12/17/17

johns (GM): both boyer and beardbeard said theyd be late today, do u want to start in 24 min (usual time) or 1 hr 24 min

devil's fav demon (GM): if you delay an hour i might go get beer.

Shauncat (GM): I'm fine either way

Hafl T.: i have no preference

johns (GM): ill just start at the usual time

devil's fav demon (GM): damn.

johns (GM): gahaha,

Shauncat (GM): If I have an hour I can make up a grog to play, perhaps

Or not

johns (GM): i thought hypatia was still around

devil's fav demon (GM): i'm going to be late today. smugbird

Shauncat (GM): I don't know. Everyone keeps complaining about revolving doors so I never replaced her

But it doesn't seem like the stiuation where she has to choose between her artist ambitions and VT has changed so she's probably not here

dys: for every companion you dont play, im going to play 2

Hafl T.: companions are boring as hell

johns (GM): companions rule.

Hafl T.: they're bad and mythic companions are even worse

dys: what the

johns (GM): wtf

devil's fav demon (GM): mythic companions are win.

shhh.

Shauncat (GM): I don't think I want to be a mythic companion any more, anyway. I'd rather manage a bunch of shitty mundanes than one super mundanes.

devil's fav demon (GM): ok. im going to be back at 4. ha ha.

johns (GM): welp

dys: you can start an hour later if you want johns.

Hafl T.: instead of having two characters to play, none of which ever do much, i'd rather have just one

johns (GM): fine!!!! were strating in an hour

dfd has to get me beer too.

dys: i like playing my companion and do plenty with her.

Shauncat (GM): Fiorella is fine but she's injured and also in another adventure

Hafl T.: the last time my character was connected with the adventure, we ostensibly failed despite doing everything right

johns (GM): i forget which adventure that was.

Hafl T.: petrarch

johns (GM): I see.

I blame Endrite for that, fursonally.

Hafl T.: and the ravenna adventure is completely pointless for me and was putting me to sleep

i blame endrite

i have enormous fun playing merinita in a group where the gm's character wants to murder every faerie we meet and is constantly a huge bitch to every other pc

johns (GM): lol

Hafl T.: basically, i want to get the tribunal etc. over with so i know whether proclus fucks off forever or i'm dropping the game and everything until then is a waste of time

johns (GM): let's just kill endrite irl

dys: Kizuna Ai: Let's

Shauncat (GM): Jorn probably had the right idea leaving after the Aristide incident

dys: I don't hold anything against Endrite, but I do hate Proclus.

Hi, Endrite.

Hafl T.: nice save

dys: Actually, wait, if Proclus died he wanted to make an englishman. I do hold everything against Endrite.

Shauncat (GM): I can sympathize with the desire to be the villain but also play fair

Endrite (GM): Mystical greetings.

I gotta grab some lunch.

Shauncat (GM): It's cool I think we're postponing the start anyway

Endrite (GM): Oh, ok.

dys: yeah, boy rep and beard and dfd will all be an hour late

Endrite (GM): It is what it is.

Excuse me, my GMPC is Severin of Tytalus.

Hafl T.: only his familiar needs to die

dys: Thaddeus is a cunt.

Shauncat (GM): Severin is a good GMPC considering several of his spells are missing spell levels for duration

Endrite (GM): What?

All his new spells have a duration.

Shauncat (GM): My bad

It's Touch that's missing from Carnivorous House

cArnivorous house

ReHe 35

R: Touch, D: Sun T: Structure

(Base 10, +2 Sun, +3 Structure)

Shauncat (GM): Should be 40

Endrite (GM): It's not that big a deal.

Hafl T.: it is, especially at higher magnitudes

Shauncat (GM): Getting those extra lab total is pretty tricky once you're going over 35 or 40

Endrite (GM): Severin didn't have a lab when you met him.

Shauncat (GM): I guess it isn't so much for Severin since he uses aiming rolls rather than penetration

Endrite (GM): Well, a house is probably never going to have Magic Resistance.

dys: isnt he like 80 years old? all itd really matter for is the penetration maybe

Shauncat (GM): Yes

I mean yes to Endrite

dys: hes a herbam specialist, i can believe an 80+ year old herbam specialist can manage that sort of spell level in inventing it, NPCs already get to cheat in that regard so its w/e

Shauncat (GM): Yeah

Ghost woodpeckers are the harder thing

Hafl T.: all the published npcs suck because they stop getting their arts when they get to 20 or so

Shauncat (GM): Fast casts to turn yourself and a metal object you're holding insubstantial would be a good thing to have.

dys: creating an npc magus is always going to be approximating stuff anyway, could you imagine making a 100 year old magus where you do every season manually, tracking their entire exact life

Hafl T.: YES

let's

dys: that said i like how magi of hermes generally talks about what theyve been up to

in the last 7 years they went and did this and that

really nice detail

Hafl T.: frankly, making incredibly detailed NPC magi is great to get over the urge to make a new character every time you think of a new gimmick

dys: lol

Endrite (GM): I can imagine making a hundred year old magus, since that's what Devil's Favorite Demon did.

Love ya' Bialas.

Hafl T.: it works for me in HERO even though i still haven't completely statted up the five new NPCs

dys: im really glad i made a generalist magus for this game, i had no idea what i was doing at chargen and at least by being non-specialised but having a powerful generalist virtue i was able to make archibald a lot better

hes 40 years old and pulling off some lab totals of 50, with every art at 5 minimum, not too shabby

Hafl T.: beatrice is built around having access to a single mystery cult virtue she does not have

Endrite (GM): Why didn't you just start with it?\

Hafl T.: because it's an inner mystery

Endrite (GM): Well, I guess you'll get it some day.

dys: DFD started with inner mysteries, but, well, he made a literal 80 year old.

Shauncat (GM): Has it been three years since Beatrice was last initiated?

She's about due in that case

Hafl T.: it's been five, but it's hard to keep track with the game's pace

dys: How old are all our magi by now? Archibald's just a year or two over 40, Beatrice shouldnt be that far behind, Lodewig and Proclus a few years older than that I imagine.

Hafl T.: Beatrice is 37, looks 24

dys: I think Lavinia was already a few years older than other people at the beginning so she's the oldest normal aged magus

Shauncat (GM): Unaging loli criamon

Hafl T.: i'll add that to npc ideas

dys: The Primus, Shaun. Let's not forget that. The canon primus of House Criamon.

Shauncat (GM): Atlas Game already beat you to that idea

Endrite (GM): Excuse me, the female word is "Prima".

Hafl T.: unaging loli criamon, prima

Shauncat (GM): Prima Strategy Guide

Hafl T.: as a side note "prima" is czech for nice

dys: Not even regular Unaging, either

lol

They're permanently a child. This is the canon head of the house.

Shauncat (GM): Oh yeah its a stigmata or twilight scar or soemthing

Hafl T.: let's have everyone join the insane provencal mystery cult that lets you initiate gentle gift at the first level of initiation

dys: I don't know if any other primus or prima is funny, I know Mercere is led by a redcap, or was at 1220 anyway.

The rest of the houses who cares. Tytalus had 2 that hated each other, actually, thats good.

Hafl T.: the magic spirit based on flambeau in provencal book having a power that can mimic every non-ritual ignem effect is cool.

and also the same spirit lacking any decent penetration

johns (GM): ill look at everyones cult stuff and background plots after tribunal

Hafl T.: Provencal Tribunal book making Marie de France canonically a crazy Merinita obsessed with Eleanor of Aquitaine or perhaps a faerie copy of her is ftw

johns (GM): that was always the plan and its not my fault it's take 6 irl months to do 7 in game years

dys: christ it really has.

Hafl T.: i blame situations like this where there's an extra adventure slotted in because  someone  can't run

if it's wrong, blame boy reporter

dys: summoning complete

Hafl T.: or rope kid

or both

Boy R. (GM): i'm sorry

johns (GM): well we were gonna do two adventures this year anyway so its this + ravenna

then we're onto tribunal and then onto the Brave New post-tribunal worldscape.

dys: oh, so after this its just tribunal? alrgith

Hafl T.: this is spring?

dys: i believe so

johns (GM): ya

Shauncat (GM): Hmmm

I could come up with the new companion after Tribunal

That's some time to come up with a twist for Hypatia instead of simply revolving dooring her

Boy R.: tribunal is a good place to meet new people

what's wrong with hypatia?

johns (GM): As long as you are making characters you should stat up Lavinia's apprentice

Shauncat (GM): She hates VT

johns (GM): hell, who doesnt

Shauncat (GM): And she's a redcap so she has no permanent ties to it

Boy R.: i thought she was some kind of crusader we were sheltering

Shauncat (GM): She's a poet

dys: no lol shes a redcap

johns (GM): It's like Boyar has no respect for the lore whatsoever.

Boy R.: it's true

Shauncat (GM): Her crusade is her downtime activity

Boy R.: i'm method acting, because lodewig has no care for what's changed in the 10-20 years he was off wandering

Shauncat (GM): It was supposed to be a way for me to cause trouble but in effect everyone is just glad someone can command a few grogs

johns (GM): http://ars-badgame-ii.wikia.com/wiki/GM_Reference_Page

Hafl T.: i'll replace artemisia then, since her activities not connected to hypatia are being married to the ultimate rapist and underwater activity

and the only water vardian's tomb comes close to is the bath

Shauncat (GM): Hypatia can take Artemisia to Harco to apprentice as a redcap if she wants

Hafl T.: that would work

Boy R.: just declare VT an offficial mercer house

and have a revolving door of wlak on redcap parts

my next companion is kramer, but a redcap

anyway am i early or late for the game

Shauncat (GM): Early I think

Hafl T.: both

Boy R.: sorry

Shauncat (GM): Less late than the people we're postponing for

devil's fav demon (GM): im back now also.

Shauncat (GM): I'm gonna make a touched by faerie crafter, I think, hopefully distinct enough from Giacopo

Hafl T.: i like the -3 int magus in through the aegis who's only kept out of trouble by a familiar smarter than him

devil's fav demon (GM): thats a cute idea

Hafl T.: there's a story seed where the magic cat familiar finds a cat girlfriend and starts neglecting his duties

dys: im going to wander along to the shops since we still have half an hour

lol

Boy R.: cute

johns (GM): wow!!! we could start now except for DYS!!!

im going to take a nap. see you in 5 hours

Hafl T.: we live in a dystopia

i'm going to make tea, see you in an hour

johns (GM): this is what its like playing ttrpgs with darksidephil

snort  i have to take a shit so im cutting this session early after half an hour.

devil's fav demon (GM): expedient, gets a lot done in a short time

johns (GM): Wow. real glad we're just waiting on dys here.

Hafl T.: i have made the tea extra quick, but it looks like it was in vain

devil's fav demon (GM): time to whip out the 3ds.

Boy R.: it takes thirty seconds to make tea

can you only do tea as a ritual because you live in japan?

Shauncat (GM): Thankfully I don't have an MMO I want to play right now so I'm not too anxious

Hafl T.: not if you have shitty kettle, have to remove old tea first and cut new slices of lemon

johns (GM): i drank a bunch of tea already today and am still sleepy

devil's fav demon (GM): try coffee

johns (GM): i drank that too

devil's fav demon (GM): tea is too relaxing.

Hafl T.: try my antidepressants that allow me to sleep only four hours a day

johns (GM): no!!!!!

i love sleep

Shauncat (GM): Does anyone know how Shadow of Human Life specifically derives the modifier of +6 for its Mentem requisite?

Beardbeard: time to game ! !

Boy R.: someone decided what level it should be and filled in the boxes until it matched up

Hafl T.: it's based on CrMe to increase mental characterostics

Giraldo of Milan: why didnt it start yet

Hafl T.: level 30 to increase to 0

Shauncat (GM): Oh I see

30/5

johns (GM): there's a guideline for spells that says the troupe can demand extra levels for fancy stuff

It didn't start because of Dys.

Giraldo of Milan: lets kill that kilted fuckin fag

Hafl T.: incantation of lightning is even more egregious

what a level 25 spell could hit someone with a +30 damage lightning from a ceiling?

devil's fav demon (GM): im going to go get a pizza be back in 40m.

ha ha ha.

ho ho ho

Hafl T.: better make it come out of the caster's hands for +2 more mags

johns (GM): i think at least one ars editor thought that damage causing spells should be standardized in that it's always Certain Magnitude = Certain +Damage

im going to start anyway

dys can catch up

Hafl T.: it sort of makes sense, but it's super egregious in this case

Boy R.: that editor ftw

devil's fav demon (GM): that would make sense if it were a game where the lore was detached from mechanics

Shauncat (GM): Can I order a pizza? No  Why? Because you are John Podesta

johns (GM): i agree with that scale

Hafl T.: since with shadow of human life, you can argue that the extra mags do something new

johns (GM): even if it might limit the creativity of magic a bit

Hafl T.: with incantation of lightining, you're paying for a cosmetic effect

Boy R.: there's no reason it should

Shauncat (GM): Ball of Abyssal Flame comes out of your hand for free

johns (GM): do you have to aim lightning if you shoot it out of the ceiling instead of your hands. who knows

Celeste: The Hermetic Essential Limit of Damage Numbers

Hafl T.: no

johns (GM): There's definitely a flambeau bias making Ignem the coolest elemental form here

Hafl T.: it's affected by MR so you shouldn't have to aim it

Boy R.: that's what we did when we invented that spell and thought it looked too good anyway

also throwing fire from your hands is a disadvantage, so of course it's free

Hafl T.: flambeau have nothing but damage numbers, so it's fair

johns (GM): 'Tis Spring 1342, and a bunch of the covenant's members have gone off on some trip to Ravenna, leaving the rest of you in some blessed peace and quiet. Feel free to drop some tokens in the Inn.

Boy R.: mage 2nd edition has an elegant solution but i won't go into it now because the game is starting

johns (GM): true nuff hafl

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm working on a secret spell and i have come to test my new results in the inn.

johns (GM): The spell is the Murder of Proclus Ritual.

Boy R.: hail, old ildebrando and smaller celeste

Celeste: Celeste and Bigger Celeste

Beatrice ex Merinita: did archibald take down out "welcome" tapestry?

johns (GM): He ripped down all tapestries in a fit of anti-2d rage

Boy R.: wow, rude

we paid good aeneides for those

johns (GM): Ildebrando beckons Lodewig.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i should read aeneis and its prequels, but the only copy of ilias i have is in greek

Shauncat (GM): So it's craft level 18 to make an intelligent wondrous item, not bad. 20 if you lincude Rego Terram reqs

Lodewig of Tytalus: "what ho, innkeep?"

Ildebrando: He points out a well-dressed man sitting in the corner of the inn. "Man there asked for a private audience with the Magi. Won't give his name, but gave this to show he's serious." He produces a pouch of semi-precious stones, agates, jasper, onyx and the like.

Voda: How semi?

Beatrice ex Merinita: let me check the shape and material bonuses on those?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I dump them out on the counter and flick through them

Ildebrando: A bag of precious gems would be too much, probably.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I guess they're valuable?

Celeste: "They're not that shiny."

Ildebrando: They're valuable!

Just not King level valuable.

Beatrice ex Merinita: they have shape and material bonuses, so it's fine

Lodewig of Tytalus: "whatever they're worth, it's certainly odd"

johns (GM): They're the kind of stuff you'd put in a one-of-a-kind illuminated book, or on a reliquary, or on an lady's tiara.

Voda: I mean, have you seen the state of currency lately?

johns (GM): Good point Voda

Celeste: "I'm more into pearls."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I haven't

Beatrice ex Merinita: agate is +7 to protect from venoms. that's pretty good

Voda: Are they Pope Skeleton-level gems?

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, let's see what he has to say

Archibald of Guernicus: Back

Faustus Galerius: I'll work on rebalancing this guy

johns (GM): "You're one of the Magi? I want to speak to you all somewhere private."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I'm a magus. I'm sure I can round up the rest"

this guy is a little suspicious so let's just take him to a private room of the inn

Strange Gentleman: Who'll join Lodewig?

Beatrice ex Merinita: i will after prebuffing

Celeste: I'm not a magus, but I'll come to uh, protect Lodewig.

Beatrice ex Merinita: aura, doublet

Giraldo of Milan: im fgiraldo

Lodewig of Tytalus: such a thoughtful child

Strange Gentleman: Hail.

Archibald of Guernicus: I come out of my lab, to much rejoicing.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Archibald emerges from Lab

i'm guessing celeste is there because of her experience with gentleman visitors

Celeste: Ha ha ha.

If only.

Strange Gentleman: "My master is an important and dignified man, and I'm here on his behalf. It is a matter of life and death, but it would be unseemly to know he has taken to calling on ... magicians.. so I must ask you to swear to secrecy this affair."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Not even our colleagues not here today will know."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "you have my oath as a magus and a gentleman"

Giraldo of Milan: too bad malach the indiscreet isnt here

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll say nothing, lest my Gift put him more on edge.

Strange Gentleman: Doubtfully, he adds, "Before Christ and the host of Angels and all that is good, you swear?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "oh of course"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Sure."

Voda: Oh no, your one weakness.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "those especially"

Strange Gentleman: He grunts. "So be it."

Beatrice ex Merinita: Archibald should invent Comeliness of the Crone as a standard prebuff.

Celeste: "We're all very honorable and devout Christians here."

"No worries."

Beatrice ex Merinita: honorable, devout, christians: pick two

Strange Gentleman: "My name is Cosimo. I am seneschal for Baron Rafael Frangipani. My lord's household has come under attack and his life is in danger. We need your help."

Giraldo of Milan: frangipani

Celeste empties the second tankard of wine since meeting Cosimo

Celeste: "Anytime."

Voda: Do I know what kind of attack they're under?

Lodewig of Tytalus: "frangipani...I know I've heard that somewhere"

Beatrice ex Merinita whispers to Celeste.

Cosimo: "My lord's holding is the old Roman Colosseum, you may know. Last night a terrible crime occurred there. My lord's wife has been slain. His child kidnapped. His loyal household knights went missing."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Do you need any help?"

Cosimo: This is the first Voda has heard of it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can buff you with charm bonus

Voda: Makes sense if it happened last night.

OR MORE LIKELY, yesterday.

Archibald of Guernicus: "The colosseum?"

Celeste: "Oh, do you want to get refills?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "good lord."

Cosimo: Cosimo stares at Archibald for awhile, sizing him up skeptically.

"The ampitheatre of the old Empire."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I just thought you might need some help in impressing this gentleman."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "this seems a bit extreme even for roman politics. what nature of attack was this? have you any inkling of who might be responsible?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "What was his wife and kid doing there?"

Voda: "There is a fortress built into the Colosseum, master."

Cosimo: "The  lady  Frangipani and my lord's son live there."

Celeste: "Oh. Oh!"

Cosimo: "Yes, as that man says."

Voda: I whisper discretely.

Celeste blushes

Voda: But not that discretely.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll take that as a yes and give it a try.

rolling 1d10+24+3-15 vs 10

(

3

)

+24+3-15

=

15

10 Penetration

voiceless and gestureless

on aura of beguiling appearance on celeste which is +3 charm for sun if it goes through

Cosimo: "The sentries on guard that night saw no one enter or leave the fort. It is possible someone snuck through-- it's a large place-- but that's not the worst detail.."

Celeste: thats equal to my mr if im not holding my mace. does equal penetrate?

Cosimo: equal does not penetrate

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn

Giraldo of Milan: beatrice fails to penetrate celeste

Celeste: rip. i dont think i can lower mr like a magus can with true faith.

