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Endrite (GM): It's ok.

As long as Johns is here we can start.

johns: sure

Endrite (GM): Alright, dope.

Tight.

Nolly.

johns: I don't have any chars that are real useful here but I'll still stick around

dys: All is forgiven, provided you kill this Tytalan. Or, failing that, either of the Tytalans in the covenant will suffice.

Endrite (GM): Ok, so when we last left the covenant, you'd dug a huge pit in the St. Mercury Plaza to trap a murderous house.

Piazza de St. Mercury?

Probabbly.

Archibald of Guernicus: Aye, that we did

devil's fav demon (GM): Sure. Unfortunately fifteen more houses showed up.

Endrite (GM): You failed to find the magus bedeviling your covenant, but you can certainly go looking for him.

Specifically, 15 houses are slowly crawling towards the covenant.

johns: who had perdi vim

perdo vim

Archibald of Guernicus: I do, but it's a high level effect and I doubt I can spont high enough to stop it.

Also I'd have to spont it 15 times in a row.

johns: Did you InVi what level effect it is?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I do, but my only memorized spell is the 30 PeVi demon eraser.

Endrite (GM): Cumthinker has an interesting idea about music appropriate for a Medieval Fantasy game.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll do that now, before we thought they might be magical creatures that just happen to resemble houses.

Endrite (GM): That's certainly possible.

I mean, I guess.

Archibald of Guernicus: Shouting and screaming, as is appropriate

rolling 1d10!+31

(

10

+

3

)

+31

=

44

Endrite (GM): Ok, you've already made a spectacle of yourself.

Archibald of Guernicus: InVi so

Kifaaya of Verditius: Archibald you investigated the creature angle earlier when we though they might have juicy vis in them

Archibald of Guernicus: A level 20 InVi effect

Yeah

johns: that should be enough to get info on 3rd magnitude+ magic at sight range

Endrite (GM): Alright.

It's level 35.

johns: Base 4 +4 sight

Endrite (GM): Pretty strong!

Archibald of Guernicus: Wowie.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice.

johns: last week did you discern a sigil of the caster

Endrite (GM): Well, it's two spells.

Archibald of Guernicus: A voice range dispelling would be level 25 needed, on a spont. Oh dear.

Endrite (GM): One is level 35, the other is 20.

Kifaaya of Verditius: dys mentioned creating a connection if I could somehow render a picture of him

I'd have to embroider a picture though

Archibald of Guernicus: That's a sympathetic connnection, but you'd need an arcane one first.

It just buffs your penetration on the effect.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Archibald of Guernicus: Are they both ReHe, endrite?

Endrite (GM): Does your spell allow you to determine that?

johns: The addition of one magnitude

Hermetic, and a magus familiar with other

will say whether the effect is

types of magic will be able to identify

will give information about

them as well. The addition of two magnitudes

johns: Technique and Form, or nearest equivalent

for other types of magic. Further

increases in level will yield further information,

depending on the design of the

specific spell.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm completely lost on the third magnitude, etc stuff

Kifaaya of Verditius: You'd probably only need one magnitude since form is obvious

Endrite (GM): So it looks like you can get that info here.

It IS Hermetic magic.

johns: L35 = 7th magnitude

Archibald of Guernicus: I assume that higher magnitudes are higher level spells, anyway

Endrite (GM): Rego Herbam for the level 35 spell and Muto Herbam for the level 25 spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: Cool.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I suppose I should go up int the sky and figure out where the nearest moving houses are.

devil's fav demon (GM): Ok, cool, I can type again.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll do the sensible thing here.

devil's fav demon (GM): Wonderful,

Endrite (GM): It is not at all difficult to find the houses.

johns: Using divination I can learn " Learn general information, or a single specific fact about a plant or an item made from plant product," though each usage of sortes in this way takes 36 minutes

Endrite (GM): Frankly you could make an educated guess by looking at a map.

Archibald of Guernicus: I go inside "Lavinia, Lavinia, where are ye? Isn't protecting the covenant meant to be yer job?"

Endrite (GM): The closest is about an hour away, you estimate.

johns: Did you identify a sigil to help us ID the magi last time?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah I suppose they need a wide enough street to get to the covenant

Endrite (GM): Roll Awareness.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Yes, the sigil is a spiral shape iirc

Kifaaya of Verditius: Me?

Endrite (GM): Yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: We found a sigil, I believe, on the statues he launched at us. Aristocritus was able to identify him as a tytalan from it.

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10

(

10

)

=

10

Endrite (GM): + Per.

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling d10

(

2

)

=

2

Endrite (GM): Not stressed.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2+4 int + ooh lore: Whose sigil is it?

(

5

)

+2+4

=

11

Kifaaya of Verditius: 10 altogether then

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll drag one of the statues in to show Lavinia, anyway

We ALSO have a physical description of him, too

From Kifaaya

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: She was able to spy on him as a spider

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Where was he at the time

Archibald of Guernicus: Inside the house

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the one in the pit?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll return to the covenant and find a sodales to talk to

(From Endrite (GM)): You don't recognize the Sigil beyond the Tyatalusness of it.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah. He escaped from it out a side window as we fought it, invisibly.

(From Endrite (GM)): Tytality?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Probably Archibald and Lavinia if I see them dragging a statue around

Endrite (GM): It was a rear window.

So he may not have been invisible.

But he might have been, who knows?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Do you know if he escaped the hole?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: And I was just about to commend him on our mutual love of being invisible.

Kifaaya of Verditius: "I saw a pattern with the houses. They seem to come form the east."

Archibald of Guernicus: He left pre-pitting, we imagine, as he wasnt crushed by the house flailing about

Kifaaya of Verditius: "The enemy magus may have fled in that direction as well."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what would happen if the house reached the covenant

besides spitting out wooden statues

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, would be a logical conclusion. But if he's escaping, he's likely used perdo imaginem to hide his escape."

Well it'll block the street and attack anyone nearby

That's pretty bad

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Also, did the house cross out Aegis

our

Kifaaya of Verditius: I don't think so

They mostly shot up the inn

Archibald of Guernicus: It refused to do so, yeah

Prudenzio of Flambeau: They're mostly ruining our reputation,

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hm

No one remembers getting a letter declaring Wizard's War I presume

Kifaaya of Verditius: Who did you guys piss off

Endrite (GM): No.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm well-loved, definitely not me.

Endrite (GM): No Wizard's War were declared.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nothing more rude than this, really.

Archibald of Guernicus: It is possible, technically, to wizard's war someone and then illegally cast a spell to make them believe they never recieved a letter. Which would be stupid, anyway.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm probably disliked for being a Saracen but I don't have any enemies as such.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Archibald, where are the Quaesitors?

Endrite (GM): Fortunately, you can't understand the things people say about you.

Archibald of Guernicus: They're at Guernicus' domus maga. Or however it's called.

Magvillius.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if we have nothing to stop the houses then we just have to stay in our aegis and wait til the spell expires

How much area does our aegis cover

Prudenzio of Flambeau: They should be investigating this highly illegal wizard attack!

Endrite (GM): It covers the buildings in the upper left of the map.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I say, having only a limited understanding of the internal laws of the order of hermes.

Endrite (GM): And the street.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I am investigating it, Prudenzio, right now!"

Kifaaya of Verditius: This is all pretty new to me too

Endrite (GM): But NOT the Piazza.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I was not here last week, so why are we worried about this reflecting poorly on us

Endrite (GM): Hee hee hee.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I only know Verditius lore and that's all Minecraft recipes

Archibald of Guernicus: Well we should probably kill the one responsible.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Spiders give you some vis and the eye of the spider

Archibald of Guernicus: It isn't bad for our relations with magi, but it is massively hampering our relations with the mundanes nearby.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I don't really think of you as a Quaesitor, sodales. You're one of the good ones."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Archibald and some associates should move to the East, attemping to discern the invisible magus using InVi

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Yeah, they dont really care if we're sitting in our lab, but they think we animated the houses for some reason.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll bird people up if they want to go through the air

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will order several grogs to head to the street within our aegis and start praying visibly. They will throw themselves on the ground, wailing, begging for God's mercy. This will be our exlpanation for why the houses don't touch us.

Endrite (GM): Specifically you dug a gigantic pit in the middle of the Piazza St. Mercury.

Archibald of Guernicus begins screaming silently

Prudenzio of Flambeau: that too, but we were getting blamed for the houses existing and the statues, too.

Kifaaya of Verditius: There's a lot of useful things you can do with a pit

Endrite (GM): Very pious, except for using the word of God to lie.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Not us, since we don't own the pit

Lavinia of Jerbiton: How is it a lie?

Do the grogs understand the mechanics of the aegis of the hearth?

Endrite (GM): Probably not unless they have Magic Theory.

Archibald of Guernicus: God sent us Proclus, who cast the Aegis, so it's actually perfectly pious.

Endrite (GM): Which they shouldn't.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Right. I will tell them exactly where to pray and that if they do loudly enough they will be safe. In the grog's hearts their actions are real.

Endrite (GM): Phew!

Heresy averted!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right. As for the bastard responsible, do ye have any idea which magus it might be, Lavinia?"

Endrite (GM): Alright, you have your grogs praying around the perimeter of the Covenant.

This is attracting the attention of a diverse crowd of Romans.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I will need time in my lab to consider it. While I do so, you should try to pursue them in whatever direction they could have fled."

