10/21/18

GM: alright, almost time to wrap this up. lets get two adventures done today.

Endrite: Is this all the people we have today?

GM: Not sure. I thought johns and dys would be late but they're here.

johns: Hail

Endrite: I hope Johns makes it here ok.

GM: Me too.

Endrite: My heart goes out to him in his time of sleepiness.

GM: When we ended last week, Lavinia had just found out that a member of the Augustans is the Doge's court wizard, helping in the coup to create an emperor of Venice. Archibald was wrestling Prudenzio but he got away... For now!

You've got one day before the massive riot in the Piazza is supposed to happen, and a handful of outstanding questlines.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, how do we get Lavinia to go on a date with the senior mason?

johns: prudenzio is gone then?

GM: Good question.

I ended up giving Prudenzio a limit-breaking teleport so I didn't have to walk back the conversation. 6 virtue slots have been wasted on making sure he can canonically escape.

johns: nice

dys: lol

well, thats expedient

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the GM fiat virtue

moe (GM): powerful build

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Felipe, are you aware the Order of Hermes has several connections to Venice?"

Endrite: If it was me, I would just have given him a Personal range Grease spell.

Felipe Calendar: "What would you know about the Order of Hermes?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The people I am traveling with are all members."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ohh, powerful neg.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I'm very familiar with the Order and its operations."

Beardbeard (GM): this dudes last name is calendar

Felipe Calendar: "Madonna! A spy, huh?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Something like that. You could be in great danger. Do you have the Parma Magica to protect you?"

Guy of Bonisagus: paul abacus

Felipe Calendar: "I've never been able to get my hands on that secret."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Teach him the Parma Magica so you can woo him.

Archibald of Guernicus: She has Gentle Gift already

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That may be good, since a member of the Order would be obligated to kill you on the spot if they knew you had their secret."

"The Order in general will probably have bad intentions if they catch up to you but I can misdirect the people I'm with at the least."

"Beware though, Adamo Scomparzo is also a member of the order. A rogue and a master of mentalism, I don't know his aim but it can't be good."

Felipe Calendar: "What? I thought he was a simple-minded heir who loved to waste his money on the patronage of bad artists."

"Shows what happens when you keep your nose to the grindstone."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: As it were.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That Zeno woman is a member of the Order as well, which complicates things. If your patron goes after her family she'll come after you."

Felipe Calendar: "I may not have the Parma Magica, but I've mastered the practice of Vigilo. She can try to get past my warded workshop, if she can find me."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Pssh, wards.

What's the worst thing that can happen?

Oh no, jingling bells!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You shouldn't underestimate the lethality of Hermetic wizards. Their magic can strike in ways that bypass wards."

yeah what kind of mope gets killed by a ward......

Archibald of Guernicus screams

Felipe Calendar: "The Zeno family are one of those most responsible for the state of this weed-choked garden that is the Venetian government. I spit on them."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ptooie!

Guy of Bonisagus: same felipe

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I have my eye on a larger prize than Venizia, Felipe. My work is on something truly grand -- the reconciliation of two rival orders that could control Europe."

Felipe Calendar: "You really think that could happen?"

"Which side are you spying for?"

he chuckles.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My parens imparted the philosophy of the Brotherhood to me. I have a different way of how we'll bring it about than they have done to date."

"The structure of the Order of Hermes leaves it open to change from within. The Augustans can't survive if they continue being outsiders."

Guy of Bonisagus: the augustans wont survive

Felipe Calendar: "I've never really considered the two Orders could find common ground. Still doubt it, to be honest, but you've given me something to consider."

"Still, I can't leave work half done."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Maybe if, say, there was an equalizer that allowed the two orders to meet as peers.

Felipe Calendar: "What kind of architect doesn't finish their great work?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Of course. I'm not here to interfere. But I ask you please take my message to the Brotherhood, that they have a new way forward."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Say, just as an example, if the Augustan Brotherhood had the Parma Magica.

Just spitballing here.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets never say something like that

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Also, I have something that might help if the situation goes bad around here." I will give him my Necklace of Nereus. "If you put this on, you can breathe underwater. It should be very easy to hide and escape the city with this if need be."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: A token of everlasting love???

Lavinia of Jerbiton: an easy way to track him

moe (GM): win/win

Felipe Calendar: He blushes.

"Why, thank you."

"Rare to see this sort of kindness anymore."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You can contact me later in Rome, I have a clinic there. Not just with my offer to the Brotherhood to consider joining the order, but notes on Vergilian Magic and .. such."

"Well the Brotherhood won't survive if we don't help each other out."

Felipe Calendar: "Say no more."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you catch me again while I'm with those Hermetic Wizards I can't promise I can be as kind."

Felipe Calendar winks, then turns to look up at the scaffold he climbed down from to meet you.

Felipe Calendar: "It's getting late."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Miss me with that Virgillian shit, fam.

Felipe Calendar: "I don't suppose you want to come watch me practice my rituals...?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

"Preparations for tomorrow's events?"

Felipe Calendar: "A backup plan, in fact."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Gladly, then. I'll need to leave a message with my comrades first so they don't get alarmed at my absence."

Felipe Calendar: "Bertusi and I were given free reign in our plans. He went around recruiting all the dumb boors and criminals in Venice to storm the palazzos, while I prepared a more subtle strategy."

"Aha, of course. I'll be waiting upstairs. There'll be a window open for you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: classic

alright ill check back in at the VT safehouse

GM: alright

that was still at night iirc so its not the morning yet.

whoops!

i lied earlier! im sorry!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wow.

WOW!

I can't believe this.

The sheer magnitude of this betrayal.

moe (GM): As a christian, I forgive this transgression

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Sodales, what is the plan for tomorrow's revolt?"

"Are we abstaining or do you wish to stop it?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's in motion with such speed that I doubt it can be stopped without similar chaos to it going ahead."

Shauncat: "The Doge has earned my enmity, though this is a mundane affair that I cannot crassly entangle myself with."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I say that

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Well, what are the benefits to helping either side?"

"We were promised a reward by the doge for essentially sitting around and doing nothing."

"However, it might be more dignified if we protect the rights and freedoms of the city government."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. This frees us of any blame in the matter, and results in a boon for us, it seems the sensible choice."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can make sure the Zenos do plenty of business with your venditore, should they survive this entanglement."

Dušan of Criamon: "Defeating demagoguery is its own reward, but I don't see what material options we have at our disposal."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "It would, of course, open us up to accusations of court wizardry, which might have been Prudenzio's plan all along."

Dušan of Criamon: "In addition, the more competent democrats already left the sinking ship."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Unless any of us have dealt with him before now, or get actively involved, I can attest - if it is ever brought tae trial - that none of us did anything of the sort."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That mason attendant of the Doge may be a useful ally for us in the future. I intend to investigate further tonight."

Archibald of Guernicus: "A mason?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Not alone, I hope. This town is dangerous."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "In truth, a learned elementalist of some sort, if you catch my drift."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Yes Archibald, they build buildings."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, after that business with the 'emperor' I'm suspicious of any important bloody mason."

Guy of Bonisagus tearfully runs fingers across framed portrait of our last elementalist, Aristocritus.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: None of us know Archibald is a  mason  I guess

Dušan of Criamon: "I see, so that's how it is"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I can keep an eye out for infernalism."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "You mean our glorious triumph over the forces of evil?"

Dušan of Criamon doesn't get it at all

Guy of Bonisagus: of course archibalds a mason

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Why wouldn't you want to try to do that again?"

Guy of Bonisagus: hes english

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do, we do.

c'thinker: balve

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I know all the warning signs for an infernalist. 7 vices, speaking in tongues, holding the Bible upside down, profaning the communion, and so on."

GM: oh beardbeard technically his name is recorded as felipo calendario but venetian is basically "italian but gay" so i changed all the names to follow more venetian formatting and looked up venetian sources for them. theyre not all right because im a retard.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

venicians are just swamp italians

Archibald of Guernicus: "Mortis ye have a strange habit of misinterpretation. I said we should keep an eye on the man, which Lavinia is thankfully doing for us."

Guy of Bonisagus: faggoto frankio

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Ah well, you're welcome."

"But flattery won't work every time, you know."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If you can spare some sort of cheap, easily tracked Arcane Connection to find me in case I don't turn up again, that ought to put our fears to rest."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I have my eye on a larger prize than Venizia, Felipe. My work is on something truly grand -- the reconciliation of two rival orders that could control Europe."

Guy of Bonisagus: the venetians pulled a really good con by convincing the global tourism industry that visiting a swamp is cool and worth thousands of dollars

GM: there was also some historical debate as to whether or not isarello bertucci was actually named israelo bertucci and thus jewish

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: yes!! exac-

Archibald of Guernicus: "Find something smooth and flat, break it in half, each half is an AC to the other."

GM: but hes probably not

Gulielmus of Pure Reason reads further

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Ah

GM: so hes not in ars

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can send out a messenger pigeon to you without the use of Corpus magic if I hold the AC."

Guy of Bonisagus: buccarati

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what Intelligo AC stuff can you guys do easily

I assume not Corpus

or Herbam

Guy of Bonisagus: i can cast the invisible eye revealed

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have messenger hawks that fly to the AC

Archibald of Guernicus: I can spont InTe very easily, terram is my second-highest

but I think Fiorella has spells that suit this already

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fiorella give me one of your birds' feathers

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And I can follow them

The birds disappear at sunset

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I'm sure you have nothing to worry about."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll give you a feather from my dress.

It's not created

Lavinia of Jerbiton: okay, then we cut the feather in two.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "After all, you have one of the best constructed warriors in all of Europe at your beck and call!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and I will pocket one.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's muto'd

Lavinia of Jerbiton: With feather I shall depart then.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: And the dresses last as a dress for Moon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: neglecting to mention the mortal danger for Fiorella's family. heh.

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

Archibald of Guernicus: "The other matter, sodales, is Prudenzio. I have something important that should be noted about him. The way he escaped, not only did he cast it without a sound or a movement within our very aegis, but it was outwith what should be possible."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Are you sure he didn't just turn invisible?"

"Or very small?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well wait

There's no reason to give Lavinia an AC to me

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its an A/C to your dress

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm the one with the AC spells

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Bwahahaha.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Quite sure. I had a firm grip around his neck, and I pride my heritage on being able to see the unseen."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So I think I'll keep the feather

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey

this is a retcon

also it's half a feather

fine we'll steal a feather from one of the safehouse pillows and use that

ok?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Maybe it was an illusion of some kind."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You said I'd have an AC to you, giiving you one to me is a weird consequence

The action doesn't really follow the iC justification

Archibald of Guernicus: "As ye all know, after the great rego corpus weakening of the 1200s, teleportation requires an unbroken line of movement. Yet he slipped around this entirely, and appeared outside the window. That, and a corpus effect used without any apparent vis usage! Prudenzio always disdained crafting, so I doubt he managed tae craft something that even Verdi would be shocked by."

