10/8/17

GM: Please re-join as player before the game starts.

Endrite (GM): Fu fu fu.

Shauncat (GM): Need to finish adding a second nun for Hypatia

I'll make a great weapon one since Aurelia acts as vanguard

dys: Good news sodales. Even if we dont have enough time in autumn for labwork, I can finish inventing our Level 30 aegis in winter!

Endrite (GM): Why?

Hafl T.: to make proclus obsolete

dys: Well we have a might 21 magic creature walk right into our aegis

* had

Endrite (GM): Which guy was that?

dys: I have the lab total to improve ours, and proclus gave away our lab notes for the level 20 one

The angel that Fabius had

Endrite (GM): Oh, he was invited by someone with a casting token.

I'm pretty sure.

dys: The angel itself wasn't, as no-one knew about it, iirc

Endrite (GM): Fabius did and he had a token.

dys: I asked johns and he said the angel was high enough might to walk in

Yeah, fabius, but not his guardian

The guardian would need to be invited seperately, otherwise you could sneak in infinite creatures with a single token

Endrite (GM): If you have a token you can invite supernatural creatures into an aura, I'm pretty sure.

GM: Pretty good.

dys: We can check with johns but I'm fairly certain the token itself confers no rights beyond letting you in, they'd have to be invited in by one of the original casters

Anyway, a level 30 aegis helps keep us secure against outside threats, in light of us being outright raided I'd say it's worthwhile.

It's been 25 years or so, time to bump our defences

devil's fav demon (GM): sounds like a smart plan.

let's also get a moat now that malach is back.

and just flood the catacombs entirely.

Endrite (GM): Why?

devil's fav demon (GM): why not?

Hafl T.: definitely not

Endrite (GM): We'd have to dig up all the buildings to build a moat.

Hafl T.: and we haven't finished exploring the catacombs and we have a vis source there

devil's fav demon (GM): we can start the moat at the priory of st ubaldesca.

dys: Frankly, it feels like your plan to build a large moat around an inn on a busy street has some flaws that need to be ironed out

devil's fav demon (GM): i stand by it.

Endrite (GM): How much XP was the adventure where we spent the whole time arguing?

Hafl T.: which one?

devil's fav demon (GM): 7, i think.

it was going to be 6 but johns felt like being nice, iirc.

also, i almost never "rc". be warned.

Endrite (GM): No, the one with Prudenzio.

dys: I dont know what that is. Also check other people's seasons, they should have the adventure xp listed

Sister Guzeppina:

rolling d10+35 Middle Age year

(

2

)

+35

=

37

dys: brb, might be a few minutes late dfd

devil's fav demon (GM): prudenzio was 8, it seems like.

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches.

devil's fav demon (GM): welcome.

How did Mal return, again?

Hafl T.: emerged from a hole

GM: Just walking out of the catacombs like nothing happened

Hypatia of Athens: Fell through a hole back into VT

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he probably does still have a token

casting token thati s

Shauncat: Oh yeah Beardbeard I wanna explore the lady of the lake regio a bit as Jorn if we have time today

Malachiasz of Tytalus: sure

Hafl T.: i wanted to do that with beatrice as well

GM: Mal's just sitting in the inn eating an apple when we come back, inspiring the new Aegis.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dfd can run that too if he wants

Shauncat: I can take Beatrice with me or we can do it on our own to different ends.

GM: I have no idea what to do with that.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gah!

The tavern is cleared out and people are looking at it in fear from the streets.

Hafl T.: beatrice is spending the season taking care of the sick in the priory hospital as penance, but she can pop in to explore the lake

Malachiasz of Tytalus: The smell of brimstone and old turnip wine is flowing from the doorway.

GM: Mmm.... Old turnip wine.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Inside everyone's oldest, greatest friend sits on a stool munching on a turnip.

Hypatia of Athens: Rejoice for he has returned

Bialas of Bjornaer rejoices, seeing a new person to pester endlessly about the rumors of the legendary Garden

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Hello old man. Seen the magi of Vardian's Tomb anywhere?"

Endrite (GM): Rolling Aging.

rolling 1d10! - 2

(

10

+

10

+

2

)

-2

=

20

Bolad: gj

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is that for proclus

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You're looking at the senior magus. Welcome, stranger. I am Bialas of Bjornaer, Clan Arelie, the White Bear of Harmony, etc etc"

nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Senior?" I take a loud bite of the turnip. "All the veterans dead then?"

Endrite (GM): Yeah.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go look for Archibald or Lavinia to see if they've heard of this guy

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Senior by age alone. You're familiar with the old crew of meddlers?"

Hypatia of Athens: Maybe Beatrice would know him too

Artemisia: beatrice was around for about a season when he was around

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hello, I am summoned"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes. I left the covenant nearly a decade ago to contemplate and perfect the art of Terram."

Hypatia of Athens: "There's a Pole in the tavern, claiming to be a magi and member of Vardian's Tomb."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets ask archibald to wizard march him just to be safe

Bialas of Bjornaer claps a massive hand on Malach's back

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I go up to greet Malach who I suppose I recognize

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Good to have you on my side, then!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Salvete, fellow Tytatlus."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Fellow? Finally got a head for better things than salves, eh?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I was asked to join in recognition of my superior debating ability."

Endrite (GM): AFK a minute.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Ah, great to hear."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I have skimmed the Analects and can see there is much wisdom there."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Certainly there is. Tell me, is our good old Archon still about? I've missed his impeccable leadership."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Even Virgil didn't know everything, eh? Haw haw haw haw"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you mean Aristocritus, he's dead."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Dead? Him?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Obviously Virgil predicted the coming of Tyatlus and the composition of the writing. Even a schoolboy's cursory reading of his folio would reveal that."

"A demon chopped off his head."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Demons! Of course. No mere man could have taken down a master of the elements, one of which is Terram."

"The greatest of which, in fact."

"Tell me, did you know that..."

Malachiasz begins discussing the finer points of various stone types.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Of course, nothing is as fine as white marble. The most regal and resilient of them all."

"As much as I would love to listen to you all day, I have some exciting news."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Regal, certainly, but granite is much stronger. Do go on though."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "My sodales have heard me tell tales of the mystical garden of Herisson, almost since I have arrived. If you don't know the story, I'll be happy to relate it once more, of course.

But to get to the point, I have been in correspondence with a former associate of mine, Tasso Agricola of Bjornaer, Clan Arelie, of Etna Covenant, the Kind Badger, and so on and so forth. He is a direct descendant of Herisson himself!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: does lavinias smock require her to raise her hands the entire time

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I have finally convinced him to allow us to visit, and speak with him of his family's history."

"We'll find this garden yet!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A magic garden, like something out of the Bucolics.. It sounds fantastic!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Gardens?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I suppose there'll be quality dirt there."

Hypatia of Athens: "And perhaps sights worthy of poetry."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Perhaps more than that! It is said that Herisson possessed the ability to grow Vis, in practically unlimited amounts."

"Should we find this garden for ourselves, we might never go wanting."

dys: Back

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Malach, not seen ye in years. How was yer travels?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Fine, Archibald. What happened to your hair? And did you get even grumpier?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I won't be going along with you, of course. I, ah, do not get along well with the man. It was a struggle to convince him to allow my sodales to visit."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Ah, the poetry of the garden... 'What makes a plenteous Harvest, when to turn, The fruitful Soil, and when to sowe the Corn' ..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's been hard times since ye left, in many ways. I'm still fit as a fiddle, don't ye worry."

"A vis source, ye say?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I finish my turnip. "Well, let's go see this man about this garden and start harvesting its vis."

"When we return I can tidy up my old lab. I've got the greatest idea for a spell."

Hypatia of Athens: "Magic gardens work for ballad inspirations as well. Imagine if Odysseus finds his men turned to fruit, instead of swine."

Archibald of Guernicus: "How much of these rumours of Henrisson are true, I must confess I've nae knowledge of Bjornaer's history."

Artemisia: his men were greek. they already were fruits

Malachiasz of Tytalus: holy shit

Hypatia of Athens: Good point

Archibald of Guernicus: The archon spins in his grave

Proclus of Rome: Where is the Garden of Herisson?

Artemisia: the archon spins one way, his head the other way

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets find a tree that grows new aristocritus's

Bialas of Bjornaer: "More than a vis source, Archibald. If the stories are accurate, and I strongly believe they are, we may find a breakthrough allowing us to grow and replicate vis of any type we desire."

"Oh, where is it? I have no idea. No one's found it in hundreds of years."

"Some fools believe it doesn't even exist. Haw haw haw."

Artemisia: the garden not existing in the end would be cool

Proclus of Rome: "So it could be anywhere in Europe?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It could."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: In a shocking twist the garden was in our hearts this entire time

Hypatia of Athens: The dream cult could plant a garden in their memory palace

Archibald of Guernicus: "If such a discovery was found, surely he'd have shared it, aye?"

Proclus of Rome: "Why should he?"

"Mystery cultists are frequently secretive."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He may have. He was, ah, tragically killed."

"In Wizard's War, by a member of his own House."

"For revealing secrets to the Diedne."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The malevolent touch of Tremere reaches even into the depths of House Bjoarner.."

Proclus of Rome: "Seems like this could be a dangerous Code violation, in that case."

Artemisia: now that aristide is gone, we can start telling the truth again

Archibald of Guernicus: "If he was conferring with magi fae Diedne, we should take care that this discovery of his is what it seems."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: old hagrid

Artemisia: emphasis on hag

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Gypaetus of Bjornaer was his slayer, as the tales go. Gypaetus had one filia, I believe her name was Variña... Her sanctum may be another clue, but I have no idea where it is."

Archibald of Guernicus: You asked for it - new tokens are here

Bialas of Bjornaer: "They say up in the mountains, but what mountains and where, I could not say."

Proclus of Rome: "Where is her sanctum?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Mt. Etna, perhaps." I chuckle

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Perhaps Tasso knows more."

"The old codger."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Mountains are sites of great power. It makes sense for such a thing to be there."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It would indeed be convenient if Varina's tomb were right in my old friend's backyard."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: varina

vardian

it fits.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oho, he's at the new covenant there?"

Hypatia of Athens: "Perhaps records would say which mountain."

"If the sanctum is recognized, that is."

Artemisia: time for an exciting adventure in the archives

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Perhaps!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "They'd be listed in that tribunal's records, aye, maybe. Was this Varina definitely in the roman tribunal?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Herisson was of Normandy. I assume the same of his murderer."

Hypatia of Athens: With the ability to use two assistants for art, I can take 24 days total for this aventure

Proclus of Rome: "It seems likely that the sanctum has already been plundered in that case. The adventurers crawling around the old Normandy Tribunal would have seen to that."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Normans!"

Hypatia of Athens: Fucking Normans

Archibald of Guernicus: "Or it could be that it sank intae obscurity. Without proper records, if she was a recluse it may have been lost tae them."

"Too busy focussing on raiding and bickering tae seek out a hidden sanctum."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I admire that optimism!"

Hypatia of Athens: "If it was in the territory of the Alps, it may have fared better."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Truly, the greatest secrets of my clan have been hidden long enough."

Proclus of Rome: "A disused sanctum would make a superior raiding target, as the defenders would be dead and the secrets found therein would likely be quite valuable."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If it was well known, aye. If it was hidden? Who'd think tae look. It's worth investigating, is my point."

Hypatia of Athens: ""Surely Bialas wouldn't have gathered everyone if he believed someone has beaten us to the chase?"

"Especially given the distances involved."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It may not be unguarded. If Varina had fallen into Twilight..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "With a secret like that, ye'd flee the lawless norman tribunal and head for somewhere that can better protect it, I imagine. Growing vis does ye little good if someone raids ye and takes it all."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Magi of Bjornaer may become powerful magical beasts, as Birna did."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yer not suggesting she's still around, are ye? How long ago did she disappear?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'll handle any great magic beast that might be guarding it."

Proclus of Rome: :All the more reason for the gloryseekers of Normandy to have hunted and slain him."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "If it's truly on a mountain it shouldn't be a problem."

Proclus of Rome: I mean her.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "All of these stories are from before the Schism War. I believe in their accuracy, but, well. One never can know for sure."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you need mercurian magic to do mercurian rituals dont you

Proclus of Rome: I don't think you do.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice

hermes portal is feasible then

Hypatia of Athens: Sometimes they have insane totals that you probably want the free Communion for

Proclus of Rome: Cult of Mercury AKA Insane Clown Posse.

Hypatia of Athens: If you're working on Hermes Portal I can have Jorn gather ACs for you though Archibald might be better for opening the other side of the portal

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's get the terram boys together for one big project

"What should we pursue first then, sodales? This meeting with Bialas' old friend?"

Hypatia of Athens: "I think we should put off travelling to Normandy for a sanctum that might already be looted, until we know more."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "That seems a sound plan."

Proclus of Rome: "If we can't find it any other way, I assume so."

Is Bialas still here or has he fallen asleep?

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm still here.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Then I won't say the thing I was about to say, which may have been insulting.

Bialas of Bjornaer: If you set a redcap to go looking through the archives while you visit Etna, two birds one stone.

Appreciate your restraint.

Hypatia of Athens: I can do that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Bolad will join the expedition.

Anthemia Mercere puts on hat

Bialas of Bjornaer: Welcome.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then Hypatia searches the archives, and we meet with this Bjornaer. Anything ye can tell us about the man?"

By god, its cumthinker

Anthemia Mercere: Hail to thee, thinker of cum

c'thinker: prithee

Anthemia Mercere: If I carry mail to and from Harco I can probably avoid losing downtime

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders up from below.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salvete, omnes."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "He's the eldest of the sept of Herisson, a direct Hermetic descendant of the man himself. A Harmonist who loves the church and attends regular service. In my opinion, he's nothing but a simpleminded farmer, but his ties and history may allow him some knowledge I do not possess."

"The nicest badger I've ever met."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Gulielmus, just in time. We're setting out fer Etna, tae meet with this badger."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I whisper to Archibald, "Is that a Norman?"

Anthemia Mercere: "Are there generally nice badgers when not speaking in relative terms?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "He's French, aye, he's been a good help since he arrived. An Ex Misc, ye see. Strange tradition."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea raises an eyebrow.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Going in search of the Garden of Eden?"

Anthemia Mercere: Ahhh the French

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Searching for a site of great Terram potential."

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald respects the Auld Alliance

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Hah, even better! This one's real."

Proclus of Rome: "How should we travel to Normandy?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh no. tribulation lightning has struck down bialas

Artemisia: Let's skip searching for Garden of Eden and learn the Language of Adam through linguistic research.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Proclus of Rome: The way you do that is by abandoning children in the woods.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We took the Mercere portals before, perhaps Venator could help us out."

GM: the covenant of Etna is at Mt. Etna in Sicily.

Archibald of Guernicus: "But we can worry about that after we return fae Etna."

Proclus of Rome: Well, that makes sense.

Artemisia: leaving children in the woods requires you to leave the lab

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mount etna. the stringini face. you're welcome dys.

Archibald of Guernicus: Time to go find a badger hanging around Etna

Bialas of Bjornaer: It's been hundreds of years, and despite Herisson being Norman originally, his familial and magical line has settled locally. Very convenient.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: can we get a courtesy ban on this perverted norman please??

Proclus of Rome: That is convenient.

Well, how are we going to get to Mount Etna?

Bialas of Bjornaer: Good question.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You know, a voyage does sound nice. Something to get the mind off recent events."

it's just been 2 seasons since aristide was tortured to death right

Anthemia Mercere: It's been two weeks since you laughed at me

Bolad: let's commission some paintings of it so we never forget

Artemisia: it was not torture

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

I mean, it was torture.

Anthemia Mercere: He was grilled for info

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it would make a good painting

Proclus of Rome: Really Satanic torture too since you lit him on fire every time he said the LORD's name.

Anthemia Mercere: He won't be making any witty burns any time soon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the destruction of the devil of vardians tomb, by the virtuous magi of (also) vardian's tomb

Proclus of Rome: Let's make Aristide a Saint.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Good idea.

Archibald of Guernicus: Patron Saint of Backstabbers

Malachiasz of Tytalus: patron saint of jingling

Beatrice ex Merinita pops up from doing Good Works.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Time to convert back to paganism.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I gather some turnips in my bag for the road trip.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's gather our party and venture forth

GM: As this will possibly involve a good deal of travel, I will be inflicting long term travel fatigue if you all decide to rush. Hwahaha.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea notices Mal, who is like 12 feet tall and whispering about the weird frenchman

Anthemia Mercere: If you convert to paganism you don't have to do penance for killing Aristide, you can just become a faerie when you die

GM: I'm pretty sure you can squeeze it in though.

Without that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, hello there. Gulielmus ex Miscellanea."

Artemisia: the penance is already paid off

Proclus of Rome: Yeah probably.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: indulgences ftw.

Proclus of Rome: How many iron rations should we bring?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Gulielmus, this is Malach, he was around before ye joined, left on a journey for some time."