"If you can't catch them now then we can work on a long-term plan later."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I fear he's fled, but it cannae hurt to check."

"If we see no trace of him, I could get in contact with Magvillus about his identity. If ye don't discern anything of it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I consult the sortes with the question, Who enchanted the moving houses of Rome?

btw what Im doing is probably illegal, code wise

Endrite (GM): Ok, that takes 30 minutes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: if anyone asks I'm just researching sigils

Endrite (GM): What's the penetration?

Archibald of Guernicus: He attacked us, and you aren't telling us what you're doing, at least.

Endrite (GM): Also what do you guys want to do about the marauding houses?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Does it need to penetrate? The target is the House, not the Magus

Endrite (GM): Ok cool.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Was the only one of us with Herbam really Prinny? Smh.

Archibald of Guernicus: Basically all crime is illegal if they attacked you first.

* legal

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+13+2+3 vs EF 20

(

9

)

+13+2+3

=

27

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm feeling like getting some Herbam on my next non-adventuring season

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Good, I'll have to give the man leprosy for this.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i feel like getting some Herbam on my next adventure to jamaica

Archibald of Guernicus: "Prudenzio, ye're good with that crafty shit. Can ye make a few of us invisible tae help in pursuing him?"

(From Endrite (GM)): So you learn a general property? I'm still a little confused about how you get information.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm, maybe I don't need He, if I use CrAn to make a giant yurt I can just use leather tarps and bone support structures.

(To Endrite): It's Not My Job to Educate You

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Unfortunately, the variant of Veil of Invisibility I have invented sacrifices the ability to cast it on other people for an extended duration.

Archibald of Guernicus: Badass.

God DAMNIT prudenzio.

(To Endrite): "Learn general information, or a single specific fact about a plant or an item made from plant product."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i would class this as a single specific fact

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I haven't had friends for a long time, Archibald.

Kifaaya of Verditius: AFk for a sec but I'll cast birdform on anyone who wants to use it to try to chase down the magus

FFMing it to touch

(From Endrite (GM)): Ok, his name is Severin of Tytalus.

Kifaaya of Verditius: You just pull off the cloak when you're done being ab ird

Endrite (GM): What is the base range?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Pers

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Severin of Tytalus. How appropriately sinister

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fine. You can go invisible, Kifaaya can go as a bird, and I suppose I'll let the lass turn me into a bird too."

Endrite (GM): And what's the target?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Ind

Endrite (GM): Ok cool.

You can turn someone into a bird, no problem.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I have the spell level beat by 14 so I can cover the margin easily while unstressed

Endrite (GM): Sounds good.

What's the duration?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Sun, it uses a cloak so that it can end early however

Archibald of Guernicus: I will become a bird, if my covenant needs it. We all have to make sacrifices.

Endrite (GM): Oh is it a magical item?

Or a spell?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Nah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you'll be an elfbird

Kifaaya of Verditius: Spell, it's in the book's description

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, my fae blood is that of a Padfoot, not an elf.

Kifaaya of Verditius: You hang a small cape of raven feathers on your back and transform into a raven. You can resume human form at will, but doing so ends the spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: Incidentally my sigil is the sound of dogs barking.

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Sounds good.

Kifaaya of Verditius: ok BRB

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I move to the library to aid my Hermetic Lore check on any information about Severin

Endrite (GM): Ok.

With his name and the book in the library, it should be easier to find out whomst you seek.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: w'hom's't'v'e

Archibald of Guernicus: Bird crew roll out

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2+4 int + ooh lore vs ??? ease factor

(

5

)

+2+4

=

11

Endrite (GM): I'm only at smiling drake level, not smiling drake with glowing eyes.

(From Endrite (GM)): You can't find any info about any "Severin of Tytalus."

(From Endrite (GM)): But you really should be able to.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Curse our poor library

(From Endrite (GM)): Records of the Grand Hermetic Historian should have info about any paid up Tytalan alive.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: This guy is either a nobody or from far away

Endrite (GM): Ok birds, roll Hunt + Per to find this guy.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, with his name, if we turn up nothing I'll just do what I was doing before. Going to Magvillus and saying I want to execute him for his crimes and asking for all information they have.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: It's a shame we can't lure the houses away from our covenant for a few hours. We should throw a party and have some fun drawing room gossip. I'm sure someone knows some dishy stories.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+3

(

8

)

+3

=

11

Good luck Kifaaya.

Endrite (GM): Ok so the first house is getting close, what do you want to do about it?

Archibald of Guernicus: It's still stumped by the Aegis isn't it?

Endrite (GM): Who knows?

It hasn't made it to the covenant.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I thought you said the previous house specifically avoided the aegis

Endrite (GM): I'm not referring to the one in the pit, obviously.

It did.

Archibald of Guernicus: At that time, he was inside it, though.

He may have done that on purpose to not affect his casting total.s

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Archon, why don't you contact your rival the leper and ask him if he knows anyone named Severin?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Archon? Archon???

Prudenzio of Flambeau: All those guys know each other, right?

Archibald of Guernicus: Our Archon is in wizard's twilight right now.

Prudenzio of Flambeau shouts into an alleyway

Kifaaya of Verditius: Back

Prudenzio of Flambeau: RIP.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: since no one has fielded a suggestion yet I don't think there is anything we can do except hope the houses dont cross the aegis

Endrite (GM): Alright, that's certainly an option.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I think the most effective means of stopping these houses would be to find the enemy magus and stop him from playing his silly Tytalus games with our covenant.

Endrite (GM): That would be good.

Oh Kifaaya, if you're a bird looking for this guy, roll Hunt + Per.

Then we'll deal with the home invasion.

Kifaaya of Verditius: It'll probably fail but here goes

rolling d10

(

10

)

=

10

Archibald of Guernicus: 11 did not locate him, fwiw

Oh

Conf it, maybe?

Who knows if 15 will work or not

Endrite (GM): I do.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: celeste is not a bird currently but could she also go out and try that?

her hunting and tracking skills were superb.

Endrite (GM): Ask Kifaaya.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, that's a good thought.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Sure, you can go together and bond.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll turn Celeste into a bird

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's go pull the bottle of wine away from Celeste

Endrite (GM): Ok just a sec.

The first house is here!

Archibald of Guernicus: "Caw"

Celeste:

rolling 1d10+5+2

(

2

)

+5+2

=

9

well, nevermind.

Endrite (GM): The crowd is afraid but also a little delighted to see a house stalking the streets.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what's the architecture style of the house

Kifaaya of Verditius: Let's push the house into the pit and beat it to death

Endrite (GM): It's a typical craftsman's home.

One floor, two rooms.

Well I say typical, but of course it's trying to murder you.

Celeste: "Kifaaya! I think that's him!" I say, before losing Severin in the crowd.

"He got away... Just my luck!"

Endrite (GM): Or rather you don't, since birds can't talk.

Celeste: yeah

i caw excitedly, and then mournfully.

Kifaaya of Verditius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2zTAixMIQ they're more intelligible than cockney

Prudenzio of Flambeau: birds can't do that either but this is a land of pretend.

Endrite (GM): Alright, the first house reaches the edge of the Aegis boundary, then rears up like a snake.

It smashes itself bodily into one of the rental properties.

Fortunately they've been vacated with all the excitmenet.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: our grogs didn't pray hard enough

they deserve whatever happens

Archibald of Guernicus: Thanks grogs

Endrite (GM): The rental property doesn't take a lot of damage, but the house mostly falls apart when it tries this.

It stops moving.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I also blame Proclus for an insufficiently strong Aegis, and hold him accountable for all damage that occurs here

Archibald of Guernicus:  laying hands on the house  It's afraid

Rabble: "OH NO!"

"MY HOUSE!"

Yells a rather rosy-cheeked man as he runs to the remains of what I can only assume is his house.

"What did you wizards do?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: The last owner didn't seem interested in the fact that we didn't do this. Let's not talk to this one."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Agreed. Bloody mundanes are thick as anything."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Best to just ignore it.

Rabble: The damage to the covenant is mostly superficial.

Fortunately the buildings were built with strong roofs.

Rooves.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have his name, my suggestion is still heading tae magvillus and finding out where this prick lives."

"I've got the authority to take his head, no sense to let that lie."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Are the houses architecturally distinct from the houses in our neighborhood?

Rabble: Yes.

I mean sort of.

Houses sort of all look the same to you.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

I have no Rome Area Lore

Rabble: Wood, thatch, plaster.

Kifaaya of Verditius: But someone else might

Rabble: Pretty similar.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If only we had a specialist in Architecture

Rabble: I mean if you want to find out where they came from it's pretty easy.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Anyway I'll consult the sortes again to ask: "Where was the House at the time it was animated"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Well we know they come from the east

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Oh?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: probably the spot to the east with all the missing houses.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I was not aware of this spot

Rabble: Kifaaya DID say.

Kifaaya of Verditius: They're not that fast

Rabble: Maybe you should respect the input of Women of Color, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: She said they were moving in from the East

But did not indicate a spot where houses were missing

Kifaaya of Verditius: This is conjecture we've recently made

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay Bird people

Do you see a spot with many open lots?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Let's find out

Archibald of Guernicus: The real question is what his goal here is. Making trouble for us?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Probably the usual Tytalus nonsense about making our covenant stronger through conflict.

Celeste: after we return from being birds, I reveal to the covenant that he probably went east, since that's where most of the missing houses are.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: east in the city walls or outside?

