7/1/18

devil's fav demon (GM): mystical greetings.

Endrite (GM): Hi.

Wait, when is the adventure?

devil's fav demon: 2]

2.

Endrite (GM): I mean what season.

devil's fav demon: oh.

johns (GM): spring

Endrite (GM): Spring of 1350?

johns (GM): y

Endrite (GM): Isn't that when we did last week's adventure?

Shauncat (GM): I believe so

Endrite (GM): Well, it gives me another week to figure out invested item creation.

Shauncat (GM): Hopefully this is the adventure were we find a thusand pawns of Vim vis so we can all make invested items

moe: Salve

Shauncat (GM): Ave

devil's fav demon: howdy.

Endrite: Light roster today.

Shauncat (GM): dys was online earlier so should probably make it

johns (GM): HM

devil's fav demon: maybe he's hard at work updating his seasons.

johns (GM): hes with his family being a homo

Mortis ex Verditus: I guess it's up to me to solve the greatest magical calamity of all time.

devil's fav demon: that's fine.

johns (GM): alright

Rosario of Flambeau: it's time to kill the world's most dangerous magical plague with a sword.

johns (GM): well archibald is off reporting the events of last season to his mysterious benefactors

when the rest of the covenant notices that their corpus vis is starting to rot and decay.

Rosario of Flambeau: I start moving it into the king arthur regio.

johns (GM): it seems appropriate to call a meeting of the council of magi to decide what happens next.

Rosario of Flambeau: That too.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

We should hide our vis in the King Arthur regio.

johns (GM): That works for now

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Shouldn't we consider what we are doing besides just saving the vis we have now?"

Rosario of Flambeau: We should probably put all of our vis in there and cast aegises over it.

or something.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The last time this happened, a miasma was released that was deadly to the form of the vis that was rotting."

Dušan of Criamon: "Mercifully, this will in no way impact the kitchen"

Rosario of Flambeau: "At least someone's thinking positively."

Mortis ex Verditus: "I think a vacation is in order."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "And this time it's corpus. Meaning the miasma will be deadly to humans."

"A vacation, yes. Any staff that isn't easily replaced should come along as well."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's only going to continue from here. The inn will never make any money at this rate."

Guy of Bonisagus: if its a corpus miasma shouldnt we all be making our rolls to not be incredible dead

as we live in a magic aura

Mortis ex Verditus: "We should consider a full evacuation. The covenant won't need to be defended because most of Rome will be killed by the miasma."

Dušan of Criamon: "I retract my statement regarding the kitchen, as it is staffed.

Rosario of Flambeau: We all have magic resistance and the miasmas have 0 penetration.

Guy of Bonisagus: ah right

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We have advance warning before the miasma starts

Guy of Bonisagus: "Evacuation? For what?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I assume Bubonic Plague miasma is Stam vs 12 roll

Rosario of Flambeau: "We need to find the cause and end it. This is confirmation that all of the Forms are in jeopardy."

Mortis ex Verditus: "There are at least 2 other Magic auras in the city."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Move the covenfolk out, certainly, but there's no reason for us to leave."

Dušan of Criamon: "More to the point, we don't know where it has not struck yet. We should send a redcap to Vulcanal."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Rome usually has around 10,000 people in it. Because of the Jubilee, I wouldn't be surprised if there are twice that many now, with all the pilgrims coming through. Do we have any responsibility to them?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The parma has to be reapplied at sundown."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Have there been any expeditions into the Realm itself? I've heard nothing from the tribunal."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "And we can't see the sun from inside our labs."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Well, we could always try sinking the ships in the harbor to prevent escape, but that seems a little cruel."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You all have constant magic resistance from your forms even when your Parma is down if I understand Bonisagus' theory correctly..."

Guy of Bonisagus: "That's correct."

Mortis ex Verditus: "It's true.

So true."

Dušan of Criamon: "I feel a veiled motive here."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A motive?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I suppose corpus resistance is constnat."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We could start a series of large fires."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Celeste has her divine relics, so she should be able to guard us still."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I don't quite get what Mortis is driving at."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Something murderous, no doubt."

Mortis ex Verditus: "If we burnt down everyone's homes, they would have to leave the city."

"It's simple logic."

Dušan of Criamon: "Again, it's almost like an ulterior motive in the background"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Mortis, do you fancy yourself a modern day Nero?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We could useAuram wards to flush the miasma into the rat regio."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We could topple the statue purifying the Tiber."

Mortis ex Verditus: "You bring up a good point, Lavinia. We could use the miasma to slay any opposition to Vardian's Tomb."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Yes, we've got some spell texts to work from thanks to the Bjornaer, I heard."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I wasn't aware we had any opposition"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Restricted to mundane foes, of course."

Dušan of Criamon: "Ah, well my suspicions were unfounded then. I regret having doubted you sodalis!"

Guy of Bonisagus: "I believe Fiorella is on the right track."

"However, instead of the rat regio, we should move it to the Jewish slums."

Rosario of Flambeau: "That

"That's a horrible thing to suggest."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Opposition may be an extreme term, but we do have some neighbors who poke their nose into our business a little too readily."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Even if you were merely joking."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Didn't VT once have a large force of knights demand a tour shortly before I arrived here?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "The seven noble families of Rome have been bearing down on our covenant for too long, I say."

Guy of Bonisagus: "We'll not be spreading magical death upon the homes of Christians, Mortis."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Why am I not surprised to see such inhumanity and sang-froid amongst the Hermetic magi.."

Dušan of Criamon: While the discussion is on the table, I'd like to ask a few redcaps about taking letters asking about the situation in other rome tribunal convenants

Rosario of Flambeau: Ooh, good idea.

Guy of Bonisagus: lol redcaps are gonna die

redcap death! redcap death!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Dusan dispatches letters. If the PCs wish, we can table this discussion until we hear back from other covenants.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm going to go warn any of my family in Venice that has a home near a lacunae.

Dušan of Criamon: Like how one can divine the time of year from the sky, perhaps with a little bookkeeping we could identify what direction this catastrophe is coming from

Rosario of Flambeau: this would be a good time to kill aurora since shes probably being forced to share her mighty parma

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Or other urban magic aura

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we have all the relevant facts.

Rosario of Flambeau: well, its affecting the magic realm, and potentially every form.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets control our miasma and have it hover at the entrances to our labs

Rosario of Flambeau: if there hasn't been an expedition into the magic realm itself we should volunteer to do it for the order

Mortis ex Verditus: "Setting your squeamishness aside, do we know of anywhere to send our covenfolk that has no nearby magical aura?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "We could have them work in one of the cathedrals."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think an expedition is good if that's what's been prepped

Rosario of Flambeau: i dont know what has

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A secluded monastery might be safer, somewhere up in the mountains where the miasmae wouldn't flow"

Rosario of Flambeau: im just saying it ic because i like adventures and slaying things with might scores

Lavinia of Jerbiton: An expedition is not what I prepped for today but I can work with it. There's a few obstacles, which can be spotted with Magic Lore checks

Guy of Bonisagus: i wish we had 2 more months so i could make pilum

Father Hazm: Hazm will stay behind in Rome to help his fellow priests deal with what's to come

And also give out disease resistance buffs

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyone got magic lore?

Mortis ex Verditus: How many magical servants do we have?

Two?

Rosario of Flambeau: i have no magic lore but lots of magic theory.

Father Hazm: Zita and Bolad

Faustus if you let him out of gay baby jail

Mortis ex Verditus: Well I certainly wouldn't count on Zita to survive this.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Fautus smirks from Gay Baby Jail like Hannibal Lector

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+3+1 Magic Lore

(

4

)

+3+1

=

8

Rosario of Flambeau: threaten to put faustus in a magic regio unless he rolls magic lore for us

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Spec in Creatures makes that 9 if applicable

Rosario of Flambeau: *aura

Mortis ex Verditus: "We could attempt a siege on the Torre di Conti to retake the magical regio inside."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Thank you Fiorella. Now I'm a little shaky on this myself so if OOCly you think I'm messing up let me know, but:

To enter the Magic Realm, you need to find a Vestige. These are unique sites in Mythic Europe that can lead to Boundaries in the Magic Realm. Boundaries in turn can lead to the Twilight Sea, which has a province for each Hermetic Form.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That sounds accurate

You can also Creo vestiges

Rosario of Flambeau: huh

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Complicating this is: #1 You do not know of any vestiges, currently. #2 Travel is difficult to places you are unfamiliar with, unless you have good Magic Lore or Enigmatic Wisdom

Dušan of Criamon: I understand none of this, but I am somewhat intrigued

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It takes a ritual though so you need to invent the spell beforehand most likely

Rosario of Flambeau: That is complicated.

We could ask around if anyone knows any vestiges.

Dušan of Criamon: How EVER: enigmatic wisdom

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Dusan's time to shine

Dušan of Criamon: ding ding ding

Lavinia of Jerbiton: #3 Travel in the Twilight Void is very weird and dangerous.

Rosario of Flambeau: that sounds extremely cool and sick

Lavinia of Jerbiton: #4 Because time works differently in the magic realm, when you leave it may have just been a moment, or may have been several years.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: #5. You do not know what you are searching for yet nor where it would be though you guys seem to have some theories

Dušan of Criamon: "I am but one man, an island, but I suppose you others have obligations to others"

Rosario of Flambeau: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus: twilight sea huh

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I propose we venture to the Cave of Twisting Shadows where the experts live

Rosario of Flambeau: That sounds fun.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets steal a boat and strap dusan to the prow until we stumble into a vestige on the water

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Criamon theory stats that the world itself is decaying from the ideal form, and this could be an insight into the blight.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's take this opportunity to ransack Venator's former lab.

Guy of Bonisagus: criamon theory is also correct

Rosario of Flambeau: You know what, ive been so focused on the idea of killing the praeco since the herbam blight that i never thought about blaming him for it

Dušan of Criamon: That does sound very criamon

Rosario of Flambeau: but i wont do that ic

that sounds right, re: criamons

Dušan of Criamon: I bet Dusan spends part of his off time meditating on whether there'll be more blights

perhaps some strong enough to rid the world of magi altogether

I suppose the musty catacomb lab isn't doing Dusan any favors

Lavinia of Jerbiton: at least its cool in the summer

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we need to keep our eyes on the prize here.

Almost everyone in Rome is about to die.

Rosario of Flambeau: You won't be able to use spells to animate them, though.

Dušan of Criamon: These things happen

Rosario of Flambeau: What a shame.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: " -- assuming we do nothing to stop it, Mortis.."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Why contain it?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Do we know of any Auram specialists?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "This is an excellent opportunity to exercise our God-given power."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I know the average Hermetic magus thinks nothing of mundanes suffering as long as they are safe in their secluded covenant off in the woods but I thought we were better than that here."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "As far as I know, the miasma can be manipulated like any other Auram phenomena and has no magic resistance."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, obviously we need to stop this blight."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what are folks auram scores here

Mortis ex Verditus: 0

Rosario of Flambeau: i have 3 auran.

m.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: aurum and corpus cause it needs the prereq

Rosario of Flambeau: good luck.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: hm.

We may be boned.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 5 Auram

Minimum to open an apprentice's Auram safely

Rosario of Flambeau: Hell yeah.

c'thinker: whats up

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So no Auram specialists in all of Rome?

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh, if we're going to the uh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Salve.

Rosario of Flambeau: Cave of Twisting Shadows, we should ask about that book we found in the Criamon lab.

Guy of Bonisagus: all of rome is this covenant

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Cave of Twisting Shadow is a long ways away

Rosario of Flambeau: not Criamon lab.

Dušan of Criamon: Salve, to bring you up to speed: we are planning what we will do in the inevitable plague

Rosario of Flambeau: Criamon book from the Tytalus.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

What a map!

Rosario of Flambeau: It's a real-ass map.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: gulielmus are you good at auram?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cast Clenching Grasp of the Crushed Heart on Guy for stealing my god damn staff.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: But Valnastium is on the way

Rosario of Flambeau: that convenient Magic Lore summa none of us read or interacted with.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can go say hello to my parens

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what's the plan

Rosario of Flambeau: idk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my auram is pretty bad but i have 12 rego

Lavinia of Jerbiton: someone floated inventing a spell to destroy the miasma

Rosario of Flambeau: i want to find a way to blindly adventure into the magic realm, theres also a plan to go to the cave of twisting shadows

Archibald of Guernicus: Salve, sodalis

Guy of Bonisagus: the consul said i should have this staff

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my perdo is like 5 or 7.

Guy of Bonisagus: can you argue with leadership?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have Deficient Perdo

Rosario of Flambeau: we have a text for a miasma destroying spell but its level 55 auram/herbam and no one can learn it.

smartass tree.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my staff just comes out of the supply closet we have that's full of staffs, swords, etc

Archibald of Guernicus: I assumed Guli's staff was already enchanted and he wouldnt want to dual-wield

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah

Archibald of Guernicus: Since I was wrong, he gets the staff

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well

Archibald of Guernicus: as the most famed staff-leaner-onner in the covenant

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Guy of Bonisagus clenches teeth and holds back tears.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if guy takes the staff ill make my staff into a talisman

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Base 4, +2 Voice, +1 Conc ReAu(Co) lets someone Move a miasma

Base 15, +2 Voice PeAu(Co) lets one destroy a miasma

Guy of Bonisagus: sounds like a good compromise

the staff is mine

Mortis ex Verditus: How do you sense a miasma?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: for miasma of base size though

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: however. this means i am going to eat half of our vim vis

Lavinia of Jerbiton: umm mortis usually you'd want a InVi(Co) base 3 +4 vision

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: choose carefully, consul.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Auram individuals are pretty large

Lavinia of Jerbiton: but a corpus miasma will be noticable to anyone who feels their parma going nuts

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: our miasma is specifically size +2

Guy of Bonisagus: if i do not get the staff i will eat all of our vim vis

Dušan of Criamon: PLEASE do not eat any of our vis

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We need infinity vim vis

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmmmmmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i need that vim.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The notes the Bjoarner gave us indicated that the size of the miasma correlate to the size of the aura it came from... For once, Vardian's Tomb's small aura helps us. But we'd be in trouble if a miasma from a larger aura came into the city."

Guy of Bonisagus: gotta have my vim

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I need a talisman so cast corpus spells

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I have some thought about vis but maybe we should discuss it after the first issue.."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Does anyone know of a monastery where our covenfolk could shelter until this is over?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "There will be a miasma from Magvillus as well, perhaps we should confer with them."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Subiaco is a walled monastery close by on a hill, I think that'd work Mortis? Assuming they let people like Celeste and Bolad in.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we just use rego to put the miasma in a bottle

and then don't let it out.

Dušan of Criamon: How big a bottle are we talking here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: that seems easiest if we have bad perdo

Rosario of Flambeau: celeste has 20 divine magic resistance and is presumably going to be fine for this entire thing.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Maybe Hazm can vouch for our odder covenfolk."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Isn't Celeste protected by the Divine?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "I'm sure if they were in dire enough need they would be allowed in."

Archibald of Guernicus: "In fact this makes them the best candidate for remaining on the guard staff."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Some superficial wounding should be enough."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The Lord truly works in mysterious ways Archibald.."

Rosario of Flambeau: "That kid is our best warrior next to that arthritic old man."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Wounding won't be necessary. Father Hazm can convince them with words."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: derfel normally has 10 divine magic resistance, but currently has 0.

Rosario of Flambeau: rip

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I know this might be an unpopular suggestion since it costs vis but if we cast the Aegis of the Hearth on Subiaco or a place like it, we'd create a sanctuary for many people to be safe.."

Mortis ex Verditus: "That's a good idea."

Archibald of Guernicus: Does the aegis even block foreign miasma?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sounds good to me."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We may be able to convince others to donate as well. It'll bring people together and make the Order look good."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Can the aegis repel the miasma if its not an entity as such?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Save plenty of lives."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It has no magic might as far as we're aware."

Guy of Bonisagus: probably not

Mortis ex Verditus: "Yes, it repels all magic."

Guy of Bonisagus: lavinia does not understand magic theory

or anything about magic

Lavinia of Jerbiton: she has a 2 in MT.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: would the gm act maliciously

Rosario of Flambeau: We have notes on how the miasma behaves and it is repelled by the aegis.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "It repels ongoing effects, but the miasma was generated otuside of this propsed aegis."

Rosario of Flambeau: however, this doesn't count for miasmas generated within the aegis, of course.

Dušan of Criamon: "My heart goes out to all the people of this city but wouldn't this be meddling in mundane affairs?" everyone stops dead in their tracks to stare at Dusan

Rosario of Flambeau: hahaha

Mortis ex Verditus: Nuh uh.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Hahaha, good one my friend."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Maybe Beatrice was telling the truth about the Criamons."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I see several drawbacks. The first is the danger of casting a powerful ritual in a divine aura. The second is that this is clear interference with the divine, in a way they very well may consider desecration. We are telling them that God will not help them - only us. Will this really have any sway with a good christian?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "The only question I have is: how can we keep the noble families in the city while spiriting away the townsfolk?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "You could paralyze them."

Mortis ex Verditus: "With what, indecision?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I don't believe we can protect everybody, but we can make a difference if we focus our efforts."

Guy of Bonisagus: damn, archibald will do anything to protect his vim vis

Rosario of Flambeau: That makes him smart.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "A fair concern Archibald... I'm sure once the pestilence hits people will gladly latch onto any solution, even magical.. If only we could help people before they realize the true danger about to hit.."

Mortis ex Verditus: "In any case, if we erect an Aegis, we could place it over any structure, it wouldn't need to be a monastery."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do we have time to enchant an item

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "A level 1 aegis would suffice."

