4/29/18

Endrite (GM): Moe. you should set up your magus character sheet with a token and a link to his or her stats.

moe: aknowledged

looking up how

Endrite (GM): How to do what?

moe: yeah

Endrite (GM): Yeah what?

moe: oh, making a token

apparently drag and drop

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Do you have Tokentools?

That's the standard method, but if you have another way of doing it that's fine.

moe: looking for a good picture

Endrite (GM): Could you make the link a hyperlink?

moe: what's the tag

Endrite (GM): Use the Insert Link button.

moe: oh lmao

also my dude's token is a little big

Endrite (GM): Oh there should be an automatic resizer.

Here you go, resized.

moe: solid, now all he needs is the title

Looking about ready

Endrite (GM): If you want to resize the token permanently you can select it, open your character sheet and then select Use Selected Token.

devil's fav demon: Noice.

moe: i'm refreshing my astrology

devil's fav demon: i just pumped my parma magica as much as our library would allow and it still feels low. i miss Bialas.

rip...

Endrite (GM): Yeah, rip.

moe: 30 minutes left, correct?

Endrite: Yes.

moe: Got it

Endrite: ACTUALLY, it's 26.

moe: When you've got the weight of planetary movements on your shoulders, 5 minutes to or fro don't shake up the balance

Shauncat: Hey gamers

devil's fav demon: yo

dys: hi shaun cat

Endrite: Something came up and I'm going to be a little late.

c'thinker: salve

Endrite: Also I might have to go AFK for a while later today.

Just assume Mortis is down for whatever the adventure is.

johns (GM): i need another 10 m to get coffee and food and such

moe: cool

johns (GM): now t'would be a great time for Moe's Magus to introduce themselves.

moe: Without a set scene, I'll assume as player: Dušan comes from a hermit tradition of Criamon practiced in the hills of Raška. His education was erratic as is expected of Criamon and he learned as muc habout stars as he did about the particulars of making a decent meal, as his parens required. He embarked on his current quest, a sort of giving away gift from his parens, after being woken in the middle of the night, given cryptic charts to interpret and being pushed out of the cottage where he studied. After days of attempting realizing his goal is not Ragusa but perhaps Rome or even further west, and erratic attempts to swim there, he boarded a boat and arrived in the big city practically penniless and with little clue as to how to navigate the area.

That's about where I want him, tabula rasa, ready for what the party requires.

johns (GM): Excellent

(To moe): Is he on his way to Vardian's Tomb or unaware of its existence

moe: I will assume he read what was necessary

he's aware of greek communities on the peninsula, due to shared faith

johns (GM): Then it is on this fine day in early June that a tattooed foreigner shows up in the Eastern Ear Inn.

Celeste: "Hey, never seen this guy before."

johns (GM) cues Stones.wav

c'thinker: or have you???

Celeste: Probably not.

I think I have enough OoH Lore to recognize him as a hermetic magus, though, so I'll go alert the boys.

c'thinker: maybe you should invest in some enigma

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, perfect, you've arrived. I'll gather the others, introductions are in order."

Dušan of Criamon: without skipping a beat, Dušan recognizes a fated encounter

Archibald of Guernicus: Your magus is recently gauntleted, I take it?

Dušan of Criamon: so it would appear to him, but perhaps his final send-off is the gauntlet? Only the heavens can know for sure

Fiorella of Jerbiton: For a Criamon your gauntlet is a koan I believe

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll send word throughout the covenant that we have a new member, recently gauntleted and joining us.

Dušan of Criamon: Dušan did struggle through the annual riddles, this year's riddle came earlier but the parens wasn't one for long speeches, or visible signs of approval

for practical puposes I think we can count him as having passed

Beardbeard (GM): i thought you said there was non game today

you lied to me johns

Celeste: "We should all have a drink to celebrate the occasion" I say through my fifth cup of wine.

johns (GM): Ah, thak you for the reminder, game cancelled

Archibald of Guernicus: phew

Dušan of Criamon: oh thank god I was beginning to have stage fright

struggling to mix and match latin with picked up pidgin Dušan orders "uno vino"

johns (GM): The old Ildebrando, napping hunched over the bar, stirs at the sound of a drink order.

Ildebrando: "Enh... oh, messages for you, sires"

Guy of Bonisagus: whats happening

johns can tell me since its his fault

Celeste: "In town because of the big parliament?"

Ildebrando: "Messengers came by earlier, guess I fell asleep"

Fiorella of Jerbiton gives her vulture a bone.

Ildebrando: He slips two letters onto the bar -- the first, a crude hand drawned missive on paper, the other, a proper letter with signet seal. Then he nods off again.

Archibald of Guernicus: Introductions complete, I invoke the Venator Clause that lets the leader of the covenant disappear into their lab for the rest of the adventure.

Ildebrando: gah!!

c'thinker: gahahaha.

Ildebrando: The first letter: "We summon you. Meet us at the Sapienza Provost's House." There is no signature except a paw print.

Archibald of Guernicus: Unless you needed me around for this Johns. I'll be nice, despite you being a vicious troll.

Ildebrando: The second letter: "The Baron Sangallo di Conti wishes the council of the wise men of Vardian's Tomb, and invites you to his court at the Torre delle Milizie. All hospitality is respectfully extended and the Baron expresses his intent to reward your valuable time."

(To Archibald of Guernicus): if no one else steps up you will have to take the lead today. gaha

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. time for a party split

Dušan of Criamon: power move

Archibald of Guernicus: "Does this mean anything to anyone?" I show the paw print letter

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah! A cat wrote this. Trickery!"

Guy of Bonisagus: I don't know. I roll Natural Philosophy to understand it.

rolling 1d10+7

(

5

)

+7

=

12

Celeste: Can I roll OoH lore to see if it's something related to the old dead bear

Guy of Bonisagus: which animal does this come from

Ildebrando: 'tis a cat's paw.

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's a cat's print, Archibald."

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+1+3 per + ooh

(

2

)

+1+3

=

6

nice roll.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Cat, huh. I thought for a moment it might be that werewolf from ages back."

Oh

Ildebrando: As far as you knew, Bialas had nothing to do with cats except eating them

Archibald of Guernicus: is that the place we met the mechanical cats, johns?

Ildebrando: It's not, last time you dealt with them was the Podesta's house

Archibald of Guernicus: hm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea wanders up from below, holding a small vial of mercury.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Avete."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll meet with the cat, as I am inoffensive to them.

Guy of Bonisagus: story hook: children have gone missing near podestas house

Rosario of Flambeau walks in eating and apple. He spits it out as soon as he spots Guli

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I hear we have a new sodalis?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "You made it back!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Gulielmus is back! My God, I hadn't noticed."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah i was going to teleport back in the last adventure but couldnt get through the aegis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Welcome back, Gulielmus."

Ildebrando: wrecked.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but hes definitely been back for a while.

Rosario of Flambeau: "You must have plenty of tales of adventure and derring-do to reagale us with."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I-"

"I've been back for months!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Really?"

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, I've been out on errands.

Archibald of Guernicus: I shed a tear "Of course you have, Gulielmus, of course you have."

Dušan of Criamon practically spills his cup trying to turn around and shake the new arrival's hand

Ildebrando: "Hey everyone! Gulielmus is here! Gulielmus has come to see us!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus christ be praised

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I've been busy in the lab."

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, salve, zdravo, sacra"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Flora needs her education and all."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I guess time flies when you're studying this damn mercury."

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is Dusan of Criamon, Gulielmus, a new addition to our covenant."

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus's new flaw where he automatically turns to perfect face mecca whenever he thanks anyone

perfectly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

that would be a good twilight scar.

Dušan of Criamon: convenient for navigation

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Criamon, huh?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea gives Dusan a suspicious look, then shrugs.

Ildebrando: what rpg is this ong from

Dušan of Criamon: "We mostly referred to ourselves as hill men, but yes, we trace our lineage to the house"

Ildebrando: its weird

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well, welcome to the tomb."

"My name is Gulielmus ex Miscellanea, but please, call me Guillaume."

the crowd goes WILD at gulielmus's beloved signature phrase

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Fiorella Zeno, follower of Jerbiton."

Archibald of Guernicus: "As our correspondence no doubt clued you in, I am Archibald of Guernicus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am pretty sure beatrice tried to trick gulielmus into thinking criamon is an infernal house, but she turned out to be a liar, parricide, torturer, etc

Rosario of Flambeau: "Welcome to our humble home, Dušan. May Christ be with you."

Dušan of Criamon: wiping hsi wine-stained hands on his tunic; "Thank you for the kind welcome, I'm known simply as Dušan. Our kind lives simply, I hope not to take up much of your resources and wish to work for all I spend."

Archibald of Guernicus: And here she is now to debate that! [crowd goes wild, pit opens in celebration]

Ildebrando: You... you do love Christ and accept him as your savior, right

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Parrotcide? How ghastly.

Dušan of Criamon: obviously

Ildebrando: whew.

Dušan of Criamon: i mean if we end up in the same sermon you might notice eccentricities

Endrite: Ok I'm back.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He loves Jesus, just look at the fat, bald statue of Jesus he carries around.

Dušan of Criamon: but until then it's classic flavor

Endrite: I dealt with the problem.

Ildebrando: better a heretic than a heathen imo.

Endrite: Uh, who moved the map?

Rosario of Flambeau: rip some barking dog in california

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

johns (GM): To recap, you have 2 invitations presented to you, one to a cat at Sapienza, one to a baron you've never met before, or you could decide to do nothing and I go back to sleep

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "We can make the baron wait. What are we, court magicians?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I will meet the cat

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps we should divide our efforts, sodales. We have those best suited to one affair, and others, to the other."

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, as a magus I never leave my lab and will always refuse the call to adventure.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll meet with the cat

Mortis ex Verditus: J/K let's go talk to the Baron.

Archibald of Guernicus: "This cat print has me intrigued, so I'll attend to it."

johns (GM): drop some tokens on the board

Fiorella of Jerbiton: With inoffensive to animals, the path is clear

johns (GM): should we split party or is it okay to go in sequence

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I also put up Aura of Ennobled Presence as this seems to be a social outing.

Mortis ex Verditus: What kind of cat is it?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They're both in Rome, I don't really see a need for a party split

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why, what if the cat print is the mark of some league of assassins"

?

johns (GM): Nevio and Violante are both gone right Endrite

Rosario of Flambeau: they're with the flagellants iirc

johns (GM): They're beating their meats

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's an odd fit for VIolante but w/e

johns (GM): Alright, we'll hit up Sapienza first.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: No one really needed her any more anyway, well Gulielmus might but that's his concern

Guy of Bonisagus: a fifth fiorella token has hit the twin adventures

Rosario of Flambeau: i kind of want to get nevio back though. he's a useful guy.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sorry ok, I'm back for real.

Yes, Nevio and Violante are both gone.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, Sapienza."

johns (GM): Your trek through the city is blessedly uneventful. The regular rabble of beggars, robbers, conmen, and prostitutes are missing. In their place are jubilent commoners and criminals hanging from nooses from windows.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I walk to Sapienza like a normal person and not a bird I guess.

Mortis ex Verditus: Huzzah!

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, Pluto in the 12th. That makes sense."

Mortis ex Verditus: Anyone selling these criminals?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is terrible news for vardians tomb

devil's fav demon: luckily Nevio is unaging so we can wait as long as we want to get him back

johns (GM): No, Mortis

I'm sure it won't stop you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how will we recruit new combat grogs if the supply of murderers dries up

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: What do I look like, some kind of common criminal?

Guy of Bonisagus: what happened

whys everyone happy

Archibald of Guernicus: An uncommon criminal, at the very least

read the thread

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they established a peoples republic

Rosario of Flambeau: "Finally, some respectable law and order around this city."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Violante is an untrustworthy herbwife so the flagellants have probably already executed her for witchcraft.

johns (GM): Tis no bother for you to find the Provost's house, and his servant is expecting you, showing you inside to old associates of yours: Ailuros & Maahes

Mortis ex Verditus: Quick, hide the sack.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Do the crime, and it's time, for you to be publicly slain, I always say."

Ailuros: "There you are, finally."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is archibald the only magus who was around for the cats

Rosario of Flambeau: I think so.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Executed? By commoners? Hardly seems like justice."

Ailuros: It is feasible you've been in contact since then.

