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johns (GM): ive merged the council chamber and eastern ear pages together

because this is where we always hang out anyway

devil's fav demon: nice.

Endrite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS-RqBRpC7s

devil's fav demon: thank you.

johns (GM): I haven't look at the player controller jukebox API yet, sorry

feel free to log in as GM to tweak the jukebox as you see fit throughout the game, I wont have anything hidden from player view this session

Shauncat: No one uses video conferencing, STFU roll20

c'thinker: hi

johns (GM): Shaun, you may wish to go in options and turn off broadcasting voice, unless you actually want to talk

Shauncat: https://puu.sh/xwufL/f71fc2ebe0.png

devil's fav demon: lets start using video conferencing and voice chat and stream our games and become famois ttrpg steamers

c'thinker: let's make archibald take one wound every time dys types his lines instead of saying them over voice chat in an exaggerated accent

Shauncat: It's been like that so i don't think I need to reconnect but I guess I'll try

c'thinker: id like to cast my most powerful spell before the session begins:

im going to eat lunch

Shauncat: A Ridcully classic

Archibald of Guernicus: My accent is easy to understand.

Plutonis: i'll leave in a bit to buy dinner

c'thinker: thats why you have to ham it up a little

Archibald of Guernicus: dinnae talk pish cumthinker

Shauncat: Is there something in another part of roll20 you need to do to get rid of video/voice once and for all? I shouldn't have a mic plugged in at the moment unless the CIA secretly hid one on my monitor.

johns (GM): In your options, you can set Send Nothing and Receive Nothing to turn it off

c'thinker: i just have it set to broadcast nothing / receive nothing

Shauncat: I did both of those already

In the game settings

Archibald of Guernicus: Looks like its time to start using voice chat for Ars. Should be simple with 8 players.

johns (GM): idk

If people want to voice chat voice chat

Ive thought about it but then I'd have to make up funny voices for all the NPCs which is beyond my talents

Anyway it's 3pm, so first order of business

devil's fav demon: i dont want to voice chat in this game. thank you.

Hafl T.: let's voice chat through text to speech

Shauncat: I did voice chat recently in some TBZ game and it was annoying

johns (GM): For the past 2 years, you have known that Fabius, formerly of Ex Miscellaneae until he was marched, has been taking sanctum in the Cathedral S. Maria de Populo, a benefice held by Bishop Savelli

Archibald of Guernicus: Hafl, thats how mumble works and someone I know talks exclusively through text to speech in it

johns (GM): If you have been doing anything in response to this in that time, now's a good time to establish it. You can also tell me through whispers/steam msgs.

And while you're working on that I will multitask to an unrelated scene..

Bialas of Bjornaer: Bialas will talk shit on Fabius in groups but privately avoid doing anything.

johns (GM): In early 1338, you are summoned by the various covenfolk to a council meeting, to be chaired by -- Venator Ex Misc

Artemisia doesn't really know who Fabius is.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's fine, you don't know who Venator is either

Beatrice Orsini emerges from the lab for the meeting, but will go back once it's over.

Bialas of Bjornaer: He's the guy who the Tribunal marched for teaching his apprentice the parma before initiation.

It's a clear code violation but some people don't think he did anything wrong. That was his argument in court, but it didn't hold up.

Beatrice Orsini : i meant don't know IC

johns (GM): does Hafl not know? he wasn't around at tribunal iirc

right, right.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I thought you were asking who he was IC.

To fill space.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Oh I remember that

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

johns (GM): Venator has aged since that first meeting long ago that uhh only Proclus and Lavinia have still survived from

Gordiano of Bonisagus: I was the one who voted to march his ass

Proclus of Rome: Wow.

johns (GM): His hands tremble and he walks with a limp these days.

Hypatia of Athens: I did what I could for Fabius but as a Redcap, my legal options were slim.

Archibald of Guernicus: He's doing a lot better than most of the people who came to Vardian's Tomb that day, frankly.

johns (GM): Regardless, he is an old and powerful Magus. Anyone not in attendance for this meeting?

Hypatia of Athens throws a blanket over the giant skull when Venator shows up

Archibald of Guernicus: I've recently returned to the covenant, and attend.

Bialas of Bjornaer: celeste is on the map but shes probably outside patrolling or whatever.

johns (GM): feel free to move your tokens from the Bar to the Council Chamber

Bialas of Bjornaer: oh i thought the meeting was in the bar.

johns (GM): How uncouth

Beatrice Orsini : let's merge the bar and the council chamber

Hypatia of Athens: Let's put the flaming skull in the bar

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Archibald! You look well-rested. Is that a thistle in your beard? Haw haw haw"

johns (GM): Thanks to the Blessing of Mercury, the bar still gets mundane patrons even with all the weirdos (you) who hang out there, so Secret Magi business is best kept underground.

Proclus of Rome: This.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, if only I'd wandered enough tae get back home. No no, just a bit of breakfast I didn't notice got stuck."

Hypatia of Athens: Cool token Gordo

Venator ex Misc: "So many new faces I see around today... It is good that this covenant is thriving."

"Is that.. Faustus?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Ah, good morning, elders! I spent some blissful time lately studying the classics. Perhaps in a few years I might start my own experiments, I have so many ideas in mind!"

Faustus Galerius: "And a classic face to boot."

Venator ex Misc: "Heavens above, I'd thought you lost."

Venator ex Misc smiles at Gordo's youthful exuberance

Proclus of Rome: "He went missing hundreds of paces away from the entrance to the catacombs."

Archibald of Guernicus: Venator's good mood was suspicious until I remembered Aristide wasn't here.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Like finding an old morsel in a seat cushion."

Proclus of Rome: "If you'd but mentioned him we could have retrieved him decades ago.

"

Faustus Galerius: "I was. Surrounded by the wretched Dominion down in the catacombs, so I tethered myself and took a nice long nap."

Venator ex Misc: "That's fair, Proclus. I have spent so much time afar and on the road I have neglected your academic wellbeings."

"I'm getting up there in years so you may be seeing me around a bit more. I know you are not my apprentices, but.. as one grows closer to their end, they think of passing on their works to the next generation..."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Venator should give us all his longevity ritual.

Venator ex Misc: "I am prepared to offer some seasons teaching, and access to my private library, to those who are willing to agree to a code of conduct."

Proclus of Rome: "We have had many arguments, but for once I am in full agreement, Venator."

"What code of conduct?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I am very well-behaved."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "L-Library?!" Gordiano's eyes shine at the promise. "Whatever code it is, I shall make sure to respect it!"

Venator ex Misc grows uncomfortable standing and eases himself down to sit on one of the bannister thingies

Proclus of Rome: We should get some chairs.

Venator ex Misc: "After much thought, I've decided to start a societas. Not limited to any specific house, anyone willing to abide by the code can join. It is called the Custos of Cyprian."

"The code has 3 parts all members must swear to."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea rushes down from above.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salvete, sodales. Have I chosen a bad time to arrive?"

Venator ex Misc: "First. I shall not torment the dead, for they can know suffering as mortals do."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You're just in time."

Hypatia of Athens begins writing down the code declarations.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Not at all, Gulielmus."

Venator ex Misc: "Second. I shall not put the dead to a task they were unsuited for in life."

"Third. I shall grant members of the Order of Hermes all rights, respect, and privacy they were due in life, as in death."

Proclus of Rome: "Very reasonable."

Faustus Galerius: "I like the first one."

Proclus of Rome: Do you still have that sack, Faustus?

Faustus Galerius: I'm sure it's around here somewhere

Venator ex Misc: "Should a day come you wish to be relieved of this mortal existence Faustus, I can be the one to send you to the next world. You need only say the word."

Faustus Galerius: There's probably a sack grog nearby if not

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Ah, that would quite hamper an enterprising Necromancer... But it's not like I was likely to follow that path."

Venator ex Misc: Grosso the servant has been volunteered to carry Faustus at all times

Bialas of Bjornaer: "How much time do we have to decide?"

Faustus Galerius: Faustus floats

But if a grog is willing to carry him around he won't complain.

Proclus of Rome: "I believe that question to be beyond the limits of Hermetic Theory to divine, Bialas."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "That's why I'm asking him."

Venator ex Misc: "You may take your time. I shall be around here most days."

"Of course, even I may leave this world at some point." He smiles.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's a certainly a morally commendable code."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It all sounds good to me!"

johns (GM): Who wants to sign up now

Proclus of Rome: Sounds good to me.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I may have to sleep on it."

now, can i torment the dead if they torment me first?

Proclus of Rome: Really tired of all this corpse molestation.

Bialas of Bjornaer: that's the main question I have.

Beatrice Orsini : I'll sign.

I molest faeries, not corpses.

Jorn of Merinita: Sounds good to me

johns (GM): "I consider a spell such as dust to dust, or a spell that destroys a ghost, not to be tormenting them. Rather, you are ending their suffering that occurs in this mortal world."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps it's best Prudenzio left us, he'd have raised a fuss at all this."

I sign it

Proclus of Rome: Is it a piece of paper?

I thought it was an oath.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Or perhaps when an animated dead haunts a place? We had skeleton problems before I recall ti."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Ah, well, in that case, of course."

Hypatia of Athens: I wrote it down so we could have a charter.

Venator ex Misc: It's an oath, and you get a little ring to indicate your membership.

The ring is turquoise in a yew wood band.

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Venator ex Misc: Writing it down is nice too though

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Venator ex Misc: We can post it in the council chamber and know to get mad at anyone who breaks it

Proclus of Rome: Where do the rings come from?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I would be happy to sign. The dead must be respected, as they are our ancestors and teach us much, after all. Now and then, of course, we must give them a lesson in return."

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia as a non-Hermetic has little to contribute or gain here, but is all for helping this go smoothly

Archibald of Guernicus: "Should a member of the Order wish their ghost to be summoned after they depart, that wouldnae conflict with the code, would it?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus swears the oath, and is pleasantly surprised to learn that he's gaining access to a secret library in return.

Venator ex Misc: "It would."

Venator ex Misc looks stern

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, unGifted

Archibald of Guernicus: "Even if they consented and wanted for it tae happen?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Gordiano immediately swears the Oath, disregarding any thought of it being a complication in the future.

Venator ex Misc: "To swear to this code, you swear to never cast a spell on a dead Hermetic Magus, except to destroy their corporeal body and keep it out of the hands of other necromancers."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the rings are all made by gordiano's parens, naturally

Anthemia Mercere: Guess I should put on the wizzard hat for wizzard business

Venator ex Misc: "Even if, Archibald. Such an act cannot be tolerated."

Proclus of Rome: "That is a very good idea."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Very well then. I still agree, but it's good tae know."

Venator ex Misc looks relieved

Venator ex Misc: So, rings for Proclus, Beatrice, Jorn, Archibald, and Bialas?

Proclus of Rome: Also it's just a regular oath so you can just break it without having boils choke you to death.

Venator ex Misc: and Guile

Guilelmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you.

Venator ex Misc: Gulielmus

Proclus of Rome: Sounds good to me.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Please, call me Guillaume.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "By that interpretation, you mean that dead Hermetic Magi are equally subject to the Code?"

Beatrice Orsini : I'll take one, but I'll put it in a cupboard and forget about it.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: So it's just bound by wizard honor which means the oath is useless

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Should a knowing violation occur, we would have to March them, even if they happen to be dead."

Proclus of Rome: Wizards have so much honor.

Anthemia Mercere: Can Beatrice spont a Bargain ritual?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill gordiano

Beatrice Orsini : I can't.

Proclus of Rome:  Looks directly at Archibald.

Nope.

You can't spontaneously cast rituals.

Venator ex Misc: "Now, I shall draw up some guidance on what I can teach you in the seasons to come. For now though, I must retire to my sanctum for a spell."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Take care, Venator.£

"

Anthemia Mercere: Some magical beings have the ability to cast a geas over oaths

Venator ex Misc: Standing, "Remember sodales, this covenant is yours. I do not mean to dictate how you manage it so long as you keep it standing."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Enjoy your rest."

johns (GM): He hobbles off.

Now then, to other events..

Beatrice Orsini goes back to lab.

johns (GM): I've spoken with a few players behind the scenes on what's going on with Fabius. The rest of you I assume are taking no action.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I don't like Fabius, but I have no plans.

Jorn of Merinita retires to the Temple of Mercury

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Guess I'll go buy groceries now then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Fabius is just some guy who was marched on the same day I showed up, I don't know much about him.

Proclus of Rome: What a (((coincidence))).

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he was a fellow ex misc so he can't be that bad.

johns (GM): Mid spring 1338. A man in ostentatious armor enters the bar. Anyone who passed through Normandy those many winters ago may vaguely recall his face but it was only in passing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably it was a tytalan plot

Hypatia of Athens: Fabius is a good man.

Proclus of Rome: He's a great man.

Hypatia of Athens: A great man.

Bialas of Bjornaer: He's a loser.

Proclus of Rome: Is this the stag necromancer?

Renard of Flambeau: Nay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

proclus is venerable, but bialas is even more venerable

Renard of Flambeau: "I say now.. " he says to no one in particular. "This is the covenant of Vardian's Tomb?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, hello."

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm, I don't remember much about him. I remember the guy with the ugly face, and the stag.

Proclus of Rome: "I am Proclus of Rome."

Hypatia of Athens: "Hypatia of Athens."

Renard of Flambeau studies Proclus and Archibald for a moment, wondering if he's seen them before

Renard of Flambeau: "Say.. Were you fellows passing through Dragon's Rest some time ago?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea pours a vial out onto a piece of bread and pauses before taking a bite.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Bialas, of House Bjornaer. Nice armor."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Gulielmus ex Miscellanea, pleased to meet you."

Archibald of Guernicus: We did, right?

(To dys): yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do we have our rings yet

Renard of Flambeau: You do, Gulielmus.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye."

Proclus of Rome: It was a few years ago, as I recall.

Renard of Flambeau: He bows to Bialas, "Thank you, good man."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

this potion is DELICIOUS.

Renard of Flambeau: "So I thought! When I heard the news about Rome, something tickled in the back of my mind, 'Hadn't I heard of a covenant in that city before?'"

"Having come this way, it would be rude not to pay my respects!"

Proclus of Rome: "News of Rome?"

Renard of Flambeau: "And in turn, satiate a bit of curiosity."

Proclus of Rome: "What news would come out of this dusty old corner of the world?"

Renard of Flambeau: "This is the Rome where that criminal is lurking, yes? I did not think the Roman tribunal had more than one city named Rome?"

Hypatia of Athens: "Criminal?"

Proclus of Rome: Metal Gear?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This is Rome, my friend! I'm sure there is more than one criminal lurking."

"Who do you mean?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Surely you don't mean Aristide."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I doubt his name has spread over Europe."

Hypatia of Athens: "We can lead you to Aristide if you wish."

Renard of Flambeau: He unfurls a slip of parchment and flattens it onto the bar for you all to see. "One of many copies that have passed through the Mercere houses."

Proclus of Rome: Uh oh.

Hypatia of Athens: "Oh, uh, I've lingered far too long on this important wizardly meeting. I have covenfolk duties to attend to."

Proclus of Rome: I clam up.

Hypatia of Athens goes to warn Fabius

Archibald of Guernicus: I frown a little at seeing it

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Only two rooks of vis?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is there supposed to be a popup

Renard of Flambeau: "And the glory of slaying an enemy of the Order."

Bialas of Bjornaer: are you in player mode

Renard of Flambeau: Aye cthinker, its in your journal under "open letter to the order" now

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes

Bialas of Bjornaer: hm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, i see it now

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Well, the glory is quite tempting."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I see. Ye must have travelled far for this, haven't y?"

Renard of Flambeau: "I say though.. And this has been puzzling me.. If the fellow is truly hiding just a stone's throw from your covenant, why haven't one of you dealt with it already?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's meddling with the church, isn't it?"

Renard of Flambeau: "My usual haunt is Normandy, but a redcap owes me a favor so I took a trip through the Mercere portals to Harco, then a week on the road to here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Molestation of the bishops, or something."

Proclus of Rome: "He has the protection of Bishop Savelli and has sought sanctuary in his cathedral."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Molestation of the faithful, that's it."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "If I recall correctly, Brown Wind, a clan brother of mine, was a sentencing judge..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I don't believe the man needs tae be slain. That's why."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This certainly couldn't hurt my reputation at home."

Proclus of Rome: "Oh, do you not believe that a magus who has been Marched should be slain, Archibald?"

Artemisia snickers at hearing Brown Wind.

Proclus of Rome: "A shocking statement for a quaesitor of your standing."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's not a question of whether they should or shouldnae. If we wished tae execute, we would."

Faustus Galerius: "Hiding in a church is as good as being dead."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It seems unfair to hide in a church. Against the spirit of things."

Faustus Galerius: "Seems to me like he's playing to win."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Why not execute this man, again?"

Renard of Flambeau: "How long has he been there?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "The code was drawn up with the nature of magi in mind. Without legal protection, a man may as well be dead. Hutning a marched magus is encouraged, but no part of the code demands it, save minor peripheral rulings regarding the one who apprenticed them."

Proclus of Rome: "So you would prefer that a PROVEN enemy of the Order of Hermes continue to live?"

"Maybe you should demand that he join the Order, as he is a Gifted man outside the control of the Order."

Archibald of Guernicus: I frown "Didn't ye argue for this man? I'm not playing along with this, Proclus. State what's on yer mind."

Proclus of Rome: "You're nothing more than a hypocrite."

Renard of Flambeau helps himself to a drink while you bicker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald gains 4 reputation xp as a hypocrite and a fool

devil's fav demon: renard "so, the rumors were all right..."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they were all true. the eastern inn has excellent wine

Artemisia is drinking legally.

Proclus of Rome: Shocking.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: artemisia is jorn's child bride right

Bialas of Bjornaer: rape mans child bride

Faustus Galerius stares enviously at those with organs to drink with.

Artemisia: legal age

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: orsu got married?

Bialas of Bjornaer: jesus.

Proclus of Rome: Heh.

Faustus Galerius: Artemia is an apprentice Venator helps teach, I think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: OH now i remember

Faustus Galerius: She can probably get a proper education now that there's a Bonisagus here to snipe her

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: from the faerie queen adventure

Archibald of Guernicus: "Throw names and accusations all ye like, there's nothing more tae be said here. Fabius's place of refuge is known already, how others deal with it is their own choice."

Artemisia: She's planned to lose the Gift.

Proclus of Rome: "By all means, lead Renard right to him. After all, the Tribunal decided."

Renard of Flambeau: "Then you take no offense to me pursuing my quarry in your city? Excellent."

Artemisia: Renard explodes in Cathedral's dominion.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right, give him the address and we can wrap this up in 10 minutes

Proclus of Rome: "Legally, of course, I can't."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I almost want to get to him first, but..."

Bialas of Bjornaer yawns

Proclus of Rome: "However, I would appreciate the courtesy for a day to find him, Renard."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "In a church, and all. It would be so much trouble."

Renard of Flambeau: Alright, meanwhile, Hypatia has run off to warn Fabius. Do you have any suggestions for what he should do?

Proclus of Rome: Yes, he should run.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: teleport to avignon and become a court magician for the pope

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Artemisia: good idea

Archibald of Guernicus: Can vardian's God Crew manage to defeat Renard and Bialas

Renard of Flambeau: Renard smiles. "T'would be honorable, I say. I'll enjoy your hospitality after the long trip on road, yes?"

Hypatia of Athens: I probably have enough OoH Lore to know he's a Flambeau, and thus, likes to throw fire or destruction around.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, yer welcome tae stay here."

Artemisia: Just Renard. Bialas is going to nap through the fight.

Renard of Flambeau: Renards makes himself at home at the Inn and runs up a tab

Proclus of Rome: A tab?

Sheesh.

This guy.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to turn into a bear and cast the soothing sight of bialas, then walk into the cathedral s. maria and maul fabius to death while he's sleeping.

it was an act of god.

Renard of Flambeau: Ok.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll also tell him that Procius is on his side, and that if he has any ideas for what a fellow Hermetic can do for him, he'd be the one to appeal to.

johns (GM): Fabius doesn't want to leave, but doesn't want to have to hurt Renard. He asks if you can deter him from this quest peacefully.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'll ask Ildebrando if he has any garlic.

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmmm

johns (GM): Per+Folk Ken Hypatia

Artemisia: let's seduce renard

johns (GM): Wow, adultery?

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+2

(

5

)

+2

=

7

Archibald of Guernicus: Fairy marriages aren't real ones.

Sorry Jorn

(To Bialas the Bear): Is bialas going to do that for real, if so we'll play it out after hypatia finishes

Hypatia of Athens: That's fair

Artemisia: They're real and strong and not my friend.

johns (GM): Fabius doesn't seem worried.

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): fabius is pretty dangerous but i do kind of want to try.

Hypatia of Athens: "The Dominion would avail out less out side the city, so I cannot suggest leaving. Perhaps a ruse is possible, however."

* avail you less

(From Archibald of Guernicus): I mention to Renard that hunting him in a cathedral may be more dangerous than he thinks, as Fabius' magic worked just as easily within the aura of the Divine.

Fabius Ex Misc: "Do you have one in mind?"

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Renard asks, "As a hoplite you must have thought about it... If you HAD to attack, what is your plan?"

Hypatia of Athens: "Perhaps he'd believe you secreted away to a sympathetic covenant."

Proclus of Rome: What covenant would that even be?

Fabius Ex Misc: Fabius smiles weakly. "Are there any?"

Hypatia of Athens: "Perhaps not."

"It was too much to pray for, I suppose."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he could flee to the holy land

Fabius Ex Misc: "The faithful mustn't fear death, but to welcome the change it brings."

the holy land is controlled by muslims atm

Artemisia: flee to constantinople

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah but is it controlled by the order of hermes

Fabius Ex Misc: the last crusader city was conquered in 1291

There is a Levantine tribunal but we've never given thought to how it might look after the crusades/mongolian invasion

Artemisia: hide in the infernal aura in the middle of hagia sophia

Fabius Ex Misc: there's a 4e sourcebook for it which is decent quality that could be a starting point

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or he could flee to north africa

Fabius Ex Misc: also muslims!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's with this guy and muslims

Grow up, Fabius.

(From Archibald of Guernicus): "I would procure an arcane connection and do it from a distance. The aura of the divine there is as dangerous as a hostile aegis would be."

Proclus of Rome: He could flee to Orkney.

Hypatia of Athens: "If you wish to make a stand, fearless of death, perhaps the tensions at Vardian's Tomb can be exploited."

Proclus of Rome: Like Joseph and the Holy Grail.

Hypatia of Athens: "Procius and the resident quaestior have an disagreement over your fate.

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Renard says, "Then I shall not assault the man directly, but strike his sanctum. I'd say I'll find a favored tool easily."

(From Archibald of Guernicus): "That is if I felt he needed to be slain. But I also see no other fate for a marched magus, and the limit of time is too much to overcome and make things right." I sigh, and excuse myself from conversation with him, returning to my lab

Hypatia of Athens: "Renard, the Fleambeau, meanwhile, seems merely intent of keeping himself busy. Perhaps he can be appealed to, if he thinks your work here is good for the Order."

"When all you have is a hammer, all problems appear to be as nails, as they say."

Substitute appropriate tools and parts fo rthe time

Proclus of Rome: He's from Normandy so we're just lucky he hasn't decided to lay siege to the covenant.

Artemisia: He decided to lay siege on our wine supplies.

Proclus of Rome: Classic knight move.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm sure he'll pay his tab

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Artemisia: With blood.

Hypatia of Athens: "Maybe he could be convinced of a mutual enemy. A coven of folk witches, for example."

Fabius Ex Misc: "I can't leave this sanctuary without a definite plan-- it'd break the seal of sanctuary-- so I entrust myself to you, Hypatia."

Artemisia: I'll go over to Renard and start talking with him about hunting wizards and general strategies on how to do it.

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): I'll help renard, and he can keep the vis, as long as he gives me credit for the killing blow.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

He should surrender himself to Archibald directly.

Fabius Ex Misc: You pass Archibald on your way to talk to Renard, who has just finished a conversation with the man

Proclus of Rome: If he wants to be a martyr.

Fabius Ex Misc: Also Bialas is there now.

(talking to Renard)

Proclus of Rome: If Renard leaves I want to follow him.

(To Bialas the Bear): That's acceptable to him.