Felipe Calendar: it was actually a really good roll because prudenzio's invisibility is also higher magnitude than normal and blocks all five senses. you rolled very well on second sight iirc

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's a retcon of a faulty logical sequence

Archibald of Guernicus: "I should note, in fact, that he WAS invisible when I grappled him, Mortis. I had already defeated his illusions, so a secondary one on top of that is unlikely."

Dušan of Criamon: "To hell with an emperor, you're talking about resurrecting the art of rego corpus!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh wait I get it now, the half of the feather is an AC to the feather

Okay you tricked me fair and square

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "No more unlikely than that he has engineered a bloody coup to cause us to all commit a minor hermetic crime."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I give Guy the other half of the feather. "If you would cast Invisible Eye Revealed every so often on this until we needed, that'd be wonderful."

Archibald of Guernicus: "If he has some breakthrough regarding it, Dusan, we have a duty tae find out. But I doubt it, there is a trick here and unmasking it may be key tae defeating him the next time he shows himself."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: *until we need it

Guy of Bonisagus: "Perhaps he is an infernalist."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that should be our default guess to anything

Archibald of Guernicus: I stroke my beard "He was a sinful man with a growing lust for power, it's always a possibility."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's right almost all the time.

Guy of Bonisagus: we would be absolutely correct in about 80% of adventures

Archibald of Guernicus: True

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Well, be that as it may, we seem to be no closer to uncovering our intended role in the events to come."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: fair

Dušan of Criamon: "An autocrat will ultimately die, but this is quite important. I hope we'll investigate this upon our return"

"So, roll call. Do we have any way of affecting the upcoming riot?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We can always kill people with magic."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "No mortal army can stand against me."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Whether we SHOULD is the question."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No army fashioned against me shall prosper.

Dušan of Criamon: "...I was going to append the clause of 'short of piluming a man in public' but I felt such formalities beneath our esteemed company."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Foregoing effective means for the sake of decorum is the way of the noble estate, not the Order of Hermes."

"We're never above a good pillum."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, what is the goal of these riots, tae kill the nobility?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Demonstrating that the power of the Order of Hermes is not to be trifled with is a fair goal in and of itself."

Dušan of Criamon: "Bureaucrats, I imagine."

oh wait, one and the same

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "The doge wants to force the city government to accept his primacy."

"Or maybe just kill all the men trying to sleep with his wife."

"Though there is significant overlap between these two groups."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

mortis is in danger!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I am the danger.

Dies instantly in combat.

GM: lol

Dušan of Criamon: "Well, the way I see it then is that unless we exert ourselves to a truly virtuous degree, fighting the new emperor isn't going to do us any favors. Yet."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "If we were to side with either group, I would recommend that we act tonight to prevent unnecessary bloodshed tomorrow."

Guy of Bonisagus: we need to pilum some augustans

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "You're the Verditius here. Success for you could mean reputation and lucrative contracts with the victor. Provided you choose the winning side."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Well, there's that too."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: correct guy -- we need to put them on a pillar and hail them as our saviors

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "A lightning strike under the cover of darkness would also cement our reputation as puissant magi."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we need to be marched

Dušan of Criamon: the only reason i'd argue against wanton murder is getting put before a trial

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Prudenzio's meddling does give us carte blanche to act as we desire, as Archibald so wisely pointed out earlier."

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10!+11+9+2-3 School of the Stones vs 18

(

4

)

+11+9+2-3

=

23

rolling 1d10!+11+9+2-3-1 School of the Stones vs 18

(

1

)

+11+9+2-3-1

=

19

hell yeah

botch time

GM: ohhh boy

how many

Lavinia of Jerbiton: one regular die, 1 for aura, and one for weird magic

rolling 2d10 regular botch die

(

4

+

10

)

=

14

rolling 1d10 weird magic botch die

(

4

)

=

4

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: BotchBoy: I love large dice pool botches!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: boo.

GM: ruip

Lavinia of Jerbiton: shucks.... i'll never twilight..

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Is there some way to increase the botch range?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: use vis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: No, I mean increasing it from 1 to 1-2 or something.

GM: aaah.

Dušan of Criamon: Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Is there some way to increase the botch range?

GM: that would be cool.

Dušan of Criamon: be me

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: there is:

the gm can declare that a powerful spirit increases your botch range

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "My loyalty to family aside, an old enemy of Vardian's Tomb is something I'm more than willing to address."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's find some spirits.

Archibald of Guernicus: "My point was more that we arenae currently guilty of anything, if we do start seriously meddling it becomes worse and worse for us. Remember that someone out there is watching what we're doing, with a grudge against us."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets righteously administer a pilum

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "What maniac would seriously consider a prosecution at Tribunal for such minor meddling when the very heart of magic is withering away?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We should flush out this Adam, perhaps we play the part he expects."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "As one of the largest covenants in the Roman Tribunal, we can certainly throw our weight around."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can throw forceless birds at Guy while he throws forceless flame in a show battle for the Doge, earn his trust while waiting for Adam to make his move."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "That's certainly one option."

Dušan of Criamon: "Playing both sides! Truly a feat of tactic."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Flush him out and then smite him."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: with a pilum

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I have no real stake in the outcome of this fight, but I do think that we should intervene noisily."

Guy of Bonisagus: yes

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's still the principle of the matter. A law should mean something even if ye won't be caught breaking it. We should keep our involvement subtle and away from the eyes of the public, and we are absolutely not beholden to the doge in the slightest."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "What do principles matter to people like us?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: isnt it in mortis' interests for the doge to die so the dogessa can legally remarry

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Especially the laws of others."

It is, but you know there are plenty of fish in the sea, as they say.

Guy of Bonisagus: since when has mortis cared about the law

Lavinia of Jerbiton: until the Animal Blight, ofc

Guy of Bonisagus: care even

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gah.

Uh, I am clearly saying that I don't care about the law.

Guy of Bonisagus: since the blight is a miasma the fish will probably be fine

i was referring to what lavinia said

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: how many tytalans do we have in this covenant

Archibald of Guernicus: "The laws of the mundane world are a pest tae be circumvented, but the Order is why we are standing here together as allies rather than tearing each other apart for scraps of information or pawns of vis."

Guy of Bonisagus: actually, the reason is aristocritus

Lavinia of Jerbiton: everyone is a tytalan -- some just don't know it yet

Archibald of Guernicus: "Yer own lab is protected by an aegis that two other magi cast for ye - this would be unthinkable without order, law and structure."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Fiorella has suggested that we do precisely that, or at least that we pretend to."

Guy of Bonisagus: his body may be gone, his spirit moved on, but his legacy is with us yet

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "So why not keep the cooperation and just meddle freely in the affairs of Venice? What does one have to do with the other?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Because nobles talk, and word spreads, and if Vardian's Tomb is openly acting as court wizards to a jumped-up doge then it brings trouble on the other magi of Italy."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: those are just npcs though

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "That's their problem to worry about. Heaven knows that they have had no qualms about causing trouble for us."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm not saying we should do nothing, but I'm asking for some damn subtlety instead of tossing spells into crowds of people or launching armies of the dead at rioters."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "How many vagrants have passed through Rome, leaving chaos in their wake? Let alone other covenants."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then I'd rather be above them than sink to their level."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: next week: vardian's tomb is destroyed and its members hunted down and killed one by one by the order's legitimate military branch, house tremere

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Classic Tremere.

Archibald of Guernicus: Nothing we could have done.

brb

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Vardian's Tomb already has a reputation because of all those soldiers we killed last year. We already are risking sanction from the Tribunal."

Dušan of Criamon: "Interweaving the mundane and the hermetic is insanity, ultimately guaranteeing our downfall. Let us stick to subtlety."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Those soldiers were attacking our covenant!"

"I smote them in self defense."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you were absolutely 100% justified by the laws of man and the order in killing all those soldiers

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Unreliable narrators can tell the story any way they please."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "But if you're subtle then how are you going to receive the accolades you're due?"

GM: damn

now thats a strong point.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I think Fiorella's plan is currently the best one, as it does seem that we are split on who precisely we should favor in this conflict."

Dušan of Criamon: splitting our allegiance and actually splitting it

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, we'd just pretend to.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Or pretend to pretend

Dušan of Criamon: NOW it's subtle enough for my tastes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: pretend to pretend to pretend

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Pretend, preteened,preteeened.

Dušan of Criamon: "I approve of the plan, seeing as it hopes to catch an interlocutor and not affect the mundanes in any untoward manner."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The Doge only expects protection from magical assault, correct? YOu may get to load around his palace eating cake for all you know."

"As I see it, there's a few possible schemes here."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "A suitably dramatic wizard's duel at some point would be a good idea."

GM: Why, I have a great idea.

You could play a round of Certamen.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have a better idea

GM: To the uneducated observer, why, that's a wizard duel for sure!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: play a round of disputatio

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "1. A few court magicians and hedge mages assault the palace. Easily dealt with by Hermetic magi."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Who would be excited by that?

I mean besides other magi.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "2. Adam has another covenant in his web as well. IN which case, Archibald writes them up on charges."

Archibald of Guernicus: Certamen looks really badass and magical visually, tho

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "When they assault the palace, that is."

Guy of Bonisagus: if only the rules reflected it as such

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "They might actually kill us."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: certamen is non-Christian in origin

Something to consider.

Archibald of Guernicus: New rule: Certamen now has, in addition to the GM and both players, a 4th participant, who commentates it and describes how giant flame beasts are being thrown around or a pool of water is drowning a crystal bee

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i supprt this rule

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You don't even need the GM, really.

GM: hey guess what i just discovered that i missed entirely while planning this adventure.

Archibald of Guernicus: The GM can just make sure turns are tracked and dealt with properly

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "3. He expects us to splinter into halves and fight each other. In this case, we give him the show. I then teleport to appear to have burned up in a pillum of flame."

GM: Other descendants of Lor de Laffia moved to the Republic of Venice, and changed their surname into "Faliero" or "Faledro", the inverted form of "Ordelaf".

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Don't players have the ability to flip their own cards?

GM: marino faliero is one of the ordelaffis.

Dušan of Criamon: i believe certament commenating was delegated to players uninvolved in the actual fight

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Certamen should just be descriptions of MTG crap happening and whoever describes the best stuff wins

GM: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: the planet with the dog people from accidental space spy

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "4. Adam just wants to force himself on the Doge's wife and this scheme is just to ingratiate himself with him and gain his trust."

GM: lmfao.

Fiorella cutting past the bullshit.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: almost certainly that

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Didn't this Prudenzio fellow forsake his covenant loyalties all to copulate with a faerie?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I can't imagine he'd need to go through all this trouble just to do that."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: he didn't even need to leave the covenant for that, as giraldo demonstrates

Giraldo of Milan sneezes inside of the King Arthur regio.