"The miasma is forceless."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You have 2 seasons this year to do labwork in response before the blight hits people

Archibald of Guernicus: "If we can find an area not connected tae the church, in an aura that will not risk horrible botches on the ritual, then the plan has some legs. This current one disnae, though."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 1 season before it hits magical Corpus creatures

and the full year before the annoying Corpus vim cost of doing labwork kicks in

Rosario of Flambeau: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A weak aegis inventable by anyone would do, yes. One that costs a single pawn. As, after all, the threat isnae creatures of might or other wizards."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh a full year, i can get my talisman ready in tmie then

Mortis ex Verditus: "It wouldn't even need to be a very powerful Aegis. I think you're just underestimating yourself, Archibald."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about a jar that casts a ReAu(Co) spell to move a miasma into itself, at touch range and conc duration, until it is closed

Lavinia of Jerbiton: would the miasma fit?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I only need to invest enough vis for Cloak of Black Feathers, though I can do 12 Vim vis at a time if we had tha tmuch

Mortis ex Verditus: We don't know exactly how deadly the miasma is, in any case.

I assume very deadly, but you never know.

Guy of Bonisagus: what about a jar that casts the magic jar spell from dnd

Archibald of Guernicus: "I'm not spending my time in these ticking days before the death of Corpus working on an aegis, there's other work tae be done. And we have another opportunity to watch the exact development, now that we know what to expect."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The miasma is forceless and Archibald can get a level 10 aegis off one vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Collect the Putrid Sample (ReAu(He) 30) - Bjornaer Council '49

(Sight, Ind, Conc) Compresses a sample of Herbam Blight Miasma up to 22 yards wide and 220 yards long into a tight and dense tube, then places it in a nearby glass jar.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: what about a Jar of Suleiman, which is a portal into the magic realm and thus a pocket dimension

Rosario of Flambeau: Those sound cool.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmm, what if I turned the miasma into an egg?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Is there any size mod on that Bjoarner spell?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: doesn't say

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can double my Auram if I turn it into an egg

Rosario of Flambeau: its the smallest base size you gave for blight

miasma

Lavinia of Jerbiton: alright

Mortis ex Verditus: Turning miasma into an egg seems like it would be a pretty high level spell.

AFK a sec.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so the jar spell is 1 mag more than an equivalently powerful Perdo version but if folks have better Rego it makes sense

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so the effect is base 10?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's find out

Level 4: Transform an amount of air into another element (fire, earth, or water)

Guy of Bonisagus: miasma egg: fiorella, i have much to teach you

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Dušan of Criamon: I KNOW THE IMAGE THAT REFERENCES

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the element of Egg

i feel that Base 10 "transform the air into something wholly unnatural" is more apt here

Dušan of Criamon: i will admit, i know absolutely none of the crunch for the plans explained so far

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fog of COnfusion uses Imaginem which isn't a traditional element

Dušan of Criamon: but i will endeavour to help any agreed on plan

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ohh sorry moe i hadn't considered you're still a little rough on lab rules

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Eggs aren't unnatural

Dušan of Criamon: no no

this is shit i need to learn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the jar seems very expensive.

Dušan of Criamon: and so i shall

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Eggs are -- at the very least -- a mix of elements, as a living thing is composed of multiple humors.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: our miasma is size +1?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Fog of Confusion is Base 2 but there's no Base 2 guideline for MuAu. awesome

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe I should work from Muto Animal then

Lavinia of Jerbiton: no id say the ones from Vardian's tomb and lacuna in the city are Regular Auram size.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: As animal products are easier to deal with

Lavinia of Jerbiton: A base Individual for Auram is a weather phenomenon

that affects the area within a standard

Boundary — an area one hundred paces across.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, so then the jar would just be base 10 +1 conc +1 touch

i can throw a lab total of 31 at it without help, if i experiment.

Archibald of Guernicus: that 2seasons it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: 2 chances to fail catastrophically

Lavinia of Jerbiton: an item or casting tablet to allow one to detect the Miasma at a distance would be useful there too

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm sorting out a longevity ritual for me and Rosario before the blight hits, so thats 2 of my seasons

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we would also need 1 jar for each miasma

Rosario of Flambeau: same, since im adding to his lab total.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: oh this is an enchanted item and not just a spell?

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: my aurum is 5 iirc but ill see what i can do. whats the base to detect miasma?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: i dont think thats a good idea then

Base 3

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well a spell would also be fine.

Mortis ex Verditus: We have 24 vim vis, so we could erect 24 Aegises.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: +4 for vision, +1 conc

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Here's something annoing

Mortis ex Verditus: How long do we need to keep people in them?

The last miasma lasted months, right?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: A year will do I think

Archibald of Guernicus: Level 15 to hear miasma for conc, level 20 to see it, then?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: yup

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i can create a spell that operates the exact same way but you need someone else with mr to hold the jar open and close it.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We should also not use up all our vim vis before we've had a chance to make talismans to compensate for Corpus problems

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: assuming touch is a valid range.

Mortis ex Verditus: The issue is that they wouldn't be able to leave the aegis at all, because they'd from exposure to the miasma.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the last miasma lasted indefinitely until it blew off into the atlantic

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I need 12 for a talisman

Mortis ex Verditus: So they'd be cooped up for months.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, my lab total would only be 30 for spell versus jar

Archibald of Guernicus: Also we dont have 24 vim vis since I've spent some in the seasons beforehand. However, anyone at all can create vim vis by extracting it, lemme see how much you make

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: very little since you divide by 10

Lavinia of Jerbiton: well while they're cooped up maybe they'll compose some fine art, like the Decameron

Archibald of Guernicus: 1/10 of your CrVi, oof

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Vim vis extraction is insanely slow

Lavinia of Jerbiton: its a job for apprentices

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Unless you have an army of ehdge wizards doing it

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my good friends in the alchemy cult have superior vim extraction techniques.

Rosario of Flambeau: or that guy who cums vim vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: including typed vis!

Archibald of Guernicus: Archibald can make 5 in a season if we really need it.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Speaking of hedge wizards"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: also they arent actually my good friends.

wtf

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I just remembered there is a whole court of them living in a magic aura not far from here"

"Including two former members of our covenant..."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do you actually have a 40+ crvi total.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hmm."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Yes, this is a good opportunity to kill those treacherous rogues."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "They wanted those lands so badly, let them enjoy the fruits."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh really?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Letting them all die seems like a damn waste, but they'll be unable to work in a magic aura anyhow."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can anyone add +10 to my lab total. or does anyone have a better reauco

Archibald of Guernicus: "Besides, that learned magician was quite pleasant even if the Orsu runt wasn't."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We ought to offer them shelter, if we have it."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, come now."

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's only right."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I was just joking about paralyzing the nobles, Mortis, we shouldn't actually view this as an opportunity to assemble a kill list."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Why not?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I have 33 Muto Auram lab total, not enough for a base 10 egg but a base 4 egg is doable

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "If we are creating another aegis it would be an opportunity to assemble a "saving lives" list.."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Think about how famous we'll be if we save all of these people."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well. Concievably, with the miasma, if it works the way the herbam one did, would be a weapon that can kill anyone."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Not to mention if we can root out the cause of this magic blight."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We will be killing everyone we don't save in any case."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Anyway eggs are just funnier, feathers are fine for this purpose

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why, we'd almost be guaranteed respected archmagi."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Influencing the movement of it would be a weapon that could silently and invisibly kill anyone the wielder wished. Which we should be aware of, and wary of."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "You think someone would try to use it against our city?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "It's a very populous city."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I'd say no one is that cruel but.. Well Mortis has disabused me of that notion"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Why not? People have enemies, many in the Order interfere far more than they should - you're a Jerbiton AND an Augustan, surely ye understand this."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let me look up Alexander of Jerbiton's spell fo turning an oasis into a feather so he could take large amounts of drinking water with him in the desert

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A Tytalus surely would."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "No offense."

Mortis ex Verditus: How much area does an Aegis actually protect?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Hmm.. What better way for those pagan animals at Crintera to revenge against Christianity than to strike at its heart, in the midst of Jubilee.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: boundary

Rosario of Flambeau: "From what I heard, they were in just as much of a panic in the Rhine as we are in Rome."

Mortis ex Verditus: Can you use FFM to increase the size of a boundary spell?

We might be able to just cast an aegis over the entire city.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, transmuting Aquam into animal teeth in that spell isn't treated as an unnatural change, but just the base level for changing to another form

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh wait that wouldn't work.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Which is 4 for both Aquam and Auram

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah FFM isnt for rituals

Mortis ex Verditus: There are too many magic auras inside the city anyway.

devil's fav demon: im going toget tea brb

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the boundary target for the entire city is very big

Archibald of Guernicus: You could concievably create a giant aegis over the entire city of rome. Heres the problem: it doesnt stop miasma generated INSIDE rome

so rome still dies

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im back on the jar idea.

Guy of Bonisagus: make a reverse aegis that locks things inside

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if i invent the jar then we can use the lab text to make multiple copies

Archibald of Guernicus: [to the miasma] I'm not trapped in here with you,

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: So we're talking 20,000 people in Rome for the Jubilee.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats not a lot of people

damn rome is tiny

Lavinia of Jerbiton: mortis is already calculating what % won't get christian burial that he can abuse

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: update: after some discussion on discord i'm back off the jar idea, and will just invent a spell that does the same thing.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, if half of them are pilgrims we could eliminate them in one fell stroke by informing the Papal Legate.

Archibald of Guernicus: One thing about a humanitarian effort is that we dont have 24 pawns of vim vis since people will be using it on other projects, not to mention the logistical insanity of rounding up all these people before the miasma even hits.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: tbqh beardbeard rome is a bit of a dump in this era

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah

well, would people be willing to contribute seasons extracting vim

Archibald of Guernicus: I think a shelter or 2 to save some people is about the most we can manage, by the time people realise how bad it is to require our help there wont be too many people left to save. Unless people want to start putting apprentices to work right now generating vim vis. I don't mind, I'll get mine to make some pawns.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: for the humanitarian effort

if everyone chipped in we would have, what, 20 pawns?

Mortis ex Verditus: We can erect 24 Aegises, we shouldn't be stingy.

Archibald of Guernicus: We can't because we won't have that many pawns

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "This might sound a bit callous but.. We could get some sort of reward from nobles if you offered to put an Aegis on their fortresses.. Maybe even enough to offset the cost of a pawn of vis.."

Guy of Bonisagus: spell to turn the miasma into a jar

then put an egg in the jar

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Mortis was talking about setting fires and sinking ships, he only wanted to save people once we started talking about spendign vis

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: spell to turn an egg into an egg

Archibald of Guernicus: Spell to turn a chicken into an egg

Lavinia of Jerbiton: sounds like a clear violation of the limit of time

Dušan of Criamon: no!

Archibald of Guernicus: Spell to turn Lavinia's voice into an egg (MuIm(An))

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Archibald of Guernicus: We can't because we won't have that many pawns

Guy of Bonisagus: fiorella, i have never had anything to teach you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can if people produce some pawns

it's free magic theory xp.

it's like spending a season inventing a corpus spell, but better

Guy of Bonisagus: i will be producing a pilum of fire

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Plume of the Wind

Muto Auram (Animal) 4

R: Touch, D: Moon, T: Ind

Transforms an individual of miasma, fog, wind, or like phenomena into a large bird feather for the duration. The feather can be transported out to a remote location so that few are harmed when the spell ends. Casting requisites may be required for magic blight miasma aligned iwth a specific form.

(Base 4, +1 Touch, +3 Moon)

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: produce deez

Lavinia of Jerbiton: so level 20 in all right

Archibald of Guernicus: I'm working on longevity rituals for myself and Rosario, beyond that I'll probably need to invent a spell to help with this miasma business, not to mention figure out a way to get the more useful corpus effects transferred to items

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can manage that in a season with bird magic focus

Lavinia of Jerbiton: wait

with a spell like that that has a prereq you have to use the lower of your two forms

Mortis ex Verditus: I think longevity rituals can wait until the end of the current crisis (ed: Crysis).

Archibald of Guernicus: theres too much needs doing to save ourselves before trying to save a whole city who's too stupid to listen to us anyway. any plan that hinges on "lets get mundanes to listen to us and behave" will end in riots and tears

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm going off Auram, yes

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ok cool

Archibald of Guernicus: what if corpus is never restored? or even when resolved, takes decades to return?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I might as well mention what I was thinking about vis in the longterm.."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Potent Magic (Birds) also has a flat bonus which is nice for requisites

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should save lives though. imo

Dušan of Criamon: As usual Archibald is the voice of reason saying what I think

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I think going forward it would be good for our covenant to be proactive about getting and stockpiling magic resources... vis and items..."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the voice of criamon reason. very suspicious

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, then you're just going to have to lean on the other health bonuses you get from living in Rome.

Also if most of Rome is dead or gone then the health penalty might go down.

Think about that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: They simply aren't enough. I aged on 2 10s, its too risky.

Rosario of Flambeau: "We can't just patch up each blight as it happens, although saving lives now is admirable, we've got to get a plan to stop it before it gets to all the other forms.

"

Archibald of Guernicus: a 1% chance of aging is too high

Lavinia of Jerbiton: don't you have a MErcurian Ritual that undoes aging though

Archibald of Guernicus: ... It's corpus

Rosario of Flambeau: "What if Terram is next? Or Vim?"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: It can use Technique vis though

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Applying Auram again makes that 38, Potent Magic 44, so enough for a level 20 spell

Archibald of Guernicus: also impossible to do right now since it requires a more powerful ritual that will take me, even when im ready to translate it, a full year to accomplish

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh, further incentive to save a bunch of people: most other cities don't have magi, so if we save most of the people of Rome it might once again become caput mundi.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: how many pawns are we going to have when the blight hits, assuming no expenditures

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Even if Corpus disappears, there is still Technique vis out there... In the wild, in old magic sites, and in the treasury of other Magi.."

9 pawns of Corpus

9 creo, 2 intelligo, 2 muto, 28 perdo, 34 rego

Rosario of Flambeau: "Frivolous Warring is only going to increase."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: 2 pawns of INFERNAL corpus and 5 pawns of DIVINE creo

Mortis ex Verditus: "Fortunately, without my help the dead can't go to war."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I wouldn't think you would object to war Rosario.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Aren't you supposed to be a pacifist?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We shoudl save people who remember when we do good deeds specifically

There are those who quickly forget

Let's make a list of people who've been known for gratitude

Rosario of Flambeau: "Well, you have to have a good reason! Stealing Vis is just rude."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "My magic is pacifist but I am still willing to do what is necessary to defend myself."

people who have been grateful to us. umm let's see:

...

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What if we take out loans from people who are probably going to die?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should do the extremely boring thing, and put our planned expenditures up against our stockpile.

Mortis ex Verditus: Have we ever done any good deeds?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yes

Guy of Bonisagus: hm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We stopped the apocalypse in the wedding episode

Archibald of Guernicus: We killed Proclus of Rome.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: ahh yeah the Malatesta liked us

Mortis ex Verditus: Nobody knows that we killed Proclus though.

Dušan of Criamon: we were very kind to the people of Vulcanal

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the Person of Vulcanal

Dušan of Criamon: accurate

Mortis ex Verditus: The Malatestinos aren't in Rome though.

Archibald of Guernicus: That's what it means to be the silent protectors of the world, Mortis.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: tasso liked us but then died.

Mortis ex Verditus: We might not need to save them at all.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they're notorious condottiero right endrite?

Dušan of Criamon: True charity IS anonymous after all.

Mortis ex Verditus: Sort of.

I mean they're just your standard Papal State thugs.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the village of Montorsaio that we saved from vikings

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah

Lavinia of Jerbiton: they should be pretty grateful. even tho iirc their noble was a shithead

Archibald of Guernicus: Good point, we need to make sure we kill the lord there in the coming confusion

Mortis ex Verditus: They're very grateful but there isn't a magic aura near there that I know about.

Rosario of Flambeau: brb once more. sorry.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the Annibaldis like Lavinia for giving them a potion to help disease, and I also gave the Knights Hospitaller a copy of my notes so maybe they're chill now?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The Knights are pretty cool all things considered, though dangerous neighbors all the same.

Guy of Bonisagus: satan likes us for having pagans and being sinful

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Still, they run a free hospital

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh, here's one thing to bring up since we're having a covenant meeting. Is there a covenant-wide demand for a new second consul - and if so, who should it be.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: They would be interested in matters of Public Health

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

I think we should work with the knights and Magvillus

Guy of Bonisagus: it should be gulielmus

Archibald of Guernicus: The knights hospitalier are all going to die, and you know what? That's a good thing.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The knights have a history of being decent people, and Magvillus is at street level so they stand to take the blame even more than we do.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: whbat if they have true faith

Guy of Bonisagus: its the knights hospitalier

Lavinia of Jerbiton: imagine if everyone died except the people with true faith

Archibald of Guernicus: Then the very small number who do are going to leave very soon

Lavinia of Jerbiton: is this supposed to be an improvement

Mortis ex Verditus: I think the credit and burden of leadership should go to the person who pointed out the problem in the first place.

Wait a minute!

Dušan of Criamon: I was wondering actually, wouldn't dominion aura save people in churches

Mortis ex Verditus: The MR bestowed by high office means all the nobles in Rome are going to live!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: only people with true faith

Dušan of Criamon: i mean there is a limited amount of space inside churches but there are a lot of churches

Mortis ex Verditus: Auras don't confer magic resistance.

Dušan of Criamon: ah

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The MR you get for being important in society only protects you from PCs, not the bubonic plague

Lavinia of Jerbiton: maybe morits. in RAW the office protection is only for kings emperors and bishops

Joanna is safe, thank god.

Mortis ex Verditus: Well this is on you then.

Rosario of Flambeau: I think there should be a second consul everyone can see, but things seem to run pretty smoothly.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Jesus Christ be praised!

