8/5/2016

Boy R. (GM): what was the adventure xp last year?

johns (GM): 6

Boy R. (GM): ty

Prinny D. (GM): chthonic magic really allows for some insane lab totals

right now i have a crco lab total of 53 without experimenting, if i try to enchant a bread

johns (GM): are you using elder runes too

Prinny D. (GM): no

not yet

johns (GM): how do you get that total then

Prinny D. (GM): 9+9+9+9 (crco double focus) +3+3 (aura and attribute) +6 (mt/2) +5 (craft/2)

johns (GM): wait what's your focus

Prinny D. (GM): minor focus bread

johns (GM): ok

that only applies to spells where the bread is the target

Prinny D. (GM): are you sure about that

johns (GM): Yes

Prinny D. (GM): the confraternities from the mystery cult books teach minor magical foci for their specific crafted items, which doesnt make much sense if it doesnt work when enchanting said items

johns (GM): yes they make enchanted swords, spells affecting the sword

Prinny D. (GM): what about himnis the mad with focus (wooden wands)

johns (GM): Himinis was about cursing the item itself so he's inscribing curses into the wooden wand

regardless RAW defines magical focus as narrower than a single art

Prinny D. (GM): curses are a type of enchantment

johns (GM): letting you use magical focus to apply to every enchanted item you make won't fly

ill be back in a bit

Endrite: Farewell...

Bread will be our next target!

What's up?

Prinny D. (GM): i am looking at focus stuff

Endrite: Oh?

Prinny D. (GM): RAW seems to indicate that what i assumed is correct, but since we use a bunch of houserules we can just change it

we can always do it like this: http://forum.atlas-games.com/viewtopic.php?t=2673&p=22776

making the focus work if the effect makes use of bread material bonuses

Endrite: What are the bread material bonuses?

Prinny D. (GM): they dont exist, but we can make some up

Endrite: The idea of splitting them into Bread Focus and Enchant Bread Focus might be good but it might also ruin your character budget.

Prinny D. (GM): well id only use the one that involves enchanting bread

Endrite: Is this everyone today?

johns (GM): game doesnt start til 4

Endrite: Oh yeah.

Prinny D. (GM): hey johns scroll up and read what i posted

johns (GM): sounds cool, it's sorta like Potent magic in the mysteries

we'll have to figure out what shape/material bonuses bread would give

Prinny D. (GM): yeah im thinking about it

breadthinker

Endrite: You could give it a bonus to any spell that involves gluten.

Prinny D. (GM): glutomancer

Endrite: Too bad pasta hasn't been invented yet.

johns (GM): hasn't it?

Prinny D. (GM): sounds like a job for the original research rules

Endrite: I dunno, maybe.

Looks like it has.

johns (GM): Pasta (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpasta]) is a staple food[1] of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily.

Endrite: Thanks Wikipedia.

A flouride toast to Wikipedia!

johns (GM): furthermore, under the Ars rules that folklore is real, Marco Polo has introduced noodles to mythic europe by this point

i mean it is tragic that marinara won't exist for a few centuries

Endrite: Too bad.

Well, at least we're getting around the Parma problem.

johns (GM): Ho Ho Ho

Prinny D. (GM): one quality should be promote health

Endrite: It probably would have been a good place to put the covenant if this was 100 years ago, though.

Prinny D. (GM): another one should be preventing hunger

johns (GM): +2 Turning into human flesh

Prinny D. (GM): lol

whats some more bread folklore

http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/LammasFolklore/a/Legends-And-Folklore-Of-Bread.htm

johns (GM): hospitality

Boy R. (GM): good news everybody, I just made 64 +3 cloaks

Prinny D. (GM): thats a lot of cloaks

so how many different bonuses should bread have? 3 or 4?

johns (GM): 4 is fine

Boy R. (GM): i wasn't following all this but the material bonus compromise sounds like a good ruling

it seems obvious that a magical focus in a substance shouldn't apply to all effects placed in an item of that material but i wouldn't put it past ars authors to go with the most broken interpretation

imo the sympathies of bread are to sustain life and to affect the person who eats

Prinny D. (GM): promote health, promote peace, transforming into human flesh, affect person eating it

are those fine

johns (GM): does Bonfilia have a sigil

& proclus, lodewig

Prinny D. (GM): I didnt decide on one yet

Boy R. (GM): i guess we should

lodewig's is probably ~feral~ somehow

canine teeth, let's say

Prinny D. (GM): when Bonfilia casts spells her shadow resembles a goat instead of a human

Boy R. (GM): and your breads taste of goat

Prinny D. (GM): tasty

Bread Material Bonuses: +x Promote health, +x Promote peace, +x Transforming into human flesh, +x Affect person eating it

how much should each bonus be

johns (GM): affect person eating it is a pretty broad one

Prinny D. (GM): target: person eating it?

johns (GM): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nAVc3mB47UD-e1eTrvYqju8jrvIhm9F-Fs_z5PpmE9I/edit?usp=sharing

thats just going back to the same problem where you could put your magical focus to any combination of form + technique as long as the user eats the bead

Prinny D. (GM): well there are foci that reach more or less every art

like Damage, or Certamen

Joshua S.: hello. i still don't have my character done but i am alive and i am not afraid.

johns (GM): heya!

well if we limited it to charged items you have to eat so it can't be like, you enchant a piece of bread to shoot fireballs

well i mean you could, you just wouldn't get the bonus

Prinny D. (GM): well yeah affecting person eating it would involve the effect only targeting the person eating it

johns (GM): fair enough

rope kid does your char have any gimmicks or styles that should be known at this point?

Prinny D.: Ferris has the best token

Boy R. (GM): I think that "affect eater" should be a material bonus of all foods actually, but I can see how it might be OP with this magical focus ruling

Prinny D.: it basically translates to bonus to target: personal

Boy R. (GM): and can only really be used with charged items

Prinny D.: well it could be used with triggers

you could have a lesser enchantmet bread with a spell set to trigger when a person eats it/part of it

johns (GM): too broad for my tastes

Boy R. (GM): you'd need to eat an appreciable part of it but it's hard to rule on imaginary loaves, so yeah maybe drop it

johns (GM): relish your free satan bonus

Endrite: Ok I'm back.

Sorry I'm late, I had a meeting with a bowl of soup.

Boy R. (GM): oh hey

Endrite: Hey.

Boy R. (GM): if you've all designed your voting sigils, i can sew them into your magic cloak. maybe some house colours. something that really screams, I'm a magus, and I'm setting trends

Endrite: Nice.

NIce.

Prinny D.: alright ill change the last bonus to "cause love"

Endrite: Mine is obvious.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if you make love charms you are guarenteeing some sort of silly faery store later on

Proclus of Rome: This is a threat.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: my cloak will be black & yellow, sigil of a beehive on it

Giacopo: oh shit I need to make an aging roll

Proclus of Rome: You are performing a violence.

Prinny D.: i took all the bonuses from that weird pagan bread folklore website

Giacopo: what are our current living conditions?

Proclus of Rome: Bad.

-1 if you aren't a Magi.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: faery stories are a cheap excuse to reenact your favorite shakespearian farces

Giacopo: I want to say I can live with that, but maybe I'll just roll and see

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ah

i can put giacopo on the health regimen

add +2

Giacopo: oh cool, thanks. i love science

Proclus of Rome: How old is Giacopo?

Giacopo: 32 now

Proclus of Rome: You don't have to roll until 35, though.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i thought you started aging rolls at 35

Proclus of Rome: Unless we took the 5/3 hatchet to that too!

Giacopo: dang you're right, I should have remembered that

Bonfilia of Verditius: after this adventure I'll add the +12 to recovery rolls effect to the Beggar's Breakfast which should increase grog loyalty or something

Proclus of Rome: So, what's our plan to deal with Saint Simon the Phony?

Bonfilia of Verditius: using magic to improve the lives of grogs is a loyalty boost iirc

Lavinia of Jerbiton: can you make Superior Quality bread using the city & guild rules? that adds a +1 living condition modifier which does impact loyalty

yup

the more obvious and dramatic you make it the better, in fact

Giacopo: that means statting emilio's workshop totals though

or wasting bonfilia's seasons

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Well Proclus, do we assume he is a saint, a demon, or a fae

Bonfilia of Verditius: he's a saint

Proclus of Rome: Well, we don't have to assume.

Bonfilia of Verditius: so clearly he is a saint

Proclus of Rome: I know, probably.

Since I have a magical map of Rome.

Giacopo: yep the Pantheon has a Faerie aura, you can easily tell

Proclus of Rome: There you go!

Giacopo: sorry if I ruined any plans you had for that place btw

Proclus of Rome: I didn't have any specific plans for it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: So you can cook up a PeVi to kill faeries spell, spend some time practicing penetration, and do that

Proclus of Rome: Other than I don't like trading penitents for vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I think the cheaper alternative is just keep paying dupes to go in and take penance

Boy R.: the guy you sent to suffer at the hands of the fairies there, once a dissolute street thug, has reformed himself and is now a moderately popular and deranged street preacher

Proclus of Rome: Irrelevant.

I'm more worried about the faeries tainting the vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: better to have tainted vis than to drive out the fae and let dominion ruin the place

imo

Proclus of Rome: I don't have any need for that faerie Aura.