Rabble: A mix.

The walls don't mean what they used to, I'm sorry to say.

Kifaaya of Verditius: So there's a trail leading out of the city to follow

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Could be a trap.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: life is a trap. i suggest you trap it while you can

Kifaaya of Verditius: Having a house smash through the city walls can reduce their meaning, yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: There may be a clue somewhere. Or perhaps he left a skin flake behind and we can murder him using it.

Rabble: The gates are pretty much open unless an army shows up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: a house walked through a gate?

Rabble: Well, are you going to stop it?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i did not think it would fit

Archibald of Guernicus: Big gate

Rabble: The gate is big enough it can wriggle through.

Possibly.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Alright alright

Kifaaya of Verditius: Prince aaaaaaaaaaaaliiiiiiii

Rabble: Maybe it flew.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You Hermetic magi, go follow the potential trap

Rabble: Or turned into a vaporeal form and floated through.

Archibald of Guernicus: "You'll stay behind to guard the covenant, then?" I say, in the voice of someone who has seen Lavinia leave this building once in a decade

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My place is in the library, Hoplite."

Rabble: Too bad you don't have a moving library.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He has a sword, not a spear!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If only we had a magic boat, in which we could put a library.

Sigh!

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Mine is in the studio but there won't be much of it left if these houses keep coming.

Archibald of Guernicus: "And yet ye couldn't even find out- whatever, just watch out for any further tricks."

"Kifaaya, Prudenzio, let's head out. If we find nothing, we'll head for Magvillus next."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I contemplate damage control

We need to find a way to blame this on Faeries

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Ah, I love these outings with my sodales."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, the best of times. Will ye be coming as a bird, too?"

(From Rabble): Unless the houses can dig they can't get into the covenant.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Of course not. I can't yell at people or kiss girls as a bird."

(From Rabble): Also I recommend tagging along.

Archibald of Guernicus: I leave it at that and go get birded up to head out

(To GM): I have zero abilities of use

Kifaaya of Verditius: I bird up everyone who's wanting it

(From Rabble): You have better social skills that everyone else.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Bird up, everybody says

When you hear the call you've got to get it underway

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A voice in my head tells me it would be good for me to go along

Rabble: Ok, who wants to turn into a bird?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'll just keep casting Spirit of Wolf to follow you by "teleporting" every 500 paces since you'll quickly outpace me as a bird.

(To GM): I cannot use social skills if I am a bird

Rabble: What kind of bird do you turn into?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Sleek corvids with strangely feline ears

Owlcats

Archibald of Guernicus: Is the type of bird set by the spell

Kifaaya of Verditius: I think so

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbird

Rabble: Alright, you can travel pretty quickly, but you're somewhat hampered by raptors.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah! Oh no! Raptors!"

I do not say, as birds obviously can't talk

Prudenzio of Flambeau looks at his bird companions in the sky and shakes his damn head

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I guess I trail on horseback with my escort

Kifaaya of Verditius: Someone kill this eagle

Endrite (GM): Ok.

So where are you travelling?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I follow the birds

Endrite (GM): How are you following Severin?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Too bad Celeste isn't here to shoot them down with +22 attack bonus arrows.

Endrite (GM): Birds.

Nice, bonus arrows.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: i forget how many of those special arrows I had. RIP.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Lots of feathers means bonus arrows

According to my time playing UO

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fethers

birdleafs

Archibald of Guernicus: Severin? We were checking the trail of animated houses

Endrite (GM): Ah alright.

Archibald of Guernicus: We couldn't locate him

Celeste's 'amazing tracking' turned out to be +7 to the roll.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He's the guy in the white hood who keeps standing near crowds of prostitutes.

Endrite (GM): You reach the spot of the last missing house pretty quickly.

Celeste: It's amazing compared to everyone else's tracking!

Endrite (GM): It was a simple cottage for a simple farmer whose life has just become very complicated, since he has to run and catch it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: The Abyssinian catbird (Parophasma galinieri) represents a monotypic genus from Africa.

Archibald of Guernicus: Giraldo's may be higher. May. He was also comically useless at his supposed speciality, though.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Cool, I lvoe the Abyss

Peasant: "Excuse me, missus, have you seen my house?" He asks Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Perhaps, what did it look like?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I built Celeste and Nevio originally so that I could use P and Nevio to craft magical bone arrows that whistle and cast leprosy in a group range around where they land, but I never really got around to it and now it's not a pressing desire.

Peasant: "It were sort of house shaped."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I saw a moving house being carried by little faerie imps on my way here. It was going west into the city."

Peasant: "Like Marco's." he points at another rude cottage.

"Oh imps too? As if wizard's weren't enough!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "There are wizards about? How horrible, where?"

Archibald of Guernicus: This would be the best moment for Prudenzio to zoom into the scene from 500 paces away

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hah.

Peasant: "This wizard came by my house afore it ran away."

"I knew he were a wizard cause he had a staff and a cloak with magic symbols on it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Mercy! You are lucky to be alive and unhexed!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That sounds just like a wizard. Good work.

Peasant: "He gave me these coins, only I don't know how much they're worth. I never seen such queer money in all my life. Said it were 'Fer me trouble,' only I didn't get what he meant until I came back from the well and found my house had runt off."

He shows you some coins that don't look local.

Kifaaya of Verditius: That gives me an idea for what to do with my talisman. A higher pen version of Curse of Circe, and have it shoot animal bones with CrAn as a backup for fighting non-human things like houses.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Do I discern anything about them

Peasant: Hmm.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Benerang

Bonerang

Peasant: Roll Bargain + Int.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+3

(

3

)

+2+3

=

8

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+4+3

(

9

)

+4+3

=

16

(From Peasant): They look pretty new and shiny.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Ahhh, that was a good piss. Nice coins."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You must be careful! Accepting a gift from a Wizard is one of their ways for inflicting curses. Quickly, trade it to me for some Roman Lira and you'll be safe."

Peasant: "Oh, good idea missus."

"Here you go."

Archibald of Guernicus: That's Lavinia!

Peasant: He hands you the money with one hand and then holds out his other hand.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I give him some money. I assume I have some money.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I whisper to Lavinia "It's worse than we imagined. Our suspect is a numismatist."

Peasant: Ok, how much?

Prudenzio are you a bird?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: No.

Peasant: Alright, cool.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Hm, we're all fantastically wealthy by medieval standards

So half a MP should be enough to make this peasant rich

Peasant: It's five coins.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Fine

I give him 5 lira

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Fair.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: florins. deniari. whichever

Peasant: Alright sounds good.

Libra.

He looks overjoyed.

This is a huge amount of money.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: It is.

Peasant: "Thank you missus!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I dramatically store the money in a pouch to preserve its arcaneness. "I will treat this carefully."

Peasant: "Thank you for saving me from that awful curse!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He can almost get a new house now.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Did you see which way the Wizard went?"

Peasant: "Yeah, he ran down the road that way. He ran like the devil's own hounds were after him!"

He points down the road to Montcuq.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Knew it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sick.

"Remember stranger, you may protect yourself from the elemental magicks by repeating the Lord's prayer. Be safe!"

Peasant: "I will missus!"

He wanders away and probably drinks himself to death.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: classic peasant

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Now that he's gone, I should mention, these coins are hundreds of years old, and yet, as you can see, appear to be freshly minted."

Archibald of Guernicus: Good season for drinking yourself to death. Bet you didnt kno that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is Prudenzio invisible

Prudenzio of Flambeau: No

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ah, nice

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I appeared behind him and claimed I was taking a piss.

No one noticed.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Were they created by Creo magic?"

Endrite (GM): He was worried about the curse.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Not that I can tell.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I look for signs of sigil on coins

Are the bird Magi nearby

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let us follow the wizard's trail then

Kifaaya of Verditius: I don't really have much to contribute right now so I follow the better investigators

Oh yeah

I can turn into a camel and carry someone instead if they prefer

Endrite (GM): The coins don't have any sigils on them.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway someone who has offensive magic should hold the coins in case they have any arcane connection value

Endrite (GM): Just some crude pictures of a king or something that you can't recognize.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have opening the intangible tunnel, and one or two very good effects to go with it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A King in central Italy? Ridiculous

Kifaaya of Verditius: I think we've accomplished everything we intended to by being birds so I'm going to become a camel to follow the horse riders

Archibald of Guernicus: Basically if I can get an arcane connection to this man I think I can kill him

At infinite distance, without him being able to defend himself.

Endrite (GM): Go for it my dude.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: You should check these coins out.

Endrite (GM): If he is a Hermetic Magus it's unlikely that he'll just be leaving that shit lying around, though.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah.

I doubt these are arcane connections to him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh well

Archibald of Guernicus: However we should endeavour to find one.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's follow the trail and keep an eye out

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Shucks.

Kifaaya of Verditius follows along camelly

Endrite (GM): Nice.

There aren't that many horses on the road, but you manage to spook a couple.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm tired of being hassled by raptors anyway.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wizard cat

Kifaaya of Verditius: Owlcat

Endrite (GM): That's a dog.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its a bjoarner dog whose heartbeast is a cat

Kifaaya of Verditius: Maybe I can make an owncat in my lab

Endrite (GM): Anyway, traffic is low and you're travelling light.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: that's clearly our target on horseback, right there in the painting. he fits the description perfectly.

Endrite (GM): Severin didn't have a hat.