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll abstain in Consul decisions

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus is willing to buy archibald's argument about the custos of cyprian, if he's making it

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the rankings of nobility in Italy are much less formal than anywhere else so I've just been calling the most powerful people "Duke" even if they don't command a duchy

Rosario of Flambeau: Holys hit.

flips over virtual table

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: A consul that can't be seen or heard does present issues. However, there might be some way to allow a ghost to speak and be seen. I'll look into an effect like that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: we need a spirit medium

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's call powerful people Doge

Archibald of Guernicus: If so, that would solve the problem entirely

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't think a Hermetic criminal is a great consul anyway.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So we can make doge jokes when ever they appear

Guy of Bonisagus: the best leader is one you cant see or hear

Rosario of Flambeau: thats a good point fiorella.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: can't we just have her possess a grog

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the title "Doge" is specific to republics

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll put a vote up while we further discuss plans relating to miasma

Guy of Bonisagus: lets make rome a republic again

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Heavens to MRGAtryd

Mortis ex Verditus: This is what I've been saying for months!

Lavinia of Jerbiton: where should I put my token if I support a living consul but only if they are NOT mortis

Archibald of Guernicus: On the left.

It would be an election, after all.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hmm

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Fiorella votes for anarchy

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus should probably not actually vote in favor of this

Mortis ex Verditus: Uh, none of these people can vote and not even all of them are people.

Archibald of Guernicus: I think there might be some ballot rigging going on

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: on account of the ghost consul being an insane murderer who killed all of his friends.

Mortis ex Verditus: We're going to ask the other consul what she thinks.

Hmm, sounds like she's in favor of letting the grogs vote with me.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: best point for electing a new consul: mortis is a necromancer

Archibald of Guernicus: Good point

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's an EXPERT necromancer.

Guy of Bonisagus: and is about to be denied living targets for his magic

or well

Rosario of Flambeau: we should force him to join the custos of cyprian.

Guy of Bonisagus: physical ones anyway

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should.

Mortis ex Verditus: Fun fact: necromancy only works on dead people.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I don't care about who gets the title as long as they don't tell me what to do

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone certamen him

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No... someone Disputatio him!

Guy of Bonisagus: i will disputatio him

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone scuffle him

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I follow Archibald because he doesn't have insane plans or demand me apply my magic in silly ways, same with Lavinia

Dušan of Criamon: this sounds like a joke setup

Archibald of Guernicus: Potentially a tie, Fiorella and Dusan abstaining?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: in this covenant we disputatio our homies

Rosario of Flambeau: dusan, its not a joke

Dušan of Criamon: i don't agree with the raising the dead thing, but his fiscal policy is sound

Rosario of Flambeau: my last character died trying to tackle the current ghost consul into a giant pit.

Mortis ex Verditus: Technically necromancy can't raise the dead.

Dušan of Criamon: rip

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Well

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he's socially liberal and spiritually damned.

Mortis ex Verditus: It can only talk to ghosts and animate corpses.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Abstaining from politics is literally idiocy

So I suppose I vote for myself

Mortis ex Verditus: You don't even need a corpse that ever had a soul.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: You should make the Aesthetic choiec

Rosario of Flambeau: Damn, nobody trusts this ghost.

Things run so well!

I just want transparency.

Ha ha ha.

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Those who did not contribute to politics and the community were known as “Idiotes” (ΙΔΙΩΤΕΣ), originating from the word “Idios” (ΙΔΙΟΣ) which means the self

Archibald of Guernicus: "Regardless of the outcome, I will continue to listen to our, sadly, ex-consul's advice. Too few of us are from the times when we agreed to treat dead magi as we would the living, it seems."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "There's only one dead Wizard I trust."

Dušan of Criamon: These are all excellent taglines

Lavinia of Jerbiton pats a copy of the Aeneid

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The ghost hasn't given me any orders. So I approve of her leadership."

Mortis ex Verditus: "To be blunt, if the outcome of that policy is investing all power and authority in the hands of one person, it must be considered to be a failure."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's simple, Archibald. If I were consul and the covenant voted me out, I would step down."

Archibald of Guernicus: "However, naked power grabs are not in the covenant's interest. I would like ye, sodales, to put forward who you would be willing tae see as consul. You may not elect yourself."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's only sensible to hold Beatrice to the same standard."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Someone who you trust in a position over yourself."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Gulielmus."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Dusan."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i suppose that means we should PeVi beatrice, as a criminal

deserving of double death.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It is, you're right, Gulielmus. I just feel the reasoning behind it is bias against the dead. But it is the result, not the reasons, that matters here."

Mortis ex Verditus: It can't be helped.

Guy of Bonisagus: beatrice knows the parma so she has to be killed

Dušan of Criamon: "Archibald tends to say what I think, more eloquently."

Guy of Bonisagus: why dont any hedge mages just bind hermetic spirits and force them to teach the secret of the parma

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guy is right.

Guy of Bonisagus: why hasnt that happened

Dušan of Criamon: if everyone gets exactly one vote we all become republicans

Rosario of Flambeau: It probably has.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: maybe spirits can't know the parma

Rosario of Flambeau: Who's saying it hasn't happened?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: chalk it up to parma being an "Arcane Ability"

Archibald of Guernicus: "You flatter me Dusan, but if I hadnae invested a great deal of time into aiding my speech with rituals, I'd be as tongue-tied as a nervous apprentice."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Dead people have no rights, as they are mere pale reflections of the soul, which resides in Heaven or is tormented in Hell."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "How about we all get to choose a fancy title for ourselves and everyone else has to respect it?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are you some kind of tremere

Lavinia of Jerbiton: OR any hedgie who learned the parma wisely chose to keep it to themself and use it to their advantage instead of sharing it

Guy of Bonisagus: the quercus

Dušan of Criamon: i wish to be known as the executive chef of the house

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'd gladly serve any of my sodales."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Anarchy is dangerous in times like these, Fiorella. We stand on the brink of disaster, and must stand together or suffer for it. Bickering over minor titles will never help us."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I've never quite understood the hermetic obsession with titles and subfactions."

Archibald of Guernicus: I cough, and adjust my robes with abotu 20 different organisational pins attached

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "If you want to tell me what to do, invest in Mentem penetration, not intrigue."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It's the nature result of a democracy that lacks strong leadership"

Mortis ex Verditus: "I think we could do with less conservative leadership in a time of crisis. Especially ones mostly concerned with a secret agenda and murdering magi, respectively."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I turn to Fiorella. "Is he talking about me?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Guy of Bonisagus: the quercus

the quercest

Fiorella of Jerbiton shrugs

Guy of Bonisagus: eliminate the consul position and replace it with the quercus

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I don't know. Only known Mortis a few years

Mortis ex Verditus: "Don't be so hard on yourself, you aren't a consul, yet."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I vote for our newest member as a show of faith in us all."

Dušan of Criamon: "Clearly the leader should be chosen through the only reliable method that uses fate to the fullest extent: drawing straws."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's ways tae cheat at that, and should we attach ourselves firmly to a bad hand, as it were?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "That does seem to favor excluding the dead from leadership."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we had one consul, appointed by the honorable venator and serving until death, and then a second position of leadership, decided based on the position of the planets.

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what would you call it though

Rosario of Flambeau: that would be neat.

imagine.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the urchon?

Dušan of Criamon: that is perfectly in line with my ideology

Rosario of Flambeau: the ur-chon

Mortis ex Verditus: I think we should probably try an idea that isn't a proven failure.

Dušan of Criamon: the consul of hte planets

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: well its that or a runoff vote between gulielmus and dusan

Archibald of Guernicus: "Before the consul the position we used was an unofficial one. Essentially, Venator was such an absent leader we were forced tae come up with a plan for ourselves. We initially used the movement of the planets, but Aristocritus was so good at it that we stopped checking and just kept telling him he won again."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "a great man... taken before his time..."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's his sword up on the wall, you know."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea indicates the Archon's trusty short sword.

Archibald of Guernicus: "A damn fine man. He should have been the head of the covenant."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, really? It's quite nice. A little small."

Guy of Bonisagus: what vis did the vikings give

wasnt it corpus

we could make a killing

and also a killing

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Dusan and Father Hazm are both astrologers. We'd be able to corroborate results better this time around."

Mortis ex Verditus: It was a few different types.

Some of it as Corpus though.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sighs.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean "was Corpus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I wish I could have met him."

"Hey, I'm an astrologer too."

Archibald of Guernicus: "It was a great shame that ye couldnae. At this point, only Lavinia and I met the man."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "All magi need to understand the movements of the stars and planets to some degree

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Maybe we should try anonymous ballots Archibald, since I don't think anyone wants to offend their sodales directly.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i literally have the virtue, planetary magic.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Anonymous ballots are a good idea."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: everyone with points in artes liberales should respect my superiority in this matter and vote for me

Mortis ex Verditus: "Anonymous ballots? But wouldn't that lead to secretive double dealings?"

"Why, you could declare your support for one candidate and then vote for another! How could anyone trust anyone else in such a situation?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Astrology has numerous systems. Ligatures, horosocpes, Learned Magician chartae and amulets, Hermetic Divination

and Planetary Magic which I forgot about

Archibald of Guernicus: "It would be perfectly doable if someone checked each vote as it was cast, and kept a mental note of it, so that there's no tampering."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Anyone with an AL of 1 knows astrology to some degree

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Will it be a free for all?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Well, perhaps people shouldnae try and buy votes from others, then. This is someone's honest choice, free of judgement."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "So far only two names have been put forward."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Any of us would be fine in the role.

"

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Out of curiosity, who here identifies as a Guelph and who identifies as a Ghibelline?"

Archibald of Guernicus: Dusan and...?

Mortis ex Verditus: "But patronage is the foundation of any civilized society."

Guy of Bonisagus: theres no other choice. well have to have a disputatio between gulielmus and prudenzio

i voted for gulielmus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

let's bring prudenzio's warped corpse back to replace our current dead consul.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We could just operate like a standard covenant. A resolution is proposed, everyone with a voting sigil says yey or nay."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Does anyone else wish tae volunteer a candidate for the vote?"

Rosario of Flambeau: he's out there somewhere

and honestly would probably go oh man sounds great! thanks guys!

Guy of Bonisagus: mortis can enchant prudenzios corpse to occasionally say lines from our infernal lore book

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I will once I hear an answer to my question"

Guy of Bonisagus: put him in the main room as a fun decoration

Rosario of Flambeau: "I respect the church of the Pope."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Which ones were the ones that didnt want any damn political trouble that draws us in"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: guelph here.

"The Order of Hermes, I think."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: :|

Rosario of Flambeau: VT are anti-ghibbeline zealots.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we live in rome!

i'm from france!

Mortis ex Verditus: "I also support the Holy Mother Church, that's why I hope that it is one day liberated from the iron yoke of the Capets."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: smh..

Rosario of Flambeau: Honestly I just respect the Pope and the catholic church because I'm afraid of their magic powers.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: the capets died out 20 years ago

Rosario of Flambeau: *supernatural

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lets reload a save from 10 years ago so lavinia can attempt to convert gulielmus to the ghibelline cause.

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh fug.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lavinia, the protagonist of ars magica

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I tell Gulielmus about how Frederick's court in Palermo had lots of potion wizards.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait a minute wait a minute.

Guy of Bonisagus: lets reload a save from 30 years ago so we can have aristocritus and no tiber adventure

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's start over from the beginning

Archibald of Guernicus: Can't quicksave during battle

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lets break the limit of time and rewind to the canonical start date of 1220 AD

Rosario of Flambeau: I thought the code of garus meant you had to be religious but it just says to "respect the church" so i think it's more interesting that Rosario isn't personally religious in terms of lore and just thinks the divine is really tough and strong.

Let's.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: and then settle in a little ruined castle in France called Mont Mercure

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Harco invents a time portal

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's break the limit of time and change the starting date to 1950 A.D.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: anyway as I am surrounded by Guelphs I am forced to abstain from voting

Archibald of Guernicus: Let's rewind to the cannon start date of 1248

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's survive until 1488 AD

Rosario of Flambeau: Vote for me, who can be convinced to support ghibbelines

Lavinia of Jerbiton: actually

Archibald of Guernicus: the first birth of hitler

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I support those who are not afraid of treating with the mundanes."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Vote for me who votes for you

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Fiorella seems the most sensible choice."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Could be good."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then we have 3 candidates proposed. Before voting opens, any others?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "What would you give me for voting for you, Fiorella?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I am still shunned by the mundanes but I live by the Jerbiton philsophy."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I nominate Archibald."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I can't help but feel this is a waste of time. We all agree that there's work to be done, and we're sitting around arguing over who should tell us to do it."

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll make little voting strips of parchment

Mortis ex Verditus: "This is what it means to live in society, Rosario."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Let's vote now and if it's deadlocked we'll go back to the more urgent issue"

Archibald of Guernicus: "When this was laid to rest, we had someone try and sieze the covenant by a default at certamen, it has tae be settled."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "mm, I hadn't though about material incentives to vote for me. Has anyone else offered up such?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Er, I'm already consul, Gulielmus, though I appreciate the gesture."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Why not occupy both seats?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Certamen would be fun."

Rosario of Flambeau pouts

Mortis ex Verditus: "That's a low blow, Gulielmus."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I jot down my vote and put it in the jar.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Har har."

I guess theyre being whispered to me since johns did

Rosario of Flambeau: oh

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait a minute.

What if this is just a scheme to get arcane connections to all of us?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: What if.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Mortis, we'll burn the strips immediately after the vote, to set yer mind at ease."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "If you make me consul, I suppose what I can give you is autonomy. Liberty to pursue your own ends rather than being collectivized into some mad despot's ambition."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Good idea."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We're not signing our votes. It's a secret ballot."

Guy of Bonisagus: I write my vote and cast it into the Augustan Arcane Connection Jar.

Archibald of Guernicus: I place my own vote in the jar

Mortis ex Verditus: "I don't believe in the secret ballot. I'm voting for Fiorella."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I place my vote in the jar.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I've already let you all know my vote, but I want this over with."

Mortis ex Verditus: I make a big show of writing her name on a piece of parchment and put it in the jug.

Rosario of Flambeau places his vote in the jar

Archibald of Guernicus: "Dusan?"

"Ah, and Fiorella. Just yours left."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I draw a crappy picture of a bird instead of giving my signature to the jar

Rosario of Flambeau: you're legally not allowed to vote for yourself, otherwise i would have done that.

Archibald of Guernicus: You can vote for yourself

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh.

What the hell.

Archibald of Guernicus: you couldnt put yourself forward

Rosario of Flambeau: Oh.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I make the AQ of the bird drawing -1 as to purposely not make it an AC to the artist

Rosario of Flambeau: That would be rude.

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Rosario fails to clear the first hurdle of leadership.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you voted for yourself you are a noob.

Archibald of Guernicus: Anyway it needs Dusan so somoene please get him out of twilight

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Abstaining is for the idios but voting for yourself is playing smartly

Guy of Bonisagus: using aquam magic to move the ink on the ballots is playing to win

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: but seriously folks everyone should vote for the guy with enigmatic wisdom

Archibald of Guernicus: Okay. I'll read through the results and announce them

fiorella - 2

dusan - 2

gulielmus - 2

drawing of a bird - 1

archibald - 1

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmmm.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Looks like the bird is the tiebreaker for me

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: I guess we have to go with Drawing of a Bird as our new consul.

Guy of Bonisagus: the bird is clearly a vote for merlin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it is.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Fiorella, while your vote was unorthodox, it seems you're our second consul."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: theres no other way to interpret this

Fiorella of Jerbiton: (To Lavinia of Jerbiton): To be clear, I vote for myself, yes.

Rosario of Flambeau: cant believe no one trusts the Code of Garus to lead the covenant.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: (From Lavinia of Jerbiton): tell it to dys

Archibald of Guernicus: lol

Guy of Bonisagus: hold on

Fiorella of Jerbiton: So that's 3 for me if that retroactively applies

Guy of Bonisagus: lets disputatio fiorella about her vote

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: let's scuffle her

Archibald of Guernicus: I knew it but I also wrote it down that way because it was funny to have a 3-way tie and then the last 2 are a picture of a bird and dusan voting for me

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Archibald of Guernicus: That's not announcing his vote publically as he said it in discord, you all knew

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah

Archibald of Guernicus: unless you dont use it, in which case you deserve the same transparency as us all

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Congratulations, Fiorella."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Signatures are an arcane connection and everyone knows which magi is obsessed with birds here."

Mortis ex Verditus: DO we?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "If you'd rather bicker over a tie though, feel free to feign confusion."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye aye, its unambigious, if a bit whimsical for an election. But the votes are votes."

Rosario of Flambeau: "She'll be a good consul."

Archibald of Guernicus: "No no, you take the seat. We occupy an equal position in the covenant, henceforth."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Well, here's to our new consul."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Still curious about that ghost, but what can I do?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Let's let this be the last time we democratically elect a leader."

Archibald of Guernicus: "You're the one who wanted a change in leadership."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Agreed."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Sure, but I wanted it to be with a real test of ability, not this skulduggery."

"Still, it ended up alright."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Next time, let's Dimicatio for it."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Disputatio."

"We're civilized."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Fine, fine."

Rosario of Flambeau pouts some more

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What about Bellum?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, now onto the real business once more."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "How about a nice match of Nine Mens Morris?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "We need to write up an enemies' list."

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Anyway, I forget if I mentioned this before the vote but.... I was thinking about how we have an advantage in our vis being safely behind our aegis.. Other covenants who are accustomed to large Magical Aura may have moved their vis outside the aegis."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Gulielmus proposes a civic duty, as it were. Creating vim vis through extraction, tae power aegis' within the city."

"Yer not suggesting the theft of these pawns, are ye/"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "What if we sold promisory notes for vis?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "It could be a good idea."

"After all, we're going to put this vis to good use."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "No, I'm suggesting that wizard's war could be one solution to keeping afloat."

"It's what Tytalus would do in this situation."

Guy of Bonisagus: magic of peace my ass

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's an awful idea!"