Since they have promised to show you some ancient ruins (whenever the GM can fit such an adventure in)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: (gahaha)

Mortis ex Verditus: Looks like they're doing it right now!

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, are the commoners the ones doing the executing?

Dušan of Criamon: begins mumbling: "Very smart, very clever to begin bloodletting now that Pluto is in the final house..."

Ailuros: indeed Rosario

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald and Zita are the only people who met them

Rosario of Flambeau: I thought they were just hanging out celebrating at all the officially executed corpses.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh oops i somehow unfavorited the ars italia thread

Ailuros: "New friends of yours, Archibald?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I've only heard of the cats by reputation

Guy of Bonisagus: no wonder i missed this stuff

Ailuros looks over the many strange new PCs

Mortis ex Verditus: The people. united, can never be kept from executing enemies of the state, I always say.

Rosario of Flambeau: In that case, this is an extremely sinful breach of the process of justice.

Ailuros: Guy of Bonisagus: oh oops i somehow unfavorited the ars italia thread

Ailuros does the pepe face

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If only the scholars here could have seen what I saw in the East."

Rosario of Flambeau: You need to be noble or at least a Flambeau to indiscriminately sentence people to death.

Mortis ex Verditus: But which vile and racist face are you referring to?

Ailuros: Suddenly a horrible magic frog appears, no not that frog, the frog that sings songs about cuckolds

Archibald of Guernicus: "The constant change of life, that's all. Time marches on for all of us."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Staring pepe is not racist

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they just need to declare universal nobility

Ailuros: "Really? Speak for yourself."

Ailuros sparkles agelessly

Guy of Bonisagus: oh wait no i just somehow hid it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ah, they live outside of time, like the skull."

Dušan of Criamon: "No, I have to agree, it is a good time for contemplating the mysteries of life and death. On a more practical note however I hope nobody desires our throats to meet rope."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Surely they wouldn't. We are all law abiding men of Christ."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: stringini

Archibald of Guernicus: "Good point. Rest assured, anyhow, these are my sodales and you can speak with them as you did the ones before."

devil's fav demon: oh speaking of time marching on i should advance prudenzio's sheet and try to bring him back for one last confrontation before he just dies of natural causes

Mortis ex Verditus: "How were you able to keep your catspaws out of the noose, cat?"

Ailuros: you can always let him spend years in a timeless regio to cheat death

Maahes Tyreos licks his metal paw

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea stops musing about the superiority of the Arab.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, hello."

Maahes Tyreos: "Who'd want to harm us? We're harmless. Really with all this nonsense people are shouting nowadays about bringing back the old ways you'd think they'd appreciate us even more. Not that we'll make ourselves known."

"But it brings up our problem. And I do mean ours, yours and mine."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Something you need assistance with?"

"Of course I would be proud to help some, uh,"

whispering "What are these cats, anyway?"

Maahes Tyreos: "I'm sure you remember Podesta Bonaccorso? Til recently one of our most useful assets. But recently he's thrown his lot in with that upstart Tribune and his band of merry men. We haven't even been able to get an audience with him."

Mortis ex Verditus: "They're experimental subjects who escaped from Verdi."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Can't blame them."

"No offense to you, Mortis."

Archibald of Guernicus: Think at this point the magus involved is probably dead of old age or twilight

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Experimenting on sentient creatures? How unbecoming. That's what normal animals are for."

Mortis ex Verditus: "That old fool Harpalos never knew what he was doing at the best of times."

Ailuros: "We don't know what it is, but there's some in that crowd who seem able to see through our illusions. You have no idea how much some people get worked up at the sight of a talking metal cat."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Faith does grant some men resistance to magic."

Fiorella of Jerbiton pets her vulture

Mortis ex Verditus: "This sounds like your problem, not ours."

Ailuros: "A ridiculously short-sighted view, typical of one who has lived so short a life."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Normally, magic resistance doesn't affect the form of Imaginem like that. That does sound problematic."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Speak for yourself. It's not every day I can help a talking mechanical cat, much less two of them."

Maahes Tyreos: Maahes sighs and explains as if talking to a child. "Our little project here at Sapienza has done wonders for tolerance of the Ars Magica. Without us you'll have to deal with the Church and its army of backwards theologians yourself."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We carry each others' burdens to fulfill the law of Chri-"

"Backwards theologians?"

Maahes Tyreos: "Second. Today the mob goes after the criminals. Tomorrow the nobles. The day after, then what? Remember Hypatia of Alexandria, Magi."

Mortis ex Verditus: Everyone cheers and applauds when they hear the title of the game.

"No mob would ever be so foolish as to attack Vardian's Tomb. Who has done the most good for this city, after all?"

Rosario of Flambeau: I still want to help the cats but I'm wary now that they're talking shit about the church.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Apart from the times that mobs gathered outside the tomb."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well, that's before I joined."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Or the knights hospitalier stormed it."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Our good works may have been a bit too altruistic to get such proper recognition."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Are we counting the Knights as a mob?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Now you don't have to worry about such trivialities."

Maahes Tyreos: "If crowds respected the Good there would be no martyrs in this world."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well said."

Mortis ex Verditus: I scoff.

Ailuros: "Really it's quite obvious how things would go, but I guess that's the benefit of a few thousand years of experience."

Mortis ex Verditus: "It's 1346, the dawn of a new era!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "You say they just see through illusions?" I ask, bringing things around to more important matters

Mortis ex Verditus: "Once this crisis is solved then war will be a thing of the past."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the realm of reason is upon us.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Miraculous sight is known to exist, but not in such great numbers of people as to be troubling."

Ailuros: "You might recall we have certain abilities to alter men's minds, to let them regard the exceptional as mundane. Quite handy given our current form. Yet some in the Tribune's crowd have proven immune, or the effects have worn off much faster than predicted."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Maybe it's not an enhanced sight, but a diminished illusion."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: bring me up to speed; these mechanical cats normally disguise themselves using magic as regular cats, correct? We see through their disguise based on our gift or do they turn off the disguises out of politeness?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ah"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ah, the form of Mentem. That's a bit different. Merely carrying a relic around might be enough to block out such beguilement."

Mortis ex Verditus: They can Cloud Men's Minds to appear as regular cats.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Does God favor the republic?"

Ailuros: i can pull up the mechanical explanation of that power, one sec

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do they just use the bialas strat

Mortis ex Verditus: I think so.

Well, kind of.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do you mind an examination of how your power works? It would aid in discovering how some are bypassing it."

Mortis ex Verditus: Nobody thinks bejeweled mechanical cats are normal.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's go to Constantinople and learn to augment the cats.

Ailuros: Tranquility of the Purring Cat, 0

points, Init +0, Mentem:

The anima can inspire a

sense of supernatural calm in

a small group of people by

purring. Those affected are

Ailuros: oblivious to strange goings

on (rhinoceroses crashing

through the door, a pair of

animated metal cats walking

down the street, and so on.)

The targets perceive events

Ailuros: normally, but while Maahes

purrs, they react to even the

most outlandish events as if

they were perfectly normal

occurrences unworthy of

comment. The power persists

Ailuros: for as long as Maahes

keeps purring and, with repeated

applications, can affect

several groups simultaneously.

ReMe 34: Base 4, +2

Voice, +1 Concentration, +2

Ailuros: Group; +5 levels for device

to maintain concentration,

+4 levels for 12 uses per day.

(Mechanica Level: 21)

Mortis ex Verditus: "I would be happy to perform an examination. Perhaps your powers are fading with age."

Dušan of Criamon: ReMe34, I don't think my guy could beat that with his InMe

Ailuros: Maahes also has a power similar to Aura of Rightful Authority, and Ailuros a power to implant complex mental suggestions into people's minds.

They hiss at Mortis' offer.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A verditius-style examination would be far too long for all this, I'm afraid. Though this aura is absolutely stifling, we should move elsewhere."

"Intellego Vim is all we need here."

Mortis ex Verditus: Penetration is calculated separately from spell level.

For enchanted devices, like these cats, penetration needs to be installed at creation and is otherwise 0.

Guy of Bonisagus: brb

Ailuros: Mechanica work a little differently from Magical Creatures, they are more similar to Enchanted Items

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

You can learn to instill those effects yourself if you have the breakthrough

Ailuros: You could gain breakthrough points by dissecting the cats, if you like.

Mortis ex Verditus: Could be good, but what's the point when people just throw away perfectly good automatons?

Dušan of Criamon: I suspect they'd be opposed

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The flagellants we encountered last year had their hands on a powerful relic, as I recall."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Is there anything special about the people who notice you?"

Archibald of Guernicus: My idea was to find out that its a mentem effect by checking the magic effect with InVi in a nicer aura. That'll confirm that it's being blocked by MR, rather than simply an illusion being bypassed.

Ailuros: "None that we've noticed. We've been limiting direct contact.. It's always easier and safer for us to work through mundane servants, such as the Podesta."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The cats have already given enough contextual clues to figure out it's Mentem

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they already told us it influences minds

Archibald of Guernicus: fair enough

Ailuros: you already InVi'd one of their mentem effects when they cast it on Napolino, you may recall

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They already said they affect reasoning faculties and don't create illusions

Errr, estimation faculties

Archibald of Guernicus: ah alright

Mortis ex Verditus: I think the clear answer here is to become part of the vanguard of the Republic.

Guy of Bonisagus: hi

Ailuros: "Our spies tell us that Flavio has taken residence at the Senator's Palazzo on the Capitoline Hill. Either he regards his own house as beneath him or is trying to hide from us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: salve

have to say mortis is right.

Mortis ex Verditus: Which family is he from?

Ailuros: None, he was a Commoner

Rosario of Flambeau: Gasp.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well, sounds good to me.

Ailuros: A goldsmith by trade who rose to Podesta with the cat's help.

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe these people are developing true faith and gaining 10 MR.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll take the side of Venetia in such a conflict

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe they're receiving magic resistance from holding high office in a legitimate government blessed by God

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, let's see what he has to say and then experiment on these cats.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: MR conferred by being Faggot Jollybottoms, master of the sea chanty

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they DO need some food.

Rosario of Flambeau: All very reasonably hypotheses.

ble.

Ailuros: alright MOrtis has a plan. all in favor

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, we should at least do the first part.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm in favor

Mortis ex Verditus: That's all I'm asking.

Archibald of Guernicus: Time to investigate

Guy of Bonisagus: lets kill the enemy.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm sure you'll come to understand the wisdom of the second part of the plan.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Inoffensive to Cats isn't doing much for me here so I have no special reason to protect them from Mortis

Mortis ex Verditus: They aren't real animals anyway.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the sinister mind control cats are fine i'm sure.

Rosario of Flambeau: I think they're cool but if they keep dissing God I'm going to slay them or look the other way while they're being slain.

Ailuros: if you want to kill faggot jollybottoms and harvest his delicious vis you can do so

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: powers: control mind (lesser), control mind (group), control mind (greater), enslave mind

Mortis ex Verditus: Weakness: Sacks, dogs

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could think of some justifications for them being animallike, in that you cannot open a Mechanica that doesn't represent some platonic animal form, but I'm not the storyguide so such argumentation is pointless

Ailuros: Oh Shaun they aren't being rude to you because of the gift

They're rude because they're assholes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That's fine

It just doesn't make me stand out either

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, they're cats.

Ailuros: anyway. The Senator's Palazzo is at the top of the Capitoline Steps, a fine residence constructed about a century ago

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea scans the image for anachronisms

Mortis ex Verditus: Mission complete.

The glass is reflective.

Ailuros: In addition to the usual footmen guarding the doors are a rabble of commoners and beggars -- soldiers of the revolution -- sitting and patrolling about it with fanatic devotion. They are armed with little more than clubs and makeshift bludgeons but look dedicated.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: electric lighting

EU flag

Ailuros: Spot and circle all anachronisms to win a prize

Dušan of Criamon: the prize is shame

Rosario of Flambeau: "This is a joke. These are mostly untrained poor."

Mortis ex Verditus: Lookin' good!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also all of the flags next to the EU flag

johns (GM): Trick question, the entire building here was not constructed until 1484 and is 100% anachronism.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: holy shit.

Rosario of Flambeau: Gah!

Dušan of Criamon: pwned

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm giving you a respectful nod.

Guy of Bonisagus: wow

Mortis ex Verditus: But you'll noticed I mostly circled the neighboring buildings.