(To devil's fav demon): That's acceptable to him

Hypatia of Athens: I'll end this meeting then, suggesting that if he has any illusions or traps to use, he should prepare them now.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Well, you've been a pleasure. What invigorating tales!"

Hypatia of Athens: Surrendering to Archibald is a good idea, though I left too early to suggest it.

Fabius Ex Misc: You're free to visit as you please. Fabius seems convinced you will honor the notion of sanctuary, even if others won't.

Something will occur in the evening, if Hypatia and Proclus are going to do something they should act now.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Back

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Proclus of Rome: I think we could try attack Renard.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I hope that guy pays his damn tab.

Proclus of Rome: I mean, "we could try attacking Renard."

Archibald of Guernicus: An excellent idea... Proclus?

Proclus of Rome: He's from Normandy so he's fair game.

Fabius Ex Misc: Per+Folk Lore for insight on Renard, anyone who wants to try

Artemisia: I'll try.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh never mind, you said Renard, not Fabius.

johns (GM): I thought we outlawed raiding Normandy.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: excuse me??

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+1+1

(

7

)

+1+1

=

9

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

Hypatia of Athens: I'll gather Sister Aurelia then and inform her it's time to grab mace and shield and efend the faithful.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+5

(

6

)

+3+5

=

14

(To Bialas the Bear): He's a wizard, you think.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 6

(

2

)

+6

=

8

Bialas of Bjornaer: I don't know anything about Renard, but I love this guy!

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+2+4 Per + Folk Ken

(

7

)

+2+4

=

13

Archibald of Guernicus: 13, not 14, actually

Less folk ken than I thought

(To Artemisia): He seems honest.

Artemisia: Oh, I have an idea.

(To Proclus of Rome): He seems honest.

Hypatia of Athens: My upbringing of private tutelage has made me a bad Folk Ken

Artemisia: I'll ask Renard to spar with me, since I assume he plans to use mundane weapons in Dominion.

I can see how good he's with a weapon.

Bialas of Bjornaer: be right back.

(To Archibald of Guernicus): He's a classic knight errant looking for adventure but adhering to a code.

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): He's a classic knight errant looking for adventure but adhering to a code.

johns (GM): Okay. His preferred weapon is a 2-handed axe. It looks of very high quality. For sparring he suggests you both use wooden weapons.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, Fabius could try non-violent resistance.

Artemisia: If there's any weapons like that in the covenant, I'll do so.

Proclus of Rome: He could flee to the monastery near Ponza.

Hypatia of Athens: He could hide and pretend he fled to the monastery.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's ply him with wine while fabius walks by in the background and hides in the king arthur regio

Archibald of Guernicus: Did Proclus suggest attacking Renard out loud to everyone or just to Team God

Bialas of Bjornaer: ok.

johns (GM): Scuffling with fake weapons works the same as real combat, but inflicts Fatigue instead of Injuries.

Proclus of Rome: Or, even better, the villa on the island of Ventotene.

Artemisia: ok

Proclus of Rome: I don't trust Archibald at all.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll tell Procius that he seems intent on not leaving his sanctuary

johns (GM): Artemisia Initiative: 77

Renard of Flambeau Initiative: 52

Proclus of Rome: So I wouldn't talk to you about it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You know..."

johns (GM): Are you wearing armor for this, Artemisia

Hypatia of Athens: And about the meeting in general

Artemisia: No.

johns (GM): Okay, then he wont' either.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We ran into Flambeaus like this a couple times in Normandy."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Would you have happened to mention your plan to attack Renard to me? I did pretty enthusiastically say we should murder Fabius so I guess not.

Proclus of Rome: Where else do we have to hide him?

We could try the Temple of Mercury regio.

But that's famous.

Artemisia: I'll attack with a wooden sword.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is it

i thought it was just the well that was famous

Proclus of Rome: Yes, the Bonsiagii in the covenant spilled the beans.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: curses

johns (GM): He uses a farm implement.

That has been blunted.

since real farm implements are valid weapons according to ars

Artemisia: they are

johns (GM): You roll first

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+10+4

(

6

)

+1+10+4

=

21

Proclus of Rome: Makes le enraged peasant face.

Artemisia: he's probably way better than me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he strikes you in the head with his iron rake, shouting about the tang priest

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+1+15

(

1

)

+1+15

=

17

rolling 2d10

(

6

+

6

)

=

12

Proclus of Rome: Dayum.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "He's out looking for trouble, but he's not like a Tytalus. He'll have some kind of personal code of honor."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

johns (GM): sword damage?

Artemisia: Weapon damage is +6

long sword

Proclus of Rome: What about hiding Fabius in the Lady of the Lake regio?

Artemisia: Possible.

johns (GM): [ [21-17+6-6+3] ]

oops

1

Beatrice Orsini emerges from the lab to say that hiding Fabius in the Lake regio is fine.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+3+15+1 attack

(

6

)

+3+15+1

=

25

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+10+1

(

7

)

+1+10+1

=

19

ouch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Proclus of Rome: What about hiding Fabius in the Lady of the Lake regio?

i already said that!!

johns (GM): '+5 damage

Proclus of Rome: Yes, I did come up with that great idea.

Archibald of Guernicus: That would mean we're directly sheltering him at our covenant.

Proclus of Rome: Thank you Gulielmus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Proclus of Rome: The regio isn't ACTUALLY at our covenant.

(To Hafl T.): Total damage?

Archibald of Guernicus: It's right next to it, and our hermetic property as we have a vis source there.

Proclus of Rome: Since, of course, you can't have an extra sanctum.

(From Artemisia): 10, i think. light wound with real weapon

Hypatia of Athens: Procius can steal credit for ideas since he's the only Gifted VTer Fabius will probably talk to

Proclus of Rome: Well I'm sure we don't post guards at all of our vis sources.

Archibald of Guernicus: If we argued it wasn't ours at all, that would mean someone (a tytalan) could run in and start stealing vis. Also Beatrice has a lab there, iirc.

Proclus of Rome: No one would demand that we do that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's seal him inside the well of bonisagus

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice is hanging out at the Fairy Lake often, but she'd be fine with having Fabius there.

Proclus of Rome: Well, as you know, that lab has no legal protection.

johns (GM): Artemisia gets a glancing blow on the side of Renald's head, as Renald darts in to thwack her on the arm. Artemisia takes 1 fatigue

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we don't have to argue anything since we're the only people who know about it

Beatrice Orsini : I'm moving there soon.

johns (GM): quick gm handwave: renald took 1 damage, which in regular combat ould be a 1 fatigue damage, so in scuffling I say it has no effect at all

Beatrice Orsini : After the Tribunal if Archibald's proposal passes.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'd definitely rather fight him in a faerie aura than a dominion aura... smart, guys.

Artemisia: That's fair.

(To Hafl T.): Roll attack again please

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+10+4

(

1

)

+1+10+4

=

16

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

10

)

=

12

no botch

and 15 after fatigue effect

rolling 1d10!+1+15 defense

(

3

)

+1+15

=

19

Artemisia: i thought 1 fatigue is still no penalty

johns (GM): nah

-1/-2/-3/-4/unconscious

Artemisia: oh, ok

Proclus of Rome: The other idea I'd have is that he arrange a duel in a public place and then not fight back so he can die a public martyr.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+1+3+15 attack

(

9

)

+1+3+15

=

28

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+10+1

(

5

)

+1+10+1

=

17

rip

johns (GM): 16 damage pre soak

oof

Artemisia: 15 after

actually

i forgot fatigue again

so 16 after soak

johns (GM): Fatigue doesn't effect your soak

Artemisia: and 3 fatigue, i think

Proclus of Rome: Not directly.

Artemisia: but it affects the roll

Hypatia of Athens: "What do you know of the Flambeau code?"

johns (GM): Ok.

Artemisia: so i'm out

Hypatia of Athens: To Gulielmus

johns (GM): Renald dodges Artemisia's lunge and sweeps her off her feet with his staff.

"Damn, I got carried away!" he remarks as Artemesia's body hits the floor.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shrugs.

Artemisia: No lasting damage done and I asked for the fight.

Archibald of Guernicus: Whoops. Accidentally laid a girl out again.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You know, they pretend they're knights."

Renard of Flambeau: "You fought boldly. When you have as many years of experience as I do you will be a great warrior!"

Artemisia: Once I wake up.

"Thank you, master wizard. It has been a valuable experience."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Chivalry, and the rest."

Renard of Flambeau: Now, did the rest of you come to any sort of decision or plan while we were fighting

"If you are in Normandy, come by Dragon's Rest and I'll give you some pointers."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no, everyone retired to their labs while i shared my folk ken insight with hypatia

Artemisia: Artemisia has Master of None, so she'll never be a great fighter.

Hypatia of Athens: "The thing about a knight's code of honor is that it is self-imposed, and as such, self-interpreted."

Proclus of Rome: Well we have a place to hide him if he'll let us.

Renard of Flambeau: the king arthur regio?

is it a regio or an aura

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is a regio

Proclus of Rome: It's a lake with a forest under the catacombs.

Hypatia of Athens: "Even if you were to learn it to the letter, it would not avail you should they choose a more convenient interpretation of honorable action."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tunnel is suddenly cut off and replaced by a wooden hallway

Artemisia: The entrance isn't particulary well hidden.

Proclus of Rome: We could just collapse the entrance.

Hypatia of Athens: "Unless, of course, you can find a historical antecedent for what constitutes dishonorable Flambeau behavior."

Artemisia: That would leave Fabius to starve.

Renard of Flambeau: problem solved

Archibald of Guernicus: Perfect

Hypatia of Athens: Starving is very holy

Artemisia: Also, it would cut off our access to a vis source.

Proclus of Rome: We'd just need to keep the entrance collapsed until Renard leaves.

Archibald of Guernicus: Until we use basic perdo terram to open it up again

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well there's always the Schism War."

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

Do we have an OoH summae that might cover the Schism?

Renard of Flambeau: Records of the Grand hermetic historian

Hypatia of Athens: Oooh

Proclus of Rome: Analects of Tytalus, tract, Q8

Records of the Grand Hermetic Historian, summa, L12 Q9 [Potom Flos]

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: potom flos...

Hypatia of Athens: There might be Flambeau who were on the wrong side of history, then

Celeste: good book.

Artemisia: L12 summa should cover it somewhere

johns (GM): By the way, I know we're abiding by the various IC limits as we split off into separate groups to plot, but that shouldn't stop anyone from making OOC suggestions and using their big real life player brain.

Hypatia of Athens: My characters are smarter than me

Bialas of Bjornaer: same.

Proclus of Rome: We could just fight Renard and then throw him in the river.

johns (GM): Okay, who's up for fighting him

Bialas of Bjornaer: Why do you want to fight Renard so bad?

Artemisia: He's tough, but could be taken down with numbers.

johns (GM): For reference, the man's apparent age is late 40s

Bialas of Bjornaer: He's cool.

Hypatia of Athens: You could Certamen him

Artemisia: But I'd prefer a peaceful solution.

Proclus of Rome: If he's dead then he can't kill Fabius.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: from gulielmus's point of view this is just some weird dispute between the senior magi

johns (GM): my apologies if it's hard for your character to be ICly invested

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn probably feels the same way as Gulielmus, but also he's in the Temple of Mercury right now

Proclus of Rome: You should take a position to curry favor from the ones you wish to curry favor from.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Certamen would be more appropriate than murder, surely.

johns (GM): when that happens I personally like to sit on the sidelines and offer sarcastic quips and snide commentary OOCly

Bialas of Bjornaer: Renard hasn't even been marched!

Archibald of Guernicus: You should do that always, just for fun

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea turns 90 degrees between Archibald and Proclus and then walks backwards out of the room

Bialas of Bjornaer: Murdering a magus in good standing to protect a known criminal. I thought Vardian's Tomb was wild and crazy, but sheesh.

Artemisia: HIde grogs in the Cathedral, ambush Renard and beat him to death in Dominion.

Hypatia of Athens: He's also learned what currying favor with Procius entails, so if pressed he'd probably join Team Status Quo

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, Certamen could work but you can't force him to do something illegal.

Artemisia: Not hunting a criminal is legal.

Force him to not interfere with church by breaking a sanctuary.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, if anyone bothers to appeal to gulielmus he will be instantly swayed to their side

Artemisia: Artemisia is easily led, but can't do much.

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to tut-tut and look down on these millenial magi who think it's cool to go kill somebody to protect a known criminal.

Proclus of Rome: I think hiding him would be best because Fabius doesn't want to hurt Renard.

johns (GM): It's 433 by my watch, at 445 if no one/no group has decided to take an action I'm cutting to this evening's events

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Shame on you for even discussing this. It would be more moral to sleep this problem away."

Proclus of Rome: "That's your solution to every problem."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not taking any action tonight, and my sodales are keeping me out of the loop deliberately.

Artemisia: "It's a good solution."

Proclus of Rome: "Do you really want to sleep your entire life away?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It's a great solution."

Hypatia of Athens: "It seems as though the Schism presented a pretty clear cut morality for Flambeau. Take up arms against Diedne. But their motives in this were also largely Christian."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It seems to have worked for nearly a century."

Hypatia of Athens: "Perhaps he can be convinced that a battle on holy ground is dishonorable."

Proclus of Rome: "Hypatia, I want you to sit down before I tell you this."

"Christians sometimes fight Christians."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I make every waking moment count."

Hypatia of Athens nods slowly."

Hypatia of Athens: "Not often in grand cathedrals, I believe."

johns (GM): If asked, Renard says he believes that the custom of sanctuary only offers protection for 90 days

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, is that true?

johns (GM): varies around europe

Proclus of Rome: Ah, my Canon Law is 0.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's ask the Biship.

Proclus of Rome: Or rather, alert him.

Artemisia: "Can the sanctuary start again if he mvoes into a different church?"

johns (GM): under common law its 40 days

Hypatia of Athens: Ooh.

Proclus of Rome: That God we don't live in England, then.

I mean, "Thank God."

Hypatia of Athens: How hard is it for a VTer to get an audience with Savelli?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's have the bishop work to modify canon law and recognize normandy as a lawless wasteland, just like the order of hermes does

Renard of Flambeau: "That's not in the spirit of it. The accused has their time in sanctuary to make peace with god and to atone for their sins. It is not meant to keep them from justice."

not hard hypatia. can be done today

Proclus of Rome: Guelph detected.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, of course i'm a guelph

Proclus of Rome: I'll go try to tell Bishop Savelli about this.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll go warn him that a magus intends to take an internal conflict onto church grounds.

Renard of Flambeau: Ok, Proclus leaves in the afternoon.

Anyone going with? I only specify since the passage of time and who is where matters.

Hypatia of Athens: And that he believes sanctuary is only for a month, and see if he has a differing opinion on that.

I guess I am

I'll defer to Procius's seniority in this regard

Artemisia: I'll go with Hypatia, since I'm curious.

Hypatia of Athens: Also his superior knowledge of wizard politics

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm staying with Renard in case any of you psychos try to kill him. I'll keep him drinking here as long as possible.

Proclus of Rome: I recommend you try and get Fabius to go hide, Hypatia.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Artemisia: Can't Gui slip something into Renard's drink?

Gordiano of Bonisagus: I'm going

Hypatia of Athens: I'll bring Aurelia to bodyguard him if Renard doesn't agree to a duel.

Renard of Flambeau: Artemisia, Gordi, Proclus going to Savelli

Hypatia going to the church

Bialas staying at the inn

Artemisia: I said I'm going with Hypatia

Renard of Flambeau: god it.

got it.

I'm going to boldly try multitasking these scenes.

Church crew / Bishop crew

Hypatia of Athens: Savelli's more important

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Artemisia: Can't Gui slip something into Renard's drink?

it would have to penetrate a wizard hunter's parma

Hypatia of Athens: There's not a whole lot I can do aside from advising him to hide

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or, i guess, i could put actual poison in his drink.

johns (GM): Bishop crew finds Savelli at one of his fine villas. He's out hawking with various important looking people, courtiers, stragglers etc.

Artemisia: You don't have any mundane effects?

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i dunno

apothecary can be used to make poisons

oh we have a whole bottle of arsenic

Hypatia of Athens: I could try to assault Renard with illusion

Archibald of Guernicus runs into scene

Archibald of Guernicus: Don't poison a magus.

johns (GM): which scene lol

Hypatia of Athens: But that brings the danger of hubris

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't have any reason to poison a magus!

Hypatia of Athens: It's a lst resort

Proclus of Rome: You could try poisoning him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm just saying, we have all this arsenic.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm in my lab but I likely leave a while later and sit with Bialas and Renard

Artemisia: Is it wrong to poison a magus if it's not a magical poison?

Hypatia of Athens: It's only wrong if you get caught

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'll sit and listen to Renard's tales.

johns (GM): The crowd spots you. Savelli, recognizing Proclus, approaches while his court stays about 30 feet back.

Proclus of Rome: Seems fair.

johns (GM): "Proclus," he says wearily, and tries to keep his horse unspooked in your presence. "What news from Rome?"

Hypatia of Athens: I'm just brewing this poison as an experiment in my lab. If a grog just happens to pick it up and put it in your drink, that's your own fault for being careless around my grog

Proclus of Rome: "Good afternoon, Bishop Savelli, I come bearing ill tidings."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the recipe is as follows: 1 part arsenic

Proclus of Rome: "An assassin has come to Rome to murder Fabius."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mix thoroughly

johns (GM): "An assassin.. do you mean, one of yours?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes."

"He is late of France."

Bishop Savelli sighs

Bishop Savelli: "But we've known this would come for awhile now, haven't we? It was your ilk that sentenced the man to death."

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, it was. Have you spoken to Fabius? He is unwilling to leave your cathedral and would prefer to die a martyr's death."

Bishop Savelli: "What else would he do? The ground was pulled underneath him by your Order. Everything he worked for destroyed."

Hypatia of Athens: To Fabius: "Procius of Rome goes to Bishop Savelli's court to consult him on this matter. Meanwhile, here is my proposition for you. Hide as best you can inside the sanctuary of the church. If Renard finds you, and it seems survival is out of the question, then that is God's plan, and we must act accordingly. We should, then, see if he will agree to a public duel. If so, do not fight back. Let the people see you martyr yourself."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm going to have to let Renard know that the bar isn't the safest place for him, and that my covenant can be reckless. If he knows a safer place, we can continue our conversation there.

Hypatia of Athens: "If he attempts to end you within the privacy of the church, me and Aurelia will defend you to the best of our abilities."

Proclus of Rome: "He could flee, I have a hidden sanctum sanctorum where he might be safe."

Bishop Savelli: Renard is willing to accompany Bialas, though he'd feel safer if he got an Aegis token before moving anywhere else inside your Aegis.

Hypatia of Athens: The art of the deal

Bialas of Bjornaer: I can give him one.

I think.

Hypatia of Athens: Renard summons a demon and destroys Rome

Bialas of Bjornaer: He might want to exploit temporary sanctuary himself.

Bishop Savelli: "If you can convince him to go with you, please, by all means. Hugh-- Fabius-- was my friend and it brings me no pleasure to hear what's about to befall him. But if a magician seeks to do him ill there's little I can do to help."

you may, Bialas.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We have some spare in the library."

Bishop Savelli: truthfully, you can just say "you're permitted in the aegis" and that's enough, the token is just symbolic

Fabius agrees to your plan, Hypatia. He says there should be no bloodshed within the church proper though. If there must be this mock fight it must occur outside.

Proclus of Rome: "Do you have a ship that you could send away under the dark of night as a diversion?"

"That could give us the opportunity we need to take him to the sanctum."

Hypatia of Athens: We'll try to avoid fighting in the church unless Renard forces us.

Bishop Savelli: "I don't own any ships, if I have to sail I hire a fare."

bialas, you take renald away rfom the inn/archibald I presume?

Proclus of Rome: "Hmm, do you have a retinue that you could send out of the city? It could perhaps serve the same purpose."

Bishop Savelli: He glances at his hawking companions. "Yes.. How would you make people believe Fabius is with them?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Hide him inside a cart full of hay or something."

Proclus of Rome: "It may be possible to disguise one of their number as Fabius."

"Though this would put them in some danger."

Bishop Savelli: "Fabius is an old man, frail from fasting and a spartan lifestyle. My courtiers are men who clearly enjoy the worldly pleasures. I don't think it would be very convincing."

Proclus of Rome: "My companions and I are capable of providing a more convincing disguise."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Oh, do you know a way to change one's appearance, Master Proclus?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: I'm suggesting we go to a different bar, or if he has any better ideas there. I just don't fully trust my sodales when they get excited about something.

Proclus of Rome: "Yes, I am capable of it."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Although that brings the question of... Disguising the Gift."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's build a secret bar deep in the catacombs for cool cryptfolk only

Archibald of Guernicus: You took Renard into the covenant, right? I'll bump into you guys there.

Bishop Savelli: "Take... Bertoldo, Cecco, Clemente, and Pancario. They can be trusted to keep their mouth shut at the very least. And one of your own will pass for Fabius."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I did, yeah.

Artemisia: let's find a goth bartender to resurrect

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Bialas, Gulielmus. Renard."

Proclus of Rome: "The Phantom Gift is merely a level 15 spell, Gordiano, no trouble for me."

Bishop Savelli: artemisia resurrects a bartender in black leather and white facepaint

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve, Archibald."

Artemisia: excellent

he can work in the crypt bar

Bishop Savelli: idk if bialas was trying to shake you off from renard, archibald

Artemisia: and venator's rules aren't broken

Proclus of Rome: "Very well, your Excellency."

"Thank you, sincerely."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can probably go through the catacombs and find ourselves an authentic wine stand owner

Bialas of Bjornaer: I meant he'd be safer further out than further in, considering how hostile the other magi were to his plan to kill fabius.

Bishop Savelli: "I'll expect word that this has worked soon Proclus." He turns to go talk to his courtiers and soon 4 are reluctantly following you.

Bialas of Bjornaer: but we did go in, and i did give him the token

Proclus of Rome: "Gordiano, fetch Tanolfi, he can be counted on to keep his mouth shut."

Bialas of Bjornaer: we were talking about, uh, something.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he was recounting his murder stories

Bishop Savelli: Excellent. Proclus and his new friends can return to the City by 8 o'clock that night.

At 7 o'clock...

Gordiano of Bonisagus: So can Gordiano, as long as there is no food around. Nevertheless he goes on to fetch Tanolfi.

johns (GM): It's dark out, twilight. Renard asks Bialas if they should go now.

Hypatia/church crew have returned to the Inn. Archibald is either at the Inn or with Bialas idk which

Hypatia of Athens: 7 o'clock? Sounds like a heretical way to say shortly before sunset.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm with Bialas and Guli now

johns (GM): renard is asking baialas this question covertly then, since it's ICly a secret

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It can wait, Renard. I haven't seen Archibald in so long, and he's finally out of his lab."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: should of planned your operation around the church hours

Bialas of Bjornaer: Should have.

johns (GM): Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where's aleseta when you need her.

Proclus of Rome: I'll take the Bishop's men to the cathedral if Gordiano goes back to the covenant.

johns (GM): Ok.

Bialas of Bjornaer: He can make an excuse to leave on his own. I don't want to be suspicious!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Where'd you go, anyway, Archibald?"

johns (GM): here's the new and improved map. you all know this layout already anyway

Proclus of Rome: You can't get from the 'comb here to ours, right?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Learn any mystical secrets?"

johns (GM): Correct.

Hypatia of Athens: I put my tokens by Fabius

johns (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Somewhat. I wandered around Italy, read into the Order's history somewhat at Magvillus too."

johns (GM): Proclus heads straight to the sanctum?

Proclus of Rome: Yes, with the bishops men.

Hypatia of Athens: Good courtier

Artemisia: I'll join the church crew out of curiosity. Armed, but not necessarily planning on a fight.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hoping tae find some solution to this constant bickering, but nothing seems tae work. Ye could perform a miracle in front of Proclus and he'd wag his finger and critique it."

johns (GM): "Proclus, it's good to see you. What's the plan?"

Proclus of Rome: "We plan to fool Renard and allow you to get to safety."

Fabius Ex Misc: "I see- where?"

Proclus of Rome: "The Bishop's men are to escort one of our grogs, disguised as you, out of the city."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll give Bialas some space, he wanted to discuss something in private so it's only fair. I'll chat with Guli till he's done.