"We should never do anything Tytalus would have done."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Wizard's war? Who would we bully? We're one of the smallest covenants of the tribunal."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We should also retain the services of mercenaries to defend any magical sanctuaries we erect."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I hope we shouldn't have to War people over this. We should be coming together as a tribunal, not acting as highwaymen."

"Save that for personal insults and matters of pride."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I liked the idea of taking out loans we will not have to pay back, though."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the stuff about beings of might suffering in the blight isnt on the wiki page

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "It needn't be in Italy.. No one would object to us warring the magi in Normandy for instance."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Moneylenders are about the most despicable of mundanes to begin with."

Rosario of Flambeau: "That's too smart for me. If you think loans will work, I support it.

"

Mortis ex Verditus: "If they die we can just take their money, we wouldn't need to bother with the charade of borrowing it."

"Unless you have an idea of what to do with the money before they die."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Well some noble with his goons have just as much the ability to loot the dead as us at that point."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Just make sure you don't borrow from someone with true faith."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Loans would let us loot the dead before they die,w ithout competiton."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Ha ha ha! A fine joke."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Furthermore, we should have some of these shelters against the miasma funded, more than anything we need tae get through this mess in a good state."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Nobody with the True Gift would be a usurer."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "So if I understand the plans for the coming seasons... Archibald and Rosario are working on their longevity rituals, Gulielmus and Fiorella each had ideas for manipulating the miasma.."

Guy of Bonisagus: Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Wizard's war? Who would we bully? We're one of the smallest covenants of the tribunal."

we have more wizards than any other covenant

Lavinia of Jerbiton: lol

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Some Jews have the ability to create things like automatons, though they are considered a bit heretical amongst their own kind as I hear it."

Mortis ex Verditus: But, BUT we also suffer from a lack of trust.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Sort of like Lavinia?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye. I might be in good health, but I turn 52 soon. I cannae hope for the best regarding a ritual that might not be doable for another few decades or more."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "So they wouldn't be completley out of the loop in regards tomagic, if it were true."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, my enchantment won't be necessary. Fiorella can finish hers in half the time."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let me figure out how many charges it would have as an item

Lavinia of Jerbiton:

rolling 1d10+2+3 divine lore

(

8

)

+2+3

=

13

"The 'automatons' the Jews create are nothing like the works of Virgil... There is the breath of the divine, and perhaps even a soul in them, according to some accounts."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

We should definitely hire mercenaries.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Mere mortals tampering with such forces seems wrong to me.."

We'll hire the Malatestas as they are mercenaries and like us.

Guy of Bonisagus: ill make a pilum of fire

moe: back, hopefully

Guy of Bonisagus: i need 3 seasons

Rosario of Flambeau: "It takes some power to bind the Divine. These Jews are clever."

Good job, Guy.

Mortis ex Verditus: Check page 104 for mercenary prices.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Who will we invite to these sanctuaries you set up? We can't fit the entire city in there afterall"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I suppose we'll do it by lottery."

Mortis ex Verditus: "We should invite tradesmen and the poor."

"And our mercenaries, of course."

Archibald of Guernicus: "We should invite those who are useful, those who have treated us well, and those who are innocent and good."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Perhaps more fair than the lottery. I can support that."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "Perhaps each of us should draw up a list on our own and when we reconvene we can compare.. ?"

Mortis ex Verditus: We should also conduct a survey of the armed forces under the command of the local nobility, to ensure that we hire sufficient mercenary troops to defend our sanctuaries.

Archibald of Guernicus: How will the people in the sanctuaries eat?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: We'll bring them food

Sir Oak can do it

Mortis ex Verditus: We'd need a better solution than that.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "I know plenty of academics and artists who should be saved... Certain Hedge Wizards from the Conti's court could be useful.. The Annibaldi and the Colonna would be excellent allies..."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Bellows of the Featherwind

Muto Auram (Animal Corpus) 4

Pen +0, 24 uses/day

R: Touch, D: Moon, T: Ind

Transforms an individual of corpus blight miasma into a large bird feather, as its drawn into the bellows. The feather can be transported out to a remote location so that few are harmed when the spell ends.

(Base 4, +1 Touch, +3 Moon)

Fiorella of Jerbiton: That's 25, not level 4

Mortis ex Verditus: I think I might be able to create an item that can raise a lot of corpses, which we could then use to collect and distribute food.

What happened to enchanted devices during the Herbam Blight?

Archibald of Guernicus: Nothing whatsoever

iirc

Rosario of Flambeau: "It would be a good opportunity to patch things up with Literatus."

Lavinia of Jerbiton: "The University of Salerno in its entirety too."

Rosario of Flambeau: "We have better things to worry about than Warring each other."

Archibald of Guernicus: That's why these seasons are a good time to hurriedly invent devices to cover stuff we dont want to lose

Mortis ex Verditus: I know Sir Oak got sick, but he's also a magic creature.

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah hes an exception

devices were fine

it was a big deal that devices were fine, even

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if you had a device made of living wood it would be in trouble probably.

Rosario of Flambeau: Honestly, hold on.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: so everyone set aside your plans to enchant a living human arm

Rosario of Flambeau: if, say

the Vim blight is next, does that affect enchanted devices?

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No.

The idea here is that the Vis used to create the enchanted device fuels its power.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's very convenient then.

Mortis ex Verditus: A Vim blight sounds like it would destroy all magic.

So we should definitely head this disaster off at the pass before then.

Rosario of Flambeau: even a Vim miasma contacting a device wouldn't do anything?

that's actually really useful re: devices

Lavinia of Jerbiton: No, disenchanting items is a ritual effect

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

johns (GM): whenever you guys want to take a break from the current discussion, we can skip ahead timewise to when the rest of the Order of Hermes starts to react.

but don't let me rush you.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are we all spending a season extracting vim

Mortis ex Verditus: How many men at arms do the Malatestas have?

Dušan of Criamon: i've no skin in this debate

save the useful contacts, give free spaces to the apt if there are any

Archibald of Guernicus: I think our general plan of action is sorted

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are we all spending a season extracting vim

Archibald of Guernicus: If I have time. Otherwise, no.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

johns (GM): I think it's a bad idea

I mean

Mortis ex Verditus: You can't extract that much vis.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: I think it's a bad idea

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we can get like 18 pawns probably.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: Yeah but we all have better things to be doing

Mortis ex Verditus: Also I need some vim vis set aside so I can make the enchanted device that saves the city.

Guy of Bonisagus: my next 3 seasons are reading the ignem book and making pilum

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ok. i'm going to take 6 pawns of vis for my talisman.

Lavinia of Jerbiton: If you're going to make a greater enchantment Mortis you should use Malach's shovel which is already opened with a ton of vis

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, maybe.

Archibald of Guernicus: yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: Did he ever put anything in it?

Archibald of Guernicus: use the shovel

johns (GM): Anyway

Archibald of Guernicus: no lol

Dušan of Criamon: i shall help in whicheer way i can

Mortis ex Verditus: Sounds good to me!

Archibald of Guernicus: he just wasted a ton of vis and then killed himself

johns (GM): About 10 days pass

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait how much vis is in it?

johns (GM): 12 pawns iirc? check the wiki loot page

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah, 12

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol.

Mortis ex Verditus: 12 should be plenty.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: casual 120 levels of effects

johns (GM): In the middle of the day you all hear a tremendously loud crashing noise come from above the tavern, and the whole building shakes.

Rosario of Flambeau: bialas' cloak also has 12 pawns but its sized for a giant and has 3 or 4 wasted for enchantments that detect if you're a bear or not.

so its useless and we should just dismantle it.

johns (GM): lol

Mortis ex Verditus: A giant sized cloak is just a blanket.

johns (GM): you can't dismantle items for vis without a special verditius mystery

Rosario of Flambeau: lets sell it to verdi then

Mortis ex Verditus: I have two (or three) other mysteries I want to pursue.

johns (GM): Shortly after the crash can be heard a murmur of excitement out in the street.

Rosario of Flambeau: I run outside.

Mortis ex Verditus: Repairing items, Canaanite Necromancy, and Verditus Runes if nobody is smart enough to forbid them.

I'll take a look outside.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I think I'm done figuring out the bellows so I'm ready to see what the crash is

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Guy of Bonisagus: i look up from reading ars flambonis in the tavern

johns (GM): Just realized now we don't have any good art of the outside of our lair.

Anyway, use your imagination for this scene: A giant Roc, its wingspan around 10 meters long, has perched atop Fiorella's aerie, whose roof is starting to buckle.

Dušan of Criamon: I thought it more pastoral

ruburban even

johns (GM): It should be

Dušan of Criamon: No! Not the observatory!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea rushes outside.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hey now! Get away from there!"

Rosario of Flambeau: I draw my sword in a dramatic fashion.

johns (GM): An old man with a gray bushy beard in robes is standing in front of your tavern, holding a satchel full of letters. He is asking in Latin to the confused onlookers where he can find Vardian's Tomb.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I cast my spell to talk to birds

johns (GM): With exasperation he gets little response from the non-literate city dwellers.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Is that your bird, sir?"

Dušan of Criamon: Ah! One of us!

Rosario of Flambeau: I say, in Latin.

Archibald of Guernicus: "In here, in here." I call the man in, in latin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Shoo! Shoo!"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Greetings,"I say to the rukh

johns (GM): The Roc asks Fiorella who the funny frenchman shooing it is. The frenchman looks tasty.

Agothos of Bonisagus enters tavern

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Please don't eat him. Or anyone else in Rome. If it's not too much to ask."

Rosario of Flambeau: I guess it's not his bird and I can kill it.

Mortis ex Verditus: That's actually a tiny roc.

Agothos of Bonisagus: He unfurls a scroll dramatically and reads out to basically everyone in the room in loud Latin

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus shouts in Arabic.

"Go find some other tower to perch on!"

Agothos of Bonisagus: "This is the covenant of Vardian's Tomb, of the Roman Tribunal, leaded by the princeps Venator of Ex Miscellanea?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Venator left a number of years ago."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Basically."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Perhaps it's a familiar."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Close enough."

Agothos of Bonisagus: those with second sight can observe something

"No Venator?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'm going to go find Celeste and get her to shoot this thing down so I can kill it."

Guy of Bonisagus: an old bonisagus guy huh

Agothos of Bonisagus grumbles to himself

Guy of Bonisagus: do i recognize him

Agothos of Bonisagus: Do you have any OoH lore?

or even better, house lore

Rosario of Flambeau: I go inside.

Guy of Bonisagus:  looks up from spending seasons on awareness  no

Dušan of Criamon: So I shall!

Rosario of Flambeau: order of hermes lore, you say?

Mortis ex Verditus: I don't have any of those lores.

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+4 second sight

(

2

)

+4

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: I have one whole point in it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: one of the things i liked about mythic places is whenever it calls for a lore roll it says, if you're in this house you get +1 to your roll, if you have this virtue you get +3

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+1

(

6

)

+1

=

7

Archibald of Guernicus:

(To GM) rolling 1d10+38 vs 30, pen 5 on top of it

(

5

)

+38

=

43

Agothos of Bonisagus: He utters, "correctiamus," and moves his finger across the parchment, magically erasing a line of text and leaving a flurry of sparks as he does.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's Wizard War this high fantasy magus.

Agothos of Bonisagus: Dusan can see the mythic Cords that bind this man to his Roc.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ruq.

Archibald of Guernicus: oh, second sight

rolling 1d10!+3+2

(

7

)

+3+2

=

12

Rosario of Flambeau: "Has anyone seen Celeste? If she can shoot that bird down I don't have to climb the tower."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The roc is intelligent."

"Probably a familiar."

Guy of Bonisagus: its a harry potter wizard

Archibald of Guernicus: "Hold on, hold on. Yes, Fiorella, it's his familiar."

Dušan of Criamon: "Let us first hear what this man and his bird have to say to us!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh."

Guy of Bonisagus: hes saying harry potter words

Rosario of Flambeau: "I didn't know it was his bird."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Excues me, can ye please introduce yourself?"

Dušan of Criamon: "Or the other way around"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Hey, your bird is damaging our roof."

Rosario of Flambeau: "He'd better pay for the damages to the aerie!"

Agothos of Bonisagus: "Vardian's Tomb. You are hereby notified: The council of Durenmar has called a Grand Tribunal of the entire Order of Hermes. All Magi, regardless of age, gild, or lineage, are invented to attend, on the night of the full moon in August."

"Eh?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It should become obvous within a few moments of conversation that a bird has Intelligence instead of Cunning

Mortis ex Verditus: "Fantastic."

Agothos of Bonisagus: "I'm Agothos of Bonisagus, of the Rhine. And I've got a long route ahead of me. Do you have any questions?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Thank the council for recognizing my genius for me, will you?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "I was expecting something like that. We should be there early."

Guy of Bonisagus: august huh

ok someone get me a portable lab

Agothos of Bonisagus: He blinks at Mortis. "Who are you again?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Why did they send a Bonisagus instead of a redcap?"

Mortis ex Verditus: I direct Carina to shake his hand.

Agothos of Bonisagus looks annoyed at Fiorella's question, and ignored Carina

Mortis ex Verditus: "Mortis of Verditus, the savior of Rome."

Archibald of Guernicus: "A grand tribunal, aye I can see why. Thank ye for letting us know, we'll ensure every magus in the covenant is aware."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Magi of his age do tend to get a little forgetful about the details."

Agothos of Bonisagus: "Good, see to it. Here," and he hands you the scroll he has just read from.

"Then if there's nothing else I must finish my route."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Don't let me keep you."

Agothos of Bonisagus exit

Mortis ex Verditus: Exeunt.

Guy of Bonisagus: farewell

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Farewell.

Agothos of Bonisagus: Only if he were plural.

Mortis ex Verditus: He is.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Flashy for a Bonisagus, weren't he?"

Mortis ex Verditus: It's him and his familiar.

Rosario of Flambeau: "He's definitely not going to pay for the aerie."

Dušan of Criamon: I survey the damage committed to the tower

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go calm down the birds in the aerie

Rosario of Flambeau: "Son of a bitch."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Wow! A real Bonisagus archmage."

Agothos of Bonisagus: Nothing major.

johns (GM): that a carpenter can't fix.

Mortis ex Verditus: What does the scroll say?

Anything extra?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "A roc for a familiar. Interesting idea, though Lammargeier is the official Jeribton raptor."

Mortis ex Verditus: Ruq.

johns (GM): Nope, just that everyone's invited, it's at Durenmar, and it's in August, and it concerns the Great Blight.

Guy of Bonisagus: "There is no finer bird than the bee."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's a roc as he's a high fantasy wizard

Dušan of Criamon: how far away is august?

Rosario of Flambeau: Sounds like it's pretty important.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: He found it while exploring the Forgotten Realms

johns (GM): Should it have been a hippogriff instead?

Dušan of Criamon: Is this a ploy to get us to travel north while we should be making preparations?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It should

Dušan of Criamon: this is revenge for the lent/olive oil thin

johns (GM): You needn't all attend, or if you like, none of you can attend and just wait to get the minutes later.

Mortis ex Verditus: How long will it take us to travel to Durenmar if we do it without magic?

Rosario of Flambeau: im going to attend

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "We should still have arcane connectoins to the Garden in the Rhine, if COrpus magic still works

johns (GM): hmm let me check on google maps

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh, it's only 14 feet away.

That isn't too bad.

johns (GM): how old is our garden ac?

Rosario of Flambeau: if you go through the garden its going to be filled with generic bjornaer who are surprised to see you

Dušan of Criamon: Actually, since I'm not super good at lab stuff, I might be the optimal choice for the Duremar mission

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Have the generic bjornaer put up an aegis?

Dušan of Criamon: then again, not great at other stuff either

Rosario of Flambeau: i would imagine they have by now since its their property, but idk

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Mortis ex Verditus: As a necromancer, I'm the obvious choice to go to Durenmar.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can travel via Wizard's Mount

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: as a disgusting hedge mage I am the obvious choice.

Rosario of Flambeau: i didnt know we had a fixed ac to the garden tbh

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: excuse me.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's not fixed

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: im noticing a very important landmark is not on the map.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: But you can teleport to all your ACs to ge ta fresh one every year

johns (GM): Google maps says Rome to Black Forest is 1,044 km

Guy of Bonisagus: me too

wheres Aristocritus Field?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Why wouldn't you freshen your ACs every season or so?

Fixed ACs are mostly for people you expect to be a problem

johns (GM): c&g says basic road travel maxes out at 25 miles per day

Guy of Bonisagus: nice

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll use the magical boots we found.

Guy of Bonisagus: against my better judgement ill go

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If Mortis wants to go to Durenmar that badly and given up a season of labwork then I'll let him be our representative

johns (GM): sooo 25 days each way.

if you go on foot.

with no magic.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We can ride horses

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: easy.

johns (GM): Mounted merchants carrying

light loads, by packhorse, travel

perhaps 24 miles per day.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can summon infinite horses who aren't botehred by teh gift

johns (GM): (c&g)

Mortis ex Verditus: I bet it would be longer than that since we'd need to cross the alps.

Dušan of Criamon: why would we go on foot without magic

unless we're hermits

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Not all of us can fly or teleport

Rosario of Flambeau: i should really learn wizard travel spells.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah lemme just... walk

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if we take a boat to venice or genoa.

Archibald of Guernicus laughs while teleporting

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll fly there

Dušan of Criamon: we could ride to ancona, get a boat, ride from venice

johns (GM): venice would not save time since you have to go all the way around the peninsula, let me calculate rome -> genoa -> black forest

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we could have our bird fly there and fetch an arcane connection.

johns (GM): regardless of your route, by mundane travel, it's a seasonal distraction.

Rosario of Flambeau: i'll put a season towards going because I freakin' wanna.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can go get an AC for everyone who can teleport

Provided corpus magic works right now

johns (GM): it does.

