9/16/18

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+4 aging

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3

)

+4

=

7

no effect

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10!-11

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2

)

-11

=

-9

Guy of Bonisagus: but as this

rolling 1d10!-11

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9

)

-11

=

-2

moe:

rolling 1d20

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14

)

=

14

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: How long did it take for us to kill the giant last season?

Assuming we didn't have teleportation.

devil's fav demon (GM): hmm. i forgot how long the trip is. i think you were only at etna for a day, even though it went multiple sessions.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: No, the one that was controlled by Nero's Ghost.

The giant statue.

devil's fav demon (GM): Ohh.

Too many giants.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Good thing you have a pro in the covenant.

johns (GM): 1 day

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok.

I'm gonna experiment then.

On Heat of the Searing Forge.

moe: [fire extinguisher handy]

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling 1d10

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9

)

=

9

rolling 1d10!

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3

)

=

3

No extraordinary effect.

Ho hum.

Mercuzio Caesar: Salve

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Buongiorno

Abbot: Penitenziagite.

johns (GM): heretic spotted

Guy of Bonisagus: salvete all my friends. have we determined how dys's new companion is going to die

johns (GM): like caesar: stabbed in the back by those he thought friends

c'thinker: swiftly

Endrite: Kitchen accident.

Mercuzio Caesar: Death Prophecy (Son) should protect me for at least a session, hopefully

johns (GM): Get this: Every man is someone's Son

Mercuzio Caesar: Here's an idea

c'thinker: death prophecy (mom)

Mercuzio Caesar: Killed by Jesus, the son of god

even ties in with Offensive to the Divine

johns (GM): what does offensive to divine do, it means angels dislike you?

Shauncat: He dies of skin cancer

c'thinker: gift penalty

devil's fav demon: anyone with divine aligned powers or true faith

Shauncat: (Sun)

Mercuzio Caesar: It's the effect of The Gift on divine beings and people with divine-aligned powers

such as True Faith

johns (GM): virgil had an ironic sun-related death. ill allow it

Shauncat: Hazm has a relic

Endrite: That doesn't seem TOO useful, since angels are usually pretty tolerant.

johns (GM): yes

its like Offensive to the Infernal. what, demons are going to hate you MORE?

Mercuzio Caesar: It's not very useful as it's a flaw

Celeste: The wizards let me live here and also pay me, so I let their stink slide, plus they probably have a worse time talking to me. But this guy? What an asshole.

Just can't trust this Mercuzio guy.

johns (GM): Regardless it is the GM's job to thoroughly abuse flaws to make players suffer.

Mercuzio Caesar: It also means pious people with divine powers dislike you, which is the main effect of it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mercuzio is going to be killed by a relic. namely derfels spear

Celeste: derfels spear is a relic now?

johns (GM): The Spear of Destiny

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is.

Guy of Bonisagus: cant wait for celeste to kill caesar

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It's on his character sheet.

johns (GM): (everyone lols)

Mercuzio Caesar: the flaw doesnt have any extra effects for magic/fae but they were clearly aware that making demons or angels dislike you is basically meaningless and they have an extra part where infernalists/true faith people dislike you too

Shauncat: Offensive to Infernal probably means you just get straight up attacked rather than tricked or trolled

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We found the Spear of Destiny like 4 times in Pendragon but we kept losing it.

Makes you think.

johns (GM): gime 1 min

Guy of Bonisagus: oh no. infernalists will plot against you

what uh, what a flaw

Mercuzio Caesar: no offensive to infernal makes all infernalists dislike you on sight as if you had the gift. wait a minute this is a good thing too

Guy of Bonisagus: flaw that tells you who the infernalists in the room are

Celeste: i'm going to just say celeste's mace is +1 or something since we've established its a relic a very long time ago. Bwahaha.

moe: ok going to try and make a token for my dude

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Jesus.

johns (GM): shaun do you want to introduce today's adventure or shall I

Celeste: I think I'm going to retire this character soon. Unless this Latent Magical Ability is really something special rofl lmfao

johns (GM): Latent Infernalism.

Shauncat: Being singled out by a demon can suck, like the one that beheaded Aristocritus

Mercuzio Caesar: its from HoH:MC, page 87 if you want to check how it works

The Flaw is sometimes known by different names among Merinitae, depending

on the type of being it affects. Offensive

to Humans is called “The Tin Gift”;

Offensive to Infernal Beings is called

“The Iron Gift”; and Offensive to Divine

Mercuzio Caesar: Beings is called “The Leaden Gift.”

Shauncat: There were lots of people attacking that demon

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Demons like killing people.

Celeste: I've been building to that as a possible gm hook, tbh. Celeste is Prudenzio's son, the mother is unknown, and he's been obsessively studying the infernal for the last 2 years

Shauncat: I'm just saying, standing out to a demon can have meaning

Otherwise Offensive to Infernal Beings wouldn't exist

Mercuzio Caesar: Anyway, I have joined the covenant as Venditor for Mortis, which gives me exactly 0 legal rights in hermetic society and, in fact, removes the law saying that killing me is interfering with mundanes.

Celeste: lmao.

Mercuzio Caesar: There is no hermetic law against killing venditore

Celeste: Hey, you're in good company.

moe: that went well

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Mercuzio Caesar: I have some mundane grogs of my own, that are not here because they are so incompetent they haven't shown up yet.

Celeste: I'm going to protect Mercuzio slightly less than I will everyone else

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I mean they're grogs.

Who cares what they do?

johns (GM): Ok, so it's early April 1354

Shauncat: The GM cares

Mercuzio Caesar: I do, as I have the  Difficult Underlings  flaw

Shauncat: Its his story flaw

johns (GM): Father Hazm has arrived in Rome and shown up at the Eastern Ear Inn.

Mercuzio Caesar: So I need to have a small group of very incompetent people working under me that keep causing trouble

Shauncat: You can force the GM to care about it and that's why you only get one story flaw, as such power needs to be measured

Celeste: "Hazm! How've you been?"

Father Hazm: "Good, good, my child. I have excellent news in fact."

"The Bishop [Savelli, I'm assuming] has given his blessings to the building of a church on Ponza."

johns (GM): Theophilus

Father Hazm: Right.

Celeste: "Wow! Praise the lord!"

Father Hazm: "Everyone of the, ah, Vardian's Tomb covenant as you put it is invited to attend the consecration during Holy Week."

Mercuzio Caesar: Hazm has divine powers, right?

Father Hazm: "Would you be so kind as to let them know?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Sounds like a fine time."

Father Hazm: He has relic MR

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Mercuzio Caesar: So I need to have a small group of very incompetent people working under me that keep causing trouble

Mercuzio Caesar: Not sure if I get stink with him then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: seems unfair to have dys's characters filling both consul seats

Father Hazm: I don' tthink so

Hazm is magical in nature

Mercuzio Caesar: HOly shit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hey, that's great."

johns (GM): lol gul

Mercuzio Caesar: "This isle of Ponza, you have a close relationship with it?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "It's our fiefdom."

Father Hazm: "The fine, ah, magi here as they title themselves, they've been investing in its development."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "If they know what's good for them, that is."

Mercuzio Caesar: "A hearty congratulations. I knew you were all something, but land-owners too? Incredible."

"An excellent opportunity for proper governance, free from the tyranny of France."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "That's what I always say."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Say, there's an idea."

Father Hazm: Hazm passes out the written invitations, which covers all of the magi of the VT council, some bodyguards and other followers if they see fit, and a few +1s like Mercuzio if they see fit.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Without any offence to the French magus, friend of my employer here." I give a polite nod to Gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ponza's nice, but what if we moved it up by France?"

Celeste: "I don't know, I think we should leave the new guy in Rome."

johns (GM): French magi, plural

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gasp!

Mercuzio Caesar: Do you see Guy? I don't see Guy anywhere.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Hmm."

"What if we turned the island into a giant ship?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The good old Azure Coast."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Could be a good idea."

Celeste: "He's not magic, right? Just feels slimy."

"Maybe it's me."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could build a moon pool into it and carry the whale around

Celeste: Smart.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Don't be jealous of someone just because they know how to make a little money, Celeste."

Father Hazm: "Oh yes, Sir Gulielmus was it?"

moe: "It must be truly a feat to stand out in selected company such as this."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Gulielmus of Pure Reason, in the flesh."

Mercuzio Caesar: "I am actually from a distinguished and noble bloodline, merely fallen upon hard times, once with links to Jupiter himself." I say, proudly

Flaw: Proud (Major, Personality)

Celeste: "He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf, Mortis." I say, flipping through my wine-stained bible.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Sounds like something that poor people say."

Guy of Bonisagus: l;ets go to ponza

Father Hazm: "Ah yes, ah Gulielmus of Pure Reason, your expertice is in medicines and mixtures that accomplish things beyond the ken of mundane apothecary, yes?"

Celeste: "We lost a lot of green leaves lately, too. Hmm."

Guy of Bonisagus: maybve the music got hidden there

Father Hazm: "Have you any experience in treating supernatural fevers?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what manner of obstacles will our party encounter as we journey by whale

johns (GM): 3d4 sea kobolds

Father Hazm: Sahuagin

Dušan of Criamon: they punji the boat and we all take drownign damage til we die

Mercuzio Caesar: Kobmaids, kobold mermaids

Father Hazm: Someone forgot to ward the whale against sahuagin again

Guy of Bonisagus: kobold maids

Father Hazm: :stringini:

Celeste: githzerai maids.

johns (GM): Alright, who wants to go?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So what's the weather like this April?

johns (GM): You are set to arrive on Monday, and the church is hoped to be finished by Easter Sunday.

Mercuzio Caesar: I will go to see this island that Vardian's Tomb owns.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus will attend.

johns (GM): Pleasant weather.

Celeste: I will go, because Rosario has a lot of lab shit to do before he blows 20 vis on a big sword

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Supernatural fevers? I suppose I could manage something. Why do you ask?"

Father Hazm: Hazm recommends anyone interest in investigating a supernatural fever that's not the plague accompany him to meet the village healer.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think I can solve the problem.

Dušan of Criamon: Dušan, exhausted with a full year of study, will gladly take the chance to travel some

Father Hazm: "There's been a strange outbreak of fever on the island, and Matieus, the healer, believes it to not be natural."

Celeste: I only know some light chirurgy, but I'm sure you guys will get into trouble.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: intredasting.

im gonna upload moes token for him real quick if nobody else has

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's terrible. Devilry perhaps. We should investigate."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh dear."

Dušan of Criamon: grazie, guli

it's a grog

Mercuzio Caesar: I take -3 to stamina checks when near salt water

moes grog: salve

Mercuzio Caesar: and have Fragile Constituion

so Ireally hope I dont get sick on a beach

johns (GM): It'll be a rough trip. Thankfully not a long one.

Oh, Lavinia says she needs to go to Venice, so she'd like to use the whale after you've all been dropped off on Ponza.

c'thinker: the grog should be editable by you moe

johns (GM): But, she'll be back in time to pick you all up the day after Easter Sunday.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Celeste: Celeste laughs for some reason.

Dušan of Criamon: thanks

Guy of Bonisagus: have fun at your infernal rites in venice, lavinia

johns (GM): I've dropped tokens on the board, will this be your party?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Travel by whale! Who ever would have thought?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'd like to introduce the new knight I hired to be my bodyguard.

johns (GM): Salve.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: She has sworn a vow of silence, so don't try to talk to her.

johns (GM): Excellent.

After the intensely violent year of 1352, this should be a relaxing stroll in the park.

Dušan of Criamon: me, in south slavic to Zakhar: "I don't think you want to talk to her."

Zakhar, in east slavic: "Well let me tell you, I don't think I want to talk to that one."

Father Hazm: Fiorella heads off to Constantinople, blissfully ignorant of whatever Lavinia's doing with her family

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: It's probably fine.

Guy of Bonisagus: im sure i wont have to throw any pilums today

One short whale ride later

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I need to make a sedan chair so I don't have to walk everywhere.

Wow!

What a village!

Father Hazm: Nice village

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Is this near the pirate's villa?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Ah, Ponza."

Dušan of Criamon: this is the good shit

almost foreshadowing a siege

johns (GM): You emerge off the coast of Ponza Village. The whale surfaces out of sight of the village, and your sailor grog Zdan can row you to shore in trips.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks melancholy for a moment.

johns (GM): referring back to the map Mortis

the yellowy blob in the middle was ancient ruins, the pirate lord had a villa in the dead center with a magic aura

Father Hazm: The pirate villa has been kept up in your absence. It even has a hermetic lab in it for some reason.

johns (GM): this village is near the beach where the pirates used to camp out,a nd where Gulielmus was captured

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Reminds me of better times."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmmmmmmmm.

Rowing ashore, you can see another ship is anchored by the dock, plus a smattering of small fishing boats.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Well, it's a start, yes."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Whose ship is it?

johns (GM): I have added most of the denizens of this village to the journal. Hazm knows them well so I'll use their descriptions and real name each time you encounter them.

Hard to tell at a distance!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

We should ask around.

johns (GM): But as you are rowing ashore, an elderly old man (Rostagnus) and a 50 year old woman (Willa) are waiting for you and wave.

Father Hazm: I'll go take a look at the big boat up close

Or not

Rostagnus the Elder: "Hail, Fra Hazm!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Johns did you make 50 peasant villagers?

Rostagnus the Elder: No.

In addition to the listed villagers are several Rabble and Rabble (Children).

Father Hazm: "Salve, Rostagnus. These are the honored gusts from Rome, the benefactors."

Rostagnus the Elder: The woman, Willa, courtsies and the old man bows as much as his back allows.

Father Hazm: Robbble (immature Rabble)

Rubble (infant Rabble)

Rostagnus the Elder: Of the party, I believe Mortis and Dusan are the only gift stinkers, and Celeste has just a regular mundane stink?

Guy of Bonisagus: dire rabble

rabble, greater

Father Hazm: Shadow Rabble

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rabble shaman

Dušan of Criamon: I certainly got the stink

Celeste: Yeah. I'm just not someone who should ever be in a dialogue situation under normal circumstances.

Father Hazm: "Forgive their oddness, they are philosophers, and spend much of their time in laboratories."

Rostagnus the Elder: "Well any friend of Hazm's is a friend of ours," he beams a gaptoothed smile.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I can't believe you've never heard of me."

Rostagnus the Elder: "There's been a lot of people passing through lately. Merchants, knights, a bard, and now your friends. I hope Lodovico still has room to put you up."

Dušan of Criamon: "It is a great pleasure to visit your Island, we certainly mean no harm."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: updated my token

Father Hazm: "There should be rooms in the villa if the village lacks space."

Guy of Bonisagus: "This island has certainly come far in only a few years."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "We fought at the battle to reclaim Ponza, you know."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Of course, most of the mainland is uninhabitable."

Rostagnus the Elder: "That strange old place? .. Surely we can do better for our guests."

Father Hazm: "Hospitality is a virtue, of course."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Willa: Willa tugs at Rostagnus' sleeve. "Come father, you should get inside, you've had too much sun today."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Was it a difficult battle?"

I ask Gulielmus

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Before we get to all that, who is docked in the harbor?"

Willa: "The villagers have started on the church's foundation, Fra Hazm. You'll find it west of the village."

Father Hazm: "Very good, I'll have a look later."

Rostagnus the Elder: "What's that? Someone's rocking the barber?"

Father Hazm: "My guests will be curious about a number of things. The ship in the harbor, and one of them is an apothecary who's agreed to look into the fever."

Willa: Rostagnus looks a little lost, so Willa pipes up.

"Some traveling merchants. I believe you'll find them by Gasparo's by now, you know how he is."

Father Hazm: No one's rocking the casbah, we took down that bit of Muslim architecture

Willa: "If he's not out on house calls Matieus should be at his house, Fra."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "'Travelling merchants?' Sounds suspicious to me."

"What would a band of swashbuckling adventurers want with a sleepy seaside village?"