Boy R.: I can't remember if there are special rules for faerie vis, but if it's not infernal it should be fine

Joshua S.: i think faerie vis is normal/no big deal

Bonfilia of Verditius: i dont think faerie vis is different from magic vis in any important way

Boy R.: it probably causes weird botches

Bonfilia of Verditius: botches as if the user had the flaw weird magic

i guess

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I got no problem with the fae folk personally

Proclus of Rome: Oh right, speaking of botches.

I gotta cast Aegis of the Hearth.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you don't have to roll it

Bonfilia of Verditius: Bonfilia hasn't dealt much with faeries and so has no real opinion on them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This is a topic of discussion on the official forums but the one guy who pushes hardest for letting you botch the Aegis is a guy who likes to torture his players so

Proclus of Rome: Not rolling for it is basically cheating since there's a chance I botch and go into the Final Twilight with every roll.

Boy R.: well, it will need to be rolled if and when we need to know the penetration

Lavinia of Jerbiton: all rituals are automatically stressed?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Bonfilia of Verditius: wait a second are commoners allowed to wear cloaks with emblems

or is that illegal

Boy R.: idk

Giacopo: Actually I should know that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Depends how much we want to say sumptory laws apply

Joshua S.: illegal, obviously (jk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3gxQtIqH9Q

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! +25

(

6

)

+25

=

31

There we go.

Giacopo: nice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright if Endrite wants to roll each year we can do that

I'll put the cost on the vis ledger. Has anyone spent vis besides Endrite?

Proclus of Rome: To be fair I love torturing players.

Giacopo: your penetration is d10!+penetration+5, because you beat the spell level by 10

Bonfilia of Verditius: the legality of our cloaks is a good story hook down the road

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Wait do I roll the Penetration of Aegis of the Hearth every year too?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: someone should cook up a story for what happens when proclus botches and we don't have an aegis that year

Giacopo: we spend more vis and cast it again probably

Proclus of Rome: Well, you can just do the ritual again.

Bonfilia of Verditius: For now, Bonfilia has a black goat emblem sown on her +3 cloak.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if he's in twilight and he's the only one who knows it...

Proclus of Rome: I'd be more worried that I'm the only person who can detect vis and auras.

Giacopo: we can all do that because we can cast spontaneously

Lavinia of Jerbiton: speak for yourself

Lodewig of Tytalus: I will

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Lodewig of Tytalus: and yes you do need to roll for penetration whenever it matters, under these houserules.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Well if Proclus wants to murder Saint Simon then I say let him, as long as he can make up for the loss of vis if the source gets harmed.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Rolling Penetration.

Wait do you use Penetration or 5/3 Penetration for this roll?

Lodewig of Tytalus: wizard's communion reduces the aegis' target level to I think 3, so even with a casting margin of 18 you only get +5 to your pen roll. this might have been nerfed too hard

Bonfilia of Verditius: Who am I to reject my friend's murderous intent?

Lodewig of Tytalus: full penetration

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

rolling 1d10! + 5 + 4

(

7

)

+5+4

=

16

Lodewig of Tytalus: when abilities need to be adjusted, they're generally just halved

the 5/3 conversion is for ease factors that come in neat 3 point chunks

Proclus of Rome: Isn't the source of the Vim vis the moonlight in this case?

Ok.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: it might be reliant on ritual

oh i added details for our vis sources in ~The Journal~

Lodewig of Tytalus: It's paid for out of covenant resources so it should probably stay

I don't think anyone has a good fairy killing spell, is the trouble

Bonfilia of Verditius: I just realized how useful magical memory can be

Lodewig of Tytalus: you can just kill them corporeally every year

Proclus of Rome: Sure.

Still, a permanent solution is the best solution.

Lodewig of Tytalus: the various saints and penitents fight with the strength of unarmed cripples, so they're easy to overpower if you come in force

Bonfilia of Verditius: since if you work from a lab text you only need to have lab total=effect level instead of lab total=effect levelx2 to invent it in a single season

Lavinia of Jerbiton: killing them corporeally lets you harvest vis from their body too

Proclus of Rome: It would be a waste of time to go there every year and stab them to death.

Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lab texts aren't the same as lab notes though

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's definitely not how magical memory works

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait actually I forget which magic memory applies to. but I struggle to see a use unless they let you run a shopping spree through the library of durenmar

Lodewig of Tytalus: you can't work from the lab text you're writing as you go

Bonfilia of Verditius: of course not

but if i want to make the same item again

I can do it more efficiently

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you already auto generate lab texts anyway

Lodewig of Tytalus: but you don't need mm to get that benefit

Proclus of Rome: Anyway, this is everyone, right?

Bonfilia of Verditius: I thought you had to spend a season

Lavinia of Jerbiton: guess so, we just lost ropekid

Lodewig of Tytalus: you need to spend a season to write it up so others can use it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you spend a season to "publish" your lab notes into a format anyone can use

Bonfilia of Verditius: so magical memory literally does nothing?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

feel free to change it

for a better virtue

Bonfilia of Verditius: well yeah, if it does nothing at all

Lavinia of Jerbiton: really its only use is if you somehow lose access to your lab notes

Lodewig of Tytalus: are we expecting darvin?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We can start without him if yall like, he might have forgotten we begin at 4 again

Proclus of Rome: Does anyone have any other way to contact him?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nope

Proclus of Rome: Well then.

We might want to think about recruiting more people.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Any pressing business besides St. Simon?

Proclus of Rome: Not unless I found anything surprising during my cartographic excursion.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Maybe you did but we'll deal with that next year

Anyway, 1316

Everyone's hanging out in council chamber, admiring their new cloaks and all

Proclus of Rome: Nice, nice.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sharing the latest Hermetic gossip

Having the typical "Who was the greatest wizard of all" debate

Bonfilia of Verditius: I suppose this cloak is okay, for a non-verditius product.

Lodewig of Tytalus: could use some curses on thieves

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Anyway after a heated bit about Bonisagus v. Virgil Lavinia changes the subject to some local news

"Sodales, I've come across an opportunity for us to earn some favor in the upper crust of Roman society. Who's interested?"

Proclus of Rome: Let's face facts: Bonisagus probably had to count on his fingers.

Ok.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "I am always interested in the upper crust."

Lodewig of Tytalus: And that's why there are ten hermetic forms

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

"Are any of you familiar with the Capocci family? They are of no small bit of wealth and power in this city.

Proclus of Rome: Same, except I'm nodding my head in enthusiastic agreement.

rolling 1d10 + 7

(

5

)

+7

=

12

Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Excellent

Conte Hugo of Capocci is now in your journal

Proclus of Rome: A tower eh?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "what about a tower?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "They own a tower on the Equiline hill. Northeast of here."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "But that's not the important part. Conte Hugo has a son, a lad of about 10 years old. He's quite ill.

Proclus of Rome: Well, you'd know more about that than any of use here.

Except for Bonfilia, of course.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: The Conte has been scouring Rome for treatment. Every doctor including myself has come by to no avail.

Proclus of Rome: My guess is that he is stuck in an uneven room.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: On my last visit, the Conte hinted he feels he needs supernatural assistance of some sort to help his son. Mundane medicine being of no avail it seems."

Proclus of Rome: So what can we do?

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Sounds like a curse."

"That's none of my business though"  Sips stew

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I'll take a magician's opinion over a count's. Do you think the boy is under some supernatural influence?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Yes, physically none of the doctors have pinpointed what's wrong.. His condition seems to neither worsen nor improve."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Has he tried prayer?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "He might. The count seems to think so at this point."

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Proclus can detect auras with some proficiency, no? Perhaps the curse has tainted his home with an infernal feeling."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Even if you can do nothing to help, this is an opportunity to impress a nobleman.. It could be useful in the long run."

Proclus of Rome: We should head out then.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "So some one keeps him sick but not dying? If it's an act of deliberation then you'd expect some ransom demands or some such."

Proclus of Rome: I should bring my copy of Elements.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Perhaps he has some sort of cursed item in his home."

"I have... ahem, heard of such enchantments."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I'm interested now and this book is dull. Let's see what's happening"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you don't mind, I will stay here.. I prefer to maintain appearances as a normal doctor and not a magician."

Proclus of Rome: I'm glad you were able to leave the covenant for this excursion, Lodewig.

johns (GM): All 3 of you down to go?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Oh and you should head late in the day. You will understand why when you get there."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "what can I say, I'm a creature of habit"

all very mysterious

johns (GM): Okay, 3 magi roll out

Proclus of Rome: Peasants swerve.

I'll bring my Numerology Book (Euclid's Elements) with me.

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's set out just after sundown. I give myself cat eyes and bear fortitude

johns (GM): actually lavinia means to go before sundown

Bonfilia of Verditius: I bring my walking stick.

Lodewig of Tytalus: or an hour or two before, depending on what time of year it is

ok that's good too

johns (GM): good shit

Here's Capocci Tower.

After marveling at it, you find a doorman. He asks who you are to be introduced as.

Proclus of Rome: Interesting to use wealthy merchants as the foundation of the building, but that's Rome for you.

I'm Proculus of Rome.

A philosopher.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Three magi, come to see the child"

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Bonfilia of Verditius, the Goat That Walks On Two Legs." I say in a mysterious and magical manner while making sure my emblem cloak is in clear view.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Well, I am Lodewig, a follower of Tytalus, for what that's worth to you"

Doorman dutifully records your names on a ledger and ushers you in

Proclus of Rome: Pretty lucky that that's his name as well as his job.

johns (GM): You are seen into the great hall. It is bustling with activity, at first glance it almost looks like minglers at a party. You see an array of well dressed men, strangely dressed men, priests, tonsured academics... You also see Brunisenda the folk witch in the midst.

