10/28/17

devil's fav demon (GM): good turnout.

Endrite: So it makes more sense to consider this a security system.

Johns has committed hari kari and will not be joining us.

GM: Welcome.

is johns actually not playing or is that a gag.

anyway.

Boy R.: I'll entertain any hypothesis, of course

Endrite: Well, he isn't "online" so I can only assume he's dead.

GM: Last time, the wizards explored the series of hidden regios the owl Varina protected, and found a bunch of torn up notes and maps as her nest. After spending time to assemble them into meaningful scraps, they found an auram tract and what was apparently the location of the garden of Herisson after all these years. They got home to the covenant's inn infested with ivy, and Lodewig returned after all those years. He soon proves his worth by destroying all visible ivy.

With the ivy is more circumstantial evidence to suggest that Richard Strabo, the moustached friend of the old Bjornaer Tasso from Vulcanal at Etna, is actually a marched criminal using a false name. Proclus knows a marched magus (Walahfrid) has the sigil of "the smell of wet soil", and Archibald detected that sigil on vines at their covenant, but they have not confirmed that Strabo's sigil matches it.

They traveled to the Rhine Tribunal with Jorn's Arcadian Travel, and entered a regio of a magic garden under the approval of the covenant of Caerfloron (five green-skinned hedge magicians) using this suspicion of criminal activity. They claimed that one of the green men's few allies (Walherich) was actually the sick murderer following them here, because he has a similar name and description to another suspected alias (Walahfrid.) The green men have no Guile or Folk Ken or experience in the social world and believed it. They're probably all right.

GM:

Caerfloron ex Misc claim to own the regio and are on record as being a real covenant and owning a regio. The garden seems to be the legendary lost garden of Herisson and many of the plants seem to exist solely to provide lab materials. Mal ate a turnip, part of an apple, and almost, a poisonous "death cap" mushroom. He has it in his bag with a bunch of really nice dirt (AQ 7-9.) They all poked around in spooky silence. There's an ever-burning fennel. The sun is setting. Hypatia is outside, with the green men of Caerfloron ex Misc. Jorn is eerily quiet.

The green men are very concerned about the time you are spending inside the regio, and are starting to get confused and a little offended and suspicious. Walherich never acted this weird in their regio.

dys (GM): oh right, it was daylight savings for me too

i guess this is the start time

thougth i still ahd an hour oops

Beardbeard: is johns really not showing up because the pitboss boys said lets kick his ass

GM: i can wait an hour and go late if people REALLY want. this would have to be a democratic vote.

Endrite: I'm glad I'm not involved with that shit.

GM: Pitboss? Pwah.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: deathgif connoisseur with a fragile heart

Artemisia emerges from the missing player ether.

Lodewig of Tytalus: just to restate my position from last week: I am inside the regio but my mind, in wolf form, is outside and patrolling the boundaries of the covenant, staying out of sight of green men

c'thinker (GM): the wolfmind is extremely sick

Lodewig of Tytalus: I also collect a bunch of samples and try to spont something to turn them into feathers

GM: That's a good thing to remind me of.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lodewig is badass

GM: does the wolf mind retain your abilities

Lodewig of Tytalus: being able to spend huge chunks of experience at once is cool, and cheating

Malachiasz of Tytalus: id assume the mental ones it would have

like awareness

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think so yes. It's me

Proclus of Rome: How did you get your mind out of the regio without being spotted?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I never brought it in

I was just reminding the GM it was behind us

GM: yeah that makes sense.

Bolad's horse is in here.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is your normal body still fully capable

Lodewig of Tytalus: Yes, the spell is clear on this

Malachiasz of Tytalus: could you theoretically fight with both pcs

GM: You should probably have to make concentration rolls.

Lodewig of Tytalus: less explicit on the abilities thing

Malachiasz of Tytalus: er

GM: Hm..

Malachiasz of Tytalus: your pc and your mind

the ability thing would make sense

c'thinker: GM: You should probably have to make concentration rolls.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I posit that it costs me no attention to have my mind do the things that wolves do naturally, but I should have to concentrate to do sensible human things with two bodies at once

Proclus of Rome: Do you have to make Stealth rolls to avoid the magi?

c'thinker: we have a gentlemans agreement, in which no player ever has to make a concentration roll.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm seein double. Four lodewigs.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dfd is calling for concentration rolls. alert.

lets make sure he never gms again

c'thinker: lets kick his ass.

GM: lol.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no! dont say that!

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean it's your call

Malachiasz of Tytalus: those words got johns to quit!

Proclus of Rome: This is the perfect time for a concentration roll.

Lodewig of Tytalus: should I roll awareness right now?

GM: it SEEMS like something you would have to concentrate on if you want to do two things at once

normally, probably not

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think concentration should only be involved if both lodewig and his mind are doing focused tasks

c'thinker: Magus, you have spoken the Words, and you have spoken them rightly.

GM: yeah beardbeard.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if lodewig is just leisurely wandering around looking at things then it should be fine

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: salve.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean, salve.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: derfel

Lodewig of Tytalus: hail

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gulielmus's salve

Lodewig of Tytalus: I forget, who is this?

GM: hail

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats cumthinker

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm cumthinker

Malachiasz of Tytalus: aka samog

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: derfel is my companion who has not actually been used yet.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: brb dog wants out

Artemisia: the worst of all possible people, a welshman

GM: cool name.

Endrite: Oh, just FYI it might rain here and the first time it rains the power usually goes out.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: because i was finishing his character sheet for the entire 10 hour session he was supposed to be introduced in.

Archibald of Guernicus: Powerful tactic

Lodewig of Tytalus: well the powers of a welshman are not to be taken lightly

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's a very powerful welshman.

Archibald of Guernicus: Now we just need an Irishman and we all can band together to kill the English

Artemisia: he has the powers of dfd's demonic farrier but related to sheep

GM: so if you ignored the intro scroll i posted, the green guys are getting kind of suspicious. does the mind wolf look like a mundane wolf?

Lodewig of Tytalus: what's the aura here again?

GM: Magic 6.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: cthinkers welsh powers are weak

my pendragon guy is named gwefrfawr

Lodewig of Tytalus: it does yes. It's also keeping its distance, specifically not to arouse suspicion

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i looked up the pronunciation afterwards and its something like goorvrvaoor

GM: my pendragon guy was named Earconberct.

Lodewig of Tytalus: like the main object of this spell is never to be targeted by mind-affecting magic

GM: nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's his sigil

GM: It's not under suspicion, the green guys are looking for a person.

so you CAN roll Awareness. Are you looking for something specific?

Whose sigil

Lodewig of Tytalus: strange humans I suppose

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't any humans be strange?

Since we're deep in the woods.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah

Lodewig of Tytalus: indeed

Malachiasz of Tytalus: non-green humans would be better i guess

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10+7-1

(

10

)

+7-1

=

16

is that stressed?

Proclus of Rome: It isn't like there's a charcoal burner hanging around or anything.

GM: Is it?

Shit.

Archibald of Guernicus: Awareness and stealth are both stressed

Lodewig of Tytalus: Humans who are strangers to me, I should specify

rolling d10!+16

(

10

+

5

)

+16

=

31

cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: open you're eyes.

GM: you are hiding, so true.

Damn.

Artemisia: shouldn't it be hunt if you're actively looking for something?

Lodewig of Tytalus: if it's hunt then that's 29

Lodewig of Tytalus looks up from the plants he's collected

Proclus of Rome: So, out of all these whimsical laboratory plants, have we found anything that looks like a library?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "We've been followed"

Proclus of Rome: I mean, we found ink plants and paper plants.

Parchement plants?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "There's a man hiding in the bushes outside the bounds of the green men's covenant"

"wait, a magus"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was just bark that can be written on i think.

Proclus of Rome: "Which one?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "he just became an ivy bush"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Strabo's already here?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "What did he look like?"

Proclus of Rome: Well, why would you have bark you can write on if you aren't writing anything?

GM: You might find something like a finished text if you look around more.

Lodewig of Tytalus: what DID he look like?

Proclus of Rome: George.

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's Strabo, I'm certain of it, but we should see if the man's in disguise again."

GM: He had a big hat obscuring his features. But he was short.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm. i don't remember what we know in character versus what we know because the gm revealed what was going to happen

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Let's kill him."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "A short fellow in a big hat"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: was strabo short

i dont remember

Proclus of Rome: Believe it or not, George isn't a bush, please leave a message at the beep.

GM: He was.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hm

Archibald of Guernicus: George turning into a bush to get out of work

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont think short is a term malach can gauge well

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I got more of his smell tbh. And I couldn't speak to the colour of his dress"

Proclus of Rome: "We can't leave the regio until we find something of value. The covenant is unlikely to let us back in."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lodewig saying the tbh acronym in latin

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's a great deal of vis growing here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Proclus of Rome: "I mean something of real value."

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+39)/2 muto herbam/animal

(

(

3

)

+39)/2

=

21

GM: What's that?

Archibald of Guernicus: DFD pm'd me the actual haul since I ran around doing InVi all over the place, so I'll relay what I discovered and dfd can send it all out

Lodewig of Tytalus: that should be enough to make feathers of some plants, I'll just check what I can do at that level

Artemisia: a lot

GM: Oh, nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus begins gathering samples of the rarer herbs and flowers to go with his vegetable lamb.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats heavier

Proclus of Rome: "Merely ransacking this laboratory for vis would be pointless without learning the secret of growing vis."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: a pound of feathers, or a pound of magic herbs

GM: This will help to smuggle things out of the regio without the green men knowing that you're stealing.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The plants grow vis, ye halfwit. Unless he left a cipher for his notes lying around, discovering the method will mean examining what he left. The soil, the plants, and such."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats right. its the pound of herbs

Lodewig of Tytalus: "agreed, but it'll be the work of many seasons to study it, without access to its maker's notes"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm.

Artemisia: "I can try convincing them we're not carrying anything."

Proclus of Rome: "I know that you get distracted when there isn't anyone around to murder, but he must have left notes somewhere."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "It's obviously the soil that matters."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus is not going to be able to lie to the green men about his bag full of plants. hope they dont mind

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "These plants are fine, especially the Terram-associated ones. But the soil holds the magic."

Artemisia: ok, the whole garden is the lab, right?

GM: Gulielmus continues picking herbs.

Artemisia: so let's bury a huge stone disc under the garden

GM: He is attacked by three trees.

Artemisia: and enchant it to fly home

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: augh!

Proclus of Rome: We're in a regio.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Pray forgive my pragmatic tendencies. These plants are not just ready vis, but fit material for study if we are denied access to this place in the future, not to mention a convenient arcane connection"

Proclus of Rome: The stone disc would just get stuck at the exit.

Artemisia: there has a to be a way to steal the whole garden

Archibald of Guernicus: "I've been searching for them if they're here, I know ye get antsy when there's nae fairies tae molest, so perhaps ye can help."

GM: I have a combat map but I can go there later when it's important. These are just some trees. They walk slowly towards you and swing their limbs like clubs.

Lodewig of Tytalus: mentally I note the intrusive mage's location, but keep wandering the woods so as not to attract attention

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i run towards my sodales.

Artemisia: animated trees actually have sort of combat stats

Lodewig of Tytalus: (also afk a couple mins, sorry)

Proclus of Rome: They do.

Artemisia: hidden in the ReHe spells

Archibald of Guernicus: Hey, these trees are going to help us pick the plants

An olive tree: There are stats in RoP: Magic

Artemisia: oh these are actual magic trees

An olive tree: (The tree doesn't say anything, it's just an olive tree.)

Malachiasz of Tytalus: found a mute spell that does 25 damage

licks lips

An olive tree: But it's moving towards Guli and anyone else who continues to pick plants.

Artemisia: I will pick plants.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sodales! The trees!"

Artemisia: I haven't gotten into insane trouble this adventure yet.

Proclus of Rome: "What is it, Gulielmus?"

Artemisia: what's the roll to make a flower wreath?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the trees are just going to walk forward swinging their limbs like windmills, andi f we get hit its our fault

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

An olive tree: That's basically how it works. You can make a defense roll, they're not sneaking up on you.

Archibald of Guernicus: I know

Quick, down the talking to trees potion

Let's solve this socially

Artemisia: good idea

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Look for yourself, Proclus! We must have tripped some ancient ward!"

Proclus of Rome: They're just swinging their branches and if you happen to get hit it's your own fault.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no one laugh at endrites attempt to make the joke after i already did

Proclus of Rome: "They're just trees, surely we can destroy them easily."

Artemisia: i will force myself to laugh just to spite you

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gah!

An olive tree: Better drink those potions fast.

Archibald of Guernicus: "They're very slowly approaching us, sodales."

An olive tree: They are.

The garden is testing the waters.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if archibald and i get our rete scores up we can make a portal from this place to our covenant

something to consider if the research doesnt work out

Artemisia continues making a wreath out of the prettiest flowers around.

Proclus of Rome: "Well, destroy them, then."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a crown of thorns, huh.

Proclus of Rome: "They can't beg for mercy, but you should be able to do it anyway."

Artemisia: isn't there a mercurian ritual to move an entrance to a magic regio that's sitting untranslated in the library?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could just take an AC to a tree just outside the covenant, and sneak in to the regio later.

Lodewig of Tytalus: is there? that would be convenient

An olive tree: Guli should keep an eye on that wreath so she's not getting nightshade juice in her eye or something like that.

Proclus of Rome: So helpful.

What a helpful tree.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wouldn't nightshade be in the poison zone

An olive tree: I need to stop doing that.

Proclus of Rome: We would still need to keep Strebo from doing it first.

Artemisia: Library

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Artemisia: Contents[show]

De Artibus Edit

Creo

Heptameron, summa, L10 Q12

Artemisia:

Intellego

Liber Juratus, tract, Q8 [Aleseta, AT]

De Haruspex, Summa, L12 Q10

Artemisia: Muto

Picatrix, summa, L10 Q12

Perdo

Artemisia: Panolethria, summa, L10 Q12

Rego

Tractatus de Mentibus Regibus, Tract Q11 [Aristide, Archibald, Proclus of Rome]

Artemisia: Animal

De Naturam Bestiae, summa, L12 Q11

Aquam

Artemisia: Distillation of the Arcane, summa, L5 Q15

Ars Triton, summa, L11 Q10

Auram

De Caelum, Summa L12 Q8

Artemisia:

Corpus

De Hominis, summa, L10 Q12

Studies in Necromancy, tract Q7

Comprehending The Limitations of Corporal Matter, tract Q7

Artemisia:

Herbam

The Roots of Knowledge, summa, L10 Q12

Ignem

Artemisia:

Cremator Retortus, summa, L5 Q15

Ars Flambonis, summa, L10 Q10

Imaginem

Artemisia: De Spectaculum, summa, L12, Q9

Lux Mundi, Tract Q9

Mentem

Denarius Sententiae, summa, L5 Q15

Artemisia: The Spiritual Realm, summa, L12 Q7 [Bialas of Bjornaer]

Venatoris, tract, Q8 [Custos of Cyprian] [Bialas of Bjornaer]

Terram

Lacrima et Compositio, summa, L12 Q11

Artemisia:

Vim

Opus Minimus Pachomiis, summa, L5 Q15

Commentary on Something About Vim,Tract Q10 [Proclus]

Something About Vim, summa, L12 Q12 (added Fall 1327)

Artemisia:

De Facultatibus Edit

Area Lore: Canaan

The Bible, tract, Q5 [Proclus of Rome]

Artemisia:

Area Lore: France

Gregory of Tours' Decem Libri Historiarum, summa, L7 Q14

Area Lore: Italy

Artemisia:

Annals di Bufalini, tract, Q9 [Bolad]

Area Lore: Rome

Viae Romam Guide, tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Bolad]

Artemisia: Parish Register, summa, L4 Q5

Artes Liberales

Ptolemy's Almagest, Illuminated, summa, L10 Q9

Ars grammatica - Ars minor -- Summa, L8 Q15

Artemisia: Macrobius' Commentary on Somnium Scipionis, tract, Q8 [Proclus]

Euclid's Optica, tract Q9 [Orsu, Proclus]

Duns Scotus' De Sophisticis Elenchis, tract Q8

Symphonia Armoniae Celestrium Revelationum, tract, Q13 [Proclus]

Ordo Virtutem, tract Q13

Artemisia: Blessing (Holy Tradition)

Divine Blessing, summa, L8 Q12

Ceremony (Holy Tradition)

Artemisia: Divine Ceremony, summa, L8 Q12

Chirurgy

On the Treatment of Flaying Wounds, tract, Q8

Artemisia: Church Lore

The Bible, summa, L7 Q3

Bibliothecae, tract Q7

Carmina Burana, tract Q8

Breviary, tract Q10 [Bolad]

Artemisia:

Civil and Canon Law

Bolognese Analysis of Corpus Iuris Civilis, summa, L5 Q10

Athenaeus' Edicts of Augustus, tract, Q8 (added Fall 1327)

Artemisia: Code of Hermes

Untitled starting tract, Q10 [Lavinia]

Collected Rulings of the Peripheral Code 4th Edition, tract, Q10 [Potom Flos, Archibald]

The Laws of Wizardfolk, tract, Q9

Artemisia: Concentration

Unnamed tract, Q10 [Aleseta, AT]

Et disperdam meditabitur, Tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Lavinia]

Cult of Mercury Lore

Artemisia:

Correspondence Office Records, summa, L6 Q10

Difficile Ratus, tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Spring 1322, Aleseta]

Dead Language: Latin

Artemisia: Senex Potom Latinam docet, tract, Q11 [Potom flos]

Divine Lore

Augustine's The City of God, summa, L9 Q10

Gregory of Tours' Decem Libri Historiarum, summa, L5 Q12

Artemisia:

Faerie Lore

Paolo Matarella's Volume 3, tract, Q15 [Giraldo]

Finesse

Artemisia:

Artful Magics tract, Q10 [Proclus of Rome, Aleseta, AT]

Holy Magic

By His Works, summa, L4 Q12 (intelligible to non-holy wizards)

Artemisia:

House Tytalus Lore

Analects of Tytalus, summa, L9 Q11

Intrigue

Artemisia:

Gregory of Tours' Decem Libri Historiarum, summa, L5 Q10

Infernal Lore

De Operationes Daemonum Diologus, summa, L10 Q12 [Potom Flos, Giraldo]

Artemisia: Book of the Morning Star, summa, L20 Q8

Living Language: Arabic

De Lingua Saracen, summa, L9 Q9 [Potom Flos]

Artemisia: Living Language: French

Carmina Burana, tract, Q8

Living Language: Italian

Artemisia: Senex Potom Italian Docet, tract, Q11 [Potom Flos]

Magic Lore

Gregory of Tours' Decem Libri Historiarum, summa, L7 Q12

Fortuna's Compendium of Supernatural Creatures and Realms, summa, L12 Q10

Artemisia:

Magic Theory

De Thyrsos, tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Aleseta, Proclus of Rome, Archibald, Malachiasz]

Diologus de Bonisagii, tract, Q10 [Potom Flos, Aleseta, Archibald, Malachiasz, Proclus of Rome]

Luna sit Tarda, tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Aleseta, Archibald, Malachiasz, Proclus of Rome]

Artemisia:

Medicine

Hippocrates' Aphorisms, 2x tract, Q7 [Lavinia x2]

Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, tract, Q8 [Lavinia]

Hildegard of Bingen's Physica, tract, Q13 [Lavinia]

Artemisia:

Music

Carmina Burana, tract, Q10

Order of Hermes Lore

Artemisia:

Analects of Tytalus, tract, Q8 [Celeste]

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

Organization Lore: Frankish Royalty

Artemisia: Gregory of Tours' Decem Libri Historiarum, summa, L9 Q14

Parma Magica

Libri Ad Collum Tuendam, tract, Q10 [Aleseta, Proclus of Rome, AT, Gulielmus, Lavinia]

Artemisia: Penetration

Untitled Penetration Tract written on Goatskin, Q10 [AT]

Verba Fodientem, tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Archibald, Malachiasz]

Ruptis Bulla, tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Malachiasz]

Artemisia: Philosophiae

Analects of Tytalus, summa, L7 Q11

Quid est Malum, tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Proclus of Rome, Giraldo]

Notes on Alchemical Processes Anno Domini, Tract, Q10 [Potom Flos, Proclus of Rome, Giraldo]

Metaphysics: Philosophiae I, Tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Proclus of Rome, Giraldo]

Artemisia: Metaphysics: Philosophiae II, Tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Proclus of Rome, Giraldo]

Liber Vita Meritorium, Tract, Q13 [Giraldo]

Ordo Virtutum, tract, Q13 [Giraldo]

Roman Empire Lore

Artemisia: Municipal Records of the Cult of Mercury, tract Q7

Salary Records of the Cult of Mercury, tract Q7

Second Sight

Tertia Oculus Meus, Tract, Q11 [Potom Flos, Giraldo, Bolad]

Artemisia:

Teaching

Clarior Futura, Tract, Q11 [Potom Flos]

Theology

Artemisia:

The Bible, summa, L22 Q3

Summa Theologica, summa, L12 Q7

Liber Vita Meritorium, tract, Q13

Scivias, tract, Q13

Ordo Virtutum, tract, Q13

Artemisia:

Theology, Pagan

Metaphysics: Pagan Theology, Tract Q12 [Potom Flos]

Galerius the Teaching Skull Edit

Artemisia:

Teaching Quality 21 with a single student

Ability Name Level

Awareness 2

Area Lore (Roman Catacombs) 6

Artes Liberales 7

Artemisia: Brawl 8

Dead Language (Latin) 13

Ex Misc Lore 6

Finesse 7

Guile 6

Magic Lore 13

Artemisia: Penetration 9

Teaching 9

Spells and Lab Texts (Published) Edit

25 Levels of Lab Texts TBD

Artemisia: Binding the Aimless Soul (ReMe 25) - Found in the catacombs.