Father Hazm: Merchants could be a chance for Mercuzio to make contacts

Guy of Bonisagus: "Infernalists, doubtless." I mutter.

Rostagnus the Elder: "Seasick pillagers?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What are the units on the map?

Rostagnus the Elder: Those are your tokens.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I laugh at what I presume to be Rostagnus' witty joke.

Rostagnus the Elder: He looks confused.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "They brought out everything they had! Great spirits of the sea, poisoned smokes, cold steel..."

Father Hazm: "I told you they are a bit eccentric, Rostagnus."

Dušan of Criamon: Sagely, I observe the exchange and smile

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Say, Hazm, where did these people come from, anyway?"

johns (GM): Rostagnus and Willa nod. With Willa helping Rostagnus stay upright, the pair move off.

Father Hazm: "Many villagers came from the mainland, fleeing from the black plague and the ensuing social strife that followed."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I nod at Father Hazm translating my arcane wisdom for others.

Father Hazm: "The, what you call it, herbam blight had devastated plant life around the villa, but it ended up clearing a lot of arable land in exchange."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So here's the real question, what is the cultivated area on the south-western portion of the map?

Is it just one large piece of green metal?

Guy of Bonisagus: looks like farms, t ome

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: glebe

Guy of Bonisagus: thats the hidden giant demon temple that will rise out of the earth

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That thing.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what is johns censoring

johns (GM): that was me blanking out the existing labels on the map

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You win this round.

Ok, so I think we should split up.

Father Hazm: I'll take whoever's interested to meet Matieus the Healer, unless you want to go meet the merchants first.

If there's a split, I'll be headed to Mateius

johns (GM): if you want to split parties i can accommodate

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm going to go bother the travellers, but we should also have people taking care of the "healer".

johns (GM): ill just say this now the passage of time will matter in this adventure

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: make it the passage of real time

Dušan of Criamon: ironmode [x]

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gulielmus will go directly to meet the healer

Father Hazm: I've verified the healer is not a witch

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We already did that yesterday.

Dušan of Criamon: I'll join whichever party is smaller

johns (GM): Mortis by travellers you mean the merchants?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yes.

Father Hazm: I have Infernal, Magic, Divine, and OoH lore, I'd know if the healer was a profane witch.

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll travel with my employer

Dušan of Criamon: Supposed merchants!

Father Hazm: Also Civil & Canon Law

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Please, don't be so formal.

I'm your master.

johns (GM): Celesete, Guy, and Dusan can choose to pop up wherever they wish

Guy of Bonisagus: ill go with hazm

johns (GM):

rolling 1d2 gasparo matieus

(

1

)

=

1

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gasp!

Dušan of Criamon: mortis went south?

whqoops

johns (GM): He went north, towards the spot marked Gasparo's house

Dušan of Criamon: I shall join Mortis then

johns (GM): Ok.

Celeste: I'm sorry for being inattentive. I will go with Mortis and Dusan.

johns (GM): Gasparo has the largest and nicest house in the village. It is easy to spot at a distance, and today there is a bustle of activity outside.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Excellent.

johns (GM): Some men dressed as merchants have lain out wares on tables in front of Gasparo's house. You note a few villagers nearby:

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What kind of wares?

johns (GM): - A very fat man, well dressed, who is missing his right leg below the knee

Father Hazm: Only dressed as merchants and not being a platonic ideal of merchant? Sounds fishy.

johns (GM): The fat man is paying close attention to one table's set of wares: food, wine, and spices. He samples and tests the merchandise excitedly.

Celeste: "Surprised he doesn't have a gold leg."

johns (GM): Next to him but more occupied with flirting with a merchant is a well dressed and beautiful lady.

Hovering nearby are two thin and scrawny people, a man and a woman, waiting for orders.

At the other table are fineries of silk and linen. A woman in somewhat ostentatious wear is haggling with a merchant over a particular silk scarf.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What are the merchants like?

johns (GM): They seem very average.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

johns (GM): The platonic ideals of Merchants.

Dušan of Criamon: Acceptable answer

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I've got you now!

Fairy merchants!

Father Hazm: They all look like Taloon

johns (GM): Those would be the Humanist Ideals of a Merchant, endrite.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, let's try and find their fairy treasure.

Celeste: I glance at some nice dresses while standing guard very seriously.

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll inspect the quality of the goods

Celeste: "This turned into a busy place."

Dušan of Criamon: I eye some spices for the kitchen back at the inn

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll ask the fat man what he's looking at.

johns (GM): The foodstuffs are top quality. Wine, olive oil, meat, poultry, salt, flour, oranges, lemons, saffron, cinnamon...

Gasparo: The man wipes grease off his ample chins.

"Getting ready for the feast. Oh humm... You another of those hedge knights? Or Hazm's buddies?"

Mercuzio, the fineries are pretty nice. The wealthy lady is haggling over a silk scarf. She demands five deniers while the merchant is trying to sell for 20.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Nay, I am Mortis the Giant Slayer, master magician."

Gasparo: "Greetings, I am, ahem, Gasparo, slayer of Turks, gourmand of Ponza."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Finally.

Someone gets it.

Gasparo eyes Mortis carefully to see that is not filching any food from the table

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "How long have you lived on the island?"

Gasparo: "This is, uh, my wife Alba-- " gesturing to the beauty -- "my son Costanza--" gesturing to the skinny lad -- "and my servant".

Celeste: I bow to each of them.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Quite the charming family you have."

Gasparo: "Going on about 4 years now. The air's good for me."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I do not.

Gasparo: "Yeah uh.. thanks."

"Costanza! Garsinda! Pack this stuff up and take it inside. Chop chop."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "If you are ever in the market for a new leg, do not hesitate to call upon me."

Gasparo: "Oh I'm alright. Sort of a badge of honor, really. The Musselman who took it lost his head, so."

Father Hazm: A skinny Costanza? Sounds infernal.

Celeste: Is his leg covered up in some sort of decorative rich man's stump covering

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Amazing! How did you do it?"

Celeste: or is it just hanging out there

Gasparo: No, the pant leg is sewn up and it's just missing. At the moment he's sitted on a log stump.

Celeste: damn. no way to verify if it was a battle wound or something else.

i'll take your word this time, gasparo...

Dušan of Criamon: wait so does he move on crutches or what

Mercuzio Caesar: "But what if you were to have this badge of honour, and the honour of owning a work by Mortis the Giant Slayer? I assure you that years down the line, such a work will be an invaluable masterpiece and source of prestige."

Gasparo: Gasparo recounts a harrowing tale of fighting turks in the deserts of Anatolia in service to Christ. His wife rolls her eyes and returns her attention back to the youngest and handsomest of the merchant party.

As it turns out, he mostly hobbles around while having his son and his servant help him.

Fransica, Widow: The wealthy woman calls out to Mercuzio. "Are you a merchant yourself, good man?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I give Mercuzio a thumbs up when Gasparo isn't looking.

Dušan of Criamon: Suspicious he wouldn't choose a more comfortable way of transportation

I'll keep an eye on that one

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Here's my suspicion: he's actually a goblin.

Celeste: "Well, you know that one's no woman of virtue."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: He's certainly been gobblin' plenty of stew!

Celeste: "Why, she might as well flirt with Mortis."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Of sorts, Madam. Now I arrange deals for once in a generation works, created exclusively for the client. Capable of things beyond even your wildest dreams."

Father Hazm: Hitting on merchants instead of rough brigands is too intelligent for a Female of Virtue

Fransica, Widow: As Gasparo recounts his tales, he also mentions how he got rich from Moorish treasure.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "She knows that I am too far out of her league, to use a nautical expression."

Gasparo: "You come to one of our feasts maybe you'll get a glimpse of some of the wonders I picked up there," he winks.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Time to count the money I made off moor death.

Fransica, Widow: "I can dream pretty fancy."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm rich bitch!

Dušan of Criamon: Shades lower on the fat, greasy man's face

Fransica, Widow: Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Time to count the money I made off moor death.

this

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "When is your next feast, Gasparo?"

Mercuzio Caesar: "In that case, Madam, please, let us speak in private from this whole affair, I'm sure we can find something suitable to the standards a lady of your bearing must have."

Rolling charm. Com or Pre?

Guy of Bonisagus: good luck caesar

Gasparo: "Every night on holy week the whole village comes out and gets together, good food, music... But  my  feast on Thursday. That'll be the one they remember."

Fra Rinaldo: Presence for first impressions

Mercuzio Caesar:

rolling 1d10+5+4+3

(

4

)

+5+4+3

=

16

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Wouldn't it be more pious to simply sponsor the church's feast?"

Fransica, Widow: She is visibly flattered.

Aside with Mercuzio, she says, "You know, no one in this village has any sense of style or grace... That fat slob Gasparo has money but throws it away like it was nothing."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: He has no style

he has no grace

This peasant

loves stuffing his face

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Mercuzio Caesar: "Indeed. Much as the patricians and the plebs, there is a  gap  between men of virtue and men without, that money can never bridge." I shake my head sadly

Fransica, Widow: "Are you familiar with items of a.. magical nature?"

Celeste: He's in there.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Immensely so. Why my client, Mortis, is one of the foremost creators of them of his generation."

Fransica, Widow: She looks about to see if you are being watched. "I may have a proposal for you.. Not now though. I'll catch up with you later."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Then later, madam."

Fransica, Widow: "In the mean time, can you spare a few silvers for a widow? This merchant's prices are obscene."

Dušan of Criamon: now comes the true test of mettle

Father Hazm: THOT

Fransica, Widow: lol

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh, I can always spare a few silvers." I do so with a smile

Fransica, Widow: She grabs them eagerly, then buys the silk scarf she was admiring earlier.

"Til next time." and departs.

Meanwhile

johns (GM): Hazm, Guy, and Gulielmus approach Matieus' home.

They see Matieus outside, bandaging a wound from one of the village's laborers.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "You're certain the fever is supernatural?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, I think we should definitely investigate these merchants.

"Doctor" Matieus: "Tsk.. I wonder why the midwife won't tend wounds like this.. I guess her skills fail when she has to deal with  real  ailments."

Father Hazm: "I'll let Mateius tell you about it."

"Doctor" Matieus: "Oh, Father Hazm, good day."

Father Hazm: "Salve, ah, Doctor. These are some benefactors from Rome, here for Holy Week and the raising of the church."

"They are philosophers who might be able to help with the fever as well."

"Doctor" Matieus: He nods. "You are lucky indeed to have such fine friends, Father Hazm."

"Philosphers? I'm a doctor and even I ... Well, anyway. Come inside, I'll show you something."

Father Hazm nods

Inside

Guy of Bonisagus: I come inside.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason enters.

Father Hazm: Has Matieus ever told me by what credentials he calls himself doctor?

"Doctor" Matieus: The doctor fiddles with a chest. "Oh, father.. Francisca's son, Pierre, passed while you were traveling to Rome."

hmm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What chest?

Like a human chest?

"Doctor" Matieus: well he heals the menfolk and animals of the village

isn't that good enough?

No, a wooden.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ah.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: sir oak...

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Well I know Lavinia's alter ego is a Salerno graduate so he doesn't quite measure up.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: I read a book on medicine once.

Guy of Bonisagus: "When did this all start?"

"Doctor" Matieus: "The folk in the village already buried him so. Anyway.. Dominica brought this to me. She says she found it under Berenger's bed."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Berenger?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Another Englishman, eh?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: never trust a berenger

"Doctor" Matieus: He shows you a piece of cloth, about one foot square. It's tan fabric, dyed greyish. In the center of the cloth is a crescent in a square, drawn with red wax. Several drops of dark liquid dot the surface. Small sprigs of herbs are in the cloth, which has been tied into a loose knot.

Father Hazm: "A pity I awsn't there for him. Perhaps I can still hold a service for him later."

"Doctor" Matieus: "Bretmar the Carpenter's son. He was sick too but is doing fine now. The three lads all got sick around the same time, about a month ago."

Berenger (recovered), Pierre (dead), and Carrugo (still sick).

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Herbs sounds like Gul's area of expertise

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Some sort of charm."

"May I?"

Cloth added to journal

"Doctor" Matieus: He lets you examine it as much as you wish.

Guy of Bonisagus: can magic theory grant any insight on it

"Doctor" Matieus: You can even keep it!

Roll it + int or just take 5 on that guy

Father Hazm: Maybe I can regonize it if it's a ligature

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+3 inspecting Cloth (magic lore)

(

4

)

+3

=

7

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10+10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+8 magic theory

(

10

+

1

)

+8

=

19

Guy of Bonisagus: i do not think this is a stressful situation

Celeste: still a good roll.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lives are at stake, guy.

Guy of Bonisagus: yes. yours. for outrolling me

"Doctor" Matieus: Magic Lore: The moon is a potent magical symbol because it incorporates change and constancy. The herbs are baneful.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gulielmus is always under stress due to his PTSD from his long imprisonment.

"Doctor" Matieus: Magic Theory: You don't know of a Hermetic use for these herbs off hand. The symbols are not Hermetic.

Father Hazm: Can I roll AL to see if this is designed to harm a specific person?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Sometimes he has a thousand yard stare because he's thinking about the rose scented baths in his home.

Celeste: we should get Guli some incense for Christmas.

He'll love it.

Dušan of Criamon: Since the GM already alerted us earlier that we're under time pressure, all rolls are stressed

Guy of Bonisagus: thats true

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: All true.

Father Hazm:

rolling d10!+5+2+1 Artes Liberales (amulets and chartae)

(

8

)

+5+2+1

=

16

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: nice.

johns has not responded to my whisper so i will vomit out more lore rolls

Father Hazm: Good plan

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+8 Apothecary

(

6

)

+8

=

14

rolling 1d10!+3 Infernal Lore

(

9

)

+3

=

12

rolling 1d10!+2 Faerie Lore

(

10

+

2

)

+2

=

14

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: AFK a sec.

Celeste: Well. Good gam.

e.

johns (GM): Sorry about that -- lost connection -- using a mobile hotspot now

Guy of Bonisagus: nice. johns is homeless

johns (GM): Artes Liberales: The square is a common symbol for Earth.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+4 Philosophiae (nat.phil)

(

7

)

+4

=

11

johns (GM): Apothecary: You recognize that the red spots are blood, and that the herbs are a type that are inimical to men only.

Infernal Lore: You don't recognize these as common diabolical symbols.

Faerie Lore: No insight

Father Hazm: Hmm

Gulielmus of Pure Reason confers with his colleagues.

Father Hazm: Seems like it used the blood as an AC, so not a ligature.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: but it was placed under the target's bed

Father Hazm: Or at least, it doesn't strike me as a ligature.

Oh, hmmm

Hex bag?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Here's what I think is going on: the merchants are poisoning the men in this village so they can steal all the women.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: so it didn't necessarily find its victim through the blood

Mercuzio Caesar: Sounds like a good racket

Father Hazm: The methods seem consistent with magic

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: probably a witch.

Celeste: Some kind of crazy magic.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We really need a regulatory body for magic.

Guy of Bonisagus: it was lavinia

Father Hazm: "Mathemateci amulets require the target be known to the crafter."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: where are archibald, renard, and bonfilia when you need them

Father Hazm: "Simply placing the amulet under their bed wouldn't work."

Meanwhile

Father Hazm: "Ligature works in a similar fashion, requiring horoscopes."

johns (GM): As Mortis and Dusan move away from Gasparo's house, a shaggy dog runs up and starts barking and growling at them.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Where is Carrugo now?"

johns (GM): "He's Anna's son, so up at her house." He points to the northeast.

Father Hazm: "The methods seem consistent with hedge magic, employing shape and material."

Guy of Bonisagus: Carrugo was the one that's still sick right?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

johns (GM): Yeap.

Celeste: "Hey, easy, dog."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Whose dog is this?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "No doubt another of these talismans is hidden away in his room."

Celeste: "I don't want to have to shoot somebody's poor old dog."

johns (GM): A man rushes from out of the shrubland with another dog, several dead hares fastened to a stick slung over his should.

shoulder.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus nods. "And we may be able to save the boy, too."