Proclus of Rome: "When Renard follows, we can take you to a secret regio, known only to Vardian's Tomb."

Fabius Ex Misc: "A regio... Divine?"

Proclus of Rome: "I trust you'll be able to keep it a secret, ha ha."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: didja learn any mystery lores haha. get initiated into any cults lately

Proclus of Rome: "No, it is a Faerie regio, though you need only stay there until Renard leaves Rome."

Hypatia of Athens: Seen any elves?

Aside from Jorn

Fabius Ex Misc: "And if others come pursuing me, will we have to repeat this act?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It does seem that way, at times."

Proclus of Rome: "Perhaps."

Bialas of Bjornaer: I want to snitch on Proclus, honestly. He was openly talking about murdering a Flambeau!

"You know, he just recently suggested we murder that Flambeau looking to kill Fabius?"

Proclus of Rome: "Hopefully we will have other hiding places in the future."

"Consider it a chance to follow in the footsteps of the first Christians."

Artemisia: First Christians lived on the shores of King Arthur Lake in Palestine.

Fabius Ex Misc: "If you put it that way.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea frowns.

Fabius Ex Misc: "The men and your grog will be safe?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You can't  actually  kill a magus just for being from Normandy, right?"

Hypatia of Athens: Roll OoH lore to find out

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye can't."

Proclus of Rome: "I believe so, Renard will likely be able to see through the deception before he murders anyone."

Archibald of Guernicus: "And it's insane tae even suggest it."

Hypatia of Athens: Disputatio to argue the case that murdering a Norman is legal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That must be Proclus's attempt at a joke."

Fabius Ex Misc: "Then what's to stop him from just coming back once I'm out of the regio? Or -- be honest, Proclus-- am I staying there forever?"

Artemisia: When is the next Grand Tribunal? We must make Norman murder legal.

Fabius Ex Misc: 1488 AD

Archibald of Guernicus: "A normandy magus may not be able tae take his case tae tribunal, but if a member of the order is blatantly attacked, I'm prosecuting it myself."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You've known him longer than I have, Archibald. A dark sense of humor to be sure, anyway."

Hypatia of Athens: In 1488AD war was beginning

Proclus of Rome: "He's a Normandine, he is here on other business and if you are too difficult to find he is likely to just give up."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I wouldnae call it a sense of humour. He still calls me a bloody pagan, just cause I wouldnae attend church with him. He knows the blatant gift makes that impossible."

Hypatia of Athens: What if his infernal might lets him shoot fire and he just calls himself Flambeau

Archibald of Guernicus: That would be delightful

Bialas of Bjornaer: Good trick.

Fabius Ex Misc: "I'll give it a try."

Artemisia: If he has infernal might, he's probably a Guernicus.

Fabius Ex Misc: "Please give me a minute to say farewells to my friends, the canons, in case I don't have a chance to see them again."

gordi & tanolfi show up

Proclus of Rome: Thank you Gordi.

You are my greatest ally.

Fabius Ex Misc: At the church presently is Hypatia, Artemisia, Proclus, Gordi, Tanolfi, Sister Aurelia. Who is going on the distraction expedition and who is going with Fabius to the covenant?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the gord

Hypatia of Athens: Hmmm

The women are likely to attract unwanted attention

Proclus of Rome: We should send fewer people with Fabius.

So you should go with the diversion.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

(To Bialas the Bear): Is Bialas trying to delay Renald or does he really want to go with him on this expedition? If the former you'll need to Guile him

Hypatia of Athens: I can't control Artemesia but I'll suggest that she go with the diversion too.

Artemisia: I'll go.

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): i really want to go with him.

(To Bialas the Bear): Okay, what time do you want to go, i.e., do you want to intercept the diversion or to miss it

Hypatia of Athens: I'll advise Aurelia to take off her habit and appear a normal servant.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mmm haha

Fabius Ex Misc: Proclus, and Gordi? Also, are you using magic to change Fabius or Tanolfi's appearance?

Proclus of Rome: Oooh.

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): i dont know about the diversion, so i thought it was up to you. i want to hit the party with fabius. if we leave later there's a good chance we run into him coming in, i guess

Proclus of Rome: We should change both their appearances.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: I'm going with the distraction

Proclus of Rome: What's the lowest Domion aura in the church?

Fabius Ex Misc: 6, lol

well, at night, 5

Proclus of Rome: HmmMMMMM.

Fabius Ex Misc: if you go out onto the streets it can come down to 2

Bialas of Bjornaer: lol

Proclus of Rome: Ok I definitely can't spont the False Gift or Disguise of the Transformed Image in here.

Hmm.

Fabius Ex Misc: "If we are bundled in robes fully, in the darkness, we could get some distance from the church before you cast your spell."

Proclus of Rome: Also it'll take me a while since both will be ceremonial.

Fabius Ex Misc: lol

Hmm, I detect a problem with this plan

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Domion 5 is -10, right?

Fabius Ex Misc: -15

Bialas of Bjornaer: -15

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bialas of Bjornaer: dominion auras are too damn high

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: good news: proclus only needs 1 minute per magnitude for his ceremonies

Fabius Ex Misc: Ah

Proclus of Rome: I've got 25 CrVi and 24 MuIm in this aura.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: instead of 15

Fabius Ex Misc: Excuse me, according to Fabius' official stats he DOES have disguise of the transformed visage

Artemisia: If only the person specialized in illusion wasn't locked in her lab and not responding to knocking.

Fabius Ex Misc: In fact I just remembered he was using it a bunch when he was invisibly spying on you all or posing as his alter ego Hugh. heh.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Holy shit.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wow. A shame this innocent man was marched, unfairly.

Fabius Ex Misc: lol

Artemisia: Scrying should not be a crime.

Fabius Ex Misc: Alright he disguises himself as tanolfi and disguises tanolfi as him

Sun duration

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Hmm.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "If this breaks out into violence, Archibald, I won't be seen protecting a criminal."

Proclus of Rome: I could use a vis to get my CrVi up high enough to guarantee it.

Fabius Ex Misc: Is Proclus going with Fabius?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I could make you invisible."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Good lord, I'd rather not be killed by a raging frenchman, to be honest."

Proclus of Rome: I am.

Artemisia: use vis to spont in high dominion aura. what could go wrong?

Archibald of Guernicus: "I thought ye were intending tae hunt the man yerself, Bialas. What's all this about protecting him?"

Fabius Ex Misc: If you're going to cast the False Gift on tanolfi do it now Proclus

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I am. I'm just stating this before a quaesitor before the fact, so you know my intentions are just, and not part of the conspiracy to kill this innocent man next to us."

Fabius Ex Misc: (or do it out in the streets that are only dom 2)

Proclus of Rome: Let's see that would be 6 botch dice.

If I use a vis.

Lemme think here.

Fabius Ex Misc: no guts no glory.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I trust my sodales, Bialas. Even when they do bloody stupid things like they might be doing."

Proclus of Rome: I'll try it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you botch in the church you might become more holy

Archibald of Guernicus: "So long as yer intentions are just, and the results are too, I'll trust ye during the process."

Proclus of Rome:

rolling (1d10! + 9 + 12 + 2 + 5 -12)/2

(

(

2

)

+9+12+2+5-12)/2

=

9

Artemisia: close

Fabius Ex Misc: noice.

Proclus of Rome: Darn.

Fabius Ex Misc: doesn't work?

Proclus of Rome: Doesn't work.

Fabius Ex Misc: streets are -6, not -12

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Thank you."

Proclus of Rome: Oh.

Well that still doesn't work.

Fabius Ex Misc: lol

Proclus of Rome: Oh wait.

I forgot to add the other +12.

From Philosophae and Artes Liberales.

That's a success.

Fabius Ex Misc: good shit.

Tanolfi is now gift stinky.

Proclus of Rome: In the catacombs.

Fabius Ex Misc: Alright then.

1 moment

Fabius Ex Misc passes a note to a player

(To Bialas the Bear): Ready to go with Renard and encounter a party in the streets?

Proclus of Rome: We'll go for the closest entrance to the 'combs connected to the Lady of the Lake regio.

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): yep

(To Bialas the Bear): Do others at the inn notice you leaving? you can leave separately

Fabius Ex Misc: lets see

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): i was hoping he would leave sometime ahead of me, yeah.

Fabius Ex Misc: Okay.

Archibald Gulie, Bialas departs the inn.

Hypatia and Artemisia depart with the distraction party. Fabius(as tanolfi), Proclus, and Gordi head towards VT.

any action from Archibald/Gulielmus?

(To Bialas the Bear): Do you take bear form now or wait til you're at the church

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): now. lemme gmroll the one that makes people not be threatened by bears as well

Archibald of Guernicus: Nothing I can think of that'd be pertinent. I'm not sure what kind of fool thing might happen though, so I slap a sidestep on myself and offer it to Gulielmus if he wants one.

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): actually if thats not in the hostile aura i dont have to roll

(To Bialas the Bear): Right. Does that effect have penetration ?

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): 20 pen

(To Bialas the Bear): it's mentem?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sure

Fabius Ex Misc passes a note to a player

Fabius Ex Misc: Sorry for this lull, I promise we'll be back into the main action shortly

(From Bialas of Bjornaer): yea MuMe based on the rules for mentem spells in art & academe

(To Endrite): Mentem MR?

Hypatia of Athens: Lets steal Fabius's spell for passing notes through the fourth wall

(To Plutonis): What's your Mentem MR

Archibald of Guernicus: It's fine. As a PVP adventure, there's going to be lots of note passing.

(From Proclus of Rome): 17. I should get that Silver Cord.

Hypatia of Athens: Piercing the Reasoned Veil

Fabius Ex Misc: It didn't have to be pvp lol.

Artemisia: we can study this in the meantime: http://pad1.whstatic.com/images/thumb/6/6c/Talk-With-a-Scottish-Accent-Step-6-Version-3.jpg/aid807465-v4-728px-Talk-With-a-Scottish-Accent-Step-6-Version-3.jpg

Fabius Ex Misc: If only we had some BOLD LEADERSHIP.

Hypatia of Athens: PvP breeds PvP, but in the end it has to be this way

Archibald of Guernicus stares at Johns without blinking for 20 seconds

(From Gordiano of Bonisagus): 12

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we all just signed an oath not to return bold leadership to vardians tomb

Hypatia of Athens: Classic Hagrid

Archibald of Guernicus: By which I mean, the covenant was already split on Fabius before this.

Fabius Ex Misc: Now then. it takes you awhile to cross the city to the hill that VT is on whose name escapes me at the moment

It's well past 8pm and definitely night

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the vardian hill iirc

Bialas of Bjornaer: gianicolo.

Artemisia: let's break the oath and return bold leadership

Proclus of Rome: Oh no.

Fabius Ex Misc: Passing through the streets, you come across Renard and an inconspicuous person with him, of no special note.

Aventine hill! ok.

Proclus of Rome: Oh you mean an ordinary street bear?

Fabius Ex Misc: It's a bear?? Looks normal to you

Hypatia of Athens: lol

Fabius Ex Misc: Fabius/Tanolfi clutches Proclus' arm in alarm but says nothing at the moment.

Hypatia of Athens: Trashbears, a disturbing but not uncommon sight in urban environments

Proclus of Rome: "Greeting Renard, what are you doing out on the street this evening?"

Artemisia: Should have disguised Fabius as a wizard. Then trying to see through the disguise would be scrying.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: On retrospect this is an incredibly silly plan

Hypatia of Athens: [said every adventure] On retrospect this is an incredibly silly plan

Renard of Flambeau: "Good evening, Proclus. I'm on my way to the cathedral. I should be finished with my quest and out of your hair soon."

Artemisia: Where's a red herring tinker when you need one?

Renard of Flambeau: lol

Proclus of Rome: "I wish you would reconsider, Fabius is a good man."

Renard of Flambeau: "He's an oathbreaker and an enemy of the order, no?"

Proclus of Rome: "Unfairly prosecuted by a greedy Guernicus who wanted to enslave him."

(To Bialas the Bear): Fabius is looking at you in alarm, then looking at his comrades and wondering why they're not freaked out by the bear.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "I'd definitely mention some people who should be higher on the list of those to March, myself."

"Like for example, my parens."

(To Bialas the Bear): and by fabius I mean, Tanolfi.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: shh, he'll hear you

Bialas the Bear sniffs around for food and tries to look casual.

Proclus of Rome: Fuck you magic dad!

Hypatia of Athens: Dance magic dad

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right, I forgot Gordiano was a wizard. I thought he was Napolino and was very confused.

Proclus of Rome: Wow.

VERY insulting.

Saying that all fatsos look alike.

Renard of Flambeau: "I say Proclus, it's the Guernicus' job to judge, not yours or mine. It's what keeps this Order functional."

Proclus of Rome: "Perhaps, perhaps."

Hypatia of Athens: Archibald has a beard, he knows how to distinguish himself as a fattie

Proclus of Rome: "All I ask is that you spare the canons guarding Fabius. They have Holy Magic, but are still pious men."

Bialas the Bear moves closer to Tanolfi

Bialas the Bear: sniff sniff

Renard of Flambeau: Tanolfi whispers something to Proclus.

(To Proclus of Rome): He says, "It's a bear! In the city!"

Renard of Flambeau: Renard nods. "I am not monster or butcher Proclus, I will do them no harm."

(From Proclus of Rome): "What do you mean? It's a street bear. Maybe Renard befriended it."

Hypatia of Athens: Could you at least observe Roman law and put a diaper on your street bear?

Renard of Flambeau: lol

(To Proclus of Rome): "This is not normal! We have to get away from here."

Proclus of Rome: "Could you restraint your street bear?"

Artemisia: If Fabius didn't disguise his smell, he deserves to die.

Renard of Flambeau: "My ..? Oh, some Vardian's Tomb in-joke I take it."

Proclus of Rome: Disguise of the Transformed Image DOES disguise smell.

Renard of Flambeau: "I shan't hold you up Proclus." To the bear, "Shall we move on?"

Hypatia of Athens: A bear with the Gift of Tongues? let's buy it

Artemisia: adding one more sense to the disguise list is so cheap there's no reason not to

Proclus of Rome: "May God bless you, Renard."

Hypatia of Athens: Guil, think you could do anything with the tongue of a bear with Gift of Tongues?

Bialas the Bear: I walk past and wait for renard.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "The creature needs some cleaning. The smell is unbearable. Bwahaha."

Renard of Flambeau: Alright then.

Bialas the Bear: Just as they get out of range, i whisper to Renard.

... !

Archibald of Guernicus: Look, sound, feel and touch. Not taste.

Start licking him Bialas

Bialas the Bear: "That wasn't Tanolfi. Probably Fabius."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Hypatia of Athens: Guil, think you could do anything with the tongue of a bear with Gift of Tongues?

You could roast it.

Renard of Flambeau: Renard looks at the party.

Bialas the Bear: "Tanolfi, resisting a spell like that?"

Hypatia of Athens: Sounds delicious

Renard of Flambeau: "You are sure? It'd be dishonorable to cast a spell against him to find out and risk scrying on those Magi."

Bialas the Bear: "I'm sure it's not Tanolfi."

Hypatia of Athens: Should have put two disguises on him so that we can march him for scrying on a magus.

Renard of Flambeau: "Proclus, wait!" he yells to you all. You're about 70 paces away at this point.

What -- do --- you--- do!!!

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Bialas will be rename Hildy after this

Bialas the Bear: I can't help who looks at me. Honestly looking at me is scrying on me and my spell that triggers in response is self defense.

Artemisia: that's out of voice range

Proclus of Rome: Looking at someone is NOT scrying because it involves no magic.

Renard of Flambeau: what if you're a blind magus who uses intelligo magic to see

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Gordiano completely ignores Renard and continues to walk forward.

Hypatia of Athens: Turning into a bear with enhanced sense of smell is magic

Proclus of Rome: Can I hear him?

Renard of Flambeau: Yes.

You can stop, ignore him and keep walking, or run, basically

or cast pilum of fire

Proclus of Rome: If I can I'll interpose myself between Gordiano and Fabius and ask him to speak up.

If you guys keep on moving I'll be able to distract him, hopefully.

Renard of Flambeau: He walks quickly towards you.

Archibald of Guernicus: Select the [Body Count] option

Proclus of Rome: I'll walk towards him if Gordiano and Fabius keep on moving.

"What troubles you?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: disputatio itme

Renard of Flambeau: "Bialas says that man is not your grog. Who is he?"

Proclus of Rome: "Bialas? Where is he?"

Bialas the Bear: drat.

Aristide of Tremere: i threw up so they sent me home early. mystical greetings

Renard of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: welcome

Renard of Flambeau: trolled them.

Bialas the Bear: powerful

Proclus of Rome: Smart.

Renard of Flambeau: "Don't play dumb with me Proclus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you avoided swearing the oath to never bind aristocritus's ghost to your service

Renard of Flambeau: "Who is he?"

Artemisia: Excellent time for Aristide to arrive on scene.

Aristide of Tremere: excellent

Bialas the Bear: bad news, you don't have access to venators secret library yet. good news: you didnt sign the agreement promising not to be an evil necromancer

Renard of Flambeau: Is Bialas doing anything

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristide could run up and join me and Gulielmus

Proclus of Rome: You could still sign it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Since we were following on as well

Aristide of Tremere: ill sign it and then be an oathbreaker eventually

Bialas the Bear: i'm about to just walk the hell away now that renard blew up my spot like that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: natch

Archibald of Guernicus: Did you take the sidestep Guli? I offered you one.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah

Renard of Flambeau: lol sorry you should've told him to keep your name secret or something

Bialas the Bear: i should have

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aristide, ye finally emerge from yer lab. Missed a lot today."

Bialas the Bear: bialas is overconfident.

Aristide of Tremere: I join Archibald and Gulielmus. I bump into them while seeking more garish pigments for my jester's cap.

Renard of Flambeau: Is Proclus not going to answer Renard's last question

Proclus of Rome: Oh I missed it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Garish pigments, at this hour?"

Artemisia: these guidelines don't break the oath to venator, right? https://i.imgur.com/6NLCDBZ.png

Bialas the Bear: but i'll stick around. i'm just not addressing it yet.

Aristide of Tremere: "It had been bothering me all day, and I finally decided these faded colors won't do."

Proclus of Rome: "I will confess, I went to Bishop Savelli's cathedral earlier to speak with Fabius."

Artemisia: if they do, then guess i'm a future oathbreaker

Archibald of Guernicus: "Maybe a wee bit late for it, but regardless, hello Aristide."

Renard of Flambeau: depends if the target of the work is conscious and would object to being a fae

Proclus of Rome: "However, some of Bishop Savelli's men arrived to escort Fabius out of town."

Artemisia: it says remainds

remains

Proclus of Rome: "I don't know where they are right now as I could not bear to see you hurt anyone, tonight."

Aristide of Tremere: "So what are we up to?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "The covenant's butting heads over Fabius, I worry things might become violent, so we're headed over."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are those rituals only

Gordiano of Bonisagus: While Proclus is talking I'll just try to slowly sneak with 'Tanolfi'.

Artemisia: merinita mystery

Aristide of Tremere: "Fabius? The marched magus?"

Renard of Flambeau: "Then who is that with you? Who is quickly walking away?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "A flambeau fae normandy is here tae slay him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's grim business."

Aristide of Tremere: "Good on him. Where's the problem?"

Artemisia: but probably ritual only, since you add +1 level per Might the resulting faerie has

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

i think you can CrAm a magical beast temporarily

Archibald of Guernicus: "Several of our sodales seem more eager to attack a member of the order than to leave him alone."

Aristide of Tremere: "Well, Fabius isn't a member of the order anymore."

Bialas the Bear: im going to have to follow tanolfi. i dont want him to get out of my sight.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I mean the flambeau, Aristide."

Renard of Flambeau: Okay, to do so you have to pass Proclus, who will see you doing so

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah. They're clearly wrong."

Proclus of Rome: "That is Gordiano of Bonisagus."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Proclus was all-but calling for his death, I hear."

Proclus of Rome: "He is new to Rome and he doesn't want to stay on the streets at night."

Bialas the Bear: It's a risk I have to take.

Renard of Flambeau: Renard also tries to walk past Proclus after this last remark.

Proclus of Rome: "Could you restrain your bear, please?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Continuing to walk.

Renard of Flambeau: He walks fast.

Aristide of Tremere: "That's absurd. The man is clearly within his rights to kill a marched magus."

Renard of Flambeau: He will catch up with you in 20 seconds at the current speeds.

Proclus of Rome: I'll chase after Renard.

Bialas the Bear: The bear continues to be unrestrained.

Proclus of Rome: "Where are you going?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Oh good lord, the bear wants some of my meat perhaps, good Tanolfi?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, he is. I told him that I won't actively support him, as I'm not fond of the sentence he recieved and feel no need to hunt him, but the man is an honourable magus pursuing what he feels is right. We've nae right tae interfere."

Hypatia of Athens: *good Fabius

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Yes, i would make a scrumptious feast, what an ironic fate. Ha ha."

Aristide of Tremere: "Yes, yes, good people those Flambeau. We should get one."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But everyone says you argued for him to be marched."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We had one. He backstabbed us, stole vis and fled."

Renard of Flambeau: Great.

Renard catches up to (((Tanolfo))) and Gordi.

Proclus of Rome: Do you have any spells that can help you get Fabius away?

Aristide of Tremere: "We should get another one."

"One that more realistically represents their house and the order."

Renard of Flambeau: Followed close behind by Proclus and Bialas.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: I have rise of the feathery body but there isn't any place for him to float to

Renard of Flambeau: "In the name of the Order, halt!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Maybe you should join up."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should find our first one sometime, by now he's a vagrant and his house may expel him if they hear what he's done."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: noncombatant flambeau :blessed:

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Gah!"

Proclus of Rome: Where are we right now?

Renard of Flambeau: do you see the tokens

Red X is your spot on the world map

Hypatia of Athens: Fabius should probably try to demand a public duel at this point

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: how far away are the Three Stooges who were also headed there, after the big bear

Renard of Flambeau: I didn't know you guys were following him lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cant believe bialas is hassling these guys just because proclus extended his parma over tanolfi

Aristide of Tremere: "Well, anyway, what is your current plan? I assume you have some sort of plot to save this honorable Flambeau's life."

Proclus of Rome: If you run through the Jewish slums we might be able to create a diversion to get you away.

Archibald of Guernicus: We weren't following him but we left a short while after because I was worried about what foolish things might happen if we leave Proclus unattended

Gordiano of Bonisagus: I don't think I can run much with Obese

Renard of Flambeau: lol

Okay.

Bialas the Bear: Proclus would never extend his parma over a grog.

Renard of Flambeau: I didn't know if Bialas was trying to shake your tail or not.

I feel like if he was it merits a stealth check

Archibald of Guernicus: "No a plan as such, just heading there tae see if we can prevent our sodales doing anything stupid."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right. how do we kill a bear that's made of marble and has 60 hermetic years on us

Bialas the Bear: I didnt know I was being tailed.

Renard of Flambeau: Ok.

Then in that case...

The three stooges show up, as as Renard is holding his axe and accosting Gordi & Tanolfi.

Archibald of Guernicus: I wasn't tailing you, I was going to the same end locatoin as you, some time after

Aristide of Tremere: we should contact house mercere and inform them that the bear is harassing redcaps

Archibald of Guernicus: Bears are subject to no laws

Aristide of Tremere: is fabius disguised

Archibald of Guernicus: Besides the rules of nature

Bialas the Bear: The laws of the forest...

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's contact the senate and have them put the bear down

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Gordiano lifts his hand in the air. "By the Holy Cross, man, what are you trying to pull?"

Hypatia of Athens: "Something's wrong. Renard hasn't come to accost us."

Renard of Flambeau: Also, everyone in the 3 stooges must whisper me their Mentem MR to resist Bialas' effect making him look ordinary

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fabius is disguised as tanolfi.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Are there any people around

Bialas the Bear: lmao

Hypatia of Athens: "I think the plan has failed."

Renard of Flambeau: Just your crew. It's night time, after all.

Aristide of Tremere: is bialas casting spells on magi

a spell like that is scrying

lets get him

(From Archibald of Guernicus): 21

Bialas the Bear: It's a reflexive spell. If you look at me that's not my fault.

Artemisia: "Should we get back?"