GM: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: make the duelists take 1 level of fatigue each round if they fail to describe their phantasms

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also they have to shout the names of the arts they're using IRL, and make the hand gestures

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Gilafre the Elder also enjoyed overwrought schemes to make cuckolds of powerful men."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "We never really found out why, though."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The less I have to delve into that man's psyche, the better."

"He's either very cunning or very shortsighted. It's the middle ground that can be ruled out."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Where do you stand on this, Guy?"

AFK a sec.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I've said enough. I volunteer to stage a magical assault on the palace with forceless birds cast on people with MR.

Guy of Bonisagus: "I believe the best thing to do would be to reconcile the two sides, but I believe we are far beyond the point of possibility."

"We should find this Adam and stop the citizens from involving any innocents."

fiorellas gonna get shot with a crossbow

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have Sidestep

And decent dodge

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also fiorella has been building up greater immunity to crossbow by letting herself be shot with increasingly larger bolts

GM: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If we have Intellego vis I could cast Shriek

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we have 7p in storage and make 1 a year

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i can look around corners and through windows

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 9p in storage sorry. tracker out of date

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nice

Is it just 1 vis to cast a blighted form?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: isn't it one per magnitude

Archibald of Guernicus: its like 1 per mag

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah

GM:  iori yagami laugh

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ah, might not be worth it then

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

"How hard WOULD it be to reconcile the two sides?"

"Has any attempt even been made?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Incredibly."

"Especially at this point."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The peasantry has already been embroiled."

Guy of Bonisagus: "The downtrodden of Venice want blood for the wrongs wrought upon them."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "What if they were instead bribed with money?"

"Surely the government can afford to do that."

Guy of Bonisagus: "They would be insulted."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Creo DEBT.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thats infernal technique

Dušan of Criamon: more of a perdo

GM: damn i just found a book calling him Ixarello. cool name.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: compound debt violates the hermetic law of creation without vis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll teleport out if a mundane projectile breaks my sidestep

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ergo it is satan magic

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What if you get shot with multiple crossbows at once?

Then one might hit you.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whoever died from a single crossbow bolt

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll teleport out immediately if the crossbowmen have individual initiative and don't fight as a group

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Alright sounds like Fiorella has the best, and only, idea here.

GM: lol;

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well there's Archibald's idea where we just leave.

GM: sounds good.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So that's two ideas.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Unless someone has an idea on how to investigate Adam, that is

Dušan of Criamon: Let's do Fiorella's variant first, then pursue the infernalist in Rome

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I propose Certamen between the two Consuls.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: merinita bloodline magic and celeste's corpse

GM: Whatever you do is fine. It's now after midnight and probably the last call to do any recon.

celeste's corpse?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i propose dimicatio between the two consuls

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If Archibald just wants to leave I'm not sure that's a bad idea really

GM: you mean the pile of ash that immediately blew away?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Ah

Right.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If Archibald challenges me to certamen I'll just concede and leave

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: lol

Classic way to end a ticking clock adventure.

Well, I feel like I've said all I have to say on the matter if no one else is going to do anything.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: My idea (a) lets anyone try to profit off appeasing the Doge who wants to (b) keeps us from doing Real Hardcore PvP

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heck, I like it.

moe: Clean cut

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It allows me to show off for any potential clients.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I have altered the timeline.

Also I return to the safehouse sometime after midnight.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Welcome back.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well someone's done something

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, so if we're going to prepare for a big fight, I'm going to need to go grave robbing."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Salvate, sodales."

Lavinia of Jerbiton yawns

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ah you're back. Excuse me, then."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You've laid plans for tomorrow I take it?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton goes into a private room, turns her dress back into a silk hankerchief, then into a different feathered dress.

Guy of Bonisagus: well done

Dušan of Criamon: "Both Doge and the public will be amused, that much is sure."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The Doge is not long for this world without your aid."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Putting on the dress, and thus no longer naked, I reemerge.

GM: :pepe:

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Oh?"

"Found an assassin, have you?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hey, I'm being paranoid here

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The nobles of the city are already taking position around the Palazzo under disguise."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Lavinia had an AC to a dress I owned.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I will return the feather.

I'm not a savage.

Guy of Bonisagus: laviniaaaa

Dušan of Criamon: average ttrpg player: my character is clothed, hence not naked, before she returns to the group

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Well, they do have more experience coming to a democratic consensus than we do."

GM: Now I'm FORCED to think about Fiorella being naked.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Birds are usually naked.

GM: Hm.

Well said.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh wait, Lavinia has my blood anyway from the regimen

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yeah, but not with her.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I guess there's not much point in paranoia

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Dušan of Criamon: "And I thought the ringleader of the council was gone. Shame on me for doubting the will of the many."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i didn't have you marked down for that but thank you for reminding me

GM: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: lavinia could eliminate any one of us instantly and silently with her pacifist magic at any time

Archibald of Guernicus: Try as I might, I am left unable to not think about Fiorella naked.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Alright so where are we at here?

We have a plan, but this new information has changed things.

Guy of Bonisagus: our plan is to swiftly and with prejudice eliminate the augustan infiltrators in venice

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the infiltrator is coming from inside the safehouse

Guy of Bonisagus: geralt stooping down, investigating an insanely murdered grog: pacifist magic. the most lethal of all. augustans were here

Lavinia of Jerbiton whispers conspiratorially with Fiorella

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: which course of action will allow us to most swiftly resolve the magic blight

Guy of Bonisagus: hm. looks like once again, the answer is killing the augustans

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: very well

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Guy, change of plans. How do you feel about burning down the council chambers?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I feel that may be the best place for our quote unquote battle."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: But also, I am in favor of this.

Guy of Bonisagus: "That seems fine."

Archibald of Guernicus: I give Fiorella a look of shock and suspicion

Guy of Bonisagus: I will ken Fiorella's folk.

bonus of +3, as she is a maga

please roll in secret. arigato

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I move to speak with Mortis conspiratorially.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

(To GM) rolling d10

(

4

)

=

4

GM:

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+3

(

6

)

+3

=

9

Guy of Bonisagus: "Is there a reason for this change of plans, Fiorella?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Something bad will happen if the council convenes there."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Such as?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Like them all dying. Remember Zita's charred corpse?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "It's been many a year, but yes."

are we aware that lavinia did that

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It was her lab and it'd be hard to figure out how the trap worked with Hermetic theory

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i hope no one inspected my lab closely

Guy of Bonisagus: we were at tribunal though, im not sure if lavinia cleaned up beforehand

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i did not conceal it. you know that zita broke into my lab and died setting off a trap.

GM: Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Are you suggesting that Lavinia has trapped the council room?"

"Lavinia, did you trap the council room?"

GM: I'm sorry, I'm going to be AFK for a few minutes.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Mortis saw the stone mason's face right

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We'll carry on somehow.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so he can replicate it

"No."

Dušan of Criamon :pepe2:

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Also Fiorella bribed Lavinia to trap her own AC storage by opening Simon's gift to Hermetic magic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: thats assuming I keep the AC in my lab.

Guy of Bonisagus: I rub my head. "I feel like some of us are keeping information to themselves."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I apologize Guy, but I need discretion on some things for a time."

"You know my record. I act in the interest of this covenant."

Archibald of Guernicus: "You believe the council building is magically trapped, Fiorella?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I'm giving you a chance to save some lives, and indulge in a bit of pyromania. Take it or leave it."

"Well, I have a trusted source that says it is. You've seen the whispering. You can guess the source of this info."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I can check it for myself, tae confirm. But if anyone here knows what is actually going on there, I'd rather they saved the time."

Guy of Bonisagus: "I feel for the plight of the commonfolk far more than the nobles, I'm afraid. And I am no pyromaniac."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Everyone here is entitled to a certain level of privacy. We don't pry into where you go off in the middle of the night on Saturnalias, Archibald."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Some kind of party, probably."

"Or is that a Bacchanalia?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Each of the old Roman gods had a day like that."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I have a life outside the covenant, but ye're right in this regard. That said, if a large group of people are murdered in a very overt magical fashion, after the doge has named us public allies of him, this could bring danger upon us."

Dušan of Criamon: "I sometimes ponder what a people's does without quote unquote leadership, but with a populace so keen to elect an emperor, perhaps saving the council's lives would be desirable."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "With that many gods, how did they fit all the days in the calendar?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "That's why Caesar had to add those extra months."

Archibald of Guernicus: "A good idea, July is a very nice month."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Let it never be said that the old Romans weren't a practical people."

GM: lol.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Here's what w eknow from what we've been told outright."

"The Doge is doomed without magical aid. And the council is doomed if they return to the city feeling it safe."

"It seems Adam has set up a situation to profit either way."

"No doubt he has a persona for treating with the nobles as well."

Archibald of Guernicus: "So both sides lose."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "There was a Jerbiton with my cousin on the council when I met with him."

Guy of Bonisagus strokes his beard.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Fine. I'll foil the plans for the council with you."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Beware the guardsmen of the palace, some or most of them are enemies of the Doge. Watch out for a knife in the back."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Is it possible for us to fake a magical war of such great magnitude that both sides are shocked into routing?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "An army of the dead might do that."

Archibald of Guernicus: "With the Prying Eyes and the Unwelcome Entrance, we can infiltrate. I can't let the two of ye walk intae a trapped building without coming tae help."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Agreed, sodales. Archibald is with us, then."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Also. When Mortis fires off the other project I've asked of him, the nobles may take that as their cue to storm the palace."

Dušan of Criamon: "It is decided then. Do we move immediately?

"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Time is not on our side. Initiative is key."

GM: Let's see how it goes.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Let's.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gooooooo team!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, how many corpses can I scrounge up on short notice?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: when are you gonna invest a spell to make corpses out of thin air

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Would that it were so simple.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Here's something that might cause a panic to rout the mob: a bunch of burning horses destroying the council chambers, running panicked through the streets, and falling in the canals and setting the greasy crust on fire

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Corpus spells no longer work, as you may recall.

GM: most of the dead in venice is buried under church floor tiles or the road

Lavinia of Jerbiton: that soundsl ike it might burn down the whole city lol

GM: it turns out

Guy of Bonisagus: Lavinia of Jerbiton: that soundsl ike it might burn down the whole city lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah but you should put it in your talisman endrite

Guy of Bonisagus: ok i like this plan

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: as an invested effect

because it will come up a lot

Guy of Bonisagus: but can gulielmus make the horses burn better?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, it should be pretty easy to dig up some corpses.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: instead of having to scrounge for rotted shitty corpses all the tim

Guy of Bonisagus: maybe archibald can cause some tremors to rock the sturdier buildings

or corrode their foundations

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's go with Archibald to inspect for traps

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You just don't get it, Lavinia.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i think burning down the city would be a big hermetic crime since other covenants have chapterhouses here

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can use birds as trap detectors too

GM: im saying most of the corpses have been buried with church ceremonies. you might have trouble amassing a full army.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Rotting corpses are so much more authentic.

GM: maybe a hundred corpses.