Isarn, Hunter: "Who's messing with my dogs?!"

Father Hazm: "Taking a look at their house would be prudent."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "It is I, Mortis the Giant Slayer, who has crossed path with your humble hunting hound."

"I take it you have trained him well."

Mercuzio Caesar: I rejoin the magi

Celeste: "Just don't let them bite my employers."

Isarn, Hunter: "Just what we need, more freaks in this town."

He kicks the yelping dog. "Shut up!"

Celeste: "Rude!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Thank you, my good man."

Isarn, Hunter: He spits on the ground and sulks off, dogs in tow.

End interruption

Dušan of Criamon: "That one strikes me as a man with his finger on the pulse of the surroundings."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Incredibly rude."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Father Hazm: I think Guy and Gul want to go search the house for another hex bag.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, there is at least one skilled woodsman in town.

johns (GM): Ok.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm surprised there are any, frankly.

johns (GM): Hazm, you going with em?

Celeste: "He seemed suspicious."

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Celeste: "His token even had a name."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I didn't think there were any woods on the island.

johns (GM): There aren't, really

Father Hazm: There's still scrub

johns (GM): yeah... ..... ... . .. . . . .. . . . . . . you!!!!!!!!!

Father Hazm: Damn

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: brutal

Father Hazm: But still, where crops go, rabbits follow

johns (GM): does Mortis / Dusan party want to rejoin others or go off elsewhere

Father Hazm: Hmmm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

I'll rejoin the others.

Dušan of Criamon: same

Father Hazm: I guess I'll join the others if its a full party

johns (GM): You mosey to the humble peasant home by the shore.

Celeste: "Should I follow that weird guy?" I ask the new rich guy I hate.

johns (GM): The mother and daughter work the fields, while the son languishes in bed.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Celeste: With no response, I follow the magi.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Not dead yet, then?

Father Hazm: Guy and Gul, as the gentle gifted ones, should go talk to her

Celeste: "Poor kid."

johns (GM): Who wants to go into the Sick Man's room?

Guy of Bonisagus: I will go.

Celeste: I will.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'll

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I will wait outside.

Father Hazm: I'll try to convince the mother they're here under good reason

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: No way we can fit everyone in ther.

e

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll stay outside, not wanting to catch it

johns (GM): The mother trusts Hazm of course.

Guy of Bonisagus: Once we are inside, I cast The Invisible Eye Revealed.

rolling 1d10!+9

(

2

)

+9

=

11

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Smart.

Guy of Bonisagus: are we being scried on by a level 20 or lower effect?

Dušan of Criamon: I will also wait outside

Guy of Bonisagus: gah! johns whispered me before i could ask my signature question

Guy of Bonisagus is defeated.

johns (GM): Carrugo is a tall young man of 20 years. He looks emaciated and is racked with painful fever.

Oh, and the aesthetic quality is 0.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Salve."

if only the archon were here we could check the age of the stones

Mercuzio Caesar: "Dealing with outbreaks of fever. I understand some of your sodales are medically trained, but is this normal for Vardian's Tomb?" I ask Mortis

Father Hazm: You need a higher level Invisible Eye Revealed to detect the sortes it seems

Celeste: Celeste ignores sinful thoughts about the dying kid.

johns (GM): it wouldn't work on sortes at all unless it was designed for that

its only targeting hermetic magic

Guy of Bonisagus: I look around his bed for the devil hex bag.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Sure, probably."

Father Hazm: Is it hermetic only?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will use my newfound Medicine skill to examine the patient

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Rome is filled with as many sicknesses as there are people in the world."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+2+1

(

5

)

+2+1

=

8

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Or so they say."

johns (GM): i thought most vim spells were by default hermetic only and you need special familiarity with something else to target it

Father Hazm: That seems pointless considering hermetic scrying is illegal

johns (GM): Under his straw mat you find another cloth, same as the last one!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hermetic scrying is also incredibly easy

Celeste: you do. the spells usually need to be invented specifically to target something that you have knowledge of

Mercuzio Caesar: "Wouldn't that be a good area to explore? Something to ward it off, or perhaps a pillow that anyone resting on recovers from their illnesses."

Celeste: this applies for most vim spells that detect or halt other magic

or whatever

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: intellego spells are only realm-tuned i think?

Celeste: iirc

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. time to pull out the intellego vis that we brought

Father Hazm: ArM Core Rules: "The caster can feel any magical means currently being used to spy on him. "

Mercuzio Caesar: InVi being realm-attuned was houseruled out and even if it wasnt, sortes are Magic-aligned

Guy of Bonisagus: unless gulielmus can determine where the herbs came from

Celeste: oh its to detect active scrying

Mercuzio Caesar: a spell to detect effects that scry would.. detect the sortes scrying

johns (GM): the depends whether the sortes is scrying or not

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gu hu hu.

Celeste: it is

johns (GM): since all you're doing is interpreting the wisdom Virgil wrote down over 1,000 years ago

Guy of Bonisagus: it is

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Or is it?

Makes you think.

Guy of Bonisagus: you are detecting virgil scrying on you

from the past

Father Hazm: Guy should sense Virgil scrying on him

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ah, this looks bad."

Mercuzio Caesar: Since it's very clear that Sortes is a magical ability that requires the Gift, distinct from simply using the Aeneid normally, yes it's scrying.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: If ONLY we had an Intelligo Herbam spell we could use here.

What is the bag made out of?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will cast Unraveling the Wizard's Handiwork on the man

johns (GM): wool

Guy of Bonisagus: "These herbs, do you think you could figure out where they came from, Gulielmus?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Well not that nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: "We should also figure out where the dye might have come from. The merchants seem most likely."

johns (GM) shrugs best I could do

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We know that they raise sheep on this island.

So it could really be anyone, still.

Guy of Bonisagus: whoever did this had not only the herbs but some grey dye

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10+2+3+5+12-6 casting

(

3

)

+2+3+5+12-6

=

19

Guy of Bonisagus: im sure grey is not an overly expensive dye color

but it must have come from somewhere

johns (GM): gray dye is made of bonemeal and ink squid pods ofc

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: pen is 10 if it matters

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I could try Image of the Beast on the bags to see if they all come from the same sheep.

johns (GM): looking up the spell

Guy of Bonisagus: i am going to inflict psychic damage on the troll gm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That might help us narrow it down, if we could tell sheep apart.

johns (GM): what does it do Gulielmus?

Guy of Bonisagus: isnt image of the beast just to get an image from a wound?

i have it too

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it dispels one Magic-aligned effect of level equal to or lower than 10+1d10!

rolling 1d10!+10

(

5

)

+10

=

15

johns (GM): oh nice it doesn't have to target a specific form?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: assuming one exists

it's a generic version, so it's weaker than a more finely tuned one

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Image of the Beast works on any animal you have an arcane connection to.

I think a bag made out of wool might be an arcane connection.

johns (GM): Ok. Mystical bubbles surround the poor young man's body, and then are absorbed into his flesh.

Father Hazm: Image of the Beast isn't a bad idea

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Hmmm...."

johns (GM): He groans and shifts, and realizes you are here.

Carrugo: "W. who?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Salve."

"I'm Guillaume, from Rome."

Celeste: "That was amazing!"

Carrugo: He tries to sit up, but collapses weakly in his bed. He is no longer shivering.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Are you back among the living, Carrugo?"

Carrugo: "I feel like shit"

Father Hazm: Gulielmus is clergy by virtue of being educated and literate

Guy of Bonisagus: "Excellent work, Gulielmus!"

Father Hazm: As is Guy

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "The disease has taken a great toll on your body."

Celeste: "What an honest and humble young man."

Carrugo: "Just my fucking luck.." he mutters

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It do be that way.

Father Hazm: In the end it do be that way

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Luck has little to do with it!"

"Except that it delivered us to you, maybe."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason holds up one of the cursed cloths.

Carrugo: "What's that?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Someone has laid a deadly curse on you and your friends, Carrugo."

Celeste: "What kind of strange things are you into?"

Carrugo: "I got no idea"

"Makes no sense"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Nobody else on this island is into strange things?"

"No secret masters of herb lore?"

Carrugo: He eyes Celeste. "This your wife, doctor?"

Celeste: "Hm."

Guy of Bonisagus: oh yeah i guess you could make dye out of herbs too

Celeste: "Oh, no, I'm not taken."

Carrugo: He grins.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Got another one.

Father Hazm: Get in there

Celeste: I whisper to my sodales. "Hey, what about that weirdo with the dogs?"

Carrugo: "Once I'm on my feet I'll show you what a good time is, babe."

"Rest of you.. let me sleep."

Father Hazm: A hunter might be stealthy enough to plant hex bags

Dušan of Criamon: italian, through and through

Carrugo: ciao a tutti.

Celeste: "Oh, uh, you're looking healthier every second!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason sighs.

Celeste: I pat him on the thigh.

Carrugo: Feel free to imagine his language is even coarser than that, I don't feel like going into detail.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's poison carrugo

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Marone!

Celeste: "This Carrugo is exactly the kind of person Jesus would have hung around."

Father Hazm: Once the magi confirm they've removed the curse materials from Carrugo's room, I'm going to inspect the church site.

johns (GM): Ok.

Anyone want to go with him?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's ask anna who would want to brutally murder her son

johns (GM): Good question!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Guy, you should cast Image of the Beast on the bags we've collected so far.

Anna: "Will my son be alright?"

Father Hazm: "Only time will tell, but things bode better now."

Anna: "Oh, bless you father!"

She clasps your hand and shakes it gratefully.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "There may be some lingering effects, but I believe the disease has been lifted."

Father Hazm: "Keep him in your prayers and he will be guided to good health."

Guy of Bonisagus: image of the beast is just wounds

oh

wait

its any ac

gah!

Anna: "I knew the Lord wouldn't take my good boy so soon. THank you."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yeah!

Father Hazm: Yeah

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We had this conversation!

Sheesh!

Guy of Bonisagus: look i dont remember what i ate for lunch. do you expect me to remember a conversation from 2 minutes ago??

johns (GM): yes

Father Hazm: Wounds are just a good trick because of how animals flee readily if they think they won't win.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

9

)

+15

=

24

Mercuzio Caesar: We do

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I remember what I ate for lunch.

NOthing.

Guy of Bonisagus: iu cast image of the beast

rolling 1d10!+15

(

5

)

+15

=

20

and again

whered they come from

johns (GM): aura is dominion 2 btw

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats -6 right

Guy of Bonisagus: subtract 6 then

its a level 5 spell

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's only a level 5 spell.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: whew

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yeah.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: my roll earlier was right

johns (GM): Ok.

You see a couple sheep, grazing peacefully in the fields of Ponza.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Only..."

"We fear there's witchcraft at work."

johns (GM): At Arnold's farm.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Two different sheep?

Father Hazm: If you need a good place to cast you can go to the aura 5 villa

johns (GM): Nah just one.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ah.

Alright that narrows things down some.

johns (GM): The sheep's wool is overgrown and dirty.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: time to interrogate a sheep

johns (GM): Indeed

Hazm has gone to the church at this point?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Could we use "Base 4: Learn a specific fact about an animal's body" to learn how old this bag is?

johns (GM): that'd be Base 5

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Then we could narrow it down to the specific lot of wool.

johns (GM): Learn the origin, age, and history of something made of animal products.

Father Hazm: To Anna: "Does Carrugo have any rivals? Someone who might like to see him sick?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok.

johns (GM): Anna replies, "My goodness, no! He's a fine lad! A bit boisterous... you know how boys are ... but he's done no evil!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "We found these cursed scraps of cloth under the beds of Berenger and Carrugo, you see..."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That's going to be tough for me to pull off with spontaneous casting, but I might be able to.

Father Hazm: "Boisterous?"

johns (GM): Per + Folk Ken insight available

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: +13.

What's your InAm, Guy?

Father Hazm:

rolling 2+3+d10!

2+3+

(

9

)

=

14

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+2+1+1 (peasant spec)

(

3

)

+2+1+1

=

7

Father Hazm: That's my FOlk Ken roll

Guy of Bonisagus: inam is +15

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm, you should try then.

johns (GM): To Hazm, "You know, he likes the ladies.. He was especially smitten with Aleseta."

Guy of Bonisagus: try what?

johns (GM): Anna looks at the cloth. "I've no idea!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Casting an InAm base 5 +1 touch on the wool.

To learn the age of the bags.

Guy of Bonisagus: ok. it will take me one season to learn that spell

Father Hazm: "Did anyone else fancy Aleseta?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Oh, can you not cast spells spontaneously?

Tough break.

Guy of Bonisagus: no!

Mercuzio Caesar: rip Aleseta of Bonisagus

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Then I guess it's up to me!

johns (GM): "I really don't know, Father."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, how long will it take me to walk to the Olde Pirate Villa?

johns (GM): "Excuse me.. I should tend to my son."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: aleseta of bonisagus, reduced to hedge witchcraft after the neo-mercurians torpedoed her career

johns (GM): like 20 minutes?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, I'll head out there with the curse bags if no one else needs them.

Celeste: rip. she was just published, too.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets harass mathilde

Guy of Bonisagus: prudenzio, reduced to tears after his dead gay son is killed by exploding ??liquor?? bottles

Father Hazm: Once Anna leaves, "She's hiding something."

"If she is reluctant to talk to us about it, we could try speaking with this Aleseta."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Alright, it'll take me 20 minutes to get to the pirate villa so I'll wait to cast the spell if you guys are going to do something else.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Every village has someone the people turn to in unusual times."

Father Hazm: "Here in the village, that would be Rostagnus, the man who met us at the shore."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Naturally, I take Divitia with me.

AFK a sec.

Father Hazm: "I can guide the villagers with the wisdom of Christ, but for more folksy matters, it's him they turn to."

Mercuzio Caesar: "A young lady the whole village is smitten with? It would be best to see to her immediately."

johns (GM): It is getting quite late in the day now.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: blimey.

Father Hazm: I'm gonna AFK a few minuts so Hazm can go inspect the church site

Dušan of Criamon: Time to feast!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Him? You're sure?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps she's a witch. Or a diabolist."

Father Hazm: Hazm is sure, as that's in his list of notes about the village, so he nods.

Celeste: "Could be."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the list of notes about the village is merely what they want you to think

Mercuzio Caesar: "A diabolist? In such a small, tranquil village?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, I'm back.

Should I try casting the spells now?

johns (GM): sure

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What's the aura at the villa?

johns (GM): magic 5

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we should check out the church, the dead guy's house, and rostagnus's place.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling (1d10! + 6 + 5 -6 + 1 + 1 + 5)/2

(

(

4

)

+6+5-6+1+1+5)/2

=

8

johns (GM): Pick 1 to do before the sun sets

Guy of Bonisagus: "As I'm sure Hazm can attest to, the devil is often where you least expect him."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hmm.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling (1d10! + 6 + 5 -6 + 1 + 1 +5)/2

(

(

10

+

4

)

+6+5-6+1+1+5)/2

=

13

Only one of them is high enough level to work, unfortunately and now I'm fatigued.

Guy of Bonisagus: we should let the archon decide

johns (GM): That's fine

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's check out the church and send one person to look under the bed

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll try one more time with the fatigue penalty and see if I can get it going.

Guy of Bonisagus: we should check the blood on the cloths too

probably just the afflicted

but you never know

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling (1d10! +6 +5 -6 + 1 + 1 + 5-1)/2

(

(

4

)

+6+5-6+1+1+5-1)/2

=

7.5

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's just intellego some damn corpus.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh.

johns (GM): The wool was harvested about 6 months ago, and turned into cloth shortly after

Guy of Bonisagus: lets cast intellego corpus spells and not subtract it from the ledger

Celeste: What if it's like, dog or sheep blood.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: maybe one of the dogs can uhhh smell the blood or something

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, just one of 'em worked.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats possible

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Still, that means they're new and also it's time for bed.