(Sight, Concentration, Individual) Forces a disembodied spirit to inhabit a skull as long as the magus concentrates.

Charm Against Putrefaction (CrCo 10) - Recovered from Hafgan's lab.

Artemisia: (Touch, Moon, Individual) Prevents decay of a human corpse or (severed) body part.

Circle of Beast Warding (ReAn 5) - Two copies, one written by Aleseta and one written by Beatrice.

(Touch, Ring, Circle) Normal beasts cannot cross, act across, or damage the circle.

Artemisia: Discern Own Illusion (InIm 15) - Written and owned by Beatrice.

(Personal, Sun, Vision) The caster sees their own illusions as transparent.

Disguise of the Putrid Aroma (ReAn 5) - Written by Beatrice.

Artemisia: (Voice, Concentration, Individual) The target animal takes no interest in the caster.

Frosty Breath of the Spoken Lie (InMe 20) - Traded at Tribunal.

(Eye, Concentration, Individual) The target exhales mist every time they speak a lie, or frost forms on their lips if the lie is particularly severe. The target can determine whether or not a particular statement will activate the spell with a Communication + Guile stress roll of 25+.

Artemisia: Gift of the Frog's Legs (ReCo 15) - Written by Beatrice.

(Touch, Momentary, Individual) The target may jump up to 15 feet vertically or 25 feet horizontally. A successful landing requires a Dexterity roll of 0+. Failing the roll inflicts a light wound, botching it inflicts a medium wound. The target has ten seconds to take advantage of the spell, and may only do so once per casting.

Hearing the Silent Chorus (InIm 15) - Written and owned by Beatrice.

Artemisia: (Personal, Concentration, Hearing) The caster can hear the orbiting planets, and may make an Intelligence + Artes Liberales roll of 20+ to interpret them. A successful roll gives them a +3 (+5?) bonus to their next astrology roll or song composition. A botch causes 1 point of warping per botched die. The spell may only be cast once per astrological activity or composition.

Love's Unfaithful Witness (InTe 35) - Won at auction.

(Touch, Concentration, Individual) The caster can speak to a piece of jewelry and question it about its wearer's activities. The personality of the jewelry is determined the material bonus of its largest gemstone. Unadorned silver is treacherous, gold is arrogant and judgmental.

Artemisia: Melvin's Appraising Eye (InCo 25) - Found in the catacombs.

(Sight, Momentary, Individual) Allows the magus to glance at a person and know all useful information about their body.

Piercing the Faerie Veil (InVi 20) - Won at auction.

Artemisia: (Personal, Concentration, Vision) The caster can see through the boundaries of Faerie regiones and divine the path to the next level.

Prying Eyes (InIm 5) - Written by Beatrice.

(Touch, Concentration, Room) The caster can see inside of a room. The caster can only see as much as they could if they were inside, so dim (or absent) lighting will hinder them but magically enhanced senses will help them. The caster may change their viewpoint within the room throughout the duration of the spell.

Artemisia: Shell of Opaque Mysteries (CrVi 25) - Won at auction. This spell uses a General guideline.

(Touch, Momentary, Individual, Ritual) All attempts to investigate the target item will reveal nothing unless the Investigation roll is higher than 25.

Soothe the Ferocious Beast (ReAn 10) - Written by Aleseta.

Artemisia: (Voice, Momentary, Individual) Calms an animal until it is threatened or aroused again.

The Beast Remade (MuAn(Co) 25) - Traded at Tribunal.

(Touch, Sun, Individual) Gives a terrestrial beast human form, but not human intellect. The transformed animal retains some feature of its true form.

Artemisia: The Leap of Homecoming (ReCo 35) - One of our starting texts.

(Personal, Momentary, Individual) Transports the caster to any place to which they have an Arcane Connection.

The Walking Corpse (ReCo(Me) 35) - Recovered from Hafgan's lab.

Artemisia: (Touch, Year, Individual, Ritual) Turns a corpse or skeleton into a nearly-mindless servant that will obey your commands faithfully but unimaginatively.

Touch of the Goose Feather (PeCo 5) - Written and owned by Beatrice.

(Voice, Momentary, Individual) The target sneezes, causing a -1 penalty to most activities. Spellcasters are forced to make an Intelligence + Concentration stress roll of 20+ to maintain concentration.

Artemisia: Trust of Childlike Faith (PeMe 10) - Written by Beatrice.

(Eye, Diameter, Individual) The target's judgment is diminished, causing them to believe lies. The victim can still resist and recognize a lie with an Intelligence stress roll of 6+, with easier rolls forbigger and more obvious lies.

Ward Against Beasts of Legend (ReAn L15) - Written by Aleseta. This spell uses a General guideline.

Artemisia: (Touch, Ring, Circle) Magical beasts of Might 15 or lower may not cross, act across, or damage the circle.

Ward Against Rain (ReAq 10) - Written by Beatrice.

(Personal, Sun, Individual) No rain falls on the caster.

Artemisia: Wizard's Leap (ReCo 15) - Written and owned by Beatrice.

(Personal, Momentary, Individual) The caster is transported up to 50 paces in any direction, as long as they can see their destination or have an Arcane Connection to it.

Wizard's Sidestep (ReIm 10) - Written by Beatrice.

Artemisia: (Personal, Sun, Individual) The caster's image is displaced by 1 pace, and disappears and reappears if struck by an attack. In combat, the caster has one round of automatic misses, plus a +5 defense bonus in all subsequent rounds

Spells (Custos of Cyprian) Edit

Tracing the Trail of Death's Stench (InCo 20)

Artemisia: R: Arc, D: Conc, T: Ind. This spell functions like The Inexorable Search, but finds the location of a dead body instead of a live one.

Dust to Dust (PeCo 15)

R: Voice, D: Mom, T: Ind. Turns a dead body or mindless undead body to dust in two rounds. The spell does not affect those possessed by spirits.

Artemisia: Lay to Rest the Haunting Spirit (PeMe L15)

R: Voice, D: Mom, T: Ind. If your spell penetrates the resistance of a ghost or similar spirit, it loses 15 points from its Might. If this reduces the spirit's Might to zero, it vanishes, apparently destroyed.

Vision of the Haunting Spirits InMe 40 (Req: Imaginem)

Artemisia: R: Touch, D: Sun, T: Room. All spirits within the target area become visible, though they might remain unseen if hiding behind something. This includes the spirits of living people, which appear as the person normally does. If the person is invisible or otherwise changed from his normal shape, his normal appearance is superimposed on his current appearance.

Ring of Warding Against Spirits ReMe 20

R: Touch, D: Ring, T: Circle. Only ghosts with a Magic Might greater than 20 can enter this ring or effect those within. This spell does not affect ghosts or spirits associated with the other realms.

Artemisia: The Command of Charon ReAn 30

R: Touch, D: Moon, T: Ind. This spell reanimates a dead animal up to Size +1, similar to the ReCo spell Awaken the Slumbering Corpse. The animal will respond to basic commands but lacks any intelligence.

The Mercurian Rituals Edit

Artemisia: • Translation of the Mercurian rituals requires a laboratory. If the character chooses he can experiment (ArM5, page 107), which may change the ritual slightly, but not in a predictable manner.

• For each season of translating the Mercurian Laboratory Text, the character accumulates a number of points equal to the amount by which his Lab Total in the appropriate Arts of the ritual exceeds the level of the ritual. When the character has accumulated points equal to the level of the ritual he has translated it. This process produces a Hermetic copy of the ritual. These rules mean that in order to translate a Mercurian ritual the magus must have a Lab Total greater than the ritual level. In order to translate the ritual in a single season, the magus requires a Lab Total equal to two times the ritual level.

• Once he has translated the ritual the character can then invent the ritual from the Hermetic version of the Laboratory Text using the normal rules for inventing spells from a Laboratory Text.

Artemisia: • Any Hermetic magus can use the Hermetic copy of the Laboratory Text to invent the ritual, even if he does not have access to the Mercurian original.

• The rituals are non-Hermetic and so must be invented exactly as described in the translated text — the Range and so on cannot be varied. If the magus experiments (see ArM5, page 107) then, obviously, some parameters may potentially change (at the discretion of the storyguide).

• Each Mercurian ritual must be translated separately. However, if the character has translated some Mercurian rituals, he receives a bonus to subsequent translation Lab Totals equal to the highest magnitude of the Mercurian rituals he has already translated. This bonus does not apply to the Lab Total for invention; it only applies to the translation.

Artemisia: Purification

CrCo 40

R: Touch, D: Momentary, T: Individual, ritual

Artemisia: This ritual may only be cast on another character who has a Decrepitude Score of 1 or higher. The caster cannot cast it on himself. During the ritual the target must be bathed in water, in a consecrated temple of Mercury. The target’s apparent age is reduced by 5 years and his Decrepitude Score is reduced by 1. The player also removes up to 5 Aging Points currently allocated to the character’s characteristics.Assuming that the vis is available, and the caster is willing, the ritual may be cast multiple times in quick succession (to reduce a high Decrepitude Score to a much lower value). The ritual has no effect if the target character has a Decrepitude Score of 0. Note that the ritual does not reduce the actual age of the character, so it has no effect on the Aging Roll. Commentary included in the Lab Text suggests that the Mercurian priests used this ritual in a similar manner to the way Hermetic magi use the Longevity Ritual. The ritual is compatible with the Longevity Ritual. This ritual breaks the Hermetic Limit of Aging.

The Scrying Pool

InIm 20

Artemisia: R: Arcane, D: Concentration/Special, T: Individual, Ritual

This ritual allows the caster to see an image of the target and his immediate surroundings in the surface of the pool of water in the Scrying Office (in the Basillica). The ritual is specifically designed for this pool; another similar pool cannot be used. If Wizard’s Communion is used to cast this ritual, then it only expires when all of the casting magi cease to concentrate. Individual magi may cease concentrating and rejoin later. In this way, by taking shifts, the ritual may be prolonged for hours, days, potentially even years. Only magi who participated in the Wizard’s Communion may join or rejoin the ritual. This effect is a special feature of how this ritual was originally designed to interact with Wizard’s Communion; these rules do not apply to other spells.

Raising the Auxiliaries for a Day

Artemisia: CrMe 35

R: Voice, D: Sun, T: Group, Ritual

This ritual cast from the porch of a consecrated temple of Mercury (see Consecration of Mercury’s House), on a group of up to 100 characters, gives the characters a +1 bonus to Attack and Defense rolls and allows the characters to fight together in trained groups, assuming that there are sufficient officers available to lead the groups. Characters who are already affected by this ritual do not gain additional benefit from subsequent castings.

Artemisia: Penetrate the Regio Skin

Cr(Re)Vi 25

R: Touch, D: Momentary, T: Individual, Ritual

Artemisia: This ritual creates a new entrance through a Magic regio boundary.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Thanks.

Proclus of Rome: Ah.

An olive tree: The zones are mixing.

Proclus of Rome: I see now.

Artemisia: ack

An olive tree: That was good.

Artemisia: i copypasted too much

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll take your word for it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Having been told what to do by the GM I can only do the honorable thing and ignore it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Creating a new entrance somewhere convenient to us sounds like the best plan for accessing this place.

Proclus of Rome: On the other hand, it would be stealing from these Rhine magi.

Artemisia: they're rhine magi

Proclus of Rome: And they do use this regio for their mystery cult or whatever.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: only part of it.

Proclus of Rome: But if we moved the regio entrance then they wouldn't be able to use it anymore.

Artemisia: let's have archibald join their mystery cult. he isn't in a cult yet, i believe

Archibald of Guernicus: "It could be a natural aspect of the regio, if ye harvest things incorrectly. Keep an eye out killing them."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: who said anything about moving the regio entrance

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's.

Artemisia: apparently the ritual makes a new entrance, it doesn't move the old

Lodewig of Tytalus: It's a clear cut case of deprivation of magical power

Malachiasz of Tytalus: heres the thing

An olive tree: you stood in the way of the trees for long enough without doing anything.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they have to actually sue us first

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Hypothetically of course, to bring a case they'd need to suspect their regio was actually stolen and not mysteriously inaccessible

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10!+13

(

4

)

+13

=

17

rolling 1d10!+13

(

4

)

+13

=

17

Archibald of Guernicus: "We can negotiate with researching this place once we speak with the magi here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i walked away from the trees.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: poor gulielmus, who was the only one being targeted

rest in peace

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that was my action.

Artemisia: i did not walk away

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10!+13

(

8

)

+13

=

21

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im not picking things anymore so im not being hurt

An olive tree: Artemisia did not.

Artemisia: what's the defense roll?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm all the way over here, as you can see on the map.

An olive tree: Quickness + Combat Ability

+ Weapon Defense Modifier + Stress Die

Lodewig of Tytalus: assuming you have a weapon ready

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is gulielmus gonna die

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: congratulations on your incredible death.

artemisia is

Lodewig of Tytalus: most likely it's brawl

An olive tree: the olive trees swing their thin, whiplike branches mightily.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was going to cast a spell on one of the trees though

Artemisia: i don't have brawl

so rip

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cant believe were losing another fine magus

An olive tree: do you have any combat ability at all

nice.

Artemisia: single weapon

An olive tree: you can use that

cant you?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets sue the green man covenant

Artemisia: oh, i have a buckler ready

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have a vague memory of johns ruling that you can use athletics to dodge arrows and the like

Artemisia: that uses single weapon and leaves me with free hand to pick flowers

Lodewig of Tytalus: dunno if that's still in effect

Proclus of Rome: Are you sure that isn't his ghost whispering in your ear?

An olive tree: Defense: as in RAW, roll Qik + Weapon Ability + Weapon bonus + stress

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+1+11

(

9

)

+1+1+11

=

22

An olive tree: thats from the houserule combat page.

so.

i'll go with that.

Artemisia: how many rolls?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+13

(

3

)

+13

=

16

ouch

rolling 1d10!+13

(

1

)

+13

=

14

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

An olive tree: Nice.

Artemisia: so one hits me with margin of 1, one with margin of 7

and i dodge one

An olive tree: You only get hit twice, but deftly parry a tree.

+10 damage.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: criminy

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, guess we'd better destroy these trees.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's save the apprentice from being beaten to death by trees

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill the gm

Artemisia: so 10 and 16 after soak. i should wear armor

An olive tree: Is anyone actually drinking the potions and talking to the trees.

Armor is good.

Artemisia: a light and a heavy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no, that's a horrible plan.

An olive tree: Wait, did you have any protective spells up?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the trees will kill me if i try to talk to them.

Artemisia: uh, i'm an apprentice. i don't know spells

An olive tree: Good point.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets port over the pendragon knockdown rules

Archibald of Guernicus: I think I offered sidestep to everyone who wanted it

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and make artemisia roll knockdown

Artemisia: in that case i took it

Lodewig of Tytalus: a group of people with sidestep on should just walk into each other all the time

An olive tree: Smart claim, since I won't check.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can sidestep anyone so I always offer it

Artemisia: but the big hit was the second one

so only a heavy

An olive tree: Yeah.

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, a medium, as sidestep gives a defence boost

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cast pit of the gaping earth on a tree

Artemisia: oh, nice

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats the aura here

Proclus of Rome: Uh.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: magic 6?

An olive tree: +6.

Proclus of Rome: Please don't ruin this laboratory.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: classic aristide

Malachiasz of Tytalus: fine

i wont save us from the trees

Artemisia: were the attacks from separate trees or a single one?

Lodewig of Tytalus: are we in combat rounds or can anyone act?

An olive tree: That was all the trees.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all three trees reached you at the same time.

Proclus of Rome: Also if we're fighting we should set up an initiative list to keep things clear.

An olive tree: Everyone can act.

Lodewig of Tytalus: now that we've seen artemisia get attacked

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll cast Trap of the Entwining Vines, on the trees

An olive tree: The trees have converged.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 68

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll launch a crystal dart at a tree, as well

Artemisia: oh

An olive tree: should i move to the combat map? I should.

That would be easier.

Lodewig of Tytalus: if you think these trees warrant it

Artemisia: i'm not hurt at all, since the sidestep bonus was enough to dodge the second tree

Proclus of Rome: You should also bring up the turn order gadget.

An olive tree: I will.

Artemisia: i'll have to eat some poisonous plants later to make up for it

Lodewig of Tytalus: prebuffing with sidestep makes physical attacks irrelevant once again

An olive tree: I think I might as well get the map going anyway.

Artemisia: combat skill + sidestep does it

An olive tree: A square is a pace.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its just a matter of time before one of the gms grows a pair and sends some second sight archers at us

Artemisia: good luck, i'm 51 paces away and have shriek of the impeding shafts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm nearby, i guess.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm within voice range

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald is across the damn river.

Artemisia: i'm in melee

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah but hes giant

so hes showing up here

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm within voice range, its fine

I can FFM to sight range and have eyes of the hawk on

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea Initiative: 7

An olive tree: Yeah voice range shouting is 50 squares.

You can hit pretty much anything.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's just d100 for init?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice. we have off-map artillery.

Artemisia: Artemisia Initiative: 45

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah that's what we ended up doing

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d100

(

33

)

=

33

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's a macro that adds you to the turn order popup

Artemisia: combat makes even less sense than in RAW now

An olive tree: Init isn't used anymore and we're just using it so we don't get lost during combat turns.

I think.

Proclus of Rome: Proclus of Rome Initiative: 63

An olive tree: An olive tree Initiative: 87

An olive tree Initiative: 6

An olive tree Initiative: 20

An olive tree Initiative: 93

Proclus of Rome: I think tokens still automatically have an Initiative roll.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Lodewig of Tytalus Initiative: 35

Malachiasz of Tytalus: Malachiasz of Tytalus Initiative: 58

Proclus of Rome: There we go.

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 29

An olive tree: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to mark the tree i'm targeting with an orange dot.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you have to penetrate first

whats the trees mr

An olive tree: Three olive trees menace and pummel Artemisia.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one hundred.

An olive tree: It's a tree.

It has no MR.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice

so now its got an orange dot on it

good work

An olive tree: Powerful.

Lodewig of Tytalus: cool

dispel the animation

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm also going to cast a spell on the tree.

An olive tree: Oh, that was a non-canon orange dot?

I see.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's just on the damn map

An olive tree: Cast a spell then.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+15+3+6 Trap of the Entwining Vines

(

10

+

3

)

+15+3+6

=

37

An olive tree: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: spell level 15

The vines cover a circle 2 paces across and reach 6 feet high. Anything caught within them is immobilized. To avoid the vines, the target must make a

Quickness – Encumbrance stress roll of 9+. To break out requires a Strength stress roll of 12+ (allowed once a round). Someone not trapped can cut a trapped person free in two rounds, assuming proper tools. The vines weaken and wither to dust at sunrise or sunset.

Artemisia: NICE JOB HITTING ME WITH THIS NONSELECTIVE AOE SPELL

An olive tree: this is a good time to mention that this is secretly an Herbam-aligned Magic 6 aura and if you cast herbam magic it counts double.

Proclus of Rome: It IS a nice job.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wow!

but now the secret is out.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hm hmm

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh well. rest in piece, artemisia

An olive tree: 2 paces is 2 squares.

Lodewig of Tytalus: pretty sure that doesn't occur in routine regiones...

An olive tree: so you can hit, if im being generous, two trees.

and miss her entirely.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was just going to center it on the one tree

Malachiasz of Tytalus: boo this gm

An olive tree: I'm trying to follow the damn rules.

Lodewig of Tytalus: sounds like that would take some Finesse

Proclus of Rome: You should make a targeting template.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the trees are very large so it seems like you would want to cover the whole thing with vines

An olive tree: It says two paces across, a pace is 3 feet, the cubes are 3 feet.

the trees are very large, yes.

They also have very high strength.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: not my problem

An olive tree: I think you can hit one tree.

Proclus of Rome: I love being strong.

-These Trees

Artemisia: but if a tree gets vined, it has to spend its turn breaking out

An olive tree: It does.

Artemisia: trap of entwining vines is the best combat herbam spell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyway that's my turn, i cast the spell on the tree whose token i marked with an orange dot.

An olive tree: It also needs to make a roll of 9+

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good work gulielmus

An olive tree: so let's see.

rolling 1d10!-5

(

2

)

-5

=

-3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: doesnt seem very confusing but apparently SOME people

Proclus of Rome: Wow that is NOT very high strength.

Artemisia: that's quickness

An olive tree: This tree with the orange dot is now, up to about 6 feet, covered in entwining vines.

That was quickness + encumbrance, yes.

Proclus of Rome: Put an icon on it.

Artemisia: cryptic roll20 token icons fftw

An olive tree: there are vines on it.

theres a wavy vine icon.

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'm going to cast Hands of the Grasping Earth on the southernmost tree.