Beatrice ex Merinita: fuck it, i'll conf

Giraldo of Milan: you could

just blaspheme

Lodewig of Tytalus: I think you can

Archibald of Guernicus: Another night ends in a disappoint for Celeste at not being penetrated.

Celeste: oh well if i can, you cast it.

i didnt think i could.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i solved the issue much more wastefully

Celeste: whew.

Cosimo: "We've been searching since daylight to find a sign of the intruders. We've rounded up everyone who lives there, turned over every stone.. This morning, we found the 4 household knights. Dead. Stuffed into wine barrels. And from the looks of it, they've been dead for more than a month."

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's an action though, you can't do it reflexively

Cosimo: "The same men who have been by my lord's side this entire time! Explain how it can be!"

Celeste: "Those aren't the same men who were by your lord's side."

Voda: "Ah, fakes effected through disguise and misdirection."

Cosimo: "Imposters?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's not that difficult to make fakes

Lodewig of Tytalus: "well, you're right to suspect magic"

Celeste: "You have a nice smart girl in your life?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "it's pretty easy to impersonate someone by magic really, if you have the knack"

Cosimo: "Lord Rafael suspects as much too. He has sent messengers to summon his knights from far and wide to come to his aid but if assassins are lurking within his very household... how much longer can the man have? And what of his son??"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "if they wanted to kill him they would have"

Voda: How old is his son?

Cosimo: "He is just a baby."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's easy to make a fake with magic, but it's a lot more hassle to keep up the deception going for a long time."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "more likely someone wants power over your lord.

Celeste: "Oh, the poor thing!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I guess the baby is the next target."

Voda: But how much baby is he?

One year?

Two years?

Three???

Cosimo: One year.

Voda: Hmmm.

Cosimo: "But the child has already been taken."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "tell me about these men who were found dead. they were the lord's personal guards - did he have others that attended him that closely? Was there anything unusual about their behaviour in the last month?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Do you have any of the child's belongings?"

"Diapers, I guess."

Celeste: "We'll get that baby back."

Beatrice ex Merinita: this would eb so much easier to talk about if zita was here

Cosimo: "It was just these 4. He has many men at arms he has rallied but... those are just millers and bakers with spears, not knights."

Voda: "Maybe he should retain the service of mercenaries."

Cosimo: "Belongings.. there may be some toys left in his nursery, I don't recall."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "If whoever's targeting him can impersonate his knights, they can impersonat mercenaries and much more easily."

Cosimo: "The past month the knights have been a bit drunker than usual. I can think of nothing else.."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Drinking frequently? Where do they drink?"

Celeste: "Yeah, where?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "well I think we can say your case is intriguing. Now, what do we usually charge for a consultation?"

Cosimo: "My lord keeps his own wine cellar."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We're doing this as civil service."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "that'll do"

Voda: Offer to buy the baby.

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we solve this, I'm sure it'll be greatly appreciated, Lodewig."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We don't want to be known as the people who won't look for mysteriously disappeared child unless paid."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "this is just going to be another escapade with a lot of peril and fatigue and nebulous rewards like 'an experience to learn from' or 'improved self-confidence' isn't it?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It's the best treasure."

your fault for not taking independent study

Cosimo: "My lord honors his debts. And he loves his son."

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm already donning my excellent cloak

Celeste: "I'm sure those baby-stealing sinners have some sort of wand or amulet you would like."

Beatrice ex Merinita: Lord Frangipani: I love my dead gay son

Cosimo: "You will not go unrewarded if you can bring him back-- this I assure you."

Archibald of Guernicus: "A word in private, Lodewig, if ye will."

Beatrice ex Merinita: oh right

Lodewig of Tytalus: "we're in private"

Beatrice ex Merinita: we should ask lodewig first if he's the kidnapper

Cosimo: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: it could save a lot of time

Lodewig of Tytalus: sure I'll talk to archibald aside

Celeste: brb

(From Celeste): AFK

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have few enough friends in this city" I say, aside "Ye were away, but we had the bloody knights hospitalier investigating us and all. If we just sit on the fringes and hope for the best, one day the mundanes will get pissed off over something tiny and decide, well, these evil magi have got tae go."

Voda: Who are the Franginis feuding with right now?

I mean the Frank Stringinis.

I mean the Frangipanis.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'd rather we at least had someone who could stand up and say, oh no, not vardian's tomb, they're noble sorts who helped us. Ye see?"

Cosimo: Rome Lore, Voda

Archibald of Guernicus: "I cannae be arsed with mundane politics but I've been forced tae accept we can't just sit idly and hope for the best. Not after some of the shit some of our members have pulled."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Oh certainly. There was never any question we'd sort this out, there's something strange going on here"

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 8

(

5

)

+8

=

13

(From Celeste): Back

Lodewig of Tytalus: "But mundanes have suspicious minds, I find they often relate more comfortably on a transactional footing"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I see. Sorry then. Just on edge about mundane matters lately."

(To Voda): They are Guelph and thus naturally oppose the Ghibellines, but no specific feuds or enemies come to mind. The lord and his wife were well liked by the common people.

(From Voda): How well liked? Unusually so?

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we can find an arcane connection to the boy, I can locate him, aura in the temple regio should be sufficient to pull it off. Can check the area for any residual magic, too."

(From Voda): Wow that was supposed to go to Cosimo instead of the GM! Thanks for promoting true "roll"-playing, roll20.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll rejoin the conversation at large

(To Voda): Not unusually I'd say. Both the lord and lady are young, handsome, charistmatic people, and on their recent wedding they gave out many gifts to the city.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "we should examine the dead knights too. I don't suppose any of you lot can speak to the dead?"

I like these guys because they prove I almost certainly didn't do this

Archibald of Guernicus: "Whispers through the black gate is easier tae spont than the inexorable search, aura might be a problem though. May have tae move the bodies."

"Maybe the wine preserved their mouths enough tae speak."

Cosimo: always remember ceremonial casting and vis bonuses to combat dominion

Voda: They wouldn't necessarily know what happened if they were attacked from ambush.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, that's worth establishing

Beatrice ex Merinita: why spend vis when you can just move the body

Archibald of Guernicus: I can only spont ceremonially now, anyway.

Cosimo: Because if you spend vis you increase your chances of cool twilight scars!!!!! sheesh!

Archibald of Guernicus: Do we have any spare intellego vis? What bonus did that provide to the roll

Might start carrying some around just in case

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's +2 per pawn

not a great investment imo

Archibald of Guernicus: Thats before you half it, right?

... right?

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

Cosimo: we're low on intelligo -- 2 pawns. we have 6 pawns corpus, 11 pawns of fae corpus

Archibald of Guernicus: oh good god

Beatrice ex Merinita: just move the body

Archibald of Guernicus: okay im not taking vis, what a waste

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can make it invisible to move it

Celeste: nice

Cosimo: "So will you help us?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "of course! what else have we been talking about? lead us to the crime scene, good fellow"

Cosimo: "Very well."

"Let's waste no time."

"All are on high alert at the fort so please stay near me while we're visiting."

Who is going?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I am.

Celeste: sure.

Cosimo: I think it's the 6 tokens in the upper right corner, does Shaun have a choice?

Voda: Hmm, I should stay and do lab work.

Ha ha ha, just kidding.

I'm going.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I prepare with bear's fortitude and disclosure of the animal spirit, leaving mindwolf to sleep in my lab

Giraldo of Milan: l;ets go

Cosimo: What's the limit on how far you can travel with mindwolf spell?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm not aware of any limit

Voda: Why would you leave your mindwolf in your lab?

Cosimo: Ok, weird.

Lodewig of Tytalus: to protect my mind from outside influences

(From Archibald of Guernicus): I prebuff in my lab with an InVi effect that tells me if any spell penetrates my parma by giving me a bitter taste in my mouth.

(From Archibald of Guernicus): sun duration

Lodewig of Tytalus: i almost got it killed the last time i took it out

Archibald of Guernicus: That would have been funny

Beatrice ex Merinita: if we were using the swarm rules you would have been killed, i think

Lodewig of Tytalus: I leave a book open on the floor in case what's happening here turns out to be boring

Voda: Smart.

Beatrice ex Merinita: but the rules for swarms of small creatures are tucked away in legends of hermes

Voda: BUT, how does a wolf turn pages?

Giraldo of Milan: roll finesse on the mindwolf to not damage your book with its claws

Cosimo: The Colosseum is a huge ruin just off of the forum. Its walls are crumbling or have long ago been harvested like a quarry. Many of its entrances have been bricked or otherwise sealed up, and the spaces under the seats converted into houses, workshops, and a fortress.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Very carefully

Beatrice ex Merinita: the covenant has professional bookbinders, they can make wolf-proof books

Celeste: Wow, this looks like shit!

Voda: Wrong, it looks like garbage.

Cosimo: The interior, where gladiators once battled, is now a large graveyard and church memorial space. Cosimo leads you in and you see a priest and his assistant handling 4 freshly dug graves with bodies in shrouds adjacent.

Lodewig of Tytalus: so you just brick up some arches and call it a fortress?

Beatrice ex Merinita: we were too late

Lodewig of Tytalus: pretty low rent

Beatrice ex Merinita: fucking priests and their last rites

Voda: You could interrupt them.

Beatrice ex Merinita: true

the christian burial is not finished yet

"Ahem, excuse me."

Priest: The priest looks at you, then to Cosimo who nods, then back to you all.

"Yes?"

" Si? "

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Jawohl"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Could the burial be postponed? We need to examine the bodies for causes of death and we can't interrupt their rest once they're interred into holy ground."

Archibald of Guernicus: My Italian is only servicable so I'll hang back. What's the aura?

Priest: Dominion 2

(is currently Daytime)

Lodewig of Tytalus: "Specifically, we want to use black necromancy on them and commending their souls to God's grace makes this difficult"

Celeste: "What?!"

Priest: The Priest crosses himself.

"Begone, witches! Heretics most unholy!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "My companion is exaggerating. It's a simple medical examination."

Priest: In quick, agitated Italian, he berates Cosimo for inviting such horrible people in.

Shauncat: I think you mean Hermetics

Lodewig of Tytalus: "It's a reasonable request, padre"

Shauncat: Hermetics most unholy

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I can assure you it is nothing of magical nature."

Archibald of Guernicus: I stare at Lodewig

Lodewig of Tytalus: I silently cast loss of but a moment's memory on him

Priest: "How can you just at the fate of those fallen in their Lord's service, you "

Voda: Lodewig is good at keeping it real.

Priest: Okay, Penetration?

Lodewig of Tytalus: dominion 2 is -6?

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

Priest: yup

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling d10!+19-16

(

9

)

+19-16

=

12

penetration 5

Beatrice ex Merinita: that might be enough on a normal priest

Priest: The man waves his finger excitedly but quickly looks confused. "Heavens, what was I saying.. Tis too hot today.."

He leans against a gravestone.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "please, take your time"

Priest: "What.. were you asking, again?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: "anyway, our examinations will be a matter of minutes. These men's deaths have bearings on the crime that has happened here, which your lord's man here has asked us to investigate"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "As I was saying, I am Celestina Zoboli, a doctor educated at the university of Salerno and I would appreciate if you would postpone the burial so that the dead can be examined, their cause of death determined and hopefully, those responsible brought to justice."

Let's see how my 0 guile helps here.

rolling 1d10!-3+3+0 Presence Guile

(

6

)

-3+3+0

=

6

Priest: An educated woman?? The only thing scarier than a necromancer

"God save us, the crime.. Brace yourselves, for it no easy task to look on these men now."

He pulls aside one of the funeral shrouds and shows the discolored body of a man who has definitely been dead for a few weeks.

Weapon wounds score his body.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Did they leave any children behind?"

"I suppose it does not matter. I hope you will accept a small donation for the orphans of Rome, Father."

Priest: "Yes, their sons... Squiring in Lombardy these days."

Beatrice ex Merinita: Time to bribe the priest to give us some privacy.

Priest: "Ah, bless you.. There are so many indigent around here to take care of --" he gestures around the Colosseum-- " and I so little time you know.. And the back aching so much lately, my poor heart ready to give out with these terrible crimes.."

Voda: Hmm, I could ask him to bury me.

Priest: 1 weird trick.

Voda: Actually that's a good question.

Do I benefit from the three days of magic immunity that properly buried corpses get?

Assuming I'm buried, of course.

Priest: No, because your spirit is not in heaven.

Voda: Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Does the Priest go away to stash whatever pocket money Beatrice had on her person?

Priest: He moves towards an entrance to the colosseum interior to shade himself from the sun for a bit.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Good enough.

Let's examine the bodies.

"Archibald, I believe this is your specialization."

Priest: You can use Int and various skills to gain insight

ina ddition to magic

Archibald of Guernicus: "Alright."

Voda: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: would Chirurgy or Medicine be more applicable here

probably Chirurgy

Priest: Chirurgy

Celeste: "They look rough."

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+3

(

2

)

+3

=

5

,

Archibald of Guernicus: First, I'll formulaicly cast Archibald's Unmasking The Sigil on one corpse. If theres any active magic on it, I can tell, plus get the full details of it if it's hermetic including sigil.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+1+2 int plus chirurgy

(

3

)

+1+2

=

6

Priest: They are fighting wounds, that much you can tell.

Celeste: "Doesn't look like they got caught by surprise."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll try sponting physician's eye. it won't tell me much but if there were other issues with them other than the wounds, it could possibly help. i don't think it'll tell me more than Dead, I guess.

rolling (1d10!+16-6)/2

(

(

6

)

+16-6)/2

=

8

Archibald of Guernicus: If there's no active effects on them, I'll try to spont, ceremonially, Whispers Through The Black Gate

Priest: Sorry, I want to add one thing to the chirurgy roll

Some of their slashing wounds look cauterized.

Voda: Do we have time for ceremonial spellcasting?

Priest: Yes, Voda

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): Successful or not?

Lodewig of Tytalus: is anyone bothered if we start drawing arcane sigils in the sand and chanting?

Celeste: "Hmm... Looks burned."

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): roll to cast passed

Celeste: I'm just doing all Giraldo's lines before he can.

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): No injury other than the sword/burn wounds, whcih is what killed them.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that is interesting

Voda: Yeah.

Shouldn't more people be watching us?

Beatrice ex Merinita: "They're dead and it looks like it's just the swords that did it."

"No poison or anything."

Cosimo: "If you must.. act out your .. methods.. it would be better to do it somewhere fewer people see, I believe?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: unfortunately the wounds are too old to do an image of the beast-alike on them

Cosimo: "Please remember that discretion is paramount to my lord.."

Beatrice ex Merinita: If Archibald lowers his parma, I can make him invisible.

Voda: The most deadly beast of all: swords.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Can we move them somewhere quieter? Somewhere with a better aura would help immensely, too."

"Beatrice, maybe ye could disguise one while we move it?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Take me to where the woman was killed."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Making it invisible would be easy."

Cosimo: Voda, around the periphery of the colosseum are several archers. There's also some poor beggar looking types sitting up high in the stands with men at arms nearby. Most folks look tired and worn out and the sun is high and the sky and hot.

Lodewig of Tytalus: we could transform voda into a double of one of them, so they can go ahead and have the burial

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+24-6-5-3 vs 20

(

8

)

+24-6-5-3

=

18

Cosimo: "The nursery, then... Will the rest of you accompany us?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: we'd come back for him, of course

Beatrice ex Merinita: cast with fatigue, but quiet voice and subtle gestures

Cosimo: Cosimo is asking rhetorically.

Beatrice ex Merinita: so one of the bodies is now invisible

Lodewig of Tytalus: I consent theatrically

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll come along to the nursery, but I'd like to interrogate the corpse first if possible.

Voda: Keep in mind, that being buried would probably suffocate me to death.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm working with Archibald for now.

Archibald of Guernicus: Can easily cast whispers if the aura's dominion 1 or better

Lodewig of Tytalus: heh, you grogs and your grumbles

Cosimo: "You want to cast.. on the body? That is.. I'm sorry, that is asking too much.."

Lodewig of Tytalus: is there anything here approximately the dimensions of a grown man?

a long stone I suppose

Beatrice ex Merinita: Lungs of the Mole: Changes any dirt that enters your body into air

Cosimo: Broken columns, Lodewig.

Lodewig of Tytalus: too heavy

Faustus Galerius: New Faustus sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hIfQ_7ipYpq6aIiUwF_j_n67z6vaRh-gRcUS1SuXtho/edit?usp=sharing

Giraldo of Milan: "The nursery? Where the son was too?"

Cosimo: Grogs, if you brought any.

Faustus Galerius: Balanced as a grog now

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm only interrogating the knight corpse, I doubt they'll ever let me near the missus

Str +2 so I should be able to move the corpse out while it's invisible to find somewhere with a better aura.

Cosimo: "Yes.. My lord and lady cared so much for the child that they would rush to its side when they heard it crying, even though he has his own nurse. That night the lady went and.."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I could CrTe a lump of dirt

and MuIm it to look like human

Cosimo: Sure. also the bodies were wrapped in white funeral shrouds before you investigated.

Máriu Puddu: I'll be this guy since he has the easiest grog trait to RP, being afraid of women

Voda: Hmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: We'll just unwrap the body we're making invisible and wrap the dirt lump in its shroud.

Voda: We could make the priest forget that there were four bodies.

Celeste: Good thing I'm not watching any of this stuff.

Voda: Then just make off with this one.

Cosimo: I'll describe the nursery, you can come back and forth between each site as you please. The signs of violence in the nursery are obvious -- bloodstains on the floor, broken furniture. The crib is untouched, and the child not in it, ofc.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+22-6)/2 CrTe

(

(

1

)

+22-6)/2

=

8.5

rip me

Archibald of Guernicus: H-h-here we go

Cosimo:

rolling 2d10

(

5

+

1

)

=

6

Beatrice ex Merinita: three botch dice, i believe

Cosimo:

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

Archibald of Guernicus: lmfao

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

Cosimo: Noice!

Máriu Puddu: Nice!

Voda: Oh no.

Beatrice ex Merinita: two warping points and i have to check for twilight

Lodewig of Tytalus: ooh

Giraldo of Milan: crte botch

hoo boy

Cosimo: This is exactly what we wanted to happen.

Beatrice ex Merinita: which page is that?

Archibald of Guernicus: dont you have a bunch of warping already, too, from a really early longevity ritual?

Cosimo: TWILIGHT AVOIDANCE:

Stamina + Concentration + Vim Form Bonus

+ stress die vs. Warping Score

+ Number of Warping Points gained

+ Enigmatic Wisdom + local aura

+ stress die (no botch)

Cosimo: p 88

Celeste: ooooh

Giraldo of Milan: brb

Beatrice ex Merinita: got it

Voda: 88 brothers.

Máriu Puddu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYR_VxS3Uk

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+1+1+2

(

5

)

+1+1+2

=

9

avoidance roll

rolling 1d10!+2+2+2

(

10

+

5

)

+2+2+2

=

21

haha

Celeste: lol

Lodewig of Tytalus: yikes

Celeste: rofl

Voda: Yikes indeed.

Archibald of Guernicus: I dont think threshold mattered here at all, at least

Beatrice ex Merinita: it didn't, but it's funny

Cosimo: A bit unfortunate you still make a roll for comprehension iirc?

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+1 comprehension

(

9

)

+1

=

10

Cosimo: vs warping score + stress die

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

4

)

+2

=

6

comprehended

Celeste: Very subtle.

Archibald of Guernicus: roll to comprehend, i think you can even lower how long you're in twilight for that way

nice

Cosimo: Very cool.