Anthemia Mercere: Buying an indulgence and then converting to paganism seems wasteful

Proclus of Rome: I recommend 0.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A master of Terram if I ever saw one."

Artemisia: kinslaying, sorcery and fraud is worth only one season of good works and eight pawns of corpus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ive been vacillating about this for a while but im back to seriously considering spending 3/4 of our vim vis stockpile opening a ring for enchantment

Anthemia Mercere: We have a Jerbiton for doing the food expenses

Artemisia: you can just make your own vim vis

it's no big deal

Archibald of Guernicus: Good news. I spent some vim vis binding my familiar after runnign out of intelligo.

Proclus of Rome: What is your familiar?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes.

Archibald of Guernicus: A wise owl

Bolad: if beatrice becomes a pagan we can make up for the money she spent by selling her into slavery

Proclus of Rome: Yikes.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's in RoP: Magic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do we have 6 pawns left

Archibald of Guernicus: ha ha ha

GM: Archibald's new familiar is quite an omen.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald, opening the vis stores: owl have some of dat

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm not becoming a pagan with the flaw, i'm just building a temple of diana in the lake regio

Anthemia Mercere: Owl have some of cat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should have just gone ahead and used the vis immediately

Artemisia: is archibald's owl named hedwig?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: instead i was thinking of the aegis, like a sap

Archibald of Guernicus: [bites into an apple containing 3 pawns of herbam vis] you snooze you lose

GM: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: I've not given it a name, yet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This won't be a problem when I'm initiated into the upper echelons of the alchemy cult

GM: Ok. Who's going to Sicily and how are you going?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea stares vacantly into the distance

Proclus of Rome: Well, obviously we should go by ship.

Archibald of Guernicus: Switch to the big map so we can dramatically slam our tokens down

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we can travel by tunnel

Anthemia Mercere eats some apple risotto gruel made by and for the nuns

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's time for the whale reveal

queue up the airship music

Artemisia: I could just use my Greater Immunity to drowning and walk

Bolad: lets use arcadian travel.

Anthemia Mercere: http://www.whatisfailwhale.info/

Artemisia: arcadian travel sounds like a good idea

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems like youd have a hard time finding the way

Proclus of Rome: Could work.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: on the bottom of the sea

Jorn of Merinita: Where do you want to do?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thank you shaun

Proclus of Rome: But we might not like where we end up with Arcadian Travel.

Jorn of Merinita: Let me see how much Faerie Magic I can get out of my adventure XP

Yeah

Artemisia: i am a fairy princess, i can pull us through

Proclus of Rome: I mean, we might end up in a volcano.

Jorn of Merinita: You get sent to a regio nearby the destination

Artemisia: lava regio

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're going to botch the travel and end up in a regio that contains a nearly-identical copy of mythic europe

Archibald of Guernicus: What if we already did

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god.

Artemisia: lava regio that is just a videogame level and the lava is harmless unless you touch it

GM: Whoops.

Jorn of Merinita: You have to walk on the trod so you can stop moving once you feel like you're burning

Proclus of Rome: Wow, the tomb was in Rome all along.

GM: wait this isnt the biggest map. theres probably a bigger one.

Proclus of Rome: You want the Tribunal map.

Bolad: lets use arcadian travel to go right to the garden and ruin this adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV53mhpc1Ww

GM: Looka t that.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wrong map!

GM: Oh, TRIBUNAL MAP

Proclus of Rome: Now that's what I'm talking about, Bolad.

GM: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [in EXTREMELY funny voice] Looks like Etna is only fifteen feet away

Archibald of Guernicus: It's unfortunately a magic regio and Arcadian Travel only works for fairy ones

GM: Ok. Im trying to fix it.

Proclus of Rome: 253 miles away.

GM: Whew.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay, if I invest 5XP in Faerie Magic, and you let me roudn up when halving the ability, I can take two people across at a time.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats pretty funny cumthinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you. im the first person to come up with it

Archibald of Guernicus: Delete the tokens that arent here so we can slam down the tokens that are here

Bolad: i consult the spirit of tengri, who knows all, to reveal the location of the garden

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristide...

Bolad: does napolino still have AIDS

GM: these are some very big tokens.

Artemisia: he died as he lived, a satanist

Proclus of Rome: I mean maybe?

Jorn of Merinita: Hypatia is by Harco, leave her there

Proclus of Rome: I feel like that's up to the doctor to discover.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone in giant blood crew should have a bigger token.

Bolad: you told me that they have garotillo

are they cured yet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: theyve had garotillo for a long time

or well. the braindead guy has

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm working on healing the braindead guy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: huh? i dont have garotillo

Beatrice ex Merinita: but someone keeps interrupting me with making me kill my cousins

Jorn of Merinita: I will spend a few hours creating a permanent charm to Mt Etna

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the grogs do

it takes us to a nearby faerie regio, right

and then we have to make our way down to the real world, and find mount etna

or is that all wrong. i dont know

roll to not cry, GM

Proclus of Rome: Seems like taking a boat might be easier, who knows what kind of faerie nonsense might be going on?

GM: I just kind of assume anything Jorn says about faerie stuff is right because I haven't read any of it.

A boat would not be very difficult.

Artemisia: faerie nonsense is my favorite nonsense

maybe i can get another title out of this

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+25 Craft: Stonemason includes bonus for Excellent Quality stone slabs and Superior Quality chiseling tools, making a relief of Mt Etna using Craft: Stonemason

(

6

)

+25

=

31

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's have a disputatio about the merits of boat vs. arcadian travel.

Artemisia: or another arsenic poisonining

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's use Arcadian Travel. What's the worst that can happen?

Jorn of Merinita: EF20,, it's a good picture

Artemisia: nice, a permanent charm

can you borrow another merinita's permanent charm or do you have to make your own?

Jorn of Merinita: I'm not sure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to spend my 2 seasons while everyone else figures this out.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets go to etna

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the aura in the temple is 5 right?

Jorn of Merinita: Who volunteers to go first and see what the faerie regio on the other side looks like?

Archibald of Guernicus: 6

the regio in general is 4

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me

Artemisia: I'll go first.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

GM: Good luck.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well go together

Proclus of Rome: Sounds good.

Artemisia: ok

Malachiasz of Tytalus: jorn can stay behind

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to huff some vis in the 6-strength aura

Artemisia: you seem a nicer men than the ultimate rapist

good luck

Proclus of Rome: Though, it seems like a mistake to let an apprentice go first.

Archibald of Guernicus: What sort of vis are you snorting, we're a bit low overall

We have a TON of animal vis tho

Jorn of Merinita: I thought that's what apprentices were for

Malachiasz of Tytalus: note for purposes of social interaction: malach is normal gifted and has tainted withe vil

Artemisia: I have gentle gift, so I can deal with fae.

Archibald of Guernicus: If the apprentice gets harmed, we just damaged hermetic property

Bolad: we have probably less vis than shows on the sheet cause no one bothers to update teh sheet

Proclus of Rome: Well, she isn't any of our apprentices.

Artemisia: I have unaffected by the gift.

Archibald of Guernicus: ill update it with what i spent, then

Artemisia: and i'm losing the gift after this year

Jorn of Merinita: Anyway I have to go along with anyone using Arcadian Travel, as I negotiate passage with the Guardian of the Road.

GM: Nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets throw jorn out and raid the road

GM: Thank god this Arcadian Travel thing is functional and has no possible things to go wrong.

Artemisia: and i have to make stamina roll to not faint when entering faerie aura

Jorn of Merinita: I can't open a path that stops at Arcadia

Proclus of Rome: Same, same.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay, what's the aura of the regio on the other side?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: at level 9 it takes 2 pawns to study, right

Artemisia: yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm using creo which we have plenty of.

Jorn of Merinita: If it's too high then the EF will be insane

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+6

(

10

+

4

)

+6

=

20

Artemisia: beatrice will have to snort some creo herself before gui uses it all

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lmao.

Artemisia: nice

Bolad: cool hacks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: studying vis ftw

Proclus of Rome: Ok so should Artemisia and I roll Stamina now or what?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just exploding die + aura, right

Artemisia: i hope you have affinity for that

GM: time to arbitrarily decide that it's an aura 9 regio and you have to take a boat.

Jorn of Merinita: That's your right

Proclus of Rome: Fine by me.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hwys proclus rolling

i went

Proclus of Rome: I'm Susceptible to Fairy Power.

Artemisia: same

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh

Proclus of Rome: That's why I don't like faeries.

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus and Artemisia get the vapours in a fairy aura

Proclus of Rome: -man who hides from the doorbell

GM: ok, apparently sicily does have fairy legends unique to the area so uhhh 4?

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good work team, were gonna make dfd melt down and throw out the adventure

GM: lol

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

rolling 1d10! + 2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Nice.

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

1

)

+1

=

2

rip

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm so close to the next level of creo. maybe i should huff 3 more pawns

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+219+3+3 vs EF 20 (aura 4)

(

2

)

+219+3+3

=

227

GM: oh oh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Proclus of Rome: Roll to botch.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+2+19+3+3 vs EF 20 (aura 4)

(

3

)

+2+19+3+3

=

30

Artemisia: leave some for beatrice, she needs 4 pawns

rolling 1d10

(

2

)

=

2

GM: close.

Proclus of Rome: I guess a botch in this case doesn't mean much, though.

GM: you pass out EXTRA hard.

Proclus of Rome: It would be the same level of failure.

Jorn of Merinita: I have Careful with Craft: Stonemason

But the storyguide can add botch dice

Artemisia: i'm not sure the roll is even stressed

Proclus of Rome: Ok here's my plan, we tie a rope around Artemisia's waist so she can't wander off.

It should be.

Artemisia: it's not stressed in the description

Proclus of Rome: But it's true, it doesn't say.

GM: like i said, I'm the wrong gm for faerie stuff because i have read absolutely none of it. smart move using arcadian travel.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i have to roll to not die in faerieland

Proclus of Rome: Stat rolls are usually stressed.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay the, let's just say I cast Piercing the Faerie Veil and we get out quickly

GM: i guess it works.

Jorn of Merinita: SO you don't have to run a faerie adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whats goin on here.

Artemisia: I let the huge muscular man guide me out.

Proclus of Rome: Can you get out with Piercing the Faerie Veil?

Archibald of Guernicus: It just takes us to a fairy regio near the location, it saves us a little time in exchange for a risk of silly botches.

Jorn of Merinita: If Proclus and Artemsia are okay I'll go get everyone else

Proclus of Rome: I thought you could only go in with it.

I'll Conjure the Sturdy Vine for the rope here.

Jorn of Merinita: Piercing the Faerie Veil is a generic InVI spell, there'd be no reason why it wouldn't work on exits

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are we in the regio now

Proclus of Rome: I mean, it does say that it's used to divine the entrance to the next level, not the previous one.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm making sure its safe for Proclus and Artemsia and then getting everyone else

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, we found the garden. Hop in.

GM: You are, and you're about to exit it and walk onto a vineyard.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: excellent

whats the aesthetic quality of the vines

GM: 2.

Jorn of Merinita: Let me look at the guidelines Piercing is based on

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i added my entry to the list of expenses

Bolad: how old are the vines, within 10% accuracy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i have to do anything else or is it smart enough to update

Artemisia: it is smart enough to update

Jorn of Merinita: Unless the guidelines seperate exits and entrances it should work on both

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Proclus of Rome: If they're vines then they should be less than a year old.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats fairly sick

Proclus of Rome: I'm pretty sure.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes, which is why hes checking

if theyre more than a year old something might be up

Jorn of Merinita: Detect regio boundaries. If cast with a Vision target, this provides

enough information to find a way between levels, for regiones that

regio, and possibly its rough shape.

allow that sort of entrance. Otherwise, it reveals the presence of a

GM: They're old growth vines. Holy shit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: make a Mundane-aligned spell to enter the mundane regio

Bolad: are the vines magic, infernal, faerie, divine, lunar, or reason

Malachiasz of Tytalus: johns is taking a very smart plan of action here and is NOT trolling

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the price of the vines, in silver pennies per tun

Jorn of Merinita: Okay it should see the boundary that leads out

GM: grape vines can grow for 120 years.

These vines are, uh, 12 years old.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh no

GM: However old Etna covenant is. Actually. I don't know.

Proclus of Rome: Uh, you mean between 14 and 11 years old!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we need to restrain dys and shaun

Artemisia: in muggle law voice: legal age

Jorn of Merinita: Anyway if Artemsia and Proclus aren't being stabbed to death by faeries I'll go get the others

GM: They're not.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good work

Jorn of Merinita: I jump back to the Lady of the Lake cave and get two more people

Proclus of Rome: Alright, what do Artemisia and I see?

Jorn of Merinita: And so on until everyone's here and I go AFK to use the restroom

Artemisia: i see pretty colors

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: artemisia was not stabbed to death by faeries. good news about proclus though.

GM: You see five beautiful women dressed in red pointing and laughing at Artimisia and Proclus, but they disappear into the rows of vines after being seen.

Artemisia: they were laughing at proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its open season on gifted magi

Artemisia: Shadow Fae taunt Proclus at every step.

Proclus of Rome: 5 beautiful women, eh?

How beautiful?

Artemisia: sorry, i'm married

GM: As beautiful as women with horse hooves can be.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what does it look like when jorn enters and exits his magic road from the king arthur regio

Proclus of Rome: Oh, I'm sorry I confused you with 5 women, Artemisia.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's goin on here.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: satyrs

ill take care of this

Proclus of Rome: Well, is there a building around here?

GM: There's no building on the map, and I won't be giving you a screen for it, but I'm sure there are one or two.

Proclus of Rome: Like what kind of buildings?

Archibald of Guernicus: What was the aesthetic quality of the women, vines, and Etna?

Jorn of Merinita: I guess I'll adventure as Jorn today since searching archive is boring

And people need a way to get back

GM: There's a cave opening in the distance with Etna's fancy logo on it, and two men standing in the rows of grapevines talking.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i recognize one of those faces

watch out everyone, a moor

Artemisia: how flat is Etna?

Proclus of Rome: "Hello, I am Proclus of Rome. Did you know you had a Fairy regio in your vineyard?"

GM: One is digging in the dirt with his hands and smelling it, and several grogs with no tokens who I will not be addressing are harvesting the season's grapes for processing.

Jorn of Merinita: Ahhh, a vineyard saturated with volcanic ash. Smart.

Bolad: hmm, i wonder if they'd buy a classic Virgil Statue the Keeps Volcanos from destroying your crops

GM: It is, as this is a photo of an actual vineyard on mt etna.

Proclus of Rome: Ah, the heady bouquet of ash with notes of oak and lava.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is everyone else hanging out with the lady of the lake or are we through

Proclus of Rome: Oh, speaking of, are you going to be selling potions, Gulielmus?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll approach the farmer, and George Costanza

Jorn of Merinita: We're all here I think

Tasso Agricola: "Fairies, huh? What a fuckin treat."

Jorn of Merinita: Including Jorn, who did not initially seem interested in the adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I would like to sell potions.

that's not really very rusticani though. i should be giving them away for free

Proclus of Rome: What kind of potions?

Hey man, gotta get your nut.

Richard Strabo: "Probably good for the wine."

Proclus of Rome: "Can you think why there might be one here, of all places?"

Tasso Agricola: "Probably all the stories about fairies and witches we scare the kids with."

Jorn of Merinita: "If ye got brownies in your orchard, they can make fine vintners."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Are ye Tasso of Bjornaer, by chance?"

Proclus of Rome: "If you get brownies in your orchard they also make fine vis."

Jorn of Merinita: *vineyard not archard

Tasso Agricola: "I am! You the guys that fat fuck Bialas told me were coming"

?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: something to make peoples' lives easier, ideally without the potential for insane murder.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I pick up some of the dirt and examine it.

"A fine quality soil you have here."

Tasso Agricola wipes dirt off on his shirt and offers his hand in greeting

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, might I ask after the women I saw earlier?"

Jorn of Merinita: Endurance of the Berserkers is good for people who want to work overtime

Artemisia: "There were at least ten of them."

Enchant an item with constant effect endurance of the berserkers and never take it off

devil's fav demon (GM): turns out i referenced fairies that didnt exist in sicily until the 1500s. whoops.

Artemisia: BURN HIM

Tasso Agricola: "Never seen 'em."

Artemisia: the crime is anachronism, the sentence is deatj

Proclus of Rome: This.

Tasso Agricola: "Rich, you see any pretty ladies?"

Proclus of Rome: "They're wearing red and they have cloven hooves."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: proclus desperate to get a wife

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea bites into a  pomme de terre

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hell settle for anything

"Cloven hooves? Demons, no doubt."

Proclus of Rome: I'm a wise magus but I'm also a man.

Richard Strabo: "Just the one before me, haha."

Proclus of Rome: How does the dirt taste?

Tasso Agricola: Acidic and high in minerals.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Jorn of Merinita: You could make a CrHe potion you pour on the soil that lasts for Sun

Tasso Agricola: Because it's volcanic soil.