Rosario of Flambeau: so that's 2 seasons helping archibald and 1 going to the tribunal.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

Our teleporters are me and Gul IIRC

Mortis ex Verditus: What about with the Shoe of Swift Flight?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Lavinia has an item for flying

Mortis ex Verditus: That can go 1200 paces a day.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: archibald can teleport everyone, i think.

Mortis ex Verditus: I guess that isn't that much.

Dušan of Criamon: someone should enchant a bunch of teleporters for the covenant

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I can make the long trip and my familiar can protect me from hawks

johns (GM): good teleporters are a mercere secret annoyingly

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's kidnap a Mercere.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Oh

johns (GM): Let's

Dušan of Criamon: or at least nice shoes

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We could just pay Harco to let us use their portal

1 vis per head

johns (GM): Oh duhhhhhhhh I totally forgot mercere portals

lol

Rosario of Flambeau: i should invent a spell that turns my legs into unnatural horse legs that let me run faster than a horse.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, that might be the way to go.

Rosario of Flambeau: thats thinking with magic.

Mortis ex Verditus: Then we can take an entourage.

Dušan of Criamon: we all scream in terror every time parts of your body twist and change into unnatural limbs

Archibald of Guernicus: People are definitely going to be arriving by portal

a lot of magi

Rosario of Flambeau: yeah

damn why do we let one house control all this shit again

johns (GM): ((( one house )))

Dušan of Criamon: checks and balances

a well balanced breakfast

Guy of Bonisagus: you know whatd be funny

having the corpus spell failure happen right after grand tribunal

johns (GM): lol

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM) makes a note

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

we should fix an ac to harco.

although i guess now there is no point.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hermes portals are Rego Terram.

I mean Mercere portals.

johns (GM): Ok, who wishes to travel to  Durenmar  ?

Mortis ex Verditus: I do!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: I will.

Guy of Bonisagus: i will go

Dušan of Criamon: I shall

Rosario of Flambeau: Same.

Dušan of Criamon: Should we take grogs?

Rosario of Flambeau: also, I shall be taking a 10m break to make more tea and get a snack.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go, it's free forme since I take the cloak of black feathers express

Rosario of Flambeau: brb sry

johns (GM): np

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10

(

2

)

=

2

fiorella has been killed by an ice storm while crossing the alps

johns (GM): in August?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Strange weather.

johns (GM): must be the work of a malevolent wizard.

Guy of Bonisagus: must have been the wind

said while looking at corpse of someone pushed off a cliff by wind

johns (GM): important to consider, is the freak hailstorm of Black Monday a work of the divine, infernal, Hermetic, Augustan, or Muspelli?

Mortis ex Verditus: How much does each grog cost to bring through the portal?

Dušan of Criamon: actually, on the way back I'd almost be inclined to visit the cave of twisting shadows

Mortis ex Verditus: Muspelli.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it was produced by the forces of Reason.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: 1 vis, Mortis

Guy of Bonisagus: its too strong to be a work of the augustans

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I advise us not to pay for an army of grogs to use the portal but as the vis is communal I can't stop you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if fiorella is actually going to bring an ac back i'll wait for her and save a pawn.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

johns (GM): its not specified in the book but I feel that grogs should not cost money

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I will bring an AC back for Gul with my own teleport

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the thumbs up emoji.

johns (GM): what magus doesn't travel without grogs and servants

Mortis ex Verditus: Seems fair.

(And just!)

johns (GM): is Archibald going as well?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I suppose Aurora might let grogs ride for free

Dušan of Criamon: i have never developed my grogs well enough to be truly interesting so i shan't take any

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+26+3+3+1

(

10

)

+26+3+3+1

=

43

Archibald of Guernicus: Yeah, I'm teleporting there

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i have successfully cast the spell

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I've lost all faith in the Order if I need grog protection at Durenmar

johns (GM): Excellent.

So basically, all the wizards are going, leaving Lavinia in charge and unmonitored in your absence.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yes.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: She's very trustworthy.

Dušan of Criamon: Good luck Lavinia!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my lab is warded.

but also i trust lavinia.

johns (GM): Those of you who get to Harco -- first taking a boat up to Genoa, then walking about a week -- find that House Mercere is waiving the portal fee for this momentous occasion.

Archibald of Guernicus: Lavinia isn't coming to a grand tribunal?

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice.

johns (GM): Lavinia feels that someone of her lineage is probably not welcome.

Thus by teleporting, flying, or portal, eventually you all end up in the Black Forest -- or what's left of it -- an expanse of dead pine trees

Dušan of Criamon: Those Mercere seem truly selfless christians

bless their hearts

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's all join a Rhine Gild while we're here

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what about the Orchard

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm joining Hufflepuff Gild

johns (GM): There is a small guardpost in the valley leading to Durenmar, where the well trained covenfolk lead you into the covenant proper..

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: thank you

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea is thoroughly impressed by the covenant.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Wow! Who would have ever thought I would set foot in Durenmar?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

"It's about time, frankly."

johns (GM): The oldest and greatest of all covenants in the Order of Hermes has seen better days. Some of its famous sights have been destroyed by the blight, and the glasshouse is a wreck, its many panes smashed.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I go hobnob with Jerbies

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh hey it's Enki.

Archibald of Guernicus: "It's an honour, truly."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh hey it's diarmuid.

Mortis ex Verditus: Oh hey it's Bonfillia.

Archibald of Guernicus: OH my god. That's bonfilia's music.

johns (GM): At the moment, the tranquility of the valley is disturbed by almost one hundred magicians, their servants, grogs, scribes, and other servants. Colorful tents, houses, even makeshift towers dot the covenant's fields as the magi have made camp.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: and Quercus.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Greetings, Bonfillia

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll tug my collar nervously when I notice Bonfilia is still here

johns (GM): Among the throngs of activity you may recognize some familiar faces!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: it's fried fuchs.

Dušan of Criamon: all the magi come in with everything for a HUGE party

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: did you mean to add aleseta's token, and accidentally add bonfilia's instead

johns (GM): I added both of them.

Aleseta lives at Durenmar.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll ask Enki about the next Contest.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh there she is.

"Salve, Renard."

Enki of Verditius: Enki slaps Mortis on the shoulder with familiarity.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aleseta, it's been decades. How have things been treating you at Durenmar?"

Enki of Verditius: "If you're going into the contest you'll do well this year. Most of us have no time -- so many contracts, I'm backed up for years!"

Dušan of Criamon: I look around to see if my (skilled parens) parens is around, but as a hermit he probably isn't invited anyway

Aleseta: "I've been well, sodalis, I suppose... Well truthfully, I've had no luck getting my work on the Mercurian rituals published.."

Mortis ex Verditus: "There has never been a better time to sell magic items then when the prestidigitators can't twiddle their fingers hard enough."

I don't mention that I have had no commissions at all.

Renard: "Gulielmus! My protege! This is perfect. You and I have so much to discuss."

Guy of Bonisagus: alesetas houserules

Archibald of Guernicus: "Still untranslated? I've been working on them myself, I managed tae translate the ritual that creates a regio entrance. An effect unseen in hermetic magic! Perhaps integratable, but I'll need tae finish my translations of them to see for sure."

johns (GM): Enki advises Mortis to get himself a good venditore and to reach out to other Magi, and to mark up his prices as much as possible.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I do my shopping at K Mart

Rosario of Flambeau: I go bragging about the stuff I killed to the Flambeau present, and don't mention that one of them was an old man in a toga.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Kifaaya Mart

Aleseta: "I was doing well on my own when I thought it wise to bring in someone with experience in Mercurian magic to review my work. We were going to publish in the next folio when suddenly polemics came from left and right denouncing the rituals as hoaxes!"

Dušan of Criamon: I will take the social retard way out and eavesdrop on conversations

johns (GM): Rosario finds himself in a posse of grogs from Castra Solis, all exceptionally well trained, and the Prima, Zela of Flambeau.

Rosario of Flambeau: I take a knee and bow.

Mortis ex Verditus: The great thing about markups is that you're limited to a 100% markup but many magi are bad at math.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i ask Renard if he thinks a demon is behind the blights

Rosario of Flambeau: "Primus Zela!"

Guy of Bonisagus: i look for free magic items and books

Dušan of Criamon: the savvy conference-goer

Archibald of Guernicus: "The politics of research... such a shame we lost our Trianoma, I'm sure Aristocritus would have helped find out the truth."

johns (GM): The Prima bids Rosario to go on about the magic statue he slew.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: she wouldnt even let me annotate her texts.

Guy of Bonisagus: its the grand tribunal, you never know when youll find someone handing out free summas or tracts to gain prestige

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We have spare spell texts to sell

johns (GM): Renard presses Gulielmus for information about the Order of Suleiman.

Rosario of Flambeau has a look in his eye of an obsessive fan or a devoted child, or both.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll ask around if anyone has heard anything about Damhan-Allaidh recently.

Since he might be the cause of all of this.

Potentially.

Rosario of Flambeau: "It was a very mighty demon indeed. And didn't even ding up my sword!"

johns (GM): Everyone regards the question as absurd. He's dead, didn't you hear?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Luckily, I have able and trustworthy sodales."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Well at least he doesn't have any other agents.

johns (GM): In fact you run into a Hibernian magus who seems an expert in the Spider War and gladly talks your ear off about it. Not many people seem to care, last person to ask was some Roman redcap and that was maybe 15 years ago? Anyway, it all began....

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll ask around if there are any cool Jerbiton leagues worth joining active

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus is eager to share his newfound knowledge.

speaking of muslims, are there any members of the green cockerel around

johns (GM): Make a ... Comm + Intrigue check, Fiorella!

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmmm.

johns (GM):  Absolutamente  Gulielmus. They're wondering when you'll take the plunge to level up to the next tier.

Fiorella of Jerbiton:

rolling d10!+1

(

2

)

+1

=

3

Rosario of Flambeau: "While I'm here, um, Zela, I'd like to ask you something. Have any magi gone on expedition into the magic realm itself over this blight? I would be honored to risk my life doing so for the Order, of course, is why I ask, and, well, you know me, always trying to do the right thing, ha ha"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll make that a 6 if it'd help

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i forget the requirements

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "... and that was the battle of the shaded glen -- Christ be praised, it still gives me chills to think of it. Why do you ask about him, by the way?"

you need to give up your property and mundane attachments.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hm.

this is the ideal time to stop offering magical and medical services.

Zela of Flambeau: "To the realm itself? A task more fit for a Criamon I think. Our battlefield is closer at hand -- but you will see once the presentations begin."

Mortis ex Verditus: "There have been some rumors circulating that he had found some method of cheating death and survived until this age, but I didn't put much stock in them."

"Still, it never hurts to check up on a possible enemy of the Order, eh?"

Máel-ruanaid an Doire falls silent for awhile and tugs at his hood nervously

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "You know.."

"Pralix herself was never convinced that he was gone for good.."

"She set up several covenants as bastions to watch for his return.. Most everyone regarded it as poppycock and they sputtered out not long after the war..."

Guy of Bonisagus: failix

Dušan of Criamon: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus complains to Renard about 3/4 of his spell list being wiped out by the blight.

Aleseta: Meanwhile, Aleseta commiserates with Archibald about tribunal politics.

Mortis ex Verditus: "Do you think this crysis is within the power of the Spider to create?"

Guy of Bonisagus: if theres an animal blight i will hurl a pilum at lavinia

Rosario of Flambeau: "Ah, I see, yes. I await your plan with excitement."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay, EF6 Intrigue only lets you find out a specific person's political bias, I don't think it's enough to generate plot hooks

Rosario of Flambeau kneels for a moment again and excuses himself.

Renard: "The divine giveth and taketh, Gulielmus. You may have to start anew but you have something no one else in the order has. You've been behind enemy lines! You know them better than Flambeau's greatest tacticians."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Look at that! That necromancer that assaulted us in normany, walking into a tribunal like it's nothing. Hmph. Bloody lunatics out there."

"Always harassing Venator, too."

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "He was.. or is.. Let me hope to say, 'was,' a master of many styles of magic. Pralix encountered elementalists, necromancers, rune wizards, druids, and so on in the war... But her records don't say which the Spider was -- perhaps all of them."

"Could he have a power like this..? We have no way to know.. But he'd be hurting himself too to destroy magic like this.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Surely you don't think they're behind the blights?"

Mortis ex Verditus: "Not if he drew his power from a protected source. He would eliminate all his enemies and be able to establish himself as the master of magic."

Renard: "Maybe -- they tamper with powerful beings you know. Some of them Infernal to boot."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: horrifying!

Rosario of Flambeau: I wander into the conversation after spotting Renard.

Renard: "I hear they can access the Realm of Magic directly. Is it true?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Oh, salve, Rosario."

Guy of Bonisagus: retard

Mortis ex Verditus: We should invite Diarmuid to the covenant.

You know, bury the hatchet.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+2+2 oos lore and int

(

10

+

4

)

+2+2

=

18

yikes

Rosario of Flambeau: "Even if they're not responsible, they might know something useful. We should encourage the Order of Suleiman to merge with our own."

Dušan of Criamon: I perk up at mention of venturing into the realm of magic itself"

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "Talking with you makes me consider some things... Let's meet up here at the same time tomorrow.. I need to read over my summae to confirm something."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Salve Guillaume, Renard. How's hunting, my friend?"

Renard of Flambeau: "Merge?!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "It's OR die, Renard, not AND die."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: In the year 1488, the wizards of Ultima Thule will take over

Mortis ex Verditus: "Certainly. This gives me time to convene with my learned colleagues about this new information."

Renard of Flambeau: "Rosario, if you weren't at least 20 years my junior I'd throw down the gauntlet right here and beat you like a whelp."

Rosario of Flambeau: "How about a friendly sword duel?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh.

Certamen!

Let's do it!

Renard of Flambeau checks quickly to see if Renard has stats

Guy of Bonisagus: d i s p u t a t i o

Mortis ex Verditus: It's two Flambeau.

Renard of Flambeau: "Mano e mano, no magic?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Please, Renard, Rosario, if this grand tribunal is going to descend into a brawl, wait for someone else to start it."

Mortis ex Verditus: It's either Certamen or they carve each other like roasts.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "As a favor to your dear sodalis, Guillaume."

Guy of Bonisagus: guillame

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they should play Bellum.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Yes, of course. There we stand on even ground, correct? Why, your rituals keep you spry as a man my age."

Renard of Flambeau: "Hoh hoh!"

"You'll find I've healed up nicely since the last time we met. Now, shall we go to first blood or to 10 ripostes?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: someone with ooh lore should demand that the trianoma throw open their secret tome detailing every vis source in europe, causing a riot

wizard riot.

Rosario of Flambeau: "First blood, let's keep it civil."

Guy of Bonisagus: someone with perdo corpus should throw open some trianomae skulls

Renard of Flambeau: Very well.

I borrow the stats of a landed knight from one of the adventure books and step into the arena wielding a longsword and heater shield.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

I will arm myself as usual.

Archibald of Guernicus: I put on my robe and wizard hat

Fiorella of Jerbiton: There's a melee flambeau in Magi of Hermes

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: By Allah, you people are dogs.

Rosario of Flambeau: This is totally normal and friendly for Flambeau.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Excuse me, I think one of Vardian's Tomb's younger members is duelling over there."

Renard of Flambeau: Meanwhile. Dusan moseys about trying to pick up conversation. Any topic in particular interest him?

rolling 1d10!+4 Initiative

(

1

)

+4

=

5

Dušan of Criamon: I feel it would be in Criamon tradition to begin selling stadium snacks

Guy of Bonisagus: it would, in fact, not be

giving away stadium snacks, however

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if the snacks are onion rings

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!-1+2

(

8

)

-1+2

=

9

Mortis ex Verditus: Do we have any other potential culprits besides Damhan-Allaidh?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the caliph

Rosario of Flambeau: -1 for encumbrance

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: God

Renard of Flambeau: You hear that tomorrow, multiple Prima are going to give presentations about what they think the solution to the problem is.

Archibald of Guernicus: damhan-allaidh is our bet, yeah

Guy of Bonisagus: Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: God

Rosario of Flambeau: as I go first, I will use Exertion.

rolling 1d10!+18+10

(

10

+

4

)

+18+10

=

42

Renard of Flambeau: gah

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Renard of Flambeau: i uhhhh also will exert. lol.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Dušan of Criamon: could this be, the famed short encounter

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+15+9

(

2

)

+15+9

=

26

Rosario of Flambeau: that is your right.

Renard of Flambeau: and uhhh spend 2 conf points

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll find a Flambeau animal specialist somedya to be my buddy

Rosario of Flambeau: i will spend the 1 i have.

Renard of Flambeau: what's the damage on your sword

Rosario of Flambeau: +9

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: murderation.

Renard of Flambeau:

rolling 42+9+3-26-6-13

42+9+3-26-6-13

=

9

that's a medium wound

"Gah!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh my god, I've gone too far!"

Archibald of Guernicus: Dema flambeau wanna pumpum wit a six foot sword badman.

Renard of Flambeau: "No, no..."

Archibald of Guernicus: "And he's winning, by jove..."

Renard of Flambeau: "Just... find a Corpus specialist to bind me up, please.."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea rushes to assist Renard.

Archibald of Guernicus: All the corpus specialists are too busy in a tent crying together

Rosario of Flambeau: "I was lucky."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Make way, make way, I'm an apothecary."

Rosario of Flambeau winks at the crowd

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whats the aura like here

Renard of Flambeau: "Ah, Gulielmus. Help me back to my tent. I am glad you got to see that and learn a valuable lesson about overconfidence... Exactly what I meant to teach you, of course.."

Magic 7. Also you have all been given Aegis tokens.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i cast Bind Wounds.

Archibald of Guernicus: I cast magic missile

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+25+7+3

(

5

)

+25+7+3

=

40

this man's wounds have been extremely bound. unless he left his parma up

in which case i will calculate penetration

Rosario of Flambeau: that technically doesn't give me any Acclaim points, but it was very satisfying.