Guy of Bonisagus: i cast Image of the Beast on the blood

rolling 1d10!+15

(

9

)

+15

=

24

johns (GM): No effect

Guy of Bonisagus: weve figured that otu

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: How is the villa looking these days?

johns (GM): Ok Gulielmus said he'd look at the church

Father Hazm: Back

johns (GM): Hazm too

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: re: the herbs, all of them are likely to be found right here on ponza

johns (GM): Most of the village's menfolk are hard at work digging out a large rectangular pit for the church's foundation. They've stacked the dirt aside the pit.

Father Hazm: Oh, the carpenter with the dead son

johns (GM): Nearby you see stacks of building material, like cut stone, and the bell, wrapped in many layers of tied cloth.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the gm has informed me it would take two days to do a thorough sweep

johns (GM): Bretmar's son is alive, actually, he recovered from the fever

Father Hazm: Oh nice

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is he debilitated

i guess wed have to meet him

johns (GM): Bretmar himself seems to be supervising the operation. He waves to the father. "Good evening father! Splendid work we've done today, haven't we?"

Father Hazm: "Yes, everything seems to be coming along nicely. Good noose about Carrugo too, it looks as though he's likely to recover as well."

Mercuzio Caesar: Good... noose???

Father Hazm: Whoops

johns (GM): "Ah good. Let's hope we can get him to work then. God's House waits for no man."

Father Hazm: Oh well it sounds the same as news

Bretmar, Carpenter smiles contentedly

Guy of Bonisagus: hazm is getting excited about lynching the wicked

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i guess we can ask this guy who wants to murder his kid

and his kids friends

Father Hazm: "Did Carrugo work at the church site before he fell ill?"

Bretmar, Carpenter: "No, father. We've only started today."

Father Hazm: "Ahh."

Bretmar, Carpenter: "He's back at my shop working on some beams as we speak. A good lad, my son!"

Dušan of Criamon: brb

Bretmar, Carpenter: Gulielmus, you feel someone tug at your sleeve.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason looks.

johns (GM): It's Doctor Matieus. He asks if he can have a word with you in private.

Mercuzio Caesar: GM, can I spend some time asking around to try and find out rumours about the young men who fell ill, with Intrigue?

johns (GM): Comm + Intrigue

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: """"Doctor"""" Matieus.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: soitenly

the "good" "doctor"

Mercuzio Caesar:

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

10

)

+2+3

=

15

johns (GM): Nice!

Father Hazm: I'll continue chatting with the carpenter

johns (GM): Bretmar: "Tch.. Father, look at that --" he points to one of the laborers who is hauling a basket of dirt very lacksadaisically. "Sluggards!"

Regarding Mercuzio's inquiries: He learns much of what is already known. Berenger has a betrothed (Dominica), Carruga was smitten with Aleseta, and Peire (the dead on) had no betrothed. All the boys are known as a bit boisterous and rambunctious. The general feeling is their behavior is "you know how young men are."

Celeste: Filled with life, Carrugo is.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I do know that.

Guy of Bonisagus: We should find out about Aleseta.

Father Hazm: "I'll try to incorporate something about the virtue of hard work and not stealing from your master with half-assed labor into my next sermon."

johns (GM): Gulielmus, Matieus leads you towards the guest house. "Gulielmus, you strike me as a good, humble sort. You've seen our fair little village. What do you think of rich lordlings coming in and stomping around like they own the place?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh.

johns (GM): Mercuzio also learns that Piere was the youngest and sickliest of the bunch and (whisper whisper) Dominica doesn't seem very happy these days with her beloved

(but you didn't hear that from me)

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ah... rich lordlings?"

"Well, certainly they should be more considerate."

Mercuzio Caesar: "This idea of witches might not be far off." I report to Mortis and anyone else there "Seems one of the sick didn't get along with their spouse whatsoever."

johns (GM): "A week ago, a knight showed up, Sir Tiziano. Not  our  knight, just a knight. Strutting about in his armor and finery like he was the lord of all creation."

Mercuzio Caesar: "I think it's the women trying to get rid of their husbands. Poison is the natural killing tool of the female mind."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Mm. Perhaps two witches. A coven."

johns (GM): Matieus points out an elegant white steed that is in the stables, attended by a well dressed groomsman. "He caught the white steed of Ponza and is claiming it for himself, just like that. Doesn't that kind of greed make your blood boil?"

Celeste: "Gasparo's wife certainly didn't respect him."

Father Hazm: Maiden, mother, and crone

Guy of Bonisagus: "Watch yourselves. Any one of these simple, honest folk could be involved."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Where'd the horse come from?

Mercuzio Caesar: "Indeed not. The men are partially to blame for being so awful that they inspired such thoughts, of course."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: If you say the pirates buried it I will curse you.

Mercuzio Caesar: "But still, murder is murder."

johns (GM): lol

Guy of Bonisagus: "We must do our best to cull the rotting apples, before the whole barrel is spoiled."

johns (GM): ahem well

it was uh... roaming the island the whole time. you know how those magical creatures are.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ah, what a shame!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I don't, my Magic Lore is quite low.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Tell me about this white steed of Ponza, though."

johns (GM): "It's been roaming the island as long as I've been here. It stays away from the village and we let it be. But look at it now... tamed, domesticated.. ah what a shame. Listen though -- I have a plan to take that lordling down a peg. You interested?"

"Just a harmless prank!"

"No one will get hurt."

Guy of Bonisagus: i think this is a private conversation but we should definitely free the magic creature

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Hmm..."

Guy of Bonisagus: and also be careful that the devil posing as a doctor does not claim our souls

Celeste: I agree wholeheartedly about the horse.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason pushes the "Tell me more" lever

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We should buy the magic creature.

johns (GM): lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I mean "Zzzz..."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "What sort of prank do you have in mind, now?"

Celeste: You should, so that Rosario can bind it as a familiar.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's sell it to our friend dannato capra

johns (GM): He shows you a bag of herbs. "The knight's probably going to show off on his new conquest tonight at the feast. But before then, we feed the horse these. It won't hurt the horse but it will make it a little sick -- enough to make the knight look like a fool parading it around."

"I just need someone to distract the groomsman while I slip these in the horse's trough."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What are "these"?

Celeste: Dannato could just steal it, because he has the infernal power to command horses to do anything he wants.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont know. gulielmus, what are those?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I shudder with revulsion, Celeste.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gm, what are those

rolling 1d10+8

(

9

)

+8

=

17

johns (GM): They appear to be [Apothecary] Purgatives and Emetics

Excuse me

Laxatives and Emetics

Poopy drugs and vomit drugs.

Guy of Bonisagus: gm, i got one question for you:

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol.

johns (GM): Guy: no, no one is scrying on you

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: no overlap with the manslaying herbs

"Doctor" Matieus: "You in?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "All right, I'm in."

Guy of Bonisagus: thats good

im happy im not being scried on

"Doctor" Matieus: Ok.

How do you distract the groomsman?

Father Hazm: To the carpenter, "So aside form the recent fever, everything else been going well? No omens of ill fortune?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Salve!"

johns (GM): Groomsman: "Ciao"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: I'll ask him how he came to be on the remote, barren island of Ponza.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: AFK a sec.

johns (GM): He tells you he is in service to the honorable Sir Tiziano. He recounts some honorable deeds.

Behind him, Matieus slips herbs into the horse's trough.

Dušan of Criamon: back

Guy of Bonisagus: hm. im sure hes slipping the same herbs in that he showed you

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: why would doctor matieus lie to me

"But what brings Sir Tiziano and his valiant retinue here?"

johns (GM): Groomsman: "He heard of the legend of the White Steed of Ponza -- that only a virtuous Knight could tame its wild heart. And with the church going up and Easter, naturally he wishes to be here to see such the fine consecration."

Celeste: You should throw Matieus under the chariot.

Rat this guy out

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: no way

Father Hazm: Has the church's relic arrived, BTW?

johns (GM): Yes -- its in the sealed reliquary.

A gilded box with a precious gem atop it.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is matieus's deed done

johns (GM): 'tis

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ah, there must be a story behind the taming of such a horse."

Father Hazm: I suggested a relic of Silverius to the bishop, as he's well-regarded by some of the locals, though I'm not sure he's fully canonized.

Guy of Bonisagus: gulielmus becomes genuinely enthralled due to his simple nature, and is left speaking to the groomsman for the rest of the night

johns (GM): Groomsman: "My lord chased it from sun-up to sun-down for a week before the horse tired. He jumped atop it and the horse tried to throw him off, but my lord held on to it true. Finally the horse acknowledged it had been bested, and now it wears m'lord's Livery."

lol

Father Hazm: I'll write a tract about Silverius later

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

The sun begins to slip below the horizon. The workers of the church lay down their shovels and head towards the open field by the guesthouse, where preparations for that night's meal are laid out.

Father Hazm: I suppose I'll go wherever I go when i'm not doing Learned Magician stuff in the villa

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: It is now  past compline.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets eat

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets

Mercuzio Caesar: Gulielmus of Pure Seasoning

johns (GM): Monday's meal: Smoked meats, wine, fresh bread, fish, stewed vegetables

Celeste: Excellent.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what if this is an attempt to imbalance our humours by serving seasonally-inappropriate foods

Mercuzio Caesar: "Not quite the cuisine of the upper crust, but we make do with what we have."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason sighs

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: I wish Lavinia were here

johns (GM): Rostagnus delivers a long, rambling address saluting the workers for their efforts, the new guests to the village, and so on, until Willa politely pulls him back to his seat.

After the meal, the tables are moved aside to form a square for dancing. A bard looking fellow pulls out his lute and plays tunes.

A fancy looking knight struts in on his gallant white horse, which then begins crapping and puking, and almost bucks the knight off its back, to the mirth of the assembled.

Father Hazm: Keep an eye out for witches, lads

Floppy hats, black cats, etc

Celeste: "Let's all join hands in some prayers-oh god! oh no!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "That poor animal is sick!"

Dušan of Criamon: "Dear Lord!"

Celeste: why would you poison a damn legendary animal.

Father Hazm: "Oh my."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: win

johns (GM): The knights retainers scramble to his side and help rein the horse in.

Mercuzio Caesar: "God in Heaven, it's getting everywhere."

Celeste: hell, maybe its a fake horse

Dušan of Criamon: in order to save the horse we had to make the horse shit and vomit

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats how human medicine works

Father Hazm: Yeah

You expel the bad humors

johns (GM): Do you wish to do anything during the night of Day 1?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: dusans enigmatic wisdom is going at full strength

Dušan of Criamon: galaxy brain stuff predicting vietnam war logic

Celeste: I will go, uh, check on Carrugo.

Dušan of Criamon: oh by the way, what day of the week is this

Father Hazm: I'll address the crowd on the virtue of hard work, and remind them that the Lord commands us not to covet our neighbor's spouse.

Dušan of Criamon: how long until fat Gassparo's feast

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok I'm back and continuing to sleep.

johns (GM): Today is Monday, and his big feast is scheduled for Thursday.

Dušan of Criamon: thanks

johns (GM): A divine lore insight is available!

Father Hazm: "A marriage is a covenant not just with your partner but with the Lord, that you will love each other and not seek out material pleasure elsewhere."

Celeste: Oh word?

Guy of Bonisagus: I will sleep for a couple hours, and try to wake around the witching hour. Then prowl around suspiciously, looking for witches.

johns (GM): Hazm, you get a lot of chuckles at that one.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+1+5

(

10

)

+1+5

=

16

int+divine lore

johns (GM): A few of the villagers sneak glances at Alba and Gasparo as you deliver your sermon.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok here's a question: why is there a knight on an island with 50 people on it?

Celeste: He's very suspicious.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: He's here to ride the puking and shitting horse.

johns (GM): He's not a resident, he's visiting

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll prowl looking for widows. Clearly she's not part of this witch's coven.

johns (GM): the bard too

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+2 Divine Lore

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

Dušan of Criamon: he's looking for a good steed and steady emplyoment

Celeste: "You know, as fun as this has been..."

johns (GM): Okay Mercuzio. You note that Francisca, who you met earlier, is the widowed owner of her former husband's leatherworking business.

Dušan of Criamon: welcome to VT, knight

Celeste: "It's a pretty strange time to have a feast like this."

Mercuzio Caesar: She did want my advice on Magic Items

Father Hazm: "Oh?" I ask Celeste

Celeste: "Usually everyone is, you know, busy mourning Christ and waiting for Sunday."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gah

Mercuzio Caesar:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2+3

(

7

)

+2+3

=

12

johns (GM): Willa (Rostagnus' daughter) is also widowed, but she is in her late 50s

Guy of Bonisagus: my god. its an infernally perverted rite

theyre all in on it

this entire island must be purged

Dušan of Criamon: seeing as it's night, I'll consult my most trusted associates outside the tomb: the stars

Celeste: Guy begins to launch Pila

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: have you lost your mind, guy of bonisagus

Father Hazm: "Things should get more somber as the week progresses, I imagine."

"Today is Monday, the day Christ was annointed at Bethany."

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d20 + 5

(

20

)

+5

=

25

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

Celeste: "It's Maundy Thursday."

johns (GM): That's Hearing the Silent Chorus?

Celeste: "Where have you been?"

Mercuzio Caesar: "Lot of widows in this town." I say to the magi

Dušan of Criamon: astronomy plus int

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It does seem unusual.

Father Hazm: I've been consulting the handout I was given for this

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I mean, the village is only 4 years old.

johns (GM): Are you doing a horoscope?

Father Hazm: The players arrive on Ponza on Holy Monday.

The order of Holy Week is Holy Monday

Dušan of Criamon: Barring any more interesting insights to gleam

johns (GM): DFD i said "it's thursday" in response to endrite's question of "when is the feast of Gasparo"

Father Hazm: (anointing of Christ at Bethany)

Mercuzio Caesar: "I heard." I say between mouthfuls "Even the midwife is too. Not at this meal either, or her kids. That a sign of a witch?"

Celeste: oh.

Father Hazm: Ahhhhhh

johns (GM): :)

Celeste: in that case, im talking about a feast in the future.

ha ha.

i should just turn one of my monitors off when the game starts.

Father Hazm: I gotcha now

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Bwa ha ha.

Turn your monitor... off???

johns (GM): You get the cold shoulder from the women at the table, Mercuzio. Mathieus walks over and leans into speak to you quietly.

Father Hazm: Turning one of his monitors off so he gets gender dysphoria and better into the Celeste character

Celeste: Jesus.

"Doctor" Matieus: "The women here look up to her. Don't know why -- she won't even treat menfolk or the animals. She isn't a real doctor, just some upjumped herbwife... But you can't expect simple folk to have real sense and recognize talent around here."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets slay her

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Sounds like we need to have a magical marriage ceremony.

Dušan of Criamon: welcome to VT, herbwife

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will challenge her to an herbal duel

Celeste: lets also consider

he is not a real doctor either

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It does make me consider.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: he's a wise philosopher who uses the principles of natural magic to make a horse shit

Father Hazm: His only claim to being a doctor is being male and that doesn't even rule out Lavinia

Mercuzio Caesar: "I see, I think I've ruffled a few feathers without meaning to."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we should have celeste talk to her.

Guy of Bonisagus: alright. when i do my witching hour prowling i will do so around the midwifes place, or try to find her

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll wait until some privacy after the meal to talk with the magi further, and spend the rest of the evening smoothing things over with the village women

Both Guy and Gulielmus had no Gift right?

er

gentle gift

Father Hazm: Gentle Grift

Mercuzio Caesar: just Mortis and Dusan with stink?

"Doctor" Matieus: celeste has a mundane sort of stink but yes

Father Hazm: Do Italians recognize the never bathes stink?

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll approach Guy and Gulielmus in private

Celeste: she'd better not do the president to raiden move on me

johns (GM): i think italians comprehend bathing

Father Hazm: Right

johns (GM): arabic influence etc

Father Hazm: They aren't German after all

Rome is full of baths already besides

Mercuzio Caesar: "You feel easier to speak with plainly than your 'sodales', so I'll be brief. The women of this village are clearly up to something, and their hierarchy has also made itself apparent. This midwife is making poisoners and witches of them, I bet."