Servants move to and fro refreshing drinks and providing food. A few look to regard you as you enter but turn back to their conversations..

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

How long has Alenardo been sick?

Lodewig of Tytalus: It's nice not to make an impression for once

johns (GM): The Doorman indicates, "Here are the others... If you excuse me.."

According to Lavinia, almost 1 month

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

johns (GM): Well, you're here now. Want to take an action or just wait?

Proclus of Rome: What happened to Brunisenda's hat?

Anyway, I will perform an action.

I'm going to use the Rote Approach of the Western Assupim Gate to detect the magnitude of the Infernal Aura.

johns (GM): Sure.. Does casting a rote involve voice & gestures like normal spell casting?

Proclus of Rome: Nope.

It explicitly does not.

johns (GM): Ok.. You detect no Infernal aura here.

Bonfilia of Verditius: Curses, foiled again.

Proclus of Rome: So I just trace a triangle as is my Necessary Condition.

Ok, I'll do the same with the other 3 auras.

Bonfilia of Verditius: I'll approach the Important Men and listen in.

Proclus of Rome: Top Men.

johns (GM): Aura is Divine 1

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll bother the servants for food and drink

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Well, I'll certainly tell my sodales this fact.

EVEN THOUGH I DID NOT NEED TO!

Bonfilia of Verditius: Thank you, Proclus of Rome

johns (GM): Alright Bonfilia, you listen to a conversation between a few scholarly sorts.. One is talking about the results of horoscopes he has run on the child. Another is disagreeing and talking about the divination he did with a goat's liver.

A third chimes in and offers a theory about the alignment of the planets and its magical effects. To your Hermetic ears, it's all nonsense...

Bonfilia of Verditius: I'll approach. "Have you mayhaps considered that a demon has visited the young lord and cursed him with a foul sickness?"

johns (GM): Lodewig you acquire

rolling 1d5

(

4

)

=

4

Superior quality food & drink

Lodewig of Tytalus: hell yes

johns (GM): The scholars scoff at you. "Yes, that's what the priest over yon though--" he points to one-- "and that nutter over there--" indicating another fellow with a long white beard. ..

"They tried exorcisms and 'holy magic,' and naturally nothing happened."

Bonfilia of Verditius: I do a fancy bow and leave the Top Men to their reasoning and other such nonsense.

Proclus of Rome: How exactly is Alenardo sick?

Bonfilia of Verditius: And go talk to the whitebearded man. "I hear you believe a demon pesters the young lord, please, speak to me of your thoughts."

johns (GM): lavinia didn't give you much details. Do you want to try to see him or ask around for info?

Proclus of Rome: Yes I think we should see him for ourselves.

johns (GM): bonfilia do you have infernal or divine lore

Bonfilia of Verditius: yes

infernal lore 5

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'd like to ask around for info, though I have no technical knowledge

can I try a Charm roll to ingratiate myself?

johns (GM): Go ahead, regular gift penalty

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10!+2+5-5

(

5

)

+2+5-5

=

7

johns (GM): Okay Bonfilia, the whitehaired guy names a few demons he suspects, who are plausibly related to disease, he has suggested various elements that should ward them away like copper dust or spoiled milk in a jar by the door etc.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll conf for 12

johns (GM): Info about the kid or about the family

Lodewig of Tytalus: about the family I think. what's the father's opinion of what's happened. if he suspects evil magic, who would he lay the blame on?

Proclus of Rome: On whom would he lay the blame.

Lodewig of Tytalus: thank you, I'm not quite fluent yet

johns (GM): withon wherewhich the blame upons

Proclus of Rome: No problemo, as we Italians say.

johns (GM): did you put down a conf token

Lodewig of Tytalus: unless these grandees are speaking in latin of course

johns (GM): shit yeah do you speak italian?

ok I guess so

So:

Proclus of Rome: Roman Italian, specifically.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I do, at 9

was last session worth any conf tokens?

johns (GM): I gave everyone 1 I think

Lodewig of Tytalus: rip

johns (GM): Anyway! You charm one of the servants who is milling about to share a bit of gossip. The servant recounts a bit of what you've already known-- mentions he thinks all those doctors are idiots who don't know head from arse-- and then whispers, "If you ask me, it was that leper that came by. Poor bastard was just looking for some alms but Alenardo and his friend chased him off with sticks and stones."

"He must've shot the young master the evil eye as he went."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "oh ho"

Bonfilia of Verditius: "I knew it, a curse!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Well there you are then, there's mighty power in leprosy"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh was that an ef 10 roll? because i just remembered I didn't factor in my +3 cloak

Proclus of Rome: Too bad Lavinia isn't here, or we could ask her to find this beggar.

johns (GM): The servant adds, "That's a very fine cloak, sir."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Has anyone tried to find this leper?"

johns (GM): "And get cursed themself? No man here's bold enough."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Wise man."

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Tch. No curse lasts forever. There must be a way to dispel it, and to this end we must find the leper."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I tip him my emty goblet

johns (GM): He refills it.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Claude: As the sky outside grows dark, a one armed man in a monk's habit enters the great hall from further in.

Proclus of Rome: Yikes!

Claude: "Guests, it is about to happen again. Please come with me."

Proclus of Rome: If everyone else goes I'll go.

I don't go around following strange one armed men.

Claude: a few go, some have already seen it

Bonfilia of Verditius: I'll go.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll check this out

Claude: kk

The steward leads you into a chamber where the young lad himself is lying in bed, racked with fever. An important looking man and woman and an armed knight are also here.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

How can I tell he's a knight if he doesn't have a horse?

Claude: he's got armor

Proclus of Rome: He could just be a footman.

Bonfilia of Verditius: is armor illegal

Claude: city and guild suggests it's illegal for non-nobles to have good armor

but what do I know

Anyway, it's a sick kid, but looking at him you can see his eyes are the color of polished bronze.

Proclus of Rome: It's also illegal to curse children.

Hmm.

Like solid bronze?

Claude: Yeah

Proclus of Rome: That's strange.

Claude: As the sun sets however, his eyes suddenly return to normal, and he stops shaking and coughing. For the time he looks fine.

Hugo di Capocci: "Every day at sunrise and sunset, a bit of reprieve. And then.. the suffering comes back anew."

Hugo looks at you all directly. "What is the meaning of it?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I expect it is magic"

Bonfilia of Verditius: I chuckle smugly. "Oh yeah this is a curse alright."

"The spell is recast as the sun rises and sets. Has the young lord recently received some sort of gift?"

Proclus of Rome: My guess is that it is related to the presence of light on The Separate Place.

Lodewig of Tytalus: My guess is we need to find a magus whose sigil is bronze

Hugo di Capocci: The count shakes his head. "No gifts of note. You know of this magic? Please, tell me more."

also take some free conf points for figuring it out

Proclus of Rome: Effects with the duration of two Suns don't find their effect failing on the rising and setting of the sun.

Bonfilia of Verditius: I educate him on perpetual enchantments and curses.

Lodewig of Tytalus: not if they're a constant effect enchantment

Bonfilia of Verditius: oh right

Lodewig of Tytalus: so I suspect a non-hermetic source

now

maybe

Bonfilia of Verditius: it could be a concentration enchantment

Lodewig of Tytalus: I ramble on this in latin jargon for a bit, then address the conte

Bonfilia of Verditius: those need to be recast at sunrise/sunset

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh good point

and still with an environmental trigger

Proclus of Rome: It might be he is cursed every 12 hours anew.

Hugo di Capocci: Even with gift penalty this guy is raptured by everything you have to say

Proclus of Rome: If that's the case then Alenardo should improve if he's moved from the city.

Or at least from this tower.

Bonfilia of Verditius: not necessarily

if the concentration curse has an arcane connection range

Proclus of Rome: True, true.

Bonfilia of Verditius: it could work from wherever

you know what

I bet the leper's eye is the item that cursed him

Proclus of Rome: Is the length of the reprieve constant or does it change every time?

Hugo di Capocci: "It varies.."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "well, too early to say... my lord, is that right? But this curse is inflicted by design, there is no question. Who do you know who may have such power, and would wish to hurt your family?"

Hugo di Capocci: "Who would wish to hurt my family? This is Rome, every family would tear each other's throats out if they thought it would benefit them.. perhaps.. one of them has a wizard in their court doing this evil?"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "What of... lepers?"

Hugo di Capocci: The count goes a bit pale. "Who told.. how did you know of that?"

Proclus of Rome: Do I know of any suspicious Auras surrounding any noble houses?

Bonfilia of Verditius: "I am The Goat Who Walks On Two, I know many things beyond mere mortal ken."

Hugo di Capocci: Frangipane is set right in a Faerie aura because they're in the Coliseum

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Hmm.

Well, Faeries aren't trustworthy, so I currently suspect Frangipane.

Lodewig of Tytalus: frangipane sound like bonfilia's kind of patron

Hugo di Capocci: "The Goat, yes. My son and his friend drove off that leper begger, it is true-- I made clear I did not want them begging on our estates."

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Leprosy is a demonic thing, those cursed with it often find themselves close to the blackest of magic. Not only that, it is said some wizards willingly plague themselves so that they may use its magical affinities."

Proclus of Rome: That sounds like a rumor to me.

Hugo di Capocci: "Horrid..."

Bonfilia of Verditius: It's almost true, so it's a good rumor.