An olive tree: to represent being entrapped, by vines.

Proclus of Rome: Turn done.

An olive tree: Nice.

Mal?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyone

Malachiasz of Tytalus: crystal dart

Artemisia: make a hole under the tree, depriving its roots of sustenance

An olive tree: Yeah, anyone left, really.

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+26

(

2

)

+26

=

28

An olive tree: Ok.

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10+10

(

1

)

+10

=

11

it takes 11 damage

An olive tree: It soaks all of it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: asshole

Proclus of Rome: Damage rolls are stressed.

Artemisia: spell damage is a stressed roll that can fumble

doing no damage

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

no botch

An olive tree: amazing.

Lodewig of Tytalus: if a basic plant individual is up to one pace in diameter, can I affect one of these with a +1 size modifier?

Artemisia puts her flower wreath in her hair and draws her sword.

Artemisia: that's my turn

Lodewig of Tytalus: sure

An olive tree: these plants are three paces in diameter.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a tree is +1

generally

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Crystal Dart on the middle tree

An olive tree: These are big trees.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Criminy.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+34

(

10

+

5

)

+34

=

49

That penetrates

Malachiasz of Tytalus: wow!

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

5

)

+10

=

15

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they have no mr

it always penetrates

Artemisia: now does it penetrate their soak?

Proclus of Rome: You should use your sword.

Archibald of Guernicus: The movement rules mean that'll take so long to reach them the fight will end before I can, probably

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dont forget about rolling soak vs spell damage

An olive tree: oh shit.

Artemisia: trees are tough

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll spont ReCo next turn and start stabbing them to death

Good god

Yeah I'm going to go stab them to death, can anyone manage a level 20 PeHe spont? thats what it takes to destroy a living tree at voice range

I'll try it at touch range if no-one can

Lodewig of Tytalus: allow +2 magnitudes for scale

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can manage a level 20 pehe spont. haha. ha

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. level 25 spont then, for size +2 plants

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me too maybe

oh not level 25

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll go stab them next turn

brb

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have this potion but it only works on smaller plants

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well maybe level 25

since our rolls for herbam spells double

or something

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh sorry it's my go

ok I'll petrify a tree

An olive tree: if you're casting herbam magic in the garden you get a +12 total.

otherwise +6 aura bonus.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: molto bene

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's supposed to be simultaneous resolution so we just vomit out our actions in whatever order.

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+41)/2

(

(

5

)

+41)/2

=

23

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nevermindi cant manage it

Lodewig of Tytalus: dang

I should have turned it into another plant

An olive tree: I was just running the numbers in order so I could keep track of everyone blurting crap out.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Oh well I'm winded

An olive tree: Ouch.

That's everyone?

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah base 4 + 2 size, no room to account for range

better to go with perdo if you can

shame to mess up the garden though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the way we had been handling sponts, you can still do something with your roll

Artemisia: weapons will probably work good on these

do the trees count as brawling for purposes of attack bonuses in the houserules?

An olive tree: Yeah.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Ok changing a plant is base 3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as long as it's the same art combination

Lodewig of Tytalus: base 3 +2 size +2 voice +1 diam = 20

Archibald of Guernicus: Sherlock entering his mind palace and remembering rope kid saying "sharp metal objects can be used to damage enemies"

Lodewig of Tytalus: I turn one of the trees into a poppy

An olive tree: Hell yeah.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: sherlo

An olive tree: I guess the last one, who won't be entwined or grasped?

Lodewig of Tytalus: sure, if it's in threatening range

"stay away from that, the spell won't last"

An olive tree: It's otherwise going to keep windmilling into Artemisia, being the only free tree.

Lodewig of Tytalus: cool, that one then

An olive tree: Nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: turning it into a poppy takes it down to level 15 to destroy it

so i can do it

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean you can also just pick it

Proclus of Rome: How cruel.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i want to make a stress roll and die

you cant take that from me

Artemisia: i'll add it t my flower wreath and when the duration runs out, i'll get hit by +12 environmental damage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ripping up the poppy before the spell wears off would be a lot cooler than peheing it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: -quote from the herp face

An olive tree: Ok. One of the trees is a poppy and just sways lazily at Artimisia.

Artemisia: cute

Lodewig of Tytalus: but I take Proclus' point that it would be better to9 leave this place as intact as possible

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10!+8 Str vs 12 entwining vines

(

5

)

+8

=

13

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we could also just

walk away

he said these trees are really slow

An olive tree: A tree breaks free of the vines!

Proclus of Rome: I can break these vines!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Malachiasz of Tytalus: we could also just

walk away

he said these trees are really slow

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10!+8 str vs 15

(

4

)

+8

=

12

Archibald of Guernicus: Is Artemesia walking away then for her turn

An olive tree: A tree remains grasped by the earth!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that was the plan until all three of them started killing artemisia.

Artemisia: no, i'm chopping the trees down with a sword

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so just walk away

they cant keep up

Lodewig of Tytalus: "They don't seem very mobile, which suggests to me there's something worth protecting in that thicket"

Archibald of Guernicus: If it's a new turn, I'll help out our apprentice we escorted in here

Proclus of Rome: How long does your plant transformation spell last?

Lodewig of Tytalus: 2 minutes

Archibald of Guernicus: Sponting ReCo to get closer

Lodewig of Tytalus: If nobody kills it I'll do a sun duration one at touch range

Artemisia: i'm waiting for proclus and malach to do something since if we're not following the turn order, the combat system is chaos

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is it the second round?

Artemisia: yes

Proclus of Rome: Ok.

I shoot a Crystal Dart at the flower.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well done proclus

Proclus of Rome:

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

3

)

+10

=

13

Malachiasz of Tytalus: that right there is why youre the best

Archibald of Guernicus: You still have to roll to cast, surely

In case of botches

Proclus of Rome: It's a formulaic spell.

Artemisia: not if it's mastered

Archibald of Guernicus: We're in combat

Proclus of Rome: Fine!

rolling 1d10!

(

8

)

=

8

Archibald of Guernicus: Never miss a chance for a good old botch

An olive tree: What's the Soak of a poppy?

Probably not much.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 0

Artemisia: it can still roll really well

An olive tree: A similarly sized plant I have is 0 soak and low health.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: roll soak

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10!

(

9

)

=

9

Artemisia: rip poppy

you were brave

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 4 damage might not kill it

An olive tree: the poppy takes an incapacitating wound.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a poppy is probably like size -5.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i will do nothing until combat is over because i cannot do anything

Lodewig of Tytalus: thank goodness it was done by the book

Malachiasz of Tytalus: good luck

An olive tree: Why can't you do anything?

Artemisia: if malach is doing nothing, i'll take a swing at the tree that broke free

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont wanna destroy the soil here

and my crystal dart aint gonna hurt it

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+1+4+11

(

5

)

+1+4+11

=

21

An olive tree: Nice.

Lodewig of Tytalus: if we're in another round I guess I'll transmute another tree

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll cast piercing shaft of wood at the tree when artemisia is done

An olive tree: You hit the tree.

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+45)/2

(

(

7

)

+45)/2

=

26

Artemisia: 10 margin + 1 str + 6 long sword = 17

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+44)/2

(

(

5

)

+44)/2

=

24.5

Artemisia: it take a fatigue

An olive tree: Sick!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10! botch check

(

6

)

=

6

rolling 1d10!+7 damage

(

3

)

+7

=

10

Archibald of Guernicus: What's lodewig doing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't do any damage.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh turning another tree into a poppy

An olive tree: Artemisia hits the tree and I forgot to calculate soak, but causes a light wound.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, he might botch next round so I'll head in just in case other things start approaching

Sponting Rego Corpus

rolling (1d10!+32)/2

(

(

3

)

+32)/2

=

17.5

Lodewig of Tytalus: allowing for time and other people's actions, I'll turn a tree into a sunflower, and another into an artichoke stalk

Archibald of Guernicus: Enough to move myself 50 paces

An olive tree: Nice.

Is that everyone?

Archibald of Guernicus: That is, indeed.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok the furthest tree is a sunflower. is archibald doing anything to the last

An olive tree: Yep.

The furthest tree was already an incapacitated poppy.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think he means the one at the top

An olive tree: Ok, that one's a sunflower.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll help Artemisia stab the last one to death

An olive tree: And the last one tries to break out one more time.,

Lodewig of Tytalus: sorry the lowest one

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10!+8

(

1

)

+8

=

9

And does not.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I interpret these signs now

An olive tree:

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

Lodewig of Tytalus: alright it's an artichoke

I have three fatigue

Proclus of Rome: Yum, what's the restipe?

Archibald of Guernicus: I stab the artichoke

Proclus of Rome: Eating the artichoke would kill you, right?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I specifically went for plants which would be satisfying to kill with a sword

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+15

(

9

)

+15

=

24

An olive tree: the artichoke is stabbed.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's thresh + 8 damage to the artichoke

Artemisia: i'll take down the sunflower

An olive tree: The artichoke is utterly dismantled by the sword.

Proclus of Rome: Uh it's incapacitated.

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+16

(

9

)

+16

=

25

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the sunflower is native to the americas

Archibald of Guernicus carefully notes 'artichoke' on his kill count

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh shit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lodewig is instantly killed by 70 points of anachronism damage

Artemisia: threshold + 7 damage to sunflower

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh god no

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+70

(

9

)

+70

=

79

Artemisia: rip

An olive tree: Artemisia destroys the sunflower with no mercy

Archibald of Guernicus: Boy rep, of all people, being struck down for anachronisms

Good thing Johns wasn't here to see this

As he deserted us

Artemisia: my fairy upbringing makes me immune to sunflowers

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's not the first time

Artemisia: fucked up fairy plants are normal to me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus spends his turn walking closer to the trees.

An olive tree: Guess what.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I've been called out on the potato even after making a fuss about someone else using one

An olive tree: It's a magic 6 aura, and sunflowers exist in the world. It could have just turned into one, in this garden.

It was a damn sunflower.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: They don't.

Proclus of Rome: Sunflowers don't exist!

Artemisia: america does not exist

china exists only in theory

An olive tree: Okay, fine.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I try to conjure a single-stemmed rosebush and end up with a plant I've never seen

An olive tree: This is the no fun game.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: final twilight approaches.

An olive tree: But you've been attacked by some trees.

And you didn't even ask them why.

Artemisia: we can ask the incapacitated poppy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that's true.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's interrogate the poppy

Ars Badgame Italia [we tortured some poppies]

Artemisia: yes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Who wants to talk to the poppy?"

Artemisia: "I do."

Lodewig of Tytalus: If it's incapacitated is it unconscious or just immobile

Artemisia: "I want to know what flowers sound like."

Archibald of Guernicus: It's a plant, so I assume just immobile

Lodewig of Tytalus: certainly it's in danger of bleeding out until its injuries are stabilised

Archibald of Guernicus: since thye lack a consciousness

It's leaking sap everywhere

Proclus of Rome: AFK a minute.

An olive tree: It is night. The forest is just as silent as before. No plants are currently assaulting you.

It can't take actions.

But it could talk if you talk to it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea rummages through his potion satchel, now full of plant samples, until he finds one of the tree-speech potions.

Artemisia: "Why did you attack us, Miss Poppy?"

I'll ask even without the potion.

Lodewig of Tytalus: are you trying to humiliate this tree?

GM: The poppy leaks sap from a burst pod.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: You can have the potion though.

Artemisia: i should rewrite artemisia's immature personality to childish, since that fits much, much more

GM: Gruesome.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: just don't drink it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gulielmus wraps his hands around the poppy and begins shaking it and asking questions

Artemisia: how do i use it then?

Lodewig of Tytalus: you tell the plant it can have some if it plays nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you rub the potion on your hands and then touch the plant

Artemisia: i'll do that then

and ask again

"Why did you attack us, Miss Poppy?"

Proclus of Rome: AUGH!

Ignorant!

Don't misgender these poppies!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: leave the kid alone proclus.

Artemisia: poppy: i attacked you to commemorate british dead in world war that hasn't happened yet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald: :blessed:

Proclus of Rome: This is xir right.

Lodewig of Tytalus: It almost certainly still identifies as an olive tree

Artemisia: Miss Olive

GM: "You... Came to destroy this place."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: extend the olive branch of peace to it

Artemisia: "I just picked some flowers."

"We don't want to destroy it."

Proclus of Rome: Ask it how it saw us.

Artemisia: "How did you see us, Miss Olive?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well, its a plant so really weve bee nkilling its kind

Artemisia: i was just making hair decorations from the corpses of its fellow plants, no need to get violent against me

Proclus of Rome: Plants still can't see things.

Said in the Oblivion voice.

GM: "You're a..." the plant's pod deflates and the last of its sap leaks out. "You're a liar."

Artemisia: Am I?

Lodewig of Tytalus: the spells that let you communicate with inanimate objects reveal that they have a dim awareness of their surroundings

GM: Well, it thinks you're here to destroy the garden.

Lodewig of Tytalus: but probably only if raised to slight consciousness by such magic

Proclus of Rome: Ah, thank you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we did it.

we tortured the poppy to death.

Artemisia: I can try rolling charm to convince it we're not here to destroy it in its last moments, so it can die in peace.

GM: You just turned it into a poppy and killed it.

It would be a hard charm roll.

Lodewig of Tytalus: but not out of malice

Artemisia: guile is the same roll

i'll try the charm roll

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The party is awarded 7,000,000 XP.

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10+5+8-10

(

7

)

+5+8-10

=

10

Proclus of Rome: In this laboratory we smooch our flowers.

Artemisia: not bad considering i have -10 penalty on presence rolls against targets i like

GM: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: Torturing a flower to death for information is either a new low or a new high for the bad boys of vardians tomb.

GM: "Eat my sap and die. Aughhh"

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's a new frontier for hermetic magic

Artemisia: is it an opium poppy?

Lodewig of Tytalus: and a promising one

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it probably is.

Lodewig of Tytalus: idk, isn't that all poppies?

GM: I'm rping these plants as more sapient than they should come across. It doesn't really make that insult.

Proclus of Rome: We should try and find an old tree and ask it if it remembers Herisson.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could talk to the apple tree

it's probably pissed at me for taking a branch though.

Artemisia: "It thought we're here to destroy the garden."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I want to search the area the trees were guarding

Lodewig of Tytalus rolls search

Artemisia: I'll dig a grave for the poppy. I can make it before the transformation on it runs out, right?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus of rome: You can try.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Do ye think we could explain ourselves to the denizens somehow? If more of the garden attacks us, we'll have tae leave or destroy more and more of it."

Lodewig of Tytalus: uh, maybe

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i mean

Proclus of Rome: "How would I find the oldest tree?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you dont need to dig deep to bury a poppy

Artemisia: it's a poppy, it's not big

GM: they came out of the orchard bolad was investigating.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: also you dont really need to bury a poppy

Lodewig of Tytalus: I recommend you stand back right after

GM: the first time he was in here.

Artemisia: i do need to bury the poppy we tortured to death

GM: He left through the entrance, and is not lost in the orchard.

Artemisia: it's the least i could do

Lodewig of Tytalus: is bolad ok?!

GM: To be clear.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: talking to a tree is supposed to take a very, very long time

GM: Yeah.

Artemisia: ok, then i don't bury the huge tree

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but a little flower is probably faster

GM: He was a poppy at the time, so it made more sense.

I guess.

Artemisia: despite her behavior, artemisia is 19, but intelligence is her worst stat

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm

GM: the poppy is buried and bursts out of the ground as an olive tree after two minutes have elapsed.

Artemisia: rip

Archibald of Guernicus: F

GM: thats the cute option.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: f

Lodewig of Tytalus: Lodewig respects the spirit of the code to the precise extent that he won't sexually harass someone else's retarded apprentice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Whatever you want to do with these potions, we have..."

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Artemisia: Artemisia is actually married.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea looks in his satchel again.

Artemisia: To the ultimate rapist.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh ok then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Six left."

Proclus of Rome: "Do you know what the oldest tree would be, Gulielmus?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also in this saga we have a character nicknamed "the ultimate rapist."

Lodewig of Tytalus: We'll see about that

Archibald of Guernicus: He earned that title fair and square, by committing a series of elaborate rapes.

GM: He could probably identify the oldest tree with one of his skills.

Lodewig of Tytalus: really, who is he?

Archibald of Guernicus: Galafre the Elder

Proclus of Rome: Galafre the Elder.

GM: Will you be attacked by more trees, is the question?

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh wait is it the guy from Montcuq?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Lodewig of Tytalus: he's certainly a dedicated rapist

Proclus of Rome: If I get attacked by a tree I'll turn around 360 degrees and walk away.

GM: Galafre is a real cool customer.

Archibald of Guernicus: The one who set up enchantments and a series of complex mentem spells so he could rape someone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll try to use my extensive knowledge of trees to figure out which type is likely to be the oldest, given their heights

Archibald of Guernicus: Really a dedicated man

Artemisia: i got to become a princess out of the marriage, so it's not all bad

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: wait a minute. all of these trees were probably planted at the same time

Lodewig of Tytalus: cut them all down and count their rings

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets go investigate the thicket

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+12+2 Apothecary + either of Int or Per

(

10

+

4

)

+12+2

=

28

Lodewig of Tytalus: I sit down and catch my breath for fifteen minutes

Artemisia: if you're a herbam master, you plant whole orchard at once

Archibald of Guernicus: One of them could have been an older plant transplanted here

Proclus of Rome: Take a rest on the napping bush.

Well, I'm willing to risk one of our potions to find out.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it should be an easy InHe to find a tree's birthday

I guess there's a lot of them though

Archibald of Guernicus: If only we had someone with the ability to consult the sortes

Artemisia: whar's the worst that could happen except for an insane botch?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you could do it with an intellego sense, to sniff out the olest tree

* oldest

Proclus of Rome: Well, you're the Herbam master here.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Let's go check out the grove they came from."

Proclus of Rome: I guess I could do it too.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i head off to check the grove they came from

GM: Guli, by examining tree heights and silhouettes and so on, you can say there is a good chance of an ancient mistletoe in one direction. Proclus, a path of golden yellow flowers blooms at your feet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can't perform spontaneous magic outside an apothecary's workshop

Lodewig of Tytalus: base 5 InCo to learn the target's place and time of birth

same level just to determine age? or one lower?

Proclus of Rome: Base 3 to learn a single specific fact about a plant or plant product.

GM: Oh.

Proclus of Rome: That's InHe.

Lodewig of Tytalus: good call

GM: Nice.

Just cast it on all the mistletoe trees.

Proclus of Rome: I'd have +32 +12 for this spont.

What about you Gulielmus?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Still incapable of sponting outside an apothecary's workshop.

Proclus of Rome: Divide that by 2, obviously.

What about now?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Let me check.

Artemisia: It's InHe 4 to do it by touch. you can probably do it fatiguelessly

Proclus of Rome: Ok lemme see here.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Any news of the evil magus pursuing us, Lodewig?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: literally cannot use spontaneous magic under any circumstances unless making a charged item in an apothecary's workshop.

Proclus of Rome: It would be Base 3 + 1 Concentration + 4 Vision.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Is he still passing himself off as ivy?

Proclus of Rome: So that'd be 20.

GM: I thought you were unwolfed for the last 45 minutes or so.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's always wolfed

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm wolfed all day

GM: Hell yeah dude.

That's a good spell.

He is still ivy.

He kind of blends with all the other plants.

Proclus of Rome: Ok let me try it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Can he move?"

GM: Try it.

Proclus of Rome: Of course I'll be sponting ceremonially.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did i miss something. why is there a golden path at proclus's feet

Artemisia: don't ask. it's embarrassing

Lodewig of Tytalus: alright I set my mind to stake him out from under a bush somewhere a discreet distance away

Proclus of Rome:

rolling (1d10! + 8 + 7 + 2 + 12 + 12)/2

(

(

6

)

+8+7+2+12+12)/2

=

23.5

GM: Oh, that's because thousands of golden yellow flowers bloomed at his feet.

Proclus of Rome: Nice.

GM: And are leading off somewhere as a path.

Proclus of Rome: Ok I'll wander around until I find the oldest tree.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: This is extremely suspicious.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "he's still there, lying in wait I suppose"

Proclus of Rome: Please wander around with me, Sodales.

Artemisia: let's ignore this obvious red herring

and find the oldest tree instead

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea surveys the land.

Lodewig of Tytalus: actually wait, did the sun set recently?

GM: You can do both things.

Lodewig of Tytalus: then my spell has expired

GM: The sun did set.

Lodewig of Tytalus: sorry then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The oldest plant is probably going to be out in the old forest."

GM: You might have lost him.

Proclus of Rome: "Hmm."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea indicates the old forest, probably to the west.

GM: Who is outside, btw?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I can't tell you what's going on outside

Proclus of Rome: "Well, I want to be thorough."

GM: Hypatia, Bolad, and some grogs?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I think it better that we don't linger here"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or is that the north

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm antsy now that my mind and body are in the same place

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are the ars writers ars-y enough to put east at the top of their maps

Proclus of Rome: I'll start with the laboratory, then make a survey of all the plants in the garden.

Lodewig of Tytalus: they;d better be

Proclus of Rome: Since this MERELY allows me to determine the age of the plant and does not direct me to the oldest plant.