Guy of Bonisagus: alright, this plan is sounding better and better

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you can instill their rot as a cosmetic effect endrite

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: 100 corpses is definitely enough.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: without making them mechanically rotted.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: But then they won't be tied to a ghost, potentially!

You want the whole package!

GM: House of a Hundred Corpses

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Guy of bonisagus then: we must stop the enemies of the order of hermes in venice. Guy of bonisagus now: let's blow up every covenant

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can probably destroy the council chamber without burnign horses if it risks destroying the city

Dušan of Criamon: a single walking corpse is a tragedy, a hundred is a statistic

GM: lol;

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A few burning horses might get people to stop rioting and put the fires out though

Guy of Bonisagus: fine. we can reconcile these viewpoints

make sure that only the chapterhouses for covenants with tremere members burn

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what's the tower just west of the palazzo? that's where mortis should set up the lynching

GM: hm

idk.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I love a good lynching.

GM: hahaha

Dušan of Criamon: We're wizards and witches

GM: ah

Dušan of Criamon: a little firefighting should be in our ballpark

GM: its st marks basilica

Dušan of Criamon: after we commit arson

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Perfect

GM: the highest point in the piazza san marco

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok, I'll cast my secret spell now.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay party split: Me, Guy, Archibald at council chambers. Mortis at tower. Lavinia goes to the Doge and tells him whatever she wants to manipulate him as she sees fit. Sound good?

GM: conveniently thats where the riot is supposed to take palce

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have nothing to say to the doge really

unless you want me to

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Nah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i was just going to lurk around invisibly and wait for prudenzio to show up

Dušan of Criamon: I join the Archibald party

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so I can find a discrete opportunity to slip him poison

GM: st marks basilica tower has a Divine 5 aura.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Poisoning Prudenzio sounds better than whatever I said

GM: oh its actually the campanile, the belltower itself

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

(To GM) rolling (1d10! + 6 + 6 + 2 + 1 + 1)/2 vs Level 4 Muto Imaginem (Base 1 +1 Touch + 2 Sun)

(

(

10

+

1

)

+6+6+2+1+1)/2

=

13.5

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It sounds like Mortis has his own thing going, whatever we do at the council chamber

GM: Well, Mortis notices that the piazza san marco is being cleared and secured by armed men on his way to the tower.

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

Dušan of Criamon: No matter what VT does, in an unrelated fashion there's always an undead inssurection nearby

GM: He will have to find another way to the belltower or negotiate with a large number of armed thugs who don't like talking.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: just use ReCo teleport -- oh

GM: Similarly, those heading to the Ducal palace will notice a strong presence of guards.

And will not be allowed entry, should they attempt the direct route.

But you can do unwelcome entrance etc as mentioned.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Let's try and find a side wall, sodales."

Dušan of Criamon: I buff with trackless steps and Wiz Sidestep, then proceed to use Invasion of Privacy and Whispering Winds to aid the approach

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: If and when we do, I'll check the inside with Prying Eyes (I can see perfectly fine in the dark) and then Unwelcome Entrance to get us all in.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Who are the armed men at the Piazza San Marco with?

Archibald of Guernicus: Sidestep up, too

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Same

GM: You make it to an unguarded spot without trouble, they're only blocking doors and windows.

Thug: "Who's askin'?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella, can ye lead us tae where the trap is suspected tae be?"

Thug: "You don't wanna get hurt, do ya?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I don't know much, but the trigger is supposed to be all ten members convening."

"So it'd have to be the inner chamber."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, I have a plan, but let's handle the council chambers first.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "i can send in birds to test for other traps targeted at hermetic magi."

I think second sight to look at the ceiling fo rhidden glyphs or w/e would be the most immediate thing to try

Thug: you can use second sight through birds?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: No, Archibald has it not me

GM: Aaahhhh.

Archibald of Guernicus: Actually, I have a level 50 spell that shows all active magic at sight range

GM: lol

thats a pretty good spell.

Archibald of Guernicus: What's the aura?

GM: Divine 1.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well it fatigues me to cast it, its level 50

ouch

so +35 casting total then

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ouch!

Archibald of Guernicus: What I'll do is

Drop it down to hearing

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's paint 666 on the wall and get the penalty down to -1

Archibald of Guernicus: which means its not as exact for the location but stil lgives me the details

Casting it, then

rolling 1d10+35

(

4

)

+35

=

39

10 under still casts but fatigues, right

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: levle 45, so it casts and I take a fatigue

GM: nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: for conc duration I can hear magic of level 1 or higher along with full details, sigil and all

"Can ye move away while I locate it? Yer sidestep is very loud."

GM: this counts for non-hermetic effects as well

?

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, but only as much as I can interpret it

GM: sounds good

Archibald of Guernicus: so if its - for instance - a virgilian equivalent to aquam, id know its aquam-like, but not the spell details at all

Guy of Bonisagus: cant wait to have some good harmless forceless fun, while fiorella assaults me with full power birds

GM: you hear some grinding millstones from the floor above you.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That would be pretty funny.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: do you think a metamagic boosted pilum will kill fiorella

GM: Somewhere on the eastern side of the palace.

Guy of Bonisagus: probably

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Asking for a friend

Guy of Bonisagus: it just has to penetrate

then she dies

in one hit

GM: Suggesting a Terram-aligned effect of some kind.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Fiorella of Jerbiton, Dead in One Hit? (Sports Entertainment Promo)

GM: rofl.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "Found it. A trap, terram of some kind."

"Fiorella, didn't ye mention a trap a while back where a building was set tae collapse, with Perdo Terram?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Having the ceiling fall on a council meeting? Just slightly better than being incinerated."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: crashing this ceiling, with no survivors

GM: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Yes, it nearly killed all of us."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Oh, it wasn't that bad."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "If it weren't for Bolad invoking his patron spirit, I would have."

* would have died

GM: Dropping the ceiling on someone is a very effective method of murder.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: shouldna been standin there

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Pacifist gravity magic

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, we know the location of it, and a good guess at what it will do."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the augustans would never destroy a beautiful building

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm just going to be casting lightning bolts on this spot that target metal items and if you happen to be wearing one it's your own fault

GM: Gulielmus, what if that Augustan designed and built the building and thought he could just fix it afterwards? What them?

then*

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hermetic architects can also design a building to destroy itself

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i would make the wee bey face

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Which is how the aforementioned trap in Ravenna worked

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hermetic architects have no sense of right and wrong

Lavinia of Jerbiton: proclus...

GM: lol

proclus ft w.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yeah, RIP.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hey. remeber when it turned out proclus' mystery cult was Insanely Pyschotically Infernal, multiple times

GM: yeah it was cool

Guy of Bonisagus: i cant believe fiorellas plan was to get us all killed

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's a good plan.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Targeting factions isn't easily done with Hermetic magic, but it can be done with magic."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i'm glad proclus is gone and now we just have a necromancer who wants to enslave the world

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Woah, who is this fellow?

Sounds dangerous.

GM: lol.

Guy of Bonisagus: we should stop him

right after we finish eradicating the augustans

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Destroying the building would probably destroy the trap. But can we manage such an effect among the four of us?"

Dušan of Criamon: "So then. We were planning to commit arson, right?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: How much flammable architecture is there?

Dušan of Criamon: Actually, what I care about is how much potential flammable stuff is inside regardless of how good the base architecture is

Nobody's gonna hold a meeting in a burnt out husk

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: dont forget about paint

GM: there is some flammable architecture on the side of construction, conveniently enough.

Archibald of Guernicus: We could try setting it off early, danger of a fire is accidentally bunring down all of Venice

GM: Calendar's contract to rebuild and redesign the palace came about because it kept burning down.

Archibald of Guernicus: We could always destroy the pentagram that it's attached to

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, there you go.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, how hard is destroying the pentagram?

Dušan of Criamon: Can't we do perdo ignem to save the surrounding buildings

Archibald of Guernicus: I have the best perdo ignem and it takes me 5 minutes to spont

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont think theres a pentagram on tis one

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it for the InVi, but we could also use communion for stuff you have a casting total below the spell level for, Archibald

Lavinia of Jerbiton: perhaps you could cast CrAu to make it rain

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Creo Cash

GM: Controversy Creos Cash.

-Eric Bischoff of Tytalus.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Cash Cash - Sonic Boom

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds like archibald needs to start sponting now, while we destroy this building

GM: ^^^

Archibald of Guernicus: isnt communion limited by spell level?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh right

30 max

Archibald of Guernicus: this is a level 50 spell, still 45 when FFMd

yeah

Let's communion on pillums sometime

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, I'll summon forceless birds if Guy sets them on fire

Archibald of Guernicus: Guy, learn communion

Guy of Bonisagus: setting them on fire wont do much because theyll just drop to the floor dead

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: workshopping some piliums

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok I'll summon horses intead

Guy of Bonisagus: ok

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well

We should probably be outside of the building before it sets on fire

So let's think this through

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Boo!

Dušan of Criamon: How about

Lavinia of Jerbiton: who knew committing crimes was so complicated

Dušan of Criamon: summoning horses on the roof

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Now that we've confirmed the trap, we could take some time to think this through."

"The council sin't going to convene when rioters are out for their blood."

Guy of Bonisagus: "What if it's intended to kill someone else who enters the council room?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It's possible."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i cant believe you dont trust me.

GM: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have 0 Sortes lore

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's all based on something Fiorella heard, who she wishes tae keep tae herself. But the trap is real, I can confirm that."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't know how accurate these visions that could break adventures if they were super accurate are

"Whatever the design of the trap is, its not good to leave it standing to fulfill its intent."

Guy of Bonisagus: "It's hedge magic, so whatever its purpose, it is undoubtedly evil."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Can't trigger a trap to collapse the council chamber if the council chamber is burned to the grond.

I mean "burned to the ground."

Archibald of Guernicus: "That and we have no way of knowing there's no infernalism afoot here."

"It should be dealt with."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It should be burned to the grond, not a single lignut left intact.

Dušan of Criamon: I'm finding myself agreeing with Fiorella here

we should absolutely commit arson, for the good of Venice

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

Guy of Bonisagus: lignut

Archibald of Guernicus: Dispelling an effect says you need some knowledge of it, so I think without Lavinia's help I can't dispel a Virgilian ward.

Guy of Bonisagus: for the good of venice, we must raze venice

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What about this: Guy uses his gentle gift to bring the mob here, says a witch of the council is preparing a dark ritual to summon a demon to kill their glorious leader the Doge."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets start by burning down the hermetic Tribunal

GM: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "And then claims the building is corrupted by infernalism and has to be burned down."

Archibald of Guernicus: "That makes Guy a public figure, we should avoid that. Instead, what if we used mentem magic tae have an unrelated figure do this."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I can scatter horse guts around and draw a blood pentagram and some nonsense symbols."

"That works, sodalis."

Prudenzio of Flambeau leans back in his chair, satisfied that the covenant learned a little something about Mentem magic.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We found the infernalism

GM: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we keep the fire tae the part that's trapped, it should limit the damage while stopping the plot."