Giraldo of Milan: congratulations on going to hell beatrice

Cosimo: TWILIGHT TIME:

Intelligence + stress die

vs. Warping Score + stress die

2 more rolls to make, then

Archibald of Guernicus: a positive twilight is only a good thing

Beatrice ex Merinita: no, those are already made

Voda: SPAGHETTI TIME:

Beatrice ex Merinita: TWILIGHT TIME:

Intelligence + stress die

vs. Warping Score + stress die

Note: The die rolls are the rolls already

made to comprehend the Twilight

Cosimo: I see.

Beatrice ex Merinita: my score is lower, so i'll have the base time 2 hour twilight with my warping

oh, actually i rolled well enough for it to lower the time

so 1 diam

Cosimo: Your warp score is 4 and you lower it by 4 steps

Lodewig of Tytalus: your score is higher, or you wouldn't have comprehended

they're making it seem more complicated than it is because you apply enigmatic wisdom in one stage and not another

Beatrice ex Merinita: warping score is 2

it's just warping score, not warping score + points gained

Cosimo: To the rest of you, you see Beatrice trying to cast. Something goes wrong and a huge crystal structure erupts out of the ground underneath her, and a perfect crystal globe surrounds her.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "fascinating!"

Cosimo: This gets the attention of everyone around, the priest, Cosimo, the guards milling about, the commoners in the stands.

Voda: "Gasp!"

Celeste: "Wow!"

Voda: I say.

Cosimo: Some are struck in awe, others in terror.

Beatrice ex Merinita: You have a distraction.

Snatch away the body.

Celeste: "Serves you right for trying to fool with the Lord!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I sneak off with the invisible corpse while this is going on, then

Lodewig of Tytalus: "You were quite right, signore Cosimo. there was magic at work here"

Voda: "Maybe you should have voiced this concern before she turned into a marble."

Cosimo:

rolling 1d10 Effects of Twilight

(

7

)

=

7

That's 9 total points Beatrice got

Beatrice ex Merinita: ouch

Cosimo: That's good though if you comprehended it

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah, but i'm almost to warping 3 now

Cosimo: Enough for a minor virtue or a very powerful spell

plus a scar. I'll have to think on it a bit, please remind me later too

Voda: Looks like the Storyguide has to decide what perks you get.

Beatrice ex Merinita: virtue is cooler for obvious reasons

Celeste: lucky.

Cosimo: This is why Twilight is cool, folks.

Archibald, you drag a corpse away.

Archibald of Guernicus: you roll 1d10 to add warping points gained when you enter twilight?

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Cosimo: yup

Archibald of Guernicus: where does it say that, i never knew that

i entered twilight in frisia

Cosimo: p 89

Archibald of Guernicus: fuck, i could have gotten a virtue

Cosimo: "Effects of Twilight"

Beatrice ex Merinita: EFFECTS OF TWILIGHT

Every Twilight experience marks the

maga. The strength of the mark is random. Roll

a simple die. The maga gains that many

Warping Points, in addition to the points that

triggered the Twilight.

Archibald of Guernicus: ah

Giraldo of Milan: "Hm. That's an interesting one."

Voda: How do all the mundanes look?

Angry?

Cosimo: Cosimo, the Priest, and very passerbys are completely entranced by the stone, debating how to break Beatrice out, while Archibald pulls an invisible body into the darkened undercroft of the colloseum.

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Can you cast your spell in Dom 2 with full ceremonial/shout stuff?

Voda: Hmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: now i only need to cast a crystal dart to optimize my xp gains for this season

Voda: I will REFRAIN from running away.

Cosimo: Not so much, a lot are concerned that a lady appears in some sort of harm

Celeste: I'll shoot an arrow at the globe.

Cosimo: It pings off without leaving as much as a scuff.

Celeste shrugs

(From Archibald of Guernicus): 50/50 odds, 80% in dom 1, thats what I'm looking for right now.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll attempt to dispel the crystal spire

(To Archibald of Guernicus): How about with conf?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I mean I won't, but I'll make a big fuss about appearing to do seomthing like that

Beatrice ex Merinita: this is actually my first twilight in all the time i spent playing ars

(From Archibald of Guernicus): With conf its 80%

(From Archibald of Guernicus): If theres no better auras anywhere I'll have to try it with dom 2, here I go

Giraldo of Milan: beatrice needs another crig botch but one that kills her

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Alright, you have to spend awhile looking for a favorable aura. You finally wind up in a dank pit full of animal bones. Cast away

Beatrice ex Merinita: that would be harder, since i have my main CrIg spell at mastery level 2

Archibald of Guernicus:

(To GM) rolling (1d10!+26+5)/2 vs 15, for a neutral aura

(

(

6

)

+26+5)/2

=

18.5

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, we've got some time. let's let archibald rough up the corpse until it tells him what it knows

(To Archibald of Guernicus): Success

Voda: What kind of crystal is the crystal spire?

johns (GM): Crystal is crystal

Voda: Ok.

Lodewig of Tytalus: mystical crystal

Voda: Hmm.

We should get a ladder.

johns (GM): As you ponder this, 2 minutes elapse, and the crystal orb shimmers, then evaporates into fine mist. Beatrice comes tumbling down to the earth.

Voda: Ouch.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh, whispers through the black gate has a mentem requisite, johns. i still passed, though.

Voda: I mean "Ouch!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: I pack away my ceremonial equipmnent with a self-satisfied air

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Ouch."

Voda: Suitable for printing on a t-shirt.

Lodewig of Tytalus: why would you want your clothes to say things?

Beatrice ex Merinita: to express pride at my own individuality

johns (GM): To lord your status over illiterate peasants

Archibald, what do you ask the dead man?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Did you see who killed you? Can you describe them?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: It's just like when my brother was making fun of german tourisst for being pigs on a school trip and then it turned out they were czech tourists who understood everything he said.

johns (GM): The knight describes the encounter: He and his 3 companions were patrolling the various passages under the colosseum when 4 strange figures seemed to step out of thin air into their midst.

At first they were dressed in garb he has only seen on an old statue, but once he blinked his eyes, the men were identical in appearance and gear to the knights..

devil's fav demon: spooky.

johns (GM): Recognizing immediately that foul witchcraft was at work, they attacked, but the other men were better fighters-- and their swords flickered with flame!

Voda: Hmm.

Ghosts perhaps???

Lodewig of Tytalus: so lord frangipani commands four knights

and they all go on patrol of an evening? all at once?

Archibald of Guernicus: I ask him if they spoke at all, and where exactly this happened

johns (GM): These are his household knights, he has knights with their own holdings elsewhere

Máriu Puddu: I spaced out listening to Iron Maiden and forgot that isn't proper Ars music since they sing about Alexander of Macedon or w/e

Beatrice ex Merinita: alexander of macedon is appropriate to ars, actually

Lodewig of Tytalus: even so it seems slightly demeaning work

johns (GM): The strangers said nothing. This occurred in the passageway leading from the courtyard/graveyard down to the larder and wine cellar.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, no matter

Voda: Don't you mean Alexander... of Greece?

Beatrice ex Merinita: same thing

Archibald of Guernicus: Aristocritus would have loved this...

Voda: Hmm.

johns (GM): The men appeared as if they just stepped through the arched entryway the separates interior from exterior.

Voda: Maybe they were gladiators.

Máriu Puddu: Hypatia probably would have too

Archibald of Guernicus: That's all I can think to ask the body

Máriu Puddu: Disgusting 3D

Voda: What was the wine cellar previously?

johns (GM): The body asks that you put it to rest and see that his arms and armor get to his son.

Beatrice ex Merinita: that's what happens when you build you home on a pagan burial ground

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll rejoin my sodales, carrying the invisible corpse, and relay all I learned.

"Beatrice, ye can dispel the invisibility so he can be buried, aye?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's check that doorway

johns (GM): Voda, I don't know how you would know the answer to that

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Uh..."

Voda: He probably should have said his name.

Oh well.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Uh..."

"I have problems... with my Perdo."

Voda: I guess you could ask an old Roman.

Archibald of Guernicus: "... Ah. I see."

"It's sun duration, correct?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Yes."

johns (GM): The giant fuckawesome crystal is still there btw. It's a new permanent fixture to the colosseum.

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

Celeste: Cool.

Voda: Does it chip or scratch?

Beatrice ex Merinita: take that, future archeologists

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we can get them to put off the burial until sunset, and cover him with the white linen, maybe that'll work."

johns (GM): Did you bring something to scratch it, Voda

Lodewig of Tytalus: just cover him with the shroud

Giraldo of Milan: I listen to Archibald's retelling of the tale and try to figure out what it might be.

Lodewig of Tytalus: wrap it proper. nobody wants to look at that

Voda: Yes.

I have a knife.

johns (GM): You dent your knife.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Celeste scratches Celeste+Petrarch 4eva into the crystal

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+3 faerie lore

(

1

)

+3

=

4

Máriu Puddu admires the sexy crystal

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+3 infernal lore

(

5

)

+3

=

8

johns (GM): Oh, wait, we have rules for this now.

Beatrice ex Merinita: no, we don't

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+4 magic lore

(

6

)

+4

=

10

Voda: Thank goodness.

Beatrice ex Merinita: durability rules don't exist

johns (GM): Roll Brawl + Stress Die to see if you damage your knife.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "I suspect a regio threshold in that doorway. or failing that some kind of spell on it"

Voda:

rolling 1d10! + 6

(

3

)

+6

=

9

Archibald of Guernicus: "I have a theory about these attackers. This appearance from nowhere may be a regio entrance, and we have 3 of us here with the second sight. After the nursery, we need to look intae it. If we turn up nothing, inexorable search tae find the boy could be another step."

Máriu Puddu: Knives are pretty cheap to replace

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right, yes, Lodewig. I'm glad ye had the same thinking on it."

Beatrice ex Merinita: It's a matter of principle.

Voda: Archibald trying to steal valor from Lodewig.

johns (GM): which type of lore was that voda

Voda: Brawl + Stress die.

johns (GM): oh he

h

thanks

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll try faerie lore too.

Lodewig of Tytalus: brawl lore

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+1+1 Int,FL

(

2

)

+1+1

=

4

Archibald of Guernicus: I could never hope to dethrone the third-greatest rapist in Rome

johns (GM): A merinita with 1 FL???

oh my.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i spent all my lores on house lore

of 2

Lodewig of Tytalus: i feel like the word rapist gets thrown around irresponsibly a lot these days

Archibald of Guernicus: Scared about the competition?

Voda: #NotMe

(To Giraldo of Milan): Nothing specific comes to mind with the Infernal Lore -- it could be one of any million demons taking the form of man. What purpose a demon has indiscriminately killing honorable knights is beyond you.

Beatrice ex Merinita: He's the second greatest rapist in Rome, actually.

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Beatrice ex Merinita: Galafre's not from Rome.

And he's the Ultimate Rapist anyway. Completely different scale.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think Galafre's skill transcends boundaries

Giraldo of Milan: oops add 1 to al lthe lores i forgot int

though it probably doesnt change my result

Lodewig of Tytalus: who's agreed to be the greatest rapist in rome?

Beatrice ex Merinita: The Holy Father once he comes back.

Giraldo of Milan sighs and loosens tunic.

Lodewig of Tytalus: never heard of him

Voda: 8|

johns (GM): Per + Second Sight those who have it

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+0+1

(

2

)

+0+1

=

3

great rolls today

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+3

(

2

)

+3+3

=

8

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+7

(

9

)

+7

=

16

Celeste: Hm.

johns (GM): Italian chef kisses fingers at these rolls

Voda: Wow.

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

1

)

+2+3

=

6

Voda: People just love Second Sight.

Celeste: Nice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Second Sigh

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, all 4 of us have strong fairy blood. I don't think anyone has ever bothered buying second sight.

johns (GM): lol

its also free for spirit votaries

Celeste: I trained it with exposure to Prudenzio's wife for a while.

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald was here first, so he's a trendsetter.

johns (GM): but it's also one of those skills that is just so essential for so much stuff

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's time to nerf strong fairy blood

Beatrice ex Merinita: never

Voda: Nothing we could do.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's time to shove boy reporter in a tiny cube.

Voda: This is self-defense.

Beatrice ex Merinita: except for the provencal version of faerie blood that gives +1 to size and is compatible with giant's blood

Celeste: :O

johns (GM): Archibald and Giraldo, from inside the passageway and looking out, there is a slight shimmering in the bright sunlit archway. You also think you hear something, like the sound of the ocean.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A regio, aha."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "ah, you see it too?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. Giraldo, yer dad was a fairy too, how about you? See it?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Aye."

johns (GM): brb 1 sec

Giraldo of Milan: I check out the entrance to try to figure out how to get in.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Entering it must have some sort of condition, though. An arch like this, anyone could just stumble in by accident."

Lodewig of Tytalus: isn't seeing it usually enough to get in?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not sure. I think sometimes the entrance is conditional.

Voda: You could check by walking into it.

johns (GM): Perhaps.

Giraldo of Milan: I walk into it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Remember, they apparently wielded swords of flame. If any of ye have any protection from ignem, now would be a good time for it."

Voda: Oh no, Giraldo has been exploded ten thousand times.

johns (GM): The air resists for a moment like you are stepping into water, and then you disappear from everyone else's sight.

Beatrice ex Merinita: time to roll to avoid drowning

Celeste: "Hey! Giraldo!"

Lodewig of Tytalus: now lead us all through

I think you can do that with second sight

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, just seeing it is enough, it seems. Right, I'll get ye all in."

Lodewig of Tytalus: first though I'll resummon wolfmind, turn it into an inconspicuous dog, and set it to watch the outside area

Beatrice ex Merinita: since this is a simple die, I'll just wait until i see it too

johns (GM): i feel like that spell should not work between regio levels, but that's just me.

You all head in?

Celeste: Sure.

Lodewig of Tytalus: you're welcome to rule that it doesn't

Beatrice ex Merinita: If it's safe to enter.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah.

johns (GM): Mainly, I feel this, because its fun to bully Boyr.

Great.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll prebuff with Sidestep first.

I think social part is over.

johns (GM): The roaring ocean sound gets louder as you pass through the barrier between here and there. And then..

Stepping through the passage, you are quickly met by a loud roar-- thousands of voices, cheering and jeering together. The quiet colosseum is now full of life, its stands packs with Romans, hooved satyrs, centaurs, hulking cyclopes, and winged harpies, enjoying the show.

Celeste: lmao.

Hell yeah.

johns (GM): Down on the ground, Christian martyrs cower and run from wild lions, crocodiles, rhinos and other exotic beasts. Charioteers in chariots of gold and silver spin the course, gladiators battle one another with ferocity, and heralds blast their trumpets. In the Emperor's box, a woman in a purple stola stands and occasionally signals to the crowd to cheer or to the combatants to show no mercy.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I love you Livia.

Voda: Hmm.

Máriu Puddu: Oooh, satyrs

Let's hook Celeste up

Giraldo of Milan: nice, another regio with a colosseum in it

Celeste: Did we enter where it says entryway?

Giraldo of Milan: these faeries need to get creative

Voda: What if we have, instead, traveled back in time?

johns (GM): Yep Celeste

where was the other colosseum

Giraldo of Milan: the mercury regio

it had a minotaur labyrinth under it

johns (GM): ah right

that was a real colosseum built by human hands, at least

Archibald of Guernicus: OH, I'll stick on sidestep, good lord

Giraldo of Milan: well maybe this is a magic one actually

hm

are satyrs magic or faerie

guess it could go either way

Beatrice ex Merinita: i got sidestep before i entered

Lodewig of Tytalus: usually fairy

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyone want sidestep? I can give anyone it that asks here.

johns (GM): Surrounded as you are by thousands of spectators, no one pays any mind to you emerging from the entryway.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What the fuck have we wandered intae?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: they're not wilderness spirits, they're interested in people

Beatrice ex Merinita: is mariu our only shield grog here?

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah I could go for a sidestep

Beatrice ex Merinita: does sidestep affect your shadow?

johns (GM): nope

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn

Máriu Puddu: "Seems fun, except for the shrill winged women."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i was hoping sidestep moving my image to arc range in my lab would be the perfect invisibility

Lodewig of Tytalus: i guess your image also appears lit as it would from where you're really standing

Voda: Imaginem can't change your shadow, since that is a property of light and therefore Ignem.

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

i solved that issue already, but doing it with imaginem would have been easier

Máriu Puddu: Make an upgraded invisibility with CrIg reqs

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think requisite is not enough

Máriu Puddu: Or put Ignem on Sidestep

Lodewig of Tytalus: an Improved Invisibility, if you will

Beatrice ex Merinita: since the effect is more complex than that

Lodewig of Tytalus: well I don't know what to do about all this

Beatrice ex Merinita: at least we know enough latin to get by

Lodewig of Tytalus: let's watch the show I guess. does anyone have a flaming sword?

Beatrice ex Merinita: even if we come off as country bumpkins with our shitty medieval latin

Celeste: No flaming swords here, sadly.

johns (GM): You watch the show. No flaming swords.

Celeste: Would be a cool look.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Let's go seduce Livia in the Imperial Box.

Lodewig of Tytalus: alright

Voda: What happens to martyrs who are killed?

johns (GM): Occasionally some fighters fall. Slaves rush into the pit to drag their corpse off into the underhalls, and a few minutes later, a new participant emerges -- gladiator, charioteer, martyr, etc.

Voda: Ok then.

Archibald of Guernicus: What's the aura, within this place?

Voda: Are the gladiators all human or are some weirdos?

johns (GM): There are some beasts among their number -- cyclops and centaurs

You'll have to cast a spell to measure the aura if Proclus isn't here.

Celeste: "You know, this seems horrible and savage and unChristian, but I'm kind of excited."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll fatiguelessly spont sense of faerie power

it doesn't tell me the strength, but it tells me if it's faerie

Voda: Smart.

johns (GM): Tis Faerie

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

Lodewig of Tytalus: "If you want to impress the empress our best bet is probably to jump into the games and make it all about us"

"just a hunch"

Celeste: "I love that idea! We're so tough, it'd be no problem."

Archibald of Guernicus: "What begs the question is why they'd come out and attack the knights here."

Beatrice ex Merinita: The Empress probably isn't Livia, since this is the Flavian amphitheatre, so I'm fine with not impressing her.

Voda: That's a great idea and also there's no way I'm jumping into a death pit.

Lodewig of Tytalus: sure? it'll be fun

well, maybe later

johns (GM): Ok, who's jumping in first

Lodewig of Tytalus: I like this idea but I also don't want to play ars combat

Beatrice ex Merinita: Let's all jump in together.

Voda: Hoist by your own petard.

Archibald of Guernicus: What sort of weapons are they using? I have a spell to ward against all metal. Downside - can't use my longsword.

johns (GM): alright, drag your tokens into the fighting pit if you're jumping in

Voda: I'm going to make my way to the Imperial Podium instead of jumping into the pit.

Beatrice ex Merinita: We should look for where they keep the combatants.

johns (GM): They're using old roman weapons -- swords, javelins, tridents, stones

Beatrice ex Merinita: Stones! My only weakness!

Voda: What about nets?

johns (GM): The podium is a large enclosed structure with a viewing balcony. The entrances are in the stands, and guarded by centaurs.

You better believe there are nets.

Giraldo of Milan: im also going to investigate things that arent the fight pit

Voda: Oh HELLS yet.

Beatrice ex Merinita: using stones to sidestep wards against metal and shriek of impeding shafts is actually a pro move

johns (GM): do I take this to interpret that mariu is jumping into the fighting pit

Máriu Puddu: I think so

johns (GM): Ok.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I think Voda's idea is fine.