Guy of Bonisagus: those guards are really small

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "This very much stinks of someone having magic resistance when they shouldn't."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You have to respect their fervor, at least."

Dušan of Criamon: "I respect their numbers, if nothing else."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Stand aside citizens, I am a representative of Vardian's Tomb here to speak with the podesta about a matter of civic importance."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's right, we're with the Magician's Guild."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Very important magical business."

Archibald of Guernicus: Lavinia would have loved this

johns (GM): The rabble close ranks. "I've never 'eard of no Magician's Guild"

Mortis ex Verditus: Curses!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "That's because you're rabble."

johns (GM): They size you up.

Who is wearing fancy cloaks today

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea turns to his sodales.

Rosario of Flambeau puffs his chest out

Guy of Bonisagus: i am dressed like a monk as usual

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have an impressive floppy hat

Dušan of Criamon: Stained, worn tunic here

Archibald of Guernicus: My inventory contains a very fancy cloak

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm dressed in full armor and carrying a greatsword as always.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And a dress woven of exotic feathers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I thought you were setting up a magicians' guild."

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm wearing chainmail.

Rosario of Flambeau: Chainmail ftw.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The hat is also a fine leather.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Come now, my friends, no need to be so on edge. We are in joyous times, aren't we?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nothing but Animal or Corpus on my person

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am still not sure about the status of my fancy cloak.

johns (GM): "The Kwestors said they weren't to be disturbed"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but regardless any wool or leather i have is under The Appropriate Attire

Guy of Bonisagus: "Of course. Not to be disturbed by unimportant matters. But this is a very important meeting, I assure you."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Ah well then that's just fine, Archibald is a Quaesitor himself!"

johns (GM): They look at Archibald very suspiciously.

Mortis ex Verditus: Blatant Giftedly.

"Just tell the podesta that we're here to discuss the cat problem in Rome."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: big a in the back with the blatant gift

johns (GM): "Who sent you? You one of Orsini's lapdogs?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have a spell for creating dresses

Archibald of Guernicus: "Perhaps" I cough "It wouldnae be best to put me forward as our representative here."

johns (GM): "The rat problem? There's no rats here"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Maybe we should tell them that we've killed two Orsinis." I suggest to the more gently gifted magi

Mortis ex Verditus: "I said 'cats.'"

"As you know, with no rats in Rome, the cats have become one of the great pests of our age."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Lack of cats is a rat problem, as well."

johns (GM): "Alright hang on, dont get your tunics in a twist"

A chain of whispers passes from rabble to footmen to someone inside and eventually back your way

Rosario of Flambeau: "Some operation they've got here."

johns (GM): "Leave your blades out here, we're all friends inside"

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm bladeless.

Rosario of Flambeau: "No."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Fine by me."

johns (GM): The rabble growl and grip their clubs and rocks and roof tiles menacingly.

Mortis ex Verditus: Some mothefuckers always try to ice skate up hill.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Staff alright?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Maybe you'd prefer to wait outside and guard the building, Rosario."

Rosario of Flambeau: "If we're to have an escort, they can hold my sword, so long as it remains in sight."

Dušan of Criamon: "That should be acceptable to the locals, no? They hold the blade after all."

johns (GM): A Rabbler tells you you were going to be escorted no matter what, and no one brings weapons into the Tribune's home.

Mortis ex Verditus: "An excellent solution, well done."

AFK a sec.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Wait back at the aerie," I say to my vutlure, who flies home.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not leaving my sword either, or with someone else, it's too magical.

Guy of Bonisagus: i do not carry a weapon

and thus havent developed paraonia

Archibald of Guernicus: Blatant stink is too powerful for this social adventure, I'll retire for now and tag my companion in when we move on from this bit.

johns (GM): Very well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs and hands over his staff.

johns (GM): So Guy, Mortis, Gulielmus, and Dusan are all unarmed and can go in OK

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I never get to keep the staff."

johns (GM): Dusen is a criamon style pacifist who doesnt need weapons right?

Dušan of Criamon: Unless they object to a handful of assorted berries and a single bean

Rosario of Flambeau: "Sodales, come with me for a moment."

johns (GM): THey don't, but they do eye it hungrily

Rosario of Flambeau: I walk around a corner.

Dominion 3...

Hmmm....

Never mind, there's no possible way I can cast the invisibility spell in this aura.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: should of brought some vis

Rosario of Flambeau: I throw my sword on the ground at the rabble's feet.

johns (GM): They pick it up and marvel at its craftsmanship.

Rosario joins the party.

Rosario of Flambeau: It's a completely normal greatsword of average craftsmanship and it's chipped and worn.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good.

Rosario of Flambeau: I just don't like giving it up.

johns (GM): A mob of rabble presses with you along the way inside, taking you up to the door of the Podesta's room and not following within.

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's very valuable. You'd better give it back."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I only have my casting tools which all seem as fashion accessories

Flavio Bonaccorso: Fiorella and Guy are the only Gentle Gifters in this group?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wtf

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm not gentle gifted

Flavio Bonaccorso: oh snap.

Okay Guy. You are the sole hope of this enterprise.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm too masculine to be gently gifted.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i kill the gm

rolling 1d10!+16

(

9

)

+16

=

25

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have Charm specced for Gift compensation

And I have Aura up

Flavio Bonaccorso: Guy is short for Gulielmus, of course.

Rosario of Flambeau: I need to invent a version of Disarm the Warrior with AC range so I can just summon my sword to my hand from anywhere.

Flavio Bonaccorso: The old important looking man is in a nice chamber guarded by a couple swordsmen. He doesn't seem to recognize you. "Yes?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+2+1+3-3 Charm (overcoming the gift) + Aura of Ennobled Presence

(

6

)

+2+1+3-3

=

9

Dušan of Criamon: in the back of my mind i'm thikning about The unseen Porter re: sword

Mortis ex Verditus: "Hello, I'm from Vardian's Tomb."

"I'd like to discuss your cat problem."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ave."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salve."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Fiorella Zen of Venice."

Flavio Bonaccorso gestures to a table with seats. Unfortunately there's only 2 chairs and 7 PCs.

Mortis ex Verditus: I sit.

Dušan of Criamon humbly bows his head in silence

Rosario of Flambeau: Luckily, I love standing up while everyone else sits.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Guy and Gul can hae the seats due to being the gentles

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone conjure some chairs

Guy of Bonisagus: ok ill sit

Flavio Bonaccorso: "I knew some of your kind before. Proclus and Beatrice I believe their names were."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: spontaneously, in the dominion aura

Rosario of Flambeau: are the guards equipped with greatswords or single weapon sized swords?

Flavio Bonaccorso: Single Weapons + Shields

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

Mortis ex Verditus: Arming swords?

Side swords?

Flavio Bonaccorso: Falchions.

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll station myself near an open window in case you guys get us attacked.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic.

"That sounds right."

"Sadly, Proclus and Beatrice are no longer with us."

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm afraid they both attained their heavenly reward a few years ago."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh wait I can just teleport back to VT

Well I need to be a bird first so w/e

Rosario of Flambeau: remember the -9 from aura and added botch dice.

Flavio Bonaccorso: "My condolences. I take it you're still dealing with Ailuros & Maahes then."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If you can call it that. I hadn't met them until today."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Cloak of Black Feathers goes off regardless of -9 unstressed

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Mortis ex Verditus: "They're quite burdensome. I understand you refuse to see them."

Flavio Bonaccorso: "So what brings you here then? Respectfully these are busy times so if we can cut to the chase..."

"Well.. They have their plots and plans but it's not a good time to deal with those. Great things are afoot."

Mortis ex Verditus: "They're tawdry machinations have certainly been eclipsed by this marvelous enterprise."

Flavio Bonaccorso: "If you want to call it that."

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah that's right, I wrote "they're" instead of "their".

Dušan of Criamon: all is forgiven

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Don't you?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "They are fundamentally incapable of reacting to the problems of to-day."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Great things?"

Flavio Bonaccorso: "I see it more as a force of nature, like a great wind threatening to blow down a forest. The reeds that can bend in the wind survive and the trees will perish."

"Not the best metaphor these days but, you get what I mean."

"More upheaval, madam. I understand you are nobility but it is best not to introduce yourself that way these days."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Perhaps it would be better for everyone if they were relocated to a safer location."

"The cats that is. not the nobility."

Flavio Bonaccorso: "You don't seem to care for them. What's your agenda here, then?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I shall keep it to polite company, then. I can come up with a good alias later."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We just wanted to hear your side of the story. What scheme did they conjure up that made you abandon them?"

Flavio Bonaccorso: "It's not that I just.. think it safer for myself to go along with Rienzi's 'revolution' for the time."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Are they against it?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Are you being kept here against your will?"

Flavio Bonaccorso: "Guards, leave us."

"I'm no prisoner but you're not far from the mark."

Mortis ex Verditus: I really like that tokens slide around now.

Flavio Bonaccorso: "My son is quite taken with Rienzi's rhetoric and is one of his devoted lieutenants. For his sake I play along."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Were you a prisoner before?"

"To the cats, I mean."

gulielmus the smoothest man on earth

Mortis ex Verditus: He is.

Flavio Bonaccorso: "They like to consider themselves the boss but our relationship has been mutually beneficial."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Is Rhenzi the one immune to the cats?

Mortis ex Verditus: "An attitude common to cats of all make and manufacture."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ah, family is... Well, I don't understand personally, but I've heard it can make for hard choices."

Flavio Bonaccorso: not established yet fiorella

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

Rosario of Flambeau: afk for a moment sorry

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It can."

Mortis ex Verditus: "They are quite worried about the pentitential processions that have grown in popularity."

"It seems like it causes their magical control to weaken."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Would you like us to relay that message back?"

Flavio Bonaccorso: "Mm.. I saw a strange episode a few days' back. One of the cats' agents was trying to rouse a crowd into rejecting Rienzi's notions as outdated nonsense."

"Rienzi showed up, whispered a few words to the man, and he changed his tune immediately. I understand he's part of Rienzi's retinue now."

Mortis ex Verditus: "I suppose even the strongest magic is no match for the power of ideas."

Flavio Bonaccorso: "About my son you mean? ... I'd ask you don't. They don't understand what family means and would do something rash I'm sure."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Merely about you finding it safest to play along."

"A cat would understand that, no?"

Flavio Bonaccorso: "Who knows what cats understand."

"They're cats."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nods sagaciously.

Flavio Bonaccorso: "Little automatons of bronze gears."

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's true."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But still."

Mortis ex Verditus: "What else do you know about the Tribune?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The royal cats of Jerbiton are quite intelligent and can explain their reasoning for many things."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Does he have any mystical pedigree that we should be aware of?"

Flavio Bonaccorso: "Until a few weeks ago I knew him solely as a notary and a demagogue. He's educated and well versed in the classics. Allegedly his brother was slain by a nobleman some time ago."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Unless we scoop them up into a sack and let Mortis take them apart, we have to tell them something, no?"

Flavio Bonaccorso: "Perhaps.. you could try to get my son out of this crowd?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Learning what kind of power this man holds seems prudent, if the Order is to have a future in Rome."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We could certainly talk to him. Getting to know what upstanding citizens think should be beneficial to him."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Lavinia would know what to do."

Mortis ex Verditus:  Looks at a cameo of Lavinia and sighs.

Flavio Bonaccorso: "I doubt you'd have more success talking to him than his father.. If I could get him to a ship I'd send him off to Paris where he can't do any harm, until this mess blows over."

Dušan of Criamon: "It would be good to catch some whispers about the man with the silver tongue."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Ah, kidnapping is a specialty of ours. Just tell us where he is."

Flavio Bonaccorso: "Last I heard he and some band of rabble were planning to take the fight to the Contis. I can only pray he hasn't gotten himself killed on this damn fool crusade."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "One of us could attempt to infiltrate them. The Parma Magica might make them resilient to persuasion."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

"At their tower?"

Guy of Bonisagus: I look around at the assembled group of stink, armor, and hedge mage.

Flavio Bonaccorso: "In the name of Christ I hope not. It would be suicide."

Guy of Bonisagus: "If that's what we want, I think I would be the best suited."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can't believe guy is going to betray the common man.

what would gulielmus of pure reason do

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Gulielmus managed to spend a good amount of time with Saracen without finding himself converted or killed."