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

Dušan of Criamon flicks shut the sponted lighter flame from his finger, that he spent the past two seasons studying, dejectedly

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay we have a plan to burn down the council building without beingimplicated

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Everyone knows that pentagrams are NOT SATANIC.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sodales, will yo uhelp me kill a horse after I summon it?

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: They're totally normal magical symbols.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: how did the horse get in the hole

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Rabble think everything is Satanic

Guy of Bonisagus: this plan seems fine

less casting in a dominion aura for me

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That's just racist.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Find a few people, gather connections tae them, and I'll implant the idea in their head that they had visions of the demonic arrangement in the council building - the one we make come true."

Dušan of Criamon: Better safe than satanic

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll kill the horse

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Alright, I'll send magpies out to search through people's houses and bring Archibald hair

GM: This is a really epic plan.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

i cant believe you guys have to overcomplicate arson so much

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Dusan, paint some pictures of goat goads on the wall

And some cool Criamon symbols

Endrite: This is remarkably similar to the plan we used in Dark Heresy.

Guy of Bonisagus: its too bad bolad isnt here

he would have loved this

Fiorella of Jerbiton: goat gods

Endrite: In that one we were trying to cross a street without being spotted so we started a riot that burnt down the entire neighborhood and killed hundreds.

GM: lmfao.

Guy of Bonisagus: it couldnt be helped

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Once some magpies have returned with stolen hair I'll hand it off to Archibald

GM: They find hair no problem. It's honestly going off without a hitch so far.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I verified, I don't risk fatigue in Divine 1

For the magpie spell

Archibald of Guernicus: I creo mentem an idea in the head of each of them that they heard about something demonic occuring in the council building, along with a description of the scene we've created

With that done, let's leg it

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: This really seems like an insane plan, now that you're doing it.

Guy of Bonisagus: its fantastic

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, before I leave, I turn into a bird and squawk "CHAOS REIGNS!" at the mob before flying away.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hgold up

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: The aura has changed to Chaos 6.

GM: lmao

Lavinia of Jerbiton: weren't you complainign 30 minutes ago about the damage that would occur if the council chamber blew up and it looked magical

Dušan of Criamon: I sort of want to see this develop

what part of this will look magical?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The mob is burning it down

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we have made our bed and must lie in it

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes, magical. This however will be a mundane arson against a demonic council.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh ok

uhh ok. so you're telling the mob the zenos are infernal.

ok.

whatever.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We did it.

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

Lavinia of Jerbiton: not my problem anymore.

GM: lmfao.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: win.

Archibald of Guernicus: So much wi

win

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Tea could use a spritz of lemon, though.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well a new council will have to be appointed

Dušan of Criamon: lmao

Guy of Bonisagus: we cant backpedal here

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Another job well done. Let's return to the Tomb."

Guy of Bonisagus: im glad weve reached a plan that, in the end, everyone will be happy with the results of

GM: this has been by far my favorite experience as a GM.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: But they didn't know the court magician they hired would try to summon a demon. It's all fair.

Dušan of Criamon: we're one step away from telling them all authority is infernal, which is almost apt

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway

im excited to see hwo mortis fucks up too

Dušan of Criamon: Yes, if the others are leaving I am absolutely not joining them

I want to see this

GM: Let's cut back to mortis before we see the results of an angry mob charging the ducal palace and demanding to see the infernalism and burn it down.

He said he had a plan.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll inform the Zeno patriarch that that they should get acquited by a bishop before returning to Venice.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: My plan is nowhere near as intricate.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Messenger hawk, go!

GM: lol

Dušan of Criamon: What you lack in substance, I'm sure you make up for in style

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm going to use my +3 bonus from Superior Aura of Ennobled Presence, as well as the presence of my bodyguard and corpse disguised to look like the head mason, to claim that I'm a mercenary, sent to secure the square.

And the tower.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We could bar the doors to the council building from the outside once it starts burning so that everyone who thinks the Zeno clan is satanic dies.

Probably too risky though.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: There's no risk whatsoever.

Except to your soul.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: fiorella's soul is already spoken for

Guy of Bonisagus: guy wouldnt allow that

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao

this is getting more ridiculous by the moment

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I love this plan

Thug: "You're with him?" The thug points to the dummy Calendar. "That really the man himself, yeah?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It's definitely one of the better plans I've seen.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVhTDNlbsSc

Fiorella of Jerbiton: This is self-defense.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Yes, but keep this hush hush, we can't allow it to get out that he's here."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: this is my right as a Christian

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Woman aren't entitled to fight but they're entitled to defend their kin.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: By the way, what's my signal here?

Thug: "Fwhaha, oh, nobody'll ever find out, my friend."

Mortis, the armed men in the piazza are moving to surround you and "Felipe".

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: nice

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmmmmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: wow. im REALLY liking where our plans are going

Thug: They're going to lock you in irons if you just stand there.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this works for me

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wait a minute, I can just leave Felipe here and let them kill him.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yeah lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll order Felipe to attack and then run away.

Guy of Bonisagus: perfect results all around

Thug: Lmao.

"Hey! Stop that mysterious man!"

But they're more focused on Calendar.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I'm Mortis the Giant Slayer!" I yell as I run.

Thug: lmfao.

This is going really well.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: this feels very thorsbian

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll run to my company of the dead.

Who are probably pretty far away, to be honest.

Dušan of Criamon: "Did they follow you?" I blurt out at the wheezing, armored, clanking man

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Keep running!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Keep On Running Nusan

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Uh.

Well, I keep running.

Thug: In the middle of the night, mercenaries in the employ of the Venetian nobility have secured the Piazza san Marco and the Ducal Palace, and blocked all entry and exit.

As the dawn breaks, the riots seem smaller and less effective than predicted. A group of raving men and women storm the Ducal Palace despite heavy guard, and manage to set fire to the new construction before being shot and cut to death with arrows and axes.

Isarello, not seen for several days before now, is revealed by public announcement to have spent that time being tortured in prison. He is hung from the neck by the roof of the Ducal Palace alongside "Felipe Calendar" as noon peaks.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: roll repeatedly to see if you fatigue out.

GM: Mortis makes it out.

It's fine.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, we managed to burn down a building and kill a bunch of people.

Dušan of Criamon: This adventure had it all

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'd say this calls for 10 xp all around.

Guy of Bonisagus: could have done with more mortis death

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the real adventure was the friendships we made along the way and innocent civilians we killed

GM: The Doge Marin Falier is beheaded in the Piazza, and his head is rolled down the streets of Venice.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we did it.

GM: His portrait in the Ducal palace is removed and painted over with a black shroud, and an inscription reads Hic est locus Marini Faletro decapitati pro criminibus ("This is the space reserved for Marino Faliero, beheaded for his crimes")

Lavinia of Jerbiton: im prepared to come clean to the covenant about my secrets after the fact

Archibald of Guernicus: We(?) did(?) it(?)

GM: The Venetian Council is plagued by rumors of infernalism, and the people of Venice are not united in their trust of government.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gahahaha.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmmm.

Well, fortunately MY soul remains untainted.

GM: You are all alive and not implicated in what happened!

Congratulations!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:  nodding sagely  We should behead Locus.

Guy of Bonisagus: great. now wheres adam and felipe

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Okay -- but when do we kill prudenzio

GM: Also when you go back to the covenant Prudenzio is sitting in the bar again.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wait, I wasn't implicated?

Sheesh!

Dušan of Criamon: (disappearing Leonard Nimoy: Or did I?)

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Mortis the Forgettable

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What does a guy gotta do to get a little credit?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Hey! Don't tackle me!"

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+22

(

10

+

9

)

+22

=

41

devil's fav demon (GM): oh shit!

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

Prudenzio of Flambeau: You did say that.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Oh, hey, Prudenzio."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: your name and everything.

Guy of Bonisagus: 24 pen

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Mortis is indeed implicated.

Guy of Bonisagus: whats his ignem mr

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: as an infernalist.

You gain the reputation Infernalist at 1.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Nice.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: just in time for mortis to learn Cthonic Magic.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Hey, can you tell that guy to stop casting spells at me?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Well, it is what it is.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: The flames wash over his face and cause no damage.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: This is going to do great work for my Hierarchy score.

Guy of Bonisagus: gah

well ive done my part gang

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Guy, please."

Guy of Bonisagus: rosario will just have to kill him

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "This is our old friend Prudenzio."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Yeah! I'm your old friend Prudenzio!"

"It's really great to see everyone again."

He smiles youthfully.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Just what were you doing in Venice?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wait a minute, shouldn't I not get that reputation since I was acting against the forces of the nobility?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh, gah, you're right.

You are right.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Who are the satanists in this case.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Mortis ex Verditius, the Christ Slayer

Prudenzio of Flambeau: You get the reputation of a court wizard instead.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Thank you.

Dušan of Criamon: I didn't know Mortis was with the jews

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: who is the reputation with

venetians?

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's a lot that's strange about ye, Prudenzio. A non-hermetic teleport. The fact ye look a decade younger than when ye left us 2 decades ago."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Well, I just love the culture there, and it just so happened that things came together the right way at the right time."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "He is a magus after all, Archibald."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "That is your right."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "First all this wild talk of a coup and a Venetian emperor and the Doge's scheming hedge wizard, why, that's all the kind of stuff we used to have fun together doing."

"So you were on my mind."

"And then, why, my son dies!"

"So of course I have to get in touch with my old friends, you understand."

"I figured I'd send you on a little fun adventure and surprise you when you got home!"

He holds his arms out.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Hi!"

Guy of Bonisagus: i will ken his folk to see if he is here because he misses his dead gay son

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "You must tell us about the adventures you had with the Archon some time."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I need to drop my materials in my lab before we can share reminiscences, Prudenzio. Back in a moment."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Of course!"

Guy of Bonisagus: please roll. the bonus is +3, or +2 if he is not a magus anymore

Archibald of Guernicus: Gulielmus begins crossing the streams

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I leave because I don't care about Prudenzio.

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we all love the archon

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right. If he isnt a magus anymore he doesn't have the parma then does he

so our Gift is upsetting him

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mortis has a point

Lavinia of Jerbiton: legally are we allowed to murder prudenzio

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Oh, it is, true. He doesn't have the parma anymore. The Gift still affects Beings of Might?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "You seem less friendly than you were twenty years ago."

"I'm just going to come out and say it."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: there is a gift immunity virtue though

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The Parma blocking giftstink is why the OoH are the best at continental cooperation

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Lavinia and Mortis reenter the bar.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: i forgot to take it and it doesnt matter to prudenzio since he doesnt emit gift stink either.

the man loves mundanes.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I walk up to Prudenzio and stab him with my sword.

Guy of Bonisagus: hell yeah

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: blimey

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Thank you

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer:

rolling 1d10! + 10

(

3

)

+10

=

13

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Fff.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Your sword goes into Prudenzio's chest and he says "Hey!" but it sounds fucked up because his lung is collapsed.

rolling 1d10!-9

(

5

)

-9

=

-4

Giraldo of Milan finishes dispatching another ferrier and comes in to help Mortis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Mortis!!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wow, what a roll.

