 to 16

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "And I know that Ops typically appears near large armies, which the Priest would not have."

Endrite (GM): Aristocritus you're a DAMN buffoon.

Aristide of Tremere: lets see if the monsignor is also casting eye magic

Aristocritus Bonisagi: lol

Endrite (GM): 0 Philosophae.

Get out of here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah wtf

Endrite (GM): Come one.

Come all.

Zita of Mercere: That's just embarassing.

Aristide of Tremere: i also have 0 philo

Endrite (GM): Come see the amazing idiot magician of Vardian's Tomb.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you greeks invented the damn thing!!!

Hypatia of Athens: Well do be fair, I have voice magic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: show some pride

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm uhhhh a hellenized roman

Zita of Mercere: They let anyone into this damn order these days

Hypatia of Athens: Errr, voice miracles that could come up against parma

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay okay. so what kind of bonus did he get to his recovery

Zita of Mercere: Ehh? No philosophae?

Hypatia of Athens: Even Jorn has Philosipiae and he's a smelly dwarfblood

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Ok i have some bad news about this ceremony.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: laff

Celeste: lol

Aristocritus Bonisagi: actually hang on

Aristide of Tremere: did aristocritus kill the priest

Endrite (GM): Let's see.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This is why you should bring vis on adventures, people!!!

Endrite (GM): What duration did you use, Aristocritus?

Aristide of Tremere: wait a minute

Hypatia of Athens: I would have studied Blessing had Fabius not been scared into obscurity

Aristide of Tremere: elementalists use philosophiaea

Hypatia of Athens: That would have helped with his treatment

Aristide of Tremere: why is it 0??

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm a hermetic elementalist!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he's a hermetic elementalist, not the cool scholarly elementalist

Aristocritus Bonisagi: not some kind of hedge wizard

Endrite (GM): It looks like you managed to give him +3 to recovery, Aristocritus.

Aristide of Tremere: your a damn fraud!!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i got this

15 (base 4: Give a character a +9 bonus to Recovery rolls + 0 Individual +1 Touch +2 Sun)

if Sun duration will work

Beatrice Orsini : you could spont a moon duration bind wound to keep him incapacitated, maybe

Endrite (GM): You rolled 11.5

Hypatia of Athens:  points at Vardian's Tomb  Hey everyone, a great big phony lives here!

Endrite (GM): A confidence token would boost that to 14.

Not 15.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: plus the ceremonial bonus, plus +1 from shouting

Endrite (GM): You have to include this in your damn roll!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: He may be an idiot, but he's a loud idiot

Endrite (GM): Ok, you get +9.

SIGH

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ty.

The archon has done it again.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I think if we're scaling by arts=abilities and all that it's +15

Beatrice Orsini : if the priest dies, they'll think we're some sort of evil wizards

Lavinia of Jerbiton: but anyway I'll roll Nevio trying to stabilize this guy

assuming Sta -3

Endrite (GM): Yes that makes sense.

+15.

Zita of Mercere: Always Be Shouting And Screaming

Endrite (GM): Correct, Lavinia.

Aristocritus Bonisagi bows

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!-3+14+15

(

10

+

1

)

-3+14+15

=

37

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Plus fifteen! Incredible

Endrite (GM): It better work, since you just obviously cast magic on him.

Zita of Mercere: oh jesus. oh god.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Awesome.

Endrite (GM): Phew!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We stabilized the infernalist.

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hypatia, you think he's just a servant of a greater evil? Should we try waking him up to question him then?"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the bad boys of high crimes against the code of hermes

Endrite (GM): The divinely revealed head wound continues to bleed as long as Hypatia concentrates.

Beatrice Orsini : the sin of head injury

Hypatia of Athens: If he's not a pawn, perhaps he's blinded himself to a source of supernatural power.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how sure are you of your interpretation of the sign hypatia

Hypatia of Athens: I'll drop it

Beatrice Orsini : some divine lore could probably help with interpreting it

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think anyone else can see it

I didn't actually build one that properly makes it visible to everyone

Endrite (GM): Ok then.

Hypatia of Athens: Anyway, I drop concentration

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I don't have any ideas on how we can confirm/deny one of the Monsignors is also an infernalist

Unless we want to just repeat this whole fiasco again and smack them invisibly

oh

OH

Beatrice Orsini : let's do it with all the wedding guests one by one

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I got it.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: we could befriend a powerful angel and ask him to slay any infernalists we meet

this seems like a very good idea actually

Beatrice Orsini : very bad idea

angels hate me

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We say that the priest is awake and looking for fra uallachan to confess something very serious

Endrite (GM): Angel Summoner and the OoH Bandit.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We say this within earshot of the monsignors

Hypatia of Athens: Trying to summon angel is a good way for me to get hubris

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and the magi wait here invisibly to see who shows up.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hubris ftw

Lavinia of Jerbiton: question

Beatrice Orsini : who all needs invisibility?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: as a Greek it is your duty to accumulate as much hubris as possible, as fast as possible

Endrite (GM): Intrigue + Com to spread this rumor.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Aristide, we need you now more than ever

Endrite (GM): Hubris is deadly.

Especially when I'm the GM.

Aristide of Tremere: the words are said. the promise is made

Aristide arrives to save the day

Beatrice Orsini : you can just whip the hubris out

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+3+3 comm and int incase he fucks up

(

3

)

+3+3

=

9

Aristide of Tremere: I use my extremely strong social muscles to spread the rumor.

rolling 1d10+5

(

3

)

+5

=

8

uhhh

i conf that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice, nice.

Endrite (GM): Nice, nice.

Gimmie that token.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh here's the one i used in the cereomny

Endrite (GM): Thank you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also

should I put the ward on the tent to destroy metal objects?

Endrite (GM): Ok, you just CASUALLY drop that Father Patrizio is seeking confession.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i might as well

rolling 1d10!+16-1

(

5

)

+16-1

=

20

Endrite (GM): Anything else you want to do?

Hypatia of Athens: Here's something you can have fun with

At the storyguide’s discretion, holy characters might also suffer a tragedy of hubris whenever they perform an evil act, transgress against their religion, or botch a roll involving Faith points.

Endrite (GM): Do you have time to do that, Lavinia?

Don't you need to keep doctoring?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it takes 45 minutes

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nevio is the one patching him up

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the trigger is someone inside the tent saying the words "No weapon fashioned against me shall prosper"

good luck invisible sodales

Endrite (GM): You bump into Father Uallachan and some of Monsignor Malatesta's men on the way up.

You know, to the church.

Zita of Mercere: I get some invisibility, though this time I'll try and avoid killing an old man

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm freshly invisible

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if both the monisignor and uallachan try to go into the tent, I think this calls for thorsbian farce

Endrite (GM): Heh heh heh.

Beatrice Orsini : i'll position myself so that i have a line of sight to the outside from the tent

invisibly

Hypatia of Athens: Why's everyone hiding?

Endrite (GM): Father Uallachan DOES try to go into the tent, about an hour after you start spreading the rumor.

Hypatia of Athens: Should I go back to bed?

Father Uallachán: "Is the Abbott alright?" he asks Nevio "I was told he is in a terrible state and that he seeks confession."

"I only pray that I am not too late."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Forgive me father, he has slipped unconscious again."

"Will you watch him for a moment? I need to fetch some fresh supplies."

Father Uallachán: He agrees to watch him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I leave the two "alone"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hmm. if you're invisible does your Gift still give people a bad vibe

Father Uallachán: He says some prayers for Father Patrizio's soul.

But otherwise does not disturb him.

Hypatia of Athens: I leave too if I haven't yet

Father Uallachán: No, Aristocritus.

It only works on people who can sense you.

If you were hiding with mundane methods you would similarly not suffer any Gift penalty.

Until you tried talking, that is.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if nothing happens ill return

Aristocritus Bonisagi: makes sense

Father Uallachán: Hypatia, did you want to use Divine Lore to decipher the meaning of your vision or did you just drop it?

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah it's specifically a social malus

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Thank you Father. I can't say when Fra Patrizio will wake again, if it is not before the wedding, are you able to officiate in his place?"

Aristide of Tremere: personally i think hypatia should try to decipher it

Hypatia of Athens: Ahhh

Let me see if I have that

Father Uallachán: "Yes, Monsignor Malatesta has 'convinced' me that I should conduct the ceremony."

Hypatia of Athens: I have DOminion Lore and CHurch Lore

Father Uallachán: "He was quite insistent."

Hypatia of Athens: And Theology

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ..

Aristide of Tremere: incredible

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i like where this is going

Father Uallachán: Dominion Lore or Theology would work fine.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Ah, well if you see the Monsignor, you will tell him that Fra Patrizio was asleep? I will stay here tonight in case he wakes up and wishes to say whatever it was that was so important for him."

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+7 Theology (Christian)

(

5

)

+7

=

12

Father Uallachán: "Of course, we are all worried for him. Though to be honest he is so clumsy that I am surprised this hasn't happened sooner."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: definitely clumsiness. not an attack by the mystery concussionist

Aristocritus Bonisagi: id better gain a Martial Artist reputation

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway im still hoping malatesta tries to act somehow during the night

Aristide of Tremere: thats a great idea. let me spread the tale of how aristocritus nearly killed the priest

Father Uallachán: Hey, if you want to brag about how you beat up an old priest while invisible, more power to you.

(From Hypatia of Athens): I give you a look regarding the Abbot before leaving the tent.