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't know, what would you do?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'd say he's well suited to the task."

Guy of Bonisagus: guy gets persuaded that their cause is righteous and helps lead them to overwhelming victory

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hell yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: I think it's long past time we sunk that eyesore of a tower.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets have both guy and gulielmus infiltrate

and get seperated

and have a funny farce

Flavio Bonaccorso: Your Weapon Is Choice but I suggest if you want to pick a side in this struggle the whole covenant should convene and decide

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can meet up after some people go talk to the Contis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: automatically facing mecca would be a good sigil too.

Flavio Bonaccorso: t'would

Dušan of Criamon: playing all sides, sounds fun

Mortis ex Verditus: Let us CONVENE THE COUNCIL!

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay, I'm back and caught up.

johns (GM): Mortis is really keen to Interfere with the Mundanes.

so he gets Lavinia's support.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: think of all the legitimacy i have lent to the magicians guild

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, the mundanes are involved with magical powers and the mundane's son has some sort of devilish whisper ability so it's fair.

Interfere away.

johns (GM): to clarify its not flavio's son who seems blessed with the gift of gab, it's Cola di Rienzo

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Culo di rienzo.

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we should render aid and assistance to Cola di Rienzo.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh yeah.

Guy of Bonisagus: me too

Rosario of Flambeau: We should probably find out if he's being controlled by a demon, first.

Or something like that.

Mortis ex Verditus: It would be a good way to gain some legitimacy for Vardian's Tomb and push out all the interfering nobles.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should make sure the glorious republic isn't going to wipe out the magi

attempt to, i mean

obviously they cannot wipe out the magi.

Mortis ex Verditus: They won't if we help him win.

Dušan of Criamon: That's very optimistic

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: perfect.

Rosario of Flambeau: That seems like a completely unfounded assumption.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wouldn't you like to be on the right side of a mob for once?

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm always on the right side of mobs.

I'm Christian.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's send the antipopulist magi in as infiltrators and then turn them in

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If this revolution like all revolutions has some moneyed patronage that actually makes it possible, who exactly it is will influence my choice.

johns (GM): atm you are aware that Cola seems to have the Pope's support

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I won't hold that against him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, well, there you go.

Dušan of Criamon: We can pretend to be on either side, but in the end the hermetic tradition stands alone.

Archibald of Guernicus: hm, we should side with pepsi instead then

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go with Team Pope.

johns (GM): the Papal Vicar, the Pontiff's representative in Rome, was among his party when he proclaimed himself Tribune

Fiorella of Jerbiton: As I did in Corsica

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the pope... ftw

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hazm is also Team Pope, naturally

johns (GM): :pepe:

Fiorella of Jerbiton: :pope:

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: isn't hazm coptic or something

he should be fully aware that the pope is a noob

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hazm is an eastern priest

Rosario of Flambeau: which pope though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a pox on both their churches

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the Pope and the Catholic Church,[11]

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, are we checking in with the cats again

johns (GM): Picking a side in the greater struggle or meeting Cola is a bit beyond the scope I planned for today's adventure -- rest assured there will be more repercussions of his movement his year -- but if you wish to pursue either option I can accommodate

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think i was going to ask that earlier and then i made a joke about di rienzo's name instead.

Mortis ex Verditus: I think if we delivered the cats to the Tribune we could curry some favor.

Guy of Bonisagus: you prioritized correctly

johns (GM): the current pope is Clement VI, spendthrift and nepotist

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think I'm for relocating the cats somewhere where they won't be killed, if Mortis is planning harm to them then it's easy to trick me into thinking we're just keeping them safe.

Mortis ex Verditus: That's why I like him.

Nepotism is great!

It's the foundation of society.

Rosario of Flambeau: Says the guy with the massive family.

Mortis ex Verditus: Everyone has some family.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I am a Jerbiton and not some Bonisagus lab slave thanks to nepotism

Mortis ex Verditus: That's why it works.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we all have a massive adoptive family, the Order of Hermes

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't have any family.

I was an orphan raised by the milites.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Newspaper Cat: I should LP Sims Medieval

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: sounds like you have a family

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, yeah, in a sense.

Dušan of Criamon: I've spent the last 15 years in a hut, shunning society that shunned me, so I am hesitant to either party

johns (GM): thats probably the most hermetic response dusan

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have Privileged Upbringing and Close Family Ties

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's see what Sebaste, Luca, Ariam the Ethiop, Faustus Galerius Superbus, and Stanislaw (?) have to say on this issue

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's ask Merlin

johns (GM): however everyone here is a renegade with no respect for the Code of HErmes

Very well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should.

Mortis ex Verditus: In any case, we shouldn't associate with these cats. They don't have anything to offer us and their feeble scheming can only cause us grief.

Rosario of Flambeau: the cats are probably more of an enigma than nobles.

johns (GM): Sir Sebaste says: I am old and tired and should be dead soon.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Archibald is the opposite of a code hater

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Godspeed Sir Sebaste.

Dušan of Criamon: A renegade among renegades, the one truly orthodox choice

Rosario of Flambeau: Same. I'm very into the code.

johns (GM): Ariam the Ethiop doesn't really care as long as he gets to illuminate books.

Faustus loves the idea of reviving the republic.

Rosario of Flambeau: I have 2 whole Code of Hermes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: They are cats, and Terram cats at that, so they get less respect from me than organic birds

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The cats have assured Gulielmus that their schemes benefit the covenant.

johns (GM): Stanislaw mutters that we are all playthings in the great game of magical powers.

Mortis ex Verditus: I love democracy, I love the Republic.

johns (GM): Merlin poops and eats a cracker

Archibald of Guernicus: What is the plan being proposed, in full

Mortis ex Verditus: What kind of bird is he again?

Rosario of Flambeau: I want to reunite Flavio and his son and investigate the mysterious man.

johns (GM): a Merlin

Dušan of Criamon: I'm trying to clean this up in my head: the cats wish for assistance with their illusion problem, and we have the option of joining a civil war. There's a demagogue who probably has some magical ability. Am I about up to speed?

Rosario of Flambeau: Because it would be the nice guy heroic thing to do.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Falcon

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can fiorella talk to the bird

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yes

Mortis ex Verditus: Also, the potesta wants us to get his son out of Rome.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What do you want to ask Merlin?

johns (GM): yep Dusan also there's an open invitation by the Contis (whom Flavio's son seems to oppose) that hasn't be pursued

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets find out what merlin thinks.

Rosario of Flambeau: Or, rather, help him with his son, not reunite them.

johns (GM): Merlin thinks he likes crackers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: +8 enigma xp to all present

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh I completely forgot about the Conti invitation.

Let's go there.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's not.

Dušan of Criamon: Good, good. Not to drag this party into analysis paralysis but I'd be interested in a fact-gathering action re: Rienzi and also pursuing the other invitation.

johns (GM): One vote for, one against

Dušan of Criamon: It seems like the present company hates the Conti

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go get Merlin some crackers

johns (GM): The tomb had a bad meeting with them like 30 years ago

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: who's a good bird

johns (GM): Where a fat man threatened to throw Bonfilia off a tower.

Mortis ex Verditus: Everyone involved is dead now, probably.

johns (GM): yup

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm a Meddler so I want to get myself involved in everything I've heard about.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sounds like the fat man was correct to do so

Archibald of Guernicus: I think that even predated Archibald joining

Rosario of Flambeau: And mostly help the poor son.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristocritus was there

Mortis ex Verditus: Still, it offers an unprecedented opportunity to grandstand for the crowd.

Dušan of Criamon: Coming from Raška I recognize the value of a good, long-standing grudge

johns (GM): also that fat man is long dead anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah

Rosario of Flambeau: RIP

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we dug someone out of his prison right

johns (GM): yeah

a book peddlar

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristocritus's finest moment

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Camilla the vulture wishes to feast on the bones of the dead after the revolution is over.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all of his moments were the finest though

johns (GM): Merlin the Merlin looks forward to outliving all of you

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's hear the third angle in this whole mess, from the Contis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: merlin is the emotion the merlin brings to the battlefield

johns (GM): Okay, that's two votes in favor of visiting

Rosario of Flambeau: im looking forward to when camilla enters battle for the first time

Guy of Bonisagus: lets go

johns (GM): Unless someone else objects I can quickly resolve that matter as I think we've spent a good deal expositionioning

Cool.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: johns the troll promised a dungeon crawl

johns (GM): gahaha

Fiorella of Jerbiton: lol

I'd just play Morgana if we're crawling

Mortis ex Verditus: We get thrown in a dungeon and have to crawl out because our legs are broken.

johns (GM): The invitation was to the Torre del Milizie (Militia Tower), a place some wizards showed up and made an ass of themselves 3 decades ago.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

johns (GM): The tower is protected by a strange assortment of guards. In addition to Italians are Saracens in headwraps, brawny norsemen, and masked helmed wearing Cumans.

Mortis ex Verditus: That is unusual.

Must be mercenaries.

johns (GM): With no objection to you or your party of armed grogs you get in to see the new lord of Conti, the 30-something Sangallo di Conti.

Rosario of Flambeau: "How cosmopolitan."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Salaam."

Sangallo di Conti rises and bows to you all

Mortis ex Verditus: Any windows?

Dušan of Criamon: Noticeably less friction

Sangallo di Conti: There's a stained glass window in the official artwork here

Zita: I will go

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ave."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "You speak some Arabic, or just pick up some greetings in captivity?" I ask Guli

Sangallo di Conti: Also anyone with Rome lore can make an insight

Rosario of Flambeau: No luck there.

Mortis ex Verditus: Not me.

Guy of Bonisagus: not me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: not me

Sangallo di Conti: "Salvate, Magi. Welcome to my court. I seek your counsel."

Rosario of Flambeau: I didn't take any area lores to RP my character's no sense of direction flaw.

Mortis ex Verditus: Voda has great Area Lore.

Let's see if he tagged along.

Rosario of Flambeau: Celeste has some but I don't like bringing two XP-gaining characters on one outing.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i didn't take any local area lore because i'm a hermetic magus

Sangallo di Conti: thank you for gaming with honor

Voda:

rolling 1d10 vs Cowardly

(

3

)

=

3

Zita: Does a personalities spec apply

for area lore rome

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have Valnastium and Venice Lore

Sangallo di Conti: Sure.

Voda: Yep he would never set foot in the Militia Tower.

Zita:

rolling 1d10+7

(

2

)

+7

=

9

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, you know, I had to pick up enough to get by."

(To Zita): You know Sangallo as a newcomer to the city. Little is known of him

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have a number of roleplaying +1s that never come up

Zita: "Oh god, Gulielmus was kidnapped?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I've been picking it up lately. Know your enemy, and all that, ha ha."

Sangallo di Conti: "We're living in turbulent times and I've come to value the wisdom of educated men and women like yourselves in my life."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I don't think we need to say what that makes you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea nearly jumps out of his skin.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Sangallo di Conti: "Among the nobles of this city are those who think we are nearing a time to fight, and those who think it is time we run and hide. What is the wisest course for a man like myself in the present situation?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Why haven't you left the city, like the rest of your peers?"

Wait I guess that happens this year.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Zita!?"

Sangallo di Conti: "After years of fighting for my claim I am not inclined to turn back and give up my realm, unless I think it prudent."

Zita: "Yeah?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Weren't you, ah,"

"You know."

Zita: "Sounds like you've been inhaling too many strange arabic herbs."

Mortis ex Verditus: "While I am a fine tactician, why would you ask me for advice when you have plenty of experts of your own," I gesture at the assembled mercenaries.

Rosario of Flambeau: "You seem prepared to fight, indeed."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "None of you think this is remarkable?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Please, we're in court."

Guy of Bonisagus: I shrug at Gulielmus.

Sangallo di Conti: "These men have fought many battles against strange odds, but none against an enemy armed with magic."

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, there's the meat of the issue."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Conti, would it not be most prudent to hear the people and see why they are so called to arms?"

Dušan of Criamon: "You've had the pleasure with this Rienzi character?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton:  the pleasure

Rosario of Flambeau: "Based on what we've heard, he values words over swords."

Sangallo di Conti: "I saw his speech on the steps but otherwise no. He's surrounded at all times by a small army of zealots who'd give their lives at a chance to kill someone like me."