Hugo di Capocci: About 20 minutes have passed at this point since the kid recovered. His eyes turn brassy and he once again falls into fever and pain

Lodewig of Tytalus: "there has been no sight of the man since? For want of more likely culprits we will need to find this beggar"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "and then grovel, in all likelihood, because he would have to be a sorcerer of great power to perform this affliction"

Proclus of Rome: Why would someone capable of a dangerous curse bother begging?

Hugo di Capocci: "I.. confess I have not yet tried to find him. I waited too long on those fool doctors before I realized it must be a hex.

Lodewig of Tytalus: for an excuse to use his curses, perhaps

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Perhaps the leper delights in cursing those proud and rich? I cannot say."

Hugo di Capocci: You are wizards, yes? You can be safe from his hexes?"

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "we can hope"

Hugo di Capocci: "Tell me how to protect myself and my men then, that we may ride out in search."

Proclus of Rome: That's simple, all you have to do is travel with us and we would be more than happy to protect you.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "our protection is a wizard's courtesy. Your best hope is to avoid giving him further offence"

"where would a leper go in this city?"

Proclus of Rome: Good question!

That's just 1d10! + Ability, right?

Claude: roll dem bones

Lodewig of Tytalus: probably just d10+ability+int

Claude: brb

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 7 + 2

(

9

)

+7+2

=

18

Claude: br is that equivalent to an ease factor of 10 in RAW dice

not sure if i got the math right yet

Proclus of Rome: Maybe you should take Hermetic Numerology as a virtue.

Claude: i didn't minmax properly at chargen

Lodewig of Tytalus: ease factor 10 translates to 15 I guess

Proclus of Rome: Figuring out the correct Ease Factor is easy!

Lodewig of Tytalus: perhaps 16!

Bonfilia of Verditius: math is for nerds

Claude: ^^

Proclus of Rome: You just open up the book to a random page, add up the length of the words in the first sentence, then add all the digits of the result together.

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm curious how you arrived at that though, because area lore doesn't give specific guidelines

Claude: I'm going by the ease factors that say 6 is easy, 9 is average, 12 is hard

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh sure. well now 15 is average

Claude: Great

Well Proclus, you know that lepers are often beggars, and beggars can be find just about anywhere, probably some crawling around the catacombs and the old roman sewer and other foul miserable places. You also know of a Lazarus House (leper colony) a few miles outside the city walls on one of the major roads

Proclus of Rome: Good place to start.

Unless you want to avoid contact with lepers for some reason.

Claude: You suggested taking the Count and his men along, is that the plan?

Lodewig of Tytalus: idk if it would help matters really

Proclus of Rome: If it comes to violence I think we can handle a few lepers.

Lodewig of Tytalus: we need someone to identify this guy though

i've determined that it's too hard to intellego his image from someone's memory

Proclus of Rome: Good point.

Hugo di Capocci: "My son is in no shape to travel. The other lad, Costa, might know.. But he is just a lad of 10 himself, is it safe to take him on this task?"

Proclus of Rome: I'm sure that he'd be safe as safe with us as he would be anywhere.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Don't worry about it."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "we would of course do all we can to protect him. If it concerns you, perhaps some less valued member of your household has seen this fellow?"

Hugo di Capocci: "Only the two children saw, unfortunately."

"Costa is the child of a painter, of whom I am patron. I can speak with the father and arrange this trip to occur tomorrow."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I bow in a fashion I imagine to be proper

johns (GM): alright, sounds like yall got a plan

The next day you can meet Costa Cavallini & Cavallini Sr. at the Capocci tower. the kid immediately is freaked out by you and the father isn't really happy about this but his wealthy patron is forcing him, so

Proclus of Rome: Great!

What kind of paintings does he paint?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I do tricks to put the child at ease

johns (GM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Cavallini#/media/File:Pietro_Cavallini_013.jpg

Proclus of Rome: Well alright then!

johns (GM): murals & stuff

Lodewig of Tytalus: for instance, I jump 15 feet in the air, and turn into a wolf, and other such diversions

johns (GM): The child cowers in fear

Lodewig of Tytalus: "so you see there is nothing to fear"

"now we are friends, let us be off"

johns (GM): 3 Magi, the father & the kid heading to the leper colony, that's it?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I suppose so

Proclus of Rome: Well, we should probably take SOME guards with us.

Never know when one of Capocci's rivals might try something.

Lodewig of Tytalus: before we go maybe give hte gossipy innkeeper instructions to find out what he can about a leper with magic powers

johns (GM): endrite, does ildebrando have intrigue or something similar for that

Proclus of Rome: Illdebrando.

Yes!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_R5P4waodpx5H0vnR6bDAOn2YaZrtGOUYzCq-w1P3sE/edit#gid=0

It's at +7

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh good map

johns (GM): hmm wish I could get better contrast on the text

Lodewig of Tytalus: looks like we're headed up the aqua... cabra?

johns (GM): must be an aqueduct

Lodewig of Tytalus: or the via latina, that makes more sense

Proclus of Rome: That's Italian for "The Tina"

johns (GM): Crowded buildings against the city walls give way to sprawling suburbs and villas, then to farms and estates, and then rolling fields

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm acquiring so much culture

johns (GM): About 3 miles out is the leper colony, a humble brick building with an adjacent chapel

Endrite: This looks a lot like the Central Valley.

johns (GM): it's definitely italy, I trust google image search

Endrite: Yeah, I'm sure that anywhere in the world looks like California.

WHATEVER!

johns (GM): The lepers are recognizable right away. They're clothed head to foot in sackcloth robes that look kinda like a burqa, and wear bells around their neck

Proclus of Rome: Smart.

Lodewig of Tytalus: we should bring them some bread

johns (GM): As the child points out, this includes their faces

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm

Bonfilia of Verditius: wait does this virtue mean you can start with an artifact with effect level=lab total-1?

MasterPiece Minor, Hermetic For some benevolent reason, the magus’s parens has allowed him to keep the lesser enchanted item he made to prove himself a magus and pass his Gauntlet. This masterpiece must be a lesser enchanted item. You may design a lesser enchanted item that your character could make based on his Lab Totals at character generation, following the regular rules for construction of such a device. You ignore vis costs, as the magus’s parens provided those from his laboratory stores.

johns (GM): They're all around doing errands and such or just lying about, a lone nun sweeping the porch oversees the affair

Lodewig of Tytalus: i guess that goes for the one you saw then

Proclus of Rome: Anyone who knows enough to perform a curse isn't going to be doing errands.

johns (GM): how many seasons do verditiuses spend on their gauntlet item?

Proclus of Rome: That's for sure.

Bonfilia of Verditius: i dont think it says anywhere johns

Lodewig of Tytalus: lesser enchanted items must be made in one season, so the max level is lab total/2

johns (GM): The kid says he got a glimpse at the guy's face during the scuffle (he notes it was ugly) but everyone's is covered up now

Bonfilia of Verditius: oh right yeah

johns (GM): agh good point

i really like this token for "Rabble" btw

Bonfilia of Verditius: I have an idea

Proclus of Rome: Dang these guys are everywhere.

Bonfilia of Verditius: Before we reach the colony I will cast Satan's Savory Seduction

Lodewig of Tytalus: good, because I certainly don't

Proclus of Rome: Wait.

Is there any significant Aura here?

johns (GM): Because of the chapel, Dominion 1

Bonfilia of Verditius: I bring with me a breadbasket with fresh and delightful bread products.

johns (GM): the outlying fields are Mundane (i.e., 0)

Proclus of Rome: Starting with Approach of the Parbar Gate.

johns (GM): You hear jangling as lepers start crowding around Bonfilia looking to see what treats she has brought

Bonfilia of Verditius: I cast this spell before we arrive, too Satan's Savory Seduction

CrMe 20

R: Crossroads, D: Concentration, T: Passion (Generous)

Causes generous people walking on a road intersecting with the road this spell is cast upon to feel an insatiable hunger for baked goods. Each person in range rolls a simple die + their Generous score, and each person with a total of 6 or higher is affected.

(Base 4, +2 Crossroads, +2 Passion)

johns (GM): what's the penetration btw

Bonfilia of Verditius: well lets see

rolling d10+9+4+3

(

3

)

+9+4+3

=

19

0

johns (GM): Fair enough

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, it's at least d10!

and your penetration score if you have one

johns (GM): You roll pen even if you fall short of the casting total?

Bonfilia of Verditius: pen score is 3

Lodewig of Tytalus: tbh I didn't think that far

now's your chance to decide!

Bonfilia of Verditius: the spell is cast, but it costs a fatigue

Lodewig of Tytalus: as long as it goes off I think you get regular pen with +0 though

johns (GM): Yeah fair enough

Well I was just curious if you effected the nun really

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!

(

3

)

=

3

Low Pen then i guess

johns (GM): It's fine, I think lepers are always excited for good food

Bonfilia of Verditius: I wanted to hit the nuns and get some goodwill from the authorities but this will have to do

Proclus of Rome: It's pretty cruel of you to trick them!

johns (GM): Gross, gnarled hands reach into your basket to pull out baked goods

Lodewig of Tytalus: I hope theyre on a crossroad

johns (GM): They unveil their horrid faces to cram food in

Roll Stam all

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10+3

(

7

)

+3

=

10

johns (GM): You are: Mildly grossed out

Lodewig of Tytalus: shit!

Bonfilia of Verditius: Looking at these lepers eating bread I am struck by a genius idea.