Kifaaya of Verditius: His biggest clothing feature was his yellow cloak with Tytalus logo

Endrite (GM): Anyway, as the sun sets, someone throws an acorn at you.

rolling 1d4

(

2

)

=

2

Archibald.

rolling 1d10! + 3

(

5

)

+3

=

8

You gonna defend against that?

Hello?

Archibald of Guernicus: Hello

Uh

Brawl as a bird?

Do I even keep the same physical stats. Dodging as a bird is confusing

Kifaaya of Verditius: Well you can penalize their roll for Size

Endrite (GM): You use your brawl.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+1+5

(

1

)

+1+5

=

7

Amazing. Mission complete. That right there is why

rolling 1d10

(

4

)

=

4

No botch at least

Kifaaya of Verditius: Let me see what the size penalty is for bird

Archibald of Guernicus: Size penalty to the attack roll?

Kifaaya of Verditius: If the attack roll gets size penaltied that is

Prudenzio of Flambeau: birds are pretty small, so it could be like -8.

you're about rat sized right

Archibald of Guernicus: Since its an opposed roll, wouldnt it be far more logical to just subtract the size modifier from your own roll, anyway. Then again ars is rarely logical.

Endrite (GM): Yeah that sounds right.

The acorn misses.

Archibald of Guernicus: Phew.

Kifaaya of Verditius: A Falcon is -3

Prudenzio of Flambeau: maybe rats were smaller in mythic europe.

Endrite (GM): You all hear a voice like a breeze flowing through an open window say,

Kifaaya of Verditius: From Mundane Beasts

Entanglement: "Nice going bird brain!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I was going by the size chart in the bestiary section of the core book.

Entanglement: "Bet that'll really help your friends out when we slice them to ribbons!"

"But you just stay up there!"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Ah I opened up Mundane Beasts

Entanglement: "Wouldn't want to get yourself hurt!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Who is speaking?

Entanglement: You hear giggling.

Great question.

Put yourselves on the road, please.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh, thank god Sir Oak is here.

Entanglement: A small (-2) creature jumps out of one of the trees, followed by his friends.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Why don't we sit down over some wine and cheese and share anecdotes, instead?

Entanglement: They look like human shaped conglomerations of discarded junk.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I like that I said it was a trap and then still went.

That was a good call.

Entanglement: The one speaking is made of dust, string, and a thimble.

"You don't want to keep chasing Severin, he's ours."

Archibald of Guernicus: "He's yer what?"

Entanglement: "Turn around and we'll forget all about it, human."

Kifaaya of Verditius: If something is affected by a Mu(Co) does that make it targetable by MuCo?

Archibald of Guernicus: I've un-birded now since they're attacking us anyway

Entanglement: "Our what?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I'm sure we'll find a happy compromise."

Entanglement: "Our what?!"

They all laugh.

"He's ours to play with, forever!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ye said 'he's ours', ye daft thimble."

Kifaaya of Verditius: I mean, if MuCo can't target them I don't have much to do here

Archibald of Guernicus: "Oh.  Fae ."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Would you happen to want some free houses, to store him or other toys in? You'll have to come pick them up, I'm sorry to say."

Entanglement: "Toys? We only play with people!"

"People really hate it when you play with them!"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Ain't it the truth.

Entanglement: "What houses?"

"Houses are boring."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Your person is bugging us with some houses. Keeping a long leash on this guy, as far as I'm concerned.

They're moving around and acting all wild.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll see if I can get the camel's stats

Stepping on them might be ab etter idea than trying to turn them into pigs

Entanglement: It might be.

You basically just have to make up animal stats.

Kifaaya of Verditius: The camel spell might have a footnote

Entanglement: "Don't worry about Severin, we'll take care of him."

"If you know what's good for you you'll stay out of it!"

They all titter.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Magi of Hermies 10-11 has camel stats

Combat:

Kick: Init 0, Attack +4, Defense +2, Damage +2

Soak: +3

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I'll be more than happy to stay out of your play time if you can get your pet person to stay out of our business.

"

Entanglement: Well there you go.

"Oh don't worry, he won't be bothering anyone soon!"

"Yeah, Cruciator's gonna get him!" another one pipes up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Who's Cruciator?"

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling 2*(5/3) Brawl 2 in book

2*(5/3)

=

3.3333333333333335

Entanglement: "Oh don't worry about him," the thimble says.

You use your brawl, not a camel's brawl.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh right

Entanglement: "He only has eyes for Severin."

"Yeah he's gonna have all Severin's eyes!" a wooden cup yells.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'm sure it will be extremely unpleasant for Severin and everyone will have a good time but him.

Entanglement: Well, a wooden cup with limbs made out of beer and a few forks.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That sounds gruesome... can we watch?"

"Medical curiosity."

Entanglement: "Sure, just close your eyes and stick out your tongues and we'll take you to fairy land."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Hahaha, good one."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Or ye just lead us there."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Reputations: Cranky +1 (much of Arabia)

Entanglement: Can you see two name plates?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I cannot see them

Archibald of Guernicus: I see one name plate, saying -2

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I have to wonder, now, why he would contact Vardian's Tomb, of all covenants, for help. We don't just meddle out of the goodness of our hearts!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I see them

Prudenzio of Flambeau: same. now another one that says -4.

Entanglement: Ok cool.

"You have to have your eyes shut and make a wish or it doesn't work."

"Yeah, wish we never found you!" a hairbrush says.

These numbers are their sizes.

It's variable.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what's our motive for going into peril to continue this adventure

seems like the fae will take care of him without our help

Entanglement: As long as you don't go any further down the road they don't make any aggressive moves.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, he might be more sensible than us and actually have spells for killing a bunch of things at once.

In which case we still have a problem to deal with

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Fine, fine

Let's close our eyes and stick out our tongues.

Kifaaya of Verditius doesn't act like she understands this conversation, being a camel and all.

Entanglement: Smart.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm considering how to kill these things but sadly I havent got a PeVi for fae. A serious oversight.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: That seems like a terrible idea, but sure, I don't mind making another character.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Me neither

Archibald of Guernicus: Well yeah, this group here is absolutely useless at killing things. Hmm

If PRUDENZIO had veil of invisibility

Entanglement: Well, they're small.

Archibald of Guernicus: we could just let Sir Oak kill them all

since he's basically invincible to threats like this

Kifaaya of Verditius: I took Curse of Circe as my self defense foolishly thinking it'd be humans attacking me

Entanglement: Well this is a learning experience.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I think they're clever enough to see our shadows, Archibald.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Under whose authority do you claim this road?"

Entanglement: "Our master, Cruciator!"

"Yeah!" says the mug.

Archibald of Guernicus: I foolishly pursued other avenues that weren't killing thimbles and mugs, and for this I can only apologise.

That said I really do need a combat spell of some sort.

Beyond demon-killing

Entanglement: I mean, in your experience if you hit a mug with a sword it WILL fall over.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could learn a CrAn spell for spitting poison or something

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Never heard of him."

Entanglement: Poison is pretty weak against something with no blood.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: as they're loose collections of items named Entanglement i had assumed direct physical attacks would be ineffective.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Dropping large quantities of fly bile on stuff

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "His authority can't be too strong."

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, but they outnumber us and the group combat mechanics means their attacks will basically instantly slaughter kifaaya and prudenzio and lavinia

Entanglement: "Never heard of him? He's the meanest fairy in all fairy land!"

"Yeah, no one looks at him the wrong way!"

Archibald of Guernicus: I could drop a bunch of dirt on some of them, that'd only get 3 though.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He must be very good at torturing to have that name.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Basically just try to create a standard +10 damage spell with CrAn

Entanglement: "Not even Peripeteia!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Really?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Acidic bile will do

Entanglement: Her name causes some murmurs.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: you could drop an elephant on someone.

Entanglement: "Yeah she's not that great."

"Nothing worth talking about!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I heard she was pretty great."

Entanglement: "No way, she doesn't even have a big whip!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I could be wrong though. I haven't met her myself."

Entanglement: "No wonder Cruciator beats her every time!"

"Yeah she's probably hiding out!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, sounds like a real big guy. Why's he gotten into a fight with this Severin?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Why not take us to see her? If you're right then we'll acknowledge that Cruciator is the greater one."

Entanglement: "'Cause she's afraid of us!"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Elephants are pretty high level, but I guess they don't have to penetrate if you drop them from high enough.

Entanglement: "You don't want to see her, she's boring."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Drop A Titan On It

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Thank you for warning us. I find boredom excruciating and unbearable. I'd hate to be subjected to it!"

Entanglement: "Yeah its awful!" a pipe pipes up.

Kifaaya of Verditius: How good are werewolves

Entanglement: It depends on the type.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You'd have to be a real jerk to subject me to that kind of boredom. A real monster."

"Thankfully you're all nice well mannered fae."

Entanglement: "Yeah, almost as boring as guarding a road," says a bucket.

"Weeeeeell, if I'm being honest..." says the thimble.

"If I knew where Peripeteia was I'd definitely try and clip her toes off."

"Sorry, human."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nuts

Entanglement: "Yeah, we don't have any idea where she is!" says the mug.

Alright do you have any more barbs to trade with these little freaks?

(To GM) rolling 1d7

(

5

)

=

5

Archibald of Guernicus: I don't think we can safely kill them in this current setup, not without risking our sodales. So I guess we just sod off and go elsewhere.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Well, I'll be going back home then. This conversation is boring me.