The Empress can always have us thrown to the pit after we talk to her.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should head over there and see what we can do before jumping straight in.

Máriu Puddu: Or I can let Voda do his thing

johns (GM): Well

Máriu Puddu: I missed some context

johns (GM): It was such a good idea, honestly.

But fine. We'll roll with plan Voda.

Centaur: "Hark, who goes there?" The Centaur asks Voda.

Voda: "I am Voda, a great chieftain of the north."

Giraldo of Milan: I'll try to make my way down to the gladiator holdings.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'll go with giraldo

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Beatrix, devotee of Diana."

Centaur: "Chieftain Voda. Are you sworn to the honor of the Empress?"

Giraldo and Lodewig, contestants seems to be streaming out of the same place the dead are taken to, the Sanitariu,

m.

Celeste: Same. I'm following the brave stupid men.

Voda: "Yes, of course."

Máriu Puddu: I'm following the brave sexy men

Giraldo of Milan: then we will go there

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. Archibald, follower of Mercury."

Giraldo of Milan: nice, marius in the pit

Centaur: Split party ftw.

Giraldo of Milan: nice to see someone trying a proper plan

Centaur: Okay, first I'll describe the Sanitarium

Beatrice ex Merinita: How far is the sanitarium entrance from the podium?

Máriu Puddu: Nice, I love He's A Pirate

Centaur: If you look at the map-- they're basically on opposite sides of the colosseum

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have 500 pace teleport if i want to switch parties.

Archibald of Guernicus: After tribunal I'm going to begin work on translating all those ancient roman rituals, so I'll even be able to talk to Mercury. Eventually.

Máriu Puddu: I'm a grog, I can be ordered to join the suicide party

Beatrice ex Merinita: 500 paces is 1500 feet, so i should be able to teleport anywhere

Centaur: The Sanitarium is sunk underground and its thick walls muffle the sounds of the colosseum above. Torches light the area. It consists several thick slabs, large enough for a person to lie on, and pools of murky water. A thick layer of ash and iron rust covers every surface and chokes the air.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Dimensions of the Colosseum

Area covered: 6 acres

Number of Entrances: 76 entrances were numbered but there were an additional four grand entrances which were not numbered

Dimensions: Height: 50 metres high (187 ft), equivalent to a 12 storey building

Beatrice ex Merinita: Dimensions: Length: 189 metres (615 ft) long

Dimensions: Width: 156 metres 510 ft wide

Centaur: The slaves toss the deceased into one pool, where they dissolve. A new person emerges from the opposite pool.

Lodewig of Tytalus: convenient!

Máriu Puddu: Hmmm

Lodewig of Tytalus: and what's more, sanitary

Beatrice ex Merinita: brb

Celeste: "How does this work, exactly, with their souls?"

Centaur: meanwhile

Giraldo of Milan: what about the slabs

Celeste: "Do these gladiators have souls?"

Voda: Nice, a Comic Dwarf.

Centaur: Archibald, Beatrice, and Voda are shown into the Imperial viewing box.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "how would you tell?"

Centaur: The dwarf is a Tyrion dwarf, not a Gimli dwarf, btw. He's dressed in fool's motley.

Máriu Puddu: Tytalan dwarf

Lodewig of Tytalus: ah, so an elf

Máriu Puddu: Dwarves are just dark elves anyway

Centaur: A very important looking woman enjoys the viewing from the balcony, and is surrounded by 4 knights in armor that doesn't match the rest of this setting.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh shit

Voda: "Most auspicious greetings, my Empress."

Giraldo of Milan: whats a tyrion dwarf

Centaur: The room continues far back away from the balcony into a lounge, then a garden sort of area, and various passages branch off. It's full of life and activity.

Máriu Puddu: Lord Tyrion Lannister is the youngest child of Lord Tywin Lannister and younger brother of Cersei and Jaime Lannister. A dwarf, he uses his wit and intellect to overcome the prejudice he faces.

Tyrion Lannister | Game of Thrones Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia

Voda: "We have come from the northern reaches of your Empire bearing tribute."

Giraldo of Milan: oh my god

im fucking killing johns

Voda: Hopefully you have some suitably fancy tributes.

Centaur: beardbeard pretending he doesn't know who tyrion lannister is. lol.

Beatrice ex Merinita: back

Voda: I'll bow before her Emperessness.

Giraldo of Milan: johns the worlds number 1 game of thrones fan

Máriu Puddu: FAGDOM powered by Wikia

Celeste: You know who else was a tyrion lannister dwarf and used the actor's photo as a token?

Horsefucker.

Empress Drusilla: The Empress turns around and looks at you all, a bit bored. "You are.. hum, I don't remember you. But everyone's welcome to enjoy the games regardless."

Archibald of Guernicus: Good thing he was killed before even reaching the covenant.

Celeste: Good thing.

Lodewig of Tytalus: otherwise things could have been confusing

Empress Drusilla: "You are wise to bring tribute on this auspicious occasion." She looks at you all expectantly.

Máriu Puddu: We can't allow this farrier to enter play, but we can accept the demonic flying skull

Beatrice ex Merinita: the skull can't actually rape anyone is the difference

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm, I could try something here, lemme check a guideline

Máriu Puddu: Not for lack of trying

Voda: Anyway do you guys have any treasures?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I spent all my money bribing the priest.

Máriu Puddu: I spent all my money on lewd woodcuts

Voda: There's no way she's going to accept any of our future money.

Lodewig of Tytalus: why not?

Beatrice ex Merinita: too vulgar

Celeste: The farrier was monogamous, he just very specifically fucked one upset horse in human form. Let's be clear here.

Beatrice ex Merinita: and probably too debased

Máriu Puddu: Start mining Faecoin today!

Beatrice ex Merinita: start

Empress Drusilla: Anyone have Etiquette or Fae Lore

Beatrice ex Merinita: both

Lodewig of Tytalus: I have etiquette, so I didn't just foist myself on an empress

Beatrice ex Merinita: Pre+Etiquette-Gift?

Empress Drusilla: yea

Máriu Puddu: This guy is Mort Age 1356

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+3-3+1

(

2

)

+3-3+1

=

3

hmm

Empress Drusilla: hmm

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'll conf

Empress Drusilla: Roll Fae Lore too

Archibald of Guernicus: "As a follower of Mercury, I can provide a gift, with my talents, if ye permit me."

Beatrice ex Merinita: 6 is better than 3

fae lore with int and no gift?

Archibald of Guernicus: Rolling etiquette, of course

Empress Drusilla: correct

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's see

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+1+1

(

5

)

+1+1

=

7

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10-6-2

(

2

)

-6-2

=

-6

Celeste: lol

Empress Drusilla: Archibald believes the polite thing to do is to sneeze on the carpet

devil's fav demon: archibald ftw

Beatrice ex Merinita: excuse him, he's a pict

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): If the faerie is not cognizant, you would want something appropriate to the role/era. If it the faerie is cognizant, the best thing you can give it is something acknowledging its authority

Lodewig of Tytalus: you should have offered him as tribute

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll just start setting up the ceremonial casting stuff for sponting a spell on the floor

Beatrice ex Merinita: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: And grab a goblet to fill up with, sponting CrAq, same aura as elsewhere right?

Empress Drusilla: Yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I can offer nothing but my loyalty to you, great Empress."

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+19+2+5)/2

(

(

9

)

+19+2+5)/2

=

17.5

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): I think that's appropriate to both role/era and authority.

Archibald of Guernicus: CrAq wine is base 2, +1 mag for wine, +2 sun, +1 touch

so, +1 magnitude for unnatural liquid (higher quality), that alright?

Empress Drusilla: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: Sure. I'll present a goblet of fine wine as my gift.

Empress Drusilla: The Empress is a bit bemused. One of the Knights takes it and tastes it.

He assess it..

"Sssss gooooOd." He says in a strange slurring voice.

The Empress asks Voda, "And you chieftain, I have your loyalty as well?"

Voda: "Yes, of course."

Beatrice ex Merinita: It's better for a fae to rule Rome than for the Emperor to be either a Greek or German.

Voda: "My warriors are at your disposal."

Empress Drusilla: "How many men in your command, Chieftain?"

(To Voda): a guile roll would be useful here too

Voda: "I have 5 of my finest warriors with me, as well as my two wise advisers."

Rolling Guile + Com

rolling 1d10 + 1 + 4

(

1

)

+1+4

=

6

Uh oh.

Empress Drusilla: smh.

rolling 2d10

(

9

+

2

)

=

11

Voda: Hmm, I'll conf that.

Archibald of Guernicus: Distressingly honest guile score

Voda: "In addition, I have more than one thousand fierce warriors at my command."

Giraldo of Milan: 4 is NOT an honest guile score

Beatrice ex Merinita: what if the 4 is comm?

Voda: It 'tisn't.

Beatrice ex Merinita: rip

Empress Drusilla: The Empress lifts up the goblet of wine and takes in the aroma, considering you all. "Blessed Mars has guided you to my command. You shall fight beneath my banner in the days to come, and you and your advisors shall have offices befitting your victories."

"You enjoy the Empress' hospitality until we march."

Voda: "Thank you for this chance to win glory on the field of battle."

Archibald of Guernicus: I whisper at Beatrice "How are ye meant tae address an empress, we need tae find out about the kid."

Empress Drusilla: "Guma, tend to them," says the Empress with a wave of her hand, then turns her head to keep glimpsing at the fights below.

The dwarf woddles up to you with cups and a wine pitcher.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll whisper to Archibald. "I think Augusta is always good."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll drink the wine. What's the worst that could happen?

Voda: "I drink this wine in honor of our gracious and beautiful host," I toast.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh right." I raise my cup up too

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll drink.

And toast the Empress.

Empress Drusilla: "Mm hmm."

Voda: Of course, I also drink the wine.

Empress Drusilla: It tastes grapish.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Er, Augusta, as someone normally enclosed in worship tae Mercury, I'm unaware of current events. Who are we waging war upon?"

Empress Drusilla: Sanitarium party, have you had any insights or wanted to roll anything

Celeste: I want to roll Theology to see if it's possible to reincarnate souls from body to body or if this whole gladiator process is some unholy necromancy.

or both.

Lodewig of Tytalus: well we've worked out there's eternal fairy games going on here, but we could have guessed that

Voda: I feel like Reincarnation is so beyond the pale of Christian teachings that it requires no roll.

Lodewig of Tytalus: more importantly, it's very likely the young lord was abducted here as part of some scheme

Guma the Dwarf: "The Empress will claim the stewardship of the Barony of Frangipani, once the Emperor has inherited it, of course."

Lodewig of Tytalus: so how do we go about finding him?

Guma the Dwarf bows courteously to the Empress almost dropping his wine.

Guma the Dwarf: per + folk ken available

Voda: Oh SHIT.

rolling 1d10 + 3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10-3 since iirc gift applies

(

6

)

-3

=

3

Archibald of Guernicus: It does, lets see here

rolling 1d10+3+1-6

(

6

)

+3+1-6

=

4

Guma the Dwarf: Just another silly court jester.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "That is her right as an Empress."

Archibald of Guernicus: "The emperor?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: that seems like bullshit, but you're the noble

Voda: Is the cyclops of ordinary height?

Empress Drusilla: he's pretty tall.

got a big head.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think I see where this is going.

Empress Drusilla: "The  new  Emperor."

"Poor Tacitus..." she says rather blankly and stares off at the fights again.

Archibald of Guernicus: I nod "Of course. This emperor, might he be the son of the current holder of the barony?"

Empress Drusilla: "Son and heir by right of blood."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll sit with Voda and Beatrice

Quietly, I say to them "Well, there's yer answer about whit happened here. Any ideas?"

Voda: "Well, I think we should leave before we're mustered out."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Well... I'm afraid my hands are tied."

"I did gave my word of loyalty to the Empress."

Empress Drusilla: perhaps now is a good time for the split party to reconvene

and discuss.

Archibald of Guernicus: "That a problem? I guess yer the merinita here, suppose it must be."

"I never gave mine." I tap my nose

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Would this be court wizardry or molesting the fae? From legal standpoint?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: I've been using this time reconnoitre the grounds and in particular ascertain if there's anywhere a prisoner or hostage might be kept

Voda: "Maybe you should have been more careful with who you give your word to."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "If you can't trust the fae, then who can you trust?"

Giraldo of Milan: ill head up to the empress's place when i can

since the sanitarium seems a dud

Lodewig of Tytalus: because it strikes me as a good idea, i ffm woodland prowler to part target and turn my nose and ears to those of a wolf, which i'm guessing grants me the qualities of sharp ears and keen sense of smell

Empress Drusilla: Lodewig discovers a couple points of interest-- beneath the fighting pit is a large storage area of boats and machinery, and there is a tunnel through which animals seems to just spontaneously generate

But you find no prison cell, no hostage chamber, no sign of a baby.

Voda: What kind of machinery?

Empress Drusilla: Int + Machinery to determine.

Beatrice ex Merinita: something to pump water into the arena, i guess

Voda: I'm not there, so I shan't.

Lodewig of Tytalus: i've been looking at spells to smell babies and it's actually quite hard

Beatrice ex Merinita: as it should be, pervert

Voda: You could go collect an Arcane Connection.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's true

Máriu Puddu: Too bad I haven't made my character with Craft: Mechanisms yet

Lodewig of Tytalus: though frankly arc range just makes things harder

who's good at intellegencing?

Archibald of Guernicus: We'd need to leave to actually pull off sponting The Inexorable Search, though it might be possible to do an InCo effect with momentary duration to say what direction he's in, while in here?

Intellego is my highest technique, corpus is among my highest forms

Giraldo of Milan: i could dowse for babies

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh that might work

Archibald of Guernicus: Baby finding stick

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Augusta, if I might be so bold, is there reason to hurry in this campaign?"

Voda: You'd need a baby to hold while you dowse for babies.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The Emperor is still young and the current holder of Frangipani dpes not seem to pose a threat."

Let's ask Zita to provide us with baby to use in dowsing.

Empress Drusilla: She raises an eyebrow. "You question my leadership? What daughter of Rome cowers from war so easily?"

Archibald of Guernicus: There is technically a baby at the covenant right now. If you lose it both Zita and Lavinia will kill you.

Empress Drusilla: oh nooo the two fake wizards will be mad. lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Rome is not an aggressor. It always has just cause for war."

Lodewig of Tytalus: where did that come from?

Voda: "Forgive Beatrice, she is naturally cowardly, as a result of her small stature."

Archibald of Guernicus: Can't believe an animal specialist has never heard of the birds and the bees.

Beatrice ex Merinita: We must flame Voda.

Voda: Hey, I'm just trying to save you from yourself.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Birds lay eggs and bees generate spontaneously.

Empress Drusilla: "You speak like the old Emperor, timid and fool he was, content to live forever in this small domain when a whole world waits outside.."

Beatrice ex Merinita: Nothing to do with where babies come from.

Voda: There is SOME DISPUTE as to the generative habits of bees.

Lodewig of Tytalus: and also where does this specific baby come from

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita is married to a magus to continue the Mercere bloodline.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh right, right

Beatrice ex Merinita: "This domain is not small. Rome's domain is the whole known world."

Empress Drusilla: "Then I am justified to seize what I want. But for now I just want the Barony."

"Do I truly have your loyalty, Beatrix?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: Can I get six people to help me summon ghost legionnaires to take over a Barony for fae Empress?

Lodewig of Tytalus: i want to flag down the fake ancient roman equivalent of a guy who sells hot dogs or popcorn or something at these games

Beatrice ex Merinita: "If the new Emperor has claim to Frangipani, then your cause is just."

Lodewig of Tytalus: and get a little cone of lark's tongues or soemthing

Archibald of Guernicus: Otters lips, badgers earlobes

Empress Drusilla: they probably sell dates

fig

Beatrice ex Merinita: I wish to back this foolish plot to restablish Roman Empire in Rome.

Lodewig of Tytalus: i mean the pope's not here so it's basically up for grabs

Empress Drusilla: "Chieftain Voda, I have a special mission for you and your clan. If you succeed where my own knights have failed, I shall bestow the title of Proconsul upon you."

Voda: "Of course, my Empress."

Empress Drusilla: "Slay the elder Baron and bring proof of the deed to me."

Voda: "At once, my Empress."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I also wish to remind my fellow magi that Faerie aura instead of Dominion aura is better for everyone.

Celeste: pff.

Voda: "Allow us to pay homage to the new Emperor, that we may gain glory in his name."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have an idea. Let' switch Zita's baby for the Emperor.

Lavinia won't complain her apprentice grew up in proper Rome.

Lodewig of Tytalus: There can't be an actual city in this regio can there? she'd keep the baby wherever she lives, and that has to be here

Empress Drusilla: "You can swear your homage to me, as I shall steward the Barony until the Emperor comes of age."

If you try walking outside Lodewig you just end up right back in the Colosseum

Voda: "Yes Empress, if the Emperor is unworthy of receiving us, we will obey your command."

Giraldo of Milan: do i make it to the empress's place yet

Empress Drusilla: you're all together now

Giraldo of Milan: nice

Empress Drusilla waves the gm fiat wand

Empress Drusilla: you are one party again

Archibald of Guernicus: Wow!

"Hi Giraldo, hi Lodewig."

Beatrice ex Merinita: incredible magic

Giraldo of Milan: "Nice colosseum."

johns (GM): Oops, I forgot to ask what everyone's MR against Fiat is

Lodewig of Tytalus: "We have arrived"

Voda: None.

Lodewig of Tytalus: It's a million

Beatrice ex Merinita: It was reduced to 0 by fiat.

Lodewig of Tytalus: I recognize no authority but my own

Archibald of Guernicus: Such is the nature of the fiat aura

Celeste: Oh hi everyone!

johns (GM): you've got a few options before you right now

and beatrice has voiced her opinion

Lodewig of Tytalus: i presume we didn't walk in on the interview and instead reconvened somewhere we can talk

Archibald of Guernicus: Do we have privacy to discuss our options ic

johns (GM): sure

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Augusta, would you be satisfied if the current holder of Frangipani demonstarted his loyalty to you?"

Archibald of Guernicus: well beatrice is still doing stuff there, uh

Empress Drusilla: "Bring him to me to swear fealty if he shall."

well im not going to be strict about one conversation ending and the rest of you internally discussing here

since beatrix can just pop in to ask for more info whenever she wants

Beatrice ex Merinita: I think that's all I wanted to ask.

Lodewig of Tytalus: "alright, well, this place is quaint but I think we can agree this bitch is crazy"

Voda: I don't know how Venator would feel about a fairy empress trying to take over Rome.

Archibald of Guernicus: What he doesnt know won't hurt him

Beatrice ex Merinita: "She has a good point and is not trying to be disruptive."

johns (GM): So far her aspirations are limited to the Barony

Voda: Still though.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Everything goes through proper channels."

Giraldo of Milan: "She killed some men, a noblewoman, and stole a baby."

johns (GM): brb

Archibald of Guernicus: "She killed a bunch of uninvolved innocents and kidnapped a kid."

Voda: Birb.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's safe tae say she has little tae no morality regarding people."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "a handful of mythical monsters aren't going to to be able to stage a successful invasion of one of the greatest and holiest cities on earth"

Beatrice ex Merinita: look, my plan for getting an apprentice involves kidnapping a kid and leaving a changeling behind. i can't judge

Giraldo of Milan: "I've got mixed feelings on the proper solution to this."