Dušan of Criamon: i thoroughly enjoy butchering my way through early italian phrasing

Rosario of Flambeau: "You may find yourself prepared to defend against a martial attack only to see your own men turn against you."

Mortis ex Verditus: "That's why Sangalio is wise enough to hire foreigners. Do they even speak Italian?"

Sangallo di Conti: "Hardly, but I speak their languages."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Did Venator do this to you? Was it one of the Trianoma?"

Sangallo di Conti: "There's more than words at play here. What if I told you I thought some of Rienzi's men had gotten ahold of magical weapons?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I would believe you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they're all over the place

Guy of Bonisagus: "And what's more, we would be interested to know from where."

Sangallo di Conti smiles

Sangallo di Conti: "Were you aware that magic flows in the blood of the Contis? An ancestor of mine from days yore once had his Magician's workshop in this very city."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Is that right?"

Sangallo di Conti: "And right now that workshop is in the hand of Rienzi's rabble."

Zita: "I think you've gotten mixed up about something, Gulielmus. Don't worry about the details."

Guy of Bonisagus: I stroke my beard. "Both interesting and worrying news, that."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Where is this workshop?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Zita has magical blood, or so I've heard. So it's believable."

Sangallo di Conti: "Conti Tower (Torre di Conti). Until recently in the hands of another Conti, a slimy worm trying to claim leadership of the house."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We sent your items back to the House and everything."

Zita: "Everyone makes mistakes, I forgive you."

Mortis ex Verditus: Boy howdy there are a lot of towers in Rome.

We need a tower.

Sangallo di Conti: you do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I'm certain something happened to the body, too."

"But what?"

we have a bird tower

its full of birds though.

Mortis ex Verditus: We need a real tower.

Rosario of Flambeau: to Guli, in Arabic: "Suspicious girl. I met her first in catacombs."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Zita: "I'm not suspicious."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nice

Mortis ex Verditus: "What happened to his usurper? Was he slain in the defense of the tower?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "No use. Understand every language."

Sangallo di Conti: "Knowing my forces were poised to take the tower, in the dead of night he opened the doors to one of Rienzi's gangs, claiming he had yielded his nobility and was joining the People. If there's any justice in this world, the rabble strung him up the moment they were inside. But after that strange things began to occur. My men started losing their discipline and temper at random occasions. Strange echoes began to sound all about them and confuse them. It was clear to me something new was now at work."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Whoops."

Dušan of Criamon: "Unfortunate when simple people come into possession of things too strong for them to handle. Like drunks."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Is there any record of magical weaponry in the Torre? Surely if there was any magic the gang brought it with them, or your cousin would have used it to defend the tower himself."

Sangallo di Conti: "I couldn't have said it better myself."

"Here. When I was still a young man, before my exile, I lived in that tower and knew the path into the Magician's lair." He presents an old ratty scrap of parchment to you all, apparently torn from a larger summa. The text on the page refers to the Hermetic art of Rego.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Zita: "Clearly you're in need of our expert help."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It seems so."

Sangallo di Conti: "My father warned me of the many vessels in and about the lair that we were to never disturb. I'm sure the rabble have no care for that."

"Are you offering to help?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "For a price. We are no servants."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's give him the cursed brazier from ponza

Sangallo di Conti: "You are Magi, and I would never underestimate you."

Mortis ex Verditus: I think that's the first time anyone has said "For a price."

Sangallo di Conti: "I have a proposal for you, wise ones."

"The tower, by birthright, is mine. I wish it cleared of these commoners and brought to my control as it should be. In exchange... you may take whatever you please from my ancestor's workshop."

Mortis ex Verditus: "A reasonable trade."

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm glad Mortis is around so we have someone to say that.

"Very fair."

"A fine adventure."

Sangallo di Conti: "Your reputation for wisdom is well earned."

Mortis ex Verditus: How many soldiers are in the tower, by the way?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus, who has been trying to remember everything that happened after Zita's death, looks up.

"Huh?"

Sangallo di Conti: Which one, the Militia tower or the Conti tower

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What's going on?"

Mortis ex Verditus: The Militia tower.

I mean if we're going to attack them this was a great time to survey the defenses.

Sangallo di Conti: A dozen inside, a dozen outside, and who knows how many more on the upper levels

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): Anyway that's enough of talking to quest givers I think. What are folks interested in doing from this point on? Go wild and I will accommodate

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume the tower itself has arrow slits, etc

johns (GM): yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): windows to throw burning pitch out of and such

Rosario of Flambeau: Should be easy to take them out.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the contis are furiously teching up to crenellation

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I propose we spirit the potesta's son out of Rome.

Zita: "Invisibility to approach, at minimum, I advise."

Guy of Bonisagus: figuring out what the rabble leader is all about and seeing if we can force a diplomatic end would be cool

johns (GM): the Contis are a multiracial empire who enjoy civ bonuses of Saracens, Vikings, Italians, and Turks

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the bonuses of the Turks, Turks, Turks, and Turks

Mortis ex Verditus: Cola di Rienzo is "all about" restoring the power of Rome as capa mundi.

johns (GM): O_O

Guy of Bonisagus: someone with imaginem could take the form of rienzi or whats his name and convince the nobles son to move on to paris

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The COntis sound like competition to the Venetians and I don't support them

Dušan of Criamon: Pragmatically, I am inclined to throw my hat in with the minmaxers

Guy of Bonisagus: for the cause

Mortis ex Verditus: Or, caput mundi, I guess.

The potesta is NOT a noble.

Guy of Bonisagus: the rich guys son

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm not suggesting this in character but what if we just wreck Conti's tower after we take the loot.

Guy of Bonisagus: that would be rude

Rosario of Flambeau: That's why I'm not suggesting it in-character.

Dušan of Criamon: plausible deniability

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we take the loot and then quietly retreat to our labs.

Rosario of Flambeau: Also a great plan.

johns (GM): Let us convene the Council.

Mortis ex Verditus: If there was a magician's laboratory there might still be a magic aura.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the contis suck but we probably shouldn't let unknown magic wreak havoc on the city of rome

Mortis ex Verditus: Actually we should be able to check easily, since it's generating a deadly miasma.

Zita: "In a war between nobles and a rabble, always side with the nobles, sodales."

Fiorella of Jerbiton nods to Zita

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Also I thought the miasma was a one time thing

johns (GM): as a practical question, is Zita still on the council since dying

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can give her a voting sigil

Guy of Bonisagus: "I am sympathetic to the frustrations of these poor common folk, but I fear they are just being used by this Rienzi fellow."

Mortis ex Verditus: How many people even met her before she died?

I guess most of you.

Guy of Bonisagus: "We should seek a resolution with no bloodshed if we can."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I respect Zita for avenging my cousin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: didn't she die while we were at tribunal

Dušan of Criamon: I haven't, but I'm not surprised at a dead woman in a tomb

johns (GM): right after tribunal

Mortis ex Verditus: It was after we got back.

Rosario of Flambeau: No, the miasma is constantly seeping from every magic aura

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh right, she had to be there

On account of the crimes.

johns (GM): the Miasma appeared only once

Rosario of Flambeau: Okay.

johns (GM): BUT there is a perpetual affect in the aura that targets anything with herbam might inside it

and the herbam vis

Zita: Rip that vis

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What about Oak?

johns (GM): Sir Oak got sick and now lives outside the aura

Fiorella of Jerbiton: RIP

Rosario of Flambeau: Every magic aura has created a miasma the size of that aura. The miasma is is odorless, invisible, silent, intangible, and has no taste, but can be perceived with second sight. The miasma does not have might or Magic Resistance. It is casting a perpetual 0 penetration effect on anything it touches. The miasma cannot pass through solid objects, and is moved by the wind.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, let's just go inside the tower and ask to speak to Flavio's son.

Did we ever get his name?

johns (GM): oops

Rosario of Flambeau: so why hasnt anyone just blown all the miasma away

johns (GM): Well I'll tell you anyway

Rosario of Flambeau: The covenant’s Aegis of the Hearth spell doesn’t stop the initial miasma from generating, but it does prevent other miasmas from being blown into the area it protects.

johns (GM): It's Mario.

Rosario of Flambeau: if its only once

Guy of Bonisagus: its a me

Mortis ex Verditus: Ey Mario.

johns (GM): Well the miasma is affected by wind so it goes here and there.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: flavio flavio

Mortis ex Verditus: Hither and thither.

johns (GM): but the Miasma problem is abating as more and more of the Miasma is blown into the atlantic and to the edge of the world.

Rosario of Flambeau: you can target it with auram spells so honestly the order of hermes should have collected and isolated it all by now.

johns (GM): Europe is big.

Rosario of Flambeau: or that.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The native americans readily adapt, being nomads

Rosario of Flambeau: well, we can safely just ignore it and it'll go away, then.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I recommend we scope out the lab, then get Mario to leave for France.

johns (GM): aight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: presumably houses guernicus, flambeau, tytalus, and tremere all now have ample stockpiles of war crime gas

Mortis ex Verditus: Then assault the Militia Tower from the basement.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sounds like a good plan, Mortis.

johns (GM): the layout of the tower is a little convoluted

Zita: Plant Hurting Gas

Morgana: I'll be a grog and take along as many other grogs as my Leadership supports

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: imagine how many arabs you could kill if you harnessed the miasma, rosario

johns (GM): you have a squat 3 story building on the ground level, with two towers built into it the, tower minor and tower major

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: *maior

Morgana: Okay I can lead 4 other grogs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: touer maior.

johns (GM): the mundane way to access the tower major is by going into the Torre Minore, going onto the roof, and then going to the Tower Entrance spot

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds lame.

Guy of Bonisagus: look at those nice farms in the background

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aristocritus would have loved this

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's just tell them that we're here to speak to Mario.

Guy of Bonisagus: well done fields

johns (GM): Blight added.

Rosario of Flambeau: I should have gotten the damn teleport spell instead of buffing my parma.

Guy of Bonisagus: no!

Dušan of Criamon: tragic

johns (GM): You approach from street level. There are 3 crossbowmen on the roof of the small building patrolling.

Rosario of Flambeau: sadly there is a dominion 6 aura and spellcasting is disabled.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's Dominion 2.

It says right there.

Rosario of Flambeau: if it's dominion 2 the plants are fine, then.

i was zoomed in too much.

lol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i sigh and lament that i can no longer buff with shriek of the impending shafts.

actually derfel should be here

Morgana: Let's figure out how to get shriek back

We could buy a bunch of Intellego vis and put it on an item, maybe

Dušan of Criamon: OK, do I have any chance of using my intellego spells considering the aura

johns (GM): Your spells are at -6 to cast.

Rosario of Flambeau: -6 to rolls but you can cast them.

Dušan of Criamon: suboptimal then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what kinda spells you got

johns (GM): If it's a Formulaic spell that's not so bad: As long as you get within 10 points of the casting total, the spell will still go off.

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah, the divine is the greatest enemy of magic power

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah, you can miss the roll but the spell goes off

Mortis ex Verditus: "Hail and well met! I'm here to speak to Mario Bonaccorso. I have message from his father, Flavio."

johns (GM): The crossbowman, regarding the rest of the party, asks "They with you?"

Dušan of Criamon: Whispering winds and prying eyes, as the evening goes on I assume I'll be hugging some walls.

+11 and +18 on arts alone

Mortis ex Verditus: "Yes."

"They were all at the meeting with me."

Dušan of Criamon: I'm not 100% on mechanics yet so I'll see if i fall on my ass first cast around

Morgana: Tunde is vanguard of the grog group

Anyone who wants to be shield grogged, fall in behind us

Crossbowman: "Alright, what's the message?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: siwmae

Crossbowman: Siwmae.

Mortis ex Verditus: "It's to do with the French question. I can say no more than that in public."

Crossbowman: "I'll come down then"

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll wait.

Crossbowman: He enters the Torre Minore, descends, exits the building and comes out into the street with you.

"Yeah?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "His father wishes for us to tell Mario about an important task he needs to undertake."

Morgana makes sure her nets are accessible, seeing the large quantity of ranged units

Crossbowman: "Mario doesn't take orders from Flavio. We're holding this spot til the Tribune relieves us."

"How do I know you are who you say you are?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr fixes the crossbowman with his blank bronze eyes.

Mortis ex Verditus: I describe Flavio and our meeting.