Jorn of Merinita: To bring a vine to maturity in a day

Proclus of Rome: Yum.

Bolad: "Why does Proclus not simply take wife? I do not understand your custom."

Artemisia: You have to pour it in the morning.

Jorn of Merinita: Yeah

Artemisia: The only woman who didn't turn him down is dead.

Proclus of Rome: "She must be suitable for a man of my stature."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats a good one

gulielmus is probably using something like that in his garden already

Bolad: "If you no like wife, you take another."

Jorn of Merinita: You can also do a lesser CrHe to ensure a vine stays healthy

Proclus of Rome: Oh hey the covenant entrance is really close.

Tasso Agricola: Weird.

Proclus of Rome: They must have a Jerbiton in their covenant to engineer such a trick of perspective.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll trust Proclus's measurements, he's the geometry expert

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, we are here on behalf of Bialas of Bjornaer, though I must stress that we have no involvement with his... less savory activities."

Tasso Agricola: "I can taste the difference, anyway. You Creo a vine to maturity, it doesn't get all that good stuff from the soil."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Has he sent word of what we're here tae ask about?"

Jorn of Merinita: "You can simply make it less subject to wasting conditions without hurting the flavor though, correct?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I take a clod of dirt and toss it in my pack.

Tasso Agricola: "Yeah, yeah, keep it healthy, don't rush it."

Jorn of Merinita: Good thinking, Violante will want some too

Tasso Agricola: "You wanna know about that old garden nonsense? I kept telling him I don't buy it."

Jorn of Merinita: "I understand. There's some things that can't be rushed by magic with construction too, lest you get a vulgar thing."

"I've heard the Verditius have some way around that, but they aren't telling me if they do! Ho ho ho."

Tasso Agricola: "I got some books you can copy if you want, been in my family for years, but they're gibberish. Nothin I can make sense out of."

Proclus of Rome: "BIalas is, perhaps, less suspicious than you are."

"What language are they written in?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Perhaps they simply need the eye of a master of Terram to gaze upon them."

Richard Strabo: "He's right. I can't get a damn thing out of them. Nice illustrations, though, hahaha."

"It was nice seeing you, as always, Tasso, but I must be going. I can come by any time, after all."

Tasso Agricola: "I dunno. Latin, sort of. Some kind of cipher maybe. Doesn't make any sense to me."

Proclus of Rome: "How unusual."

Archibald of Guernicus: "So latin, but some sort of scrambled latin?"

GM: Richard walks off through the vines.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Everyone's got their own shorthand."

Proclus of Rome: "Was that one of your grogs?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A custos, surely."

GM: you can roll per + awareness if you want.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+4

(

8

)

+4

=

12

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+1+5-5

(

3

)

+1+5-5

=

4

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+2+4

(

10

)

+2+4

=

16

Jorn of Merinita: Here's an idea for a twist: the charm to the lady of the lake regio sending me to the real Avalon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Tasso Agricola: "Friend of mine, he's been hanging around with me for years. From the Rhine Tribunal, but we visit each other all the time.

Artemisia: maybe that was the purpose of that regio

Proclus of Rome: The real Avalon is OBVIOUSLY a Divine regio.

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling 8+d10

8+

(

2

)

=

10

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+6

(

3

)

+3+6

=

12

Our Archon's got this in the bag

Jorn of Merinita: It can be both, I learned before that auras can indeed overlap

Aristocritus Bonisagi:

rolling 1d10+1+3

(

3

)

+1+3

=

7

Proclus of Rome: Auras overlap but regios are places.

Tasso Agricola: Everyone but Gulielmus sees Richard walk into the vines and eventually become obscured by them. He must have left.

Proclus of Rome: So a regio couldn't have multiple realms within it.

He must've.

Jorn of Merinita: True

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Anyway, we should look at this book."

Jorn of Merinita: Though I'll ctrl F both RoP Divine and Faerie for Avalon, as I have a hunch

(also an intuitivie feeling)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "From the Rhine? Is he a magus?"

"The book, right."

Tasso Agricola: "Sure, sure. Like I said, you can make a copy, no problem."

"Hey, if you figure it out though, you gotta give me credit. It's my legacy, after all."

Jorn of Merinita: https://puu.sh/xTgXO/6c01e09c52.png

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, we're grateful for ye sharing this."

Proclus of Rome: Excuse me, Avalon obviously exists because King Arthur is real.

Jorn of Merinita: You'll have to take that up with Atlas Games

Artemisia: King Arthur is real and fairy and my friend.

Proclus of Rome: "It would be more helpful if we could look at the originals, there might be hidden information that transcription would miss."

Jorn of Merinita: I'm sure you have a good rationale but ti's out of my hands

Tasso Agricola: "He is, yeah. He's an Herbam master. Gave me some good notes."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: an herbam? take him away boys

Archibald of Guernicus: Every herbam master I've ever met has been a satanist or attacked us with walking houses

Malachiasz of Tytalus: get this man with deficient latin out of here

Jorn of Merinita: Maybe we deserved to be attacked by walking houses

If we were smart we would have anticipated it

Tasso Agricola: "Look, buddy, you're a stranger who I only know through a crazy bear. I'm not gonna just give you my family heirlooms."

Artemisia: Herbam masters always partake too much in their vis.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Are the books within the covenant? I advocated fer Etna strongly, I'm quite curious tae see the covenant itself."

Proclus of Rome: "We could just read them in your library."

Jorn of Merinita: Violante lost her gift by snorting too much herbam instead of reading books like a normal apprentice

Artemisia: worth it

Jorn of Merinita: Maybe she snorted divine herbam

Tasso Agricola: You can read them in the library and also make copies. I don't have a map for the inside of Etna because I thought other GMs might have their own ideas. Tasso spends almost all his time farming or outside of the aegis.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hey everybody! We're all gonna  read a book

Tasso Agricola: Well, you can try.

Artemisia: Excellent

Jorn of Merinita: "I for one want to see the legendary volcano covenant."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Reading books ftw.

Bolad: i keep an eye out for useful mundanes to recruit to our spy network

Artemisia: I know Cornish, English, Italian and Latin. Is it in any of those?

Proclus of Rome: Doesn't making copies take a long time?

Tasso Agricola: It does take a while.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cracking a cipher also takes a long time.

Jorn of Merinita: It is seasonal work

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's have jorn go and fetch ariam the ethiop

and rope kid, to roleplay ariam the ethiop.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll try to read it if its Norse Script

Archibald of Guernicus: Dope Kid

I know latin, some italian, and Gaelic

Tasso Agricola: You get access to three encoded and non-sequential lab texts in a cipher of the Latin alphabet with illustrations of thorny plants.

Jorn of Merinita: Gayick

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's entreat the spirits that live within the texts to tell us their meaning

Artemisia: This cipher was solved by multicultural team of various faiths and beliefs.

Jorn of Merinita: What a surprise, this 'multicultural' cipher says Saladin was the hero

Artemisia: he was

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea examines the manuscripts.

Proclus of Rome: What kind of plants are they?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'm stumped."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what would it be to decipher a

well

cipher

int + language?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's in the core book

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok, now tlel me what it is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, the plants!"

Jorn of Merinita: Oh, Hypatia can buff herself to read things in any language

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+2+12 Apothecary + Per to figure out which plants are depicted.

(

7

)

+2+12

=

21

Jorn of Merinita: This is Latin so not relevant right now, but it could come up

Proclus of Rome: Does being able to read any language work on ciphers?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can proclus use his mathematical prowess to break the cipher

Artemisia: probably not

Tasso Agricola: it seems like it shouldn't.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or are we still a few centuries off from that concept

Jorn of Merinita: I doubt it

The cipher isn meant to confuse literate people

Proclus of Rome: It depends on the cipher.

Jorn of Merinita: *is

Archibald of Guernicus: Is there an ability to read any language?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cant find anything on deciphering stuff in the book

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm only aware of the gift of tongues, which is speech only

Malachiasz of Tytalus: decipher brings up no results and theres nothing under the language abilities

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if we had a jewish mystic they could use gematria.

Jorn of Merinita: I can go find the miracle if you want to interpret its relevance to ciphers

Proclus of Rome: Seems like this requires a GM Ruling.

Jorn of Merinita: Level 15: Read meaning into unfamiliar writing; you see the symbols as an alphabet you know, with some semblance of the orig-

inal meaning, though the effect may include divine messages and censor profane or evil thoughts. (Meditation)

Archibald of Guernicus: apothecary of the plants is a good start at least

GM: Hm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: check True Lineages for the rules on deciphering trianoma script

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Jorn of Merinita: Depends on whether you think ciphers create an effectively new language, I suppose

GM: I'm going to say you could decipher them easily if you find the related documents, but there should probably be some way to brute force it that I'm not aware of.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the rules in the core book are specifically for deciphering lab texts, and you have to generate a form/technique specific lab total to do it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: The second and harder method is to decode a secret

note. Decoding a note takes a day. To decode Trianoma’s

cipher you make an Intelligence + Latin + stress die roll.

If this roll is higher than 6 + the author’s Communication

+ Intrigue, you succeed.

Jorn of Merinita: If there's a missing piece then that might give it some miracle immunity

Proclus of Rome: Ah wait, I got it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: plus it takes seasons.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats the rules for trianoma ciphers

Proclus of Rome: Let's use Canaanite Necromancy to ask the original author.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i imagine its the same for this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Artemisia: we can't use canaanite necromancy

1) we don't know it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Good thinking, Proclus. Let me see those illustrations."

Artemisia: 2) we swore to venator we won't bother dead magi

GM: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the rules in the core book are specifically for deciphering lab texts, and you have to generate a form/technique specific lab total to do it.

these are lab texts.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I sit down and begin examining a book thoroughly.

Jorn of Merinita: If the magi didn't want to be bothered after death they should have been Christan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This one's crabapple, suited for corpus effects and longevity rituals."

"That one's flax. Not sure what flax is good for."

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+12

(

8

)

+12

=

20

Proclus of Rome: Flax is good for digestion.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "And that's mandrake. No clue about the other plants."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: vs 6 + the authors comm + intrigue

Jorn of Merinita: I'll go check out a lava forge

Malachiasz of Tytalus: id say thats got a solid chance at winning

it takes me a whole day though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i feel like it should be adjusted, since everyone is going to have an inflated Latin score

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think its fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: unless the guy invested heavily in intrigue

Malachiasz of Tytalus: stat + ability + stress die on my end

stat + ability + 6 on authors end

Proclus of Rome: Isn't this just for Trianoma's cipher?

Archibald of Guernicus: If he didnt invest into intrigue, he doesnt get to hide his cipher. It's that simple

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it makes sense that if his intrigue sucks his ciphers suck

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fair but fair.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes proclus but i mean

its the same concept

intrigue makes sense as what you use for ciphers

Proclus of Rome: Is it?

Artemisia: should have just invented a new language

Proclus of Rome: It's seems possible that you can just not solve a cipher without the correct key.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. the bjornaer archmagus has uhhh 30 intrigue.

GM: Well, he might.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if youre a smart guy with a good grasp of a language you should be able to figure out a cipher

the gm made the fatal mistake of saying its latin based

instead of its own language

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): alright, im stuck reading it for the rest of the day

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could also go looking for anything else written by the guy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: weve got 3 of his books right here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's an herbam expert right.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a herbam

its a herbam!!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a herbam expert right.

GM: You could try to see if there's anything in that tower.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll see if they have the enchanted volcano bathhouse from Hermetic Projects

Proclus of Rome: Which tower now?

Tasso Agricola: Tasso is a Terram-focused magician, but has learned several Herbam spells that assist his farming from his friend Richard.

Proclus of Rome: The one in Normandy?

Tasso Agricola: Herisson was almost certainly heavily specialized in Herbam.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: OH i got mixed up, and thought tasso was talking about herisson instead of richard earlier

Tasso Agricola: There's a chance that whoever murdered Herisson might have taken some of his writings, yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmmm. So we've got one half of the writings to work with, and we've got to wait and see what Hypatia found at the archives to get a lead on the other half

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm indeed.

Proclus of Rome: Here's my idea, we use this Arcane Connection to find the author with the Sortes.

Artemisia: he didn't die in his garden

and we're not allowed to disrespect hermetic dead anyway

except for malachiasz

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the arcane connection is long gone

Artemisia: that too

Proclus of Rome: Finding someone's corpse isn't disrespectful.

Bolad: lavinia isnt part of the benevolent necromancers

Artemisia: just finding the corpse is fine, but it won't be much help

also, what if the wizard you're looking for is in twilight?

Jorn of Merinita: Time to go to the Magic Realm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can lavinia make a construct out of a skeleton

Jorn of Merinita: We can take Bolad to meet Tengri on the way

Bolad: in theory

Archibald of Guernicus: You get a connection cast spells into twilight. From there you can set up an intangible tunnel and can work on a spell to rescue Criamon

Tasso Agricola: Gulielmus, did you happen to share your analysis of the texts w everyone

Artemisia: he doesn't want to be rescued

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i told them about the plants, yeah

Artemisia: something for longevity rituals and corpus, flax and mandrake

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: crabapple

and i couldn't identify the other plants.

Artemisia: bite into the crabapple

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hmm. Maybe Richard knows what these are?"

Proclus of Rome: "Can we trust him?"

Jorn of Merinita:

(To GM) rolling d10+3+1

(

2

)

+3+1

=

6

Tasso Agricola: "Hell, he's always been good to me. Nicest guy in the world, Richard Strabo."

Artemisia: strabo, eh?

Archibald of Guernicus: "He's an expert on plants, is he?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I don't see any reason to mistrust him."

Archibald of Guernicus: We do know about a wizard, from the same timeframe as Henrisson, who is an old Herbam specialist, btw

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches on a turnip while poring over tomes.

Tasso Agricola: oh shit, you do.

Proclus of Rome: We do.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: holy shit.

Artemisia: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he owes us a favor, too

Tasso Agricola: lmao

Malachiasz of Tytalus: AND hes a tytalus

Archibald of Guernicus: We could speak with Severin, not call in the favour but just ask his advice

Tasso Agricola: damn, what are the odds.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think calling in a favor is valid

because i already know the results of my deciphering

Jorn of Merinita: "I've got a hunch about these plants, though I can't say what. But they remind me of something. Maybe Beatrice would know more. They remind me of something from the Merinita mysteries."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: but ive gotta spend a day on it

Bolad: lets torture him with our arcane connection

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But now that you mention it, Proclus, he was looking a bit secretive after we parted ways in the vineyard."

Archibald of Guernicus: Calling in the favour might be valid if it leads us to a powerful magic regio but if its just a small help, we did save the man's life, bit of a small favour to call in

I'm sure he can take a few hours to look at some plants and tell us what he knows without it taking up our big favour he owes us

Artemisia: call in favor, since we're on track of an orchard that grows 20 pawns of untyped vis

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, sodales, I had a thought."

Proclus of Rome: Sounds like a plan to me.

Archibald of Guernicus: I relay this basic plan of contacting severin and asking his help

Jorn of Merinita: Does any of our infernal vis look like it came from a garden?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: contacting severin sounds like a good idea

Proclus of Rome: Yeah, let's do it.

Jorn of Merinita: Okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: richard WAS acting suspicious so we could also go on a red herring chase and antagonize tasso.

Jorn of Merinita: I'll take everyone home

Tasso Agricola: "Hey, come by anytime. I rib the guy but a friend of Bialas is a friend of mine."

Archibald of Guernicus: It seems like it's smarter to contact someone who owes us and trusts us (to a degree) than bet on a stranger we know nothing about, so off to the praeco we go

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Tytalus, you say? He must be a good man. Seek his advice, I'll continue investigating these texts."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye don't remember him? He was the one who set houses on us, ye dropped one in a pit on the street."

Bolad: "He is a sloth who stinks worse than rotted mares' milk."

Proclus of Rome: I'm really surprised Bialas has freinds.

Archibald of Guernicus: "All a misunderstanding, of course."

Proclus of Rome: I'm now Suspicious.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yellow alert

Jorn of Merinita: Oh, i can claim some labor points if I set up a lava-powered forge for some dwarves in the faerie regio.

Artemisia: 'now'

Jorn of Merinita: I'll make a note of it

Tasso Agricola: it's one of those situations where Tasso is a really nice guy who likes anybody in his clan, and Bialas thinks he's a rube and idiot and hates talking to him.

Bolad: No, let's pursue this suspiciousness

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hell tasso seems all right to me.

Bolad: for the next few sessions

Artemisia: let's

Proclus of Rome: "How do you know Bialas?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's press this red herring for all he's worth

Tasso Agricola: "We sorta came up together. Both in clan Arelie, both Harmonists. Smart guy! Just wish he'd go to church more, hahaha"

Artemisia: let's build a church around bialas while he's sleeping

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, that's strange.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's roll him over to jorn's bathhouse while he's sleeping

Proclus of Rome: Does Tasso LOOK 70 years old?

Bolad: what is the aesthetic quality of tasso

Artemisia: he lives in healthy area and has a good longevity ritual

Tasso Agricola: He looks in his mid 50s.