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): 9

(To Archibald of Guernicus): It does not penetrate, and you feel it reflecting off your PM

(From Aristide of Tremere): 16 mentem mr

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): You are affected by it

(To Aristide of Tremere): You are affected by it

Proclus of Rome: If we're close to the ghetto I'll use Vocal Displacement to accuse Renard of being the famous rapist, Orsu Pagannaci.

Bialas the Bear: It's standard practice for Bjornaer who live in cities to cast this spell.

Or a form of it.

Aristide of Tremere: is fabius disguised

Bialas the Bear: I would say.

Hypatia of Athens: "These men are not mind to command, but it seems advisbable."

Archibald of Guernicus: I understand.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): even though we know bialas turns into this specific bear

Renard of Flambeau: He looks like Tanolfi the grog.

Okay, cthinker raises a question

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Bialas is there already at least. Let's see what's going on."

Aristide of Tremere: "Hello Gordo, Tanolfi. Out taking the bear for a walk?"

Proclus of Rome: Reflexive spells that hit magi are definitely not always ok if they break another rule.

Renard of Flambeau: Do the magi recognize this SPECIFIC bear as Bialas, or does the effect make him that unnoticable

Artemisia: "The men can continue with the distraction."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean. it could just be

Archibald of Guernicus: If he always turns into the same bear, I'd assume that I know what my sodales looks like

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's bialas, he turns into a bear, which is a normal type of animal to see in the city

Renard of Flambeau: How well can you tell bears apart

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Ah, Master Aristide, somehow you noticed the Bear but not the man pointing an axe at me."

Proclus of Rome: Well, he's a white bear.

Renard of Flambeau: I see.

Proclus of Rome: Probably the only one we've ever seen.

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to have to transform back into a giant nude albino and clear this up.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well the spell bounced off my parma anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Thank you.

Hypatia of Athens: "Let's head to Adventine Hill, then. If a mole spilled the details of this plan, that'd be the best spot to interfere."

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh, so he is. Why are you pointing an axe at my apprentice?"

Artemisia: "Let's."

Renard of Flambeau: Splendid.

Bialas the Bear: "Okay.

"

Renard of Flambeau: "Your apprentice? Then this man is a disguised Magus?"

Bialas the Bear: "That's enough."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bialas, please, have some dignity. We're in a street."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll take Aurelia, and leave Tanof and the courtiers to the distraction.

Aristide of Tremere: "The fat man? He doesn't seem disguised to me."

Renard of Flambeau: artemesia and hypatia can show up in a bit since i dont want to keep everyone excluded. i'll say when

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "For the love of God, turn back, Bialas."

Hypatia of Athens: Ok

Proclus of Rome: "Bialas, please put some clothing on."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "No one has a problem with this when I'm a bear. This is ridiculous."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What on Earth is going on here?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I don't believe he's threatening Gordiano, Aristide."

Proclus of Rome: "Why would you think Gordiano is disguised as anyone?"

Aristide of Tremere: "I don't know what business he has out here with our grog and Bjornaer, but I hardly think it's worth pointing an axe at him for."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Renard, why are ye threatening the grog?"

Renard of Flambeau: "Bialas says this man is no grog."

Proclus of Rome: "What does he know?"

Aristide of Tremere: "Sure he is. He's worked for us for years."

Proclus of Rome: "He's barely been here for 2 years."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea shouts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hey, Tanolfi!"

Renard of Flambeau: hypatia, artemesia, can you make awareness checks

Proclus of Rome: "You know, his mind is going," I whisper to Renard.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You a grog or not?"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I just wanted to clear this up. I meant to be going on a walk at night with my new friend, and I run into Proclus, sneaking around and sheltering some strange man disguised as Tanolfi, when a known criminal is seeking safe haven?"

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+1+5 per + awa

(

7

)

+1+5

=

13

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Suspicious."

Renard of Flambeau: Tanolfi/Fabius is silent.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10

(

4

)

=

4

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "When you present it like that."

Aristide of Tremere: "It looks like Tanolfi to me, Bialas. But let's check."

I cast Sight of the True Form.

(To Hafl T.): You notice a suspicious looking figure following your party from a distance.

(To Hafl T.): You know, cloaked in a hood and all

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic aristide

Artemisia: I'll nudge Hypatia. "Someone is following us."

Hypatia of Athens: "Who?"

Artemisia: "No idea. Cloaked."

Renard of Flambeau: does sight of the true form only make YOU see it, or does it dispel the disguise entirely

Aristide of Tremere: it makes me see it

Hypatia of Athens: "Sister Aurelia, guard our backs."

Renard of Flambeau: ok, penetration? aura is dom 2

Aristide of Tremere: its just intellego corpus

Archibald of Guernicus: He has parma magica, which it would need to penetrate, I assume.

Aristide of Tremere: i dont know if it works based on penetration, my version just reveals mundane disguises and magical ones level 10 or below

does that still need to penetrate?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you're trying to intellego his corpus

Artemisia: i believe so

Proclus of Rome: Yeah.

Renard of Flambeau: Yeah

Aristide of Tremere: ok let me roll it

Archibald of Guernicus: Thank you guli

Hypatia of Athens: Since I failed my Awareness check I probably can't attempt to target them with miracles, so no choice but to keep moving.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm still reaping hte benefits of my magic theory double explosion

Aristide of Tremere: recognizing this as semi holy ground i scream and shot

Artemisia: I can try pointing them out to you.

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10!+9

(

6

)

+9

=

15

spell is level 10

ill conf

for more pen

Proclus of Rome: Do you have any confidence points?

Aristide of Tremere: dont you get more at the beginning of the year

what was the reset condition

Proclus of Rome: Was there one?

Aristide of Tremere: i think so

i dont remember a houserule removing it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whens the last time anyone got a confidence point

Aristide of Tremere: and i remember something setting them to 3 if they were below 3

Renard of Flambeau: here have 2

and use 1

Hypatia of Athens: dfd got a conf point for getting his grog killed

That was the last time to my knowledge

Renard of Flambeau: Ok

The spell fails to penetrate

Aristide of Tremere: my pen for this is 14

Archibald of Guernicus: The house rule says you get them back per session or something. Dunno if we actively use it.

Aristide of Tremere: oh

Renard of Flambeau: You notice it fails to penetrate

Aristide of Tremere: "Um."

"That's not Tanolfi, but I don't know who it is."

"He's resistant to magic."

Proclus of Rome: "Ridiculous."

"This man is the least trustworthy person in the entire Tribunal."

Gordiano of Bonisagus backs off, looking at Tanolfi with indignation. "THEN WHO IS THIs MAN?!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "At a higher level than his companions, I might add."

Renard of Flambeau: Hafl & Shaun, I have added a second scene below the current one

Artemisia: I see it.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm looking at it now

johns (GM): Distraction party presses forward?

Aristide of Tremere: I'll attempt Sight of the Transparent Motive against him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brb

Artemisia: It's up to Hypatia.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): AFK

Aristide of Tremere: This one's a mentem effect, I'll conf it.

or well

ill wait to see if i botch

screaming and shouting again

Hypatia of Athens: I could attempt to light him up with images of his sins

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10!+13

(

4

)

+13

=

17

confing

johns (GM): the aura is -6 btw

Hypatia of Athens: But it's trisky and would take some time to calculate spell level

Aristide of Tremere: level 10 effect

i know

Archibald of Guernicus: An old magus probably has high enough MR that you wont penetrate.

Aristide of Tremere: can i have my conf token back on the first one

johns (GM): what's the total penetration

No.

Artemisia: we have enough time while the other scene is going

Hypatia of Athens: Level 35 I think

Aristide of Tremere: gah!

pen is uh

johns (GM): multitasking ftw

Aristide of Tremere: 16

Bialas of Bjornaer: im going to spont a CrHe 5 to summon a white sheet for sun duration to wrap myself in.

Hypatia of Athens: What's the aura?

johns (GM): It does not penetrate.

Dom 2

Hypatia of Athens: Dominion is beneficial in this case

johns (GM): (in both scenes)

Aristide of Tremere: "Very magic resistant."

(To Bialas the Bear): roLL IT

Bialas of Bjornaer:

rolling 1d10+25-4

(

1

)

+25-4

=

22

johns (GM): excellent

rolling 3d10

(

5

+

6

+

8

)

=

19

Bialas of Bjornaer: rip i'll do fatiguing

johns (GM): No botch

Archibald of Guernicus: Aww

Bialas of Bjornaer: thank you.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay I have 30 Intervention here

I could conf if I fail the roll

johns (GM): So.

Proclus of Rome: I thought you had a spell that made clothing.

Bialas of Bjornaer: i didn't. it's low on the priority list.

Proclus of Rome: "Let's retire to Vardian's Tomb to sort this out."

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's a simple way to confirm if he has magic resistance or not, Proclus. Any harmless spell would confirm it."

johns (GM): Tanolfi-- the tanolfi near Proclus-- nods.

Aristide of Tremere: "I want to know who this man masquerading as Tanolfi is."

"If he's a magus, then he's guilty of scrying."

Hypatia of Athens: Level 20: Harry the target with visible and unsettling images appropriate to its sins: bloody wounds, harassing locusts, dark-

ened skies, or rivers turned to blood. (Meditation)

Proclus of Rome: "How do you figure that?"

Artemisia: He scried on him.

Aristide of Tremere: "He's disguising his presence from me."

johns (GM): Hypatia sings to do that?

Archibald of Guernicus: "It is either one of our sodales at the tomb, in which case I would hope they'd say openly, or it is Fabius."

Proclus of Rome: "Don't blame him for your magical deficiencies."

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah, level 35 with Voice / Conc / Vision

(To Hypatia of Athens): Cool, roll it

Proclus of Rome: "Archibald, do you really want to expose our secrets to a foreign magus?"

Aristide of Tremere: i assume its a magical disguise?

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+30

(

3

)

+30

=

33

johns (GM): Renard says, "Who else could it be but Fabius?"

Hypatia of Athens: I'll conf

Aristide of Tremere: "Oh, you must be the honorable Flambeau. You should do away with his disguise to check."

Proclus of Rome: "It could be the Fairy Queen Peripetia or one of her servants."

johns (GM): The shadowy figure, who before was moving with effortless silence, suddenly falls to his knees and cries out in anguish. He begins scratching the flesh on his arms in a pained frenzy. "No, no!" he shouts.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What secrets, Proclus? The secret of a simple imaginem effect? And why would a fairy wander into dominion like this."

Proclus of Rome: "It might be the magi of Luctatio attempting to cause strife."

"It could be anyone really."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, you were walking with him, so ye could say who it is."

Artemisia: Let's rush him and bind him if anyone in the distraction party has rope handy.

Proclus of Rome: "Faeries love living in cities, as you well know Archibald."

Hypatia of Athens: If that's Ind I probably don't need to conf

Proclus of Rome: "Why would I be walking with a fairy?"

johns (GM): It's just 1 guy yeah

Hypatia of Athens: Okay, the spell target was way too high then

Aristide of Tremere: what shadowy figure

whos that

johns (GM): Sister Aurelia can offer her unused habit as a makeshift rope

lol

Artemisia: Nice.

johns (GM): that's occuring in another scene beardbeard relax

Proclus of Rome: Oooh, hee hee.

Artemisia: Thank you, sister.

Aristide of Tremere: no!

i wont relax!

Archibald of Guernicus: "So ye weren't walking with him, and they could be any malicious figure at all, masquerading as our grog."

johns (GM): Renard asks, "I have your permission to undo this man's disguise? You agree he is not one of yours and will take no offense?"

Proclus of Rome: "The Aegis is the safest place to deal with this."

Artemisia: Aristide wouldn't penetrate Beatrice's parma, so it's probable he's not very good at his magic.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I think Renard's suggestion is agreeable."

Shauncat: I'll make sure I don't botch the singing attempt though

Archibald of Guernicus: "No-one in the covenant would be a big enough fool to continue keeping quiet after all this, do as ye will."

johns (GM): Another Per+Awareness check from Artemisia and Hypatia if yall please

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10 Music

(

8

)

=

8

Proclus of Rome: "I would prefer not to cause more trouble on the streets of Rome than we already have."

Aristide of Tremere: "Agreed, go ahead my friend."

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+1+5 per awa

(

2

)

+1+5

=

8

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10! Awareness

(

1

)

=

1

Artemisia: bad

Hypatia of Athens: Oops

johns (GM): gahahaha

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. Zita appears from the sidelines and crits you for

Hypatia of Athens: That wasn't the singing at least

Artemisia: I have second sight as well if that helps here.

johns (GM): You bind the man. You find a nasty looking dagger on his belt.

Artemisia: How nasty?

Hypatia of Athens: Is it asymmetrical?

johns (GM): Renard says, "Then I shall do so. Fabius, I will unmask you."

it's all curvy and gnarly and made of superior quality materials

Archibald of Guernicus: brb 1 min

Artemisia: "I'll take that."

Aristide of Tremere: gnarly good or gnarly bad

johns (GM): time to check if renard actually can peim fabius' disguise lol

Hypatia of Athens: "Asymmetrical."

Artemisia: proclus killing gnarly

Proclus of Rome: "Why would you trust Renard to actually reveal a disguise, Archibald?"

"He is as good as a stranger."

Aristide of Tremere: "He's a Flambeau, they're mostly good men."

"A shame about the one, but what can you do?"

Artemisia: Artemisia does not have Brawl, but maybe it's time to start training it.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+3+13+5+2-6

(

1

)

+3+13+5+2-6

=

18

gahaha

rolling 3d10

(

5

+

7

+

9

)

=

21

Aristide of Tremere: twilight

johns (GM): no botch

Aristide of Tremere: no!

johns (GM): but that effect won't penetrate

Bialas of Bjornaer: gahaha

nice

Gordiano of Bonisagus: rofl

Artemisia: Renard twilighting would be the perfect end to the adventure.

johns (GM): Renald hoots and hollers a perdo spell that does nothing. "Who else could have such strong resistance in this aura? Fabius, reveal yourself and face your judgment honorably."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "If that's Fabius in any case!"

Proclus of Rome: "If this man has any enchantments on him, the laboratories at Vardian's Tomb should reveal them."

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+2+6+3

(

5

)

+2+6+3

=

16

Aristide of Tremere: "Ah, I think I understand the situation now."

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): Back

johns (GM): ignore these rolls for one sec

rolling 1d10!+6+1

(

7

)

+6+1

=

14

Aristide of Tremere: "Fabius has clearly worked some magic on Proclus's mind. He was always deficient of Mentem."

Hypatia of Athens: "I should think Procius will want to interrogate this man."

Proclus of Rome: What rolls?

Artemisia: Probably.

johns (GM): Ok.

Artemisia: We should take him to the Tomb.

Aristide of Tremere: "Who knows what this rogue will do if he enters our covenant?"

Artemisia: that was supposed to be in quotes

johns (GM): Artemisia and Hypatia hear a  twang, then a shout from Tanolfi, who falls to the ground clutching a bloody wound.

Bialas of Bjornaer: lmao

Hypatia of Athens: Uh oh

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Oh, he got an arrow."

Artemisia: rip

Proclus of Rome: "A Mentem enchantment wouldn't be able to pierce the Aegis of the Hearth, all the more reason to return."

johns (GM): The twang came from above you, on a rooftop, and you see another shadowy figure, this one a woman.

Hypatia of Athens: "I'll try to save him, Escort the prisoner away before he's silenced."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Oh shit amazons

Proclus of Rome: How can you tell?

johns (GM): the arrow is occuring in the Bottom Scene, not the top one

sorry. lol. this is confusing.

Artemisia: "I'm on it."

Proclus of Rome: Oh no!

johns (GM): The REAL fabious has not been shot.

Bialas of Bjornaer: Two Tanolfis

Gordiano of Bonisagus: ohhh

Proclus of Rome: Cheap and efficient online package delivery!

Hypatia of Athens: Can we get Tanof out of line of sight?

Artemisia: I'll motion for one of bishop's men to join me in dragging the bound man away."

johns (GM): Ok. Renard says this in top Scene: "Let us all go to your aura. With your permission we will unmask this man. If it is Fabius, I shall slay him on the spot. If he tries to escape, I shall slay him on the spot. We are agreed?"

Proclus of Rome: A cartoon with a Hoplite being shot by an arrow yelling "Dying for Bonisagus' online shopping profits!"

"Agreed, Renard."

johns (GM): REAL Tanolfi has fallen to the ground and doesn't look capable of moving under his own power.

Archibald of Guernicus: Is giving someone a casting token an obvious action

Bialas of Bjornaer: Poor Tanolfi...

Proclus of Rome: I'll talk to Archibald as we go back.

Artemisia: Retard of Flambeau. DId anyone think of this?

Bialas of Bjornaer: holy shit

Hypatia of Athens: I can try to make sure he doesn't die but I can't make him move in spite of penalties

johns (GM): No Archibald, you can do it without saying anything to anyone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, die overnight

Proclus of Rome: "I think this Renard may be trying some kind of trick."

"After all, do we know that it's Fabius that he really seeks?"

johns (GM): Any action against your ambusher, Hypatia/Artemesia?

Aristide of Tremere: "Being that you maintain the Aegis, Proclus, I would prefer that you stay away from this disguised man."

Artemisia: I'm just trying to get the captive away. Hopefully getting some of bishop's men to help me.

I have no ranged capability.

Proclus of Rome: "I will respect that judgement as much as I respect all your opinions, Aristide."

Hypatia of Athens: I could try the song again

Bialas of Bjornaer: "You must not fall to tricks so easily, Proclus."

johns (GM): Well you get a free round to react because it takes her a round to reload a crossbow.

Hypatia of Athens: And have Aurelia stand guard over Tanof

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This man is very suspicious."

Aristide of Tremere: "Everyone, please keep a watch on Proclus. If he's able to give that man a token, the hostile magics warping his mind might not fade in our covenant."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Whoever he is."

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10 botch check for singing quality

(

5

)

=

5

Artemisia: I don't think Athletics 5 is enough to climb a building.

(To Hypatia of Athens): Roll the effect plz and tell me its penetration

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

johns (GM): Great. For the top scene, I assume you are all moving together to Vardian's Tomb

Archibald of Guernicus: "From what I've seen of him, he seems honest in his intentions, and there's little reason to believe otherwise. He came into the aegis before, and has treated us politely."

johns (GM): If anyone is doing something SNEAKILY, whisper to me now.

Aristide of Tremere: I should note that Aristide is currently and will always be wearing a jester's cap.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does it jingle

Artemisia: Is it his talisman?

Aristide of Tremere: yes

no

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10+30 level 20, +1 Conc +2 Voice

(

1

)

+30

=

31

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: excellent

Proclus of Rome: "Politeness is not proof of anything."

Hypatia of Athens: Oof

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bialas of Bjornaer: really sick rolls today

Hypatia of Athens: Divine Hubris

I'll conf if that doesn't botch

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

Proclus of Rome: Unfortunately I don't have any spells I can cast here that will help out Fabius.

johns (GM): no botch

What's the penetration?

Hypatia of Athens: Oh yeah and I think the last roll did take a conf too

So I'm down to two

Archibald of Guernicus: "What reason have you to believe he's suspicious?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i could make fabius smaller, or larger.

johns (GM): lol

(From Hypatia of Athens): Penetration 1 it looks like

Proclus of Rome: I'm debating whether or not I should tell Archibald the truth here.

johns (GM): Ok.

Proclus of Rome: I think I will.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: resolve this as a disputatio session between yourself and yourself

johns (GM): Robed figure is startled but doesn't break out screaming or anything. They drop their crossbow on the roof and then suddenly disappear.

Aristide of Tremere: certamen between yourself and yourself

johns (GM): There's a tiny wisp of orange vapor in their wake that wafts away, and that's that.

Proclus of Rome: "Archibald, that man is actually Fabius in disguise, I know that you were never interested in his death and this might be your last opportunity to save his life."

Bialas of Bjornaer: proclus is a lot like jesus, in that he only hangs out with criminals, whores, and demons

Artemisia: "Sister Hypatia. Please take care of Master Fabius. I'll take care of the captive."

Excuse me?

Hypatia of Athens: "Okay."

Aristide of Tremere: proclus is a lot like jesus, in that it would be good for europe if he was nailed to a cross

johns (GM): Alright.

Renard attacks Fabius.

Proclus of Rome: Uh I was whispering.

johns (GM): oh

lol

okay

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what does it take to invite someone into the aegis without a token

Proclus of Rome: I thought that was clear when I was being extremely rude about Renard.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you have to recite something aloud, or

Hypatia of Athens: A verbal agreement can invite someone into the aegis

johns (GM): one sec

i'll check it

Archibald of Guernicus: I think on it as we walk along. I don't say anything to Renard.

"Where were ye planning tae send him, after all this?"

Artemisia: How long does it take me arrive at the tomb with the captive? Probably some time after everyone else, I assume.

Unless they're deliberately going slow.

Proclus of Rome: "Anywhere he'd be safe."

Hypatia of Athens: Eventually Artemisia will reveal the secondary plot going on

johns (GM): Magical,

Infernal, Faerie, and Divine creatures and persons

may be brought within the Aegis, if they

are formally invited by one who participated in

its casting and given a token to represent the

invitation. (The tokens are used during the

johns (GM): casting of the ritual, and thus conform to the

Law of Sympathy.) Such a person is also not

affected by the penalty to casting within the

Aegis. The invitation may be withdrawn at any

time. This does not require retrieving the token

or even notifying the individual who is no

johns (GM): longer welcome.

Proclus of Rome: "In an ironic turn, I had planned to send him down to Beatrice's temporary lab in the Fairy Regio."

"Until the current crisis passes."

Hypatia of Athens: All of our characters were here at the start of the year

johns (GM): In typical fashion everyone else stood around arguing for 12 hours so you can all arrive at the same time

What's the duration of that affect you put on the goon, Hypatia?

Hypatia of Athens: Concentraton

Proclus of Rome: "You know as well as I do that the tribunal is likely to reverse the decision to grant leniency."

Hypatia of Athens: So no one's affected any longer

johns (GM): Okay, so he shuts up and just become mean and angry and you have to gag him to stop him from screaming everywhere

Artemisia: Do I see Renard when the bishop's men and I arrive with the prisoner.

?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Historically, no marched magus has ever been un-marched."

Artemisia: I have a plan.

johns (GM): Excellent question.

1 = stooges party arrives at inn first, 2 = distraction party arrives at inn first

rolling 1d2

(

1

)

=

1

Aristide of Tremere: why didnt fabius just stay in the church

he was pretty safethere

Proclus of Rome: "You saw how uncomfortable everyone at the Tribunal was with the decision, you know they were going to soften the blow."

Aristide of Tremere: especially from magi

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he was going to be killed in the church

Proclus of Rome: Renard would go in there and stab him.

Artemisia: Renard is tough in physical combat,

15 weapon skill

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ildebrando! We're going to need a lot of wine."

Bialas of Bjornaer: Smart move.

Aristide of Tremere: then ehd be killing a man in the middle of a church

Artemisia: yeah, but he's from normandy

Proclus of Rome: Oh man can you believe it?

Killing a man in a church?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll get Tanof down to wherever Lavinia has patients rest.

Proclus of Rome: That'd be crazy!

Aristide of Tremere: yeah!

johns (GM): The distraction party is slowed by the bishop's men having to carry the wounded and bleeding Tanolfi, and your prisoner dragging his feet/stumbling around to waste yoru time.

Proclus of Rome: It's 1338!

That's been done thousands of times.

Hypatia of Athens: RIP 1337 year

Artemisia: Since everyone is in the inn when we arrive, I can immediately put my plan into motion.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It would be historic moment, if it was overturned. Has he no other allies in the order? No-one tae turn to besides those who prosecuted him in the first place?"

Artemisia: "Master Proclus! Master Fabius has been shot dead!"

johns (GM): Renard says, "I will try to cast again. If it fails, we should keep this man detained until sundown, when his Parma will fall."

Surprise noises.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "What?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I turn my head "What?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Oh, what a surprise."

Proclus of Rome: "Oh no!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What?"

Proclus of Rome: "How could this have happened?"

Artemisia: "Bishop's men were escorting him out of the city when he got shot by crossbow."

"It was some woman from the rooftop."

Proclus of Rome: "A crossbow?"

Artemisia: "She had an accomplice."

Proclus of Rome: "But Renard has been with us this entire time!"