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 + 2

(

8

)

+2

=

10

Bonfilia of Verditius: What if I made a bread that turned people into lepers?

johns (GM): quite doable

Proclus of Rome: What an idea!

johns (GM): not sure how that fits into your bakery's business model but what do I know

Proclus of Rome: Why would you do such an awful thing?

Lodewig of Tytalus: that would be fairly wicked, I guess

Bonfilia of Verditius: It is in fact so doable I already statted out the spell.

Purification of the Festering Wounds

CrCo 29

R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Room

The target gains a +9 bonus to Recovery rolls to recover from injuries or diseases, as long as he has been under the influence of this spell for the whole of the recovery interval. The recovery interval is counted from the time that the spell is cast; any previous time is ignored.

(Base 4, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +2 Room, +1 level 2 uses/day, +3 levels environmental trigger)

Bonfilia of Verditius:

Putrefaction of the Gluttonous Fools

PeCo 35

R: Touch, D: Cursed (Momentary), T: Individual

Whoever eats of this bread is struck with disease for their wicked gluttony. Leprosy strikes them, which causes a person’s flesh to rot off in a matter of weeks — a truly hideous sight. Much of the target’s flesh literally hangs from his or her frame, and there is a pungent rotting smell about him at all times. The target takes an Incapacitating Wound from the disease, and must roll as normal to recover. The target also loses a point of Stamina by the time the disease ends. If the victim somehow survives this curse, he is shunned by mundane communities. If the victim succeeds in a Stamina roll against an Ease Factor of 6 when the spell is cast, he shakes off the disease, although he still feels unwell for a few days, and may have problems if an astute doctor realizes he is leprous.

(Base 20, +1 Touch, +2 Cursed)

Bonfilia of Verditius: these will be the effects of the Beggar's Breakfast

johns (GM): Awesome

Lodewig of Tytalus: well stattee

well, let's ask the child to look well on the faces of starving lepers, just to be sure

johns (GM): right!

Proclus of Rome: That's the best way to do it.

johns (GM): he doesn't recognize the face but points out one leper who is just idling on a bench that hasn't gotten up to eat. this leper is looking at you all intently (well you think so, you can only make out his eyes)

Lodewig of Tytalus: ah shit, you assaulted him

Bonfilia of Verditius: "A beautiful hat upon ye head." Rolling guile to lie to this leper

rolling d10!+5+2

(

6

)

+5+2

=

13

Proclus of Rome: Uh, -5 surely.

Klybutes: well actually

He nods. "I'm Klybutes of Tytalus. Who are you?"

Proclus of Rome: I'm Proclus of Rome.

Klybutes: He points to Lodewig. "I can tell he's Tytalan too. Nice cloaks."

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Bonfilia of Verditius, The Goat Who Walks On Two."

Proclus of Rome: Oh, thank you.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "I had a feeling it was one of you leper wizards."

Klybutes: "One moment."

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Klybutes: He waves his hands at the kid and his father. They suddenly look dazed and start staring into space, slack jawed.

Bonfilia of Verditius: that tytalus stare

Klybutes: "Anyway. Why are you tracking me?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "salve. Yes I'd thought you'd be one of our own"

"Well, you cursed a child back in rome. The conte asked us to investigate as a favour. The boy has been suffering some time now, so can we persuade you to relent?"

Klybutes: "Hmm, hmm... Isn't court wizardry a bit beneath you all?"

Proclus of Rome: I'm starting to think so.

Lodewig of Tytalus shrugs

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I needed to get out of the study"

Bonfilia of Verditius: "The royals of Rome will all one day be in business with me. I must make sure to foster relations, you see. So is the life of a Verditius."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "That's a slander, by the way. I'll not take offence, but I won't let it pass unchallenged either. No contract exists between us and the Conte di wherever it was"

Klybutes chortles

Proclus of Rome: Capocci.

Klybutes: "Glad to see some refreshing honesty and that Tytalan fighting spirit still alive."

Bonfilia of Verditius: you should have a tytalan debate with him over releasing the boy from his curse

Lodewig of Tytalus: right. the thing is i'm not very good at that

Proclus of Rome: So you're just going to let your own incompetence defeat you?

Not very Tytalan.

Lodewig of Tytalus: what I will try is to folk ken this guy

rolling d10!+7

(

10

+

5

)

+7

=

22

is he spoiling for a fight?

Klybutes: "I'm doing work of my own, you see. I'm imparting the wisdom of the founder into that lad. Can you appreciate what I'm doing?"

rolling 1d10!

(

1

)

=

1

Heh

You recognize the most obvious Tytalan behavior there is, sophistry and arguing for the sake of it

Bonfilia of Verditius: "No. Do you mean you're planning on a ransom?"

Proclus of Rome: Brutal.

Klybutes: he's mostly curious about what your deal is

Klybutes chortles again

Klybutes: "Ransom? Don't be an idiot."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I'm not sure why you'd take the trouble. Is he Gifted?"

Bonfilia of Verditius: I am stunned by this flagrant display of poverty.

Lodewig of Tytalus: damn it, I shouldn't have said I wasn't sure of something. I'll never live this down

Klybutes: "I doubt it. But why should we deny the mundanes a chance to savor the founder's teachings?"

Proclus of Rome: Well, it is important to me to be well thought of by the rulers of Rome so that I can complete my great work of reordering it according to my studies of the Temple of Solomon.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "You could make a fortune here!"

Proclus of Rome: To what end?

Money is only worth what you spend it on.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "well, for all we know it may yet lead to more enlightened and vigorous leadership in rome, for what good they can do in such a sensecent old ruin"

Bonfilia of Verditius: "More money allows fore greater projects, larger schemes, furthering greatness. It is the building block from which one can make for oneself a place in history!"

Klybutes: "What sort of schemes do you have in mind?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "my sodales' interests are more immediate and pragmatic so.... perhaps we can come to some more congenial arrangement?"

Proclus of Rome: I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with me about the importance of bring Rome closer to God.

So money isn't much of a concern.

Klybutes: "I'm all ears. What do you propose?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Our needs are simple. We want you to practice pedagogy on someone who doesn't impact our covenant's interests. In return... well... I don't know what you desire, but I don't think this child is important to you."

Proclus of Rome: I could fix up your covenant here.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I mean take this one -"  gestures to the painter's boy  "I'm sure he's much more open-minded"

Klybutes: lol

"And you even thought to bring him out here. That's impressive foresight."

"With you around maybe there's hope for that whelp Aristocritus afterall."

to be clear you're saying he can curse this kid and he'll leave the noble kid alone yes?

Proclus of Rome: I'm not in favor of that trade.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm just throwing it out there

Klybutes: you've folk kenned him so you know he's amenable

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Sounds like a perfectly reasonable arrangement." I say Chthonishly.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't have a strong personal interest in this case or sapocci's friendship

Proclus of Rome: Capocci.

Klybutes: Getting closer

Proclus of Rome: I think we can come up with a more equitable arrangement.

What about an apology?

Bonfilia of Verditius: This is extremely equitable, in Bonfilia's opinion.

Klybutes: "An apology would be a betrayal of Tytalus' wisdom."

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Well, how long were you planning on keeping him cursed for?

Klybutes: "Maybe another month or two. Long enough to give him a lasting impression of the frailness of human life."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus makes the not bad face

Proclus of Rome: Well that sounds fair enough to me.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "We could always say we broke the spell"

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Just transfer the curse to this boy, then!"

Proclus of Rome: Even better, we could take a month to break the spell.

Klybutes: "A good covenant is never of one mind."

Proclus of Rome: Speaking of covenants, have you ever met Venator?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "that wouldn't be respectful to our sodalis, Proclus. But yes if all else failed, a general purpose spell of dispellation would be a wise investment"

Bonfilia of Verditius: "This way we can return and claim victory, while the curse eventually ends for the painter's boy. Surely his life is worth less than that of the young lord."

Klybutes: "I know Venator only by reputation."

Proclus of Rome: I don't think that it would be right to curse the son of a muralist.

He has enough problems.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "The painter's boy should be proud to bear the curse of his lord and benefactor."

Proclus of Rome: However, if we stayed at the Capocci tower for a month, we could say that we cured him.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Wait, bonfilia. To transfer the curse signals a pyrrhic victory. To defeat it at great length instead betokens a complete victory accomplished by heroic effort"

Proclus of Rome: Wait a moment, I didn't realize Venator had a reputation.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "I do not believe the lord will see it as such, I believe he would rather we return with his son cured."

Klybutes: If you want to spend a month pretending to cure this kid it would preclude labwork for that season

Proclus of Rome: Seems like a win win to me.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll volunteer to treat him in seclusion, ie, lock the door and put the patient to sleep while I read a book on the arts

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't it count as a Season of Guile practice?

Klybutes: realistically you have to manage the Count's attention as well as the interruptions of all the other wizards/fakers around trying to cure him as well

Exposure XP only

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah that's fair

Proclus of Rome: Sounds good to me.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "I am certain the lord will reward the painter's boy for his sacrifice."

Klybutes: brb'

Bonfilia of Verditius: "And, more primarily, us for our great expedience."

Proclus of Rome: I'd be more than happy to spend the month doing it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "The lord will reward  whom  he pleases. I do not understand who you expect this to persuade"

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

On the other hand, wouldn't it be wrong to lie?

Hmm.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "only if one is discovered"

Proclus of Rome: Can you enter the Temple unwashed?