But he could very easily be in his 70s or 80s.

Archibald of Guernicus: What's the aesthetic quality of the 'aesthetic quality' meme

Proclus of Rome: You can't see it but I'm narrowing my eyes suspiciously.

Jorn of Merinita: 30

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 69, dys

Archibald of Guernicus: [laughing crying emoji]

Jorn of Merinita: An undying meme is obviously the work of a legendary artist who has become fae

Artemisia: but seriously, what's his aestheric quality, i want a chance to botch charm

Tasso Agricola: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hes a middle aged moor

Tasso Agricola: He's an ugly Sicilian who looks like a badger.

Archibald of Guernicus: Botch charm while Jorn gets arcadian travel revved up

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he doesn't look 70 because he's broken the hermetic limit of time.

he is... the timeline moor.

Tasso Agricola: holy shit.

Artemisia: amazing

Proclus of Rome: Ok we need to investigate this guy for the rest of the campaign.

Everyone drop whatever else you're doing.

Bolad: ok

Archibald of Guernicus: lol gulielmus

Artemisia: ok

Bolad: i shoot tasso

Tasso Agricola: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i could drop him

ive got the spell fori t

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+69 gun kata

(

9

)

+69

=

78

Jorn of Merinita: I take everyone home

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats the aura here

Proclus of Rome: If he's broken the Hermetic Limit of Time this wouldn't help!

Bolad: I think he's fine, Proclus.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i want to see, if i were to cast pit of the gaping earth, what my roll would be

Proclus of Rome: He could simply see any gun kata attack before it happens!

Bolad: Probably stupid, which is good, we can exploit that later.

Tasso Agricola: Magic 3.

Jorn of Merinita: If the GM wishes to add botch dice to Arcadian Travel, i can roll for it, otherwise I'll just do it

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+53

(

4

)

+53

=

57

Tasso Agricola: Damn, you tricked me into revealing the aura.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice

Tasso Agricola: lmao

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wonder if i can cast this on a creature made of stone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus compliments Tasso on his exquisitely well-tended vineyard before getting back on the Arcadian Road.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: or if it has to be the ground

Archibald of Guernicus: It has to be ground, as stone is +1 magnitude and a different spell

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok a creature made of dirt

Archibald of Guernicus: Lol, but why would you cast it at personal range?

Bolad: gahah

Proclus of Rome: Woah.

Malachiasz of Tytalus begins shuddering and disappears in a puff of rich dirt.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: holy shit

Proclus of Rome: I didn't know you'd made a declaration of Wizard's War.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone else is rolling dice so here i go.

rolling 1d10+1+4 charm+comm

(

5

)

+1+4

=

10

Archibald of Guernicus: Where does Severin usually hang out. Has he joined a covenant, or remained at his old defunct one.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hopefully thats enough to come across as a functioning human being with the gentle gift.

Artemisia: i'll compliment tasso as well

rolling 1d10+2+8-5 charm comm

(

5

)

+2+8-5

=

10

aww

Archibald of Guernicus: He has the parma up so I can't compliment him properly

Artemisia: no botch

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll compliment one of his grogs

Jorn of Merinita: "'tis a fine covenant."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!-3-10

(

10

+

7

)

-3-10

=

4

Holy shit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Artemisia: lol

Tasso Agricola: "Hey, you guys are sweet. I'll send some wine over from last season."

Jorn of Merinita:

rolling d10+2 Charm

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Artemisia: scire

score

Proclus of Rome: Ok, I think Tasso is pretty suspicious but I don't know what we can do about it for now.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh that'd be lovely, much appreciated. Yer a gracious host."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we did it. we established an ally in the tribunal

Archibald of Guernicus: That's REALLY suspicious

Bolad: i attempt to impress a potential agent among the covenfolk here

rolling 1d10!+5+3 vs 6

(

4

)

+5+3

=

12

i have succeeded

Tasso Agricola: "Vardian's Tomb, right? The Roman guys everyone talks shit about? I knew you weren't all bad."

Artemisia: we're nice people

except proclus and bialas

Bolad: and beatrice

Jorn of Merinita: "Let me know if you have any need for fine masonry work done."

Artemisia: beatrice has positive presence and comm and is free of sin

Proclus of Rome: How long does it take to get the transcriptions made?

Hypatia of Athens: Do I find anything in Harco's archives?

Archibald of Guernicus: "The rocky times of a spring covenant. Perhaps some of yer younger members here might get in similar troubles."

Proclus of Rome: "We shouldn't pry any further."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: brb

GM: I'm looking up what the rules are for copying lab texts you don't understand atm

Proclus of Rome: Wait, don't we have a memory guy?

Oh wait it's Bialas.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm a memory guy. but a different kind of memory guy

Hypatia of Athens: Does Lavinia have Art of Memory good enough for entire books?

Proclus of Rome: You need to use spells to memorize entire books.

Hypatia of Athens: And vis

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yes, if that book is The Aenied

Hypatia of Athens: Well the non-vis spell isn't very good

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume Magic Memory only applies to texts you've actually comprehended and used

GM: You do find something in Harco's archives. It's the location of Varina's tomb. No one's happened to look for these records in quite a while, but they're there.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who's varina

Hypatia of Athens: Vardian's wife

Artemisia: the descendant of herrison's killer

GM: The last apprentice of the guy who killed Herisson.

Hypatia of Athens: Interesting, I'll copy the relevant info and return to VT

GM: It's in the Alps. You've got a fairly specific location. Shouldn't be hard to find now.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm

Let's go there first, so we have all the books (possibly)

Proclus of Rome: Where in the Alps?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i assume ive finished my attempt at deciphering the book then

Archibald of Guernicus: before we bring them to severin and ask him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the alps are really far away though.

severin is much closer.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I couldn't quite comprehend it, but it seems to be a summa on some sort of supernatural ability."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess if we're arcadian traveling around it doesn't matter.

GM: They are pretty far away.

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah but making two trips to severin works out longer

Hypatia of Athens: Mt Etna is also pretty far, if we went the normal way

Archibald of Guernicus: Jorn getting pursued by the ultimate rapist is a small price to pay for the sheer convenience of this power

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the ultimate rapist just wants to be friends

Artemisia: i'll get jorn an AC to the ultimate rapist

Malachiasz of Tytalus: cruel, anti-fun game developer rope kid: bwahaha. teleportation has been incredibly nerfed. enjoy walking everywhere

righteous pagan faerie magus: actually,

Proclus of Rome: It's just exploiting the GM's unwillingness to detail faerie regios.

GM: Yeah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should be studying rego instead of creo to get closer to leap

GM: Rude.

Artemisia: that's the gm's problem

Bolad: hope u like going to the Regio of Suffering

Archibald of Guernicus: Every action is exploiting the GM

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the setting of ars magica is largely feudal, so exploitation is a natural part of the system

Jorn of Merinita: I've so far attempted not to abuse it, mostly using it for side activity

Proclus of Rome: I'm going to start going on pilgrimages.

Archibald of Guernicus: Letting us visit distanct locales is convenient, anyhow

So, are we going for the alps first then? I say we do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait a minute. can i just

rolling 3+3+6+12+1d10!

3+3+6+12+

(

5

)

=

29

dang. i have to roll big to make a leap of homecoming potion

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec but we should visit Severin first in my opinion.

Jorn of Merinita: I would need a few hours to make another charm anyway

GM: afk a second myself.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in the course of your pilgrimage you are waylaid by a band of magi who seek to initiate you into their mystery cult

Jorn of Merinita: Let's go to the Criamon domus magna

It's a cave that leads to the incredibly twisted shadow planet

GM: also, it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uia_di_Ciamarella

here, i have just decided

ok afk.

Bolad: A mountain?

Disgusting.

Let's flatten it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: while we're there we can take a side trip to the occitan tribunal.

Bolad: lets take a detour to the kingdom of prestor john

Proclus of Rome: I think seeing Severin first makes sense because that's unlikely to be a dangerous encounter and we might save ourselves the trip to the Alps.

Jorn of Merinita: I'm gonna build a dwarf castle in the regio we discover

Archibald of Guernicus: OH

Thats a good point

We should visit Severin but tell him we might find out more info later, though, and might be back

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhhh

we should resolve the mystery by visiting severin, then go and loot the tomb anyway

Hypatia of Athens has returned and is ready to visit Severin

GM: Ok.

Bolad: lets go home and not leave our labs

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets split the party

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn is ready to go back to his lab or workshop

GM: Smart, Mal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are we splitting the party

Archibald of Guernicus: Go. Severin.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: WHERE is the damn archon

Archibald of Guernicus: Nah, not much reason to since the alps are dangerous. Possibly.

GM: She's dead.

Archibald of Guernicus: The archon is at CHURCH, can you believe it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. let's go to the alps

I don't even know Severin.

GM: So you ARE splitting the party?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or wait. i think i do

let's go to severin's place.

Archibald of Guernicus: You attended tribunal when he was elected Praeco

Malachiasz of Tytalus: go severin

get severin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: examine severin

GM: Get ye severin.

You can't get ye severin.

Hypatia of Athens: You must gather your Severin before venturing forth

GM: I'm just going to put Severin on the Tribunal map because I don't know where he lives.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lycelleus, i think

GM: That's pretty close to VT.

No problem.

Hypatia of Athens: I put Jorn near the alps if people are really splitting

Otherwise let's just visit Severin

Nice, Detective Vision is still active

GM: Wow, look at all this shit.

Bolad: cool place

GM: RIP every magus on the map, now dead or gone.

Except Archibald.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: detective vision ftw.

Artemisia: frankly, it's archibald's time to die

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Nice place."

GM: Do you let him know you're coming or just roll up and demand an audience with the praeco

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, if we're headed there, we'll arrive at the same time as a messenger would

Hypatia of Athens: Do we have fast communication?

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually earlier since we used arcadian travel

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

We can communicate at the speed of sound.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: holy shit.

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita is off working and Hypatia is at Harco doing research, though.

So we have no convenient redcaps to send on ahead

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia had to return to tell everyone about the covenant in the alps

Or sanctum or w/e

The Greater Alps has chapter houses which can be as small as a single wizard's sanctum

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i thought it was just a tomb

Archibald of Guernicus: I think showing up at his door and asking if he's free should be fine

Proclus of Rome: Well, as long as we knock first.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, of course. Let's not be rude here.

Hypatia of Athens: Would the Cruciator's tower be the closest regio to this place? Might be better to use normal travel.

GM: Maybe it's both a sanctum and a tomb.

Probably safer that way.

Hypatia of Athens: Also less aggravating

GM: There's plenty of time to just AT back to vardian's tomb and then travel normally to Lycellus.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's roll

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's team up to make a group version of leap that we can communion-cast

Hypatia of Athens: :weebey:

GM: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Enough! We got to Lycellus!

Hypatia of Athens: We did it

GM: You made it!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea stands outside the gate and shouts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hello? Praeco?"

"Severin?"

Hypatia of Athens: That encounter with the house guarding the covenant was rough, but we made it

GM hands off the stick for a moment

GM: Lycelleus looks better than the last time you saw it. If you had to guess, you'd give the credit to the trees walking all over the lawn lugging construction materials.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Resourceful. Speaks tae his mastery of herbam, too."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's get lab notes for those trees

GM: They don't seem to notice you, but given the current GM that could change at any moment.

Bolad: i recruit a tree as an agent

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Impressive."

"And so much more tasteful than using a corpse!"

GM: Alright, so who knocked?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i shouted

GM: Ok.

Might want to try knocking.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll knock politely

Actually, he might have mundane servants

Someone with gentle gift knock

Artemisia: I'll knock.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fine!

GM: After a minute, the door opens and you're face to beak with a woodpecker.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. Wait I'm the only PC who even helped Severin left. Oh...

"Hello. Is Severin home?"

Thaddeus: "Oh, it's you again."

"Yeah yeah, hundreds of years in fairy land and he still has me answering the door. Whom may I say is calling?"

?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's us, the magi of Vardian's Tomb."

Thaddeus: "Alright, gotcha. He should just give a trumpet to one of those trees instead of wasting my time with this..." he flies off into the interior.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "What a rude bird."

Thaddeus: A few minutes later, Severin appears at the door. He doesn't step beyond the threshold.

Severin of Tytalus: "Ah, Archibald, so wonderful to see you again."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's not a bad idea though."

Severin of Tytalus: His accent hasn't improved.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guy probably pronounces the h in herbam.

devil's fav demon (GM): What a maroon.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: afk

Severin of Tytalus: "What brings you to my humble abode?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "How've ye been? I see ye've really spruced up the place since our last visit."

Hypatia of Athens: "Yassou."

Severin of Tytalus: "Thank you, I try my best, of course," he chuckles affably.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what was the dead mages name

hessiron?

something like that

herrison

Severin of Tytalus: Herisson.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: herisson

there we go

Severin of Tytalus: Like the famous film star.

Hypatia of Athens: Herisson FOrd

Malachiasz of Tytalus: epic

Hypatia of Athens: Too slow

Archibald of Guernicus: "I was wondering if ye could lend a hand in deciphering an old magus' notes. He left a number of illustrations of plants, and was from around your time."

Severin of Tytalus: AFK a sec, sorry.

Archibald of Guernicus: "His notes are all scrambled in some cipher, but we've been trying to decipher what the plants he illustrated are. Even our best at the natural sciences has made little headway."

Severin of Tytalus: "Looks like three books that illustrate various plants of the three tribes. A book of medicines and foods, a book of raw materials and fibers, and a book of poisons."

"Can't make heads or tails of this text, though. You said it was written by a man of my time?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, a man named Henrisson, of house Bjornaer."

Severin of Tytalus:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+3+6

(

1

)

+3+6

=

10

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm back.

Severin of Tytalus rolls some dice

Severin of Tytalus: "Never heard of him."

"That's all?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gm has successfully crushed the derail effort

Archibald of Guernicus: "Understandable, he was a Normandy man. Aye, that's all, thought perhaps ye might know what his illustrations implied. Thanks anyway."

"Could ye say what each plant is? Perhaps it'll give an insight into decoding it."

Hypatia of Athens: Plant life is Philosophiae I think

Magic Lore if there are virtuous versions of them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i rolled one trillion on apothecary

Malachiasz of Tytalus: giraldo could identify the plants

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wtf.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we could also try to brute force the books and go have him read them

Severin of Tytalus takes a look again.

Hypatia of Athens: https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Philosophy-Cambridge-Library-Collection/dp/1108045057

Severin of Tytalus: "Most of these plants aren't so naturally thorny. I could guess that you may have this Herisson's sigil, if nothing else."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I see, I see."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's ask Bialas if he's the kind of guy who like s to make stuff thorny against its will

Severin of Tytalus: "Other than the spines and thorns, this could be a mundane catalogue of useful plants."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, I'll let ye get back to yer research, then. Thanks for yer time."

Alright, everyone. We're going to the alps!

GM: Neat.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we didnt learn anythign!!

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, though I'll say "He was rumoured to have other journals stored away, would ye mind if we come by again sometime in the next few months, should we find them?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: except that 12 points in apothecary means you are retarded i guess.

to the alps

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's nobly skip ahead to the alps combat encounter to drop an ancient twilighted magus into a pit

GM: It means you identified more plants than a master of Herbam did. He didn't tell you anything you didn't already know.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it does

it means you invested exp in apothecary

GM: He didn't even name them!

Bolad: im losing steam and might pass out before the combat

good luck goons

Archibald of Guernicus: It's like 6pm for you!

Artemisia: good way to save your pcs life

Hypatia of Athens: Apothecary is profession of preparing stocks medicines and reagents

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's sacrifice bolad

Proclus of Rome: I have to go for like an hour.

GM: He just went uhhhhh theyre thorny, uhhh, looks like you have food, textiles, and poisons

same thing you already found out.

Artemisia: gui didn't even figure out that flax isn't supposed to be covered in thorns

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's rush ahead so we can not only do this in one week, but also force johns into combat

GM: Smart GMs, not wanting to get their PCs killed.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thus

"Here we are, in the Alps. It's very cold."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets force johns into combat by throwing bolad to the knights and marching lavinia

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah it's not that cold."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Nice tower."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes, these Alps are very cold. I spent most of those years I was gone here."

Bolad: cool tower

GM: Ok. We're in the Alps then.

Artemisia: "My head hurts. Can we stop for a day?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Hm, I do not recall that tower."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Continuing onwards will build character."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We must press on, no matter the cost."

GM: Do you want to stop for this week? It's VERY early to do that.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Let's see if the residents are hostile."

Artemisia: "I need time to get used to this climate."

Archibald of Guernicus: No, let's keep going

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "If they are, I have a way to deal with them."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is that the battle nun

Artemisia: by which i mean i'm at -5 until i get used to it

Hypatia of Athens: Yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can artemisia even cast a spell

Artemisia: I can spont level 1-3 Creo, Intellego and Corpus spells

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Artemisia: but i have 11 single weapon

6 now

GM: From afar, no windows or entrances are visible.