Ironically, I think a spiral search pattern would be most efficient here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you'd get wet.

GM: The oldest trees are probably where I marked the map with the mistletoe.

Since he rolled very high.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i tried to tell them.

Proclus of Rome: Ok then, I'll check it out.

Lodewig of Tytalus: does the path adjust itself to indictate the shortest route as procluse moves?

GM: Ok, whoever enters the forest is attacked by more trees.

Lodewig of Tytalus: or do flowers just keep blooming around his feet

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

GM: The path does, indeed, do that.

Proclus of Rome: Alright I'll walk away from the trees.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets do something

GM: It follows him, by blooming and wilting flowers.

Artemisia: i won't go near any trees until i get a new sidestep now that the sun has set

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are we still leaving a trail of decay everywhere we go

Lodewig of Tytalus: "This is the first time any of us have cast a simple intellego herbam here, yes?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Who wants a sidestep?"

Proclus of Rome: "Yes."

Artemisia: "I do."

Proclus of Rome: "Also, I don't."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Those things make me feel seasick"

Proclus of Rome: "Perhaps the laboratory is attuned to this magic."

GM: The trees are saying to whoever has tree potion "Muuuurdereeeers. Leeeeeaaave us beeee." and so on.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "It seems more than probable"

Artemisia: this is very disconcerting

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll give Artemisia a sidestep and one for myself

Proclus of Rome: Speaking of, is there anything to eat here?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a touch range effect!

Artemisia: flowers

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I say we investigate posthaste

GM: The trail was not of decay.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there's a lot of fruit around i think.

Artemisia: let's eat some vis

Proclus of Rome: What good is vis if you starve to death?

Lodewig of Tytalus: do NOT eat the fruit while you have plant talk potion on your hands

GM: There were a lot of mushrooms but they were kind of growing off of nothing visible.

like just out of the ground.

Artemisia: i should do that

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets eat fruit while we have the plant talk potion on our hands

Lodewig of Tytalus: unless you're into the indescribable frisson of eating something as it begs for its life

Artemisia: that would be traumatic

so i should do it

if gulielmus points out a non-poisonous fruit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe the fruit is happy about it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hell, it's always nice to try something new

Proclus of Rome: Wait, does the talk to plant spell work on dead plants?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: after all, God put it on the earth to be eaten by his favorite creation.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: fruit would be pretty happy to be eaten

because thats its purpose

so the animal that eats it can spread its seeds

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can look for some fruit

GM: There are non poisonous fruits, plump and delicious, all around.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "You could say that about a lot of God's creations, but in my experience they're rarely happy about it"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but first, what's the status of the angry trees.

GM: You may be attacked by more trees.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright gulielmus

Proclus of Rome: I think the problem would be that the fruit would be getting off on being eaten.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you find a very reflective surface of water

Proclus of Rome: And I just don't want to eat a plant that is having an orgasm.

GM: They're slowly moving towards you, who, despite your positioning on this map, I assume are on the same wedge of land

Artemisia: i'll eat a non-poisonous fruit with the potion on my hands while keeping my distance from the trees

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: okay.

we have 5 potions left

Artemisia: Curious +3 personality isthe same thing as being suicidal

Malachiasz of Tytalus: well uh

i assume we dont want to go itno the forest of angry trees

is there anything else to explore here or should we leave

Lodewig of Tytalus: Let's walk down the golden road!

Proclus of Rome: Alright, let's try it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hell, they're being so polite as to give us a path to follow

Proclus of Rome: I think it'll probably be ok.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I walk down the golden road.

Artemisia: let's ignore the golden road to drive the gm insane

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean it might be a trap, but I think it's more likely it's the makers own orientation system

devil's fav demon (GM): It's fine if you don't.

Artemisia: nice reverse psychology

Archibald of Guernicus: Ars system designers, unsure how to make players go somewhere, begin laying down golden paths to the correct location

Proclus of Rome: Well, at a certain point we need to consider what happened to Herisson and if he wanted his work to be discovered after his death.

GM: You could just keep killing trees.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I can't begin to guess either of those things

GM: That's just a path to "A" location.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: killing more trees sounds like a bad idea.

Proclus of Rome: If only we had had some adventures that involved legends about Herisson's character!

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh hey

Proclus of Rome: Well, I'll follow the path.

GM: If only I had time to do that.

Archibald of Guernicus: I believe Herisson was killed for siding with the Diedne in the schism war, so he probably didn't get much chance to share his amazing discovery.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Lodewig of Tytalus: what's the base effect level to change a tree's mind?

Artemisia: just ReHe it

GM: Archibald, that is the popular theory.

Smart.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i follow the tgolden path

Lodewig of Tytalus: well that's what I was thinking

Artemisia: siding with the diedne ftw

GM: Malach follows the golden path.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I follow after

Artemisia: fine. i'll follow the golden railroad

GM: I don't know, changing a trees mind is a hard question.

Most trees don't have minds.

Lodewig of Tytalus: actually I rebuff and follow after. The mindwold stays in the center of the garden and watches all points

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I glance at the approaching trees, and then hurry down the path.

Lodewig of Tytalus: these trees clearly have opinions of us, so they should be as malleable as any human mind

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's go, sodales

Artemisia: there's spells to make trees walk around and talk to each other

Lodewig of Tytalus admires these small blue flowers of no significance

Artemisia: Calling the Council of the Trees is only level 45 ritual

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Isn't it fascinating?"

GM: The path of golden buttercup leads you to a mass of thin stems about four feet tall, with small linear leaves and bright blue, five-petaled flowers

A flax plant.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok pretty big flowers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I've read about awakened trees, but I had never seen one."

Lodewig of Tytalus: You'd think there would be a skill for knowing your plants

Artemisia: let's eat the flowers

GM: It gestures excitedly towards you, and makes undulating bows.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I bow politely

Proclus of Rome: Whimsical.

Archibald of Guernicus: Finally, a nice, non-hostile and polite plant

This can only end well!

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

Artemisia: I'll bow as well.

"Hello, Miss Flower."

Lodewig of Tytalus: any chance this is Herisson? Or did he die somewhere else

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "This plant is moving."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Uh, hello."

Proclus of Rome: "Thank you for your observation, Malachiasz."

Lodewig of Tytalus: ah good, it knows latin

Malachiasz of Tytalus: The stress gets to me, and I take a turnip from my pack to eat.

Linum, a Flax Plant: Plant potion people hear "Thank you. Oh, gosh. Everyone has been so scared. Please stop killing us."

"Are you hurt?"

Proclus of Rome: "No, I am fine, thank you."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im making the grump smith face

Malachiasz of Tytalus: [mouth full of turnip] "What'sh it shaying?"

Linum, a Flax Plant: Proclus is planted up?

Proclus of Rome: Gulielmus said we had 5 left, right?

Archibald of Guernicus: I didn't drink a plant potion so I'll just stare at this plant

Linum, a Flax Plant: Yes.

Artemisia: You don't drink the plant potion.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: each charge is good for talking to a single plant. once the magic is used up you just have a bunch of plant paste on your hands

also some silver.

Artemisia: I took the plant potion to know what a fruit sounds like when it's eaten.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll trust someone else to commune with the plant

Proclus of Rome: Ah I see.

Then I haven't drunked it.

But maybe in this case I should.

Down the hatch!

Linum, a Flax Plant: Archibald, you see a healthy flax plant at the center of a mass of golden buttercup flowers. It's moving in a manner that suggests emotive gestures.

Proclus of Rome: Or however it works.

Linum, a Flax Plant: Amazing.

Oh, I didn't do the plant being eaten thing.

Artemisia: I applaud Proclus' spirit for experimentation.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I take a couple soil samples from this area.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: If Mal wants to talk to his turnips he could drink one of the potions.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: why would malach want to hear something suffer

thats silly

(From Proclus of Rome): "I was unaware plants didn't like to be killed."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's a tytalus.

Archibald of Guernicus: Who's drunk a plant potion?

Malachiasz of Tytalus takes another bite of turnip in front of this intelligent plant.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i assume proclus is using one to talk to our friend linum, a flax plant

so we have 4 left.

Proclus of Rome: I am.

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus is a  notorious  backstabber so I'll drink one too, to make sure he isn't - for instance - selling out his allies to the plants for no reason.

Artemisia: he would do that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone gather around the flax plant.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont take one because i dont care about what a flower has to say

Proclus of Rome: Are you KIDDING me?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I pick a buttercup and smell it

Proclus of Rome: I haven't murdered a SINGLE member of this covenant.

Artemisia: these are no faerie plants, so he would do that

Archibald of Guernicus: Neither has anyone here. Beatrice stayed at home.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I assume it smells of nothing, like all buttercups

Proclus of Rome: You signed Aristide's death warrant you maniac!

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh no

Not Aristide

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Hey, Lodewig, did you know if you hold a golden buttercup under your chin and your chin turns yellow, it means the buttercup is yellow?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches.

Linum, a Flax Plant: "Plants are very sensitive. I mean, I am, at least, and Malus is too. We've been here a long time!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "truly? how whimsical2

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 2 huh

Archibald of Guernicus: I think even Aristide could agree that Aristide had to die.

Artemisia: The primary cause of Aristide's death was Aristide, so he's the most guilty of it.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: take him away boys

homo keyboard user discovered

Proclus of Rome: "Well, I think we should all agree to stop killing plants, then."

Linum, a Flax Plant: "Please, take as many buttercups as you'd like."

Archibald of Guernicus: He did agree, actually, when we offered him a chance to tear up his death warrant and he declined, before being insanely murdered.

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I'm here to serve, if you're here to not kill me!"

Proclus of Rome: "How long have you been here without Herisson of Bjornaer?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malus? that means bad

lets kill the bad plant

Artemisia: maluschiasz

Linum, a Flax Plant: whats your latin score

Artemisia: 11

Archibald of Guernicus: 9

Proclus of Rome: Is it Malus Darkblade, the infamous Druchii adventurer?

Lodewig of Tytalus: uh aren't we all fluent in latin

Artemisia: oh god

Linum, a Flax Plant: if you only have 9 you might not know that Malus means apple.

Lodewig of Tytalus: did you just realise you don't know latin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea bites into a malus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Everyone in Vardian's Tomb loves apples.

Lodewig of Tytalus: is it an unusual name for apple?

Artemisia: mala is feminine. so malachiasz is...

Proclus of Rome: Hey wait a minute, I haven't been able to read this book for 20 years!

Well, all names are unusual for apples.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: not true

Archibald of Guernicus: 9 is enough to read and study from books, you need 11 to write a summae

Malachiasz of Tytalus: apple is a usual name for apples

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we're constantly biting into apples and then saying things with our mouths full of apple.

Linum, a Flax Plant: Flax plants aren't usually named Linum.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Frankly I don't know a lot about apple culture

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I'm Linum, a flax plant!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hello."

Artemisia: "What is Miss Flax saying?"

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, pleased to meet you."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It says it's Linum, a Flax Plant."

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok but they're communicating in latin right

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gnu/linum

Artemisia: "What a nice name."

"I should apologize for calling hir a miss, then."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I don't think it cares."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Ask it if it knows how to recreate this powerful soil."

Lodewig of Tytalus: Hi I'm Flax, the flax plant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I'm Gulielmus.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: malachiasz

Lodewig of Tytalus: i understand now

Proclus of Rome: "I won't be doing that, Malachiasz."

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's a herbam-aligned kemono friends regio

Proclus of Rome: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh my god. hes right

we have to kill dfd

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I reign over the Hortulus tribe, all the plants that provide tools or raw materials for your needs! Even a lot of flowers!"

Artemisia: we have to kill ars designers

Linum, a Flax Plant: "Please use anything around me however you like!"

Proclus of Rome: "I see, so you know the most about the laboratory in the center of the garden."

GM: Olive trees loom in the distance.

The laboratory is all over the garden.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yokosou herisson park

Proclus of Rome: "What was the last thing Herisson was working on before he died?"

GM: It's very poorly organized.

Artemisia: it's a big lab

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: for you.

Linum, a Flax Plant: "He was growing all kinds of magical plants like me! Something called viresculture."

Archibald of Guernicus: "What are all the things it's fine tae harvest that wouldn't be killing any more of ye?"

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, did he confide in you often?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus munches.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Anything interesting?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It sounds like it's going well, at least."

Proclus of Rome: By the way, how long does this conversation take?

Linum, a Flax Plant: I don't know.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: linum seems very animated so it should be fast

Linum, a Flax Plant: "He used me like the useful plant I am!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: sugoi

Linum, a Flax Plant: "It's been a long time since anyone's talked to me. Thank you all."

Proclus of Rome: "Is there any way to stop the trees of the forest from attacking us? We are only interested in preserving this regio."

Linum, a Flax Plant: "Malus probably just thinks you're trying to kill him. He rules over the Curtilagium, all the plants to provide nutrition and medicine, and is at the center of the orchard near the whirlpool."

"If you could just convince him how nice you are, he'd listen, I'm sure of it!"

Proclus of Rome: "Ah, amazing."

Artemisia: not after we tortured one of his olive trees to death

Proclus of Rome: "We were near him the entire time and didn't notice."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i also ate the apples in the orchard

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm confident we can make him forget all that

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also i have one of his branches

Proclus of Rome: I mean, apples exist to be eaten.

Artemisia: malach the baby eater

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i probably took some of the soil he was using too

Archibald of Guernicus: Lodewig runs in to reveal that his dog-mind pissed on that tree too

Proclus of Rome: "Do you know of any reason why mushrooms would be growing around us?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: Is it reasonable to think mentem guidelines are good for equal-level herbam spells to affect the consciousness of plants?

Artemisia: yes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: damn. bolad has been using that tree for target practice the entire time we were talking

Linum, a Flax Plant: Yes, that sounds reasonable br

Lodewig of Tytalus: a tree probably wouldn't even care about arrows or piss

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Done talking to it?"

Artemisia: let's brainwash this tree

Linum, a Flax Plant: He ignores Proclus' question. "Would you like a chair, or some pretty flowers?"

Proclus of Rome: "I think that Linum has a lot to say."

Linum, a Flax Plant: "Oh, I know!"

Another golden path leads off to a patch of daisies.

Artemisia: i would like pretty flowers

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: proclus is relaying all of this to us, right

or archibald

Linum, a Flax Plant: "With one of those daisies, we can all talk!"

Proclus of Rome: "Oh?"

Linum, a Flax Plant: "As long as you're holding one, you can talk to any of us!"

Anyone touching a plant with this

large white and yellow flower can converse

with plants as per Converse with Plant

and Tree (InHe 25, ArM5 page 136). It

must Penetrate any Magic Resistance of

Linum, a Flax Plant: the target plant to have its effect.

It's a Daisy of Intelligo vis.

Proclus of Rome: That's a pretty good vis.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Lodewig of Tytalus: neat

Artemisia: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: It is

Artemisia: it's more useful as a plant than as vis

Archibald of Guernicus: I catalogued all the vis earlier when I went around the garden with InVi

Proclus of Rome: "I will inform my sodales of your very helpful suggestion."

Linum, a Flax Plant: Fuck!

You did.

Archibald of Guernicus: So we know its intellego vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus heads down the trail to retrieve the daisy.

Proclus of Rome: I gotta say, as soon as Boy R. broke the code this adventure has been a lot more whimsical.

Linum, a Flax Plant: You can safely get the daisy. The olive trees wave their limbs menacingly from the forest and orchard.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are we all leaving to get daisies and go talk tomalus then

Artemisia: i just want a daisy

talking to malus is a bonus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i want to talk to linum.

Proclus of Rome: Let's all get daisies of virtue.

Archibald of Guernicus: Daintily plucking flowers

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): if everyone heads off to get daisies, i take a minute to first gather some flaxseed before following them

Linum, a Flax Plant: "You can use any plant in my service. I suppose it is an advantage of my obsequious nature that there might be an overlap between what my desires are and what might be considered punitive to others."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I grasp a daisy and invoke its powers of speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEN5TjYRCE#t=0m27s

Proclus of Rome: lol

AFK a sec.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: criminy.

(From Gulielmus ex Miscellanea): what are the names of the three tribes

Archibald of Guernicus: We should work out a research deal with these green wizards in exchange for explaining how this place works and such. I'm sure they'll agree to sparing a portion of the harvested vis for that.

Lodewig of Tytalus: wait, what code?

Artemisia: of hermes

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): great, i take them all

Lodewig of Tytalus: did I break that? my bad

Artemisia: i just assume that's what proclus means everytime he talks about breaking the code

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): is that all of them

Lodewig of Tytalus: and by "bad" I hope you understand "an action which apparently offended you but we have not necessarily agreed is incriminating"

Proclus of Rome: The code that this is just Kemeno Friends but with plants.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Daisy in hand, Gulielmus addresses the flax plant.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh phew

Linum, a Flax Plant: Hah.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I thought I'd done some kind of crime for a second

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): https://youtu.be/_1EbDdAeq7A?t=5s

Hypatia of Athens: 69. sodales

Proclus of Rome: A crime against gaming.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: After a couple minutes I meet everyone in the daisy field.

I munch on some seeds and grab a daisy.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You represent the useful plants, and the great apple tree represents the edible plants. But what about the poisons?"

(From Malachiasz of Tytalus): im hungry and flaxseeds are small

Linum, a Flax Plant: Guli, you come back to Linum in time to see Malach brandish a knife and begin cutting it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "and what's the fourth quadrant? Useless weeds?"

Proclus of Rome: Amazing work, Malachiasz.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what the

Lodewig of Tytalus: were we all looking somewhere else while he did that?

Artemisia: we were picking daisies

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I hate this! I don't like to go anywhere! Please stop!"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What the hell are you doing?"

Archibald of Guernicus: We were

Hypatia of Athens: I'm not sure what I've been doing

Linum, a Flax Plant: He lagged behind.

Hypatia of Athens: Singing songs in a meadow I suppose

Linum, a Flax Plant: While everyone else went to go get daisies.

Lodewig of Tytalus: fair enough

Archibald of Guernicus: Hi Shaun. We tortured and interrogated a flower and now the mayhem is continuing.

Linum, a Flax Plant: Hypatia, I thought, was outside.

Hypatia of Athens: The hills are alive with the sound of music

Linum, a Flax Plant: With the green dudes.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I pull the seeds off and eat them.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Leave the flax plant alone, you madman!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Spicy."

Hypatia of Athens: Ok

Proclus of Rome: I gotta say, this is a real noodle scratcher.

Linum, a Flax Plant: "You can take some seeds but please do not transplant me."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll chill with Charlie Greenman while you guys torture Flowey

Lodewig of Tytalus: "What are you planning with that flaxweed, Malachiasz? It's been quite obliging where it is, and it seems like it's important to the system of this place"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Planning? It's just been a while since I ate flaxseeds."

"They've got a real unique flavor. Want some?"

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I see that you're wounded. If you promise, for real, to not cut me up, I can help heal you!"

"Please don't do that any more."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is almost as bad as artemisia eating the apple, which was so horrifying that nobody can recall the details

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I can't understand the plant.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "You never deny your appetites. I respect that about you, though at present it seems inconvenient"

Proclus of Rome: "Can you restrain yourself even for one single moment, Malachiasz?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: don't you have a daisy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: not yet

Linum, a Flax Plant: The apple was very upset and just screamed a lot.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i did this while everyone went to get daisies

Artemisia: if i wasn't pagan, i'd think the apple was making the sound of people tortured in hell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah!

Linum, a Flax Plant: Malach, you're not the only one here.

Guli just got back!

Archibald of Guernicus: He was going to get one after torturing the flax plant

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i know yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so much for the hermetic limit of time.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ive presumably got a decent amount of flax stalks and am now shaking the seeds out.

Linum, a Flax Plant: Well, you cut and eat a bunch of flax

yes.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea gestures with his daisy.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok cool

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Please, Malach, it's begging you to stop."

Hypatia of Athens: Good job at achieving digestive regularity

Lodewig of Tytalus: I fold a couple seeds in a cloth and add it to my samples

Artemisia: i tortured a poppy to death and even i'm not as insane

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I look at it.

"If you say so."

Hypatia of Athens: Did you get any milk from the poppy?

Linum, a Flax Plant: Linum is at -2 and is Lightly wounded.

Lodewig of Tytalus: It'll be fine

Hypatia of Athens: I can heal the plant

Proclus of Rome: I massage my scalp angrily.

Artemisia: roll craft: gardener to bind its wounds

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'm going to go get one of those daisies. Ask if it knows any healing plants."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: unfortunately i am an apothecary and not a gardener.

Linum, a Flax Plant: You can go fight the apple tree or talk to it.

Artemisia: or cast bind wounds with herbam casting requisite to heal the plant

Hypatia of Athens: You can make a CrHe potion

Linum, a Flax Plant: or finish up with this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Just... just go get the daisy."

Linum, a Flax Plant: Guli had an important question but it was busy being sliced up by a madman.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I retrieve the daisy.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think it's safe to assume a slightly damage plant of virute in an insane magic aura will proibably be fine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have to ask the flax plant about the king of poisons still

Artemisia: someone spont CrHe 4 to make a healing circle around the flax plant

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so, i do so.

Lodewig of Tytalus: You can chop entire branches off trees and they don't die!

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I'll be fine, thank you. Do you need healing?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it pisses them off though.