Aristide of Tremere: im sure all the wedding guests will be thrilled

(To Hypatia of Athens): are you visible?

Zita of Mercere: I'm thrilled, and I'm a guest.

(To Hypatia of Athens): You can just whisper to me if you're invisible

(From Hypatia of Athens): Yeah, I'm not sure the sponted invis works on me anyway.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 1s an invisible person is about to tell me something

Father Uallachán: Father Uallachan takes his leave.

Zita of Mercere: So, lavinia. Who do you want me to beat up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: before he takes his leave!

Father Uallachán: Ok.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay, I'll return to Lavinia once he's gone.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok

What's up!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Father Uallachán: Hey, if you want to brag about how you beat up an old priest while invisible, more power to you.

well he's a satanic priest. probably.

possibly. maybe

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we need a bard to spin all our fuckups into stories of heroism

Aristocritus Bonisagi: *replacement bard

Aristide of Tremere: i have artes liberales

i could learn how to sing

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Aristocritus BOLDLY smited the nefarious infernalist, saving all of Europe!"

Zita of Mercere: A bard hearing our stories and going oof, well thisll be a tough one to spin

Hypatia of Athens: "I've remembered something from my Cantores schooling. The head wound is symbolic of worshiping a false god."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh

well we knew that

"I see, that would be his allegiance to Ops."

Beatrice Orsini : but now we actually know it

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Aristide of Tremere: yeah. hes catholic!

audience laughs

Hypatia of Athens: He worships the false divine YHWH, and not the true Fairy YHWH

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I am suspicious of Malatesta but I'm suspicious of most people. If he harbors some ill intent I suspect he would come here and try to silence the priest in the night."

Aristide of Tremere: [while surrounded by saint bones and figurines of mary] idolatry?

Zita of Mercere: "Right. So you're suggesting waiting around invisible to stop him if so, then?"

Aristocritus Bonisagi: all right now what did hypatia see on the rest of us

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Or to watch and see proof of his misdeeds."

devil's fav demon: Aristide of Tremere: [while surrounded by saint bones and figurines of mary] idolatry?

Hypatia of Athens: I only looked at the priest concentrating, my gentle heart holds no paranoia for my sodales.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: whew  wipes blood from forehead

Zita of Mercere: lol

Hypatia of Athens: I know Vardian's Tomb was once an ill place of necromancers and the shadow senate, but has since been purged of such evil and is a place of good Christians now.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway I guess i'll go to sleep in this tent and sir oak will pretend to sleep outside behind it so it looks especially vulnerable

Endrite (GM): So who all is in the tent?

Hypatia of Athens: I can make up to six room-sized tents per night.

Err, wooden huts.

Beatrice Orsini : i'm wounded and tired, so i'll go find a quiet place to rest instead of keeping watch

after making everyone who wants it invisible

Celeste: I'll stand guard, sure.

Zita of Mercere: I'm in the tent with the priest and my sodales who are also invisible

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'm there BUT brb

(To Zita of Mercere): If HYPOTHETICALLY the monsignor tries to kill the priest, and it were HYPOTHETICALLY possible to stage the scene so it looks like they killed each other, well, that would wrap things up nicely

Aristide of Tremere: i am in the wizard tent, not the dead priest tent

good luck sodales

Hypatia of Athens: I can't lower my faith resistance so I can't take an invisibility

Endrite (GM): Drop your toke's on the map.

Beatrice Orsini : i can probably manage some penetration

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we've got grogs too if you want em

Endrite (GM): And where you want to be in the tent.

Beatrice Orsini : how much faith mr do you have?

Hypatia of Athens: My Redcap magic item is strangely elaborate for this reason.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can you draw the priest's bed on here endrite

Endrite (GM): Or in relation to the tent.

Hypatia of Athens: 10

Endrite (GM): Yes I can.

Beatrice Orsini : i can manage that

8 pen skill, +4 extra casting score before rolling

Celeste: I have 20 faith MR so dont worry about it.

Beatrice Orsini : mastery negates wound bonus

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not sure how to get more myself

Celeste: Carry around more relics.

Beatrice Orsini : wound penalty, i mean

Hypatia of Athens: Good idea

Beatrice Orsini :

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

12 casting margin and 8 pen skill. i can make hypatia invisible

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ive thrown down the grog tokens if you all want to use em

Hypatia of Athens: Oh nice

Beatrice Orsini : and i'll go to tent with aristide to chat about how orsini family is the worst

Hypatia of Athens: I guess if the entire party is invisible I guess I'd be a spoilsport to not join

Endrite (GM): Ok I drew some other nearby tents.

They're used by other members of the Malatesta party.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont have access to cthinker's token but we'll say he's next to zita

Endrite (GM): If the grogs are asleep in their tent that's fine too.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is there room under the bed

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ill put 1 grog there

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Zita of Mercere: grog boys always got a stash

Endrite (GM): Please indicate whomst is invisible.

Aristide of Tremere: please treat zachaois well

johns: i didn't want to use him if you weren't cool with it

I know some people get very attached to their grogs

Aristide of Tremere: he is an innocent greek

Endrite (GM): Cool, cool, cool.

Beatrice Orsini : the only one in the world

Endrite (GM): Celeste, are you visible?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: isn't celeste invisible?

Beatrice Orsini : i can't penetrate her MR

Aristide of Tremere: he simply has a very strong negative reputation

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then she shouldn't be standing there

Aristide of Tremere: for never paying his debts

Lavinia of Jerbiton: put her under the bed too

Endrite (GM): Ooo, hee hee.

Beatrice Orsini : put celeste under bed with innocent greek boy

Celeste: hee hee

Hypatia of Athens: Hey Greekboy are you a faggot or whut

Celeste: I'll hide, then, since I am not invisible.

Aristide of Tremere: i forgot how funny the virtue/flaw combo on him was

Virtues: Strong-Willed, Berserk

Flaws: Short Attention Span

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Celeste: lol

Endrite (GM): Alright, we all good here?

Zita of Mercere: Indeed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im assuming the grog and aristo are invisible

Hypatia of Athens: I like VIolante but right now she's living a low risk life

Lavinia of Jerbiton: even though cthinker is afk

Aristide of Tremere: lets assume aristocritus would lay his life on the line for his countryman

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Nothing unusual happens this night.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: bwaha.

trolled by endrite.

Endrite (GM): Except after midnight, when you're attacked by a demonic horseman.

Celeste: kissed by my homies

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh

double reverse trolled

Celeste: oh nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what is he going to ride the horse into the tent??

Zita of Mercere: Apparently.

Endrite (GM): In fact that is his plan.

Beatrice Orsini : he's demonic therefore rude

Aristide of Tremere: whats the aesthetic quality of his armor

Endrite (GM): Those of you who are not asleep see him riding towards you.

Alpha Plus level Heresy.

(To Endrite): Inf lore wise, what are the odds the armor/weapon of this rider are separate objects and not part of his own form (ie covered by MR)

Zita of Mercere: "Ah. Oh dear."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll try to crawl out and alert the turb.

(From Endrite (GM)): Almost certainly, because this is a Red Lord.

Zita of Mercere: Well, we have uh

Celeste here to shoot him, yeah

Celeste: i probably can't fire an arrow while laying down.

Zita of Mercere: Good luck girl

(To Endrite): Almost certainly they ARE or ARE NOT?

Endrite (GM): You have one turn until he hits the tent.

(From Endrite (GM)): Are not, fine.

Celeste: i guess I should get up.

Zita of Mercere: I'm going to run out of the tent

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my foolproof plan ruined by the forces of darkness :(

Hypatia of Athens: I follow Zita

Endrite (GM): Hypatia of Athens Initiative: 13

Zita of Mercere Initiative: 29

Lavinia of Jerbiton Initiative: 4

Aristocritus Bonisagi Initiative: 40

Celeste Initiative: 80

Ok, Lavinia, Aristocritus, and hmm... says here "Zita???" what do you do.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i would like to wake up if possible

Endrite (GM): Also feel free to order your wooden man around during your turn, Lavinia.

Ok, you may do so.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can he charge a hole through the tent

Endrite (GM): You were sleeping lightly.

He can tear a hole through it with a mighty charge.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets give that a shot

and then lavinia will wisely exit through the hole

Aristocritus Bonisagi: archon here

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+4+4+15 dex+bow+combat ability

(

10

+

1

)

+4+4+15

=

34

Zita of Mercere: As the horseman charges past, I want to try and sneak a stab wound onto him while invisible. Also, nice work Celeste

Celeste: i have those magic arrows but i forgot what they did. I think it was another +1 to attack?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont have access to cthinker's token but we'll say he's next to zita

mm haha

Celeste: or +2?

(To Endrite): let me know if this course of action is reasonable

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we should've stuck you under the bed aristocritus

Celeste: not magic, uh, what the hell were they. forget it

(From Endrite (GM)): Well, you'd have to get around him after he charges in.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +2 to damage iirc

Celeste: ah, nice

(From Endrite (GM)): You could have Sir Oak cut a hole for you.

Celeste: so +10 damage total w this bow

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they're made of alchemical steel and are superior quality

Celeste: thank you

(To Endrite): yes, I like that plan better

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what's the situation. under attack by a demon knight?

Endrite (GM): Astute as always, boss.

rolling 1d10! + 23 Defense

(

10

+

7

)

+23

=

40

Sir Oak: Sir Oak will attempt to cut a hole in the side of the tent so Lavinia can escape.