Archibald of Guernicus: What gives you -5? Some flaw?

Artemisia: yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps a short rest, then. Let's set a fire and warm up."

I spont CrIg to make a fire and warm us up

Whats the aura?

Artemisia: you know how zita gets +5 in town as a major virtue, i get -5 if i'm anywhere else but shore and sea untl i get used to the place as a minor flaw

Hypatia of Athens: I create a wooden hut with my laurels to get cozy in.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I can cast a few pits of the gaping earth to hollow out a cave for us.

Artemisia: ah, traditional russian dwelling

GM: Magic 1.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+20+2+1)/2

(

(

8

)

+20+2+1)/2

=

15.5

Malachiasz of Tytalus: do we want the nice cave or the strange redcap hut

Hypatia of Athens: Cave might be better

Bolad: I want a yurt

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 4 to create a fire, +1 touch, +2 sun

Artemisia: roll charm to lure artemisia into your cave

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 3 casts is probably enough to get a resting cave

Hypatia of Athens: My huts are closer to yurts

GM:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+21

(

6

)

+21

=

27

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+51

(

9

)

+51

=

60

rolling 1d10!+51

(

5

)

+51

=

56

rolling 1d10!+51

(

10

+

9

)

+51

=

70

welcome to the nice cave

Archibald of Guernicus: The ultimate pitlord

GM: everyone roll Per+Awareness.

Hypatia of Athens: We can put the hut inside the cave

rolling d10

(

6

)

=

6

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+4

(

4

)

+4

=

8

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "This type of dwelling has served me well this past decade."

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+1+5-5

(

8

)

+1+5-5

=

9

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

Hypatia of Athens: I'll wait until sunset before making a hut.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why do you have +14 to pit

Malachiasz of Tytalus: magical focus

GM: magical focuses rule.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh.

christ.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+6 per+awareness

(

3

)

+3+6

=

12

GM: No one notices anything.

Hypatia of Athens: "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)"

Might be nice to pack one of those inside the dirt in a cave

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+2+4

(

3

)

+2+4

=

9

Hypatia of Athens: It won't cave in as easily on the platonic solid

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Nice hole."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Tis an incredible hole."

GM: Wind's howling.

Hypatia of Athens: The nuns seem wary about this hole so I'll make them a hut.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I take my shovel and spend a few minutes smacking the dirt to pack it down.

Then I cast Earth That Breaks No More.

It is now a stone cave.

rolling 1d10!+30

(

2

)

+30

=

32

i successfully cast

Archibald of Guernicus: We can comfortably rest

Good work everyone

GM: That's very nice.

Artemisia: you don't have to stress roll to spellcast in calm conditions

for formulaics

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its much funnier if he gets huge numbers though

Malachiasz of Tytalus: excuse me, the gm JUST had us roll awareness

how do you know its calm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also if he botches

Artemisia: because i didn't notice anything

Hypatia of Athens: We're all stabbed to death by a rogue redcap named Sita

Atiz

GM: Everyone is inside of a shelter or cave and not exposed to the elements, then?

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the famed saracen murderer, Atiz

Artemisia: if only we had defenceless old men around to defeat her

GM: Smart.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I pull out one of my turnips and roast it over the fire.

Archibald of Guernicus: "When we're settled, let's tackle the place."

GM: Do you have a view of the tower from where you're sitting around the fire, by the way?

Or is this all inside.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, would make sense to

I spont Eyes of the Hawk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Archibald, can you manage a ward against the cold?"

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+21)/2

(

(

7

)

+21)/2

=

14

Hm, not enough for group, oh well

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we should have a view

its just an open cave

Archibald of Guernicus: Can give myself them for moon instead of sun

"Ah, a rego ignem effect?"

Oh, wait, I have to ceremonially spont now, so that should be like 3 more

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cast shriek of the impending shafts, in preparation for the thousands of arrow traps the tower is probably filled with

rolling 1d10+13+1

(

5

)

+13+1

=

19

Archibald of Guernicus: so I can give everyone Eyes of the Hawk

with group targetting

to see further

Bolad: lets just knock the tower over and take our time investigating it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh that should be 13+1+3

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i can do that

GM: Nice job.

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, anyone who wants it can now see further

GM: Your fire goes out, by the way.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i can spont the spell that makes a stone structure fall

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and destroy all the loot?

Archibald of Guernicus: "It could be dangerous to spont over and over unncessarily, but I'll do it tae help my sodales here, Gulielmus."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's get going if this place is going to put out our fires

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+30)/2

(

(

9

)

+30)/2

=

19.5

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches on turnip.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think that can make a pretty good ward against the cold

Hypatia of Athens: Oh yeah I guess Jorn is here too since you guys need a way home

GM: Ward against natural cold or does it increase your MR?

Archibald of Guernicus: base 4, +1 ring, +2 sun

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the cave collapses on hypatia's tent, slaying her and the nuns

Archibald of Guernicus: Its a ward against all cold so I think it reduces cold-based magic damage too, only by 5 though

GM: Nice.

Jorn of Merinita: "R: Voice, T: Fire, D: Individual

A fire will give out more heat and burn more brightly without consuming any more fuel. In addition it will produce almost no smoke at all.

Jørn's sigil manifests as a jingle of coins as the fire is bolstered.

Jorn of Merinita: (Base 2, +2 Voice, +3 Fire)"

Archibald of Guernicus: The boys are comfy

Jorn of Merinita: Once we relight the fire I'll cast that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh yeah i guess the cave smells like brimstone

forgot about sigils

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, now that we're comfy, let's focus on the important thing: raiding this tower

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This cave is awful.

Artemisia: The smell of brimstone is clearing my headache.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right, we're all quite comfortable and ready for the cold, aye?"

GM: Your new fire does not go out.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes, let's go and see the men of this tower."

"If you want me to bring it down, just give the word."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Let's."

"See the tower, not bring it down."

Jorn of Merinita stays in the cave, ready to take the survivors home, since Hypatia is designated for adventure XP

GM: Who is the first brave soul to set out towards the tower?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me

Artemisia: i'll go second

Hypatia of Athens ventures forth flanked by battle nuns

Archibald of Guernicus: I trust in my parma, so I'll head along with Malach up front

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i also trust in my parma, which gives me a minimum 20 mr in everything

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: interesting. personally i trust in the almighty god.

Hypatia of Athens: Same

I trust in God, to give me 25 MR

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sips hot water

GM: Smart, Guli.

Bolad:

rolling 1d10+5+7 channeling a spirit

(

3

)

+5+7

=

15

Hypatia of Athens: Fur-lined habits

Bolad goes super saiyan

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: If only we had a magus who could levitate to the top of this tower.

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn has Rise of the Feathery Body

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i can bring the top of the tower closer to us

Archibald of Guernicus: Luckily, we don't need an entrance.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in retrospect levitating to the top of the hell tower and dissolving the roof over the course of 8 hours while everyone just sat at the base was pretty funny

Archibald of Guernicus: When I reach the tower I say, "I'll handle this, don't ye worry." and cast Archibald's Unwelcome Entrance to get us in

GM: Malach, an owl descends from the snowy sky and hoots at you.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's have Archibald tame it

Variña: A crystal of ice is pulled from the snow and smashes into you with 29 penetration.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yikes

Variña: and does

Archibald of Guernicus: Lmao. But also, can I retcon this so my familiar is here, just so the owls can stare at each other.

Variña:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

10

+

10

+

8

)

+10

=

38

holy shit.,

lmfao

Archibald of Guernicus: Um

Variña: .

Artemisia: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh

Variña: uh.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

Variña: damage rolls arent uh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who is this killing, again

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me

Variña: do they expode

oh jesus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they explode.

Artemisia: they do

Archibald of Guernicus: I think if something is going to attack us it should be done in the combat engine rather than just

That

Hypatia of Athens: Iggy no!

Artemisia: for magic and environmental damage definitely

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i agree archibald

Variña: well, Varina attacks from stealth.

Combat begins after she surprises you.

Archibald of Guernicus: I see.

Artemisia: we did fail the awareness rolls

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you uh

Bolad: rip malach

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: want to retroactively be buffed with +1 size

Variña: I can uh,

I didn't want to do that right away.

Archibald of Guernicus: No no, you rolled that

Hypatia of Athens: That awareness roll was like 5 minutes before the attack

Variña: I feel very awkward.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: does that affect someone whos already giant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: embrace your destiny

i have no idea. it might not

Bolad: congrats. you're the next endrite

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are you +1

or +2

Archibald of Guernicus: No no no, you rolled that damage. it happened.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: +2

Archibald of Guernicus: Malach is +2

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think it doesn't then.

Archibald of Guernicus: Whats his stamina? I know he has no ignem form bonus

Does he have any sort of soak, at all

Beyond stamina

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 2 stamina

he has a robe

thats his only armor

Archibald of Guernicus: 2 stamina with fucking giant blood

Okay, this was a mercy killing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: A base Individual for Corpus is an adult human being, up to Size +1.

sorry mal.

Variña: Do you want to just say, a grog went out first

Artemisia: that siad, i think soak is also stressed roll against magic and environmental damage

let me look it up

https://i.imgur.com/MOUjllV.png

Archibald of Guernicus: It's worth checking, since Malach as a tytalus could drop 2 conf tokens on it

Hypatia of Athens: Was the owl casting a hermetic ability at Voice quietly?

Artemisia: page 181

Bolad: yes artemisia is right

Artemisia: the owl hooted

Bolad: malach rolls stamina + soak

Variña: The owl revealed itself by using a power at Voice range.

Bolad: i mean soak + stress die

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok im gonna double conf it

Archibald of Guernicus: No, Malach went first. He has Self Confident. He can conf twice against this.

Roll it

Variña: Ok. Good luck.

Archibald of Guernicus: He also has giant blood so he dies a lot slower

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you can roll and then add conf

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+2+10

(

1

)

+2+10

=

13

now

Bolad: yesss

Malachiasz of Tytalus: can you botch this

Archibald of Guernicus: lmfao

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats a stressed 1

Archibald of Guernicus: its stressed

Variña: oh god

Archibald of Guernicus: you can botch, yes

Bolad: It's a sign.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont wanna roll my botch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many dice

Artemisia: it only mentions botching damage rolls

Archibald of Guernicus: you die at 29 damage for size +2, btw, so if you dont botch this youre still alive

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i figure at least +1 for being surprised.

i don't know how you could actually botch a soak roll

Malachiasz of Tytalus: make my luck virtue do something here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since you're just being hit

Archibald of Guernicus: You're lucky you died here instead of spending more time amongst this infernal covenant

Roll the botch dice. 1 base, +1 from being surprised, I believe?

Variña: It doesn't really make sense to me that you can botch soak.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll! roll! roll! roll!

Archibald of Guernicus: It doesnt make sense it can explode either, by that logic, but thats how it works

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 2d10

(

3

+

1

)

=

4

oh no

Archibald of Guernicus: ljfao

Hypatia of Athens: RIP

Variña: jesus christ

Archibald of Guernicus: RIP

Artemisia: rip

Bolad: Gahaha

Archibald of Guernicus: what the FUCK lol

just incredible

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god

Bolad: This is CLEARLY fate

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well

Variña: what the hell. the gm powers are too strong. i don't like this.

I spent a single extra quality to increase Varina's pen and otherwise this is just straight out of the book. I'm sorry.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wait

hang on

does the botch also remove the soak i get from that cold ward

Variña: No.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice

does it remove my stamina soak

Variña: I don't think it would.

That stuff is inherent.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok lets see

lets check armor here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: now is probably not the time to go over the technicalities of Ring wards huh

Artemisia: cold bypasses armor

Archibald of Guernicus: Not if its a shard of ice

Cold damage from PeIg does, ReAq deals iwth armour normally

Variña: He's right.

Archibald of Guernicus: the ward, though, was a ring ward, which we uh. we left it.

Variña: Varina has a +20 damage spell that does direct PeIg damage, but she did not use that one.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's varina's sigil

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well in any case

Archibald of Guernicus: A giant RIP emote

Malachiasz of Tytalus: at least the party can now kill varina

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

so is mal incapped here or what

Hypatia of Athens: Is the owl perched?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im dead

i outright died

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh he's insanely dead

Hypatia of Athens: I assume it'd have to Concentrate to cast while flying

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats 36 damage

Archibald of Guernicus: Well

Malachiasz of Tytalus: after the only soak that applies

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hm.

Variña: The owl is flying back to the roof of the tower, yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: To be fair, we dont know if being surprised actually adds a second botch die. The second botch is the one that made him botch

Variña: True.

Archibald of Guernicus: IF he was only meant to roll 1

then he lives

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats true

Archibald of Guernicus: but is really heavily wounded

Malachiasz of Tytalus: did it roll concentration

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we dont even know if soak is supposed to be able to botch

Variña: I don't think he should have rolled two.

It's an owl and doesn't need to concentrate to fly.

Because it can just fly.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

Archibald of Guernicus: Cause he took 25 damage, which is enough for a heavy wound under houserules, I think?

Hypatia of Athens: It's flying and casting

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if his soak is halved

Hypatia of Athens: Also hooting really loudly if its hitting people with Voice spells

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: flying is as natural for an owl as walking, though.

Variña: It's actually flying and using inherent powers with its Might Points, which isn't the same as casting.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh I see

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well lets figure this out

so i know if i can throw a crystal dart at the shitty bird

Variña: I don't think you should be able to botch soak rolls. That's just me.

Hypatia of Athens: I think saying he didn't add a die for stealth is the only way out of this

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont either. thats also just me, the guy who will die if you can botch soak rolls

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you lose all your soak with 1 confirmed botch, what happens with more

Archibald of Guernicus: Endrite left, Johns is our leading expert in ars here

Is he still here?

Artemisia: you lose all your damage if you botch damage roll

Bolad: there are some rolls in ars where it specifically says "Stress roll (no botch)"

Artemisia: the book says nothing about soak rolls

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm

Hypatia of Athens: This is why Pet Shop is banned

Archibald of Guernicus: So you can't botch soak rolls then

Well

Malachiasz of Tytalus: botching soak IS pretty stupid

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its stressed though.

Archibald of Guernicus: He took 25 damage which is Incap by normal rules and a Heavy Wound (-6) by our houserules

Hypatia of Athens: Here's a better idea for the botch effect

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think either say they can't botch OR cut off the second botch die

Hypatia of Athens: You lose the +1 you get from the die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and move on

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah it seems like the botch isn't valid at all, so he just

Takes an insane wound

but is still alive

Variña: im ghoing to say you definitely dont roll two botch die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to throw a staff at the bird.

Bolad: A botch on a combat roll reduces the total

to zero, just as for any other botch.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: die, fucker bird

Archibald of Guernicus: He only survived by being a Tytalus and being able to conf twice, lol

Hypatia of Athens: You only roll stress die for soak out of combat

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it was out of combat

Variña: He was technically out of combat when it happened.

Artemisia: out of combat and spells

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, this was pre-combat

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah but johns said reducing the total to zero is a combat roll

thing

Artemisia: it expicitly says the non-combat damage roll is used for spells

Archibald of Guernicus: As hilarious as beard losing 2 PCs in 2 weeks would be

Hypatia of Athens: Bolad: A botch on a combat roll reduces the total

Archibald of Guernicus: it does not seem like soak rolls actually botch

in this situation

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12+3+1+5+5+5 Piercing Shaft of Wood (method caster, 1 aura, life boost, life boost, life boost)

(

2

)

+12+3+1+5+5+5

=

33

Archibald of Guernicus: and even if they did, the second botch die is debatable

Bolad: Soak against other sources of injury is calculated

by adding a stress die to Soak.

so imo you still get your base soak at least

even if botch

Hypatia of Athens: These are teh rules we forgot to use for Aristide too, haha

Archibald of Guernicus: Which means he loses the 1 from the roll and keeps his confies

Artemisia: yeah

Variña: Yeah. I don't think there's any circumstance where you can actually lose your innate soak.

Bolad: Okay, I shoot Malach in the back to finish him off

Archibald of Guernicus: 26 damage still doesn't actually kill malach, he dies on 29 damage in one hit

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so am i dead or not

Variña: Malach is only almost dead.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats 23 overflow + 2 pen/2

Archibald of Guernicus: No, you took a heavy wound

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so just a heavy wound right

ok

Archibald of Guernicus: So, congrats

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i want my turn now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 25 pen.

Archibald of Guernicus: -6 to everything but

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i want my turn to cast a spell

Archibald of Guernicus: Here we go gamers!

Lets fuck this owl up

Bolad: bullying the gm until you win ftw folks.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: A bolt of ice shoots through my shoulder.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since aristide was marched, is it a violation of our oath to bind his soul as a jester

Archibald of Guernicus: I was bullying him into sticking with what he did and killing malach, but the rules are fairly clear

Malach lives

Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 52

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he wasn't a hermetic magus when he died, after all.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are we still on simultaneous resolution

Variña: Variña Initiative: 18

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 19

Variña: We're still doing simultaneous resolution yeah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's better imo.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Malachiasz of Tytalus Initiative: 46

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also did you see my roll and penetration total, above.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

im also gonna cast a spell

lets go

Artemisia: Artemisia Initiative: 66

Variña: Malach will have to die on the next turn.