What is Renard doing right now, by the way?

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Fabius, as well!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I look at the bleeding Fabius, who is Tanolfi.

Artemisia: Should I roll Guile?

Hypatia of Athens: Tanoffl probably stays silent.

Artemisia: I am knowingly silent.

lying, i mean

johns (GM): tanolfi is bloody and unconscious and turning green

so hes not saying much

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does ildebrando have a lot of wine

johns (GM): he does, gulielmus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: excellent

"Come inside, everyone."

Aristide of Tremere: "How gruesome."

johns (GM): Renard is looking from Real Tanolfi to Real Fabius to the rest of you, with an expression of annoyance.

Proclus of Rome: This is going to be a long night.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Where is our doctor! Someone help Tanolfi!"

Proclus of Rome: "What is going on here, Renard?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lavinia should be up still."

Artemisia: I don't mention the curved dagger which I'm keeping for myself.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll escort him to Lavinia's clinic

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Excuse me if I have my doubts that Fabius, a master of Herbam, could be slain by an arrow!"

Hypatia of Athens: I mean, drag him

Bialas of Bjornaer: "How ironic!"

johns (GM): the GM pc does what is necessary to treat real tanolfi without speaking or interacting with the scene in anyway possible

Archibald of Guernicus: "He abandoned hermetic magic for divine, Bialas."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a true professional

Proclus of Rome: Sleep chirguery.

Artemisia: "The woman disappeared in a puff of orange light or something."

johns (GM): "I had no confederate but Bialas here, and I do not shoot men with a peasant's crossbow."

(says renard)

Bialas of Bjornaer: "That's no excuse."

Hypatia of Athens: She fled

Artemisia: "Perhaps it was another maga."

"The light could be her sigil."

Hypatia of Athens: Possibly she has some form of Mentem resistance, I could make a Dominion Lore roll to theorize on that

Archibald of Guernicus: "How would they know to wait that very night?"

"That's what I don't understand here."

Proclus of Rome: "Why, then, would there be an attack on two separate parties of magi from Vardian's Tomb on the very same night?"

Hypatia of Athens: Miracles don't have hermetic equivalents but you could probably extrapolate Mentem or Imaginem in this case.

Proclus of Rome: "What is the real reason you're here Renard?"

Renard of Flambeau: "There must be many Magi who took up the open offer. While you've been holding me up with these ridiculous farces another tried to steal my prey!"

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Where did you plot this caper, Proclus? Someone must have overheard you."

Artemisia: "You flatter me master Proclus, but I am not a maga yet."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fabius was marched in 1335, were they really waiting that long?"

Renard of Flambeau: "I only received the letter a few weeks ago."

Artemisia: "We have one of the attackers alive. Perhaps he could be questioned."

Proclus of Rome: "Very well."

Hypatia of Athens: A holy relic would be enough to block holy music too

Proclus of Rome: "Let us get to the bottom of this."

Renard of Flambeau: Shadowy Figure enters the scene.

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is definitely suspicious. Do ye think they sent this letter out tae get someone tae flush him out?"

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): are we at the inn

Renard of Flambeau: Renard will object if you try to take REAL Fabius or REAL Tanolfi out of his line of sight.

Proclus of Rome: Real not fake.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): or at the chirurgeon's

Renard of Flambeau: Yes, you're all at the inn. The customers cleared out at the sight of the fat near naked albino and the bloody corpse and all that

* bloody near-corpse

Archibald of Guernicus: Just normal things in the eastern ear inn

Hypatia of Athens: Future corpse with its fate being potentially averted by Lavinia

Renard of Flambeau: natch.

Proclus of Rome: Does the Shadowy Figure wake up or what?

Archibald of Guernicus: You mean delayed

Renard of Flambeau: He's awake this whole time

Archibald of Guernicus: He'll be a corpse one day

Hypatia of Athens: Delayed

Renard of Flambeau: He's just bound and gagged

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Hypatia of Athens: "This one was tailing us."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Questioning him might give us little, but we should do it anyway."

Proclus of Rome: "For once, I agree with you."

Hypatia of Athens: The woman with the bow escaped."

Aristide of Tremere: I sure hope Lavinia's treatment is saving good old Tanolfi.

johns (GM): aura is magic 3 for any sort of magical investigation etc

Proclus of Rome: "The real killer is still on the lose, then."

johns (GM): Well, she's cleaning the poison out as best she can but noting that Renard is letting her take him to the clinic.

not letting.

Proclus of Rome: Right.

Ok, I'll ungag the Shaowy Figure.

Giraldo of Milan: Giraldo can provide assistance if that helps with anything.

johns (GM): He curses you in a foreign tongue.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bialas of Bjornaer: "It should be simple to clear that man as the real Tanolfi."

Proclus of Rome: "Who are you?" I'll ask in Latin.

Hypatia of Athens: GIraldo can probably brew an antivenom

Bialas of Bjornaer: "Here, get a bucket of water, and we'll stick the healthy one's head in."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Anyone speak what he's babbling?"

Hypatia of Athens: Once Lavinia has identified it

Artemisia: artemisia knows english and cornish aside from the standard italian and latin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can oyu make an antivenom with apothecary

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Does anyone recognize it?

johns (GM): Germanic

Hypatia of Athens: I speak Greek

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ronaldus...

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I know.

Hypatia of Athens: Zita speaks Everything

Giraldo of Milan: i can make antivenoms with mythic herbalism, maybe? you can make poisons with that. but id need to have a formula already made which i dont

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita is probably at the covenant, if someone goes to get her

Hypatia of Athens: Bolan speaks Everything too

Bialas of Bjornaer: i know gothic

Giraldo of Milan: so all i can do is assist lavinia

johns (GM) makes wooshing noises as Archibald and Zita swap places

Archibald of Guernicus: Boland :DD

Zita of Mercere: "What'd you need help with?"

Artemisia: Did we wake up the baby?

Proclus of Rome: "What is this reprobate trying to say to us?"

I indicate the reprobate.

Aristide of Tremere: wow, dont talk about aristide like that

Zita of Mercere: "Get him to talk, need to hear it first to speak it." I say quietly

johns (GM): He calls Proclus a son of a whore.

Proclus of Rome: Ah.

Artemisia: In indicate the reprobate. makes a circle all around him with his hand

Proclus of Rome: Well.

Zita of Mercere: "Ah. I won't repeat that one, it wouldn't be polite."

johns (GM): Anyway, while this is going on Renard sponts a spell to remove the image from REAL Tanolfi.

Proclus of Rome: "Ask him who he's working for."

Hypatia of Athens: Was the arrowhead used on Tanof symmetrical?

johns (GM): Yes.

Hypatia of Athens: Dang

johns (GM): It's a crossbow bolt, technically.

Hypatia of Athens: *bolt

Proclus of Rome: "Someone stop that magus!"

johns (GM): "A powerful wizard. She'll kill you all if you don't let me go."

(says figure)

Zita of Mercere: "Who do you work for?" I ask him, and then activate my enchanted item to read his surface thoughts

Proclus of Rome: AFK a sec.

johns (GM): oh nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is anyone stopping that magus

johns (GM): You see the face of a woman as he says this.

Zita of Mercere: Actually, sorry, the specific thing is I can ask a silent mental question. So that's what I ask him, and get that as a response.

Hypatia of Athens: Aurelia could butt him with her shield, perhaps

Zita of Mercere: Is it Heliste? She attends tribunal.

johns (GM): it is not, it's someone you don't recognize (but matches the description of the one hypatia and artemisia saw)

Hypatia of Athens: "Is she hermetic? If so,, there may be trouble."

Zita of Mercere: I pass along the description to my sodales, including the two of them

johns (GM): So, no one stops Renard. There's now two Tanolfis here.

Zita of Mercere: "Oh, wow, what's going on here?"

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think I can fast-cast music, sorry

"We should probably restrain Renard."

Zita of Mercere: "They shot at Fabius, right? Can't think of anyone besides a hermetic mage who'd want them dead."

johns (GM): You've got about 1 turn to act before Renard attacks Fabius

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm back.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tfw when you have been implicated in a crime

Hypatia of Athens: How do you uninvite someone from the aegis?

Zita of Mercere: "Huh? I thought he's a visitting Flambeau."

Proclus of Rome: You kick them out.

"Stop him, he's an assassin!"

johns (GM): the person who gave them the token (bialas) just decides that the token is withdrawn and it automatically stops working

Hypatia of Athens: I never agreed to the deal so I'll do that.

Aristide of Tremere: "Assassin? He's just trying to kill Fabius."

Proclus of Rome: If no one else stops him I'll try Grappling him.

Zita of Mercere: "Eh? Ehhhh?"

Aristide of Tremere: "He's well within his rights."

Artemisia: I'll draw my sword.

Hypatia of Athens: "Enough of this unruly behavior. Out with you, Flambeau."

Bialas of Bjornaer: "I'm not stopping anyone. You agreed to this, Proclus! I just saw you!"

johns (GM): Proclus of Rome Initiative: 1

Fabius Ex Misc Initiative: 88

Renard of Flambeau Initiative: 37

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Gordiano of Bonisagus: lmao

johns (GM): Sister Aurelia Initiative: 12

Artemisia Initiative: 67

Bialas of Bjornaer Initiative: 65

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 33

Hypatia of Athens Initiative: 30

Aristide of Tremere: i want to roll code of hermes to see what happens if you harbor a marched magus

Hypatia of Athens: "Sister Aurelia, please see he leaves, by force or otherwise."

johns (GM): Zita of Mercere Initiative: 32

Aristide of Tremere: is that + int?

johns (GM): yeah bb

Zita of Mercere: "You know what, it's funny, but I think I hear Giovanni crying. Got to dash, good luck uh, doing what you're doing here."

Aristide of Tremere:

rolling 1d10!+8

(

5

)

+8

=

13

Zita of Mercere: I leg it

johns (GM): now it's actually a good question and I want to take a minute to check the guernicus chapter lol

Aristide of Tremere: i imagine at its worst you get marched too

and at its best its still probably not good

Archibald of Guernicus: I believe it's illegal, but I doubt you get marched unless it's a very dangerous diabolist or some such.

Artemisia: It's fine if no one finds out.

Aristide of Tremere: especially if you throw a magus out who knows youre harboring him

johns (GM): There's no repercussions as far as I see

Aristide of Tremere: people will find out because theres a flambeau magus here

johns (GM): Make a brawl roll, Proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we might get wizard warred

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Aristide of Tremere: yeah it at least seems a good reason to be wizard warred

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 4

(

4

)

+4

=

8

Hypatia of Athens: All my hostile Miracle effects could count as Scrying, so I'll mostly just be controlling Aurelia

Proclus of Rome: I'll conf that.

Aristide of Tremere: "What are you doing? Do you want our covenant to be warred upon?"

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+18 Great Axe

(

7

)

+18

=

25

Bialas of Bjornaer: Proclus has higher brawl than i thought.

Renard of Flambeau: (defense)

Proclus of Rome: I have good brawl, let's face it.

Renard of Flambeau: Grapple failed.

Aristide of Tremere: "Renard, whoever you report this to, please let them know that Aristide of Tremere does not support harboring this marched magus."

Proclus of Rome: RIP.

Renard of Flambeau: Actions can be taken by: Aristide, Gulielmus, Artemisia, Hypatia, Sister Aurelia, Bialas

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'll cast Bind Wound on Tanolfi.

Renard of Flambeau: 1 combat round

Bialas of Bjornaer: well, i'm going to turn into a bear on my turn.

Aristide of Tremere: I run away to my lab.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+12+3

(

1

)

+12+3

=

16

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

Aristide of Tremere: actually no

Renard of Flambeau: no botch

Aristide of Tremere: I stand and watch

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not acting immediately, so I skip my turn here, but I am here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i didn't stress the roll!

Aristide of Tremere: And plead for my sodales to stop trying to get us killed

Bialas of Bjornaer: "This is ridiculous, Proclus! What's come over you?"

Renard of Flambeau: well ok then.

Aristide of Tremere: "You fools are going to get us killed!"

Artemisia: I'll do the idiotic thing and attack Renard with a sword.

Renard of Flambeau: nice

Bialas of Bjornaer: Jesus.

Renard of Flambeau: roll it

Artemisia: Technically, Artemisia is not part of Vardian's Tomb.

Proclus of Rome: "There is more to this than there appears to be, Bialas."

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+10+4

(

4

)

+1+10+4

=

19

conf

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+18 Defense

(

5

)

+18

=

23

Hit, marign of 1

Giraldo of Milan: Giraldo continues working on treating Tanolfi.

Renard of Flambeau: Damage?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: brutal

is he wearing his armor

Artemisia: long sword +6

Renard of Flambeau: He is Gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Artemisia: probably soaks all

Renard of Flambeau: we'll know in a sec

anyone else acting this round?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i opt to cast flash of scarlet flame with finesse

Proclus of Rome: "I know not what, but there is a vast conspiracy acting in this."

Artemisia: oh, do i get a bonus to the roll for proclus trying to grapple him?

Renard of Flambeau: ah, right, friendly same combatant

Sister Aurelia:

rolling 13+2+5+d19 Single Weapon on Renard

13+2+5+

(

18

)

=

38

Whoops

Archibald of Guernicus: Nice cheater die

Artemisia: if yes, that's margin of 4

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it seems like it should always be finesse actually

Sister Aurelia:

rolling 13+2+5+d10! Single Weapon on Renard

13+2+5+

(

8

)

=

28

Renard of Flambeau: +3, +6 if sister aurelia is attacking too

Artemisia: 7, then

Renard of Flambeau: also proclus got -3 because he has no weapona nd is attacking someone who does. well w/e

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright. Now, I don't mean to be presumptious, but perhaps slaughtering this mage might be a bad thing.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: time for bialas to disembowel all our companions

Bialas the Bear: smh

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+18 Defense vs. Aurelia

(

8

)

+18

=

26

Damage, Sister?

including +6 from surrounding him

Sister Aurelia: +6, so 8 I think

Renard of Flambeau: if you didnt already put it in your attack roll

Okay

Aristide of Tremere: was someone yelling at renard to go away enough to get his token removed

Sister Aurelia: 14 with that bonus

Bialas the Bear: I think this is the craziest thing I've seen Proclus do yet, and he tried to befriend a demon last year.

Archibald of Guernicus: Bialas gave him a token

so bialas would have to remove it

Aristide of Tremere: ok

Archibald of Guernicus: Since actions dont resolve until a turn finishes, I'll wait until then to start yelling

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia merely encourages Aurelia with her +3 Leadership

Proclus of Rome: lol

Renard of Flambeau: cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could uhh

Renard of Flambeau: round resolution

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: see everyone drawing their swords, and then thanks to simultaneous resolution yell at the same time as they are stabbing renard

Renard of Flambeau: Artemisia leaves a single narrow scratch on the mans' armor. Aurelia puts a little dent in it.

Round 2. Simultaneous action. Renard attacks Fabius this round.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Artemisia: Artemisia continues attacking Renard.

Sister Aurelia:

rolling 13+2+5+d10!+6 mace whack again

13+2+5+

(

7

)

+6

=

33

Aristide of Tremere: "Stop attacking him! You're going to get us killed!"

Proclus of Rome: Can I throw myself between Renard and Fabius?

Renard of Flambeau: wow, aurelia is tough

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: combat nun

Archibald of Guernicus: "Stop! What the hell are ye doing? That's a magus of the order, damnit."

Sister Aurelia: Aristide is trying to test my faith but he will not find it wanting.

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to attack Fabius with my Large Claws.

Aristide of Tremere: i get an idea

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+18 Defense vs. Aurelia

(

2

)

+18

=

20

Aristide of Tremere: I move over to the tied up assassin and free him

Proclus of Rome: lol

Renard of Flambeau: lavinia and giraldo are tending to him, aristide

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+17

(

4

)

+17

=

21

Proclus of Rome: Good instinct.

Renard of Flambeau: if you want to be killed by sir oak, ok

Aristide of Tremere: no thats tanolfi theyre tending to

Renard of Flambeau: oh

alright fine

Sister Aurelia:

rolling 33-20+6 Damage

33-20+6

=

19

Renard of Flambeau: That overcomes his soak

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast spams of the uncontrolled hand. FFM, making it group target. Targetting Aurelia and Artemisia.

Bialas the Bear: damage on large claws is +4 if that hits.

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 97

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+24 attk vs fab

(

5

)

+24

=

29

Aristide of Tremere: I figure that getting Fabius to die will resolve this quickly.

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+10+4+6 if two friendly combatants are around

(

7

)

+1+10+4+6

=

28

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+27

(

9

)

+27

=

36

Level 10

it passes

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+16 dfn fabius

(

8

)

+16

=

24

Sister Aurelia: 26 Pen?

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+16 dfn fabius

(

1

)

+16

=

17

Archibald of Guernicus: They'll drop their weapons when this round resolves.

Bialas the Bear: wait wait

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 3d10

(

5

+

4

+

4

)

=

13

relax

Bialas the Bear: not +4. I forgot to add strength.

Archibald of Guernicus: No, 36 pen total

Sister Aurelia: Okay

Bialas the Bear: That's +10 for large claws.

Proclus of Rome: Way to go.

Renard of Flambeau: ok.

Sister Aurelia: That overcomes Aurelia's relic

Bialas the Bear: im confing it

so it hits.

Renard of Flambeau: ok.

um, let me think. everyone's acted except proclus I think?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'ven't

Proclus of Rome: I tried to throw myself between Renard and Fabius.

Artemisia: did you roll renard's defense against me?

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus starts brewing potions at INCREDIBLE speed

Proclus of Rome: But I don't know what roll to roll.

Renard of Flambeau: I did not, one sec

rolling 1d10!+18 dfn vs artes

(

2

)

+18

=

20

gah

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright guys... just keep this combat going another few hours. You're gonna love this one.

Artemisia: 8 margin + 6 weapon

Renard of Flambeau: damage?

14

pl

Hypatia of Athens: What's the roll to throw yourself in front of an attack?

Renard of Flambeau: ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus laments.

Renard of Flambeau: resolution round 2

uhhhh

Okay. Prepare yourselves

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "All this bloodshed, just because a man taught the parma to his apprentice a few months early?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Artemisia and Aurelia will drop their weapons after that attack resolves.

Aristide of Tremere: i trust the assassin to kill the real fabius

oh right

I'll point him to the correct target too.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It was several years, Gulielmus."

Renard of Flambeau: Aurelia whangs Renard on the side of the head. Artemesia clangs off his armor. Renard and Bialas both swing at Fabius.

Aristide of Tremere: As I untie him.

Archibald of Guernicus: Is that Jesus Christ

how bad did we fuck up here

Renard of Flambeau: In a blinding flash of light, a man in silver chainmail holding a sword and shield appears in front of Fabius.

The sword clashes with Renard and the shield with Bialas.

Bialas the Bear: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Does that  really  matter?"

Artemisia: You can't do group spasm, I believe.

Renard of Flambeau: Nevertheless, both hit and leave black stains on the man's perfect armor.

Artemisia: FFM lets you change things only one step

Archibald of Guernicus: Its a part target

so one up is group

Artemisia: it's individual

Aristide of Tremere: ok

Artemisia: https://i.imgur.com/yx9bCxc.png

Aristide of Tremere: so now weve attacked a magus who has done nothing wrong, and wounded jesus christ

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is individual

Archibald of Guernicus: Wait, what the hell, I had it as part somewhere. Shit.

Renard of Flambeau: Ok, so Bialas actually scratched him and Renald did not

Then,

Bialas the Bear: I don't think Jesus has black blood.

Renard of Flambeau: Artemisia and Aurelia's hands start shaking uncontrollably.

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh, I make Aurelia drop her weapon then, not Artemisia

Proclus of Rome: Jesus' blood is red and sometimes white.

Renard of Flambeau: Aurelia's hand starts shaking uncontrollably.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I cast a level 10 version of it

So I just make it sun duratoin instead of conc

So I can do other things

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: cripes

Hypatia of Athens: Aurelia's a Hospitalier's daughter, not an Order member

Proclus of Rome: Is she?

That's interesting.

Hypatia of Athens: She thinks she's acting int he right

Archibald of Guernicus: She seemed more dangerous, Artemisia has a future in the order to consider here so I can at least reason with her

Renard of Flambeau: Okay then.

Round 3.

Everyone acting, act.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, she's right, since jesus christ is defending this guy.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to throw my body on top of Fabius

Renard of Flambeau: Oh

Proclus of Rome: The ol' Criamon maneuver.

Renard of Flambeau: Sorry, forgot one thing in the resolution

Hypatia of Athens: I feel bad for making Aurelia do all the work.

Artemisia: I'll continue attacking Renard.

Renard of Flambeau: Proclus is also now guarding Fabius bodily

Archibald of Guernicus: "Artemisia, ye might be an apprentice, but ye're going too far."

Aristide of Tremere: is the assassin free

Renard of Flambeau: He got nudged aside a little bit by the sudden near appearance

Aristide of Tremere: or do i need another turn

Renard of Flambeau: It takes 2 rounds to free him Aristide.

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to attack Jesus Christ.

Aristide of Tremere: ok

Bialas the Bear: wait.

No.

Aristide of Tremere: I continue working on that and pointing to fabius

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to turn into stone. Heh.

Artemisia: "If everyone stops fighting, I will as well."

Sister Aurelia: Is Archibald still concentrating on my hand?

Aristide of Tremere: To make him understand that that's his real target.

Archibald of Guernicus: I made it sun duration

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: your hand is fucked up until sunset

Proclus of Rome: "How can you be so blind, Archibald?"

Sister Aurelia: Okay

Artemisia: Or sunrise.

Proclus of Rome: "What will it take for you to realize the mistake you're making?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: probably sunrise

Artemisia: "Make Master Renard stop and find out what the situation really is."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Renard, please, this has escalated far beyond anything it should. We should stop and examine this situation with level heads."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Nerd.

Gulielmus casts Flash of the Scarlet Flames on Renard.

Sister Aurelia: The assassin doesn't work for Renard

Artemisia: Exactly.

Sister Aurelia: So he'll probably go stab Fabius regardless of what Renard says

Artemisia: The assasin does not have a weapon.

Proclus of Rome: "Bialas, you must see that there is more at work here than a mere bounty hunt."

Artemisia: I took his dagger.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus if you permanently blind a magus I'm not going to cover for you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's a magus. he can just fix his eyes

Sister Aurelia: Aurelia picks up her mace with her offhand, the one her holy shield is strapped to.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+9+3+3

(

4

)

+9+3+3

=

19

does this call for a finesse roll

johns (GM): descriptin of the newcomer on the scene: he looks like a perfectly proportioned marble statue of great beauty, with golden eyes and hair, and white and gleaming silver armaments

Bialas the Bear: "A conspiracy to kill a magus in good standing, in defense of a criminal. There's more at work indeed!"

johns (GM): silvery full chain mail, white enamled heater shield, brightly polished longsword with inscriptions in white letters

Proclus of Rome: "You know nothing of what you speak, Bialas."

Aristide of Tremere: nice gmpc johns

johns (GM): You're throwing a potion at him, Gulielmus?

Archibald of Guernicus: "There must be something, something further at play here." I stop, and think

Aristide of Tremere: how did this guy even get in our aegis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm casting a formulaic spell on him

Bialas the Bear: marble man vs marble bear

johns (GM): then why would it need finesse

Aristide of Tremere: why is there a magical being in our aegis

johns (GM): you just have to penetrate

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but the way it's phrased suggests finesse instead of penetration is called for?

Sister Aurelia: We don't know why there's a magic man in our aegis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it makes a bright burst of flame, and if it's in someone's face they go blind from the light of the flame

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Gordiano pokes his head from a nearby furniture, not participating on any matters of combat.

johns (GM): what page/book

Sister Aurelia: Would any LORE perhaps illuminate here?

johns (GM): yes sister

try divine

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh thats a point, actually. If hes in the aegis, isnt he weakened.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 140

Sister Aurelia: Hypatia and Procius would have that

Proclus of Rome: I'll try Divine Lore.

Bialas the Bear: I made him bleed.

Or whatever.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 9 + 2

(

9

)

+9+2

=

20

Bialas the Bear: Stain black.

johns (GM): Looks like an Angel.

Aristide of Tremere: fabius has read ars notoria

Bialas the Bear: Nice.