I think the answer is no.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't know any theology

Proclus of Rome: We could simply tell Hugo di Capocci of his situation.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "I believe the lord would rather his boy cured now than later. And besides, the painter's boy too will eventually be cured. Are we truly here simply to cure a boy? Are we not here to gain the favor of the lord?"

Proclus of Rome: I'm sure the knowledge that his son isn't dying would put his mind at ease.

Klybutes: "And of course if the Count's men come looking for me you will have to answer to the Tribunal."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "If you think that's enough. Claim the boy will recover and half his doctors will go along with you. That sort of prophecy won't earn you much favour"

Proclus of Rome: Oh that's easy, we would just tell the Count that you were nowhere to be found.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "The important part is that the lord's boy will be cured."

Proclus of Rome: I can't in good conscience lie to the man.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "What happens to the painter's boy is merely to sooth your consciences."

Proclus of Rome: Oh, we could always ask the boy if he is willing to take the curse for his friend.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "oh, I like that thought"

"of course if he's prepared to submit to it, he's far less in need of education"

Klybutes: Klybutes waves mystically at the boy. He comes out of his stupor, now looking terrified of you all.

Proclus of Rome: No that's the truth.

I mean "Now that's the truth."

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Pfeh. You have heard my argument, and know where I stand. Make your choice on how to proceed."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I try to remember the kid's name

Proclus of Rome: I believe it was "Boy."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Casto, my boy. The magus here has a proposition for you"

Klybutes: Costa, very close

Lodewig of Tytalus: excuse my accent

Klybutes: Anyway Klybutes has nothing to say, he just looks at you. You think under his cowl he may be smirking Tytalanishly

Proclus of Rome: Rused again!

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Be not alarmed. This man - you remember him - is the wizard who has cursed Alenardo! We have fought a mighty battle, after the fashion of wizards, and at last he agrees to lift the curse. But! There is a price..."

"He says that you, Costa, were also very rude to him, although you are not a lord of whom politeness is so much expected. So! The curse, once laid, must run its full course. Alenardo's suffering can only be shortened if you, Costa, take it on yourself. It will be a month, perhaps two, and you will be as sick as he is now, but it will not kill you and it will end and you will be unharmed

"can you do this, boy? Will you? It is a man's choice, but we do not get to choose when such choices come to us."

johns (GM): Comm + Charm or Leadership please

Lodewig of Tytalus: can I use presence?

johns (GM): Yes

Lodewig of Tytalus: and does an impressive cloak help?

johns (GM): Yes, and I'm also factoring in the fine argument you laid out

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10!+10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

oh wait and gift

so I'll conf to 10, see if that works

Proclus of Rome: Big spender.

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm a self-confident guy

johns (GM): i am inclined to count persuading a child to be hexed by a disgusting leper wizards as "Impressive" ease factor

Lodewig of Tytalus: lol that's fair

I could entrance him but the whole exercise would be pointless then

johns (GM): He clutches his father (who is still under a stupor spell) and pleads that it was all Alenardo's fault etc.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Stupid child! Why if you were my Emilio I'd give you a good smack right about now!"

Proclus of Rome: It's just as well you aren't, though.

Lodewig of Tytalus tries to shrug in the Italian fashion

johns (GM): He wails and cries. You sorta wonder why the nun or other lepers aren't paying any attention but maybe they know better than to get involved.

Lodewig of Tytalus: gotta get that bread

Bonfilia of Verditius: They're in the pocket of Big Bread

Proclus of Rome: That Gluten Stare.

Well we need another idea now.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Just make the trade by force."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Perhaps it is too much to expect. Well sodalis, if it pleases you to curse this count-pup we can hardly interfere. it may be enough to tell the lord it will be over presently"

Klybutes: "Mmhmm."

Proclus of Rome: We could try that.

I don't suppose one of us could take the curse.

Klybutes: Klybutes' eyes light up.

"You care so much for a stranger you'd do that?"

Bonfilia of Verditius: I slap my forehead Neapolitanishly.

"Proclus, you fool!"

"Do not equate us with simple mundanes."

Proclus of Rome: Well, we said that we could cure Hugo di Capocci's son and we should do so.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't think we made any promises

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Indeed, we will cure him by cursing the painter's boy."

Lodewig of Tytalus: but go ahead if that's what you want

Proclus of Rome: I don't see any other honest way to do it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: We could also challenge this old-timer to formal debate like prinny suggested

i'm looking up the rules and i think the only way it could work is if he agreed to debate the three of us as one team so we can each use our best abilities

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Proclus, if you wish to take the curse yourself, well I won't stop you. But we have a perfect candidate right here." I point to the weeping child.

Klybutes: i wish cumthinker were here

Proclus of Rome: I'm just not as selfish as you are, I'm afraid.

Klybutes: this guy is aristocritus' beloved rival btw

Proclus of Rome: o 0 O (Weeping Children)

lmao

Lodewig of Tytalus: lol that explains a lot

Proclus of Rome: That's what you get for not showing up!

How do the debate rules work?

Lodewig of Tytalus: In each round of the debate choose

which of the three Attack Abilities (Folk

Ken, Intrigue, or Artes Liberales) and which

of the three Defense Abilities (Charm,

Guile, Leadership) you are employing.

Much like a certamen, the debate rules

Lodewig of Tytalus: depend on six totals.

basically like certamen, if you read that in the core

i don't think it can work with rk's novo certamen

Klybutes: Nah it's its own beast

cthinker isn't here to deny it so let's assume you know the basic backstory, this guy was Aristocritus' filius until he got seized by a Bonisagus

Proclus of Rome: Well, my two best are Artes Liberales at +8 and Guile at +4.

Klybutes: So you know he's at least ~20 years your Hermetic senior

sorry not filius, he was the parens

Lodewig of Tytalus: that makes you strong if he attempts to defend with leadership

Proclus of Rome: But that's all I got.

Lodewig of Tytalus: or attack with folk ken

meanwhile i have pretty deece charm and ken, so I think we could give him a run for it

Proclus of Rome: What about Bonfilia?

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, by decent i mean 5 in each

Bonfilia of Verditius: You can't expect us all to fight him at the same time.

A debate is one-on-one

Lodewig of Tytalus: it only requires him to agree to an unorthodox ruleset

but idk, he could be a coward

Klybutes: He'll agree

Bonfilia of Verditius: I only have guile at +5 so

Proclus of Rome: We really need Intrigue and Leadership.

Lodewig of Tytalus: the debate lasts for a fixed term of rounds ,we don't need to lose every skill

* use

"how about an old-fashioned dispute then? It's a matter of little weight, so why not make a sport of it?"

"Can you hold your own against all the arguments we three novices can muster between us? all at once?"

Klybutes: I'm reviewing the debate rules now

Proclus of Rome: I think that it is important.

Klybutes: Are people allowed to use the same Attack/Defend skill more than once?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm going by societates in case you're looking at A&A

idk if they're different

Proclus of Rome: Most importantly it has revealed the moral character of my sodales.

Klybutes: same

"It seems to me the disagreement is between each of you. Why not debate each other and I will judge?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: it looks like you can choose freely each round

Bonfilia of Verditius: I scratch my chin goatishly.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh, then I don't really care, I'm only involved in this for the sake of the covenant

if it's bonfilia's way versus proclus' way, by all means have it out

Klybutes: "I'm just pointing out that each of you three has a different position here. So only one of you can truly "win" the debate."

Proclus of Rome: Good point.

Bonfilia of Verditius: "Very well."

Proclus of Rome: Alright how does this work?

Klybutes: Do you have a copy of Houses of Hermes: Societies?

Proclus of Rome: I do.

Klybutes: flip that bad boy to page 90

Okay, I think I can walk you guys through this

First is rolling initiative, that's Perception + Stress Die

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+2

(

7

)

+2

=

9

Lodewig of Tytalus: first up, you want to agree the duration

Klybutes: Klybutes suggests 6 rounds

Proclus of Rome: 6 rounds sounds good to me.

Lodewig of Tytalus: very good

Bonfilia of Verditius: sure

Lodewig of Tytalus: probably someone's arguments will be destroyed by then

then before each exchange, whisper to the gm which ability you're using to attack or defend

Proclus of Rome: Alright.

Lodewig of Tytalus: then whoever has the initiative makes an attack roll with that ability + comm, vs a defense roll of ability + int, and depending on how the skills you use line up on the matrix there's a modifere to the attacker's roll

Klybutes: i have put the matrix onto the screen

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 0

(

3

)

+0

=

3

Klybutes: Okay, Bonfilia is first attacker. Prinny whisper the attacking skill to me (Folk Ken, Intrigue, AL); Endrite, whisper a defending skill to me (Charm, Guile, Leadership)

Attack is Folk Ken, Defense is Guile. Attacker has -3 Penalty

Bonfilia please roll Communication + Folk Ken + Stress - 3

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+4+2-3

(

7

)

+4+2-3

=

10

Proclus of Rome: I cannot BELIEVE that Long Winded doesn't give a bonus to this.

Klybutes: Endrite, please roll Intelligence + Guile + Stress Die

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, the idea is you're judged by the people who listen to you

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 4 + 2

(

1

)

+4+2

=

7

Klybutes:

rolling 3d10

(

8

+

3

+

9

)

=

20

No botch

Proclus of Rome: Exactly, scholars love long winded arguments.

Bonfilia of Verditius: did we decide if we can use the same skills multiple times

Klybutes: You may.

Proclus of Rome: You'd have to.