Linum, a Flax Plant: this plant is like jesus.

in a way.

Proclus of Rome: Great point.

Artemisia: let's worship it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I do, actually."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I return with a daisy.

"Hey, plant, are there any healing plants around here?"

Linum, a Flax Plant: Linum rubs its flowers over Gulielmus. The worst of his wounds instantly improves by one level.

Linum's blue color fades slightly.

Proclus of Rome: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does that work through Bind Wounds

Proclus of Rome: "Please do not abuse Linum's helpfulness."

Artemisia: the world is upside down

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll just assume yes.

Artemisia: proclus is being the most reasonable person around

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I can heal you if you'd like."

Proclus of Rome: "It is my hope that we can discover and protect the secret of this garden without further violence."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "But most importantly, discover"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Thank you, Linum. But you still haven't answered my question."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I'm going to treat with the apple"

Linum, a Flax Plant: "What question?"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Good, heal me."

Proclus of Rome: You have to drop Bind Wounds first.

IF YOU CAN

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cannot.

maybe i forgot to recast it after sunset.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it healed guli through bind wounds

Lodewig of Tytalus: I dispel Corpus on Gulielmus, if he'll permit it

Linum, a Flax Plant: Hold on.

lemme check.

Hypatia of Athens: I consult the sortes and discover JFK will be shot from the front

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyway when this is all resolved i ask my question about which plant is in charge of the poison tribe agin.

again.

Linum, a Flax Plant: Okay, I checked RoP:M and it's unclear.

Lodewig of Tytalus: have you ever tested the sortes biblicae against the sortes vergilianae?

Linum, a Flax Plant: So I guess it doesn't work through bind wounds.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that would be a cool showdown

Linum, a Flax Plant: You're not using any persuade skills.

So it's being evasive.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ill help with negotiations

i pull out my knife again

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't that be Hermetic Divination with Numerology?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'll bring the full power of my Charm ability to bear

Lodewig of Tytalus: a challenger emerges

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+4+2

(

4

)

+4+2

=

10

Proclus of Rome: "What is the mater with you, Malachiasz?"

Artemisia: pure insanity

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i assist gulielmus's charm with a brandished knife and a meaningful look

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: trying to figure out anything i can about the third tribe.

Linum, a Flax Plant: "Oh. The mandrake."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I put my knife away.

Linum, a Flax Plant ejects a thin milky spurt on the ground, as if to spit in disgust.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "and the three of you, between you, have the governance of all the plants in this place?"

Linum, a Flax Plant: "Yes."

Proclus of Rome: I think the Third Tribe of Israel is Muslims.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: which tribes are this thing and the apple tree

Archibald of Guernicus: The Useful Plants and the Edible Plants

i think

Linum, a Flax Plant: "You don't want to talk to Mandragora, she's very unreasonable."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i meant in reference to proclus's comment

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+31)/2 intellego herbam

(

(

10

+

5

)

+31)/2

=

23

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: there are latin words but i don't know how to pluralize them

Lodewig of Tytalus: posing the silent question: has Linum told us the truth?

Proclus of Rome: Probably one of the ten lost tribes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's go call a mandragora a faggot

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so i just said useful plants, edible plants, and poisonous plants.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright

I brandish my shovel and hold my daisy and head off to the mandrakes.

Linum, a Flax Plant: Mal, this thing is Hortulus, apple tree is Curtilagium, they're useful/decorative plants like hemp and flax and flowers and food/medicinal plants like fruits and herbs respectively

yeah

guli's shorthand is fine.

Linum has told you the truth.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: time to learn latin so i can improve my ars magica dialogue

Lodewig of Tytalus: and what's the name of the third division?

Linum, a Flax Plant: Venenarium

Hypatia of Athens: Everyone hears the mandragora scream like a man screaming like a goat and takes a wound.

Linum, a Flax Plant: poisons and aphrodesiacs.

Lodewig of Tytalus: lol

Linum, a Flax Plant: Actually, if you hear a mandrake scream, you instantly die.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's find a mandragora then

Artemisia: let's not follow malachiasz

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok so this garden doesn't contain like, all plants

just the ones with interesting qualities

Proclus of Rome: Right.

Artemisia: let's find a mandragora irl

Hypatia of Athens: ^

Proclus of Rome: This is just a big lab, after all.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i call out the mandrakes name as i walk around

Proclus of Rome: It probably doesn't even have any plants from the Orient.

Artemisia: call it by its actual name

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i am

Proclus of Rome: The Caliphate.

Linum, a Flax Plant: the flax is very upset that you're doing this.

but, alas

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok it seems pretty easy to make the apple tree think we're best friends

but what are we trying to accomplish here?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont know

Proclus of Rome: We need to find out where Herisson left his notes.

Artemisia: i'll try to charm the flax to make it less upset

Lodewig of Tytalus: did anyone ask Linum?

Artemisia:

rolling 1d10!+5+8-10

(

6

)

+5+8-10

=

9

curses

GM: If the garden isn't trying to kill you, also, you can study from it.

Archibald of Guernicus: We want to try and, if not discover the actual secret to how Herisson grew vis, at least find as much clues as we can so we can attempt it ourself.

Proclus of Rome: Also if we can get these plants to help defend ourselves against George Costanza that would be helpful as well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Malachiasz."

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, making it safer makes it more investigatable

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm

that's trickier

Proclus of Rome: Linum didn't seem to want to talk about it.

GM: Any existing breakthrough helps when you're trying to get a hermetic breakthrough going, and there are a few you have access to here.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "If the flax plant wants to help everyone, obviously the mandrake is going to want to kill everyone."

GM: If you get regular access.

Proclus of Rome: Or rather, he didn't know.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I was thinking just magically charm the trees until they tell us what we want to know

GM: Because another covenant technically owns it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: but look, it's not up to these plants whether we can study here

GM: Linum didn't want to talk about it.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh ok then

Linum, a Flax Plant: "Mandragora is mean!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's make him want to talk about it

Linum, a Flax Plant: "She's really mean!"

Artemisia: of course it's the only female plant that's a murderous bitch

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+31)/2 rego herbam

(

(

3

)

+31)/2

=

17

Linum, a Flax Plant: The apple is also a bitch and hes a boy apple.

Linum is just plant-gay.

Artemisia: linum is neuter

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: linum seems chill.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "That's true Gulielmus."

Archibald of Guernicus: We should figure out how to get access to this place, yeah. The real obstacle is the green man group, and Costanza.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I say while wandering around looking for the mandrake.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll add a conf, for 20

Linum, a Flax Plant: for what spell

Proclus of Rome: Giorgio de Costanza.

Lodewig of Tytalus: actually no, keep it level 15

Linum, a Flax Plant: bring me, the bat - richard strabo

Lodewig of Tytalus: aura of rightful authority at touch/conc range

Linum, a Flax Plant: nice

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Linum, what happened to Hérisson, and where did he keep his research?"

Hypatia of Athens: Any singing plants?

Artemisia: let's teach the plants to sing

Hypatia of Athens: Ok

I have Music and Good Teacher

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I haven't seen him in, oh, since he started talking about the Diedne. It's been a long time! He'll be back someday, right?"

"His research is all over! We all keep a third of it."

Artemisia: brb

Linum, a Flax Plant: Some of the plants can probably sing.

Ok.

Hypatia of Athens: I can teach a plant to sing if it's Might 5 or below

Linum, a Flax Plant: Nice.

You can teach Linum to sing.

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Linum, a Flax Plant: Wait.

Lodewig of Tytalus: " Very  good, Linum. I'm certain your patience will be rewarded."

Linum, a Flax Plant: I thought I read "Above", because I'm retarded.

Proclus of Rome: "Where do you keep the research?"

Linum, a Flax Plant: He is above Might 45.

5.

Archibald of Guernicus: Linum, a Flax Plant: He is above Might 45.

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah, Might makes it harder, not easier

Archibald of Guernicus: Makes sense, he is an ars NPC

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Can you give us what you know? Or will it take a long time to recite?"

Hypatia of Athens: To teach a creature with might something beyond its Essential Nature

Magic Might, specifically

Malachiasz of Tytalus: hes a pretty easy opponent

Linum, a Flax Plant: It would take a long time, probably.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i was able to lightly wound him with 0 brawl skill

Hypatia of Athens: And vis

Linum, a Flax Plant: For him to recite it to you.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok cool

Proclus of Rome: Might doesn't have anything to do with Brawl or wounds.

I see.

Hmm.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i know

im just saying hes an easy opponent

Lodewig of Tytalus: I was hoping for a second there's be a shortcut, like it's written on his leaves

Linum, a Flax Plant: Well.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if i found myself in a self defense situation vs linum i think i would prevail, is all im saying here

Proclus of Rome: Alright we definitely need to demonstrate our good intent to all these plants.

AND ALSO we need to not kill them.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we can also threaten them

Lodewig of Tytalus: I let the spell lapse. "We know how to extract Hérisson's research from this place. It's simply a matter of preserving it, and our right of access"

Artemisia: back

Lodewig of Tytalus: "So I suggest we turn our minds to those concerns"

Hypatia of Athens: At Might 45 you could have a high penetration ability to wrap someone up in vines and then drink their blood

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "We also have to deal with the trees."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I pivot my mind to face the regio entrance, by way of an illustration nobody else can see

Linum, a Flax Plant: Linum will tell you that Malus' third is written on the seeds of all the apples he drops over a year.

Proclus of Rome: "We should first stop Malus from sending his trees to attack us."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "And the rot."

Lodewig of Tytalus:  waves a hand airily  "They're not going anywhere"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea indicates the trail of mushrooms, ignoring everything the GM has said about them.

Proclus of Rome: "If necessary, we could all stay here for as long as it takes to transcribe the research."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright, well, we just gotta wait about half a day and then well have one part of malus's third

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A year?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I would prefer not be confined here for months at a stretch

Archibald of Guernicus: "The covenant here has little regard for the regio, and it's plentiful in vis. We have the knowledge of how it works, a simple negotiation should be sufficient."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "teach the apprentice a spell to make plants pliant and let her copy what they have to say"

Proclus of Rome: I whisper to Lodewig.

Artemisia: i'm losing the gift this winter

Archibald of Guernicus: "They gain a useful resource and we gain vis - and perhaps the secret to growing our own."

Linum, a Flax Plant: Linum will just dictate his third, yeah.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "By which I mean my own apprentice. I had better check on her in a month or two"

Linum, a Flax Plant: this works like this apparently.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: have i found mandragora yet

Linum, a Flax Plant: Laboratory Texts for Hérisson’s own

Original Research can be found in

the garden. Each of his Hermetic creations

provides Breakthrough Points

equal to the magnitude of the effect

the experiment

Linum, a Flax Plant: once it has been studied by recreating

I didn't plan on including these.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, what else did we come here for?

Linum, a Flax Plant: But I'll write up lab texts after this.

Proclus of Rome: Why not?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: vis.

Linum, a Flax Plant: You can study the plants.

And also get stuff if you're immoral thieves.

Proclus of Rome: Can't wait to use the HERMETIC BREAKTHROUGH SYSTEM!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we are immoral thieves

Linum, a Flax Plant: HELL YEAH BUDDY

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think it counts as salvage

Archibald of Guernicus: Well we can get stuff by negotiating with the covenant here, anyway, since they aren't using the regio and we know how it works, which they don't.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: zita would have loved this...

Archibald of Guernicus: Stealing a plant is unsatisfying.

Proclus of Rome: Wouldn't they just say that they own this regio and then kick us out?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe they have a really good reason for only spending a short time in the regio

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we could kill them

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like, for example, the mandragora tries to kill them.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its unlikely anyone would find out until the next tribunal

Linum, a Flax Plant: You have a way better idea of most of the regio than the green-skinned men who only come in here to get a mandrake at the beginning of their apprenticeship.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: by which point all evidence should be gone

Linum, a Flax Plant: They only know the mandrake part.

Artemisia: let's tell them the other parts are even worse

Lodewig of Tytalus: We should have them marched for gross incuriosity

Artemisia: trees that try to kill you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's all thorns and poison.

a flax plant that speaks only lies

Proclus of Rome: Unfortunately they're part of a different Tribunal.

Artemisia: flax flowers spitting fluid at you

Linum, a Flax Plant: They might have some sort of deal with the mandrake.

Archibald of Guernicus: We could explain that it's dangerous but that resources can be gathered, and strike a deal for information in exchange for harvesting rights.

Linum, a Flax Plant: They're not very forthcoming.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a pleasaunce with a low AQ

Archibald of Guernicus: or, alternatively, we could stab them to death and claim self-defence

Linum, a Flax Plant: These are all things you could do.

Artemisia: let's try not committing crimes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyway.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: mal was looking for the mandrake boss and lodewig was going to talk to the apple tree

Lodewig of Tytalus: would it be helpful to know a magus who claims residence in the Rhine Tribunal?

Hypatia of Athens: Let's harvest the gluten from the field so we can feed it to samememe, who will go into anaphylaxis if he eats a gluten.

Proclus of Rome: In what way?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: aleseta...

Linum, a Flax Plant: "You won't be attacked by Malus' pals while you're with me, friends!"

linum rotates through his idle dialogue.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Right. They're way over there."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I mean I've been keeping a low profile the last few years, but this is my native country and I have been... active here of late"

Linum, a Flax Plant: does anyone go with Mal?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "can one claim to be a de facto covenant, and receive rights accordingly?"

I'll follow along sure

Archibald of Guernicus: Rolling code of hermes, thinking on rhine matters. Is it really per and not int for these rolls?

Artemisia: as much as i'd love to see malach get murdered by a mandrake, i'm staying here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its either at the gms discretion.

Linum, a Flax Plant: int seems like it could also work.

Hypatia of Athens: I get worried about my sodales and go and find Artemisia.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh wait is he going to the mandrakes. actually I'll pass

Proclus of Rome: "Archibald, you should make sure Malachiasz doesn't get into any trouble."

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's a pain to have to stuff your ears

Archibald of Guernicus: i have higher per than int

so if its either, rolling per

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im not going to be killed by mandrakes

theyre goddamn plants

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hes got like 30 mr

Artemisia: then what's the point of going

Linum, a Flax Plant: He does.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+11

(

10

)

+11

=

21

Well

Hypatia of Athens: Get higher Presence, negative Int, and Envied Beauty

Archibald of Guernicus: Do I know about the legality of this covenant and its rights

Artemisia: is envied beauty major?

Hypatia of Athens: Major, yeah

Linum, a Flax Plant: This covenant is legally established and in good standing in the Rhine Tribunal, although they do not vote at tribunals

Hypatia of Athens: And a General to boot, nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this is what the book says

The storyguide may also let you roll Perception when checking various Knowledges, to see if you have insight into a certain fact or concept.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll explain to Lodewig that this is in fact a real covenant, with a proper legal standing and full rigths

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they dont vote at tribunals, and theyre very reclusive

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it doesn't say you have to roll perception instead of int 100% of the time, but it says it's a valid option.

Archibald of Guernicus: brb

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if we killed these guys no one would know for a long time

Linum, a Flax Plant: I don't know enough about the Rhine Tribunal to say what its rights are in the roman tribunal.

Artemisia: i don't have a story flaw and i have one chance to rearrange my flaws

Proclus of Rome: Here's my plan: we take a break while we do some reasearch.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i think the thing to do is not take a story flaw at all or johns will cry

Artemisia: good idea

Linum, a Flax Plant: Malach raises a good point in that technically you probably could kill everyone and get away with it.

If you're really slick.

Artemisia: take a story flaw to make johns cry

Lodewig of Tytalus: I assume most of the team wouldn't be down with that

Artemisia: for abandoning us

Linum, a Flax Plant: Probably not.

Lodewig of Tytalus: and I would hate to cause strife

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh yeah

Malachiasz of Tytalus: maybe not, but i just want to propose it as an option

Hypatia of Athens: Killing wizards in front of a Guernicus, nice idea.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was counting on dfd to introduce my animal companion, but it can wait

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its important to know when murder is a legitimate option

should other plans not work out

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i was going to invent a rean spell anyway

so maybe the adventure after i do that

Linum, a Flax Plant: I'm sorry. I was going to do it near the end since there are no animals in this forest.

This regio. The teutoburg forest is loaded with them.

Proclus of Rome: Ok, so who is going with Malachiasz to make sure he doesn't kill Mandragora?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I suppose I will

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i do not intend to kill mandragora

only threaten it because its probably hostile

Archibald of Guernicus: I will, I was just explaining the legality of this place to Lodewig on the walk over

Linum, a Flax Plant: Nice.

Proclus of Rome: I'll go talk to Malus.

Artemisia: since i have the least MR of everyone around, i'll stay away from mandragora

Lodewig of Tytalus: I was only idly wondering anyway, I don't think realistically I can claim any influence in this tribunal

Archibald of Guernicus: Though if he has contacts in the Rhine, that could make arranging a system with the green wizards more doable

Hypatia of Athens: I go somewhere where I won't hear the Mandragora when it's uprooted

Malachiasz of Tytalus: would turning your arm into stone hurt you

Artemisia: i'll go with hypatia

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could also make our way to the pleasaunce, to sleep, since it's now night.

Lodewig of Tytalus: if I did I would probably need to represent it in virtue or ability form

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wonder if you could make some stone fists for yourself

Lodewig of Tytalus: at best I have a negative reputation

Hypatia of Athens: I don't want to die when the mandragora does the Loud Nigra sound with 40 Herbam penetration

Linum, a Flax Plant: lmao.

mandragora does not have that much penetration.

i promise.

Artemisia: it has 39

Proclus of Rome: :)

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it has 69. lol

Hypatia of Athens: lol

Artemisia: 69 is no longer funny

Malachiasz of Tytalus: why

whats happened to 69

Artemisia: your fault for not keeping up with the webcomic thread

Malachiasz of Tytalus: gah!

did jeffrey jacques do a 69 joke

Artemisia: even worse

Linum, a Flax Plant: enlough.

Proclus of Rome: AFK a second.

Linum, a Flax Plant: webcomics did not exist in 1339.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: but perhaps they should have

Artemisia: https://twitter.com/ErikaMoen/status/924025024251535361

Archibald of Guernicus: Webcomics now exist in 1339

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no

no!

Linum, a Flax Plant: are you going to sleep or trying to meet the apple or trying to meet the mandrake first.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright, lets fine the moen family and ensure no tragedies come to pass in the ars timeline

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try and stop Malach from dying, or screwing up the regio by killing one of the denizens

Artemisia: ferris would have made some webcomics if he was still alive

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: :pepe:

Hypatia of Athens: Tapestry comics

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ferris would have loved this

Linum, a Flax Plant: Ok. Let's do mandrakes first.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok!

what do they think about webcomics?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the ghosts of aristocritus and ferris stand before us, but we only have one ghost-binding vessel prepared

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats the webcomic quality of this area

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its about a sluggy freelance

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets use it on aristide

Artemisia: do we still have aristocritus' head?

aristide was recovered by the tremere, i believe

Malachiasz of Tytalus: aristocritus's head is the ghsot-binding vessel

Proclus of Rome: Don't you mean... Saint Aristide?

Archibald of Guernicus: The Tremere recover the corpses of their own, even Aristide.

Artemisia: not yet

Archibald of Guernicus: dont saints need 3 miracles?

Artemisia: i'll be chatting with linum while everyone is budy

busy

Archibald of Guernicus: if we finish 1339, thatll be the first one

[audience laughs]

Let's just fucking kill johns

Linum, a Flax Plant: Whoever is here put their tokens near Mal and Proclus.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Hope everyone is looking to my adventure in 1340, which will take the remainder of the year to copmlete

* looking forward

Artemisia: miracle 1) everyone not killing aristide for what he did in the viking village. miracle 2) everyone not killing aristide for what he did at potestas miracle 3) everyone not killing aristide for being born

Hypatia of Athens: Archibald looks like he's hiding in the grass

Linum, a Flax Plant: You enter a curiously similar map.

To the previous tree encounter.

Whoops.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm with Malach and Lodewig and we're going to the mandragora

Lodewig of Tytalus: sounds good

Linum, a Flax Plant: There are more olive trees.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm with alpaca and the ball and we're going to the mandragora

Linum, a Flax Plant: a tangle of yellow and red tendrils lies in the grass and is twined around plants. It has clusters of pale pink, bell-like flowers.

Hypatia of Athens and nuns march in, ears plugged with weeds

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dont say things like that cthinker or ill have to kill you

Proclus of Rome: Zap!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "What is that?"

Archibald of Guernicus: You are standing in bed. You see alpaca. You see the ball. You see animals. Exits are nowhere.

Proclus of Rome: Plant lightning.

Artemisia: i'll recount my marital problems to linum while everyone is away. it's nice to meet someone helpful once in a while

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Archibald of Guernicus: You are standing in bed. You see alpaca. You see the ball. You see animals. Exits are nowhere.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: stop

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d100

(

30

)

=

30

You are cold and hungry.

Artemisia: that's not even the most depraved thing i've seen an alpaca do

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia of Athens Initiative: 34

An olive tree: extremely poorly drawn tendril like weeds

afk for a second.