Aristide of Tremere: thats the only explanation

lets harvest his knowledge

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in 4e this spell specifically requires a finesse roll

johns (GM): 4e is not canon

Sister Aurelia:

rolling d10+3+3 Dominion Lore

(

8

)

+3+3

=

14

Proclus of Rome: Not canon!

Archibald of Guernicus: It seems like a spell that needs to penetrate MR

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in 5e it is up to whatever the gm says i guess

Not an argument!

johns (GM): it has to penetrate

sorry

Sister Aurelia: Thta was Hypatia

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, well then it is not going to unless you let me life boost retroactively

Proclus of Rome: Is Sister Aurelia a grog or what?

johns (GM): magically created species still have to penetrate if they're doing direct harm

Hypatia of Athens: Aurelia is a grog

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's not, is the thing!

oh i see what you mean

johns (GM): it is.

Hypatia of Athens: I rolled Dominion Lore on the wrong character

Proclus of Rome: Hey grog are you a grog or what?

johns (GM): GOOD SHIT.

Is anyone attacking this round

Bialas the Bear: good shit

Artemisia: I am

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can i life boost this puppy

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to attack the angel again.

Wait.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: in direct violation of the life boost rules

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+10+4

(

7

)

+1+10+4

=

22

Bialas the Bear: Is this the next round? I did spend a turn stoning up.

Proclus of Rome: I'm going to give Fabius a casting token.

Artemisia: + any friendly combatant bonus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if so im going to add 25 points to it

johns (GM): i dont know cumthinker. you make the call. if i find out later you are powergaming then gulielmus dies of aids, so choose carefully.

Aristide of Tremere: fabius has read the ars notoria and this is his guardian angel

johns (GM): this is round 3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is specifically against the rules.

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia is meanwhile trying to take any blows in Fabius's stead she can

johns (GM): so round 3 is bialas stoning up

Bialas the Bear: ok cool.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you have to sink your fatigue before the roll.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+18-1 renard dfn

(

1

)

+18-1

=

18

Aristide of Tremere: powergamers only function within the rules

johns (GM):

rolling 3d10

(

5

+

2

+

6

)

=

13

Bialas the Bear: lol

Proclus of Rome: Guardian Angels typically guard your soul, not your body.

Aristide of Tremere: so cumthinker is just cheating, not powergaming

seems good to me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you

Artemisia: it's not real powergaming unless you lifeboost with with faerie familiar that can give you fatigue from their might

(To Proclus of Rome): You don't know that for sure

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all right well the spell has like

(From Proclus of Rome): True.

Aristide of Tremere: ah. interesting hafl. writes down ideas for merinita replacement magus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 6 penetration

Hypatia of Athens: Sirlin of Tremere

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: instead of 36

Hypatia of Athens: I guess SIrlin of Tytalus actually, since he has leprosy

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+18-1 dfn roll

(

7

)

+18-1

=

24

Archibald of Guernicus: "Artemisia, if ye don't stop attacking the man, I'll do what I must tae stop ye getting yerself killed."

johns (GM): is aurelia attacking this round?

Archibald of Guernicus: She cant

johns (GM): ok

Hypatia of Athens: She cannot

johns (GM): is proclus attacking

Archibald of Guernicus: she has to pick her weapon up

Proclus of Rome: She can.

She just needs to use her other hand.

johns (GM): proclus can make an attack roll as renard tries to disengage

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not attacking this round. Did artemisia keep attacking?

johns (GM): she did

Proclus of Rome: I decline, I don't want to punch him.

Artemisia: Yes.

johns (GM): okay.

Hypatia of Athens: Is she able to pick her weapon up and attack on the same round

Artemisia: As long as Renard is attacking Fabius, I am attacking him.

johns (GM): gulielmus, what's the penetration on your effect after powergaming it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Renard, do you see what you are doing? This man is protected by God!"

Artemisia: If he's backing off this round, I'll stop next round.

Archibald of Guernicus: What's her master's name, I need to know who I'm helping out here

johns (GM): Yes Hypatia but I dont have any rules for attacking with off hand

Artemisia: Andronicus from Literatus

johns (GM): actually if it fell on the floor it's not possible to pick it up and attack same round

without some tricky movement. idk. but i'll say not this round

Proclus of Rome: What do the letters on the sword say?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can add 25 points to it by dropping to -4 fatigue and using a confidence point

johns (GM): They're in Hebrew or some shit

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

johns (GM): Okay, so what's the final Pen

gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 31.

Sister Aurelia: I spend the round picking up my weapon then.

johns (GM): Flash of the Scarlet Flames, right?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ya

Aristide of Tremere: the letters on the angels sword are hebrew?

johns (GM): yes bb

Aristide of Tremere: its jesus

its ufcking jesus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the big son himself

Aristide of Tremere: lets kill him

Bialas the Bear: damn i got a hit on jesus

this is epic

Artemisia: let's kill jesus for his vis

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+9 sta

(

8

)

+9

=

17

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: pagan win

johns (GM): i mean

Aristide of Tremere: jesus is in an aegis of the hearth

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+3 sta

(

9

)

+3

=

12

Proclus of Rome: Lots of people got hits on Jesus.

johns (GM): ok

Aristide of Tremere: this is our only chance to kill him

johns (GM): resolution, round 3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip

Proclus of Rome: I mean that's what his signature move is.

johns (GM): Bialas turns into stone

Artemisia pings Renard's armor again. Renard manages to back out of the fight and holds up his shield to cover himself.

Then a fireball explodes in his face.

He doesn't look blinded.

Alright

Is Bialas going to keep fighting

Aristide of Tremere: a real magus of our covenant has now cast hostile magic on another magus to protect a marched man

its over

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: scared?

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to try to hit Jesus one more time.

johns (GM): oh

i forgot that the angel can attack

Proclus of Rome: How illegal even is it to hit someone with a fireball?

Artemisia: Renard backed off, so I'll just keep my guard up and won't do anything.

Proclus of Rome: Not very.

johns (GM): well w/e

roll attack

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it didn't even have a damage roll

Bialas the Bear: well, do its attack

Sister Aurelia: Aurelia will hold the line.

johns (GM): Fne, the angel whacks at Bialas with the blunt side of its sowrd on Round 3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is the fatigue penalty really only 1 per level. i thought it was 3

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+17 to touch it and use Gentle Caress of Bialas to drain a fatigue level. 21 pen. if it doesn't pen im just touching it.

(

10

+

6

)

+17

=

33

it's a power not a spell.

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+13+6 vs bialas' defense

(

1

)

+13+6

=

20

rolling 2d10

(

6

+

2

)

=

8

gah

this angel sucks

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Panic of the Trembling Heart, on Artemisia, to make her terrified of this room.

johns (GM): okay

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+23

(

7

)

+23

=

30

johns (GM): renard sponts something

rolling 1d10! botch

(

5

)

=

5

Archibald of Guernicus: It succeeds, she has no parma so that penetrates.

johns (GM): no botch

Artemisia: I'm not even attacking anymore.

Archibald of Guernicus: Didn't you attack last round? gah

johns (GM): All light in the room is extinguished. It is pitch dark except for the glowing angel man

Proclus of Rome: "Bialas you are surely condemning yourself to eternal torment in the pit!"

Artemisia: LKast round, but not this one.

Aristide of Tremere: damn

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia continues to shield Fabius with her own body.

Aristide of Tremere: good luck, assassin

i believe in your nightvision

Artemisia: I didn't pursue Renard after he backed off.

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't know how aware or how much you can react to simultaneous declaration

Proclus of Rome: Same, I will do that as well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "This is an angel of God!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I can see in the dark

Artemisia: Same.

johns (GM): okay archibald

Aristide of Tremere: so can giraldo

johns (GM): round 5

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cannot.

johns (GM): im wrapping this up

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10!+11+3+1 defense roll?

(

2

)

+11+3+1

=

17

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Renard is escaping.

Giraldo of Milan: Giraldo guides Lavinia in the dark, to continue helpi.ng Tanolfi.

Bialas the Bear: it does hit if i had to make a defense roll

but i have a lot of soak.

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont cast it at you after you start backing off then.

Bialas the Bear: wait no that's -5

12

johns (GM): damage is umm

17

vs your soak

Bialas the Bear: ok nothing happens

(From Archibald of Guernicus): I run out after Renard, as most important of all is stopping any further harm to a magus staying at our covenant.

johns (GM): yeah thats what I thought

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Great, he jumps out a window.

(From Archibald of Guernicus): I run out after him, trying to catch up and talk with him.

johns (GM): do you attack the glowing man in round 5, bialas

Bialas the Bear: I ease up if everyone else is calming down.

Proclus of Rome: "What could possibly be going through your tiny mind Bialas?"

johns (GM): great

Bialas the Bear: "How do you know that's even a real angel?"

johns (GM): you have 2 minutes of dark room (said in Le Paranaoia voice)

whispers etc. accepted

(From Proclus of Rome): I zap Bialas with my laser.

(From Aristide of Tremere): do i get any idea what my assassin friend is doing

(To Aristide of Tremere): Can you see in the dark?

(From Proclus of Rome): But for real I'll try and get Fabius into the catacombs.

(From Artemisia): Artemisia sees in the dark, so she's keeping guard to hit anyone hostile approaching Fabius.

(From Aristide of Tremere): no but i dont know what he did right after i freed him

Bialas the Bear: A real angel would have blown me up in a second.

(From Artemisia): By hostile I mean Renard or the assassin.

(From Aristide of Tremere): if he tries to finish real tanolfi though giraldo is there and can see in the dark

Artemisia: Real angels are not that tough.

Hypatia of Athens: Too bad Celeste isn't here to argue Procius in Divine Disputatio

Proclus of Rome: They can be.

johns (GM): Lights on!

The angel disappears.

Fabius, Renard, the Assassin, and Proclus are gone.

Proclus of Rome: Oh no, I'm tiny.

Bialas the Bear: "What the hell."

johns (GM): and archibald.

The front door is open, and one window is smashed.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "I guess everything is settled?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus races to look out the window.

Aristide of Tremere: "That's right Gordo, the covenant's troubles are over now."

johns (GM): You see Archibald chasing after Renald.

Aristide of Tremere: "Things turned out far better than I could have expected."

Bialas the Bear: What?

"What happened?"

Artemisia: I'll run out the door.

Hypatia of Athens: Same

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "There they go!"

Aristide of Tremere: "Everyone causing us trouble is gone."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus is too fatigued to run after them.

johns (GM): You see the assassin running very fast away and then turning around a corner.

Artemisia: I'll try chasing him.

Bialas the Bear: I'll also run out the door, slowly.

johns (GM): he's got a 2 minute head start

Bialas the Bear: "Unbelievable."

Artemisia: I'll still try.

Proclus of Rome: Thank you Aristide for your genius maneuver.

Artemisia: If he's within sight, I can try.

Archibald of Guernicus: A plan with absolutely no upside

That's our aristide

johns (GM): Okay, roll Athletics + Qik

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+1+5

(

9

)

+1+5

=

15

decent

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+2+4+3

(

1

)

+2+4+3

=

10

Bialas the Bear:

rolling 1d10+3-4

(

10

)

+3-4

=

9

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

2

+

3

)

=

5

Proclus of Rome: Gah!

Hypatia of Athens: I'll follow Artemisia

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I can't believe it! An angel."

johns (GM): The man is dazed after his brush with the Divine and you can catch up to him, Artemisia.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "My God! I attacked another magus!"

Artemisia: I'll charge into him with my sword.

johns (GM): Oh, cool

Archibald of Guernicus: Cool

Bialas the Bear: lol

johns (GM): alright you murder a man

Artemisia: If I can't get him alive, we'll learn something from the body.

johns (GM): gj

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Artemisia: I expected he'd have a chance to defend himself.

johns (GM): you took away his weapon

Artemisia: With barehanded brawl.

Proclus of Rome: You can still defend yourself with brawl.

By dodging.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow, my tavern seat

Hypatia of Athens: I'll look for Fabius

johns (GM): as it turns out proclus dragged fabius into the covenant proper during the lights out

Aristide of Tremere: I drop the bar on the tavern door.

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Artemisia: nice job

Bialas the Bear: Wow.

I was wrong about this guy...

johns (GM): Archibald, Renald doesn't want to talk to you and he calls you a scoundrel

"you" in the plural sense

Hypatia of Athens: "Someone take this man's token away."

Aristide of Tremere: are we aware that fabius was dragged into the covenant

or just hypatia

Archibald of Guernicus: "I apologise for my sodales, sincerely."

johns (GM): eventually everyone's going to meet up back in the council chamber to deal with this mess

Artemisia: If the assassin can't defend himself, then I'll drag his body to the inn.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: was my confidence token necessary to penetrate his mr

if so here it is

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, I head back if Renard doesn't want to talk at all.

johns (GM): as far as I'm concerned unless you're killing renard on the spot all NPCs have ceased their use for this adventure and its' now up to the PCs to resolve the problems you inflicted on each toher

Artemisia: Someone who didn't take the oath can call him from the dead.

Proclus of Rome: We should take Fabius somewhere safer.

Archibald of Guernicus: Bialas should attack him until he's killed.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll comfort Aurelia over her shaky hand.

Bialas the Bear: I'm currently in the street, but when I get back, if he's there, I plan on it.

johns (GM): let me briefly recap the issues you might want to consider important here

Proclus of Rome: Since Bialas the psycho is still part of this covenant.

johns (GM): 1. Bialas is using mentem magic against other people in the covenant

2. Bialas attacked an angel

Bialas the Bear: Bialas the guy who cares about justice.

True.

johns (GM): 3. Gulielmus attacked another Magus

4. Your non-gifted members attacked another Magus

5. Proclus attempted to, but failed, to attack Renard

Archibald of Guernicus: That's Vardian's Tomb, baby!

johns (GM): 6. Artemisia murdered another Maga's covenfolk

am I missing anything

Aristide of Tremere: looking forward to the new ars saga after the combined might of luctatio, literatus, the guernicus covenant, turns vt into a crater

Hypatia of Athens: Good sesh

Bialas the Bear: Archibald of Guernicus: That's Vardian's Tomb, baby!

Artemisia: was it covenfolk?

Proclus of Rome: Fabius is still alive.

Hypatia of Athens: Excellent sesh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 7. we still have fabius around

johns (GM): yes

Artemisia: well, rip

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm sure there's other commendations if we really think about it.

johns (GM): if you'd kept him alive eventually the Maga would ask for him back

rip

OH

Artemisia: He was running away.

Proclus of Rome: Well he attacked us first.

Artemisia: I ran into him with a sword.

Proclus of Rome: Fair go there.

johns (GM): 8. aristide loosed an assassin you had captured

Bialas the Bear: lol

Good catch.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: lol

johns (GM): actually, he was just stalking you

Archibald of Guernicus: Didn't Proclus spend vis on his illusion or something too

Aristide of Tremere: well as you said he was a maga's covenfolk

johns (GM): you drove him mad and took him captive. he never hurt any of you

Aristide of Tremere: just doing my part

Proclus of Rome: Here's the real question regarding Aristide.

Artemisia: He had a weapon.

Until I took it.

Aristide of Tremere: he was disarmed when you killed him

Archibald of Guernicus: Who doesn't have a weapon?

johns (GM): true, he never wielded it though

Bialas the Bear: I don't.

Hypatia of Athens: I didn't drive him mad, his own sin did.

Proclus of Rome: Well, who is going to prove that in court?

Bialas the Bear: I'm very gentle.

Artemisia: ooc i know he wanted to kill proclus

johns (GM): ???

Aristide of Tremere: why would he kill proclus

what the hell

Artemisia: he had an assymetrical weapon

Aristide of Tremere: yeah but they were clearly after fabius

Hypatia of Athens: That was coincidence

johns (GM): no he just had a dagger that was curved because those are badass and cool

Archibald of Guernicus: You're right. We should kill Proclus.

Bialas the Bear: Can you prove that?

Aristide of Tremere: lets see here

Artemisia: Dagger of +1 vs. Proclus

Hypatia of Athens: The bolt in Tanof was symmetrical

Proclus of Rome: What in the WORLD does Aristide want out of this covenant since he seems to be only interested in doing the dumbest thing possible at any given moment?

Aristide of Tremere: i dont know

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems pretty obvious

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn is also interested in doing very dumb things, but mostly harmless dumb things.

Artemisia: Beatrice is shut up in her lab, so no one is on Aristide's side right now.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: being witih vardians tomb is an excellent opportunity to do the dumbest thing possible

Proclus of Rome: We tried the rod and it didn't work so now we'll try to the carrot.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think his insane logic was 'I cant fight' 'I want Fabius dead' 'they said this guy is an assassin after Fabius' 'ill get him to do my work for me'

johns (GM): Plutonis, you are welcome to chime in as much as you like. You are new, but that just means you have the least taint of evil on you

Bialas the Bear: That's very Tremere-like thinking.

Good work.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "if the assassin kills Fabius everyone else will stop fighting each other"

Archibald of Guernicus: Gordo could provide a fresh perspective

Aristide of Tremere: it seems like pretty clear logic frankly

Artemisia: Gordo was eating the whole fight.

johns (GM): good lad

Hypatia of Athens: good guy Gordo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ive got competition on the bread and cheese front

bialas is still the undisputed salted fish champion

i don't know what archibald eats. intestines?

Aristide of Tremere: dog food

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales. Everyone." I furrow my brow "Gulielmus, ye casted an offensive spell against a fellow magus. What were ye thinking?"

Proclus of Rome: "What was he thinking?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "There was an angel!"

Aristide of Tremere: Aristide is sitting on the ground hugging himself and rocking.

Proclus of Rome: "What were you thinking fighting an angel, Bialas?"

Hypatia of Athens: I'll wait my turn to answer for me and Aurelia's actions.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's what I was thinking. I'm still thinking it now!"

Proclus of Rome: "Did you seek to kill it and have God remove the Longevity Ritual all together?"

Bialas the Bear: "I've never seen an angel before! It was a magical being defending a murderer, in my eyes."

Artemisia: It's a big moment in every wizard's life when he first attacks an angel.

Proclus of Rome: "How could you hate God so much?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "God removing the ritual would be the least of our problems."

Proclus of Rome: "A murderer?"

Bialas the Bear: "Sorry, a criminal."

Proclus of Rome: "What murderer?"

Bialas the Bear: "I got all caught up in the moment."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Have you people even read the Bible? God can do some real nasty things to people who do bad for his side."

Proclus of Rome: "If you think that the petty laws of the Order of Hermes outweigh divine protection then I pity you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: reading the bible instead of having a priest read it for you

the thumbs down emoji

Hypatia of Athens: "God tests our faith at every moment, some more than others."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Those laws are all we have. Look what happens when they break down and are ignored."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Besides..."

Aristide of Tremere: "We've assaulted another magus to protect a marched magus."

"It's over."

I continue rocking.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Besides, there's no harm done, right?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Chaos, magi fighting magi."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It didn't do anything to him."

Proclus of Rome: "He was a Normandine, who is going to care what he thinks?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "'We'?"

Bialas the Bear: "I tried to help the man!"

Artemisia: This a good point to finally drag in the body.

Bialas the Bear: "He was doing what was right, after all."

Artemisia: "I caught the assassin."

Proclus of Rome: "By casting spells on us constantly?"

Hypatia of Athens: "The laws were not being broken, merely circumvented. If someone with mind reading magic had been less aggressive, this would not have happened."

Aristide of Tremere: I stare at the corpse.

I rock harder.

johns (GM): Int + Code of Hermes for possible insight

Aristide of Tremere: "We killed another maga's covenfolk to protect a marched magus."

Proclus of Rome: "I thought bears were common on the streets of Rome!"

Aristide of Tremere: can anyone do that johns

if so

rolling 1d10!+8

(

8

)

+8

=

16

Archibald of Guernicus: "The assassin was a hermetic magus, that's her bloody grog."

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling 3+2+d10 Order of Hermes Lore

3+2+

(

1

)

=

6

(To Beardbeard): Whispering this to you since I know you might not want to share it

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+2+7

(

2

)

+2+7

=

11

Hypatia of Athens: Sorry

Artemisia: "Maybe he was just a hired hand."

Archibald of Guernicus: Thats my code of hermes lore

Bialas the Bear: "Would you rather I walk around in fear of being attacked in the street?"

(To Beardbeard): the crimes occured in Roman tribunal, so it doesn't matter that he's from normandy, it would be tried by a roman tribunal

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as if anyone actually cares about a grog death

Bialas the Bear: "How should I know a fellow magus would walk by and look at me?"

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "You are the Roman, Master Proclus, not me!"

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 2 + 3

(

1

)

+2+3

=

6

johns (GM): wow

hit the books, guys

Archibald of Guernicus: "He probably was, but still, didn't he flee? Ach, this is getting further and further out of hand."

Proclus of Rome: "I would rather you didn't cast spells on me all the time for no reason!"

Hypatia of Athens: Books can't make you not roll a 1

Aristide of Tremere: "Proclus, I'm not sure why you think his country matters."

Proclus of Rome: It's a 1 on a simple die.

Aristide of Tremere: "Gulielmus attacked a magus to defend a man sentenced to death."

Proclus of Rome: "The Normandine Tribunal is a vast wasteland."

Hypatia of Athens: Still, that's two EFs worth that come from the die

Potentially come from the die

Artemisia: "If he's a covenfolk, he's from another Tribunal."

Proclus of Rome: "They're desperate men there."

Aristide of Tremere: "You should read the Code of Hermes. It doesn't matter where he's from, it happened here."

Artemisia: "He wasn't local."

johns (GM): EF6: it's probably a crime, somewhere

Hypatia of Athens: Three EFs, under raw

Aristide of Tremere: "It'll be tried by the Roman tribunal."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Proclus isn't wrong."

Bialas the Bear: "You sound confident, Aristide. You really know the Code that well?"

Proclus of Rome: "Then all we need to do is get together enough vis for a bribe/"

Aristide of Tremere: "Bribe? Some holy man."

I continue rocking.

"The Code is very important, Bialas."

Proclus of Rome: "It's worthless."

Bialas the Bear: "Wow.

"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What did they do to you at Potestas?"

"Since when do you care about the Code, Aristide?"

Aristide of Tremere: "Horrible things. This was the least of it." I hold up my pinky finger.

Hypatia of Athens: "The code is worth the free education it got me as a descendant of Mercere. No more, no less."

Aristide of Tremere: "I've always cared about the Code! It's important to know how to get around it."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Without the code, any man could attack any other, with only his own protections against it. What would stop poachers, thieves, killers and blackmailers, from taking all for themselves?"

Aristide of Tremere: "I mean uh."

Hypatia of Athens: "Certainly not worth the life of a great man like Fabius."

Aristide of Tremere: I start coughing.

Proclus of Rome: "Severin owes us a favor in any event. He could delay Renard's suit until the grand tribunal."

Archibald of Guernicus: When is the next Grand Tribunal?

Artemisia: i doubt any of us will be alive in 1488

johns (GM): im not sure, but regardless, i doubt a local case like this would ever make it to the grand tribunal, which only tries 3 issues each time

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Gordiano tries to think how he can implicate the others in order for him to escape from this if it goes south.

Proclus of Rome: "High minded words but so far the Code of Hermes has brought us nothing but grief."

Hypatia of Athens nods

johns (GM): i think the last tribunal was in the 1320s so next one would be 1350s

Artemisia: We can call Gordiano's parens as a witness. He saw all that happened through scrying.

Bialas the Bear: Hah

Aristide of Tremere: :weebey:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You all saw what happened. I took no action against him until the angel showed up."

Aristide of Tremere: lets have gordos parens find a breakthrough in the longevity ritual

Bialas the Bear: "Some angel."

Proclus of Rome: "I wouldn't worry about it."

Bialas the Bear: "Not even a scratch on my marble."

Aristide of Tremere: and become a god magus that doesnt need to eat

Proclus of Rome: "We should instead worry about Bialas' transparent lack of respect for us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: have him become a daimon that scries on people from the stars

johns (GM): gordiano should turn state's evidence

tribunals' evidence

w/e

Hypatia of Athens: "Sister Aurelia is innocent, in any case. She's a grog who came to the defense of an honored guest at the inn, and a man in high esteem of the Bishop Savelli."

Proclus of Rome: "How many more mind altering spells have you cast on us?"

Bialas the Bear: "You can look at my notes at any time. I cast a spell on myself to protect from spying eyes."