Endrite (GM): He chops your arrow aside like it was moving underwater.

Celeste: lame.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: how's the aura

Zita of Mercere: Does he have a defensive penalty against invisible opponents?

Endrite (GM): Mundane 0.

He would, if he used eyes to see.

Beatrice Orsini : demons and angels can usually see through tricks like that

Zita of Mercere: Can the Stealth ability beat whatever method he uses to see

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Since stealth is about being where people aren't looking.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'll do my usual trick and turn his sword to water

Zita of Mercere: Alright. Well, first, rolling stealth against him.

rolling 1d10!+4+14+3

(

4

)

+4+14+3

=

25

Endrite (GM): Ok, roll it Aristocritus.

Aristide of Tremere: dont worry. after humiliating our family, beatrice and aristide will deliver your corpses back to vardians tomb

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10+23 The First Transmutation (terram to aquam)

(

7

)

+23

=

30

Endrite (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10! + 7

(

7

)

+7

=

14

Aristocritus Bonisagi: if penetration matters that's 19

Endrite (GM): His sword turns semi-aqueous, like a goo, but then stiffens and straightens.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yikes!

johns: you penetrated though

apparently

that's good

Endrite (GM): Also please specify whether you are attacking rider or horse.

Celeste: Ah.

Thanks.

Zita of Mercere: If I'm stealthed successflly, I'll try to launch a stab attack on his horse to bring it down before it reaches the priest

With the dagger I carry

Endrite (GM): Ok.

There's probably some fancy type rules for this but fuck it.

Just roll.

Zita of Mercere:

rolling 1d10!+4+8

(

2

)

+4+8

=

14

+2 to that, sorry

Endrite (GM): Right.

Ok, that fails to get through +17 soak.

Zita of Mercere: The damage is +1 to the difference between my attack and his defence, since I have -2 strength

Welp

Aristide of Tremere: the horse is a little tougher than the old man

Endrite (GM): It is what it is.

Ok, is that everyone?

Aristide of Tremere: also i think that means your unstealthed right next to the demon knight

johns: i got out, if possible

Aristide of Tremere: good luck

Zita of Mercere: If I was in a city I'd have won that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: moving as many tiles as the GM permits

Endrite (GM): 3 seems fair.

Ok.

The Red Knight reaches the tent and cuts a huge hole in it, to reach his prey.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i guess we're leaving the grog under the bed

good luck, grog

the perfect spot for a surprise attack!

Endrite (GM): Ok he's been given a turn so we don't forget him.

Celeste.

Zachaois the Stiff: Zachaois spends his first turn waking up.

Celeste: im going to back up and try shooting him again, and ideally he won't also crit.

Endrite (GM): Sleepy boy.

Ok.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+4+4+15

(

8

)

+4+4+15

=

31

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 27

(

9

)

+27

=

36

Celeste: lol

ok.

Zita of Mercere: I employ the Mercere family secret technique

Endrite (GM): Aristocritus.

Your turn.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hmm

can i grip the rider, or do i have to grip the horse

hands of the grasping earth i mean

Hypatia of Athens: The secret family technique of "let a wizard handle it?" I like that one.

Endrite (GM): The horse.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: earth grip is dom4.

Endrite (GM): DooM

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i guess i'll try that, but i suspect it will not do anything for obvious reasons

Zachaois the Stiff: rip dom4

Zita of Mercere: It's sort of that, but really the Mercere family technique is running away really fast

Hypatia of Athens: Ah. Good one.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+28+2 Hands of the Grasping Earth (yelling and waving)

(

6

)

+28+2

=

36

Endrite (GM): Roll it.

What's the pen here?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: 25

Endrite (GM): More than enough.

Ok, he's grasped.

Zita.

Hypatia of Athens: I reflect on whether my cowardice is transgressive behavior, but the relevant passage that occurs to me is "the wages of sin is death". The father's chickens have come to roost.

Zita of Mercere: I employ the Mercere family secret technique as far as I can

Aristocritus Bonisagi: high crime detected

Celeste: That's just the Saotome family secret technique.

I guess chronologically it was stolen from you.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go rouse the sleeping grogs incase the embattled wizards need rescuing.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i guess my token should be outside since i cast a spell on the knight before he cut the hole open

Endrite (GM): Ok.

You could see through the tent flap I guess.

Lavinia.

johns: me & oakie run

Endrite (GM): Ok?

johns: ok

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i bet sir oak could take this guy

Lavinia of Jerbiton: not if he's rolling +27 to defense

Endrite (GM): What about Zachaois?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i guess he scrambles out of bed and tries to run too

Zachaois the Stiff: Zach looks at the demon knight charing straight for the tent and sees no one else around.

He runs away.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: RIP Patrizio

Endrite (GM): Ok, the Red Lord cuts open a hole in the tent, but his mount is grabbed by Hands of Grasping Earth.

With impeccable horsemanship, he stays ahorse.

Celeste: what a talented demon.

Endrite (GM): Ok, Celeste.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+4+4+15 but im shooting his horse this time.

(

9

)

+4+4+15

=

32

Hypatia of Athens: I was hoping you'd do that

Celeste: 3 str + 8 wep dam + 2 fine arrows + ??? if that hits. i keep forgetting how our houseruled damage thing works

Lavinia of Jerbiton: just as in raw

Celeste: im pretty sure it isnt because i remember shooting someone months ago and being told we weren't using attack advantage raw

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that was months ago

Celeste: oh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: XD

Zachaois the Stiff: dont

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 27

(

2

)

+27

=

29

Sorry I had to get up for a second there.

What's your damage?

Oh ok.

Celeste: 13+ whatever replaces attack advantage or +3 if we use raw

Endrite (GM): 16 damage, I believe.

He doesn't take any damage here.

Celeste: Nice,

you mean his horse doesnt.

Beatrice Orsini : does the horse also have +27 defense?

Endrite (GM): Aristocritus.

Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the horse may be an extension of the same demon

Beatrice Orsini : probably, since he can't dismount

Celeste: wait.

Endrite (GM):  Smirks Demonically

Zachaois the Stiff: what the

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hmmm

Zachaois the Stiff: over 16 soak

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if you can keep the horse pinned with grasping earth and such then oak can try and rescue the priest

Zachaois the Stiff: im beginning to think the red lord might be strong

Celeste: i think he has 17 soak

Zita of Mercere: It has 17 soak

Celeste: im going to use reserves of strength to add +3 to my damage total.

I will need to make 2 fatigue rolls.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: gimme a second here to look something up

Celeste: which i forget what a fatigue roll is. im sorry.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can someone creo some ignem on him and then we'll try to draw out all the malatestas to see whats going on

oh aristo is the only real wizard here atm

Zita of Mercere: I'm just abandoning the fight, even an attack against 0 defence cant generate an actual hit on it.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the tent might catch on fire

Endrite (GM): Burning down the tent might be a bad idea here.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: create light not fire

Endrite (GM): Ok, he takes 1 Fatigue damage, Celeste.

Celeste: whew.

Beatrice Orsini : if someone wakes me up, i can spont sound of church bells

Celeste: now what's a fatigue roll again?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is beatric back in our tent?

* beatrice

Hypatia of Athens: That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption is good for seeing demons but doesn't do much if they wander around in plain sight.

Beatrice Orsini : with aristide and presumably other grogs, yes

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i can illuminate the demon, probably

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Brief strenuous actions require a

Fatigue test: roll Stamina – Encumbrance on a

stress die against an ease factor of 6. Failure

means the loss of one Short-Term Fatigue level.

A botch costs two.

thats a fatigue roll afiak

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Hypatia of Athens: I should wake Aristide since he can probably just pelt the demon with direct damage spells, being a Tremere and all

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+3

(

5

)

+2+3

=

10

rolling 1d10!+2+3

(

2

)

+2+3

=

7

ok.

Endrite (GM): Since it's a stat roll it isn't modified under our system.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets let the malatesta army fight it and us wizards silently skulk away imo

Celeste: It's a good thing I get +3 to all fatigue rolls.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i should roll before checking the table i suppose

rolling (1d10!+16+2)/2

(

(

10

+

7

)

+16+2)/2

=

17.5

nice

Celeste: nice

Endrite (GM): What are you rolling?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: CrIg

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Go for it.

Celeste: wait where are these tents

Zita of Mercere: Ignem: Creo'd

Celeste: if they're in a town i get +3 to all combat rolls. whoops.

its fine.

Zita of Mercere: Do you have ways of the town?

Celeste: i do

Endrite (GM): What kind of fire are you making?

Zachaois the Stiff: Hypatia of Athens: I should wake Aristide since he can probably just pelt the demon with direct damage spells, being a Tremere and all

hahaha

ahaha

hoho

Zita of Mercere: That's +5 under the abilities as arts system

Celeste: ooo

Zita of Mercere: But

We're in a swamp

not a town

I'm sorry

Endrite (GM): It's more like farmland now.

Celeste: i'll keep it in mind for another time

Beatrice Orsini : they're farming bogs

Zachaois the Stiff: nice roll20 subscription

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ok, i can make him glow like candlelight for Conc duration (2+1+2 voice) with 17 penetration (12.5+4)

Zita of Mercere: Theyre putting stuff in the water to turn the bogs gay

Aristocritus Bonisagi: which is not a lot of glow i guess.

Endrite (GM): Candlelight isn't very bright.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i need more creo.