Crossbowman: Does anyone have any passive abilities I should know about such as Folk Ken, Second Sight, SHAU etc? Whisper em now

Zita: "A man simply wishes to relay a message to his dearest son. We'll be no trouble at all."

(From Mortis ex Verditus): I have Book Learner.

(To Mortis ex Verditus): noted

Zita: I'll try rolling charm, maybe that'll help

(From Rosario of Flambeau): i have 1 per, 3 folk ken

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): i have some second sight

Zita:

rolling 1d10+10

(

5

)

+10

=

15

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): faerie though

Dušan of Criamon: I think I do let me check

Morgana: Awareness (bodyguarding)

(From Zita): Just folk ken

Dušan of Criamon: common sense, second sight

Crossbowman: 1 sec looking up somethin

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): also common sense but specifically for faerie-related situations

Dušan of Criamon: OK, whisper: 1d10 + tech + form right?

Mortis ex Verditus: For spell casting?

Formulaic casting is 1d10 + technique + form + stamina.

Rosario of Flambeau: if you want to privately roll something so only you and the gm can see it, use /gmroll

Mortis ex Verditus: + aura.

Rosario of Flambeau: but i think folk ken is something johns rolls.

Mortis ex Verditus: In this case, we're in a Dominion aura, so you get + -4 (twice the magnitude of the aura.)

Dušan of Criamon: alright

Crossbowman: Okay, those with Second Sight plz roll, using Dominion Aura

Rosario of Flambeau: It's 3x aura penalty for magic power in dominion.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what's the penalty for faerie in dominion

Zita: its even worse for fairy powers

Rosario of Flambeau: 4x.

Crossbowman: geep.

Rosario of Flambeau: infernal is 5.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: also i need to look something up too

Crossbowman: Dumbinion, because you'd have to be Dumb to live there.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: probably safe to assume i fail the roll

Crossbowman: worth a shot

Mortis ex Verditus: What's the worst that could happen?

Rosario of Flambeau: heres something i just read that i completely forgot about/never really considered

Magic Resistance: Magic Resistance is altered by the aura modifier. This includes

Hermetic Magic Resistance due to the Parma Magica and Forms, as well as the resistance

of creatures with mystic Might.

Crossbowman: yup

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

Dušan of Criamon: Second sight at 1, aura at -6, do I add anything else? PER?

Crossbowman: Yeah Perception

Zita: -6 MR for everyone

Crossbowman: in practice is doesn't come up often because the MR penalty is offset by the spellcasting penalty of anyone trying to hurt you

Dušan of Criamon: 1d10-6+1+2

Crossbowman: but it does make enchanted items more potent in dominion

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10

(

5

)

=

5

Mortis ex Verditus: It also penalizes the casting total for enemy magic so I'm not worried about it.

Crossbowman: im going to roll derfel's second sight on his behalf

Dušan of Criamon: total of 2

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean, who would ever need to worry about running afoul of an angel?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+0+3+3-8 (including keen vision)

(

7

)

+0+3+3-8

=

5

Crossbowman: okay.

Crossbowman passes a note to a player

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): should keen vision be added there. i feel like it should

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): but, maybe not

(To Derfel ap Cadwaladr): in this case, Yes.

Rosario of Flambeau: i got nothing from folk ken?

(To Derfel ap Cadwaladr): what does that add?

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): +3 to all rolls involving sight

Crossbowman: i didnt see a folk ken roll sorry? what was it

(To Derfel ap Cadwaladr): Okay, success then

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): it's included in that roll though

Rosario of Flambeau:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+4 thought you were gonna secretly roll it

(

4

)

+4

=

8

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): total of 5

(To Rosario of Flambeau): Who are you kenning, thecrossbowman?

(From Rosario of Flambeau): yea

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is this crossbowman still giving us guff

Crossbowman: Rosario, you think the crossbowman is treating you as a trained sentry would normally do so.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ill give him the eye if so

Crossbowman: He's about to respond to your latest request to summon Mario when you hear shouts on the parapet -- one of the crossbowmen up there is suddnely screaming "die you filthy bastards!!" and looses a bolt at

rolling 1d10

(

9

)

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh shit.

Crossbowman: Rosario.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Crossbowman: generating stats real quick

Mortis ex Verditus: I recommend a tactical withdrawal.

Crossbowman:

rolling 1d10!+2+6+1 Attack vs Rosario

(

7

)

+2+6+1

=

16

Zita: "Told you we should head in invisibly. No point dealing with these idiots."

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+10+8 exertion to block

(

3

)

+10+8

=

21

(To Rosario of Flambeau): You have a shield right?

Mortis ex Verditus: "What's this all about?"

(From Rosario of Flambeau): no, just a greatsword with a defense bonus

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is defending against ranged attacks different?

Crossbowman: Nah

Rosario of Flambeau: I draw my sword in a flash and deflect the bolt.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nice

Crossbowman: Just figure that skill in weapon also includes your ability to move around and dodge while holding it

Rosario of Flambeau: "Outrageous."

Crossbowman: I have marked the crossbowmen with colored dots. Blue just fired.

Yellow looks very surprised.

PCs can take a turn.

Guy of Bonisagus Initiative: 7

Napolino Initiative: 23

Morgana Initiative: 11

Crossbowman: Rosario of Flambeau Initiative: 91

Mortis ex Verditus Initiative: 57

Zita Initiative: 34

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Derfel ap Cadwaladr Initiative: 13

Mortis ex Verditus: I recommend we leave.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it's a sound idea.

Guy of Bonisagus: i agree with leaving

Crossbowman: Derfel ap Cadwaladr Initiative: 26

Mortis ex Verditus: Clearly an example of overheated passions.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: actually johns

Dušan of Criamon: I am in favor of a retreat

Mortis ex Verditus: Or possibly they disturbed a magical geegaw.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is it too late to conf my sight

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+12 shouting and flailing.

(

2

)

+12

=

14

confing that.

Zita: i dont see the init tracker

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: going to assume yes.

Crossbowman: Yes

Apologies

Rosario of Flambeau: wait wait

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nah i should have done it then i just forgot

Rosario of Flambeau: you said spells still cast if you get close?

im not familiar with that rule.

but i just remembered you said it.

Crossbowman: Formulaic ones, yes. If you're 10 or less shy of the target it casts but costs a fatigue

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yeah

specifically on formulaics

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, I don't want to spend another fatigue, I'll just conf so I make it.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: and your penetration will suck

Crossbowman: What spell have thy cast, m'lord

Rosario of Flambeau: Rosario's body explodes in a flash of light.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: farewell rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: This spell causes the caster’s body and personal effects to shine with the brightness of the sun. Anyone within 10 paces of the caster who looks in the direction of the caster is temporarily blinded, unless he makes a Stamina stress roll against an Ease Factor of 9. People between 10 and 50 paces from the caster suffer a –3 penalty to all attempts to target the caster. The light created by this spell illuminates a great area and, if conditions permit, could be seen from several miles away. People and creatures whose Magic Resistance is not penetrated by this spell are not illuminated by it, and can be easily identified by their lack of reflected light.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wow

Rosario of Flambeau: It's Conc duration, so I'm just popping it for a second and then running inside.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ripping off my signature move that i havent used

Crossbowman:

rolling 1d10!+2 blue

(

7

)

+2

=

9

rolling 1d10!+2 red

(

6

)

+2

=

8

Morgana: I have no compelling reason to look or have been looking at Rosario, nor do the rest of the grogs

Crossbowman:

rolling 1d10!+2 yellow

(

6

)

+2

=

8

Mortis ex Verditus: Running inside?

Guy of Bonisagus: no one has any reason to look at rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, he probably has a whole system of barricading the door.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: roll to concentrate while running.

Crossbowman: Red and Yellow are temporarily blinded before taking any sort of action

Mortis ex Verditus: Come on now, there's no way they'd have locked doors in Rome.

Crossbowman: The door was indeed shut behind Yellow.

Mortis ex Verditus: What do you think this is, New York?

Crossbowman: It's a tower that was under siege not long ago after all.

Morgana: Is anyone being shielded by the grogs?

Rosario of Flambeau: Anyway, everyone else in the party has MR, so the light doesn't affect them.

Unless you don't..

Mortis ex Verditus: We should just leave and come back later.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's fine. I just wanted to be a dick.

Since he shot at me.

Even though I got everyone but the guy who shot at me.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im going to be afk for a few minutes

Dušan of Criamon: Props.

Crossbowman: Hell yeah

classic cumthinker

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: so. if you're gonna retreat

Dušan of Criamon: I drag a shield grog behind me as I enjoy a retreat

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's kidnap yellow and ask him about the tower.

Morgana: The grog group will guard the magi who want human shields as we do an orderly retreat

Rosario of Flambeau: And see if he knows why we got shot at.

He was pretty surprised though.

Crossbowman: If Rosario wants to do that he will need to stay behind and grapple the guy or some such

Rosario of Flambeau: Gah.

Crossbowman: I think everyone else is decided to retreat

Zita: I shrug

Rosario of Flambeau: Maybe I'll get lucky.

rolling 1d10!+5 dex + brawl grapple.

(

7

)

+5

=

12

Zita: "I'm not used to the new guys, can any of you teleport or turn into birds or other useful tricks for getting up to the roofs?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: derfel's heroism meter is not full yet so he'll just do whatever the magi says

* say

Crossbowman:

rolling 1d10! dfn

(

1

)

=

1

Rosario of Flambeau: Score.

Crossbowman: You grapple successfully.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yikes.

Uhhh, confirm the botch???

Crossbowman: No need. He's blinded.

Rosario of Flambeau: I do my best to drag him along.

Morgana: "Fiorella can do both now, I hear."

Dušan of Criamon: Someone's getting comeuppance

Crossbowman:

rolling 69d100 confirm botch

(

96

+

85

+

34

+

95

+

42

+

95

+

24

+

67

+

33

+

1

+

62

+

74

+

90

+

43

+

62

+

58

+

84

+

92

+

28

+

83

+

80

+

32

+

42

+

79

+

89

+

4

+

25

+

94

+

17

+

83

+

71

+

85

+

96

+

91

+

28

+

44

+

1

+

39

+

73

+

85

+

63

+

11

+

53

+

89

+

4

+

16

+

44

+

33

+

45

+

54

+

34

+

66

+

89

+

86

+

38

+

86

+

56

+

48

+

80

+

82

+

46

+

41

+

72

+

48

+

82

+

65

+

67

+

47

+

93

)

=

4044

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 4d10

(

6

+

1

+

5

+

4

)

=

16

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d20

(

1

)

=

1

Crossbowman:

rolling 100d1

(

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

)

=

100

Rosario of Flambeau: My god.

Morgana: He goes into mundane twilight

Crossbowman: You beat a strategic retreat.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Great job showing a clean pair of heels, everyone."

Rosario of Flambeau: I start lecturing the crossbowman on the power of the crossface chicken wing hold.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Now what are we going to do with this man?"

Crossbowman: " hurk  I'm on your side, let me go"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh. Sorry."

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's ask him why we were attacked when we were just trying to deliver a message.

"Is there something wrong in the Torre?"

Crossbowman: "He must have panicked"

"People are jumpy, who can blame them"

Morgana: I help guard our prisoners alongside the other grogs.

Crossbowman: "But he'll be punished harsh for fucking up, I assure you"

Zita: "His panic almost put a bolt through my friend's neck."

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, he never had a chance to hit me, please."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Forgivable, in these troubled times."

Crossbowman: "A month ago he was a cutpurse, I don't think he's ever held a bow before. We're all new at this"

Mortis ex Verditus: "No one was hurt, which is all that matters.

Zita: "Shh, if we play it up he'll let us in." I say quietly to Rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: "I thought he might have been under magical control."

devil's fav demon: zita is confronted with the power of an int 0 magus

Crossbowman: "Magic? What do you mean?"

Zita: "Haven't you heard the stories about that place?"

Crossbowman: He looks confused

Zita: "All manner of darkness and evil going on there."

Mortis ex Verditus: "The Torre contains an old magician's laboratory."

Crossbowman: "No shit?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Indeed. No shit."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Yeah, for real."

Crossbowman: "Good thing we kicked those Conti bastards out then"

Zita: "Absolutely. Now, about letting us in."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We really do need to see Mario."

Mortis ex Verditus: "It is, but there might still be dangers lurking inside, which is part of what we wanted to discuss with Mario."