Unless I can take 2 for the equivalent of beating a senior magus at Certamen.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: penetration is 32.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea helps Renard to his tent.

johns (GM): You get a rousing three cheers from the turb of Castra Solis.

Mortis ex Verditus: I mean it wasn't certamen.

Rosario of Flambeau: It wasn't.

johns (GM): brb 30 s

Dušan of Criamon: I gesture to get the covenant's attention

Archibald of Guernicus: "Ah, Dusan. Sorry, catching up with old friends. What is it?"

Dušan of Criamon: whispered: "Looks like the roman tribunal folks unhappy with the way this tribunal will be conducted. That is all."

I gesture for everyone to pretend I said nothing of import

Renard of Flambeau: "Gulielmus. That bit about the Suleimans and the realm of magic is true, isn't it?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Shit, are they going right ahead with some fool notion and ignoring all we put forward?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Dusan, did you see that chop? You would think Renard wasn't even holding that shield!"

Renard of Flambeau: what are you putting forward, and to whom'st

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: do i know anything about this. i rolled 18 on oos lore above

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I will follow the path of my Jerbiton buddies rather than some Roman deal.

Renard of Flambeau: oh

the answer is yes afiak

Dušan of Criamon: "I don't know, just organized grumbling. Enki, Heliste, et al."

"Powerful Rosario! A feat worthy of a ballad."

Renard of Flambeau: ah here we go, cradle and crescent p 58

Archibald of Guernicus: "Helliste would start an argument about her poor treatment in an empty room."

Renard of Flambeau: Suleimanic Travel can open a portal directly to the Magic Realm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "I think they do... They weren't showing me their deepest secrets, you understand, but I overheard a few things."

Rosario of Flambeau: "At least I'll be safe until the Terram blight, ha ha ha!"

Renard of Flambeau: "They're suspect. They always have been -- and they have resources, resources we'll need if we're to survive."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Portals to anywhere you please, even the secret realm."

Rosario of Flambeau: I try to get Guy to write a ballad about me beating up the senior Flambeau.

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang, guess we have to do another Crusade.

Renard of Flambeau: "Get what I'm driving at? It's a war, whether they know it or not, and we need to raid for materiel!"

Mortis ex Verditus: It can't be helped.

Dušan of Criamon: My god

the Wizard's Crusade

Mortis ex Verditus: Were I here I would agree.

Renard of Flambeau: "And you're our best scout. You can help us figure out where they're storing their vis, how they defend it and so on. You're the key to it all, Gulielmus. Once I'm healed up we'll go roaring through the Levant like we did in Blois, won't it be great?"

Rosario of Flambeau: lol.

This guy rules.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: hell yeah.

Rosario of Flambeau: Renard was always cool.

Dušan of Criamon: my god

Rosario of Flambeau: The balls on this guy to do this with a giant wound in his chest.

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's support his proposal at the forum or wherever the big meeting happens.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "A little swashbuckling does sound fun."

"Hang on, I'm going to cast another spell to treat this."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea casts Asclepius's Aid.

Dušan of Criamon: I respect his gumption but this does smell of meddling in mundane affairs

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10+25+7+3 rolling dice

(

6

)

+25+7+3

=

41

Renard of Flambeau: Good numbers.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: this man is thoroughly aided.

Renard of Flambeau: Good, high numbers. I like em.

Dušan of Criamon: this time the entire tribunal shouldn't fall comically silent, since nonVT covenenats are present

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Healthy numbers.

remember when i ate almost all of our corpus vis to get this corpus score

Renard of Flambeau: Who in this crowd has met or interacted with Andronicus of Jerbiton before? (Literatus covenant)

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hazm will go to Bologna to warn the Learned Magicians about what's happening

Guy of Bonisagus: me

Renard of Flambeau: Nice.

Guy of Bonisagus: androgynous of jerbiton

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "'Hoy, Guy."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus could prescribe a treatment on top of the spells, but he does not have even 1 xp in medicine.

Rosario of Flambeau: Man, this guy can't even beat a junior magus and he wants to start a war. I wouldn't want to look under his codpiece.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Would he have visited Valnastium during my apprenticeship?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: renard kicks ass.

Andronicus of Jerbiton: Well it's harder when you don't have Magic.

Rosario of Flambeau: He does kick ass.

Andronicus of Jerbiton: Probably. Maybe he attended a feast of the Gourmand society?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Cool

I suppose I've met him if he's a Gastronomer

I should join them myself

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "Have you run into Galafre lately? He took off from Literatus a few months ago with most of his lab equipment and without saying a word."

Mortis ex Verditus: "No, I've never heard of such a magus."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Hmmm

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, actually

Mortis ex Verditus: "Excuse me, I need to attend to some important matters related to my trade."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if renard is all right i'm going to ask my culty bwois about oos lore, arabic texts, etc

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Ah, the Merinita? I'm afraid our covenant's dealings with him were before my time."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: or should i not know about that connection yet.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Galafre? I imagine it's something relating to another rape he's done."

Guy of Bonisagus: "Salve Andronicus."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "The man's a walking example of bad taste."

Fiorella of Jerbiton nods.

Guy of Bonisagus: "Galafre? Haven't seen him recently."

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "Ah, I knew you had some bad business with him years ago so I figured worth checking."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: whens archibald slaying bonfilia

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "If you bump into him again let me know will you? A nice summa went missing from the library around the time he left."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Magvillus probably has a record of my intent to declare wizard war should he file charges with the Rome Tribunal but Magvillus isn't compelled ot share said records.

Rosario of Flambeau: "The last time I saw him, he was casting spells on a, how should I say it, a respectable lady friend of mine, and I took offense. We had a discussion, and I haven't seen him since."

vows of honesty ftw.

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "Sounds delightfully sordid."

"I keep hearing people tell me chivalry is dead outside of Faerie regios, thanks for proving them wrong."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Yes, Rosario is quite the gentleman Flambeau."

johns (GM): As the sun begins to dip and the first day nears its close, any more intrigue and gossipmongering y'all wish to partake in?

Rosario of Flambeau: "Funny story, speaking of faerie regios, I'm technically a knight of the round table in one. Beat Lancelot at jousting, can you believe it?"

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: are the retard kings of ex miscellanea around

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm interested in becoming a Gourmand but that's probably doesn't take much IC itneraction

It'd let me put my chicken magic to good use

Rosario of Flambeau: chicken magic is powerful.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: I do not believe in such things. I'll keep an ear open, but perhaps I'll begin opening up to other Criamon in attendance.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i guess i dont have anything to say to the primus

Andronicus of Jerbiton: "No kidding? You know if you're ever in Normandy there's a covenant you should drop by. Settled in a monastery so the aura is stiflingly dominion but the last leader was obsessed with King Arthur and must've amassed the biggest library on the subject ever seen..."

Mortis ex Verditus: Do we know the name of the maga who built the King Arthur regio?

Dušan of Criamon: Making a mental not about this library

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh, right

i was going to try and get into house merinita but then the gm provided a helpful notice that that would be a bad idea

Guy of Bonisagus: morgana of merinita, mortis

Andronicus of Jerbiton: i have looked it up

Guy of Bonisagus: at least, thats the only magas name you saw there

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll speak with my fellow Guernici and see what things are brewing in the tribunal. Since it's surely made it to the ears of Magvillus.

Andronicus of Jerbiton: the covenant is named Cunfin.

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: All I remember is that they're a Merinita and that their translation of Le Morte d'Arthur left something to be desired

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll ask around to see if anyone has heard about her.

Andronicus of Jerbiton: a partial listing of its library is in Lion & Lily, page 108.

Mortis ex Verditus: Just as a matter of curiosity.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Morgana

Nice name

Mortis ex Verditus: We should invite Diarmuid to Vardian's Tomb.

Guy of Bonisagus: thats probably up to johns to figure out, as shes from a time when venator was still an apprentice, and she had no proper covenant affiliation

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should invite Bonfilia to vardian's tomb.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maybe Faustus remembers her

Mortis ex Verditus: We don't have any bread problems.

Andronicus of Jerbiton: ack don't ask me about the king arthur regio

Guy of Bonisagus: ack

ack!

Andronicus of Jerbiton: it's entirely endrite and beardbeard's

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh heh heh.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's collective property of all our imaginations

Dušan of Criamon: It's the Canon

Mortis ex Verditus: https://i.imgur.com/8EbYI6C.png

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: uhhhh i could ask around about tethys, to further my goal of being a fuckin weirdo

Mortis ex Verditus: John's power is shattered forever.

Andronicus of Jerbiton: What sort of accomodations do you guys have

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

yeah why not

tethys' book is interesting

Andronicus of Jerbiton: Comm + Intrigue, Gulielmus

Mortis ex Verditus: We're city folk.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's get a guest cottage

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh that's right

she did have that book

Mortis ex Verditus: We definitely didn't bring a tent.

Rosario of Flambeau: and its convenient that theres a hook about the Centrum Magicum or whatever

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's the Black Forest, where are you finding a city to sleep in

Rosario of Flambeau: right when all magic is plagued

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lemme see here.

johns (GM): Alright I guess you're sharing space with the grogs, covenfolk, and povertywizards in the Guest Quarters

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll sleep on a perch as a bird

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+0+1

(

6

)

+0+1

=

7

johns (GM): The cots are packed side to side, the floors almost entirely covered.

Mortis ex Verditus: We need to buy tents.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I just flew in from Rome and boy are my arms tired

Dušan of Criamon: nice

johns (GM) passes a note to a player

Rosario of Flambeau: I don't mind sleeping on the ground or whatever. I have a little bit of Survival.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: roll Survival to not die

johns (GM): lol.

But seriously.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

johns (GM): Roll it.

Dušan of Criamon: I shall also roll, in solidarity

Rosario of Flambeau: int, i guess

johns (GM): Int or Sta

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea:

rolling 1d10!+0+2

(

4

)

+0+2

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: ill do sta

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea sweats

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+3+1

(

8

)

+3+1

=

12

Dušan of Criamon:

rolling 1d10!+4

(

5

)

+4

=

9

johns (GM): Gulielmus gets bitten by 2d10 bugs during the night.

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

9

)

+2

=

11

johns (GM):

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

2

)

=

3

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gah

Guy of Bonisagus: nice ac

Archibald of Guernicus:

rolling 1d10!+3+0

(

3

)

+3+0

=

6

Mortis ex Verditus: I thought Survival was a trained skill.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my soak versus bugs is 3.

johns (GM): As you settle in there's still a lull of activity about and torches lit on the grounds. Grogs party, wizards scheme and plot..

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

Dušan of Criamon: I share the latest conundrums with other Criamon

johns (GM): A couple hours before matins, there is a surge in commotion near the wreckage of Seneca's Folly.

Oh, right, none of the Criamon are here because they are busy plotting to blow up the moon.

Dušan of Criamon: No!

Rosario of Flambeau: Hah

johns (GM): lol j/k they're all tracing spirals in the dirt and pacing around them

Rosario of Flambeau: That's their solution to everything.

Mortis ex Verditus: Can't believe you got left out of this.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nerds!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: If the Criamon had succeeded in destroying the moon we wouldn't have a Herbam blight

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they're walking in spirals because they are all Tytali.

johns (GM): A Criamon is showing off with the latest conundrum he picked up from a Genoese trader who has visited the mythic far east, asking his companions what is the sound of one hand clapping?

Rosario of Flambeau: I'll head towards the commotion.

Mortis ex Verditus: Same.

johns (GM): Right. The commotion gets louder and you hear lots of heated yelling, and soon many others are running to check out what's going on.

Dušan of Criamon: I slap my stomach, to the disgust of some, and rejoin my sodales

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i will also head towards the ruckus.

Guy of Bonisagus: i will as well

disputatio time

johns (GM): Multiple magi and their servants have brought torches which light up the scene well: The Hibernian loremaster that Mortis was talking to earlier stands above another magus, dead on the ground, with a smoking hole in his chest. Milo of Guernicus maintains a spell that holds the loremaster's hands fixed to deny him spellcasting.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Could you muto the sound of one hand clapping into an onomatopoeia? Words are Mentem, i believe."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Wait, who has the smoking hole in his chest?

johns (GM): A magician you do not recognize.

Archibald of Guernicus: "What a horrible sight!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah, thank you for clarifying this irritating deficiency inherent in the English language.

"What happened?"

Milo of Guernicus: "Archibald, come here. Get these people back and bring some order here."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sacre bleu!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Right." I step up and try to calm the crowd as best I can.

I have 1 leadership now, no gift penalty... can I do it?

rolling 1d10!-2+1

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10

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9

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-2+1

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18

Milo of Guernicus: nice

Rosario of Flambeau: Damn.

Archibald of Guernicus: Yes. Yes I can.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice

Rosario of Flambeau: Hell yes you can.

Milo of Guernicus: A good roll. I like that roll a lot.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea moves along in an orderly fashion.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Order, order! We are magi, not apprentices gawking at a fizzing beaker, step back for the omment."

* moment

Dušan of Criamon: "These big tribunals sounded a lot less action-packed in the tales I heard during apprenticeship."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Milo of Guernicus: The crowd grudgingly complies, and gives you some space, though they still gawk from a distance and the murmurs are agitated.

Mortis ex Verditus: "We have a right to know what happened here."

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "I put a Connachta swine in his place, and I'd do the same to any else who'd dare show their head here if I had the chance!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

I have no idea what that means.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a 32-covenant irish tribunal

Rosario of Flambeau: "You can't just attack people without filing the legal paperwork first!"

Archibald of Guernicus: That's Irish Gaelic right? Do I recognise it, since my main language is gaelic

Rosario of Flambeau: I say, insanely hypocritically.

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: Yes, Connachta as in " A person from Connacht"

Archibald of Guernicus: "What you did was murder, in front of every magus in the tribunal. Do ye have a death wish?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah, I see.

Hmm.

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "A death wish? Hah! It's all coming to an end anyway!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "Every magus in the order, even."

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "All that counts is putting the Coill Tri in their place before it's too late!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Not if we all come together to stop it!"

Mortis ex Verditus: "What did you find out?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "You know him, Mortis?"

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "I found out the druids are holding back on us. They saw what was coming and said nothing, the arrogant bastards."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Is DAMHAN-ALLAIDH returning?" I ask while stepping on Carina's back to appear taller.

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: He grins. "If he is he's as screwed as the rest of us."

"Not even an external soul will save him when magic itself is gone. You'll see."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Then be better than him and keep talking. Everything you know or think you know."

Milo of Guernicus: "Archibald, we need to put a lid on this for now. A grand tribunal isn't the place for trying hermetic crimes."

Mortis ex Verditus: "What did your research discover?"

"What does the future hold?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "No magic? So we'll all be like mundanes, working 6 hours a day until we retire at 36, having only our near-guaranteed marriages as solace? How terrible."

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "A monster is eating our realm, bit by bit. A monster the Spider's got nothing on."

Mortis ex Verditus: Yum, what's the restipe?

Hmm.

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "That was what the druid told me before I snuffed him out."

Archibald of Guernicus: "I want tae ask him what he supposedly uncovered, Milo, if we can keep him otherwise restrained." I turn to the killer "You said druid s, Who are the others who supposedly know?"

Rosario of Flambeau: "A monster, huh?"

Rosario of Flambeau grins

Rosario of Flambeau: "That means we can just kill it!"

"You're really giving us a boon here!"

Archibald of Guernicus: "However, this isnae the time or place, yer right. Does Magvillus have a holding cell here of some sort?"

Mortis ex Verditus: MAgvillus?

That's in Italy.

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "You're not familiar with the Coill Tri I take it... Druids who say they see the future."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "In the magic realm?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Not even a little.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "There's one group that can enter and leave the magic realm as they please--the Order of Suleiman!"

Rosario of Flambeau: "Seeing the future? That's silly."

Archibald of Guernicus: Magvillus, along with a number of covenants, maintain a building on the Durenmar grounds for tribunal purposes, Mortis.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Gulielmus announces yesterday's discovery to everyone, a little too loudly.

Rosario of Flambeau: "That's impossible, even!"

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "I don't expect you to get it. It's Hibernian matters."

Archibald of Guernicus: lmao guli

Rosario of Flambeau: hahhh

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Hermetic theory can't see the future. That doesn't make it impossible."

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: "Throw me in a cell or whatever you have to do. Let my only regret be I didn't go down fighting."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Lavinia can do many things Hermetic magic can't with the Sortes."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: [shouting at top of lungs to the entire hermetic order] LAVINIA OF JERBITON, THE LAST SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE AUGUSTAN BROTHERHOOD

Máel-ruanaid an Doire: gah

Rosario of Flambeau: lmao

Dušan of Criamon: lol

johns (GM): jerbiton and tytalus, please.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: dame lavinia jerbiton-tytalus

johns (GM): This little vignette ends with the irishman led to a prison or whatever the wizard equivalent is.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Dušan of Criamon: gay baby jail iirc

Mortis ex Verditus: What do they do with the dead body?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: anyone react to the order of suleiman namedrop

johns (GM): He seems convinced the Spider is not causing the Hermetic blight.

They pack it up and arrange to mail it to his next of kin.

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang.

No opportunity for necromancy, then.