Archibald of Guernicus: 17+dmg-soak

What is Mortis' strength and the base damage of his sword

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Prudenzio, he's gone mad!"

its +12 damage

Prudenzio of Flambeau:

rolling 17+12-13

17+12-13

=

16

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: She's so right.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Prudenzio's body takes a heavy wound.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: decent soak on him

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll keep hacking away.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: He wheezes out "Alright, I get the picture, I'll come back later! You could just say goodbye!"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Mortis, what on earth!?"

Prudenzio of Flambeau: And he triggers his Hermetic Limit-Breaking teleport and absconds.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: damn

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ah well.

Dušan of Criamon 's eyes widen, but otherwise there is no physical response to the attempted slaughter of a human being in his presence

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Does Mortis' sword now have Prudenzio's blood on it?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I could have Flora fix the AC for you if you like

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Prudenzio wasn't bleeding, notably, but you get a little chunk or two.

Also he seemed more offended by that than worried about it harming his body.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lavinia, a medical question. Is he human?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I inspect the chunks.

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's too much that doesn't add up. It might be a fairy or demon impersonating him."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I hand Lavinia my sword.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Thank you. You can return the armor now."

GM: They are chunks of a human corpse that has been preserved in good condition.

Dušan of Criamon: I ask Prudenzio directly: "Pardon friend, only one question, is your inability to suffer more from alignment with the devil or more from mastery of illusion?"

GM: you have good int and medicine

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I walk downstairs.

GM: dusan, prudenzio has teleported out of the building after being stabbed.

Dušan of Criamon: Ah

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

Dušan of Criamon: I walk outside I guess

even at the chance of not seeing him, I'll repeat the question, yelled, at nobody in particular

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Am I able to ascertain what I already know OOCly, that this body has been dead awhile

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'll be back up in about 10 minutes or so.

GM: He's not there, but you get some nice fresh air.

does anyone have chirurgy?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i have +2

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: does anyone have Human Lore

GM: medicine isnt really helpful for identifying anything but disease symptoms and stuff

so thats what a +5 int chirurgy roll?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also Archibald can Intelligo Vim on that

+4

rolling 1d10+2+2 int+chi

(

9

)

+2+2

=

13

Dušan of Criamon: folk ken (humans)

Giraldo of Milan: chirurgeon here

GM: ok you have positively identified this as a piece of a dead body that is no longer being magically preserved

Giraldo of Milan: glad i could help

GM: lavinia rolled very high.

Guy of Bonisagus: 2 int

Lavinia of Jerbiton: grialdo roll Fae-Fuckers Lore

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Let's send Prudenzio some of our vis as a gesture of good will.

Giraldo of Milan:

rolling 1d10+5 Watchers of Wawel lore

(

10

)

+5

=

15

GM: wow.

Giraldo of Milan: not sure how this helps though

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Who knows the Dust to Dust spell

Archibald of Guernicus: "A ghost controlling a corpse. The man's killed himself!"

Giraldo of Milan: i think faerie or infernal lore would be more useful

Archibald of Guernicus: I do

GM: one weird trick to become immortal: ritual suicide

Giraldo of Milan: worked for trianoma

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: thats a secret!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: base 5 PeCo, +4 arcane connection range, and needs 40 pen to destroy prudenzio's corporeal shell

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Troubling!"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Foolish."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Well, it is what it is," I say as I come back up the stairs.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Well done, Mortis."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "I'm also quite good at slaying normally sized people."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: won't his ghost stick around if the body is destroyed

GM: You'll have to destroy his body and find out.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have a low level tunnel that can achieve high pen with this AC we have to him, how powerful an AC is it?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: could Archibald remotely PeVi his spell that lets him control the body, using bodyparts as an a/c

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: why would i ever do that?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: a body part is +3 multiplier

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: prudenzio has never wronged me

Archibald of Guernicus: With a tunnel to him I can just dust to dust through the tunnel

since I alreayd know it

4 pen, spec in vim

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also we could use the body part to determine stuff like his birthday for extra pen

if you're willing to spend vis

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i know that spell

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: You would still need to spend vis.

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's work out other multipliers we can get

1 pawn of perdo vis

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: itd be 3 pawns

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Signature is +1. didn't we force him to sign some document saying he wouldn't come back?

GM: You did, but never fixed it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gah,.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: to cast the genethiliological investigation

Lavinia of Jerbiton: broiled again.

GM: I asked last session if you had any ACs and you let them all die out.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: learning his birthday is worth another +3 to the multiplier with both nativity and local horoscope

Archibald of Guernicus: Dust to Dust is voice range, I can FFM it to touch for the tunnel, that's only 2 pawns

im figuring out how much of a multiplier id need to guarantee this

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is "Prudenzio" a valid nickname? that's another +1

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It should be.

GM: yep.

It's certainly not his real name.

You know what else is a valid nickname?

Adamo Scomparzo.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: faerie fucker

GM: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: before any pen, my ReVi is +43 in the temple regio

with a x3 AC thats 4*pen right

since it stacks

Lavinia of Jerbiton: does Archibald have any craft skill to make a voodoo dolly for another +2

Archibald of Guernicus: so 4x5 (4 pen, spec in vim) for 63 total on a level 10 spell, the tunnel is taken care of

None at all I'm afraid.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: An illustration or model of some sort. A simple representation, good for one use,

takes several hours and a Dexterity + Craft roll of 9+ to create.

hmmm

perhaps Hazm should invent a buff that gives wizards the ability to draw

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Also your Pen modifier is +4 before doing geneological investigation (+3 bodypart, +1 nickname), so 5x5 is your penetration score

Archibald of Guernicus: but... my PeCo is 25+6+5 for this, so +36 on a level 10 spell so 26 pen minimum. then +16 from penetration skill with the multiplier. and spending vis to cast blighted spells still adds to the total.

so

we're set

Lavinia of Jerbiton: DFD were you hoping we didn't use insane metamagic to kill your gmpc

GM: No, this is pretty much the intended way to kill him.

Dušan of Criamon: badass

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: however, he has done nothing wrong

GM: That or amassing a trained group the next time he walked into the bar so you can do an Incapacitating wound in one attack.

Archibald of Guernicus: Well. I'll roll the actual penetration values so you can see them but this is our plan it seems

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It woudl have been really cool if he tried casting a spell on mortis instead of teleporting away.

imo.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It is what it is.

Let's not encourage the GM to do ANOTHER retcon.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: kizunai: lets

GM: I will explain Prudenzio's mental state after the game if you kill him now but he was genuinely shocked that he'd be attacked.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Boo.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i can not blame him

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: If we kill him there is no way for us to learn his mental state.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+68 vs 20, casting a level 15 tunnel (this is my lowest it turns out, oops) FFM'd to sun duration

(

10

)

+68

=

78

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we're not killing him, just his body

his soul will still be (spoiler) bound to an item

Mmm Haha

GM: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: So that's, before penetration skill, 58 pen

GM: nice roll.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm using the Royal Us, of course. Obviously I can do it.

GM: you have established a tunnel.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh wait, no

thats with penetration skill included

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: dont forget that he has +30 magic resistance, from dwelling inside a +10 boundary

Archibald of Guernicus: my mistake

GM: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: so 58 pen total

ill just add pen to casting total to make it simpler

How much does a pawn add, +3?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +2

if you're sponting don't you add ceremonial bonuses?

Archibald of Guernicus: i did add them

GM: do you want to locate him first?

Archibald of Guernicus: i can add them to formulaic spells

GM: because like, you're destroying his body which is in a location you don't know, and his body is what you have an AC to.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: finding him would be cool if we can

so we know where to pocket his (MASSIVE SPOILER) surgically implanted phylactery

GM: I mean, he's got loot. You might as well.

Archibald of Guernicus: I have a spell to locate someone, but I think they have to be alive

GM: if you just destroy his body without picking up his stuff whos to say he doesnt have a friend to put him in a new body

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Speaking of massive spoilers, has anyone given a thought that the Magic Blight might be caused by the death of the Grigori?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the who

Archibald of Guernicus: Well, I can establish a sun-length tunnel to him at any point, so do we have any suggestions re: finding him?

Hmm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A friend who give speople bodies, hmmm?

Archibald of Guernicus: We could just wait until he comes back to the inn

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Anyone talked to The Spider lately?

Archibald of Guernicus: Be very friendly to him and keep him busy

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: The angels who sired the Nephilim.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is Prudenzio's body parts a link to his soul?

GM: It might be a little while, getting stabbed sucks.

Archibald of Guernicus: brb, letting my cat out

GM: No.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: What?

That's crazy.

GM: His body is a ritually created corpse that his soul is bound to. it just looks like him.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Obviously a body is going to be an arcane connection to aghost.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh

GM: Nicknames still work and visual representations etc still work

but it's not an AC to prudenzio's ghost.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Can Archibald talk to Prudenzio through the tunnel?

GM: probably, yeah.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Tell him that Mortis is dead.

GM: with some kind of imaginem thing.

lmao

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Mortis went berserk and Archibald killed him.

And we want to hear him out now.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It does sound like him.

A very plausible lie.

Dušan of Criamon: Frankly, he had it coming

Lavinia of Jerbiton: And we will stage Mortis' "corpse" right in the bar where the fight happened.

GM: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: Hm

It'd be a simple CrIm spont to do so

GM: "Why don't we just talk outside?"

Archibald of Guernicus: it would inform him we have an AC to him tho

GM: he'll meet you out front, sure.

Archibald of Guernicus: It doesnt matter where we speak to him so long as we know where he is when I destroy his corpse

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok.

Turn Mortis into Archibald while Archibald stays in the council chamber and prepares the remote dust to dust.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: hang on

Archibald of Guernicus: That's 3 less pen, and he'll get some penetration from being inside a magic aura, so lemme check. Oh wait, he'll be outside.

Still tho, lets check

rolling 25+5+3+4+20

25+5+3+4+20

=

57

If he has 47 MR or less, we're goldne

Prudenzio of Flambeau: he.....

only has 40 mr.

Archibald of Guernicus: 'only'

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Well, yeah.

Giraldo of Milan: goodbye prudenzio

Gulielmus of Pure Reason whistles an old Norman tune.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Remember, keep him busy."

I head downstairs and set up the cool ritual with 2 pawns of vis that will make his body explode

Prudenzio of Flambeau: You smell rotting meat and Prudenzio pops into existence out front of the Eastern Ear, surprising the handful of people on the street.

Prudenzio of Flambeau bites into an apple

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "I'm glad you all came to your senses and decided to apologize."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Welcome back."

Archibald of Guernicus: This takes 2 minutes to cast (1 min per magnitude) so keep him talking that length of time

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I believe you owe us a story about the Archon."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ave."