I say this NOT around the villagers

Dušan of Criamon: "Infernal influence!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: dozens of ravens, cats, etc. scatter and return to their masters

Guy of Bonisagus: I stroke my beard. "Yes, I had suspected an organized scheme."

Celeste: well, it might just be hedge magic.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We should just confront the hedgewife.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Maybe it's just a series of ordinary magical murders."

Mercuzio Caesar: "If the devil is involved, wouldn't it be better to fetch a priest? Or are your powers even able to trump the great adversary?"

Father Hazm: FIorella should get one black cat to keep up appearances

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: How much can one woman do to us?

She doesn't even have a colossal statue.

johns (GM): That you know of



Father Hazm: "The infernal wasn't specifically invoked, as far as I or Gulielmus can tell."

johns (GM): Guy, I've marked the Midwife's house on this map, it's to the north

Dušan of Criamon: next week ars badgame officially becomes medieval mecha

johns (GM): Metal Gear Nero

Mercuzio Caesar: "I see. So it is perhaps a learned tradition like your own."

Guy of Bonisagus: excellent. i will go there at the witching hour and be suspicious

as i watch for witchery

Dušan of Criamon: GunPope

johns (GM): i was reading about augustan magic on the atlas forums and someone was saying its greatest power is in creating mechas out of wood

Father Hazm: "Whether the adversary's hand is at play here or not, the curse bags seem to be employing hedge magic, the employment of geometric shapes, forms, and materials."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Sounds like a plan.

johns (GM): Ok, the rest of you want to turn in?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hmm

johns (GM): I assume you're staying at the guest house or some at Hazm's villa or ??

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think it's greatest power is pacifism magic.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: guy has prying eyes right?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yes I am quite sleepy.

How is the pirate villa?

I'll sleep there if it hasn't been totally ruined.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm nocturnal and I just finished a good surveillance spell

johns (GM): well it's Hazm's home

Dušan of Criamon: if anyone is up for a late night romp through someone's privacy i'm game

Celeste: wood mecha and scrying are both pretty good

Father Hazm: Good men should be in bed while the infernal aura covers the unconsecrated village.

Mercuzio Caesar: "It is vital the poor women here are freed from whatever influence would drive them to this. The midwife apparently detests men, perhaps Celeste should speak with her?"

Celeste: "Hmm."

Deep in the night of the first day

Celeste: "I hope she doesn't want to check."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i will leave the scrying to my sodales and get some rest

johns (GM): The aura is now Infernal 3.

Celeste: Jesus.

Guy of Bonisagus: Holy Shit.

Dušan of Criamon: DARKNESS

johns (GM): Guy and Dusan, from the outside, there is nothing noteworthy about the Midwife's home.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Spooked ya'.

Dušan of Criamon: I roll sta suscep

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Home invasion time.

johns (GM): except little herbs and flowers and such hanging around but nothing untoward

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10 + 1

(

2

)

+1

=

3

oh baby

johns (GM): That makes you woozy right?

Dušan of Criamon: yeah, pukey iirc

johns (GM): You feel like a horse that just ate a bag of emetics.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh heh heh.

Dušan of Criamon: how appropriate

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: herbs and flowers, huh?

building a new church is just an open invitation for infernal cultists to meddle with it

Guy of Bonisagus: I leave Dusan to watch the road while I sneak around to the back and check her herb garden more closely.

Celeste: You really have to watch out until it's done, I guess.

Guy of Bonisagus: I cast Palm of Flame to help me study it.

rolling 1d10!+19

(

1

)

+19

=

20

gah!

johns (GM):

rolling 4d10

(

7

+

2

+

6

+

7

)

=

22

No botch

Celeste: damn.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Phew!

Lucky!

Guy of Bonisagus: Alright. I have a light to see by.

Dušan of Criamon: -1 on all rolls

i can handle that

Guy of Bonisagus: I inspect the garden with the powers of natural philosophy.

rolling 1d10+7

(

5

)

+7

=

12

Dušan of Criamon: I cast eagle eyes

johns (GM): Everything in there is very mundane, nothing exotic or interesting

Guy of Bonisagus: Anything like the herbs in the curse bag?

johns (GM): Nope

Guy of Bonisagus: Nothing even mildly poisonous?

johns (GM): Nothing even slightly harmful

Guy of Bonisagus: I return to Dusan.

"The main garden is all medicine."

johns (GM): Poppies, Iris, St. John's Wart, Bougainvillea Blossoms

Celeste: She seems nice.

Dušan of Criamon: "No good stuff?"

johns (GM): Lavender, Rosemary, Thyme

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps she keeps her more potent plants in a hidden garden."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The classic meme garden.

Dušan of Criamon: "Smart. Do we spy on her home?"

Dušan of Criamon is visibly shaking

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The classic meme garden.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I sense you are unwell, Dusan. If you want to retire for the night, feel free. I'll watch for another hour or so."

Father Hazm: Navigate to the hidden gargen regio

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: The Jick special.

johns (GM): i can already tell that this adventure is probably going to have to continue into next week

Dušan of Criamon: "Oh please. I enjoy seeing how far this mortal coil will let me go. Let's see about that hovel of hers."

of course

johns (GM): so no worries

Dušan of Criamon: you have multiple days planned

Guy of Bonisagus: "If you're certain. I know few scrying spells, so I'll leave that work to you."

Dušan of Criamon: OK, are we near the home?

Guy of Bonisagus: "I'll make sure nothing sneaks up on us."

yes

johns (GM): Right outside it.

Guy of Bonisagus: i just looked at her garden

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You should just knock right on the door, IMO.

Dušan of Criamon: OK, i'll try my new spell

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What's she going to do, seduce you with her hairy legs?

Dušan of Criamon: Dušan's Improved Invasion of Privacy	InIm 10

Father Hazm: I think knowing the adventure is on a clock where things happen as the clcok progresses naturally inclines us to make use of every minute

johns (GM): lol

Dušan of Criamon: what's the aura, -3?

johns (GM): i fell into that trap when I played quest for glory 2 recently

yeah

Father Hazm: I think that style of play is actually fun though

Celeste: that weird dog guy seems to have a garden. interesting.

johns (GM): but then it turns out that they give you way too much time and all the time I spent grinding in the meantime was completely pointless

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10 + 6

(

4

)

+6

=

10

johns (GM): Pass

Dušan of Criamon: cha-ching

Guy of Bonisagus: damn is celeste out spying too

Celeste: its not pointless because you grind to import your epic stats into quest for glory 3.

Dušan of Criamon: OK, it's prying eyes + eavesdropping

johns (GM): It's a single room shack, 1 bed, table, bench. It's unoccupied.

Dušan of Criamon: twist ending: it's dark and quiet inside

Guy of Bonisagus: ah

shes already out

johns (GM): I fucking hated Quest for Glory 3 though

Celeste: I was going to check on Carrugo. You guys told me to talk to this midwife but I guess not at midnight.

qfg3 sucks balls and is the worst one but its got some fun parts

johns (GM): i chose a thief mage and that game sucks for them

Decent people have gone to sleep Celeste.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: someone should have spied on rostagnus i suppose.

Alas

Dušan of Criamon: "If only we had a genuine thief with us, to burglarize her hovel and see if there's more of the cursed herbs!"

johns (GM): haha.... yeap...

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh, yeah

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: If only.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if it's dark then prying eyes just reveals darkness.

Guy of Bonisagus: "She's out, we don't exactly need a thief of legend to rummage around."

johns (GM): The moon is waxing bright.

Guy of Bonisagus: how many nights until its full?

johns (GM): Hmm.... 6?

Guy of Bonisagus: ah

Celeste: Interesting.

johns (GM): wait that's obviously false

easter is the first sunday following an ecclesiastical full moon

Dušan of Criamon: "I... I suppose we..." Dušan is mortified at how simple the solution may be

Guy of Bonisagus: got them. fucking got them

johns (GM): so it's..... Waning bright! you just missed the full moon!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gah!!!!

johns (GM): Burglarize or no?

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll head in and have a look. "Dusan, let me know if you hear anyone coming."

Dušan of Criamon: thumbs up

I still have eagle eyes on, I hope it helps

Guy of Bonisagus: I'll try to leave little trace of my presence.

johns (GM): guy can see in the dark?

Guy of Bonisagus: I have palm of flame.

johns (GM): ok.

You find some signs of a woman who has lived here. The floor is swept, there are dresses and clothes under the bed. On the table are bottles of various strong smelling liquids.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gasp!

A woman!

johns (GM): Some of the garden's innocuous herbs are hanging up to dry.

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: Can I decant a bit of the liquids into vials?

johns (GM): Ok

Guy of Bonisagus: Any cabinets, drawers etc?

Or is everything more or less in the open

johns (GM): nope, all in the open, humble peasant abode

Guy of Bonisagus: Just to be certain I will take a thorough look under her bed.

johns (GM): just the clothes there

Guy of Bonisagus: I exit the house.

johns (GM): > Done

Dušan of Criamon: No interlopers_

Guy of Bonisagus: "Absolutely nothing unusual. I will have Gulielmus take a look at these liquids, but they are almost certainly medicine of some sort."

"The only question remaining, where is she at such an hour?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Good point, albeit not one I think we can solve in this light."

probably out there consorting with the devil

"I suppose it's time for us to call it a day as well."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye. Any hidden gardens will be easier to find by the daylight, anyway."

I will head back to my lodgings.

johns (GM): After a long day of travel and questioning, it is easy to fall asleep ...

Day 2

Mercuzio Caesar: 48 hours remain

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ah.

What a pleasant night's rest.

Celeste: Good morning, everyone. Make sure to say your prayers.

johns (GM): Those of you who are not Nocturnal are woken by beams of sunlight spilling into the room.

Mercuzio Caesar: Much easier than sleeping in a big stone whale

Dušan of Criamon: miss me with that early morning shit

johns (GM): Lodovico, the Host, brings a basin of warm water into your room and lights your stove.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I warmly greet the morning sun.

Father Hazm: I'll wash up and trim my beard.

Unless Maronites are supposed to let them grow out

johns (GM): beats me

Father Hazm: In which case I do not

johns (GM): As you wrap up your morning routines and breakfast, you hear commotion over by the church -- several people yelling and shouting excitedly.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll get dressed and head over.

Guy of Bonisagus: as will i

Mercuzio Caesar: and, I

johns (GM): roger that

Celeste: Yep.

Father Hazm: Roll out

johns (GM): Much of the village is woken up by the din and doing the same, you pass them on the road

At the church site you see what the hub-bub is about: The foundation that was dug yesterday is now completely filled in!

Dušan of Criamon: I grumble and pull myself together to enjoy the -1 to all rolls

johns (GM): with the very dirt pile that was dug up before

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll cast Superior Aura of Ennobled Presence on myself before I get there.

rolling 1d10 +14 + 5 -6

(

1

)

+14+5-6

=

14

Father Hazm: I'll avoid casting my self buffs while in polite copmany

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Phew.

Level 10.

Guy of Bonisagus: what about your botch dice?

we are under a time limit, so everything is stressful

Father Hazm: Unstressed

johns (GM): Villagers are muttering and yelling. Accusations of sabotage, witchery, devilry..

Father Hazm: Oh

johns (GM): Then the wizards roll in.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Are they wrong?

Father Hazm: Guy might have a point

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: They might not be.

While I know that time is being kept track of, my character does not and so would have no reason to be stressed.

Father Hazm: "Now now, witchcraft is a serious accusation that requires orderly investigation."

Mercuzio Caesar: "The midwife is missing, and look at this." I shake my head "Clearly she was behind it, magi."

Guy of Bonisagus: I will look around at it and try to determine if it looks feasible to have done all this by hand, or if it's perfect enough for magic to have done.

Bretmar, Carpenter: "What else could move all the dirt we spent all day moving, overnight?"

Mercuzio Caesar: The exact same amount of people spending the same amount of time, just at a different time of day?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Makes you think.

Dušan of Criamon: "A very motivated opponent."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Fear not good people, for the magi of Vardian's Tomb will solve your problem."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Is this really in the same league as making charms to curse people?"

Dušan of Criamon: We should find the horse, and the midwife

Father Hazm: "It's quite possible that it was witchcraft. But it's not an accusation that should be thrown around wildly, catching innocents in the crossfire." This is an unusual thing for a priest to say, but I'm an unusual priest

johns (GM): The horse is currently next to Sir Tiziano, who is holding its reins, but not riding it.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Perhaps it was returned through manual labour. Are there any people notably missing? Doing work like this all night would leave a man - or woman - very tired."

Isarn, Hunter: "Or are you just covering for your friends, priest?!"

Mercuzio Caesar: "it would show on their face here, or they'd be absent entirely, resting."

Isarn, Hunter storms into the scene

Celeste: "Hey, it's that weirdo."

Father Hazm: "Am I? If you have evidence against them, let's hear it."

Dušan of Criamon: i'd rather not hear it

this guy seems pretty legit

Isarn, Hunter: "If these gutless folk won't say it I will. Everything was going fine until you brought these... weirdos in here."

Guy of Bonisagus: "As I understand it, the curses on the three young men began a month ago."

Isarn, Hunter: "And last night I saw them roaming around after dark!"

Celeste: "Those weirdos own the island."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh, was it really? The fever predates our arrival! Your entire argument is unsound!"

Father Hazm: "It was not going fine. Someone cursed three young men before they got here."

Isarn, Hunter: "Yeah right!"

Mercuzio Caesar: I'll say that very boldly and loudly, and roll Leadership on it

to get people on our side

Isarn, Hunter: Roll away

Mercuzio Caesar:

rolling 1d10+5+8

(

2

)

+5+8

=

15

Isarn, Hunter: Rostagnus the elder tries to rise his voice above the din. "This nice young man has a point, friends --"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Who did you see roaming around, hunter? And where?"

Mercuzio Caesar: I nod, as humbly as my pride allows

Isarn, Hunter: "You and that other weirdo -- the foreigner!" He points to Dusan.

"Why don't you pack up your shit and get out of here? You're nothing but trouble!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "And what were you doing up in the middle of the night?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "This? But it is a paltry matter to fix."

Isarn, Hunter: "Oh trying to flip it on me? Trying to suggest something?"

Father Hazm: "Calm down. If there is a witch, or wtiches, at work here, I'm the one who will be tasked with excommunicating them."

Guy of Bonisagus: "You are getting awfully defensive, my good hunter."

Father Hazm: "So let me do my holy work."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I am a peerless witch hunter, never fear."

Isarn, Hunter: He puts up his fists, ready for a brawl. "C'mon, if you're gonna talk shit about me, be a man to back it up! I'll show you what a good Christian can do against the likes of who!"

Likes of you.

"Who's man enough to face me?"

Father Hazm: I will not strike one of the flock, so I back away.

Guy of Bonisagus: "This is embarassing."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll order Divitia to fight him, as it is beneath my dignity to brawl in the streets.

Dušan of Criamon: "Now, there's no need for bloodshed. It is true, I was watching the stars. There is no reason for a fight over that."

Isarn, Hunter: The villagers are muttering at Isarn telling him to calm down but he pays them no regard.

Celeste: "Are you really a good Christian, wanting to fight in the street?"

Mercuzio Caesar: chaotic neutral christian at best

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "This isn't necessary, I'm sure."

Isarn, Hunter: Okay Mortis, will Divitia fight barehanded?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Oh that's a good point.

She'd better not.

Father Hazm: "Yes, this is beneath your Christian dignity."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: As she has sworn a vow of, uh, modesty.

Isarn, Hunter: lol

Celeste: "You'd probably even fight me, a poor lady!"

Dušan of Criamon: two vows

akimbo

Celeste: I say in armor carrying several weapons.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The double.