Proclus of Rome: "You've been casting spells on us this entire time!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We can't read your damn notes!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Can't you lower the penetration of your own spells, deliberately?

Hypatia of Athens: "Street bears aren't real, much less a perfectly ordinary sighting."

Artemisia: you can

Bialas the Bear: "One spell, to make myself appear nonthreatening as a bear."

johns (GM): You can cast forcelessly, which has 0 pen

Archibald of Guernicus: "If ye cast forcelessly, it would affect all the mundanes but leave us untouched."

Bialas the Bear: Well, I wish I knew that.

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's little reason why ye wouldn't."

Proclus of Rome: "Why would you even be a bear on the streets of Rome?"

Hypatia of Athens: Forceless casting wouldn't work on any of us

Not even the grog

Bialas the Bear: There's no reason to cast this damn spell on non-mundanes.

It was useful, though.

Proclus of Rome: "And yet you did!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, glad we could resolve one point

Proclus of Rome: "Not only that, but you betrayed me to Renard."

"How could you do that to me?"

Bialas the Bear: You betrayed the covenant and the order as a whole!

Hypatia of Athens: "He had magically augmented senses as a bear."

Aristide of Tremere: "I think it's definitely in our best interests to not impede the slaying of a marched magus."

"We're going to be warred or marched. It's over."

I fall over on my side.

Proclus of Rome: "If I need to cross the Order of Hermes to serve God, then I will gladly make that choice every time and so should you."

johns (GM): then why did you join the order instead of a monastery

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ahem

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: because he has the gift

Proclus of Rome: "And you Archibald, are you going to continue to sit on the fence?"

Hypatia of Athens: I joined for the free education

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Then why did you join the order and not a monastery?"

Proclus of Rome: "I can do more in the Order than I can in a monastery."

Artemisia: He can still marry as a wizard.

Bialas the Bear: Fabius is still here, right?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sure

Proclus of Rome: Also that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Just hanging out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's in the basement

isnt he

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to go protect Fabius

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean, the sub-basement. since we live in the basement

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's a complex issue, far more complex than you give it credit for, Proclus. Ye speak of breaking laws as if it means nothing, only the momentary gain matters."

Hypatia of Athens: No one seems keen on interrogating me so I'm leaving.

I'll go stand guard with Aurelia by him

Proclus of Rome: "That's because it doesn't matter."

"Laws should only be followed if they are in accordance with natural law, created by the Almighty."

"If they conflict, then man's laws must be wrong."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Proclus has taken to his new Tytalan society well."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should do as we please, laws be damned, aye that's a salient point Proclus of Tytalus."

Proclus of Rome: "I assume you'll be beheading Bialas for his repeated magical attacks against everyone in this covenant then?"

"Or whatever barbaric punishment you can conjure up next."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I've made a specific point of not bringing any internal covenant business to tribunal, despite many reasons to, out of respect for my sodales that we can resolve matters internally."

"If I was going to bring Bialas before them for this infraction, I'd have brought a case against Prudenzio first."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "Do you still think we can solve this internally, Archibald?"

Proclus of Rome: "I think that we were all lax in dealing with Prudenzio, to be sure."

Artemisia: No. But we can solve it infernally.

Bialas the Bear: "We'd certainly better be able to."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll write a letter and give it to Zita, stating I will renounce my duties. Fabius can either be exonerated, or they can march me as well.

Archibald of Guernicus: "This? I've no idea if we can resolve it at all, half the people here are guilty of hermetic crimes now."

Bialas the Bear: What's so special about Fabius that you all have to keep it a secret and risk your lives to attack members of the Order?

"Aside from that angel illusion."

Hypatia of Athens: It's a test of faith

Proclus of Rome: "And the other half are sinners who attempted to kill an Angel."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm confident that my crime is minor, and the hermetic justice system will see that. haha

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I'm neither"

"just saying"

Hypatia of Athens: Whether I will put material concerns over the Almighty

Beatrice Orsini : "It wasn't an illusion. Illusions can't affect the material world."

Hypatia of Athens: That I've seen an angel just confirms it

Proclus of Rome: Lavinia skates through the Tribunal by never leaving her lab, making her an honorary Bonisagus.

Bialas the Bear: "Then it was a magical being."

Beatrice Orsini goes back to her lab after correcting the ignorant Bjornaer.

Bialas the Bear: Do I have any of the black stuff on my claw or was that just flavor text

Lavinia of Jerbiton: flavor text

Bialas the Bear: ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I made no attempt to attack the angel, but I do remind ye of that demon who posed as one before and attacked us."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont think angels can bleed, even though in mortal form they can take wounds

Proclus of Rome: "How can you shut your eyes this tightly?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if you can find a passage in Summa Theologica that contradicts that, i'll give you a conf token

Proclus of Rome: "What other miracles do you need to see?"

Bialas the Bear: "Indeed, or an infernal one, Archibald."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I highly doubt that's the case."

"But I'm offering a situation where fighting an 'angel' in self-defence is acceptable."

"As I was present for it myself."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone who attacked the angel was a pagan or a greek

Artemisia: "The angel wasn't attacking anyone, it was defending Fabius."

Hypatia of Athens: I'm a good Greek

Lavinia of Jerbiton: do you want to ask fabius' opinion

Proclus of Rome: "You'll tie yourself in knots to protect a fairy but all violence against an Angel is fair game?"

"What sick world view is this?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "All? Ye hear only what ye want tae hear, sometimes, I swear."

Bialas the Bear: Sure. Fabius has been pretty quiet.

About all this.

Proclus of Rome: No one is stopping him from talking.

Artemisia: Now i'm wondering what does Latin with a scottish accent sound like.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye aren't keeping Fabius here, where you store him is your own decision. Ye've already gone so far as to attack a magus in his defence, ye can't make it worse for yerself."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hasn't he been mute since bialas sniffed him

Bialas the Bear: "No one's THAT scared of a bear."

Faustus Galerius bobs contemplatively.

Fabius Ex Misc: "Theologians say that all have a guardian angel, though few sense it or notice any intervention from it. Through Divine ceremony, my canons and I were able to petition our angels to protect us actively."

Proclus of Rome: "If you would truly side with Caesar in this, then why not just kill Fabius here and now?"

"I'm afraid your words will fall on deaf ears, Fabius,"

Fabius Ex Misc: "It seems my presence has only made things worse in your covenant. It would be best for me to just leave, and not say where I am going."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It certainly would!"

Proclus of Rome: "You have merely exposed pre-existing divisions between us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Not even accounting for the fact that Bialas will try to kill you if you stay."

Faustus Galerius: "Some have been tested and found wanting."

Hypatia of Athens: I said that

Fabius Ex Misc: "Then I'll take my leave, and no one try to follow me."

Proclus of Rome: Are you bodysplaining to Faustus?"

Hypatia of Athens: I suppose

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Fabius Ex Misc: Fabius moves to leave forever

Proclus of Rome: "You can't leave, there are multiple assassins hunting you."

"If you go outside, then you go to your death."

Fabius Ex Misc: "I have a guardian to protect me."

"If I stay I only bring them to your door."

Hypatia of Athens: "This Renard is no knight."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "The man is right, Proclus. The covenant is now in great danger...!"

Hypatia of Athens: "He would just as happily let a grog take the kill."

Proclus of Rome: "Your project to integrate Divine Magic into Hermetic Theory will be lost."

Bialas the Bear: Damn I want to attack him again

lmao

Hypatia of Athens: "The Tribunal is acting against this project."

Proclus of Rome: "Please, your guardian angel will not be able to protect you from everything."

Hypatia of Athens: "They had their chance to allow the canons into Ex Miscellanea."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He cannot stay here, Proclus. Have ye no concern for this covenant and it's future? Did Venator's hopes for it fall on deaf ears?"

Fabius Ex Misc: "I can take no more apprentices, and my own lab is not secure. There's nothing more I can do within the boundaries of the Order itself."

Proclus of Rome: "We must act together to take Fabius to safety."

"If not for his sake, then for your own."

Bialas the Bear: "For our own sake, Fabius should be given a Christian burial."

Beatrice Orsini is willing to disguise Fabius for a moon and give him her Wizard's Leap lab text.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hey i need that lab text

Beatrice Orsini : you can handle L15 ReCo

Fabius Ex Misc: fabius can't use hermetic texts

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao Bialas

Proclus of Rome: "Fabius is one of two people outside this covenant who know the extent of the Hermetic crimes committed here."

Hypatia of Athens: "Give me a list of the crimes. I will take them to Savelli."

Gordiano of Bonisagus: "So that gives us reason not to let him go, but to kill him!"

Proclus of Rome: "Remember, he is outside all the laws of the Order of Hermes, so while other magi may slay him, they may also use magic to pluck his secrets from his mind."

Artemisia: I'm not of this covenant as well, but I have reasons to keep silent.

Proclus of Rome: "You saw for yourself why we shouldn't kill him, he is favored by God."

Yeah it's because you also committed a crime.

Bialas the Bear: "He said that's a trick anyone could learn."

Proclus of Rome: Got 'em.

Artemisia: Everyone in the covenant gains the Dark Secret flaw.

Proclus of Rome: "But not everyone has."

Fabius Ex Misc: everyone except gordi and lavinia

Hypatia of Athens: "I'm not keeping mine a secret. Zita will take my confession to Harco at her earliest convenience."

Artemisia: Their Dark Secret is not revealing the Dark Secret.

Proclus of Rome: "Why would you do that?"

Fabius Ex Misc: brb

Proclus of Rome: "The Order of Hermes will surely discard you if any magus can find profit in it."

Artemisia: hypatia is a better christian than proclus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: harco isn't the church

Hypatia of Athens: "I will take the march over being complicit in Fabius's death."

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus: I bet no-one can be more of a criminal than me, in the name of God

Hypatia: Hold my blood of christ, fam

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it isn't even christian! they're all pagans!

Beatrice Orsini is willing to shelter Hypatia indefinitely.

Proclus of Rome: "That's why I propose we spirit Fabius to safety."

"Then most of the proof that we were involved in any crime will be gone."

Hypatia of Athens: "I will not let anyone know of this plan, but I can't help the Order while this manhunt continues, either."

Proclus of Rome: "You would be helping us, not the Order."

Hypatia of Athens: "Yes, but two seasons every year are sworn to serving House Mercere."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I don't remember House Mercere calling for or aiding in this."

Proclus of Rome: "Then you must render unto Caesar."

Hypatia of Athens: "I no longer find this arrangement conscionable."

"If Harco works against God then they work for the Great Enemy."

Bialas the Bear: Everyone just has so much faith in this God character.

Archibald of Guernicus: People respect and fear power.

Gordiano of Bonisagus: The great fairy

Archibald of Guernicus: Thus, the most powerful fairy, God, is respected and feared the most.

Proclus of Rome: "If you leave the Order of Hermes, then who will be left to protect Fabius, besides myself?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and you wonder why proclus calls you a pagan

Hypatia of Athens: "If you want my help spiriting Fabius away, then sure, but I couldn't even protect Tanoffl."

Archibald of Guernicus: The views expressed outside of quotations marks reflect the views of the author, not Archibald.

Beatrice Orsini : "I'll give whatever help I can."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I cannot assist in this. It would be best for all involved if I have no clue where you take him."

Bialas the Bear: "Let him be a martyr."

"Is that the right word?"

Proclus of Rome: "Even you should be able to understand the importance of his work."

Bialas the Bear: "I don't even know what his work is. You've been very secretive."

Beatrice Orsini : Proclus mentioned what it is this conversation.

Bialas the Bear: I always do this.

Fabius Ex Misc: he wants to bring together the order and the divine

Bialas the Bear: I don't trust it.

Hypatia of Athens: "Fabius offered openly to admit his associates into Ex Miscellanea, rather than work in secret. The Tribunal soundly rejected this proposal."

Bialas the Bear: I think it's a ploy to weaken the order tbh.

Hypatia of Athens: "It is the Order that is aggressively ignorant, not Fabius who is secret."

* secretive

Aristide of Tremere: weaken the order by inspiring faith in god and creating dominion auras

Fabius Ex Misc: and start a tradition that allows casting in divine aura

Bialas the Bear: And thereby spread divine auras, and make every non-Holy Magus weak

and then take over.

Proclus of Rome: Sounds good.

Bialas the Bear: I like Magic auras, myself.

Hypatia of Athens: Natural selection

Even better, divine selection

Proclus of Rome: "Archibald, you must surely see that this is the only way for justice to be done."

"If you allow Fabius to die then the Tribunal will never be able to realize the mistake that it has made."

Fabius Ex Misc: ok so proclus hypatia and fabius leave?

Bialas the Bear: I'm going to swing at Fabius if he leaves.

Hypatia of Athens: I think so, I'll help them if they want.

Fabius Ex Misc: okay then an angel gets summoned protects him

Archibald of Guernicus: "I agreed, didn't I? The crimes are done, secret him away where you please. I don't want to know where you take him, and I'm sure ye'll agree to not telling me."

Fabius Ex Misc: do you kill the angel

Bialas the Bear: Ding.

No.

Beatrice Orsini : Beatrice will give them any help she can before they leave.

Bialas the Bear: I guess it is every time though.

And not a trick.

Beatrice Orsini : The best she can do is a Moon long disguise.

Proclus of Rome: "Very well, I understand that this is as far as you can go, for now."

Fabius Ex Misc: alright

the three leave and are promptly killed by the third bounty hunter, Malachiasz of Tytalus, who drops them into a pit

roll new characters please

Bialas the Bear: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "If the laws are unjust, or unwise, we should seek tae reform and correct them, not break them as we please. That is my stance, Proclus."

Hypatia of Athens: GG

Proclus of Rome: It can't be helped.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll pit soak

Fabius Ex Misc: or actually fabious just ditches you as soon as he can and disappears forever

Hypatia of Athens: I have a year of not working before I'm marched.

Archibald of Guernicus: Then is promptly killed by the orange flame girl

Lina Inverse of Flambeau

Fabius Ex Misc: well she thinks she already killed fabius

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, so it's just the Third Assassin left to get him then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dozens of assassins pile in and all kill each other

Artemisia: And she has no one to tell her she didn't.

Hypatia of Athens: Which I will use to write books for the canons, I suppose.

Fabius Ex Misc: well, renard knows the truth

and he ran off

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bialas the Bear: I should have killed the angel.

Fabius Ex Misc: eventually a rhinish maga sends a letter demanding weregild for the covenfolk you killed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you should have killed the entire covenant

Proclus of Rome: How much?

Fabius Ex Misc: a couple pawns of vis

Proclus of Rome: Sounds fine to me.

Archibald of Guernicus: Sounds like a fine to me

Fabius Ex Misc: great, now all we have to deal with is you all getting marched for attacking renard. next tribunal 1342.

gg all

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems fair

Fabius Ex Misc:

rolling 1d3+5

(

1

)

+5

=

6

6 adventure xp

Gordiano of Bonisagus: Not me!

Bialas the Bear: Nice, I didn't attack Renard once, totally safe.

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: I actively prevented someone from attacking him, so I'm safe too.

Fabius Ex Misc: also uyou haven't resolved any of the internal stuff

like bialas casting spells on you

aristide loosing assassins

etc etc

Proclus of Rome: Yeah but you DID let him escape and don't think I won't fink on you.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's get these Ex Misc hedgies stomped for their crimes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the tfw when your good friend archibald is going to sell you out at tribunal

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, as we just heard, he explicitly doesn't sell his allies out to tribunal

While Proclus will, instantly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, bialas knows about forceless casting now, and everyone knows aristide is an idiot

Bialas the Bear: I'll write letters to everyone saying I promise to not cast any spells on them with penetration anymore.

johns (GM): perhaps it times to consider OOCly if these divisions need to be resolved

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: plus the assassin is dead

so frankly who cares.

johns (GM): not that I personally mind them at all

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia is going to cloister herself, and force any would-be assassin to attack her on holy ground in view of other nuns.

Artemisia: if bialas promises to cast penetrating spells, then there's to problem with him

Proclus of Rome: I think we need to figure out what Aristide wants and then give it to him or just plain kill him.

Archibald of Guernicus: They're fine for now but it depends how insanely far Proclus wants to take his grudge. If he ends up actively selling me out to tribunal and such. As for Aristide, we need a shiny object to distract him with.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he wants to be the tremere primus

Beatrice Orsini is offering to hide Hypatia in her lab for as long as she wants.

Hypatia of Athens: Thank you Beatrice

Archibald of Guernicus: Is there any way you can lose flaws in play? Just let him lose his damn noncombatant flaw in some way so he can contribute the way he wants to. Make him take a different flaw for it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's build a little room he can sit in and pretend to be the primus, and the grogs have to do what he says

Aristide of Tremere: im seriously considering getting rid of aristide because he sucks and everyone hates him

johns (GM): lol

Proclus of Rome: The great thing about blackmail in this case is that you only need to worry about it if this goes to Tribunal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes ftw

Bialas the Bear: i love aristide

i think everyone just hates him in character.

Hypatia of Athens: I'll hide in the lab so I have the time to write a Holy Music Summae before I depart

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah.

Aristide of Tremere: yeah but thats the problem

Beatrice Orsini : i love aristide ic and ooc

he's my only family

Aristide of Tremere: theres not much reason for him to stick around

johns (GM): yeah aristide's antics haven't pissed me off like carloman's have since they mostly just fail in funny ways

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well he could be reformed a little

Proclus of Rome: Well he could be a little more of a team player.

Hypatia of Athens: I like Aristide OOCly

johns (GM): aristide has gerntle gift right?

Aristide of Tremere: yeah

Proclus of Rome: Everyone loves Aristide!

Archibald of Guernicus: I was perfectly polite with Aristide this entire session, I even realise why he loosed an 'assassin', even if it was silly.

johns (GM): why doesn't he have grog minions to make up for his lack of combat

Aristide of Tremere: because we dont know how leadership works

Beatrice Orsini : plus part of my future plans involves trolling aristide

Archibald of Guernicus: He has the gentle gift and good social skills (on his sheet) so he really needs to get grogs

Hypatia of Athens: Anyway I have other ideas for companions so this fits with my plans

Bialas the Bear: He can use Mariu Puddu the +20 war hammer grog with arthritis who's deathly afraid of women.

Aristide of Tremere: ive tried to lead grogs and the question of how leadership works remains unanswered

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: glowing brain:

johns (GM): is Hypatia retiring after this mess?

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

johns (GM): RIP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristide should get a bunch of hedge witches and learned magicians to fight for him

Hypatia of Athens: She's gonna get marched by Mercere

She can come up with Aurora goes redcpa hunting

johns (GM): beard beard https://badgame.net/index.php?topic=47117.msg11955286#msg11955286

how guilty is hypatia of crimes

Hypatia of Athens: She ordered a grog to attack Renard

johns (GM): did she attack? i thought it was just her grog and artemisia

eh

Hypatia of Athens: Not working is a crime for a Redcap

Archibald of Guernicus: I hope Proclus doesn't turn around and sell out everything to the tribunal.

Hypatia of Athens: And Tribunal doesn't need to vote to march them for it

johns (GM): lets just kill the nun. no witnesses. -le proclus voice

Proclus of Rome: I don't see why I would since I did the most crimes.

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia won't let her nun die to exonerate herself

Aristide of Tremere: oh ok i wasnt sure if that was the final ruling

Beatrice Orsini : Why doesn't Hypatia want to work anymore?

What she does is not wrong.

Hypatia of Athens: Because the Order won't let Fabius be

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hundreds of years from now the crime boss of rome will still be known as the proclus

johns (GM): im glad this is all plutonis' fault

or wait

dfd's fault

Proclus of Rome: This merely makes me the most Italian person here.

johns (GM): for sentencing him to die

Bialas the Bear: lol

Gordiano of Bonisagus: lol

Proclus of Rome: Grim lols.

Hypatia of Athens: If the Order is corrupt, then a good person cannot knowingly work for them.

devil's fav demon: plutonis could have ruled in another direction

Archibald of Guernicus: They both sentenced him to die

devil's fav demon: he didnt have to agree with my code hardliner

Hypatia of Athens: If another House takes an ungifted in, then Hypatia will no longer be guilty of not working.

But that does not seem likely

Proclus of Rome: It's impossible, as I recall.

johns (GM): epic sesh all. sorry there was no loot. maybe next time??

Archibald of Guernicus: Jerbiton takes in redcaps that are no longer part of Mercere, on occasion. They're also religious enough to do so.

Aristide of Tremere: shell be taken in by the only house that matters

the house of god

Proclus of Rome: That's another stupid thing we decided at the Tribunal.

You need the Gift.

devil's fav demon: Shoulda killed the angel. That would have had sick loot.

Hypatia of Athens: Jerbiton in other Tribunals might

Rome Tribunal has voted against such things

Archibald of Guernicus: Redcaps are gauntleted magi, it's a weird grey area but there's precedent for Jerbiton accepting redcaps.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: johns (GM): epic sesh all. sorry there was no loot. maybe next time??

Proclus of Rome: Thanks again, Archibald for another genius legal argument.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we got the ultimate loot: enough free time for labwork

congratulations everyone! your reward is 1 season

devil's fav demon: :blessed:

Aristide of Tremere: wow. been a little sparse on loot lately. hey, heres that marched magus, outside of his heavy divine aura. have fun

wait... wait... oh no!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's still time to plunder his sanctum

Gordiano of Bonisagus: lmao

Archibald of Guernicus: As the adventure xp was only 6xp, we only made a profit of 1xp.

Beatrice Orsini : we got an entire king arthur lake last session

Gordiano of Bonisagus: we do have the new library

johns (GM): oh

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, we should probably take all the books out of there.

johns (GM): hypatia was going to inherit the holy stuff

but I guess she doesn't want it anymore lol

Proclus of Rome: lol

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

johns (GM): lol. haha. lol.

Beatrice Orsini : She can take it with her into the new Tribunal.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: If only Zita were here, to hear the news of an entire lab full of Hermetic treasure.

Proclus of Rome: Well I'll take it if she doesn't want it.

Aristide of Tremere: damn. well, too late

Hypatia of Athens: I'd rather Procius be the custodian of it, even if Istay

johns (GM): hmm

Aristide of Tremere: we should not arm rogue proclii

johns (GM): well let's sleep on notions of retiring or killing pcs at least

Beatrice Orsini : Hypatia is more holy than proclus.

Archibald of Guernicus: Gained: 1xp

Lost: Legal status as a magus for several people at the covenant, several pawns of vis, dignity

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: All you have to do is sneak past the bishop, and, wait, where did you go

Zita of Mercere: "I heard treasure mentioned, where is it?"

devil's fav demon: lol

Hypatia of Athens: Procius is capable of achievign a Holy-Hermetic Breakthrough

johns (GM): bwahaha. i m the meanest gm now. deal with it endrite

Aristide of Tremere: really, if you think about it, aristide broke even here

hes a magus, has no dignity to lose, and has no right to our vis anyway

Hypatia of Athens: I'm willing to postpone decision regarding Hypatia's future

Endrite: Wait let's check the kill count.

Aristide of Tremere: i forgot to update the kill count

whoever does that give zita +1

Endrite: Hmm, 2 magi.

Yep I'm still winning.

johns (GM): next week will have opportunities for Revenge, Loot, Gain, and less chance to get in shitloads of trouble

Beatrice Orsini : Artemisia gets her first blood.

devil's fav demon: im hype for next week.

Aristide of Tremere:  collective playerbase files out on hearing the last point

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "There's an entire abandoned sanctum beneath the church now, Zita."

devil's fav demon: and i need to finish statting out ny freaking npcs.

Aristide of Tremere: i will be here next sunday

johns (GM): are you up for running the Garden adventure spring 1339, dfd?

Zita of Mercere: "Interesting. Thank you for this news, Gulielmus. Oh, look at the time."

Aristide of Tremere: i might be fired, which will only add to me being here

johns (GM): fired for puking

Endrite: Excellent.

johns (GM): that's classic bearbeard (sitcom laughtrack)

(From Zita of Mercere): I break into his abandoned sanctum and steal everything of value

Aristide of Tremere: fired for calling off too many times if i call off tomorrow

Hypatia of Athens: I'll make sure Procius inherits the holy library

Beatrice Orsini : stat only 1 generic npc and never reveal it's the only one

(To Zita of Mercere): the canons are still there

Endrite: Ha ha ha ha who would do that?