An olive tree Initiative: 69

An olive tree Initiative: 86

Dodder Initiative: 87

An olive tree Initiative: 87

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The alpaca tucks! The alpaca tucks! The alpaca tucks!!! --more--

Archibald of Guernicus: Dodder

An olive tree: Mandragora, a Mandrake Initiative: 57

Lodewig of Tytalus: yikes

are we doing a combat in two zones at once

or there's just olive trees here

Artemisia: PeIm the mandragora

An olive tree: there are olive trees here.

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald of Guernicus Initiative: 92

An olive tree: The only place the olive trees won't go is immediately surrounding Linum.

brb though, i never left. sorry.

Hypatia of Athens: I have room for one person to be guarded in this group

Lodewig of Tytalus: Lodewig of Tytalus Initiative: 60

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lol

well

mandragora might get hurt

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll opt not to hide behind any nuns

perhaps overconfidently

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "For fuck's sake."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I grasp my daisy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me too

Archibald of Guernicus: I have also got a daisy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Out of the damned way or I'll turn you into firewood."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Mandrake! We've come to take over your garden! You cool?"

Hypatia of Athens: What do the daisies do?

Do I need one?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they let us talk to plants

Artemisia: they let you talk to flowers

Hypatia of Athens: Oh

Lodewig of Tytalus: without getting your hands dirty

oh is it just flowers?

Hypatia of Athens: Okay I'm just guarding wizards

Artemisia: plants, probably

but i'm only interested in flowers

Mandragora, a Mandrake: The daisy lets you talk to any plant in the garden, provided it penetrates the plant's MR.

Let me see.

If it penetrates Mandragora's.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm surprised you don't already speak the language of flowers

Hypatia of Athens: I can use a miracle to communicate with magic plants if needed

Archibald of Guernicus: Only gulielmus does

Artemisia talks to Linum about whether stars are god's daisy chain.

Hypatia of Athens: I guess that doesn't work if plants don't normally talk

Proclus of Rome: Holy Magic needs to penetrate MR.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh shit the boss plants have MR

Archibald of Guernicus: What's your holy penetration skill?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: talking to plants is probably really good for an apothecary actually.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I guess I couldn't have mind tricked Linum

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Coincidentally, the daisy exactly penetrates Mandragora's MR.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i should just use all these potions off screen.

Hypatia of Athens: It's not InHe so it doesn't work on stuff that doesn't already talk anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you put enough penetration behind an inhe effect you can talk to the spirit that lives inside an object, instead of the object itself.

don't think too hard about this.

Hypatia of Athens: At that point you can't extend your MR over the auditory species you're spitting out

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Some plants have MR. Linum is obsequious and subservient to humans though and would intentionally drop it for you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: because it doesn't make any god damn sense.

Lodewig of Tytalus: good save

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is mandragora within uhhh

voice range

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm up first, anyway

Mandragora, a Mandrake: if you shout? yes.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

all i need to know

Hypatia of Athens: What chapter has the paces of Voice?

Artemisia: hemetic magic

Archibald of Guernicus: I use FFM to make crystal dart sight range to shoot the mandragora, if its outside voice for me. It's not though, so, voice.

Hypatia of Athens: TY

Proclus of Rome: The one with the spells.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: im not sure, but its 15 paces firmly spoken and 50 shouting.

Artemisia: that's a different chapter

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+34

(

10

+

6

)

+34

=

50

Artemisia: the chapter with spells is spells

Mandragora, a Mandrake: lmfao.

Archibald of Guernicus: Wow! That's like 50 penetration

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Archibald of Guernicus: damage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's on page 83

Mandragora, a Mandrake: lmfao.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

2

)

+10

=

12

Mandragora, a Mandrake: this is exactly what i hoped would happen.

Mandragora is instantly blown apart and killed.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm

Artemisia: time for mandragora's exploding soak roll

Lodewig of Tytalus: why were we in combat rounds again

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: voice range is 0 / 5 / 15 / 50

Hypatia of Athens: I know it's not our turn but since things go off simultaneously I want to move the melee line to intercept the first tree trying to engage the ranged magi

Archibald of Guernicus: Does it just have no soak at all

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: with 15 as the default

Archibald of Guernicus: because it was apparently attacking us, according to the GM

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i feel like the mandragora is probably essential to the functioning of the garden.

Archibald of Guernicus: who moved to the combat system immediately

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It has 2 soak.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: besides having 1/3 of the research.

Archibald of Guernicus: it rolls soak

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Aha.

Lodewig of Tytalus: opk but it gets d10

Mandragora, a Mandrake:

rolling 1d10+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It still dies instantly.

Because it dies at 5+ damage.

Artemisia: good job archibald!

Lodewig of Tytalus: had we sensed any hostile intent here

Hypatia of Athens: It's a mandragora

They scream and you die

Lodewig of Tytalus sucks air between his teeth

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god.

Archibald of Guernicus:  presumably  the GM didnt just switch to the combat system to be coy and trick us, in a metagaming way

Hypatia of Athens: Their existence is a hostile intent

Mandragora, a Mandrake: You had been told mandragora was a real pill and there were trees and a mysterious ivy about to attack you.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Killing one of the magical creatures that holds up this covenant's regio?"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: well, let's resolve the turn.

I shouldn't reveal what happens right away. lesson learned.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the spirit of aristide has found a new host

Proclus of Rome: Too bad this isn't Exalted and we can't feel Waves of Killing Intent.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Indeed, the progenitor of the plants essential to the local magical tradition?"

"not a great look, quaesitor"

Hypatia of Athens: Mandragoras aren't exactly an uncommon myth

Archibald of Guernicus: The plants are slow as shit and nowhere near us, if you're starting combat that implies something is actually happening

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is the pi.nkish flower thing in the center of the tendrils the thing causing them

Lodewig of Tytalus: "But don't worry, you're among friends"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: In Ars Magica, you can use any skill or ability in the combat screen. Also something is happening.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not firing a spell at it from 5000 miles away for fun or anything

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I just forgot to do simultaneous resolution!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fortunately gulielmus wasn't present

Mandragora, a Mandrake: So the mandrake still technically gets a turn.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or he would blind archibald.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: As does everyone.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone can try to fast cast something to disrupt his spell, or tackle him

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is it my turn yet

Lodewig of Tytalus: wait is simultaneous resolution actually a rule now?

Hypatia of Athens: I won't engage anything unless it threatens the glass cannons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: like we did with prudenzio

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It's BEEN a rule.

Lodewig of Tytalus: then d100 turn order makes sense

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Sorry.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: when he was destroying the carvings

Artemisia: simultaneous resolution makes the combat system absolutely insane

Archibald of Guernicus: Hang on, hang on.

Is this thing even attacking us

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm just saying. the entire adventure can be salvaged if someone attacks archibald

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It does, Artemisia.

Lodewig of Tytalus: (although for simultaneous resolution to work you also need to declare actions blind)

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not shooting it if its not actually attacking us, lol

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Yes, I'll spoil it and say the Mandragora has a one hundred percent chance to attack you.

Archibald of Guernicus: You can't just enter combat when we walk up to something!!!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the way johns does it is everyone rolls for their spells and stuff, and then there's a phase where all the damage and penetration is figured out

Lodewig of Tytalus: sounds neat

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Since it is extremely hostile at first.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it wasn't what appeared to happen in the last combat

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I forgot to do that part.

Archibald of Guernicus: What did it even do

Proclus of Rome: SO what you're saying is that we should kill Archibald instantly.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Since johns wasn't here to remind me.

Proclus of Rome: Makes sense.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyway someone please interrupt the crystal dart. please.

Archibald of Guernicus: Right, so, it didn't attack us, at all, so there's no crystal dart

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I didn't say its turn yet!!!!

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay. It's not even my turn so I didn't take a turn. Makes sense.

Lodewig of Tytalus: relax, what's happening?

Mandragora, a Mandrake: everyone says their turn and then we resolve it. i was just an excitable retard who spoiled the results of your dart.

Proclus of Rome: Archibald is going on an insane murder spree.

Archibald of Guernicus: The GM is turning on combat mode and switching to it to imply we're under attack

Mandragora, a Mandrake: i started it by saying you were being attacked by more plants. it's a natural response.

Lodewig of Tytalus: alright, I'm ambling along discussing hypothetical law

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Okay.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not attacking it for metagame reasons, say what it does before I decide what I do

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Okay.

The two trees move up.

They are swinging

And doing the windmill routine.

Proclus of Rome: How fast do these trees move exactly?

Mandragora, a Mandrake: The Dodder, the as yet unmet or mentioned plant, will move up and sprout multiple limbs. it is a pile of thin wormlike vines in the suggestion of a man's shape.

they moved 5 paces.

wait, shit, we have combat movement houserules, don't we.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's probable

Artemisia: we do

Movement:

5 Grids or 15 feet / turn

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Good.

Artemisia: which is probably 5 paces

Mandragora, a Mandrake: The trees moved 5 grids and they can move as fast as a person.

Proclus of Rome: Seems like giant trees should move more slowly.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Whew.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's pretty fast

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It does seem like that.

These must be faster trees.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: FREEING THE STRIDING TREE R: Voice, D: Conc, T: Ind Like Lord of the Trees, above, but the tree can walk half as fast as a human can.

Hypatia of Athens: THey shoud

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Oh shit.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if the book or the gm says they're faster then they're faster trees.

Hypatia of Athens: But Magic Things can overcome their flaws

Lodewig of Tytalus: are they still olive trees?

Mandragora, a Mandrake: they are.

Hypatia of Athens: Or, rather, they have other flaws instead of mobility flaws

Lodewig of Tytalus: this has crazy implications

Proclus of Rome: Fortunately that neatly divides into 7.5 feet per turn.

Lodewig of Tytalus: now this is the spell that I want to research

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Amazing.

Hypatia of Athens: There's a low mobility flaw in RoP Magic

Proclus of Rome: Severin has that spell researched.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: The trees move fewer squares.

After all.

Proclus of Rome: If you want it he'll give it to you.

He still owes us 3 spells.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are they in the library

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh neat

Mandragora, a Mandrake: t

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they should be, at least until we exhaust the supply

Lodewig of Tytalus: he's a magus after my own heart iirc

Proclus of Rome: The Carnivorous House is better IMO.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: please sort the turn order

Proclus of Rome: He's a Rego Herbam specialist.

Hypatia of Athens: Carnivorous House MTMFW

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so i know when i get to declare my pit

Dodder:  Sprouts more limbs

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i said sort

oh wait

it is

ok

Hypatia of Athens: This is a pretty intense Family Guy theme instrumental.

Dodder: I just did.

sorry.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, if angry trees are advancing on us I'm declaring my intent to non-lethally transform the nearest one

Dodder: EVEN THOUGH SHES LATER

I will announce the mandrake's turn.

as well.

because it's simultaneous resolution

Hypatia of Athens: What are the magi hoping to achieve here other than murder / talk to a mandragora?

Lodewig of Tytalus: shovel knight ftw

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't know

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nothing shaun

Lodewig of Tytalus: I just want to disable the immediate threats

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: I followed malach here to stop him getting in trouble

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the mandragora has 1/3 of heindrichsen's research.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we want to interrogate it for research

Hypatia of Athens: I don't need to kill any plants then

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and then probably kill it

if we dont need it alive

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Mandragora shouts a Hex.

Hypatia of Athens: "Stand down sisters, there is nothing left here to accomplish."

Mandragora, a Mandrake: at

Archibald of Guernicus: "Is there any reason whatsoever to even move up here?"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: hold on, who shouted at it?

at first?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: me

Mandragora, a Mandrake: someone shouted a thread.

Archibald of Guernicus: Malach, obviously

Mandragora, a Mandrake: threat.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i shouted that i would turn them into firewood if they didnt geto ut of the way

Lodewig of Tytalus: "One day you must tell me where you picked up an order of battle nuns. I must say, I love it"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Okay.

Hypatia of Athens: "God helps those who help themselves."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Does he? Good man"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Malach, Mandragora shouts "Interferer! Murderer! When the next year comes, your body will weaken, your skill will yellow, your mind slow, and your bile become sanguine!"

rolling to a 30 hex total.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats that mean

Mandragora, a Mandrake:

rolling 1d10!+24

(

7

)

+24

=

31

It means that a year from now you get malaria.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whats the penetration on this garbage

Lodewig of Tytalus: someone roll medicine to determine how bad sanguine bile would be

Archibald of Guernicus: Lavinia!

Mandragora, a Mandrake: are supernatural abilities affected by penetration? you might just shrug it off.

14.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it needs to have the penetration ability

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm p sure the penetration of a supernatural ability is just the ability roll

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Mandragora has penetration, the ability.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: otherwise it cannot penetrate my parma

Mandragora, a Mandrake: but hex is also an ability.

Lodewig of Tytalus: possibly plus penetration

Mandragora, a Mandrake: its a supernatural ability.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: no i found this out for my adventure

Lodewig of Tytalus: ohh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: quick, someone fetch gulielmus to explain the implications of sanguine bile

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if it has no penetration ability its got no penetration

Lodewig of Tytalus: how do you calculate the penetration total?

Mandragora, a Mandrake: mandragora has a penetration ability.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: itd be as normal for spells i believe

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay so it's utterly harmless to any wizard more than a season out of apprenticeship. Let's just leave here.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: 9 ability plus 3 puissant penetration plus 2 specialization (screams) based on houserules.

Hypatia of Athens: Is this a power from a Superior Quality?

Or a Supernatural Aiblity?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i have 20 mr minimum

40 vs terram

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Nice.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we have to talk to it for its research

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It's a supernatural ability.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that doesn't help. how do you determine the level of an effect from a supernatural ability

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It can hex.

It's got a skill level.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay the nuns have malaria

Mandragora, a Mandrake: And you have to roll.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if it rolls then its like rolling a spellcast i think

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I don't know, let me see.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: if theres no roll then it should say ont he ability

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok so ability roll + penetration score = penetration total?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they dont shaun

Mandragora, a Mandrake: A potential victim can avoid the

effects of a hex by seeking out supernatural

protection of some sort, usually from

the Divine. If a character receives absolution

in a religious ceremony, all hexes

that have targeted him are permanently

Mandragora, a Mandrake: with other supernatural effects, such as a

undone. Characters can also remove hexes

Perdo Vim spell, a faerie blessing, or a

holy miracle. Treat the hex as having a

spell level equal to the number of botch

dice it approximates multiplied by 10, so

Mandragora, a Mandrake: that a serious hex is a level 20 effect, and

a critical hex is level 40.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its using this on me only

Proclus of Rome: Supernatural abilities on creatures with might penetrate at Might-Power Cost + Penetration.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: this was effectively level 30.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Powers are not Abilities

Archibald of Guernicus: Powers as arts

Proclus of Rome: Well then hell if I know.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i think we can say it doesnt penetrate my mr

Archibald of Guernicus: . o O ( if id just killed this thing this would have saved us all this trouble )

Mandragora, a Mandrake: this is apparently from rop: infernal and its something i noticed was on mandragora's ability list one hour before the game.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: so I figured i'd throw it in.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok yeah if its from infernal then its just like a spellcast

amount over on the roll + pen

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i am going afk.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus goes to hang out at the pleasaunce

Lodewig of Tytalus: In all sincerity, I've wondered how to calculate the penetration total from supernatural abilities for like 4 years probably

Malachiasz of Tytalus: as far as i was able to determine

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: while everyone else runs around smashing the pillars that hold the regio up

Malachiasz of Tytalus: it seems a bit difficult to figure out

Archibald of Guernicus: It was 1 over the EF I think

Malachiasz of Tytalus: at the very least you can safely know that it has no pen without the pen ability

Archibald of Guernicus: So it has 14? Pen

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Mandragora has 14 pen and rolled a 31.

Proclus of Rome: Here's my plan: we break here and then we e-mail Atlas Games.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It does seem hard to figure out.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we break here and then we break dfd

is it my turn yet

did lodewig go

Mandragora, a Mandrake: A lot of this adventure's encounters seem to be about smashing the rules up.

and being mad at them.

because it just goes hey, give this a shot, hehe.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh we're doing turns ok

Archibald of Guernicus: "Are ye satisfied? Why are ye taunting the thing?"

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+41)/2 muto herbam

(

(

3

)

+41)/2

=

22

Mandragora, a Mandrake: everyone can go now, comfortably set knowing the plants are attacking them.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I'm not taunting it. I'm in pain and angry and I just want this damn research."

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok the northernmost tree is a bulrush

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ok

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean I think we could just walk away.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i cast pit of the gaping earth under the dodder

Lodewig of Tytalus: for Diameter

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+47

(

7

)

+47

=

54

a pit forms under the dodder

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Nice.

You could probably just walk away yes.

How big of a pit?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: its 6 paces across and 9 feet deep

Hypatia of Athens: I think I'll walk away and figure out what to do about the nuns's malaria

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they dont have malaria!

that hex was targeted at me only!

Hypatia of Athens: Ok

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Also you would only develop malaria in a year.

And there are ways to defeat hexes.

Lodewig of Tytalus: because this game is set prior to 2004, I identify the dodder as a member of the family cuscutaceae, instead of classing it with the morning glories under convolvulaceae

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's not gonna give up any bloody research, and fighting it won't give us a thing. Let's just leave this place."

Proclus of Rome: Smart.

Lodewig.

Not Archibald, obviously.

Artemisia: archibald too

Lodewig of Tytalus: actually, sorry, taxonomy hasn't been invented and I wouldn't have heard of it

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "Yeah, leave, you murderers! Rapists, even!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Malach, just what have you been doing to the plants?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "what are you talking about? We're just here to talk about Hérisson"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Nothing! I ate some turnips and apples!"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "More like steal his stuff!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Other than that I've only taken soil samples!"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "And beat up poor Malus' trees!"

Proclus of Rome: Man everyone but me ends up being a rapist.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "I've got good fungus in that dirt."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Sure, we're collecting his work, just as he desired"

"what's your problem with it?"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: That's a really good question.

Dodder: On the next turn, the dodder clambers up the walls of the pit.

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristocritus died before he raped anyone, iirc.

Lodewig of Tytalus: On the next turn, I turn it into a thistle

Malachiasz of Tytalus: did it take any fall damage

Dodder: it is at the top of the pit and moving aggressively.

ok

Archibald of Guernicus: "We're here tae continue Herisson's research! The man's been dead for centuries, there's nothing tae guard anymore."

Dodder: what is your pen

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+41)/2 muto herbam

(

(

4

)

+41)/2

=

22.5

Dodder: it does not take the fall damage

Lodewig of Tytalus: my pen is...

9

Dodder: wait how much is the fall damage. give me a second.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well 10 if you round up

Dodder: It does not turn into a thistle.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont know what fall damage is

thats your job!

Dodder: i know.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's a troupe job

Hypatia of Athens: Sorry but teh McDonalds guy doesn't quite believe you about your sodales being rapists

Lodewig of Tytalus: how deep are your pits

Proclus of Rome: Heh.

Lodewig of Tytalus: sorry, wrong tab

Dodder: its 9 feet deep

im looking it up. im sorry.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you dont know the meaning of sorry. not yet

Archibald of Guernicus: DId you really never check the damage on your character's entire gimmick, a single damage spell

Hypatia of Athens: Fall damage is at the end of Obstacles IIRC

Archibald of Guernicus throws up hands and walks away

Hypatia of Athens: But some Muto / Rego spells list it directly

Dodder: +1 per two feet.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ya

call it +5

Dodder: Yeah.

Ok.

It takes no fall damage, via Soak.

unless you roll.

Artemisia: it's rolled

Dodder: Good luck.

Lodewig of Tytalus: you do roll, for damage and for soak

Dodder: Why didn't you roll fall damage, if you knew how it worked.

Hypatia of Athens: You can botch soak vs magic

Lodewig of Tytalus: this applies to all instance of damage except combat damage

Hypatia of Athens: or vs environment

Dodder: huh mal?!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+5

(

6

)

+5

=

11

Artemisia: you can botch damage

Proclus of Rome: I believe it is on the GM to roll falling damage.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i didnt know how it works

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm a gm.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and i dont know why youd roll soak against it

its not spell damage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: troupe gameplay.

Proclus of Rome: It's damage.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it';s on the GM to roll soak for his monster

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah but you dont roll soak against weapon daamge

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: you roll soak against everything that isn't a sword or an arrow.

Proclus of Rome: You roll soak against all damage that doesn't specifically exclude soak.

Artemisia: it is spell damage because it works the same

Dodder:

rolling 1d10+5

(

3

)

+5

=

8

ok.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so you rol lsoak against weapons now?

Dodder: it takes no falling damage.

Hypatia of Athens: Weapon damage isn't rolled because there's already attack advantage

Archibald of Guernicus: no, because as we keep saying, you dont roll against weapons

Malachiasz of Tytalus: whys it take no damage

Archibald of Guernicus: thats the one thing you dont roll against

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the fall damage was 3 over!

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think we're all on the same page

Dodder: because it has 13 soak.

Lodewig of Tytalus: who still needs to go this turn

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im screaming

thats it

im casting dart

Hypatia of Athens: You roll 13+d10

Archibald of Guernicus: I just want to walk away from this because I can't see any reason to attack these things

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what did you pit, anyway

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+27

(

8

)

+27

=

35

the dodder

Lodewig of Tytalus: Well why did we come here then

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well now it's in a pit.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: magic dart is level 10

Hypatia of Athens: I'm leaving

Archibald of Guernicus: Malach ran over here like an idiot and now he's demanding to fight them like an idiot

Proclus of Rome: Well, you could defeat Madragosa's escorts and then talk to her.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: pen is 31

do i penetrate it

Dodder: The trees and mandragora stopped attacking you last turn. She is just talking shit.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im not demanding to fight them

they were already here

Dodder: The dodder is moving towards you.