Mercuzio Caesar: Vow of chastity

Let's stack as many vows as we can on her for power

Isarn, Hunter: "Look at this fake here," he accuses Mortis, "goes around pretending to be a knight but won't man up when honor's really on the line!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "A fake? Me?"

Father Hazm: "Now now, any duelist is allowed to name a champion."

Isarn, Hunter: "And you--" he accuses Celeste-- "a lady? Hah! You stink worse than a pig's ass!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm, who else we got here?

Mercuzio Caesar: "Mortis here has slain two giants! What have you slain, besides your humours with a poor lifestyle?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I have to put this guy in his place.

Mercuzio, beat this guy up for me.

Celeste: Alright. I'll do it.

Oh, uh.

Mercuzio Caesar: I have no brawl whatsoever, and a fragile constitution

Celeste: Hey, go for it.

Isarn, Hunter: "And what about this snob?" He looks at Mercuzio. "Never worked a day in his life but thinks he knows better than us honest toilers!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Mercuzio, beat this guy up for Mortis.

Mercuzio Caesar: I wish I had a comically inept grog with me to fight in my name in Mortis' name and lose spectacularly

Celeste: "Who wants to hold my bow?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The covenant has spoken, Mercuzio.

Isarn, Hunter: Still to Mercuzio: "What're you gonna do, pay some frenchman to fight for you? Coward!"

Mercuzio Caesar: "You'd call for violence... on holy ground?" I emphasise that part, playing to the crowd

Celeste: "It's not really holy ground yet, is it?" I whisper.

Isarn, Hunter: "I'll take you anywhere, anytime." He steps into the road.

Guy of Bonisagus: "This is ridiculous."

Celeste: "I can probably handle him. He's being very threatening."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Does he have his dogs with him?

Mercuzio Caesar: "Then, I give you this, my word. If by Easter Sunday's end we have not discovered the cause of this strange movement of dirt in the night, I will give you this fight, and you may even throw the first punch."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Nothing good will come from fighting this man."

Isarn, Hunter: Yes, but they look tired and beaten up and not a threat.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Right.

Celeste: "Maybe he'll sober up. I know a guy who's drunk at seven in the morning when I see one."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: he's been training Brawl by kicking his dogs for 20 xp a year

Mercuzio Caesar: lol

Isarn, Hunter: lol

Celeste: kicking dogs for work and pleasure.

Isarn, Hunter: Is Celeste going to fight or chicken out?

Mercuzio Caesar: Punching dogs endlessly for 29 years past childhood gives you 380xp in it

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wow!

Isarn, Hunter: he's the autistic savant of dog kicking

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Pretty good!

Celeste: He's really rude and mean and kicks dogs so I will fight him unless ordered not to.

Mercuzio Caesar: You should see his signature move, the bitch slap.

Isarn, Hunter: Alright

Roll Init

Guy of Bonisagus: "Do not fight him."

Celeste: Welp. Hands are tied.

"Aw, alright."

Isarn, Hunter: He spits a bunch more epithets about your cowardice but, clearly not getting a fight, resorts to storming off.

Celeste: "He doesn't look that tough. I could probably take him down without either of us getting hurt too bad."

Father Hazm: "Do not give in to Wrath during Holy Week."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmph.

Father Hazm: "Nor Pride."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I really need to hire an army of mercenaries.

Celeste: "Hm. Good point."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What's old Haukevood up to?

Celeste: "This infernal influence is getting to me."

johns (GM): he's still in the Black Prince's army I think

Father Hazm: "We should investigate what moved the dirt."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok.

Hmm.

What did we do with that brazier we were supposed to never extinguish?

Rostagnus the Elder: i assume it's still in the pirate villa?

Father Hazm: Put it out and threw it into storage.

Rostagnus the Elder: oh

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Uh oh.

Father Hazm: Nah

Rostagnus the Elder: okay roll init for waking up the might 50 demon

Father Hazm: Hazm's bene here, he can keep it lit

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok.

Well there might be other magical beings on the island.

Rostagnus the Elder: Rostagnus holds up his quivering arms. "Now then.. We must not lose heart.. We'll simply start again."

Father Hazm: Fiorella also has an AC here to teleport back and forth

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's possible they're behind everything.

Celeste: "That's the spirit!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Why is everyone listening to an old guy if everyone has been here for the same amount of time?

Celeste: I'll grab a shovel and start digging and pretending it's Isarn's face.

Rostagnus the Elder: He's old.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I GUESS.

Rostagnus the Elder: "Ah, good, our guests have decided to pitch in."

Guy of Bonisagus: he lived long enough to be an old man in the 1300s

hell, he was probably born in the late 1200s

and that makes him smart

Father Hazm: "The movement of this much earth seems a strange act for a mere witch."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, we definitely need to find the witch at this point.

Let's go back to her hovel.

Guy of Bonisagus: i dont think its the midwife

anymore

johns changed it after we immediately went looking

Dušan of Criamon: neither do I but I want to know what she's doing

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We should confront her anyway.

Guy of Bonisagus: so now we simply split up to investigate every villager until hes cornered

shes also missing

Father Hazm: "Would anyone else be willing to help dig the dirt back out?" I ask the rest of the VT representatives, as Celeste's already digging

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: If someone is poisoning men, it makes sense to look at the most magical woman.

Guy of Bonisagus: mortis's new mercenary should help with the digging

shes got uh, a lot of stamina

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Think carefully before requesting my help."

Guy of Bonisagus: and is good at following orders

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: As an actual knight, she is forbidden from labor.

Nothing I could do.

Father Hazm: "Uh, the services of your, ah, servants won't be necessary, Mister Mortis."

Dušan of Criamon: "Not to suggest anything, but I spent all year reading perdo and terram summae, frankly I now both detest doing so and am probably the best man for excavations this side of Archibald"

Father Hazm: "Anyone else who would be willing to help dig is welcome, however."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I give Celeste and the other workers the thumbs up.

Father Hazm: I can try to arrange some privacy for Dusan to perdo the dirt

Guy of Bonisagus: brb

Father Hazm: Hmm

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: guilielmus will begin searching the island

Father Hazm: Nah, let's just dig

Rostagnus the Elder: Gulielmus of Pure Treason.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh.

Dušan of Criamon: I agree with the search party suggestion

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll head to the witch's hovel.

Dušan of Criamon: someone has to know where she goes

I'm sure she's either consorting with the devil or collecting vis

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: she's performing mysterious arcane rites to combat the true evil

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: She better not be, that's our vis!

johns (GM): Ok, Mortis' destination is closer so we can address that first

Mortis you see: A house

Father Hazm: Dirt is important landfil so perdoing it is bad

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

{A]ppraise house.

johns (GM): Peasant hovel.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Alright, I'll barge in.

Father Hazm: Pleasant hovel

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Divitia will go first, natch.

johns (GM): The hovel is empty.

Mercuzio Caesar: "It appears to be nothing more than a peasant's hovel."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Damn!

Father Hazm: --more--

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Ok.

Let's start questioning the women of the village.

Father Hazm: Dusan could spont a muto terram to make dirt as light as down

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What weighs more, a ton of dirt or a ton of feathers?

Guy of Bonisagus: we could burn down this set of villagers and start over with new ones

Father Hazm: It's not a ton of dirt thankfully, it's a volume of dirt

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Now that's an idea.

Oh, where are the merchants?

johns (GM): They're packing up and rowing back to their ship.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Father Hazm: 69e420 Planck volumes of dirt

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll try and stop one of them.

Merchant: "Hello"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Halt!"

"Where do you sail from?"

Merchant: "Genoa"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Father Hazm: The dastardly Genoese

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I knew it!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Why have you stopped at this village? It's hardly more than a speck in the ocean."

Merchant: "It's a safe port, they have gold, what more needs to be said"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Gold?"

"Here?"

Merchant: "The fat man is quite wealthy. That widow has some fine wares too."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Peculiar."

"Thank you for your time, good merchant."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Oh right, the widow. She mentioned wanting advice on items of a magical nature."

"Perhaps she came across something?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Remember, if you need quality divination, Mortis ex Verditus is the only magician to turn to."

Merchant: "O-okay"

Guy of Bonisagus: maybe shes a witch testing out hexes on the younger men to make sure theyre strong enough to kill her husband

Meanwhile

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That seems very complicated.

Merchant: Dusan and Gulielmus are venturing into the savage wild interior of the island.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Why not just push him into the ocean or something?

Merchant: Amid the rolling hills and fields you find two young girls out picking flowers.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Suspicious.

Father Hazm: Maybe we should check on the minaret to see if it's been defiled.

Merchant: hell i thought you knocked it down

Father Hazm: Maybe

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10!+8 what kind of flowers

(

5

)

+8

=

13

Merchant: Exotic ones!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Wow!

Father Hazm: It's good building material for a church

Dušan of Criamon: Exotic flowers? Localized entirely on Ponza?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Strange flowers."

Father Hazm: And Hazm has no love for Mamluk architecture

Merchant: They sing an unfamiliar tune and move with a spring in their step.

Dušan of Criamon: sheepishly whispering to Guli: "Witcheeees."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ah, they're just kids."

Dušan of Criamon: "I'll see it when I believe it. Say, what about those flowers?"

Mercuzio Caesar: The midwife has 2 daughters!!!

Or at least 2

johns (GM): gasp

Mercuzio Caesar: Gulielmus of Pure Treason is acting to help her

luring dusan into a trap

Dušan of Criamon: I am as calm as ice

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I've never seen them before."

Father Hazm: Remember, a witch is guilty of stealing herself from her husband

How did the widow's husband die?

johns (GM): Unknown!

Father Hazm: Gasp!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: I will gather some flowers, for my cult friends.

johns (GM): Father Hazm doesn't actually know much or interact much with the midwife.

Okay, the women spot you and and alarmed.

The taller one pulls at the other's arm and they start to run off.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Which one is hotter?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Oh, hello."

"Oh. Goodbye."

Father Hazm: Poor Gul, never even got to use his gentle gift

johns (GM): hmm

Dušan of Criamon: I yell after them "Hail! We look for the midwife! There is an emergency in town!"

johns (GM): the older one has a higher Pre score

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Mmm.

johns (GM): one is about 19 and the other is about 14.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ah, I see.

johns (GM): The younger one sneers at you. "Jump off a cliff pigs!"

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant believe the young women fled from a sad looking frenchman with a funny hat and a moustache drooping over his mouth, and a tattooed weirdo

Celeste: lol

johns (GM): lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: hafl would have loved this

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Seems a little harsh."

Dušan of Criamon: "They don't know what they're missing in you dear sodalis."

OK

I cast eagle eyes

johns (GM): "hafl would have loved this" is never a good sign

Dušan of Criamon: I want to follow their escape route

Gulielmus the nonce: "But look at these flowers. See how the...."

jesus

Dušan of Criamon: as much as possible, then extrapolate roughly where they're headed

johns (GM): What is your Qik score?

Or just monitoring?

Dušan of Criamon: +2

oh i wasn't thinking about running after them, i was hoping with rolling hills I'd just see about where they're going

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Gulielmus explains in detail how the plant is properly classified, according to the wisdom of Aristotle.

Dušan of Criamon: considering we saw a map earlier

johns (GM): Okay, they run off to the west coast and disappear into a thicket

Guy of Bonisagus: why isnt it a good sign johns

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Oh wow it should be really easy to find them.

The island is like 10 feet across.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hmm.

could they be in Circe's Cave

Dušan of Criamon: we could just hold hands and physically sweep the entire island

Celeste: lol

standing room only houses

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: It's not important though. Let's keep moving.

johns (GM): Ok.

It's midday now. Laura hasn't returned to her hut in the village. The folks at the church are still digging. The rest of the day is yours.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: theres murder afoot. but there are plants to look at

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Who isn't digging?

johns (GM): Bretmar, the Carpenter, is acting as a self-appointed overseer, not doing any manual labor himself.

Dušan of Criamon: after the whole herbam blight i can't help but focus on the nice flowers

johns (GM): Sir Tiziano is not digging, as he is a knight.

The old people are not digging but keep busy preparing for the night's meal or carting supplies to the work crew.

Mercuzio Caesar: "Magi, I have a suggestion."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Old people, eh?

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Go on."

johns (GM): Carrugo still looks too weak to work, though he is able to grab his crotch and leer at any women who approach him.

Guy of Bonisagus: old men. i ncharge of the preparations

attaboy

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: 100% paisano.

Mercuzio Caesar: "If the culprit insists on hiding, then surely they have to leave that hiding to interfere at night. The church site is one possible target, and we might be the other. We should set up a watch at night to find and corner them, even catch them in the act."

Guy of Bonisagus: just think. this heartless witch killed a young boy just like carrugo. full of vigor

Mercuzio Caesar: "Why chase your enemy, when their own plan requires them to run right at you?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: how many pawns of vis do you think you could get out of sacrificing carrugo

Guy of Bonisagus: "Aye, the church foundations are definitely the best site to monitor."

Celeste: Watch the crazy dog man, as well.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: archibald is back in rome

johns (GM): lol

Celeste: lol

gottem

Father Hazm: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think we should start questioning women.

Mercuzio Caesar: "The church, and our sleeping quarters too. We can't simply assume they'll do the same trick twice. We must be prepared for more devious and cruel tactics. They are not above murder."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's start with the widow.

Father Hazm: Find out what happened to her husband

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: and actually question her

Dušan of Criamon: pursue the magical item lede

johns (GM): Ok.

Who wants to question Fransisca?

Mercuzio Caesar: I tug my collar and disgruntedly bring others along with me to meet the widow

Father Hazm: I can buff someone with a spell that gives them Ways of Ponza for Sun

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I will do it.

Give me that magic spell.

Father Hazm: If you lower your parma, sure

Celeste: Ways of Winning

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Ok, I will.

Guy of Bonisagus: Ways of the Suspicious Locale

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Lay it on me.

johns (GM): Mercuzio and Mortis approach Fransisca's house. They smell nice baked goods from nearby.

Mercuzio Caesar: Ways of the Earth

Father Hazm:

rolling d10+2+1 Entreat the Divine/Infernal Powers check

(

2

)

+2+1

=

5

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

johns (GM): Fransisca is leaning out a window, arguing with Costanza.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Suspicious.

Father Hazm: Okay, I should be able to get the charm off without fatigue

Fransica, Widow: "Go beg at your own kitchen. Your father's scraps would certainly feed three skinny boys like yourself!"

Father Hazm: Mortis now has the Ways of Ponza virtue

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Fransica, Widow: Dejectedly, Costanza sulks off.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

"What, pray, was that about, my good woman?"

Guy of Bonisagus: For my Party Split choice, I will go look at the shrubland behind the midwife's house.

Fransica, Widow: "Hmph.. He smelled me baking a pie and came begging. You see how thin he was? Look how Gasparo stuffs himself and lets his own son starve. Disgraceful."

You notice Isarn hunting hares with his dogs, Guy.

Father Hazm: I'm not sure what to do so I think I'll keep an eye on the church

Mercuzio Caesar: "Truly disgraceful. He would not reach such a size without a full-stocked larder."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

"How long has this been going on?"

Fransica, Widow: "Since always."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Napolino was telling me - great guy, by the way - about how much he eats, and I could hardly believe it."

Fransica, Widow: "And don't get me started on that wife of his... Village gossips can't keep up with her dalliances."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Any other odd characters in this village?"

Fransica, Widow: "Besides you?"

Fransica, Widow chuckles

Father Hazm: I'll start mentally preparing a sermon as well for tonight on what witchcraft actually is, and how it becomes a crime against God and Man.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Yes, of course."

Mercuzio Caesar: "I suppose married to a man like that she must pine for others. Just who has she been with?"

Father Hazm: It is not simply knowledge of herbs or medicine that brings a woman into sin. It is the theft, of herself from her rightful owner, her husband.

Fransisca, Widow: "I'm no gossip sir knight. I spend my days keeping my house as best a widow can. My eldest has passed and now the whole business is on my shoulders, but does anyone show any sympathy? Hmmph.."