Bolad: Bolad Initiative: 46

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I scream and shout in anger as I cast at the shitty bird.

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia of Athens Initiative: 22

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fuck i coulda put another life boost in

oh well

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+26

(

5

)

+26

=

31

crystal dart

ok what makes up the pen total

amount over + pen + ?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: overflow + pen/2, i think.

Artemisia: pen, actually

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: really

Archibald of Guernicus: Zachaois the Stiff Initiative: 53

Tünde Initiative: 41

Variña: crystal dart is an auto-hit right

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im gonna double conf that too

Artemisia: yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: Sister Aurelia Initiative: 56

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes

Variña: nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets see

Archibald of Guernicus: Sister Guzeppina Initiative: 21

Napolino Initiative: 48

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: why do you have so many damn confidence tokens.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its 37 penetration

Hypatia of Athens: You can just run the nuns on my initiative

Variña: hes a good roleplayer.

Artemisia: self-confident virtue

Archibald of Guernicus: Who's commanding the grogs and playing them here

Hypatia of Athens: They're groped to e

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mmm

Malachiasz of Tytalus: does it penetrate

Hypatia of Athens: Grouped, sorry

Archibald of Guernicus: Tanolfi Initiative: 45

Bolad: endrite gave him a bunch of conf for playing in an antagonistic way to the other players

Archibald of Guernicus: :blessed:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh

Variña: It does, and you hit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so thats the secret.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

crystal dart damage

rolling 1d10!+10

(

8

)

+10

=

18

Hypatia of Athens: Make all the groped jokes you want, I'm just clarifying for our not-so-lewd gamers in the audience

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and its an owl

lets find out owl size

Variña: Also, give me one second to make sure I'm getting the MR right.

Artemisia: there's no one like that to clarify to

Variña: It's actually a giant owl that is size +2.

Artemisia: lol

Hypatia of Athens: Throw a pokeball at the owl

Bolad: its might + magic aura - whatever points its spent on powers so far

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, it's MR, good point. I cast Archibald's Draining Touch, PeVi, magic-aligned

Lets lower that MR for everyone

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is it actually, dfd

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+29

(

1

)

+29

=

30

rolling 1d10

(

2

)

=

2

Artemisia: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: No botch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: boo

Variña: Ok, I was interpreting MR correctly.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is it actually an owl as big as me or is that a joke

Variña: You DID hit.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i must find out

Variña: It's actually size +2.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Variña: It's a Bjornaer after entering final twilight.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well its taken 18 damage - whatever soak

thats at least al ight wound

Artemisia: it rolls soak

Malachiasz of Tytalus:  crying angry feels guy face

Variña: It shouldn't, since combat began as soon as she attacked.

A crystal dart punctures her wing as she flies away, causing a Light Wound.

Artemisia: yeah, but spells use rolled soak

Archibald of Guernicus: 10 base level, which means... 30 pen total on PeVi, removing 10 might. This lowers its MR by 10 after this round ha ha ha. Also its might for anything else that affects. Unless it has more than 30 MR, in which case this did not affect it.

Variña: Oh.

Well, sure.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we figure out the wounds later if we're doing simultaneous resolution.

Artemisia: unless it was houseruled away

Variña:

rolling 1d10!+14

(

4

)

+14

=

18

Good job, you don't do any damage.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh hell yes, flying enemy with 29 pen and unlimited soak. Does anyone have anything that fucks it up and sidesteps soak.

Artemisia: PeVi

Variña: It has more than 30 MR.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you do

its called perdo vim

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, I just perdo-d its vim

MORE THAN 30

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what?

Variña: Its only got 9 pen, but its pen is variable based on what powers it uses.

Artemisia: it loses MR as it uses might

Bolad: i got an idea

Malachiasz of Tytalus: every time it uses an ability its might goes down

Bolad: a CrAu effect to fling our melee grogs up at it

Artemisia: do it

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh this is the most powerful thing we've ever fought. Just so that people are aware here.

Hypatia of Athens: Why is it rolling a die to avoid PeVI?

Variña: It didn't.

Archibald of Guernicus: It doesnt, it has more than 30 might

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's rolling a die to soak mal's crystal dart.

Variña: that was the soak for crystal dart.

Artemisia: i mean, it's guarding the secret of growing unlimited amount of vis

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

Bolad: Generates a massive gust of air around

you that supports and pushes you along

through the air at speeds up to 40 miles per

hour. Hovering in place is difficult, and

requires a Finesse roll against an Ease Factor of 9 per round. It is dangerous for extended travel, because if you lose concentration, you are likely to sustain serious injuries (+15 damage, on average, although it may be more if the

magus was very high up).

Bolad: Can I use a variant of this to bring the shield grogs up to the bird

Hypatia of Athens: Wait, you don't roll soak for combat damage

Bolad: as it is a very big bird they can grab on

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, if i conf my attack has 30 pen

Artemisia: you do for spell damage

Archibald of Guernicus: You might be better off just shooting it, isnt your archery really good? If you wound it, you'll lower its soak against future crystal darts

Variña: Malach brings up an interesting point, does the Might score and thus the MR actually go down based on power use? If so, this fight will be easier.

Hypatia of Athens: Those rules are for noncombat damage

Spell damage is weak enough as it is in cobmat

Archibald of Guernicus: Temporary might and permanent might are different, I thought

Artemisia: yeah, but it says they're used for spell damage

Variña: That's what I thought too.

Hypatia of Athens: Look

Bolad: thats up to you the gm to decie

just let us know now

Hypatia of Athens: It says they're used for spell damage taken out of combat

Bolad: hafl is right shaun

Variña: I think temporary might as a spendable resource and might score are 2 different things.

Hypatia of Athens: Because otherwise you end up with a situation where Aristide can't possibly burn to death

Bolad: that's only because no one told endrite about it

anyway me and tanolfi will shoot arrows

Artemisia: i only looked it up recently and i had vague memories of mont mercure using spell damage that way

Variña: "Hoot! Hoot!"

Hypatia of Athens: https://puu.sh/xTob9/61f9a953d4.png

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+21 comp bow

(

5

)

+21

=

26

Hypatia of Athens:  Non-Combat

Variña:

rolling 1d10!+21 defense

(

10

+

1

)

+21

=

32

Artemisia: yeah, but it says the non-combat rules are used for calculating damage done with spells

Variña: heh

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+16 tanolfi shoots

(

5

)

+16

=

21

hrm

Hypatia of Athens: You're being too literal here

Bolad: half is right dude

Hypatia of Athens: No

Artemisia: maybe

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah it just seems like a result of the shitty layout

Hypatia of Athens: Damage inflicted with spells mean a mundane fire and a magical fire out of combat use the system

Bolad: "Soak against  other sources of injury  is calculated by adding a stress die to Soak.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the roll is used for both things and they just tack a mention of it on to the end of the part they're explaining in detail

Artemisia: that's what i think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets get a move on here

Hypatia of Athens: Look at it this way, spells already don't benefit from attack advantage or injury penalties

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets all take a moment to thank our gm dfd for creating this situation and allowing us to more fully understand the rules of our favorite system

Bolad: lets call dfd a cuck

Variña: hey.

rude.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Thank you, DFD.

Archibald of Guernicus: Moving on to the the absurd hyper owl,

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean

he is

its an accurate term for hte man

Hypatia of Athens: If you're also gaining a d10 in free soak, then spells below Ball of Abyssal Flame are worthless

And this system is fucked

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: until he acknowledges that i cast a damage spell on the bird i will have to call him a cuck.

Artemisia: you gain d10 in damage

Hypatia of Athens: That d10 isn't free, its necessary

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: soak values are wildly higher than base damage

Archibald of Guernicus: Shaun does raise a good point. The average combatant is walking around in enough soak that +10 damage doesnt do much with comparitive d10s on each side.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Variña: We're going to end up having to resolve this combat next week.

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean

this thing is +14 soak

Variña: After this round, I think.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lower its might

Archibald of Guernicus: Which means anything below +20 damage is basically worthless

Malachiasz of Tytalus: kill it

baste this turkey

Bolad: lets offer up one of our own as a sacrifice, it worked last time

Archibald of Guernicus: The red knight was 16 soak or something ridiculous which means you literally cant harm it without great luck or a +25 damage spell

So I dont think you roll soak against spells in combat

Bolad: the red knight was a high ranking duke of hell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im going to roll damage, on my spell.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good luck guli

Variña: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also i had to conf to penetrate 30 mr

Archibald of Guernicus: It has a lot more than 30 MR, possiblyl

30 penetration did nothing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: christ

Variña: *35 mr

Malachiasz of Tytalus: my spell was 37 pen

oh my god

Archibald of Guernicus: [makes the blessed emote but im screaming loudly]

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 35 mr. 14 soak

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok, can i retroactively add a life boost to it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ladies and gentlemen, hitler. the real hitler

give it up for hitler

Variña: ok. it has 12 soak now. happy?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: Every time I think I have the casting total to finally land a spell they just keep going up, think our next foe will be a 50 MR dragon

Malachiasz of Tytalus: because i do 2 damage now

tricked

idiot

Hypatia of Athens: I'm sorry for the confusion, you're right I believe, it's just a really stupid way to lay out the rules

Bolad: join us next week for The Covenant vs. The Archangel Michael

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if i can't add more life boost then the spell does nothing but i get my token back

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it has a light wound

Artemisia: we already have higher penetration totals, since penetration is 1 per ability level despite using arts as abilities

Malachiasz of Tytalus: do wounds apply to your soak roll

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes

Yes they do

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we did it

we beat the boss

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we resolved the magic dart problem

holy shit.

Variña: It does have a light wound now. I'm reducing it to the exact by the book numbers instead of boosting it as the book suggested I do.

Because, christ.

Artemisia: lol

you trusted ars devs

Archibald of Guernicus: Did the book suggest making it much more annoying to fight lmao

Artemisia: you fool

Archibald of Guernicus: Ahhhh

Wait, is the MR still 35 or is it 30 or lower

Variña: It said to buy UP TO FIFTEEN POINTS in additional magical qualities.

and i spent 2.

Artemisia: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Set soak to infinite and watch the players cry

Variña: The MR is still 35 because it is a Magical Beast of Might 35.

Archibald of Guernicus: alright

I'll get it next round. By which I mean it will flee and be impossible to track, next round

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright well

Artemisia: i think using might points lowers its mr

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. my spell fails and i keep my token

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malachs usefulness seems a bit uh

not so useful vs a flying enemy

i can keep throwing crystal darts though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whos up

Bolad: by RAW it doesn't Hafl, but the way you described it is a houserule that I have been pushing for

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think we all went

Archibald of Guernicus: You have crystal darts! They do barely anything but you can try

Malachiasz of Tytalus: did we figure out if bolad is throwing the battle nuns up there

Variña: If you can ABSOLUTELY confirm that using Might Points lowers its MR than its current MR is 29.

Bolad: because it means you can eventually beat high might creatures through attrition

Variña: but it seems like that's a house rule we didn't settle on yet.

Artemisia: i must have rememberd that from mont mercure

Archibald of Guernicus: Has anyone not acted that can act, is the thing

Artemisia: also, aura adds to magical beast MR

Bolad: If I were running this adventure I would say its MR went down by the points it spent

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah

its 36

Artemisia: i can't act, since i have no spells

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i could have hit it with 31 mr. but not 36

Archibald of Guernicus: I can hit it with a sight range PeVi spell if it flies out of voice range

Bolad: as GM it's your right to decide what house rules you want to stick with but its cool to let us know asap

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the demon in the adventure i ran has in the book that using its ability that spends all of its might basically makes it flee

because its weak and vulnerable now

Variña: Considering the insane strength of this owl, I will support the house rule, but I'm going to have to insist it be put in the wiki and stuck to going forward.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: demons are gigantic cowards

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh neat

It loses 10 might, and 10 MR

Get fucked

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah i think it should work like

Archibald of Guernicus: Ga ha ha ha

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a fatigue sort of system

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should have waited to burn my fatigue i guess

Artemisia: i looked and he red knight had 30 might and 17 soak

might is fatigue for magical creatures

or at least faeries

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its still 35 might for all other purposes but mr i guess

Variña: Well, maybe now you guys respect House Bjornaer.

Archibald of Guernicus: No, it loses 10 might and 10 MR  next  round, due to simultaneous resolution, gulielmus

Bolad: a spell that drains a creatures might lowers its MR no matter whether you're using house rules or RAW

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's what i said

i should have waited to burn my fatigue until next round, when it will have less MR!

Artemisia: but that spell has to penetrate

Archibald of Guernicus: The spell wouldnt hit it normally, johns, since it had 35 MR and I rolled like shit and only had 30 pen

Bolad: i c.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: conf

Archibald of Guernicus: But it has 30 MR if it lost might from might points

Variña: Time to  u s e m e l e e a t t a c k s

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: use the damn token

Archibald of Guernicus: Melee attacks on the flying enemy huh

Variña: no, i'm saying the owl is going to use melee attacks.

it has very large claws.

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice. I have subtle magic and my sword is drawn so I can defend myself.

Variña: well, it's going to use melee attacks after it uses one more power.

Hypatia of Athens: If the owl is getting in range for melee I'm going to surround it with nuns

Variña: did everyone go?

Artemisia: i passed since i'm melee

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did you roll defense against the second archer?

Bolad: melee grogs passed

Malachiasz of Tytalus: this birds a real asshole too

Archibald of Guernicus: If anyone hasnt gone yet, please say. Gulielmus is attacking I believe and it has to roll defence to check for botch against one archer

Malachiasz of Tytalus: attacking us out of nowhere

Bolad: 2nd archer rolled a 21 in attack so he'd have to botch to take any damage

Variña: i'll roll a botch check since the bird has 21 defense and tanolfi rolled a 21 total

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is bolad throwing the melee grogs up

Variña:

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: No

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Archibald of Guernicus: He shot it with an arrow

and it rolled 10 on defence

Artemisia: i have sword and shield, but no armor since i'm specced for underwater combat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so uhhh

does the bird get to act again

Artemisia: and spear

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in the simultaneous round

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: It surprised us

Hypatia of Athens: I'll roll attacks for the nuns

Artemisia: finish off the tytalus

Variña: If the round is over, yes. The bird has uhh

Endrite: Hey what's up guys?

I'm back.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hi

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Welcome.

Sister Aurelia: Can we close range with the bird and attack in this round?

Variña: 19 mr now that it's spent several points and been hit by Archibald's spell?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we spent a very long time determining if malach was dead

Sister Aurelia: How far away is it?

Archibald of Guernicus: Hi. Malach died but he got better.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we figured out that the crystal dart problem isnt real

Variña: malach lived because the players aggressively houseruled the game in the face of a large owl.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: this bird threw a Crystal Dart But Ice for 38 damage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since soak vs. spells is actually rolled

Archibald of Guernicus: It also loses 10 might points to spend, I believe

Since it lost Might outright

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and then you lose your fatigue/wound penalty

Variña: that's fine.

Sister Aurelia: Can I melee roll attacks for the nuns?

Variña: I thought you weren't up there.

Because Bolad shot an arrow.

Sister Aurelia: You said the owl was closing for melee

If we cannot reach it yet then move to the next turn

Endrite: Does ice count as watar?

Variña: It does by Aquam guidelines iirc.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: It does, since its just a natural state of water

Endrite: Ok.

Variña: The owl uses Abyssal Touch for diam duration on Group target. Only 10 pen.

Anyone afflicted loses 1 fatigue point every round.

Artemisia: rip

Sister Aurelia: The nuns use their relics to soak it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: which form

Variña: PeIg

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it does not affect me

Endrite: Sounds like we should teach the parma to apprentices, for safety.

Bolad shivers

Archibald of Guernicus: My ignem MR is 21. I laugh and am fine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have exactly 10 ignem resist

Variña: Nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: mine is 20

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: am i fine

Artemisia: i have 0

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, no, Guli, you have 11

in this aura

iirc

Sister Aurelia: I have 25 divine MR

Artemisia: but it's 0, not no

Hypatia of Athens: I do, I mean

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes!

i thought it was just magic beings that got that

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. Maybe it is. Someone can correct me if thats wrong.

Endrite: Really makes you think...

Archibald of Guernicus: We lose MR in hostile auars

* auras

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in that case we benefit from magic

Archibald of Guernicus: so itd be fucking retarded to not gain it in magic auras

Artemisia: i'll look at realm interaction table

Endrite: It does boost your Parma Magica because the Parma Magica is a Magic Ability.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: eat shit, dumbass owl

Variña: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: So is that a new round then?

Let's murder it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 21 resist then

Variña: It is.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: fuck you asshole owl

i throw another crystal dart

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast my other PeVi spell, Archibald's Draining Shout, at it

Variña: After everyone goes this round, I have to leave. Sorry all.