You do penetrate.

Lodewig of Tytalus: in fairness if we defeat all its guards, the mandrake might be more cooperative

Malachiasz of Tytalus: do i penetrate its resistance

ok

Artemisia: let's go back home and never speak of this place again

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+10

(

8

)

+10

=

18

Archibald of Guernicus: We can just incapacitate the guards

Malachiasz of Tytalus: roll soak

Dodder:

rolling 1d10+13

(

1

)

+13

=

14

Malachiasz of Tytalus: confirm botch

Dodder:

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

Malachiasz of Tytalus: 4 damage

Dodder: Light wound.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im winning

Proclus of Rome: I really don't like how difficult it is to botch.

Dodder: Me too.

Proclus of Rome: In Pendragon you have a 1 in 20 chance to Fumble.

Lodewig of Tytalus: the GM can always apply more botch dic3e

Archibald of Guernicus: I like it because botches are stupid shit, frankly.

Lodewig of Tytalus: the rules for botching with spellcasting and lab risk are pretty solid

it should be rare in routine situations

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Anyway

I have nothing that can just harmlessly incap this thing

Artemisia: just walk away

Lodewig of Tytalus: both olive trees are incapacitated yes?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we need to talk to it to get the research!

Hypatia of Athens: Hitting a tree with maces is a bad idea

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lodewig, perhaps if ye turn the dodder intae a harmless plant, we can speak with the mandragora. Malach, stop launching spells at it."

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, eventually

Hypatia of Athens: So the nuns don't fight anything

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't think I can do that sadly

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Fine."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't even have any confidence points

I might be able to kill the dodder

Malachiasz of Tytalus: nevermind, not fine. ill kill the doder

is it turn 3 yet

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "You'll never beat the dodder! He only listens to me!"

hypatia and archibald.

they're just saying things?

Lodewig of Tytalus: hmm

Mandragora, a Mandrake: ok.

yes.

the dodder will attack again, then.

Hypatia of Athens: I'm going to intercept a tree if they charge the casters

Archibald of Guernicus: It's attacking at range?

Lodewig of Tytalus: can flexible formulaic magic turn a spell that alters a human mind into a spell that alters a plant mind, with otherwise identical effect and parameters?

Hypatia of Athens: But am on standby otherwise

Mandragora, a Mandrake: No, it moves up.

Proclus of Rome: That seems like it be be a Requisite.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast a spell on it actually. I use FFM to cover the dodder in flammable oil.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I guess it will just move.

Proclus of Rome: I don't know if you can use FFM to add a requisite.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+27

(

10

+

7

)

+27

=

44

That penetrates and casts

The dodder is now covered in flammable oil that penetrated it

Lodewig of Tytalus: neither do I, and I believe it needs a ruling

Malachiasz of Tytalus:

rolling 1d10!+27

(

8

)

+27

=

35

31 pen again

rolling 1d10!+10

(

3

)

+10

=

13

crystal dart

Lodewig of Tytalus: what spell are you ffming?

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Nice oil.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: roll soak, light wound penalty

Sister Aurelia: Okay

Malachiasz of Tytalus: go

go

Mandragora, a Mandrake:

rolling 1d10

(

3

)

=

3

Archibald of Guernicus: It's the spell footsteps of slippery oil. Archibald knows a variant that creates flammable oil instead.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: amazing.

Archibald of Guernicus: im going from touch to voice

ive done this a couple times to set people on fire

Malachiasz of Tytalus: thats another light wound

im winning

Mandragora, a Mandrake: it has a medium and a light wound.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh

nice

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok just standard creeping oil

Archibald of Guernicus: dont forget, it takes wounds to soak

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's a good un

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "Shit!"

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah, its a neat trick with FFM

Sister Aurelia:

rolling 13+5+2+d10!+3 Two attacks, +3 for ganging up bonus

13+5+2+

(

2

)

+3

=

25

Archibald of Guernicus: to set it alight i just use palm of flame, FFM-d to voice. ho ho ho

Lodewig of Tytalus: it gets another round to act in though

Archibald of Guernicus: two cheap little level 5 spells that can burn a group of people to death

Mandragora, a Mandrake:

rolling 1d10!+23 defense

(

3

)

+23

=

26

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: creating flammable oil is pure craq and doesn't have a requisite.

Archibald of Guernicus: i know

Sister Aurelia: Dodder defends

Mandragora, a Mandrake: that was dodders defense roll sorry.

Lodewig of Tytalus: of course

Archibald of Guernicus: That's its defence roll after wounds?

Sister Aurelia: It is now engaged in melee combat and must roll to disengage and get to the casters

Dodder: no. it hits.

Sister Aurelia: If it wants to not fight the nuns

Dodder: shit.

Archibald of Guernicus: Every ars enemy has +50 to defence rolls, I need to find some way to magically boost attack rolls

Sister Aurelia: Oh

Lodewig of Tytalus: make yourself invisible

Sister Aurelia: What's the attack advantage then after wounds?

Dodder: 5

Sister Aurelia: 11 damage, probably nothing after soak

Dodder: yeah. ok.

it makes a grapple attack.

rolling 1d10!+23

(

4

)

+23

=

27

vs aurelia.

wait.

21.

Dodder: i keep forgetting to apply the penalty to the roll, and apologize.

ok.

new round.

Sister Aurelia:

rolling 6+13+2+d10!

6+13+2+

(

6

)

=

27

Archibald of Guernicus: im going to be right back, but if its grappling grogs im not setting it on fire

Sister Aurelia: Nun defends

Dodder: I'm getting sick of running ars combats since i don't know the damn game well enough.

Successfully defends.

Sister Aurelia: It didn't grapple us

You ca nburn it

Archibald of Guernicus: Fine. Fine. I set it on fire.

Dodder: Great.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+28

(

8

)

+28

=

36

wowsers

its on fire

Dodder: it is.

Archibald of Guernicus: now brb

Malachiasz of Tytalus: is it fucking dead yet

Dodder: Amazing.

Sister Aurelia: Alright, we will disengage it now that it's on fire

Dodder: Just kite it around and it'll die. Sure.

Sister Aurelia:

rolling 6+13+2+d10!

6+13+2+

(

6

)

=

27

Use your attack total to prevent a disengage if you wish to

Hypatia of Athens: "Disengage, sisters! Do not give in to fury!"

Dodder: No, forget it. It's got enough penalties.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok FFM definitively can't change a spell's Form

Hypatia of Athens: No

Lodewig of Tytalus: but good job, it's sorted anyway

Proclus of Rome: Who has even been training nuns to fight?

Lodewig of Tytalus: isn't hypatia?

Proclus of Rome: Fucked up if true.

Hypatia of Athens: Grogs can learn martial abilities as they please.

We have a turb captain

Proclus of Rome: How are they going to live lives of solemn contemplation in service to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior?

"Sister" Aurelia: Okay, this should make things less confusing

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they're failed nuns.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Yield, mandrake. We can defeat any minions you send after us, but their deaths will be on your ha... it'll be your fault"

"Sister" Aurelia: Since mentioning they have the Failed Nun flaw doesn't seem to do anything

Proclus of Rome: Heh.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I'm very intimidated by not knowing the rules well enough and people complaining.

Lodewig of Tytalus: why are they cosplaying nuns if they're failed nuns

lol, you're doing good

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a good aesthetic.

Lodewig of Tytalus: we've had multiple fights in a single session

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "Alright, just one more thing."

Proclus of Rome: That means you should give me 4 to 5 confidence points.

"Sister" Aurelia: Yeah

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I'm trying to learn and I'm going too slow for beardbeard.

"Sister" Aurelia: They liike the aesethetic

Mandragora, a Mandrake screams

Archibald of Guernicus screams

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dont worry about going too slow for me

Mandragora, a Mandrake: does everyone have 14 or more MR.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i am a rude and violent man

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i do

i dont know about the nuns

"Sister" Aurelia: Also, Hypatia is in a heretical holy cult

Lodewig of Tytalus: vs what Form, to be clear

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Everyone with 14 or more MR, nothing happens.

Corpus.

Archibald of Guernicus: Which form? I do for every form, but its nice to check

"Sister" Aurelia: The nuns do not have 14 MR

The "nuns"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: rest in peace the nuns and bolad

Lodewig of Tytalus: don't forget you get +6 MR in a magic aura

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and derfel

Lodewig of Tytalus: unless your MR is divine in origin

Proclus of Rome: Bolad is talking to the covenanters in the Tuteborg Forest.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: theyre nuns lodewig

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: derfel is in italy.

Proclus of Rome: Oh, that's a good point.

The Mandrake should have +12 Penetration.

"Sister" Aurelia: Yeah, nun MR is relic

Archibald of Guernicus: Declare Bolad dead on principle for Johns deserting us

Lodewig of Tytalus: +6 I think, if it's a corpus effect

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Aha.

Proclus of Rome: True, true.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Good point.

Archibald of Guernicus: What form?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: mr goes up by 6

Lodewig of Tytalus: Corpus!

Malachiasz of Tytalus: from the magic aura

Archibald of Guernicus: It gets +12 to herbam, but +6 to corpus, so we're fine

Malachiasz of Tytalus: so for the magi its a net 0

Archibald of Guernicus: it has 6 more, we have 6 more

Proclus of Rome: Only if you have the Parma Magica.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Yes.

"Sister" Aurelia: If we kill the nuns we can end the confusion regarding them and Hypatia can be more public with her attempts to create a heretical holy cult

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the nuns are kill

Mandragora, a Mandrake: So the nuns drop dead instantly.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: does hypatia have more than 20 mr

Archibald of Guernicus: :pepe:

Malachiasz of Tytalus: because thats the pen now

"Sister" Aurelia: Bye nuns

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "Haha! Knew I still had it!"

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i dont think hypatia can be more public with her attempts now

because she died

Hypatia of Athens: Hypatia has 25 MR

Lodewig of Tytalus: Well let's just make certain

Malachiasz of Tytalus: damn

Mandragora, a Mandrake: She's strong.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: criminy

Malachiasz of Tytalus: one day well get her

Archibald of Guernicus: Ars Designer 1: lol what if i just gave this thing an instantkill

Ars Designer 2: [doesnt exist]

Ars Designer 1: alright im doing it lolol

Lodewig of Tytalus: What are the power's effects on those who don't resist it, storyteller?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: death

he just said the nuns died

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok cool

Proclus of Rome: Instantly killing someone is PRETTY easy and you did just go up against a mandrake.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets have gulielmus bravely rush into the scene just before this happens

Proclus of Rome: Everyone knows what mandrakes are all about.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: The power's effects on those who don't resist it is a level 50 base 30 +3 Sound +1 Animal req perdo effect

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think it's justified based on everything that's commonly known about mandrakes

Mandragora, a Mandrake: that instantly kills you.

you could have put clay in your ears or something.

Lodewig of Tytalus: getting that kind of pen on a level 50 effect isn't bad

Proclus of Rome: Please describe everyone dying.

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah but

Archibald of Guernicus: One thing about the penetration total though is I dont think its 20, because presumably the statblock is adjusted for the aura. Unless the designers are retarded. Well.

Artemisia: iirc, it was explicitly said the nuns had their ears plugged

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Oh!!!

Lodewig of Tytalus: my stance is, I'm very strong and don't need to take basic precautions

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I have an insanely bad memory and this is why I need SSDI.

Good way to trick the GM, also.

Artemisia: opening chat archive in chrome to confirm

Lodewig of Tytalus: statblocks are never usually adjusted for the aura

Mandragora, a Mandrake: If the nuns had their ears plugged nothing happens.

Obviously.

IF

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i wanna get fired so i can go to the hospital and get bennies

Artemisia: inum, a Flax Plant: a tangle of yellow and red tendrils lies in the grass and is twined around plants. It has clusters of pale pink, bell-like flowers.

Hypatia of Athens and nuns march in, ears plugged with weeds

Malachiasz of Tytalus: dont say things like that cthinker or ill have to kill you

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Well, that's weeds. You can probably still hear through those weeds.

Lemme see.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, they explicitly plugged their ears against the mandragora

Artemisia: it was when beardbeard was going insane about alpaca

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's funnier in light of hypatia screaming orders at her flunkies knowing full well she told them to stuff their ears

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Damn.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: presumably they used enough weeds to not hear anything

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Shit.

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

hypatia just yelling orders no-one could hear and theyre ignored

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Even if i reduce the range from shouting to speaking firmly it won't hit.

Archibald of Guernicus: is funny

Hypatia of Athens: They read my lips

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: The nuns stuffed their ears with deadly poison mushrooms.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: oh no, these are hearing enhancing weeds!

Mandragora, a Mandrake: They stuffed their ears with deadly nightshade.

It happens.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: rol on the table of deadly weeds to see how dead the nuns are

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d100

(

79

)

=

79

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I just don't think weeds are very good at blocking sound.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay

We could have had a back and forth on what material actually blocks sound

Mandragora, a Mandrake: But if it reduces sound ranges, instead of deafening them, Mandragora still misses.

Hypatia of Athens: But no one challenged me

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Let's do it.

Hypatia of Athens: So I assumed weeds were good enough

Malachiasz of Tytalus: lets declare the nuns are alive and move on

Archibald of Guernicus: That SEEMS like something the GM should bring up in advance before the nuns and a Player Character advance, so yeah.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: maybe they found some cotton

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and exit combat

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Archibald of Guernicus: That SEEMS like something the GM should bring up in advance before the nuns and a Player Character advance, so yeah.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It is, isn't it?

Hypatia of Athens: If you wanted to spend an hour arbitrating creating a sound dampener, yo ushould have

Mandragora, a Mandrake: by telling you a hundred times about a mandrake?

Archibald of Guernicus: If you missed it, 'tis not the players fault

Mandragora, a Mandrake: and an evil mandrake?

Archibald of Guernicus: No, he warded against the mandrake

and told you, is what i mean

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: remember earlier today, when three trees started beating a player character to death while everyone was arguing.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: That's true.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: i remember that because it was really funny

Proclus of Rome: Magi are really callous sometimes.

Archibald of Guernicus: so if his ward was shit you could have just said. you didnt, so we can only assume the ward is 'good enough'

Hypatia of Athens: THe nuns are grogs

Lodewig of Tytalus: it was one line in a busy chat, it's not shocking that we ended up in this situation

Malachiasz of Tytalus: for the love of god end the combat

Artemisia: they're cool grogs

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the nuns are alive

Artemisia: grogs are precious

Archibald of Guernicus: Ahem.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: the mandrake is useless

we win

for the love of god

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It's fine that it happens sometimes. The combat's been ended!

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, we won. Let's just move on.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets compromise and kill one nun

Malachiasz of Tytalus: turn off the combat music

Artemisia: or at least, end the combat music

Hypatia of Athens: I can generate two new names and make sure everyone actually knows what I'm doing instead of wondering where these women came from next time

Mandragora, a Mandrake: How about the nuns roll awareness and if they don't botch they fucking die.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's retarded!

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Ok.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: for the love of god montresor

Archibald of Guernicus: Sorry, that was rude.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: It's fine. The nuns don't have to die.

Fine.

Artemisia: everyone's going insane from the music

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: They shoul dhave to roll awareness against EF 6 and if they win they die.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: This guy's music is insane.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: im screaming and crying irl

Mandragora, a Mandrake: That's true Guli.

Hypatia of Athens:

rolling d10!

(

8

)

=

8

Archibald of Guernicus: But really, that's not a good use of ability rolls and we can just assume they warded themselves, because if you'd said weeds were bad, shaun would have gone around testing plants for ages to find ones that work

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Lodewig of Tytalus: ease factor 10, perhaps

Proclus of Rome: I am calm as a still lake.

"Sister" Aurelia:

rolling d10!

(

6

)

=

6

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Guli is a PC character who can basically identify all plants and their uses.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: stop! stop!

"Sister" Guzeppina:

rolling d10!

(

6

)

=

6

Lodewig of Tytalus: OR a straight characteristic check against EF6

possibly stamina

"Sister" Guzeppina: Just kill the damn nuns or don't

Artemisia: did beardbeard go gm to stop the music?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: kill the players

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I'm not killing them.

lmao.

Archibald of Guernicus: There's really no reason why Hypatia wouldn't have plugged her ears properly, IC, and even said she did, so let's just move on

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I said I'm not killing them.

Lodewig of Tytalus: ok, cool

"Well, is that it?"

Proclus of Rome: Insane to think that the GM just killed almost the entire covenant.

But what can you do?

Beardbeard: ive rescued us from a terrible fate

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Well, this is where you learn to remind the GM you covered your ears and have more than 20 MR.

I guess.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I have 10 MR.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: And I learn to not run this game.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: johns would have loved this

"Sister" Guzeppina: Ok

Lodewig of Tytalus: "We could kill you with a thought, little plant, and you've shown us all your tricks. Will you cooperate now?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, what is it?"

Proclus of Rome: Rest in peace Johns.

"Sister" Guzeppina: Next time I plug my ears I make sure the GM acknowledges it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the nuns do have malaria though.

Lodewig of Tytalus: or... do they have impending malaria?

Mandragora, a Mandrake: they don't.

Artemisia: the way to run ars is to prepare absolutely nothing and just let players' paranoia direct things

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the nuns will have malaria though.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: only malach would have gotten malaria in a year.

Lodewig of Tytalus: tbh this seems a lot like the way ars normally goes to me

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: criminy.

"Sister" Guzeppina: I mean not all sound damage works by being perceived anyway

Lodewig of Tytalus: I haven't played a lot lately ofc, but I'm having fun

Mandragora, a Mandrake: and he somehow resisted it because he bullshitted an explanation on how infernal supernatural abilities work and i don't know anything about that.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this plant is useless!

Lodewig of Tytalus: anyway I want to intimidate the mandrake

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: have God give malachiasz malaria anyway

malariachiasz

Artemisia: the one time when i ran ars, the players spent 30 minutes arguing about whether a tree being rigged to fall on them was a trap set by random antagonist from the past

Mandragora, a Mandrake: He just freakin might.

Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well, was it

Lodewig of Tytalus: and was it?

Artemisia: no

"Sister" Guzeppina: I would really not use Infernal abilities for Magic unless I was a PC from one of those Ex Misc orders who have Summoning

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we still have to resolve the wedding. lol.

Archibald of Guernicus screams

Artemisia: they get married. resolved

"Sister" Guzeppina: Summoning is explicitly able to do Magic and doesn't interact directly with the MR system

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "You must be strong wizards. Miss the social life?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Where the HELL is johns

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: purgatory

Artemisia: laughing

Lodewig of Tytalus: "what, of plants? Not particularly."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: is anything happening in the Pleasaunce

Mandragora, a Mandrake: you've been having a pleasaunt time.

ha ha ha.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ha.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Where's the damn research, mandrake?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Now listen here's how this is going to go. You're going to tell us and our servants everything you know about Hérisson's research, and not curse or assault anyone we send to interrogate you, and in return you won't be made to experience all the torments that a creature with such refinements as a mind and greater-than-vegetable wits can imagine"

"Sound good?"

GM: It's very relaxing and you can see Linum gesturing at you over the river from the pleasaunce to come over and hang with him.

Artemisia: i was hanging out with linum the entire time

Mandragora, a Mandrake: are you using entrancement?

it sort of has a face.

face shaped area.

Lodewig of Tytalus: No, I'm using verbal threats

we want to extract the knowledge from this thing at some point in the future

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "I can't promise to never curse or assault anyone. That's my whole deal."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Not very good at it."

Hypatia of Athens: I cancel the funeral for the nuns, who still come from nice families even fi they're convent diaspora.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: If i had given it 10 more quality levels of penetration it'd have been good at it.

But then a lot of people would be dead.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ytou should have

Proclus of Rome: Oh no.

How terrible.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Curse the rest of these shrubs ifyou want

Malachiasz of Tytalus: I walk up to the mandragora brandishing my shovel.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: I probably should have!

Lodewig of Tytalus: "just don't molest anyone who comes here in our company"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "What about those green guys who come in here? I have a deal with them. You're saying I can start killing them now?"

Hypatia of Athens: You missed your chance to kill Malachiasz and you missed your chance to kill the fake nuns

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I wave to Linum.

Archibald of Guernicus: There's ultimately nothing stopping you giving something 50 penetration on an instant kill effect that covers the entire battlefield, besides the fact that I'll make sure you pay for it on day.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Hmm. What's the terms of your agreement?"

Linum, a Flax Plant waves

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "Sure, you can kill them if it makes you happy."

Hypatia of Athens: The nuns will be real nuns as soon as someone runs a story where a heretic ordains Hypatia

Archibald of Guernicus: Linum is pretty moe.

Artemisia: linum is cool

Lodewig of Tytalus: "We might be able to renegotiate the existing covenant, if that's easier for you to understand"

Archibald of Guernicus: "No ye can't kill them, what the hell are ye saying Malach?"

Artemisia: i'd marry it if it wasn't against my religion

wait, i'm pagan

i do whatever i want

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "They only come in here once anyway."