Archibald of Guernicus: Oh no. This adventure is about a comedy double act where we work with the Spider. Oh no!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Dušan of Criamon: It was us who were the monsters all along!

johns (GM): buddy comedy film about a by the books Guernicus and the ooh version of Hitler

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the end result of the grand tribunal: formal alliance with the order of odin to wage war against the order of suleiman

Archibald of Guernicus: NEver thought I'd be fighting side by side with  the greatest villain to the order of hermes who has ever lived.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: houses bjornaer and tremere exiled from the order

Fiorella of Jerbiton: There's a monster at the end of this corpus

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Archibald of Guernicus: NEver thought I'd be fighting side by side with  the greatest villain to the order of hermes who has ever lived.

johns (GM): yeah... with God

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm willing to believe this insane murderer completely, as it means there's a monster to kill.

johns (GM): anyway

The magi eventually disperse and return to their various quarters

Fiorella of Jerbiton: The true monster is incivility.

johns (GM): You note that grogs seem alert and agitated and everyone keeps sentries up all night around their respective lairs

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We slay it by being excellent to each other

Rosario of Flambeau: "Maybe that's what the Primus meant when she said there was another enemy."

Dušan of Criamon: I will admit, I know nothing of this spider

Archibald of Guernicus: "I think we need tae speak with these druids before we take his words at face value."

johns (GM): The next day, the crowd watches as various prestigious speakers address the Order as a whole from the steps of the Forum of Hermes.

I shall briefly summarize.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "A murder at Durenmar. The Order is in trouble regardless of the blight."

Archibald of Guernicus: Bonfilia, the new primus of Verditius, steps up to announce that satan is actually pretty win and that anyone who doesnt swear allegiance to him will be blown up with a +69 pen explosive loaf hidden under their chair.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "See, Rosario, you just had to wait a day."

johns (GM): Aeventyr of Tytalus, not the Prima but a leading Tytalus of the Rhine tribunal, announces that she is planning an expedition to the far west, past the British Isle and Iceland, along a course described in the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red, hoping to find an area uncontaminated by the Great Blight.

She urges other members in the audience to abandon Europe and join her expedition.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Archibald of Guernicus: Now that's a saga hook if I ever saw one

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Didn't all of the Herbam blight blow in that direction?"

Mortis ex Verditus: How does she even know if that would work?

Rosario of Flambeau: Sounds like a huge waste of time.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Let's go to America

Rosario of Flambeau: But fun.

Archibald of Guernicus: No it's simple

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I want to go to the new world and find al lthe bird species that have been denied to my magic

Archibald of Guernicus: Once we reach america we can begin gathering the parts of the saints corpse and undo the blight altogether

Rosario of Flambeau: aha

smart

johns (GM): Next up is Zela, Prima of House Flambeau.

Guy of Bonisagus: zelda

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: zita

johns (GM): She riles up the crowd with a spiel that the crisis is punishment for the decay in the order itself: Letting hedge wizards run amock, and letting Normandy fall into anarchy.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: What house is Gyro

Zita disappears

Guy of Bonisagus: "She's right."

johns (GM): She says the order must reclaim what is has lost to be whole once more.

Dušan of Criamon: This is an even worse show than the norse epic thing

Guy of Bonisagus: "We should."

Rosario of Flambeau: "Seems legit."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Boo!"

johns (GM): Her turb make a deafening racket clapping and banging swords on shields in raucous agreement.

Rosario of Flambeau: "They know how to make a point."

Dušan of Criamon: "They know how to make a racket."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Simply turning to an external and unaccountable moral arbiter that must be 'punishing' us because we aren't perfect, as indeed we never will be, and that will forgive us when we tidy up a little."

Rosario of Flambeau: "I'll stay with my covenant unless I happen to receive direct orders, of course."

johns (GM): Up next is Luefthildis of Jerbiton, leader of Oculus Septentrionalis in the Rhine. She explains that the blight is clearly the work of the Order of Odin, who seek to bring about the end of the world. She cites passages from a norse poem then -- explaining in Latin -- says that the Order of Odin seeks to bring about the end of this world in service to their false Gods. Naturally the Order of Hermes needs to mobilize and fund and support an expedition into Ultima Thule to put a stop to them.

Mortis ex Verditus: Ultima Thule eh?

Guy of Bonisagus: I listen to the poem.

ultima 2

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: ultima bool

Archibald of Guernicus: vikings out here boolin lolol

Rosario of Flambeau: "I shouldn't have been surprised to see all this opportunism."

johns (GM): Next steps up Venzi "Quercus," Primus of House Tremere.

Archibald of Guernicus: "There's the prick himself, eh."

Guy of Bonisagus: quercus

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

The primus!

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Quercus."

Guy of Bonisagus: the primus of the order of hermes

Rosario of Flambeau: "Why not blame the Church and take over Rome with the Ghibellines?"

Guy of Bonisagus: here he is everyone

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The Church is good."

Rosario of Flambeau: "You know this guy, Archibald?"

Guy of Bonisagus: "It is."

Archibald of Guernicus: its going to turn out that the blight is his fault

"I know that Venator knew him, and he called him the most evil man he'd ever met."

Guy of Bonisagus: theblight is divine punishment for a man named quercus becoming the most powerful person in mythic europe

Quercus of Tremere: "House Tremere has prepared shelters in the Carpathian Mountains, far from the blight and the miasma, laden with food and supplies to last hundreds through the course of this crisis.

Mortis ex Verditus: "What did Venator know though?"

Archibald of Guernicus: "He knew enough."

Quercus of Tremere: All who swear an oath of vassalage to House Tremere may join us and continue our work in peace and comfort."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, this is a good idea.

Archibald of Guernicus: "Naked opportunism." I grit my teeth "He's as much a snake as I was warned."

Mortis ex Verditus: We can then bury the shelters forever, destroying House Tremere in a single stroke.

Guy of Bonisagus: if only we had a magus so powerful and so specialized that he could collapse an entire mountain range with a wave of his hand...

Dušan of Criamon: "So is everyone here just trying to scam people into their crackpot ventures?"

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Still, he's talkinga bout the actual crisis rather than warmongering."

johns (GM): The crowd is not taking this well.

Mortis ex Verditus: "To be fair, your crackpot idea is to break into the Magic Realm and fundamentally re-write the nature of reality."

Rosario of Flambeau: "That does seem to be the case, Dusan."

Mortis ex Verditus: "These are much more reasonable solutions."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "It's a good plan."

johns (GM): The last speaker is almost drowned out by the waves of arguments -- this one asserting Order of Odin, this one Hedge Wizards, this one infernal, this one the divine --

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "What's the point of being a magus, otherwise?"

Archibald of Guernicus: OH my god. that's Thaumatus of Bonisagus' theme!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "The laws of reality have already been rewritten."

"Herbam magic used to work, without vis."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh my god. we're under attack by powerful cultivators who are asserting their own laws of nature

Thaumatus of Bonisagus: Thaumatus of Bonisagus, the soft-spoken primus of House Bonisagus explains that research is still ongoing. He says the research is still ongoing, and there are no conclusive results yet, because research is still ongoing. Regardless, research is still ongoing.

Rosario of Flambeau: this situation is introducing some doubt into my loyalty to the milites, because the primus is either a naked opportunist with no right to hold a moral high ground over the order or even more of an idiot than i am.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: lol

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

This guy's got it.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea claps.

Rosario of Flambeau: Bonisagus ftw.

Archibald of Guernicus: He apologises for the inconvenience.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Please understand.

johns (GM): Not far from you, Andronicus asks aloud why he gave up a season for this.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Opportunists, goldbrickers, lollygaggers."

Mortis ex Verditus: They've got nothing on us.

Dušan of Criamon: Now THERE'S a guy who knows what's up.

Mortis ex Verditus: We've got the perfect opportunity here.

Rosario of Flambeau: "I honestly didn't expect us to be some of the furthest along in solving this crisis."

Mortis ex Verditus: A Wizard's Crusade is the perfect solution to our problem.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: they have something on us: a plot to execute all of the hedge mages in the order

Dušan of Criamon: "Really, what we should do is make up our own nonsense scheme. Folks, it's only us criamon who can defend against the plague! Quick, give us your vis!"

johns (GM): If you find any of the proposed schemes appealing, you can count on support from powerful NPC magi.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: all of the proposed schemes are appalling except the bonisagus one.

Rabble: "Don't trust him, they just want to eat mushrooms and blow up the sky"

Dušan of Criamon: As far as the Bonisagus research is a proposed scheme, I support it

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll get on the plan to send people west, provided the Zeno family can make a profit

Mortis ex Verditus: Let's go on crusade to Ultima Thule.

We almost have the glass whale, so we'll be able to uncover the frozen ruins of Troy.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I come from the legacy of Alexander of Jerbiton, famed African explorer

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: actually

johns (GM): btw which grogs did you bring with you, all of them?

Mortis ex Verditus: Some of them.

johns (GM): gimme a number

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: if there are any Pralicians around, gulielmus will try to make the case for cooperation with the order of suleiman.

Rosario of Flambeau: I will go along with Dusan's magic realm expedition unless the Primus sends a letter and demands I go annihilate the french.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Morgana + 4 people for her to command is always a good bet

johns (GM): a pralician eh.. well I do have 1 ex misc we've used before

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: he will NOT do this with the order's designated diplomats, the trianomae

Jadwiga Ex Misc: "Salve."

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm, we should certainly put forward our own idea.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm for cooperating with hedge traditions

Jadwiga Ex Misc: You may remember me from the adventure, The Holy Magus Gets Sentenced to Death.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

yeah, rip.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'm all for watching Mortis make a speech

Archibald of Guernicus: The realm expedition is a good idea BUT i think that we should gather more information first.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Not necessarily supporting his idea, but i want to see him make the speech

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: does sodalis have a feminine equivalent

Archibald of Guernicus: witch

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Maid

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: jesus.

Dušan of Criamon: Sorcerelatess

Jadwiga Ex Misc: feminine and masculine are same for this declension I think

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "Sodalis, you must hear me out."

"If something is truly afoot in the magic realm, learning the secrets of the sahirs may be our only hope."

Mortis ex Verditus: I put forward my own proposal.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "I see no fruit in antagonizing other Magic-typed factions anyway. Not while this problem plagues us equally."

Jadwiga Ex Misc: "T'would be a jewel of accomplishment for the Pralicians. Centuries of hostility and their inability to ignore our Gift has always kept it out of our reach."

Archibald of Guernicus: "Aye, war in these times is so utterly stupid."

Fiorella of Jerbiton: "Besides, our covenant has several Arabic speakers among them, a few of them Gentle Gifted. We have the talent."

Mortis ex Verditus: "Sodales, I propose a feat of magic so daring, so audacious that even the greatest amongst us would not dare to contemplate it. I speak, of course, of a direct assault on the Realm of Magic itself to discover and destroy the cancer eating away at its heart!"

Rosario of Flambeau: *starts hooting and hollering

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "The Muslims will suffer just as we do from the blight. There must be some-"

Guy of Bonisagus: "Hmmm. He's got a point, but I liked the Flambeau plan a little more."

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea turns to see what Mortis is shouting about.

Mortis ex Verditus: "The way would be dangerous and we would need to truck in foreign and mysterious magicks, but with our combined knowledge, a crusade into the Realm of Magic would end the Blight and catapult the Order of Hermes into greater control of the Ars Magica than had ever been thought possible!"

Magus: Mortis gets the attention of a few Magi.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: oh we should also see if anyone can predict which forms are on the chopping block next.

Magus: they cannot yet because I have not decided, as some forms will make the Players kill me IRL.

Mortis ex Verditus: You must pick these.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: terram. vim. animal

Dušan of Criamon: Brave it, coward

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: auram.

Magus: "How do we get there?" one asks.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Me: I'm finally done with the revolving door

Animal blight: Hold my beer.

Rosario of Flambeau: i have a relatively even arts spread and rely on a sword so until you get to terram i won't be mad.

rip.

Archibald of Guernicus: ;p;

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: the Rego blight.

Mortis ex Verditus: "When I rescued Gulielmus ex Miscellanea from the clutches of the Order of Suleiman, I discovered that the sahirs have the power, through their dealings with the spirits native to their lands, to open doorways to the Realm of Magic."

Rosario of Flambeau: i'm betting its just forms and not techniques but that would be fucked up

Dušan of Criamon: "If we could just get enough Criamon to form a research team..."

jesus, imagine a creo blight

Mortis ex Verditus: "Once there, we would be able to treat with the spirits that dwell in those strange lands to find the monster responsible for devouring all magic and, through spell and steel, exterminate it."

Dušan of Criamon: what would the mundane fallout be, no births? No fertility? Just everything perishing, except minerals

Mortis ex Verditus: Minerals also reproduce sexually.

Well, some do.

Magus: "Yeah, let's kill those sahir heathens"

Mortis ex Verditus: Gemstones in particular.

Dušan of Criamon: I suspect we have differing opinions of what is sexual in nature

Archibald of Guernicus: I'll sexualise anything

You think a rock is beyond or beneath me

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Slutty ass rocks

Mortis ex Verditus: "The Sahirs will be weakened and in disarray with the coming of the Corpus Blight. They have no defense against the miasma generated by magical auras."

"They will be so desperate they may even beat a path to our door to offer surrender."

Magus: "Truly, Hermetic Magic is the pinnacle of the  Ars Magica "

Mortis ex Verditus looks directly at the camera.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: "That's right! The survivors will be desperate for our assistance!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Do any of you guys have anything else to offer?

johns (GM): I do not

Guy of Bonisagus: nope

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i do:

Rosario of Flambeau: nope. i will hoot and holler at his idea.

and clap.

Mortis ex Verditus: Put it all out there.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: we should explore some shipwrecks. they're probably full of vis

Rosario of Flambeau: They probably are.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Something to consider

johns (GM): ready to head home then?

Mortis ex Verditus: How many people are down with my brilliant and era-defining plan?

Fiorella of Jerbiton says something discreetly to Gulielmus

Dušan of Criamon: I share mystical farewells with my fellow Criamon, who have mostly forgiven me

johns (GM): You get names of people who wish to keep up correspondence with you when you have a more solid plan.

Mortis ex Verditus: Nice, nice.

johns (GM): Gulielmus also is requested to keep in touch with the Pralicians.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll correspond with the guy who wants to voyage west

It's a scam but a scam I like

johns (GM): and ofc his mentor renard, who is rarin' to go swashbuckling in Mythic Africa.

Mortis ex Verditus: I also want to keep tabs on Máel-ruanaid an Doire.

Rosario of Flambeau: What a cool guy.

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah that's right I typed all that out.

johns (GM): nice

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm impresed.

sed.

ss.

johns (GM): the irish accent marks are killer

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: my mentor, retard.

Mortis ex Verditus: Heh, all in a day's work.

johns (GM): Who flies/teleports home, and who takes the portal?

Rosario of Flambeau: portal cuck here

Dušan of Criamon: remind me, cave of twisting shadows is a Criamon thing, right

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yeah

Mortis ex Verditus: I will take the portal.

Guy of Bonisagus: i will take the portal

johns (GM): Yeah, it's the Domus Magnus (hq)

Fiorella of Jerbiton: It's a place in the Alps that's full of insanely twisted shadow magic

Mortis ex Verditus: Is the 300 year old witch who looks like a twelve-year old still the prima?

Dušan of Criamon: That sounds extremely good and normally I'd be interested in passing through

johns (GM): No, and that never happened.

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

lmao.

johns (GM): Widely regarded as a transcription error in the history books.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: gulielmus will teleport to tethys's tower to leave a note explaining that by the time she returns, the form of corpus will have been annihilated and the order will be in chaos

Mortis ex Verditus: Who's in charge then?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: then teleport home.

johns (GM): I have not specified yet.

Mortis ex Verditus: Mysterious.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: Guorna the Fetid.

johns (GM): Dusan would you like to split from the group to drop by Cave of Twisting Shadow?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll try to teleport home before teleport stops working

Dušan of Criamon: I think so

johns (GM): Ok, Dusan is a Criamon going his own way.

Dušan of Criamon: perhaps a few other Criamon are going there as well?

Rosario of Flambeau: secret tracts passed around the order regarding the forbidden primus

Mortis ex Verditus: Alright roll up a new character.

johns (GM): You join a "clutch" as a group of Criamon are known.

Okay, Rosario, Guy, Mortis and 2 grogs taking the slower route back

Archibald of Guernicus: The primus that history tried to deny

johns (GM): Dusan diverting to Criamon HQ, everyone else flying or teleporting... anyone not accounted for?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: satan.

Archibald of Guernicus: Nonce of Tytalus was the first to uncover this great deception in the history books

Mortis ex Verditus: Don't worry, he's always with us.

johns (GM): Almost done for the day but one last act to touch on.

Dušan of Criamon: are you fucking wwith me johns

johns (GM): ???

Dušan of Criamon: is this going to be the first sesh i see to the end

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Dušan of Criamon: i'm in awe

johns (GM): Apparently

Mortis ex Verditus: The absolute unit.

johns (GM): We'll see in a moment.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: We've finally sealed Nonce of Tytalis in an isolated regio, protecting mundane children from his magic... but what's this? We sealed the Criamon Prima in there with him?

johns (GM): Mortis, Rosario, and Guy emerge from the portal network at Harco. They begin the few day's trek from Harco in Piedmont, to the port of Genoa to catch a ship.

The route is a bit bogged down by rain and mud, unfortunately.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's ok because the Criamon prima is 300 years old.

Dušan of Criamon: Heavy Rain theme begins to play

johns (GM): Per + Awareness checks on this lonely deserted road

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10

(

10

)

=

10

+1

Whoops.

Archibald of Guernicus: Thats an exploding roll, or are we call them, sploders

* as

Dušan of Criamon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7C8oN2klY *hard rain theme

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!+2

(

2

)

+2

=

4

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+1+3

(

8

)

+1+3

=

12

Mortis ex Verditus: Only if it is a stressed roll, which was not specified.

Archibald of Guernicus: Awareness is always stressed when you aren't calmly searching or w/e

johns (GM):

(To GM) rolling 1d10!+3+10+6

(

6

)

+3+10+6

=

25

Mortis ex Verditus: Well, ok.

rolling 1d10

(

1

)

=

1

12.

Archibald of Guernicus: see. a whole EF up.

johns (GM): Ok.