""

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, same."

Entanglement: "Bye, don't even THINK about messing with Severin!"

"Yeah, that's our job!" says the bucket.

Anyone have any fairy lore?

Archibald of Guernicus: Tyrone laughing for ten years

Entanglement: Faerie Lore

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nope.

Entanglement: Faeireaie Loure

Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: What am I, a nerd?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lavinia might? no idea.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have

+5 lore

Archibald of Guernicus: Lavinia is a nerd but somehow has no

Oh she does

Well done

Entanglement: Nice, gimmie a Lore + Int roll.

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+2+5

(

5

)

+2+5

=

12

Kifaaya of Verditius: Verditus loremight say something about animated objects but I doubt it

(From Entanglement): It isn't uncommon for fairies to claim roads, but these creeps look a little more domestic than you'd expect from road fairies, which usually look like dogs or knights or something.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It isn't uncommon for fairies to claim roads, but these creeps look a little more domestic than you'd expect from road fairies, which usually look like dogs or knights or something.

Archibald of Guernicus: The big question is what their boss is, and why he's arguing with Severin

'arguing'

outright protecting the guy

fucking fae

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fine

Entanglement: Maybe Severin is a secret Merinita.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's come back with an army of grogs and slaughter them all

Archibald of Guernicus: Sounds good.

Entanglement: Sounds like a plan!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: then set fairy land on fire and kill everyone in it

Archibald of Guernicus: I support any plan that involves murdering every last one of these things.

Entanglement: Boy wouldn't that be great.

Archibald of Guernicus: It would

In the meantime, while Lavinia gets grogs together, I'll take a trip to Magvillus and find out which covenant this asshole is in, so I can begin planning a wizard's war against him.

Entanglement: Ok wait a minute hold your horses or yourself if you're a camel.

They let you leave while tossing a couple more cruel taunts at you.

But words can never hurt you.

Endrite (GM): You turn back to Rome.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Maybe faerie magic has a way for words to hurt

But not this kind at least

Endrite (GM): An hour or so later, as night truly falls, you see a puff of blue smoke (with sparkles) from whence'st a woman of beauty and noble bearing emerges.

Archibald of Guernicus: Ah, its peroperotata

Peripeteia: She is wearing fine white linens and carries a wooden spindle.

She also appears to be heavily pregnant.

"Fair magi hold!"

Kifaaya of Verditius: Alan Jackson waterskis into the 14th century

Peripeteia: "Do not abandon your quest so easily!'

Archibald of Guernicus: "And who are ye, then? That peripotato lass?"

Peripeteia: "Yes, it is I, Peripeteia,"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "The father still around?"

Archibald of Guernicus: I rub my temples. Why can't all fae be like the noble padfoot?

Peripeteia: "Have you heard of me from those foul-mouthed minions of Cruciator?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Congratulations, of course."

Peripeteia: "Thank you, mortal."

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll turn human and greet this woman politely

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, yer name came up."

Be sure to throw Lavinia off as you do so. She probably deserves it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: As politely as a Saracen raised by wizards can, anyway.

Peripeteia: "That is no surprise, the Cruciator and I are mortal enemies and we have been locked in conflict these many centuries."

"Enchanted, Kifaaya."

I assume you introduced yourself.

If not she doesn't know your name.

Kifaaya of Verditius: "Evening of light to you."

I'll give her my name

Peripeteia: "Oh, but Severin's fate will be ever so dark if you don't intervene."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I pretend to care

Peripeteia: "For you see, the Cruciator is an evil fairy who feeds on the misery of tragedy."

Archibald of Guernicus: "That sounds awful."

Peripeteia: "Yes indeed it is."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I just can't imagine how I could cope if something happened to Severin."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Sounds like a real piece of work... how much vis is he made of

Peripeteia: "That is why I have attempted to help Severin all I can, but his escape from the Cruciator's clutches has been more taxing on me than I had anticipated."

"Given my condition."

Archibald of Guernicus: . o O ( severin's eyes count as arcane connections to him for decades )

Peripeteia: "I have not been able to contact him with those hateful things scrabbling around him like wolves."

"But if you help Severin, and me, then I can assure you of a great reward," she looks at you when she says this, Lavinia.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What's yer personal connection to Severin, if ye don't mind me asking."

Peripeteia: "For as the Good Fairy of Happy Endings, I have a claim on the holdings of the Cruciator, should he be destroyed."

"I understand that much of it is made up of the 'vis' you value so highly."

"He is my charge."

"Ever since the Cruciator stole him away to fairy land 341 years ago, it has been my mission to help him find his happy ending."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Excuse me, what? What?"

"Humans don't live that long, not even magi."

Peripeteia: "Yes, I selflessly guided him out of the Cruciator's clutches."

"Ah of course."

"He spent a mere 8 months in the Cruciator's domain. However, it was much longer than that in your world."

"341 years, to be exact."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Ah, that explains the coins.

Archibald of Guernicus: Rubbing my temples, I ask "Do ye have some idea why he might attack us, then?"

Peripeteia: "Attack you? I do not, only it is true that you mortals occasionally become confused and don't understand how much time has passed."

"It may be that he mistook you for someone else."

"He was involved in some war or other, but I do not concern myself with such affairs."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Incredible. Alright, sodales, we should discuss this matter in private."

Lavinia of Jerbiton thinks historically. what happened 341 years ago that is important

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Hm.

Peripeteia: She politely and delicately pushes her buns to her ears so she cant hear you.

Archibald of Guernicus: What a swell gal

Prudenzio of Flambeau: We should talk to Venator about it. Hahaha.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is that the schism war time

Peripeteia: Mmm ha ha.

The schism was around then, yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: "If he is missing for 341 years, that would probably mark him as legally dead. Wizard's war may be awkward for this reason. He likely doesn't even have a covenant to return to."

Peripeteia: It was around 1015 AD or so.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I see. This man is obviously a Diedne and has secret magic knowledge we need to harvest for the good of the Order.

Peripeteia: So it would be after this.

Archibald of Guernicus: Look who came out of his wizard's twilight!

c'thinker: hollo

Peripeteia: So obviously this was some other war.

Unless she has the date wrong.

Archibald of Guernicus: She might have the year slightly wrong

Its very close to the schism war

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No, my theory is definitely correct

Peripeteia: It is possible.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's so close that it'd be one hell of a coincedence if it wasnt

Kifaaya of Verditius: If helping her will keep my street level studio from being crushed, I'll do it

c'thinker: did any player characters die while i was missing

Kifaaya of Verditius: Sadly no

c'thinker: alas.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: just aristocritus

we fed him to the house to keep it at bay

Archibald of Guernicus: He didnt attempt to stop us, so he obviously consented.

Kifaaya of Verditius: RIP

c'thinker: fair, but is it harsh enough?

Archibald of Guernicus: Nowhere near

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Anyway

Let's rescue this guy, then press charges in court and make him our slave

imo

Archibald of Guernicus: "Anyway, sodales, a chance at vis. If this is some ridiculous misunderstanding, I have no idea why the stupid prick ran away. I gave him the chance to explain himself."

c'thinker: i have some stuff to do but if the game runs for ten hours again i can jump in as a grog or something

Archibald of Guernicus: "Legally, he knew full well who he was attacking.

"

Peripeteia: No we're probably going to wrap today's sesh up in 30 minutes.

Alright, what does everyone think of that plan?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: flawless

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Beautiful.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sorry, what was the plan?

Peripeteia: Heh.

Archibald of Guernicus: We murder the fae, Cruciator, for his vis.

We get the baddest grogs we can and kick him to death.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sounds good as long as I don't have to exert any effort or be in any peril

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway, we then sue the shit out of this ancient magus and make him our lab slave for his crimes, as I very clearly and openly stated our covenant, and he continued to attack it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll make a grog who's better at murder for next session or just get Pacifico killed if it's this session, works either way.

Peripeteia: Could be good.

Archibald of Guernicus: We're taking all the grogs along on a murder quest

Peripeteia: You can make as many grogs as you feel like.

I mean within reason.

Don't make 30.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah I just need some time to think about it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 29

Peripeteia: That is your right.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Alright, Peripeteia. Yer kind words have swayed us. We will help Severin here."

Peripeteia: She notices you talking to her and releases her buns.

Archibald of Guernicus: "However, afterwards, we do need to speak with him. His actions broke the code of hermes, for his own safety he has to meet with us. The status of a hermetic criminal is very dangerous."

Peripeteia: "Thank you magi. I knew I could count on your kind to do the right thing."

"I am not familiar with your laws, but once you help me grant Severin a happy ending I am sure he will make amends."

Kifaaya of Verditius: I think I'll delete Modius and make my companion an animal of virtue

Peripeteia: No problemo.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Well that'd be too similar to Kifaaya

Peripeteia: A Companion character doesn't have to have anything to do with your maga.

In fact it's probably better if he doesn't because you won't be playing them at the same time, usually.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yeah, my companion character being prudenzio's child is unconventional, apparently

Kifaaya of Verditius: I just need to come up with something that doesn't use a subsystem people don't like, like Labor Points

Peripeteia: It's just that Labor Points don't do anything.

Archibald of Guernicus: As long as they don't get along with each other to the point they'd reasonably call on each other for help, and such. And have differing skillsets, imo.

Peripeteia: ANYWAY, do you have anything you'd like to say to Peripeteia?

Because otherwise she'll continue.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Who's the dad?"