Lodewig of Tytalus: damage is 3+presence-reputation-confidence

Klybutes: Bonfilia has Presence 0, so Weakening Total is 3. Does Kylbutes have any reputations or is he self-confident?

Proclus of Rome: I am Self-Confident.

No Reputations though.

Klybutes: Self confident means he has a confidence score of 2

Proclus of Rome: Except for the Covenant reputation of Meddling Magi, though.

Bonfilia of Verditius: thats not a positive reo

rep*

Proclus of Rome: It sure isn't.

And I'd assume it wouldn't count between two members of the same covenant anywa.y

Klybutes: Proclus takes 1 Fatigue, so no penalty yet

Lodewig of Tytalus: generally reputations should specify the circles they apply in. this one seems irrelevant certainly

Klybutes: Proclus you are attacking, Bonfilia is defending for round 1, whisper your skills to me please

Attack is AL, Defense is Guile, no bonus or penalty

Endrite roll Comm + AL + Stress

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Klybutes: Prinny roll Int + Guile + Stress

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! +1 +8

(

8

)

+1+8

=

17

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+3+5

(

5

)

+3+5

=

13

Klybutes: Proclus has Presence +1, so that's a weakening total of 5

Proclus of Rome: Artes Liberales is proving to be more broadly useful than I'd imagined.

Klybutes: quickly checking certamen fatigue scale

1-5 is still only 1 level lost

Okay Round 2.. Do we reroll init?

per regular certamen no initiative is only done once

Lodewig of Tytalus: nah it just goes back and forth

Klybutes: Prinny attack, endrite defend, tell me your skills

Artes, Guile, no modifiers

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+2+2

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! +2 + 4

(

1

)

+2+4

=

7

Klybutes:

rolling 3d10

(

1

+

5

+

7

)

=

13

Botch!

Proclus of Rome: Huh?

Klybutes: sorry I thought it made sense for the gm to just roll the botch die himself

Bonfilia of Verditius: so what does botch do here

Klybutes: Counts as a 0

Proclus of Rome: Good question.

Lodewig of Tytalus: your total is -

Klybutes: Thus Bonfilia's weakening total is 7

Which means 2 levels of fatigue lost

Bonfilia of Verditius: do these fatigue levels incur penalties

Klybutes: Yes

i think, 1 sec

Bonfilia of Verditius: I didnt add my 1 level into my roll

Klybutes: 1 level of fatigue doesn't count as anything

it's 0 / 0 / -1 / -3 / -5 iirc?

Bonfilia of Verditius: alright

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes if the first 0 is "fresh"

you lose 2 levels and you're on -1

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Klybutes: He already lost 1 so he's at -3 now

Fatigue states are Fresh (0), Winded (0), Weary (-1), Tired (-3), Dazed (-5), Unconscious

Bonfilia is Winded, Proclus is Tired

Round 2, Proclus attack Bonfilia defend. Tell me your skills pleaser

Attack is Artes, Defense is Charm.

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Klybutes: Proclus gets +3 to attack but -3 from fatigue, so no modifiers

Bonfilia of Verditius: no he gets -3

Klybutes: oh

Proclus of Rome: Yeah.

Klybutes: oh!!!

you're fucked!

Proclus of Rome: Well.

Klybutes: roll away

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! +1 + 8 -3 -3

(

5

)

+1+8-3-3

=

8

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+3

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Klybutes: No damage to Bonfilia

Round 3

Bonfilia attack, Proclus defend

Choose abilities

Attack Folk Ken, Defense Charm, Attacker gets +3

Defender is at -3 from fatigue..

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+2+4+3

(

6

)

+2+4+3

=

15

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! +2 + 4 -3

(

8

)

+2+4-3

=

11

Klybutes: mm

Weakening total of 4, enough to knock another level of fatigue on proclus

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Klybutes: He is now Dazed (-5)

Round 3 Proclus Attack, Bonfilia Defend



Attack Folk Ken, Defense Guile

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+3+5

(

6

)

+3+5

=

14

Klybutes: So.. -8 to attacker

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 1 +4 -3 -5

(

5

)

+1+4-3-5

=

2

Klybutes: Yup

Round 4, Bonfilia Attack, Proclus Defend

Attack Artes, Defense Charm, Attack is -3, Defender is -5

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+2+2-3

(

6

)

+2+2-3

=

7

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! +2 +4 -5

(

10

+

7

)

+2+4-5

=

18

Klybutes: No hit

Round 4 Proclus Attack, Bonfilia Defend

Attack Artes, Defense Charm, Attack is -8

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+3

(

9

)

+3

=

12

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! +1 +8 -3 -5

(

1

)

+1+8-3-5

=

2

Klybutes: No hit

Round 5

Bonfilia Attack, Proclus Defend

Lodewig of Tytalus: I've got to say I'm really feeling the logic of torturing children

Klybutes: lol

Bonfilia of Verditius: It's the only rational thing to do.

Klybutes: this minigame doesn't seem so hard once you put it in action

Attack Folk Ken, Defense Guile, attack is -3, defender is -5

Proclus of Rome: The book's use of pointless forumlae is really what makes it seem complicated.

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!+2+4-3

(

10

+

3

)

+2+4-3

=

16

Klybutes: yipes

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10 +2 +4 -5

(

5

)

+2+4-5

=

6

Bonfilia of Verditius: I present an amazingly empathic defense of the torture of children.

Klybutes: 2 fatigue levels

That's a KO on Proclus

"It's not so much what you believe as how you defend it. You both have the makings of great Tytalans in you."

Bonfilia of Verditius: "It is good that the true path has been revealed to us all."

Proclus of Rome: What a silly idea.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's a shame you didn't debate this guy, because you would have become tytalans if you'd won

Bonfilia of Verditius: yeah, "shame"

Proclus of Rome: Why would I want to be a Tytalan?

Klybutes: He goes into the house and emerges with half of a broken walking stick and a book. He magically incinerates the walking stick and hands you the book: The Analects of Tytalus

He then grabs a hair from the top of the art kid's scalp.

(will add this to library page, it's summae on tytalan lore, philosophy, and order of hermes lore)

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have a copy, I didn't realise it had game stats

Klybutes: +1 conf to both of you for doing that

Proclus of Rome: I guess his copy is better.

Lodewig of Tytalus: in fairness I've never read it, because I have scores in none of those abilities

Klybutes: oh and he perdo vims any arcane connection of himself to the book, of course.

Lodewig of Tytalus: good man

well you've earned the esteem of an elder magus, which is probably worth a lot more than a count of rome

Proclus of Rome: What level Summae is it for Philosophae?

Klybutes: Level 3 Quality 11

Klybutes shrugs

Proclus of Rome: Level 3?

Well, it is what it is, I suppose.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that should be level 6 I guess

Klybutes: You actually can get the esteem of both the elder magus and the noble since his kid is about to be uncursed

Lodewig of Tytalus: maybe even 9

Bonfilia of Verditius: This is where the true scheme is unveiled: Now I have won this Tytalan as a customer!

Klybutes: the painter isn't happy but who gives a shit

Proclus of Rome: I do.

Bonfilia of Verditius: exactly

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm hyped for all the offensive murals we're going to get painted into

Klybutes: So this was actually an even better resolution than I could have hoped

Bonfilia of Verditius: Everything went better than expected.

Klybutes: Are Reputations working on Art scale now, BR?

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

Proclus of Rome: Wait, Klybutes never told me about Venator's reputation.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's just as well none applied to that debate, because it would have thrown everything out of whack

Klybutes: Mm you ask about Venator?

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

I have no clue how reputations work.

Klybutes: "Honestly I thought he was dead."

Proclus of Rome: Why?

Klybutes: "Maybe that's what necromancers do for fun. Ha ha."

Klybutes chortles

Lodewig of Tytalus: you roll a reputation as if it was an ability. the ease factor depends on how distant your relation or residence is from the person you're talking to

Bonfilia of Verditius: I tell him to come visit and buy my breads, as long as he takes the backdoor in. Wouldn't want to scare away the other customers.

Proclus of Rome: I'd honestly assume he's a Living Corpse, but he doesn't seem to be doing anything at all.

Klybutes: "He published a fair number of folios on his field way back but stopped, mm, 20 years ago?"

Proclus of Rome: I meant how you get XP to spend on Reputations.

Klybutes: the arbitrary whim of a storymaster unfortunately

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's not as arbitrary as we played in the last campaign

Proclus of Rome: Also my guess is that Necromancers have better ways of living forever than the ol' Living Corpse.

Lodewig of Tytalus: and in fact societates tytalus expands on it

Klybutes: anyway you two would get a reputation in house tytalus and you three a reputation in roman nobility

Lodewig of Tytalus: you gain 1xp toward a reputation by performing one noteworthy act that people will talk about

Klybutes: you're just starting out so a score of 1 in each would be right? which is 5 points on the regular scale but only 1 on the new scale

Lodewig of Tytalus: or you can cultivate a reputation at the rate of 1xp/season by choosing a particular mode of living, which doesn't interfere with other seasonal activities necessarily

Proclus of Rome: But what are the reputations?

Klybutes: As Klybutes' beloved rival is in your covenant you'll probably run into him again some day

Magician (Roman Nobility), Debater (House Tytalus) ?