Crossbowman: "Alright we'll head back, we'll see if Sumbalco has calmed down"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Smart idea."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I hope we can all keep in good health and good spirits."

Crossbowman: A different band of crossbowmen now guard the parapet, with Blue gone. Your buddy asks if you intend to take the whole armed party with you into the tower.

Mortis ex Verditus: "You never know what magi leave in their labs. It could really be anything."

"Not to mention there may be a Conti counterattack at any time."

Guy of Bonisagus: sumbalco

Dušan of Criamon: "I mean, unless clearing out magical horrors falls within your competency"

Crossbowman: "Don't make any quick movements then if you don't want people to get jumpy"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Of course."

Crossbowman: You're met right in the entryway by Mario and another armed rabbler.

Mortis ex Verditus: How do we recognize Mario?

Mario Bonaccorso: Because I told you.

Rosario of Flambeau: He says "It's-a me! Mario!"

Mario Bonaccorso: "Salvate, Fratri."

Morgana: "Buona sera."

Mario Bonaccorso: "I'm Citizen Mario. I don't think we've met before.. ?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Salve."

devil's fav demon: alright, now all we have to do is put mario in a headlock

Mortis ex Verditus: "We met your father earlier today."

"We also need to discuss this tower."

Mario Bonaccorso: "It's glorious isn't it? Our first real blow against the bluebloods."

Zita: "Oh yeah. A real treasure."

Guy of Bonisagus: holy shit. a map with a grid

Morgana: "Quite."

Mario Bonaccorso: now that cumthinker is gone we can begin the dungeon crawl

Zita: "Have you explored it all?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "There's a magician's laboratory hidden in the tower."

Morgana: As before, Tunde is vanguard.

Mario Bonaccorso: "Yes. We've found weapons, money, and grain. All of them going to our cause."

"A lab? That I haven't seen."

(From Dušan of Criamon): It's coming close to 1am here and I'm slowly losing consciousness, how long do sessions typically last?

Mortis ex Verditus: "It is likely hidden from mundane eyes."

"Fortunately for you, we brought a specialist."

I gesture at Derfel.

(To moe): Usually for another hour or so past this point. My apologies, I didn't realize what time zone you were in

Zita: cruel

Mario Bonaccorso: Derfel is at -8 to Second Sight.

Guy of Bonisagus: hes at -8 to consciousness

Zita: hes also not here

(From Dušan of Criamon): No, no, my apologies, I should have asked earlier. I'll try to stay for something under half an hour longer and then disappear into the night

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well, that's rough.

Morgana: Hazm can mitigate Divine penalties to Second Sight

Mortis ex Verditus: We'll just use our other magical investigators.

Morgana: He's busy doing Chamberlain stuff though

Zita: brb

Mario Bonaccorso: Does mitigating divine penalties affect the EF of seeing a Magic regio from a Divine aura

Morgana: I should think so

Well no

Mario Bonaccorso: :|

Dušan of Criamon: I can do second sight at -3 currently

Also some modest intellego

Mortis ex Verditus: Doesn't it depend on where you're standing, not what you're looking at?

Mario Bonaccorso: It depends on both.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what are the haps

Mortis ex Verditus: Second Sight has nothing whatsoever to do with the Hermetic Technique of Intellego.

Dušan of Criamon: Yes, but I have some intellego spells

Mario Bonaccorso: REGIO SIGHT ROLL:

Perception + Appropriate Ability

+ Stress Die

EASE FACTOR:

5 + (2 x difference between current level’s

aura and sought level’s aura)

Morgana: Right

Mario Bonaccorso: If you are in an aura different from the aura

of the regio, add the current aura and the aura of

the regio level to determine the Ease Factor.

Thus,

the Ease Factor to see from a level 3 Divine aura

into a level 5 Magic regio is 21: 5 + [2 x (3 + 5)];

Mario Bonaccorso: the difference between these two auras is 8.

hth.

Morgana: Oof

Mortis ex Verditus: The rules hurting juice.

Dušan of Criamon: alas

Morgana: Are we talking about an entrance to the Magic Realm here?

That's a pretty big difference

Mario Bonaccorso: its a Regio roll.

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: is it time for me to roll second sight

Mario Bonaccorso: if you want to try

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+0+3+3-8

(

8

)

+0+3+3-8

=

6

Mario Bonaccorso: does that include Keen vision

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yes

Mario Bonaccorso: Okay, you see nothing

Rosario of Flambeau: rip.

Guy of Bonisagus: thank you derfel who is definitely being played by his player

Rosario of Flambeau: conf it

Morgana: Did you mean the EF is 8, or the difference is 8?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yeah what if i conf

Mario Bonaccorso: Then slap down a conf token

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ok.

Mario Bonaccorso: You don't spot a regio but looking around you see a strange man in old fashioned clothes wearing a perpetual angry scowl that no one seems to acknowledge.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hah.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Hang on."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "There's some sort of spirit here."

Zita: "Unfounded rumours, I'm perfectly alive."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Two spirits, then."

Mario Bonaccorso: "A g-g-g-ghost?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i'll try addressing the mystery man.

"Salve."

i don't know italian.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well if he's a magician it should be fine.

Morgana: "Hmph."

(To Derfel ap Cadwaladr): any MR?

(From Derfel ap Cadwaladr): relic

Mario Bonaccorso: The spirit lunges at Derfel! What's your Mentem MR?

Rosario of Flambeau: "This Derfel guy really has his head in the clouds."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it's 10

Morgana gets the grogs lined up to body block hits from even invisible sources

Mario Bonaccorso: isn't it boosted by the aura

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh

that's a good question!

Mario Bonaccorso: (it is)

Morgana: Is it Relic MR?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: then it's... 12?

it is yeah

a relic i mean

Mario Bonaccorso: Anyway the spirit is quickly repelled from your presence, shielding its eyes from you and uttering a string of hateful rants at you. It looks around the room for another target.

Morgana: Any of the grogs should be valid

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Watch out!"

"He's going right for-"

Mario Bonaccorso:

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

Zita.

(To Zita): Any MR against Mentem?

Rosario of Flambeau: Noice.

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh well then she's fine.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: classic angry spirit

Mario Bonaccorso: You are all struck by lightning and die. Roll new characters

Morgana: Phew, if it had gone for me it could have forced us to break ranks

Mortis ex Verditus: Did you know: Mentem has almost no actual ghost-related guidelines?

(From Zita): my MR applies to all arts equally and is more than Derfels so im fine

Mario Bonaccorso: The spirit lunges at Zita and collapses after trying to strike her.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: don't you just use the generic spirit guidelines

Zita: I don't notice a thing since it's an invisible ghost. Unless it's a visible ghost now.

Mario Bonaccorso: All about you, you start hearing the sound of many footsteps. "There's more of them!" Mario exclaims.

Dušan of Criamon does a complete incredulous Larry David impression at an invisible being targeting people around him

Mario Bonaccorso: tis invisible to all but Derfel.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "-Zita! All right, good work, Zita, you got him."

Rosario of Flambeau: What a crazy ghost.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Do you see any more ghosts, Derfel?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i sweep the butt of my spear out to see if the ghost is incorporeal or just invisible

Mario Bonaccorso: All of you hear the footsteps, not just Derfel, but can't discern what direction their echoes are coming from

Rosario of Flambeau: Who designed this adventure, rope kid?

(To Derfel ap Cadwaladr): tis incorp

Rosario of Flambeau: aay.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Just the one. He's here-ish."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Zita: I have Sharp Ears, still. Can I try and suss out its location to stab it anyway

Rosario of Flambeau: "Probably just illusory sounds."

Guy of Bonisagus: ropekid is busy designing the pillars of eternity ttrpg

Mario Bonaccorso: Sure Zita

Guy of Bonisagus: which im very excited for johns to drop this campaign for

Mario Bonaccorso: Per + Awareness + your bonus

Mortis ex Verditus: "Did your men find anything unusual when you took the tower?" I ask Mario.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the pillars of eternity ttrpg where we all play wizards and animancers

Mortis ex Verditus: A little frantically, if I'm being honest.

Mario Bonaccorso: "This way," he tells Mortis, looking around. "Quickly, quickly."

Mortis ex Verditus: You can't play an animancer, they just sit around all day not doing anything.

Morgana:

rolling 3+d10! Awareness

3+

(

4

)

=

7

Mortis ex Verditus: I follow Mario.

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

3

)

+10

=

13

Guy of Bonisagus: me too

Morgana: I proceed along with the magi

Mario Bonaccorso: It is right behind you Zita!

Morgana: And lead the other grogs to do the same.

Rosario of Flambeau: Same.

Zita: I'll spin around and try to kick it

Dušan of Criamon: I join the movement

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: derfel will keep an eye on the spirit until everyone else leaves

Mario Bonaccorso: The spirit rushes through the walls and tries to hide.

Zita kicks at nothingness, and then behind her something throws a piece of rubble at her.

rolling 1d10!+4 attack vs zita

(

2

)

+4

=

6

Mortis ex Verditus: Ouch!

Rosario of Flambeau: hoh:tl tremere section has some more ghost related spells but thats about all i think are in the books

Zita:

rolling 1d10!+8 dodge

(

1

)

+8

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau: rip

Mario Bonaccorso:

rolling 3d10

(

8

+

4

+

2

)

=

14

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lol

Zita: No botch

Mario Bonaccorso: As Zita leans down to inspect the spot the sound came from a rock sails over her head and hits the wall.

Morgana: "I can't do much against stuff we can't see, boss. We should move on."

Mario Bonaccorso: Meanwhile Mario leads the rest of you to the top floor.

Zita: I head merrily up the stairs with everyone then

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Seems like you scared the first one off, Zita."

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Mario Bonaccorso: It's a large, windowless room with 4 columns. The walls are covered in murals. There's a thick purple carpet bearing a Roman Eagle in the middle of the room.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Wow, nice carpet."

Mario Bonaccorso: The room is dusty. Mario indicates a pile of stuff in one corner: barrels of vinegar and limestone, glass equipment, and a couple large jugs, each almost the size of a man, that are toppled and broken.

Rosario of Flambeau: Zita uses Sleight of Hand +30 to steal the carpet

Mario Bonaccorso: "The jugs weren't broken when we got here. Whoever knocked them over hasn't fessed up but it hardly matters, they were empty."

Rosario of Flambeau: I examine the murals.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what

is

the

aesthetic

quality

Mario Bonaccorso: Of the murals or the carpet, cthinker?

Mortis ex Verditus: Jug trouble eh?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the carpet

Fiorella the Raven writes a letter to the Zeno estate encouraging support for the revolutionaries in order to undermine Rome's economy in favor of Venetia's

Mortis ex Verditus: Aren't there Contis in Venice?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well I do that as a human, can't write well as a raven

moe: Ah, sleep is finally reaching me

Mario Bonaccorso: My apologies moe.

moe: thanks for the session, good hunting, I must rest now

no no, genuine thanks, we'll meet again

later

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: roll enigmatic wisdom on these jugs

noo

hes gone

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Whether the Zenos are allied with the Conti or not is up to the storyguide.

Zita: good night

Mario Bonaccorso: I think they are better described as Frescoes and not mural, sorry. here's an example https://medievalbooks.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/ambrogio_lorenzetti_effects.jpg

Mortis ex Verditus: I think stopping after 4 hours is generally a good idea.

Mario Bonaccorso: The carpet's Aesthetic Quality is

Guy of Bonisagus: tis

Mario Bonaccorso: 4

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm fine with a break soon

Mortis ex Verditus: Even though it does make adventures take longer.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wow!

i don't know what a 4 means

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll take a look in the jugs.

Mario Bonaccorso: They are empty.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what does a 4 mean, fiorella of jerbiton

Morgana: Anyway, back to Morgana while the adventure is running

Zita: We got instructions to how to reach the lab, didnt we?

Mario Bonaccorso: Also, we can break. I have a notion of what this year's second adventure is, so if finish this one in the middle of a second session we can SEAMLESSLY move onto the next.

You did NOT, Zita.

Zita: wow

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: do the jugs have any kind of markings?

Morgana: A 4 is amateurish work

Mario Bonaccorso: Magic Theory roll

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i don't have magic theory

Zita: I left my magic theory in my other pants

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i can roll perception though.