Guy of Bonisagus: I will wander to a part off the shrubland less hunted.

Mercuzio Caesar: "I ask out of purely medical curiosity of course, to help with the fever here. Finding out who's been in close contact with those sick, you know."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Oh, what business do you have?"

Fransisca, Widow: Saddened, "Did the priest not tell you? My own boy, Piere, passed from the fever.. Bless the lad, he was a lazy bum and a waste of coin but he was still my son."

Mercuzio Caesar: "My sincere condolences."

Fransisca, Widow: She is a leatherworker, Mortis.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Truly, we pass through this veil of tears only through the grace of God."

Hmm.

Mercuzio Caesar: "You asked the other day about advice regarding items of a magical nature. I have brought with me the foremost expert in the field that you'll find in all of Italy."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Then you wouldn't know the midwife that well."

Fransisca, Widow: "She delivered my youngest. She's a decent lady. People say you're asking lots of questions about her lately."

"... but yes, I was still interested in business, if you'll step inside."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wait, how is her youngest?

I mean "how old is"

Fransisca, Widow: 5?

Hmmmmm.

HIGHLY suspicious.

Fransisca, Widow: why

Guy of Bonisagus: dont ask us

Mercuzio Caesar: I step inside

Guy of Bonisagus: your the gm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We only conquered Ponza 7 years ago.

Fransisca, Widow: It's a spartan shack full of leather goods in progress and scraps.

guess the good news spread quickly, endrite.

Celeste: We're very good Lords.

Fransisca, Widow: "Like I was saying.. that Gasparo's got wealth but spends it all on himself -- lets his son and his servant starve while he squanders all his coin on meats and spices. And poor me, a widow trying to keep the household on her lonesome. Hardly seems fair does it?"

Dušan of Criamon: It's a great time to be ruling an isolated island

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Well, we all have our cross to bear."

Father Hazm: The population only probably started booming once the herbam gas blew away

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Take me, for example, I might be a powerful wizard, but I still have to provide for my entire, dimwitted family."

Fransisca, Widow: "Uhh... yeah. Anyway.."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: she should marry costanza

problem solved!

Fransisca, Widow: "I know where he keeps his treasure. Not just his gold but magic items he doesn't know what to do with."

"Magic items he got from the Moors."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "What kind of magic items?"

Father Hazm: Oh ho ho

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Anything to do with the midwife?"

Fransisca, Widow: "... No, nothing like that.. He's shown them off on occasion.. A pair of statuettes, a ring, and a cloak."

"Anyway.. how about this.. I tell you where they are.. You bring me back the gold but you keep the items yourself... interested?"

Celeste: That's a pretty incredible deal.

Dušan of Criamon: Incredibly good!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Why do you want the gold? Surely there are others in the village who can help you if you are struggling."

Dušan of Criamon: I am not present as this is happening but as the resident expert on aptness: retrieving these items from mundane hands is apt

Father Hazm: Sounds suspicious, in that she trusts you to give her the gold

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: To be honest I'm offended that she thinks I'm a common footpad.

Father Hazm: She's a witch and is going to curse you if you don't give her the gold

Fransisca, Widow: "Hah! They're all living hand to mouth.. and they don't take any pity on me anyway. Don't be fooled by their rustic charm."

Father Hazm: Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqasAIyGeBU

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "What about Father Hazm? He's a steadfast fellow."

Fransisca, Widow: "He's your friend and all but.. He's a strange one.. Spends his time up at that spooky ruin on the hill..."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Oh, good, I'm glad you see it that way. It is quite dangerous."

Father Hazm: I spend two working seasons in the village but that isn't entirely unfair otherwise.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Still, once the church is built I'm sure he will come down off the mountain more often, as it were."

Fransisca, Widow: "Living at the mercy of some sanctimonious churchman who taxes us and sends our money to Avignon? No thank you!"

"Besides.. If you're experts on magical items you should be the ones to have them."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Have you considered changing trades? It must be difficult to find leather to work on such a small island with no cattle."

Fransisca, Widow: She sniffs. "And betray my poor husband? Shame on you."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Believe me, I know the tribulations of working in a trade."

Hmm.

How fine are the pieces that she's working on?

Fransisca, Widow: "Pretty nice"

Guy of Bonisagus: insanely rich magus in full plate: i understand your struggles, peasant woman

Fransisca, Widow: sorry I put that in quotes but she didnt say that

lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I should be so much more rich you don't even know.

It hurts!

Fransisca, Widow: Sounds like you should take the deal.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Are they enchantment-worthy?

Fransisca, Widow: No.

Celeste: human leather is always good to keep around.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Fransisca, Widow: that's my philosophy in rimworld

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So wait, how many children does she have?

Fransisca, Widow: just 1 now, the minor, Tonio

Peirre was 20 and is now dead.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm, ok.

Mercuzio Caesar: "I can give no guarantees - this is certainly not what any of us does for a living, after all - but knowing about and securing these items is important, and if we do, I assure you the gold will be given over to safeguard you and your family."

Father Hazm: Tonio ex Rusticani

Fransisca, Widow: She smiles with a gleam in her eye. "Then we have a deal?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "My servant speaks too easily."

"We have no intention of robbing your neighbor."

"As magi of Vardian's Tomb, we are not roving brigands or robber barons."

Fransisca, Widow: "Well, how about this?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "It is simply our duty to protect you, the people, from the dangers of magic."

Fransisca, Widow: "Forget the gold. Take those magic items he isn't using, and you can just pay me what they're worth."

Mercuzio Caesar: Gasparo puts on his red cap and reveals we're all super criminals

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Why wouldn't we simply pay him what they're worth?"

Fransisca, Widow: "He won't give up his  beloved heirlooms,  the greedy fat bastard."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You're giving me a bad deal, Daniel.

Fransisca, Widow: "Plus, he'll just squander the money on food and drink."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

"We'll drop in on him and see if he can't be convinced. Perhaps a 10% finders fee will be in order, should we conclude a deal."

Guy of Bonisagus: what if shes the culprit and accidentally made a hex bag specifically designed to target her son, then deployed it?

Fransisca, Widow: She looks put off, but then has another idea

"You want answers about the midwife, don't you?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Yes, of course."

Fransisca, Widow: "No one else in this village will talk to you about her. But if you bring me Gasparo's gold.."

Guy of Bonisagus: we could probably just straight up give her 1 or 2 mythic pounds

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Finding the midwife will be in your best interests as well."

"We believe she may have cursed your son to death."

Mercuzio Caesar: Sure. We have Gulielmus simply teleport back to the tomb, pick up the money, and teleport to Ponza again.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gu hu hu.

Fransisca, Widow: "Nonsense. You've no clue what you're blathering about."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Of course I do, I'm a master of divinations."

Fransisca, Widow: "Then divine your way out of my house!"

Fransisca, Widow points to door

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Very well."

I consult the portents and find the way out of the house.

Ok, we really need to find this midwife.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: im going to eat some chili.

check Circe's Cave.

Guy of Bonisagus: you can join me in walking around the shrublands

Dušan of Criamon: this

let's Check Out The Cave

Fransisca, Widow: hmmmm

Mercuzio Caesar: "Are you really sure that was for the best?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i assume we have learned the lay of the land

johns (GM): this is a tourist map from the 21st century

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: you should also look at the pilates cave

johns (GM): how good are you at spotting auras

Celeste: lol

Mercuzio Caesar: "Whatever his magical plunder from some old journey is, it's clearly going to waste sitting there."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: letting our subjects hoard magical treasure seems like a bad idea

Dušan of Criamon: i am fairly excellent at spotting infernal auras

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The Ponz.

Father Hazm: I can test the aura's effect on me with Entreatment

johns (GM): Ok, you can spend the rest of the day walking up and down the west coast looking for a cave

Dušan of Criamon: this makes sense

Father Hazm: I'll keep an eye on the church site

johns (GM): Indeed there does seem to be a cave on the west side of the island!

Celeste: It's a very Criamon thing to do.

Father Hazm: I'll set up a little missionary tent by it

Dušan of Criamon: excellent

well? Am I feeling that good tingling

johns (GM): You do not feel sick, no.

Dušan of Criamon: that's a plus

Mercuzio Caesar: brb

Dušan of Criamon: "Sodalis, what say you? I don't feel the infernal here."

johns (GM): The cave entrance looms ominously.

Who wishes to enter?

Dušan of Criamon: Oh most def

johns (GM): Ok.

Dušan of Criamon: How about it Guli

johns (GM): You make some progress into the cave and hear voices further down, and smell strange smells. The air feels thick and smokey.

Guy of Bonisagus: the air is ripe with the stench of bitches

Dušan of Criamon: I'll hold off on fresh breezes until we ID potential enemies

how's the lighting anyway

Guy of Bonisagus: I peer at a shrub and confirm that its a shrub.

johns (GM): Dark and spooky, but as you can see there are strange holes in the ceiling.

Endrite: I need to leave in two hours.

johns (GM): You see a scrub... ah shit it was a mirror!

N/P endrite I want to wrap this up soon

Dušan of Criamon: second time this night!

Celeste: I would be really surprised if the game is still going in two hours.

Guy of Bonisagus: a mirror, out in the wilderness?

i take this clue

johns (GM): Okay.

Add a mirror to your inventory.

Dušan of Criamon: alright, I cast my usual buff

wiz sidestep

I continue onward

johns (GM): Ok, the voices are more distinct now. An elderly, distorted voice is instructing two younger voices how to brew something properly.

Dušan of Criamon: ding ding ding

Mercuzio Caesar: "Well, that about settles it." I whisper

Dušan of Criamon: in true Dusan fashion, I'll get closer to the point of hearing them well but no further

time for some of that tasty eavesdropping storytelling

johns (GM): You listen to the lecture on creating herbal medicine

its very educational

Dušan of Criamon: no hints at whom it is for?

No suggestions of poison?

johns (GM): Do you have ummm Philosophiae?

Dušan of Criamon: Yes!

johns (GM): roll it

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10 + 3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

johns (GM): Sounds legit.

Guy of Bonisagus: is that with your int

jesus

Dušan of Criamon: yeah

Celeste: hes very young.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Makes you think.

Mercuzio Caesar: I have some Magic Lore, if that helps

Father Hazm: Is that 0 Phil or 0 Int?

Dušan of Criamon: what

1 phil 2 int

johns (GM): It can't hurt, Mercuzio.

Father Hazm: Oh nm

Mercuzio Caesar:

rolling 1d10+1+2

(

2

)

+1+2

=

5

Father Hazm: Okay. 1 Phil isn't bad for a wizard

johns (GM): Sounds like basic potion making 101.

Father Hazm: Phil requires some game mastery before you can make it super useful

I mean, system mastery

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh.

Dušan of Criamon: I dumped a lot into the ultimate skill instead: Enigmatic Wisdom

Father Hazm: It IS ultimate

Mercuzio Caesar: it really is ultimate

Father Hazm: There's a house mystery that turns it into Second Sight

Dušan of Criamon: "Alright, they're not discussing anyhting of value. Let's confront them, but let's be kind about it." I throw a knowing glance to Mortis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I'm the very soul of gentleness."

johns (GM): Very well.

Around the corner you find: A witch's kitchen. Two young witches previously spotted by Gulielmus are working over a boiling pot. They are supervised by an older woman, and a ghost of an elderly woman who hovers in the air.

This is your chance to make a winning first impression!

Father Hazm: Good luck

Dušan of Criamon: I'm the exact opposite of a winning first impression

Guy of Bonisagus: a first impression on a bunch of woman who you pursued after they ran away screaming

Father Hazm: Guy makes a fiery first impression

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Salve, witches."

Guy of Bonisagus: oh are we all here

Dušan of Criamon: There it is

Mercuzio Caesar: "Buongiorno, ladies."

johns (GM): "Interlopers!!"

"Defilers!!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I, as you no doubt already know, am Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer and magus of Hermes."

Dušan of Criamon: "Let's not be hasty now, so far we're only intruders."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Really, not even intruders."

Father Hazm: Ladies this place was full of Saracen before VT showed up

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Who might you be?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "This is our island."

Father Hazm: Actually I should make a note to include thatin my sermon, that VT helped clear the moors from this island, excluding the part where they were viciously attacked by crows and undead thralls

Laura the Midwife: "You're in our domain, menfolk. Leave now or this gets ugly!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Now let's hold on a minute here."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Such as the way you cursed and killed the son of Francisca?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "We've spent all day looking for you and this is the hospitality we get?"

Laura the Midwife: "Leave here and forget all you've learned. It is not your business. It is the affairs of this village, not you."

Father Hazm: Remember, as hermetic magi you can recruit them by force

There's no evidence they're infernal typed

Mercuzio Caesar: The Magi Force Themselves Upon A 14 Year Old

Dušan of Criamon: there's a douj

Juissinia: "Let's just kill them and grind their bones into bread!"

The Magi are Nonces

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh.

Father Hazm: Join Or Die

Guy of Bonisagus: "You'll cease that right now."

"Why are you killing the men of this village?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "All magical business conducted on this island concerns us. If you would be so good as to explain why you tried to kill Carrugo, we will be on our way."

Juissinia sticks her thumb at Guy and then gives him the bird.

Laura the Midwife: Laura holds up a hand, a gesture calling for calm.

"Only because you've come this far I'll tell you, but I'm certain to be wasting my breath."

"We serve the women of the village, granting them wean and saving them from woe. One of the women was attacked by those three foul men."

Guy of Bonisagus: granting them weans

Laura the Midwife: "The mother came to me and begged my aide. I have given her what she needed."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Giraldo would have loved this.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Do you have any proof of those claims? And why would you not go to the priest?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Did she pay you?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "There are methods for this."

Celeste: meanwhile...

"Damn, this is crazy! A dude is rocking my can!"

Father Hazm: A pity they din't try to exploit Hazm's Compassionate trait to get away with witchcraft

Laura the Midwife: "No. I doubt you'd understand but it is our nature to serve a community, not to be hirelings."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm highly alarmed.

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Laura the Midwife: oh if you're talking about Carrugo he won't be rocking anyone's can. turns out one of the long-term side effects of the curse is impotency

Guy of Bonisagus: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Whoops!

Dušan of Criamon: ooh

burn

Guy of Bonisagus: why not just leave the curse at that

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Classic curse.

Celeste: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Then the disease isn't contagious?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "And what of the church? Why did you undo the work of the villagers?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "After the Blight we can't be too careful."

Laura the Midwife smirks

Father Hazm: Oh that's interesting to know

By canon law I cannot marry anyone who has impotency

Laura the Midwife: "You think us some reckless plaguebearers? Even now young Tonio sleeps in the bed Pierre died in but is safe. The curse targets only those who wronged the lady."

Guy of Bonisagus: by canon law you cant marry men anyway

so its fine hazm

Mercuzio Caesar: lol

Father Hazm: yes

Laura the Midwife: "I've nothing to do with any church."

Mercuzio Caesar: "You didn't sabotage the church at night?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Then do you know who did?"

Laura the Midwife: "No."

"No."

Mercuzio Caesar: Rolling Folk Ken

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Mercuzio Caesar:

rolling 1d10!+2+3

(

6

)

+2+3

=

11

Dušan of Criamon: by not marrying incels you are laying the foundations for scriptorum rampages

Father Hazm: Well to be perfectly clear, I cannot marry anyone once I become a full on parish priest either, I think my maronite exception to vows of celibacy ends there

Laura the Midwife: Sounds like it's your duty to marry one of the many widows here then

Father Hazm: But I ALSO cannot marry a man to a woman if the man is impotent

Laura the Midwife: before you get a priested.

Father Hazm: If they're interested

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Anyway.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Still, what you have done is wrong. A man is dead, with no clear reason."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "How did you summon the ghost?"

Laura the Midwife: "No reason? The man was a rapist. It is justice by any name."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yeah Guy, come on.

Get with the program.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Certainly, that reason is clear to you. But what of his grieving mother?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "She should have raised her son better."

"I know my mama didn't raise a rapist."