Endrite (GM): You could target something else.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: that is probably better

johns: you don tneed to target him

just target the area around him

or the tent

or the ground

Endrite (GM): Or yourself.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i'll make the medical tent glow like a bright sunny day for Sun

Endrite (GM): Ok cool.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: if i can

Endrite (GM): It's Monsignor's personal tent, actually.

Hypatia of Athens: Intervention can do something like CrIm, what's the point of making light?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i can't but i can do it for a cloudy day

Endrite (GM): Monsignor Malatesta.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: which is good enough

Beatrice Orsini : light is ignem

Aristocritus Bonisagi: 4 +1 touch +2 sun

johns: i thought it would be good so that the mundanes in the tents around here can come out and see what's going on

Aristocritus Bonisagi: also i'm yelling a lot while doing this

Beatrice Orsini : if you use im, you can't see the thing you created without light

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

I can't do Ig light

Just apparitions

Endrite (GM): Ok, you do the thing God did and now there's light.

God Moves.

Zita.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: TO be clear this is light as bright as a cloudy day, not light as bright as a sunny day.

Endrite (GM): That's still pretty bright, since it's a little after midnight.

Zita of Mercere: I continue fleeing. I have the Intuition virtue so I probably flee somewhere safe.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Zita of Mercere: Good luck, Sodales

Endrite (GM): Hypatia.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: "Someone get the magi! Get the army! Get anyone!"

Endrite (GM): Too bad no one has any Leadership.

Zita of Mercere: Just assume I continue fleeing, skip over my turn unless I say something.

Celeste: I have -2 self preservation so i'm jsut going to keep shooting at him and hoping i luck out

Endrite (GM): You might.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll keep fleeing in the smae general direction as Zita

Celeste: leadership, huh, if only Prudenzio were here....

Zachaois the Stiff: aristide has leadership

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i have FIVE leadership.

Endrite (GM): You should organize the grogs into an organized group then.

Get those big bonuses.

johns: its funnier when they die though

Aristocritus Bonisagi: does grog acclimation to a specific wizard's gift cancel out the numerical penalty

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh, nice

Endrite (GM): Hypatia are you going to run away?

johns: Sir Oak returns towards the priest, he's going to pick him up either this turn or next as time decides

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

I'll go wake the grogs

johns: Lavinia runs for cover behind another tent

Hypatia of Athens: And Beatrice and Aristide

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i can buff celeste i think

Celeste: ooo

Aristocritus Bonisagi: for the big +1 on each arrow

Endrite (GM): Mmm.

Celeste: powerful.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: maybe not though since my animal is trash

Hypatia of Athens: That's my action

Endrite (GM): Ok, what about Zachaois?

Celeste: he gone

johns: i thought beardbeard was controlling him

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Zachaois the Stiff: yeah

he keeps running

Endrite (GM): Well, the Red Lord attempts to break the bonds on his horse. So he makes a Fatigue roll first.

rolling 1d10! + 5

(

9

)

+5

=

14

Then he rolls Attack.

rolling 1d10! +24

(

9

)

+24

=

33

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well heck.

Endrite (GM): That smashes the feeble bonds.

Zachaois the Stiff: good luck sir oak

Celeste: rip

Endrite (GM): Celeste.

If you want to collaborate on a move feel free.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i cast fire 2 on steiner's sword

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+4+4+15+1

(

6

)

+4+4+15+1

=

30

johns: can aristo keep recasting earth manacles

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yeah that's what i'll do

Endrite (GM): I don't see why not.

johns: One "weird" trick to hassle the demon lord

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 23

(

9

)

+23

=

32

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh i was going to ask, under the fatigue houserules do penalties kick in immediately or is there still the one level where you're kind of tired but don't have any penalties yet

Celeste: sigh.

johns: immediate cthinker

Aristocritus Bonisagi: dang

is it -3 per level

Endrite (GM): Sleepy boy.

johns: no that's injuries

it goes -1/-2/-3/-4/unconscious

Endrite (GM): Aristocritus.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ok here i go

Celeste: i dont want to use a faith point to conf since that'll lower my MR. good luck sodales.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+28+2-1

(

3

)

+28+2-1

=

32

yikes

Endrite (GM): I thought you got to keep the MR if you use it like a conf point.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: 21

pen

Zachaois the Stiff: wasnt hands of grasping earth finesse

not pen

Endrite (GM): Yeah it doesn't reduce your MR, Celeste.

Celeste: oh, huh. i had no idea.

Endrite (GM): Ok, it works, Aristocritus.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: presumably you can invent a version that uses finesse instead of pen

but the one in the book doesn't

Endrite (GM): Zita and Hypatia keep on running.

Lavinia.

johns: korz&h

Celeste: i still won't use a faith point though, because he'll soak my entire damage

johns: im runnin

Endrite (GM): Ok.

johns: oak will try to pick up the priest and run

Endrite (GM): Ok.

The priest is light enough.

johns: how far does oak get

Endrite (GM): Let's say 2 squares.

Celeste: I guess I can run next turn, if everyone else is running. I'm here to protect the magi, and this priest is a sinner and heretic afaik

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: the shouting and sunlight isn't attracting anyone?

i guess it's only been, like

Endrite (GM): Well, I'm getting to that!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: 20 seconds

actually much less than that

Endrite (GM): First things first though: the Red Knight turns into an Icon of Pure Sin.

Celeste: gasp

Aristocritus Bonisagi: yikes

Endrite (GM): It gives everyone who can see him the temporary trait of Berserk.

johns: icon of win

Endrite (GM): Pen 11.

Hypatia of Athens: To win you must kill me, David Chart

Celeste: lol

Endrite (GM): His horse also dissolves.

With him.

Beatrice Orsini : that's one way to get away from the grasp

Endrite (GM): So who suffers this affliction?

johns: if Oak has a mind, I suppose he does

Celeste: I don't think I do.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: me

Hypatia of Athens: I'm busy rousing people.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Every round you must roll 1d10 + 2.

If you get over a 9, you go Berserk and must spend the round attacking.

Sir Oak:

rolling 1d10+2

(

10

)

+2

=

12

woot

Celeste: ol

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10+2

(

1

)

+2

=

3

Celeste: sir oak brutally tombstone piledrivers the priest into the dirt

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i am as far from berserk as possible

Endrite (GM): Oh my bad, it's UNDER 9.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what the fuck.

Zachaois the Stiff: does that bonus increase

johns: lol/woot

Hypatia of Athens: Celeste can probably resist with 20 faith MR

Zachaois the Stiff: from uh

having berserk already

Celeste: yeah im pretty sure i'm fine.

Endrite (GM): Sorry, that was a mistype.

Obviously it's an ease factor situation.

Yes, you get +2 to your Angry score.

So +4 probably.

Zachaois the Stiff: nice

rolling 1d10+4

(

2

)

+4

=

6

Endrite (GM): You don't have to attack the person closest to you, but you do have to attack someone.

Zachaois the Stiff: Zach goes berserk then

Aristocritus Bonisagi: attack in melee, or just do something that will cause damage

Endrite (GM): Any attack.

I don't THINK spell casting counts.

Do you really not have 11 MR?

It's Mentem.

So Celeste should be fine.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh i didn't see you gave the pen

i haaave

10 mentem mr

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Celeste: cool.

Endrite (GM): Owned.

Ok.

What about Zita?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i chase after the fleeing celeste, waving my trusty short sword

Endrite (GM): You can attack the demon.

Hypatia of Athens: Zita's been running since a while now

Zachaois the Stiff: thats right aristocritus

also isnt zita invisible

Hypatia of Athens: I think dys just hasn't moved her token around much

Endrite (GM): Uh he said Celeste.

Celeste: I can see Aristocritus, since I have Second Sight, so I think I can handle it.

Zachaois the Stiff: oh

Endrite (GM): Also this round, people start to wake up.

Zachaois the Stiff: well thats still right

why would you attack your friend celeste instead of the demon. scared of getting in melee??

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh, you said "the horse also dissolves with him"

so i guess i assumed he was becoming immaterial

Endrite (GM): At first it's just grumpy shouts of "Shut up!" but eventually people realize something is going on.

No, he dissolves into sin.

However, it is purely physical.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: theology is so confusing

Endrite (GM): The demon's current appearance is indescribable.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well, i will almost certainly die if i run in to attack the icon of sin

BUT i am berserk, and reckless

Endrite (GM): You can do it.

Zachaois the Stiff: i believe in you archon

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+9+1 quick + single weapon + buckler

(

4

)

+2+9+1

=

16

Endrite (GM): You get + 3 to Attack and Soak.

Celeste: oh wait you're not attacking me

nvm.

Endrite (GM): (And -3 Defense)

Ok, Celeste.

Zachaois the Stiff: lets all move to attack aristocritus

Hypatia of Athens: Are randos that are looking at the area attacking each other?

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!-2+3+3 dex + weapon bonus + berserk bonus

(

4

)

-2+3+3

=

8

Zachaois the Stiff: so he can train up his swordfighting abilities

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh hell yes

Endrite (GM): No, they're in their tents.

Hypatia of Athens: Or are they wondering why a bunch of wizards are punching each other/

Okay

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 23

(

6

)

+23

=

29

Ok that is 0 damage.

Celeste?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: can someone please save the archon

Endrite (GM): Do you want to shoot an arrow?

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Celeste: how could i save you, archon? should I shoot an arrow at you?

I'm going to run towards sir oak and the priest.

Hypatia of Athens: If I make an illusionary monster, that'd give you guys something to attack

But then again I'd have to look at the tent

So not a good idea

Endrite (GM): You can shoot an arrow at the demon.