Lodewig of Tytalus: "is there any hope of convincing a fairy queen that her ideas are crazy?"

Giraldo of Milan: "No."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I don't think merely taking the child from here back to his dad would fix things."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "They're not in their current form."

what happened to the wife?

Voda: "How well would you be able to control the Empress if you did strike an alliance, masters?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: didn't she die

Beatrice ex Merinita: if the wife is dead, then it's simple

Archibald of Guernicus: "Slaying the empress would similarly cause problems."

Voda: Couldn't we just brick over the regio entrance?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Let the Baron marry the Empress.

Celeste: what if we replace the child with a piece of wood.

Giraldo of Milan: "The best choice is killing her, but we need a plan. She's got too many guards."

Archibald of Guernicus: There could be more than one regio entrance

Lodewig of Tytalus: We'd have to make him forget she killed his wife

Beatrice ex Merinita: That's Lodewig's specialization.

Archibald of Guernicus: it does occupy the same space as the real colosseum. also we'd be bricking over the wine cellar, they might not be happy about that

Lodewig of Tytalus: And to be honest he might not go for it. He's a mundane, you know.

Voda: Well, you could cut a new set of stairs into the cellar.

Giraldo of Milan: hes possibly very pious as well

Voda: Probably.

I don't know.

Beatrice ex Merinita: let me see my Creo Mentem options

c'thinker: buongiorno amici.

Giraldo of Milan: if we want to kill her ive got a good plan

that makes use of giraldos skillset

Voda: Stab her to death with a knife.

johns (GM): good timing, we're in a decision mode cumthinker

Giraldo of Milan: thats absurd

Lodewig of Tytalus: I suspect if you destroy the entrance another would appear eventually. Unless maybe you levelled the building

Giraldo of Milan: no one here has good brawl

Celeste: Murder is a sin.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Do you know whose skillset that also matches?

Beatrice ex Merinita: 15 CrMe is doable for Beatrice

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, Lodewig. The regio is overlaid on the physical location.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have a perfect plan.

Celeste: I have 2 brawl, 3 if I'm drunk.

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's easy to have good brawl, you just turn into an animal

Archibald of Guernicus: It can't simply be closed up with a brick wall

Giraldo of Milan: not derfels, as derfel does not have the requisite flaws

Celeste: I have much higher weapon scores.

Giraldo of Milan: I go back out to see the Empress.

"Fine colosseum you've got here."

Beatrice ex Merinita: We'll take the baron here. I'll CrMe lust into him and then we'll take him to the Empress.

Oh fuck.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oi, before ye go in there." I say to Giraldo as he starts wandering off

Beatrice ex Merinita: I follow Giraldo once he's gone.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't do anything rash, we're still working out what the fuck tae do here."

"Ye start a fight, yer own yer own."

* on

johns (GM): The Empress has no interest in Giraldo's small talk and just ignores you.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Love the Colosseum.

Voda: "How would you control the Empress if we did do what she says?"

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Big fan of Rome.

Máriu Puddu: Same

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: the welsh are the true heirs to roman culture

Giraldo of Milan: I go back to the gang.

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrMe lust for the Empress is base 4

I can do that.

Base 4 + 1 Touch + 2 Sun for 15

johns (GM): What if he has true love virtue.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, the romans had their cult of mercury, that advised them. We found records from ages ago showin' it. If someone with more of a silver tongue convinced her we were part of this group, as advisors, we could sway her."

Beatrice ex Merinita: his true love is dead

well, his wife is dead

johns (GM): for less than a day!!!!

Giraldo of Milan: "If I had more of a silver tongue, I could put the cult of Venus to work for us."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Don't be crude."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Very funny."

Giraldo of Milan: "I don't think anything other than killing her is a good option."

Voda: Also, I hesitate to bring this up, but for a baron to lust for someone does not imply that he will marry her.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: whats the status report

johns (GM): the empress is already married

Beatrice ex Merinita: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: "Killing powerful fae tends tae piss off others. Look how many people are in here."

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: im a king, over here. where are my court magi

Giraldo of Milan: it doesnt matter if shes married as this is based on ancient rome

Archibald of Guernicus: "Could ye imagine if a bunch of cyclops and centaurs and all sorts started piling out of this place?"

"Attacking people?"

johns (GM): debatable since the kid and the barony are in mythic europe

ill recap cthinker I guess?

Giraldo of Milan: oh, i meant for my plan

Lodewig of Tytalus: it would be kind of cool

Giraldo of Milan: which doesnt involve the baron

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: that would be chill, since then i could kill them with my spear.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I think getting the Baron to work with the Empress would work."

Archibald of Guernicus: "This is why ye don't molest the fae without good reason."

Voda: "We should try and find the little Emperor, first."

johns (GM): okay cthinker a faerie empress murdered a baron's wife and some knights, kidnapped the infant son, married the infant and now plans to kill the baron to become ruler of the barony

Voda: "We should also learn what happened to the last Emperor."

"Tacticus?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "The empress killed his wife, stole his son, and impersonated his knights."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Emperors come and go."

Voda: "Tacitcles?"

"Something like that."

Giraldo of Milan: "And you want to let her live, and put her in power?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "When in Rome..."

johns (GM): What would Joanna of Naples do.

Lodewig of Tytalus: what's the deal with her knights anyway? they just took the armour of some guys they killed

Beatrice ex Merinita: What would Joanna the Mad do?

Lodewig of Tytalus: for no other reason, apparently?

johns (GM): faerie lore

Lodewig of Tytalus: I don't have that

johns (GM): well I guess there's no point lore walling it

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+4

(

5

)

+4

=

9

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+1+1 what's the deal with the weird knights

(

9

)

+1+1

=

11

johns (GM): they're impersonating the knights with pretense

Beatrice ex Merinita: but why?

they don't fit in

johns (GM): they did when they were outside

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh shit right, they were those guys for a month

but they're still wearing modern armour, right?

johns (GM): yup

Voda: "If he was also a fairy, then why did he die?"

Giraldo of Milan: ludus matutinus

ludus matutinus

Voda: "In fact, why has nobody heard of this place until now?"

Giraldo of Milan: johns this is not real words

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's odd that a fairy that could impersonate a particular person would also need to steal their clothes

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Some faeries have to die to fulfill their role."

johns (GM): https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus_Matutinus

they didn't steal the armor

the armor they're wearing is part of their pretense

Giraldo of Milan: didnt know you were dutch

Beatrice ex Merinita: why nl wiki and not the more appropriate it?

johns (GM): idk

Lodewig of Tytalus: their glamour

Archibald of Guernicus: Naughtius Maximus

Giraldo of Milan: there is no english page for it

only the dutch one

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's still odd they're keeping up appearances

Giraldo of Milan: ludus matutinus

Lodewig of Tytalus: while acting weird and fey

Beatrice ex Merinita: dutch and italian!

Voda: "It seems to me that there must be some primary cause for this attack. Surely they weren't just waiting in here for a thousand years before finally deciding to kidnap a baby."

Beatrice ex Merinita: why link the dutch when you can link italian

johns (GM): there is a reason their voice is fucked up

Beatrice ex Merinita: "That's true."

johns (GM): but i dont really think it too important. and its not obvious without good faerie lore

Lodewig of Tytalus: it seems related to the fairy king's death

Celeste: Yeah, they've got a terminal case of Gay Mouth.

Giraldo of Milan: anyway lets kill the empress

Voda: "I think he was murdered by someone who isn't me."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Investigating what happened to the last emperor would be useful."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: you should absolutely kill the empress

Archibald of Guernicus: "What prompted them is what we need tae find out. Would the old emperor's death really happen so suddenly?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: but why would he just up and die

I'm guessing a coup

Giraldo of Milan: someone give me limp dilz charisma dust so i can seduce her and get her alone and sneak attack kill her

Archibald of Guernicus: "If someone killed him, they're responsible for this mess."

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: someone give me +5 presence so i can seduce her, haha

johns (GM): Lodewig, did you kill the Emperor.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Proclus came with us to the Colloseum relatively recently."

Giraldo of Milan: what season is it

johns (GM): spring

Beatrice ex Merinita: spring

Giraldo of Milan: NICE

Lodewig of Tytalus: honestly I was expecting to have it revealed that I'd killed any given person in this scenario for some time

Giraldo of Milan: hm

we are probably in april

Lodewig of Tytalus: but I don't think I could have killed a monarch of faerie in his own domain

johns (GM): april 20..... but no one understands why it's funny yet

Giraldo of Milan: i understand why its funny

Archibald of Guernicus: Dylan and Eric appear in the fairy regio

Beatrice ex Merinita: can we go a single faerie adventure without some fucking retard wanting to kill everyone?

Voda: As soon as faeries stop having vis in their bodies.

johns (GM): can we go a single adventure without every fucking retard wanting to kill everyone

Giraldo of Milan: i just want to kill the empress as shes interfering murderously in mundane lives

Beatrice ex Merinita: she's the empress. that's literally her job?

Archibald of Guernicus: There will be a lot more murder if you do, because the troops will go out to get revenge.

Giraldo of Milan: seems unlikely

Voda: Not if we pin the murder on someone else.

Giraldo of Milan: pin it on the dwarf

Archibald of Guernicus: Size -2 gives him a defence bonus, watch out

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's a lot like what happened in game of thrones, so it's probably the solution johns has planned

Voda: Damn.

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: holy shit.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh my fucking god. tyrion crossbowed his father to death on the toilet.

Giraldo of Milan: incredible insult from lodewig but also you know enough about game of thrones to make that insult

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: boy reporter crossbowed johns to death on the toilet.

Celeste: Let's shoot the empress to death.

Voda: Wait a minute, how can we be sure this isn't the Fighting Tournament arc, like in the anime so beloved by Johns?

Celeste: Ha ha.

Giraldo of Milan: wow... cant believe boy reporter killed johns while he was in the middle of making his latest adventure

johns (GM): Wow, cant believe boyrep is familiar with the best selling fantasy novel since lord of the rings and the hit HBO tv series.

Giraldo of Milan: ots a;sp faggpt sjot

Archibald of Guernicus: The only thing I know about game of thrones is that tyrion crossbowed his father to daeth on the toilet because FYAD was renamed to that for months and goons spent the entire time saying that it must surely be a fake spoiler, so they arent owned.

Giraldo of Milan: its also faggot shit

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: thourt

Voda: Hmm, what about the gladiators?

johns (GM): how is it a fake spoiler when it's in the damn books

Voda: What are they doing?

Giraldo of Milan: ghoons dont read

Archibald of Guernicus: They didnt read the books, johns, and refused to check.

johns (GM): they are gladiating

Beatrice ex Merinita: excuse me, have you seen book barn?

Voda: Wait a minute, does the Empress even have a legion?

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm definitely too good to read fantasy novels and have an encyclopedic knowledge of useless crap from them, I've always bee nclear about this

johns (GM): good quesiton voda

Celeste: let's challenge the empress to a gladiator battle

Voda: There are just a bunch of monsters and gladiators.

Celeste: and if our champion beats her champion she does what we wants

it can be the tournament arc if we try.

Archibald of Guernicus: hmm

sword handles arent made of metal

Voda: We should absolutely try to find the baby.

With magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: i could ward myself, or someone else with better single weapon, against all metal

and they do this

Lodewig of Tytalus: I'm with voda

Voda: After all, he might have been transformed into something.

Lodewig of Tytalus: however, I can't pull this off

Beatrice ex Merinita: I wouldn't recommend it.

to Archibald

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: Voda: Wait a minute, does the Empress even have a legion?

julius caesar had SEVERAL legions

Lodewig of Tytalus: ooh wait

Voda: Yeah but she isn't Julius Caesar.

johns (GM): gahaha. vintage joke about caesar being a homo

Lodewig of Tytalus: maybe just a basic inco will do, because the baby is likely the only person here without magic resistance

Derfel ap Cadwaladr: thank you johns

johns (GM) daps

Voda: I also do not have magic resistance.

Lodewig of Tytalus: alright, but we know you're not the baby so that's manageable

Voda: True.

What kind of Structure size is this?

For the purposes of spell levels?

johns (GM): it might be boundary sized

Voda: Ok.

johns (GM): hafl had the dimensions a moment ago

but it's big

Giraldo of Milan: how many paces is the colosseum?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Dimensions of the Colosseum

Area covered: 6 acres

Number of Entrances: 76 entrances were numbered but there were an additional four grand entrances which were not numbered

Dimensions: Height: 50 metres high (187 ft), equivalent to a 12 storey building

Beatrice ex Merinita: Dimensions: Length: 189 metres (615 ft) long

Dimensions: Width: 156 metres 510 ft wide

Giraldo of Milan: how many paces is that

johns (GM): you can ballpark 1 meter = 1 pace

Celeste: x3 those numbers.

a pace is in the corebook as 3ft somewhere.

johns (GM): 3 ft is close enough to a meter for my taste

Lodewig of Tytalus: that's a yard, which is roughly a meter

Archibald of Guernicus: I could InCo if we had an arcane connection to him, I think simply kidnapping the baby back won't go very well. The empress is pretty open to warring with the father.

johns (GM): The overall area is around 6 acres (24,000 m 2 ).

Beatrice ex Merinita: 3 ft is 90% of a meter

that's not close enough to be acceptable

Celeste: lol.

Giraldo of Milan: ok thats reasonably small let me check dowsing rules

johns (GM): Thank you for the math...... NIHNOZ

Beatrice ex Merinita: i will fucking kill you irl

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, we could ask frangipani what he wants to do

Beatrice ex Merinita: ask mundanes for their opinion?

that sounds like enough of a novelty to try

Archibald of Guernicus: Uh I think he'll say "im from rome and i say kill em all"

Lodewig of Tytalus: well, maybe he should

Giraldo of Milan: ok

Archibald of Guernicus: Hey. Listen, this fairy killed your wife and kidnapped your son to marry him, her next plan is to kill you, so what do you hey where are you going

Voda: Wait a minute, if the baby is already married to the Empress then isn't he the ruler of all these fairies?

Giraldo of Milan: im going to dowse for the baby in the area were in which is presumably near the podium

Beatrice ex Merinita: he's underage

Giraldo of Milan: it covers about 25 paces

johns (GM): roll it

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5

(

10

)

+5

=

15

Beatrice ex Merinita: I keep an idea on Giraldo during all of this.

Giraldo of Milan: dowse for babies rather

johns (GM): You find 0 babies. You get lots of funny looks.

Giraldo of Milan: as dowsing for THE baby would require a connection

ok

Archibald of Guernicus: Here's my suggestion

We try and convince her that simply marching an army into a divine aura will end in failure

Beatrice ex Merinita: She knows that.

Giraldo of Milan: thats why shes using assassination

(To Beatrice ex Merinita): Ofc if she is the acknolwedged ruler of an area it will start to take a fae aura

Beatrice ex Merinita: That's why she didn't do it and is going through shady but legal channels.

Giraldo of Milan: its not legal to assassinate knights or baronesses id ont think

(From Beatrice ex Merinita): I know, that's why I want to help her.

Lodewig of Tytalus: huh, TIL

Archibald of Guernicus: What's her actual plan? She said she was preparing for war, even if she marries the kid it's not going to work out if she just marches cyclops and centaurs into the barony and kills the guy

Beatrice ex Merinita: she's the empress, shec an do that

SHe wants to get proper rulership.

johns (GM): Giraldo as he is beaten to death by a Norman adventurer: help help this is against hte law

Voda: She just asked us to kill the Baron Frangipane.

Lodewig of Tytalus: yeah it's going to get her little kingdom obliterated

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's not

Giraldo of Milan: i will move to the north end of the colosseum, and dowse for babies

rolling 1d10+5

(

2

)

+5

=

7

Lodewig of Tytalus: which is kind of the funny thing

Beatrice ex Merinita: Her husband inherits the barony.

johns (GM): 0 babies.

Giraldo of Milan: i will move to the west end

Beatrice ex Merinita: She rules for him, since he's a baby.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5

(

4

)

+5

=

9

Beatrice ex Merinita: The barony gets faerie aura.

Job well done, everyone's happy.

Giraldo of Milan: no one is happy

Beatrice ex Merinita: I am.

johns (GM): You find 0 babies.

Giraldo of Milan: i am not

southern

rolling 1d10+5

(

10

)

+5

=

15

johns (GM): You find 0 babies.

Giraldo of Milan: what the fuck

Voda: Oh no!

Giraldo of Milan: the damn baby is not here

Archibald of Guernicus: A baby going missing right after both his parents are killed, and a woman no-one has heard of, claiming ot be an empress, shows up, and says "Oh yeah i married this kid lol, so i rule the place" seems like, well

It MIGHT have some flaws

Voda: I think an InCo to find any human would work well here.

Giraldo of Milan: we shoudl just kill the damn empress

Celeste: This story doesn't add up!

Beatrice ex Merinita: Don't kill her.

Voda: Since there are only 3 humans without magic resistance.

Lodewig of Tytalus: fairies with human bodies will probably register as positive

Beatrice ex Merinita: I will have a proper faerie adventure if I have to killa ll o foyu.

Voda: But they have magic resistance.

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh right, magic resistance

Voda: AFK a sec.

Lodewig of Tytalus: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we could work this to our advantage either way we solve it.

Giraldo of Milan: what if the baby has true faith

Voda: For example, Beatrice would be dead.

johns (GM): A satyr throws some figs at Giraldo while he's poking everywhere with a stick.

Lodewig of Tytalus: what's your criteria for faerie adventure here

Giraldo of Milan: all baptised babies should have true faith until theyre old enough to think properly

Beatrice ex Merinita: fuck off endrite

stop being an enormous piece of shit

Archibald of Guernicus: All babies have 100 MR, in the houserules.

Beatrice ex Merinita: go fuck yourtslef

johns (GM): Hm, any new ideas?

Beatrice ex Merinita: fuck endrite and beardbead

Máriu Puddu: Sorry

Giraldo of Milan: if we can majority agree to kill the faerie queen i can seduce her and go with the sneak attack kill plan

thats my list of ideas

Beatrice ex Merinita: fuck you

Celeste: Let's not kill the faerie queen and die in combat like retards.

And instead do something cool to trick her or something.

Lodewig of Tytalus: that sounds risky to me

Máriu Puddu: I get seduced by teh queen and betray the party

Due to being greatly intimidated, I can hardly resist

Celeste: Oh my god, the queen has a dick.

Giraldo of Milan: tricking her also works, really anything that stops her from interfering with the realm of the mundane

Lodewig of Tytalus: but frankly i'm falling asleep or i would have been right there

Máriu Puddu: Maybe she does

Archibald of Guernicus: I think it's pretty clear that attacking and killing powerful fae is a really bad idea, and is why its against the code- because making enemies of powerful fairies is really annoying for the order at large.

johns (GM): lol sorry

i did not expect it to take this long to get to the crux. also we started late

Lodewig of Tytalus: you're not playing ars unless you're faffing around, i'm just tired regardless

Giraldo of Milan: i think its because beatrice loves faeries but giraldos cult is against mundane and faerie crossover

so theres just arguing

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm not sure what we can do to progress that doesn't sound like a terrible idea for little reward

Celeste: Let's leave and brick up the archway.

Lodewig of Tytalus: so i tentatively propose sitting back and letting this play out however

Beatrice ex Merinita: i just want a fucking adventure where beatrice can accomplish something withotu having to be constantly in discord to ask for it

and if proclus isn't around to be a huge dick who would be kicked out of the coevant years ago if he wasn't played by the gm, there's giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: i probably wouldnt even care so much about having her marry the baron except for the fact that she killed 4 knights and a noblewoman beforehand

johns (GM): Well, I'll point out that if you want to put things to a vote, legally it's only up to the 3 Magi

Archibald of Guernicus: Theoretically, if we fixed the empress' plan so that it might actually work, we could basically control a barony and have someone in Rome that doesnt want to kill us in a position of power.