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll listen

Archibald of Guernicus: I said all I needed to, unless other magi

Peripeteia: She ignores that question, Lavinia.

Archibald of Guernicus: It's... Cruciator!

Peripeteia: "But the behavior you describe does seem like the work of the Cruciator. He destroys his victims by taking everything away from them."

"First he stole him away from his time, then he stole his most precious treasures and now he has even stolen membership in your lovely club!"

Archibald of Guernicus: My eye twitches at the noble order of hermes being called a club

Peripeteia: "If he isn't destroyed, he will surely find another victim when he dispenses with Severin."

"If you truly wish to fight him, I can aid you."

"Will you take this risk against such a terrible foe?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. We'll kill him, alright. First, we need to go back and get more men, though."

Peripeteia: "Perhaps."

"But perhaps not, for the Cruciator has a weakness."

"He is a vain creature and takes trophies from his victims."

"He stores them in a terrible tower known as the Tower of Downcast Faces."

"Amongst these trophies is Severin's enchanted staff. Should you rescue him, he will be able to find his staff with his magic and, thus, the tower."

"The Tower is a symbol of Cruciator's endless campaign of torment and if it is destroyed then so too is the Cruciator."

Archibald of Guernicus: Rescue him? I didnt even realise those thimbles had kidnapped him.

Man this guy sure sucks at doing everything that isnt inflicting torment upon us

Peripeteia: "They harry him at every turn and he has sought a place of protection to recover from his wounds. There is a cave near the town of Montcuq where he and his friends stored supplies in the event of an emergency."

"He is on his way there now, to recover from the tortures inflicted upon him by the Cruciator."

Archibald of Guernicus: Thank you for telling us where he is, kind fairy. We'll go 'rescue' him now.

Peripeteia: "If you join forces with him, the Entanglements will not be able to stop you from reaching the next stage of your journey: his fallen covenant and his beloved familiar."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Montcuq and Montenegro, the sister cities

Peripeteia: "There you will certainly find a weapon to defeat this powerful and evil foe."

Archibald of Guernicus: I sigh in the way only a man who has fallen into fairy hijinks can sigh "Then let's go find him, sodales."

Peripeteia: "Be advised club members of Hermes, if you delay too long in finding Severin, he will surely be set upon by the Cruciator and his minions."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Club hermes

Peripeteia: "His minions control the roads, but they are creatures of habit and will not stray into the woods."

"As long as you stay off the roads you should be able to avoid them."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, great. Ye love travelling woods, don't ye Lavinia?"

Peripeteia: Ah Beardbeard, you're just in time for the end of today's session.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I love helping a fellow Magus in need, regardless of my personal feelings on the matter. I pray my sodales feel the same way."

Kifaaya of Verditius: I think I want to be a Merinita with some Road spells if Kifaaya dies

Peripeteia: Merinita are cool.

Archibald of Guernicus: Cast a spell to destroy every single road in rome

Peripeteia: They can buy a "flaw" that makes their Perdo spells temporary.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Perdo Road

Archibald of Guernicus: The temporary perdo thing is really good

Peripeteia: It is.

"I am glad that the Club of Hermes is so goodly and kind-hearted."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'd play a merinita and never, ever involve myself with fae at all, in honour of the founder merinita who didnt have a single point in faerie lore and had her legacy ruined by fae-lovers.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Hmm

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yes, we're a real happy bunch."

Kifaaya of Verditius: Is a dog's ability to track a Power or an ability?

Archibald of Guernicus: I imagine strangling Cruciator to take my mind off of wanting to strangle Severin.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Camel's waterfinding is a power, thankfully

Peripeteia: Probably an ability with an Enhanced Sense virtue.

But whatever.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Malachiasz of Tytalus: glad i could contribute to this session

is there going to be one next week?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Turning into a dog to track him, well, "that dog won't hunt", as they say

Peripeteia: Anyway, do you have anything you'd like to ask Peripeteia or can we call it for today?

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm good for this week

Archibald of Guernicus: We're not bothering Severin this week? It's not that late.

Peripeteia: We've been going for four hours.

Well I guess we started late.

We can go meet Severin.

Archibald of Guernicus: We started about half an hour or so late, yeah. We were waiting on dfd.

Peripeteia: YEAH WE WERE!

Anyway, anymore questions for Peripeteia?

Archibald of Guernicus: Nope!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Where'd you get those nice earmuffs"

Peripeteia: "I spun them out of moondust and sunbeams."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Cute!"

Kifaaya of Verditius: "I'd like to learn to do that."

Peripeteia: "Thank you."

"Perhaps one day I can teach you."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "I have to use leather and fiber, usually."

Peripeteia: "That is a shame."

Kifaaya of Verditius: "There's no time for me to learn now though, Severin is in danger."

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's make haste through the woods, to go find Sevvy

Peripeteia: Alright.

Beardbeard you can be here if you want.

With whomst's'ever you wish.

AFK a sec.

Giraldo of Milan: Giraldo runs into his sodales while searching for rare herbs.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll turn back into a cat eared camel and head into the woods following the others

Giraldo of Milan: "Ah, Cat-Eared Camel. Had a few run ins with those. Nasty beasts."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Where the hell did ye run into a camel in Italy?"

Giraldo of Milan: "Fairy land."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I've had enough of fairies for the day."

"Let's just find this prick."

Giraldo of Milan: "Woke up and went to grab my horse and found one of those instead."

"Kept spitting and had the worst odor I've ever smelled."

Peripeteia: Ok, you guys ready to head to the Perdo vis cave?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes. Yep.

Giraldo of Milan: mm. perdo vis

Endrite (GM): Alright.

Peripeteia bids you good fortune and disappears in a puff of blue smoke (with glitter).

Archibald of Guernicus: Bye.

Endrite (GM): You know the way to Montcuq, but it takes longer without taking the road.

For starters, you need to provision yourselves.

Fortunately Giraldo is an excellent hunter.

Archibald of Guernicus: Debatable.

Giraldo of Milan: listen pal

Archibald of Guernicus: Are they excellent in the same sense that Celeste was excellent

Giraldo of Milan: have you dealt with cat eared camels and lived

Endrite (GM): In about ten days you reach your destination.

The Perdo vis cave is a little different in the spring than when the grogs usually visit.

Winter snow melt creates a temporary river that flows in a waterfall over the mouth of the cave, creating a small river that eventually makes it's way to the Tiber.

Archibald of Guernicus: Are there still bats that attack you

Endrite (GM): Also, and this is particularly unusual, there is a small army of those vicious entanglements prowling around, looking for a way past the waterfall.

I don't know about the bats.

You'd have to look inside the cave to find out.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Looks like the things got here first."

Giraldo of Milan: Can I roll Faerie Lore to know more about the entanglements?

Kifaaya of Verditius: We can go through the mouth as birds, as long as we fly in low enough that we don't hurt ourselves turning back into humans when the perdo vis hits

Endrite (GM): Could work.

What do you carry with you when you turn into a bird?

Archibald of Guernicus: I can deal with the waterfall just fine, I have Break the Oncoming Wave so it'll flow harmlessly around me.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+6

(

10

)

+6

=

16

that was the faerie lore

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Just clothing and casting tools myself

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought your possessions get birded up with you.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Sounds like Archibald has a better idea nyway

I thought so too

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well my plan was just to break the oncoming wave, on myself, to keep the water off me. Then spont some ReCo to get inside and past the stupid thimbles.

Anyway, FFM to make it Sun duration rather than Conc, what's the aura here?

If its neutral I cast it automatically

Endrite (GM): Why are you worried about getting wet?

The waterfall isn't particularly strong.

Giraldo of Milan: "Interesting creatures, those. They're made from things people throw away."

Archibald of Guernicus: It's about style, Endrite.

Endrite (GM): The aura is, in fact, Mundane.

+0.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm going to be nice and dry to greet this asshole who attacked us.

How many of the horrid little things are surrounding his cave?

Endrite (GM): About 20.

It's tough to get a precise count because they're made of junk.

If you took the time you could do it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I could try to distract them as a camel while Archibald goes in

Endrite (GM): You will recall they attacked Archibald in bird form.

Archibald of Guernicus: They did, yeah. They seem to tell when someone is transformed.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I duly recall this

I could always see if Corpus affects them, and if it fails and they kill me, that's probably a suitable distraction

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, the only real smart way of getting in that I can think of is either invisibility or ReCo.

Please value your life more, sodales

Endrite (GM): Corpus generally only works on creatures that are broadly human.

So Peripeteia is probably Corpus.

But these things are too weird.

They don't have skin or blood or hair or anything.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: If they can see through a MuCo(An) effect they can probably see through an illusion of invisibility.

Sorry, was AFK for a bit.

Endrite (GM): You know what could really work here?

A pit.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: It always does.

Archibald of Guernicus: Good thing Malach abandoned us

Huh, weird. Halfway through many of our troubles, wizards just seem to phase in and out of existence.

Endrite (GM): Well you all have experiments on the boil.

Archibald of Guernicus: A distraction may work, if anyone has any useful magics for it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets set a grog on fire and throw em in

Archibald of Guernicus: I have stuff for breaking through stone walls subtly, but not really for caves.

Alright. Let's set our only grog here on fire. Giraldo.

Endrite (GM): That WOULD be destracting.

I mean distracting.

Giraldo of Milan: excuse me, giraldo is a powerful companion

Endrite (GM): Technically and legally he's a grog.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yep.