It's fully attackable.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it's got big numbers

Beatrice Orsini : i can make animal illusions for diam

Endrite (GM): That's why you need teamwork.

Beatrice Orsini : once i'm up

Celeste: ok.

I'll do that.

rolling 1d10!+4+4+15

(

8

)

+4+4+15

=

31

good luck demon.

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 23

(

3

)

+23

=

26

Celeste: Cool. 18.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: incroyable

Endrite (GM): So add Strength and weapon damage to your attack roll, then subtract the defense roll and the soak.

Nice, another damage.

He's at 2 Fatigue now.

Celeste: Sick.

Endrite (GM): So that's -2 right?

Celeste: God is definitely my homie.

Endrite (GM): Oh that should actually be 2 damage, since he's at -1.

So he's at -2 total.

You're winning!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: where are all of the god damn wizards

Beatrice Orsini : waking up

Endrite (GM): Zita.

johns: get #woke

Zachaois the Stiff: dys said zita just keeps running unless he says otherwise

Celeste: slay queen

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Lavinia, you too?

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide wakes up and angrily looks out of the tent to see what's going on

Do I go berserk from looking at the demon?

johns: yeah

Aristocritus Bonisagi: a reindeer is breathing fire on the archon, as you can see on the map

johns: ill head towards the ordelaffi camp if I can

Endrite (GM): Ok.

What about Sir Oak?

johns: he's trying to catch up to lavinia

Beatrice Orsini : if you put up parma after sundown, it's still up even when you sleep, right?

johns: yes

Endrite (GM): Yep.

Hypatia of Athens: Sundown buffing ritual

Endrite (GM): Pen 11.

Aristide of Tremere: oh right

Endrite (GM): Mentem.

Aristide of Tremere: 14 mentem mr so im fine

Endrite (GM): Congrats goon.

Beatrice Orsini : 19 mentem

Endrite (GM): Zachaois?

Aristide of Tremere: I run back into the tent and jump under my bed.

Endrite (GM): He went Berserk as I recall.

Zachaois the Stiff: Zach turns around and sees Sir Oak.

And runs at him to attack.

rolling 1d10!+18

(

4

)

+18

=

22

johns: i think endrite has to arbitrate how well someone can defend while carrying an old man over their shoulder

Endrite (GM): You can just attack the demon.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: does zach have a weapon or anything

Zachaois the Stiff: the demons far away

Aristocritus Bonisagi: or is he just punching boak

Endrite (GM): Or charge to attack him.

Zachaois the Stiff: zach has an axe

Aristocritus Bonisagi: sir oak's only weakness.

Endrite (GM): I mean that's pretty insane.

Zachaois the Stiff: hm

i mean

can i reach the demon from here

Endrite (GM): No, but as long as you're charging him you should be fine.

Zachaois the Stiff: oh alright

how many spaces per turn?

Endrite (GM): You only need to attack your friends if there are no enemies left on the field.

Zachaois the Stiff: ill assume that sfine

Zach runs at the demon with his hatchet raised.

Endrite (GM): Sure.

Sounds good.

Alright, the demon turns back into a rider and horse this turn, it's still stuck.

johns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5j4DIellR4

Endrite (GM): Everyone is waking up now.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: christ

rolling 1d10+2

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Endrite (GM): Celeste.

rolling 1d10! + 21

(

2

)

+21

=

23

Close.

Could have been a botch.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+4+4+15

(

3

)

+4+4+15

=

26

close.

16 so i think hes safe

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 21

(

8

)

+21

=

29

Aristocritus Bonisagi: matching 9 means i don't have to attack this round, right

or do i have to beat 9

Celeste: oh i was out of order.

hes totally safe.

Endrite (GM): No, you have to roll a separate thing to calm down.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: what

Endrite (GM): While berserk, you get +2 to Attack and Soak

scores, but suffer a –2 penalty to Defense.

While berserk, you cannot retreat, hesitate to

attack, or give quarter. If you are still berserk

when there are no enemies present, you attack

your friends. You may roll once per round to

Endrite (GM): calm down if you desire, requiring a stress die

+ Perception — Angry against an Ease Factor

of 6. You may learn Martial Abilities at character

creation.

Obviously you cannot learn Martial Abilities here.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+1-0

(

4

)

+1-0

=

5

Endrite (GM): Your Angry is +2 currently.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: cripes

Endrite (GM): So sorry.

Ok, so you attack him?

Celeste: i cant believe our archon is going to die.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10+3+3-2

(

1

)

+3+3-2

=

5

Endrite (GM): I thought your first roll was an attack, sorry.

rolling 1d10! + 21

(

2

)

+21

=

23

Aristocritus Bonisagi: no i thought i had to roll the 1d10+2 every round

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Well that's all cleared up.

rolling 2d10

(

10

+

5

)

=

15

No botch!

Not that it matters.

Ok, Zachaois looks like he's within striking distance.

Zachaois the Stiff: "Raaaah!"

johns: lol

Endrite (GM): Don't forget your +3.

Zachaois the Stiff: do i get extra bonuses for being double angry

Endrite (GM): No.

Zachaois the Stiff: or just +3

damn

Endrite (GM): Just +3.

Zachaois the Stiff:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

5

)

+18

=

23

Endrite (GM): That would be funny but this is a no fun zone.

rolling 1d10! + 21

(

5

)

+21

=

26

Alright, the demon attacks...

rolling 1d2

(

2

)

=

2

Aristocritus.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/smiles/balance.png

Zachaois the Stiff: its fine

the demon is facing the overwhelming power of TWO greek heroes

Celeste: uh, I'm also Greek.

Beatrice Orsini : didn't zachaois get bonus for friendly combatant adjacent to the enemy?

Celeste: Well, half greek.

Zachaois the Stiff: oh maybe

Endrite (GM): Oh, he should.

You both should.

Zachaois the Stiff: i dont know if thats worth +3 though

Endrite (GM): Well whatever.

Here's his attack roll.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it should be.

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

6

)

+22

=

28

Defend!

Zachaois the Stiff: hm. an alright roll

Endrite (GM): Aristocritus!

Beatrice Orsini : it'sa tie with it, but it could be important next time

Zachaois the Stiff: i have confidence in aristocritus

Aristocritus Bonisagi: let's see

Celeste: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/11/f2/37/11f237c545ef6f9b046b30a83dd7f482.jpg

Aristocritus Bonisagi: short sword gives +3 defense, right

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+0+0+3+0

(

5

)

+0+0+3+0

=

8

Endrite (GM): Don't forget, Berserk gives you -3.

Zachaois the Stiff: the odds were in our archons favor... how could he have lost...!?

Endrite (GM): But +3 soak!

Aristocritus Bonisagi: don't those cancel out

Endrite (GM): Mmmaybe.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: nice.

Beatrice Orsini : in this case yes

Endrite (GM): The Red Lord has +11 damage.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: WHERE is my god damn double of impenetrable silk

* doublet

Endrite (GM): Great question.

Hypatia of Athens: Kifaaya translated that one

Endrite (GM): Don't forget, you gain your Terram form bonus to soak.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: teleport out of there and then we can patch you up

Zachaois the Stiff: thats right

Aristocritus Bonisagi: my terram form bonus is 3

Zachaois the Stiff: aristocritus is a powerful elementalist

he has

oh no

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lmao

Hypatia of Athens: I wonder how much Terram vis is in that sword

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i mean 3 is pretty respectable

Endrite (GM): It is.

What's your total soak?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im respecting it.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: thank you.

Hypatia of Athens: Same

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i think it's just 3 +3 from berserk

Endrite (GM): You're looking at 31 damage here.

You also get +STA.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh, 7 then

Zachaois the Stiff: no berserk is -3

Endrite (GM): Ok, you take 24 damage.

Zachaois the Stiff: not +

Aristocritus Bonisagi: is the attack less deadly if i conf the defense roll

Endrite (GM): Berserk gives + 3 Soak.

Yes.

Zachaois the Stiff: oh

Endrite (GM): You'd take 5 less damage.

Zachaois the Stiff: oh right its defense that takes a hit

Lavinia of Jerbiton: plz dont die aristocritus :(

Endrite (GM): Enough to keep you from Insanely Exploding.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: well i wouldnt be dying except, you know.

Celeste: you could have attacked me and then i could have trained you up and away, but nooo

Endrite (GM): Yum.

Zachaois the Stiff: aristocritus would never hurt his allies

Endrite (GM): Delicious.

Ok, you take 19 damage.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: ok here is my confidence token. the archon boldly holds his trusty short sword between him and the demon

Endrite (GM): Which is -9.

Zachaois the Stiff: Zach sheds a single tear at his Greek comrade's noble spirit.

Endrite (GM): Not quite enough to incapacitate you, I'm afraid.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i thought we relaxed damage to make heavy wound = -6

Endrite (GM): Oh, did we?

Ok.

-6.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i thought i told you that

well i updated the wiki on it anyway

21+ damage is still death though

Aristocritus Bonisagi: you should update the combat rules popup

Endrite (GM): You're still in the game!

Ok!

johns (GM): done

Endrite (GM): Everyone is fully awake now and is taking a look to see what the ruckus is.

Zachaois the Stiff: it was only 19 damage thankfully

Aristocritus Bonisagi: thi sis much worse!

Endrite (GM): Celeste.

Celeste: I guess I can try to go pick you up and carry you away, Aristocritus.