Giraldo of Milan: yeah

devil's fav demon: a thing with faeries is that you dont have to necessarily play by established rules because they're all about narrative. in theory as long as what results is a satisfying story the empress should be fine, right

johns (GM): depends on the cognizance of the fae though

Giraldo of Milan: ultimately the magi choices are what matter

Máriu Puddu: You can "kill" a faerie and they probably enjoy it if it lets them play a villain role, and you don't PeVi them or use their vis to cast a spell

Celeste: What if we just get someone to marry her and his name is Baron?

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald is firmly against molesting the fae, but does want to use this to get someone in Rome who doesnt hate us, so either convincing the Empress to back off and getting the favour of the lord here, or getting the Empress' plan to somehow work out and then having her and the kid as allies, are on the table.

Giraldo of Milan: however i think it might be mundane interference to mess with a barons mind and make him marry a faerie

Celeste: And we say "Yep. This is definitely a baron."

johns (GM): Lodewig, what's your verdict?

Giraldo of Milan: get giraldo to marry her and say hes baron of ponza

Archibald of Guernicus: Lodewig is an expert in discretely fucking with mundanes and killing them, if he's down for figuring out the latter.

Giraldo of Milan: then we go take ponza

Lodewig of Tytalus: what was beatrices plan again?

Beatrice ex Merinita: getting the baron to swear loyalty to the faerie somehow. it keeps him alive and does not fuck with the fae and gets us in favor.

i would have been for them marrying, but she's already married

Archibald of Guernicus: The bad boys of mentem could do that to the baron, would be tricky though.

Celeste: Kill her husband.

johns (GM): Yup

Lodewig of Tytalus: IThese all sound like great outcomes, but I doubt we could make any of them stick

Giraldo of Milan: frankly i think shed be fine with marrying because its the same end result for her and she is a Roman faerie

Archibald of Guernicus: Of course. We just kill the baby.

johns (GM): That would take a good deal of theory crafting I think, so you all could plan it out in the thread over the next couple weeks and we resolve this outside a roll20 session

since folks are irritated and tired today and it's late

Celeste: It's only 7!

johns (GM): True.

I'm not tired.

Giraldo of Milan: only hafl is irritated

Archibald of Guernicus: It's only midnight, Boy Reporter is just a child.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have 32 CrMe in the aura in the regio

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's true

Beatrice ex Merinita: and i'm not irritated becuase of being tired

Lodewig of Tytalus: do not stop playing on my account

Celeste: I feel more sympathy now that I know br cooks, the most retarded and gay job there is.

johns (GM): Okay. Plan out how you will make the Baron marry the fae who murdered his wife.

Lodewig of Tytalus: hell yeah

Giraldo of Milan: he cooks, but as an irishman he is also part of the ira and fights against brutal english tyrants

johns (GM): Also you need to deal with the existing marriage since the Empress is not a bigamist.

Giraldo of Milan: it makes sense that he is tired

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrMe 4 base (emotion directed at a specific person as per societates)

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's discover potatoes before they're normally discovered.

Beatrice ex Merinita: +1 Touch, +2 Sun

15 CrMe

Beatrice can spont that in the regio.

Lodewig of Tytalus: we replace the baron with a man we've muto'd to think he is the baron

Giraldo of Milan: replace the son with the baron

Lodewig of Tytalus: he has not preconceived bias against marrying random fairy empresses

Giraldo of Milan: tell the empress we sped up his growth to help her plan

Celeste: when i was working every saturday and sunday brunch i was fucked for playing this game. rip.

Archibald of Guernicus: There's a magus in magi of hermes who kills a mundane lord then makes a bunch of magic items to let someone replace them entirely.

Celeste: thats cool.

Someone please kill Bialas so I can make another necromancer.

Beatrice ex Merinita: We could just lie.

johns (GM): Bialas has to make the boat first.

Lodewig of Tytalus: bialas needs to teach me the mystery of sensory magic first

if it helps, i'll kill him

Beatrice ex Merinita: Tell the Empress saved the kid from assasins because she fell in love with him and she's been keeping him safe.

It's weird, btu the dad could agree to a bethrothal based on that.

devil's fav demon: 1. its a house mystery so you'd need to become a bjornaer and

Celeste:

2. youre a werewolf so that makes the first thing difficult

Archibald of Guernicus: We could murder the baron and return the son, and convince the empress she has to wait until he's older, then do some mentem fuckery to make people think this is all fine when she does return.

Better reward if we can pull it off but, otoh, wont pay off for over a decade

Beatrice ex Merinita: Murdering the baron is bad.

Giraldo of Milan: its very bad yeah

Celeste: I think we should do the classic faerie trick, imo, and replace the baby with something else.

johns (GM): You will need to find the baby, which you have not done yet

Celeste: Well, we find the baby first.

But she'd never see it coming.

Lodewig of Tytalus: Beatrice ex Merinita: Tell the Empress saved the kid from assasins because she fell in love with him and she's been keeping him safe.

It's weird, btu the dad could agree to a bethrothal based on that.

Celeste: The ol' switcheroo.

Beatrice ex Merinita: the cyclops is the baby, oldest trick in the books

Lodewig of Tytalus: that might just work

Beatrice ex Merinita: you'd think it's the dwarf, but it's the giant

alternatively, the baby was the wine

Lodewig of Tytalus: BUT is she patient enough not to murder the lord? do we care if she does?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Tell her that Rome was not built in a day.

Lodewig of Tytalus: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: Now for the bad news

Our most social person is, uh

Giraldo

Giraldo of Milan: "Alright, we don't have to kill her. But if we want to convince her of something, I'm your best choice."

"Does any of your magic help with that?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: "It does."

Lodewig of Tytalus: i've got good presence, some charm and venus's blessing. she maybe doesn't care about the gify?

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, I know the aura of ennobled presence."

Beatrice ex Merinita: she does

Giraldo of Milan: she probably cares about the gift

Lodewig of Tytalus: too bad

johns (GM): youve had gift penalty so far

Giraldo of Milan: ok

give giraldo the aura

Beatrice ex Merinita: everything cares about the gift unless it has specific virtue or you have parma

Giraldo of Milan: and decide what we wanna convince her to do

Archibald of Guernicus: Venus' Blessing cancels out the gift, so you might be the best bet with aura of ennobled presence

I'll give giraldo ennobled presence, formulaic so its easy

Beatrice ex Merinita: Ennobled presence is not for charm, though.

There's different aura for that.

Giraldo of Milan: its for influencing and convincing

Voda: Ok I'm back.

Beatrice ex Merinita: if it's charm, i have base +6

with aura

Lodewig of Tytalus: nice

Beatrice ex Merinita: 3 presence - 3 gift + 3 charm + 3 aura

but i spent all my conf

Giraldo of Milan: ive got conf to burn

ill be the man

Archibald of Guernicus: hows lodewig with that aura?

+3 venus blessing - 3 gift

got 3 presence + charm?

Lodewig of Tytalus: 2 presence, 3 charm, blessing, gift, aura so net +8

Voda: If you want this plan to work you should also figure out how to get it done before Proclus comes back and yells at you.

johns (GM): you're assuming boyrep intends to let anyone survive ravenna

Voda: True.

Beatrice ex Merinita: We promised not to tell anyone.

Lodewig of Tytalus: i've never intended to kill a pc

johns (GM): gahaha

Archibald of Guernicus: True, we did at the start.

Beatrice ex Merinita: And if Proclus yells, Beatrice is going to snap.

Voda: I'm just saying that's a reasonable thing to take into account.

johns (GM): Foiled by a code of honor.

devil's fav demon: I feel bad about making a 90 year old magus for the first time after Ravenna.

Voda: Another PC claimed.

Archibald of Guernicus: Baron: I consent

Empress: I consent

Proclus: I dont

isnt there someone you forgot to ask?

Celeste: the whole "Oh, I have 47 Mentem MR. Sorry." felt too strong on the PC side.

Voda: I think we should definitely find the baby and it can't be that hard with all the Arcane Connections we have access to.

johns (GM): yes

you may assume an a/c from the nursey in your possession since you made a point of visiting it

(From Giraldo of Milan): I head back into the podium while the magi discuss plans.

(To Giraldo of Milan): are you sneaking off

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm happy to argue our case but frankly i think beatrice could make the more impassioned account and i think that should be worth more than venus' blessing

(From Giraldo of Milan): absolutely

(To Giraldo of Milan): roll it

johns (GM): Per+Awareness checks from all Magi please

Giraldo of Milan:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+3

(

3

)

+3

=

6

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+0+1

(

2

)

+0+1

=

3

Archibald of Guernicus: Is Base 3, +4 for arcane connection, enough to tell me what direction the baby is in with an InCo spont?

(From Giraldo of Milan): uh oh

Lodewig of Tytalus: what kind of perception? hearing?

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+2

(

4

)

+3+2

=

9

johns (GM): like the inexorable search but moment duration?

yeah ok

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can spont 10 InCo better than Archibald in this aura

johns (GM): also archibald notices giraldo sneaking off

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah, rather than holding over a map

Voda: Giraldo keeping it real.

johns (GM): You could also..... burn vis

Archibald of Guernicus: "Giraldo. Where are ye walking off tae?"

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have 20 InCo in this aura and only 1 botch die

Giraldo of Milan: "Oh, uh, just watching the fight."

Beatrice ex Merinita: as opposed to 5 archibald's botch dice

johns (GM): 8 botch die

it's a regio

Archibald of Guernicus: ive got 26 base, then 5 ceremonial, then 2 from aura, for a nice tasty +33

since you need level 15 minimum, thats easy enough to pull off

(From Giraldo of Milan): It seems no one is stopping me.

(From Giraldo of Milan): I continue into the podium.

(To Giraldo of Milan): Ok

johns (GM): Giraldo moves off apparently

Beatrice ex Merinita: If he does, I'll follow him since I heard Archibald.

And I no longer trust anyone.

johns (GM): Not even yourself

Giraldo of Milan: gah

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try and spont ceremonially then

get ready for Big Botch Dice

rolling (1d10!+33)/2 sponting InCo

(

(

7

)

+33)/2

=

20

Wow. Conc duration.

johns (GM): You sense something in the direction of the underhalls

Archibald of Guernicus: Alright, I can keep concentrating to see what direction the baby is in, if InCo actually works this way. I think inexorable is just a weird specific spell and you dont actually need a damn map to InCo.

johns (GM): Okay

What do you use to see in unlit spaces

Beatrice ex Merinita: faerie blood

Archibald of Guernicus: Fairy blood

Voda: It works better with a map because then you don't just walk in a straight line until you find it.

johns (GM): is that 100% darkvision

Giraldo of Milan: "I realized I never gave you my name, Empress. I am Giraldo of... Ponza. Ruler of Ponza."

Beatrice ex Merinita: yes

"Don't lie, Giraldo."

Archibald of Guernicus: I could give people eyes of the cat, but that doesnt work in total darkness.

Lodewig of Tytalus: i use eyes of the cat

Giraldo of Milan grumbles.

johns (GM): where does it say faerie blood see in the dark

Giraldo of Milan: in the virtue entry

Celeste: yeah faerie blood ftw.

Beatrice ex Merinita: in the virtue description

Celeste: It does.

Giraldo of Milan: bad boys of faerie blood always got some vision

Archibald of Guernicus: https://animegirlsare.sexy/s8jKA

Celeste: Faerie eyes. Gain Second Sight, plus she can see normally in darkness

Lodewig of Tytalus: we need an episode where everyone's fairy parent visits at the same time

Archibald of Guernicus: 4 people here have fucked up eyes.

Giraldo of Milan: wow, nice picture for the dwarf fool dys

johns (GM): this is strange I'm looking at core book p 42 and it doesnt say that

Celeste: Prudenzio's always been fucking faeries.

Archibald of Guernicus: 49

Giraldo of Milan: i have the supernatural nuisance story flaw

everyone faerie parents come to visit me

Archibald of Guernicus: You're looking at the minor version

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's strong faerie blood only

johns (GM): I C!!!

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald has Strong Fairy Blood, as do all these others

Lodewig of Tytalus: that entry suggests to me that you CAN'T see in 100% pitch black

Voda: Not me!

johns (GM): yeah

Celeste: Second, you have faerie eyes. This gives

you the Virtue Second Sight (see page 48) at

no cost, and you can see normally in darkness

or semi-darkness, such as in deep woods or at

night. Your eyes look mostly normal, but are an

unusual and vivid color.

Voda: But yes, that is how I read it.

Archibald of Guernicus: He was the only one who had it when he showed up. Before it was cool.

johns (GM): Darkness but not pitch black 0 light

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm keeping an eye on Giraldo, so I can't spont you CrIg

Giraldo of Milan: its mythic europe

Archibald of Guernicus: It says darkness, idk how to interpret that besides, well, darkness.

Giraldo of Milan: i think darkness in the underhalls is the same as darkness on a moonless night

johns (GM): I interpret it as Eyes of the Cat equivalent

Celeste: It just says night, not moonless night.

Voda: You should learn some CrIg.

Giraldo of Milan: cats can move around on a moonless night

Voda: Sheesh.

Giraldo of Milan: so clearly they can see in the dark

Archibald of Guernicus: Eyes of the cat  specifically  calls out that it works in NEAR darkness, not pitch black. This says full darkness and near-darkness.

johns (GM): that seems stupid that itd specify

well w/e

is lodewig e tall following

Giraldo of Milan: foiled by rules lawyers

(To Lodewig of Tytalus): and do you have a torch if you move into the dark space

Lodewig of Tytalus: uh sure

(To Lodewig of Tytalus): since cat eyes won't let you see in pitch dark unlit underground

Máriu Puddu: Eyes of the Bat is Auram

Voda: I shall.

Celeste: well, obviously cats' eyes are good, but faeries' eyes are betters

Archibald of Guernicus: I can cast palm of flame to help Lodewig out

Lodewig of Tytalus: is there any like, moss in these underground passages?

johns (GM): Ok, cool

There is no moss. It's clean polished marble

Anyway Archibald casts palm of flame once it gets too dark to see. Roll Sta+Concetration

to keep your InCo spell up

Lodewig of Tytalus: alright i won't do any flashy sponting

johns (GM): this feels like im being a pedantic asshole but I assure you I have a reason

Archibald of Guernicus: oh right.

lodewig, can you handle uh

making something to see by

so i can keep this spell up

Celeste: i have a flint and tinder, but no torches.

Sad, really.

Archibald of Guernicus: well, i already said i did it, rip, lets roll this. whats the difficulty to maintain a spell?

Beatrice ex Merinita: you could go back and ask beatrice for help

johns (GM): 15

Beatrice ex Merinita: unless giraldo followed you

johns (GM): you could just tie up giraldo and put him somewhere he can do no harm

Lodewig of Tytalus: wait this is a strong fairy aura isn't it

johns (GM): he's a mundane

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'll just spont a room-target moonlight

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+0

(

9

)

+3+0

=

12

Beatrice ex Merinita: 4 faerie

Archibald of Guernicus: I conf

I make it

johns (GM): Great.

Beatrice ex Merinita: nice

(To Archibald of Guernicus): You light up the room. You feel the destination to the child grow a bit further distant.

Lodewig of Tytalus:

rolling (d10!+27+4)/2

(

(

4

)

+27+4)/2

=

17.5

johns (GM): The InCo continues to lead Archibald through unlit underhalls.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm perfectly willing to murder Giraldo in response to his actions, but I won't deprive him of his freedom to take those actions, so no tying up.

Archibald of Guernicus: I just keep following after it, as talking could break concentration.

Giraldo of Milan: i am with the gang sorry

johns (GM): Yet the child must be moving since he doesn't seem to be getting any closer despite taking many steps

Voda: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: dont worry hafl i dont want to kill her i just want to seduce her

Voda: What if he was turned into a room?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I don't trust you IC.

johns (GM): Walking, walking, walking..

Beatrice ex Merinita: but if giraldo's with the group, then so am i

Lodewig of Tytalus: "alright, this isn't getting us anywhere"

johns (GM): You marvel at how far these passages underground seem to go. They must loop around the entire structure.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll keep trying, in case persistence pays off, but eventually I'll stop if it's clearly going nowhere.

Hmm

Beatrice ex Merinita: ah, loop

I know what to do

Archibald of Guernicus: I stop moving. Does it stay the same distance, as I stand still?

johns (GM): Yes.

Celeste: "Are we going anywhere?"

Lodewig of Tytalus: does your spell tell you distance?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll do a fatiguelessly spont every ten steps

devil's fav demon: i just got a popup saying "google chrome can improve spell checking by sending what you type to google servers" lmfao

Archibald of Guernicus: The base effect is 'locate a person' so it seems like it should

Beatrice ex Merinita: 1 Base + 1 Touch + 3 Moon for 5 CrIm total

to make signs

so if we loop, we should notice

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's a tricky question

johns (GM): Great

Beatrice ex Merinita: probably roman numerals, so we can keep count

johns (GM): I mean it will take you awhile to loop, and Archibald has to keep up conc as he walks

Beatrice ex Merinita: just ghostly numerals that go up

Lodewig of Tytalus: how long to do a circuit of the colosseum

johns (GM) thinks math

Beatrice ex Merinita: Dimensions: Outer Circumference: The outer circumference measures 545 metres (1,788 ft)

Voda: If ONLY there were a math specialist here.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah. We could drop a colloseum on him

johns (GM): i dont know how to calculate the circumference of an irregular oval, sorry

Beatrice ex Merinita: that's why i have the dimensions of the collseum page open

johns (GM): nice

Lodewig of Tytalus: fun fact: i gave you the lab text for triangle spell last week just so you'd have a way to locate people more precisely than placing them on a shitty medieval map

Beatrice ex Merinita: http://www.tribunesandtriumphs.org/colosseum/dimensions-of-the-colosseum.htm

johns (GM): That's 596 paces

Voda: http://www.csgnetwork.com/ellipse.png

johns (GM): A conc roll occurs every 15 minutes

Lodewig of Tytalus: i'm still trying to work out if i can make these stones phosphorecent

Archibald of Guernicus: Well. We learned enough from the walk.

johns (GM): For a continuing situation, such as injury

or maintaining another spell, you must make a concentration roll every two minutes

(Diameter duration). If you are undistracted,

you can maintain concentration for fifteen minutes for every point you have in the

Concentration Ability.

Archibald of Guernicus: So we can figure out where to go next.

Oh

I have no points in concentration

Beatrice ex Merinita: the roll is much lower though

johns (GM): gahaha.

Archibald of Guernicus: I really should fix that.

johns (GM): yes the EF is 3.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, thats what adventure xp is for.

johns (GM): so it's just a question of you hold the spell until you botch.

Archibald of Guernicus: it says you hold it for 15 per point anyway so it just ends, oops

johns (GM): Regardless! I will skip ahead and say: You just walk in a grand circle, the distance to the child continually moving away from you as you close in on it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: i think a roll every Diam if you don't have the skill is reasonable

Does Archibald tell us?

Giraldo of Milan 's brain begins glowing.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It moves away exactly as we move towards it."