Artemisia: it doesn't affect parma as magic ability

Malachiasz of Tytalus: screaming and shouting

Artemisia: it only affects abilities that are rolled

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+26

(

5

)

+26

=

31

Artemisia: but it does affect mr

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+29 level 5 spell, 10 pen

(

2

)

+29

=

31

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 21 pen, do i need to conf or does it pen

Archibald of Guernicus: 36 Pen

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+21 pew pew shooting

(

8

)

+21

=

29

Archibald of Guernicus: It loses 5 might

Artemisia: 21 pen + skill

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+16 tanolfi shoots. pew pew

(

6

)

+16

=

22

Variña: You don't need to conf, based on the house rules johns suggested which are now canon in all forms

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh right yeah

ok it pens

Variña: I'll have to bring a 50 Might creature next time.

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+10 damage

(

6

)

+10

=

16

dont forget its light wound pentalty. fucker

Variña: now i'm confused due to all that arguing.

I do roll soak?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you roll soak

vs spells

Hypatia of Athens: Yes

Artemisia: you roll soak with light wound penalty

Archibald of Guernicus: Light wound is -2

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you roll a d10

you put a ! to amke it stressed

Variña:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

6

)

+10

=

16

Malachiasz of Tytalus: bastard

Variña: It does nothing.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Bolad: can you make 2 defense rolls against arrows, mr. owl

Archibald of Guernicus: Is Proclus with us, I can only assume so

Variña:

rolling 1d10!+19

(

6

)

+19

=

25

rolling 1d10!+19

(

1

)

+19

=

20

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea cheers

Bolad: Confirm the botch, please

Endrite: Clearly Proclus isn't here.

Archibald of Guernicus: The first hits, the second also hits and might botch, ooo

Variña:

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

Endrite: He's probably taking a leak or something.

Bolad: 12 damage from bolad

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn could be another guy shooting darts at the owl, but he also could have died to a surprise owl, so it's probably best I brought Hypatia

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the owl's MR at now

Hypatia of Athens: So we have a way home

Variña: It seems like I don't actually like these house rules because it makes a creature go from VERY hard to beat to a total pussy who can't do anything.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 30? 25?

Variña: perhaps a middle ground.

Bolad: 9 damage from Tanolfi

Artemisia: proclus takes a leak in freezing mountains with predictable and embarrassing results

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah it does seem like mighty beings get chipped away too fast.

Variña: and this was supposed to be an actual challenge and not just something you argued to death out of game.

Endrite: Good news, Proclus is Immune to Water.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you said 21 MR right?

Artemisia: is water symmetric according to aristotle?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: to be fair, we must also consider that at 35 mr we have virtually no way to kill it

Hypatia of Athens: Poeple learn PeVi because the Ars writers love to throw things with Might at you constantly

Variña: You had plenty of ways to kill it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 35 mr and 12 soak

Hypatia of Athens: Archibald wouldn't have loaded up with PeVi if we foguth lots of normal guys or whatnot

Bolad: 21 defense

Variña: Also, you could have just not killed it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it attacked us

Variña: Somehow.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and nearly killed me

on sight

Endrite: You should have tried talking to the monster.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we didnt even see it

Artemisia: i like doing it and it works

Hypatia of Athens: It attacked us out of stealth

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we walked up to the tower to knock on the door

Archibald of Guernicus: It killed Malach! Well it didnt kill him but it launched an attack that would have killed anyone but Malach

Malachiasz of Tytalus: then it threw a 38 damage spell at me

Endrite: Anyway, Water is not symmetrical but Proclus invented a warding spell.

Variña: I think I support PeVi stripping might, right?

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh that's what it does, so yes

That's what the effect actually does

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12+3+1+5+5 shaft, again (method caster, aura, 2 life boosts (1 dangerous))

(

1

)

+12+3+1+5+5

=

27

Variña: But I don't think Magical creatures should lose MR every single time they use a power.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh no

Variña: That's pretty stupid.

Archibald of Guernicus: PeVi is already nerfed in house rules

Hypatia of Athens: They don't lose their MR fro Might when they spend temporary might

Variña: I'm saying where you can whittle away a creatures might with PeVi rather than having to fully do it.

That's what you all argued it does.

Artemisia: yeah, because multicasting PeVi was insane

Bolad: oh well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many dice

1?

Archibald of Guernicus: There should be solutions outside of just PeVi, which was the reason PeVi was nerfed

Hypatia of Athens: I never argued for temporary might costing MR

Variña: That's literally the only reason you've been hitting its MR, because you convinced me it loses MR from Might from casting.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10 botch die

(

3

)

=

3

Archibald of Guernicus: To be fair if I had any idea of what insane MR it had, I'd have just used my level 5 spell first and hit it anyway

And then hit it again

Malachiasz of Tytalus: johns agreed with it losing mr from casting

so i trust the ruling

Archibald of Guernicus: to strip 10 might, on this turn

so

its the same outcome

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this one i do have to conf, token's down

Variña: Yeah, it's fine for this fight, but I don't like the ruling afterwards, since it makes magical creatures and anything with a might score useless after using a single high level spell.

The arrow causes a Medium wound.

Bolad: how high level are these effects

Hypatia of Athens: Page 191

Bolad: i mean an effect with 5 points cost is equilvaent to a l30 hermetic effect

Hypatia of Athens: You have Might Pool and Might Score

Variña: it's 1 might point per magnitude and it's using multiple level 25 spells.

Hypatia of Athens: MR is Might Score

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+8 damage

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Bolad: also you can use magical qualities to reduce the point cost of favored abilities to 0

Variña: yeah, dys and johns argued that spending might pool should reduce MR.

Hypatia of Athens: We could just have the owl TPK us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i also do some damage to myself, for burning too much life.

Endrite: That would be the most fair thing to do.

Variña: in practice, that makes basically any magical creature useless after 2 or 3 turns.

unless, of course, you're fine with GMs bringing Might 50+ creatures against you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+5 self damage

(

10

+

1

)

+5

=

16

lol

Bolad: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2 self soak

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Variña: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is that a wound?

Endrite: So what are we doing for soak now?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or a fatigue

Hypatia of Athens: Might 50 enemies do exist, but they're on the level of like, Faerie royalty

Endrite: Rolling a stress die?

Artemisia: 6 is wound

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

if it was a fatigue i would pass out.

Artemisia: the red knight's boss was 50 might

Malachiasz of Tytalus: roll stress die vs spell damage endrite

and for non-combat damage

Endrite: Hmm.

I don't like it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea coughs up some blood while channeling a truly lethal aura!!!!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its how the rules actually work

Endrite: It seems like it makes it more difficult to die.

Hypatia of Athens: The real problem with this owl is that it's flying so we can't have the grogs beat it to death

Variña: And with these proposed rules for might-having individuals losing MR with every power used, faerie royalty could be beaten by any group of magi with the ability to hold out a couple rounds.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it also means you account for wound penalties, though, endrite

Endrite: You should shoot a net at it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: faerie royalty would, presumably, have allies

Hypatia of Athens: They would

Variña: True.

Endrite: Who knows with those weirdos?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lone magical creatures shouldnt be a TREMENDOUS problem for magi

Hypatia of Athens: usually you do research and bring a large force when going up against this kind of beast

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the owl's soak roll

Endrite: Anyway I think they should keep their MR at all times, obviousyl.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: unless theyre way out of their element and fuck up and do no research

Variña:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

6

)

+10

=

16

Endrite: Why don't you try retreating?

Hypatia of Athens: We should retreat into the cave

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: christ.

can i conf my damage

Malachiasz of Tytalus: because it can fly

Artemisia: we'd be in a worse situation

Hypatia of Athens: Me and the nuns retreat to the cave

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and is flying at us right now

Variña: Sure.

Archibald of Guernicus: You have to remember that penetration is buffed in our houserules so 35 MR is almost impossible to ever hit outside of being an archmage

Hypatia of Athens: SO that the owl has to come into range to achive line of sight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. i give it my all, and do 5 damage total

Artemisia: once combat ends, malach's wounds will get aggravated if he keeps doing things

Variña: it's going to have a -6 penalty next round anyway, since Bolad caused a medium wound.

Archibald of Guernicus: Good shit

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats another light wound guli

well done

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: since my damage roll exactly matched its soak

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 2 light wounds and a medium

were doing it

Archibald of Guernicus: Everyone starts whooping and cheering as the owl is kicked to death

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: really digging the number of confidence tokens on the table

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah lets consider that

this was still a tough enemy

Hypatia of Athens: I'll stop retreating if the owl falls down and the nuns can beat it with large hammers

Variña: Have you considered getting spell mastery: penetration?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but also we're supposed to have 2 or 3 tokens to spend at the start of each adventure, right?

Archibald of Guernicus: It almost fucking killed a PC before we could take any actions and they literally only lived due to a major virtue and their house virtue lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i propose a solution that might help with this

Bolad: i cut everyone to 2 last time since they give a bigger bonus

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we do the rules weve come up with right now

BUT

Bolad: and then endrite threw a bunch at beadrbeard

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we drop the rule that says you get 3 conf points at the start of a session

Variña: it only almost killed a PC because it rolled two exploding die in a completely insane lucky roll.

Not because it's actually that great.

Bolad: lets not argue about house rules in the middle of combat ffs

Malachiasz of Tytalus: or any rule that says you get a set amount

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah lets move on

Endrite: Beardbeard earned those confidence points!

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's kill this thing, who hasnt acted yet

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think were waiting on it to go

Artemisia: it's still not in melee

Variña: It did its second action.

Did everyone go?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is it round 3 now?

i went

Variña: Ok.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: guli went

Bolad: dfd did you decide if it DOES or DOES NOT have reduced MR in round 2/round 3

Artemisia: i'm waiting for it to get to melee

Variña: I'm going with what we decided on for this fight.

Hypatia of Athens: The nuns move closer but presumably cannot reach it at this time

Variña: But I disagree with the MR draining with spent MP overall.

Bolad: Bolad is going to conjure a lightning bolt at it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also all of my rolls this round are based on what i said in discord about my virtue

Bolad: Incantation of Lightning is 7th might, Bolad's spirit is Might 35, so the penetration would be 35 - 7 + (magic aura)

Variña:

rolling 1d10!+21 attack, the owl enters melee range and attacks uhhh

(

6

)

+21

=

27

Endrite: These have been some really top notch tokens.

You look like a muh fuggin uhhh.

Variña: Napolino

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: napolino no

the tokens are good

Bolad: I'll roll damage for incantation of lightning if GM says it has penetrated MR

Hypatia of Athens: Is this a new turn?

Or the old one?

Bolad: I'll roll defense for Napo

Archibald of Guernicus: This is the second turn

Hypatia of Athens: Okay, the owl is closing

Variña: It's the third turn.

Just now.

Hypatia of Athens: The nuns move in an attack

Archibald of Guernicus: The third turn you say [rubs hands]

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+1+6 Defense

(

6

)

+1+6

=

13

Artemisia: in that case i attack it

Variña:

rolling 1d10!+9 damage for Napolino.

(

6

)

+9

=

15

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i will also attack. with crystal dart!

Endrite: How many nuns do we have in this ding dang covenant?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: scream. shout

Bolad: did it attack magically or mundanely? if it was a mundane attack you don't roll damage

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+26

(

7

)

+26

=

33

Hypatia of Athens: I just recruited a new one because I upgraded my Leadership

Malachiasz of Tytalus: penetrates

Variña: oh, fine.

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

Variña: it only does 9 then.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ass

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

2 light wounds 1 medium go soak go

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast The Crystal Dart

Variña:

rolling 1d10+6 soak roll.

(

5

)

+6

=

11

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ass

Bolad: GM, is 28+Magic aura enough pen to hit the bird

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i hate this fucking bird

it should be

Variña: Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+29 Crystal Dart

(

2

)

+29

=

31

Bolad:

rolling 1d10!+30 Damage: Incantation of Lightning

(

2

)

+30

=

32

Archibald of Guernicus: 31 pen or so, hits

lmao

Variña: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus casts bind wounds on himself while all this is going on

Sister Aurelia:

rolling d10!+5+3+13 melee attack on owl

(

9

)

+5+3+13

=

30

Archibald of Guernicus: Can you believe there's people who are AGAINST the pagans?

rolling 1d10!+10 crystal dart damage roll

(

7

)

+10

=

17

Variña: The party seems to have slain the owl with the power of aggressive metagaming.

Sister Guzeppina:

rolling d10!+5+3+13 melee attack on owl

(

4

)

+5+3+13

=

25

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll wait for the attacks to finish i guess.

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh houserules or no, I dumped its MR to 20 and Bolad hit it with his power

We won fair and square!

Bolad: oh yeah lol I forgot archibald nuked its mr anyway

Variña: archibald's really tough.

Archibald of Guernicus: He's very good at setting things up to get slain

With PeVi

Bolad: That's why you're the best, boss!

Archibald of Guernicus: he has 2 spells for every realm

just in case

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should of killed malachiasz to retain control of the situation

Archibald of Guernicus: Frankly a vim specialist fighting in a friendly aura should fuck up anything he faces

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to get a third nun who can throw nets

Variña: Varina makes a final desperate attack, clawing Napolino, but is immediately slain by lightning, stone darts, and mundane weapons at once.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: devilsleastfavoritedemon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah, should he have been rolling to worsen his heavy wound when he threw more spells at the owl

Archibald of Guernicus: Devil's Favourite Demon's Oblivion

Artemisia: no

you only roll to worsen wounds after combat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whew.

Hypatia of Athens: I hired my own grogs from the failed nuns of the nearby convents since I distrust the rest of VT's turb

Variña: Congratulations, everyone.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Malach, are ye alright?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: heres my roll

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

its not a botch!

Variña: You get 7 feathers.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Yes. Well, maybe not. No, not at all, in fact."

Endrite: fethers

Artemisia: artemisia and grogs fade to unconsciousness since the fatigue draining spell was diam duration

Archibald of Guernicus: "I have nae corpus spells tae patch ye up, perhaps Gulielmus does?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Damned bird."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll sing a healing song at Malachiasz

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Take care of the ones that passed out there first."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Regardless, here, I should have cast this earlier and I can only apologise profusely that I didn't. I'll give everyone the wizard's sidestep, in case we face any more danger."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Oh, aye, that would be nice."

Archibald of Guernicus: I give everyone who accepts it the ol' sidestep

Artemisia: i'll accept it once i'm no longer unconscious

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i accept.

Artemisia: that will be in a long time

Proclus of Rome: "Hey everyone, what'd I miss?" Chomps snowcone loudly. "Giant owl? Sounds gay."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Malachiasz, here, suppress the Parma for a second and I'll bind your wound."

Archibald of Guernicus: If you're unconcious you can't say no to it. This should keep you safe in case we're attacked before you wake up.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Thank you, Frenchman."

Hypatia of Athens: +2 Voice, +3 Moon +4 for +12 to recovery rolls

25 miracle level

Malachiasz of Tytalus: archibald learning a lot from the ultimate rapist

Proclus of Rome: Is that a potion?

Can you drink potions if you're warded against water?

Artemisia: i think heavy wounds take a season to improve

Hypatia of Athens: Magic Aura is -1 to holy, right?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye missed the remains of an ancient Bjornaer, I believe. Bialas did say that final twilight for those of his house is different."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: water is likely a major component of potions

Artemisia: so moon duration recovery boost won't help much

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea runs a hand over the wound and it begins to bubble gently.

Proclus of Rome: "Well, so much for ancestor worship, then."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Well, friends, this is good news."

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling 23+d10!

23+

(

5

)

=

28

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Anyone who would have tried to loot this place would have surely died."

GM: Well, I need to revise some of the upcoming combats, I guess....

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Artemisia: so moon duration recovery boost won't help much

Artemisia: malach is out for the season

Hypatia of Athens: I give Malachiasz +12 recovery for the duration of the lunar cycle

Bolad: "Tengri has guided us to great victory this day."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's a sidebar about wound recovery spells somewhere

Archibald of Guernicus: "If Varina is still active, it means the tower is yet unplundered!"

GM: Malach survived, much to my disappointment.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: should of had the owl spend a confidence token

GM: lmao

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I believe I should have Jorn take me back to the covenant. I'll bring this blasted owl's body with me, no doubt such a creature has much vis."

Artemisia: https://i.imgur.com/mhiMWqL.png

Hypatia of Athens: The nuns help return Malachiasz to the healing comfort of his native cave

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "A pity that it's unlikely to be Terram."

Proclus of Rome: "What's one more scar, eh?"

Artemisia: who needs animal vis?

Archibald of Guernicus: "We'll inspect the tower first, so that we can take all our findings back in one go. The sidestep should keep ye safe, and I'll take the front, just in case."

GM: 7 pawns of Auram vis.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it could be aquam as well

or auram

Artemisia: better

Jorn of Merinita takes Malachiasz back to Lavinia's hospital

Proclus of Rome: I'll stick close to Archibald and watch him closely.