Endrite (GM): I have to say, this probably would have gone better if everyone hadn't run away.

Celeste: Probably!

"My dad really rubbed off on you guys, huh"

johns: i blame beatrice and aristide, personally

Hypatia of Athens: I'll bring Jorn and roll a bodyguard for Hypatia for next time

Zachaois the Stiff: "Get my friend out of here, miss! Leave the monster to this son of Athens!"

Celeste: is that a str/athletics roll to pick you up

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, either bring Jorn or have a bodyguard for Hypatia

Endrite (GM): It would be Opposed Brawl, since he's Berserk.

Celeste: nice

Endrite (GM): And he can't retreat.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+5+3 brawl + str

(

4

)

+5+3

=

12

Endrite (GM): Since he's so furious with anger at the demon.

Zachaois the Stiff: damn. the archons own infallible martial mastery will be his undoing

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i have a -6 penalty to that defense though.

Endrite (GM): -9.

Celeste: he can't retreat but i think he can be carried away

Endrite (GM): You also have -3 from Berserk, don't forget.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: oh yeah

Endrite (GM): He definitely can be.

Beatrice Orsini : while trying to stab his rescuer

Celeste: I'll be fine.

Endrite (GM): Well, he doesn't have to stab her.

Roll Brawl, big man.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: good thing i have 0 points in single weapon

Beatrice Orsini : it's more dignified than kicking and biting his rescuer

Endrite (GM): Why do you carry around a short sword?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: it's useful!

Endrite (GM): Clearly.

Zachaois the Stiff: its his trusty gladius

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+0+0-9 (?)

(

5

)

+0+0-9

=

-4

Endrite (GM): Yeah that's right.

-9.

Ok, you get BLOWN OUT and get dragged away kicking and screaming.

You can still attack and be attacked this round, however.

Aristocritus.

johns: blown out greek's asshole

Aristocritus Bonisagi: do i use my wound penalty on the recovery roll for berserk

Celeste: Aristocritus had BETTER fall in love with me for this.

Endrite (GM): I don't think so.

It's a Trait roll.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+1-2 perception - angry

(

2

)

+1-2

=

1

yikes

Endrite (GM): So it's purely emotional.

Ok, make your attack.

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10!+3+3-6

(

7

)

+3+3-6

=

7

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! +21

(

3

)

+21

=

24

Ok!

Is Sir Oak still dragging the priest away?

johns: aye

leaving the combat zone I hope

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Well, you can hope.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i feel like i should point out that, if the demon is attacking at random, i am Lucky.

Endrite (GM): Zachaois!

Zachaois the Stiff: clearly not

I shout curses in Greek at the demon and keep swinging my hatchet.

oh right

whats the bonus for friendly combatant

since hes still technically there

Beatrice Orsini : +3 according to wiki

Zachaois the Stiff:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

1

)

+18

=

19

er

+3 on that

Celeste: rip

Zachaois the Stiff: but uh

Endrite (GM): Yeah, + 3.

Zachaois the Stiff: roll my botch

Endrite (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

8

)

=

9

BOtched.

Zachaois the Stiff: wow

Endrite (GM): Your hatchet explodes, killing everyone.

rolling 1d10! + 21

(

10

+

8

)

+21

=

39

Celeste: homer simpson this is goin great. wav

Endrite (GM): The demon expertly defends.

Hypatia of Athens: GG

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Hypatia of Athens: What characters are you guys going to roll now that we've all been killed by an exploding hatchet

Endrite (GM): The demon attacks you, Aristocritus.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: a demon.

Celeste: lol

Hypatia of Athens: Same

Zachaois the Stiff: lucky

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

3

)

+22

=

25

Zachaois the Stiff: aristocritus gets to escape the cruel hand of life

johns: :(

Hypatia of Athens: This is why I've never taken Lucky

Endrite (GM): It shouldn't be a surprise that demons love to kill.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: hang on i have to navigate to ars badgame II dot wikia dot com since the combat rules have been wiped.

Celeste: i would offer to defend for you but my hands are full

of your corpse

Aristocritus Bonisagi: you should make the quickness roll or whatever to act before the demon attacks

i am just saying.

Hypatia of Athens: If I wanted to be Lucky I'db e a Tytalus, who make their own luck through their self confidence

Beatrice Orsini : he can still get a ridiculously lucky roll

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

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

(

6

)

+3-3-6+5

=

5

Celeste: how do I do that? quickness roll to act before the demon attacks?

what?

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i dunno i did it once

maybe it only works with spells

Endrite (GM): I'm pretty sure it does.

Lemme check with Johns.

Zachaois the Stiff: i cant believe the archon is fucking dead

johns: 1s

fast casting on pg 83

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i gamed w/ honor and followed my Reckless flaw

and now i am dead. let this be a warning

johns: you roll Quickness + (Weapon ability) + Stress, the ease factor is the opponent's initiative

Endrite (GM): We nuked the initiative system though.

johns: you get -10 to your spell casting/attack roll and +2 botch if you successfully act before the other party

I know

So the demon will just roll their initiative like it is in RAW

Celeste:

rolling 1d10!+2+9 quick + single weapon rip aristocritus

(

4

)

+2+9

=

15

Endrite (GM): You can merely Fast Cast to go before everyone else.

Zachaois the Stiff: does ars have disarming or anything

johns: yeah

Zachaois the Stiff: nice

johns: its near the bottom of the combat page

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 16 + 1

(

7

)

+16+1

=

24

johns: welp

Zachaois the Stiff: oh its based on attack advantage

Aristocritus Bonisagi: good stuff

Endrite (GM): Yeah.

Zachaois the Stiff: i try the quickness thing too then

Endrite (GM): Why?

You already blew it.

johns: has this demon been taking any damage from Celeste's relic

Zachaois the Stiff: oh

Endrite (GM): By botching.

Zachaois the Stiff: did i already go this turn

im not sure whats happening

or what turn were in

Celeste: I have been using my bow, which does not contain a relic.

Aristocritus Bonisagi: i've died

Celeste: my mace is the holy thing.

rip

johns: hmm

Zachaois the Stiff: perhaps switch to the mace

johns: I did sorta suggest to bring more grogs

Endrite (GM): It's a Faith 1 relic, right?

johns: let focus on that and not the other part of this that this was all my bad idea

Beatrice Orsini : we never sorted out how long it takes to bring reinforcements

Celeste: im just going to leave because i'm not about to fight a demon myself when the archon just died in my arms and everyone else i'm sworn to protect ran away

yeah

Aristocritus Bonisagi: they are coming in the next couple of rounds probably

Endrite (GM): In fact, they all get here this round!

They appear on the edge of the map.

Beatrice Orsini Initiative: 1

Aristide of Tremere Initiative: 46

Aristocritus Bonisagi: there's only one way to stop the red lord. you have to find aleseta and sacrifice the last of the bonisagi

Endrite (GM): Artistocritus is cut to the quick by the demon blade.

Celeste: at least i can take your corpse back home.

Endrite (GM): He takes 25 damage, beheading him instantly.

Celeste: lol

Aristocritus Bonisagi: cripes

Aristide of Tremere: aristide is dragged along by beatrice against his will

Celeste runs away, carrying Aristocritus' corpse and kicking his head like a ball

Endrite (GM): Heaven or hell???

Who can say.

Beatrice Orsini : lol

johns: tis merely a scratch

Hypatia of Athens: It goes on and on and on, it's Heaven and Hell

Endrite (GM): Ok, Celeste, do you still want to escape with the Archon's corpse now that your allies have appeared on the field?

Celeste: Yes.

Is his corpse visible now?

Aristide of Tremere: "Look, all I'm saying is- Did our archon just get beheaded?"

Endrite (GM): Ok, Aristide.

Probably not, actually.

Beatrice Orsini : i'd say the corpse is, but the head isn't

Celeste: Well, whatever. I can see it, that's what's important.

Endrite (GM): However, his blood is.

johns: Looks like he won't be the head of the covenant anymore

Beatrice Orsini : or the other way around

Aristocritus Bonisagi: johns: Looks like he won't be the head of the covenant anymore

Endrite (GM): And that stuff is just spurtin'.

Aristide?

c'thinker: we need a graveyard for our fallen heroes, like mont-mercure had

Aristide of Tremere: I cast Wizard's Sidestep.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

johns: the catacomb of vardian's, uh, tomb

Endrite (GM): Roll it.

Aristide of Tremere: And try to think of something I can do without getting anywhere near the monster.

infernal 1 right?

c'thinker: just sweep some pagan bones aside

Hypatia of Athens: Just bury him next to the saint

Aristide of Tremere: or not this far away from it

Hypatia of Athens: I'm sure God won't mind

Endrite (GM): Mundane 0.

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10!+12

(

5

)

+12

=

17

Endrite (GM): Congrats.

Zita?

Do you want to just keep running?

Aristide of Tremere: dys has been afk for like 3 hours

Endrite (GM): lol

Beatrice Orsini : still running, i believe

Aristide of Tremere: so i dont know whats going on there

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Hypatia?

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

I don't know, I'll spend a turn praying for guidance while I OOC try to figure out if I can contribute

Endrite (GM): It's simultaneous resolution, you can just wait.

Lavinia, you and Sir Oak are pretty well escaped unless the demon manages to kill everyone.

In which case I will laugh very hard.

Beatrice.

Your move.