Giraldo of Milan: "Let's walk the other way."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we stop, it stops."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "No."

johns (GM): Ah

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Let's split and walk in both directions."

johns (GM): I should clarify one thing

Voda: Alright.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What if half of us went one way and half went the- right."

johns (GM): The distance seems to jump a little further ahead as well whenever you near passageways back up to the ground floor

Voda: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: I relay that too

johns (GM): Okay, who is in which group?

Beatrice ex Merinita: wait a moment

Voda: Could he have been turned into the sun?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll spont light for group 2

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should make sure people on each side can not only see, but can defend themselves if jumped."

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+27+4)/2 CrIg

(

(

2

)

+27+4)/2

=

16.5

Lodewig of Tytalus: does archibald's spell work in 2 dimensions?

johns (GM): 3 dimensional.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Lamp without Flame for Sun

(To Archibald of Guernicus): the distance to the child moves a little further away.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hm? It's moving now."

(To Archibald of Guernicus): it was an instantaneous jolt, not far, perhaps a few more paces.

Archibald of Guernicus: I wander forward a few paces, and cast Archibald's Unmasking the Sigil, touching the ground there, to check for any active magic and what it does if so

johns (GM): are you still maintaining the InCo and the Pilum of Fire

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll drop it now, the fire is sun duration because of FFM.

johns (GM): Ok -- that's EF 12

wait you're dropping both spells?

Voda: Yikes.

johns (GM): I mean

you're dropping InCo, and letting the fire follow you for sun duration

Archibald of Guernicus: It already was

johns (GM): k

(To Archibald of Guernicus): No active magic besides your party's own

Archibald of Guernicus: Sorry, I should have said when casting, I wasnt going to have both at Conc

"Giraldo, Celeste, both of ye can run for a while, you come with me. The others can go the other direction."

Voda: Sounds like a plan.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Want to see if moving faster helps here."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Don't let Giraldo try anything."

johns (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: archibald has good scores in all physical attributes, so despite being overweight, he's pretty good at this

johns (GM): the InCo is gone though right?

Lodewig of Tytalus: i turn into a wolf and have +5 athletics specced in distance running

Archibald of Guernicus: unfortunately, yes

johns (GM): ok

Celeste: "Sure."

Celeste does some stretches first.

johns (GM): you both run around the circuit and bump into each other around 180 degrees later, give or take depending on each party's speed

Archibald of Guernicus: beatrice is small, she can ride on the wofl

Beatrice ex Merinita: she can't as she's not an anime girl

Voda: Hmmmm.

Is it possible that he's invisible?

Celeste: I have +4 dex, +2 quick, +2 ath.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll try prying eyes onto the inner wall of the circuit

Is there anything in there?

johns (GM): nothing but earth

Celeste: "Whew."

Voda: Could there be another regio level?

johns (GM): Hmm

Lodewig of Tytalus: oh durr

Giraldo of Milan: "I don't think the baby is in the form of a baby right now."

"My dowsing couldn't find him earlier."

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, there could be another

I go to one of the bits where it seems to 'jump'

Lodewig of Tytalus: of course if there was, you'd all see it right?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, we have 4 people with second sight here

Voda: Maybe they did but they're trying to trick us.

johns (GM): Possibly, Lodewig.

Voda: Ever think about THAT?

Lodewig of Tytalus: you can't trust these fairies

Archibald of Guernicus: Rolling second sight at the place where it seems to jump ahead

Beatrice ex Merinita: Always trust the fae.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+3

(

5

)

+3+3

=

11

Celeste: Faeries? Trying to trick people?

Surely not.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Giraldo, might be something around here, see if ye can spot it."

johns (GM): As the party currently stands, Archibald sees nothing unusual with second sight.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm

Celeste: Let me try.

Archibald of Guernicus: Maybe its a conditional regio entrance

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

6

)

+2+3

=

11

Hah.

Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: well, even if it was, you'd be able to see it, surely?

Voda: Hmm.

Giraldo of Milan: as they stand huh

hmmm

i crouch down and walk around looking

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I could try teleporting around. Maybe that is a different enough movement to change things."

Voda: What if it only opens for women?

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+7

(

10

)

+7

=

17

johns (GM): No luck for Celeste or Giraldo.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have 50 pace teleport mastered, so I'll try it

Voda: Gah!

Beatrice ex Merinita: no chance of botch here

Voda: Where'd you steal this art from?

Beatrice ex Merinita: your deviantart account

Giraldo of Milan: that imperfect design structure

this regio could use a geometer

hello? do we have a geometer around?

johns (GM): Teleporting around doesn't unveil a new Regio entrance.

Beatrice ex Merinita: spoiler from irl info: he Hypogeum (meaning underground): The hypogeum consisted of two-level subterranean network of tunnels and 32 animal pens

(To Archibald of Guernicus): if you want to retry casting the InCo lemme know

Celeste: cool.

Giraldo of Milan: 32 animal vis

Beatrice ex Merinita: But checking floors and ceiling with Prying Eyes can't hurt.

Personal range Rise of the Feathery Body with Diam duration is only ReCo 5

rolling (1d10!+25)/2

(

(

1

)

+25)/2

=

13

nice

rolling 1d10

(

8

)

=

8

no botch thanks to faerie magic

Voda: Phew!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Beatrice, I'll try locating it again, can ye teleport ahead and, if its between us, maybe we can figure this out properly."

Beatrice ex Merinita: i can float up to the ceiling and check it with prying eyes

"Give me a moment to catch my breath."

Voda: Maybe the next regio level only opens for the Empress.

Archibald of Guernicus: hmmm

johns (GM): ill save you the grief now and say thats not the case

Archibald of Guernicus: didnt 2 people here swear loyalty to her

maybe

Beatrice ex Merinita: i did

Archibald of Guernicus: it opens for them

Voda: Hmm.

Well, we could go in.

johns (GM): its not an issue of who gets into the regio, it's an issue of where the entrance is

Beatrice ex Merinita: if it opened just for her, it would be hurtful for me, since my oath would prevent me from murdering her to ake over

johns (GM): and so far no one has seen a regio entrance

Beatrice ex Merinita: Does prying eyes on floor and ceiling reveal anything?

johns (GM): Nay

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok

Lodewig of Tytalus: wait, wait

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll wait for Archibald to get the direction again and we can try the teleport

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, my plan is to try and trick the regio entrance into being between us, so we can find it that way

Lodewig of Tytalus: it's those trapdoors hidden under sand in the arena that they pull open and tigers come out of suddenly

that's the next level colloseum entrance

Beatrice ex Merinita: that makes sense

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway, trying to spont InCo again

rolling (1d10!+33)/2

(

(

1

)

+33)/2

=

17

Beatrice ex Merinita: rip

Archibald of Guernicus: This makes me smile

Voda: A red letter day.

Archibald of Guernicus: well. hit me.

Beatrice ex Merinita: was it 8 botch dice for people without faerie magic?

Celeste: lol.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think so.

johns (GM): er

10

Archibald of Guernicus: Good green man on the map

lmfao

roll them

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

johns (GM): 1, +4 for aura, x2 for being in a regio

rolling 10d10

(

10

+

3

+

2

+

8

+

7

+

8

+

10

+

9

+

10

+

10

)

=

77

Celeste: lmfao.

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: what the FUCK lol

johns (GM): ok cool

Celeste: 77

lucky 77 boy.

johns (GM): anyway let us assume Green Man is the inco target

though I think archibald fell short of the casting target?

Archibald of Guernicus: I get momentary, at least

Beatrice ex Merinita: he can try again after resting a little

Archibald of Guernicus: So I can see where it is currently

(To Lodewig of Tytalus): You are casting perpetual moonlight right

Beatrice ex Merinita: my teleport is mastered so i shouldnT have any issue

Archibald of Guernicus: if beatrice is up ahead, and its between us

johns (GM): Ok, so assuming the current configuration

Archibald of Guernicus: should be ready to start figuring this out

johns (GM): The target is here

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can see from stairs to stairs, right?

johns (GM): No

Beatrice ex Merinita: damn

(From Lodewig of Tytalus): i cast some kind of crig

Beatrice ex Merinita: those would have been good points

but the damn thing curves

Archibald of Guernicus: "Beatrice!" I yell up ahead "It's quite a distance ahead of ye, try going ahead again, I'll try again till I can manage the spell and head the other way."

rolling (1d10!+33)/2

(

(

7

)

+33)/2

=

20

There we go

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll try making the longest jumps I can each time.

johns (GM): Okay, drop your token where you land beatrice

Beatrice ex Merinita: It depends on what I can see

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll walk briskly as I can without affecting the concentration.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have up to 500 pace teleport so distance is not an issue

johns (GM): you can see ahead of you because you have CrIg up

Beatrice ex Merinita: but i have to be able to have connection to the location

and the corridor curves

johns (GM): Ah

Foiled again by the Enemies of Geography.

Beatrice ex Merinita: If anyone has a chisel, I could take AC to a stone next to each staircase.

Then i should be able to teleprot there.

johns (GM): you can take floor dirt.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Just having the AC is enough to teleport to a location in range even if I can't see it, right?

johns (GM): yes

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, then I collect floor dirt for each set of stairs

johns (GM): uhh well idk

the target of the spell isn't ac it's sight

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's personal

Archibald of Guernicus: the target is personal

johns (GM): i see

Beatrice ex Merinita: The Guideline determines distance

johns (GM): Alright

fair enough

then imo you dont even need to fuss about a/c because you already know the layout of this place!

just plop your token somewhere

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, in that case I'll teleport to each staircase in turn and make a circuit

Voda: We did it. ya'll/

johns (GM): ok

we lost br

Beatrice ex Merinita: and see what archibald gets

johns (GM): when you two are here, the spot is here

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll keep walking up ahead, and co-ordinate with beatrice such that we place it between us, when it tries to move away from me.

johns (GM): once archibald moves forward, the spot warps to the other side of the circuit

Beatrice ex Merinita: i'm assuming Archibald is stationary, so I'm circling the area to see what changes in direction he gets.

Archibald of Guernicus screams in such a way that doesnt end concentration

johns (GM): can I put an end to this

Beatrice ex Merinita: yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: i really dont know what to do, sorry

johns (GM): just give up and i'll tell you what it was and you can never try it again

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can teleport to any spot on the circuit.

Celeste: lol.

Beatrice ex Merinita: So we can observe the movement

Celeste: i have tapped out long ago

Beatrice ex Merinita: Make Archibald move to move it somewhere

Celeste: i dont get this damn puzzle.

Voda: Smart move, Beatrice.

Beatrice ex Merinita: And Beatrice teleports there

Archibald of Guernicus: if it can just teleport around at will i dont know how we can pin it down.

johns (GM): right

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can do the same

johns (GM): So let's just say you fail to find the child

Giraldo of Milan: what the

johns (GM): and i'll tell you how you could have

Beatrice ex Merinita: No, is there a pattern to the position changes.

johns (GM): and you can hurl abuse at me

Archibald of Guernicus: is it actually possible to find the regio

johns (GM): Yes

It is shockingly easy

and I know you hate me for saying that

Giraldo of Milan: I go up the stairs to ground level.

Voda: I respect you.

Archibald of Guernicus: I already hate you for saying it, don't worry.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I haven't given up yet, since you didn't tell us if we found anything about the movements

Celeste: I pray to God that my friends find the regio.

taps forehead

johns (GM): the movement is getting too difficult to simulate with 2 people moving and 1 lodewig being stationary

Beatrice ex Merinita: Are the changes to position consistent.

If so, we can spend a few ingame hours figuring it out

johns (GM): i honestly can't figure out how to describe it wihtout explaining exactly what's going on. sorry

Voda: Oh no, we've caused a divide by zero error.

Beatrice ex Merinita: And then Beatrice teleports to the spot where it should be.

Giraldo of Milan: its lodewigs fault

johns (GM): ok

I'll say this

Giraldo of Milan: lodewig is causing this

Archibald of Guernicus: if the movement explains how it works, that means we solved it

Celeste: sounds like the characters solved it.

johns (GM): Whatever point Beatrice teleports to, she does not find a regio entrance there

Voda: What if she teleports to the regio entrance?

Beatrice ex Merinita: Even if it's a spot where it should have been based on where Archibald is?

Giraldo of Milan: its beatrices fault

Voda: Ever think of that, smart guy?

Giraldo of Milan: beatrice is causing this

johns (GM): Correct, Beatrice

Beatrice ex Merinita: Ok, then what happens if I'm stationary and Archibald moves?

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm getting ready to hurl insane abuse at johns.

johns (GM): The spot seems to like being as far away from both of you as it can while within this circuit

Though another rule is it is never right in front of a stairway entrance

Celeste: Maybe someone without the gift should be there.

Beatrice ex Merinita: And it moves the instant we move?

johns (GM): also while lodewig is stationary it wants to be far from him too

correct

Voda: Ohhhh.

(From Voda): Is it the darkness?

(To Voda): winner winner chicken dinner

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm braced and ready. It's going to be a great one. A great reason to kill johns.

Voda: I figured it out.

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok

let me spont InIm

Giraldo of Milan: hm

what do lodewig, beatrice, and archibald have in common

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll get floor dirt first

Giraldo of Milan: lets take a few minutes to thin kabout this

Archibald of Guernicus: you're free to help out, bub

Beatrice ex Merinita: And then we make the regio entrance move there.

Giraldo of Milan: i try moving while everyones not moving

Voda: I already figured it out, it would be cheating you out of an experience to help.

Giraldo of Milan: and go to where the regio should be

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+20+4+2)/2

(

(

3

)

+20+4+2)/2

=

14.5

Voda: Ok I'll tell you.

johns (GM): Remember endrite that other players want to kill you irl already

Voda: It's the Darkness.

Archibald of Guernicus: Please, for the love of god, just say the answer. You're a player here.

Celeste: I love endrite.

Giraldo of Milan: motherfucker

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can spont InIm to see where I have the connection

Archibald of Guernicus screams

Voda: That's why it isn't near the stairs, because light filters down.

johns (GM): For the record, if at any point you had talked to NPCs other than the Empress about the child, you could have learned: The child is in the Nursery. The nursery is in the darkest part of the Colosseum.

Voda: And it isn't near the magi because they've created light.

Celeste: lmfao.

Giraldo of Milan: incredible

Beatrice ex Merinita: BNase 1 + 4 Arc + 1 Diam

Giraldo of Milan: alright everyone

Archibald of Guernicus: I spont Perdo Vim on my flaming hand.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I hear the fucking baby.

Giraldo of Milan: lets comb johns's post history and track him down and kill him

Archibald of Guernicus: This is what I get for helping out people with gay eyes

johns (GM): The child is in another regio!!!

Voda: This was a good puzzle.

Archibald of Guernicus: We have 4 people here who can see in the dark and see regio entrances

johns (GM): it wasn't supposed to be a puzzle!!!!@!!

Voda: Thanks to everyone for helping me figure it out.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Also, I never specified I cast the light on myself, since I didn't need it. I cast it to help the other group.

Celeste: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: So you fucked up.

Giraldo of Milan: nice puzlze bastard

Celeste: it WAS a good puzzle.

Giraldo of Milan: your life ends now

johns (GM): Oh c'mon you said you were casting the flame of fire or whatever

Beatrice ex Merinita: I wasn't

different spell

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling (1d10!+34)/2

(

(

6

)

+34)/2

=

20

I perdo my vim very well

Beatrice ex Merinita: The one that creates light at position I specify

Not my own palm

johns (GM): also at one point you asked how you were seeing and I said you had an ignem effect up

Archibald of Guernicus: No light on archibald anymore

johns (GM): great. whatever.

Anyway, that's all the time we have for today

Archibald of Guernicus: beatrice can see in the dark too, shes got strong fairy blood

Beatrice ex Merinita: Because you were complaing I can't see with the virtue that lets me see in the dark.

johns (GM): alright alright

sheesh

Archibald you snuff out the light

Máriu Puddu: GG

Archibald of Guernicus: I  did  have a light on me, though, because I specified I cast at sun duration.

johns (GM): Everything is very dark, and quiet. Your eyes start to adjust.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling (1d10!+19+4)/2

(

(

1

)

+19+4)/2

=

12

rolling 1d10

(

7

)

=

7

Celeste: Night of 1s

Beatrice ex Merinita: still enough to PeVi ignem where i touch for Sun

Voda: Night of the Long Ones.

johns (GM): This place is very dark, but it feels like you are near the top of some stairs. There are little specks of light in the sky like stars but so few and the light they produce is brighter than a normal star.

Beatrice ex Merinita: well up to the level i need

Giraldo of Milan: nice, archibald has been teleported to  squints  hell

johns (GM): Excellent. Welcome to the Nursery, Beatrice.

Giraldo of Milan: im there too

i dont need light

Archibald of Guernicus: Giraldo can come join us. All the fairy nerds can.

Celeste, Giraldo, come get yall babies

Beatrice ex Merinita: except for those with weak blood

Celeste: I can go in!

ooH1

Giraldo of Milan: lets kill the ucking baby

Voda: I'll pull my shirt over my head.

Celeste: ooh!

Archibald of Guernicus: well, giraldo could lead voda and lodewig in

Voda: Making it dark inside my shirt.

Celeste: "This is kind of... Outdoors and grassy for a nursery."

johns (GM): not quite applicable but im too tired now to fuss

Voda: It's a VERY cool and smart idea.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Good thinking, Voda."

Voda: What if we just create a lot of light now?

Since we're already here.

Celeste: What if I just start firing arrows into the darkness?

johns (GM): All great ideas

Archibald of Guernicus: You might hit a baby.

Voda: What if the baby is immune to arrows?

Archibald of Guernicus: That would be very convenient.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I have a Sight range CrIg attack

rolling 1d10!+27 vs 20

(

2

)

+27

=

29

I cast it at the darkness.

Celeste: Can I roll Hunt to hunt for the baby?

johns (GM): You're lobbing a fireball?

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's only +10

johns (GM): Ok.

Voda: Oh no.

Beatrice ex Merinita: probably somewhere up

johns (GM): The fireball moves about 2 meters forward before snagging in something. It hovers there.

Beatrice ex Merinita: It can't do anything, since it's a sight range spell

Voda: Neat.

Beatrice ex Merinita: And I think it only momentarily generates fire, not light.

johns (GM): That's true.

For a moment you see the flame stuck in a web.

Then the flame dies out.

Celeste: "Neat web."

Voda: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah bugger."

Celeste: "Let's not go that way."

Voda: "Any babies around?" I shout.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10+1+1 Int FL Fairy Spiders?

(

3

)

+1+1

=

5

not enough, i guess

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye know, Ferris would have loved this." I say, mournfully

johns (GM): Fairy Spiders are a thing that exist. They are old and represent things very scary.

Giraldo of Milan: "Yeah, rip."

Voda: ZIta would have loved this.

Beatrice ex Merinita: ooh, i have an idea

I have multiple cast on Pilum.

Máriu Puddu: Ronnie married a faerie spider

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+29-5 two pilums

(

8

)

+29-5

=

32

rolling 1d10! second one

(

1

)

=

1

mastery so safe

Celeste: "You're going to burn the baby!"

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm aiming up to avoid the baby.

Máriu Puddu: Flavia has been making her more human though

johns (GM): You're aiming up?

Beatrice ex Merinita: slightly up

at an angle

in front of me and some thirty degrees up

roughly

johns (GM): Okay, you burn apart some more web. You start to see a blue sky hidden somewhere behind all the light obscuring web.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "We could get those down.

Archibald of Guernicus: Marrying a spider and making it more human is missing the point so hard we need to stuff Laurontius in a barrel.