(From Zita of Mercere): They have to sleep sometime.

johns (GM): bwahaha, i love late capitalism

Aristide of Tremere: i think im at my limit anyway

Endrite:  Pushes stat block under the couch with my foot.

Aristide of Tremere: not really sure

(To Zita of Mercere): alright, you get some books on holy stuff and some divine vis, remind me about it later I dont have the notes present

Aristide of Tremere: i think most of my call offs were so i could play ars

Hypatia of Athens: Speaking of Captialism, if I'm not retiring, I need to figure out how I learned Bargain from this adventure

johns (GM): If you work, you die.

Zita of Mercere: I statted absolutely nothing.

Well no

devil's fav demon: I think I should be ready to go for that one, yeah. It might not resolve in one day, we'll see, but I think the second part could technically fit in after all you and endrite's stuff is done, since it's all in a secret regio that's been around for hundreds of years

Zita of Mercere: I had to stat a damn tremere

Aristide of Tremere: i statted out one character

Zita of Mercere: for certamen

johns (GM): Multi-part sessions are fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's in venator's library

devil's fav demon: Nice.

Aristide of Tremere: i sign venators petition

give me the necromancy

johns (GM): That will also be statted up in a bit but it's mostly necromancy based

Aristide of Tremere: is leadership necessary for commanding an undead army

Hypatia of Athens: Everyone who signs the petition has to help smash up the cool teaching skull

johns (GM): No, but Finesse might

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no!

Beatrice Orsini : There's that spell in Tremere book for raising undead armies.

Aristide of Tremere: ill keep aristide alive forever and raise the spirits of every dead founder

Beatrice Orsini : https://i.imgur.com/niZ8Wmn.png

Let's find Tytalus.

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia is going to write cool music denoucning the order if she does get marched

johns (GM): ah, so, if you summon a ghost, it fights like it would in life, so a ghost army fights like a trained group

if you're just animated dead bodies i think you need some finesse to manage a bunch

Aristide of Tremere: i could do both

Hypatia of Athens: Decrying them all as witches and oathbreakers who parley with the infernal

Aristide of Tremere: bone boys and spirit founders

(To Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): you assisted in Tanolfi's recover a bit right?

Aristide of Tremere: tytalus will be my spirit mount

Plutonis: A roman army would definitely attack rome

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): i bound his wounds, so that they wouldn't become any worse

Beatrice Orsini : depends on which army

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): and i can keep repeating that

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): can't actually help him recover yet though

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): well that's not true. i can make potions

johns (GM): eastern roman :getin:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the legions of Southern Rome emerge from the faerie regios beyond the sahara

Beatrice Orsini : let's raise carthaginian armies to besiege rome

Proclus of Rome: Uh, we all agreed not to make ghosts do things they wouldn't do in life.

Wow, it's like the oath means nothing to you.

Beatrice Orsini : please don't burn carthaginians

devil's fav demon: Aristide didn't.

Zita of Mercere: Let's go and locate all the missing founders.

Beatrice Orsini : I need to find Merinita anyway.

Zita of Mercere: Tell her what happened to her house and break her heart

Beatrice Orsini : Also Quendalon is probably still around.

Proclus of Rome: Finds THUSANDS of Meritas in fairy land.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: didn't he

Aristide of Tremere: aristide did sign it actually

so he can see the secret library

devil's fav demon: Oh.

Zita of Mercere: Quendalon should still be around, as fairies don't die of old age.

devil's fav demon: Oh yeah.

Sick.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's going to break the oath though.

Beatrice Orsini : And the one who opposed Quendalon is alive as well.

Aristide of Tremere: hes just gonna break the oath once hes finished using the library

devil's fav demon: I missed you signing it.

Hah.

Aristide of Tremere: this is his dao. dao of fucking retarded

Proclus of Rome: This is why no one trusts you.

Beatrice Orsini : Literally all the early Merinitas are just missing.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the true Dao...

Zita of Mercere: Aristide keeps wearing his free oath-signing ring, and no-one can stop him

Hypatia of Athens: MuIm so no one can see you have your fingers crossed and no promises count

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone cast an invi spell on the rings

Beatrice Orsini : We should have had only one person sign the oath and then copy the library for everyone.

devil's fav demon: The oath seems reasonable to me.

Aristide of Tremere: i should make a spell for aristide that causes his head to glow with a soft light like the paintings of saints

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: actually

does Venator even allow Aristide to swear the oath

johns (GM): sure

actually no

he doesnt like tremeres

Aristide of Tremere: what thje fuck??

devil's fav demon: lol

Plutonis: lol

Beatrice Orsini : he knows they're vampires

Proclus of Rome: He's the one person in the Tribunal who doesn't know Aristide's terrible reputation.

Aristide of Tremere: gimme my books bitch

johns (GM): he knows he's a tremere

thats enough reason not to invite him

devil's fav demon: Bialas will use Art of Memory to copy the books while he's not currently holding them and show them to Aristide.

Proclus of Rome: Damn.

Zita of Mercere: Harsh, but insanely fucking fair

Proclus of Rome: It's so fair.

devil's fav demon: lmao

Aristide of Tremere: excellent. aristide will repay bialas's favor in lab texts

johns (GM): you have to spend vis to memorize entire books

Aristide of Tremere: time to start inventing variants of kingly facade

devil's fav demon: I'm not going to do that.

Zita of Mercere: Your lab texts just make portraits of you, or enchant a jester's cap with... whatever you've enchanted it iwth

Aristide of Tremere: i havent enchanted this cap but i want to

but i cant

because im not allowed to use vis

because proclus is a bully

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ;p;

Proclus of Rome: You sure aren't.

See, i make a lot of great decisions.

devil's fav demon: You have that vis from your sword.

That you could get.

Aristide of Tremere: hm

Zita of Mercere: Great idea

Aristide of Tremere: hmmmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: should of taken 10 copies of Personal Vis Source

Beatrice Orsini : You can make your own vis

Aristide of Tremere: devil crown

johns (GM): lavinia will procure vis for aristide because she respects her sodales

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah

you can actually make your own vis

johns (GM): you need perdo vis, right

Proclus of Rome: Yeah it's cool.

Beatrice Orsini : there's some infernal perdo vis aristide can use

Proclus of Rome: Making vis factories with Hermetic Alchemy is cool.

Aristide of Tremere: i think itd be imaginem i want

the effect i want for the hat is one that allows me to cause the bells to sound really, deafeningly loud

Proclus of Rome: I think we should let Aristide have some vis here.

Beatrice Orsini : that's imaginem

Proclus of Rome: Seems like it would be ok.

johns (GM): ok here's some vis (gives him a lump of arsenic)

Beatrice Orsini : Here the Aristide, have a vis.

Aristide of Tremere: or just make it into my talisman

however that works

Proclus of Rome: I mean, the spell won't have any penetration, so how can he use it to hurt us?

devil's fav demon: A hat talisman is cool.

Zita of Mercere: A jester's cap would be the ultimate talisman for him.

Aristide of Tremere: wheres the stuff for making a talisman

Beatrice Orsini : in laboratory section on enchanting items

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: talisman 84, 95, 98

Proclus of Rome: The regular talisman stuff is in the laboratory section of the main manual.

johns (GM): good night all

Proclus of Rome: See ya next week!

devil's fav demon: good night.

next week is gonna be sick!

Aristide of Tremere: im trying to remember where the jester cap came from so i can harass the appropriate gm for statistics on it

i think it was the arsenic faerie land

Zita of Mercere: Alright, now an important question

Can we use some of our leftover lab texts on Pillum

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no!

Proclus of Rome: We COULD.

Zita of Mercere: It's level 20, we have 60 levels left iirc

Aristide of Tremere: johns whats the cap made of

Zita of Mercere: Let's be honest. It's fucked up that we don't have pillum.

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice has it

Proclus of Rome: I think we should help Aristide get a leg up on his master.

Zita of Mercere: I could invent it myself in a season but it'd be a touch range version to be taken advantage of with FFM

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think we should spend some of the levels on a teleport spell

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice has those too

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seven league stride or the leap of homecoming

Zita of Mercere: Zita cleverly wears boots with that effect invested in it.

Beatrice Orsini : those would be useful

Zita of Mercere: Leap of homecoming is a bit shitty now that you cant teleport through walls

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's really good, if you're outside.

Beatrice Orsini : but repeatedly casting mastered 500 pace teleport is enough

Zita of Mercere: It's good for specific places but not very good for us, who live in a tomb

Proclus of Rome: You can teleport around walls.

So it's fine.

Aristide of Tremere: johns answer my stupid questions

Beatrice Orsini : level 6 mastery lets you teleport pretty much anywhere

Proclus of Rome: You just teleport down the well.

Beatrice Orsini : johns is gone

Aristide of Tremere: what the hell?

Proclus of Rome: He's probably sleeping.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the inexorable search would also be good

Zita of Mercere: It's good for specific places but not very good for us, who live in a tomb

just take an AC from the outside

and then walk in the door

Aristide of Tremere: enchanting items is complicated

its really easy to enchant just the hat but harder to enchant just the bells and much harder to enchant the whole thing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe we should post our lab text wish lists in the thread

Proclus of Rome: Good idea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all of our current texts are on the library page right. nobody gave us some and forgot to add them

Beatrice Orsini : I don't really need any lab texts, since what I want I can either invent or it's mystery cult stuff that's not useful to anyone else.

Proclus of Rome: Also if I forget remind me to post the vis sources I found in the thread.

Zita of Mercere: Right, we need to see what vis sources you and lavinia found

Hypatia of Athens: What I do is I take the maximum possible Shape/Material bonus I can achieve (MT/2), then figure out what combination achieves at least that much

Beatrice Orsini prays for a lake of 20 untyped vis

Zita of Mercere: Oh my god. You'll never guess what a fairy posing as the lady of the lake just gave Proclus.

Beatrice Orsini : AIDS

Hypatia of Athens: We don't even track shape/material bonuses for Experimental Philosiphiae, we just assume you max it out

Proclus of Rome: It's 1 vim vis, 1 aquam vis, 1 rego vis, 1 ignem vis, and a mentem vis.

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Archibald of Guernicus begins glowing and rumbling at the sight of vim vis

Proclus of Rome: I feel like we've earned the right to not have to buy vim vis all the time.

Beatrice Orsini : you can make your own

Proclus of Rome: Good news, it all goes to the Aegis of the Hearth.

Zita of Mercere: Oh right, anyone in the covenant is free to take vis from it for their own projects and such, right.

Hypatia of Athens: If Jorn learns a good amount of MT at the Temple of Mercury, his extraction total might go up

Zita of Mercere: Besides Aristide

Proclus of Rome: I feel like the Lady of the Lake vis should be worth at least half as much as it is.

I mean 6 vis just for showing up seems a little excessive.

Zita of Mercere: Halving it makes sense, I agree.

Beatrice Orsini : 3 aura, 3 vis

Proclus of Rome: It's 6 vis right now.

Zita of Mercere: Well its easy to harvest at least, now that Beatrice works there.

Beatrice Orsini : I don't.

Not until I can have sanctum there.

Zita of Mercere: Ah

Beatrice Orsini : But I make frequent visits.

Zita of Mercere: Well we should be aiming to push that at tribunal. Hopefully.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it might make sense to halve it, since it was awarded before we knew how well the vis hunt went

Zita of Mercere: Surely gulielmus, bialas, lavinia etc are up for it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm worried about being killed at tribunal

Zita of Mercere: Then focus on leaving a legacy to make things better for the rest of us.

Artemisia is easier to explain away since she's just an apprentice, and I think loses her Gift before next tribunal anyway.

Proclus of Rome: Renard can't bring a complaint against you if you wizard war and kill him.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh yeah, Hypatia never mentioned this before, but she also asked Aurora for help with the Fabius/canon case and was told to fuck off, in kinder words.

Zita of Mercere: :weebey:

Beatrice Orsini : Artemis loses her gift in 1341, I think.

Hypatia of Athens: That happened in advance of Tribunal

Zita of Mercere: rip

Beatrice Orsini : rip

Zita of Mercere: I get along great with Aurora, which is useful since I want her to give me a longevity ritual with her obscene lab total someday

. o O ( i could have my son help in the lab with the ritual to bump the total up even more )

Beatrice Orsini : just build a healthy lab

Proclus of Rome: Ok I gotta go.

See ya.

Beatrice Orsini : see you

Zita of Mercere: See ya

Hypatia of Athens: later

Hypatia needs to find a (((Bargain trainer)))

Beatrice Orsini : You can just bargain on your own.

Hypatia of Athens: I need to accelerate my learning of Bargain, I mean

Zita of Mercere: I'm not sure how often you can just declare you have another kid but it's been several seasons already, so I'm going to take 6 pawns of our vis and use them to get another ritual done at Durenmar, in Autumn 1338 probably.

Hypatia of Athens: There's a specific EF for Bargain for artists

Zita of Mercere: What useful skills can Hypatia teach back? I have teaching and bargain

Beatrice Orsini : Can't the house Mercere pay for those rituals?

Zita of Mercere: They possibly can, last time I sold a magic item to them for vis.

Hypatia of Athens: Let me look

Beatrice Orsini : you're having the kids for them, so they should pay

Hypatia of Athens: I have +8 Greece Lore

+11 Living Language: Greek

Zita of Mercere: Depending on who pays for it could affect who tries to claim the apprentice. I think if I have too many Gifted children for Mercere to even train at one time, someone in the covenant could get an apprentice that way.

Hypatia of Athens: +7 Artes Liberales

Zita of Mercere: Artes Liberales, you say

Beatrice Orsini : I'm planning to steal a child and leaving a changeling behind for my apprentice.

Zita of Mercere: I'll trade you a season of bargain for a season of artes liberales

Hypatia of Athens: You'd get more AL from the skull

Zita of Mercere: oh

Hypatia of Athens: Not that I refuse

Zita of Mercere: Well as long as I get enough points in one go for literacy, that's all I need

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: really messed up that you didnt ditch your tremere husband and move on to another house for your next kid

Zita of Mercere: Divorce is a sinful act, Gulielmus.

Hypatia of Athens: Let me see what the skull's quality is

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's not a divorce it's an annulment!

Zita of Mercere: Also, I'm spying on House Tremere, so that would make things awkward.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Updated my journal.

Zita of Mercere: The offer on apprentices is still there for others, particularly those in true lineages.

Which is uh... my own PC, the infamous guy who just passed gauntlet, and Aristide.

Scratch that

Let's see who else we have. Hedge wizard, hedge wizard, fairy molester, fairy molester, animal molester,

Ah, Augustan Magic. Perfect.

Beatrice Orsini : if i get animae, i'm going to make an enchanted collar for cats that turns it into a faerie

Hypatia of Athens: Okay, 16XP per season learning from the skull as the sole student

14 from Hypatia

Zita of Mercere: 14 is enough for 4 levels of artes liberales, which is enough to be literate

I'll learn Latin from the skull later though

Hypatia of Athens: Turns out 15XP is a nice investment in Teaching after all

Zita of Mercere: When do you need bargain by?

I could train teaching for a season first.

Hypatia of Athens: No hurry, I need it by the time I hit Artist Reputation 1

If I'm busy learning, I don't have time to make artwork

Zita of Mercere: Oh, wait, you can only teach up to your own level in something

My bargain was only 4, christ

Sorry

Hypatia of Athens: It's a start

Zita of Mercere: Theres like 7 social abilities and I've had to spread xp around

+11 charm at least

oh, and +15 legerdemain, the ultimate social skill

Beatrice Orsini : you really need that now that you're married

the charm

Hypatia of Athens: And the legerdemain

Search husband's pockets for love letters

Beatrice Orsini : first the legerdemain and then the charm once the husband finds out you're reading The Very Secret Book of Tremere Plots

it's OoH Lore Summa

Zita of Mercere: I wish we still had Trianoma around

theyre the best at anti-tremere plots

the only properly successful one was their work

Beatrice Orsini : There's a subset of Merinitas who focus on Certamen for the purpose of beating the minor Tremere line that's descended from the Merinita who fought against Quendalon.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, if you train me in Bargain instead, you don't have ot give up a season

Zita of Mercere: I just find it (((Suspicious))) that as soon as both our Trianoma are killed, a Tremere appears.

Hypatia of Athens: I can teach you in AL as you train me in Bargain

Zita of Mercere: Oh, nice.

That's cool.

Teachers teaching teachers teaching teachers

Beatrice Orsini : And the Merinita certamen style upsets the Tremere so much they argue it's not legally binding.

Hypatia of Athens: It's like we're 69ing, but with education

Zita of Mercere: We just need to work out a perfect chain and we can have everyone learn what they want in one go

Beatrice Orsini : I think you can only train someone in a skill if they're spending a season using that skill to make a living.

Zita of Mercere: Isnt the merinita style that one thats about shit-talking, or is it the other one where you launch an infinite accuracy hit that does minimum damage on the first turn

Beatrice Orsini : the minimum damage one

Hypatia of Athens: Zita can train me in Bargain while doing vis speculation

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Hypatia of Athens: Which redcaps do

Zita of Mercere: that one is only used for contests where its the first to hit the other wins

Beatrice Orsini : that works

yeah

Hypatia of Athens: I can follow Zita around during her redcap duties, which involve buying and selling vis as well as messaging.

Zita of Mercere: Hypatia: I renounce my redcap duties

Hypatia, moments later: Can I follow you around during your redcap duties

Hypatia of Athens: I guess you can't learn and do redcap stuff at teh same time

So this doesn't quite work

Zita of Mercere: yeah, this doesnt quite work out, does it

can just swap seasons, i can teach you for the rest of the season even if you want slightly more xp than adventure would have given

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Zita of Mercere: i have independent study so im not giving up my adventure xp for anything

Hypatia of Athens: It was a 6XP adventure, I'm not that determined to get it

Zita of Mercere: thank you, rhine grog, for speaking some barbaric tongue that justified me showing up and claiming xp

Hypatia of Athens: That works out then

Just let me know what season you want me to pay you back

Zita of Mercere: Summer probably, if I spend Autumn doing redcap duties and going ot Durenmar

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Beatrice Orsini : what kind of exposure xp does getting pregnant give?

just charm?

Hypatia of Athens: How much Bargain XP do you give? Enough to cap out at 4?

Zita of Mercere: Concentration and Finesse, Beatrice

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Zita of Mercere: The bonus for teaching 1 person was +6 right

Hypatia of Athens: Yep

Beatrice Orsini : I should get married.

Zita of Mercere: +2 communication and at least 4 teaching to divide by 2, so 10xp, yeah

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn can give you a viking wedding

Which isn't legally binding

Beatrice Orsini : I already have a longevity ritual anyway.

Hypatia of Athens: Marry a carrot

Beatrice Orsini : My Herbam is too low.

Zita of Mercere: since johns is framing adventures after tarot now, we can look them up for coincedences with what happened

The Hermit reflects that you are engaging in a period of soul searching. You want to seek the truth at all costs. You desire a new direction in life and, as a result, have recently begun a journey of self-discovery and contemplation. There comes a point in life when we begin to question the status quo, knowing that there is a deeper meaning to life, and thus, we begin to search for it.

appropriate for Hypatia

next week si the Tower so we can at least guarantee vardian's tomb will match up with it

Hypatia of Athens: Okay I have +7 Bargain, I need to beat EF 15 to negotiatie a one-time artistic commission

I mean, Bargain + Communication

Beatrice Orsini : Artemisia still needs more virtues to replace Gentle Gift once I lose it, and I'm thinking about taking Good Teacher.

Hypatia of Athens: Good Teacher is good

Beatrice Orsini : She has +2 Comm, so she'd be ok at it.

Hypatia of Athens: Oh I never did factor in that Faustus has Good Teacher

We don't have a Magic Theory summae IIRC, so a Good Teacher would help there

Zita of Mercere: I need to learn the entire latin language in 2 seasons from him sometime

Beatrice Orsini : Once she loses the Gift, she can't work as a lab assistant, but she can still write on Magic Theory.

Hypatia of Athens: Faustus gives 21XP when teaching a single student, haha

Beatrice Orsini : nice

Zita of Mercere: Ooh, hehe

Beatrice Orsini : once beatrice needs to cast ritual magic, she can learn some artes liberales from him

Hypatia of Athens: He could teach a full class 66xp of latin in a year and a season

Beatrice Orsini : is there a section in art and academe on being a writer?

Zita of Mercere: He'll be great when we start hunting for children and kidnapping them. Or training one of Zita's. Maybe she'll work out a deal with Mercere to have her kids come back and learn from him every now and then.

Hypatia of Athens: An artistic writer?

Beatrice Orsini : i want to have artemisia make a living by writing fictionalized accounts of the covenant once she loses the gift

Hypatia of Athens: I don't think there's new rules on being an academic one, at least.

I can teach her that, if the accounts take the form of musical poetry

If not, I can at least teach her the Bargain she needs to get paid doing it.

Provided I have sufficient Bargain to do it for myself at that point

Beatrice Orsini : Vernacular Literature can give exposure xp when read

Hypatia of Athens: Just shirking my redcap duties should be enough, i won't retire until they actually do something about it

Beatrice Orsini : Again, Beatrice is willing to help her friend and has Major Compassionate, so she can help Hypatia pretend she's working by delivering letters to Irencilla.

Coded letters on cult stuff.

Hypatia of Athens: Mm

It's less of a protest if they don't actually believe she's quit working

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

but you can delay it as much as you want

Hypatia of Athens: You can help me deal with the consequences once they actually have the temerity to do something about her.

A ruse should suffice

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Hypatia of Athens: I'll keep working on getting Bargain up so I can pay for my own living

Eventually Venator will stop paying my room and board

I mean, the steward

Beatrice Orsini : i'll be getting up enough Terram to cast the level 20 ritual for creating gold.

that should help with expenses

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, we can launder that.

Gift of Midas is a bit abstract, sadly

It's hard to convert it to mythic pounds.

Beatrice Orsini : it should be a bit more than the price of 2 terram vis

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Oh 300 years

rolling 300/4

300/4

=

75

75 mythic pounds

Beatrice Orsini : not bad

Hypatia of Athens: Jorn could develop a spell that turns Touch of Midas into coins and bypasses Finesse with craft magic mastery

Beatrice Orsini : That would help.

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia can work for the steward in the meantime and learn Bargain

Beatrice Orsini : beatrice's schedule for now is adventure+labwork/labwork/arts/cult lore

she should be able to become a mystagogue in some 20 years

Hypatia of Athens: Oh, he doesn't have Bargain as his specialist ability

I could stat out a merchant and work for him

Beatrice Orsini : That could work.

Or you can just train it.

Hypatia of Athens: Training isn't bad

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

with independent study, it's actually pretty good

Hypatia of Athens: Training under an NPC might not be bad either

Better than Exposure

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

Hypatia of Athens: A Specialist grog Puissant in their specialty has a training quality of 9

Beatrice Orsini : that's pretty good

Hypatia of Athens: However a merchant will probably have less than that, with good scores in both Bargain and Profession

If Beatrice wants to scheme around this, it's better than retiring her, I suppose

Beatrice Orsini : you still have the cult you want to create, don't you?

Hypatia of Athens: I made progress on that

With the leper I took as an agent

Beatrice Orsini : you don't have to retire unless you're bored of hypatia

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not bored of her

I just wanted to create some consequences for what's happening to Fabius

Beatrice Orsini : we still attacked renard

Hypatia of Athens: True

Beatrice Orsini : and if beatrice has to take steps to help out hypatia, it's consequences

Hypatia of Athens: Just make sure you say you're doing it if you take out coded cult documents and pretend to be Hypatia delivering mail

It can be Merinita business

Beatrice Orsini : yeah

not in 1338, but after that i can make it part of my cult lore practice

Hypatia of Athens: I don't really need cult lore, Teaching works for everything I can provide

Beatrice Orsini : yeah, but i'm working on getting high enough to start my own merinita subcult

Hypatia of Athens: I have a single point of cult lore to indicate that I'm part of a holy cult that deals in Holy Music, however

I don't think I need any more

devil's fav demon (GM): rolling highly organized

rolling 1d10+2+20 over 20

(

7

)

+2+20

=

29

wow.

rolling Tireless for Spotless

rolling 1d10+3 over 9

(

1

)

+3

=

4

shucks.