Lodewig of Tytalus: johns, reputations start as 0 and under the old rules you'd need to perform 5 deeds of note to get a score of 1

Klybutes: which seems a bit silly

i m o.

oh wait

if you can work on a reputation each season then maybe not

I trust your judgement on how it should go, BR

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, I think the slower rate of growth will make them seem a little more consequential now

Klybutes: And before I forget, 8 adventure XP

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm more responsible than anyone for throwing out 10xp in a joke reputation after a sesh

Proclus of Rome: For shame.

Bonfilia of Verditius: joke reputations were good imo

Klybutes: those were fun though, albeit so specific it's hard to develop them more in game

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah I just stopped tracking them

Klybutes: Shall we keep them as Ability scale then?

Lodewig of Tytalus: no I think the art scale is fine

Klybutes: lol

sure

Lodewig of Tytalus: because there's a table with listed ease factors, that are easily converted

I guess the main rule to remember is: if you have a reputation centered on Rome or the Order of Hermes, then whenever you encounter another member of that tribe they'll have heard of you on a roll of 10+ on that rep

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hm. no 10+ for a specific house or tribunal. 15+ for the whole order.

Proclus of Rome: Alright.

Klybutes: take all of 1316

Lodewig of Tytalus: anyway, good shit. glad we got the debate rules out again.

Proclus of Rome: How much XP do we get towards our reputations?

Lodewig of Tytalus: thanks

johns (GM): 1 point in each

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Bonfilia of Verditius: Bread Material Bonuses: +x Promote health, +x Promote peace, +x Transforming into human flesh, +x Cause love

x=what

johns (GM): 2 apiece imo

If it has 4 different potential bonuses

Lemon & Plum are the only foods I saw on the shape and material list in core, I think they were 2-5 and 1 bonus

Proclus of Rome: Any other XP for this adventure?

Lodewig of Tytalus: does bread really cause love?

johns (GM): 8 adventure XP for this season

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

johns (GM): I love bread

garlic bread boy

Proclus of Rome: When can you take adventure XP?

Bonfilia of Verditius: bread causes love and marriage in norwegian myth

johns (GM): You can count it as a season's XP instead of doing lab work or anything else

wait

Lodewig of Tytalus: what season is this?

Bonfilia of Verditius: according to the bread magic folklore website

johns (GM): you can do labwork in the same season you take adventure XP

Lodewig of Tytalus: cute

Proclus of Rome: Yes.

johns (GM): it's just you take the adventure XP instead of any studying or exposure XP

Proclus of Rome: But what kind of lab work?

johns (GM): Spring 1316

Proclus of Rome: Just any kind?

Lodewig of Tytalus: sure

Proclus of Rome: Including spell invention?

johns (GM): Any lab work. The only restriction is that if an adventure takes up a lot of in-game time you'd take a malus to your total

Lodewig of Tytalus: yep

Proclus of Rome: Alright.

johns (GM): next session I had an idea to work off of proclus' aura mappings

unless someone else wants to GM or someone has a character story they want to see run

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm prepared to jump in with wacky supernatural shenanigans any time you get sick of it, but you appear to have lots of grand plans in motion

Proclus of Rome: There's always killing some faeries on the table.

And getting our Auram vim back.

I mean vis.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's true. if you want to put them down permanently it would be worth studying for a few seasons and getting the right spells, but they're not very powerful fairies

Proclus of Rome: So that would be something along the lines of Demon's Eternal Oblivion but for Faeries, right?

johns (GM): Yeah

we have an old houserule on might stripping spells like that

Proclus of Rome: What a surprise.

johns (GM): if you invent a spell that strips 10 Might, for instance, you can't cast it multiple times to reduce a Might 100 creature to nothing

so you need more powerful versions of the spell for more powerful creatures

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

It says the spell strips Might of a value equal to the level of the spell does that mean before the magnitude adjustment from range and target?

johns (GM): that spell has Voice range "baked" in so to speak, so an L15 Demon's Eternal Oblivion strips 15 might

Proclus of Rome: What if I wanted a bigger range?

Like Boundary?

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, if you bump it up to sight range then it would strip level-5 in might

johns (GM): basically what the baseline actually does is: Strip Might equal to Base + 2 mags

vim guidelines are a mess

Lodewig of Tytalus: a lot of the variable guidelines especially with vim spells say they affect spells/creatures up to base effect +x magniutdes

johns (GM): yeah

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Can a lower level spell still weaken a Might score, even if it doesn't reduce it to 0?

johns (GM): Yes

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

johns (GM): And since Might increases spell resistance, for a powerful foe you probably would have to incrementally cast small to large mightkilling spells

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

Makes sense.

Now what's all this business about harvesting faeries for vis?

johns (GM): If you reduce a spiritual creature to 0 Might, it disappears and leaves no vis

If you kill its physical form, you can harvest vis from the remains

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, interesting.

Ok.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, goodnight

Endrite: Here's a question, how many people can we expect to make it to a game in a given week?

Bonfilia of Verditius: probably one more than today on average

johns (GM): cthinker said in advance he couldn't make it today so I assume it was just a fluke

dunno about darvin and not sure about ropekid

Endrite: I'm real antsy because we're down to 3 players in Pendragon.

johns (GM): okand and bonghits are out

Dys would join us if nihnoz wasn't being a turd and hosting a game the same day as us

Endrite: Well, give it 3 weeks.

johns (GM): i haven't asked karlnp but I assume he's too depressed to game still

Endrite: He isn't too depressed to play Overwatch!

johns (GM): liesmith is too busy being a normie

sigh  are we entering the dark ages of badgame TTRPG

Bonfilia of Verditius: playing sports of all things

Endrite: Shameful.

Bonfilia of Verditius: what a god damn normie

Endrite: You could try reaching out to other people.

johns (GM): We solicited the general tabletop thread

plutonis was in til timezone made it an issue.. who else would you suggest?

Endrite: I dunno.

I'll try asking my friend Coolio.

johns (GM): oh that'd be sick, coolio rules

Arrividerci

Bonfilia of Verditius:

rolling d10!

(

2

)

=

2

rolling d10!

(

6

)

=

6

rolling d10

(

7

)

=

7

Endrite: What're you rolling?

Bonfilia of Verditius: experimentation

Endrite: Ah.

Bonfilia of Verditius: The spell has a major flaw. For example, a healing spell causes its targets great pain.

Endrite: Oh no.

Bonfilia of Verditius: this is on the effect that gives people leprosy

Endrite: What a terrible result for you.

Bonfilia of Verditius: so i guess... it cures leprosy???

Endrite: It gives people leprosy but their sores smell pleasant.

Like a fresh meadow.

Bonfilia of Verditius: and again

rolling d10!

(

6

)

=

6

rolling d10!

(

8

)

=

8

rolling d10

(

9

)

=

9

Complete Failure, season is wasted

Endrite: RIP.

Bonfilia of Verditius: at least the item didnt break

Endrite: Wait so the first roll is your bonus, right?

Bonfilia of Verditius: yes

first roll bonus, second roll extraordinary results

Endrite: What about the third roll?

Bonfilia of Verditius: third roll was for side effect on first experiment, and to see if item broke on second experiment

Endrite: Ah.

Bonfilia of Verditius: looks like my hubris got the better of me

I almost managed to finish the item this year

Endrite: Well at least your magic bread won't be stuck with sub-par leprosy.

Bonfilia of Verditius: actually it will

Endrite: Oh no.

Bonfilia of Verditius: the major flaw is still there from the first experiment

Endrite: So the spell with the flaw is the second spell, right?

Bonfilia of Verditius: next year ill just read some more perdo summa and finish the item without experiments, to make sure I dont break it and waste all our vis

yes

Endrite: Ok.

What're you thinking for the flaw?

Bonfilia of Verditius: dunno, probably something that makes the disease really easy to survive

right now the ease factor is i think only 6?

so maybe half of that, ease factor 3

Endrite: Is that with 5/3?

An ease factor of 3 seems awfully low.

Bonfilia of Verditius: its just d10+stamina

Endrite: In addition it doesn't seem appropriate for the Major Flaw described.

The Healing spell still works at full potency, but it has a deleterious side effect that doesn't interfere with the specific nature of the spell.

Bonfilia of Verditius: hmm

Endrite: So reducing the ease factor doesn't seem appropriate for a curse, since it's just weakening the spell's potency.

Bonfilia of Verditius: since it is a spell seeking to do harm, the major flaw should be beneficial in some manner

Endrite: That's what I was thinking.

Also it should only count for people who fail the Stamina check.

Bonfilia of Verditius: true

maybe the spell doesnt show any outward signs of leprosy

Endrite: Worse, they look better than usual.

Bonfilia of Verditius: The Fashionable Leper

Endrite: Rosy cheeks, pale skin, and so on.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+3 Studying Terram Vis

(

5

)

+3

=

8

Endrite: Yep, that's Terram Vis alright.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It takes a full season to reach that conclusion

Endrite: You should join my mystery cult, then you'd be able to recognize vis with a Rote.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i can just rely on my sodales to properly sort and file the vis in the right slot

rolling 1d10!+2+5 Refining Lab

(

7

)

+2+5

=

14

Endrite: Say goodbye to all the untyped vis!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: :(

johns (GM):

rolling 1d2

(

1

)

=

1

rolling 1d5

(

4

)

=

4

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

rolling 1d4

(

3

)

=

3

rolling 3d10

(

10

+

10

+

1

)

=

21

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

rolling 3d10

(

6

+

10

+

2

)

=

18

cthinker: Cthinker's Magus here

Darvin: Darvin's Magus here

cthinker: my beloved rival showed up while i was gone last week right