Beatrice ex Merinita: The fire does not spread along the webs?

johns (GM): It burns webs but does not spread

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Celeste, can you hit that web with an arrow?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I could cut some of the webs away, but it's tricky moving up here."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I want to know if the web burning harms what's held in the web."

Celeste: I fire a turkey broadhead guillotine arrow at the webs.

johns (GM): The arrows get stuck.

Beatrice ex Merinita: If it gets stuck in there, I'll fire a pilum at the web near it.

mastered, so unless the aura is different from faerie or magic, i can't botch

Voda: Hmm.

johns (GM): Okay, you burn more and more web.

Eventually you start to make out that the web extends from ground to sky, and the sun itself is caught in it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Does it release the arrow or does the arrow burn too?

Voda: Someone should try touching one of the webs.

johns (GM): The arrow burns apart.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Can I see where the sun is?

Also fatiguelessly sponting sense of faerie might to make sure this is faerie aura

johns (GM): It's very Faerie.

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok

Giraldo of Milan: "Try touching a web Voda."

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll try to free the sun by shooting sight range CrIg spells at the webs holding it

Voda: I'll try touching a web.

Beatrice ex Merinita: it's not mastered, so how many times should i roll to check for botches before it's free?

johns (GM): According to the splatbook I am reading, you will need to destroy 1,000 cubic paces of web to move the sun.

Celeste: lol.

johns (GM): The web is tough like Iron, stick and bendy.

Causing the sun to

briefly move in this way requires

at least 1000 cubic paces of web

to be destroyed; just freeing individual

characters is not sufficient.

Voda: Stick and bendy?

Beatrice ex Merinita: how much web can i destroy with one spell?

Archibald of Guernicus: "I could try and locate the child within here, but a botch in this aura could be disastrous."

johns (GM): like a fist sized hole

Voda: Oh, sticky.

Beatrice ex Merinita: give me a second

how much is the aura for calculation purposes?

johns (GM): 6

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok, Arc of Fiery ribbons at +5 damage is level 20

so let's see

rolling (1d10!+27+6+1+1) CrIg

(

(

9

)

+27+6+1+1)

=

44

johns (GM): anyone else want to try something while beatrice targets the sun

Beatrice ex Merinita: i make it

but only at voice distance

Voda: Hmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: but a group target

Voda: Did calling out do anything?

johns (GM): perception check (hearing)

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 0

(

10

)

+0

=

10

johns (GM): wow!

Voda: Wow!

Archibald of Guernicus: My best thing here is trying to locate the child, but itd be insane botch dice if it goes wrong. I escaped with the luck of an emperor once already

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5

(

3

)

+5

=

8

johns (GM): you hear the stupid baby sleeping.

Celeste: lo.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3+3

(

9

)

+3+3

=

15

johns (GM): down there.

Archibald of Guernicus: Awareness

Beatrice ex Merinita: baby sleepign

give me a second

johns (GM): im too tired. sorry.

Voda: Down where?

Hmmm.

Let's make a lot of noise and wake the baby.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I think I've found the child."

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+40 vs 10

(

10

+

4

)

+40

=

54

I make sound of church bell

johns (GM): idk if the dynamic light is working either

Beatrice ex Merinita: formulaic and with magnitude devoted to size for extra loudness

Giraldo of Milan: it is

Celeste: it is

Voda: Don't make it too loud.

Beatrice ex Merinita: For as long as I concentrate

johns (GM): The baby doesn't wake up

Beatrice ex Merinita: It's formulaic, the loudness is baked in.

Voda: Hmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Did hitting the sun with group target fire burn it?

johns (GM): You burn the web but not the sun

i mean you can free the sun ifyou want. it'll just take awhile

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can fire off 2 pilums per 6 seconds at it withotu a chance to botch.

johns (GM): ok

Voda: We should just make our way to the baby.

That seems like the most expeditious plan.

Then we can take it and flee the regio.

johns (GM): sure

will beatrice burn the webs in the way

Celeste: baby theft.

Voda: Or, you know, Archibald could Detect Baby.

Making sure it's a real baby and not a trap.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll fatiguelessly spont CrIg 4 and CrIg 5 to see if the webs are either extremely flammable or very flammable.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm not sure if taking the baby is even the best plan here, but hell, it gives us something to negotiate with.

Celeste: Well, let's replace the baby with something.

Beatrice ex Merinita: If it's flammable like parchment or more, I could burn it more easily with sponts.

Celeste: Does anyone have a piece of wood?

Or like, an apple?

Voda: Don't you have a heart, Archibald?

Beatrice ex Merinita: I just want to know where the baby is.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, I think if we just give the baby back, the empress will still launch another attack and get the lord killed.

Celeste: Let's keep searching.

johns (GM): its the point on the screen marked "stupid baby"

Beatrice ex Merinita: How long would it take to free the sun at rate of 20 pilums per minute?

johns (GM): iirx

Archibald of Guernicus: So just finding the baby isnt the end of this

Celeste: Oh crazy.

That's a big baby.

johns (GM): the baby has a gold ring on one finger

Archibald of Guernicus: wonder why the GM token is used for a stupid baby...

Okay

Beatrice ex Merinita: Archibald of Guernicus: wonder why the GM token is used for a stupid baby...

Voda: I think it's quite possible that the Empress only has four soldiers.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Don't touch it, wait a second."

Máriu Puddu: What am I doing

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast Archibald's Unmasking the Sigil, touching the ring, to see if its magical and what it does

Beatrice ex Merinita: how long would it take to free the sun at rate of 20 pilums per minute?

Voda: We would just need to put a ward around the entrance or something.

Beatrice ex Merinita: asking again

johns (GM): its faerie so idk if your spell works

Archibald of Guernicus: it does

johns (GM): let's say 20 minutes

ok

Archibald of Guernicus: lemme check the uh

johns (GM): its faerie magic

Archibald of Guernicus: spell description, since i just made a more FFM friendly version of a guernicus spell

Voda: Is it a wedding ring?

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Wait a moment. The baby is safe, so let me try this."

johns (GM): yes

Voda: Hmm.

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Don't take it off."

Voda: Then removing it should allow us to free him.

johns (GM): the baby is just lying in a hammock made of web atm

Archibald of Guernicus: If the effect was non-Hermetic, similar information is provided, but a Quaesitor without knowledge of

that sort of magic may not be able to interpret it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm not helping people get through the webs until I free the sun.

Archibald of Guernicus: the normal knowledge imparted is that yes its magic, the form, the technique, and the rough details of the effect.

johns (GM): ok

Archibald of Guernicus: and the magus' sigil but that doesnt matter here

johns (GM): beatrice shoots the sun for 20 minutes

Archibald of Guernicus: the sun falls on beatrice

Máriu Puddu: Let's PeIg the sun

Celeste: Thank you for your service.

johns (GM): If the characters destroy a

large amount of web, the sun

lurches forward in the sky, releasing

stored up time, until it is

once again snagged by the web

that crisscrosses the sky. It take

johns (GM): a Diameter for the sun to be

snagged again, and during this

period everything in the regio

ages by one year; make Aging

rolls if required.

Beatrice ex Merinita: NICE

Voda: Based.

Celeste: lmfao.

Nice.

johns (GM): okay

Archibald of Guernicus screams

Celeste: I don't need to do that.

Archibald of Guernicus: Me neither, actually

Voda: I do.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I do, but only for looking older

Voda: What's the health modifier here?

johns (GM): okay but just remember you are now 1 legit year older

Celeste: The aging roll, I mean.

johns (GM): use your health modifier from back home

Voda: Ok.

Giraldo of Milan: i do not need to make aging rolls

Voda:

rolling 1d10 + 1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Celeste: I did just increase my age.

Beatrice ex Merinita:

rolling 1d10!+1+4-3-6-8

(

5

)

+1+4-3-6-8

=

-7

i don't look older

Archibald of Guernicus: I added 1 to my actual age on the sheet.

johns (GM): nice, nice

Voda: One aging point.

Máriu Puddu: I'll subtract a year from Mariu's mortal age

Celeste: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm now 43 years old, and look 43 years old. No aging roll needed.

Celeste: Your token looks 90

johns (GM): anyway there's a monster hiding around here but its not going to attack the people who can just blow its webs apart so you can get the baby fine

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'm 37+1 years old

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, yeah, Archibald looks older than he should, but his apparent age is still 43

He's going to hit 50 and just look like a grumpy 50 year old for the next century

Beatrice ex Merinita: does that aging roll give me warping from longevity ritual?

or is that from actual seasons passing only?

johns (GM): yes you gain a warping point

its as if an actual year has just passed

Beatrice ex Merinita: ok

Archibald of Guernicus: wait, we made the baby older

Beatrice ex Merinita: my 10th this session

johns (GM): yup

the baby is now almost 2

Beatrice ex Merinita: HMMMMMMMMMM

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao. okay. all we have to do is.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Now the baron won't believe it's his baby.

Archibald of Guernicus: keep freeing the sun in a way that doesnt hit us.

Celeste: lol.

Archibald of Guernicus: and age it to 18

then the marriage is fine

Voda: That is an astoundingly bad idea.

Beatrice ex Merinita: 16 in middle ages

Celeste: I'll just take the ring and put it on.

Archibald of Guernicus: i cant think of a single flaw with it

Beatrice ex Merinita: It's astoundingly bad, but hell if I don't love it.

johns (GM): Ah, okay

Giraldo of Milan: wait a minute

Celeste: I won't,

Archibald of Guernicus: the ring is fairy magic, good luck celeste

Giraldo of Milan: the ring was sized for the babys finger

Voda: lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Don't take the ring, you idiot!"

johns (GM): what's celeste's MR

Giraldo of Milan: now its finger is constricted

Celeste: just a sjoke.

Giraldo of Milan: by the ring thats too small for it

Beatrice ex Merinita: I could confer with Archibald now.

Celeste: 20 MR though.

Beatrice ex Merinita: About the magic effect.

Voda: Wait a minute.

johns (GM): shessh

Giraldo of Milan: the baby is small enough that the damage caused by this kills it

what a shame

Voda: If we steal the ring we can be married to the Empress.

Beatrice ex Merinita: If he can desribe it, I can figure out somethign about it.

Oooh

Voda: Potentially.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Fuck, let's do it.

I'm taking the ring.

Celeste: Too late.

Beatrice ex Merinita: 2 characters in faerie nobility.

Giraldo of Milan: let giraldo marry the empress

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yer lucky the sun got snagged again! I felt my heart skip a bloody beat there."

Celeste: I committed to saving this baby, why not do this.

johns (GM): Alright, this is a little confusing, because the ring is described as an enchanted item with a hermetic style effect, but there's no way the empress could have one of those for real so it has to be glamour

Voda: I'll scoop up the baby.

Beatrice ex Merinita: I should warn Celeste that if she wants the ring, I have no problem reaching 20 penetration here.

Archibald of Guernicus: If its similar to hermetic magic I can probably interpret the forms and such

johns (GM): Okay, without the ring the baby wakes up, and noticing it is in the presence of stink wizards, begins to cry

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can help with the interpretation.

johns (GM): Rego Mentem

it has an unusual Duration

Archibald of Guernicus: like if its described as [technique][form] that seems like something that can, ah

"Rego Mentem, the duration is strange."

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Conditional?"

"Like when on a baby's hand?"

Voda: Ok, now that I have the baby I'll head back to the entrance.

johns (GM): sure

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll sit with Beatrice and go into long and nerdy discussions about specifics of fairy magic

so we can figure out what it does

Beatrice ex Merinita: "You can make spells that last while a specific condition lasts."

Celeste: Good thing it's on my hand now.

Voda: Can I just leave via the regio entrance?

Beatrice ex Merinita: "I made a spell that helps your recovery if you're lying down."

"It's of lower magnitude and doesn't need recasting with proper nursing."

Giraldo of Milan: i leave the stink wizards and go with voda

and celeste

Beatrice ex Merinita: I'll follow the untrustworthy Giraldo.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, it could be conditional, but I'll relay whatever I can here to see if we can figure out the effect between us

johns (GM): you leave

Voda: It's just that easy!

Celeste: "This is a cute ring."

johns (GM): wow!

Beatrice ex Merinita: "Be careful about it."

"I should investigate what it does, I have the most experience with magic like that."

Voda: Does Celeste have True Faith or a relic?

Celeste: Both.

Voda: Phew!

Celeste: 1 relic and 1 point of true faith.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can cast it formulaicly, so I can recast it and check the information again to get details for Beatrice, so we can work out the specifics of what it does

johns (GM): i think you need to actually investigate it in a lab for that

Celeste: Someone investigate the items from the owl tower.

Archibald of Guernicus: I can get the general effect. I cant get like, activation triggers for a magic item, but I can get the general effect.

johns (GM): draw up a list and I can use sortes to figure out if their effect (but not the trigger)

Beatrice ex Merinita: It's Rego Mentem to make the baby sleep.

johns (GM): anyway

you have the baby so its basically a choice of how you want to resolve this now

and thats something that can be decided In The Thread

imo

Archibald of Guernicus: it doesnt sidestep the investigation rules but it is a pretty high level InVi effect, its level 30 to do this lol

Beatrice ex Merinita: "The baby's aged."

"Baron won't recognize it as his own now."

Celeste: "It's not really even a baby anymore"

johns (GM): You have beaten the GM by making him tired and frustrate

Voda: You really should visit a doctor or something.

Archibald of Guernicus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCN-a0NsNk

johns (GM): gming is tough

Beatrice ex Merinita: "He'll think we're trying to trick him, so if we're looking on how to profit from this, we should help the Empress."

johns (GM): i wanted to scream at you guys to just talk to an npc, any npc when you kept asking stuff like "how did the old emperor die" "where is the baby"

Beatrice ex Merinita: lol

Voda: We are the smartest.

Celeste: you're allowed to just suggest that

Beatrice ex Merinita: I can only let like Archibald and Celeste to talk to NPCs.

johns (GM): i should have

Beatrice ex Merinita: Maybe Lodewig, but only maybe.

Voda: Why?

Archibald of Guernicus: I have the blatant gift, you can understand why my first reaction on this character isn't asking people stuff and expecting an answer.

johns (GM): normally i would but br put me on edge by saying ars gming is just kabuki theatre and its all stage managed

Celeste: lol

Giraldo of Milan: i think the baby will look similar enough that if we tell him what happened hell be fine

since he already knows we are wizards

johns (GM): and i got really defensive about how I dont railroad the players

and welp

Voda: I mean, it saves the baron a year of having a baby.

Giraldo of Milan: and personally sent his steward to employ us

Voda: That's what I call a win/win.

Celeste: reminding the players of open choices isnt railroading

imo

johns (GM): from the steward's point of view, you all disappeared, then showed up later with a child who is not even the same age

Voda: Also I invented that idea and introduced it to Mythic Europe.

Celeste: ppl are retards, hell, i am

Giraldo of Milan: yes but it looks similar enough

and we could probably explain

Beatrice ex Merinita: does it?

Giraldo of Milan: presumably

johns (GM): all babies look the same

Archibald of Guernicus: all babies look the same, except older babies

Giraldo of Milan: its still the same person but older

Voda: It's fairyland.

johns (GM): they look like fucktard babies

Beatrice ex Merinita: No one knows what the baby will look like when older.

Voda: Obvi.

Everyone knows that's what can happen in fairyland.

Giraldo of Milan: lets let beatrice explain what happened

since beatrice is the one that aged the baby

Giraldo of Milan thinks about Beatrice's original plans.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Also, it's probably retarded baby now, since it's older and hasn't learned things like moving better, talking better, and being more in control of pooping.

Giraldo of Milan: Let's let Archibald explain what happened.

Archibald of Guernicus: The word Blatant Gift for a mouth

Beatrice ex Merinita: my original plan was making the baron marry the empress

the least murderous plan possible

johns (GM): i assume lodewig will want to weigh in when boyrep wakes up

Giraldo of Milan: with mentem magic

Voda: Well, now we should see if Celeste is married to the empress.

johns (GM): I'm shocked no one suggested murdering the baby and then getting the baron to marry the empress

Beatrice ex Merinita: murder is morally different from brainwashing and rape

now that you mention it

Archibald of Guernicus: Why murder a baby when you can control it?

Beatrice ex Merinita: thanks gm for reminding us of open possibilities

johns (GM): thumbs up cat

Voda: We could just tell the Empress that Celeste is the baron's son.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should age the baby 30 or 40 years until he looks like his dad, then kill the baron and replace him with a retarded baby.

Voda: I mean, she might believe it.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Archibald has a point.

BUt aging the baby is difficult.

Voda: In fact, it's very easy.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Wait, actually.

Archibald of Guernicus: we just need to hold the sun in place, run out, let the sun move again, and repeat

Beatrice ex Merinita: let me check something

Archibald of Guernicus: until the baby is aged properly

wait a minute

we should get into wine

and bring barrels of it down here

johns (GM): none of you can affect the solar sphere

Voda: It might only work on people.

Archibald of Guernicus: its not the real solar sphere, its just a fairy regoi

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrIg 15 to ignite the web on sun for diam.

Just set it on fire and leave.

It'll free the sun, age the baby, catch the sun again.

Archibald of Guernicus: if only there were a house trying to figure out a spell to hold a celestial body in place.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Without you being present.

Archibald of Guernicus sighs

Archibald of Guernicus: guess theres nothing we can do

Beatrice ex Merinita: CrAn(Te) to create a huge web stone web to hold the sun in place.

Archibald of Guernicus: we should bring casks of wine too, though, just in case it does work and we can age cheap wine into expensive wine

Beatrice ex Merinita: ooh

Archibald of Guernicus: we all lost a year of our lives, so lets turn this into a positive

Voda: I feel like we're putting the cart before the horse here.

Beatrice ex Merinita: It is clearly in our interest to keep this regio intact so that we can profit from it.

So let's avoid distrupting the power structure here even more.

Voda: We haven't even figured out what happened to the last Emperor!

johns (GM): he's dead.

Giraldo of Milan: he died

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah but lets find out how he died

Beatrice ex Merinita: I could make an item with environmental trigger that shoots fire at the sun.

johns (GM): he was transformed into web by a spell, which was then burnt by a wizard

Archibald of Guernicus: knowing who caused all this could help

oh shit

Beatrice ex Merinita: rip

johns (GM): lol

oh the empress killed him

probably

Beatrice ex Merinita: by transforming him into a web

and having a wizard burn him

johns (GM): Not everything is a tytalan plot, just 90% of things

Archibald of Guernicus: if only we'd asked around at the court, we could have known instead of burning him! alas.

Beatrice ex Merinita: alas

Archibald of Guernicus: lets utilise SSMA to start abusign the aging regio for profit

Voda: How would we go in and out all the time without getting yelled at?

I mean, we did just steal a baby.

Beatrice ex Merinita: Crig Base 4 + 2 Voice (10) + 3L Env Trigger (13) + 10 Unlimited uses (23)

To just shoot fire at the sun.

Voda: How would you turn it off?

Beatrice ex Merinita: You don't need to.

Voda: Then how would you retrieve anything in the regio?

Beatrice ex Merinita: The trick is figuring out the proper env. trigger

It takes time free the sun from webs.

johns (GM): ok

i'm posting a quick cap in the thread

gnight

Beatrice ex Merinita: If the trigger was (Sun is covered in webs), it would be easy.

Celeste: nite

Beatrice ex Merinita: it would take 40 minutes free the sun during which the aging wouldn't happen

Voda: Goodnight, gamer.

Beatrice ex Merinita: and items could be retrieved.