GM: I need to go. Do you all mind if we explore the tower next week?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ys

es

yes

i mean

no

Archibald of Guernicus: I mind it.

Hypatia of Athens: I mind, but it can't be helped

Proclus of Rome: You should finish the whole adventure now, in the next 10 minutes.

Artemisia: i mind, but it can't be helped

Proclus of Rome: Oh lemme cast my Ward Against Water.

Archibald of Guernicus: Is there much to go?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if only we had proclus and his powerful wards with us

Archibald of Guernicus: If its just inspecting the tower we should perhaps finish it

GM: Ok. You go inside the tower and it's filled with trash. Varina tore up all the texts and pissed and shit on them.

RIP.

Bolad: Nice

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what a shame

Artemisia: RIP

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Bolad: This is just confirming all stereotypes of Bjoarner I've had to date

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice, lets claim our adventure xp and go home to our labs

Artemisia: good adventure

GM: That's not what happened but the tower is more complicated than you might expect so it won't get finished in the next few minuts.

minutes.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 8 + 7 + 1

(

4

)

+2+8+7+1

=

22

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it was a good adventure

Proclus of Rome: Nice, got it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hell, perhaps if we examine the droppings, well find more vis

Archibald of Guernicus: I more mean, is there enough remaining that's even worth a full session?

GM: Yes.

Bolad: i had to spend a conf token to channel tengri so ive put it down now

Archibald of Guernicus: If not we could just finish it up

oh

GM: I could potentially get two more sessions out of this, since you haven't actually found the garden yet, which has its own set of problems.

Archibald of Guernicus: Channel tengu

Hypatia of Athens: mmmm

Proclus of Rome: Someone should invent a Rego Herbam spell that throws nets at monsters.

Bolad: hey that'd be pretty cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can't find the sidebar.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll invent a nun grog who throws mets

GM: That would be a great spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, let's just... roll... against a high might enemies defence [laughs]

Artemisia: just creo herbam a net on the monster

Proclus of Rome: You'd aim it with finesse.

Artemisia: that won't help

Proclus of Rome: Thereby bypassing Magic Resistance of all kinds but NOT net immunity.

GM: It would help if it were a very large net.

Artemisia: let's just use finess for aiming

Archibald of Guernicus: Unless you have absurd finesse I imagine it'd miss every time since monsters have things like +37 to defence rolls

Proclus of Rome: Well obviously you'd have a lot of nets.

Artemisia: you can't hit normal humans with finesse

GM: if you're throwing a size +2 net thats like a +20 or something to your aiming roll.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you could make a really big net

GM: throwing large objects gives you significant bonuses.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i can make large nets made entirely of metal

Proclus of Rome: This brings me to my second idea: buy a finesse book.

Artemisia: but how would you move it to the site of the fight

Malachiasz of Tytalus: in fact i probably should

Bolad: dedicated net grogs, of course

Proclus of Rome: What metal is flexible enough to be a net?

Hypatia of Athens: I might replace Dance of the Staves on my Redcap item with CrHe, it'd not use Aiming but it'd be more useful against thigns without weapons that fly

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a diam duration spell that drops a giant metal net

copper

Archibald of Guernicus: Well for the next thing we fight, we have the benefit of being able to drop them in a pit probably

Malachiasz of Tytalus: maybe

Archibald of Guernicus: And can just sit at the top dropping spells on them

instead of it being an owl

GM: yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: Malach is horrifiying for normal enemies

Malachiasz of Tytalus: or gold

Hypatia of Athens: We probably won't have to fight Pet Shop every time we fight somethign this powerful

Malachiasz of Tytalus: or hell

Artemisia: it's a mole bjornaer

Malachiasz of Tytalus: just something net shaped but inflexible

Artemisia: it digs itself out

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a big lead web

GM: lol it definitely is petshop.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: designed to bring flying enemies down to the ground

GM: hahaha

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i can drop them in pits

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't that just be a big rock?

Why not just make a big rock?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll make a nun who fights with nets and javelins

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

your argument will be taken into consideration

Hypatia of Athens: I'll spend enoug hleadershpi to have 3 nuns at might command.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: OKAY i found it

These spells must be in effect for the whole of the recovery period, either because their duration exceeds the recovery period, or because they are recast.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yes we already saw that

someone linked that image

Bolad: where are all these heretic nuns coming from

Artemisia: i posted that as screencap

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: christ

Bolad: Get thee to a nunnery, and that nunnery is Vardian's Tomb

Proclus of Rome: We should build a convent.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: maybe one of these nuns will know hannelore

Artemisia: i support hypatia's cult

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i should ask

see how shes doing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm glad artemisia's gift is going to be destroyed.

Bolad: She's dead, as I recall

Artemisia: why?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: she is

but malachiasz does not know that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: god damn kids.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: in fact he has a reputation for stalking nuns

Bolad: lmao

Malachiasz of Tytalus: because he sent letters to every convent

Artemisia: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: trying to find hannelore

during his obsession

Bolad: real glad we got rid of aristid-- oh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ;p;

Artemisia: he sent letters to every convent asking to be taken it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he didnt know which one she was at so he settled for casting a wide net

Bolad: Alright

GM: thank you for playing and helping me not kill everyone instantly

Bolad: Good story hook

I'll keep it in mind

Malach still has 0 mentem MR right

Proclus of Rome: Anyone who keeps you from killing player characters is NOT your friend.

GM: It's a shame, but I'll learn how to do it in the future.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: he has 20 actually

because of his parma

Bolad: hmm

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dfd could have killed me if he had the bird spend a conf token

so really its his fault

GM: why would the owl have conf tokens?

Archibald of Guernicus: It was aristocritus who had the low mentem MR. Due to his parens. This killed him too.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its a confident owl

Proclus of Rome: Animals get Ferocity tokens.

Artemisia: dfd has two conf tokens. shame he didn't use them

Proclus of Rome: Which work the same way.

Artemisia: it's a smart animal

Malachiasz of Tytalus: tsk tsk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: were wound recovery efs increased

GM: Well, next time.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i guess dfd did not WANT to kill malach

GM: There's always next time.

Artemisia: i think wound recovery efs were increased, but recovery increase from spells was also increased

since they both contribute to a roll that contains ability

Bolad: no no no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: johns told me to not increase the bonus on my spell.

Bolad: any ability that affects recovery is halved

everything else is just as normal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok

rolling 1d10!+2+6 to recover from a light wound

(

5

)

+2+6

=

13

Artemisia: that is not consistent with the dumb system

Bolad: why

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus recovers from his light wound. incredible

Hypatia of Athens: I can buff that Gul

Bolad: otherwise we're trying to balance arts, abilities, and spell levels

that would be insane

Malachiasz of Tytalus: cant wait to figure out a bunch of new houserules

Archibald of Guernicus: Abilities as farce

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i buffed it myself

Hypatia of Athens: GJ

Malachiasz of Tytalus: what if we just.................... ran it as raw?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :stare:

Hypatia of Athens: RAW FTW

Proclus of Rome: Boo.

Bolad: Ars Fagica.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: then we would be getting 2 xp from labwork seasons

Artemisia: the EF is increased since abilities as arts, but the spell bonus is increased in the same way

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyone that makes me remake my character sheet is getting wizards warred

Artemisia: that is consistent with how everything is done in the system

Malachiasz of Tytalus: rules as raw: everyone smiling, getting along, moving through an adventure at a reasonable pace

rules as rope kid: 2 hours arguing about how house rules interact

Bolad: dont change the ef

on recovery rolls

im not budging on this

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its because a bunch of weird shit goes into the roll on the doctor's end i think.

Proclus of Rome: Glowing brain: double them

Glowing Magical Super Brain: Triple them.

Archibald of Guernicus: The logical reason behind that would be that if you dont have a doctor or spell nearby, you just die, due to the insanely high EFs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thats how it is on this bitch of an earth

Malachiasz of Tytalus: universe brain: no more efs. you cannot recover from wounds. entropy has won

Artemisia: you can slowly walk to a doctor without worsening the wound as long as you're alive

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the universe is either in entropy or progress.

We choose entropy!

- motto of house Criamon

Artemisia: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the universe is either in entropy or progress.

We choose entropy!

Archibald of Guernicus: Omega Hyperbrain: Entropy II has won

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok gg

im going to assume that took too many days for labwork, but not enough days to disrupt reading a book

Archibald of Guernicus: GOod news. It took no time at all. Arcadian Travel!

Artemisia: we travelled everywhere instantly

we're not done with the adventure though

Archibald of Guernicus: [BGM - lets get some lab work in here]

Malachiasz of Tytalus: jorn will be the most missed simply due to convenience

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh. right

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the bad boys of vardians tomb laughing at other covenants as they get to adventure AND do lab work

Artemisia: chain casting mastered 500 pace teleport is fast enough

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many pawns of vis are in this owl anyway

Artemisia: 7

Proclus of Rome: We'll have to walk back.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 7

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Proclus of Rome: Did we bring food?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malach brought a bunch of turnips

Artemisia: jorn brought us here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we have a giant owl corpse.

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn's in the cave

Artemisia: we can get back

Proclus of Rome: Oh, good.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but that might be cannibalism since it's a dead bjornaer.

Artemisia: try casting corpus on it

if it works, it's cannibalism

Jorn of Merinita: Jorn's keeping himself for the sake of everyone needing a way back + only getting adventure XP on Hypatia

Artemisia: if it doesn't, it's fair game

Jorn of Merinita: *keeping himself safe

The Bjornaer is in Hell and got replaced by a magic beast

Proclus of Rome: You can get adventure XP on multiple characters!

Jorn of Merinita: If you insist

Proclus of Rome: I don't think anyone has a problem with this.

I mean, you never HAVE to take adventure XP but you can if you want.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if im here next week ill tag giraldo in

Archibald of Guernicus: I've taken adventure xp on both zita and archibald on adventures where they ended up, by necessity, both needing to take part

Malachiasz of Tytalus: actually i think i am here next week

Hypatia of Athens: Anyway, Hypatia has +4 Leadership and that halves to two, so I figure that gives her one extra shield grog

Artemisia: let's build a nun army to take over the church

Hypatia of Athens: yes

Let's learn a cool heresy that lets Hypatia ordain herself

Proclus of Rome: Makes sense, nuns have so much authority.

Artemisia: let's rebuild the cult of diana

Hypatia of Athens: Cool

Proclus of Rome: Ok, see ya'll next week.

Hypatia of Athens: GG

Artemisia: see you

Hypatia of Athens: Anyway the nuns have Failed Nun on their sheet

No one's given cloistered nuns permission to inhabit the covenant

Artemisia: let's find a proper divine regio in the catacombs and build a convent there

Hypatia of Athens: :likecat:

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's keep the divine as far away as possible at all times, committing blasphemies to keep it at bay

Artemisia: that would attract the infernal

Hypatia of Athens: :thinking:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's learn the mastery ability that lets us cast in infernal auras

Archibald of Guernicus: both the infernal and the divine hate us, but one gives a worse casting penalty

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the decision is clear.

Hypatia of Athens: Learned Magicians has a virtue for ignoring Dominion penalties with a magic gift that isn't as broken as Holy Magic

The one in Bonisagus is harder to get

Learned Magician one is just a cheap initiation

Archibald of Guernicus: Listen. I'm just saying maybe Lucifer makes some good points.

Artemisia: let's turn divine aura into faerie aura

Hypatia of Athens: Time for Jorn and Hypatia to PvP each other

Archibald of Guernicus: itd be the fairest pvp possible

Hypatia of Athens: Two nuns would kill him pretty quickly

Archibald of Guernicus: he has penetration mastery on dart. you never know

Hypatia of Athens: If he didn't get a lucky explosion they'd be able to overwhelm him with flanking bonus

Artemisia: beatrice wouldn't know who to join

Archibald of Guernicus: I stand by my man Jorn

Though Zita would pick family

Hypatia of Athens: It'd be a pretty big discovery to find a place to build a secret church in the catacombs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as always gulielmus is willing to side with the first person who asks him for help

Hypatia of Athens: So Hypatia wouldn't trigger a battle idly

Jorn is better able to spread faerie aura because he can give vitality to dwarves

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's probably something like

Artemisia: there's enough room for both a church and king arthur regio in the catacombs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the first christian to be buried in the catacombs of rome

Archibald of Guernicus: For some reason I had it in my head that Hypatia had gift of tongues but she doesnt

Hypatia of Athens: It's hard to build a church when women can't be ordained

Artemisia: join the cult of diana

Hypatia of Athens: Unless we got Celeste on board

Artemisia: we add the word saint in front of it

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald looks up from statue of Mercury at the Diana temple and nods approvingly

Hypatia of Athens: If the Cult of Diana approaches Hypatia and offers her the vows she'll do it

Artemisia: once beatrice starts it

she got distracted by penance this year

Hypatia of Athens: You need a social virtue to be a priest in mechanical terms, i think

Artemisia: yeah

Hypatia of Athens: So it would take some storyguide cooperation

Artemisia: mystery cults could initiate their priests

Hypatia of Athens: Maybe

I don't feel as though initiating social virtues is 100% copacetic

But I was also wrong about soaking spells, so

Artemisia: it probably isn't

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it should just be something that happens after enough time invested

Artemisia: but in terms of mechanism for gaining the virtue, it works if the virtue only applies to the cult

but just investing time seems fair

Hypatia of Athens: If you can get someone interested in storyguiding the drama of starting a divine cult, I'm itnerested

Artemisia: let's restart house diedne as a new mystery cult

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's find a Diedne still around somewhere

Let's find Diedne, the founder

Artemisia: let's

Hypatia of Athens: I haven't messed with mystery cults since as a mundane they're not worth the XP

Artemisia: folk witches are the best mystery cult for mundanes

hell, for gifted as well

Archibald of Guernicus: The article in Sub Rosa on Diedne is apparently half-canon and half-fanon but I don't know which is which

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: learned magicians are cool

Archibald of Guernicus: It says Diedne is dead

And says a lot of stuff about her, actually

Hypatia of Athens: Learned Magician and FOlk WItches are both awesome

Archibald of Guernicus: Their domus magna was in Normandy so there's never been a better time to find her

Artemisia: quendalon ruined house merinita, so beatrice has to start a new house

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its kind of a pain that they mostly just give bonuses to actions and can't do very much directly

OH i guess since the adventure isn't over i still have my light wound

Hypatia of Athens: I'm gonna change Jorn's name to Jorn Quendalson

Artemisia: i want to make flavia into proper folk witch. she could go through their initiations as ungifted and no one would have to know she's a wizard

the rules for creating double identities in tytalan book are fairly straightforward. just spend seasons on it to gain xp.

or don't spend seasons on it and gain a little xp

Archibald of Guernicus: Tracking down the ancient True Merinita would be fun

Artemisia: they ran to house bjornaer, partially

and they're partially in hiding in rhine

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn can take Beatrice to Irencilla

Artemisia: she went on her own

teleported for a week

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Artemisia: it could be faster if she had 500 pace teleport mastered

but i assumed minute per cast

instead of 10 casts per minute

could frisia hire a local latin/AL teacher?

flavia could use them right now to learn frisian, but they'd be useful later for apprentices

Endrite: Mystical greetings.

Shauncat (GM): Hail and well met

Voda: Rolling aging.

rolling 1d10! + 5

(

9

)

+5

=

14

Shauncat (GM): Which grogs are at the alps? Just Napoliono and the nuns?

Voda: Looks like it.

I have no idea where we got so many nuns.

johns (GM): also tunde and tanolfi

Shauncat (GM): Hypatia hires them

They all have the Failed Nun flaw

Voda: You can't hire nuns!

Hafl T.: they're bad nuns

Shauncat (GM): Yeah

It's her slightly heretical travelling sisterhood

Voda: Rolling aging.

rolling 1d10! + 5

(

4

)

+5

=

9

Shauncat (GM): That's why they disguise themselves as normal grogs around the clergy

dys (GM): hail

Shauncat (GM): Namaste.

Voda: Rolling aging.

rolling 1d10! + 5

(

10

+

5

)

+5

=

20

Beardbeard: @here

Shauncat (GM): Is Merlin the Falcon alive?

Giraldo of Milan: falcon is kill

johns (GM): He'll outlive most of you

Shauncat (GM): I think I'll be a falcon today

Since Jorn and Hypatia are both in the Alps

Voda: Rolling aging.

rolling 1d10! + 5

(

4

)

+5

=

9

Rolling aging.

rolling 1d10! + 5

(

10

+

2

)

+5

=

17

Oh, that should be 16, since the Tiber statue was built that year.

It doesn't mean much I have Unaging.

Giraldo of Milan: woda

c'thinker (GM): Shauncat (GM): Is Merlin the Falcon alive?

merlin has a 1000 year lifespan

as all birds do

Shauncat (GM): Cool

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

7

)

+6

=

13

Ildebrando: Oh, Merlin isn't a playable grog

Voda: He's a bird.

Ildebrando: Brids are cool

Voda: I'm gonna eat some food but then I'll be back.

Ildebrando: A bird fucked up Malachiasz