Beatrice Orsini : i take a look at the situation and then cast wizard's leap to get away as fast as possible

rolling 1d10+21-2+3

(

5

)

+21-2+3

=

27

as far as it gets me to the left

Endrite (GM): lol

Well if you want to not show up that is your right.

johns: where the heck are the dang malatesta goons

Beatrice Orsini : i would show up, but i saw the situation is not going well

Endrite (GM): They're coming, calm your beard.

johns: i have no beard

Endrite (GM): You can wizard's leap far away.

Beatrice Orsini : and also, the only spell i can cast that would potentially penetrate is touch of goose feather

Endrite (GM): Ok, grog time.

Aristide of Tremere: the malatesta goons are here... to join the demons side!

Beatrice Orsini : i can make the demon sneeze

Hypatia of Athens: Mmm okay

Aristide of Tremere: i can tell the demons motives

maybe

uhh

i can hear his conversation

uhhh

i can organize the grogs with 3 leadership

Endrite (GM): The demon's motives are to tempt mankind into sin.

Aristide of Tremere: nice. youre welcome team

Hypatia of Athens: I can try to make an image of an angel attacking him, it won't do damage but it might be a distraction

Endrite (GM): You can organize a number of grogs equal to half your leadership score.

Aristide of Tremere: is that rounded up or down

Hypatia of Athens: That's two grogs, not bad

Endrite (GM): Let's say up.

Aristide of Tremere: excellent

who have we got here

Endrite (GM): These boys.

Ok, make an illusion, Hypatia.

Use your Holy Magyyykkkk.

Hypatia of Athens: kk

Aristide of Tremere: Napolino and Ombra

thatll be my squad

Beatrice Orsini : holy illusions might actually work on devils

Endrite (GM): Ok.

They might.

Tell me what effect you want then roll for it.

Aristide of Tremere: hmmm

Hypatia of Athens: "Man is like to vanity: his days are as a

shadow that passeth away", level 20

"R: Voice, D: Conc, T: Ind

You create the appearance of a human being that lasts for as long as you concentrate. It has a voice but no substance, and cannot travel in a realistic fashion from where it is summoned, though you can move it within range if you wish. It may behave in unexpected ways, as it is not completely under your control.

(Base 4, +2 Voice, +1 Conc, +1 additional sense)"

Aristide of Tremere: ombra is the former murderer

with visions

im sure exposing him to the demon wont have any ill effects

Endrite (GM): A human being is not an angel.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

It's a human swordsman

Endrite (GM): Well alright.

That's fine.

Roll it.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling 9+d10! music quality check

9+

(

8

)

=

17

Not bad

rolling d10!+28 Holy Music Intervention

(

1

)

+28

=

29

Endrite (GM): Yikes!

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10

(

3

)

=

3

Endrite (GM): Phew.

Ok, I'll put an imaginary swordsman here and you can drive him around.

Hypatia of Athens: Ok

Endrite (GM): Alright, what do the grogs do?

Aristide of Tremere: am i currently organizing napolino and ombra

Zachaois the Stiff: guess ill do zach first

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Zachaois the Stiff: he keeps going for the demon

Endrite (GM): What do you want them to do?

Roll it.

Zachaois the Stiff:

rolling 1d10!+18

(

2

)

+18

=

20

woo

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

10

+

4

)

+22

=

36

Oops, that should be 21.

So 35.

My bad.

Aristide of Tremere: I direct Napolino and Ombra to charge at the demon.

Hypatia of Athens: "You hold no sway over my heart, infernal beast!" the holy apparition says, attempting to miss on purpose as he slashes towards the demon.

Or will do next turn

Endrite (GM): The demon's face is covered in mail, so you can't tell how he reacts to this.

Hypatia of Athens: Damn messenger demons going postal again

Celeste: well, im going to go watch twin peaks.

Endrite (GM): lol

Aristide, do the grogs please.

Hypatia of Athens: Take it easy gamer

c'thinker: thank you for recovering my corpse and head

Endrite (GM): We'll finish up this round and call it for the week.

Aristide of Tremere: oh right

Celeste: ill two monitor it but I won't be paying close attention

johns: do you want me to interrogate the priest today or do it tomorrow

Endrite (GM): Tomorrow.

johns: i mean

next week

Endrite (GM): Right.

johns: or I can do it tomorrow over steam whichever

Endrite (GM): You might all be dead!

Napolino: Napolino first

wait fuck whats his fucking stats

Celeste: lol

Napolino: i think thats 6 great weapon skill

Endrite (GM): Pwnt.

Napolino: fuck whoever wrote this!

johns: yeah fuck rope kid

Hypatia of Athens: "good" game designer rope kid

Endrite (GM): It says 6 right there dude.

Napolino: ok

and he has -3 quickness

so lets see

rolling 1d10!+9

(

8

)

+9

=

17

there it is

Beatrice Orsini : i'll go write bad review of pillars on eternity on steam for this

Celeste: lol

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

3

)

+22

=

25

Actually, if they're fighting as a group it works differently.

Ombra Cadaveri: oh

Beatrice Orsini : bonuses for extra friendly combatants adjacent to the enemy, but not part of the group?

Endrite (GM): You pick a vanguard.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh yeah, regarding Intervention illusions, "It may behave in unexpected ways, as it is not completely under your control."

Ombra Cadaveri: hows the vanguard role work

if its more likely to die then napolino gets it

whoever wrote Ombra was a GOOD PERSON and put his attack roll right there!

Endrite (GM): Then attack with his attack skill + the skills of everyone else in the group, limited by 3 times the leadership score.

Ombra Cadaveri: oh

ombra is the vanguard then

Endrite (GM): The bonus is limited by 3 times the leadership score.

ALSO, it should be 3/2 the Leadership score.

Ombra Cadaveri: does that include friendly combatant bonus?

Endrite (GM): Cannot exceed 9.

Also you can ONLY apply to either Attack or Defense.

Ombra Cadaveri: ill apply it to attack

ombra is attacking with 22 or 25 then

Endrite (GM): Ok, take +3.

Ombra Cadaveri: depending on the friendly combatant bonus

rolling 1d10!+25

(

9

)

+25

=

34

Endrite (GM): For having a friendly combatant.

rolling 1d10! + 22

(

7

)

+22

=

29

Ombra Cadaveri: nice

Endrite (GM): You did it!

Ombra Cadaveri: now hows damage doing in this weeks ruleset

ombra has +6 base damage

Endrite (GM): Add STR + weapon damage.

Ombra Cadaveri: ok

6 damage then i guess

Endrite (GM): So add 6 to 34, then subtract 29 and the enemy's soak of 17.

Ombra Cadaveri: that would appear to be 0 damage

johns: hm.

Beatrice Orsini : the disorganized grogs could charge too

Endrite (GM): Ok, we still have Tunde and Tanolfi.

Beatrice Orsini : since the extra friendlies bonus is +3 per one

Ombra Cadaveri: does tunde have his horse

johns: she should

that's her gimmick

Ombra Cadaveri: she? what the heck

johns: she's a magyar horsewoman

Tünde: yikes

tunde rides in on her high horse

Endrite (GM): Fair enough IMO.

Tünde: and lances the demon

johns: horses give +3 attk/def in RAW so it should be +5 in adjusted

Beatrice Orsini : you fool

the demon is on a horse

Tünde:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

4

)

+22

=

26

johns: endrite says he's been taking that into effect as well this whole time

Tünde: im assuming the horse bonus is not in her current attack thing

Endrite (GM):

rolling 1d10! + 21

(

4

)

+21

=

25

Tünde: wowie

thats 11 damage so still 0 damage

Endrite (GM): Nice!

Tünde: whats tanolfi got for us

Endrite (GM): He's an archer.

Tanolfi: oh fuck us

do archers get the friendly combatant bonus

Endrite (GM): No.

Tanolfi: here he goes

rolling 1d10!+16

(

1

)

+16

=

17

Endrite (GM): Bellisimo.

rolling 1d10! +21

(

7

)

+21

=

28

Tanolfi: botched arrows should hit an ally

Endrite (GM): No.

Tanolfi: damn

Endrite (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

10

+

2

)

=

12

Beatrice Orsini : his bowstring breaks and he has to charge in with a dagger

obviously

Endrite (GM): He merely misses.

OK!

Knights are beginning to emerge from their tents.

Seeing this pitched battle, they call for their weapons!

Of course, they're just wearing their pajamas.

Still, next round they'll have weapons and be ready to go!

Endrite (GM): Ok!

Big wrap up next week!

Who could the mysterious demon summoner be?!

Tanolfi: bonfilias back baby

johns: lmao

Beatrice Orsini : bonifilia's greatest baked creation: the gingerdead man

Tanolfi: remember when we were planning to finish up the wedding and do the tribunal this week

Endrite (GM): That was MERELY A RUSE!

But it could have happened.

We spent a lot of time on some weird shit here.

johns: rememebr when you said two weeks ago you thought this adventure would go real quick

and we should prepare to jump right into tribunal

oh

someone just said that

Hypatia of Athens: lol

johns: i wasnt going to read up more than 3 lines sorry

Endrite (GM): I remember.

Beatrice Orsini : lol

Endrite (GM): I REMEMBER!

johns: ok, so

you owe it to explain how it's possible that this wraps up quickly without World ending scenario

or hell we'll just read the published text once we finish this

Tanolfi: hm. theres a silver lining to all this

now johns will finally have the perfect excuse to make the new ars thread

c'thinker: i was alt tabbed. did anyone else die

Endrite (GM): Well, you could have just discovered all the demon summoners, preventing the demon from being summoned.