Quite by surprise, a creature seems to grow from nothingness in the path in front of you.

This horrid hybrid of human

and spider is equally at home on

two, four, six, or all eight of its legs.

When standing upright, its head

johns (GM): bobs twenty feet above the ground

from a foreshortened and hunchbacked

body. Their faces are a terrifying

amalgam of spider and human.

All of its limbs end in a clawed hand.

Their skin is glossy black,

johns (GM): with solitary hairs a finger’s width

thick scattered sparsely over their

bodies.

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: nice.

Rosario of Flambeau: "Oh, sick!"

Mortis ex Verditus: Another spider monster huh?

johns (GM): Roll Init

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+2-1

(

4

)

+2-1

=

5

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!-1

(

5

)

-1

=

4

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10!

(

8

)

=

8

Guy of Bonisagus:

rolling 1d10!=2

(

8

)

=

8

Mortis ex Verditus: -6.

Guy of Bonisagus: -2

Mortis ex Verditus: For chain mail.

Guy of Bonisagus: 6

johns (GM): Who would like to manage the grogs?

shaaaaaaun?

Rosario of Flambeau: i don't!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Okay

Dušan of Criamon: I would, if I were on a better computer

Rosario of Flambeau puts his finger on his nose

johns (GM): Thank you.

Here, have a conf token.

Rosario of Flambeau: Score.

Dušan of Criamon: but with sheets opening up at a rate of one every other minute, I shan't

johns (GM): Endrite, can you control your undead servant?

Tünde: Tunde vanguards

Mortis ex Verditus: By "Their faces are terrifying" you mean "Its face is terrifying?"

Tünde:

rolling 4+d10! Init

4+

(

1

)

=

5

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah I can handle it.

johns (GM): Grazie.

The aura is 0 (Mundane), and the beast before you is Size +5.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's a very large beast.

Mortis ex Verditus: Guy, can you do anything to it?

johns (GM): It rears its claws in hostility!

Guy, do something!

Tünde: He can slow it down by getting eaten while the other wizards run away

Rosario of Flambeau: Smart.

I think we can take this.

I will probably get hurt though.

Mortis ex Verditus: That's no problem.

johns (GM): beardbeard is harshing my vibe

Tünde: We have a doctor

Rosario of Flambeau: We need to be lucky to get beardbeard during the one time an hour he looks at Roll20.

Mortis ex Verditus: Think of all the house acclaim you'll win.

johns (GM): alright

skipping guy

Tunde, you're up

Mortis ex Verditus: AFK a sec.

Tünde: Okay

Does Tunde have her horse?

johns (GM): Aye

Tünde:

rolling 10!+12

10

=

10

rolling d10!+12

(

6

)

+12

=

18

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 1d10!+1 Dfn

(

4

)

+1

=

5

Damage?

Tünde: Is there a bonus for a group of three?

Inspiderwiht: It's a group of 2 because the undead is not a trained fighter

So you can add +3

Rosario of Flambeau: If you guys can hold out for 2 rounds while I buff up, that'd be great.

Tünde:

rolling 3+18+7=5

3+18+7

=

28

rolling 3+18+7-5

3+18+7-5

=

23

Inspiderwiht: ah ty

rolling 23-14

23-14

=

9

Your land pierces its side and draws a bit of blood.

Rosario!

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+25

(

9

)

+25

=

34

Rosario's sword explodes into a burst of flame shaped like a rose, which then settles into a constant flame along his blade, sizzling in the rain.

Inspiderwiht: Sick

The creature mutters names to itself as it rears 3 sets of arms to attack

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Inspiderwiht: "Fiorella of Jerbiton... Gulielmus ex Misc .."

Mortis ex Verditus: Phew.

I'm not on the list.

Guy of Bonisagus: im going to sit here and watch

Rosario of Flambeau: "It speaks!"

Guy of Bonisagus: and be far enough away to not be hit

Inspiderwiht: It launches three ropes of silk at the grogs.

Mortis ex Verditus: You should just flee if you can't fight it.

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 1d10!+15 rope attk 1

(

9

)

+15

=

24

rolling 1d10!+15 rope attk 2

(

1

)

+15

=

16

rolling 2d10

(

1

+

5

)

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: The classic prudenzio move of running away and hiding every time.

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 1d10!+15 rope attk 3

(

8

)

+15

=

23

Tünde:

rolling 13+d10!

13+

(

10

+

10

+

3

)

=

36

Inspiderwiht: I need 1 defense roll from Tunde, and 1 from Carina.

Rosario of Flambeau: Nice.

Carina:

rolling 1d10! + 3 + 1

(

2

)

+3+1

=

6

Mortis ex Verditus: "Damnation!"

Inspiderwiht: Tunde dodges the rope, but the silk wraps around Carina, pinning her arms around her torso.

Mortis, you're up!

Rosario of Flambeau: I'm and idiot and need confirmation, Corpus spells do not currently require vis, right

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll cast Mortis' Brief Sidestep on myself.

Inspiderwiht: Correct dfd

Rosario of Flambeau: Excellent.

Mortis ex Verditus: It's like Wizard's Sidestep, but diameter duration.

Inspiderwiht: Roll it

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 20 - 5 + 1 + 1

(

4

)

+20-5+1+1

=

21

Inspiderwiht: Cool

Guy?

Mortis ex Verditus: Nailed it.

Rosario of Flambeau: Hiding and running.

Tünde: Smart

Inspiderwiht: I see.

Tunde?

Tünde: Ok

rolling 13+d10! Attack

13+

(

6

)

=

19

rolling 19+3

19+3

=

22

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 1d10!+1 defense

(

1

)

+1

=

2

rolling 2d10

(

7

+

6

)

=

13

Yikes!

Mortis ex Verditus: Dang.

Inspiderwiht: Damage?

Rosario of Flambeau: Ouch!

Mortis ex Verditus: This spider is a real paper tiger.

Rosario of Flambeau: I might not even do my second buff.

Tünde:

rolling 22-2+7

22-2+7

=

27

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 27-14

27-14

=

13

A medium wound

Mortis ex Verditus: Ouch!

Inspiderwiht: The spider rears to attack with its gross claws, and continues muttering

Dušan of Criamon: Paper burns quite well one might keep in mind

Inspiderwiht: "Guy of Bonisagus.. Simon of Guernicus..."

rolling 1d10!+7 Attack 1

(

7

)

+7

=

14

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 1d10!+7 Attack 2

(

1

)

+7

=

8

Tünde: Oh right, those were two hits each round if Mariu's included

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 2d10

(

8

+

1

)

=

9

rolling 1d10!+7 Attack 3

(

6

)

+7

=

13

Rosario of Flambeau: doesnt it attack after me

Mortis ex Verditus: We should try to keep it alive until we can hear all the names it has.

Inspiderwiht: Defenses against 13 & 14

sorry. i skipped rosario.

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+28 attack w/exertion

(

3

)

+28

=

31

Dušan of Criamon: to unlock its second form

Rosario of Flambeau: +18 damage.

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 1d10!+1 dfn

(

7

)

+1

=

8

Tünde:

rolling d10!+13

(

1

)

+13

=

14

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 31+18-8-14

31+18-8-14

=

27

Tünde:

rolling d10!+13

(

4

)

+13

=

17

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 2d10 botch check on defense

(

7

+

5

)

=

12

Tünde: Need one botch confirmation

Ok

Rosario of Flambeau: nobotch

Inspiderwiht: Rosario inflicts a heavy wound

Rosario of Flambeau: I swing my mighty fiery blade with all my strength.

"Die, monster!"

Inspiderwiht doesn't belong in this world

Rosario of Flambeau: lol

Inspiderwiht: Mortis?

Mortis ex Verditus: Hmm.

I'll cast Superior Rise of the Feathery Body.

That's a Rego Corpus spell, so it might fail.

Inspiderwiht: Roll away.

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 24 -5 + 1 + 1

(

9

)

+24-5+1+1

=

30

Inspiderwiht: Goongrats!

Tunde, you're up again

Rosario of Flambeau: nice.

Mortis ex Verditus: Nailed it.

Tünde:

rolling d10!+13 Attack

(

1

)

+13

=

14

Mortis ex Verditus: I try to float up the cliff.

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 2d10

(

3

+

4

)

=

7

No botch

rolling 1d10!+1-9 Defense

(

10

+

7

)

+1-9

=

9

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 1d10!+28 again exerting, last fatigue penalty-free level assuming a short rest after grand tribunal

(

1

)

+28

=

29

shit!

Mortis ex Verditus: Gwargh!

Tünde:

rolling 14+3+7-14

14+3+7-14

=

10

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 2d10 botch check

(

8

+

10

)

=

18

The spider soaks Tunde's strike!

As for Rosario

It.. exerts!

Tünde: Wait

Rosario of Flambeau: oh shit!

Inspiderwiht:

rolling 1d10!+1+5-9+3 and a conf

(

9

)

+1+5-9+3

=

9

Tünde: I subtracted 13 already from that damage

Mortis ex Verditus: Yikes!

Tünde: *14

Inspiderwiht: oh

in that case it took another light wound

Rosario of Flambeau:

rolling 29+18-9

29+18-9

=

38

-soak

Inspiderwiht: You chop off its disgusting head.

Rosario of Flambeau: hell yeah!

Tünde: Thank you

Inspiderwiht: 19 feet of disgusting spider man falls to the ground.

Rosario of Flambeau: "What the hell was that?"

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll float back down, cancel Superior Rise of the Feather Body.

Máriu Puddu: "You tell me, you're the wizard."

Mortis ex Verditus: Then cast Whispers Beyond the Black Gate on the spider monster.

Rosario of Flambeau: disgusting spider blood burns and blackens on my sword.

Mortis ex Verditus: I'm not sure it will work, but it's worth a shot.

Inspiderwiht: You try.. and nothing happens.

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling 1d10! + 19 + 4 + 1 + 1 -5 vs InCo 15

(

2

)

+19+4+1+1-5

=

22

Guy of Bonisagus: "What the hell?"

Mortis ex Verditus: I have to cast the spell first!

Sheesh!

Ok, NOW nothing happens.

Inspiderwiht: It's formulaic in non-stressed situation.

Mortis ex Verditus: Can we drag it back with us?

Máriu Puddu: At least you didn't call forth a demon that pretended to be the spider's ghost and told you lies

Rosario of Flambeau: "I wonder if this is related to Damhain-Alladh?"

Mortis ex Verditus: What if it's a divine spider monster?

Did you even think of that?

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: what if it's God

Rosario of Flambeau: "Just going by the, uh, spider theme."

Mortis ex Verditus: I'll look for Vis.

Máriu Puddu: What if God's been hanging out at Vardian's Tomb this entire time disguised as a grog?

johns (GM): It weighs more than the biggest aurochs you've ever seen.

InVi to detect vis

Rosario of Flambeau: We should take the head I chopped off.

So I can show it to Giraldo and be like dude you need to get on the ball out there.

johns (GM): For purposes of your house acclaim, would you believe this guy is Might 28?

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah, sure.

Mortis ex Verditus:

rolling (1d10! + 5 + 4 + 1 + 1)/2

(

(

4

)

+5+4+1+1)/2

=

7.5

Máriu Puddu: "Hey, wasn't that thing saying the name of Vardian's Tomb wizards?"

Mortis ex Verditus: Yeah that's good enough.

Rosario of Flambeau: That's actually fantastic because I get acclaim based on increments of 5.

and round up.

Máriu Puddu: "Maybe it's some sort of wizard assassin bug."

Mortis ex Verditus: Wait I have to do it twice to count it and to type it.

rolling (1d10! + 5 + 4 + 1 + 1)/2 vs InVi 5

(

(

1

)

+5+4+1+1)/2

=

6

Rosario of Flambeau: only 5 points away from rank 3 acclaim!

Mortis ex Verditus: Gah!

Rosario of Flambeau: gah

Mortis ex Verditus: A botch!

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10

(

6

)

=

6

No botch

Mortis ex Verditus: Phew.

Alright, typed and counted.

Máriu Puddu: Good rolls everyone

johns (GM): You find 6 pawns of Muto vis, 1 in each of its arms.

Mortis ex Verditus: Wow!

johns (GM): Anything else you'd like to do?

Mortis ex Verditus: That's heavy!

I'm sad that it will decay before I have the chance to invent a spell to animate a giant spider corpse.

Rosario of Flambeau: hah

Dušan of Criamon: I'll try and read what I can about the cave irl and then let Dusan enjoy his trip

Máriu Puddu: You can use CrCo to preserve it unttil you ge thome

Mortis ex Verditus: I fly to the top of the cliff and look wistfully off into the horizon.

johns (GM): The Lonely Man theme begins to play

Máriu Puddu: And then use a Ring CIrcle spell before the COrpus form gets blighted

Mortis ex Verditus: I can't because it isn't a corpus.

It's a spider.

Máriu Puddu: Necromancy focus works on animals I think

Mortis ex Verditus: It does but I don't have a spell to preserve animal tissue.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i went afk for a while. did you respond to my last whisper shaun

Mortis ex Verditus: Especially not at that size.

That's what, size +4?

Rosario of Flambeau: 5, apparently.

Máriu Puddu: I might have or I might not

johns (GM): size +5

Mortis ex Verditus: 5?

Ok.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: rip

Mortis ex Verditus: Still I can't do it.

johns (GM): too bad.. that was definitely the last of them

Anyway nothing else disturbs the trip home

A great time was had by all. post what you're doing in two seasons before the blight hits in the thread please.

Mortis ex Verditus: Huh, there's no guideline to preserve animal corpses.

Rosario of Flambeau: Sounds good.

johns (GM): 8xp for Autumn

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: a second, more powerful God is invading our God's creation

Dušan of Criamon: dry, smoke, cure

Rosario of Flambeau: Thanks. Good game!!!

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I'll go ahead and make that bellows if you think it'll work

Dušan of Criamon: Great sesh johns

Rosario of Flambeau: love Using Sword

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i don't know what to do with my seasons.

Dušan of Criamon: I hope I'll be able to hang out to the end more often

Fiorella of Jerbiton: You can use Animal and COrpus guidelines interchangibly if only one is relevant

It says so in the rules

johns (GM): the whole first few hours were discussing your seasons

Rosario of Flambeau: Yeah.

Lol.

johns (GM): but feel free to continute the discussion... in the discord

Rosario of Flambeau: Im going to go and find a cooler room to sit in.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Ok

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: yeah but all of my ideas were either rejected or are being done by someone with bigger lab totals

Rosario of Flambeau: because my room is way too warm.

Dušan of Criamon: said in extremely 2000's tv ad voice

Mortis ex Verditus: Ah it's in Covenants.

Base 2.

Hmm.

Gulielmus ex Miscellanea: i'm going to use a bunch of intellego and rego vis.

Dušan of Criamon: I literally don't know what to do with my seasons and I hope someone will come up with something I can just "help" with

unless I get some insane solo criamon thing in the caves

anyway i'll be on discord tomorrow hopefully

Fiorella of Jerbiton: dfd can help you with seasons

Mortis ex Verditus: It would be level 40 to preserve a giant spider monster corpse, so I think that isn't going to happen with spontaneous magic.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: IMproving your arts is rarely a bad idea if you don't know what to do

We have a lot of texts

Mortis ex Verditus: Dusan, you could assist Fiorella.

In the lab.

Dušan of Criamon: yeah but the corpus blight

i want to participate in the stemming of the tide

my own things are of no import when the plague is coming

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Are you generalist when it comes to magic?

Mortis ex Verditus: You could assist ME in the lab, then.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Enigmatic Wisdom will probably be useful when it comes to solving the blight

Dušan of Criamon: And I shall lay it down, when the time comes.

Alright, it's been golden, you've all been great, especially you johns

heavy is the head that wears the crown

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Goodnight

Dušan of Criamon: take it easy everyone

Fiorella of Jerbiton: I wear this crown of thorns upon the liar's throne

Guy of Bonisagus: gamers

Mortis ex Verditus: See ya.

Wait, can non-Verditus assist a Verditus in the lab?

Fiorella of Jerbiton: Yes

Enchanting items has been fully integrated into hermetic theory

Mortis ex Verditus: Perfect.

Fiorella of Jerbiton: In fact Verditius have access to more kinds of helpers than normal magi as they can have craftsmen friends add some of their craft ability to lab totals

Beardbeard:

rolling 1d10!-14

(

10

+

9

)

-14

=

5

rolling 1d10!-14

(

3

)

-14

=

-11

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10+35

(

9

)

+35

=

44

rolling 1d10+35

(

2

)

+35

=

37

rolling 1d10+35 zdan

(

3

)

+35

=

38

rolling 1d10+35 jabier

(

7

)

+35

=

42

c'thinker (GM):

rolling 1d10!+2+3 silent chorus

(

9

)

+2+3

=

14

sick

rolling 1d10!+2+2 ligature

(

3

)

+2+2

=

7

less sick

rolling d10!+2+2+1+3 planetary magic vs 9

(

5

)

+2+2+1+3

=

13

sick

c'thinker (GM):

rolling 1d10!+1 er

(

5

)

+1

=

6

rolling 1d10 experiment bonus

(

3

)

=

3

oh

rolling 1d10 side effect

(

1

)

=

1

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!-2+6 Benedetti disease avoidance roll

(

9

)

-2+6

=

13

fff

rolling 1d10 check to see if archibald botches

(

1

)

=

1

1 base botch die, +3 from pawns of vis, -1 from cord

rolling 3d10

(

7

+

8

+

8

)

=

23

rolling to see if whale is awakened. ease factor is 19

johns (GM):

rolling 1d10!+20

(

3

)

+20

=

23

success

rolling 1d10!-3 aging 1350

(

8

)

-3

=

5

rolling 1d10!+2 bolad aging

(

5

)

+2

=

7

devil's fav demon (GM):

rolling 1d10!-3

(

10

+

7

)

-3

=

14