Giraldo of Milan: thats very rude

Archibald of Guernicus: The only companion with any legal status above groghood is Zita.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does anyone have any flammable pitch

Giraldo of Milan: as opposed to nonflammable pitch??

Archibald of Guernicus: I can create flammable oil, with a formulaic spell

Lavinia of Jerbiton: put it on sir oak and then we'll set him on fire

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh. He's immune to fire isnt' he

Good idea

"Excellent idea, Lavinia."

I cast Footsteps of Slippery Yet Flammable Oil, FFM to make it voice range, on Sir Oak

Endrite (GM): Ok he slips and falls.

Are you doing this silently?

Archibald of Guernicus: I thought we were some distance away, spying on them

I could take the silent casting penalty and still make it easily, though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what is the plan once the distraction is in place

Endrite (GM): Well if you're close enough to see them then they're probably close enough to hear you.

Archibald of Guernicus: Then we do this slightly further back, of course.

Out of earshot

Giraldo of Milan: I continue watching them.

Archibald of Guernicus: We uh

We make a flaming sir oak kill as many as he can

And while he does that, we go in

Endrite (GM): Go in and go in like the US Marshal and his three daughters.

Alright but how is that a distraction?

Wouldn't they just see you and stop you?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what idiot thought up this plan???

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll admit, it's a tricky one.

Giraldo of Milan: we could sit and wait for sir oak to kill them all

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's just walk up and tell them we found their mortal enemy whose name begins with P and whose exact spelling escapes me

and point in the wrong direction

Archibald of Guernicus: Perpolempo

Who has the best Guile?

Endrite (GM): Peripeteia.

Kifaaya of Verditius: She probably does have teh best Guile

She got us to do this after all

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yeah.

I could have a +10 to a guile roll if i add Comm.

9 for Pre

Endrite (GM): All she's got you to do so far is camp out for a week and a half.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I don't think that's good enough to lie to fae, though. Maybe!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fine, point them in the right direction then

we'll kill cruciator before they catch up to her.

Lavinia of Jerbiton dusts hands  problem solved

Endrite (GM): So easy!

Giraldo of Milan: seems like a good plan

Kifaaya of Verditius: We probably need to try to kill them

Giraldo of Milan: the worst possible outcome is that a fairy dies

Kifaaya of Verditius: They're gonna attack us on the way out of the cave if we just get in there with a ruse

Giraldo of Milan: i think sir oak on fire can kill all 20 of them

without much issue

Kifaaya of Verditius: Gooooo Oak

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He probably could.

Endrite (GM): Being on fire doesn't actually make you that much more dangerous.

Giraldo of Milan: the last fight sir oak got into was against much more powerful opponents and was resolved via narrative

Endrite (GM): Since you need to have a lot of contact with fire before it starts doing a lot of damage.

You had a strategic advantage there.

I mean a tactical advantage.

Archibald of Guernicus: What we really need

Is a pit

to drop them in

if ONLY

we had that

what a shame

Archibald of Guernicus: you had one fucking job malach

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I thought you were supposed to be a badass scottish warrior in the vein of william wallace, archibald

Kifaaya of Verditius: Could you PeVi whatever holds them together, Archibald?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You expect us to believe you kill English at Falkirk and you can't take on reanimated piles of junk?

Giraldo of Milan: it would take 20 days ofut of malachs season to come here

that means no lab work

Endrite (GM): Much like William Wallace, Archibald is afraid of common household objects.

Archibald of Guernicus: I could easily take several of them, yes. The probelm is my backup consists of 2 people. Against 20.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: They're junk!

You could step on them

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, that's not the scary part. The scary part is that group combat rules elevate them to the status of demigods.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I offered to step on them as a camel earlier

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yeesh. No wonder the Scots lost Falkirk.

Giraldo of Milan: failkirk

Endrite (GM): I'll give you a tip for free.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway unless my sodales have plans for killing the other 10, while Giraldo and Sir Oak and I kill 10 of them

Endrite (GM): None of the Entanglements have Leadership.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Much like William Wallace

Endrite (GM): As might be expected.

Archibald of Guernicus: Hmm. Interesting.

Kifaaya and Lavinia and Prudenzio

do any of you have, well, anything at all that could help here

Lavinia has Sir Oak in a sense

Giraldo of Milan: lavinia has sir oak

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I can fly for a few minutes

and I have theriacs that restore fatigue

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm shaking my fist at the concept of hedge wizardry

Kifaaya of Verditius: Maybe I cam spont a shitty MuHe(An) buff that lets me use Animal resistance to their attacks

or MuHe(Co)

Endrite (GM): You could fly into the cave.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I can harm the bodies and minds of human beings.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ok.

Archibald of Guernicus: If we held the cave entrance it'd be pretty easy, yeah.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: only I can fly though and I won't have a way back down

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I also have 5 Leadership, I could yell at some grogs, possibly.

Archibald of Guernicus: We should just head into the damn cave

Endrite (GM): You mean out.

Archibald of Guernicus: What grogs, aha

Grog (singular)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm not clear on the geography here because someone hasn't made a FCUKIGN MAP!!!!!!

pretty

Endrite (GM): Basically it's like this but there's a big waterfall outside.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and the junk fae are inside the cave or outside?

Endrite (GM): Well, a waterfall at least.

Outside.

They seem unwilling to go through the waterfall.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I assume the cave destroys ongoing spells

Which they're composed of

Endrite (GM): Well, you certainly haven't put an Aegis of the Hearth on it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: someone Conc duration perdo the waterfall then make it come back into existance once they walk into its path

washing them away

Archibald of Guernicus: The hermes boys of aquam will deal with this

Lets see

I have 1 aquam, the highest here

Prudenzio of Flambeau: yes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh shit, I have 6 actually. Wow.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: good job, archibald. the generalists are the real specialists.

Endrite (GM): You were the one who wanted to Break the Oncoming Wave on it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this is why specialists stink and no onel ikes them

Try Specializing in a fucking clue!!!!!

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm semi-generalist but constantly suffer from taking a bunch of spells I thought would be fun, that never turn out to be useful

I have a grab-bag of effects that never come up

Anyway, we could just do that from inside the cave, we should head in

Kifaaya of Verditius: I didn't know sponts would be such a big deal

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sponting is life

Endrite (GM): The issue at hand is that going in will be dangerous.

Potentially.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll be more generalized after these faeries kill me, I promise

Prudenzio of Flambeau: I'll be leaving at 7 est to play a different, worse rpg somewhere else. sorry all.

Archibald of Guernicus: I wish I was Zita on this adventure, I never should have left my lab.

Endrite (GM): No that's cool.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: my next character is DEFINITELY going to have the versatile casting virtue

Endrite (GM): 5 hours after the start time is my limit, personally.

Sponting a spell could be a good idea.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Sounds good. Won't be late next week, almost assuredly.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm trying to think of something good to spont.

How many of them could be caught in a pit?

Endrite (GM): Also, as any Mythic European knows, fairies traditionally have wards that they cannot cross.

It depends on how big the pit is.

Archibald of Guernicus: Pit of the gaping earth is 6 paces across, it says

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'm going to fly through the cave entrance

We can see what happens

Endrite (GM): 6 paces will grab some of them.

Ok, go for it Kifaaya.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Alright, I turn into a bird and attempt to push through the waterfall

Endrite (GM): Ok.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Or fine a place to slip by it into the cave

Endrite (GM): The Entanglements see you and try to stop you by throwing small rocks, acorns, and pine cones at you but they're terrible at throwing and miss you.

You splash through the waterfall, soaking you.

This makes it a little difficult to fly, but otherwise you're inside the cave.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

I guess they can't enter because of ReHe

ReHe ward

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll try sponting ReCo to fly 50 paces and get inside

Giraldo of Milan: "Ah, right. It looks like they're also completely worthless in combat."

Endrite (GM): It's important to note that if these are fairy creatures, they wouldn't be harmed by a PerdoVim designed to destroy spells.

Giraldo of Milan: "Fascinating creatures."

Kifaaya of Verditius: That's an important note

I don't know much about fae

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why don't ye go kill some with Sir Oak, then? I'll be inside the cave."

Endrite (GM): Creatures with a Might score aren't animated by magic so ending spells won't destroy them.

They animate themselves.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I see

I'll turn human and progress inside

Endrite (GM): There's a separate class of Perdo Vim designed to destroy Might points.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+2+18

(

9

)

+2+18

=

29

Kifaaya of Verditius: I should spont Eyes of the cat too

Giraldo of Milan: I set fire to Sir Oak's oil-covered body. "Go get them."

Endrite (GM): Lavinia? Does Sir Oak go get them?

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, moving 50 paces instantly is level 15. I conf it, and make it.

Endrite (GM): Congrats.

Thank you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sure

Kifaaya of Verditius: I can spont Eyes of the Cat without fatigue as long as I don't botch

Lavinia of Jerbiton: go get em oak

Endrite (GM): Ok we'll handle the combat next session.

Do any of you other guys have a plan to get yourself inside the cave?

Giraldo of Milan: I plan to help Sir Oak kill the fairies if he needs it.

Otherwise sit and watch until he's done.

Endrite (GM): Archibald, you fling yourself through the waterfall and barely get wet at all.