Dušan of Criamon: "I'd like to hear that anecdote and I have a question I failed to ask last time you visited."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Check this out."

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Aristocritus was a great man, but he always did like to get ahead of himself."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I pull a magpie out of my hat who begins singing an amusing Italian folk song

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh heh.

Why are we killing this guy again?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: you were the one who stabbed him!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm mercurial in my passions.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "He was a brave one, though. Much more so than myself."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Sadly, Fuuniculi Funicula was composed in 1880

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Why, charged headlong at a demon without looking back once."

"Why, I'd put him a full head and shoulders over many of his peers."

He goes on.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: lol

Prudenzio of Flambeau: dusan what was the question?

im sorry

"A question from the new blood?"

Archibald of Guernicus: its been pointed out that dust to dust doesnt affect corpses possessed by the undead.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Hmm.

Well, this may complicate things.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Prudenzio continues speaking for several minutes and suspiciously does not crumble into dust in front of everyone.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Heh heh.

Archibald of Guernicus: However (cue up the Archibald theme here) that is NOT how the living corpse works! It is a hermetic spell controlling the corpse, that is given control over to the ghost, which is inside a token item!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lmao

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: Holy shit!!

Archibald of Guernicus: The spell, Dust to Dust... works here!

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Gah!!

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Assuming, of course, that this is indeed what it is.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Prudenzio breaks down on the stand, both figuratively and literally

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Sadly it is.

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao johns

Dušan of Criamon: sorry was afk 30 secs

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: if only aristocritus were here...

he would have loved to bang his gavel (anachronistic)

Dušan of Criamon: "I was wondering, you receiving a wound and not as much as flinching: trickery or infernalism?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll cast Unseen Hand and lift the item up telekineticly

Prudenzio of Flambeau: "Ah, that's easy! You see, young magi, it's because I'm dead!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ah, of course.

So what's the magnitude of the AC multiplier here?

Prudenzio of Flambeau: With that, Prudenzio's body crumbles into dust, and leaves a silver hand mirror, robe, turquoise false tooth, and two rings in the dirt outside.

Archibald of Guernicus: https://youtu.be/nZ2W9FBrI4M?t=162

Dušan of Criamon: "That's a thoroughly anticlimactic answer."

I keep waiting for the pile of dust to respond

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Prudenzio?"

Archibald of Guernicus: its 1 (base) +3 (corpse fragments) +1 (nickname: Prudenzio)

Final pen is

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10+25+5+3+4

(

8

)

+25+5+3+4

=

45

minus 10, 35, then add 20 from 4*5

55

Prudenzio of Flambeau: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll step up the stairs and stare at the ash

Prudenzio of Flambeau: You now have Prudenzio's talisman, a tooth containing his soul, and some magic rings.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Looks like his argument crumbled."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Nice.

Prudenzio of Flambeau: lmao.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Jesus."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Do the talisman and the soul both provide the same Arcane Connection penetration bonus?

Dušan of Criamon: nice

Archibald of Guernicus: a talisman is a really powerful AC iirc

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: It FEELS like a spirit should be even powerfuller.

Archibald of Guernicus: yes

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: But there's no level past Indefinite.

Archibald of Guernicus: its +4

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's pile these bad boys up in storage until mortis can extract their vis

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Also obviously this is NOT his soul.

GM: You're right.

It's his ghost, which is not the same thing.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets enslave his ghost

Archibald of Guernicus: you have his nickname and his talisman, +5 pen modifier

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "This is the true power of teamwork."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Since Hermetic Magic, and indeed all magic, is incapable of doing anything to a soul.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I feel like we've all come together tae achieve something special today."

Dušan of Criamon: Let's befriend his ghost

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Even demons can't do anything to it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Let's make the ghost into our bartender.

GM: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Anyway, I can command this ghost probably.

Archibald of Guernicus: "As for what he's left, I can spend some time examining them and determine how they work."

Dušan of Criamon: having a ghost bartender would save us the heartbreak of outliving our bartenders

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Leave it to the experts, Archibald."

"I will be busy this season studying Faustus, though."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I feel like the limit of the soul should be rolled into the Divine limit as the metaphysical animating force is also called a soul but touches the Magic realm and can be interacted with by magic

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Really makes you think.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: philosophically is a ghost the same as a soul, or merely an echo of the soul that did not ascend to final judgment

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The immortal self that can recieve eternal punishment or reward should be the thing magic can't touch

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ghosts are different than souls.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: the ghost is his spirit, not his soul.

easy

GM: Prudenzio just kind of hinted at it but he'd been scrying on you with a fixed AC to Celeste the whole time.

johns, the second thing

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Since you can have ghosts of souls that have gone to Hell and it's impossible for any soul to leave Hell.

Well, the soul of a person condemned to Hell, of course.

Guy of Bonisagus: cant believe i never detected it

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Obviously someone who just wanders in is quite saveable.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Saying Becoming doesn't include your soul or whatever feels like fun detected fun removed to me

GM: uhhh  rearranges some of prudenzios 50 magical qualities  he had a power to disguise it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: did Prudenzio kill himself or have an accomplice do it

GM: that will come up later.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: he's been using a fixed ac to give everyone in the covenant garrotillo

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: All souls are protected by God.

GM: prudenzio has a history of betraying people and wouldnt it be really funny if he betrayed the people who helped him achieve lichdom

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: That's why Becoming is basically just suicide.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it makes sense, to me

your spirit becomes something else and retains your memories and personality, but a faerie or powerful magic spirit is fundamentally soulless

GM: prudenzio, for the last 20 years, to french necromancers: "Guys, you have to meet my buddies from Vardian's Tomb."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I should read the actual limit of the soul carefully I guess

Guy of Bonisagus: we should meet vardian some time

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's track down and kill his accomplice: Linf ex Misc

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I never actually planned to cast a spell taht could be disputed due to the limit so I never felt inclined to read it

GM: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Lets, Archibald

GM: anyway ill update the thread tonight or tomorrow but you get 7 xp and the aforementioned loot from prudenzios body.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: let's track down and kill Venzi of Tremere

sick

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Can you use Arcane and Sympathetic Connections to increase the penetration of a magic item?

It seems like you can't.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We need to track down and kill all the Bad Boys of Mont Mercure.

nah mortis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Too bad.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ok

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I struggled with this when I had a redcap with MR

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: is everyone going to share their augustan plots and prophetic visions

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I'm just going to have to build a heaping helping of penetration into all my ghost wands.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That couldn't be voluntarily lowered

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh yeah

"Oh by the way"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Yes?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I think you probably guessed this already, but Felipe Calendar is a member of the Augustan Brotherhood."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Who?"

Dušan of Criamon: hah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The hedge wizard in the court of the former Doge who must not be named."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Oh, is that what he was?" I say from the floor.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Fortunately I was able to use my well honed charm and diplomacy to convince him of the merits of the Order of Hermes, and to make him abandon his mad plan."

"I apologize for keeping you in the dark but I wished to make sure no one jumped to a rash action before he was able to leave the city safely."

Dušan of Criamon: "We expected nothing but virtuous acts from your late night walk alone in town."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Since Mortis faked his death, he doesn't have to worry about reprisal, so we now have a sympathetic Gifted wizard who owes us a life debt."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "He's joining the Order, you mean?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Magical creatures and faeries are generally believed not to have immortal souls, and there are spells that appear to create them, but some magi believe that such spells really summon existing beings.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "More of a death debt, surely?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Key word seems to be believed

Archibald of Guernicus: "So he will be joining the order, as I believe yer parens did?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I believe it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Perhaps. I did not press him to join or die."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So a Merinita who performs a Becoming ritual has a soul if its part of their enjoyment of their character that they do

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I told him I believe there is a day our orders can be reconciled. I'd like to see the Augustans join en masse. The Order of Hermes would need to stop regarding them as villains to be slain, first."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Sadly, Archibald is forced to behead Lavinia instantly.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Did somebody say join or die?" Rosario kramers into the room

Guy of Bonisagus: "The onus is on them."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Ave, Rosario."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I was merely thinking it, but I'd rather extend a hand tae them than force them in at swordpoint."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Come, have a seat... or die."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The seed of diplomacy has been planted. He will take this message of reconciliation to others in his order."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Excellent, excellent."

Guy of Bonisagus: damn now i definitely wont get to finish and use the funny image i was working on

oh well

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ave, sodales. What a thing to miss."

why not

post the funny ars image

Guy of Bonisagus: because we wont be killing felipe

Rosario of Flambeau: oh lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Imagine how quickly the end of the world would be resolved with the cooperation of the Order, the, uh."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: just turn it into prudenzio

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "The Hermetic Order, the Augustan Order, and the Solomonic Order, I should say."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Why, we could end the world in record time.

Guy of Bonisagus: wouldnt make as much sense with prudenzio

https://i.imgur.com/HH8XdUn.png

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lmao

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Anyway, what does everyone think of my plan to rid the world of demonic ghosts for all time?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: seems ill advised.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: How so?

Archibald of Guernicus: It sounds like it will get a lot of people, particularly magi, killed.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I'm sure our companions in Germany are working hard to contact the Odinite Order, as well."

"Imagine! A new order; an Order of Orders."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: also Passion is equivalent to target Group

Archibald of Guernicus: It's happened before, in fact. A bunch of Flambeau decided to go on a demon genocide crusade and they got marched for it after demons started attacking the order in large force.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason continues rambling.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so to effect every ghost you 'll several modifiers

as described it seems to apply to a place, not an Arcane Connection

The Order of Damhan-Allaidh

Dušan of Criamon: I look forward to the synthesis of our orders

Rosario of Flambeau: "Speaking of a genocide crusade, the Primus of my house has been out of her mind lately. I'm thinking I'll have to take the reins myself one day."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Lofty ambitions, certainly."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Worthy ones too."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: wizard civil war

Dušan of Criamon: "It would certainly benefit our modest covenant."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Demons don't have any feelings for their fellows, so simply eliminating a single class of demons doesn't seem like it would cause any reprisals.

Rosario of Flambeau: "If only the Flambeau were once more the paragons of the Order's virtues, rather than its mercenaries and thugs."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Also, in this case, the place would be the Veil of Death.

Which is sort of not really a place.

But might count as one for targeting purposes.

Rosario of Flambeau: ok im afk for a little while but its wrapped up mostly. good game ty for playing. excellent plans and plots all around

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lets reinstate house diedne

Lavinia of Jerbiton: y -- no.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: we must.

johns: i have a gm question to ask here

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Lay it on me.

Dušan of Criamon: this was dope

two adventures and it's not even 1am

johns: id like to know what you guys want to do when Rienzi shows up again, rather than dump a hook on you

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh right.

johns: Shortly, Cola di Rienzi will be instated as the Tribune of Rome by proclamation of the Papal Legate. He has a small army of mercenaries, mostly Provencals, to back him up.