Tanolfi: for our new campaign, in hungary

johns: idk how you discover demon summoners tho

Endrite (GM): I'll be honest, this demon is pretty much done for.

All these grogs are going to crush him.

Tanolfi: not really

he has 17 soak

it would take a powerful grog

johns: napolitano is going to sit on him

Endrite (GM): At +3 per grog not really.

johns: +10000 damage

Tanolfi: +3 per grog??

Endrite (GM): Plus the holy magic swordsman counts as a grog.

Tanolfi: the friendly combatant bonus stacks??

Beatrice Orsini : yes

Tanolfi: oh

ohhh

i thought it was just a single application like dnd flanking

Endrite (GM): I was worried this guy would just get splattered but you made the very wise decision to keep all your fighting men in their tent asleep.

johns: lol

Endrite (GM): Leaving the wizards who run at the first sight of trouble to guard the priest from his suspected Infernalist "allies".

johns: aristocritus is the only fighter wizard we have here

like, total

and he's not even a fighter as we found out

Endrite (GM): Not true, Proclus has murdered 2 guys with magic already.

Tanolfi: lavinia rubs her hands as she takes the opportunity to collect arcane connections to her covenant

Beatrice Orsini : implying she doesn't already have them

johns: i'll use aristocritus' head as an arcane connection to the rest of his body

Endrite (GM): Glowing hermetic brain.

Tanolfi: read aristocritus's mind and discover his trianoma secrets

Endrite (GM): Also solving this adventure with investigation is perfectly possible.

johns: no one in vardian's tomb can investigate shit unfortunately

Aristide of Tremere: i dont have that skil

Beatrice Orsini : i seduced a minstrel in an effort to gain information and they went invisible before out agreed later meeting

that's investigation

Endrite (GM): For example, and I'm fairly confident I can tell you this now, you could have just publicly accused Father Patrizio of being an Infernalist and Monsignor Malatesta and Monsignor Ordelaffi hate each other so much that at least one of them would have believed you.

Beatrice Orsini : they'd both believe it to stop the wedding

Endrite (GM): I mean maybe.

I recommend you hire more mercs.

johns: i thought about it but then again why would anyone trust a bunch of smell wizards over a priest they've known for years

Endrite (GM): You could have accused him of using demon magic to convince people that the marriage was a good idea.

c'thinker: could i have used a confidence point on the roll to avoid becoming berserk

Endrite (GM): This is actually in the adventure proper and the author straight up assumes this is what people will do.

I'll say yes.

c'thinker: lol.

johns: here's my experience with the prepublished adventures: the writers have no fucking clue what people would actually do in any situation

Endrite (GM): It's FTW.

Hypatia of Athens: It was OOCly obvious what was going on but hard to approach it ICly

Endrite (GM): What do you mean?

Aristide of Tremere: the last adventure we had involving infernalists, we had to carefully get evidence or otherwise convince the bishop to side with us anyway

Endrite (GM): I don't see any bishops here, do you?

Hypatia of Athens: I mean I couldn't really iterate with IC speeches why this wedding wasn't going to do what people thought it would.

Aristide of Tremere: i think the ars magica writers might be fools

Beatrice Orsini : i want the kids to happily marry, so i didn't want to prevent the wedding

Endrite (GM): Marriage is the traditional way to seal an alliance in medieval times.

c'thinker: what is their suggested route of investigation

Endrite (GM): You find out that Father Patrizio is doing magic and then accuse him publicly.

Aristide of Tremere: lets all side with the infernalists

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, that the infernal regio wasn't going to get purged

Endrite (GM): Oh it will.

johns: the only proof he's doing magic is my say so

and involves explaining hermetic theory

c'thinker: attention mundanes. i have an important warning for you: when i was talking to the abbott my parma magica alerted me that something was wrong. now let me explain,

Aristide of Tremere: no but you see johns

someone will believe you

automatically

so you win

Beatrice Orsini : because they want to believe

anything to ruin the wedding

Aristide of Tremere: aristocritus died for this

Endrite (GM): Don't take it too hard.

These things happen.

Hypatia of Athens: Well I mean, everything seemed in accord with Dominion Lore

Endrite (GM): Because of your extreme cowardice.

johns: The important thing is, Sir Oak survived

c'thinker: yeah lets focus on the real culprit here

aristide.

Aristide of Tremere: aristide is far away from the fight so if anything bad should happen hes capable of fleeing

Beatrice Orsini : i have nothing to fight against non-human enemies except crystal dart

Hypatia of Athens: Crystal dart is a fine spell

Aristide of Tremere: good thing we have zita and not archibald

Beatrice Orsini : low damage

Aristide of Tremere: good thing also that dys went afk for uh 5 hours or so now

c'thinker: high pen low drag

Endrite (GM): Proclus has straight up killed people with Crystal Dart crits.

Beatrice Orsini : and my terram is low, so i have almost no pen with it

Hypatia of Athens: Master penetration with it

Beatrice Orsini : my terram is 1, so i can get it better soon

Endrite (GM): Anyway, I think this was a pretty good sesh except for the weird tangent where Aristide tried to make the Osini family look bad.

Aristide of Tremere: thats not a weird tangent

Beatrice Orsini : that's a fine goal

Hypatia of Athens: It didn't seem to take up that much screen time.

c'thinker: let the record state i died nobly

Hypatia of Athens: I'll roll a sword grog this week

Beatrice Orsini : dulce et decorum est pro sodales mori? that's probably not right

Hypatia of Athens: And save the stats so I can replace them quickly

Endrite (GM): It will, C'thinker.

Hypatia of Athens: Does Aristocritus go to Elysium or Heaven?

Endrite (GM): Great question.

Aristide of Tremere: lets send him to valhalla

Jørn of Merinita rubs hands

Shauncat: Let's buy an ignem summae at tribunal

Endrite (GM): That could be good.

johns: how much to commission song and poetry of the valours aristocritus

Shauncat: Free

Hypatia is a composer

Endrite (GM): Awww yeah.

c'thinker: put the corpse of the mighty archon up for auction to the highest-bidding necromancer

Aristide of Tremere: optional head attachment

c'thinker: some battle damage

Endrite (GM): Who is the new archon?

Shauncat: Hypatia can do two songs a season according to A&A, she can make that one song to get a higher AQ

Aristide of Tremere: well

c'thinker: lodewig

Aristide of Tremere: for now, it would be lavinia, the seniormos magus

johns: seniority wise, aren't only 2 of the original magi still here

Aristide of Tremere: naturally

Beatrice Orsini : let's hold an election before the tribunal unless there's succession declared

Shauncat: Procius and Lavinia should certamen to find out

Will anyone champion Lavinia?

johns: :(

Aristide of Tremere: aristide will

Endrite (GM): Heh heh.

c'thinker: in the absence of our actual leader venator and our sub-leader lodewig, you have to come up with a third level of leadership

johns: proconsuls

Aristide of Tremere: well make a new tradition

Endrite (GM): I love it.

Aristide of Tremere: archonship is given to whoever holds aristocritus's head

Beatrice Orsini : all hail archon celeste

johns: everyone needs a title from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_honorum

Shauncat: All hail Shadow, heroes rise again

c'thinker: we don't even wear togas

what kind of roman covenant is this

Aristide of Tremere: none of these words are very funny johns

Shauncat: Maybe Hypatia does

Hypatia wears laurels after all

Beatrice Orsini : the covenant that was until recently ruled by greeks

johns: aristocritus was supposed to join the mystery cult of toga wearers... sigh

Endrite (GM): Proclus calls Censor.

Shauncat: Let's all become Augustans

Aristide of Tremere: once again demonic forces come to overthrow the greeks and grant romans control

Beatrice Orsini : who is to be the novus homo?

Aristide of Tremere: thats me

Shauncat: And defy the OoH

Endrite (GM): What's your next character, C'thinker?

c'thinker: i'm lookin'

Shauncat: Kabalist

Beatrice Orsini : alcoholic ex misc with necessary condition innebriated for casting magic

c'thinker: the folk witch flying formula only works when the caster is fucked up on aqua vitae

oh here's something that's been relevant a couple times

Using Comprehend Magic against another magus is scrying, and forbidden by the Code of Hermes. However, many Tribunals will not convict a maga of scrying if the only information she obtains is whether a given person is a magus or not, no matter what method of detection she uses.

buried in the ex misc chapter of societates

Aristide of Tremere: use it to scry and then claim all your found out was their membership in the order

c'thinker: if you do that they kill you unfortunately

Aristide of Tremere: they cant find out your lying without scrying on you

thats the trick

johns: one hitch to the gift detector is it pings when someone with the gift is in the city but doesnt narrow it down further

Aristide of Tremere: make a character with an obscene score in code of hermes and then just lie to your sodales about what it says

c'thinker: lol

Aristide of Tremere: and if they question you start reciting it from memory

Beatrice Orsini : ex misc tradition of renegade wizard lawyers

Aristide of Tremere: so it would detect the covenant

well done johns

johns: it won't penetrate the aegis

or magic resistance in general

Aristide of Tremere: im going to intentionally spend a lot of time otu of the covenant to troll you

without my parma

Endrite (GM): Genius.

johns: Oh no. Anything but that.

Endrite (GM): Ok, I'm gonna go get some dinner.

See you all next week.

Beatrice Orsini : see you

Shauncat: Goodnight all

c'thinker: gg