It happens too quickly for the Entanglements to stop you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i'll fly in

Kifaaya of Verditius:

rolling (44/5)+d10 vs spell level 5 Spont Eyes of the Cat,

(44/5)+

(

8

)

=

16.8

Endrite (GM): Your more stately pace gives the Entanglements time to react, but their makeshift missiles are no threat.

Ok Kifaaya.

You do it!

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, I dont get wet in any way whatsoever, thanks to Break the Oncoming Wave.

Endrite (GM): The cave is dark but your kitty cat eyes allow you to see clearly.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, I have that as formulaic

I cast it on myself

Endrite (GM): Wait you were casting a spell while maintaining a concentration spell?

Archibald of Guernicus: No? I set it to Sun duration with FFM.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Me? I turned human

Archibald of Guernicus: FFM is a great little virtue

For avoiding things like that

Endrite (GM): Oh ok.

You're through too quick for the Entanglements to chase you.

So the wave doesn't break that much.

Anyway we have Kifaaya, Archibald, and Lavinia in the cave.

They all see the prone figure of Severin of Tytalus laying near the shore.

He's barely conscious and looks like he hasn't eaten in a while.

Endrite (GM): Ok see you next time everybody!

Archibald of Guernicus: . o O ( we could kill him now and end this whole mess )

See you, Endrite.

Endrite (GM): You definitely could, Archibald.

Kifaaya of Verditius: GG

I suppose we'll figure out what to do with him next week

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Good cliffhanger. Thanks, see you next week.

Endrite (GM): Well I don't know if we're playing next week.

Only a couple people said they could make it and I'm not sure I can.

On account of Easter.

Kifaaya of Verditius: See you when I see you, then

Archibald of Guernicus: The trick is to just not do anything on easter.

One that works out great for this gamer.

Giraldo of Milan: the trick is to despise god in all his forms, so you get free days off with no obligations

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh yeah.

I forgot about that.

I'm supposed to make a bunch of pierogies for my family, and I still forgot!

Kifaaya of Verditius: The trick is to know Jesus was taken aboard the Rothschild spaceship and never actually died, thus making the resurrection a sham.

Giraldo of Milan: what kind of pierogi are you making

Prudenzio of Flambeau: potato and cheese because most of my family doesnt like mushroom and sauerkraut, my favorite kind

Giraldo of Milan: theyre right

Endrite (GM): Right daft.

So how does everyone feel about these longer adventures?

I have mixed feelings on them, since people have trouble making it to each session.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm fine with it personally

Prudenzio of Flambeau: i imagine it's a pain to gm for, but it's been working out ok on this side.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think they would be less an issue with people more suited to winning adventures, a lot of the time seems to be spent as the worlds least competent wizards all bumble around trying to apply their insanely selective skillset to problems.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: It was insane when BR showed up for one session and just casually stomped everything he encountered by knowing what he was doing

Endrite (GM): It's actually easier for me to deal with because I don't have to rush to cram everything in.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Neat.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i don't really know what motivates any character here besides wonton violence

Endrite (GM): Well now that you have him at your mercy I think I can post Severin's spell list.

Archibald of Guernicus: Zita has motivation, Archibald I've been unsure where to take him.

Endrite (GM): Which I think should show off how even a specialist wizard can be very versatile.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what's zita

s motivation

Archibald of Guernicus: She wants to live up to her bloodline and pull off amazing, heroic feats of thievery.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does graverobbing/cryptrobbing fit into that

Archibald of Guernicus: It can.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: good

Giraldo of Milan: i dont know what malachs motivation is other than a distant dream of the popes demise

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we already had one aspiring pope killer last campaign and it didnt work out

Giraldo of Milan: giraldo wants to hunt magic beasts and learn alchemy

Endrite (GM): Oh man, if you want to learn alchemy you should hit up Jeanne de Ys.

Giraldo of Milan: mythic alchemy

(To Endrite): lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald I'm unsure of, he doesn't really have too big a goal right now so I've just been learning the hermetic projects spells for wizards war so that we can deal with rogue wizards when they come up.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I bet she knows mythic alchemy too

Endrite (GM): She can teach Apothecary at like 18 XP per season.

Giraldo of Milan: probably

i could do that at some point, im kind of out of ways to learn more philosophiaea

and cant think of any more formulas to make

Endrite (GM): She's a pretty valuable source of XP for the covenant that no one has been paying attention to since Rope Kid quit.

Giraldo of Milan: what else can she teach?

Endrite (GM): Apothecary and Chirurgergy.

Giraldo of Milan: hm

chirurgy might be useful

is it 18 xp on that too?

Endrite (GM): And medicine.

Yes.

She can also teach recipes for theriacs.

Giraldo of Milan: ill hit her up for medicine or chirurgy some time, probably chirurgy would be better so giraldo is more useful on adventures

Archibald of Guernicus: I think what would be best for Archibald is if, after this, I stick him in the lab for a long time and have him learn as many useful spells as possible. Fairly omni-applicable effects. And while I do this, come up with something for him to do.

In the meantime I'll play Zita who is more fun for me to play and I have a better idea of what to do with.

Endrite (GM): It's actually Profession: Apothecary.

But whatever.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: let's track down some augustan wizards and help lavinia steal their resources

Endrite (GM): I thought they all joined the Order of Hermes.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's murder wizard's from afar with intangible tunnel effects.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I'm the only one

Endrite (GM): Oh ok,

Kifaaya of Verditius: After this I'm thinking of learning useful spells for decreasing covenant overhead

Like the spell idea for quickly producing grown animals

I have to look at the CrHe example agian to make sure it isn't a ritual

https://puu.sh/vf12B/954325b84c.png

Archibald of Guernicus: I think we need more PCs pursuing personal projects that lead to adventures. Maybe.

Kifaaya of Verditius: No ritual, no vis

I could look into a project

I'm not entirely sure how to go about it

Endrite (GM): I think growing animals takes vis.

Kifaaya of Verditius: That's possible

Giraldo of Milan: you could probably do something to make animals mature faster without vis

Kifaaya of Verditius: Circle of Eternal Spring doesn't seem to accelerate growth, at any rate, simply makes them "grow well"

Giraldo of Milan: also for projects, iwas thinking of finally getting corpus on malach and getting into necromancy. we could figure out something with that!

Kifaaya of Verditius: Which is I guess comparable to a buff to recovery rolls

Archibald of Guernicus: Prudenzio is technically a necromancer.

Not that he ever does much with it.

Giraldo of Milan: make your own spell gamer, im sure you could figure something reasonable out

itd probably be a magnitude or 2 above circle of eternal spring

Archibald of Guernicus: he just got into it for the general appeal of violating the sanctity of human life

Giraldo of Milan: my entire goal with necromancy is to do something with the fact that we live in a catacomb

embed bones in the walls to have skeletons grab and bite at intruders

Kifaaya of Verditius: A ritual to make animals crow is kinda wasteful use of vis compared to CrTeing a giant gold nugget

* grow

Making humans crow is relatively cheap

Giraldo of Milan: the spell youre talking about is a waste of vis

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Endrite (GM): Well the main source of tension at Vardian's Tomb is that sinister necromancy isn't much appreciated by the populace or the nearby Vatican.

I think the most efficient way to turn vis into money is to make pearls.

Because you can make like 20,000 from one Animal vis.

Giraldo of Milan: simple, just dont let the mundanes find out

the only way they would is if they walked into the skeleton walls and got chewed to death

Kifaaya of Verditius: Making pearls isn't a bad idea

Endrite (GM): Directly creating wealth with magic is frowned upon by the Order of Hermes.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

I need a client to make money to less frowned on way

Giraldo of Milan: or you could just make the pearls anyway, while archibald is too busy holed up in his lab to frown at you

Kifaaya of Verditius: Voda should find someone who wants magic boots

Endrite (GM): You could always sell it to a mundane lord who likes us.

Kifaaya of Verditius: They should be made to order so he gets the effect he wants

Endrite (GM): Hugo di Capocci, patriarch of the Capocci family, would probably buy magical items.

Of course you have to realize that selling magic to mundanes could have consequences.

Like they'd have magic items.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Venditius have a system

Endrite (GM): Well sure but it isn't perfect.

Kifaaya of Verditius: The rules are one magic item sale per year

Endrite (GM): I meant they might use the item against you.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Sold for Verditius rates, no undercutting

Endrite (GM): Or they might do something you don't like with it.

Kifaaya of Verditius: That's why they're sold at a 300% markup

@ 15MP/vis if they don't have vis to spend

Endrite (GM): Well if you want to sell to Hugo di Capocci he's probably buying.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

If there's time I'll go talk to him

Endrite (GM): It isn't really worth taking up time during an adventure to do.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

Endrite (GM): Basically I'm just going to confer with Johns and we'll tell you what he wants.

Based on how much vis you're willing to use.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'd say 2-4 vis based on the maximum lab total I can manage

As for payment, Voda can also negotiate with life-extending means

* negotiate for

Endrite (GM): Huh?

Kifaaya of Verditius: Oh

Endrite (GM): Hugo di Capocci isn't interested in a Longevity ritual at the moment because he wants to have more kids.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Yeah

CrCo to increase male virility for a night might be doable.

Endrite (GM): He's already pretty virile.

Kifaaya of Verditius: Okay

Endrite (GM): He's mostly interested in showy and powerful magic.

Something that can give him an edge in the ongoing struggle for power among the 5 families of Rome.

I mean 7.

Kifaaya of Verditius: I'll think about that

See you next time, gamer

Endrite (GM): See ya.