Hypatia of Athens: Nice

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's invent a ReHe(Co) spell to give linum a human body.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "I gotta kill somebody!"

Proclus of Rome: You are married, Artemisia.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i mean MuHeCo.

Artemisia: it's pagan marriage

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I hear where you're coming from. What's your deal with the green guys. What do they offer you?"

Hypatia of Athens: That's as married as Jorn is

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "Uhh, that's private."

Artemisia:  in unreal tournament announcer voice  M-M-Multi Marriage

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "Well, it's not that private. They come in with blood and I give them a mandrake."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Well then you'll have to honour our deal as well as theirs. I'm sure it'll be uncomfortable for you. A shame you're too weak to kill any of us"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: after finishing his stroll through the pleasaunce gulielmus will wade back over the stream to hang out with the flax plant.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Whose blood, their own?"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "I didn't ask."

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they sent us here without any blood

what if they wanted us to die

Mandragora, a Mandrake: :ohh:

Artemisia: would you blame them?

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "With blood? They sent us here without any blood to offer."

Hypatia of Athens: I'll sing songs for a nice plant

Mandragora, a Mandrake: "Huh."

Hypatia of Athens: Let's convert the good plants to Christianity

Artemisia: fuck mandragora, marry linum, kill malus

Lodewig of Tytalus: "well I suppose you can start killing them. We'll get you some blood if that makes things go more smoothly"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Score!

Proclus of Rome: Plants can't be Christian because they are incapable of sin.

Artemisia: that's a very narrowminded view

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus asks Linum about the oldest plant in the Garden.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Alright, I rather think we're making good progress here sodales"

Proclus of Rome: Nevertheless it is correct.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: "I wonder if they expected us to die."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, we should discuss how we're going tae approach the magi of this covenant about the regio." I say quietly to Malach and Lodewig

Hypatia of Athens: Give the apple containing knowledge of good and evil a brain

Artemisia: ReHe a plant to put its roots into the apple containing knowledge of good and evil

Lodewig of Tytalus: "they invited us in here to die, I'm no longer concerned with their interests"

Hypatia of Athens: Does this mean Bolad is incapable of sin?

Lodewig of Tytalus: how are negotiations going with Malus?

Hypatia of Athens: As a man shaped thing of magic?

Proclus of Rome: He's fully mortal.

Lodewig of Tytalus: is that what he is?

Linum, a Flax Plant: "That's the old mistletoe in the forest! He's my friend. Anyone carrying the sprig of

mistletoe gains an intuitive understanding of

the forest in which the mistletoe grew. This

grants a +3 to all nature-related rolls when

the character is in the forest."

Proclus of Rome: He has a magic buddy who he can get to cast spells for him.

Hypatia of Athens: I guess he gets his magic from Tengri

Proclus of Rome: Don't you mean +5?

Linum, a Flax Plant: I do.

I copy-pasted.

Proclus of Rome: Well, I guess she hasn't heard about the Abilities as Arts change.

Lodewig of Tytalus: you don't have to

Linum, a Flax Plant: As you can see.

Hypatia of Athens: Channel the poewr of Tengu

Malachiasz of Tytalus: linum says the world +3 bonus to rolls out loud

words

Artemisia: in hir cute plant voice

Lodewig of Tytalus: when you do a roll, you roll three more times

Hypatia of Athens: Magic things can break hermetic limits and learn how rolls dictate effect

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's not definite at this point, but I'm suspicious. We should force the issue and make our position clear. We know how this place works better than they do, and they were happy to let it rot. We let their actions slide and share the vis in here with them, and gain access to the sources and secrets within."

Linum, a Flax Plant: he does, he says the game mechanics in dialogue like he's in MGS.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus asks linum if he can believe that the gm thinks mistletoe is a tree.

Mandragora, a Mandrake: The stuff with Malus will go easily now that you have intimidated Mandragora.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "they're idiot hedge wizards, they won't understand any of that or they'll take it wrong and want to shut it up like it's the holy of holies"

Mandragora, a Mandrake: Usually they attack together but the trees backed off when you punked the shit out of everyone.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "But seriously, Linum. What's the deal with these mushrooms?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have two hedge wizards with us here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's kill lodewig

Proclus of Rome: Uh I went to talk to Malus presumably at the same time this happened.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Plenty are reasonable. For instance, Gulielmus is."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "are they idiots?"

Linum, a Flax Plant: "I don't like talking about that stuff."

Proclus of Rome: How much longer should we go for today?

Since I don't think we're going to be able to finish everything today.

GM: well, that was what

three combat turns?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well, if they're there because we're damaging the garden we should know about it, so we can stop."

Artemisia: i'm about to die

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we should finish the adventure and collect our XP. All we have to do is leave and talk to the green men, and scare off Strabo.

GM: proclus would probably be in combat with trees for three turns before they stopped.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: you mean kill strabo

and gain glory

for killing a marched magus

Artemisia: i'm pretty sure the legends of hermes are supposed to be an adventure chain instead of one insanely long adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yes

Malachiasz of Tytalus: yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: stretched out over like 50 years

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh if he actually is the psycho bonisagus we should, 100%, slaughter him on sight.

Proclus of Rome: My plan is to surrender to Malus and request a parlay.

GM: This is meant to leave a lot of hooks around.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could just wrap this up for now and have strabo loom in the background for a later adventure.

Lodewig of Tytalus: deffo

Proclus of Rome: But we haven't really figured anything out.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: instead of actually dealing with him.

Lodewig of Tytalus: we know he's hiding out there so we can get out without a confrontation

GM: If you leave and go home, definitely, you have a lot of loot and will get xp

Lodewig of Tytalus: even if it's out of character

Artemisia: the most important part of legends of hermes is that (this effect not working) is a valid environmental trigger

Lodewig of Tytalus: actually tbh I'd like a confrontation and I don't have to get up early tomorrow

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's only 7 i guess.

Proclus of Rome: We still need to figure out how to get Herisson's research out of here and back to our lab.

Archibald of Guernicus: I never have to get up early, except when I do, and I don't, so I'm all for murder.

GM: That too.

Proclus of Rome: I have to leave soon.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well when Proclus is finished talking to the tree, the bad boys of negotiation can go talk to the green man group

Malachiasz of Tytalus: we should probably wrap up soon

for our friend proclus

GM: There's a lot of stuff that you could work out in the thread.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's wrap up Proclus in a body bag

Lodewig of Tytalus: just wrap up the tree deal and leave some time to regret how we focused on all the wrong things

GM: Well, I'm also a bad rookie GM. Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: where's the everburning tree

GM: Let's see if Proclus can fight four trees for three rounds.

Proclus of Rome: It's in the middle of the garden.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the middle of the garden is a pond

Proclus of Rome: I surrender immediately.

GM: okay, the trees do not kill you if you are a threat.

are not a threat.

Artemisia: one weird trick

GM: They just stand around Proclus for three rounds making aggressive motions while he cowers or lays down.

or something.

Proclus of Rome: I'll touch one of them with a daisy and say, "I surrender, please take me to Malus, so that I may parlay."

GM: And then walk away.

They do so.

Proclus of Rome: Sometimes all it takes is a little humility.

Malus, a Crab Apple: "You're much nicer than your friends."

Aurelia: Okay removing the title should work

Malus, a Crab Apple: "Even Linum knew, right away."

"Huh."

Aurelia: They're just hooded woman who live devout lives

Emulating certain aspects of knighthood

Artemisia: i have to get up reasonably early tomorrow, so i'll go now. if someone kills linum, tell me who it is so i can plot to murder them

good night

Malus, a Crab Apple: Good night.

Proclus of Rome: I touch him with the daisy, "I apologize for our behavior, we were not aware of the nature of this garden. The magi outside didn't know or wouldn't tell us."

Malus, a Crab Apple: Thank you for playing.

Proclus of Rome: "What can we do for you?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does linum say anything about the mushrooms after i ask nicely

Malus, a Crab Apple: "Well, I thought you all were trying to kill us."

Linum, a Flax Plant: "That's Mandragora's business. They creep me out!"

Malus, a Crab Apple: "You're not trying to kill us?"

Proclus of Rome: "Nothing could be further from the truth, we are only interested in preserving and propagating Herisson's research, as fellow magi of the Order of Hermes."

Malus, a Crab Apple: "Mandragora, my good friend, insists that everyone who comes in here is someone to be feared and avoided."

Aurelia: Malus is a pretty funny name for a fruit

Malus, a Crab Apple: "Why were your friends so violent?"

Proclus of Rome: "She may have been right. Until we came along, the others who came into the garden were only interested in plundering her mandrakes."

Aurelia: Latin for penalizing or harmful

Malus, a Crab Apple: "I'm still kind of on edge."

Proclus of Rome: "We didn't understand what you were trying to do and so we attacked."

Malus, a Crab Apple: "Hm... That makes sense."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's also latin for apple tree

Malus, a Crab Apple: "It's what I would do."

Proclus of Rome: "How can we atone for our earlier hostility?"

Malus, a Crab Apple: "Don't kill us."

Proclus of Rome: "That should be easy enough for me."

Aurelia: I guess investing in an apple orchard and getting shitty apples is a malus (investment that goes into the red)

Proclus of Rome: "If you will permit me, I will inform my sodales of your request immediately."

Lodewig of Tytalus: iirc the use of malus to mean penalty is an english neologism

Malus, a Crab Apple: "I was going to say, get the dodder to stop messing with my friend, he's such a bad influence."

Archibald of Guernicus: I have excellent news

Malus, a Crab Apple: "But I think he's already fertilizer, huh huh."

The trees all talk to each other.

News travels fast.

"You can go anytime you want."

Proclus of Rome: I mean, for trees.

"One more thing, will you permit us to harvest your apples? We seek Herisson's research and I am informed that a portion of it is inscribed on your seeds.

"

Malus, a Crab Apple: "Any that fall on the ground are yours."

Proclus of Rome: "Thank you."

Malus, a Crab Apple: You can send a grog in or something.

GM: Okay. The green guys have no idea what happened. Richard Strabo might still be out there disguised as ivy.

Proclus of Rome: We could try tricking him into coming into the regio.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should perform silent takedowns on all of them.

Proclus of Rome: And then drown him in the marsh.

Aurelia: It took several google results before malus = apple came up

GM: They are out there telling the members of your covenant that have remained outside that they are strongly reconsidering the invitation into their aegis and regio and are shocked and appalled at how long you're spending inside.

And that they wouldn't be surprised if they never came out.

I don't remember who is outside.

Archibald of Guernicus: :thinking:

Proclus of Rome: Hmm, could be a good idea.

Aurelia: Let's come back after we've done our labwork

Proclus of Rome: Let's do the showdown next week.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: no.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's threaten them with severe legal action for trying to sue us then make demands of them to get access to the regio. I'm pretty sure my vim MR can resist their aegis entirely.

Aurelia: no

Lodewig of Tytalus: johns will actually die

GM: I refuse to run a richard strabo fight.

Archibald of Guernicus: Johns NEEDS to die.

Proclus of Rome: What the heck???

Archibald of Guernicus: Why not

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we all do.

GM: It would be SO hard to find this guy.

You're gonna need to do it in another adventure.

Archibald of Guernicus: Strabo is weakened by the aegis of the hearth.

Lodewig of Tytalus: isn't he hiding in the ivy

GM: He is.

While disguised as a piece of ivy.

He could leave at any time.

Archibald of Guernicus: We know where he is, the aegis is screwing with him and we're like 5 on 1

He can leae if he wants though

hes your npc

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: Hell I'm not going to pretend to know what George thinks

GM: He's george costanza, he's going to run away and try to get the odds on his side.

thatrs what i think.

Lodewig of Tytalus: like, if you say he's decided to vanish then we can only go fair enough

Archibald of Guernicus: George, while walking home as a walking bush, realises he had the PERFECT comeback spell and starts trying to challenge us to a rematch

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we just have to talk to the green men.

Aurelia: Come back after someone can cast Inexorable Search

Lodewig of Tytalus: I guess we tell the green guys he's out there spying on em and they should guard the regio extra strong

not sure why they didn't expect us to poke around in there though

GM: Well, they're idiots in a mandrake cult.

Archibald of Guernicus: Like all hedge wizards, they are apparently incredibly, immensely stupid.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they didn't actually ask us not to.

they just said what they do

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh but it's offensive when I say it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I am going to poison Archibald.

Archibald of Guernicus: I only said not to say it out loud around the hedge magi we brought with us

GM: if you have ways to identify the guy when he's disguised as a vine you can probably kill him pretty fast.

Archibald of Guernicus: Though I suppose someone in a  societas  can't appreciate subtlety.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't see the point in dissembling

Proclus of Rome: Time to Certamen Archibald.

GM: he doesnt have arcadian travel or anything, he would just be running away as a vine after he sees you come out.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: its a vardians tomb tradition.

Archibald of Guernicus: I mean we could just Fucking Murder him.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 100% of the time the answer is to be honest and 100% of the time we lie.

Hypatia of Athens: Holy Music might be able to do it but I don't think I can penetrate his MR

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm fairly certain he's a marched bonisagus, though.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's try to find an AC to this guy

GM: it's a very good guess

Archibald of Guernicus: Which means it's totally legal to murder him, insanely

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: tell the quaesitores

in the rhein

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have no idea what Strabo is capable of and doubt I can penetrate his MR

GM: a lot of recent events imply that it's him

Hypatia of Athens: I can't target a person I can't sense anyway

Lodewig of Tytalus: if he's gone, there's not much we can do

Proclus of Rome: What's the deal with the mistletoe?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's a mistletoe of virtue.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well we have multiple people with very high casting totals on nice simple damage spells. It's risky but we can definitely kill him.

GM: it gives you an innate understanding of things in the forest and +5 to all forest lore rolls or whaetrver.

what gulielmus said.

Hypatia of Athens: Mistletoe is a disease so I don't think you can have Mistletoe of Virtue

Archibald of Guernicus: ALSO he's in the aegis and we're invited in

Proclus of Rome: Hmm...

GM: You can.

Lodewig of Tytalus: for real though we should enact that ritual that moves a regio entrance

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i bet it knows a lot of stuff about the garden, if you ask.

GM: I never said he actually was in the aegis. Lodewig saw him turn into ivy from very far away.

Archibald of Guernicus: We need to learn and translate the ritual first, I believe, if it's an ancient mercurian ritual.

GM: But he can penetrate the aegis.

As ivy, with that spell.

Proclus of Rome: Which ritual is that?

GM: So he could be there.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it will probably wither and die if not connected to a real-world forest but it would be preserving it from idiots and marched magi in the short term

Hypatia of Athens: If you can have Parasites of Virtue you can probably also have HIV of VIrtue

Lodewig of Tytalus: uh cumthinker linked it i think

Archibald of Guernicus: Hafl did, hang on

Proclus of Rome: Oh you mean the spell we haven't even translated and aren't sure will work?

Archibald of Guernicus: Penetrate the Regio Skin

Cr(Re)Vi 25

R: Touch, D: Momentary, T: Individual, Ritual

This ritual creates a new entrance through a Magic regio boundary.

They work, I was going to start translating them next year actually

GM: You can theoretically have just about anything Of Virtue as long as it can reproduce.

Proclus of Rome: You don't know that it works.

GM: You could have Gems of Virtue according to some lore.

Hypatia of Athens: Vermin don't reproduce

GM: There are male and female gems.

Hypatia of Athens: Not by fucking

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway, I can pull that off in 2 seasons of research, so we can actually make a new regio entrance here.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well if it does what it claims it's worth investigating

GM: Archibald thats really funny

can you close other regio entrances?

Archibald of Guernicus: Proclus can

GM: Sick.

Archibald of Guernicus: iirc

Proclus of Rome: I can, but I don't see why we should.

GM: Just steal it.

Proclus of Rome: The forest magi are harmless.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well it's something we can do if they threaten us or whatnot when we point out that they tried to kill us

which they pretty clearly did

Proclus of Rome: Hey, we're the ones who wanted to go into the regio.

Lodewig of Tytalus: they just assumed we were doing their obscure ritual

because they're pretty dim

GM: Yeah, they specifically said, you can go get a mandrake, and complained that theyve never taken this long to get a mandrake.

Proclus of Rome: I don't think the Code of Hermes covers damages from attractive nuisances.

Archibald of Guernicus: They knew the mandrake attacks if you dont bring in blood for it, though, so no matter who stupid they are, they put us in a deadly situation deliberatlely. Legally speaking.

Proclus of Rome: We're literally full of blood.

GM: There's that Archibald, always wanting to kill people.

Ho ho ho.

Proclus of Rome: This is just some scheme so you can legally justify killing more people, isn't it?

Lodewig of Tytalus: so you're saying we should charge them with attempted murder, have them marched, kill them and take their regio?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's on the other side of europe!

Hypatia of Athens: Sounds like you're trying to bypass Disputatio using OOC knowledge.

Lodewig of Tytalus: they can't be too popular with their tribunal, they're weirdoes

Proclus of Rome: I'm ashamed of you, Archibald.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's probably not even legal for a roman covenant to own magical property in the rhine.

Archibald of Guernicus: Do you have to drag Proclus' insanity into ooc, I'm sick of being yelled at for saving the covenant from an outright lunatic who wanted us dead.

GM: Yeah, they don't participate in their tribunal.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: they never vote at tribunal

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's valuable enough to be worth relocating frankly

Malachiasz of Tytalus: find another covenant in the area

Archibald of Guernicus: FYI johns messaged me and pretty much told me 'please march him'

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and get them to start a vote to dissolve the green man covenant and its claims

Proclus of Rome: lol

Malachiasz of Tytalus: tell them they can have the big garden regio

Proclus of Rome: I think he tells everyone to kill everyone else all the time.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: and we get to use it and learn from it

Archibald of Guernicus: He was right though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: has johns appealed to anyone to help kill gulielmus

Proclus of Rome: That's just, like, your opinion man.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway sorry but things are, as they say, falling apart IRL and I just want to relax and fight the GM instead of other players.

GM: Oh, also Tasso said that he wanted to know if you guys found anything related to Herisson. You promised he would get credit.

Hypatia of Athens: Guernicus are very good at arguing their opinion as fact, or at least, should be

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: fortunately he was probably murdered by strabo

Archibald of Guernicus: Sure, he was straight with us. We can warn him about Strabo too.

Hypatia of Athens: As are Tytalus

Archibald of Guernicus: A lot of the code was written by Tytalus, essentially

because he kept looking for funny loopholes just to trip it up

and a lot of it exists as it does to stop the abuses he found

The greatest man the order has ever seen. Let's abandon this adventure and do the Legends of Hermes adventure about going ot Bohemia to rescue Tytalus, which surely exists.

GM: lol.

Proclus of Rome: Anyway are we done for today?

Lodewig of Tytalus: we can wrap up loose ends in the thread, surely

Hypatia of Athens: Yeah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: either we need to talk to the green guys or the gm has to gloss over the green guys in the thread, i think.

GM: Yeah.

Proclus of Rome: Alright, cool.

Hypatia of Athens: Let's get our XP

GM: I can gloss over it in the thread.

Proclus of Rome: See you all next week.

Hypatia of Athens: Okay, Jorn's retiring now

GM: Remind me what you try to smuggle out as well.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also how much time do we have in the season,

Archibald of Guernicus: johns signed back into badgame to delete his name and avatar and make it look like he deleted his account

GM: lol.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have cutting from a variety of vis-bearing plants

ten of them, specifically, transformed to a bundle of feathers in my belt pouch

Malachiasz of Tytalus: are we done

do we win

GM: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did this whole thing take a month? a week?

Hypatia of Athens: I'll post the sheet for my Jerbiton in the thread

GM: There are a lot of hanging threads t hat can come into play at a later date.

Tell me what you do with the green guys in the thread. do it.

Also if you tell Tasso what you've found now.

or don't.

Malachiasz of Tytalus: ill tell him

he seems nice

GM: But yes its done for now. Peace is achieved in the garden between rthe plants... for now

Archibald of Guernicus: If we talk to Tasso, we can help get him on board with bullying these stupid hedgies into handing over their resources.

Also, we do owe him. He helped us out, he was honest and forthcoming.

GM: You can always trust a badger.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should warn him about Strabo and give him his credit

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we haven't published anything, or even solved any mysteries.

except the location of the garden

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, but we  can

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so we should just warn him

GM: uhhh 9 xp? i wasted a lot of time. that was a very large mystery.

Archibald of Guernicus: We have a lot of stuff we keep discovering and never doing anything with, honestly, so I'm going to start addressing that properly

By translating the mercurian rituals

I really want the stuff to commune with Mercury

Malachiasz of Tytalus: alright

good aventure everyone

GM: Thank you.

for playing.

Archibald of Guernicus: we did it

GM: You did some things.

And got somet hings.

and if you want you can do a wizards war.

Archibald of Guernicus: now to finish inventing a better aegis and then probably Wizard's Parry

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10 bolad aging 1337

(

8

)

=

8

rolling 1d10 bolad aging 1339

(

8

)

=

8

rolling 1d10 bolad aging 1340

(

2

)

=

2

rolling 1d10!-10 lavinia aging 1339

(

5

)

-10

=

-5

dys (GM):

rolling 1d2 boy | girl

(

2

)

=

2