Celeste: for a guy with the compassionate flaw guy is a real asshole all the time

Guy of Bonisagus: "This is why there are laws and trials."

Laura the Midwife: "How many mothers grieve when their sons die on the battlefield, or die by the hangman? Who are you to disrupt the nature of things?"

Father Hazm: Rape, which in early English history was termed felony, its penalty, death, was regarded in a less heinous light under clerical rule.

Canon law win!

Laura the Midwife: "A trial? So the lady's shame must be known by all? I knew you wouldn't understand."

Dušan of Criamon: "I have trouble not siding with Circe's circle here."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Yeah Guy, what is your problem here?"

"You've killed like 20 men last year alone."

Laura the Midwife: lmao

Mercuzio Caesar: lmfao

Dušan of Criamon: oh lord

Father Hazm: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: "Come now, those were armed and armored men."

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: "And given just a few minutes more, they might have reached my defensive position."

Mercuzio Caesar: They were the guys in robocop advancing with their dicks out

Father Hazm: He slew them, he didn't kill them, in that case.

Celeste: lololol

Laura the Midwife: "These men were 'armed' in their own way... Now they're 'disarmed.'" The witches titter.

Mercuzio Caesar: "So you intercede in cases where men have unduly and greatly harmed an innocent woman."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Hardly innocent."

Father Hazm: Could you induct these witches into the Order as a client of VT?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "She tried to get us to rob a fat, greedy lout."

Dušan of Criamon: our very own secret police

Guy of Bonisagus: "I understand your reasons, but murder by way of hexes is not the way of the things."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Come on now."

Mercuzio Caesar: "Not that woman, and that was a perfectly acceptable proposal."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "The only reason why you don't kill people that way is because it's really expensive."

Celeste: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: "Why not lame or cripple them, instead?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "A real waste of vis, no offense."

Laura the Midwife: "Do you think they are the slightest bit remorseful?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Any man can change. And at the very least they would be far less of a threat if they choose not to."

Dušan of Criamon: I'm with Mortis on this one, murder is definitely a VT tradition

Laura the Midwife: "Peh, why am I trying to justify our ways to you. You are outsiders."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Carrugo definitely feels little to no remorse."

"He was back to his old tricks as soon as we cured him."

Celeste: If Rosario were here these ladies would be in the Order already.

Guy of Bonisagus: are they even gifted

Celeste: Or dead, I guess. It really could go either way.

Dušan of Criamon gestures to the women to quiet down, the party is having an internal discussion

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Laura the Midwife: lol

you'd have to InVi to figure out if they're gifted guy

Guy of Bonisagus: no i dont

"Mercurio, how do you feel about these women?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What's the level to sense the Gift?

Mercuzio Caesar: What's the aesthetic quality of the 19 year old?

Father Hazm: Mercuzio is thinking like a wizard

Dušan of Criamon: "but no really, I think with this you are all off the hook, and we'd like to ask for your assistance. Would you know what force might be interested in covering up freshly dug holes?"

Laura the Midwife: level 1 I think

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I feel like that's not a fair question, as we have confronted them in a secret cave."

Laura the Midwife: is the Invi level.

the aesthetic quality of the 19 year old is Pre +2

Mercuzio Caesar: "Charming young ladies, if a little full of fire for my normal tastes."

Father Hazm: People who have positive presence are generally either remarkably good or bad looking

Guy of Bonisagus: "Not gifted, then."

"Well, at least we don't have to have that talk."

Celeste: or they're like you. durr.

Guy of Bonisagus: the gentle gift is exceptionally rare

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I think what I would really like to discuss is that ghost."

"How did you manage to summon her?"

Laura the Midwife: "Don't pry into our rituals."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Laura the Midwife: "I don't ask how you have a dead person walking next to you."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Oh that's easy."

"Classic necromancy."

Dušan of Criamon: "Good, he's love to tell you otherwise."|

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: "Mm. Well, perhaps that one is."

Laura the Midwife: id like to wrap this up real shortly

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "In any case, I think we've taken enough of you ladies' time."

Dušan of Criamon: i'm ok with that

Father Hazm: Ask about the dirt getting moved

Laura the Midwife: do you guys want to decide what to do now or just pick it up next week

Mercuzio Caesar: I say aside "I'm not sure what you want with them overall, but if you have a stance, I'll sell it to them and get them on board."

Father Hazm: That's the biggest unsolved mystery right now

Laura the Midwife: they already answered, they don't know anything about that

Father Hazm: Oh okay

I think we can wrap up then

Laura the Midwife: Nice. one mystery down, one to go

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "If you'd like to join the big leagues, just drop in on Father Hazm when he's on the island and I can get something sorted out for you."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I doubt they'll be of any help in finding the unchristian soul interfering."

Father Hazm: Mortis is right, I'm willing to help magicians on the down low

Laura the Midwife: "We prefer our secrets. Too many  men  think they can use our magic for their own use once they find out what we can do."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I sure do think that."

Celeste: fair enough.

Dušan of Criamon: "Where you're right you're right."

Mercuzio Caesar: "So that I don't intrude upon your cave again, when will you all be returning to the village?"

Laura the Midwife: "I visit my home there from time to time as the women need me."

Father Hazm: In my estimation, they don't live in the village, so no one can be said to be harboring a witch

Laura the Midwife: "For your own sake you won't look for my daughters."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Ha ha ha, your magic is nowhere near powerful enough to harm me, but I have no interest in interfering with your business."

Father Hazm: I think they should join Ex Miscellanea to have the legal protections, but that's a man's opinion.

Mercuzio Caesar: "You can't hide them away from the world forever. If your family protects the women of the village, it can't simply end with your daughters."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Your tricks are quaint, but not comparable to Hermetic magic. It would be nice if you went me for the crippling instead of the killing, though. Death should be dealt out in the open."

Laura the Midwife: out of curiosity what is mortis' corpus MR

Guy of Bonisagus: more for the

not me for the

dont cripple me

Laura the Midwife: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: 25.

It's Parma times 2 + your Art, right?

Laura the Midwife: the ghost has a cool power it could use on you all but its' probably unbalanced due to adapted an older edition

Father Hazm: I guess witches can brew corpus potions still

Laura the Midwife: parma times 5 + yoru art

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ah.

Laura the Midwife: but anyway

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok yeah 25.

Father Hazm: Oh, its a ghost power. It might be blighted then

Laura the Midwife: Causes great pain in any

masculine body parts: groin, bearded face, hairy

chest. Also, hands used for any “masculine” art

(such as smithing or war) also suffer pain. A

scholar would even feel pain in the eyes (used for

reading). Each affected character must make a

Laura the Midwife: Stamina roll, from which he must subtract the

attribute most closely associated with his masculine

role in life (perhaps Intelligence for a magus

or scholar, Strength for a grog, Perception for a

hunter, for example).

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I have the old edition of the Arts page that uses Abilities as Arts so the math is a little wonky.

Celeste: ghosts are mentem aligned

Father Hazm: I mean the power, not the ghost itself

Celeste: lol

Laura the Midwife: gah... we're haunted by the real ghost, the ghost of Rope Kid

Celeste: thats a cool power

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Classic witch.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason enters the cave.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Oh!"

"Salvete, omnes."

Laura the Midwife: "Our ways have lasted since before history," she says to Mercuzio. "We will continue just fine."

Father Hazm: Where did Gul get that apple?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gulielmus Compelation Ohs and Hos.

Mercuzio Caesar: "... Noted."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we've come a long way since the blight, when i had to bite into rocks while throwing doors open

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm going to be honest, 6% of the population of this island being witches is pretty impressive.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it's a good spot for witches.

Mercuzio Caesar: It speaks to the quality of our colonisation efforts

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: At least 6%!

Laura the Midwife: oh theres a strong fae aura in here

Dušan of Criamon: only the best and brightest

Guy of Bonisagus: is that right

maybe we should get murderous

Father Hazm: It's a good thing I didn't go in the cave then

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "What's going on?"

Laura the Midwife: Guy of Bonisagus: Killing is wrong, unless you are within range of my Pilum

Guy of Bonisagus: killing IS wrong

slaying isnt

Celeste: Guy of Bonisagus: This is my Pilum hand, this is my fae molesting hand.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Do not slay.

Father Hazm: I'm going to be reciting the magic words for Pillum of Flame and if you happen to walk into range it's your own fault

Guy of Bonisagus:  clasps hands together  and this is to go even further beyond

Laura the Midwife: "These men were just leaving."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i am going to invent the lv20 ignem boost.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "See you later, I'm sure."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason raises an eyebrow.

Dušan of Criamon: "Til we meet again, Circe!"

Guy of Bonisagus: it is entirely seemly for the new encounter to lay mangled by the fiery spear. in their deaths, all things appear fair

Father Hazm: Once the VT tells me the boys were rapists I will change my sermon, and include this citation from canon law: Rape is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, and physical and moral integrity to which every person has a right. It causes grave damage that can mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act. Graver still is the rape of children committed by parents (incest) or those responsible for the education of the children entrusted to them.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Alright, how much XP do we get for this adventure?

Laura the Midwife: ok but can you kill them legally hazm?

Guy of Bonisagus: you can in fact

Celeste: A Very Special Episode of Ars Magica ftw.

Laura the Midwife: Well, we haven't even finished Day 2

Guy of Bonisagus: BUT proper slaying is done in the open

Laura the Midwife: So this will be.... Continued

Guy of Bonisagus: NOT through hex bags under a bed

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gasp!

Father Hazm: It does not pardon the killing as it was done with witchcraft

johns (GM): idk guy. what would archibald "murder through portals" say

Father Hazm: However I can mollify the ire of the villagers

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: good work sodales.

Guy of Bonisagus: that too. killing people with witchcraft is always wrong

Dušan of Criamon: oh hey, my exhausted brain just had an idea

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What ire?

johns (GM): Is it now 2 AM where you are, Moe

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Only one villager has any ire.

Dušan of Criamon: the murders were bags under beds right

what if, the soil was moved back in its place using... something under the church

it is, 2am

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The witches didn't do it.

johns (GM): I thoroughly respect your gamer dedication!

Guy of Bonisagus: hm. seems plausible

johns (GM): Well as you are dealing with the witches, the villagers are digging up a big hole back at the church

and you've volunteered to watch the church during the night

so you have amply opportunity to follow up that lead

Guy of Bonisagus: im gonna throw pila

i can feel it

Father Hazm: I was watching the hole digging

That's why I wasn't in the witch hole

Celeste: I was digging.

Dušan of Criamon: i live to game

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I should scry on those witches later.

Mercuzio Caesar: we're so good at adventuring

Father Hazm: The Order of Hermes legally is of a fourth estate I do not enforce the laws of

Dušan of Criamon: Fair play since they're not hermetic

Father Hazm: And if the witches align themselves with said fourth estate, i will give them the same consideration

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: was there anything to find out there besides a field of flowers

johns (GM): Nha

nah

Guy of Bonisagus: wehats this song

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gah.

johns (GM): its the diggy hole song

Guy of Bonisagus: no its not

johns (GM): oh

Guy of Bonisagus: oh

it is

johns (GM): then i have no idea

its' not playing for me anyway

Guy of Bonisagus: it just got to this verse

its gay now

Father Hazm: It's not the Yogscast original

johns (GM): honestly i never heard the original

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant wait to read a vim book for the first time, and become able to take an apprentice

Mercuzio Caesar: beard, hiding his Yogscast memoribilia: Oh lol whats this song? Can someone say what its called?

Guy of Bonisagus: and teach him all about creo ignem

i will kill you dys

Father Hazm: I'm not hiding my Yogscast memoribilia

I am proud to be part of the Ye Olde Goon Squad

johns (GM): Let's All Learn Vim and Metacast Insane Rituals.

Celeste: lets

Dušan of Criamon: vim really seems like the prereq to the truly insane powerfaming

Archibald of Guernicus: Did someone say Vim?

Dušan of Criamon: see: archibald

lol

Father Hazm: I believe Ragg is a member of Ye Olde Goon Squad for reals

Celeste: little known fact: vim is actually rosario's highest form

Guy of Bonisagus: i need to become an incredibly old, wizened archmage who can raise a stone castle from an empty plot of earth, to defend me while i hurl pila at my enemies

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That's way worse than just having a really high Vim resistance.

Father Hazm: Someone help Fiorella invent Piercing the Magic Veil and get 5 Vim exposure from that

johns (GM): You should just learn to cast 100 pila at once

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Actually at that level MR is probably worthless.

Dušan of Criamon: guy: that one's actually not a very high level terram spell

Archibald of Guernicus: I need to invent a spell that lets me see surroundings through a tunnel and start adventuring by sitting in my lab and sending out someone in my place, with a tunnel attached

and adventuring through them

Guy of Bonisagus: so this is archwizardry, huh... not bad...

johns (GM): ultimate shut-in wizard technique

Dušan of Criamon: really, what you're positing is the high level D&D strat of settling down and hiring adventurers

Archibald of Guernicus: It's perfectly doable with some MuIm and ReIm to make someone look like you and let you speak through them

Guy of Bonisagus: someone like, for example, a zo- a wandering knight who has taken a vow of silence, fasting, modesty,

Archibald of Guernicus: In fact, you dont need a person at all. When Herbam is fixed you could have a wooden doll move around like that for you with ReHe

johns (GM): Sir Oak.

Celeste: after i got my talisman set up i was going to invent Blade of Abysmal Flame and give it a +20 version of blade of virulent flame with as much pen as I can with MMF+talisman bonus+similar spell bonus+experimenting+lab routines etc

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: sir boak

what level is fiorellas bird swarm

johns (GM) smirks and adds "Major Immunity (fire)" to every antagonist's sheet

Guy of Bonisagus: i had an idea for a cool herbam spell once we get that fixed

johns (GM) also adds "major immunity (bird)"

Father Hazm: Fiorella is grinding her Mentem, for perfectly innocent reasons

Celeste: i was also considering a touch range effect to turn someones blood into poison

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is it 20 or lower

Guy of Bonisagus: i also want to make a spell that causes a pillar of flame to erupt under someone, leaving behind a pile of salt

Celeste: that would trigger when the greatsword cut into them and touched their blood

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Turning blood into anything probably has a very high Perdo requisite.

Guy of Bonisagus: i ALSO want to make archibald make me an enchanted weapon

which will be cool

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I mean, if the blood is inside someone.

Celeste: it's actually just a single magnitude added to an Aquam spell for the Corpus requisite.

Guy of Bonisagus: when does archibald want to set up the trade

Celeste: and the spell has to only work on blood.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I mean, you could kill a person by just turning their blood into water.

Archibald of Guernicus: It would kick ass to forge a cursed sword for the fun of it

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: They'd die more or less instantly.

Dušan of Criamon: Wizards: no sense of right and wrong

Father Hazm: Swords are good at gettin ginside people, that's what they're made for

So the blood being inside of someone isn't the issue

Celeste: turning someone's blood into water momentarily doesn't have the same effects as turning someone's blood into poison momentarily.

Dušan of Criamon: alright, I think i'll sign off here

Celeste: also it's cool to hit someone with a magic sword and turn the wound into deadly poison.

Dušan of Criamon: as usual props to johns

Celeste: johns is a very good gm

Father Hazm: Yes GG

Dušan of Criamon: much love to everyone else too

johns (GM): cya next week all

Guy of Bonisagus: b

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: See ya.

Dušan of Criamon: i'll post my seasons tomorrow

oh also next week i might be in switzerland, i'll try to game though

later

Celeste: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: A rusticani blacksmith mentem specialist who keeps forging swords that make you go insane on picking them up and attack everyone in sight

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: gg

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!-8 Lavinia aging 1352

(

10

+

3

)

-8

=

5

rolling 1d10!-8 Lavinia aging 1353

(

9

)

-8

=

1

rolling 1d10!+2 bolad aging 1352

(

4

)

+2

=

6

rolling 1d10!+3 bolad aging 1352

(

4

)

+3

=

7