That Legate (cardinal albornoz) then goes off to do stuff of his own north of here, leaving Rienzi to run the show.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Sodales, now that we're all gathered and this matter dealt with, I have been investigating - in my own time - into the blight."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I think we ought to support him wholeheartedly.

Archibald of Guernicus: "I need ye tae take a look at this." I produce the reproduction of the map I was shown in my communion with Mercury

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I stick a dagger into it.

Archibald of Guernicus: "There, the Arcana Centrum, is where it can be found."

I move the dagger to the Arcana Centrum

johns: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: "The blight. The source of all this."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: what does the map look like

Guy of Bonisagus: "Let's destroy it."

Archibald of Guernicus: DFD, reveal it to everyone, its at the top of the list of stuff

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "The Arcana Centrum, as seen in Tethys's book?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "With regards tae that, there are two possibilities that have emerged. The first is that this monstrosity is devouring magic tae sustain itself. As it eats and eats, soon it will run out of food, and starve and die. Eventually, magic will return tae the world."

"The other... is tae launch into battle against it."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Sounds like the way to go."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I agree wholeheartedly."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "How would we even begin to prepare?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Those Bjoarner senior Magi were working on ways to mitigate harm of the blight. Perhaps they are waiting it out?"

Dušan of Criamon: "I wouldn't put it past the diplomats."

Archibald of Guernicus: "That's what I wished tae discuss. The first issue is the power of the magic realm. While we are aligned tae Magic, by our Gift, any mundane help we bring in will not last very long before being warped beyond all hope of return."

"At the very least, anyone unGifted we bring in will never make it back alive."

"We, however, will be at the peak of our power."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "What good would shield grogs do against it anyway?"

Guy of Bonisagus: time to learn perdo vim

Archibald of Guernicus: "It could be something can be killed with weapons. We have no idea what it actually IS until we step in there. Therefore we should prepare anything we can."

johns (GM): It's mold.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Seems like a bit of scrying is called for."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Gifted swordsmen?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "I suggest enchanted devices that do not rely, in any way, on penetrating magical resistance, but may be useful."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: it's tape

Archibald of Guernicus: "Such as erecting barriers tae contain it, pits tae drop it in - if it cannot fly - and anything else that comes tae mind."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Gifted bowmen."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Bringing corpse soldiers in with us may help too."

"As for Gifted swordsmen, ye have me and Rosario."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gifted slingers.

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have Sir Oak as well. Assuming ye'll let us use him, Lavinia?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Gifted Jaguar Warriors.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Gifted siege engineers!"

Dušan of Criamon: "Gifted plague rats."

Guy of Bonisagus: lets recruit the augustans and have them go in first

then seal the entrance behindt hem and use a different one

Archibald of Guernicus: I cough "Well, on this front, whoever we can muster for this operation is another part of planning for it. Most magi will not be very willing, I venture."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: have hazm mass produce single weapon buff charms

Archibald of Guernicus: "We're rather a more adventurous group than is the norm."

"Anything at all we can bring tae bear, we must."

johns (GM): lets make Rosario the primus of house flambeau, and bring every flambeau in the world to bear.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "No, no, I'm quite serious - a trebuchet or a volley of rockets would bring down a giant or a dragon."

"I assume."

Guy of Bonisagus: "So would a well placed pilum."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Pillum relies on penetrating whatever resistance this monster has tae magic."

"Though, on that front, I'll see about stripping away Might from the beast."

"That is, however, assuming it is Magic-aligned. It should be, but this is such a grave unknown that it could possibly be some as-yet unknown Realm altogether it is aligned to."

johns (GM): Trolldomor aligned XD

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Regardless, how would we even reach it?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "We have tae traverse the magic realm itself, deeper and deeper, tae the Arcana Centrum."

"This will take a suitable regio and extensive research."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: "Do you know of any portals into the realm of magic?"

johns (GM): I sent Moe a good writeup of how magic realm travel works

Rosario of Flambeau: sorry i wasnt here to put the map up, ty to whoever did it

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I am confident that we can do so, but we have no entrance to the Realm."

Archibald of Guernicus: "There are regios that potentially go deeper than we've ever explored of them."

Dušan of Criamon: was that per PM or here

johns (GM): forums pm

it was a pastebin I think

Dušan of Criamon: shall i release it to the public

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: you also sent it to me since i read tethys's magic lore book

Archibald of Guernicus: "There is one other possibility, though."

johns (GM): if you want or you could paraphrase it as you would say here, your call

Rosario of Flambeau: "We'll have to go questing to find an entrance!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "When entering twilight, after the blight began, there has been something... strange."

johns (GM): there's two suggested leads on magic realm access, who's got good Order of Hermes Lore

Dušan of Criamon: frankly i'm not so safe in my understanding as to interpret in my own words

Archibald of Guernicus: "I believe it may be a door to the Arcana Centrum."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: i do not

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10+1 ooh lore

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Gulielmus of Pure Reason:

rolling 1d10+2+2 int + ooh lore

(

7

)

+2+2

=

11

Archibald of Guernicus: "But this would require someone willingly entering Twilight and warping themselves."

Dušan of Criamon: https://pastebin.com/NN3RFhxY

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: +1 if it's ex misc related

gulielmus really shouldnt have an answer here though.

Rosario of Flambeau looks at Dusan's stigmata

johns (GM): Gulielmus has heard of a book

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Wow can you imagine if there was a hermetic order that loved entering twilight?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Who would possibly want to enter Twilight on purpose?"

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: oh

that's right! i have

johns (GM): Catalog of Curiosities by Institus of Criamon

which lists several Vestiges of Magic.

Dušan of Criamon: Rosario: lol

johns (GM): Allow me to quote something directly just so I can lol

The

Oppidium of the Scholomance has a complete

set of the Criamon’s work and offers

it to the characters if they come to Transylvania

to get it. If the Order has fractured,

johns (GM): the books are hidden somewhere,

stuffed in the dusty bookshelves of a covenant

locked behind its Aegis and unwilling

to entertain visitors. Evidence suggests

that Crintera has several volumes, but that

means penetrating their hidden regio on

johns (GM): the island of Rügen and battling the Bjornaer

defenders.

Rosario of Flambeau: bwwahhhaha

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Dang.

johns (GM): But uhh... I'm sure there are other copies out there somewhere too.

Archibald of Guernicus: Everyone turns to look at Dusan

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: lol

"That's not necessary!"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We missed the opportunity to fracture the Order.

Guy of Bonisagus: scholomance

Dušan of Criamon: ^^^

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: This is what they call a "bad end."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "The author of the Codex Fantasia also wrote a book listing several potential entrances to the Magic Realm."

johns (GM): i would like to make an adventure of getting the book but I don't have one drawn up yet

Archibald of Guernicus: "Any idea of where we might find that book?"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We just all go to Transylvania and they hand us the book.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason shrugs.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: 10 XP.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Redcap?"

johns (GM): Transylvania is Tremere territory.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: So?

johns (GM): The Tremere are currently using the blight as an excuse to seize power.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: To be fair, so are we.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Archibald of Guernicus: if they get wind of this they'll hold the Order to hostage over it, they wont fix it.

are we??

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: also even during ordinary times they force you to do a bunch of work if you want anything from them

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: I mean, I have been.

johns (GM): How about an adventure where you raid a Tremere covenant and beat up Tremere wizards?

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "The fellow was a Criamon. Maybe Dusan can write home."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Yeah sure, just write up 7 magi.

Rosario of Flambeau: Bwahahaha/

Legal mage slaying?

Count me in.

Dušan of Criamon: "I suppose I could inquire about what new puzzles the good people thought up since I last met any of my kind."

Archibald of Guernicus: I say we stop the blight and leave word with trusted confidants that we're off to stop the blight, so when we stop it, we can turn around and say 'we stopped the blight' and be hailed as the saviours of the order.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Archibald's suggestion is airtight."

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Even better, let's drag along a bunch of witnesses.

Dušan of Criamon: "Come to think of it, perhaps I'll inquire in the heart of the our House, a wonderful little cave in the Alps."

Guy of Bonisagus: good idea

Rosario of Flambeau: "I give my full agreement that we should become famous as saviors of the order."

Guy of Bonisagus: while were there lets see if we can figure out a way to break the gifts of house tremere

, accidentally turning them into vampires instead

johns (GM): Let's re-enact the sundering

Archibald of Guernicus: "The aim is tae save magic, but in the aftermath, it is likely any number of elements will lie about the situation tae their own benefit."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: cant wait for house tremere to set up shop in the magic realm and gain infinite power

Archibald of Guernicus: "And, frankly, we are risking our lives here. We deserve tae be well-regarded for this act."

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: infinite power that ignores every hermetic limit, including the limit of time.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: Ok we should take a week to decide who we'll try to secretly murder during this adventure.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: cola di rienzo

Archibald of Guernicus: [everyone writes Mortis on a slip of parchment]

johns (GM): ok.

So on the plate for adventures coming up soon:

Rienzi, the next tribunal meeting, finding a book, Shaun wanted to run something about Thessaly, and more??

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "There is another option, of course."

johns (GM): Liches and Black Bishops too.

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: We're so busy!

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "My hosts in Cairo spoke frequently of the secret of the 'brass city.'"

Mortis ex Verditus, the Giant Slayer: My personal ambitions right now are pretty humble.

I want to found a new Hermetic House dedicated to necromancy.

Humble (and selfless!).

Archibald of Guernicus: The Worst Generation of magi

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "I can't shake the feeling that it's related. A great site of Ignem power, masters of magic travel...."

Endrite: Ok, I gotta split.

See you all next week.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A possible entrance tae the magic realm?"

See you, gamer.

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Aye."

"I mean, oui."

Dušan of Criamon: so many leads

Rosario of Flambeau: Now this is true gamer freedom.

Dušan of Criamon: I will contribute to their multitude by becoming a Man of Letters

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: "Hoc ille, maybe."

Rosario of Flambeau: By spring of 1356 I should finally be able to attune my talisman.

johns (GM): Good shit gamers.

Dušan of Criamon: johns: I can't reply to your asking about Rienzi but I do want Dusan to start whipping up letters and doing old-fashioned Call of Cthulhu letter-library analysis

As the party's dedicated Criamon

johns (GM): lets awaken the Old Ones (canon in 3e)

Gulielmus of Pure Reason: ftw

Guy of Bonisagus: lets awaken

Archibald of Guernicus: Let us.

Dušan of Criamon: let us befriend the old ones, and hire them to fight whatever is at Arcana Centrum

johns (GM): lets spend 20 years getting buff and recruiting allies for a showdown with the Big Boss.

and by we I mean you. lavinia will stay home.

Dušan of Criamon: Lavinia turning around to close curtains to better see magical instruments in lab, outside VT fighting the monster in Arcana Centrum

Archibald of Guernicus: alright. ggs and gn then

Dušan of Criamon: same to all

thanks as usual, great games

(plural)

dys (GM): aging 1354

rolling 1d10!-16

(

3

)

-16

=

-13

No apparent aging