Mario Bonaccorso cackles

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 4

(

1

)

+4

=

5

Excellent.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+0+3 (keen vision)

(

8

)

+0+3

=

11

Morgana: I also left my magic theoriticians at home

Mario Bonaccorso: One jug has the Hermetic sign of Imaginem and one has the Hermetic sign of Mentem.

Morgana: Fiorella will have 6 MT soon though, after which I think I'm going to ignore BR's suggested houserule about MT exposure only from labwork

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Some kind of magus work here."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Has anyone moved this carpet?" I ask Mario.

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, I was gone for a second. I'll roll magic theroy.

theory.

rolling 1d10+1+4 per mt

(

10

)

+1+4

=

15

Nice.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nice

Mario Bonaccorso: "We put it there. One of the local weavers donated it to the cause."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Hmm..."

I'll roll up the carpet.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i keep an eye out for ghosts.

Guy of Bonisagus: I help Mortis roll up the carpet.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: oh, me too.

i will contribute my +1 strength

Rosario of Flambeau: It is a very large carbet.

carpet.

What the hell.

Mario Bonaccorso: OIkay, here's what you see on the floor

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: barbet but the first b is the funny b and the second b is the spurdo b

Rosario of Flambeau: Tell me the results of my magic theory roll!

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10 + 4 Magic Theory

(

8

)

+4

=

12

Zita: "Woah!"

Mario Bonaccorso: Ah

Morgana: "This carpet looks like wizard crap."

Rosario of Flambeau: Sick!

(To Rosario of Flambeau): At some point the Jugs were opened as Hermetic items.

(To Rosario of Flambeau): They are broken now though.

Mario Bonaccorso passes a note to a player

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+0+3 magic lore

(

8

)

+0+3

=

11

Mario Bonaccorso: It looks like a bunch of Hermetic nonsense

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hey man thats three magnitudes of ef.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Jugs were opened for enchantment at some point. Useless now, of course."

Morgana: This carpet gives a +2 lab total to doing Full Metal Alchemy

Mario Bonaccorso: It's not a sanctum marker, but it's some sort of display indicating that yes, a Hermetic Wizard was here

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

If there's a regio, it's probably here.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the notorious troll gm strikes again.

i'll roll second sight again then

oh is the aura still dom 2?

Mario Bonaccorso: Yup

Even up here

Derfel ap Cadwaladr:

rolling 1d10!+0+3+3-8

(

1

)

+0+3+3-8

=

-1

Morgana: "Let's ask the guys occupying this place how much they want for it. I doubt they would value it as highly as you wizard types."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: yikes

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh oh.

Guy of Bonisagus: did the people who rolled mt already get good info

Mortis ex Verditus: Time to confirm that botch.

Guy of Bonisagus: if not heres mine

Mario Bonaccorso: You do not see the regio.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+8

(

6

)

+8

=

14

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: botch! botch! botch!

Morgana: If you roll 2 1s I think he goes into faerie twilight

Rosario of Flambeau: I rolled it on the jugs and confirmed that they were opened Hermetically for enchantment, but since they're broken they're useless.

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

Mortis ex Verditus: If he rolls even one his head falls off.

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't know what anyone got about the giant magical symbol.

Guy of Bonisagus: im rolling it on this strange circle

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that's true.

Mario Bonaccorso: oh can you actually botch on second sight

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: idk

Mario Bonaccorso: let's play it safe and assume yet

yes

rolling 10d1

(

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

+

1

)

=

10

Guy of Bonisagus: wait a damn minute

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it's a supernatural ability

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Mario Bonaccorso: :|

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Guy of Bonisagus: this circle says elohim

this isnt hermetic magic

this is a jew

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh fuck!"

Mortis ex Verditus: There are Jewish hermetic magicians.

Mario Bonaccorso: i got it by google searching Hermetic Sigil

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: every magic circle from this period is going to have names of god on it

Guy of Bonisagus: looks like (((google))) has tricked you

Rosario of Flambeau: it also says "Cyberguru"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: strictly speaking hermetic magic doesn't because bonisagus made it secular but who cares.

lol

Guy of Bonisagus: i care because it upsets johns

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: obviously the magus was a master of the mysteries of hermetic theurgy

Rosario of Flambeau: i didnt really look at the text but i think cyberguru is pretty egregious.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's possible.

Rosario of Flambeau: obviously this guy is a fairy.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: cyber guru daniel

Guy of Bonisagus: lets shake our heads disapprovingly at johns

Morgana: When a character who is strongly aligned to the Faerie realm gains 2 or more Warping Points at once, he experiences the phenom-enon known as Faerie Calling.

johns (GM): anyway Shaun I would like to save you a little time and say that it would have to be a hell of an offer to get the rabble to leave the tower voluntarily as the Towers of Rome are both fortresses and symbols of authority

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: holy shit http://www.tarrdaniel.com/index3.htm

this guy is badass

johns (GM): lmfao

Morgana: Oh well I'm not involved anyway

johns (GM): Cyberguru of Bonisagus

Morgana: I'm a grog, i do what the wizards tell me

johns (GM): true but your OOC Ghost can make valid suggestions, I do it all the time

Mortis ex Verditus: OooooOOOOOOooOoOOOO

johns (GM): I consider myself a victim and member of the first cyber generation since I was almost immediately hooked up to information technology at a very early age beginning with the HT, the Commodore, the Spektrum, and the Amstrad computers. I am a CyberGuru with complex computing skills [« go ].

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok.

Morgana: Fiorella supports the rabble, she didn't want to be here in case her sodales attacked them

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: do we have anyone who can pierce the magic veil?

Mortis ex Verditus: What other ways do we know to detect a regio?

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i feel like we might because of the mercurian temple

Morgana: No one's bothered learning Pierce the Magic Veil IIRC

Zita: ah yes, that adventure that contained [checks notes] 1 of the current surviving magi

johns (GM): the Mercurian Temple access wasn't hidden at all

it glowed brightly

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: and someone invented faerie veil at some point. i think

Zita: oit was jorn lol

Morgana: Hazm could potentially make an insane Second Sight roll

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's bring in

Derfel ap Cadwaladr spits

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: giraldo

Morgana: Jorn had Faerie Veil and used lab text for it

johns (GM): InVi Base 3 Detect regio boundaries. If cast with a Vision target, this provides

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

allow that sort of entrance. Otherwise

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, I can just try sponting that.

devil's fav demon: daniel the cyberguru is the coolest person ive seen in a while. damn.

Zita: i think everyone with second sight has the fairy-aligned kind

Morgana: Hazm is Magic

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "We could blindfold ourselves and wander around until we fall through the regio entrance."

Morgana: And can mitigate the Divine penalty

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: "Or down the stairs."

johns (GM): Valid ways to enter a Regio: 1. Someone tells you the trick to do so. 2. You InVi it. 3. You use Second Sight / SHAU / Magic Sensitivity to find the entrance. 4. A Native of the regio invites you in

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: you can enter a regio by getting lost!

johns (GM): Finally, if a character gets lost near a regio

boundary, he may accidentally enter the regio. Roll

as normal, except that if the character does not

have a relevant Ability this merely counts as zero.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: it will be very hard to do in a single room though

Rosario of Flambeau: hah

If Moe's character were here, he could figure out how to do it with enigmatic wisdom.

RIP.

Guy of Bonisagus: ive got an idea

lets blindfold rosario

he has the best chance of stumbling in

Mortis ex Verditus: My InVi is +14.

johns (GM): Let's blindfold a dog

Mortis ex Verditus: So I'd have a tough time sponting it with the penalty.

What about you, Guy?

Zita: Guy, known sponter

Guy of Bonisagus: no no thats for dfds other character johns

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's make a mechanical horse that runs on harnessed lightning, so we can better chase dogs down

Rosario of Flambeau: Guy actually has a pretty solid point because I can get lost easier than anyone else here.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i have no sense of direction

Guy of Bonisagus: neither does rosario

Rosario of Flambeau: No sense of direction buddies.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: Let's go on an adventure together.

Morgana: I can send a grog to go get Hazm

johns (GM): you go on an adventure every time you get lost on the way to the outhouse

Sense Holiness/Unholiness only works on Infernal/Divine regios

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't think you can get lost in a room.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: can you communion up a spontaneous spell

Morgana: Hazm uses Second Sight

Mortis ex Verditus: No.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: hmm

what if we get you a bunch of vis

and you ceremonially cast.

what if we have archibald do it.

johns (GM): i dont see a need to be coy about this: Assuming the Regio is Magic 5, the EF from seeing from Dominion 2 into Magic 5 is 19

Morgana: Okay

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what if we have jeanne d'ys do it

johns (GM): What if, Endrite

Zita: jeanne dys

Mortis ex Verditus: You could always go ask her.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: wait

is archibald no-sponting or ceremonial-only

(From Mortis ex Verditus): She's not at home and also bad at InVi.

Morgana: What if we go back to the Conti and ask him if he knows how to get into the lab

johns (GM): his offer was basically he'll tell you once you clear this place out

Zita: archibald is ceremonial only

Rosario of Flambeau: Well, we'll have an easier time clearing the place out if we take them by surprise from inside.

Morgana: Ahhhh

Rosario of Flambeau: At least.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: lets haul his fat ass out of his lab and have him burn a bunch of in/vi vis in a ceremony

Rosario of Flambeau: hah.

Mortis ex Verditus: I can try a spont here but who knows how it would go?

Probably not great!

Morgana: Let me see if Hazm can self-buff his perception

Mortis ex Verditus: I definitely can't make a casting total of 20+.

Morgana: Well this special solution is closed off then

johns (GM): We have this notion, that'd we quite like to sail the ocean

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: what is your intellego, and what is your vim

Mortis ex Verditus: 4 and 5.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: you can use 9 pawns of vis in your ceremony, for a total of +9 to the final casting total

and a total of +9 botch dice

Zita: Sounds like this adventure needs an InVi specialist [said with no enthusiasm whatsoever]

johns (GM): worth it imo

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: this is a good idea i think!!

johns (GM): well. either an InVi specialist or you play along with faggot jollybottoms

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: i hate faggot jollybottoms

Zita: ill spare you all that pain

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's grab Archibald.

Morgana: Seems like we need to start using spies to figure out which specialist we should actually bring for adventures

johns (GM): we could break here and resolve this next week then dive into the fall adventure righjt after

Morgana: Okay

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's at least produce a casting total

johns (GM): im fine to keep going but i am just curious if folks are running out of steam

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds ok to me.

It gives Moe a chance to shine with accent mark of Criamon.

Rosario of Flambeau: I could keep going but it's a fine break period so that works.

Yeah.

Morgana: I could go get Hazm since Fiorella hasn't done much worthy of XP and Hazm can buff the grogs

johns (GM): alright

Morgana: "R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Group

Up to ten individuals find their fortunes improved while using a great weapon, receiving a bonus of+3 to all rolls using the Single Weapon ability for the duration of the charm. This charm exists for each Martial ability.

(Base 10, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 Group)"

johns (GM): also moe is in euro time zone I think so we should try to start an hour earlier next week

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: ok

Guy of Bonisagus: taking a break seems fine

johns (GM): yay

nice work everyone

Morgana: I'm fine with starting earlier

Guy of Bonisagus: johns (GM): yay

ive changed my mind

lets keep going

johns (GM): gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Guy of Bonisagus: owned

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's at least produce a casting total

Mortis ex Verditus: Starting an hour earlier is a great idea.

Morgana: Cool, we now encounter 69 hostile, imperceptible ghosts.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: let's start an hour earlier, and finish 5 hours later

Rosario of Flambeau: Morgana: "R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Group

Up to ten individuals find their fortunes improved while using a great weapon, receiving a bonus of+3 to all rolls using the Single Weapon ability for the duration of the charm. This charm exists for each Martial ability.

(Base 10, +1 Touch, +2 Sun, +1 Group)"

+3 to single weapon while using a great weapon is ftw

Morgana: Hazm has the same buff for Great and Bows

Mortis ex Verditus: Just dual wield.

Rosario of Flambeau: Ars will now start at 12 est and end at 12 est

Morgana: So he just casts everything the group needs

Anyway I'll go make dinner now if we're done

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: charms ftw.

johns (GM): cheers

Mortis ex Verditus: Ok, see you all next week.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: valete

gg

Rosario of Flambeau: gg nextmap

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: next map is surf_superk

Guy of Bonisagus: h